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Step into one of Sheffield's architectural treasures, the award winning Millennium Gallery, an inspiring venue in the heart of the city centre.
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The Metalwork Gallery is home to Sheffield's Designated Collection of metalwork, which hads been recognised for its national significance.
The collection is made up of cutlery, flatware and hollowware made in the city, together with an outstanding selection of comparative material from Europe and many parts of Africa and Asia. It includes silver, pewter, stainless steel and Old Sheffield Plate and is the best collection of its kind in this country and almost certainly the world. The collection dates from the 14th century to the present day and includes unique, handcrafted one-off pieces and examples of the mass-produced cutlery for which Sheffield has an international reputation.
Also housed at the Millennium Gallery, The Ruskin Collection reopened in spring 2011 following a major redevelopment programme which has transformed the Ruskin displays.
The collection was brought together by John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), a renowned Victorian writer, artist, and critic who had a major impact on nineteenth century thinking. In 1875 Ruskin established a small museum in Sheffield so that the 'working men' would be able to enjoy and benefit from seeing this wide-ranging collection. Since then the Ruskin Gallery has had various homes in Sheffield; Meersbrook Park, the Hays building on Norfolk Street and since 2001 has been shown at the Millennium Gallery.
The four month redevelopment programme has seen a total redesign of the gallery space, new display cases and lighting, as well as improved access to the collection. The new displays include the chance to explore 'Ruskin's Desk', a new interactive telling the story of the collection, brand new audio visual interpretation and the addition of new comfy seating.
Owned by the Guild of St. George, the collection contains an array of paintings, drawings, photographs, books, and minerals, all of which illustrate the beauty of the natural world or the skill of craftsman and artists. An exquisite painting of St Mark's in Venice by J.W. Bunney, medieval illuminated manuscripts and detailed botanical drawings can be seen in the gallery alongside large plaster casts of architectural features from ancient buildings and beautiful minerals such as opal and ameythyst.
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Fine Art, Film and Media, Design, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Archives
Key artists and exhibits
- The Millennium Gallery has two temporary exhibition spaces. The Special Exhibition Gallery shows blockbuster exhibitions from national galleries and museums such as the V&A, Tate and the National Portrait Gallery. The craft and Design Gallery shows the best in contemporary craft and design.
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The Ruskin Collection
- 1 January 2000 — 1 January 2020 *on now
John Ruskin, who formed this collection, was a Victorian writer who searched passionately for beauty in the world around him. He explored nature from the smallest pebble to the mightiest landscape and examined art from the daintiest brush stroke to soaring architectural structures.
During his lifetime,England's manufacturing cities expanded and became wealthy, whilst their workforces lived in poverty and grime. Workers had little to inspire them. Ruskin wanted to counter this imbalance and set up the Guild of St George, a philanthropic society. Through the Guild, Ruskin founded a museum specifically for Sheffield's workers. He filled it with a collection of artworks, illustrated books and minerals, all chosen to reflect his exploration of beauty.
Originally sited at Walkley, just outside the city centre, visitors could escape the smoke that surrounded them and immerse themselves in nature and art. Today, though the Ruskin Collection is exhibited in the city centre, it is still displayed and used as the creative and inspirational tool that Ruskin intended.
Visitors to the Ruskin Collection will see a broad range of exhibits, including early renaissance art, gothic architecture, engravings, mosaic decoration, illustrations of birds, flowers, insects, geological specimens, illustrated books and medieval manuscripts.
The items on display from the Ruskin Collection are changed twice each year. Explore the collection through the changing displays, and find out if you share Ruskin's thoughts on beauty.
The Illustrated Aviary
- 31 January — 14 June 2015 *on now
In the mid-1800s, naturalist Thomas Campbell Eyton was buying watercolours and prints of birds by the carriage load. Now part of the Ruskin Collection, the illustrations reveal the extraordinary beauty of birds, yet they also show the vulnerability Eyton and the scientific community were beginning to comprehend, with many birds depicted now vanished or under threat.
This exhibition draws together 70 works by notable bird artists such as John James Audubon, Edward Lear and John Gould. From the weird and wonderful to familiar feathered friends, it charts their discoveries and techniques with vivid and luxurious imagery.
Assisted by a brand new commission from contemporary artist Mr Finch and specimens from Museums Sheffield's own natural history collection, The Illustrated Aviary allows Eyton's spectacular collection to take flight once more.
