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Monday, December 10, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Storm clobbers Midwest with snow, wind, frigid air
(Reuters) - A wintry storm unleashed high winds, frigid air and heavy snowfall across the Upper Midwest on Sunday, with Minneapolis expecting as much as 12 inches of snow by evening, meteorologists said.
The blizzard-like conditions stretching across the Dakotas, Minnesota and into Wisconsin cut visibility and made for hazardous driving conditions that were expected to worsen as the storm picks up toward nightfall, weather forecasters said.
"That wind and snow is making a combination that is a lethal one," said meteorologist Nick Walker on Weather.com.
The storm pattern is in the shape of a fried egg, with the heaviest snowfall in the yolk - the Minneapolis area - and less severe but still harsh conditions in the surrounding areas of the Dakotas and Wisconsin, said meteorologist Eric Fisher on Weather.com.
"One small area from Minneapolis northward to around St. Cloud could see some pretty significant totals," Fisher said.
Meteorologist Andrew Baglini on Accuweather.com said the snowfall could be upward of a foot, especially in the Minneapolis area.
By early morning, visibility in Minneapolis was down to a 1/2 mile in some places, Baglini said.
While sustained winds in the Minneapolis area were expected to reach 30 miles per hour by evening, wind gusts had already been clocked at 40 miles per hour across North and South Dakota by morning, he said.
"That combined with colder temperatures and still some snow across the area is going to make for very rough travel conditions," Baglini said.
Early morning temperatures in Fargo, North Dakota, plunged to 7 degrees with 30 mile per hour winds, Baglini said.
(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Edith Honan and Bill Trott)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/storm-clobbers-midwest-snow-wind-frigid-air-180928133.html
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Marines expanding use of meditation training - Mind Fitness ...
While preparing for overseas deployment with the U.S. Marines late last year, Staff Sgt. Nathan Hampton participated in a series of training exercises held at Camp Pendleton, Calif., designed to make him a more effective serviceman.
There were weapons qualifications. Grueling physical workouts. High-stress squad counterinsurgency drills, held in an elaborate ersatz village designed to mirror the sights, sounds and smells of a remote mountain settlement in Afghanistan.
There also were weekly meditation classes ? including one in which Sgt. Hampton and his squad mates were asked to sit motionless in a chair and focus on the point of contact between their feet and the floor.
?A lot of people thought it would be a waste of time,? he said. ?Why are we sitting around a classroom doing their weird meditative stuff?
?But over time, I felt more relaxed. I slept better. Physically, I noticed that I wasn?t tense all the time. It helps you think more clearly and decisively in stressful situations. There was a benefit.?
That benefit is the impetus behind Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (?M-Fit?), a fledgling military initiative that teaches service members the secular meditative practice of mindfulness in order to bolster their emotional health and improve their mental performance under the stress and strain of war.
Designed by former U.S. Army captain and current Georgetown University professor Elizabeth Stanley, M-Fit draws on a growing body of scientific research indicating that regular meditation alleviates depression, boosts memory and the immune system, shrinks the part of the brain that controls fear and grows the areas of the brain responsible for memory and emotional regulation.
Four years ago, a small group of Marine reservists training at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va., for deployment to Iraq participated in the M-Fit pilot program, taking an eight-week mindfulness course and meditating for an average of 12 minutes a day.
A study of those Marines subsequently published in the research journal Emotions found that they slept better, had improved athletic performance and scored higher on emotional and cognitive evaluations than Marines who did not participate in the program, which centers on training the mind to focus on the current moment and to be aware of one?s physical state.
The Army and Marines have since commissioned separate studies of larger groups of troops receiving variations of M-Fit training, the results of which currently are under scientific review and likely will be published in the next few months.
?The findings in general reinforce and extend what we saw in the pilot study,? said Ms. Stanley, an associate professor of security studies at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. ?These techniques can be very effective in increasing situational awareness on the battlefield, in not having emotions drive behavior, in bolstering performance and resilience in high-stress environments. I?ve seen effects in my own life.?
