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In 1348, the Black Death, the most devastating epidemic in European history, swept across the continent. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75), at the beginning of his famous Decameron, describes its effects on his city, Florence. Many people just dropped dead in the street. Others died in their houses, often unattended by their families. Husbands and wives, fearing infection, sat and prayed in separate rooms. Mothers walked away from their children and closed the door. In the words of a new translation of the Decameron (Norton), by Wayne A. Rebhorn, a specialist in Renaissance literature at the University of Texas, the Florentines
carried the bodies of the recently deceased out of their houses and put them down by the front doors, where anyone passing by, especially in the morning, could have seen them by the thousands. . . . When all the graves were full, enormous trenches were dug in the cemeteries of the churches, into which the new arrivals were put by the hundreds, stowed layer upon layer like merchandise in ships, each one covered with a little earth, until the top of the trench was reached.
Shops stood empty. Churches shut down. An estimated sixty per cent of the population of Florence and the surrounding countryside died.
And so begins the Decameron. Seven young ladies, friends—Pampinea, Filomena, Neifile, Fiammetta, Elissa, Lauretta, and Emilia—meet after Mass. They range in age from eighteen to twenty-eight, and they are all of genteel birth. Let's get out of here, Pampinea, the eldest, says. Let's go to our country estates. The other women say that they'd love to, but they think they should bring some men along. Soon, they assemble three gentlemen linked to them by kinship or by affection—Filostrato, Dioneo, and Panfilo—and the ten young people decamp at dawn for the countryside.
They agree on a routine. In the morning and in the evening, they will take walks, sing songs, and eat exquisite meals, with fine wines, golden and red. In between, they will sit together and each will tell a story on a theme set for the day: generosity, magnanimity, cleverness, etc. They will stay together for two weeks. Two days must be devoted to personal obligations, and two to religious duties. That leaves ten days. Ten tales times ten days: at the end, they will have a hundred stories. That collection, with various introductions and commentaries, is the Decameron.
Boccaccio wrote the book between 1348 and 1352, when the values of the Middle Ages (valor, faith, transcendence) were yielding to those of the Renaissance (enjoyment, business, the real). The Middle Ages were by no means over. Boccaccio's young ladies do not assemble in real meadows, where bugs might crawl up their dresses. They gather in ideal fields. Birds sing; jasmine perfumes the air. The animals don't know to be afraid of humans: little rabbits come and sit with the young people. This is the locus amoenus, or "pleasant place," of ancient and medieval pastoral poetry. It is a sort of paradise, and that is what it is based on: Eden.
Social relations, too, are idealized, and imbued with the conventions of medieval courtly love. The Decameron has not just one frame—the young people in the countryside—but two. In the outer one, Boccaccio speaks to the reader directly. He is writing this book, he says, for ladies afflicted by love: "Gracious ladies," "amiable ladies," the narrators begin. And, whatever the day's theme, love figures prominently in perhaps nine out of ten tales. As in the songs of the medieval troubadours, love ennobles you. In one story, a young man known locally as "stupid ass" no sooner falls in love than he begins to dress elegantly and to study philosophy.
Boccaccio was not a noble; he was one of the nuova gente, the mercantile middle class, whose steady rise since the twelfth century the nobles feared and deplored. Boccaccio's father, Boccaccino di Chellino, was a merchant, and he expected Giovanni to join the trade. Giovanni was born illegitimate, but Boccaccino acknowledged him. When the boy was thirteen, Boccaccino moved from Florence to Naples to work for an important counting house, and he took his son with him, to learn the business: receive clients, oversee inventory, and the like. Boccaccio did not enjoy this work, and so his indulgent father paid for him to go to university, to study canon law. Boccaccio didn't like that, either, but during this time he read widely. (The Decameron is, unostentatiously, a very learned book.) He also began to write: romances in verse and prose, mostly. With those literary credits, plus his father's contacts, he gained entry to Naples's Angevin court, whose refinements seeped into his work. He later said that he had never wanted to be anything but a poet. In Naples, he became one, of the late-medieval stripe. These were the happiest years of his life.
When he was in his late twenties, they came to an end. Boccaccino had business reverses. He and Giovanni returned to Florence, which, at that time, was the capital of Italian mercantilism. And so, from the exalted realm of court manners and medieval allegory, Boccaccio dropped down into a milieu of calculation and ambition and realism—of merchants, after a day's work, sitting around the fire at an inn, with their boots on the grate, talking business and trading stories. The young man no doubt recoiled, and then, eventually, he acclimated. Indeed, on the evidence of the Decameron, he came to love this rough-and-tumble world. The majority of the tales are about people of the merchant class, and the skill they most feature is the one most prized by that class, ingegno: cleverness, wit, thinking on your feet. Only on four of the ten days is cleverness the declared theme, but many stories told on the other days are also about that. Boccaccio still liked gentlefolk, especially highborn ladies, with cheeks like roses, but it is in their commentaries on the tales—and, for the most part, only then—that the Decameron becomes boring. The proles are what give the book its richness and humor and vital force.A famous tribute to ingenuity is the story of Peronella, told by Filostrato. Peronella spins wool for a living, and her husband is a stonemason. She is pretty, and soon she has a lover, Giannello. One morning after the husband has gone to work, Peronella and Giannello are enjoying each other's company when suddenly the husband returns. There is a barrel in the house, and Peronella tells Giannello to hide in it. When the husband enters, she begins loudly berating him:
What's the story here? Why have you come back home so early like this? It seems to me, seeing you there with your tools in your hands, that you want to take the day off. If you carry on like this, how are we going to live? Where are we supposed to get our bread from?
Calm down, the husband says. We've had a windfall. See that barrel over there? Well, he just sold it for five silver ducats. Call off the deal, Peronella says. She has sold the barrel for seven ducats, and the man who bought it is right now inside the barrel, checking its condition. Out pops Giannello, claiming that the inside of the barrel needs to be scraped if he is to buy it. The husband climbs in and goes to work. Peronella leans over the top of the barrel and gives him orders: "Scrape here, and here, and over there." As she bends over, Giannello, whose business with Peronella that morning had been interrupted, lifts her skirt from behind. After the three have finished, simultaneously, Giannello pays the husband the seven ducats and, in a lovely, tart last sentence, gets him to take the barrel to his house.
What Peronella and Giannello are up to as the husband cleans the barrel is Boccaccio's other main theme: unfraught sex, of a kind that has probably not been wholly comprehensible to Western people since the Reformation. Today's audience can perhaps understand the adultery that is rampant in the Decameron, especially since, at that time, most marriages were still arranged by the families. And modern readers can probably also sympathize with the young people in the Decameron who claim that they have a right, by reason of their age, to bed whomever they can. But many readers, however amused, have also been taken aback by tales like Peronella's, and the Decameron overflows with such material. This is probably the dirtiest great book in the Western canon.
Some of the unchaste are punished. Tancredi, the prince of Salerno, discovering that his daughter is having an affair with one of his valets, orders that the man be strangled, and his heart cut out. He then puts the heart in a golden chalice and sends it to his daughter. She unflinchingly raises the bloody organ to her mouth, kisses it, puts it back in the cup, pours poison over it, drinks, and dies. There are other terrible conclusions—defenestration, decapitation, disembowelment—but they have a certain élan, as in Jacobean tragedy. Most important, the miscreants feel no guilt. There may be sorrows, but not that sorrow.
