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Diving Into Climate History
Coral skeletons reveal some bare bones facts of climate change
Covered in pink, green, and carrot-orange polyps-and swirling with an
assortment of fish just as colorful-coral reefs have a lively exterior
that appeals to underwater explorers. WHOI Research Associate Anne
Cohen (Geology & Geophysics) is attracted to them for a different
reason. Beneath the vibrant surface of every coral lies an archive of
climate history.
"Corals look like rocks," Cohen said. "They don't move and they are silent. But they are continuously growing, all the while acting as tape recorders of information we need to track variations in climate."
Those records are written in the coral's calcium carbonate skeleton, and they tell a story of centuries of intense storms and climate flip-flops. Cohen, in her quest to understand major climate events in Earth history, has collected corals from Hawaii, South Africa, Australia, Bermuda, and other far-flung locations.
After plucking coral samples from the sea, Cohen dissects them like a coroner conducting an autopsy. She slices them into cross-sections, then takes X rays and computed tomography scans. She is initially interested in the alternating light and dark bands-a zebra-striped indicator of annual growth that is invisible to the naked eye but clear on an X-ray image (see inset above). Within this banded timeline she can accurately date the coral's growth to the years of the first Moon landing, the invention of the Frisbee, and the introduction of television.
The next step is to couple the age of the coral with chemical analyses. Living coral is sensitive to small variations in ocean temperature, salinity, and light, leading to changes in the chemical composition of the coral skeleton. These signatures of a changing environment are recorded in the coral's growth bands.
Using a mass spectrometer-which determines the abundance of various elements in a sample-Cohen can measure small but telltale changes in the coral's chemistry. A dip in the ratio of strontium to calcium, for example, signals a rise in ocean water temperature. A spike in a certain isotope of oxygen can indicate the occurrence of a typhoon or hurricane. Since Cohen can calculate exactly when the bands were formed, she can determine the calendar years in which those changes took place.
Taking the Temperature of the Ocean
Records of ocean temperature date to about 1900, but the older measurements are sparse and often unreliable. (Prior to 1940, readings were taken by lowering buckets over the side of a ship or dock, and then dipping thermometers in the water-filled buckets). Measuring temperatures became more sophisticated in the 1970s, when computerized monitors were mounted on buoys and docks to record long series of temperatures for months and even years. By the early 1980s, satellites began tracking sea surface temperatures.
But as Cohen points out, these recent temperature records are too short to tell researchers whether the climate changes in recent decades are unusual or just natural variations. That's where corals prove valuable.
Coral reefs are built slowly by polyps, tiny animals the size of pencil erasers. Living together in vast colonies, polyps draw in calcium and bicarbonate from the ocean to build a hard skeleton that they use for support and protection. Some species continue to grow for many years, forming massive colonies. Over time these may be cemented together by algae, forming the reef structure.
"Corals are natural climate recorders," said Cohen. "They grow continuously, so there are no gaps in the record. And they grow for a long time, sometimes reaching 1,000 years old."
Corals can provide a useful, uniform tool for reconstructing the chronology of ocean and climate conditions. Take, for example, our understanding of hurricanes. Scientists do not have a sufficiently long record of weather data to accurately determine the probabilities of these catastrophic storms. But hurricanes dump large amounts of rainfall into the oceans. Hurricane rainfall has a unique isotopic composition that is recorded as a distinctive chemical spike in coral skeletons.
"It is like dumping ink into the ocean," Cohen noted. "The signal remains preserved for centuries or even millennia as a record of each hurricane's passage."
Using this sampling method with corals from St. Croix, Cohen found unmistakable evidence for two recent hurricanes, Hurricane Marilyn in 1995 and Hurricane George in 1998. She plans to apply this technique to older corals in order to find undocumented hurricanes from the past, filling in gaps in the weather record and improving our understanding of hurricane frequency. Cohen's work could help improve the calculations of storm risk and boost scientists' understanding of the relationship between hurricane frequency and long-term climatic cycles in the ocean.
Toward this end, Cohen has been examining a 276-year-old, 1,500-pound coral she removed in 2001 from a reef in Bermuda. That brain coral may have some interesting things to say about a recurring climate phenomenon known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).
Like El Niño and La Niñawhich periodically rearrange ocean conditions in the Pacific and spread their effects around the globethe NAO is a periodic climate phenomenon in which the ocean and atmosphere seem to feed back upon each other.
In the "positive" phase of the NAO, a low-pressure atmospheric system lodges near Iceland and a high-pressure system hovers over the Azores. These conditions result in generally milder winters in the eastern US and northern Europe. Ocean temperatures in the northwestern and southeastern parts of the North Atlantic become cooler, but warm up around Bermuda.
In the NAO's "negative" phase, the low- and high-pressure systems move south. Winters in the eastern US and northern Europe become more severe, and storms track farther south, bringing rain to the Mediterranean. Ocean temperatures also change in the North Atlantic, causing temperatures to decrease around Bermuda.
Since the 1970s, the NAO has been "stuck" in a positive phase more intense than any on record. Because the ocean near Bermuda changes in response to NAO, Bermuda brain corals can be used as an NAO recorder. During the positive phase of NAO, when ocean temperatures at Bermuda are higher than normal, the brain corals respond by growing a denser skeleton with a telltale chemical composition. Cohen wants to know: Has the NAO done this sort of thing before, or has the climate crossed some new threshold, perhaps triggered by global warming?
The answer is crucial to predicting future climate changes, which may have wide-ranging economic and environmental ramifications. The recent positive NAO has saved fuel bills and caused fewer weather-related disruptions of transportation in the US and northern Europe. But farther south in the Mediterranean region, it has limited rainfall and hampered water supplies. Some impacts are less obvious. In the Grand Banks, for instance, colder winters are thought to hamper cod reproduction.
In testimony that Cohen delivered to the US House of Representatives in June 2002, she reported that her Bermuda coral research reveals that ocean water temperatures have fluctuated over the past 300 years, but the magnitude and persistence of the warm temperatures since 1980 are clearly an unusual phenomenon. The coral shows that sea temperatures in the 1990s off Bermuda averaged a full degree Celsius higher than in the previous 300 years.
Ironically, the rapid warming of the surface oceans in the past three decades coincides with basin-wide changes in the very reefs that record the climate signals. Higher sea surface temperatures cause corals to lose their colorful polyps--and thus their lives-in a phenomenon known as "bleaching." On some reefs, bleaching has claimed up to 90 percent of the living corals. Higher levels of industrial carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may also acidify the ocean, causing parts of the reef to dissolve and reducing corals' ability to make new skeletons.
