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by Joseph Horowitz
Establishing an orchestra in Chicago
City of stockyards and railroads, of McCormick and Pullman, Armour and Swift, Chicago was new and raw. Founded in 1833, it was rebuilt after the fire of 1871. Between 1880 and 1890 its population doubled to one million, of which nearly eight of ten were foreign-born. An overgrown boomtown, a city of laborers, it also spawned an exceptional business elite whose aspirations would prove cultural as well as commercial.
As elsewhere in America, the first cultural stirrings, with regard to music, were instigated by Germans, representing one-third of the foreign-born population. As elsewhere, there were singing societies and a Philharmonic Society -- organized by Hans Balatka in 1860. As elsewhere, Jenny Lind, Ole Bull, and Louis Moreau Gottschalk visited. As elsewhere, the touring Theodore Thomas Orchestra effaced all local efforts. Thomas came regularly beginning in 1869. In 1877, he initiated an annual outdoor summer season at popular prices, a series that would run for thirteen years and total 360 programs.
A pivotal year for music -- for its accreditation as a prestigious civic signature -- was 1885. The Metropolitan Opera visited for three weeks; among its 21 performances were the Chicago premieres of TannhŠuser and Die Walküre -- a heady Wagner experience. Then came a Grand Opera Festival, featuring a company from New York's Academy of Music in such favorites as Semiramide, Lucia, I puritani, and La sonnambula. Adelina Patti, on opening night, drew a crowd of 6,000 to the barnlike Interstate Exposition Building in Grant Park. Advertised as "Music for the People!," the festival was also an unprecedented social occasion. Four years later, Chicago had a proper opera house: the 4,200-seat Chicago Auditorium, whose architects were Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, and whose supporters included the WASP business elite.
All this formed the backdrop to the Chicago Orchestra. Charles Norman Fay was a minister's son, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Chicago he was, successively, vice president and general manager of the Chicago Telephone Company, president of the Chicago Gas Company, and president of the Chicago Arc Light and Power Company. He supported the Art Institute, Field Columbian Museum, and American Historical Society. But music was the Fay family's special object of devotion. As early as 1879, Fay wrote to Thomas proposing a Chicago orchestra, with assurance that "as far as money goes, I can form a strong and satisfactory society, with little delay."
Thomas was busy with other things. Fay waited; he was not interested in starting an orchestra for anyone else. In 1889 -- a famous anecdote -- Thomas and Fay met at Delmonico's in New York. Thomas's wife was dying. His savings had been wiped out along with the American Opera Company. He had given up his Thomas Orchestra. New York seemed not to want him. Fay asked if he would consider moving to Chicago. Thomas replied: "I would go to hell if they gave me a permanent orchestra." And the Chicago Orchestra was born.
In May 1890 Thomas, now a widower, married Rose Fay. The significance of this alliance was social as well as personal. Long itinerant, Thomas entered a world of privilege and wealth. With regard to the new orchestra, Fay was as good as his word. He assembled guarantees enough to insure a $50,000 subsidy for each of three seasons. If most of the backers had no special affection for music, their affection for Chicago was special enough. Thomas would enjoy complete artistic freedom. "All my life," he reflected, "I have been told that my standard was too high, and urged to make it more popular. But now, I am not only to be given every facility to create the highest standard, but am even told that I will be held responsible for keeping it so! I have to shake myself to believe it."
And Thomas had every intention of doing things his way. He decided to bring 60 musicians from New York, including key members of the old Thomas Orchestra, to create a core ensemble that could tour from its Chicago base. Only 26 additional musicians were hired locally. The Chicago musicians' union objected, to no avail. The contracts specified a maximum of 108 concerts. Rehearsals would be called at the conductor's discretion and were unpaid. During the 28-week season (including eight weeks on the road), members would "play at no balls, and at no performances of any kind in which the orchestra does not take part, without permission of the director."
The inaugural concert, on October 17, 1891, in the cavernous Auditorium,
swelled Chicago with pride and enthusiasm. The program read:
Wagner: Faust Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Rafael Joseffy)
Dvorák: Hussite Overture
In the next three weeks, Thomas conducted symphonies by Schubert (Nos. 8 and 9), Schumann (No. 3), and Saint-Saëns (No. 3), Bach's Third Orchestral Suite, Dvor‡k's Violin Concerto (with concertmaster Max Bendix), Tchaikovsky's Hamlet Fantasy Overture, and vocal selections by Gluck, Schubert, and Wagner. An all-American program was pitifully attended. The season, overall, included ten additional concerts of comparably "serious" fare, four "popular" programs of garden-variety bonbons, and a "request" program of subscriber favorites.
Thomas had purposely pitched the repertoire higher than anything Chicago had known before: It was his mission. But what many in Chicago expected more resembled the summer garden concerts that had made Thomas a local favorite. The orchestra was called "this monster that nobody wants" and "the greatest curse to the musicians of Chicago." Though George Upton of the Tribune was a staunch supporter, the city's other leading critic, W.S.B. Mathews, wrote in his Music magazine that the orchestra had committed mistakes "of such gravity that any one of them might well have endangered the successful issue of the undertaking." Ticket prices were too high. There were too many "long works." Of Thomas, Mathews wrote that he "no doubt has his own ideas, and, for that matter, will stick to them." Mathews too, had his ideas. A self-made organist and pianist, a fearless freethinker who early espoused the Music of the Future and admired Arthur Nikisch, he called Thomas's interpretations "conventional and safe, rather than sensational. His work is characterized by great repose, but also by great reserve."
Thomas was taxed by such critiques. The orchestra's annual post-season tours to St. Paul, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Nashville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Milwaukee -- Chicago and its environs could not support 28 weeks -- proved arduous. The deficits were $53,613 for 1891-92, $51,381 for 1892-93. Fay and the guarantors loyally made up the difference -- but it was clear to all that false expectations had distorted the enterprise. The Thomas Orchestra's lakeside summer concerts had turned a profit; hot July evenings were soothed by overtures and dances, beer and cigars. The winter concerts Thomas now inflicted seemed a penance.
Tensions were brought to a head by Chicago's signature Gilded Age event: the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. This was the fair famous for its fairytale "White City" of waterways, lagoons, and monumental Greco-Roman structures and statuary. The music bureau was lavishly provided with two new halls and an orchestra -- Chicago's, expanded to 130 players -- for the entire six months. Thomas was named music director for the fair. He scheduled "a perfect and complete exhibition of the Musical Art in all its branches." There would be a noontime concert every day and two evening concerts of lighter music with a split orchestra -- all free of charge -- plus ticketed concerts of a more serious nature. Singing societies and bands galore would also take part. It would be the capstone of Thomas's career.
Everything went wrong. When it opted not to exhibit, Steinway was forbidden to furnish a piano for Paderewski; when Thomas had one smuggled onstage, he became subject to an investigation. As with the Chicago Orchestra at the Auditorium Theatre, concert supply far outstripped demand and the serious concerts interested the fewest customers. Thomas resigned after three months. Rose Thomas later reflected: "He was growing old now, and the many hardships and disappointments of life had left their mark and taken away from him the buoyant, indomitable spirit with which he had hitherto faced the worldÉHe was never afterwards the man he had been before."
The coming 1893-94 Chicago Orchestra season was the last covered by Fay's three-year guarantee; Thomas fully believed that, at season's end, the enterprise would die. Still, he went doggedly to work. The audiences grew. The guarantees were renewed. The press came around. The deficits shrank. The repertoire maintained its rigor. Thomas was perceived to have become a more amiable autocrat. The appreciation of the trustees was an unaccustomed balm.
In 1896 Thomas was at last able to abandon the "popular" programs that had leavened all previous seasons. He took the orchestra east the same year. The New York Times called it "a well-trained organization of mediocrities." He returned in 1898 with better critical success in New York and triumphant acclaim in Boston. He told the New York Press that he had no plans to leave Chicago or to alter his method there: "I do not adapt my work to audiences, they must adapt themselves to the music."