Even less do unpunished lovers feel remorse. They often live happily and, despite their former inconstancy, faithfully ever after, either meeting frequently or even, by some means, marrying. Boccaccio writes of one couple, "Without ever paying attention to holy days and vigils or observing Lent, the two of them had a jolly life together, working away at it as long as their legs could support them."
The dominant notes of the Decameron are this realism and cheer and disorderliness, but, whatever you say about the book, something else arises to contradict you. Though Boccaccio insists on Renaissance earthiness, he makes room for elegant medievalisms. The young people often join hands and do the carola, a circle dance born of the Middle Ages. They also, now and then, between tales, deliver long, ornate speeches, full of medieval rhetorical flourishes. You may weary of these refinements and long to get back to the nice, rude tales, but the tension between the two modes is fundamental to the Decameron.
Another conflict has to do with religion. The young people sometimes make ardent professions of faith. Yet Boccaccio is not afraid of blasphemy—at one point, he refers to a man's erection as "the resurrection of the flesh"—and there is almost nothing he insists on more than the corruption of the clergy. They are stupid and lazy. Your wives are not safe with them. They smell like goats. In one story, the merchant Giannotto di Civignì tries to get his Jewish friend Abraham to convert to Christianity. Abraham says that he must first go to Rome, to observe the clergy and see if they lead holy lives. This worries Giannotto. He fears that Abraham will discover how debauched the priests are. And that is exactly what happens. Abraham, returning home, reports that the Roman clergy are all sots, satyrs, and sodomites. Then he invites Giannotto to go with him to church, where he intends to be baptized. If the Roman church survives, he says, despite the debauchery of its representatives, then it must be endorsed by the Holy Spirit, and he wants to join the winning team.
Boccaccio's message about the clergy is perhaps not truly double—faith is not the same as its representatives—but his attitude toward women is genuinely puzzling. Women are absolutely central to the Decameron, and they are resourceful, direct, and frequently saucy. In the words of the medievalist Thomas Bergin, woman as "victim of man's lust, exploited, betrayed, and abandoned, who has contributed so many pathetic pages to world literature is simply not found in the Decameron." These ladies have a long afterlife. To cite just the most famous of them, there would be no Rosalind in "As You Like It," no Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing" without the precedent of Peronella and her sisterhood.
Yet women are also repeatedly defamed in the Decameron. They are "fickle, quarrelsome, suspicious, weak, and fearful." (It is a woman, Filomena, who says this.) They are tirelessly lustful. Strong men may imperil their health by trying to fulfill their sexual demands. So, in order for life to proceed calmly, women must submit to men and, above all, be chaste—the very thing that Boccaccio's heroines so seldom are. Those who do not obey their husbands should be beaten. (Again, this is a woman speaking.)
In support of that view, Boccaccio ends his book with what has become the famous story of "patient Griselda." Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo, has no wish to marry, but his subjects pressure him. So he takes, as a wife, a peasant girl, Griselda. In time, Griselda gives birth to a daughter and a son. Both babies are taken away from her, with the strong suggestion that they will be put to death. Griselda makes no protest. So Gualtieri tightens the screw. He declares that he needs a noble wife, not a peasant. Stoically, Griselda returns to her father's house, leaving even her dresses behind, since she feels that they belong to her husband. Soon Gualtieri calls her back, saying that he needs her to oversee the preparations for the wedding. "Gualtieri's words pierced Griselda's heart like so many knives," but she agrees. On the wedding day, a boy and a girl appear whom Griselda does not know. Gualtieri introduces the girl as his bride-to-be. Griselda praises her. Finally, Gualtieri can go on no longer. He tells Griselda that the boy and the girl are her children (he had them brought up by kinfolk in Bologna), and that he is taking Griselda back, more beloved now: "I wanted to teach you how to be a wife"—that is, submissive.
Hearing this, Gualtieri's courtiers all declare that he is "very wise," if harsh. Yet the tale's teller, Dioneo, finishes by saying of Gualtieri that perhaps "it would have served him right if, instead, he had run into the kind of woman who, upon being thrown out of the house in her shift, would have found some guy to give her fur a good shaking and got a nice new dress in the bargain." Readers will no doubt agree, but what, then, does the story mean?
Such contradictions have led a number of critics to describe the Decameron as amoral. Erich Auerbach, the revered literary historian, says that, as soon as Boccaccio touches on anything tragic or even problematic, the book becomes "weak and superficial." There is some truth to this. Many of the stories of day ten, featuring people who become famous for their magnanimity, are uninteresting and even ridiculous. Griselda is in this group. So is the story of two friends in ancient Rome, Titus and Gisippus, each of whom vies to be crucified in place of the other, for a murder that neither committed. Moved by this spectacle of altruism, the real criminal confesses, whereupon Titus takes Gisippus home and gives him half of everything that he owns, plus one of his sisters.You could say that Boccaccio erred only when he ventured out of his home territory: realism. That was the opinion of Alberto Moravia: that Boccaccio's values were those of an artist, not a moralist. The sheen on the Decameron, Moravia wrote, derives precisely from the book's indifference to ethics, its exclusive focus on the facts. In Boccaccio's tales, the world is
like the tiny natures mortes, corners of landscapes, and background-figures of some of our fourteenth-, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century painters. Action, pure action, without intended meaning or ethics, gains depth, lucidity and mystery from those details that no amount of serious moral intention could give it.
Think of the little towered cities, and the villages, with shepherds and sheep, in the far distance, behind the Virgin Mary or St. Francis or whomever, in Renaissance paintings. Love of the world: these painters had it, and so, Moravia says, did Boccaccio.
What if happiness, including sexual happiness, were itself a moral virtue? In the Middle Ages, acedia, spiritual torpor or gloom, was regarded as a sin. You were supposed to love God's world. And the wealth of things and people and incidents in Boccaccio's book—the flowers lifting their faces to the sun, the merchants' ships flashing across the seas, the nuns taking turns having sex with the gardener in the tool shed—are a warrant of his love. Boccaccio's characters, Moravia says, are so particular and lively, it's as if he were jealous of them.
Happiness may also foster tolerance—toward Jews, for instance (see the story of Abraham), and women (most of the time). Such open-mindedness is a subdivision of a general spirit of good will in the Decameron. The duped husbands don't suffer much. One example is the story of Ferondo, a wealthy peasant. The local abbot, finding Ferondo's wife attractive, gives him a sleeping potion, claps him in a dungeon, and goes to woo the wife. When Ferondo wakes up, a monk instructed by the abbot tells him that he is in Purgatory, and then beats him to a pulp. This goes on twice a day for almost a year, at which point Ferondo's wife becomes pregnant by the abbot. Ferondo must therefore be brought back. That is accomplished, and Ferondo tells the neighbors how he was in Purgatory, and what it was like. They all ask him how their relatives are doing there, and he makes up wonderful stories, which they believe. He is now an important man in his town. The wife and the abbot still get to rendezvous occasionally. Everyone is content.
