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|Water Resistant Details: Lining is water resistant
|Number of Bottles Accommodated: 2
|CPSIA or CPSC Compliant: Yes
|Assembly Required: No
|Product Warranty: 1 Year
|Changing/Sitting Pad Material: Polyester
|Tools Needed: No tools needed
|Exterior Color: 1: Black
|Exterior Color: 2: Brown and Tan
|JPMA Certified: Yes
|Additional Parts Required: No
|Interior Color: Light Beige
|BPA Free: Yes
|Pattern: Solid
|Hardware Finish: Antique Brass
|Exterior Material: Faux leather
|Interior Material: Polyester
|PVC Free: Yes
|Handle/Strap Material: Faux leather
|Hardware Material: Metal
|Pieces Included: Shoulder strap, stroller strap, bottle tote, changing pad, mommy pouchette, dirty clothes sack
|Non Toxic: Yes
|Mildew Resistant: Yes
|Stain Resistant: Yes
|Fade Resistant: Yes
|Water Resistant: Yes
|Waterproof Interior: No
|Number of Interior Compartments: 6
|Number of Exterior Compartments: 2
|Closure: Flap over
|Life Stage: Baby
|Stroller Connectors Included: Yes
|Adjustable Strap: Yes
|Diaper Hammock: Yes
|Wipe Case Included: No
|Bottle Holder: Yes
|Keyring Holder: Yes
|Cell Phone Pocket: Yes
|Credit Card Slots: Yes
|Machine Washable: No
|Insulated Pocket: Yes
|Changing/Sitting Pad Included: Yes
|Dirty Clothes Bag: Yes
|Weight Capacity: 10 Pounds
|Compatibility: No
|Eco-Friendly: Yes
|Product Care: Wipe clean with warm damp cloth
|Country of Manufacture: China
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From Pet Owner To A Show Dog Enthusiast
July 2009
How do regular, ordinary people like you get into showing dogs?
How does anyone make the perceptionally giant leap from owning a household pet to actually show up at a dog show, traipse around a ring among all those prim and proper, highly coiffured, pampered pooches?
Well, sit a spell and I will spin a yarn or two and bring you up to speed on the transition that has been made by hundreds of folk like yourselves going from ordinary to show-oriented.
Here is an eye-opening statistic to bolster this essay, 99% of those participating in our Labrador Owner's Community were "ordinary folk" when they first approached me about a puppy! Now we have close to 80 (200+ in the last 20 years) "used-to-be-ordinary folk" that somehow made the choice to get involved and into the show dog world and now are part of the fancy.
"How does that happen?" you may be thinking or maybe as many have stated to me, "I don't think that I am interested" or more simply "I just want a dog for a pet".
Here is my theory;
It actually happens very simply, on a gradual basis of accumulated interest over a natural occurring period of time; of course you have to have the right tools in the first place to be able to sustain the interest that will follow.
So now you have my theory in the evolution of "wanting a pet dog" which eventually turns into a "dog show person".
Let me elaborate a bit here. Most of the folk that come knocking at my door (actually email/phone) for a pet puppy have done their homework of research and made comparisons between what is being offered at Chambray Labradors and what might be found elsewhere. They have asked around and inquired and the majority have been directed by others that have had positive and rewarding experiences with Chambray Labradors.
Word of mouth reigns supreme as the oldest and probably the most powerful sales tool for buyers and sellers and is incalculable in value as a source of information. Word of mouth for us is the absolute best form of testimonial and it comes from dog owners, dog trainers, veterinarians, dog groomers and other sources related to dogs. In the sales industry positive word of mouth is worth a 100 billboards, full page ads in the newspaper and even better than a one minute commercial on TV. People love to share their good fortunes and expressing a great experience that they may have had and this becomes the best form of advertisement for us as hundreds and have experienced our unique endeavor with Labrador Retrievers.
Now that is a very good thing, because most that contact us already come somewhat educated and ready for more information. Once they peruse the www.chambraylabradors.com they then have it in writing as the website provides invaluable info on all aspects of dog ownership, puppy facts and other useful and pertinent information for puppy buyers to learn from. The website is an accumulation of our 40 year's worth of involvement with the breed.
So, now we have these educated consumers that know that there is a difference between well-bred dogs, with warrantees and with decades of expertise behind them from all those others offered at street corners, pet shops, puppy mill operations, puppy brokers, hobbyist and backyard breeders.
Those differences are tallied in (1) health & soundness, (2) temperament and in (3) conformation. Let's take a look at each one of those attributes from Chambray Labradors or in most cases, lack of attributes from those other sources mentioned above.
1. Soundness and health are essential for the longevity of the dog. Everyone searching for a pet wants one that will be healthy and sound for the duration of its lifetime. How does a person searching for a pet puppy know that a puppy has the potential to be either healthy or not? The health and soundness of the parents of that puppy have a direct correlation to the eventual health of the puppy. The chances and percentages are way in favor of a puppy being healthy and sound that came from healthy and sound parents. So having sires and dams that are certified in those areas that are known to be a variable will greatly increase the chances that the puppy will also be free of those conditions. There are no guarantees whatsoever when purchasing a puppy from a pet shop, puppy mill or backyard breeder that those parents are free for genetic diseases, thus the chances for the puppy to develop those same diseases is greatly enhanced. In other words, not very good odds to play with and since acquiring a dog is a 12 to 15 year investment of emotion and money, not good odds at all!
2. Temperament of the dog is paramount as it is breed indicative. Each breed has a standard and temperament is explicitly covered in that written blueprint. In other words a Labrador Retriever must act as a Labrador Retriever and if it does not, then it has deviated from the expected norms for our breed. When breeding a sire and dam, the temperament of each must be exemplary of the breed so that warrantees may given each new owner that their newly acquired puppy will have those same behavioral qualities known for that breed. Dogs acquired from puppy mills, pet shops, backyard breeders and other non-show breeder sources tend to have the most behavioral problems of all dogs attending our training facility.
deals with how the dog is supposed to look. Each breed has definable
characteristics that make them unique; otherwise all dogs would look alike
or be Heinz 57 varieties! A Labrador Retriever must look like a Labrador
Retriever and not resemble or look like another breed of dog. Once again,
those dogs obtained from unknowledgeable sources tend to have the greatest
variances in looks. We have had people come to our training classes with
Labs that looked like Great Danes, Grey Hounds and even Whippets, others
that were sold as "purebred" had Terrier or hound mixes in them. Although
they were provided with "papers" and "mile long pedigrees", these dogs were
not indicative of their breeds in conformation. Conformation is validated at
venues such as dog shows, be it AKC, UKC or IABCA. Dogs with titles are dogs
that have been presented to knowledgeable judges and have been rewarded with
these accreditations as being exemplary specimens of the breed. Chambray
Labradors titles more dogs with the AKC, UKC and IABCA than all the other
Florida Labrador breeders combined!!!!!! These are not fanciful claims, we
provide hardcopy results at the
Dog Show Scene.
At these pages you will find all the Florida dog show results, show by show
from 2004 to the present. The proof is in the pudding!
Ok, so how does all the preceding translate into a person going from ordinary pet owner to being the proud owner and exhibitor of a show dog?
Once a person knows that they have a top-notch specimen of the breed, pride and joy take over and the next step is to do something worthwhile with that dog. There is a tremendous sense of fulfillment to be able to participate at the upper levels of any endeavor, so that starting out with the highest caliber of quality makes the interest level that much more intensified and valid.
The rest of the story can be taken as "word of mouth" from those that are part of the Labrador Owner's Community, ordinary folk that once upon a time where searching for a pet puppy and today are participating in the one of a kind program with Chambray Labradors.
see the
the Owner's Photo Gallery now
The sky is the limit when you don't limit yourself to a plain pet obtained from unproven sources. Research, investigate and come to your own conclusions about the best place to secure your next "best friend" from and maybe you too will evolve from being ordinary folk to show oriented as have done hundreds in the last 20 years with Chambray Labradors.
