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If you work in commercial portrait photography long enough a client is going to ask you to photograph a large employee portrait. Very few photographers get the opportunity to photograph large groups of a 100 or more people on location, so the information you might find on how to approach this will be all over the place. There is no magic bullet for shooting these type of images. It's going to come down to your ability. Large group photos are a logistical feat to put together, and a challenge because there are so many variables you and your client have to manage.
Here are the 3 of most important elements you should consider if you are ever tasked with a photographing a large group photo. First, logistics (where and how are you going to shoot the photo, how is the shoot going to flow from start to finish?). Second, weather conditions, most of the time clients want to shoot outside (on the day of the shoot how are the conditions going to affect your shoot, will it be hot, cold, windy…). And last are you good at directing people? (are you a vocal photographer and command attention?)
If you're lucky enough to have a reliable crew or an assistant that will make your equiptment logistics easier to manage. Set up and breaking down for situations like group photos is a challenge and a lot of work for one person, bring supportive help. Large group photography is overwhelming no matter what your skill level is. If you lack any technical or management experience it is going to show in your performance and final image. Having extra hands on deck who technically support you will ease your workload and stress.
Hot or cold, weather is going to affect your shoot. Weather will affect your equipment, how your photos look, and the people you are photographing. Most people don't like to stand out in the sun for long or be cold when they are standing around waiting. The key to avoiding long wait times is to be prepared to shoot when they arrive. Your photo should take no longer than 5-8 minutes to make. Your total focus should be on the alignment of the shot and controlling the expressions as much as possible so you don't make a photo full of "mean mugs," sad or mad faces.
Herding a hundred plus people into a space is a pretty difficult task because people are generally talking to each other and not paying attention to you. As the photographer you have command their attention. How you do that depends on you, but if you are shy, mono-toned, or reserved then photographing large groups is going to be a challenge for you.
In order to successfully photograph large groups on location you should have a firm understanding of lighting and your technical abilities, you should be good at planning and managing resources, and be a problem solver. You will need good people skills and patience. Interfacing with people onsite such as a facilities or maintenance personnel can be your best resource on a shoot when you need something done quickly, so be as friendly as you can. In addition to the latter, you should fully understand the conditions you are going to make the your photo in and how they might affect your outcomes.
A final thought:
Managing the movements of a large group of people can be frustrating especially if you don't have a lot of time to shoot the photo. That frustration can throw you off your game, and since the "shooting window" is so short your recovery from a mistake in this situation is almost non existent. As the photographer your job of recoding the image is actually a small and simple task and that how it should be. The hard part is the application and execution of what you plan to do. Don't leave anything to chance, try to anticipate as much as you can and you will be successful.
Keith B Dixon is a Professional Freelance Photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Keith is a Professional Freelance Photographer specializing in corporate event photography, executive portraits, and editorial assignment work in the health care, computer technology, biotech, and real estate. Keith's work regularly published in print ads, various magazines in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Nationally.
Keith's work can be viewed at www.keithbdixon.com and keithbdixon.net


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- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 cup seafood cocktail sauce
- 12 ounces frozen cooked salad shrimp, thawed
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 medium green pepper, chopped
- 1 small tomato, chopped
- 3 green onions with tops, sliced
- Assorted crackers
- In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, sour cream and mayonnaise until smooth.
- Spread mixture on a round 12-in. serving platter. Top with seafood sauce. Sprinkle with shrimp, mozzarella, green pepper, tomato and onions. Cover and refrigerate. Serve with crackers. Yield: 20 servings.
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childrens books
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cycle culture
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mountain biking
master index
tim dawson's articles
The Cycling Bibliography
The Race Aganist The Stasi, Herbie Sykes (2014)
Arum Press, Quarto 399 pp 9781781313084 £18.99
A gripping account of one man's cycle race across the cold war's battlefields
In The City Of Bikes, Pete Jordan (2013)
A compelling history of cycling in Amsterdam laced with the author's own decade in the city
Lost Lanes, Jack Thurston (2013)
An irresistibly evocative guide to cycle touring in southern England
The Bluffer's Guide To Cycling, Rob Ainsley (2013)
A diminutive novelty that's on the money
Made In England, Matthew Souter and Ricky Feather, photo Kayti Peschke (2012)
A lavish, coffee-table celebration of handbuilt bicycle manufacture
The Obree Way, Graeme Obree (undated, 2012)
Maximise Marketing 20cm x 30cm, 152pp £30
The maverick Scotsman shares his secrets
Pastoral Pedals, Pints and People, John Dennis (1990)
A Bishop surveys his East Anglian see by bike
Hellingen, A Road Cyclist's Guide To Belgium's Greatest Cycling Climbs, Simon Warren (2013)
The high points of the Low Countries - who knew?
Biking Through The Hoods, Paul F Pinsky (2010)
An engaging exploration of urban America
Consumed, Jonathan Budds (2012)
consumed-novel.com, Quarto 293 pp, £6.29 Kindle Version £2.63
A well-written and thought proking entertainment
Life And Other Punctures, Eleanor Bron (1978)
Sixties siren makes merry on a Moulton
Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure, Tim Burton (1985)
Revealed: a kiddie flick's role in the conspiracy to denigrate cycling
The Adventure Of The Solitary Cyclist, Arthur Conan Doyle (1903)
A frightened pedal-pusher is the beneficiary of Sherlock Holmes' forensic skills
Classic Cycle Routes Of Europe, Werner Müller-Schell (2012)
Routes guides based on the professional peloton's fixtures
Holywood Rides A Bike, Steven Rea (2012)
Tinsel town's talent take to two wheels
BMX Bandits, Brian Trencahrd-Smith (1983)
A children's bublegum caper film with two-wheeled action in nearly every frame
Bike! A Tribute To The World's Greatest Cycling Designers, ed Richard Moore and Daniel Benson (2012)
A stocking-filler to delight the MAMIL* in your life
A Day Out, Alan Bennett (1972)
Edwardian West Riding wheelers escape Halifax for the day in an enjoyable television drama
Merckx 525 (2012)
An extraordinarily lavish celebration of the Canibal
1957 Flying Scot, Rab Wilson and Ben Bryden (2012)
An evocation of the golden age of hand-built bikes in poetry and jazz
The Secret Race, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle (2012)
An explosive page-turner from the heart of the peloton
On My Own Two Wheels, Malachi O'Doherty (2012)
A northern Irish writer rediscovers his bicycle and recaptures his joie de vivre
The Unknown Cyclist, Bernard Saltzman (1989)
A bike ride to raise awareness of Aids is the backdrop for a film about one of the 1980s most tragic issues
Le Mistons, Francois Truffaut (1957)
A deeply affecting slice of adolescent life in 1950s Provence
Bicycle, Ugo Gattoni (2012)
A fold-out illustration that imagines a surrealist attack on London being met by an overwhelming throng of cyclists
The Kid With A Bike, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (2011)
Alternatly chaming and disturbing, this art-house film features a bike as the familiar metaphoric vehicle of youth and freedom
The Art Of Camping, Matthew De Abaitua (2011)
An entertaining medition on the history and meaning of sleeping out
The Full Cycle, Vin Denson with Adrian Bell (2008)
Adventures of a talented and likeable English sportsman who broke into the extraordinary world of professional Continental cycling
Cyclorama, Jim McGurn and Mick Allan (2012)
A lively mixed bag of bikes and features on cycling
Know The Game Cycling (1964)
A publishing phenomenon of yesteryear
Riis: Shades Of Light And Dark, Bjarne Riis (2012)
The doping Dane's plea in mitigation
Great Road Climbs Of The Pyrenees, Graham Fife (2008)
Lavish homage and cyclists' tour guide to the Aubisque, Marie Blanque, Tourmalet, Peysorade and much, much more
Great Road Climbs Of The Southern Alps, Graham Fife (2010)
De La Bonette, Ventoux, Izoard, Pra Loup and their envions rendered in lusturous detail
Great Road Climbs Of The Northern Alps, Graham Fife (2012)
A mountain worshipper's guide to the Télégraphe, Galibier, Gladon, Croix de Fer and Alpe d'Huez
The Story of the Giro d'Italia, volume 1, Bill and Carol McGann (2012)
