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93% of students get smarter when wearing uniforms. It is a true fact students' grades go up by 34% and there is also less bullying going on in our schools. This is a great thing to do to raise expectations in our children's educations. If we have better educations in the we will have less bad choices.
With uniforms, everyone is more concentrated on schoolwork instead of their outfits. Besides, there would be no bullying and no arguments or discrimination against the students. People would make less fun of each other and would be more equal in one another's eyes. People wouldn't have social cliques at all, but hang with every one.
Studies show it helps improve grades. Though it may seem completely illogical to think that what a student wears can have an effect on their grades, numerous studies have proven this to be true. Take for example the fact that many boys and girls try to stay in fashion and wear what's hip or cool, based on what their peers are wearing. This can be hugely distracting to students. Studies have also shown the private schools, which usually require uniforms, have consistently higher grades among their students.
It improves grades because there is no bulling in cause of fasion so it lets people be more focused on there work instead of what they look like. There is also so much time wasted on what to wear in the mornings or before bed or whenever you pick out what you are going to wear.
Yes, I believe school uniforms do improve students' grades. Though it may seem completely illogical to think that what a student wears can have an effect on their grades, numerous studies have proven this to be true. Take for example the fact that many boys and girls try to stay in fashion and wear what's hip or cool, based on what their peers are wearing. This can be hugely distracting to students. Studies have also shown the private schools, which usually require uniforms, have consistently higher grades among their students.
Yes because bullies don't want to focus on the little kids any more than they have because it just makes them think that they're stupid enough to do that again they will think and they will say who am I, what have I done to this person, and how will this affect me and my life?
Public schools have been experimenting with uniforms since 1996, and the results have proven that kids who care more about their appearance don't do as well in their academics as those who focus only on their work. If we really want our kids to do better in school, then we can start by taking out some of the things that distract them such as fashion.
Yes, uniforms may be very expensive, I admit. However in the long run it totally helps families out a ton. Parents won't be harassed into buying expensive designers' clothes, like Uggs or trainers, so they save lots, and I mean lots, of money. Think of all the clothes you beg your mom to buy. Also uniforms save a lot of time and stress in the mornings because kids won't be worrying about what to wear. Uniforms also help your parents out a ton, because now they have less washing. I actually don't have a uniform, but I can totally see all the benefits. Oh, and one last thing, the board of education won't have to deal with enforcing a dress code. Remember uniforms may suck to you, but if you look at the big picture it improves a ton of things, and yes, I mean tons!
Yes because they would not be worrying about what they're wearing and focusing on their academics. Apart from that, they don't have to take as long getting dressed because they have school uniforms and they would get to school on time. Also, it makes them less stressed so they can focus.
There is even scientific proof that uniforms improve schools and grades. Instead of paying attention to your friends to see if you are dressed better or worse, you know you have to wear the same thing every day and concentrate more on your work! So yes, uniforms help schools in my opinion.
No I don't see how wearing the same clothes as everybody else can have a direct affect on grades, it only prohibits a child from self expression. Sure, it takes a while to pick a cute outfit for school but how does a cute outfit distract you from doing work or homework?
In the morning, a student usually spends 5-10 minutes picking out their clothes. If they were to have uniforms they wouldn't need to worry about what they were going to wear, which means more time for them getting their schoolwork ready to go. This includes, but is not limited to, homework, textbooks, and notebooks.
Yes, yes, yes is what I've read, but by how much? Not one site have I found out of the fifty that I've searched that have actually posted an increase by a certain amount. A study in 2005 shows that there were more graduations and an increase in attendance, but no improvements were observed in academic performance.
Uniform use in public schools is rising, but we know little about how they affect students. Using a unique dataset from a large urban school district in the southwest United States, we assess how uniforms affect behavior, achievement and other outcomes. Each school in the district determines adoption independently, providing variation over schools and time. By including student and school fixed-effects we find evidence that uniform adoption improves attendance in secondary grades, while in elementary schools they generate large increases in teacher retention.
The have nothing to do with cognitive abilities. They do not make someone smarter. School uniforms have nothing to do with improving curricular abilities. It is shown that when children are forced to wear uniforms the don't want to and focus on not wanting to wear them instead of on school work.
The reason a large portion of public schools are adopting school uniforms is to prevent gang activity at school. According to the study 'Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior' school uniforms can have a small positive impact on attendance while having no noticeable affect on grades. Since school uniforms have no affect on grades and only a minimal affect on attendance I feel it is best to give students the freedom to express themselves and wear what they want to school. As long as their attire is within the schools dress code students should be allowed to show their style and individuality. Children not only learn from teachers but from other students and their interactions with them. Many of the problems people say school uniforms can fix(which they do not), such as class difference and social diversity, provide valuable social learning experiences for children.
Uniforms have nothing to do with learning. If a student can come into class and learn with a uniform on, then they can do the same with regular clothing. Uniforms do
not help bullying either. Some people may not have money for uniforms and will have to wear the same thing everyday. Why would people spend more money on uniforms when they could wear what they already have in their closet? Uniforms can really hurt your wallet, not just because you have to buy it, but you spend more money on washing powder because you have to wash clothes more often.
Uniforms should be banned. They are a ridiculous part of many school communities. Why are we so obsessed with blending in with the rest of our peers? Not having our own sense of creativity, being so uncomfortable that we cant focus on our set work.
School uniforms affect the learning environment of a student. A student does not simply look forward to wearing the same clothes every single day. Many students would like to wear whatever they would like during school. A dress code would be a better choice for a school so the students can have a say-so on what they want to wear while they learn.
Grades are not improved by wearing a uniform, it comes from motivation and hard work! Just because everyone is wearing the same outfit, doesn't mean cliques will not form and bullying will be completely abolished. These things root from deeper concepts than that. Cliques form based off of what students are interested in, video games, sports, or books. People like to be around others who share their interests. It is hard to hold a conversation with a person who is not interested in the same things. Without common ground to build from, a friendship won't form. Students who can sit with each other and talk for hours about books they like and recommendations for each other or play video games or sports together will most likely become close friends. This is also referred to as a clique. Bullying is the same way. Although there are students out there that get made fun of for what they wear, there are also students made fun of for their religion or culture, their looks, or the things that they enjoy. Video games and books carry the labels nerd and geek. If a student is smart he may be made fun of and put down by the self-conscious sports jock. But, this can also be turned around, where the bully is the smart geek putting down the sport jock for his lack of intelligence. These stereotypes are born from bullying and bullying will not be stopped by making students wear a uniform.


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Indeed, evidence from a large cohort of health professionals suggests that popcorn may even have a protective effect against the complications of diverticulosis, Lisa Strate, M.D., of the University of Washington in Seattle, said during Digestive Disease Week sessions.
Those complications -- infection, inflammation, and bleeding -- affect between 10% and 30% of patients with diverticulosis, she said, and can require hospitalization.
To avoid that, doctors have warned patients to stay away from nuts, corn, and popcorn, even though some of those foods -- nuts in particular -- are known to have health benefits.
