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Social Good Summit Announces 2013 Dates, #2030NOW Theme
Global Convening From Sept. 22-24 Imagines What Our World Can Be 2030
New York, NY
July 1, 2013
Megan Rabbitt
From September 22-24, the fourth annual Social Good Summit – a unique convening of world leaders, technology pioneers and grassroots innovators – will explore how today's use of digital technology for social good can build a better future. With 92nd Street Y in New York City as its base and introducing this year's theme, #2030NOW, the summit will facilitate a global conversation and lively debate on the world we want in 2030 and how we unleash the next generation of innovation to make it a reality.
A unique mix of notable speakers will share their visions for the future. This group includes individuals such as:
· Pete Cashmore, Mashable
· Helen Clark, UNDP
· Dr. Jim Yong Kim, World Bank
· Michael Roth, Wesleyan University
· Hans Vestberg, Ericsson
· The Climate Reality Project
· Zeenat Rahman, State Department
· Astronaut Ron Garan, NASA
· Ian Somerhalder, RYOT & actor
· Jack Andraka, Youth cancer researcher
· Sarah Kramer, New York Times
This year's summit will include creative new features to maximize engagement, such as an increased number of meet ups around the world to take place alongside the summit and prominent experts serving as Keynote Listeners. The first class of Social Good Summit Keynote Listeners will be announced in July.
Registration for the global event is now open at www.socialgoodsummit.com.
Building a Brighter, Shared Future: #2030NOW
The Social Good Summit will take place as the UN General Assembly convenes for its annual meeting. This year's theme, #2030NOW, will challenge participants to imagine the world we want in 2030 and share solutions, lessons learned, and ideas about how technology and social media can help create it. #2030NOW builds on the UN-led process to craft a post-2015 development agenda that will follow and accelerate progress on the Millennium Development Goals.
Summit participants will support the UN's long-term goals by focusing on the following question: Will the solutions we are creating in today's digital world truly have a lasting impact on our future and how are we paving the way for the next generation of innovation? Whatever global challenges we face, we know that quick and simple fixes are not always the best for deep-rooted problems. #2030NOW will confront the status quo of social media and social change by forcing participants to think about how to take technology and innovation to the next level.
A Growing Global Conversation
This year's Social Good Summit will extend across the globe, reaching more communities than ever before. Last year, people in more than 300 cities in 150 countries joined the summit conversation by organizing in-person or online meetings in their own communities and connecting via video and social media. Through the newly launched +SocialGood platform and with the reach of the UN Development Programme's country offices, the 2013 summit organizers will increase the number of meet ups in local communities around the world. Meet ups currently scheduled to happen include Rwanda, Brazil, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Somalia and the Ukraine. To get involved in a global meet up, go to: www.socialgoodsummit.com.
More Exciting Speakers to Come
Additional speakers at the 2013 Social Good Summit will be announced online and on social media every two weeks leading up to the Summit. Speakers will include technology pioneers, global leaders, UN experts, celebrities, youth innovators and others currently doing cutting-edge work to solve today's most important global challenges.
About the Social Good Summit Partners
The 2013 Social Good Summit is proudly presented by Mashable, 92nd Street Y, the United Nations Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ericsson.
Mashable is a leading source for news, information and resources for the Connected Generation. Mashable reports on the importance of digital innovation and how it empowers and inspires people around the world. Mashable's 25 million unique visitors and 11 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged online news communities. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.
Trevor Gowan, firstname.lastname@example.com, 646-747-6796
92nd Street Y
92nd Street Y is a world-class nonprofit community and cultural center that connects people at every stage of life to the worlds of education, the arts, health and wellness, and Jewish life. Through the breadth and depth of 92Y's extraordinary programs, we enrich lives, create community and elevate humanity. More than 300,000 people a year visit 92Y's New York City venues, and millions more join us through the Internet, satellite broadcasts and other digital media. A proudly Jewish organization since its founding in 1874, 92Y embraces its heritage and enthusiastically welcomes people of all backgrounds and perspectives. For more information, visit www.92Y.org.
Sarah Morton, email@example.com, 212-415-5435
United Nations Foundation
The United Nations Foundation builds public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems, and broadens support for the United Nations through advocacy and public outreach. Through innovative campaigns and initiatives, the Foundation connects people, ideas, and resources to help the UN solve global problems. The Foundation was created in 1998 as a U.S. public charity by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner and now is supported by global corporations, foundations, governments, and individuals.
Joshua Lamont, firstname.lastname@example.com, 202-887-9040
United Nations Development Programme
UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the ground in 177 countries and territories, we offer global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
Boaz Paldi, firstname.lastname@example.com, 212-906-6801
Ericsson is a world-leading provider of communications technology and services. We are enabling the Networked Society with efficient real-time solutions that allow us all to study, work and live our lives more freely, in sustainable societies around the world. Our offering comprises services, software and infrastructure within Information and Communications Technology for telecom operators and other industries. Today 40 percent of the world's mobile traffic goes through Ericsson networks and we support customers' networks servicing more than 2.5 billion subscriptions. We are more than 110,000 people working with customers in more than 180 countries. Founded in 1876, Ericsson is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2012 the company's net sales were SEK 227.8 billion (USD 33.8 billion). Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ OMX, Stockholm and NASDAQ, New York stock exchanges.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
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By Sven Eberlein on 21 August 2012 for the Daily Kos -
Image above: Agronomist Bob Shaffer shows long roots of a mustard plant. The roots carry nutrients and carbon deep into the soil. By composting 620,000 tons San Francisco residents and businesses returned nutrients to local farms and sequestered, or put back into the soil, 18,400 metric tons of CO2. Photo by Larry Strong, courtesy of Recology.
A few months ago I was working on an article about San Francisco's pioneering efforts to become the world's first zero-waste city by 2020.
Chronicling this journey toward a current nation-leading 78 percent waste diversion rate, a major focus of the story was on the city's mandatory composting program that has played a huge role in keeping over a million tons of food scraps, plant trimmings, soiled paper, and other compostable materials from clogging up landfills and releasing methane into the atmosphere.
I was particularly interested in the idea of the food cycle, and it was heartening to see just how far along the City by the Bay has come in closing it: each day 600 tons of sloppy goodness from hundreds of thousands of residents, businesses, and over 5,000 restaurants gets shipped to a local state of the art composting facility, from where it returns to residents' dinner tables in the form of fresh, organic foods grown by local farmers who use the city's nutrient-rich compost as fertilizer.
It wasn't until after the story was published that I was alerted to the most remarkable and possibly game-changing discovery about urban compost: its potential to offset 20 percent and perhaps as much as 40 percent of America's carbon emissions!
Please follow me below the light brown dung beetle underneath the tuber curtain to dig a little deeper...
These were his exact words:
That is remarkable and a partial fix for climate change. If everyone did it and if we planted more trees on marginal soils, we could offset 20 percent of America's carbon emissions!He also sent me some photos and descriptions that illustrate how this method has been applied by local farmers who've been planting cover crops with SF compost...
Image above: Cover crops being grown at Chateau Montelena with San Francisco compost. Please note the way the crops are planted between the rows of vines. The 8-foot-wide hallway, between the rows of vines, is previously unused agricultural space, high-quality ag space. Vineyard crews drill holes in the floor of the vineyard and put cover crops seeds in the holes. Then they apply compost made from food scraps collected in San Francisco over the floor of the vineyard. hoto by Larry Strong, courtesy of Recology.
