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Stanley Teitel
The principal, Stanley Teitel, retired last summer, while the city's Education Department was investigating his handling of the cheating, which involved more than 60 students using smartphones to receive answers for standardized city and state tests.
The report, issued by the department's Office of Special Investigations, said that after Mr. Teitel was tipped off by a student about the cheating, he set up a sting operation to catch the ringleader when he should have tried to pre-emptively thwart the cheating, including by enforcing the citywide ban on phones inside schools.
The report said that Mr. Teitel and an assistant principal, Randi Damesek, took too long to question students involved and did not report the cheating to state officials until eight days after catching the lead student, when reporters began inquiring about what had happened.
"It is the conclusion of this office that due to a lack of foresight, candor and professional judgment, Mr. Teitel and Ms. Damesek failed to efficiently and effectively carry out the administrative duties entrusted to them during their handling of the 'cheating incident' of June 2012," the report said.
It recommended that Mr. Teitel be barred from future employment in city schools, and the Education Department will follow that recommendation, said Erin Hughes, a spokeswoman.
Mr. Teitel said on Friday that he had not seen yet the report and would not discuss its contents.
"No one sent me a copy of it," he said, adding: "I am retired. I have been retired for over a year."
Efforts to reach Ms. Damesek were unsuccessful. The Education Department will bring disciplinary charges against her and seek her firing "or, at the very minimum, a demotion," Ms. Hughes said.
Besides its unflattering portrait of the leadership team at one of the most prestigious high schools in the country, the report also describes a 21st-century example of how students let others peek at their answers.
The ringleader, Nayeem Ahsan, referred to as "Student A" in the report, told investigators he used his iPhone to send answers to other students via text messages to "garner good will" among classmates, the report said, and perhaps get help from them in subjects he was weaker in. The number of students involved who received his texts "grew and grew," according to Mr. Ahsan's account in the report.
During the physics Regents exam, he told investigators, he waited until one proctor left the room and was replaced by a lax one who did not walk around. Eventually, she fell asleep, he said, and he began sending out answers. The proctor denied falling asleep.
On June 16, a student e-mailed Mr. Teitel to say that Mr. Ahsan had "electronically assisted" several students on Regents exams and was set to do so again, the report said. In reaction to that message, Mr. Teitel "showed an extreme lack of judgment," it said. He set up a sting operation for a June 18 language exam, placing a reliable proctor to catch Mr. Ahsan in the act, the report said. When the proctor did so, he notified Mr. Teitel, who took Mr. Ahsan and his phone out of the room.
School staff members copied information from the phone to find out who else had been receiving answers. Shortly after Mr. Ahsan left, the information on his phone suddenly disappeared; he told school staff members that he had just suspended his phone service, which they did not believe, the report said.
Mr. Teitel told Mr. Ahsan and his father, "There's no way I'm keeping him" at Stuyvesant, and told them to request a safety-related transfer to another school, which they reluctantly did, but education officials rejected it, saying his safety was not truly in jeopardy.
Dozens of students were suspended for several days and had to retake exams. Nayeem Ahsan spent his senior year at Forest Hills High School in Queens, and graduated two months ago, officials said.
Though the report is dated Nov. 5, its release was delayed nearly 10 months, until Friday, "because there were allegations of a 'culture of cheating' " at Stuyvesant, Ms. Hughes said.
"We kept the investigation open and monitored until the end of the school year," Ms. Hughes said. "No further evidence was presented that warranted a change in the report, so the report was issued as is."
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a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Aug 30, 2013 at 10:58 pm
Headline is all wrong. Students are not allowed to have cell phones out during exams. Most do not use their cell phones during class. Cell phone usage is allowed during non-class time, which is reasonable because it gives students a chance to relax. Some teachers use cell phones for instruction and communication. We don't have any issues with cell phone abuse at Paly.
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on Aug 31, 2013 at 11:22 am
We used to live in another community near Los Gatos, and the cheating via cell phones at that local high school was rampant. It concluded in a big scandal just about four years ago, quite similar to the one at Stuyvesant (Peter Stuyvesant is churning in his grave). Unfortunately, it involved foreign-born children and children of foreign-born parents even more than native-born children.
This is a high-pressure school, like Stuyvesant, and there are always more cheating issues at such schools, public or private. In the local case, though, the pressure was from the parents far, far more than from the high school itself.
Cell phones were just an easy, discreet enabler. Take them away and these over-pressured kids will find another way.
I suspect there are many cheating cases that go undetected due to the hide-ability of smart phones.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Aug 31, 2013 at 12:08 pm
The problem is the cheating, not the phones.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Aug 31, 2013 at 12:54 pm
Agree that cheating is going to be done with or without smart phones.
Banning the phones or demanding that they are put in a box at the front of the room doesn't mean to say that there will be no phones in a classroom. It is not uncommon for someone to have more than one phone so that one could be shown to be turned off or put in a box in the front of the room, while the other phone is still being used in class or to cheat in a test.
There is a culture of cheating whereby if you get what you want by cheating it is ok and if you get caught, so what, it was for a noble reason. There is a good reason why Turnitin.com is being used for homework. And it isn't just the kids who OK the cheating, but the parents too. They are even enabling their kids to do it.
Plagiarism, cheating in tests and exams are definitely occurring, as to how much in PAUSD, I'm not sure. If the cheaters are being caught then the schools are keeping mum and if they are getting away with it they are getting into the best schools and probably doing the same there.
I would like to see how it can be stopped, but banning the phones is not going to stop the cheaters.
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on Aug 31, 2013 at 8:30 pm
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a resident of Mayfield
on Aug 31, 2013 at 9:54 pm
@ jake
I am confused. Are you implying that foreign born parents managed to get into the US because they cheated? I find this offensive. I, for one, am a foreign born US citizen who did not resort to cheating to come into the US (or for much of anything else either). And there are many other immigrants who are honest. Please, do not lump all immigrants together. Also, I am aware of students who have cheated in school who were born in non immigrant families. So...
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I adore this project! What a fun spin on using a book pages for a tree! I have got to try this technique! So adorable. And your Christmas decor is just lovely, all of it!ReplyDelete
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text: ED Talks: Big Ideas about Educating the Whole Student Location: Paresky Auditorium, Paresky Center, Williams College, Williamstown, MA Date: Monday, August 5 2013Time: 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.Reception to follow event Eight speakers will offer their ideas about educating the whole student — mind, body and spirit — at ED Talks: Big Ideas About Educating the Whole Student, on Monday, August 5, at the MTA Summer Conference at Williams College. Based on the TED Talks model, each speaker will be given six minutes to present "ideas worth sharing." Presenters are:• Camille Napier Bernstein, communications, creative writing and English teacher at Natick High School, who gives serious thought to media literacy and divergent thinking by day and gardening, cooking and her family by night. @napierbernstein • Chris Bruno, social studies teacher at Plymouth North High School.@PNHS_MrBruno • Becky Curran, advocate for little people and for all people with disabilities. @beckymotivates • Laura Beals D'Elia, elementary school librarian in Burlington, technology teacher, Edcamp organizer andstoryteller .@ldelia • Max Grinnell, writer, traveler, Massachusetts College of Art and Design professor and explorer.@theurbanologist • Christine Lucey-Meagher, high school art teacher in Worcester and illustrator. • Michael O'Connor, fifth-grade teacher in Wayland who is good with tools.@MichaelOTheTeacher • Deb Socia, principal on assignment at Boston Public Schools, executive director of a Boston-wide program promoting 21st century skills, long-term educator.@dsocia The ED Talks Planning Committee includes Maureen Devlin, Wayland teacher (@lookforsun), Monica Poole, Bunker Hill Community College professor (@profpoole) and Tim Sheehan, Amherst teacher.Each ED Talk will be filmed and posted on MTA's YouTube site at youtube.com/massteacher. Below are links to two of last year's presenters, Falmouth third-grade teacher Suzy Brooks and Burlington K-15 instructional technology specialist Dan Callahan. View all of last year's ED Talks at www.masstea.ch/edtalks. Questions about ED Talks? Contact Sarah Nathan, MTA Communications, at 617-878-8306 or email@example.com. For more on the MTA Summer Conference, visit massteacher.org/summer. Follow the week's events on MTA's Twitter stream, @massteacher or with the hashtag, #mtasummer. Another way to keep up with happenings is with the new MTA Summer Conference mobile app. Download it at http://crowd.cc/mta2013 or search for "MTA Events" in your favorite app store.


