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The Horseman's Progress
( Originally Published 1962 )
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SKILL IN HORSEMANSHIP IS A PROBLEM of intelligence combined with careful attention to correct sequence. The student is put to practicing more advanced principles after the more simple ones have been mastered to a sufficient degree.
When we are reminded of the main objective, which is the easy control of the horse, it becomes obvious that the rider must learn how to use his "aids"—the means by which he guides his horse—before the proper response from the horse can be expected. Again, the aids cannot be used effectively until the points of contact have been established, which means that the rider's position itself must be established, at least roughly, before training in the use of the aids can begin. It is further obvious that as long as the rider is insecure in the saddle his position cannot begin to take definite form.
The main line of progress is clearly indicated, although the time required to develop elementary ability cannot be predicted in advance. The rate of progress depends on the individual's adaptability, mental as well as physical. The most common handicaps are the student's lack of cooperation, coordination, and sense of balance and rhythm. Young athletes whose muscles have been overdeveloped at the expense of suppleness also present difficult problems. A horseman needs strong muscles, but of the long, flat, supple kind. The bulging equipment of the wrestler is not suited to the horseman's purpose.
It stands to reason that nobody can ride well or control his horse effectively without a firm and secure seat in the saddle. The development of a good seat is the first important step toward the goal, and it is also the foundation on which everything will depend later on. Mistakes in the construction of the foundation will automatically limit the student's progress.
A firm seat depends on balance and suppleness. A light, effortless grip with the thighs and knees is also necessary but will be detrimental if it results in tenseness and loss of balance. A rider who depends entirely on the grip with his legs or, still worse, on supporting himself by the stirrups, has at best a very poor seat. He is also unable to use his aids.
An unconscious but keen sense of balance and relaxed suppleness will allow the rider to adjust himself to the movements of his horse and follow them smoothly instead of clumsily obstructing them. He must avoid rough contacts with his saddle and be able to keep his seat easily when the horse makes sudden, unexpected, or violent movements.
It is a well-known fact that thorough relaxation of muscles and joints is necessary in order to acquire a feeling of equilibrium. The first thing the beginner should concentrate on is complete relaxation, with his full weight in the saddle and the stirrups supporting only the weight of the foot. The ankles should be flexed. Relaxation is the basis of suppleness.
It will gradually develop into active pliancy, which eventually must replace the passive "dishrag" variety of relaxation. Special attention must be given during this early stage to the loosening up of the shoulders, wrists, and ankles, for reasons that will be explained more fully later on.
Balance means the even distribution of weight on both sides when moving in a straight line and the necessary compensation on the inside when turning. A common mistake is bending the body from the waist in the direction of the turn. Instead, the rider should reach a trifle lower with his inside heel and knee and at the same time slide his seat slightly in the same direction.
When balance begins to replace the tense muscular grip and suppleness to take the place of support in the stirrups, when the rider begins to absorb the bumps with his back and shoulders by sitting down on them instead of trying to stay above them, he will begin to feel confident and at ease. As soon as this happens, he gives a pleasing impression of being "in step" with his horse.
During the first period of instruction it is advisable to have the pupil lean somewhat back of the perpendicular position, trying to make himself as heavy as he can down on his seat while sitting the trot and the canter. As soon as he shows signs of being in step with his horse and the impression of uncontrolled bouncing disappears, his position should be straightened up to approach the perpendicular. Riding without stirrups is advisable during the elementary exercises and no gripping with the legs must be permitted. A supporting grip with one hand on the pommel is to be preferred to convulsive clinging with the legs, which will only result in tense muscles throughout the body.
We are continually confronted with demonstrations that prove the importance of balance and suppleness for safety in the saddle. Even experienced riders who have not learned to conquer their natural but dangerous instinct to lean forward and clutch tensely under difficult circumstances will eventually come to grief. On the other hand, the less experienced rider who has been drilled correctly into leaning back and relaxing whenever the going gets rough will usually weather the storm.
There are a number of other reasons that the principles mentioned above are of supreme importance to every horseman—the beginner as well as the advanced rider. A stiff, clumsy, poorly balanced rider is an awkward and heavy burden to the horse. Both horse and rider are subjected to an unnecessary strain and wasted effort. For the horse it may develop into actual punishment and abuse, even if his back does not become sore and raw as a result of the rider's unbalanced seat. Unsteady balance alone is enough to disturb and excite a spirited horse. If the rider's continuous and uncontrolled changing of position is accompanied by severe bumps, it must be expected that the horse either will become frightened or impatient, with serious consequences for the rider. On the other hand, a good horseman's sensitive seat, smooth suppleness, and undisturbed balance will inspire the nervous, fretful, or high-strung horse with confidence, which is the only reliable way of quieting and relaxing him.
Complete balance, with the full weight on the seat, is imperative, also, to preserve the controlled freedom of action of hands and lower legs necessary for guiding the horse. This subject will later be further discussed.
The rider's correct position in the saddle depends upon the correct placement of his seat, legs, and hands. These are the aids, the points of contact, with which he controls his horse. These aids must be placed in such a position that they can establish uninterrupted contact and enforce response through controlled freedom of action. The rest of the rider's anatomy will then fit naturally into the frame defined by the aids. Although a horseman's position in the saddle is regulated by considerations of proper control of the horse, the impression of grace and ease should not be overlooked.
In building the correct position, the seat represents the foundation of the structure. The main consideration is to place the rider's weight where the horse can support it with the least effort. This point is immediately behind the withers. From this point the horse can also be controlled and balanced in the most efficient way, whether he is going over level ground, up or down hill, or passing obstacles. The part of the back on which the cantle is resting is comparatively weak and sensitive. A rider's bumping down in the saddle too far back, particularly when mounting, will quite frequently start the horse bucking. A protracted application of weight at this point may cause the horse to develop serious kidney trouble. The rider's seat and weight should consequently be placed as far forward as a well-built saddle will comfortably permit. Generally speaking, there should always be a hand's breadth of empty saddle space behind the seat.
The beginner will always have a tendency to slide back in the saddle when sitting the trot or canter, or even the walk, especially in the stage when he has to lean back to avoid bouncing—that is, before he has developed sufficient suppleness to follow the horse's motions in an upright position. He must counteract this tendency by continually pulling himself forward with one hand on the pommel. Gradually he will acquire the knack of utilizing the horse's movements for this purpose.
Next to the seat in importance comes the correct placing of the legs. A slight but important change in the position of most beginners is necessary to make them fit the saddle. The need for this adjustment is due to well-developed thigh muscles and stiff hip joints. A firm seat requires the placement of both the knee and the flat inside surface of the thigh against the saddle, without effort or unnecessary straining of muscles. This can be accomplished only by relaxing and flexing the hip joint and by pulling the thick muscle of the thigh back and away from the saddle until the flat inner side of the upper leg rests easily against it from seat to knee. The effortless grip with the thighs and knees achieved in this way will complete the secure seat. This, in conjunction with fundamental balance and suppleness, will leave the lower leg (the boot) free to act as an aid. The leg below the knee must not be used for support, of course.
Riders who have difficulty in keeping their knees firmly against the saddle can correct this situation only by concentrating on working the thigh muscle away from the saddle, either by pulling it out by hand or by swinging the leg. This last process is executed by swinging one leg at a time from the hip, with all muscles relaxed—forward, out, back, in against the saddle, and forward again. This exercise, if practiced sufficiently, will serve to loosen up the universal joint action of the hip and work the big thigh muscle from between thigh and saddle.
Most beginners are inclined to ride with their stirrups too short, and, consequently, with their knees too high, which, among several other unfortunate things, will result in the seat's being pushed too far back. It also makes the correct placing and contact with the boots awkward or impossible.
On the other hand, it is just as undesirable to have the knees placed too low because of too long stirrups. When the rider's position becomes reminiscent of a pair of scissors the seat will be unbalanced and clumsy, proper contact with the boots practically impossible, and the use of the seat as an aid discarded.
No general rule can be given as to the length of the stirrups, since various riders are built differently. The size of the horse's barrel will influence the proper adjustment to some extent. The stirrups may have to be a trifle shorter on a small horse than on a big one. The main consideration is the natural and effortless placing of the boot in its working position immediately behind the girth, where it is used as an aid in guiding and controlling the horse without disturbing the position of the knee against the saddle.
It is a significant fact that horsemen who have ridden all their lives in flat saddle, with a correct seat, show a tendency to become knock-kneed—while the cowboy, whose seat has been based on entirely different principles, will become decidedly bow-legged.
The lower leg, the boot, is the second aid to be placed in position for effective and convenient use. The position of the boot is decided in a natural way by the placing of thighs and knees as previously described. Then, when the knee is bent until the thickest part of the calf contacts the horse immediately behind the girth, the boot is in its proper place. In most cases the toe will point forward and slightly out at an angle that varies according to the shape of the legs. Under no circumstances must the toe be forced to point in an unnatural direction.
The position of the heel is likewise determined quite automatically. Most beginners have a tendency to pull the heels up higher than the toes, which elevates the knees, pushes back the seat, and causes a general and fatal disturbance of the entire position. Another unfortunate consequence is that the calf muscle loses contact with the horse's flank and becomes slack and ineffective as an aid.
With the heel lower than the toe this muscle is stretched and tensed and consequently is more effective to "kick with." The deeper the heel is pressed down below the toe the firmer the calf muscle becomes. This does not mean, how-ever, that the lower the heel is pushed the better. The flexibility of the ankle must be preserved. If the heel is too low the ankle will become stiff, and a stiff ankle causes much mischief—difficulty in keeping the stirrups in place, tenseness in the entire leg and back, and a tendency to lean too much on the stirrups.
To sum up, the heel is in position when the calf muscle is firmly stretched without loss of flexibility in the ankle.
Except in fast and difficult riding, when the foot may be inserted in the stirrup to the heel, the point of support should be the ball of the foot. Riding with only the toes in the stirrup creates an unnecessary strain on ankle and leg. With the stirrup under the instep the flexible action of the ankle is eliminated. The spur is, of course, another reason for keeping the heel low, which is also the most graceful position.
When the stirrup is considerably wider than the toe of the boot the foot must be placed on the inside end of the foot-rest in such a way that the weight rests mainly on the heel of the big toe, resulting in a marked tendency to turn the sole of the boot away from the horse. This position of the foot facilitates both the grip with the knee and the natural contact with the boot.
The third of the rider's major aids is his hands. In spite of the fact that hands and fingers should be far from inactive, the function of the hands is of a more passive nature, generally speaking, than that of seat and boots. It is the job of the hands to regulate and adjust the results achieved by the concerted action of the two other main aids. A high degree of sensitiveness and delicacy of touch are demanded of the hands, and it is consequently very important that their fundamental position be given the strictest attention.
The development of good hands is frequently the most difficult part of the horseman's training, and involves the acquiring of sensitiveness, flexibility, and strength. The position of the hands must be such that a constant, steady, sensitive, and elastic connection is established through the reins between the rider's hands and the horse's mouth. This is a line of communication, not an instrument of torture and punishment.
Experience has shown that the position of the hands that best combines steadiness with sensitive suppleness is as follows: The hands are closed into loose fists and placed immediately in front of the saddle, an inch or two above the withers. The upper arms and elbows are resting without pressure against the body. The knuckle rows are naturally vertical, with thumbs uppermost. If the backs of the hands are turned up the elbows will have a tendency to stick out and the steadiness of the hands suffer. The hands must be so close together that the reins touch the horse's neck on both sides. To obtain the greatest flexibility of the wrists, the hands are bent slightly toward each other.
The elastic link, the "shock absorber," in the connection between the horse's mouth and the rider's shoulder is represented by the wrist. The wrist must absorb all jerks resulting from movements of the horse's head, as well as those of the rider's body. The suppleness of the wrist must allow the hand to follow regular and irregular motions in both directions. If the entire arm, without being steadied against the body, is permitted to participate in this motion the handling of the reins will necessarily become rough and clumsy. A steady hand cannot be combined with flapping elbows.
On the other hand, the elbows must not be pressed against the body, thus creating a tenseness not only in the arm but in the shoulders and back muscles. The shoulders must always be free of tension and allowed to swing easily with the motion of the horse.
Circumstances arise, of course, when it is necessary to grip the reins so far forward that the elbows cannot be held close to the body. Under normal conditions the distance of the hands from the body is dictated by the correct position of the upper arm and elbow. The distance of the hands above the horse also varies. A horse that carries his head too high requires holding the hands lower, but never below the withers. The hands must come a little higher if the horse shows a tendency to lower his head excessively or "bore" on the bit.
When a snaffle with a single rein is used one rein should be held in each hand. Riding with the reins in one hand, except when using western equipment, is unpractical, clumsy, ungraceful, and absurd from every point of view. For the proper control of the horse two hands are best. Besides, a twisted position and a disturbance of balance are some of the results of using but one hand.
With the hands in the position previously described the reins run from the horse's mouth into the hands between little fingers and ring fingers, up through the hands, and come out across the second joint of the index fingers, where the thumbs clamp down on them and prevent them from slipping.
When two pairs of reins are used, they can be held in several different ways. Both hands must still be used except in those cases when one hand is definitely required, such as on a formal occasion or in certain riding contests. If all reins are to be carried in the left hand (never, of course, in the right) the position of this hand is as previously described, except that it is kept directly above the withers. The left snaffle rein runs into the hand outside the little finger, one curb rein on each side of the third finger, the right snaffle between middle and index fingers, all of them up through the hand, coming out on top of each other across the second joint of the index finger, where they are kept in place by the thumb.
For ordinary riding all reins can be kept in the left hand provided that the right hand is always kept on top of it for regulating purposes. This refers particularly to the curb reins, which will have a tendency to become too tight and need to be loosened frequently with the help of the right hand. It is ordinarily preferable, however, to transfer the right snaffle rein to the right hand, where it is held as al-ready explained for the single rein. For fast riding or jumping, two reins in each hand are recommended, one on each side of the third finger, with the snaffle rein always on the outside.
There are various reasons for holding the reins according to the accepted rules. Like everything else connected with good horsemanship, these reasons have nothing to do with locally prevailing fashions or fads. A better and more secure grip is, for instance, obtained by having the single rein run into the hand between little finger and third finger rather than by using the full grip where the rein enters the hand outside the little finger. The reins are, for the same reason, held on both sides of the third finger, instead of with the weak little finger, when riding with two reins in each hand. Riding with the right snaffle alone in the right hand and the three others in the left facilitates the adjustment of the curb reins, which are easily reached in their position on both sides of the left third finger.
In order to develop a good hand, and especially when the horse has an unusually tender mouth, it is advisable to hold the reins as close to the finger tips as possible.
A little experimenting will soon prove that the accepted method of holding the reins will assure both the most secure grip and the most sensitive touch.
In view of the fact that the torso represents the rider's weight and balance it is obvious that the closest attention must be given to its position. The correct placing of the rider's center of gravity, in conformity with the elementary laws of gravitation, means to the horse the difference between a dead weight that constantly interferes with his action and makes his work unnecessarily hard and a supple, live, well-balanced load that not only adjusts itself to his motions but also facilitates his action by steadying his balance.
It follows that the position of the rider's torso cannot re-main frozen in one place under all circumstances. A perpendicular position cannot be maintained without consideration of whether the horse is standing still, advancing at a slow gait, or running at full speed. The torso's center of gravity is closer to the shoulders than to the seat. It should be quite clear, then, that it makes all the difference to the horse that the rider's position be adjusted properly for speed, going up or down hill, or passing obstacles. It is not the rider's own balance only that counts—it is the balance of horse and rider combined.
It is, therefore, ridiculous to talk about the "forward seat" as applying to riding in general, regardless of the rate of speed. It is equally meaningless to discuss the "balanced seat" as compared to the "forward" one. This implies that the forward seat is not balanced, which immediately stamps the idea as absurd. The forward seat is balanced only when riding at a fast gallop, passing obstacles, going uphill or down a steep incline. To lean sharply forward when going down a slide may, on the surface, seem contrary to common sense; but the reason for doing so is simple to explain and the practice has proved its effectiveness. The main idea is to avoid hampering the horse's back and hindquarters. Going downhill the horse will stick his front legs stiffly well out in front and at the same time pull his hind legs under him to such an extent that he actually sits down on his hocks if the hill is very steep. By leaning backward the rider makes it difficult for the horse to arch his croup and back and to get his hind legs under him. If the rider, on the other hand, places his own center of gravity well forward, but still be-hind the point of support of the front legs, he will remove the heavy pressure of his seat and give the horse's hind-quarters freedom of action.
The use of the forward-leaning position when the horse is in repose or advancing at a walk, slow trot, or canter can be excused only when the rider is so petrified with terror that he does not know what he is doing. In this position, under the circumstances mentioned, he is not balanced; he has lost all his suppleness and is removing his most important means of control, his seat. He also gets so much "weight in his stirrups that his lower leg is tied up and useless as an aid. It thus becomes impossible for him to use two of his main aids, seat and boots.
Summing up, we can say that the heavy perpendicular seat is used in-the slow gaits and the forward seat in the fast ones. To the expert horseman this problem of mutual equilibrium is just as important as the proper balance of an airplane is to its builder and pilot.
Correct adjustment of weight is one of several reasons why a skilled horseman can add many miles to his horse's endurance, whether he is on a long-distance ride at slow gaits or in a steeplechase at a fast gallop. Most people know that there is considerable difference between carrying a lifeless person and a live and active one. Why not apply the same idea when a horse is doing the carrying, instead of talking about the mysteries of the badly understood "forward seat"?
In the slow gaits the position is fundamentally correct, as far as balance and distribution of weight are concerned, when the rider feels that he has a maximum of weight resting on his seat knuckles. A slight movement of the torso forward or backward will lessen the pressure on these points of support, in which case the rider is off balance.
With the seat well forward in the saddle it must, when the heavy seat is used, rest on three points—the two seat knuckles and the crotch. To put it more exactly, the weight rests on the seat knuckles and is supported by the crotch. The correct length of the stirrups will to a certain extent decide whether or not the seat is naturally supported in this way, as previously explained.
As soon as the beginner is able to maintain his suppleness in a perpendicular position his back must be straightened up and pulled somewhat in. Although the general impression of the position should be vertical, the shoulders must as a rule be inclined backward sufficiently to prevent loss of balance if the horse suddenly slows down or stops.
It is, of course, understood that the present discussion of the heavy seat at a trot does not refer to the position when posting. This part will be explained later.
The shoulders must be relaxed and kept well back. The head must be held in a free, natural, upright position, giving the impression that the rider is looking forward between his horse's ears. A forward-hanging head will result in humped shoulders and back, the typical and too common position of a "cat on a grindstone." There is nothing reminiscent of the tin soldier in the correct and graceful position, but, likewise, no trace of sloppiness can be tolerated. Offense against this rule is always unflattering to a horseman for more reasons than mere appearance. The correct position in the saddle will give an impression of beauty, natural ease, active suppleness, and rhythm. While the good horseman presents a picture of perfect harmony, both of movement and line, the poor rider unconsciously exhibits his lack of ability, to all the world, even to the uninitiated, by his general appearance and the impression he makes. Riding is one sport where bluff will fool no one but the self-satisfied rider himself.
The forward seat must be regarded as an adjustment of the standard. The weight is then distributed on the rider's legs instead of on his seat knuckles. The torso will be forward-leaning at an angle dictated by the feel of natural balance. The seat is entirely or partly loosened from the saddle, with the exception of the crotch, which must remain supporting. The hands are placed firmly down on or immediately in front of the withers. The clutch with thighs and knees becomes more pronounced. The stirrups in this position will be more supporting and share the weight with thighs and knees. It is also of importance that the heels are carried somewhat lower, allowing a firmer grip with the legs.