Contemporary Metalwork in Sheffield - Living Metal
Explore the skills and knowledge of today's metalworkers in Sheffield. Discover the products made and find out more about the people who make them. Explore the skills and knowledge that people and companies use in the production.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
Culture Quake: Interpreting a gallery creatively
Downloadable lesson plans providing ideas for using a gallery or museum with music, writing and art & design. The worksheets can be used with any gallery collection.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
Exploring Nature and Pattern Through Art
Investigating the theme of nature and art through the work of John Ruskin.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
Metalwork Gallery Animations: Cigarette box
A beautiful animation showing how a stylised silver 1930's cigarette box by Joyce Himsworth was made and how it was used.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
Metalwork Gallery Animations: Ear trumpet
An animation showing how an ear trumpet made in the 1820s would be used by those who were hard of hearing to amplify sound directly into the ear.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
Metalwork Gallery Animations: Moustache Tablespoon
An animation about how a Moustache Tablespoon made in 1883 was used to prevent a gentleman's moustache from being soiled when eating soup.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
Metalwork Gallery Animations: Pea knife
An animation about the use of a 1930s Pea knife, designed to assist a diner to eat peas. The peas were balanced along the central slot, enabling them to be raised to mouth without rolling off the blade. It is possible that this knife was designed to be used by children.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
Metalwork Gallery Animations: Turtle soup tureen
An animation about how a 1800s turtle soup tureen was made and used. The tureen could hold up to six litres of soup in its body and was used to serve soup made from green turtles imported from the West Indies. Turtle soup and mock turtle soup were very popular dishes in Victorian times.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
Metalwork in Sheffield
Learn about the history of Sheffield's metalwork, read interviews with metalworkers and watch short video clips of metalworkers in action.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
Ruskin and Nature - explore the gallery with your class
A resource about the importance John Ruskin placed on nature and his belief that we should never take our environment for granted. His collection which inspired the craftsmen of Sheffield is founded on these beliefs and contains many references to nature - good images.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
Thomas´s Metalwork Trail, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
A gallery trail for three to six year olds with Thomas the Soup Tureen, plus good images and information about objects in Sheffield's Metalwork Gallery including tea urns, ivory handles, unusual cutlery and mythical beasts.
- This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
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Is new ferry a pricey sea-going lemon? And why?
Michael O'Leary / Herald file photo, 2011
Visitors to the Salish, state's newest ferry, wave to the Chetzemoka as it sails from Port Townsend to Keystone on June 30, 2011.
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The Washington State ferry Chetzemoka crosses Puget Sound from Port Townsend towards Coupeville in 2011.
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The Washington State ferry Chetzemoka leaves Coupville on a sailing for Port Towsend in October 2011.
State lawmakers are steamed by revelations in an audit last month that the vessel's final off-the-dock, in-the-water price of $83.6 million in 2010 was nearly $50 million higher than what a Massachusetts ferry operator paid three years earlier for a boat with a comparable design.
They are now pressing state Auditor Troy Kelley to probe deeper into the decisions made and dollars spent on the Chetzemoka, which is pound for pound the most expensive boat ever built by Washington State Ferries.
They're frustrated that in the rush to fill a void created by the grounding of the Steel Electric-class ferries, the state wound up with a boat that lists when empty, guzzles thousands of gallons of fuel more each year than the boats it replaced and may wear out years sooner than promised because of wear and tear from engine vibrations.
They want to know whether a 20-year-old law requiring the boat be built in Washington state made the project more expensive by limiting competition. At the time, only one shipbuilder in Washington was eligible to bid for the work.
"I think the taxpayers were ripped off in this process," said Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale. "For the past 10 years, the state has not been able to figure out how to build a ferry boat that meets the needs of the state."
The safety of the boat is not in question as it was with the Steel Electric-class vessel it replaced on the Port Townsend-Coupeville route. There's no chance lawmakers will ever allow another of these 64-vehicle ferries to be built without a new inquiry into the Chetzemoka.
No one's more aware of the concerns than David Moseley, assistant secretary of transportation in charge of ferries. But he's been unable to satisfy critics in countless appearances at legislative hearings and in letters he's written them individually.
Last week, he capitulated on one count, saying the agency will spend $300,000 to eliminate the listing of the Chetzemoka and its sibling ferries, the Salish and Kennewick.
"These are good boats that will continue to serve the system well for many years to come," he said. "I am confident they will make it through their life expectancy of 60 years."
Rush for replacement
Paula Hammond had been Washington's secretary of transportation only a few months when she ordered four vintage Steel Electric-class ferries pulled from service days before Thanksgiving in 2007.
Her decision followed a Herald investigation into concerns about the safety of the 80-year-old vessels because of extensive pitting and corrosion of the hulls.
Permanently grounding the boats cut off service between Port Townsend and Keystone Harbor and precipitated a crisis that drove the state to hurriedly construct its first new ferry since 1999.
State ferry officials huddled with boat builders, lawmakers, community leaders and former Gov. Chris Gregoire to figure out a way to restore service.
On Dec. 13, 2007, Gregoire said the state would build replacement vessels for the route as swiftly as possible rather than invest millions of dollars trying to make one of the Steel Electrics seaworthy for awhile.
Some riders, lawmakers and maritime workers grumbled that not all the aging vessels were in such disrepair they couldn't be rehabbed for temporary use.
"I believe the secretary (Hammond) made the right decision to remove those vessels from service. Clearly the hulls were not safe," Moseley said.
