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Innis, Harold Adams
Innis, Harold Adams 1894-1952
Canadian economist, historian, and essayist.
In the years between the world wars, economist Harold Innis became the first Canadian intellectual to attract significant international recognition. His work was revolutionary in several regards. He showed that the railroads had replaced the trade routes of the earlier fur industry, and thus reinterpreted Canada's development as something which took place because of its geography rather than in spite of it, as had been previously supposed. His views of history made use of the "staple theory of economic development," which approached the story of a nation's evolution as a chronicle of various "staples"—fur, timber, fish—at the center of its economy. Such an interpretation was particularly applicable to Canada, which as Innis showed, had an economic environment quite unlike that of the United States or Britain. By treating Canada as an economic entity separate from its influential mother country and its powerful neighbor to the south, Innis inaugurated a new era in Canadian studies. In spite of his emphasis on individualism and a free market, his focus on economics as a determining factor in a nation's political history helped to draw a following, long after his death, among Marxists. His career and work fell into two phases, the first of which was marked by the publication of The Fur Trade in Canada (1930), and which focused on the study of economic factors in the development of Canadian history. After the Second World War, Innis directed his attention to the means by which civilizations propagate themselves through modes of communication. These ideas, which he developed in Empire and Communications (1950), would have an impact far beyond Canada, in part through their influence on his more famous countryman, Marshall McLuhan.
Biographical Information
Innis was born in southwestern Ontario, and raised by strict Baptist parents. Though in later life he did not belong to any organized religion, the influence of his upbringing would be felt in many particulars of his life and work, perhaps most notably in his emphasis on both personal freedom and personal responsibility. Educated at local high schools and later at Woodstock Collegiate Institute, to which he had to commute many miles by train every day, he enrolled at McMaster University in 1913. At McMaster, a Baptist college then located in Toronto, Innis was lonely and lacking sufficient funds, but he managed to graduate with honors in 1916 as a political economy and philosophy major. By then Canada had entered World War I, and Innis enlisted in the army as a private. During fighting at Vimy Ridge in France he was wounded with shrapnel in his leg, and he spent the next year in the hospital. The war would have an enormous influence on Innis, who saw firsthand the manner in which governments manipulated their fighting men through control of information. He also came to believe that Canadians' sacrifices entitled them to a greater degree of political and cultural independence from Britain than they had previously enjoyed. After the war, he finished his M.A. at McMaster and entered the doctoral program at the University of Chicago. There he came under the influence of several notable academicians, particularly F.H. Knight, and met Mary Quayle. In 1921 he married Quayle, who would also become a writer on economic and historical subjects. Innis's doctoral thesis would become his first published work, A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway (1923). Having obtained his doctorate in 1920, he accepted a position in the political economy department of the University of Toronto. The department took an interdisciplinary approach, combining studies in a number of social sciences, and Innis applied a similarly wide range of disciplines to his first major work, The Fur Trade in Canada. During the 1930s, the university environment was torn by the increasing politicization of professors, a movement of which Innis disapproved strongly. But when the next world war began, and his left-wing colleague Frank H. Underhill came under fire for his anti-British opinions, Innis placed his by then considerable influence in Underhill's defense. With the war raging overseas, Innis remembered the lackluster reception he and his comrades had received following the First World War, when they descended on institutions unprepared for the onslaught of new students. Therefore he helped to ready his university for an influx of eager young soldier-students who would arrive after the end of the hostilities. During this time, he came under the influence of his colleague Charles Cochrane, a classical historian whose Christianity and Classical Culture (1940) examined the decline of Rome in terms of the Romans' inability to develop a sustaining intellectual framework that took account of Christianity's rise. Soon after the German surrender, he visited the Soviet Union as part of a small Canadian delegation, and recorded his observations in a diary that would not be published for another four decades. While in Russia, he began to consider the differing strains of Western civilization which had created a society similar to, but quite different from, that of Europe. These influences may have led in part to his shift away from strictly economic studies, and toward an examination of the influence of communications on civilization. Innis received a number of awards in his lifetime, and was celebrated by scholars throughout North America and Europe. He died of cancer in 1952.
Major Works
Innis's work fell into two phases: the period between the world wars, when he focused his attention chiefly on Canadian economic history, and the years following World War II, when the role of communications in the rise and fall of civilizations became his primary subject. Following his study of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the doctoral dissertation which he published in 1923, Innis wrote a highly specialized study called The Fur-Trade of Canada (1927), which he broadened and published three years later as The Fur Trade in Canada. He intended the book, as its subtitle indicated, to be an introduction to Canadian economic history, and in it he brought to bear a variety of disciplines in his examination of the fur trade's effect on the evolution of Canada as a political entity. In this volume, he sketched out the essentials of his staple theory as he applied it to the Canadian situation, portraying his land's economic history in terms of its shift from one staple to another, each a primary export to the United States and Europe. He further developed these ideas in The Cod Fisheries (1940), whose thesis in part was that "European civilization left its impress on North America through its demands for staples products." The second and much shorter—but potentially more significant—phase of his writing began with a series of books in the early 1950s, each comprising lectures or essays on the relationship of the modes of communication to the power structure of the civilization that produces them: Empire and Communications, The Bias of Communication (1951), and Changing Concepts of Time (1952). Innis was particularly interested in the effect of one type of "bias" or another. There was the bias of time, motivated by forms of communication made to last for centuries, but not particularly adapted to the easy spread of information across distances—e.g., stone tablets. And there was the bias of space, encouraged by modes such as printed material which are easily disseminated through a great area, but are not made to last. Another theme was the use of a dominant medium by a dominant group, whether priests, the military, nobles, or businesspeople: this control of the medium, he posited, would lead to stagnation, and the ultimate usurping of authority by a rival group possessing modes not susceptible to the dominant bias.
Principal Works
A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway (history) 1923
The Fur-Trade of Canada (history) 1927
The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History (history) 1930
Problems of Staple Production in Canada (nonfiction) 1933
Settlement and the Mining Frontier (history) 1936
The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy (history) 1940
Political Economy and the Modern State (essays) 1946
Empire and Communications (lectures) 1950
The Bias of Communication (essays) 1951
Changing Concepts of Time (essays) 1952
Essays in Canadian Economic History [edited by Mary Quayle Innis] (essays) 1956
The Idea File of Harold Adams Innis [edited by William Christian] (essays) 1980
Innis on Russia: The Russian Diary and Other Writings [edited by William Christian] (journals) 1981
W. T. Easterbrook (essay date 1953)
SOURCE: "Innis and Economics," in Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, Vol. XIX, No. 3, August, 1953, pp. 291-303.
[In the following essay, Easterbrook delineates phases of Innis's career as a writer on economics.]
Over the three decades of teaching and research allotted Harold Innis, no subject concerned him more than the state of economics. He looked to economic history to enrich and broaden economic thought, and he sought to explain fashions in economics and to make economists intelligible to themselves. Although Veblen's influence left its mark on his work, Innis remained throughout a disciple of Adam Smith and no name appears more frequently in his...
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Robert F. Neill (essay date 1966)
SOURCE: "The Content and Context of the Work of H. A. Innis," in The Journal of Economic History, Vol. XXVI, No. 4, December, 1966, pp. 589-90.
[In the following essay, Neill offers a short analysis of Innis's theories and the cultural environment in which he developed them.]
The eccentric Innis was too complex a personality and too prolific and varied in his writings to be treated with justice in a short space. He ranks with James Mavor and Stephen Leacock as a great character in Canadian intellectual history. In the present sketch only the main lines of his contribution to economics can be drawn.
The context was an economy experiencing long-run...
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James W. Carey (essay date 1967)
SOURCE: "Harold Adams Innis and Marshall McLuhan," in The Antioch Review, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, Spring, 1967, pp. 5-39.
[In the following essay, Carey compares Innis's theories of communication with those of Marshall McLuhan.]
Commenting on the abstruse and controversial scholarship of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan is a rather audacious and perhaps impertinent undertaking. It is also a thankless task. McLuhan has often argued that the attempt to analyze, classify, and criticize scholarship—the intent of my paper—is not only illegitimate; it also represents the dead hand of an obsolete tradition of scholarship. I am sensitive to treading forbidden waters in this...
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Leslie A. Pal (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: "Scholarship and the Later Innis," in Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Vol. 12, No. 5, Winter, 1977, pp. 32-44.
[In the following essay, Pal explores Innis's later work within the context of his changing ideas.]
The early Innis—the Innis of fish and fur—is fairly well known; the later Innis—the Innis of print and paper—less so. Part of the fault lies with Innis himself. His economic studies were never models of clarity but they seemed lucid next to the elliptical arguments, acrane terminology, and obscure conclusions of his communications works.
The list of his stylistic and substantive sins is a long one. But...
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William Christian (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: "The Inquisition of Nationalism," in Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Vol. 12, No. 5, Winter, 1977, pp. 62-71.
[In the following essay, Christian investigates the question of Innis's nationalism.]
Twenty-five years after his death Harold Innis's reputation is slowly regaining the heights that it held during his lifetime. It may be, as Marshall McLuhan suggests, that Innis is more admired than read; but nonetheless he is now generally esteemed as a great scholar, and perhaps held in even higher regard as an early and perceptive Canadian nationalist. Concerning his greatness as a scholar I take it that there is little controversy; later...