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When the Little Sisters of Hoboken need money to pay for funerals, there's only one thing to do – Put on a show!
Nunsense is the fall musical offering at Sacramento State, and will be performed in the University Theatre at 8 p.m. Oct. 21-23 and 29-30; 2 p.m. Oct. 24 and 31; and 6:30 p.m. Oct. 27-28.
Written by Dan Goggin, the Sacramento State staging is directed by Professor Ed Brazo. Nunsense begins when the convent's chef, Sister Julia, Child of God, accidently poisons 52 of the sisters with a bad batch of vichyssoise. In order to get enough money to bury their brethren, the convent stages a show at Mount St. Helens eighth-grade school.
First, the Reverend Mother needs to hold auditions, and everybody wants to get into the act. "There's a couple of them who always wanted to be in show business and everyone's basically trying to be the star of the show," Brazo says.
One sister is a tight-rope walker and another tap dances. Meanwhile, the chef can't figure out why no one wants to eat her food.
Senior Krystle Jong plays Sister Mary Leo, the novice/ballerina. "This is going to be a challenge for me," Jong says, noting she's trained in just about every dance style except ballet.
The first week of performances will feature the traditional Nunsense. The second week will present Nunsense A-Men, the original script, but with men playing the sisters' roles.
Nunsense has been a huge hit wherever it's performed since its debut in 1985.
Tickets for the 6:30 p.m. performances are $10 general admission and $7 for children. All other performances are $15 general admission; $12 for students, faculty and staff; and $10 for children. Tickets are available at the University Ticket Office, (916) 278-4323 or www.tickets.com.
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Teach for America, Frontier Edition
What two young society women dared, and learned, out West in 1916.
To listen to Slate's Jessica Grose interview Dorothy Wickenden, the author of Nothing Daunted, click on the audio player below.
Say you find a trove of crumbling, very old letters in the back of a desk drawer. The letters are from your grandmother, telling the folks at home about the year she and her best friend spent teaching school in a remote corner of Colorado in 1916. If you are a normal person, you read the letters, probably marvel at them, wish you'd asked your grandmother more questions about her life, futilely try to interest your husband in reading them, and then file them away. If you are Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker, you write and publish Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West.
The book raises an interesting question: What makes a story history rather than family history? Why should we bother about someone else's family, commonplace people who lived long ago? Wickenden's book also answers that question, offering a nice primer on how to write the history of ordinary life. Though the origins of the book are homely, Nothing Daunted deserves an audience beyond the folks gathered around the potato salad at the author's family reunion.
That's because Wickenden tells a great story, with a richly appealing character at the center of it—her grandmother and namesake, Dorothy Woodruff. It's also because Wickenden understands—as writers of family history so often don't—that her grandmother is not inherently interesting qua her grandmother. Vivid characters have to face conflict, and Dorothy Woodruff's conflict was internal yet also historically resonant. She was a society girl with the heart of an adventurer. Her audacious heart inspired her to set out on the quintessential American journey: into the West.
Dorothy was a Smithie from the moneyed and even-then liberal bastion of Auburn, N.Y. So was her lifelong best friend, Rosamond Underwood, known to all as Ros. Once the two returned home from Smith, they were restless in their luncheon-heavy role as society girls. First they staved off boredom with a grand tour of Europe. They saw Nijinsky dance, visited exhibitions by the Impressionists, and rode the funicular to the Matterhorn. It's irresistible, here, to imagine an alternative history, one in which Dorothy and Ros take a more Jamesian route and become title-seeking heiresses at large in Europe. Instead, they came home and followed their more American destiny.
Back in Auburn, after a bit of casting about for something to do, they undertook the unthinkable: They got jobs. Paying jobs. Not just as school teachers, but as school teachers in Elkhead, Col. A friend from college arranged an introduction to a Wellesley grad, Ruth Carpenter Woodley, whose brother was a homesteader in Elkhead. Woodley wrote to Dorothy and Ros, encouraging them to apply for jobs as Colorado school teachers, saying that if the two young women "would like to catch a glimpse of one of the last of our fast disappearing frontiers, I'd urge you to try it."
In these opening sections of the book, Wickenden contrasts Dorothy's background with the story of Ruth's brother, Farrington "Ferry" Carpenter, the young rancher and lawyer who helped start the Elkhead school. In alternating chapters, she toggles between the girls' story and his, deftly playing out very gendered scripts without ever reducing her particular characters to roles. Carpenter was a fascinating character; as a kid, he was sent from Evanston, Ill., to Santa Fe to take the sun cure and fell in love with the West. After attending Princeton, and Harvard Law School, he went out to Colorado and was homesteading by the time he was 20. While he was planting out his claim, irrigating his land, and raising Herefords, the Auburn girls were attending meetings of the Young Ladies Benevolent Association, marveling at the new novelty food, grapefruit, and looking for meaningful volunteer work.
On the Elkhead end of things, the town was getting ready for its new teachers. The Elkhead school was expressly built to attract more homesteaders to the area. The teachers were part of the lure. "[Carpenter] realized that if Elkhead created its own district and school board, they could recruit new teachers every year or two—supplying the children with instruction, the residents with a community center, and the cowboys with a steady influx of prospective brides." So important was this match-making element of the school that the cowboys actually surveyed photos of the prospective teachers, gatekeeping with their libidos. Once they got a load of the photos of Ros (who was "voted the best-looking girl in the junior class of Smith College"), the Auburn girls were a shoe-in, even though neither had ever taught school.
And so they headed west. On the eve of their departure, the Syracuse Daily Journal ran a headline: "SOCIETY GIRLS GO TO WILDS OF COLORADO." After a long train trip, Dorothy and Ros landed in Elkhead, just west of Steamboat Springs, Col., a high desert place of "sage and badlands." In this unforgiving country, the women found friendship, hard work, heartache, and even a little cowboy love. Wickenden has the sense to pull as much plot as possible out of this slender story and turns her book into a gentle romance as well as a tale of the triumph of determination over adversity.
The author calls her book an "alternative Western," but the values on parade here are timeworn American verities: pluck, loyalty, courage, and indomitable optimism. Dorothy seemed to like just about everything she saw in Colorado. She wrote of her new neighbors, "It is an entirely new type to me, for we never see such keen, receptive wide-awake intelligent people living such hard lives." Where others might have found desolation, she and Ros consistently found something to admire. Here is Ros on her new place of work: "The schoolhouse stands high on a mountain or hill between the two districts called 'little Arkansas' and 'Calf Creek.' It is the Parthenon of Elkhead!"
Dorothy and Ros boarded with the Harrisons, a homesteading family whose house was uninsulated and had no interior walls. Dorothy wrote with characteristic humor, "This lends intimacy to an unimagined degree and you know it—every time any one turns over in bed, and it is especially sociable when the wind blows." Mrs. Harrison cheerfully made do with very little, and stretched what she had to accommodate the young teachers.
What is alternative about this history is its lens, which is trained on a strain of feminine resilience that doesn't often come into focus in accounts of the frontier. Mrs. Harrison was but one of a seemingly unending parade of remarkable women. Wickenden writes, "The state seemed to be full of tiny invincible women who never complained—a source of inspiration particularly to Dorothy." The young women made friends with a wealthy rancher named Bob Perry; Perry's sister Marjorie was a daredevil and a famous horsewoman and hunter; Perry's other sister, Charlotte, helped start a bohemian dance camp high in the Rockies—where Agnes de Mille, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham eventually all taught. Everywhere Dorothy and Ros went, they found yet another woman shaping an unusual and difficult life. It's fascinating to see the very American quality of rugged individualism germinating and growing not just in the men but in the women of the West.
Dorothy's enthusiasm was constant. Sometimes it even feels teeth-grittingly determined, but that doesn't make it any less infectious. One sunny winter day, she scribbled a letter to her mother: "This immense expanse of snow reflects the color of the sky—until it is really bluer than any Impressionist pictures I have ever seen." There's something wonderfully American about this moment, about the way she rejects the Impressionist masters in favor of the real-life skies of the West. Dorothy turns her gaze away from culture, away from Europe, away from civilization, toward the new country opening up before her. Here is the society girl, free at last of society.


