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UA Issues Threat Assessment Guidelines
In the continuing effort to increase campus safety, The University of Alabama's Office of Emergency Preparedness recently enhanced its capabilities by hiring a threat assessment specialist and adopting UA's newly approved behavioral threat assessment guidelines. These directives provide the framework on how UA addresses potentially violent behavior from students, staff, faculty or visitors.
UA's threat assessment specialist is Charles Dorsey, a 1975 UA alumnus who earned a bachelor's degree in biology before beginning a career with the FBI. For 13-plus years of his federal law enforcement career, he was assigned to the Bureau's Behavioral Analysis Unit. While working at the BAU, Dorsey was tasked with conducting criminal profiling work which included providing threat assessments to law enforcement agencies within the United States and from around the world.
Q. What is Behavioral Threat Assessment?
A. It is a fact-based method of assessment focusing on an individual's documented pattern of thinking and actions in an attempt to determine whether, and to what extent, that individual is moving forward towards exhibiting violent behavior.
Q. What is the difference between the Behavioral Intervention Team and the Threat Assessment Team?
A. UA's BIT is a Student Affairs-sponsored group comprised of representation from the Dean of Students Office, the Housing and Residential Communities, the Office of Student Conduct, UA's Counseling Center, the University of Alabama Police Department, and the Emergency Preparedness and Response Policy Group (Policy Group). The BIT is tasked with reviewing a UA student's alarming/concerning behavior and providing an early intervention and support system to the students who present these concerns.
UA's TAT is a multi-disciplinary assessment team comprised of representatives of UAPD, the Office of Emergency Preparedness, Legal Counsel, and a UA mental health professional. The TAT reviews individuals exhibiting significant alarming or threatening behavior and makes recommendations to UA's Emergency Policy Group in an effort to mitigate these matters on a case-by-case basis.
Q. What is the function of the BIT and the TAT?
A. The purpose of both the BIT and the TAT is to specifically identify and address behaviors of concern and to provide the necessary and appropriate resources to ensure a safe working environment within the UA community.
Q. How are cases addressed and handled?
A. All cases are initially systematically screened by the threat assessment specialist and any case or issue which is deemed as an imminent threat is immediately reviewed. All cases, regardless of the immediacy, are appropriately reviewed and managed in the manner most specific for their situation.
Q. How does behavioral threat assessment differ from profiling?
A. Behavioral threat assessment is designed to be a proactive process used to identify warning signs of inappropriate behavior and to intervene prior to someone engaging in violent activity against themselves or others. Profiling, from a criminal investigative perspective, is a reactive investigative tool in which possible behavior traits of an unknown subject are gleaned from an examination of a specific, unsolved criminal act.
Q. Does the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act prohibit UA from disclosing student information as it relates to an active TAT matter?
A. No – FERPA specifically allows for the sharing of any information as it relates to an ongoing concern for the safety of others within the UA community.
Q. How do I report a threat?
A. UA's behavioral threat assessment website, threatassessment.ua.edu, provides the specific manner in which to report a threat depending on who is exhibiting the concerning behavior.
Q. I am not sure if my information is important. What should I do?
A. UA strongly encourages anyone with any potentially relevant information to provide that information to the proper UA authorities in a timely manner. Although the information may not seem overly important, it may be related to other incidents or issues, unknown to the reporting party, and assist in the development of the overall big picture.
The major goal of UA is to identify all potentially violent situations and to intervene prior to any negative behavior occurring. UA's behavioral threat assessment guidelines encourage the reporting of all concerning behavior without fear of retribution.
Q. What if I think the threat is immediate or an emergency?
A. Any information or situation indicating an imminent threat to one's safety or the safety of others should be considered as an emergency and immediately reported to UAPD. To contact UAPD, call 911 or 348-5454.


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MARINE VETERAN WAS NOT FORGOTTEN, AFTER HE DIED ALONE. KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER ALANA GRIMSTAD BRINGS US TO THE SANTA FE NATIONAL CEMETERY TO SEE THE TRUE MEANING OF A MILITARY BROTHERHOOD. A MARINE, ALONE IN LIFE...SURROUNDED BY SUPPORT IN DEATH. Marines always take care of their loved ones. LAST MONTH, SANTA FE POLICE FOUND 60-YEAR-OLD ELOY TAFOYA DEAD INSIDE HIS APARTMENT. THEY SAY HE SHOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD. AND SINCE TAFOYA HAD NO FAMILY TO CLAIM HIM, HE WOULD HAVE MOST LIKELY BEEN CREMATED AND PUT ON A SHELF FOR YEARS. United we stand and I believe in that. BUT LUCKY FOR TAFOYA--THE RIGHT MAN WAS HIRED TO CLEAN OUT HIS HOUSE. He does have a family. We're his family. JOE CHAVEZ FROM SERVPRO FOUND THE VETERAN'S MILITARY MEMORABLIA NEATLY SITTING NEXT TO A CUT-OUT NEWSPAPER ARTICLE...ABOUT NO VETERAN DYING ALONE. When I saw this, I just wanted to reassure that he would not be forgotten. And so they said the community will be this marine's family and give him the proper burial that he deserves. And the fact that the community came out to render respects to somebody that they didn't even know tells the rest of us that remain behind that we have the support of our neighbors, our friends, our family. And that means a great deal to us. SO AS TAFOYA RECEIVES FULL MILITARY HONORS, HE'S SURROUNDED BY DOZENS OF STRANGERS... WHO DIDN'T KNOW THE MAN, BUT ADMIRE THE MARINE. IN SF, AG KA7N. POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS FROM SANTA FE CITY AND COUNTY WERE THERE, ALONG WITH STATE POLICE, THE NATIONAL GUARD, AND PATRIOT GUARD. AN AMERICAN FLAG FROM THE SERVICE WILL BE FLOWN AT THE "HORSES FOR HEROES" RANCH-- WHERE INJURED VETERANS COME FOR REHAB. THE NAVAJO CODE TALKERS HAVE
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Wagner Gets Third Win on Tour
The pro golfer with the two last names closed with a 3-under 67 to win the Sony Open. Johnson Wagner finished at 13-under 267, two strokes ahead of Carl Pettersson, Sean O'Hair, Harrizon Frazar and Charles Howell III. Three of those players shot 67 as well; the only exception was Howell, who had a 69.
The victory, worth $990,000 and 500 FedEx Cup points, was the third of Wagner's career. His earlier wins came in the 2008 Shell Houston Open and the Mayakoba Golf Classic last year.
After two bogeys and a birdie in his first six holes at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Wagner settled down, carding four birdies in his next nine holes.
The 30-year-old, whose full name is Montford Johnson Wagner, came into 2012 with a new look. Through workouts in the off-season he lost 20 pounds and grew a mustache. He's also exuding confidence.
"I was definitely telling people to expect something early this year, which is a nice feeling," he said. "Usually, my confidence is low. I'm kind of shy in a little shell. And for some reason, I just had way more energy and confidence going into this year.
"I love being out here. There's so many great players," he added. "But why are they any better? Why are the people in the top 50 better than me? I've always struggled a little bit with believing in myself." (See below for Wagner's full post-round interview.)
The victory assures Wagner of a spot for the second straight year in the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions and a cherished berth in the 2012 Masters.
Carl Pettersson also underwent changes in the off-season. The native of Sweden who attended North Carolina State and has since settled in Raleigh has become a U.S. citizen. "My first top 10 as an American," the 34-year-old quipped after his tie for second.
Third-round co-leaders Jeff Maggert and Matt Every slipped down the leaderboard after disappointing final rounds. Every went 4-over through six holes but came back for a 72 and tied for sixth at 10-under 270. Maggert had 31 putts en route to four bogeys and a 74. The 46-year-old, whose last win came in 2006 at the FedEx St. Jude Classic, ended up tied for 13th at 272.
"Really bummed about my start, because I wasn't that nervous, and I actually felt really good," Every said. "I had a great warm-up, and, you know, just missed a few putts early and it snowballed."
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After accepting the winner's hardware and pay check, Wagner met with reporters for the following interview.
MODERATOR: Congratulations to our 2012 Sony Open in Hawaii winner, Johnson Wagner. Great day today and great tournament all week. If you could, start with talking about what this win, not only means just as being your third PGA Tour win but, how it sets you up for the rest of this year.
JOHNSON WAGNER: Well, I worked really hard this off season and had set a lot of goals: Getting back into the Masters, getting back into the majors, get my World Ranking up to the Top 50 where I think I belong and hopefully having a chance to qualify for the Ryder Cup Team. I've won twice and learned from both of these experiences that you think they just come so easy after that. So hopefully I can settle down a bit and then not think that winning is easy, because it is not, and it's hard. I've worked very hard this off season, like I said, and it's just really nice to see it pay off so early.
Q. It was so cluttered there, I think were probably six guys in the lead at some point, did you have a number in mind when you made the turn?