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Good Dog Coffee Micro Roasters
Fresh, Organic and Shade Grown Coffee Roasted to Order!
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Welcome to Good Dog Coffee, your personal coffee roasters!
We invite you to browse through our
and shop with confidence. We invite you to create an account with us if you like or shop as a guest. Either way, your shopping cart will be active until you leave the store.
We strive to provide you with the best customer service in the industry.
Our coffees
are single source Arabica beans and produced under strict environmental and social guidelines. We roast our single source beans from South America, Central America and the Caribbean. Specifically we have Puerto Rican Coffee, Bolivian Coffee, Nicaraguan Coffee and Colombian Coffee beans. All our beans are shade grown, fair traded and organic.
We only buy shade grown coffee because they protect the fragile Rain Forest canopy that supports threatened bird and plant populations. And we only buy fairly traded coffee from small farm coops because we believe that sustainable development can only emerge from good working conditions and wages. All that means that we deliver only the finest beans in the world.
Yes we do! We roast all of our Arabica beans in small batches of 1 and 2 pounds at a time using our indirect heat roasters. We only roast coffee after we receive your order. We never have roasted beans waiting to be sold. That is why we can assure you that you will never get fresher coffee than ours. Because we roast to order, you tell us what roasting level you would like us to use for your coffee beans. If you are undecided about what level is best for you check our our
roasting level guide
Grind Level:
Most of our clients buy whole bean coffee but if you prefer, we can also grind it for free. If you prefer ground coffee you will be able to tell us the grind level you will like too. For espresso coffee makers we recommend Fine coffee grind, for regular drip coffee makers we recommend a Medium grind and for french presses or coffee percolators we recommend you choose Coarse grind.
Why our name?
Well, many people ask this question. It is simple. We love coffee and we love dogs! We strongly believe that dogs are a gift to us and have a vital role to play in our lives, both
as companions and working members of society. Without them our lives would simply be incomplete. Just like our K9 friends that protect us, cherish our presence and complete our lives, we must do the same for our environment. That's why we only sell 100% organic coffee because after all a good dog would want to protect the environment.
Thank you for visiting.
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Your coffee roasters!
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Happy First Day of Fall! Are you looking for a few fun fall books? Here are some adorable Fall Books by Lois Ehlert that are a big hit in our house. Plus there are few activities and snack ideas for you for each book when you check out our Lois Ehlert Virtual Book Club for Kids!
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About BDRR
Big Dog Ranch Rescue is a unique no-kill dog rescue situated on 28 acres in Wellington, Florida.
The mission of Big Dog Ranch Rescue is to provide shelter, care and affection to homeless dogs of all breeds and adopt them out into loving homes. We also promote animal welfare and celebrate the special bond between dogs and families through education, awareness and community outreach. Big Dog Ranch Rescue is associated with the Weimaraner Rescue & Adoption of Florida and is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
We are located at 10948 Acme Road, Wellington, Florida, 33414.
If you would like to arrange a visit, please call 561-309-3311 or 561-791-6465.


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Theatre consultant Kevin Curry remembers catching the theatre bug as a student, lighting productions in his high school's "gymnatorium," basically a stage at the end of a gym. Years later, after Curry turned his love for theatre into a career, he landed back at his alma mater—Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, VA—in that very same gymnatorium collaborating with architect Roger Bass, acoustician Neil Thompson Shade, and Tom Kennedy of Barbizon Lighting on the design-build of a brand-new 783–seat multi-use theatre.
One of the most impressive high school venues in northern Virginia, the $6–million state-of-the-art Whaley Auditorium was almost an afterthought at conception, an idea that grew out of an earlier project to convert the parochial high school from all-boys to co-ed. "At the time we did the co-ed conversion, the administration decided to build new classes as well as a new auditorium," explains Bass of McLean, VA–based Bass Architects Chartered. "We incorporated the auditorium into the planning of the new classrooms, but pretty soon the new auditorium became the dominant feature, not just an auditorium, but a band wing with offices and rehearsal spaces."
The reason for the added investment was Bishop Ireton's award-winning music program, led by musical director Garwood Whaley (who the auditorium was named after). The good old gymnatorium had served the school since 1964, but all agreed it was no longer adequate, acoustically and otherwise, to house the popular music program and its growing audiences.
The auditorium project quickly morphed into a concert hall project, and by the time Curry was brought onboard in 1996, the space was to be adapted for theatrical productions as well. Curry, now the school's technical director, supervised the rigging, lighting, and sound installation and met the challenge the rest of the design team faced: accommodate the multi-use needs of the school within parameters set by zoning restrictions and very sensitive neighbors.
"It took several years of negotiations with the city and the neighbors to get approval for the project at all, and the height of the building was an issue," explains Bass, who says the site's hillside topography became both a blessing and a curse. "The hill allowed us to have good sightlines for seating because we followed the slope of the hill in the design. But there was also a slope going up toward the neighbors on the other side of the auditorium and they were very vocal about keeping the building height low there."
As a result, the original stage design, which incorporated a 48'–high, four–story flytower, was abandoned and the height was trimmed to 38' with a 28'–high proscenium arch, a 48'–wide proscenium, and 37'–deep stage from apron to back wall. "The space limitations left us with a 10' fly space," says Curry. "So I designed a 12' grand valance with a 10' black teaser behind so we can bring that down and create a straight one-to-one fly space."
When it came time to spec and supply a lighting system that could both accommodate concert and theatrical performances, Curry enlisted fellow Bishop Ireton alum and former technical director Tom Kennedy of Barbizon Lighting in Alexandria. Sizing up the existing equipment was a nostalgic step back in time for Curry and Kennedy. "I was painfully familiar with the old system," Kennedy laughs.
"It was ancient equipment, 20 or 30 years old," adds Curry. "I didn't use any of it in the new space. We actually loan that equipment out to the elementary schools and it's useful if we need a spare light."
But it isn't often that the new facility is in need of a spare light, as Curry and Kennedy are quick to point out. "It's one of the few systems I've been involved in that has as many fixtures as I want," says Kennedy. "There are 244 fixtures and 288 dimmers for a stage that's 48' wide by 28' deep. That's a nice density."
The $500,000 state-of-the-art lighting and rigging system includes: 52 ETC Source Fours, 36 ETC Source Four PARs, 40 Altman 8" fresnels, 10 Altman Zooms, and two Martin Trackspots. The lighting controller is one of the first ETC Insight 3s, which has distributed DMX, networking capabilities (although it's not networked at this time) and remote-focus capabilities in the house and in two front-of-house catwalks (which happen to be dedicated to Curry). There is also series of double-purchase counterweight systems for rigging.
For placement, Curry designed a standard hanging plot with a nod to Stanley McCandless' classic five–point lighting scheme. "There are five acting areas across, four deep with five–point lighting to each acting area, and then there are a number of specials," he explains. "I tell my students, 'Don't move the general acting lights, move your specials around.' So for 85% of the functions, they don't have to go up and refocus lights."
Curry was also very aware he needed to tailor the professional lighting system to non-professional users. To this end, he incorporated five presets into the house system, run by an ETC Unison controller, to make it operator-friendly for anyone using the auditorium. "With five buttons, they can set five different lighting looks in the theatre," says Curry. "Any teacher coming in can push a button and get flat lights for an assembly. If they're doing a concert rehearsal, they can push another button and the bandshell lights will come on. If they're doing custodial work, another set of worklights come on and that way we don't burn out the theatre lights."
