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Introduces and focuses on the essential concepts and principles of microeconomics. Studies the allocation of resources under scarcity through decisions made by individual consumers, firms, and business. Students will examine, understand, and prioritize decisions and behaviors that affect many resources, whether financial, environmental, or human.Instructor: Nejem Raheem
Introduces the economically integrated global marketplace that addresses the global economic environment, social and cultural environments, legal and regulatory considerations, foreign exchange and financial decision-making, marketing research, strategic alternatives for global market entry and expansion, and cooperative global strategies and strategic partnerships. Emphasizes differences between domestic and global strategies when applied to product development, pricing, and distribution, and focuses on the unique role of promotion within a global marketing framework.Instructor: Barry Horwitz
Grounded in theories of behavioral economics, this course examines human and consumer behavior within cultures, how members of diverse cultures differ, and the criteria upon which cultural members can and cannot be compared. Cultural value systems are highlighted as they provide insight into the impact of cultural differences on individual and group processes such as decision-making, verbal and nonverbal communication styles, and organizational structure. Models of decision-making and information processing are also explored.Instructor: Nejem Raheem
Provides students with an in-depth understanding of the research process, including formulation of research questions and determination of research design including data collection methods, sampling, data analysis, and interpretation. Introduces students to the world of networked information as well as the application of information technology to decision-making in a global business context.Instructor: Seounmi Han Youn
Examines the financial environment surrounding marketing decisions in global enterprises. Financial and strategic tools essential in planning and evaluating marketing activities are examined in an overview of financial aspects of marketing decision-making such as forecasting, budgeting, optimizing, valuing, evaluating, and auditing results. Students apply these tools to marketing and communication decisions in strategic planning that addresses challenges of designing and implementing plans across a global enterprise.Instructor: William Anderson
Introduces disciplines within marketing communication and the concept and practice of integrated marketing communication planning. Describes fundamental theory and practice within advertising, public relations, sales promotion, direct marketing, e-commerce, event planning, and sponsorships. Reviews global issues and institutions in the practice of these disciplines in multinational organizations.Instructor: Walter Mills
Focuses on the role of public relations in a global setting, application of market research to public relations, the benefits and limitations of analytical frameworks applied to strategy development, and models of roles and ethical responsibilities of corporations engaged in public relations. Attention is given to the evolution and practice of public relations in major global markets.
Examines organizational and external environments surrounding global advertising decisions. The impact of business trends, regulatory environment, media management, agencies, and advertisers in global communication planning are discussed. Challenges such as standardizing communication strategy, choosing an agency, allocating decision responsibilities, localizing creative executions, assessing foreign buyers and media audiences, and media planning in multiple markets are examined.Instructor: Melissa Andretta
Examines the challenge of branding in a worldwide context and provides a systematic approach to all aspects of creating and managing brands. Students are given a comprehensive framework regarding branding alternatives, issues for segmentation and brand research, communicating brand and corporate identities, managing the mix, and organizational and legal issues. Students explore the opportunities offered through line and brand extensions using case studies.Instructor: William Anderson
Students learn how organizations use the Internet and other interactive technologies to communicate with consumers and the public in global environments, and to examine the differences between traditional media vehicles and the Internet within the context of strategic communication. Students explore how communication has changed given media and delivery system convergence as well as market democratization. Ethical and legal parameters of technology-based communication are also covered.Instructor: Agaptus Anaele
The abundance of choices available to consumers for products and services, coupled with messages about them, necessitates that companies differentiate themselves creatively in global markets. Creativity and innovation are becoming cornerstones of business--qualities managers seek in employees and skills graduates must have to excel. This course explores the nature of creativity, creative thinking, and problem solving in a global environment. Interactive exercises, case analyses, discussions, and projects foster and enhance creativity.Instructor: Thomas Vogel
Analyzes information related to business trends, strategies, opportunities, and operations and critically assess alternatives. Through lecture, discussion, case videos, and in-class assignments, students consider external and internal factors driving contemporary business decisions. Topics include: pricing, supply and demand, the management of people, processes, resources, and organization; the globalization of business; the use of information systems to support business efforts; and basic concepts of marketing, sales, business ethics, law, accounting, and finance.Instructor: Catherine Flanagan
Explores the operational structure of business, theory, the practices of effective resource management and activities that produce or deliver the goods and services of a business: the management of personnel, materials, equipment, and informational resources that a business needs to produce and deliver its good and services. The course examines how businesses are organized, and how the various departments within a business such as Marketing, Sales, Production, Finance, and Human Resources work together.Instructor: Ricci Rizzo
Students become familiar with the language of accounting and learn to create, interpret, analyze, and evaluate financial statements (e.g., balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement). Armed with this knowledge, students then use case studies and in-class exercises to analyze how managers use data presented on financial statements to make decisions about budgeting, cost allocation, and overall company performance.Instructor: Stanley Miller
Examines radio from a business perspective and covers: the history of radio, networks, radio station operations, media buying, ratings, revenue streams, important legislation, and issues facing radio as an industry. Ownership regulations and the process of buying and selling radio stations are all examined.Instructor: Richard Ramirez
Teaches a strategic approach to decision making and problem solving when growing and scaling an arts-based business. Each student will be part of small, multidisciplinary teams that work hands-on through challenges that will vary from product innovation to larger issues facing humanity. Each student will walk away with knowledge in creative leadership, agile management and the ability to execute this methodology within any organization or group.Instructor: Ja-Nae Duane
Serves as the Business minor's capstone course by introducing new levels of complexity to broad concepts learned in previous classes. Uses case studies, trade articles, and time-honored academic frameworks, as well as in-class lectures, group exercises, and discussions to challenge students to apply how legal frameworks, business and government regulations, organizational structures, diverse workforces, and customer and stakeholder expectations influence the way contemporary companies conduct business.Instructor: Barry Horwitz
Introduces and immerses students in the process of creating and launching a new venture. Students learn the history and process of entrepreneurship as they explore creative problem solving, innovative thinking, and ethics. Relevant marketing and public relations strategies are presented in addition to basic financial, business, and human resource issues. Experts in the business world provide additional mentoring and practical knowledge.Instructor: Lu Ann Reeb
Provides an advanced immersion in the process of creating and launching a new venture. Students learn about business planning, marketing research, sales and marketing, legal issues, negotiation practices, and business conduct and further develop public speaking and interpersonal communication skills relevant to starting and managing a business. Students prepare for the business competition at the annual E3 Exposition. Students have the opportunity to learn from experts in the business world.Instructor: Lu Ann Reeb
Introduces communication theory and the fundamental relationships that exist between communication systems and society. Emphasis is placed on the social, political, and economic context in which marketing communication emerged and evolved, and the role it plays in maintaining, expanding, and articulating our way of life. Majors are required to complete this in the first year.Instructor: Paul Mihailidis
Explores the key types and core functions of contemporary organizations and the multiple roles marketing plays among them. Marketing's 4Ps and the "marketing mix" are examined in depth so as to understand the context in which marketing communication is practiced. Cases are introduced to acquaint students with the notion and essential elements of "strategy."Instructors: Anthony Lowrie, Donald Hurwitz, Kristin J. Lieb, Randy Harrison
