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For RVHS math teacher Andrea Spanovich, variables are part of her life and career, and for her using each of the variety of experiences she has gained in life can help to make her a better educator for the students who enter her classroom....
When it comes to math there are myriad variables one might use to solve a set of problems.
Knowing how to best use that variability can mean seeing success in mathematics.
For RVHS math teacher Andrea Spanovich, variables are part of her life and career, and for her using each of the variety of experiences she has gained in life can help to make her a better educator for the students who enter her classroom.
While some educators begin and end their teaching careers in one school district, Spanovich has had a much broader spectrum of experiences as a teacher.
"I have had seven different full-time teaching positions over the years," she said, adding there were some part-time roles along the way, too. "In a way having this many different positions has been a blessing, because I've seen a lot of ways to do and not to do things along the way."
Among those education positions for the Concordia College (now Concordia Un-iversity) graduate, who has a degree in elementary education with a Grades 7-12 math certification as well, are experiences teaching night school part-time and being part of an alternative learning program in the metro area where she taught a variety of subjects to different learners with unique learning styles.
Spanovich said she opted to become a teacher because it gave her the chance to help other students, adding in high school she was given the chance on occasion to help her teachers by working with fellow students to understand concepts being taught.
Spanovich said teachers are the kind of people who want to get back to school after they graduate.
"I enjoyed my time in school and saw myself coming back," she said, adding those who have no desire to ever set foot in a school again after they graduate are not likely to get involved in education later in life.
Spanovich, who is teaching classes including an algebra introduction course, ge-ometry and Algebra II, said math was a subject she understood in school, and so when the time came it made sense to teach that to others.
Over her 20 years in education, Spanovich said she has seen a positive change in math education.
When she started the stereotype often played out in schools was girls were not good at math, and therefore you did not see a lot of female math teachers.
Now, she added, when she meets with other math educators across the region there are times when the female teachers outnumber the males.
In addition to teaching math at the high school, Spanovich has gotten involved in the lives of students as the coach for the dance team and as co-advisor for the junior class.
She said being able to work with the dance team has been fun, adding the chance to work with those kids outside of the classroom is a great way to be involved in their lives.
Spanovich admitted she is still learning about her role as the co-advisor for the junior class, but she knows work is going to start very soon to plan the big event put on by the junior class – prom.
Spanovich is a believer in those extra activities students are able to participate in during their time in high school, as many times those extra things are what they remember most from their school experience.
With her own kids in the local school district, Spanovich is aware of the possibility down the line she may teach them. In past teaching roles she has taught her own kids, and she said finding the balance between being too hard on them and convincing other students you are not favoring them can be a challenge.
She said with a smile one of the perks for the kids is having their mom available during the day when they need to have money.
The local school district is not new to Spanovich, either, as she was involved at Reede Gray a couple of years ago when the integration program provided cultural literacy education programming for those students. Spanovich was one of those teachers.
When she is not in school or correcting school work, Spano-vich enjoys spending time with family, which also includes her husband, Scott, who works for the railroad.
She is also a die-hard Vikings fan as one can see in her room.
Spanovich is enjoying her new role at RVHS and things have been going very well for her as she settles in to her newest role in the field of education.


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Jamestown Community Theatre Artistic Director Mary Wright has reached into the sometimes strange, sometimes wonderful world of MTV and brought along with her other members of the theater group.
It all began when she was approached by David Bellino, a director and writer for Second Wind Video, who found her name on the JCT Web site. He has produced many music videos, including such names as Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. David's background also includes films, and he has won international awards for his work. David has moved back to Rhode Island from California with his family and is freelancing in the video and film business.
Mary explained, "David was asked to write and direct a video for a new singing group called 'The Life of Riley.' They have already released a song entitled 'When We Were Young' that is number eight on the list of most asked for songs."
David asked Mary to help cast the video. She met with him and then went on to cast 10 people. She also became first assistant director. In need of a production co-ordinator, she tapped islander Sonya Bieler for her knowledge and experience from working on the production of the History Channel's "Nature's Fury: New England's Killer Hurricane." Sonya's husband, Eric, became a production assistant and an extra in the video.
Mary said, "The roles I had to cast were very specific, but I used some people from Jamestown. Greer Beecroft and her 7-year-old son, Damien, played the two main characters. Michael White, Andrew Rushton, and Rebeka Wigton are characters working at a flea market and also in roles in flashback scenes. There were others, not from Jamestown, including my mother, Ellie Krach, who ventured in from New York City to make her video debut."
In addition, Mary took on islander Lee White to be the costume, hair, and makeup designer, and Lee's sister, Mary, joined in on the day of the shoot, assisting Lee with hair and makeup.
A flea market in Charlestown was the scene of the shoot on Aug. 5. The video is due for airing late next month.
Speaking of Sonya and the
History Channel's documentary on the great hurricane of 1938 referred to above, she e-mailed that the program "Nature's Fury: New England's Killer Hurricane" will debut on the History Channel this Sunday at 8 p.m. and again on Wedesday, Aug. 30, at the same time.
She urges everyone who was involved to contact relatives and friends and alert them to the air date and time.
Jamestowners who participated in the three-day shoot are Jane Bentley; Patty Vandal; Madi, Carol and John Baldwin; Eric Bieler; Johnna Jamieson; Dana, Talley, Durga and Michael Larkin; Kathy and Clarke Westall; Sydney and Kathy Pazera; Jon Knudsen; Jenna Regan; Hannah Cordes; Michael and Steve Liebhauser; Bonnie Jamison; Kathleen and Madi Brown; Dan and Mike Harpool; Garrett Reis; Rebecca Brazil; Cathryn Jamieson; Tot Wright and Bill Murphy.
It's show time on the History Channel.
Twenty-three members of Boy
Scout Troop 1 have returned triumphantly home with their newly earned 88 merit badges and seven rank advancements.
Each year the troop attends the seventh week at Yawgoog and stays in camp Medicine Bow at campsite Wetomuck. Merit badges awarded included Lifesaving, First Aid, Swimming, Emergency Preparation, Environmental Science, Citizenship of the World, Art, Mammal Studies, Fingerprinting, and Sports. Three scouts advanced to Second Class, two to First Class, one to Star and one to Life Scout.
Scoutmaster Dave Volpe said, "All in all this was a great year at camp. The troop continued its friendship with Troop 40 from Mount Vernon, N. Y., through a night of camaraderie around a campfire sharing doughboys and roasted corn. This has now become an annual event which we expect to continue next year. Additionally, the two troops engaged in a number of competitions including ultimate Frisbee, water dodgeball, Whiffle Ball and football.
"I'd like to thank the adults assisting me in making this week possible by spending time at camp. They are Diane Archibald, James Archibald, Harry Chase, Glen Hopkins, John Keavy and Phil Lee."
Led by Senior Patrol Leader Brian Volpe and Assistant Senior Patrol Leader Drew Matley, the Scouts who attended are Eric Archibald, Daniel Bailey, Samuel Baugh, Michael Brendlinger, Patrick Bretti, John Chase, Madison Hansen, Nathaniel Hopkins, Nick Lutes, Devon McMaster, Sal Morenzi, Tom Munro, Vaughn Nelson-Lee, Josh Nolan, Ben Normand, James Perry, Cameron Toppa, Zack Volpe, Dylan Walsh, Chris Waterman, and Kyle Wright.
Plus the award-winning special guest Ian Archibald. Great job, guys!!
With the wet spring, the mosquito
count is up this summer, a
good reason to be sure Biff's heartworm pills are given promptly as scheduled. Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic explains why in his Pet Tip of the Week.
"All dogs should be annually tested for heartworm infection and be on an effective monthly preventative. Heartworm is a parasite that is transmitted by mosquito bites, primarily to dogs, wolves, coyotes, and foxes. If an animal is infected, the parasites will mature in the animals heart and lungs and cause inflammation and scar tissue formation in those vital areas. Treatment for pets that have contracted heartworm can be very expensive and even life-threatening and that is why we stress the importance of preventative medicine. By keeping your pet on heartworm preventative - typically Interceptor, Heartgard, or Revolution - you can almost guarantee they will not contract this disease and stay healthy and happy." WOOF!