Sound of Music
To optimize the acoustics of the auditorium, Bass brought in frequent collaborator Neil Thompson Shade of Falls Church, VA–based Acoustical Design Collaborative Ltd. Washington Professional Systems (WPS) out of Wheaton, MD, was the sound system contractor. Dave Leister was WPS' project manager.
Like Curry and Kennedy, Shade's mission was to create an acoustical design that would not only showcase the high level of musicianship at the school, but could be converted for drama and school activities.
A main component of the concert hall design is a Wenger Diva acoustical shell that is adjustable to accommodate different size musicals groups and can be flown out for theatrical productions. Shade says the school administration insisted on a stage shell, an unusual request at the high school level. "In my experience, a lot of schools don't initially plan for a stage shell and it's almost never budgeted for," he explains. "It's very important for sound quality, especially if the school has a music program, to plan for a stage shell with overhead ceiling reflecting panels." It wasn't too difficult for Shade to improve upon the old gym setup, which was acoustically challenged to say the least due to limited reverberation and very high sound levels. Shade's master plan in the new auditorium was to have appropriate reverberation time (1.8 seconds) and strong lateral, or side wall, reflections which were enhanced by the trapezium shape of the space. "The stage is some what of a fan shape and it reaches a wide point in the middle of the room and then returns back in toward the centerline," Shade says. "The shape of the room helps promote good strong lateral or side wall reflections particularly toward the back of the room."
Side walls are composed of custom-made 3/4" maple veneer plywood panels, three high and five across, that have been braced randomly to minimize excess low-frequency absorption. The panels were stepped and double-angled, down from the ceiling towards the floor and then in towards the centerline of the room, to enhance the strength of the lateral side wall reflections.
To help promote early reflections at the ceiling plane, Shade incorporated 10 reflecting clouds across approximately 40% of the ceiling. At the back wall of the auditorium, there are QRD (quadratic residue diffusing) panels manufactured by RPG Diffusor Products.
Although an orchestra pit was not part of the original design, Curry consulted with the architect to design removable center seating in the first three rows. "We have an orchestra pit when we need it; if we don't, that's 60 more seats we have in the space," he says.
The Renkus-Heinz CE125T speaker system is set up as a split central cluster with one stack directly above the proscenium line along the center of the room that covers the front half of the audience and another located mid-house that covers the rest of the seating. The system has a Peavey IDL1000 signal delay line and QSC CX6 and CX4T power amplifiers. Assistive listening is accomplished through a Williams WIR IR system.
The mic package includes: four Shure MX202 hanging microphones above the stage for reinforcement of choral and drama performances, Shure BETA87 handheld mics, and Crown PCC160 boundary layer mics. The intercom system is a Telex US2000 series with an EV CH230 production intercom microphone.
In an effort to save money, some existing sound equipment was also put to use, including Shure SM58s and 57s, which Curry is in the process of replacing with new models. The original Mackie 12 mixing console has been loaned out to the athletic department and was replaced by a Mackie 24-8.
In addition to the auditorium, Shade engineered sound for a musical rehearsal suite for the band and choir and several practice rooms. "The major issue was getting adequate ceiling height in the rehearsal rooms and stay within the exterior height ordinance required by the city," he says. "In the band room, there are a series of sound absorptive and sound-diffusive panels on all of the wall surfaces and ceiling surfaces."
Now in its third year, the Whaley Auditorium serves not only the high school's ambitious music and theatrical presentations (including recent productions of Sound of Music and Star Mites,), but has generated revenue for the school renting to local performance groups. In fact, many Washington, DC–area Army, Navy, and Marine service bands have used Bishop Ireton's auditorium as their primary recording venue. "We're not a road house, but we do rent the auditorium and whenever anybody rents the facility, they do so in conjunction with the technical director and two students," says Curry. "It's an education process for the students, and they gain work experience they normally wouldn't in high school."
Curry and Kennedy are reminded that the old days of putting on a show in the gymnatorium are long gone. "We even found a couple of students who've gone on to college-level theatre who come back and say we may have done them a disservice," Kennedy laughs. "The college theatres they're working in don't size up to Bishop Ireton."
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Benefits of Weights and Strength Training
A Success Story in Weight Loss
Practical success stories are important because they show what's possible when you put your mind to it. Here's one of them.
10 Positive Health Effects of Weight Training
The health benefits of weight training are well documented and reach beyond weight loss.
Myths and Misconceptions About Strength Training
Regarding your strength training, discover what you can rely on, what is conjecture, untrue or just plain deceit.
Best 10 Fat Loss Tips
10 validated weight loss tips to get you lean.
Get Fit for Summer
Shape-up for summer with this weights and cardio program.
Carbohydrate Secrets for Weight Training
Explore the lesser known aspects of carbohydrate nutriton for weight training.
Top 10 Weights Exercises You Never Heard Of
Here's a few exercises you may not be familiar with.
How Much Exercise Do You Really Need?
Getting enough exercise is a standard health recommendation, but how much is enough, and how much is too much?
Things You Should Know About Osteoporosis and Exercise
Worrying about their bones is not something that teenage girls give high priority to – not in relation to how strong they are going to be in 20 years anyway.
How Weight Training Helps Seniors Stay Young
Exercise and non-exercise physical activity is important
Health and Fitness Benefits of Weight Training
Weight training and strength training provide benefits in fitness, preventive health, body image and self-esteem, injury recovery and functionality into old age, and in the treatment of chronic diseases.
Strong Women Still Stay Slim
Although large muscles tend not to be one of the acquisitions women get from weight training, increased strength, balance and bone density are. Check out these positives for weight training women.
Do You Need a Medical Check-up Before Starting Weight Training?
Thinking of starting to train with weights? There are many benefits including fitness, strength and disease prevention, but you should be sure you're ready to go. See if a medical screening would be the thing for you.
Weight Training Helps Prevent Diabetes
Strength training, as part of an exercise program, can help people lose weight, improve fitness and prevent the progression from early signs of pre-diabetes to a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
Weight Training Knowledge You Can't Do Without
Weight training 'unknown unknowns' and what you need to know to be a good trainer.
High-Intensity, Steady State
High-intensity training, whether weights or intervals, creates different fitness outcomes to steady-state or continuous aerobic training. Do both for best effect.


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Welcome to Bear Creek Ski Shack.
We are Northeastern Pa's premiere specialty ski shop.
Located at 200 Montage Mountain Road in Moosic PA at the base of Montage Mountain Ski Resort
(Across from PNC Field) We are just a short drive to Elk Mtn., Camelback, JFBB, & the Pocono's.
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I'm new here, so bear with me. I know the Sixers are in desperate need of a center, but why not try talking to the Atlanta Hawks? Recently, there has been more talk that the Hawks would be willing to part ways with Josh Smith, but obviously not for nothing. The Hawks still have Johnson still locked up and Horford at the helm, and with Teague's play in the playoffs, he might soon be cracking the starting lineup. With an Iguodala for Smith deal, the Hawks get a great wing defender, that is perhaps much more willing to get less touches for the good of the team, benefitting both Horford, and Johnson. All this while still having the ability to put up 20+ points when asked.
For the Sixers, they get defense on the inside and out, arguably the most naturally gifted player in the leauge, Josh Smith, might very well be a year or two away from his own "Defensive Player of the Year" award. He can block shots, guard on the wing, and also guard much larger guys, as he has shown consistently. And I know what you're gonna say, he wastes too many offensive possessions. But the thing is, in Atlanta, Larry Drew is not Doug Collins. Doug Collins is a great coach, he'll actually discuss these kinds of things with Smith, unlike LD. With a great coach, and solid knowledge of his role, it's only a matter of time before Josh Smith blossoms into the best two way threat up and down the court.


