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W. Mass. teacher runs to pay for student travel
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Great Barrington resident and Spanish teacher Rosalynn Frederick hopes to make great strides in providing funding to support youth travel and service learning opportunities.
On March 15, she'll be hitting the road to take on a 3,100-mile solo "USA Run for Youth Travel" across the country to raise funds and awareness for the campaign. Currently, she's spreading the word by planning two public fundraising events expected to conclude next week, and also by sharing her website, youthtravelfund.org.
"One of the reasons I wanted to become a teacher was because I was hoping to travel with my students," said Frederick, 36.
She is a Spanish teacher and 1994 graduate of Taconic Hills High School in neighboring Craryville, N.Y., where she was able to travel to Spain and France as a student.
"In turn, I wanted to take my students on trips and give them a view of the world," she said.
Born in Altoona, Pa., Frederick spent her first five years living in Belize, where her father was in the Peace Corps. She's later spent 2½ years in the Peace Corps in the Republic of Niger, West Africa, and has traveled to a few other countries.
"I've always been of the world. I think it's been in my genes," Frederick said.
She was able to take students on a trip to Costa Rica a few years ago, but in trip planning the following year, she learned the factor of cost outweighed the opportunity for many students.
"Plenty of interested students signed up, but one by one, they kept dropping out because they couldn't afford to go," said the teacher.
In researching trips online via student travel websites, The Eagle estimates the average cost of a 10-day trip to Belize to be a minimum $2,000 investment.
Frederick then began thinking of how to make student travel more accessible.
"The idea came to me while running one day. I was kind of just daydreaming and thought maybe I could raise money through my running," said Frederick, who picked up running as a hobby in college.
She ran her first marathon, the Big Sur International Marathon, in 2004. In January, she ran a 50K ultra-marathon race at Norrie Point in Staatsburg, N.Y., and placed sixth out of the 16 finishers among more than 100 runners. The March run will be her longest trek, along a route from New York to Los Angeles.
Frederick took a sabbatical this school year to work on creating a fund that could help students and schools at any grade level in the Berkshire-Taconic region that were interested in taking an educational field trip, be it within the local community or halfway across the world.
The educator said her campaign for youth travel is more comprehensive than just providing scholarships for trips.
She says her program is designed to help school leaders plan an educational trip and help students contribute to their travel by also doing fundraising. She said students and schools receiving money from the Youth Travel Fund will also be responsible for developing and presenting a project with their home communities about their trip.
"This teaches them skills that are valuable for future success," Frederick said.
The teacher said these kind of skills make the difference between chasing a dream and achieving it.
"I hope my students see and understand if you have a dream, something you want to see or do, believe and follow in that dream. If you put in the effort and are creative and determined to do it, it's possible," she said.


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Residents and community groups have undertaken a campaign in order to protect the wildlife in Calderdale. Spreading rapidly through the district, the Himalayan Balsam - an invasive weed from Asia - is a serious threat to our natural environment, and is circulating many aspects of nature from woodlands to riverbanks.
The now naturalised plant was introduced to the UK in 1839, becoming a problem weed due to its high toleration of low light levels and thus consequent impoverishing of habitats by killing other plants.
Otherwise known as 'policeman's helmet' due to the production of helmet-shaped flowers, each plant can produce up to 800 seeds; dispersed widely as the ripe seedpods shoot their seeds up to 7m (22 ft) away.
The plant is difficult to miss, being a grand six to ten ft in height and adorning clusters of purplish-pink (or very rarely white) flowers during June to October.
Found especially on riverbanks or waste land but occasionally invading gardens, the public are encouraged to pull up the Balsam if spotted. Calderdale Council's Cabinet Member for Communities, Coun Steve Sweeney, said "Calderdale has such a beautiful natural landscape and wonderful wildlife, and we're doing everything we can to protect them. Balsam is a huge threat to nature, so Council staff and volunteers are working closely with organisations such as the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Canal & River Trust to tackle the problem in the borough. We need as much help as possible."
Calderdale Council is therefore holding a 'Balsam bashing' session in Shibden Park on Saturday, July 26, to encourage volunteers to unite in a fight for floral freedom.
Everyone is welcome to attend the event, after which a family barbecue will follow as a reward for all the hard work. Volunteers from the council's community task force who carry out environmental work experience across Calderdale will be on hand to help.
Calderdale Council's Cabinet Member for Economy and Environment, Coun Barry Collins, said: "Volunteer just a few hours and you can help protect our local environment for years to come."
The council is also encouraging the public to hold their own 'Balsam Bashing' event, inviting families, friends and neighbours, with which the community task force will help as much as they can. The plant needs to be removed before the flowers start to set seed in August or September.
If you know of any Balsam infested sites that need treatment, or would like to take part in a community Balsam bashing event, contact Becky Jenkinson or Anne Holdsworth on 01422 392249.

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In Memoriam: Dorothy B. Buchanan
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of WHOI volunteer Dorothy B. Buchanan on January 20, at the Cape Cod Hospital, surrounded by her family. She was 89.
Dorothy was born, raised, and educated in Weymouth, MA. She was a graduate of Weymouth High School, class of 1940. She married her husband George (Ken) in 1942. They enjoyed seventy years of marriage together.
Dorothy worked as a sales clerk in Buttners and Pendleton clothing stores.
Dorothy volunteered for many years at the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center. She also volunteered at the Antique and Classic Boat Shows. She was a member of the Osterville United Methodist Church.
Dorothy was an avid shopper, enjoyed the seashore but her greatest joy was spending time with her children, seven grandchildren, and four great-granddaughters.
She was the beloved wife of George K. Buchanan. Besides her husband, she is survived by four children, Georgia Buchanan of Mashpee; Kenneth L. and his wife Barbara of Marblehead, MA; Nancy J. DeCesare and her husband Roy of Brunswick, ME; and Cyndy O'Rourke and her husband Rick of Fairhaven. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews. Dorothy was predeceased by her sister Marion Whiting and her brother Charles Francis.
Visiting hours will be held on Wednesday, January 23, from 4-7 p.m., in the Chapman, Cole, and Gleason Funeral Home, 74 Algonquin Avenue (at Rte. 151), Mashpee. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, January 24, at 10:30 a.m., in the funeral home. Burial will follow in the Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne.
In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Cape Cod Health Care Foundation, P.O. Box 370 Hyannis, MA, 02601.
Information for this obituary was taken from the Chapman Cole & Gleason website.
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Billy Carter got into organic tobacco production in a serendipitous way that fit into conventional production of crops, and now the two concepts work well in tandem, says the Eagle Springs, N.C., grower.
Carter, who grows more than a thousand acres of conventional and organic crops, says he first became interested in organic production in the mid-1990s.
Always looking for new crops and new approaches to growing crops, he explored the possibilities for using some land that had been in a long rotation on his farm for organic production.
"At that time there wasn't a good crop to grow organically — at least not one I felt I could commit to long-term and make it profitable in my farming operation," Carter says.
Then in 1998 serendipity stepped in and Carter's new found knowledge of organic farming fit perfectly with Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company's efforts to develop organic tobacco for use in their line of additive-free tobacco products.
"We were already growing conventional tobacco at the time. I knew enough about organic farming and conventional tobacco to believe I could start out with a clean growing environment, and make tobacco adaptable to an organic production system," he adds.
So, he set out to convince Santa Fe to give him a contract to grow organic tobacco.
In those early days Santa Fe was mostly interested in contracting growers near their headquarters in Oxford, N.C. It took some convincing, but Carter ultimately got a contract for 4,000 pounds of tobacco, which he grew organically on three acres.
Billy Carter, organic farmer and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, organic tobacco product manufacturer kind of grew up together. Now, the company buys approximately 2.7 million pounds of organic tobacco annually and Billy Carter will grow about 100 acres in 2012.
In those early years, Carter saw the opportunity for bigger organic tobacco acreage in the future and he began to get more and better land certified for organic production.
Santa Fe went through some growing pains and initially had some problems getting the acreage they wanted for organic tobacco.
Demand has risen significantly
Subsequently the company has gone through several growth spurts and demand for organic tobacco products has risen significantly over the past few years.
In addition to growing organic tobacco, Carter also produces organic tobacco transplants, which, he admits, can be challenging from time to time.
In 2011, he grew enough organic transplants to produce 150 acres of organic tobacco. In 2012, he will double his greenhouse capacity, with the construction of a new greenhouse that is better suited to organic transplant production.
"During the time we were growing our organic tobacco business, we looked at growing other crops, like sweet potatoes and sweet corn. We could grow the crops successfully, but we could never make them profitable enough to justify investing in the infrastructure needed to market these crops ourselves," Carter says.
"The people he hired to do the packing and marketing did exactly what they promised to do — they were straight up people — no problems with that," he says.
"Unless you can do your own packing and marketing, it's hard to make it profitable," he adds.
With organic products there are two primary ways to market crops. At one level you have farmers markets and small retail operations who are as interested in knowing the farmer as they are interested in the food product the farmer produces.
Then the North Carolina farmer says, he doesn't have the mindset, nor the ambition to make that organic market work for him.
At the other end of the spectrum are large scale commercial operations which are already putting organic commodities into the marketplace, along with conventionally grown commodities.
