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December 29, 2011
TAMPA BAY, Fla. The Tampa Bay Lightning, NHL parent club of the Norfolk Admirals, have signed forward Pierre-Cedric Labrie ("PEE-air SEHD-rihk lah-BREE") to a two-year, two-way contract, Lightning Vice President and General Manager Steve Yzerman announced today. Labrie has been assigned to the Admirals.
Labrie, 6-foot-2, 220 pounds, has appeared in 28 games for the Admirals this season, recording six goals and 18 points with a plus-15 rating and 63 penalty minutes. Labrie is sixth in points, ranks third in plus/minus and leads Norfolk in penalty minutes in 2011-12. He is also tied for sixth in the AHL in plus/minus.
A 25-year-old native of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Labrie was originally signed to a Professional Tryout Contract with the Admirals on October 13, 2010. He then signed a two-year AHL Standard Player's Contract with Norfolk on December 8, 2010. In 92 games with Norfolk over the past two seasons, Labrie has recorded 13 goals and 44 points with 211 penalty minutes.
A fifth-year professional, Labrie has appeared in 283 career AHL games between Norfolk, the Peoria Rivermen and the Manitoba Moose. In those games, he has scored 31 goals and 84 points with 483 penalty minutes.
An undrafted forward, Labrie was originally signed by the Vancouver Canucks on July 9, 2007. Vancouver traded him to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for forward Yan Stastny on March 3, 2010.
Prior to turning pro, Labrie spent one season with the Baie-Comeau Drakkar in the Québec Major Junior Hockey League, posting 35 goals and 63 points with 113 penalty minutes in 68 regular season games. He then posted eight goals and 14 points with 35 penalty minutes in only 11 playoff games.
The Admirals and Bridgeport Sound Tigers will face off again tomorrow night at Scope in a rematch of last night's game. The first 2,000 fans through the gate will receive the second set of 2011-12 Admirals trading cards. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Individual tickets for all regular season games start at just $12. Tickets are available now at the Scope Box Office, all Ticketmaster Outlets, charge-by-phone at 1-800-745-3000 and online at ticketmaster.com.
Dont miss a minute of the action by purchasing your 2011-12 season tickets today. Season tickets start at just $350 while 10-Packs are available for as little as $110. Stop by the Admirals Administrative Offices at Scope, call (757) 640-1212 weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or visit norfolkadmirals.com anytime!


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Budgeting in Minnesota
Minnesota's budget debate will begin in earnest soon, when Gov. Mark Dayton makes his budget recommendation.
As the deabte begins there are some points that everyone needs to agree upon. Gov. Dayton has said, and we think all will agree, that we can't keep balancing the budget with funding shifts, accounting tricks and one-time infusions of cash raided from other funds. It is time to match spending and revenues fairly, without "borrowing" from our school districts, for example.
Dayton is also going to push for tax reforms to restore fairness and stability to the tax system. We agree that the system is needlessly complex, and fixing it will take more than the tweaks and Band-aids that have been applied in the past. Dayton should have the support for his dearly-loved tax increases on the wealthiest Minnesotans, but true tax reform will be much more than that.
A big question will be spending. The Minnesota Business Partnership recently released a study, "Meeting Minnesota's Budget Challenge," that shows how Minnesota's government spending has been growing at a faster rate than the economy for quite some time. Right now, the state's revenue is expected to grow about three percent annually, about the rate of growth in the economy, but expenditures are expected to grow at closer to five pecent. At that rate, even increasing tax rates won't solve the state's deficit problems, just push them off a bit.
Most of that growth, of course, is in the cost health and human services. These are hard areas to cut. The state should not be turning away from helping the sick, the elderly and impoverished who need help, but we need to develop ways to fund and encourage more efficiency and better outcomes in health care. Allina's Heart of New Ulm initiative is one example of exploring better ways of providing health care.
We don't pretend that all these issues will be solved in one legislative session, but if the budget debate can get away from the "cutting vs. taxing" argument, and explore balanced approaches, there may be hope.

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Tweet your way to a new job
Some locals are landing jobs by building up their social media networks with authoritative and engaging information about their occupations and industries, said Hannah Morgan of Career Sherpa, an online career counseling service.
Morgan gave a presentation at the Fairport Public Library on the topic last week. She addes that developing networks on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and even blogging or reviewing books on Amazon can help job seekers.
It's important, she said, to develop these networks since a majority of hiring managers are searching these sites and as well as Google candidate's names prior to selecting which job applicants to bring in for an interview.
For more on the topic, check out my Starting Out column on our young professionals page.


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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Henry David Thoreau
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, journal writer, and poet.
The following entry presents criticism on Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). See also, Walden; or, Life in the Woods Criticism.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is considered one of the finest works of the Transcendentalist movement, in company with Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and Thoreau's own Walden.
Plot and Major Characters
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers relates the two‐week boating and hiking trip that Thoreau and his brother John took through Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1839. For artistic purposes, Thoreau chose to condense the events into one week with eight sections. The first section is titled "Concord River" followed by seven sections reflecting the days of the week: Saturday through Friday. "Concord River" is an introduction of sorts which includes detailed descriptions of the river—flora, fauna, and geography—with numerous historical and mythological references. The trip commences in the "Saturday" section with the launch of a boat that is hand‐built by the Thoreau brothers. As the narrative progresses, Thoreau describes the plant and marine life he sees. By nightfall, the brothers have left civilization behind and ventured into the primitive wilds of nature. The "Sunday" section includes meditations on the essences of nature, religion, and poetry, including a comparison between ancient gods and Christ. In "Monday" Thoreau contrasts the contemplative values of the East with the hasty activity of the West. Toward the end of the day Thoreau expresses a feeling of transcendence in which he feels at one with the universe. "Tuesday" focuses on a lengthy remembrance of climbing Mt. Greylock; the chapter uses rich symbolism to evoke an idealized past. "Wednesday" concerns itself with Thoreau's ideal of true friendship—a friendship that attains a spiritual level of intensity and purity. "Thursday" is devoted to hiking and recognition of the approach of autumn, while "Friday" finds the brothers traveling downstream back home to Concord as Thoreau muses on death and immortality.
Major Themes
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers includes a number of primary themes. Given its place in literary history, the attainment and experience of transcendence is central. The proper role of man in nature is also present throughout much of the work. Many critics credit the existence of A Week to the death of Thoreau's brother, John, in 1842 and consider the work to be a tribute to him. Three important themes—the cyclical nature of time and history; the elements of true friendship; and the understanding of death—are considered related to Thoreau's attempts to come to terms with his loss. Whether read as a symbolic quest traveling the river of life, or as an elegiac tribute to his beloved brother, A Week operates on several thematic levels.
Critical Reception
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers was a commercial failure upon first publication. It initially met with mixed reviews, which complained of its disjointed and digressive structure. Modern critics, however, praise A Week and often find its complexities more interesting and rewarding to study than Walden. As a result, critical assessments have been quite varied. A number of critics have considered Thoreau's treatment of history. Joan Burbick asserts that Thoreau favored a wild and uncivil history over romantic, conventional retellings of America's past. And Jamie Hutchinson contests the notion that Thoreau's emphasis on transcendence is anti‐historical, arguing that Thoreau demonstrates a belief in the progression of mankind. The element of nature is considered by David B. Suchoff, who notes that the work struggles "to assert simultaneously the identity and difference of language and Nature." Religious influences are considered as well. Marvin Fisher writes that in his "perception of the negative implications of American apocalyptic thought, Thoreau is much closer to the temper of the late twentieth century than he could ever have imagined." Fisher goes on to discuss the influence on Thoreau of Edward Johnson's Wonder‐Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England, a religious book centered on Revelation. Regarding Thoreau's treatment of time, H. Daniel Peck posits that Thoreau sought continuity in historical remembrance in order to cope with a certain antipathy toward time that he felt after his brother's death. The friendship and influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson is another topic frequently considered by critics, with debate arising regarding the nature of their friendship and the extent to which Emerson's ideas are found in Thoreau's writing. The question of genre has also been explored. A Week resists easy categorization, since it combines elements of travelogue, polemic, elegy, and Eastern philosophy, and includes digressive essays and lengthy quotations from historical records. Despite numerous points of view, most critics agree that A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is a rich and varied work that celebrates both natural science and artistic discovery, and is, as Frederick Garber puts it, a "major statement about being in the world."