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I'm really not trying to turn this into a pancake blog or even a weekend breakfast blog, but these were too good not to share. Now that I've found my perfect pancake recipe, I can't help but play with it a bit and think of tasty variations.
I posted on Facebook last week about minimizing food waste, and how meal planning is one of the best ways to do that. That doesn't mean I don't waste any food, but I do try to use most of it up, and because I have chickens I can feed it to them as well and then I don't feel guilty about wasting it. The way I see it, if the chickens eat it, then I save money on chicken feed, plus I do end up eating it (in the form of eggs) so, win-win!
Bananas are one of those foods that I do often end up with at the end of the week. What is it about bananas that makes them perfectly ripe one day then almost immediately brown and speckled? Whenever my bananas get to the brown zone, I throw them in the freezer for smoothies, banana bread, or muffins. This weekend I was about to throw a couple more in the freezer when I wondered if the pancake recipe would taste good with bananas and chocolate chips in it? At our house, the answer was a resounding yes.
Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Makes about a dozen
· 2 eggs
· 5 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
· 1 cup milk
· 2 ripe bananas, mashed
· 2 cups all-purpose flour
· 1 tablespoon sugar
· 4 teaspoons baking powder
· ¾ teaspoon salt
· ½ cup chocolate chip cookies
· whipped cream, for serving (optional)
1. In a large bowl, beat eggs lightly. Add butter, milk, and bananas and mix well. Add dry ingredients and mix gently, just until dry ingredients are moistened, taking care not to overmix.
2. Heat oven to 250 degrees and place a cookie sheet inside. Heat a pan or a griddle to medium heat. Using a ¼ cup measuring cup or ladle, pour batter into pan. When bubbles in the center of the pancake start to burst and the edges look dry, flip over and cook until the bottom is lightly browned. Transfer to the cookie sheet in the oven to keep warm. Serve with whipped cream if desired.


