The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights- just breathtaking. We spent a lot of time standing around here, taking pictures, and soaking it all in. I hear the rumor this will be moved or possibly going away altogether. So. Yeah. That's going to be a HUGE let down for anyone who runs this race.
We ran through Epcot and the party was in full swing. I quickly assessed that I didn't want anything to do with the after party. It looked pretty crowded. The partygoers had to cross the course to get to the good stuff (ahem, Mexico and other counties with booze!) and this looked like a big snafu as I went by. People were lined up at least 20 deep waiting for the chance to move across the course to get to the party. No bueno. I also noticed the womens bathroom had a line out the door of ladies hoping to score a stall to change. I'd suggest NOT going into the first bathrooms at Epcot if you wish to change. The end of the race had a changing room (yeah- you had to give up some modesty but hey, you probably won't see these peeps again, so who cares?) but that was preferable to taking a much needed potty away from someone in my book.
I stand by my first assessment. This race is NOT my favorite one. But I think it was more me than it was the race itself. I'm not a night runner. I am not really a night person at all. I much prefer getting up at 3 am to run than trying to work a schedule to make 10 pm happen. I was exhausted by the end of the race and had no interest in the zoo happening over in Epcot- I sent Mr. Shenanigans on ahead of me and he had a blast however.
I did love Animal Kingdom! Maybe it's because I own nature boys, but I really liked running through that park. The Disco Tunnel was DA BOMB! I shook my groove thing all the way down.
I think we need a relay again- ha ha. You do the front of the race, I'll do the back!
The race had it's ups and downs for me(figuratively and literally!). Luckily the Mr. has taken away the option of me doing it next year lol. I'm sure I'd cave given the chance. I love the pic of you and Mr. S with Darth Vader!!
Noooooo! I need ya to come back and do more Christmas Party! I missed out on that with you. BTW- Rob LOVED the "Like a Boss" pic on Space Mountain.
Love the disco tunnel. Too cool! I can't wait to do a Disney run…I don't care what it is!
LOL Amy- I hear ya! I feel the same way. It's the entire weekend and experience! Running through Disney is just amazing. Even a bad run isn't bad when you get to do it at one of the parks!
Thanks for the recap! I'm crossing my fingers that the lights stay- they look so amazing!
My fingers are crossed too! My husband loved this race and wants to go back again, so I would be very excited to do it if the lights are there.
I'm not a fan of night races either. It's too tempting to go and do stuff all day. I'd rather roll out of bed and run. The lights do look beautiful, though! And at least you weren't alone. Having people there with you to support you when you were low must have helped a lot.
That's exactly it Jennifer. I am a morning person, so even if I stayed out of the parks I would need to be up and doing "something" all day. So it was tough to take is slow. We tried, but you know… I'm a commando park visitor! But the lights! LOVE LOVE LOVE! And I could not have managed this race without support. Pretty sure I would have volunteered to get on a bus at some point if they hadn't been there. Made all the difference. Not as hot as DL half, but we went slower and spent much more time in DHS than I expected. But so worth it!
That's exactly how I felt after the first Tower race. I know it's easier to have characters in the parks, but those long boring stretches of highway need them more.
What do you mean they won't have the lights anymore?! Like, just for the race or for everything? I feel like that's a HUGE draw for this race and I hope they still have them. . .I mean, next year is the 5th anniversary! They HAVE to have them. . . right?
The rumor I heard was the Osborne Lights were going away totally or possibly moving to Epcot. In Epcot- I don't know where they would go though! I can't see Disney draping them across the countries- but maybe? I believe it had to do with new rides/construction going on in DHS… so yeah… gone. It will be a heart breaker for sure for the runners. This is a HUGE HUGE draw!
Thank you for the recap! My mom and I have already decided that this will be our WDW race for 2015 so we can earn the C2C medal! I heard it will be the 5th year, so hoping for some extra Disney magic (maybe they'll keep the lights for one more year!) Trying to decide if the littles should come along or not….
Good luck to you and mom! I've got it in the back of my head to go C2C again here as well especially with the anniversary coming around. Kids- personally, I think the next day would be TOUGH with kids. And unless they nap or you have someone to take them out of your hair pre-race, it might be hard to get the rest you need for a night race. That's my initial thoughts on it.
I haven't ran this race yet, but I cannot wait to run it next year!! The fact that you get to run through 3 parks and part of it is the pretty Christmas lights makes me happy :0) Also, I love the bling and the fact that you can indulge in food/wine afterwards!
The bling is Saaaawhhheeeeettt! I think its my favorite medal. HUGE!
Patty, I'm glad you wrote this, it helps me not pine away for yet another Disney race. To be honest, I would probably hate it, I'm a MORNING person, like MORNING morning…like 3-4am every day. 10pm is past my bedtime, I cannot imagine running that late! LOL.
It was rough on me Karen. I think if I had been properly trained (Sept and Oct got TOTALLY away from me) it would have been much better. But not training, plus being at parks for a few days, plus the late night… it was not a fun race for me at all. When I do it again, I'll make a lot of changes!
Totally loved the lights, that was part of the huge draw for me to this race for me. So hoping these don't go away permanently. I've wavered some on my stance from after. I loved the three parks and the decorations, really loved the encouragement through the boardwalk area, but I'm not sure I will do it again. Though, if coerced, I'm sure I would cave.
You know we are good coercers Suzanne! 😉 But I understand how you feel totally!
I was very nervous as it was a last minute decision to participate – I had a tendon strain in my foot with no impact training for the last 2 months (argh!) and was not supposed to be running this Fall. But I got very agitated seeing my husband pack (he did C2C challenge). He said pack my gear, I didn't have to do it but take it with me. As I'd paid anyway, and was traveling with him too. I decided at the Expo that I was going to walk it. To start and see how far I could go. My first Disney race but not my first Half. I liked the night race because I got a full nights sleep on Friday! We stayed out of the parks though, rode the two monorails and mooched about the hotels. Headed back for a rest/nap after lunch, and then went to Shutters in Caribbean Beach for chicken and rice dinner at 5pm. Worked perfectly for us. It was a good waiting area – the characters made the time fly, and of course Disney have people walking up and down the potty line handing out new rolls of toilet paper just in case the port-a-loo has run out! What service!!
It was pretty up and down for a 'flat' course, and the camber on the roads was painful at times, but they are better quality streets than in CA. Loved the parks, loved the start and finish. Didn't make a connection with anyone around me – probably my first race that's happened, I talk to everyone – and hubby was several corrals ahead, so I plugged in my tunes and busted some Zumba moves on my way around. I didn't stop for character photos, mainly because I was worried about time and did not want to be swept, and I was on my own :-/ I did end up 'pep talking' a young girl from mile 11.5 to the finish as she was having a very rough time. But we made it!
My foot was OK, although I am very achey in general! But kind of impressed I could pull a Half out of the hat with no recent training and not die. Or get swept.
I'll never forget my first runDisney Half! Back for Tinkerbell & Princess with Glass Slipper challenge next year. With a lot more training!
I think the key for me to really enjoying the race and being able to feel good (ok, in pain but still good) at the after party was staying out of the parks entirely the day of the race (I learned that lesson with Expedition Everest back in May, my legs felt like lead) and taking a good nap and going about a minute per mile slower than I trained. I figure it's silly to runDisney for a PR when I've got Space Coast in three weeks, so I put my ego in check and slowed down every time I started feeling tired and ended up with fuel left in my tank at the end. I was really worried about the night race and the fact that I missed my last long run (and two weeks of running in October) due to a nasty cold, but it ended up being a really fun race for me. I will be royally pissed if they take the Osbourne lights away though, that's the absolute best part of the hilly hilly course.
You are my favorite. hilly hilly course. YES. It's nor just me. 😉 Around mile 7 I thought- forget Space Coast, I'm not ready! But I believe in a bad run before you have a good one… hopefully THIS was my bad run and Space will be out of this world! See ya there April!
I totally loved the Darth and Boba Fett character stop too! Last year it was just Darth Vader so it was a nice surprise for me. I loved running with the broads too! Glad you had Rob to run with. He was super nice. 🙂 And I am so glad I got to meet you!
I loved the course. My issues were self imposed…but honestly it did not seem like it took as long as it did. I only wish at the end I could rally….but alas after my Canada petit filet, I was done. Fun hanging with you and Rob!
I had an awesome time as well, but after lying around all day, it was SO hard to get ready to run. Being in that field with nowhere to go definitely did not help!
I slammed on the brakes when I saw Darth Vader AND Boba Fett!!! LOVED. But I did not love the Disco tunnel…it made me feel claustrophobic or something.
This sounds like an awesome race! I want to start running again but keep finding reasons not to. I think this would be a great goal to work towards. And I am quite jelly of you getting to see Barbossa!


