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Undergraduate Program
Undergraduate degrees: Overview
Undergraduate Degrees: Complete Description Including Acquired Skills and Competencies
Course Rotation and Schedule (2017-18 dates to be announced)
Academic Program
NDSU offers the following undergraduate music degrees:
Bachelor of Music in Performance
Bachelor of Music in Music Education
Bachelor of Arts in Music
Bachelor of Science in Music
Undergraduate Degrees
All undergraduate music majors take courses in music theory, music literature, music history, and conducting; receive private lessons on a selected instrument and/or voice; and participate in a major ensemble. Other courses are selected within a chosen area of concentration. In all programs, applied instrumental or vocal studies develop musicianship and performance ability. Students are accepted for private lessons depending upon demonstrated musical ability and available staff resources.
The Challey School of Music offers three undergraduate degree programs:
The Bachelor of Music in Performance (BM) is available for students demonstrating outstanding ability and potential in musical performance. Tracks are offered in instrumental, keyboard, and voice performance. Students earning the Bachelor of Music degree generally pursue advanced performance degrees in graduate school or immediately enter the field as performers or music professionals in other areas.
- Bachelor of Music - Instrumental Performance Curriculum Guide
- Bachelor of Music - Vocal Performance Curriculum Guide
- Bachelor of Music - Piano Curriculum Guide
The Bachelor of Music in Music Education (BS) includes certification requirements for students to teach music in North Dakota's public schools. Students may opt for certification in grades K-12 or 7-12. Though the degree contains comprehensive preparation, students generally elect a principal area in either instrumental or voice/choral.
- Bachelor of Music - Instrumental Music Education Curriculum Guide
- Bachelor of Music - Vocal Music Education Curriculum Guide
The Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees in music are general liberal studies degrees. The curriculum is flexible, and allows focus in areas of the students choice. The degrees are identical, except that the BA requires a two-year foreign language proficiency; and the BS requires an NDSU approved minor in an area other than music.
Career Opportunities
There is a wide range of career opportunities for music graduates of NDSU. Graduates of the music education program are teaching throughout the United States and Canada. Several graduates, after completing graduate studies in music from Juilliard, the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, the University of Iowa, and other universities, are now teaching music at the college level. Other graduates are in demand as professional performers, arrangers, and composers.
With appropriate planning, a student may enter professional training in law or medicine with an undergraduate degree in music from NDSU. Some of our students have opted for training in music which then becomes an avocation during their subsequent years in another profession.
Student Organizations
Sigma Alpha Iota
Sigma Alpha Iota is North Dakota State University's only professional fraternity for women in music. SAI was founded in 1903 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and has grown to over three hundred chapters and 76,000 members.
SAI's purpose is to encourage and promote interaction between those who share a special interest in music. The members hold monthly meetings, perform in special recitals called musicales, perform off-campus, and support the bands and choral groups on campus.
Membership in SAI is open to all women pursuing a major or minor in any area of music who have completed at least one semester of study. Rush is held twice a year, at the beginning of each semester.
Members work together and support each other in their various activities. The Fargo-Moorhead SAI Alumni chapter offers two scholarships each year. Members may also be nominated by the chapter for national scholarships. For many members, the greatest benefit of being an SAI is the relationships developed with other women in music, those who will be future colleagues.
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is a nationally recognized professional music fraternity open to any male with a sincere interest in music. Sinfonia's primary purpose is to encourage and actively promote the highest standards of creativity, performance, education and research in music in America. There is a small initiation fee and annual dues, but the organization is a great way to meet people and grow with music.
Collegiate Music Educators National Conference
Collegiate Music Educators National Conference (CMENC) is an organization focused on developing interest in and knowledge of music education. Any student enrolled in music education as a major or in education as a major with a music minor may join. Membership drives occur early every fall semester.
Members receive the national Music Education Journal as part of their membership privileges and participate in biweekly meetings. They also attend the North Dakota Music Educators Conference (the parent organization) during the teacher's convention in October. The valuable contacts made and information acquired as a member of this organization will be important throughout a student's career as an educator.
Tau Beta Sigma
Tau Beta Sigma operates primarily as a student service and leadership recognition society in which their main goal is to assist the Director of Bands in developing the leadership and enthusiasm that they require of their band. Tau Beta Sigma provides exceptional service to collegiate bands and promotes equality and diversity, including empowering women in the band profession. They cultivate leadership, educational achievement, music appreciation and community development.
They serve not only to provide the bands with service activities but to also give their members valid and wholesome experiences in organization, leadership, and social contacts. The honorary nature of membership is based on their premise that "it is an honor to be selected to serve"—this band, its department of music, its sponsoring institution, and the cause of band music in the nation's colleges and universities.
With their strong emphasis on service, TBS is a great society for those who wish to become leaders in the bands and further the role of women in the bands of colleges and universities worldwide.

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Interpreting Shostakovich
Interpreting Shostakovich
This three-week festival— interpreting Shostakovich the man, Shostakovich the composer, and specific Shostakovich compositions—comprises three concerts at the National Gallery of Art, Dumbarton Concerts, and Georgetown University, as well as four film events at the National Gallery. The participants include Solomon Volkov, author of Shostakovich's memoirs; and the eminent British filmmaker Tony Palmer ("No one makes better films about musicians"—The London Times); film historian Peter Rollberg; and music historian Roy Guenther.
National Gallery of Art
Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 6:30 pm
PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez
Dumbarton Concerts
Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Dmitri Berlinski, violin; Andrey Tchkmazov, cello; George Vatchnadze, piano
PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez
Commentary by Solomon Volkov and Tony Palmer.
PostClasical Book Club. George Washington University
Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 11:30 am
An exclusive encounter with the celebrated Russian emigrée writer and music historian, Solomon Volkov.
Roy Guenther, host. Josseph Horowitz, moderator.
Friday Music Series. Georgetown University
Friday, October 5, 2012 at 1:15 pm
A Shostakovich lecture/recital featuring violinist Oleg Rylatko, concertmaster
of PCE.
Film Events at the National Gallery of Art
(all films scored by Shostakovich)
Sat., Oct. 20, 2012 at 2:30 pm: King Lear (1971), plus Shostakovich choral works sung by Georgetown University Chamber Singers (Frederick Binkholder, conductor)
Sun., Oct. 21, 2012 at 4:00 pm: Hamlet (1964),plus Shostakovich Satires, performed by Irina Mozleva (soprano) and Vera Danchenko-Stern (piano)
Sun., Oct. 28, 2012 at 4:30 pm: Five Days, Five Nights (1960)
Sat., Nov. 3, 2012 at 3:30 pm: Tony Palmer's Testimony (1988) with Ben Kingsley as Shostakovich. Commentary by Solomon Volkov and Tony Palmer. (Gold Medal, 1987 New York Film and Television Festival)
Sun., Nov. 4, 2012 at 4 pm: Song of the Rivers (1954)