For two months no ferries ran on this arterial of the state's marine highway system. Limited service was restored when the state rented a 50-car vessel from Pierce County and used the loaner until the Chetzemoka hit the water Nov. 15, 2010.
The Chetzemoka nearly never happened. In early 2008, Washington State Ferries set out to build a boat just like the rented vessel, the Steilacoom II. Only Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle sought the job but its bid of $25.9 million was much higher than expected.
The agency rejected it in March that year and within a month Gregoire announced the state would build a 64-vehicle vessel using the design of the Island Home, a larger and heavier car ferry operating between Woods Hole, Mass., and the island of Martha's Vineyard.
Sticker shock
Eight months later in December 2008 the state awarded a $65.5 million construction contract to Todd and required delivery in 18 months rather than the industry standard of 24 months.
The boat arrived on time. When the last bill was paid, the cost of the construction contract had ballooned to $76.4 million. Add in dollars spent on non-construction items like design, engineering and the propulsion system and the total cost of the Chetzemoka hit $83.6 million, according to the state auditor.
That's far more than the Steamship Authority of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket islands spent on its 76-vehicle Island Home. It awarded a $31.2 million construction contract to a Mississippi boat builder in 2004 and the final tab came in at $34.8 million, according to information provided by the authority to the state auditor.
How construction of two boats using the same basic design differs so much in price is the question lawmakers said has not been adequately answered by ferry officials and only partially explained in the state audit.
Why so costly?
That report issued by former state Auditor Brian Sonntag in early January compared the total costs of the two boats at the time of their construction. Then, they adjusted the figures to 2011 dollars. The gap didn't narrow much as the price of the Island Home came in at $48.6 million to the Chetzemoka's $87.3 million.
State and Todd officials say almost all of the gap stems in some way from efforts to get the boat built as quickly as possible.
With the shortened time frame, Todd hired extra workers, ran double shifts and paid gobs of overtime to meet the deadline.
Steel prices were higher. So, too, were hourly wages for laborers. State ferry officials estimated the average hourly shipyard wage in Washington when Todd began work was 39 percent higher than what the Mississippi firm paid those who built the Island Home.
Washington State Ferries made multiple and significant modifications to the boat's design, driving up costs further. With the compressed schedule, construction work actually began before all the revisions were finished.
"We took the design and built what the ferry system wanted," said Fred Kiga, senior vice president of government affairs for Vigor Industrial, which acquired Todd in December 2010.
In all, there were 29 change orders totaling $10.9 million, according to the audit. Roughly $6.5 million could be traced directly to labor and materials to keep on track, auditors found.
Today, if you put the Chetzemoka and Island Home side by side, you could see a few of the major physical differences.
For example, Washington's boat is 20 feet longer to accommodate larger fuel and sewage tanks.
Another visible variation involves the loading of vehicles. The Island Home can hold 60 vehicles on its main deck and 16 more on a deck that can be raised before sailing then lowered for offloading and loading. The Chetzemoka does not have such a hoistable deck. Without it and with the added length, it can carry more big rigs than the Island Home which had been a goal of the state.
Build here
Politics also elevated the price. Existing laws require ferries be built in Washington state by shipyards with state-approved apprenticeship programs. This seriously crimps competition that can lead to lower-priced contracts, the audit found.
Lawmakers approved the Build in Washington law in 1993 amid a broader debate on building the 202-vehicle Jumbo Mark II class of ferries.
Pat McClain was executive director of a maritime trade association that teamed with labor unions and environmentalists to push it through.
"There was popular sentiment behind it," recalled McClain, now governmental affairs director for the city of Everett. "We made the argument that they're our ferries, our waters, our customers so can we keep it in Washington state to keep our jobs."
Opponents argued a bundle of tax dollars could be saved by getting bids from out-of-state. Supporters countered that meant sending tax dollars elsewhere rather than keeping them in Washington.
While the recent state audit concluded the limit on competition could add millions of dollars to a project, it also tried to quantify the economic benefits of such a policy. It estimated $150 million in spending on ferry construction -- a little more than what was spent for the Salish and Kennewick combined -- would support 322 jobs directly and another 1,355 jobs in other sectors of the economy.
With the Chetzemoka, there was no competition because in 2008 only Todd Pacific Shipyards was qualified to bid for the work. And when the state sought bids to build the Salish and Kennewick, again only Todd was eligible.
Neither the auditor nor state ferry officials would hazard a guess on what this meant to the bottom line of the contract. Ferry leaders note the Salish and Kennewick each cost less to build because of lessons learned from the Chetzemoka enabled savings on labor, materials and design.
And they boast of building the three ferries in what is called the Kwa-di Tabil class under budget. Overall, the state penciled in $213.2 million for all thee and ended up spending $206.3 million.
With the experience of the Chetzemoka fresh in mind, a co-chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee said he may try to revise or repeal the rule.
"I think we should open it up and get outside bids," Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, said. "If we pay 40 percent more than we should, tell me how that's fair. Tell me how that makes good sense to citizens of Washington."