"The recommendation has evolved over the past 60 or 70 years," Dr. Strate said. "It simply stems from a theory that trauma was one of the causes of diverticular complications and that these foods would be more likely to traumatize the colon wall."
To test the theory, Dr. Strate and colleagues turned to the long-running Health Professionals Follow-up Study, which enrolled more than 50,000 men between the ages of 40 and 75.
Starting in 1986, men with newly diagnosed diverticular disease or complications were sent supplemental questionnaires asking of details of treatment and diagnosis. Dr. Strate said.
The records have been collected since 1986 but no one looked at them until now, Dr. Strate said.
Analyzing the 47,454 men who were free of diverticular disease at baseline she and colleagues found there were 383 new cases of diverticular bleeding and 801 new cases of diverticulitis after 18 years of follow-up.
Using the 131-item dietary questionnaires filled out by participants every two years, they divided the cohort into those who ate nuts, corn or popcorn frequently (two or more times a week) and those who did so rarely (less then once a month).
A multivariate analysis showed that:
- Eating nuts frequently was associated with a 20% reduction in the risk of diverticular complications (no tests of statistical significance were provided).
- Men with the highest popcorn intake (at least two times per week) had a hazards ratio for diverticular complications of 0.71 (95% CI 0.56-0.90; P for trend 0.18) when compared to men with the lowest popcorn intake (less than once per month).
- And there was no association between any of the three foods and diverticular bleeding.
For doctors, the take-home message is that patients who enjoy nuts and popcorn should keep on eating them, she said, although she said it's probably too early to recommend popcorn as a protection again the disease.
The finding is good news for patients who like popcorn, said Maria Abreu, M.D., of Mount Sinai in New York, who moderated a press conference where Dr. Strate discussed her findings.
A significant proportion of older Americans has diverticulosis "and they've all been told by their doctors to strictly avoid nuts and corn and popcorn," said Dr. Abreu, a gastroenterologist who was not involved in the research.
"When patients come in who've eaten any of those foods any time in the past year, their episode of diverticulitis or bleeding is blamed on the popcorn," she said.
|Dr. Strate said she had no financial conflicts.
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EVERYONE is over Charlie Sheen.
Afghan girls' education suffering.
Best protest signs: WI edition.
Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 no longer defendable.
Government servant fired; ironically has no union to back him up.
Here's a roundup of Republican misogyny.
Valente talks beauty.
Dwayne McDuffie died earlier this week.
Why are we ignoring the revolutions in Africa?
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Basically, for context, on Monday John Cena cut a promo on the Rock where he rapped and made a bunch of hacky gay jokes; the thread has some good people in it advocating for the critique of problematic subject matter (and plenty of gay forum goers who are sick of this shit and also sick of straight (male) posters serving as the arbiters of what is and isn't offensive) but it just gets bogged down in a bunch of bingo pad-worthy straw-man arguments, and buzzwords that make my blood boil (i.e. "politically correct", "hypersensitivity", "kid gloves" "freedom of speech" etc.) eventually culminating in a bunch of half-assed justifications/excuses and a bunch of bullshit about the
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One thing that really irks me is something one guy says something along the lines of "If someone calls me gay when I'm not gay, it's an insult to me" and "heterosexual men simply do not like it when it's insinuated they do things that homosexual men and women do"….WELL WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS~?!? Er…sorry. Anyway, a "response" thread ended up being made called "THE WWE WRITING TEAM OFFENDED ME" and how they were insulted about how the Rock said Cena looked like a bowl of Fruity Pebbles (he wears garishly-colored shirts) because they like Fruity Pebbles…yeah, because being called a cereal is TOTES THE SAME as homosexuality being treated as deviant and wrong.
Target agrees to stop funding homophobes because of Lady Gaga single.
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Career in Geography: Current courses in Geography have come up an extended way and are presently an all encircling area of study. It takes in the lessons of a spatial collection of occurrence and facts that have created the surface of this entire earth, the relationship linking man and the environment and the investigation connected with earth sciences.
Scope of Career in Geography
It is significant to see that the field is mainly linked to spatial agreement or allocation of things. It is very helpful in finding out the reasons why these reasons came up, what are the key factors that have led or supposedly expected to lead to the transformation in the spatial allocation and with what effect. For instance, it informs us about the factors that lead us to the location of the business at a specific place and if by any chance there is a change of place, what feature leads to that.
Geography is very different from Geology. Geology is dealing with the center of the crust of the earth different from Geography which is thought to be a study of the effects and phenomenon on the face of the earth. Geography is classified into 2 parts namely physical and human. The physical part deals with the landforms such as mountains, deserts, plains, plateaus, and various other processes which are responsible for forming these landforms.
On the other hand the human aspect deals with the interrelationship that is between man and earth. It encompasses cultural, historical, geopolitical, economic and additional aspects.
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It is sarcastic and satirical that this stream of study is underestimated or not considered of high worth as a career even though as the useful relevance of this body of facts and data finds adequate use in our day to day lives. May it be the city map at your house or the up to date GPS device in the car, all these are the evolution of technical modernization in this field. It is of great importance when we are studying other subjects like history, political science and environmental sciences in the colleges and schools. In addition while pursuing a career in tourism, journalism, urbanization studies, digital mapping, demographics; it is important that you are equipped with the knowledge of Geography. Some of the careers even need a proper study and a degree in this field.
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With the growth of environmental thought and quantitative uprising, a latest study called Geometrics has also come up. Contemporary remote imaging, cartography and digital mapping technologies have given rise to the development of environmental Information Systems and even for that matter Global Positioning Systems. Nobody can deny any longer that career in Geography is no longer underrated and is proving to be very fruitful.


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Finally! After months of writing, recording and mastering, Doug Allen and I have released the song Six Minutes for distribution.
It is on iTunes here or you can get it here via CDBaby.
We are really proud of it and grateful to so many people who helped us with it… Donna Bonato at Silver Creative for turning one of my garden photos into the stunning cover art, Dennis Hrbek for his sound work, Anthony Radice for piano and some initial recording tracks, and of course our families and friends for their support along the way.
The background of the song as I wrote it for distribution is this:
I've been writing on my blog about my life for a few years and more recently about my diagnosis in 2012 with stage 4 breast cancer (6 years after initial surgery and treatment). Many of the posts I make are more poetic than prose lately. One particular one called "No room for that in this (Six Minutes)" seemed ripe for becoming song lyrics. I've never written song lyrics before and don't even sing or play an instrument. But I did think the words had some potential to tell a good story, something I think is lacking in so much of modern music.
I'm a huge fan of Doug's personally and professionally. He's been teaching our son Colin to play guitar for a few years now. We've become friends and I love Doug's sound. After hearing his latest album I knew he was someone who would be able to find the right music. I knew that on occasion he would co-write songs. I asked him, on a lark, if he'd consider working with me on turning the post into a song. He agreed.
