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How do you tastefully display sentimental photos and objects at home? You know those hard-to-cast-off keepsakes that just don't fit the aesthetic of your home?
Try extending the gallery wall concept beyond photos into art and knick-knacks.
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The Curated House offers a perfect solution (pictured above) for that teddy bear you can't bring yourself to throw away. Frame it. You'll love the look and your guests will call you creative rather than creepy.
Update all those stuffy things you're hanging onto by mixing-in found objects for an eclectic look. Pick a palette and accent accordingly. Use boxes to hide the truly unsightly keepsakes.
Photo and Styling by Daniella Witte
With photo walls, go monochrome. Weddings and the annual family picnic group shot may not make for sophisticated design. But in black and white your gallery is instantly design-friendly.
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With your keepsakes arranged, how do you light them? Many modern wall lamps with clean and simple styling are a perfect fit for an eclectic wall. Spot and swing arm designs can be directed to enhance focal points. Or hang a pair of designer-inspired mini pendant lights on either side of your tableau. This visual cue effectively "frames" the scene.
In the end, sentimental photos and objects are what give your home heart. With some creative treatment, they can look surprisingly good in the process.
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Clients and friends often think that in order to make a statement in a room they have to use color. While color is one great way to make a statement, there are other ways to do so as well and drum shade chandeliers are one great option.
Texture, pattern and size are three of my favorite design elements to do just that. Lighting is one of my favorite items in a space, and making a bold statement with elegant drum shade chandelier designs can be a great way to draw the eye up, making the ceilings feel taller, room feel generally brighter, and cause guests to "ohh" and "aww" over the room.
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We happen to love neutrals at our office, so these white and natural colored drum shades definitely caught our eye.
As you can see from the inspiration pictures, using a white or natural shade allows your eyes to breath, scanning the whole room without bursts of color breaking up the harmony and flow. When you use a neutral color, play with the size of the shade, chandelier or pendant, as this can be a great way to bring big impact to a simple design.
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1.Latitude 2 Satin Nickel 22-Inch-W Gatco Wall Mirror 2.Brushed Stainless Steel George Kovacs Wall Sconce 3.Besa Darci Modern Satin Nickel Three Light Sconce 4.Elton Espresso White Marble 30" Wide Floating Vanity Set 5.Destiny Contemporary Silver Two-Light Vanity Mirror
Decorating a modern home in a cool color palette means creating relaxation in the home. Colors in the blue, green and violet families have a cooling effect in the interior space and evoke feelings of openness. By swatching colors from the desert night sky, a rushing river, or a deep lagoon, we bring the sensations of the outdoors, indoors.
Using analogous colors (different shades of the same color) when designing a room with a cool color palette will have a drastic cooling effect. Add in warm accents, like colorful pillows in the turquoise image below, and the room will feel cool but have pockets of sun and warmth. In a violet room, use purple accents like an elegant purple lamp shade or accents in coral, like a coral pendant lamp to add in that touch of warmth while still remaining fresh and cool. If, on the other hand, you're going with a dark blue color scheme, adding in accents in white, like a modern white task floor lamp can help to keep things looking fresh and modern.
Cool blues like turquoise and cobalt also can work to make small spaces look larger, so if you're working with a studio apartment, or just a small bedroom, consider one of those hues to gain some visual square footage. Add in metallic details to contrast with the chilly hues, like this Ostrich Rust Babette Holland Table Lamp and you'll usher in a sophisticated warmth.
Lastly, remember to include plants or flowers as the finishing touches to the room--and since we're working with the cooler hues today may I suggest lavender or violets...?
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Spring is just around the corner and we're celebrating with some ideas for adding blush pink to your interior design...
Whether you prefer bold or soft colors, pink can brighten up any space and can be found in home accessories, fun furnishings and especially with modern pink lighting.
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This vintage modern bedroom features so much clean white, but the pink bed changes everything. Adding a little blush to the room provides personality and interest.
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Even the smallest amount of any color can change the direction of a rooms style. This black, gray and white room above is enhanced with a little soft pink pillow.
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Adding small details around the pink accessories or lighting is a nice way to complete the design. The little flowers and pillow sham in the bedroom above support the starring role of the table lamp.
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- GOP Hopes for Wave Election, Google Dissed by Silicon Valley Rep and More in Capital Eye Opener: Sept. 2September 2, 2010 9:55 AM
REPUBLICANS LEAD IN POLLS AND TOTAL MONEY RAISED: A new Gallup poll gives Republicans their largest lead ever -- a 10-point spread, 51 percent to 41 percent --- in Gallup's tracking of midterm elections, which dates back to 1942. But GOP candidates are also leading the race in another arena: campaign funding.