"The instrumental record gives us a limited, 50-year perspective on ocean temperatures," said Cohen. "That's simply not long enough to say, with any degree of confidence, whether the recent warming is natural or due to a human influence on climate. It is only through a long-term perspectivesuch as we get from paleodata like coralsthat we can say the mass coral bleaching is unprecedented in the last 1,000 years."
Tales of the Reconstruction
Cohen's goal is to build records of past climate variability in order to give context to the patterns we are experiencing today. Climate reconstructions based on proxies such as corals may help determine whether recent climate changes are part of a natural, recurring cycle or if they are unprecedented changes related to human activity. When viewed with this longer perspective, she said, "our perception of climate history might change completely."
Originally published: July 1, 2003


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After starting the season with a victory yesterday, the MIT rifle team saw its record evened today as the Engineers dropped a decision to Rose Hulman by a final of 4,414-4,372. Senior Elizabeth Phillips (Anchorage, Alaska) had an outstanding outing for the Engineers, posting the top scores of the day in both smallbore and air rifle.
In smallbore Rose Hulman edged past MIT by just 13 points, 2,180-2,167. Phillips shot a 563, edging out Evan Carlson from Rose Hulman by two points for individual honors. Freshman David D'Achiardi (Bogota, Colombia) finished fourth overall for MIT, firing a 539. Rose Hulman took the next two spots before senior Timothy Jenks (The Woodlands, Texas) put up a 533 to finish seventh overall. Freshman Sarah Wright (Christchurch, New Zealand) rounded out the MIT scoring with a 532.
Phillips took the air rifle competition by four points with a 572, but Rose Hulman was able to take the next four positions to finish with a 2,234-2,205 edge. Junior Kaiying Liao (Issaquah, Wash.) and Wright tied for the second best MIT score, a 547. Jenks added a 539 to complete the scoring for the Engineers.
MIT will be back in the range for its next competition on November 3 when it hosts the University of the Sciences from Philadelphia at 9:00 a.m.

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"But it's so empty!" I kept saying to myself.
That's an impression one would expect to receive from a far-western state — not when roller coastering up and down the well-maintained highways of these forest-covered foothills at the southern end of the Appalachians. Indeed, when in rural west central Georgia, it's often hard to believe that one of the nation's busiest airports, Atlanta's Hartsfield International, is a drive of just over an hour or so away and that you can be shopping in the huge malls that make up much of Georgia's second largest city, Columbus, in half that time.
In many areas of Troup, Meriwether, Harris and Talbot counties — which adjoin one another between the Chattahoochee River and Flint River — you're as likely to encounter a wide-eyed deer, a bobcat or a flock of wild turkeys as another car. Wildlife is abundant here, including a few black bears and, it's said, even occasional pumas (often called swamp cats in these parts) that make their home in the more remote regions.
True, the woods now and then open to reveal the landscaped grounds of a sprawling factory that spews out trucks and cars during shift changes. Some sections, too, are heavily sprinkled with brick ranch-style homes as well as old "tenant houses" left over from another era. In contrast are modern architectural gems, often tucked out of sight on what would be called estates in other parts of the nation. But more impressive are the untold numbers of magnificent antebellum houses — some meticulously maintained and others in need of tender, loving renovation. The countryside is also dotted with many small towns and communities that have physically changed little in the last half century.
Even with all this, the feeling of emptiness and space is no illusion. It was not always so. In 1850, the fertile farming land of Talbot County, for example, supported 16,534 people and was among the highest-ranking cotton-growing regions in the state. The Civil War changed all that.
Fortunately, General Sherman bypassed this area on his fiery march from Atlanta to Savannah, sparing its many plantations from destruction if not from economic hardships. Though farmland here continued to provide raw material for the textile mills that later thrived in the other three counties, the boll weevil, the Great Depression, and other economic factors altered the landscape. Despite a primarily clay-loam soil and a climate that can grow almost anything, row crops have been displaced by timber, cattle, a few peach orchards, and a little dairy farming. As the century progressed, city jobs lured people away. Today, Talbot's population is just over 6,000 and is still declining.
Likewise, while the state of Georgia grew by 2.1 million from 1950 to 1980, the population in Meriwether County rose by only 174 people, and in Troup by only 158. LaGrange (pop. 24,204), Troup's pleasant county seat and the largest town in the four counties, lost nearly 1,000 people during that time. Only Harris County — with its beautiful topography, its famous Callaway Gardens, its proximity to northward-expanding Columbus and its easy access to Atlanta, some 70 miles away on Interstate 185 — gained over 4,000 people during that period and expects that many more by 1990.
While per capita income in these counties can't match Atlanta's (the fifth highest in the nation), personal incomes here have more than tripled since 1970. Even with Talbot's declining population, deposits at the People's Bank of Talbotton in the county seat (pop. 1,200) have risen from $8 million to $18 million in the last few years. And people in Harris County, looking at Atlanta's southwest expansion and Columbus heading north, laugh and say, "Pretty soon they're going to meet halfway." By the next century, that may not be a joke!
"Basically," said one long-time resident, "there are two ways of thinking here, and they are based on economics. Those who have their lives together want to keep things just as they are; those who don't, want change — any type of change — no matter what the cost. Both are wrong."
A Modern-Day Tara
There are many reminders of the past here whose value will be lost if not preserved, and one young man, out of his love for this area, has set about to save as much of its history as he personally can.
Ten years ago, when Mike Buckner was 25 years old, he bought a run-down Greek Revival house in Talbotton. Dismantling it and carefully numbering each piece, he moved the large structure 11 miles to the 250 acres he had inherited from his grandfather. A decade later, with Mike and his wife, Debbie, doing most of the work, their home, Patsiliga (a Creek Indian word meaning "Pigeon's Roost," because millions of now extinct passenger pigeons used to stop in this location during migration) sits in Tara-like splendor among towering pines.
"As it turns out, I'm glad we were forced to take our time," said Mike, a sixth generation native whose ancestors arrived when the Creeks left in 1825, "because, as we went along, materials from other old structures that were being torn down became available. The roof tiles for the wings and the bricks for the kitchen are from the old Talbotton depot. My great-grandfather, Gordon Parks, oversaw its construction in 1907."