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Treatment Challenges, Uncertainty Abound with IgA Vasculitis
August 11, 2016 • By Thomas R. Collins
IgA vasculitis is poorly understood, but it mainly affects the skin, the joints, the gastrointestinal tract and the kidneys.
John Watney / Science Source.com
CHICAGO—Diagnosing and treating IgA vasculitis—leukocytoclastic vasculitis involving deposits of IgA1 deposits on the walls of small vessels—is rife with uncertainties, outright unknowns and treatment challenges, an expert on the disease said at the ACR's 2016 State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium.
Alexandra Villa-Forte, MD, MPH, staff physician at Cleveland Clinic's Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, said IgA vasculitis—which used to be known as Henoch-Schönlein purpura and mainly affects children—is poorly understood. It mainly affects the skin, the joints, the gastrointestinal tract and the kidneys, but it can arise in nearly any organ, she said.
It appears that there could be a strong environmental component to the disease. In children, peak incidence comes in fall and winter, and the disease is often seen following respiratory infections.
The annual incidence in children is 3–26 cases per 100,000 children—quite a wide range—and is anywhere from two to 33 times more common in children than adults. About 90% of cases are believed to occur in children younger than 10, Dr. Villa-Forte said.
"The problems with defining the disease make it hard to know the incidence of the disease," she said.
Efforts to write criteria to describe it have been only somewhat successful, she said. For example, the 1990 ACR criteria said that someone had the disease if they exhibited two of these four: 20 years old or younger; palpable purpura; acute abdominal pain; or biopsy showing granulocytes in the walls of small arterioles or venules. But because most of those getting the disease are children, they already meet one of the criteria, and that can lead to excessive sensitivity, Dr. Villa-Forte said.
Under the EULAR criteria for children—not adapted for adults—IgA vasculitis is considered to be present with purpura and either abdominal pain, IgA finding on histopathology, arthritis or arthralgia, or renal involvement.
If someone exhibits the "classic triad" for the disease—purpura, arthralgia and abdominal pain—suspicion is raised, but those are not always present, Dr. Villa‑Forte said.
"If you don't have a high suspicion for the disease clinically, it's hard to make this diagnosis," she said.
Cutaneous purpura is universal in the disease, with arthralgias in about two-thirds of the cases, but arthritis is rare. GI involvement is also seen about two-thirds of the time, and intussusception, infarction and perforation are possible.
The disease is seen in the kidney between 45% and 85% of the time, with renal insufficiency seen about 30% of the time in adults, but in children, kidney involvement is much rarer.
Adult vs. Pediatric Presentation
There are major differences between the child and the adult versions of the disease. In adults, renal issues are worse; the disease tends to be relapsing-remitting rather than self-limiting, as in children; there tend to be more complications; and the response to treatment is largely unknown because almost all of the studies have been done in pediatrics.
Also in adults, there is no seasonal pattern, while in children it tends to be seen in fall and winter; there are multiple causes in adults, while in children it tends to follow an infection. Children tend to fare better, with a complete recovery rate of about 80%, compared with 40% in adults, and chronic renal failure is seen in 2% of children, compared with about 10% of adults.
A clinical question surrounding IgA vasculitis is whether it's helpful to do direct immunofluorescence (DIF) along with a biopsy. One study, now fairly dated and not replicated, found that DIF had a low predictive value in cases with a low clinical suspicion.1
"That's just one thing to think [about]," Dr. Villa-Forte said. "I think at this stage of the understanding of this disease that we still need these studies in all patients."
The ideal is to have a fitting clinical presentation, along with a tissue biopsy showing leukocytoclastic vasculitis with IgA deposits.
"If you have all this, then you can be sure about the diagnosis, but if you don't, there's always the possibility that it's not the right diagnosis," she said.
The disease is brought about by the deposits of polymers involving molecules of IgA1 that are galactose deficient, a status that appears as though it might be altered by genetics.
"It's a high molecular polymer that is very heavy and deposits more easily," Dr. Villa-Forte said.
A key question is what happens from the time of the deposit to when disease occurs.
"That's what we don't know," said Dr. Villa‑Forte.
Factors that could play an important role include CD89, the human IgA Fc receptor, and CD71, a receptor that's in the monocyte where the aggregate links.
"That might be the hope for two things: diagnostic tests and treatment," Dr. Villa‑Forte said. "We do not have good treatment or treatment that has been proved to make any difference in nephritis."
Treating kidney issues can be especially difficult, she said.
The number of extracapillary crescents and the severity score on renal biopsy are important because they can factor into whether to treat a patient before creatinine starts to rise, but it's controversial because it involves a biopsy for every patient.
Then there's this problem: Many patients do well despite these findings.
"So even though we're still trying to find and identify predictive factors, they're not good, because the majority of people will do well, so identifying the patient who won't do well is the challenge."
Thomas R. Collins is a freelance medical writer based in Florida.
Sais G, Vidaller A, Jucglá A, et al. Prognostic factors in leukocytoclastic vasculitis: A clinicopathologic study of 160 patients. Arch Dermatol. 1998 Mar;134(3):309–315.
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La Pallacanestro Trieste 2004 S.r.l. è la principale società di pallacanestro maschile di Trieste, erede della storica Pallacanestro Trieste fallita nel 2004. Milita in Serie A.