We sat at my kitchen table and in that first session I turned that original post into the lyrics for "Six Minutes." Doug almost immediately got the right feel and sound for the music and it just clicked. We both felt that while the original storyline of the song was about me, the song itself needed to be more universal. That's why I made the chorus something so approachable, something everyone can relate to.
For me, the six minutes were ones of pain that I wanted to go by quickly. But I regretted that I was wishing my life away in these small increments. What Doug and I knew for sure is that we all can relate to the idea of "taking a trip inside your head" where you just check out during the day. That's what he and I kept coming back to. Daydreaming, zoning out, whatever it is that helps you take a little break. So the chorus is about that, which is important because those are the words you're likely to be singing to yourself again and again and need to be able to relate to.
The song came together very easily for us. The words really didn't change after that first meeting. I think we knew we had the right music for it and the story is now there for sharing.
We hope listeners will enjoy it, we hope it will speak to them. This one is a true collaboration and I'm grateful Doug was able to share my words in a new way. After hearing it hundreds of times now I still find myself singing the chorus again and again at moments throughout the day.
You might enjoy seeing that original post and what the lyrics became in the final version…
Six Minutes
The clock says it's been six minutes now,
I'm glad that they have passed,
Then I realize I've wasted them:
Six minutes gone too fast.
I take a trip inside my head,
I don't know where I go.
Somewhere else,
Anywhere else,
Far from things I know.
I try to forget for a moment now,
Focus on a spot on the wall,
I lose myself in the emptiness,
Such a painfully long way to fall.
So I take a trip inside my head,
I don't know where I go.
Somewhere else,
Anywhere else,
Far from things I know.
I find myself in silence,
Tuning out the noise,
No room for anything,
But him, my girl and the boys.
And when I'm gone,
Just no way around it,
So many things they will miss
'Cause when it comes to being fair,
There's no room for that in this.
Gonna take a trip inside my head,
I don't know where I'm gonna go,
Somewhere else,
Anywhere else,
Far from things I know…
§ 8 Responses to Song "Six Minutes" with Doug Allen now available"
This is awesome Lisa
Truly incredibly beautiful …up there with the best…
Beautifully written. Off to download!
Lisa, do you have ringing in the ears or other auditory effects?
A lot of cancer drugs are known to be ototoxic. I wonder if you have felt such effects.
Thank you.
Hi Lisa,
When I was diagnosed with cancer last summer, a friend recommended that I read a blog she had found written by someone with the same kind of cancer. I started at her beginning and caught up to real time very quickly. We emailed directly just a few times but I felt like she was a friend. She was on my mind all of the time and I checked her blog daily. I wanted to know how she was doing and learn from her. I didn't reach out many times because I felt like she was in the thick of it and I didn't want to bother her. She died six weeks ago. I am still mourning the longer life she should have had. And I am also full of regret that I didn't get in touch with her more often…just to say hi, let her know that I was thinking about her and to tell her how much she meant to me. My intentions were good in not wanting to bother her but in hindsight, I was so selfish. Realizing this now, I want to tell you that I think about you, keep up with you and and wish you comfortable days, loving times with your family, and TIME. You are helping so many people. You are amazing Lisa.
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Hello james welcome to BAF,
We are neighbors in terms of country, So do you live in Tibet, HongKong, Shanghai, Beijing or any other places?
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Learn about the tax benefits of living at a CCRC
The Holmstad retirement community is hosting a free program to educate older adults and family members about the potential tax savings of living in a continuing care retirement community (CCRC). On Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018 at 2:00 p.m., Linda Kanter from Covenant Trust Company will present "The Golden Ticket to Tax Savings." During her presentation, she will outline the tax advantages of living at a CCRC and after, guests can tour The Holmstad and learn about life at the 38-acre community. Space is limited and reservations are required by calling 877-226-7310 or visiting www.TheHolmstad.org. The Holmstad is a faith-based, not-for-profit continuing care retirement community operated by Covenant Retirement Communities and located at 700 W. Fabyan Parkway, Batavia.
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NOx reduction using zeolite catalysts
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|A high-surface-area (greater than 600 m.sup.2/g), large-pore (pore size greater than 6.5 angstroms), basic zeolite having a structure such as an alkali metal cation-exchanged Y-zeolite is employed to convert NO.sub.x contained in an oxygen-rich exhaust to N.sub.2 and ON.sub.2. Preferably, the invention relates to a two-stage method and apparatus for NO.sub.x reduction in an oxygen-rich engine exhaust that includes a plasma oxidative stage and a selective reduction stage. The first stage employs a non-thermal plasma treatment of NO.sub.x gases in an oxygen-rich exhaust and is intended to convert NO to NO.sub.2 in the presence of O.sub.2 and added hydrocarbons. The second stage employs a lean-NO.sub.x catalyst including the basic zeolite at relatively low temperatures to convert such NO.sub.2 to environmentally benign gases that include N.sub.2, CO.sub.2, and H.sub.2O.
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Have just conducted the second session of Cupcake Class 2 last Saturday. Being a public holiday (Wesak Day) as well, we had as usual a good mix of people...Wilton students like Aishah; first-timers to my class like Theresa and Janice; a friend who runs a fried chicken stall in my regular pasar malam (an entrepreneurial lady, Faizah); Intan Bazian, who is on holiday from Switzerland; and a Japanese student who is also interested in sugar paste flowers (wonder what is the cake decorating scene like in Japan).
Below are some creative efforts from the class.


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NEW YORK MURDER MYSTERY: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s.
DURING THE MID-1990s, I OFTEN found myself spending Saturday nights driving around in a patrol car in sketchy areas of Washington, D.C., taking in the sights with my boyfriend, a D.C. cop. Most of what I saw was a D.C. police department in a shambles. The city was in the midst of a crushing financial crisis, and it had failed to invest in the police department's infrastructure for years.
By 1995, scout cars were dropping wheels, brakes, and mufflers left and fight, and the department couldn't afford to fix them. Station parking' lots were littered with dead and disabled patrol cars, and officers showing up for work often would find that they had nothing to drive. They were using their own money to gas up their cruisers. Neighborhood groups held bake sales to raise money to buy toilet paper, radio batteries, and other critical supplies for local district station houses.
My friend's 4th District station was furnished like a 1950's schoolhouse, full of old desks, wooden chairs, and not much else. Officers used rotary phones--voice mail was unheard of, as were computers. When the station did get a few 486s, most officers didn't know what to do with them. They didn't have e-mail, and there was no central network for filing reports. All the crime reports were done by hand, on paper, and later sent to headquarters for processing.
The D.C. cops' crime fighting tactics weren't much more sophisticated. Officers would pace from one crime scene to another in response to radio calls, doing very little in the way of proactive policing. I was amazed they ever caught any criminals--and most of them didn't. Ten percent of the officers made 90 percent of the department's arrests.
In the midst of all the chaos, after work my cop friend and his buddies would sit around a pitcher of beer at the Fraternal Order of Police clubhouse and talk shop. Their conversations frequently turned to the other police departments around the country that they considered real police departments. Number one on their list was the NYPD.
