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A Twenty-First Century Education
Hewlett Foundation Adopts "Deeper Learning" Strategy
May 01, 2010
Sha'nice Patterson is a student at City Arts & Technology High School in San Francisco. Before coming to the school, Sha'nice had no interest in education. Now, she's on her way to college.
Succeeding in high school is never easy, but for Sha'nice Patterson it was harder than for most.
When Patterson started at City Arts & Technology High School in San Francisco, her mother had just died of a heart ailment at age forty-two. Her estranged father, who had served time in prison and then started a new family, was scarcely a presence, and she was being raised by her eighty-year-old grandmother.
"I wasn't big on education," Patterson says simply. City Arts & Tech Vice Principal Karen Bioski recalls the arrival of an "angry, frustrated girl."
Four years later, Sha'nice Patterson is a student transformed. She has received college acceptances from three four-year universities and is awaiting word from several more. Her trail-blazing junior year internship at the San Francisco City Attorney's office – the first time the office employed a high school intern – has inspired in her a serious interest in becoming an attorney. And she is, by all indications, happy, curious, and eager to learn. In large measure, Patterson credits her transformation to her school.
Video: Hear Sha'nice's story in her own words, and learn more about what deeper learning looks like on the ground.
While most urban high schools struggle simply to get students through four years, at City Arts & Tech all students complete the required course work to be eligible for admission to the California university and state college systems. The students significantly outperform their counterparts at other local schools on the state's annual standardized tests of student achievement in math and language arts.
Indeed, more than 90% of its graduates attend a two- or four-year college, compared with 50% of graduates of all California high schools. And in this student body, more than half the students will be the first in their families to attend college.
City Arts & Tech is one of the Bay Area's four Envision Schools, a group of charter high schools started in 2002 that stress critical reasoning, the ability to communicate, and other skills that prepare students not just for college but for the life they can expect in the twenty-first century.
A New Model for Grantmaking in Education
The educational approach of Envision Schools, a Hewlett Foundation grantee, is a model for a new part of the Foundation's strategy for grantmaking in education: "deeper learning." This approach embraces a series of skills that enable students to go beyond basic skills and support their mastery of core academic content through thinking critically, solving complex problems, working collaboratively, communicating effectively, and learning independently.
Much of this is a far cry from the educational practices in most of the country's K-12 schools, which still focus on rote memorization and the acquisition of knowledge removed from any context.
A poster in Patterson's classroom describes the 5 ways of thinking, posted alongside other visual inspiration.
But research demonstrates that students do not develop the ability to analyze, think critically, write and speak effectively, or solve complex problems by working on tasks that emphasize memorization or require only simple recall or the application of basic instructions. Deeper learning, which is based on this research, enables deep understanding of core knowledge though critical thinking, flexible problem-solving, the transfer of skills and knowledge in new situations, and helping students understand how they learn and how to manage their own learning.
As Envision founder Bob Lenz, a former Marin County public school teacher, put it in a San Francisco Chronicle essay, "Meaningful college preparation is less about teaching facts than empowering students to think." He might have said the same about education in general.
Hewlett's new focus on deeper learning grew from months of analysis of current educational theory and practice and more than a hundred interviews with top education, business, and policy experts.
The Foundation will make grants to support a national network of model schools like Envision, but also to support efforts to evaluate the efficacy of the deeper learning approach and to encourage policy shifts toward it. Education Program grantmakers will also continue the Foundation's longtime support for Open Educational Resources – high-quality, online educational materials available to everyone without charge – and for other initiatives to improve California public education.
"Deeper learning, under a variety of names, is an educational approach that already has a substantial track record and support around the country," says Barbara Chow, director of the Foundation's Education Program. "Our hope is that our grants can act as catalysts to broader adoption of deeper learning and its continued evolution."
Exploring and Supporting a New Approach
Currently, only a small number of the nation's public schools (probably less than 1%) assesses their students based on the precepts of deeper learning. Through its grantmaking, the Hewlett Foundation hopes to help increase that number to 15% (approximately 8 million students) by the year 2017. Initial support will focus on middle schools, high schools, and community colleges around the country. The Education Program's grantmaking for deeper learning will also work to ensure that low-income or underserved students like Sha'nice Patterson have access to this educational approach.
For Patterson, the deeper learning experience at City Arts & Tech began with a faculty and administration working hard to get to know every one of the school's 346 students.
"When I was in high school, I couldn't tell you the names of my principal and vice principal," says Vice Principal Bioski, who is also Patterson's academic counselor. "Here we're interacting with the students constantly. I'm on a first-name basis with all of them and their families. When kids come here, they're shocked that everyone knows who they are."
Patterson works with her peers on an algebra problem. At Envision Schools, students do much of their work in groups, as a way to learn from each other and to collaborate on solving problems.
The goal, Bioski says, isn't to be intrusive, but to engage: "We do it so the kids know they can't fall behind, and so they are constantly reminded that the goal is their going to college. If we can get them to participate, we know we can get them through the twelfth grade."
Patterson agrees that the faculty's intense engagement has helped. "I can't get anything past Miss Bioski and the teachers," says Patterson, whose relationship to Bioski seems close and easy. "She's like an aunt or a mom. Anything I need, I know I can get from her."
Stressing Cooperation and Communication
Much of the classroom work at City Arts & Tech is done in small groups, which teaches skills in cooperation and communication and gives students weak in a particular subject a chance to learn from peers. "Math's not my strongest thing, but we have students who are excellent in class, and I can sit with them to get help," Patterson says.
Much of the curriculum is project-based – eighth and ninth grades feature a group investigation into the Holocaust that Bioski describes as a "full and holistic" study – and emphasizes critical reasoning skills.
The projects, in turn, become part of the centerpiece of education at City Arts & Tech – a portfolio of work called the Envision Schools Graduation Portfolio that each student develops over four years.
Bioski explains that a typical student portfolio represents a series of about twenty tasks: ten pieces of work that a student revises until each is deemed proficient and ten personal reflections on those works. They show the student's best effort in each subject area, she says. Typically, portfolio projects are associated with exhibitions, essays, or other presentations completed over an extended period of time as the culmination of an academic concept or unit. Each year, students complete one or two tasks for their portfolios in each class.
"We don't do lots of tests," Patterson says. "We learn by listening, by looking – different ways work for different kids."
But fewer traditional tests don't mean a lack of rigor in teaching and learning. Instead of some testing, the schools conduct extensive assessments to determine students' mastery. Indeed, that is the purpose the student portfolios serve.
Students' reflections on their own work are particularly important, Bioski says: "They can explain where they are in the process of learning. Being able to explain your learning is something new, a way to understand your progress."