In fact, the adaptation had at last taken hold sufficiently to insure the likelihood of permanence. Bravely emulating Henry Higginson's Boston Symphony, the Chicago Orchestra had suffered a premature birth. The infant struggled, gasped for breath and was firmly supported until conditions for survival -- experienced audiences long before established in Boston and New York -- were attained. The effort was improbable, the outcome heroic.
Class Concerns
Midwestern advances in musical understanding, Thomas once wrote, were due "almost wholly to women. They have more time to study and perfect themselves in all the arts. They come together in their great clubs and gain ideas." In Chicago, Anna Millar, the orchestra's manager from 1895 to 1899, played an outstanding role in increasing subscription sales.
But it was doubtless Rose Fay Thomas, at his side, who most directly inspired and instructed Thomas about women's roles in art. She was his emotional bulwark and aide-de-camp. For the 1893 exposition, she chaired a three-day national convention of women's amateur music clubs. She was no Midwesterner, but a transplanted New Englander who returned to Cambridge after her husband's death. Her influence may be inferred from her correspondence and from her valuable Memoirs of Theodore Thomas. It was Mrs. Thomas's observation that "A little experience taught [Thomas] that neither children nor what are called Ôwage-earners' were sufficiently advanced intellectually to be able to appreciate the class of music which was his specialty." Writing to a friend in 1892, she said:
Mr. Thomas is here to establish a great art work, and to make Chicago one of the first musical centers of the world -- and not to provide a series of cheap musical entertainments for the riff-raff of the public. The highest forms of art -- whether it be in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music or any other branch -- are not within the comprehension of the masses, they are the delicate blossoms which make the crown and glory of the shrub called humanity, but which roots and branches and stems can only catch vague glimpses of through parted leaves, and never wholly see. So it is a useless task to attempt to produce the highest form in any art, in such a way that it can be appreciated by the ignorant. All that can be done is to produce it, and let it stand till the ignorant acquire a little education and begin to understand it.
In short, Mrs. Thomas was of her class: a new milieu for her crusty spouse. Chicago here introduces a different tone to the symphonic enterprise, one not to be heard in New York from the likes of Carl Bergmann, Leopold and Walter Damrosch, Antonin Dvor‡k, Jeannette Thurber, or Anton Seidl, or from Henry Higginson in Boston. This pronounced us-and-them sensibility, whether welcoming or patronizing or condemnatory, was in Chicago made inescapable by manifestations of social unrest central to the civic imagination. The watershed event was the Haymarket Riot of 1886, triggered when a bomb exploded during a labor protest, killing a policeman; in the ensuring melee, five more officers were fatally shot, as were an undetermined number of protestors. Eight men, six of German extraction, were tried, convicted, and executed on scant evidence.
The specter of German "anarchists" distressed the business elite. The Commercial Club furnished land for an army base outside the city. But a kinder response was equally attempted. Twenty-five days after the Haymarket melee, Ferdinand Peck addressed the Commercial Club. A prominent philanthropist, he had presided over the grand Opera Festival of 1885 and there promoted "Music for the People" at prices "within the reach of all" as an antidote to "crime and socialism." Peck's post-Haymarket speech, titled "The late Civil Disorder; Its Causes and Lessons," pushed for a gigantic opera house for all Chicago: what became the $3.2 million Auditorium Theatre four years later. Chicago's commercial leaders played little role in city government, with its Irish and German ward politicians. Their emerging civic responsibilities were cultural. Social engineering was one rationale.
The Chicago Orchestra, in this context, complexly embodied the elitist or democratic aspirations of a Rose Fay Thomas, Ferdinand Peck, or Charles Norman Fay. No consistent picture of the orchestra's social role emerges. Its subscription ticket prices, which some thought too high, were comparable to the New York Philharmonic's; subscriptions to the Boston Symphony (in so many respects Chicago's model) were substantially less expensive. The orchestra also gave occasional "workingmen's concerts" with tickets for as little as ten cents. Similarly, Chicago's Apollo Club -- its most prominent singing society, and a WASP preserve -- offered inexpensive workers' concerts from which its regular subscribers were excluded. This form of segregation reflected cleavages in the population at large. Unthinkable in New York was the orchestra's refusal to advertise in the German-language press or to supply complimentary tickets to German-language critics. When challenged by the Freie Presse, Charles Norman Fay responded: "Germans who have contributed to the support of the orchestra, either in the purchase of tickets or by direct donationÉare few in number, and their donations have beenÉsmall in amount." And yet German was the language of the orchestra's rehearsals.
In fact, the German cultural community, stigmatized by labor unrest, seems not to have intersected with the musical mainstream, as in New York. Notwithstanding its German conductor, membership, and repertoire, the Chicago Orchestra engaged the Apollo Club as its chorus of choice. Nor was there, as in Boston or New York, a prominent aggregation of local composers, mostly German-trained, to fortify the moment. Compared to Higginson's orchestra or Seidl's, Chicago's was emulative, curatorial.
The aging Theodore Thomas -- his new marriage, his new susceptibility to melancholy -- fits this picture. Thomas's disillusionment was not the product of individual mishaps or failures merely, but of a larger disappointment. The barnstorming populist -- plying the Thomas Highway, seducing novice listeners with the vanishing pianissimos of TrŠumerei -- seemed not even a memory. His mission of uplift -- educating and elevating audiences toward pure sermons in tones -- was in one respect an astonishing success. He laid the foundation for the Boston Symphony, for the Chicago Orchestra, for half a dozen other orchestras soon to come. But many listeners fell by the wayside in the process. His credo of 1874, that "the people will enjoy and support the best in art when continually set before them in a clear and intelligent manner," was not sounded in Chicago. Faced with complaints that his programs were too formidable, that too many seats remained empty, he replied: "To those who cannot enjoy the great music, poor fellows, I do not grudge what they can enjoyÉI will play for them now and then, but it is not for Tell Overture and Handel Largo that Chicago supports my orchestra. One does not buy a Krupp cannon to shoot sparrows." His hair turned white, his hard features softened. He grew a paunch. He looked, commented the Chicago Evening Post, "more like a substantial banker than one of the four most renowned conductors in the world." Thomas's uncompromising repertoire was not only more sober than in Highway days. He had also grown more conservative.
At the 4,200-seat Auditorium, the Chicago Orchestra was envisioned filling twice that number weekly. Thomas quite realistically began insisting that the orchestra needed a smaller home. Like Dvor‡k, like Seidl, like Thurber, he had doubtless imagined that, as in Germany or Bohemia, American symphonies and concertos would ultimately spring from native soil, would nourish and shape the culture at large. Informing his copious programming for the 1893 Exposition was the belief that concert music would become central to the American experience. In retrospect, the failure of music at the fair was prophetic. Surveying the fate of the music bureau's agenda in the wake of Thomas's forced departure, Chicago's Staats Zeitung summarized: "We have good music, but too much of itÉexperience teaches that the class which enjoys classical music is a small minority."
Declining physically and tiring of Chicago winters, Thomas in 1903 issued an ultimatum to the board: "Unless in the next six months a sufficient endowment can be raised to provide a suitable building in which to carry on the work of our institution, I shall resign my position and go elsewhere." The trustees duly raised the necessary funds, including $750,000 in the form of more than 8,000 individual donations from the general public. Orchestra Hall, with 2,500 seats and a gleaming white interior, was inaugurated on December 14, 1904. The program included the Tannhäuser Overture, Beethoven's Fifth, and Strauss's Death and Transfiguration. Thomas mounted the podium to a storm of applause, which he acknowledged with tears. Twenty-one days later, he was dead, worn out at the age of 69.
Thomas's death shocked Chicago and the nation. Chicago's telephone operators were instructed to tell callers, "Theodore Thomas is dead," before asking, "Number, please." Chicago's newspapers called him "dean of the world of music," the "greatest conductor of his time." In New York, Thomas was recalled from a distance. The Times described him as an exemplar for "the older generation of music lovers," versus "the Ômodern' conductor that has evolved from Wagner's influence." Six years later, the Musical Courier called him "a human metronome, a drill master who never yielded for a moment to a flexible or emotional indiscretion, as he would have called it."