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National Army Museum
The National Army Museum is a leading authority on the British Army and its impact on society past and present.
We examine the army's role as protector, aggressor and peacekeeper from the British Civil Wars to the modern day. Through our collections we preserve and share stories of ordinary people with extraordinary responsibilities. We explore the role of the army and its relevance today.
We aim to be a first class museum that moves, inspires, challenges, educates and entertains.
The National Army Museum is a fun, interactive space for all the family. Our engaging museum experience reaches out to all. We want to connect the British public with its army, regardless of age, gender, race and religion.
The new National Army Museum is for everyone, no matter what they think about the British Army.
So what's new? We now showcase the breadth and depth of our collections in new and engaging ways. We explore thoughts and ideas as well as real stories of real people. And we challenge the way people think about the British Army and their relationship with it.
Venue Type:
Museum, Archive
Open daily: 10am - 5.30pm
(Last admission: 5pm)
Closed: 25, 26 December and 1 January
Open until 8pm on the first Wednesday of every month.
Free of charge
The National Army Museum is situated on Royal Hospital Road, directly next door to the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
Victoria Station is a 20-minute walk from the Museum. You can find London Rail maps on the Transport for London website.
Sloane Square (Circle and District Lines) is a 10-minute walk from the Museum. You can find London Tube maps on the Transport for London website.
Several bus routes stop within walking distance of the Museum:
Routes 11, 19, 22, 211 and 319 (King's Road)
Routes C1, 137 and 360 (Chelsea Bridge Road)
Route 170 (Royal Hospital Road, stops directly in front of the Museum)
Collection details
Weapons and War, Social History, Photography, Fine Art, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Coins and Medals, Archives
Key artists and exhibits
- Visit the National Army Museum and find out how Britain's past has helped to shape our present and our future. Discover the impact our Army has had on the story of Britain, Europe and the world, and see how the actions of a few can affect the futures of many.
- See portraits by Reynolds and Gainsborough, a lamp used by Florence Nightingale and even the skeleton of Napoleon's horse!
War Paint: Brushes with conflict
- 30 March — 19 November 2017 *on now
Explore why artists and soldiers have painted scenes of conflict, in our first temporary exhibition at the new National Army Museum.
Artists and soldiers have painted scenes of conflict for many reasons - to create records, report news or commemorate events. But above all, war paintings are personal perspectives on war and its vast impact on people and places.
War Paint features over 130 paintings and objects exploring the complex relationship between war and the men and women who map, record, celebrate and document it.
Suitable for
- Any age
War Paint exhibition tour
- 8 October 2017 From 2:30pm
- 22 October 2017 From 2:30pm
- 5 November 2017 From 2:30pm
- 19 November 2017 From 2:30pm
Artists paint places of conflict for many reasons - recording locations, reporting news and commemorating events. But these images also offer personal perspectives on war and its impact on land and people.
During this tour, we'll discuss the purposes behind painting war and highlight some of the techniques used to paint during conflict.
Suitable for
- Not suitable for children
Book Club: Readers' choice
- 27 September 2017 From 6:30pm
Come along and meet new people at an entertaining and informative evening of lively discussion. Explore our book of the month and unpack current issues, historical events and popular fiction through recent book releases related to the British Army.
The Book Club meets on the last Wednesday of the month, from 7pm to 8pm. Complimentary snacks and wine are served from 6.30pm.
Treating trauma in First World War nurses
- 29 September 2017 From 11:30am
Soldiers were not the only ones to experience 'shell shock' during the First World War. Dr Denise Poynter argues that the notion of war-induced traumatic neurosis being the preserve of men is a pretence, and that the previous focus on male sufferers means the history of the condition is incomplete.
Dr Poynter will fill this gap in the research by outlining the experiences, symptoms and treatment of war trauma experienced by female nurses in the First World War.
War Stories with Peter Snow and Ann Macmillan
- 4 October 2017 From 7pm
War Stories provides a fascinating account of ordinary people swept up by the horror of war. They are caught up in the most extreme ordeal humans have to endure: their experiences are the stuff of legend. This is the story - much of it unwritten until now - of the men and women who have pushed the barriers of bravery, suffering and sheer terror beyond the imaginable.
The 31 stories from history since the 18th century include that of Edward Seager who was an officer in the Charge of the Light Brigade, Christine Skarbek, a spy and saboteur during the Second World War, Benedict Arnold, a US turncoat in the War of Independence and Madeleine de Lancey who nursed her dying husband after the Battle of Waterloo.
The most recent War Story is that of Ahmad Terkawi, a Syrian chemist who managed to escape from Homs with his family and survived a terrifying tourney on foot, boat and bus to arrive in Sweden in 2015.
Concession: £12.50
Prisoners of war: Experiences and emotions
- 6 October 2017 From 11:30am
Following the publication of her pioneering history Captives of War, British Prisoners of War in Europe in the Second World War, Clare Makepeace tells the story of wartime imprisonment through the love, fears, fantasies, loneliness, frustration and guilt felt by these men.
Drawing upon their diaries, letters and scrapbooks, she will shed new light upon how prisoners coped and came to terms with spending a war behind barbed wire.
Booking is recommended.
Women soldiers tour
- 7 October 2017 2:30-3pm
- 4 November 2017 2:30-3pm
- 2 December 2017 2:30-3pm
In 1917 the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was founded. This was the first time women could join the army outside of nursing roles. Since then there have been a number of developments for women in the army, culminating in last year's lifting of the ban on women in combat roles.
Join us for a 30-minute guided tour of the galleries exploring the theme of women in the army.
Booking is recommended
UK security and the army
- 11 October 2017 From 7pm
Over the past six months the army has played a visible role in UK security. Operation Temperer saw 5,000 troops deployed on the streets to support the police and security services.
During this discussion our panel of experts will discuss the impact of the army's presence on the streets of the UK. Do they make us feel safer? Was their deployment a panicked response? What else can the army do to protect security at home?
Deborah Haynes, defence editor at The Times
Mark Castle, CEO Victim Support
Professor Andrew Silke, Head of Criminology, University of East London
Chantelle Taylor, Advisor in security and tactical medicine.
Ben Wallace MP, Secretary of State for Security
Concessions: £7.50
Redisplaying the D-Day Museum
- 13 October 2017 From 11:30am
The D-Day Museum in Portsmouth opened in 1984, and is currently undergoing a complete redisplay as part of a major Heritage Lottery Fund-supported project. This talk will look at the approach that the museum is taking to telling the story of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy through the objects in its collection.
Booking is recommended.
5x15 talks: Women in military history
- 14 October 2017 1-5pm
Female academics are underrepresented across the board, but particularly in military history topics. During our event, you'll hear women speak about their research and experiences, with the chance to ask questions and network throughout.
Panel 1:
Holly Winter
Military wives in the Indian Army in the 19th Century
Erica Charters
Disease, war and public opinion
Louise Bell
Domestic duties only? Women and the Navy in the First World War
Nicola Martin
James Murray in Canada: the army and the eighteenth-century British Empire
Emma Butcher
Seeing war through children's eyes: A history of child soldiers
Panel 2:
Ingrid Sharp
Writing women into the history of the German Revolution, November 1918
Victoria Kingston
Interpreting conflict in museums
Catherine Bateson
We will rise with voices singing: The challenges of being a female military historian
Hannah West
From military engineer to academic researcher
Alexia Moncrieff
So you do nurses?: Gendered assumptions in medical-military history
Booking is recommended.
War Paint guest tour: Emma Mawdsley
- 18 October 2017 From 6:30pm
Artists and soldiers have painted scenes of conflict for many reasons - to create records, report news or commemorate events. But above all, war paintings are personal perspectives on war and its vast impact on people and places.
War Paint features over 130 paintings and objects exploring the complex relationship between war and the men and women who map, record, celebrate and document it.
Curator Emma Mawdsley will guide you round the exhibition and discuss her experience of putting the exhibition together.
Concessions: £9.00
Bold in her breeches: Female soldiers who dressed as men
- 20 October 2017 From 11:30am
From the eighteenth century onwards, women such as Christian Davies, Hannah Snell, Mary Talbot and Sara Edmonds, swapped their skirts for trousers to enlist in the army and navy. Over the last few decades historians have uncovered the lives of these women who not only fought alongside their male comrades but whose exploits on the battlefields have been largely forgotten.
This talk will provide details about cases of female-to-male cross-dressers, exploring how and why women signed up, what they experienced at war, and what became of them once they returned home.
Booking is recommended.
Camouflage Masks
- 21 — 29 October 2017
Come and test your creative skills in a camouflage mask making workshop. Be inspired by the natural world to try and make a mask to take home. Sneak like a spotty leopard in the desert, prowl like a white Arctic fox and explore how the army uses camouflage in different environments.
Drop in for free from 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.30pm daily.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Book Club: Caught in the Revolution
- 25 October 2017 From 6:30pm
Explore our book of the month and unpack current issues, historical events and popular fiction through recent book releases related to the British Army.
The Book Club meets on the last Wednesday of the month, from 7pm to 8pm. Complimentary snacks and wine are served from 6.30pm.
Booking is recommended.
Aden Emergency
- 27 October 2017 From 11:30am
On the 50th anniversary of the British withdrawal from Aden, author and historian Jonathan Walker looks at the controversial military campaign and its legacy.