Gioca le sue partite interne all'Allianz Dome.

Storia

Gli inizi
La prima società di basket con il nome di Pallacanestro Trieste viene fondata nel 1975 in una città dall'alta cultura sportiva e storica per il basket italiano. Negli anni '30-'40 la Società Ginnastica Triestina (SGT) ha infatti conquistato 5 titoli nazionali, e Trieste è tuttora la città che ha dato il maggior numero di giocatori alla nazionale azzurra.

La parabola della SGT ai massimi livelli si conclude definitivamente nella stagione 1974-75, quando, sponsorizzata Lloyd Adriatico, disputa il primissimo campionato di A2 con in campo nove dilettanti e un unico professionista, l'americano Steve Brooks. A quel punto lo sponsor abbandona e la Ginnastica si prepara a fare altrettanto. Di fronte al rischio di scomparire dal basket di vertice, diversi cittadini decidono di creare una nuova società, che eredita i diritti all'A2.

Il primo campionato è travagliato, di fatto è cambiato poco rispetto all'anno precedente, ora l'americano si chiama Butch Taylor ma per il resto sono ancora tempi pionieristici. La squadra, dopo un inizio promettente, infila una serie negativa che la porta a giocarsi la salvezza in un drammatico spareggio contro la Pinti Inox Brescia di Charlie Yelverton. Una retrocessione, dopo un solo anno di esistenza e con una struttura societaria ancora fragile, potrebbe avere conseguenze gravissime, ma Trieste vince 60-57 e rimane in serie A.

L'era Hurlingham
Nel 1976-77 si registrano due importanti novità: l'ingaggio in panchina di Gianfranco Lombardi, detto "Dado", in passato grande giocatore e miglior marcatore della serie A, e l'arrivo di un solido sponsor, la linea di profumeria Hurlingham. Il roster è rinforzato con l'acquisto del playmaker Angelo Baiguera e del centro americano Ron De Vries. La squadra chiude la prima fase (regular season) all'ottavo posto, con 10 vittorie e 12 sconfitte. Nel successivo girone di classificazione (una specie di playout ante litteram, ma con possibile retrocessione in serie B), vince 5 gare e ne perde 9.

L'anno successivo, dopo la partenza di Lombardi, la squadra viene affidata al giovane Alberto Petazzi, mentre al confermato De Vries si affianca l'oriundo Bill Paterno. Dopo una regular season dignitosa, una serie negativa culminata nella sconfitta di Genova nel girone di classificazione costa la panchina a Petazzi. La società richiama Lombardi, ma il regolamento della Lega vieta al coach livornese, che poco prima era stato esonerato da Forlì, di sedere in panchina durante le partite. La salvezza arriva a fatica solo all'ultima giornata, a spese della Gis Napoli.

Nell'autunno 1978 approda in casa Hurlingham un giocatore destinato a fare epoca e a restare nel cuore dei tifosi: Rich Laurel. Agile mancino dal tiro micidiale, rimarrà a Trieste per tre stagioni viaggiando a medie di realizzazione altissime. Con al suo fianco il solido centro Larry Boston, Laurel trascina la squadra, che disputa un buon campionato concluso all'ottavo posto con 26 punti e il bilancio vinte/perse in pareggio. A un certo punto si fa anche un pensierino a puntare alla promozione, ma il quarto posto rimane un miraggio. All'ultima giornata del campionato 1978-79, contro la Juve Caserta, l'Hurlingham segna 117 punti, tuttora record assoluto della Pall. Trieste in un campionato di serie A.

La promozione nella massima divisione arriva l'anno successivo, a conclusione di un'ottima stagione. Lasciato libero Boston, che aveva manifestato qualche problema di comportamento, la società mette a segno un colpo di mercato ingaggiando Jim McDaniels, pivot di classe già protagonista alcune stagioni prima in maglia Snaidero Udine. Però nel precampionato il giocatore è vittima di un grave infortunio che di fatto ne conclude la carriera, e l'Hurlingham è costretta a correre ai ripari. In breve tempo viene reperito un sostituto, che si rivelerà un jolly vincente: James Bradley. Il campionato 1979-80 si conclude con l'Hurlingham al primo posto, a pari punti con Pagnossin Gorizia, Mercury Bologna e Banco Roma. Solo la differenza canestri priva i neroverdi triestini della possibilità di giocare i play-off scudetto.

Conquistata la serie A1, la dirigenza cerca di rinforzare la rosa, ma incappa in una campagna acquisti destinata a rivelarsi fallimentare. Dopo aver ingaggiato l'italo-american-messicano Carlos Mina, che farà un campionato deludente, si cerca in particolare un centro di grido per sostituire Bradley, ritenuto inadeguato a tenere il campo contro i pivot del massimo campionato. Dopo aver invano inseguito Abdul Jeelani, l'Hurlingham rischia tutto puntando su Marvin Barnes, giocatore dal passato burrascoso. Dotato di grandissimo talento e di mezzi fisici impressionanti, Barnes ha fatto grandi cose nella American Basketball Association (ABA) per poi sprofondare nell'inferno della droga e del crimine. Nella NBA non ne vogliono più sapere, Trieste decide di dargli una chance ma perde la scommessa. Appesantito e svogliato, Barnes fa vedere pochi sprazzi del gioco stratosferico di cui è stato capace in passato, e si fa notare soprattutto per le sue "imprese" lontano dai parquet. Dopo sole 7 partite arriva il taglio, inevitabile, e la sostituzione con il giovane Dave Lawrence. La squadra accusa il colpo, paga anche una certa inesperienza perdendo molte partite per pochissimi punti, e a fine stagione retrocede in A2. A parziale consolazione, riesce a piazzare Laurel al secondo posto della classifica dei marcatori, con 24 punti di media, alle spalle del solo Bob Morse. Ma la parentesi triestina del tiratore di Philadelphia è giunta al termine: coinvolto assieme ad alcuni compagni in un giro di festini hard e droga, che causa alla società un grave danno di immagine, deve lasciare l'Hurlingham e la città. Ancora oggi viene ricordato dalla tifoseria.

