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Early Childhood Education Associate's Degree—Special Needs Specialization
As an early childhood educator, you become accustomed to recognizing children with special needs—sometimes even before their parents. Our Early Childhood Education Associate's degree with a specialization in Special Needs—available fully online or on campus— allows you to better prepare your special needs students for future learning.
Through hands-on coursework, you create customized curriculum and teaching techniques to most effectively develop these students' mental, emotional, and physical capabilities. Using the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) standards as a foundation for our curriculum, your courses also focus on preparing you to apply for your Child Development Associate (CDA) credential.*
Our fully online or on campus courses in our Special Needs specialization prepare you to effectively and positively teach children with special needs. The knowledge and skills that you gain in this unique specialization, together with your patience and compassion for your students, foster a positive and inclusive learning environment where children of all needs and abilities can thrive.
Our instructors are seasoned early childhood education professionals, and many hold a Master's degree, so you know that the education you are receiving is of the highest quality. Plus, to ensure you have the hands-on experience you need for a smooth career transition, part of your coursework includes 540 hours of applied learning in an environment that coincides with your career goals.
Learn more about our Early Childhood Education Associate's degree by completing the form on the right or calling us at 888-549-6755. One of our program managers will be happy to answer all your questions.
The special needs courses will prepare you to work with students who have faced numerous obstacles throughout their life already. Your instructors will teach you different ways to teach students who have learning disabilities. Your patience may be tested, but the reward of teaching and helping students learn new things will be satisfying.
Our programs are created to prepare students for careers projected to be in strong demand in the future-giving our graduates increased opportunity to land the job they want.
Continuously enrolled students lock in their tuition rates. 93% of students receive financial aid assistance.
The Federal Pell Grant Program awards between $575 - $5,550 to eligible students based on financial need. The Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants awards $100-$4,000 (based on availability) to eligible students based on financial need.
Contact your program manager to make sure your scholarship awards are eligible for your program and credit load.
The Federal Pell Grant Program awards between $575 - $5,550 to eligible students based on financial need. The Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants awards $100-$4,000 (based on availability) to eligible students based on financial need.
The FL Student Assistant grant is awarded to eligible undergraduate students with FL residency and based on financial need.
The ND state grant is valued at $1200/ year and is awarded to eligible undergraduate students with ND residency and is notified by the state regarding eligibility.
Transfer credits to Rasmussen College.
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Methodology: 90.6% of our December 2012 graduates available for employment were either employed in their field of study, in a position that required their degree, or were continuing their education. This rate includes graduates across all programs and campuses and does not specify that each graduate was placed by Rasmussen College in their current position; some graduates find jobs on their own while others maintain previously held employment. This rate excludes graduates who were non-responsive for more than 60 days or unavailable due to military service, medical condition, international location, or are incarcerated or deceased.
BLS salary data represents national, averaged earnings for the occupations listed and includes workers at all levels of education and experience. This data does not represent starting salaries. Employment conditions in your area may vary.
Tuition rate is locked in for continuously enrolled students. A change in the number of credits taken during enrollment in any quarter may lead to different prices if a student moves from part-time to full-time status or vice versa.
Students must meet applicable eligibility requirements for state and federal grant programs—please speak with a financial aid advisor for details.
Time to complete is dependent on accepted transfer credits and courses completed each quarter.
Rasmussen College reserves the right to accept or deny credits based on policies listed in the college catalog.
Discounts may vary by corporate partner and program. Please contact a program manager for more information.
If you invested in your degree and started a career as a , the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) states the median yearly salary for this career is . At that rate, your estimated return on investment would be over the course of a lifetime.
A career as a is just one career option you can pursue with your degree. Your income potential can vary based on your specialization or industry, and you should explore all your options to find the career that is right for you.