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Sounds like fun! Count me in, Mawluv.
Morning - I am really excited about this swap. I have been looking for a little something handmade to include with gifts this year and I think I have found it!! Thanks to you. Please include me in this swap. The links included in your post were excellent. I am going to get started on these after church today. Thank you again.
I'ld like to be included. I've never made a mug rug before. Can someone lead me to some instuctions please.
OK, I'll try it!!!!! Will send you a PM later today, going to go spend some time with hubby being he is home.
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Grab a bull by the horns and enjoy the ride....
I'm definitely in on this one !!! Wanted to do a mug rug swap for awhile. I'm thinking maybe valentines ?? Thank-you for doing this swap Nelco.
I'm thinking that since I have 10 to do for Christmas, that perhaps an 11th in the same lot won't be a bad thing. I hope my partner likes Hawaiian print fabrics, because unless I run out, that's what they'll probably get!
The only thing is, you're supposed to have it done before you sign up, so we wont know whos getting it till after the swap is closed and we get or swap buddy. Let me think before signing up.


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In December 2004, Congress reauthorized the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Public Law [P.L.] 108-446. The provisions in Parts A, B and C and subpart 1 of Part D of the act became effective on July 1, 2005. Some elements pertaining to the definition of a "highly qualified teacher" took effect upon the signing of the act. With reauthorization of IDEA, the nation reaffirmed its commitment to improving educational results for children and youth with disabilities.
The 29th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2007 focuses on key state performance data in accordance with recommendations of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education.
- Volume 1 focuses on the children and students being served under IDEA nationally and provides profiles of individual states' special education environments.
- Volume 2 of the report contains the state-reported data tables for IDEA, Part B, developed from the Office of Special Education Programs' (OSEP's) Data Analysis System. Part B of IDEA provides funds to states to assist them in providing a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to children ages 3 through 21 with disabilities who are in need of special education and related services.
- Volume 3 of the report contains the state-reported data tables for IDEA, Part C. Part C provides funds to states to assist them in developing and implementing statewide, comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary interagency systems to make early intervention services available to all children from birth to age 3 with disabilities and their families.
The 2007, or 29th Annual Report to Congress, follows the 2006, or 28th Annual Report to Congress, in sequence, and continues to focus on IDEA results and accountability. It is the first annual report to have three volumes. In the 28th and previous editions, vol. 2 consisted of data tables and data notes for Parts B and C. With the 2007 or 29th Annual Report to Congress, vol. 2 now contains only Part B data tables and data notes, and vol. 3 contains data tables and data notes for Part C. This division was done to accommodate the increased length of the report.
Vol. 1 of the 2007, or 29th Annual Report to Congress, is comparable to the 2006, or 28th Annual Report to Congress, throughout the first three sections. Sections IV and V are new to this edition and were added to provide information on two programs established with the 2004 IDEA reauthorization. A summary of the five sections that make up vol. 1 of this report follows.
Section I. The National Picture
Section I contains national data pertinent to Parts C and B of IDEA and the evaluation of states' monitoring and improvement practices under IDEA. It contains four subsections. The first three subsections focus on infants and toddlers served under IDEA, Part C; children ages 3 through 5 served under IDEA, Part B; and students ages 6 through 21 served under IDEA, Part B. The figures and tables provide information about the characteristics of children and students receiving services under Parts C and B, their disabilities, the settings in which they receive services and their transitions as they move from early childhood through elementary and secondary school and into adult life. The fourth subsection presents highlights of states' monitoring and improvement activities related to state efforts to improve compliance with Parts B and C of IDEA and outcomes for children with disabilities and their families.
To the extent possible, the data are presented through figures, short tables and bulleted text. Data are included for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands). In addition, data for special education and related services provided under IDEA, Part B are presented for Bureau of Indian Affairs schools.
Section II of the report contains state-level performance data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. These state profiles include number of school districts, public school enrollment, per-pupil expenditures and percentage of children living below the poverty level. For Part B, the profiles also report data for OSEP's performance goals and graduation and dropout data. For Part C, the profiles include the lead agency for early intervention services and the number of infants and toddlers receiving early intervention services. The state profiles also identify states that provide early intervention services under Part C to infants and toddlers who are at risk of experiencing significant developmental delay if they do not receive early intervention services. Finally, the profiles show the percentage of infants and toddlers served under Part C over time.
Section III. Rank-Order Tables
Section III presents tables of states rank-ordered by their reported data for exiting, dropout, educational environments, early intervention services and early intervention settings. OSEP uses these tables as part of its monitoring activities. In addition to data from all of the entities mentioned for Section I, the rank-order tables include data for Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.
Section IV. Summary of Research Conducted Under Part E of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
When Congress reauthorized IDEA in December 2004, it amended the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 by adding a new Part E, which established the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) as part of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). NCSER began operation on July 1, 2005.
Section IV of this report describes the 28 research projects funded by fiscal year (FY) 2006 grants made by NCSER under Part E.
Section V. Summary of Studies and Evaluations under Section 664 of IDEA
This section describes the activities supported by IES with FY 2006 funds under the Studies and Evaluations program, established under Section 664 of the 2004 reauthorization of IDEA. The purpose of this program and the funded activities is to assess the implementation and effectiveness of key programs and activities supported under IDEA.
Vols. 2 and 3 of the 29th Annual Report to Congress consist of tables that were compiled from data provided by the states. Such data are required under the law. In fact, the collection and analysis of these data are the primary means by which OSEP monitors activities under IDEA, thereby helping to ensure the free and appropriate public education of all children with disabilities.
Data tables in vol. 2 cover a multitude of topics regarding states' implementation of IDEA, Part B; data tables in vol. 3 cover a multitude of topics regarding states' implementation of IDEA, Part C. In the analysis of data presented in vol. 1, there are frequent references to specific tables in vols. 2 and 3 as sources. In that sense, vols. 2 and 3 can be used as appendices to vol. 1. However, the tables in vols. 2 and 3 provide much more extensive data than are referenced in vol. 1. As such, they may be used by anyone interested in doing further analysis of state activities funded under IDEA.
The state-reported data tables in vols. 2 and 3 of the 29th Annual Report to Congress were developed using OSEP's Data Analysis System. The latest data tables are posted on www.ideadata.org.


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It isn't every day you get to drink something that was made before you were born, especially when you get to my advanced years.
So it was nice to be asked to try a rather special rum, the Appleton Estate 50-year-old, which was originally laid down to mark Jamaica's independence from the clutches of Perfidious Albion (and no, that's not a football team).
The occasion began with a tasting of the Appleton Estate range at Vinnie's Restaurant, where owner/chef Geoff Scott had come up with canapes to match each of the rums and the cocktails that Lion's luxury brands ambassador Frankie Walker had concocted.
Gorgeous doesn't come close, to be honest; you haven't lived until you've tried a white wine and foie gras milkshake, let me tell you. But the rum was the hero of the day and it certainly lived up to its billing.
The Appleton Estate range is pretty special stuff, as you'd expect from a producer that has been in business since 1749. The standard VX rum is a great drop and the reserves are exquisite.
We started with the Reserve 8-Year-Old, which was lovely, smooth and sophisticated. Perfect for mixing and making cocktails with.
Then we moved on to the 12-year-old and the step up was noticeable - more body, more richness and elegance while keeping the orange-peel characteristic that is something of a house style at Appleton Estate. The length and depth of the flavours were incredible. By the time the 21-year-old was poured I was salivating.
I was given a bottle about two years ago and it was so lovely that I eked the bottle out over a full year, rationing each drop. It was beautiful, dark, brooding and packed with dark fruit and molasses notes, along with touches of leather, gunpowder and that hint of orange.
Then came the 50-year-old. Only 800 bottles were made and, of those, only five made it to New Zealand. The bottle's engravings marked Jamaica's history and culture, and the rum inside was exquisite. Words won't do it justice, but suffice it to say I will never taste its like again.
And neither will you, I'm afraid. The 50-year-old bottles that arrived here are safely locked up. Still, if you can find some of the 21-year-old, I can promise you a rum experience like few others.