Di nuovo in A1

Dopo tanti problemi, abbandonata anche dallo sponsor storico, la dirigenza si trova a dover ricostruire la squadra per puntare a un pronto ritorno in A1. Persa la stella Laurel, la società vede partire anche Baiguera, che lascia il basket. Su quanto rimane del nucleo storico (Roberto Ritossa, Gino Meneghel, Claudio Scolini e il giovane Alberto Tonut) innesta allora due ottimi rinforzi provenienti da Bologna: il playmaker Piero Valenti e l'ala Gianni Bertolotti. Dal Real Madrid arriva l'americano Jim Abromaitis, mentre la solita difficile ricerca di un centro di peso porta all'ingaggio del massiccio John Campbell, gregario degli Harlem Globetrotters. Nelle prime fasi della stagione la squadra (ora sponsorizzata Oece) ha un rendimento altalenante: trova in Bertolotti un nuovo trascinatore ma risente delle performance a corrente alternata dei due americani. È soprattutto Campbell a mostrare tutti i suoi limiti tecnici, pur riuscendo a realizzare 30 punti (frutto di innumerevoli schiacciate) nella partita contro la Sacramora Rimini. Per il resto è un fiasco, e a novembre lascia il posto al ben più efficace Wayne Robinson, ala-pivot proveniente dai Detroit Pistons. La squadra si riprende ma chiude la regular season con 26 punti, a metà classifica, ben lontana dalle prime posizioni. Resta però da giocare la "fase a orologio", escogitata per rendere un po' più lungo un campionato a 14 squadre, e l'Oece ha la fortuna di arrivarci in un ottimo stato di forma e con la mentalità giusta. Così, dopo una stagione di alti e bassi, riesce a vincere tutte e sei le gare della seconda fase agguantando il quinto posto che dà diritto allo spareggio con la terz'ultima di A1, la Recoaro Forlì. I triestini passano di misura fuori casa e una settimana dopo suggellano un finale di stagione straordinario battendo la Recoaro per 74-68 e conquistando la promozione.

Ritrovata la massima serie, la Pallacanestro Trieste opera un'altra mezza rivoluzione. Il primo ad andarsene è coach Lombardi, artefice di due promozioni e per molti versi anima della società. È davvero la fine di un ciclo. Cambia ancora lo sponsor: all'Oece si sostituisce la Bic, multinazionale francese. Sul fronte della squadra si rinuncia a capitan Meneghel, si cede Ritossa a Udine in cambio di Carlo Fabbricatore e si saluta il pur valido Abromaitis. Al suo posto si cerca, ancora una volta, un centro di buon livello, con l'idea di ottenere di più dal confermato Robinson spostandolo all'ala forte. In estate arriva allora Coby Dietrick, veterano con alle spalle 13 stagioni da professionista. In panchina, per la prima volta, un tecnico straniero, Rudy D'Amico, che con un roster ridotto all'osso riuscirà a far vedere un bel basket. Già dalle prime giornate si capisce però che qualcosa non va. Dietrick è un buon giocatore, esperto e dotato di ottima tecnica, ma non è un "crack". In una squadra con più talento riuscirebbe probabilmente a rendersi utile, come fa John Gianelli a Milano, ma Trieste ha bisogno di una stella, non di un uomo-squadra. Così, per la terza stagione consecutiva, cambia in corsa uno dei due stranieri, tagliando Dietrick per il più giovane, atletico e spettacolare Mike Harper. L'avvicendamento dà i frutti sperati, e a fine campionato la squadra conquista la salvezza.

Nel 1984 la società venne acquistata dal magnate del tessile Giuseppe "Bepi" Stefanel. Al momento dell'acquisto la società militava nella seconda serie nazionale (A2) ma il presidente intendeva farne una squadra da scudetto. Le prime mosse furono l'acquisto di un nuovo capo allenatore il bosniaco Bogdan Tanjević. Il primo anno delle gestione Stefanel, tuttavia, terminò con la retrocessione in serie B1.

La doppia promozione

Tanjević, dopo aver accettato di rimanere ancora alla guida della squadra impose alla società la linea dei giovani. In quell'estate arrivarono a Trieste tutti i migliori giovani italiani e jugoslavi disponibili sulla piazza della pallacanestro europea. Ci stiamo riferendo a giocatori del calibro di Dejan Bodiroga, Gregor Fučka, Alessandro De Pol, Davide Cantarello, Claudio Pilutti.

Con questo gruppo storico la squadra egregiamente guidata da Tanjević fu ottenere due promozioni di fila e tornare in Serie A1 nel 90/91. Quell'anno la società si riadattò facilmente al clima competitivo della serie A1 senza difficoltà nonostante i pochi acquisti. Trieste poteva contare su un gruppo storico fortissimo e giovanissimo, per fare un esempio Bodiroga aveva solamente 19 anni quando esordì in A1. Con l'arrivo di Dino Meneghin e Sylvester Gray la società puntò decisamente al titolo.

La Serie A1
La stagione migliore per Trieste fu la 1993-94. Al gruppo già citato si aggiunsero Ferdinando Gentile e Lemone Lampley. In quella stagione la Stefanel Trieste collezionò un secondo posto in coppa Korać e fu in grado di raggiungere la semifinale scudetto contro la Scavolini Pesaro.

Quella serie di semifinale (si giocava al meglio delle 3 gare) è tuttora ricordata come una delle più equilibrate. Si affrontavano due quadre completissime, da una parte Walter Magnifico e Carlton Myers dall'altra la Stefanel Trieste che presentava questo quintetto iniziale: playmaker Gentile (5), guardia tiratrice Bodiroga (4), ala piccola e capitano Pilutti (6), ala grande Fučka (7), centro Lampley (13).

La serie cominciò a Pesaro dove i triestini riuscirono a vincere ai supplementari e continuò a Trieste, dove la Stefanel fallì l'impresa di chiudere la serie; in particolare Fucka scivolò negli istanti finali del tempo regolamentare consentendo il canestro del pari a Pesaro e la vittoria della Scavolini nei supplementari. La gara 3 decisiva si giocò a Pesaro, il tutto esaurito fece da splendida cornice ad una partita passata forse nella storia. Ferdinando Gentile fallì il tiro libero a tempo scaduto che avrebbe consentito a Trieste di passare in finale e, ancora una volta ai supplementari, Pesaro si impose. In questa semifinale si affrontarono due giocatori giovanissimi e maturi come Myers e Bodiroga. Fu il primo a vincere la sfida e a condurre la sua squadra in finale (poi persa contro la Buckler Bologna di Danilović).

La partenza di Stefanel

Quella partita e i lunghi e continui dissidi con la giunta comunale per la costruzione del nuovo palazzetto dello sport, sono un pretesto per Bepi Stefanel, che lascia Trieste con tutti i giocatori e acquista l'Olimpia Milano, il gotha della pallacanestro tricolore, piazza che può dare una maggiore visibilità all'industriale veneto. Lo stesso gruppo di giocatori che militava a Trieste fu in grado di vincere a Milano lo scudetto del 1995-96.