Worries for future
The amount of tax dollars spent on the Chetzemoka is not the only issue irritating legislators.
They are worried that some of the changes are going to make it more costly to operate and maintain in the future. A few doubt the Chetzemoka will reach its projected 60-year life running under the constant strain and vibration from a propulsion system originally intended for a larger ferry.
They remain perplexed that the boat was built with a lean when empty of vehicles and level when loaded. The Island Home is the same way.
The lean is caused by the grouping of stairwells, an elevator and exhaust pipes on the port side. Moseley said last week a "simple fix" will be undertaken to add weight on the opposite side so the boat sits level in the water when unloaded.
And lawmakers are frustrated all three of the 64-car boats burn more gallons of fuel per hour than the Steel Electrics.
The ferries in the Kwa-di Tabil class use more biodiesel because they are heavier and faster than the Steel Electrics, state ferry officials said.
The mothballed vessels used about 56 gallons per hour compared to 66 gallons per hour for the Chetzemoka. The Salish and Kennewick, which have different propeller systems, consume 89 and 98 gallons per hour respectively, according to the state. By comparison, the Island Home burns up about 128 gallons of diesel per hour, according to the state.
Hour by hour it adds up. Last year, between July and December, fuel use by the Chetzemoka (192,000), Kennewick (175,300) and Salish (261,500) totaled 628,800 gallons. Each runs on a B5 blend of biodiesel meaning 5 percent of the mixture is biofuel. The state could not immediately provide a breakdown of how much more fuel these boats are using than the Steel Electrics would have during the same time.
Design oversight
Rep. Larry Seaquist, D-Gig Harbor, is one of the most outspoken critics of the Washington State Ferries actions regarding the Chetzemoka. He's often said hurried decision-making early on and overdesigning later by ferry staff resulted in a vessel "functioning in a very problematic way."
As a sign of his frustration, last week he introduced a bill to make sure no new boat is built without legislative approval of the design.
Rep. Norma Smith, R-Clinton, is equally frustrated. She said she's still seeking satisfactory answers to how the many design changes will affect the life of the Chetzemoka. That's why she penned a letter signed by 15 lawmakers calling on Kelley's office to conduct another audit.
"We started with one boat and we did such significant modifications it was no longer the Island Home at the end of the day," she said. "Had the modifications been pursued in a different manner would we have a different outcome? I don't have the expertise to give you that answer.
"I am certainly frustrated with the leadership of Washington State Ferris," she said. "When the department brings you a plan to respond to a crisis, we have to trust they will give you accurate information."
Rep. Judy Clibborn, D-Mercer Island, the chairwoman of the House Transportation Committee, doesn't share her colleagues' concerns.
"There are things that they have focused on about these little ferries that I don't know why they have focused on them," Clibborn said. "You're not going back and rebuild them. They're ours.
"They had to be built. There was no service. People in those communities were screaming for service."
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West Point High SchoolŌĆÖs football game at Columbus high, scheduled for Sept. 3, has been canceled according to Steve Montgomery, Superintendent of West Point schools.
The cancellation stems from an issue with the MHSAA and the addition of a game against Mainland Fla., which takes place this Friday. In April, West Point officials applied for permission to add Mainland to the scheduled, giving West Point 12 regular season games, which is one over the allowed number of 11.
On Thursday, MHSAA Director Ennis Proctor informer West Point head coach Chris Chambless that his team would have to cancel a regular season non-division game in order to adhere to the 11-game limit. According to Proctor, the MHSAA did not realize granting permission for the Mainland trip would give West Point 12 regular season games.
Faced with having to cut a game this late in the process, Chambless and Montgomery began to see which game would be canceled. That led to discussions with Columbus, including Columbus Superintendent Dale Phillips and Lowndes County Superintendent Michael Halford, which ultimately led to the game being dropped.
ŌĆ£I called them and told them our situation, and honestly, the Columbus people really helped us out,ŌĆØ Montgomery said. ŌĆ£They began looking around to see what they could do for us, and they will now play New Hope. They really went above and beyond to help us in this situation.ŌĆØ
Chambless agreed with that sentiment.
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Idalene Kesner
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Godfrey Center, Room CG 3002
- Dean of the Kelley School of Business
- Frank P. Popoff Chair of Strategic Management
- Professor of Management
- Bloomington
- PhD, Indiana University
- MBA, Indiana University
- BBA, Southern Methodist University
Awards, Honors & Certifications
- Undergraduate Teaching Award: 1982
- MBA Teaching Awards: 1989, 1997, 1998, 1999,2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,2004, 2005,2006
- Executive Programs Teaching Awards: 1990, 1993, 1997
- Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA): 1997, 1998
- Trustee Teaching Awards: 2001, 2002, 2004
Professional Interests
Corporate Board of Directors, Chief Executive Succession, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions
Personal Interests
Family activities, Foreign films
Current Projects
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Selected Publications
King, David R., Rebecca J. Slotegraaf, and Idalene Kesner (2008), "Performance Implications of Firm Resource Interactions in the Acquisition of R&D Intensive Firms," Organization Science, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 327-340. Read Abstract ››
Kesner, I. and R. Walters (2005), "Class or Mass?," Harvard Business Review, April, pp. 35-45.