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Hugh J. G. Aitken (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: "Myth and Measurement: The Innis Tradition in Economic History," in Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Vol. 12, No. 5, Winter, 1977, pp. 96-105.
[In the following essay, Aitken offers his personal and professional insights on Innis's theories of economic history.]
Most people past middle age would probably agree, if they look back on their early years, that there were a few individuals who, without ever intending to do so or being conscious of having done so, exercised a decisive influence on their later thoughts and attitudes. The effect of such people is, as it were, accidental; they transform without intent. Harold Innis played such a...
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W. J. Eccles (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "A Belated Review of Harold Adams Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada," in Canadian Historical Review, Vol. LX, No. 4, December, 1979, pp. 419-41.
[In the following essay, Eccles compares the historic fur trade in Canada with Innis's scholarship on it]
A reappraisal of the Canadian fur trade is long overdue. For this to be done adequately there are two prerequisites: first, past misconceptions have to be cleared away; then the trade has to be placed in its historic and not just its economic context. This communication addresses it-self primarily to the first of these presumptions.
Harold Adams Innis' major work, The Fur Trade in Canada, has...
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Donald Creighton (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "Harold Adams Innis—An Appraisal," in Culture, Communication, and Dependency: The Tradition of H. A. Innis, William H. Melody, Liora Salter, Paul Heyer, eds., Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1981, pp. 13-25.
[In the following essay, Creighton assesses Innis's education, career, and achievements.]
Some little time ago, the head of one of the University of Toronto's new colleges put a sudden and very general question to me. What, he said in effect, is the importance of Harold Innis? I must admit that I was surprised and slightly annoyed by this abrupt inquiry and I made no serious attempt to answer it. I might have replied that Harold Innis had been the Head of...
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James W. Carey (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "Culture, Geography, and Communications: The Work of Harold Innis in an American Context," in Culture, Communication, and Dependency: The Tradition of H. A. Innis, William H. Melody, Liora Salter, Paul Heyer, eds., Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1981, pp. 73-91.
[In the following essay, Carey evaluates Innis's contribution to the social sciences.]
What is it about the ponderous and often unreadable texts of Harold Innis that makes them the subject of continuing interest, indeed, of a revival of interest some twenty-five years after his death? Despite their opacity, their maddening obscurity, their elliptical quality, I find myself drawn back to these texts...
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John Hutcheson (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "Harold Innis and the Unity and Diversity of Confederation," in Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Vol. 17, No. 4, Winter, 1982-83, pp. 57-73.
[In the following essay, Hutcheson examines Innis's views of Canadian economic development.]
A prevalent view of the Canadian imagination, articulated by Northrop Frye, is that it has been dominated by a sense of dislocation occasioned by the enormity of the landscape and the sparseness of "civilization." Frye's view is that Canada has been seen as "a country of isolations and terror, and of the overwhelming of human values by an indifferent and wasteful nature." From this perspective Frye has...
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Ronald Keast (essay date 1985)
Source: "It Is Written—But I Say Unto You: Innis on Religion," in Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Vol. 20, No. 4, Winter, 1985-86, pp. 12-25.
[In the following essay, Keast outlines Innis's ideas on the influence of religion.]
When Harold Innis died in 1952 he had achieved an international scholarly reputation and was recognized as Canada's foremost historian. That reputation had been established by his early published works, those dealing with the Canadian Pacific Railway, the fur trade in Canada, and the cod fisheries. In these Innis showed how technique (the method or means) and technology (the...
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Robin Neill (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Rationality and the Informational Environment: A Reassessment of the Work of Harold Adams Innis," in Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Vol. 22, No. 4, Winter, 1987-88, pp. 78-92.
[In the following essay, Neill examines the significance of Innis's writings on communications and economics.]
Harold Innis's message was not well communicated, because, in part, those who received it did not occupy a perceptual vantage point from which it could be understood. The consequence has been a multiplication of interpretations of Innis, many cited in R.F. Neill's intellectual biography,1 others...
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Further Reading
Creighton, Donald. Harold Adams Innis: Portrait of a Scholar. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957, 146 p.
The definitive Innis biography, written by an associate who conducted extensive interviews with Mary Quayle Innis and others close to Innis himself.
Havelock, Eric A. "Harold Innis: A Man of His Times." Et cetera 38, No. 3 (Fall 1981): 242-54.
A personal reminiscence of Innis by a colleague, with emphasis on the controversial Underhill affair.
Innis, Harold Adams. The Idea File of Harold Adams Innis, introduced and edited by William Christian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,...
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- Subjects:Classroom Management, Teacher Tips and Strategies
Setting Up and Organizing Your Classroom, Part Two
- Grades: 1–2
Join me as I organize my teacher's desk, library, and subject area materials. I'll also share some quick tips for organizing Very Important Parent-volunteers and making your lunch count quick and painless. Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win BLOG CANDY!
The Teacher's Desk
Before, during, and after pictures of my desk. I used a small laundry basket to hold everything while I sorted and purged. And this is just the top drawer! Look at this and then imagine it times three, since I had two other drawers to clean out.
When I started this project, my desk hadn't been cleaned in a long, long time. My teacher's desk has a tendency to become a dumping ground for odds and ends since it is the first place I go when I enter the room with my arms full. I have photocopies and mail to put down, and kids are trying to put notes in my basket — and inevitably, it all lands there. I kept thinking to myself, I will get around to organizing it later, but "out of sight, out of mind."
Some teachers consider the teacher's desk an essential piece of furniture, but many of my coworkers have actually had their desks hauled out of the room to create more space. After all, how many of you actually sit at your desk during the day for any amount of time? I will admit that I rarely sit at my desk, and if it wasn't doing double duty as a projector and document camera table, I would probably get rid of it, too.
Last year, I had three areas for books. Two low bookshelves for chapter books, three front facing shelves for picture books, and a separate area near my desk for my Accelerated Reader Library. The front facing bookshelves were purchased from a store that was going out of business when I was just starting to teach. I fell in love with the idea that my library would look like a bookstore with the covers face out, inviting kids to browse and read. The $100 I paid almost made me cry as a cash poor first year teacher. Even though I continued to love these shelves for years, the kids had a hard time finding a book they liked, and it was always a mess.
This year, I wanted to focus on making the books more accessible and easier to organize. I want kids to be able to focus on finding the right genre and the right level of book for themselves, and avoid having them spend hours browsing and not finding what they want to read.
This year, I'm moving all of my classroom library books, including the AR books, to the new low shelves along the walls.
I purchased the red and blue baskets from IKEA and the black baskets from the Dollar Tree.The green baskets came from Target. The red baskets will be for fictional picture books. The blue baskets will hold chapter books in a series and the black baskets will hold other chapter books. The light green baskets will house all of the nonfiction books. I am also labeling each book with the genre using category labels that I downloaded from Beth Newingham's Web site.
I am planning to separate materials that belong to the math, science, social studies, and language arts programs. Items such as extra textbooks, student workbooks, teacher's manuals, and resource packets will be on a shelf together. I will also house my supplemental materials, professional development books, and any games or manipulatives that go with those subjects on these shelves. Science and math both have several huge boxes of materials, so I may have to dedicate a cabinet to these two subject areas.
On the left shelf is our math program. This year we have a new math adoption. There are 20 topics in second grade with black line masters and transparencies that go with each topic. I purchased some very cute magazine files from IKEA to house the materials for each topic. To the right are my extra textbooks and supplemental language arts materials.
Quick Tips
Last year, when I took the lunch count, it sounded something like this: "Okay, everyone, raise your hand if you are buying lunch. Okay, now who is buying hot lunch? Who is buying cold lunch? Who brought their lunch?" It took more time than I wanted to spend, it was a bit disruptive, and inevitably someone would tire of raising their hand or forget to raise their hand because they were busy talking to their friends and then the whole production would have to begin again.
Now, when the students come into class, they stop by this board and move a magnetic star to their choice for lunch. The cafeteria doesn't require a specific name for each lunch, just a number for each area. I used to write student numbers on the stars, but it took forever for them to find their numbered star. This way it's so much faster! Then the students sit down and begin their day quietly while I take roll and enter the lunch count on the computer.
Tooth Jar
Old film jars make great tooth holders. Just decorate them with stickers, and they are ready to go. The cap stays on, and the jars are easy to find in a backpack. The containers from our office are cute, but the lids always pop open. I can tell you that we spent a lot of time looking for teeth "somewhere on the playground" and writing the tooth fairy letters about what happened. I also like to use them to hold paint and starch. I get the canisters from Costco film developing.
Getting Ready for the Week
This cool idea came from the Clutter Free Classroom. The author of the blog is an organizational guru and a teacher. I bought these magazine files from IKEA and labeled them with the days of the week. All of my photocopies are neatly deposited into the files and ready for the week. I usually have a VIP (Very Important Parent-volunteer) do all of the photocopying the week before I need it. If I don't get to something, I just move it to the next day.
