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Richard Bland
American Steam merchant
Name | Richard Bland | ||
Type: | Steam merchant (Liberty) | ||
Tonnage | 7,191 tons | ||
Completed | 1942 - Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc, Baltimore MD | ||
Owner | American-South African Line Inc, New York | ||
Homeport | Baltimore | ||
Date of attack | 10 Mar 1943 | Nationality: American | |
Fate | A total loss by U-255 (Reinhart Reche) | ||
Position | 66° 53'N, 14° 10'W - Grid AE 2824 | ||
Complement | 69 (34 dead and 35 survivors). | ||
Convoy | RA-53 | ||
Route | Murmansk (1 Mar) - Loch Ewe - New York | ||
Cargo | 4000 tons of lumber | ||
History | Completed in April 1942 | ||
Notes on event | At 09.26 hours on 5 March 1943, U-255 fired a spread of three torpedoes at convoy RA-53 in 72°44N/11°27E and heard two detonations. The Executive was sunk and Richard Bland was damaged, but five days later finished off by the same U-boat. The Richard Bland (Master Lawrence Dodd) was struck on the starboard side by the third torpedo at the #1 hold. The torpedo did not explode, passed through the ship and went out the port side, creating holes of eight foot on either side. It cracked the deck and ruptured the collision bulkhead and flooded the forepeak tank, causing a starboard list. The ship remained with convoy with only a slightly reduced speed but on the night of 6 March straggled from convoy due gale force winds and rough seas and proceeded towards Iceland. At 16.36 hours on 10 March, U-255 found the Richard Bland about 35 miles off Langanes, Iceland and fired a spread of three torpedoes, but only one torpedo struck on the port side at the #4 hatch. At 16.47 hours, a second torpedo hit on the port side at the fireroom, bending the propeller shaft, flooding the #4 and #5 holds. Soon after the torpedo hit, the ship broke in two just forward of the bridge . A coup de grâce at 16.56 hours missed, but another at 21.07 hours apparently hit the stern section, which sank at 22.03 hours. The forward section was towed to Akureyri, Iceland where the ship was declared a total loss. After the first hit, the master ordered two weather boats launched, each carrying four men, and they rode at their painters until time to abandon ship. In attempting to pass these boats around the ship, the painters were lost and the boats drifted astern. The remaining men of the nine officers, 32 crewmen and 28 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, one 12lb, eight 20mm, two .50cal and two .30cal guns) had to abandon ship in two lifeboats after the second hit in rough seas. One overcrowded boat got away with only inches of freeboard, many clung to the side until they lost strength and drowned. The boat of the master is thought to have swamped and was never seen again. 27 survivors in the overcrowded boat were picked up after 13 hours by HMS Impulsive (D 11) (LtCdr E.G. Roper, DSO, DSC, RN) and landed at Seydisfjord, Iceland on 13 March. The two boats launched with four men in each were picked up the same morning, four of them landed at Reykjavik on 16 March and the others were taken to Scapa Flow. The master, five officers, 13 crewmen and 15 armed guards were lost. | ||
On board | We have details of 34 people who were on board. |
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Suber and Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center collaborate to provide open access to Tibetan literature
Peter Suber, director of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) and recently appointed director of the Harvard Library's Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC), in conjunction with the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC)—headquartered in Harvard Square—has been working to provide global access to more than 17,000 volumes of Tibetan literature. Founded in 1999, the TBRC specializes in seeking rare Tibetan texts, and then digitally preserving, cataloging and disseminating the literature online.
The TBRC provides free access to the texts to Tibetan religious leaders and their translators and provides subscription programs for university researchers. "But our overall goal is to provide free and open access to these works. Our only sticking point is funding," said Greg Beier, TBRC's director of sustainability. Suber noted, "There's a pressing need to provide open access to works that are already in the public domain. The appeal of this project is that the original works are objects of care and devotion, they're rare and fragile and they're all in the public domain. The Tibetan language and culture are endangered, and this project will preserve and share them."
Beier and Jeff Wallman, TBRC's executive director and director of technology, are currently working on fundraising projects to raise money for an endowment to support open access.
"There is a fundamental problem with making Buddhist religious texts open to all. It is not a copyright issue—copyright law didn't exist in the 17th century. The issue we face is religious law. This literature is sacred," Wallman said.


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Fuqua researchers discover an unexpected reason you may pick unhealthy options
It's that time of year when Americans start focusing on holiday celebrations, many of which will involve high-caloric food. As the festivities proceed, so do countless tips for keeping off extra weight this season.
But, there is one factor most people likely won't consider -- political correctness.
Research from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business suggests you could be choosing unhealthy options to serve your guests because you don't want to offend someone else.
Marketing doctoral student Peggy Liu and Fuqua marketing professor Gavan Fitzsimons led a team that conducted multiple experiments into how people choose between healthy and unhealthy food options when they are picking for both themselves and another person.
"We wanted to understand if food choices would change if they were picking a dish or snack for themselves and an average-sized person versus themselves and an overweight person," Liu said.
Their findings, "Matching Choices to Avoid Offending Stigmatized Group Members," are published in the November 2013 issue of the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
In one of the studies, participants were asked to choose a snack option of either wheat crackers or chocolate chip cookies for themselves and a person they had just met. In some cases, the recently introduced woman appeared as her normal size (wearing a size 0-2). In other situations, the woman was wearing a body suit that appeared to increase her weight by nearly 65 pounds (making her closer to a size 16).
Researchers discovered most participants (almost 60 percent) would choose the same snack for themselves and the woman when she appeared overweight. When the woman appeared her normal size, participants only choose the same snack about 30 percent of the time. When picking for themselves and the overweight women, participants didn't overwhelmingly choose one particular snack over the other (about 30 percent chose cookies and about 30 percent selected wheat crackers).
"What the results show is that people pick the same snack to avoid offending someone they perceive as overweight. This means that people might pick unhealthier options for themselves and others during the holidays if they think not doing so could hurt someone's feelings," Fitzsimons said.
In similar, additional studies, participants told researchers they thought it would be offensive either to give an overweight person healthy food and then take unhealthy food for themselves or, conversely, to give an overweight person unhealthy food and then take healthy food for themselves.
"This suggests that if you are heading back to the buffet to cut a piece of pumpkin pie for your overweight uncle, you might also cut a larger piece than normal for yourself, so you don't hurt his feelings," Liu said.
The research has implications beyond the buffet line.
"As marketers increasingly recognize that the shopper is often not the consumer of products and we often make product choices for others in our lives, firms need to better factor in a consumers' desire to match consumption within the household to avoid offense," Fitzsimons said.
"Counter to common marketing wisdom, a single product that adequately meets the needs of multiple family members without offending any may dominate individual items that perfectly meet the needs of each family member but raise the risk of offense," "Liu said.
Marketing doctoral student Troy Campbell and management professor Grainne Fitzsimons were also part of the research team.


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I am always appreciative of how much of the construction of the winter pots we are able to do in the shop, once we get to the installation phase. The greens for this oval bronze container had been stuffed into a form several days ago. We try to be very accurate about the size of those forms, especially given that they will last through at least 3 seasons. Once the centerpiece was set, we attached a collar of red sinamay. Sinamay is a polyester mesh available in various widths. We run a wire through a length of mesh, folded in have, with long running stitches. Once the wire is pulled tight around the centerpiece, it creates a wavy graceful collar that softens the transition from the greens to the centerpiece. Sinamay with a metallic thread is a simple way to say holiday, and is very simple to remove after the holidays. Marzela did all of the finishing touches.
We did have to shovel the snow out of the pots. Some pots had just the right depth of soil, once the fall plants were removed. Others needed a little topping up.
Even though these centerpieces were large, it was a short and simple matter to cut through the foam holding the greens, drive the bamboo stake down into the pot, and add a few greens to the ragged edges. This gold sinamay adds a very festive and absolutely weatherproof holiday note. Sinamay is also known as decor mesh, and it is readily available, should you search for it on your computer.
This low rectangular arrangement was finished in its entirety in the shop. We only added 10 stems of red twig to the center, once the installation was complete. This pot is festive and dressy.
Every pot got filled. If I have a container I do not intend to fill for the winter, I put it away. A container in the landscape that is left empty for the winter is a missed opportunity to garden. I have one very special, sculptural, and old French pot in my landscape that I never plant. That empty pot, and the weather acting on it, has a significance to me that I cannot really explain. Some garden ornament evokes very strong feelings, and that can be enough. But all of these pots needed filling. A winter life for a garden and its head gardener can be a good life.
These concrete urns needed to be filled for the winter. They are not especially fine pots, but there are six of them, and they punctuate a long terrace. What we have in them is simple. Of particular interest is the choice of greens. Mountain hemlock branches are harvested from trees at very high elevations. We have to take these greens early in the season. I could not order them now. These trees are up high, and buried in snow by now. They are perfect for containers in exposed and windy locations. Even in cut form, they will stay green until the end of March.
The pots and boxes in the back yard got installed today in fairly steady rain. Our high temperature today was 58 degrees-I will take that, and shrug off the rain.
