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Nelson powers Fairfield Ludlowe girls volleyball team into Class LL semifinals
With Emily Nelson serving as she did on Tuesday, the Fairfield Ludlowe girls volleyball team is awfully difficult to stop.
The senior outside hitter had seven aces, leading the third-seeded Falcons over No. 6 Newtown, 3-0 (25-15, 25-16, 25-21) in the Class LL quarterfinals at Fairfield Ludlowe High School.
"To win 3-0 over a great team in the quarterfinals, that's ridiculous," Nelson said. "It builds our confidence."
Nelson added nine kills and six digs as Ludlowe advances to the state semifinals for the third time in four years. The Falcons will play second-seeded Cheshire Thursday at 5 p.m. at Foran High School in Milford.
"Our girls are just so excited," Ludlowe coach Meghan Skelton said. "We've had this goal for a long time."
Falcons' middle hitter Casey Boatwright had three solo blocks and eight kills, dominating the middle as Ludlowe won its 18th straight match.
"She played a tremendous difference in this match," Skelton said.
Newtown was led by sophomore Kyle Dandrea, who had four kills and three aces. The Nighthawks finished their season 16-6.
"Fairfield (Ludlowe) is a fantastic team," Newtown coach Tom Czaplinski said. "One of the best teams we've seen this year."
Three of Nelson's aces came in a row during a 10-point service run in Game 1 that helped Ludlowe cement the frame 25-15.
"I told them, `we need long service runs, keep the first one in,'" Skelton said, "and she got some really long runs for us."
Nelson also aced three in a row at the start of Game 2 as Ludlowe built an 8-1 advantage. The Falcons did not trail in either of the first two games.
"Her jump serve is really hard to dig," Boatwright said. "People shank it all the time. I love her serve."
"She jump-served the crap out of us," Czaplinski said.
The Nighthawks fell behind 4-1 in Game 3, but back-to-back kills from senior Amanda Rowan helped Newtown go ahead 6-5. The Nighthawks' lead peaked at 15-11.
"We play better when we have a sense of urgency," Czaplinski said. "I think we got some of that in the third game."
But thanks to Nelson's serving and some stellar Ludlowe defense, the Falcons clawed back, retaking the lead 18-17 thanks to Lexi Cardenas' ace. Ludlowe would not trail again.
"I really think our defense and our middles won that match," Skelton said.
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Class LL quarterfinals
Records: Newtown 16-6, Fairfield Ludlowe 21-1. Highlights: N--Kyle Dandrea had four kills and three aces. Amanda Rowan had four kills and two blocks. Courtney Escoda had nine digs. FL--Emily Nelson had nine kills, seven aces and six digs. Casey Boatwright had three blocks and eight kills. Kelly Rotondo had three aces, one kill and 19 assists.


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Had one a while now great little mod.
I have a small permission and its open to dog walkers so I only shoot at night (rabbits) also close by are some houses, so I am very conscious of noise, not so much of spooking the quarry but more not to draw attention to myself.
I have a CZ .22 and use RWS subs
I started with a WildCat whisper, which I found was OK but was never that impressed so I hunted for something better and after reading a load of reviews I got myself a ASE Utra, now honestly this does have to be the best I have ever found and have been using it for a while. But as good as it is it has one major problem, it's heavy, like really heavy...
I saw an advert for the A-TEC Wave and thought I would try one, first this is it a tad shorter and massively lighter and very well made...
Testing this at the club I found that it's not as good as the ASE but it's VERY close and very hard to tell the difference, so for something smaller and lighter I thought it was really impressive. My only other finding at 50 yards the POI was about an inch higher. Groups the same.
So for the size, cost, build quality I am very impressed.
Its sometimes best to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid rather than open your mouth and dispel all doubt
Had one a while now great little mod.
Pardon my intrusion on an A-Tec thread,
Just wanted to comment on the weight as mentioned by DaveC, yes that is one of the reasons why we decided to introduce the new ECO .22 suppressor.
Lighter, simpler to clean and more economic in price, compared to our DUAL suppressor.
The DUAL is still more effective on a pistol length barrel, but the ECO and DUAL are pretty much equal on a rifle barrel.
Best Regards!
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Ase Utra sound suppressors
I have one on my hmr and I am very happy!! 👌👌
I wanna be the airgunbbs Model
Can the a-tec wave be used on a regular 22wmr?
I have just bought the Atec Wave and I am looking forward to trying it out.
It looks nicely made and is very light and one of the few mods I could easily find with 1/2" 28TPI UNEF thread.
Gusty any review yet?
Be interested to know how it performs on an airgun.
Me too Baloo.
I will have to go and buy one to fit it onto.
Ahhhh. The old UNFF and UNF issue. I will get my coat.
Thanks for looking
I came across the atec wave early this year. I think it cost £28 new. It looked well made, compact and lightweight so thought I'd try it out for my semi auto rimfire. And I was really Impressed. It was much better than the sak it replaced. I'd say not only was it smaller/lighter it was also quiter. Aesthetically it was better aswell. The sak is known as a good all rounder, now I'd say it's the atec. I'm not sure it comes apart like the sak does though Wich isn't big issue .
I have an a tech wave on my kriss defiance 22lr. At first I wasn't impressed because it felt like it was a plastic can and wouldn't last 10 rounds, but I have now had hundreds of rounds through it and I can report it is sooo quite with cci standard volocity and i have never had any problems with it. Very pleased.
Have to agree will pretty much everything thats been said , I have a Atec wave and a CM . And there very very good on my .22 LR have also used them both to great affect on my .22 hornet.

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Spiced Apple, Honey & Cider Muffins - Secret Recipe Club
Welcome to this month's installment of the Secret Recipe Club! My assigned blog is The More Than Occasional Baker. I had apples that never got around to being used (so rude of them ... how do you like them apples?), so I was thrilled to find that Ros (who also goes by the name of Baking Addict) had a nice stash of apple recipes. Although she did have an apple muffin recipe in stock, I made the executive decision to turn her Apple, Honey and Beer Cake into muffins.
Why? Because I can.
Because it uses no milk or eggs (you're welcome, vegan and lactose-intolerant Dear Readers).
And to use up a bottle of sparkling cider I had in case of an emergency.
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up a tad when uncorked. Have sink ready.
Which, since I had no idea if the local wine store even had apple beer in stock and was not even sure if apple beer is inherently kosher or needs a hechsher (kosher certification), made this an emergency.
Plus how can I resist a recipe where the baker herself gives the following raving review:
"I'm not overly keen on this cake but I'm glad I tried it and I'm sure if I experimented with the recipe a bit more, I could come up with something much tastier."Roz, along with her site, hails from London, so I had to spend a great of time counting on my fingers and dividing with my toes to convert her recipe from kilos and milos into furlongs and fortnights, but the result was totally worth it! Note -- there is no such measurement as milo. Unless you also factor in stitch. Or some other Disney movie.
But back to baking. No idea what a Bramley apple is, except that according to the comments on Ros' post it is of the tart persuasion, but since I was planning to use the MacIntoshes on hand anyway it didn't matter. Normally MacIntoshes break down when they are baked, but with the short bake time they retain their dice-shape quite nicely.
I halved the amount of ginger and nutmeg. These babies should be spicy, not sassy. I upped the amount of cinnamon and added a hint of cloves to make up for not having allspice at all in my spice cabinet. Salt was tossed in, just because everything tastes better with salt.
To tell the truth, Ros was right -- they needed a bit more work. Especially in the sweetness category. Maybe apple beer is sweeter than cider, no idea. I upped the honey quantity in the ingredients list to reflect that. Since the tops are quite plain, I garnished the finished product for the photos. I suggest you do the same, but before baking.