Examines people in the context of their role as contemporary consumers. Surveys theories of consumer decisionmaking and behavior and the dominant approaches used to understand consumers today. Emphasis is placed on the role and application of understanding consumers in marketing communications campaign strategy, planning and management.Instructors: Alyson Kaye, Douglas Quintal, Paul M.W. Hackett, Seounmi Han Youn, Seunga Jin
Provides a comprehensive overview of modern media and how they are utilized for messaging in marketing communications. Media are treated at the channel (newspaper, radio, TV, magazine, web, FacebookW-O-M, www, etc.) and practice area (non-paid PR, mass paid advertising, direct marketing, and digitalmarketing) levels. Attention is also devoted to how the various media aggregate audiences and finance themselves, as well as recent changes in the ways they are purchased for use by marketing communicators.Instructors: Agaptus Anaele, Barbara Cipolla, James Rowean
Establishes the notion of the brand and brand platform as the central organizing principle of contemporary marketing communications. Examines how the brand platform operates at the corporate and product, agency and campaign, and customer journey levels. Introduces the different types and dimensions of strategies used by the various players in marketing communications to link targets, media and messages in service to the brand.Instructors: Alyson Kaye, Douglas Quintal, Kimberly Lorusso, William Anderson
Introduces the scientific method and the processes of primary quantitative and qualitative research in marketing communications. Marketing problems are identified, research objectives formulated, research design determined, questionnaires developed, sampling methods designed, data analyzed and interpreted. The various uses of research in targeting, positioning, product decision-making, messaging, and media utilization are demonstrated.Instructors: Paul M.W. Hackett, Seunga Jin
Explores the tools and techniques of ethnography and their uses in defining and solving marketing research problems. Drawing from the traditions of participant observation in the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, and market research, the course applies ethnographic methods to the analysis of subcultures and behavioral minorities as well as transnational marketing communication. The focus throughout is on how to fathom the cultural differences that inform and impact consumer decision-making and marketing communication campaigns.Instructor: Paul M.W. Hackett
Introduces the proliferating services and tools available to capture, measure and assess online behavior, information-gathering, decision-making, shopping patterns, and social groupings. Among these, emphasis will be placed on developing the skillful use of Google Analytics as it can be applied to optimize digital marketing communications efforts and initiatives.Instructors: Agaptus Anaele, David Gerzof Richard
Explores the nature of creative and critical thinking, as well as the increasing importance of creative problem solving in the context of organizations, product development, and marketing communications. Students practice critical thinking skills with written and visual communication materials. Creative thinking skills, methods, and processes are then used to think differently about original and innovative solutions to various organizational, product, and communication challenges.Instructor: Michael Tucker
Examines how the notion of the brand can be taken to scale. Explores the uses of different types of brand architectures by different types of organizations as they grow and expand internationally. Considers the values of the brand to the conglomerate organization as it manages its portfolios of companies, products, and customer segments. Use is made of case analysis.Instructor: Anthony Lowrie
Analyzes and addresses how to advance the critical customer-facing relationships within an organization between marketing and the sales force, distribution networks, and customer service. Discusses the different types of arrangements that prevail among these functions in b-b and b-c organizations, and in large and small organizations. Special attention is devoted to customer service policies and to the provision of teleservices.
Examines the enduring elements of online presence required of companies and brands today: website(s), search profile, e-commerce capabilities, and e-crm. How are these driven by bricks-and-mortar identities established previously; what opportunities and requirements do they generate; how do they function to establish frameworks for digital marketing communications campaign activities?Instructor: James Moore
Focuses on the scope and tasks of the communications function in large organizations. These include the intersection with sales, establishing and maintaining the corporate identity, customer intelligence and advocacy, executive coaching, and constituency relations -- carrying, or supporting, all the outward-facing activities of the organization. Often, the chief communications officer also works to align the organization with broader social trends. The leading contemporary example of this is the Social Responsibility movement, which will be analyzed in detail.Instructor: Brenda Wrigley
Focuses on "the message" in marketing communications, as both the distinctive idea conveyed in a campaign and the many forms in which it is expressed. Advertising copywriting for broadcast and print is practiced, as is writing for blogs and long-form digital formats. Developing and growing stories, and provoking user-generated content to engage consumers across media platforms, is considered as well.Instructors: Michael Tucker, Peter Seronick
Explores the importance and meaning of visuals in business and marketing communications, from the choice of typeface and layout to the use of images, color, symbols, style, and art direction. The application of these and related elements in logos, print, broadcast, and digital media campaigns are considered. Also discusses the mechanisms companies use to maintain consistent visual identities in their persuasive messaging, and the resources available when they consider changing their visual portrayals.Instructors: Jenessa Carder, Julia Frenkle
A survey and workshop that takes up the many forms of writing practiced in public relations. These include news releases and media kits, editorials and newsletters, brochures, white papers, stockholder and employee communications. The notions of voice and personality as well as consistency and style are emphasized.Instructor: Suzy Im
Addresses the uses, value, and mechanics of special offers and non-recurring events in commercial and nonprofit marketing communication. Trade promotions like price and volume discounting, feature and coop advertising, and in-store displays are covered, as are consumer tactics like coupons, memberships, giveaways, and value-added offers. So too are trade shows and placed-based gatherings. Considers both business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications.Instructor: John Newton
Exposes students to a broad range of media management concepts and practices including basic marketing and management communication documents, sources, interviews, crisis communication, ethics, international media relations, interactive media strategies, and analyses of current media-related issues.Instructor: Stephen Conroy
Focuses on how channels are used in marketing communications to connect audiences with messages. The tools of media research and audience analysis are explained to inform construction of media plans, as are the skills of buying and negotiation that guide implementation of plans. The concept of "customer journeys" is introduced; it is coming to be used by the large media firms created by marketing services holding companies to guide the integrated media plans they provide.Instructors: Barbara Cipolla, Geoffrey Klapisch
Social media have captured the imagination of the millennial generation, marketers, Hollywood, and now Wall Street. This course focuses on the strategic uses of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the Next New Thing. It also considers how the connectivity and interactivity social media represent alter traditional concepts like "companies," "customers," "shopping, buying, and selling," what effect this has had on the strategic marcomm landscape, and why revolutions in communication often turn out to be evolutionary instead.Instructors: David Gerzof Richard, Roxana D. Maiorescu
MK371 - Topics in Marketing Communication: Engaging Urban Communities in Health and Media Literacy (4 Credits)The Kellogg Foundation observes that, community-based participatory research is a ?collaborative approach to research that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings.? This course will function as an applied laboratory for learning about health and media literacy and applying theoretical constructs in the classroom that extend into the community. To help frame our mission we will offer a host of guest speakers and visitors - some from the Boston community. Students will work directly with community organizations and public school(s) to design and implement health and media literacy initiatives best suited for specific Boston schools and community programs. The course curriculum will culminate with an innovative community-based, student-developed portfolio that will address health and media issues among Massachusetts middle and high school populations. This course is crosslisted with CC372-02 and HC250-03.Instructor: Paul Mihailidis
MK371 - Topics in Marketing Communication: Brand Films: Video Production for Web and Broadcast (4 Credits)This course will provide students a hands-on opportunity to understand and participate in new forms of commercial storytelling that are emerging in the digital media world. You'll learn the business dynamics and requirements that are essential to profitability and how marketing, creative, production and post-production work collaboratively to bring great work to life. We?ll examine the work created by today's leading digital media producers and we?ll put what we discover to use as you work collaboratively to create and produce branded narratives of your own. Cross-listed with VM420-04.Instructor: Michael Jacobs
