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1. Summary of Clinical Care at the GCE
All Patients are welcome
- It is not necessary to be referred by another doctor to be seen here
- We see the most complex cases and those simply suspected of glaucoma due to having an affected family member
- We see babies from the first day of life to those over 100 years old
- More than 50% come from outside Baltimore, 25% from outside Maryland, often International
- New patient visits are available within 2 weeks, and immediately for emergencies
Care exceeds national and international guidelines
- The frequency of detailed examination methods is indicated by guidelines set by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the consensus documents of the World Health Organization
- Wilmer Glaucoma doctors serve on the Boards that make these standards
- Objective review of our testing shows that we carry out the appropriate number of studies, including gonioscopy, images of the optic nerve head, and visual field testing.
- We are always available to our patients by telephone and email.
Our new electronic health record improves care
- Electronic records system is used to monitor all patients
- Electronic pharmacy prescriptions go direct to the pharmacy, reducing errors.
- Data tracking of the disease leads to better quality of care.
- Direct provision of patient records to the patient at each visit.
- Electronic data permits studies of how glaucoma affects vision.
Helping patients take their glaucoma eyedrops
- While 95% of our patients believe they are taking their eyedrops exactly as prescribed, our research shows that the average patient misses one out of four drops.
- In the first study of its kind, we showed that reminding patients to take their drops can improve eyedrop taking by 50%.
- This would translate into years of vision saved.
- We recently showed that some instructions given to patients in the past were not needed, saving time and making drop-taking easier.
Patient-centered decision-making
- Wilmer glaucoma doctors answer patient emergency calls themselves, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.
- By videotaping doctors with their glaucoma patients as part of an approved study, we determined that open communication led to greater patient satisfaction and better drop taking. The doctor who listens instead of only asking questions can provide better care.
- Once medical and surgical steps have been used as effectively as possible, we work with patients to improve their quality of life through study of their activities of daily living, such as driving, reading, and mobility.
Leaders in Laser treatment (see the video library)
- The latest in laser treatments are carried out with our patients when appropriate
- Wilmer trained faculty developed laser iridotomy and laser trabeculoplasty, and showed that the present method for laser ciliodestruction is useful and safe.
Surgical success with fewer complications (see the video library)
- Our surgeons have performed thousands of glaucoma operations, both standard and complex.
- Recently, we completed a review 750 of our trabeculectomy operations from 2000-2008.
- We found that our improved approach to trabeculectomy reduced two major complications by 75% over the previous method, without any decrease in success rate.
- Wilmer's two outpatient surgicenters have superior amenities for Patients and Families, including free parking
How does our research program help?
- Patients are offered the opportunity to participate in safe, important new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma.
- Recent research showed that a simple, painless test (optical coherence tomography) may in the near future show who should have laser treatment for angle closure glaucoma.
- Recent research has shown that many persons who have been prescribed eyedrops for glaucoma could be followed without them.
2. Detailed Patient Information
Emergency Contact for Existing Patients
- Call 410-955-6052 and speak to the Wilmer Call Center Operator
- If you come to the Johns Hopkins Emergency Department, tell them that you are our patient, give them your faculty doctor's name, and ask them to call the resident on-call immediately.
Find a Doctor
- Other specialists at Wilmer (Wilmer Clinical Services)
- Glaucoma Specialists in other cities or countries: go to American Glaucoma Society web site http://www.glaucomaweb.org/ and click Patient Resource Center, then Find an AGS Ophthalmologist Near You.
- Hopkins Physicians in Other Departments ("Find a Doctor" Search)
Request an Appointment
- Phone: 410-955 6052 (the Wilmer Call Center)
- Online: Wilmer appointment call-back link
Directions and Travel to Glaucoma Center Locations
- Maps: Directions to our locations
- For East Baltimore, enter from the parking structure on Caroline Street, through the Outpatient building tunnel, and up escalators/elevators into the Wilmer Building
- Parking at the Greenspring office is free
- The Baltimore subway stops within the Hopkins complex directly under the Wilmer Institute East Baltimore location.
- The East Baltimore location is 10 minutes by taxi from Baltimore's train station.
- BWI airport is 20 minutes by taxi from Wilmer's East Baltimore site
- We can provide a listing of local hotels that have shuttles to Wilmer.
International Patient Information
Johns Hopkins Medicine International- For Patients
What to Expect on Your First Visit to the Glaucoma Center
- Bring in your hand the office visit notes, images and visual fields from all prior eye doctors
- Bring your eyedrop bottles and pill bottles for all medications taken
- Please come in 30 minutes before your appointment time to register for your visit.
- Please bring your Medicare, Medicaid and/or insurance cards and identification with you to each visit.
- All new patients must show identification, preferably picture ID, with proof of address, when you come for your first visit.
Billing - Insurance Information
- We accept all coverages that will accept Johns Hopkins care
- Discuss billing issues prior to arrival with our billing staff (Wilmer Billing Information)
Low Vision Services
Lions Low Vision/Vision Rehabilitation Center
Non-English Interpreters and Hearing-Impaired Assistance Available
- For intepreter services, call: 410-614-4685
- For sign language interpreters or TTY, call: 410-955-2273
Contact Us
- Phone: 410-955 6052 (the Wilmer Call Center)
- General Information: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Training Questions: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Research Interactions: email@example.com
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3. Information for Patients Undergoing Glaucoma Surgery
If you have any questions about your upcoming surgery, do not hesitate to ask your physician. Our goal is to make your procedure as pleasant and safe as possible. Therefore, we ask that you take the time to read these instructions and complete necessary paperwork and testing before arriving at the hospital. This will help to minimize delays on the day of your surgery. Our health care team is dedicated to ensuring your experience is a positive one.
- Your surgery will be carried out at either the Bendann Surgical Pavilion or at the Greenspring Station Surgicenter. Please note which has been assigned. Only rarely is surgery performed in the main Wilmer Operating rooms, so, unless you are told differently, do not come to the main Wilmer Building where your outpatient examinations were performed.
- All post-operative outpatient visits will occur in the main Wilmer Institute building, the Greenspring Station outpatient examining facility or at the Bayview Medical Center. Your doctor will tell you which location to come for the first post-operative day visit. Do not come to the Bendann Pavilion
- You will go home the same day of surgery—all eye surgeries are now outpatient procedures.
- If you have an advance medical directive, please bring it with you. An advance directive enables you to give written or oral instructions to doctors and other health care professionals regarding the type of medical care you would want or name the person you would wish to make health care decisions for you if you could no longer speak for yourself. Upon advance directive appointing a family member or friend to make treatment decisions on your behalf, you should discuss your intentions with the individual appointed to act on your behalf.
Presurgical Testing
A complete set of instructions about your presurgical testing requirements will be given to you by your doctor.
Insurance Carrier
Remember to contact your insurance company prior to the date of surgery to advise them of your scheduled surgery and to confirm coverage. You should check for and verify any co-pays and/or deductibles you will have to pay at the time of your admission. If you have any questions regarding your insurance coverage, please call the Surgical Billing Office at 410-955-7493 or 410-955-5489.
Interpreter Services
If you need an interpreter, both foreign language and sign language interpreters are available. Please call 410-614-4685
What to Do, and What to Tell Your Physician
- Allergies: Do you have any allergies to foods or medications or dyes used in diagnostic tests?
- Please know the name(s) and dosage(s) of any medications you take. Bring them with you on the day of surgery.
- Have you had any problems during anesthesia or surgery before?
- Is it possible that you are pregnant? You will be tested prior to surgery.
- Do not eat or drink after 12 midnight preceding surgery
- If you take aspirin, anti-coagulants (Coumadin, warfarin, heparin, plavix or Vitamin E), ask your physician if you should stop them for a period of time prior to surgery.
- If you develop a cough, cold or fever, please call your surgeon.
Other Important Instructions
- Remove nail polish and nail wrapping from all fingers prior to coming to the hospital.
- Do not apply any makeup, cream or aftershave lotion the day of surgery.
- Please shower and wash your hair the night before or the morning of surgery.
- If you develop a cold, virus, sore throat or other illness during the week before your scheduled surgery, please contact your physician immediately. Your physician will determine whether your procedure should be rescheduled.
- You will require an escorting person to bring you home.
- We recommend that you wear casual, comfortable, loose-fitting clothing that buttons or zips down the front and is easy to take off and put back on after surgery. Shoes should be flat and without laces.
- Leave all valuables and jewelry, including wedding rings, at home since we cannot assume liability for personal property.
- Dentures, contact lenses, glasses and hearing aids may be removed prior to surgery. Since these personal items can easily be misplaced, please keep them in appropriate cases or containers (that won't be mistaken for trash) when not in use and give them to the person escorting you.
- If you find yourself in a situation that makes it necessary to cancel your surgery, please call your physician as soon as possible.