Spiced Apple, Honey and Cider Muffins
Slightly adapted from The More Than Occasional Baker
Makes 12-16 muffins
3 cups unbleached flour
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. baking soda
1/8 tsp. table salt
1 1/3 cups sparkling apple cider
3/4 cup honey
2 MacIntosh (or your favorite) apples, peeled, cored and diced
1/4 cup granulated sugar, for garnish
Preheat oven to 350F. Place 12-16 (depending upon size) cupcake liners in muffin tins. Set aside.
Whisk together the dry ingredients (flour through salt) in a large mixing bowl.
In a small mixing bowl whisk the cider and honey together. Pour into dry mixture, and gently stir with a spatula just until combined. Avoid overmixing. If it's almost totally mixed, it is done!
Gently fold in the apples.
|Try to fill each cup more uniformly than this.
Ladle batter into muffin tin, filling each cup about two-thirds full. Sprinkle tops evenly with the sugar.
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Bake for approximately 15-20 minutes or until tops are golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean (they don't spring back when gently pressed). Transfer muffins to a cooling rack.
Cool completely before serving.
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Taigh needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 163 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
This info can be found on the site... http://phuwakiri.com
The essence of Phuwakiri is the spirit of nature with the focus being the outstanding natural beauty of the mountain that rises elegantly in the foreground, crowned with a canopy of majestic hundred year old trees.
Eight perfect Mountain studios with their own private terraces and stunning views of the mountain. The design has been carefully thought through to ensure that everything compliments the perfection and balance of the natural surroundings. The materials have been selected to blend with the scenery whilst allowing for the latest in practical living. The development also has a sublime swimming pool and communal area set in lush landscaping with calming water features.
This is more of a 'Luxury Mountain Studio' so we're looking to attract people who are looking for a special retreat and understand value.
Attached please find copy of other company logos which should be
similar to what we are looking for.
We want people to know that the property is on the slope of the mountain.
It is beyond the busy city center and in the green area enrich with nature.
If you look at the document attached which has a picture with a 'red circle' showing the location of the 'mountain studios', this should be incorporated into the logo design.
Here is the current website. http://phuwakiri.com/
Please not that the site will be changed, and by no means do you need to stick to this color scheme.
As it shows on the attached document, the logo should have,
Phuket, Thailand
And then http://www.phuketstudios.com
Let me know if you have any questions.
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Tom Wolfe In Our Time, and In Our Library
Special note: This blog post was written by Tim Buchanan, M.A. '15, East Carolina University Department of English, as part of a special series highlighting the Stuart Wright Collection
While browsing the Stuart Wright Collection a few weeks ago, I saw mention of a collection of illustrations by Tom Wolfe. Best known for chronicling the 60s counterculture in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Wall Street excesses in The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe is also known by his trademark white suit, which he wears like a uniform. I hadn't expected to find works by this still-living author in the archive, and this item presented me with a facet of his work I never knew existed. They're a fitting introduction to the Tom Wolfe Papers held at ECU, which also include an uncorrected proof of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
The book of illustrations is titled In Our Time, and was published in 1980 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. It compiles a series of Wolfe's sketches, caricatures and accompanying essays, which originally appeared as a monthly feature in Harper's Magazine with the same title. The book chronicles the narcissism and excess of the 1970s, offering an interesting glimpse at the sexuality, drug culture, and gender politics of the time from Wolfe's perspective. In the first paragraph of the first essay, "Stiffened Giblets," Wolfe describes his entry into the decade:
For me the 1970s began the moment I saw Harris, on a little surprise visit to the campus, push open the door of his daughter Laura's dormitory room. Two pairs of eyes popped up in one of the beds, blazing like raccoons' at night by the garbage cans . . . illuminating the shanks, flanks, glistening haunches, and cloven declivities of a boy and girl joined mons-to-mons. Harris backed off, on little step after another. He looked as if he were staring down the throat of a snake. He pulled the door shut, ever so gingerly (3).
The book also shares its title with Ernest Hemingway's very first story collection, published in 1925.
Of further interest to researchers interested in Wolfe's work is a comb-bound, uncorrected proof of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test bearing Wolfe's signature. This is a far more modern––even postmodern––glimpse into the age or contemporary writings than the mention of a literary archive might bring to mind. The bound galleys are meant to give an idea of what the text will look like in print as well as the overall layout of the book. Some passages are crossed out by Wolfe's own hand, so it's possible to see bits of writing that didn't make it into the final shelf copy.
Wolfe helped pioneer a new approach to journalism, called New Journalism, which blended literary technique with more traditional reporting. Among his contemporaries in the style were Joan Didion and Hunter S. Thompson. Because of his importance to modern writing, it is no surprise that we aren't the only ones looking to archive Wolfe's work. The New York Public Library has just processed a collection of his works and some selections are on display in "Becoming the Man in the White Suit: The Tom Wolfe Papers."
Finding such well-known and contemporary writing among other, more obscure texts is a special thrill of working in the archive. Turning the long brittle sheets of the corrected proofs of a collection of his essays or the bound set of galleys to one of Wolfe's most famous works, I felt that the archive itself was a living, unfinished thing not just shining a light on our literary past, but grounding those who explore within it to a strong on-going literary tradition.


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PIQC needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 33 freelance designers.
PIQC is an early state start-up for a visual search engine. It encourages small/mid-sized businesses to share their data on the site and connects them.
PIQC is an inviting, exciting, trustworthy, and open framework. Technologically savvy but grounded in the real world. Not pretentious. Fostering community.
1. Local small/mid-sized business owners.
2. Individuals who want to search for products, get to know local businesses before a physical visit, etc.
This is not just for the generation of intuitively technologically adept youngsters. The site will be used by a wide range of people, including those less experienced working in the digital sphere.
A mascot concept in .psd format, showing a few different poses.
1. For a "404 page not found" screen: the robot has a sad expression or gesture. For example:
2. The robot doing a friendly gesture or greeting, to use for pages that have messages. For example:
3. An attentive pose (for a form where users type in questions).
4. Sitting on an invisible surface with his feet hanging over (like sitting on a step).
5. The name of the company (piqc) should be visible at all times (somewhere on the robot).
The robot should be friendly, trustworthy, full of vitality and intelligence. It looks into the viewer's eye, exuding energy and warmth. It is cute, compelling and hi-tech.
Note: Please feel free to vary the capitalization in "PIQC." We're trying to convey the pronunciation ("pixie") but are not sure whether all caps or all lowercase ("piqc") looks better.
For the logo chosen, we will need a file in .psd format, with a transparent background, if applicable. A style sheet should include information on colors, fonts, etc. as needed.
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Affiliate Program Group Helps Promote, Support Professional Development School
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—The Professional Development School (PDS) is a collaborative student teaching program between Penn State and the State College Area School District through which Penn State pre-service teachers participate in a full-year internship experience in classrooms in the school district.
However, the PDS community includes many more individuals than just Penn State pre-service students. It also involves veteran teachers, administrators, graduate students, and university faculty all working together. The PDS goals are to enhance the educational experiences of all children, ensure high-quality inductions of new teachers into the profession, engage in furthering professional growth as teachers and teacher educators, and educating the next generation of teacher educators.
The PDS Affiliate Program Group (APG) is designed to provide services, promote and support the program, and provide leadership to current and past participants in the program.
"We hope to serve as a mechanism for encouraging and attracting former PDS participants and others to remain connected in a very concrete way. We help to promote the PDS program and serve as a vehicle for constant and on-going promotion of PDS," said the president of the group, Mary Beth Hershey '05 EK ED.