In the wake of Thomas's death, the trustees of the Chicago Orchestra renamed it the Theodore Thomas Orchestra. Though major Europeans were considered, Frederick Stock, Thomas's 32-year-old assistant, was appointed music director. Stock's tenure lasted 37 years. Like his mentor, he was German-born, predisposed to German music and a burnished Germanic sound. He eschewed the flamboyance and glamour of his post-war colleagues in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. The Thomas-Stock orientation was absorbed by the orchestra as an enduring artistic identity.
Perennially homeless, Thomas was welcomed by Chicago as a Moses. No other American orchestra began with a music director of such stature, one whose imprint proved as resilient and firm. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra -- so renamed in 1913 -- was Theodore Thomas's final legacy.


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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 All In One Kit - Root, Backup, Flash Galaxy Note 2 Tool Kit
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 users have been quite lucky when it comes to rooting and tweaking the android devices. The development community have been showing quite a lot of focus on Note 2 GT-N7100 development and the developers themselves have voluntarily contributed to the community with amazing tweaks and rooting tools that allows users to easily root their brand new samsung galaxy note 2.
Once such contributor to Galaxy Note 2 development is Mark Skippen aka mskip who has been with XDA since 2008 and now a senior member of XDA team and also a moderator of forums. Mskip has contributed XDA team with amazingly simple yet powerful multi-purpose toolkits that allows users to do multiple operations like rooting, flashing, taking backups etc. He has also released a similar toolkit for Galaxy SIII and now the turn for Galaxy Note 2 has come.
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- [B]Root with Superuser (ChainsDD) or SuperSU (Chainfire) via CWM (works on ANY build)
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CARY, N.C. (AP) – Bernhard Langer rallied to win the SAS Championship on Sunday to take the lead in the Charles Schwab Cup points race, shooting a 9-under 63 to beat Jay Don Blake by two strokes.
Four shots back entering the final round, Langer birdied the final two holes to finish at 13-under 203 at Prestonwood Country Club. The German star has two victories this year and 16 overall on the 50-and-over tour.
"I knew I had to go deeper and lower to make up some ground,'' Langer said. "And thank goodness … it was 9 under because Jay Don came very close to tie me.
"So a lot of good golf, probably only two bad shots and everything else was good or really good.''
Blake closed with a 68. He needed a birdie on the par-4 18th to force a playoff, but hit a tree with his drive and bogeyed the hole. Mark Wiebe also shot 68 to finish third at 10 under.
"Probably the rhythm that I was in wasn't very good because I was just making pars; Bernhard was making all the birdies,'' Blake said. "You just feel like you have to be more aggressive. But sometimes being aggressive doesn't always work out. Trying to be too aggressive on 18 kind of hurt me.''
Langer's last victory came at the 3M Championship in Minnesota, in which he rallied from six strokes down with a 10-under 62 on the final day.
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In this activity, participants learn about the atmosphere by making observations and taking measurements. They will go outside and use scientific equipment to collect atmospheric moisture data (temperature, relative humidity, precipitation and cloud... (View More) cover). Students will use this qualitative and quantitative data to understand how water is found in the atmosphere, how the atmosphere determines weather and climate, and how Earth's spheres are connected through the water cycle. The data collection is based on protocols from the GLOBE program. This activity uses the 5E instructional model and is part of the "Survivor Earth" series of one-hour lessons. (View Less)
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The first annual "Sober St. Patrick's Day" event will take place on March 17 in Manhattan, offering people an alcohol free alternative to celebrate the most popular Irish holiday of the year. The debut event will take place at Regis High School on the Upper East Side from 3-7 p.m.
"I have long felt that we lose sight of the real purpose of the day," said event creator, TV executive William Spencer Reilly.
"It's a block and half from where the parade ends, so it's convenient for people to pop in.
"Reclaiming the true spirit of the day is what this is all about. And, for those people not in recovery, our message isn't that we are against drinking on St. Patrick's Day. It's that we want this holiday to be more about enjoying the beauty of Irish culture," Reilly added.
Those in attendance will enjoy live performances from the John Whelan Band, five time All-Ireland champion fiddle player Brian Conway, Irish keyboard player Brendan Dolan, acclaimed Broadway singer KT Sullivan and the Mulvihill-Lynch Irish dancers, as well as other surprise guests.
Also attending will be Fionnula Flanagan, acclaimed Irish actress, and Tara Conner, former Miss USA and public advocacy consultant for Caron Treatment Centers.
For Reilly, the inspiration to create the event partly came from a chance meeting with a young man outside St. Patrick's Cathedral during the annual New York City parade a few years ago.
"It was around 2 p.m., and there is this kid wearing a t-shirt that said 'St. Patrick's Day today, hung-over tomorrow,'" Reilly told the Irish Voice.
Reilly was surprised to hear the 22-year-old had purchased the t-shirt locally.
"The kid said to me, 'Isn't it cool?'" Reilly recalls.
"I thought that we have got to do something here, there is so much more to our culture."
Reilly, who lost a family member to addiction, says that many people in recovery have stopped celebrating St. Patrick's Day due to the fact that alcohol has become the holiday's focal point.
"A lot of people in recovery just abandon the day," he said.
"There are tens of thousands of people in New York alone who are in recovery. This is not only a party for them but also their families."
Sober St. Patrick's Day has been in the development stages for over a year and is now moving forward thanks to the support of several organizations, including the Irish Consulate in New York and the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD).
Irish Consul General Noel Kilkenny, who will be honored at the event, recalls that alcohol did not always play a role in the March 17 celebrations.
"When I was growing up in Ireland, I remember distinctly that all the pubs were closed on St. Patrick's Day. We really respected it as a special day," Kilkenny told the Irish Voice.
"l really like the idea of having a special event on this holiday for Americans of Irish heritage who are in recovery from alcoholism, to celebrate our shared heritage in a safe and inclusive environment."
Another event honoree, Malachy McCourt, told the Irish Voice that the time has come to conquer the stereotype of the drunken Irishman.
"It's not a secret that I am a recovering alcoholic," the Irish writer who has been sober for 27 years stated.
"At one time, the drunken Irishman was very funny but we have since we found out it's a disease. It's almost like having a good laugh at cancer. It's about time we got serious about it.
"There are about 300 euphemisms for getting high and drunk – langers, ossified, intoxicated, etc.
"Yet there is only one word for sober. It sounds like it's dull and dreary, but yet being sober is joyous," McCourt reflected.
"So come and starve your disease, enjoy fellowship and fun and you will remember what you did when you wake up on the 18th of March," McCourt says to those considering attending the event.
For more information about Sober St. Patrick's Day and to purchase tickets ($12 each), visit www.SoberStPatricksDay.org.


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On Saturday 29th March at 8:30 pm, millions of people across the world will take part in WWF's Earth Hour by turning off their lights for one hour. Held annually, WWF's Earth Hour is a unique phenomenon that encourages individuals, communities and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour as a symbol of their commitment to the planet.
Now in its eighth year, the Earth Hour event was first held in Sydney in 2007. For Earth Hour 2013, over 7,000 cities and towns across more than 150 countries and territories participated.
This year has seen the launch of Earth Hour Blue, an all-new digital crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform for the planet. This new platform gives individuals from around the world the chance to help fund or add their voice to environmental and social projects which are important to them.
Here at ARKive, to get ready for Earth Hour we have been thinking about species which are at home in the dark.
Madame Berthe's mouse lemur
Believed to be the world's smallest living primate, Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is a nocturnal primate endemic to Madagascar. This lemur is well adapted to its nocturnal lifestyle as it has extremely large forward-facing eyes with a shiny layer behind the retina that reflects light back through the eye, significantly improving night vision.
Cave salamander
This unusual-looking animal is the rare cave salamander, an amphibian which lives in dark, subterranean caves in central Europe. As this cave-dwelling animal spends its entire life in darkness, its eyes are so poorly developed that it is actually blind.