Finally, the high spirits of the Decameron have political force. They help make the book proto-democratic. Boccaccio probably wasn't trying to raise the humble. Yet, because he clearly liked these people, he did raise them. Most of Boccaccio's compliments to ordinary folk are in the form of language—for example, his bright, piquant presentation of their slang. They seem to have a hundred lovely metaphors, with a donkey or a bucket or whatever, for everything in life. And, however improper the goings on in the Decameron, the language is almost never filthy. An instructive companion volume to Rebhorn's Decameron is the recent "Fabliaux" (Liveright), translated by Nathaniel E. Dubin, and described by R. Howard Bloch, in the introduction, as the first substantial collection of fabliaux, in any language, for today's general reader. Fabliaux are comic tales, in verse, composed between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries, typically in northern France. Most of them are anonymous. They are, Bloch writes, the "first important expression of European literary realism"; they tell us how the citizens of that period actually lived—how they ate and dressed and slept and did their hair. Most of the tales also describe, not politely, how people had sex, and dealt with bathroom matters. Glancing down the table of contents of Dubin's volume, we find the following titles: "The Knight Who Made Cunts Talk," "The Piece of Shit," "The Mourner Who Got Fucked at the Grave Site," "The Peasant's Fart." The words used here have not been adjusted to conform to modern immodesty; the translation is literal. In "The Piece of Shit," a man actually eats one, though it's his wife's, and small.
This is fun, until you get tired of it. A fuck is always a "fuck," regardless of what was presumably one episode's difference from another. Likewise, the sentence structure is paratactic: ABCD. The knight said such-and-such; then the peasant said such-and-such; then his wife said such-and-such. To this, Boccaccio is like a castle to a cave. He is probably Western literature's foremost master of sexual euphemism. His lovers grind at the mill; they give the wool a whacking; they make the nightingale sing. Boccaccio does this not because he is abashed by his material but because, as an artist of language, he would be ashamed to say "fuck" five times in one story. Even more intelligent is his syntax. Because the knight said such-and-such, the peasant said such-and-such, even though his wife had previously said such-and-such. This is the kind of sentence structure that was handed down to us by Latin, and that Western people, whether or not they ever studied Latin, recognize as their own.
Italians before Boccaccio had written prose in a sophisticated form. Dante was the first truly distinguished practitioner, but his monumental work, the Divine Comedy, is written in verse, not prose. "Art" fiction in prose took centuries to come of age, because medieval writers, like the ancients, considered prose inferior to verse for the purposes of imaginative literature. Today, it is the primary medium of literary writing: novels, short stories. In Italy, the pioneer of that change was Boccaccio. In the words of one critic, "It is no exaggeration to say that Boccaccio almost by himself established the Italian language as an effective and supple medium for prose."
The other remarkable feature of Boccaccio's language is that, while its structure may be inherited from Latin, the words are Italian. In his time, many educated people still regarded the language of everyday life as too rough a medium for an ambitious piece of writing. Most literary works were in Latin. In Italy, the banner-carrier in the campaign against this policy was, again, Dante. The Divine Comedy was written in the Florentine dialect. Boccaccio worshipped Dante—he gave the name "divine" to the poem that Dante called, simply, the "comedy"—and eagerly followed his example. Others, in turn, copied him. More and more books were written in the common tongue and (as was not the case with Dante) about commoners. From that seedbed grew the idea that the lives of ordinary people could be described in literary language, and thereby ennobled.
Rebhorn's translation of the Decameron is a thoughtful piece of work, with populist intentions. He believes that Boccaccio's Latinate syntax, with its cargo of subordinate clauses and phrases, cannot be reproduced fluently in modern English, so he sometimes breaks up a sentence. Again with a concern for the common reader, he has tried to make the slang sound natural, and he succeeds. His slang is dated, though ("muttonhead," "tuckered out"). Also, he repeatedly runs into the problem of having to combine low language with high. Of a woman who is being pursued by a man she dislikes, he writes, "Finding his constant prodding an intolerable burden, the lady decided to get him off her back." In literary English, or any English, no intolerable burden would be joined, in one sentence, with getting someone off your back. It should be said, though, that Rebhorn, in his endnotes, explains his decisions. He tells us a lot more as well. When Boccaccio describes a baker, Cisti, whose shop was next to the Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Ughi, Rebhorn tells us that in 1300 there was, in fact, a baker named Cisti, whose shop was situated there. He relays the going wisdom: Genoese are misers; Florentines are sly; Perugia is full of homosexuals. He explains the jokes. In one story, there is an ugly man named Scannadio. In the notes, we find out that the man's name means "he slits the throat of God." A lot of this information we didn't need, but it is in endnotes, not footnotes. We don't have to read them. We should, though. They are a secret message, about Rebhorn's love of the Decameron, and the years and years of work he spent on it.
Rebhorn's translation, of course, is not the only one in print. In 1977, Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella, both of whom are now distinguished professors emeriti at Indiana University, brought out a version that, unlike Rebhorn's, does not bend over backward to make things easy for the reader. In their introduction, they proudly tell us that they have not hacked up Boccaccio's periodic sentences into prose "reminiscent of the style of Ernest Hemingway." Nor did they make Rebhorn's effort to modernize the old, idiomatic vocabulary. They translate compare as "godfather"—that is, the man who stood up for you at your baptism, and said that you would abjure the Devil and all his works—which is not at all what Boccaccio meant. He meant "goombah," as in northern New Jersey. Rebhorn renders it as "good buddy," which, as usual with his slang, is out of date but accurate.
But the most important point about this version is that it is heavily abridged. It has only twenty-one tales out of Boccaccio's hundred. It also deletes most of the material between the tales: the tellers' introductions and commentaries, and the descriptions of how the group played the viol, took nice naps, and so on. Without this context, not to speak of the missing tales, one loses much of the flavor—indeed, much of the meaning. And yet, this is the version I would recommend to many readers. A hundred stories is a lot of stories. (Rebhorn's book is more than nine hundred pages long.) Musa and Bondanella have carefully chosen the best tales—Abraham's trip to Rome, Peronella with the barrel—and also the most important. Patient Griselda is in there. Furthermore, this version, as one of the excellent Norton Critical editions, includes a number of the most intelligent essays on the Decameron. Among them is "An Introduction to Boccaccio" (1975), by Thomas Bergin. This is one of those critical essays that are almost better than the thing they're about.
Five years after this short version, Musa and Bondanella published an unabridged translation, but since, therefore, they sacrificed the virtue of brevity, and, to accommodate the added material, dropped the Norton edition's critical essays, this book has no real advantages over Rebhorn's. If you want just a sample of the saltier side of the Decameron, the quality for which it is most loved—or if you are teaching an undergraduate survey of Italian literature—use Musa and Bondanella's abridged edition. If you have more time, and want the true, mixed, fourteenth-century book that Boccaccio wrote, choose Rebhorn.