A compelling year-by-year account of Italy's grand tour
The Story of the Giro d'Italia, volume 2, Bill and Carol McGann (2012)
A compelling year-by-year account of Italy's grand tour
It's All Downhill, David Ward (2011)
An enjoyable novel with based on a mass participation endurance cycle ride
Ten Poems About Bicycles (2011)
A small, but perfectly formed selection
Downhills Are Your Friends, Stuart Pickering (2012)
An aspirant MAMIL's guide to lycra, lactic acid and everything
Inside The Peloton, Nicolas Roche with Gerard Cromwell (2012)
Transworld Ireland 781848271104
382 pp plus index quarto £14.99
An honest, highly readable and extraordinarily detailed account of a career cyclist's life
Pedal Power, How Boris Failed London's Cyclists, Sonia Purnell (2012)
A meticulous demolition of any claim that Boris Johnson has on the cyclists' vote
The Natural Explorer, Tristan Gooley (2012)
An enthusiastic call to discover that which is around us that is best enjoyed in small bites
Merckx: Half Man Half Bike, William Fotheringham (2012)
An enjoyable biography of the greatest rider that is, nevertheless, not in quite the league of its subject
Greece on My Wheels. Edward Enfield (2003)
An affectionate and humorous account of a tour of the Peloponnese and the Ionian coast of mainland Greece by Harry Enfield's dad
How Cav Won The Green Jersey, Ned Boulting (2012)
A tv presenter's amusing backstage view of the 2011 Tour
Racing Through The Dark, David Millar (2011)
A star is brought down by blood boosters, and then races clean in pursuit of redemption
The Chainbreaker Bike Book, Shelly Lynn Jackson and Ethan Clark (2008)
A punks' guide to puncture repair and more
Travel, A Literary History, Peter Whitfield (2011)
How we learned of humanity's discovery of the globe, delivered in an illuminating dash
The Lost Cyclist,
David V Herlihy (2010)
The engaging account of a nineteenth century adventurer who did not return to tell his tale
Tomorrow We Ride, Jean Bobet (2008)
A warm and illuminating memoir by a rider with unique access to the European stars of the 1950s
Roads To The North,
Charles S Brooks (1928)
A ride through the length of England, that sparkles in the retelling despite record rainfall
Cycling Home From Sibera, Rob Lilwall ( (2010)
An enjoyable account of crossing the frozen wastes aided by the Lord above
Three Bent Links, Jon Wyatt (2011)
Three enjoyable short stories taking cyclists as their subjects
Moods Of Future Joys, Alastair Humphreys (2007)
A young man sets off in search of adventure and brings back an enjoyable book
Lone traveller. One woman, two wheels and the World. Anne Mustoe (1998)
A former headmistress' second round-the-world cycling tour undertaken when she was 61. An undoubted feat, but leisurely done over a five-year period
The Boy Who Biked The World, Alastair Humpherys (2011)
Travelogue for ten year olds - the enjoyable story how dreams of adventure turn into reality, one pedal stroke at a time
Raleigh, Tony Hadland (2011)
An excellent one-volume history of the company that had a reasonable claim to having been the world's biggest and best cycle manufacturer
One Man's Furrow, Reg Gammon (1990)
Webb and Bower 0863503292 176pp £15.95
A charming collection of paintings, drawing and writing much of it born of cycling
Fat Man On A Bicycle, Tom Vernon (1982)
Fontana 0006365299 paperback 350pp £1.95
A gastronome's entertaining progress through France
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, Karel Reisz (1960)
A gritty, compelling, 'kitchen sink' drama, featuring great bicycle factory footage
The Little Black Bottle, Gerry Moore (2011)
A lively account of one of cycling's most intriguing Victorian charecters
The Dancing Chain, Frank Berto (2010)
A technological and social history of the derailleaur that will entrance even techo-phobes
Cyclosportive, Chris Sidwells (2011)
Useful instruction for sportive newbies
Slaying The Badger, Richard Moore (2011)
Yellow Jersey 9780224082907 Paperback 296pp £12.99
A gripping account of the Tour's most extraordinary rivalry
Ride A Stage Of The Tour De France, Kristian Bauer (2011)
A practical guide to Tour climbs that is suffused with personal experience
Pedalare! Pedalare!, John Foot (2011)
A history of Italian cycling that is best enjoyed as a collection of essays
I Cycled Into The Arctic Circle, James Duthie (1957)
The moving account of a deaf mute's cycling tour through the Low Countries, Scandanavia to Lap Land
Escape Routes, Matt Carroll (2011)
Short cycle rides in England, seved up hipster-stylee
The Bicycle Book, Bella Bathurst (2011)
HarperPress 9780007305889 306pp Quarto £16.99
An entertaining collection of stories and reflections made all the more enjoyable by the deftness of the writing
Bicyle History - A Chronological Cycling History Of People, Races and Technology, James Witherell (2010)
Hours of entertainment from a cheery rattle-bag of cycling facts
Cyclepedia - A Tour Of Iconic Bicycle Designs, Michael Embacher (2011)
A fabulous compendium of bicycle designs masterfully photographed
Bicycles, Vintage People On Photo Postcards, Tom Phillips (2011)
A sepia-tinted journey into the age when Starley and Dunlop expanded everyman's horizons
Wheels Of Chance, HG Wells (1896)
Hoopdriver's quest for sun, sea and Sussex provides an illuminating entertainment
Bad Blood, Jeremy Whittle (2009)
The contamination of cycling's life blood, compellingly chronicled from the press enclosure
Winged Wheel, William Oakley (1977)
An insider's centenary history of the venerable club whose focus is committee meetings not club runs
On Roads, Joe Moran (2009)
An entertaining journey through the recent history of the UK's major roads
Life Cycles, Derek Frankowski and Ryan Gibb (2010)
A mountain bike film with stimulation for the soul as well as the adrenalin
The Unknown Tour De France, Les Woodland (2000)
The great race's backpages make an enjoyable read, even for Tour-book veterans
On Tour, Bradley Wiggins (2010)
Wiggo's 2010 Tour laid bare in words and pictures
Bicycle Technology, Rob van der Plas and Stuart Baird
The most enjoyable, accessible and comprehensive book on this subject in print
A Vagabond's Notebook, Kuklos (1908)
Our highways and byways a century ago by arguably Britain's most important cycling journalist
A Dog In A Hat, Joe Parkin (2008)
Drugs, deals and dissapointment in the late 1980s on the backroads of Flanders
Twelve Babies On A Bike, Dot May Dunn (2009)
A compelling memoire of life on a different kind of delivery bike in 1950s England
42 x 12 The Cult Of The Fixed, Patrick Potter (2010)
Hipsters on track bikes are given the coffee table treatment
Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook, Stephen Lord (2010)
An encyclopaedia of distance-touring wisdom that is as sound as it is savvy
My Road To Victory, Stephen Roche (1987)
A slight, but enjoyable celebration of a golden year
The Birth Of Dire, Frank Berto (2008)
An enjoyable and apparently definitive exploration of the mountain bike's paternity
They'll Never Catch You Now, Ralph Hurne (2007)
The randy roadman makes an ill-advised comeback
Chasing Legends, dir Jason Berry (2010)
A stunning feature length cinema documentary on the 2009 Tour
Major Taylor - second edition, Andrew Ritchie (2010)
A fabulously illustrated and enhanced edition of this biography of one of the most remarkable cyclists ever
Cyclopedia, William Fotheringham (2010)
From Abdu to Zimmerman and everything between
The Data Book, Noguchi (2010)
A treasure trove of design details
The Spring Classics, Phillippe Bouvet et at (2010)
A collection of pictures and essays celebrating cycling's great one-day races
The Kuklos Annual 1954, 1955 and 1956
A workaday compendium of annually updated information sold under the imprimatur of an estimable cycling writer
The Kuklos Papers, Fitzwater Wray (1927)
Collected pieces of journalism written between 1908 and 1927 by one of the most important cycling writers of his time
Bicycling 1874 A Textbook For Early Riders (1874 - republished 1970)
The manual for which WE Gladstone might have reached had he wished to apply pedaled propulsion to his premiership
Road Bike Maintainance, Guy Andrews (2007)
An excellent guide to maintaining racing bicycles of recent vintage
Lambada Country, Giles Whittell (1992)
An illuminating account of a ride from the Baltic to the Black sea as the red tide receded from eastern Europe
Bert Harris Of The Poly - A Cycling Legend, Dick Swann (1964)
A brief spin around the world of late Victorian velodromes in pursuit of one that that era's outstanding stars
It's All About The Bike, Robert Penn (2010)
An enjoyable spin through cycling history on the trail of the perfect bike
Cycling Touring Guides, Howard Briercliffe (1947 - 1950)
A series of guides to cycling in Britain from the baggy-shorts-and-saddlebags era
Lapize: Now There Was An Ace, Jean Bobet (2010)
A touching portrait of one of cycle racings pre-WW1 stars
Les Bikes Du Bois Rond, Gavin Turk (2010)
A jolly event-as-art piece in on bicycles around Essex and Suffolk
Bicycle, Helen Pidd (2010)
A newbies' guide to life on two wheels that is as fun as it is informative
Systematically And Mercilessly Realigning The World Of Cycling, Bike Snob NYC (2010)
The blogging sensation takes to paper with a heady shot of caustic comedy and common sense
We Were Young And Carefree, Laurent Fignon (2010)
An inteligent and poignant account of one of the 1980s most brilliantstars
100 Greatest Cycling Climbs, Simon Warren (2010)
A nicely executed gazetteer of tarmac ascents in the UK on which to perform pedalling heroics