And, indeed, the school is filled with posters like the one in Patterson's classroom titled "Five Ways of Thinking: Justifying, Generalizing, Choosing a Strategy, Investigating, Reversing Thinking."
Students' portfolio projects also entail regular public speaking before fellow classmates and teachers, a process that builds confidence and self-esteem. As Envision founder Lenz observes in his Chronicle essay, "Studies show that the lack of self-management, critical thinking, and effective communication skills are major reasons why students drop out of college in their first year. Students also don't get far in college without problem-solving and technology skills, as well as the ability to collaborate and be creative."
Patterson was sold on the value of the projects and portfolio when a recent graduate returned from his first year at college and reported to City Arts & Tech students that both were just the kind of work they'd be doing as undergraduates.
But at this point Patterson, poised, verbal, and upbeat, needed no further convincing on the virtues of her school's approach. "It was like coming out of the dark into the light," she says of her years here. "I'm ready for my future."


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Frontier Magazine Sep-Oct 2000
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Myanmar Airways International -- Pyinsa Rupa
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I first contributed this to a faulty DVD writer, so I got me a new one.
Go figure, the same problem...
Any hints?
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Keeping Kids in School
Communities In Schools and AT&T are working together to expand and strengthen a proven model for success. Learn how mentoring, metrics and a mission are helping to boost graduation rates and improve futures for students at risk of dropping out.
Nearly one in five high school students don't graduate with their class, with a devastating impact on lives and a crisis for our future job force, the economy and U.S. global competition.
Read the AT&T Contribution to Communities in Schools News Release
Watch the Communities in Schools Making a Difference Video
"Communities In Schools combines the best of what we know works – a caring adult and the effective use of metrics and evidence-based strategies – to drive positive, measurable outcomes for the students they serve," said Beth Shiroishi, president of the AT&T Foundation. "This new support will help ensure these best practices are implemented across their national network. Coupled with the commitment of AT&T employees, we will help more students graduate high school ready for future success."
AT&T's $5 million contribution is one of the largest ever through AT&T Aspire, the company's $350 million investment in education to help more students graduate from high school ready for college and careers and includes:
- Total Quality System: $2.8 million to support the CIS Total Quality System (TQS) accreditation standards that help ensure local affiliates are implementing the CIS model to its full potential. Fifty CIS affiliates, serving approximately 700,000 students, are expected to be TQS-accredited over the period of the contribution. CIS research shows that affiliates with accreditation can double positive outcomes and serve more students than those without accreditation.
- Site Coordinators: $2 million to enable CIS to continue its collaboration with Diplomas Now, a pioneering collaborative with City Year and John Hopkins University Talent Development that reaches the most challenged students in the most challenged schools. The program helps CIS site coordinators target community services and high-intensity supports to students showing early warning signs of dropping out, such as poor attendance, poor behavior and course failure in English or Math. More than 25,000 students will be served, including 2,500 with intensive support.
- Mentors: $200,000 will help expand mentoring opportunities through Aspire Mentoring Academy – Aspire's community engagement program -- to an additional 4,000 CIS students. The funding will build on successful pilots in North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas and Kansas that took place earlier this year. The initiative will connect more students with AT&T employee volunteers who will share life and career experiences with the students.


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Kathryn Swope is an Applied Artist at Northern Illinois University where she directs the University Band and teaches Brass Techniques. She is a regular horn substitute for the Illinois Symphony Orchestra in Springfield, IL and holds permanent positions with the Chicago Gargoyle Brass, the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra. Kate also maintains a private studio at the Northern Illinois Community School of the Arts where she teaches horn and beginning trumpet lessons.
Kate received the Bachelor of Music (with Honors) and a Master of Music in Horn Performance from the University of Louisville School of Music, as well as a Performer's Certificate in Horn from Northern Illinois University. Kate's primary horn teachers have included Bruce Heim and John Fairfield, with additional instruction from Tod Bowermaster of the St. Louis Symphony, Bernhard Scully of the Canadian Brass and Stephen Hanrahan of the Illinois Symphony.
In addition to playing horn, Kate has always had a passion for conducting. While attending the University of Louisville, she received conducting lessons from Dr. Frederick Speck and Professor Kimcherie Lloyd, and has since completed a second Master's degree in Wind Band Conducting from Northern Illinois University under the tutelage of Dr. Ronnie Wooten.
To see where Kate is performing next, visit her at www.swopemusic.com or www.gargoylebrass.com
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Alan Benfield Bush, co-founder of ABBA Haircare, former director of Vidal Sassoon schools in California, will be headlining an educational hair show in Long Beach, CA on Monday, September 16. Being dubbed "A Hair Show created by Artistic Engineers for Artistic Engineers" the product-free presentation also includes:
Robert Lee Casillas and Yanni Daskalakis, Masters of "The Method" and the original "Condensed Cutting" Technique;
Monica Salena and Ricardo Caballero, On-Set Editorial Make-Up and Styling Artists;
Eric Anthony, Master Colorist and Educator.
Known for developing his own method of haircutting called "Condensed Cutting", Benfield Bush teaches the architecture of design within the art form and has mentored his method to hairdressers around the world.
Also a motivational speaker, he will share the highs and lows of his journey and how you can learn to create and appreciate your own authentic success. From his early beginnings as Vidal Sassoon's partner in England, he directed and managed Sassoon's schools in California and eventually developed his revolutionary and unique system he coined "The Method."
The event, which is scheduled to take place from 6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. is being hosted by award-winning hair stylist, Tony Cantafio, owner of Anthony Roberts Salon in Long Beach and will be held at 5411 El Cedral, Long Beach, CA 90815. Admission is $50.00 in advance and $60.00 at the door and includes drinks and refreshments. Cosmetology students are welcome to attend at 50% off the regular price.
Attendance is limited; advance ticket purchase is recommended. For tickets or more information, call:
David @ 949.637.1918
Donny @ 310.967.9940
Robert @ 619.574.8600
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SOMERVILLE A cell phone dropped at the scene of an alleged sexual assault led to the arrest of 25-year-old New Brunswick man who is in jail with bail set at $150,000.
Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano said that Reynaldo Bernardino Vargas was arrested on Jan. 16 after a subpoena for subscriber information on the phone identified him as the owner.
Soriano gave the following account.
On Jan. 15, a 26-year-old woman reported to Franklin Township Police that she had been sexually assaulted in the Somerset section of the township by an unknown man. The man dropped his cell phone when he fled. The woman was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.
Detectives from the Prosecutor's Office Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Unit and Franklin Township Police spoke with the victim there and subsequently sought the subpoena.