JOHNSON WAGNER: I think I caught a glimpse somewhere around the turn that the guys that were 12 had backed up a little bit. And I saw that 11 under was leading, maybe on the 8th green. I figured maybe if I could make a birdie on 9, I would be tied for the lead. And luckily I birdied 9 and 10 and just quit looking at the leaderboard for a bit. I tried to look at it at the right times but not get too focused on it.
Q. (Inaudible.)
JOHNSON WAGNER: I don't think I made a bogey on the back nine all week. All week, I played the back nine - I shot 5 under on my first nine holes on Thursday. And when I started planning my interview sitting in here for the 59 I was going to shoot (laughter), I then made four bogeys in a row or something on the front nine and kind of brought me back down to earth a little bit. But I played the back nine great all week, and I knew if I could get through that front nine under par then I would have a good chance to win.
Q. Is there something particular about the back nine and this week for you?
JOHNSON WAGNER: You know, the tee shots set up a little better for me on the back nine. I don't think in five Sony Opens, I can honestly say, I don't think I've ever hit the first fairway. So I just can't find the fairways on the front nine like I can on the back. And I drove it really well all week on the back nine and left myself a lot of birdie putts, and really I didn't have too many opportunities to even make birdie. So it was just really solid, and my caddie and I would always talk or he always tells me about those last four holes, last five holes. It's kind of an important thing to play well every day on the back nine or the last four or five holes.
Q. You missed four cuts in a row here; what was different this time?
JOHNSON WAGNER: I played well here my rookie year in 2007 and the conditions of the course were very similar. It was firm and fast and the greens were fast. The rough was up a little bit kind of like this, and last year, you remember we had just terrible rain on maybe Tuesday, Wednesday. I know the Pro Am got cancelled. And I don't play soft golf courses particularly well. But when we have weather like this at Waialae, I think it's one of the best golf courses that I could play at. I'm a huge Seth Raynor fan, and I know he designed this place and I just always have good feelings on his golf courses.
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JOHNSON WAGNER: I did. I was excited I got in Monday night late from Maui and saw some caddies that had been out to the course on Monday and they said it was playing firm and fast and from that moment on, I was excited to play this week.
Q. Four part question if I could: The origin of the mustache; the first thing a player said to you when you got to Kapalua; the most complimentary thing you've heard about it, if any; and the future of it.
JOHNSON WAGNER: I was with my wife's family in Richmond for Thanksgiving and I just didn't shave the entire week. When I got home, I thought - I had never had facial hair. So I thought it was - I thought it was too much growth to just let it go to waste. I shaved everything but the mustache, and it kind of went from there. My wife really hated it at the beginning, which made me want to grow it even more. And then actually I played in a little tournament the first of December down in Naples and saw Carl Pettersson and George McNeill, and they were both just like: "You've got to keep it until Hawaii. We have to see this thing in a month."
So I had a lot of motivation to keep it. I had grown quite a thick skin because my friends back home have just ridden me about how awful it was. But I'm excited about it, and then - (laughter). And then I guess when I got to Maui I don't know if that's part three or part four of your question. But when I got to Maui, Harrison Frazar - did he finish second by the way? He just looked at me and I probably got 'Magnum P.I.' in Maui a hundred times, and I had never really watched the show. So I Googled images of Tom Selleck, and I took it as a compliment. (Laughter) I don't know if that he thought that was like a remark on me, but Tom Selleck is a stud so if I can look anything like him I'm very excited.
Kind of made a deal with myself in December that if I was to get into the Masters, then I was going to keep the mustache for at least this year. I kind of kept telling people, everybody said, "Oh, is it a November mustache? Well, it's December time to shave it." I said, "Look, this is not a one month mustache. This is potentially a 10 year mustache." So I think it's going to be around for a while. Now if the summer heat gets to me, I may shave it off. But I'm going to try to make it as long as I can.
Q. How much weight have you lost?
JOHNSON WAGNER: Probably I don't know, I haven't been on the scale really, 10 to 15 pounds but I'm a couple inches down on my waist and a belt loop or two in on all of my belts. So feeling pretty good.
Q. Away from your weight and mustache, how was the transition from Maui over to here, because two totally different courses, etc.
JOHNSON WAGNER: It is. I played here five times with limited success in the past. But Maui is so wonderful, it's very laid back. There's not much to do city wise but I really relaxed and enjoyed Maui. And coming over staying down in Waikiki, great restaurants and walking around every night. Any time you're in Hawaii, it's an easy transition. It's so beautiful over here and it's really nice to be able to come back next year for both events. It was an easy transition. The golf courses are different but we play different golf courses every week so it's not too challenging to adjust; at least the grasses are the same. Now going next week to Palm Springs, that's going to be an adjustment playing on different grasses and different weather.
Q. At what point did you feel like you had taken control?
JOHNSON WAGNER: When I birdied 9 and 10, really when I birdied 9, I made a really nice up and down out of the bunker and pretty much a tap in. But I guess on Sundays, nothing is really a tap in and the nerves get out there. But I birdied 9. Knew I was tied for the lead and I just figured I had played the back nine so well, and I kind of figured it was at least mine and Charles Howell's too lose because we were pretty neck and neck there on the front, and I felt like it was going to come down to us.
Q. What is it about firm and fast that you like?
JOHNSON WAGNER: Well, I'm not very long, so the firmer it gets, the longer I hit it. I drive it pretty straight. This week is tough to drive it straight on but you know, I drive it straight. I have really good control of my irons coming into the greens. So even out of the rough, I just feel like my distance control is great, so when the course conditions get harder, I personally feel like I played better. So the more difficult, the more I like it. Now, I shot 84 at Oakmont in the U.S. Open and that was a little hard, but I like the harder, the better.
Q. What do you think the difference is going to be in terms of Masters anticipation between having no time to think about it and having three months to think about it?
JOHNSON WAGNER: Yeah, it's going to be great. I play Quail Hollow in Charlotte where we have a bunch of members that are members at Augusta. Johnny Harris, who is kind of the czar, if you will, of Quail Hollow, he told me the night before I left for Maui, I said, "If I get into the Masters, are you going to sponsor my brother and I in a foursome down there for a couple of days?" He was like, "You go do it and I've got you, partner." (Speaking in Southern accent). So I'll be going down to Augusta a few times, maybe bring my caddie he's sitting back there. He kind of skanks it around. I don't know if he can play Augusta. He hits a fade and you need to hit a draw there.
Q. What made you think you were going to win so early this year?
JOHNSON WAGNER: I worked hard. I'm not saying I worked harder than anybody because guys work incredibly hard out here. But I worked harder this off season, me personally than I've ever even dreamed of. I was working out three days a week at home, made three trips to Florida to go see my coach and we just had incredible weather in Charlotte. I love golf, I love playing, I golf competing and trying to win tournaments. So I worked really hard this off season.
Q. Inaudible.
JOHNSON WAGNER: I like to play golf. And I worked out, I worked out three days a week, and I have not worked out my entire life until last April. It's made a difference in, I think more than anything, my confidence level. I think that's what the mustache has done, too, just given me this confidence level that I've never had before. (Laughter).
Q. Did you tell some people that you were going to win early this season?
JOHNSON WAGNER: Yeah, I did. I told my wife that I was going to win early. I told my parents and my brother and my trainer who is going to be there next week; I tried to get him to fly out here this week but he had to drive out to Palm Springs. But yeah, I was definitely telling people to expect something early this year, which is a nice feeling. Usually I'm kind of - usually my confidence is low. I'm kind of shy in a little shell, and I for some reason just had way more energy and confidence going into this year.
Q. Can you talk about the influence of Bobby Heintz, how much it helps having a player with a lot of great playing experience.
JOHNSON WAGNER: Definitely Bobby is one of my best friends up in New York when I was in high school. Bobby Heintz, first assistant at Old Oaks Country Club in New York in Purchase. Bobby and I kind of have been working together for ten years and the last year and a half or so, he's brilliant, he's very - he's a one of a kind person but he's brilliant. He has a lot of incredible golf knowledge and the last year and a half I've really just tried to absorb as much of it as I can, as opposed to kind of ignoring him and thinking I can do it on my own. I really matured in the last year and a half, and a lot of that has to do with just listening to what he's saying.
Q. When you were telling all of these people that you were going to win early, there's a school of thought that you don't want to give voice to that because then it creates expectations and maybe extra pressure. But what was your thinking in actually articulating what you believed?
JOHNSON WAGNER: It was not like I was calling the Golf Channel and saying, I'm going to win early this year. I was telling the people that were really close to me, my closest friends and family, I was telling them that. It was not like I was shouting it from on top of the mountains. But yeah, it felt good to say it. Even out there today, your mind wanders so much in this game; you look ahead, and I'm sure I looked over on the 14th hole and saw a lady in a Masters shirt and I was like, ooh, I'd better not look at that, because I didn't want to think of the Masters. It's okay to think it and say it. You just have to when you're out there playing, you just have to focus on what you're doing and not get ahead of this receive.
