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Our funding
Who we are
Our Mission and Vision
Our Clients
Our Programs
The Indiana Youth Institute is a statewide 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides capacity-building programs and resources for the state's youth workers and nonprofit youth-serving organizations, including schools. We are also an outspoken advocate for healthy youth development in Indiana.
Read our agency brochure.
Our Funding
The Indiana Youth Institute's programs are offered for free or very low cost, allowing youth organizations that are often on tight budgets to save money that can be used instead for their services to youth.
We depend on individual, foundation, and corporate donors to support our work so that we can keep these resources coming. We gratefully receive donations from anyone wishing to promote the healthy development of children and youth in Indiana. Go to Donate Now if you wish to make a gift.
Who We Are
Staff — Currently, IYI has 34 staff members, including outreach managers working in eight regions across the state.
View staff biographies.
Board of Directors — IYI is governed by a Board of Directors made up of a diverse group of men and women from around the state who are either elected by the board or appointed by supported organizations to three-year terms.
View our board roster.
IYI Consultants — IYI has more than 50 consultants under contract to assist us in delivering our Consulting Services by working one-on-one with youth organizations. Our consultants are carefully chosen for their knowledge, expertise, references, ability to understand and address the problems faced by youth workers, and their willingness to help. IYI also uses consultants for data research and other projects to expand our staff capacity.
Our Mission and Vision
Mission: The Indiana Youth Institute promotes the healthy development of Indiana children and youth by serving the people, institutions and communities that impact their well-being.
Vision: All Indiana children and youth will attain five critical elements of healthy youth development: physical health and safety, emotional fulfillment, academic achievement, civic engagement and economic self-sufficiency.
Our Clients
IYI serves youth workers and nonprofit organizations that provide services directly to, or on behalf of, children and youth up through age 18 and their families. Our resources are used by after-school and summer camp programs, mentoring and tutoring groups, family service organizations, Scout troops, YMCAs, schools, youth ministries, arts organizations and museums with youth outreach, and agencies serving disabled or homeless children, among others. Secondary audiences include public officials, civic leaders, academics, and other policymakers who develop decisions impacting Indiana children.
Current Programs
IYI's programs are carefully designed to further our mission to improve the healthy development of children and youth. Program development is based on scientific studies and evaluations of the needs of Indiana youth workers, with input from our statewide board and staff, particularly our field representatives who spend most of their staff time with youth workers in their regions. Many programs were piloted in several communities before being fully implemented statewide.
Each program has a stated goal, as well as measurable outcome and output objectives, which are reviewed by the entire IYI staff in quarterly meetings in order to make improvements.
Programs fall into four broad categories:
IYI Weekly Update — free, electronic newsletter featuring training opportunities, free resources, new reports about youth, and grant opportunities.
KIDS COUNT® in Indiana Data Center — online database that includes the latest state, county, and school district-level statistics on Indiana children and youth.
Custom Data Research – free service to obtain hard to find data on family and youth issues.
Virginia Beall Ball Library — one of the best specialty lending libraries in the country, with easy online access and complimentary mailing service that delivers youth development and nonprofit management materials, special reports, videos, DVDs, and training and curriculum resources.
Issue Briefs — special reports that provide critical information about timely youth issues.
Human Resources and Employee Benefit Program — In partnership with WorkSmart, our
Professional Employer Organization (PEO), IYI offers a Human Resources and Employee Benefit program that handles the office work so you can get back to youth work.
Training & capacity building
Trainings — professional development opportunities offered at convenient locations across the state on topics such as fundraising, working with children, and promoting parental involvement.
Webinars — free educational sessions by phone with computer visuals that allow Indiana youth workers to learn more about the latest youth development trends from national and local experts in the convenience of their own offices.
Professional Development Grants — financial assistance for Indiana youth workers to attend courses, conferences, and seminars that will help them promote the healthy development of children and youth.
Because KIDS COUNT® Conference — annual fall conference designed to give Indiana youth workers the inspiration, networking opportunities, information, and knowledge they need to serve youth and families effectively.
Ask IYI (855-2ASK-IYI) — toll-free, professional phone consultation to assist youth organizations with questions about fundraising, youth development, and legal matters.
Consulting Services — one-on-one coaching from professionals who can help with fundraising, program evaluation, technology, and other nonprofit management issues like strategic planning, board development, marketing, executive mentoring, and volunteer recruitment and retention.
Custom Solutions — professional consulting services for large-scale evaluation, strategic planning, management, and research projects required by schools, multi-site nonprofits, government agencies, foundations, businesses, out of state agencies, and others.
Parent & Community Involvement
Parent Involvement Initiative — programs that promote parental involvement in the lives of children – one of the top requests for assistance from youth workers – by supporting community coalitions, encouraging responsible parenting practices, and collaboration among statewide parenting organizations.
Youth Worker Cafés — regular local networking meetings that bring community youth workers together, build relationships, and inspire collaborations that help kids.
Kids Count Media — media resources that promote the health and well-being of Indiana youth, including the Kids Count Radio Show, Kids Count Minutes public service announcements for radio and TV, and newspaper opinion editorials.
Indiana Mentoring Partnership — a public awareness campaign to promote the importance of mentoring for all Hoosier children with the goal of increasing the number of adults who will mentor a child.
Special projects
Drive of Your Life.org, a fun, interactive Internet video game site designed to help middle school students learn more about themselves, careers that might fit their interests and high school courses and activities that can lead to successful college applications. An educator's tool is available to help integrate the site with classroom curricula. This project is funded by Lilly Endowment Inc.
TripToCollege.org provides parents with a step-by-step guide to making college a reality for Indiana kids – no matter what their child's age. This project is funded by Lilly Endowment Inc.
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Records shattered in second day of the Prefontaine Classic
EUGENE, Ore. — Athletes from all across the world shattered record after record Saturday as they toed up to the starting line during day two of the 40th annual Prefontaine Classic.
After Olympian and former Oregon standout Galen Rupp set a new American record in the men's 10000 meter competition Friday night with an official time of 26 minutes, 44. 36 seconds, many more records were broken on Saturday.
Of these records, the most notable would include Ayanieh Souleima's 3 minute, 47.32 seconds win in the Bowerman Mile, which set a new world record, Diamond League record, Prefontaine Classic meet record, and a national record. The Bowerman Mile is held in honor of former Oregon track and field coach Bill Bowerman, who coached State Prefontaine during his tenure at the helm of Oregon's track and field program.
Other notable performances include James Kirani's 43.97 finish in the men's 400 meter sprint. His finish set a new world record and was the first sub-44 second 400 meter run during the 2014 outdoor season.
In addition to Kirani's record, other world leading records include Leonel Manzano's win in the men's international mile, Kaliese Spencer's win in the women's 400 meter competition, Sofia Assefa's win in the women's 3000 meter steeplechase race, Hellen Obiri's win in the women's 15000 meter run, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde's win in the men's 100 meter hurdle competition, Tori Bowie's win in the women's 200 meter sprint, and Nijel Amos' win in the men's 800 meter race.
In total, during day two of the Prefontaine Classic, nine world records were set, with eight of those being on the track and one of those being in a field event.
The Prefontaine Classic is held annually at Hayward Field in honor of Steve Prefontaine, a former Oregon standout whose national and international presence is still felt across the world to track and field fans.
In total, for this year's edition of the classic, there were over 250 athletes from across the world, who competed in 24 events over the two-day competition. 41 of these athletes won medals during last year's World Championship in Moscow, Russia.


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Archive for the 'Knoxville Motor Company' tag
world's oldest Rambler dealer now a rescue mission
It seems our recent post about former AMC dealerships has knocked loose a few memories among our readers, as witnessed by the excellent comments on that post. Reader Paul Bellefeuille shared the post with his friend Al Brodie in Tennessee, and Al was able to provide an update on the Knoxville Motor Company, touted in the postcard above (nabbed from Eddie Stakes' site) as the world's oldest Rambler dealer.
