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Nicholas Ray was never the sort of filmmaker to pull punches, even if itwould help him at the box office, so the uncompromising power of hisrenegade cop picture, On Dangerous Ground (1952), shouldn't come as much ofa surprise. However, audiences in the early 1950s weren't prepared forRay's plot, which features a sadistic detective trying to track down amentally-defective killer. Even a near-miraculous finale featuring asaintly blind girl couldn't lure them into the theater. RKO lost $450,000when they released the movie, a pretty substantial sum in thosedays.
Robert Ryan stars as Jim Wilson, a New York City Police detective who's beentransformed into a raging brute by the "human garbage" he's cleaning fromthe streets. (Taxi Driver's [1976] Travis Bickle would have loved thisguy.) Wilson, who continually seems on the verge of popping his cork, hasdeveloped a tendency to beat his suspects to a pulp rather than simplyinterrogating them. His captain (Ed Begley) tries to give Jim somebreathing room by, rather misguidedly, assigning him to a rural murderinvestigation.
Once released from his steel and cement hell, Jim promptly meets WalterBrent (Ward Bond), the vengeful father of a young girl who was murdered. Itturns out that Jim and shotgun-toting Walter have a great deal in common,but Jim's world is further upended when he falls in love with Mary Malden(Ida Lupino), the sister of the killer. Mary begs Jim to capture herfleeing brother (played by Ray's nephew, Sumner Williams) before Brent findshim, knowing full-well that the other man will kill him in cold blood if hegets there first.
Ray stumbled across Gerald Butler's novel, Mad with Much Heart, whilepreparing a fittingly-titled soap opera called Born to Be Bad. Thestory of a cop who searches for a retarded killer and falls in love with theboy's sister, Mad with Much Heart was submitted to RKO Pictures as apossible future project for Ray. The studio's readers, however, felt it wasunsuitable for filming.
Enter RKO producer John Houseman, who badly wanted to fulfill his contractwith the studio and get away from its wildly erratic owner, Howard Hughes.Houseman managed to secure the rights to the novel when Ryan showed interestin the lead role. With three "name" talents attached, RKO grudgingly agreedto proceed with the movie...although not before issuing a memo saying thatthey might pull the plug at any time. Houseman later described his time atRKO as "among the darkest and most arid of my life." He labored in "adistasteful and unproductive atmosphere" that couldn't have been furtherremoved from his creative (if highly combative) days with Orson Welles andThe Mercury Theater.
Luckily, Houseman got along very well with Ray. Though he openly questionedOn Dangerous Ground's storyline, he must have recognized that thepicture benefited from Ray's hands-off approach to directing good actors."I hate filmmakers who want long discussions with actors over a scene," Ryanlater said. "An actor who doesn't know what a scene he's going to play isall about is in the wrong profession. Nick had, I think, great respect forme. Right from the start of our collaboration, he only offered me a veryfew suggestions."
The key unsung member of On Dangerous Ground's production team wasscreenwriter A.I. Bezzerides, who fleshed out the novel to Ray'sspecifications while injecting the scenes with memorably tough dialogue.Still, Houseman never warmed to the movie: "The character played by BobRyan was really essentially Nick's creation. So we had two pictures. Wehad the business of a good cop given to violence, and then we had theperfectly ridiculous plot about the blind girl and the boy, and allthat...Al Bezzerides is a good writer, but I think he was always a littlebewildered by that picture, as indeed I was. I just wanted Nick to get whathe wanted and to do what he wanted, but I never quite understood what thehell he was doing."
That, however, is what many people like about the movie. The two distinctstory lines play off of each other to peculiar effect, throwing off sparkswhen you're least expecting them. This off-kilter picture wasgroundbreaking in its own way, and has fully earned its status as a minorclassic.
Producer: John Houseman
Director: Nicholas Ray
Screenplay: A.I. Bezzerides and Nicholas Ray (based on the novel Mad withMuch Heart by Gerald Butler)
Editing: Roland Gross
Cinematography: George E. Diskant
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Art Design: Albert S. D'Agostino
Principal Cast: Robert Ryan (Jim Wilson), Ida Lupino (Mary Malden), WardBond (Walter Brent), Charles Kemper (Bill Daly), Anthony Ross (Pete Santos),Ed Begley (Capt. Brawley), Ian Wolfe (Carrey), Sumner Williams (DannyMalden), Gus Schilling (Lucky), Frank Ferguson (Willows), Cleo Moore(Myrna), Olive Carey (Mrs. Brent).
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Irish Blessing for the New Year!
Good morning everyone! I'm here to share a card I made featuring the CR84FN45 Color Challenge colors and Jen Shult's deconstructed sketch . This is my first challenge entry of the year and I'm excited to see where 2012 takes me, creatively speaking! I love the main colors of medium blue, orange and yellow and I paired them with one neutral which is black. I did flip the placement of embellishments but otherwise remained true to the sketch. The butterfly represents "new beginnings" and since we are in a new year I thought it would be nice to reflect that on my card. Here's the CR84FN45 photo which provided inspiration and our main colors for this challenge.
I layered several pieces of paper and distressed most of them for some texture. The base starts out with yellow then I added blue and black (neutral) and chose an orange houndstooth dp by MME that I love. I die cut a border from yellow cardstock and to add a homemade touch I "stitched" a border around the two main panels and stamped the Irish Blessing onto the main image. The stamped sentiment is from Verve's Blessings set and I loved it when I saw it as the quote in the CR84FN Color Challenge photo. So nice to have it as a stamp and I love Verve's stamps for just this reason, so many awesome sentiments and sayings.
Okay, that's all for me today. I feel like I am still in recovery from the holidays and hope to have more energy next week. Thanks so much for stopping by and hope each of you have a wonderful weekend. Two more things, I'd like to welcome to a new follower to my blog, Jenna, and wish my dh and his Tigahs good luck in the upcoming bowl game on Monday. GEAUX TIGERS! Note: I popped back in to edit this post and include the CR84FN photo graphic, seriously I am NOT a morning person. :-(
~Lisa :-)
Stamps: Blessings (Verve)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper: Fly A Kite Lime Twist (MME), cs
Accessories: Die-namics Faux Crochet Border (MFT); Mini Stitch Doodle Dot (Crafter's Workshop); Que Sera Sera Die Cuts (K & Co.); Bright Large Gemstone Stickers (MS); Buttercup Liquid Pearls (Ranger); Wildflowers (Prima); black gel pen
9 comments:
- Jennifer Shults said...
Oh wow! I love how bold this is and all your little stitching details and extras! Gorgeous! Thanks so much for joining us for this week's Deconstructed Sketch!
- January 6, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- Sue Lelli said...
Lisa, LOVE that sentiment and you butterfly and the flowers with the curly paper behind them! THX for playing with us at CR84FN!
- January 6, 2012 at 1:59 PM
- Lisa said...
Wonderful job with the colors Lisa your card is pretty!
- January 6, 2012 at 9:35 PM
- Margaret said...
The sentiment on this is wonderful! I love it! You managed to take a card full of bold colors and turn it soft and pretty with the butterfly, flowers, and the fabulous paper curls! Beautiful card!
- January 6, 2012 at 11:07 PM
- Lisa M said...
WOW....I downed a mountain dew tonight so that I could stay up and wait for the kids to come home, but nothing... Then I come to visit your blog and BAM..WOW...awesome colors and now I'm invigorated and wide awake. You've done just an amazing and inspirational job with this. I could look at it for hours. :D
Big hugs to you,
Lisa xx
- January 6, 2012 at 11:23 PM
- Monika/Buzsy said...
Oh, so pretty Lisa. That blessing is awesome and I love the bright colors. The doodle lines look great! :o)
- January 7, 2012 at 10:26 AM
- Mona L. Pendleton said...
Very pretty Lisa! Love the beautiful sentiment and fancy border! Thanks so much for joining along with CR84FN :)
- January 8, 2012 at 12:05 AM
- Deborah Frings said...
Wow! This is stunning! Love the sentiment. Thanks for playing along with CR84FN!
- January 8, 2012 at 3:09 AM
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Let me start by saying Congratulations to director Ava DuVernay for winning the 2012 Sundance "Best Director" award! Ms. DuVernay is now the first African-American woman to win the directing award in the dramatic category at Sundance film festival. For those who may not know the relevance of the Sundance Film Festival, it is held in January of each year in Utah. Known as the largest independent cinema festival in the United States, It has been around since 1978 founded by Sterling Van Wagenen. Not only was she the 1st African-American to win this category award, she was the 1st woman to win as a Director since Natalia Almada for El General (2009).
Admittedly, I did not know who Ms. DuVernay was prior to this morning (or so I thought) but I was pleasantly surprised to know that I've seen her work. In 2011, I caught the featured film "I Will Follow", with Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Beverly Todd. A powerfully emotional film with surprisingly good acting (you know Salli has gotten much better over the years). She also directed a documentary I viewed titled "My Mic Sounds Nice" featuring a host of legendary divas in the rap industry. And now, it appears she's out done herself with this latest project "Middle of Nowhere", which she says deals with a women who has lost her husband to incarceration and now tries to maintain the marriage from outside the prison walls.
This California native and graduate of UCLA has had success in the film industry after creating The DuVernay Agency also known as DVA Media + Marking in 1999. Her agency works as a marketer and publicist for more than 120 films and television campaigns. This accolade certainly awards her the honor of being mentioned when referencing African-American Female Directors with the likes of Sanaa Hamri and Tanya Hamilton. The Strides made in Hollywood to give credence to the impact African-American women are having both in front of the camera and behind the scene are listless and lethargic at best. Yet, when greatness is achieved like in the form of the film "Middle of Nowhere" art has to be respected and honored.
With films like "Red Tails" coming out last week and proving to be a box office hit (Directed by African-American Anthony Hemingway), we now have a impactful indie film we need to see, which by the way has actor David Oyelowo from "Red Tails" playing a role. I'm happy to report that "Middle of Nowhere" was picked up for distribution by Participant Media AFFRM (African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement…DuVerany founded this org). Shortly, after the Sundance Festival. This ensures that we will be able to support this film by going on the internet to locate your local indie film theater and supporting our sister in her journey and supporting her art!
***if you've seen the film be sure to leave your comments on the performances and any other nuances you deem worthy of reporting.
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True to the spirit of the task I set myself of not buying anything before making twelve items out of my stash. Here is number two. Made from the remnants of cotton from the granny square jacket I made for Fern. I didn't use a pattern I just let it evolve (posh way of saying I made it up as I went along). I am so envious of people who can get a pretty expression on their creatures faces mine always look stunned. Ha ha!
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This Is My Letter To The World
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I was born and raised in the country, which is very high in suicide and depression numbers. I was born in a country in which to be weak and have personal fears is a phenomenon in the society. And if you talk about it out loud you can be misunderstood for opening your personal experience. Openness can be a weapon against you.
The question arises, why we are all afraid to talk about this. And as inner openness fears, it could open the way for the insatiable desire to live, but not to withdraw. I would like to develop this theme based on I. Yalom theory – fear and psychological barriers is the reason of fear of death. The fear of death acceptance and recognition in our life is a great way to the colorful and high living.
I am an artist and a photographer who fought this fight for many years. In my own country I can be named as a weirdo with a large gap in personality. In other countries – as a human being with a broad spectrum of cool experiences in personal life. The series of photographs is my inner emotional experience. It's about people who are quite distant from developed society and today's standards.
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New shots of sofubi and other indie toys available at Paradise Toy Land. You can order online, they take Paypal, and international shipping is OK. The glorious triumvirate!
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Electricians fit and repair electrical circuits and wiring in people's homes and businesses. They also install and maintain electrical equipment, instruments and machinery.
PROCAT courses start at Level 2 before progression onto an Apprenticeship.
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Electrical Installation courses will include study of health and safety and environmental legislation, practices and procedures for overseeing and organising the work environment, cable termination, inspection and testing, fault finding and electrical principles. Completing the Advanced Apprenticeship enables individuals to be recognised within the industry as competent electricians, being able to work unsupervised on electrotechnical systems.
The importance of maths and English in daily life is beyond question. Almost every job requires the ability to read, write and use numbers confidently – especially in Construction or Engineering where you will be pricing jobs, measuring and completing tasks to precision.
English and maths qualifications are an essential element of your Study Programme and Apprenticeship training.
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Level 3: 1-2 hours per week studying at home/outside of college
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Installation Electricians work on power systems, lighting, fire protection, security and data-network systems in domestic and commercial buildings. There are many further electrotechnical careers that this qualification can lead into, including maintenance electrician, electrotechnical panel builder, machine repair and rewind electrician, highway systems electrician and many more.
As an Electrician, you could work for small family-run companies, larger contractors or you could work for yourself. Electricians have very varied working hours, they mostly work in the daytime, but probably involving early starts or late finishes. You could also be called out at weekends.
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Management and Planning-Your Way to Management!
It is primarily a milestone in your career in business administration field. It provides a business sense of how to implement successful position for your organization in light of four essential pillars of performance; Planning and supervision, monitoring and control which give you edge over the competitors. The main idea is to keep focused on a type of "bottom line," to make sure you think continually about "delivering the goods" that make both you and your organization a competitive success.
Training Materials:
McGraw-Hill Business Publishing
This course is a preparation for the international exam of IBDL Professional credential.
Table of Contents:
- Managing
- International Management
- Planning and Strategic Management
- Managerial Decision Making
- Managerial Control
- Teamwork
- Communicating
- Human Resources Management
- Organization Structure
- Organizational Agility
- Managing the Diverse Workforce
- The External Environment and Organizational Culture
- Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
- Managing Technology and Innovation
- Creating and Managing Change
You Can Obtain:
- 90 days access to eLearning program
- 60 hours training
- IBDL Professional Handbook or eBook
- Mind Maps
- Questions bank
- Online Practice Test
- IBDL Official Certificate Examination (3 attempts)