Principal Works
*"Ktaadn, and the Maine Woods" (essay) 1848; published in journal Union Magazine
†"Resistance to Civil Government" [also published as "Civil Disobedience"] (essay) 1849
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (essays) 1849
"Slavery in Massachusetts" (essay) 1854; published in newspaper The Liberator
Walden; or, Life in the Woods (essays) 1854
"A Plea for Captain John Brown" (essay) 1860; published in journal Echoes of Harper's Ferry
"Walking" (essay) 1862; published in journal The Atlantic Monthly
Excursions (essays) 1863
"Life without Principle" (essay) 1863; published in journal The Atlantic Monthly
The Maine Woods (essays) 1864
Cape Cod (essays) 1865
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti‐Slavery and Reform Papers (essays) 1866
Early Spring in Massachusetts (essay) 1881
Summer (essay) 1884
Winter (essay) 1888
Autumn (essay) 1892
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (essays, journal, letters, and poetry) 1906
Journal. 14 vols. (journal) 1949
Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau's "Lost Journal" (1840‐1841) (journal) 1958
The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau (letters) 1958
Collected Poems (poetry) 1964
*Originally a lecture, "Ktaadn" was later included in The Maine Woods.
†"Resistance to Civil Government" was reprinted in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau under the title, "Civil Disobedience."
Lawrence Buell (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: Buell, Lawrence. "Thoreau's A Week." In Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance, pp. 208‐38. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973.
[In the following excerpt, Buell traces the course of A Week and explains how it displays, through "endless suggestiveness," the Transcendentalist sensibility.]
Written largely during his years at Walden Pond, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers comes closer than any of Thoreau's later writing to an unguarded expression of his relationship to nature.1 In Walden the speaker is obviously much more familiar with his surroundings, but he is also...
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Paul David Johnson (essay date March 1977)
SOURCE: Johnson, Paul David. "Thoreau's Redemptive Week." American Literature 49, no. 1 (March 1977): 22‐33.
[In the following essay, Johnson contends that the quest for self‐liberation is central to A Week, a quest advanced through the cyclical representation of time.]
We have forgotten that much of the "private business" which Thoreau transacted at Walden was the writing of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and have lost sight of the intimate connections between Thoreau's writing of A Week and the activities at Walden which gave birth to his second, more famous book. His program for living a wholly natural life by...
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Walter Hesford (essay date fall 1977)
SOURCE: Hesford, Walter. "'Incessant Tragedies': A Reading of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." ELH 44, no. 3 (fall 1977): 515‐24.
[In the following essay, Hesford interprets A Week as a call for faith in response to the incessant tragedies of nature and life.]
There are studies of Henry Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers which begin to do justice to its structure, style, and import. Even the most astute and sympathetic critics1 have not, however, accounted, I think, for the power, the impression of the book, perhaps because they are generally preoccupied with its merits as a transcendental...
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Jamie Hutchinson (essay date fourth quarter 1979)
SOURCE: Hutchinson, Jamie. "'The Lapse of the Current': Thoreau's Historical Vision in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 25, no. 4 (fourth quarter 1979): 211‐22.
[In the following essay, Hutchinson contends that A Week documents Thoreau's belief in historical progress and that he sought inspiration, not eternity, in his river voyage.]
A people without history is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern of timeless moments.
—T. S. Eliot
Eternity is in love with the productions of time....
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David B. Suchoff (essay date fall 1982)
SOURCE: Suchoff, David B. "'A More Conscious Silence': Friendship and Language in Thoreau's Week." ELH 49, no. 3 (fall 1982): 673‐87.
[In the following essay, Suchoff contends that Thoreau sought to understand the mystery of nature through friendship rather than language.]
"It is difficult to begin without borrowing," Thoreau tells us as he relates the borrowing of an ax to found his cabin at Walden, "but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow men to have an interest in your enterprise."1 The project of Walden, promising to take the writer to the "necessary of life" (7), and at the same time to...
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Joan Burbick (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Burbick, Joan. "Henry David Thoreau: The Uncivil Historian." Bucknell Review 28, no. 1 (1983): 81‐97.
[In the following essay, Burbick analyzes Thoreau's views concerning the treatment of history, including his disdain for historical approaches that rely on romantic and novelistic techniques.]
By the first half of the nineteenth century, Americans were searching for histories that would justify their actions both at home and abroad. The romantic historians of this period in part satisfied this demand, creating stories that sustained the ideal of progress, the triumph of civilization, and the necessary control of "primitive" forces. George Bancroft,...
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Linck C. Johnson (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: Johnson, Linck C. "'Whose Law is Growth': A Week and Thoreau's Early Literary Career." In Thoreau's Complex Weave: The Writing of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, pp. 202‐47. Charlottesville, Va.: The University Press of Virginia, 1986.
[In the following excerpt, Johnson relates the troubled ten‐year history of A Week, from the river trip to initial publication.]
As the above chapters indicate, the writing of A Week charts Thoreau's literary and intellectual development from his years at Harvard to its publication in 1849. But he was not simply becoming a mature artist during this period. He was also becoming a man, a...
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Donald M. Murray (essay date June 1987)
SOURCE: Murray, Donald M. "Symbolic Landscape in the Greylock Episode of Thoreau's Week." American Transcendental Quarterly 1, no. 2 (June 1987): 123‐32.
[In the following essay, Murray offers a Freudian reading of the ascent of Mt. Greylock, claiming that Thoreau was motivated by Oedipal conflicts.]
We are closer than ever before to an understanding of young Thoreau's psychological problems, and we see more clearly than ever before the formal patterns in his book, A Week On the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Yet certain striking features of the chapter "Tuesday" remain unexplained. There is an arresting quality in the brief portrait of the young...
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Marvin Fisher (essay date summer 1990)
SOURCE: Fisher, Marvin. "Seeing New Englandly: Anthropology, Ecology, and Theology in Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." The Centennial Review 34, no. 3 (summer 1990): 381‐93.
[In the following essay, Fisher considers Edward Johnson's apocalyptic‐imbued history of the settlement of New England and its influence on Thoreau.]
The title of Henry Thoreau's first book announces an authorial strategy that either failed utterly or succeeded only as irony. It echoes the titles of countless travel books by British and continental visitors and by American devotees of the scenic picturesque. Authors from Irving, Cooper, and Hawthorne to Whitman...
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H. Daniel Peck (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Peck, H. Daniel. "Killing Time." In Thoreau's Morning Work: Memory and Perception in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, the Journal, and Walden, pp. 3‐21. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990.
[In the following excerpt, Peck analyzes Thoreau's concern with the nature of time, showing how he responded with literary techniques of temporal disorder and creative remembering.]
On January 8, 1842, the day his brother John began to experience the first symptoms of the virulent infection that would kill him three days later, Henry Thoreau was thinking of time. In his Journal, he asks meditatively: "Of what manner of stuff is the...
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Frederick Garber (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Garber, Frederick. "A Space for Saddleback." In Thoreau's Fable of Inscribing, pp. 116‐41. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
[In the following excerpt, Garber argues that Thoreau inserted the Saddleback Mountain climbing episode in order to show the insufficiency of textual and temporal closures.]