Q. Did something pre empt this? Did someone ask you or did you just walk around telling everybody that?
JOHNSON WAGNER: I just really had it was the start of December, the mustache was young. I was working out hard. I was really - my dad thought I was on speed or something. I just had all of this energy from working out and I guess that's what it was. I just had a couple really good sessions with my coach, Bobby, down in Florida and the whole month of December, I was playing great at home. I was striking it well. Went back to an old putter that I had used before and just everything seemed to click.
I remember having a conversation with my brother in mid December and I was on fire. I felt like could I have gone and won anywhere in the world that week and I looked at him and I said, when I've gotten to this point in my career, I wanted to just maintain where I'm at, and I looked at him and I said, that's where I always fall and start down on a bad path. I said, I want to continually get better, every day. There's no flat lining in golf. If you're not - it's so cliche, but if you're not getting better, you're getting worse. Hogan hit balls every day until his hands bled trying to get better every day. Just really, even from this point, I'm on top of - this is the greatest moment in my golf life, but I want to get better from here, and that's where I need to mentally find myself.
Q. What inspired you to inaudible.
JOHNSON WAGNER: The speed maybe (laughter). I started keeping - I never carry a yardage book but when I played in the Masters in 2008, they gave me this beautiful green, leather yardage book cover with Augusta and my name on it. So I put a little notepad in there and just started making notes when I was on the golf course about swing feels that felt good and goals, and I just started putting thing down on paper so I could have something to go back to, and just reading and reading and writing new stuff and it rewriting it and just really, it just - everything became very clear.
Q. When did you . . .
JOHNSON WAGNER: Early December.
Q. You mentioned that you looked at the leaderboard very selectively on the back nine. Were you thinking in your mind, birdie or better on every hole on the back nine, or what was your mind set?
JOHNSON WAGNER: There's not many eagle opportunities on the back, but I was definitely wanting to have putts at birdie on every hole. I was not by any means in any position to just kind of lay down and start trying to make pars, because that's an easy way to start making bogeys. But yeah, I was just feeling really good with my game and I was hitting a lot of fairways and when you hit fairways out here, you can be a little more aggressive. If you hit it to 20 feet to any of these pins, you can make putts; the greens were so good. I was just trying to hit greens and give myself opportunities.
Q. You've won twice before out here and it sounds like when you did win, that was the pinnacle and maybe you kind of took it a little easy after that. Now you're talking about this whole idea of wanting to go further and beyond; so how do you approach now after this win for the rest of the season?
JOHNSON WAGNER: You know, I've got a nice flight tonight to Palm Springs. I'm going to have some good chats with my caddie and talk about that kind of stuff. Talk to my coach, Bobby. Talk to the people that - I've got so much help. I've got so many people supporting me. Talk to my parents and everybody that's close and see what I feel like I'm doing the right things, so if I just continue to do the right things and try to get better my short game is awful. I putted out of the rough today on 12. I can always get better. I think that's when I'm going to become a really good player is when my short game gets tight.
It's weird, I feel incredible right now. I'm so excited to win but it has - it feels different this time. It feels like this is kind of just the beginning, like there's better things coming. I'm not saying I'm going to go win the Masters or anything, but I've got a chance now; I'm in the tournament. I'm just going to try to get better every day. It's a terrible cliché but I'm just going to try to get better and keep working out and keep doing the things I'm doing. My body is not perfect, that's for sure. I've got a lot of room to get fitter.
Q. You missed four straight cuts, and you think you're going to come out here and do real well . . .
JOHNSON WAGNER: I've always liked golf course. It's a tough place to start the year. I remember when I played in 2009 I had come off Kapalua and finished 10th and was like, golf is easy, I'm going to blow this field away and I missed the cut by a while. You have to check yourself every day out here, because guys are good and it's tough. But you know, this is my sixth year on Tour now and I feel like I'm grown up. I feel a different level of maturity and knowledge and I've got an incredible caddie, Matt Hauser is the man. I have become so much more consistent at making cuts and finishing Top 25, and now our next step is a lot more Top 10s, multiple wins. We have got a lot of goals that we have kind of set for ourselves. It's going to be - I have - how old is Steve Stricker, 42? 44? I have 12 more years out here hopefully, at least. I'm just really, really excited.
Q. Do you need any coffee right now, or you are you okay?
JOHNSON WAGNER: Do you see why my dad thinks I'm on speed.
Q. What iron did you hit on 15?
JOHNSON WAGNER: 9 iron.
Q. And at what point did you think you belonged or should be in the Top 50 in the world?
JOHNSON WAGNER: I've thought it for a while. When I first got out here it was so great to get out here and then I won the next year, and I just -there's so many good guys out here. I love being out here, there's so many great players, but why are they any better? Why are people in the Top 50 any better than me? I think once I believe in myself a little more; I've always struggled a little bit with believing in myself. Once I started believing in myself a little bit, why stop at top 50? Why can't I be in the Top 10 in the world? I drive it good. I play good golf. I think I just want to be the best I can be.
MODERATOR: Congratulations on the victory and we look forward to the self help book. Congratulations.
The transcript for the above interview is courtesy of ASAP Sports.
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Lesson Plan
I Am Sacagawea Storia Teaching Guide
- Grades: 3–5
About this book
Book Summary
I am only 16 years old as I trek across the country with my infant son strapped to my back. I have a river, two lakes, and four mountain peaks named after me. I am featured on the U.S. golden dollar. I am Sacagawea.
With an introduction written in the voice of Sacagawea herself, this engaging biography takes students along one of the most intrepid journeys in American history—the Lewis and Clark expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean in the years 1803–1806. Sacagawea's life story is interwoven with the history of the young nation as President Thomas Jefferson commissions Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase that stretches to the Pacific Ocean.
Informational text features include a map, a timeline, an introduction to historical figures, and numerous sidebars, all of which enhance the chronological narrative of the book. Detailed illustrations help young readers visualize Sacagawea and other historical figures, as well as, Native American culture and the geography of the journey.
Teaching the Book
At the age of 16, Sacagawea, with her baby strapped to her back, traveled 4,000 miles with the Lewis and Clark expedition, making history and becoming one of the most famous American women of all time. This captivating biography provides an opportunity for students to learn about informational text features and how to synthesize the information. Activities engage students in mapping, researching, and writing about the Lewis and Clark expedition and its courageous translator, Sacagawea.
Genre Focus: Biography
Comprehension Focus: Informational Text Features
Language Focus: Content Vocabulary and Concept Wheels
Get Ready to Read
Pre-Reading Activities
Who is Sacagawea?
Obtain several Sacagawea dollar coins from a bank and have students pass around and examine them. Explain that the first Sacagawea gold dollar coin was minted in 2000. Its obverse, or head, shows Sacagawea carrying Jean Baptiste, her infant son who was born early in the journey of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The reverse, or tail, originally showed a soaring eagle encircled by 17 stars—one for each state in the Union at the time of the 1804 Lewis and Clark expedition. Since 2009, the reverse design has changed each year to honor Native American heritage. To show students images of the Sacagawea coins, visit the United States Mint website.
Knowledge Network
Ask students to volunteer what they already know about Sacagawea. Record their responses on the whiteboard or chart paper. Use their comments as a basis for building a knowledge network about Sacagawea that grows in its connections as students read the book.
Content Vocabulary and Concept Wheels
Introduce students to the words below that are part of Sacagawea's story, as well as, important content-area vocabulary. Use Resource #1: Vocabulary Cards and distribute copies to students.
- continent (p. 5)
- custom (p. 14)
- tribe (p. 15)
- terrain (p. 17)
- route (p. 30)
- expedition (p. 30)
- translator (p. 42)
- ritual (p. 77)
Ask students to write down examples and the context of the words each time they appear in the text. After they read I Am Sacagawea, guide students to use their notes to fill in concept wheels for the vocabulary words.
Words to Know
Explain to students that each vocabulary word is an idea that describes a concept in history or geography. Show students how to use a concept wheel to create definitions for these vocabulary words. Fill in the example below together.
Model how to use the concept wheel with the first vocabulary word, continent. Write the word in quadrant A. Then brainstorm examples of the word continent and how the word is used in the book [Sacagawea was on one of the most important trips ever made on this continent; North America.] Write in three of these brainstorm items in quadrants B, C, and D. Then have students come up with a definition of the word based on their ideas. Encourage students to fill in concept wheels for the other vocabulary words and check their definitions against a dictionary definition.
As You Read
Reading the Book
Modeled Reading
Project the first pages of the book onto a whiteboard or screen and read them aloud to students. After reading the "Introduction" written in the voice of Sacagawea, ask students to describe Sacagawea. Then project the map on page 7, the "People You Will Meet" on pages 8–9, and the "Timeline" on pages 10–11. Discuss these text features and how they help set up the story of Sacagawea's life.