To D.C. cops, the New York Police Department was the shit. It had Compstat, the state-of-the-art technology system that connected all the various districts to headquarters and allowed precinct commanders to call up maps showing the latest crime trends on their beats, helping them shut down trouble spots before they got out of hand. New York also had William Bratton, the famed former transit cop chief who had cleaned up the New York subway system by applying the "broken window" theory to policing.
The broken window theory was coined by criminologist George Kelling, who had shown that neighborhoods that neglected little things like broken windows and litter invited more serious criminal activity into their midst.
Consequently, Bratton encouraged transit cops to crack down on small crimes, like turnstile jumping and panhandling, based on the belief that people who commit minor crimes also commit serious ones. The practice seemed to work beautifully, and Bratton became something of a celebrity. He became the NYPD police commissioner in 1994, and the number of murders in the city plummeted by almost 800 the next year. Suddenly other cities, including D.C., were clamoring to implement their own Bratton systems.
Naturally, he was happy to promote his ideas. (In 1996, Giuliani pushed Bratton out and the former commissioner took his act on the road as a consultant.) In 1998, Bratton wrote a memoir called Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic, taking credit for New York's 10 percent annual crime rate drops for the two years he served as commissioner. Jack Maple, the gourmand cop in a bow tie and derby who served as Bratton's deputy, also wrote his own book in 1999 (called The Crime Fighter: Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business) claiming the lion's share of the credit for the New York crime drop.
Conservatives, too, jumped on the bandwagon, eager to declare New York proof positive that their law-and-order theories were valid, and that liberals' belief that such mushy things as alleviating poverty could reduce crime were intellectually bankrupt.
The funny thing, though, was that New York wasn't the only place the crime rate was falling; a similar phenomenon was taking place in D.C. Despite the sorry state of D.C.'s police force, the number of murders in the city fell from 482 in 1991 to 260 in 1998. That coincidence didn't keep the New York police brass from taking credit for turning the city around, though.
It was their claims--and the doubt cast on them by cities like D.C.--that prompted criminologist Andrew Karmen to take a closer look at New York City's 1990's "Crime Crash." In his new book, New York Murder Mystery, Karmen, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, deconstructs New York's falling murder rate, working under the old premise that "Politicians use statistics like drunks use lamp posts: for support, not illumination."
Karmen is no stranger to the crime reduction controversy. His refusal to validate the claims made by folks like Bratton and Maple earned him the scorn of much of the New York media--which relished quoting him so others could bash him as an outdated, soft-on-crime liberal. Karmen's background as a campus antiwar activist in the 1960s made him an easy target. At one point, the editorial board of the New York Post railed against the "Andrew Karmens of the world, who seem to believe that `social forces' or lunar cycles or some such nonsense, are the most important factors affecting crime."
The debate over New York's crime reduction is similar to the debate currently underway about who is responsible for the economic boom. There are so many possible variables, each loaded with political overtones. But one by one, Karmen picks apart the various assertions that have been used to explain the "outbreak of better behavior that swept across the City" in the last half on the 1990s. He debunks the overwhelming majority of them.
Karmen starts by examining the murders themselves, looking for patterns to explain who was no longer being killed when the body count dropped. Here, you won't be surprised to learn, he deduces that most of New York's killers are not serial killers or child abductors but poor, young black men, as are their victims, and that a good number of the murders are drug-related.
He then examines the changes at work within the NYPD. Karmen quickly refutes the notion that Compstat and the management changes that came with it could have accounted for such a quick and steep drop in crime. The crime rates in New York were already falling before the system was implemented.
Before finishing the book, I would have bet that Karmen would identify the booming economy as responsible for the crime drop, but he doesn't. Looking at data from the Census Bureau and other sources, Karmen finds that poverty actually intensified in black and Hispanic neighborhoods at the same time the body counts fell substantially.
Karmen also discounts another theory in vogue right now, which attributes the nation's crime drop to the huge number of people the U.S. has put behind bars over the past decade. New York also has not led the country in either its incarceration rate or prison expansion. Even when its inmate population did grow during the late 1970s and late 1980s, the crime rates did not fall.
So you're thinking, if it's not the incarceration rate and it's not the economy, it had to be the waning crack epidemic, right? But Karmen puts the kabosh on that idea as well, with data showing that the crack epidemic declined as much in Philadelphia as it did in New York without producing the same effect on the murder rate. And the overall proportion of New York arrestees with cocaine and heroin in their systems did not dramatically decline during the 1990s. Drug overdose deaths diminished, but hospital emergency room episodes increased, and the police continued to make large numbers of drug arrests throughout the decade--evidence, Karmen suggests, that New York's drug trade continued to thrive even while the murder rate was plummeting.
In the end, Karmen concludes that four major factors had a significant impact on the homicide rates in New York in the '90s: higher education, immigration, demographics, and, for lack of a better term, death.
The demographics come right out of Criminology 101, which teaches that crime waves occur when rifles reach a critical mass of people at high risk to commit crimes, usually poor, young, black and Hispanic men. In New York, the number of poor minority young men fell significantly during the '90s, especially the 20-to-24-year-olds, whose numbers fell 19 percent.
Aside from the demographics, Karmen also credits the city's long-term social investment in low-cost college education for city residents. Noting the inverse relationship between college education and criminal behavior, Karmen writes that exposure to higher education "not only lowers the odds of committing murder but even reduces the chances of getting killed." Residents of New York, including low-income black and Hispanic folks, were more likely to have attended college and to have completed a degree than their counterparts in most other American cities.
Karmen convincingly presents the facts behind these two concurrent trends, hut his case for the relationship between them reads suspiciously like the wishful thinking of the City University of New York professor that Karmen is.
More credibly, Karmen concludes that the huge wave of immigration that swept through New York in the '90s was tremendously beneficial for the city as a whole. Far from bringing criminals into the city, as conservatives often argued, immigration actually has helped preserve the city's tax base by replacing the middle class who fled during the "bad old days" with poor but motivated foreign immigrants. Immigrants, at least first-generation immigrants, according to Karmen, also tend to commit fewer crimes than other poor folks.
Karmen's other conclusion is more grim--and it hardly presents a model other cities would want to replicate. He finds that, essentially, the ghetto really is self-cleansing. The combination of a lot of homicides, a lot of drug overdoses, and the scourge of AIDS among IV drug users, (along with the deportation of a few criminal aliens) eliminated about 43,000 active lawbreakers from the city streets during the last decade--enough to put a big dent in the crime rate.
While Karmen's findings in New York are illuminating, he never really says whether the factors that led to the drop in murders in New York also contributed to the drop in say, D.C., or San Diego, where homicides dropped off almost as much as they did in New York. It's hard to imagine that those same forces were at work in D.C. at least. The District lost a larger proportion of its population than New York over the past decade, and immigrants coming to the area generally have quickly decamped to the suburbs. The District also has very little to offer in the way of higher education for poor people. Then again, murders in the District didn't fall nearly as far as they did in New York, where the body count dropped 72 percent in seven years.