The logic of this study derives, in part, from the logic of Thoreau's thought on some very basic questions about being at home in the world. From language, to writing, to the field of inscribings of which writing is a part, to the functions of autography as a mode of self‐inscribing—each of these actions or consequences implies and...
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William Rossi (essay date June 1994)
SOURCE: Rossi, William. "Poetry and Progress: Thoreau, Lyell, and the Geological Principles of A Week." American Literature 66, no. 2 (June 1994): 275‐93.
[In the following essay, Rossi demonstrates that much of Thoreau's view of science can be traced to Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology.]
Well‐known for its witty criticisms of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers's reflective sections as "digressions" from the boating narrative, James Russell Lowell's influential review quickly became the locus classicus for discussions of the book's apparent lack of coherence. "We come upon them like snags, jolting us headforemost out of our...
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Stephen Adams (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Adams, Stephen. "The Genres of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." In Approaches to Teaching Thoreau's Walden and Other Works, edited by Richard J. Schneider, pp. 143‐9. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1996.
[In the following essay, Adams explains the teaching opportunities that arise from exploring the question of A Week's genre.]
The "drama" of Sunday in Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers concludes "without regard to any unities which we mortals prize. Whether it might have proved tragedy, or comedy, or tragi‐comedy, or pastoral, we cannot tell" (114). Many readers...
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Eric Wilson (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Wilson, Eric. "Thoreau, Thales, and the Distribution of Water." The Concord Saunterer 6 (1998): 27‐41.
[In the following essay, Wilson explores Thoreau's concept—borrowed from the philosopher Thales—of water as the fundamental principle of the cosmos.]
On New Year's Day, 1851, Thoreau as usual set out on his afternoon walk, exhilarated by another warm day, the third in a row, surrounded, though the sky was sunless, by a luminous mist. He made his way to a deep cut in the bank around Walden Pond, his former habitat. There he beheld thawing clay, the frozen earth melting under the plastic power of midwinter spring: earth returning to first water....
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Further Reading
Colbert, Charles. "Thoreau's Panoramic Vision and the Art of Guido Reni." The Concord Saunterer 7 (1999): 218‐35.
Speculates on the appeal to Thoreau of Reni's fresco Aurora and explains its role in the Saddleback episode.
Fink, Steven. "Variations on the Self: Thoreau's Personae in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." ESQ 28, no. 1 (first quarter 1982): 24‐35.
Examines how Thoreau achieves fluidity of identity while maintaining narrative control.
Fulton, Joe Boyd. "Doing 'Pioneer Work': The Male Writer in Thoreau's Week and...
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The Vermont Passport Agency, which has created nearly 20 new jobs, is one of several passport facilities made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- the "federal stimulus" bill. This agency and others slated to open over the next four months are key elements in the Department's overall efforts to facilitate international travel.
Located in downtown St. Albans, a mere 17 miles from the Canadian border, the agency is in a prime location to make travel and trade between the two countries simpler and easier. Since the agency will also be able to handle emergency passport issuances, alleviating the need for applicants to travel to Boston for that service, it will provide greater convenience and service for communities throughout Vermont, northern New York, and northern Maine.
The agency is housed in the beautiful, historic post office and customs building. The marble entry contains the original brass postal boxes and displays two large murals depicting town leisure activities that were painted in 1939 by Swedish immigrant Philip von Saltza. Although it was particularly difficult to earn a living as an artist during the Great Depression, von Saltza won four contests to create murals in U.S. Government buildings. In addition to the murals in the new agency, von Saltza was commissioned to paint a mural of the Wright Brothers' First Flight for a North Carolina post office. His work was also exhibited at the New York World's Fair in 1939 and is stored on microfilm in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
Here in Vermont, it is an honor to have our walls adorned with such beautiful murals, and we are delighted to have been able to preserve a piece of local history in the new agency.
For more information about passports and visas, please visit travel.state.gov.
Related Content:U.S. Department of State To Host Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for Vermont Passport Agency


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Kelly Wearstler (right) made her contemporary design voice heard in 1999 when she gave the Avalon Hotel Beverly Hills a swanky yet sophisticated midcentury makeover. Since then, her unique statements have also translated into collections of jewelry, furniture and home accessories, available at luxury retailers such as Neiman Marcus, as well as textile and dinnerware collaborations. The distinctive designer has published four books showcasing her work; the latest, Rhapsody (Rizzoli), was released in October. Wearstler talks with palmbeachillustrated.com about her aesthetic and her style must-haves.
PBI: Your collections for home and fashion are full of vivid color and prints. What inspires you to create these graphic designs?
WEARSTLER: I adore vintage shopping. I can find a small detail in a piece of artwork or a texture in some amazing piece of tapestry, even in the detailing on a piece of carpentry—and that inspires me to create something graphic, colorful and can even morph into a new print. I am constantly being inspired by a world of different things; you can find inspiration in anything.
What are three items from your spring 2013 fashion and jewelry collections every woman should own?
A brightly colored leather jacket is always a must—I did some beautiful greens and purples for spring. At the moment, I am drawn to the Jasper jacket because it is such a fresh take on the motorcycle style.
A statement piece of jewelry—my spring cuffs with the giant keyholes are super cool!
Anything with a print—there are so many pieces in the new collection that have beautiful prints; it's hard to choose just one. But I am partial to layering prints with color and texture to add some depth.
Each collection as a whole is so special to me, though, so it is hard to pick just three pieces. I think it is more about choosing which items reflect my mood for the day and layering pieces that really showcase my personality.
How do your interior designs influence your fashion and jewelry designs and vice versa?
They both inspire one another. The voice I've created in my products and interior designs speaks to being curious and taking risks, and my fashion extension is the evolution of that voice. You see layering of texture, color/metallic and graphic prints in my interiors, home decor and fashion. This is indicative of my aesthetic in anything that I touch.
If you could make over any public space what would it be?
Anything in South Beach. I am enamored by the architecture there. I would be thrilled to [make over] any of the Art Deco buildings there.
What will style enthusiasts learn from your latest book, Rhapsody?
I hope they will find their own inspiration from the book and see that there is just as much detail going into large- and small-scale projects, from the furniture and lighting chosen all the way down to the placement of a tiny decorative object. I want people to recognize that less is not always more. It's about each item having meaning or adding to the overall space.
Describe your personal style and what influences it season to season.
My personal style is a mix of vintage and new, raw and refined. I look forward to seeing what comes down the runway as well as what I find in vintage stores. I look for polished comfort that allows me to move easily between being a fully involved mother; leading my design teams in fashion, accessories and home; as well as being active outside work socially.
When entertaining at the last minute, what's your go-to decor or style tip to help set the stage?
Fresh flowers are a quick way to pull it all together. Having a full bar at all times is also key—everyone ends up happy.
What home, fashion or beauty items are on your spring shopping list?
Home: The marble skulls and brass feet from my home accessories line are fun pieces that can work in any room in the house.
Fashion: Aside from my entire spring resort wear collection, I will definitely need a few new pairs of shoes. The Hydra jacket in Blue Shell Tweed with embellished epaulets is phenomenal.
Beauty: I don't really change this up from season to season; the most important beauty item is sunscreen, healthy eating and a constant exercise regimen that keeps me balanced.
What are some of your favorite home shopping destinations on Antique Row in West Palm Beach?
Pierre Anthony Galleries, Dolce Antiques, Galere.
Any hints on future projects you're working on?
I am currently working on a hotel in San Francisco, my fall 2013 resort wear collection and a new collection of furniture.


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Teachers will assign more complex, challenging reading — if they follow Common Core standards, concludes a Fordham analysis of what students are reading now.