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Congressional members' vehicles are hardly created equal when it comes to how much you, as a taxpayer, are subsidizing them. What's equally unequal: How much information members of the U.S. House of Representatives are willing to reveal about the wheels you're providing them.
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On Monday night, the Obama administration announced its intent to nominate Beatrice Wilkinson Welters to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. Welters and her husband, Anthony, an executive with UnitedHealth Group, co-founded the AnBryce Foundation in 1995, which provides academic and leadership programs for underserved youth. They also bundled at least $300,000 for President Barack Obama's committees and have been prolific campaign contributions to federal candidates and committees.
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- Defense Contractor Charged With Kickbacks Helped Fund Murtha's CampaignsJuly 7, 2009 6:39 PM
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Lawmakers trying to build up their war chests tap a variety of financial resources and walk the fine line of balancing their constituents' needs and their need for money to run a re-election campaign. Find out here who the Members of Congress that relied most on out-of-state donors and PAC giving during the first quarter of 2009 are.
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The close ties between Rep. John Murtha and a Washington lobbying firm raided by the FBI have put the powerful Pennsylvania Democrat under greater scrutiny. The lobbyists at PMA Group have been Murtha's fifth most generous campaign donor over time, but he is just one of 284 members of the 111th Congress who have collected money from the firm, which specializes in securing federal earmarks for its clients. In total, PMA Group's employees and its political action committee have given current members of Congress $3.4 million since 1989.
- Money and Votes Aligned in Congress's Last Debate Over Bank RegulationSeptember 23, 2008 11:43 AM
The last time Congress seriously debated how to regulate the financial industry, the result was legislation that allowed the nation's largest banks to get even larger and take risks that had been prohibited since the Great Depression. A look back at that debate, which was over the 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act, reveals that campaign contributions may have influenced the votes of politicians who, a decade later, are now grappling with the implosion of the giant banks they helped to foster.
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Consider adding this to your 2012 career goals: Reinvigorate your job hunt with a twist to the predictable print resume.
The 8x10 white paper (off-white for those thrill-seekers) with 12-point font listing education, work experience and references is ubiquitous among job seekers. And because print resumes literally stack up, standing out in today's competitive market can be even more challenging.
Paper resumes aren't in jeopardy of extinction, but these days some aggressive job hunters are going off script to get noticed. While career experts don't have quantitative evidence, Charles Purdy, a senior editor at Monster.com, said more applicants do seem to be trying other approaches. Video resumes, use of Twitter and other social media are cropping up in recruiters' in boxes. Such tactics, however, may not always produce the intended result.
"It might work if your goal is to work at a very targeted start-up, or in a specific social marketing role at a company," said Purdy. But, when done carelessly, it can appear gimmicky. "It gets attention, but is it the right people's attention?"
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For Hanna Phan, 32, the answer was yes. She was getting nowhere with traditional search methods such as canvassing online job sites, scouring LinkedIn and reaching out to her network. The Vancouver-based freelance presentation consultant wanted a full-time job that combined technology and visual creative presentations.
She targeted an open position at SlideRocket, a San Francisco-based company founded in 2007 that makes presentation software. "I knew the resume thing wasn't working," she said, so she created a presentation about herself using the company's own product, and Tweeted the animated 90-second slide show to the company's chief executive, Chuck Dietrich.
Dietrich, settling into a flight bound for the West Coast, received a direct message from a Twitter follower named Hanna. Clicking on the link, he was impressed with the slideshow as well as her ingenuity in reaching out to him directly, circumventing conventional HR routes. "That was exactly the kind of person I wanted on the team," he said.
The two connected by phone, she flew to San Francisco for an interview and within the week she was hired. The company even adopted Phan's twist on the resume to create a presentation template for users called the Présumé. Phan's original presentation, meanwhile, has tallied 30,000 views. "Can you imagine a resume getting 30,000 views?" said Dietrich.
Drumming up eyeballs was the strategy Matthew Epstein used in his pitch for a product marketing gig at Google. The 24-year-old had spent a month-and-a-half looking for jobs the conventional way, but had no leads. "I started to get really frustrated and almost started doubting myself," he said. He needed a game-changer.
Hey Google!
Epstein tapped $3,000 in savings and concocted a marketing campaign called googlepleasehire.me. The four-minute video staged in a historic mansion featured Epstein sipping Scotch, wearing a fake mustache, and speaking to the camera about why he was right for the job. The website also had "Why Google" and "About Me" pages, plus a "Top 10 List" of reasons why Google should hire him.
