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How to choose a graduate program
When deciding to pursue a graduate degree, in sustainable development or otherwise, most people face three nagging questions: What degree should I get? What specific area should I focus on? How do I go about finding the right program and university?
Graduate school is a significant investment of time, money and energy; you want to be sure your decision will advance your career. Here are five things to consider when choosing a graduate program.
Fair warning: We repeatedly nudge you to email or call people to ask questions. We cannot stress this enough. Grad school is the time for you to get proactive about your education. Find opportunities for yourself and dive right in — because no one is going to do it for you.
1. What is my passion?
If you get a graduate degree, it should be in something that you are passionate about, and will lead you to a career you want. Grad school is an investment and comes with substantial costs. You will have homework on nights and weekends, team projects with (potentially difficult) partners, and plenty of additional academic and personal hoops. You may be passionate about ICT4D in Africa, but before heading out to warm Kenyan nights, you may have to spend two to three years battling winter storms in Ann Arbor, Michigan — so you should be sure before you commit.
2. Do I want to work with this adviser?
When pursuing a research-focused degree, you should choose a program primarily because of an adviser. Your adviser will be your primary contact into the broader academic, administrative, and in some cases employment world. Sometimes, they may even become a lifelong mentor.
Prior to applying to schools, contact potential advisers by phone, email or personal meeting. Talk to their current students. Learn about the professor's working style, the successes of past students, the career goals of current students and opportunities provided by the school.
3. What resources does the university offer?
Grad school is an opportunity to dive into a program and the larger campus ecosystem. You will have fewer distractions than you did in undergrad and more time to devote to building your professional identity. What opportunities in and around the school you attend will help you do this? Ask lots of questions, but remember that the program officers are trying to recruit you to their school. Make sure you talk with current students — they often have more honest insights.
3 things to consider when evaluating graduate programs
1. Events and resources on campus. Often programs or departments will have a weekly seminar. Are the speakers faculty members from the school or other institutions? Do people from local industries come on campus? Look up the website for the school's career services office. Does it seem to focus on undergraduate job placement, or do they have resources for graduate students as well?
2 Multiple disciplines. Does the school specialize in a given field? Or does it have diverse strengths? For instance, I was looking to attend graduate school in engineering, but I still wanted to take MBA, law, and policy classes. When visiting schools, I was sure to ask how easy it was to enroll in courses from other disciplines and whether or not they would count toward my degree.
3. Ecosystem opportunities. What ecosystems exist on campus that you can plug into? Some programs may have a history of research turning into startups, others may be closely attached to large corporations, and still others may be focused on placing students into internships with the government. If you're interested in conducting research in developing countries or jump-starting ventures there, travel funding is an extremely important factor. Think about what you may want to do and how the school can help you to achieve it.
4. What career paths do graduates of the program pursue?
Schools have different levels of relationships with corporations, nonprofits, multilaterals and other organizations. Say you are passionate about tech entrepreneurship. Is there going to be a mountain of international development organizations recruiting at a small private school in the Midwest? Probably not. Look specifically at the strengths of the schools you are applying to. Ask the program director if you can be connected with successful alumni or how often companies come to campus and what networking opportunities the school sets up.
5. How do I get into and pay for a graduate program?
Financing your graduate degree will depend on what degree you pursue and where you pursue it. Follow these tips to improve your chances of securing fellowships and scholarships.
Show your interest. If you're really passionate about a program, make sure the admissions officers know that! Visit the school and set up times to meet with the fellowships office. If you're interested in teaching either undergraduate or graduate classes, it's also good to ask about how to apply for teaching assistantships.
Write a good essay. No matter how stellar your college GPA or GRE scores were or whether you have done wildly impressive things, you will be judged based on essays. The goal of an essay is to tell a good story. Anybody should be able to read your essay and understand the value of it. Therefore, give it to multiple people to read and critique — your mom, a professor, your boss, or a good friend. Each reader will have different insights and will strengthen your chances of producing a great essay.
Have your act together. Applications to grad school and fellowship opportunities require a lot of logistical planning. If you're hoping to pivot your career aspirations or are looking into interdisciplinary programs, you may have to take additional courses before applying. Successful applicants have all their information to the intended recipient by the deadline if not well before.
READ: How international students can finance a US education
6. Who do I want to spend my time with?
Every program has a culture. For MBAs, there are the case studies, networking events, and weekend parties. In engineering programs, it is solitude and homework, followed by labs and conversations about research. Design programs are known for long hours in the studio, real-world project work, and critique sessions. When you are selecting a program, go to the visitation days that are available, but also look for other opportunities to experience the school. Talk to the students currently in the program. See if you can crash on their couch for a night and ask as many questions as you can.
Also think about the location of the program and the general community that you will join. You will be in school for several years, so you want to live in a place where you can grow both academically and personally.
7. What is the brand recognition of the program?
Graduate school is your last degree. Unless you're going to get multiple master's degrees – which probably is not as useful as it sounds, except in certain cases — your graduate degree is what will stand on your résumé as your final education record. Therefore, it should mean something. Think about the alumni network of the school and the brand recognition. When you say, "I got my master's here," are people going to respond by saying, "Wow! That is a great program" or "Hmm, I have never heard of that school."
Global or national brand recognition may not matter as much if you want to work in the location or specialty near the school, but you still want to be recognizable in that community. And if you are pursuing a global career with a large organization or multilateral agency, or to build credibility as an entrepreneur, you may want a compelling degree from a prestigious school.
This article is an abbreviated version of a chapter from the book, "Solving Problems that Matter (and Getting Paid for It)," edited by Khanjan Mehta, that delves into STEM careers in social innovation and global sustainable development.
You know you need a postgraduate degree to advance in a global development career, but deciding on a program, degree and specialization can be overwhelming. In partnership with APSIA, Duke Center for International Development and the MPA/ID Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, we are digging into all things graduate school and global development in a weeklong series called Grad School Week. Join online events and read more advice on pursuing a post-graduate education here.


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Great cruise Itinerary
Sail Date: September 01, 2011
Reviewed: 5 years ago
Traveled As: Couple
Room Type: Suite
The ports of call itinerary was superb. We thoroughly enjoyed each excursion. RCL was well organized which made the logistics of moving several hundred people through each port easy.
Only negative comment concerns the food. The meats were tough and fish dishes appeared to be frozen fish stick quality.
Pros: Ports of Call
Cons: Food
Recommends Vision of the Seas? Yes!
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|Every entertainer was great.
|Service and Staff
|We had a concierge on the Suite level floor who was superb. Always helpful. Only person that we encountered that was not helpful was the maitre D in the dining room.
|Cabin / Stateroom
|Ship Quality
|Food and Dining
|Food options were good, but the quality of the meat and fish entrees was poor.
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|Cadiz (Seville), Spain
Instead of Cadiz, we took the Seville tour. Our guide was great and the sites were most interesting.