On Jan. 16, Vargas was found in New Brunswick and questioned in the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office. He was then charged with aggravated sexual assault and robbery and taken to the county jail. Judge Robert Reed set bail at $150,000.


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Brake Check-Mate and Brake Check-Mate VSI
Child-Check Mate Systems
Malfunctioning air brakes are the most common cause of safety-related violations among school bus operators. Out-of-adjustment air brakes are also one of the leading causes of crashes.
To address this issue, Child Check-Mate Systems — innovators of the popular electronic child monitoring product for the school bus industry — has introduced a new product, the Brake Check-Mate.
Brake Check-Mate is an intelligent on-board warning system that measures brake performance in real time so that appropriate personnel can be alerted in advance of brake-related problems.
Bob Moran, president of Child Check-Mate, says the product will automatically warn drivers if their vehicle's air brakes are out of adjustment or ready to fail. "The system provides a low-cost risk-management solution that offers increased safety while lowering maintenance costs," he says. "In fact, the system will pay for itself in just six weeks through reduced labor costs and fewer violations."
Brake Check-Mate is a patented electro-magnetic brake warning device that monitors and relays real-time notification of brake degradation or impending failure from any mechanical cause. It measures brake stroke travel and fade and senses hung-up brakes and non-activating brake chambers. It also saves drivers from having to crawl under a vehicle to perform the daily pre-trip inspection measurement of brake adjustment.
The device consists of a corrosion-resistant steel bracket, an electronic sensor, a special magnetic clevis pin and an in-cab diagnostic module. The bracket is attached to each brake chamber, and the sensor is secured to the bracket and aligned with the magnetic clevis pin at the correct start position based on the brake chamber size.
The main wiring harness is tie-wrapped to existing lines along the frame, runs through the firewall and connects to the in-dash display. When the brakes are applied, air brake activity is displayed by a series of LEDs that use the international color scheme of green for GO, yellow for CAUTION and red for STOP.
Another new product, Brake Check-Mate VSI (visual stroke indicator), provides drivers and maintenance personnel with air-brake status information. Installed under the power unit, it uses brightly colored pins to visually indicate if brakes are out of adjustment. It eliminates the need for drivers to crawl under the vehicle to measure brake adjustment.
For more information about these products, contact Bob Moran at the following toll-free number: (877) 494-8222.
Passenger Accountability System
Synovia Corp.
Synovia, a provider of GPS technology for school busing, now offers school districts a solution for tracking and managing special-needs students.
Building on its reputation for customer focus and innovation, Synovia has unveiled the Passenger Accountability System, which is designed to be the school transportation industry's most advanced and reliable special-needs student tracking system.
The primary purpose of the Passenger Accountability System is to help districts account for their special-needs passengers. As part of the streetSmart family of products, the system works in unison with Synovia's user-friendly software, allowing districts to create quick, meaningful and accurate reports.
Before each route, a passenger list is automatically downloaded to the text display. As drivers make their stops, they simply select the student who has boarded or exited, giving districts an accurate, real-time snapshot of who's on board.
{+PAGEBREAK+} Because the system integrates with routing data, it quickly accommodates ever-changing passenger lists. If a new student is added or removed from the route, the passenger list is updated and sent to the display within 24 hours. Since it doesn't require ID cards, barcodes or handwritten sheets, the system is nimble and easy to manage.
Drivers are empowered with two-way messaging between their vehicle and dispatch. If there is a medical or other emergency onboard, drivers may immediately notify dispatch with the push of a button. Within seconds, dispatch knows there is an emergency on the bus, where the bus is located and who is on board. Cellular technology provides a broader communication area and higher capacity than other radio-based options, ensuring that emergency information reaches dispatch in real-time.
Finally, the Passenger Accountability System helps automate reporting for special-needs transportation reimbursement. With accurate and real-time ridership records, information that previously took weeks to gather can now be gathered in seconds.
For more information, contact Brad Bishop at (317) 805-4866 or [email protected]. Synovia will debut the Passenger Accountability System on March 13 during the trade show at the Transporting Students with Disabilities and Preschoolers conference in Louisville, Ky.
VersaTrans OnScreen 1.2
VersaTrans Solutions
VersaTrans Solutions Inc. has released VersaTrans OnScreen 1.2, its newest version of the GPS tracking system that allows users to monitor fleet activity from anywhere.
VersaTrans OnScreen is a Web-based application that integrates with VersaTrans RP, VersaTrans Solutions' flagship routing and planning solution. Using a Web browser, VersaTrans OnScreen enables school transportation operators to monitor vehicle location information and driver behavior in a real-time manner while vehicles are on the road transporting students. It offers transportation managers the opportunity to proactively monitor driver, route and vehicle information to assist in providing safe transportation of students to and from school and extracurricular events.
Version 1.2 offers enhancements to the displaying of route names, historical information, information lookup and playback modes. Further, the Vehicle Hardware Associations has been revamped for increased usability, and a VersaTrans OnScreen Purge feature has been developed to eliminate older data that can create performance issues and increased storage requirements.
"The enhancements built into this latest release of VersaTrans OnScreen make for a truly exciting product," says Product Manager Joe Hasan. "New tools, which leverage real-time comparisons between GPS data and planned route data, assist our customers in operating the safest and most efficient fleet possible."
Hasan says the new version allows managers to quickly retrieve information. For example, if a parent or school official wants to know if a bus serviced a stop or is running behind, the information is processed and pulled up on the screen. "There's a lot of functionality built into the new release," he says. "It really takes the next steps into integrating VersaTrans RP and OnScreen."
For more information about this product, contact Terri Fallon, marketing director, at (518) 533-1804 or [email protected].
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Brody File Instant Debate Analysis: Gingrich, Bachmann Stand Out. Romney? All Bets Are Off
Brody File Instant Debate Analysis:
Tonight's two big winners: Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann. Mitt Romney? Not the best night.
Disagree? You want to bet? I'll bet you $10,000. You get the point right?
Newt Gingrich:
The knives were out and Gingrich weathered the storm. He did not get dragged into the mud but rather defended himself and stayed relatively positive, which has been the key to his campaign. He clearly took his anti-arrogance pills before the debate and, for the most part, they kicked in and worked.
Did he get dinged up? Sure a little bit but the Palestinian "invented people" line actually helps him with many conservative evangelicals. In addition, as long as Gingrich speaks boldly and calls out the extreme radical Muslim ideology in the Middle East, he will earn major points with evangelicals.
The power of Gingrich is in his ability to be bold and throw political correctness to the wind. It's working and it worked tonight again. He's the clear frontrunner.