I drove by the address 413 North Gay Street and here's what I found. The dealership building in the postcard is still very much intact. However the glass showroom windows are bricked up and the entire building is painted dark red. It now serves as the local rescue mission! I have seen this from the highway many times but never knew what it was in its previous life, so for that bit of fascinating history I thank you!
The car lot in the foreground however is not there as this is where the I-40 highway overpass runs. The building needless to say now stands very close to the overpass and there is nothing in the former lot except the concrete structures that hold up the highway. The cross street that runs left to right in the postcard is in fact Magnolia Avenue, which is still there. The street that the dealership faces in the postcard is North Gay Street.
At the far right of the postcard is a lower wall. This appears to fence in what is now a vacant yard but I suspect at one time this was where most of the new cars were kept. And just beyond that the building with the letters TOR may have also been a part of the complex as the design of that building is very similar. This building now bears the sign for a used furniture store though the building appears to be empty.
Incidentally I see by the postcard that this place also sold Mercedes, a fact that is confirmed by the attached newspaper ad which dates from June of 1963. I found several other ads dating back as far as 1935 proclaiming this to be the "World's Oldest NASH dealer!" Knowing that Nash became Rambler, and subsequently AMC this makes sense and also explains how the dealership dates back to 1916, as I know Nash was one of the earlier automakers.
I also like the sign that gives directions to various other cities that is just below the Mercedes logo. This obviously predates the interstate highways. And as a sidenote, JFG Special Coffee still exists also! It is a local brand that is sold along side the major coffee brands and seems to hold its own. They have a large electric sign that can be seen across the river from downtown and that sign appears to date back a long ways also. When you drive past the factory you can smell the coffee. They also have a brand of mayonnaise.
Al also snapped a couple pics of the rescue mission for us, showing how the area certainly has changed over the last 40 years.
The more I compare them with the postcard the more I see the similarities. It looks like those two arched sections were the original doorways entering the front of the building. To the right of those in the postcard are two garage door entrances, no doubt for the service department. You can see in the new pictures how those were covered up and the one on the right now includes the present entrance.
To the right of the building is that long wall you can see in the postcard. There's a yard behind there that I suspect the mission uses for various events. I suspect that was were the dealership kept the bulk of its inventory back when. Also of note if you look at the front corner of the building you will see it is now #411. Perhaps #413 was actually the car lot in the postcard and that is obviously no longer there.
One other thing I'm trying to figure out, and it may just be an optical illusion. It seems the road is lower in the new pictures. There is now a grassy strip and even a small flight of steps leading up to the entrance of the building. In the postcard it seems that the front of the building was more level with the street. Is it possible they lowered the road? Weird.
Al seems bitten by the lost dealership project bug now too and said he plans to research other lost dealerships in the Knoxville area.


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4th Circuit Court Briefs
Howard v. England (05-1258)
Stephanie Howard filed a Title VII action alleging she had been the victim of sexual harassment by another employee who also worked at the Naval Air Systems Command ("NAVAIR"), a component of the United States Department of the Navy. Howard's complaint alleged that she was subjected to a hostile work environment and that she suffered retaliation for bringing a complaint of sexual harassment. The Secretary of the Navy filed a motion for summary judgment and, following briefing and oral argument, the district court granted the Secretary's motion. Howard appeals from the district court's ruling.
During her tenure at NAVAIR, Howard provided administrative support for approximately 55 employees, including Randy McCall, in the Air Assault and Weapons Division. Howard's duties included acting as a receptionist, maintaining the office's files, arranging for meetings and conferences, and receiving and reviewing correspondence for the office. During a 17-month period, beginning in June 1995, Howard contends that she was subjected to sexual harassment by McCall. Howard alleges that McCall began speaking to her in a sexually provocative manner and touched her inappropriately without her consent. Following an alleged incident on March 5, 1996, Howard spoke with Aaron Pendleton, a manager in the Navy's Human Resource Office, who advised her to write a letter to McCall. Howard followed his advice and wrote a letter to McCall, which she delivered to him the next day. In that letter, she detailed the incidents of sexual harassment, demanded that he stop the behavior, and explained that his actions made her feel "sick and violated."
Approximately six months later, McCall allegedly made inappropriate comments and unwelcome sexual advances to Howard. Howard's supervisor, Mike Erk, met with plaintiff and advised her to contact the EEOC office to report McCall's conduct, which she did. An investigation was subsequently conducted. No charges were brought against McCall, and he was reassigned to another floor. Several months later, Howard filed an EEOC complaint with NAVAIR. The EEOC administrative judge found that McCall had no supervisory authority over Howard and that Howard's first official comment about the allegations to NAVAIR management occurred in November 1996. The administrative law judge concluded that Howard did show McCall sexually harassed her, but denied her claim because she did not make her allegations known to someone in a management capacity within NAVAIR.
Howard argues that there are material facts in dispute to defeat a motion for summary judgment. Specifically, Howard argues that there are material facts as to whether McCall was Howard's supervisor; whether the Navy exercised reasonable care to prevent sexual harassment; whether the Navy exercised reasonable care to disseminate its policy regarding sexual harassment; whether the Navy exercised reasonable care to enforce its policy regarding sexual harassment; and whether she unreasonably failed to take advantage of the remedial measures provided by the employer. The Navy counters that the material facts are not in dispute and that the evidence presented fails to establish McCall was Howard's supervisor. The Navy also argues Howard failed to show that persons in management authority knew or should have known of the harassment and failed to take reasonably prompt corrective action.
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Teyana Taylor has been pegged as the attacker in a fight over Chris Brown last weekend.
Teyana Taylor has been pegged as the attacker in a fight over Chris Brown last weekend.
TMZ.com reports that Teyana is accused of beating up some girl in Burbank, Calif., on Saturday night. Authorities said Teyana was at a recording studio when she punched an unidentified woman in the face for making a comment about Chris.
Teyana reportedly hit the woman several times before kicking her in the head and stomach. The singer fled the scene before cops arrived, and authorities have not been able to track her down yet.
Officers say that the victim suffered swelling around a few bad scrapes as a result of the attack.
Authorities are investigating the fight. Teyana hasn't been charged in the incident yet, but cops want to speak with Teyana right away.
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hmm this rather confirms what I was afraid of ... posting scans provides little useful information about the quality or otherwise of a negative.
they need to be physically in front of someone who knows what they're looking (like yourselves, I mean!) at for any concrete feedback.
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1. Make sure that all activities, including group activities,
are relevant and meaningful* to children's lives. Eliminate
activities that do not meet these criteria (calendar time,
letter of the week). Some activities may be modified in
order to meet these criteria.
2. Make sure that all activities are age appropriate
(the children are developmentally ready to grasp the concept(s).
3. Make sure that the curriculum and supporting activities are
child-centered, rather than adult-centered.
4. Make sure that creative art activities are open-ended and not
5. Make sure that children have 45 - 60 minutes (or more) to
engage in learning center activities that they have chosen and
that are sufficiently challenging and engaging.
6. Make sure that the unit of inquiry or topic is
• Meaningful and relevant
• Developmentally appropriate
• "Visible" and apparent throughout the environment.
7. Make sure room arrangement supports learning and positive
8. Make sure that children's learning is documented and visible
and that it builds from the beginning of a topic through its
9. Make sure that teachers have sufficient group planning time
(one hour a week does not seem to be enough).
* "Meaningful" means that the activities are significant to the children in relation to their age and cultural background; "relevant" mans that the activities are applicable and purposeful in regard to the children's interests and lives.


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With the caveat that I am very far from the most proficient bear trader around, we note that the short against the EM's (via EEV) is being covered this morning.
NFTRH/NFTRH+ recommended a bounce to the SMA 50 as a lower risk short entry (I had personally entered sooner) for those interested, and today EEM is getting to a point where I've got to take the profit (EEV roughly doubles the percentage). It's moving too far from the EMA 10, and could be subject to a snap back soon. Cash is my favorite thing right now so it is also by far my most heavily held thing.