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Kate Masur
U.S.; the Civil War and Reconstruction; slave emancipation; citizenship
Office: Harris Hall #202
Phone: 847-491-2849
E-mail: kmasurnorthwestern.edu
Kate Masur (PhD University of Michigan 2001) works in nineteenth-century U.S. history, with particular emphasis on how Americans confronted the political and social problems posed by the end of slavery. A faculty affiliate of the Department of African American Studies, she is the author of An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Professor Masur has published several scholarly journal articles, including most recently, "Patronage and Protest in Kate Brown's Washington," Journal of American History (March 2013). Her writing has also appeared in the op-ed pages of the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Atlantic Online.
Professor Masur is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including fellowships from the Library of Congress's John W. Kluge Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The recipient of a 2010 ACLS/Ryskamp fellowship, she is currently working on two research projects. One concerns African Americans, federal employment, and the Republican party in the post-Civil War period. Here she is interested in government work as a source of economic stability and upward mobility for African Americans, the nineteenth-century Republican party's struggles with race, and the meanings of federal enclaves in the post-Confederate South. In a separate project she is investigating the demise of slavery in the Upper Chesapeake region during the first year of the Civil War, paying special attention to how local police and military officials enforced fugitive slave laws. Before joining the Northwestern faculty, she spent two years as an editor at the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland. She is a co-editor of the project's forthcoming volume, Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 3, vol. 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867.
Teaching interests
Professor Masur teaches general courses in U.S. history and more specialized topics such as the Civil War and Reconstruction, Abraham Lincoln, civil rights in the nineteenth century, and comparative emancipations. She has recently added U.S. women's history to her repertoire.


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MARAMDUKE, AR (KAIT) - The Cooperate Office of ARI is offering a $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the May 24 bomb threat at the ARI plant in Marmaduke.
Anyone with information can call the Marmaduke Police Department at (870) 597-2020 or the Arkansas State Police at (870) 935-7302.
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Smallpox Drug Deal Remains Questionable
A smallpox drug deal between the U.S. government and Siga Technologies raises questions about the cost, effectiveness and practicality of the $433 million deal.
According to a report from the LA Times, the Obama administration awarded Siga Technologies with a lucrative deal to produce 1.7 million doses of a smallpox vaccine for its biodefense stockpile. Siga's controlling shareholder is the high-profile billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, who is also a Democratic Party donor. When the company complained that negotiations to produce the drug weren't going through as quickly as they'd like, the U.S. government put its head negotiator in charge of talks.
It's cost, at $255 per dose, is much more expensive than what had originally been approved. Other companies that could have put forth a more affordable, effective vaccine might have been blocked from competing in a second trial, according to the report. Siga maintains that its drug is different in that it is meant for people who are already infected and diagnosed too late.
It has not been FDA approved, and many within the health field and administration are questioning whether or not the additional vaccine is needed.
Those in favor of bolstering up the nation's defense against the disease or other highly contagious viruses warn that there is significant reason to believe biological warfare will be the weapon of the future. There is no evidence that any terrorist group has access to smallpox, since the only known samples are in highly secure freezers in Russia and within the U.S. government. Still, many biologists say now is the time to prepare for an attack.
At its heydey, smallpox spread almost uncontrollably and had a 30% death rate. It has been eradicated worldwide since 1978.


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2nd Annual Northwest Regional Instructional Technology Showcase
On Friday, February 22, 2013, the Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC) held the 2nd Annual Northwest Regional Instructional Technology Showcase, "E3 with Learning Technology: Efficiency, Effectiveness and Engagement" at UW-Stout. >Recorded sessions
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The following articles and links provide helpful information for anyone considering using technology in their course.
- On the Role and Design of Video for Learning(Video)
- Think Small! A Beginner's Guide to Using Technology to Promote
- Nine Tips for Creating a Hybrid Course (PDF)
- Strategies for Teaching a Hybrid Course (PDF)
- Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Course Project (Website)
- Ask and You Will Receive
- Asynchronous Discussion and Communication Patterns in Online and Hybrid History Courses
- Online Teaching and Learning Resource Guide
- Teaching Matters: Rethinking the Hybrid Course
- Teaching International Law as a Partially Online Course
- To ITV or Not to ITV
Richard E. Mayer - Interview by Mike O'Donoghue. On the role and design of video for learning (November 2011).
Professor Richard Mayer discusses in this video interview his interest in helping people learn in such a way that helps them to apply, or transfer, that learning to their particular situation. This interest led him to explore the use of graphics, video and animation, to help learning. Mayer cautions that media does not cause learning, but that it is the instructional method that causes learning. He adds that media will not improve poorly-designed instruction; media is best used to add value to well-designed instruction. Mayer describes principles of multi-media design that he has developed through his evidence-based research and offers suggestions on how to introduce technology in the classroom. He concludes by suggesting that to create high-quality multi-media requires collaboration between those expert of various fields, such as production, subject matter, instructional design, and cognitive science of learning. Mayer, Richard E., interview by Mike O'Donoghue. On the role and design of video for learning (November 2011).
Megan E. Bradley, et al. "Ask and You Will Receive: How Question Type Influences Quantity and Quality of Online Discussions." British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol. 39 No. 5 (2008), 888 – 900.
Overview: In an attempt to promote and improve the quality and quantity of educational online discussion boards the researchers sought to demonstrate impact questions have on students. They found that question type influences both quantity and quality of student responses. They tested six question types: Direct Link, Course Link, Brainstorm, Limited Focal, Open Focal, and Application.
Highest Word Count: Limited Focal and Direct Link questions generated the most words. Followed by Brainstorm and Open Focal.
Most Complete Answers: Limited Focal and Open Focal followed by Brainstorm and Direct Link.
Generated Highest Order Think: Course Link, Brainstorm and Direct Link question resulted in highest levels of thinking. Open Focal and Application question types resulted in the lowest level of thinking. >pdf
Deborah Vess. "Asynchronous Discussion and Communication Patterns in Online and Hybrid History Courses." Communication Studies Vol. 54 No. 4 (October 2005), 355 – 364.
Overview: The author compared the quality of student-to-student interaction in an online world civilization history course using software facilitated discussion boards and another section using a more traditional face-to-face hybrid course. She formatted the discussion groups with the utilization of role playing.
Student-to-student interactions were more authentic and elaborate in the pure online course.
- Student-to-student interaction in the traditional course was more constrained and tended to be more instructor-to-student oriented.
Students in the traditional hybrid course did report greater comfort engaging in in-class discussions after exchanging posts on the discussion boards.
Significantly, the author pointed out that the students in the fully online class were older non-traditional students and their maturity level most likely influenced the higher level of online discussion. >pdf
"Online Assessment." Online Teaching and Learning Resource Guide (Virginia Commonwealth University: Center for Teaching Excellence). 91 – 126.
Overview: The article gives suggestions on how to conduct quality assessments for online or hybrid courses that promote higher-order thinking, better learning outcomes, and thwart cheating. It also demonstrates the pros and cons, and differences between formative and summative assessments as well as provides tools to get the most out of both means of assessment.Formative:
Concept mapping, pages 94 – 95.
Determining Prior Knowledge (Pre-course tests), pages 95 – 96.
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CAT's), pages 96 – 98.
Blogging or Learning Journals, pages 98 – 99.
Surveys (illuminates where students don't understand material), page 99.
Practice Quizzes (Studies show those who take them do better), pages 100 – 101.
StudyMate (A study aid that uses common games to help study for tests), pages 101 – 104.
Quizzes, Tests, and Exams (Practices to thwart cheating on online quizzes, tests, and exams), pages 108 – 109.
The article also provides suggested practices regarding Rubrics (pages 104 – 106), Assignments (106 – 108), Respondus (109 – 111), LON-CAPA (111 – 115), and Peer Review/ Peer Feedback (115 – 116). >pdf
Fox, Steve. "Teaching Matters: Rethinking the Hybrid Course." Chronicle of Higher Education Vol. 56 No. 21 (February 2010).