This client bought these French made orangery boxes from me in 2003. The oval medallion at the bottom of each side of the box details the year of manufacture. These French boxes, the history of the manufacture of which dates back hundreds of years, are very dear to my heart. There are no other garden boxes quite like them. They are as beautiful a box as ever graced a landscape. They inspired me to open Branch. Though the oak and cast iron fittings are as solid as they can be, the paint has deteriorated. Weather takes its toll. We will restore them, at the end of the winter.
There is not so much more to say about this installation, except that once a container arrangement comes out of the shop, and finds a home in the landscape, it is easy to see what they provide is like no other element. If you are a gardener, I would encourage you to add some pots to your landscape and garden. They are a challenge and a delight, year round.
Landscapes with multiple levels of interest sustain the eye.
I am not so fond of working in the rain, but today was different. My mind was on another topic entirely. The garden can be so satisfying, on so many different levels. Year after year. Moment after moment. This unusually late November warmth and rain was an experience I would have missed, had I not been out there filling the pots for the winter season to come. Some garden pleasures are so unexpected, simple, and so striking.
This view out to the late November garden was beautiful. I have been working for these clients for going on 30 years. The holiday/winter pots fit right in. It was a perfectly rain soaked and fabulous November day.


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150. Complaints
150.1 Complaints.
Formal complaints shall conform to the requirements of this section. The Board will consider a complaint only after the Legal Department has notified the Board in writing that all administrative attempts to resolve a complaint have failed.
150.2 Who May Complain.
Complaints may be by any person affected by any proposed or effective rate, service regulation, practice, or service which the complainant alleges is in any respect unfair, unreasonable, unjust, or inadequate.
150.3 Procedure Upon Receipt of a Formal Complaint.
The Board, upon receipt of a formal complaint which is in substantial compliance with these procedural rules, shall without a hearing:
- (a) determine whether or not the complaint states a cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Board, and
- (b) determine whether probable cause exists for the complaint.
If the Board determines that a cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Board does not exist or should it determine that probable cause does not exist for the complaint, the Board will advise the complainant by order. A copy of such determination will be mailed to the cable operator. If the Board determines that the complaint states a cause of action within the Board's jurisdiction and that probable cause exists for the complaint, the Board shall cause a copy of the complaint to be served on the cable operator accompanied by a notice from the Board calling upon the cable operator to satisfy the complaint or to answer the same in writing within fifteen (15) days.
150.4 Answers.
- (a) Time. Within ten (10) days of the date of service of the complaint by the Board the cable operator shall respond to the Board with an answer to the complaint. For good cause shown, the Board or Legal Department may require the filing of an answer within a shorter time.
- (b) Contents. The answer shall state in short and plain terms a cable operator's defenses to each claim asserted and shall admit or deny the averments upon which the complainant relies. If the cable operator is without knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of an averment, the answer shall so state and this shall have the effect of a denial.
150.5 Satisfaction of Complaint.
If the cable operator desires to satisfy the complaint, it shall submit to the Board in the answer a statement of the relief which it is willing to give, a copy of which shall be contemporaneously served upon the complainant. Upon acceptance of this offer by the complainant and notice to the Board, the complaint shall be dismissed. If there is a partial settlement of the case with dismissal in part, the complainant may proceed with the remaining issues.
150.6 Notice of Hearing.
- (a) In the event the complaint is not satisfied, the Board or Legal Department may schedule a hearing on the matter and notice the cable operator accordingly.
- (b) If it is determined that the subject matter of the complaint involves a matter of general public interest, the Board or Legal Department may require that notice of the hearing be published in a newspaper of general circulation. Costs of publication shall be borne by the cable operator.


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That space under the stairs
October 14, 2013
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You may have noticed that I stalled out on the house purge I started a few months ago. I was on a roll for a while and then I just couldn't go through one. more. drawer. There's only so much of it I enjoy and then I need do other stuff for awhile.
But I'm BACK! I finished the kitchen (including the pantry, scary!) and then moved on to the basement. This space is going to be cake compared to years past when it was unfinished. Shudder. But so far I've only worked on spaces you can't even see – closet and storage spaces.
I'm SO EXCITED about a change I made to the area behind this door:
So. This is the storage space under the stairs. When we started finishing the basement early last year one of the first steps was to move all of the Christmas stuff into this spot. Early this year I majorly purged my holiday decor and made it so we had even more floor space for vacuums and such.
I have a LOT of Christmas decor. I love it but sometimes just want to get rid of half of it. But I do write this thing called a blog, and my son is still young and very much into holiday decorating. I figure in just a few years I'll be begging him to help with decor so for now I deal with the bins and don't sweat it. In no time at all we won't use half of it and I'll be wanting these days back. :)
Well, I don't know if it's just me, but it seems like till about March I'll find little bits of Christmas around the house. And because I'm lazy busy I just throw them on top of the bins instead of putting them away. So the Christmas closet became this:
Earlier this year I took some advice from my friend Carmen and took some of the items out of the bins and hung them instead. (Check out her awesome holiday closet here!) It did help – I hung some of the bulky greenery up on hooks and ended up getting rid of a ton of bins between this and purging.
But it wasn't enough. It still became a mess because of my laziness being busy and all:
So fast forward to some progress in the basement that happened last week – we had the cabinets for the kitchenette installed:
More glorious storage! Whoot! I'm still not sure if we'll do small uppers or not. Next up I need to buy and install the countertop and sink and then trim out and paint the cabinets. Even with all that still left to do I've already started filling them. ;)
And not even two minutes after they were installed I stood there and realized I had completely spaced it – my plan for years (YEARS!) has been very specific for this space – I had planned on a regular cabinet (for the sink) and then an under cabinet fridge with a smaller cabinet on the side.
Well I totally, completely, just plain forgot, about the fridge. I'm getting old remember? Argh. There wasn't much we could do about it either – we couldn't return the cabinet that had already been installed.
So, I had to come up with a new solution. Our dream has always been to have a fridge down here, for snacks and drinks during movies, or for hubs to grab while he's working (his office is down there). So I got to thinking about that messy closet – and came up with a new idea for the space.
And after hours of cleaning out the garage and moving stuff around and dragging a LOT of bins up and cleaning of the storage area, I ended up with this:
There's a bonus to my mix up – to install a fridge under a counter you need to get a a specific one that vents out the front, and those are not cheap. The least expensive one I've found is $400-something at Home Depot. And the more I thought about it, I knew we'd want a fridge for more than just drinks (the version at HD was just for beverages). This one is just a standard mini fridge ($100-something instead) with space for food too. And a freezer!
For PIZZA ROLLS.
Awwww yeah.
This closet is actually nearly 50 square feet of storage space – and I LOATHE wasted space, so I wanted to make it even more functional. I picked up a couple super cheap bookcases ($17 each) and put them inside as well:
Our built ins in the family room down there are awesome but not wide enough for games, so this is a perfect solution. Now all the games are in one spot and easier to find (I had them in a dresser before).
There's still a few things I'd like to do – I still need to get an outlet installed in here (I have the fridge plugged into a heavy duty extension cord now but hope to have the outlet installed this week).
And I still feel like the vertical space is wasted – so my plan is to stack the bookcases (securing them to the wall of course) where the fridge is now, then placing that off to the left. I'll have room for a little cart or something next to it to hold plates and such. I won't be able to move stuff around till I get the outlet installed.
That way the fridge will have even more room to breathe in there – it's got more than enough clearance around it now but it will have more moved over (with the open space behind it).
I did my research before moving the fridge in this space – make sure you do the same before doing something similar. It's a large closet and we don't keep clothes in here obviously (not a good idea near a fridge). You want to make sure there's enough breathing room around it. (I asked numerous electrician friends/my dad and all said it was fine.)
Eventually the microwave will go out the kitchenette, but for now it will stay in here. This is like a new room in our house! The Bub and I were SO excited about it last night, we may have made some pizza rolls to celebrate. :)
Check out the before and after:
See why my back hurts now? I think I moved about 12 bins up. We don't have quite enough room for one more big one in the garage so it's still back there in the closet. (We have a door in hubby's office to access that side.)
I'll show you the garage organization soon – that space is still a pit and next on my list after the house is decluttered. One step at a time.
Do you have a little storage space like this under your stairs? I always think of all the possibilities – a wine cellar, a hide out for the kids, bookcases – all of it sounds awesome to me. Now ours is a bit of Christmas/storage/game/kitchenette room. Love. What do you do with yours?


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By Erlynn S. Kirsch
2014 Global Learning Fellow and social studies educator at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School in Falls Church, VA
"It's impossible to get any good service around here!" Well, China seems to be fixing the problem…
In June, and as part of the NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellowship, I was privileged to spend a week in China with a wonderful group of educators. We spent a lot of time researching the educational systems of our two countries, discovering the many differences and similarities.
We talked about the direction public education is headed and continued to weigh the impacts of testing and the new, added emphasis on developing critical thinkers, problem solvers, and competent service providers.