Within 24 hours of going live, googlepleasehire.me was top news. It started with Epstein's email to his 200 Facebook friends and a direct message to his 100 followers on Twitter. Despite those modest numbers, by the following morning, his campaign made HackerNews, in part, thanks to the online pundits bashing the clip. "All of the bickering on the forum got me to No. 1," he said.
He monitored the accelerating online buzz and swept in for any opportunity to keep it alive. "I saw a bunch of TechCruch editors tweeting about the site and I reached out to them directly to offer an interview," Epstein said. Once TechCrunch covered the story, mainstream media outlets, like CNN, did, too.
The initiative landed him job interviews in New York City, Seattle and San Francisco with a range of companies, including, yes, Google. Google didn't offer him a job, but he got offers from three other companies. (Google declined to comment about issues related to job applicants.)
He ultimately accepted a product marketing manager position at SigFig, a San Francisco-based financial start-up. "Wow, this guy's pretty creative," said Mike Sha, CEO of SigFig, recalling reading about Epstein's campaign on TechCrunch. "He was ballsy enough to get that much traction with a job search."
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Some employers are evaluating applicants outside the traditional resume, too. Skillshare, a New York City-based start-up focused on revamping education, asks applicants not to send resumes. "We don't believe in resumes because we love Internet links! Send us your blog, twitter, linkedin, facebook, about.me, spotify, rdio, whatevz" are the online application instructions.
"There's a trend that's happening right now in terms of people using the web to make a name for themselves for personal branding," said Malcolm Ong, Skillshare's co-founder and chief technology officer.
"A resume is a good way to see what school they went to and what jobs they had, but it's a lot of fluff," Ong said. "What we look for is the actual work they've done in the past."
There's a fine line between a custom-made job pitch and a cheesy ploy, said Miriam Salpeter, founder of Atlanta-based Keppie Careers. Sending your resume with a box of cookies is the latter.
"Most hiring managers I know, say, 'Please don't do that. Don't play games,'" said Salpeter. "Even if you're leveraging these online tools, it's important to also back that up with traditional documentation."
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A new report suggests that obese teenagers who lose weight are at greater risk for eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. Therefore, it's important to find balance to prevent a seemingly healthy diet from spiraling into an unhealthy obsession. Dr. Mehmet Oz of the Dr. Oz show talked to FOX 29 and gave advice on healthy weight loss for all.
80 percent of teens in this country are eating their way toward heart disease, so when teens lose weight, their parents and health providers are naturally happy to see progress and want to be encouraging.
However, according to Mayo Clinic researchers, eating disorders often go undiagnosed in teens who have lost a lot of weight, because weight loss is seen as such a positive thing.
Dr. Oz advises everyone to remember this: looking good is the side effect, but it's the healthy eating and the occasional exercise that's truly good for your body. Catching an eating disorder early is important. If someone's losing weight in your life, look for signs of bingeing or unusual food restriction. And make sure to build self esteem around skills and talents, not appearances. In addition, fuel that self esteem with unconditional love.
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Helena Fitzhugh understands perfectly well that she would be ruined should her secret love affair be discovered. So when a rendezvous goes wrong and she is about to be caught in the act, it is with the greatest reluctance that she accepts help from David Hillsborough, Viscount Hastings, and elopes with him to save her reputation.
Helena has despised David since they were children—the notorious rake has tormented her all her life. David, on the other hand, has always loved Helena, but his pride will never let him admit the secrets of his heart.
A carriage accident the day after their elopement, however, robs Helena of her memory—the slate is wiped clean. At last David dares to reveal his love, and she finds him both fascinating and desirable. But what will happen when her memory returns and she realizes she has fallen for a man she has sworn never to trust?
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Repeal Day
American whisky, or "red whisky" as they called it in the 1800s, wasn't for the faint of heart. Cowboys coming off three months on the trail sure weren't looking for a wine spritzer. The whisky had bite and bitterness and a sour aftertaste. As Bill Samuels, Jr. recalls, "bourbon was always the unrefined uncle at the family party."
In the late 1800s, prohibition movements had sprung up across the United States, reaching their apex in 1920 when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. This resulted in the shutdown of distilleries across the nation, including a distillery known as T.W. Samuels & Son, the family's first commercial distillery. As the stories go, rum, Canadian whisky and Scotch flowed across the American borders via bootleggers, rumrunners and whatever else they may have been called in those days.
In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president on a platform calling for an end to Prohibition. Roosevelt defeated incumbent President Herbert Hoover, and, shortly after Roosevelt took office, Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment of the Constitution that would repeal the 18th. The resolution, ratified in December of the same year, gave Margie Samuels, pictured above, reason to smile.
