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Middleburg Academy’s Tori Kahler Brings Home School’s First All-State
M iddleburg Academy’s Cross Country Team recently participated and placed well in the Virginia Independent School Athletic Association Division 2 State…
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Shakespeare and 21st Century Skills at Powhatan School R. Dixon Bell Announces His Retirement
T raditions and rituals help cement a school’s identity while signaling what a school values. The Shakespeare tradition has been a part of Powhatan school…
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Reynolds Oare, Highland Varsity Boy’s Soccer Coach, Voted Virginia Coach of the Year
Highland’s Varsity Boys Soccer Coach Reynolds Oare was voted Virginia’s National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Coach of the Year on the heels…
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Mary Looney & Rachel Kahler Join Middleburg Academy Board of Trustees
Two parents of Middleburg Academy students have been welcomed to the school’s Board of Trustees. Mary Looney Mary Looney, was raised over the mountain near…
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Poinsettia, the Back Story - The Plant Lady
T he poinsettia has long been a symbolic plant of the Christmas season. A native of Mexico, where it is known as “flor de noche buena” or the Christmas Eve…
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The Artist’s Perspective
I was recently reminded that it has been 20 years since the National Gallery of Art hosted the first ever Johannes Vermeer retrospective. Featuring 22 of the…
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You as an Algorithm - iMed
If something can’t be measured, it doesn’t exist. That’s why Haverhill, MA physician Dr. Duncan MacDougall in 1907 put especially sensitive scales beneath the…
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How to manage your budget? - Ask a Remodeler
When you ask folks considering a remodeling project what they fear most, one of the most common concerns is the project coming in “over budget”. A sound…
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Megan and Anakin - A girl and their dogs
“ I am the Equine Activities and Therapy Manager at the Rainbow Therapeutic Riding Center in Haymarket, Virginia and Anakin, my seven-year-old golden…
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Gift Ideas, 2015 - Sincerely me
Happy, happy holidays to you and yours! Gift giving should always come with meaning and love. Shopping is an art which I mastered while still aged in single…
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Albert’s Corner
For years, scholars have debated about whether animals are capable of recalling the past and/or planning for the future. There is additional debate about which…
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Finding Balance
The human body is always striving for balance. Internally, it operates efficiently when things are in balance. If things should be a little off, the body tries…
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Why do I get these Pesky, Painful Cold Sores?
Colds and flu are an unfortunate part of this otherwise festive season. Frequently, with colds and flu come “cold sores”, so named because they often accompany…
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Christmas in Middelburg
At press time the Middleburg Police Department was estimating that an all time record crowd of between 26 and 28 thousand people were present for all or part…
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The Refugee “Crisis” - Blue
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes…
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It’s an Invasion - RED
OK, let’s stipulate right up front that not all Muslims are terrorists. No serious person has suggested that anyway, but the accusation that Americans,…
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Hypocrisy
Once again, as pointed out in the book, “The Shock Doctrine,” governments and companies are capitalizing on disastrous events. Immediately after the Paris…
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Christmas in 2015 - The Public Square
Christmas is a Season when the self encounters itself. There is a solitary quality about Christmas, as well as one of great merriment spent in joy with family…
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The ISIS Mindset and Ways to Undermine ISIS Propaganda
Propaganda plays a key role in ISIS recruitment and sustainment of its base. It is critical to understand the inner workings of the ISIS mindset. Ideological…
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Middleburg Eccentric December 2015 Issue, Volume 12 Issue 8
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