A Stefanel subentrò un nuovo gruppo dirigente presieduto dal sindaco della città, Riccardo Illy; fu proprio la società del primo cittadino a salvare la pallacanestro triestina dalla crisi economica con una sponsorizzazione della sua società, la Illycaffè. nonostante tutti gli sforzi per salvarsi anche in campo la società retrocesse in A2.

Gli ultimi anni in A1
Si ricominciò a costruire per il ritorno in A1. Tutto ruotò attorno alla coppia di stranieri composta da Michael Williams e da Teoman Alibegović. Con questi due talenti la società tornò in serie A1 e cercò di rilanciarsi.

Dopo alcune buone stagioni, che permisero anche la partecipazione alla Coppa Korać (ottenuta anche grazie a giocatori come il compianto Conrad McRae o l'emergente gioiellino Samuele Podestà, arrivato alla fine del 1999 da Livorno) la società fu costretta ad indebitarsi nel 2001 per permettere alla squadra di salvarsi. La formazione di quell'anno, guidata inizialmente da Luca Banchi prima del ritorno di Cesare Pancotto fu costruita male e, lacerata da forti dissidi interni (sfociati anche in una rissa), riuscì a salvarsi solamente grazie all'acquisto di Dante Calabria e Milan Gurović. Due acquisti di altissimo livello che, però, furono alla base dell'indebitamento della società e dei problemi finanziari degli anni successivi.

Con una gestione alquanto parsimoniosa dettata dal presidente Roberto Cosolini la squadra rimase in serie A1 (nonostante per due anni di fila risultò essere la squadra con il monte stipendi più basso di tutta la serie A1) anche se con grossissime difficoltà.

Ancora una volta alla guida del team in quegli anni di magra, fu chiamato coach Pancotto affiancato al general manager Mario Ghiacci. Nonostante tutto la società non riuscì ad appianare i debiti. Finì tutto con lannus horribilis 2003-04. In quella stagione, la squadra, molto debole nel ruolo del pivot (Andrea Camata giocò al di sotto delle aspettative) e in generale con difficoltà sull'asse play-pivot, riuscì a vincere solamente 10 gare in tutto il campionato (curiosamente le prime e le ultime 5). La stagione sportiva si concluse con un'attesa retrocessione in Legadue e il fallimento con conseguente ripescaggio in B2.

La Pallacanestro Trieste 2004
Dalle ceneri di quella squadra nacque la Pallacanestro Trieste 2004, attuale squadra di vertice a Trieste. Partita dalla Serie B2, viene subito promossa in B1. Nel 2005-06 l'Acegas Aps Trieste arriva quinta nel girone A di Serie B1 e si gioca la promozione in Legadue ai play-off, che però perde. Nel 2006-07, sponsorizzata ancora dall'Acegas, la squadra giunge al quattordicesimo posto nel girone A di Serie B1. Ai play-out, perde la serie per 2-1 contro Patti e retrocede in Serie B2.

Nel 2007-08 la Pallacanestro Trieste 2004 partecipa al campionato di serie B2 (attuale serie B dilettanti) e lo inizia sotto la guida di un giovane e ambizioso allenatore triestino Ferruccio Mengucci (reduce dalla positiva esperienza al Bor società della minoranza slovena militante in serie C1) il quale dopo sole sei giornate di campionato viene esonerato a causa del record negativo (1-5) e dei profondi dissapori con la presunta stella della squadra (il quarantunenne livornese Claudio Bonaccorsi).
Al suo posto la società ingaggia l'esperto Piero Pasini, che non riesce a dare la svolta né a lottare mai per l'obbiettivo dichiarato ad inizio stagione, cioè la promozione in serie B1 (attuale serie A dilettanti)
La stagione regolare è conclusa al 12º posto.
A seguito di ciò la squadra partecipa ai play out per evitare di finire in serie C1 (attuale serie C dilettanti) e dopo aver perso la prima opportunità di salvarsi (0-2 contro la Nuova Pallacanestro Gorizia) riesce a sconfiggere la Fiorese Bassano 3-2 in una serie drammatica, che condanna i veneti alla retrocessione.

In vista della stagione sportiva 2008-2009 la Pallacanestro Trieste 2004 avvia una totale rifondazione azzerando i vertici tecnici e dirigenziali.
Il progetto, di durata triennale e con l'obbiettivo di riportare la Pallacanestro Trieste in serie A, è affidato a Matteo Bonicciolli (Coach of the year serie A1 campionato 2007-8, vincitore della coppa Italia e qualificatosi all'Eurolega alla guida dell'Air Avellino) in qualità di plenipotenziario tecnico-dirigenziale e organizzativo della società, Massimo Bernardi (allenatore prima squadra) e Stefano Comuzzo (responsabile settore giovanile).

Nella stagione 2008-09 la Pallacanestro Trieste, fu in grado di costruire una squadra equilibrata inserendo un buon numero di giovani Triestini che, fra i normali alti e bassi stagionali, si classificò al 3º posto della Serie B Dilettanti, qualificandosi così per i play-off, dove sconfisse prima Como e poi Trento.
Il 28 maggio 2009 la Acegas Aps Trieste viene promossa in A Dilettanti dopo aver sconfitto Riva del Garda.

Per la stagione sportiva 2009-10 la squadra che Boniciolli ha ri-affidato al tecnico Bernardi è una squadra giovanissima: fatta eccezione per capitan Bocchini, l'età media dei giocatori è estremamente bassa.

L'inizio del cambiamento comincia con l'ingaggio, come head-coach, di Eugenio Dalmasson a partire dalla stagione 2010-11.

Il 22 aprile 2011 ufficializza la presentazione della richiesta per la wild card per partecipare al campionato di sviluppo 2011-12.

Il 14 giugno 2012 viene promossa in Legadue battendo la Pallacanestro Chieti.

Alla fine del campionato 2014-15, la squadra viene praticamente rifondata da zero: tra gli altri, parte la giovane promessa Stefano Tonut, direzione Venezia, e si ritira il capitano della promozione Marco Carra.

Il triennio targato Alma

Il campionato 2015-16 vede, tra gli altri, l'ingaggio dell'esperto giocatore triestino Andrea Pecile, oltre all'arrivo (a dicembre) di uno sponsor di spessore come Alma Agenzia per il lavoro. A fine campionato, per il secondo anno di seguito, si classifica per i play off promozione, venendo sconfitta però agli ottavi da Tortona per 3-2.
L'anno della rivelazione è però il successivo, campionato 2016-17: perde la prima partita di campionato (tra l'altro in casa) con Treviso, ma da quel momento in poi comincia a macinare vittorie, anche esterne. Tra le altre cose, si qualifica con due giornate di anticipo per le Final Eight della stagione in corso. A dicembre 2016 viene tesserato Alessandro Cittadini, a cui si aggiungerà (ad aprile, poco prima dei play off) il triestino Daniele Cavaliero. Si classifica prima, a pari merito con Treviso e Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna alla fine della regular season; per differenze canestri e vittorie/sconfitte però si qualifica come terza ai play off per l'unica promozione in A1.
Dopo aver superato Treviglio per 3-2, Tortona per 3-1 e Fortitudo per 3-2, viene sconfitta in gara 3 dalla Virtus nella finale.