In 1350, as Boccaccio was writing the Decameron, he met Petrarch, who at that time was the most famous writer in Italy and the foremost Italian representative of Renaissance humanism, the return to ancient values and ancient literature that in some measure unleashed the High Renaissance. Under Petrarch's influence, Boccaccio became ashamed of the Decameron. Musa and Bondanella, in the abridged translation, reproduce parts of the two men's correspondence. In one condescending letter, Petrarch says that he hasn't had time to read the portions of the Decameron that had come his way. Actually, he writes, he hasn't taken the time, because this book seemed to him a product of Boccaccio's youth, and of a quest for popular readership. In other words, they weren't worth his time. He did, however, like patient Griselda. He translated the story into Latin and showed it to friends of his. They wept, he says.
In the last period of Boccaccio's life, the post-Decameron years, he lived on a small family property in Certaldo, a town outside Florence, which may have been his birthplace. Like his father, he never married, but he produced a number of illegitimate children. He complained of having no money—possibly with reason. He went on some diplomatic missions for the government of Florence, and he produced a number of reference books, in Latin. He never again wrote a substantial piece of prose fiction.
In the thirteen-fifties, just after the Decameron, he underwent a religious crisis. By 1360, he had taken holy orders. It is said that he wanted to destroy the Decameron—that he thought it was a frivolous and dirty thing. Yet, a few years before his death, he copied the whole manuscript out in his own hand. (This is the version used by all modern editors and translators.) So he seems to have had some residual pride in this book. Furthermore, he could never have taken the Decameron out of circulation. It was already famous.
Boccaccio is a premier example of that rare species, the one-great-book great writer. I see the Decameron as a picture, with the ten elegant Florentines, in their silk gowns and embroidered doublets, joining hands and dancing their lovely circle dance, the carola. And in the middle of the circle are monks and merchants and painters and prostitutes eating dinner and having sex and kicking one another into ditches. In other words, we see the Renaissance embraced by the Middle Ages, like a planet orbited by its moons. It is a beautiful sight, and also strange. We see it from afar. ♦


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Spend a week away from politics, and who knows what will happen in the Republican primary race?
That's what Jon Stewart found out Monday, anyway, returning to "The Daily Show" after a week-long break.
"What the hell, America? I leave you alone for one week; I expect you to go a little crazy — maybe have a party, maybe invite Mexico over, draw a penis on Canada's head while it's sleeping, maybe grab a camera crew informing individuals somebody they love died… but making this guy the frontrunner?!"
By "this guy," Stewart meant, of course, Rick Santorum, who's risen sharply in the polls since his triple projected win in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri last week.
It's not the first time Stewart's expressed his incredulity at Santorum's surges.
A while back, he mocked the fickle GOP voting base's interest in him with a memorable, gooey chocolate-box metaphor.
Check the clip of Monday's show below.

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Windermere has one of the most recognizable brands in the Pacific Northwest. But when it comes to innovating online, the Seattle real estate company has been forced to play catch up to fast-moving upstarts like Estately, Redfin and Zillow.com. Windermere is setting out to change that through Windermere Solutions, a new entity formed on January 1st and led by former Microsoft and Visio manager Brett Eddy.
Tucked on the fourth floor of Pioneer Square's Commuter Building, Eddy is leading the charge to not only revamp the public facing portion of Windermere's Web site, but also the back-end tools that will help the company's more than 7,000 agents do their jobs in a digital era. It's a huge bet for the 39-year-old real estate company.
Since the beginning of the year, Eddy has hired close to 50 people at Windermere Solutions, drawing talent from companies like Microsoft, Amazon.com and AT&T. And the CTO is still looking to hire even more, half-jokingly saying that he'll buy lunch for any Seattle area Ruby developer.
"We've grown like weeds, and we have some people sitting three to a desk," said Eddy, who joined the company in August before it was even formed.
In Eddy's first interview, GeekWire got an exclusive look at Windermere's plans to reinvent itself online. Visitors to the site will start to see major changes in the design, navigation and social media functionality by the end of this year, a huge overhaul which Eddy admits "is a big deal."
"We are replacing the site with a modern Web framework so we can have a robust platform that's much faster than what we have today and enables a lot of the top-tier features that are kind of expectations these days. And then we are making some investments on things that don't exist yet," he says.
Eddy is a charismatic technologist who bleeds Windermere blue, noting that it is his goal to help the real estate company "gets its technology mojo back."
"There have been a couple of chapters where Windermere has really been on the cutting-edge of real value, but something has really shifted in the last four or five years," explains Eddy, pointing to the rise of heavily-funded companies like Redfin and Zillow. "It is not just how do we compete with other real estate brokerages. It is a different game now."
Eddy is focusing on getting Windermere back into that game. And his playbook includes focusing on the people — the agents who make up the real estate firm.
"What we haven't done the best job of in the past, and we are fixing that now, is investing in technology that really empowers those agents," said Eddy. "Because we consumers, we go house shopping and we have this massive amount of data."
With Zillow, Trulia, Redfin and others, Eddy says that home buyers and sellers don't really need more data. What they need today is something, he believes, Windermere has in spades: a trusted brand and experienced agents.
And with agents now using smartphones and tablet computers and social media tools like Facebook and Twitter, Eddy said it is his goal to help "bubble up" the data in compelling ways.
"It is significantly more than just a great Web site," he said. "It is about helping the communication between the agent and you, the buyer, or you, the seller."
Eddy was reluctant to disclose exact plans. In true stealth-mode fashion, he showed a few mock-ups of the new Windermere Web site but did not allow GeekWire to take photos.
But there are some areas where the company is spending a lot of time innovating, and one of those is mobile. Eddy said that many real estate companies — including Windermere — have been late to the game when it comes to mobile. (The company, for example, doesn't have its own iPhone app).
The amount of data now available — combined with mobile platforms that are now location aware — makes real estate, more than ever, a business where people need to be able to react on the go in the moment.
"This is an industry that is really being changed, and we are watching it right now," he said.
Windermere Solutions has a different feel than many startups, in part because of the investment from the corporate parent. It also has a dual mission — not only building tools for Windermere agents and brokers but for the larger real estate community as a whole.
Eddy declined to disclose the amount of money that's been invested into the entity, but it is a substantial amount given the growth plans over the past four months.
Windereme Solutions' first goal is to strengthen the online relationships between the franchise owner and the agents. Eddy notes that the job of the agent has gotten more "complex" in recent years, and it is his goal to package data in a way that makes it easier for them to be more relevant to home buyers and sellers.
One idea is to create real-time communications between the agent and his or her clients, with Eddy pointing specifically at ways to incorporate social media tools into the equation. (He declined to offer specifics on what that would look like).
Windermere has a big platform — albeit an outdated one — on which to operate. The company's Web properties attract about 1.2 million visitors per month.
But even though Windermere has established itself as a major player in real estate over nearly 40 years, the company has challenges ahead.
After all, Eddy is the first to admit that changing the culture of an established organization is not an easy thing to do.
Eddy said that Windermere is currently wrestling with that cultural question. But he said there's a big commitment by the company — through Windermere Solutions — to make the transition to the digital world.
"We were a little bit behind the game in investing in technology. And now that's fixed," he said. "We are back at it."