And that's Karmen's point, too: New York is a unique place and trying to use it as a model applicable to anywhere else is frequently a foolish enterprise. In the end, he convincingly demonstrates that no single factor created the New York Miracle--not Bratton, not Maple, not even Giuliani. The 1990s were simply a time when a number of trends happened to merge all at once. Karmen's answer seems right, though hardly satisfying--or even especially useful for the future. That's critical, because New York may be in for another tough ride: Even as the NYPD is basking in the glow of its success, Karmen notes, the murder rate is going up again.
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The pill is peach, and it says A on one side and 20 on the other. It is round as well. It is not a pointy A but the top of the A is rounded? and suggestions. I am hoping is is a form of Zocar. Thanks, Ruth
What is this pill - with 'A20' imprint?
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Is it possible the 20 actually reads 02?
If so,
Pill imprint A 02 has been identified as Simvastatin 20 mg, which is a generic form of Zocor.
Everything else matches your description, including the rounded A.
You can see an image here https://www.drugs.com/imprints/a-02-14519.html so you can take a look and see if it matches up.
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TechPowerUp announces new versions of RealTemp and ThrottleStop
Andy Ruffell / 7 years ago
TechPowerUp has today released the latest versions of their utility softwares: RealTemp 3.70 and ThrottleStop 4.0.
RealTemp is a a comprehensive system utility that monitors processor temperatures, logging, and clock speeds. Version 3.70 comes with a lot of important updates compared to the previous version:
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- More reliable power-consumption estimation using VID
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- Improved log file formatting
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RealTemp 3.70 can be downloaded for free here.
ThrottleStop 4.0 on the other hand, is a utility that lets you monitor the CPU clock speed throttling scheme used by your notebook, providing you with options to override or change it. Such a utility comes particularly handy for notebook users facing performance issues even when plugged in and with Windows "high-performance" power scheme selected.
On the application's main window you'll be able to tweak you CPU's power scheme through three different methods on the left panel, while the right panel allows the user to monitor the way in which the OS is throttling the CPU, down to the level of logical CPUs (threads).
ThrottleStop 4.0 is available, once again, freely here.


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It starts out simply enough. You sign up for StitchFix by filling out a profile about your style. Are your clothes more classic and preppy or maybe romantic or bohemian? (They have pinterest boards and a blog if you're not sure what your style is.)
You answer questions HONESTLY about your size and body and how you like your clothes to fit. You can even decide how much you want to spend on each item. For example, I'll maybe spend $75 on a dress but I want shirts to be less than $50. Then you decide when you want your first "fix."
And you wait with baited breath for your package (free shipping, mind you!). StitchFix sends you five items based on your profile--a complete surprise! The beautiful packaging sets the stage for what's to come.
|This shirt and silver cuff were from my second fix. Love that this shirt is so quirky, light and colorful!
You open your package and are greeted by a note from your stylist and each item comes with two ways to style it. I like to lay everything out on my bed and examine it so I can see the details.
Then the fun begins. You get to try everything on...in your own closet, with your own shoes, skirts, bras, jewelry. And you have three days to decide what you want to keep (meanwhile all that's been charged is a $20 styling fee--so no large amount already charged or necessary to return).
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Simply return what you don't want in the PRE-PAID package. (That $20 styling fee goes towards anything you keep)
Here's the MOST IMPORTANT part about StitchFix...fill out the questionnaire at the end of your experience so your stylist can learn why you did or did not like the items she sent you. I can vouch from experience that the more detailed and honest you are, the better your future "fixes" will be.
My most recent fix was the best yet! I loved every single item. (Sadly one dress they sent was just a bit too short on me, so I returned it)
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Another bonus? StitchFix sends me things I might not pick out myself. I never would have guessed this top would flatter me, but every time I wear it I get compliments.
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Barry Weinberg, the owner of Mayfield Music in Cleveland Heights, rented PA systems and sold amps, guitars and drums. He died at 55. He was a rocker who lived hard. The sign at the back of his store read Give Me the Dough and You Can Go.
He carried a quality line of blues harps.
Before Barry, Mayfield Music was Chick Chaikin's store. Chick lived pretty hard too, but in a middle-class way: Chick golfed, raised a family and played thousands of cocktail-
piano gigs.
Chick was a big-band leader and solo pianist for decades. He played six nights a week at the Colony Restaurant, and knew just about every pop song written, according to trumpeter Bob Dreifort, who I talked to recently.
Chick's brother Bill went out to Hollywood and eventually ran a movie studio, Avco Embassy. Bill was involved in The Graduate and more.
"I could have gone to the Coast too," Chick said. "But my life is here, and I have my work, although every winter I say this is it. But I'm still here." (Plain Dealer interview, 1977)
Chick's store was Currier-Chaikin Music. Chick's business partner, John Currier, was even older than Chick. John Currier had played piano at Euclid Beach Park in the 1920s.
Chick called me "Toby's son." Chick didn't know my name. Chick and my father, Toby, were Kinsman Road boys.
Most of my father's friends and acquaintances were businessmen: shoe store owners, insurance men, pawn shop owners.
How did my dad know a full-time musician? I guess Toby had no choice. Toby and Chick grew up almost next door to each other.
How did Chick wind up a full-time musician? I didn't ask questions about old people when I was in my twenties.
Chick's life was all about family and music, his daughter, Jeri, told me this year. For a while Chick had a side job giving private music lessons through Cleveland public schools.
I didn't have the chutzpah to ask Jeri if there was more to Chick's headstone than Leonard 'Chick' Chaikin 1915-2000.
Here are three fitting epitaphs:
a) "Here lies a man who made a living at music."
b) "Chick a la King. He tickled the ivories."
c) "I'm here 7 nights a week."
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- 1 Irwin { 07.06.11 at 11:03 am }
I'm thinking about Chick playing at a piano bar right now up in heaven. I had never known him, but he seems like an interesting guy. Sounds like the polar opposite of Barry.
- 2 Gerald Ross { 07.06.11 at 1:35 pm }
I love stories about "working" musicians. The guys who are not playing to 10,000-seat arenas and have major ego problems. You do the gig with a smile whether it's a concert, grocery-store opening or the "Fall Festival Of Shoe Savings!" (I've done this gig at least three times.)
If you can get people to pay you money for your music, you are lucky and you should be grateful. Not everyone gets this opportunity in life.
- 3 don friedman { 07.06.11 at 1:42 pm }
I knew Chick. I took his phone orders and sold him musical merchandise. His local wholesale house was Grossman Music Corp., and Rogers Drums. I worked there from '65 to '73.
I remember Chick as being the friendliest and most easy-going, stress- free music dealer around. Whenever I visited his store, he was the most welcoming person around. You couldn't help but like him.
His business always seemed to be very successful.
- 4 Susan Greene { 07.06.11 at 11:23 pm }
This story warmed my heart. These men were fortunate to make a living doing what they loved. They were blessed.