Currently, many teachers try to assign books that match their students' reading skills, especially at the elementary level. Common Core calls for assigning grade-level reading and giving students extra help to understand it.
In trying to improve reading comprehension, schools made a tragic mistake: they took time away from knowledge-building courses such as science and history to clear the decks for more time on reading skills and strategies. And the impact, particularly on our most disadvantaged students whose content and vocabulary gap is so great, has been devastating.
Teachers are assigning "relevant" and "easily digested books" in hopes of getting students to read, according to Common Core in the Schools.
. . . classic literature has, in many classrooms, been replaced by popular teen novels (often made into movies) such as The Hunger Games and Twilight. Indeed, the former, according to Renaissance Learning . . . became the most widely read book in grades 9-12 following its theatrical release in 2012. Yet it is pegged at a fifth-grade reading level.
The most-assigned books are Because of Winn-Dixie, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and To Kill a Mockingbird, the Fordham survey finds. Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail also is assigned frequently.
"Across all grade levels…there was a tendency to err on the side of lower-level books," says Fordham's Kathleen Porter-Magee.
In fourth and fifth grade, students should read texts with a lexile range of 740 to 1100, according to Common Core. Four of the top 10 books are below that level, including Sarah, Plain and Tall.
Middle-schoolers should be reading texts in the 950 to 1185 range, according to Common Core. Seven of the 10 most popular books for this age group aren't challenging enough. (Is John Steinbeck's The Pearl really an elementary book?)
Ninth- and tenth-graders should be reading texts with a lexile range of 1050 to 1335, the new standards say. Five of the 10 most popular books don't meet that level of difficulty. (I guess To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn often are read in earlier grades. I took a "look inside" The Book Thief, which allegedly has a lexile rank too low for fourth graders. It's not Dick, Jane and Sally.)
Fifty-one percent of teachers surveyed — all in states that have adopted Common Core standards — said they'd made little or no change to their teaching as a result of the new standards.


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Sherman shop to remain open this summer
SHERMAN – Following nearly four months of back-and-forth discussion, the Sherman Department of Public Facilities shop will remain open this summer.
County Executive Greg Edwards announced that the Department of Public Facilities construction crews will report to the Sherman shop this summer in a press release Monday. He said the decision to keep the shop open this summer is based on the commitment the county received from the village and the town of Sherman to enter into a professional analysis of collective highway efforts.
"This study will determine if we can bring potential savings to taxpayers by maintaining the same services but by sharing a single facility for all three of these operations and sharing our resources," Edwards said.
In November 2012, it was announced that the Department of Public Facilities was reviewing the opportunity to save taxpayers approximately $250,000 by closing the Sherman shop. This savings could be recognized by eliminating the district supervisor position, having year-round mechanics reassigned to the Falconer or Sheridan shops, and having 17 members of the Sherman road crew report to Falconer or Sheridan during the construction season. The proposal was announced following the retirement of a district supervisor.
"You have the individual's salary, you have the benefits which is approximately 70 percent of his salary," Spanos said. "That individual does take a car home, so you have to include the capital investment of a vehicle, usage and maintenance."
Despite projected savings, the announcement was met by much resistance. A Facebook page encouraged county residents to contact their legislators and request that each of the three shops remain open year-round. Additionally, a public meeting was held in December. Sherman residents voiced concerns to Edwards and Spanos. Additionally, Sherman Mayor John Patterson and Legislator Fred Croscut, R-Sherman, spoke at the meeting. Patterson asked the county executive to look at all options before closing the shop for the summer months.
"We fought like a son of a gun to get where we are now, and we're going to be just like a puppy on a rope," Patterson said. "We're not going to let this go. We're not going to slide backwards. We're going to do everything that we possibly can to keep this facility open."
In February, Patterson said at a Sherman Village Board meeting the shop would likely remain open. He told board members that several conversations had taken place between himself and Edwards since the public meeting. Patterson also said he received word from a county shop employee, saying that interviews were going to be held for a new district supervisor for the Sherman county shop, to replace the one who had retired. Additionally, Patterson said he was told by Ken France, district supervisor of the Sheridan shop, that the Sherman shop would remain open for the summer.
After Edwards met with Patterson and town of Sherman Supervisor Mark Persons to discuss the Sherman shop, they discovered grant opportunities through the New York State Shared Municipal Incentive program and other programs that could assist in funding a professional analysis of each highway operation.
"As we pursue this study, it is important that we all work together to ensure that each highway department receives the attention it deserves," Persons said. "By keeping all of these services in Sherman it will continue to support our local economy."
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Hahn. Hilary Hahn. The violin superstar is about to premiere a new work by Jennifer Higdon tomorrow (Friday) night, attend the Grammy Awards this Sunday with two chances to win for Best Classical Album and Best Instrumental Performance with Orchestra, and then go on a recital tour playing Ives and Ysaye. She took out a few minutes to talk about the new piece and about the Grammys.
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A Successful Hatching in Punta Cana for Ridgway\'s Hawks
Erin Katzner — 01 June 2015 — in West Indies Project
The Peregrine Fund has been working to recover the critically endangered Ridgway's Hawk (with only 250-300 individuals remaining) in the Dominican Republic since 2000. Prior to our involvement, the hawk was found only in Los Haitises National Park. We've been working to expand the population to other areas in order to protect the species from potential natural disasters that could easily wipe out the population if located only in one unprotected area.Read more...
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A Hawk's Story
Marta Curti — 3 March 2014 — in West Indies Project
As biologists, we aren't "supposed" to get attached to the animals we work with. We are often taught to be objective and analytical, but this is much harder said than done. This is especially true when, as in our case, we begin working with the Ridgway's Hawks when they are still too young to fly and monitor them on a daily basis for up to 3 months. We observe them on their initial flight attempts, and their sometimes wobbly landings. We worry about them on their first nights out of the release box and hope that they roost in safe spots and avoid being caught by predators. We watch them as they practice hunting and cheer when we find them with wild caught prey for the first time. After they disperse, or leave the release area, we track their movements and hope that they will continue to remain out of harm's way. One of our greatest fears is that they will end up shot or otherwise harmed by humans. We do all this work (and all this worrying) as part of our Assisted Dispersal program, wherein we release wild hatched young into other protected areas within Dominican Republic as a means to help create additional sustainable populations of this species in parts of its former range.Read more...
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Community and Conservation in Dominican Republic
Marta Curti — 28 February 2014 — in West Indies Project
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AV and ND, The Adventure Continues...
Thomas Hayes — July 22 2013 — in West Indies Project
For the last three years, my wife Christine, my daughter (now 4 years old) Mojave, and I have spent half the year in the Dominican Republic monitoring the last remaining population of the critically endangered Ridgway's Hawk. We have also been a part of a reintroduction team to release this rare raptor into novel habitat in one of the Dominican Republic's most renouned resort areas, Punta Cana. Below is the latest account of "The Valentines Day Pair", written by Christine Deegear Hayes.Read more...
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All's Well that Ends Well: The Continuing Adventures of the Valentine's Day Pair
Marta Curti — 29 April 2013 — in West Indies Project
The next morning – the beginning of the fourth day with no sign of the female from the Valentine's Day Pair (see Notes from the Field, 22 April 2013) started off gloomy. Dark clouds rolled across the sky and the weather ranged from heavy down pours to just raining really hard.I had decided that this would be a good day to catch up on office work, updating field notes and data entry, mainly.I had been working for a about an hour or so when a break in the weather finally came.About twenty minutes later my phone started ringing. It was Henry, one of the guards working in Cap Cana within the Valentine's Day Pair's territory. "Estoy mirando los dos gavilanes," he told me. He was seeing two hawks! I quickly gathered my gear – my binoculars andtheradio telemetry receiver wrapped in as many plastic bags as I could find to keep it dry (it had started raining again) – and headed out to the siteRead more...