The Peculiar Adventures Of Hector, Aardman animation (2007)
A stunning piece of animated story telling deployed as a children's road safety campaign
Only Mad Dogs And Englishwomen, Sarah Stinton (2010)
An enjoyable account of a young woman's solo LEJOG in 1997
Complete Medical Guide For Cyclists, Andy Pruitt (2006)
Just the prescription for wheeled worriers
In Pursuit Of Glory, Bradley Wiggins (2008)
A pedestrian account of a stellar career
Owd Tom, Albert Winstanley (1992)
A nicely illustrated celebration of cyclist that delivers a strong flavour of cycling in the 1920s and of the haunts of Lancashire cyclists of that era
Mark Beaumont speaker tour (2010)
Two epic rides recounted to make an entertaining evening out
Pilgrim's Road, Bettina Selby (1994)
Little Brown 0316906999 Quarto 212pp £16.99
An inspiring account of a spiritually enthused-pilgrimage undertaken in the early 90s
Map Addict, Mike Parker (2009)
British maps and their meanings entertainingly plotted across the contours of writer's own obsession with them
Britain By Bike, Jane Eastoe (2010)
Batsford 9781906388713 Octo 217pp £16.99
A 'celeb'-endorsed, tv-advertised, nostalgia-infused guide whose main appeal is a gift purchase
In Pursuit Of Stardom, Tony Hewson (2006)
Mousehold Press 1874739412 paperback 258pp £12.95
A joyous account of three Brits, an old ambulance and a lot of cycle races, that provides a dazzling insight in the Britain and France in the late 1950s
Cross Channel, Julian Barnes (1996)
A collection of short stories about Brits in France, one of which features a neophyte professional cyclist
The Joyous Wheel, James Arnold (1940)
A cycle-tourist's pen portraits of his excursions about rural Britain in the last glimmers of the pre-world war two sun
The CTC Guide To Family Cycling, Dan Joyce (2009)
James Pembrooke Publishing, 9780954817640 Full colour paperback 194pp £9.99
A sound and comprehensive distillation of everything needed to help a family pedal off
Blue River, Black Sea, Andrew Eames (2009)
The Danube from source to sea, largely by bike, recounted in a rewarding travelogue that is rich in historical contextualisation and cultural insight
The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie, Alan Bradley (2009)
A arch and enquiring girl entertainingly pedals around a mid-century Cotswoldian scene solving dastardly crimes old and new
Push Yourself Just A Little Bit More, Johnny Green (2005)
A gonzo account of the 2003 Tour recounted in rock n' roll patois in which the race and results take a back seat to a rollercoaster back-stage view of the event
Brompton Bicycle, David Henshaw (2009)
An epistle to commuting's magic key that does its subject proud
Olympic Gangster - the legend of José Beyaert, Matt Rendell (2009)
A footnote in cycling's history is the connective tissue for a thrilling panorama of twentieth-century Columbia
Custom Bicycles, Christine Elliot and David Jabolinka (2009)
Images Publishing 9781864703139 Quarto 240pp £35
A sumptuously photographed catalogue of39 contemporary custom builders who build every kind of bicycle, from workshops around the developed world
The Hungry Cyclist, Tom Kevill-Davies (2009)
Collins 139780007278848 Paperback 368pp £7.99
A ride in 2006-7 from New York, across the US, then through Mexico, Central and South America to Rio in search of culinary delights, entertainingly, sometimes gruesomely, recounted
Golden Days Awheel, Albert Winstanley (1991)
Owl Books 0951433393 Paperback 134pp £7.95
A second collection of spirited touring reminiscences that are a fireside delight
Too True, Blake Morrison (1998)
Granta Pulications 1 862072426 Paperback 237pp £7.99
A collection of pieces by one of the UK's most poetic writers - worth seeking out for the short story and the article about cycling
Tour Climbs, Chris Sidwells (2008)
Collins 9780007315215 Quarto 256pp £18.99
A useful catalogue of the Tours Cols that falters before the summit
Bikie, Charlie Woods (2001)
Mainstream 1 84018 422 1 paperback 186pp £9.99
An enjoyable memoir of racing cycling in west London in the 1950s, with some perceptive essays on more recent cycle culture
Early Bicycles, Philip Sumner ill. Alan Osbahr (1966)
Hugh Evelyn 45 UK shillings
An enormously attractive large format book of detailed plates showing a dozen early bicycles, accompanied by a good, short history of cycles up to the early years of the twentieth century
Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne (2009)
Faber and Faber 9780571241026 Octo 300pp £14.99
A collection of reflections on cycling in cities, including Berlin, Istanbul, London and New York that contains interesting points amid a level of slight detail that will frustrate all but die-hard fans
Lance Armstrong My Comeback, Elizabeth Kreutz (2009)
Yellow Jersey 9780224083157 Quarto £20
A photographic record of Armstrong's 2009 season, that provides a more compelling portrait of the Texan than any of his biographies
The Full English, Mike Carden (2007)
Bike Ride Books 9780955660207 paperback 224pp £8.99
An eighteen-day ride from Dorset to Northumbria undertaken in 2006, entertainingly recounted with a sense of humour that will appeal to some, but is sufficiently deft that those who don't enjoy bike-and-rider dialogues should not be put off
Need For The Bike, Paul Fournel (tran Allan Stoekl), (2003)
University of Nebraska Press 0 8032 6909 9 small paperback 150pp $15
A selection of 500 - 800 word reflections on the author's passion for pedalling that forms a poetic and magical journey in to the heart of a cyclist
The Ultimate Cycle Route Planner (2009)
Excellent Books 978 1 901464214 Fold out map £8.95
A map of the UK showing cycling routes at a scale that would work for route-planning and tour selection
Three Men On The Bummel, Jerome K Jerome (1900)
Chilvers 0754032175 paperback 313pp
A series of very humorous incidents featuring the triumvirate who first came to life in Three Men In A Boat - this time hung, very loosely, on a cycling holiday in Germany
Around The World On A Bicycle, Thomas Stevens (1885)
Century Hutchinson (1988 edition) 0 7126 1917 8 409pp £5.95
An account of the first globe-encircling cycle ride that is so lively and fresh that its vintage is quickly forgotten
Mick Gambling On Cycling, Mick Gambling (1981)
Forest Publishing Paperback 66pp
Humorous articles depicting the life of a provincial tester originally published in Cycling (Weekly) in the preceding sixteen years.
The Golden Wheels of Albert Winstanley, Albert Winstanley (1985)
Countryside Publications 0 86157 162 2 Octo 120 pp
A delicious collection of articles, mainly describing day rides in north Lancashire and the Lake District
Journey Home, Jim Willis (2000)
Haley's 1 884540 43 0 Paperback 150pp $14.95
The interior monologue of a Church minister on a ride from Florida to Massachusetts that starts promisingly but is waylaid by a more personal psycho-drama
Cycling Facts And Feats, Jeremy Evans (1996)
Guinness Publishing 0 85112 677 4 Octo 192 £13.99
A surprising treasure trove of information packaged as an adolescent gift book
The Moulton Bicycle, Tony Hadland (1981)
Tony Hadland 0 950743 1119 156pp £10
A very readable account of the development and production of one of the greatest pieces of cycle engineering
The Frank Patterson Picture Book, complied Jim Willis (1978)
Cyclists Touring Club Quarto 100pp
A collection of 130 of the black-and-white line illustrations of Britain's most celebrated cycling draughtsmen - originally published in the CTC magazine from 1925 until Patterson's death in 1952
Sit Down, Pedal, Pedal, Stop And Stand Up, Dave Gorman (2009)
A stand up comedy tour being undertaken by bicycle, taking in the UK's extreme compass points and visiting around 30 venues
Mark Beaumont, The Man Who Cycled The World (2009)
Bantam Press, 9780593062333 Octo 418pp £13.99
An engaging account of a record breaking circumnavigation of the globe covering 18,297 miles in 194 days during 2007 - 2008
By Bike To Budapest, Elizabeth Hilton (1996)
Minerva Press 1 85863 965 4 Paperback 231pp £9.99
A ride from Denmark to Budapest undertaken by a family of six - the four children being aged from around 10 to 16 during the summer of 1994. The ride was more of a success than the book - although it would provide a useful primer for anyone planning a long ride with children
England By Bicycle, Frederick Alderson (1974)
David and Charles 0 7153 6432 4 Octo 207pp £3.95
A description of a circumnavigation completed in the Spring of 1973 that while old fashioned in its scheme is surprisingly undated
Personal Best, Beryl Burton (1986)
Springfield Books 0 947655 12 3 Octo 182pp
The matter-of-fact autobiography of arguably Britain's greatest ever sportswoman
Fallen Angel - The Passion Of Fausto Coppi, William Fotheringham (2009)
Yellow Jersey 978022407476 Octo 283pp £16.99
A riveting biography that paints an engaging picture of post-war Italy and of the man considered by many to be the greatest racing cyclist of all time
Wide Eyed And Legless, Jeff Connor (1988)
Simon and Schuster 0 671 69937 7 paperback 212pp £5.95
A tabloid journalist travels with the only British team to enter the Tour de France in the past 40 years to provide a hilarious account of their disastrous participation in the 1987 event
Territorial Politics And Irish Cycling, Kevin Howard (2006)
Institute For British-Irish Studies 1649 0304 19pp
A fascinating pamphlet on the troubled story of the organisation of competitive cycling in Ireland
The Best Of Bicycling! ed Harley M Leete (1970)
Pocket Books 671 78534 6 paperback 465pp $1.95