Michele Bachmann:
Newt/Romney, Newt/Romney, Newt/Romney. Bachmann scored with that line. So much for 999. She has the new line. Bachmann was really on her game tonight. If she can get people to see her as a POTUS then she can go far. Tonight was a big step in that direction. She came to primetime TV tonight and showed she's ready for primetime.
Mitt Romney:
The $10,000 bet line to Rick Perry was disastrous on so many levels. First of all, how about a $1 bet not $10,000?!! He really showed his elitist filthy rich side by giving that figure. Plus, why is he offering to bet on national TV? What kind of message does that send to children? Oy.
Beyond the betting line, Romney continues to look like he's plodding along. In other words, he was okay but not spectacular. That might not cut it at this stage. What we also saw from Romney tonight is that when he brought up the whole Palestinian "invented people" issue, he came across as extremely cautious.
While he might think that's a good thing, voters are not looking for a candidate who's cautious because cautious means tentative. Tentative means unsure. Unsure means wishy-washy. Wishy-washy means flip flop. Gingrich has pulled ahead of Romney because he's talking much bolder. That is a big reason why Romney has a ceiling.
Rick Santorum:
Solid as always. He needs a breakthrough moment. I didn't see it tonight.
Ron Paul:
A broken record. That's not being negative - just stating that he's been consistent since the very beginning.
Rick Perry:
He says all the right things but it just takes three times as long because he simply isn't coherent up there at times. His delivery needs work to say the least. I have the number for Dale Carnegie if he wants to call me.


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A Troubled Rebel Chooses a Silent Death
The Clown Prince of the Left, Abbie Hoffman Never Went Quietly Until Finally He Wearied of Struggling to Be Heard
Summoned to this corner of pastoral Bucks County, Pa., six years ago by an environmental group that wanted his help battling the diversion of the Delaware River water to cool a nuclear reactor, Hoffman told an interviewer in 1987 that he was happy to "live and die here fighting the Philadelphia Electric Company-it's just like the '60s for me."
But it was not just like the '60s. In that theatrical era, young Abbie Hoffman held center stage. A self-styled "Groucho Marxist" and co-founder of the Youth International Party (supporters were dubbed yippies), which existed mostly in his imagination, he was the antiwar movement's mad genius of media events. He disrupted business on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange by tossing dollar bills from the balcony. He rallied 50,000 anti-Vietnam War demonstrators to levitate the Pentagon. He nominated a pig—Pigasus—for President when thousands of protesters converged on Chicago to demonstrate at the 1968 Democratic Convention. The violence in the streets there led to the most famous political trial of the decade, as Hoffman and his Chicago Eight co-defendants were charged in 1969 with conspiracy to incite riot.
They ultimately beat the charges but not before turning Judge Julius Hoffman's courtroom into a countercultural circus: Abbie somersaulted into court one day and wore judicial robes another. "Where do you reside?" his lawyer asked him on the witness stand. "I live in Woodstock Nation," he replied. "It is a nation of alienated young people. We carry it around with us as a state of mind.... It is a nation dedicated to...the idea that people should have better means of exchange than property or money."
Just what that "better means" should be was never clearly spelled out, but it didn't matter then. "F—the System!" was program enough so long as it left room for lots of sex and drugs and rock and roll. "He used to say, 'All I care about is who's bringing the ice cream to the demonstration,' " recalls fellow yippie Jerry Rubin, 50. "Essentially, he wanted to have fun."
Now, those alienated young people are no longer young, and Woodstock Nation is a memory. But " Abbie wasn't interested in nostalgia," says Al Giordano, 29, a journalist who knew him well. "He was interested in battling the power structure. He had learned that nostalgia is just another form of depression."
The last thing Hoffman needed was more forms of depression. Diagnosed by the early '80s as manic-depressive, he'd seen far more valleys than peaks in recent years. Rubin recalls that on a 1983 trip to Mexico, "He spoke like a man whose life was over. Abbie went to the colleges, and he'd say, 'Are you kids just thinking about yourselves? Don't you care about Nicaragua? The homeless?' When I first saw Abbie's face, in the '60s, it was a face without pain. But you looked at his face now, it was nothing but suffering."
"He probably died of a broken heart," opines his friend Paul Kantner, formerly of the rock group Jefferson Airplane. "Abbie loved the potential of this country, and he worked furiously to realize that potential. That's where his frustration was. He felt he wasn't getting enough attention—because he was the consummate showman."
Yet Hoffman had been an activist long before the whole world was watching. Growing up as a Jew in Worcester, Mass., he personally encountered discrimination. Vowing to fight bigotry on all fronts, he joined the first wave of Northern civil rights workers to go into the South. Employed as a pharmaceutical salesman at the time, he used the company car to ferry volunteers into Mississippi and Georgia. The beatings he suffered there gave Hoffman "a certain wildness in the eyes he didn't have before," says an old Worcester friend.
But he always remained a uniquely American radical. He loved to play cards, shoot pool, watch sports on TV. A die-hard Red Sox fan, he insisted every spring that this would be the year they'd finally win the World Series.
"I have never seen myself as anything more than a good community organizer," Hoffman wrote in his 1980 autobiography, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture. "It was just the Vietnam War that made the community bigger, that's all."
But in the '60s he came to depend upon that big community, and in recent years it had gotten much, much smaller. Where once his every word was deemed significant—his books sold 3 million copies—now Hoffman spoke to small and sometimes unenthusiastic audiences. From 1984 to 1986, he and Rubin—who renounced radicalism to become a Wall Street marketing director and now a Manhattan nightclub promoter—appeared on 50 campuses a year, splitting $5,000 a pop to put on their yippie vs. yuppie "debate." It was the rhetorical equivalent of pro wrestling, and Hoffman knew it. He tried stand-up comedy at a New York club last August, but his performance was essentially a warmed-over lecture, and it flopped. "It was almost pitiful," says a friend.
"He was trying so hard to be contemporary," says Jonathan Silvers, 27, who co-wrote the last of Hoffman's nine books, Steal This Urine Test (a critical success and commercial failure), "fighting drug testing and fighting to drop that label of the '60s." Yet no other label seemed to apply. Even as Hoffman vigorously pressed his causes—he was arrested with Amy Carter protesting CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts in 1986—it was seen as a pale reenactment of that halcyon decade.
"He didn't have major goals worked out for the future. He was going day by day," says Silvers. "He was busy, but he wanted more order in his life." Frantic activity became a substitute for clear purpose. "Every time I called him on the phone I got the feeling he had thousands of things going on," says an acquaintance, "It was like dealing with a short-order cook."