Explores the basics of design, from its history, influence and important designers; to the use of typography, color, ?white space?, shape and layout principles; to the funda-mentals of Adobe PhotoShop and InDesign. Concept sketching will be required as part of the process of developing ideas and learning the principles of good design, working toward the goal of crafting and recognizing design products that are appealing, strategic and meaningful.Instructor: Craig Grant
Learn what it means to be an entrepreneur and explore the many pathways to entrepreneurship that include developing an idea for a venture, testing the idea for sustainability, building a business plan and creating an elevator pitch. The course will include experiential projects, case studies, lectures, guest speakers and exposure to the startup ecosystem. Open to seniors and graduate students in all majors.Instructors: Lu Ann Reeb, Yuri Cataldo
Provides a culminating, integrative experience for majors. Students are organized into teams and challenged to develop and execute a complete integrated marketing communications strategy and campaign plan for an existing client, organization, and/or brand. The work is presented both live and in writing, as it would be in a commercial context. The spring semester course is designed around the annual competition of the American Advertising Federation, in which a team of Emerson majors has traditionally played a significant role.Instructors: Donald Hurwitz, James Rowean
Provides a culminating, integrative experience for majors. Students are organized into teams and challenged to develop and execute a complete integrated marketing communications strategy and campaign plan for an existing client, organization, and/or brand. The work is presented both live and in writing, as it would be in a commercial context. The spring semester course is designed around the annual competition of the American Advertising Federation, in which a team of Emerson majors has traditionally played a significant role.Instructor: Douglas Quintal
Provides a culminating, integrative experience for majors. Students are organized into teams and challenged to develop and execute a complete integrated marketing communications strategy and campaign plan for an existing client, organization, and/or brand. The work is presented both live and in writing, as it would be in a commercial context. The spring semester course is designed around the annual competition of the American Advertising Federation, in which a team of Emerson majors has traditionally played a significant role.Instructors: Andrea Martucci, James Rowean
This course is organized around the research process in which students learn how to formulate a research question, define a research problem, generate a research design, establish data collection methods, define a sampling frame, determine data analyses, interpret data appropriately, and prepare a research report. Topics in both qualitative and quantitative research methods are included. Students gain an understanding of the importance of research in the development of communication strategies.Instructors: Seunga Jin, Steven Kalter
Introduces the marketing management process of making decisions about products, brands, price, distribution channels, and communications plans to deliver value to consumers. Marketing concepts include research methods, consumer behavior, business marketing, customer analysis, competitive strategy, market segmentation and targeting, and product development. Students use analyses to justify managerial recommendations. Integration is emphasized - developing marketing strategies that are consistent from conception through execution. Case studies from a variety of industries are used in class.Instructor: John Teopaco
Students investigate comprehensive multidisciplinary, theoretical views of consumer behavior, and apply them to marketing communication contexts. Integrated marketing communication plans require sophisticated consumer behavior analyses that facilitate segmentation, targeting, and positioning efforts. Students learn about the determinants of consumer behavior through the application of theories from disciplines such as communication, marketing, cultural anthropology, economics, sociology, and psychology. Case studies, exercises, and research help students to understand the complexity of consumer behavior given intrapersonal, interpersonal, and situational influences.Instructors: Seounmi Han Youn, Seunga Jin
Integrated marketing communication (IMC) is a cross-functional process for creating profitable relationships with customers and publics by strategically controlling all messages sent to groups and encouraging dialogue. Students learn to integrate marketing communication elements (e.g., advertising, public relations, publicity, sales promotion, event marketing, direct marketing, e-communication, and selling) to advance an organization's success and brand equity. Case studies and exercises help students learn how to develop effective IMC plans.Instructors: John Newton, Nicole Ames
1 seat is available for Non-IMC students on a first come/first serve basis. Please email the department assistant in the Marketing department for information on how to register.
Students learn how organizations use the Internet to communicate with consumers and the public, and to examine the differences between traditional media and digital media within the context vehicles and the Internet within the context of strategic marketing communication. Explores the dynamic ways that digital communication influences human behavior and the impact of new mobile and digital media platforms on consumption, participation, marketing strategy, and audience engagement.Instructor: Agaptus Anaele
Explores the roles of advertising, sales promotion, and publicity in IMC. Students learn to develop, manage, and evaluate advertising campaigns. In addition, they investigate how to use sales promotion to bring about behavioral change in the contexts of consumer and trade promotion. Further, they learn how to generate and manage publicity. Students evaluate the legal and ethical issues surrounding these marketing communication efforts.Instructor: John Newton
One seat is available for Non-IMC students on a first come/first serve basis. Please email the department assistant Marketing department for information on how to register.Instructor: Brenna McCormick
One seat is available for Non-IMC students on a first come/first serve basis. Please email the department assistant Marketing department for information on how to register.Instructors: Douglas Quintal, William Anderson
Offers an introduction to strategic decision making in advertising media planning. Provides an understanding of the challenges involved in making media decisions and executing media plans. Students are introduced to media planning tools and study the impact of changing media trends.Instructor: Geoffrey Klapisch
An important function of the IMC manager is to optimize investments across different aspects of the marketing and communication mix. This course reviews fundamental tools of analysis used by managers, such as budgeting, forecasting demand, market and segmentation analysis, return-on-investment valuations, media expenditure planning, and evaluation of marketing communication efforts. Exercises, cases, and readings are used to provide students with exposure to the concepts and practice in applying them.Instructor: Stanley Miller
Presents the website as an important venue for communicating with various publics and organizations, and as an integrated part of a strategic communication plan. Topics such as principles of web design, evaluation of website effectiveness, tracking user perceptions, and consolidating web page information into overall database management are covered. Topics are organized around website development, maintenance, and assessment.Instructor: Peter Kery
Students develop an IMC plan for an organization as the culminating experience in the IMC program. Students demonstrate their knowledge and work in teams to solve an organization?s marketing communication problem or help the organization pursue an opportunity through the implementation of an IMC strategy. Students must demonstrate competencies in market research, market analysis, strategy development, communications and media planning, and IMC program development and evaluation. Students must have completed 28 credits before taking Capstone, no exceptions.Instructors: Brenna McCormick, Donald Hurwitz, Paul Caldera
Learn what it means to be an entrepreneur and explore the many pathways to entrepreneurship that include developing an idea for a venture, testing the idea for sustainability, building a business plan and creating an elevator pitch. The course will include experiential projects, case studies, lectures, guest speakers and exposure to the startup ecosystem. Open to seniors and graduate students in all majors.Instructors: Lu Ann Reeb, Yuri Cataldo


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This CD features the piano concertos of Mozart and his contemporary Leopold Kozeluch, whose concerto Felicja Blumental performed with her own cadenza. Since composing this concerto, many of Kozeluchs achievements have been overshadowed by Beethoven.
Leopold Kozeluch - Piano Concerto in D major
Felicja Blumental - piano
Leopold Hager - Conductor
The Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467
Felicja Blumental - piano
Alberto Zedda - Conductor
Prague New Chamber Orchestra
Total running time (59'27)
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On the Way to Prague - Liner Notes
Jan Antonin Kozeluch was born in Velvary, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) on 26th June 1747 but adopted the name "Leopold" to distinguish himself from his cousin, the Kapellmeister...Read More »

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Hymn of Peace
When Boston literary icon Oliver Wendell Holmes was asked to produce an original song for the National Peace Jubilee, he readily agreed. But he knew his limitations; he was a poet and essayist, not a musician, so he attached his words to a preexisting song, "An American Hymn," written by Matthias Keller just three years earlier.