Lion's mane jellyfish
One of the largest jellyfish in the world, the lion's mane jellyfish gains its common name from the long, thin, hair-like tentacles found hanging from the underside of its bell-shaped body. As well as being one of the largest jellyfish, the lion's mane jellyfish is also often bioluminescent, meaning it produces its own light, making it glow in dark waters.
Night-flowering orchid
As its common name suggests, the night-flowering orchid is the only known orchid species which opens its flowers at night. Described as recently as 2011, it is not yet known for certain why this orchid opens its flowers at night, but it is likely that the flies which pollinate this species are nocturnal.
Devil's worm
Thought to be the world's deepest-living animal, the Devil's worm is definitely a creature at home in the dark. Found at a depth of more than one kilometre into the Earth's crust, the Devil's worm demonstrates a high temperature tolerance and is thought to be able to survive in conditions of up to 41 degrees Celsius!
If you want to find out more about how to get involved in Earth Hour, visit WWF's Earth Hour website.
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by Rita Charleston
Rabbi Ilene Schneider admits she was very naïve when it came to writing novels.
"I was always interested in writing, and over the years I had written some non-fiction work, mainly in the world of academics and grant proposals," said Schneider, currently coordinator for Jewish Hospice at Samaritan Hospital in Marlton, NJ. "I've always been an avid reader, and I especially loved the mystery genre but wasn't sure I could write one. However, at the end of most of the books I read, I'd often wonder how the writer got published, telling myself I could do better than that."
And so she did. Rabbi Schneider has written several well-received books, and she will be at the Chestnut Hill Center for Enrichment at the Chestnut Hill Hotel, 8229 Germantown Avenue, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 7 pm, to discuss her latest, titled "Unleavened Dead."
Starting with her first novel, a mystery titled "Chanukah Guilt," Schneider developed her main sleuth, named Aviva Cohen, a rabbi in a suburban synagogue.
Schneider explained Cohen's origins: "They say you should write about what you know, so out came Aviva. We share many traits, but there are differences, too. For instance, Aviva has been a congregation rabbi, and I have not. I don't work in a congregation, but my husband does." Among other differences are the fact that Aviva is twice divorced, and Schneider has been married to the same man for almost 37 years. Aviva has no children, and Schneider has two boys.
"And yet," the author added. "many people who read the books, especially those who know me, say they hear my voice when Aviva speaks. There are other traits people say remind them of me, like her dry wit and her physical appearance."
With at least two more mystery books running around in her head, Schneider also produced a non-fiction work called "Talking Dirty Yiddish" between the first and second Cohen-based mysteries. So far, all the books — and hopefully the ones yet to be — come easily for Schneider, contrary to what many other novelists say.
"I have plans for at least two more books in the series featuring Aviva, and beyond that nothing is certain," Schneider said. "I write pretty much in real time, so when I started out, Aviva was in her mid-50s. Right now she's 60, and I am 64. I feel that she is about to retire and become one of those rabbis who go on cruise ships and are hired for the holidays. My husband and I have already been approached to do something like that, and I think the locale would make a great backdrop for a mystery novel."
Without so much as an outline, Schneider said things just pop into her head, and when they do, she sits down and begins to write. "Actually, I write by the seat of my pants," she said. "I view the process as a whole lot of thinking and then tweaking things in my head. My characters start to tell me where they're going, and I just follow them and see where they lead me. And many times, the actual ending of the story comes to me when I'm in the shower and surprises me as much as anybody else."
A graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Schneider became one of the first six women rabbis in the country. She also has an Honorary Doctor of Divinity from RRC, and she has served as director of the Master of Arts program at Gratz College and has been an adjunct professor at Temple and LaSalle Universities.
Today, she thoroughly enjoys writing her books, working at the hospice, reading, gardening and anything else that strikes her fancy. "And I'm here to tell other women you are never too old to take on something you love doing. Look at me. I always say you're never too old to get started, and never, never use your age as an excuse."
Following her talk, Schneider will involve audience members in a Q&A. For more information, call 215-248-0180.


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NORTON, Mass. – MIT rode a hot touch from the outside in dealing Wheaton College its fifth loss in its last six games in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) league opener for both schools on Wednesday in Emerson Gymnasium. The Engineers picked up a 76-65 victory while improving to 8-4 on the season. With the loss, the Lyons slipped to 7-6.
Wheaton grabbed its lone lead of the game after just 26 seconds, as sophomore Ryan Sasso jumped out of bounds to secure a steal before firing a crosscourt pass while in midair to classmate Anthony Coppola, who was streaking up the far sideline and eventually found the hoop.
From that point, MIT used accurate first-half shooting to jump out in front and, after a Coppola free throw at 16:25 brought the hosts within 8-6, the Engineers scored 12 of the next 14 points thanks to four three-point possessions to grab a 20-8 advantage. Senior Jimmy Bartolotta converted a three-point play before burying a trey during the run.
After a Bartolotta long-range shot made the score 25-12 at 9:39, the Lyons responded with 11 straight points behind scoring from four different players to edge within 25-23 by the seven-minute mark. MIT maintained its lead until a Coppola lay-up and pair of free throws in the final minute drew the teams even at 31, but senior Billy Johnson buried a long three with five seconds remaining in the half to give the Engineers a 34-31 edge at the break. MIT shot 63.2 percent in the opening stanza, but gave up six offensive rebounds and committed 14 turnovers as the Lyons stayed close.
Wheaton twice crept within a pair of points in the second stanza, both thanks to points from freshman Anthony Weeks. Two Coppola freebies reduced the deficit to 45-42 with 15:40 to go, but the Engineers put the game out of reach behind a 14-0 run over a 3:39 stretch. The game became a free-throw shooting contest toward the end, when Wheaton narrowed its deficit to seven points three times, but the Engineers shot 15-of-20 from the charity stripe to account for all of their points over the final 5:35.
Coppola led the Blue and White with 17 points and four assists while going 7-of-8 on free throws, while Weeks turned in 15 points and five rebounds off the bench. Sasso was 8-of-8 from the charity stripe en route to 14 points, as the Lyons shot 20-of-22 as a team on freebies.
MIT, which shot 52.3 percent and went 9-of-19 from beyond the arc, was led by Bartolotta's 27 points, nine rebounds and four assists. Johnson added 18 points and nine caroms, while freshman Jamie Karraker hit four threes, finishing with 18 points. Senior Bradley Gampel tallied a game-best eight assists.


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On 7 August 2012 the Defense Forces Ireland and the National Archives of Ireland released digitized witness statements from over one thousand people who participated in the revolutionary period from 1913-1921. They were recorded by the Bureau of Military History from 1947-1957.
The Buggy name is mentioned in these witness statements a number of times:
Sean Glancy from Co. Leitrim was a member of the Irish Volunteers and the North Roscommon brigade.[1] After an ambush at Keadue, Roscommon, Glancy and a number of other men were arrested. They were eventually taken to the military barracks in Boyle, Roscommon.
There the Military Provost, Sergeant Buggy, is alleged to have assaulted the men a number times including kicking them down steps and hitting them with his revolver.[2] After a while in their cells the men discovered they could open the doors. However, Buggy heard noise one night and put padlocks on their cell doors.[3]
Harry Phibbs was interviewed about Irish National Clubs in the first decade of the twentieth century.[4] One that he talks about was The Confederate Club. This was an athletic and social club that had a nationalist outlook. He outlines that a man named Buggy [no first name given] was a member, along with former President of Ireland, Sean T. O'Kelly.[5]
[1] Glancy, Sean. Bureau of Military History Document No. WS964, Bureau of Military History, http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0964.pdf : accessed 8 August 2012
[2] Ibid. p.16
[3] Ibid. p.17
[4] Phibbs, Harry. Bureau of Military History Document No. WS848, Bureau of Military History, http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0848.pdf : accessed 8 August 2012
[5] Ibid. p.8


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OSWEGO — The discovery of a handgun in a restroom prompted a lockdown at a high school in northern Illinois.
A staff member at Oswego East High School found the weapon Wednesday in a faculty restroom and a search of the building was conducted. Nothing else suspicious was found.