- Arrive on time at the Bendann Pavilion or the Greenspring Surgicenter
- The anesthesiologist or certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) is responsible for your comfort and well-being before, during and after your surgical procedure. Prior to surgery, the anesthesiologist/CRNA will meet with you, if necessary, to discuss your anesthesia and answer any questions you may have. If you have had any experiences in the past with anesthesia, please inform the anesthesiologist. In the operating room, the anesthesiologist/CRNA will manage your anesthesia and monitor vital signs. In the Peri Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), the anesthesiology staff ensures that all patients remain stable following surgery. There are several ways to administer anesthesia. The anesthetic choice is related to your general condition and medical history, as well as the surgery or procedure being done.
- Your surgeon leads the OR team. Other team members usually include nurses, an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist, and a surgical assistant. As a team, they provide a sterile and safe surgical environment. If the OR feels cold, you can ask for a blanket.
- In preparation for the procedure, an intravenous (IV) line will be started in an arm or hand vein. This will be used to deliver medications and fluids during surgery. Vital signs are monitored through a cuff placed on your arm to measure blood pressure; pads placed on your chest will track your heart's function; and a clip placed on your finger will measure the oxygen level in your blood. During the operation, the blood pressure cuff will inflate automatically at intervals and you will feel pressure on your arm.
- After your surgery, you will be taken to the recovery room, also called the PACU (Peri Anesthesia Care Unit), or to the Ambulatory Surgery Center, where you will be closely monitored until the anesthesia wears off and you wake up. Your blood pressure, pulse, temperature and breathing, as well as the area of your body where you had surgery, will be checked.
- You may feel drowsy and cold, and you may have some pain, which is normal after surgery. The PACU or Ambulatory Surgery Center nurses will take care of your needs and make you comfortable. Once you are sufficiently awake, you either will be discharged home if you are an ambulatory surgery patient, or you will be transferred to your room in the hospital until you are well enough to go home.
- Pain Management: we are committed to recognizing and treating your pain using medicines and treatments that will provide the best level of relief. As the patient, you have valuable information to give the staff regarding your pain. Remember that you know your pain best.
- Always tell your doctor, nurse or other staff member when you are having pain. Don't be afraid to ask for pain medicine. Many people are so worried about "getting hooked" or addicted that they don't talk about their pain or take the medicines that are prescribed. In most cases, addiction is not a concern and medicines can, and should, be taken to relieve pain. If you have concerns about addiction, you should speak openly about them to your doctors and nurses. Managing pain is an important aspect of getting well.
- You will be discharged from the Surgicenter with your escort accompanying you. If you live alone, you may want to arrange for someone to stay with you on the first night after your surgery.
- You will be given written discharge instructions upon leaving. Please follow these instructions regarding the medication, rest, activity and diet and any other after-care advice to help you recover faster, be more comfortable, and reduce the risks of complications when you follow your doctor's orders.
- Prescription Medications: After surgery, your physician will probably prescribe medications. These prescriptions may be filled either at your neighborhood pharmacy or at available Johns Hopkins Pharmacies, which staff can give you directions to find. Please bring your prescription care card or information with you. It is best to fill the prescriptions on the day of surgery so that they can begin first thing the next morning after seeing the doctor.
- Escorts: For your safety, a spouse, friend or relative must accompany you when you leave the hospital. You will not be permitted to have surgery unless you have made proper arrangements for an escort upon your departure. We can refer you to a private patient escort service if needed.
- No Smoking Policy. Johns Hopkins campuses are smoke-free environments. Smoking is prohibited by the staff, patients and visitors in all areas.
Procedures in Children:
Hospitals can be frightening places for children. In order to make your child's stay here as smooth as possible, we ask that you follow these suggestions:
- Follow your doctor's orders about not giving your child anything to eat or drink before surgery. We realize this is very difficult with small children, but it is essential in order to give them anesthesia and perform the scheduled procedure safely. If your child does have fluids or food after the recommended time, the surgery will have to be rescheduled.
- Please feel free to bring one of your child's favorite toys to the hospital. It will help your child feel more secure if he or she has a familiar toy for company.
- Only the parents or one parent and one escort should accompany the child. Bringing other relatives to the hospital may upset the child and also makes it difficult for our staff to do their jobs.
- One person must stay at the hospital during surgery. You will be allowed to be with your child at all times on the unit and in the operating room before anesthesia. A parents' waiting room is available for convenience and comfort. The nursing staff will let you know as soon as you can rejoin your child in the Peri-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU).
- For your child's safety, we will not discharge him or her to anyone other than a parent or legal guardian.
- If you are escorting a child and driving, it is necessary to have a second adult present who is free to give the help and attention that are needed to bring a child home after surgery.
Consent for Medical Procedures
- Your surgeon will discuss the details of your operation with you prior to your surgery.
- Please feel free to ask any questions regarding your procedure, and follow your surgeon's advice before and after your surgery. Before any major medical procedure can be initiated, you or an authorized member of your family will be asked to sign a consent form.
- You are entitled to a full explanation of your diagnosis, treatment plan and prognosis, as well as the risks, benefits and alternatives associated with your care. If you do not understand what is being recommended, or if you are uncertain about whether you want the procedure, ask your physician or nurse.
4. Patients Describe Their Care at the GCE
"Hello. I am a blast from your past. I was a 17 year old from _________, Virginia in 1978, diagnosed with open angle glaucoma in 1977. I saw you during the summer leading into my senior year. You performed a Trabeculectomy on my left eye after I had already lost about 80% vision. I continued wrestling after my surgery (after 4 month recovery) with custom made protective eyewear (much like racquetball glasses of today). In my freshman year in college, you operated on my right eye, which was most of my vision, and I gave up wrestling.
All that to say, thank you. You provided stability to my life during an impressionable time. Regardless of all that I have been through, I am boastful that I have had some of the best surgeons in the field work on saving my vision. I have full vision in my right eye and only the 1979 Trabeculectomy as surgery to show for it.
Thank you, again. And yes, my entire family is much more aware of the need for regular checkups. They have led to early detections of glaucoma in my paternal grandmother, father and sister.
To you and the Wilmer Eye Institute, I thank you."
"I know you don't remember doing my laser in 2008. You did and lowered my pressure and my other physician had told me it wouldn't help. I finally had to have cataract surgery last summer and at present my pressure is staying between 12 and 15. The reason I writing you is to ask you a question. Do you cover Pigmentary Glaucoma in your new book? I ask because that is what I have and am very interested in any new information that I can find. I wish you luck on your book. If your ears ever burn it is because I'm recommending you to someone. Thanks for your hard work- this lady appreciates it immensely."
"I express our sincere thanks to you, your professional team and your support staff for providing us with the best possible care. I pray that God continues to bless you and guide those gifted hands. We certainly appreciate them. Once again, many thanks."
"I have been seeing Glaucoma Center staff since 1990 and I want to point out that he and his staff have unfailingly provided friendly and professional treatment in a timely manner each and every time. I am equally extremely grateful for my sight due to his great skill as well."
"I personally appreciate each and every medical professional at The Wilmer Institute for their dedication and sacrifice toward achieving and delivering World Class Medical Care to patients from all over the world."
"I believe that every employee of The Wilmer Institute should be very proud to have the privilege to be a part of this great medical institution and the people they serve."
"I thank you all for the sight I have that you have played a part in preserving."
"I'm sincerely grateful for your outstanding surgical skill and kind empathy during my treatment. You're my ideal "doc" and I've seen many in my 79 years. You saved my eyesight. God bless you always."
"Thank you for being the knight in shining armor, slaying the dragon of glaucoma 13 years ago to preserve my sight for so long. Thanks for your caring guidance in the latest crisis. You're the best!"
"Thank you for taking such good care of all of your patients. You impact the lives of so many people in a very special way."
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La Dolce Skiing
by RISA WEINREB
"Cin'cin!" Clink. "Cin'cin." Clank. Tall glasses of Prosecco bubbled around the long picnic table at La Maison Vieille, a restaurant set in an old stone rifugio (mountain hut) against the backdrop of Mont Blanc at Courmayeur.
Hungry from the morning's skiing - we'd clicked off about 13,000 vertical feet before 1 p.m. - we helped ourselves from the platters that Giacomo brought out family- style: mocetta (an air-dried meat); pizza with porcini mush-rooms; three types of pasta, including a voluptuous gnocchi in cream sauce.
But since it was a warm, sunny day with a sky the cobalt-blue of a Botticelli painting, most of the guys in my group didn't have eyes for their linguine. Instead, they were whiplashing their peripheral vision trying to check out the lissome blonde apr�s-skier sun-bathing in one of the chairs backed against a snowbank. Let's put it this way - she was not going to have any problems with tan lines up top.