Hershey also said the group provides leadership for the program and profession, and its members serve as role models by demonstrating the ideas of leadership, service, and ethical conduct.
Jim Nolan '83 Ph.D. C I, Henry J. Hermanowicz professor of teacher education and co-facilitator of the Professional Development School, started the APG in 2006. Its aim was to unite and facilitate interaction among and between all constituencies of the College of Education, including faculty, students, staff, former faculty, friends and family, and alumni of the PDS program within the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
Since the start of the APG, the group has planned and staged two successful PDS alumni reunions, which were held in State College. It has also created and distributed a PDS alumni newsletter of all its happenings. Its most important agenda item was to use social media networks to spread the word about the group.
"After setting up a Facebook page, we are close to reaching 400 members. This avenue has been the most successful when it comes to connecting with our past PDS interns," Hershey said.
"It is a convenient way to stay in touch, share current teaching ideas/ philosophies, advertise/announce open teaching positions, and keep all members informed about upcoming PDS events. PDS alums are teaching all over the country, so we are seeing many alums benefiting from the connections that are made through our Facebook page."
The PDS Facebook group can be found at www.facebook.com/groups/81560056182/.
"If you are a former PDS intern please join our Facebook group page," Hershey said.
"We also would like to focus on connecting with and supporting current PDS students. Providing guidance and advice throughout their PDS experience is just one of our goals. We are excited about the future of our group and look forward to building upon our ever-growing PDS alumni community."
--by Andy Elder (June 2014)
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Our good friend David Farley recently held a launch party for his book An Irreverent Curiosity. The book is about Farley's adventures in and around Calcata, Italy, a bizarre village famous for once housing a holy relic: the foreskin of Jesus. In the mid-80s, the Holy Foreskin mysteriously disappeared. Farley spent a year in Italy searching for the story behind its disappearance. (It's an amazing book, by the way. It tore me away from Infinite Jest, which is not easy to do these days.)
Anyway. Back to the party! Farley and his wife Jessie—who, incidentally, was my friend way before Farley entered the scene—are friendly with Paulina Porizkova, the supermodel/writer/lovely human being, and she was also at the party. If you've been reading Finslippy for any length of time, you might remember my mentioning that Paulina's mom had been one of my midwives and had, in fact, delivered Henry. The last time I met Paulina, a few years ago, I shared this information with her. Then I got tongue-tied and couldn't think of anything else to talk about, so I backed away, waving and apologizing.
This time I felt a little more confident. Maybe it was all the wine? Hard to say. I suggested to Scott that we talk to her, and he turned this beautiful shade of lavender-gray. I couldn't hear what he was saying but his mouth was moving frantically. I leaned in. He seemed to be pleading with me not to make him go over there.
"Aw," I said. "You're adorable! Let's go—I'll ask her if I can get her picture with you."
"No no no no," he whisper-shrieked. So cute!
"Oh, come now. At least we can say hello! Remember, her mom was my midwife. It's like we're related."
"I am not talking to Paulina. I had her poster on my bedroom wall. I… no. I will not talk to her."
But we were pushed inexorably forward by the party-tide, and soon we were abutting her circle. Then Paulina turned to us. And said hello.
Before I knew what I was doing I was reminding her that her mother had delivered my son Henry, and then I was showing her my iPhone pictures of Henry, and she was appreciating the pictures in a way that someone who has kids knows they're supposed to do. Scott was smiling and smiling some more. Also waving. But at least not apologizing, which I thought was a step forward for us as a couple. We're learning to socialize! It's never too late, kids!
I decided I was going to regale her with our favorite midwife story, which was when Scott accompanied me to a visit and I complained of yeast infections and Paulina's mom directed me never to wash my vagina with soap. (It was funny at the time.) (You had to be there.) As I was talking I realized that in order to communicate the hilarity of this story, which was not all that funny in the retelling of it, I had to 1) impersonate Paulina's mother, and 2) use the word "vagina" an awful lot. And then I became increasingly self-conscious at how much I was saying "vagina" and how the Czech/Swedish/Vampire accent I was affecting sounded a lot like I was just imitating Paulina, and not in a flattering way. I was horrified for me. Paulina looked concerned, but to her credit, she was not scanning the room for possible exits. I don't think Scott noticed what was happening, because while I yammered on he was sketching Paulina on a napkin.
To my credit, I ended the story quickly and also kept myself from telling Paulina how many stitches her mom had put in my hoo-ha. (That's polite code for "vagina.") Actually I never would have done that, because I don't really know. Maybe Paulina knew? Damn it, I should have asked her.
Miraculously, our new best friend managed to steer the conversation over to a more socially acceptable subject, for which I will be forever grateful. For the next twenty minutes or so we talked about our favorite books. The specific question she asked, which I think is kind of brilliant as a party conversation-topic-when-the-other-people-are-definitely-insane, is a three-parter. 1)What's the book you wish you had written? 2) What book do you read when you want something comforting and familiar? And 3) What book do you think everyone should read?
In response, Scott squeaked something about Noam Chomsky, and then he pulled his shirt over his head and flailed his arms about, shouting, "I'm a headless robot!" Or was that something Henry did this morning? At any rate, Noam Chomsky was mentioned. My responses were 1) To the Lighthouse, because I wanted to impress Paulina, 2) Anything by Laurie Colwin, because it's the truth, and 3) The Master and Margarita, because I wanted to impress Paulina. I'm going to have to think about what my real answers to 1 and 3 would be. The impressing-Paulina choices weren't far off, I think. I'm just glad I didn't say "The Big Book of Vaginas!" or "O, Vagina" or something equally off-kilter.
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Custom 5-bedroom cabin on golf course, within walking distance of the lodge and club amenities
There is a king bed with a glass walk-in shower located on the main level. There are two bedrooms on the upper level, one with a king bed and glass walk-in shower, and the other with a queen bed and a glass walk-in shower. In addition, there are two bedrooms located on the lower level. One bedroom has a king bed with a large jetted tub and glass walk-in shower and the other bedroom has two queen beds and a glass walk-in shower. All bedrooms, as well as the kitchen, have their own televisions.
All of the custom, luxury mountain log homes are close to the trails in the adjoining Caribou-Targhee National Forest, allowing easy access to mountain biking and hiking. The resort's 25 meter pool and children's Geyser Land, hot tubs, Fitness Center, tennis and basketball courts are also conveniently located.
Weddings at Teton Springs
Teton Springs Lodge & Spa provides an idyllic setting for the mountain wedding of your dreams. With several venues to choose from, the lodge and surrounding homes can match any style wedding ceremony and reception. We offer unmatched lodging, extraordinary customer service and thorough event planning, all with the picturesque backdrop of Teton Valley. For more information please contact Jay Burke at 435-705-7070.
Corporate Retreats at Teton Springs
We offer a gorgeous and unique setting for your next corporate retreat. With meeting space that will accommodate up to 100 people and a selection of spaces from which to choose, a retreat at Teton Springs will energize and inspire your team. We are happy to cater your retreat to suit your specific group. For more information please contact Jay Burke at 435-705-7070.
Stillwaters Spa
Complemented by pure, clean mountain air, Stillwaters Spa & Salon features a full range of treatments and services as well as a two-person therapy suite, with fireplace. The seven spacious treatment rooms were designed with relaxation and ambiance in mind and the spa provides infinite sensory experiences within a tranquil retreat. Services include massages, body treatments, facials, hair and nail services.