Don't Miss: City tour of Seville
|Vigo, Spain
Did not expect this port to be as good as it was. Loved the city. Our tour of the Galecian vineyards was cancelled since the harvest was early. We walked the town of Vigo on our own. It was easy to find our way around.
Don't Miss: Citadel
|Cagliari, Sardinia
We toured on our own instead of taking the RCL sponsored tour. I would highly recommend as it gave us enough time to see the sites we wanted to see. However, I would not recommend walking the city unless you are in very good physical condition.
Don't Miss: National Archaeology Museum
|Malaga, Spain
Don't Miss: Alhambra in Granada
|Le Havre (Paris), France
I can not say enough about the visit to the Normandy WWII Beach sites, museum and American soldier grave site. Tour guide was a wealth of knowledge.
Don't Miss: Normandy World War II beach sites
|Zeebrugge (Bruges), Belgium
|Wish we had gone to Brugge instead of Brussels, but we did enjoy Brussels. Next time we will go to Brugge.
|Lisbon, Portugal
I would skip "Alfama." It was dirty and was meant to drive tourists into their local stores to buy souvenirs.
Don't Miss: Lisbon Cathedral
|Copenhagen, Denmark
Don't Miss: City tour and visit to Crown Jewels

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text: When your car tells you to inflate the tyres, you know it's time to pull into the nearest service station. The technology to monitor the pressure and deliver the message is not new, but it is among a raft of safety features gaining priority on the makers' agenda. Voice control, voice recognition and aural information systems - in the manner of HAL, the thinking, planning and eventually, plotting computer in 2001, A Space Odyssey - have long been promised in the automotive world. For years, manufacturers have flannelled that cars that tell their owners how they feel ("a little hot, a litte short of oil, ready for my next service, please ... ") were just around the corner. But development and other costs usually have emerged to inhibit their widespread use. Given the impetus of the Ford Explorer-Firestone tyre fiasco in the US - the claimed death toll is now 148 - safety authorities are urging car makers to quicken the pace. For the past year, makers have foreshadowed cars that speak their minds, especially in safety-related areas such as tyre pressures. Technology to sense when tyre pressures are low - and to sound the alert in a synthesised voice - is available. It's designed to be a more insistent reminder than the driver's memory, a notoriously unreliable monitor. A recent Australian survey estimated that 14 per cent of motorists never checked tyre pressures and 57 per cent checked every three months. Given the dire consequences of neglect, some electronic overriding might be necessary. Holden aims to have its Telematics system available in some models next year. Based on Motorola technology and the General Motors OnStar system, it uses global positioning system (GPS) satellite technology and wireless communication to provide roadside assistance, emergency calling, remote door unlocking and other services. It can also be engineered to monitor tyres. The US Congress has mandated that within three years all new cars must be fitted with basic warning systems to indicate to the driver when a tyre is significantly under-inflated. There are already systems (as used on the military Humvee and its Hummer "civilian" counterpart) that adjust tyre pressure on the move. Low pressure is considered a major factor in the tyre tread separations that have been linked to the Explorer-Firestone fatalities, causing a massive and expensive recall of product by Firestone. Underinflation allows heat build-up that can damage the tyre's internal structure, leading to failure. Tyre makers have struggled to sell new safety measures to car makers, who tend to balk at the increased cost, leaving proven technologies languishing. Pressure monitors have existed for decades. In the 1970s, Congress tried to require them after an earlier Firestone recall, but the Reagan Administration axed the initiative as part of its effort to "streamline government regulation". Cars now sold with monitors are thin on the ground and the signalling systems are basic. Some are as simple as a buzzer or flashing light on the instrument display; more sophisticated systems use an on-board diagnostic centre to allow a driver to scroll through digital readouts of each tyre's pressure. This requires a compliant driver, however. Enter the synthesis voice system, which will tell the occupants when the tyres are low on air. This too requires goodwill on the driver's part - some drivers, as they did with airbags in the US, would spend more time trying to disable the alert than it took to check the tyres.


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Chennai, Mar 31 (UNI) Madras High Court today granted anticipatory bail to All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi State Vice-President Ernavoor Narayanan in a kidnapping case filed by the city police against him and two others.
Mr Justice K Ragupathi allowed the bail petition filed by Narayanan, M Chandrasekaran and A Raman upon furnishing a bond for Rs 10,000 and two sureties for a like sum. He directed them to appear before the police station concerned for two weeks and sign before the investigation officer.
The petitioners submitted that they were running a finance company and one Sudalaikannu had borrowed over Rs two lakh from them. Sudalaikannu had also availed a loan for Rs 5.25 lakh from a private bank by mortgaging the house in his wife's name and the said bank had brought the property for sale. The complainant had then approached them with an offer to sell the property for Rs nine lakh, to which they agreed and settled his dues.
Subsequently, the complainant's wife had executed a general Power of Attorney in favour of their company, on the basis of which they had executed a sale agreement for a consideration of Rs nine lakh.
However, the complainant then lodged a complaint with the Kolathur Inspector, alleging that they had kidnapped him and his wife and executed the power of attorney. The complaint was totally false, fabricated and motivated, they contended, praying to grant them bail.


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Navigli Beautiful Loft wi-fi unlimited
Size60 m²
Floor No.3
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
- Smoking allowed
- Washer/dryer
Accommodation summary
|via Lombardini Elia, 20143 Milan, Italy
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The loft is on the third floor in the courtyard - so it is quiet and away from the noise and smells of the premises and of the people.
In the same way there are some famous restaurants, very good, very well-known and not too expensive.
The tram passes a few meters from the house and in a few minutes on foot you can reach the metro porta Genova, with which he quickly crosses the entire city.
The building is obviously vintage-style Milan and, in addition, has been restored so philologically correct, respecting the old style.
The tram passes a few meters from the house and in a few minutes on foot you can reach the metro porta genova, with which he quickly crosses the entire city.
The building is obviously vintage-style Milan and, in addition, has been restored so philologically correct, respecting the old style.
House rulesRespect and courtesy. Obviously mutual!
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|€ 474
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|€ 1284
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The apartment was exactly like it was described, very small but absolutely adequate if you need a place to stay for a few days in Milan. The location of the apartment is perfect, only a few metres to the tram/bus and the autostrada is also very easy to reach. The only little problem by car are the parking spots, especially in the evening there are not many around and you have to look carefully.
Anna is a very nice person and very flexible, if you have a problem or a question you can be sure that in a short time you will have a good solution/answer.
Everything fine! :)
Very nice host. The apartment is located 10 minutes from downtown. Guarded parking is in the street next day for € 15, which avoids the problem of parking. Sheets and towels are included. In short, that's good!