- 5 Ellen { 07.13.11 at 10:29 am }
Awww, geez — now I almost feel compelled to somehow work Viagra and Vicodin into my comments. Guess I just did!
What a great piece. Thinking about all these older folks and how much we didn't know about them has inspired me — I now meet with an older friend each week — we talk about local history and I write it down.
Even if we never do anything with all the pages, it's a great experience for us both. There's so much to know from each other……
- 6 Alan Douglass { 07.14.11 at 7:28 am }
The motto was "Give me the dough and you can go." I had a t-shirt with that slogan on it and it was in big letters over the counter. The store was always cluttered, but not as bad as the basement!
- 7 Bert { 07.14.11 at 8:49 am }
To Alan Douglass:
Thanks for the correction. I just changed the copy. (I had the slogan as "Show Us the Dough and You Can Go.")
If not for Alan, I wouldn't have even mentioned the sign. Alan told me about the sign.
- 8 ron galo { 04.04.15 at 7:55 pm }
Chick taught me piano back in the 70s. He also taught me there was more to playing than just hitting the right notes. Thank you for everything, Chick.
- 9 Robert Dreifort { 07.15.16 at 5:06 pm }
I met Chick in 1968, when I started taking trumpet lessons at the Currier – Chaikin Music Store at Mayfield and Lee in Cleveland Heights. My teacher was Ernie Bacon. He was an old pro who taught some trumpet; but really taught me music. I was there every week and got a lot of opportunity to talk with Chick and his partner John. I was a big band buff and I loved to get their stories about the old days. I bought my first trumpet from Chick, and Olds Ambassador student model. After a while I upgraded to an Olds Studio Trumpet. I still have both of them. Ernie and I often stopped at the Knotty Pine Bar around the corner on Lee Road after lessons. Many times we talked about how nice it would be to run an old time dance hall. What a dream. Ernie wrote many of the charts used by local bands such as Paul Burton and Phil Nelson. A few times he got some of the teachers from Chick's store to play a few of his charts. We did that at my Cleveland Heights home and Chick would sit in on piano. I also spent many evenings at the piano bar in the Colony Restaurant. It was like playing stump the band. I would call out a tune and Chick would play it. Then he would turn the tables on me and play a tune for me to name. He often stumped me. I don't think I ever stumped him. He was a wonderful man and I miss him. I later met his daughter, Jeri, when we were students in the Masters in Public Administration program at Cleveland State Univ. We also both worked for Cuyahoga County for a while. She is a great lady and a tribute to Chick.
- 10 Dave White { 05.07.17 at 9:21 pm }
Hi Bert,
This might be a stretch – but my father was Lewis White and John and Chick were clients of his as he was a life insurance agent with New York Life back in the 70's.
By chance did you know him ?
Your name sounds familiar- My parents were close with Sonny Bain as well, if that clicks – thank you
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There has been SOME sewing going on.
This is for my "I am dreaming of" sewing room.
Tutorial found here:
Some progress on this quilt too.
I have been making LOTS of these for the litle ones in flannel.
Should keep them cozy and warm.
Made lots of these too....nothing like a cozy wrap at bath time.
There has been a bit of distraction with this quilt.
How come I ALWAYS start something NEW, when I should be FINISHING something OLD!!!!
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a bag full of pants for Jonathan that need to be hemmed!!!!
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Verizon iPhone 4S Experiencing Screen Discoloration.
The issue started about a month and a half ago. It was dropped and the screen has looked like the attached photos (see links) ever since. Every time I put it to sleep and turn it on again, it switches between the screens shown in the attachments. Each one with is own variation, it's very odd...
The first one is the original background picture to give an idea of how distorted it actually is.
I've tried the hard reset and have tried all other software advice including turning the color inverter on and off which leads me to believe that it's a hardware issue.
I purchased the iphone 4s tool kit and took it apart and reassembled it (great videos by the way) but the problem still persists. I attached some photos and I would like to get your expert opinion as to whether this is a result of a loose connection or minor hardware issue or if this is going to require an LCD/Digitizer replacement.
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David Huelsmann
Dave Huelsmann was Treasurer of Open Source Matters, Inc. from 2008 to July, 2010 and Joomla Forum Global Moderator from 2005 to November, 2010. Now retired, he was a senior healthcare executive who managed large and diverse clinical laboratory, radiology, electroencephalography, and centralized patient transport operations/departments in both not-for-profit and for-profit companies throughout the United States.
Dave was a Navy Corpsman who served in Vietnam while attached to Seabee battalion
It's downright comical! On September 29th, Alice Grevet posted in the Open Source Matters, Inc. - Public Mailing list that the minutes from the September 18th OSM Board meeting were ready for approval. Only 11 days after the meeting. Almost a record considering it took almost two months to post the last two sets of minutes. But, wouldn't you know - the OSM Board, then took took 11 days to approve the minutes. Now I understand why they want one to two months to post minutes.
Of course, it takes even longer to get through a process to change the License, Trademark, and Copyright issues that have been under discussion for a lifetime. The board seems to be frustrated itself so I wonder who or what the holdup is:
b. License, Trademark, and Copyright Committee 09/18/2012: It is time to think about a Plan B, perhaps including some of the new people who have shown an interest, in case this process gets stalled much longer.
Allison Fine, one of the authors of The Networked Nonprofit described an uninformed, disconnected, and disengaged non-profit board that resonated perfectly with what I have been seeing and writing about the Open Source Matters, Inc. board. She said in her blog:
Most of all, too many boards are sets for kabuki theater; set dramas where all the actors know their lines; the chair gives an opening, the chief executive provides a summary of all the recent successes, the treasurer talks about the growing deficit, and the committee chair report out on their laundry lists of activities and programs. The meeting adjourns two hours later with very little accomplished except for a sense by the participants that they have done what they're supposed to do.!
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2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
You know OSM, you can't keep saying one thing and either doing something else or doing nothing for long. People will learn not to believe what you say!
Sometime after 5 am CDT today July 6, 2012, Alice Grevet posted the approved board minutes for the OSM Board Meeting held on June 19, 2012. It was sloppy - not at all like Alice's previous postings for the most part. For instance, attendees were listed but absentees were not. In this case, the newly elected treasurer wasn't present and he is still not listed as a board member on OSM's own website.
Update July 10, 2010: Today OSM updated their website to publish the bio of the new treasurer - Thomas Hampton - that they announced April 20, 2012. Looks like 82 days or 2 months and 21 days is the best you can expect of this board for simple tasks. We have certainly seen much longer for even slightly more complex tasks like publishing budgets and financial reports.