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The Good Side of Congress
The Good Side of Congress
More From Ileana
First Latina Elected to Congress
The Good Side of Congress
"Feminist" is Not Liberal or Conservative
Appealing to Republican Women Voters
More Republican Women Candidates
Cuban Refugee Community
Valuing Democracy after Cuba
When you're poor
Falling in Love with America
Learning to Start Over
Memories of the Cuban Revolution
Ileana 's Biography
Historical Influence: Sir Winston Churchill
String of Firsts: Before becoming the first Hispanic US Congresswoman, she served as the first Hispanic woman in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate.
Political Connections: Jeb Bush was her campaign manager when she first ran for her US House seat in 1989.
Advice for Younger Women: "Don't think of everything that could go wrong. Think of everything that can go right."
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen fled Castro's Cuba with her family when she was eight. She was educated in Miami's Little Havana and earned her Bachelor's degree in 1975, before founding and serving as a teacher/principal in a Hialeah, Florida private school. She later wrote, "I was inspired to enter public service by many of the parents and students, to fight on their behalf..." Her own education never stopped. She earned her master's while she was serving the Florida House of Representatives and a doctorate after a decade-and-a-half in the United States Congress. Ros-Lehtinen's 1989 election to the latter made her the first Cuban-American and the first Latina to join the House.
Now in her third decade in Congress, she is Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a vigorous national defense advocate. But she breaks from her party in her anything-but-orthodox stands on behalf of gay rights. She was one of only 15 House Republicans to support the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and is the first GOP member to have supported repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. Ros-Lehtinen is a proud mother and grandmother and a fighter for human rights, at home and abroad.


text: I am wanting ideas and experience melting wax cappings in 55 gallon drums. I shovel my cappings out of my uncapper into a drum after they have drained overnight. I melt the cappings by putting the drum into a hot water bath. The honey is black when the wax is melted and I throw it out. I would like to try something new to save the honey. Any good ideas?


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A real shame that these retailers are opportunistically taking advantage of the situation... capitalism at its "finest" :( I have no problem with the supply/demand margins, but gouging is turning me off to any gun related purchases I was planning to make in the upcoming months.
Went to the gun show... let's just say if you wanted a rifle, expect to pay a significant markup on it if you haven't already purchased it. Ditto for magazines. Most of them are jumping up in prices... not just crawling up!
This is my list, feel free to add to it. The local places in the region have never been known to have competitive prices, but now they are severely gouging magazine prices and EBR prices. Enough to the point that I am simply not going to shop locally any more. It is THAT BAD around here.
At the GS, I couldn't even get to the gun table, and had to push my way to the magazine rack. The Tapco 7.62x39 bulk mags, normally sell for $7-8 apiece, now 14.99 each! They didn't have their Saiga and Arsenal builds gouged, but then again they were already charging $1k each for them... time to go back to mail order for me!
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25-50% overnight price increase on most products. A shame because they have always had competitive pricing. No more it would seem. Yesterdays' $1399 rifle is today's $1899 rifle.
50-300% overnight price increase on mags. The "no more guns" policy was quickly reversed when the consumer backlash was heard. Not sure if this is good or bad... but makes me mark them off my list of "go-to" places.
- WalMart pulled evil black guns... do we even care?
- Dick's Sporting Goods pulled EBRs - again do we even care?
Those NOT increasing significantly... pleasantly surprised to see some companies aren't engaging in this:
- Sportsman's Guide
Only marginal price increase on ammo, < 10%
- MidwayUSA
No price increase on "evil" accessories and mags
Seriously between these two companies alone I think I can do all my shopping. I am simply not going to buy at gouged prices, regardless of what it is.


