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MUSIC SATURDAY - JACQUES AUBERT SR
"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"― J.K. Rowling
Jacques Aubert (30 September 1689 – 19 May 1753), also known as Jacques Aubert le Vieux (Jacques Aubert the Elder), was a French composer and violinist. Aubert was born in Paris and became a student of Jean Baptiste Senaillé. His first position was as violinist in the service of the Prince of Condé. Thereafter he was a member of the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy.
From 1728 to 1752, he was the first violinist at the Paris Opéra. He regularly and successfully appeared for a dozen years beginning in 1729 at the Concert Spirituel with, among other works, concertos for violin and orchestra of his own composition.
Together with Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville and Jean-Marie Leclair, Aubert brought the zest of Italian violin virtuosity into the French musical fare of their time. He died in Belleville. As well as instrumental music, Aubert composed operas and ballets.
His son Louis Aubert (painter) (1720-c.1800) was also a violinist and composer. Another son, Jean-Louis Aubert (1731–1814) was a dramatist, poet and journalist, also known as the Abbé Aubert.
Here are some Concertos & Concerts de Simphonies by Aubert, performed by Le Carillon and Collegium Musicum 90.
Labels: baroque, biography, classics, france, music
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MOVIE MONDAY - PHRYNE FISHER
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." ― Voltaire
We've just finished watching the 2012-2015 three-season Australian TV series "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" starring Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt and Ashleigh Cummings. This series is based on the novels of Kerry Isabelle Greenwood (born 17 June 1954 in Footscray, Victoria), who is an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably the string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as plays. She is unmarried but lives with a "registered wizard".
Miss Phryne Fisher is a wealthy aristocrat and private detective who lives in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, in the late 1920s. With the assistance of her maid Dot, and Bert and Cec (who are wharfies, taxi drivers and red raggers), she solves all manner of crimes in swinging Melbourne of the inter-war years. Phryne is no ordinary aristocrat, as she can fly a plane, drives her own car (a Hispano-Suiza) and sometimes wears trousers. However, while displaying bohemian panache, she manages also to maintain style and class. Phryne was accidentally named after a famous Greek courtesan who lived in the 4th century BC. At her christening, her father forgot the classical name, Psyche, that her mother had intended for her.
First, let me confess I have read a few of the Phryne Fisher novels by Ms Greenwood and enjoyed them quite a lot. When I heard that this series was made based on them I was a little skeptical as to how well the 1920s era would be captured on film (video, memory chip what have you!). But we toned down our expectations and watched the first few episodes. We were pleasantly surprised! The sets, costumes, props, authentic Melbourne locations, music, cars and homes were absolutely spot on. We watched and enjoyed every episode of the first series and went on to watch all three.
Essie Davis does an amazing job of recreating Miss Fisher's character to a tee, although admittedly she is older than the 27 years of the novels' heroine. This is not jarring at all and Ms Davis has enough panache, aplomb and just the right tongue-in-cheek good humour to carry off the series to perfection. She is ably supported by Nathan Page, the police Inspector with whom she collaborates in order to solve the mysteries. Her "lady's companion" Dot, played by Ashleigh Cummings is great as the progressively progressive young, good, Catholic woman whom Miss Fisher educates in the ways of the world. Hugo Johnstone-Burt plays the long suffering and young innocent constable, the inspector's sidekick who falls for Dot and helps in his sometimes bumbling way to catch the crooks.
The remainder of the regular actors and episode guests all do a sterling job and contribute wonderfully to the mystery covered by each episode. All manner of stories and themes are covered, reminding us that people are the same and driven by the same passions, motives and emotions whatever the place and time in history. Drugs, human trafficking, greed, jealousy, love, ambition, social inequality, are all considered and Miss Fisher as pioneer feminist does a great deal to not only solve the mysteries but advance the rights of women and help the disenfranchised and browbeaten claim their place in the sun. There are also interesting references to World War I and the Anzacs (Cec and Bert being diggers themselves).
We recommend this excellent series to people who not only love whodunnits, but also aficionados of period drama, humorous series and of course good Australian productions.
Labels: australia, law, movies, review, social_change, society, TV, violence, women
ART SUNDAY - GIOVANNI SEGANTINI
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899) was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by major museums. In later life he combined a Divisionist painting style with Symbolist images of nature. He was active in Switzerland for most of his life.
Giovanni Battista Emanuele Maria Segatini [sic] was born at Arco in Trentino, which was then part of the County of Tyrol in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He later changed his family name by adding an "n" after the "a". He was the second child of Agostino Segatini (1802–1866) and Margherita de Giradi (1828–1865). His older brother, Lodovico, died in a fire the year Giovanni was born. During the first seven years of his life his father, who was a tradesman, travelled extensively while looking for work.
Except for a six-month period in 1864 when Agostino returned to Trentino, Segantini spent his early years with his mother, who experienced severe depression due to the death of Lodovico. These years were marked by poverty, hunger and limited education due to his mother's inability to cope. In the spring of 1865 his mother died after spending the past seven years in increasingly poor health. His father left Giovanni under the care of Irene, his second child from a previous marriage, and again travelled in search of work. He died a year later without returning home and leaving his family nothing.
Without money from her father, Irene lived in extreme poverty. She was forced to spend most of her time working menial jobs while leaving Giovanni to subsist on his own. Irene hoped to improve her life by moving to Milan, and in late 1865 she submitted an application to relinquish Austrian citizenship for both her brother and her. She either misunderstood the process or simply did not have enough time to follow through, and although their Austrian citizenship was revoked she neglected to apply for Italian citizenship. As a result, both Segantini and his sister remained stateless for the rest of their lives.
After he became famous, Switzerland offered Segantini citizenship on more than one occasion, but he refused in spite of many hardships, saying Italy was his true homeland. After his death the Swiss government successfully awarded him citizenship. At age seven Segantini ran away and was later found living on the streets of Milan. The police committed him to the Marchiondi Reformatory, where he learned basic cobbling skills but little else. For much of his early life he could barely read or write; he finally learned both skills when he was in his mid-30s.
Fortunately a chaplain at the reformatory noticed that he could draw quite well, and he encouraged this talent in an attempt to lift his self-esteem. In 1873 Segantini's half-brother Napoleon claimed him from the reformatory, and for the next year Segantini lived with Napoleon in Trentino. Napoleon ran a photography studio, and Segantini learned the basics of this relatively new art form while working there with his half-brother. He would later use photography to record scenes that he incorporated into his painting.
He attended courses at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and achieved his first success with his painting, "Il coro di Sant'Antonio" (The Choir of Sant'Antonio). In 1881, Segantini turned his back on the city and together with Luigia Bugatti, known as Bice, settled in the Brianza, a lakeland district situated between Milan and Como. His rejection of the city and the Academy, with its doctrinaire rules and prescribed mythological and religious subject matter, is typical of the times. Like many artists, Segantini looked beyond traditional forms of painting in search of naturalistic, simple motifs from everyday life.
At that time, the Brianza was an entirely rural landscape, and Segantini immediately set to work studying the daily lives of the peasants. The close relationship between the shepherds or shepherdesses and their animals was a favourite pictorial motif, which the artist also repeatedly took up in Graubünden. In 1882, the unmarried couple's first son, Gottardo, (who was later to became a painter himself and also wrote his father's biography) was born, followed in later years by sons Alberto and Mario and daughter Bianca.
In August 1886, after a long exploratory trip, Giovanni Segantini settled in Savognin, an Alpine farming village in the Oberhalbstein region of Graubünden. Shortly afterwards, in the winter of 1886/87, he received a visit from his art dealer, Vittore Grubicy, who informed his protégé of the latest developments in the art world in France. However, in particular the Alpine landscape, with its crystal-clear light, led Segantini to discover a new pictorial language.
Occasionally, he gave the closely observed mountain landscapes symbolic content, creating allegorical pictorial visions of extraordinary luminosity. This shift away from realistic genre painting came at a time when it was in crisis all across Europe. After eight years in Savognin, Giovanni Segantini moved with his family to the Engadin; he was unable to pay the cantonal taxes and was being pursued by creditors.
In 1894, he took up residence in the Chalet Kuoni in Maloja. Here, the artist – whose paintings were among the most expensive of the day – continued to enjoy the extravagant lifestyle of the Milanese upper classes, which rapidly swallowed up his increasingly high fees. The family spent the winter in Soglio, in the Bregaglia valley. On 28 September 1899, at the age of 41 years, Segantini died unexpectedly on the Schafberg high above Pontresina while working on the middle section of his Alpine Triptych.
More than anything else, Segantini's work represents the quintessential transition from traditional nineteenth-century art to the changing styles and interests of the twentieth century. He began with simple scenes of common people living off of the earth ‒ peasants, farmers, shepherds ‒ and moved toward a thematic symbolist style that continued to embody the landscapes around him while intertwining pantheistic images representing "a primeval Arcadia."
Over the course of his life he moved from both the physical and emotional internal, such as his scene of motherhood in a stable, to the grand external views of the mountain scenery where he chose to live. Nature and the connections of people to nature are the core themes of his art. After he moved to the mountains he wrote: "I am now working passionately in order to wrest the secret of Nature's spirit from her. Nature utters the eternal word to the artist: Love, love; and the earth sings life in spring, and the soul of things reawakens."
His 1896 painting "Love at the Springs of Life" (See above - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Milan) reflects Segantini's philosophical approach to his art. Set in the high mountain landscape near his home, it pictures an angel with large wings spread over a small waterfall flowing from some rocks. In the distance two lovers, clothed in white flowing robes, walk along a path coming toward the spring. Around them are flowers that would have been seen by viewers at the time as symbols of love and life. Art historian Robert Rosenblum described Segantini as transforming "the earthbound into the spiritual", and the artist himself referred to his work as "naturalist Symbolism." He said "I've got God inside me. I don't need to go to church."
Labels: art, biography, italy, modern_art, switzerland, symbolism
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TRAVEL TUESDAY #56 - BOLOGNA, ITALY