Earning an Associate's or Bachelor's degreeregardless of the field of studycan greatly improve your income potential in today's job market. In fact, according to the BLS, degree holders earn, on average, significantly more than high school diploma holders:
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Earning an Associate's or Bachelor's degree-regardless of the field of study-can greatly improve income potential in today's job market. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), here is the salary data for careers our graduates have chosen:
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|Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, 2012-2013 Occupational Outlook Handbook, bls.gov/ooh/
BLS salary data represents national, averaged earnings for the occupations listed, and includes workers at all levels of education and experience. This data does not represent starting salaries. Employment conditions in your area may vary. Potential earnings calculated by multiplying median full-time salaries by 30 years, bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
Salary data includes earnings of June 2012 – March 2013 Rasmussen College graduates who reported salary information, reviewed 12 months after graduation. This data does not specify that each graduate was placed by Rasmussen College in their current position; some graduates find jobs on their own while others maintain previously held employment.
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Rasmussen College reserves the right to accept or deny transfer credits based upon policies in course catalog.
*The School of Education at Rasmussen College is not accredited by NAEYC.
Graduates of Early Childhood Education programs at Rasmussen College are not eligible for licensure as a teacher in an elementary or secondary school. A Bachelor's degree and a state teaching license are typically required to work as a teacher in a public school and some private school settings. States, municipalities, districts or individual schools may have more stringent licensing requirements. Students must determine the licensure requirements in the state and school in which they intend to work.
Child care facilities and the states in which they are located establish qualifications for staff that work with children, and often implement guidelines regarding age, education, experience, and professional development. Students must determine the licensure requirements in the state and facility in which they intend to work.


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House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor went down to ignominious defeat in his Republican primary in Virginia last night, becoming the first sitting majority leader to lose a party primary in the position's history. In the upset's aftermath, two North Texas representatives -- Pete Sessi ... More >>
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Alopecia areata is a disorder characterized by loss of hair. Sometimes, this means simply a few bare patches on the scalp. In other cases, hair loss is more extensive. Although the exact cause is not known, this is thought to be an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system, the body's own defense system, mistakenly attacks the hair follicles, the tiny structures from which hairs grow. Unpredictable hair loss is the only noticeable symptom of this disorder. Regrowth of hair may or may not occur. Hair loss is usually confined to the head and face, although the entire body may be involved.
Alopecia areata often begins suddenly with oval or round bald patches appearing most commonly on the scalp. Other areas of hairy skin may also be involved. Gradually, the affected skin becomes smooth. New patches may spread by joining existing bald patches. These larger bald areas can appear while hair is regrowing in older hairless patches. Loss of hair can be permanent in some cases. Hair follicles may deteriorate, but oil producing glands in the skin (sebaceous glands) usually change very little. The skin does not become hard or atrophied. In a very few cases, all body hair may be lost. Cases beginning during childhood tend to be more severe than cases with an onset during adulthood.
The physical manifestations of this disorder may not be as difficult to handle for some individuals as the emotional ones. Most people with alopecia areata are generally healthy otherwise, and the disorder itself is not a sign of a serious or life-threatening disease.
The exact cause of alopecia areata is not known. An autoimmune mechanism is suspected in this disorder. Autoimmune disorders are caused when the body's natural defenses against "foreign" or invading organisms (e.g., antibodies) begin to attack healthy tissue for unknown reasons. Some cases may be linked to abnormal reactions by blood cells (serum antibodies) to a thyroid protein (thyroglobulin), stomach (parietal) cells, or adrenal cells.
In 20 percent of cases, a familial pattern has been proposed, suggesting that some individuals may have a genetic predisposition to alopecia areata. A genetic predisposition means that a person may carry a gene for a disease but it may not be expressed unless something in the environment triggers the disease. It is not known whether this trigger comes from outside the body, such as a virus, or is internal. People who develop alopecia areata for the first time after age 30 are less likely to have other family members who also have the disorder.
The gene responsible for alopecia universalis (total absence of hair on the body) is located on the short arm of chromosome 8 (8p12).
Chromosomes are found in the nucleus of all body cells. They carry the genetic characteristics of each individual. Pairs of human chromosomes are numbered from 1 through 22, with an unequal 23rd pair of X and Y chromosomes for males and two X chromosomes for females.
Each chromosome has a short arm designated as "p" and a long arm identified by the letter "q". Chromosomes are further subdivided into bands that are numbered. For example, chromosome 8p12 refers to band 12 on the short arm of chromosome 8.
Alopecia areata affects males and females in equal numbers. It may appear at any age, but most typically begins during childhood. There are approximately 2.5 million individuals in the United States affected by alopecia areata.