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The last two weeks have been all about standardized testing, as far as my kids are concerned.
My third grade daughter spent last week taking TCAP tests. My kindergarten son is taking the SAT-10 this week.The stakes for these tests seem much higher than they were when we were kids, and across the country parents are responding by calling for change and even opting their children out of standardized testing entirely.
A few writers from The Stir got together today in a Moms Matter Google Hangou to discuss standardized testing. One has even pulled her child from her neighborhood's public school specifically because of the focus on standardized tests. Here's the video discussion --
Want to know more about how parents are responding across the country to high stakes standardized testing?
-Carnegie Mellon University professor Kathy Newman chose to opt her child out of Pittsburgh's standardized test, the PSSA. She wrote this op-ed to explain why.
-Ilina Ewen and Pamela Grundy wrote this op-ed for their local paper in North Carolina, titling it "Our bubble-headed, zombie-creating reliance on high-stakes testing."
-Education Secretary Arne Duncan addressed the growing controversy over high-stakes testing in a speech to the American Educational Research Association this week. Here's the text of that speech.
-Some students in Chicago skipped school last week to protest high stakes testing there.
-The pressure high-stakes testing puts on teachers and administrators has led to an upswing in cases of cheating on reporting standardized testing scores.
Do a news search for "high-stakes testing" and you'll find story after story in media outlets big and small, of parents, students, council members, and school administrators complaining about the pressures and problems associated with their district's standardized tests.
Clearly, something something needs to be done.
What do you think about high-stakes testing? Is it stressing your kid out?