Seventy eight articles culled from the US magazine Bicycling!'s late 1960s numbers that are as lively, fascinating and, horizon-expanding, as they were on original publication
Wonder Wheels, Eileen Sheridan (1956)
Nicholas Kaye Sexto 158pp
A charming, period piece of an autobiography by the dominant force in UK women's cycling during the early 1950s
Stamp Collecting For The Cyclist, Ronald F Sudbury (1981)
Harry Hayes Philatelic Study 0 905222 42 3 Octo 60pp
An illustrated catalogue of stamps issued between 1887 and 1979 that feature bicycles
Cycling Profile Road Book Of England (1919)
Cycling 7cm x 14cm 142pp
A pocket book providing distances, altitude profiles and notes on road surfaces, covering journeys between the principal destinations of the Kingdom
The Pop Up Tour De France, Pamela Pease (2009)
Paintbox Press 9780966943375 Folio 14pp $36
An imaginative introduction to the great race, with a sound text, and some fun - if not ground-breaking - paper engineering
The Bicycle - the complete BBC series, David Taylor (1990)
York Films
/BBC six programmes of 20 minutes £15.99
A well-made and insightful series of television programs on all aspects of cycling
Johnny Ginger's Last Ride, Tom Fremantle (2000)
Pan Books 0 333 37692 6 paperback 464pp £7.99
A surprisingly enjoyable and insightful account of a twenty-something journalist's solo ride from the UK to Australia in 1996
Cycling Country Lanes & Byways (Suffolk), Al Churcher (2008)
Goldeneye 1 85965 132 1 folds out to 70cm x 48cm (double sided) £5.99
An attractively produced return of 'the cyclists' favourite' scale of maps that has much to recommend it but can be struggle for some route finding
100 Years Of Bicycle Posters, Jack Rennert (1973)
Hart-Davis MacGibbon 0 246 107774 X Folio 112pp £2.75
A fabulous collection of colour reproductions of cycling posters, mainly from the early years of the twentieth century, with a perceptive introduction and notes on each plate
The Amber Trail, Natasha Scott-Stokes (1993)
Weidenfield and Nicholson 0 297 81306 4 Octo 199 pp £17.99
A ride from Gdansk to Thessaloniki in 1992, initially intended to recreate the ancient route on which amber was transported, but better for its descriptions of some of eastern Europe shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall
The Bicycle Wheel, Jobst Brandt (1981)
Acocet 0 9607236 4 1 Octo 150pp $10.95
A treatise, nearly as elegant as its subject, that guides readers through the physics and engineering of this remarkable invention
Sloane's Complete Book Of Bicycling, Eugene A Sloane (1970 - 1995)
Fireside 0 671 86075 0 Octo 429pp £9.99
An encyclopaedic guide to bicycle buying, maintenance and use. Aimed at the new rider, it is rich in sound wisdom, if a little wearing in its determination to be comprehensive
Twelve Wheels From Turkey, Anne Vardy (1988)
Marshall, Morgan and Scott 0 551 01776 7 paperback 196pp £2.99
Vardy, her husband and five pre-teen children cycle from Istanbul back to Blighty in the spring and summer of 1987, in a journey partially propelled by the family's ever-visible Christian faith
Its Not About The Bike, Lance Armstrong (2000)
Yellow Jersey Press 0 224 06086 4 Octo 275pp £17
A massively successful account of Armstrong's life up to his first Tour victory that is as skilfully tailored to the cancer community and general market, as it is unsatisfying to a cycle enthusiast
The Golden Age Of Handbuilt Bicycles, Jan Heine and Jean-Pierre Praderes (2009)
Rizzoli International Publications
978 0 8478 3094 7 Quarto 168pp $50
A sumptuous photographic history of French touring bicycles manufactured between 1930 and 1950 that recounts a little-known period of cycling history and celebrates two-wheeled engineering at its most delightful
A Place To Cycle, Rob Penn (2005)
Conran Octopus 1 84091 391 7 Quarto 160 pp £16.99
A lavishly illustrated catalogue of 25 suggested 'amazing cycle tours' around the world that is as potently inspiring as it is practically threadbare
A Bike Ride, Anne Mustoe (1991)
Virgin Books 1 85227 337 2 Octo 250pp £14.99
The author gives up her job as headmistress of a girls boarding schools and spends 1987 and 1988 cycling around the world. Following the route of Alexander the Great, this rewarding travelogue is steeped in her enthusiasm for the classics
A Wheel Within A Wheel, Frances E Willard (1895)
Fleming H Revel 1 55707 449 7 Paberback 75pp republished by Applewood Books
How a 53-year-old American suffragette learned to ride a bicycle against her own and societies expectations on the eve of the twentieth century
Its Not About The Tapas, Polly Evans (2003)
Bantam Books 0 553 81556 3 Paperback 301pp £6.99
An enjoyable account of a solo bicycle journey made around parts of Spain made (probably) in 2002. It would serve as a good primer to Spain but also have something for those who know the country well
Put Me Back On My Bike In Search Of Tom Simpson, William Fotheringham (2002)
Yellow Jersey Press 978 0224 08018 7 Paperback 254pp £8.99
An account of the life of the British star of 1960s cycling that raises the bar for cycling biography
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The thing with Homegrown Music Festival is, no two people are going to have the same experience. It's all like a giant Choose Your Own Adventure. No matter where you are, something seriously messed up is happening down the street. And that messed up thing is either more or less messed up than the thing you are already watching. You just have to keep your eye on the Tweets and trust your fellow festival goers to keep the hyperbole to a minimum.
A few things I didn't see last night that caused a lot of chatter:
A food fight at the David Moriera artist dialogue at the Duluth Art Institute. I'm told that, oddly enough, Jell-O has a particular not-so-awesome smell.
Mayor Don Ness covered Low accompanied by Tangier 57, then admitted that at least Sparhawk isn't in town to hear it. (Low=out of the country).
Apparently the thrash metal band Wolf Blood (Mike Messina, Mindy Johnson, Brian Wells and Jake Paulsrud, according to the HG Field Guide) inspired a mosh pit and director Walt Dizzo's Tweet: "Wolf Blood is a band handcrafted by Satan."
Let's remember that this is just Day 1, folks.
In addition to having a celebrity vocalist, the local space lounge band caused a bit of chatter when it dedicated the song "White Rabbit" to Last Place on Earth — while owner Jim Carlson was on site at Tycoons Alehouse. Aside from that, Chris Bacigalupo seemed to be channeling his inner David Byrne.
This band brought back fond memories of Haus Meeting, who always created something visually interesting while making a good sound. Red Mountain, which has ties to Chaperone Records, crammed seven people on stage — a mix of face paint, sequins, Captain Merrill Stubing and clapping. Anton Jimenez-Kloeckl was positioned at stage left and sang with a sort of Jim James sound while playing keyboard. At one point Gus Ekstrand came out from behind the drum kit to perform "Walk on the Wild Side," opening with some snaky Michael Hutchence moves.
I bet this band comes up with some super good ideas at about 3 a.m.
This straight-up rock band of Kyle Maclean, Bob Olson, Heather Dean and Scott Millis played a super loud, super rock-y set at Tycoons. It was the kind of music you hear screaming from the speakers of a hot rod at a stoplight on an awesome summer day.
Here is a little something on Three Song Sunday, who play today.
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The General Register Office in Roscommon is planning to update its website and to offer a new facility to allow photocopied entries to be emailed instead of having to post them out. Claire Santry has the full story at http://irish-genealogy-news.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/new-website-and-email-facilities-coming.html.
Let's hope that an online credit card facility is also introduced for payment....!
(With thanks to Claire Santry)
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My Scottish land and church records ebooks are available at http://www.gen-ebooks.com/unlock-the-past.html, whilst my next Pharos Scottish course, Scottish Research Online, starts Sep 4th - see http://pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
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There's no better way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series than to have two familiar hockey powers collide in the 2012 Canada-Russia Challenge, beginning Thursday in Yaroslavl, Russia.
The Canada-Russia Challenge will feature Canada and Russia's national junior programs meeting two times in Russia (Thursday and Friday) and twice more in Halifax, N.S., on Aug. 13-14. The event replaces Canada's national junior team summer development camp and will feature players from both sides who could be participating in the 2013 World Junior Championship in Ufa, Russia.
"I fully expect a Game 7-type of atmosphere," Team Canada coach Steve Spott told NHL.com. "Anytime you get these two countries together, especially when you consider the fact Russia beat Canada last year in Calgary and the year before in Buffalo [at the WJC], I think that there will be some motivation once the boys hit the ice for warmups."


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Feb. 26, 2005
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Chris Schlatter sank a 3-point field goal with approximately nine seconds left to give Washington State a 57-55 victory Saturday over Arizona State.