Loss of hair (alopecia) can occur from a wide variety of causes. Symptoms of the following disorders can be similar to those of alopecia areata. Comparisons may be useful for a differential diagnosis:
Trichotillomania, also known as hair pulling, is a neurotic habit that usually appears in children. It may remain undiagnosed for a long time. The hairs may be broken off or pulled out. Stubby regrowth may replace damaged hair or bald areas. This mental illness may be hard to distinguish from alopecia areata without careful observation of the affected child's habits. Hair can be similarly damaged by permanent wave solutions, softeners or hot combs. (For more information on this disorder, choose "trichotillomania" as your search term in the Rare Disease Database.)
Hypotrichiasis (hypotrichosis, alopecia congenitalis, alopecia adnata, congenital alopecia, congenital baldness) is a condition characterized by the absence of hair at birth. This disorder is usually inherited as a dominant trait, but can also be due to a recessive gene. It often occurs in association with other surface skin layer (ectodermal) defects.
Alopecia medicamentosa is characterized by widespread hair loss, most commonly of the scalp, caused by a reaction to various types of drugs in sensitive or allergic individuals. It may also be a result of chemotherapy used in treating various disorders (e.g., cancer).
Alopecia mucinosa, also known as follicular mucinosis, occurs in children and young adults. Hard, reddish, well defined plaques underlie the areas of hair loss. A fine scaling may develop on the face, scalp, trunk, arms or legs. A loss of sensation may occur as the plaques develop. The exact cause of this form of hair loss in not known, although a skin inflammation is suspected. Symptoms often spontaneously resolve after a few months in many cases.
Alopecia neurotica is characterized by hair loss caused by injury to the nerves in the area where balding occurs.
Postpartum alopecia is characterized by temporary loss of hair at the termination of a pregnancy. The cause is not known.
Premature alopecia is characterized by male pattern baldness occurring at an abnormally early age.
Alopecia presenilis is characterized by ordinary or common baldness occurring in early or middle life without any apparent disease of the scalp. This condition is very common in males, but rare in females.
Alopecia symptomatica is characterized by hair loss associated with other illnesses or conditions, most commonly following prolonged illnesses marked by high fever.
Alopecia toxica, also known as toxic alopecia, is characterized by hair loss thought to be caused only by fever.
Alopecia triangularis congenitalis is a congenital defect consisting of a triangular patch of baldness on the front of the scalp.
Treatment of alopecia areata is directed at producing regrowth of hair. Although there is no cure for alopecia areata at the present time, the hair may sometimes return by itself. In some cases, it may also fall out again after returning. The course of this disorder varies among individuals, and is difficult to predict.
For mild, patchy alopecia areata, in which less than 50% of the scalp hair is gone, cortisone may be injected locally into areas of bare skin. These injections are done with tiny needles, and repeated once a month. Topical solutions, creams and ointments may also help.
For more extensive alopecia areata, cortisone pills are sometimes given. However, these pills may have undesirable side effects that should be discussed with a physician beforehand.
Treatment tends to be less effective for more extensive alopecia areata than in cases of mild, patchy alopecia areata.
For cosmetic reasons, wigs and hairpieces may be necessary, especially for affected women and children.
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oh: the fact that children in the 3rd world will soon be connected with us makes me somehow sad.. its a good thing but what will we answer when they ask us about our good lifes and whats the cause for their poverty? i dont know what i will answer but really hope that i will be asked such questions, that everybody will be asked them...
rofl: strongest education system... the US surely doesnt have the strongest education system.. as a matter of fact it has one of the worst for a country that wealthy. youve got the strongest military, not the biggest (china). the center of world business is moving do asia. your currency is getting worth less and less every day. the prize for the highest standard of living has been lost to , i think its norway... or sweden? well... your little movie is BS anyways ;)
Idiots.: did you know that 34 babies every 8 seconds equals 134,116,935.5 babies a year? Even if the entire world population was pregnant, including males, with TWINS, it wouldn't be anywhere near that amount.
wow: oddly reminiscent of the information age video posted here several months ago
i dont want: some guy from india or some third world country coming to the states or canada and getting my jobs or my kids jobs.