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At Home With: Jörg Hemker
Once again we are in Hamburg, this time at the home of type designer and typography lecturer Jörg Hemker for the most recent instalment of our 'At Home With' series.
Seen here in his stylish city apartment we get a real insight into Jörg's world and what makes him tick. Much like his two typefaces, FF Sero (one of our top selling font families) and FF Zwo, Jörg's apartment is contemporary, neat, constructivist and yet functionable. The use of strong colours compliment one another on a background of white simplicity, suggesting an ordered and yet well thoughtout playfulness to this modern living space.
See more on Behance and Flickr. Photography by Max Zerrahn.
ÜberFontFont FF Sero
Every three months we name our highest climbing fonts in the popularity charts for the past quarter. We call these our ÜberFontFonts.
American Grotesque in form with the legibility of a Humanist Sans, Jörg Hemker's second FontFont release, FF Sero is the latest chart topping star addition to the ÜberFontFont collection.
Seven years in the making, the striking and classic letterforms beautifully matured into a flexible and versatile typeface containing eight harmonized weights and an extensive character set. Additional language support including Greek and Cyrillic are also included. The top climber in the popularity font stakes, FF Sero has indeed proven to be every bit worth the while.
New release: FF56
FontFont designers have been recipients of prestigious type design awards, but few can claim to have been even before their creations were officially published. Ludwig Übele's FF Tundra — a recipient of a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at this year's TDC2 competition — is now available for licensing. Other new releases are Jörg Hemker's versatile sans FF Sero; the informal cousin of the popular FF Mister K; a monospaced variant for FF Nuvo; and stencil versions for the Danish sans/serif type system FF Signa.
The new designs
FF Sero
FF Sero – Jörg Hemker's versatile sans FF Sero combines the striking forms of an American grotesque with the legibility of a humanist sans serif typeface. It has open contours, a distinct x-height and a homogeneous grayscale value. During seven years of development the classic letter forms have matured into a balanced, sovereign typeface. Eight harmonized weights and an extensive character set allow for a flexible and versatile typography. Cyrillic and Greek characters provide an extended language support.
For a limited time, FF Sero Medium is available for free download in OT, Offc and Web formats. Download it on the Goodies page.
FF Tundra
FF Tundra – Ludwig Übele's award-winning design FF Tundra is a narrow serif typeface with stressed forms and soft contours. The idea evolved from investigating how a narrow typeface should look for optimal readability. To avoid a fence-effect, FF Tundra emphasizes the horizontal line. Ludwig Übele combined strong serifs, flat shoulders (see n) and open but heavy endings (see a, e, c) with a moderate contrast to achieve a balanced, legible typeface with a certain softness and humanity. FF Tundra has been designed for continuous text, but is also suitable for magazines and headlines (especially the Extra Light) and will surely work in newspapers as well. The family consists of six weights from Extra Light to Bold, each with Italics and Small Caps and many OpenType layout features.
FF Mister K Informal
FF Mister K Informal – This new design by Julia Sysmäläinen is the latest offspring of the FF Mister K font family. It began in one of Kafka's Quart Notebooks with handwritten texts that look astonishingly clear. The letter forms are carefully placed line after line but still reveal the author's characteristic writing style. There is a simple explanation: These are final, rewritten texts. The first version — loaded with heavy editing and correction marks — can be found elsewhere in Kafka's literary remains. The strong personality of FF Mister K is often appreciated, but some designers find it too unpredictable for down-to-earth target groups. So enriching the K Family with a clear, friendly looking member derived from Kafka's stylistic repertoire seemed predestined by the users' needs.
FF Nuvo Mono
FF Nuvo Mono – Siegfried Rückel expands his magazine typeface FF Nuvo with a monospaced variant for all weights, including Small Caps and Italics. This offers new options for traditional and unusual designs. The design retains its stroke endings with "chipped" corners, which make them appear soft when seen from a distance or in small point sizes, but reveal their peculiar forms at a closer look. However its x-height was lowered somewhat in comparison to FF Nuvo to emphasize FF Nuvo Mono's typewriter character. The calligraphic touch in the characters a, g and y make this typeface stand out among other typewriter-like faces, as do the alternate characters for a, g, k, s and y, which add typographic versatility.
FF Signa Stencil/FF Signa Serif Stencil
FF Signa Stencil/FF Signa Serif Stencil – Ole Søndergaard's stencil faces can be used to produce actual stencils, but more often than not they are selected for their unique aesthetic. It is fascinating to see how separate "floating" fragments combine to form recognizable character shapes. The way those letters are cut up gives a stencil design its specific character. FF Signa — a typically Danish typeface — is rooted in architectural lettering rather than book typography. This sans serif of concise letter forms and a minimum of detail joined the growing collection of sans/serif type systems when the serif variant was added in 2005. Now both versions are available as stylish stencil designs.
Updated and extended FontFonts
FF Info
FF Info Text, FF Info Display, FF Info Correspondence Pro – Erik Spiekermann's and Ole Schäfer's FF Info Office is the typeface Erik Spiekermann himself feels should be more popular "because it works well on screen and is really cool but nobody has found it behind the larger FF Info Text and Display families." It has been renamed FF Info Correspondence to avoid confusion with the Office font format. The complete FF Info family, one of the best wayfinding type systems, has now been upgraded to Pro language support and has been carefully fine-tuned.
FF Profile
FF Profile – Martin Wenzel's FF Profile is one of the more beautiful humanist sans serifs in the FontFont library. This clear, uncluttered and attractive family based on the broad-nibbed pen was already available in OpenType Pro format. Its character set was expanded to include Greek.
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FF Dolores (Tobias Frere-Jones)
FF Zwo (Jörg Hemker, Henning Krause)
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|Big Data & Advanced Analytics Summit
IE. Big Data & Analytics is a global community and think-tank for senior level Big Data executives, data engineers, architects, data scientists & advanced analytics executives.
IE. Summits held on fields that include Sports Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Business Intelligence and Web&Social Media Analytics.
|Advanced Scout
Advanced Scout was developed by IBM during the mid 1990's as a data mining and knowledge management tool.
Advanced Scout reveals hidden patterns in NBA play-by-play data and provide additional insights to coaches and other related organizations.
Advanced Scout not only collects in-game structured stats, but also unstructured multimedia footage. NBA teams have access to Advanced Scout, so that coaches and players can use this tool to prepare for upcoming opponents and study them using historical footage.
APBRmetrics takes its name from the acronym APBR, which stands for the Association for Professional Basketball Research.
|Basketball On Paper
A book which is written by Dean Oliver. In his book , Oliver highlights general strategies for teams when they're winning or losing and what aspects should be the focus in either situation. He describes and quantifies the jobs of team leaders and role players, then discusses the interactions between players and how to achieve the best fit.
Oliver conceptualizes the meaning of teamwork and how to quantify the value of different types of players working together. He examines historically successful NBA teams and identifies what made them so successful: individual talent, a system of putting players together, or good coaching.
|Bayesian Network
A Bayesian network is a probabilistic graphical model that represents a set of variables and their probabilistic independencies.
|Bill James Revolution
George William Bill James is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose. In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world.
|Box Score
Access to historical NBA box score stats that are exportable to Excel.
A box score is a structured summary of the results from a sport competition. The box score lists the game score as well as individual and team achievements in the game.
1986-87 season is the earliest season available with complete box score stats.
Comments: In basketball, we need to account for intangible things such as setting the pick, making the right pass, positioning in the corner to spread the floor, clearing space by moving down the lane and etc. These kind of data are not available in the box scores, that's why it's often been misleading. Metrics derived from play-by-play (PBP) data, not 100% perfect though, might help more than box score stats.
|Competitive Balance Ratio (CBR)
A metric that reflects team-specific variation in winning percentage over time and league-specific variation. Based on estimation of a model of the determination of annual attendance in professional baseball during the past 100 years, variation in the CBR explains more of the observed variation in attendance than other alternatives measures of competitive balance, suggesting that CBR is a useful metric.
|Front Office Staff of NBA Teams
Looking for a dream job in the NBA or getting curious about the organizational structure of NBA franchises? The list below compiles links to front office staff of NBA teams.
|Game Flow Chart
A unique way of illustrating a revealing summary of a basketball game with a chart showing the point innovative plots which has been presented by Peter H. Westfall in 1990.
Check out some NBA research tools with links to sources which offer game flow charts.
Comments: In basketball the outcome is difficult to summarize in a simple boxscore. Game flow charts is a very helpful tool if you didn't watch the game.
|Herfindahl Index
The Herfindahl index, also known as Herfindahl-Hirschman Index or HHI, is a measure of the size of firms in relationship to the industry and an indicator of the amount of competition among them.
The Herfindahl Index can be used to measure scoring balances for NBA teams.
To calculate HHI for each team: (1) divide each player's points scored by the total number of points scored by the team, (2) square that result for each player, (3) sum those squares.
|Home Court Advantage
The home-court advantage is the net effect of several factors that may have an (generally positive) effect on the play of the home team and an (generally negative) effect on the play of the road team.
|How the NBA Schedule is Made
Download NBA league or team schedules in Excel format including own and opponent rest days.
Matt Winick, who stepped down in September 2014 as Senior Vice President of Scheduling and Game Operations, had been the architect of the NBA schedule for more than 20 seasons. In his interview with ESPN, he unveiled how he responds to complaints about strength of schedule and common questions on building the NBA schedule. According to Matt Winick, the NBA sets the league schedule to accomplish both competitive balance and a reduction of costs. The goal of the NBA schedule, as it is constructed, is to be efficient from a competitive standpoint with an indirect consideration of travel costs.
Matt Winick has a complicated system that assigns a point value to each date or series of dates a team makes available. The point system rewards a team for making several consecutive dates available instead of insisting on a particular date. Each time team must amass at least 50 points. Generally, teams play 3.5 games in a week and those 82 games take roughly 165 days through the end of regular season.
In MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2016, Evan Wasch who is the Senior Vice President of Basketball Strategy & Analytics for the NBA has presented the most recent challenges and improvements in NBA scheduling.
Getting started in February, NBA schedule have usually been released in the first weeks of August.
Factors that have an impact on setting NBA schedule can be summarized as follows:
Each team have to play:
A five year rotation determines which out-of-division conference teams are played only 3 times.
All teams, about a month before the end of the preceding regular season, have to submit to the NBA office a list of:
3. OFFICIAL BREAKS (on which no games are played)
The conflicts such as NHL games on the same court have to be resolved.
Games can be moved to satisfy the NBA's TV partners (ABC, ESPN and TNT). Game times can be tweaked.
|Journal of Quantitative Analysis
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports is being edited by Ben Alamar who works for the Thunder as senior quantitative analyst.
|Logistic Regression Markov Chain (LRMC)
LRMC (Logistic Regression Markov Chain) is a college basketball rankings system designed to use only basic scoreboard data, including which teams played, which team had home court advantage and the margin of victory.
|MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
In 2004, MIT Sloan and Daryl Morey initiated one of the first MBA programs with a sports analytics business class.
This began a focus in sports business that was extended when Daryl Morey and Jessica Gelman founded the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in the winter of 2006.
The inaugural conference in 2007 was highlighted by keynote speakers JP Ricciardi and Jamie McCourt. Panel topics included baseball analytics featuring Bill James, sponsorship across all leagues, league management/expansion, and careers in sports.
The 2008 conference doubled in attendance as Wyc Grousbeck was the keynote speaker. Featured panels included Defending the Title, which included General Managers or Decision-makers from the then reigning champions of the four major sports leagues; Bill Polian (President, Indianapolis Colts), RC Buford (GM, San Antonio Spurs), Brian Burke (then-GM, Anaheim Ducks), and Jed Hoyer (Assistant GM, Boston Red Sox).
Building on continued success and growth, the 2009 conference transitioned to a featured panel format and again doubled in attendance. The first featured panel was Evolution of the Fan Experience, which was moderated by Bill Simmons and included Jeff Van Gundy and Brian Burke looking at how new technology, stadium design, game innovations, and customer initiatives are taking the fan experience to the next level. The second featured panel, Value of Icon Players, included Carla Christofferson and all-star guard Ray Allen discussing how to quantify the value icon players bring to a team or city. Other featured speakers included Adam Silver talking about the evolving value of new media and sports, Jonathan Kraft speaking on the globalization of sports, and Mark Cuban debating basketball analytics with some of the leagues top analytics users.
The 2010 conference was again a tremendous success, attracting over 1,000 attendees with another 400 on the waitlist. It also marked the first time the conference was held away from the MIT campus, moving to the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. The feature panel was What Geeks Dont Get: The Limits of Moneyball, and included Mark Cuban, Jonathan Kraft, Daryl Morey, Bill Polian, and Bill Simmons, and was moderated by Michael Lewis. The panel explored the decision making processes general managers and owners go through beyond the numbers. Beyond panel discussions, 2010 also saw the introduction of the research paper track, an extremely popular addition.
Watch the panels presented at MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
|Moneyball Approach
A research-driven approach that relies heavily on empirical analysis of player performance.
Oakland Athletics' general manager Billy Beane built successful baseball teams year after year, rather than relying on the gut instincts of old-time scouts, as was standard practice for decades. Writer Micheal Lewis realized another investment game was being played out in baseball, notably by the A's. He gained inside access to A's general manager Billy Beane and got a look at how Beane's value players differently than other teams. In 2003, he wrote a book called Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
The Oakland organization assesses offensive production differently than others, stressing on-base percentage and power, de-emphasizing stolen bases and putting the ball in play. It has engendered an approach to acquiring talent based as much on statistical achievement as on traditional tools, an approach that has gripped some franchises and galled many traditionalists.
|NBA Teams That Have Analytics Department
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The list includes the NBA teams using advanced stats by either employing basketball analytics professionals or working with statistical consultants.The NBA itself also hires
professionals; Evan Wasch who is the Senior Vice President of Basketball Strategy & Analytics and Jason Rosenfeld serving as the director of analytics.
Dan Rosenbaum (Director of Basketball Operations & Analytics)
Mike Zarren (Assistant General Manager & Team Counsel), David Lewin (Director of Player Evaluation), David Sparks (Director of Basketball Analytics), Drew Cannon (Analyst)
Glenn DuPaul (Director of Basketball Analytics), Rami Antoun (Basketball Analyst), Logan MacPhail, (Director of Coaching Analytics)
Ben Woldenberg (Coaching Associate, Analytics)
Steve Weinman (Basketball Operations and Analytics Manager), Miles Abbett (Basketball Analytics Coordinator)
Jon Nichols (Director of Analytics)
James Brocato (Director of Basketball Analytics), Chris Newell (Basketball Analytics & Strategy), Mondrick Jones (Player Analytics Manager)
Tommy Balcetis (Basketball Analytics Manager), Layne Vashro (Senior Analyst)
Zach Bradshow (Basketball Analytics Manager)
Kirk Lacob (Assistant General Manager), Samuel Gelfand (Coordinator of Basketball Analytics)
Daryl Morey (General Manager), Ed Kupfer (Consultant), Eli Witus (Basketball Operations Analyst), Monte McNair (Basketball Operations Analyst)
Ryan Renteria (Basketball Analytics Coordinator)
Jud Winton (Director of Basketball Analytics), Gregory Peim (Manager of Basketball Analytics)
Aaron Danielson (Associate Director of Analytics)
John Hollinger (Vice President of Basketball Operations)
Shane Battier (Director of Basketball Development and Analytics), Bob Chaikin (Basketball Analyst)
Michael Clutterbuck (Director of Basketball Analytics), Seth Partnow (Analytics Consultant)
Matt Bollero (Manager of Basketball Analytics, Personnel Video Scout), Dwight Lutz (Basketball Operations Analyst), Nick Restifo (Basketball Operations Analyst)