Thomas Kelati led Washington State (11-14, 6-10 Pac-10) with 15 points. Jeff Varem added 13 to help the Cougars snap a four-game losing streak.
Ike Diogu led Arizona State (18-11, 7-10 Pac-10) with 19 points, and Kevin Kruger had 13. The other Sun Devils starters combined for six points. Reserve Tyrone Jackson missed a short running jump shot that would have tied the game in the final seconds.
Washington State led 31-19 after a dominant performance in the first half.
But the Sun Devils improved their defensive intensity in the second half. With 6:09 left in the game, Diogu made a hook shot that gave the Sun Devils their first lead at 44-43.
Arizona State would have clinched a berth in the Pac-10 Tournament with a victory. Its only remaining regular-season game is next Saturday at home against the Pac-10 leader, No. 9 Arizona (24-4, 14-3 Pac-10).
The Cougars were winless in their previous seven games that had been decided by three points or less.
Saturday's game was Senior Day at Friel Court, the final home game for Washington State's five seniors. Kelati, Varem and Schlatter were the only seniors in uniform, since Shami Gill and Isaiah Simmons are out with season-ending injuries.


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DENVER - UTEP quarterback Rocky Perez, Rice linebacker Dan Dawson and Fresno State safety Terence Brown were named the offensive, defensive and special teams players of the week, respectively.
Perez, a senior from San Antonio, Texas (Holmes HS), completed 20-of-35 passes for a career-high 323 yards and two touchdowns and ran for two more scores in UTEPs 45-22 win at Nevada. The touchdown passes went for three and 43 yards. UTEP improved to 6-0 in the WAC, 7-2 overall.
Dawson, a junior from Bauxite, Ark. (Bauxite HS), picked off two passes against SMU to equal Rice's single-season record with seven interceptions on the year. Dawson returned the two interceptions for a school-record 113 yards including a 45-yard return for a touchdown. He also had five solo tackles in the game including one for a six-yard loss.
Brown, a senior from East Palo Alto, Calif. (Menlo-Atherton HS), blocked a field goal attempt that was returned by Dante Marsh 81 yards for a touchdown in Fresno States 45-27 win against Hawai'i. Brown also had two tackles on return coverage units.
Other offensive nominees included junior quarterback David Carr, Fresno State, senior running back James Fenderson, Hawaii, and senior running back Anthony Griffin, Rice.
On the defensive side, nominees included senior linebacker Trey Merkens, UTEP.
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After their vacation, they returned home to put their house on the market. Meanwhile, Watt continued giving flying instruction 25 hours a week, tracked Kanab real estate listings and regularly checked bestfriends.org, hoping to find a suitable job opening for Jason. Her soap opera earnings had enabled them to buy their first house, so they decided that he would be the main provider now. One day she noticed that Best Friends had an opening for a videographer and that a beautiful cedar house near Kanab, with commanding views of the desert, was for sale. She took this as a sign of what their future would look like. Jason, who'd studied filmmaking in college, applied for the position and was invited to Best Friends for a tryout. (The nonprofit requires many prospective employees, even previous volunteers, to work for two weeks at the job before it makes an offer.)
By July 2003, the pair were on the road to Utah with luggage piled on top of the car and their three dogs curled up in the backseat. "Jason and I turned to each other at one point and said, 'Are we mad?' " recalls Watt. The first week in Kanab, they took another big risk, putting down a chunk of their savings on the cedar house. With uncertain job prospects and two mortgage payments due (their New Jersey house still hadn't found a buyer), the situation looked perilous. "One of Best Friends' founders, a very sensible lady, asked me what we were going to do if Jason didn't get the job," Watt says. She had no answer and felt a stab of panic ("What if we're poor and homeless and it's all my fault?"). But having already made several career changes, she had faith in her internal compass. "Most people don't listen to their inner voice, but if you do, everything works out," she says.
The couple planned to live on Jason's new salary, but the amount hadn't been posted in the ad. When they discovered that if hired he would make only $37,000 (about a third of his voice-over earnings), Watt quickly applied for a volunteer-coordinator job at Dogtown, which paid $18,000. Her tryout went so well that after three days, Best Friends broke with protocol and signed her on. And at the end of his audition, Jason became the sanctuary's first official videographer.
With two mortgages draining their savings, however, their salaries weren't enough to live on. Eight months after the move and down to $300 in their checking account, the couple had a huge fight. "I believed we'd ride out the situation," says Watt, "but he saw my confidence as nonchalance, and that set him off." Jason moved into the guest room.
The turnaround came soon after the blowup, when the New Jersey house finally sold and Jason fell in love—with a feral Chihuahua. "Chaco came from a terrible animal-hoarding situation, a person who had more than 250 dogs," says Watt. "When we adopted him, he became Jason's best buddy."
With the couple's debt reduced and marital harmony restored, Watt reveled in her new job. Over the next few years, her position expanded, and she's now the coordinator of volunteer groups and interns for the entire sanctuary—Piggy Paradise, Horse Haven, Cat World, the bird and rabbit areas. Dozens of people help at Best Friends every day, most of them out-of-towners on volunteer vacations, and Watt matches their interests with work that has to be done, like taking 140-pound potbellied pigs for their morning walk and cleaning the rabbit hutches.
In 2005 she was part of Best Friends' Hurricane Katrina response team, which rescued 6,000 animals, mostly pets (including one emu) trapped in flooded homes and backyards. While Jason worked on logistics from the Kanab headquarters, Watt was deployed along with about 20 others to a rescue facility in Mississippi. "I spent seven months living in a trailer, being eaten alive by bugs, but when you save animals, there is no feeling like it in the world," she says. "Every night around midnight, a big truck would arrive from New Orleans full of dogs. We'd unload them, get them set up for the night and, in the morning, process them through a makeshift clinic for vaccinations and medical care."


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You are wearing all my clothes,
and you look better in them.
Your belly button is
as big as the world,
or an apple.
And it is crying.
You have cardboard boxes on your floor,
with vintage dresses, white ribbons, &
black sequins, dirty clothes from when
you used to live an island life. We
watch the misty streets, realize they are
actually smoky, look up at the pale pink
sky, the faded neon red circle sun. Your
eyes are perfect circles, too, and you sweat
rainbow colors in the cold.
Everything is holy.
You have a picture of Albert Einstein
on your wall and you sit, watching him,
and let vegetables ferment in your mouth.
Your yellow chair smells like India,
your skin smells like chai, and your
piano smells like blood.
You drink the juice of celery sticks
as big as the sky, wear a parsley crown, &
white flower necklaces. You eat the halves
of apples and bang on the piano. The
flesh around your neck is raw, your shoes
are plaid. Your carpet is covered in crayons,
and you pick little white things off your legs
during the day. Half the time you hallucinate
you have fingers. You make monkey noises in the
grass and in the flowers. Your hands turn clear
and green, your eyes turn to iridescent crystals,
your nails to actual nails. You are deaf because
there are pearls in your ears. You are blind
because you wear makeup. You are dumb because
you are dizzy because you never eat enough.
You are on a diet because you are sad.
You are in love because you are sad.
You have rainbow circles under your eyes
because you are sad.
You are sad because you are sad.
Bubbles land in a line on your back,
they stay there like leeches,
they flatten like tar spots,
they seep into your skin and tattoo
you permanently. There are oceans
under your fingernails, and sometimes
the tide is higher, sometimes it is
You experience mock hunger,
and the cows laugh at you.
You see Frida Kahlo in the
daylight, and cringe.
You can count how many books
you have by Ayn Rand until you
start throwing up.
You pull out single hairs at
a time, and eat them slowly
like some succulent dessert.
You sing the gospel.
You meet men online, text them
single words like: "no"
You decide to kill yourself.
You tie flower stems into a noose,
try to hang yourself.
You kick the chair from under your
feet, and end up sitting in the chair.
It's okay though, because you are a little
more dead now than you were before.
Flowers are dead too.
You feel guilty,
guilty enough
to try again.
and so are you.
Full Title: "Gandhi Was A Hardcore Motherfucker"
Full Title: "Gandhi Was A Hardcore Motherfucker"
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I keep reading this over and over. It's fascinating.
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Jeansonne has been a reporter in Newsday's sports department since 1970 and has covered 11 Olympic Games and
If, as anecdotal evidence suggests, athletes are bigger suckers for superstitions than the general public, 2013 could be a challenging year on the playing fields. Triskaidekaphobia, fear of the No. 13, looms.
For those suffering from this condition, there is the cautionary tale of Ralph Branca. Not quite two months before Branca was victimized by Bobby Thomson's storied "shot heard 'round the world" in the Brooklyn Dodgers' playoff loss to the New York Giants, Branca posed -- on Friday the 13th of July 1951 -- for a photo in his No. 13 jersey with a black cat.
Here's another one: In 1999, pitching for Seattle and Texas, Jeff Fassero -- wearing No. 13 -- compiled the worst earned run average (7.20) over a minimum 150 innings in the major leagues since 1937.