The acute pains of Hoffman's withdrawal from the limelight began in 1974, when, facing 15 years to life for arranging the sale of three pounds of cocaine to undercover cops, he skipped bail and went underground. His then-wife, Anita, and their 2-year-old boy, america, stayed behind. Suddenly the media darling "had to learn to be alone, not to be famous, not to be the center of attention," recalls Anita. "His letters were so desolate." He took crazy risks to appear in public and see his family—and sometimes he snapped. Once in a Las Vegas hotel room, recalls old friend and Realist publisher Paul Krassner, "He freaked out and screamed, 'I'm Abbie Hoffman! I'm Abbie Hoffman!' "
Family and friends learned to expect these "periodic breakdowns" while he was a fugitive, says Andrew Hoffman, his son by his first marriage. At 16, Andrew was suddenly dispatched to Canada because his father was in no shape to be left alone. "In typical Abbie fashion, everything came to a halt, and I got on a plane," says Andrew, now 28. "When I got to the hotel, he was very hyper and wanted to go out. We went to this bar and these two French-speaking gentlemen were buying me expensive drinks. I said, 'Dad, what's going on?' 'Oh,' he said, 'I told them you were the most famous rock star in Mexico.' So even when he was underground, he would figure out some way to draw attention and get people excited."
But Hoffman also did solid political work during his six years in hiding. Settling in Fineview, N.Y., on the St. Lawrence River, in 1976, he took the name Barry Freed and became the respected leader of the Save the River movement, which successfully opposed a dredging project. He'd landed in Fine-view because it was the family home of his "running mate," former model Johanna Lawrenson, whom he'd met while lying low in Mexico. (A year after he'd gone underground, Hoffman wrote Anita, "I'm getting married. God! That's gotta' be the strangest thing a guy could tell his wife." But in fact, though Anita and Abbie divorced in 1980, Hoffman and Johanna never wed in their 14 years together.)
His environmental work was cited by some of the 400 luminaries—including William F. Buckley Jr., Norman Mailer, Burt Lancaster and Gene Kelly—who wrote the authorities on his behalf when Hoffman surfaced in 1980 to face the cocaine charges. He plea bargained and served only 11 months.
In some ways, friends say, Hoffman mellowed during his years underground. "When he came back, he seemed more solid," says fellow activist Dave Dellinger. For one thing, he had lost his enthusiasm for psychedelic drugs. "I have gone on to other things," he wrote in Urine Test. In other ways, he hadn't changed at all—in his relationships with women for example.
He married his first wife, Sheila, in 1960, when they were just out of college. Sheila, now 51 and a therapist in the Boston area, left him in 1966—even though it meant being on welfare with their two small children, Andrew and Ilya. Though he was often warm and loving, she could not live in a world that revolved solely around Abbie. "I never knew anyone who wanted to be a husband more than Abbie," she says, "but he didn't know how to do it." She never remarried.
Hoffman's second wife, Anita Kushner, whom he married in 1967 during the headiest days of the movement, says, "I spent my time bailing him out of jail. I'm not saying that was the greatest thrill. But I saw my role as a real helpmate, so he was free to act out his own thing." Eventually though, with the coming of the women's liberation movement, says Anita, "I didn't feel I knew who I was."
In recent years Johanna Lawrenson grappled with the same imbalance. While she and Abbie lived underground, she recalls, "I did all the typing, all the driving, all the packing, all the arranging." In 1987 she declined to move with him to Pennsylvania and instead took a part-time job at a chess shop in New York City. Hoffman didn't like that. "But it was too much overload working for Abbie," she says. "There was no limit to the amount of work that he could think up for people to do." Even the children were drawn into the vortex of Hoffman's hyperactivity—Ilya once called her father from college to say, "I won't be your f———secretary anymore!" Yet all of his families loved him dearly, and in his own fun house-mirror way, Hoffman was a proud husband and father. Ilya remembers the time, as a youngster, when she called him and said, "Dad, I got arrested!" And he said, "Great! What for?" "I told him I'd gone camping in a graveyard. 'Well, that's a good start,' he said. And I thought, 'Dad, you're not supposed to say that to me!' "
"He was so cute and we loved to cuddle so much," says Johanna, starting to cry in her tiny Manhattan apartment as she gazes at his picture. "That was our thing. Whenever anything was wrong, we'd get into bed and cuddle and hug."
Johanna had been hoping that Abbie would slow down. "I'd say, 'You're carrying this weight. Relax a little bit. You can't go running around with the kids all the time.' Everybody would call him and want him to come and speak here, help organize there, and he looked tired from that."
Part of the problem was money. Hoffman had never had much and tended to give away what he had. But a bad car accident last June, from which he never fully recovered, may have called up the old fears from his fugitive days of "growing old...alone and broke." In that dark mood, he wrote in his autobiography, "I craved death but lacked the energy or initiative to do the deed. Instead I lay in bed and waited."
On April 12 Hoffman's landlord, Michael Waldron, got a call from Johanna, who said she'd been unable to reach Abbie by phone. Waldron discovered him, fully clothed, in bed. "He was lying on his side, his head on his hands. The blanket on top of him wasn't even disturbed. He looked so peaceful lying there." The Bucks County coroner, finding that Abbie had ingested a lethal mix of alcohol and the equivalent of 150 phenobarbital pills, ruled the death a suicide. But Abbie's younger brother, Jack, at first found that hard to accept. Hoffman had been taking lithium and other prescribed drugs for his manic-depressive condition, and, says Jack, 49, "He really felt he could beat this. I can't believe he would just give up." Besides, their mother had recently been diagnosed with recurring cancer, and "Abbie wouldn't have left me alone with this problem," says Jack. "He was always there when I needed him."
Looking back, though, it seems that in recent months Hoffman had been settling his accounts. "In the last two months he was definitely depressed," Anita says. "I know you've done the best you can raising america," he wrote in one of his last letters to her. "I was moved and touched," says Anita. "He never said I did a good job before."
Ilya, now a youth services caseworker in the Boston area, where her brother Andrew is an artist and carpenter, says, "In a lot of our last conversations, he talked about us carrying on. He was saying, 'I'm tired.' And he wanted us—not just the two of us, but all young people—to carry on. I don't know if we would choose exactly the same way he did, but it's in our blood to stand up for what we believe in."
Says Jerry Rubin: "People said that he only acted and talked when the press was there. But after he came out from the underground, there was no press. He was talking to kids. He was teaching. He was a great teacher. He would have been a fantastic old person."
Maybe, but now Abbie Hoffman lives in Woodstock Nation, where he is forever young.
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Customize and sew your first garment a chic pencil skirt and gain the skills to make even more wardrobe essentials you'll love to wear!
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I can't belive nobody else has made a comment on this.(I just did) Very good.