Two guys who deserve a lot of
credit and support are Ed Hughes and Alan Wentworth of Portsmouth who founded Clean the Bay and are doing just that.
They are demonstrating that actually hauling out debris works quicker to clean the bay than standing under a tent sipping cocktails.
To volunteer your time and/or donate to the cause, visit www.cleanthebay.org.
Barbara and Bert Dickinson
spent four days in Sterling, Va., cheering on their granddaughter, Emily, competing in the Eastern Pony Nationals Tournament.
Emily was designated hitter for a fast pitch softball team from New York. "It was very refreshing to watch games where the teammates were good sports and supportive. My granddaugter breaking a pitcher's no-hitter streak and batting in a run or two was just a bonus," Barbara said.
Grandson Tom moved to
Connecticut Sunday to live with his mom and three siblings. It seemed like a good time for the move with Tom entering high school next month.
He has lived with us for some time now. You probably know him. It seems everyone knows him and he knows everybody. He has an infectious personality, and to meet him is to like him.
I grew up with him. That is to say although we are 60 years apart I've enjoyed sharing his experiences and watching him mature into a tall, healthy 14year-old.
He is my best friend.
Much of what is Tom I suspect is the result of his personal contacts with people on the island. You're all good people who share our love for him. I could never name all of you, but you know who you are.
Thursday night of last week his friends of all ages threw him a first-class going-away party. They signed a large banner wishing him well.
The night before he left for Connecticut six of his friends slept over at our house.
The next morning they went downtown for breakfast as they always did. But on this day they came back and helped Tom load his stuff into a trailer.
When it was time to leave, he came over to me and gave me a big hug. "See ya, gramp." "See ya, Tom."
Later, I thought of our years together and realized he had taken me places I never would have gone.
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2013-14: Thompkins recorded the second lowest stroke average on the team this season, with an 82.7 average. Thompkins also had the third lowest individual round on the team at the Lady Bearcat Invitational, when she shot a 75 in the second round. This year also marked the third consecutive year that Thompkins has been honored with the Coaches Award.
2012-13: Mallory tied for the team low of 84.8 strokes per round this season, after 18 rounds. She also recorded the programs first ever hole-in-one, on a 170 yard par three on March 5th. She was named academic All-Conference and also received the coaches award.
2011-12: Thompkins competed in nine events for the Cobras in 2011-12, earning an 87.1 scoring average. Her low round of the year was a 79 (+7), which she shot at the Tusculum/Kiawah Island Intercollegiate.
High School: Thompkins lettered in boys and girls golf at Georgetown High School. She was a member of three region championship women's teams and was a three-time All-Region selection. She was named MVP of the boy's team in 2011 and posted a scoring average of 41 for nine holes.
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Really, all this movie is about is the joy of checks, calls, folds, rivers, and the acquired thrill of knowing what those words mean.
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Poker has proven itself a popular spectator sport on television -- at least in the short run -- but as scripted drama, where you can pretty much guess the winner of a given hand, it's dull, dull, dull.
Starts off promisingly, then grows as lifeless as a poker face.
The compelling and interesting aspect of Lucky You is not so much the compulsion that drives the main character but the way in which he interacts with those around him. The movie isn't a downer, but neither does it end with all loose ends nicely tied off. In this case, redemption does not equate with salvation.
A relaxed-looking expert piece that immerses us in another world. At the end, Hanson has a bonus. He and his producers hired Bob Dylan for the Oscar-winning "Things Have Changed" in "Wonder Boys," and Hanson brings Dylan back here, for a folky, bluesy number called "Huck's Tune."
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Iffy for 13+
Don't bet on Barrymore's lackluster poker rom-com.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this isn't a typical bright and bubbly Drew Barrymore romantic comedy. While there's not much sex or violence, there's plenty of antisocial behavior and compulsive gambling. One character runs a telephone scam, while others live in bathrooms to win bets. The main character steals his girlfriend's money and gambles away someone else's. He also encourages his girlfriend to lie and cheat for him. Goons looking to collect on his debts throw him into an empty pool, where he scrapes up his face. Some swearing and drinking.
Messages: Lots of gambling, stealing, and lying, though Billie insists on being honest. One character runs a 1-900 scam.
Violence: Goons threaten Huck and throw him into an empty swimming pool.
Sex: Billie hikes up her skirt to ride on a bike. Billie and Huck kiss; later it's implied that they've had sex. They lie in bed together naked, covered by a sheet.
Language: Some salty language, including "s--t."
Consumerism: Las Vegas is practically a main character. The Bellagio and Luxor casinos get a lot of attention. Canon cameras are also featured.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Lots of people casually drink beer, but none to excess.
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Russ Harding is the senior fellow in environmental and regulatory policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He previously served as senior environmental analyst and was director of the Center's Property Rights Network.
From 1995 through 2002, Harding served as director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, having previously held senior management posts in environmental and natural resources departments in Arizona, Alaska and Missouri. Before joining the Center, Harding was senior director for environment and energy affairs with Scofes, Kindsvatter & Associates, a consulting firm.
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Congress Mandates the Impossible
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Book Highlights Failings of Enviro Trends
"Eco-Fads" a rational, scientific read. … more
New Year Resolutions That Need to be Kept
How to kick off the new year right … more
A Christmas Wish
All I really want for Christmas is less government … more
EPA Turns Out The Christmas Lights
New MACT rule will cost utilities millions. … more
Motorists Paying for Bike Paths, Museums
Gas taxes should only go toward roads and bridges. … more
Are the Feds Giving Up on Detroit?
Light-rail plan scrapped; city's stability questioned. … more
Power Hungry
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Are Politicians Smarter Than the Rest of Us?
Political class should stop trying to plan our lives. … more
Governor Picks Bureaucrats Over Business
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We Have Declared War on Ourselves
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Holding Legislators Accountable
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Whoville Speaks Out
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The tempestuous battle between Teresa Giudice and Jacqueline Laurita is raging on and on with the ladies using their Bravo blogs as burn books. Two weeks ago, following an episode where the two had an explosive argument, The Real Housewives of New Jersey star lambasted Teresa for speaking out about her ex-husband Matt Holmes' legal issues.
Matt and his wife Jody were arrested on suspicion of arson, insurance fraud, and money laundering and are subject to an FBI investigation. Here's what Jacqueline had to say on the matter:
"Right after Teresa and I started fighting, the story about my ex-husband suspiciously leaked all over the press. It was an unfortunate situation because, in the end, after my ex passed a few lie detector tests, the FBI dropped the investigation against him. What had originally led to his arrest had been lies started by a fired, disgruntled ex-employee/nanny of his who they found out has a history of being corrupt, including having lived under nine different aliases."
"My ex-husband, Matt Holmes, and his wife, Jody, are INNOCENT! Teresa knew the deal (contrary to how she made it sound), yet when the heat was on her, she conveniently tried to put the heat on someone else. Deflection and projection are her specialty. This is what she does. She has a history of blaming others for the exact thing that SHE is guilty of doing."


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Come along on a virtual journey to the asteroid belt, the Moon, Mars, Saturn, Pluto and Europa. Begin by downloading this free educational app to any iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch). Then point the camera at the compatible interactive posters... (View More) available from this Lunar and Planetary Institute website to begin your exploration. The interactive posters can also be printed for display in a classroom or at an educational event. (View Less)
Students are tasked with virtually designing a spacecraft to withstand the harsh environment of the Van Allen Radiation belts- the location of many communication, GPS and weather satellites. The details of the challenge, along with videos on... (View More) radiation, a materials list (including descriptions, densities, costs, and testing), and subsystems information are included. (View Less)
This iOS app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch, allows families and educators to investigate and learn about the Sun at home, at school, or anywhere. It provides 13 free, easy to use, hands-on activities, plus live images of the Sun from NASA's SDO... (View More) satellite, videos of the Sun, and more. Each activity includes material lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed explanations. Some of the activities and media pieces are also available on the project website. The activity materials are widely available and inexpensive. (View Less)
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This is a lesson that applys occultations to Saturn's Moon Enceladus. Learners will establish whether Saturn's small moon, Enceladus, has an atmosphere, whether that atmosphere is over the entire planet, and what creates Saturn's E-ring. The... (View More) activity is part of Project Spectra, a science and engineering program for middle-high school students, focusing on how light is used to explore the Solar System. (View Less)
These short leader guides are designed for a novice user to pick up and implement the activities with ease. They address a range of topics all related to asteroids - most especially Asteroid Vesta. Activities are tagged to quickly find ones that are... (View More) active (involves movement), edible (involves food), calm (stationary) or informative (about NASA's Dawn mission and Vesta). (View Less)
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THE BIG CHILL: Wearing a black Azzedine Alaia dress and standing in front of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship, president Marigay McKee participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Thursday night, and had a bucket of ice water dumped on her head. McKee was nominated by lifelong friend and Tommy Hilfiger's wife, Dee Ocleppo. In turn, McKee nominated Bloomingdale's chief executive officer Tony Spring, Bergdorf Goodman's president Josh Shulman and Barneys ceo Mark Lee to complete the challenge within the next 24 hours. In addition, Saks made a donation to the cause. Others who completed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge this week include Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue, and Mindy Grossman, ceo of HSN Inc.