And, his organic farming operation isn't yet large enough to get into the larger market, Carter says.
"We do grow organic soft and hard red wheat. It's not as profitable as tobacco, but it fits well into our organic cropping system," Carter says. There is a rapidly increasing demand for organic grain and the North Carolina grower is positioning himself for that market, much the same way he did with organic tobacco more than a decade ago.
In 2012, he hopes to push organic crops to more than 300 acres, or about a third of his entire farming operation. His conventional farming operation includes tobacco, which is not necessarily a good thing for his organic tobacco production.
"Any time you grow parallel crops, or the same crop conventionally and organically, there is a heightened scrutiny by the agencies that certify farmland as organic.
"While it's necessary to prevent co-mingling of organic and conventional, it can be time consuming, and it has been an impediment for us because we are not in a position with our other crops to grow them organic," Carter says.
In his conventional operation he grows soybeans, tobacco, small grains, sweet corn, strawberries, watermelons, and tomatoes.
Conventional crops fit also
Despite being in the organic business for 13 years, he says fitting his conventional crops into his organic mix remains an ongoing challenge. "We can't just say 'we're organic growers' because of the marketing challenges.
"I don't plan to ever be 100 percent organic — I like both methods of farming, and I don't think one will work to the exclusion of the other the way our farm is set up," he says.
Wheat has proven to be the proverbial low hanging fruit when it comes to parallel production of conventional and organic crops.
"The major difference for us is fitting organic wheat in a rotation with organic tobacco."
Most of his tobacco goes to European markets, so he has to have European organic certification, which doesn't allow for the use of poultry litter. That takes away the primary source of nitrogen for wheat, he says.
The other issue is timing of planting wheat. You have to plant organic wheat late enough to avoid Hessian fly on the front side and still have enough tillers set before freezing weather hits to make a full crop going into the spring.
"Then, there is some serious cleaning of wheat harvest equipment, because we don't have dedicated organic and conventional wheat combines. Plus, the increased record keeping involved with growing parallel crops is a problem," the North Carolina grower says.
Wheat also fits well into his organic rotation. He plants wheat as soon as he gets tobacco out in late summer. Then, he puts a soil-building summer-winter-summer cover crop consisting of sudangrass in the summer, followed by rye and vetch in the winter and sudangrass prior to tobacco, followed by another wheat crop. This three-year rotation provides an extra premium price for his organic tobacco.
A part of the extra value for organic tobacco, he notes, comes from the extra risk associated with leaving land without a crop for two years.
He can grow one wheat crop and build up his soil with his winter/summer/winter cover crops. "You are doing something real good for your soil, but you don't get any direct income from that land," he says.
"Though leaving the land without a crop is technically a fallow crop, we think we are getting a true advantage in terms of extra nitrogen and more importantly from the pest control benefits of having land out of crop production for about a year and a half," Carter says.
"We have really grown fond of sudangrass in the rotation over the years, because it offers a lot of really quick growth and it competes very well with most weeds. We control our weeds by not letting it go to seed," the North Carolina grower adds.
The extra cost of producing organic tobacco differs from year to year, he says, but generally is 20 percent or more higher than conventional production costs. There is more labor and most of the inputs are more expensive — none are less expensive, he says.
For anyone interested in getting into organic farming, Carter urges them to think about long-range plans for setting up a cropping system.
How organic crops interact with one another is highly critical in an organic system, because of the limitations you have on pest control and building soil fertility, he says.


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Runway Fashion With iStyle Fashion
26 October 2010
Sepang, 26 October 2010 - The glitz and glamour of the fashion world return to the KL International Airport (KLIA) with the second iStyle Fashion KL International Airport 2010.
The only fashion styling event of its kind to be held at an international airport, iStyle Fashion KL International Airport 2010 provides budding fashion design students with a platform to put in practice their learning and showcase their talents and creativity with KL International Airport as their fashion playground.
"iStyle Fashion KL International Airport underscores the position of KLIA as a fashion hub and a sophisticated lifestyle platform. We have many high fashion brands at KLIA and one of our aims is to heighten awareness of KLIA as a lifestyle destination; not just a transit point.
"At the same time, the event also allows us to provide talented and creative young designers with an avenue to prove themselves," said Faizah Khairuddin Senior General Manager Commercial Services, Malaysia Airports.
Of the initial 14 teams from that signed up during the preliminaries, only six teams made the cut. The six teams are: Trois, Y2B, SenseXophy, Walking LookBooks, Black & White and Volatile.
Each team comprises a designer, a stylist and a publicist. While the designer and stylist are required to create and project specific looks according to the given themes in three rounds of heats and one Grand Finale, the publicist's role is to market the team via social media platforms to garner votes.
"This year, iStyle Fashion is all the more interesting and participative with the heavy emphasis on social media. The participating teams can promote themselves via various social media channels created specifically for the event -- Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare - and the support they garner via the social media platform will constitute a certain percentage of the final judging score," added Puan Faizah.
Among the judging criteria are styling/assemble, hair/makeup styling, makeup concept, campaign directive/presentation and publicity.
The Chief Judge/Mentor for iStyle Fashion 2010 is Alex Eu. A rotating panel of celebrity judges has been identified for each round of heats and the Grand Finale. Among them are, Michael Ong, Sonny San, Elaine Daly, Deborah Henry and SP Lee of Dentsu Malaysia.
The focus of the three rounds of heats is: Heat 1 focusing on female; Heat 2 which is male oriented, and Heat 3 that requires participants to create a fashion lifestyle advertising campaign.
Winners stand to win cash prizes, gifts, electronics and telecommunication gadgets from the event's sponsors which include Panasonic, Perrier, Redken and Shu Uemura.
Commented Puan Faizah: "More than a fashion event, we hope that iStyle Fashion 2010 will provide travellers with a fresh perspective of KLIA and play a significant role in nurturing the growth of the fashion industry in the country and in specific KLIA."
About Malaysia Airports
Malaysia Airports manages and operates 39 airports in Malaysia: 5 international, 16 domestic and 18 Short Take-Off and Landing Ports (STOL Ports). It also has operations in India, Turkey and Maldives. On November 30, 1999, Malaysia Airports became the first airport company to be listed in Asia.
KL International Airport (KLIA), its flagship airport was thrice voted as the Best Airport (15-25 million passengers per annum) in the 2005 AETRA awards, 2006 ACI-ASQ awards and 2007 ACI-ASQ awards while the Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT-KLIA) was named CAPA Low Cost Airport of the Year at the CAPA Aviation Awards for Excellence 2006. KLIA has also taken a big stride in the realisation of becoming a global integrated hub by launching the Next Generation Hub concept, an initiative aiming to position the ultra-modern airport as a complete hub for all.


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Brenda c. McFarland 7/6/2007 11:39:20 PMThis is absolutly stunning!! We only live an hour away. Maybe next year we will go watch the lights over the bay. WOW!!! #686532
Alex T. Mizuno 7/6/2007 11:43:58 PMOMG, this is BEAUUUUTIFUL!!! Gorgeous fireworks and fantastic composition with the Golden Gate Bridge!!! I live only 15 minutes from the bridge and I missed it!!! #4480761
Rob Bishop 7/6/2007 11:54:53 PMOne of the finest images I have seen in over 40 years of being a photographer. A classic shot, William! #4480766
David L. Luchowski 7/6/2007 11:58:50 PMGreat image, William. This is really beautiful. #4480769
Lynne Morris 7/6/2007 11:59:56 PMWOW WOW WOW William this is awesome, the colours and clarity are outstanding, think we will see this one again! #4480770
Laurence Saliba 7/7/2007 12:04:27 AMI'am a big fan of fireworks William!! Excellent image!!! #4480775
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Cindy Bendush 7/7/2007 12:30:27 AMOUTSTANDING - This is absolutely breathtaking! #4480806
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William Johnson 7/7/2007 1:05:15 AMExcellent nightime capture. Lovely colours and reflections, William. Bill J. #4480838
Dominick M. Dimacale 7/7/2007 1:40:03 AMDefinitely one of my favorite image I have seen so far, very well presentated and exposure is just right on, very well done William...Dominick #4480882
Michelle R. Kovach 7/7/2007 3:28:28 AMFantastic!
I used to live in SF & all I remember about it is traffic. :) #4481059
Shane Osieczanek 7/7/2007 5:18:59 AMAwsome photo!! #4481360
Nancy (Peaches) Harker 7/7/2007 5:10:15 PMWOW SOOOOOO Beautiful...Awsome image and super capture!!! #4483012
William88 7/10/2007 12:57:04 PMThank you so much all my friends for the wonderful comments. #4493087
Nancy (Peaches) Harker 7/10/2007 2:14:29 PMHi William, I saw this in EFP, WTG!!! #4493316
Sam Britt 7/10/2007 3:21:37 PMTerrific fireworks display, William. Great color & reflections. #4493527
Linda D. Lester 7/10/2007 5:41:30 PMYour work is fabulous! Thanks for commenting on mine!
This is stunning!!!!!!!!!!! #4493856
Steven E. Ray 7/12/2007 8:54:15 PMNot sure anyone can beat this one for a firework display. Perfect in every way. #4502566
Debra R. Harder 7/17/2007 9:09:32 PMWilliam, this is so incredible! Absolutely AMAZING!