In the 1960s, Britain's only Arab colony became a battleground of the Cold War as British forces struggled to defend one of the last bastions of the Empire. Many regiments rose to the challenge but Aden was also the graveyard of military and political careers.
Booking is recommended.
Strike it lucky: Award and recognition in the British and Indian Army
- 3 November 2017 From 10:30am
Two centuries ago, the Waterloo Medal recognised for the first time the individual acts of all soldiers in a conflict regardless of their rank or role, though other institutions had been awarding medals well before.
Join curator Chris Cooper as he explores the museum's collection of medals and medal ribbons, revealing a story that is about extraordinary feats, ordinary lives and striking anomalies.
Disputed Earth: Geology and trench warfare on the Western Front, 1914-18
- 10 November 2017 From 11:30am
Geology the outcome of battle, and no more so than during the trench warfare of the Great War. An understanding of terrain has been the mark of a great commander from at least the time of Sun Tzu, and most campaigns can be interpreted and understood from this standpoint. It is the Great War, a war of trenches and dug-outs, of mines and mud, that epitomises the struggles of commander and soldier alike in the prosecution of battle against the obstacles set for them by terrain.
This talk based on Peter Doyle's recent book, takes the geology of northern France and Flanders and examines such issues as: What created Flanders mud? How were the Germans able to dig deep dug-outs to resist the British on the Somme? And, why were the British successful at mine warfare? These and other issues are dealt with in this illustrated talk.
Women soldiers: An international perspective
- 15 November 2017 From 7pm
In this panel discussion, female representatives from armies around the world share their experiences of serving. The speakers will be asked questions by a museum curator, and we will then open up the floor to questions from the audience.
Second Lieutenant Rosie Wild (British Army)
Colonel Daisy Tshiloane (South Africa)
Lieutenant Colonel Katherine Lee (New Zealand)
Concessions: -25%
The British Army in the Italian Alps, 1917
- 17 November 2017 From 11:30am
The British Army fought in theatres across the world from the Middle East and Africa to Asia and the Pacific. One of the theatres often forgotten is the Italian Front.
For two years Italy and Austria battled fiercely against each other across the High Alps and troops from both sides faced the risk of avalanche. When German troops arrived to bolster Austria in the summer of 1917, the British and French soon followed to support Italy.
Archives weekend: Behind the scenes tours
- 18 November 2017 From 11am, From 4pm
Have you ever wondered what an archive looks like? Join our Study Centre manager, Robert Fleming, as he reveals some of the hidden treasures in our archives and explains how they are catalogued and stored. He'll also give you some tips on how to look after your precious items at home.
Tours take place at 11am and 2pm.
Archives weekend: Archive detectives
- 18 November 2017 10:30am-12:30pm, 1:30-4pm
- 19 November 2017 10:30am-12:30pm, 1:30-4pm
Become a detective and take part in our family workshop, uncovering some artefacts and stories from the museum's archives. Can you put all the pieces together to solve the puzzle?
Open all weekend. Drop in from 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4pm.
Archive Weekend: Treasures from the institutional archives
- 19 November 2017 From 2pm
Penny shares stories and images tucked away in the museum's institutional archives, spanning from the 1960s to the present day.
Sevastopol's Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin
- 24 November 2017 From 11:30am
Founded by Catherine the Great, the maritime city of Sevastopol has been fought over for centuries. Crucial battles of the Crimean War (1854-56) were fought on the hills surrounding the city, and the memory of this stalwart defence inspired those who battled the Germans during the Second World War (1939-45).
Award-winning author Mungo Melvin will explore how Sevastopol became a crucible of conflict in three major wars - the Crimean War, the Russian Civil War (1919-23) and the Second World War.
Book Club: The Nurses of Passchendaele
- 29 November 2017 From 6:30pm
Explore our book of the month and unpack current issues, historical events and popular fiction through recent book releases related to the British Army.
The Book Club meets on the last Wednesday of the month, from 7pm to 8pm. Complimentary snacks and wine are served from 6.30pm
Communications and the Battle of Cambrai
- 1 December 2017 From 11:30am
Although a strategic failure, the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 heralded tactical and operational methods that foreshadowed not only some of the war-winning techniques employed by the British Army in August-November 1918, but also elements of the initial German campaigns of the Second World War.
Brian Hall examines the battle from the perspective of communications, assessing its influence upon the fighting and, ultimately, upon the British Army's learning process.
Dental services in the British Army, 1914-18
- 8 December 2017 From 11:30am
At the outbreak of the First World War there was insufficient dental provision for serving military personnel. However, the pain of toothache and the inability to chew food was debilitating and demoralising for the British soldier. This talk will explore the state of the nation's teeth and the treatments available at the time.
The life and work of Abram Games
- 15 December 2017 From 11:30am
Abram Games was one of the 20th century's most innovative and important graphic designers. He produced some of Britain's most enduring images, which are a now a fascinating record of social history.
During the Second World War he was uniquely appointed Official War Poster Artist. It was Games's personal philosophy of 'maximum meaning, minimum means' that gave his works their distinctive conceptual and visual quality.
Book Club: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels
- 20 December 2017 From 6:30pm
December's Book of the Month is The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet.
Sweet draws a sumptuous, witty and eye-opening history of the Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - and the eccentrics, stars, aristocrats and criminals living in London's grand hotels during the Blitz.
Explore our book of the month and unpack current issues, historical events and popular fiction through recent book releases related to the British Army.
Complimentary snacks and wine are served from 6.30pm.
Getting there
The National Army Museum is situated on Royal Hospital Road, directly next door to the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
Victoria Station is a 20-minute walk from the Museum. You can find London Rail maps on the Transport for London website.
Sloane Square (Circle and District Lines) is a 10-minute walk from the Museum. You can find London Tube maps on the Transport for London website.
Several bus routes stop within walking distance of the Museum:
Routes 11, 19, 22, 211 and 319 (King's Road)
Routes C1, 137 and 360 (Chelsea Bridge Road)
Route 170 (Royal Hospital Road, stops directly in front of the Museum)
National Army Museum
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020 7881 6606
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NBC will do live remake of 'Peter Pan'
PARK RIDGE, Ill.
NBC says its next live musical will be "Peter Pan," to be broadcast in December.
It will be produced by the same team that made "The Sound of Music" with Carrie Underwood, which reached 19 million viewers last month. NBC entertainment president Robert Greenblatt said Sunday that the strong viewership surprised even NBC.
Almost immediately, NBC started kicking around ideas for another musical.
The cast has not been announced.
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WEST JORDAN — The Utah Army National Guard's Second Battalion, 211th Aviation, will conduct a change of command ceremony Saturday at 8 a.m. in the North Hangar of the Aviation Support Facility at the West Jordan armory.
Lt. Col. Peter Adams will officially relinquish command to Lt. Col. Gordon Behunin.
Adams, from Draper, has commanded the 2-211th since 2009. A graduate of the University of Utah, Adams prepared the battalion for an upcoming deployment.
Behunin, from South Jordan, served most recently as deputy commander, 97th Aviation Troop Command, in West Jordan. He is a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, deploying with his unit to Afghanistan from 2003-05.
Behunin will assume command of approximately 500 soldiers based in Utah, Iowa and Minnesota.
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Feb 16 2011
Haircap Moss
Snow cover is increasingly hard to find in Pittsburgh so this scene is fading fast.
Exposed here by the melting snow is a plant whose name I've just learned: common haircap moss (Polytrichum commune).
I've often seen it in the woods where it covers the ground like a dense carpet of green bottlebrushes. Though it's a moss, it's rather tolerant of dry conditions and does well in a variety of Pennsylvania locations. I've read that in dry weather the green leaves wrap around the stem to protect the plant from moisture loss.
Its scientific name describes the plant well. Polytrichum means "many hairs." Commune probably refers to its ability to form dense colonies.
Where are the hairs? I know we can't see them in this photo because they're so small. The hairs are on the caps that initially cover the brown spore capsules. The spore capsules are those brown heads on the naked brown stems poking out of the snow. So, yes, those brown stems are not a different plant. They're the sporophytes of the haircap moss.
At this time of year the haircaps may be missing because they pop off to expose the spores for dispersal.
I've never seen any of this because I haven't looked closely at this moss before. I didn't even know that the brown stems are part of the moss' life cycle.
Now that I know what to look for, I'm going to find those hairy caps. I wonder what time of year they're visible...
(photo by Dianne Machesney)
2 Responses to "Haircap Moss"
# Marcy Con 17 Feb 2011 at 8:23 am
When I was out for my walk on Tuesday, I saw these poking up thru the snow…looks like the same photo…when I was a teenager, I used to sit on this moss and play my guitar in the white pines we had where I grew up…very soft rug…
During my walk, I also saw some other wild flowers greening up….corydilis, chickweed, and glad the deer didn't find it yet, downy rattlesnake plantain, (an orchid)….willow trees are turning a yellow cast….signs that spring is closer…but we still have some snow, even after yesterdays warmer temp in the high 40s. Best part now, if we get snow, it doesn't last forever…the sun is warmer and melts it…
# Veronicaon 23 Feb 2011 at 5:17 pm
This is one of the things I love about your blog. All these plants I've seen in the woods since childhood, always wondering what they were and struggling to find good resources to look it up. Then I look at your blog and here it is! 😉