Overview: The article argued that although students are more willing to take part in an online discussion, hybrid courses may not fulfill the needs of students. Mr. Fox asserted students prefer online discussion boards because it is a passive means of communication, but this could thwart their ability to communicate face-to-face. Mr. Fox gave four ways to hybridize a university course not as a means of promoting passive communication, but rather active in-class, face-to-face discussion.
Start a class blog. Post everything online: the syllabus, links to assigned readings, day-to-day schedules, links to outside articles of interest, observations about class discussions. Update it regularly.
Create a continuum. The goal is to make the class experience part of a continuum, instead of a couple of blocks of 50 or 90 minutes twice a week. The blog subtly makes the class a part of their daily life, unlike the passive e-mail experience.
Require class participation. Mr. Fox has had considerable success, especially when he posts juicy topics. He definitely sees participation from those who might not otherwise participate in a "live" discussion.
Help students become more comfortable with class discussions. Instructors should remember that as faculty members, they come into the classroom prepped and with lecture notes in hand—yet they expect students to come up with coherent arguments on the spot. Even if they've done the readings, that can be tough. >pdf
Beck, Robert J. "Teaching International Law as a Partially Online Course: the Hybrid/Blended Approach to Pedagogy." International Studies Perspective, Vol. 11 (2012), 273 – 290.
Overview: This article recounted the author's experience of teaching International Law as a ''blended'' or ''hybrid'' course during the Spring and Fall semesters of 2007. The author is well versed in the language of education and found his students liked his web-enhanced activities because they were convenient, students were able to re-watch videos and lectures, and the online materials helped further the students understanding of course content.
- 88 percent (Fall semester 2007)/ 90 percent (Spring semester 2007) of his students found the voice over PowerPoint helpful and easily accessible and wanted them to continue.
5 percent (Fall) / 25 percent (Spring) of the mid-term and 18 percent (Fall)/ 10 percent (Spring) of the end-term responses appreciated the convenience of online material.
30 percent (Fall)/ 12 percent (Spring) of the mid-term and 5 percent (Fall)/ 7 percent (Spring) of the end-term responses liked the ability to watch the videos repeatedly.
14 percent (Fall)/ 12 percent (Spring) of the mid-term and 4 percent (Fall)/ 17 percent (Spring) of the end-term responses believed the online material increases their comprehension of class content. >pdf
Forte, James A. and Vicki Root. "To ITV or Not to ITV: A Comparison of Hybrid and Web-enhanced Approaches to Teaching a Macro-course in Human Behavior in the Social Environment." Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, No. 21 (2011), 82 – 96.
Overview: The authors used ITV in the hybrid course to facilitate class activity and compared the learning outcomes to a traditional face-to-face course with supplemented online material. They found that the differences in grade outcomes were marginal.
- The mean course grade for the web-enhanced class was 90.2 percent with a range of 76 – 98. The mean course grade for the hybrid course was 90.6 percent with a range of 70 – 97.
The mean grades for the 10 – 12 page research paper were 22.8 points of a possible 25 for the hybrid course and 23.2 points of a possible 25 for web-enhanced.
The students reported a higher mean of satisfaction regarding class expectations, how much they felt they learned, and teacher effectiveness in the hybrid course opposed to the web-enhanced course, albeit the statistical difference was minor. >pdf


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Ee, the weather's a bit funny at the moment!
Last Thursday we had cars floating on Morecambe seafront, the promenade feet deep in lumps of rock and small boulders hurled up from the flood defences and the everlasting lines of flotsam and jetsam left not in their usual high tide place but across the coastal road.
We were in the wood panelled hallows of the town hall that evening, four of us being trained to present more effectively, speak more slowly, use pauses, drop the ums and ers. The wind was merely a whisper beyond the heavy drapes. One of my fellow councillors, ever in touch with a multitude of her residents and friends through her phone and Facebook, was drawing up picture after picture of what had happened in Morecambe during the day, showing me in fascination, the damage done by wind and sea in a few short hours, She looked kind of enquiringly at me,
"Ee," she said, "the weather's a bit funny at the moment."
Indeed it is and no she is not a Green Party councillor. You could feel intensely depressed that someone with responsibility for the conduct of local government, someone competent, caring, hardworking and ambitious to do her best for the district, should not understand the way it is threatened by climate change. Yet another part of me felt strangely exhilarated – she's noticing and she is open now to explanations of extreme weather events. I wonder where to go next with that little moment – there's some thinking to be done with the key strategic people of Lancaster and Morecambe about how we turn growing concern into positive action, rather than deep depression.
Last Thursday brought some more welcome news too; the planning permission for the growing project I am setting up with Joy, my fellow Transitioner, will go to committee on 6 January. No-one so far has objected and there don't seem to be any insurmountable problems. Joy is working indefatigably with her team of volunteers to create the hard standing for the shipping container which will store our tools (currently left under the hedge) and it is arriving mid-January thanks to some funding from our partners at LESS. The field itself is growing a good crop of grasses and clovers, as advised by our friend and mentor Alan Schofield from Growing with Nature. We dug another little pit to look at the soil; since the deep harrowing we have seen a bit more worm activity but there is still a lot to do to improve fertility. For this, our farmer tenant James Park has promised loads of manure so Joy is pursuing stakes and pallets to create a clamp for it. Apart from an invasion of sheep from the adjoining field, things have been going well.
Yet, dare I say it, the events of last week are beginning to make me wonder whether this growing project, with its expectation of teaching people how to grow the annual vegetables that we expect to see on our plates after so many centuries of annual, seasonal agriculture is fast becoming uncertain, if not irrelevant. Unpredictable weather, cold when it should be warm, droughts, rain and wind destroying the pollination periods, too much water leaving crops rotten in the ground – we've seen it all in the last few years. There are ways to reduce the effect of the weather. Naturally, we plan to have a few polytunnels but it will clearly be a struggle to keep them intact on an exposed windy field. People are not going to survive if they are dependant on the vagaries of the kind of annual harvest we have round here. It seems like we need a whole different kind of food production that will be far more resilient to the weather.
Inevitably it seems the situation has brought me back to permaculture, an idea that both fascinates and annoys me in turns. Fascinates because on the ground, in amongst things growing according to permaculture principles there is nothing but wonder about the way plants interact and thrive. It annoys me because you need a lot of knowledge to do it properly and I confess I have made no dent in my ignorance partly because all the courses I have come across require large applications of time and quite often money. I feel a New Year Resolution coming on … Recently I have been reading and listening to Mark Shepard on Restoration Agriculture. As befits a visual learner I was first fascinated by a picture of his farm that you can see here. From the air you see lines of trees in slow curving rows – I wanted to know what and why. In the face of extreme weather the hardiness and adaptability of perennial plants, especially trees, seems hugely important. You find them in cracks in walls, in gutters and on filthy train sidings, seemingly undeterred by the conditions. The importance of trees as perennial sources of food seems to have been utterly forgotten here – a neighbour to our allotment orchard came over last week and said, "Can't you just cut the tops off them all?" She doesn't like trees – apples come from the supermarket.
If our growing project is to make a real contribution to the resilience of our immediate neighbours on the Ridge Estate and to others in our district, it is going to have to adapt to extreme weather here and now and offer something relevant to a future predictably unpredictable. We have allies with the knowledge and experience – maybe we need to give them a little more influence and elbow room in the design of our project. It's an edgy, uncomfortable place for me to be – moving out of the neat, orderly lines of Mr McGregor's potato plot and vegetable bed into the secret forest garden, yet exciting too.
During the course on effective speaking last Thursday night we were warned severely about the perils of using clichés in our presentations. Just to ensure we knew what to avoid we were provided with a list of twenty clichés never to be used. Number one on the list? Climate change!!