Aspen and Vail, Eat Your Hearts Out
Skiing the Italian Alps blends the three S's: sun, scenery, and sensuality. Calls of "Ciao, bella" echo across the slopes. Great skiing is very much the point - but so is a two-hour lunch mellowed by the local Valdostano wines. Think of it as a Fellini movie set at 10,000 feet - The Sopranos on ice. For me, it was amore at first sight.
For my debut at skiing all' italiana, I joined a trip to Courmayeur run by Alpine Adventures, a tour operator specializing in ski and adventure tours around the globe. The company was founded by the brother/sister team of Rick Reichsfeld and Richelle Blanken (she competed in speed skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville).
Alpine Adventures is very much all-in-the-family. A retired judge morphed into "the world's oldest ski bum," Dick Reichsfeld (Richelle and Rick's father) runs Alpine Holidays, which handles ground operations in Europe for several tour operators. Along with his Alpine Holidays partner, Fran-cesca Pizzorno, who had worked for years with the Courmayeur tourist office, they added a Mastroianni/ Loren, Burns and Allen, Italo-American vibe to the ski week.
Located in the Aosta Valley about a two-hour drive northwest of Milan, Courmayeur offers this irresistible "countdown" of superlatives for skiers and boarders: Five ski areas, in four days, in three dif-ferent countries (Italy, France, Switzerland), in sight of two of the world's most famous mountains (the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc) - all on one lift pass.
Alpine Soir�e
At the Alpine Adventures welcome party on Sunday night, I mingled with the other members of the group, which included about 40 people. While several were expert skiers who were planning to tackle legendary piste of passage, such as the Vall�e Blanche, I was surprised by the number of people who were novices - and even complete beginners. "Hey, I never skied before. I figure I might as well learn in the Italian Alps," said Lynn, a guest from Florida.
For Americans who've never skied or boarded Europe before, the Italian Alps are,
in fact, a marvelously friendly place to begin. Trails are usually well marked and well-groomed, and the chair lifts range from aging-gracefully to state-of-the art. With few exceptions, you can bypass the T-bars and Poma lifts that are the bugaboos of us Americans spoiled by high-speed quads and six-packs.
Thanks to Dick and Francesca, we avoided the pitfalls and icy cat tracks usually encountered when skiing new slopes for the first time. In addition to providing printed handouts detailing everything from favorite runs to best places to check your apr�s-ski boots, they each guided small groups of us on the mountains.
On Monday, our first day out, we headed for our Courmayeur, the cable car located just a short stroll from the hotel. The mountain offers lots of different terrain, from smooth-rolling cruisers to a steep, moguly pitch off Cresta Youla. Most of all, it flaunts outrageous, close-up views of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in western Europe at 15,771 feet. It seemed that I could reach out and touch its steep, intimidating face.
Classic Vistas
The next day, a narrow, twisting road boobytrapped with precipitous drop-offs led to La Thuile, near the pass where Hannibal is said to have crossed the Alps with his elephants. From the top of the Chaz Dura lift, vistas took in both Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. From here, we made our first run into a different country, descending a long cruiser into La Rosi�re in France.
The only downside came on the return to Italy via what I dubbed "the Poma lift from hell": a 10-minute, thigh-clenching exercise that started with an abrupt lift-off and lurched through some hold-on-tight stretches on the flats.
The reward was lunch at Lo Riondet, with long picnic tables set on the terrace. We filled our plates with beef rag-out, sausages, porcini mushrooms, and the savory local specialty: polenta valdostana, topped with melted Fontina cheese. "I wonder where we're going to have lunch tomorrow," mused Diana. "Now you understand skiing in Italy," replied Francesca. "Always plan your meals a day ahead."
Another morning of crystal-my companion Justin commented, "Look at the two skiers up there," pointing to an immense white bowl to the right. At first, I couldn't see anything. Finally, I discerned two ant-size specks carving flawless S-turns in the powder on Cervinia's Cime Blanche.
Once again, I felt awed by limitless landscapes of the Alps. Unlike the U.S. where enthusiasts are generally relegated to groomed trails safely in bounds, terrain in Europe is bounteous. You can pretty much ski anywhere you look: peaks, bowls, couloirs.
From Plateau Rosa, which straddles the Italian/Swiss border, we carved down Furggsattel. This is the photo-op run, showcasing centerfold-caliber views of the Matterhorn, its pyramidal peak piercing the cloudless sky. Even though it was late March and there had been no snow since February, the conditions were fantastic, the snow yielding with a smooth crunch under my skis.
Deep Frieze
"To Gletschergrotte," indicated a sign just below Klein Matterhorn, as we headed back to Italy. An ice cave. We decided to check it out.
Immediately, I felt like Alice falling into Wonderland as I descended a blue-lit tunnel carved into the glacier. After a few minutes, the passageway widened into a series of fantastical chambers with ice sculptures carved like bulls, birds and horse-drawn carriages. Another corridor led to the floor of an actual crevasse - beautiful and terrifying, with icy stalactites, stalagmites, and a frozen lake.
The run back to the base village at Cervinia would prove to be one of my favorites of the entire trip. Marked as "#7/Ventina," it runs for about nine miles. Not a boring copy-cat trail, it percolates with personality, intermingling chutes with broad bowls, bambino-size moguls with easygoing straightaways.
After a day's skiing, it always felt cozy to return to the village of Courmayeur, with its cobblestoned alleys and ancient houses (some from the 13th century) topped with slate roofs. "If famous people want to be seen, they go to Cortina. If they don't want to be seen, they come to Courmayeur," Francesca had explained. On Via Roma, the pedestrian-only thoroughfare, people sauntered in parkas and afterski boots, Prada and minks. Shops sell everything from gelati to Herm�s. In late afternoon, the alpenglow fired the distant summits to rosy incandescence.
Just Like Home
Located just off Via Roma, the Hotel Cresta et Duc hotel where we stayed provided a true feeling of home. And family: Martina Reichsfeld, Rick's wife and vice president of operations for Alpine Adventures, is the daughter of the hotel manager. Dinners were superb, with choices like veal milanese or gilt-head (sea bream), finishing off with panna cotta (cream custard) or marsala-laced tiramisu for dessert.
Most of all, I was impressed with the warmth of the staff. Guido, the front desk manager, let me use his own computer when I needed to send out an emergency e-mail. Martino, the barman, always would pour a glass of my favorite vino frizzante (sparkling wine) when I came down for cocktails before dinner.
On Thursday, our destination was Pila - probably the only place in the world where you can ski an FIS Super G run in the morning, and spend the afternoon clomping around Roman ruins that date to the century before Christ. The run in question - "#2/Du Bois" - was another of my favorites of the trip, zagging through larch and pine with some challenging but fun steep sections.
After three days of skiing hard, my legs were ready for a siesta, and the old Roman theaters, watchtowers, arches, and nine-foot-thick stone walls are located within walking distance from the base of the Pila gondola in Aosta. Founded in 24 b.c., the town was strategically important to the Romans because of its proximity to the passes leading to what are now France and Italy.
Walking beneath the Praetorian Gate, which had once been covered in marble, I imagined how early wayfarers had felt entering this commercial center. It was also fascinating to see how the two-millenium-old theater layout was so similar to contemporary playhouses, with its separate "stage door" for actors.
The following day, we took a 30-minute drive from Courmayeur through the Mont Blanc tunnel to France and Chamonix.
"The mountain is something wonderful, powerful, incredible, amazing," said Marc Cereuil, communications director of Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix, with whom I explored the ski areas. Chamonix is a very different ski resort, with four distinct moun-tains (rather like Aspen). In addition, as Marc pointed out, "The specialty of Chamonix is skiing the glacier. Trails are not marked at all, and the snow is the snow of the mountains." The Compagnie des Guides was designed especially for American skiers, to allow them to experience the vast, untamed terrain confidently and safely.
From Novice to Expert
I joined up with Marc's group of "the ladies from Philadelphia" - four friends in their 30s and 40s enjoying a girls' week of skiing. Three of the women were advanced skiers; the other, Joanne, was out for - get this - her fourth day ever on skis. Even more remarkably, on day three, she had gone heliskiing with her buddies. Granted, it was a novice trail - but it still spoke a great deal about the acumen of the instructors in Chamonix.
Together, we rode the cable car to the summit of Le Br�vent. Lisa scanned the trail markers. "Um, it's all black (expert) here," she ventured. "Where are we going to go?" "Down," Marc replied.
Immediately, Marc's humor, cajoling, and confidence helped melt our fears and beam us up to the next level in our skiing. We carved through steeps, icy patches, and moguls with increasing assurance. "There's a difference between difficult and dangerous," Marc had said, and thanks to his patience and expertise, I knew he was right.