Hôte très agréable. L'appartement est situé à 10 minutes du centre ville. Un parking gardé se trouve dans la rue à côté pour 15€ la journée, ce qui évite le problème du stationnement. Draps et serviettes sont inclus. Bref, que du bon!
Person really nice and helpful. Not knowing that means we used was also offered to pick us up at the meter. The room has everything you need and it was left in the afternoon of the day of check out. See you next time. good a +++
Persona davvero gentile e disponibile. Non sapendo che mezzo utilizzavamo si è anche offerta di venirci a prendere alla metro. La stanza ha tutto il necessario e ci è stata lasciata anche nel pomeriggio del giorno del check out. Alla prossima. ottimo a+++
Anna and a serious person and available; the studio clean quiet and convenient to downtown
Great experience
Anna e una persona seria e disponibile; il monolocale pulito silenzioso e comodo al centro
Ottima esperienza
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No Shelties In The NFL Playoffs?
No matter!
Some Senior alumni from Kansas City Sheltie Rescue are busy planning their watch party for the playoffs. The youngest in this picture is 10 years young.
Back row L-R: Daisy, Cocoa, Angle, Piper and Bailey
Front L-R: Tres and Belle
Love, LOVE this picture, Debbie! So fun!


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Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go
by Naomi Dathan
For everything there is a season.
A season for joy. A season for sorrow. A season for testing.
Jem Perkins has it all — money, a fine house, a handsome husband, and a new baby boy. But when her family fortunes turn, Jem's husband Seth leads her to a new home: a sod house on a Nebraska homestead.
It is a season of growth for Jem as she reluctantly confronts her new realities: back-breaking labor, dangerous illness, and mind-numbing isolation. She learns to embrace her new role as a capable woman and marriage partner and discovers an awareness of God's hand in her life.
Then, on January 12, 1888, the history-making Children's Blizzard sweeps across the land, ushering in a season of hardship she never expected. Can Jem's confidence, marriage, and new-found faith weather the storm?
Praise for Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go
Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go is one of those 'hidden gem' type books.
—Vernadette Barnes
I was captivated by the book and truly cared about what happened to Jem and Seth and their little boy, Charley. And when a reader really cares about the characters, I believe the author has done a superlative job. This Naomi Dathan did with humor and pathos and a true eye for detail. Read it. You'll love it. You'll love Jem and Seth. And you'll be waiting to hear more from Ms. Dathan
—Terry Sykes-Bradshaw
I couldn't put this book down and lost sleep to finish it. I am praying that there will be a second or a series of books for the characters. I want to know more about Jem and Seth, her father, her sisters, William and Susan, and well, all of them! For now I think I'll reread the book! It's a great read. I loved it!
—Myra Johnson
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Homeschool Science Curriculum
Advanced Overview
Highly recommended for Jr. or Sr. high physical science
The advanced version includes all of the standard version's lessons, experiments, and projects and expands it by adding 72 lessons and three projects. It thoroughly supports all of the content standards set by the National Science Education Standards for physical science.
36 chapters 180 lessons
144 Experiments/Activities
10 Projects
Five lessons each week
There are a few basic tools and supplies that will be needed such as a pencil, scissors, paper. For a specific list, click here.
• All necessary materials for the 10 projects and 144 experiments/activities
• Student Logbook – advanced version
• Interactive student text (CD) with 180 lessons & step by step experiment instructions.
• Teacher's Manual
Chapters & Questions
The advanced version adds two lessons per week to the standard version's lessons (included in this course) totaling five lessons each week. These additional lessons cover topics that are more involved and lay a solid foundation for future science courses as well. The follow up questions are designed to reinforce both comprehension and problem solving skills. Click here for lesson samples.
Projects & Experiments
Along with the seven standard version projects, this course adds three more projects designed to further challenge and complete the student's physical science education. Students not only follow the scientific method when conducting their experiments, but they also learn and follow the steps involved in an accurate lab write up. Click here for more details on the projects.
In addition to the vocabulary and review quizzes found at the end of each section, the advanced version includes four quarter exams. Also included are study guides specifically designed to teach the student how to prepare for the exam.
Student logbook & Teacher's Manual
The advanced version student logbook is used to record answers to questions, scientific data, and lab write-ups. Each page is laid out to easily facilitate accurate and clear records of the experiments, resulting in a complete portfolio of the student's work. It also includes an index/glossary. The teacher's manual has assessment pages, answer key, and unit exams. Click here for logbook samples pages.
Physical Science Course
Item #: A-21 Grades 7-10
Student Logbook Included
Comes complete with an interactive and engaging CD, a student logbook, teacher's manual and all necessary materials to complete each project and experiment.
Item #: LBA-2
One Student Logbook is included with the curriculum. If you would like an additional logbook for a second student, choose this item.
Cathy Duffy Review
"All of this makes the Standard or Advanced Physical Science kit an excellent choice for those looking for a hands-on physical science course."
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A range of general test shots are shown over the next two pages. In some cases, the full size image has been reduced for bandwidth purposes, and a crop taken from the original full resolution image has been placed below it to show the overall image quality. Some other pictures may be clicked to view the original full-size image.
Here's the usual detail test shot of the West Window of Exeter Cathedral, for you to compare with other cameras. See below for a full res crop, or click to see the whole picture. File size: 7.6MB
The lens and sensor record a high level of detail, which is recorded without artefacts thanks to the low compression rate.
The lens produces almost no distortion despite the 24mm wide angle.
Centre sharpness is very good...
...and corner sharpness isn't bad either. There is a little blurring and some chromatic distortion, but it's only in the far corners and pretty minor.
IQ score of 8/10 seems about right for a compact camera, however there are a few points to IQ that didn't get mentioned in the review and are bleeding obvious from what I can make out of sample shots and camera's specification:
- there's visible edge preserving smooth type of noise control applied on even the lowest ISO settings. Small detail is pretty much lost with it so forget about printing small crops out of original JPeGs.
- Lens might be good compared to latest Samsungs you reviewed, it is still a rather slow performer with 3.2-5.7 at 24-240mm range compared to similarly priced Panasonics (even certain Canons), especially at the farthest focal points and overall sharpness at any focal distance hardly impresses.
- Dynamic range is really not improved at all with "Extra Lighting" feature. At best, it is what the name suggests, about +1E stop sensor sensitivity increase. Highlights will get burnt out even more but you'd get a bit more of shadow detail out in a visible range JPeG compression won't flatten out.
All in all, it seems a fairly reasonable compact camera and all this won't matter much to a casual user on a family picnic. Shame about the white balance, tho I'd guess that's something Casio can mend with a new firmware update. Still, no replacement for my aging TZ5 :( What I'm waiting/searching for is close to LX3's image quality (even if on smaller resolution sensor, anything over or around 5MB is plenty if it would mean noise is better controlled) all-in-one in a pocket friendly priced and sized package and a fast, medium range lens. Too much to ask for?