Keller's hymn may haven been American, but he was born in Germany. He studied music in Stuttgart and Vienna, he and served as a bandmaster for several years before immigrating to America in 1846. Keller pieced together a living as a performer and violin-maker, but shortly after the Civil War, he tried his hand at composing when the federal government offered a prize for the composition of an original national hymn. When it debuted before the New York Academy of Music, his composition, "An American Hymn," was poorly received. In fact, the prize committee did not deem any of the entries worthy of an award. But in Boston, Keller's song was better received, and soon it was a favorite among the city's wind bands. In attaching his words to this popular song, Holmes hedged his bet; the 50,000 people gathered for the opening ceremonies of the Peace Jubilee were certain to like his piece.
In both its original and revised form, Keller's piece was called a hymn, and there's no missing its anthemic qualities. Nor is this surprising, as it was written for a patriotic competition, after all. In fact, within Keller's music one can hear echoes of the German anthem "Das Lied der Deutschen," which was written by famous composer Joseph Haydn in 1797, as well as foreshadows of the Canadian anthem, "O Canada, written by Calixa Lavallée in 1880.


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About the Book
BiologistRob Dunn reveals the crucial influence that other species have upon our health,our well-being, and our world in The WildLife of Our Bodies—a fascinating tour through the hidden truths of natureand codependence. Dunn illuminates the nuanced, often imperceptible relationshipsthat exist between homo sapiens and other species, relationships that underpinhumanity's ability to thrive and prosper in every circumstance. Readers ofMichael Pollan's TheOmnivore's Dilemma will be enthralled by Dunn's powerful, lucid explorationof the role that humankind plays within the greater web of life on Earth.
A biologist shows the influence of wild species on our well-being and the world and how nature still clings to us—and always will.
We evolved in a wilderness of parasites, mutualists, and pathogens, but we no longer see ourselves as being part of nature and the broader community of life. In the name of progress and clean living, we scrub much of nature off our bodies and try to remove whole kinds of life—parasites, bacteria, mutualists, and predators—to allow ourselves to live free of wild danger. Nature, in this new world, is the landscape outside, a kind of living painting that is pleasant to contemplate but nice to have escaped.
The truth, though, according to biologist Rob Dunn, is that while "clean living" has benefited us in some ways, it has also made us sicker in others. We are trapped in bodies that evolved to deal with the dependable presence of hundreds of other species. As Dunn reveals, our modern disconnect from the web of life has resulted in unprecedented effects that immunologists, evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and other scientists are only beginning to understand. Diabetes, autism, allergies, many anxiety disorders, autoimmune diseases, and even tooth, jaw, and vision problems are increasingly plaguing bodies that have been removed from the ecological context in which they existed for millennia.
In this eye-opening, thoroughly researched, and well-reasoned book, Dunn considers the crossroads at which we find ourselves. Through the stories of visionaries, Dunn argues that we can create a richer nature, one in which we choose to surround ourselves with species that benefit us, not just those that, despite us, survive.
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Critical Praise
"A pleasure to read. He is not a biologist moonlighting as a writer; he is both. Dunn also does a wonderful job interspersing history, research, and speculation with real-life human beings. He has a natural flair for drama and tension . . . a highly readable, informative mashing of ideas and disciplines." — Boston Globe
"Grabbing the reader from the start . . . Dunn moves through the answer to these and other questions with a sure use of language, scientific research, and humor-all of which combined keep the reader highly engaged. . . . Mr. Dunn is a thorough and talented writer." — New York Journal of Books
"An extraordinary book about a previously little explored subject. With clarity and charm the author takes the reader into the overlap of medicine, ecology, and evolutionary biology to reveal an important domain of the human condition." — Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
"[Dunn is] a master at applying the principle of administering a spoonful of sugar (i.e., humor) to make the "medicine" of complicated scientific information not merely interesting but gripping. Nothing less than an every-person's handbook for understanding life, great and small, on planet Earth." — Booklist (starred review)
"Adding touches of humor along the way, Dunn deftly explains complex biological systems for the general reader. […] Highly recommended for nature aficionados, this book should inspire many lively discussions." — Library Journal
Product Details
- Imprint: HarperCollins e-books
- On Sale: 06/21/2011
- Pages: 304
- List Price: 14.99 USD
- BISAC1: SCIENCE / General


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The ideal candidate contributes to the Hospital's mission by ensuring the needs of psychiatric patients are met through a comprehensive program of oversight, triage, providing safe and high quality clinical care and through staff education and development
Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts is looking for a Nurse Practitioner for Emergency Medicine.
Community Health Center with affiliation to 3 Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join a health center to manage a panel of low income, culturally and linguistically diverse patients
Reputable Community Health Center (FQHC) in Boston seeks an experienced Family Nurse Practitioner to join a well established and busy urgent care clinic.
IPC Healthcare is seeking Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners to join its Integrated Medicine practice in the Boston area.
AllOne Health Resources is a leader in occupational health services to a variety of industries. This position is based in Woburn, with a Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. schedule, with no on-call responsibilities.
Join a dedicated team of healthcare providers in a well-established Community Health Center serving Boston's underserved population.
Lahey Medical Center in is seeking a full time Advanced Practitioner for its busy, well-established, adult Internal Medicine practice.
Community Health Center in the Greater Boston Area with affiliation to 3 Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join a health center to manage culturally and linguistically diverse patients.
This is a wonderful opportunity for an Advanced Practitioner to practice independently with a seasoned Primary Care Physician.
Join a dedicated hospital practice psychiatry team treating complex behaviorally challenged patients.
This position is responsible for providing nurse practitioner services for a Primary Care and Family Medicine practice.
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Advanced Practice Provider - Experience Required
We are currently seeking Adult Primary Care and Family Practice, ReadyMed Plus/Urgent Care, Geriatrics, Behavioral Health/Psychiatric, and Cardiology Nurse Practitioners to enhance our practices.
Reliant Medical Group is seeking a MA licensed Nurse Practitioner (NP) / Clinical Nurse Specialist who functions as a clinician and consultant in the field of behavioral health.
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Facebook, the Pope, and You
If you're wondering whether it's appropriate or valuable for churches to be involved in social networking media, consider this:
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has a Facebook page and a Website. The Vatican has a YouTube channel (watch the Pope give his Easter message).
Anyone who wishes to keep up with the Pope can (choosing from five languages): read the Pope's homilies (note his 2010 Easter Vigil homily); see photos and read the Pope's comments during his travels (e.g., a pastoral visit to Brescia); read his letters of communal concern (most recently, to Archbishop Louis Kébreau of Cap-Haïtien, President of the Bishops' Conference of Haiti, after the earthquake there), and more.
It shouldn't surprise us that Catholicism's central figure is using social networking media to reach his various audiences. You don't have to be a worldwide church authority – or even a small megachurch – to use social networking media effectively for your church's efforts. Social media can be used for pastoral care, mission, education, inviting, welcoming, event planning, decision-making, or simply becoming community.
Christians, Muslims, Hindus and people of faith everywhere rely on the Internet to seek, produce, consume, and share religious and spiritual information, says Susan Wyche, doctoral candidate in human-centered computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
"Muslims can use their mobile phones to prompt them to their five daily prayer times," Wyche says. "Catholics can receive the Pope's daily thoughts via short messaging service on their cell phones. Hindus can attend 'virtual' temples.
"Research suggests that more people have used the Internet for faith-related purposes than have used Web auction sites, traded stocks online, done their banking online, or used Internet-based dating services."
Using social networking media for faith-related purposes is as much about connectivity – how we relate to one another – as it is about theology, says CTS President Steve Hayner. "With the introduction of social networking media, we've taken a quantum leap in the ways we can connect with each another in our congregations and among those we hope to reach beyond our doors.
"An intriguing question is how all the theological and ecclesial conversations taking place in the social media will affect the way we view what church is and how church functions."