Independent Reading
If students are able to read I Am Sacagawea independently, help pace their reading by telling them to chunk the book into three to six reading sessions, depending on the amount of time students have to read during each session. At the end of a chunk, prompt students to work with partners to ask questions to clarify the text and to share reactions.
Big Question: Critical Thinking
Ask students to think about this question as they read. Write the question on chart paper or the whiteboard. Why is Sacagawea considered one of America's most famous women?
Comprehension Focus
Informational Text Features
Explain to students that I Am Sacagawea contains many kinds of text features. A text feature is different from the main writing in the book. The text feature may make the book easier to read or contain additional information that helps the reader understand the subject better.Examples of text features include illustrations, maps, timelines, sidebars, glossaries, and chapter titles.
Use Resource #2: Informational Text Features to model how to identify a text feature and its purpose. Project the resource on a whiteboard or pass out copies for students and fill in the organizer for the introduction.
Model: I can tell that the "Introduction" is a special text feature because it is separated from the main text. It is also written in the voice of Sacagawea, whereas the rest of the book is written in the third person. What is the purpose of the "Introduction"? I think the introduction gets readers interested in Sacagawea and helps us understand why she is important. What kind of information does it give? It gives an overview of important events in Sacagawea's life and also gives us a feeling for the kind of person she was—brave, trustworthy, and strong.
Have students fill out the rest of Resource #2 as they read. Discuss with them how they can synthesize the text feature information with the rest of the book.
After You Read
Questions to Discuss
Lead students in a discussion of these focus story elements.
1. Biography
Why do you think so much is known about Sacagawea's life during the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition and so little is known about her afterwards? (Sample answers: Lewis and Clark kept detailed journals and mentioned Sacagawea in them; no one wrote down her history when she was no longer part of the expedition.)
2. Informational Text Features
How does the sidebar text help you understand Sacagawea's story? For example, what did you learn from "A Friendly Face" on page 92? (Sample answer: From "A Friendly Face" I learned how important Sacagawea was as a token of peace to protect the expedition.)
3. Content Words and Concept Wheels
In the book, what is an example of a route? What is an example of a route in your own life? What is the definition of a route? (Sample answers: The Lewis and Clark expedition took a route over the Rocky Mountains. We pass Washington D.C. on our route to my grandmother's house. A route is the path between one point and another on a trip.)
Questions to Share
Encourage students to share their responses with a partner or small group.
1. Text-to-Self
What do you think the most difficult thing about the journey was for Sacagawea? (Answers will vary.)
2. Text-to-World
What other women do you know who have been trailblazers in American history and society? (Answers will vary.)
3. Text-to-Text
What do you like about the way the author told the story of Sacagawea? How was it different from other history books? (Answers will vary.)
Content Area Connections
Go West With Lewis and Clark
Have students test their frontier smarts by playing an interactive game at the National Geographic Kids website. When they sign on, students become part of the Lewis and Clark expedition and are faced with important decisions to make about supplies, relationships with Indian tribes, and travel routes.
Native American $1 Coins
In 2009, the U.S. Mint began its program to honor Native American history and culture by issuing the Sacagawea dollar gold coin with a different back, or reverse side. Guide students to the U.S. Mint site to learn more about the program and how they can collect the coins.
A Dollar's Change
Would you believe there are 294 ways to make change for a dollar? How many combinations can your students find? Give each group 2 half-dollars, 4 quarters, 10 dimes, 20 nickels, and 100 pennies. Set a time limit, and challenge students to work together to create and record coin combinations using abbreviations such as 3 Q, 2 D, 1 N. When time is up, ask each group to count the number of combinations they have recorded. Which group came up with the most? Did they use strategies such as recording combinations with one quarter, then two, and so on? What patterns do they see developing?
Make a Shoshone Teepee
Challenge students to create a model- or real-size teepee like the ones Sacagawea grew up in with the Shoshone tribe. There are various Internet sites for making a model teepee, however, more mature students will be fascinated by the idea of making a life-size teepee. Shelter Publications provides a free pattern and instructions.
Extension Activities
Reading/Writing Connection
Add an Informational Sidebar
I Am Sacagawea includes a number of sidebars that provide additional background and information. Ask students to skim the text and find a place to add another sidebar to the book. Then have them research the topic, take notes, and write an explanatory text sidebar that is two to four paragraphs in length. Encourage students to exchange papers to share their sidebars, or to project and read several examples on the whiteboard.
Don't Forget the Big Question
Critical Thinking
Give each student an opportunity to answer the big question. Encourage students to support their answers with details and evidence from the text. Tell students there is more than one right answer. Why is Sacagawea considered one of America's most famous women?
Big Activity
A Trail Journal Entry
Ask students to imagine that they are members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, traveling westward with Sacagawea. Have them choose an event from the book to describe from their own point of view in a journal entry. Ask them to include Sacagawea and her actions in their entry, as well as, comments on her skills and courage. Distribute copies of the Big Activity: A Trail Journey Entry and have students use the page for the final draft of their journal entry.
About the Author
Grace Norwich has written many books for young readers on a variety of topics, including health, fashion, and animals. She is the author of other biographies in the I Am series including the life stories of Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, and Helen Keller. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
- Subjects:Native American History


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Vitali is so much better than Wlad it's ridiculous
Prime for prime it was obvious, but lately I had been wondering if Wlad had surpassed his brother due to Vitali's age. He hasn't though. Vitali has a better jab, better punch variety, at the very least the same speed and reflexes, more power still it seems, far better chin obviously. Dude doesn't even go all out anymore and he impresses me more than Wlad.
I'm beginning to wonder if Wlad does anything better than his brother. Even now, if these two fought and weren't brothers, Vitali would crush him.
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Wlad looks like Borat. Vitali doesn't. Wlad must be mad about that.
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I don't agree with all your points but I do agree that Vitali prime for prime is better than Wlad for sure. Wlad has to fight in a cautious manner because of his chin, and I think because of this issue he would have come unstuck against some (not all) of the greats. Lewis aside I would favour Vitali against most other heavyweights, or at least 50/50, but it really is hard to say because of the lack of competition for the brothers. For me Vitali proved his mettle against Lewis, Wlad I fear would have been brutally knocked out by Lewis.
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I agree he throws twice as many right hands per rd (2).
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Vitali now seems to still be in his prime, I'm not sure but he is around it still his performances show it. Wladmir has been in his prime for a few years. They both have areas where they are better than one another, Vitali has a better chin,mentally tougher, higher work rate, more variety of punches. Wladimir is more athletic,better defence, better footwork, harder puncher, better jab.
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I think Wlad might be the better boxer technically, but in my mind there is no comparison. If they fought each other Vitali would smash his brother 9 times out of 10. Wlad is a big guy who has turned himself into a boxer / fighter. Vitali is just a natural fighter who is learning to box.
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Looking better is one thing, your opposition is another. Vitali's resume is so unimpressive..I don't know. Wladimir deserves a lot more credit than he gets on these boards.
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Well you can't question Vitali's confidence. He throws, chases and finishes off his opponents with style. Wlad is a bit different, not chasing so much and hiding behind that jab, but still pretty effective. I could not say Wlad's chin is bad, but he's definitely doing more trying not to get hit. I don't think Wlad would have dominated Adamek in such an impressive way tbh. But I understand Wlad, because he holds practically every possible title except the WBC, so he's putting a lot at risk with every fight.
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you need to watch some of his older fights
he's legs are gone, other than that, i agree, vitali is much better than wlad, prime 4 prime, not as it stands today tho
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Kennesaw State's College of Science and Mathematics names new associate dean
Jonathan McMurry will be instrumental in securing research grants
KENNESAW, Ga. (June 24, 2013) — Kennesaw State University's College of Science and Mathematics has named its first associate dean of research.
Jonathan McMurry, an associate professor of chemistry, will start his new position Aug. 1. His mission is to catalyze development of research programs, increase the external funding the college receives and continue to build collaborations among faculty and with other institutions.
The position is a natural progression of what McMurry has been doing since he arrived on campus in fall 2006, following postdoctoral work at Yale University. McMurry, whose primary research interest is how bacteria move, has secured more than $1 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
"Jonathan is an excellent addition to the leadership team of the college," said Mark Anderson, dean of the College of Science and Mathematics. "He has a distinguished record of research, and he has established many collaborations within KSU and with colleagues at other USG institutions for his own research activities. His ability to build research teams will help to continue to expand KSU's research profile."
McMurry has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Connecticut. His master's and bachelor's in biology are from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Kennesaw State has active and growing research programs," McMurry said. "My primary goal is to continue to build the research infrastructure in the College of Science and Mathematics by facilitating collaborations among colleagues and helping them obtain more research grants."