Now, I had heard plenty about planting trees and forests to absorb CO2, but it takes a lot of open land to do that, so if indeed we could use already existing and unused farmland to sequester carbon, that would truly be a win-win situation. Working for one of the most serious (no)-waste management companies in the world, I trusted that Robert wasn't just making this up, but he insisted I didn't take his word for it and connected me with the people who have been studying and working with compost and cover crops for years.
First I got in touch with Fulbright Scholar and former Rodale Institute Research Director, Paul Hepperly. In his research, Dr. Hepperly found that applying food scrap compost to one acre of land can add 12,000 pounds of carbon to the soil in one year, taking it out of the atmosphere, while conventional farming — tilling the land, using commercial fertilizers, etc. — releases 3,700 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per acre per year.
In a nutshell, what happens is that these cover crops like mustard, beans, anise, or wild iris grow long roots that carry carbon 14 inches into the soil. The nitrogen-rich urban compost itself also retains carbon, provides carbon to the soil, and helps enable the earth to store carbon.
Image above: Vineyards in Northern California apply compost made from food scraps to grow cover crops such as mustard and beans. That stimulates microbial activity and helps turn farms into carbon sinks Photo by Larry Strong, courtesy of Recology.
According to Dr. Hepperly, one of the big problems with our present approach to the greenhouse gas issue is a lack of a holistic perspective. While we're trying to find ways to reduce emissions we have not looked at the enormous potential that sequestration of carbon and nitrogen in our soil has for counteracting not only agricultural emissions but the emissions for transportation and industrial sources.
To illustrate this point, all you need to do is look at the current dismal 3% nationwide composting rate. What this means is not only that we're letting 97% of our food scraps needlessly fill up landfills across the U.S. and release methane into the atmosphere, but we're squandering a huge opportunity to use a simple natural food cycle to pull loads of carbon back into the ground. Not to mention the restorative effect of returning carbon and nitrogen to our eroding topsoils and nutritional value to our food. It's full circle!
As amazing as this is, it didn't seem like rocket science to me. I mean, long before industrial agriculture and chemical fertilizers created the illusion of flawlessly chiseled vegetables magically appearing on Walmart shelves, farmers and the general population alike knew that compost is one of the most precious, life-giving resources on earth. My mom, who grew up in a rural area of Southern Germany, has always treated compost like gold. Any amateur gardener covets her food waste like a Momma Bear her cub.
So how did we get to a place where we're throwing away over 97% of all our food waste?
I got some of the answers to this question from Bob Shaffer, an agronomist based in Glen Ellen, CA, who's been compost-consulting with vineyards and farms all over California and Hawaii for many years and who is one of the main liaisons between Recology and the Northern California agricultural community. A former farmer himself, Bob told me that the practice of applying compost to cover crops is not only catching on among small farmers concerned about erosion and producing high mineral value food, but among big players like General Mills eager to restore their soils ravaged from decades of chemical fertilizers.
"We take our most precious land and we raise crops at great cost. We take our best people — well trained farmers, scientists, universities — into a system raising that food. We use chemicals and all that junk to raise it. Then we transport the food 2000 miles — another great cost — and then we cook it and throw much of it away!The problem now, according to Bob, is that while Recology produces about 150,000 cubic yards of compost annually and supplies more than 200 Napa Valley wineries, the demand for this precious resource is getting so high, the dismal 3% national composting rate is causing severe shortages.
If we allow this to go on any longer, not only are we poisoning ourselves with methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas, we fill up our landfills, which we don't have any room for, and we're not getting the most precious thing that we raise, high mineral value food, back into the soil where it belongs. Now that's a full-blown crisis."
- Bob Shaffer
On one hand, this is exciting, as it shows that more and more growers are realizing the great benefits not only to their own soils and crops but their unique position in being part of the solution to climate change. Bob told me that some of the larger Big Ag companies like General Mills are even beginning to produce their own compost by designating entire fields to growing giant grasses like Miscanthus, switchgrass, and Arundo donax that not only sequester carbon in their deep roots but whose cuttings make for great nutrient-rich composting material. "We'll grow our own carbon," he says. It's a win win, because we don't have to transport it, we don't have to buy it, it puts carbon back where it belongs, back into the plant, and we chop the plant, compost it, and composting is the process that stabilizes carbon and nitrogen."
And yet, the scope of composting programs around the country is still so miniscule that we are missing one of the most natural and promising opportunities right before our eyes to sequester huge amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere.
While San Francisco has led the way in showing what's possible with a mandatory composting program and a state of the art composting facility...
The composting program alone has diverted one million tons of waste from landfill disposal. By reducing methane, a potent greenhouse gas produced in landfills and by sequestering carbon in the topsoil of local farms, the program has created a total carbon dioxide equivalent benefit of more than 305,944 metric tons – equal to offsetting emissions from all vehicles crossing the Bay Bridge for two years (Greenhouse gas offsets based on a protocol set by the Climate Action Reserve)....many municipalities poised to start their own composting programs find themselves running up against not only a perceived "yuckiness" factor among residents but a maze of arcane composting regulations that make it difficult to build new composting facilities. And no surprise, big pharma and producers of chemical fertilizers are lobbying against new facilities.
To all the people involved in municipal composting, this movement to drastically ramp up urban compost production to use as cover crops is the great untold story in the fight against a warming planet. As the devastating effects of climate change are manifesting at an ever increasing frequency and the calls for action are getting louder and stronger, we have an incredible opportunity to educate Americans about the relationship between soil, food, health, and climate and advocate for the common sense policies that will create urban composting programs, modern composting facilities, and an increasing number of farmers who use cover crops to restore their soils, and with it, the earth's ecosystem.
As for me, I have pitched this story to a number of major publications, with no response so far. I may not be the most credentialed writer to tell this story, but I know it needs to be told, so we can start getting the word out on this holistic, common sense, and all around beneficial solution to climate change.
Last I heard from Paul Hepperly, his research showed that it could be possible to offset up to 40 percent of greenhouse gases by utilizing more holistic farming practices.
Someone please tell the New York Times and 60 Minutes...


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ROCHESTER — The Spaulding High School faculty and staff are proud to announce the Top 10 graduating seniors for the Class of 2014. Rankings are based on the cumulative grade point average through the third quarter of this year. The honored graduates are listed in alphabetical order, as the determination of valedictorian and salutatorian, based on grades for the entire four years of high school, will be calculated and announced at graduation, June 13, 2014.
Quinn Connelly
Quinn Connelly, the son of Kevin and Cori Connelly of Rochester, was accepted early action as a Presidential Scholar at the University of New Hampshire where he will study business in the Honors program at the Paul College of Business and Economics.
A member of the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, the Spanish National Honor Society and the Athletic Council, Quinn also volunteered at youth basketball clinics and a great many youth basketball tournaments at the Rochester Recreation Center. He also tutored elementary school children at the Rochester Youth Safe Haven. He works part-time as a basketball trainer at Integrity Hoops.
Quinn has played basketball for four years at Spaulding, serving as captain of the team his senior year. He describes that activity as the most meaningful to him because of the "…friendships I have made with my teammates, the relationships I have forged with my coaches, and the pride of representing Spaulding High School while doing something I love."
During his high school career, Quinn has earned the Cody Cleveland Memorial Coach's Award for basketball, the St. Anselm College Book Award and awards for excellence in social studies, science and physical education. He was a three-time selection for the New Hampshire Basketball Coaches Organization All-Academic Basketball Team.