Another example was that the board approved the minutes of the previous meeting. Since they didn't discuss not having a meeting in May, it was up to the reader to figure out that they were referring to the April meeting. She also clearly stated
Review of OSM board of directors motions brought to the floor via the email list, please circulate list by email in advance No motions were made.
that no motions were made via the email list since the previous meeting. Yet, we find at the end of the minutes:
I have been essentially asking that question of OSM for some time now. Let's see, back on October 25, 2011 Paul Orwig announced what he characterized as an aggressive timeline to develop and publish the goals and budget for each leadership team. They were to be complete by January 2012 when OSM would vote to accept them. On June 27, 2012, Alice Grevet published OSM's goals for 2012. Is that right? Six months into the year for accomplishing the goals, they finalized and published them. Except, I can't find in the minutes where the goals were listed and voted on by the board. In fact, in the January, 2012 minutes they specifically stated: "OSM, PLT and CLT all have yet to complete the process of budget estimates and goal documentation." In the February, 2012 minutes they only stated: "With less than a majority in favor of making the certification goal a major goal for 2012, it will not be included in the list of major goals." In the March minutes there was an entry under the Budget Committee: "Reminder: We want to publish a blog by the end of April with updates on each of our 2012 goals (Communications: Alice, Events: Robert, TM/Legal: Jacques, Capital: Sukh). Please plan on providing a paragraph or two to Alice about your goal, and Alice will help assemble everything and get the blog published." In the April minutes there was an entry: "As part of the 2012 goal setting process, the leadership teams are asked to publish quarterly updates to the community. A few paragraphs from each team on updates and accomplishments will be published in a blog. Owners of the 4 OSM goals please get your reports in to Alice for publishing." Nowhere in the minutes that have been published is there any discussion on the goals or any documented approval of these goals by the board. So, I ask you "Where's the beef?"
I had a great time for the last three weeks ignoring my laptop, my smart phone, and the Internet while staying in our summer place in Indiana and visiting some of our kids and grand kids just across the border in Illinois. Quite relaxing. Just got back yesterday afternoon and am catching up on the tools I recently ignored.
Imagine my surprise reading the blog from Paul Orwig about the 2012 Joint Leadership Summit Summary. Maybe it's just me? It sure seems that he was putting spin on the meeting. No details were forthcoming. Not even the number of attendees at the meeting. No information on what recommendations might have been agreed to or even if there was consensus at the meeting on any recommendations.
Looks like that is where Joomla! Leadership is pedaling just as fast as it can. If you haven't had the chance, please read the proposed Joomla Foundation document that has not been offered to the Joomla! Community for comment - only to the Joomla! Leadership.
Still waiting for:
1Publication of the 2012 budget now technically overdue by 130 days or four months and nine days from January 1st, 2012. From the promise time frame it is overdue by 44 days or one month and thirteen days from a "week or so" as stated in the March 20th, 2012 board minutes.
2Publication of an end-of-year financial report now technically overdue by 130 days or four months and nine days from January 1st, 2012.
3Publication of any financial report now overdue by 192 days or six months and ten days since the last publication of October 31, 2011.
Good NewsYou may have not noticed but OSM published their March 20, 2012 board minutes only three days after their April 20th board meeting. That's like a record and is well appreciated by those of us who strongly believe in the public oversight clause of OSM's bylaws!
Also notable is that Altansukh Tumenjargal has attended the first three months of board meetings of 2012. Either the board made special accommodation as to the time of the board meetings or Sukh has made a special effort. Either way, it's good to see.
Bad News Discussions from Javier Gomez's group on leadership changes were supposed to be available in the public group Joomla Project Structure Working Group. You can find part of the information there but the rest that is mentioned such as the responsibility descriptions of the directors is not public even though it was asked for and promised to the public several years ago. You will also note that there is no attempt, as we move closer and closer to the summit in Germany, to make any pretense of evaluating whether such changes are even necessary or appropriate. Instead, the discussions are entirely focused on the final structure assuming that it will be approved.
In several other areas of Joomla! leadership, we continue to see schedules and promises but nothing ever seems to materialize. Though there has been some action to note - there seems to have been a very strong effort to reduce the expenses paid to OSM's trademark attorneys (Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P.) over the last several years as I noted in the blog OSM - A Poor Performing Board of Directors. In 2009, the legal fees were $149,252.57. Based on the 2010 OSM 990 filing on December 14, 2011, legal fees were $84,411. For 2011, legal fees through October, 2011 were $12,194.99 (unfortunately, current financial information hasn't been made available in some time). A very significant decline. Let's see what is going on now with Trademark activity:


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Serious Competition turns into Barrel of Laughs at 2006 WIHS
The 2006 Washington International Horse Show (WIHS) serves as one of the country's most prestigious and competitive indoor equestrian events, with prominent riders, Olympic veterans, and superstar equinesThe 2006 Washington International Horse Show (WIHS) serves as one of the country's most prestigious and competitive indoor equestrian events, with prominent riders, Olympic veterans, and superstar equines
Washington, D.C. – October 2, 2006 – The 2006 Washington International Horse Show (WIHS) serves as one of the country's most prestigious and competitive indoor equestrian events, with prominent riders, Olympic veterans, and superstar equines competing for top honors and fabulous prize money. WIHS is held from October 24 – 29, 2006, at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., home of the Washington International Horse Show since the year 2000.
One of the annual highlights at WIHS is the intensely fast-paced Barrel Racing. This year, the barrel racing exhibition includes ten talented women who will race for time around barrels at heart stopping speed. Some of the leading ladies from the Women's Professional Rodeo Association, American Professional Rodeo Association, National Barrel Horse Association, and the J-W Ranch Barrel Series will race against one another, with the top four competing in an additional run against four show jumpers mounted on barrel racing horses.
This event is always a crowd favorite, and the show jumping enthusiasts enjoy seeing equestrian athletes compete in a discipline different from their own. The Barrel Racing action will start on Thursday, October 26, with an evening competition and continue the following evening, Friday, October 27.
The 2006 WIHS Barrel Racers include: Ann Religh of Spring Grove, PA, who was 2005 WIHS Champion; Judy Merola of Pennsgrove, NJ, the 2003 WIHS Champion; Carol Kerstetter of Milton, PA, the 2004 WIHS Champion; Beth Borrowy of Opperco, MD; Sandra Pomakala from New Egypt, NJ; Lorraine Bytheway of Glen Mills, PA; Katie Codd of Westminster, MD; Kelsey Free of Greencastle, PA; Illeen Hannah of Oxford, PA; and Lisa Barone of Yorksprings, PA.
The serious side of competition is lightened when the Show Jumping athletes join in the fun. Although they are top athletes in their disciplines, they never get to practice barrel racing and the awkwardness of using different equipment and riding aids is often comical.
Candace King, one of our country's top Grand Prix Show Jumpers, competed in last year's barrel racing competition and reported, "All of us had a blast last year. I think it's good for the crowd, and it's fun for us as competitors to take part in something a little different. I grew up riding Western, so it was like riding a bike. I hope to have the opportunity again this year!"
Grand Prix Show Jumper Todd Minikus competed in the barrel racing competition at last year's event as well. He offered the comment, "It's a lot of fun, and I think the spectators really enjoyed it. I think there are more common denominators than uncommon when it comes to different disciplines of riding. I would be happy to participate in the event again."