Saturday was our last full day, and the people in my group all chose to spend it differently. Diana and Bill headed back to Cervinia. Others took a shopping jaunt to Gen-eva. I decided to ski one more time at Courmayeur itself.
While checking my street shoes at the Ski In rental shop, I asked Tony, one of the fitters, if he could suggest a good place to have lunch. "You have to eat with my friend Giuliano - he has the best restaurant on the mountain. Tell him you're 'un' amica di Tonio' - a friend of Tony's. We're paesano - we're both from Sardinia."
After a wonderful morning skiing, I found my way to the Petit Mont Blanc restaurant, located at the base of the Zerotta lift. A large, sunny deck in the back looked directly at Mont Blanc. "So Tony sent you," greeted Giuliano, immediately sending over a cock-tail of fresh orange juice laced with Campari. Lunch was delicious - a pizza topped with tomatoes, onions, and zucchini.
The afternoon shone golden in the moment and flowed into the snowmelt of time. But shadows lengthened. It was time to go.
I rode the Zerotta lift up, turned to follow the trail -and had a dead-on view of one of Courmayeur's most unusual natural features: a huge glacial lake shaped like a heart. It seemed like the mountain was sending me one last valentine to say alla prossima tempo - "until next time."
For the 2003-2004 season, Alpine Adventures' eight night/ seven day (first night is an over-night flight) packages to Courmayeur are priced from $989 per person (double occupancy). The rate includes round-trip international air to Milan (price based on flights from New York, other airports available upon request), round-trip transfers Milan/Courmayeur, seven nights' accommodations at the Cresta et Duc, breakfast and dinner daily. For further information, contact: Tel: 800-755-1330; Fax: 954-564-6721; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com; Website: www.alpineadventures.net.
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Caitlyn Kennedy knew she wanted to attend UC Merced when she was in the eighth grade and the now-thriving campus was just a barren field.
She watched a presentation about the proposed UC campus at her middle school in Frazier Park, a tiny town about an hour south of Bakersfield. In high school, out of a graduating class of 100 (the largest class ever), she was the only student accepted at a UC. Actually, she was the only one who applied. She had ambitions beyond her hometown.
Kennedy, 20, is co-president of the
University Women of Merced Network. She joined the group after hearing about a group of girls willing to act in "The Vagina Monologues."
"I don't think I've missed a meeting yet," she said.
The struggle for women's rights is not over, Kennedy says. She said she believes the past three generations have made tremendous progress: first, for women's suffrage; then for the right to work and be independent; and now for the right to choose whether to be a working mom or a CEO.
"I feel the most important issue facing young women today is the pressure to be a feminist and yet be the traditional woman as well," said Kennedy, who will be a junior this fall. "It is extremely hard for a woman to balance her life, to be all that she can be and more… I still think women fear being stereotyped and under-appreciated."
She said she has found several mentors among UC Merced's
Writing Programstaff and faculty.
"They are fabulous, quirky, crazy, fun-loving, knowledgeable and insightful," she says.
When not working on her feminist play, she paints, draws, and drives the Merced back roads - going off-road as well.
A communications major, Kennedy's future plans include running a center for raped and molested women, as well as working in public relations.
"I love this school," she said. "There are so many opportunities to be creative or reinvent yourself at this school and in the community - and maybe even make history!"


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With climate negotiations dominating global policy
discourse, dry lands need special attention, as they involve
the most volatile challenges for global peace, argues
Jeffery Sachs, Professor of Economics at Colombia
University, the United States. He insists that tailored and
comprehensive adaptation responses are very important.
Climate Adaptation Avoids Conflict Epidemics
Dry lands are on the frontline of climate change,
and they host the world's poorest and most
vulnerable people. The harrowing effects of climate
change on poverty, survival, health, hunger, human
well-being, and peace, itself, can already be seen
in them. The heavily impacted areas are among the
most unstable parts of the world.
A significant portion of the world suffers from
great vulnerabilities including poverty and
deprivation of basic needs, whether food and
nutrition, access to health and veterinary care,
safety for crops and livestock, or, of course,
Instability is rising throughout these regions.
Conflicts that are branded under the headlines of
extremism or political conflict, often have at their
roots the challenges of desertification, increasing
droughts, more unstable rainfall, many more failed
harvests than in the past, and, in some regions, an
inability to grow crops reliably any longer.
Recurring famines in the Horn of Africa are vivid
and harrowing demonstrations of the perils of
desertification and dry land instability.
Population has also increased fourfold or more in
such regions since the middle of the 20th century.
Climate change is hitting massive demographic
pressures head on as an enormously threatening
phenomenon. Yet, these issues are not getting the
level of global policy attention and response
required. Even standard security approaches do not
take into account that, under the surface of the
manifestation of violence and conflict, lays a much
deeper and even more threatening danger of
ecological risk from climate change and demographic
Military engagement is not working, because such
issues as hunger, livestock survival, and increasing
stresses between sedentary populations and nomadic
or semi-nomadic livestock herders cannot be
addressed by these means. The world has not seen a
coherent, consistent, persistent, scaled, and
science-based approach to these challenges,
primarily because the resources and political
attention have not been devoted to them.
Certainly, different kinds of responses are needed.
Science is one such instrument.
There is not truly a thorough understanding of how
global and regional changes are really affecting the
climates of the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, or West
and Central Asia. One priority is a thorough,
state-of-the-art, and detailed account of how
regions are feeling the global climate signals.
Downscaled models and better evidence about what the
large models are saying about future threats for
these regions are drastically needed. It is also
essential to mainstream the authoritative collection
of weather station data, to make it available to
compile a detailed and thorough account of the
climate over the last thirty years, and to create
not just a baseline for the future, but a much
richer base to enable the attempt of the attribution
of observed changes.
There are huge gaps in the existing knowledge base
of the adaptation or failure to adapt of human
Of course, the secretariat of the UN Convention to
Combat Desertification (UNCCD) collects a lot of
this information and, crucially, helps disseminate
it to the wider scientific and development
community. But, there is a lot more work to be done
to get on-site real-time verification of changes; to
use remote sensing more systematically to measure
fluctuations in herders, livestock, and assets; to
understand their vulnerabilities; and to see how
demographic pressures are affecting these
Total fertility rates remain at six, seven, or eight
children a woman in many locations. A demographic
disaster seems to be on the way, as a result of the
huge overload on an already strained and fragile
ecosystem that is only going to become more stressed
in the future. Widespread family planning and modern
contraceptive services need to be put in place to
mitigate the crash between expanding populations and
the future climate.
Intervention measures are desperately needed for
adaptation to climate change. These range from
preparedness for emergencies to other kinds of risk
mitigation strategies, such as creating financial
insurance, diversifying economic activities, or
establishing alternatives in landscape management
and water storage.
Impoverished communities facing a multiplicity of
shocks and challenges need a holistic approach. One
aspect is the whole complex of livestock and crops.
Health systems include other aspects, which are
affected by tremendous climate-related shocks as
well as by such huge challenges as epidemics of
malaria; education is also crucial.
How can impoverished communities ensure that the
next generation is raised with the skills and
knowledge to meet the growing challenges facing
Investment in infrastructure, starting with water,
encompassing irrigation, storage, and water security
in the event of drought but also including
transport, the ability to connect local communities
with regional and international markets, is
desperately needed. Telecommunications and Internet
connectivity can be very powerful tools for
adaptation. No less important is business
development, especially around livestock and other
areas where increased added value could bring
greatly improved well-being to communities.
In 2008, the Swedish government's Committee on
Climate Change and Development (CCD) put out a
report on climate change, recommending how to build
resilience, adaptability, emergency preparedness,
and risk mitigation strategies. There should be
scaled-up pilots of community-based adaptation
projects with poor and vulnerable communities in
urban and rural areas, it proposed.
Three years on, projecting is starting to take hold,
as Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, and
South Sudan have joined together in an adaptation
initiative. They will work to use best practices and
cutting-edge technologies to support their
pastoralist communities' efforts to escape the
scourges of extreme poverty and famine, supported by
partners including Ericsson, Airtel, Novartis, and
Sumitomo Chemicals.
There is a pressing need for holistic,
community-based responses, which are
scientifically-grounded and address health and
veterinary needs, water storage and other
infrastructure, children's education, improvement
and survival of herds, and linkages to markets. This
is of paramount and growing importance, not only for
the well-being of these communities, but for
resolving what otherwise will be a growing epidemic
of violent conflict.
Jeffery Sachs,
Professor of Economics at Colombia University,
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...some scientists are turning the virus's secret weapon against it. They hope to cure infections by forcing viruses to evolve their way to extinction.
Evolving Viruses All the Way to Extinction
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Our little girl, "Harry Potter's" Hermione Granger, and now fashion icon, Emma Watson, stars in her first feature since the famed franchise. The poster was just released, and you should check out the trailer for "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" here to see Miss Watson embracing life after Harry.