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* Foreign investors again net sellers of Qatari stocks
* But index ends off day's lows as banks rebound
* Credit Agricole may sell more Banque Saudi Fransi shares
* Kingdom Holding rises on news of deal
* Egypt Aluminum leaps after saying it may boost capacity
By Andrew Torchia
DUBAI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Qatar's stock market slid to a 52-month closing low on Tuesday as foreign investors sold, while Banque Saudi Fransi fell in Riyadh after France's Credit Agricole agreed to sell a 16.2 percent stake in it to local investor Kingdom Holding.
The Qatari stock index fell 0.7 percent to 8,472 points, though it ended off the day's low of 8,390 points as some bank stocks rebounded. Exchange data showed investors from outside the region were again net sellers.
Qatar's economy has been hit by an embargo imposed in June by neighbouring states. The wealthy government appears to have enough resources to ride out the sanctions, but its banks face higher funding costs as the other countries pull out deposits and loans.
Regional Arab investors sold Qatari stocks as soon as the embargo was imposed. With no progress made towards a diplomatic solution to the row, other foreign investors have joined them in recent weeks.
Qatar Navigation sank 5.6 percent on Tuesday and Qatar International Islamic Bank lost 2.8 percent.
Saudi Arabia's index dropped 0.2 percent as Saudi Fransi fell 4.2 percent to 31.60 riyals and Kingdom jumped 5.1 percent.
Credit Agricole is selling its stake in Saudi Fransi for 5.76 billion riyals ($1.54 billion), or about 29.5 riyals per share - suggesting a substantial discount to the market.
Under terms of the deal, Credit Agricole may sell another 5 percent of Saudi Fransi through off-market block trades. A year after the deal, it would be allowed to exit its investment entirely by selling a further 9.9 percent. That could keep downward pressure on the stock.
"What we would be looking out for is how this change in strategic shareholder will change the management style of the bank," said Shabbir Malik, a bank sector analyst at EFG Hermes. "Kingdom, although it owns a stake in Citi, lacks experience of running a commercial bank in our view."
The French bank had previously said it was looking to divest from Saudi Fransi, and analysts do not see the deal as pointing to more mergers and acquisitions in the sector; shares in other Saudi banks were narrowly mixed on Tuesday.
Dubai's index was almost flat and Abu Dhabi was 0.4 percent higher as the United Arab Emirates' biggest bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank, rebounded 2.0 percent. The stock has been in a downtrend since early August.
Egypt's index dropped 0.4 percent but Egypt Aluminum soared 10 percent after the company said it was considering whether to expand annual metal production capacity by 250,000 tonnes. Also, the board approved an authorised capital increase to 5 billion Egyptian pounds ($284 million) from 1 billion pounds, and said it would distribute one share for every existing share.
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* The index rose 0.7 percent to 4,470 points.
* The index fell 0.7 percent to 8,472 points.
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* The index fell 0.2 percent to 1,308 points.
* The index dropped 0.6 percent to 5,011 points. (Additional reporting by Celine Aswad, editing by Larry King)


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Girl Meets World Season 1 Preview: Welcome to the Dork Side!Matt Richenthal at . Comments
Girl met world last Friday night, with over five million viewers tuning in to Girl Meets World Season 1 Episode 1.
It's safe to say Disney Channel has a hit on its hands - and it's safe to say Riley isn't finished learning about this whole life thing. No matter what she claims in the following video.
It features a lengthy look ahead to the rest of Girl Meets World Season 1, as it's clear both Riley and her parents have a lot to discover about each other and about themselves.
From first dances to accidental art projects, get an idea of what's to come on this spunoff sitcom now:
Did you miss the opener? No worries. You can watch Girl Meets World online right now!
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.