The Headwaters Grill
The Headwaters Grill at Teton Springs Resort offers fresh fare in a spectacular environment. Enjoy your meal in the casual bar, intimate Fireside Dining Room, or on the patio overlooking the award-winning Headwaters Golf Club. Located adjacent to Teton Springs Lodge & Spa, Headwaters Grille is also an ideal venue to host a meeting, special event or gathering. For reservations, please call 208-787-8130.
The Natural Retreats Storehouse
Located on-site, the Natural Retreats Storehouse is a bistro-style café highlighting local products in a relaxed and intimate venue. Breakfast features fresh baked goods and Starbucks Coffee. Grab a boxed lunch on your way out for the day's adventures. When you return for the evening, the Storehouse transforms into a wine bar featuring appetizers and a specialty cocktail menu.
Headwaters Club
Nationally recognized by numerous golf and leisure magazines, the courses of the Headwaters Club at Teton Springs Lodge & Spa were designed in a special collaboration by golf legend Byron Nelson, PGA touring pro Steve Jones and renowned golf course architect, Gary Stephenson. Rolling fairways, well bunkered greens, and spring fed lakes teaming with native trout promise memorable rounds for all.


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Miriam Stark, PhD
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Phone: 956-7552
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General Interests
Current Research
Selected Publications
Courses Taught
Service to Our Communities
I joined the University of Hawai'i-Manoa in August 1995 as a Southeast Asian archaeologist. My B.A. (1984) is from the University of Michigan, and I completed my M.A. (1987) and PhD (1993) degrees from the University of Arizona. My archaeological and ethnographic field experience involves field-based research in several locations of North America (first the Midwest, the sub-Arctic, and the American Southwest), the Near East (Israel and Turkey), and in Southeast Asia (Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia). In 1996 I began co-directing the [Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (LOMAP) in southern Cambodia, and have continued work in this region over the last 12 years. I edited the journal Asian Perspectives, the leading archaeological journal devoted to the prehistory of Asia and the Pacific region, published by the University of Hawai'i Press, from 2000-2006. Since 2007, with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation Initiative in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History, I have directed the Luce Asian Archaeology Program.
General Interests
My current research concentrates in Southeast Asian archaeology, and my archaeological research focus on aspects of political economy and state formation (including economic intensification, regional networks, and landscape approaches). My previous ethnoarchaeological background in the Philippines has stimulated a deep interest in the anthropology of technology, and my ceramic research in the American Southwest and in the Philippines reflects this focus.
Current Research
My current research concentrates in Cambodian archaeology, although I am familiar with and advise students on research throughout mainland and island Southeast Asia. My Cambodian research, undertaken through the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (hereafter LOMAP) and the Greater Angkor Project, involve collaborative archaeological research to study state formation and collapse through field-based archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations. Beginning in the last centuries BCE, the lower Mekong region that we associate with Angkor hosted a sequence of ancient states whose rise, collapse and regeneration form the basis of my research.
See also this time-series map, courtesy of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and the University of Sydney, provides some sense of the region's dynamism.
My Philippines research, begun in 1987 in connection with my doctorate, was a longitudinal ethnoarchaeological study in Kalinga Province (northern Luzon) that examines the relationship between ceramic production and distributional networks among small-scale societies. Substantial technological change has taken place in the Pasil municipality since the beginning of the Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project in 1973 by Dr. William Longacre (University of Arizona). I documented some of these changes during 1987-1988 in the Pasil village of Dalupa as part of my doctoral research. Still more changes in agricultural and domestic technology have occurred in the Kalinga villages where we work since that time: field visits in 1997 and 1999 have investigated the nature and directionality of these shifts. Despite such profound change, pottery-making and pottery use continue to play important roles in the lives of Kalinga villagers in Dalupa and are the source of continuing study for the Kalinga project.
Cambodian Research
I began working in Cambodian archaeology in 1996, when I began co-directing the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (or LOMAP) in collaboration with Cambodia's Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. Work through LOMAP concentrates in the Mekong Delta of southern Cambodia, and seeks to understand the origins of state formation in the lower Mekong region. Between 1996 and 2009, I co-directed nine archaeological field seasons in and around the site of Angkor Borei. Our work blended research with student training. (Click for a podcast that describes "Training Archaeologists in Cambodia" with ThinkTech Hawaii, November 2013) While the primary training emphasis lays in capacity-building for Khmers, more than 50 students from Cambodia, Southeast Asia, and other countries participated on the project as interns, field school students, and volunteers. See these photos from the 2003 Field Session. LOMAP work is also interdisciplinary, and brought together specialists in geoarchaeology, environmental studies, and geochronometry to answer research questions centered on understanding why the Mekong delta was a crucible of early state formation. This region was important from the earliest recorded Chinese accounts of Southeast Asia, and associated with a kingdom that the Chinese called Funan. Research was supported by grants from multiple agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Geographic Society, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Center for Khmer Studies.
In 2010 I joined forces with the University of Sydney's Greater Angkor Project to pursue Phase III of their long-term research program. Under the principal investigation of Dr. Roland Fletcher and Dr. Jeffrey Riegel (University of Sydney), this third and final phase investigates the "demise of Angkor" by studying Angkorian and post-Angkorian period occupational patterning in the Greater Angkor region. More than a century of archaeological, architectural, and art historical research has taken place in and around the Angkor Wat temple and its famous neighbors like the Bayon and Ta Prohm. This literarycorpus is vast and represents the best-documented ancient civilization in Southeast Asia. But archaeological research has, until recently, taken a secondary role to architectural conservation and historic preservation. The Greater Angkor Project is one of several current international projects whose primary goal is to understand the organization and processes by which the Angkorian state grew, fluoresced, and ultimately collapsed.
My work, as GAP III Co-Investigator, concentrates on testing habitation sites throughout the Greater Angkor region. GAP work in Phases I and II focused on documenting the site distribution and infrastructural network (particularly hydraulic systems and communication routes) that undergirded the Khmer state. For historical and conservation-related reasons, very little previous archaeological work has searched for Angkorian-period residential sites (except for outstanding research by Pierre Baty, through INRAP). Our GAP III field research in 2010 and 2012 has tested several archaeological sites for evidence of Angkorian and post-Angkorian period residence (Click for a podcast that reports on the 2010 GAP III season). These include Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm, Chau Srei Vibol, Kok Phnov, Wat Athvea, and Wat Prei Einkosei. I am most fortunate to collaborate closely with APSARA Authority through Chhay Rachna and to also work with a group of talented junior archaeologists (many of whom are still graduate students). Besides myself and Chhay Rachna, GAP III project co-directors includeHeng Piphal and Alison Carter. Participating in GAP III research has enabled me to continue my research and training goals in Cambodia, and has included Southeast Asian graduate students and instructors from other programs including the University of the Philippines, Australian National University, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), and the National University of Laos. (Click for a podcast of Dr. Stark's 2013 lecture entitled, "The Age of Angkor: From the Inside Outward") Our 2013 field excavations in and around Angkor Wat are also generating great interest, thanks in large part to the recent LiDAR imaging of the region (add hotlinks to all those articles). Graduate students who focus on Southeast Asia are welcome to apply to participate in the 2014 archaeological field season; click here to contact Dr. Stark).
Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (or LOMAP)
Southern Cambodia contains a rich yet poorly understood record of early historic period occupation, between ca. 200 B.C. and A.D. 500. Chinese travelers to this region in the third and sixth centuries A.D. described walled and moated cities that housed rulers, elites, and artisans of fine goods such as precious metals, jewelry, and other crafts. Archaeological work at contemporary sites in Vietnam suggests that this area was a thriving economic center in the trade routes that linked India to China by way of mainland Southeast Asia.