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Lovecraftian horror has the ability to linger and haunt, and those who try to recreate it do well to avoid ever explicitly depicting the object of horror. This is the entire point of the cosmicism in Lovecraft's writing: to use the power of the unknown (or what is "beyond the radius of human imagination"); to amp up our curiosity and spur it with fear. But this usually doesn't translate well to other artistic mediums.
Due to horror cinema's preoccupation with viscera, jump scares, and grisly monsters, it has often failed to truly capture the quality of Lovecraft's written word, even when it is adapted directly from the source. Precisely when it shouldn't, Lovecraft-inspired cinema wants to show us its horror, whereas it should emphasize the unseen and unfathomable.
What the game adds is a carnality that the written word can't provide.
You could stubbornly say the same about videogames and their relationship with Lovecraftian horror. But as cinema has an exception in films like Malefique (2002), videogames have theirs in terrifying experiences like Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Still, these are the rare exceptions in modern day's most popular forms of entertainment.
So, I went into Daniela Coyotzi and Jose Dorado's short videogame adaptation of Lovecraft's The Statement of Randolph Carter with apprehension. The pair made it over a weekend for Ludum Dare; surely they couldn't pull off anything satisfying enough to complement their inspiration? That was my assumption, at least. But I was surprised.
Coyotzi and Dorado have made a supplement to Lovecraft's short horror story, rather than attempting to, like so many others, expand on it, or fill in the holes that were deliberately left so as to inspire the imagination. As such, this videogame probably doesn't make much sense without prior knowledge of the story, so I encourage you to read it through before giving it a go, or immediately afterwards.
In a departure from the original story, you take on Harley Warren's perspective as he descends the dark steps of the dreadful, decrepit ossuary, occasionally making phone calls to Randolph Carter, who sits at the graveyard entrance. But, rather than finding whatever horror it is that lurks in this crypt, you see snaps of Carter sitting in a hospital giving his statement in the background. What you discover, then, is that the game is framed as being in two time periods, just as the book is a detailed recount of a past event from the viewpoint of the present.
What the game adds is a carnality that the written word can't provide. Eerie sounds, overbearing darkness, flickering lights, simple pixel art for your mind to flesh out with detail. And, most importantly, it adds the act of having to consciously guide Warren into the crypt while knowing what happens to him, and wanting to find out what's down there, while simultaneously fearing it and knowing that it would ruin the entire story.
Luckily, Coyotzi and Dorado don't ruin The Statement of Randolph Carter in their videogame adaptation. They manage this by not overstepping the cosmic horror of the story, or their own creative desires, as so many others inspired by Lovecraft do. It's worthy of being played alongside the experience of reading Lovecraft's chilling sentences.
You can play The Statement of Randolph Carter in your browser or download it on its Ludum Dare page.


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Citations with the tag: SELF-esteem
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- Finding inner peace through window of hope.
Gaines, Patrick // National Catholic Reporter; 4/26/2002, Vol. 38 Issue 25, p32
Presents reflections on finding inner peace. Citation of hardships experienced in life; Effort of overcoming low self-esteem; Result of psychological therapy.
- 20 instant mood lifters.
Evans, Nancy // Redbook; Mar2000, Vol. 194 Issue 3, p110
Presents a list of self-esteem boosters and mood lifters.
- Counselors and students' self-concept.
Cole, Claire // School Counselor; Jan91, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p162
Offers advice to school counselors on how to enhance students' self-esteem. Includes cooperative learning; Peer tutoring; Positive notes; Community service.
- Introjected Regulation: Approach Versus Avoidance!
Cole, Claire // Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology; Aug2009, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p572
An abstract of the article "Identified Versus Introjected Approach and Introjected Avoidance Motivations in School and in Sports: The Limited Benefits of Self-Worth Strivings" is presented.
- A neglected supervisory role: Building self-esteem at work.
Newstrom, John; Gardner, Don; Pierce, Jon // Supervision; Feb99, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p9
Focuses on high-involvement work system. Scope of this approach; Sample programs for achieving high involvement; How high-involvement work systems can succeed; Importance of self-esteem; Organizational factors contributing to self-esteem; How supervisors can foster high self-esteem levels in...
- Been there, done that?
Markiewicz, Dan // Industrial Safety & Hygiene News; Dec2002, Vol. 36 Issue 12, p16
Provides information on the improvement of job satisfaction among environmental and safety employees. Assurance of belongingness and self-esteem; Consideration of the opinions of the stakeholder; Management of the reproductive health concerns.
- BOOST YOUR sexual self-esteem!
Cruz, Melissa De La // Marie Claire (US Edition); Oct2002, Vol. 9 Issue 10, p335
Focuses on an electronic sex school that helps boost sexual self-esteem in six weeks. Instructions given during the course; Difference in grades obtained at the beginning and end of the classes.
- Self-esteem education earns mixed marks.
Hardy, Alexander // Christian Science Monitor; 4/4/96, Vol. 88 Issue 90, p1
Presents information on self-esteem programs in public schools in the United States. Reason the programs were adopted; How the programs are structured; Reactions of skeptics to such programs; Information on the program at Moreland's Latimer Elementary School; Reactions of parents to the programs.
- What have you done for you lately?
Courtney, Camerin // Today's Christian Woman; Mar/Apr99, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p92
Provides things Christian women need to do to enhance self-esteem in the United States. Consolation of oneself for things done; Importance of a nap to tackle demands of work; Exploration of places and institutions for mind-enriching options; Inscription of a tradition to observe.
- Mary Ucci: Helping A Young Child Build Self-Esteem.
Courtney, Camerin // Child Health Alert; Apr2000, Vol. 17, p3
Offers advice on how to help children build their self-esteem.
- How low self-esteem affects adult learners.
James, Kathryn // Adults Learning; Jan2003, Vol. 14 Issue 5, p24
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- `Feel-good' approach yields educational disasters.
Roche, George // Inside Tucson Business; 12/2/96, Vol. 6 Issue 36, p5
Opinion. Focuses on the negative impact of `feel-good' approaches made by teachers toward students regardless of actual accomplishments. Aggressive reaction of recipients of unfavorable reviews; Inflated levels of false self-esteem as cause of violent behavior; Comparison of studies of...
- A lesson to enhance student self-esteem.
Hamilton, Diane; Oswalt, Sara // Education Digest; Dec98, Vol. 64 Issue 4, p35
Presents educational activities that enhance student self-esteem. `Pieces and Parts'; `Self-Esteem Rip Off'; `Affirmation Breeds Success.'
- What hostility says about you.
Canter, Mark; Delhagen, Kate // Men's Health (10544836); Aug90, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p13
Cites findings by researchers at the University of Texas concerning the relation of self-esteem and the reaction when criticized or provoked.
- U.S.A.: Self-Esteem.
Canter, Mark; Delhagen, Kate // Junior Scholastic (Teacher's Edition); 2/7/2000, Vol. 102 Issue 12, pT-2
Presents a lesson plan the objective of which is to make the students understand why self-esteem is important, factors that make it vulnerable at times and ways to improve self-esteem.
- Controlling Role-Stuck Communication.
Green, Jane Nugent // Individual Psychology: The Journal of Adlerian Theory, Research ; Dec82, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p360
Assesses methods of controlling role-stuck communication. Influence of self-esteem on the reduction of reactive discouragement; Process of changing communication; Description of responsive control method in communication.
- Disavowing the Past: A Maneuver to Protect Self-Esteem.
Grayson, Paul A. // Individual Psychology: The Journal of Adlerian Theory, Research ; Sep86, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p330
Focuses on the widespread influence of the self-esteem motive in individual psychology. Protection of person's feelings of self-worth; Desire of an individual to enhance and preserve self-esteem; Principles of selectivity and psychological centrality.