I was pleasantly surprised to find my Chinese counterparts sharing similar struggles with large class sizes, digitally distracted learners, long hours, pressure to meet standards with decreasing contact hours with our students, and overall burn out. While at the same time we were able to revel in the joys found at the heart of teaching; reaching students and helping to unlock hidden interests and enjoying the fulfillment of student success.
What made me question my own way of thinking was our visit to a Beijing vocational school. In China, eighth grade students take a standardized exam— the results of which send them on a college-prep path or a vocational one. The exam determines at this young age what type of high school they will attend, and although there are some exceptions, what employment opportunities are open to them.
My discussion here, however, is not the lack of opportunity or freedom in the Chinese or the United States model, but rather the preparedness for highly-skilled, service-oriented jobs that China is growing its focus on. A comment during the visit that China has created "too many businessmen" had me recognizing our own shortcomings, as well as values we place on different jobs.
Our own educational culture is to push students to their peak potential and, in essence, a high paying job. While not all would fault the system for doing so, it has placed separate value on jobs of academia vs. jobs of service.
American public schools are pressured to achieve high graduation rates, putting stress on teachers and ultimately the students to perform to a standard that may or may not be within their ability or even inclination to achieve. Students are pushed into the college-prep path because it is best for the school and not necessarily best for the child.
Vocational programs continue to lose funding in difficult economic times and the price paid is that students not on the college path are now also lacking the skills to enter the service workforce. Those students may never have the chance to pursue a true interest. We, like China, are now finding ourselves with too many college graduates without jobs, and not enough qualified service workers.
In an American fast food restaurant, it would not be uncommon to find oneself waiting on a slow moving line or receiving an incorrect order. Comparatively, I have never received service like I did in a KFC in Xi'an, China. We were directed to a table, given a menu in English, and a waitress who spoke some English took our order, returned with food, and cashed us out at our table all with a sincere willingness to help as we divided our check and counted in a foreign currency.
It took years to create a testing culture in American public schools, and likewise, it will take years to reverse the model. Unless we also see the value in all levels of society in reference to careers, we will continue to do a disservice to our students.
Along with creating sharp thinkers who are culturally and globally competent, we also must provide our students with the skills need to perform in a working environment that they will not only be prepared for, but will find enjoyment and success in.
Subscribe to the NEA Foundation's blog to receive our series of guest blogs from the 2014 Global Learning Fellows about their experience in Beijing and Xi'an, China.


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March 31 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Whether it's your first or your thousandth time, you can't beat Sunday nights at the Mercury Cafe for their fun, energy, and value! Each week we teach the basics of this easy to learn dance plus a few moves and tricks to show off at the dance! Drop-ins, singles, couples, families, and groups are all welcome.
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"Live your life with a passion;"
Everything you do, do well."
- Steve Harris
"It only makes sense that every facet of our daily lives should depend upon the position of celestial bodies hundreds of millions of miles away."
- Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
"I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul."
- William Ernest Henley
What, were you expecting something different? Sorry, wrong place. :) Thinking critically is not only our right, and our greatest power, but also our moral obligation - and, if you did it for even 5 minutes in your life, you wouldn't believe in astrology or horoscopes, and wouldn't need or even want the illusory escape from responsibility and reality they bring.
"Your life is your own. Rise up and live it."
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Although the real estate market was sent reeling for a moment under the weight of the pandemic, it didn't take long for the industry to adapt to a "new normal."
The housing market is still one of the brightest spots in the U.S. economy and still a wise investment strategy for everyday Americans.
Buying your first home brings with it a plethora of emotions, from excitement to apprehension. Once you understand the process, and realize that there are specific steps to take, it becomes a lot less anxiety-filled and much more exciting.
Let's take a look at the baby steps that will take you from deciding to purchase a home to the closing table with the least amount of hassle.
How is Your Credit?
Figuring out where you stand financially and applying for a mortgage are the first steps on the road to home ownership. First, think about your credit. If you haven't checked it in awhile, it's a good idea to get your reports from the three major credit reporting agencies.
Every U.S. adult is guaranteed one free credit report annually from each of the three major reporting agencies. They are not automatically sent out; you need to request them.
While the internet is full of sites that offer free credit reports, there is often a catch.
"For example, some sites sign you up for a supposedly "free" service that converts to one you have to pay for after a trial period," warns authorities with the United States Federal Trade Commission.
"If you don't cancel during the trial period, you may be unwittingly agreeing to let the company start charging fees to your credit card."
Therefore, they suggest that you use the only company they authorize: AnnualCreditReport.com.
Go over the reports first to look for errors. Take the time to fix any errors before applying for a mortgage.
How are Your Finances?
Knowing where you stand financially is vital to knowing how much you can comfortably spend on house payments every month.
So, step number two involves sitting down with all your bills and determining how much money you bring in and how much goes out every month.
You'll also need some money set aside for the down payment and closing costs. Some sellers can be persuaded to help with closing costs but it's not a guarantee you'll find one, so make sure you have from 2 to 4 percent of the purchase price for closing costs.
Shopping for a Home Loan
Finding a lender willing to lend you the money for a home puts you in a strong negotiating position with home sellers. The lender will let you know how much of a loan you'll get, at what rate and supply you with a letter of pre-approval.
Shopping for lenders is important so that you can compare rates and terms. And don't be mislead by the stated loan rate if you're shopping online. Compare the annual percentage rates (APR) and the fees of each lender.
Lenders will supply you with a loan estimate in a format that is easy to compare with the estimates of other lenders.
NOW you can go home shopping!
Just as soon as you compile your wish list, that is. Write down everything you want in your new home. Of course, you most likely won't get it all, but it's important to get clear on what you want.
Go over the list and remove anything you feel is just too unrealistic for your situation. Then, rearrange the list so that the three most important items are at the top.
These three items are your priorities and you should share them with your agent. This way, you're only shown homes that fit your criteria, saving both your time and ours.
Next, choose a neighborhood. If you're new to the area we are happy to help you with this step. We have extensive knowledge of all of our local communities, including schools, parks and other amenities.
When you have several neighborhoods in mind, we can go shopping for your new home!


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Alliance Awards Third College Aggies Online Scholarship
Casper College students earn first place in agriculture advocacy competition.
April 6, 2012
The Animal Agriculture Alliance is excited to announce the results of its third annual College Aggies Online (CAO) scholarship competition. The nationwide program was developed to help college students utilize social media to share agriculture's story.
CAO is an online competition open to all college students with an interest in agriculture. Since its launch in 2009, more than 750 college students from more than 50 different universities and clubs have registered to participate in the program.
Forum members earn points by posting weekly blogs, photos and videos related to agriculture at http://aggiesonline.ning.com and by hosting agriculture advocacy events at their schools. This season, CAO participants shared 4,500 photos on the network and authored nearly 250 blog posts.
Members of the Casper College Agriculture Club in Wyoming formed the top-scoring club with 2,245 total points. The group will receive a $1000 scholarship and one representative will be invited to receive a complimentary trip to Washington, D.C. to attend the Alliance's 11th annual Stakeholders Summit in Washington, D.C. in May.
North Dakota State University's Collegiate FFA Club came in second place with 1,815 points and will receive $500. They were closely followed by the South Dakota State University's Collegiate 4-H Club, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College's Cattlemen's Club, Purdue University's Ag Task Force, and the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
With 1,005 points, the individual high score went to Jessie McClellan of Casper College. She will receive a $500 scholarship. Adam Bettenhausen of North Dakota State University came in second place with 870 points and will be awarded $300.
"Every day, thousands of conversations about food production take place online using social media. Agriculture needs to be a part of this dialogue – and that's why College Aggies Online is so important," said Alliance President and CEO Kay Johnson Smith, "We are so proud of all of our student participants for both expanding their knowledge of agriculture issues and sharing their personal stories using these new tools."
Students are encouraged to continue utilizing the CAO forum and the CAO Facebook page to connect and learn after the conclusion of the competition. The Alliance wishes to thank the National Pork Board for its generous sponsorship of the program. For more information about the contest, or to become a sponsor of next year's competition, contact Kerry Lynch at [email protected].