In most areas of the world, the transition to history is associated with the appearance of writing. Indigenous writing system first appeared in the early seventh century A.D. in southern Cambodia. Yet foreign accounts suggest that the Mekong Delta housed some of the earliest states in mainland Southeast Asia many centuries before this time. In Cambodia, we know these polities (or states or mandalas) solely through documentary evidence. The Lower Mekong Archaeological Project is the first archaeological project to examine the establishment, growth, and decline of early historic period settlements in Cambodia's Mekong Delta. Work has concentrated in and around the archaeological site of Angkor Borei and it associated Phnom Da temples.
Research by the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project at Angkor Borei has been designed to answer the following questions:
- When was Angkor Borei first settled as an ancient community?
- How did the organization and role of ancient settlement of Angkor Borei change through time?
- How did the settlement and growth of Angkor Borei, as a regional center, affect the natural and cultural landscape of the Mekong delta?
- What evidence exists that Angkor Borei served as an ancient capital of the complex polity that Chinese emissaries described as "Funan" in the 3rd-6th centuries A.D.?
You can find more information on the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project by consulting publications at the end of this webpage; selected articles on the project are also available in the Spring 1999 issue of Asian Perspectives. You can also learn more about the project by reading the attached document which is also available as a document from the Khmer Institute.
Philippine Research
I began my ethnoarchaeological research in Dalupa and the Pasil Municipality in 1987, as a member of Bill Longacre's Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project, through the University of Arizona. I spent the 1987-1988 academic year (and then some!) in the Pasil Municipality, and concentrated my research in the village of Dalupa. Dalupa is a moderate-sized village by Pasil standards, with approximately seventy-eight households and approximately 400 residents. What makes Dalupa unusual for Pasil is that many of its female residents make pottery as a part-time specialization. The Dalupa potters also attracted me to the village, as they humored me throughout the many long months of my interminable interviews, inventories, photographs, and record-keeping.
What I had intended to write as a dissertation on Kalinga pottery exchange transformed into a more holistic study of pottery "economics": that is, the production, distribution, and uses of pottery across the landscape. My research collected useful information on these three domains, and I also pursued related research on household economics, technological change, and social boundaries. Many archaeologists believe that source-side research in societies like the Kalinga provides useful insights and information that can be used to model prehistoric behavior (ARTICLE). Work by many members of the Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project has already been used in these ways, and continues to provide new ideas for archaeologists.
Selected Publications
2008 Stark, M.T., L. Horne and B. Bowser (editors). Cultural Transmission and Material Culture: Breaking Down Boundaries. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2008 (with B. J. Bowser and L. Horne) Why Breaking Down Boundaries Matters for Archaeological Research on Cultural Transmission: An Introduction. In Cultural Transmission and Material Culture: Breaking Down Boundaries, edited by M. Stark, B.J. Bowser and L. Horne, pp. 1-16. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2007 (with J. M. Skibo) A History of the Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project. In Archaeological Anthropology: Perspectives on Method and Theory, edited by J. M. Skibo, M. W. Graves, and M. T. Stark, pp. 93-110. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2007 Skibo, J. M., M. W. Graves and M. T. Stark (editors). Archaeological Anthropology: Perspectives on Method and Theory. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2006 Stark, M.T. (editor). Archaeology of Asia. Blackwell Publishing Inc., Malden, Massachusetts.
2006 Contextualizing an Archaeology of Asia. In Archaeology of Asia, edited by M. T. Stark, pp. 4-13. Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA.
2006 Glaze Ware Technology, the Social Lives of Pots, and Communities of Practice and in the Late Prehistoric Southwest. In The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Transformation in the Late Precontact Southwest, edited by J. Habicht-Mauche, S. Eckert, and D. Huntley. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2006 (with D.C.W. Sanderson and R. G. Bingham) Monumentality in the Mekong Delta: Luminescence Dating and Implications. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 26: 110-120.
2006 Pre-Angkorian Settlement Trends in Cambodia's Mekong Delta and the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 26: 98-109.
2006 Textualized Places, Pre-Angkorian Khmers, and Historicized Archaeology. In Excavating the Relations between History and Archaeology in the Study of PreModern Asia, edited by N. Yoffee and B. Crowell. pp. 307-326. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2006 Early Mainland Southeast Asian Landscapes in the First Millennium A.D. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:407-432.
2006 From Funan to Angkor: Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Cambodia. In After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies, edited by G. M. Schwartz and J. J. Nichols, pp. 144-167. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2004 Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian Cambodia. In A Cultural History of Southeast Asia: From Earliest Times to the Indic Civilizations, edited by P. Bellwood and I. Glover, pp.89-119. Routledge Curzon Press, New York.
2004 (with P. Bion Griffin) Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Management in Cambodia's Mekong Delta: The Search for the 'Cradle of Khmer Civilization.' In Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past, edited by Y. Rowen and U. Baram, pp. 117-142. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
2003 Angkor Borei and the Archaeology of Cambodia's Mekong Delta. In Art & Archaeology of Fu Nan: Pre-Khmer Kingdom of the Lower Mekong Valley, edited by J. Khoo, pp. 87-106. Orchid Books, Bangkok.
2003 (with Paul Bishop, David C. W. Sanderson) OSL and Radiocarbon Dating of a Pre-Angkorian Canal in the Mekong Delta, Southern Cambodia. Journal of Archaeological Science 31(3):319-336.
2003 Current Issues in Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 11(3):193-242.
2003 (with D. C. W. Sanderson, P. Bishop, and J.Q. Spencer) Luminescence Dating of Anthropogenically Reset Canal Sediments from Angkor Borei, Mekong Delta, Cambodia. Quaternary Science Reviews 22 (2003): 1111-1121.
2003 (with P. Bishop, D. Penny, and M. Scott). A 3.5 ka Record of Paleoenvironments and Human Occupation at Angkor Borei, Mekong Delta, Southern Cambodia. Geoarchaeology 18(3):359-393.
2002 Stark, M. T. (consulting editor). The Ancient Khmers. Calliope: Exploring World History 12(5).
2002 (with J. M. Heidke) Early Ceramics in Southeastern Arizona: Technology, Iconography, and Function. In Eureka: The Archaeology of Innovation & Science, edited by R. Harrison, M. Gillespie, and M. Peuramaki-Brown, pp. 345-356. Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
2001 (with Bong Sovath) Recent Research on the Emergence of Early Historic States in Cambodia's Lower Mekong Delta. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 21(5):85-98.
2001 Some Preliminary Results of the 1999-2000 Archaeological Field Investigations at Angkor Borei, Takeo Province. Udaya: Journal of Khmer Studies 2(1):19-36.
2000 (with Ronald Bishop and Elizabeth Miksa) Ceramic Technology and Social Boundaries: Cultural Practices in Kalinga Clay Selection and Use. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 7(4):295-331.
2000 Pre-Angkor Earthenware Ceramics from Cambodia's Mekong Delta. Udaya: Journal of Khmer Studies 1:69-90.
2000 Exploring Archaeology. Carolina Academic Press, Durham. Co-edited with J. Bayman.
1999 (with P. Bion Griffin, Chuch Phoeurn, J. Ledgerwood, M. Dega, C. Mortland, N. Dowling, J.M. Bayman, Bong Sovath, Tea Van, Chhan Chamroeun, and D. K. Latinis) Results of the 1995-1996 Field Investigations at Angkor Borei, Cambodia. Asian Perspectives, 38(1): 7-36.
1999 Social Dimensions of Technical Choice in Kalinga Ceramic Traditions. In Material Meanings: Critical Approaches to Interpreting Material Culture, edited by E. Chilton, pp. 24-43. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1998 The Transition to History in the Mekong Delta: A View from Cambodia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 2(3):175-204.