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"You work for the people not the banks!"
Elizabeth Warren vs. Captured Banking Regulators. Guess who wins.
Outstanding clip from Senate hearing a few weeks ago on illegal foreclosures. Warren blasts the Fed's lawyer for shielding big banks and hiding fraud.
"You have made a decision to protect the banks but not to help the families who were illegally foreclosed on. Families get pennies on the dollar for being the victims of illegal activities. And you know of cases where the banks broke the laws, but you are not going to tell the homeowners. People want to know that their regulators are watching out for the American public, not the banks."Witnesses were:
- Daniel P. Stipano, Deputy Chief Counsel, Comptroller of the Currency
- Richard Ashton, Deputy General Counsel, Federal Reserve


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Access to Vaccines Index webinar for investors – co hosted by PRI and ICCR
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Investor webinar
On Wednesday 31 May, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the Access to Medicine Foundation, will co-host an investor webinar about the recently published Access to Vaccines Index. Participants will discuss why access to vaccines is a material issue for investors in pharmaceutical companies and how the Access to Vaccines Index can be used as a tool to improve the availability and affordability of vaccines in low- and middle-income countries.
Speakers include:
- Jayasree K. Iyer – Executive Director, Access to Medicine Foundation
- Lauren Compere – Managing Director and Director of Shareholder Engagement at Boston Common Asset Management; Board Member, ICCR
- Jon Pender – Vice President, Government Affairs, GSK; and Guy Pickles –Senior Manager, Global Health, GSK Vaccines.
- Hanneke Schuitemaker – Vice President, Head Viral Vaccine Discovery and Translational Medicine, Janssen Vaccines & Prevention (Johnson & Johnson)
The webinar will take place on Wednesday, 31 May at 10:00 EDT/16:00 CEST and will be moderated by Alison Biscoe from PRI. If you have questions for the speakers, you can send them in advance to firstname.lastname@example.com
You can register for the webinar here.
The Access to Vaccines Index covers:
- 8 companies (Daiichi Sankyo, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Inc., Pfizer, Sanofi, Serum Institute of India and Takeda);
- 3 areas of corporate behaviour (research & development; pricing & registration; and manufacturing & supply);
- 69 diseases with the highest priority for improving access to immunisation (including pneumococcal disease, meningococcal disease, seasonal influenza, polio and Ebola).
About the Access to Vaccines Index
The 2017 Access to Vaccines Index will provide an initial baseline of industry activity regarding access to vaccines. It examines where and how companies are already taking action, and brings good practices to the attention of other companies and stakeholders working in the vaccines space. These organisations will be able to use the Index to inform priorities and strategies, and to clarify where new incentives are needed to spur greater positive change. During 2016, the Foundation's research team will analyse the data captured by the first Access to Vaccines Index, which will be published early in 2017. The Access to Vaccines Index is funded by the Dutch National Postcode Lottery.
About the Access to Medicine Foundation
The Access to Medicine Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organisation based in the Netherlands. It aims to advance access to medicine in low- and middle-income countries by stimulating and guiding the pharmaceutical industry to play a greater role in improving access to medicine. The Foundation is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UK Department for International Development. For ten years, the Foundation has been building consensus on the role for the pharmaceutical industry in improving access to medicine and vaccines. It published its first benchmark of industry activity in this area in 2008, in the first Access to Medicine Index. The fifth Access to Medicine Index was published in November 2016. In 2017, the Foundation published the first Access to Vaccines Index, funded by the Dutch National Postcode Lottery, and will publish the first AntiMicrobial Benchmark, funded by the UK and Dutch governments.


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That project - an ever evolving, uncontroversial portrait of contemporary tastes in popular music - addressed one problem surrounding music in the file-sharing era to the exclusion of all others. Faced with readers who wanted to know how to be fans in the internet age, Pitchfork's writers became the greatest, most pedantic fans of all, reconfiguring criticism as an exercise in perfect cultural consumption. Pitchfork's endless "Best Of" lists should not be read as acts of criticism, but as fantasy versions of the Billboard sales charts. Over the years, these lists have (ominously) expanded, from fifty songs to 100 or 200, and in 2008 the site published a book called The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present. Similarly, Pitchfork's obsession with identifying bands' influences seems historical, but isn't. When a pop critic talks about influences, he's almost never talking about the historical development of musical forms. Instead, he's talking about his record collection, his CD-filled binders, his external hard drive - he is congratulating himself, like James Murphy in "Losing My Edge," on being a good fan. While Pitchfork may be invaluable as an archive, it is worse than useless as a forum for insight and argument.In the last thirty years, no artistic form has made cultural capital so central to its identity, and no musical genre has better understood how cultural capital works. Disdaining the reserves of actual capital that were available to them through the major labels, indie musicians sought a competitive advantage in acquiring cultural capital instead. As indie's successes began following one another in increasingly rapid succession, musicians working in other genres began to take notice. Hip-hop is an illustrative foil. As indie bands in the '90s did everything they could to avoid the appearance of selling out, rappers tried to get as rich as possible. The really successful ones stopped rapping - or at least outsourced the work of writing lyrics -and opened clothing lines and record labels. But for all their corporate success, rappers knew where the real cultural capital lay. When Jay-Z decided, as an obscenely wealthy entertainment mogul, that he wanted finally to leave his drug-dealer persona behind, he got himself seen at a Grizzly Bear concert in Williamsburg. "What the indie rock movement is doing right now is very inspiring," he said to a reporter. One year later, his memoirs were published by Spiegel & Grau.
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Crossed Over And Crossed Out
4 comments:
- Culla said...
love the bit in that n1 piece when he admits he too is just playing at being a bit poor in brooklyn too. the piece is very good about how indie ate itself when it became an affirmed 'lifestyle', whereby modes of cultural consumption (not just laptop surfing) become more important than cultural production and capital; the 'faker' culture of a bourgeoisie in denial.
the vague affectations and principles (always up for negotiation if success comes-a-calling) as outlined in that animal collective 'don't mean to seem like I care' are very instructive too
- 27 January 2012 at 13:57
- David W. Kasper said...
I included that Monkees-ish Strokes pic because I think it really kicked in with them. That carefully studied retro-flatness had a lot of excitable fans ten years ago, but like much pop culture now, it was just rich kids serving up nutrition-free cold porridge as 'streetwise' verisimilitude. Ditto MIA - yet another Chris Morris gag made flesh.
Trying to like Animal Collective was the point when I stopped giving a shit about indie at all, or paying attention to 'years best' lists. Listening to them, the word 'cardboard' kept coming to mind. The aural equivalent of staring at a cereal box. Beach Boys meet Velvet Underground meet the usual post-90s reference points - with all texture, depth, emotion, energy, or any other traces of life removed. The hyperbole Pitchfork's known for seems to reflect our age of spin, papering over the deadening black hole that 'western democracy' has become.
- 27 January 2012 at 16:11
I was so glad to read this. I thought it was just me. I have Pitchfork bookmarked but I just cannot bring myself to ever read it. It makes me feel bad.
Drowned In Sound is worse, though. Somehow more mewlingly desperate.
- 30 January 2012 at 22:50
- David W. Kasper said...
Pitchfork's appalling - but it is quite influential. British (online) popcrit still has traces of 80s MM/NME intellectualism/pretension (delete according to prejudice), but even there I can see the Pitchfork influence.
- 31 January 2012 at 14:46