Marigay McKee: Saks Fifth Avenue's president took the challenge outside the flagship.
Anna Wintour: The Vogue editor-in-chief accepted the challenge from her daughter, Bee Shaffer.
Burberry: Staffers faced the water while wearing the brand's signature trench.
Cara Delevingne: The model may have been shocked by the water, but she shook it off like a pro.
David Beckham: The former soccer player was surrounded by laughter.
Donna Karan: The ice bucket challenge proved too much for the designer's nearby dog, Steph.
Diane von Furstenberg: The designer took the challenge to the high seas.
Gigi Hadid: The model hardly flinched.
Gisele Bündchen: The model had a very relaxed approach.
Gwyneth Paltrow: The bikini-clad actress nervously accepted the challenge.
Jourdan Dunn: The model proved to be one of the more vocal participants.
Karlie Kloss and Christina Tosi: The model and founder of Momofuku Milk Bar used empty containers of Karlie's Kookies as their buckets.
Lisa Perry: A cooler of ice water was more than the designer could handle.
Mario Testino: The photographer remained cool and calm.
Miroslava Duma: The founder of Büro sailed along while getting doused in ice water.
Net-a-Porter: Accepting the challenge from Topshop, the staff anxiously gathered together.
Sarah Jessica Parker: While in Houston to begin her SJP Shoe Collection tour, the actress donned a towel to complete her challenge.
Topshop: Staffers completed their challenge in unison outside the Oxford Circus store in London.
Victoria Beckham: The Beckham boys had a lot of fun helping the designer.


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Oct 29, 2012
BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Due to weather stemming from Hurricane Sandy, the women's volleyball schedule for Monday afternoon has been altered. King will still play Montevallo at 2 p.m., as scheduled, but all games scheduled afterward have been cancelled. There is no plan to reschedule the cancelled games.
King comes into today's match against the Falcons off a 3-0 road loss to Erskine College. They begin what is now a three-match homestand that will conclude on Nov. 2 versus Limestone on Senior Day in what will be a pivotal Conference Carolinas match with playoff implications.
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Before you decant, deep-sea dive
I don't know quite what to think now.
When I heard about wine anarchists cellaring wine at the bottom of a frozen lake, I first imagined the move as state-of-the-art, then as a fanciful prank. In the end, I think it was a sincere gesture made by wine lovers who don't like being hemmed in by the often constrainingly conservative world of wine.
News out of Saint-Malo, France indicates that the ocean-cellaring of wine is branching out in new directions. This Agence France-Presse newspaper article published last month suggests the unusual deep-sea storage of wine is getting serious attention from the more traditional wine establishment.
And that means you know the marketers can't be far behind. Click on the image above for the seductive offerings of Vina Casanueva, whose Cava Submarinas line of international varietals is not packaged in cases of twelve but laid out willy-nilly in barnacle-encrusted treasure chests. It's in this way that Cava Submarinas better gives wine adventurers "a legend emerging from the bottom of the sea". For their latest campaign, the winery also is kind enough to suit you up with goggles and an oxygen tank: access to this submerged cellar suddenly becomes self-serve.
If you're a pirate, that's probably how you'd want it anyway. Blackbeard will really get off on the video shown on the Casanueva site. Check it out, matey.
July marks the end of the birthday season among my closest circle of friends and this year we were really treated to some of the finest food BYOW Montreal has to offer. Our last stop was Restaurant Christophe, perhaps the nicest place in the city to bring out your favourite bottles for uncorking. We drank Domaine du Silène des Peyrals, among others. The way the food, the service, and the dining room ambiance came together, it was a real transportive experience. Like stumbling upon the most perfect Paris bistro.
If we once again put off the deep-sea diving during our next round of birthdays, we would surely call Christophe. Or even sooner than the next round of fêtes. They re-open after the Construction Holidays end on Sunday.


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RIEDEL Fatto A Mano Old World Syrah Pink
Zweigelt, Sangiovese, Dolcetto, Côtes du Ventoux, Nero d'Avola, Barbera, Priorato, Norton, St. Joseph (red), Touriga Nacional, Syrah Old World, Côtes du Roussillon, Vino Noblile di Montepulciano, Côtes du Rhône Rouge, Cannonau, Cornas, Mourvèdre, Hermitage (Rouge), Cahors, Carignan, Bordeaux (mature), Montsant, Grenache/Granacha, Madiran, Côte Rôtie, Amarone, Crozes Hermitage, Châteauneuf-du-Pape (rouge)
Year of design 2018
Volume 600 ccm
Height 250 mm
Box quantity 1
Type of Manufacturing manual production
Material Crystal
- RIEDEL glasses are dishwasher safe. RIEDEL exclusively recommends MIELE
- To avoid stains: use soft water (low mineral content)
- To avoid scratches: Avoid glass contact with other glass or metal
- To remove stains: use white vinegar
- If available use a stemware rack
- Wash the glass under warm water (use detergent and rinse the glass carefully)
- Glass polishing: Use two polishing cloths, never hold the glass by the base to polish the bowl
- Stem snap: Occurs through mishandling = torque or bend pressure at the stem
- Storage: Avoid glass storage in kitchen cabinets which have strong aromas that translates into glass
- Wash at boiling temperature (to kill bacteria) with odorless soap
- Should be machine washed at min. 170° F/75° C
- Never use fabric softener when rinsing your microfiber polishing cloth (avoids grease film on surface)
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Explore the contrast of country and Vegas, on this nine-day trip through California and Nevada
What do you get when you combine the steep hills of San Francisco, a Yosemite hike, a stroll into one of the hottest places on earth and a trip to the Strip? A diverse – and excellent – adventure! Start with a guided tour of the City by the Bay, travel through California's wine country and sample fine wines and cheese (yes please), get amongst the natural beauty of Lake Tahoe, explore Death Valley's nooks and crannies and say hello to Vegas, baby! Covering forests, canyons, deserts and Sin City, fall in love with this unique and exciting part of the USA.
Yosemite National Park feels like something out of the film, The Land Before Time. While other tour groups breeze through in a day, spend two nights in the park - allowing for a full day of hiking and exploring
For many, Death Valley conjures up images of flat, barren wastelands. Be surprised by diverse landscapes of sand dunes, water-sculpted canyons, extinct volcanic craters and in the spring, fields of wildflowers
Release your inner sommelier during a tasting in the famous wine region of the Sonoma Valley. For something a little different, visit the nearby Jack London State Historic Park, which celebrates the life and home of the legendary writer among stunning scenery
Lake Tahoe is a stunning destination year-round. In summer it is all about water activities, and in winter, it's all about the snow. Enjoy a free afternoon here to try some of the activities on offer
Enjoy a free day to lose yourself among the bright desert lights of Las Vegas. This is a great way to end your adventure. Remember, what happens in Vegas...
Death Valley in the summer is extremely hot and dry. It does hold the record as the hottest place on earth after all. Hiking at this time of year isn't recommended. Although our vans do have air conditioning, it has to work pretty hard to keep a full group cool so expect to be hot. At other times of the year, it might be quite cold, especially at night. Please consider the season and research the weather conditions to determine the best time to travel for you. Remember to come prepared with adequate clothing.