Take care and thanks for making my morning coffee time more bearable with all the new and interesting reviews ;)
I have to totally agree with miha! These high range compacts just cannot tick the right baxes,time the manufacturers lowered their aspirations and produced compacts that put iq as a priority.
Random question. Are there any compact cameras (or DSLRs) that come with an option for an external microphone?
Comparing this camera to a TZ5 is unfair, since the TZ5 a lot thicker and no where near as pocketable.
Williamn - Some of the more advanced DSLRs that feature HD video recording can use external mics, specifically the Canon EOS 5D MkII, Panasonic Lumix GH1, Nikon D300s and D90, and the Pentax K-7. No compacts do though, at least as far as I know.
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Fourth-round pick Gartrell Johnson enjoyed a dominant career at Colorado State. He was finally given a chance to be "the man" as a senior and responded in a big way, carrying 278 times for 1,476 yards (5.3 ypc) and 12 touchdowns.
This season, the Chargers hope Johnson can replace the power-running component that was lost with the defection of Michael Turner to the Atlanta Falcons. Beyond this season, Johnson could have a much bigger role, depending on what the team does with LaDainian Tomlinson and Darren Sproles.
Is Johnson fully ready for so much responsibility? To find out, SDBoltReport.com's Samantha Fillerup snagged Colorado State recruiting coordinator Greg Peterson for an exclusive interview.
Samantha Fillerup: Johnson enjoyed an impressive career with Colorado State. Will he be able to continue that kind of success in the NFL?
Gartrell Johnson runs away from fellow rookie Larry English during Mini Camp.
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Greg Peterson: I think there's no doubt about Gartrell's ability to play at the next level. There are so many things he can bring to the Chargers. I think it has to do with his work ethic and his character. He is one of the hardest workers I've ever been around, whether it's in the weight room, on the practice field or in the film room. He was a young man that always made a great investment of always being prepared. I know he'll continue those work habits. Regarding his character, he's the type of young man you want on your team. His teammates with the Chargers are going to appreciate him. He's a humble young man; he brings his hard hat and his lunch pail and goes to work every day. Rather than do a lot of talking, he just plays and lets his production speak for itself.
SF: What is the best aspect of his game?
GP: I think he's a very physical type of runner. I think he's a very tough individual. His yards-after-contact statistics are phenomenal. He's a big, strong, physical back that the first guy is not going to bring down. He's going to make those tough yards. People talk about his speed factor, but he can make some big plays. The two other aspects of his game: 1) he's a very good pass protector, and I know the Chargers throw the football quite a bit, so he'll do very well as a pass protector; and 2) he catches the ball out of the backfield very well. He's a guy that really is a complete back and can do a lot of things in that offense.
SF: What part of his game still needs improvement?
GP: I think he would tell you that he'd like to say he can run a 4.5 in the 40 and just be able to make that long-distance run. He had a lot of long runs in his career in college, but I know the speed of the game is better in the NFL and he's a guy that will work hard doing all the right things and try to become a faster running back.
SF: How would you describe Johnson's demeanor on the football field?
GP: He's tough. He was one of our captains and he led on and off the field and in the locker room. He's one of those guys that on game day or on the practice field, he is very intense and very focused and he's going to go to battle each and every day.
SF: Are there any NFL running backs that remind you of Johnson?
GP: I don't know if I get to watch a whole lot of the NFL, so I don't know if I can answer that. The back that the Chargers traded away a year ago to the Atlanta Falcons (Michael Turner), I think [Johnson] may be similar to him in a lot of ways. I don't know if he's as fast, but he's a big, physical back that can make those tough yards and pass protect and catch well.
SF: What preparations did Johnson make in college that will help in the NFL?
GP: I think he has a tremendous work ethic. That's something you can't teach or coach. Every time he would take a hand-off, I don't care if we were doing an inside-run drill, he was looking to run 80 yards to the end zone. It's the same thing in the weight room; when those workouts were over, he was going to do more. From a mental standpoint, he understands the game of football. Our offense we run at Colorado State is very similar to the Chargers and from a scheme standpoint, he's got an advantage coming in there because I think some of the ways we call our plays are the same as the Chargers do. The pass protection schemes are very similar, too. We run a pro-style offense at Colorado State and I think that's a benefit to him.
Lightning Quick
Johnson is not the first of Peterson's proteges to earn a spot in San Diego's backfield. Peterson was the co-offensive coordinator at Kansas State in 2003 and 2004, when Darren Sproles was smashing school records on a weekly basis.
"He is a nice young man," said Peterson of Sproles.


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I'm kinda new to this whole thing and am looking into coming down to this conference. It sounds very interesting and I think I can learn a lot from it! I called the hotel and they told me that all the webmasterworld rooms were booked.
The reservation person said that whoever was in charge of booking the conference would need to call Anne Huffman to request that more rooms in their sister facility (which is connected to their hotel) be opened to webmasterworld guests.
I'm not sure who needs to that but I would appreciate it if you could so we can get more space available. Thanks and I look forward to meeting all of you!
Attached to the south of the Clarion is an EconoLodge MOTEL. 3835 McCoy Road, Bldg. B , Orlando, FL, US, 32812 Phone: (407) 581-1394 Fax: (407) 581-1397
Directly to the north is a Comfort Suites that is pretty nice.
Toll-Free: (800) 936-9417 United States and Canada Phone: (407) 581-7900
Fax: (407) 581-7901
A few blocks down there is supposidly a LaQuinta Inn.
Whew...selling out 500 room hotels!? this is going to be a big time conference folks!
Perhaps someday my desire to vacation and my ability to vacation will coincide.
Perhaps someday the dates of PubCon and the dates of the conference my company runs for our cllients will not coincide! One more year and again I can't make it... though I'll be in Miami Beach in a couple of weeks for a visit anyway.
Seems it'll be better than ever this year, and I only hope that pattern continues and that I can get this other commitment moved to a different weekend next year!


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DOBSON — The municipal filing deadline came and went Friday, leaving three town commissioners to run unopposed in November.
Incumbent commissioners Vonda Comer, Todd Dockery and Robin Testerman will see no opposition in the race for three seats on the Dobson Board of Commissioners.
November will be the first time Comer, 81, appears on the ballot. She was appointed to fill the unexpired term of her husband, Bob Comer, after he resigned from the board in December citing health concerns.
"I want to stay around to be a part of all the good things happening," said Vonda Comer, citing progress the town has made such as Dobson Square Park. "I love this little town, and I want to help it."
Comer said she's not surprised there will be no opposition in November.
"I think we have a great board. We all work together and get along. I think that's so important."
Dockery, 49, is the most-experienced incumbent up for re-election. He served one term on the town board in the early 1990s. In 2010, Dockery was appointed to fill the unexpired term of his late father, and in 2011, he won a bid to be retained in the seat.