- Her Name in Lights.
Leise, Michelle // Daughters; Jan/Feb2002, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p5
Focuses on the benefits of engaging child in stage plays. Support of the author to the decision of daughter to play a Greek warrior in 'The Iliad'; Ability of acting to increase self-esteem; Opportunity for daughter to experiment safely with adulthood.
- The Italian secret of passion.
Disbrowe, Paula // Redbook; Jul96, Vol. 187 Issue 3, pG-6
Explains the concept called sex appeal based on the author's experience. Trip to Italy to learn cooking; Attentiveness of men towards women; Re-evaluation of self-image.
- The best there is.
Disbrowe, Paula // Christian Science Monitor; 11/30/99, Vol. 92 Issue 4, p23
Suggests that God made people perfectly and that the bigotry of others should not affect a person's self-image.
- On Face-Work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction.
Goffman, Erving // Reflections; Spring2003, Vol. 4 Issue 3, p7
Analyzes ritual elements in social interaction. Combined effect of the rule of self-respect and the rule of considerateness; Definition of face-work in social interaction; Ritual roles of the self; Nature of the ritual order.
Taylor, Susan L. // Essence (Essence); Aug2001, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p103
Provides information on how to lift one's self-esteem. How to accept reality; Importance of trusting oneself; Setting parameters in relationships.
- When Self-Esteem Runs Amok.
Glennon, Will // Daughters; Jul/Aug2002, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p16
Focuses on the importance of instilling compassion and wisdom to children. Effect of self-esteem focus on emotional imbalance; Tendency of over confident daughters to be manipulative; Manifestation of an emotional imbalance person.
Thompson, Neil // Community Care; 1/17/2002, Issue 1405, p49
Focuses on 'Self-Esteem: The Costs and Causes of Low Self-Worth,' a report by Nicholas Emler. Association of low self-esteem with adolescent eating disorders; Assumptions about self-esteem validated by the report; Benefits of the report.
- Applause for 'flaws'.
Purcell, Lauren; Fennessey, Donna // Self; Jan2003, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p90
Relates the struggles of women on accepting body imperfections. Effect of physical flaws on self-esteem; Ways on covering physical imperfections; Importance of self-love on achieving happiness.
- Putting Self-Esteem First.
Curtin, Joseph L. // Training & Development Journal; Oct88, Vol. 42 Issue 10, p41
Characterizes an effective organizational leader. Leader's various levels of security; Elements of an empowering style of leadership; Importance of self-esteem in leadership.
- The costs and causes of low self-esteem.
Emler, Nicholas // Youth Studies Australia; Sep2002, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p45
Discusses several issues concerning low self-esteem among students. Background on self-esteem; Consequences of differing levels of self-esteem; Causes; Interventions. INSET: XTRA.
- The importance of showing you care.
Robinson, Carla // Windspeaker; Jul2000, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p30
Relates the experiences of a Native woman in Canada. Participation in a self-esteem class; Need to accept responsibility; Defending of rights and dignity.
- Self-Esteem and Adjustment in Early Adolescence: A Social-Contextual Perspective.
DuBois, David L.; Bull, Catherine A. // Journal of Youth & Adolescence; Oct98, Vol. 27 Issue 5, p557
Investigates the adaptive correlates of social-contextual incongruity in factors contributing to the development and maintenance of self-esteem among early adolescence. Descriptive views of the self; Standards for self evaluation; Regressions examining the relation of measures of global...
- Preface.
DuBois, David L.; Bull, Catherine A. // Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing Down of America's Kids in the ; 2000, pix
A preface to the book "The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing-Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem" by Maureen Stout, Ph.D. is presented.
- Notes.
DuBois, David L.; Bull, Catherine A. // Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing Down of America's Kids in the ; 2000, p283
References for the book "The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing-Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem" by Maureen Stout, Ph.D. are presented.
- Teacher self-esteem.
Le Cornu, Rosie // Primary Educator; 1999, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p2
Focuses on self-esteem in teachers. Definition of self-esteem; Importance of self-esteem in teachers; Activities undertaken by teachers with high self-esteem; Strategies for boosting the self-esteem of teachers.
- Developing self-esteem through building on skills.
Dolley, Janice // Adults Learning; Jun95, Vol. 6 Issue 10, p293
Focuses on a community learning project in Great Britain that develops self-esteem among people through building on skills. Encouragement of volunteers to identify skills that they can adapt to meet challenges and change; Offer of an approach to personal skills development; Background on the...
Miller, Shirley M.; Ginsburg, Harvey J.; Rogow, Sharon G. // Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal; 1981, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p211
Sixty-four fourth-grade children were given 20 tokens for drawing a picture. They then had the option of donating any or alt of the tokens to either "needy children" or for "a class prize." Any remaining tokens could be exchanged for various prizes. The teacher of each child completed the...
- Susan's note.
Schulz, Susan // Cosmo Girl; Feb2007, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p14
The article presents information on a public service announcement writing contest about self-esteem spearheaded by television personality Mariska Hargitay.
- The evidence mounts that self-esteem is the educator's self-deception.
Byfield, Ted // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine; 12/16/96, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p44
Opinion. Discusses the quality of education in Canada as compared to the rest of the world. The third international study on math and science teaching, and what it revealed about schools in Asia; The author's contention that Canadian educators have destroyed one of the world's best education...
- Early Acceleration of Mathematics Students and its Effect on Growth in Self-esteem: A Longitudinal Study.
Ma, Xin // International Review of Education / Internationale Zeitschrift f; Nov2002, Vol. 48 Issue 6, p443
The Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY) database was employed to examine the educational practice of early acceleration of students of mathematics on the development of their self-esteem across the entire secondary grade levels. Students were classified into three different academic...
- The makeup-less makeover.
James, Kat // Better Nutrition; Oct2002, Vol. 64 Issue 10, p32
Relates an experience of having suffered with binge-purge behavior in New York City. Cause of frustration and loss of self-esteem; Factors contributing the bulimia disorder; Transformation from unhealthy food practices and self-recovery.
- The Pay-for-Performance Dilemma.
Meyer, Herbert H. // Organizational Dynamics; Winter75, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p39
Examines the merit pay or 'pay-for-performance' compensation for employees. Effectiveness of the theory; Effect of 'pay-for-performance' on self-esteem; Disadvantages of the reward theory.
- Depression, self-esteem, and complex attributions for life problems.
Flett, Gordon L.; Blankstein, Kirk R. // Current Psychology; Fall94, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p263
Focuses on the relationship between depression, self-esteem, and complex attributions for life problems. Depression and attributional complexity; Depression and complex attributions for personal events.
- Collective Self-Esteem, Personal Self-Esteem, and Collective Efficacy in In-group and Outgroup Evaluations.
De Cremer, David; Oosterwegel, Annerieke // Current Psychology; Winter99/2000, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p326
In assessing the relationship between self-esteem and in-group/outgroup evaluations, this study examined whether self-esteem is better measured at a collective (collective self-esteem [CSE]) than a personal level (personal self-esteem [PSE]). It was expected that subjects high in CSE would...
- Abandon Obsession with Self-Esteem.
Itzkowitz, Kenneth // Educational Leadership; Dec91/Jan92, Vol. 49 Issue 4, p91
Presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "Sorting Out the Self-Esteem Controversy," by James A. Beane in the September 1991 issue of "Educational Leadership."
- Reply: Score Wars Not the Point.
Beane, James A. // Educational Leadership; Dec91/Jan92, Vol. 49 Issue 4, p91
Presents a response by James A. Beane to a letter to the editor about his article "Sorting Out the Self-Esteem Controversy" in the September 1991 issue of "Educational Leadership."
- How much is the life of one human being worth?
Demarco, Donald // Our Sunday Visitor; 1/1/2012, Vol. 100 Issue 36, p19
The article presents a story wherein a 58-year-old childless widow who suffers from loneliness and low self-esteem submits herself for appraisal during the filming of an episode of "Antiques Roadshow" television show.