Thanks Isaac, for all your comments! The church you asked about is standard protestant.
Interesting that people don't comment when you use a less familiar style. I have noticed the same with other pics. This is very delicate (chinoisery?) and your photos are very powerful and beautiful. Very inspiring
Wow! I have to learn to pronounce the name of that place so I can get there some day :D
Great one!
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Born: November 1963
Height: 8' 6"
In India, "Dulary" is a term of endearment, intended for someone who is an object of great affection or love - it is often used in the context of a doting parent's love for their child.
She arrived at the Philadelphia Zoo in May of 1964, weighing only 300 pounds. She has lived with both African and Asian elephants most of her life.
In July 2005, she suffered an injury near her right eye during a shoving match instigated by an African elephant she had previously gotten along with. She's recovered completely from the injury and has sight in that eye. Since the injury, she's been housed next to, but not in with, the Africans, due to concerns that there could be additional negative interactions and potential for injury.
As you can see in the photo, Dulary loves the water. She's also very "talkative."
What a gem Dulary is! She has been steadily acclimating to her new environment, new elephants and new caregivers. She is independent but spends time with the other elephants, especially Misty and Tarra. She is a strong-willed, self-confident individual—all traits that make her a prime candidate for life at the Sanctuary. After only a month, she has begun to interact in a respectful way with her caregivers which is cause for celebration.


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'Transformers,' 'G.I. Joe' boost earnings
Viacom's profit jumped 15% last quarter to $463 million, buoyed by a newly energized Paramount, where "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra" boosted earnings by $88 million.
Par "is benefiting from a creative resurgence, coupled with a disciplined approach to the bottom line. They are on a roll," said Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone during the company's third-quarter earnings conference call.
Viacom shares rallied in early trading after releasing its numbers, reaching a 52-week high of $31.42 before closing at $30.18, up 1.4% for the day. The stock has been as low as $13 during the year as the economic downturn hit companies across the board but knocked media companies particularly hard.
Chief exec Philippe Dauman confirmed the studio will make a sequel to "Paranormal Activity," the surprise horror hit that cost no more than $15,000 to make and has grossed more than $85 million.
He also said Viacom is beefing up its West Coast animation production operations, looking to produce more original TV programming as well as feature films.
Viacom's total revenue eased 3% to $3.3 billion as robust theatrical revenue and affiliate fees largely offset lower home entertainment and advertising sales.
Dauman sees an emerging recovery, noting a livelier ad market in the third quarter from the second.
"While I expect the road to recovery will be a bumpy one, I do believe the economy, particularly in the U.S., now is moving in the right direction," he said. "There are a lot of companies out there who are coming back in, who have stepped it up."
Amid conflicting data, there have been indications in recent weeks that the country may have climbed out of recession. Investors are scouring corporate earnings for signs. Viacom is the first in a string of major media congloms that will report quarterly results this week and next.
"Speaking for myself, I am very pleased to get the events of the past year behind us," Redstone said. He was referring to the economic downturn that trampled Viacom shares and also forced him to sell chunks of his own stock in Viacom and CBS to pay off bank loans. With a final sale of stock last month, however, he's in the clear with creditors and still controls both companies.
During the call, Dauman addressed the status of Epix, the pay TV channel launched late last week by Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate. The venture has faced an uphill climb in securing carriage from major cable and sat-TV operators. Dauman said Epix was close to signing additional distribution deals — beyond the one inked with Verizon's FiOS video service — and had hoped to announce them "around now."
"But the conclusion of these negotiations, while they are going well, is taking just a little longer," he said.
If Epix continues to struggle on the distribution front, it will put a dent in Viacom's bottom line because it is no longer receiving pay TV revenue from an outside source on its recent theatrical releases. Par, MGM and Lionsgate joined forces on Epix in the face of steep cuts in pay TV output deals that each distrib previously had with Showtime.
Tom Dooley, Viacom's chief financial officer, downplayed the immediate impact, saying Epix "will begin to have an impact in the fourth quarter as both we and the other studios begin to deliver film to it and it goes live on the air. It won't have a material impact on our margins for the foreseeable future, though, for any of our businesses."
On the studio side, Viacom's filmed entertainment division surged to a profit of $69 million for the three months ended Sept. 30 from a $19 million loss the year before.
Worldwide theatrical revenue rose 16%.
Restructuring and hefty cost cuts also boosted Paramount's earnings.
Dooley said expenses were down by $173 million in the quarter as fewer releases meant lower distribution and production costs.
Revenue, however, slipped 6% to $1.2 billion on a 21% drop in home entertainment sales. The studio cited tough comps with "Iron Man" in the year-earlier quarter, as well as sluggish catalog sales.
But execs anticipate a homevid bonanza in the current quarter as "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," "G.I. Joe" and "Star Trek" DVDs roll out.
"Revenge of the Fallen" has sold more than 8.3 million units after less than two weeks in release, Dauman said.
Paramount has five pictures left in a distribution deal with Marvel, which was recently acquired by Disney. It also has a distrib pact with DreamWorks Animation that may or may not be renewed. That begs the question of whether Viacom wants or needs a content acquisition to beef up its slate — Summit Entertainment, perhaps? asked one analyst on the call.
"We have no interest in putting cash in that direction," Dooley said.
"Our long-term strategy is not dependent on the continuation of either deal," Dauman added. He said the studio is well supplied with its own franchises and top-drawer producer deals.
As for Par's latest coup, Dauman cautioned that a sequel to "Paranormal Activity" likely won't pack the punch of the original.
"Brad Grey says, 'In showbiz, every once in a while you get a miracle, and this was one,' " noted Dauman, quoting Par's chief. "Low budget was not the word. It was extremely low budget," he said.
"We obviously will not be able to have the same level of surprise (for the sequel). Our team will come up with the right creative and marketing approach. It took many years after 'Blair Witch' to come up with 'Paranormal Activity.' There may be another one. But you can't expect these."
Par's slate through year's end includes Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air," with George Clooney, and Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones." The 2010 slate features Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island," "Iron Man 2," "Shrek Forever After" and M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender."
In media networks, including MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, Spike, CMT, TV Land and Logo, profit rose 2% to $773 million. Revenue was flat at $2.1 billion.
Lower advertising and ancillary revenue largely offset solid growth in affiliate sales and the boons from cost cutting.
Worldwide affiliate revenue grew 10%.
Worldwide advertising revenue fell 5%. Domestic ad revenue fell 4% — but that still marked a 2% improvement over the second quarter.
Dauman was upbeat on kidvid juggernaut Nickelodeon, which has emerged at the head of the cable pack as MTV still struggles.