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Things get heated between Tai and Michele.
After Jason's elimination, the tension back at camp was palpable for the Final 5 castaways, particularly between Tai and Michele.
Michele was so frustrated with Tai, she confronted the scheming gardener for putting her on blast during Tribal Council. While Tai was put on the defensive, he continued to feel more isolated when he learned his closet ally, Aubry, had voted differently than he had thought, leaving him to question who he could really trust in the game.


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Rwanda bets that mining will sustain its upward trajectory.
Sharon Saylor
KIGALI, RWANDA – Bordered by Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the north, Tanzania to the east, and Burundi to the south, Rwanda is fast becoming the most attractive business environment in East Africa and across the continent. The 2014 Word Bank Doing Business Report ranked Rwanda as the second easiest country in Africa to do business, after Mauritius and surpassing South Africa. Radical reforms have made it the most improved economy since 2005, and Rwanda now ranks 32nd out of 189 countries.
Pivotal in this success was the creation of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), which has enabled private sector growth and economic development. As a one-stop shop for all investors reporting directly to the President, the RDB has streamlined systems and processes and created incentives to promote investment in the mining sector.
Recently, at the African Development Bank (AfDB) annual meeting held in Kigali in May 2014, AfDB president Dr. Donald Kaberuka, said, "Rwanda was chosen to host this event because of its track record as a champion of Africa's need for homegrown solutions." Inspired by the unprecedented growth witnessed in Singapore, President Kagame's 20-year rule has emulated the Asian Tiger's solutions to governance, economic reform, and business development.
However, private sector investment will be needed to drive growth and meet the ambitious goals of the Second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS 2) by 2018 – the home stretch to Rwanda's 2020 vision. This aggressive medium-term strategy to ensure that the country achieves middle-income status by 2020 will depend on the mining sector to be a major pillar of growth and focal point for international investment.
Currently, the mining industry is the second largest foreign exchange earner after tourism. The country's mining industry exported $226 million in 2013 and hopes to surpass $400 million in 2017. Though the sector has grown at more than 10% annually since 1999, its contribution to GDP remains low, hovering below 2%. This percentage is expected to increase to over 5% in 2017. Despite increased production, exceeding last year's figures will be a challenge because metal prices remain low and downstream buyers are reluctant to purchase African material, out of fear that they are conflict minerals. Rwanda is peaceful and has implemented a tagging system to track all minerals and ensure that none are moved from conflict zones into Rwanda and resold, but buyers remain hesitant.
To achieve its mining targets, the Ministry of Natural Resources in charge of Mining is focused on several key areas: collecting and improving the availability of geological data, moving from an export orientated industry to a production and processing one, and introducing technology at the administrative and operational levels.
Little is known about the geological potential of Rwanda. To date, Rwanda has been associated almost exclusively with the three T's: tin, tantalum, and tungsten. Rwanda is underlain by a series of rock types commonly referred to as the Kibaran system, which extends from northern Tanzania through southwestern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, and Angola. The Kibaran system contains numerous granite-related ore deposits rich in minerals ores like cassiterite, niobotantalite, wolframite, beryllium, spodumene, amblygonite, and gold.
To understand the geological composition of the country, the Government of Rwanda invested more than €2 million to assess the potential in four Prospective Target Areas, within which 11 promising areas were identified. In 2014, the government will again invest $2 million to explore these areas and conduct geochemical and geophysical surveys to identify and assess the quantity and type of their minerals. Early indications reveal potential in copper, cobalt, zinc, phosphorous, and semi-precious stones. Complete geological data is expected by the end of 2015 and will be accessible through an online system to encourage further foreign investment. The Rwandan mining sector is largely composed of artisanal miners, who lack the knowledge, skills and technology to produce at high levels. The government and industry are working with artisanal miners to upgrade existing sites and foster awareness around safety and environment. Still, the miners lack financial backing and are always seeking joint ventures or partnerships with foreign investors. With more than 75% of the population below 30, there is the potential for a sustainable long-term workforce, and investments in education are underway. Rwanda's Ministry of Education (MOE) signed an MOU with Cairo University to establish a regional center of excellence in mining and geology in Rwanda, which will strengthen the skills capacity of the MOE.
Although the geological potential remains unrealized, Rwanda's political stability and transparency make it one of the most attractive countries in the region. Rwanda recently launched its first 10-year bond to international markets, and stood above its neighbors by receiving a B rating from Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings.
Rwanda is also strategically located between East and Central Africa, making it well situated to capitalize on the mineral wealth from its neighbors by becoming a regional hub. Plans are already underway to fast-track regional integration in the East African Community. The Standard Gauge Railway project, which will run from Mombasa to Kigali through Uganda, will reduce transportation costs. Although 100% of Rwanda's mineral ores are exported as raw mineral concentrates, current forecasts reveal that more processing plants could be built to serve the region. Private sector companies have already started constructing processing plants and reviving smelters, but processing plants to smelt cassiterite into tin, refine wolframite, and tantalite into tungsten and tantalum are also needed. Phoenix Metal Ltd is upgrading a tin smelter expected to come online next year. It will be the first conflict-free certified smelter in Africa. Another newcomer, Pella Rwanda Resources Ltd, signed a $22 million deal with the Rwandan government to undertake mining operations in the Rwamagana District and plans to construct a processing plant in the later part of its five-year agreement. All industry participants are awaiting the imminent release of the new mining law, which is expected to offer generous tax incentives.
As private sector investment rises and the artisanal mining industry adopts sustainable technical methodologies, the Rwandan mining industry will transition from a trading center to a productive and processing industry. Together, the Ministry of Natural Resources in charge of Mining and the RDB have fostered an unrivaled investment environment. If Rwanda can systematically address the gaps in geological data and develop skills as well as processing capacity, it could become a global hub for business, investment, and innovation.
This article was written as part of the research being conducted by GBR for its upcoming Mining in Africa Country Investment Guide (MACIG) 2015. To participate in this report, please contact Sharon Saylor at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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- Mrs. Mouse
- 4 years ago
- Wedding: September 2009 - Barr Mansion
What's your favorite gift to DIY for the holidays?
In the past I've made a coconut/sugar scrub, soy wax candles, and chocolate covered pretzels.
This year I'm going to make sugared cinnamon almonds, and maybe some lip balm. I'm also planning on making some play makeup for my two-year-old since he loves playing with Mama's "makeup stuff."