American distilleries jumped headfirst back into the marketplace in a hurry–with under-aged whisky that tasted rough, tough and unpleasant, to put it nicely the family whisky included.
Bill Samuels, Sr., was not happy with the taste, nor were whisky drinkers, as the imported liquors were viewed as much more sophisticated and palatable. In 1953 he decided to risk everything on the idea that there was a way to craft a bourbon whisky that would be smooth, full-flavored and easy on the palate.
The saga of Maker's Mark® began with that very dream – a vision of what many people have come to believe is the very best bourbon whisky in the world.
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Good morning everyone. I would like to let everyone know that I have retired as the, ASA director of Florida. I have been the state director since 1998 and over the course of time, I have seen how much we have grown, and brought the sport to new and greater heights.
I will still be around shooting and giving some insight into some ideas for more advancements in the sport.
I would also like to thank ASA for all they have done for me, and I am deeply and greatfully thankful.
Mike, Lorriane, Jenny, Jackie, Dee, Marcia, this along with all those affilated with ASA.
I would like for you all know that new Florida director is Mike Lundeen. Mike has been one of my area reps here in Florida, and I know he will be a great new additon to the ASA team.
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How do you follow up a hotel like the Bulgari in Milan, where the architecture, the design, and the stunning, secluded city-center ex-monastery location conspire to produce one of Europe's finest modern hotels. Rather than hope to work the same magic twice, they've set out for the other side of the world — namely Bali, where the second Bulgari resort stands on a bluff overlooking the island's rough south coast.
It's essentially a cross between a traditional Balinese village and a modern luxury resort. Villas cascade down the terraced hillside, topped by thatched roofs, their interiors decorated in a style that's at once traditional-Indonesian and modern-Milanese. The same Antonio Citterio is responsible for the bulk of the design, and his clean lines practically define contemporary elegance. And for dramatic edge-of-the-world landscape you could do a lot worse than southern Bali.
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La Reina High sophomore Shannon Fish serves the ball during a doubles match against Oaks Christian on Tuesday.
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Editor's note: The originally posted story incorrectly indicated there was a tie between a proposed Interstate 75 interchange at Everglades Boulevard and overpasses at U.S. 41-Collier Boulevard and Immokalee Road-Randall Boulevard. The story has been modified below.
GOLDEN GATE ESTATES _ A push for a new Interstate 75 interchange in Golden Gate Estates has received key endorsements from emergency response agencies.
The support comes on the heels of a grassroots campaign started by Collier Commissioner Jim Coletta and his team a few months ago to garner endorsements from local groups for acceleration of the road project.
"Getting the support of first responders is vital," Coletta said. "The most important element of the interchange is the emergency access and response and availability to escape a hurricane, wildfires and other natural disasters."
The Golden Gate Fire Control and Rescue District provided one endorsement at a July 13 board meeting by approving a letter in support of the interchange.
"The board has long recognized that the residents in the eastern part of Golden Gate have very limited means of egress out of the area," Golden Gate Fire Chief Robert Metzger said. "And that has always been a concern along with the safety of residents in the event of an emergency."
The road project would add an I-75 interchange at Everglades Boulevard. It has been controversial because its placement could bring adverse effects to wetlands and wildlife in the area. Currently, the Florida Department of Transportation is conducting a study to define the potential effects of the proposed transportation corridor.
Even though the fire district backs the project, it revised the letter to take a broad stance on the interchange's location.
"We are not citing a specific location," Metzger said. "We're not saying it has to be off Everglades or off Desoto (Boulevard). We are merely expressing support for 'the study area.'"
The Ochopee Fire District is also on board. It endorsed the project at its July 11 board meeting.
"We realize it does affect the county and emergency resources, so it's important that we support it," Ochopee Fire Chief Alan McLaughlin said.
After reaching out to emergency response groups, Coletta plans to present the idea to civic and government organizations, such as chamber of commerce leaders. He is planning a major campaign push in September to spur even more awareness and support.
"This is going to be the outgoing reach to demonstrate the fact that this is recognized by the community at large as a needed improvement," said Coletta, who would like to see road construction begin as soon as next year.
Chris Hagan, president of the East Naples Civic Association and a 26-year resident of the area, is a longtime supporter of the interchange because of its ability to provide more access.
"We have a lot of dead-end roadways and anything we can do to interconnect these networks is going to improve the flow of traffic," Hagan said. "Having multiple access points for residents and emergencies just makes sense."
In other major projects, overpasses at U.S. 41-Collier Boulevard and Immokalee Road-Randall Boulevard are in the proposal stages. The overpass at U.S. 41 is in the county's five-year work program; the other overpass proposal isn't, county transportation officials said..