Deb #4520547
April Riggs 7/18/2007 2:19:49 PMYour gallery is just stunning! I love this shot! #4523786
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 7/21/2007 10:00:32 AMThis is amazing, best of luck with one of the most beautiful fireworks images I have ever seen! #4535613
William88 7/21/2007 10:02:24 AMThank you much everybody. #4535616
Lynn Haack 7/22/2007 7:57:14 PMWilliam....OH WOW this is stunning! What a masterpiece....Lynn #4541650
Heather E. Lupo 7/22/2007 8:05:09 PMStunningly gorgeous capture! ~Heather #4541660
Graeme yew Chow 8/3/2007 3:16:00 PMFantastic shot of fireworks and the colors is amazing, William. A winner in the lists. #4597652
Lisa J. Boulden 8/9/2007 8:54:37 PMSuch a fabulous composite, William!
William88 8/23/2007 10:33:45 PMThank you so much everybody. #4690810
Carol Teal 8/27/2007 12:51:53 PMI will be the first to offer you a BIG congrats on your finalist William!! It is gorgeous! #4705305
Alex T. Mizuno 8/27/2007 12:56:46 PMAnd I second the motion :) Congratulations William!! It should go to the next round. #4705349
Brenda c. McFarland 8/27/2007 1:54:38 PMThis is so Amazing William! I knew it from the moment I saw it! It has to place in the next round. Hopefully the grand Prize! Yippie way to go! #4705923
Erin Tyler 8/27/2007 2:40:27 PMCongrats on your Finalist! #4706308
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Lynn Haack 8/27/2007 2:58:14 PMWilliam...a BIG CONGRATS ON THIS EXCELLENT FINALIST! LYNN #4706507
William88 8/27/2007 3:41:49 PMThank you very much everybody. #4706806
Odeth Mizuno 8/27/2007 6:29:28 PMCongratulations, William :D #4708345
Su Sana E. P 8/27/2007 7:26:45 PMCongratulations on this beautiful finalist, William!! #4708934
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Graeme yew Chow 8/27/2007 8:40:27 PMCongratulations William. Cheers next round. #4709473
William88 8/28/2007 10:39:55 AMThanks a lot!! #4712406
Debra R. Harder 8/28/2007 3:26:31 PMSomehow I knew this was going to be a big winner! Way to go William on this truly spectacular finalist! Deb #4713787
Laurence Saliba 8/29/2007 9:26:59 AMCONGRATULATIONS William!!! #4718255
Joan Powell 8/29/2007 9:28:46 AMCongrats on your win of this fabulous capture !! #4718271
Brenda c. McFarland 8/29/2007 9:46:16 AMOk I was hoping Grand Prize... But 2nd is still FANTASTIC!!!! Way to go William. #4718439
Debra R. Harder 8/29/2007 12:27:36 PMWTG, William, on this fabulous gold winner! Deb #4719261
Alex T. Mizuno 8/29/2007 1:42:25 PMCongratulations William on this beautiful winning!! #4719746
Kay E. Mahoney 8/29/2007 1:59:57 PMCongratulations on your beautiful second place winner. #4719859
Lynn Haack 8/29/2007 2:02:41 PMWilliam...a BIG congrats on this excellent WINNER! Lynn #4719876
Su Sana E. P 8/29/2007 6:43:10 PMWilliam, huge Congratulations on this Winner!! #4721018
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Carol Teal 8/31/2007 12:09:48 AMCongrats again, William, for your well-desrved win! #4726514
Deborah C. Lewinson 8/31/2007 4:47:00 PMHearty congrats, William, on your excellent win for this great image!!!
Janine Russell 8/31/2007 9:57:50 PMWilliam, excellent colors, detail, clarity, composition and exposure; big congratulations on your Second Place Win! #4730247
Pranay Koka 9/5/2007 10:04:35 PMthis one is gorgeous william....congrats! #4753151
Amal A. AlNuaimi 9/11/2007 4:28:37 AMWilliam, BIG Congratulations on this STUNNING picture! I don't have words to describe this photo! I was there last month! I loved San Francisco. When was that taken? #4776185
Chris Ebben 9/24/2007 4:20:27 AMBeautiful night shot. The colours, reflections, lighting are all perfect. Well presented=^..^= #4836165
Jim Britt 10/2/2007 5:43:27 AMVery nice shot. What a great showing of colors. #4872737
Sharrie Thomas 10/2/2007 6:46:47 AMThis is terrific!! Beautiful shot! #4872998
randy dannheim 10/2/2007 8:54:31 AMAwesome image. #4873465
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 10/2/2007 12:05:59 PMCongratulations on your win and SnapShot gallery feature. I love this image, it's so beautiful!!!! Outstanding work William!! #4873975
Sherry S. Boles 7/2/2008 5:25:52 PMThis HAS to be one of the most gorgeous (if not THE most gorgeous) fireworks images that I have ever seen!!! #6133861
Corinne M. Thompson 7/11/2008 7:43:13 AMAbsolutely fabulous image! Congrats on the SnapShot feature and your Win. #6167526
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With the phylogenetic classification, the taxon Labyrinthodontia has been discarded as it is a polyparaphyletic group without unique defining features apart from shared primitive characteristics.
These ancient lobe-finned fish had evolved multi-jointed leg-like fins with digits that enabled them to crawl along the sea bottom.The largest living amphibian is the 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus), but this is dwarfed by the extinct 9 m (30 ft) Prionosuchus from the middle Permian of Brazil.The study of amphibians is called batrachology, while the study of both reptiles and amphibians is called herpetology.This means that advocates of phylogenetic nomenclature have removed a large number of basal Devonian and Carboniferous amphibian-type tetrapod groups that were formerly placed in Amphibia in Linnaean taxonomy, and included them elsewhere under cladistic taxonomy.All modern amphibians are included in the subclass Lissamphibia, which is usually considered a clade, a group of species that have evolved from a common ancestor.
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He had already been proclaimed "the Picasso of children's books" by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are," a dark fantasy that became one of the 10 bestselling children's books of all time.
Published in 1963, the book was a startling departure from the sweetness and innocence that then ruled children's literature. "Wild Things" tapped into the fears of childhood and sent its main character — an unruly boy in a wolf costume — into a menacing forest to tame the wild beasts of his imagination.
Librarians banned the book as too frightening. Psychologists and many adults condemned it for being too grim. But a 1964 Los Angeles Times review echoed many critics: The "aggressive flight of fantasy" was "the best thing of its kind in many a year."
Sendak, whose unsentimental approach to storytelling revolutionized children's books, died Tuesday at a hospital in Danbury, Conn., four days after having a stroke, said his friend and caretaker, Lynn Caponera. He was 83.
"Somehow it doesn't feel possible that Maurice Sendak is gone; he is as essential and eternal as Mother Goose," Eva Mitnick, manager of youth services at the Los Angeles Public Library, told The Times on Tuesday. "His books are story-time favorites and a crucial part of the children's literature canon."
In 1971, Sendak was hailed as "the Norman Mailer of children's books" by Digby Diehl, then The Times' book critic.
Sendak had attained the same preeminence in storytelling for children that Mailer had in adult literature, Diehl wrote, and made "the same incredibly instinct-trusting leaps of imagination, risks of fantasy and marvelous journeys of delightful mental meandering ... only Sendak does it for kids."
"Wild Things" was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1964 for the most distinguished American picture book for children, and the author began receiving mail from young fans captivated by the grinning monsters Sendak said he modeled after the obnoxious relatives who populated the Sundays of his youth.
One boy wrote to ask: "How much does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If it is not expensive, my sister and I would like to spend the summer there."
When President Obama read from "Wild Things" to children at the White House Easter egg roll in 2009, he called it one of his favorite books.
Sendak bristled at the notion that he was an author of children's books and told People magazine in 2003 that he wrote stories "about human emotion and life."
"They're pigeonholed as children's books, but the best ones aren't — they're just books," he said.
Upon awarding Sendak the National Medal of Arts in 1997, President Clinton remarked, "Perhaps no one has done as much to show the power of the written word on children, not to mention on their parents, as Maurice Sendak."
An illustrator of about 80 books and author-illustrator of 20 more, Sendak had won almost every important prize in children's literature.
In 2002, the New York Times pointed out that Sendak had dominated its 50-year-old annual list of the year's best illustrated children's books "and the public consciousness of children's books in the second half of the 20th century."
Years before "Sesame Street" popularized playful teaching of the young, Sendak unleashed his frolicsome humor in 1962's "The Nutshell Library." The four tiny volumes include lessons on ABCs, counting and a morality tale told through Pierre, the boy who does not care even when a lion fancies him for dinner.
Of the books he wrote, Sendak said "Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life" (1967) was his favorite. The nonsense tale starred a terrier who decides there must be more to life than having everything. The dog was based on Jennie, his Sealyham terrier and companion of 14 years, who had gone "to Castle Yonder," as he wrote in the book.
Sendak considered "Wild Things" part of a loose trilogy of books that included the award-winning "In the Night Kitchen" (1970), about the nocturnal adventures of Mickey, who barely escapes being baked into a cake, and "Outside Over There" (1981), the tale of a baby kidnapped by goblins.