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I've heard the pattern called hobo rails or rail fence. It's sets of 3 strips alternating directions. I quilted it diagonally across the squares and it completely changed the look of the whole thing. I'm totally excited about it - I actually made a whole twin-sized quilt!
When I first finished the top ... a year ago ... I've worked on a lot of other things since then before getting back to it.
DONE! With giggly helpers not quite holding it up the way I'd like ... but oh well.
JE wrapped up in her new quilt - warm and cozy for winter!


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WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. -- Wheat Ridge police arrested a 23-year-old man Friday night in connection with a fatal hit-and-run accident.
Alton Edward Kirkland was taken into custody as a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run crash that occurred at W. 32nd Avenue and Kipling Street Friday night, according to the Wheat Ridge Police Department.
Three vehicles were involved in the crash.
A woman and child in the suspect's vehicle were injured and taken to the hospital, said police. The driver of this vehicle, believed to be Kirkland, fled the scene on foot.
One person was killed in a second car, said police.
The driver of the third vehicle involved in the crash was not hurt.
Kipling Street was closed in both directions as police conducted their investigation
Police said Kirkland is currently being held at the Jefferson County Jail under charges of vehicular homicide and felony menacing/domestic violence.
FOX31 Denver's Kent Erdahl captured a image of friends and family putting up a cross in memory of the victim, Jordon Sprouse.


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USA TODAY's Jack Carey profiles SUSAN POTTER NORTON, who will become the first female President of the ORANGE BOWL COMMITTEE on January 18. Two of her "immediate tasks" will be "to negotiate" new contracts between the Orange Bowl and the BCS and between the Orange Bowl and PRO PLAYER STADIUM (USA TODAY, 1/3)...."ET"'s Bob Goen reported that MICHAEL JORDAN, TIGER WOODS and OSCAR DE LA HOYA spent the New Year at Paradise Island's Atlantis resort. Goen: "They weren't there together, but Jordan sure wasn't lonely. He was surrounded by security while gambling into the night" ("ET," 1/2). Meanwhile, in N.Y., Rush & Molloy report that WOODS has bleached his hair blonde (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 1/3). ...EARL WOODS, on RICHARD WILLIAMS' "guidance" of his daughters: "You know, I really don't know his motivation. I can only say that it doesn't reflect favorably on him or his children" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 1/2)....In Philadelphia, Jay Searcy profiled former HBO Sports VP LOU DIBELLA, who is "risking his money and credibility in boxing with a move so bold that it already has resulted in a death threat." DIBELLA ENTERTAINMENT is "reorganizing boxing's payroll and offering fighters a package that gives them a voice, leverage, and control of the bottom line that traditionally has been controlled by promoters and managers" (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 1/2)....NASCAR team owner and car dealer RICK HENDRICK, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud three years ago, was granted a full pardon by PRESIDENT CLINTON (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 12/23)....CBS SportsLine's Rob Miech reported that MI State Univ.'s TOM IZZO, Univ. of FL's BILLY DONOVAN and Univ. of KY's TUBBY SMITH are the only three college men's basketball coaches "confirmed to be making" seven figures a season, with each making "approximately" $1.15M. Other coaches may make over $1M when factoring in their shoe/apparel deals (CBS SportsLine, 12/29).


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University student takes home £2,000 a day modelling her lips and legs
She is one of Britain's most popular models but, unlike
Kate Moss or
Naomi Campbell, Jemma Jade Saare is hardly a household name.
The 24-year-old has appeared in the likes of Tatler and GQ but usually only her lips or legs are featured â because she is a body parts model.
The Birmingham City University student, who is âthe legsâ of M&Sâ tights campaign, was spotted by Kate Mossâ official hand model.
She has been posing up since the age of nine and now takes home up to £2,000 a day.
Miss Saare, from Cannock, Staffordshire, said: 'A lot of what I do is accessory shoots for magazines, where you just see the shoes and legs with the rest of the body cropped off.
âIt amazes me that I can make money out of my body parts. I am really proud of that and cannot wait for the phone to ring to see what is on offer next.â


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Commentary by Toby Stark
When we invited former Miss America, author and incest survivor Marilyn Van Derbur to be the keynote speaker at our 2014 Friends of Chaucie's Place Breakfast that was presented by NextGear Capital, we knew she would be outstanding.
But we didn't realize she would be OUTSTANDING.
Marilyn shared her story of sexual abuse at the hands of her father and her journey of healing. She offered a message of empowerment and hope. Her words educated the uneducated and unaware, and they validated those who are far too aware of this epidemic.
During her 50 minute speech to the crowd of nearly 300 people, Marilyn invited survivors of child sexual abuse to stand. She does this because she believes this action helps a survivor shed their shame and their fear; that it empowers them to continue their journey of healing. Or begin that journey.
She asked the audience, how can we expect our children to tell when we as adults don't tell? She told that crowd that we need to stand to show children and adult survivors that they are not alone, and that they have nothing to be ashamed of. She also told everyone in the packed room that there was no right or wrong response. It was OK if a survivor chose not to stand or didn't feel strong enough to stand. It was a powerful invitation.
And people stood.
Some people had heard Marilyn before and at that time couldn't stand. They came to the Friends of Chaucie's Place Breakfast to stand. Many stood for the first time. Many stood with co-workers and friends. Many stood before they had even told their families about their abuse.
Lives were changed that day. Conversations were started that day. Conversations between co-workers, friends and family members. Lives were changed that day.
"I am now going to start on my journey to healing from my abuse as a child and young adult."
"I'm ready to get on with my life…"
"…I had never publicly announced that I was a victim of child abuse. …After listening to Marilyn Van Derbur, the one thing I didn't feel was alone. When she asked survivors to stand, I knew it was OK. I hope now that I can share this with my family. …Every journey starts with a single step."
"I stood proud with no shame for myself and all the children who suffer sexual abuse. We need to help them be able to tell so they know they are not alone and have done nothing wrong and didn't deserve any abuse."
We thank everyone who joined us that very special morning. We thank you for supporting Chaucie's Place and our prevention programs and for supporting our community as it took a collective step forward.
Toby Stark is Executive Director of Chaucie's Place, a nonprofit child advocacy organization that prevents child sexual abuse and youth suicide with prevention programs


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After having my second child, the skin above my belly button became more loose and I have a few stretch marks above the belly button as well. It appears to be I guess what you may call slightly herniated with a small crater type "dip" half an inch above the belly button too, which may be the result of the skin permanently stretching out. I wouldn't go as far as a full tummy tuck because my skin everywhere else is tight and I'm in good physical shape. A bikini is out of the question at this point
Abdominoplasty, Umbilicoplasty, or What?
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Abdomioplasty or umbilicoplasty
Thank you for the question. Generally speaking, after child birth most patient will require abdominoplasty. The reasons for this are, excess skin, streatched belly button, loss of waist definition and muscle stretching in the midline (diastasis). In some cases a different approach is needed such as mini tummy tuck. To determine exactly what you need you need to have a consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon. You want to be very clear about your results. Good luck
Abdominoplasty, Umbilicoplasty, or What
A photo might help me answer this one, but I think an in person consultation with a plastic surgeon is far more likely to allow for a realistic assessment of your options. If indeed your skin is otherwise taut, a tummy tuck wouldn't accomplish what you want anyway, though sometimes a "reverse" TT with incision under the breasts can tighten the upper abdomen.
Thanks and best wishes.
Tummy contouring
Although you made a good attempt to describe your abdomen, it is impossible to make any recommendations without a formal physical exam. My suggestion - please see a board certified PS surgeon for a consultation and he/she will give your their best recommendations. Best of luck.
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Umbilicoplasty or abdominoplasty
If the problem you are describing is localized to the area of the umbilicus, you may be able to have just an umbilicoplasty. An examination would be necessary to assess whether this is an appropriate procedure for you. A mini-tuck deals with loose skin in the lower abdomen only, below the umbilicus and, from your description, it doesn' t sound like the right operation. Please post photos for a more definitive response.
Tummy Tuck Candidate?
Although you have provided a good description of your physical examination, a full consultation ( including physical examination and a full communication of your goals) will be necessary to determine what operation (if any) will best serve to meet your goals. If you wish to submit photographs, more precise advice may be provided online.
Best wishes.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/Procedure_tummyTuck.htm
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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JERUSALEM (Dec. 19)
Two Jews, one of them a Gaffir, were slain today and 3,000 orange trees were destroyed by terrorists in an orange grove at Beer Tuvia, in continuing disorders.
British troops launched large-scale military operations in the "devil's triangle" in central Palestine. At least 62 Arab rebels were killed in clashes during the last 24 hours. British forces arrested 1,500 villagers suspected of terrorist activities and assigned them to public works enterprises at Nablus.