A settembre 2017, dopo il tesseramento di giocatori giovani come Federico Loschi ed esperti come Juan Fernández e Laurence Bowers, vince il suo primo torneo della nuova gestione, la Supercoppa LNP, dopo aver sconfitto in semifinale Ravenna per 90-87 e in finale Treviso per 88-78. Nella stagione regolare (2017-18) l'Alma Pallacanestro Trieste arriva prima del suo girone: parte subito "con il botto" (nonostante gli infortuni pre-campionato di Matteo Da Ros e Bowers) con 11 vittorie su 11 partite consecutive disputate - la Stefanel Trieste della stagione 1993-94 aveva fatto "solo" 10 partite consecutive. A fine campionato totalizza 22 vittorie e 8 sconfitte, di cui una sola interna (che purtroppo interrompe la striscia di ben 28 vittorie consecutive in casa in regular season), tra l'altro nell'ultima partita disputata in casa prima dei play-off contro i rivali di Udine.
A tal proposito, c'è un particolare che accomuna la stagione 2016-17 con la stagione 2017-18 e cioè il fatto che in entrambi gli anni è stata un'unica squadra a battere l'Alma, sia all'andata che al ritorno (Treviso nel 2016-17, APU GSA Udine nel 2017-18). Per merito della classifica avulsa, l'Alma Pallacanestro Trieste si classifica prima assoluta dei due gironi (Est ed Ovest), il che le permette di giocare sempre le prime due partite dei play-off promozione (e l'eventuale quinta) in casa.

Il 16 giugno 2018, l'Alma Pallacanestro Trieste ritorna nella massima serie dopo un'attesa durata 14 anni, imponendosi con un netto 3-0 su Casale Monferrato nei play-off promozione. La serie ha visto l'Alma Pallacanestro Trieste vincere per 3-0 su Treviglio, per 3-1 su Montegranaro (unica squadra ad aver costretto Trieste a Gara 4) e per 3-0 su Treviso (con una storica vittoria al PalaVerde).

Il 7 ottobre 2018 comincia la sua avventura in serie A contro la Segafredo Virtus Bologna. Alla fine della RS la compagine biancorossa raggiunge i playoff classificandosi al settimo posto e venendo eliminata al primo turno per mano della Vanoli Cremona.

Era Allianz
Il 26 marzo 2019 il presidente di Alma Luigi Scavone viene arrestato con l'accusa di evasione fiscale. Dalle indagini seguenti viene chiarita la posizione della società sportiva che risulta estranea ad ogni tipo di coinvolgimento.
Alla fine di maggio, delle voci su un possibile interessamento per l'acquisto della società da parte dell'imprenditore Massimo Blasoni vengono prontamente smentite dall'arresto dell'interessato per truffa.
La squadra comincia dunque il campionato senza main sponsor.

Il 29 novembre 2019 la Pallacanestro Trieste divulga alla stampa di aver raggiunto un accordo di sponsorizzazione con la società assicurativa "Allianz" per le stagioni 2019/2020 - 2020/2021 - 2021/2022.

Cronistoria

Sponsor

Roster 2022-2023
Aggiornato all'8 marzo 2023.

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Palmarès

 2017

 2017-18

Finali disputate
 Coppa Italia
1995 - contro Benetton Pallacanestro Treviso

 Coppa Korac
1994 - contro PAOK Salonicco

Partecipazione ai campionati

Tifoseria
La tifoseria della Pallacanestro Trieste 2004 è stata eletta come miglior tifo di Serie A nella stagione 2018-2019.

La Curva Nord è il principale tifo organizzato della società. Durante gara 3 dei play-off di LBA 2018-2019 è stata protagonista di una fantastica coreografia riguardante le coppe europee.

Nel 2019, per commemorare la piccola cestista Sveva Piattelli, morta all'età di otto anni, la società per una giornata di campionato ha cambiato nome in Sveva Trieste e la tifoseria ha esposto cartelli con il suo nome durante la gara contro la Germani Brescia.

Gemellaggi e rivalità

Gemellaggi
 Viola Reggio Calabria
 Pallacanestro Forlì 2.015
 Scaligera Basket Verona
 Derthona Basket

Rivalità
 Virtus Bologna
 Amici Pallacanestro Udinese
 Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna
 Universo Treviso Basket
 Reyer Venezia
 Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano

Cestisti

Allenatori

Note

Collegamenti esterni

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'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Is Currently Rotten on Rotten Tomatoes
Claire Epting Published: December 18, 2019
After Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker had world premiere at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles on Monday, critics flooded the internet with their first reactions. A majority were resoundingly positive. And not just positive in an "I liked it" kind of way. More like a jump-up-and-down-in-your-seat kind of way. So answer this: Why on Earth does The Rise of Skywalker have a current score of 57 percent — slightly rotten, per the site's rating system — on Rotten Tomatoes?
One theory could be that once the initial thrill of viewing the end to a 40-year saga wears off, reality sets in. No one wants to be a downer the night of the premiere, but give it a few days and true opinions begin to form. Out of the 153 critic reviews (and counting) on the site, 87 are "Fresh" and 66 are "Rotten", which means a fair number of critics liked it ... just not as many as Lucasfilm surely hoped.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back holds the highest rating of the saga at a "Certified Fresh" score of 94 percent. This is followed immediately by A New Hope and The Force Awakens at 93 percent. Despite gripes from fans, The Last Jedi sits high at 91 percent. As expected, the prequel trilogy registers lower on the scale: The Phantom Menace at 53 percent, Attack of the Clones at 65 percent, and Revenge of the Sith at a still impressive 80 percent. This means that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ranks just a cut above The Phantom Menace — and below Attack of the Clones. No. We refuse to believe that.
This statistic is bound to change as early as Friday, when Episode IX at long last hits theaters nationwide. Once that happens, audience scores will likely be "Fresh" and re-establish order in the universe.
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Migori town, the largest urban centre within Migori County, serves as an important link between Kenya and Tanzania. And its cosmopolitan nature has made it to be among the fastest growing towns in Kenya and most viable commercial centre in the country.
According to the 2009 census, the population of the then municipal council of Migori stood at 29, 825 but to date, statisticians put the population within the town to over 100,000 people.
With that huge number of human beings concentrated in one region, there are a number of basic services that are critical for the survival of such humanity, one of which is availability of a good systems to realise a high degree of sanitation for the town dwellers.
An urban set up of that kind will also require good infrastructure for instance housing, good roads, high-class water system, lighting system and first-rate hospitality services from hotels and restaurants.
Fortunately enough, Migori is racing to catch up with the existing big cities in Kenya in terms of buildings and especially those housing business entities.
For the last five years, the town has experienced a construction madness by investors that has borne a web of beautiful skyscrapers currently serving as commercial buildings within and around the town centre.
And in equal measure to the construction frenzy of the commercial buildings, the town is currently registering a fast spring of mansions and a blooming cache of small- enterprise entities that are driving it to totally acquire its new status, thanks to devolution.
It is a fact that, Migori, the headquarter of the region's devolved unit, has found its growth formula largely due to the decentralization of government services from Nairobi.
With the increased flow of financial resources into the region and the fact that the town boasts its closeness to the world's popular tourists' destination, Maasai Mara game park, Migori has had a dire need to improve its hospitality services leading to the mushrooming of first class hotels and restaurants now seen in the area.
"It is fascinating to witness a sharp increase of hotels, restaurants and bars within the town centre and its environs in a short span of time after ushering in the devolved government. It is an outright proof that the economy of the town has greatly gone up because of the high circulation of money from within and outside," says Mr. Jorum Ondiek, a teacher from Uriri Sub County.
Most of those investing in the huge commercial assets are people associated with the county government. They are either employees there or they are trading with the devolved unit as contractors and suppliers.
"These people have given the town a new lease of life by investing in real estate business, putting up lines of rental houses, homes and inns that have offered the town a big facelift within a short period," says Mrs. Monica Milanya.
Being one of the beneficiaries of the over Sh500 million World Bank Urban Promotion Program in Kenya, expectations are high among county residents that Migori town is set to make a further long stride in improvement of its amenities, a situation that is poised to attract more investors and visitors to the benefit of the local economy.
Governor Okoth Obado says his government is keen to initiate more development programmes not only to Migori town but to other up-coming urban centres within the region in collaboration with other development partners within and outside the country to make the region an economic hub in Africa.
However, the visible transformation of the town has not been realized without some glaring challenges.
Unfortunately to the local people and visitors, one of the cogs that is critical for aligning a particular region or centre with good sanitation – the sewerage system – has been lacking within the town, thereby exposing the lives of the town dwellers to serious health dangers.
In the past years, the town has been experiencing recurring outbreaks of waterborne disease, despite its speedy growth to urban status.
"We have been experiencing bouts of cholera, dysentery and other waterborne diseases due to poor systems in disposal of waste matters especially the human fecal matters," says Public Health Officer Mr. Jorem Onyango.
Save for the Catholic Church-run Ombo Mission hospital's sewerage treatment pond, serving the facility only, the rest of the town's soft waste matters all end up in River Migori that snakes its way through the town centre to Lake Victoria.
Currently, the town depends on poorly constructed pit latrines that dot the towns to dispose of human faeces, but whose contents end up being discharged into river Migori during rainy seasons when they overflow.
"We have over 50 hotels and 20 learning institutions within this town all of which have no proper systems of disposing of waste matters and, the unfortunate thing here is that all their wastes are directed into the river," says Mrs. Monica Otieno, a Migori town dweller and business woman.
Statistics availed from the local statistics bureau indicates that a large volume of soft matters from estates, homes and business institutions are being discharged as run offs on open grounds exposing the town to foul smells.
A first time visitor to the town will be surprised to do hop-step and jump over numerous rivulets of raw sewer webbed in many parts of the town and chocking his or her lungs with bad smells.
Although the town enjoys piped water services, there has been a problem of raw sewer mixing with clean water after seepage of sewer through broken water pipes.
A survey conducted within the town has also revealed that many homes and business premises bordering river Migori have been discharging their raw wastes into the river, leaving it highly polluted for direct water users on the lower parts.
Reports have also been doing round that some big hotels have been emptying their overflowing sock pits on open grounds late into the night and especially during rainy seasons to cut costs of treating and draining their sock pits using existing firms charged with such duties.
Lack of working sewerage network in the town has left the town seriously dwarfed in terms of good sanitation and all blames have been heaped on the county government that has been accused of being inept in offering good services to address the biting low level of sanitation in the town.
Senior officials at the devolved unit have not been committal to our efforts to get comment on the burning sanitation problem within the town and our calls and text messages have gone unanswered.
An officer who pleaded for anonymity because he is not allowed to comment on such matters talked of millions of shillings that have been allocated towards putting up a sewerage system in the town in the past financial years but which have ended up being squandered by corrupt employees.
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Q: VSCode and Python extension: Navigating to symbols is very very slow I am experimenting with VSCode to edit a python program I have.  It is about 3000 lines long.  I have loaded Microsoft's Python extension for VSCode. Most things work well -- linting, etc.
However, when I use F12 to jump to a definition of function or method, it can take 10 or 15 seconds to complete.  Finding the usages of a function is (usually and surprisingly) must faster.  All symbols I am searching for are in this same file.
Do others have this problem?  I don't think it is my machine's limitations, because I've been using VSCode with TypeScript for 6 months, and in that environment, which included 1000s of files, jumping to definitions was always very fast.
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This piece made me sad, to be honest, seeing a great bird strapped to a flight trainer like this, as if mankind, in our hubris, thinks we can somehow improve upon nature's plans for teaching an albatross to fly. I mean, we need flight trainers for human pilots because, of course, we were not all born to fly, but to suggest a bird needs this kind of help is a kind of tragic ridiculousness, something we see far too often when it comes to young children. I couldn't help but think of a comment Niki had made earlier in the day: "People in offices keep writing curricula and the kids keep learning the way they always have -- by playing."
It's crazy, all these folks trying to sell us on products or methods or systems designed to "help" children do things like stand or sit or walk or talk or read or count, things they do as naturally as an albatross flies. I mean, there are literally dozens of types "walk trainers" out there for our babies. Really? There are devices designed to help babies sit up before their muscles are even close to being ready. Is this really a problem? Is there an epidemic of babies not learning to walk or sit up by themselves? Of course not; every normal baby already learns these things without any help from any kind of "trainer" other than, you know, the world in which they find themselves living. By the same token, do we really need "cute" apps to teach children "counting and language skills," which is a direct quote from just about every spam email I receive these days? Do we honesty believe we can improve upon talking with children and giving them time and space to play, which is the way nature has always taught foundational counting and language skills? I guarantee there will never be an app that can do a better job than that. Do we need written programs for what and how we expect young children to learn, devised by people who clearly have no how idea how they themselves learned the important things they know? Of course not. People in offices keep writing curricula and the kids keep learning the way they always have -- by playing.
We spend billions of dollars on these things every year, these albatross flight trainers, to which we strap the wings of children.
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CTA Caught In A Lie
Usually I dread receiving California Educator magazine, as you never know what kind of drivel you'll find in there. Now that I've started blogging, however, I look forward to receiving it because it offers so much fodder for posts. In that respect, the February 2005 issue doesn't disappoint.
The cover says "School Funding Went From First To Worst, What Went Wrong?" The story inside, however, has a slightly different title: "California's School Funding Went From First To Among The Worst, What Went Wrong?"
What went wrong? I'll tell you what went wrong! The California Teachers Association is being dishonest and is pushing this dishonesty on the cover of its magazine.
Where does California stand with regard to education spending? Riding to the rescue to answer this question is none other than the National Education Association in their March 2005 issue. Page 19 directs readers to a RAND Corporation report (here) which states " (t)he state ranked 27th in per pupil spending in 2001-2002." Not quite last, is it?
But wait, there's more. And I'm not talking about Ginsu knives here. Go to the National Center for Education Statistics to see where California fell during the 2001-2002 school year. Granted, that's 3 years ago, but I doubt that we've dropped to the bottom since then. Again, not the bottom. Not great, but certainly not the bottom. Later in the story, California Educator says that "Within a few years of passage [of Propositon 13], California went from being first in school funding to worst." I'd love to see the numbers backing up that statement.
The facts bear themselves out. You can't trust CTA to tell you the truth.
Now I'm not saying that all is peaches and cream here in California. Here are some of the bullets from the RAND study:
California student achievement on national standardized tests is near the bottom of the 50 states, ranking above only Louisiana and Mississippi. California's low scores cannot be accounted for by a high percentage of minority students, who generally have lower scores because many come from low-income families and sometimes must learn English as a second language. Controlling for students' background, California's scores are the lowest of any state.
California students have made gains on national achievement tests in both math and reading. In particular, the improvement seen among 4th graders in California in the past seven years has been greater than their peers in other states.
California has the second highest ratio of students per teacher in the nation, even after a major effort began in 1996 to reduce ratios for K-3 and 9th grade. California K-12 schools have an average of 20.9 students per teacher, compared with a national average of 16.1.
California school districts' teacher standards are generally lower than in other states. Just 46 percent of school districts in California require teachers to have full standard certification in the subjects they teach, compared with 82 percent nationally.
The real average annual teacher salary in California during the 2000-2001 school year was about the same as it was in 1969-70, when adjusted for inflation. The adjusted annual average salary of about $39,000 (in today's dollars) places California last among the five largest states and 32nd nationwide.
While California spent less per pupil on school facilities than other states during the 1990s, progress has been made in recent years with passage of both state and local bond measures. However, schools in central cities and in rural areas still have a high number of inadequate facilities.
This does not, however, justify CTA's bait-and-switch.
Phyllis S said...
This comparison of student achievement from state to state is frankly meaningless, since each state creates its own individual academic standards and its own testing of those standards. Drives me nuts. Interesting little country you live in out there, by the way. Of course, I live in the state that was once famously described as 'too small for a republic and too big for an insane asylum'. That was in antebellum times--but it still holds true.
Dan Edwards said...
Another thing about CTA. It is nearly impossible to make contact with the State officers. There is no published telephone number, no published e-mail address....they do not want to hear from their members!
Walter E. Wallis said...
Many organizations make it hard to talk to them. I tried to find a UAW site to comment to about their denying parking to cars with Bush stickers - no way. I left AARP years ago when I realized they had no mechanism for member input, and I remember when politicians refused to let the public know their fax numbers.
I wonder where California would rank if we did not allow illegals in our schools. After all, Mexico has free public education.
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When Summer Lydon, dessert chef extraordinaire, is approached to revamp the kitchen at Blake Cocharan's Philadelphia hotel, she's hesitant. Yet the project and the cordon bleu chef are too attractive to deny. Accustomed to traveling the world, Summer gets her first real taste of staying in one place and all the pleasures to be savored when love is on the menu. Now Summer is planning a meal from start to finish and creating a perfect ending all her own.
Socialite Eden Carlbough knew running a girls's camp wouldn't be easy, but she didn't expect to be run up an apple tree by the campers. She was equally surprised to come crashing down into the capable arms of orchard owner Chase Elliot. While her handsome neighbor's overbearing ways are highly irritating, his touch ignites feelings she's never known. Now Eden finds herself unable to resist the temptation.