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Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal Publication Acceptance Date: 12/9/2011 Publication Date: 4/1/2012 Citation: Joerger, R.D., Sartori, C., Frye, J.G., Turpin, J.B., Schmidt, C., Mcclelland, M., Porwollik, S. 2012. Gene expression analysis of Salmonella enterica Enteritidis NalR and Salmonella enterica Kentucky 3795 exposed to HCl and acetic acid in rich medium. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 9(4):331-337. Interpretive Summary: In the United States, Salmonella enterica serovar Kentucky has become one of the Salmonella most frequently isolated from chickens. While Kentucky is the most common type of Salmonella found in chickens the number of Salmonella serovar Enteritidis isolated form chickens varies from year to year. Interestingly, while neither serovar cause disease in poultry, Enteritidis appears to result in more human diseases while Kentucky only rarely causes disease in humans. The reasons for this are not well understood. Survival in acidic (low pH) conditions is necessary for Salmonella to colonize a host because of the low pH in animal digestive tracts. Studies of S. Kentucky isolated from chickens showed it responded differently to acid than other serovars. To explore this, gene expression of S. Kentucky was compared to S. Enteritidis. These strains were tested by ten minute exposures to HCl (pH 4.5) or to acetic acid (pH 5.5) in rich media. Microarray analysis indicated that more genes were turned on or off in S. Kentucky than in S. Enteritidis under these conditions. Both serovars appear to use the same lysine-based pH stabilization system during acid exposure. Overall, it appears that the responses to acid by S. Kentucky and S. Enteritidis are similar, but differences exist in the scope and magnitude of the responses. These responses could explain the difference in prevalence of serovar Kentucky and Enteritidis in chickens. Further investigations could identify host responses by the chickens that could be adjusted to reduce the levels of dangerous pathogens like S. Enteritidis in chickens, thus improving food safety and reducing the risk of infection to humans. Technical Abstract: In the United States, serovar Kentucky has become one of the most frequently isolated Salmonella enterica serovars from chickens. The reasons for this prevalence are not well understood. Phenotypic comparisons of poultry Salmonella isolates belonging to various serovars demonstrated that serovar Kentucky isolates differed from those of most other serovars in their response to acid. Gene expression analysis was performed with aerated exponentially growing poultry isolates, Salmonella enterica serovar Kentucky 3795 and Enteritidis NalR, exposed for 10 min to tryptic soy broth adjusted to pH 4.5 with HCl and to pH 5.5 with HCl or acetic acid. Data obtained by microarray analysis indicated that more genes were up- or down-regulated in strain Kentucky 3795 than in Enteritidis NalR under acidic conditions. Acid exposure in general caused up-regulation of energy metabolism genes and down-regulation of protein synthesis genes, particularly of ribosomal protein genes. Both strains appear to similarly utilize the lysine-based pH homeostasis system as up-regulation of cadB was observed under the acidic conditions. Expression of regulatory genes (rpoS, fur, phoPQ) known to be involved in the acid response showed similar trends in both isolates. Differences between Kentucky 3795 and Enteritidis NalR were observed with respect to the expression of the hdeB-like locus SEN1493 (potentially encoding a chaperone important to acid response), and some differences in the expression of other genes such as those involved in citrate utilization and motility were noted. qPCR analysis data generally paralleled the microarray data. It appears that the early stages of the transcriptional response to acid by isolates Kentucky 3795 and Enteritidis NalR are similar, but differences exist in the scope and in some facets of the response. It is possible that more prolonged exposure to HCl or acetic acid might reveal more distinct differences in gene expression or that the quantitative differences observed might lead to differences in protein levels that could explain the observed differences 36 in the acid phenotype of serovar Kentucky and other Salmonella serovars. |


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Anyone who traveled to Breezy Point, Queens, in New York City in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, even as recently as a few of days ago, would have needed an SUV — its main thoroughfare was under 3 feet of water. Today, you can see pavement. It sounds like a small victory, but this beachfront, blue-collar town is willing to accept progress in increments.
"You have no idea how much the flooding situation here has improved," says Fire Department of New York Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer as his SUV winds its way into town. The line of cars to get into Breezy Point stretches for miles, all the way back to the highway. "Some of this is people wanting to see their homes, and some of this is just people wanting to see if it looks as bad in person as it does on TV."
Breezy Point is a place where cops and firemen and nurses buy homes. One side of the peninsula opens out into Jamaica Bay; the other, the Atlantic Ocean. People come here to retire or relax. Then, last Monday night, Sandy roared into town, and Breezy Point became home to a harrowing scene: one of the biggest residential fires New York has ever known.
"Flames were shooting 50 feet into the air," says Pfeifer, who was the first chief on the scene. "Radiant heat would light up the next building, and then that building would explode in fire." Pfeifer said he had only seen anything like it once or twice before.
"It was very hot and very fast-moving," he says. "I have seen fire like that moving quickly on 9/11 ... and an industrial fire in Greenpoint ... but I never saw anything of this magnitude in residential buildings."
The fire is still under investigation, but Pfeifer says it started in the houses along the ocean side. It may have been an electrical fire; as floodwaters roared in, there may have been a spark. What is more certain is that it took firefighters five hours to bring the fire under control and another four after that to put it out. Miraculously, no one — firefighter or resident — was killed.
"I had three towers up," Pfeifer says of the high pressure hoses that are used to dowse fires, "and it wasn't doing anything. We had hurricane-force winds, no water pressure. ... I had guys who were sending up oxygen tanks so they could keep fighting the fire."
Now the six square blocks where the one- and two-story houses once stood looks like a snapshot from London after the Blitz. There is an occasional chimney standing, and everything else is flat. The residents who do come to survey the damage pull small children's wagons behind them as they walk to where their houses once stood. Invariably, the wagons roll out empty. There is nothing left to save.
It's Personal
Pfeifer is the New York City fire department's chief of counterterrorism and emergency preparedness. He has been in Breezy Point nearly every day since the fire, trying to help the community get back on its feet.
To understand how Hurricane Sandy has effected Pfeifer, you have to know a little bit about the chief's history. He fought fires in Breezy Point as a volunteer when he was just 18 years old. Now, the citywide command chief has a weekend house here; so does his son and so do his parents. People here know Joe Pfeifer. One resident asks him about the bandage on his face.
"Ah, it was an ember from Monday night," he says, changing the subject. It's actually a second-degree burn, but he doesn't tell anyone that. He's one of a handful of firefighters who suffered injuries fighting this fire during the hurricane.
Almost a week later, Pfeifer is still gaming out the blaze. "If I didn't stop it on this corner," he begins telling Bill Radtke and his daughter Deidre before Radtke jumps in: "You would have lost all of them," Radtke says.
Pfeifer considers that. "I would have lost your house," he says.
"Your son's place, too," Radtke suggests.
"Yeah, my son's place, too," Pfeifer says.
As the pair walk away, Pfiefer looks over the field of ash. "And now the question is how does the community recover?"
Community-Driven Recoveries
One of the answers can be found in the small shopping mall offices where the Breezy Point Cooperative is trying to organize the local relief effort. It's working with FEMA, city offices and the FDNY to help get Breezy Point back to normal. Pfeifer is an evangelist about preparedness, and he's convinced that the plans that have been made since the Sept. 11 attacks and in the wake of last year's Hurricane Irene have made communities more resilient.
Arty Lighthall, the general manager of the neighborhood cooperative, sits at the head of a table and runs through an alphabet soup of local and federal agencies. The group meets every day, sets a 24-hour goal and then checks back to see if they have achieved it.
Lighthall, who seems pleased with their progress, runs through the list of accomplishments while Pfeifer and almost a dozen other people follow along. Officials from the New York City Office of Emergency Management Health and Human Services are there. Another volunteer tapes a map of the Breezy Point area on the wall and shows how he intends to get the hydrant system up and running.
A major concern now, Pfeifer says, is that as people return to their homes, other fires could break out. People realize they don't have flood insurance, but they do have homeowners insurance, and candles "accidentally" get knocked over and houses go up in flames. It happened in New Orleans after Katrina.
Concerns about arson aside, Pfeifer says this kind of community coordination is what is supposed to happen after a disaster. City officials are now helping local leaders get to the next phase: recovery. The FDNY is no longer just in the business of putting out fires, Pfeifer says. It is cutting downed trees and de-watering flood zones, and helping local communities learn how to fend for themselves. FDNY water pumps and oversized hoses are all over Breezy Point, putting the water back into the sea.
Since Sept. 11, the new way of thinking has been to let communities take the lead in recovery. The preparedness drills and city management teams aren't designed to have the city take over. Instead, it's about giving communities the tools they need to cope.
The Sept. 11 attacks were concentrated on a 16-acre area. The damage from Hurricane Sandy is much bigger and diffuse.
"Because we have such a large location, and many locations around the city have to be done at the same time, it is really going to depend on the communities," Pfeifer says. "So we're trying to show them how to run this themselves. And it is one thing to do it right after a disaster strikes. ... It is another to have them do it long term. And this is going to go on for quite a long time."
Theresa Flannagan used to run bake sales, exercise classes and Halloween parties in Breezy Point. She says people saw the storm coming, but no one imagined it would do the damage that it did.
"We thought it would be like Hurricane Irene," Flannagan says. "The waters from that came up the street, went back down the street and hardly left a puddle."
Hurricane Sandy put 5 feet of water in her house, and she tears up just thinking about it. She says everyone is dazed by the magnitude of it all. And that feeling, she says, is familiar. "It reminds me of right after 9/11, the way everybody looks, the fear in their eyes ... scary," she says.
Pfeifer agrees that there is an element of that going on. He should know: He was the first fire chief to arrive at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.
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Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee's death which falls on Friday (June 23, 1953), and which Atal Bihari Vajpayee termed as "Nehru Conspiracy" was as turbulent as his heroic life.
The founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the precursor to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Dr. Mookerjee had been arrested and kept without medical care in degrading conditions for over a month in Srinagar in May-June 1953 by the Sheikh Abdullah's J & K government,
Despite his known heart condition which the rarefied air of Kashmir didn't help, Dr. Mookerjee was finally offered the care of a hospital just a couple of days before his death—shifted in a small jeep instead of an ambulance and was kept in a gynecology ward, according to present BJP president Amit Shah- and administered penicillin injection despite his protestations that he was allergic to it, as BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra asserted in a TV show, citing evidence of an eyewitness.
Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru refused to entertain a written appeal of Dr. Mookerjee's mother for an impartial inquiry as she believed her son's death was a murder as the family members hadn't been allowed to meet him during his long confinement—nor his two companions allowed to visit him—apparently illegal for it was done without a formal, legal trial.
Dr. Mookerjee had decided to take on the prevailing political situation in Kashmir where the state not only had its own constitution, it's own flag but even it's own Prime Minister (Sheikh Abdullah) whose permission was necessary for other citizens of the country to enter the state! Dr. Mookerjee's war-cry that "Ek Desh Mein Do Vidhan, Do Pradhan aur Do Nishan Nahin Chalenge" (One nation can't have two constitutions, two Prime Ministers and two Flags) would resonate for decades to come.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the future Prime Minister, who had partly accompanied Dr. Mookerjee in that fatal march to Srinagar as a journalist, insisted it was a conspiracy to let Dr. Mookerjee enter Srinagar so as he could then be incarcerated and dealt with severely. As Vajpayee was to recall: "Later, we came to know that J & K government and Nehru government had entered into a conspiracy, as per which it was decided that Dr. Mookerjee would be allowed to enter J & K but not be allowed to leave."
Dr. M.S. Gowalkar, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur, in a premonitory caution, had warned Dr. Mookerjee that he was putting his life to risk.
The academicians and historians over the years have provided several clues to Nehru's antipathy towards Dr. Mookerjee who was his colleague in independent India's first cabinet as industry minister not long ago.
However, three years into his job as a Union minister, Dr. Mookherjee had resigned on April 8, 1950 against the Nehru-Liaqat Pact. In Indologist Dr. Koenraad Elst's words, the Pact was an "unequal treaty in which Nehru promised Pakistani Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan not to interfere in the treatment of the minority Hindus across the border, even while the latter were suffering large-scale atrocities in East Bengal." The Indian part of the Pact didn't hold water as a stable communal cease-fire had descended on India after the day of Gandhi's murder.
Dr. Mookerjee was often at crossroads with Indian National Congress (INC) during the Freedom Struggle, including Quit India Movement (1942), which he didn't support along with the Hindu Mahasabha of which he was a part.
Critics cite it as proof of Dr. Mookerjee and Hindu Mahasabha's corrosive role in India's freedom struggle. However a contrary view is that Hindu Mahasabha suspected Congress to have a "Muslim-appeasement policy" with no regard to the concern and well-being of the Hindus. They believed Quit India Movement was no better than a vent to let out the frustrations of Indians and was as phoney as the "non-cooperation" and "civil disobedience" movement. None of these achieved their objectives and were fake movements.
Dr. Mookerjee's role in the partition of Bengal into West Bengal and East Pakistan is glorious beyond words. When the Muslim League government of Bengal in 1946 had butchered and raped minority Hindus by several thousands during the "Great Calcutta Killings" and "Noakhali Riots" of a genocidal nature, Mookherjee had championed the cause of Bengal partition so as Hindus could be safe in West Bengal rather than be subjected to genocide in East Pakistan. The Bengal Muslim League and its leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy had earlier sought to create an un-partitioned, an independent Bengal state—which won't be part of either India or Pakistan! Suhrawardy was conscious that with its coal mines and jute mills, as well as Calcutta and its mighty port, would all go to Hindu-majority West Bengal.
The calamity of great Bengal famine of 1943 which cost 38 lakh lives also saw Dr. Mookerjee at his best. He led the Relief Coordination Committee which set up 5000 relief kitchens for famine-stricken people. He had then hit out at Food Minister of Bengal, Suharawardy, and his business friend Ispahani, with these words: "Bengal has not seen greater acts of official crime in its long history."
Dr. Mookerjee, born on July 6, 1901, was also an illustrious scholar and became vice-chancellor of Calcutta University at the age of 33, like his father Ashutosh Mookerjee once was. Dr. Mookerjee was part of Congress and a member of the Bengal legislative assembly in 20s and 30s. Disillusioned by Congress and its policies against Hindus, he had joined the Hindu Mahasabha in 1939.
Dr. Mookerjee's speech at Banaras Hindu University in 1940 is still relevant today:
"If I have understood the history of my country alright, a pacifism that refuses to take up arms against injustice and makes one a passive spectator of oppression and aggression, does not represent the real teaching of India…
"Disruptive forces are at work within the country itself…A divided India was always a prey to the foreign invader from the days of Alexander and Mahmud of Ghazni to those of Vasco de Gama, Dupleix and Clive.
"There is much disharmony and disunity in India today. Communal differences have taken such an acute turn that fanatic claims for the vivisection of our Motherland are widely asserted."
These words ring a bell even today.


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The best of both worlds! All-Star Baseball 2003 offers the perfect blend of simulation-style hardball for the baseball fanatic, with the pick-up-and-play ease for the casual sports gamer. The game features all 30 Major League Baseball (MLB) teams and more than 900 professional players. Ten modes of play include Exhibition, Season, and Career, and the specialty modes include Batting Practice and Home Run Derby. The new Expansion mode allows gamers to create custom teams--with unique cities, stadiums, and logos--to add to the Major League schedule. The Cooperstown Hall of Fame team lets fans play with greats like Mike Schmidt, Reggie Jackson, and Yogi Berra. Games are called by Bob Brenly, Thom Brennaman, and Steve Lyons.
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Ian Sawyer (2018): Is progressing in a fully-funded PhD program in American Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, where he is concentrating in American and Trans-Atlantic Modernisms.
Rose Munsey-Kano (2018): Is in her first year of a full-funded MA program at Georgetown University where she is researching a thesis on contemporary anglophone literature.
Elisa Rodriguez (2014): Works as a teacher and tutor for incarcerated youth at the Lansing Youth Detention Center in Lansing, NY
Grace Wivell (2014): Received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Indonesia for 2014-15; was so successful the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation (AMINEF) hired her for two years to help future ETAs. Is currently a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at Stony Brook University.
Julia Becker (2013): School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award winner (2013); teaching freshman and sophomore English at Newark Preparatory Charter School through Teach for America
Brianna Gobetz (2013): Ithaca College Presidential Scholar; completing an MA at Columbia University Teachers College
Latrice Williams (2012, English/English Ed.) is certified to teach 1st-6th grade. She received her M.A.T degree from Brown University in 2013, after which she taught sixth grade math and science in Charlotte, NC. She is currently teaching at Nathaniel Greene Middle School in Providence, RI.
Morgan Goldstein (2012): is pursuing an MFA in dramaturgy at the American Repertory Theatre Institute, which is affiliated with Harvard University.
Lucy Gram (2012, English & Drama Major) is a freelance theatre director, arts administrator, and photographer. Shortly after graduation she moved to Boston and started working for Project STEP, a string training education program that identifies and instructs musically talented children from underrepresented Boston communities. She is now their Communications and Administrative Coordinator. When she's not at work, Lucy is directing theatre and producing through her company, One Bird Productions.
Alison Ehrenreich (2012 English and Writing): My job caters to all factions of the Marketing and Communications department at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Ad sales, copy editing/writing, social media, press releases, promotions, and publication management are just some of the few responsibilities I have.
Alison writes: "Of all my duties, publication management is perhaps the most stressful and rewarding. It includes our show programs and dramaturgical magazine Asides. I'm collecting and editing content from all departments of the theatre that will eventually end up in the hands of our audience. Ads, dramaturgical articles and artist biographies must all be under review. Recently, I have just finished work on the two publications for our spring repertory Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 featuring Stacy Keach as Falstaff. With a cast of 31 and a production team of 12, that is a lot of bio editing stress."
Haley Brown (2012, English Major, Minors in Honors and Women's Studies): Immediately following graduation, Haley went to work and live on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota with a children's charity called Simply Smiles for three months. She continued to work for Simply Smiles for a year, collaboratively managing donor events, fundraising, and volunteer recruitment and care. She then moved to Boston and currently works in fundraising for the Handel and Haydn Society, a period instrument orchestra and chorus that is the oldest performing arts organization in the United States. Haley placed third in her age group in the Hartford Women's Sprint Triathlon last September, and is currently training for an Olympic-distance race in the spring. In her spare time, she runs the work-study program at JP Centre Yoga in Jamaica Plain, MA, where she actively strives to build intentional community.
James Sica (2012, English and Writing Major): My new position is officially the Volunteer Assistant Coach of Harvard University Women's Swimming & Diving and Coach at the Cambridge Masters Swim Club. I will be working with the college team to gain experience working in the Ivy League and get hands on experience working with all aspects of their program. With the Masters team I will be working with swimmers 18 and up at the Harvard pool.