Haley Cronshaw
Haley Cronshaw was accepted at Boston University, Clark University, Northeastern University, Saint Anselm College, Saint Michael's College and the University of New Hampshire and will pursue her interests in education and psychology at Clark University in the fall.
The daughter of Kristine and James Cronshaw of Barrington, Haley is a committed volunteer with her church, works up to twenty hours per week at a health care and assisted living facility in Dover and still manages to participate in Project SEARCH, varsity tennis, National Honor Society and Spanish National Honor Society.
Of all of her activities and experiences, Haley describes her summer at the St. Paul's School Advanced Studies Program where she studied Japanese Language and Culture as the most meaningful activity in which she engaged during high school. She states that she made lifelong friendships there and "….never learned so much, so quickly and with so many other students who were so excited to learn."
Jessica Gustafson
Jessica Gustafson, who is also recognized for achieving perfect attendance through all four years of high school, is the daughter of Jeff and Maryanne Gustafson of Rochester.
During her high school career, Jessica has been committed to an array of school activities that include Student Council, Masque and Dagger Drama Club, Color Guard (co-captain), American Sign Language Club and Project SEARCH. She is vice president of the National Honor Society and is a member of both the Spanish National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta (math honor society).
Outside of school Jessica has been involved in Girl Scouts for twelve years. She is the secretary of her church youth group and is a long-standing member of the hand bell choir. Through her church, Jessica volunteers in the nursery and recently participated in a youth mission trip to Pennsylvania.
Of all of her commitments, Jessica has found her affiliation with color guard to be the most rewarding. She describes the satisfaction of learning new skills and then teaching those skills to others; having the opportunity to travel to Disneyland and Disney World to perform; and the pleasure of being a part of a community that is like a second family as the most personally meaningful for her.
Jess was accepted at Roger Williams University, Saint Michael's College, Smith College and Stonehill College. She has decided to pursue a degree in elementary education and math at Stonehill College in the fall, with a goal of one day teaching in a third or fourth grade classroom.
Abigail Kraines
Abigail Kraines, daughter of Kelley and Mark Kraines of Rochester, was not only recognized for earning a perfect score on the mathematics portion of the SAT, she has also been honored with a certificate of merit by the Society of Women Engineers, became a finalist in the Quest Bridge program for high achieving students, was inducted into both the National Honor Society and the National Technical Honor Society and was named as a New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association Scholar-Athlete.
During her high school years Abby has been very actively involved in a variety of activities that include: Project SEARCH, Key Club, Student Council, Latin Club, Indoor Track, Cross Country and Tennis. She identified Project SEARCH as the most meaningful activity in which she engaged because "…it gave me a chance to learn about the important topics I wasn't hearing about in school…."
Abby works 10-15 hours per week at a local ice cream parlor as a hostess and ice cream scooper and received an award for excellence in hosting from that establishment. She also makes it a priority to volunteer her time to projects at her church and events at the Riverside Rest Home.
Accepted at Boston University, Northeastern University and the University of New Hampshire, Abby will enter Northeastern University in the fall to study engineering.
Kaitlyn Lavertu
Kaitlyn Lavertu, recipient of the Harvard Prize Book Award her junior year, is the daughter of Christopher and Michelle Lavertu of Rochester.
This NHIAA Scholar-Athlete and member of the Athletic Council played soccer for 3 years and both indoor and outdoor track and field for 4 years. During her soccer playing years, Kaitlyn earned a Coach's Award and Soccer Defender of the Year award. In 2012, she was chosen the Spaulding Girls' SENH Track Meet MVP and was named captain for both the Indoor and Outdoor Track teams her senior year.
Kaitlyn's other in-school involvements include membership in the National Honor Society, French National Honor Society (treasurer), Mu Alpha Theta (co-president), and Student Council (treasurer). She tutors her peers in math and also volunteers her time at a local soup kitchen in addition to working part-time at a local restaurant as a hostess and waitress.
Looking back at her experiences in high school, Kaitlyn identified her sister's "senior night" for soccer as the most meaningful for her. She noted that after playing soccer together for 10 years, they celebrated their last game as teammates with a win. It was a special experience that she was able to share with both her teammates and her family.
With the goal of becoming a corporate financial manager for a large company, and ultimately a chief financial officer, Kaitlyn will pursue a degree in corporate finance and accounting. She was accepted at Babson College, Bentley University and the University of New Hampshire and will enter the honors program at Bentley University in the fall.
Cole Rogers
Cole Rogers describes the Interact Club, of which he is treasurer, as the most meaningful activity in which he has participated in high school. He credits that organization with introducing him to community service and stated that it "…showed me the joy it can bring to bond with peers and make a difference in the community".
Cole also participates in Mu Alpha Theta, Philosophy Club, Project SEARCH and the Ski/Snowboard Club and works twenty hours per week at a local super market.
Honored for achieving a perfect score on the Math portion of the SAT, he was also recognized by the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Computing Medal.
Accepted at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of New Hampshire, Cole will study computer science at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall.
He is the son of Kelly and Mark Rogers of Rochester.
Shannon H. Russell
Shannon H. Russell describes her experience hosting students from Nicaragua as the most meaningful activity she pursued in high school. The Spanish National Honor Society, of which she is president, invited the Compas de Nicaragua Dance Group for a cultural exchange and performance to raise funds for their cause. "We raised over $1000 for them and I became very close with the girls who stayed at my house…."
Working up to 20 hours per week at a local department store, Shannon is also a dedicated participant in Relay for Life and volunteer with the Cocheco Valley Humane Society. She has played soccer and lacrosse and is a member of the National Honor Society.
With a long-range goal of pursuing a medical career, possibly as a surgeon, Shannon was accepted at Montana State University, Washington State University, Wheaton College and the University of New Hampshire. She has chosen to join the Air Force upon graduation from high school and pursue her college degree, as well.
Shannon is the daughter of Cliff and Laura Russell of Rochester.
Eden Suoth
Eden Suoth, the son of Voni Lie and Billy Suoth of Rochester and recipient of the Holy Cross Book Award, was voted by the faculty and his peers as the DAR Good Citizen Award recipient for Spaulding. Additionally, Eden is the first student from Spaulding to become the regional Poetry Out Loud champion and go on to compete at the state championship. He was honored with the Rotary Club "Most Dedicated" award for attending and participating in every Rotary Club and Interact Club event during the 2012-2013 school year.
Eden has clocked over 500 hundred hours of community service. As president of the Interact Club, he organized a competitive fundraiser to collect non-perishable items for the food pantry, clothes and toiletries for the homeless shelter and teddy bears for fire fighters to provide to child victims. He volunteers regularly at the Monarch School where he "hangs out" with the students, and through the Big Brother, Big Sister program, he is paired with a child at the William Allen School who needs an "everyday mentor"…it's one of his favorite activities.
President of Class Council for four years, in addition to being president of Interact Club this year and facilitator for the Philosophy Club, Eden also participates in Project SEARCH, the Leadership Team, the National Honor Society, and Mu Alpha Theta.
The most meaningful activity for Eden occurred during a National Honor Society field trip traveling to area nursing homes to sing Christmas carols. Upon arrival at the Studley Home, he and three other students were pulled aside and asked if they would be willing to honor the request of the family of a woman with only hours to live, to sing her favorite carol, Silent Night, to her. "…sobbing by the second verse…I got to experience the fragility of life and I got to experience something that will resonate with me for the rest of my life…it was a feeling that was never meant to be put into words…my words would never be able to accurately portray the gravitas of the situation…."