1998 (with S. Jane Allen) The Transition to History in Southeast Asia: An Introduction. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 2(3):163-174.
1998 (with J. M. Heidke) Ceramic Manufacture, Productive Specialization, and the Early Classic Period in Arizona's Tonto Basin. Journal of Anthropological Research 54(4):499-520.
1998 The Archaeology of Social Boundaries (editor). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1996 (with K. Kvamme and W. A. Longacre) Alternative Procedures for Assessing Standardization in Ceramic Assemblages. American Antiquity 61(1):116-126.
1995 Economic Intensification and Ceramic Specialization in the Philippines: A View from Kalinga. Research in Economic Anthropology 16:179-226.
1995 (with M.D. Elson and J.J. Clark) Causes and Consequences of Migration in the 13th Century Tonto Basin. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14:212-246.
1994 Pottery Exchange and the Regional System: A Dalupa Case Study. In Kalinga Ethnoarchaeology, edited by W. A. Longacre and J. M. Skibo, pp. 169-198. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1994 (with M. Aronson and J. Skibo) Production and Use Technologies in Kalinga Pottery. In Kalinga Ethnoarchaeology, edited by W. A. Longacre and J. M. Skibo, pp. 83-112. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1994 (with C. Kramer) The Status of Women in Archaeology. In Equity Issues for Women in Archeology, edited by M. C. Nelson, S. M. Nelson and A. Wylie, pp. 17-22. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association.
1993 (with E. Charles Adams and Deborah S. Dosh) Ceramic Distribution and Exchange: Jeddito Yellow Ware and
Implications for Social Complexity. Journal of Field Archaeology 20(1):3-21.
(with W. A. Longacre). 1993. Kalinga Ceramics and New Technologies: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective. In The Social and Cultural Contexts of New Ceramic Technologies, edited by W. D. Kingery, pp. 1-32. Ceramics and Civilization VI. American Ceramics Society, Waterville, Ohio.
1992 From Sibling to Suki: Social and Spatial Relations in Kalinga Pottery Exchange. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 11(2): 137-151.
1992 (with W. Longacre) Ceramics, Kinship, and Space: A Kalinga Example. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 11: 125-136
1991 Ceramic Change in Ethnoarchaeological Perspective: A Kalinga Case Study. Asian Perspectives 30(2):193-216.
1991 Ceramic Production and Community Specialization: A Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Study. World Archaeology 23(1):64-78.
1991 (with W. A. Longacre and J. M. Skibo) Ethnoarchaeology at the Top of the World: New Ceramic Studies Among the Kalinga of Luzon. Expedition 33(1):4-15.
1988 (with C. Kramer) The Status of Women in Archaeology. American Anthropological Association Newsletter 29(9):1, 11-12.
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Courses Taught
I teach introductory courses in anthropology (four-field approach) and archaeology. I also teach courses in archaeological theory, including Archaeological Theory and Interpretation, History of Archaeological Thought, The Archaeology of Complexity, Historical Ecology and Landscape Archaeology, Technology and Culture, and Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia. Methods courses that I teach include Ceramic Analysis, Laboratory Methods, Research Design, and Professional Skills in Anthropology. My primary geographic specialty is Southeast Asia; I teach Southeast Asian Archaeology, Asian Archaeology, and East Asian Archaeology.
The Lower Mekong Archaeological Project emphasizes training for Khmer archaeologists, but the project also accommodates a small number of trained archaeology students from western universities (not only American universities) who wish to study Cambodia's past at the graduate level. Opportunities for a variety of research topics - both in the field and in the lab - are available through the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project for students who join the graduate program in the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's Department of Anthropology. The University of Hawaii has one of the most dynamic Centers for Southeast Asian Studies in the country today, and an active commitment to research in Cambodia. Graduate students who pursue Cambodian research at the University find colleagues in a variety of different programs, from Geography and Sociology to Political Science and Historic Preservation. I welcome inquiries from motivated graduates with strong undergraduate records <email@example.com>.
I advise students at the undergraduate, MA and PhD levels who seek to specialize in Southeast Asian archaeology. My recent PhD students have focused on Cambodian, Burmese and Philippine archaeology but I welcome bright and focused students with interests anywhere in the region. I am particularly committed to working with students from Southeast Asian descendant communities and work closely with Southeast Asian students to find funding and success in the graduate program. But I also welcome students of other nationalities who have a strong research focus in Southeast Asia, well-developed work ethic, and a sense of humor. I currently serve on more than 25 graduate committees (most but not all at UH-Manoa) within and beyond the confines of the Anthropology program.
Service to Our Communities
I have served in multiple service roles for my profession at the departmental level (including 7 years as undergraduate advisor) and at the university level (including service for the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies Executive Board, UHM/CSEAS Foreign Language Area Fellowships Committee, UHM College of Social Sciences Research Council). I also engage regularly in service at the national level for both the American Anthropological Association (Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology: 1997-2000) and for the Society of American Archaeology (Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology 1992-1996; Committee on Meetings Development 1996-1999; Committee for Excellence in Archaeological Research and Analysis 1999-2002; and Board Member at Large from 2004-2007). I serve on editorial boards, organize panels and symposia at national and international conferences, and review manuscripts and grant proposals from major organizations. I have just joined the Cultural Heritage Policy Committee (Archaeological Institute of America) for a 2013-2016 term, with a particular geographic focus on Southeast Asia. Such work is critical to stemming the international trafficking in illicit antiquities, which has grown increasingly acute in Cambodia with the rise in popularity of pre-Angkorian and Angkorian art on the international art market. The Koh Ker statue controversy, which burst onto the scene in 2012, is the latest and most egregious example. To understand more about the world crisis in antiquities looting, please consult this blog. To learn about Cambodia's current situation with antiquities trafficking, please consult the HeritageWatch website, an NGO devoted to stopping the process.
The New York Times offers useful background on the ongoing Koh Ker statue controversy involving Sotheby's, as has NPR. The LA Review of Books just published an essay on the current situation. Additionally, I serve in an advisory capacity for the following organizations:
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Sweet legal victory for Ledyard, mayor
Only a few months after his November 2011 election, Ledyard Mayor John Rodolico faced a difficult decision. Should he urge the Town Council to press forward with a high-risk, high-reward lawsuit launched by his predecessors to capture disputed property tax revenues from the Foxwoods Resort Casino? Or should he cut the town's losses and move on?
Mayor Rodolico and the council chose to press on and this week enjoyed a sweet victory that over the long run should broaden the town's tax base and help pay for necessary services.
At issue was the ability of the town to assess and tax non-tribal personal property on the reservation. In particular, the federal case focused on hundreds of slot machines leased by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe for use in its casino. The legal point had broader implications, however, potentially having an impact on the town's ability to assess and tax other personal property in restaurants and retail outlets operating on the reservation.
The Mashantucket tribe made the argument that its sovereign status insulated the leased property from taxation by an outside government. Town lawyers argued that only property owned by the tribe was exempt from local taxation. Indicating the importance of the issues at stake, the tribe had national support from Indian Country, while Attorney General George Jepsen backed Ledyard's position.
In March 2012, soon after Mayor Rodolico took office, Senior U.S District Judge Warren W. Eginton, sitting in Bridgeport, ruled in favor of the tribal nation. Judge Warren issued a summary judgment, concluding the tribe had prevailed on the legal and constitutional questions. Up to that point the town had invested about $900,000 in a legal fight then several years old.
The town's choice to appeal proved the right one. In a unanimous decision this week, a three-member panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Judge Warren. The appellate court found no constitutional or federal law barring a state or town from assessing a tax on leased, non-tribal property.