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Berlin has much to offer, especially to those interested in culture and history, with its 150 theatres, 175 museums and magnificent buildings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The architecture of Berlin is fascinating, mainly as a result of the former division between the "communist" East and the "capitalist" West for many years. Different styles of building were favoured in the two different parts of the city. The diversity of nationalities and different religions means that churches, synagogues and mosques are well represented in the city centre. The Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral) is the largest and most important Protestant church as well as the Hohenzollern family tomb. First built in 1465 as a Baroque church, it was only finally completed in 1905.
But Berlin also has something to offer for nature lovers. In the centre of Berlin, you can visit Europe's biggest botanical garden. It covers an area of 42 hectares and contains over 18,000 different varieties of plants. Just outside the city, there are a number of magnificent castles, with the most beautiful gardens that Germany has to offer. They are perfect for people who want to escape the hustle and bustle of city life and relax.


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Thomas Hart Benton on Tom Sawyer: Re-envisioning Twain in the 20th Century
Already an established artist of worldwide fame, Missouri artist Thomas Hart Benton was a natural choice for the Limited Editions Club's illustrated version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Likewise, the boy from Mark Twain's most accessible novel was a perfect subject for Benton, whose influence on the Regionalist movement emphasized a need for works that conveyed a uniquely American character. But Tom Sawyer presented a challenge as the artist strained to translate the humor and ease of the vernacular prose into a modern visual style. These competing goals prompted Benton to adopt a deceptively simple, gestural style for his illustrations that earned praise from readers as well as critical accolades.
Joan Stack is the curator of Art Collections for the State Historical Society of Missouri, which is home to the exhibit Mark Twain and Tom Benton: Pictures, Prose, and Song – on display at the Central Library in September 2011.


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Book 4 in the WILD HEARTS ROMANCE series is now available. TRUSTED HEARTS is a Cinderella/billionaire story...with GIRAFFES. It's not all fairy tale, though, as there are some tears, so be prepared. As always, however, there's an HEA waiting at the end.
And with Christmas just around the corner, what better way to relax from the holiday bustle than with a feel-good novella? The heat level is dialed down low in HOLIDAY HEARTS, making it an easy story to take on the road for a quick, romantic read. It takes place on Mount Kenya, but see if you can spot all the nods to a traditional holiday Easter egged inside.
Oh, and as for the novella being a surprise? I think I was more surprised about having it ready for the Christmas season than anyone!
And finally, be looking soon for the novella to be bundled up with Books 1 and 2 in a discounted box set for the holidays. It'll be titled WILD HEARTS.
Kim Nichols trusted the wrong man to give her heart to. Now she's in South Africa on a two-month sabbatical to forget the ex who cheated on her. But deplorable conditions at a local zoo—and the plight of one giraffe in particular—spur her to track down the owner and advocate for the animals.
Billionaire Brent Sher has invested in several animal-related businesses, including a zoo and a safari lodge, whose day-to-day runnings are managed by Jabu Amahle, his trusted right-hand man. Vexed by the accusations made by one very outraged teacher from the States, Brent invites the strong-minded beauty to assist him in a hands-on undercover investigation.
A growing trail of company abuses points to widespread corruption by Jabu. As Kim and Brent gather evidence and the net tightens, a desperate Jabu resorts to a chilling act that puts Kim's giraffe, the zoo, and the couple themselves in imminent danger.
To survive, Kim and Brent must not only work together but put aside past betrayals, open their hearts, and learn to trust again.
Twelve years ago, mountain climbers Sharon Conner and Maxime Rousseau had a fling on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. Since then, no other partners have quite measured up.
Now, two climb teams, led by guides in a friendly race to summit Mount Kenya by Christmas Day, stumble across a bongo caught in a poacher's trap. Only two climbers are willing to stop and help the large, striped African antelope – Sharon and Max, meeting again for the first time since Kilimanjaro.
As old feelings rekindle, more than just their Christmas spirit is tested on the mountain. With a violent storm rushing in on Christmas Eve and no help to be had from officials or wildlife agencies short-staffed by the season, Sharon and Max soon realize it's up to them alone to save the injured, tall-horned bull they name Noel.
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After he had just notched his first career win in his first career appearance, freshman Parker Danciu felt the need to introduce himself formally as he walked up to the media contingent awaiting him on Saturday.
"Hi, I'm Parker Danciu," he said with a smile.
Less than an hour earlier, Danciu had wrapped up his official introduction to the Gator Nation, as Danciu tossed 3.2 scoreless innings in helping the Gators put away the Duke Blue Devils for UF's first victory of the season.
"We got off to a good start today," coach Kevin O'Sullivan said after his team's victory.
"Overall, it was our first win and we certainly have a lot of things to work on, but I was awfully pleased with our pitching. We had two freshmen go out there for 7.2 innings and gave up two runs on four hits, so it's good to get those guys out there."
The other freshman O'Sullivan was speaking of was 6'6 right-hander Tucker Simpson, who pitched well in his first career start. The Alabama-native pitched three hitless innings before running into a bit of trouble in the fourth.
After giving up a Mike Rosenfeld single to start the inning, Simpson promptly gave up a two-run home run to Chris Marconcini. With Duke's deficit cut to one run, O'Sullivan turned to Danciu, who gave up only two hits against 14 batters.
After a stagnant opener, the Gators' collective bats were a little livelier on Saturday, sparked by Casey Turgeon's three-run homer in the first inning. Turgeon's screaming shot kicked off the fair side of the right field foul pole, bringing a dose of confidence to UF's batting order as well as their freshman pitchers.
"Casey [Turgeon] put a really good swing on the ball and the ball stayed straight," O'Sullivan said. "From our angle, it looked like it wanted to take a right turn, but it stayed straight luckily for us. He's hitting third for a reason and those first two guys got on base and did a nice job. "
"The pitcher was trying to throw strikes, and I went up with one thing on my mind: look for that pitch down the middle," Turgeon said. "He gave it to me, and I put a good swing on it. Coming out here and scoring a run in the first inning pumped our team up and got us going for the rest of the game."
The Gators would score again in the sixth inning when a Cody Dent sacrifice fly to deep left allowed Taylor Gushue to score from third.
With the Gators up by two runs late in the eighth inning, O'Sullivan called in sophomore closer Johnny Magliozzi who quickly dispatched of Reed Anthes, before retiring the side in the ninth. It was Magliozzi's first career save.
"I thought Johnny Magliozzi threw about as well as he has thrown since he's been here," O'Sullivan said.
With the series all squared, the Gators will throw out Justin Shafer on Sunday in hopes of taking the series. The gators received an added bonus with Danciu's performance as they go into the series finale with an abundance of fresh arms.
"Shafer's starting (on Sunday) — I feel really good about the way he's been throwing the ball," O'Sullivan said.
"We also got those three freshman — Vinson, Carmichael and Handhold who haven't thrown yet, so I feel good about what we have left on the mound."
The Gators will host Duke for the series finale at 12 p.m. Sunday at McKethan Stadium.


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Regional housing starts, sales and prices stabilized in much of the Southeast last year, and Florida led the way, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said in its latest economic report.
"After suffering some of the nation's largest declines, data show that a rebound in this state is clearly under way," the Fed said. "However, Florida is in many ways unique. Significant investor activity has boosted the housing sector in the Sunshine State, as have the number of international sales in the Florida market.
"Many of these transactions have been in cash, so the tight underwriting standards that persist in the mortgage markets have not posed as high a barrier to recovery that other areas of the region face," the Fed said in its fourth-quarter EconSouth publication.
Florida led the Southeast in in home construction through the third quarter. New single-family permits were up 24 percent in the state, compared with 18 percent regionwide.