School district officials and police reviewed video footage to identify who was last in the restroom.
Oswego police identified the suspect as 62-year-old Michael T. Martin of Plainfield and said he was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a weapon. He is jailed pending a bond hearing.
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Nurse, Soldier, Spy: A Civil War Hero
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. This isn't an anniversary to "celebrate", but such a pivotal conflict in our nation's history is certainly one to commemorate and learn more about through the amazing stories told by the people involved. Sarah Edmonds was one of those people.
In the picturebook biography Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, A Civil War Hero,
we learn that when she was just 16, Sarah disguised herself as a man and ran away from her home in Canada to escape an arranged marriage. She came to the United States and assumed the name Frank Thompson. When the call came in Michigan for young men to join the Union army, "Frank" wanted to sign up as a way to thank the country she had been living in for the last three years. While the other soldiers teased Frank about her small feet, no one ever guessed that Frank was actually a woman.
Frank distinguished herself on the battle field and as a nurse tending to the wounded. Her courage was noted and when one of the best spies for the Union army was captured and killed, the chaplain came to Frank with the invitation to take on this risky position, saying: "I think you're just the man to replace him." Frank accepted and disguised herself as a freed slave in order to cross over into enemy territory. Several times slaves helped Frank keep her secret identity. Her appreciation of their assistance fueled her determination to repay them and help attain freedom for all.
At the end of this book, recommended for children in grades 1 though 4,
a note from the author summarizes the remainder of Frank's life, why she needed to resume her identity as a woman, and the work she did as the manager of an orphanage and developer of a home for disabled veterans. A note from the illustrator enhanced my appreciation for the drawings in the story, which are cartoonlike, but dramatic and compelling and filled with details of the time period. This book also contains a glossary, bibliography and index.
For another look at the life of Sarah Edmonds, see: Sarah Emma Edmonds Was a Great Pretender: The True Story of a Civil War Spy, a second picturebook biography of her published in 2011. Sarah's life also is detailed in the book, I'll Pass For Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War, recommended for children in grades 5-8.
To learn more about what Bloomington and Monroe County was like before, during and after the Civil War, take a look at the variety of original artifacts the Monroe County Public Library has helped gather together in an online collection called: At War and At Home: A Digital Collection of our County's Civil War History. And the Indiana State Library has an online exhibit of Indiana Civil War Photographs.
Like the biographies of people who lived during that time period, these resources help make history come alive for all students, younger - and older alike.


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My absence from this blog recently has been in the most part due to my frenzy of organising after the lovely Buzz and I decided to get hitched. And the secrecy was because we were not yet engaged, and I wanted to be proposed to and he wanted to propose, so we were keeping it all under wraps. Instead of blogging, I spent my time caressing my wedding folder, emailing vendors and whipping myself into increasing fervour about bombonniere.
But now we're official! He is my fiance and I am his fiancee. Without going into the teary details of the proposal, I will just say that it was perfect and meaningful and it rocked. And there is a rock.
Buzz also gave me the best present he could have on my 30th birthday when he said that he wanted to have vegan food at our wedding. This had been a little sore point for me, as early on our relationship I had made some sort of thoughtless generalised sweeping comment about it, inadvertently putting the omni Buzz onto a knife edge and asking him to do something he wasn't yet comfortable with. I'd come to terms slowly with a compromise in my own head, reluctantly accepting that it was his wedding too. But blammo! Out of the blue on my birthday he said he wanted all the meals to be vegan. My heart went all butterflyey and pitter patter.
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104-Year-Old Yogurt Culture Still Going Strong
Old food is good food. The yogurt made at the Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery in New York uses an active culture that was brought from Eastern Europe by the bakery's founder more than a century ago.
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Dec. 2, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Proving that it is a force to be reckoned with on the national stage, MIT's 15th-ranked men's swimming and diving team won 17 of 18 swimming events en route to a first-place finish at this weekend's MIT Invitational, held over the course of Friday and Saturday in Zesiger Pool. The Engineers won the event with a final team score of 1082.5, beating out Tufts University, which finished with 1046.5.
Brandeis University (554.5), Colby College (418), Bowdoin College (239.5) and Wheaton College (216) rounded out the competing schools.
Junior Laurent Charpentier was remarkable for the Cardinal and Gray, winning three individual events and helping five relay teams to decisive victories. Two of Charpentier's individual times were fast enough to earn NCAA "B" cuts - in the 100-yard (46.37) and 200-yard (1:42.93) freestyle events. The Aigues-Mortes, France native also reached a "B" cut in the 200-yard medley relay along with Jeff Zhou, Rastislav Racz and Luke Cummings, as the quartet touched the wall first at 1:34.61.
Charpentier's other individual win came in the 50-yard freestyle, as he led a 1-2-3 finish for MIT. The transfer-student won the event by clocking in at 21.44 and was followed closely behind by Cummings (21.90) and Zhou (22.02).
Junior Peter Wellings teamed with Charpentier, Zhou and Cummings to win the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:25.62 before freshman Toomas Sepp joined the fun and combined with Zhou, Racz and Charpentier for a victory in the 400-yard medley relay (3:31.09). Charpentier and Wellings were at it again in the 800-yard freestyle relay, touching the wall fastest at 7:10.39 to win along with rookie Michael Dobson and senior Kalvin Kao. The Engineers completed their sweep of the relay events by taking the 400-yard freestyle with a time of 3:09.91 courtesy of Charpentier, Zhou, Wellings and Cummings.
Not to be outdone, sophomore sensation Racz also earned an NCAA "B" cut, winning the 100-yard breaststroke by touching the wall at 57.45. He was followed in second-place by teammate Deke Hu (1:00.84). Racz then led a 1-2-3 finish in the 200-yard breaststroke, finishing at 2:09.19, just ahead of Kao, who clocked in at 2:15.04, and John Walk, who registered a time of 2:17.06.
The 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard butterfly turned out to be massive events for the Engineers, as they took four of the first five spots in each to grab a significant amount of points. Racz won the individual medley with a time of 2:01.42, while Hu, Sepp and Kao finished three-through-five. Sepp then garnered top honors in the butterfly, while Hu, George Rossick and Trace Sauter occupied spots 3-4-5.
MIT also received first-place finishes from Dobson in the 500-yard (4:42.53) and 1650-yard (16:32.47) freestyle events, Kao in the 400-yard individual medley (4:17.67), Zhou in the 100-yard backstroke (54.21) and Hu in the 200-yard butterfly (2:00.81).
Freshman Carson Darling provided crucial points for Tech, as well, finishing second in the three-meter diving competition with a score of 337.95 and coming in third on the one-meter board with a tally of 330.20.
Head coach Dawn Gerken could not have been more pleased with the result, but she was perhaps even more satisfied with the effort and determination of her team.
"This was an absolutely phenomenal meet for this group of athletes, and the win in this competition is huge for this program," she said. "Every single team member stepped up and contributed, and they all deserve to be recognized for this victory."
MIT will take to the water one last time before the winter break, as it will travel to Norton, Mass., on Saturday, Dec. 8, to take on New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference foe Wheaton at 1:00 p.m.


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The panther, the symbolic animal of Cartier, made its first appearance in the Maison's collections in 1914. Louis Cartier was the first to tame the mythic animal, and his colleague Jeanne Toussaint turned it into a legend. The panther can be fierce, playful, or lovable, displaying all the facets of its liberated personality from one collection to the next.


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NEW YORK — Sunrun, the company that helped pioneer a financing scheme that has put solar panels on thousands of homes, is getting into the construction side of the business. That makes it more like SolarCity, one of its chief rivals.
Sunrun is acquiring the residential installation company REC Solar from Sunnyvale-based Mainstream Energy, as well as two of its other divisions, the parts distributor AEE Solar and SnapNrack, which builds the racks that hold solar panels in place.
Mainstream's top two executives are also joining Sunrun, Chief Executive Officer Lynn Jurich said in an interview. She wouldn't provide terms for the deal.
Jurich said that the acquisition will give Sunrun more insight into the installation market, lower the cost of attracting new customers and allow the solar installation companies that it works with to lower costs.