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One quarter, one dime and three nickels make up 50 cents, as do one quarter, two dimes and one nickel, as well as two quarters. Other 50 cent combinations include five dimes and 10 nickels.Continue Reading
Quarters are worth 25 cents, while dimes are worth 10 cents and nickels are woth 5 cents. The mathematical formula for the cents value of a combination of quarters, dimes and nickels is 25*Q + 10*D + 5*N, where Q, D and N are the numbers of quarters, dimes and nickels. To find other 50 cent combinations of coins, set the formula equal to 50 and find values of Q, D and N that satisfy the resulting equation.Learn more about Coins & Currency


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Careers at Foord
Are you a smart, dedicated, independent and strategic thinker with a passion for investing? Foord Asset Management is looking for young, exceptional graduates to participate in its trainee analyst programme.
Successful candidates will receive on the job training, working alongside experienced industry professionals and will be expected to contribute meaningfully to the Foord investment team.
Candidates should have:
· A suitable undergraduate degree or professional qualification with a track record of academic achievement
· Excellent attention to detail
· Strong communication skills
· Good business acumen
· A hunger to learn
· A demonstrable passion for investing.
The Foord trainee analyst programme runs for 12 months. Permanent employment is not guaranteed at the conclusion of the programme, however exceptional candidates may be retained.
Please email your CV and a letter of motivation to email@example.com. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 14 days of application.


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A conversation with Samantha, who was outed as a lesbian to her parents by a teacher at her school, about the turmoil this has created in her life. She talks about being rejected by some of the most important people in her life after they learned she was gay, and how that experience has inspired her to be a leader in her local LGBTQ community.
Incredibly moving program. Thanks so much, Samantha, for being strong enough and caring enough to be interviewed. You are an amazing example for all of us. Thanks, Dr. Anne for putting this show on the air!!!
Dr. Anne,
your interview with Samantha was powerful. I wish I could give Samantha a hug and tell her how much I respect her. as the mother of a lesbian, I feel grateful that my husband and I, despite our shock and pain at our daughter's "coming out", were able to love her unconditionally from the start. those were the first words that we said to her when she told us that she was in love with another woman. we hugged and said that we accepted her no matter what.
we all have so much to learn. it is amazing to me how the psyche (or at least my psyche) has the ability to change and to grow. we both grew up in families where homosexuality was not even mentioned. any reference we heard of same sex relationships were negative. our families were very conventional.
we initially experienced embarrassment and felt unable to share with our friends and extended family for a long time. our daughter came "out of the closet' and we then felt that we were' in the closet'. our other two daughters were informed before we were.
we read books, one of which she gave us. it is called Now That You Know.. I went for therapy, sometimes with our daughter. I asked her questions. we e-mailed when she was away at college. I attended PFLAG for a while. now, 30 years later I understand and embrace not only our daughter and her partner, but also gays who are in a contented place and gays who are struggling with their sexual orientation..
I went public a few years ago and testified before our state legislature in support of gay marriage. in a public vote, our state eventually passed same sex marriage. it is happening all over the country.
thanks, dr. Anne, for the enlightening interview. you are an educator. we are educators too.. our friends have learned much from our experiences. we share with anyone who asks about our three daughters.
nothing that was said in your interview was a surprise to me. it is a difficult journey. I understand about Samantha's double life.
keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for this touching interview. I so appreciate your courage Samantha, and, as always, love your presence as an interviewer Dr. Anne.
Samantha was and is really brave to stand up for herSELF! Something I wish I had been able to do at her age. Thank you Dr. Anne for a powerful and touching interview.


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Some MSI's laptop models come with Turbo Drive Engine technology, providing users with an easy route to overclocking. If you need more juice – a simple click on the Turbo button will do the trick and raise the performance to another level.
In order for Turbo mode to run, the laptop must be plugged in the wall outlet, meaning AC mode. The Turbo key is located in the center of the Sensor pad, and its size speaks volumes of what this feature means on the GX620X. We must concur, as not many laptops feature such a simple and effective means of overclocking.
Another special feature on the GX620X is the ECO engine. This technology, when used, should provide longer battery life. Power management has 5 profiles – Gaming mode, Movie Mode, Presentation Mode, Office Mode and Turbo Battery Mode.
In order to switch modes, you'll need to repeatedly press the ECO quick launch key. Depending on the mode of choice, battery life will be prioritized for certain tasks and for instance in Turbo Battery mode you'll notice that monitor backlight is down to minimum. Gaming mode, on the other hand, is not quite the power saving mode as the processor runs at max and the panel backlight is at its max.
ECO engine is a nice idea but there're still a couple of things to polish. Gaming mode, while running on battery, should overclock the GPU to 500MHz, but it stays at 169MHz. We were trying to play and not save battery, and we couldn't help but wonder what the purpose of Gaming Mode. To cut a long story short – no AC outlet, no gaming.
The Movie Mode enables 130 minutes of video playback, but we measured similar minutes without it. The Turbo Battery mode managed to squeeze out an additional 7 minutes, mostly due to minimum monitor backlight.
ECO engine builds on the three power consumption modes offered by Vista OS. We noticed that while monitoring what happens when turning the ECO modes on.
The Turbo Battery mode should be the best power saver, and upon activating it we noticed that it takes control over the power saving mode offered by Vista (Energiesparmodus in German). This will be clearer after looking at two following pictures.
The pictures show before and after we turned the Turbo Battery mode on.
The same goes for the rest of the ECO engine modes. Gaming and Movie mode come in place of high performance (Höchstleistung on German) whereas Presentation and Office modes are Balanced modes (Ausbalanciert on the picture)
The last three modes won't let the CPU overclock from 1.6GHz which is actually the idle speed of the Core 2 P8400 processor, resulting in lower consumption. Gaming and Movie mode enable the processor to run at its standard speed of 2.26GHz, handy when gaming or watching a movie. We recommend the Turbo mode for gaming, as the CPU additionally overclocks to 2.6GHz.
The following pictures show what we've just told you.
What happens in Turbo mode? In idle mode, the CPU runs at 1596MHz, whereas the Turbo mode, also in idle mode, is 1851MHz (15% overclock) or 1915MHz (20% overclock). We mentioned earlier that BIOS lets you choose whether the Turbo mode will overclock your CPU by 15% or 20%.
The following pictures show the CPU clocks after we turned on the Turbo engine with a 20% overclock, first in idle mode and then during operation.
The Turbo engine, as we've said before, can't be used without AC power, or else the battery would be depleted in no time. Note that the System Control Manager also has to be installed.