"Night Kitchen" was also about his "victory over death," he later said. In 1967, he not only lost his beloved dog, his mother died of cancer and he had a heart attack during an interview on British TV. Two years later his father died.
Again, Sendak stirred controversy because "Night Kitchen's" comic-style illustrations showed the child-hero Mickey falling through the air naked. Some librarians drew diapers on Mickey to cover the nudity.
"Night Kitchen's" illustrations were a "farewell to New York," Sendak said, as he relocated to Connecticut in search of a quieter life.
He viewed the trilogy as "variations on the same theme: how children master various feelings — anger, boredom, fear, frustration, jealousy — and manage to come to grips with the realities of their lives," the author said in "The Art of Maurice Sendak" (1980).
Much of his work was influenced by his nightmarish recollections of a childhood that he once recalled as "D-A-R-K."
Maurice Bernard Sendak was born June 10, 1928, in Brooklyn and grew up there. He was the youngest of three children of Philip and Sadie Sendak, Polish Jews who emigrated to the U.S. just before World War I.
A sickly child, Sendak spent a great deal of time drawing, and his dressmaker father often told him elaborate bedtime stories.
His father lost most of the family fortune in the stock market crash of 1929, and many of his relatives died in the Holocaust.
"My childhood was completely misshapen by what was going on in the world," Sendak, a guilt-plagued worrier, said on National Public Radio in 2005.
At 9, he started writing stories with his brother, Jack. His sister, Natalie, took Sendak to see his first Walt Disney film, which led to a lifelong fascination with Mickey Mouse.
In high school, he was an indifferent student who worked on backgrounds for comic strips such as Mutt and Jeff. He had a comic in the school newspaper and illustrated a physics textbook for a teacher.
After graduating in 1946, Sendak worked for a window-display company. Two years later, he built mechanical wooden toys that his brother, an engineer, designed. Impressed by his creativity, FAO Schwarz executives hired Sendak as a window dresser.
His work caught the eye of noted children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom, who hired him to illustrate the 1951 Marcel Ayme book "The Wonderful Farm" and became his mentor.
Nordstrom arranged for him to illustrate "A Hole Is to Dig," a whimsical 1952 book of childhood definitions by Ruth Krauss that established Sendak as an illustrator.
To make a living, he illustrated about 20 books in a few years and learned to draw in a variety of styles. He admitted that he owed an artistic debt to classic Victorian book illustrators but said that most of his original work was influenced by his Brooklyn childhood.
"Night Kitchen" and "Wild Things," Sendak wrote in 1971, "reflect a popular American art both crass and oddly surrealistic, an art that encompasses the Empire State Building, syncopated Disney cartoons and aluminum-clad comic-book heroes, an Art Moderne whose richness of detail was ... cataloged in the movies."
As a teenager gazing out his apartment window, he saw a brash 9-year-old girl named Rosie, who orchestrated elaborate dramas with her friends. His drawings of her became the framework for his 1960 book "The Sign on Rosie's Door."
Working with singer-songwriter Carole King, Sendak pulled from "The Nutshell Library" and turned Rosie's story into the animated television special "Really Rosie" in 1975.
It was developed into an off-Broadway play in 1980 and became a staple of the Night Kitchen Theatre, a national children's theater group that Sendak helped start in 1990.
An opera fanatic, Sendak was dumbfounded when innovative opera director Frank Corsaro — long a fan of "Wild Things" — asked him to design costumes for a 1980 Houston Grand Opera production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute."
Critics called Sendak's resulting set designs "sumptuous" with intriguing undertones of foreboding.
Over the next decade, he designed sets for about 10 operas, including writing lyrics and designing costumes for his own "Where the Wild Things Are," a 45-minute opera that premiered in Belgium in 1980.
He worked on the sets for the stage and 1986 film version of "The Nutcracker" and designed for "Idomeneo," a Mozart opera staged in 1990 at the Los Angeles Music Center. When playwright Tony Kushner adapted the children's opera "Brundibar" into a picture book in 2003, Sendak drew the illustrations.
Sendak said he didn't particularly want to make a "Wild Things" movie, but told Entertainment Weekly in 2003 "that's all anybody wanted from me."
When an imaginative film adaptation of "Wild Things," directed by Spike Jonze, was released in 2009, Sendak was pleased that it was not seen as a film for children.
"It's not cute and cuddly! It's a real movie," Sendak told The Times.
For 50 years, he shared his life with Dr. Eugene Glynn, a psychoanalyst who died in 2007. Sendak had no immediate survivors.
A lifelong insomniac, he kept a strict regimen that included a lengthy dog walk. At his death, he had a German shepherd named Herman for Sendak's favorite author, Melville.
Of his ability to easily relate to children even though he was not surrounded by them, he once said: "We've all passed the same places. Only I remember the geography, and most people forget it."
He had already been proclaimed "the Picasso of children's books" by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are," a dark fantasy that became one of the 10 bestselling children's books of all time.


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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Olympus: The Rest
Posted by Lee Yuan Sheng in "Digital Home Hardware & Accessories" @ 08:40 AM
Here is an update to the SP-600UZ, the SP-610UZ. There's a slight bump in the resolution, now at 14 megapixels, a longer lens that goes from 28mm to 616mm equivalent at f/2.8-5.6, and a slightly bigger LCD at 3". Oh and there's the "Magic Filters" (not called "Art Filters" for some reason) too. The 720p movie mode still remains the same. Coming in February for about US$230.
The TG-610 and TG-310 cameras are up next. They're rugged waterproof cameras, with the TG-610 going down to 16 feet, and the the TG-310 going down to 10 feet. Both offer shockproof capabilities from a height of 5 feet, and ability to operate at -10C. As for the camera bits, the TG-610 has a 5x 28-140mm eqivalent f/3.9-5.9 zoom lens with a 3" VGA screen, 720p video and Olympus's Art Filters. The former will cost US$300, and the latter US$200, with both available in February.
Finally... a maker who introduces just one budget compact for CES. The VG-120 is pretty standard fare. US$140 gets you a 14 megapixel shooter with a 5x 26-130mm equivalent f/2.8-6.5 lens, 720p videos, and of course, "Magic Filters". Available this month.


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- Status : Released
- Release Date of film : 1997-12-05
- Original title : Good Will Hunting
- Tagline : Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them.
- Movie Genre : Drama,
- Languages spoken : English
- Film Note : -movie_rating-
- Societies of production : Miramax Films
- Vote Count : 448
- Duration of movie : 126
- Average rate : 7
- Youtube Id : -youtube_id-
- Matt Damon Character (Will Hunting)
- Robin Williams Character (Sean Maguire)
- Ben Affleck Character (Chuckie Sullivan)
- Stellan Skarsgrd Character (Prof. Gerald Lambeau)
- Minnie Driver Character (Skylar)
- Casey Affleck Character (Morgan O'Mally)
- Cole Hauser Character (Billy McBride)
- John Mighton Character (Tom)
- George Plimpton Character (Psychologist)
- Rachel Majorowski Character (Krystyn)
- Colleen McCauley Character (Cathy)
- Matt Mercier Character (Barbershop Quartet #1)
- Ralph St. George Character (Barbershop Quartet #2)
- Rob Lynds Character (Barbershop Quartet #3)
- Dan Washington Character (Barbershop Quartet #4)
- Alison Folland Character (M.I.T. Student)
- Derrick Bridgeman Character (M.I.T. Student)
- Vik Sahay Character (M.I.T. Student)
- Shannon Egleson Character (Girl on Street)
- Rob Lyons Character (Carmine Scarpaglia)
- Steven Kozlowski Character (Carmine Friend #1)
- Jennifer Deathe Character (Lydia)
- Scott William Winters Character (Clark)
- Philip Williams Character (Head Custodian)
- Patrick O'Donnell Character (Assistant Custodian / Marty)
- Kevin Rushton Character (Courtroom Guard)
- Jimmy Flynn Character (Judge Malone)
- Joe Cannon Character (Prosecutor)
- Ann Matacunas Character (Court Officer)
- Francesco Clemente Character (Hypnotist)
- Jessica Morton Character (Bunker Hill Student)
- Barna Moricz Character (Bunker Hill Student)
- Libby Geller Character (Toy Store Cashier)
- Chas Lawther Character (M.I.T. Professor)
- Richard Fitzpatrick Character (Timmy)
- David Eisner Character (Executive #3)
- Bruce Hunter Character (NSA Agent)
- Robert Talvano Character (2nd NSA Agent)
- James Allodi Character (Security Guard)
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Katie Holmes Hosts Independent Feature Project
Katie Holmes dons head-to-toe black at the Independent Feature Project 30th Year Celebration at the Cooper Square Hotel in the NoHo neighborhood of New York City on Sunday (April 26).
The 30-year-old actress looked fabulous at the event, pairing her Alexander McQueen silk halter top with matching pants. She finished off her look with a fierce pair of Givenchy sandals. Katie hosted the swank party.
The mission of the IFP is to produce programs that assist independent filmmakers in connecting with film industry professionals and ultimately, connecting to audiences. For more info on the non-profit, visit IFP.org.