REC Solar was Sunrun's first construction partner and the companies have collaborated on installations since 2007.
San Francisco-based Sunrun was among the first companies to cover the huge initial cost of install solar panels in exchange for a monthly fee from homeowners. The initial cost of installing a solar system — $25,000 to $30,000 for a typical residential system — has been a major barrier for the industry.
Homeowners that have solar panels installed continue to buy some power from the local utility, but often the electricity bill and solar payment together cost less than a traditional monthly utility bill.
Solar systems are subsidized by the federal government with a tax credit worth 30 percent of the cost of the system. Many states also offer incentives on top of the federal subsidy.
SolarCity, based in San Mateo, offers a similar deal — solar for no money down — but it does all of its own installation. In just over a year since going public, SolarCity shares have rocketed 700 percent higher.
Jurich says the acquisitions are not an attempt to mimic SolarCity's business model in order to position itself for a public offering, though.
"We're not looking to impress investors, we want to run this company so that in 20 years it will be a massive energy business," she said.
And Jurich insists that Sunrun will not become a competitor to the companies it partners with to install its systems. She says Surun will still rely on local partners for most installations.
The deal will allow Sunrun to help the solar installers it works with by providing them with cheaper parts, better customer service and better strategies for lowering costs, Jurich said.
Mainstream Energy CEO Paul Winnowski is becoming Sunrun's chief operating officer and Chairman Tim Ball will join Sunrun's board.
Sunrun co-CEO and co-founder Ed Fenster will shed that role to become chairman as Jurich becomes sole CEO.
Mainstream will continue to provide commercial solar systems through its REC Solar Commercial unit.
Sunrun has nearly 50,000 customers in 11 states. REC Solar has 11,000 customers in seven states.
Bloomberg News contributed to this report


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The Who's Roger Daltrey Feels Privileged to Receive Honorary Degree From Middlesex University
It's been a big week for Roger Daltrey. The Who vocalist was part of the announcement this week revealing that the group would be performing their 'Quadrophenia' album on tour this year. But on top of that, the singer also received an honor from Middlesex University.
NME reports that the vocalist was given an honorary degree and recognized for his contribution to music and acting over a six-decade career. Daltrey was on hand with hundreds of graduating students, some of whom were responsible for providing visuals to his rock opera Tommy.
Daltrey stated, "If I had the power to give honors, the students would be getting extra honorary degrees from me. After having the privilege of working with them on my production of the Who's 'Tommy,' I was amazed with their vision and creativity. I look forward to seeing more of their work knowing that, within the visual creative industries, the future is a bright one. For me, to receive this degree is an honor indeed."
The fun continues for the Who this summer as they'll close out the London Olympic closing ceremonies.


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Chromosomes are stick-shaped structures in the middle of each cell in the body. Each cell has 46 chromosomes grouped in 23 pairs. When a chromosome is abnormal, it can cause health problems in the body. Abnormal chromosomes most often happen as a result of an error during cell division. Chromosome abnormalities often happen due to one or more of these:
Errors during dividing of other cells (mitosis)
Substances that cause birth defects (teratogens)
Meiosis (my-OH-sis) is the process in which sex cells divide and create new sex cells with half the number of chromosomes. Sperm and eggs are sex cells. Meiosis is the start of the process of how a baby grows. Normally, meiosis causes each parent to give 23 chromosomes to a pregnancy. When a sperm fertilizes an egg, the union leads to a baby with 46 chromosomes.
But if meiosis doesn't happen normally, a baby may have an extra chromosome (trisomy), or have a missing chromosome (monosomy). These problems can cause pregnancy loss. Or they can cause a child with health problems.
A woman age 35 years or older is at higher risk of having a baby with a chromosomal abnormality. This is because her eggs are the same age, and errors in meiosis may be more likely to happen as a result of the aging process. Women are born with all of their eggs already in their ovaries. The eggs begin to mature during puberty. If a woman is 35 years old, the eggs in the ovaries are also 35 years old. You may be referred for genetic counseling or testing if you're age 35 or older when you are pregnant. Men make new sperm ongoing, so age doesn't increase the risk for chromosome abnormalities for older fathers.
Mitosis (my-TOH-sis) is the dividing of all other body cells. It's how a baby in the womb grows. Mitosis causes the number of chromosomes to double to 92, and then split in half back to 46. This process repeats constantly as the baby grows. Mitosis continues throughout your lifetime. It replaces skin cells, blood cells, and other types of cells that are damaged or naturally die.
During pregnancy, an error in mitosis can occur. If the chromosomes don't split into equal halves, the new cells can have an extra chromosome (47 total) or have a missing chromosome (45 total).
A teratogen (ter-AT-uh-jen) is something that can cause or raise the risk for a birth defect in a baby. They are things that a mother may be exposed to during her pregnancy. Teratogens include:
Some medicines
Street drugs
Toxic chemicals
Some viruses and bacteria
Some kinds of radiation
Certain health conditions, such as uncontrolled diabetes
Researchers have two ways of finding out if a substance is a teratogen:
Animal studies. Animal studies are the main way to find out if a medicine or other substance is safe during human pregnancy.
Observations from human exposure. This means reports over time of problems about a substance.
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Just print these cute Christmas tree bookmark images, laminate and give as little gifts. Kids can help make these and give as presents.
Items needed:
- Heavyweight printer paper
- Laminating pages or pouches
- Scissors
- Yarn
- Hole Punch
- Print images on printer paper. There are three on a page, three color variations.
- Cut out each bookmark carefully.
- Insert all three bookmarks into laminating pouch (leave at least 1 inch between each bookmark) and follow manufacturers directions.
- Cut out each bookmark, leaving a 1/4" clear border around all edges. Round off all edges.
- Punch a hole at the top center of each bookmark.
- Cut two lengths of 12" yarn for each bookmark. Insert both pieces and pull to middle, then tie off.


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Thursday, August 18, 2011
First Post Ever Link Up
OK, my first post is nothing special, but I am so curious to see how other started out blogging, and what they wrote about in their first post ever.
Sounds like fun, huh? Join me!
I will try to read all of your posts and follow all of your blogs. I would love it if you would follow mine as well.
OK, let's get going! Don't forget to link back here so that others can join us too!
37 comments:
- Debra said...
What a fun idea!! LOL....
- August 18, 2011 at 7:32 PM
- Heather @ Marine Corps Nomads said...
Wow! It was fun going back and looking at some of the old posts. Thanks for the fun link-up!!! :)
- August 18, 2011 at 7:46 PM
- Lisa said...
What a fun idea. It will be fun reading all the first posts & I like to see how long people have been blogging.
- August 18, 2011 at 7:50 PM
- Marie said...
What a great idea...can't wait to read some of your posts!
- August 18, 2011 at 8:03 PM
- Tim @ Families Again said...
I couldn't even remember what I wrote in my first blog post. It was way back in October of 2008! As Heather said, it was fun to go back an see what I wrote in those early days. How embarrassing!
- August 18, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Family Style School said...
How fun! My first post got right into what we were learning at the time. I have a personal blog and then I decided to break off and have a blog for our schooling and now that is where I do most of my blogging. My personal blog still gets posted on occasionally. :) Thanks for this!
- August 18, 2011 at 9:46 PM
- Cristi said...
What a fun idea! I can't wait to take the time and read all the links.
I should've posted my traditional "kleenex warning" with my link. I started off with a purpose, and the first post is an emotional look back at the previous few years. It also explains my blog name.
- August 18, 2011 at 9:47 PM
- Vickie said...
Can't wait to begin reading everyone's first post :) Great idea, Rodna!
- August 18, 2011 at 9:55 PM
- Erika@RaisingLeafs said...
My husband wrote the very first post on our blog, but I shared my first post. I think it's funny that the blog was his idea in the first place. Now, he very rarely writes and I do all the time!
- August 18, 2011 at 10:28 PM
- Gretta said...
What a great idea! I had completely forgotten what my first ever post was about and oddly enough, it was not an introductory post...I just blogged! LOL Thanks for hosting a fun event and I can't wait to read others post and more of your blog too!