"Nickelodeon is one of our greatest, if not our greatest, brand," Dauman said.
Viacom recently acquired the rights to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" for $62 million. "We do have our eye on a number of low-priced opportunities" in the space, Dauman said.
He said Viacom plans to increase its investment in original animation to create programs both for Nickelodeon and for the adult-oriented nets like MTV, Comedy Central and Nick at Nite.
To that end, it will expand its animation studio in California as well as its animation support facilities in Asia and elsewhere into a hub for TV programming. The company is also exploring leveraging those capabilities into movie production.


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The Woodinvile High School cheerleaders will hold a Cheer Camp for students in grades K-6 on Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the high school gymnasium. Family and friends are invited to attend a performance by participants and the cheerleaders at 1:30 p.m.
Registration fee is $30, if mailed by Oct. 21, or $35 at the door and includes a T-shirt and a pom-pom, as well as camp activities. Call (425)788-3694 for registration or information.


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The WPJA is proud to launch the Trash The Dress photography contest specifically designed to recognize the exceptional talent of our esteemed members.
Trash The Dress (TTD) competition entries are created after the ceremony with primary direction provided by the photographer. Entries are judged on creativity, technical
proficiency, composition and lighting.
Gritty, romantic and uniquely sexy, TTD photo shoots challenge the photographers creativity, imagination and technical aptitude. Enjoyed by thousands of brides and couples
worldwide, these on-location photo sessions commemorate the wedding and cherished gown within a glamorous, frivolous and often lively post-nuptial portfolio. TTD sessions meld
formal wedding attire within unconventional settings. For example, sessions are frequently held on sandy beaches, amidst crashing ocean waves, at rustic farms, on playgrounds
or in urban settings.
After the nuptials but before its boxed, the wedding gown is taken to a completely new level during a Trash The Dress session. We invite members to exhibit their creativity
through our newest competition. Submit your entries by Friday, September 19th, 2008 in our exciting TTD competition!
01. TTD - Water
Images submitted into the Water category are from settings in or near water. Representing the many ways photographers may use water to their advantage, these photos might
depict the bride or couple in formal wedding attire fully or partially immersed in a swimming pool, lake, ocean or even a puddle.
02. TTD - Urban
Urban entries capture the bride or couple in formal wedding attire within city or town life. Creative couple portraiture might be set amid well-trafficked or heavily
populated areas, urban ruins, housing or architecture, graffiti-covered structures, social landscapes, busy streets or sidewalks. Portraits can also be taken amongst
transportation including cars, trucks, trains or subways.
03. TTD - Rural
Rural photographs depict the bride or couple within a country, rustic, natural or rural setting while dressed in their formal wedding attire. This artistic portraiture might
portray the subjects lying in a field or walking on a dirt road, among livestock or within an isolated pasture.
04. TTD - Details
For the Details category, we are looking for images that primarily focus on close-range details of the bride, groom, couple or distinct elements within the setting. These
details can be found or set-up shots. Details might include sand on skin, wedding bands, hands, feet, or a soiled or wet wedding gown.
Portrait of Matt Adcock and Sol Tamargo
Photo by Susan Stripling
WPJA award-winners Sol Tamargo and Matt Adcock happen to be at the center of the Trash The Dress movement, and are among its foremost practitioners. As a married
couple who often work together on TTD sessions, they have no shortage of enthusiastic newlyweds anxious to experience this ritual, with the number of interested people growing
by the week.
Its really getting popular, says Matt, who with Sol and their associate photographers at Del Sol Photography shoot more than 100 weddings each year. Last year we
shot 22 TTD sessions, and at this point now weve already shot 30 and change, and well still do 8 to 10 more. Weve had 89 inquiries for the month of July, and at least half
of them are interested in TTD.
Drawing on this experience, Sol and Matt will be serving as judges in the first-ever WPJA Trash the Dress contest, open to WPJA members to submit any TTD image created prior
to 2008.
We've recently published a
Trash The Dress WedPix article which covers
the following TTD topics:
As you may have already noticed, we have relocated many of our contest information pages to the
Member Login section of the WPJA.com website. Please login to
your account to read all of the TTD contest rules before entering. You will also find an updated list of contest awards, prizes and trophies as well as a new set of judging
procedures for this contest.


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- Director: Philippe Mora
- Release Date: 10 November 1989 (USA)
- Run Time: Netherlands:101 min | Germany:106 min (video) | USA:107 min
- Country: USA , UK
- Genre: Biography , Drama , Horror , Sci-Fi , Thriller
Watch movie: Communion (1989)
Tagline: On December 26th, 1985, Whitley Strieber had a dream. Weeks later, he discovered his family had the same dream. Months later, he made the most shocking discovery of his life. Now, you will discover it.
Trivia: While serving as executive producer, author Whitley Strieber, whose experiences serve as the basis of the film, expressed concerns about Christopher Walken's abilities in portraying him. When Strieber finally told Walken that he might be portraying him as a little too crazy, Walken replied, "If the shoe fits."
Goofs: Continuity: As Whitley opens the closet to find the teddy bear he opens the right closet door. When filmed from the inside, both doors are open and he then proceeds to close the left door.
"Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the truth"


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"Effective January 1, 2006, the OSU Admissions application and application fee is effective for one year. Requests received January 1, 2006 and beyond to update admission application and fee to a future term will only be allowed for one full year from the term applied for. Example: Originally applied for Winter term 2006, can update through Winter term 2007, if wish to update to Spring 2007 or later requires a new application and fee. "
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Heavy rain expected Thursday
Bowden Fishing Derby set
The 23rd annual Bowden Fishing Derby will be Saturday at the Bowden Fish Hatchery, nine miles east of Elkins.
The schedule of activities includes: 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., registration; 8-9 a.m., fishing for pre-school and kindergarten age children; 9:30-10:30 a.m., fishing for first- and second-grade children; 11 a.m. to noon, fishing for third-, fourth- and fifth-grade children; and 12:30-1:30 p.m., fishing for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade children. Catch and Release Pond fishing hours are 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
All children must be registered and must bring a completed form to the event. The event is for children ages 3-14, and they must be accompanied by an adult. Adults are not allowed to fish, but they can assist (i.e. casting at the Put and Take Ponds). There is a two-trout limit at the Put and Take Pond. Fishing is only allowed with bait; no fish are to be released. Younger children may fish in older age groups until they catch their limit, but older children are not allowed to fish in younger age groups.
At the Catch and Release Pond, users must be able to cast without assistance. Only artificial lures are to be used. Lures with multiple hooks are to be barbless. All trout caught from the Catch and Release Ponds must be released immediately in good condition.