The College, which offers master's programs in statistics and computer science, launched a master's program in integrative biology in fall 2012 and will welcome its inaugural class of chemistry graduate students in August.
"I want our graduate programs to be successful immediately," McMurry said. "We need to produce good scientists who go on to do great things. We have a dynamic faculty capable of providing excellent graduate training, but need to develop additional resources to support the programs."
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Kennesaw State University is the third-largest university in Georgia, offering 80 graduate and undergraduate degrees, including doctorates in education, business and nursing, and a new Ph.D. in international conflict management. A member of the University System of Georgia, Kennesaw State is a comprehensive, residential institution with a growing population of 24,600 students from more than 130 countries.


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TSA5UP13 is working fine for me on NW6/SP3 with GW6 (not 6.5 yet).
The big difference with this version is you no longer need to create
SMS RPC objects for each server, which used to happen by issuing the
SMDR NEW command. This, then, mitigates need for the SMDR Group
object, since there are no longer any SMS RPC server objects to become
members of it.
It still is important to configure SMDR properly, though. SMDR NEW, as
always, to do that.
If you are using GWTSA, I have no advice for you there, as I'm not
using it (yet).


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It's time to put it to a vote, Summerville.
As Bo Petersen reported, Town Council wants to know if it's legal to pay Mayor Bill Collins $50,000 a year in addition to his mayor's salary of $15,000 for work he's done as acting town administrator.
They're asking the town attorney for guidance on the legality of a possible contract with the mayor for assuming certain town administrator duties. When he did that, by the way, it was touted as a cost-saving measure. (Technically it still is, since $50,000 is only about one-third of the administrator's salary.)
Collins ran on a platform of migrating toward a strong-mayor form of government. People in Summerville obviously supported that.
Even Councilman Aaron Brown, who voted against Monday's action, said he believes the mayor has a vision for the town. But it's time to let the people decide what kind vision they have for the town, and luckily, state law has a procedure for that.
Which road?
Whether Town Council should have approved Collins' change to an unofficial role as both administrator and mayor is water under the bridge.
Now is the time to make a change. But there are a couple of things to consider before moving forward.
First of all, just because Collins has the skills to do this, who knows what the next mayor will bring to the table?
Assuming Collins isn't looking to challenge Berlin Myers for most consecutive terms as mayor, sooner or later somebody else will come along to run the town. Will that person be as suited to the dual roles as Collins?
Secondly, is this where Summerville wants to go? Does it want to be more like Charleston or North Charleston, which both have the strong mayor form of government? Summerville has always prided itself on being something a little different, with a different identity, a different feel. Switching government structures will change that.
The council can pass an ordinance calling for a vote or 15 percent of the registered voters in Summerville can put together a petition, and everyone can vote on it in November. Bill Taylor, with the S.C. Municipal Association, said that even if council wants to move forward with the pay increase for the mayor, a contract is probably not the way to go, though the State Ethics Commission said such a move is allowed under the Ethics Act. A mayoral salary increase could be passed now but would not take effect until the next election Summerville has where at least two council members are up for re-election.
End double dipping
Now, nothing illegal is happening here. Under the strong council form of government, Summerville's council can assign administrative duties to anyone they want.
Just like nothing illegal is happening in Charleston County, where county attorney Joe Dawson is getting paid $90,000 a year above his $172,000 minimum salary to manage the county's solid-waste program. Ask Charleston County Councilman Joe Qualey how he feels about that.
Nothing changes the fact that double dipping just looks bad, no matter how it happens or what's allowed under the law.
At least Summerville can resolve its issue by putting it to a referendum.
Reach Melanie Balog at 937-5565 or email@example.com.
Editor's note: Earlier versions of this story needed clarification regarding the procedure for increasing the mayor's salary. The Post and Courier regrets the error.


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|Campo Marzio (Marzo is the archaic spelling) is the district named after the Campus Martius (Latin for "Field of Mars") in ancient Rome. It included the vast plains north of the Capitolium Hill, enclosed between the river Tiber to the west and the Pincian and Quirinal Hills to the east. Up to AD 275), when emperor Aurelian had the second set of city walls built, which considerably enlarged the urban territory, this area stretched outside the city boundaries. It was dedicated to the god of war because during the Republican Age, only military activities and sports were practised there.
view of the central and southern part of the Campus Martius during the Imperial
Age, already covered by several public buildings and crossed by via Lata (left)
|During the Imperial Age, as the city kept growing beyond the old walls, several public buildings appeared, especially in the southern part of the area: stadiums for athletic games, gymnasiums, theatres, a naumachia (naval stadium), temples and shrines, dedicated not only to Mars, but also to other gods. By the end of the 1st century, the Campus Martius was already completely urbanized, as seen in the picture on the left.
The present Campo Marzio district occupies the northermost part of the ancient Campus Martius, stretching up to the heigths of the Pincio Hill (see map below). Therefore, it partly matches the Regio IX (Circus Flaminius) and partly the Regio IV (Via Lata, after the name of the main street, now called via del Corso, which from the Capitolium Hill reaches via Flaminia, running perfectly straight for about 1.5 km, or 1 mi).
The remaining part of the Campus Martius is now divided among several other districts, namely Colonna (R.III), Ponte (R.V), Parione (R.VI), Regola (R.VII), Sant'Eustachio (R.VIII) and Pigna (R.IX).
|During the Middle Ages, the district was called Regio Posterule et Sancti Laurentii in Lucina, referring to the several minor gates (posterulae) of Aurelian's Wall that followed the course of the Tiber's bank, and to the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina, which though today stands just beyond Campo Marzio's boundary, in the neighbour district Colonna.
A moon crescent, variously oriented.
Piazzale Flaminio; via Luisa di Savoia; lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia; lungotevere in Augusta; piazza del Porto di Ripetta; lungotevere Marzio; via del Cancello; via dei Portoghesi; via della Stelletta; piazza Campo Marzio; via degli Uffici del Vicario; via di Campo Marzio; piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina; via Frattina; piazza Mignanelli; via dei Due Macelli; via Capo le Case; via Francesco Crispi; via di Porta Pinciana; viale del Muro Torto.
(the black numbers in brackets refer to the map on the right)
Over the Middle Ages, Campo Marzio fell into a long oblivion, which lasted almost one thousand years: on the steep Pincian Hill (called Collis Hortulorumi in those days (see Curious and Unusual), the villas of the wealthy ancient Romans were abandoned, while the public buildings in the plain area turned to ruins.
By the 1400s, a small community of immigrants from Illyria and Slavonia (today's Croatia and Slovenia) settled on the grounds by the river. In those days it was indeed a slum district, where early charity establishments were found, such as St.Rocco's Hospital for those who suffered from infectious diseases, and that of St.James of the Incurable, for the poor.
Then, when in 1570 running water became once again available in this part of Rome, the local population began to grow and Campo Marzio turned into an upmarket district, as testified by the many historical mansions of the same age that belonged to wealthy and aristocratic families.
|The district's street plan has remained the same as in the 17th-18th centuries, with narrow streets, almost inaccessible to car traffic.
The hilly part is still mostly covered with parks, which include the Pincian Gardens [1], arranged over the 1800s, with a series of over two hundred busts of Italian personalities (see Curious and Unusual), which also offers one of the most breathtaking views over Rome.
The part of the district below the hill makes a striking contrast: it includes the most busy shopping streets, crowded by thousands of fashionable stores, bars, restaurants, night clubs.
Virtually anywhere in Campo Marzio business has become the true spirit of the district: the ground and first floors of many historical buildings now house various kinds of shops, which in some cases prove to be frankly intrusive.
the oratory turned into a showroom
A typical example is the small oratory of the Congregation of the Holy Sacrament [12] (1724), in via Belsiana, near the boundary with Colonna district, recently turned into the showroom of a famous brand of handbags.
During the working hours, Campo Marzio can be a real chaos, especially on Saturdays; but then, when the streets turn empty, fortunately the atmosphere becomes once again the original one. The best time to visit this district is in fact on Sundays, in the early hours of the day.
|The focal spot of the district, from where three long and straight streets spring, crossing its whole length, is the wide piazza del Popolo [2], almost circular in shape. Its northern end is closed by the city gate Porta del Popolo (previously called Porta Flaminia in ancient Roman times, see Aurelian's Walls). The place name Popolo probably refers to a small grove of poplars (populi in Latin) that once grew over this area. In the days of old, the grounds just outside this gate were used for burying in common tombs all those who were not allowed to have a grave in a church or in a churchyard, such as bandits, prostitutes, non-Christians and even actors. It is easily understood how the grim fame of the place triggered the birth of legends.
view of piazza del Popolo from the Pincio Gardens
piazza del Popolo and its trident in the background
|In the Middle Ages, the belief of Nero's ghost was so common among the people that in 1099 pope Paschal II had the ancient tomb taken down, and replaced with a small chapel, which later in time was enlarged into a real church. The present building dates back to c.1475, and boasts the record of being the first church in Rome with a dome. Renowned artists of the Renaissance age, such as Pinturicchio, Donatello, Andrea Bregno (who very likely also built the church) richly furnished it inside; the works include also two famous paintings by Caravaggio, and the lavish chapel that the rich banker Agostino Chigi had built by Raphael (c.1520), then finished by the middle of the following century by Gianlorenzo Bernini, under commission by pope Alexander VII, a member of the Chigi family himself.
the floor of the Chigi chapel (by Bernini)
|In the centre of piazza del Popolo stands the tall Flaminian obelisk, described in the Obelisks monograph), resting on a large base with four Egyptian lions and four fountains in the corners, a work by Giuseppe Valadier, the architect who in c.1820 refurbished the square into its present look. A smaller fountain that stood by the obelisk since the late 1500s is now in piazza Nicosia, in the same Campo Marzio district (for details, see the Fountains monograph).