- Kesner, Idalene (2003), "Leadership Development: Perk or Priority," Harvard Business Review, May, pp. 29-38.
Kesner, Idalene (2003), "Effective Crisis Management: Now More Than Ever," in M. Goldsmith, V. Govindarajan, B. Kaye, and A. A. Vicere (eds.), The Many Facets of Leadership, pp. 241-250.
Kesner, Idalene (2002), "The Coach Who Got Poached," Harvard Business Review, March, pp. 31-40.
Kesner, Idalene F. (2001), "The Strategic Management Course: Tools and Techniques for Successful Teaching," in M. Hitt, R. E. Freeman, and J. S. Harrison (eds.), Handbook of Strategic Management, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., pp. 671-696.


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Game: Kinston Vikings at Jones Senior Trojans
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TRENTON — The Jones Senior Trojans are waging battle against two forces every Friday night – their opponent and themselves.
The Trojans are so thin in numbers that they cannot afford the inevitable injuries.
Nevertheless, they are ready to take on border rival Kinston this Friday night to open the 2013 season.
"Kinston is always a tough opponent. They are physical, big and athletic as well as well-coached," Jones Senior coach John Davis said. "We are a very young football team. For us to have success, we have to eliminate mistakes. We haven't beaten them (Kinston) in a while, so we are hungry to do it."
Jones Senior has an athletic star in ex-running back/defensive back turned quarterback Glen White.
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The Trojans won three games last season, with victories over Pamlico County, East Carteret and Southeast Halifax, before being knocked out of the state playoffs in the second round.
The visiting Vikings are led by new head coach Ryan Gieselman and have a new quarterback in 6-foot-1 junior Raquise Bellamy, taking over for the graduated VeQuain Joyner.
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Lineman Donathan Bryant, linebacker/running back Javon Baylor and wide receiver/linebacker Tiquan Canady are also key returners.
White said that he is very excited for his turn to lead the offense.
"Since my freshman year, we have wanted to beat Kinston – they are like another Pamlico to us," White said. "The biggest challenge they give us is that they are bigger and have more depth than us. We only go two deep at most positions and some not even."
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Waratahs flank Pat McCutcheon will miss the rest of the Super Rugby season after seriously injuring his ankle in the match against the Highlanders.
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The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008
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Three decades of short fiction by one of the most innovative and exciting writers of our day
In Louise Erdrich's fictional world, the mystical can emerge from the everyday, the comic can turn suddenly tragic, and violence and splendor inhabit a single emotional landscape. The fantastic twists and leaps of her imagination are made all the more meaningful by the deeper truth of human feeling that underlies them. These thirty-six short works selected by the author herself—including five previously unpublished stories—are ordered chronologically as well as by theme and voice, each tale spellbinding in its boldness and beauty. The Red Convertible is a stunning literary achievement, the collected brilliance of a fearless and inventive writer.
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Louise Erdrich lives with her family in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore. Ms. Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and this storywhich will, in the end, span one hundred years in the life of an Ojibwe womanwas inspired when Ms. Erdrich and her mother, Rita Gourneau Erdrich, were researching their own family history. Chickadee begins a new part of the story that started with The Birchbark House, a National Book Award finalist; The Game of Silence, winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; and the acclaimed The Porcupine Year.
Ms. Erdrich is also the bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels for adults, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves and National Book Award finalist The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. She is also the author of the picture book Grandmother's Pigeon, illustrated by Jim LaMarche.
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I am currently in an ongoing debate with a theist friend. It is very frustrating. I have found that facts are irrelevant. Logic is what the thinker thinks it is. The desire to have an afterlife is overwhelmingly strong. Consensus is not to be refuted (the fact that 85% of Americans have a God belief). I am at my wits end. But I realize that it's not my logic that is failing to make an impact, it's that my logic is getting detoured before it ever has a chance to factor into her thinking. "God 12.2 With Service Pack 3, Including the I.D. Add-on" is truly efficient.
There are two key problems here. First, the whole God 12.2 schtick you illustrate so well isn't the basic OS, but an OS for one memory partition. Other OSs, most better to at least some significant degree, are used per user choice for the rest of the system. Second (and I expect this is what you meant to say), logic is not what the thinker thinks it is, of course, but rather what most "thinkers" perceive as logic is just the way they think. Those who have studied and developed an understanding of logic, and who have the humility to accept it know better than to believe everything they think. Unfortunately that describes very few people in my experience.