Likewise, Mike can rattle off the local origins of every added plank and window, not to mention the original owners of the fine antiques that fill the rooms. These he inherited from an aunt who collected them for her antiques shop before moving to California in 1935. Of the few things not of local origin are the small prints lining the stairway. They did, however, grace Aunt Pittypat's stairway in Gone With the Wind. Mike's aunt purchased them when the movie's sets were auctioned off.
The "times past" that Mike and Debbie are so lovingly preserving extend far beyond the house. Their achievements are even more remarkable when you realize that these parents of two small boys — Joshua and John — both hold down full-time jobs: he, as the postmaster of a tiny post office ("about the size of a car") in Rupert, 21 miles away; she, as a health educator for the district public health department in Columbus. They also rescue old log outbuildings — barns, smokehouses and the like — from area farms and rebuild them on their land.
"Someday," Mike said, "I'd like to turn some of them into cabins for weekend guests."
A short distance from the house, a 25-acre lake — in whose fish-filled waters Mike has created small islands as nesting places for migratory geese — provides the power for an old grist mill. There's been a mill on the site since 1840, and this one, built by Mike's great-grandfather and grandfather Fielder, has been turning out whole-wheat flour, grits, and cornmeal since 1935. He started up the 25-horsepower mill to show me how it operated, but had to stop it to clean out the water intake valve.
"I bet the beavers have tried to close up the hole again," he said, but pulled out three big terrapins instead.
Mike took over the mill's operation when he was 14 years old — though just on weekends during his college days — and has loyal local and mail-order customers. In fact, as he was under the mills hauling out handfuls of terrapin, a customer arrived with her 90-year-old mother, who admitted that they simply enjoy coming out to Patsiliga.
Much of the attraction lies in Buckner's innate graciousness. Polite ma'ams and sirs roll off Mike's tongue with all the ease of a New York cab driver's curses. And Buckner isn't unusual in this. In fact, such everyday good manners are more the rule than the exception in this part of the country and are among west central Georgia's most attractive assets.
Living on the Fall Line
In addition to all their other projects, Mike keeps bees, and — "just for the fun of it" — grows sugar cane, which he plants and grinds in the old-fashioned way with the help of his "tractor," Big Max, a 1,700-pound steed that's part Belgian and part quarter horse. The Buckners' large garden thrives in this unique area of southern Talbot and Harris counties known as the Fall Line, for this was the shoreline of the ocean that covered large sections of the Southeast about five million years ago. Just a few miles to the north, the soil is heavily mixed with red clay, but here it's sandy loam. Not far away, near junction City (pop. 250), three companies mine what was once beach sand for use in construction, glass, computer chips, and filters.
"This whole foothill area sits on what is called the crustaceous aquifer, a recharge system for southern Georgia and northern Florida," Mike explained. "The water of springs that boil up down there is actually from here. Our local wells come in at 50 feet or less. However, if you hit granite, you'll never come out of it, because you'll have hit the base of Atlanta's Stone Mountain.
"There are plants on the Fall Line that aren't found anywhere else," Mike told me. "A turkey oak, for example, that won't grow more than head-high in 100 years. There's a red honeysuckle, too, that blooms in August. But we don't have the otherwise common south Georgia gnats, or even many mosquitoes. The Fall Line is often called the 'Gnat Line.'
As we checked on the fattening sugar cane, he continued, "I used to grow my own corn for the mill, too, but I can buy it cheaper than I can grow it. I still plant some, but the deer eat as much as we do."
In fact, most landowners here plant a few acres — sometimes as many as 20 — in crops, such as millet for turkeys, to sustain wildlife. And, when the Georgia Power Company wanted to dam the Flint River, a favorite of canoeists, river-preserving activists stopped the project and brought about the creation of a 75,000-acre hunting preserve.
All this has helped to make Talbot County one of the best hunting areas in the Southeast. (If you intend to buy land here — and it can go as low as $500 an acre for large parcels — check on hunting and timber rights. You may not own them.)
Time Moves On
The dangers of the 20th century aren't unknown here, though. The day of my visit, Debbie Buckner was in Atlanta at a hearing on a toxic waste incinerator that might be built in next-door Taylor County, just six miles from the Buckner farm. A few folks think it would be an economic boon, but most residents have banded together in a mighty effort to prevent it, even trying to make Talbot's tiny Prattsburg community, which adjoins the contested area, into a historical site.
"Up to now, about the most dangerous thing we've had around here is someone's worn-out automobile battery," said Talbotton banker Gus Persons, "and we don't want to become someone else's garbage can. Should they decide to put the incinerator here, we'll put incredible restrictions on hauling the waste through Talbot County and tie them up in court for years."
And Talbot County faces another problem that everyone agrees has to be solved, but, in this case, no action is being taken.
Historically, the population in Talbot County has been more black than white. Historically, too, students living closer to schools in other counties have gone to those instead of traveling to the consolidated school system in Talbotton. But when integration was ordered, a great many white children began attending integrated but "better" schools in adjoining counties, so that, today, the Talbot County system is 99% black.
"Black or white, my job is to see that students receive the best education possible," said black county school superintendent John Terry. "We offer, as do all other Georgia schools, three courses of study: college prep, vocational, and general education with stress on computer science. We have 44 computers in the school, more than the state average, and, under an IBM grant, we begin the Writing-to-Read program in kindergarten."
Remarkably, the Talbot schools have a high (97%) attendance rate and a low (1%) dropout rate.
Good, Better, Best
But if timeless Talbot is the most rural of the four counties with the least expensive land, Meriwether, Troup, and Harris probably have more to offer. Meriwether's county seat of Greenville (pop. 1,213) has an incredible number of antebellum homes; one road leading out of town is lined with them. And the recent closing of the CSX railroad yards has made the bustling old mill town of Manchester (pop. 4,796) a buyer's market for houses. Meriwether is also home to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Little White House (now run by the state); the nearby Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, where thousands once received treatment for polio in the 88°F waters, is still helping the severely physically disabled.
Four years ago, three Atlanta women bought up one side of the main street in the sleepy little town of Warm Springs (pop. 425) and opened some craft stores and a fine restaurant. Today, the town contains over 50 antiques stores and crafts shops and has become a major tourist attraction.
Other natural springs, though not warm ones, gurgle up elsewhere and were once health spas. Now, one, Cold Springs, is used as a state fish hatchery. The others, along with their long-gone guest houses and hotels, are no longer commercialized, as I discovered when I drove out to check on iron-rich Chalybeate Springs. I saw no sign of it, other than the small community by that name. Just beyond there, however, I discovered a valley of breathtaking beauty. Dan Herrema, from Michigan, and his wife, Linda, a Floridian, recently bought 50 acres in this area after living for a number of years in Atlanta's suburb of Marietta.