Haley Davis (2012, English minor): Since November 2012 I've been in the Special Markets Sales Department at Random House LLC (now Penguin Random House). In January, I was promoted from Sales Assistant to Sales Associate. Beginning this past September, Haley has been involved in the "Everybody Wins Power Lunch" program, where she reads to a first grade student every week during her lunch.
Emily Brown (2012): Studying for her M.S. in Criminal Justice Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Emily was previously the Interim Registrar at Colorado Heights University, a Volunteer Organizer for AmeriCorps VISTA, and a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Slovakia.
Emily George (2011): Completed an MA in English at King's College, London, and taught reading at Seattle-area schools in 2013 and 2014; this fall she will begin the PhD program in English Literature at the University of Washington
Robert Tate (2010, MAT 2011): completed an MA in English Literature at UVA before beginning a fully-funded PhD program in literature at Duke University.
Nicole Fisher (Hartz) (2009, English Major; 2010, MAT Program): Graduated cum laude from the J.D. program at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in 2014. During her time at Marshall-Wythe Nicole was the Senior Articles Editor for the Journal of Women and the Law, argued on the Moot Court team, and served as a Legal Writing and Research Fellow. Nicole worked as an associate at a private healthcare law practice after law school and then as a Senior Assistant City Attorney in Hampton, Virginia. Currently, Nicole is embarking on a new opportunity in the government contracts division of Huntington Ingalls at Newport News Shipbuilding - the sole provider of the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarines and warships. Nicole is also an adjunct professor at Marshall-Wythe and teaches in the LL.M program for international law students. Nicole met her husband at Ithaca College. He also attended Marshall-Wythe and is a prosecutor in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Clara Eisinger (2010): Teaches high school English in the International Baccalaureate Program in western North Carolina
Robert Tate (2010, MAT '11): Completed an MA in English Literature at the University of Virginia; this fall, he will begin the PhD program in English at Duke University
Chris Lisee (2010, double major in English and Journalism): Staff writer for Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; will enter the Ph.D. program in the Harvard Divinity School, Fall 2011.
Danielle O'Reilly (2010, minor in H&S Honors Program): Accepted into the accelerated M.A. program in English Education at Villanova University, aiming towards certification in secondary education.
Clara Eisinger (2010), earned an M.A. from Wake Forest; she was recently hired by the Iredell-Statesville school district in North Carolina to teach 11th-grade IB English.
Robert "Bob" Volpicelli, PhD (2009, English & Honors Program) has completed his Ph.D. in English at Penn State University and is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Randolph-Macon College in Virginia beginning in Fall 2015. His book, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.
Nicki Bucciaglia (2009): Assistant Professor, First-Year Seminar Program, St. Olaf College, Minnesota. In 2016, Nicki completed an M.F.A. in the English Department at Southern Illinois University, for which she received a full-tuition remission and a stipend for three years. In Summer 2014, Nicki was the Assistant Director of SIU's Young Writers Workshop for high school students. She is also the co-founder of SIU's literary magazine Psychopomp. As president of its Graduate Writers Forum, Nicki organized the annual SIU literary festival in Spring 2014. Her stories have appeared in the online journals West Branch Wired and Tin House. Between IC and SIU, Nicki taught English in Osaka, Japan, in the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Programme.
Lillian Shafer (2008): Studying for an M.S. in Information Science at SUNY Albany; has a full tuition scholarship and the Carson Carr Diversity Scholar Assistantship.
Rosie Barki (2007): "I attended the University of Texas San Antonio, where I received my PhD in Latina/o Literature. I taught in New Orleans for two years, and I am currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Latina/o Literature and Culture and working towards the development of a Latina/o/x and Latin American Program with other faculty here."
David Corvi (2007): Working for Teach for America, Philadelphia.
Liz Fox (2007): Assistant dramaturge for a theater company in New York City.
Vanessa Graniello (2007): Studying for an M.A. in English Literature at Queens College, CUNY.
Miranda Selover (2007): Research/communications assistant, United States Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. Also freelancing as a writer and copy editor for Scholastic Press. Miranda has written a non-fiction book for children titled Etch and Sketch: Wild Animals that will be published in Fall 2010 by Scholastic's Tangerine Press. Miranda says the book "is probably my proudest accomplishment since graduating." In Spring, 2011 Scholastic Press published her book Gross Pranks, an activity book for children 6-10. It combines science with "kid-friendly pranks, like fake bugs in ice cubes and things like that."
Jenna Whittaker (2007): Studying for a Ph.D. in English literature, University of Indiana.
Patrick Bradley (2006): Studying for a Master's of Science at the University of Edinburgh, where his focus is upon European theatre. He is also the principal trombone player for the university orchestra. At IC, Patrick was an English major with a minor in Music.
Brandi Remington (2006): Studying for a master's degree study in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University, Worcester, MA. In Summer 2009, Brandi will intern at the Metta Center for Nonviolent Education in San Francisco as one of 12 applicants chosen from a field of 50. After graduating from IC, Brandi worked for AmeriCorps in Rochester, NY, and was awarded the 2008 Willie J. Lightfoot Youth Advocate of the Year Award, presented yearly in Monroe County, NY.
Danielle Costa (2005, English honors, Hugh Egan Award; M.St Lincoln College, Oxford University): after working as English teacher and Head Rowing Coach at Doane Academy in Burlington, NJ, Danielle read for a M.St at Lincoln College Oxford, rowing on the side for the Oxford Blues crew team. After graduation, she worked as International Marketing and Events Manager at an educational fundraising company called Rux Burton Associates, a company run by a Lincoln College alumnus. This led to a position as assistant in the English Department at the Cheney School in Oxford. Danielle is now in the process of researching and applying to doctoral programs in the US.
Jennifer Cronenberg (2005): Studying law at the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. In 2007-08 she was Senior Managing Editor of CommLaw Conspectus (a journal of communications law policy).
Jenny Fein (2005): Was awarded her J.D. in May 2009 from the David A. Clarke School of Law, University of the District of Columbia, where she served as a Senior Editor on the Law Review. While at the D. C. Council, she amended and edited a bill which was passed by the full Council and the Mayor and subsequently enacted into law. As a part of a special seminar, "Katrina & Beyond: Disaster Prevention and Recovery, Social Justice and Governmental Accountability," she spent a Spring break in New Orleans, assisting an Orleans Public Defenders Office attorney in court. While at the Student Press Law Center, she published two articles on internet speech rights: "Legal Tips to Know Before You Post: A Guide to Maintaining an Off-Campus Website" and "Web Publishing Carries Promise and Pitfalls: Legal Tips for Students Looking to Speak out Online." When not saving the world, Jen still enjoys cooking, reading, and superhero movies.
Dina Schiff (2005): Director of a religious school in Chapel Hill, NC. "I spend my days administrating, fundraising, meeting with committees, praying that no one calls out so I will not need to do the find-a-sub dance, popping into classrooms." On August 4th, 2010, Dina delivered a presentation on "Laboring Over Lesson Plans: Secrets for Success," at the NewCAJE conference, Gann Academy, Waltham, MA.
Meghan Walsh (2005): Received an M.A. in Irish literature at Trinity College, Dublin.
Nelson Beard (2004): Currently studying for an M.S. in elementary education at Niagara University. After graduation, Nelson taught English in the R.E.L.P. English Institute, Incheon City, South Korea; at Paul's English School in Yanji City, People's Republic of China; and in Dowon Elementary School, Bucheon, South Korea. Between 2004 and 2008 he also earned two diplomas in TESOL and TESOL for Children and an advanced certificate in Teaching English to Young Learners.
Neal Brodsky (2004): Received an M.A. in medieval English language and literature at University College, Dublin, Ireland.
Jennifer Doherty (2004): Writes that after abandoning M.A. studies not once but twice, she "began moonlighting as a copywriter at a small (but mighty!) advertising agency," where she parlayed her writing skills into a "full-time copywriting gig at a major advertising firm in the Detroit Metro area."
Paul McCabe (2004): Had his play, Get Off, produced in May and June of 2006 as part of the Kitchen Theatre Company's New Play Festival, in Ithaca, New York. Paul wrote the play in an independent study that he took with Claire Gleitman in the fall of his senior year. In 2004 the play was produced as a staged reading by the On the Verge theater troupe at IC, and in 2005 it was awarded the Jean Kennedy Smith award for best play on the subject of disability by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Read about it in the May 4, 2005, Ithaca Journal.
Maggie Kate Coleman (2003): "Pop!", a musical about Andy Warhol for which Maggie wrote the book and lyrics, was played at the Yale Institute for Music Theatre in June, and will receive its world premiere production, directed by Mark Brokaw, at the Yale Repertory Theatre on Nov. 27-Dec. 19, with an official opening Dec. 3. Read about it at Playbill.com. Maggie is a graduate of the musical theater program in the Tisch School of New York University. Her play, "Memento Mori," was produced at the Beechman Theater, 407 W. 42nd St., NYC on April 407 West 42nd St., NYC, on April 6, 13, and 20, 2007.