Shane Kupperman (Coordinator of Statistical Analysis)
Mike Smith (Director of Analytics and Pro Scout), Richard Dry (Director of Sports Technology)
Jesse Gould (Director of Basketball Research & Analysis), Wynn Sullivan (Basketball Data Analyst), Ryan Shea (Basketball Data Analyst), Thomas Perry (Data Scientist)
David Bencs (Basketball Analytics Manager)
Dr. Lance Pearson (Coordinator of Coaching Analytics), Sergi Oliva (Director of Basketball Analytics & Innovation), Alex Rucker (Vice President - Analytics and Strategy), Andy Miller (Senior Researcher), Alex DAmour (Senior Researcher), Alex Franks (Senior Researcher), Grant Fiddyment (Data Scientist), Michael Lai (Data Scientist)
Steve Ilardi (Analytics Consultant), Eddie Kendralla (Manager, Business Analytics), Jake Loos (Senior Analytics Manager), Anthony So (Analyst)
Zach Williams (Basketball Data Analyst), Ryan Parker (Statistical Analyst)
Luke Bornn (Vice President of Strategy and Analytics), Tom Duncan (Senior Analytics Manager)
Gabe Farkas (Director of Basketball Analytics), Kirk Goldsberry, (Basketball Analytics Coordinator)
Keith Boyarsky (Director of Analytics), Eric Khoury (Manager of Analytics)
Taylor Snarr (Coordinator of Analytics)
Gregory Kershaw (Basketball Operations Coordinator)
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|Neural Networks
Neural networks are one of the machine learning systems in sports. By the help of neural networks, datasets are learned by the system and hidden trends can be revealed for creating a competitive edge.
Simulations and machine learning systems means a lot for sports analytics. The ability to apply statistics and rigorous mathematical models to provide instantaneous results is quickly becoming an invaluable commodity. Systems of this type vary from simulations that model an entire upcoming seasons worth of data to identify the best chance of winning, to simulations that identify weaknesses in motion and offer advice for correcting them.
Other than statistical predictive algorithms, neural networks can be used as sports betting and fantasy league tools in following ways;
Other machine learning techniques include;
|New England Statistics Symposium NESSIS
NESSIS is an event in which statisticians from all over the world come together and present academical studies. NBA and other sports analytics community has been benefiting from NESSIS that many studies on statistics regarding professional sports are being introduced first time at NESSIS just like MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
The first New England Statistics Symposium was held at the University of Connecticut, which traditionally hosts the Symposium on alternate years. Now, The Department of Statistics of Harvard University hosts the New England Statistics Symposium.
|Play by Play
Historical play-by-play data sets are available in CSV format. Data sets include a separate CSV file for each game, and a season file where all games combined.
Traditional box score shows per-game totals for players and for teams and reveals only a fraction of what happens in a game and that the information therein is often misleading, especially at defensive stats. At this point, Play-by-Play (PBP) data has been the main source of many advanced stats such as adjusted plus-minus.
Play-by-play provides a transcript of the game in a format of individual events.
Play-by-play data is being tracked since the 1996-1997 season.
|Pro Basketball Forecast
With the Pro Basketball Forecast, John Hollinger takes an in-depth and insightful look at the game. Downplayed are all the per-game statistics; in their place are points, rebounds, and assists per forty minutes. Hollinger also examines how many possessions each player uses and what percentage of his team's rebounds he collects.
|Regression To The Mean
Regression to the mean refers to the fact that those with extreme scores on any measure at one point in time will, for purely statistical reasons, probably have less extreme scores the next time they are tested. Scores always involve a little bit of luck. Real situations fall between these two extremes: scores are a combination of skill and luck.
How it applies to basketball statistics is, any athlete who posts a significant outlier, whether as a rookie or particularly after their prime years can be expected to perform more in line with their established standards of performance.
|SportVu Data
SportVu Player Tracking Stats are made available at NBA.com by the 2013-2014 NBA season
SportVU is an automated ID and tracking technology that has the ability to collect positioning data of the ball, players and referees during a game. SportVu, which is founded in Israel in 2005, was acquired by STATS LLC in 2008 December.
SportVU tells us defensive and offensive alignment relative to ball location, shot trajectory and the number of dribbles and passes made by a team and player.
Players, referees and the ball with an exact location in x,y coordinates are tracked. 25 times a second, software analyzes the video, and stores information about where everyone is and what is occurring. 1,000,000 entries per game is added to databases. Without having to chart and track a game by hand and eye, player position and defender proximity to a player are now available. In another words, defense is more quantifiable with what SportVu brings to the table. Here's an article on how the Raptors use SportVu technology.
In the near future, Sportvu could allow coaches to make real-time in-game adjustments to their play calling and could allow the broadcasters to use the same graphics and analysis that now is available only after the game. NBA also plans to automate some of the calls now made by human referees and scorekeepers
* The first five teams to have SportVu cameras are Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma City, San Antonio and Golden State.
StatsCube is a new data warehouse tool which the NBA has been developing over the last few years.
StatsCube has in it every point, rebound, assist, steal, block, turnover, missed shot, foul and substitution since the 1996-97 season, when play-by-play data first started being tracked courtside. The point in the game when each occurred, and what players were on the floor at the time, is recorded. Best of all, StatsCube can slice and dice the data so teams can analyze it instantaneously.
Say a team's power forward grabs only X rebounds per minute. Is the team better when he's on the floor? What players shoot the best in the last three minutes of a close game? Does a center block as many shots after he's picked up his fourth foul as he does when he has fewer than four?
What's Next: During Game 4 of the 2009 Finals, the NBA did a demo of a system in development that tracks player and ball movement through the use of six HD cameras placed around the arena. This technology, called SportVu, gives the precise location of every one on the floor so that the play that is run, all of the the ball touches and the positioning for anybody on the court in terms of x,y coordinates is a matter of few clicks. Even the trajectory of the ball as it went to the basket will be available.
|The Hot Hand Myth
The "hot hand" describes the belief that the performance of a player, temporarily improves following a string of successes.
Players, coaches, commentators and fans believe in streaky shooting, but the academic studies against this conventional wisdom suggest that there is no player with the hot hand. Analysis through play-by-play data strongly considers streaks of made shots are some sort of natural variation.
Making 10 consecutive shots does not prove that a player is hot. NBA players tend to become significantly overconfident after making consecutive shots. After making one shot, a player's shooting percentage actually drops for the next field goal attempt. As if the player and his teammates believed him to be the team's best scoring option. Behaving as though the hot hand existed might actually be detrimental and cost an average team about four victories over one season!
|The Price of Anarchy
Author: Brian Skinner
Its a suboptimal arrangement used in "traffic networks" that can be applied to Basketball as well.
ESPN.com sportswriter Bill Simmons calles it the Ewing Theory. The idea that a team could improve after losing one of its best players may in fact have a network-based justification, and not just a psychological one.
Optimizing the performance of a basketball offense may be viewed as a network problem, wherein each play represents a "pathway" through which the ball and players may move from origin (the in-bounds pass) to goal (the basket). Effective field goal percentages from the resulting shot attempts can be used to characterize the efficiency of each pathway. The analysis suggests that there may be a significant difference between taking the highest-percentage shot each time down the court and playing the most efficient possible game. There may also be an analogue of Braess's Paradox in basketball, such that removing a key player from a team can result in the improvement of the team's offensive efficiency.
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Carpenter, Elizabeth. "Sol Lewitt." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
© 2005 Walker Art Center
Sol LeWitt's influential work bridges the Minimalist and Conceptual Art movements of the early 1960s. For more than forty years, he has remained extraordinarily prolific in a range of media that includes structural installations, wall drawings, photography, works on paper, prints, and artist's books. In 1967, he responded to an invitation from the editor of Artforum to contribute a statement on his work to the magazine. In "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art," LeWitt did more than simply outline the parameters of his artistic practice—he coined the term for a movement that would tip the scales from an orientation toward objects to an idea-based art. He radically proposed that "when an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art." He went on to explain that "what the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned." Neither manifesto nor dogmatic treatise, LeWitt's third-person proposition defined how this radical new mind-set and rational procedural framework could ultimately undermine the art world's obsession with authorship and render the formal necessities of design unnecessary, in order to eliminate "the arbitrary, the capricious, and subjective."1
In 1965, he showed several large wooden slab constructions painted with multiple layers of lacquer to achieve an uninflected, industrial-looking finish in his first New York solo exhibition at artist Dan Graham's short-lived John Daniels Gallery. LeWitt has recounted how he made the transition in 1964 from these early planar geometric formations to his first three-dimensional, open, modular structures: "Disturbed by the inconsistency of the grain of the wood in the Daniels Gallery pieces, and by the emphasis on surface (not only in appearance, but in the long hours of work needed to achieve the correct luster), I decided to remove the skin altogether and reveal the structure. Then it became necessary to plan the skeleton so that the parts had some consistency. Equal, square modules were used to build the structures. In order to emphasize the linear and skeletal structure, they were painted black."2 One of the first vertically oriented open structures, Standing Open Structure Black (1964), corresponded to a human scale, which was in keeping with the discourse on phenomenology circulating among fellow Minimalist artists such as Donald Judd. The field of perception concerned LeWitt briefly, but ultimately he moved beyond the body as a frame of reference toward a purely formal analysis stemming from basic arithmetic and numerical systems, permutations, and progressions.
By the end of 1965, LeWitt began painting the modular structures white, due to his concern that his use of black might be interpreted as harboring hidden content. He also believed that white allowed for greater integration of the object in space, specifically that of the white cube of the gallery. It was at this time that he also randomly established a ratio of 1:8.5 to dictate the correlation between line (matter) and space (interval) in his cubic structures.
By 1966, the cube would become the basic element in LeWitt's lexicon: "The most interesting character-istic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force, implies no motion, and is least emotive. Therefore, it is the best form to use as a basic unit for any more elaborate function, the grammatical device from which the work may proceed."3
This was an important year for LeWitt as his white cubic structures were featured in a solo show at the Dwan Gallery and included in several seminal New York exhibitions, including the Jewish Museum's Primary Structures, which rather belatedly brought Minimalism to a broader public and endorsed LeWitt and other participating artists—Judd, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, and Anne Truitt—as serious practitioners of the new art. Cubic Modular Piece No. 2 (L-Shaped Modular Piece) (1966) is made up of five columns of six stacked cubes serially aligned in the shape of the letter L. The grid became a flexible medium through which a defined shape could take visible form in whatever scale he determined. Though the arrangements of his towerlike structures are conceptually simple, depending on the vantage point of the viewer, the cubes overlap, challenging depth perception and concentrating the overall intensity of the works.
In 1968, LeWitt enacted a significant breakthrough in the history of Conceptual Art: he drew a combination of vertical, horizontal, and forty-five-degree diagonal lines (left to right and right to left) directly onto one of Paula Cooper's gallery walls and called it Wall Drawing #1. Reasoning that it seemed "more natural to work directly on walls than to make a construction … and then put the construction on the wall,"4 LeWitt, from that point onward, followed a carefully articulated system he later published as "Doing Wall Drawings."5 In this text he states that the artist's responsibility for a drawing ends with the conception of the idea and providing a plan in the form of instructions (written, spoken, and/or drawn). After that point, an assistant or any other individual executes the work in any location, any number of times. By abdicating his claim to originality, forcing himself to deal with the architecture of a given space and walls in varying states of disrepair, allowing for different skill levels on the part of his proxies, and accepting the work's inevitable destruction (painting over), LeWitt rendered his wall drawings contingent and provisional. Never in the history of art had drawings occupied such an ambiguous position.6
In 1980, the formula for the wall drawings changed to include more variety of shapes and media, including ink washes, inspired by his love of the Italian countryside surrounding his farmhouse near Spoleto. Warm earth tones reminiscent of frescoes and the Umbrian hills infiltrated his palette, resulting in increasingly sensual wall drawings.7 The installation of Four Geometric Figures in a Room was commissioned by the Walker Art Center in 1984 for the entrance hall to two newly constructed galleries.8 To create the piece, a special drawing ink saturated with pigment was rubbed on the slightly absorbent wall in layers—at least three for each color—then rinsed with clear water. Each area was carefully marked to produce a sharp, clear edge.
The 1980s also brought with it a new material for LeWitt's outdoor structures—concrete blocks, which he has openly acknowledged as having "an inherent ugliness."9 He first considered using brick, but thought it was too steeped in architectural history, aesthetically loaded, and small in scale: "It suddenly dawned on me that I could also have the concrete block as a module. Concrete blocks were even more ubiquitous than brick, and an even more basic building material. Everything is built of concrete blocks. I preferred the larger module."10 He has created walls, steps, triangles, towers, pyramids, and corner structures; the Walker's sculpture X with Columns (1996) is a variant of the latter. These structures continue to evoke LeWitt's early works through seriality and the use of the grid. And like his wall drawings, this monumental piece was conceived but not built by the artist—it was left to skilled construction workers to achieve its perfect alignment. To paraphrase LeWitt, Conceptual Art is good when the idea is good. And the idea was good.
Quotations in this paragraph are from Sol LeWitt, "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art," Artforum 5, no. 10 (Summer 1967): 80. ↩
Quoted in Alicia Legg, Sol LeWitt, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1978), 57. ↩
LeWitt, "The Cube," in Legg, Sol Lewitt, 172. ↩
Quoted in Gregory Battcock, "Documentation in Conceptual Art," Arts Magazine 44, no. 6 (April 1970): 45. Reprinted in Legg, Sol LeWitt, 169. ↩
LeWitt, "Doing Wall Drawings," Art Now: New York 3, no. 2 (June 1971), unpaginated. Reprinted in Gary Garrels, ed., Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000), 376. ↩
When acquiring a piece, a collector receives a diagram and a signed certificate of authenticity with a brief instructional description, designated media, date, and location of first installation, and draughtsmen's names if available. The Walker's certificate for Wall Drawing #9A (1969/1996) notes the fact that it was first executed by LeWitt and several assistants in black pencil at L'Attico Gallery in Rome in May 1969. The description reads: "Two-part serial drawing. The wall or rectangle is divided vertically or horizontally into two parts. One part with vertical and horizontal lines superimposed, the other part with diagonal left and diagonal right lines superimposed." The Walker also owns the companion piece, Wall Drawing #9B (1969/1996). It is identical to Wall Drawing #9A except that it is executed in colored pencil. #9B was first installed at the Walker in January 1996, and was executed by Kristin Hanson, Jeanne McGee, and Anthony Sansota. ↩
This point was made by Michael Brenson, "Monuments in Time," in Susanna Singer, ed., Sol LeWitt Concrete Block Sculptures (Milan: Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore, 2002), 9. ↩
LeWitt's certificate instructions for this drawing are: "Four geometric figures (circle, square, trapezoid, parallelogram) drawn with four-inch (10 cm) wide band of yellow color ink wash. The areas inside the figures are blue color ink wash, and the areas outside the figures are red color ink wash. On each side of the walls are bands of India ink wash." Four Geometric Figures in a Room was first executed in 1984 under the supervision of Sol LeWitt by Jo Watanabe, Kate Hunt, and Owen Osten. With the construction of the Herzog & de Meuron expansion to the Barnes building in 2004–2005, the hall was altered to such an extent that the piece by necessity was destroyed and will be resited. ↩
Quoted in Brenson, "Monuments of Time," 15. ↩
Ibid., 15. ↩
Carpenter, Elizabeth. "Sol Lewitt." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
© 2005 Walker Art Center
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discoverd by intuition. Sol Lewitt, 1967