Eden was accepted at Northeastern University, Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of New Hampshire, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He will attend the honors program at the University of New Hampshire with a major in mechanical engineering and a minor in computer science. He intends one day to be able to "… simplify cars and many other mechanical systems in hopes of making things more intuitive and easy instead of intimidating and nearly-impossible."
Lyndsee Thompson
Lyndsee Thompson, a New Hampshire Scholar Athlete who works part-time at the Rochester Recreation Center, participated in basketball, tennis and unified sports (basketball and soccer) during her high school years. Lyndsee identifies her participation in the basketball program as being " a big part of my life here at Spaulding…I had the pleasure of playing my favorite sport with amazing coaches and teammates…made many memories and friendships that I would not trade for the world."
Beyond athletics, Lyndsee serves as president of the National Honor Society, vice president of the French National Honor Society and is a member of Class Council, Mu Alpha Theta, Interact Club, Key Club, Project SEARCH and the Highway Safety Team. She is a volunteer at Frisbie Memorial Hospital as well as a variety of basketball clinics and the Fast Breakin' Basketball summer camp.
Accepted at Bentley University, Emmanuel College, Quinnipiac University, Saint Michael's College, Suffolk University and the University of New Hampshire, she has chosen to pursue a degree in business at Bentley University in the fall.
Lyndsee is the daughter of Cheryl and William Thompson of Rochester.
Jennifer Yerardi
Jennifer Yerardi, daughter of John and Linda Yerardi of Rochester, intends to ultimately pursue a doctorate in physical therapy. Having been accepted at Husson University, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and the University of New England she has chosen to study applied exercise science/pre-physical therapy at the University of New England.
An avid soccer player for 4 years, Jen garnered "Defensive Player of the Year" awards her freshman and sophomore years and the Coach's Award her senior year when she served as co-captain of the team.
Beyond her commitment to Spaulding soccer, Jen also served as secretary of HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) and participated in Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society and National Technical Honor Society. She earned awards for excellence in Health Science Technology as well as Honors Trigonometry and Advanced Math.
Outside of Spaulding High School, Jen participates in Relay for Life and the Penguin Plunge and has studied dance for 13 years. She describes dance as a deeply important part of her life and currently volunteers her time as an assistant instructor for a class of young girls. Jen finds assisting with this class to be the most meaningful activity in which she has engaged. She enjoys passing on her passion and knowledge of the art to young dancers "…seeing the looks of pure joy on their faces is such a great feeling…it makes me feel like they look up to me as a role model…like I am making a difference in their lives…."


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Dallas Wildflowers
Gotham City
New York City
Big Ben Sunset
Sunset at Big Ben
Morning Flight
Morning Flight at the Gateway of India
The Gateway
The Gateway of India
First Light
First Light at the Wat Benchamabophit
Grand Central Energy
Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan view from Brooklyn
Good Morning Dallas
Daybreak over Dallas Skyline
Dallas - Bank of America
Sunrise over Bank of America in Dallas, TX
Dallas Sunrise
Downtown Dallas at Sunrise
Notre-Dame Basilica
The Historic Streets of Montreal and the Notre-Dame Basilica
Dallas Alive
The Dallas Skyline after a Storm Passes
Evening Rush
Evening Rush at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France
Eiffel Tower
An evening at the Eiffel Tower.
Tour Eiffel
The Eiffel Tower
The Electric Eiffel Tower
Cars in Motion at the Eiffel Tower
River Cruising
Cruising the Seine River next to the Eiffel Tower
London Streets
Busy streets of London in Piccadilly Circus
Time is always passing, hit "pause".
New Orleans Skyline at Sunset
The New Orleans Skyline with the first AC Hotels by Marriott in the US


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Okay, this is the lazy girl's version of a Wednesday post. Below you'll find your comments and those of your fellow WN readers on reviews, in semi-abbreviated form, broken up by category: book industry, authors, and general readers (though of course there is some overlap). It's a bit long, but I thought it might be useful to see how people with different relationships to books are thinking about this issue. I'll have my thoughts on the issue on Friday.
From the Book Industry:
As a person who works in a bookstore, I find that a lot of customers still come in looking for a book that they read about in the Times (NPR being a close second in popularity.) Often, they don't remember the title or the author, so I try and read the Times book review so I can remember the name of the book based on their plot summary.
Hi, I work in the bookselling industry so a lot of the books that I end up reading are just books which I've stumbled across while receiving books, putting books away, selling to a customer. I DO get some of my books through blogs - not so much reviews in blogs but books which are brought up in conversation. Periodically I read the NYTBR but, if I get a book from a print review it normally comes from Entertainment Weekly. I'm constantly amazed at how often I'll find a book reviewed there which you would never expect to find in such a mainstream publication.
I also get a lot of recommendations from friends and readers of one of my blogs.
I would like to say that I think that, while blogs are daily becoming a better place to find great reviews of books, print reviews still hold more credibility to me - possibly because the reviewers have seemingly more reason to be listened to. The downside of print reviewers - at least in some circumstances - is that many of them are turning into the very thing they are accusing the blog reviewers of being: partial judges who you can expect a certain responce to a certain kind of book.
I participated in a rather raucous exchange on this subject last month, on Roger Sutton's blog (Horn Book Magazine). The angle of attack Roger chose for framing the debate concerned impartiality and niceness and publishers' marketing efforts. That is: Isn't professional reviewing a better means of obtaining "juried" or "impartial" reviews? I took Roger's side, and a LOT of litbloggers got quite irritated when I argued that now that marketing departments are clued in to the importance of getting books reviewed on major litblogs, they're working hard to manipulate the litblogosphere, and that since these marketers are pros, and under enormous pressure to get results, therefore, major litbloggers are now, and will be, subject to the same pressures as the major book reviews always have been -- but because the individual litbloggers don't have the institutional structure within which to operate, their resistance to co-optation by publishers will be less dependable. (Talking about very popular, widely read litblogs -- the ones that cause book-sales to jump when a book is reviewed there.)
Hence, print reviewing is important because of the established checks-and-balances that go into the publication of such.
(Andy Laties)
From Authors
Hi - I'm replying from the perspective of an artist/writer/cartoonist who has recently published (via print-on-demand) a book, which started life as a comic strip on my blog. The decision to publish this edition myself via POD, rather than submitting it first to mainstream publishers, was influenced by the enthusiastic response I got from visitors to my blog who kept asking when the comic strip would be a book.Now that the book is out, it has received more reader-reviews (on the lulu.com site where it is on sale) than most new books would get from the mainstream press. Yet, because we live in a world where success is determined by media coverage, I find myself compelled to seek media "validation" and to spend vast amounts of time trying to get reviews for my book in the press - in other words, tilting at windmills. My hope is that a mainstream publisher will take it on but I've taken this roundabout route so of course I have to accept its difficulties. The excellent reviews I've had from bloggers/writers has encouraged and supported me but there is still this ingrained belief that unless your name is up in lights (ie in black ink on newsprint in the quality press and/or the A-list top-hit litblogs) you ain't worth a look-in. How to change this perception?
As a recent debut author whose first novel, Radiant Days, came out with an independent press (Shoemaker & Hoard), the reviews and press about my book has exclusively come from traditional print media (NYTBR, Washington Post, SF Chronicle and a few others). While I'm insanely grateful and happy about the coverage, even the negative, this has been surprising to me. I always thought my book was more 'a bloggers' book since I'm with an independent press and more or less unknown. My day-job is as a computer developer so I'm online and reading the blogs pretty religiously—probably way more than is heathly. And I guess, and I realize this is totally ridiculous, I felt I was somehow part of that community, just because I'd been reading them since way before my book came out.