"At first we missed the culture, good wines, and other amenities of city living," they told me. "But, lately, we go to Atlanta maybe once a month — and that's almost too much anymore."
Instead, they've enthusiastically joined the Pine Mountain Regional Arts Council. This organization's active guilds for theater, writing, and arts and crafts bring together — both socially and for various projects — the many talented writers, actors and artists of Harris, Meriwether and Talbot counties.
LaGrange in Troup County offers quite a bit of culture itself, as well as an excellent medical center with more specialists per capita than any other city in Georgia. Furthermore, almost from its incorporation in 1828, the town has been a bastion for female rights. LaGrange College — coed since 1953, with a present enrollment of 1,000 students — was founded in 1831 as the LaGrange Female Academy, making it the oldest independent school in Georgia. It was also the first American women's college to offer an M.A. degree. (During the Civil War, the city of LaGrange had the only military company of women soldiers ever to be commissioned for duty on this continent.) Though LaGrange College's most popular degrees are now in business and computer science, it's long been known for turning out students superior in music, art and — particularly — drama. Its stock company performs at Callaway Gardens each summer.
Troup also contains the 25,900-acre West Point Lake with its many marinas, camping areas, swimming beaches, fishing piers and a 3,000-acre game preserve. Using locks, you can go by boat from here down the Chattahoochee River to the Gulf of Mexico.
But "if I had my druthers," as people around here say, I'd probably pick Harris County's little town of Pine Mountain (pop. 984) or nearby Pine Mountain Valley as nice places to live. The prime attraction is Callaway Gardens, a 14,000-acre, nonprofit botanical paradise built by LaGrange's Callaway family.
Harris County also offers the Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park, as well as spectacular views from Pine Mountain itself, a long ridge composed mostly of a quartzite that made it and neighboring ridges resistant to erosion.
On the top of one of these, Oak Mountain, Ed Hall, who works for a real estate company in Hamilton (pop. 506), Harris's county seat, is building a big glass and cedar home. "I've lived all over the world," he said, "but they say when you're born next to the Chattahoochee, you'll keep coming back. I once found attitudes here too provincial, and kept returning only to leave again, but that's changed now. I love it, and I intend to stay forever."
Similar feelings were repeated by the dozens of residents I met in these four counties, including people as diverse as native-born school superintendent John Terry and the newly arrived Herremas. It was perhaps most forcefully expressed by Pine Mountain's Ray Sheppard, one of Georgia's three private consultants in the management of lakes, timber and game, who enjoys his job as much as anyone I've ever met.
"This is just a super, super place to live," he said. "I'd change professions before I'd leave."
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Inspired by the Dylan Thomas line: Trumpeting Organ Morgan plays alone at night to anyone who will listen: lovers, revellers, the silent dead, tramps or sheep. (Under Milk Wood)New product for the week of February 20, 2012.
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Uses: Christmas Eve, Christmas Scriptures: Luke 2:1-20; Matthew 2:1-12 Majestic and inspirational, this setting of O Come, All Ye Faithful makes the ideal addition to any service during the Christmas season. The choir of unison voices opens the piece accompanied by a stellar organ part that beautifully supports the noble ADESTE FIDELES tune. In stanzas 2 and 3, a resounding vocal descant joins the melody that heightens the spirit of glorious celebration. The congregation also has the opportunity to join the singing in stanza 3 making the anthem an excellent selection for use in corporate worship.New product for the week of February 27, 2012.
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Uses: General, Call To Worship Scripture: Psalm 150:1-2 The quintessential call to purpose for a worship service, this festive hymn setting will be well received by choirs and congregation. An attractive instrumental fanfare forms elisions between the hymn verses and creates a joyful energy that is the perfect adornment to this beloved hymn. Solid part-writing delivers richness and the final crescendo is a choral spectacular! Available separately: SATB. Score and parts (Tpt 1&2, Tbone, Horn, Tuba, Timp, & Organ) available on CD-ROM or as a digital download. Duration: ca. 1:53.New product for the week of March 19, 2012.
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In Practicing the Piano, Nancy O'Neill Breth offers a broad selection of practice tips with musical examples to help students of all ages find imaginative solutions to pianistic problems. The book explores how to: organize practice time; map music before practicing to uncover the musical terrain that lies ahead; use practice time effectively from the first reading through performance; develop fluency with accuracy; polish and memorize a piece; and lay the foundation for confident performance. Practicing the Piano is a handbook of practice techniques. Teachers can use it to reinforce and augment their own ideas on practicing. Parents will find a wealth of ideas for guiding their children's practice sessions. Students young and old will discover how to make each practice session count. Using the book's wide range of practice tips not only improves a pianist's skills, but also adds adventure and enjoyment to the process of mastering a piece.New product for the week of March 19, 2012.
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This is considered one of the most serene Christmas carols of all time. The piece was originally written for two voices and guitar because the church organ had broken down. This arrangement, for 2 flutes and 2 clarinets, is fairly standard in its treatment of both the melody and harmonies. It is a simple and elegant piece and has been arranged as such.
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The famous Jig Fugue by Bach is a favourite with organists. It is light-hearted and energetic with its rollicking triple meter. The key has been altered to facilitate 2 flutes and 2 clarinets at this level. All parts are very active including the 2nd clarinet, who must tackle the tricky bass lines of Bach.
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This is easily the most famous piece of classical music ever written. There have been many arrangements of this favourite including versions for strings, organ, piano, steel drums and recorder ensemble. This arrangement for 2 flutes and 2 clarinets remains close to the original but the key is altered to B-flat to facilitate the technical passages.
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This is easily the most famous and often-recorded fugue. It has become standard with organists all around the world. Now this terrific piece by Bach is available for a double reed ensemble consisting of two oboes, english horn and bassoon. All parts are technical and interesting as the contrapuntal lines weave throughout the ensemble.
Instruments: Organ, Oboe, Bassoon, Horn, Bass Guitar, Piano and Keyboard, Woodwinds, Brass, Guitar
A fairly common practice in the Baroque era was for organists (especially the great J.S. Bach) to "borrow" and transcribe orchestral music from themselves or other composers to create spectacular organ solos. Bach adapted several works by Vivaldi. This particular transcription was originally for solo violin and string orchestra. The brilliant showy solo line interspersed with tutti sections lends itself well to a woodwind ensemble.
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For the first year organ student who would like to accompany singing at home. Organ settings are two-staff arrangements with the pedal line on the bass staff. Chord symbols are included throughout. A part of the Older Beginner Organ Library .