Military meditation
A former Army intelligence officer, Ms. Stanley served in Korea, Macedonia and Bosnia. Subsequently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), she struggled after leaving the military and enrolling in graduate programs at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Frustrated by the ineffectiveness of prescription medication, she began to research mindfulness and quickly became convinced that the mental and emotional health benefits of meditation could help not only her, but also other service members.
Ms. Stanley wrote a paper for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), essentially arguing that meditative techniques similar to those used by Buddhist monks were both necessary and appropriate for today?s military ? from drone pilots coping with information overload to infantrymen conducting dangerous and stressful counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations.
?The initial concerns form the military were, ?Is this going to be a waste of time, and is this going to interrupt my finely honed rapid-action drills??? Ms. Stanley said. ?The concerns coming from the mindfulness side were, ?If you teach them these skills, and they become more open people, will it undermine their ability to armor up psychologically? A few people even wondered if I was trying to make, quote, ?better baby-killers.??
Undaunted, Ms. Stanley sought support for a pilot program through her connections in the Army ? the same Army that in the mid-1980s conducted a Trojan Warrior Project, in which 25 Special Forces soldiers nicknamed the ?Jedi Knights? received six months of meditative and martial-arts training that helped them perform better than their peers on psychological and biofeedback tests.
She found an advocate in Maj. Jason Spitaletta, a then-Marine reservist who was a psychology graduate student in non-military life. Mr. Spitaletta read Ms. Stanley?s DARPA paper and brought it to the attention of his superiors, who agreed to participate in the 2008 study.
Over eight weeks of 12-hour days otherwise devoted to mock firefights and exhausting field exercises, 31 Marine reservists were taught breathing exercises and yoga poses, how to focus their attention and how to prevent their minds from wandering. More than once, they could be seen outdoors, sitting cross-legged and practicing meditation.
Amishi Jha, the researcher who evaluated the troops, found that the service members in the program ended up with improved moods and greater attentiveness ? and that the individuals who spent additional time meditating on their own saw the biggest improvements.
?It?s like working out in the gym,? said Ms. Jha, the director of contemplative neuroscience for the University of Miami?s Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative. ?Right now, the military has daily physical training. Every day, they get together and exercise. But the equivalent is not given to the mind. The more [these troops] practiced, the more they benefited.?
Brain training
Why the cognitive boost? The answer lies in neuroscience. Previous studies have shown that habitual meditation:
? Changes the way blood and oxygen flow through the brain;
? Strengthens the neural circuits responsible for concentration and empathy;
? Shrinks the amygdala, an area of the brain that controls the fear response;
? Enlarges the hippocampus, an area of the brain that controls memory
? In a recent, incomplete study of Marines taking an M-Fit course ? the one Sgt. Hampton participated in ? University of California at San Diego and Navy researcher Chris Johnson took blood and saliva samples from the participating service members and used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan their brains.
? According to a report in Pacific Standard, the troops recovered better from stressful training, while their brain scans showed similarities to those taken of elite Special Forces soldiers and Olympic athletes.
?Basically, there are parts of the brain that work differently in high performers,? said Robert Skidmore, director of operations for the Alexandria, Va.-based Mind Fitness Training Institute. ?It?s possible to train our minds to process things differently. With eight weeks of training, working memory capacity increases.?
Essentially the short-term, scratch-pad system we use to manage relevant information, solve real-time problems and regulate our current emotional state, working memory is roughly equivalent to random access memory in a computer and functions on a daily basis like money in a bank account: Use it, and it depletes until it can be replenished.
Heavy cognitive tasks, such as scanning an alley for armed insurgents, require working memory. So do emotional challenges, like dealing with the stress of leaving one?s family for an overseas deployment.