BS: Is This a joke get your facts right dumb ass. India and China are the worlds biggest countries in population. Biggest army is China. But the US had the most strongest military ever. You need to put facts into ratios with the US.
Didnt claim it as my own: But its cool. Not seen it posted here.
Doesnt matter: Its fake anyways.... FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE
ummm: you stole this
Tell them...: to blame it on their communist and socialist based governments. When gov't controls business, everyone loses. Period.
jay, u are the dumbfuck: because that was in the 1900s. the video even said that.
I'd hate to blow your theory but...: seeing that the world population is over 6.6 billion, it kind of makes sense.
and also: the rate of death balances it all out.
this is the updated version: i thought that too! but did some looking around and this is 2.0. but they could of used different material.
actually, you did...: or maybe you didn't read the terms when you uploaded this?
Thats what the fuckin internet was about.......: when it first was created dumbass. Then fucks like u steped in and made it all Corporate. Fuckin Queer Bait.


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State of the Union: Obama signals that he is up to the task
President Barack Obama took the annual State of the Union address Wednesday to recalibrate his objectives, based on changes in U.S. political circumstances, but also to make it clear to Congress and the public that he intends to continue to lead the country in pursuit of the goals he stated as a candidate.
The traditional speech is two things.
First, it gives the president the opportunity to assess the situation of the country -- the state of the union -- and to indicate what his goals and intentions are for the coming year, in this case a mid-term election year.
Second, it gives the country -- or, at least, those who take the trouble to watch -- a chance to see the country's rulers, who in principle represent them, in staged action, the rough equivalent of parents' day at school.
Tone is important in these affairs. Mr. Obama has, obviously, lost a little of the hallowed glow with which he emerged from the 2008 elections. There have been, as there would be, some electoral losses, although his party retains a 59-41 margin in the Senate and a much larger one in the House. Some of his enterprises have not prospered, although health care reform is still somewhat further along than the comparable effort by previous Democratic president Bill Clinton was at this stage of the game.
Mr. Obama's "save the economy from recession" effort is still getting mixed reviews. It is -- and will remain -- arguable whether the expensive and unpopular bank bailout saved America from economic destruction.
Mr. Obama's address to Congress and the nation was helped enormously again by his ability to poke fun at himself, including on the health care effort. The fact that he is able to laugh at himself makes his sharp thrusts at the Republicans -- signaling the implications of their mindless obstructionism -- and at the Supreme Court justices, sitting right in front of him -- for the decision they handed down on campaign finance that eviscerated years of effort to bring money from corporations, banks and foreigners under control -- all the more telling in their impact.
Mr. Obama's primary goal in this address was to stress to the American people that he does understand what is bothering them most now: the dreadful impact on families and individuals of the recession that is wracking the country, with 10 percent unemployment, continuing foreclosures of their residences and the "heads I lose, tails you win" trap of the only apparent government remedy to the problem on the boards being to spend more money, running up budget deficits and the national debt even more alarmingly.
Somehow, when Mr. Obama tells the public that he and his wife get what is going on, one believes him, considering his background. It isn't just that he visits and sprinkles in references to the Elyria, Ohio's of this world; there is a sense that he has lived enough to understand the situation of the people who are being brutalized by the recession while the Wall Street types wallow in money.
The measures that Mr. Obama outlined to attack the jobs dilemma made sense, and were, as a package, moderate (as opposed to "socialist") and pro-business to the point of being respectably conservative in their thrust. Take $30 billion back from the banks, but give it to lenders to help out small businesses was one example.
He also warmed the cockles of the hearts of legislators owned by the oil companies by saying something nice about offshore drilling. In doing so he takes his liberal, environmentalist constituency for granted, knowing they have no other place to go with the Republican Party in troglodyte mode.
Apart from taking a swing at Iran and reiterating his intention not to cut the U.S. military budget, Mr. Obama for the most part stayed away from international affairs matters during the talk, reflecting correctly the current overwhelming preoccupation of the American public with the lamentable state of the economy.
Mr. Obama remains a very effective speaker. His threat to the Republicans -- that if they block everything he tries to do, they will be held responsible by the American people for the nongovernance that approach amounts to -- was right on the mark. Now let's see how much was talk and how much was intention to act.