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Hundreds of high school students submitted their scientific, creative and dramatic projects to the San Ramon Valley Business and Education Roundtable last week in the Student Recognition Project contest. High school students from across the school district competed in 25 categories including journalism, applied design and child development.
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I've heard of this program over the years, but never really understood what it was all about. The photos tell a thousand words. Congrats to all the students who put in the effort!
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Wow, these photos are of outstanding projects! What a very impressive group of students!


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a place that is run by the idea that you need to be gangbanged three times a day. they also teach the importance of liking your neighbor. in a very fun way only if he/she is between the ages of 5-7 because thats just (super silly). the main people who liked to teach this is a woman who unfortunatly left but she taught us the importance of buttfucking. this is a very good school to go to, all the gangbanging you could desire.
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The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush


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EU underscores support of free expression, but slights access to information
A new document on freedom of expression and opinion, adopted May 12 by the 28 foreign ministers of the European Union, presses nearly all the right buttons. Drawing its inspiration from international human rights norms as well as from the EU's treaties and its charter of fundamental rights, the document reaffirms the role of freedom of opinion and expression as "an essential foundation for democracy, rule of law, peace, stability, sustainable inclusive development, and participation in public affairs." It also makes a strong case for free and independent journalism. The ministers committed the EU and member states to the defense of journalists' freedom and safety, and endorsed watchdog journalism as a decisive factor in "uncovering abuses of power, shining a light on corruption, and questioning received opinion."