- Parental marital status and self-esteem of boys and girls.
Durm, Mary W.; Giddens, Angela // Psychological Reports; Aug97, Vol. 81 Issue 1, p125
Investigates the effects of parental status and sex on the self-esteem of children, focusing on self-esteem between boys and girls from divorce families as compared with families who are together. Methodology used in the investigation.
SELIGMAN, DANIEL; DAVIS, JOYCE E. // Fortune; 4/29/1996, Vol. 133 Issue 8, p211
Discusses a report, published in `Psychological Review,' that correlates high self-esteem with violent, agressive behavior. The report, entitled `Relation of Threatened Egotism to Violence and Aggression'; The finding that people who are violent tend to have high self-esteem; How a challenge to...
- You're worth something.
SELIGMAN, DANIEL; DAVIS, JOYCE E. // Christian Science Monitor; 2/11/97, Vol. 89 Issue 53, p17
Presents a spiritual perspective that focuses on the self-worth of an individual. Reason every individual is important; Explanation of God's love for every individual; What it means to know that you are valued by God.
- Why not the best? There is no excuse.
Hetrick, Bruce // Indianapolis Business Journal; 1/29/2001, Vol. 21 Issue 47, p19
Opines that striving for one's best is a great way to build self-esteem. Need to meet one's capabilities; Frequent excuses for delivering something less; Use of this kind of attitude in one's daily life.
- Love yourself and live longer.
Hopkins, Tracy E. // Heart & Soul; Jul/Aug98, Issue 28, p81
Discusses the physiological effects of having high self-esteem. How to have a high self-esteem.
- Fire the Judge!
Taylor, Susan L. // Essence (Essence); Jul2000, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p105
Presents a scenario of how a Black woman overcome her self-punishing attitude. Importance of developing one's inherent confidence and motivation; How to live with passion and freedom; Significance of self-assessment.


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Researchers at the Medical University Innsbruck in Austria have demonstrated that caffeine boosts short-term working memory.
"We were able to show that caffeine modulates a higher brain function through its effects on distinct areas of the brain," said the paper's lead author, Florian Koppelstatter, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Koppelstatter and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging to determine the effects of caffeine consumption on brain activation in a network of modules subserving short-term memory of 15 healthy adult volunteers during a working memory task.
Working memory represents the kind of brain activity required to remember things for a short period of time, according to Dr. Koppelstatter, "like looking up a telephone number in the phone book and storing the number until you've dialed it".
The volunteers were shown a sequence of simple images (the letters A, B, C or D) and then asked if an image was the same as the one shown two images earlier. The volunteers were instructed to respond as quickly as possible using the right index finger for "yes" and the left index finger for "no."
The task was performed after a 12-hour period of no caffeine and a four-hour period of no nicotine exposure.
After receiving 100 milligrams of caffeine (approximately the amount in two cups of coffee), the fMRI showed increased activity in brain regions located in the frontal lobe, where a part of the working memory network is located, and the anterior cingulum, the part of the brain that controls attention.
"What is exciting is that by means of fMRI we are able to see that caffeine exerts increases in neuronal activity in distinct parts of the brain going along with changes in behavior," Dr. Koppelstatter said.
Caffeine is currently the most widely used stimulant in the world, and is mainly found in coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate. Daily caffeine consumption per person averages 76 mg (equivalent to 1 1/2 cups of coffee) worldwide and 238 mg (more than 4 1/2 cups of coffee) in the United States.
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Friday Night Cocktail: the Ginger Scald
(Yes, my work table is dirty. How good of you to notice.)
I lost the morning to running errands (Halloween candy–a must: we live on the town common, and they quite literally bus kids in to trick-or-treat. Last year, the town provided socialized candy, but none has shown up yet this year!–dinner necessities, hurricane necessities–gas the car!–and a bottle of rye.)
And some ginger liqueur, which made me have a nerdy romantic I-miss-my-boyfriend moment and brought me to the realization that really, I could have two cocktails on this particular Friday. If I were good.
Later on, I'm planning a Scofflaw (for serious after-work alcohol content. Here's David Lebovitz's post on them.) But for right now, because I am a nerd and found a new ginger liqueur today, I have made my own attempt at a recipe from my boyfriend's fictional city of Camorr, the Ginger Scald. (Food Through The Pages has an awesome version here.)
As FTTP quotes Scott's book:
Conte moved adroitly to fill this request, first selecting a tall crystal wine flute, into which he poured two fingers of purest Camorri ginger oil, the color of scorched cinnamon. To this he added a sizable splash of milky pear brandy, followed by a transparent heavy liquor called ajento, which was actually a cooking wine flavored with radishes. When this cocktail was mixed, Conte wrapped a wet towel around the fingers of his left hand and reached for a covered brazier smoldering to the side of the liquor cabinet. He withdrew a slender metal rod, glowing orange-red at the tip, and plunged it into the cocktail; there was an audible hiss and a small puff of spicy steam. Once the rod was stanched, Conte stirred the drink briskly and precisely three times, then presented it to Locke on a thin silver tray."
-The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch
As you can see, this presents some issues. Ginger oil and radish-based cooking wine are not thick on the ground in our world… so, as others before me and in the grand tradition of recreating Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters… I made a few substitutions.
Mine is:
1 part sweet vermouth
2 parts King's Ginger liqueur (you could use Canton de Ginger, but it's not as gingery and is sweeter. Or ginger brandy, if you can find one that does not taste like toes.)
2 parts pear liqueur. (You could also use pear brandy, and add simple syrup–or ginger syrup, as FTTP does.)
And then, because I'm not as awesome as FTTP, I dumped it all in a teacup, shaved a little fresh ginger over it, and popped it in the microwave for thirty seconds. While it was warming, I cut a fancy fan slice off a radish, put THAT in a wine glass, and poured the eventual cocktail over it.
It's quite tasty.
Might need a drop or two of lemon juice to round it out, though. The vermouth gives it a lovely cinnamony color, however, as promised in the text. (ETA: I added a few drops of lime juice, having a cut lime lying around–as one does–and that perked it right up.)
In other news, tea today: jasmine green
Teacup today: ridiculously awesome phoenix cup
And now, if I can write 2700 words, I (a) get another cocktail and (b) will have my 10K for the week, meaning I can either take the weekend off or try to get ahead of the storm, since we might lose power.
Work when you don't have to work is almost no work at all.
Posted: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 6:16 pm
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(a) Every journey have an ending
Reaching at the goal gives a real pleasure
But comming back from journey with a success
Becomes a good memory for the life time.
I pray for your everlasting memory!
(b) Happy journey my dear my love my chocoholic my coco
Don't miss me on your journey otherwise you may come back without completing your journey.
But also don't dare to miss me :-)
(c) Let me pray for a safe and sound journey for you
I hope this journey will give you a peace of mind and rest of soul if you dare to complete this journey without missing me :-)
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
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SUWANEE -- A Bible study that began in a football locker room, when fans hummed in the background during summer months, and players and coaches flowed in and out, has found a home.
The weekly, student-led study, which North Gwinnett High community coach Mike O'Rouke noticed two seasons ago, is in its second season meeting at Level Creek United Methodist Church on Monday evenings after football practice. The study comes after a meal, usually chili or barbecue, is led by a player who reads scripture and delivers a message -- regularly making a connection with a recent football game -- and takes prayer requests.
It's made up of mostly football players, but managers, trainers and other students have also attended.
"You're looking for fellowship, and there are probably some folks who are unchurched and it's probably a comfortable way to experience church," O'Rouke said.
O'Rouke, who coaches special teams and is a member of the church, said when he saw the players meeting in the locker room, he figured they needed a more suitable location. So the church offered its Family Life Center, and the combination of a good meal and hungry teenagers is unquestioned.