Whether 13, like the Mayan calendar, should be dismissed as a prediction of doom, appears obvious to many. Branca, after all, was a three-time All-Star during a solid 12-year career and ultimately stuck in the public consciousness for his historic tie to Thomson. (Branca briefly switched to No. 12 the season after Thomson's home run, then bravely went back to 13.) Fassero spent 16 seasons in the big leagues, earning more than $5 million in 1999 alone.
There continue to be modern-day worrywarts among us, relieved that 85 percent of the world's tallest buildings don't have a 13th floor (at least, don't call it the 13th floor), part of a culturally reinforced wisdom about tiptoeing around the number whenever possible. Formula One racing, for instance, does not use the No. 13 on its cars.
None of this is a surprise to Connecticut College professor of psychology Stuart Vyse, who currently is revising his 1997 book "Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition" for a Friday the 13th release in September. Superstitions, he said, are "a global thing."
Athletes, particularly baseball players, are especially susceptible, Vyse has found. Partly, he said, because of the "knife's edge" difference between their success and failure. "And there is a lot of waiting time in baseball. How do you fill that time when you're nervous, anxious about doing well?"
The answer is by indulging in such dotty routines and wearing so-called "rally caps," not stepping on baselines, not speaking to a pitcher in the midst of a no-hitter. In checking all the boxes to facilitate good luck, it therefore is not unusual to avoid No. 13.
Unless, of course, one applies the Wilt Chamberlain theory. Basketball's great big man, though his odd personal superstition was to wear a rubber band on his wrist, embraced uniform No. 13, arguing that by doing so, he was turning the bad luck on his opponents.
"Some people," Vyse said, "have a sort of buck-the-system, anti-authoritarian attitude in general, and it probably helps them be a success in life to do that. But the other thing is, the number is not unlucky, and there are people for whom it's a positive thing."
Vyse noted that singer Taylor Swift, born Dec. 13, writes "13" on her hand before performances. Branca said he wore 13 because he was one of 13 children. Because Dolphins Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino wore No. 13, a young Miami lad named Alex Rodriguez chose that number for his high school football uniform.
Though a No. 3 as a major-leaguer in Seattle and Texas, Rodriguez went back to 13 when he joined the Yankees in 2004 (and won two MVP awards after doing so) because No. 3 long ago had been assigned, for eternity, to Babe Ruth.
There are several theories regarding 13's bad-omen origin, including the unsubstantiated detail that Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th person to sit down to the Last Supper. To Vyse, the idea that any outcome could result from an association with a number is as illogical as former third baseman Wade Boggs "believing that eating chicken before a game improved his hitting.''
"If you say something like that makes you feel better, feel comforted, that's not a superstition," Vyse said. "But to actually believe in a cause-and-effect relationship is magical thinking. Of course, people very rarely call it a superstition if it's something they're doing.
"There is a community of skeptics, throughout the world, trying to defeat superstitions, and one way to do that is these Friday the 13th parties, where they go around smashing mirrors and walking under ladders" -- the first of which may have been initiated by Civil War veteran William Fowler in New York City in 1880.
Fowler, who graduated from P.S. 13 when he was 13, claimed to have been in 13 Civil War battles and later worked for an architectural firm that erected 13 public buildings in Lower Manhattan. He created the Thirteen Club, at which 13 prominent men attended the first meeting on Friday the 13th.
There was spilled salt throughout the room and guests all entered under ladders. None of that, according to published reports, prevented all from having a good time.
Just as wearing No. 13 hardly cut into the on-field performance of such sports stars as point guard Steve Nash (though he has gone to No. 10 with the Lakers, who long ago retired Chamberlain's 13), former MVP quarterback Kurt Warner, former Super Bowl Jet Don Maynard, nine-time All-Star shortstop Dave Concepcion and Hall of Fame hockey player Mats Sundin.
Not to mention thoroughbreds Smarty Jones (2004), Forward Pass (1968) and Burgoo King (1932), each having started from post position 13 to win the Kentucky Derby on the way to sweeping the first two Triple Crown races.
Also, the first really exciting Super Bowl game, after a series of dull exercises in teams trying not to lose, was the 13th (Pittsburgh 35, Dallas 31).
Meanwhile, a Gallup / USA Today poll several years ago asked citizens if being given a hotel room on the 13th floor would make them uneasy.
Only 13 percent said yes.


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Foundational Studies include work in core subjects, namely math and language arts. A strong foundation in these areas is essential. The goal in this area is competence as this provides the ease necessary to apply these skills to other areas of study.
Investigative Studies include self-directed work and may take the form of student interaction with Montessori shelves, task card sets, or the use of work templates for older students. Investigative Studies allow students to engage directly and make meaningful connections with material within a prepared environment.
Relational Learning places a priority on communication and community within the learning environment. Relational learning objectives involve the development listening and speaking skills through vocabulary study and recitation. Relational learning objectives also cultivate the development of aesthetic awareness through the study of excellent literature, poetry, art, and music.
Task Card Approach: Benefits and Distinctives
At times I have been asked why the Task Card Approach is better than simply reading a book and asking a child to provide a narration or summary. I cannot say that it is always better, as we use that approach as well depending on the subject and season of life. There are, however, great benefits to using the Task Card Approach.
To understand these benefits several things are necessary. First, one needs to understand that completing the tasks on the cards provides a fundamental shift in how the student interacts with learning material. The tasks are research oriented. The topic must first be named and then remembered as it is sought within a variety of resources. This research process requires that students imprint the terms they are seeking into their mind numerous times. The impression that is made facilitates ownership and interest in the material. Active learning is not optional with this approach.
The learning environment used within the Task Card Approach is another thing to consider. This learning environment builds interests in the learning material creating eagerness to study within the students. The Task Cards require work, but it is the sort of work that fully engages student efforts. This increases their sense of ease in work as well as their sense of accomplishment.
Beyond this, the tasks are open ended. They allow students to read with their individual experience of discovery in mind. In this high tech era of instant information, it is easy to forget that there is meaning within the process of discovery. At times, interest will take over and send students in a new direction within the material. This is ideal and you can trust that I included many 'sneaky' rabbit trails within the tasks for the benefit of my own children.
Alongside this element of freedom and exploration is the inherent direction that comes from the arrangement and specificity built into the topics covered. The logical, topical, and/or chronological progression of the cards serve to reinforce the student's learning of standard content and vocabulary while your student interacts directly with the material in a way that balances freedom, exploration, and direction.
Other key elements of The Task Card Approach are the use of a prepared environment, a block of time set aside for their use, and acceptance of the student's work. The prepared environment is a space set aside to display the cards along with the books, supplemental materials, and supplies needed to complete the tasks. This could be a shelf, cupboard, or a cleaned out closet. (Pictures showing examples of a Prepared Environment for Task Card use are on display in the Gallery). The concept is to have everything necessary to complete the tasks prepared in advance. The Prepared Environment provides a space for students to enter and focus on their work and investigations. Even though I encourage Task Card families to attempt this, I understand that personalities are different and that the Task Cards are used in many ways. Some families prefer to use them when visiting the library while the younger children are attending story time. Others prefer to plan weekly. Let me encourage you to try to prepare the environment in as large a block as is possible for you as this provides the best environment for your student's interaction with the material.
In addition to a Prepared Environment, a block of time should be set aside for Task Card use. This would be something like Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00-2:00 or could be viewed more simply as 'an hour in the early afternoon.' We have frequently used a three hour morning block for our basic work. This includes: math, and language arts primarily, but also includes other subjects like Latin, music theory, or logic. A shorter afternoon block follows and includes our enrichment studies. These are: history, science, nature study, composers, and art done in rotation. Whatever you decide to do with your schedule, it is important to have a block of time set aside. Students enter their Task Card area and dig into the tasks. Mom can be nearby reading to younger children or tending other needs. If you find that the Task Card Approach is not working in your home, assess if your prepared the environment and evaluate your faithfulness to using a block of time as these are the keys to success with this approach.
Because one of the goals of the Task Card Approach is to engage the student directly with the material, their responses should be accepted 'as is.' This requires an element of trust in the learning process. At times, this can feel uncomfortable, especially for those who are coming from the paradigm of 'right or wrong.' The larger goal of facilitating a strong and interested learning process should be kept in mind.
That said, communicating a standard for work provides security for the child. I recommend large goals such as: read for detail, respond with detail, and do your work with care. If a child is struggling to meet your standards, ask them to evaluate their work in light of these three things daily. Increase the standard gradually. Focusing on one area of improvement at a time will bring greater success than trying to fix everything at once. Perhaps it would be good to ask for more care taken with spelling for one month and greater attention to detail in their sketches the next month. When the long view is kept in mind it is easy to see that four or five months of gradual increases in these areas will lead to improved focus, greater attention to detail, a high level of ownership in the process, and work that meets high standards.
The Task Card Approach is a champion of independent learning, but only so far as it is beneficial for our students. This approach creates students who know how to learn and engage with material in a meaningful way, but the context of their use is of equal importance. The Task Card sets are not intended to be used by students in isolation. Younger students will need a tutor or a group environment for completing the tasks. Emergent readers will need direction. Older students will need oversight, preferably after the work period is over. Gradually, this oversight is lengthened to the ideal of once per week. Even so, the teacher or parent are watching and being aware of areas where the standard needs to be raised. Other areas of school and home life should certainly champion the relational.