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Companion studies in theory, technique, and sight reading closely correlated to the METHOD for the most complete musical understanding.
Instruments: Piano, Organ, Piano and Keyboard
Companion studies in theory, technique, and sight reading closely correlated to the METHOD for the most complete musical understanding.
Instruments: Piano, Organ, Piano and Keyboard
A progressive, functional approach that introduces chords in all keys blended with contemporary rock, pop, and blues sounds.
Instruments: Piano, Organ, Piano and Keyboard
A progressive, functional approach that introduces chords in all keys blended with contemporary rock, pop, and blues sounds.
Instruments: Piano, Organ, Piano and Keyboard
This flirtatious duet has energetic and vigorous rhythms, but leans toward a light elegance with its modest dynamics. First published for string orchestra in 1883, Serenade became quite popular in France and was published for piano duet in 1905. The composer, Gabriel Pierne (1863- 1937), studied at the Paris Conservatory from age 8 until his graduation at age 19. His teachers included Cesar Franck (organ) and Massenet (composition). Audiences will enjoy hearing Serenade almost as much as the duet performers will love performing it!
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The free Flowers for Algernon notes include comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. These free notes consist of about 42 pages (12,498 words) and contain the following sections:
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Flowers for Algernon Plot Summary
Narrated through a series of first-hand progress reports, Flowers for Algernon traces the mental and emotional development of Charlie Gordon, a retarded young man who becomes the first human test-subject for an ambitious brain experiment. Author Daniel Keyes stylistically portrays Charlie's startling progress and eventual decline through the ever-changing sentence structure, spelling, and vocabulary of Charlie's journal entries.
Charlie begins his report on March third, expressing hope that Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur will choose him for an operation capable of raising his IQ to that of an intellectual superman. Miss Kinnian, Charlie's reading teacher at the Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults, recommended him for the experimental surgery. Charlie is good-natured and hard-working, and he wants more than anything "to be smart."
Impressed by Charlie's motivation, Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur decide to use Charlie in the experiment. At the laboratory, Charlie undergoes inkblot personality tests administered by graduate student Burt Selden. He also runs mazes against Algernon, a super-smart white mouse. Algernon is the first animal to have retained his artificially increased intelligence through Nemur and Strauss' experiment. After surgery, the doctors give Charlie a strange teaching machine. The odd television set repeats words throughout the night, implanting knowledge and stimulating memories as Charlie sleeps.
Progress is very slow at first, but soon Charlie beats Algernon at the mazes and gets a promotion at Donner's Bakery, where he works. He also learns spelling and punctuation, becomes interested in philosophy, politics, and the symphony. Soon he moves on to advanced calculus and ancient languages. Charlie reads and comprehends everything he lays his hands on; he has become a genius. This intellectual boom is not completely positive, however. With his new awareness comes the realization that many of his so-called friends have mocked him all his life. Vivid memories of childhood abuse remind Charlie that even his own mother was ashamed of him.
Charlie falls in love with Alice Kinnian, his old reading teacher, but he panics whenever he contemplates intimacy. During therapy, Dr. Strauss explains that Charlie is sexually immature and not yet ready for a relationship. Lonely and depressed by vivid dreams and painful memories of his family, Charlie stops trusting people. He becomes an arrogant "big-shot." Though a genius, Dr. Strauss believes that Charlie remains emotionally retarded. Charlie's breaking point comes at the International Psychological Convention in Chicago when Professor Nemur treats Charlie like an inanimate test subject. The angered genius disrupts the convention, steals Algernon from his cage and flies back to New York alone.
At the peak of his intellectual powers, Charlie realizes that there is a flaw in Nemur's experimental calculations. In a report entitled The Algernon-Gordon Effect: A Study of Structure and Function of Increased Intelligence, Charlie explains that "Artificially-induced intelligence deteriorates at a rate of time directly proportional to the quantity of the increase." Algernon becomes erratic and dies. Devastated, Charlie realizes that his own mental deterioration is inevitable. With his remaining time, Charlie visits his family and has a tender love affair with Alice. Tragically, Charlie's regression proves nearly complete. Unable to bear everyone's pity, Charlie plans to go away to the Warren State Home and Training School. He closes his progress report on November 21st, urging everyone not to feel guilty and reminding his friends to lay some flowers on Algernon's small backyard grave.


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When Sen. Pete Domenici formally announced he was retiring, the dominoes began to really fall. And the final result will not be good for the lab, let alone New Mexico.Soon after his announcement, First District Congresswoman Heather Wilson announced she would be seeking the Republican nomination for Domenici's seat. That leaves her House seat open.Then Rep. Steve Pearce announced he was going to make a run primary for the Senate seat. That leaves his Second District House seat open.Finally, Rep. Tom Udall announced he was going to seek the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat being vacated by Domenici. That leaves his Third District House seat open.Have you gotten the picture yet? Not only are we going to have a new, freshman senator, we are going to have three, new, raw, freshman congressman.You thought getting anything for the lab or the state was hard before? Just wait for 2009!After Domenici announced he would retire in 2009 because of an incurable brain disease, Udall had said he would stay in the House. But – if you believe his staff – he reconsidered after a "groundswell" of encouragement from New Mexicans.Baloney. He ran because state and national Democratic leaders want this seat and knew that Martin Chavez could never win a statewide race. Chavez has since dropped out, giving up even before he began.That only leaves Leland Lehrman, who publishes an alternative newspaper in Santa Fe, in the June primary. And honestly, he stands no chance.Of course, Udall will face some challenges in the general election – especially trying to explain how his vote for LANL spending cuts was in fact an action in support of the lab.I still don't understand that one. He later did offered an amendment to restore $200 million for the nuclear weapons lab to take its research in new directions.To say the lab needs to diversify is an understatement, but such direction must come from the top down, and Udall is at the top.No matter how you slice it, we are going to face some tough times ahead in Washington and the pressure that will be place on Sen. Jeff Bingaman – the only one to be still standing – will be extreme to say the least.
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It's an exciting time for Southern California sports. Staples Center just hosted four playoff games in three days, and has two more in store Sunday. The Kings are serious contenders to win the Stanley Cup. The Lakers and Clippers, though, have a much tougher challenge ahead of them.
Having grown up in sunny Southern California, what I knew about hockey could fill about half of a thimble. But I have rooted for the Lakers since the days of Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlin and Elgin Baylor, and I have always empathized with the traditionally inept Clippers. Both teams performed better than expected in the regular season, but the playoff outlook is not bright.