Parent Volunteer Station
I set up an adult-sized table and chair and label it VIP (Very Important Parent-volunteer). This station has a caddy with pencils, pens, scissors, glue, tape, and a stapler. On the table is a bin that contains three folders, a spiral notebook "To Do List," and all the materials for each project on the list. The folders are labeled "Photocopy," "Check In/File," and "Prep." In the spiral, I write down what needs to be done. For example, "Photocopy 30 of each master in the folder on colored paper." Parents just walk in, sit down, and get to work. They cross out whichever activity they completed and move on to the next task without interrupting my class! I will usually pop over to check on them, answer any questions they have, or clarify things, but most of the time the VIP is already working on something else in the bin while they are waiting for me.
Next week, I am taking a break from organizing to focus on some first day of school activities and my September Read Aloud Booklist. Then, we will take a grand tour of my class and I will reveal my theme for this year.
What Is Your Favorite First Day of School Ice Breaker?
Leave a comment with your answer and you could win some blog candy! I am giving away a set of 20 new Judy Clocks (without the gears)! I will announce the winner at the end of my next post. One entry per person, and you must answer the question to win. Good luck.
Happy organizing!
Nancy Jang
Scholastic grades 1–2 advisor
2nd grade teacher
Woodland Elementary School
Newport-Mesa Unified School District
Comments (32)
Well, my favourite ice-breaker is how half of my hair ended up being grey :) I always do this, almost every Summer and kids love to see my grey hair at the beginning of each year! I usually do half of it purple and the other half black, so every Summer I don't do the purple part, leaving it almost grey at the beginning of the school year :)
Children have so much fun with it!!!!
Miss Nancy,
Thanks for sharing your ideas. I too use magnets to take roll and lunch count in the morning. I have also made it a class job to return the magnets to a start position. This way I know if someone is absent. As for the books in bins based on genres, I chose to label each book with a different colored marker (stickers can fall off) on the top. This makes them easy to recognize even when they're not in the right place. Finally, another option for bulliten boards is material. It lasts for years and never shows staple damage. - if you plan to wash the cloth over summer, be sure to wash it before you cut it to fit.
One of my first day ice breakers is a one colored plastic ball that you can find at any major retail store for a couple of dollars. With a black sharpie I divided the ball into sections and in each section I write a question in it. We all sit in a circle and gentle roll the ball to a person and that person can pick a question to answer. The kids love it and it lets me have some insight on how the class dynamics may be in the future:) Oh yea, I teach the wonderful grade of second.
Hi, I am a first year teacher, going through a career change, I have taught college and worked in the business arena. This is exciting and scary. Thank you so much for all the ideas, I will be putting them into action very soon. I love the idea for the lunch count, that will be one of the first things I put up.
As for an ice breaker I thought about playing a sorting game with the children. First yellow shirts here, blue here, red here, etc. Say Hi to each other and tell your name, then switch and everyone with blue eyes here, green eyes here, brown eyes here, same and switch to another sorting method.
Any tips anyone wants to share with a new Kindergarten teacher would be greatly appreciated.
Peggy Tsai, Thanks so much for reading and commenting. I'm glad you found something useful here. When my kids come in, they have "Study Hall" for 10 minutes where they work on Homework or read quietly. They move their stars when they walk into the room. I bought the star magnets at the Dollar Tree 6 for a $1.00. :) I love a good bargain!
Happy teaching, Nancy
Hello Nancy,
I love your idea of using the stars for lunch count. It also takes me a bit of time in the morning to do roll and lunch count. Meanwhile, the students sit and say good morning, but they can do something much more productive in that time. I will try it in my class this year. It's still early enough in the year to try something new.
Where did you get the star magnets?
Thanks for the great idea!
Brittani, What a great idea to get the kids involved in knowing more about the staff. This would be a great to do with your class too! Thanks for your input and for your comment! I may have to borrow it!
Happy teaching, Nancy
On the first day of school I play a getting to know you game with the students on our smart board. I have created a page for each person in the school with which the students will work. Each page has 3 or 4 clues about the person and a picture hidden underneath a rectangle. After the students guess, we reveal the person's picture and name. Last year I had the students play the game against me. If they got the answer correct they got a point, but if they got it wrong, I got a point. If they had more points than me, they got 5 more minutes of recess for the day. The students really like the game and it helps them learn new faculty members and new children meet our school's faculty.
Gina, Thanks for your comment and for visiting the blog! I found out that roof flashing comes in metal sheets at Home Depot that you can cut down to any size. I love the automotive oil drip pan idea too!
Happy teaching, Nancy
We use the same idea for lunch count at my school. We purchased large oil drip pans (bc they are magnetic) from advanced auto or walmart and the kids move their name over to the correct spot. This also takes care of attendance for us as the kids names are "signed in" for lunch! Love reading your blog!
Debbie, Thank you for your great idea too! I have an Interactive Whiteboard, so I may try your idea too.
Happy teaching, Nancy
I love your new idea for the lunch count. Since only a count and not names are involved that's a great fun way to do it. If you have an interactive board you could put that same idea on your board, having the students more an object to the correct category. Thanks for the idea!
Audra, Great idea! I'm sure that your kids will have changed a ton during the year. Thank you for sharing.
Happy Teaching, Nancy
I found this great idea on my Facebook page from a teacher freebie info. supporter. The first day of school this year my students will be making time capsules. The "container" is a paper towel tube. In my LA/SS classes the first day they will have their picture taken, draw themselves (as they see themself), and complete the writing "I am Special because..." My math/science teacher will be having them measure their height using yarn and will be tracing their hand. On their hand tracing they will write goals for their academics and behaviors, their favorite color, their favorite and least favorite subjects, their favorite movie ever, and their current favorite television show. I teach seventh graders and their likes and dislikes change often and they grow in height and maturity during the year. During the last week of school we'll open their time capsules.
Lauren, Thank you for your support and comment.
Happy end of summer, Nancy
I am so impressed with your website. Keep those good ideas coming.
Mary, I'm glad that you are going to try out my VIP system. I hope it works for you!
Happy Teaching, Nancy
I like your VIP system. I think I can apply this to aids that come into the room. Thanks for sharing.
Dawn, Thank you for your comment! I like that you have an easy art project for the kids to do in order to get to know them better. I'm sure they LOVE to decorate those cut outs. I am entering your name in for the drawing. Thanks for visiting.
Happy Teaching, Nancy
Jeanell, Thanks for your comment. Great idea to use your interactive whiteboard to get kids involved! Have you checked out the interactive whiteboard activities on the Scholastic landing page? I have an interactive whiteboard and it has really changed my teaching. I am entering your name into the drawing. Thanks for visiting!
Happy Teaching, Nancy
This year I am incorporating technology with my icebreaker. Bright colorful dots conceal questions. The students will stand about five feet away from the smartboard as they gently toss a koosh ball toward one of the colorful dots to reveal the hidden question. I hope it turns out well!
Leigh, What a great ice breaker for both the staff and the students. Thank you for sharing. I am entering your name into the drawing for the clocks!
Happy Teaching, Nancy Jang
Hi Victoria! I'm currently buried under about 3000 books, sorting, and labeling. I have been looking at pictures from tons of blogs and this seems to be a common way to organize the books and give the kids good access to everything. By the way, I have tackable surface from the floor to the ceiling in my portable, that is why the bulletin boards are so big!
Happy organizing, Nancy
An icebreaker that we are using at my school is all about the students getting to know the teachers in a fun way. All of the teachers in my hallway created a circle map and put a question mark in the middle instead of their name. We laminated pictures of ourselves and put velcro dots on the back so students are able to physically match our pictures with our maps.
I transitioned to bins to hold my books as well last year, Nancy. It improved the organization in my library tremendously, and the kids read MUCH more than in past years. Some students stayed loyal to their genres more, but they were able to find books quite easily. - Victoria
Brittany, Writing a goal for the year is a great way to get to know the students and what they would like to accomplish this year. The Pre-K advisor Allie Magnuson does this with her kinders too. I think it's great to write your goals down at any grade level, even as an adult, and then reflect on them periodically during the year and at the end to see if you've made progress. Thanks for sharing! Your name will also go into the drawing for the Judy Clocks. Good Luck!
Happy Teaching, Nancy
Rebecca, Thanks for your comment! I really like your activity. It incorporates teamwork and would be a great introduction to some art terminology. I am entering your name in the drawing for the Judy Clocks. Thanks for sharing!
Happy Teaching, Nancy
My favorite icebreaker is an appropriate activity for any grade level! Prior to the class time, cut out 7 circles of different cf colors and size for instance, a red cup size circle, a blue large circle, ect. Gather the students into groups of 3-5. Have each group create a poster incorporating all 7 of the circles on one sheet of white paper. Give them only 30 minutes. They must create an image with the circles, but cannot include any words or phrases. You can really learn about the dynamic of the class through this activity-who are the leaders, the followers, the passive, ect. Have each group share their poster with the class as time allows. Post pictures up for parents during open house or back to school night!!
This year I am going to have the students write down a goal for the coming school year and share them with the rest of the class. In the past two years I have had students fill out an "about me" sheet. I read the sheet out loud (leaving out names) and the students had to guess whose sheet I was reading.