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Olivia Culpo Before Her Crowning as Miss USA (Video)
Check out Olivia Culpo talking from City Harvest, where the Miss USA candidates were helping out during the days before the finale! Congratulations Olivia!
CANNES COVERAGE: Haneke Scores Palme d'Or with Love (Complete List of Winners)
The filmmaker whose works "The Piano Teacher," "Funny Games," "The Idiots" and "Cache" have made him a household name around Europe, and for whom adaptations and Oscar nominations have become de rigeur, remains a quiet wolf-like figure without much fanfare in the North American scene. As with those previous films, "Amour" is sure to continue to please and provoke his core fan base, but is unlikely to measure on the Richter scale outside of any major city.
CANNES COVERAGE: Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Wes Anderson Consider 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom' opens in limited release this week. Starring Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Bob Balaban (narrating), Jason Schwartzmann and newcomers Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman, the film is sure to please Anderson's many fans. Check out these studio interviews with the film's stars.
Michael Chiklis & Matt Bush Talk 'High School' – a Celebs.com Original
Michael Chiklis ("The Shield," "Fantastic Four") and "Piranha 3DD" actor Matt Bush talk through their 'High School' experience with Celebs.com's Angela Bakke. Watch the video right here.
2012 Billboard Awards Honor Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, Adam Yauch and Robin Gibb (Videos)
It's been a tragic year in the entertainment world, and the 2012 Billboard Awards paid tribute to four iconic musicians who passed away this year: Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, Adam Yauch and Robin Gibb.
Billboard Awards cohost Julie Bowen acknowledged Gibb's passing, which occurred earlier that day, saying, "His voice and music of the Bee Gees will live on forever. Natasha Bedingfield paid homage to Summer by singing "Last Dance," while Cee Lo Green performed "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)" to honor the Beastie Boys MC.
In what was perhaps the most poignant moment, Bobbi Kristina took the stage after beautiful renditions of "I Will Always Love You" by Jordin Sparks and "The Greatest Love of All" by John Legend to accept the Millennium Award for her late mother. "I really want to say thank you to everyone who supported us through it all," she said. "Not just from when it was good but when it was bad, too. Thank you for showing that much love, because she deserved it. I'm just blessed to have been in such an incredible woman's life. There will never be another one, ever."
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Now as you may know, Katniss, the main character in the book and film, was described as having "straight black hair" and "olive skin." It's a post-apocalyptic world, so she could be a mix of things, but some pictured a Native American. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jennifer Lawrence won the part and dyed her hair dark. But when it came to the casting of Rue, Thresh, and Cinna, many audience members did not understand why there were black actors playing those parts.
Racist Hunger Games Fans Are Very Disappointed
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New York barbecue Restaurant Reviews
Welcome to our New York barbecue restaurant reviews guide where you'll find top restaurants off the beaten path, both locally owned and chain. In fact, some of the best restaurants in the New York just might be the little mom and pop operations flying under the radar. For some of the best picks in New York, you've come to the right place.
Our New York restaurant reviews guide can help you make sense of the thousands of options out there. Happy eating!
Also check out our Best Restaurants in New York 2016 Guide
Displaying 1 - 20 of 27
Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery(03/18/2009)
"I am a Jamaican and let me say that this particualr Golden Crust SUCKS!!!!! BIG time!The food there is horrible. The curry goat is always salt and their oxtail is undone. the onlty thing i buy is the mild patty or the banana chips because I like them stale. Customer service sucks and they need to ha... "
Negril Caribbean Restaurant(02/29/2008)
"great food, people time"
Soul Fixins'(02/07/2008)
Virgil's Real Barbecue(02/06/2008)
"I have been eating at Virgil's for at least 7 years and I have never had a bad experience! The food is terrific and the drinks will hit you like a ton of bricks! The "Fall Off The Porch Long Island Iced Tea" is the best drink that I have ever had in New York. I'm a native New Yorker now living in... "
"BARBECUE, this is the one word to describe the smoky, tangy, saucy utterances that issue from MoBay Uptown's kitchen. I had gone many times before, for the whole snapper rundown, the crab cakes and the fabulous vegetarian offerings, but once I tasted the beef ribs,it's hard for me to go there and h... "
Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery(12/08/2006)
"The food is average,however, the service is horrible. They never have white rice and once i ask an attendant why there was no white rice she said, " because they don't pay me to cook rice, so i'm not doing it." The female employees are very rude, so you don't feel welcome and you certainly don't fee... "
Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery(08/07/2006)
"staff very unfriendly, especially the females. Never say hello and does not respond to you when greeted. Very nasty disposition shown by the staff at E. 23rd street. There is one guy that always friendly and offers good service The food is often times very good, however sometimes the curry goat s... "
"This is the best barbecue in Manhattan. You can never get in on weekends. Try Monday through Thursday. Still might be a wait, but the mood is magical and gorgeous looking inhabitants at the bar are very friendly. Have a Harlem Mojito and kick back. The beef ribs are gargantuan, smokey and tasty... "
"This has one of the most bafflingly rude servers I have ever experienced who should be avoided at all cost. Three friends and I ordered drinks from the bar and then decided we wanted to grab a snack, so we sat down for table service. We flagged the waiter and ordered fries, at which point, he say... "
Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery(02/22/2006)
"I worked in New Rochelle Westchester NY and the only Golden Krust in that town; I rate their food #2. They only uses Chicken "legs and thie" it taste Horrible. Come on! hole chicken aint that expensive."
Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery(09/28/2005)
"I am a Jamaican who recently came to the US. I deeply miss Mother's and Tastee patties. When I visited Golden Crust for the first time, I became hooked. Patties are still my favorite lunch time meal and Golden Crust does a fabulous job. My husband is from the mid-west and he loves the patties."
Negril Caribbean Restaurant(11/23/2004)
"I am from north carolina and i had the privelage to experience carribean food at the Negril restauraunt with my Trini girlfriend and it was the best food i had ever tried...thanks alot guys"
Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery(11/10/2004)
"I'm a Swedish girl, 22 yrs old. This summer I visited Golden Krust on Flatbush several times. I would recommend the cheezy-beef patty. I love it! I also love my boyfriend who works there and that I met the 1st time I went in to the bakery. Cool, huh?! I could have given the restaurant a higher grade... "
Virgil's Real Barbecue(07/24/2004)
"I loved this restaturant! I am from the south and I know barbecue! This place has the best barbecue in the north!"
Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery(02/16/2004)
"I ordered a stew chicken lunch one day adn the chicken was not even cooked all the way. The attitudes of a majority of the female employees are very rude and discriminatory. I am Jamaican and I feel that the women treat light skin women very nasty. The patties are mostly crust and the meat is dry. M... "
Virgil's Real Barbecue(12/10/2003)
"This place is great. First time I have ever been here, and we had service very fast, and the food came to our table in notime, and there was 7 of us, and this was the fastes service I have ever had. I liked it so much the next week I came back with my parents, and more friends. Pulled pork is great,... "
Virgil's Real Barbecue(08/28/2003)
"Fun, lively, casual place. Not for vegetarians."
Negril Caribbean Restaurant(08/15/2003)
"This restaurant has the best caribbean food I'v tasted between New York and Atlanta. The jerk chicken is the best. If you want a taste of the caribbean but can't afford the plane ticket this is the next best thing."
Virgil's Real Barbecue(06/13/2002)
"I've had barbecue dinners, but none like at Virgils, it is exquisit. THUMBS UP!!! Delicious."
"I was in town for the dog show so of course we came to this restaurant! I loved the whole concept of the place! And seeing the pictures on the walls and actually knowing the dogs was pretty cool too. I love the tee shirts and boxers and stuffed boxer dogs! It was really cool!"


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A trio of new add-ons have been released for free-to-play combat effort Battlefield Heroes.
The most exciting of these is the jetpack, which is powered by new widget Rocket Fuel.
There's also a new map, Midnight Mayhem. As you might have guessed it's set at night, and the action takes place within the ruins of a military compound.
Plus there's a new game mode, V2 Vengeance. Your mission here is to capture a rocket rather than a flag.
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Rays players getting ready for Game 163
by Steve Carney / 620 WDAE
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With the Rays in Arlington, preparing to play a 163rd game in order to break the tie they are in with the Texas Rangers, it appears more than just the players are getting up for the contest!
Astro couldn't be anymore excited for tonight!! He woke up screaming "good luck pops!!!" pic.twitter.com/AO9eow9Ny8— David Price (@DAVIDprice14) September 30, 2013
Price will get the start tonight.
Wil Myers sums it up succinctly, as the North Carolina-native is known to do.
1 game at a time— Wil Myers (@wilmyers) September 30, 2013
Evan Longoria going through a pretty good routine!