From the southern side of the square spring three long and straight diverging streets: together, they form the so-called trident, whose corners are marked by a couple of almost twin churches, built in the second half of the 1600s, by the time the ground was levelled and the square acquired its symmetric shape.
|The street on the left, via del Babuino [3], was originally called Paolina Trifaria, in honour of pope Paul III who had opened it (yet 'Trifaria' referred to the three streets); in order to populate it, the pope granted the exemption from taxes to all foreigners who moved there. Very soon the street changed its name after a popular small fountain located about midway its length, known as Babuino [4] (Baboon), described in Curious and Unusual and in Fountains, which also belonged to the so-called talking statues. The fountain stands by the Byzantine Catholic church of St.Athanasius (1583), built by Giacomo Della Porta; the clock on its left belltower, now without arms, was a gift by pope Clement XIV, in 1771.
Since the late 1700s, the building next to the church was the atelier of the famous sculptor Antonio Canova; after his death, in 1822, it was handed down to his most distinguished pupil Adamo Tadolini, from whom it was in turn bequethed to his own descendants, for three generations of sculptors. When in 1967 the last Tadolini passed away, the atelier, still crowded with original models, studies and sculptures, was closed. In 2000 it was opened again, and turned into a small museum, with a posh café on the ground floor.
Canova lived and owned a large workshop nearby, which is mentioned further in the page.
il Museo Canova-Tadolini
'100 Painters at Via Margutta' exhibition
|Parallel to via del Babuino, just below the Pincio Hill, runs the lovely via Margutta [5], a charming street where most of the penthouses act as art studios; the silence and the stillness of this street clash with the usual crowd and chaotic traffic, so typical of the district. Those who saw the famous film Roman Holidays can tell this as the street where at number 51 lived the reporter played by Gregory Peck. The real personalities who lived in via Margutta include director Federico Fellini, painter Renato Guttuso and several others. Here stands the small district fountain of Campo Marzio (1927), known as the Fountain of the Artists, featuring theater masks, paint brushes, and easels. Since 1953, this street hosts every year a colourful and charming open air contemporary art exhibition, '100 Painters at Via Margutta'.
|By the end of via del Babuino, at number 115, a small plaque remembers the birthplace of the famous dialect poet Trilussa.
Here the street reaches one of the spots most loved by tourists, piazza di Spagna [6], named after the old Spanish Embassy (now Spanish Embassy by the Holy See), established there by the mid 1600s. On one side of the square, the famous Spanish Steps scenographically climb towards the 16th century church of Trinitŕ dei Monti, in front of which stands the small Sallustian obelisk, a Roman copy in reduced scale of the one in piazza del Popolo.
The Spanish Steps in the background
of the crowded via dei Condotti
|It was built between 1721 and 1725, to mark symbolically the peace between the French and Spanish communities, among whom there had previously been some friction; the former lived above the hill, while the latter lived below. Before the staircase was built, there was only a rough and steep pathway along the bare side of the Pincio Hill.
Below the Spanish Steps, the famous Baroque fountain known as Barcaccia, by Pietro Bernini, the father of the more famous Gianlorenzo, decorates the the centre of the square, sinking below the ground level (its story can befound in the Fountains monograph).
the Barcaccia fountain
In the nearby piazza Mignanelli stands the towering column of the Immaculate Conception, built in 1857 by the will of Pio IX to commemorate the relevant dogma, which he had proclaimed three years earlier. Here every year, on December 8th, the Fire Brigade climbs to the statue of the Virgin Mary at the top of the column and lays a wreath of flowers and, in the afternoon, the pope too pays a visit to the monument, a popular tradition that started in the 1920s.
|Above the Spanish Steps, just before the church, stands the Sallustian obelisk, a small Roman copy of the Egyptian one in piazza del Popolo.
Nearby spring the steep via Sistina and via Gregoriana, divided by Palazzetto Zuccari [7], a small mansion dated c.1590 that the famous late Renaissance painter Federico Zuccari built for himself. Overtime it changed owner several times; in the early 1700s it acted as the Roman residence of the queen of Poland, who had the small porch added, with a balcony above (the doorway still features the Polish coat of arms). But its most striking doorway is the bizarre one along via Gregoriana, in the shape of a monster with an open mouth, flanked by two similar windows. It is now the seat of the German library Bibliotheca Hertziana, that philantropist Henriette Hertz gave to Rome in 1913.
Palazzetto Zuccari
On the opposite side of Trinitŕ dei Monti's church, about 200 m (or yds) away, stands the massive Villa Medici [8]. It dates between 1564, when its making started, over a preexisting building, to and 1576, when it was purchased by Ferdinando I de' Medici, a cardinal and the future grand duke of Tuscany; he enlarged both the mansion and the yet lavish garden at the back, now neighbouring the Pincian Gardens, forming together with the latter the whole eastern part of the district. The cardinal was very fond of ancient art, and gathered in the villa an extraordinary colection of Roman findings, partly unearthed in the grounds of his own properties, partly purchased.
|The collection, though, was moved to Florence one and a half centuries later, whem the Medici branch whom Ferdinando belonged to became extinct, and the whole property was handed down to Leopold of Lorraine, the new grand duke of Tuscany. In 1803 Napoleon I wanted to turn Villa Medici into the Roman seat of the French Academy for young artists, an establishment still today housed in the building.
rings for tying horses: Villa Medici's 'parking lot' →
The central street of the trident is via del Corso [9]; in ancient Roman times this was the first stretch of the Flaminian way, which crossed an urbanized area north of the city boundary (up to AD 275 the city ended by the base of the Capitolium Hill). It was called via Lata, after which the Regio (district) was named, and it kept this name throughout the Middle Ages, until during the age of Renaissance, during Carnival (see Curious and Unusual) races began to take place along the street: the people started calling it il corso ("the raceway"), whence the following names Corso Umberto I and, finally, the present via del Corso. Today this is Rome's most important high street.
At number 18 is the house where the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived during his two-year stay in Rome (1786-88), now turned into a museum.
Once passed the church of St.James in Augusta, on the right springs via Antonio Canova, where the famous sculptor, previously mentioned, lived and had a rather large workshop [10], created by purchasing a number of houses, which previously belonged to the Dominicans who ran Santa Maria del Popolo's church, and joining them together into one complex.
ancient fragments by Canova's workshop and the sculptor's bust
|The sculptor is remembered on the outside by a bust and a plaque dated 1871, surronded by several ancient fragments hanging from the wall. The workshop is now occupied by a private art gallery, but most of its halls have been turned into a day hospital. The latter is part of the historical St.James Hospital, which is housed in the long building on the opposite side of the street; it was founded in 1339, when this part of the district was still almost uninhabited, and it used to be called St.James of the Incurable because it admitted only those who suffered from diseases for which in those days no remedy was known, such as syphilis and sores. A plaque hanging along via del Corso remembers that the hospital boasts the earliest private connection to an aqueduct branch, in 1572, when running water became once again available in Rome (see also the Fountains monograph about this topic).
|Further south along the street stands the large church of Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso [11] (often referred to as San Carlo al Corso), which belonged to the community of residents who came from Lombardy. In 1471 the community was granted a preexisting church, dedicated to St.Nicholas; the title was then changed into that of the saint patron of Milan, Ambrose. The second title was added after 1610, when the late cardinal Carlo Borromeo, bishop of Milan, was proclaimed a saint. On the same occasion the church was completely rebuilt, mostly by Onorio Longhi (son of the more renowned architect Martino Longhi the Elder), but Pietro da Cortona finished it, by building the large dome. The works spanned from 1612 to 1669. The inside, in late Baroque style, is particularly bright and glamorous, richly decorated with golden stucco work and fake marble. The large fresco on the ceiling features the fall of the rebel angels (by Giacinto Brandi).
ceiling of the church of Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso →
The third street of the trident is via di Ripetta [14], which runs towards the Tiber. It was named after the lesser of two wharves, taken down by the early 20th century (see There Once Was in Rome...).