Katie told ET, "I'm really honored to be here because they do so much good in helping filmmakers to show their voice and their talents."
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Disruption in daily routines can create anxiety at any age, but children in particular may feel a special kind of distress in an emergency situation. Although each family should approach emergency preparedness in its own way, everyone in the family can play a role in the process, even children. Keeping children involved in the family's preparation plans – in a general way – can help make them feel safe without alarming them.
Before the Emergency
Experts agree that you should be honest with your children, and explain what's going on. It is important to warn children about disasters, without overly alarming them. Talk about things that could happen during a storm, for example, like the fact that the lights or phone might not work. Base your information and level of detail on what's appropriate for their age level.
Children's Emergency Supply Kit:
a child identification card
emergency phone number list
a few favorite books
crayons and paper
one or two favorite small toys, like a doll or action figure
board game
deck of cards
favorite stuffed animal
favorite blanket or pillow
a picture of your family and pets
a box with special treasures that will help them feel safe
some favorite snacks (non-perishable)
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So I have a computer with:
Windows 7 (64 bit)
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor, 2700 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 6 Logical Processor(s)
ATI Radeon HD 5570
And I have started noticing lately that my graphics card seems to be the weak link for my computer and I would like to fix that.
But the problem is, I don't really know anything about what graphics card to get, so can I get any advice please? (btw, this is meant to be a gaming rig)
Need a price range.
Upgrade to a better ATI Radeon probably 7700-7900 Anything passed that might cause troubles. But make sure you get an ATI card since you have an AMD processor. Just less complicated.
Just leak everything and the whole world will know. Gosh, people....
What games are you trying to play? with that card, you are able to run most games using a pretty high resolution.
Whats your budget to spend for the GPU? The HD 5770 would be a popular choice. Or the HD 6850
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For budget, I don't know how much you would need to spend to get a good card, but I would like to not go above $300
I am also trying to run any current and future games
amd hd radion 7800 series thats what i have and it runs any game at max battlefield3 cryisis etc
SAO is just awesome
Think about HD 7950 with 3GB GDDR5.
That monster should do any job and is around 290 bucks.
Searching a demoness from hell or goddess from heaven...
It can also depend on your native monitor resolution and if you have dual/triple monitors as well. If your playing your games at 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 and higher, then the higher end $250-300 would be the best choice, or a card with a lot of dedicated video ram (1GB+). If you have a low native resolution monitor, say 17" or 18" at 1680x1050 or something, then a decent $150 card would be fine.
A decent card to start with is the Nvidia GTX 560ti (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130604). It's a proven card that can hold its own and often be snagged for sub $200 if you look around.
Or if you can spare the $300, the Nvidia GTX 660ti is the newer version that is a tad bit more acceptable for dual monitor and higher resolution gaming. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130809)
If your looking for the ATI side of things, the 7800 series is a very good value for the $200-300 range. I'd check the 7850/7870's or something like this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127662)
thanks for the help; now just to save up the money -.-'
I'm sorry, I can't resist...
Just ditch that Microsoft POS operating system and load up OS/X or LINUX. Once you have a real OS that can properly manage devices and buses and are free of the horror of DirectX, you may find new hardware is not required.
On a more serious note, you have a pretty good setup already. The ATI card you have has excellent throughput, polygon, and pixel specs. If you have noticed a steady degradation, I would be more concerned that something else is going on, such as perhaps you are dealing with a fragmented hard disk (this can even slow down virtual memory swapping if you have gotten way low on space) or even a virus. Or... you could have a recent upgrade that is wreaking havoc (common with Windows). Did this happen right after you applied a patch? Can you remember when it was last good and what changed? You may wish to consider backing up your data and then "re-baselining" the OS. Most manufacturers provide or will provide a free set of disks for reloading the computer to its original state. If you do that, install your game and all is well, you have some idea then what happened. Make sure then to note performance carefully before and after installing patches.
Tell us more about what you know about this and what you may have observed...
very cheap option, add another card in crossfireX or simply buy a new better one. I suggest you read comments on internet before doing your choice and it also depends on what you need it for. 3d graphics, gaming, multi-monitors?
edit: don't change your OS, even tho I'm a linux/gnu fan, windows is "more compatible" with most of the programs you probably use and I'm sure it's not in your interest to learn how to use a new OS.
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While the federal government may have no hesitation when it comes to trampling on our privacy rights, here in Missouri we take serious issue with these unwarranted intrusions and actively work to protect our citizens against invasions of their privacy.
It's sad to think the federal government is so out of touch that it is now reaching its hand into areas of our lives where it clearly does not belong. From the efforts of the EPA to spy on farmers in Nebraska and Iowa to the stated goal of the White House to create a federal gun owner database, we have seen too many attempts to violate the rights given to us by the founding fathers. I'm proud to say our state government has been, and will continue to be, a shield for Missouri citizens that will turn back these glaring overreaches of federal authority.
This week your state legislature took a stand against the potential for intrusions into your privacy created by the use of both manned and unmanned surveillance aircraft. You may remember the news stories from last year when it appeared the Environmental Protection Agency was using unmanned drones to spy on cattle farmers in Iowa and Nebraska. As it turned out, the EPA had actually used manned surveillance aircraft to spy on farmers. It makes no difference if the surveillance aircraft is manned or unmanned. What does matter is that the government was clearly violating the privacy rights of these cattle farmers, and the potential exists for it to happen here in Missouri as well.
That is why we passed legislation this week that says that the use of manned or unmanned aircraft to gather evidence or other information related to criminal conduct or rules violations will be prohibited in Missouri unless it is authorized by a warrant or the property owner has given his or her consent. The bottom line is that we will not allow a government agency, members of the press, or any citizen to violate our rights to privacy through the use of aerial surveillance technology. In the cases where such surveillance is necessary to prevent imminent danger, law enforcement would have the authority to use aerial surveillance. However, in all other cases, the use of this technology would require the same sort of warrant that authorities need to search private property. It's an important change that is necessary if we are going to keep the federal government's nose out of our business and out of our backyards.
This week we also had an opportunity to hear from Governor Nixon as he addressed the House Republican Caucus. While the governor is supposed to work closely with the legislature to advance his policy goals, it is a rare occurrence to actually get to meet with the top elected official in the state. While much of his time was wasted on disastrous Obamacare policies that conservative leaders in the House will not support, he also gave an update on the Department of Revenue scandal that has outraged so many Missouri citizens.
As everyone knows by now, the department has a new policy in place that requires license offices to scan and keep the personal documents of Missouri citizens – something that many people are justifiably concerned about considering the information could be used to help the White House compile a database of gun owners. According to the governor, the state "is not collecting a bunch of unuseful data to send to some sort of magical database someplace to mess with people." While it would be nice to take him at his word, we simply can't take the chance that the state department of revenue is actually acting in good faith.
I have mentioned in past reports the bills we have filed in the House to address this situation. HB 787, which would prevent the department from scanning and keeping documents and require that all existing scanned documents be destroyed, has made its way through the committee process and will be discussed on the House floor in the coming weeks. In addition, we used the budget process to cut approximately $157,000 from the department's budget. The amount represents the funds necessary to scan source documents and retain electronic copies in a database. By stripping the funding, we make it clear that we will not allow the department to continue this policy.
In the coming weeks I will keep you updated on both of these important issues. Rest assured that your state legislature will continue to stand in defense of your rights and freedoms. One way or another, we will not allow the Missouri way of life to be trampled on by the out-of-touch bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. who continue to make head-scratching decisions.


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C.J. Fair had 18 points and 10 rebounds, freshman Jerami Grant scored a season-high 14 points, and No. 9 Syracuse beat No. 25 Notre Dame 63-47 on Monday night to snap a two-game losing streak that had dropped the Orange three spots in the rankings.
Syracuse (19-3, 7-2 Big East) was coming off consecutive road losses against Villanova and Pittsburgh and has only three conference losses in its last 32 Big East games. The Orange have now won a school-record 36 straight games at home, the longest active streak in Division I. Notre Dame (18-5, 6-4) had won three straight.
It was the first meeting between the teams since the Irish handed Syracuse its only conference loss last season, 67-58 at Purcell Pavilion last January.


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Idaho Geology, a Convergence of Wonders
Idaho's landscape is definitely not for the timid. So much of what we appreciate about Idaho is really the product of intense heat and pressure — of irresistible forces meeting immoveable objects.
No wonder the record of human occupation abounds with constant challenges.
Yet this landscape also beckons us to enjoy. And in that spirit, we'll explore Idaho's rich, complicated, and dynamic geology with some of the state's daring recreationists, as we ski the Bruneau Sand Dunes, kayak a Class V section of Succor Creek, descend into lava tubes, climb the City of Rocks, and scuba dive in Blue Heart Springs.
And with the help of geologists Bill Bonnichsen and Marty Godchaux, this hour-long "Idaho Geology, a Convergence of Wonders" examines the forces that have inspired and enchanted — and frustrated — every generation.
Funding for Outdoor Idaho is made possible by the Friends of Idaho Public Television, the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation, and the Corporation For Public Broadcasting. Additional funding for "Idaho Geology: A Convergence of Wonders" is provided by Idaho National Laboratory and the Idaho Public Television Endowment.