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As elementary school students throughout Westchase prepare to go back to class on Monday, they aren't alone.
Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies will also return in time for that first bell – and they'll stick around throughout the rest of the school year.
"School safety is the utmost priority," explained Lt. Chad Chronister of the sheriff's office's community outreach division.
With 91 elementary schools in unincorporated Hillsborough County alone, Chronister said the sheriff's office will have its work cut out for it, but it's up to the challenge.
"We have a great sheriff," he said. "He doesn't care what it costs … just get it done. We're going to do whatever it takes."
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Chronister said the county has 46 school resource deputies in middle and high schools. Expanding the program to more schools will require pulling manpower, but it's a move the sheriff's office and the school district think is justified, he said.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy brought to light the "potential for some type of violence in our elementary schools," he said.
Hillsborough deputies and Tampa Police officers were assigned to elementary schools following the Dec. 14 Newtown, Conn., massacre. In that case, 20-year-old Adam Lanza walked onto an elementary school campus and shot 20 children, ages 6 and 7, to death and six staff members prior to killing himself.
The tragedy rocked America, sparking local law enforcement reaction. Armed officers were placed at every Hillsborough elementary school prior to the winter break with the question of whether they'd return with students still up in the air.
Following a joint meeting this week between the school district, the sheriff's office and Tampa police, it was decided that the county's 150 or so elementary schools should all have a police presence—just like middle and high school campuses do.
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Whether guards will remain on elementary school campuses after this school year is unclear, but it is likely some form of increased security will continue, Chronister said.
Discussions are already taking place to determine if the school district will expand its security force or if steps will be taken to keep an enhanced school resource deputy program in place.
"I don't think the security is going anywhere," Chronister said.
Back in December, we asked Patch readers whether they thought elementary schools should have an armed police presence. Many readers said yes and some had a few ideas of their own, including adding panic buttons and metal detectors to school campuses.
"I agree there should be at least one School Resource Officer/Police Officer in a school," wrote Patch reader Michael D. "I know we had one at my school K-12. And you got to know him early, and he wasn't an off-duty officer, his job was to be at the school for 8 hours and else were for the rest of his shift. I don't see why it can't be the case in all schools. It also introduces kids to the police in a non-threatening manner."
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The student performance assessment system will build on the competency work and will be one component of the New Hampshire student assessment system. The system will include a set of common performance assessments that have high technical quality, locally designed assessments with guidelines for ensuring high technical quality, regional scoring sessions and local district peer review audits to ensure sound accountability systems and high inter-rater reliability, a web-based bank of local and common performance assessments, and a regional support network to districts and schools.
Designing Quality Performance Assessments Institute
Designing Quality Performance Assessments is an exciting new multi-year initiative that aims to engage New Hampshire's school districts in building valid and reliable performance assessments into our state student assessment system. Performance assessments are multi-step assignments with clear criteria, expectations, and processes which measure how well a student transfers knowledge and applies complex skills to create or refine an original product.
The foundational principles of this initiative are:
Cohort 1 (2012 - 2013) began with 20 High Schools engaged in assessment literacy training, group performance assessment of student work, development of common performance tasks in English language arts and mathematics, building pf professional learning networks, and leadership for innovation facilitated groups.
We are currently seeking Cohort 2 (2013-2014) districts that wish to have their schools join a K- 8 and/or a high school cohort, beginning summer 2013, to undertake this work. All applications will be due electronically by Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. via survey monkey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NHPANetwork2013-14 . There are still a few spaces available for next year's cohorts, therefore we will continue to accept applications through the survey monkey link.
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Educators from the 2012-2013 cohort of the New Hampshire Performance Assessment Network are invited to apply to become Practitioner Assessment Experts in the Network from the summer of 2013 through June of 2014. Practitioner Assessment Experts will receive additional professional development in creating, administering, and scoring quality performance assessments, as well as facilitating this process in local schools and districts in their respective regions. In the 2013-2014 school year, approximately 15-20 assessment practitioners will be trained and supported, while receiving an annual stipend to conduct this performance assessment work.
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Silk Road Ensemble members Colin Jacobsen, Nicholas Cords, Eric Jacobsen and Johnny Gandelsman perform in a gallery of the Art Institute of Chicago. Residencies in museums and universities allow Ensemble members to take inspiration from works of visual art, collaborate on new projects, and share musical traditions with audiences in informal settings.
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Yo-Yo Ma's multi-faceted career is testament to his continual search for new ways to communicate with audiences, and to his personal desire for artistic growth and renewal. Whether performing new or familiar works from the cello repertoire, coming together with colleagues for chamber music or exploring cultures and musical forms outside the Western classical tradition, Mr. Ma strives to find connections that stimulate the imagination.