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A lot of songwriters, singers and musicians are obviously influenced by Paul McCartney. Very few singers actually sound like him and very few writers reach the standard Paul reach when he is on top of his game. But there are without copying Paul - sometimes both sound a bit like Paul and occasionally reaches the same level of brilliance-my question here is.
What song or songs in that category would you label as "the best Macca song Paul didl t make. I have a few suggestions but the one i put on top of that list is
I m not in love with 10 cc Written by Graham Goulman and sung by Eric Stewart. In my humble opinion one of the greatest popsongs ever recorded. That goes for the melody, the production(listen to these compressed choirs-recorded 1975 but still sounds totally modern) the lyrics and leadvocals from Eric Stewart that has a voice completely his own but still very similar to Pauls in delivery and melodic phrasing.
It s not a surprise that Paul and Eric Stewart remained(remains) rather close friends for a long time and that Eric coworked on a few Maccva albums and cowrote most of Press to play. Some of the songs they wrote together are brilliant like Yvonne and Don t break the promises.
Well it would be fun to see if anyone else has any suggestions in this odd category of music-"the best Macca song Paul didn t write"


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Your Money's Worth: Homes between $197,000 and $203,000
Your Money's Worth provides a monthly sample of central Ohio homes for sale in the same price range. This month, we look at what you get for about $200,000. About 150 properties are for sale in central Ohio between $197,000 and $203,000. Here's what that buys. -- Jim Weiker
5563 Naiche Rd.
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This three-bedroom, 21/2-bath home, built in 1965, sits on a half-acre wooded lot in the Greenbrier Farms neighborhood on the East Side. The home features hardwood floors, an updated kitchen with an island, a Florida room and a finished lower level. Annual taxes on the home, which is in the Columbus school district, are $3,880. The home is listed by Kevin Sullivan, with RE/MAX Premier Choice.


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I have nothing against milk in a bag, but I have to admit I was astonished. Note also she included my pot-smoking anecdote.
Dinner with Bittman: Simple Radish or Jicama Salad
Recipe from How to Cook Everything.
Simple Radish or Jicama Salad
Makes: 4 servings
Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Radishes are usually eaten out of hand from a crudité or relish assortment and sometimes tossed into green salads. But they make a nifty crisp, picklelike salad on their own. The combination of lime and lemon juice here mimics the juice of sour orange, which is often used in Mexico but is tough to find in the United States.
About 16 radishes, sliced, 1 medium daikon, peeled and chopped, or 1 small to medium jícama, peeled and chopped
1 small white onion, chopped
1 tablespoon salt
1 /4teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice, or to taste
2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice (optional)
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley or cilantro leaves
1. If time allows, toss the radishes or jícama and onion with the salt in a strainer and let sit for 15 minutes; rinse and drain.
2. Toss the radishes and onion with the salt, pepper, citrus juices, and parsley. Taste, adjust the seasoning, and serve immediately or refrigerate for up to an hour.
We all know soda isn't food. NYC, at least, is backing that up.
New York City is trying to ban the use of food stamps for buying soda and other sugary drinks.
What would make even more sense, of course, is to double the value of food stamps used for real food, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. This isn't that hard to figure out; we just need to get the stars to align. And some government help in fighting the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by Big Food each year on marketing absolute crap.
Win a Copy of The Food Matters Cookbook
Grub Street is giving away a copy of The Food Matters Cookbook. All you need to do is email them "what dish or favorite food matters most to you and why, in 200 words or less. Humor and originality tend to score big with…Grub Street editors, so please attempt to bust [their] sides as best as possible." The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Monday, October 11th. Good luck!
Dinner with Bittman: Quick Whole Wheat and Molasses Bread
Recipe from How to Cook Everything.
Quick Whole Wheat and Molasses Bread
Makes: 1 loaf
Time: About 1 1/4 hours, largely unattended
A super all-purpose bread that's heartier and more flavorful than most, and relatively light for a 100 percent whole grain bread. It also makes excellent sandwiches, especially when toasted.
Oil or butter for the pan
1 2/3 cups buttermilk or yogurt or 1 1/2 cups milk and 2 tablespoons white vinegar (see Step 2)
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup molasses
1. Heat the oven to 325°F. Grease an 8- × 4-inch or 9- × 5-inch loaf pan.
2. If you're using buttermilk or yogurt, ignore this step. Otherwise, make soured milk: Warm the milk gently to take the chill off—1 minute in the microwave is sufficient—and add the vinegar. Let it rest while you prepare the other ingredients.
3. Mix together the dry ingredients. Stir the molasses into the buttermilk. Stir the liquid into the dry ingredients (just enough to combine), then pour into the loaf pan. Bake until firm and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool on a rack for 15 minutes before removing from the pan.
This Week's Minimalist: Fall's Final Fresh Tomato Sauce
Make fresh tomato sauce before it's too late!
Dinner with Bittman: Simplest Dal
Recipe from How to Cook Everything.
Simplest Dal
Makes: 4 servings
Time: 40 minutes, largely unattended
The most basic dal, the staple dish of India. It's almost always nicely spiced and becomes creamy if you add butter or oil. Dal is usually eaten hot, but you can also serve it at room temperature or even cold, to spread on toasted wedges of pita.
Other beans you can use: brown lentils, yellow split peas, split mung beans without skins (moong dal).
1 cup dried red lentils, washed and picked over
2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
1 tablespoon minced garlic
4 cardamom pods
1 tablespoon mustard seeds
2 cloves
1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1 dried ancho or other mild dried chile (optional)
2 tablespoons cold butter or peanut oil (optional)
Chopped fresh cilantro leaves for garnish
1. Combine all the ingredients except the salt, butter or oil, and cilantro in a saucepan, add water to cover by about 1 inch, and bring to a boil. Adjust the heat so the mixture bubbles gently, cover partially, and cook, stirring occasionally and adding water if necessary, until the lentils are tender, 25 to 30 minutes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and keep cooking to the desired tenderness.
2. The lentils should be saucy but not soupy. Remove the cloves and, if you like, the cardamom pods (they're kind of fun to eat, though). Stir in the butter or oil if you're using it. Taste and adjust the seasoning, then garnish with cilantro and serve.
When it comes to school lunches, America is the third world
Brazil's presidency appears likely to be headed for a runoff. But this NPR story has me wondering why a country that many Americans consider "third world" can do so much more in the world of school lunches than we can.
When I first heard that kids got rice and beans every day, I thought "That's progress right there." Because from a nutritional standpoint, rice and beans would be preferable to most U.S. school lunches, which are now being seriously discussed as contributors to obesity, or at the very least as a failure when it comes to countering it. Not surprisingly, when you look at them.
Yet according to the NPR piece, Brazil has mandated that 30 percent of the food for school lunches be purchased from local farmers, which has not only help stablize the farmers' income but improve the kids' diets. Now the rice and beans are augmented by fresh vegetables and local meat. Are you telling me we can't manage to do this here? It's a matter of politics and will.
Less-Meat Mondays: Cannellini with Shredded Brussels Sprouts and Sausage
By Freya Bellin
With the end of summer we must grudgingly say goodbye to peaches and berries, but I happen to love fall produce. One of my favorites, the Brussels sprout, is a kind of vegetable underdog. Over the past few years it seems to have made the transition from rejected to revered, and I love finding recipes that would bring even the most hesitant of sprout-eaters onto the bandwagon. This is one of those recipes. The sausage (I used an Italian chicken sausage) and red pepper flakes add nice heat to the dish, and shaved Brussels sprouts make it light and salad-like. This is essentially a meal on its own, but I bet it would taste great over polenta or farro. I opted to serve it in a bowl with a big hunk of onion and olive focaccia to help soak up the juices. Recipe from The Food Matters Cookbook.
Cannellini with Shredded Brussels Sprouts and Sausage
Makes: 4 servings
Time: 20 minutes with cooked or canned beans
Cannellini beans with garlic and sausage are admittedly hard to beat (there's a reason you see it everywhere). But shredded Brussels sprouts are a welcome addition to this classic combination; if there are still Brussels sprout haters out there, this will convert them. Serve this dish, with its beautifully flavored pan juices, over cooked grains like farro, bulgur, or cracked wheat, or a couple of thick slices of toasted bread.
3 tablespoons olive oil
8 ounces Italian sausage, casings removed
2 tablespoons minced garlic
Red chile flakes, to taste
Salt and black pepper
1 pound Brussels sprouts, shredded in a food processor or roughly chopped
1⁄2 cup white wine or water
2 cups cooked or canned cannellini beans, drained
1. Put the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. When it's hot, crumble the sausage into the pan and cook, stirring occasionally to break the meat into relatively small bits, until browned, 5 to 10 minutes. Add the garlic and chile flakes and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cook and stir for another minute or so.
2. Add the Brussels sprouts and wine to the skillet and cook, stirring frequently, until the sprouts are tender but still a bit crunchy, 5 to 10 minutes.
3. Add the beans and cook, stirring occasionally, until they are heated through, just a minute or 2. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Serve.