"In our view, neither the Indian Trader Statutes nor IGRA (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act) indicates congressional intent to bar the tax � the tax is a valid exercise of state authority," reads the Circuit Court ruling. "The ability of a state to apply generally-applicable taxes to non-Indians performing otherwise-taxable functions on an Indian reservation is well established."
In Connecticut all taxing authority, including property taxation by towns, flows from the state.
The appellate court ruling appears well founded, built solidly on precedent rather than breaking any new legal ground. Given that fact and the unanimous nature of the ruling, there is a good chance the U.S. Supreme Court would not take the appeal even if the tribe sought one. An appeal by the tribe would also risk setting a high-court precedent that Indian Country may just as soon avoid. The Mashantucket tribe has yet to indicate whether it will seek a Supreme Court review.
As for Ledyard, Mayor Rodolico said the town will seek to recoup about $500,000 in back taxes and penalties. Going forward, the decision should secure for the town $300,000 a year in tax revenues from nontribal casino properties, a number that could grow with planned retail expansion at Foxwoods.
Montville, home to the Mohegan Sun casino, will assess the impact of the decision as well, said that town's mayor, Ronald McDaniel. The consequences are expected to be far less, however, because taxes are largely being paid now on vendor holdings there.
The cost of additional taxation on vendors is likely to pass through to tribal casino operations, which have seen declines in gaming revenues in recent years. Yet the decision is a fair one. As the circuit court decision notes, "services provided by (Ledyard) include � police and emergency-services functions, road maintenance, education, and trash collection. The town maintains roads to and throughout the Indian reservation, provides emergency services � buses children living on-reservation to schools, and pays for the education of tribal children."
Ledyard residents should applaud this ruling and the decision of town leaders to pursue the appeal. The tribe should accept the court's finding.
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can be purchased from any image on my website. If you just want a simple print that's rolled in a tube, that's great! If you want it framed, we'll do that too! We also sell canvas prints, metal prints, and more. All of our premium papers and canvases are acid-free and, with proper care, will last for generations. Unframed prints are shipped in sturdy 1/4" cardboard tubes and include a 1" white border to allow for future matting and framing. Prints may also be shipped in flat packaging upon request. Pick your favorite art and photography from my website, and a museum-quality masterpiece will be on its way to you within 2 - 3 business days!
Framed prints
are offered in 230 frames and 100 mats which can be used to create museum-quality masterpieces from any image on my site! All framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and arrive "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails. Pick your favorite art and photography from my site, and a museum-quality masterpiece will be on its way to you within 2 - 3 business days!
Canvas prints
are printed on one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars. All canvas prints are shipped "ready to hang" with a hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails. Canvas prints are offered in two different wrap styles, three different border styles, and hundreds of frame options. Pick your favorite art and photography from my site, and a museum-quality masterpiece will be on its way to you within 2 - 3 business days!
Metal prints
are printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick aluminum! The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The wooden frame on the back of the print includes a hanging wire for easy mounting on your wall. All metal prints arrive "ready to hang" with mounting hooks and nails. Metal prints are extremely durable. They're lightweight. They won't bend, and they're water resistant. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
Return policy is very simple, if you're not happy with a purchase, for any reason, you can return it to our print shop partners within 30 days of the order date by calling 877-807-5901 for details. As soon as it arrives, we'll issue a full refund for the entire purchase price. Please note - we do not reimburse the outgoing or return shipping charges unless the return is due to a defect in quality. If you've hesitated to purchase artwork online in the past, why not give us a try? You have nothing to lose!
Wingsdomain.com is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the www, providing over 10,000 hand-selected unique and diversely creative quality Art and Photograph Fine Art prints and custom greeting cards to collectors from all around the world. Subjects include animals, birds, landscapes, cityscapes, floral, architecture, automobiles, airplanes, locomotives, and much more. Artistically presented in a range of colors and styles including the abstract, surrealism, impressionism, pop art, modernism, contemporary, and many more.
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Effective September 1, 2004, state agencies will be given authority to establish and update account code information through Departmental Accounting under the "AA" function. Requests to process account code information will no longer need to be submitted to the Bureau of Accounting, with the exception of cash control accounts. Requests to process cash control account code information should continue to be submitted to the Bureau of Accounting. Agency Access Control Custodians will need to contact the FLAIR HELPDESK to obtain the required security access.
Procedures for updating account code information under the "AA" function can be found at www.dbf.state.fl.us/dishelpdesk/education.html. Click on Account Code Function (AA) on the left side of the page to begin the update process. Agencies will need to retrieve through the Report Distribution System (RDS) the Agency Add Account Code Error Report (RDS Form ID XXEY) and the Agency Add Account Code Pending Approval Report (RDS Form ID XXEZ). Instructions for obtaining these reports can be found on our website in the Account Code Request Function Instructions (Pages 20 through 24).
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Emmy-award winning composer and electric violinist Mark Wood, a founding member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, performs with the LIU Post Orchestra and Choir, along with students from local schools, as part of his groundbreaking-music program, Electrify Your Strings! Along with his band, The Mark Wood Experience, Wood brings the ensembles together for a comcert that includes the music of Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Beatles, and his original compositions. Wood's wife, vocalist Laura Kaye, and his 17-year-old son, drummer Elijah Wood, also perform.
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Gambia: Press releases
Gambia: Education in the Gambia - the Sky is the Limit
The Government, under President Yahya Jammeh, embarked on a massive capital investment program to provide education to all children, at least nine years of uninterrupted basic education. This marked the beginning of an unparallel expansion of the school system, resulting in not only a major increase in the number of schools, but also the transformation of the entire education system.
Gradution Ceremony of UTOG Students; Provision of School Facilities
Within the framework of government's development of educational infrastructure, 2000 classrooms have been constructed from 1994 to 2000 from 1994 to date.
The number of senior secondary schools has increased from 49 in 2005, so that about 60% of primary school pupils now transit to senior secondary schools as opposed to only 20% in 1993. The number of lower basic schools has also increased, from 250 in 1993 to 340. Similarly, there are now 81 upper basic schools, instead of 22 previously. And the introduction of basic cycle schools in 2000 has resulted in the establishment of 43 such schools.
Taking Education to Every Child's Doorstep
In the continuing quest for universal primary education, government also collaborates closely with international partners and stakeholders to reduce the educational cost burden on parents. Thus, tuition is free for all pupils from grade 1 to 6. Scholarships and sponsorship schemes, particularly for girls, have been expanded significantly. For instance, the President Jammeh Foundation, the Girls Education scholarship Scheme and the Angels Trust Fund have made education relatively "free" for all girls in the country from basic education level to senior secondary school level. To offset undesirable imbalances, the Angels Trust Fund equally supports boys in disadvantaged areas. Importantly, the Jammeh foundation generously extends sponsorship to students at tertiary and university level, and the indications are that such initiatives will be pursued and sustained to ensure that quality education is taken to the doorstep of every Gambian child unhindered.
The conventional wisdom in The Gambia, can even after the coming of the Second republic, was that the country could not afford to set up its own university. The myth was broken when the government decided to take the bull by the horns and founded the University of The Gambia. It is heartening to note that, barely ten years later, the University has graduated 312 students in diverse fields of specialization, thus contributing to the much needed, trained resource base. And only last month, nine out of the first batch of twelve medical students graduated from the School of Medicine and Allied Sciences. This is a magnificent achievement, and the university continues to grow and develop.
In light of the rate of progress in the education sector, and the qualitative improvements being realized, despite the constraints common to all developing countries, it is reasonable to believe that The Gambia has the capacity to develop her human resource base adequately enough to precipitate sustained development, marked by an acceptable quality of life for its citizenry. Thus the popular statement by President Jammeh that "the sky is the limit for education" is certainly not mere rhetoric but well-conceived, development slogan that is judiciously being translated into action.