- August 18, 2011 at 11:00 PM
- Blossom said...
Wow! I had almost totally forgotten that I had a blog at homeschoolblogger long ago. I linked to that first post and also to my blogger blog's first post.
How fun!
- August 18, 2011 at 11:10 PM
- Martha said...
Hi! This should be a fun way to visit blogs. I am looking forward to reading these posts in the next few days.
- August 19, 2011 at 12:02 AM
- Sonya Schroeder said...
I love meeting other moms and visiting their blogs. Thanks for doing this I cant wait to look around. Blessings
- August 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM
- Erin said...
Fun linky! It was so strange to go back and read through that first one and a few others... I can't believe I've been blogging for 4 years!
- August 19, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- Our Homeschool Reviews said...
Great idea. Mine was a review for TOS since that is why I started my blog in the first place. :)
- August 19, 2011 at 7:10 AM
- Jess said...
This is such a fun idea. My first post was not very good or interesting but it's been fun to look over all my old posts when I didn't have any readers except me and my mom!
- August 19, 2011 at 9:47 AM
- Stacie said...
I echo all of the other ladies. . .this is a fun idea! Glad I stopped by.
- August 19, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- Lynn @ TDHGP said...
Fun stuff! Hard to believe I first started this just last year. Another blessing from the Crew.
- August 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- Swinging On Small Hinges said...
Cute idea. My first post was lame...but gosh! I sure was skinnier back then! :)
- August 19, 2011 at 2:32 PM
- Noteable Scraps said...
Very fun! Thanks! (I'm following you! ) :)
- August 19, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- Lisa said...
What a great idea! I couldn't remember my first blog post and it was fun to go back and read it.
BTW, I love the new look of your blog!
- August 19, 2011 at 3:42 PM
- Elizabeth Herr said...
Hey : ) Very cool idea. Now for a cup of coffee ...
- August 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM
Wasn't sure what my first post was! Thanks for the opportunity to not only go back and reread my own, but to see other's as well! Great Idea
- August 19, 2011 at 10:04 PM
- PK @ Knee Deep in Grace said...
I didn't start my blog, even though I had been encouraged to for years, until I was accepted as a reviewer for TOS. I was so nervous and I knew no one would ever read it! I've only slightly gotten over that, lol, but it doesn't seem to matter so much, now, as it's just nice to have an outlet to write!
Looking forward to reading each of your first posts! You Ladies are a constant inspiration to me and it has been a pleasure to "meet" you. =)
Blessings to you and yours,
- August 19, 2011 at 10:36 PM
- Rusheika said...
This was a fun idea... I started my blog just before we officially switched from public school to homeschool. I need to go back and read through our journey!
- August 20, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- Debbie said...
First 2 posts Monday, April 21, 2008 more than 3 years ago now. I picked the one that was not an add. So strange to go back and look at my old posts. It was about reading G.A. Henty... still read and love G.A. Henty for school. Linky up late... but linking up. Now going to check on all your old posts... and leave some love in your comments.
- August 20, 2011 at 7:20 PM
- Debbie said...
I went and read your first post. One of my first posts was about Cindy Rushton also. :-) That is so funny. But since I did 2 first posts on the first day I went with my non advertising/affiliate post.
- August 20, 2011 at 8:21 PM
- Marcy said...
this is gonna be fun!
- August 20, 2011 at 8:33 PM
- Jen said...
I'm new to your blog. I followed over from another post.
What a neat idea! I started my blog earlier this year, not long after I brought my son home from Public School to Homeschool him. Most of my posts are about his Public School experience and finding my way as a new-to-homeschool Mom.
- August 20, 2011 at 9:25 PM
- Sela said...
What fun, thanks for the linky :)
- August 20, 2011 at 9:33 PM
- Crystal said...
I actually had two posts for this new blog, I picked the more interesting one! LOL
- August 21, 2011 at 8:30 AM
- Our Village is a Little Different said...
This is such a fun idea for a blog hop! I'm sure my first post is awful. It's probably a review, or a bumbling paragraph about how I have no idea what to do with a blog.
If I weren't hosting the crew hop, I'd link up for fun.. but I know I won't have the time to visit everyone this time. =(
- August 21, 2011 at 1:46 PM
- Gidget said...
Great idea! We all grow and change so much as we write and add stories - it was a lot of fun going back and seeing how far I've come. Thanks for the memory!
Recent Post: Books Your Kids Will Love
- August 23, 2011 at 9:03 PM
- Laura said...
I'm linked up. Now to go read some posts!
- August 24, 2011 at 6:38 AM
- Sara @ Embracing Destiny said...
This is a fun link up. I actually started my blog for the first voyage of the Crew back in 2008. ;0) My first post was about why I chose "Embracing Destiny" as my blog name.
- August 24, 2011 at 11:56 PM
- Tina Hollenbeck said...
What a fun idea! I'm going through my reader from yesterday at the moment, but am clicking to follow you and will bookmark this post to come back later. I'd love to meet lots of new homeschooling mommas through this. Oh, and I'll put a post on my blog so others will come here, too!
- August 30, 2011 at 9:22 AM
- Q said...
How fun to look back, thank you! Couldn't get to the very first, as that blog's been long gone. But I was able to go as far back as 2006. FUN! Thank you for sharing and hosting a great idea!
- August 30, 2011 at 10:32 PM
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Trisara Phuket Villas & Residences, in Sanskrit meaning the "Third Garden in
Heaven" is South East Asia's most intimate and exclusive resort
& spa. Since opening in late 2004, the resort has quickly become a landmark
and is the only resort offering private pools & magnificent ocean views
from all accommodation.
Only 15 minutes from Phuket International Airport, the resort is a sanctuary of privacy, space and simple good taste with service provided by a team of warm, caring people who regard hospitality as a joy.
Trisara Phuket Villas & Residences also offers a selection of larger private residential villas as an integral part of the resort. These luxurious villas feature have amazing sea views. Dedicated staff cater to guests cooking and housekeeping service needs and villa guests have full use of the resort's facilities.
Trisara Phuket Villas & Residences's accommodation consists of individual
pool villas and rooms set just above our private bay. Our pool
villas have set the benchmark for accommodation in resorts worldwide,
with each villa and room embracing ocean views, over-sized king beds
and beautiful bathrooms with both indoor and outdoor showers.
Ocean View Pool Junior Suite
135 sq.m | Ocean ViewThe Ocean View Pool Junior Suites are situated on the highest level of the resort, offering cool breezes, total privacy and panoramic ocean views overlooking Trisara's bay.
It has a private entrance walkway leading to the 70 square metre outdoor deck featuring a 4 meter infinity plunge pool, extended by a 3 meter shallow pond for sun lounging, and an outdoor shower, all offering total privacy and spectacular sea views.
With a total area of 135 square meters, including the 65 square meter air-conditioned space, this modern and recently renovated suite is perfect for couples.
Ocean View Pool Villa
240 sq.m | Ocean ViewThese one bedroom villas occupy a total area of 240 square metres, inclusive of the 96-square-meter air-conditioned bedroom and bright garden-facing bathrooms, a 10-metre ocean-facing private infinity pool, teak dining and sunning decks, and outdoor private shower. All pool villas offer a true sense of privacy, beautiful ocean views and are an easy stroll down to the hotel main facilities.
The Deck - All day dining
Enjoy our authentic Thai dishes and International cuisine under the palm trees for breakfast, lunch or dinner in our all-day-dining outdoor restaurant.
Trisara Seafood
"Trisara Seafood" is inspired by the iconic seafood restaurants found on the French Riviera and Capri. We offer the freshest products from the Andaman and the Mediterranean seas, paired with wonderful wines from our Wine Spectator awarded cellar. (Our seafood is responsibly caught from sustainable sources)
The Bar- Gourmet Tapas and cocktails
Our main bar is a great place to relax and enjoy the amazing sunsets, and even more special after dinner.. The bar specializes in creative Asian & Western tapas, and we offer a wide variety of wines by the glass from our Wine Spectator awarded wine cellar, offering more than 300 labels in addition to classic and creative cocktails
Sunday Jazz Brunch
Every Sunday, our beachfront bar becomes a celebration of fine wines, exquisite tapas, live cooking stations and Phuket's best desserts, featuring the cool sounds of fantastic jazz band. Come and indulge on Laurent Perrier Champagne or a wide variety of wines and our Kids Club welcomes all children with complimentary snacks.