The Food Matters Cookbook Chronicles: Minneapolis
I spoke at the Healthy Food Summit in Minneapolis Thursday and Friday, to mostly large, hyper-friendly, and ever-thoughtful crowds. My hosts Mindy Kurzer and Tim Kenny did a terrific job of organizing the packed two-day affair, and made me feel completely at home. Dinner Thursday was cooked by the talented and wonderful local chef Lucia Watson and her crew; Lucia also introduced me that night, so nicely I blushed.
Tim is director of education at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, a spectacular 1000-plus acre operation about half an hour from downtown Minny. He does fantastic work teaching kids the value of gardening, about which he is passionate.
And how about these cucurbits?
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The Junior League of the Palm Beaches shares a few of their favorite recipes from the latest cookbook Worth Tasting: A Culinary Tour Through the Architecture of the Palm Beaches [Favorite Recipes Press, 2007].
Carolina Caviar
Serves 20
- 2 (15-ounce) cans black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 (15-ounce) can gold and white corn, drained and rinsed
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- ¾ cup chopped red onion
- ½ cup balsamic vinegar, or to taste
- 1/3 cup olive, or to taste
- ¼ cup cilantro, chopped
- 2 large fresh jalapeño chiles, chopped, or to taste
- 1 tablespoon spicy mustard
Combine the beans, corn, bell pepper, onion, vinegar, olive oil, cilantro, jalapeño chiles and spicy mustard in a large serving bowl and mix well. Chill, covered, for one hour or for up to three days. Serve with tortilla chips.
**You may serve immediately but the flavor is enhanced if chilled before serving.
Palm Beach Orzo Salad
Serves 10 to 12
Red Wine Vinaigrette
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
- 1½ teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1½ teaspoons sugar
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2/3 cups olive oil
- 3 cups orzo
- Salt to taste
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
- 1 (10-ounce) package frozen peas
- 1 cup chopped black olives
- 1 cup golden raisins
- ½ cup chopped red onion
- ½ cup chopped fresh parsley
- Pepper to taste
To prepare the vinaigrette, whisk the vinegar, Dijon mustard, sugar, salt and pepper in a bowl until blended. Add the olive oil gradually, whisking constantly until thickened.
To prepare the salad, cook the pasta in boiling salted water in a saucepan for 8 to 10 minutes or until desired tenderness. Drain in a colander and rinse with warm water.
Toss the warm pasta and vinaigrette in a bowl until coated. Add the bell peppers, peas, olives, raisins, onion, parsley and mix well. Season with salt and pepper. Serve at room temperature.
**To save time, chop the vegetables the night before preparation and store, covered, in the refrigerator.
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Making Advertising More of a Science than an Art
December 31, 2013
A significant part of the world's advertising dollars is wasted because companies are unable to accurately track campaign resonance and reaction. Nielsen discusses how neuroscience, the study of the brain and nervous system, can address this age-old need.
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This is the must-have lens for every photographer doing serious close-up work. We believe that no studio photographer specialised in advertising, product, food, technical or industrial photography can really do without it. Combined with a motorized Hasselblad SLR or the Hasselblad FlexBody for creative selective tilting of the sharpness zone, the Makro-Planar® T* 4/120 CFE lens is the compact workhorse lens for day-to-day studio work – be it analog or digital.
Optically well-designed makro-lenses like the Makro-Planar T* 4/120 CFE lens differ from other lenses in two ways.
First: Their performance is optimized for subjects like the one you're just looking at: A flat page slightly larger than a human head with intricate detail plus color. Which means that the image quality and light distribution is extremely good, even in the corners and even at full aperture. This is exactly what is needed for serious professional copy work of subjects that are smaller than the ones ideally photographed with the Carl Zeiss Planar T* 3,5/100 CFi lens, e. g. delicate drawings (so the two lenses complement each other very well in the hands of a demanding photographer).
Second: A basic type of lens design is chosen that maintains its performance characteristics very constantly on a high level over a wide range of reduction ratios or distances.
Like from half life-size (1:2) to infinity, in the case of the Makro-Planar T* 4/120 CFE lens.
It is based on the Carl Zeiss Planar lens design type, which offers very good close-up potential and is therefore also chosen as the basis for the ultra high resolution Carl Zeiss S-Planar lenses for the micro-lithography, which are – in their new version – called Starlith, the most sophisticated lenses of our day.
Although the Makro-Planar T* 4/120 CFE lens can and should be used for subjects as small as postcards, the built in focussing helicoil allowes only to focus down to a single page. This has been done for safety reasons: Since most of the Hasselblad SLR cameras in use with professional photographers today do not incorporate TTL exposure metering, we believe that the lens should not easily focus down to such reduction ratios without warning, where exposure compensation is absolutely unavoidable for professional results. Adding an extension ring for closer focussing should remind the photographer to apply the necessary compensation.
The CFE version of the Makro-Planar T* 4/120 lens allows for fully automatic compensation of exposure in extreme close-up photography provided a Hasselblad camera with built-in TTL exposure meter is used.
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View and Do: A New Framework for Integrated Marketing
June 13, 2012
Tom Cunniff, chair of the ANA's Digital Marketing Committee, presented a new framework for evaluating paid, owned, and earned media and creating integrated marketing programs that work.
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Just finished the most awesome weekend. . . two of my best friends were visiting from Brooklyn and we surely made the most of our time together. . .
Thursday night we went to an event down at a community barn where my boyfriend has his farm: beer, flatbread pizza, music, happy healthy vermonters. The whole nine yards.


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The Wild WestTrail Runner hosts first Annual Photo Camp on Colorado's rough-around-the-edges Western Slope
Trail runners just want to have fun. Photo: Gregg Gelmis. See full gallery below.
We trail runners pine for the wild and scenic places our sport takes us, from races of all distances across the globe to our favorite three-mile backyard jaunt, from fastpacking deep in the mountain peaks to dropping into the cleft of the Grand Canyon. And at Trail Runner, we have always strived to capture in images the inspiring trails and people of the trail community. To help develop aspiring (and even accomplished) trail-running photographers, over August 21 to 23, we hosted our first annual Photo Camp (sponsored by HOKA and SmartWool) at the remote Electric Mountain Lodge at 9,000 feet in Western Colorado.
Our diverse group of "Photo Campers," instructors and trail runners hailed from Alabama, Montana, California, Colorado and Pennsylvania. On the seldom-trod trails between the West Elk Mountains and the Grand Mesa, we found common ground that binds us trail runners together, and came away with not only new friendships (the hot-tub party cemented some of those, but what happens at Photo Camp stays at Photo Camp, right?) but also this collection of fantastic images that we hope will inspire you to your next trail adventure.
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By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic condition that affects the production and flow of mucus within the lungs and digestive system, parts of the body that then become clogged with a thick, sticky mucus.
Symptoms start early on in life, often before a child reaches the age of 1 year old. The symptoms that usually manifest include:
Cystic fibrosis is caused by a mutation in the gene that codes for a protein called the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). This protein is responsible for regulating the transport of sodium and chloride ions in and out of cells. The mutation results in the production of an abnormal CFTR protein that allows too much salt and not enough water into the cells. This causes a build up of thick, sticky mucus in the tubes and passageways of the lungs and respiratory system which leads to symptoms of the condition.
One in every 2,500 babies born in the UK are born with this condition and at present over 9000 individuals in the UK are living with cystic fibrosis. In the United States, around 30,000 people are living with this disease. Cystic fibrosis is more common among white individuals of northern European descent and Caucasians are at a greater risk than African Americans and Asian Americans. Latinos and Native Americans, especially the Pueblo and Zuni are also at risk of developing cystic fibrosis.
All newborn babies are screened for cystic fibrosis. A small amount of the baby's blood is drawn from their heel and transferred to a special card which is sent to a laboratory for analysis
There is no cure for cystic fibrosis and treatment is aimed at relieving symptoms and making the condition easier to live with. Treatment can also prevent or minimize the long-term damage that can be caused by infections and other complications. For example, bronchodilators are used to help expand the airways of the lungs and ease breathing, while antibiotics are used to combat infection. One of the important parts of treatment is performing exercises that can help clear mucus from the airways and lungs.
In previous years, children often died from cystic fibrosis before they reached adulthood. However, advances in treatment have meant that over half of sufferers now live into their 40s.
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Tupper Lake town plans to buy snowmobile trail groomer
TUPPER LAKE – The town board here is already thinking about winter.
On Monday, town board members voted to go out for bid to buy a used trail grooming machine, which will be used to smooth an expanding network of snowmobile trails created and maintained by the Tupper Lake Snowmobile Club.
Pete Edwards, trail coordinator with the Tupper Lake Snowmobile Club, urged the board Monday to consider buying a fully refurbished 1988 trail groomer from Getsno Equipment, a company based in Newport, Vt. Edwards said the club's current groomer needs repairs and can't handle the area's 30 miles of trails.
The refurbished machine costs $52,500. The town could add a refurbished drag, which is necessary for grooming trails, to the purchase for $8,000, and delivery for both pieces of equipment would cost $700, for a total of $61,200.