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and weaknesses of the individual candidates. In assessing the strengths and weaknesses, the committee took account of the requirement specified in its task statement that the recommended options for the Great Lakes region be "practical and technically feasible." The chapter ends with the committee's conclusion about the possibility of establishing a suite of actions that would both enhance the potential for trade and eliminate further ship-vectored AIS introductions.
As a first step in identifying and exploring options for the Great Lakes region, the committee developed preliminary lists of actions that could meet or contribute to meeting one or the other (or possibly both) of the two criteria. The preliminary lists drew on information obtained by the committee during its meetings and field trips (see Appendix A), draft versions of the expert papers commissioned by the committee and discussions with the authors (see Appendix B), examination of the literature, and the expertise of individual committee members. The strengths, weaknesses, unknowns, and uncertainties associated with each candidate action were identified, and the lists of actions were developed further during a "brainstorming" session at the public meeting hosted by the committee in Toronto in May 2007 (see Appendix C). The resulting candidate actions to enhance the potential for global trade and to eliminate further AIS introductions are listed in Boxes 5-1 and 5-2, respectively.
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A prize of $5,000 is given annually for a book-length work of fiction or creative nonfiction by a writer of color published in the United States during the previous year. Authors may be of any nationality. Publishers and agents may submit three copies of a book published in 2012 with a $50 entry fee by February 1. Fee waivers are available for small presses. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.
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The 2013 Voices Summer Writing Workshops for writers of color, presented by the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, was held from June 23 to June 29 on the University of California campus in Berkeley. The program offered workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The 2013 faculty included poets Elmaz Abinader, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ruth Forman, David Mura; fiction writers Junot Díaz, M. Evelina Galang, Mat Johnson, Jeffrey Renard Allen; and creative nonfiction writers Faith Adiele, and Staceyann Chin. In addition, two residencies are offered annually which allowed writers individual mentorship opportunities. Tuition was $800 for the workshop, and $700 for the residency. Visit the website for more information.
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SEATTLE 5/23 – At a launch event last night, the City of Seattle released new findings on technology access, adoption and interaction by Seattle residents. These findings are based on feedback from 2,600 residents via online and phone surveys and in-person focus groups in multiple languages about their use, concerns, and barriers to using the […][More]
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Join us May 22nd, 6-8 p.m. at Seattle Goodwill's new training center as we release new findings on technology access and adoption by Seattle residents. Learn what more than 2,600 residents who participated in phone and online surveys and focus groups in multiple languages had to say about their use, concerns, and barriers to using […][More]
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Great Turnout at Hack for Change – SeattlePosted: June 3rd, 2013 - Director's Desk, E-Government, Tech Boss Banter
Thank you to all who joined us! More than 100 software developers and 50 Washington MESA students, coaches and parents gave up a lovely Seattle Saturday to gather at Seattle City Hall for Hack for Change – Seattle, part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. Developers formed teams to use from data.seattle.gov, and other […][More]
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Stefanie can be defined as a passionate life lover. Her eagerness to help people in all kinds of situations translates beautifully to her real estate business. Whether the client is a first-time buyer or a veteran in Los Angeles's housing market, Stefanie will lead them step by step through the transaction, always finding time to give answers to all questions.
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I was confused when I saw 'RCMP' in this thread. Then I realized manwithtwohands is also Canadian! Neat.
Ironically though, I usually refer to the police as 'the police' or 'the cops.'
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I just can't stop playing ssbm...
I'm seeking help.
Also; while I was in America, I was asked whether we'd driven there from England . And I'm fairly sure they weren't talking abount New England because of our accents...
09-04-2008, 12:15 #676
clearly u hace a james bond car that can turn into a UFO, speed boat and fits in his top button.
ill buy it.
09-04-2008, 12:43 #677
you can drive there actually, if you take a boat all the way :OSomeone said to voltaire "life's hard" Voltaire replied "compared to what?"
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Hmm i wonder, Is Pikachu a guy or a girl ?
Then again i much prefer Snorlax !Someone said to voltaire "life's hard" Voltaire replied "compared to what?"
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Updated On: Sep 19 2013 01:10:07 AM CDT
Only one ticket matched all the numbers Wednesday night to win the $400 million Powerball jackpot.
The ticket was sold in Lexington, South Carolina.