John Cook is co-founder of GeekWire. Follow on Twitter: @geekwirenews and Facebook.


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Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
Students will also need to know how to login to the course, find the quiz, and submit it. This sounds simple, but many students need reassurance that they will be able to master the technical skills to take an online course.
How the activity is situated in the course
Content/concepts goals for this activity
- attendance
- point values of various parts of the course
- rules for plagiarism
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity
Other skills goals for this activity
- Using the course platform
- Submitting the quiz
Description of the activity/assignment
This quiz is part of the first unit of the course. The text of two examples quizzes is below, and of course you would want to change the questions and answers to reflect the policies and important points of your own course.
Self Test: Course GuidelinesCorrect answers are in italics.
Attendance in this course is
- optional
- required three times a week
- required once per week
- required once per module
- does not count toward the grade
- counts for 10% of the overall course grade
The most valuable part of the course in terms of point value is
- written assignments
- discussions
- final project
You may contact me by
- sending a private message
- using the course email
- using private email
- using Skype
- arranging a time to talk on the phone
- all of the above
Answers to the written questions at the end of each module
- should be based on the textbook only
- can be answered by pasting in text from Wikipedia
- can be answered with information from a combination of the textbook and credible web sites
Pasting in text from a web site to answer written questions is
- a great time-saver
- OK if it's from a credible or a recommended site
- allowed if you give credit to the author
- explicitly not allowed, and will result in zero points being awarded
Answering written questions using text that is verbatim (or nearly so) from the textbook is
- helpful if it answers the question exactly
- OK if you put quotations around the text
- explicitly not allowed, and will result in zero points being awarded
True or false: Answers to written assignment questions have to be composed entirely in your own words.
- True
- False
If you use information (not exact text) from the textbook or web sites to answer written assignment questions, you need to
- be thankful that you found the answers
- give the URL of the website and the page number from the textbook
The best way to earn a high grade in the discussions is to
- post a lot
- write posts that contain relevant content
- post something you think the instructor will agree with
Writing a discussion post that is based on your opinion
- can be a good way to jump into the discussion
- is especially relevant if you have direct personal or professional experience with the topic
- is not worth as many points as a more substantive post that you researched from other sources
- should not be the only type of post you make
- all of the above
If you don't like science you should
- suffer through this course and hope for a C
- try to change your personality so that you do like science
- understand that even though this is a science course, it mostly deals with aspects of everyday life that most people find to be quite interesting
Example Syllabus Quiz
Mel Huff, Geology & Environmental Science Faculty, NEO A&M College
Correct answers are in italics.
Feel free to change the answers to fit your particular course. In addition, I change the questions from semester to semester if the previous class had struggled understanding or remembering part of the syllabus. These questions are the ones that I repeatedly get asked throughout each semester, even though the answers are stated in the syllabus as well as other locations in the course.
1. How often should you log into this class?
- Once a month or less
- Never
- At least once per week
- Every few weeks or so
2. I will be able to turn in late homework.
- True
- False
3. I will be able to make up an exam.
- True
- False
- True
- False
5. How will exams be taken?
- Via D2L
- We don't have exams in this class
- proctored
6. I don't have to respond to EVERY discussion
- True
- False
7. How will labs occur? (select all that apply)
- We don't have labs for this class
- We will meet during 2 Saturday sessions to do labs
- Lab is optional for this class
- I will download instructions and do labs on my own
8. What is the purpose of the tentative schedule listed at the end of the Syllabus?
- To keep me on track for finishing the course
- So that I have an idea of what we will be covering
- I have no idea
- It has no purpose
9. Which of the following will you be able to drop one of? (select all that apply)
- homework
- lab
- discussion response
- exam
(I also add in a few short answer responses and have them name some things that are environmentally friendly or geological in nature (depending on the course) just to get them thinking about the class.)
Teaching Tips
Adaptations that allow this activity to be successful in an online environment
This assignment replaces the first day of class when you jump up and down and reiterate how important it is that students know the course policies.
Elements of this activity that are most effective
The effectiveness of a syllabus quiz depends on the students' abilities to remember information and pick out what is important. I have used my quiz for several years. For the most part, I believe it is very effective (even in a face 2 face class) as it forces students to focus on the points I have deemed most important. That said, I still get a few students asking if they can make up an exam, for example. When I remind them about the rules in the syllabus, generally their response is that they have a hard time remember what rules/syllabus go with each course. It is my opinion that students in an online course know and remember the rules a lot better.
Recommendations for other faculty adapting this activity to their own course:
Obviously you can adapt this quiz to the particulars of your own course. I change the questions from semester to semester if the previous class had struggled understanding or remembering part of the syllabus. These questions are the ones that I repeatedly get asked throughout each semester, or ones that students get surprised by.
Determining whether students have met the goals
- A syllabus quiz is ideal when it is self-grading and students receive instant feedback.
- If possible, set up the quiz so that they may take the quiz as many times as needed to get all the questions correct.
- Some faculty do not score the quiz; others may elect to have the quiz grade count so that students take it more seriously.
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- Example Quizzes: Syllabus Quiz I (Microsoft Word 33kB Jun28 10) Syllabus Quiz II (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 47kB Jun30 10)


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Computex: AMD Introduces Brazos 2, Stakes Claim for "Ultrathin" Notebooks
Proving that Intel isn't the only player in x86-based Windows "ultrathin" notebooks, AMD this morning introduced its new E-series of accelerated processing units (APUs), known as Brazos 2.0. It showed off systems running both this processor and the recently announced second generation of its A-series processors, known as Trinity.
President of AMD Greater China David Tang opened the Computex press conference by talking about the importance of Taiwan as an ecosystem for building computers and the huge Chinese market, highlighting a number of its system partners.
Lisa Su, AMD's general manager of global business units, talked about three big trends: The consumer is in control, this is the age of acceleration (meaning the company's APU strategy of combining graphics and processors), and the expanding ecosystem including AMD and its partners in the hardware, computer assembly, and software industry.
Above: Lisa Su, AMD's general manager of global business units
Next, she discussed the APUs, starting with the second generation A-series (Trinity), which will add better graphics and can work in a variety of form factors. Compared with the previous generation, known as Llano, it offers twice the performance per watt, up to 29 percent better CPU performance, and 56 percent better graphics.
The E-series processors offers up to 12 hours of battery life, which is considerably better battery life than the Intel equivalent, and she showed charts with better battery life than Intel's Pentium B940 and Celerona B800. For the A-series, a 17 watt, BGA version of Trinity allows up to ten hours of battery life.
The demos focused on graphics and video and how AMD's graphics features allow for better performance than Intel's integrated graphics in its new Ivy Bridge systems. Su showed AMD's Steady Video feature for removing jitters in video, and then AMD's John Taylor showed a comparison of the Dirt driving game, running far better on an AMD A10-based system compared with an Intel Ivy Bridge system.
Su said the company has twice as many software developers committed to optimizing its programs for the AMD processor than a year ago, highlighting VLC Player and WinZip. A demo showed Adobe Photoshop CS 6 using Open GL-accelerated filters much faster on an A10 powered desktop than on a Core i7 Ivy Bridge one. Another demo showed MotionDSP's vReveal using GPU acceleration to improve the appearance of a video.