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Negotiate to Win: The 21 Rules for Successful Negotiating
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From Barnes & NobleCharles Frazier's Cold Mountain has quickly established itself as a must-read. Everyone is talking about this eloquent and ambitious first novel; word-of-mouth recommendations and dust jacket blurbs, even serious literary reviews are trembling beneath the weight of the half-forgotten superlatives that have been dusted off and pressed into service for this book. I must admit to redlining the adjectivometer a bit myself while singing its praises. Frazier's astonishing fiction debut is a literary page-turner -- an utterly compelling story driven by rhythmic, resonant prose and convincing historical detail.
Cold Mountain is the story of Inman, a wounded and soul-sick Confederate soldier who, like his literary fellow-traveler Odysseus, has quit the field of battle only to find the way home littered with impediments and prowled by adversaries. Inman's Penelope is Ada, a headstrong belle who has forsaken her place in Charleston society in order to accompany her father -- a tubercular southern gentleman turned missionary -- to a new home in the healthy mountain air of North Carolina. Frazier divides the narrative between Inman's homeward progress and Ada's struggle to make it on her own after her father dies, establishing an underlying tension that is at once subtle and irresistible.
Inman is critically wounded in the fighting outside Petersburg and, after a rough triage, he is "classed among the dying and put on a cot to do so." When his body stubbornly refuses to comply, he is evacuated further south to a hospital where he may succumb at his leisure. But against all odds, Inman's terrible injury insists upon healing itself. During the long months of convalescence he struggles to shed the hated, insulating numbness put on against the carnage he has seen -- Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Petersburg, Fredericksburg -- and probes his psychic wounds for the shrapnel of his former self. He finds instead a refuge in the "topography of home in his head" and the Cherokee folk tales of his childhood friend Swimmer:
"As Inman sat brooding and pining for his lost self, one of Swimmer's creekside stories rushed into his memory with great urgency and attractiveness. Swimmer claimed that above the blue vault of heaven there was a forest inhabited by a celestial race. Men could not go there to stay and live, but in that high land the dead spirit could be reborn.
"Though Inman could not recall whether Swimmer had told him what else might be involved in reaching that healing realm, Cold Mountain nevertheless soared in his mind as a place where all his scattered forces might gather. Inman did not consider himself to be a superstitious person, but he did believe that there is a world invisible to us. He no longer thought of that world as heaven, nor did he still think that we get to go there when we die. Those teachings had been burned away. But he could not abide by a universe composed only of what he could see, especially when it was so frequently foul. So he held to the idea of another world, a better place, and he figured he might as well consider Cold Mountain to be the location of it as anywhere."
Knowing that he will soon be deemed fit to return to active duty, Inman decides it is time to see if his "better place" still exists. He gathers what provisions he has been able to hoard, readies his fearsome LeMats revolver -- a double-barreled affair capable of firing nine .40 caliber rounds as well as a single load of shot -- slips out of the hospital under the cover of darkness, and begins the long walk home.
Meanwhile, Ada is reeling from her own mortal blow. The death of her father has left her penniless and alone, without the slightest idea of how she will survive. Though "educated beyond the point considered wise for females," she now finds that her vaunted talents -- a deft hand at the piano and a literary turn of mind -- have little value in the wartime barter economy of the rural South. The well-meaning members of her father's former congregation fully expect Ada to sell out and return to Charleston, but the prospect of begging charity or entering into some "mildly disguised parasitic relationship" with distant kin disgusts her. Salvation arrives in the form of Ruby Thewes, a solitary young mountain woman who teaches Ada the basic tenets of self-reliance and a Tolstoyan reverence for physical labor. "Simply living had never struck Ada as such a tiresome business" -- but her exertions give her a pride in her land and an ease with herself that she has never known.
Inman's lowland odyssey is fraught with peril. He travels mostly at night to avoid the Home Guard -- brutal vigilante bands who patrol the highways for runaway slaves and deserting "outliers" -- but encounters a strange assortment of misfits nonetheless: Veasey, the defrocked preacher and would-be "pistoleer" who appoints Inman his personal confessor; Odell, once heir to a Georgia planter, doomed to wander the southland in search of his slave lover; Junior, a noisome and treacherous hillbilly; and a wise old goatwoman who gives him a glimpse of God's mercy.
Time and again Frazier addresses the mysteries of faith and redemption. Though the war has ravaged the countryside and broken its people in body and in spirit, salvation -- admittedly, salvation of a humanist sort -- is always possible for those who dare to ask it. Even Ruby's long-lost father, Stobrod, a wastrel who has spent the majority of his life occupied in either the manufacture or the consumption of moonshine, is born again through his music. As in Goethe's dictum, "der weg ist das ziel," the seeking is in itself the path to finding redemption. Those who make the journey -- physically or spiritually -- ultimately find comfort; those who do not live a hell on earth.
A book as assured and as satisfying as Cold Mountain is a cause for celebration, and a first novel of this caliber (David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars comes to mind) is exceptional indeed. Charles Frazier has made an auspicious debut.