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George E. Harlow
Curator, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Division of Physical Sciences
Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School
- Email:
- email@example.com
- Phone:
- 212-769-5378
- Fax:
- 212-769-5533
- Princeton University, Ph.D, 1977
- Harvard University, B.A., 1971
Research Interests
Trained as a geologist specializing in mineralogy and crystallography, Dr. Harlow has concentrated his research on the chemistry and structure of minerals as tools for understanding their origin and the record of geological processes they contain. This interest and questions about specimens in the gem collection led him to a long-term study of jadeite rock, used as jade, and related rocks from the Motagua Valley in Guatemala and, more recently, Myanmar (Burma), Japan and Cuba. NSF-funded collaborative projects on the geology along the Motagua fault (the North American-Caribbean plate boundary) in Guatemala are active. Expeditions to Myanmar permitted visits to the famous ruby deposits including the Mogok Stone Tract, which has led to a research project on the genesis of the deposit and the myriad minerals and gems they produce. A collection of well-characterized mineral standards for spectroscopy by astrophysicists and planetary scientists continues to be developed with help from NASA.
Shi, G., Grimaldi, D.A., Harlow, G.E., Wang, J. Wang, J. Yang, M. Lei, W., Li, Q. and Li, X. (2012) Age constraint on Burmese amber based on U-Pb dating of zircons. Cretaceous Research—online doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.03.014
Harlow, G.E., and Flores, K.E. (2011) Jadeite Jade: Origin, Sources, Varieties and Exploration. Proceedings of International Symposium on Jade, Peking University, Beijing; 13-22.
Cárdenas-Párraga J., García-Casco, A., Harlow, G.E., Blanco-Quintero, I., Rojas Agramonte, K., Kröner, A. (2012) Hydrothermal origin and age of jadeitites from Sierra del Convento Mélange (Eastern Cuba). European Journal of Mineralogy 24, 313-331.
Shi, G.H., Harlow, G.E., Wang, J., Wang, J., Ng, E., Wang, X., Cao, S.M. (2012): Mineralogy of jadeitite and related rocks from Myanmar: a review with new data. European Journal of Mineralogy 24, 345-370.
Tsujimori, T., Harlow, G.E. (2012): Petrogenetic relations between jadeitite and associated high-pressure and low-temperature metamorphic rocks in worldwide jadeitite localities: A review. European Journal of Mineralogy 24, 371-390.
Teaching Experience
Faculty Appointments
- AMNH Masters of Arts in Teaching Program
Courses Taught
- Graduate courses in the theory and techniques in mineralogical crystallography and crystal chemistry (Princeton and Columbia)
Graduate Advisees
- Robert Klimentidis
- Kyla Simons
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Today is Nexus 4 day, but you'll need to act quick if you want to buy a device. Google's highly anticipated device has already gone on sale in Australia and parts of Europe, where it sold out in only 30 minutes. Now it appears that the Nexus 4 (and Nexus 10) will go on sale at 9:00 AM PT, according to the Nexus support line.
We have no way of knowing how many units Google will offer at launch, but we feel like there's a good chance the device will sell out quickly. The 9 AM launch time has already spread across the blogs, and there will be thousands of nerds hitting F5 over and over as they wait for the page to refresh.
Look for another post when the sale goes live, and let us know if you have any luck in scoring a device.


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Women's basketball coach Tammy George picked up her 100th win at USC Upstate as the Spartans used a second-half surge to defeat Lipscomb 78-62 Monday.
Women's basketball coach Tammy George picked up her 100th win at USC Upstate as the Spartans used a second-half surge to defeat Lipscomb 78-62 Monday at the Hodge Center.
Tee'Ara Copney scored 21 points to lead Upstate.
Tweety Hawkins and Brittany Clency added 15 points each for Upstate (9-13, 5-6 Atlantic Sun). Brittany Starling led the Spartans with 11 rebounds.
Hannah Phillips led Lipscomb (2-19, 1-10) with 24 points, while Alex Banks had 14.
Chattanooga 63, Wofford 44: Rachel Brittenham broke the Wofford career assists record, but Wofford fell to the Lady Mocs at Benjamin Johnson Arena.
Brittenham broke the record previously held by Libby Corry at 449. Her record-breaking assist came on a pass to Jordan Frazier with 9:09 left in the first half.
Daniella Motley led the Terriers in scoring with 16 points.
Limestone 76, North Greenville 70: In Gaffney, Maria Young scored 22 points as Limestone defeated a pesky North Greenville team for its record-tying 11th straight win.
Tia Williams scored 19 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, while Danielle Dixon had 15 points and 14 rebounds for Limestone (17-2, 14-1).
Timisty Nelson led North Greenville (6-12, 4-10) with 18 points.
SMC 69, Montreat JV 52: In Montreat, N.C., Spartanburg Methodist Colelge defeated Montreat JV. The win ups SMC's record to 9-13. SMC hosts Clinton Junior College on Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
Limestone 78, North Greenville 74: In Gaffney, senior center Phillip Moultrie scored 10 points and grabbed a career-high 18 rebounds as Limestone edged North Greenville 78-74 on Monday night.
Mike Barrett scored 26 points, including four 3-pointers, to lead the Saints (14-6, 10-4 Conference Carolinas).
P.J. Foster chipped in with 18 points, including four 3s, for Limestone.
Moultrie's previous career best in rebounds was 13.
Tyshawn Patterson led North Greenville (7-10, 4-9) with 25 points, while Chris Dean and Phillip Brown had 12 points each.
The win keeps Limestone in second place in the conference. The Saints visit Barton College on Saturday in a matchup of the top two teams in the conference.


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These adjacent garages with street-level retail were sold in the fall of 2008 for a total of $111.25 million for demolition and replacement with a 24-story mixed-use tower. They were part of the continued conversion of what had been a collection of stables and garages into more blocks of luxury apartments. The only survivor on this block was the landmarked New York Cab Company Stable, a Romanesque building at 318-324 Amsterdam Avenue (on the opposite corner of the block from this development).
The 2148 B'way garage dated to at least 1912 as it already existed when the NY Times mentioned a sale of the property.
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Region's beaches enjoy 'record-setter'
The four-day stretch that began a week ago Thursday, the Fourth of July, and ended last Sunday set a standard for Connecticut beach attendance that might not be equaled for some time.
July Fourth itself occasioned the healthiest single-day attendance "in anybody's memory" at the state's four coastal beaches and 19 parks at inland lakes and ponds, Dennis Schain, a spokesman for the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, said this week.
Though the department had yet to compile hard data, total attendance over the four days also was believed to be unprecedented.
"We view it as a record-setter," Schain said of July 4-7.
Parking lots at Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme and Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison were filled to capacity, with attendants waiting for people to leave before welcoming new arrivals. At Hammonasset, which can handle more than 8,000 vehicles, no one could remember that happening before.
The story was much the same at the state's two other coastal beaches, Silver Sands State Park in Milford and Sherwood Island State Park in Westport.
New London's Ocean Beach Park also experienced huge crowds, drawing more than 40,000 people over the four days, according to Dave Sugrue, the park's general manager. On Thursday, the Fourth, attendance was between 11,000 and 12,000.
"It was unlike anything I've ever seen," Sugrue said. "Literally a sea of people taking up the sand space all the way back to the boardwalk."
Misquamicut State Beach in Westerly averaged nearly 6,700 visitors a day over the four-day period.
So where'd everybody come from?
Many believe Connecticut and other Northeast locations may have benefited from Superstorm Sandy's impact on New Jersey beaches, some of which are still recovering.
Sugrue said the unusually high number of New York license plates he saw in the Ocean Beach lot last weekend supports the theory.
"It was such a lousy June, cold and rainy," he said. "People really wanting to get out, and Connecticut beaches are in good shape compared to some other places."
Ed Dombroskas, executive director of the Eastern Regional Tourism District, said the district's analysis of its website traffic showed an increase in interest among travelers from New York and New Jersey.
"We're seeing a lot of inquiries from first-time visitors who haven't come to the area before," Dombroskas said. "They're asking about the (Mystic) Seaport and the Aquarium, but a lot are asking about beaches - more so than in the past."
If beachgoers are passing up the New Jersey shore for Connecticut's, it may be based more on the popular perception of what Sandy left behind than on reality.
Storm damage along the Garden State's coastline was confined to Ocean and Monmouth counties in the central part of the state, while the more southern Atlantic and Cape May counties were virtually unscathed, according to Israel Posner, executive director of the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality & Tourism at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
"In Atlantic City's major tourist areas, there was no damage," Posner said. "Atlantic City's casinos were completely undamaged."
But perceptions are another matter.
"Images are more powerful than reality," Posner said. "An example is the roller coaster in Seaside Heights (Ocean County) that got knocked into the ocean. There is no roller coaster in Atlantic City but people come here asking, 'Where's the roller coaster?'"
Posner said the rebuilding in some central New Jersey locations could continue for years.
"It's very clear that seaside resorts up and down the Atlantic coast are going to take advantage of Sandy's perceived effect," he said. "In Williamsburg (Va.), Ocean City, Maryland, along the coastline of Connecticut, Cape Cod and even Maine they're trying to attract people who would otherwise go to New Jersey beaches."