Don't mind if I do! 4 flavors hopefully means 4 hits!! pic.twitter.com/Q7Ag5kt6Wo— Evan Longoria (@Evan3Longoria) September 30, 2013
And Jose Lobaton is ready to go!
Ready for the game, let's do it. With God everything is possible #163fuerte— Jose Lobaton (@JLobaton21) September 30, 2013
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Sony revealed today, on Variety.com, that Joe Carnahan will be writing the script for the movie adaptation of Naughty Dog's popular game series Uncharted. Carnahan, who has typically directed and …Continue reading →
Suikoden II is considered to be one of the best role playing games of all time. Released in North America in September of 1999 on the original PlayStation, the game …Continue reading →
One of the big announcements at the Playstation Experience was David Jaffe's newest game, a multiplayer third-person arena shooter called Drawn to Death. Featuring a variety of colorful characters and …Continue reading →
Amplitude can be considered a cult classic among rhythm fans, a crazy game involving shooting down notes and gems to clear tracks of music and slowly piece together a song …Continue reading →
Gaming Trend Editors Kenneth Shepard and Eric Van Allen have made their sojurn to the desert (it's in Las Vegas -- no need to feel bad for them) to dig …Continue reading →
Unfinished Swan was one of those darling games that easily transcends the "games as art" discussion - it is art. The team at Sony has announced that they are bringing …Continue reading →
Tomorrow is patch day, and this is a VERY anticipated update. Software patch v1.70 for the PlayStation 4 not only allows users to disable the HDCP token, enabling capture at …Continue reading →
You probably saw our review for MLB 14 The Show on the PlayStation 3 and Vita recently, but there are obviously a lot of eyes on the upcoming PlayStation 4 …Continue reading →
Gran Turismo has turned into a great platform for racers. Well, Sony and Nissan are teaming up once again for the sixth installment of the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy 2014 …Continue reading →
The hardware has been selling like gangbusters, but have you wondered what exclusive launch title Killzone: Shadowfall did in terms of sales? Well, it kept up nicely hitting 2.1 million …Continue reading →
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Math comes alive with the use of an interactive whiteboard. Rather than relegating numbers to the black-and-white world of paper and pencils, throw them up onto the big screen with fun graphics in full color. Math concepts take on deeper meaning to visual and all types of learners when displayed in creative ways.
Let kids take turns at the whiteboard, touching the screen and manipulating the visuals. They'll be more invested in learning and making discoveries on their own, and they'll teach others at the same time.
Examples include Shape Sort (sort objects by number of sides, colors and shapes), Toy Store (develop understanding of cost and money), Place Value (develop an understanding of place value: ones, tens, hundreds), and Multiplication Chart (use a multiplication chart to practice facts and discover patterns).
Discovery Kids Online
Another indoor recess on a rainy day? Bookmark this site and let your students play away. They can visit Fun & Games and watch video clips from Discovery Kids shows.
Produced by Dragonfly magazine and the National Science Teachers Association, this interactive website offers fun online science activities. Dragonfly links children and scientists in an open community of investigation and aims to involve children in the creative process of science, to help them see how science relates to their lives.
What's a podcast? It's an audio or video file that can be downloaded over the Internet. You can view or listen to them on computers or iPods (thus the name), which makes the medium especially appealing to students.
Popular at the university level, where professors often post downloadable versions of their lectures, podcasting is increasingly being used at the middle and high school levels for a range of purposes.
Classes are producing podcasts of poetry readings and plays, dramatizations of creative writing projects, jingles for mock products and inventions, interviews for online school newspapers. They can also be used to record scientific observations while out doing field research. Your students will certainly come up with inventive ideas of their own.
Podcasting builds literacy and communication skills, and is a great way to foster collaborative learning and self-confidence. For more information visit the "Digital Gadgets" section of Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/gadgets.html
This 21st century genre has something for everyone. Students become actors, directors and producers, writers, researchers and photographers, graphic artists and digital technicians.
Technology brings compelling new dimensions to traditional storytelling. By combining words (both written and spoken) with pictures (both moving and still) and music (professional or one's own), digital storytelling makes for a rich and creative medium. Kids who never gave a hoot about creative writing are now getting hooked.
Students can produce their own digital stories, or collaborate with others in clever ways. Two people can write two parts of a story from two different points of view; a group of people can spin a yarn, each taking a sentence at a time, to see what happens.
Digital storytelling is being used for classes such as history, not just language arts. Throughout the process, students learn to express themselves using a range of communication technologies.
Visit the Adobe Digital Kids Club to get started. http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/storytelling/index.html
Along with a digital storytelling tutorial and technical tips, there are extensive resources to guide you and your students every step of the way.
Wireless technology is a highly engaging way to get high school students hooked on science. Students can use probes and sensors to collect data in the field, and then graph, model and analyze it back in the classroom. The latest "probeware" can be used with computers, handhelds, and calculators. In addition to the benefits of hands-on learning in the field, the computer models back in the classroom help students visualize scientific concepts in ways they can't otherwise observe, and make sophisticated connections.
Innovative Uses for Probeware
Vernier Technology's web page for teachers features hundreds of experiments and ideas for using sensors and probes in science class. Favorites include Accelerations in Snowboarding and Crash Test Dummies. Search by science subject area for both middle school and high school.
Virtual Frog Dissection
Virtual Pig Dissection
Virtual Plant Cell Dissection
The Cell Visualization Project
Geology Labs Online
Microbe Zoo
Anatomy-The Visible Human Project
From videoconferencing to email pen pals, technology provides opportunities for international collaboration previously unimaginable. Students and teachers can now connect with students and teachers throughout the world with great ease and frequency. Whereas the pen pal letters of your childhood took weeks or seemingly months to make it back and forth via snail mail, the e-pals of today are in constant communication. Find ways to integrate this capability into your curriculum. You'll open up new worlds to your students as they develop valuable communication and technology skills. Along the way they'll develop a deeper knowledge about the world around them and a greater appreciation for their role as global citizens. See links in the Survival Toolkit to point you in the right direction.
Online Science Lab
This is a valuable one-stop site from the Office of Science and the Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Students can explore three different online labs: Elementary, Middle School and High School.
Electrocute a pickle, dissect a cow's eye, or try one of the Exploratorium's other hundreds of hands-on activities. Kids can also use the Digital Library and other online resources.


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I have been taking a few pictures as I went along, to show you how I do this. I am sure there are many other ways, but this works for me and as far as I can tell, is the traditional method.
looks wonderful. Where do you get your tape?
coucou Heather, ton pétassoun est drôlement bien réussi. Bravo !
On va pouvoir le voir en vrai au 2ème salon du boutis....
J'utilise aussi le fil Gutterman.
Gros bisous.
Superbes photos, ton pétasson est magnifique et le tuto pour la pose de la tresse parfait !
Beautiful! Thank you so much for showing the finishing instructions. I'm working on a petassoun right now and will try your method. And I too, would like to know where you get the tape. Thank you!!
Perfect! It is wonderful finishing for boutis. I am looking forward to seeing it in May!
Hi ladies,
Thanks for the kind comments !
Re the tape: I am using one that I purchased in France some time ago. I will look to see if I can find something similar locally, and will let you know if I do.
I'd like to know what kind of tape from France. I know you can buy all kinds of things online these days and if it's the right thing to buy then I will. Thanks Heather!
OH Heather! This is breathtaking!!!! Congratulations
Magnifique boutis.
J'aime beaucoup cette finission que tu as montée de main de maître
Hi Heather, I found a lacette braid cotton on www.boutiquenanou.fr under their boutis supplies. Is this what you use?
That is a beautiful petasson. I am unfamiliar with that finishing tape and have never seen anyone use it, but I think that it makes for a very clean, neat finished edge and will look for the tape and give it a try. Great directions as well. Thanks.


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Business Basic Instincts
Commodore Consulting, LLC
Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 8:00 AM - Friday, October 3, 2014 at 5:00 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Access to Capital | Marketing & Networking | Leadership Development | Proposal Writing & Contracts |
2 Day Workshop
October 2 & 3, 8am-5pm
Workshop Description: This course gives business owners information on how to organize key elements to start and maintain a profitable sustainable business. The workshop is led by business experts experienced with many aspects of starting and running a business. These experts are practitioners with previous experience working for the Small Business Administration, Commercial, and Government Contracting.
In this TWO- day conference you will learn about:
- Business Finance
- Marketing & Networking
- Leadership Development
- Contract Formation and Compliance
- Proposal Writing
Earn 14 CEU Learning Credits
How you will benefit:
Formulate a clear, concise, fluid business plan to help you get business loans & engage with investors.
Develop marketing strategies to grow your business with government and commercial businesses.
Gain a heightened awareness of one's strengths as they pertain to leadership.