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Two weeks to go!
Two weeks from now, Prince William will be married to Kate Middleton. When do we start calling her Catherine? I mean, I know the palace has officially started calling her Catherine but when do WE started calling her that? Is it when we stick a Princess in front of her name?
For some reason when I say Princess Catherine in my mind I always think of Catherine Oxenberg. Amanda Carrington!
Anyway, 80s reference aside, as we approach the final stretch, Kate and her sister Pippa, Prince Harry, and all the little flowergirls were at Westminster Abbey today for a wedding rehearsal. William wasn't around because he's still in Wales at the air force. As far as I know, there are no photos and they'll keep her tightly guarded and undercover so as to build anticipation for when we next see her in full glory, in whatever dress she's chosen, as prepared as anyone has ever been to be the wife of the future King of England. As I have said several times already, this is a girl who has been training for it since they went on their first date. She went for it. And she'll hold on to it too. You'd be amazed at what these girls can withstand, the least of which is being the most photographed woman in the world.
So…will you be watching?
You can watch us on CTV! We're live for 7 hours starting at 3am ET with 5 positions in London along the route and at the Abbey including Trafalgar Square, Canada Gate at Buckingham Palace, and the Duke of York steps, where I'll be reporting from with the crowds. If you're there, come find us! Tell me what you think of my hat!
Photos from Anwar Hussein/WENN.com


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Chartered Management Institute
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has named the senior financial services leader Bruce Carnegie-Brown as its new president elect. Bruce, who is also a Moneysupermarket.com non-executive chairman, will spend a year working with current CMI president Mike Clasper before starting his two-year term when Clasper steps down in September 2017. He has held a number of non-executive roles including vice chairman and lead independent director of Banco Santander SA, a non-executive director of Santander UK and a non-executive director of JLT Group. Previously, Bruce worked for 25 years in a variety of roles, including managing partner of 3i Group's quoted private equity business, CEO of Marsh McLennan's UK and European businesses, and a managing director of JP Morgan. He is also a trustee of Historic Royal Palaces and a deputy lieutenant of Greater London, a past president of the Institute of Bankers; and a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute.
Starling Bank
Starling Bank has appointed Scott Chow to its executive leadership team as chief product officer. Scott joins to lead the agile product development already well underway, designing, testing and building Starling's differentiated customer proposition. Focus will be on the 2017 launch, whilst also overseeing the imminent Alpha release. Scott comes to Starling from PayPal, where as head of product-digital goods, he led a large product team responsible for delivering global payment experiences for merchants selling digital media. In doing so, he managed a portfolio of products that processed billions of dollars for market-leading merchants in the video-game, music, video and social media space. He has also spent time at American Express and PwC, focusing on strategic planning and business development.
Scottish American Investment Company
The board of the Scottish American Investment Company has appointed Sir Nicholas Macpherson as a non-executive director. Nicholas was permanent secretary to the Treasury from 2005 to 2016, leading the department through the global economic and financial crisis. Prior to that, he held a number of senior posts at the Treasury, including heading the spending and tax directorates. In the 1990s, he was principal private secretary to Ken Clarke and Gordon Brown. He is currently chairman of C Hoare and Co, and is a visiting professor at King's College London.
Old Mutual Wealth Private Client Advisers
Old Mutual Wealth Private Client Advisers has appointed Dominic Rose to lead the firm's growth strategy in London. The national wealth management business leveraging Old Mutual Wealth's expertise in advice, investment and discretionary fund management has established a number of regional offices, including London, since launch in 2015. Dominic joins from Bellpenny, where he oversaw the firm's acquisition strategy for over four years. He will report to managing director Nigel Speirs.
Mid-market developer Hub has promoted development director Steve Sanham to managing director, as the company looks to consolidate its growth, with its first scheme completing later this, and grow to its pipeline further. Development manager Damien Sharkey has been promoted to associate director for development.Steve joined Hub as development director in October 2013 from Mount Anvil and prior to then he was at Argent, where he delivered the first mixed tenure affordable housing scheme at Kings Cross. Before then, he was at Urban Splash where he delivered schemes including Chimney Pot Park in Salford. As development director, he has overseen the doubling of Hub's pipeline over the past year to over 1,900 units.
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WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan told a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Wednesday that his plan to bring two immigration bills up for a vote next week had the approval of President Trump, who is "very excited" about the effort, according to a person who attended the meeting.
Whether either bill can pass is very much in doubt.
Wednesday's gathering came less than 12 hours after Mr. Ryan's office announced that the House would consider immigration next week — but not bipartisan bills aimed primarily at protecting young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. Instead, lawmakers will consider a hard-line measure that emphasizes border security and a somewhat more moderate compromise measure, yet to be finalized, that still meets Mr. Trump's standards.
But the approval of an immigration hard-liner like Mr. Trump only underscored the growing sense that a rebellion by moderate Republicans seeking bipartisanship had utterly failed. It underscored the looming reality that the president has effectively acquired the last say over the actions of the Republican Congress.
Lawmakers attending the meeting said the compromise bill will be built around four principles — Mr. Trump has called them the "four pillars" — that the president has insisted any immigration bill contain: a path to citizenship for the young undocumented children known as Dreamers; beefed-up border security, including $25 billion for the wall the president wants to build; an end to the current diversity visa lottery system, which is aimed at bringing in immigrants from underrepresented nations; and limits on family-based migration, known as chain migration.
Mr. Ryan told reporters that the "last thing I want to do is bring a bill out of here that I know the president won't support."
Democrats slammed the plan as a betrayal of bipartisan efforts to address the fate of young immigrants, known as Dreamers.
"Let's be clear: these Republican proposals aren't to provide relief for Dreamers, they're an avenue for mass deportations and to stoke fear in communities, said Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
The hard-line bill, known as the Goodlatte bill after its chief author, Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, is highly unlikely to garner enough votes to pass the House.
But the compromise bill also faces a highly questionable path. Democrats are all but certain to resist a bill built to the White House's liking, and conservatives, having secured a vote on the Goodlatte bill, may have little incentive to vote for a slightly more moderate measure that could be perceived as providing "amnesty" to Dreamers.
"We're working to try to get a bill that will pass," said Representative Carlos Curbelo, Republican of Florida and a leader of moderate Republicans who have pushed for the House to vote on immigration. "I don't think anyone's in a position to make any guarantees on whether a bill will pass or not."
Another leader of the immigration moderates, Representative Jeff Denham, Republican of California, expressed hope that some Democrats would be persuaded to support the compromise bill out of a desire to address the fate of the Dreamers.
"We're hopeful that the main thing that both parties look at is that this provides certainty for every Dreamer that's out there," Mr. Denham said.
Immigrant rights advocates were far less sanguine, accusing the immigration moderates of caving to party pressure.
"It's a show vote for the right-wingers and a show vote for the so-called moderates," said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, an immigrant rights group. "Neither will pass. They will not get Democratic support. It's a sham. The heroic moderates who were going to fight for Dreamers turned out to be easily rolled by Ryan and the Freedom Caucus."
The plan Mr. Ryan unveiled to his members will put the politically divisive issue of immigration front and center in the national debate in the middle of a difficult election year for Republicans. It comes nine months after President Trump moved to end the Obama-era initiative known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which protected the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers from deportation.
After moving to end DACA in September, Mr. Trump called on Congress to pass legislation to replace it by March, but so far lawmakers have been unable to do so. The Senate debated immigration for a week in February, and passed nothing.
Mr. Ryan's decision to put two bills on the floor next week was the product of weeks of negotiations between House conservatives and moderates, with House Republican leaders including Mr. Ryan serving as facilitators. The moderates had been threatening to force a series of immigration votes this month by using an arcane parliamentary maneuver known as a "discharge petition," but they fell two signatures short of the 218 required to push the petition through.
The moderates needed 25 Republicans to affix their signatures to the petition but got only 23. All 193 Democrats signed. Had the petition gone through, the House would have also voted on the Dream Act, a stand-alone bill backed by Democrats that would offer a path to citizenship for the Dreamers, and a bipartisan measure that would pair a path to citizenship with increased border security.
Democrats are furious that those measures will not come to a vote; the bipartisan bill was widely expected to pass the House with support from both parties. In a statement issued late Tuesday night, Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, the chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, lambasted the Republican leaders.
"Instead of standing courageously with a bipartisan group of 216 representatives, they cowered to the hyper-partisanship that has broken Congress and failed to deliver solutions to our nation's most pressing problems," she said.
But Ms. Lujan Grisham thanked those who signed the petition, "especially the 23 Republicans who stood up to their leadership."
One of those 23 Republicans, Representative Leonard Lance of New Jersey, said the moderates had shown that "we are a great force in the conference."
"I think it is our signing the discharge petition that is in large measure responsible for the fact that this is going to be brought to the floor of the House," Mr. Lance said.
Mr. Curbelo insisted that moderates were not abandoning the petition drive, suggesting it could be rekindled if necessary.
"It's there if we need it," he said, "and we may need it."