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By P. H, Rolfs Dean
of the Agrioultural College
Every county in the State of Florida .cows
sugar cane to perfection. As a matter of fnot, Floride
wa; one of the first pla-es on the North American continent
where cano .-rowing for sug-r na'-.ing was att.ei-pted, rcri
Escanbia County on the west to Dade County on th.e snutzh,
cane is grown in 1 .r.-e iuai-tity. Ther is no hthcr crop
roIn in the- St.ite that is so uniformly su ccscful in pro-
ducinzg 2 'O:- Pt.'ns.
in additi,'n to its p. rfect adapt-illity to
the c,: i r..te, t- plat is adapted to a wide variati-.. in
soils. It gro-; -.ell on nearly cvcry soil typ, in the t tc,
Th-: hewv .r anri more fertile soils produce th,. 1. j. r.t ton-
n-ge. 1.nd-r f'.vor-ble conditionse the ordinary 'oil t--pc- ucl.
as is used for gro-wing ordinary frm crops mny: he co.uited on
to give t-enty-five tons or nore of su-;. c:n'l per :'nre in a
year On the- rich muck lrnds, espec!, lly t-osc around LaTe
Okeechobee, known the custard. .,ple rim, M uch 1 -vgor ton-
nage -i.' tliis -:. fr'-quently produced. Th- bi''- ja-:k ri-' es
nnd white sandy ;oils, while prolucin,- a. .,-1.p rof 1:up. riod
qus"ity, arc not to be rrcom'cnde,' .ic being Rttrastivc to
planting to su.gPr cane. TiChe hoIDTLOC:. soils, espi-)'-!.ly in
the -.anatee and Volusia County rocionrs v:ere the types of soil
employed for the eorlic st e 'fo.ts of suaor cane production in
thl- 5Uti.te. Up to th.: p.:-sent tipeL sugar cane hos been
ro-:fn ...l.t entirely for tic production syrup. Florida
produces sore of th:.- finest syrup that 1.v ]r- in t.he world.
Florid: i7Tr.-p of a --oOr quality h-.s never been pro,!uc d in
surf:fcient quanti. to s-tisfy the- rirket annt with i:s pMpu-
larity h.:..'- come ,,. very great-ly increased demnud, "ith the
sysLeriai.izi -i of -yrup production has co,)e rn inpipve]ient in
the quality 1f th. product put on the i r.et. In tl:. old
d.-ys when the fr'iers relied pr IIncipally on the op:.n kettle
for syrup rr:i.ing, tihe product was extremely variable, some
of it bein.: little! better than molasses. Those who n.I- e a
fine quality of 3iyrup soon .n-ide a reputation for t-c- .e:,,elves
an', had an al,"Iost 1'ilirihited market -.'or their product,
A .r a. many v"r-ietics of sugar ocne htvec been
grown in t > Ttate. Practically every v. iety 'mo.:n in the
':est Indies amd to -.rts of. the United Ltap.es hwve beenn tried
in one place or anQthc-r. From this great medley of varieties
th-t have b.;en tried some stand out with striking prominence.
The harCiest and not c,-rtain grower of the sugar cwnc groupp
is the J.anp n.se CLe. The quality of syrup produced i* ex-
cc ..e it u1. t.:C qiua ity large. It h:.-s been a favorite for
a gro n. y,.(aru .d will continue to b planted for' a long
t imne.
Cayana-10 is a type of sug-, r n' In nt'ririediate
in appc.'rance between Japanese cane c ordinary su-ar c-ne.
It hvs proven itself to 'ie a r- rir-k .bly robust variety ,nd th
seed is i-n -:rt des.nd, th re b.-In on!y ouh to supply a
sanall p-r -nt of th t desired.
The Red or Purple can-.. Is roin!. quite .We,,ral l'
thruou t. -e ci.lre i'or .n., of t.-e r.t..f.e, It c'-.n b.. relied upon
as -ivin .- f. i..17 ,no, -r'p j,. I tures surtf ic nt ly for : u.:Lr
production !i.; to ten ;.'Lhs. It is Q.or_ ,-. r: 1... -rown
for syrup 'Ro.ducttion thc_' any oao ..hv r variety.
Th,: R'-: ".,-'_,* :. bc. *..ned ::t,'. i.._v ..-. It
ylji.ld. c. 7n:' :.. r- .er tnnnr r th. Red or firpic d
Is a *oo-. i- ty or te -Laanoc: n. he..' vier lnds.
:..'-r n c..'f'--t trains osf whnt, is i:mown
as the "ree-. oano !:. roCw-n noF. t lagel:.: in the :-ontral nid
souL.'ern on of. ..e otrte, wL' re the season for i,.trvaui:;
is lons1 r tLPn in th.. north:-rn cnd : est.-rn portion. It produces
a _li t ool, rcd syr'..p and onlf tl..at is very desi-- >l~ on the.
ma rket,
D-74 and D-95 arc t-wo varieties tht thve been
-rown extensively in .i Lo.iana. The former L.e.E been .6rown in
practically every portion of Florida an' is. g -ncxr.lly rell
t '.ought f.C* It is U-trd, very brittle but hr.s a c. quality
of withstrining he:-;v;rr winds without locdin>. It is a good
sugar producer as :l1 vs a good syrup nal,-er. It is a special
favorite in Louisiana because of its early maturing and in that
State is used for sugar production.
In central and south Florida some of the taller
growing and late maturin.- varieties are used to a onnsiderable
extent. Very frequently the name of the variety of oane used
there is not known
Florida is capable of producing more sugar than
can be produced in any other State. She has the soil and the
climate that are most favorable. The only obstacle in the way
is the man end of it. The drainage of immense areas of muck
lands makes it possible to have almost unlimited land for growing
cane. 7'ith an abundance .of capital ready to invest in sugar
making, we should have one of the largest sugar producing centers.
The present indications are that within another decade sugar produc-
tion will be one of the leading if not the leading agricultur-1
line in the State. Florida has spend millions of dollars to
make the Everglades available to agriculture and agriculture
will now reply her ten or a hundredfold annually.
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Skip to comments.A fish called Obama: New American species named after President
Posted on 11/30/2012 9:56:56 AM PST by DogByte6RER
Obama is one of five new species of darter fish discovered by researchers
The freshwater fish has distinctive bright orange and blue colours and is generally found in fast-flowing rivers around America
Other species named after Teddy Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and vice president Al Gore
A new species of fish has been named after President Barack Obama by the researchers who discovered it.
The freshwater fish has distinctive bright orange and blue colours and is generally found in fast-flowing rivers around America.
It is one of five new species of darter - the smallest member of the perch family - to be discovered in recent months.
The remaining four species have been named after three other presidents and one vice-president.
The tiny fish - which are normally under 50mm in length - have been spotted by researchers from Geosyntec Consultants and Saint Louis University in waters in Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
Geosyntec Consultants researcher Steve Layman told The Guardian: 'We chose President Obama for his environmental leadership, particularly in the areas of clean energy and environmental protection, and because he is one of our first leaders to approach conservation and environmental protection from a more global vision.'
The other leaders were also picked for their environmental credentials.
Teddy Roosevelt was saving vast areas of wilderness by creating national parks. Jimmy Carter was picked for his humanitarian work in his post-presidential career.
Bill Clinton was honoured for his wilderness preservation and finally Al Gore, the sole vice-president on the list, for his environmental campaigning and raising raising awareness of global warming through projects such as his documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
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A better fish to name after Obama would be the lamprey ... lampreys are parasitic feeders and just plain suck.
Not all scientists are hopeless, toadying Democrats ... but some sure are!
i thought jimmy carter has an aggressive aquatic rabbit named after him...
half puffer/half sucker
I'm hard at work looking for a new species of weasel.
I don't think it looks very much like Barry.
I was expecting it to be black and white with a yellow stripe down it's back.
Do you know the difference between Obama and a catfish?
One is a scum sucking bottom dweller and the other is a fish.
So the fish is a homo which mates with a wookie fish also called a beard fish and has no records of where it is from and is kept as a pet by the jarret fish?
Got it.
No—this one is a good one. The fish uses its color as its primary defense mechanism. That suits Obama perfectly.
how appropriate... and like other fish, this one probably excels at evasive action and is real slimey so its difficult to catch and hold.
We have a winner!
black, poisonous and sucks the life out of white fish.
The "scientists" are just suckups.
If they ever find a fish that has never done an ounce of work in its life, that hates the big fish that work hard and honestly, and tries to steal the food that the big fish catch, that lies and deceives a lot, THAT fish can be called the BHO fish.
Invasive species. Get rid of it.
"The tiny fish - which are normally under 50mm in length - have been spotted by researchers from Geosyntec Consultants and Saint Louis University in waters in Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee."