The Lakers have been a premier franchise since they arrived in Southern California. They came from Minnesota, which is why perpetually drought-stricken Southern California has a team nickname connoting a life on inland water. They have won multiple NBA championships thanks to great players such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant. On paper, this year's Lakers still look like they should dominate, but the series with Oklahoma City has exposed their weakness.
Center Andrew Bynum played in the All-Star game this year and forward Pau Gasol has in the past. They are tall, strong and athletic, but not consistent. Bynum takes games and plays off. He should be unstoppable offensively and defensively, but his attitude is not conducive to team play. He draws multiple technical fouls and is difficult to coach. When he decides to play well, the Lakers are successful, but he can simply disappear in games. That's a difficult thing to do at his height.
Gasol has a better attitude but is equally streaky. He is getting older and it shows. Both players are perfect examples to younger athletes of why talent can be outplayed by desire and heart.
The Lakers, who trail the Thunder, 3-1, following Saturday night's 103-100 collapse, have not been able to find a point guard to run the offense since the heyday of Derek Fisher. Point guards can completely alter a team, as Derrick Rose does in Chicago and Chris Paul has done for the Clippers. Ramon Sessions simply can't keep up with the younger OKC players.
And then there's Kobe.
He has had one of the greatest careers in the history of the NBA. His shooting has won countless games in the clutch. In this series, he has not been able to score at dramatic junctures as he has in the past.. He is still brilliant, but is also aging. Oklahoma City, with Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant, has been fast and accurate. It is sad to watch the Lakers struggle with a younger, more athletic team, but OKC could well win the championship.
This has been the most exciting season for the Clippers since they arrived in Southern California. The trade for Paul brought a spectacular floor leader at point guard, who has a remarkable soft shooting touch and a hyper competitive mentality. Blake Griffin makes crowd-pleasing dunks from every angle. But Griffin is nursing a sprained knee and has not been as effective, and Paul has not been his consistent brilliant self against a seasoned San Antonio Spurs team that has won multiple championships.
The Spurs, who hold a 3-0 edge against a Clippers going into Sunday's elimination game, may be the best coached team in the playoffs. Tim Duncan has been rejuvenated and the Clippers need DeAndre Jordan to neutralize him. The Clippers lost veteran Chauncey Billups early in the season, who would have been critical to their success in this series. The playoff inexperience of this team is no match for the well-oiled Spur machine.
It looks like our hoop dreams for the two local NBA franchises are turning into hoop nightmares. Maybe next year.
LEIGH STEINBERG is a renowned sports agent, author, advocate, speaker and humanitarian. His column appears weekly. Follow Leigh on Twitter @steinbergsports or blog.steinbergsports.com.


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- City of San Marcos - $432,800 to construct sidewalks, curb and gutter, curb ramps, pedestrian path, minor drainage improvements, install crosswalks, pedestrian countdown heads, in-pavement crosswalk lighting, bike racks and speed feedback trailers near Twin Oaks Elementary and Twin Oaks High schools.
- City of Santee - $449,200 to construct sidewalks, curb ramps and install crosswalks near Chet F. Harritt Elementary School.
- City of National City - $225,000 to construct sidewalks, curb and gutter and install minor safety lighting near Ira Harbison Elementary School.
- County of San Diego - $871,500 to construct sidewalks, curb and gutter, curb ramps, retaining wall, install crosswalks, signs, and striping near Lakeview and Bancroft Elementary schools.
To date, the state and federal Safe Routes to School programs have awarded $472 million for safety projects around California's schools.
To view the entire list of SRTS projects that received funding, click here.
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Standard & Poor's economists think they have come up with a shortcut to determine whether an economy is spending too much, ranking economies based on their vulnerability to an investment-led economic collapse.
Topping the list of economies to worry about, S&P says, is China, where outlays on things like infrastructure, factories and housing account for more than 40% of the economy.


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Twenty years seems to be plenty long enough to figure out how life works, gain some wisdom from maturity and admit a positive step forward usually means an attitude adjustment.
Unless you're still working at Fox Sports.
The swashbuckling spirit that shook the TV sports foundation when Rupert Murdoch paid an outlandish amount of money to snatch a share of the NFL rights away from CBS, then decided to plant his fortress in the star-making land of Los Angeles rather than the New York comfort zone, gave his fledgling network instant attention if not immediate credibility.
That approach to making things happen, even if there are mistakes of enthusiasm along the way (think glowing hockey pucks), has been the essence of the Fox Sports corporate culture ever since.
With the newest, biggest and baddest NFL season upon us ‑ sorry, we're just following the TV marketing script here ‑ it's not proper to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the creation of Fox Sports without admitting that the seeds of the "Fox attitude" first planted by Fox Sports president David Hill all those year ago has burrowed some deep roots into the Southern California terrain.
"Fox Sports was born out of the ties to the entertainment industry, and David's fundamental philosophy was that sports is entertainment, so what better place to still be all these years later, keeping the mindset of what 'Fox attitude' has been," said current Fox Sports President, COO and caretaker Eric Shanks, who ironically is about as far down on the Hollywood self-ego-stroking charts as one can be in this environment.
"We still feel we're the underdogs, and we like to be the underdogs. Part of that having a different approach is because of our location that is somewhat removed from what can be called the establishment."
One of the marvels of the Fox Sports evolution is how many have stayed with the company from that initial startup. The initial A-team of Pat Summerall and John Madden may be history, but most are still around. They may find more shades of gray around the temples, but it doesn't mean they've out-aged themselves from the Fox demographics.
On the TV screen, it's apparent when you see Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson as 3/5ths of the ridiculously successful "NFL on Fox" pregame show there the whole time.
Johnson was lured off the NFL sidelines to join up with Fox.
"I remember the first meeting I had with all the executives and I'm thinking, 'I'm an ex-coach, so they're going to give me a telestrator to start diagramming plays'," said Johnson. "And David Hill says, 'Holy God, no. We're not into Xs and Os. We're in the entertainment business.'"
Long was 33, having just left the playing field with the Los Angeles Raiders after a 13-year NFL career as a future Hall of Fame defensive end. The two sons he now has playing in the NFL ‑ Chris, a defensive end with the St. Louis Rams, and Kyle, an offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears ‑ were 8 and 5 years old when their dad started working at Fox. His youngest son, Howie Jr., was 4. He's now working for the Raiders.