Edwards acknowledged that a new machine, which could run up to $200,000, is out of the question, but he said a better groomer could put Tupper Lake on the map as a snowmobile destination. Edwards added that he expects a Tupper Lake Snowmobile Club raffle to raise $2,500, which will be donated to the town for the purchase of the refurbished equipment.
"I understand the importance of the snowmobiling industry for the hotel owners, who are starving in the winter," Edwards told the board. "We've built a lot of new trails. We want to turn Tupper Lake into a snowmobile capital, sort of like Old Forge. In order to do that, we need better equipment."
Improved equipment could also make the club eligible for grants from the New York State Snowmobile Association. The grants are distributed as a reimbursement to snowmobile clubs statewide to help cover costs associated with trail creation and maintenance. They would relieve that burden from the town and the Tupper Lake Snowmobile Club, which now shares those costs.
"One nice thing to mention is, this is a taxpayer-purchased, town-owned piece of equipment; however, we have the luxury to, once it's operating, get reimbursed," Edwards said. "Eventually it will pay for itself and make money for the town."
Town board members agreed to seek a groomer, and Town Supervisor Roger Amell said they should begin the process before next month's meeting.
"I want to make sure we have everything we need," Amell said. "Write the specs down for this type of groomer with the drag. We'll work on it this week, and next week we'll put it out to bid."
NYSSA funding
In June, the Tupper Lake Snowmobile Club submitted a funding application to the NYSSA and is expecting an answer sometime this fall.
Grant money from the NYSSA is derived from snowmobile registration fees and is disbursed to snowmobile clubs across the state to help pay for the creation and maintenance of local snowmobile trails. Eligible clubs must have networks of well-maintained trails, complete with signage.
"Snowmobilers go where they enjoy riding," NYSSA Trail Coordinator Jim Rolf told the Enterprise in a phone interview Wednesday. "If trails aren't maintained well, if they're not trimmed back, if they aren't groomed, they're bumpy, and that makes for a less enjoyable experience. If you're looking to get out-of-towners into a community, groomed trails are the way to go."
Rolf mentioned Old Forge as an example of a successful snowmobiler destination and explained it is different from other areas in that it doesn't receive NYSSA grant money, but instead charges a fee for use of its trails. Its is the only snowmobile club in the state to operate that way.
NYSSA grant money is a reimbursement for money a snowmobile club spends. Volunteer hours are reimbursed at the state's minimum wage rate of $7.25 an hour, and equipment operating expenses are reimbursed at a rate determined by the state's Department of Parks and Recreation.
The maximum amount of reimbursement available to each club is dependent on how many miles of trail the club maintains.
Money for the grants comes from NYSSA's registration fees. The money is distributed by the state's Department of Parks and Recreation, which takes a cut before administering the funds to safety programs, law enforcement and snowmobile projects on state land.
The remaining registration money is used to determine the per-mile rate, which is then used to determine the maximum amount of grant money available to each club. If a club has 30 miles of trail, and the rate is $300 per mile, that club's operating expenses could be reimbursed for up to $9,000.
"The New York State Snowmobile Association definitely supports the Tupper Lake Snowmobile Club in applying for, and receiving, funding, and we look forward to their community benefiting from snowmobiling even more than they do now," Rolf said.
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Skip to comments.Prison officer busted after becoming pregnant by cop-killer she was guarding: feds
Posted on 02/05/2013 5:24:05 PM PST by SMGFan
A federal prison officer became pregnant after secretly carrying on a prohibited sexual relationship with a cop-killer inmate she was supposed to be guarding, prosecutors announced today.
The feds say that Nancy Gonzalez, 29, a federal Bureau of Prisons officer was arrested this morning at her home in Huntington, LI, after she tried to hide her intimate prison affair with Ronell Wilson, an inmate convicted of gunning down two undercover NYPD detectives in a point-blank execution in Staten Island.
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LOL, your tax dollars at work.
Knocked out and now locked up...
LOL! Says it all.
How can we establish guilt or innocence without photographic evidence?
Rules, gentlemen, rules!
This MAY be related. I'm not sure who is who....
OMG Fugly Fest! Don't even consider envisioning the illegal behavior.....
I don't know if she is quite 6 pack ugly......I'm guessing more along the lines of 3-to-5.
Here we have a government female guard, guarding and banging male cop killer convicts?
Ya can't make this stuff up...
It's gives new meaning to the term, "Hard time".
He really was 'serving hard time' wasn't he..
I would think that this would be a great tribute to affirmative action, at the core...a real great way to promote people based on quotas.
If only one of them would've compromised classified materials....neither would do time, but it sure would boost the book sales. /s
She apparently had "Bad Boy" fantasies.
Maybe she wanted to have his baby.
Sad. I believe you are correct. I saw all of two non Army/military nurse females in RVN. One was the daughter of the Special Forces B Detachment CO located in Ban Me Thout. I believe she was visiting? She may have been his wife? The only other civilian female I saw was a senior officer's wife in Nha Trang who ran a gift shop with items bought in Thailand. I recall buying my two sisters plus mother black star saphire pins after R&R. Lastly, I was with the Army nurses at the 93rd Evac in Tuy Hoa in late Apr 69 until being medivaced to Camp Oji Japan with two GSW's. I never saw any other US women there.
So, if she was pressed up against the bars, and he was pressed up against the bars.......
"Warden, she's been hootchie-cooing with the prisoners and I can prove it. She has bar-face."
That oughtn't to apply here, though, since SHE was not cooped up in the prison 24/7 like a ship or a military base.
Occam's Razor suggests she had a bad-boy fetish and that's the size of it.
The process is described in some detail by Alexander Dolgun ~ and referenced by Alexander Sholzenyetsen (sp?)
That's gonna be one ugly-assed kid.
Taking your statement literally; I don't know about that end, but their faces sure aren't gonna' be purty!
Stoopit phone...
There ain't enough booze in Milwaukee to get me on that skank. Wow! that is fugly
"There aint enough booze in Milwaukee to get me on that skank."
You just haven't "been away" for long enough; she's a "two at ten and a ten at two"...
A long long time ago someone said there would be no problems if females served as corrections officers in men's institutions...
Scraggly dreadlocks doesn't sound like something a security occifer would be wearing — too easy for someone to grab.
I agree with you. I was replying to the comment of all the lost time in the military. This woman had a home to go to. She alone chose to take her pants off.
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One More for the Pigs!
You may remember Smithfield Foods' big January announcement that it is phasing out the use of gestation crates, followed shortly by Maple Leaf Foods' decision to follow suit, and Burger King's recent adoption of a new animal welfare plan that includes, among other things, reducing the amount of pig meat it purchases from suppliers that use crates. Well, we just got word from execs at another major pig meat producer (one of the world's largest, in fact), Cargill Foods—which we had been encouraging to follow Smithfield's lead—that it's going to come through in a big way: Cargill has stopped using gestation crates in 50 percent of its pig factory farms!
We're not breaking out the champagne just yet, as the company hasn't agreed to a total phase-out of gestation crates, but this is a firm step in the right direction, and just another positive sign of big changes to come throughout the industry. Of course, PETA doesn't make a secret of the fact that we don't want any pigs bred or slaughtered for food, but the pigs who are there right now don't have the luxury of hunkering down for a long campaign to win people's hearts and minds about the injustices of industrialized farming. While we keep pushing companies behind the scenes to stop torturing animals, like, at all, millions of animals right now will experience a significant improvement in the quality of their lives. Which is pretty good for a given work day. I'll let you know once they've gotten rid of gestation crates entirely. We're working on it.
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I love meat – but you guys don't need to work so hard. With the current administration, soon meat will be so expensive, only politicians will be able to afford it
I eat meat humans are made to eat meat over thousands of years. I don't like the tourture I hate the cruelty. I'd rather my meat wander happily in the forest until I'm hungry. I can't have that so I do the next best thing. DOWN WITH MEATPACKERS ALTOGETHER!!! I go to small farms small butchers that know animals and how they feel. I go to humane sources for my meat like Muslims and Kosher Jews. They treat the animal with faith and respect from the day it's born till it's on my plate. I feel better about eating meat that hasn't been tourtured and abused.
I just have to say that after being alive 56 years it's taken me this long to realize what eating meat means. I have never realized the torture these animals endure. I have to admit that for many years I wanted to keep my eyes closed. I didn't want to know so I could continue to enjoy eating all the meats I grew up. I remember talking to vegetarians from one time to another and telling them I didn't want to know about what goes on with the animals because I enjoyed the meat too much. How SELFISH was that??? I hear this reaction now from anyone I start to share my information with. It's really sad and I spent much time crying over how I ignored this very terrible thing that has tortured beloved animals. And what's worse is that I love animals. I adore my cat and dog. And then I go and eat the meat of tortured animals??? I think it's a true case of being brainwashed by our society. There needs to be more public awareness of the reality behind the roast the bacon etc. I think it needs to be put in front of the eyes of those who choose not to see. It shouldn't be a choice to turn away. I ask forgiveness of all the animals who gave their lives for so many who didn't care. I can't take back the years but I can go forward and inform others of what I'm learning here at Peta. Thank you so much for choosing to help the animals and for keeping the blinders off!! Hugs from California
Although I am not a vegetarian by natureI can't give up poultry and fish but have completely been beefpork free for over 3 years the fact that some progress is being taken to decrease and eliminate cruelty to pigs is somewhat satisfying. The reason I sound skeptical has to do with the fact that the mistreatment of pigs will go on for a long time unless strict government regulation forces livestock companies to alter their approach. Then again I've lost all faith in government.