One of Mr. Ma's goals is the exploration of music as a means of communication and as a vehicle for the migrations of ideas across a range of cultures throughout the world. Expanding upon this interest, in 1998, Mr. Ma established the Silk Road Project, a nonprofit arts and educational organization. Under his artistic direction, the Silk Road Project presents performances by the acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble, engages in cross-cultural exchanges and residencies, leads workshops for students, and partners with leading cultural institutions to create educational materials and programs.
The Project's ongoing affiliation with Harvard University has made it possible to broaden and enhance educational programming. In the 2011-2012 school year, with ongoing partnerships with arts and educational organizations in New York City, the Project continues to expand Silk Road Connect, a multidisciplinary educational initiative for middle-school students in the city's public schools. Developing new music is also a central undertaking of the Silk Road Project, which has been involved in commissioning and performing more than 70 new musical and multimedia works from composers and arrangers around the world.
As the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant, Mr. Ma is partnering with Maestro Riccardo Muti to provide collaborative musical leadership and guidance on innovative program development for The Institute for Learning, Access and Training at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and for Chicago Symphony artistic initiatives. Mr. Ma's work focuses on the transformative power music can have in individuals' lives, and on increasing the number and variety of opportunities audiences have to experience music in their communities. Mr. Ma and the Institute have created the Citizen Musician Initiative, a movement that calls on all musicians, music lovers, music teachers and institutions to use the art form to bridge gulfs between people and to create and inspire a sense of community. The Citizen Musician website features stories of Citizen Musician activity across the globe.
Mr. Ma is also widely recognized for his strong commitment to educational programs that bring the world into the classroom and the classroom into the world. While touring, he takes time whenever possible to conduct master classes as well as more informal programs for students—musicians and non-musicians alike. He has also reached young audiences through appearances on "Arthur," "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and "Sesame Street."
Mr. Ma's discography of over 75 albums (including more than 15 Grammy Award winners) reflects his wide-ranging interests. He has made several successful recordings that defy categorization, among them "Hush" with Bobby McFerrin, Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey with Mark O'Connor and Edgar Meyer and two Grammy-winning tributes to the music of Brazil, Obrigado Brazil and Obrigado Brazil—Live in Concert. Mr. Ma's recent recordings include Mendelssohn Trios with Emanuel Ax and Itzhak Perlman. His new album, The Goat Rodeo Sessions, with Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile and Stuart Duncan, was released in October 2011. Across this full range of releases, Mr. Ma remains one of the best-selling recording artists in the classical field. All of his recent albums have quickly entered the Billboard chart of classical best sellers, remaining in the Top 15 for extended periods, often with as many as four titles simultaneously on the list. In fall 2009, Sony Classical released a box set of over 90 albums to commemorate Mr. Ma's 30 years as a Sony recording artist.
Yo-Yo Ma was born in 1955 to Chinese parents living in Paris. He began to study the cello with his father at age four and soon came with his family to New York, where he spent most of his formative years. Later, his principal teacher was Leonard Rose at The Juilliard School. He has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize (1978), the Glenn Gould Prize (1999), the National Medal of the Arts (2001), the Dan David Prize (2006), the Sonning Prize (2006), the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (2008), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2010), and the Polar Music Prize (2012). In 2011 Mr. Ma was recognized as a Kennedy Center Honoree.
Appointed a CultureConnect Ambassador by the United States Department of State in 2002, Mr. Ma has met with, trained and mentored thousands of students worldwide in countries including Lithuania, Korea, Lebanon, Azerbaijan and China. Mr. Ma serves as a UN Messenger of Peace and as a member of the President's Committee on the Arts & the Humanities. He has performed for eight American presidents, most recently at the invitation of President Obama on the occasion of the 56th Inaugural Ceremony.
Mr. Ma and his wife have two children. He plays two instruments, a 1733 Montagnana cello from Venice and the 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius.
Mr. Ma appears on the Silk Road Ensemble recordings Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet, Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon, and New Impossibilities.
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One of my favorites but I added a little more sugar. I also have made these with vanilla and blueberry yogurt.
VERY good muffins! Be aware that the batter is very very thick, so don't let that worry you and don't try to thin it out. They have a wonderful taste and were very easy to make! My picky 3 y/o loved them! Next time I might cut down on the cinamon just a bit as it was very prominent flavor (however not in a bad way). I did sprinkle some raw sugar on top prior to baking to give them a nice "crust". Will certainly make these again!