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Android, iPad Tablets Pose Security Challenges
Tablet computers are proliferating in the workplace, but still present a range of security weaknesses that CIOs need to address, according to Jonathan Roach, principal consultant for Context Information Security. CIOs must be aware of the security gaps in Apple's iPad, Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Research in Motion's Blackberry PlayBook as they weigh whether to allow employees to use them for work, Roach told CIO Journal.
Roach announced his findings one week after Forrester Research said most CIOs are unprepared to manage tablets and the various business applications that run on them, despite the fact that 82% of 5,000 IT and business leaders said they planned to support tablets at work in 2012. Employees are increasingly using tablets in place of laptops, often from a wireless connection in the office, Forrester said.
But Samsung's Galaxy Tab, one of the more popular tablets based on Google Android software, earned the dubious distinction of being the least secure of three tablets Roach scrutinized because it lacks a software tool that securely loads data and applications when a device is powered up. Without this system of checks and balances to protect the tablet's code, the disk encryption is weaker than that of other computers. And even when encryption is enabled on the Galaxy, it allows potentially malicious apps to store sensitive information on the unencrypted SD card. "It doesn't appear that Android is ready yet, for serious corporate use," Roach said. Some CIOs agree; Both Terex CIO Greg Fell and Covanta Energy's Stuart Kippelman told CIO Journal they do not support or allow Android smartphones or tablets in the work place because of concerns over the software's security and manageability.
The iPad has become a popular alternative for some C-level executives, sales representatives and other mobile knowledge workers. But Roach said the tablet is still susceptible to certain "jailbreak" attacks, in which hackers work around Apple's security to add or modify software, unless CIOs employ a strong passcode policy to the machine. Also, the iPad's default setting to store iTunes backup files in clear text, rather than encrypted text, is potentially dangerous, Roach said.
Roach told CIO Journal the PlayBook is easily the most secure of the three tablets he tested because CIOs can tether the PlayBook to an employee's Blackberry smartphone, which is already managed by RIM's core security software. "As long as the tablet is near the phone, the tablet will be covered by the same security policy as the organization is," Roach said. Also, a RIM application allows employees to separate work and personal data. But Roach also acknowledged the irony of the PlayBook; though it's easily the most secure tablet he's tested, most CIOs aren't purchasing them and most employees are buying iPads or Android tablets today.
It's unlikely CIOs will persuade Google and Apple to make their mobile platforms and devices that run on them more secure, Roach said. Android is open source, and it appeals to developers because they can modify the software's code. But businesses have never heavily influenced Apple, which builds computers with the consumer in mind, he said. He said tablet manufacturers still have a way to go before their products can deliver the high levels of security required for use in most corporate enterprises. In the meantime, CIOs can purchase any number of third-party security and management applications to help protect tablets. "Certainly, if I was a CIO I would be looking to use those," he said.
Forrester Research analyst Simon Yates told CIO Journal that CIOs should concern themselves more with securing data and applications and less about how to manage and secure the device. "Once you start embracing tablets, the range of applications used will expand and security will become an even bigger debate," Yates said. "The vast majority of CIOs can't keep pace with the change and they're just not ready for the really big change the tablet would bring into their enterprise."


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T Cell Fx™-Select
The test measures the T cell responses to antigens of common infections as well as to mitogens, allowing detection of deficiencies in this arm of the immune response. Patients with primary immunodeficiency may have deficits in the acquired T-cell response. It is useful for the following types of patients: Immune deficiency, Recurrent infection, Evaluation of cell-mediated immunity and monitoring immunosuppression (e.g. Transplant patients).
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells are stimulated with mitogens or antigens or left unstimulated as a negative control and incubated at 37ºC. During the incubation Brefeldin A is added, causing the interferon (IFN)-gamma to be retained inside the cell. Following the stimulation phase, cells are recovered, stained for surface markers (CD45, CD3, and CD69 and intracellular IFN-gamma, and analyzed by flow cytometry. This test has not been cleared or approved for diagnostic use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
2-3 business days from receipt of specimen
|Specimen Type
|Order Code
|CPT Code
|NY Approved
|Assay Range
|Special Instructions
|whole blood
8 mL
Varies by antigen/mitogen
Specimens are approved for testing in New York only when indicated in the Specimen Information field above.
The CPT codes provided are based on Viracor Eurofins' interpretation of the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes and are provided for general informational purposes only. CPT coding is the sole responsibility of the billing party. Questions regarding coding should be addressed to your local Medicare carrier. Viracor Eurofins assumes no responsibility for billing errors due to reliance on the CPT codes illustrated in this material.


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I wanted to talk about what we are all after when it comes to SEO… traffic. That is why people buy SEO services. Everyone is after traffic. Website visitors is what makes the world turn, without them we would all be dead broke and probably scanning bar codes at our local supermarket.
I sell a fair bit of SEO services but I also have my own sites and projects that I work on away from Marketing Originals and its services. There are so many different ways to get traffic to your website but we all get wrapped up with top Google rankings. You can get traffic even if you are not #1 on Google for your main keyword. People do not understand this. They think you have to be on the first page of Google or the SEO service isn't working.
Here are 5 ways to get website traffic to your websites.
Target your page 2-3 organic rankings
Page 2 – 3 is useless for traffic forget about it! Nobody looks through those pages, If you are on those pages you might as well be on page 82 or page 314. But did you know you can usually give your internal pages that are ranking on page two and three a quick boost just by playing with your internal linking?
Use Google Analytics, webmaster tools and Ahrefs (or SEMrush) to identify the terms and pages from your website that are on page two and three of Google. Make a note of these as being organised in SEO is a key factor. Once you find these potential terms you need to go and find pages on your website that have some good SEO juice to send the way of these pages.
You can use open site explorer and look at the DA and PA. In my opinion they are poor metrics that can be easily rigged but when you are dealing with your own site they should give you a good idea of what pages are solid. Obviously as long as you aren't spamming your own site! You can do this in 2 seconds by entering your main URL in OSE and then look at the top pages tab.
Once you have identified your strongest pages drop some links on those pages to your pages that are sitting on Google page 2 and 3.. this works good for long tail keywords that need just a little nudge. Smart internal linking is something 99% of people forget to do and it makes zero sense as there are a lot of missed opportunities here. Take small steps and don't just drop a shit load of internal links to a single page at once, make small changes and see how the SERPS react.
Use PPC copy from top companies in your page descriptions
Page descriptions don't do anything for SEO! You could include your keyword in them but it isn't going to help your rankings. A lot of people will say to include the keyword in the description anyway to help with the click through because the person is likely to click on the page if they see the same keyword they just searched for.
Guess it makes sense but if you look at some descriptions they just look so awkward with the keyword slapped in there. Nobody is going to be impressed and want to click on a link just because it includes a keyword. I get all my description copy ideas from people that are spending money testing Google Pay Per Click ads.
I will do a Google search related to the topic of the page I am writing a description for and look at the top PPC adverts. Keep in mind here these advertisers are spending a fair bit money split testing copy. I look at the best ads and get my description copy based on them. PPC adverts at the top are spending the most and have the best click through rates so it is a good source of copy that attracts people to make them want to click on them.
Top ranks are worthless unless they entice people to click on them.
Make lists that feature sites you want links and traffic from
This is easy to do for any niche keyword. Make a list of the best websites that you want to try to get links on because of referral traffic and not SEO. These are called ass kissing posts and could be done with any niche.
Example: If you have a website that features football news, make a list of all the top football websites you would kill to get a link from which has visitors you would like to also check out your website. Now create a blog post that has a very broad topic so you can include every site you are interested in – "10 football transfer rummer Websites you need to read daily" And its as easy as that.
Make sure you link out to each one of the websites on the list. The name of the SEO game is looking natural. Do the biggest football websites in the world link out? Yes.
Create a good blog post that will impress everyone whos website link you include in it.
Once you publish it contact all of the websites you included in your list.. Email them.. Use the contact form on their site.. Tweet them.. Facebook them.. Don't worry about bothering them! They won't see it as you pestering them once they discover that you are doing it to let them know that you featured them. Think about it for a minute.. they are after links and exposure just like you are so by giving them a link they are going to feel like they have to return the favor. They will often write a blog post telling their readers that they were featured and named as a blog to read.. Stroke their ego and get a link and mention. It is a niche related link and can push traffic to your site also.
Sign up for every single newsletter in your niche
Getting links on top websites in your niche market isn't hard if you just approach it differently from the rest. Everyone else is sending out copy and paste messages that all say the same.
Most websites have a newsletter or some list you can subscribe to. Sign up for every single one you can find. You are going to get a lot of emails so set up a separate email address but make sure you keep it on your domain. If you use info@yoursite as your mail email address set something like hello@yoursite for this. Under no circumstance set up something like spam@ or newsletter@ – any smart website owner will sniff this out and know what you are up to.
Every time you get a new newsletter read through it in 3 seconds and reply to it and compliment a point within the newsletter. "That was great – I totally agree about (whatever) because (your point)" – also start to tweet blog posts from the site. They will start to see that you are replying to their newsletters (nobody does this) and sharing their stuff on social media. This is called building a relationship.
After you do this for a few weeks include a pitch in one of your replies to their newsletter. "I was actually just writing a blog post about (the topic you are replying about) and wanted to know if you would like to publish it on your website?" This is a casual guest post request. It isn't annoying or spammy like 99% of the other ones teh website owner will get. It will stand out and they will identify you as the person that has been communicating with them and promoting their content!
The effort is worth it when you land that post and get a niche link that will kick back referral traffic and give you a SEO boost.
Publish one SEO blog post daily that targets a low search volume long tail keyword
These days everyone is on the long tail keyword wagon but most will skip over a keyword that has a low search volume of say less than 20 searches. They think it isn't worth going after. The key is to target one every single day. Most people skip past them as the competition is low. You can often rank with just good on site optimisation – low hanging fruit!
Make sure the long tail is used in the title, in the first part of the content and a couple more times in the content. IMG ALT tag and H2 tag to round it off. Since you are going this daily make sure to interlink the website pages correctly.
Being consistent comes into play after some time. But imagine if you targeted a keyword daily that only has a monthly search volume of 20. After 1 year you would be targeting about 260 keywords if you did it Mon – Fri every week. 20 x 260 = 5,200 very targeted searches per month. If your on site optimisation is done properly you will be ranking pretty high or on top for these.
This type of traffic will do better than more general keywords because these very low volume long tails are extremely targeted! When you think of the bigger picture this is such an easy thing to do. This is such an easy way to increase your traffic but not with just any traffic, this is very targeted. Most people just see the big search volume keywords and don't want to put the effort into the low volume stuff.