As a meat and livestock major with an emphasis on livestock feeding and red meat slaughter and processing I am very proud of the steps that my parent company Cargill Meat Solutions has taken about abolishing gestation crates. I feel that there's a long way to go for Cargill but I am proud. Farrowing or birthing crates are humane which keeps sows from crushing piglets but I never could accept gestating crates…not all of us in the meat industry are bad people and I am striving to ensure a humane life and death to all meat animals
I simply wished to thank you for beginning the phase out process of the gestation crates. I will inform friends and family and encourage them to buy from companies to which you distribute. Thanks again Diana Denniston
Updatehttpwww.cattlenetwork.comcontent.asp?contentid121687 Cargill Refutes 'HSUS's Interpretation' That It's Phasing Out Gestation Stalls A spokesman for Wichita Kan.based Cargill Meat Solutions said a media report stating the company is phasing out its use of sow gestation stalls isn't true. The Associated Press reported Thursday that in a letter to the Humane Society of the United States which called on Cargill to follow Smithfield Foods' lead in phasing out gestation crates Cargill explained it already has been transitioning to "group sow housing" over the past four years and has converted more than half of its production farms. But Cargill spokesman Mark Klein told Meatingplace.com "We aren't phasing them out. The article was HSUS's interpretation of our letter." Asked to clarify that Cargill is not phasing out gestation stalls Klein said "We don't think we implied that in our letter." The moral of the story Animal exploiters do not care about anything but profits! Any welfare reform always has the profit motive in mind. If it's unprofitable they won't do it. It's in the U.S. legal code for corporations!
It's About time that this evil human race left all animals alone as they have no right whatsoever to murder animals. I cannot bear to watch what goes on in the murder factories as i cry my eyes out and feel so helpless as i can't do anything to stop it. Those murderers are freaks because any intelligent person would not do such things to animals. Those that eat animals are to blame because they keep these bastards in business filling their dirty scumbag pockets with money. Leave Animals alone you freaks…
Yeah because everyone knows plants can't grow without fertilizer. I mean the world was one big desert before humans came along and started collecting cow manure to grow plants!
Do you not realize that anything you use or eat has somehow been associated with the use of products of animals. The very grass you walk on the vegetables you eat all have been fertilizedquess what one of the most popular ways to ferilize ismanure. So the next time your sinking your teeth into the great big juicy salad or having a picnic of fruit and veggies on the nice green lush grass remember what got it to that point!!
Keep up the good work. All animals livestock or otherwise deserve to be treated with respect and in a dignified and humane manner.
This is Great! I guess all the work Peta does and all of us sticking together signing and emailing our Congress does help after all. Amen. Marlene Chavez
THANKYOU PETA!!! For EVERYTHING you do. You are the voice for those who cannot speak. I love the updates. It seems for everything achieved by animals there seems to be 20 000 more acts of animal cruelty. We must keep all this up to save these majestic beautiful animals. They MUST be appreciated!! THANKYOU AGAIN FOR EVRTHING YOU DO! I TAKE MY HAT OFF TO YOU A THOUSAND TIMES OVER!!!
I worked on the Floridians for Humane Farms staff and all I can say is this news brings tears to my eyes its time people open their eyes see what really goes on hidden away to these defenseless creatures. I am glad I am a Vegan and I will always be hang in there piggys there are so many who love and care about your lives. Someday………. things will change.
This is really great news…it makes me so happy to know things are really changing and its not just a far off dream!!
A small step in the right direction. I too am sorry I EVER ate meat chicken pork and fish. I became a vegetarian overnight after watching "Meet Your Meat" on Peta's web site. It was however a long time coming since I always thought it strange seeing all those packages in the grocery stores with blood oozing out of them! Yuk take 'em home and open them up and let the blood drain out? I also no longer eat any dairy products and I used to eat hard boiled eggs every day. I always have my "Meat is Murder" button on whenever I leave the house. OH people say "What do you eat?" People are so darn clueless. Or shall I say "brainwashed." I drive a cab in Las Vegas and always have pictures of my three doggies hanging in the cab. Conversations are started this way and I always say that I'm a big dog lover but that I love all animals. When they say they do too I always ask "Do you eat meat?" If they say yes I say "then you don't love animals." among other things I also get "where can I get a good steak." That really opens the door to get on them. Hey there's no such thing as a good steak! I usually throw in a few quotes oh I don't care if they don't like it. I don't like the mere idea of slaughtering helpless creatures…"We are the living graves of murdered beasts slaughtered to satisfy our appetites." And I go on and on. I believe that a lot of people are walking around angry because they eat meat. Hey the animals are angry when they are slaughtered and it passes on to the person eating it. I have even found truthfully that I don't get angry at all any more since becoming animal free! Keep up the great work PETA!
Wow I never even knew what Cargill was. I've went past this one in Whiting Indiana and there is a Lever Brothers well Unilever now across the street. That whole town smells really bad and I always thought it was Unilever. Guess it is both. I can't believe I had no idea. It just looked like a regular small factory! So glad they and many others are phasing out gestation crates. I wish the whole world would stop eating meat though
I love what you do to improve the treatment of animals.I've just stopped eating meat for the last 4 months and haven't felt better!Try to do as much as possible to help and will try to do more in the near future
In response to Outdoorsmen it is a shame you know how to use a rifle and not your brain the greatest minds have always maintained that the killing of animals is outrageous and should be stopped. I hope you don't have any children that you will pass on your outdoorsmen legacy………. Remember Ghandiif you know who that is said "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." It is sickening that you and others are still in the dark ages. Get with itbecome a vegetarian.
First and foremost I AM NOT A VEGETARIAN NOR DO I AGREE WITH PETA birthing crates are vital for the survival of new born piglets. The sows are not careful as to where they lay and whats underneath them even their own baby. Even though the crates may not be the most comfortable things in the world they protect the piglets and help the survival rate to stay high!
Abattoir and Slaughterhouse are need to demolish 'cause it's one of the horrific and cruel scene that you can see on earth. More power PETA..
Thank you PETA for taking on these corporate agribusinesses but let us not deceive ourselves that they have the animal's best interest at heart. The bottom line is what's feuling this that and bad PR. Nontheless keep on top of these S.O.Bs.
This is great news!!! I hope that soon all torture of animals will stop and people will come to their senses THEY ARE KILLING INNOCENT CREATURES!!!
Congratulations PETA!!!It's fantastic. Animals deserve to live as the humans. Animals are life!!!
This didn't happen because animal agribusiness cares about animals they simply want good public relations so consumers keep consuming products of violence. Let's stop applauding animal exploiters and start working to put them out of business!
Peta You're my heroes! Thank you for everything you do to help these poor defenseless animals. Respectfully yours Laura
PETA I want to thank you for your dilegence! You are able to actually take small steps to improve the lives of these tortured animals and I could not get past my anger and outrage to be composed enough to gain these small steps for factory farmed animals. I would lose my temper and that would be the end of any negotiations. I just want it to stop now as I know you do. That's why you'll keep getting my donations you're able to accomplish this inspite of the frustration and grief we all feel.
some things on this site I absolutely agree with but this one is just ridiculous. those crates protect the young from being injured and for you retarded people who don't get it. Let me explain it for you. sows aren't in those 247 all the time. They go in shortly before having babies and come out as soon as the babies are weaned and that isn't a couple months its a few weeks. Next thing I know you'll be burning bras again because they uncomfortable for women. Yes I come from a farm and these crates are far from cruel. This is the dumbest thing I've seen on here. You need to pick and choose your battles not only was this a stupid one it was a waste of your resources. I can guarantee that those who still use them aren't going to change their ways and as long as their is a request for the crates cargill or someone like them will be making them. Just so you know those sows spend most of their lives in large pens and god knows we don't need every animal in the world constantly running free especially when stupid people are still taking up so much of the space.
Animal Cruelty has always taken a back seat. It is time to give this issue the attention it deserves and I'm with you all the way Peta. Keep up the good work and I'll keep the donations coming…
PETA always amazes me and I get so excited to read wonderful news as this. Your efforts to help animals are so appreciated by all of us animals lovers. PLEASE continue your fights and we will continue to help you writing letters and donating time and money for such a needed cause!
Thank you PETA for doing this great work. We had a tiny runt pig we raised in our house when I was a child and I know how playful precious personable and intelligent they are. Even though I wish none of this would occur I know that all change begins in steps and this is such a victory for someone who has been praying for and advocating this for over 30 years. I have not eaten flesh of any animal for over 30 years it was a moral descision for me way back then not for health but better health was the result. We must remember that God's law is perfect and those in the world who eat the most animal products themselves have the most health problems especially heart disease and cancers and many many die. We teach Natural Health classes and have had many of my students give up the consumption of the flesh of our precious brothers and sisters the creatures. Many make the discision for moral reasons not just for health. But no matter what the reason it all saves lives and animals being abused. Hooray for all that PETA does God is blessing your work! Thank you. Sr. Francis Gabriel The Little Shepherds of Saint Francis
For all the gods ! A great victory but not the war ! We still believe in the end of this ! My congratulations for you all !