"It's hard to do it in a locker room, people moving around, a lot of noise," O'Rouke said. "It's hard to get any kind of continuity going. With the church being here, it made perfect sense. So we started hosting it over here. They're starving to death after practice, so we figured out a way to feed them and have fellowship at the same time."
On Monday, there were three types of chili provided by players' parents, coaches' wives or church members, and the message was delivered by sophomore defensive end Anree Saint-Amour.
Saint-Amour read from John 8, which is about a woman caught in the act of adultery, and how Jesus responds to the situation.
"Jesus stooped down to her level to save her," Saint-Amour said. "It's basically representing our lives, and how Jesus came down from heaven to die for us to save us from sin, and how he told her to go out and not sin anymore."
Saint-Amour and teammate Trevor Bramblett typically lead the study each week. In previous seasons, players like Ryan Humphries, Scotty Hosch and Saint-Amour's older brother, Manrey, have organized and led the study.
"My brother started speaking first, but I feel like God called me to speak to the team and they need someone to speak for a Bible study," Anree Saint-Amour said. "It helps them get a better personal relationship with God. Some people, their parents don't go to church, and they need to learn about the Bible, but they learn about it on their own, or don't understand, and that it could change their lives in a good way."
Level Creek senior pastor Jeremy Lawson said the church for several years had looked for ways it could connect around Suwanee and the community, but, "also the thing that that's a stone's throw away from us," referring to North Gwinnett High School.
"We're a presence for them and love them," Lawson said of the football players, and that the church is trying to be a place they could be comfortable in.
While the average week has about 20 people, the first meeting this season saw 33 attend, and Lawson said one study last year had 42 people.
"They're not normal high school students; they're the size of a Mack truck and they took up our entire family life center," Lawson said. "I wanted to let them know how glad we are to host them. It was an epiphany to me of how we really captured a need. It was a hand-and-glove fit and it worked very well."
The impact of the study has been seen in its growth, but also among individuals. O'Rouke said one player attended a study for the first time, but by the next meeting, he had read most of the New Testament.
"That's a person, I don't know if he's going to church, but he decided because of this to delve a little deeper and find out what they're talking about," O'Rouke said.
O'Rouke and Saint-Amour said they're unaware of other teams or schools having a Bible study like North's, but it's common that a local church would host a pregame meal on Friday nights.
Lawson said he's aware of almost identical situations in other states being shut down, and examples in Gwinnett County that were met with resistance and didn't work out.
"I feel like I have yet to see any church that's done this," Lawson said. "It's the first one that's been as successful as I've seen. I know a lot of churches that would, unfortunately, be skeptical. Our church has been nothing but so thrilled to offer hospitality."
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1914 Giro d'Italia
6th edition: May 24 - June 7
Results, stages with running GC, photos and history
1913 Giro | 1919 Giro | Giro d'Italia Database | 1914 Giro Quick Facts | 1914 Giro d'Italia Final GC | Stage results with running GC | The Story of the 1914 Giro d'Italia|
3,162 km raced at an average speed of 23.37 km/hr.
81 starters and 8 classified finishers. Yes that's right, only 8 finishers
Since the Giro's origin in 1909, the General Classification had been calculated using points. The 1914 Giro GC was the first edition that used elapsed time to figure the standings and time has remained the basis of the Giro's standings ever since.
The 1914 Giro was without a doubt the hardest-ever Grand Tour. Only 8 riders were able to finish this staggeringly difficult race.
A planned 1915 edition was cancelled with Italy's entry into the war.
1914 Giro d'Italia Complete Final General Classification:
- Alfonso Calzolari (Stucchi): 135hr 17min 56sec
- Pierino Albini (Globo) @ 1hr 57min 26sec
- Luigi Lucotti (Maino) @ 2hr 4min 23sec
- Clemente Canepari (Stucchi) @ 3hr 1min 12sec
- Enrico Sala (independent) @ 3hr 59min 45sec
- Carlo Durando (Maino) @ 5hr 12min 22sec
- Ottavio Pratesi (Alcyon) @ 17hr 21min 8sec
- Umberto Ripamonti (aspirants, an unsponsored class) @ 17hr 21min 8sec
Highest placed independent rider: Enrico Sala
Winning team: Stucchi
1914 Giro stage results with running GC:
Stage 1: Sunday, May 24, Milano - Cuneo, 420 km
Ascents: La Serra, Sestriere
- Angelo Gremo: 17hr 13min 55sec. 24.37 km/hr
- Carlo Durando @ 13min 55sec
- Alfonso Calzolari s.t.
- Costante Girardengo @ 44min 20 sec
- Luigi Ganna @ 44min 21sec
- Enrico Sala @ 1hr 3min 22sec
- Carlo Oriani @ 1hr 7min 15sec
- Giovanni Cervi s.t.
- Lauro Bordin @ 1hr 14min 30sec
- Dario Beni @ 1hr 16min 21sec
GC after Stage 1:
Gremo leads, all riders with the same times and places as their stage finishes.
Stage 2: Tuesday, May 26, Cuneo - Lucca, 340 km
Ascents: La Bocchetta, Passo del Bracco
- Alfonso Calzolari: 14hr 26min 15sec. 23.8 km/hr
- Giuseppe Azzini @ 23min 45sec
- Constante Girardengo @ 30min 45sec
- Pierino Albini s.t.
- Enrico Sala @ 39min 33sec
- Rinaldo Spinelli @ 35min 22sec
- Ottavio Pratesi @ 44min 13sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 44min 35sec
- Sante Goi @ 57min 28sec
- Giovanni Gerbi @ 59m in 38sec
GC after Stage 2:
- Alfonso Calzolari: 31hr 54min 5sec (reflects 10-second penalty)
- Costante Girardengo @ 1hr 4min 7sec
- Enrico Sala @ 1hr 20min 0sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 1hr 47min 12sec
- Carlo Durando @ 1hr 48min 58sec
- Giuseppe Azzini @ 1hr 58min 11sec
- Ottavio Pratesi @ 2hr 1min 25sec
- Lauro Bordin @ 2hr 17min 36sec
- Pierino Albini @ 2hr 36min 18sec
- Giovanni Cassetta @ 2hr 47min 33sec
Stage 3: Thursday, May 28, Lucca - Roma, 430 km
Ascent: Perugia
- Costante Girardengo: 17hr 28min 55sec
- Carlo Durando @ 2min 2sec
- Carlo Oriani s.t.
- Pierino Albini s.t.
- Giuseppe Azzini s.t.
- Luigi Lucotti s.t.
- Alfonso Calzolari s.t.
- Clemente Canepari s.t.
- Enrico Sala @ 14min 53 sec
- Lauro Bordin @ 16min 50sec
GC after Stage 3:
- Alfonso Calzolari: 49hr 33min 1sec
- Costante Girardengo @ 55min 7sec
- Enrico Sala @ 1hr 33min 49sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 1hr 37min 11sec
- Carlo Durando @ 1hr 41min 57sec
- Giuseppe Azzini @ 1hr 47min 8sec
- Lauro Bordin @ 2hr 24min 25sec
- Pierino Albini @ 2hr 27min 18sec
- Carlo Oriani @ 2hr 45min 5sec
- Ottavio Pratesi @ 3hr 3min 29sec
Stage 4: Saturday, May 30, Roma - Avellino, 365 km
Ascents: Monte Bove, Avellino
- Giuseppe Azzini: 13hr 18min 23sec
- Pierino Albini @ 36min 18sec
- Eberardo Pavesi @ 43min 54sec
- Alfonso Clazolari s.t.