The enormous tomb built for Rome's first emperor consists of three concentrical cylinders made of bricks, of different heights, covered by turf; the innermost and tallest of the three contains the cell where the ashes of the emperor were kept. Also the ashes of some other emperors of the first century were kept in the mausoleum, namely those of Caligula (d. AD 41), Claudius (d. AD 54) and Nerva(d. AD 98). Its doorway was originally flanked by two obelisks carved in Rome, which today decorate Quirinal Square and piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore (see Obelisks monograph).
Having been sacked of its contents already during the early Middle Ages, in the 1200s it was turned into a fortress by the Colonna family. During the Renaissance it became a garden, with hedges arranged in an elegant design. As of the 1700s it was turned into an arena for public entertainment, such as bullfights and firework displays, called the Correa (or Corea) Amphiteatre. Then, during the second half of the 1800 its popularity declined, and it was used as a deposit for building material. In 1907 it was turned into a concert hall, until 1937, when all the modern parts were taken down, as well as some old houses that surrounded the structure, giving the square its present look. On that occasion the mausoleum was declared a historical monument.
the mausoleum of Octavian Augustus, as it is today
a reconstruction (replica in the Museum of Roman Civilization)
The Ara Pacis ("Altar of Peace), now located in front of the emperor's tomb, was in fact built about 150 m (or yds) off this spot, in the present Colonna district, to celebrate peace that followed the victorious campaigns of Octavian Augustus in Spain and in Gallia (present France). On one side of the monument stretched the complex called Solarium Augusti, an enormous sundial, which the same emperor had built, in which the obelisk now standind in piazza di Montecitorio acted as a pointer; on September 23, Octavian Augustus' birthday, the shadow of the spire fell exactly in the centre of the Ara Pacis (for more details about the obelisk see the relevant monograph).
|The monument is one of the best known specimens of ancient Roman marble work, as it is covered with reliefs of very high artistic quality, some of which depict the same emperor together with members of his own family, during a ritual procession.
Its original location was in via in Lucina (in Colonna district, just beyond the boundary with Campo Marzio); over time, the monument collapsed and was buried by rubble. Some of its fragments were found around the mid 16th century by the foundations of a building; several others were retrieved between the 19th century and the early years of the 20th. Some missing fragments, now held by other museums, among which the Louvre in Paris, were integrated by using moulds that faithfully reproduce the missing parts.
the controversial modernist complex that encloses the Ara Pacis
|The monument is enclosed in a modernist building drawn by the famous U.S. architect Richard Meier, and opened in 2006, which triggered a great controversy, as it is "too white, too modern, and too bulky" for the context it was built for.
On one side are the churches of St.Rocco, with its tall hydrometer (described in Curious and Unusual) and of St.Jerome of the Slavonians, founded by the community that started to repopulate the district (see above).
← a detail of the reliefs on the outside of the monument
|A few metres further stands the massive Palazzo Borghese [17], still the residence of the Roman branch of the aristocratic Borghese family. The mansion is considered one of Rome's 'four wonders' because of its architecture. The early nucleus, a work by Vignola (Jacopo Barozzi), dates back to 1560. But the following enlargement, which Martino Longhi the Elder, Flaminio Ponzio and Carlo Maderno worked at from 1590 to 1613, took place when cardinal Camillo Borghese (the future pope Paul V) became the owner. Palazzo Borghese is also called the harpsichord because of its peculiar shape, an asymmetric rectangle. On its shortest side it features a double balcony (the keyboard); the front of the building, with its main entrance (usually closed), marks one whole side of piazza Borghese.
the keyboard and the front looking towards piazza Borghese


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PITTSBURGH -- On a night when heavy rain pelted the Lions and Steelers for nearly a quarter and bolts of lightning led to a 73-minute delay that sent fans scurrying, Ben Roethlisberger found the best place to stay warm and dry.
The sideline.
Roethlisberger never got off the bench in a return to Heinz Field that couldn't have been much quieter, and replacement Byron Leftwich was ineffective despite playing much longer than expected. No matter, Pittsburgh beat Detroit 23-7 on Saturday night behind No. 3 quarterback Dennis Dixon, who threw for a touchdown and hit a long pass to set up another score.
Leftwich was outplayed by Matthew Stafford in the Lions quarterback's first game action since injuring a shoulder against Cincinnati on Dec. 6. After Stafford left following a 2-yard TD pass to Calvin Johnson, the Steelers came back from a 7-6 deficit as Dixon led scoring drives of 75, 79 and 68 yards with reserves playing.
"I'm having a blast," Dixon said, a sentiment not shared by many others on a long, wet evening.
Roethlisberger's behavior during a March night of drinking in Georgia that led to accusations of sexual assault but no charges visibly stirred anger among Steelers fans. But, five months later, his first appearance in a Steelers uniform since then was greeted with shrugs.
The only crowd reaction came when a few fans chanted, "We want Ben, we want Ben" as Leftwich struggled.
Roethlisberger never bothered to put on a helmet or warm up, wearing a ballcap turned backward during pregame warmups. He also didn't talk to reporters.
"With the number of snaps we anticipated the first offense running, it just wasn't appropriate to play him," coach Mike Tomlin said. "He wanted to play. He's had an awesome training camp."
Leftwich was expected to play eight to 12 snaps, but instead played nearly twice that as Tomlin apparently was displeased with the offense's first two series. Two running backs fumbled, Leftwich was sacked for 8 yards and he unintentionally spiked a pass as the starters gained only 16 yards in 12 plays.
"We weren't really clicking," Leftwich said. "We did some things not so good, but we'll work on it."
Stafford was 8 of 11 for 61 yards and a touchdown to Leftwich's 6 of 10 for 43 yards, although the 68-yard drive that ended with Stafford's scoring pass came against mostly backup defenders.
"I felt good, I felt like I was in the flow of the game," Stafford said. "I felt real comfortable in there."
Leftwich played until midway into the second quarter before leading a 61-yard drive against Lions reserves that ended with the second of Jeff Reed's three field goals. Reed converted from 35, 37 and 32 yards.
Dixon's 51-yard completion to Arnaz Battle with Eric King in coverage led to Isaac Redman's 1-yard touchdown run during the rain-soaked second quarter. Redman, a free agent from Bowie State who first made a splash during last year's training camp, carried 15 times for 60 yards and appears to be the frontrunner to back up starter Rashard Mendenhall.
When the rain finally let up, the teams played the final 1 minute, 37 seconds of the first half and then immediately began the second half with many in the crowd of 55,248 already long gone.
Dixon added a 68-yard touchdown pass to sixth-round pick Antonio Brown midway through the fourth quarter while going 6 of 7 for 128 yards. He ran six times for 31 yards.
The Lions, a combined 2-30 the last two seasons, did little with Shaun Hill and Drew Stanton at quarterback. They drove to the Steelers' 7 early in the second half, but DeDe Dorsey fumbled and the Steelers ate up more than nine minutes of the quarter with a field goal drive.
"I thought we did some good things early in the game," Lions coach Jim Schwartz said. "But you can't finish the game the way we did -- the second and third quarters especially -- and be happy about it."
First-round draft pick Jahvid Best had a 15-yard run among six carries for 29 yards in a brief but effective Lions debut. Defensive end Ndamukong Suh, the No. 2 pick in the April draft who signed for a guaranteed $40 million, played briefly but made no tackles.
Lions backup linebacker Jordon Dizon injured a knee during the first half -- Schwartz said it could be serious -- but there were no other apparent injuries.


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std::find( seq.begin(), seq.end(), std::compose2( std::and(), std::bind2nd( std::greater(), 0 ), std::bind2nd( std::less(), 11 ) );This composes a binary and operation with two unary operations like so that executing:
and( x )is really executing:
f = bind_second_parameter_of( greater(), 0 ); g = bind_second_parameter_of( less(), 0 ); o = and( f( x ), g( x ) );Which, in this example is used to find the first x in the sequence that is in the range of [1,11). Is this similar in intent? In BlocksInJava I provide classes like BinderFirst, BinderSecond, UnaryCompose, and BinaryCompose to do the same thing as this CeePlusPlus example. I'm not sure. For one, this compose2 takes 3 arguments. It seems to be equivalent to the following Haskell:
compose2 f g h x = f (g x) (h x)Okay, this is the same...well, at least as close to the same as CeePlusPlus can get with classes, templates, and function objects!!