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Trouble in Paradise: An Update on the Valentine's Day Pair
Marta Curti — 22 April 2013 — in West Indies Project
The sky was clear except for a few expansive clouds tinged pink by the rays of the rising sun. Egrets lazily flew by overhead, their great wings flapping golden in the early morning light. It was early and the air was cool and light, heavy only with the faint scent of the ocean tagging along on the tail end of an occasional breeze. The grass was green, the palm trees waved whenin thewind and the bougainvillea bloomed bright fuchsia. It seemed like a perfect day here in Dominican Republic, and it almost was, except for one nagging detail. This was going on the third day that we hadn't seen the female, ND, from the Valentine's Day Pair (see Notes from the Field, 20 March 2013).Up until a few days ago, she was regularly seen side by side with male AN as they worked together to build their nest, perched together, or fed together.Since ND's radio transmitter wasn't functioning, I had no way to track her so for two days I kept a close eye on AN. I hoped he would lead me to her, but he was always alone and often vocalizing loudly, as if calling for her. He never received a reply.Read more...
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The Valentine's Day Pair
Marta Curti — 20 March 2013 — in West Indies Project
For the past three field seasons, Christine and Thomas Hayes and I have been working on The Peregrine Fund's Ridgway's Hawk Conservation Project. Ridgway's Hawks are a critically endangered species with the only known breeding population found in a small national park in Dominican Republic. Christine and Thomas spend about 6 months of the year in-country monitoring the wild pairs in Los Haitises National Park and helping with releases of young birds. Since 2008 The Peregrine Fund has been releasing young wild birds into protected areas in the hopes of creating additional self-sustaining populations. For the first time, two of our released birds have paired up and are making a nesting attempt. What follows is Christine' account of her observations of this exciting moment in our project's history!Read more...
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Raptor Conservation and the Kindness of Strangers
Marta Curti — 22 May 2012 — in West Indies Project
It was just past 7 p.m. and the sun was quickly setting behind the fields of sugar cane and grass that lined the narrow road. Roaring motorcycles, and buses with music blaring from their windows whizzed past me, their lights fading into the darkness as I made my way slowly towards La Herradura – one of the release sites for the Ridgway's Hawk in the Dominican Republic.I was on my way there with two young hawks in tow and a large bag filled with frozen meat (hawk food). I was coming from Los Limones – the small town that borders Los Haitises National Park, where the last known population of this species exists. As part of The Peregrine Fund and the Hispaniolan Ornithological Society's conservation efforts, we are conducting an assisted dispersal project whereby we take up to 10 chicks from wild nests and release them in other protected areas in the country, in the hopes that they will eventually breed and establish additional wild populations. That afternoon, my co-workers in Los Limones, Thomas and Christine Hayes, had just returned from the field with two healthy, beautiful chicks and my job was to get them safely to the release site.Read more...
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In Search of AC
Marta Curti — 29 July 2011 — in West Indies Project
It was still dark – 3:00 in the morning to be exact. I woke up, dressed, gathered the telemetry receiver, binoculars, rope, machete, food and water that I would need for the day and headed out into the field. I was in search of AC – a young Ridgway's Hawk that had been released four days prior, but had not yet returned to the release site for food.Read more...
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Releasing Ridgway's Hawks
Marta Curti — 22 July 2011 — in West Indies Project
On April 13, Thomas and Christine Hayes and I placed two young wild-hatched Ridgway's Hawks into the hack box (a special enclosure designed to temporarily house the birds prior to release) set in a high tree overlooking the forest of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. As part of an assisted dispersal program carried out by The Peregrine Fund and the Sociedad Ornitológica de la Hispaniola, the chicks would spend one week in the box before being released into their new home. The seven days spent in the enclosure gives them time to become accustomed to their new surroundings.Read more...
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A Hack Site Attendant's Experience in Dominican Republic
Marta Curti — 15 July 2011 — in West Indies Project
With only an estimated 200-250 individuals left in the world, and the only known sustainable population found in Los Haitises National Park (LHNP), Dominican Republic, the Ridgway's Hawk is a critically endangered species in need of strong conservation actions. The Peregrine Fund,in conjunctionwith the Sociedad Ornitologica de la Hispaniola, has been studying this species for years, and has begun what is known as an "assisted dispersal" program. The idea behind this is to take wild hatched chicks from some nests in LHNP and release them in other areas of the island where this species once existed that still contain suitable habitat. The hope is that, eventually, this will create additional populations on the island, thus making the species as a whole less vulnerable to major catastrophes such as hurricanes or disease outbreak.Read more...
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Of Forests and Fires
Marta Curti — 26 April 2011 — in West Indies Project
Lush. Green. Verdant. Vibrant. This is what the forest in Los Haitises National Park (Dominican Republic)should look like. This is what it did look like once upon a time – before fires and machetes felled much of it to the ground.I have been brought to this small patch of uncut forest by my friend and co-worker, Nohine, who has been a part of the Ridgway's Hawk Project for years and who knows the layout of the hills and trails of this park like most people know the layout of their own back yards. When we first enter the shaded landscape, I can feel the temperature drop 10 degrees - if not more. Nohine shows me an endemic palm tree and a large Ceiba tree – the first one I have seen since my arrival in the Dominican Republic in early March. I can hear songbirds singing in the trees and butterflies of all colors and sizes abound. For a few moments, I can pretend that this is all there is – just flowers and trees and winged creatures. I can forget the tragic loss of land that we witnessed today. But alas, we can't spend much time here – maybe ten minutes or so. It is getting late. We have been walking for more than 5 hours and still have a ways to go before we get back to the cabin, so we grab our packs and head back onto the trail – back into the blazing hot sun and the now even-more-noticeable lack of trees to shade us.Read more...
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First Ridgway's Hawk Chicks of the Season Hatch
Marta Curti — 15 April 2011 — in West Indies Project
A cacophony of sounds surround me: the rhythmic hymns that float from open church doors, the braying of donkeys, the clop, clop, clop of horses trotting down the cobblestone street, the screaming laughter of children, the roar of motorcycles, the occasional Michael Jackson tune blaring from someone's home, and finally, the high whistle of a Ridgway's Hawk as it flies into view. This particular Ridgway's Hawk is the adult male from the "Titico" pair which is nesting in a high palm tree just inside the town of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic. The town itself is small, with houses built of wood and palm, where roosters, dogs and goats roam with equal abandon.Here, the people are friendly and welcoming, greeting you with a "buenos dias" or an "hola" or a silent, cheery wave. Vendors young and old walk the streets selling sweets: coconut bread or toasted sugary peanuts something akin to peanut brittle, and men carrying machetes and wearing gum boots walk to their "conucos" (fields) to plant and harvest corn, squash, yucca, bananas, and many other delicious foods. Sour oranges grow everywhere in the forest and make for a delicious treat after hours of hiking beneath a hot sun. The town of Los Limones, just outside of Los Haitises National Park where the largest concentration of this species is found, is where we are stationed for the next few months as we survey for nesting pairs of Ridgways Hawks.To date this year, we have found about 35 pairs and all but two seem to be in some stage of nesting.Read more...
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Environmental Education as One Means to Conserve the Ridgway's Hawk in the Dominican Republic
Marta Curti — 9 February 2005 — in West Indies Project
Crystal blue waters, white sand beaches and lush vegetation; these are the views we take in as we drive from the airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (DR), through the countryside, on our way to Los Haitises National Park, located in the northeast portion of the country. I have come from Panama to spend a week working with biologists Jesus Almonte and Pedro Rodriguez, to help implement an education program designed to promote the conservation of the endangered, endemic, Ridgway's Hawk. My job would be to help them develop presentations, activities and a means to evaluate the progress of this program, which will take place in communities that surround Ridgway's Hawk territory.