But man.. if there hadn't been print reviews...
I should also point out that while the reviews resulted in a slight and temporary sales bumps, they've been nothing compared to announcements of readings (spam to friend's email lists). And I've corresponded with other authors about this, and it seems to be agreed that unless it's a glowing review on the front page of the NYBR, print reviews don't directly correspond to large sales. But what they do give you, and this is invaluable, is some sort of "legitimacy" and a starting point for getting your book in the literary discourse. People I work with suddenly wanted to talk to me about the publishing process. Reading series began to answer my emails. My parents concluded I might actually be serious about writing (despite doing making the regular sacrifices for over 15 years in order to do it) once the book was mentioned in the NYTimes. etc... This might seem petty, but they've all been landmark events for me.
From Readers
I'm replying from the perspective of someone who just reads a lot - not in the industry in any way, I don't have a blog and I don't do any reviews - other than suggestions to friends/family.
I read reviews everywhere - blogs, magazines, Bookmarks magazine - and then I go to Amazon. I look at the reviews there and the brief description of the book and add to my wishlist if it's something I want. Often I don't purchase there - I go to the library or a local store, but I think it's a great resource.
I will say that I have found a few blogs where I realized I have very similar tastes to the reviewer - and I'm more likely to just get a book that is raved about there without much more consideration.
I assume if I subscribed to a newspaper, I might do the same.
I find most of my books by reading a story in a magazine or lit. journal and then further investigating the author, or through lit. blogs. The lit blog co-op and EWN, in particular, have been very influential. I've bought at least a dozen books this year that I've found through blogs. The only print reviews I regularly read are the NYTBR, some lit. journals that run reviews, and our local weekly, the Boise Weekly. I also get recommendations from other writers who know my personal tastes.
I should add that my town (boise) doesn't have a very strong independent bookstore presence, but when we lived in Missoula, I regularly when to Fact & Fiction or and the stellar Shakespeare & Company for suggestions.
ok, we have to give a summary of where we fit in? former bookdealer, has sold some short stories recently, no novels yet. Reader first and last though.
It's probably important that I'm also not American; we do have newspaper and magazine reviews of books here (South Africa), but very few and seldomly along the lines that I like. We mostly only get leadlist, or at least top selling authors since it's all imported, so it's frustrating not knowing what's happening in the writing world in that sense.
So, I can't really comment too much on the value of your newspaper and mgazine reveiws, although it seems as if people look to it for validation more than suggested reading.
Blogging and online forums has changed that for me, a lot - interacting with other writers and readers from different countries has opened up a whole new realm of options regarding authors.
It's the word of mouth thing, in the long run nothing beats word of mouth, I remember this from the time I spent as a bookdealer as well - people would come looking for books that friends recommended, none of them read reviews in newspapers.
For myself - there's a few online sites that I like, and a number of fiction magazines do regular reviews. I've found these official reviews helpful; blogging is a boost, IMO, not a detriment. It creates more dialogue, and I've learned about interesting books and writers much faster than I would have.
I do have a preference for a one-man/ woman blog - whether reviews/ commentary, whatever.
The reason I'm not sure of, but I feel more at ease measuring the advice and tastes of single person against my own. Easier to follow and understand in some ways; maybe too a belief that bloggers are a bit more honest since they don't get paid for reviews? I don't know, but I'm comfortable reading blogs.
Like I said, to me it's a bonus, not meant as a replacement to official paper or online reviews -I read and compare as many as I can before I make a choice.
I do value my money, and don't like to spend it on too many long-shots. That, is what it comes down to.
The more discourse about books the better, IMO.
(David de Beer)
I am a former bookseller, but have always been and continue to be an avid reader. When I worked in a bookstore, I was immersed in book culture and was constantly talking books with other employees, reps, and customers. Once that conversation ended, along with my employment (by my choice, to pursue a different line of work), I had to become more reliant upon reviews.
I find most of the books I read through word-of-mouth, via friends, or through print reviews, via newspapers or magazines.
I use to rely rather heavily upon The New York Times Book Review until they decided to become weighted more heavily toward the non-fiction end of the book spectrum. I still read them occasionally, along with The New York Review of Books to see what is being published regarding books about current events, politics, and history.
I also tend to trust the essays and book reviews in The Believer, to which I subscribe. And, I subscribe to the daily email book reviews of Powell's City of Books, which culls reviews from their own newsletter as well as many national publications.
All of that being said, I have recently begun to switch to the reviews and recommendations found on blogs such as yours. I picked up the spring 2007 Read This! recommendation due to the link from your blog to the LitBlog Co-op site. I have picked up a couple of other books via reviews on blogs.
I will also "research" a book via personal reviews on Amazon.com and on other sites to get a "feel" for whether or not a book and I are a good match, although I tend to oftentimes discount those reviews because they seem to tend toward unbound fanaticism or vile hatred.
So, I do use print reviews, although I seem to be trending away from a reliance upon them.
Yes i agree with u now a days many book reviews are suffering because blogs are cheaper and easier to produce.However i found many interesting things to read,gathered information
New Yorker, NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Bookworm. Steal info off Newsweek, time, BookForum, NYRB, LRB, New Republic, GQ, Esquire, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, I forget!
I've written about this subject at my blog,and while I feel for those print reviewers who are being pink slipped and undercut,I don't buy that it is all due to blogs. It's like public school funding,the arts are the first ones to take the hit,while the football team gets their new uniforms. It's all about money to the corporations who run the newspaper/magazine industry,not quality vs. quantity.
I also find it peeving that there are folks who insist that most of the litbloggers out there are rank amatuers,who only put biased reviews or sarcastic ones. I've read plenty of reviews in the NYT(both the Sunday and weekly book section)that are downright nasty and actually give away the ending of the book,which is horrible to me. Even If I don't like a book/movie/TV show,I wouldn't ruin it for someone else. Also,I've seen many litblogs that are just as crafted and well thought out(Maud Newton,for one)as any newspaper or magazine section.
The bottom line is,this should not be either/or. We all want the same goal,which is to help good books get the attention that they deserve. Instead of fighting each other like Jerry Springer guests,we should team up and see if we can help each other out.
Oh,and as for where I get my reviews,I check both the internet and blogs such as Buzz Girl for the latest in books. I also read EW's book section(which gives a nice mix of high and low brow). I'm a former bookseller who believes in word of mouth when it comes to great books,be it in person or online.
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Lavabit Email Founder Goes to Great Lengths to Avoid Email, Post-Snowden
Ladar Levison spent the last 10 years providing people with email. Now he won't touch the stuff.
Levison shut down his security-focused email service Lavabit in August, explaining he no longer felt comfortable saying that his users' data was secure while Lavabit operated in the United States.
While not explicitly stated, the implication was that NSA document alleged leaker Edward Snowden had used Lavabit, and Levison was fighting against both a government order to hand over user data and a government mandate not to talk about the data request.
Levison himself was not only the operator of Lavabit but also a user of it, and he hasn't logged into email since August 8. He saved an archive of his account to encrypted drives to access if and when he returns.
"I'm still holding out hope that victory in the courts will allow me to restart my service in the future," he said today onstage at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference in Seattle. For now, Levison is making use of "the electronic equivalent of a methadone clinic" by messaging people through Facebook, LinkedIn, text and the new encrypted communication service Silent Circle. "I haven't needed a real and valid email address to register for something yet," he said.