"I just sold my house in Palos Verdes, bought a farm in Virginia, didn't have a job, no definitive plans, and no sooner did I set my bags down than I had a job in L.A. with Fox ‑ just brilliant," Long recalled Thursday, just flying into L.A. for this weekend's show after taping an interview with Houston's J.J. Watt. "It was an interesting process in that I don't think a player had ever come straight from the playing field to a TV studio. And there was all this concern that the sky was falling, this 'cartoon network' had the beloved NFL package, taken from an Australian guy who didn't know what he was doing.
"So we catch lightning in a bottle with what was basically a boutique sports division. But they were the best of times. Look at how many other networks are trying to copy Fox, whether it's the score box graphic or the yellow first-down line. Comedians and weather girls. They just let the horses run. And now they've got Fox Sports 1 … we've gone from this one-sport sports division to the cast of 'Spartus.'"
Troy Aikman, just out of UCLA and amidst an NFL career as the Dallas' Super Bowl-certified quarterback, said he "remembers vividly" that first week of the 1994 season – Fox covered the Cowboys' game at Pittsburgh, with Summerall and Madden on the call.
"A bunch of my college buddies called me later that night and they said they had just watched the best pregame show ever with Bradshaw, Howie and JB (James Brown)," said Aikman, who has rightfully ascended to the network's No. 1 NFL analyst spot. "I remember that as a big part of the story back then, how Fox was so different, so much fun and the audience was having just as much fun watching.
"To think 20 years later pretty much the same guys are there doing what they do is incredible."
Just as incredible, maybe, is remembering that L.A. had two NFL teams that first year of Fox's coverage ‑ and there was a controversy in mid-November when the NFL blackout rules forced this market to take the 4-5 Rams against the 4-5 Raiders rather than the much more important Dallas-San Francisco game on Fox and San Diego-Kansas City on NBC in the 1 p.m. window.
Talk about a whole different NFL attitude way back when.
Shanks, a 22-year-old broadcast associate in 1994 who worked on the No. 2 NFL broadcast team with Verne Lundquist and Matt Millen and made pizza runs for producer Richie Zyontz, says the best way to explain what "Fox attitude" means today is how the NFL pregame show continues to personify it.
"Fox is tough like Howie, fun and entertaining like Terry, edgy with Jimmy Johnson, and still youthful with Michael Strahan," said Shanks. "That's our DNA. The 'attitude' is the personification of all of them."
After growing up in the Fox family, Shanks left for six years to run DirecTV's entertainment division before he was recruited back in 2010 to succeed Ed Goren as the sports chief.
Shanks was 38 when he was named as the third person to head Fox Sports in 2010. Last December, Sports Business Journal named Shanks and Fox Network group president Randy Freer as the most influential people in sports business.
Those accolades have been as a result of them overseeing Fox Sports' expansion with the year-old launch of Fox Sports 1, more rights fees involving college football, overseas soccer (and the 2018 FIFA World Cup) and golf (all the USGA championships starting in 2015). It also continues its envelope pushing with existing contracts linked to Major League Baseball and NASCAR.
Who knows, maybe someday these crazy kids will circle back to the NHL ‑ another thing Fox once swiped from CBS in September, 1994, but got tired of playing with five years later.
Interesting how some in the sports establishment have still been trying to establish a stronger L.A. presence ever since Fox's move two decades ago, whether it be the NFL Network setting up headquarters in Culver City or ESPN constructing a whole ginormous complex across the street from Staples Center.
Fox itself has continued to grow from its original L.A. footprint at the old KTTV-Channel 11 plaza on Sunset Boulevard, just off the Hollywood Freeway. The current home on the Fox lot off Pico Boulevard, in Century City might has well be named the Graceland of L.A. Sports.
Looking back on it all, Shanks said he wouldn't say everyone is "wistful for the old days. We're just always looking forward. You do appreciate the fact you were here at the start of something. The Fox family is still full of pretty neat people putting out a product they believe is second to none.
"It's just that maybe there's a lot less poker, cigars and bourbon in the office after 5 p.m. than there used to be."
Gauging the media's high- and low-level marks of the week, and what's ahead:
The tennis gods were hardly kind to Dick Enberg. After luring him back to Arthur Ashe Stadium to do just one more match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament for CBS, lightning and rain postponed the Roger Federer-Marcel Granollers third-round faceoff on Sunday afternoon. Just 19 minutes on the air with familiar partners John McEnroe and Mary Carillo, Enberg was left to fill the two-hour window with a Federer retrospective of his past U.S. Open victories. As CBS' 47-year-run ends at the tournament this weekend ‑ ESPN takes over everything starting next year ‑ the network's look back at its Open legacy is well deserved, and for CBS Sports chief Sean McManus and producer Bob Mansbach asking Enberg to take a break from his play-by-play assignment for the San Diego Padres and make a curtain call in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., was brilliant. "You are to announcers what Roger Federer is to our sport ‑ no, seriously," McEnroe said on the air prior to the abbreviated match Sunday. "I was treated royally," Enberg said after arriving back in San Diego this week. "I'm still blushing about McEnroe calling me the 'Federer of TV tennis.' I'm not certain, but I don't think he was imbibing." Enberg's presence will be felt again in CBS' final three sign-off days as it takes the men's semifinals (Saturday, 9 a.m.), women's final (Sunday, 1:30 p.m.) and men's final (Monday, 2 p.m.). A vignette he wrote and narrated about the network's coverage over the years will likely air between the men's Saturday semfinals. "For the essay I did, a reflection on the history of CBS at the U.S. Open, they asked me to keep the writing to three minutes," Enberg said. "That's 47 years, in three minutes. Bud Collins could write an entire encyclopedia while I hiccup three minutes. I still managed to get the name of every champion in the piece." Enberg has rejoined the Padres this week and will make his last trip of the season to Dodger Stadium with the team for the Monday-Wednesday series against the Dodgers.