Is there a dam project that needs holding up in one of these states?
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text: Israel Belongs to All of Us by Ivan Goncharenko |Feb 25, 2014|Comments One year ago, I decided to leave my small and pretty Jerusalem to be an Israel Fellow of the Jewish Agency in the United States on a college campus. After a Skype conversation with Sue Kurtz, the Director of Hillel at Virginia Tech, I decided that this is where I wanted to serve. Sue's passion and excitement about the Jewish life on campus was infectious. When I came to Virginia Tech, I realized that there are not many students who know much about Israel, in the same way that I did not know much about the Jewish community in Blacksburg, Virginia. I wanted to change this! I understood that I needed to be the positive connection to Israel for my students. I believed, and I still believe, that a real connection to Israel via an Israel Fellow can be created only when a shaliah truly wants to be the friend of a student and create a meaningful relationship. An Israel Fellow must put helping students into their daily routine—something that is not always easy. Then, the miracle emerges. The shaliah is really interested in the student's life, and in the same moment, the student becomes interested in a topic that is important to the shaliah. The student starts asking about Israel, about our life there, and why Israel should be important for him as well. Trust and caring between an Israel Fellow and a student—this is what creates a positive connection to Israel in the future. Our Hillel understands the importance of personal relationships with the students. That is why our little Hillel team, including Executive Director Sue Kurtz, and coordinators Isabel Shocket and Anya Morgullis, stay at our Hillel Center late into the night most of the time. We want to be with the students, to listen to them, and to get them to feel at home here, with Hillel. Of course, when students start being interested in Israel we have to be professionally prepared. Last year, we created a pro-Israel club on campus called Friends of Israel. The club's goal was to offer the campus an avenue to discover the culture and traditions of Israeli society. This year, I started giving private Hebrew lessons to the students. A special program about Israel for Jewish students in Virginia Tech's Corps of Cadets has been started, too. The goal of this program is teaching Jewish students, who are also Cadets on campus about Israel politics and security. The program teaches in-depth concepts about Israel and can be a great basic for knowledge about Israel for future Jewish Officers in the American Army. Israel has become part of our Hillel. We don't have a huge Israeli flag outside of the building. We also don't have students who know everything about Israel and speak fluent Hebrew. It is something different. It is their curiosity about life in Israel, their deep and meaningful questions, and their passion to go on a Birthright trip that connects our Hillel students to Israel. It is a especially enhanced by Sue and her team's attitude toward Israel. For example, last year, when our new, beautiful Malcolm Rosenberg Hillel Center was opened for the first time and many details needed to be completed, Sue insisted that everything in the building (notices, blessings, etc.) need to be written in Hebrew in addition to English. In all the balagan of the Hillel Center's dedication, Sue did not give up on this. Sue's husband, Jeff Kurtz, who is a chef in the Hillel Kosher kitchen, makes Israeli food and traditional dishes for the Shabbat dinner, which attracts about 75 students weekly. And most of all, today, when students speak about Israel and Israelis, the students don't say "they." The students have started to use the word "we." They have started to understand that we are a part of the same nation, and we belong to the same history and future. But for me, to be an Israel Fellow is not only the way to strengthen a connection of American students to Israel. This is also the way to understand who they are, the American Jews. In what ways we are different, in what ways we are the same, and how, in the future, we will continue to build up our common culture and history. This position helps me to understand that in Israel, we have to be attentive to what happens with Jews in the world. We must try to create a future of Israel according to a vision of all the Jews over the world, not only according to the Israeli vision. After all, Israel belongs to all of us. This is probably the main sentence I would like to transfer to our students. Ivan Goncharenko is the Israel Fellow at Hillel at Virginia Tech, second year. Ivan was born in Ukraine. His family moved to Israel when he was 10 years old. 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Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Haves And Have-Nots.
About Niall Ferguson's TED Talk
Historian Niall Ferguson explains why, when it comes to amassing wealth, it's been the West versus the rest for the past 500 years. He suggests six killer apps that promote wealth, stability and innovation — and are now shareable.
About Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson teaches history and business administration at Harvard University and is a senior research fellow at several other universities, including Oxford.
He has written about everything from German politics during the era of inflation to a financial history of the world. He's now working on a biography of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
His latest book and TV series, Civilization: The West and the Rest, aim to help 21st-century audiences understand the past and the present. He asks how, since the 1500s, Western nations have surpassed their Eastern counterparts and come to dominate the world. And he wonders whether that domination is now threatened by the rise of Asia.
OK. Really rich people, but what about really rich countries? Well, for the past 500 years, the story has basically been the West and then the rest.
NIALL FERGUSON: People in the West, meaning Western Europe and places where West Europeans settled, got a lot richer than everybody else.
RAZ: This is Niall Ferguson. He's an economic historian at Harvard and he says that people who live in the West today...
FERGUSON: Have two-thirds of the private wealth, and the great majority of people who live elsewhere make do with the rest.
RAZ: So the question is why? What happened in the last 500 years to create such a huge gap and why did western countries suddenly begin to pull away from the rest? Well, here's Neil's explanation from his TED Talk.
FERGUSON: This wasn't just an economic story. If you take the 10 countries that went on to become the Western empires, in 1500, they were really quite tiny - five percent of the world's land surface, 16 percent of its population, maybe 20 percent of its income. By 1913, these 10 countries plus the United States controlled vast global empires. Now you can't just blame this on imperialism, though many people have tried to do so. Samuel Johnson, the great lexicographer, posed it through his character Rassellas in his novel "Rassellas, Prince of Abissinia," published in 1759. "By what means are the Europeans thus powerful or why, since they can so easily visit Asia and Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiatics and Africans invade their coasts, plant colonies in their ports and give laws to their natural princes? The same wind that carries them back would bring us thither." That's a great question.
And you know what? It was also being asked at roughly the same time by the Resterners - by the people in the rest of the world. Like Ibrahim Muteferrika, an Ottoman official, the man who introduced printing, very belatedly, to the Ottoman Empire - who said in a book published in 1731, why do Christian nations, which were so weak in the past compared with Muslim nations, begin to dominate so many lands in modern times and even defeat the once victorious Ottoman armies. Unlike Rassellas, Muteferrika had an answer to that question, which was correct. He said it was because they have laws and rules invented by reason.
RAZ: Not geography, not imperialism. The West won, at least according to Neil Ferguson, because of its ideas and institutions. Six of them he calls killer apps.
FERGUSON: I called them the killer apps because it seemed like a way of annoying academics who hate that kind of thing. So the killer apps were, number one, competition, science in the sense of the scientific method, the rule of law based on private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things arose in the West first. They explain why the West got so much richer. But here's the killer app of the argument, once non-western societies began to copy those ideas and institutions, once they downloaded the killer apps, low and behold, they started to experience growth.
FERGUSON: Let me very briefly tell you what I mean by this, synthesizing the work of many economic historians in the process. Competition means, not only were there a hundred different political units in Europe in 1500, but within each of these units, there was competition between corporations as well as sovereigns. The ancestor of the modern corporation, the City of London Corporation, existed in the 12th century. Nothing like this existed in China where there was one monolithic state covering a fifth of humanity. And anyone with any ambition had to pass one standardized examination, which took three days and was very difficult, and involved memorizing vast numbers of characters and very complex, Confucian essay writing. The scientific revolution was different from the science that had been achieved in the Oriental world in a number of crucial ways, the most important being that through the experimental method, it gave men control over nature in a way that had not been possible before. Example, Benjamin Robins's extraordinary application of Newtonian physics to ballistics. Once you do that, your artillery becomes accurate.
Think of what that means. That really was a killer application. Property rights - it's not the democracy, folks. It's having the rule of law based on private property rights. Most people in rural North America owned some land by 1900. Hardly anyone in South America did. That's another killer app. Modern medicine in the late 19th century, began to make major breakthroughs against the infectious diseases that killed a lot of people. And this was another killer app, the very opposite of a killer because it doubled and then more than doubled human life expectancy. The consumer society is what you need for the industrial revolution to have a point. You need people to want to wear tons of clothes. You've all bought an article of clothing in the last month, I guarantee it. That's the consumer society and it propels economic growth more than even technological change itself. Japan was the first non-western society to embrace it. The alternative, which was proposed by Mahatma Gandhi, was to institutionalize and make property permanent. Very few Indians today wish that India had gone down Mahatma Gandhi's road.