"Anything that I consider sensitive, I try to talk about it to people in person, with my cellphone off, in an area where I know that nobody's pointing a parabolic mic at me," Levison said. "If you're fighting the government that's what you need to do."
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However, since shutting down Lavabit, Levison has raised some $150,000 in online donations, he said in a conversation offstage. "Even the people on the fence about government surveillance will side with me on free speech."
After 10 years living and breathing email while he ran Lavabit, Levison has remade himself into a bit of an email-free martyr, saying today, "Hopefully something positive with come out of this sacrifice."
Though he had suggested when he shut down Lavabit that he was at imminent risk of arrest, Levison said today he is "less worried" about that now. "What I'm more worried about is what I have planned for the future," he added ominously, then declined to elaborate.
Levison said he might start a new email account if there were an off-shore email service with a substantially long record of not having been compromised. But at the moment, he doesn't think there is such an option. "The amount of paranoia I have to keep myself safe is relatively crazy," he admitted.
Though many, including Edward Snowden, have suggested that properly implemented strong cryptography can protect email in most cases, that might not go far enough. "It's only as secure as the keys," Levison said. And he doesn't trust that encryption keys won't get compromised.
Plus, many of the people with whom he'd want to email don't know how to use truly secure methods.
Levison said amid all the privacy and surveillance issues now in the spotlight after Snowden's disclosures, he was most concerned about "the secrecy problem."
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It was a nice summer, and I enjoyed my three month break from blogging, except I slipped up recently, and posted a few things because I was itching to do it.
One change I am making is described below, and it will be posted to my heading
description. With over 930 posts written I'd like to ease up on the writing...which I know isn't strong, but will focus on taking the pictures that relate to history in some way.
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A Burger With Fantastic Beef at The Meat Market Burger in Great Barrington, MA
The Meat Market
389 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230 (map); 413-528-2022; themeatmarketgb.com
Cooking Method: Griddled
Short Order: Half-pound local beef burger that's clean-tasting and incredibly juicy.
Want Fries with That? The kitchen trades fries for Tuscan-style white beans. Not the best pairing for a burger, but tasty nonetheless.
Prices: TMM Burger (w/side), $10
When one of the staffers at The Meat Market, Great Barrington's retail butcher specializing in local meat and housemade charcuterie, told me that of all the sandwiches on the lunch board it's the burger that I had try, I was a little surprised. That meant I'd be turning down sexier-sounding options like a grass-fed rare roast beef and cheddar with horseradish aioli, liverwurst with grainy mustard and pickled onions, and the entire charcuterie case. Lucky for me, I took his advice.
What was extraordinary about The Meat Market Burger (TMM Burger, $10) was the meat itself. I don't usually think of burger meat as clean and fresh-tasting, but this really was. Plus, it was obviously handled with extreme care. The half-pound mostly chuck patty (it's ground trim*, about 80 percent lean) was loosely packed but held together just fine, and it came off the griddle with just enough of a sear to taste the effects of good browning but not so much that it had a "crust." What you notice most is its supreme juiciness—cooked to a perfect medium-rare, the jus saturates the bun—and beefy flavor.
Speaking of the bun, its a good one—a sweet roll from nearby Berkshire Mountain Bakery. It manages to be both rich and tender while also giving the juicy patty and the fixin's—Cabot cheddar, house mayo, and house garlic pickles—all the support they need.
My only gripe: while I admire that the kitchen thinks beyond fries and onion rings, I can't say the side of rosemary white beans really did it for me. They would be—and, as a matter of fact, were—better in soup. The soup special that day, Smoked Chicken and White Bean, was great.
*During the holidays, when they were cutting lots of rib roasts, they made burgers from those trimmings. Christmas 2014 in the Berkshires, anyone?
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Inside the Prosthetic Imaginary: An Interview with Sara Hendren
Gloves for Two, Sandie Yi Crip Couture (2001)
Sara Hendren is an artist, researcher, and writer who explores how design and art practices can inform techno-scientific research and knowledge-building. She is the writer-editor of Abler, an online 'think space' where art and design are linked together with high and low-tech prosthetics, both practical and speculative, to explore questions about ability, disability, the normalized and medicalized body, and more. Abler juxtaposes posts featuring assistive technologies normally relegated to the field of rehabilitative medicine with questions concerning smart cities, cyborg transhumanism, and the future of democratic communities.
I Skyped with Sara about the politics of abled and disabled bodies, the artist as amateur, and our hopes for a cyborgian future.
Ana Avarez: You've written that Abler is one big umbrella project for your work. Can you talk about the ideas driving the site?
Sara Hendren: Abler brings together four streams of interest: First, an interest in the innovations of the high-tech prosthetic fields. Second, I'm interested in tracking the tradition of artists who have been working on prosthetics very broadly defined—a more metaphorical notion of the "prosthetic" as an extended tool that becomes a proxy, or a substitute for experience. For artists, the prosthetic becomes very subtle and associative, pointing to tools for needs we don't even know we have. Third, I'm looking at ideas about the cyborg and the future of bodies: how we negotiate our dance with machine parts of all kinds, and whether the enhancement and augmentation they promise is tempered enough by good critical conversations. And then fourthly, I'm pointing to what are commonly called "assistive technologies"—the very medicalized devices that lots of people use but that don't get much analysis as design or culture. Everything from crutches, to wheelchairs, walkers, ankle braces.
Those four fields tend to exist in more or less separate worlds. But all these things have much to say to one another. Abler puts them in adjacency online, along with critical writing, in a form that juxtaposes these ideas against one another and creates cross commentary to try to mix those categories. And ultimately to ask: Who is being assisted by what kinds of technologies? And what kinds of assistance do we want in the future?
The whole project has been to create a blog that's not just a story-chaser, a popularizer of technology; neither did I want it to become an academic exercise, denouncing the politics of technology development as inherently oppressive. I wanted to take some of the really interesting questions about normalcy and abnormalcy, dependence and independence and look at artworks, design, and engineering work that all address these issues. I wanted all those conversations to exist in one place, to be rich and generative and ultimately really exciting because of what they provoke in the imagination and also the critical conversations they spark about abled and disabled bodies.
It seems like we are going to be using the words "disabled" and "abled-bodied" quite a bit. I want to first ask you, not necessarily for a definition but more of a complication of these terms: what does it mean to be able or disabled and how is that tension addressed in your work?
People who work in disability try to keep raising the idea that being "disabled" is not a fixed and assigned identity. It is not about a body status or a capacity level, but much more about this very complex, changing, evolving, and perhaps temporary, perhaps longer term, political state—in some ways, similar to how we've come to understand the slippery designations of race and gender. The built environment and socio-political institutions all make allowances and disallowances for certain kinds of bodies and capacities, and those affordances have ripple effects in cultures, creating abled-ness and disabled-ness. And disability is a status that is always in flux: you enter into different seasons in your life where you are more or less bodily and cognitively able to access those institutions, avenues of social mobility, and so on...
Artist Profile: Cecile B. Evans
Cecile B. Evans, You May Keep One of Your Children (2011)
Many of your works reference and seem to be derived from popular culture icons, from Paula Abdul and Meryl Streep to Jean-Luc Goddard and J.D. Salinger. What is the role of popular culture in your work? Do your works attempt to comment on our conceptions of these cultural references or are they simply a point of departure?