Further, it's a mistake to assume that social networking media and the ways that we use them are always positive, Hayner cautions. "There are significant theological and sociological implications. How, for example, are 'virtual' conversations or relationships similar to and different from face-to-face encounters? How do these media effect the message? What will happen to relationships, as they are more and more mediated by social networking media?"
(See Steve Hayner's Facebook page, his Tumblr blog, his Twitter account.)
You don't have to have a substantial budget to set up and maintain your social networking sites, says Bill Reichart, Presbyterian pastor, Atlanta area director of Christian Medical and Dental Associations, and social media consultant. "Low-cost services for setting up sites are available, with templates you can update on your own with ease."
(See Reichart's Ministry Best Practices site. Learn about his upcoming Christian Medical & Dental Association mission trip to Haiti.)
"Don't be afraid to go ahead and give one of the social networking options a try," advises CTS Systems Librarian Bob Craigmile. "So what, if you try it and it doesn't pan out? It's cost you virtually nothing, and you've learned from it.
"We always risk that the technology we are setting up will soon be obsolete or eclipsed by something more popular or efficient.
"Facebook, for example, has become more popular than MySpace. But that's not cause for concern. Learning any platform will make you a quick learner with the next technology you try."
(See Bob Craigmile's LinkdIn site, the boxes on his Facebook page.)
"You can't fly off into social media without a strategic plan for what your church really wants to accomplish," advises Genie Hambrick, CTS Director of Communications.
"What is your mission, and how can social media – or a particular medium or platform within that – be a tool to help you accomplish your goals?" she asks. "In other words, you don't 'do' Facebook or Twitter or blog or anything else just because the technology is readily available. And, then – also important – just because it's available, can you use it well and effectively?"
To enable you to explore all of these ideas further, the CTS Center for Lifelong Learning is offering a summer event, "Social Networking Media in Congregations: Possibilities & Practicalities – Summer Scholars 2010," on the Columbia Seminary campus, July 26-29.
Summer Scholars 2010 is designed to help church leaders to explore, plan, launch, and maintain social networking media.
This event is for you – whether you feel overwhelmed by the options, have just started out, or are already underway and looking for ways to be more effective.
Learn how to choose from the huge array of social networking options, based on what your church wants to accomplish. There will be sessions for beginners and for those who are well underway.
For details about the program content, the event schedule, housing information, and online registration, click here.


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today I upgraded from 10.1 to 10.3 doing a fresh install but keeping
/home and /usr/local. Now I'm experiencing problems which seem to be
caused by a broken /dev/null (e. g. when I'm trying to execute ssh, I
get the message "Couldn't open /dev/null: Permission denied").
My system says:[color=blue]
> ls -ld /dev/null*[/color]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39 13. Okt 15:18 /dev/null
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4051 13. Okt 15:17 /dev/null.2007-10-13.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 13. Okt 15:17 /dev/null.current ->
Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it?


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Mafioso: Destroy Rumors
Get delegates to quash the rumorIf the rumor proves to be persistent and it begins to impact your rapport with colleagues, you need to put a few trusted delegates to work. At this stage of the game, let's assume that your back is against the wall and you have very few sympathizers who buy your side of the story. In this case, you may have to plant a few positive rumors about yourself.
Now, if you happen to be Eliot Spitzer and have always been a judgmental son of a b*tch, the persuasion game may not work so well. However, if you have a fairly straight past to lean on, your friends can help clear your name by reminding people that they have no reason to exercise harsh judgment against you. Remember, the majority of people will recall their most immediate association, so if you can shoehorn a few good deeds into the mix, it will take some of the heat off the detrimental rumor. If, on the other hand, the tidal wave of momentum against you is too strong, you may have to stand up and address the rumor.
Put it out in the open (but don't whine)Although the time may come when you are forced to put the rumor out in the open and acknowledge it, it is futile (not to mention pathetic) to start whining about the harm it is doing to your reputation. In other words, don't bother screaming slander and tossing around threats of a lawsuit. After all, if you've tried every avenue to destroy rumors and they're still doggedly pursuing you, chances are pretty good that you've contributed to it in some way; and although you may hold a grudge against the rat who brought it to light, no single person is responsible for the way a rumor infiltrates a social circle.
For these reasons, your last resort if you want to destroy rumors is to be like Bill Clinton and admit some degree of guilt. If you choose this course of action, it is good to remember that despite his impeachment, Bill Clinton has emerged in the collective consensus as a hero and a pretty good president who just happened to diddle the intern.
Mr. Mafioso answers your e-mail
Greetings Mr. M.,
I like your advice as it is practical, no-nonsense and valuable. You are giving the service of a real education to young men who may not have had a good, manly and high-character man [in their lives] (by manly, I mean a man without [being] a stupid macho type).
The above brings me to the subject/question of this e-mail: As part of my personal journey into being the kind of person I want to be, I realize that many men in the world today were raised by their mothers to be nice little boys. This may have happened because [the] father may not have been around or because men have, over the years, been emasculated into being grown up nice little boys inside men's bodies. It is as if the testosterone has been taken out of males today and instead men have received injections of political correctness bullsh*t.
Question: Will you do a weekly column or web site in which you impart your wisdom on helping boys (no matter what age) become mature, functional, worthy adult men? The world is in bad need of a service like this.
Dear VR,
I hate to break it to you, but you sound like a man who's either taking the piss or standing with both feet in the closet. Aside from your endless repetition of the word "man," the suggestion that today's men have been emasculated as a result of growing up with mom seems like a deeply personal issue rather than a sociocultural problem.
If you ask me, the problems men face after growing up with a single parent may have to do with maturity, but only occasionally do such men lack virility. In fact, a lot of men who grew up with mom have a much bigger chip on their shoulder than men who've grown up in the bland stability of suburbia and its malls. In my books, when men compensate for the absent father, they usually overcompensate.
Lastly, I will say that political correctness may seem like hogwash, but men need to stop blaming political correctness and the rise of its tenets for their failures. For centuries, in Western culture, white men had the privilege of being "the man" without having to earn it. And the way I see it, in most cases, men who feel emasculated should just get over themselves and stop blaming others for their own shortcomings. We may all look for scapegoats, but the virtue of today's world is that things are rooted in healthy competition.
Finally, to address your question about a website, I see no reason to have a website or a blog. There are already too many of both.
Stata Buon,
Mr. Mafioso


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- was born in Poland (1976), then lived from 1996 to 2008 in Switzerland, were she took a Master degree in Political Sience and worked as an analyst on Palestinian refugee issues. In 2007 she decided to focus entirely on photography. A self-taught photographer, she completed her knowledge taking black & white classes at the Art School in Geneva and by training in "Actinic" (Geneva), professional laboratory specialized in black & white development. Currently the photographer lives and works as a freelance photographer in Barcelona.
At the begining of her photographic journey, the subjects of her work were strongly correlated with her socio-political interests outside Europe. Therefore some of her first projects were situated in developing countries (waste hills in Manila) or countries affected by war conflicts (Gaza Strip).
Lately the photographer is mainly interested in European societies. Her research goes towards problems such as the discriminations still remaining in the frame of the democratic system and different dysfunctions of the society model.
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thanks very much, the prairie is an awesome place.
thanks again corey!
thanks corey!
the primitive campsites are renumbered and re done. its a beautiful hike in campground in a florida hammock. the caretaker of the park has done a wonderful job in improving this place and the park in general.
the primitive campsites have been re done and re numbered but are still in the same hammock.
the primitive campground has been re done so the sites are a little different now by a few yards.