Steven Guggenheimer, Microsoft's corporate vice president in charge of OEM relationships, spoke about how the company has worked with AMD on supporting APUs and on Windows 8.
AMD wants to allow for a range of systems, not limited by specific specifications (a knock on Intel's rigid Ultrabook definition), and Su said it allows a wider range of systems, from the only quad-core ultrathin notebooks to very slim designs. She also showed off one hybrid design, including a Compal 20mm-thin notebook with an 11.6-inch display where the keyboard detaches to turn it into a Windows 8 tablet.
AMD CEO Rory Read addressed the cloud, giving an animated speech in which he held up the A-series chip and called it "one beautiful chip." Read spoke on how the company's partners are driving innovation. As he did at the company's recent analyst day, he talked about the importance of consumerization, cloud computing, and convergence.
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APUs are the difference for AMD. Read said the Brazos line sold 30 million units in the first year, making it the company's most successful product ever. He focused on "the next two billion customers," who will want the best video, gaming, and mobility. "We don't want to follow," he said, but instead, the company wants to partner with innovative companies that want to change the future.
Rather than showcasing individual products, Read introduced a "form factor parade," showing notebooks from Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba. Some of these looked quite thin, while others were a bit thicker, but as group, they were designed to showcase the breadth of systems available.


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Lake Como
Lake Como is a pre-alpine basin formed by an ancient glacier. It is Europe's deepest lake (1,350 feet). It is 30 miles long, 2 1/2 miles at its widest point. The city of Como lies at the southwestern leg, while Lecco occupies the southeastern end.
Como and its Surroundings ( Cernobbio )
For its picturesque beauty, elegant restaurants, luxury hotels and stylish shops this is the favourite place of international tourists. Como is an attractive town offering lots of activities: culture, art, sport entertainment, shopping and a sophisticated atmosphere all round.
From Como to Menaggio
Luxurious gardens, elegant villas, nice restaurants can be discovered in the fascinating small villages that dots this part of the lake.
The centre of the lake The Larian Triangle
The picturesque tourist towns of Menaggio, Bellagio and Varenna are located one in front of the other in the three opposite branch of the lake. They are famous for their historical villas and charming views.
Varenna (located on the east branch of the lake) offers an excellent train service (1 hour to reach Milan). The freeway easily connects to Lecco and Milano (1 hour drive) while the other tourist lake resorts can be easily reached by ferry.
Bellagio is situated on the promontory that divides the lake in two branches of Como and Lecco; both roads connecting to Como and to Lecco are narrow and winding for this reason we suggest to reach Bellagio by ferry.
From Menaggio to Colico the north part of the lake is more quite and simple, far from the sophisticated touristic destinations this area offers charming little villages set in pebbled or sandy shores where you can enjoy the regional specialities in simple family-run trattorias.
Many sports activities can be practiced in Lake Como such as sailing, water skiing, canoeing, golfing (3 golf courses in the area), trekking horse riding.
Trip Highlights in Lake Como
Patrician Villas, gorgeous botanical gardens, Romanesque churches, and picturesque villages can be admired in magnificent scenery on the lake-shores.
Recommendable sightseeing:
In Bellagio Villa Serbelloni and its Park, Rockefeller Foundation, Villa Melzi D'Eril and its Gardens, Villa Trivulzio, Villa Trotti, Villa Giulia.
In Tremezzo Villa Carlotta with Botanical Garden and Azaleas Spring, Sculptures of Canova and Paintings of Hayez.
In Ossuccio Villa Maria and Villa La Carlia.
The Comacina Island and the historic "Villa Balbianello" one of the most extraordinary places of the Lake, with a nice park and the memories of the Explorer Giacomo Monzino, the last householder.
In Varenna Villa Cipressi and the artistic Villa Monastero, now a Congress Seat.
Como the town, the shops, the cathedral, the cafes, everything is enchanting.
The Piona Abbey with its Romanesque-Gothic cloister, founded in the Middle Ages by the French Monks of Cluny.
Lugano (to cross the Swiss border you will need your passport)
And also...
Museum of Silk - The whole silk manufacturing process is displayed at the Silk Teaching Museum in Como, the unique one in Europe that shows the complete cycle, from worm farming to painting and pressing.
Moto Guzzi Museum - The Moto Guzzi Museum in Mandello del Lario is one of the most legendary collections of motorcycles in the world.
Lake Boat Museum - in Pianello Lario is the most interesting Museum of boats and sailing: it exhibits more than 160 boats of different ages and typologies that have made the history of Navigation and Trade on Lake Como, throughout the centuries.


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AMERICUS, Ga. - One ended up being the lucky number Wednesday evening as the Georgia Southwestern men's soccer team picked up their first victory of the 2012 season as the 'Canes shut out Brewton-Parker College 1-0 at Hurricane Field.
After a scoreless first half, the Hurricanes punched in what proved to be the game winning goal in the 66th minute of the second half. Freshman forward Michael Corrigan took a pass from sophomore forward Joshua Manga on the right wing scoring over the outstretched arms of the Brewton-Parker keeper.
The Canes held on to the one goal advantage for the rest of the match despite BPC holding a 17-6 shots advantage, including a 7-2 SOG advantage, on the night.
Corrigan, who finished with a team high four shots, scored his third goal of the season for the Hurricanes. He is now tied for 8th in the conference in goals scored. Manga recorded his first assist on the season while senior goal keeper Cade Jones had a good defensive effort on the night with seven saves.
GSW improves to 1-3-1 on the season while Brewton-Parker drops to 2-3-1. The Blue & Gold hit the road for a two game road trip starting with a Peach Belt Conference match up against Lander University at 3:30 p.m. this Saturday followed by a Sept. 19 trip to Georgia Gwinnett.


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Surrounded by the coconut palms you will find your own Phuket paradise at Kamala Beach Resort. The resort features 42, 35.5sqm Deluxe Ground Terrace Rooms, 162, 35.5sqm Deluxe Sidesea View Rooms, 101, 44sqm Grand Deluxe Pool View Rooms and 15, 44sqm Grand Deluxe Back View Rooms.
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The arrest of nine American Airline workers accused of smuggling drugs provides stunning new evidence of major holes in airport security.
The Puerto Rican workers were able to put an estimated 322 suitcases onto American Airlines flights to Miami and New York without anyone knowing what was inside the bags, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report.
Investigators said the bags were filled with cocaine, but counterterrorism experts say they fear they could have easily contained something more dangerous to the people aboard the flights.
"This is not just drugs that are coming into our country, this is a big hole in our homeland security," said A.J. Irwin, a former U.S. Customs agent who headed a joint terrorism task force for the Justice Department.
Irwin said terrorist groups have shown an interest in compromising airline employees, who could be co-opted or even bribed to place packages on flights without knowing what's inside them.
Eight years after Sept. 11, 2001, airport workers are still not screened the same as passengers. At most airports, they enter through separate doors, where they are rarely checked with metal detectors or X-ray machines. Some workers can even drive trucks onto the tarmac through checkpoints often staffed by private security companies, not the government.