These muffins were delicious!! Very filling with the oatmeal in them. I didn't have yogurt, so I substituted 1/2 sour cream and 1/2 buttermilk. Several of the reviews mentioned adding sugar, so I did add 3 Tab. white sugar. This will be my go-to muffin recipe!
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October 6, 2012
Freddie Roach, star trainer for boxing's stars, has done the introspection. In his last four major fights, he is 0-4.
There have been a few sleepless nights, some quiet time in dark rooms, a few longer-than-normal gazes into the mirror. He decided he had to know if, at age 52, with enough success in his chosen field to be named trainer of the year five times, he had suddenly lost it.
So he went to the master of his universe, his own Obi-Wan Kenobi.
"My mom laughed," Roach says. "She said it's OK; I still have it."
And so, starting Oct. 15, he will focus on moving forward, not looking back. Manny Pacquiao, his prize pupil, will arrive from the Philippines to begin training for a Dec. 8 fight against Juan Manuel Marquez. Fittingly, to get rid of Roach's recent 0-4, Pacquiao will need to make his record against Marquez 3-0-1.
The decline of Freddie Roach began Dec. 10, 2010, when star British fighter Amir Khan was stopped by Lamont Peterson. Next came June 9, 2012, with Pacquiao losing to Tim Bradley, followed quickly July 14 by Khan being beaten by Danny Garcia, and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. losing to Sergio Martinez on Sept. 15.
Freddie Roach going 0 for 4 is like Matt Kemp going 0 for July. But stuff happens.
A closer look makes the argument that the real record should be 2-2. After Khan lost to Peterson, Peterson was suspended for steroid use. Instead of a rematch with Peterson, Khan got Garcia, who knocked him out in the fourth round.
Then Roach took Pacquiao into the ring in Las Vegas for what was supposed to be a night of exposure and a predictable defeat for Bradley at the hands of Pacquiao. To most at ringside, with the exception of the three judges, that's what it was.
Roach was now 0-3 in the record books and 2-1 in the minds of some fight fans.
Then, three weeks ago, Chavez having surprised enough of the people around him with a work ethic and some actual boxing skills, stepped into the ring against Martinez, whose work ethic and skills were never doubted. Until Chavez awoke from a slumber and knocked Martinez down in the 12th round, Chavez had been about as competitive as Savannah State against the big boys in college football.
Roach was now 0-4, even though it might have felt like 2-2.
"I'll take the record book," says Roach, one of the three completely honest people in the history of boxing, and the other two don't come quickly to mind. "It's 0-4."
Strangely squeezed into the middle of all this was Roach's induction into boxing's Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y. It was a day event June 10. To get there after the night Pacquiao-Bradley fight in Las Vegas, Roach had to rent a plane and fly all night.
"Can you imagine me renting a plane," he says.
Ring announcer Michael Buffer, also to be inducted, went along on Roach's plane and helped defray the cost. Then, at induction time, Roach's acceptance speech time was limited, much to his delight, when Buffer took the microphone and was ready to rumble. And rumble, and rumble.
It now is with delight that Roach looks ahead to Pacquiao training camp — "He'll be here in L.A. the entire camp, not back and forth to the Philippines," Roach says — and also with some trepidation. Pacquiao is 2-0-1 against Marquez including a draw in their first fight, but Marquez, and lots of boxing fans, think Marquez won all three.
"Manny's focused this time," Roach says. "He's cleared a lot of the bad stuff out of his life [marital issues, ownership of a nightclub and a cock farm, etc., both of which he sold]. He even wrote me a note about this fight. It said, 'I've got to knock him out.'"
Every great athlete, and Pacquiao is that, has his nemesis. Roger Federer has Tomas Berdych. The Lakers had the Celtics. Pacquiao has Marquez.
"For three training camps, we worked on Manny staying away from Marquez's tough straight right hand," Roach says. "He never failed to do it right in training, and then, in three fights, he kept walking right into it. For some reason, Marquez dictates the direction Manny moves."
So the new strategy?
Roach brings up the "knock him out" note and says no more.
Roach has lost Khan to Andre Ward's trainer, Virgil Hunter. Khan wanted to be No. 1 in Roach's camp, ahead of Pacquiao. Roach is asked if he considered that demand. He giggles.
Chavez was on a fight-to-fight contract with Roach, and they share no legal bind, although Chavez was quoted Friday as saying he wants to stay with Roach.
It has been well-documented that Chavez, a reputed lazy and undisciplined kid who became just the opposite for five straight winning fights with Roach, reverted to that reputation for the Martinez fight. On the pre-fight HBO commercial titled "24/7" that they laughingly call a documentary, Roach was shown waiting for a training session with Chavez, who had postponed and wanted Roach to come to his home and do the workout in the living room.