Nevertheless, beaches in Atlantic City and Cape May counties enjoyed record-setting crowds over the Fourth of July. "My suspicion is that the locals know there was little or no damage," Posner said. "People up north in the New York metropolitan area and Connecticut may not ..."
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Monday, November 05, 2012
Breeders' Cup Odds & Ends
Smith Takes Lead in Breeders' Cup Victories
With his winning ride aboard Besilu Stable's 4-year-old filly Royal Delta for trainer Bill Mott in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic Friday at Santa Anita, Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith became the all-time leading rider of Breeders' Cup winners with his 16th score, breaking out of a 15-15 tie with retired Hall of Famer Jerry Bailey.
Smith and Rajiv Maragh were the only jockeys to win more than one race of the 15 Breeders' Cup races on Friday and Saturday this year. Maragh won the Juvenile Sprint on Hightail and the Filly & Mare Sprint on Groupie Doll.
No trainer won more than one race. Hall of Fame horseman D. Wayne Lukas sent out Bluegrass Hall Stable's 2-year-old colt Hightail for an upset victory in the $500,000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint, posting his first victory since 2005 with Folklore in the Juvenile Fillies.
However, Hightail's win extended Lukas' long lead in the all-time standings in the trainers' standings for wins with his 19th, 10 more than closest pursuers Shug McGaughey and Bill Mott, with the latter getting his ninth with Royal Delta's repeat victory in the Ladies' Classic.
Three other trainers came into this year's 29th edition of the World Championships with six previous wins and got one apiece for a seventh to draw into a three-way tie for fifth in the all-time standings behind Lukas, McGaughey, Mott and Bob Baffert, who is fourth with eight wins.
Richard Mandella sent out Beholder to capture the Juvenile Fillies, his third victory over the years in that event and all seven coming at Santa Anita. Todd Pletcher got his seventh with Shanghai Bobby in the Juvenile and Irish-trainer Aidan O'Brien his seventh with George Vancouver in the Juvenile Turf.
Royal Delta's Repeat Tally Tops "Repeat" Winner Efforts
Besilu Stables' Royal Delta scored her second straight victory in the $2 million Ladies' Classic Friday in the best effort of the weekend by the eight previous Breeders' Cup winners who performed during the 15-race World Championships held at Santa Anita Park. The 4yo filly by Empire Maker captured the 9f race by 1 ½ lengths after having taken last year's running by 2 ½ lengths at Churchill Downs when she ran in the silks of Palides Investments.
My Miss Aurelia was next best of the "repeaters" when she was second to Royal Delta in the Ladies' Classic. The Smart Strike 3yo filly, who carries the colors of Stonestreet Stables and George Bolton, was victorious last year by three lengths in the Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs.
Following My Miss Aurelia's effort was the third-place finish by Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith's, St Nicholas Abbey, the 5yo horse by Montijeu who was third-best in Saturday's $3 million Turf behind Little Mike. Last year the Irish-bred won the Turf by 2 ¼ lengths in the 1 1/2m race in Kentucky.
Stronach Stables' Awesome Feather, the 2010 winner of the Juvenile Fillies by 2 ¼ lengths, finished sixth in Friday's Ladies' Classic. The daughter of Awesome of Course had been undefeated in 10 starts coming into Friday's feature.
Pinnacle Racing Stable or Kaplan's Musical Romance finished sixth in Saturday's $1 million Filly & Mare Sprint, captured by Groupie Doll. The Concorde's Tune 5yo mare won in the 2011 edition of the same race at Churchill Downs by 1 ¼ lengths.
Eldaafer, the 7yo A.P. Indy gelding, finished seventh in the 2012 edition of the Marathon, which was won by the Argentinian horse Calidoscopio. Eldaafer, who races for E-Racing.Com, Jacobson, et al, proved best in the 2010 running of the Marathon at Churchill Downs by 1 ¾ lengths.
Thomas Sanford and Bill Spawr's Amazombie, hero of the 2011 Sprint at Churchill Downs by a neck, was the eighth-place finisher in the 2012 edition of the 6f race, won this year at Santa Anita by Trinniberg.
The final "repeater" was Barbara Card and partners' California Flag, who was the 13th-place runner in the 2012 version of the Turf Sprint, taken by Mizdirection. California Flag, an 8yo gelding by Avenue of Flags, was the victor by 1 ¾ lengths in the 2009 edition of the race, also held at Santa Anita.
More Breeders' Cup World Championships Odds and Ends
Four post-time favorites won Breeders' Cup races this year. The winning favorites were Groupie Doll (.70-1 in Filly & Mare Sprint), Shanghai Bobby (1.30-1 in Juvenile), Royal Delta (1.70-1 in Ladies' Classic), and Wise Dan (1.80-1 in Mile). Of the four winning post-time favorites, just one prevailed on Championship Friday.
The highest priced winner this year was Little Mike (17.30-1) in the Turf.
Breeders' Cup World Championships Leading Jockeys (by earnings)
Jockey Earnings
Mike Smith* $23,639,260
Pat Day $23,033,360
Jerry Bailey $22,006,440
Garrett Gomez* $20,350,600
John Velazquez* $19,493,930
Frankie Dettori* $18,221,172
Chris McCarron $17,669,600
*Denotes Active Jockey
Breeders' Cup World Championships Leading Jockeys (by win)
Jockey Wins
Mike Smith* 17
Jerry Bailey 15
Garrett Gomez* 13
Pat Day 12
John Velazquez* 12
*Denotes Active Jockey
Breeders' Cup World Championships Leading Trainers (by earnings)
Trainer Earnings
D. Wayne Lukas* $20,275,520
Bill Mott* $15,316,210
Bobby Frankel $13,242,050
Todd Pletcher* $13,119,650
Bob Baffert* $12,310,000
Aidan O'Brien* $11,793,000
*Denotes Active Trainer
Breeders' Cup World Championships Leading Trainers (by win)
Trainer Wins
D. Wayne Lukas* 19
Shug McGaughey* 9
Bill Mott* 9
Bob Baffert* 8
Richard Mandella* 7
Todd Pletcher* 7
Aidan O'Brien* 7
Neil Drysdale* 6
Bobby Frankel 6
*Denotes Active Trainer
Jockeys Who Won Their First Breeders' Cup World Championships race in 2012
Jockey Horse Race
Aaron Gryder Calidescopio Marathon
Christophe Lemaire Flotilla Juvenile Fillies Turf
A. R. "Rosie" Napravnik Shanghai Bobby Juvenile
Willie Martinez Trinniberg Xpressbet Sprint
Brian Hernandez Jr. Fort Larned Classic
*Denotes First Breeders' Cup Mount
Trainers Who Won Their First Breeders' Cup World Championships race in 2012
Jockey Horse Race
Guillermo Frenkel* Calidoscopio Marathon
Mikel Delzangles* Flotilla Juvenile Fillies Turf
William "Buff" Bradley* Groupie Doll Filly & Mare Turf
Mike Puype Mizdirection Turf Sprint
Shivananda Parbhoo* Trinniberg Xpressbet Sprint
Charles Lopresti Wise Dan Mile
Ian Wilkes Fort Larned Classic
*Denotes First Breeders' Cup Starter
Next year
The 30th Breeders' Cup World Championships will be held Friday-Saturday, Nov. 1-2, 2013 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
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Mickey01 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 34 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
We are a manufacturer of baby accessories and we would like to boost our current website to communicate our brand better and have a boutique shopping experience online.
Therefore we count on you!
Our products are textile products (non-clothing) which are necessary to nurture your baby and decorate the room with
Bed linen / sheets
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Sleeping bags
Our current website is trixie - baby . com
We target pregnant women and young mothers who have just given birth as well as their friends willing to buy a baby gifts.
As the buyers are mostly women, the website may have a slight female twist - but remaining overall unisex.
Our market is internationally with an initial focus on Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France and the UK (sorted in matter of importance)
As retail is detail, we are looking for designers who can do magic by combining the right color palette with well designed icons and an overall slick design.
The webpages to be designed are:
- the home page
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For the contest only homepage needs to be designed. Only the winner will still be asked to design the products overview page.
To check and confirm styles and direction, the homepage submission will be enough at first to give feedback.
We are convinced that detail is key meaning that the pages should not be too overloaded and the design should empower the atmosphere and product pictures of the brand.
If you feel that the logo of the brand should be changed to just a styled writing to fit better the boutique image of the website, you can (eg dwell, silvercross examples). As the pages should not be too overloaded the logo will impact a lot the look and feel of the webpage.
In the attached pdf document we have written a detailed briefing on what we would like to have developed. You will find referenced websites with the reasons why we like them, color palettes, icons and the needed information to be mentioned on the webpages. Photographs are in attachment and on our website.
This will give you enough inspiration and guidelines to get you started right away!
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Dear mums,
I m nursing my twin girls for 27 months now.
I ve been on a business trip recently. I ve staid overnight (2 nights) and brought a pump with me. That was first time after more than a year i ve used it. I ve got out of my breasts only 300 ml after a whole day of not nursing. I ve last nursed at 5am and pumped at 11pm. This means i ve skipped 3 nursing session: morning, 2pm and evening one.