For most children, entering the prepared environment and sensing ownership of their work is a joyful and fulfilling experience. For Moms who are home schooling, the benefits of a fully prepared environment and work done independently and well can't be overstated.
Task Card Approach: Educational Philosophy
The Task Card Approach draws from the Classical, Charlotte Mason, and Montessori approaches to education and learning. An extensive discourse on each of these is not within the scope of this article. I would, however, like to provide you with a brief survey that shows how they relate to the Task Card Approach as well as a list of recommended reading. An understanding of the philosophy behind the Task Card Sets will optimize their use in your home.
Classical Education, for our purposes here, refers to the revitalization of classical education due to the work of Dorothy Sayers in her essay "The Lost Tools of Learning." In this essay she outlined and defined the three stages of the trivium – grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home is a work that translates the philosophy and methodology of classical education into a workable model for the modern home-school. The Task Card Approach supports the goals of grammar stage learning as outlined in these and similar works. The tasks on the cards present key vocabulary that will be encountered in future years of study. They are also organized by topic using a variation of the four year science and history cycles recommended in The Well Trained Mind.
Charlotte Mason's influence can also be seen in the tasks on these cards, especially in the areas of narration and habit formation. Her thoughts on narration as a means to teach a child to intentionally train his or her attention, to synthesize what has been read, to organize that material in his or her own mind, and to determine how to communicate these thoughts underscore the tasks that require a student to 'tell about' or 'summarize.' Her thoughts on the importance of habit formation are also supported by the Task Card Approach. She believed that a proper education included "the discipline of habits formed definitely and thoughtfully" and that habit training helped children take charge of their own education. She encouraged the development of a wide variety of good habits, but those of attention, neatness, and order are specifically supported by the Task Card Approach. Engaging books, often called living or twaddle-free books, can be used to form the foundation of study with all of the Task Card Sets.
A Montessori education includes three essential elements - independence, freedom within limits, and respect for each child's development. Students in a Montessori school are placed in mixed age classroom where they are given choices of activities within large blocks of time set aside for investigative work. This work is primarily discovery based and relies on specialized educational materials. Maria Montessori's philosophy and materials are readily adapted into the modern home school environment which naturally includes students of various ages. The prepared environment and independent learning appeals to Moms who are supervising several levels while tending to other needs within the home. The Task Card Approach supports many of Montessori's philosophies, but especially those of orientation to the environment, order, exploration, purposeful activity (work), communication, and exactness. The Task Card Approach relies on the use of a Prepared Environment within the home. This learning space is tailored to the size of the child, arranged to allow for freedom of movement, demonstrates beauty, reinforces a sense of order, and is limited to materials that support the child's development.
Purists may find that the Task Card Approach is not for them, but those who are comfortable with an eclectic approach will see how the Task Card Approach can be adapted to support a variety of specific educational paradigms. Those who want to emphasize Charlotte Mason's approach will naturally place their focus on living books and oral narrations. Those who want to build a Montessori atmosphere in their home will provide an extra shelf of self correcting materials from one of the Montessori educational catalogs. Families who want to build a grammar stage foundation that is rich in memory work will gravitate toward the tasks that ask for research, lists, and memorization. The ready-made cards and detailed Introduction pull the best of these approaches together in an engaging and practical way. The Task Card Approach has a level of malleability that allows it to go the distance in meeting your unique goals for your family.
Relational Learning: Overview
Recitation - Much has been written on the value of memory work and recitation, especially for children in the grammar stage. I want to touch on a few points as they relate to the Recitation and Enrichment Series.
An innovative tiered approach ensures that all grade levels are included and challenged while working together.
Enrichment - The Enrichment portion of this volume relies on the suggestions of Charlotte Mason. If you are unfamiliar with her work, I recommend spending time with her material. I'd like to share a few insights as they relate to the Recitation and Enrichment Series.
An innovative tiered approach allows all students to participate at their own level at the same time.
The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
The Well Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise
Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series by Charlotte Mason
A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison
What is Montessori? A Basic Guide to the Principles, Practices, and Benefits of a Montessori Education by Heather Pederson and Jason A. Pederson
The Joyful Child: for Birth to Three Years (Michael Olaf's Essential Montessori Series) by Susan Stephenson
Child of the World: Montessori for Ages 3-12+ (Michael Olaf's Essential Montessori Series) by Susan Stephenson


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Definitions of CONSTANT in dictionaries:
- noun - a quantity that does not vary
- noun - a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context
- adj - unvarying in nature
- adj - steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection
- adj - uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
- Continually occurring; persistent.
- Unchanging in nature, value, or extent; invariable.
- Steadfast in purpose, loyalty, or affection; faithful.
- Something that is unchanging or invariable.
- A quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context.
- An experimental or theoretical condition, factor, or quantity that does not vary or that is regarded as invariant in specified circumstances.
- noun - something that does not vary
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After months of planning for my daughter Jenesis's first birthday, the day finally arrived and here are the results. I found inspiration from all types of sources, but the biggest inspiration came from tomkatstudio.
The invitations are simple ladybugs made from black and red cardstock. I have seen them made before, but I added a circle of silver glitter, just to make it pop and black and white brads to add to the theme.
The dessert bar was my favorite to make. It had everything from candy coated pretzels, cherry sours to cupcakes. My sister and mother sent me my very first cake pop maker and boy was it fun to break in. The whole family enjoyed the fruit of this labor of love. Just to make sure we had something nutritious to eat, we had spaghetti and meatballs. To wash it all down, we served Bug Juice (grape and cherry Hawaiian Punch).
Decorations consisted of sewn crepe paper, balloons, tissue paper flowers and pictures of Jenesis from throughout the year.
The ladybug cake turned out well. Everyone was so full on cake pops, we didn't have space for cake also. It consists of a bottom sheet cake, square on top and ladybug made out of a pyrex bowl for the body and a small cup for the head. All layers were covered in fondant with accents of green leaves and red circles.
Gift bags consisted of a miniature greenhouse, a bug theme toy, ladybug bubbles and a bug themed necklace. Each child received a bag and had the opportunity to fill their bag with all the goodies from the dessert bar.
My husband and I did the photography and we are by no means professional. Whatever seemed pleasing to the eye, we snapped.
The paper goods was the most time consuming because I had never designed cupcake toppers or labels to that degree. After surfing and finding sites like this one, I decided to give it a try.
We played Pin the Dot on the Ladybug. Very fun game for all ages.
There was so much more I wanted to do with this party, but I am pleased with the way it came out.


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Dolphins list: Player rankings
It never hurts to know where you stand. We're nearly two weeks into Dolphins training camp, the first exhibition game is on the horizon, so this is a perfect opportunity to rank the Dolphins roster at each position. It's always wise to project who makes the cut before the pads start clinging, the yards start adding up, and the passes get dropped (or caught).
Quarterback – Josh McCown, Chad Henne, John Beck
How many kept: Likely three, and maybe an extra arm on the practice squad that will likely be found on the waiver wire.
Summary: Overall, McCown has been the steadiest, but he's not overwhelming the youngsters. Henne has shown the most upside, and was rewarded with three straight starts in practice this week. But can the rookie keep his momentum going? Beck, who had the slowest start, is the guy with the most to lose. However, he seems to be responding to his disappointing first week with an improved effort that might help him shed the nickname "checkdown."
Running backs – Ricky Williams, Ronnie Brown (second due to injury), Jalen Parmele, Patrick Cobbs, Lex Hilliard
How many kept: Likely four, with an extra tailback on the practice squad
Summary: The Dolphins still haven't torn off the bubble wrap that encases Brown, and it's smart that they are patient with his surgically repaired knee. Remember, Brown is probably this team's most talented player based on last season's early showing. Williams looks like his old self, but it'll be hard to tell how effective this aged runner will be till the hits are FOR REAL. Parmele is either real hot, or real cold. But that's to be expected from rookies. Cobbs is putting up an unbelievable FIGHT to make the 53-man roster even though THE odds are stacked against him. Hilliard's rarely noticeable, but he does run with POWER. Don't count out a waiver wire find getting a test run come late August.
Fullback – Boomer Grigsby, Reagan Mauia
How many kept: Likely one
Summary: Mauia struggles to catch passes, but he's the better lead blocker right now. This battle will likely come down to the top special teams contributor, and an educated guess says it'll be Grigsby. But this position might receive an upgrade from the waiver wire. The Dolphins want a fullback who will be effective in the I-formation.
Tight end – Anthony Fasano, David Martin, Sean Ryan, Justin Peelle, Matthew Mulligan
How many kept: Likely three
Summary: Fasano is distancing himself in this fixed race to become a starter. He's clearly the best double threat, and will contribute often as an H-back. Martin is the best pass catching option, but still needs work on his blocking. Peelle and Ryan are battling it out for the final spot, but Peelle recent knee injury set him back. Mulligan has stepped it up lately, but he's practice squad material, AT BEST.