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I'm not Irish and I don't drink
(Dress: F21, Cardigan: H&M, Jeans: Old Navy, Boots: Target)
I'm just one of those people that will probably never be able to understand the reason for having St.Patrick's Day but I can appreciate another day of being healthy and alive!
Today was for a trip to Costco with my mom and that was reason enough for it to be a good day. We got to talk about my future wedding and how she wants to do a vow renewal next summer for her and my poppa's 25th wedding anniversary. If you know me at all, you'll know that there is no topic I love to talk about and discuss quite like weddings.
I'm off to pin away ideas for the vow renewal on Pintrest!


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Lenses for Nikon Cameras
Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8: If the Nikon D81o is my workhorse camera, this is my workhorse lens. I have this mounted to my camera about 90% of the time. It's sharp and gives me the flexibility to move in for tighter portraits, zoom out a bit for full body and zoom out even more for dynamic action shots. It's the perfect studio lens for me so I don't have to be constantly switching from an 85mm to a 50mm to a 35mm. I probably sacrifice a little sharpness for convenience over the Sigma primes but when you are working with athletes you don't always have a ton of time so you have to make the most of what you get.
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art: I'll admit it. For the longest time I was a brand snob and wouldn't even consider a lens that wasn't Nikon (or Canon when I was shooting the 5d2). But, when I started hearing about this lens I decided to check it out and I'm so glad I did. This thing is tack sharp and at a very reasonable price. This lens made me completely rethink my bag and if they keep on releasing great lenses I could see myself completely converted over to sigma.
Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art: After experiencing firsthand how amazing the new Art series of lenses are I jumped on this one as soon as it was released. The 35mm is an amazing lens but the 50mm is definitely more towards my preferred focal length. This is the most amazing lens I've ever used and when combining it with the D810/D800 it's crazy how sharp it is (even at 1.4). I highly recommend this to any person looking at a 50mm and the great thing is it's better than any Nikon option and for a decent price.
Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II: It's unfortunate but this lens pretty much spends most of its time in my bag but that has nothing to do with the quality of the lens. It's big and bulky and not the easiest of lenses to swap out but it's pretty dang sharp and anytime you do need the reach it's perfect. The more I move into studio shooting and environmental portraiture the less it gets used. Eventually, Sigma will release a portrait Art lens in the area of 85mm to 135mm and I'll probably make the switch. But, if you're someone who needs the reach and the convenience I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better lens in this range.
Lenses for Fuji Camera
Fuji 23mm f/1.4: Like I mentioned in the camera section I haven't had a chance to shoot with the Fuji X-T1 yet so I can't speak from personal experience. But, I've heard amazing things about this lens and can't wait to use it. I'll update when I've had a chance to use it a couple times.
Fuji 56mm F/1.2: Like I mentioned in the camera section I haven't had a chance to shoot with the Fuji X-T1 yet so I can't speak from personal experience. But, I've heard amazing things about this lens and can't wait to use it. I'll update when I've had a chance to use it a couple times.


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These wonderful Marianne Design Papers have some lovely images which if you are my age you will remember well (well I remember my mother wearing a dress like this - I was still in gingham!)
I used the bottom of one of the sheets and one of the stickers to create my card. A very quick and simple card - I just added some ribbon, a button and some gems on the pattern.
Click the link HERE to see the rest of the DT inspirational pieces for this week and I hope you feel inspired to join us.
Still sailing ..........


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Marcello and I went for a short, easy spin this morning. It's in the upper 40s (!!), so I put a sweater over my T-shirt and capri-length red jeans. Oh baby, was I stylin'. Anyway, we pedaled just under 30 minutes and made is 3.5 miles. My only point of pride is this hill. Do you remember it?
Well, I usually pedal up it halfway and walk the rest. Today, however, I conquered it on two wheels. I don't think I ever recovered, which is why my ride was short. I still feel awesome, though.
Here's today's playlist:
- Belle and Sebastian, "Stay Loose"
- Deee-Lite, "Groove Is in the Heart"
- The Monkeys, "The Girl That I Knew Somewhere"
- Vampire Weekend, "Cape Code Kwassa Kwassa"
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Airport"
- Yo La Tengo, "Cherry Chapstick"
- Joshua Radin, "Winter"
I have a lot of chores to do, so I have to run. Talk to you soon!


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It has taken me over 2 years to get your quilt made from your jeans. It has taken me some time just to get to it, but also it was just hard to do. Your Grandma, my Mom, said that she said a prayer for every stitch she made in a quilt for the person for whom she was making the quilt. Well, I have to be honest! I don't know if I said a prayer for every stitch, but I sure thought of you a whole lot and did pray for you and your family.
When I make these jean quilts with the pockets for squares, I usually close all the pockets by sewing them. This time I left 6 of the 35 pockets open. Maybe your kids will find little things to put in those pockets, especially for you!
Here it is, Louie!
Ruth went up home this weekend, Lou, and she delivered the quilt to your family. Your boys are already having fun with it. They love animals, like you did, and here they are using the quilt for a blanket on their horses.They look like you!
And just one more photo, for you Lou-- I will always remember the day of Chet John's baptism. Remember, we baptized the Nore twins at the same time. I look at the photo below often times and try to recall that day. Thanks for asking me to be the godfather of your last boy. I have some obligations to fulfill.
You are always with us. Padre J