In the morning i ve struggled to pump some 200ml more. That would be about 2 nursings (1 night and 1 morning session).
This should mean i produce about 500 ml of milk a day (250ml per child).
Is this much?
My daughters both started to eat a lot of solids for all 3 main meals during the days since a couple of months. The number of nursing sessions stayed the same. Also the duration is similar. But i noticed that the milk is flowing only for a minute or two. The rest of the time (some 5 minutes in total) they just enjoy sucking.
That is a little bit annoying especially at night. It used to be that they d wake up, get some milk and fall asleep immediately afterwards. But now they wake up, get the little milk there is and then roll around for a while (sometime an hour or more) to fall back to a sound sleep. They keep on demanding the breast, but i m not so willing to give it more than twice a session. There is no milk left anyway. And it is really uncomfortable for me. Couple of minutes is O.K., but after that my back and shoulders, my arms begin to hurt due to an unrelaxed position. Having 2 at the time, sometimes simultaneously, other times in a row is very tiering. Especially because it has been easier before.
This is now like this for the last 2 weeks. I hope its just a growth spurt or a milestone that will pass soon. Probably i should also mention that they actually started to sleep thorough - if you define it as Dr. Shears does: 5-6 hours of continuous sleep. And then what i ve described above happens...
We are not nursing much during the day. Only around 2 pm and then again around 5pm if they are fussy. Both sessions are not very long, some 5 to 10 minutes. If they are not so much after the milk, but more after sucking and some exclusive time with mummy, would it help to nurse more frequently during the day? I work from 9am to 2pm, sometimes longer. During the weekend they get more nursing sessions.
It s been very exhausting - is this a sign of weaning that i should push a bit? How? I dont mind keeping a couple of nursing sessions a day but i wanted to end up slowly in the next half year or so... I dont want to continue long after they turn 3 years.
What are your experiences? Suggestions?


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Finding a Coffee Shop For TV Repair Near Me in Merrillville IN
How Can I Find a Coffee Shop That'll Actually Let Me Sit and Work for Awhile?
I read about why working from a coffee shop can be good for you, but not every coffee shop"or coffee shop customer"welcomes someone with a laptop who just wants to sit next to the window and do some work, even if they're buying drinks and paying all day. How can I find a coffee shop with plentiful Wi-Fi and power outlets, where the business and the customers appreciate my presence?
Caffeinated Worker
Dear Caffeinated Worker,
We've encountered many more coffee shops that are more than happy to have a paying customer in their seat all day than someone who just grabs a cup, sneers at everyone with their laptops, and then leaves, so don't worry too much about the customers. Still, some coffee shops are better for working than others, and some coffee shops have fewer of those annoying patrons than others. Here's how to find the ones that are most conducive to work, and will appreciate you sticking around multiple cups of coffee and sandwiches all day.
TV Repair Favorite Merrillville Coffee Shops Open Late
There are many business owners who work from home and like to take advantage of coffee shops open late all around the city in order to set up shop outside of their normal office space in order to just network with other people and even meet clients.
We do it quite often throughout cities in Indiana so its great to have a resource on Merrillville coffee shops near me when out meeting clients in person (something a lot of TV Repair Merrillville IN professionals don't get to do).
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People working from home in Wantage and Grove can now take advantage of a communal computer in the town centre.
The Mix community shop in Mill Street, Wantage, is hosting hot-desking facilities from this month.
The station is available on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between 9am and 5pm.
Sustainable Wantage, the not-for-profit co-operative which runs The Mix, has installed desks, wi-fi and seating. There is also a fridge, kettle and basic kitchen and toilet facilities.
Accessing the hot-desking facilities costs £20 a month – email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 01235 411313.
Project co-ordinator, Hugh Shaffer, said: "As a freelance consultant, I understand the need to have a flexible town-centre facility where I can work and also have client meetings.
"The special introductory offer of £20 per month to the end of October is exceptional value for money, and I would invite anyone who is interested to contact me and arrange a viewing."
The Mix was opened following the refurbishment of an empty shop on Mill Street, with much of the work done by local volunteers.
Earlier this year a crowdfunder campaign raised more than £3,200 to keep The Mix open, thanks to pledges of between £5 and £250 from more than 30 individuals, plus contributions from local councils.
The Mix is available for local groups and organisations to hire for meetings by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com


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<—Colonising the "land of wood & water Becky's Diary – My 1st Encounter with Obeah–>
Even though my mother was deeply religious, and obeah was against the teachings of the Catholic Church, Mum couldn't let go of the culture that had been so much part of her life growing up in Kingston, Jamaica. I grew up in Brighton on the south-east coast of England in the 1950s, where there were no obeah practitioners to work their 'magic', but Mum often told me stories of how when someone upset any member of her family – her mother, my grandmother Becky – would contact their local obeahman to make a spell so the person would be punished for their wrongdoing.
As far as I could work out from my research, obeah's power lay in a practitioner working on the fears of a people who were fundamentally superstitious to start with and that included my Mum. Since just about every black and coloured person in Jamaica during the 1920-30s (and the years beyond) believed in obeah, once they knew it was being worked against them, they were convinced they were doomed to either some kind of excruciating pain or worse, death.
Obeah practitioners had other skills too and were often consulted over medical problems rather than a conventional doctor. They were very knowledgeable about plants and herbs that grew in Jamaica, information which had been passed down through the centuries from generation to generation. They would successfully prescribe herbal remedies for a variety of ailments, not only for coloured and black Jamaicans, but white also.
The South East of England is not the West Indies, so when I was ill as a child I wasn't treated with exotic herbs. My alternative treatments were more down to earth – I can't tell you the number of times I had boiled onions wrapped in muslin and tied around my feet to bring my temperature down or had to put a matchstick behind my right ear to get rid of some pain I had – usually a stomach ache. Mum told me her mother, Becky, used to do this for her when she was a child. She said it worked for her and it did for me too. Power of suggestion, maybe?
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Inside Heather Brown's Woodstock High School English class, students have stood in front of the class to debate and practice the parliamentary process. In Bethany Hall's math class, students had to present solutions to problems they solved and defend their process and solution to the class.
Speaking in front of other students, and defending answers and positions, is just one of the new requirements of the Common Core standards being implemented by school districts in Illinois.
In 2009, governors and state education commissioners from 48 states, two territories and the District of Columbia committed to developing a common core of English standards and math standards for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
The Common Core State Standards is a single set of clear standards for students to meet. English and math were developed first because they teach the skills students build upon for other subjects, according to an Illinois PTA information sheet on Common Core.
So far, 45 of the states have adopted the standards.
States are developing the science standards as well, said Jean Bevevino, assistant superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for Crystal Lake School District 47.
"It's all about getting children ready for college and careers of the future," Bevevino said.
The standards set a clear understanding of what has to be learned at each grade level, said Derek Straight, the curriculum director for Johnsburg District 12.
For example, by the end of second grade, students should be able to fluently add and subtract within 20 without using fingers or blocks.
The English standards call for more informational text, or nonfiction, instead of the previous emphasis on literary, or fiction, reading. Adults typically read nonfiction books, such as manuals or technical books, Straight said.
Previously, through fourth grade there was 75 percent to 80 percent fiction reading, "because we love to read fiction," Straight said.
Now, by fourth grade it will be more of a 50-50 split, and by high school, Common Core calls for 70 percent nonfiction reading.
"This is what kids will be reading when they become adults," Straight said. "It's about being college and career ready."
The standards are about making learning more rigorous and raising the bar for all students, Straight said.
"We want them to learn how to think, we want them to be able to transfer that to a lot of different situations," Straight said.
Common Core also calls for a different teaching style.
The teacher no longer will be the "sage on the stage" standing in front of the classroom with all the answers. Instead a teacher is more of a "guide on the side" facilitating discussion and learning, Straight said.
Previously teachers wanted students to remember, comprehend and have a basic understanding of content. Students need to have already read the material before class and be prepared to discuss it in front of a group.
"Now we want them to analyze, we want them to evaluate, and we want them to create," Straight said.
With 45 states adopting the standards, Common Core helps level the playing field, Straight said. If students move in from other districts, or other states, "we know where they've been and know what they covered," Straight said.
However there is still local control, Straight said. Even though the goals are set, how a school gets there or teaches the standards is up to the individual districts.
Districts have been phasing in these changes and hope to have it all in place by 2014-15, when third- through eighth-grade students stop taking the Illinois Standard Achievement Test they do now and begin taking the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or the PARCC assessment, which is aligned to Common Core, said George Oslovich, assistant superintendent for Middle and High School Education for Woodstock District 200.
Common Core calls for more critical thinking, Oslovich said, and instead of teaching a little bit about a lot of topics, schools are going more in-depth on fewer topics.
For example it's not important to know what year Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering America, but rather the implications of doing so.
There is more emphasis on presentations, doing research and arguing points in class; instead of teaching the facts, it's how to get to the facts, Oslovich said.
"It asks kids to think more, support their arguments," Oslovich said.
School districts are in the process of implementing the standards, and in Woodstock, teachers are focusing on changes to classroom instruction.
"We're looking for [students] to do a lot more critical thinking in the classroom, turning away from skill and drill stuff that oftentimes happens, to being able to support and defend answers," Oslovich said.


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