I had a leather watch that I wore until the band broke it had been given to me as a gift before I became vegan and realized just what happens to animals that are used for leather clothing etc. I also had a leather jacket that was given to me years ago but when I became vegan I just could not wear that jacket anymore. I think the watch was easier because it was small and mostly not noticeable but the jacket had that nauseating leather smell to it. However I did not want to just throw it away as others have said on this blog so I gave it to my sisterinlaw. Now I buy shoes and purses mostly at Payless and my watch has a plastic band. I also got a great faux leather brief case and portfolio combination from PETA's online catalogue they say "Fake for the animals' sake". I take every opportunity to show people that they can have nicelooking clothes without causing cruelty.
Thnx for the update i am relly glad for the step for improvment
Not because of religion wise since 10 years ago I've cease eating pork and anything relating to this poor animal.
Great new's about the crates it will be "Wonderful" when they stop using them all together. I view anyone that eat's animals and wears their skin as Neanderthal.
Wow great rejoice rejoice….Great news may we all continue to work hard stop animals being kill for food!!!
In response to Angie's comment on the 13th "I have in my closet leather jackets and shoes but have realized that just throwing them out would make the sacrifice that those animals gave worth nothing so I will wear them till they are worn out but will NEVER buy another item made from the skin of an animal nor eat anything made from the life of another living thing" good on you…!!! I feel exactly the same….. I went vegetarian about a month ago now and I stopped using any products tested on animals over 2 years ago. I feel so much happier knowing that I am no longer contributing to the suffering of all those poor animals…. And like you I too have a leather jacket….. and wear leather shoes but getting rid of these would achieve nothing so I will wear them out but I am always looking for alternatives. Just because we don't necessarily have all the answers or alternatives yet does not mean that we shouldn't do what we can..!!
This is superb news.It is simply great to know that so many people all over the world are fighting for such a noble cause and that people are becoming aware of all the cruelties that are inflicted on these innocent and helpless creatures and are convinced that there is an urgent need to put a stop to this.
Thanks to Smithfield Food. Keep up the spirit. We all are very thankful to you.
Any human with a heart who knew what really happens to pigs sheep cows chickens and all other "consumer products" for consumers would stop eating these good creatures. In the old days when farms existed and life was "normal" for animals people usually ate small amounts of meat according to the seasons and bounty of the moment and obesity was never an issue. Ahhhh " progress"!
PETA keep up the good work you are the voices that speak for animals.
Hola gente linda de Peta soy de Argentina y la verdad es que me llena de alegria conocer esta hermosa noticia. Que bueno por nuestros hermanos los chanchitos! Gracias a Dios y a Uds. Por favor sigan luchando por todos los animalitos hermosos de este mundo. Ojala en la Argentina pase lo mismo. Dios asi lo quiera. Los felicito!
Thanks for bringing the dark minds and hearts out into the light PETA. There should come a time when all animals will be free from cruelty by humans.
I have been mostly vegetarian for twenty years with only a few times falling off the wagon. I recently watched one of the undercover videos of factory farming and sobbed so hard my eyes were swollen the next day. I have decided to be fully vegan now even though it is hard and never buy leather again. I never again want to aid in the hand of cruelty. I hope that we can keep working to somehow put grace in peoples hearts so that they will naturally understand why eating meat is so horrific.Thank you to everyone who makes these hard decisions to speak up for the animals.
Gestation crates should be banned entirely . The blatant truth is that even if it done so these poor animals will be callously tortured as seen often in undercover investigations before they finally give in to a horrifying and painful death. I have a mind to throw all these officials and staff of these murderous organisations in crates for the rest of their lives! It would be wonderful to see these Godless torturers die a slow death for a change. Its only fair. Hoping that not only will the crates be done away with but that a day will come when all these amazing animals will be set free forever. Caroline
GREAT news! Like Tina once I was awakened to the horrors of factory farming I just felt so depressed and down about the fact that I couldn't just go right out and stop it all. It's nice to know that changes are happening…although not fast enough. Keep it up PETA!
We need leadership like PETA to rule the world. My heart is one step lighter to hear the good news like everyone here. Thank you so much for all your great supreme actions and deeds and for all who pray and put into action to make this a better world for all.
It's so good to hear that the large companies are finally listening. The animals need us to defend them. They have no choice they have no voice. The large meat producers must know that PETA is justified in what we are saying and doing or they wouldn't consent to make changes. Hooray for PETA! Hooray for the animals!
what is so wrong with eating meat if god didnt want us to eat them he would have made them impossible to catch. I just dont see what the problem is they dont feel it at all.we also as a group of outdoorsman would hope that you wouldnt put these sorts of animal rights adds on our outdoor web sites. Thank you!


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US Olympic Judo Golden Girl Kayla Harrison Leads Team With Gold today in Argentina
U.S. Olympic Judo Golden Girl, Kayla Harrison, Leads Team With Gold Today in Argentina
US Elites Total Three Gold, Four Silver, Six Bronze On Tour
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March 23, 2013 -- Team USA's Kayla Harrison today added a gold medal to a terrific chest of bling collected on a two-tourney tour in Argentina and Uruguay by the biggest USA Judo team to venture out since Harrison's historic Olympic win in London last summer.
Harrison (NYAC/Team FORCE, Wakefield, Mass.) was fighting at 70 kg.at the Pan American Open today in Buenos Aires, Argentina, down a weight division from the Olympics in London. She landed a few yukos in the final round for gold before catching her opponent, Yuri Alvear of Colombia, in an arm bar for ippon to finish the match.
Taking a silver medal today was Samantha Bleier, 78 kg. (U.S. Olympic Training Center, Colorado Springs, CO). She added that medal to the gold already around her neck that she won last week at the Pan American Open in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Taking silver yesterday in Buenos Aires was Hannah Martin, 63 kg. (NYAC/Jason Morris Judo Center, Glenville, NY). This was her second medal on the tour, taking a bronze in Montevideo.
Harrison added her gold to a silver she claimed at the Pan American Open in Montevideo last week. Two-time Olympian Travis Stevens, 81 kg. (NYAC/Team FORCE, Wakefield, Mass.) took gold last week in Montevideo, tearing through the ranks with a withering arsenal of standing and ground maneuvers. Janine Nakao 63 kg. (NYAC/Team FORCE, Wakefield, Mass.) took silver last week in Montevideo.
Team USA's total for the two tournaments: three gold, four silver and six bronze. Called Continental Opens, these are the new names given by the International Judo Federation for World Cups, where elite athletes collect essential training and valuable ranking points for placing.
Climbing the podium for bronze yesterday in Buenos Aires was Aaron Kunihiro, 60 kg. (NYAC/Team FORCE, Wakefield, Mass.). Those winning bronze last week in Montevideo along with Hannah Martin were Angelica Delgado, 52 kg. (Ki-Itsu-Sai National Training Center, Coral Springs, FL), Hana Carmichael, 57 kg. (NYAC/Team FORCE, Wakefield, Mass.), Alisha Galles, 63 kg. (Mojica Judo Club, Lancaster, CA). and Jacob Larsen, 90 kg. (Boulder Judo Training Center/U.S. Olympic Training Center, CO).
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Here's how RW members rated this race (23 votes).
In short: Love these races- the fab medals, the great organisation. Worth the drive to get there!Date of review: November 18, 2013
In short: Interesting trail run with good facilitiesIn full: Starts at the Sports Village, so showers, toilets, parking and refreshments. Generally well organised and marshalled. There were even spectators at various points, which was a pleasant surprise.It was a bit congested for the first 500m or so, and so it might be worth thinking about moving the Start or somehow ordering the runners by expected finishing time, or something.Date of review: November 18, 2013
In short: A good off-road run with a mixture of woods and hillside fields. I would say undulating rather than hilly, it's more the surface than the inclines that are the challenge. Trail shoes are recommended. Would defo do it again.Date of review: February 20, 2013
In short: More of a muddy rock climb than a run, but great fun!Date of review: February 17, 2013
In short: Testing race in the snow !In full: I wasn't sure if this race would go ahead a couple of days beforehand , but luckily it did, and gave me a real good test. The snow made you feel as if you had to work twice as hard, but I thought the course was a great balance of uphill, downhill and flats, Friendly marshalling and great support considering the weather. A nice medal and choccie bar at the end was appreciated . To sum up, a good start to my 2013 race calendar ! Date of review: January 22, 2013
In short: S'no race like a snow race! :)In full: I've ran the skyline 10k a couple of times now. I love the views and challenging muddy areas and find the marshalls very friendly and encouraging.Fun in the snow today though!Date of review: January 20, 2013
In short: Great racing in the snow, better than mud for a change !Date of review: January 20, 2013
In short: Snow made this a special race.In full: Excellent race in the snow on a good cross country course made going slow but an excellent race. Thanks to marshals, shivering in cold conditions, but still offering plenty of support.Date of review: January 20, 2013
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