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Easter may have come and gone, but I'm sure you still have plenty of candy left. After Halloween when I had lots of chocolate on hand, I found a great recipe for Rocky Road Brownies on the back of a Hershey's Miniatures Chocolate Bars package. You can view the same recipe on the Hershey's website. But in honor of Easter and spring, I altered it slightly using bunny marshmallows and omitting the nuts since my kids aren't big fans of nuts. Here is my spring version of the Rocky Road Brownies:
38 to 40 HERSHEY'S MINIATURES Chocolate Bars, unwrapped
2-1/2 Cups Bunny Mallows
1 package (13x 9 family size) brownie mix
Here are my ingredients (I had a ton of Hershey's chocolate Nuggets leftover from Brody and Skylar's Knight and Princess Party, so I used a mixture of Hershey's Nuggets and some Hershey's Miniatures).
1. Heat oven to 350°F. Cut each miniature chocolate bars or chocolate nuggets into about 8 pieces.
Here is my little helper who helped me unwrap all of the chocolates:
2. Stir together Bunny Mallows and chocolate bar pieces and set aside.
3. Prepare brownie mix according to package directions. Bake brownie 2 minutes less than recommended baking time; sprinkle marshmallow mixture over brownie surface.
4. Continue baking 3 minutes or until marshmallows are puffed and lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Using wet knife, cut into squares.


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by Tom Utescher
On the brink of the beginning of May, weather conditions worse than on many days in late March confronted the girls of host Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and visiting Agnes Irwin as they converged for an Inter-Ac League lacrosse match last Tuesday afternoon.
Back on April 4, the Irwin Owls had rolled over the Blue Devils, 19-8, but in last week's wet, chilly rematch, a soundly-conceived and well executed strategy of ball possession had SCH ahead 6-5 with under two minute remaining in the game. In the end though, the locals could not contain the visitors' explosive offense, as the Owls funneled in three goals in the final one minute and 23 seconds to take home an 8-6 victory.
Springside Chestnut Hill (7-4 overall), which received two goals apiece from junior Maddie Aslansan and freshman Taylor Ferry, slipped back to the .500 mark in Inter-Ac play, at 3-3. The Blue Devils' Megan McCool had fired in the first goal of the afternoon, and her sophomore classmate, Natalie Schwartz, scored with just over 13 minutes remaining to put the home team ahead, 6-5.
A third 10th-grader, goalkeeper Elsa Rall, made seven saves in the contest, helping her squad hold that late one-point edge for almost a dozen minutes before Irwin made its pivotal run at the end. Staying in contention until the final seconds took a solid team effort, especially since standout sophomore midfielder Mikaela Watson (who has verbally committed to Stanford) was sidelined due to injury.
Agnes Irwin left Chestnut Hill with a 14-1 overall record that reflected a home/away split against longtime Inter-Ac power Episcopal Academy. EA overwhelmed the Owls, 17-8, when they met on the first of April, but on April 24 Irwin emerged from the second meeting with a 13-11 victory, forging a tie with the Churchwomen for first place in the league.
With injuries to two starters early in the season, the Owls have been winning with a very young line-up, starting four freshman (including a rookie goalie) and an eighth-grader. The team's go-to attacker, sophomore Hannah Keating, scored five times at Springside Chestnut Hill last Tuesday, putting Irwin over the top by netting her final two goals in the last 70 seconds of the game.
The Owls (6-1 Inter-Ac) received single strikes from Syracuse-bound senior Bridget Chakey and freshmen Alicia O'Neil and Dani Wright, while getting four stops in the goal from their ninth-grade keeper, Hailey Andress.
After SCH junior Sinéad Brierley seized the opening draw, the Blue Devils spread out on offense and kept ahold of the ball for almost seven minutes. Eventually, McCool spotted an opening, and drove straight up the middle to score with 6:54 elapsed.
First-year SCH coach Alex Kahoe (an Agnes Irwin alumna) explained, "Irwin is a very talented, well coached team that is very fast and has a lot of scoring threats. We wanted to do our best to control the tempo and not let them have a lot of time with the ball.
"You hate to lose, but I was very proud of our team," she continued. "There are a lot of college teams that can't follow the kind of a game-plan we put out there. All the players were committed to what we were trying to do, and everyone stepped up and played with a lot of heart."
Both teams had played at the Katie Samson Lacrosse Festival the previous Saturday, and second-year Agnes Irwin mentor Jenny Duckenfield related, "Most of our girls spent all day Sunday at try-outs for Nationals, so we were a little tired. That doesn't take anything away from how well Springside Chestnut Hill played. They came up with a good game-plan against us and they executed it well."
Still, the Owls gave an early indication of their quick-strike ability by answering the opening goal by SCH with three markers in just over three minutes. O'Neill converted off of a free position, Wright gave the visitors their first lead, and then Keating got going by cashing in on another free-position opportunity.
That made it 3-1 with about 13 minutes left in the half, and with the clock dipping below the nine-minute mark, Owls goalie Andress preserved the two-goal edge, stopping a shot by McCool and then making another save on a free-po shot a few seconds later.
Eventually, the Blue Devils put up a second goal with 2:17 to go in the opening period. McCool passed the ball down to Ferry a few meters outside the right side of the crease. The freshman took the ball behind the cage, then slipped back out front on the same side to score.
Ferry, equipped with good eye-hand coordination that has also helped her become one of the school's best squash players, scored again with 31 seconds left in the half. She was open in front of the cage to receive a feed from Brierley, and she tied the bout at 3-3.
The teams would not still be even at the intermission, though; Irwin took the next draw and Keating came down the field to give the Owls a 4-3 edge with 12 seconds remaining. Brierley scooped up the last draw of the half, but only had time to make a long heave in the direction of the cage.
The Blue Devils were up on offense again as the second half got underway. Awarded a free position on the center hash mark, Aslansan put away a low shot to fashion 4-4 count a little over two-and-a-half minutes into the new period.
It wasn't long before Keating put AIS back in the lead, but then Aslansan tied the game for the hosts once more. Awarded a free position behind the cage, she cradled out on the left side to chalk up her second marker of the day with a little over 17 minutes left to play.
SCH pocketed the subsequent draw and methodically moved the ball around on offense. A free-position shot by McCool was foiled when a defender got a piece of her stick, but the home team retained possession. From out in the flat to the right of the goal, junior Carlin Rode sent in a pass that found Schwartz close to the near post, and she moved the Blue Devils ahead, 6-5, with 13:08 on the clock.
It was a long time to hold a one-goal edge against a team like Irwin, but the Chestnut Hill team's defensive unit came close to pulling it off.
"Elsa had a good game in goal, and I thought that [freshman] Mason Rode did a great job playing denial defense," Kahoe commented. "Sarah Mathes [a junior], Remi Fillipini [a sophomore] and Morgan Fitton-Zellers [a freshman] are the core of our defense and they all played well. The way we wanted to play this game, Elsa and the defense weren't seeing the ball a lot, but they stayed focused and they were ready when the play came down to their end of the field."
After taking the lead at 6-5, SCH once again controlled the draw, then kept possession for a few minutes before finally turning the ball over just under the 10-minute mark. Irwin attacked, but a shot by sophomore Sarah Nicolson hit a pipe and an attempt soon after that by Keating was repulsed by Rall.
Following a time-out with 5:50 on the clock, the Blue Devils held the ball for two minutes but then lost it out-of-bounds. As the Owls pressed for the equalizer, Rall made another stop against Keating, and Irwin fired a second ball just over the cage.
For all of the talented youngsters on the AIS roster, it was one of the few seniors, Chakey, who stepped up with the tying goal for the visitors.
Out near the edge of the arc on the right wing, she expertly dodged her defender and fired into the net, knotting things up at 6-6 with 1:23 to go.
Irwin then snapped the string of SCH draw controls and dashed back down on offense, quickly earning a free position on a shooting-space violation by the Blue Devils. From the right side of the arc, Keating capitalized for the eventual game-winner with 1:10 on the board. SCH asked for a stick check, but this yielded a positive outcome for Irwin, who now was given the ball in the center circle to resume play.
Keating charged straight in and tattooed the final score on the board with an insurance goal for the Owls; it was the sophomore's 93rd of the season. Springside Chestnut Hill came up with one last draw, but with 30 seconds to go Irwin's Andress stopped the final shot of the day by the Blue Devils.
Although victory eluded the locals at the end, Kahoe noted, "I think we've been making great strides, and there were a lot of good things for us to take away from this game."
In addition to SCH's hard-fought duel against the co-leader in the Inter-Ac, interesting outcomes in the league on the same afternoon included Penn Charter's upset of Notre Dame and Baldwin's victory over Germantown Academy. Teams that have been the lesser lights in the league are shining brighter, making the Inter-Ac a league that's becoming solid all the way through, instead of an organization featuring a few marquee teams beating up on the also-rans.
"It's exciting to see the league getting so competitive," Kahoe remarked, "because it benefits all the players to consistently face strong competition."
The SCH mentor will get no argument on that score from the architect of Irwin's ascent.
"I'm just really impressed with the coaching that we're seeing all around the league," said Duckenfield, who coached the Mount St. Joseph Academy team in 2012 before taking over the Owls. "You can't take anyone for granted in the Inter-Ac, and most of the teams are doing well outside the league, too."