"I've always wondered why they would be held at a different standard than what we would be," said passenger Sherri Turpin. "What's the point of all the TSA regulations and rules if they can smuggle over 300 bags?"
The Transportation Security Agency argues that screening every employee each day would take too much time and money.
"Airport employees come and go through access points multiple times a day and sometimes dozens of times a day, and for us to do a physical pat down of every single employee would basically stop the flow of commerce," TSA spokeswoman Andrea McCauley said.
McCauley said the agency checks airline workers to make sure they're not on the terror watch list, and the agency sometimes runs random checks at employee entrances to keep workers guessing.
At large airports, workers can often avoid random screening because of the large number of employee entrances. There's almost always another gate or door where the TSA is not looking.
Critics say workers should be treated just like passengers.
"That type of security needs to be applied on the tarmac and to airline employees as well," Irwin said.
In Puerto Rico, the American employees used a maintenance worker from another company to drive the drug-filled suitcases through an employee entrance, according to the DEA report. Once on the tarmac, he would apparently hand them to baggage workers involved in the operation, who would put them in the cargo hold on the planes.
The DEA report notes with interest the fact that the private security guards at the gate apparently never challenged the worker who brought the drugs into the secure area.
The arrests have since prompted the Puerto Rico Port Authority to announce steps to tighten security at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport after meetings involving the FBI, TSA and port authority officials.
Investigators said the men were able to run the drug-smuggling operation for 10 years without being caught.


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It's just one phrase in the latest board minutes but, given the restrained language of central bankers, it leaves no doubt about the role of Joe Hockey's first budget in subduing the economy.
Sitting around the table two weeks ago, the RBA board members decided the budget's impact on the economy over the next "couple of years" would be similar to previous episodes of fiscal consolidation. However:
"Beyond that horizon, the budget implied a more substantial fiscal consolidation than had earlier been projected."
While the politics and general commentary remain consumed by the details of this or that individual policy, the RBA is concerned about the big picture impact on the economy – and that, along with resources construction falling away, is keeping interest rates steady "for some time yet". I'd suggest "some time" has become longer since the budget.
It doesn't suit politicians to spell the impact of fiscal policy on the economy and employment. There may or may not be good reasons to shrink government's share of the economy, but better to give the impression that the forecast slowing of GDP growth is all the fault of resources construction slowing. The RBA isn't so restrained.
On several occasions in the latest minutes, the RBA reminds readers of the impact of deficit reduction while the private sector remains soft. The RBA confirms its earlier forecast that the year to the end of March was as good as it's going to get, at least until the year after next, which is a long way off in forecasting terms.
In the very short term, the budget has already been felt by the economy:
"Following strong growth in January, growth of the nominal value of sales had slowed over the three months to April, and the Bank's retail liaison suggested that growth had moderated further in May."
Basically, the big retailers have quietly told the bank (before most of them tell the ASX) that sales were down last month. Yet the RBA is wary of paying too much notice to the immediate budget-induced dive in consumer confidence:
"Measures of consumer sentiment had fallen sharply over the past month and were now below their long-run average levels. However, it was noted that while low-frequency movements in confidence measures had been broadly associated with trends in consumption spending, there was little evidence from the historical record that high-frequency movements carried much predictive content."
While the jury is out on that for now, fiscal policy will nonetheless have its way with growth:
"The expectation of substantial falls in mining investment, below-average growth of public demand and non-mining investment remaining subdued for a time implied that the pace of growth was likely to be a little below trend over the rest of this year and into the next."
RBA heavies have previously noted that public demand growth had been running at about half of what has been normal. The budget forecasts it will fall to about a quarter. And public investment as a share of the economy, already at its lowest level in at least three-quarters of a century, will be lower again in 2014-15.
Which all leaves the RBA dealing with uncertainty by leaving monetary policy hanging loose:
"Low interest rates were working to support demand, although it was difficult to judge the extent to which this would offset the expected substantial decline in mining investment and the effect of planned fiscal consolidation. Those uncertainties were likely to take some time to resolve."
As the government tries to meld the political cycle and the economic cycle then, the outlook is for a worse 2014-15 before some recovery in 2015-16 setting up a 2016-17 election budget – with the tighter fiscal contraction starting to bite thereafter.
Michael Pascoe is a BusinessDay contributing editor
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Week 1: January 4-10: Recovery week & Travel
I am finally "officially" training for Ironman Lake Placid!!! I kicked off the new year with a 9 mile run on the Boston Marathon Course, a challenging computrainer hill class at FastSplits and 5,000 yards at the annual Miles for Marley charity swimming event hosted by my masters team, Cambridge Masters Swim Club. It's funny to me that I am now officially training, when my schedule for the month of January doesn't differ all that much from the past few months! The good news is that I have a great base to build off of, so I should be in good shape to slowly build by 5-10% over the next few weeks. My main focus for training is staying healthy and enjoying the process. In an effort to do so, I will be taking a cautious and conservative approach.
One key component of enjoying the process this year is staying positive and surrounding myself with positive people who understand my journey. I have an amazing cheerleader in my coach, Kim Webster. My husband is unbelievably supportive, and is excited for me through this journey – I am so lucky! I also have many friends from Boston Triathlon Team, but many of my friends, family and coworkers fall into the category of "Non-Athletic Regular People" aka NARPs who just shake their head and tell me I'm crazy. These comments are not exactly motivating! This craving for positive reinforcement while Ironman training is a big reason I want to document the journey on this blog, instagram and facebook. Thank you in advance for your advice and support!
Monday: Key intensity ride Tunnabora on TrainerRoad 1 hour, 13 miles
I had planned on getting up early and doing this one before work, but my body was craving more sleep. So, I had to do this one after work, luckily I had the time. This workout was 5×7-minute sets of decreasing then increasing watts (88-94% FTP) in 1-minute steps to allow cadence changes over the course of each form interval. It also included 3×2-minute ILT (Isolated Leg Training) steps within the warmup and recoveries between intervals. If you use TrainerRoad, I highly recommend this workout. It was a lot of fun and constantly gave me something to focus on, so I never got bored.
PT Session – 1:30. I am working on functional core strength since I noticed this fall that my right side was extremely weak compared to my left. I also have piriformis issues and my chronic L5 disc issue. My hope is that all of these exercises will help stabilize the back so it's not a problem for me on July 24, 2016!
Tuesday: 4,000 yards at Cambridge Masters Swim Club
I just love this group so much. What an awesome way to start the day. So much love for my swim ladies!
Wednesday: Key Endurance Ride 1:15 Collins on TrainerRoad & 20 minute durability run
In an effort to get in as much cycling as possible before heading out to Colorado, my schedule was front loaded with cycling before I left I completed an endurance ride and a quick 20 minute "durability run", these runs are crucial for building consistency so I can run a marathon after a 2.4 mile swim and 112 mile bike!
Thursday: Day off for travel
I arrived in CO to crazy snow storms, luckily I was able to upgrade my rental car to an SUV which saved my life! Even still, it is crazy to me that CO doesn't plow roads other than main arteries. What do people without 4-wheel drive cars do?!