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Based on the novel by author Jonathan Safran Foer, director Stephen Daldry's post-9/11 drama follows the journey of a nine-year-old boy as he attempts to solve a family mystery. Two years after his father is killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks, the curious boy discovers a mysterious key hidden in a household vase and begins an exhaustive search for the matching lock. Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock star.
Cast List
Nic Ratner
Steven Kirshoff - Special effects, FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2, ANGELS IN AMERICA
Chris Menges - British Director Of Photography/Director, THE BOXER (1997)
Eric Roth
Richard Styles - American Actor
Pamela S. Westmore
George DeTitta Sr.
Alexandre Desplat - Composer
Francois Duhamel
Skip Lievsay
Paul Urmson
Jennifer Lane
Ivana Primorac
Stephen Daldry - BILLY ELLIOT
Wade Eastwood
Blaise Corrigan
Gerard McCann
Janine Rath-Thompson
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Stephen Pope
Margie Durand
Jonathan Safran Foer - Source Writer, EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED (2005)
Mark Hawker - Special Effects
Deb Dyer
Chris Clark - Key Hairstylist
Thomas Place
Katherine Miller - Music Editor
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Madison Arnold - Actor, FINAL (2001)
Gustavo Brens
Martin E. Brens
Sandra Bullock - American actress, MISS CONGENIALITY, CRASH,
Sandra Annette Bullock - American actress, MISS CONGENIALITY, CRASH,
Zoe Caldwell - Actor, LILO & STITCH (2002)
Diane Cheng
Catherine Curtin
Hazelle Goodman
John Goodman - American Film/TV Actor
Raymond Iannicelli
Adrian Martinez - Actor, TAXI (2004)
Max Von Sydow - Swedish actor, director, THE EXORCIST
Max von Sydow - Swedish actor, director, THE EXORCIST
Jeffrey Wright - Actor/"Basquiat"
Tom Hanks - Oscar-winning actor/director/producer
Thom Hanks - Oscar-winning actor/director/producer
Sam Kaufman
Lola Pashalinski
William Youmans
Jim Norton - Supporting Actor
Paul Klementowicz - Actor, SQUANTO: A WARRIOR'S TALE
Viola Davis - Actress, NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, FAR FROM HEAVEN
John Joseph Gallagher
Kit Flanagan - Star/ DEAD SILENCE (1998)
Stephen Kunken
Malachi Weir
Kate Levy
David Latham - Editor, THE PRESIDENT'S MAN
Bernadette Drayton
Brooke Bloom
Rene Ojeda
Eva Kaminsky
Stephanie Kurtzuba
Bryse Gregory
Gregory Korostishevsky
Marty Krzywonos
Carmen M. Herlihy
Lorna Pruce
Thomas Horn
Stephen Henderson - Star, A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Dennis Hearn
Julian Tepper
Caleb Reynolds
Ryka Dottavio
Chloe Roe
Marco Verna
Brandon Jeffers
Henry Morales-Ballet
Jenson Smith
Miguel Jarquin-Moreland
Benjamin McCracken
Kim Rideout
Chloe Elaine Scharf
Christopher Hardwick - Actor, ;
Clayton James Mackay
Bailey Grey
- Format: DVD
- Color Format: (unknown/unconverted)
- Genre: Drama
- Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
- Release Date: February 2015
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"If Horn is the film's diamond in the rough channeling Oskar's sorrowing and searching, yearning and regretting, Von Sydow is its buried treasure." - 12/23/2011 Los Angeles Times
4.5 stars out of 5 -- "It's an emotional powerhouse of a film, an unforgettable and rewarding motion picture experience." - 12/20/2011 Box Office
"Solidly crafted, impeccably acted....Von Sydow is splendidly restrained and moving." - 01/19/2012 Rolling Stone
"[A] piercing story: Here's a tale that compacts the grief of an entire world, country, city, and thousands of loved ones left behind into the pain of one vulnerable, fictional boy." - 01/06/2012 Entertainment Weekly
"EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE tells the story of an 11-year-old boy named Oskar Schell, who is played by the gifted and very well cast Thomas Horn." - 01/18/2012 Chicago Sun-Times
"[A] surprisingly engaging adaptation....The movie's chief strength, its saving grace, is the passionate portrayal [by Horn]..." - 01/01/2012 Film Comment
3 stars out of 5 -- "[D]irector Stephen Daldry has crafted an adroitly involving, emotionally intense experience....Horn gives a fierce performance..." - 04/01/2012 Total Film


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On March 13, 2008, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel presented Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Education. In response to a Panel recommendation, the U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences, hosted the first National Math Panel Forum on October 6-7, 2008. The Forum brought together various organizations and other interested parties to use the Panel's findings and recommendations as a platform for action.
Reports To learn more about the 45 recommendations and findings see the National Math Panel's final report and accompanying reports.
Parent Resources A summary of the relevant findings of the final report is now available in English PDF (406K) | MS Word (77K) and Spanish PDF (409K) | MS Word (83K).
Teacher Resources Doing What Works is a research-based tool for teachers including how to apply the Math Panel's findings in the classroom, and offers lessons that build over time.
Outreach Materials For a summary of the findings and recommendations, check out our Brochure PDF (104K), Poster, and Fact Sheet. Order paper copies of the brochure or poster at the Department's online publications ordering center. (For the brochure, search for ED004345H. For the poster, search for ED004459R.)
Final Report Briefing Final Report Briefing - Larry R. Faulkner, Panel Chair, led a briefing on the report's principal findings and key messages. Check out the PowerPoint Presentation .
Questions? If you have questions or need any assistance with these documents in an alternative format, please contact the National Math Panel Outreach Staff at email@example.com.
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Posted on September 5, 2012
Tomorrow we begin to celebrate the Newberry's Quasquicentennial: tat's our 125th anniversary, if you have failed to follow along so far. It is the 125th anniversary of the day the Newberry first opened its doors, and, if you happen to be in the neighborhood around 9, you can watch them open again.
I have not heard anything concrete about the opening of NEWBERRY QUASQUICENTENNIAL: THE MUSICAL, which was one of a number of ideas we tossed around during some of the brainstorming sessions which led up to this multi-month celebration of things Newberry.
Therefore, I suppose they're still trying out the play off-Broadway. So you wouldn't mind if I offered up an opening number, would you? (If you would, you can always go over and read the genealogy blog, which has not yet been set to music.
Twitter and TV and Facebook are calling us,
Giving alerts of the wonders befalling us;
Gossips are buzzing in tones that are thoroughly
Cheerful, expectant and just a bit squirrelly;
Everything's bright with a festival attitude:
What has Chicagoans thrilling with gratitude?
Ask people what's up in town and most any'll
Say it's the Newberry's Quasquicentennial!
It's our Q!
We'll tell our story!
Things on view
Reveal our glory!
Manuscripts, racing tips (from the Ben Hecht Collection)
Some risque locked away for your own protection.
It's our Q!
Our favorite letter!
We dare you
To find a better!
Find yourselves rolling shelves,
Rand McNally's Little Elves,
The Popul Vuh, at our Q!
Man alive!
Sing of our birthday!
Show what we're worth day:
Every nook holds a book of honor and tradition:
Moby Dick three feet thick (That's the condensed edition!)
A celebration!
Take a dive
Through information!
Families' pedigrees
Tintypes showing Granny's knees:
They still survive: 1-2-5!
Submitted by Marilyn Scott on September 5, 2012 Permalink