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TD Ameritrade (NYSE:AMTD) reported its third fiscal quarter earnings on July 22. In line with our expectations, the revenue generated by Ameritrade's asset-based business grew by 12% year-on-year (y-o-y) to $430 million, while low trading volumes kept trading commission revenues flat over the prior year quarter at $317 million. As a result, the brokerage posted a mild 5% y-o-y increase in net revenues to $763 million. [1]
Although most of the expenses incurred by the brokerage are fixed in nature, its employee compensation and benefits expenses rose by over 7% y-o-y in the June quarter, which the company attributed to consulting work and certain advertising projects undertaken. These one-time expenses kept the operating margin flat over the prior year quarter. Going forward, the company does not expect to incur these expenses in its fourth fiscal quarter, which is likely to improve margins. Given that most expenses incurred by brokerages are primarily fixed in nature, growth in net revenues is likely to directly impact bottom line growth.
We have a $33 price estimate for Ameritrade's stock, which is slightly higher than the current market price.
- Ameritrade Sustained Its Solid Growth In August
- Ameritrade Sustains Growth Trend In July
- Key Takeaways From Ameritrade's Q3 Earnings
- Ameritrade Earnings Preview: What We Will Be Watching
- How Much Will Commission-Free Brokerages Impact Traditional Brokerages?
- Ameritrade Continues To Grow In April; Price Drop In Commissions To Affect Top Line
See our full analysis for TD Ameritrade
Sustained Growth From Asset-Based Revenues
Revenues generated by interest on client balances grew by over 24% y-o-y to $149 million in the quarter. A similar growth rate was observed in the previous quarter as well. Client balances at the end of the quarter stood at $19.1 billion – almost 20% more than in the year ago period. The average balances in the first half of the year are higher than the company's projection of $17-18 billion from the end of its previous fiscal year. [2]
Continuing the trend from the March quarter, revenues generated by Ameritrade on the fees charged for its services on money market mutual funds and other mutual funds grew by over 21% to $79 million in Q3. The fees are charged as a percentage of the client asset balances. The company successfully added $13.4 billion in net new client assets during the quarter to take its total client asset balance to $138.5 billion. This was a strong positive for the company since the June quarter is typically challenging to gather client assets owing to tax season outflows. Going forward, we expect the company to continue to attract clients at similar rates through the end of its fiscal year.
Revenues From IDA Balances and Trading Commissions Remain Subdued
In the last few quarters, the company's insured deposit account (IDA) assets have been somewhat flat at about $72-73 billion. IDA balances stayed at around similar levels through the June quarter as well, but were still 6% higher than the prior year quarter. However, the y-o-y increase in IDA balances was offset by a decline in the net yield by 5 basis points over the year ago period. Consequently, the revenues generated by interest on IDA balances remained flat sequentially and annually at around $200 million. [3] We expect the yield on these assets to bottom out this year and gradually increase thereafter since the Fed has initiated its QE tapering program. Looking ahead, we expect the low yield on IDAs to continue for remainder of the year.
Ameritrade's daily average revenue trades (DARTs) sequentially increased in each of the three quarters beginning July 2013 – from about 380,000 in Q4 FY 2013 to 492,000 in the second fiscal quarter of 2014. However, Ameritrade's DARTs declined to 401,000 for the June quarter. Although this was a nearly 20% fall from the previous quarter, the figure was flat over the June quarter in 2013. Ameritrade realized a slightly lower average revenue per trade compared to prior year quarter, implying a 1% decline in trading revenues to $317 million. Despite a slight dip in trading volumes in the last couple of months, we forecast the average trades per account to grow by over 5% to 17.5 trades through 2014.
According to our analysis, the company's adjusted EBITDA margin improved by only about 14 basis points over the prior year quarter to 47.4% in Q3 FY 2014. Comparatively, the adjusted EBITDA margin improved by over 150 basis points in the previous quarter. The slight decline in trading volumes during the quarter was partially responsible for keeping margins nearly flat. A similar trend was witnessed in competing brokerage Charles Schwab's (NYSE:SCHW) recent earnings report. We currently forecast Ameritrade's full year EBITDA margin to be over 48% in 2014. A rise in trading volumes in the latter half of the calendar year could help the company post even healthier margins than our forecasts.
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- TD Ameritrade Q3 2014 Earnings Call Transcript, Seeking Alpha, July 2014 [↩]
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- Ameritrade Q3 FY 2014 Earnings Presentation, TD Ameritrade Investor Relations, July 2014 [↩]


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Reuse is the second most important "R" in the Waste Management Hierarchy.
Reusing requires us to think about how items could be reused, both at the time of purchase and as the item approaches the end of its useful life. Reusing is nothing new for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians – for generations it's been a smart, common sense part of life. Reuse means using a product to its full extent. Think about whether the materials you throw away can be used again, either by yourself or by someone else.
- Store food and leftovers in reusable containers.
- Use a coffee press or reusable coffee filters.
- Stock your kitchen with cloth napkins and hand towels instead of paper towels and napkins.
- Have your morning coffee or tea in a reusable mug; request a ceramic mug when enjoying a beverage at your local coffee shop.
- Pack a waste-free lunch: use a fabric lunch bag or lunch tin, a refillable water bottle, reusable sandwich and snack containers, reusable cutlery and a cloth napkin.
- Keep reusable grocery bags somewhere you'll remember them such as the front porch or trunk of your car.
- Invest in small mesh bags for produce instead of using the plastic bags provided at the grocery store.
- Keep a compact shopping bag in your purse or car for unplanned shopping trips.
- Shop at second-hand stores for furniture, clothing, accessories and household items.
- Donate furniture, clothing, accessories and household items that are still in good condition.
- Hold a clothing swap or baby gear swap with friends.
- Tell your friends and family that you are ok with second hand gifts for you and your family.
- Sell items you no longer use online, at a flea market or have a yard sale.
- Use social media groups to find and post second-hand items.
- Shop for, sell or donate used building materials online or at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
- Try mending holes in clothing and socks.
- Consider altering clothes that don't fit quite right; do it yourself or bring it to a tailor.
- Make fabric gift bags of various sizes that can be used amongst family members for birthdays or Christmas year after year.
- Make toys and crafts from discarded household items. Odd socks, mittens and gloves are a great start for making cute stuffed animals.
- Make gift tags from Christmas, birthday and other special occasion cards.
- Save gift bags, tissue paper, ribbons, gift wrap and gift boxes to use again.
- Reuse brown paper and brown paper bags for gift wrapping. Add some design with colourful stamps and ribbons.