Like Comer, Dockery said he believes the lack of opposition in November is a statement of the community's satisfaction with the board.
"I think the community has confidence in what we've done as a board," noted Dockery. "We've opened Dobson Square Park, started a recycling program, facilitated infrastructure improvements and taken a proactive approach in addressing the town's capital needs."
"We've done all this without increasing the tax rate and while keeping water and sewer rates among the lowest in the state."
Testerman, 47, was first elected to the board in 2011, and she will ride her first bid for re-election to an uncontested victory. She is executive director at the Children's Center of Surry Inc.
Testerman also said she hopes the lack of challengers is a reflection of the job she and fellow commissioners are doing.
"I hope it means people are at least OK with the job we are doing," said Testerman, noting she would like to see the board continue to be proactive in matters such as infrastructure improvements.
"I'm excited and honored to have the opportunity to serve the residents of Dobson again," remarked Testerman.
Though incumbents in Pilot Mountain and Elkin will see opposition in November for their seats on the respective town boards, Dobson commissioners may have company in the field of those running unopposed.
As of Friday afternoon, Mount Airy Board of Education members Kate Appler, Wendy Carriker, Mike Marion and Phil Thacker have no opposition in their bids to retain their seats in November. The filing deadline for the city school board is Aug. 5 at noon.
Elkin Board of Education members Richard Brinegar and Haley McCoin Sullivan may also run unopposed. As of Friday, no challengers had filed, and that filing period ends on Aug. 8 at noon.
Andy is a staff writer and may be reached at 415-4698.


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Coast Guard Cutter Valiant to have change of command Friday
MAYPORT, Fla. - A local ship will soon have a new commander.
A change of command ceremony takes place Friday at Naval Station Mayport for the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant.
Commander Adam A. Chamie will take over command from Commander Stephen V. Burdian.
The Valiant's missions include law enforcement, search and rescue and security for ports, waterways and coasts.


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When the resort of Whistler opened 40 years ago, its dream was to host the Winter Olympics.
At last, its moment has arrived. The Games (vancouver2010.com) start this Friday and continue to 28 February, with the Paralympics following from 12 to 21 March. It's actually a great time just to go and ski in Whistler, because a lot of snow has fallen. Ninety per cent of the slopes remain open and pistes at Olympic destinations are always quiet during the Games. Finding somewhere to stay may prove trickier, although Eileen Clarke of Tourism British Columbia stressed: "There's still accommodation available during the Games." She recommends the one-stop shop 2010destinationplanner.com.
Most of the on-snow and ice-sliding events (such as bobsleigh) will be staged in or near Whistler but Vancouver will host the opening and closing ceremonies and most ice-stadium events, along with neighbouring Richmond. Snowboarding and freestyle skiing will be at Cypress Mountain – although it's been unseasonably warm and wet here recently. Most tickets for Olympic events are sold out but there are big-screen fan gatherings, free of charge, in central Whistler and Vancouver. Sports world (01235 544404; sportsworld .co.uk), the official Games ticket seller and tour operator, can still get you to the closing ceremony. It says its Whistler availability is sold out, but five nights' B&B in the nearby four-star Rosedale Hotel is available from £1,360, departing 25 February. Flights will cost you a further £732 per person with British Airways (ba.com) and you'll need to stump up an extra £281 for closing ceremony tickets.
If you have a bed in the resort and are holding a ticket, the Brits to follow include snowboarder Zoe Gillings and downhiller Chemmy Alcott, who are hoping to equal or better Alain Baxter's surprise slalom bronze in the Salt Lake City Games of 2002. There may also be British medal winners in the bobsleigh, skeleton and, of course, curling. But the chances of beating the British record medal tally – four – in the 1924 Chamonix Olympics, look slim.
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Astor Hotel Athens, Astor Hotel is located in Athens' historical triangle, のみ 100 metres from Syntagma Square. It offers views of the Acropolis from its rooftop restaurant and many of its rooms. All of the rooms at the Astor are air conditioned and feature a TV and a mini-fridge. The Astor Hotel has 2 fully-equipped conference rooms, and wireless internet is available in the guest rooms at an extra charge. American buffet breakfast is served at the top-floor Bella Vista Restaurant, where guests can also taste International dishes while enjoying views over the Acropolis. For a relaxing drink with friends or colleagues, the lobby bar is the ideal venue. Astor Hotel is 1 km from Acropolis. Within a short walking distance of the hotel guests can easily reach the Parliament, Plaka, the Temple of Olympian Zeus as well as shops. Syntagma Metro Station is only a couple of blocks away. (アスターホテル Athens hotels 予約).


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There's been some good conversation sparked by my post yesterday on the effects of anti-Pagan propaganda (in this case from Catholic exorcists and the Catholic media outlets who shine a spotlight on them). First, for those who wanted to hear more about the incident I mentioned concerning the Indiana Pagan Pride event, and the tensions that resulted when a Catholic youth event overlapped with it, check out the inaugural post from the new Indiana PNC bureau.Torcyr Storm Gull, who has been the security coordinator for Indianapolis Pagan Pride Day for the last nine years, commented, "Everything worked out beautifully. I had no issues with the organizers of CYO. There was I feel a lot of mis … [Read more...]
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That there is a thread of hostility and distortion against modern Pagan faiths within Catholicism is well documented. My own journey in exploring this murky territory started in 2006 when Catholic pilgrims attacked and threatened Pagans in Glastonbury, leading me to wonder what exactly is being taught to Catholic youth about our faiths. "Maya Pinder, the owner of the shop, said: "We've had to hear comments such as 'burn the witches', we've had salt thrown in our faces and at our shop, people were openly saying they were 'cleansing Glastonbury of paganism'." I truly thought this was just an isolated, ugly, incident. A few bad apples who took the whole "crusader" bit a tad too seriously and … [Read more...]
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There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up.Yesterday, herdsmen and women in Germany celebrated their annual cattle drive down the alpine mountains. According to Getty Images this tradition "dates back through centuries, and in countries like Germany, Switzerland and Austria alm culture has a deep resonance in folk history." If the entire herd survives, the lead cow is decorated with flowers on the return journey. Paganism: Sometimes you get to decorate a cow with flowers. The Salem Gazette reports on last Sunda … [Read more...]
The Action Plan to Stop Christian Witchcraft-Related Child Abuse
The United Kingdom's Department of Education has released a national action plan for dealing with cases of witchcraft and occult-related abuse of children within religious communities. This comes after several high-profile cases of murder and abuse of children related to anti-witchcraft rituals, most prominently the murder of Kristy Bamu, who died while being tortured under the auspices of an "exorcism" at his sister's home.During sentencing, Judge David Paget said the murder had a "sadistic element", adding it was "prolonged torture involving mental and physical suffering being inflicted before death". He added that the ordeal the children were subjected to "almost passes belief". Howe … [Read more...]