According to Ms. Jha, depleted working memory has been linked to emotional impulsivity, prejudiced behavior, domestic violence and alcoholism.
?It?s the core resource for regulating your own behavior,? she said. ?It?s not like your psychological state or mood is separate.?
In the M-Fit study, troops who meditated regularly increased their working memory capacity; moreover, they were more aware of their physical responses to combat stress.
In a fight-or-flight situation ? for instance, a firefight ? the pupils dilate to take in more information. Blood flows away from the stomach and into the muscles, producing the familiar ?butterfly? sensation. Heart and breathing rates rise. Stress hormones course through the body.
More importantly, blood flow in the brain is redirected away from the areas that control rational thought and toward the areas associated with instinct and survival.
?It?s really hard to access rational thought during high-intensity stress situations,? said Jared Smyser, 28, a former Marine who lives in Richmond, Va., and is training to become an M-Fit instructor. ?All this stuff happens in your body because we?ve evolved to get away from predators. But it?s not really relevant in today?s warfare. You need to be calm, collected, making better decisions.?
According to Ms. Stanley, meditative training can help troops do so by increasing efficiency in the insular cortex, which allows people to rapidly switch between thinking and unthinking states of mind.
?It can be exercised when we are attending to sensations in the body,? she said. ?So a whole lot of our course is teaching the ability to track those sensations. People come into the course thinking it will ruin their ability to respond fast in combat, but actually, we?re enhancing their ability.?
In the future, Ms. Stanley said, meditation may become as standard in the military as rifle practice, another way of making troops more effective and resilient. Next year, the Marines will incorporate M-Fit classes into an infantry school at Camp Pendleton, making the program a tentative part of its regular training cycle.
Mr. Smyser, who served in Iraq in 2005, said military mental training is overdue.
?It absolutely would have beneficial to me [in Iraq],? he said. ?I was very skeptical at first, but I?ve seen benefits in my own life. I?m interested in working with veterans with PTSD. And if we teach this upfront, we might be able to prevent some of the problems we have to fix afterwards.?
Source - http://www.washingtontimes.com/
There were weapons qualifications. Grueling physical workouts. High-stress squad counterinsurgency drills, held in an elaborate ersatz village designed to mirror the sights, sounds and smells of a remote mountain settlement in Afghanistan.
There also were weekly meditation classes ? including one in which Sgt. Hampton and his squad mates were asked to sit motionless in a chair and focus on the point of contact between their feet and the floor.
?A lot of people thought it would be a waste of time,? he said. ?Why are we sitting around a classroom doing their weird meditative stuff?
?But over time, I felt more relaxed. I slept better. Physically, I noticed that I wasn?t tense all the time. It helps you think more clearly and decisively in stressful situations. There was a benefit.?
That benefit is the impetus behind Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (?M-Fit?), a fledgling military initiative that teaches service members the secular meditative practice of mindfulness in order to bolster their emotional health and improve their mental performance under the stress and strain of war.
Designed by former U.S. Army captain and current Georgetown University professor Elizabeth Stanley, M-Fit draws on a growing body of scientific research indicating that regular meditation alleviates depression, boosts memory and the immune system, shrinks the part of the brain that controls fear and grows the areas of the brain responsible for memory and emotional regulation.
Four years ago, a small group of Marine reservists training at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va., for deployment to Iraq participated in the M-Fit pilot program, taking an eight-week mindfulness course and meditating for an average of 12 minutes a day.
A study of those Marines subsequently published in the research journal Emotions found that they slept better, had improved athletic performance and scored higher on emotional and cognitive evaluations than Marines who did not participate in the program, which centers on training the mind to focus on the current moment and to be aware of one?s physical state.
The Army and Marines have since commissioned separate studies of larger groups of troops receiving variations of M-Fit training, the results of which currently are under scientific review and likely will be published in the next few months.