Pictures: Claver Hill diggers (CJ) Mark Shepard's farm (from Organic Connections)
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Resilience gardening12 December 2013 - 11:21pm — Ann Owen
It's a whole new ball game when you can no longer count on predictable, seasonal weather or plentiful supplies of diesel. It's those challenges we had in mind when we created Einion's Garden. You're gonna need polytunnels with sidevents, coldframes, hugel culture beds, frost fleece, John Jeavons's style three stage propagation and most of all, double up your crops, have some early, some late, some inside, some outside and have spares ready.
Don't hedge your bets on "forest gardens", but apply the principles on fat hedges. Remember that fruit needs pollinators and when it rains or is too cold, the bees don't fly, which is what happened in the summer of 2012. No bees= no fruit. Fruiting hedges are brilliant though, to protect from the wind, to channel frost, for wildlife, foddage and a place for all your animal garden helpers to live. I hope to see your project one day, I'm sure it will be grand!
Resilient food growing17 December 2013 - 11:56pm — Anni Kelsey
Hi Caroline
I hadn't realised that your area had been hit so badly with the weather recently.
It is good to hear that your project is progressing apace. I agree with you that ideally incorporating perennials into the system will enable it to be more resilient to the vagaries of the weather. As you know I have been experimenting with perennial vegetables for some years now and they are proving to be versatile and hardy and my book about all this (Edible Perennial Gardening) will be out in March after a long time in the pipeline!
However I would encourage you and anyone else reading this not to think that you necessarily have to have lots of knowlege / experience to grow perennials as I certainly didn't when I started and they have always been much easier in my experience than annual vegetables which I am pretty useless with (although I am now starting to incorporate some annuals in to my polycultures, albeit in uncoventional ways). I have no formal training in permaculture, so I learned what I know from experimenting and reading books and blogs.
My experience is entirely based at a garden level - small areas in a normal suburban patch - not in a field or area of any size, but I am sure what I have learned will translate into larger spaces. If it would be of any help I am happy to assist your project with a trial patch / patches of perennials next year. Just let me know if you would like to discuss.
Good luck and happy Christmas
Anni Kelsey
nice one Anni18 December 2013 - 10:37am — Jo Homan
congratulations on the book! Caroline, I'd take her up on the offer if I were you as it's definitely the way to go. Here's what we're eating that's growing outdoors right now and has received pretty much zero maintenance: Allium triquetrum (three cornered leek), Leucanthemum superbum 'Becky' (Shasta daisy), Claytonia sibirica (Siberian Purslane), young Achillea millefolium (Yarrow). With those deeper, perennial root systems you can be sure they have plenty of nutrients. And the Purslane and Three Cornered Leek will grow in the shade. Also loads of Sea Beet is around but needs to be cooked. Bring on the new tastes...
resilience and perennials18 December 2013 - 10:48pm — Caroline Jackson
Thanks for all the encouraging comments and for the reassurance that experimenting with perennial veg is the way to go, Jo. I planted up the seeds and plants you sent me last year Anni, with varying success probably due half to the endless rain in 2012 half to my ineptitude. Rocket and onions all flooded out. Sea beet grew quite well then gave up in the rain. Had some beautiful perennial brocolli from seeds which left a lot of elderly gents on the allotment shaking their heads at the idea of cauliflowers in the spring! but I seem to have killed half those plants off because I let them flower later. Perennial kale great this year, is better than the annual i think and survived the chickens attacking it. Would love to have some help translating to field size growing - it will need a think on how to manage perennial beds, which will be good for us. Might get some interest from our university friends as well. Will email you in new year. Have a good, peaceful Christmas everyone.
I've been into finding21 December 2013 - 11:03am — John Mason
I've been into finding resilient things to grow and one of the best so far is Swiss Chard. A good bed of that will provide a person with daily greens in summer, autumn into early winter if it is mild, and again in the spring and early summer. The multicoloured varieties look good too!
Living near the coast you could do what I do and gather seaweed washed up after storms. Surface-mulched around the plants (careful not to actually have them in direct contact) it gives lots of nutrients and it appears that slugs dislike it as this year I've had little damage to my plants :)


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"I often hear the phrase, 'schools should run like a business,'" Hatrick said during a chamber PolicyMaker Series event dubbed the State of Education. "Unlike other industries, public schools don't get to set production quotas. We have no say in the number of students we accept every year. We only deal with impact of their arrival."
Loudoun County School Board Chairman Eric Hornberger (Ashburn) introduced the superintendent with a few remarks of his own, focusing on what he called the four Bs: budget, boundaries, business and betterment. He touched on Hatrick's point during his comments.
"For us to be effective, truly effective, we will need to grow in our ability to manage the routine business of a growing school system without being consumed by it," he said, calling on the business community to commit their intellectual resources. "We have a wealth of talent in Loudoun County that is a vast resource of expertise, experience and ideas."
About 36,000 new students have enrolled in Loudoun schools during the past 12 years; enrollment is now approximately 68,000 students. During the past five years, Hatrick said, the school operating budget has increased 8.5 percent, compared with a 20 percent increase in enrollment.
"What this means is that our average cost per pupil has dropped $1,185 or 9.3 percent since the 2008-2009 school year," Hatrick said. The puts Loudoun below Arlington, Fairfax, Montgomery (MD) and Prince George's (MD) counties as well as the cities of Alexandria, Falls Church and Manassas. Hatrick said the value of the school system can be hard to see for decades.
"While I am a CEO, my business is not a business in a conventional sense. The bottom line of what our schools produce won't be known sometimes for years, maybe even generations," he said.
Among the difficulties of providing an education, Hatrick said, are state and federal mandates, many of which are unfunded, including requirements for diversity within schools as well as serving students with special needs. The number of student with disabilities has more than doubled since 2000, he said, while the number of students with Autism has "increased 12-fold."
Hatrick said warned the public not to listen to nameless critics when reading information about the school system budget.
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Since the 2000-2001 school year started, the county has built 38 new schools, including eight high schools, eight middle schools and 22 elementary schools. To attempt to lower the cost of land acquisition, Hatrick said, the school system has expanded the number of "prototypes it uses to build schools to now include two-story options for both middle and elementary schools.
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Interview of Prof Ravi Sinha, Placement Head, IIT Mumbai
Date: 18-Jul-2011
Rangrut : Whats your experience in the 3rd Annual TPO Conference ?
Prof Ravi Sinha: Experience is very positive because this is a very good collection of the people from the academia circle and from the industry and the kind of discussion which have there and the kind of question which have been raise. The importance of the continuous interaction between the industry and the academia has come up very well and I am so happy with that.
Rangrut : I suppose recruitment is any ways a challenge for in every industry and institute also. Do you feel that this kind of online recruitment process will help both the parties?
Prof Ravi Sinha: Yes absolutely, see first of all one of the reason why there so much problem is a miss match of expectation between the industry and the academia. So any kind of online process, which is number one very transparent and secondly provide the specific and targeted information, and this will be a huge value addition. So I am really happy with this.
Rangrut : Do you feel that Rangrut will really give an added advantage to solve this issue?
Prof Ravi Sinha: Yes, they have a potential and they just have to grab it and keep moving in that direction.
Rangrut : Whats your advice to first job seeker and student?
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Most war films are, ultimately, about winning. In 1945, however, as World War II was ending, John Ford made probably the finest U.S. war picture, about one of America's greatest defeats—-in the Philippines—-the title of which alone is devastating in its implications: THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (available on DVD). Ford, who had entered the Navy in 1941, at age 47, was closely involved in numerous missions and operations all through the War, serving with the O.S.S. (forerunner of the C.I.A.) and making several war documentaries, including this country's first one, The Battle of Midway (1942), which mostly he himself shot hand-held and during which he was wounded. It received the Oscar as Best Documentary, as did another that Ford supervised, December 7th (1943). Although he rarely spoke of his war experiences, records recently have come to light that he also was there on D-Day, and shot some of the most significant color footage in various campaigns. Certainly his intimate involvement with all aspects of that terrible conflict is apparent in his sensitively unadorned, elegiac handling of They Were Expendable. "What was in my mind," Ford told me once, "was doing it exactly as it had happened."