Matt Godzieba (2003; MS. Publishing, New York University): Business Analyst at the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, creating documentation and training materials for web-based applications, as well as running training programs. Matt says, "I'll get to do some international travel too. I do not know exactly where just yet (it will be as the situation allows), but China is almost certain." Prior to his current position, he was Online Marketing Coordinator at Holtzbrinck Publishers (which includes Tor; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; St. Martin's Press; and Henry Holt, as well as several smaller publishers).
Kimberly Huth (2003): Completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a dissertation titled, "Bodily Pain and Experience of Self in Early Modern English Literature," directed by Heather Dubrow, then taught in the Ithaca College English Department as an assistant professor in 2009-10.
Samantha Mosher (2003): Received an MA in Applied Educational Psychology/Reading in 2005 from Teachers College, Manhattan. After four years doing reading and writing assessment and intervention at a small middle school for low-income girls on the Lower East Side, Samantha is currently overseeing the literacy program at a school for students with disabilities in Manhattan. She does professional development and curriculum design for literacy, and she works individually with teachers. Samantha is also an adjunct instructor in the Reading Specialist program at Teachers College, where she teaches a course in literacy assessment and intervention.
Lives in New York City, where she is working on her master's degree in Applied Educational Psychology, with a concentration in Reading, from Teachers College, Columbia University, at the end of December. At Teachers College Samantha received both the Neff Scholarship for Excellence in Reading Interventions and the Neff Fellowship. She was also the Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Deloris Perin, who is doing research on Adolescent Literacy and adult developmental education. Samantha also works working in a learning center in Manhattan.
Sarah Pechulis Petrie (2003): Received an M.A. in Literacy K-12 and teaches 8th grade Language Arts at the Sweet Home Middle School, Amherst, NY.
Kendra Scaletta (2003): Teaches high school English in Arizona. Already department chair, as well as an instructional coach for new teachers at her school, Kendra is working towards an M.Ed. at Northern Arizona University. She reports, "I feel stressed and blessed, all at the same time. I get to teach the The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, and The House on Mango Street to my freshmen, and I love seeing them fall in love with literature and change their lives because of what they have read. Teaching is such a rewarding profession, but it truly is challenging each day." Kendra and her fiancé have a house, two dogs, and plans to marry in 2007. "All in all, I am very happy and healthy and fortunate."
Rebecca Symes (2003): Studying law at the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., which features her on its web page about law and social justice.
Amanda Lewis (2002): Taught English at Mt. Ararat High School, Topsham, Maine.
Levi Mumma (2002): Taught speech, creative writing, and American literature at his alma mater, Mechanicsburg High School, in Pennsylvania.
Ashley Shelden (2002; Ph.D., English, Tufts University): Professor of 20th century British literature and film studies at Kennesaw State University. Her book, Unmaking Love: The Contemporary Novel and the Impossibility of Union (Columbia University Press, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Studies.
Lauren Byler (2001): Completed a PhD at Tufts University in 2011, and is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at California State University Northridge. Her speciality is Victorian literature, and her publications include an essay on Anthony Trollope in Novel: A Forum on Fiction and an essay on Dickens in Victorian Literature and Culture.
Zack Howard (2001): Working on an M.P.A. at the the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. After a year of classes, he plans to apply to work for an additional master's degree in urban planning.
Jennifer Russell (2001): Associate Director, Office of Programs for International Students, School of Visual Arts, New York City.
Melissa Littlefield (2000) is an Assistant Professor of 20th century British literature and film studies at the University of Illinois. She has published a book entitled The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction (U Michigan Press)
Dr. Lianne Hartman (2000): Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs, Montgomery County Community College. MLS University of Michigan, EdD Temple University. Dr. Hartman writes: "I have many terrific memories of Ithaca and I am proud to have been an English major. I firmly believe that my undergraduate foundation in analysis, communication, and compassion through the study of literature helps me be a better colleague, partner, and citizen. In my current position in academic affairs at a community college, I work with faculty and deans on curriculum. In this role, I have the opportunity to passionately advocate for the liberal arts." Melissa Littlefield (2000; Ph.D. English, Pennsylvania State University): Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), where she teaches both English and Kinesiology. She has published several essays, including "Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology, and American Culture, 1927-1943," in Nervous States: Modernity and the Neurological Self, ed. Laura Salisbury and Andrew Shail, forthcoming in 2010.
Bob Oswald (2000): Studying Information Science at the University of Washington in Seattle and writing for the Belltown Messenger, a local newspaper. In 11/08 he wrote to Prof. Claire Gleitman, "I also have my own little publishing company and have put out a few books by local poets and writers... but in my humble opinion the standout piece among them is my own little vanity project, Haunted Planet (http://www.plateausigmapress.com/HP), which, if it's not too crassly commercial, would be swell to mention numerous times in letters as large and colorful as possible." About his education in English at IC, Bob wrote, "I feel very lucky to have landed in a place where professors who demonstrated such intellectual rigor and passion for literature that I couldn't help but trying, in my own way, to emulate those qualities. And who took an interest in me as an individual, suggesting books and offering thoughtful advice when I painted myself into a corner intellectually. I think the education I received and the entire experience I had as a student at IC were the best I could have hoped for, and I feel indebted to all of you for not only exposing me to all of those great plays and books and stories, but slowly and surely, and mostly by example, teaching... why thinking seriously about literature is so important." The link to his recently published story: http://42opus.com/v8n3/bob-oswald-stages
Pavitra Sundar (1999; Ph.D., English, University of Michigan): Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Film, Media, and Women's Studies in the Department of Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College, where she teaches courses titled "Bollywood Cinema" and "Women and Popular Media in India." Before moving to Dartmouth, Pavitra taught at Oberlin College.
Maria Voulgaris (1999): Communications coordinator at the national headquarters of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, White Plains, New York, from which she administers the society's 60 nationwide chapters.
Stacy DeBuhr (1998): Teaches a bilingual first grade in Oakland, California.
Emily Franzosa (1996, English and drama): Administrator at the Arts and Business Council, New York City.
Kathleen Lubey (1996): is Professor of English at St. John's University in Queens, NY. Her recent article "Making Pornography, 1749-1968" (ELH 2015) is part of a book project that examines how practices of reprinting and pirating shaped the genre of pornography from its early prose forms to its proliferation in the digital age. Her Ph.D. is from Rutgers University, and her dissertation, on 18th century literature, concerned aesthetics and pornography.
Petrina Keddell (1995): Director of Licensing at the Investors Title Insurance Company, Chapel Hill, NC. Petrina received a law degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Matt Greaves (1994): Network engineer for Dataprise, an IT services company that assists small companies in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Matt began as an acquisitions assistant at Taylor and Francis Publishers, then "crossed to the other side" and went into information technology at Resources for the Future, a non-profit think-tank.
Traci Scott Jerson (1994): Director of Marketing for 6N Systems in upstate New York.
Azhar Tyabji (1993; Ph.D. candidate, Cambridge University): Author of Bhuj (Usmanpura, India: Mapin Publishing, 2006), a study of the artistic, architectural, historical, and civic-planning issues involved in rebuilding the city of Bhuj, India, after it was destroyed by an earthquake in 2001. Reviewer Rahul Mehrotra wrote that Bhuj "celebrates collaboration and demonstrates how ethnography and advocacy planning can be intertwined to engage people in the making and remaking of a place.... The book will serve as an important precedent for all those interested in urban scholarship and design." Bhuj is available internationally: see www.mapinpub.com.
Anna Lechleiter Waldron (1993; Ph.D. Cornell University): Co-founder of Main Street Science, a provider of educational programs in science for public schools and the general public. Anna received a Ph.D. from Cornell University, the original home of Main Street Science, before which she taught English and directed the honors program at Lansing High School, Lansing, NY.
Jennifer Hoofard (1992; M.A. English, Mills College, 1997; Ph.D. English, University of California, Davis, 2004): Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Mills College, Oakland, CA.
Catherine Huber (1992; Ed.D. D'Youville College): Director, Center for Professional Studies, D'Youville College.
Scott MacIver (1991): Recently lauched a Web-based marketing consulting business, Walk Sign Consulting. Previously he was the director-owner of advertising firms in New York City and Boston.
Stephanie Overcash Morrison (1991; M.A. English, University of Rhode Island): Teaches Plus Phase (12th grade) English at the E3 Academy in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as introductory-level college classes in the City Campus Program at CCRI.
Kristin Wald (1991; M.S. in Teaching, SUNY Binghamton, 1992): Teaches English in the New York City public school system.
Steven Hartman (1987; M.F.A. American University 1991; Ph.D. English, SUNY Albany, 2003): Professor of English, Mid Sweden University. Sleet, his translation of short stories by Swedish author Stig Dagerman (Verba Mundi Books, 2013), has been long-listed for the 2104 Best Translated Book Award, to be given by the University of Rochester's weblog Three Percent. The opening story in the collection, "To Kill A Child," can be read on the New York Review of Books web page.