One thing that is important to me in the work I'm doing now is to get to where several points of reference can exist on the same plane, with equal weight. In this world, Paula Abdul goes with Pina Bausch, Meryl Streep with medical instruments, and an array of other elements in each piece that vary in their visibility. I'm interested in reaching a place where the high blends into the low, the earnest into satire (and vice versa) and making a complex constellation of elements that winds up as something that's really simple aesthetically. As I write this, I'm gluing nail art rhinestones to spell out a quote from Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? in Braille to spill from the tear ducts of a vintage photo a friend emailed me of her parents kissing. I'm simultaneously editing a video that features a semphore version of Whitney Houston's I Have Nothing on sleeping pills that unfolds while a Lucinda Childs-like ghost floats around dying golden embers. At the moment, we exist in a culture that lets me use these very different values to refer to the same emotions. It's as though we've entered a 2nd wave of New Sentimentality where it's as appropriate to relate loss to an Aaliyah song as it is to do so with Barthes' Mourning Diary, and either can be done sincerely or ironically… at least I've always equated things that way.
I enjoy using broad references in popular culture as a reflection on how different industries have created universal conduits.
Your past works seem to levitate around notions of intimacy and relationships. Some of your projects imply that intimacy doesn't necessarily require physical closeness and can be instead experienced through connections made in internet or other forms of technology. Yet, in the age of tweeting and texting, social networking creates this constant yet increasingly vapid communication between people that feels anything but intimate. How do you think recent technology affects our perceptions of intimacy? Do you think physical closeness can be replicated within a technological frame, or do these new forms of connecting force us to reevaluate what we deem "intimate"?
In the past I've been interested in the internet as an intimacy generator, using its content as source material, without judgement. One thing that I've found since I've started is how blurred the lines between the virtual and real have become, to the point where it isn't a big deal. There are feed relationships that can cross over to a more direct form of contact, either as an extension of what you've created or used as supplements to wish fulfillment- from rejection to validation. The volume of people and easy access serves as a lubricant either way
The danger isn't with ourselves- I don't think those of us who have the filter to realize what's ok and what isn't will lose that. It's more how flippantly we display our feelings. The faith in an emotional utopia was decried in 1994 by Carmen Hermasillo (aka humdog) who warned that the spilling of our guts on the internet would result in the commodification of our feelings by large corporations. That's happening now. I fear that the companies are mirroring back what we unknowingly feed them in ways that will reevaluate the meaning of intimacy for us...
Artist Profile: JK Keller
Realigning My Thoughts on Jasper Johns (screenshot) 2011
You seem to be preoccupied with the viral spreading of your work (in your website, under the social media "like" count, you wrote "Seeing these numbers rise is my drug.") Why is this such an important consideration to you?
For me, the number of likes/+'s/mentions/views are the closest thing I have to renumeration for work that is currently difficult to commodify. The means in which we are able to sell digital work is still very much loose and up in the air. I can take solace in these numbers. Know that the work is reaching people, even if the specific metrics are a fools game, an addictive comparison mechanism where the only impossible successful outcome is a continual rate of increase.
Is the possibility of the rapid spreading of your work one of the reasons you choose new media or video as a medium for most of your works?
It's less about rapidly spreading my work than about the possibility of widely spreading it. And cheaply. My technologically formative years were in the 90's when the internet was revolutionizing the idea of ubiquitous publishing and communication. We were using modems measured in baud, emailing around a tiny video of a cg dancing baby, not streaming the latest feature-length film wondering if a single service was going to have 1 billion active users. The 90's were a transitional period, and I think we're in another one (yes, yes, we're always in a transitional period). But unlike the technological idealism of the 90's led by thinkers, tinkerers, and artists, we seem to be in a confusing "what the fuck just happened" period where we're scared/uneasy/apprehensive about where technology may be leading us ...


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"I'm double minoring in music and visual arts. There are so many opportunities to do both; I don't have to choose one over the other. And together, they have helped me really understand what music is." (VC student)
"The Dance Department here really means a lot to me, because dance in my passion. I've really learned since coming to Valley that dance is really a form of worship… I never thought about that before I came here, and I am just in awe of that. My coach and my teacher here are not just striving to make me a dance person, but also someone who can spread God's Word through my dancing. It's incredible!" (VC student)
"I've been involved as a parent with the Marching Band. They are just an incredible group of parents—they are so friendly and so ready to help. They care so much about the children. It's like a really big family with 100 kids in the Marching Band." (VC parent)
"I'm the drum major and the field major; we're actually participating in the Tournament of Roses Parade this year in the Rose Parade, which will be viewed all over the world. We were chosen from all these different bands that applied, and we're playing with the Chinese Band from School 57 in Beijing!" (VC student)


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No, Doug, there was more money to be earned in the towns because of industrialization, less to be made on the land, for labourers, because of more efficient farming practices stemming from that industry and even less when the landlord started chucking them out because he wanted more wool to feed the looms. Those starving in ten-to-a-room hovels with shit running down the street outside carried on breeding and dying in large numbers. Industry drove the demographic changes that turned towns into the cities as we know them. Better technology (drugs and food production) cut down infant mortality and enabled smaller family sizes, and the populations were stable before the Industrial Revolution. The cities you love are an incidental result of industry and nothing more.
The next stinger is this one: 'Village life is a major killer: according to the World Food Program, three quarters of the billion people living in hunger are peasant farmers.' Did you spot the major confusion of correlation of with causation? Here, let me have a go with this kind of twisted logic: Fresh air is a major killer: three quarters of a billion people living in hunger live in the countryside. Apparently the positioning of a colon has a magical effect.
No, Doug, three-quarters of a billion people are living in hunger because they haven't got enough food.
Then we get: 'The move to the city, almost everywhere, results in a large improvement in rates of nutrition, longevity, infant mortality etc.' No, Doug, that was the farming and the technology, remember? Oddly enough cities don't spontaneously generate food or invent drugs.
Essentially the article continues in this vein. Apparently cities are the cure for the world's ills, which would have come as a surprise to Alexander Fleming, Louis Pasteur, Jethro Tull, John Snow and others on a rather large list of names which should also include the inventors of the condom and the contraceptive pill.


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At an event this week, the female celebrity I hate more than anyone right now made it a condition to her appearance that any person who spoke to her be removed from the event.
Several people were removed from the event for the infraction and our celebrity who really can no longer be called an actress also tried to have two people removed who looked at her because she said they looked at her "angrily."
I bet the cameras don't show any of that though.
Lindsay Lohan


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The sad coincidence of songwriting greats Jerry Leiber and Nick Ashford passing away on the same day certainly won't be recalled years from now like, say, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both dying on July 4, 1826. But these two founding fathers of modern pop songwriting will both be remembered for a shared legacy of bringing R&B-infused tunes to the masses, helping provide the soundtrack for many lives.
There are, of course, obviously differences in the duo's backgrounds and their overlapping careers peaked a few years apart. But there's plenty of common ground, as befitting two powerful musical crossover forces.
Both men were part of incredible, close songwriting teams – Leiber spinning years of hits with his teenage buddy Mike Stoller, Ashford penning classics with his wife, Valerie Simpson.
Both co-wrote great songs for the great artists of their time – including women, during an era when sexism pervaded much of the music world. Leiber and Stoller's "Hound Dog," after all, started out as a Big Mama Thornton blues growl before hip-swiveling Elvis Presley gave it his own country-and-blues twist on his way to becoming The King. The songwriting team would go on to pen "I'm a Woman" and "Is That All There is?" for Peggy Lee, and produce girl groups such as the Shangri-las and the Dixie Cups.