Convey a professional image & technical knowledge with better proposal writing.
Learn negotiation strategies to help win more favorable contract terms.
Understand how contracts are formed and how to handle compliance issues.
About the Speaker:
Ms. Shené Commodore, CPCM
Ms. Commodore is President of Commodore Consulting, LLC. As a certified professional contracts manager (CPCM), Ms. Commodore has helped businesses generate over $20 million in annual sales. For over 20 years, she has been providing contract management, acquisition studies, proposal writing, marketing, training, and business development services to the Government and Commercial Sector. Industry focus has been for healthcare, engineering, IT, marketing, security, and construction industries. Ms. Commodore is also the 2014 SIA Statesman Award winner for her contribution of professional time, leadership and resources to position SIA to address the public policy challenges impacting the electronic physical security industry.
Price Includes
Workbook to complete your finance marketing and leadership plans
3 free hours of executive coaching sessions. These follow up executive sessions must ake place within 30 days of this training.
Food and refreshments will be provided.
When & Where
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Harry has finally defeated voldemort. Hogwarts is shut...
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dan and phil. what a love story. this is how it goes. do you believe in phan?? this is going to be a phan oneshot to the song happy little pill by Troye sivan from his EP TRXYE. enjoy and stay sweet ;3
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Not a bad pair of breasts.
Well I mean, Angelina Jolie does come off as a total fucking cunt. I am just amazed that someone is actually calling her on it. Speaking of Angelina, she looks like she's a ten-zillion year old mummified corpse lately, what gives?
Angelina is a fucking cunt and Brad Pitt is a no talent ass-clown. Period. No greater truth has ever been spoken, bravo CH.
What a bunch of children post comments here. You have no idea the depth of immaturity and outright shallowness you display. Have you the vocabulary and the ability to understand the criticism? I doubt it. You will get it when you grow up; if you survive.
F should all start referring to Angie as The Fucking Cunt. Brilliant!
Why would anyone call their friend "irrelevant"? seems pretty rude. Everything she said about Angie is, however, true.
Who is the designer of this dress? Kinda cute.


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Hi foamers ,
I want to import a 3D mesh from GAMBIT to openfoam...
I know that fluentMeshToFoam converts a 2D mesh and fluent3DMeshToFoam converts a 3D mesh.
Is there any problems if I use fluentMeshToFoam for converting a 3D mesh??
Actually I want to use -writeSets and we know this command must be used for fluentMeshToFoam and it can't use for fluent3DMeshToFoam...
Do you think there is any problems?? Is it wrong??
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just comments: Based on my limited experience, fluentMeshToFoam can be used to convert the 3D mesh, it will not affect the simulation results. Now I am using the Fluent3DMeshToFoam becuase my current meshes are complex and multiple bodies from ICEM. However I cannot tell the underlying difference between these two differences.
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I think it can use for converting 3D mesh and there is not any problems...
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Spring 2014 Registration Instructions
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Getting Started
Before you register for classes, you must meet with your adviser and obtain their approval to begin registering. That approval will come in the form of a six digit PIN given to you by your adviser--the PIN allows you to register for classes once your start day and time have come. Instructions on how to register in 1600grand are located at the bottom of this page.
Registration Dates
- Spring 2014 Registration Begins November 18 (see #2 in the student section below)
- Spring 2014 Registration Ends December 6
- Classes Begin on January 27!
- Drop/Add Period is January 27 - February 7
- Grading Option Deadline is February 21
Things to Remember
You will be charged a $100 late fee (and have to wait until the start of the new semester) if you don't register by December 6, so pay close attention to your registration start time and the registration deadline.
You will need the PIN that comes from your adviser anytime you want to change your registration on the web--save it. The PIN must be six digits for registering for Spring.
ACTC Courses must be registered for in person at the Registrar's Office with a blue cross-registration form.
All tutorials (601-604), independent projects (611-614), internships (621-624), preceptorships (631-634) and Honors independent projects (641-644) must be registered for in person at the Registrar's Office with the appropriate signed form. The signatures of the sponsoring professor and the department chair are required for all independents and tutorials. Internships and preceptorships require learning contracts. For internships, the contracts are available at the Internship Office and registrations must be signed for by the Director of the Internship Program, Michael Porter. Preceptorship learning contracts are available at the Office of Academic Programs, and registrations must be signed for by the Director of Academic Programs, Ann Minnick. Not all departments grade these the same way--check in the college catalog.
You cannot register for more than 18 credits via the web. If you want to register for more than 18 credits, you must do so in person in the Registrar's Office. No student can register for more than 20 credits. You may find fee information in the college catalog.
If you are having trouble getting registered, please give us a call at x6200 or stop by the Registrar's Office.
Spring 2014 Class Schedule and Registration
1600grand is where the spring class schedule and registration can be found.
We have prepared documents to help students get registered and help faculty with their advising.
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1600grand How to Register
- See your adviser. Before you can register for next semester you must meet with your adviser. When your adviser is satisfied that you've met your advising obligations, they will give you a PIN (four digits for registering for fall and six digits for registering for spring). You will need the PIN when you begin registering and also to make changes to your registration, so hang on to it.
- Find your start time. Go to the Spring 2014 Registration Times to determine the first time you can register. If your registration start time falls during a class, you should register following your class. You have from that start time until the last day of registration to register and make changes. Once registration ends you will not be able to make changes until the new semester begins.
- Search the class schedule. Go to the Registration Tools channel and click on "Look Up Classes." Select the term you want to search within and click SUBMIT. You are now in the query screen for the search. There are many options you can limit your search by. To see only English classes, select English from the Subject box (holding the CTRL key will let you select multiple choices). Now click CLASS SEARCH at the bottom of the page.
To see the entire class schedule do not limit any options and then in the Subject box click on American Studies, drag the slider on the right of the box down to the bottom, and then hold the shift key while clicking once on Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. This will select all of your options.
- Add Classes. There are a few different ways you can go about this. One option is to click the check-box to the left of the courses you want to add and then at the bottom of the page click REGISTER—there will be a "C" next to the course instead of a check box if the course is closed. You will then be taken to the Add or Drop Classes screen. Under Current Schedule you can see what you have successfully registered for.
In the Add or Drop Classes screen you can add classes if you have their CRNs. Use the worksheet at the bottom to enter the CRN (a number unique to each section of a class or lab) or you can click CLASS SEARCH and repeat step three. Keep in mind the courses you've already added so you can avoid schedule conflicts. If you need to drop classes, you can do so by selecting the "Dropped via Web" option from the Action box next to the course you want to drop.
Once you are inside Registration (adding/dropping courses or searching the course schedule), you can click on the RETURN TO MENU option in the top-right corner of the page to be taken back to a menu where you can switch which function you're using. You might want to do this if you are searching the class schedule but need to go back and see what you've already added.
Common Errors
As with any other system, if you do something that this one doesn't like, it will tell you about it.
Closed: See Instructor/Dept– If the instructor of the course you've tried to add is keeping a waiting list, you will need to contact them directly. If not, the department may ask the Registrar's Office to reopen the course.
LINK ERROR: B1 REQUIRED –You tried to add just a lecture section for a course that also has a lab section. Add the lecture and the lab during the same add attempt.
LINK ERROR: C1 REQUIRED – You tried to add just a lab section for a course that also has a lecture section. Add the lab and the lecture during the same add attempt.
PREQ and TEST SCORE-ERROR – This course has a prerequisite that the system can't see that you have. If you are using a course that is not traditionally used to fulfill the prerequisite for a course, obtain the permission of the instructor online or with their signature on an add/drop form that can then be brought in to the Registrar's Office.
TIME CONFLICT WITH xxxxx – Instead of xxxxx you will see a CRN. In this case it is saying that the class listed next to this error was not added because it conflicted with the course with the CRN xxxxx. If you would have preferred that the other course be added, simply drop the conflicting course from the list above and then go back and add the other course.


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'sNice owner Mike Walter has been scrambling to get rid of all hydrogenated oils on his menu since New York City passed a ban on trans-fats last year. First it was the cream cheese (Tofutti); then the more insidious margarine (Willow Run soy-based – three grams each serving, and three boxes in my freezer right now). Mike Walter thought his Tofutti American cheese was okay. Mike Walter was wrong.
"You can go to McDonalds," Walter said when I broke the bad news. "You can sit on the couch all day smoking Marlboros. But you can't have Tofutti."
So why didn't Walter know that? Because Tofutti flouts the law. Food manufacturers are required to include a "trans fat" count on the Nutritional Information of all products. Tofutti cheese lacks this basic info, and so, in turn, do restaurants such as s'Nice and Foodswings. It's great to see Walter and 'sNice making an effort to change. But perhaps a mystery has been solved: is this where that awful plastic cheese smell comes from..?