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The judges praised Cedar as an agency that oozes quality creative. 'The traditional values around quality in execution and photography really stand out,' said one.
In British Airways' Business Life and High Life magazines Cedar continues to produce some of the most-awarded and envied work in the business. In 2011 the PR value of the coverage in the BA titles for causes including Comic Relief, Children in Need, The Prince's Trust and the East Africa Crisis Appeal totalled £3.7m.
Cedar has also shown it can inject new creative power to a growing range of brands, with its fantastic Do Not Disturb magazine for hotel chain Best Western. A quarter of readers claimed to have taken action as a result of reading the publication, with half of those people claiming to have booked a room.
The past year has been a strong one for River, which, in a challenging marketplace, oversaw a 33% year-on-year circulation rise in Weight Watchers international magazines. Meanwhile, its corporate social responsibility (CSR) output reflected an impressive amount of direct action across all levels. For an agency that is celebrating its 18th birthday this year, River has many reasons to be cheerful.
It was another strong year for Seven, which has a solid track record as a leading contender for Marketing's Content Marketing Agency of the Year. The judges praised Seven for its notable work for Sainsbury's Magazine and its beautiful presentation. Seven's commitment to brand extensions and investing in new channels such as video content was also singled out for praise.
August won plaudits for its focus on key performance indicators, particularly in its work for P&O Cruises.
'It is a nice upstart story and there are some solid client gains and steady cross and upselling,' was the verdict of the judges. The agency also provided solid credentials in the CSR arena and continued to prove the value of its creative proposition.
Publicis Blueprint, last year's Content Marketing Agency of the Year winner, put in another great performance. Under the skilled leadership of chief executive Geri Richards, the agency has grown on all fronts; from staff to digital expertise and the all-important bottom line. In a tough marketplace, Publicis Blueprint's turnover increased by 16.8% year on year.
Also shortlisted were Haymarket Network and John Brown.
2011: Publicis Blueprint
2010: Fitzgerald Shurey Tarbuck
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LONDON, UK (rushPRnews) 08/06/10 — I possibly have a different definition of brand engagement than others, so I thought I might share my views. I'd love to hear your thoughts too!
What is a "brand"?
Unlike a person, organizations are made of many people with different personalities. What an individual and a brand do have in common is a vision, a goal and the approach to that target. The identity that is created to represent these things forms the brand. A brand comprises many aspects: look, feel and values which can be viewed as the brand's "personality".
Like people, brands represent themselves differently to the various segments of their communities. For example; a brand may be portrayed differently to businesses as opposed to individuals. Despite this, there are always basic elements that are constant.
All of these facets of a brand are what people interact with when they connect with that brand.
This counts for:
All of these are communities that exist around the brand.
What is "brand engagement" then?
Brand engagement is the set of activities a company is involved in to strengthen relationships with these communities.
This includes:
For more on brands and corporate responsibility read my interview with triplepundit here.
Why engage?
By the definition above, brands are already engaging. Ignoring the conversations and communities is also a mode of engagement. So it's not a question of "should" but a question of "how"? Engaging in a constructive, unified and clear way strengthens the organisation by strengthening the relationships to their communities. When people feel good about their relationship to a brand they are a lot more likely to recommend it to others. Word of mouth, which includes social media, is still the most effective mode of marketing there is. So give them something to talk about and make it good!
What about "control"?
While it is important for brands to respect their brand identity guidelines, it's not realistic to think that others will. The opportunity for "control" here is not in keeping brand communication close to the organisation's "chest" The opportunity exists in participating in conversations. Being part of the conversation ensure that the information disseminated is accurate and reflects the brand accurately. This usually ensures that the outcome is productive for the organisation and its communities.
|Arié Moyal
Great! Where do we start?
In order for these activities to be successful there must be clarity around the brand identity itself and clear goals for engagement activities. Once these are established, internal processes must be primed for participation, both proactive and reactive, in conversations and activities connected to the brand.
I came across a really cool example recently: An intercity bus passenger who used the brand's SMS feedback service to tell them he thought his bus was too hot. Apparently, within minutes the passenger got a text back advising them that the driver had been contacted and that he was going to adjust the temperature. (Sure he could have gotten up and done that himself, but that's not the point!)
True or not, this is a perfect example of internal processes being properly set up to deal with issues raised by the brand's communities.
You don't have to have it exactly right to get started, especially if people are already talking about the brand online but this is really important and should be a priority for management. In fact, if you wait for it to be perfect, you'll probably never get started!
Employees – ambassadors or enthusiasts?
Part of this is employee engagement. Keeping them happy and engaged with their work effectively keeps them close to the brand. Ultimately, done properly, it will make them all brand enthusiasts! This is not the same as brand ambassadors because effectively all employees are brand ambassadors, whether they're excited about the brand or not. Their friends and families see how they feel about their work and the way they answer the question "Where do you work?" speaks volumes about the brand to people they meet.
Next steps
The next steps are unifiying communications from the perspective of established brand identity guidelines as well as hiring the right people to speak officially on behalf of the brand in all channels. Personally, I believe these people should be internal as I've expressed in my previous post about the role of agencies in brand community management.
Two second takeaway:
Brand engagement is about connecting with people, both inside and outside organization, by listening, sharing and responding quickly to the brand's communities This will increase brand affinity which leads to increased brand awareness and eventually to increased revenue!
So what do you think? Is this brand engagement?
Arié Moyal is the founder of HugTrain, a social purpose startup and a brand engagement strategist who has consulted with a range of companies on community enagement and social media strategy.
Arié is available for consulting, speaking engagements, coaching and training.
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The Merseyside club will travel to face the Royals without the Belgian international forward and the Irish midfielder, having lost the pair to injury ahead of Saturday's game
Belgium international Mirallas suffered a hamstring strain in last week's 2-1 win over Sunderland, while Irish international Gibson has been out since September with a thigh problem.
In his pre-match press conference, Moyes told reporters: "Kevin is out injured, but we don't think it's too bad at the moment. Darron is still injured."
Striker Victor Anichebe and right-back Tony Hibbert will undergo fitness tests on Friday but are doubtful, having missed last week's victory over the Black Cats, with Seamus Coleman and Steven Naismith possible replacements.
The Toffees are currently fourth in the Premier League, while the Royals are yet to win a top-flight match so far this season.


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Islamorada Slamming Continues!
Orlando's Miss Dara Bagwell recently celebrated her very first flats Grand Slam. She ripped out of the gate with two pre-dawn tarpon of 40 and 120 pounds, both fooled with golf ball-sized live crabs and 20 pound spinning tackle. In between these active jumpers, her partner Barry Burnette bested a 120 pounder, also before sunrise.
At daybreak, a finned-out permit on the hunt consumed another of Dara's crabs, and after a slalom course follow in the 18 HPX through several lobster traps and floats, the white-lipped 24 pounder was reluctantly posing for the camera. Only moments later a three pound bonefish fell all over Miss Bagwell's shrimp, fully completing the hat trick by just 9:20 a.m.! Incredibly, Dara followed up the next day with a 60 pound tarpon, a 15 pound permit and another 3 pound boner to record consecutive Grand Slams. In the middle of the same day, an overwhelmed Dara allowed Barry to get a bite and ware down an unusually thick tarpon while using a 20 pound stick. Girth measurements at boatside revealed a barrel-chested 45 1/2 incher, Burnette's largest ever, a monster that was clearly well over 180 pounds! Certainly not the class of fish you would expect to find in August anywhere in the Keys.
The previous week, Burnette spent the weekend in Islamorada with his 9 year old daughter Mallory and 7 year old son Nathan and proudly watched each of them catch their bonefish. The next day, Mallory and Nathan supportively watched their dad catch a pair of 60 pound tarpon, 2 bones of 5 and 7 pounds and permit of 15 and 24 pounds for his first ever Double Grand Slam!
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For this week's Scenes of the City we stopped by the newest park in the city—SoMa West Skate Park and Dog Play area.
Plans for the new park have been underway since 2009, after $3.3 million funding and a deal with CalTrans (who owns the property). Tucked underneath the Central Freeway, between Valencia and Otis streets near Zeitgeist, the roar of traffic above and skate boards on concrete below merge. Adults, teenagers, and even younger kids fly around the park on their boards, BMX bikes, Razor scooters, and anything else on wheels. Check out the action for yourself here—but be careful to not get in the way.
Moat notable about the new park, aside from that gaggle of skaters, is the new mural, There Slipped Saturn A Perpetual Tock- a.k.a. The Saturn Clock, by San Francisco-based artist Jovi Schnell. Spanning several columns surrounding the skate park, the work was inspired by the area's nearly forgotten treasure, San Francisco's Woodward's Gardens.
Schnell says, "It was inspiring to work on a project that transformed a parking lot into a dynamic and active public space. It was fun to create something for this new park and connect with the amusement park history of San Francisco."


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Is there anything in the world less inspiriting than New Age electro-pop smoothed over with backwash fuzz and lyrics about feelin' how you wanna feel? I think not, and that's why I'm the wrong person to be listening to Back to the Roots. This is a disc with some good intros, yet the songs don't always measure up to their promises. "Sweet Home" comes in with a low drum erupting into a storm of bagpipery and it sounds as if we're in for a brilliant bit of pop bombast, but then the song slides down into a mild pit, rescued only partially by the sweetness of the refrain. Vaughan, born and raised in Tunisia by parents of different backgrounds, one English, one French, puts an averagely pretty voice to better use than you might imagine. This self-released album looks and sounds as smart as any big-label unit, but big-label mainstream overproduction has been plastered on until the music stiffens. Sweet and smooth, it's like trying to listen to optimistic marzipan.
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Interestng analysis of the U.S. "war on terror" this week in Reader Supported News.
Interestng analysis of the U.S. "war on terror" this week in Reader Supported News.
Sen. Jeff Merkley comments on Donald Trump's call for banning Muslims from entering the U.S.
A Nov. 27 notice mailed out by the U.S. Postal Service warns that if a "mailpiece" contains ads for marijuana it is "nonmailable."
This has some Oregon newspapers that accept legal pot ads concerned, particularly rural papers that are primarily mailed. According to The Oregonian, "It's not clear what prompted the warning, which was hand-delivered Monday by a Washington postal official to the Chinook Observer, a Long Beach, Wash., newspaper. The newspaper and the Daily Astorian distribute a weekly tab called Coast Weekend, which runs advertisements from a Long Beach dispensary and Oregon Coast dispensaries."
Members of Oregon's congressional delegation responded in a letter to the Postmaster, asking, among other things, if the policy is being enforced in all 50 states and what discretion a regional postmaster has, what authority does the Postal Service have to regulate the advertising of legal marijuana, if the ads aren't promising to mail any marijuana? How will the Postal Service enforce the rule when Congress prohibited the U.S. Department of Justice from spending any money prosecuting federal marijuana crimes in states that have legalized weed?
Finally, Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, Suzanne Bonamici and Earl Blumenauer ask if the Postal Service cooperateed "with anyone at DEA or DOJ in establishing this policy?" and if it did the "please detail the nature of the cooperation."
Following the discovery of a lump in her breast and a subsequent mammogram and biopsy, Mayor Piercy's doctor has diagnosed ductal carcinoma in situ. Her understanding is that this is a very common cancer that is small, non-invasive and low grade. Next week, Mayor Piercy will meet with a surgeon and make arrangements for surgery soon.Mayor Piercy said, "I am grateful that this was discovered through routine breast self-examination. It is a reminder to us all to do those examinations regularly. Throughout this process I have been impressed with the kind, efficient and very professional care I have received. I expect to need a little time to recover from surgery, but other than that to continue with my usual full schedule."
This just in from the Roseburg VA:
The Roseburg VA Medical Center will soon open its new Health Care Center at 3355 Chad Drive in Eugene on Monday, Jan. 25. VA staff, city leaders and veterans' groups will mark the occasion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 am. Tours of the new clinic will be provided prior to the ceremony during the month of January. The public is welcome and all veterans are encouraged to come see the facility.
The new Health Care Center will replace the Eugene Community Based Outpatient Clinic on River Road and River Avenue. The new 120 thousand-square-foot facility will provide primary care, mental health, women's health, audiology, physical, speech and occupational therapy as well as an onsite dispensing pharmacy. In addition to expanding the existing services offered in Eugene, new services planned for this clinic include:
• Ambulatory Surgery
• Laboratory
• Imaging
• Speech Pathology
• Ophthalmology
• Prosthetics
• Cardiopulmonary
• Orthopedics
• Gastroenterology
• Dental
• Podiatry
• Urology
Following the ceremony the Eugene Health Care Center will begin seeing Veterans starting at 1 pm. To schedule a tour or for general questions please email email@example.com.
One way to track the Paris Climate Talks is througj the website for the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Ferguson has a new film out that's now posted on Huffington Post. But it will be taken down soon.