Some of Ashford and Simpson's best songs – "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," "You're All I Need to Get by" – rose on the soaring voices of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Perhaps Ashford-Simpson's most famous tune, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," another Gaye-Terrell hit, later became a solo blockbuster for Diana Ross, who also put an indelible mark on the songwriting couple's "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)."
Both perhaps most significantly, the Leiber-Stoller and Ashford-Simpson teams excelled at creating popular songs that became a common, melodic language for Baby Boomers during times of great cultural change – songs, thanks to memorable lyrics, expertly crafted melodies, strong production values and brilliant performances, endure.
Leiber and Stoller got an early start in igniting the rock revolution, writing in the 1950s for acts as varied as Presley ("Jailhouse Rock," "Kid Creole") and The Coasters ("Yakety-Yak," "Charlie Brown"), whose ingenious vocals elevated what would have been novelty hits in lesser hands to pop genius.
As Leiber and Stoller segued into the 1960s, capitalizing on the Phil Spector sound they helped inspire, Ashford and Simpson began writing for Ray Charles ("Let's Go Get Stoned," "I Don't Need No Doctor"). They later took their talent to the most successful crossover label of them all, Motown, where they turned out songs for Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Gladys Knight and The Pips, along with Ross, Gaye and Terrell, among others.
Leiber and Ashford both thrived for years, thanks to versatility that included becoming successful record producers. That sense of versatility is ingrained in their songwriting. Leiber's lyrics for The Coasters' many hits brimmed with humor ("Why is everybody always picking on me?" Charlie Brown asked), while he could pluck heartstrings of romantic idealization for sentimentalists of all ages ("Stand By Me," written with Ben E. King) and produce straight-out pulse-pounding rock ("Jailhouse Rock").
Ashford and Simpson brought drama and urgency in equal measures to their lyrics and melodies in songs like "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," without crossing the line into musical melodrama. They pumped soul into what critics called the soulless genre of disco with the late 1970s Chaka Khan hit "I'm Every Woman," which was later covered by Whitney Houston. Ashford and Simpson's magic, of course, extended to performing, most memorably with the early 1980s smash, "Solid," which laid some of the same groundwork for pop's next phase as their fellow Motown alum Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
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It's been more than a quarter-century since "Solid," and even longer since Leiber and Stoller's last hit. But the music and influence of Jerry Leiber and Nick Ashford, two great songwriters who leave legacies worth celebrating, will continue to reach out and touch us.
Editor's Note: The "In Memoriam" gallery has been corrected from a previous version that mistakenly showed Mike Stoller. We apologize for the error.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992.


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Where I come from, Gran Canaria, people is not well known for a sophisticated taste in music, to put it nicely. Most people stick to mainstream and whatever the disco puts out loudly. On top of that, there are only a handful of places where local bands can play live, and most coconcerts are usually played by the Ricky Martins and Alejandro Sanzs of the world. So yeah, the music scene is pretty poor in there.
For that reason, this band I was introduced to a while ago comes across as a delightful exception that flourished against all odds. The Amaroses. I saw them live last year, and it was a really good performance, energetic, right into your ears and fun!
This week my girlfriend brought their new album from Spain, and I listened to it properly. I really like the sound of it, the lyrics are just awesome, specially taking into account that the average level of English around there is pretty poor. I really recommend them if you like energetic Rock with an undertone of melodrama.
In general, I wouldn't actually write a blog post just to recommend a group I just discovered, if it wasn't that to my surprise, their album is released under a CC-BY-SA license! That totally made my day as the last thing I would expect is find a band from Gran Canaria so good and that is actually informed enough about free culture to release their work in a sensible license.


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IRONMAN® Florida 2020 Training Plan (Experienced, 10 Weeks), Starts 8/31/2020
David Glover, MSE, MS, CSCSAll plans by this Coach
10 Weeks
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"You are an IRONMAN®!" When you hear these magical words as you cross the finish line, you've accomplished something very special.
Designed for EXPERIENCED triathletes with multiple IRONMAN finishes, the primary goal of this training plan is to prepare you to EXCEL in IRONMAN Florida on November 7, 2020.
Crafted by Exercise Physiologist and Coach David Glover, MSE, MS, CSCS, this plan encapsulates his education, experience - 28 IRONMAN distance finishes with an 8:51 PR - success and passion coaching hundreds of triathletes to achieve their excellence...beyond what they knew they could do.
Beginning 10 weeks before your race, this plan progresses through one base period and one build period (18 hrs biggest training week) prior to tapering for your race. Each week typically contains 3x swims, 3x bikes and 3x runs plus 1 BRICK run. Long rides are on Saturday with long runs on Sunday. Monday is the designated day off. Using the plan, you will build up to: 3,800 yards (or meters) swimming, 5-6 hours biking and 2.5-3 hours running.
Prior to using this plan, you should be able to complete the following workouts:
• Swim: 1,000 meters or yards continuously
• Bike: 3.5 hours
• Run: 120 minutes
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Average Weekly Breakdown
|Weekly Average
|Longest Workout
|4:01 hrs
|2:30 hrs
|2:55 hrs
|1:40 hrs
|5:42 hrs
|5:00 hrs
|Workouts Per Week
|Weekly Average
|Longest Workout
|4:01 hrs
|2:30 hrs
|2:55 hrs
|1:40 hrs
|5:42 hrs
|5:00 hrs
Training Load By Week
This plan works best with the following fitness devices:
- Heart Rate Monitor
Sample Day 1
300 FR easy practice breathing both sides, r10s
2 x 100 Float Kick Drill, r10s
Main Set:
4 x 500 FR maintain same Z3 pace for all four (PADS #3), r30s
C/D: 300 easy CHOICE
View swim drill videos: http://www.enduranceworks.net/resources/swim-drill-videos/
Sample Day 1
Z2. Use small chain ring in front and keep cadence 90+ rpm.
Sample Day 2
Field test to set your training zones for the run.
Download and follow either Running Field Test #1 or #2 protocol at http://www.enduranceworks.net/resources/ to calculate your run training zones using heart rate, pace or perceived effort.
Your training zones may shift over time as you become more fit.
Sample Day 3
100 easy CHOICE, r5s
2 x 100 Side Kicking Drill, r10s
4 x 25 Tarzan Drill, r10s
Main Set:
Pyramid (use pull buoy on odd intervals - e.g. 100, 300):
100, 200, 300, 400 FR steady, r15s
400, 300, 200, 100 FR Z3, r15s
C/D: 200 easy CHOICE
View swim drill videos: http://www.enduranceworks.net/resources/swim-drill-videos/
Sample Day 3
Field test to set your training zones for the bike.
Download and follow "Cycling Field Test" protocol at http://www.enduranceworks.net/resources/ to calculate your bike training zones using power, heart rate or perceived effort.
Your training zones may change over time.
Sample Day 4
300 easy CHOICE
4 x 50 FR (fast Z5, easy Z1), r15s
2 x 100 FR start easy and build to Z4, r20s
100 FR easy Z1, r60s
Main Set:
1 x 1000 FR time trial - as fast as you can but pace yourself, r60s
See "Swimming Field Test" at http://www.enduranceworks.net/resources/ to calculate your swim training zones.
C/D: 200 easy CHOICE
Sample Day 4
Warm up 10' easy with 6 x 30" strides mixed in (quick, fast accelerations but not sprints) - 30" easy jog in between.
Hill repeats on moderate hill or 4-6% on treadmill:
2 x 90" up Z4 fast, jog down easy + 15" rest
6 x 30" up Z5 very fast, jog down easy + 15" rest
Finish Z1/Z2