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The Orinda Juniors had a great time together baking for the annual holiday gathering of the Pediatric/HIV patients and families at Children's Hospital Oakland.
I am sending a heartfelt THANK YOU from the whole Pediatric HIV team at Children's Hospital for the beautiful array of decorated holiday cookie platters! What an abundance of goodies for our patients and families to enjoy on Saturday. We are so grateful for community involvement in helping to make this season bright for our families. They enjoyed crafts, entertainment, lunch and COOKIES before meeting Santa. What a great way to top off the party.
We are pleased to announce Youth Ink 2019 writing contest launches on Monday, December 3, 2018! The Youth Ink writing contest was created to support the literary arts among young people in the Orinda community, Youth Ink is open to all 6th, 7th, and 8th graders who live in Orinda or attend an Orinda school.
Entries must be a story (fiction or non-fiction), poem, or other creative writing form; presented in English, and written specifically for the contest and without teacher or parent involvement. Entries must be 750 words or less. Submissions will be evaluated on content, clarity, structure, and originality.
The writing prompt for 2019 is It Matters; however, you may write about anything you like—real or imaginary—adhere to the prompt or not! There is no limit to your imagination.
Contest opens December 3, 2018 and closes on February 15, 2019.
Download a Youth Ink 2019 entry form.
Completed entry form. Make sure to include all required information in your submission.
PDF of entry submission. We will not accept Google doc, Word doc, or any other format. Contestant name must be listed in a header on top right corner of every page.
Once you have submitted your entry, you will receive a receipt notification from oyouthink@gmail.com to confirm your entry was successfully submitted.
First Place $250, Second Place $125, and Third Place $75, and ten honorable mentions gift certificates. Winners will be notified by mail and receive their prizes at an Awards Ceremony in April. The ceremony is open to the public and all family and friends are invited.
The contest is organized and run by the Orinda Junior Women's Club, with additional financial sponsorship provided by Friends of the Orinda Library, the Lamorinda Arts Council, and Orinda Community Foundation.
We are so excited to have had Gina Moreland, Founder and Executive Director of Habitot Children's Museum join us at our November meeting. A core part of Habitot's mission is to benefit as broad an audience of families raising young children as possible. As such, the organization partners with non-profits and social service agencies to reach and serve the following: children with special needs and their families, homeless families, LBGTQ families, teen parent families, low-income/immigrant caregivers, foster/adoptive families, families on the path to reunification. We were able to help by stuffing favor bags for the birthday parties for homeless children that they offer.
Habitot is looking for support in so many ways, especially as it continues its efforts to raise money to move to a larger space. We appreciate you reaching out to anyone you may know who may be interested in learning more. Learn more about Habitat online!
On Friday, October 26, several Orinda Juniors and their young ghosts and goblins visited the Orinda Senior Village for a frightfully fun small parade inside their dining area. The children, dressed in their Halloween best, passed out the pumpkins that the Orinda Juniors decorated in our October general meeting. They (and their Orinda Juniors moms) enjoyed some delicious cookies and lemonade afterwards, and received a lot of festive applause as we departed. Once again, it was a nice visit to help spread some joy to the residents and their visiting families at the Orinda Senior Village.
The Orinda Juniors got together for an evening of good food and great company at the annual Dine Around Town event in Orinda. Happy Summer everyone!
Each year the Orinda Juniors donate supplies and a night of food and fun to children staying at the STAND! shelter for women and children facing domestic violence. This year, we brought them pizzas, salads and cupcakes for dinner; as well as comforters, shampoos and other beauty products. The highlight of the event was the Lawrence Hall of Science who brought an assortment of animals for the children to pet and learn more about. The kids had fun and even many of the moms had a good time. It was so nice to see them having fun and sharing lots of laughter.
Another fun Easter-basket-stuffing-gathering by OJWC. We created 18 beautiful and yummy baskets for the siblings of kids at Oakland Children's Hospital. Thanks to everyone who participated and to our fabulous host Amy!
The Orinda Junior Women's Club had a wonderful holiday celebration last night! We collected a mountain of gifts for children at the Bay Area Crisis Nursery, packaged and sold olive oil gift sets for our holiday fundraiser, hosted our annual holiday mug exchange, dined on a wonderful potluck feast, and best of all had a fastastic evening enjoying each other's company!
The elves at work packaging Amphora olive oil and vinegar sets for our annual holiday fundraiser.
The finished product. 120 bottles of gourmet goodness!
The Youth Ink writing contest was created to support the literary arts among young people in the Orinda community, Youth Ink is open to all 6th, 7th, and 8th graders who live in Orinda or attend an Orinda school.
Entries must be a story (fiction or non-fiction), poem, or other creative writing form; presented in English, and written specifically for the contest and without teacher or parent involvement. Submissions will be evaluated on content, clarity, structure, and originality.
The writing prompt for 2018 is My World; however, you may write about anything you like—real or imaginary—adhere to the prompt or not! There is no limit to your imagination.
Contest opens December 4, 2017 and closes on February 14, 2018. Download a Youth Ink 2018 Entry Forms, or obtain a hard copy at local schools or the Orinda Library. Contest rules and submission information can be found on the entry form.
First Place $250, Second Place $125, and Third Place $75, and ten honorable mentions gift certificates. Winners will be notified by mail and receive their prizes at an Awards Ceremony on April 19, 2018. The ceremony is open to the public and all family and friends are invited.