?The findings in general reinforce and extend what we saw in the pilot study,? said Ms. Stanley, an associate professor of security studies at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. ?These techniques can be very effective in increasing situational awareness on the battlefield, in not having emotions drive behavior, in bolstering performance and resilience in high-stress environments. I?ve seen effects in my own life.?
Military meditation
A former Army intelligence officer, Ms. Stanley served in Korea, Macedonia and Bosnia. Subsequently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), she struggled after leaving the military and enrolling in graduate programs at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Frustrated by the ineffectiveness of prescription medication, she began to research mindfulness and quickly became convinced that the mental and emotional health benefits of meditation could help not only her, but also other service members.
Ms. Stanley wrote a paper for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), essentially arguing that meditative techniques similar to those used by Buddhist monks were both necessary and appropriate for today?s military ? from drone pilots coping with information overload to infantrymen conducting dangerous and stressful counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations.
?The initial concerns form the military were, ?Is this going to be a waste of time, and is this going to interrupt my finely honed rapid-action drills??? Ms. Stanley said. ?The concerns coming from the mindfulness side were, ?If you teach them these skills, and they become more open people, will it undermine their ability to armor up psychologically? A few people even wondered if I was trying to make, quote, ?better baby-killers.??
Undaunted, Ms. Stanley sought support for a pilot program through her connections in the Army ? the same Army that in the mid-1980s conducted a Trojan Warrior Project, in which 25 Special Forces soldiers nicknamed the ?Jedi Knights? received six months of meditative and martial-arts training that helped them perform better than their peers on psychological and biofeedback tests.
She found an advocate in Maj. Jason Spitaletta, a then-Marine reservist who was a psychology graduate student in non-military life. Mr. Spitaletta read Ms. Stanley?s DARPA paper and brought it to the attention of his superiors, who agreed to participate in the 2008 study.
Over eight weeks of 12-hour days otherwise devoted to mock firefights and exhausting field exercises, 31 Marine reservists were taught breathing exercises and yoga poses, how to focus their attention and how to prevent their minds from wandering. More than once, they could be seen outdoors, sitting cross-legged and practicing meditation.
Amishi Jha, the researcher who evaluated the troops, found that the service members in the program ended up with improved moods and greater attentiveness ? and that the individuals who spent additional time meditating on their own saw the biggest improvements.
?It?s like working out in the gym,? said Ms. Jha, the director of contemplative neuroscience for the University of Miami?s Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative. ?Right now, the military has daily physical training. Every day, they get together and exercise. But the equivalent is not given to the mind. The more [these troops] practiced, the more they benefited.?
Brain training
Why the cognitive boost? The answer lies in neuroscience. Previous studies have shown that habitual meditation:
? Changes the way blood and oxygen flow through the brain;
? Strengthens the neural circuits responsible for concentration and empathy;
? Shrinks the amygdala, an area of the brain that controls the fear response;
? Enlarges the hippocampus, an area of the brain that controls memory
? In a recent, incomplete study of Marines taking an M-Fit course ? the one Sgt. Hampton participated in ? University of California at San Diego and Navy researcher Chris Johnson took blood and saliva samples from the participating service members and used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan their brains.
? According to a report in Pacific Standard, the troops recovered better from stressful training, while their brain scans showed similarities to those taken of elite Special Forces soldiers and Olympic athletes.
?Basically, there are parts of the brain that work differently in high performers,? said Robert Skidmore, director of operations for the Alexandria, Va.-based Mind Fitness Training Institute. ?It?s possible to train our minds to process things differently. With eight weeks of training, working memory capacity increases.?
Essentially the short-term, scratch-pad system we use to manage relevant information, solve real-time problems and regulate our current emotional state, working memory is roughly equivalent to random access memory in a computer and functions on a daily basis like money in a bank account: Use it, and it depletes until it can be replenished.
Heavy cognitive tasks, such as scanning an alley for armed insurgents, require working memory. So do emotional challenges, like dealing with the stress of leaving one?s family for an overseas deployment.