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Wigan have confirmed the signing of Paul Scharner on loan from Hamburg for the rest of the season.
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Scharner is returning to the DW Stadium having spent more than four years with the Latics before leaving for West Brom in the summer of 2010.
The Austrian, who Wigan manager Roberto Martinez has brought in to play at centre-back, told the club's official website: "It really is fantastic to be back.
"Wigan will always have a big place in my heart, so to be asked to come back and help the team now is something really special for me."
The 32-year-old can also play in midfield but is currently required in defence, where Martinez is missing the likes of Ivan Ramis and Antolin Alcaraz through injury and eager to strengthen.
The Spaniard, whose side are through to FA Cup fifth round and lie 18th in the Barclays Premier League, said: "There is no better centre-half for us to bring in than Paul Scharner.
"He knows the football club, we know him well, he has incredible experience and is a meticulous professional which means he is always in a great physical condition.
"He is desperate to come in and help the team and fight for his position. For us, it couldn't be a better option."
Scharner first joined Wigan midway through 2005-06 season, the club's maiden campaign in the Premier League, from Norwegian side Brann and went on to become a fans' favourite.
Departing as a free agent at the end of the 2009-10 season, he was then snapped up by West Brom, where he saw out a two-year contract before signing for German outfit Hamburg last summer.
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"Aiden is a phenomenal footballer, but is a footballer that is playing his football in Russia. I don't think that's going to change."
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Over reach and nothing but a power grab for the gooberment?
Short term win for Obama, but possibly long term problem for him in November?
Some political analysts hint that Roberts might have upheld this thinking/knowing the backlash could turn the election to the pubes...


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Some pictures of many (sadly not all) of you at http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/1515055955
They're pretty much raw from the camera, and many would benefit from a bit of work, but Dr Rob asked me if I'd take as many general pictures as I could, and it's just too much like hard work to get the best out of all of them before you've all forgotten about the event entirely! (Some people, and they know who they are, even had the temerity to suggest that taking pictures was somehow easier than running the marathon. I shan't dignify that with a response.)
No nice indexing by name or number either, but if you know when you were at Leith Hill, the Radnor Road car park, the halfway point, the Plough pub or the finish line, you can work out if there's a picture of you by looking at the filenames (and adding an hour because they're timed in GMT just to confuse you.)
If you see a picture you'd like a decent copy of, drop me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll see what I can do.
Some of you will know me from previous events, but I'm not there as official photographer, I'm there to support my wife (Amanda #155, 4:50:06). That means that if you're too far ahead of or behind her, you're much less likely to be photographed. Sorry about that, but absolutely anyone who does that course, regardless of time, has my admiration and respect!
I remember you well - two fellow runners and I were shooting straight on through the car park before you yelled us back to turn right. Saved us som extra distance - which was the last thing that I would have needed.
Mud made this harder than otherwise might have been but great course and organisation. Well done to Rob and marshalls, much appreciated your efforts and support. Congrats to all runners.
Five days taper now before I see some of you again at Beachy... and I'll probably take even longer there than here!
Here's something that might be of interest... From 2013, if the race takes place (the doubt originates from increasingly burdensome paperwork, ever-increasing costs to stage the race and difficulty of enlisting sufficient numbers of marshals to ensure that the race can be organised safely...), it will include - officially for the first time - a half marathon option. The Greensand Half Marathon will be run on the same course as the Leith Hill Half Marathon (March) - up to just beyond Leith Hill Tower and back, on the same course as the Greensand Marathon, starting half an hour after the marathon runners. Entry numbers for the races will be strictly limited. From 2013, all MP3s/iPods etc will be strictly banned on the course - we've previously politely asked runners not to use them! Hope that's in order.
Absolutely SUPER! I will most definitely be there. Fully understand, and appreciate, the costs and manpower involved in staging such a big event. To include a half-marathon option will, hopefully, cover the costs. Any date yet? LOL! I want to make sure that I won't miss that one.
Any information on when the 2013 race entries will open (or have they closed already)? I keep checking the website but there's nothing about how to enter on there. I'd really like to do this one this year!
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Any information on when the 2013 race entries will open (or have they closed already)? I keep checking the website but there's nothing about how to enter on there. I'd really like to do this one this year!
Same here - I left a note on Dr Rob's facebook page too. I really want to get a spot on this. Something epic to aim for and just up the road from me.
I did this in 2012 - it was an epic race! I will definitely be trying to improve my time in October. If you haven't already checked them out, the other Trionium races are excellent; good atmosphere, great trails, spectacular views, awesome challenges and woprthwhile giveaways (I never buy running tops anymore, I just wear my trionium tee's).
Lemony and Kharnivore -
Entries for all Trionium races have always, AFAIK, been handled exclusively by the Runner's World system. If the system's not advertising the Greensand then the race isn't open yet.
I notice that the Leith Hill page on the Trionium website has a link to its Entry Sytem, and that the Munro (22 June) page says that Entry will open in February. That four-month lead time suggests that the Greensand will open in June.
Rob usually broadcasts an email about a month before a race saying that it's filling up; if you check the website every month I think you'll be OK. The Greensand is a superb run across lovely countryside, and I hope you'll enjoy it. It is, however, only a curtain-raiser to the Picnic (June 2014), generally regarded as a cynical and brutal waste of young (and middle-aged) lives.
Gotcha back, Khanivore.
Come and do the Munro in June - it's half of the Picnic, so twice the fun.
I considered it but I think I will give it a miss. After the VLM I am going to spend several weeks just training at a low heart rate (HADD style). Consequently I wont be able to train on hills (which I am really bad at by the way).
Thanks BRM. I'll keep an eye out for Greensand and think about the Picnic next year!
I noticed there is a cut off, 74 mins to get 1/4 of the way i think? Roughly what kind of time would someone just making the cutoff do a flat marathon in? I have no idea if I will be fast enough to attempt this.
Depends on whether you're prepared to front-load this one. If you are, you could get away with a fast 6.3 miles then relax but accept that your time for the whole thing might be slower than you would have done otherwise.
I like to set off relatively slowly, but my flat marathon time is 3:09 and I'm sort of OK on hills, so I'm hoping that the cut-off won't be an issue for me.
Khanivore, I would have thought you'd be OK on this one. My flat marathon PB is 4:12:25 and on the 4 occasions that I have run the Leith Hill Half Marathon (which is run over the 1st and 4th quarters of the Greensand) I have comfortably reached the tower within the cut off time (cut off time is actually 73 minutes). That said, I have been pacing myself for that particular race knowing that the 2nd half is (mainly) downhill , whereas I am led to believe that the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the Greensand are the toughest! As long as you approach the race reallistically, appreciating it for what it is (i.e. one of Dr Rob's brutal but magnificent races, and you WILL get completely knackered) you should enjoy it. You've probably already studied these, but here's the link to the Runners World discussion forum for the race http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/events/ratingsall.asp?en=67538&year=2012&ugn=7952&sp=&v=2
Entry for the Greensand Marathon and half marathon 2013 should be open within the next couple of days - depending on RW.
If you can do a four hour marathon or 1:50 half on the flat, then the cut-off wouldn't trouble you. It's there to ensure that all the runners get back within six hours.
Enjoy... and remember to keep smiling.
Well i've done a 1:53 half (and that really was all out) in Nov but my form has dipped since then due to injury. I'm going to sign up and go for it! I'll have to work hard. I'm going to practice on the North Downs hear Reigate!
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Check out Dan Willingham's article on learning styles in the Washington Post's "Answer Sheet."