Finally, the work ethic. Any culture can get the work ethic if the institutions are there to create the incentive to work. Who's got the work ethic now? You probably assume that because the iPhone was designed in California but assembled in China that the West still leads in terms of technological innovation. You're wrong. In terms of patents, there's no question that the East is ahead. Not only has Japan been ahead for some time, South Korea has come into third place and China is just about to overtake Germany. Why? Because the killer apps can be downloaded. It's open source. Any society can adopt these institutions and when they do, they achieve what the West achieved after 1500, only faster. This is the Great Reconvergence and it's the biggest story of your lifetime 'cause it's on your watch that this is happening. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it's just five times and soon it will be 2.5 times. And this is part of a really extraordinary phenomenon and that is the end of the Great Divergence.
RAZ: When you think about this gap that's closing and this reconvergence, where are we going to be in 10 or 20 or 50 years? Will we eradicate poverty?
FERGUSON: I think it's a plausible future, at the moment, that the Great Reconvergence will continue, but I find it very hard to believe that we will get to unity. In other words, that per capita GDP in China will end up being the same as per capita GDP in the United States. And the reason I doubt that is that if the Chinese lived the way we do, it's highly unlikely that the world would be able to sustain the environmental outcome. There's another future in which China, because it hasn't really achieved a full transition to free political and legal institutions, falls apart. So before we simply conclude that history is a one-way bet on convergence or re-convergence, we need to consider these other scenarios in which things go wrong in China and they go right here.
RAZ: When you look at the world through the prism of history, which is the way you do look at the world 'cause of course you're a historian, do you ever think that because of the way it worked out, the haves - countries that have things - have a responsibility to sort out the rest or to help get them to a better place?
FERGUSON: I believe they have a moral responsibility, but they also have self-interests. It's not advantageous for the wealthy countries of the west to inhabit a planet alongside impoverished countries. The growth of China has been enormously beneficial to the United States and, indeed, to Europe over the last 30. Indeed, had it not been for China's sustained growth, the financial crisis would've been a great deal worse. There is no reason why we should want the world to stay the way it is with a fifth of the world's population owning two-thirds of the wealth. There's no moral reason and there's no rational justification for that inequality. It's just the legacy of the past.
RAZ: Naill Ferguson. His most recent book is called "The Great Degeneration." Find his full talk at TED.NPR.org. Our show this week, the haves, the have-nots, what explains inequality and ideas for how to fix it. I'm Guy Raz. Stay with us. You're listening to the TED Radio Hour from NPR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Trinity Catholic girls basketball team rebounded from its first loss of the season with a 70-48 victory against Seabreeze on Friday in Palatka's Jarvis Williams Christmas Tournament.
The Trinity Catholic girls basketball team rebounded from its first loss of the season with a 70-48 victory against Seabreeze on Friday in Palatka's Jarvis Williams Christmas Tournament.
The Celtics were paced by Shambria Washington's double-double performance. A sophomore point guard, Washington poured in 20 points, hauled in 10 steals and posted 6 blocks.
Senior center Amber Ferguson added 15 points, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks, while sophomore guard Brooke Banner chipped in 10 points and 4 steals.
The Celtics lost by 8 points to Ravenwood (Tenn.) on Thursday in the opening round of the tournament.
Trinity Catholic (12-1) advances in the consolation bracket to face River Ridge today at noon.
PALATKA 66, FOREST 28: At Palatka, the Wildcats fell to the host Panthers in the semifinal round of the Jarvis Williams Christmas Tournament.
Ellexsie Haughton, a forward, led Forest with 8 points, 8 rebounds and 3 steals. Fellow senior Gabrielle Brown had 5 steals.
The Wildcats (7-5) play for third place in the tourney today against Ravenwood (Tenn.) at 3 p.m.
AMERICAN HIALEAH 68, WEST PORT 50: At the Queen of Palms Classic in Fort Meyers, the Wolf Pack came up short of advancing to the championship game.
Destiny Lawson scored 13 points and had 6 assists for West Port, which advanced into the winners bracket Thursday with a 17-point victory against Cape Coral Ida Baker.
In the semifal loss, Kori Hanks added 12 points and Navondra Dubois scored 11 points.
The Wolf Pack (11-5) play Clemen County (Ky.) today at 6:30 p.m. in the tournament's consolation championship.
Boys basketball
TRINITY CATHOLIC 65, EASTSIDE 56: At the 19th Annual Hitchcock's Challenge hosted by Alachua Santa Fe, the Celtics were lifted past the Rams behind Tim Sada's 17 points.
A senior guard, Sada hit all 10 of his free-throw attempts in the fourth quarter and finished 12 of 12 from the charity stripe for the game.
Joe Sandstrom added 15 points in the win, while Christian Clinton had 12 points on four 3-pointers.
Trinity Catholic (8-5) plays in the tournament's fifth-place game today at 4:30 p.m. against North Marion.
DUNNELLON 75, LECANTO 66: At the Chris Nichols Christmas Classic in Lecanto, senior forward Budo Sigogo led the Tigers with 22 points and 13 rebounds.
Chris Jackson also reached double figures with 16 points and Desmond Frazier added 10.
Dunnellon (4-10), which wrapped up the tourney at 1-1, travel to Lake Weir on Jan. 5 at 1:30 p.m.


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Members: Assoc. Dean Michael Brown, Michael Enright, Charles Fantazzi, John Given, Laura Mazow, Anthony Papalas, Marylaura Papalas, Megan Perry, Jonathan Reid, Frank Romer, Benjamin Saidel, John Stevens, Michael Teske, David Wilson-Okamura and Tricia Wilson-Okamura
Members Present: C. Fantazzi, J. Given, L. Mazow, M. Papalas, M. Perry, J. Reid, J. Stevens, M. Teske, D. Wilson-Okamura, T. Wilson-Okamura.
Meeting #1, September 3, 2009, held in Bate 2002.
Agenda Item 1. Salutations.
Prof. Given, Director, opened the meeting at 3:00 p.m. Prof. Given and the committee welcomed a new member, Prof. M. Papalas, to the committee.
Agenda Item 2. Elections
Elections were held for offices, with Prof. Given continuing as Chair, and Prof. T. Wilson-Okamura being elected as secretary.
Agenda Item 3. Approval of Minutes
The committee approved the minutes for the February 17, 2009 meeting with no amendments.
Agenda Item 4. Report on Majors and Minors
Prof. Given gave a report on majors and minors: At present, there are 13 majors and 8 minors, with two majors expected to graduate in Fall 2009, and four in Spring 2010. Of the four graduating in Spring 2010, three are Classics majors working on senior theses. They will be invited to present their work at the Spring meeting.
Prof. Stevens reported that his two Latin 1001 classes are strongly enrolled with one section at about 30 students and the other full with 35 students.
Agenda Item 6. Recruitment and Retention.
Prof. Given gave a report on recent recruitment and retention efforts for Classical Studies:
A discussion followed on how to improve recruitment and retention. Prof. D. Wilson-Okamura suggested marketing courses as including New Testament Greek, and there was discussion of this idea. Prof. Given offered to contact the Intervarsity group as part of this outreach. Prof. Mazow suggested working more closely with Religious Studies, and Prof. Stevens suggested working with the advisers in Religious Studies and Philosophy. Prof. T. Wilson-Okamura suggested starting a Latin Reading Group to complement the existing Ancient Greek Reading Group, and Prof. Given gave a brief report on the ongoing efforts to start a Classical Studies Club.
Agenda Item 7. Curriculum Development
Agenda Item 8. Upcoming Lectures.
There was a discussion about whom to invite to give a guest lecture this year. It was decided to ask Prof. Romer to contact a professional acquaintance of his.
Agenda Item 9. Upcoming Events.
Prof. Given gave a report on the upcoming world premiere performance of Peter Green's translation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, to be held from March 25-27 in the Great Rooms at Mendenhall Student Center. Prof. Given will be directing the performance, and is in the process of acquiring funding from internal and off-campus sponsors. 15-20 students will comprise the cast, and open auditions will be held. Prof. Given asked for assistance with advertising and promoting the production.