Receiver – Derek Hagan, Ted Ginn Jr., Davone Bess, David Kircus, Greg Camarillo, Ernest Wilford, Selwyn Lymon, Jayson Foster, John Dunlap, Anthony Armstrong
How many kept: Likely five, with one or two on the practice squad
Summary: I CALL IT like I see them, and yes Wilford has looked like the Dolphins fifth best receiver in the practices I've witnessed. It's a bad sign when the traditionally inconsistent Derek Hagan has turned into your team's most consistent receiver. Not that Hagan can't turn over a new leaf, but this unit is going to be in TROUBLE if there isn't a talent upgrade. Wilford, a projected starter, has been invisible all training camp. And Ginn Jr. isn't far behind. Kircus represents the best deep threat, so he's close to locking up a spot on the 53-man roster if he doesn't tank it over the next month. Bess is a rookie worth developing, and it appears he's pushing Camarillo for the final spot. Everyone else is practice squad material. There will be plenty of decent receivers on the waiver wire in a month and the Dolphins will likely explore many of them, so NO ONE IS SAFE.
Offensive tackles – Vernon Carey, Jake Long, Daren Heerspink, Ikechuku Ndukwe
How many kept: Likely three, with maybe an extra one on the practice squad
Summary: Carey and Long are above average bookends who should help the running game churn out yards. Long's learning and growing each day, and getting better against the speedy pass rushers. By mid-season 2008's No. 1 pick should have adjusted to the speed of the pro game. Carey is in a contract year and based on what I've seen so far he's going to put up a break the bank season if he stays healthy. Depth behind the two starters is problematic. The Dolphins are in BIG trouble if Carey or Long suffer an injury.
Offensive guards – Justin Smiley, Donald Thomas, Trey Darilek, Shawn Murphy
How many kept: Likely four
Summary: Smiley and Thomas are better straight line blockers, which suites this team's running style. But which one of these bulls is going to be doing the pulling? That could be a problem. Darilek can play all five position on the offensive line, so his versatility makes him safe as long as he doesn't regress. Murphy needs a season to get stronger and improve his technique. He'll likely be given that time because it would be hard to envision the fourth-round pick being cut.
Centers – Samson Satele, Steve McKinney, Mike Byrne, Matt Spanos
How many kept: Likely two, maybe an extra one on the practice squad
Summary: Satele's a solid center, but is he Pro Bowl material? There is plenty of room for growth here. Considering he's the most athletic of the interior guys I'm assuming Satele will be the primary puller on running plays. McKinney can play guard and center, and that versatility is a plus. But he needs to show he's healthy and efficient during the exhibition season to stay employed. Byrne and Spanos are likely duking it out for a practice squad spot.
Defensive ends – Vonnie Holliday, Kendall Langford, Matt Roth, Phillip Merling, Rodrique Wright, Lionel Dotson
How many kept: Likely four
Summary: Holliday is the best of the bunch, and has looked dominant at times. Langford s rising fast, and has apparently unseated Roth for the starting spot he inherited. Merling is coming along a little slower than Langford for reasons discussed in this story, but he's still promising, and should learn a lot playing behind Holliday, who appears to have plenty left in the tank. Wright isn't getting many opportunities, and needs to do more to survive the turk. Dotson, the seventh-round draft pick, has been just about invisible. Maybe he's a gamer?
Nose tackles – Jason Ferguson, Randy Starks, Paul Soliai, Anthony Toribio
How many kept: Likely two, but three is possible
Summary: Ferguson is probably the Dolphins best defender. When Starks realizes he was brought here to learn how to become a nose tackle he'll be better off. His lack of stamina has been an issue in training camp. I've been critical of Soliai early, but he's shown improvement as of late. He still can't shed a block consistently, but he's getting upfield a little more than last season. It would be wise for the Dolphins to find a nose tackle that can be developed on the practice squad. So the 31 other NFL teams might want to think twice before cutting their beefy defensive linemen.
Outside linebackers – Joey Porter, Charlie Anderson, Quentin Moses, Rob Ninkovich, Junior Glymph, Keith Saunders, Titus Brown
How many kept: Likely three, but four is realistic. One youngster could find a home on the practice squad
Summary: Porter is a beast to block at times. But sometimes he not. It's a head scratcher. Anderson and Moses have cooled off. Maybe that has more to do with Long's footwork getting better than Anderson and Moses regressing. Ninkovich gained some added value when he started long-snapping, but I haven't seen him make many plays in the backfield. Glymph had one good day to my knowledge, and undrafted rookies Saunders and Brown have been invisible all of camp. The Dolphins will likely rummage the waiver wire to find more pass rushing threats.
Inside linebackers – Channing Crowder, Akin Ayodele, Reggie Torbor, Edmond Miles, Kelvin Smith, Kelly Poppinga
How many kept: Likely three, maybe four.
Summary: Crowder is stepping up his leadership game. Ayodele is a lock to start if he stays healthy, and Torbor will be used as the utility guy, which is the same role he served in New York. Miles has stood out as a playmaker on special teams and in my opinion is the front-runner to survive. But he will need to continue earning his keep as a linebacker and special teams demon. Smith and Poppinga need to pick it up to stick around past the first batch of cuts.
Cornerbacks – Will Allen, Andre' Goodman, Travis Daniels, Nathan Jones, Joey Thomas, Michael Lehan (Injured), Chris Roberson, Will Billingsley
How many kept: Likely five, with an extra body on the practice squad
Summary: Either Will Allen and Goodman are studs, or these Dolphins receivers are duds. It's been hard for the wideouts to find daylight when Allen and Goodman are on them. Ginn's probably done the best, but even his catches are closely defended. Daniels has done enough in training camp to earn a spot on the 53-man roster. But he can't afford to be exposed in the exhibition season. Jones is a lock to be the nickel and dime cornerback this season. Think of him as a specialist. Lehan will likely start the season on the PUP because that ankle sprain won't allow him to move laterally. Billingsley needs to do more to prove he deserves a practice squad spot because Roberson's also eligible to make that unit. There will also be a ton of talented cornerbacks on the open market in a month, so the Dolphins will likely give other cornerbacks a test run.
Safeties – Yeremiah Bell, Jason Allen, Keith Davis, Chris Crocker, Renaldo Hill, Courtney Bryan
How many kept: Likely four
Summary: Bell and Allen have been solid throughout training camp, and it appears they'll be a good safety tandem this season because this regime keeps it simple for the safeties. Considering how many safeties the Dolphins went through last season finding quality backups should be a priority. I believe the Dolphins have that in Davis, Crocker and Hill. Davis is a special teams demon, and Crocker has a nose for the ball. Even though Hill's a returning starter he's not getting many opportunities to show his ability. I see him getting caught up in a numbers game unless he becomes a dominant special teams player. While I've been down on Bryan from time to time this 2007 undrafted rookie has been solid so far, and has proved to me he does belong in the NFL.
Special teamers – Brandon Fields (P), Jay Feely (K), John Denney (LS)
How many kept – Likely three
Summary: Fields is the only man in camp without any competition. But if he struggles throughout the season don't be surprised if the Trifecta sign a guy off the street to replacement. Feely is battling a groin strain right now, and he better hope that is what has been keeping him from dusting off Carpenter. By comparison, so far the rookie does look too shabby.
Of course this can all change after the first exhibition game, or today's practice. When it does you know where to come to find your next roster breakdown.
By my count of how many will be kept at each position, the Dolphins 53-man roster will have one vacancy if my projections are correct. What position do you think it should go it?
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Jeffco Schools announced Tuesday that Syna Morgan was hired as the district's new chief academic officer. Morgan most recently worked as the chief system performance officer for the Douglas County School District, a position she has held since 2010.
Morgan was selected to fill the vacancy left by Heather Beck, who was hired as the superintendent of the Lake Oswego School District in Oregon. Morgan's experience includes four years in her position for DCSD where she supervised research, assessment and accountability.
Morgan's education experience also includes time as an educational software developer, seven years as a DCSD elementary school teacher in the early 1990s, and work as an educational consultant before working her most recent position in Douglas County. She also worked as a director in the Colorado Department of Education's school improvement and turnaround department. She holds a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Nevada-Reno and a bachelor's degree in education from Fort Lewis College.
In this new Jeffco Schools position, Morgan said she would first focus on learning what types of support systems and professional development teachers need to do their best work. She said she plans to work with teachers to find out what their needs.
"I strongly believe that if we are going to hold teachers to an expectation of results, we have a responsibility to provide the resources and training and support to do the work," Morgan said. "I honor and value the work of our teachers because the interaction of quality teachers with students is what makes the best educational experience for kids."
Jeffco Schools Superintendent Daniel McMinimee, who was also a DCSD administrator before joining Jeffco this month, spoke positively about Morgan. "Her knowledge of curriculum, instruction and assessment is exceptional," he said in a district press release. "She will lead our team forward in a positive and balanced way with a focus on student achievement and growth."
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