There will be free fishing for children, prizes and a casting contest.
For more information, call Elkins Parks and Recreation at 304-636-3960, West Virginia Division of Natural Resources at 304-637-0245 or Monongahela National Forest at 304-636-1800, ext. 203.


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Who have in fact tried St. John's Wort for the recommended time and dose?
I want to know if anybody has actually taken St. John's Wort for a long time and at the right dose that it's recommended in decree to have a positive impact on your depression or anxiety. Usually people try things for one week and not the right amount and they say it didn't work for them.
It's said St. John's Wort wants to be taken for at least 2 to 4 weeks, or maybe even 6 weeks at 900mg a day to own full benefits.
that's right it requirements to be taken for a minimum of 2 weeks or longer, I took it for quite a while and it helped my mood and my outlook, I felt greatly better. I had no side afftects.
This group of scientists studied for a long time and found it to be useless.
This woman stopped taking medicine for her Schizophrenia and started taking St. John's Wort. Soon after she had a psychotic break and kill her children.
It's a dangerous scam and should be outlawed. The only scientifically proven effect that it has is to aggravate the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.
I did and it did not work for me. The only combination that worked for me was 5HTP combined with Folgard (a supplement containing Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, and Folic Acid). St John's Wort never decrease my depression and the side effects were horrible!
I did. Took it for two months. It didn't work for me.
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DENVER — It took Chatfield to work a little overtime, but for the first time since 1996 the Chargers advanced to the Final Four of the Class 5A boys basketball state tournament.
The 5A Jeffco League champions defeated Cherry Creek 63-55 in overtime March 5 at the Denver Coliseum. In the Chatfield's first trip to the Great 8 since 2001, the No. 2 seed Chargers outscored No. 4-seeded Bruins 13-5 in overtime to take the eight-point victory.
By Craig Harper — For the Courier
LITTLETON — Stephen Schimpeler led Chatfield to the Great 8 of the Class 5A boys state basketball tournament in his first year as head coach (2000-01).
AURORA — Urgency hit Dakota Ridge's boys basketball team like a ton of bricks in the fourth quarter March 2 at Regis Jesuit High School.
The Eagles trailed by a dozen points — 39-27 — to the No. 2-seeded Regis heading into the final eight minutes. With their season on the line, No. 3 seed Dakota Ridge (17-8 record) put on a furious rally attempt scoring 26 points in the fourth quarter in the Class 5A state tournament Sweet 16 game.
HIGHLANDS RANCH — It was not a "Super Tuesday" for Dakota Ridge on the basketball court.
The Eagles were looking for an epic upset against No. 1 seed Highlands Ranch (24-1 record) on the Falcons' home court. However, it wasn't meant to be. Dakota Ridge's girls hoops season ended with a 70-41 loss in the round of 16 in the Class 5A state tournament.
SUPERIOR — Dakota Ridge hockey coach Alec Hines has known all season that the Eagles' road to the state championship would have to go through Monarch.
LONGMONT — The first chapter in the new book of D'Evelyn boys basketball program came to a close Feb. 27.
The Jaguars lost 66-44 to No. 1 seed Longmont on the Trojans' home court in a Class 4A state tournament Sweet 16 game to bring the season to an end for D'Evelyn (15-10 record).
LITTLETON — One question will never be answered: How good would Dakota Ridge's girls basketball team be if Diane Thompson stepped in as head coach a few years ago?
"Better late than never," Dakota Ridge senior Becky Holley said having Thompson become the fourth varsity coach for the current group of seniors. "We have an amazing coach. She has helped us improve more than we have the past two years. We're having a great final run with the best coach we could have."
LONGMONT — If only games went into overtime every time for D'Evelyn's girls basketball team, the Jaguars could be undefeated.
By Brian Miller — For the Courier
LITTLETON — Even after misfiring on his first nine attempts of the game, Dakota Ridge's Tyler McFarland never lost confidence.
LITTLETON — While early 3-pointers ripping through the nylon nets brought Chatfield's student section into a frenzy, it was four shots at the rim that gave the Charger faithful something to really cheer about in the end on Feb. 27.
Baskets in the paint by Chatfield's Titus Reed, Josh Frenette, Riley Welch and Cameron Pearson in the final minutes allowed the Class 5A Jeffco League champions to escape with a 78-71 second-round state playoff victory against Aurora Central.
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I'm really excited that the Design Team was up for playing "Karaoke" this month! It's been so much fun listening to the music that inspires them.
I have loved this song since the first moment I heard it. Wesley has had it on his iPod for quite a while. The song is "Stolen" by Dashboard Confessional. The card that was inspired by the song was a Pop-Out Frame Card that I embellished for Erick...
Stolen My Heart Card:
Paper: Sugar Cookie & Leap Frog CS (Bazzill); Libretto, Pageantry & Prima Donna (Cappella ~ Basic Grey)
Embellishments: Pearl Halves (Zva Creations); 3D foam squares & dental floss
Digital Image: Sweet Lace Heart (Meljen's Designs)
Template: 4" x 4" Pop-Out Frame Card
Finished size: 4" x 4"
I just love this song...
Do you have a song that inspires you? What is it? I'd love to hear it. You never know, it may inspire me to create something else. {{wink}}
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Berwick photographer Tracey Bloxham has joined forces with Google to help launch their internet-based interactive virtual tours.
Tracey, owner of Inside Story Photography who specialise in interior and architectural photography, has just been appointed as Northumberland's official Google Trusted photographer.
As a result she is now working on behalf of the search engine giants to help promote local businesses using Google Virtual Tours.
These are 360-degree tours powered by Google Street View technology, only this time it allows people to take a virtual tour around the inside of a business allowing them to explore everything that business has to offer simply by using their computers, smartphones or tablets.
The concept has been highly successful in the USA and is now being rolled out across the UK.
A number of local businesses have already been quick to see the benefits including Chirnside Hall Hotel who are the first hotel in the Borders to use the new service to showcase their business.
While Google's virtual tours can be used by any business, they are proving particularly popular with hotels, pubs and restaurants.
Tracey said: "It means that a potential client can really get a feel for the atmosphere and décor in your restaurant or hotel, perhaps wander around the function rooms, take a look at the menu and even choose which table they would like to sit at – all without leaving the comfort of their home".
Berwick already features on Google StreetView and the new Google Virtual Tours feature will help local businesses showcase their services on a worldwide stage.
Tracey added: "I'm extremely passionate and excited by this idea – it's an extremely useful resource for both businesses and their clients.
"I expect it to be a 'must have' business tool and expect it to be as as well used as StreetView within a very short time."
Visit www.insidestoryphotography.co.uk for details.