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Curva ist eine Ortschaft im Departamento La Paz im südamerikanischen Anden-Staat Bolivien.

Lage im Nahraum
Curva ist zentraler Ort des Landkreises (bolivianisch: Municipio) Curva in der Provinz Bautista Saavedra. Die Ortschaft liegt auf einem Bergsporn in einer Höhe von  zwischen der Cordillera Muñecas im Süden und der Cordillera Apolobamba im Norden an einem der Zuflüsse des Río Mapiri, der zum Río Beni hin entwässert.

Geographie
Curva liegt im Osten des bolivianischen Altiplano  am Rande der Cordillera Central. Das Klima der Region ist ein typisches Tageszeitenklima, bei dem die mittleren Temperaturschwankungen im Tagesverlauf deutlicher ausfallen als im Ablauf der Jahreszeiten.

Die Jahresdurchschnittstemperatur von Charazani liegt bei 15 °C (siehe Klimadiagramm Charazani) und schwankt nur wenig zwischen gut 12 °C im Juni/Juli und knapp 17 °C im November/Dezember. Der Jahresniederschlag beträgt etwa 750 mm, einer viermonatigen Trockenzeit von Mai bis August mit Monatswerten von unter 25 mm steht ein regenreicher Sommer von Dezember bis März gegenüber, in dem die monatlichen Niederschlagswerte teilweise deutlich über 100 mm liegen.

Verkehrsnetz
Curva liegt in einer Entfernung von 264 Straßenkilometern nordwestlich von La Paz, der Hauptstadt des gleichnamigen Departamentos.

Von La Paz führt die asphaltierte Fernstraße Ruta 2 in nordwestlicher Richtung siebzig Kilometer bis Huarina, von dort zweigt die Ruta 16 ab, die als asphaltierte Straße weiter in südwestlicher Richtung in 97 Kilometern entlang des Titicaca-See bis Escoma führt. Von dort führt die Ruta 16 weiter als unbefestigte Piste weiter nach Norden und erreicht nach 87 Kilometern die Provinzhauptstadt Charazani, über die man auf weiteren zehn Kilometern Curva erreicht.

Bevölkerung
Die Einwohnerzahl der Ortschaft ist in den vergangenen beiden Jahrzehnten auf fast das Vierfache angestiegen:

Aufgrund der historischen Bevölkerungsentwicklung weist die Region einen hohen Anteil an Quechua-Bevölkerung auf, im Municipio Curva sprechen 80,4 Prozent der Bevölkerung die Quechua-Sprache.

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Weblinks
 Reliefkarte der Region Umanata 1:100.000 (PDF; 6,9 MB)
 Reliefkarte der Region Sorata 1:250:000 (PDF; 13,1 MB)
 Reliefkarte der Region Puno/Titicacasee 1:250.000 (JPG; 8,56 MB)
 Municipio Curva - Übersichtskarten Nr. 21602
 Municipio Curva - Detailkarte und Bevölkerungsdaten (PDF; 549 kB) (spanisch)
 Departamento La Paz - Sozialdaten der Municipios (PDF; 11,63 MB) (spanisch)

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I noticed i went from tiny baby pony to bush woolie...weh i rather be a tiny baby pony lol.
I know how to customize it but I'm actually wondering does anyone have the list of what we can evolve to and how?
Hi there Your title evolves as you post more, but you're welcome to change it to a custom title at any time. Hover over your name in the upper righthand section of the top navigation bar, and select Personal Details. The option is right there on that page.
That is a good question I never thought about that because, I changed mine I think lol.
baaaa haaaa yea its about cat pee pony ROFLOL. Duh..blond moment. I am not sure if @MustBeJewel will be willing to release the list the forum has selected for the number of posts. Its just like the trophy's. For me, these things have always been an mystery.
(Not my photo.) Maaan I'd love to have one of these girls!


Tickets are now on sale for the quiz night. They are £5 per person, with teams of 8-10 people. If you cannot get enough people for a team don't worry we can help to make up the numbers. Saturday 18th May 2013 7.00pm for 7.30pm Start As in previous years the ticket price does not include food but please feel free to bring your own, or order in a take-away! Soft drinks will be available with an honesty box. If you want wine or beer please bring it along. In lieu of a licensed bar the PTA would appreciate a donation for corkage. Space is limited so book soon by completing the slip below and putting it in the PTA box in school reception (cheques payable to LHS PTA). There will be a raffle on the night – donations of prizes for it would be very welcome!