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Week Six
PreK3 & PreK - Our Amazing Bodies! and time with Nurse Chris
Nurse Chris was with us this week, continuing our health and nutrition unit. We read a fun nonfiction book about our amazing bodies called My Body, Your Body, by Mick Manning.
We learned about our voice boxes and felt our voices vibrate. We learned that we have different kinds of teeth for tearing and chewing. Now we know that our rib cage protects our heart and lungs and that we have 650 muscles in our bodies...the biggest muscle is our bottom! We examined the little hairs on our arms, stuck out our tongues, and tickled our ribs. We also measured our height and weight to start tracking how much we'll grow this year! (Let's hope only the children grow...Mrs. Ducharme is really hoping to shrink instead!)
K - Amazing Authors and Friendship
This week we continue reading picture books from the list: Top 100 Picture Books Every Child Should Know. There are lots of lists out there, but I like this one since it polled librarians to come up with the results.
Since Kindergarteners are discussing friendship in their classrooms, we read the story Officer Buckle and Gloria, by Peggy Rathman. It's the hilarious story of a police officer who gives safety talks at local schools and his dog, Gloria, who gets the kids' attention with funny stunts. The expressions on the characters' faces are perfect and Gloria, the dog, is an absolute comic genius. The final lesson: "Always stick with your buddy" and the idea that sometimes friends might have an argument made for great discussions points.
Grade 1 - Alphabet book and games
We read A is for Salad, by Mike Lester. No boring alphabet books here! This one is a hoot because each letter is matched to the wrong part of the picture, so students have to "fix" it by finding the right match. So "A" is not for salad, it's for alligator! And the matches are creative ones that get us learning some new vocabulary such as narwhal, vulture, quail, iguana.
After the story, students played three games to help them practice alphabetical order and letter recognition. The highlight was Bembo's Zoo in which each letter represents a zoo animal and the letters of the animal's name dance around to create the animal's shape. Very cool and good reading practice for students, too! (This would be fantastic on an iPad or iTouch by the way)
Grade 2 - Author Study and Personal Narratives
Well, we had a few tears this time (mostly from me!) since we read Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs by Tomi dePaola
Tommy loves his grandmother and great-grandmother and enjoys spending time with both of them: his "upstairs" grandmother who is too old and weak to use stairs, and his "downstairs" grandmother who cooks the family dinners. But when grandmother "upstairs" dies, he struggles to understand that she is gone. Tear-jerker alert!
Our second story, The Art Lesson by Tomi dePaola, features some of the same characters from Tommy's family, but the focus of this personal narrative is on Tommy's struggle with art in school. He knows from an early age that he will be an artist, so he's anxious to have serious lessons. Lessons that won't emphasize copying from the teacher, lessons that allow him to use all of his 64 Crayola crayons!
After reading the two stories, we looked at Tomi dePaola's author site.
Grade 3 - Alphabetical Order story and games
Grade Threes enjoyed an alphabet guessing story: Q is for Duck by Mary Elting.
Each alphabet letter is linked to something else not starting with that letter, and students have to find the link. Some letters were easy (Q is for duck because a duck Quacks!) Some were harder: "V is for chameleon. Why?"
Next, students played two games to help them practice putting words into alphabetical order. (you'll also see some wild video clips about snails there!)
We talked about how knowing alphabetical order helps us in the library. Next week, we'll look at other uses of alphabetical order systems.
Grade 4 & 5
Library Thing is running smoothly for grade 4 and 5 classes. Students are adding books to their libraries, posting reviews, tagging, and working with their settings to show their collection in the best style. They may use Library Thing at any time in the library and of course from home as well.
Next week we'll talk more about adding reviews to our library catalog (grade 5 only) and adding friends to our profile so we can share our books with each other. Web 2.0 in grade 4 and 5 is moving forward!


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This gallery is based on the connection between objects from the MFA's collection and selected poems. Both the art objects and the poems come from a variety of time periods and geographic locations, ranging from the Tang Dynasty in China to Renaissance Italy to contemporary poetry and art. In juxtaposing images with specific poems, this lesson frames each work so as to encourage new modes of looking, reading, analyzing, and responding.
Learning Goals
Exploring this gallery, you will discover:
• The art of ekphrastic poetry
• Various media and genres associated with art and poetry
• The relationship between the visual arts and poetic traditions
This discovery will require students to:
• Look closely at objects and observe details
• Use prior knowledge in conjunction with observation
• Generate hypotheses based on observation and prior knowledge
Using this Resource
• Language Arts teachers and students will be interested in the connection between image and text. They will explore literary sources for the subjects of the prints and compare the two methods of communication and narration.
• Social Studies teachers and students will be interested in what this gallery reveals about the history and culture of the societies that produced these objects and poems.
• Art teachers and students will be interested in the techniques and imagery of a variety of media and genres including: landscapes, still-lifes, religious painting, portraiture, oil painting, lithography, and sculpture.
• World Language teachers and students will be interested in connecting select images from this online gallery with the languages of the cultures that produced them (i.e. Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese).
For sample classroom activities, download the PDFs available under Related Resources. Links to other related websites are also found there.
The objects in this tour are just a beginning. We encourage you to explore the Museum's online collection through this web resource—or even better, to visit the Museum and walk through the physical galleries—to look for other objects that will provide further insights into the relationship between words and images.
Created ByMFA School Programs
SubjectEnglish Language Arts, History/Social Studies, The Arts, World Languages
Grade LevelGeneral Interest, 9-12
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