According to Ms. Jha, depleted working memory has been linked to emotional impulsivity, prejudiced behavior, domestic violence and alcoholism.
?It?s the core resource for regulating your own behavior,? she said. ?It?s not like your psychological state or mood is separate.?
In the M-Fit study, troops who meditated regularly increased their working memory capacity; moreover, they were more aware of their physical responses to combat stress.
In a fight-or-flight situation ? for instance, a firefight ? the pupils dilate to take in more information. Blood flows away from the stomach and into the muscles, producing the familiar ?butterfly? sensation. Heart and breathing rates rise. Stress hormones course through the body.
More importantly, blood flow in the brain is redirected away from the areas that control rational thought and toward the areas associated with instinct and survival.
?It?s really hard to access rational thought during high-intensity stress situations,? said Jared Smyser, 28, a former Marine who lives in Richmond, Va., and is training to become an M-Fit instructor. ?All this stuff happens in your body because we?ve evolved to get away from predators. But it?s not really relevant in today?s warfare. You need to be calm, collected, making better decisions.?
According to Ms. Stanley, meditative training can help troops do so by increasing efficiency in the insular cortex, which allows people to rapidly switch between thinking and unthinking states of mind.
?It can be exercised when we are attending to sensations in the body,? she said. ?So a whole lot of our course is teaching the ability to track those sensations. People come into the course thinking it will ruin their ability to respond fast in combat, but actually, we?re enhancing their ability.?
In the future, Ms. Stanley said, meditation may become as standard in the military as rifle practice, another way of making troops more effective and resilient. Next year, the Marines will incorporate M-Fit classes into an infantry school at Camp Pendleton, making the program a tentative part of its regular training cycle.
Mr. Smyser, who served in Iraq in 2005, said military mental training is overdue.
?It absolutely would have beneficial to me [in Iraq],? he said. ?I was very skeptical at first, but I?ve seen benefits in my own life. I?m interested in working with veterans with PTSD. And if we teach this upfront, we might be able to prevent some of the problems we have to fix afterwards.?
Source - http://www.washingtontimes.com/
Source: http://wildalchemist.blogspot.com/2012/12/marines-expanding-use-of-meditation.html
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ARTSblog ? Blog Archive ? Scaling Out Like a Saguaro Cactus
Roberto Bedoya
I don?t have a great talent to align easily with authority?one could say I have an allergic response to it?so when I was asked to write about ?scaling up?, my head began to ache and I started to sneeze.
Maybe my responses are triggered by the ?authoritarian? tone associated with scaling up, it?s hierarchical connotations that projects images of success, as a bigger and better operation that makes me wonder about the assumptions at work here or maybe it is the management chants of ?scale up, scale up? that makes me nervous.
I do not oppose the work of scaling up, but I am not a skilled manger in that arena and the process of scaling up is mercurial to me. My experiences in the arena of community cultural development practices, has produce a understanding of scaling that is focused on scaling ?out? as opposed to scaling ?up?
A desert story: The most beautiful aspects of the Sonoran desert are the Saguaro cacti. Their majesty is how they dot the landscape as these tall and eloquent plants that reach upward. And in their long life span it takes up to 75 years to develop a side arm that stand out against the vivid blue of the desert sky. In the heat of this desert they thrive and their success lies in their root systems?a system that is linear, moves outward across the land and grows and proposer.
The Saguaro is a model of development that we can learn from?how to scale out and thrive. I find that the language of scaling up is inadequate when ones charge, as an art leader is to foster cultural vitality and support an equitable society. To do this work over time one must know to build relations, know how to scale-out these relationships that results in healthy communities and a robust democracy.
One of the reasons that the term scaling up bothers me is how it resonates as an individualized form of growth. An organization scales up as if to say it grows up and becomes a model of success because their programs rock, their finances are in order, their space enviable and I applaud that success and those are managers that got them there.