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What do you feel is the most important word in the book? The most important passage? The most important element (an event, a character, a feeling, a place, a decision)? Why is this so important to the overall theme or conflict of the novel? Be sure to explain with details from the text.


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Jill Lepore: What the Theory of Disruptive Innovation Gets Wrong
If your school has been closed, if the staff was fired in a "turnaround," you have experienced the theory of disruptive innovation, which is associated with Harvard Business Professor Clayton Chistensen.
Or perhaps your neighborhood school fell victim to Joseph Schumpeter's theory of "creative destruction."
Just so you can see these ideologies from a critical perspective, be sure to read Harvard historian Jill Lepore's critique of Christianson's work on disruptive innovation, which first appeared in "The New Yorker." She challenges his thesis and argues that those bold start-ups flamed out, while stable institutions live on. And yet the idea of disruption has become wildly popular, as we now see in education policy.
Charters and vouchers are disruptive. Firing entire staffs is disruptive. The results of these "innovations" have been unimpressive and sometimes disastrous, yet their champions continue to demand more and more. To understand why, read this article.
Categories Closing schools, Corporate Reformers, Education Reform
Leigh Campbell-Hale says:
Diane Ravitch and Jill Lepore are the working historians I most admire. Both write brilliant books, and they also bring their well researched ideas to the general public through websites like this and publications such as the New Yorker. Starting with our first MBA, business school graduate, George W. Bush, to our current administration, the B-school graduates' outlook on education (and everything else) has dwarfed all other viewpoints, even, counter-intuitively, after the Great Recession, caused, I would argue, by B-school graduates. I hope pieces such as these and this website are the beginning of a coherent narrative representing a massive pushback against this wrongheaded set of beliefs.
Bob Shepherd says:
One of the best book titles ever was one chosen by Robert Graves for a collection of his essays. He called the collection
Difficult Questions, Easy Answers
Answers come easily to the ignorant. Wrong answers, but answers.
KrazyTA says:
Bob Shepherd: not an old dead Greek guy but he'll do in a pinch:
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong." [H. L. Mencken]
And notice this one inconvenient fact re "creative disruption" and "innovative disruption" and "disruptive innovation": the, er, facts don't back it up.
But what the hey! When one is a member of the BBBBC [BusyBody Billionaire Boys Club], for example, there are plenty of folks [aka employees and those looking for handouts] that are eager to tell you what you want to hear.
Ain't life grand?
Disruption does occur, of course. There are many, many examples. In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke compares changes in sociopolitical systems to demolishing an old structure as part of a renovation:
"If circumspection and caution are a part of wisdom, when we work only upon inanimate matter, surely they become a part of duty too, when the subject of our demolition and construction is not brick and timber, but sentient beings, by the sudden alteration of whose state, condition, and habits, multitudes may be rendered miserable."
How might they be rendered miserable? By unfathomed factors.
Ecologies are healthier than are monocultures.
While we should constantly be subjecting underlying assumptions to critical scrutiny, we should also be cautious to avoid hubris and hasty decision making when dealing with complex systems.
I love Graves's title because it represented what was for him a rare moment of humility, a recognition that his essays were essays in the root sense of that word–incomplete, speculative attempts or forays.
Doug Garnett says:
Re. Your Burke quote… I think history teaches us that revolution (and disruption) tend to replace what we believe to be horrible mediocrity with that which is truly evil… It's the rare exception that disruption ends up positive. And that makes sense. The universe doesn't follow rules where catastrophe is good.
Your point is well made, Doug. How short a period of time elapsed between the Russian Revolution, with all its promises, and the Holdomor famine/Ukrainian genocide!
Often, however, a judgment regarding the consequences depends upon the time frame that one is considering–the immediate consequences or the long-term ones. The dinosaurs get wiped out. Catastrophe. Little furry creatures get niches to expand into. Lovely if you happen to be a descendant of little furry creatures.
Ah, how to guarantee you're a furry creature? (Very funny way to describe it, by the way.)
The consequences of catatrosphic changes are not usually very good for most people going through them. Long before the Holomodor, in the Civil War following the Bolshevit Revolution conditions were horrific. In a few years after the French Revolution the economy collapsed about 50% with widespread famine and violence. In order to get food to eat the French invaded the Rhineland – "exporting their misery" as it was said. France did not fully recover from the economic effects of the French Revolution until about 1840.
On the other hand declining cultures may be doomed to collapse in any case and ultimately such collapse may even have positive effects. Joseph Taintor states that the standard of living for common people in 6th century Italy after the collapse of the Roman empire was higher than in the 5th century.
K Quinn says:
Sure hope one of my former professors reads this. He assigned this to a bunch of education master's students in a class I was TA'ing and I was horrified. Not only at him and his ardent belief in it, but also at the teachers/students who agreed with them. How could they possibly think that disruption at this scale – i.e. firing and replacing an entire staff – was good for kids? But then, he'd never taught, even though he was teaching an education class…
MathVale says:
Disruptive Innovation has as a corollary "destructive change replaces one set of problems with another equal to, or more severe, than the original".
Counter examples are everywhere to disprove the theory. Stable, long lived companies and brands that quietly exist through savvy leadership, incremental improvements, and careful, deliberate planning with corporate self-discipline. Sadly, business schools thrive on pop theories and selective, anecdotal observations. Give me a professor who has worked his/her way up the corporate ladder in a solid, centuries old firm over an ivory towered "innovator".
Fogyism? Who cares. The reality is change through innovation stands on the shoulders of giants, not by knocking them over and stomping on them.
MathVale: in baseball terms, a base-clearing four-bagger.
You knocked it out of the park!
FLERP! says:
I remember first seeing Christensen's name in the late 1990s. The buzzphrase wasn't "disruptive innovation," but "disruptive technology." And the "disruptive technology" of the day was "network-attached storage," which was a relatively new type of data storage system that consisted of simple computers that could be stacked or linked to expand storage capacity. The computers were simple and single-purpose: they did nothing but store data. And they were modular, so you only had to buy what you needed and could expand as necessary. The darling of the "network-attached storage" sector was a company called Network Appliance. If you look at a NTAP chart from, say, 1995 to 1999, it looks like it's approaching a vertical line. Christensen got hired by Merrill Lynch and sat on a tech advisory board. I'm not exactly sure what he did on that board, but it may not be a coincidence that Merrill's computer hardware analyst started promoting Network Appliance as a purveyor of "disruptive technology" that would ultimately unseat EMC as the established, dominant player in the storage market.
Anyway, according to Christensen, the point was not that disruptive technologies are "better" technologies. The point was that they are rough, unsophisticated, and often buggy, but are also cheap and simple enough to deploy that they get a foothold in an industry, and then, before you know it, they take over. It wasn't about improvement, or even "innovation" (from an engineering process perspective).
I see Christensen's branched way out from what, back then, seemed like a very narrow point that was most applicable to computer technology. I don't know how seriously he's taken in his field or in the tech business anymore. But I think this basic point is interesting to note: that "disruptive" technologies are not disruptive because they're better.
But disruption isn't the goal; money is the goal and in order to get their hands on it, they have to destroy, defame, debase, vilify everything else. They know they are spouting lies, but they don't care who or what gets harmed in their wake. The are driven by greed and greed alone. They are masterful at rhetoric and diabolic in their actions and deeds.
Old Teacher says:
Two years ago the Las Vegas Review Journal made a big deal and highlighted weekly articles about the turnaround schools, showing the wonderful changes going on there. Our ultra reform minded superintendent and board were cheerleading this innovation. They swore success was inevitable, so they dis some things they should have done anyway, like repair toilets, paint hallways… In the end, after two years, test scores went down, staff has left, and there is no mention in the news of the great turnaround schools. They are considering turning them around again. Persistence is one trait they seem to possess in abundance.
Regina Rothwell Roybal says:
Old teacher: Last week, the Review Journal published a three-part series profiling a student at Chaparral High, one of the turn around schools, and one where I taught 18 years ago. Did you read that? Test scores and graduation rates went up, not because they fired staff and hired new, but because, as you say, the school received more funding for building maintenance, wrap around social services, tutoring and more. But this one student still didn't graduate due to crushing problems at home, reinforcing the fact that poverty is the problem for low performance in some schools, not the teachers. I found this article interesting, given the paper's disdain for teachers and praise for reform and charter schools in every single editorial on education.
Thanks for the update, I have been gone the last few weeks. Could it be that the RJ may be seeing a glimmer of light? Be still my heart! Thanks Regina, I'll look for the article. I just remember all the glaring headlines of "The turnaround schools" featured weekly.
It's a living.
Laura H. Chapman says:
One of many gems from the historian Jill Lapore.
" Innovation is the idea of progress jammed into a criticism-proof jack-in-the-box."
The promotion of books by economists and aspiring business gurus is amazing. So is the rapid and uncritical uptake of the typical fare in these books–slogans, bullet lists, case studies, tunnel vision, any posturing that might be branded as a theory.
When people ask me about innovation and art education, they usually expect some easy-to-repeat justification for teaching art in this era where this word is "hot stuff" even it the concept is rarely examined. I almost always disrupt the expectation of happy talk.
Among innovators with some training in art and hope for fame I just start with Adolph Hitler. We have freeways from a prototype developed under his leadership. We have suburbs from another prototype–planned communities with homes completed by a driveway and garage for a Volkswagen–people's wagon. We have also a massive campaign that combined ridicule with artistic censorship and every imaginable technique of aesthetic persuasion to muster support for a utopian agenda. That agenda also, of course, included the Holocaust.
Many readers of this blog are engaged in trying to disrupt the propaganda campaigns launched by people who care less about students, teachers, and public education than making profits, ensuring that schools are segregated, and by all means necessary infused with an ethos that is "strictly academic" and "rigorous" and measured by "impacts."
Propagandists want "the American people" to believe that teachers are untrustworthy, uninformed, unfit for their jobs, ineffective, need to be micromanaged, and also subject firing if they fail to produce expected gains in test scores–euphemistically called "student growth" and treated as equivalent to "teacher effectiveness."
If there is a proper place for disruptive innovation in education it might begin with criticizing this language and related jargon of the day Much of it has been imported into education from economists. The econometric turn in education has brought with it an insidious disruption and corruption of speech that fails to address the humanity of students and honor forms of education that are likely to inspire them.
"This fall, the University of Southern California is opening a new program: "The degree is in disruption," the university announced. "
Will they offer a "Doctor of Disruption" degree (DoD?)
How about a "Master of Disruption"? (MaD)
A "Bachelor of Disruption"? (BaD?)
Business schools (especially Harvard) produce such world-class "science". I can see the Nobel committee will have to add a Nobel Disruption Prize (awarded for what is judged to be "Great contributions to the disruption of the human race"
Personally, I think "disruption" is a perfect name for education reform — and "disrupters" for the ones engaged in it. They are like the kid at the back of your class who is always trying to disrupt the lesson.
They never add anything of value. Just noise.
From the census bureau:
"The U.S. Census Bureau reported today that 74 percent of those who have a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering and math — commonly referred to as STEM — are not employed in STEM occupations.
"STEM graduates have relatively low unemployment, however these graduates are not necessarily employed in STEM occupations," said Liana Christin Landivar, a sociologist in the Census Bureau's Industry and Occupation Statistics Branch.