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A return, but hardly to normalcy
Sun., Sept. 18, 2005
NEW ORLEANS – The first residents can return Monday to this city of music and Mardi Gras, but they'll come home to massive problems.
Nearly one out of five police officers is missing. At least half of the homes are thought to be uninhabitable. One suburban parish lost every school.
The water's safe to flush, but you can't drink it or shower in it, and officials fear massive sewage backups if people return too quickly.
There are signs of hope, though: Pollution and diseases aren't as bad as feared, the airport is accepting commercial flights and city streets are expected to be dry by the first week of October.
"We're bringing New Orleans back," Mayor Ray Nagin proclaimed Thursday, saying residents can return to some neighborhoods starting Monday and to the French Quarter beginning Sept. 26. "I'm tired of hearing these helicopters. I want to hear some jazz."
Reconstructing the Gulf Coast will take $200 billion by some estimates, much of it for New Orleans. What will it take to restore the city? Here's a look piece by piece:
Nagin said Thursday that half of New Orleans' 215,000 homes may have to be bulldozed.
For now, "home" will mean many different things to New Orleans' families: Cruise ships on the Mississippi, scattered hotel rooms, rented apartments and a city of trailers in a state-owned pasture swarming with "lovebug" flies north of Baton Rouge.
During the next two weeks, Nagin said, about 182,000 of the city's nearly 500,000 residents will be able to return to neighborhoods that escaped the worst flooding.
But tens of thousands of other people will be looking at mobile homes. The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to provide 300,000 households with temporary housing for as long as five years; some trailer communities could house as many as 25,000 people.
"It may not be on the scale of building the pyramids," said Brad Gair, FEMA's area housing coordinator, "but it's pretty close."
FEMA plans 100,000 temporary living arrangements by Oct. 31. As of Friday, 163,000 families were still living in shelters.
Not everyone will come back. Thousands of evacuees scattered around the country are looking for homes and finding jobs in their adopted communities. Nagin said he's optimistic 250,000 people will move back within six months.
Drinking water and sewage
Water nearly destroyed this city; it will take water to bring it back.
New Orleans' main drinking water treatment and pumping station has groaned back to life. By Friday, it was at more than two-thirds normal capacity, pumping 100 million gallons a day of chlorine-treated water.
Flushing is fine, but drinking and bathing are discouraged for now. Contaminated water seeped into the pipes through large breaks in the water lines.
Once workers can "flush out" the 350-mile network of pipes with chlorine, it should take two weeks for the water to be drinkable, said Mark LeChevallier, a water quality expert.
The flooded sewer system has state environmental officials worrying about waste backing up as residents return. The city's largest wastewater treatment plant was still shut, surrounded by 8 feet of water Thursday.
If too many people return before repairs are made, said Aimee McReynolds, a scientist with the state's wastewater division, "we could have sewage going into the street or backing up into homes."
Public safety
The New Orleans police department lost control of the city after Katrina struck, leading to chaos, as well as desertions and even suicides by at least two officers. Even now, police Superintendent Eddie Compass can't account for 300 of his 1,700 officers – nearly 18 percent of the force – and calls the deserters "cowards." As many as 500 patrol cars were swamped by water, a department spokesman said.
City officials sent hundreds of officers to Las Vegas and Atlanta to recuperate from the stress and exhaustion, leaving it to the National Guard to help the remaining officers patrol the streets and enforce a nighttime curfew.
Nagin said the military presence has made his once-dangerous city "probably the safest it's been in many, many years." The Guard has pledged to stay as long as needed, the mayor said – but no one knows how long that will be. Probably months.
Health care
The news on the health front is surprisingly good so far: There have been no major disease outbreaks, despite early fears. The chief complaints have been skin infections, stomach problems, heat stroke, cuts and scrapes, doctors and health officials said.
The bad news: None of New Orleans' major hospitals is running – in fact, Charity Hospital likely will be torn down, according to its owner, Louisiana State University Health System. But emergency rooms at Children's Hospital and Touro Infirmary could be operating within a few days. In adjacent Jefferson Parish, four hospitals are taking patients.
"Katrina's kids," as the 186,000 students displaced by the storm are being called, are slowly enrolling in new schools from Florida to Washington state. Other Louisiana districts have taken in more than 20,000. Texas has nearly 6,000 new schoolchildren.
Every school in suburban St. Bernard Parish east of New Orleans was flooded and the district canceled its year. Six of nine schools in Plaquemines Parish were flooded. Administrators in Orleans Parish district, which operates the city's schools, are still figuring out how many of their 126 buildings can reopen this year.
Louisiana's education secretary has asked the federal government for $2.4 billion to rebuild and pay salaries and benefits for 25,000 displaced teachers and employees.
Some school buildings in Orleans Parish are more than a century old, and there are hopes they can be replaced with FEMA money. "If there is a silver lining to this dark cloud," said the parish's managing director, Sajan George, "we have the opportunity to build a system from scratch."
To get the power and phones back on, the floodwaters need to go away.
Entergy Corp., which provides electricity to the city, and BellSouth Corp. can't reach substations and switching centers to repair them until the waters recede.
Outside the city, Entergy said, most customers had power again by Friday. But in New Orleans itself, only one-quarter of customers had electricity. In demolished St. Bernard Parish, just 1 percent did. BellSouth had 305,000 phone lines out of 4.8 million in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama still out of service Friday.
Both utilities say many customers in New Orleans, including those in the business district, should have service in a week or two.
The roads and bridges to recovery will require billions of dollars – about $2.3 billion, according to Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development estimates. And some of those repairs will take time.
Work to reopen the mangled Twin Span bridge, which links New Orleans to Slidell, La., is expected to last into November; more than half of the eight-mile-long link of Interstate 10 over Lake Pontchartrain was damaged, with some sections buckled out of alignment and others knocked out altogether. The bridge will eventually be rebuilt.
The state says the bill to fix and replace traffic signals and street signs could reach $35 million. And about 9,000 miles of state and parish roads that don't qualify for federal dollars could cost state and local governments $775 million to repair, said Mark Lambert, a transportation department spokesman.
Fixing ports, airports, mass transit and improving roads to handle the crush of new traffic in Baton Rouge, La., will cost even more.
Tourism and shipping
Businesses are coming back to life as services in the central business district and adjacent French Quarter resume in the next few weeks. The Quarter, where a handful of hotels such as the Hilton and Sheraton are taking guests, officially reopens on Sept. 26.
"We're going to have power back within a week to the entire core of the tourism industry," said J. Stephen Perry, president of the city's convention bureau.
At first, the hotel industry will reserve about 20 percent of its rooms for its workers. That will change as homes are rebuilt and shuttle buses set up to cities such as Baton Rouge.