Yet individual growth is not the same as the growth of the many, the numerous, a community growth that results in a variety of organizations, operations, and strategies that advances an understanding of place grounded in the ethos of belonging.
Saguaro Cactus located in Arizona. The man in the photo is 5?11. (Image from Wikipedia user Sullynyflhi)
Scaling out is a relation system. Relation and relationship is the product and it in-turn produces community, place, engagements, vitality. The skills need to partake in the work of scaling out is knowing how to be an intermediary versed in deliberative democracy practices.
Let me riff here for a moment the importance of being a intermediary.
A general understanding of an intermediary is someone who takes resources, understood broadly as money, knowledge or connections, and strategically deploys them in other sphere of practices. An intermediary provides connections, language, and translation; the intermediary also identifies intersections where the interests of parties cross.
Intermediaries operate in the work of scaling out as the go-between, between artists and audiences, artists and arts organizations, various stakeholder communities that enliven the aesthetic contract between these entities. To have success in scaling out you need to be mindful of one?s responsibilities as an intermediary who animates networks and relationships.
It is ethical work that requires that one has an understanding of equity and justice in action that facilitates a democratic process of analysis, decision-making, and agenda setting. This not easy work, yet an important outcome of scaling out is social capital.
I?ve avoided commenting on the business of scaling up because of health reasons.
All kidding aside, the policy agendas that supports scaling up and scaling out practices need to be examined. The bias in these two forms of practices put under a lens and studied. The dialogue between then encouraged and the resulting narratives about growth, prosperity, and capital?of being in relation better understood.
The narrative of potentiality that moves like a linear root system along the networks of relation is what feeds and supports scaling out as a process that advances the plural in all its aesthetics and complexities.
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Tech titans renew legal battle over smartphones
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The epic $1 billion patent fight between the world's top two smartphone makers resumes Thursday in a federal courtroom when Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Corp. again square off over rights to vital technology.
Samsung seeks to overturn an Aug. 24 jury verdict that found the Korean tech titan ripped off Apple Inc.'s designs for its iPhone and iPad. The jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple $1 billion after finding close to two dozen of its products used technology controlled by Apple.
Apple in turn is looking to add $500 million more to the award while barring many of the older Samsung products at issue from sale in the United States.
The companies' lawyers will file into a San Jose federal court armed with a host of legal arguments including allegations that the jury foreman committed misconduct. The case is ultimately expected to land before the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the Washington, D.C.-based court that decides patent disputes, if not the U.S. Supreme Court.
Nonetheless, what U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh decides after Thursday's hearing will greatly shape the end result.
Samsung has mounted an aggressive post-trial attack on the verdict, raising a number of legal issues that allege the South Korean company was treated unfairly in a federal courtroom a dozen miles from Apple's Cupertino headquarters. Samsung alleges that some of Apple's patents shouldn't have been awarded in the first place and that the jury made mistakes in calculating the damage award.
Samsung also accuses jury foreman Velvin Hogan of concealing that his former employer, Seagate Technologies, had a filed a lawsuit against him. Samsung is a large investor in Seagate.
"Mr. Hogan's failure to disclose the Seagate suit raises issues of bias that Samsung should have been allowed to explore," Samsung said in its October request for a new trial.
Hogan didn't return a call placed to his San Jose home Wednesday. In opposing Samsung's argument, Apple argued that Samsung should have discovered the 1993 lawsuit before Hogan was seated as a juror and made its objection then. Apple said Samsung knew that Hogan declared bankruptcy in 1993 and had it reviewed that case it would have discovered the Seagate lawsuit.
Apple argues it is unfair to raise the Seagate lawsuit now that the jury ruled against Samsung.
Experts monitoring the trial largely side with Apple on the juror misconduct issue specifically and speculate that the judge will keep most of the unanimous verdict intact.