"If he wins the fight," Roach says, "we'd all be training in the living room."
Now, for Roach, it is all Manny, all the time. Besides, how much does a guy who can rent his own airplane really need Amir Khan and Chavez anyway?
"Manny takes losses well," Roach says. "After the Bradley fight, he gave me a hug and said, 'It's OK, coach. We'll make more money next time.'"
Pacquiao needs to know there is more at stake here than money. He needs to win for Roach to validate the family doctrine: Mother knows best.
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Robert Sweeting, a Florida native, stresses that racing these Tennessee mountains is not his forte.
He did all right on Saturday morning, though. Sweeting won the People's Community Bank Roan Groan Road Race, crossing more than three minutes ahead of old college friend Shawn Gravois.
Sweeting covered the 56.5-mile course, which began for the cyclists in downtown Elizabethton and ended at the top of Roan Mountain, in 2:42.55. Gravois clocked a 2:45.56.
"I've gotten use to the style of climb around here, which is phenomenal," Sweeting, 25, said. "I definitely wouldn't consider myself a climber. I'm more of an all-arounder, so I worked from the bottom and tried to get as much as of a gap as possible before the real climb started.
"Then I wanted to ride my own pace. I just kind of wanted to do my own thing."
Which was no doubt dominant in the 10-plus mile charge up the mountain.
"Bobby's a bigger guy more in the time trials, so I thought us climbers in that second group would have been able to close the gap on him," Gravois, 26, said. "I was kind of surprised we didn't catch him, but he put in a good ride."
Sweeting and Gravois actually attended the same high school in Sarasota, Fla. They didn't become acquainted until their collegiate days at the University of Florida and have been training and riding together ever since.
Sweeting recently settled in Asheville, after moving from Connecticut.
"I did the race last year and I really loved the climb, so I wanted to come back," Gravois said. "I've been living with Bobby in Asheville for a little bit, trying to work on my climbing a little bit and just trying to get to the mountains as often as I can."
This year's event added a 1.75-mile incline to the 6,285-foot elevation. The final nine miles were at a 6.4 percent average.
"It definitely changed the race a little bit," Gravois said. "It kicked up a lot here at the end. All of the groups were coming together, and it just split everything up into ones and twos.
"We had a good team riding, keeping me out of the wind today and then just did the last climb and hoped for the best."
Chattanooga's Christopher Brown was third in 2:46.10. He has won six races in Tennessee this year.
"It was pretty windy, and I thought it would be kind of hard to stay away with one guy," Gravois said. "The climb goes from steep, to kind of levels out again, to steep. You can kind of make some time up in the flat section, but definitely an unpredictable race."
Anna Barensfeld, a Pennsylvania native who currently trains in Asheville, was the women's winner. She compared the challenge to Mount Washington, on the west coast.
"That climb was pretty awesome," Barensfeld, 29, said. "We've done elevation at some of the other races, but I don't remember the last time I did a climb that extended. That was a nice climb."
Finishing second was Winston-Salem's Sara Tussey, 33.
"She was able to sit on my wheel till there about six miles to go, on the hill," Barensfeld said. "Props to her. She did a good job."
There were 340 starters in the race, with 309 finishers.
"One of the best parts of being a professional cyclist is the travel," Barensfeld said. "I just love showing up at new races in different states like this, and just discovering. Meeting new people, seeing various courses and trying new food."
The women's winner didn't mind the final challenge added at the mountain's top.
"I like climbing, so that was fine," Barensfeld said. "We tried to animate it a little. One of the teams did some attacking early, and I appreciated that.
"They tried to animate the race a little bit, and I tried to split up the group on the first little bump halfway through the race. We got a little bit of a gap, but the group came back together and I knew it was kind of a waiting game until we got to this hill. I just set some tempo."
The women's race was 31.5 miles in length.
"No attacking," Barensfeld said. "It was just pace. I just settled in.
"There was no attack. I just settled into my pace, a one-hour pace right from the bottom."
Like Sweeting, Barensfield insists taking on these stringent inclines is not her strength.
"I knew it was just going to come down to this hill, so I was waiting to kind of do my thing on this hill," Barensfeld said. "I'm kind of an all-around rider. I'm not exceptional at any one thing, but I can do a little bit of everything."


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The volleyball season started with 29 consecutive wins at Albemarle High School -- but ended with back-to-back Patriot losses.
Stone Bridge swept the Patriots 3-0 in Tuesday's AAA state quarterfinals, ending Albemarle's season at 29-2. Albemarle's unbeaten start came to an end with Saturday's 3-2 loss to Patrick Henry in the Northwest Region championship.
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