Big industry is coming back to life slowly, but faster than expected. At the Port of New Orleans, a barge pulled away Monday with 4,500 tons of steel coils destined for an auto plant, the first commercial cargo traffic since Katrina. On Tuesday, a container ship unloaded coffee and timber products.
The companies that run the terminals are trying to restart operations, a port spokesman said. But it will take about six months before traffic is back to normal.
Flood protection
Rebuilding New Orleans is a fool's errand unless the city can be made safer from storms. Engineers say the city needs floodgates and stronger levees to withstand a Category 5 hurricane, the most severe of storms. Before Katrina, they were built to handle a Category 3. Katrina was a Category 4 when it hit the city.
Ideally, the engineers say, Louisiana's wetlands – shrinking since 1930 due to river diversion projects – need to be restored as a cushion against storm surges. The state has lost a million acres of wetlands – an area larger than Rhode Island – over the last 75 years. "If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orleans more vulnerable than it was before," said Ivor Van Heerden, who heads Louisiana State University's hurricane center. He said it would cost as much as $18 billion to rebuild wetlands and enlarge barrier islands while strengthening the levees.
Today even a minor storm surge could swamp parts of New Orleans, said Daniel Hitchings, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The breaches created by Katrina or the Corps to drain the city haven't been closed.
The Corps hopes to have the levees restored to pre-Katrina levels by June. There are no plans to expand the levees or to add floodgates because the Corps doesn't have the authority to do so, Hitchings said. The upgrades needed to enable New Orleans to withstand a Category 5 hurricane would take an act of Congress.


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Norwegian Escape Inaugural
Sail Date: November 11, 2015
Reviewed: 1 year ago
Traveled As: Large Group
I had the pleasure of going on the NCL Escape Inaugural cruise on November 9th, 2015.
The live entertainment was great! If you go, make sure you see the Million Dollar Quartet! The cast had so much talent, and it's one of the best shows I've seen.
I also went to the For the Record: The Brat Pack, Live at the Supper Club. The entertainment was great, but the food at The Supper Club left a lot to be desired. Let's just say, the food at The Supper Club didn't match up with the great entertainment. The food was very dry and not a lot of flavor -- and it was Seafood! Not fun eating dry Seafood.
The activities on board were a lot of fun, from the Obstacle Ropes course to the water slides / water park - tons of fun. They also have a bowling alley and miniature golf. There is plenty to do on this ship for the entire family!!!
The bathroom in the balcony room I stayed in was nice and large. Definitely more spacious than a few other cruise lines I have been on. It was nice to be able to not just take your shower, but you had more than enough room in the bathroom to actually get ready for the evening without feeling too cramped. The shower was nice and large, there was a long counter next to the sink - where you can spread out your toiletries. The beds, sheets, pillows, comforter - were heaven to sleep on!
This ship is incredibly huge! I wasn't able to make it around the entire ship (I kept getting lost or sidetracked with something else I wanted to check out.)
All in all, I think this is a great ship, great entertainment, plenty to do -- the only downfall was the food, in my opinion. The food is the reason I took off one star.
Lastly, I just wanted to throw in that NCL did an outstanding job with their Christening Ceremony, where Pitbull performed for the guests!!
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Here at Actively Learn, we encourage students to take into account the author's bias when analyzing a text. In weighing ourselves against Accelerated Reader 360, we are obviously not an impartial jury. That said, our view is that Actively Learn and AR360 differ fundamentally in terms of their pedagogical focus and functionality.
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Accelerated Reader 360 was designed as an independent reading platform. It relies on ATOS and Lexile to determine student reading levels and provides assessments that regularly monitor students' progress along those measures. It requires minimal teacher intervention and functions independently by providing auto-generated assessments to students.
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Actively Learn was designed as a way for teachers to implement best pedagogical practices that are otherwise cumbersome or impossible to implement with paper texts. We also know that students are motivated by reading that is purposeful and meaningful, which is why we support the deep reading that students are doing for their classes and that connects to ideas that are relevant to their learning.
Summary of Key Differences
teacher role: amplifying the power of teacher instruction and feedback
Actively Learn seeks to transform what teachers are able to do in the classroom. We want to enable best teaching practices that are otherwise cumbersome or impossible to achieve with paper texts: scaffolding, differentiating, modeling, chunking, and collaborating within the text. We also want to instill reading habits that improve student learning: self-monitoring, annotating, asking questions, making connections across ideas, and developing vocabulary and research skills.
Teachers who use Actively Learn are looking to improve the way they teach reading comprehension. Many of our teachers find that using Actively Learn leads them to ask better questions, give more effective feedback, and offers insights into their students' thinking.
collaboration: engaging, social learning
Actively Learn relies on collaboration to build intrinsic motivation to read. Students consistently report in our product surveys that their favorite part of reading for class is discussion; they are driven to read when the ideas in the text spark conversation and debate. This is why we've designed our platform to incorporate discussion between the student, his or her peers, and the teacher right inside the text. We want students to share ideas, respond to each other's thoughts, and participate in rich debate while they read. This also holds students accountable for their reading and promotes higher-quality work.
motivation: CHOICE OF TEXT
Actively Learn believes that the choice of text should be determined by relevance and interest rather than ATOS or Lexile. Reading merely to advance to the next level does not convince students that reading is purposeful or meaningful in the long term.We also encourage students to read books, articles, and short-form content that connect to what they are studying in class. Research has shown that content knowledge is a better predictor of comprehension than is reading level (Recht & Leslie 1988). This means that aligning reading closely to the curriculum not only furthers knowledge but also enables students to better understand what they read.
Because we want to expand the selection of texts that are available to teachers and students, we allow our users to import their own content into our platform. If there's an internet article, PDF, or Google doc that students will find compelling and that supports the material they are studying, they should be encouraged to read it rather than being limited only to leveled texts.
goal of deeper learning: CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT QUESTIONS
Because of our emphasis on content knowledge as the backbone of reading comprehension, our questions are directly tied to the specific themes and concepts found in the text. You will never find a generic question like, "Which of the following sentences best summarizes the main idea of this article?" in our instructional content. What you will find are questions that are written by educators who are familiar with the works and want students to dig deeper into the ideas presented.
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The great opera singer Maria Callas is the focus of Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning Master Class, a play about an imaginary lesson Callas gives to three students at Juilliard one eventful day. Though the script is totally fiction, it's based in fact. "Maria Callas gave master classes at the Juilliard School in the late '70s," says director Mark Adams, "after her voice was totally shot." There are transcriptions of these classes, but McNally just uses those as a jumping-off place for his imaginative, comedic tale about one of the 20th century's most devoted - and difficult - artists. In the play, the audience becomes part of the class, watching Callas stylishly flaying her unarmed students.