"Samsung is hoping to set aside the verdict entirely, accusing the jury foreman of lying to get on the jury," said Edward Naughton, a patent attorney who is following the case closely. "This argument isn't likely to succeed, but Samsung may convince the court to whittle down the jury verdict a bit."
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A Taste of Travel: 5 North American Ski Resorts to Consider | Casa ...
Skiing is one of the most anticipated hobbies people look forward to during the winter months. Once the weather gets chilly and the snow begins to stick, you will soon notice snow gals and gents rushing off to the nearest slopes for vertical?exhilaration. Now we must say we are in no way experts on where to go, but wanted to get the skinny on the best places around the United States.
Luckily we have resources like Travel + Leisure to light the way. Below are five awesome (ski) resorts to consider that are all in North America. These of course are our picks, but you can see the entire list here or at??www.travelandleisure.com.
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(in no particular order)
Telluride, Colorado
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open: late November ? mid-April
Telluride Ski Resort is a world-class Colorado ski resort and summer vacation destination located in the San Juan Mountains in Telluride, Colorado. The resort has expanded by over 300 acres in the last few years, offering some of the most stunning skiing and riding on the planet.
Killington, Vermont
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open: mid-October ? early June
Killington is known for its diversity of terrain and grooming expertise, providing skiers and riders of all ability levels a choice of wide-open groomed cruisers, narrow classic New England runs, moguls, steeps and 16 tree skiing areas. Killington also offers multiple terrain features for snowboarders and freeskiers, including Bear Mountain?s signature terrain parks and a 500-foot long Superpipe with 22-foot walls. Plus The Stash, Burton?s all-natural terrain park with more than 80 features, including a replica Vermont Sugar Shack. Killington is also home to world class events, including the Winter Dew Tour, Rails 2 Riches and The Stash Gathering.
Aspen, Colorado
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open: late November ? mid-April
Anyplace else this would be four separate vacations. Snowmass, Aspen Mountain, Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk ? with over 5,300 acres of terrain and boundless dining and nightlife, there are more than enough reasons to visit the most exciting winter escape in the world. Four mountains, one lift ticket ? experience The Power of Four.
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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open: early December ? mid-April
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort?? the carrot that led you here ? is the ski area, located in Teton Village.?Jackson?generally refers to the Town of Jackson, a downtown district 12 miles from Teton Village.??Jackson Hole?is the valley: a broad, flat plain approximately 60 miles long and 15 miles wide? that runs from Hoback Junction in the south to Jackson Lake and Togwotee Pass in the north. Jackson Hole encompasses the Town of Jackson, Teton Village and Grand Teton National Park.
Lake Louise, Alberta
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open: early November ? early May
This is a special place where there are more mountains than million-dollar condos. Where real people get treated like celebrities and celebrities get treated like real people.?What makes this possible? Quite simply, it?s because our three ski areas and two mountain towns are set in the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Banff National Park.?And that?s what makes this Canada?s Protected Playground. Here you?ll enjoy the driest, lightest snow, terrain to suit every desire and amenities perfect for your taste and budget. Most importantly, it?s all surrounded by unspoiled wilderness.
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Main image credit: Scott Hughes
Source: http://casa-diseno-blog.com/2012/12/06/a-taste-of-travel-5-north-american-ski-resorts-to-consider/
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Dave Brubeck, 91, has died - Arts Talk - Capital Region arts and ...
Dave Brubeck, 91, has died. The jazz pianist and composer, perhaps best known for ?Take Five? (watch video below).
Read the AP obituary here.
Brubeck was no stranger to the Capital Region. The venues he performed in include the Saratoga Jazz Festival at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Proctors in Schenectady, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, the Massry Center for the Arts at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, and Jacob?s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Mass., His most recent performance was with his son?s band, Chris Brubeck Triple Play in June 10, 2011, at Zankel Center at Skidmore College.
What are your memories of Brubeck?
Source: http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/dave-brubeck-91-has-died/25705/
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