According to new statistics from the 2012 American Community Survey, engineering and computer, math and statistics majors had the largest share of graduates going into a STEM field with about half employed in a STEM occupation. Science majors had fewer of their graduates employed in STEM. About 26 percent of physical science majors; 15 percent of biological, environmental and agricultural sciences majors; 10 percent of psychology majors; and 7 percent of social science majors were employed in STEM.
At 9.1 million, the college major with the most graduates was business, while multidisciplinary studies was the major with the smallest number of graduates at 275,000."
We have A LOT of "business" graduates in this country, which may be why we try to cram everything and anything into a business framework.
Anything Arne Duncan says, IMMEDIATELY go and check it with either the census dept. or the labor dept. They have real numbers 🙂
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/employment_occupations/cb14-130.html#.U8MO7NuJ3bI.twitter
wdf1 says:
Interesting. I also just ran into this article:
The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt big time: its own culture
I spent 10 years working as a programmer in the high tech industry (not in Silicon valley but in the Boston area,which has many similarities) and have seen quite a bit of the "I'm better, smarter and more creative than everyone else on the planet so you should bow down before me" mentality.
These folks have a very warped sense of their own worth and have a particularly bad habit of thinking that simply because they have been successful at one thing (programming a computer), they are necessarily good at (indeed experts at) and knowledgeable about everything.
Gates has this mentality in spades (watch what his former partner Paul Allen had to say on 60 Minutes), which is what allows him to come charging like a Bill into a china shop waving his Common Core tail around and snorting that he — and only he — knows how to "fix what is wrong with education" (with the implication that teachers know nothing and should just shut up and be happy if they are able to retain their job through the good graces of His Holiness and his hackolytes.
And there is actually a very big irony involving some of these folks. They are not even very good at programming. Some of them are actually "hacks", producing software that is buggy, is hard to use, and crashes a lot and is generally a disorganized mess (ring any bells?)
I'd actually put Bill Gates in the latter category. — with the hacks. And I am hardly alone in that regard. I've worked with some of the cream of the crop in the programming business and many of them referred to Microsoft with condescension (calling it Microslop, for example).
Yes. Microsoft never innovated, just exploited. Genius opportunists. It was all about that stock price and the carrot of options..
I, too, worked a couple decades in software engineering and security. Every newly minted techie thinks they will be the next Jobs or that hoodied guy at Facebook. Chronic NIH (not invented here) was an epidemic with complications from acute hubris. Most burn out or are promoted to the highest level of their incompetence. Terrible management practices abound. Our design meetings were general p&$$&^@ matches to see who could out think the next guy (there are VERY few women in software engineering) with the most complex, convoluted cranial creation.
wdf1
What a great article!!!!! Thanks for sharing it.
wgersen says:
I read this article after Ms. Lepore was named "Truthdigger of the Week" and wrote a blog post (http://waynegersen.com/2014/07/10/disrupting-disruption/) that incorporated a comment I left on Truthdig.
"My take: "disruptive innovation" enables large swaths of our population to ignore the problems of poverty and government underfunding. It makes intuitive sense to people who've witnessed radical changes in their personal use of technology that disadvantaged children should be able to pull themselves out of poverty if they learn how to take advantage of these technological advances and that government service providers, like the innovation-resistent corporations, NEED to be disrupted and replaced by nimble and forward thinking private sector start-ups. We've substituted our faith in each other and our faith in the government with faith in technology."
But as I noted in the post, I DO believe public education needs to take greater advantage of technology going forward and I DO fear that if we fail to do so we may drive more and more engaged and/or technologically savvy parents out of our system and into non-public charters who may ultimately figure out better ways to integrate technology and personal face-to-face instruction.
Russ Walsh says:
What public education and especially children in the public schools need is not creative disruption, but creative stability. Learning takes place in stable environments. Children need stable environments to learn. Disruption (closing schools, firing teachers, rapid teacher turnover, test flavor of the month) all have costs in terms of children learning. I explored the concept of "creative stability" here:
http://russonreading.blogspot.com/2014/05/creative-stability-better-plan-for.html
"Disruptive innovation," "creative disruption"–oxymoronic (especially moronic) voodoo
words meaning, simply, disruption and chaos. There is an excellent book that I referred people to several months ago on this blog (written, I think, by someone w/the last name Oliver–? It's a recently published book, so one should be able to find it.) It's about how the business world runs itself, using such idiotic methods, how they do NOT work, & yet meeting with denial from corporate heads & other administrators (you know, the Einstein definition of insanity). STOP.THIS.NOW.LEAVE OUR KIDS ALONE!!!!!
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Lil Durk announces 7220 Tour ahead of album release
Durk is yet to reveal openers for the tour
After enjoying the success of the Back Outside tour with Lil Baby last year to promote their collab album, Voice of the Heroes, Lil Durk is going back on the road — this time — solo. On Wednesday (Jan.12), Smurk shared the dates for his upcoming tour titled 7220 beginning in April.
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From the tour dates the Voice shared on Instagram, he'll kick off the tour in Phoenix on April 8, then visit through Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, New York, Pittsburgh, and more before wrapping it up in his hometown, Chicago. The tickets are now available at Ticketmaster.
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Durk teased his 7220 album in November 2021 when he posted a whiteboard with the plans for the album written all over it. "The Voice in album mode," he wrote on his Instagram story. "7220 album coming soon."
The whiteboard displayed a hidden tracklist as well as features. Part of the message on the board promised a no-skip album. "ANTHEMS AND NO SKIPS," the board read.
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The number 7220 represents an area code in Chicago's southside where Durk grew up with his grandmother and other family members. The album release date is yet to be announced.
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A: I faced similar problem but then later figured out that you have to align the RGB array to 8 byte boundary. check http://atlc.sourceforge.net/bmp.html#_toc381201083