- Giovanni Gerbi @ 45min 16sec
- Carlo Oriani @ 49min 27sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 1hr 3min 50sec
- Lauro Bordin @ 1hr 19min 1sec
- Enrico Sala @ 1hr 20min 6sec
- Michele Robotti @ 1hr 33min 47sec
GC after Stage 4:
- Alfonso Calzolari: 63hr 35min 18sec
- Giuseppe Azzini @ 1hr 2min 15sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 1hr 57min 8sec
- Enrico Sala @ 2hr 12min 1sec
- Pierini Albini @ 2hr 19min 46sec
- Carlo Durando @ 2hr 36min 35sec
- Carlo Oriani @ 2hr 50min 38sec
- Costante Girardengo @ 3hr 9min 27sec
- Lauro Bordin @ 3hr 10min 32sec
- Ottavio Pratesi @ 5hr 4min 27sec
Stage 5: Monday, June 1, Avellino - Bari, 328 km
Ascents: Lo Scorzo, Pietrastretta, Serra dei Palmenti, Matera
- Giuseppe Azzini: 12hr 50min 27sec
- Alfonso Calzolari @ 1hr 3min 21sec
- Luigi Lucotti @ 1hr 32min 21sec
- Carlo Durando @ 1hr 49min 13sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 1hr 53min 38sec
- Rinaldo Spinelli @ 2hr 4min 7sec
- Pierino Albini @ 2hr 23min 58sec
- Alfredo Sivocci @ 2hr 23min 58sec
- Lauro Bordin @ 2hr 32min 28sec
- Giosue Lombardi @ 2hr 37min 52sec
GC after Stage 5:
- Giuseppe Azzini: 77hr 22min
- Alfonso Calzolari @ 89sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 2hr 45min 31sec
- Pierini Albini @ 3hr 21min 31sec
- Carlo Durando@ 3hr 22min 33sec
- Enrico Sala @ 4hr 2min 29sec
- Lauro Bordin @ 4hr 29min 54sec
- Luigi Lucotti @ 5hr 43min 17sec
- Carlo Oriani @ 6hr 1min 5sec
- Giosue Lombardi @ 7hr 48min 56sec
Stage 6: Wednesday, June 3, Bari - L'Aquila, 428 km
Ascents: Motta Montecorvino, Vinchiaturo, Rionero Sannitico, Cinquemiglia, Poggio Picenze
- Luigi Lucotti: 19hr 20min 47sec
- Carlo Durando @ 18min 59sec
- Alfonso Calzolari @ 34min 24sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 44min 30sec
- Ottavio Pratesi @ 1hr 12min 4sec
- Pierino Albini @ 2hr 12min 53sec
- Maggiore Albani @ 2hr 14min 21sec
- Giosue Lombardi @ 3hr 5min 34sec
- Enrico Sala @ 3hr 6min 3sec
- Eberardo Pavesi @ 3hr 8min 15sec
Durando, Calzolari and Canepari were penalized and relegated, but I do not know if these results reflects this.
GC after Stage 6:
- Alfonso Calzolari: 100hr 28min 39sec
- Pierino Albini @ 1hr 56min 31sec
- Luigi Lucotti @ 2hr 4min 26sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 2hr 56min 39sec
- Carlo Durando @ 3hr 7min 17sec
- Enrico Sala @ 3hr 59min 40sec
- Giosue Lombardi @ 7hr 15min 39sec
- Ottavio Pratesi @ 7hr 20min 58sec
- Alfredo Sivocci @ 8hr 35min 44sec
- Eberardo Pavesi @ 11hr 30min 24sec
Stage 7: Friday, June 5, L'Aquila - Lugo, 429 km
Ascents: Colle Croce, Ascoli Piceno
- Pierino Albini: 17hr 45min 47sec
- Luigi Lucotti s.t.
- Ottavio Pratesi s.t.
- Alfonso Calzolari s.t.
- Umberto Ripamonte s.t.
- Enrico Sala @ 3sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 41sec
- Carlo Durando @ 2hr 11min 18sec
GC after Stage 7:
- Alfonso Calzolari: 118hr 13min 32sec
- Pierino Albini @ 1hr 56min 20sec
- Luigi Lucotti @ 2hr 5min 15sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 2hr 58min 9sec
- Enrico Sala @ 4hr 22min
- Carlo Durando @ 4hr 23min 35sec
- Ottavio Pratesi @ 7hr 20min 47sec
- Umberto Ripamonte @ ?
8th and Final Stage: Sunday, June 7, Lugo - Milano
Ascent: Clusone
- Pierino Albini: 17hr 13min 0sec
- Clemente Canepari @ 1sec
- Carlo Durando s.t.
- Luigi Lucotti s.t.
- Ottavio Pratesi s.t.
- Clemente Canepari s.t.
- Enrico Sala @ 2sec
- Umberto Ripamonte @ 4sec
1914 Giro d'Italia Complete Final General Classification
The Story of the 1914 Giro d'Italia
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The Giro had so far calculated its General Classification by using points rather than elapsed time. But calculating a stage race by points has two disadvantages. First, it can lead to seemingly unjust results. Winners sometimes had longer elapsed times than lower placed racers. Second, scoring by points leads to dull racing. If a rider is five seconds or five minutes behind, it doesn't matter. Unconcerned about time, racers would check their efforts if a higher stage placing were unobtainable, saving their strength for another day. As the Tour had done in 1913, the Giro announced that their 1914 edition would be based on time. While neither race ever went back to using points system to calculate the General Classification, the Giro began a special points classification in 1966 with an eye to giving the sprinters something more than stage wins to race for.
The 1914 edition had eight stages, starting and ending in Milan. Even though there were just eight stages, this was a course of unbelievable brutality. At 3,170 kilometers, the average stage length was a torturous 396 kilometers. The shortest stage was the fifth, still 328 kilometers long.
This Giro had the longest stage in its history, the third: a trip from Lucca all the way down to Rome. Its 430 kilometers, along with the sixth and eighth stages, both 428 kilometers in length, were so long they required midnight starts, forcing the peloton to ride for long hours at night on roads that even by day were difficult to negotiate.
The team Atala sent was quite different from their dominating 1912 squad. There were two Frenchmen, Petit-Breton and Paul Duboc, and three Italians, of whom Rossignoli was the most accomplished. Finally and surprisingly, there was an Englishman, Frederick Henry Grubb.
Grubb won two silver cycling medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. He turned pro in 1914 and before the year was over decided that professional continental racing was not for him. Because English pro racers were not allowed to return to amateur racing, he retired and started building bicycles. Eventually his trademark was purchased by the now defunct Holdsworthy Company which sold "Freddie Grubb" branded bikes until the late 1970s.
None of the Atala riders finished the 1914 Giro.
Bianchi (Galetti, Oriani, Sivocci, Pavesi), Maino (Girardengo, Luigi Lucotti, Carlo Durando), Ganna (Santhià, Ganna, Corlaita, Angelo Gremo) and Stucchi (Beni, Alfonso Calzolari) were the most powerful teams. Gerbi was the sole rider on his eponymous Gerbi team.
Eighty-one riders left Milan for Cuneo at midnight, May 24. They faced 420 kilometers of racing in abominable conditions. For the second time in Giro history the race would go over the Sestriere Pass. By the time they reached Susa, west of Turin, they had been riding for 200 kilometers in the rain, and hence on muddy, difficult roads. Actually, it was more than rain. When they went through Turin the racers ran into a gale. The organizers allowed a brief neutralization of the race so the riders could change into dry and warmer clothes. As they climbed to Sestriere the rain turned to snow with a biting, cold wind that made this stage a race of almost endless suffering. Most of the riders were forced to walk their bikes at least part of the climb and by the time the leaders crested the pass they had been on the road for about twelve hours.
To make their torment complete, partisans of various riders scattered nails on the road.
Alfonso Calzolari on the Sestriere climb
Angelo Gremo was the first man into Cuneo. The next two riders, Carlos Durando and Alfonso Calzolari arrived nearly fourteen minutes later. Girardengo was next at over 44 minutes. The 37 finishers out of the 81 starters straggled in for hours. The final finisher, Mario Marangoni, took 7 hours more than Gremo's already stupefying 17 hours and 14 minutes. Petit-Breton was among the majority of the riders who abandoned that apocalyptic day.