(define (compose f g) (lambda (x) (f (g x))))Or, if you want to take advantage of Scheme's multiple values:
(define (compose f g) (lambda (x) (call-with-values (lambda () (g x)) f)))In this case, F takes as many arguments as G returns. Even better would be to return an n-ary function:
(define (compose f g) (lambda args (call-with-values (lambda () (apply g args)) f)))And, better yet, to define COMPOSE itself to be n-ary:
(define (compose f . rest) (if (null? rest) f (let ((g (apply compose rest))) (lambda args (call-with-values (lambda () (apply g args)) f)))))--Riastradh
def compose(f, g): return lambda x, f=f, g=g: f(g(x))
public static Converter<T1, T3> Compose<T1, T2, T3>(Converter<T2, T3> f, Converter<T1, T2> g) { return delegate(T1 x) { return f(g(x)); }; }
std::compose1( std::ptr_fun( f ), std::ptr_fun( g ) );
UnaryFunction compose1( UnaryFunction f, UnaryFunction g ) { return new UnaryCompose( f, g ); }For example given the following FunctorObjects:
UnaryFunction f = new UnaryFunction() { public Object eval( Object x ) { return x.toString() + "f"; } }; UnaryFunction g = new UnaryFunction() { public Object eval( Object x ) { return x.toString() + "g"; } };You can do the following:
o = compose1( f, g ); o.eval( x );This creates the string:
function compose(f,g) { return function(x) { return f(g(x)) } } function square(x) { return x*x } function halve(x) { return x/2 } assert( compose( halve, square ) (4) == 8 )See http://ling.ucsd.edu/~barker/Iota/ where JavaScript and composition are used to simulate the combinative languages Iota and Jot.
let compose f g x = f (g x)
Prelude> ( (`div` 2) . (^2) ) 4 8It could have been defined like this:
(f . g) x = f (g x)
- ( (fn x => x div 2) o (fn x => x * x) ) 4; val it = 8 : intIt could have been defined like this:
fun op o (f, g) x = f (g x)
@S Compose @. ( code code -- code ) rB[x]+rB[x]++You can also just use the + operator although that won't work in many cases, such as if one or both operands are numbers or if the first code is a string that ends with a number in decimal notation.


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Can't Hardly Wait
Is Jennifer Love Hewitt's career goal to be an actress or to testthe elastic limits of the Wonderbra? Hey, don't get me wrong; I'm all for skin on screen, but Hewitt's breasts are pushed so far up into her face that her chin looks like the head pin in some sort of peculiar game of dual flesh bowling -- a definite strike against this movie.
Her character is a central figure in a stupid film that tries to encapsulate every imaginable high school cliché in the framework of a 90-minute graduation party. Anybody who's been out of high school for five minutes is going to have to work hard suppressing that gag reflex.
Hewitt's character, Amanda, has just been dropped by the belching super-jock, Tom Cruise look-a-like, Mike (Peter Facinelli), while half-geek, half cool guy Preston (Ethan Embry) waits for that one chance to introduce himself to Amanda and tell her how he really feels. Joining them for no apparent reason is Preston's friend, Denise (Lauren Ambrose), whose dumpy-but- funny Janeane Garofalo impersonation earns her little more than the attentions of Kenny (Seth Green), the white guy pretending to be a black guy character.
Add to this geeks who sit up on the roof like frightened chickens talking about "Star Trek" and their valedictorian buddy, William (Charlie Korsmo), and the writing/directing team of Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont have created the ideal atmosphere for a well-placed explosive device. Having written "A Very Brady Sequel," "Homeward Bound 2" and "Jingle All the Way," Kaplan and Elfont demonstrate that no matter how deep in the talent toilet you may reside, the hand of Hollywood is always willing to reach in and pull you out.
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Can Sony's rumored 6.44" Togari phone rival a Galaxy Note III if both came with a stylus?
0. phoneArena 25 Jan 2013, 06:00 posted on
Not to say that Snapdragon 800, a 6.4" Full HD screen and 3,500 mAh battery are not impressive, but what caught our attention is that Sony is making the big screen matter with a stylus silo, like in Samsung's Note series, and equipping the handset with an IR blaster to serve as a remote control for your home electronics...
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19. Cesar (Posts: 139; Member since: 16 Aug 2012)
Way to big for a phone, way to big
21. sats.mine2k4 (banned) (Posts: 208; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
NOTE 3 VS SONY TOGARI ....I want both probably ...
29. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
All hail the future
36. Amidamaru212 (Posts: 2; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
I think, that there use Sony stylus, which he patented some time ago, with with friction-based haptic feedback... If this were true, it would be awesome and Sony would have the upper hand.
37. ubuntu (Posts: 40; Member since: 11 Jan 2013)
38. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
If the specs are true I may finally own a sony phone
39. IU_Lover (Posts: 35; Member since: 23 Jan 2013)
Dayum, I want to wait for their H2 flagship, but that's too long.... I'm just gonna get the Z. :)
40. BabyWade (Posts: 43; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
If these specs are true then yes it can compete with the GN3, but i'm more interested in the software features & if they can match-up or exceed samsung's usual offering.
58. Larry_ThaGr81 (Posts: 441; Member since: 26 May 2011)
That's the key......can Sony provide the software to match the hardware or will they design a phone that is boggle down by sluggish software. The hardware is only as good as the software and vice-versa.
42. REYNER (Posts: 187; Member since: 10 Feb 2012)
the specs looks very capable and something to be excite about but i think 6.44 is too much for a phone 5.5 to 5.8 i guess would be enough
44. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
tooooo big.
Will have to switch from wearing trousers to wearing Pyjamas to office.
50. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
OH HELL YEAH they will beat the crap out of the GS NOTE II. this is a promising year for SONY and the battery life DAMN
52. affandi (Posts: 85; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
So let me get this right, Huawei manages to squeeze in 4050 mAh in a 6.1 inch phone, and Sony only 3500 mAh in a 6.44 monster device.. what?
61. Larry_ThaGr81 (Posts: 441; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Didn't even see this post initially, but that would also be a concern of mine if I were interested in a tablet sized phone. If I had to guess, I'd say that Sony is trying to reduce the weight of the phone by using a smaller battery.
78. AstronautJones (Posts: 303; Member since: 01 Aug 2012)
Good point. Think ALL manufacturers should have bigger batteries.
I do not need a credit card thin phone, need one that doesnt die on me.
54. appleandsonylover (Posts: 7; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
Sony will never be a copycat, stylus has been popularized a long time ago by Sony. Yes, maybe other companies have stylus before sony but they popularized it with their P series phones (P800, P900, P990i and so on...), Samsung will and cannot patent that.
60. Larry_ThaGr81 (Posts: 441; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Let's not forget, we are discussing Sammy and Sony, not Apple. Apple is the patent king who wants to patent everything.
59. Larry_ThaGr81 (Posts: 441; Member since: 26 May 2011)
I'd be a little concerned about the battery size, considering Sammy has placed a 3100mAh battery on a 5.5 inch screen phone and Sony is placing a 3500mAh on a 6.4 inch screen phone.
62. 1ceTr0n (Posts: 549; Member since: 20 May 2012)
After all the shots Sony has pulled on the consumer, I don't care if the create a farming fusion reactor, they are no longer getting this ex Sony fanboys money any longer for any product, f**k em
63. Phaze0085 (Posts: 112; Member since: 22 Sep 2011)
Yea. America was built on competition. Bring it on and may the best phone (with the best and best looking screen) win.
71. oister85 (Posts: 492; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
C'mon sony make phablet rapido.
74. Abbath (Posts: 99; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
I love Samsung, but it I would also love to see some stiff competition! It keeps all the maufacturers on thier toes and gives us buyers good choices!
75. luabin (Posts: 36; Member since: 29 Jul 2012)
absolutely correct!!!
80. cR203 (Posts: 201; Member since: 27 Jan 2013)
A note 3 will most likely have similar if not better spes than this. But aside from specs the software is what really counts. If samsung makes touchwiz and their software features as good as they did with the s3 and note 2 that would be a reason why the togari phone wouldn't be able to rival the note 3.
81. bipinm (Posts: 124; Member since: 07 Oct 2012)
Hi PA,
remember this???
82. bipinm (Posts: 124; Member since: 07 Oct 2012)
please dont say names of contributers...
its just rumors...nobody is doing a press conference...so...
84. JunBringer (Posts: 137; Member since: 01 Oct 2012)
3GB of ram? Yes plz.
85. omar98 (Posts: 59; Member since: 28 Aug 2011)
Those specs are really starting to close the gap between phones and mid range PC's
89. mas39 (Posts: 80; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
If this is true, I will wait for this to come out, forget the Z and ZL, they're too small. Full hd phones should have a display size near 6" and above so this togari will be perfect, and NO I don't have big hands, I have small hands yet I find my 4.7" LG 4x hd on the small side.
91. adrianzka (Posts: 60; Member since: 25 Apr 2013)
I doubt it will beat sgn3, but it will be a rival. Sammy have developed 4 GB LPDDR3 ram. I don't know if it will be in togari, but it will probably be in sgn 3.
92. Rationalized (Posts: 1; Member since: 08 Jun 2013)
The togari looks too good to be true.A real classy premium phone.Nobody wants to buy Samsung anymore :D.


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