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CHOP Earns High Honors in U.S.News & World Report Rankings
June 3, 2010 — The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has been ranked first, second or third in nine out of 10 specialties in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Children's Hospitals issue, 2010. The rankings are published online at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals and featured in the August issue of U.S. News & World Report, available at newsstands starting July 27.
CHOP ranked number one in Neonatal Care, Pulmonology, and Diabetes and Endocrine Disorders; second in Cancer, Urology, Heart and Heart Surgery, and Gastroenterology; third in Orthopedics and Neurology and Neurosurgery; and sixth in Kidney.
By ranking in the top 10 in all specialties, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia earns a place on the prestigious U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. Children's Hospital was the only pediatric hospital in the Tri-state area named to the Honor Roll.
The survey methodology weighed a blend of reputation, outcomes and care-related measures such as nursing care, infection prevention, patient volumes and other factors.
Each hospital received a "U.S. News Score" for each of the 10 specialties ranked. An overall ranking is no longer issued.
"While we are honored by this recognition, we understand there is still much more to do to improve the hospital experience for patients, families and employees," said Steven M. Altschuler, MD, president and chief executive officer, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "This ranking is a reminder of our responsibility to lead the way in all facets of pediatric patient care, research and education."
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Small College Journal: At break, these four have stood tall
|Amherst College goalie Jonathan La Rose (photo: Amherst College Athletics)
Time to hang up the skates for a bit, take a deep breath and reflect.
Southern New Hampshire and Johnson & Wales will play the last Division 3 game involving New England teams before Christmas tonight in Pawtucket, R.I.
If nothing else, the first month of the season has given us a preliminary indication of who the teams to beat are in each of the four New England leagues.
What are those four teams getting for Christmas? How about bull's-eyes?
ECAC East
Norwich cemented its status as the team to beat in the league – and maybe even nationally -- by virtue of wins against top-10 teams Plattsburgh, Elmira and Castleton State.
The Cadets (8-0-1, 6-0) have showed off balanced scoring, with Travis Janke (6-12-18) and Kyle Thomas of Waltham, Mass. (6-9-15) leading the way. Also good depth on a young defense in front of goalie Parker Carroll.
Breathing down their necks is a Castleton (10-1, 7-1) team they edged, 3-2, earlier this month and will see again on Feb. 11.
"They've got a very good goalie and their defense is pretty solid," said Norwich coach Mike McShane (Wakefield, Mass.). "(Coach Alex Todd) has got good depth and they play hard. They play an aggressive game and they like to hit everything in sight."
You have to love the mental toughness of Amherst (7-1-0, 5-0-0), which has won its last four games by one goal.
Of course, having a goalie like Jonathan La Rose, back with the program after two years away for non-hockey reasons, helps an awful lot, too. His 1.83 goals-against average is third in the nation and his .926 save percentage is 15th.
"Traditionally, we've been a pretty strong defensive team that's good on special teams," said Amherst coach Jack Arena. "We certainly wanted to continue to be strong in those areas."
Williams (5-1-2, 4-1-1) and Middlebury (4-3-1, 4-2-0), the two teams the Jeffs edged over the weekend, certainly bear watching as well.
ECAC Northeast
Curry (7-1, 5-0) has won the last two league tournament titles and looks to be putting itself in position for the hat trick.
The Colonels have gotten 10 goals from leading scorer Payden Benning and strong play from freshman goalie Derek Mohney, who's won all six of his starts and posted nice numbers (2.15 goals-against average, .921 save percentage).
Johnson & Wales (6-3-1, 3-0-1) is getting another big year from Jeremiah Ketts (8-12-20), last year's Division 3 scoring leader, and has been pretty solid both defensively (2.4 goals allowed) and killing penalties (88.3 percent).
Western New England (6-3-0, 3-1) is in third place, but faces a rough January that will be spent almost entirely away from home.
Maybe the scariest thing about Plymouth State's hot start is that it's been with personnel that's at less than full strength.
The defensive-minded Panthers (8-2-0, 5-1) are doing two things they didn't do a year ago — win at home, where they're 5-0 in their new $16 million Ice Arena, and finish games out.
In January, they'll welcome back forward Larry Kincaid, who tore his MCL early on, and mix in UMass-Lowell transfer Zach Sarig, a defenseman.
"Back when we get everyone back healthy and in the fold in the second half, we're going to change the dynamic of the team a little bit," said Plymouth coach Craig Russell (Northfield, Vt.).
UMass-Dartmouth (6-3-1, 4-1-1) and Salem State(5-3-1, 3-2-1) look to be in the mix, and Worcester State (4-4-2, 2-3-1) has been friskier of late.
Game of the Week
Southern New Hampshire at Johnson & Wales, Wednesday
This is the last game involving a Division 3 team from New England until after Christmas.
JWU is 6-3-1 after dropping a pair of games — by scores of 3-1 and 5-2 — at Fredonia over the weekend. SNHU is struggling through a tough year in the Northeast-10 at 1-9-1.