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CEA Stronger Together: Listening, Learning & Addressing Teacher Concerns
Teachers, parents, and students in Vernon are gathering for a show of solidarity and a "walk-in" at Rockville High School tomorrow to draw attention to the need for the state to fully fund education for all students.
It's part of a nationwide effort to support public education. Schools in Manchester and Bridgeport will also participate in the walk-ins sponsored by NEA and the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools.
Burlington, VT teacher Andrew Styles and Vernon teacher Peter Borofsky (right) stopped to talk to East Haven teacher Kathleen Pyne at her home this summer to find out what issues are on her mind.
The Vernon Education Association (VEA) expects teacher participation to be high—but that's not due to luck. It's because of CEA support for the local Association's efforts to listen and respond to members' concerns.
"After we learned how to hold organizing conversations last year from CEA Training and Organizational Development Specialist Joe Zawawi we went out and talked to a significant number of our members," said VEA President and Rockville High teacher Peter Borofsky.
Zawawi held trainings in over 100 CEA local Associations last year on how to build lasting relationships through structured one-on-one conversations. Local leaders who have held these conversations have found them to be a very effective way to gather information, identify teachers' concerns, and ultimately effect positive change for members.
In Vernon, one significant issue that came up in many conversations with high school teachers was a lack of time to form social and emotional connections with students.
"We have a rotating A/B block schedule where we have four blocks a days. Educators teach six of those with a planning period each day," Borofsky said. "We came up with a proposal for teaching five blocks, with a block dedicated every other day to student enrichment, intervention, and support. We're currently working collaboratively with the Board of Education to develop the new model, and we're excited to implement it next school year."
This early success has convinced Vernon teachers of the potential an organizing model can hold for local Associations and the exciting possibilities going forward.
"We've already had some positive conversations with administrators about concerns teachers have around teacher evaluation and testing, and we look forward to further discussions on those issues," Borofsky said.
From conversations to member organizing
Vernon Education Association President Peter Borofsky (at left) and CEA UniServ Rep Brett Pickering (2nd from right) practiced holding organizing conversations with other participants at the NEA Organizing Institute this summer.
After successfully implementing the skills he learned from the CEA training on holding one-on-one conversations, Borofsky was eager to learn more.
"I wanted to learn how we in Vernon can move in a direction to make more changes," he said.
Borofsky and other CEA members and staff, including Danbury teacher Tim Nott, joined colleagues from around the Northeast at the NEA Northeast Organizing Institute in New Haven this summer.
After learning how to have member-driven conversations, the CEA members and staff participating in the institute fanned out across New Haven County, going door to door to CEA members' houses in a half-dozen different towns.
Borofsky visited teachers in East Haven, including Kathleen Pyne. He listened intently as she articulated her concerns about infringements on teacher prep time and the excessive data collection that has overtaken public schools. "Both work against the betterment of our students," she said.
Pyne complimented Borofsky on his listening and interviewing skills. "I felt engaged. He was very much on point," she said.
Massachusetts Field Representative Kim Hoffman (at left) and Danbury teacher Tim Nott spoke with North Haven teacher Karen Pacelli.
Nott visited members in West Haven, including North Haven teacher and West Haven Board of Education member Karen Pacelli. The second grade teacher expressed concerns about over-testing students, tying testing to teacher evaluation, and the trend toward pushing higher and higher expectations down to lower grades in a way that's not developmentally appropriate.
"The big takeaway for me was just that, being a teacher from Danbury, I hadn't thought about other districts going through the same issues that we face," Nott said. "It turned out that the teachers we talked to were just as concerned about the things that I worry about, like Common Core, teacher evaluation, testing, and the time constraints teachers face."
He added, "It was nice to hear other teachers' stories and know that we're all in the same boat—that was really enlightening for me to hear as a new educator. We think we're all different but in the end we all have similar issues."
Members drive CEA and local Association change
One-on-one conversations with local leaders are an important way for members to make their concerns and issues known, but they're certainly not the only way. There are many opportunities for members to have their voices heard at the state and local levels. CEA recently sent a mailing to members' homes seeking input on legislative priorities and is holding County Forums around the state this October to hear from members on important education policy issues.
The 43,000 teachers who make up CEA are at the forefront of education and are therefore the authorities on what works in public education in Connecticut. Teachers know best of all what students need to succeed, and that's why their voice is so crucial.
"Teachers are dedicated to their students and sometimes we just want to stay in our classrooms and keep our heads down, but over time corporations and education bureaucrats have taken over," Nott said. "Common Core and all this testing were implemented without much input from educators. We are professionals, we have a voice, we know what's best for our students and communities. We have power to make change as educators and we need to utilize our voices and communities to make change happen."
Click here to learn more and sign up for a CEA County Forum. For CEA organizing training or any other training from CEA, contact your local president or UniServ Representative.
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Gay teenager gets standing ovation from entire school after coming out during assembly - WATCH
Finn Stannard gave the speech of his life in front of 1500 of his teachers and peers.
Words: Will Stroude
Coming out can be one of the most nerve-wracking things any LGBT person can do, so you can imagine the courage it took one teenage pupil to tell his school's entire student body he was gay during assembly.
Finnn Stannard, a student at St Ignatius' College in Sydney, Australia, took the plunge with a moving speech in which he opened up to 1500 of his teachers and classmates about his struggle to come to terms with his sexuality.
In a video shared by SBS News, Finn tells his a room packed full with his peers: "I've been working towards this speech for four years. In those four years, I have come to understand who I am and how to not be sorry for being myself."
He then tells them he's gay.
"Being different, whether it's being gay or being part of another minority group, can be challenging but it does not have to be scary and isolating," Finn says.
This is the moment a gay student at one of Sydney's most elite Catholic schools - that boasts former prime minister Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce among its alumni - stood up in a packed assembly hall of more than 1,500 students and came out pic.twitter.com/NyZxffFBmr
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"Every single one of you can help, in your own way, by accepting others for exactly who they are."
The power of Finn's words is plain to see when the entire student body gets on their feet to give him a rousing standing ovation at the end of the speech.
Speaking to SBS News, Finn, who says he has since taken his boyfriend to the school formal, expressed his hope of inspiring other students feeling lonely or isolated.
"I think that's really the biggest reason I made sure I got up onto that stage and gave the speech," he said.
"I don't think anybody should have to go through the feeling of loss that I felt like I'd gone through."
Finn's mother Megan Stannard said that she'd been touched by the overwhelmingly positive reaction to her son's announcement.
"The fact that Finn was supported, the fact that his message was heard - I was in tears," she said. "I was just so proud of him."
St Ignatius' head teacher Paul Hines described Finn's speech as a "watershed" moment for the school, which boasts ex-Australian prime minister Tony Abbott as a former pupil.
"I'm not sure anyone chooses their sexuality, that's who they are and therefore we need to be open to that and to accept it and to make sure we live in communities of inclusion - and with that will come diversity," Dr Hines said.
"Certainly that's the case in the world beyond so in my view that should be the case in schools."
You can watch Finn's speech in full over at SBS News.
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Weapons inspectors report initial progress in Syria
The first step in the mission is to scrap the nation's capacity to make chemical weapons by Nov. 1.
BEIRUT – International inspectors racing to meet a mid-2014 deadline to eliminate Syria's chemical stockpile said Thursday they have made "encouraging initial progress" in their mission, and hope to start onsite inspections and begin disabling equipment within the next week.
An advance team of disarmament experts and U.N. staff members arrived in Syria on Tuesday to begin laying the foundations for a broader operation charged with dismantling and ultimately destroying President Bashar Assad's chemical program over the next nine months. The first step in the mission – endorsed by a United Nations Security Council resolution last week – is to scrap Syria's capacity to manufacture chemical weapons by Nov. 1.
In a statement, the team said it has "made encouraging initial progress, following the first working day of meetings with the Syrian authorities."
"Documents handed over yesterday by the Syrian Government look promising, according to team members, but further analysis, particularly of technical diagrams, will be necessary and some more questions remain to be answered," it said.
It added that its desire to begin onsite inspections and disabling equipment depends on the work of technical groups established together with Syrian experts. Those groups, the statement said, are working to iron out the details in three areas crucial to the mission's success: verifying the initial information Syria gave on its chemical program, ensuring the safety of the inspectors, and practical arrangements for implementing the plan.
Early Thursday, a convoy of three U.N. vehicles left a hotel in central Damascus with nine experts from the Netherlands-based chemical weapons watchdog, but it was not clear where they were heading. The team now consists of an advance group of 19 experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and 14 U.N. staff members who arrived on Tuesday. A second group of inspectors is to join them within a week.
Their daily work has been shrouded in as much secrecy as is possible in Syria. Their mission stems from a deadly Aug. 21 attack on opposition-held Damascus suburbs in which the U.N. has determined the nerve agent sarin was used.
The U.S. and its allies accuse the Syrian government of being responsible for the attack, while Damascus blames the rebels. The U.S. has said it killed 1,400 people. Death toll estimates by activists and rights groups are lower, but still in the hundreds.