Ioannis Ouzounidis - Ευχαριστώ θερμά για την επίσκεψη και το σχόλιο. Πολλά χαιρετίσματα
Beautiful photo, L+F
I just looked it up and your right! I lived in Jonesboro ar. for 28 years and we always called this bridge the Alvin York bridge! guess we were wrong all those years!


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By Father Pat McCloskey, O.F.M.
God's Foreknowledge and Mary's Yes
Mary Have Real Freedom?
40? How Is Ash Wednesday's Date Set?
'Offering It Up' Still Valid?
Mortify Myself?
Do Those Initials Mean?
Did Mary Have Real Freedom?
friend of mine believes that Mary did not have free will as other humans have.
Therefore, she had no choice but to say yes to the angel at the Annunciation.
This friend believes that God, who is all-knowing, knew that Mary was going
to say yes and thus she was not about to say no after God had created her immaculate
in her conception.
A: Your friend is wrong on one count and right on another.
God is indeed all-knowing, but why should God's foreknowledge of what Mary would
say be any different from God's foreknowledge of your decisions or my decisions?
Your friend is assuming that God is limited by time the way that
we humans are. You are more present to me than Julius Caesar or Florence Nightingale
because you are alive and they are not.
Human beings can only live sequentially; that is a limitation that
God does not share. You, I, Julius Caesar and Florence Nightingale are all equally
present to God. The term foreknowledge as applied to God is not very
helpful because it presumes that God lives, as we do, sequentially.
If you took your friend's position to an extreme, wouldn't God's
foreknowledge about Adolf Hitler and Mother Teresa of Calcutta make God equally
responsible for their vastly different actions? If God is not responsible for
their personal decisions, why should God have toyed with Mary's freedom at her
Human freedom is very real and can produce very different results.
God's knowledge does not cancel out human freedom—for good or for ill. God freely
created everything that exists. Part of being made in God's image is that we
have a limited but very real freedom, which we need to use wisely and generously.
Mary can inspire us to grow as disciples. The generosity she showed
at the Annunciation can help in that process.
Why 40? How Is Ash Wednesday's Date Set?
Q: Why is Ash
Wednesday 40 days before Easter? What is the significance
of the number 40? I know that it is used many times in the
Bible (for example, Jesus was in the desert 40 days and
40 nights). How do you determine the date of Ash Wednesday?
And where does the word Lent come from?
A: Some biblical writers regarded 40 years as the length
of a generation. Thus, the Hebrews wandered in the wilderness for 40 years between
leaving Egypt and entering the Promised Land, long enough for everyone in the
original group—except Joshua and Caleb (Numbers 26:65)—to die off.
Because the early Christians regarded Moses' parting of the sea
as an Old Testament antecedent for Baptism and because Moses spent 40 days and
40 nights on Mount Sinai before encountering God, Christians used the number
40 as the length of the season to prepare catechumens for receiving the Sacrament
of Baptism at the Easter Vigil.
The date of Ash Wednesday is counted back from the date of Easter
(first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox—March 21/22).
Once you know the date of Easter, you count back six Sundays and then go to
the previous Wednesday. That is Ash Wednesday; those six Sundays are not counted
as part of the 40 days.
Lent comes from the Middle English lente (springtime).
North of the equator, Lent roughly corresponds to spring.
Is 'Offering It Up' Still Valid?
Q: A friend of mine, who is a devout Catholic, says that when I get an injury or
illness I should offer it up to God as some kind of payment for sin. I cannot
image myself going up to some powerful political leader and saying that I would
offer up my pain and illness to satisfy that leader's anger. Who would accept
I have trouble dealing with the concept of God accepting
pain or illness as payment for some kind of wrongdoing.
Jesus did it, but he is God. Is my friend correct? Am I?
A: The idea of "offering it up" is still a valid one in
the sense of "Don't go through life complaining that life is unfair, because
it is unfair for everyone." Each one of us can imagine a more ideal life than
we have experienced or are now experiencing. Emphasizing how non-ideal my situation
is or has been could be a way of shifting onto others the major responsibility
for my decisions and for my happiness.
I cannot change my past, but in a very real way I can choose how
it impacts my present and my future. I can keep a chip on my shoulder for past
injustices or I can notice that no one lives in ideal circumstances.
God does not cause evil so that people can offer it up. If God is sending
cancer, traffic accidents and other tragedies as a way of
punishing evil people, then God is also sending those sufferings
to many innocent people.
Although sin frequently involves some suffering, not all suffering
is a punishment for sin.
The person who cannot "offer it up" may become a perpetual whiner,
someone whose life is explained by other people's decisions—not that person's.
Perpetual whiners can never be truly compassionate because they must prove that
their suffering is worse than anyone else's.
Jesus "offered up" his death on the cross for the sake of sinners,
an innocent man dying for the guilty. He died not as a bitter man but as a man
full of love for us, including people who use their freedom selfishly.
People facing severe medical conditions or terminal illnesses sometimes
speak of "offering up" their sufferings for others. In such cases, this "offering
up" can lead them to a deep inner joy and compassion. Those who absolutely reject
the idea of "offering it up" will never understand such joy and compassion.
The concept of "offering it up" could be misused as justification
of one person's injustice toward someone else. It could become a devious way
of saying, "Keep quiet, do as I say and keep this dysfunctional relationship
going because it benefits me."
Why Mortify Myself?
Q: I have trouble placing
mortification in perspective. I have heard that St. Josemaría
Escrivá de Balaguer advised, "Choose mortifications that
don't mortify others." What does that mean?
A: Mortification could be
described many ways, including "accepting reality as God
sees it." Mortification is a synonym for penance.
If, because of a bad temper, I decide to give up M&M's as an
act of mortification, that penance could reinforce my desire to be a less angry
person (accepting reality as God sees it) or that penance could give me a false
sense of security. How? I might think that having chosen the mortification,
I am guaranteed to become less angry. Not so.
The quote you offered can illustrate this example. If I don't really
want to give up M&M's but do so anyway, that decision may fuel my anger
rather than decreasing it. Other people could suffer because I am not dealing
effectively with my anger.
Mortification is about becoming more honest. It can reinforce a
good decision but it cannot substitute for a good decision (for example, asking
if my expectations of other people are reasonable).
When Jesus tells the story about the Pharisee and the tax collector
in the Temple (Luke 18:9-14), Jesus does not criticize the Pharisee's voluntary
fasting and paying tithes beyond those required by the Law of Moses. Jesus,
however, shows us that these penances did not lead this man to be more honest
about God, himself and others.
What Do Those Initials Mean?
Q:I see or hear the expression "CCD" used quite often in connection
with parish religious education programs, but I have no idea what those initials
stand for or why they are associated with such programs. I cannot be the only
one who finds this acronym puzzling.
A: "CCD" stands for Confraternity
of Christian Doctrine, originally a religious education
program for adult converts to the Catholic faith and students
in public schools. The Council of Trent (1545-1563) recommended
that it be established in each diocese. In 1905, Pope St.
Pius X ordered that this group be established in every Catholic
A confraternity of Christian doctrine is a shared effort to hand
on the faith. In the United States, the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
has a formal entity, a legal corporation governed by trustees chosen by the
U.S. bishops. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., in the same building
as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Confraternity holds the copyright
for the New American Bible translation and oversees its publication.
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Twain on Main is held every year on Memorial Day Weekend. This is another one of Hannibal's free festivals that brings in several dozen vendors selling their wares to the hundreds of guests who have made this weekend an annual event. This festival is for young and old alike. Free activities to watch and participate in, watch for the flash mob dance~it will pop out of nowhere.