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LeapFrog: The Magnificent Museum of Opposite Words and LeapFrog: Adventures in Shapeville Park
Join everybody's favorite LeapFrog character and puppy pal, Scout, and his friends for two all-new learning adventures when Lionsgate Home Entertainment and leader in educational entertainment, LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc., team up to release LeapFrog: The Magnificent Museum of Opposite Words andLeapFrog: Adventures in Shapeville Park to DVD, Digital Download and On Demandthis January! These two new LeapFrog Scout & Friends entertainment releases introduce children to shapes and measurement as well as opposites, synonyms and word building. Each DVD will be available January 22, 2013 for the suggested retail price of $14.98.
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Managing Editor
The invasion of Ukraine worsens, and the United States does nothing.
We've levied a few sanctions, shared a few harsh words with Russia's leaders, but all that amounts to little more than posturing. That's what our foreign policy is, and has been, through at least the last four presidents — posturing. We can do better, we can still lead on the world stage, if only our leadership in the Oval Office and Congress had the fortitude to make meaningful strides toward upholding justice and freedom around the world. Lofty ideas, no doubt, but ones I believe are still attainable.
The major media outlets have called the agitators in eastern Ukraine "militants," but soon they'll be called what they are: Russian soldiers. Sources in several newspapers have described the soldiers as being well equipped and professional, not adjectives typically assigned to your average Eastern European, Molotov cocktail-throwing revolutionist.
We don't need to get involved militarily in Ukraine. It's not strategically intelligent, and it's not worth American blood. We don't even need to send the pro-Ukraine forces guns — yet.
But what we do need to do is cripple the bank account of every single person Vladimir Putin has ever been in the same room with. We can make them bleed rubles, and that is the quickest way to smash any imperialist ideas Russia's leadership has about any of its former soviets. And it would be a strong message to other superpowers that have their eyes on disputed territories (I'm looking at you, China). Act up, and we'll hit you where it hurts.
That's not to say the US and Europe should target whole sectors of the Russian economy, either. Russian civilians, whether they've been whipped into a foolish nationalistic frenzy or not, are not responsible for the invasion of Ukraine. There are key players in Russia, I'm sure, that Putin works for. It is the same in almost every nation on earth — the head of state has his minders.
Those are the figures our sanctions need to target. They should be easily identifiable. We need to squeeze them so hard that they go to Putin and give him the option of either pulling his military forces out of and away from Ukraine or spending the rest of his days farming ice blocks in Siberia.
Michael Gebelein is managing editor of the Lincoln Times-News.
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A commission to investigate the pass rate in public schools was proposed at the ANC policy conference on Friday, said Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
Historically, South Africa had never had good pass rates, she said.
Motshekga, who is a member of the ANC sub-committee on education, said that before 1994 an F on lower grade, which was the equivalent of 33 percent, was regarded as a pass.
"There is an argument that we have lowered the pass rate... (but) we want a commission to investigate trends in other countries."
She said quality and inefficiency were problems in basic education.
"We are experiencing inefficiency in procuring learner support material, and inefficiency in appointing personnel."
She said another problem was infrastructure, which led to overcrowding in classes.
"If there are not enough buildings, children are pushed into a class exceeding the teacher-learner ratio."
She said the ratio was 40 children to one teacher in a class at primary school, and 35 children per teacher at high school.
She said the purchase of textbooks would also be centralised, with the national department buying books for provinces.
"We are not just buying books, we are buying books recommended by experts as the best."
She said the centralisation of book procurement would improve distribution and coverage.
"Countries like Swaziland have coverage of over 80 percent, while SA has just ten percent coverage."
Her department had been under pressure to supply books in Limpopo.
Motshekga said regardless of the problems encountered, the department had been able to improve the matric pass rate countrywide.
"We have improved, but it is not enough. We feel we could do better."
She said improving the process followed when school principals were appointed was also being considered.
"At schools where you have an effective principal, the situation is better, even if the school is not well resourced." – Sapa