This is part three of SuperVegan's "No more trans-fats? But how will I go on?" series on the ban as it affects vegans in New York City (unlike those in LA – see, I don't hate everything about LA!). Read part one and part two, and eat Tofutti cheese on your sandwiches here and here – if you're into that sort of thing.
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The manufacturing renaissance underway in Texas and Louisiana helped boost New Orleans-based Entergy Corp.'s second-quarter earnings to $189.4 million, or $1.05 per share, compared to $163.7 million, or 92 cents per share, a year ago.
Strong demand from industrial customers and solid performance from the company's wholesale nuclear power business helped drive results, Entergy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Leo Denault said.
The refining, chemicals and small industrial segments, with help from plant expansions, led the industrial increase, according to Entergy. Growth in the areas serviced by Entergy Texas Inc. and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana LLC, which serves the Baton Rouge region, accounted for about 85 percent of the 5.3 percent increase in industrial power sales.
Entergy also said since June, the company has signed economic development projects totaling roughly 100 megawatts. One megawatt is enough electricity to power 1,000 homes.
Still, the company's performance didn't quite meet Wall Street analysts' expectations. Stock analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had forecast earnings of $1.15 per share on revenue of $2.94 billion. Entergy reported revenue of $3 billion.
Entergy's stock dropped $1.36, or 1.8 percent, to $74.99.
Entergy delivers electricity to 2.8 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.


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- Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture
- The Bartlett School of Architecture
- Faculty of the Built Environment
Iain Borden is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he is also Vice-Dean Education for The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, having previously been Vice-Dean Communications (2010-15) and Head of the Bartlett School of Architecture (2001-09).
As an architectural historian and urban commentator, my work has explored various interdisciplinary intersections of architectural history, cultural history, critical theory and urbanism. I am particularly interested in the ways in which urban and architectural spaces are experienced and perceived by people after the moment at which these spaces have been first constructed - that is, the various ways in which buildings and cities constantly change and evolve depending on their different uses and lives over many years and through different media. My inaugural professional lecture – "Machines of Possibility" (2004) – describing this approach is available for download.
My wide-ranging research interests within architecture and urban culture are described below. A specialist on the history and practice of skateboarding, most recently I have also completed a history of automobile driving, urban experience and cinema, now being followed by new work on an experiential history of the buildings and spaces of London. I continue to research on skateboarding, and regularly consult and advise those wishing to engage with skateboarding and skateboarders. I operate extensively in the public arena, making numerous media appearances on the radio and television worldwide, while also curating and participating in exhibitions, debates, symposia, workshops and other academic and public events worldwide.
An Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, I have guided architectural education and research internationally, helping to write the QAA Benchmarking Statement for Architecture (2006-10), acting as a Strategic Reviewer for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2011-12), evaluating refereed articles and book proposals for over 40 journals and publishers, as well as assessing research funding applications in countries such as Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Singapore, USA and the UK.
Research by Iain Borden explores how architecture and cities are experienced and re-used by members of the public.
Architecture and cities are crucial to how people live and society operates. Without homes, shops and parks, without offices, workplaces and airports, our world would grind to a halt. As a historian and theorist of architecture and urban culture, I am interested not just in how our cities function but also how they are designed, what they mean to people and how they are experienced.
Ultimately, architecture is assessed by those who use it everyday, and so much of my research is about how people not trained in architecture perceive the cities they live in. To do this, I have studied a diverse range of subjects and places, from Italian renaissance piazzas to surveillance cameras in shopping malls, from architectural modernism to recent postmodernism, from issues of gender and ethnicity in cities to the way architecture is represented in cinema and photography. In particular, I have completed an in-depth study of the urban practice of skateboarding, looking at how skateboarders adopt modern cities as their own pleasure-ground, creating a concrete wonderland with its own subculture of clothes, attitudes and actions. I have also extended this investigation into the world of automobile driving, looking at movies to explore how people's experiences of the city from the car changes their engagement with architecture and urban space. Recent work explores how specific places and buildings in cities worldwide can be encountered through different kinds of social engagement, such as memory and risk-taking.
Authored and co-edited publications include:
• Forty
Ways to Think About Architecture: Architectural History and Theory Today (2014).
• The Dissertation: a Guide for Architecture Students (3rd revised ed., 2014; Chinese ed. 2010).
• Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes (2013).
• Bartlett Designs: Speculating With Architecture (2009).
• Transculturation: Cities, Spaces & Architectures in Latin America (2005).
• Bartlett Works (2004).
• The City Cultures Reader (revised ed., 2003).
• Manual: the Architecture & Office of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (2003).
• Skateboarding Space & the City: Architecture & the Body (2001; Japanese ed. 2006; revised version forthcoming).
• The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture & Social Space (2001).
• The New Babylonians, n.151 of Architectural Design (AD), v.71 n.3, (June 2001).
• InterSections: Architectural Histories & Critical Theories (2000).
• Gender Space Architecture: an Interdisciplinary Introduction (1999).
• Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture in the City (1996).
• Architecture & the Sites of History: Interpretations of Buildings & Cities (1995).
A selection of articles are available at http://ucl.academia.edu/IainBorden/
Iain Borden has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in architecture and urbanism at the Bartlett School of Architecture since 1989. He is also currently Vice-Dean Education of The Bartlett.
Teaching at all levels, from undergraduate and masters to PhD, I have developed several new modules and courses. In particular, I have developed the 'Representations of Cities' course within MA Architectural History. This module reviews the variety of ways in which cities have been conceptualised in recent urban and cultural theory, and considers how the city can be understood as a set of differing cultural experiences: experiences of time, space, social identity, artistic interventions etc. Methodologically, the module introduces some of the main architectural and critical theories – such as the work of Lefebvre, Habermas, Tschumi, Debord, Simmel, Le Corbusier, de Certeau, Rossi, Deleuze, Derrida, Benjamin and Baudrillard etc - relating to the experience of the city. In particular, the category of social space is introduced as an important concept which mediates between different disciplines, and links thinkers who have considered the intersection of buildings, cities and people.
My PhD students - many funded by the AHRC or other international sponsors - conduct research into a wide range of related areas, including (previous and current work): colonial and postcolonial architecture and urbanism in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia and Taiwan; media and architectural imagery in London and Shanghai; everyday spaces, housing, landscape and post-apartheid architecture in South Africa; turnpike roads in the UK; construction sites in 1960s Paris; Deleuze, cinema and the London Underground; British amusement parks; psychotopography in the work of LA novelist Steve Erickson; capoeira and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro; the concept and condition of stasis; and graffiti-like writings on everyday urban surfaces.
As Director and Head of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture from 2001-09, I had oversaw all aspects of its teaching programmes, including matters of resourcing and staffing, quality assurance, professional accreditation and course development. I have also served as Vice-Dean Academic Affairs and Faculty Tutor for the Bartlett, been a member of the RIBA Education Committee from 2003-10 and chair of the RIBA President's Medals Dissertation Prize (1999-2003), and acted as Council Member and Vice-Chair of SCHOSA (2006-09).
External and PhD examining has been conducted at Witswaterand University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths, Slade School of Fine Art, University of Strathclyde, Central St. Martins, National University of Singapore, University of East London, University of Nottingham and Middlesex University.
I have also been involved in teaching through various workshops and visiting appointments at several other institutions worldwide, including the Architectural Association, University of Westminster, School of African & Oriental Studies, Royal College of Art, Technische Universität (Berlin), Ayoama Gakuin University (Tokyo) and Oslo School of Architecture.
|Vice-Dean Education
|Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
|UCL, United Kingdom
|2010 – 2015
|Vice-Dean Communications
|Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
|UCL, United Kingdom
|Professor of Architecture & Urban Culture
|Bartlett School of Architecture
|UCL, United Kingdom
|2001 – 2009
|Bartlett School of Architecture
|UCL, United Kingdom
|2000 – 2001
|Vice-Dean Academic Affairs
|Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
|UCL, United Kingdom
|1999 – 2002
|Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture
|Bartlett School of Architecture
|UCL, United Kingdom
|1999 – 2014
|Director of Architectural History & Theory
|Bartlett School of Architecture
|UCL, United Kingdom
|1996 – 1999
|Sub-Dean and Faculty Tutor
|Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
|UCL, United Kingdom
|1990 – 1991
|Tutor in General Studies
|Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
|1989 – 1999
|Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Architectural History
|Bartlett School of Architecture
|UCL, United Kingdom
|1989 – 1992
|Research Consultant
|Building Use Studies Ltd, London, United Kingdom
|Doctor of Philosophy – Architecture
|University College London
|Master of Arts – Architectural History
|University of California at Los Angeles
|Master of Science – Architectural History
|University College London
|BA Hons
|Bachelor of Arts (Honours) – Combined Historical Studies
|University of Newcastle upon Tyne