Join the Washington International Horse Show crowd as they cheer on the leading ladies of Barrel Racing and our nation's top show jumpers in this special event! In addition, the many exciting events this year at WIHS include the $100,000 President's Cup Grand Prix, the $25,000 Puissance, Invitational Dressage Championship, Terrier Races, and Side Saddle.
For more information on the Washington International Horse Show, please visit their official website at www.wihs.org.
Washington International Horse Show Fast Facts
What: Now in its 48th year, the Washington International Horse Show is one of the world's leading equestrian events. It features top horses and riders from the U.S. and abroad competing for more than $400,000 in prize money and championship titles. Approximately 600 horses will be on hand for the six-day event. Riders from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Brazil and Ireland are expected to participate at the show in the Olympic sport of show jumping.
October 24 – 29, 2006
Verizon Center at 601 F Street NW (7th and F Streets NW), Washington, D.C., home of the Washington International Horse Show since 2000, as well as professional and college sports teams including the NBA Wizards, the NHL Capitals, the WNBA Mystics and the Georgetown Hoyas, concerts, family shows and sporting events. ***Take Metrorail or Metrobus to Gallery Place-Chinatown for an easy trip to the show.
General Information:
The Washington International Horse Show (WIHS), one of the nation's leading championship horse shows since 1958, hosts some of the finest horses and riders from the U.S. and abroad, including Olympic and World Cup medalists. Unique among horse shows, the WIHS takes place in the middle of a city, and not just any city–the nation's capital! For six days, the WIHS transforms local city streets around the Verizon Center into stabling and exercise areas for hundreds of horses. Show jumping, hunter, equitation and dressage competition is the mainstay of the show, with entertaining exhibitions of racing terriers, a celebrity sports challenge and barrel racing rounding out a very full program. Riders of all ages – from children as young as seven riding ponies to experienced riders well into their 50's on powerful jumpers and dressage horses – compete throughout the year and throughout the country to qualify to ride at Washington.
New this year is side saddle, with riders evoking the elegance and style of past eras, the AHJF Nations Cup Hunter Challenge, an innovative hunter competition pairing WIHS equitation (junior) riders with international show jumping riders, and a polo exhibition.
Barn/Group Night, Thurs, Oct. 26, is a favorite with local young riders who attend in groups and vie for prizes based on best group spirit, best essay, largest group, etc. All participants get a free tee-shirt and have the unique opportunity to walk the show jumping course with grand prix riders (and get autographs) following the $20,000 Gamblers Choice class. On Saturday afternoon, younger children will enjoy pony rides, face painting and horse-based learning activities at the Pony Pavilion located just outside the Verizon Center.
More than 60 vendors offering equestrian gear, apparel, jewelry and other unique items are conveniently located on the concourse around the competition arena. Spectators also may bid on more than 60 unique and one-of-a-kind items in the Silent Auction.
WIHS Local Weekend offers local amateur riders, who otherwise may not qualify, a chance to ride at the Washington International. Local children and adult amateur hunter riders based within 100 miles of Washington, D.C. may compete in a qualifying event Oct. 20-22 at Prince George's Equestrian Center in Upper Marlboro, Md., with the top finishers eligible to ride in the WIHS Local Hunter Finals at the Verizon Center on Sunday, October 29th.
The WIHS is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization benefiting local and national charities. Current and past donation recipients include the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, NBC4's Camp 4 Kids, ASPCA, Childrens' Inn at the National Institutes of Health, Community Services for Autistic Adults & Children, National Center for Therapeutic Riding, Newspapers in Education, Starlight Starbright Foundation-Midatlantic, and many more.
Horse Show Office:
16063 Comprint Circle, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, (301) 987-9400, Fax: (301) 987-9461, website: www.wihs.org, Executive Director: Susie Webb, email@example.com
2006 Washington International Horse Show
Tickets and Schedule ***Program subject to change***
Hours: Two performances daily except Sunday: Day (Tues-Sun): 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Evening: (Tues-Sat): 7:00-10:30 p.m. (ending times approx.)
Tickets – www.ticketmaster.com or call 202-397-SEAT
Anytime Package: $85 (a $235 value); good for all 11 performances.
Pony Pavilion: Tickets for the Pony Pavilion available only at the Pony Pavilion on Sat., Oct. 28, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Entry by donation. Donations of $5 or $10 are readily accepted at the Pony Pavilion with net proceeds going to the Meadowbrook Foundation.
*Barn Night/Groups (10 or more) receive $5 off each ticket on Thursday night only.
**VIP seats include premium arena-level seating and a complimentary WIHS program book ($10 value).
Students, Seniors, and Military save $5 off tickets for Sat., Oct. 28 daytime performance, with proper ID. (Excludes VIP tickets.)
Metro Special: Save $5 off tickets for any performance with presentation of bus or rail Metro card. (Excludes VIP tickets.)
***Discount offers cannot be combined.
Tentative Schedule:
Tuesday, Oct. 24: Daytime performance: Regular and Green Conformation Hunters; First/Second Year Green Hunters; Regular Working Hunters; Amateur/Owner Hunters (Riders 35 & Under and Over 35); Evening performance: WIHS Children's Hunter and Adult Hunter Championships
Wednesday, Oct. 25: Daytime performance: Regular Working and Regular Conformation Hunters; Second Year Green and Green Conformation Hunters; A/O Hunter (35 & Under and Over 35); Amateur/Owner Jumpers; Evening performance: WIHS Children's Jumper Championships and Adult Jumper Championships
Thursday, Oct. 26 (BARN/GROUP NIGHT): Daytime performance: Small Junior Hunters (15 & Under); Large Junior Hunters (15 & Under); Small Junior Hunters (16-17), Large Junior Hunters (16-17); $25,000 President's Cup Qualifier; Amateur/Owner Jumpers, Junior Jumpers; Evening performance: WIHS Invitational Dressage Championship Grand Prix; $20,000 Gambler's Choice, Side Saddle, Barrel Racing, Terrier Races
Friday, Oct. 27: Daytime performance: Small Junior Hunters (15 & Under); Large Junior Hunters (15 & Under); Small Junior Hunters (16-17), Large Junior Hunters (16-17); WIHS Equitation; Amateur/Owner Jumpers; Junior. Jumpers TFR (time first round); $25,000 Open Jumpers; Evening performance: Polo, WIHS Invitational Dressage Championship Freestyle; $20,000 Accumulator Class, $25,000 Puissance, Barrel Racing, Terrier Races
Saturday, Oct. 28: Daytime performance: Small, Medium and Large Pony Hunters; $20,000 Hit & Hurry Class; Media Sports Celebrity Challenge; $15,000 AHJF Nations Cup Hunter Challenge; Junior Jumpers; Pony Pavilion; Evening performance: WIHS Equitation Classic (Jumper Phase & Final work-off); $100,000 President's Cup Grand Prix, Terrier Races
Sunday, Oct. 29: Small, Medium and Large Pony Hunters; WIHS Pony Equitation Classic; Local Hunter Finals (Horses); Local Hunter Finals (Ponies)


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