The highest prize won in Louisiana was $40,000.
The winning numbers were 7-10-22-32-35 and the Powerball was 19.
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We marvel at the great age of the giant sequoia. We are tremendously impressed as well by the physical dimensions of this tree. But, one of the most remarkable facts to contemplate is its huge bulk in relation to the minute seed from which it grows. It has been calculated that the General Sherman tree contains over 600 tons of weight in its trunk, yet this tree grew from a seed so small that 3000 or more weigh but one ounce. From seed to giant trunk represents a growth doubling in weight over 36 timesa final product nearly 58 billion times the weight of the original seed!
This tiny seed, a small cylindrical form encased in a membrane forming two lateral wings, is produced abundantly. Perhaps a single tree will produce a billion seeds in its lifetime.
Normally a 200 year old sequoia will produce cones, and some trees are reported to have produced infertile cones at the early age of 24. Ovoid, and from 1-1/2 to 3 inches long, they require two years to mature. They remain green on the tree until the squirrels cut them off. A few seeds may be released from the cones each year but the cones do not develop the rich brown color until they are cut and allowed to dry. Thus, a given tree retains cones of many years, dropping a few seeds from some cones every season.
Most of the cones, however, are harvested in the fall by the busy chickaree or Douglas squirrel. When cut down, these cones rapidly dry out, the thick scales open up, and the seeds are released within a few weeks. As you follow the sequoia trails, find a fresh-looking brown cone. A sharp blow of the cone against the heel of the hand will usually dislodge a few of these tiny seeds for your examination.
Many of the seeds are consumed by squirrels, birds, and insects. Others disintegrate by decay on the ground, and only a very few ever germinate and produce seedlings. Before the seed will grow it must fall upon exposed mineral soil, and in a place fairly open and exposed to the sun. This is why you will find no seedlings beneath the shade of the heavy forest canopy, nor where the thick duff covers and protects the soil. But where an opening is made in the forest and the soil is exposed, as where a giant falls, or along road and trail cuts, new seedlings appear by the hundreds.
Most of the seedlings succumb to trampling, insects, and competition with other plants, and are thus thinned by nature. Eventually, however, one or several seedlings of a new generation persist to continue the forest.
The youth of the species is not merely a small edition of the mature giant, but is quite different in appearance and has a character of its own. Look for an evenly tapered, sharply conical tree, with thick foliage reaching down to ground level. Check your identification by examining the needlesshort, sharp, somewhat awl-shaped, and overlapping like shingles around the twigs and branchlets. In their regular sharp conical form, the young sequoias are among the most beautiful of all the trees of the forest.
As the trees grow higher and higher, the lower branches, as is the case with most forest trees, shaded from above, deprived of life-giving sunlight, lose their needles and are pruned away by the normal growth of the trunk. The effect, by the time the tree is a hundred feet high, is that of the same sharp conical youthful tree, but now carried on the top of a straight, bare trunk. The deep furrowed cinnamon red bark is not yet apparent, and these younger trees display a grayish rather stringy bark.
By the time the tree approaches its ultimate height, more of the numerous small branches of the crown are lost. Those that remain expand greatly, rebranch, and finally form the rounded crown that marks the early mature tree. This situation prevails, with the older mature trees displaying their straight, massive, red trunks, and a comparatively few heavy and rebranched limbs bearing the dense foliage of the crown.
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The Sawed Tree near Grant Grove is an example of the balance and recuperative powers of the sequoia. Cut almost all the way through by loggers, it did not fall, and stands today perfectly balanced, supporting abundant foliage and with part of the saw cut already covered with new growth.
When a sequoia falls, the sap wood is attacked by insects and is destroyed in a few score years. The heart wood may persist for many centuries without apparent decay.
A harmful practice may not show its results in the human body for a score or more years. A giant sequoia lives 50 times as long as man, and a harmful practice may require 50 score years to show its effect on the big tree. Our only safe procedure is to guard and protect the sequoia environment in every possible way.