The picture-—excellently adapted, from the William L. White non-fiction account, by Ford's Navy pal, Frank "Spig" Wead (about whom the director would make the underrated 1957 biographical film, The Wings of Eagles)—-focuses on the use of PT-Boats in the Philippines, specifically through the deeds of its central pioneer John D. Bulkeley, also a good friend of Ford's and one of the most decorated men of the war: he is played with simple dignity by Robert Montgomery, also a Naval veteran.
His fictional cohort—-who gets the brief but memorable love interest with a Navy nurse perfectly incarnated by Donna Reed—-is done in a most effectively understated performance by John Wayne. The few scenes involving the nurse, in fact, give a remarkably resonant sense of the preciousness of females in these essentially male occupations; there's unaffected chivalry displayed and tremulous warmth without really sexual overtones. When Wayne and Reed dance silently together, lit with evocative chiaroscuro, the emotional intensity is almost palpable. When she's the male officers' dinner guest, and enlisted men serenade her from outside, it is unaffectedly poignant with unspoken suggestions of family, peace and the hearth fire. The last time the two speak over a long-distance phone line and their connection is prematurely severed, the break is wrenching, and there is no further resolution.
Essentially, like a good many of Ford's pictures, They Were Expendable deals with the peculiar glory in defeat. When I pointed this out to him, Ford said it wasn't something he had "done consciously," though he allowed, "it may have been subconscious... Of course, they were glorious in defeat in the Philippines—-they kept on fighting." Typically Fordian is the way he visually sums this up in the movie, as the old-timer played by Russell Simpson (a Ford regular—-Pa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath)—- seats himself on the front steps of his house, rifle in hand, moonshine-bottle next to him, awaiting the inevitable Japanese onslaught as a distant accordion plays "Red River Valley."
There are numerous such illuminating and personal Ford touches throughout: After showing the destruction and casualties from one of the encounters, Ford cuts to a large close-up of an anxiously grieving Filipino mother—-her men also were expendable. Or, at a burial, the artless simplicity of Wayne's reading, "Home is the sailor/ Home from the sea/ And the soldier/ Home from the hill." Or, in a bar when all the doomed men raise a grave yet hopeful toast as the battle is to intensify, Ford cuts around to various groupings, but ends the sequence with a young sailor, not yet old enough for alcohol, who drinks his toast with a glass of milk. This is the kind of picture making we simply do not get anymore, reminding us why, when questioned who his favorite directors were, the very modern Orson Welles replied that he preferred "the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford."
Dennis Patrick | March 4, 2013 6:53 PM
Great post Mr. B...My father who will be 91 this year served with the US Army in the Philippines on Mindanao, Negros and Luzon for the retaking and occupation. Even though Ford's They Were Expendable is about the Navy service, this film has haunted me ever since the first time I saw it decades ago because it somehow emotionally personifies my father's sacrifice and lost young adulthood. I watch it once or twice a year on DVD and still choke back the tears towards the end sequences, especially the funeral/ bar scene and when Montgomery says goodbye to his enlisted men. In the 1980's and 90's I attended the Unity Church of Dallas where actor Donald Curtis was pastor and when I asked him about his experiences on the set with Ford all he would say is how brutal Ford had been to "Duke" Wayne.
warren matha | February 22, 2011 6:19 AM
For almost 55 years of my life, this greatest of all WWII war films has remained one of my very favorites. My father landed at Leyte as part of the 1st Cavalry Division and saw MacArthur wade ashore. He then landed on Luzon and helped rescue the Army nurses of Corregidor whom the Japanese incarcerated at Santo Tomas in Manila.
"They Were Expendable" always made my dad sad because his best boyhood friend served as a Marine at Cavite during the time frame the movie depicts. That fellow died as a prisoner of the Japanese. Jack Holt's portrayal of the old school cavalryman always brought a smile to my dad's face...because Holt played the part so well.
janet grayson | February 21, 2011 11:00 AM
Just read this--and so pleased that my affection for this film is shared by many. No matter how often I watch it, it never fails to impress me with the depiction of friendship and duty and sacrifice. The scene when Robert Montgomery gets his orders is especially riveting. But the most moving are the two scenes one after the other where John Wayne recites the poem over the coffin, followed by the men gathering in the bar. John Wayne's expression is beautifully fixed and tender and the line of silent men at the bar is unforgettable--all to the background music of Marqueta. My favorite WWII film.
PB | December 6, 2010 6:26 AM
Thanks for the correction on the spelling of John Bulkeley's name, folks,
we fixed it. PB
Philip King | December 1, 2010 3:49 AM
I agree totally with the comments posted earlier. I have one technical point to raise, though. My dad served in WWII, you see, and details of stories about the war stick in my mind.
It's a minor point: Donna Reed's character is an Army nurse -- a second lieutenant as she tartly responds to John Wayne's character's barging into the hospital ward seeking treatment for his wound.
My mother worked in a small yacht brokerage on Biscayne Blvd. in Miami in the '40s. As a child, I played among surplus PT boats stacked for shipment from the P&O docks behind her office. I like to think that they might have been used in the movie.
Thank you for the background your notes provided on this fine director and his great work.
Alan Cassidy | November 8, 2010 4:50 AM
I served with (then) Capt. Bulkeley (not Buckley) when JFK was in the White House. He was transferred and promoted to Rear Admiral to become C.O. of Gitmo. I treasure my picture with him at my advancement as an enlisted man. He cast a long shadow. A true hero and a sailor to his last breath.
Nancy | November 5, 2010 9:12 AM
That's John Bulkeley, not John Buckley. The least we can do for someone awarded the Medal of Honor is to spell his name correctly.
Greg | October 26, 2010 2:23 AM
You once again have struck the nail on the head. This picture is one of my favorites. While it does have the sentimentality of most films of the "Golden Age", it does put a twist on things. We don't know for sure if Donna Reed's character is ok. We don't know what will become of Duke and Montgomery's characters. Will they be successful in getting the PT boat program the proper funding when they go back to the States?
My favorite scene involves Robert Montgomery and his C.O. near the beginning of the film. It involves Montgomery's character getting instructions to "lay a bunt down". Not everyone can hit the home runs in life. Not everyone can be the hero. However, by doing the job, one becomes heroic.
Great film in every way. Script, production, acting, direction.
PS: When are you going to make another great film? Great painters never forget how to paint. Great directors never forget how to direct great films. Somebody get this fellow a great script and the money to produce it! :)
Jeff Heise | October 25, 2010 7:48 AM
Having just read all the early scripts for this film, I was surprised to find one draft that had the return to the Phillippines as the finale with Wayne's character searching for and finding Reed's character alive but haggard. With the exception of this ending, the script is extremely close to Ford's film, so the impression one gets is that Pappy decided that less is more and that the audience hoping for a happy ending would have to supply their own, especially since the war in the Pacific was still not finished and in fact, was intensifying the summer of '45. Even though the film was not a financial success, it is probably one of Ford's great films from the period of his career that many consider his greatest. A lovely film.
Tom Moran | October 24, 2010 9:47 AM
Actually, most of the great WWII films made while the war was in progress were about defeat -- that six-month period in between Pearl Harbor and Midway. I hope someday to teach a film course on the films of that period, ending with "They Were Expendable."
Curt Milton | October 24, 2010 5:21 AM
Thanks for recognizing this film, which I consider to be one of John Ford's best. It is heroic yet understated with great performances all around. Robert Montgomery, in particular, is terrific. His performance is simple and honest; one of the best pieces of screen acting you'll find anywhere.