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I can take or leave the album itself (I'm more of an AOXOMOXOA or LIVE/DEAD man), but Grateful Dead's AMERICAN BEAUTY, released in November 1970, is packaged in the most beautiful album cover art I've ever beheld. The master who painted it, Alton Kelley, died yesterday from complications of osteoperosis at the much-too-young age of 67.
I look at this album cover, even now, and I thrill to how it manages to look at once traditional and frontier-shattering; how the design manages to accomodate woodwork, marble, ornate metalwork and decal-design; and, most especially, how Kelley so brilliantly revolutionized the art of typography. And the piece achieves all of this in service to the simple central image of a rose. In that way, I find it analogous to the eponymous suite in Vincente Minnelli's AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: both works traverse a history of art to arrive at the fundamental beauty of nature, despite all its thorns.
Kelley and his associate Stanley Mouse spearheaded San Francisco's psychedelic art movement in 1965, when Bay Area concert venues like the Fillmore Auditorium, The Family Dog and the Avalon Ballroom hired them and other artists to design promotional posters, flyers and postcards for their weekend shows.
"We were just having fun making posters," Mouse told Joel Selvin of THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. "There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in a furious moment."


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Culture Shock
Dates 1 Feb '13 to 1 Oct '18
Flexible? Somewhat
Est. Cost 1,200 - 2,500 USD (USD United States Dollars)
Type Travel Partners Wanted
Name Let's climb Kilimanjaro!
MsMaria Hey all... im maria. from NJ. im new to this website. I am in the process of researching to do a safari then climbing Kili in 2013. aug or sept. this is my dream. one of my friends is also interested in doing this with me but would love more company. this is a very challenging and expensive hike.
one. airfare
two. finding the right company. and deciding on the route/trek. I would like to do the machame route. i hear it has great views as well as the best percentage of climbers who actually make it to the top. downside is that we would be camping in tents.
three.... the gear you need is expensive. -20c sleeping bag, hiking boots. trek poles, layers of clothing- including base layers, fleece and down layer and outer shell layer. waterproof and windproof. i went to the store to check out the prices and it is not cheap at all! but i rather spend on the gear that freeze my azz off and NOT make it to the top.
another thing to be aware of is that you have to be fit before the climb and you have to be aware of atitude sickness, which may interfere with reaching the top.
HayleyL Hey Sophie and trip followers- here's an idea for you guys to toss around..
There's a little NGO called 'Make a Difference Now' working out of Moshi and Himo in Tanzania.
I have been here doing volunteer work for them for the last 3 months and absolutely LOVE it. The organization is currently putting 22 orphans through some great private schools (even including college) all around the kilimanjaro region.
They organize a big 'climb for education' every year.
The program fee includes:
Donation to our Education Fund for the Children
Airport pickup & Drop Off
24 Hour Security & Assistance
2 days of safari (Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro Crater--I did this last week...AMAZING!)
Swahili & Cultural Lessons
Park entrance fee and 6 days of climbing to the top or Kilimanjaro and back
Climbing Guide, 4 Porters, Cook and Assistant Guide
1 week of time with the children at the orphanage
6 days/ 5 nights at guest house near orphanage
7 days/ 6 nights hiking and camping on mountain with staff
2 days/ 1 night camping on safari
1 night hotel with pool after safari
All meals
All transport
Read more info on the trip at
Its a truly inspiring organization and I can't say enough great things about all of the wonderful kids! Such a rewarding experience.
And Ill have you know that there is no better feeling than reaching the peak of kili! Touching the highest point in Africa..So awesome!


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If you've been holding of on purchasing the Motorola Moto X because the standard white and black options currently available from Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon simply don't get you excited, we may have some good news for you. According to @evleaks, AT&T's stranglehold on Moto Maker will expire next month, with Verizon jumping in on the Motorola Moto X customization game on November 11. We still don't know when Sprint and T-Mobile devices will be able to be customized through Moto Maker or when those stunning wood back panel options will be made available.
The software experience on the Motorola Moto X is incredible, but without the external hardware customization option available, we find it hard to justify paying the $200 on-contract price for the handset. Are you still waiting for Moto Maker to open its doors to Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile before purchasing your Moto X?
Moto Maker for Moto X coming to Verizon on November 11th.
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In anticipation of the next six-ish gravy-smothered, twinkle-light-bedecked weeks of the holiday season before us, we are reserving a special spot in our roundup just for all the finger-licking, heart-warming goodness. This week, a few stories about gratitude, giving, and (obviously) more gravy to help remind us all what Thanksgiving is really about.
What's more: a few features on what's going on in the entertainment world, and some stories that are, if nothing else, just that—really good stories.
Happy reading!
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P.P.S. See if you can spot a story about Next Issue and our new partner in the December issue of Chatelaine.
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Best of Adventure
Find your dream vacation: sleep in the Alps; see the best view of Everest; summit a Mexican volcano; penguin-watch in Antarctica; hike through Quito; explore the Indonesian coastline; discover unfamiliar culture in Africa. (Just a few ideas.)
The A-Team Killings
Last spring, the remains of 10 missing Afghan villagers were dug up outside a U.S. Special Forces base. Was it a war crime or just another episode in a very dirty war? Brutal, honest, and eye-opening.
The Year Ahead: 2014
Get prepared for all the major trends, disruptions, breakthrough products, innovations, and revolutions of 2014 with Bloomberg Businessweek's biggest issue since 1999.
I'm a Government Witness
"I'm a government witness, for God's f***ing sake… I'm not doing anything illegal." Angel Heredia trains some of boxing's heaviest hitters, but does his past as a ped cheat make him a threat to the sport—or a potential savior?
Good Stories
Up Front: The Long Road Back
Two years after the tragic deaths of her children and her parents from a fire in her home, Madonna Badger reflects on what happened—and what keeps her going.
Guy Walks Into a Bar
An amusing short story that cleverly combines a handful of jokes we've all heard too many times into an original, charming piece that, somehow by the end, is pro-gay rights. (No joke.)
I Believe: An Essay by Bill Gates
"I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started." He's also a little obsessed with fertilizer, but he tries not to talk about that too much at cocktail parties.
Deer in the Heart of Dixie
Get invited to this old school club of hunters who run deer with dogs through the swamps of Alabama, and you'll share breakfast with 75 others, hear a whole lot of howling from both hounds and hunters, and, if you don't shoot straight, possibly get a paddling from a guy in a funny hat.
Two Reels and a Microphone
Men of the Year: Justin Timberlake
JT's one of our favorites, but he's just one of 29 Men of the Year. Matthew McConaughey, Pharrell Williams, Kevin Spacey, Chris Christie, Andy Samberg, John Oliver and many more also get a spotlight in this issue.
The 10 Best Sci-Fi Movies Ever
Can a scientist watch a sci-fi movie and believe that it's good, even if it bends the laws of nature? The answer is yes—to a degree. It must have both scientific plausibility and cinematic merit. And if it has neither, well, see "Sci-What?" (The 5 worst.)
Design Report 2013
EW goes behind the scenes (and seams) to deconstruct the year's best costumes, set design, and hair and makeup on the big and small screens.
Hottest Acts of 2013
Kelly scores advice from Adele, Kanye gives props to Lorde, and Britney schools Miley. This year's music royals sound off to Us.
Holiday Series: Gratitude, Giving & Gravy
The Ingrate's Guide to Living Longer
Gratitude might be a "chick thing." But it's another reason women are happier and live longer than men. It's about time we settled the score—with two very simple words.
Live Green and Save During the Holidays
The volume of American household waste grows by 25 percent (about a million extra tons) between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. Here, 20 ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle while reconnecting with family and friends.
The Giving Spree
What's on your wish list this year? Profound happiness? Deep gratitude? A better world? They can all be yours if you follow O's guide to giving what you've got. Here, an abundance of inspiring ways to share a little cash, show off your skills, and make every moment count.
The Sinful and the Saintly
Thanksgiving two ways: a truly gluttonous spread for those looking to indulge, and a Mediterranean-style meal for the butter-phobes.