Have you been told that you should teach to children's individual learning styles? Well, research has not supported that theory.
The data are straightforward too: It doesn't work.
It doesn't work–not only for the visual-auditory-kinesthetic theory, but for many other learning styles theories that have been proposed and tested since the 1940s.
Researchers have been conducting experiments on learning styles for 50 years. They've been tested with the sorts of materials that kids encounter in schools. They've been tested with kids diagnosed with a learning disability.
There just doesn't seem to be much evidence that kids learn in fundamentally different ways.
Willingham goes on to explain that children do learn differently, but those differences cannot be simply attributed to learning styles. They may have to do with a child's "knowledge, interest, or other factors."
Differentiating for learning styles "makes a teacher's job much more difficult with no benefit to students," he writes. "Yet teachers are still asked to do it."
Let's hope school districts start coming to their senses on this matter. It is silly, distracting, and taxing to differentiate instruction in so many ways at once–especially when it doesn't work.


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Ron Guth: In 2005, PCGS determined that all 1896-O, 1900-O and 1902-O Silver Dollars with so-called "Micro o" mintmarks were counterfeit. This announcement was based on the discovery that all three dates shared common die markers.Q. David Bowers: The following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993)
Unneeded dollars: Like many other dollars of the era, 1900-O dollars were not needed when they were minted, and many were relegated to long-term storage.
Numismatic Information
Hoard coins: After the New Orleans Mint was closed, many bags of 1900-O dollars were shipped to the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. and in 1929 to the Philadelphia Mint for storage. Bags of 1900-O dollars dribbled out from the Treasury Building holding by the early 1930s, continuing through at least the early 1950s.
Unlike the 1898-O, 1903-O, and 1904-O, all of which were deemed to be great rarities in Uncirculated grade, the 1889-O, 1890-O, 1894-O, 1896-O, 1897-O, 1899-O, 1900-O, and 1901-O were on the market in bag and roll quantities in the early part of the 1950s decade. For example, Philip Maul, a Hudson, New York dealer, advertised rolls of these particular issues in The Numismatist in September 1953. In April 1954, W.E. Johnson of Santa Barbara, California, advertised rolls of 1900-O dollars for sale in the same publication. In January 1957, Postal Products Co., of San Francisco, had these rolls of O-Mint dollars for sale: 1881-O, 1882-O, 1883-O, 1884-0, 1885-O, and 1900-O. In the September 1957 issue of The Numismatist, Harry J. Forman advertised that he had Uncirculated specimens of the following New Orleans issues available in quantity: 1879-O, 1881-O, 1882-O, 1883-O, 1884-O, 1885-O, 1887-O, 1888-O, and 1901-O.
In October 1962, the 1900-O was front row center in the great dispersal of New Orleans dollars from long-term storage at the Philadelphia Mint. Hundreds of thousands were released. Wayne Miller wrote in 1982 that in roll quantities, 1900-O was believed to be scarcer than 1898-O, 1899-O, 1902-O, and 1904-O, and ran a close contest with 1901-O. Even so, today in the early 1990s there are plenty to go around.
Circulated grades: Worn 1900-O dollars are readily available, even though many perished in the private silver melts of the late 1970s. Demand is low due to the common nature of low-grade Mint State pieces.
Mint State grades: Most of the 1962-1964 release 1900-O dollars are in lower Mint State grades from MS-60 to 62, in which category an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 coins exist. In MS-63, 120,000 to 220,000 survive, and in MS-64 some 100,000 to 200,000 are believed to be extant. Even at the MS-65 or better level the 1900-O has no pretense of scarcity; 20,000 to 40,000 are around.
Striking varies, and specimens are encountered from weakly defined to sharp. However, most have the center of the reverse weakly defined, even if the center of the obverse is sharp. Others have a sort of wire-brush effect to the fields, radiating outward toward the rim, possibly the result of over-long die use. Cherrypicking will yield a well-struck coin with nice lustre, but some looking will be required.
Prooflike coins: In PL finish the 1900-O is readily available. Several thousand remain. DMPL coins are, perhaps, six or seven times scarcer. When seen, PL and DMPL coins are likely to show little contrast between the devices and the fields, and are apt to have distracting die-finish lines. Use caution when buying these. About a third of extant DMPLs are MS-65 or finer.
Circulation strikes:
1. Medium Round O. Open 9. Breen-5670, many VAM varieties, including some with partially repunched date. Common Uncirculated from Treasury bags 1962-1964.
2. Closed 9. Breen-5672, many VAM varieties, including some with repunched mintmark and/or partly repunched date. Common from the Treasury release.
Dies prepared: Obverse: Unknown; Reverse: Unknown.
Circulation strike mintage: 12,590,000; Delivery figures by month: January: 1,550,000; February: 1,500,000; March: 2,000,000; April: 1,500,000; May: 1,500,000; June: 1,000,000; July: 630,000; August: 400,000; September: 1,000,000; October: none; November: 1,140,000; December: 370,000.
Estimated quantity melted: Millions under the Pittman Act; millions more in later private melts.
Availability of prooflike coins: Prooflike coins are readily available; DMPL coins are six or seven times scarcer. Most have negligible aesthetic appeal.
Characteristics of striking: Striking varies, but the typical coin is apt to be weak on the reverse.
Known hoards of Mint State coins: Many bags were released by the Treasury in the 1950s and in 1962-64.
The 1900-O is very plentiful in Mint State, but most pieces are in the MS-60 to 62 range.
Additional Information
Distribution of Dollars
The Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, 1900, told of distribution of dollars during the fiscal year: New Orleans: In mint July 1, 1899, 11,409,000; coinage, fiscal year 1900, 14,140,000; total, 25,549,000; in mint July 1, 1900, 21,197,000; total, 21,197,000; distributed from mint, 4,352,000.
1900-O (regular and O/CC) is the only 1900-1904 issue not known to have been struck with the new C-4 reverse. If specimens exist they are extremely rare!


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SORCE XPS Level 3 Solar Spectral Irradiance Daily Means V010 (SOR3XPSD) at GES DISCEntry ID: GES_DISC_SOR3XPSD_V010
Abstract: The SORCE XUV Photometer System (XPS) Solar Spectral Irradiance (SSI) Daily Data Product SOR3XPSD contains solar XUV irradiances in the 0.1 to 27 nm range, as well as Lyman-alpha, in broad bands (7-10 nm resolution) as listed below:
Diode 1: 0.1 - 7.0 nm
Diode 2: 0.1 - 7.0 nm
Diode 3: 17.0 - 23.0 nm
Diode 6: 0.1 - 11.0 nm
Diode 7: 0.1 - 7.0 nm
Diode 9: 0.1 - 7.0 ... nm
Diode 11: 121.0 - 122.0 nm
The data are reported at a mean solar distance of 1 AU and zero relative line-of-sight velocity with respect to the Sun. The accuracy for the XPS Level 3 irradiance is 12-30%, photometer dependent, and the long-term repeatability is 1%/year.
The SOR3XPSD data are arranged in a single tabular ASCII text file which can be easily read into a spreadsheet application. The columns contain the date, Julian day, average measurement date, standard deviation of measurement date, diode number, minimum wavelength, maximum wavelength, instrument mode, data version number, median irradiance, mean irradiance, absolute uncertainty, measurement precision, calculation precision, degradation model, degradation version, and number of data points. The rows are arranged with data for each day, repeating for each diode wavelength.