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Students wishing to apply for the Shelley Breedlove Transfer Scholarship to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock must submit applications by Feb. 2.
The scholarship is awarded to eligible students who will be transferring to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock this fall. Eligible candidates must have an associate degree or 60+ hours from an Arkansas two-year accredited institution with a minimum grade-point average of 3.25.
The scholarship is $6,000 per year for a recipient with a grade-point average between 3.25 and 3.74 and $8,000 per year for a student with a GPA between 3.75 and 4.0.
Student wishing to apply for the scholarship must submit a UALR admissions application, a scholarship application and their Pulaski Tech academic transcript.
Scholarship applications are available in the Advising Center, located on the second floor of the Campus Center or online at http://www.ualr.edu/admissions/vault/ScholarshipApp.pdf
For more information, contact Karen Wisdom at (501) 812-2255.


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Journalism for social change
A gift of $8.3 million from Peter and Patricia Frechette will fund a named fellowship in public service journalism in the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication.
The fellowship honors Patricia's parents, alumni Perry and Alicia O'Brien, who graduated in 1936 and 1935 with degrees in journalism and liberal arts, respectively. Beginning in fall 2013, the O'Brien Fellowship will bring three top working journalists to campus each academic year to research and produce an in-depth reporting project with the potential to solve social problems. The fellows will work with students, following the "teaching-hospital model" in which experienced professionals train the next generation.
"This is a remarkable opportunity for our students and for the fellows, who will work together to report and create multimedia public service journalism that can change policies and save lives," says Dr. Lori Bergen, dean of the Diederich College of Communication.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin's largest daily newspaper, will also partner with the O'Brien Fellows and provide access to its journalists, staff, data and investigative resources.
The O'Brien Fellowship demonstrates the Diederich College of Communication's focus on rethinking curriculum to keep pace with the constant evolution of platforms for journalistic story-telling. Also important is training journalists who use their skills to investigate problems and surface solutions, an ambition that President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., considers perfectly suited to Marquette's mission.
"As a Catholic and Jesuit university, Marquette has a special responsibility to contribute to solutions that solve the problems most troubling to our world today," Father Pilarz said, when announcing the Frechettes' gift.
The O'Brien Fellowship is the latest example of how the Diederich College of Communication is preparing students for a new world in journalism. Last fall, the university formed a partnership with New York Times columnists David Bornstein and Tina Rosenberg, who write about creative solutions to social problems in the "FixesU" column. That project is supported by a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration Grant.
The focus on solutions journalism also includes Diederich Ideas, student-produced programming that features thought leaders and nationally recognized media professionals who explore converging and emerging media and ideas that work; and the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, a partnership with the United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee to report on urban issues in Milwaukee's central city neighborhoods. JMM
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Alicia Sexton O'Brien, Arts '35, served on the Marquette University Coed Board, the executive committee of the central women's organization known as the Coed Club. Though women had been allowed to attend the university as early as 1909, the cultural transition took time and effort. The Coed Club was formed in 1919 to "encourage coeducation at Marquette."
Perry O'Brien, Jour '36, was a field reporter and staff photographer for the Janesville Daily Gazette credited with having a "finger on the pulse" of all things in Janesville, Wis., and its environs. From the aftermath of WWII through the 1950s, he covered stories that defined the everyday life of his neighbors and fellow citizens. LA


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I have limited experience compared to you, of course, but my bees seems to recognize my poor fellow beekeeper, who has severe eye degeneration. She almost always smashes bees, not out of malice, but out of not being able to see them well.
Originally Posted by Kazzandra
Interesting. I wonder how long alarm pheromone can last on the skin? We always wash our suits, gloves, etc., if we get any kind of aggressive response. And we use the smoker on ourselves and our clothes before we go out. You'd think between that any the usual hygiene, that it would pretty much be taken care of between inspections.
Refer back to the bold statement.
Originally Posted by Michael Bush
Your friend has been marked with alarm pheromone. It will last quite a while.
Always question Conventional Wisdom.
Originally Posted by Kazzandra
Which says:
"so long as the insects are tricked into thinking that the faces are oddly shaped flowers"
I guess you're telling us your face is the shape of a flower?
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Really cool layout...haven't seen one like that!!!!!
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Really cool layout...haven't seen one like that!!!!!
There are images on youtube. It is made with strips sewn into a tube, then cut to form blocks. Cutting alternate direction triangles, for example, creates pairs of different blocks from one strip set.
Your quilt is lovely. I like the colors.
It's is adorable!
Tube quilt??
There is a video on youtube showing how to make it. I think they may call it that because it looks like tubes before you cut the fabric. I tried to get the link to it but something didn't work. If you could watch the video you would understand it better than I can explain it.
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Very pretty quilt, like the fabrics.


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Arsène Wenger has named an unchanged line-up for this afternoon's clash against Norwich at Emirates Stadium.
The Arsenal manager has stuck with the same side that drew 1-1 with Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium last weekend, with Gervinho and Yossi Benayoun on the flanks.
The only changes to the matchday squad see Johan Djourou replace Sebastien Squillaci on the bench, while Ju Young Park comes in for the injured Abou Diaby.
Team in full: Szczesny, Sagna, Vermaelen, Koscielny, Gibbs, Song, Ramsey, Rosicky, Gervinho, Benayoun, Van Persie.
Substitutes: Fabianski, Santos, Djourou, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Park, Chamakh.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Like free software? Then consider contributing.
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I agree, well said, great article.ReplyDelete
Great article.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2009 at 8:04 AM
More information on how to contribute would help. I'm a university student in a tech related program and could contribute, but, don't really know how I can, and when I have looked into it from time to time I have been left confused.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2009 at 2:50 PM
All well and good, if you want FOSS to become begware or charity ware. But is this not an admission that the FOSS model is fundamentally flawed ? if you have to ask for donations to pay your programmes.ReplyDelete
What next, "product X cannt be upgraded until $$$ are paid as a 'donation' for the project to continue."
So is this extortionware in the making ? You dont get an improved product unless your willing to pay for it.
In todays (real world) market, developers are required to create product that people are willing to pay for, less they be out of a job. This way they are forced to create quality and functionality that people want and will pay for.
Domationware, is paying someone to do something, your not sure is good or bad (he has not done it yet) you have no idea of how good he is at his "job" and you dont know if your hard earned money is going towards yet another version of a desktop, or to meet someone zealot dreams of removing something they dont like, like Mono, or whatever.
How do we know what your doing with our money, and why should we pay for a product that does not even exist yet. Let the programmer develop a product that is so good we'll pay for it, and let him make his money like the rest of the worlde.
No Begware for me thanks.
>What next, "product X cannt be upgraded until $$$ are >paid as a 'donation' for the project to continue."
No, nobody is forcing anybody to do anything. This nice blog post is just a reminder that the people behind FOSS are people too. They need to eat, live, poo, pee, buy tissue paper, soap, etc.
It's not begging, it's recognizing something for what it has done for you. It didn't say that the only way for you to get free software is only by contributing money.
Even if you don't pay any donations, developers in FOSS community will continue to develop and improve the products. So your idea "Product X cannt be upgraded until $$$ are paid as a 'donation' for the project to continue." is totally flawed. Had this been the case, then free software movement would not have come so far and would not have become so popular.