Pool & Beach- Salads and snacks
Our main beach, sundeck chairs and 47-meter salt-chlorinated pool is attended by staff 8am to 7pm daily.
Beach Barbeque- Thai and Western (December - April)
On certain nights we offer a limited number of romantic tables dotted along the sand in front of the beach, where guests can enjoy our Beach Barbeque.
Ancestral Thai Dinner
Our Thai guest chef, Khun Premchit brings a millennium of culinary wisdom from her ancestors. The menu is designed and prepared using secret recipes and rare fresh seasonal ingredients from her farm and the tropical rainforests, village markets, sandy beaches and blue seas of Phang-Nga and Phuket. A unique experience you will remember forever.
Destination Dining (December - April)
Enjoy a private Royal Thai dinner prepared by your personal chef and waiter on the deck of one of our splendid private residences.
|Beach Barbeque
|Destination Dining
|Sunday Jazz Brunch
|Trisara Seafood
|The Bar
|The Deck
The Bar overlooks the ocean and main pool, and spills outside to the open air decks over the beach, with day beds and comfortable lounges to relax in. Our cocktails are renowned as the best on the Island and our bar is the best place to watch the daily sunsets.
Our passionate, talented kitchen team create, simple, great food which is presented beautifully and dining is a highlight of the Trisara Phuket Villas & Residences experience. Our philosophy is to take wonderful local produce such as exceptional seafood, fruit and vegetables and prepare them so that they retain all their flavor and integrity. Our in-house bakery produces some of the best bread and pastries, croissant, beautiful chocolates and wonderful desserts you will find anywhere.
Trisara Spa
Our 6 spa suites and beauty salon are located near the reception, Most of our treatments can also be enjoyed in the privacy of your villa or suite, as we have professional portable treatment beds which we can be set up either indoors or by your pool. Facials and body treatments are designed by our team in partnership with 'Sodashi'. The Sodashi trainers from Australia train our therapists in the many treatments available using their amazing products. These luxurious products are 100% natural and totally free of chemicals and preservatives. Our spa consultants would be delighted to meet you to discuss our range of treatments and help plan an experience that leaves you feeling rejuvenated.
|Spa treatment room
|Body Massage
|Beach Massage
Yoga and Meditation Sala
Beyond the main pool, follow the garden walkway along to our ocean front sala, which is used as our primary yoga center, with private lessons by our yoga teachers.
Gymnasium & Salon
Trisaras fitness center offers the most advanced weight machines and exercise equipment along with dedicated personal trainers. The Salon offers guests hair styling, pedicures, manicures and a selection of beauty treatments.
Meeting & conference
Trisara Phuket Villas & Residences's conference and banqueting facilities cater to a variety of events. The resort features a well-appointed boardroom facility for up to 60 persons with state-of-the-art audio-visual and telecommunications equipment, plasma monitors for audio-visual playback, smart boards, electronic flip charts, portable computers, mobile phones and fax machines available. All areas are serviced with wi-fi broadband high-speed internet connections.
Three exquisite shops offers beachwear, gift items, basic amenities, and special artwork, jewelry and fabric from all over South East Asia.
Our large library offers many books, popular novels, travel and lifestyle magazines, classic DVDs and board games for guests to borrow.
Personal mini iPods are available for all guests, free of charge, and connect easily to in-room stereos. Trisara Phuket Villas & Residences maintains a vast music library from which guests can select and download music to play in one's room.
Notebook computers are available free of charge to guests and are connected through our wireless broadband internet in all public spaces.
At Trisara Phuket Villas & Residences you can have the wedding that dreams are made of. Our beautiful deck, incredible outlook, natural beauty and luxurious surrounds are just the beginning.
Trisara Phuket Villas & Residences is a haven of tranquility, privacy and. In keeping with, we specialize in intimate weddings for groups of 2-60. Our absolute beachfront location and private villas can provide the perfect backdrop for the most special day of your life The event can be simple and stylish, or extravagant and lavish, the choice is yours.
|Swimming Pool
|Spa Outdoor deck
|Kids Club & Games room
|Tennis Court
|Meeting Room
|Broad Meeting Room
|Trisapa Gallery
|Parking area
|Speed Boat Service
|Room Service
|Beachfront Restaurant
|Sightseeing tour
|Phuket lies 890 km. south of Bangkok, in the Andaman Sea. The island
is connected to Bangkok by road, and is a one hour flight on Thai
International Airlines. Additional direct flight services connect Phuket
to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Japan, Taipei, Perth, Sydney
and other destinations.
Phuket Island is 7 hours ahead of GMT. The property is located over a private bay just 15 minutes from Phuket International Airport on the Island's quiet, undeveloped northwestern coastline.


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MediaNinja needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 89 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Cornerstone Assistance Network
Helping people in need through service, education and donations. The current site is canetwork.org and it is outdated and it does not look very good. The menu options will stay the same but we need a new look and feel. We would like a fresh, clean design that incorporates what we do. We have social media pages as well so we want that represented in the design. Here are some of the sites that we like:
We can use a new logo if you would like or keep the same one. A small tweak to the current one is also an option. We need a design for a home page, a category page/content page and possibly a blog.
You can read more about it here: canetwork.org
People that need help, donors, churches and other organization.
We would need a psd/vector file design for a new website.


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Red Carpets to Race Tracks, Monaco to Montenegro - Riviera Events
May 2017
Cannes Film Festival, May 11-22
Monaco Grand Prix, May 26-29
Amber Lounge - May 27 – 29 "the original F1 Experience"
One of the most iconic day to night parties in the world. The Grand Prix weekend takes off with U*NITE, brining together the Amber Lounge Fashion Show with F1 drivers walking down the catwalk, a charity auction, gourmet dining experiences, while dancing the night away surrounded by stars and royalty. Saturday and Sunday both have events including watching the races from Amber Lounge's celebrity yachts, leading up the highly anticipated Sunday F1 DriverPost Race closing party.
June 2017
- Cannes Collection Exhibition, June 2-5
The Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, Porto Cervo, June 7-11
Porto Cervo is one of Europe's most expensive and desired marina berthsin Europe, and of course there is merit behind it. Anything from exceptional restaurants to luxurious hotels and even a top of the line golf course.
Summer Solstice, June 21
July 2017
The Superyacht Rendez-vous Montenegro, July 7-9
One of Europe's hot spots, especially when it comes to yachting. Montenegro not only offers beautiful landscapes, but it also has a top of the line marina berth to accommodate any type of need.
August 2017
Venice Film Festival, Venice, August 31 - September 10
Venice is known as one of the world's most romantic cities, its perfect fora getaway for two. During the Venice Film Festival you can enjoy classic cinema from the interior of your yacht or head out to be in the mist of the film festival glamour.
September 2017
Cannes Yachting Festival, September 6-11
The Cannes Yachting Festival will once again be a prestigious and luxurious event not to be missed. Engel & Völkers Yachting will be present at the Cannes Yacht Show to showcase the vast rang of yachts we provide. Join us by the sparkling bay and along the famous Croisette and uncover what luxury is all about.
Monaco Yacht Show, Monaco, September 28-October 1
Monaco is a synonym for luxury, from real estate to super yachts and glamour to fame, Monaco has it all.


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Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker is the pop music critic for Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
He also serves as editor-at-large at Entertainment Weekly, where his previous work netted him two National Magazine Awards.
Previously a film critic at New York magazine, Tucker's music criticism earned him two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards one in 2003 and the other in 2004.
Tucker is the author of Scarface Nation: The Ultimate Gangster Movie and Roasting Miss Piggy: 100 Things to Love and Hate About Television.