This is one of my favorite WWII films and one of my favorite John Ford films.
John Goldwyn | October 24, 2010 3:19 AM
I have never seen "They Were Expendable" and can't wait to do so. John Ford is one of my favorite American filmmakers and arguably one of the finest directors ever to work in Hollywood. So glad you're keeping his work alive with your relevant and insightful commentary. Thank you!
Tom Roberts | October 18, 2010 2:04 AM
Your eloquence of word and introspective turn of phrases do old John Ford proud.
From "The Lost Patrol" or "Wee Willie Winkie," to "Drums Along the Mohawk" or "The Quiet Man," Ford's interjections touching upon the simple human emotions, and the longing for what is lost, in contrast to the brutality of human nature are what make him unparalleled in American cinema.
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No. 5 seed St. Joseph by-the-Sea survived a nail-biter against host No. 4 Notre Dame Academy Wednesday night, 41-37, taking the rubber-match but most importantly advancing in the CHSAA Archdiocesan playoffs.
With only two points separating the teams in two regular season games, the crowd expected a battle and it was not disappointed.
Early on, the Vikings had their way as Jillian Silvestri waltzed to the basket seemingly at will, scoring all of Sea's 11 points in the opening period.
Notre Dame stayed in the game with crisp ball-movement leading to open shots on the perimeter, scoring the first 10 points of the second quarter before Sea rallied back with solid inside play, cutting the deficit to one point at the half.
"We were confident on our ability to go inside," said Sea coach Frank Giordano.
With the teams were deadlocked at 35 apiece with three minutes remaining, the Vikings took the lead on a free throw from guard Valerie Joia.
Notre Dame's hustle was evident as its offensive rebounding extended its drives although the Gators were unable to capitalize from the free-throw line as both Christina Pasaturo and Elena Sanchez came up empty on two trips to the charity line that would have put the Gators in the driver's seat.
Joia would connect on two more free throws to put Sea up, 40-37.
After a pair of misses from the stripe by Davidson with less than 10 seconds remaining, NDA broke the Sea press to find three-point sniper Elena Sanchez alone in the corner for a wide-open attempt. The shot, however, sailed just long, sealing the Vikings' victory.
"If I had to pick anyone on our team to take that shot it would have been Sanchez," commented Gators coach Wayne Trivelli.
"That shot was about as good of a look as she could get," added Giordano. "I had to swallow about four times when I saw how open she was."
"These are two evenly matched teams and unfortunately the ball didn't bounce our way tonight," added Trivelli, whose squad awaits its opponent for the final CHSAA A spot March 2 at Villa.
"Notre Dame is a well-coached team," added Giordano. "We knew how tough they were going to be from the two previous games with them and they came to play. It was a dogfight."
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Google will now begin encrypting searches that people do by default, if they are logged into Google.com already through a secure connection. The change to SSL search also means that sites people visit after clicking on results at Google will no longer receive "referrer" data that reveals what those people searched for, except in the case of ads.
Google has finally decided to stop telling us which keywords are sending traffic to our sites from the search engine. That's right – there could well be a time in the near future where you can't visit Google Analytics to see which keyword sent you the most visits to a page (from Google anyway). Apparently – it is to improve 'privacy'……
Google Analytics will instead display – keyword "not provided".
In Google's new system, referrer data will be blocked. This means site owners will begin to lose valuable data that they depend on, to understand how their sites are found through Google. They'll still be able to tell that someone came from a Google search. They won't, however, know what that search was. SearchEngineLand
Don't panic quite yet. At the moment – only Google.com is affected – and it's been reported that this first roll out is for users signed into Google, and at the beginning, this will only affect a small % of search queries - but it is may well roll out to other regions, like the UK, in the near future.
This is what I call hypocrisy at work. Google cares about your privacy, unless they make money on you, then they don't. The fact is that due to this change, AdWords gets favored over organic results. Once again, Google gets to claim that it cares about your privacy and pulls a major public "stunt". The issue is, they don't care about your privacy enough to not give that data to their advertisers. SEOBook
… apparently ADVERTISERS will still get the data through Google Adwords. Hmmm…. so the 'privacy' thing is utter bollocks, then. If we pay money we get the data.
You can still get some of this data if you sign up for Google Webmaster Tools which, lets face it, (prepare for a wildly speculative comment) is probably used against you when handing outdoorway page penalties and the like (E.G when you have multiple sites double-dipping organic listings).
Cutts stressed that Google Webmaster Central shows the top 1,000 queries that a site appeared for at Google — as well as was selected for — over a 30 day period, and that you can even pick any particular day over that period for downloading.
But it still shakes things up for SEO if this does become the norm. I have been getting into conversion optimisation of late too….. I wonder how this change – if rolled out – will shake up this, perfectly legitimate, area of web marketing?
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The NFL announced the schedule for the second weekend of the playoffs Tuesday. The Broncos haven't had a home playoff game since the end of the 1998 season and have never hosted a playoff game at Invesco Field at Mile High. Denver, which has the second seed in the AFC playoffs and a first-round bye, will play Cincinnati, New England or Jacksonville in its first playoff game. If Cincinnati wins this weekend, it will be Denver's opponent. Otherwise it will be the winner between the other two teams.


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Time for another pop quiz – is Maino (a.) a soldier, (b.) a rider, or (c.) a ghetto survivor? As Shock G would say, "The answer is 'd:' All [of] The Above." Though the Brooklyn emcee came off as a straight-up cynic on his last Booth feature, this new single sees Maino donning his rose-colored glasses to forecast a brighter tomorrow over an expansive beat by Just Blaze and Nard & B. The optimistic subject matter coupled with T-Pain's anthemic chorus make it seem as though the rapper's angling for an uplifting crossover hit in the vein of T.I.'s Best of the Booth award-winning Live Your Life, but will Maino's motivational rhymes prove as crowd-pleasing as Tip's? It's too early to tell, but All The Above is definitely a catchy second single from the up-and-coming emcee, whose debut studio album, If Tomorrow Comes…, is set to hit stores and online retailers May 19th.
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There's only one thing we could possibly love more than One Direction's hits...And that's more One Direction hits! The handsome Brits caught up with MuchMusic.com and chatted about plans for their next album! And since it's coming straight from the hearts of our five favorite boys, we already know we're going to LOVE it! Find out what to expect from 1D's tunes in the making.
It's confirmed. 1D is working on a new album and we might be in store for something a little bit different this time around. "We've recorded about six songs for it so far," Liam dished. "It's been going really good with this album so far. Hopefully, well make as good of an album as last time, if not better. So we'll see what happens."
So, what's this album sound like you ask? "It's a similar sound, but were trying to do a little bit of an older lyric," Louis explained. And Zayn added, "We just kinda want our music to grow with us as we get older. Kinda like the music gets older in concept and lyrically, but not too drastic."
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JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed Sharon Kay Biggerstaff, of Kahoka, as the new circuit clerk for Clark County.
The position became vacant upon the resignation of former circuit clerk Mary Jones. Jones stepped down in July after an investigation was launched into her office over alleged improper misuse of funds.
Biggerstaff, a Democrat, has served as the manager of the multi-county child support enforcement office under the Prosecuting Attorney's Office since 1994. The office serves Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Schuyler and Scotland counties. Prior to that, she was office manager for the Clark County child support enforcement office from 1988 to 1994. Biggerstaff is a past member of the Clark County R-1 School Board.
"The position of circuit clerk is one of great responsibility for the efficient administration of our circuit courts," Gov. Nixon said. "Sharon Kay Biggerstaff brings a great deal of experience from her work managing a multi-county child support enforcement office to this position, and I am confident she will capably serve the people of Clark County."
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