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Former Vice President Dick Cheney continues traveling the nation spouting his claims the invasion of Iraq was justified because Iraq possessed WMD and it had links to Osama bin Laden. When asked why the WMD have not yet been uncovered, Dick emphasizes just because they have not yet been found, that doesn't mean they never will. FBI interviews with Saddam Hussein have just been released. Saddam said he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about Iran and wanted to frighten them into avoiding an invasion of his country. He also termed Osama bin Laden as a "zealot" and never had any dealings or connections to the man or his organization. Ironically, he told the FBI that he was so frightened of an Iranian invasion that he was prepared to seek a "security agreement with the United States" to avoid such an outcome.
We can only wonder how Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter and all the boys and girls at Fox News who had daily reports concerning the famous WMD and commentators like Bill Bennett who never hesitated to inform the American public President Bush was correct about Saddam Hussein's ties with al-Qaeda and his connection with the 9/11 bombing.
Does anyone believe Fox News will carry reports how they misled Americans. Or, should we more accurately say, how they lied to the American public?


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"Get Your Beard On Saturday" | Precinct | February 13, 2010
Contestants vied for prizes in 5 categories: natural full beard, free-style full beard, free-style moustache, free-style partial beard (e.g., goatees, sideburns), and best fake beard. Winners were selected by a panel of bearded judges.
READ: Carrie Battan's dispatach from "Get Your Beard On Saturday"
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#1 Wed 07 Mar 12 5:03pm
Food Revolution Day, May 19!
This year, for the first time ever, May 19th will be Food Revolution Day! So make sure you save the date for this global food festival!
For our inaugural global food festival we are looking to everyone and anyone who cares about food to step up, get involved and join people around the world, whether that�s by hosting a dinner party, or creating and participating in local food events such as tours of farmers markets, gardening tutorials and food courses.
As we all know, we are in a dire state in terms of obesity and diet related diseases and through Food Revolution day we want to engage, educate and empower people to start the conversation on global food issues and ask people to consider their food choices, take a step towards a healthier lifestyle and stand up for real food.
We�ve just launched our landing page, which you can see at www.foodrevolutionday.com and come the beginning of April, we�ll be launching the full new website. On here you�ll be find lots of resources, infographics and information about the day and how to get involved. There�ll also be personal event pages, a searchable global event map and lots of photos and videos to browse through and add your own too.
Interested in taking part and joining the global movement on May 19? Head on over to www.foodrevolutionday.com and register your interest. More to come shortly!
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#2 Wed 07 Mar 12 6:14pm
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Re: Food Revolution Day, May 19!
I was thinking of doing something locally
#3 Wed 07 Mar 12 6:43pm
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- Member since Thu 17 Mar 11
Re: Food Revolution Day, May 19!
I would maybe also do something, if I were not so shy!
#4 Wed 07 Mar 12 10:06pm
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- From The land of song.
- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: Food Revolution Day, May 19!
#5 Wed 07 Mar 12 10:29pm
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Re: Food Revolution Day, May 19!
Thanks Jo, really excited about being involved. It would be incredible if the Food Community here on the site took up the gauntlet. Some of the ideas that we have been speaking about are - Supper Clubs, tea party, pickling and jam making, a good old fashioned BBQ, or teaching a neighbour or a friend how to cook something.... these are just a few ideas - I know that you will all come up with even better ones!
Bring on Food Rev Day!
#6 Thu 08 Mar 12 12:35am
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Re: Food Revolution Day, May 19!
I'll try and do something special for my YamDaisy project on that day.
#7 Mon 12 Mar 12 12:07pm
Re: Food Revolution Day, May 19!
Hi Christian,
You could host a dinner and cook together with your friends - teach them a few recipes that you can cook and enjoy together.
There are lots of things you can do on this day, from hosting dinner parties, pot lucks or community cooking classes, to organizing tours of local farmers markets or doing something in your local schools or workplace to raise awareness. Once our full website for this launches early April, you will be able to see what events are taking place in your area by searching our event map. Additionally on here there will be lots more ideas for the type of dinner party or local food event you can host. We'll let you know when this is live. In the meantime, if you haven't already head on over to www.foodrevolutionday.com and register your interest here so we can keep you in the loop and updated with all our Food Revolution Day news!
#8 Mon 12 Mar 12 5:47pm
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Re: Food Revolution Day, May 19!
I will be around much of the day on the forum so that I can help with new forum members and the questions that they will be asking.
I am not sure what is going on in my local area.
19th May is a Saturday and so I wont be loking after the children that I help with , I will have to teach them a new recipe earlier in the week for them to make on the 19th.
#9 Mon 12 Mar 12 9:24pm
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Re: Food Revolution Day, May 19!
What a brilliant idea and a great day! My birthday is on the 17th (the Thursday) so we are having an old fashioned bonfire and getting out the campovens to make stew and damper and toast marshmallows. I will be sure to invite a few more people and will spread the word at work!
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Oh My God - I sound just like my mother !!
Original post made by OhMyGodIAmMyMother, Ohlone School, on May 3, 2007
I recall me and my sisters muttering - we will *never* to this to our children .. guess what, 28yrs later, yesterday, I found myself trying to arrange a "Face" using carrots & peas. When that didn't work, I tried to come up with a game - which failed too and finally, I found myself saying 'I am putting my special 'mom's' foot down' ... Oh My God ! I never thougth I would be saying this ever !!! I called my mom immediately :)
With the mother's day approaching - would you like to share some anecdotes which made you pause and think "oh my god, I am my mother" ! ? I am a new mom and I, for one, would be really interested in these ...
a resident of Palo Verde
on May 3, 2007 at 9:30 pm
I am sure that there are more, but the one that strikes me is when I tell my daughter "Get your nose out of a book and go outside and get some fresh air and exercise!" She takes after me by reading anything she can get her hands on.
a resident of another community
on May 4, 2007 at 4:53 pm
I never thought I would tell my children, "because I said so." But I did - and thought it was a pretty darned good reason!
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 5, 2007 at 8:00 am
How about : " If you are bored, I have some housechores that you can do for me"
Great magic cure for boredom in kids, and the first time I said it I cracked up.
Or, my mom used to say " I am cold, go put on your sweater". Another shocking thing to say!
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 5, 2007 at 8:04 am
Oh yes. Another one
" This is not a democracy, now do what I said!"
Oh my God! I just remembered my most recent. I never thought I would tell any of my kids this one, and I just said it to my teen " Just wait 'till you have a teenager!"
I surprised myself so much that I cracked up, which broke the tension, and made my teen laugh when I explained why.
a resident of Green Acres
on May 9, 2007 at 3:29 pm
I recall my mother guiding me and directing me, inwhich I was some what reluctant to her demands, but now I catch myself saying the same things my mother & father used to say to me. It's something when everything you say & do will come right back on you and that's when it hits you, " My mother used to tell me the same thing". Now I see what she was talking about.
a resident of another community
on May 13, 2007 at 9:35 am
I remember a night when I finally realized that my mother wasn't actually born at the kitchen sink washing dishes: I always dried as she washed, and when we were finished one night I said (with shocking teenage impudence) "You could say thank you!" She rarely raised her voice, and didn't even then as she replied indignantly "Well who thanks me?!?"
What a revelation! Guilt forever.


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Two people--a black woman and a white man--confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on.
Sharon Leslie Morgan, a black woman from Chicago's South Side, avoids white people; they scare her. Despite her trepidation, Morgan, a descendent of slaves on both sides of her family, began a journey toward racial reconciliation with Thomas Norman DeWolf, a white man from rural Oregon who descends from the largest slave-trading dynasty in US history. Over a three-year period, the pair traveled thousands of miles visiting ancestral towns, courthouses, cemeteries, plantations, antebellum mansions, and historic sites. They spent time with one another's families and friends and engaged in deep conversations about how the lingering trauma of slavery shaped their lives.
Gather at the Table is the chronicle of DeWolf and Morgan's journey.


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RolleN 'N CruzN, despite your recent..."episode," I'd like to congratulate you on your championship. You drafted a hell of a team and kicked *** all year.
Yep. Congrats, RolleN 'N CruzN
Thanks everybody. This was a fun league to play in. I hope to be invited back next year to defend my title. Have a Merry X-Mas everyone.


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I just ordered 40 -8 frame deep box's from Mann Lake with of course FREE shipping. My shipping info was emailed to me stating my order was 327.4 LBS!
I had ordered 20 of the budget 8 frame deeps a couple weeks ago to see what the quality was. You tell me.
I think the quality of their budgets are better than their selects a few years ago. They use to have hand holds that were consistantly blown out on one side from ether a dull blade or were shoved through too fast.
The only thing thay do that drives me crazy is they have these great sales. I hate to buy too much before it may come on sale, but then if I wait the price may go up! I picked up 60 budget deeps and 60 shallow box's for a great price a few months ago. $8.50 for the deep 10 frames box's, $5.75 for the medium supers and the quality was just as good.
I give Man Lake a thumbs up on quality and customer service


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