Prof. Stevens suggested sponsoring a spelling bee. The idea was well-received, but it was decided to postpone it for a later semester.
Prof. T. Wilson-Okamura asked committee members to publicize the Ancient Greek Reading Group to their students and any interested parties.
Prof. Mazow asked the committee to co-sponsor lectures by the current Whichard Chair, Isaac Kalimi of Religious Studies, and the committee agreed.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 4:40 p.m.
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Introduction of measures to protect
rainforests and ecosystems in Costa Rica and Thailand over the past 40 years have improved the livelihoods of the
local population
Conserving rainforests may help to reduce poverty as well as protect biodversity,
according to analyses undertaken in Costa Rica and Thailand.
Researchers from Georgia State University looked at the long term impacts of poor
people living near parks and reserves set up before 1985 and found the net impact of the protection was to
alleviate poverty.
Study author Professor Paul Ferraro said the findings went against the conventional
wisdom that says biodiversity conservation was not compatible with development goals.
'The results are surprising. Most people might expect that if you restrict resources,
people on average will be worse off. In contrast, the results indicate that the net impact of ecosystem protection
was to alleviate poverty,' he said.
REDD agreement
The findings come as seven countries; Norway, Germany, US, UK, Australia, Japan,
France commit to funding projects that will protect rainforests.
At a meeting in Oslo this week they reached an interim agreement to help get REDD
projects (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) up and running while they wait for an
international agreement on tackling climate change. A new body to manage the funds will be set up by the end of the
Eco-tourism factor
Professor Ferraro admitted that the countries analysed in his study, Costa Rica and
Thailand, may not representative of all developing nations having both experienced rapid economic growth within
relatively stable political systems.
He also said the study did not look at the reasons behind the fall in poverty.
However, he believes the expanding eco-tourism sectors in both countries may have played a significant
'The question we need to answer now is whether poverty is being reduced through
ecosystem protection per se or because tourists come to see the biological diversity or because the protection
maintains the supply of other valuable ecosystem services,' he said. 'Or is poverty reduced through donor
investments in development activities and enhanced roads and public services (e.g. electricity and water
infrastructure) that often accompany the establishment of a protected area?'
The Rainforest Foundation said the findings indicated that protected areas could have
a positive, rather than the usually negative, impact on poverty alleviation in poor countries in and around areas
for biodiversity.
'However, they have to be treated with caution, as we do not know from the study
whether specific 'pro-community' measures were in place in the cases studied, as these tend to be the exception
rather than the rule, and could distort the findings of this study,' said UK executive director Simon
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international cocaine trade was brought to the U.S. for trial on drug charges following his arrest at sea by federal drug agents, authorities said Friday.
Four other men apprehended in the operation also were brought to New York for trial, the Drug Enforcement Administration and federal prosecutors said in a joint release. Two more men were arrested in Colombia Friday as part of a related investigation and were awaiting extradition.
Rear Adm. Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto and two other Guinea-Bissau nationals were taken into custody Tuesday aboard a vessel in international waters in the eastern Atlantic Ocean while two others were arrested Thursday in a West African country and later transferred to U.S. custody, the release said. Na Tchuto was charged with conspiring to import narcotics into the United States. Three others were charged with conspiring to sell weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, to be used to protect the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, cocaine processing operations in Colombia against U.S. military forces.
The arrests were made based on evidence gathered by confidential sources who posed as representatives or associates of the FARC as they communicated with the defendants beginning last summer, authorities said. Prosecutors said the evidence includes a series of audio recordings and videotaped meetings over several months in Guinea-Bissau.
According to court papers, the defendants agreed to receive cocaine off the coast of Guinea-Bissau and to store the cocaine in storage houses there prior to their shipment to the United States. The U.S. government alleged that the defendants also agreed that a portion of the cocaine would be used to pay Guinea-Bissau government officials to provide safe passage for the cocaine through Guineau-Bissau.
Prosecutors said Na Tchuto discussed shipping ton-quantities of cocaine from South America to Guinea Bissau by sea, saying it was a good time to transport drugs because Guinea Bissau government was weak because of a recent coup d'etat. They said he also said his fee would be $1 million per 1,000 kilograms of cocaine received in Guinea Bissau for the use of a company he owned to hide the shipments before they were moved to the United States. If convicted, he could face life in prison.
DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart called the arrests "significant victories against terrorism and international drug trafficking."
She added: "Alleged narco-terrorists such as these, who traffick drugs in West Africa and elsewhere, are some of the world's most violent and brutal criminals. They have no respect for borders, and no regard for either the rule of law or who they harm as a result of their criminal endeavors. These cases further illustrate frightening links between global drug trafficking and the financing of terror networks."
All five defendants were ordered held without bail after brief appearances in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where they seemed to struggle to understand Portuguese and creole translators.
Sabrina Shroff, an assistant federal defender, declined to comment after representing Na Tchuto.
The U.S. Treasury Department designated Na Tchuto as a drug kingpin in 2010 for his alleged role in the cocaine trade in Guinea-Bissau, freezing any assets he may have had in the United States. For at least a decade, Guinea-Bissau has played a key role in the drug trade. The country's archipelago of virgin islands has been used by Latin American cartels as a stopover point for ferrying cocaine to Europe, where prices have skyrocketed at the same time that demand for cocaine leveled off in North America.
A former navy chief of staff, Na Tchuto is believed to have played a role in the arrival of a plane carrying hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Venezuela to Guinea-Bissau in July 2008, according to a statement from the Treasury Department. He later fled to nearby Gambia in August 2008, returning to Guinea-Bissau over a year later. He apparently feared for his life and sought refuge inside the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Bissau, the country's capital.
The U.S. believes the former navy chief also was involved in organizing an April 2010 attempt to overthrow the Guinea-Bissau government.
Fernando Vaz, the spokesman for the government of Guinea-Bissau, said he hoped America would provide Na Tchuto a fair legal defense.
Guinea-Bissau has been plagued by coups. The last few, including one last year, are believed to have been fueled by an internal power struggle over which wing of the military would control the drug trade.
A booming cocaine trade has turned Guinea-Bissau into a narco-state. Key members of the military have been named as complicit in the trade, including several army and navy chiefs who are now on the United States' drug kingpin list. The infusion of illicit cash has emboldened an already bloated army. Drugs, observers say, played a role in the recent coup.
The arrest of Na Tchuto comes amid rumors of another looming coup in the capital.
Antonio Indjai, chief of staff of the country's armed forces, told reporters Thursday that reports that a coup was under way were false.
"They're only speculation by people of bad faith that serve to destabilize the country," Indjai said in the capital of Bissau, according to comments reported by the Agencia Noticiosa da Guine-Bissau news agency.
Yost reported from Washington. AP writers including Lassana Cassama in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Portugal; Rukmini Callimachi in Dakar, Senegal, and Alan Clendenning in Madrid contributed to this report.


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I've had a pretty good Christmas. I've stuffed my face, smoked plenty of loud, and received some dope ass gifts. Thanks to #myfavoritenerd, I was able to buy some ILL Bo Jacksons. A card here and there, a sweater sandwiched in between some flannels, and some fly denim to boot along with a few phone calls from friends. Today I was reminded of my favorite Christmas was in 1992, when my mom bought me a Super Nintendo. That was my favorite because the SNES was God to children back then, and I was one of the first in my class to own one. I'm kind of in a gray stage with Christmas now. I'm 24, so I don't have the same youthful exuberance that I did when I was younger during the holiday season. I'm not married and don't have any children, so I don't get the same joy out of giving to others as parents, grandparents, et cetera. I actually get more excited because I know the end of the year is near. I'm not really the type to go out and do it real big for New Year's, but I enjoy the idea of starting a new chapter, even if I finish it as fast I finished this one(2009).
This is the fifth Christmas that Karen has missed, and I'm sure that her corny ass would've been up mad early, watching some lame parade, talking on the phone to her best friend, Charity. I still think it's awesome that when my little brother and I were young, she told us that she's Santa, and not some overweight white guy with a beard that lives at the North Pole. She was grooming us for the "real world"…when I was 7 and he was 4. Thanks, Karen.
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