The second stage, a comparatively short 340 kilometers from Cuneo to Lucca, was won in a commanding fashion by Alfonso Calzolari. Second place Giuseppe Azzini arrived almost 24 minutes later and Girardengo and Pierino Albini didn't show up at the finish line until 30 minutes 45 seconds had ticked by after Calzolari had taken the stage.
After two stages Calzolari was in charge. The General Classification stood thus:
1. Alfonso Calzolari
2. Costante Girardengo @ 1 hour 4 minutes 7 seconds
3. Enrico Sala @ 1 hour 20 minutes 1 second
For a rider with such extraordinary strength and endurance, the 27-year-old Calzolari's footprint on professional cycling is surprisingly small. Previous to this stage win, I can find only one other major victory, the 1913 Tour of Emilia.
The year's monster stages were perfect for record setting. Bianchi rider Lauro Bordin set the mark for the Giro's longest ever solo break, 350 kilometers of that giant Lucca–Rome stage. Girardengo was among those who eventually caught and passed Bordin.
The fifth stage was ridden over the primitive (even by the standards of the era) roads of Basilicata and Puglia. It was so difficult that even though the judges stayed at the finish until 12:45 AM, Pavesi, Gerbi, Girardengo and three others still racing hadn't finished the stage. Azzini won by an hour over Calzolari, becoming the leader with only 89 seconds separating him from Calzolari.
Making the riders' misery complete, throughout the race they were constantly tormented by pouring rain. Nearly every stage at some point was ridden under a torrent.
The riders were also victims of the poor state of the era's exercise physiology. Many of them suffered from knee and tendon problems caused by the seemingly endless stages ridden in the cold, and in those days soigneurs didn't have a clue about how to handle these troubles.
Of the untimed finishers from stage five, only Pavesi got his courage to the sticking point and showed up at the start line when the Giro resumed two days later. The sixth stage has the distinction of taking longer than any other Giro stage in history. Luigi Lucotti needed 19 hours 20 minutes 47 seconds to go from Bari to L'Aquila. Umberto Ripamonti, the twelfth and last finisher on that day took 22 hours 43 minutes 26 seconds to complete his personal calvary.
Azzini had to abandon. He mysteriously vanished during the stage and only after officials spent the night searching for him did they find him lying in a barn, feverish and suffering from a bad lung infection, no doubt caused by day upon day of racing in the cold rain.
Racing in the 1914 Giro. I don't know the rider's name nor the stage in this picture.
Even without Azzini's disappearance, the sixth stage would still be a strange one. Calzolari, Durando and Canepari received tows, presumably from cars, and were each penalized three hours. Calzolari's time advantage over the others after Azzini's withdrawal was so great that despite the penalty he was still the General Classification leader.
The final two stages of the 1914 death-ride didn't significantly change the standings except to further reduce the peloton to just eight riders.
Among the other records, the time difference of nearly two hours between first and second is the greatest of any Giro. With an average speed of only 23.371 kilometers per hour it was also the slowest-ever Giro and had the smallest finishing field, at eight. Like the 1912 team competition, this super-long stage experiment would never again be repeated. Desgrange had wanted his Tour de France to be so difficult that it would be almost impossible to finish. In 1914 the Giro came far closer to old Henri's ideal than his Tour ever did.
This sixth Giro is considered by cycle historians to have been the most difficult ever and several make a reasonable case, with which I can find no fault, that it was the hardest Grand Tour of all time. It also cemented the regional nature of the era's Giri as no foreigner had yet managed to even finish a Giro d'Italia.
Complete Final 1914 Giro d'Italia General Classification:
1. Alfonso Calzolari (Stucchi) 135 hours 17 minutes 56 seconds
2. Pierino Albini (Globo) @ 1 hour 57 minutes 26 seconds
3. Luigi Lucotti (Maino) @ 2 hours 4 minutes 23 seconds
4. Clemente Canepari (Stucchi) @ 3 hours 1 minute 12 seconds
5. Enrico Sala (independent) @ 3 hours 59 minutes 45 seconds
6. Carlo Durando (Maino) @ 5 hours 12 minutes 22 seconds
7. Ottavio Pratesi (Alcyon) @ 7 hours 20 minutes 58 seconds
8. Umberto Ripamonti (Aspirant) @ 17 hours 21 minutes 8 seconds
First place (Alfonso Calzolari) and fourth place (Clemente Canepari) in the 1914 Giro
1915. The 1914 Giro had ended June 7. On June 28, the same day the 1914 Tour de France began, Serbian secret agent Gavrilo Princip assassinated Austria-Hungary's Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This seemingly small event started the tragic series of mindless ultimatums between the great powers of Europe that catapulted the world into the first of the twentieth century's monumental tragedies. On August 3 Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium.
As northern Europe lost its mind and descended into competitive slaughter, Italy initially decided to remain neutral. She was allied to the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary) but because Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia was done without consulting Italy, the terms of the alliance were violated. Italy felt that since she didn't have a dog in this fight, she would stay out of it. This official policy matched the general feeling of the Italian populace.
But powerful elements within Italy, on both the right and the left, felt that Italy should join the conflict. Some believed that a greater Italian unity could be forged on the anvil of war. Others worried that by staying out of the war, Italy would miss picking up the inevitable spoils that would come to the war's winners. The far left hoped the war would trigger the long-sought workers' revolution.
La Gazzetta, sure that the war would not involve Italy, went ahead with planning a 3,000-kilometer 1915 Giro. In a profound change from previous editions, the organizers contemplated a fifteen-stage race with just two rest days. Instead of the existing schedule of a rest day between each stage, there would be a race each day with each stage averaging about 200 kilometers. The organizers hoped that daily racing would make their Giro more interesting. If this had come to pass in 1915, it would have represented a giant leap into the future, matching current racing's far greater emphasis on speed and power rather than simple, dogged endurance.
The Giro organizers were not alone in thinking this might improve the race. In the 1920s, Henri Pélissier, the mentally unbalanced but highly talented winner of the 1923 Tour as well as several Italian classics, argued that shortening the race routes and letting the riders show more than just a turn of speed near the end to thrill the crowds would improve the quality of the racing. During the long stages of the era the riders usually rode relatively slowly under an understood truce until the final hours, when the real racing would begin.
In the end the Giro opted for a more conventional eight-stage, 3,000-kilometer route.
As world events closed in on Italy, the Giro was ready to start. It assigned back numbers to the riders, giving number one to Petit-Breton, number seven to Ganna and fourteen to Calzolari.
The 1915 race was not to be. Behind the back of an Italian population largely indifferent or hostile to entry in the war, the Italian government entered the conflict on the side of the Allies on May 23, 1915. The French government lubricated Italy's move towards entering the hostilities with generous bribes to influential journalists including Benito Mussolini, the fiery editor of the socialist paper Avanti. The Giro was suspended until the war's end.
Under the terms of the secret Treaty of London, if Austria-Hungary were defeated, Italy would be awarded large amounts of Austro-Hungarian territory. The booty dangled before the Italian government was too attractive to resist.
Six hundred thousand Italians died in World War I, many of them from the south. As I noted earlier, 1913 Giro winner Oriani was among the fallen. Petit-Breton became a driver for the French army and was killed in an accident in 1917.
Italy didn't get all she wanted for betting on the right side of the war, but she was awarded what used to be called South Tyrol and is now named Trentino-Alto Adige. That is why the Stelvio Pass is entirely in Italy and not Austria. Before World War I the border was at the top of the pass. Italy was also given Istria but after the Second World War it became part of Yugoslavia.
After the war the Italian economy, no longer driven by war production, fell on hard times. In addition, the worsening conflict between the right and left became a destabilizing force. Newspaper editor Benito Mussolini was armed with a political and paramilitary organization called the Fasci di Combattimento (which would become the Fascists) and found that he could get more traction by appealing to the right. He trimmed his sails to catch the strongest political winds and his power grew.