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Our eGym Advent Calendar!
From December 1st until December 25th we will publish exciting facts about our eGym team!
Have a look at it day by day and discover many funny and interesting details!
In 2016, 10 additional eGymees joined our Marketing & Design team. All together, the team was able to host over 25 events in the German speaking area! Wow, what a great team effort!


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"I could kiss Bobby Flay for coming up with this dessert recipe. I love the combination of blueberries and lemon. Trump that with a carmelized blueberry topping over a yummy white chocolate and coconut-flavored cake! Now you're talkin'! *Make sure to read through the recipe so you can have some ingredients at room temperature*"
Lemon Blueberry Upside Down Cake
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READY IN:1hr 15mins
Ingredients Nutrition
Lemon blueberry topping ingredients
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces
- 2⁄3 cup light brown sugar, tightly packed
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
Cake batter ingredients
- 1 1⁄3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 cup unsweetened coconut milk
- 2 ounces white chocolate, coarsely chopped (Callebaut is preferred)
- Lemon Blueberry Topping:.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a 9 inch round cake pan, melt the butter over low heat.
- Stir in the brown sugar and cook, stirring, until the mixture is smooth and bubbling, about 3-4 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the heat.
- Arrange the blueberries evenly over the brown sugar mixture.
- Scatter the lemon zest over the blueberries.
- Cake:.
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a large bowl, using a hand-held mixer (you may do this in a stand mixer if you don't have a hand-held) set at medium speed, beat the butter until creamy, about 30 seconds.
- Add the sugar and continue to beat until the mixture is light in texture, about 2-3 minutes.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
- Beat in the vanilla and white chocolate.
- On low speed, beat in half the flour mixture until just combined.
- Scrape down the bowl and beat in the coconut milk.
- Beat in the remaining flour mixture until combined.
- Spoon batter over the topping in the cake pan, spreading it evenly over the berries until they are completely covered.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 45-50 minutes.
- Cool in the pan on a wire rack for about 3 minutes.
- Run a knife around the edge of the cake to release it from the sides of the pan.
- Invert a serving plate over the cake and turn the cake out onto the plate.
- Let cool 30 minutes before serving.
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The Interface(IEEE Education Society), August 2001, pp. 2–3.
Richard M. Felder
North Carolina State University
H.L. Mencken once observed, "There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong." The field of education seems to be particularly vulnerable to this phenomenon. Going back to biblical times, people have bemoaned the terrible quality of the current generation of students, most of whom they find to be lazy, ignorant, and totally lacking in the critical thinking skills, moral fiber, and intrinsic motivation to learn that previous generations—especially their generation—had in abundance. The complainers have always neat, sometimes plausible, and generally wrong explanations for this terrible state of things. The explanations are based on personal observations or prejudices, rarely on systematic research or analysis.
Mencken's observation is splendidly illustrated by a pair of letters in the April issue of The Interface. Charles Nestor complains that our current students are unable to think compared to students from third-world countries, and Art Davis takes us to task for routinely passing students who are both incompetent in mathematics and functionally illiterate. Nestor blames technology—the Web, PowerPoint, distance learning, and even hand calculators. Davis trashes active and cooperative learning ("snake oil"), which he claims unequivocally are just feel-good methods that invariably lead to less coverage of material and inferior learning.
While there are certainly problems with many of today's students (as there were with yesterday's, nostalgia notwithstanding), neither the causes of the problems nor their solutions are straightforward, and it is certain that simply taking away the hardware and going back to straight lecturing is not the answer. It happens that a great deal of research on teaching and learning has been done in recent decades, much of it with careful controls and analysis at least as rigorous as that typically used in engineering research. Studies of the physiology of cognition and countless classroom research studies clearly demonstrate that people acquire skills by doing things and reflecting on the outcomes, not by watching and listening to someone else telling them what they are supposed to know. Students may learn in lecture-based courses, but little or none of the learning beyond simple factual recall happens in the lectures.
I urge readers not to take my word for these statements; instead, subject them to the kind of critical analysis that characterizes good research in any field. Browse the recent literature (including the April 2000 issue of the Journal of Engineering Education) and examine the meta-analyses of hundreds of studies showing that students who learn through interactive web-based technologies tend to do better than students taught the same courses with chalk-and-talk. Spend an hour on the Web (e.g., Active and Cooperative Learning or The Collaborative Learning Web Site or Effects of Small Group Learning on Undergraduates in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology) and evaluate the evidence from thousands of studies showing that significant increases in learning, skill development, and confidence result from properly implemented active and cooperative methods. Consider the work of Uri Treisman, who took a group of entering students at UC-Berkeley who were slated to go into a remedial math program and instead put them through one year of a cooperative learning-based program, after which their four-year graduation rate was higher than the overall average for the Berkeley campus. (The average rate for a control group was on the order of nine percent.) Note also that you don't have to sacrifice syllabus coverage to use active methods—in fact, if you take certain other steps you can do all the active learning you want to in class and actually increase coverage (see FAQs-2).
Certainly technology and groupwork can be misused, and they often are when instructors plunge into them with no preparation. If instead of taking advantage of the interactive capability of technology you use it to make students even more passive than they are in the normal classroom—delivering lectures entirely by hypertext or streaming video, for example, or converting class sessions into complete PowerPoint slide shows—little learning will result. If your only in-class exercises are unstructured group discussions of the previous night's homework, you are probably wasting your students' time and yours. If you ask students to complete an assignment in groups and do nothing to hold them individually accountable for all the work and to help them learn how to function effectively in teams (two defining conditions of cooperative learning), you may well be doing more harm than good.
On the other hand, if you spend some time in workshops or on the Web finding out how to (and how not to) implement technology-based instruction or cooperative learning and then try it, you will start to see the outcomes you are looking for. Doing it right is not necessarily easy—like every other meaningful activity, it involves a learning curve. It is not rocket science, however, and the potential benefits to both students and instructor are definitely worth the effort.


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Section 393: Accounts to give true and fair view
646.Subsection (1) introduces an overarching obligation on directors (the preparers of accounts) not to approve accounts unless they give a true and fair view of the financial position of the company and, in the case of group accounts, the group. This provision reflects the underlying legal duty already expressed in Community law.
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Beyoncé Dressed Up As Storm For Ciara's Birthday, Because Sometimes the World Is Perfect
Ciara officially had the best 30th birthday ever.
To celebrate Ciara's 30th birthday, Beyoncé, the most perfect human being to ever live, dressed up as Storm from the X-Men. (Jeff Dye was the Punisher, which is also kinda cool.) Just look at the perfection. Look at it!


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When Allan Stone spent $25 on a Chicago Blackhawks charity raffle, he thought that was the last he'd hear of it.
Then, one night last month, Stone was watching a Blackhawks game on television when the phone rang. He could see "Blackhawks" on the caller ID. The caller on the other end was Rocky Wirtz.


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...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.
Albert Camus
- Born: November 7, 1913
- Died: January 4, 1960
- Occupation: Author
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At the University of Denver, we conduct research and scholarship and develop programs that make a difference in our local, national and global communities. We're a private institution, and we're dedicated to the public good.
We live up to this commitment by engaging with the community through teaching and scholarship and building strong, long-term relationships through community organizing. We're also dedicated to performing research that focuses on improving individual lives and taking on the great issues of our day.
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CCESL's mission is to educate, engage and equip the campus community to accomplish tangible, public work that improves the lives of people in our communities. The center does this through a wide range of community-engaged learning programs, including community service, student training, faculty development, and relationship building with community organizations.
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