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The poster looked to me like jhuppent. I wasn't sure who/what that was. Are you sure that Mr Huppenthal posts here? But I did find accurate links to statements made.
In other posts, Huppenthal has seemed to understand that test scores and parent satisfaction surveys do not measure school quality. Here he is citing rankings based on test scores and parent satisfaction surveys to try to prove that the Arizona educational system has improved since the introduction of charters. Are there multiple people, with mutually inconsistent opinions, posting under Huppenthal's name, or is the real Huppenthal just being inconsistent?
Also: please note that there has been no plausible argument in support of a viable "causation" relationship between the introduction of charter schools and a reduction of murders committed by juveniles. There are any number of factors that could have played into such a reduction, as anyone with a decent background in social science (as opposed to engineering and business administration) knows.
Being able to act constructively in a position like State Superintendent of Instruction properly requires a sound knowledge base in the social sciences and the field of education. The fact that the majority of voters in this state do not seem to grasp this is a good argument for making the role an appointed one, rather than an elected one. The fact that the changes made to the public education system here in recent years have left us with schools where we cannot fill our teaching positions with fully qualified, professional teachers is another argument for taking the ability to fill State Superintendent of Instruction out of the hands of voters.
As for those who like to blame the problems in public schools solely on funding cuts, they are only partially right. If they would like to develop a more well-rounded understanding of what is really happening in the world around them (as opposed to what is happening in the stories they tell and re-tell themselves and others), they should start forcing themselves to attend every TUSD Board meeting. There, if they pay attention, they will soon note that gravely malfunctioning governance and administration -- related to but not necessarily caused by insufficient funding -- are a big part of the picture in the largest public school district in Southern Arizona.
It has been previously noted in these comment streams that the entirely preventable governance and administrative problems in a public school district serving tens of thousands students is partly the state's fault, not just because of its ill-advised funding cuts, because also because of its negligent oversight and lax enforcement of laws on the books that are there to keep public districts functioning properly.
Thanks j. I found more of those facts when I looked. We are sure led to believe that all they needed was more money. There is something inherently flawed in the delivery process of public education.
School choice has been extraordinarily beneficial in Arizona. In 1992, the start of school choice, juveniles committed 70 murders in Arizona. In 2012, despite a doubling of the juvenile population and a tripling of the at risk population, murders by juveniles had dropped to 7.
In 2015, Arizona African Americans ranked number one in the nation in 8th grade math scores. Hispanic 8th graders ranked 11th, up from 35th in 2011 and Arizona white students ranked 6th.
Arizona also did well in reading with Blacks, Whites and Hispanics ranking 14th, 7th and 29th.
In the 2015 nationwide Gallup Poll 24% of parents rated their child's school quality an "A", the second lowest number in 47 years of measurement. All of our "A" rated districts were rated by their parents 60s or higher with the Chandler Unified the grand champion at 75%.
These measures are the science of school quality.
2012 is the most recent date of FBI juvenile statistics. The school rankings are from NAEP, the gold standard of educational measurement.
So Robert has decided who can and can't comment on this article. Does that thinking ring a bell with anybody?
What most of you are missing is the "fact" that BASIS is NOT outperforming the public district schools but they are using public tax dollars. If you are not aware of that fact then you have no business commenting on this article. They simply wittle down the student population to weed out those that do not perform at the highest standards, which they do quite effectively. Public schools cannot do that and BASIS is using our tax dollars in their charter schools, which is what the writer is concerned with. What they do with their private schools is fine but what they do with our money should be completely transparent. The person who said that is not transparent in public schools doesn't know much about them so you should refrain from commenting. Again, do your research on who is doing the best job of education "all" children, not just the ones they pick and choose, then you will see that BASIS is unnecessary in the first place. We should put those dollars to work in our public district schools.
Maybe it's just as well she didn't mention LE BUZZ (Catalina Highway and Tanque Verde Rd.) which has their own roasted coffees from exotic places, but also their own bakery ....... croissants to die for. It's getting much too crowded......just celebrated 20 years in Tucson. CONGRATULATIONS, MARGARET! WE
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" In addition there is no documentation that charter schools do any better and in many cases do worse than regular public schools."
Sounds like something I would have said years ago when I was a member of the NEA. I don't know where you're getting this "no documentation" info from, but it's bullcrap.
Those who claim our public schools are broken should try funding it for a change. Here in Arizona we have methodically and deliberately de-funded our public schools in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy. Now we complain that the schools are broken and instead turn to for profit unaccountable charters.
Public Ed Is So Broken... You don't fix something that is supposedly broken by replacing it with something even more broken and robs the public. I also contend that public education's funds were systematically and purposely cut for decades to make them broken. Tom Horne said and this is not a direct quote but I did hear him say it.... that he would see TUSD closed in his lifetime. He was upset with the Mexican American Studies program.
We can always fix schools as everything in life needs to continually be improved. However the Koch brothers' agenda is alive and well which is to close all public education or at the very least separate children of color and/or are poor from those of affluence. White entitlement at its finest. You, 'Broken' are supporting crime by supporting what charter schools are doing. In addition there is no documentation that charter schools do any better and in many cases do worse than regular public schools when demographics are taken into account.
Oh my! A mediocre writer for the NYT spends a few days in Tucson and feels she actually knows the place well enough to put forth the following assertions:
"...locals start acting like Cindy Lou Who on Christmas morning. They turn their faces to the sky and celebrate with prickly pear margaritas." Say what?
"Coaxing a vibrant food culture from this land of heat and cactuses..." What - we're not a modern city?
"...devoted eaters who will spend the day debating the best place to get a good raspado." Oh, that one will give Phoenicians a chuckle or two.
"They're O.K., but it's not like cholla buds are going to take the country by storm,..." Well then, why even mention them, Mr. Wilder? This is the friggin NYT, fer gosh sakes!
"But Tucson will always be Tucson, a place people either love or hate." That is just false. Many people like it well enough to visit during high season, and then sensibly go back to wherever to avoid the exquisite agonies of June and July here. If you can find any year-round resident who really hates it, that would be a great interview to publish. First question: "So why dont you GTFO, then?"
1. Palomino is a type of horse / breed and a color. It was classified as a horse type BEFORE the genetic component was understood. Yes, different breeds can have a tan color However, Palomino is still considered a "breed." Look it up on petbreeds.com
2. YES. Questions that are knowledge based are absurd. No MENSA test would quantify a person's intelligence quotient using questions that would appear on Jeopardy, or in Trivial Pursuit. The questions are designed to test your ability to see patterns where most people see randomness; to problem solve, etc.
3. How is the last question a test of intelligence? Really, do highly intelligent people know that "incorrectly" is spelled incorrectly by smart people? My IQ is over 170 and I didn't know that. Why would I? Is there a cutesy clue in the question itself, like a "wink, wink" isn't this cute?
Excellent job by Edible Baja Arizona coordinating this visit by The New York Times!
But have you had my Tacos?
Hillary is about to have the public turn on her when they see the fraudulent schemes that she and Bill perpetrated on the country.
Will we see a criminal investigation Mr President?
Yep, regulation of public schools has been so successful, huh? Yeah, let's put all those regulations on charters, too.
Also, support the small producers, projects, farmers and advocates that are working tirelessly to ensure that all Tucsonans have access to good nutrition. Culturally conscious farmers like the San Xavier Cooperative Farm are making crops and tradition accessible for all of us. Mission Garden is a literal walking tour of food production in the Tucson Basin for the last 4000 years. Community Organizers and organizations like Flowers and Bullets, Tierra y Libertad and the Community Food Bank are ensuring that everybody in our community has equal access to good and whole local foods. So many are a part of making the Designation meaningful.