Friday: Quick 30 minute spin on the hotel bike
This was a tough one for me. The snow was absolutely dumping in Denver and made it impossible to complete a run outside. I then tried to make plans to swim with my friend Katy, who recently moved to Colorado, but we couldn't find a pool that would accept non-residents. What the?! Next time a little planning on my behalf would have worked better. Luckily I was able to get a quick spin in at the hotel gym and then it was off to Bachelorette festivities.
Saturday: 8 Miles on the Boulder Creek Path
Unable to sleep and still on east coast time, I decided to head out to the Boulder Creek Path to get an 8 mile long run in. The path was a bit icy at times, but it was breathtaking and incredibly scerene. Everytime I went around a corner and the mountains came into view I freaked out. I had to back off my normal "E-Pace" (also known as Z1, Aerobic pace for long runs) due to the altitude, but I felt significantly better than I had anticipated. Special thanks to the Rockies for some awesome running scenery.
Seriously, I would run on this path EVERYDAY if I lived here!
Then the bachelorette festivities included a afternoon at the spa, time to hang around and catch up and then a delicious sushi dinner finished off with Karaoke! Super fun, but I was pooped! Since my normal wake up time is 4:30-5am at home, I just couldn't sleep in while I was in CO. Unfortunately, I didn't go to bed at my normal time so I was exhausted the entire time!
Sunday: day off for travel
I was up again before the rest of Boulder woke up and started the day with some coffee with one of my best friends, Courtney. I really would have loved to have gotten a quick workout in, but leaving Boulder at 9am and arriving back at home at 6:30pm, I was exhausted. I crashed early and slept like a baby!
Weekly Total:
1 hour of swimming (4,000 yards)
2:47 biking (28.8 miles)
10 miles running
1 hour of strength/PT/core
Total: 6:29 of training
Not the most consistent week that I was hoping to kick off training with, but it was the best that I could put together despite traveling.
Week 2: January 11-17
This week I was eager to get all of my workouts in and have a green week on trainingpeaks! I find turning those "boxes" on my schedule green to be so satisfying and red boxes to be extremely frustrating. I'm trying not to sweat it and just focus on consistency, which is the goal for training!
Monday: Regeneration ride on TrainerRoad 1:00
It felt great to spin the legs out and catch up on TV. And detoxing! I usually like to go "booze free" to detox from holiday gatherings laden with sugar and alcohol, but given the timing of the bachelorette party I didn't really have that luxury during the first week of training! I celebrated detox by having sparkling water in a wine glass 🙂
Tuesday CMSC masters 3,900 yards, Key intensity ride 1:15 Langille on TrainerRoad
Great mid-distance practice with lots of 100's and 200's. I'm feeling very strong in the water which is fantastic. It's always good to feel strong in your favorite sport! In the evening I completed Langille on Trainerroad, a 1:15 workout. Langille is 3×10-minute intervals in the Threshold power level at 95-99% FTP with 6-minute recoveries between intervals. These intervals are bookended by stretches of Endurance work that will end up giving you 75 minutes of ride time.
Wednesday: Strength/PT and 20 minute Durability Run
Thursday: mini strength session and Key intensity run 4.5 miles
It's so great to feel noticeable improvement when doing these core, glute and hamstring exercises
Friday 4,600 yards CMSC
Tons of lactate threshold swimming which was SO tough! Thank goodness for active recovery.
Saturday 1:40 FastSplits Trainer Class
Riding with my ladies, Kristen and Meg, both of whom are doing Lake Placid!
Luz Ardiden in the Pyrenees – WOW this was hard! AC/DC "Highway to Hell" came on during a brutal 20 minute stretch and it made everyone laugh. These classes are such great workouts and I love the camradare between all of the athletes. The majority of the class was at 95-105% FTP as we climbed a mountain. By the end I was completely toast! In the afternoon Rob and I cheered on the New England Patriots to victory!
Sunday: 9 Miles & 45 Minutes of Strength
I started the day off with a Sunday Group Run with BTT in South Boston 9 miles, followed by brunch at our wonderful host's home! It was great to be in the old neighborhood and running my the ocean. That is what I miss most about Southie! Then I finished out the weekend with 45 minutes of strength and PT exercises.
Weekly Total:
2 hours swimming (8500 yards)
3 hours and 55 minutes biking (54.6 miles)
2 hours and 39 minutes of running for 16 miles
1 hour and 55 minutes of strength
10:28 swimming, biking, running and strength & PT
MUCH better week and all of my boxes were green on training peaks, YEAH! Not having to scramble and also not having to travel really helped me nail this week's workouts! Unfortunately it is short lived as I have travel coming up with a quick work trip to Texas!
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Sanford noted that seven collections were released through the company, but an eighth, Rock 'N' Roll Cartoon History: The Sixties, "remains unpublished." When the partnership was announced in 2009, it was intended to produce 10 repackaged volumes, released on a bimonthly basis.
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In a follow-up to his weekend announcement, Allen told Bleeding Cool, ""The Bluewater deal was never about money. The comics reprinted by Bluewater had already made massive profits two decades ago. By reprinting, we got to treat several of the original creators to some unexpected contemporary swag above and beyond their original contracts, as well as reviving awareness of the "brand" thanks to Bluewater footing the bills and doing the promotions. Now that the Bluewater books and the documentary film and DVD have gotten Revolutionary Comics some modern day cred and attention, Todd Loren's father and I would rather handle any and all future repurposing of the RevCom material."


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One hundred fifty years later, grapes again played a significant role in Anaheim's history as the franchise celebrated its first ever Stanley Cup championship by guzzling chilled champagne from the bowl of Lord Stanley's Cup.
On the evening of Tuesday, June 5, the Stanley Cup made the 2,789-mile excursion from Ottawa to Anaheim, flying first into Los Angeles and then was driven to Anaheim. The Cup remained at its hotel, getting polished and preened, until mid-way through the first period, arriving at the Honda Center towards the end of the first period with the Ducks already up 2-0. As the score mounted, the Stanley Cup was kept tucked away in the officials' room by Cup Keepers Phil Pritchard and Craig Campbell of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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The seconds dragged like decades for both teams; Ottawa just wanting the buzzer to sound to be released from the agony while Anaheim was anxious to begin their celebration. Just then, the Ducks' Corey Perry leaned into a slapshot that wired past Emery on his stick-side. There was no doubt at that point the Stanley Cup was going to reside in Orange County. The capacity crowd remained on its feet. With ten seconds left, Chris Pronger carried the puck behind his net.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere looked up at the scoreclock and saw that there were two seconds remaining and threw his stick into the air. As Pronger picked up the historic puck, the Ducks, led by Ryan Getzlaf, mobbed their star goalkeeper to the side of his crease.
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Nina Dobrev was born on January 09 1989 at Sofia in Bulgaria a Canada celebrity actress and a design model. She was well known for her role as a Mia Jones in the film Degrassi:The Next Generation.She also was in an MTV film known as The American Mall on CTV. She is currently featuring in The CW's drama The Vampire Diaries, enjoying the double action role called Katherine Pierce
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