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UPDATE 10/26/09: Another helpful article:
• "What You Need To Know About Swine Flu Vaccine" (NPR)
UPDATE 11/3/09. Panel of Experts reviews vaccine safety and finds no danger signals:
• "Marketing Flu Vaccine: A Tough Sell For Many" (NPR)
UPDATE 11/10/09. NYTimes' Tara Parker-Pope and Dr. Perri Klass both endorse the vaccine and explore why some parents are refusing it:
• "Parents Refusing the Flu Vaccine" (NYT)
UPDATE 12/7/09. "Review Shows Safety of H1N1 Vaccine, Officials Say" (NYT)
The rejection of hard-won knowledge is by no means a new phenomenon. In 1905, French mathematician and scientist Henri Poincaré said that the willingness to embrace pseudo-science flourished because people "know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether illusion is not more consoling." Decades later, the astronomer Carl Sagan reached a similar conclusion: Science loses ground to pseudo-science because the latter seems to offer more comfort. "A great many of these belief systems address real human needs that are not being met by our society," Sagan wrote of certain Americans' embrace of reincarnation, channeling, and extraterrestrials. "There are unsatisfied medical needs, spiritual needs, and needs for communion with the rest of the human community."
Looking back over human history, rationality has been the anomaly. Being rational takes work, education, and a sober determination to avoid making hasty inferences, even when they appear to make perfect sense. Much like infectious diseases themselves -- beaten back by decades of effort to vaccinate the populace -- the irrational lingers just below the surface, waiting for us to let down our guard.
Before smallpox was eradicated with a vaccine, it killed an estimated 500 million people. And just 60 years ago, polio paralyzed 16,000 Americans every year, while rubella caused birth defects and mental retardation in as many as 20,000 newborns. Measles infected 4 million children, killing 3,000 annually, and a bacterium called Haemophilus influenzae type b caused Hib meningitis in more than 15,000 children, leaving many with permanent brain damage. Infant mortality and abbreviated life spans -- now regarded as a third world problem -- were a first world reality.
Today, because the looming risk of childhood death is out of sight, it is also largely out of mind, leading a growing number of Americans to worry about what is in fact a much lesser risk: the ill effects of vaccines. If your newborn gets pertussis, for example, there is a 1 percent chance that the baby will die of pulmonary hypertension or other complications. The risk of dying from the pertussis vaccine, by contrast, is practically nonexistent -- in fact, no study has linked DTaP (the three-in-one immunization that protects against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) to death in children. Nobody in the pro-vaccine camp asserts that vaccines are risk-free, but the risks are minute in comparison to the alternative.
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• Health care and emergency medical services personnel
• All people from 6 months through 24 years of age
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I left two messages for the loan processor because I am in a little bit of a state. I left a message for my LO. My LO, who is wonderful by the way, called me back very promptly and explained that this is normal, he received my approved file with the conditions but has not had a chance to review them, he will call me back Friday to review the list and send a follow-up email. He told me he sent my file off on Friday and to receive it back with conditional approval on Tuesday from the UR is pretty good. He told me to quit spazzing. He said I have plenty of time before my March 3rd close.
So, I feel better. The lack of follow-up communication from the processor made me think the worst.
Thanks to everyone who left words of encouragement.
I still do not know the specific conditions. But, since conditions with approval is normal in these trying times according to my LO I will not stress any longer.
Today is a good day.
Keep us in the loop! So excited for you!
My realtor's business partner had to talk me down earlier this week. I'm panicking about the appraisal and the timeline for March 28th! You're not alone! I imagine these people are used to dealing with people being kind of nutty.
I can completely relate to what you two are going through. I am a veteran now, having survived underwriting and conditions and closing on my house in November. My nails are just starting to grow back, I chewed them down so low! It is stressful, stressful, stressful... and totaly worth it!
Take a deep breath, relax (I know, easier said than done), and have confidence that nothing will come up that you can't handle. I didn't know for sure if my loan was going to go through until the day of closing! You'll be fine. You'll be in your new houses by summer. Yeah!
Update for person wanting to know conditions: I received my conditional acceptance letter in the mail and my LO called me to review it on Friday. They only wanted to verify a few bank deposits even though I had submitted those bank statements already. So, I have made additional copies.
They also questioned the hard pull for PSECU when I applied to become a member for the experion monthly FICO score. So, I have to write a letter of explanation. No biggie.
Here is the biggie: they could not verify my 2009 return. I efiled last year. IRS has no record, they say, so now I have to call my local office and find out if I can file the return with them, which is now considered late and I will have penalties I guess. I do not care about the money part, I can afford to pay that. The time crunch has me worried. If the local office cannot help me I guess I will have to pay a tax attorney to file the late return and my payment on my behalf as proof that the tax liablity has been satisfied. I have no idea where that stuff is; I may have thrown it away. I know, I know I should keep them, please do not rub salt in my wounds.
Any other ideas let me know, my scheduled closing is March 3rd if my aorta doesn't implode in the meantime.
that tax issue may be a big problem. They usually only accept tax transcripts from the IRS as proof and it takes awhile for the IRS to process your application. A letter from a lawyer will not likely mean anything because a letter from the lawyer saying they are filed and paid only shows that you likely submitted. It does not show the IRS actually recieving, processing, and actually accepting your returns as accurate and all items paid in full. That is what they need, I think you used to be able to file at a local office and go that route but I think most banks stopped taking that (some may still do it). In any case, you need to get a very clear explanation from the underwriter exactly what proof they need to proceed. More than likely it is going to be IRS transcsript. Make sure the LO actually clears this with the UW and does not just give you a one off answer.
Mickie, she's having a problem with her 09 return, so do you have a suggestion for that?
I don't understand how IRS wouldn't have it - did you get a refund or have to pay for that return?
Title "As the Mortgage Turns". In my continuing saga I have a new update. I went to HR Block to have them print my 2009 return. I remembered wrong. I did not owe money, I overpaid by $50.00. That is probably why I forgot about the return and I never heard anything from the IRS. So, today I overnighted the 2009 return to the IRS and it will be delivered Friday am. So, I still may not close in time and the deal my fall apart in the meantime who knows. But, on the bright side I do not have to cough up $700 plus like I originally thought. My LO now says I need to forward copies of the info including my receipt to HR Block and the Postal Service showing overnight delivery per the underwriter. Hmmm. The plot thickens. Will I close or won't I close. Let's take a poll (kidding). I hope all the posters and visitors to this forum are doing well and have a safe and enjoyable weekend.
It's so hard to think about anything else during this time period! Your date was Mar 2, wasn't it?
Dear Mauve:
Took a couple of days off to destress. My closing is March 3rd and I am supposed to pick-up the keys on March 4th. I tell everyone it is March 2nd to give myself an extra day for running around at the last minute if necessary. Thanks for asking. I apologize for the delay in responding.
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Hot on the heels of pics that show him lighting up what looked like a huge joint at a party (although some reports allege the photo was doctored), girlie-man/badboy JUSTIN BIEBER reacted badly to a stern warning from execs of his upcoming movie documentary, "Believe," who told him: Stay the hell out of TROUBLE!
"Huge money's on the line because his last film, 'Never Say Never' earned upward of $100 million," said an insider.
"That's why director JON M. CHU and manager SCOOTER BRAUN had a sit-down with Justin and laid down the ground rules: No speeding, no spitting, no screaming threats at paparazzi, fans or neighbors, no puffing on funny cigarettes – and absolutely NO problems with police!"
The Bieb's reaction? "Justin's headstrong and never likes being told what to do, so his first reaction was to remind everyone that without him, they wouldn't have a movie to release," said the source.
"Then he started ranting and raving that he's tired of people bossing him and calling the shots – so he won't be taking orders from anyone!" OMFG! Stay tuned.
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Three hour long Io-B red pass on 110131 Hello Radio Astronomers, This is a very interesting event. Strongest in LCP, showing strong modulations in RCP in a criss cross pattern (with positive and negative drift rates ). Please see the attached illustration, which includes details from the Nancay spectrum (with my thanks to Paris Observatory). Best regards, Victor Herrero Messages http://www.freelists.org/archive/radioastro Pages http://herrero.freei.me/ Blog http://herrero-radio-astronomy.blogspot.com/
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WASHINGTON (May. 30)
The Reagan Administration said today that its major objective in the Middle East was to find a "mechanism" to bring about direct talks between the Arabs and Israel.
"The bedrock of the American position is to obtain a mechanism which will lead to progress in the peace process and certainly lead to direct talks between the Arabs and the Israelis," State Department deputy spokesman Edward Djerejian said.
He was trying to clarify the United States' position after President Reagan indicated yesterday, following his two hour meeting with King Hussein of Jordan, that the United States was moving away from its opposition to an international conference to negotiate a peace settlement. Hussein had stressed to reporters that he needed the "umbrella" of an international conference in order to conduct negotiations with Israel.
The situation became further ambiguous when Secretary of State George Shultz, at a dinner for Hussein last night, in praising the King for his efforts to advance the peace process, talked of negotiations within an "international context." Djerejian pointed out that Reagan said yesterday that the U.S. has "differences" with Hussein over such an international conference and that those differences would be discussed with the King before he leaves Washington tomorrow. Djerejian stressed that the U.S. is keeping in close touch with all the parties concerned on these developments.
The spokesman conceded today that one major difference over an international conference is U.S. opposition to the participation of the Soviet Union. Hussein made it clear yesterday that the Soviet Union would be a participant since his February 11 agreement with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat calls for an international conference which would include the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
"We have said on many occasions that if the Soviet Union demonstrates a willingness to play a constructive role in the Middle East peace process, we would welcome that development," Djerejian said. "However, so far we are seeing no evidence that the Soviets are prepared to play such a role."
Djerejian spelled out some steps the U.S. believes the Soviets should take if it wants to demonstrate that it can be constructive. He said these include: Resumption of full diplomatic relations with Israel; the end of Soviet anti-Semitic propaganda; improving the treatment of Soviet Jews, including the right to emigrate; the exercise of Soviet influence to reduce arms supplies to Iran by Soviet friends and allies; ending Soviet arms supplies to militia groups in Lebanon and desisting from efforts to obstruct positive moves expanding the peace process in the region.
On the role of the PLO, Djerejian noted that Hussein said that his willingness to negotiate with Israel as part of a joint Jordanian-PLO delegation comes not only from the February 11 agreement but from the King's recent talks with the PLO, which includes the organization's acceptance of UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.
But the Department spokesman added that the U.S. still required the "PLO clearly and unequivocally to accept U.S. conditions which are the acceptance of the two resolutions and Israel's right to exist." He said this acceptance must be "explicit and public" and if it comes "we will begin a substantial dialogue with that organization."
At the same time, he said U.S. acceptance of the PLO, does not mean the PLO can be accepted as the Palestinian representative in a joint delegation with Jordan for negotiations with Israel since all the concerned parties must agree to the negotiating partners.
In listing the conditions for the U.S. to talk to the PLO, Djerejian did not mention a renunciation of terrorism which was listed this week by a senior Administration official who briefed reporters on the Reagan-Hussein meeting. Djerejian said the U.S. position on terrorism is well known and the U.S. has taken the lead in combating international terrorism. He added that there could not be a peace process going on if terrorism existed. Djerejian also noted that Hussein said yesterday that negotiations should be conducted with Israel in a "non-belligerent manner" which the Jordanian Embassy later corrected to a "non-belligerent environment" which Djerejian implied would rule out a continuation of terrorism.