Let's ensure that in addition to supporting local restaurateurs we also are enacting policy that protects our Foodways for the generations to come.
To quote Shrill Hill 'Tom Hanks, Bill Murray. What difference does it make?"
it is the profiteering capitalist puppet Obombney Obusha who created this insurance scam when MEDICAID FOR ALL who need it would save trillions of dollars for taxpayers and relieve many employers of the high cost of "insurance" which is a century old scam to deny sick people "pre-existing" or "experimental" life saving care .... Canada has been a single payor system with drugs just pennies for what costs hundreds of dollars in USA
gender dysphoria is no more an "elective" than hyperthyroidism which bigots commonly attribute to obese people who choose to eat too much .... this patient who works at a hospital will win this lawsuit and other so called insurance companies hiding their bigotry behind profit motives will "choose" to fund scientific treatments instead of conforming to religious profiteering


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Gourmet chef I am not. Hence the title of this post.
Yesterday I was on a spinach kick, and had two salads. Taco salad for lunch, then buffalo chicken salad for supper.
Fareway sells these Tyson buffalo chicken bites, so I cooked up a couple in the oven. With the flash photography they look a little orange-y…
Salad with feta cheese and buffalo chicken
When we were at Hy-Vee on Saturday, I grabbed a couple goodies from the organics section. These are great for a snack, provided you don't eat the whole bag (I showed restraint and only had about half the bag).
I also got more of this, since I ran out:
It was great on my lemon Chobani this morning.
Since I was home this morning I was able to play "let's clean out the freezer" for lunch. I had a tube of ground beef, frozen mixed vegetables and mini tator tots. Tator tot casserole it was. I browned the beef, mixed it together with a can of cream of chicken soup, about 1/2 cup of plain Greek yogurt, the mixed veggies (that I steamed for a couple minutes in the microwave), and some salt and pepper. I cut up 4 oz of Velveeta and dispersed it on top, then topped with some tator tots. In the oven it went, 30 minutes at 350 degrees.
I know it's not the healthiest but it sure was easy, and Tyler loved it which is good because there are some veggies in it.
I had a really busy afternoon in the clinic, then after feeding Tyler and getting him ready for bed, I went to the gym. Did a quick warm-up then a quick ladder workout. I only did four moves: shoulder press, stationary lunges, one-arm row and planks. The workout seems easy, you start with 5 reps, rest for 10 seconds, then 6 reps, rest for 10 seconds, 7 reps…. all the way to 10 reps. By the time you get to 10, yowza. You're pushing hard. The plank was a little different, I started out with 10 seconds on both feet, 10 seconds on knees, 20 seconds on both feet, 10 seconds on knees, 30 seconds on both feet, 10 seconds on knees, then hold on both feet to failure. I managed to hold it for another minute, but I was spent.
After that short and sweet workout, I blew it all, as I picked up some DQ for myself and a friend… and we ate our blizzards while we watched Biggest Loser. Sorry Bob.
I didn't want my only supper to be a Mint Oreo Blizzard, so I ordered a turkey club flat iron? sandwich. I think that's what it was called, or something like that. It was basically a turkey sandwich with tons of mayo that I had to scrape off.
Now I'm off to shower and finish up charts. While I was downloading pics from my phone, I forgot about these other pics.
I'm obsessed with these and have almost gone through a whole tin in about 4 days.
And here is a picture of the big boy in his forward-facing car seat. We finally decided to flip it, and he was so excited on the way to Davenport. He hardly got fussy at all because he could finally look at everything.
Tyler was getting hungry during the trip, so I gave him some snacks. Hubby and I were just talking and all of a sudden a puff (baby snack) comes flying over Hubby's shoulder. He's gonna be a baseball player!


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Did you even know that one of my New Year's Resolutions was to learn to sew? Don't ask me why. I really never set out to be the little Betty Crocker/Donna Reed happy homemaker I appear to be turning into, I swear! I never really learned to sew. I mean, I took a "Home Ec" class in 7th grade and we technically had to sew a pillow from a pattern... but I think I kind of had someone else sew mine for me or something... because I have no recollection of anything to do with sewing. I do remember that the only part of the pillow (which was a cupcake!) that I was supposed to do was to sew up the bottom after putting the stuffing in. And I do remember that I never did it! I held that open part in my hand as I showed my project to my teacher! What a little slacker, right? Haha... so classic Dana. I probably got like a B. So me!
Anyway... I really, really want to learn to sew so I can have fun being creative and you know, creating things. A friend gave me a sewing machine earlier this year, but here we are, June, and I finally busted it out.
This sucker is an antique! It got some serious miles put on it making clothes, drapes, etc. back in the 60s! But.... upon advice I received from the, very well informed I do believe, women at Jo-Ann Fabrics... I ended up buying the equivalent of an Easy-Bake Oven of sewing machines. It's seriously a little, tiny sewing machine for kids! I brought that sucker home over the weekend and threaded it and made my very first sewing project, a coaster! Check it out!
I was so proud!! I have dreams of making lots and lots of stuff, so stay tuned... and Etsy, you better watch out!
Friday, June 4, 2010
Sew.... what's new?
Posted by Dana Brown Ritter at 3:53 PM
Labels: Love Home
2 comments:
- Diane Moody said...
Hi Dana. I'm so far behind reading your posts! Don't even know if you get alerts if someone posts a comment on an old one??? But I wanted to congratulate you on your sewing endeavors! It's a forgotten art, believe me, but one that offers SUCH a creative outlet. I've sewn for years - I learned in 7th grade too but it stuck with me! Lately I've been itching to make some classy kitchen aprons! I'll let you know if I actually MAKE one. LOL
Be sure to let us know about your projects! Wish we could visit JoAnn's together! Heaven!
- June 13, 2010 at 6:19 PM
- Dana Brown Ritter said...
Diane, I wish we could too. I would love to soak in your wisdom! I haven't been able to touch the sewing machine any more since this last post, but I am dreaming of a couple of projects!
- June 24, 2010 at 11:04 AM
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As election-day draws closer, political campaigns are slowly gaining tempo, particularly for the grand old party that has taken its campaign up a notch. Apart from the 'Jai Ho' and regular Congress campaign features, the party is also going down another road bagging sponsorship deals with channels running soap dramas and serials on TV. The party is now one of the official sponsors of the serial 'Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyaan' on Zee TV.
Chandran Chirantan, partner, Client Leadership, Mindshare India, the agency in charge of the party's media dealings, says in this case the media strategy for Congress is not about content genres or specific shows like social dramas or serials with hard hitting social messages. "We are looking at shows with mass appeal, greater visibilty and those that are being aggressively promoted by channels. Also on the radar are new shows that can generate high interest levels," he says. The focus obviously is the Aam Aadmi, so not a single English channel figures in the grand scheme of things.


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Hawker centers are an unique feature of Singapore and they are the vendors who dedicated their lives to their street food stalls. Some have and most are entering retirement and a craft they took a lifetime to master could totally vanished within the decade should status quo remains. Three local "lads" began documenting Singapore's remaining street food vendors, hawker centre by hawker centre in 2010. 900 days, over a hundred hawker centres and thousands of hours of interviews, recording and transcription later "Not For Sale - Singapore's Remaining Street Food Vendors" is the most complete and ambitious documentation of Singapore's street food vendors ever archived.
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