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This dreary story of the nihilistic revolution in music—as well as in culture generally—is somewhat well known, but Reilly lets us in on the little secret that this revolt in music has spent its course. How does he know? He interviewed the counterrevolutionaries, starting with the most important, University of Pennsylvania composer George Rochberg–who was a leading 12-toner when in 1964, his son died. Rochberg became frustrated that he could not express his deep emotions in the new orthodoxy and dramatically turned back to tonal passages. Reilly's interview with him must be read in full, but let me note two things. Here is Rochberg on his feeling at the time:
I couldn't breathe any more. I needed air. I was tired of the same round of manipulating the pitches, vertically and horizontally … What I finally realized was that there were no cadences, that you can't come to a natural pause, that you can't write a musical comma, colon, semicolon, dash for dramatic, expressive purposes or to enclose a thought.
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Reilly's interview with Gian Carlo Menotti, whose beautiful operas ignored the new orthodoxy from the beginning, discusses Menotti's difficulties with the critics, and his having the last laugh with enormous popularity and even growing critical acclaim. His story of meeting Padre Pio is disorienting in these skeptical times, with Menotti refusing to tell its outcome as being too "private" to reveal. Reilly even interviewed perhaps America's most honored composer just a few years before his death, David Diamond, who told him:
So much of the music that was written during the 1950s and part of the 1960s, music that was basically textural in the sense that the sonorities were the important thing, or patterns of sound, have not lived on. In fact, they've disappeared. Nobody ever listens to them. It's because there is a lack of real musical language which communicates. In other words, there is no melodic substance and there's no feeling in the sense of emotion, whether it's lighthearted emotion or whether it's dark and profound emotion.
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Reilly writes much more about dozens of composers. Yes, one would not know 12-tone was dead listening to many public radio stations and the critics; but as Stravinsky associate Robert Craft remarked, audiences will not take it. They will simply walk out at the discord they have not accepted, regardless of what their betters tell them. Even if the critics blame it on popular ignorance, the beautiful classics dominate almost every program where people actually have to pay cash. Atonality is not gone; and in fact, most of the modern composers Reilly mentions incorporate it into their works in some sense or other. But the rigid orthodoxy is dead, and that is good news indeed for those looking for beautiful music.
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21 October 2010 by Laura
It is that time of year again when the shops are packed with witches and warlock costumes. I for one have shunned mass-produced costumes and favoured a more DIY aesthetic. Over the years I have taken great pride in my costumes, which although a bit rough around the edges, were usually unique and a bit of a conversation-starter. However I have never had the pleasure of going to a party with artist Marcus Coates, who I fear may have a costume wardrobe to outshine my own. Read more…
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13 October 2010 by Lisa
Another new art work has been released this week as part of the Save the Arts campaign. We have been following the campaign on our blog over the last few weeks in the run up to the announcement of cuts later this month. This latest work is by British artist, Bob and Roberta Smith (aka Patrick Brill).
As you can see, the work shows a sign on an art gallery door with the following text:
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Angel of the North loses wing
6 October 2010 by Lisa
A new work by Turner Prize nominated artist, Cornelia Parker, has been released today. It is the latest in the series of artworks that have been created specially for the Save the Arts campaign, which we have been following on this blog. You can see the other artworks from the campaign here.
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5 October 2010 by Lisa
Well, we've barely had time to recover from the excitement of Keith Coventry winning the John Moores Painting Prize and it's now time to get excited about another prizewinner!
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The announcement of the winner of John Moores 2010 was made last night by acclaimed painter and competition judge, Alison Watt to a rapturous response by the private view audience and the press. Described by fellow judge, Sir Norman Rosenthal, as the 'Oscar of the British painting world' the John Moores Painting Prize was awarded to Keith Coventry for his painting 'Spectrum Jesus'. This haunting portrait in shades of dark blue invites you to get up close so you can peer into its dark depths! Read more…
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Other supporters include John Moores 2010 exhibitor Ian Davenport and Wolfgang Tillmans who is about to open an exhibition here at the Walker Art Gallery.
The campaign is launched today with the release of a new video animation by artist David Shrigley highlighting the effect of the funding cuts, which you can see below. Each week the work of a different artist, created in response to the campaign, will be released. Mark Wallinger will present the next project. Read more…
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Ask a Curator day is Wednesday 1 September and curators from all over the world are signing up to take part in this giant Q&A session – taking place on Twitter!
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A Shaman arrives at the Walker…
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