New England Division 3 power rankings
1. Norwich (8-0-1, 6-0 ECAC East)
Cadets needed third-period goals from Colin Mulvey (Worcester, Mass.) and Chris Duszynski to salvage 4-4 tie with No. 7 Plattsburgh.
2. Castleton State (10-1, 7-1 ECAC East)
Spartans were idle last weekend and off until they play No. 9 Utica in the Cardinal Classic at Plattsburgh on Dec. 30.
3. Amherst (7-1-0, 5-0-0 NESCAC)
Lord Jeffs capped superb first half with wins over league heavyweights Williams (5-4) and Middlebury (4-3 in OT). Leading scorer Mark Colp (Wareham, Mass.) had two goals and two assists on the weekend.
4. Curry (7-1, 5-0 ECAC Northeast)
That's seven straight wins for the Colonels after knocking off Babson, 6-1. Ryan Barlock (4-10-4) is one of the more offensive defensemen out there.
5. Williams (5-1-2, 4-1-1 NESCAC)
Eric Rubino had two goals in weekend split that included a 5-1 win at Hamilton, and leads the Ephmen with five goals.
6. Plymouth State (8-2-0, 5-1-0 MASCAC)
Panthers are perfect in their new building, and take a two-game win streak into the break after knocking off UMass-Dartmouth (3-2 in overtime) and Fitchburg State (4-3).
7. Middlebury (4-3-1, 4-2-0 NESCAC)
Road didn't agree with the Panthers, who were blanked at Hamilton (3-0) before falling to Amherst in overtime.
8. UMass-Dartmouth (6-3-1, 4-1-1 MASCAC)
Local trio of Mike Owens (South Boston, Mass.), Phil Bronner (Wilbraham, Mass.) and Rob Dudley (Douglas, Mass.) are pacing the Corsairs, who have won four of five.
9. Bowdoin (5-3-1, 3-2-1 NESCAC)
Eight different layers found the net in dominant weekend sweep of Tufts (5-1) and Conn. College (7-0), including Jordan Lalor (Needham, Mass.), the league's scoring leader.
10. Johnson & Wales (6-3-1, 3-0-1 ECAC Northeast)
Jeremiah Ketts hits the break tied for third in Division 3 in scoring at 8-12-20.
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Wild and Crazy Fifth Set Comeback Caps Off Women's Volleyball's 3-2 Road Win at Mount Olive
October 18, 2011
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. - Down in the fifth set by scores of 13-8 and facing five match points starting at 14-9, Pfeiffer University used three-straight block assists by Kelly Lancellot to turn the tide in a 22-20 wild set five and 3-2 (25-23, 21-25, 20-25, 25-16, 22-20) victory over Mount Olive in Conference Carolinas women's volleyball action on Tuesday night. With Lancellot, Cate Glendenning participated in two of the three crucial block assists while Erin Gray helped take care of the other. The Lady Falcons improve to 11-11 overall, 6-7 in league play, while the Trojans fall to 8-10, 5-6.
The win snapped a three-game skid for Pfeiffer and a six-game win streak for Mount Olive. The victory also provides a crucial tiebreaker for the upcoming conference tournament as the Lady Falcons sweep the season series from their divisional opponent.
Facing match point down 14-9 in the fifth set, Milana Mervosh put down her final kill of the night while Gray followed suit to make it 14-11 with a Mount Olive timeout. After back-to-back blocks by Lancellot and Glendenning forced another timeout at 14-13, Lancellot and Gray stuffed an attack attempt by Carly White to knot the contest at 14 giving the Lady Falcons new life.
Pfeiffer had five match points before sealing the deal while having to stave off two more match points by Mount Olive. Kills by Jessica Homrich and Kelsey Blauser continued the match during the final 10 plays while a final Lancellot/Blauser block set up the final match point for Pfeiffer as a Mount Olive attack error ended the contest.
The night of comebacks started in the first set of the evening as Pfeiffer trailed 17-12 after a service ace by the Trojans' Nicole Sparks. Three-straight Mount Olive miscues brought the Lady Falcons back at 21-21 before a pair of Homrich kills an ace by Taylor Houser put the visitors up 1-0.
White led the way for Mount Olive in sets two and three before Pfeiffer started their second comeback of the night in set four. The non-dramatic fourth set saw the Lady Falcons score seven points in an eight-play span to help create the final nine point differential. Jordan O'Bryant helped force the final thriller with a kill to end set four 25-16.
O'Bryant led a balanced Pfeiffer attack with 11 kills on the night followed by Homrich's nine to hit .333. Glendenning dished out 36 assists while Kaci Markham led with a dozen digs.
White led all attackers on the night with 23 kills in a losing effort for the Trojans. Erika Conner followed with 12 while Dezirae Mackey concluded with 11. Charnel Austin sent up a match-high 50 assists in the loss.
Pfeiffer returns to action on Wednesday night with a 7:00 p.m. matchup at Barton. Live stats and video will be available through http://www.gofalconsports.com.


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Family vacation comes to an end. Fun brunch heading back to LA
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