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I presume it was fairly early on in my childhood that my mother decided she needed to pick her battles. I was born wilful and she can't have had the energy or the inclination to fight them all. As such, while I grew into an A-grade student and escaped adolescence sans baby or drug addiction, I have never had a tidy bedroom and I have always been allowed to dress myself. As well as being wilful I was a 'creative' child and I liked to express that creativity sartorially. I scorned Petit Bateau, Breton tees, baby chinos and burgundy smock coats. No French enfant chic for me. I favoured table cloths, tea cosies and clothes pegs. The clothes pegs were essential both for holding my table cloth gown together and for decorating my tea cosy hat. Even aged four I knew that it was all in the accessories.
The greatest indulger of my youthful fashion fancies was my maternal grandmother. I was grandchild No. 14 (seven more followed me) and she has always claimed that this constant flux of children and stroppy teenagers kept her young. Certainly she was gloriously blasé about what I chose to wear whenever I came to visit. I have fond memories of stomping to the playground with her wearing nothing but my pants, pink jelly shoes, an enormous pile of her necklaces and a bath hat. I presume that we got some funny looks on our way but Granny and I were unfazed by these narrow-minded doubters.
I guess you could have called me avant-garde. I liked to push boundaries. Specifically, I liked to push the boundaries of my mother's good taste. I instantly recognised the clothes that she wouldn't like and wore them constantly. A cruel family friend gave me a bright orange velour t-shirt and a purple chenille polo neck for my sixth birthday. As my mother recoiled in horror I fell violently in love. I liked to wear them together, luridly clashing the colours and clearly pre-empting Gucci's recent collections [SS11]. I knew how to colour-block as a child and I look forward to dressing in orange and purple (and blue and green and pink) again this summer even if I pass on the questionable and rather sweaty fabrics. I will be taking Raf Simons and Frida Giannini's spring shows as my contemporary references but I will also be a little bit inspired by my six year old self who knew that you shouldn't be afraid of colour.
As I grew older my style became more conscious but I don't think I ever looked 'normal'. When I was thirteen I moved to a school where I didn't wholly identify with my peers. I made friends and had fun but I was wary of becoming 'one of them'. They maintained a strict social uniform of Miss Sixty jeans, pastel lacy vests and cashmere cardigans. I found the uniformity of taste unnerving and restrictive and I rebelled against it. Flicking through old photos I am happy to admit that I looked a fright but I am also proud of my teenage self and her determination to remain true to her slightly deranged aesthetic. One exemplary picture shows me standing amongst a group of my friends who all look pretty and ladylike while I look as mad as a bag full of cats. I am grinning from ear to ear and sporting a lurid, Hawaiian print t-shirt; a ruffled, pink polka-dot mini skirt; neon fishnet socks and lots of homemade plastic jewellery. That was pretty much me from 13-15. Marc Jacobs polka dots, check. Topshop Hawaiians, check. Christopher Kane neons, check. I just had the ingenuity to combine those looks! I wasn't following any particular trend or genre (clearly) but I was using fashion to differentiate myself and to feel happy and comfortable. My clothes let me feel that I could be true to myself in what seemed an alien environment.
My mother bought my clothes back then and she went along with my whims partially because she is a pacifist and partially, I think, because she was aware that for many people, myself included, fashion is an important component of identity. Wearing what I want helps me to feel like myself and to be the person I want to be. And if that person is unusual so be it. Nowadays, as I feel more settled in myself, my style has relaxed. I still don't see the appeal of looking the same as everybody else but I don't burn to stand apart. I simply do my own thing and wear the clothes that I find beautiful, interesting or inspiring, just like my child self did. Sometimes I'm 'on trend', sometimes I'm not. Sometimes my mother approves, sometimes she still sighs ruefully.
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Most sites that run slowly are database-driven sites. Database content is not saved on the web server. Unless you have some sort of caching enabled for this site server. If no caching is enabled, content is dynamically created for each visitor by the communication between the web server and the database server.
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Kyle Fogg: Fogg has had two solid offensive games in a row, as he scored 17 points on 5-9 shooting in addition to adding six rebounds. It is not a coincidence that Arizona as a whole is better when Fogg is contributing even a little offensively, as he definitely has the tools to do it. Fogg is not going to score 17 points every night, but if he can attack the glass like he did on Tuesday and play strong defense, he will be considered a success.
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Nick Johnson: Johnson shot less than 50 percent from the field, but added six assists and four rebounds to his seven points. We continue to say Johnson is better off the ball, but he put up the numbers of a point guard on Tuesday and finished with a 2:1 turnover/assist ratio. Johnson is going to have games in which he scores more points, but the type of game he had on Tuesday is just as effective.
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Jesse Perry: Perry had his second average game in a row in terms of rebounding, as he finished with four. However, Perry also scored 13 points and held Oakland's best big man in Corey Petros to more fouls than rebounds. Perry more than held his own against a solid player who is bigger than him and it showed in Arizona outrebounding Oakland 39-28.
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Jordin Mayes: Mayes played in a similar fashion to the game against Gonzaga, as he finished with eight points and hit a three. We grade players based on their abilities and right now Mayes is accomplishing exactly what he is supposed to. Mayes may not fill up the stat sheet, but he is getting his job done and deserves credit for it.
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Josiah Turner: Turner had more assists than turnovers and even though he only had three assists, it is still a big step for the freshman point guard. In reality, Arizona does not need a ton more for Turner, as he ran the offense well and pushed the pace on Tuesday. Sean Miller needed a point guard that would not get out of control when Oakland pushed the ball and tried to dictate the pace and he got just that with Turner.
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U.S. government statistics show 78 percent of all electricity generated by U.S. power plant is used in residential and commercial buildings, and 48 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings. The concept of the Passive House is design that can slash heating and cooling energy use by as much as 90 percent.
Katrin Klingenberg is co-founder and executive director of the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS). PHIUS promotes the adoption of the Passive House building energy standard in North America through consultant training and certification, project certification, and outreach programs to building professionals and the general public. PHIUS also conducts research on the application of the Passive House building energy standard in North American climate zones. (The Passive House standard was developed by Dr. Wolfgang Feist, of the Passivhaus Institut in Darmstadt, Germany.) Ms. Klingenberg built the first Passive House designed to this standard in the United States in 2003, and she has designed and consulted on numerous Passive House projects since across North America's varied climate zones. In addition to her executive role she is the lead instructor for PHIUS Certified Passive House Consultant training, and directs curriculum. She also directs the technical and research programs of PHIUS, and is a licensed architect in Germany.
David Peabody is president of Peabody Architects in Alexandria, VA, which he founded in 1992. Since committing the practice to sustainable design in 2000, he has become increasingly active in issues regarding architecture and the environment, and made these issues central to the way the firm approaches its work. In 2004, he became a LEED Accredited Professional, and in 2009 he became a Passive House Certified Consultant– one of the first architects in the country to achieve this certification. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and a member of the American Institute of Architects. Read his blog here.
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