Station promos on KFWB-AM (980) continue to tease about "what else is coming" after the soft launch of the CBS Sports Radio syndicated lineup several weeks ago ‑ most notably, having Jim Rome's 9 a.m.-to-noon show finally return to the L.A. market since early 2013. The holdup for an official re-branding of iconic former news-and-talk station into what will be the fourth all-sports AM station in Southern California centers on how fast newly hired program director Owen Murphy can piece together a local-host weekday lineup to surround Rome, at least from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. While an announcement had been targeted for an official launch on Sept.1, think more of Sept. 15 or 22 at this point. Longtime KNBC-Channel 4 anchor Fred Roggin, thought to be all but locked into a noon-to-3 p.m. spot at KLAC-AM (570) when the station announced a new lineup last December, has instead been penciled into to that same time slot with KFWB. Considering the credibility Mark Willard built during his run at KSPN-AM (710) that ended last Friday when the station did not pick up his contract, adding him to the KFWB playlist would seem to be a popular fit. The same with Jeanne Zelasko, the former Fox Sports reporter/anchor who would add a fresh voice to the sports-talk noise and has been in for an audition. Others said to have been in the mix for a role include Marques Johnson, Tony Luftman, Brady Poppinga and George Wrighster. Prior to starting its fifth season as the radio home of the Clippers, the station will also ramp up with Westwood One to take its Thursday night, Sunday night and Monday night NFL games, plus playoffs through the Feb. 1, 2015 Super Bowl. It also has select college football games, starting Saturday with Michigan State-Oregon. KFWB also has an hour-long "Trojans Live" show with football coach Steve Sarkisian airing Tuesdays from 6-to-7 p.m.
More media notes on Tom Hoffarth's blog: www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth


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A "Big Mountain Bash," complete with beer garden, barbecue and live music, goes down this weekend at Mount Ashland.
The Illies — Jared Masters, "Rabbit," Lexington "Nacho" Mainard, Scott Mangicaro and T.J. Eilers — will play a "singer-songwriterish" brand of slow-groovin' reggae from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23, in the snow at the base of the Windsor chairlift.
Up the hill, The East Main Band will perform an energetic batch of '60s and '70s classic rock from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the lodge.
Admission to the bash is free. Dinner and beverages are available for purchase. Call 541-482-2897.


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For years the National Houseboat Expo has been known throughout the industry as the only place to view all the top builders together, walk through some of the most beautiful houseboats around, as well as find unique deals and incentives to buy. For 2011, it just got even better.
No one is exactly sure how the tradition got started, but at some point blasting the horn became the preferred method of announcing that you just bought a houseboat at the Expo. But during the three-day event that kicks off March 18 at the Kentucky Fair & Expo Center in Louisville, Ky., you might be able to do more than just toot the horn. While sounding the horn at the show can be the ultimate thrill for the new houseboat owner on that day, how does winning a fully loaded Hurricane deck boat valued at over $70K sound?
For the first time ever, those who purchase either a showboat or place an order for a custom-built houseboat during the Expo will be eligible to win. It's called the Ultimate Kickback and it includes the Hurricane Sundeck 2400 deck boat from Godfrey Marine, a Yamaha F200TXR engine, Trailmaster Trailer and it even comes with a wakeboard tower and Thunder & Lightning Sound System. Now that's a kickback!
Not that you need the extra incentive to buy since these manufacturers will be offering special deals and show pricing, but how nice would it be to buy a houseboat and then win a deck boat! Every major houseboat manufacturer will be represented to meet your inland lake, ICW, and river houseboating needs as well as custom-built vessels in a variety of price ranges. Come tour the latest and see just what these builders have been up to lately.
And unlike other boat shows that can include everything from four-wheelers to RVs, the National Houseboat Expo specifically caters to our niche. If it's houseboat related, it will be at our show and these houseboat-specific vendors will be on hand to showcase the latest in aftermarket products, accessories, services, gear and more. This is the place to discover what's new for the year and to find that aftermarket product you've been looking for to eliminate a problem, enhance your experience or just make your season a little easier.
After a successful All Hands On Deck poker run last year where the winning hand walked away with a brand new Qwest pontoon boat package valued at over $20K, we're going to do it again! We're giving away a Qwest LS 7518 XRE Cruise pontoon boat from Apex Marine, complete with an Evinrude 60 DSLII engine as well as a Yacht Club bunk trailer as our top poker run prize. It all kicks off on Friday, and then at 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon we'll announce the top five hands. Those finalists will face off on the table an hour later to determine our top winner. The best hand wins the Qwest pontoon, while the other four at the table will take home some great prizes as well.
For those unfamiliar with the concept, attendees can purchase a pack of five tickets from the Poker Run booth for $20 a hand or $100 for five. You then take each of these tickets to the five designated booth stops located throughout the venue to exchange for a playing card-all sealed in individual envelopes. Then just return these five envelopes to the Poker Run booth, where the cards will then be opened and a poker hand will be revealed. The top five hands for Friday and Saturday will be eligible to win the Qwest pontoon boat from Apex Marine.
Returning again this year is our competitive Boardz N Bagz cornhole tournament, hosted by Bluegrass Cornhole Company. A large section of the venue will be sectioned off for the tournament on Saturday, but you can toss a few bags with for fun before or after if you'd like to give it a try. Sign up online for this tournament and a chance to walk away with a nice cash prize.
There will also be more seminars, our Houseboater Of The Year presentation at 4 p.m. on Saturday, as well as our Proud Crowd and Spirit Award. The Proud Crowd Trophy-that is awarded to the marina that best demonstrates houseboating spirit and unity-was awarded last year to Cave Springs Marina at Lake Cumberland for the second year in a row. The loud and proud group brought 46 members to the Expo, while Green River Marina in Campbellsville, Ky., came in a close second, with 39 members. Will Cave Springs win it again or will there be a new marina crowned? Stay tuned!
The Dan McKain Spirit Award, named after longtime field editor Dan McKain, who passed away in 2008, will be awarded to the individual, couple or group that best displays the same spirit and passion that our friend Dan McKain showed throughout his life.
The Expo Center is conveniently located just five minutes from the Louisville International Airport. Exhibitor updates as well as other information can be found at www.houseboatexpo.com.
The National Houseboat Expo is presented by Houseboat magazine. Mark your calendars today and we'll see you at the biggest houseboat show in the world!
Call it unity, call it tradition or simply call it a coincidence that marina members like to show up wearing the same shirt to the Expo each year. Whatever it is, we're looking for the marina that brought the most fellow dock mates to our National Houseboat Expo and sign up sheets will once again be at the Houseboat magazine booth. Stop by and make sure you're name is on the list.
On Saturday afternoon, March 19, we'll award the coveted Proud Crowd trophy at the booth as well as take group photos of all the marinas that entered. So even if your marina doesn't win out Proud Crowd trophy, we still want to take your marina group photo following the presentation.
If you're not in the running for the marina award, but you're looking for some recognition, stop by our booth as well. The 2011 Dan McKain Spirit Award will go to the individual, couple or group that reflects the true houseboating spirit while at our show so don't be afraid to show off that enthusiasm and houseboating spirit!
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