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Dataset Originator/Creator: Tom Woods
Dataset Title: SORCE XPS Level 3 Solar Spectral Irradiance Daily Means
Dataset Series Name: SOR3XPSD
Dataset Release Date: 2011-11-10
Dataset Release Place: Greenbelt, MD, USA
Dataset Publisher: NASA Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)
Version: 010
Data Presentation Form: Digital Science DataOnline Resource: http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/SOR3XPSD_V010.html
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Start Date: 2003-02-10
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Data Resolution
Temporal Resolution: Daily
Temporal Resolution Range: Daily - < Weekly
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Quality See: http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/ssi_data.html
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Distribution Format: ASCII
Fees: None
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 303-492-4224
Email: tom.woods at lasp.colorado.edu
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I took a little break from the boards, but now I'm back ( ), with a question. What is the song Paul is playing in the beginning of Let it Be? My guitar teacher was playing it and I forgot to ask him what it was called. Even if I asked him, I probably would've forgotten it by the end of the day. Anyway, if anyone knows, your help is greatly appreciated!
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"The Next (Blank) Artist"Posted by Judith Lang Zaimont in Composers, Contemporary Classical Music, Contests, Opportunities, Uncategorized
I've been following the Bravo TV reality series, "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" (fifth episode this week). It tracks a group of young-ish artists, most of whom have already been exhibited, and assigns them a fresh project each week to be conceived and completed in about 1.5 days.
The completed works are then displayed in a private gallery showing, followed by a critique from a panel of judges (a core of regulars, plus one fresh prominent figure per week; one week it was Andres Serrano.) The projects range from utilitarian-but-arty (design a book cover for a classic novel re-issue) to almost-unspecified ("do something outrageous"), and at times the artists receive their assignments by lot, with no say as to the subject agreeing with their own affinities (or preferred medium).
Although it's the usual winnowing-out design typical of such programs — and I don't at all care who gets tapped as eventual winner — I'd pinpoint the same two interesting elements within each hour-long segment:
• The very different processes each of the artists follows in interpreting the assigned project. These are profiled in some detail — surprise! — and follow the gradual development of each new work. This manages to take up a big slice of the program, some 20+ minutes. It's exhilarating to see cameras paying attention to a working-out that stems from labor which is primarily 'head-work'. And rare.
• A refrain in the judges' comments, present virtually every week: that the works they find successful do *in some respect* provide for viewers to respond to the piece — and actively. (For example, they very much admired works in which the artist incorporated a mirror, or sign-in boards to register comment, or placed him/herself actually physically into the piece; etc.)
Of course the judges want the artist's individual personality to be expressed in the piece; but beyond that, and far from an auteur context where a viewer is only meant to "receive" an utterly complete document, the judges want the art to invite the viewer to respond, so that the work is 'incomplete' unless and until someone reacts to it in a way that registers to other viewers. (This forested tree demands the listening ear be there! so its fall can be heard.)
There's plenty of opinion flying about throughout the episode — in addition to the judges, the artists themselves comment liberally on one another's work throughout the show. If you pay no mind to the trumped-up personality conflicts and the bland or fatuous criticism (or the commercials), the show can be worth screening.
The level of the works — particularly those by three of the competitors still 'alive' — is certainly professional. And the prize is $100,000, plus a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum. Sarah Jessica Parker is one of the program originators.
Would that composers could reap the same on-camera attention for our head-scratching hours…!


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Billionaire Investor Nelson Peltz Sells Stake in PepsiCo
Mr. Peltz of Trian Fund walks away with a 50 percent return, while Pepsi's chief keeps the company together.
May 14, 2016, Saturday
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China's Growing Ardor for Overseas Shopping
A surge in Chinese buyers, many of them unknown in the West, requires a new level of due diligence because the logic of some deals is hard to follow.
April 15, 2016, Friday
MORE ON NELSON PELTZ AND: China , Peltz, Nelson , Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures , Legg Mason Inc
Morning Agenda: Dow Chemical and DuPont Said to Discuss Merger
Yahoo Said to End Plan for Alibaba Spin Off | Norfolk Southern Snubs Canadian Pacific | Sky-High Fees for Stellar Returns
December 9, 2015, Wednesday
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Dow Chemical and DuPont Are Said to Be in Merger Talks
Two of the biggest and oldest chemical companies in the United States, each with a market value of roughly $60 billion, could become the world's second-largest chemical maker in terms of revenue.
December 9, 2015, Wednesday
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Interest Rate Increase in December Is Still Possible | A 1975 Law Complicates Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis | Activists May Not Be That Myopic
November 5, 2015, Thursday
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While activists have been criticized for short-term "quarterly capitalism," they may hold shares longer than many institutional or retail investors.
November 5, 2015, Thursday
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October 6, 2015, Tuesday
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October 6, 2015, Tuesday
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October 6, 2015, Tuesday
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Decision not to merge may prove costly
On the Adirondack Park's southern border, the day before a State of the State speech in which Gov. Andrew Cuomo once again proclaimed that New York has "too many local governments," voters rejected the merger of two tiny school districts 10 miles apart.
On Jan. 7, voters in the Northville Central School District struck down a proposed merger with the Mayfield Central School District. By a ratio of more than 2-1 (the vote count was 670-309), Northville residents said they didn't want a consolidated school district with Mayfield, even though it would have resulted in more state aid and programs. Voters in Mayfield approved the merger 386-273, but without Northville's approval, the merger proposal is dead, at least for now.
Some Northville residents said they didn't want their taxes to go up by about 10 percent, which a study of the merger idea said would happen once the two districts merged. We wonder if those same voters are prepared for the level of tax increases that likely will be necessary to maintain the district's programs going forward.
Much of the rhetoric surrounding the merger vote asserted the idea Northville residents should not allow the state to pressure them into merging with another district. This ignores the reality that without state aid, Northville residents – like many towns – could not operate their school districts as they exist now. The costs of school districts' employee contracts and state-mandated expenses are much too great for local taxpayers to bear without help from the state.
Northville also has an uncommon and problematic teachers union contract that mandates a maximum number of students for classes in every grade level. That gives Northville few options for cutting expenses, which will make it more difficult for the district to stay under the state's 2 percent property tax cap.
Also, Northville, like most districts, has ever-increasing health insurance costs from plans the district is contractually obligated to provide for its employees and to retirees until they die. Half of the money the district spends on health insurance goes for retirees, many of whom pay either nothing or very little toward their health insurance.
Northville likely will need to exceed the 2 percent tax cap to maintain its operations. It will be interesting to see what happens if voters refuse to approve tax increases after they rejected the merger.
Meanwhile, Gov. Cuomo has proposed a two-year property tax freeze that would only apply, the first year, to local governments that meet the tax cap – yet another blow to Northville. The second year, the freeze would only apply to local governments that have taken steps toward consolidating or sharing services with their neighbors – definitely not Northville.
Many Northville residents didn't want to accept the simple truth that their school district is quickly becoming more expensive than they can afford without additional state aid. People in other small upstate school districts should be wary about following their example.


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The Washington Research Library Consortium enables CUA students, staff, and faculty with current library privileges to borrow items from other libraries in the consortium. The Consortium Loan Service handles all such requests, though patrons may also borrow in-person from member libraries.
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ACM102 - Pixel to Print: Digital Imaging 1
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This unit examines the photo-based image as a cultural, social and technical artefact. It examines representation in the digital and analogue realms. Production techniques include digital photography - both referent-based and non referent-based subjects, digital montage, conceptualisation, conceptual approaches and virtual realities. Production activities are designed to develop visual and digital literacy and photo compositing software skills with an emphasis on high quality output and presentation for screen and print.
This unit encourages the development of a range of skills including:
• basic digital photography
• image retouching
• colour correction
• use of layers and masks
• scanning reflective and transmissive materials
• technical and creative photo-compositing
• preparing images for screen-based viewing and print
• conceptual and creative photography
• typography and the relationship between text and image
• critical and intellectual analysis
Four production assignments/research assignments worth 20%, 20%, 30% and 30%.
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