Hartman has published articles on Thoreau, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, Derek Walcott and other writers. In 2008, in the National Library of Sweden, he discovered a letter by Henry David Thoreau to Ralph Waldo Emerson that was previously believed to be lost.
Andrew Dugas (1985): Fiction writer and poet based in San Francisco. His work has been published in SoMa Literary Review and elsewhere. His web page features chapters of a novel in progress titled Sleepwalking in Paradise; and his blog features essays on the future of electronic publishing. Read an interview with him in the San Francisco Examiner. The March 10, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle reports on his haiku-a-day accomplishment. He recently purchased an apartment once occupied by the author Dashiell Hammett.
Marta Werner (1985; Ph.D. English, SUNY Buffalo, 1993): Assistant Professor of English at D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY, where she teaches American literature. Described by New Directions Press as "the foremost scholar of Emily Dickinson's late works," Marta has most recently co-edited,The Gorgeous Nothings: The Envelope Poems of Emily Dickinson (New Directions, 2013), which was noted in the Times Literary Supplement (Jan 3, 2014).
A recipient of the Fredson Bowers Prize and the JoAnn Boydson Prize for her scholarship, as well as the 2001 D'Youville College Faculty-Scholar Award, Werner is the author of Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing (U of Michigan P, 1995), Radical Scatters: An Electronic Archive of Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments and Related Texts (U of Michigan P, 1999), as well as numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century literature. Her newest book, co-authored with Nicholas Lawrence, Warwick University, is called Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, and is due out from the American Philosophical Society in January 2006. She was a member of The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman and American Culture, a project on the use of technology in the humanities, for which she composed "'The Soul's Distinct Connection': Emily Dickinson, Photography, and 19th-Century American Culture," a Web teaching component. She serves on the executive board of the Society for Textual Scholarship.
Jane Larkworthy (1984): Beauty director at W magazine; previously she was beauty director at Jane magazine and senior beauty editor at Mademoiselle. She has recently published a book, Smile: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Smile Beauty, written with cosmetic dentist Jonathan Levine.
Michael Sheehan (1984; Northeastern University Law School 1987): Has had his own law practice in Concord, NH, since 1995, specializing in prisoners' rights litigation.
Amy Weingartner (1984; M.A. English and American Literature, Boston University; M.F.A. Fiction Writing, Vermont College of Fine Arts): Visiting Lecturer teaching World Literature to 1750 at Westfield State College, MA, and a freelance writer and editor for The Walt Disney Company. Read her short story "Minnie Driver," published in the Spring 2010 issue of the Massachusetts Review.


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Researcher to be New Experiment Station Director
Following an extensive, nationwide search, Utah State University announced Wednesday, May 29, that it has named professor and department head Kenneth L. White, to a three-part position that will make him dean of the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, vice president of Extension and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station.
White is well respected both for teaching and research excellence throughout his career at USU. He currently is head of USU's Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences and associate dean of university's new School of Veterinary Medicine.
"We are all honored that Dr. White has accepted this assignment," said USU President Stan L. Albrecht. "These are three extremely critical positions at the university, and it is a rare individual who has the breadth of skills to accomplish all these tasks. We are lucky to have that exceptional individual already here on campus. Dr. White is a proven talent, and it gives me great pleasure to make this announcement."
White said he looks forward to the opportunity this appointment presents, and he thanked the president, the search committee and other faculty and staff for having confidence in him
"We have excellent programs already in place and tremendous opportunities to grow those and other programs," White said. "I'm also excited to work with exceptional people — people I already know — both in the college itself and in the state. I recognize that I have huge shoes to fill, but the units are in extremely good health, and I look forward to the challenge."
Search committee chair Mark McLellan, USU's vice president for research and dean of the School of Graduate Studies, said White was selected from among many of the top agriculturalists in the nation after the committee narrowed the list of finalists to three from among the more than 100 contacted. White stood out for his science and teaching skills, for his capacity to manage complex programs and for his ability to work with many different groups.
"Ken is a balanced leader with an exceptionally warm personality yet a drive for excellence that points to an exciting future for the college, the experiment station and the Extension system of the state," McLellan said.
McLellan said the three-part job is a massive undertaking that requires skills to integrate the teaching, research and outreach missions of the university in a way that promotes acquiring new knowledge, training students and full commitment to translating research to the benefit of the citizens of this state, the nation and the world. Intrinsic to the nature of the job is the need to work with very diverse clientele, faculty with many different focus areas and Extension specialists and agents with very wide-ranging mission areas.
"We on the committee are confident Dr. White has the background, skill sets and personality to hold this family together," McLellan said.
White's will replace Noelle Cockett, who steps down from the position to become USU's executive vice president and provost July 1.
Cockett said White brings proven administrative skills to the new position, and she has no doubts that he will excel. He has shown exceptional abilities as a teacher, researcher and department head, and he has worked successfully with both internal and important external stakeholders in all three domains of the new appointment.
"And it's not just that he 'knows this place,'" Cockett said. "We are looking both at what's right for USU right now and where we want to go next, and I have complete confidence that Ken can lead us forward through those next challenges."
White came to USU in 1991 as an associate professor. He received his bachelor of science in animal science at Brigham Young University in 1979. He earned a master of science in animal science at University of California, Davis in 1982 and a Ph.D. in physiology (with an immunology minor) at University of California, Davis in 1986.
While at USU, White has been associate director of research at the Center for Integrated BioSystems, director of the Center for Developmental and Molecular Biology, and is currently interim director of the Center for Integrated BioSystems.
He has received numerous prestigious awards while at USU, including University Outstanding Graduate Mentor for 2011; LeGrande Shupe Achievement Award, College of Agriculture, 2011; Graduate Mentor of the Year for the College of Agriculture, 2010; Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, College of Agriculture, 2007; and Researcher of the Year, College of Agriculture, 2006.
He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and he also published six book chapters and 94 other scientific publications.
He received the first Utah Best of State Statue (BOSS) Award in agriculture in recognition for his leadership role in embryonic nuclear transfer research, which resulted in the first, live equine clone ever produced in the world. As an independent researcher, he generated more than $15 million in extramural funding in his career, nearly $11.5 million at USU. He has received or has pending five patents.
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Sat, Mar 18
|Inner Wolf Retreat Space
Sound Healing Sessions at the Inner Wolf
Lose your mind and come to your senses Move from anxiety and trauma to peace and healing Find motivation and your life purpose ALL JUST BY LAYING DOWN RELAXING!
Time & Location
Mar 18, 2023, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Inner Wolf Retreat Space, 2854 Puncheon Fork Rd, Mars Hill, NC 28754, USA
About the event
- Looking for a Light at the end of the tunnel?
- Feeling anxious, sad, grieving, burnt out, or overwhelmed?
- Feeling stuck, run by the outside world, or like you need some support?
- Wish you could put your brain in a jar and screw the lid on tight to be able to have some peace and quiet?!
Sound Healing is medicine for our times. Sound vibration, as one of our earliest developed senses, helps the body and spirit to find peace and relaxation. It facilitates relaxation using instruments like gongs, crystal singing bowls, harmonium, voice, and more. Our bodies often get stuck in the everyday whirrings of life and fight or flight and thus have trouble finding a reset. Sound Healing helps the brain & body relax and helps you find peace. All you have to do is lay back, relax, and breathe!
Here are the basics: PLEASE ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 11AM--come up to 15 minutes early to not be stressed and have time to find the place if this is your first time here and to settle in. This is an experience to which you cannot be late....(if you are late, then the whole group is waiting on you to arrive; it is disruptive for anyone to enter the sound healing room after we have built the container of who is present and we share intentions. Please be respectful of your fellow earth travelers who have arrived on time. Plus, who wants to be stressed out about arriving late to a RELAXING experience?! :) ) Once the doors are locked, unfortunately you will miss out. Please communicate with Dawn if something happens. Allow time for travel, you can arrive early to walk the peaceful property, and enjoy a cup of tea. At 11am we enter the sound room, get comfy with pillows, blankets, and supports, and then share intentions for the session. At 11:30, the sound healing session begins and lasts for 60 glorious minutes. The last half hour allows us time to integrate, awaken to a life post-gong, and to be ok to "gong and drive" (unless you'd like to stay overnight in one of the rentals!)
More details:
Arrive and settle in with a cup of tea and cozy in to your space on cushions in the sound healing room. First we voice intentions for the session and tailor the session to your needs even in a group. Release stress and tension through a gentle breathwork exercise that relaxes the body. Then take a journey in sound with gongs, crystal singing bowls, harmonium and voice, and more. Feel free to chant along with Dawn and the harmonium! After the sound healing, we invite you to share your experience and connect with other like-minded new friends. Feel free to arrive early or stay later to walk around the peaceful, healing property as well!
Bring any cushions, pillows, blankets, and eye covers to be comfortable. We have a small collection available for use and ease for you as well.
Blessed Be
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