Salta City is the hub of the Andean northwest and before proceeding elsewhere one 'must see' attraction is the Museo de Archeologia de Alta Montana, considered by many to be one of the best and most deeply moving museums of Inca culture in South America. And afterwards, take advantage of the sunny weather and enjoy the lively outdoor café society in one of the squares.
The drive from Salta up to Cachi, Molinas and on to the salt plains witnesses a dramatic change of scenery from verdant green agriculture in the plains, through semi arid rocky gorges and peaks up to the arid white salt plains of the Altiplano. Every corner presents a photo opportunity – we will factor this into your journey time!
Cafayate is dominated by the surrounding vineyards running from the town up to the base of the mountains and the whole area is developing a reputation as a serious alternative wine destination to Mendoza. There are opportunities for wine tasting, walking, playing golf or just relaxing in one of the hotels in the midst of the vineyards.
Humahuaca The Quebrada de Humahuaca is a river valley which has cut a route through jagged and folded rock formations of vividly differing colours, which have earned it a UNESCO World Heritage listing. Stop en route at the delightful village of Purmamarca and view the celebrated 'Hill of Seven Colours', best viewed in the early morning sunlight.
For travellers wishing to combine a trip to Argentina with Chile, Purmamarca is an overnight stop before proceeding by road to the border and on to the Atacama Desert.
However, for the ultimate otherworldly desert landscapes and off-road adventure travel spend a few nights in the Puna Desert. Read Jonathan Bastable's Trip Out in Salta article in Conde Nast Traveller magazine for an idea of what this is like.
To discover more about the northwest of Argentina and how best to see its amazing landscapes, give us a call or send us a message.
Salta and the surrounding plains have warm humid summers with temperatures around 27°C during the day falling to a pleasant 17°C by night, and monsoon type rainfall which tends to pass by quickly. Winter is very dry with mild days and cool nights. At higher altitudes up in the Puna region the climate is dry and sunny (320 days sunshine a year) but generally cooler and in winter night-time temperatures often drop below freezing.
Adventure travel in remotest Northwest Argentina combining nature, extraordinary geology, and pre-inca history.
New hotel in heart of Argentina's wine country with excellent spa facilitities in the stunning Calchaqui valley.
The Legado Mitico is a classic boutique hotel, set close to the centre of Salta.
A tranquil country retreat immersed in the beauty of colonial charm and picturesque mountains.
Finca Valentina was opened in 2008 by Italian couple Fabrizio and Valentina and provides a comfortable, high end country house experience.


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