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5 Best Snowboarding Resorts in the U.S.
Snowboarder Central: California, Colorado & Utah
By Jacquelin Carnegie
What makes a resort great for snowboarding depends heavily on your level of expertise (novice or advanced) and personal preferences -- natural terrain or enhanced terrain parks with "jib" features such as boxes and rails. Other factors to consider in choosing a destination include travel time and après-ski activities.
Many of these resorts stay open through April, so there's still time to squeeze in a last-minute snowboarding vacation this spring.
Photo Caption: Snowboarders in Park City, Utah. Photo courtesy Park City Mountain Resort
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Park City Mountain Resort, Utah
Some of the sport's best snowboarders train at Park City Mountain Resort (tel. 800/222-7275; www.pcmr.com) including Olympic gold medalists Shaun White, Torah Bright, and breakout star Sage Kotsenburg. (Check out the Park City All Stars: www.pcride.com)
If you're not pro status just yet, there are plenty of park features and terrains for all ability levels. This season, the resort doubled the size of its three terrain parks:
Three Kings: This park includes multiple lines with innovative features to please jump or jib fans. Night lighting has been added, giving jumpers and jibbers extra hours of fun.
The Ridge: This recent addition gives kids and adults a chance to experience new tricks or just try out different features.
King's Crown: For pros and advanced snowboarders, this park has the biggest jumps and jib features.
In addition to the terrain parks, the natural layout of Park City Mountain Resort is great for snowboarders. There are long groomers, recently-introduced Adventure Alleys, and powder terrain. In fact, you can snowboard right down into town on these runs -- Quit'n Time, Creole, Town -- and grab a brew at any number of local pubs.
Season: late November to mid-April
Photo Caption: One of the side trails in Park City, Utah. Photo by Sabbath Photography/Flickr.com
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The Canyons, Utah
As Utah's largest resort, the 4,000-acre Canyons (tel. 888/226-9667; www.thecanyons.com) appeals to snowboarders since its terrain is loaded with natural features to "jib and jump off," such as tree runs, gulleys (natural half pipes), bowls, and fresh powder stashes. Canyons has nine peaks, six natural half pipes, 182 trails, and a new terrain park.
Transitions: This brand-new terrain park is 1.1 miles long, with 10 jumps and more than 40 rails and boxes. Some cool features include: a Skull Candy pipe that riders hit as a quarter pipe; a 17-step handrail; the Container, a hip-to-wall ride; a carpeted quarter half-pipe; tons of combo boxes, and natural features such as the Rainbow Log.
The Canyons Freeride Team, such as top snowboarders Jonathon Cheever and Cooper Hoffmeister, sure get a kick out of it.
Après-Ski Scene in Park City: With its historic houses and more than 100 bars, restaurants, and cute shops, the town of Park City (www.parkcityinfo.com) is worth exploring, Visit the Kimball Art Center (www.kimballartcenter.org), stop by the High West Distillery & Saloon (www.highwest.com) and dine at 350 Main (www.350main.com).
Getting There: The ski/snowboarding resorts in and around Park City are easily-accessible from the Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC), just 35 miles away. You'll be on the slopes the day you arrive.
Photo Caption: Trail map at the Canyons, Utah. Photo by Beneath_B1ue_Skies/Flickr.com
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Breckenridge, Colorado
Breckenridge (tel. 800/789-7669; www.breckenridge.com) is known for its variety of terrain. With four huge peaks, it has five terrain parks and two pipes rated from beginner to expert.
Peak 9 (Eldorado): Great for those snowboarding for the first time.
Freeway: Ranked among the top terrain parks and pipes in the world. This year, a new 22-foot, Olympic-style half pipe was added.
With great teaching terrain, Breckenridge Snowboard School offers a range of group and private lessons for children and adults from beginner to seasoned expert. Also, several pros call Breck home-away-from-home. (Check out the Breckenridge Freeride Team of world-renowned snowboarders: www.breck1080.com)
Après-Ski Scene in Breckenridge: To learn more about the largest historic district in Colorado, go on a guided tour with the Breckenridge Heritage Alliance (www.breckheritage.com). Do some shopping on Main Street with over 200 boutiques and galleries. Then, dine at historic restaurants such as The Gold Pan Saloon (www.thegoldpansaloon.com).
Season: mid-November to late April
Photo Caption: Snowboarding at Breckenridge. Photo by William A. Franklin/Flickr.com.
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For snowboarders, Vail (tel. 800/805-2457; www.vail.com) has three terrain parks:
Golden Peak: This park has more than 30 features, about a dozen jumps, and a 500-foot-long, 18-foot-high Superpipe, a 13-foot mini pipe and a 13-foot quarter pipe with a wall ride set in the middle.
Bwana: There are more than 20 features, including three handmade log slides and two small jumps.
Pride: Catering to beginners, this park has four user-friendly features.
Après-Ski Scene in Vail Village: This enchanting village (www.visitvailvalley.com) has a variety of lodges, galleries, boutiques, and restaurants. It's one of four access points to the mountain from the Vista Bahn and Riva Bahn chair lifts. Hit the slopes, then take a horse-drawn sleigh ride and do some serious shopping in this beautiful locale.
Getting There: To reach Breckenridge and/or Vail, fly into Denver International Airport (DEN) or Eagle Airport (EGE).
Photo Caption: Snowboarding at Golden Peak Terrain Park, Vail. Photo by Dave Lehl/Vail Resorts
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Mammoth Mountain, California
If you feel like snowboarding on the Fourth of July, this is your spot. A long season and lots of sunshine are what make Mammoth Mountain (tel. 800/626-6684; www.mammothmountain.com) special. The highest ski resort in California (11,053 ft.) draws snowboarders with a variety of terrain: alpine bowls, above tree-line runs, endless groomers, and great terrain parks.
With over 3,500 skiable acres, snowboarders at all levels will find terrain to their liking. Mammoth also has the largest ski school in California, so first timers as well as experienced rippers can come here and learn something.
Après-Ski Scene in Mammoth: To give you an idea how beautiful this area is, Mammoth Lakes is located in the Inyo National Forest of Mono County. The town is surrounded by the Ansel Adams and John Muir Wilderness Areas. In The Village at Mammoth (www.villageatmammoth.com), there is a nice array of bars, restaurants, and shops. The gondola to the slopes runs in and out of the Village during the ski season.
Getting There: Mammoth Yosemite Airport (MMH) is just 10 minutes from the Town of Mammoth Lakes. MMH has daily, seasonal air service from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose.
Season: early November to June or July
Photo Caption: Snowboarding Mammoth Mountain, California. Photo by KayOne73/Flickr.com
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