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Racing with greatness in the American Birkebeiner

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Ian Duncan can do more than imagine the drive Norwegian hero Bjorn Daehlie called upon to win eight Olympic gold medals in cross-country skiing.

The Madison-based neuroscientist has tapped his own similar devotion to a goal, in his rise to the forefront of research in the fight against multiple sclerosis.

World-recognized in far different fields, Duncan and Daehlie have become friends who share passions for cross-country skiing and finding a cure for a debilitating disease.

Their mutual interests first brought the two together in Daehlie’s Norwegian home and will do so again on Saturday at the start line of the American  Birkebeiner race at the Telemark Resort in Cable.

Duncan, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the lead researcher studying the use of cell transplants to repair nerve fibers damaged by MS.

His research and reputation led to a call from a Daehlie family friend in 2004, and the doctor traveled to Norway to meet with the skier's mother, Bjorg. Her mobility has been severely limited by the disease that attacks her nervous system.

A few years later, the doctor coaxed the Nordic champion to join 7,000 skiers in one of the largest races in the world and help raise money for research that may help his mother.Bjorg Daehlie (left) with Ian Duncan and Bjorn Daehlie (right). Photo courtesy of the Daehlie family

Daehlie will be the ambassador for multiple sclerosis research and the Birkie Skiers for Cures in the race's 36th running.

In previous years, Birkie charity efforts have raised $84,000, shared among the Susan G. Komen breast cancer fund, the Arthritis Foundation and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Skiing with the champ

A veteran of more than 20 Birkebeiners, Duncan was well aware of Daehlie’s achievements when he traveled to meet him for the first time.

The doctor fulfilled a dream by skiing with the man widely acknowledged as the greatest Nordic skier of all time.

“It would be like playing golf with Tiger Woods or playing basketball with Michael Jordan,” Duncan said. “I was almost hyperventilating when I was skiing with him. It was such an incredible experience.”

Daehlie has been unavailable for interviews, so it’s hard to know what his impressions were of skiing with a world leader in medical research.

His mother “hopes my research is better than my skiing,” Duncan said.

They may differ greatly in skiing proficiency, but there is a commonality in the two men.

“We live in entirely different worlds, but we have respect for what the other is doing or what the other has done,” Duncan said.

“We’re driven toward a goal, hopefully an achievable, not unrealistic goal,” he said. “To do that requires tremendous motivation, hard work, enterprise and luck.”

Daehlie will be, by far, the most accomplished skier to ever don a Birkie bib. In addition to the 12 Olympic medals he won in the 1990s, he claimed 47 World Cup victories and six championships.

His appearance elevates the profile of the Birkie Skiers for Cures initiative, which brought a charity element to the ski race for the first time in 2006. Officials expect to raise more than $50,000 through donations and the sales of MS pins crafted by Madison artist Kay Lum.

Seeking a turning point

In addition, 20 skiers raised $2,500 for MS to secure an opportunity to ski with the 41-year-old Daehlie on Thursday.

“For me, it’s a chance to meet somebody who’s so passionate about skiing, who has had the success and is using the success in a positive way,” said Don Becker, a Madison-based lawyer who represents clients with disabilities, including MS. “It’s not as much the number of medals, it’s more someone who has meaning in his life, the cause, the illness affecting his mom.”

The MS tie-in with the Birkebeiner also resonated with Linda Cook, whose 18-year-old granddaughter, Hanna Cook, was diagnosed with the disease in spring 2008. Cook hasn’t reached the $2,500 pledge threshold required for the face time with Daehlie, but she has the same passion for the sport and the same desire to help.

She has raised about $800 so far, and hopes, like Daehlie and Duncan, her contribution will be a stride toward a distant goal, curing a horrible disease.

“It’s in my heart that this could be the turning point,” she said. “We want to give not only Hanna hope, but the millions of other people.”


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Phoenix - Left-hander Chris Narveson threw his first live batting practice session of the spring Wednesday in the Brewers camp, and you'd never know it has been less than 10 months since he had rotator cuff surgery.

Narveson commanded his pitches well, had good life on them and threw smoothly with no signs of hesitation.

"It felt real good," said Narveson. "I was excited. In the bullpen, you can only see so much. When you get out there and see hitters, it's amazing how much more focused you and how much more intense it gets. Now you're starting to compete, which is the fun part about it. It's good to throw pitches and see reactions (from hitters).

Narveson made only two starts last season before being shut down and undergoing surgery. If he continues to progress as he has thus far, there's no reason he can't regain his spot in the starting rotation. And it's to his benefit that he would be the only lefty.

"Everything was down (in the strike zone), which is what I was focusing on today," he said. "It's easier to make adjustments if you're missing down. I tried to make sure I stayed in the bottom of the zone.

"My surgery was May 1, so we're coming up on 10 months. It's a huge blessing. When you get done and you still feel fresh, that's the best part about it. I don't feel like there's anything holding me back. I feel normal again. I had some life (on his pitches). That's always good to see."

Pitching coach Rick Kranitz, who monitored Narveson's session, also came away feeling positive about what he saw.

"After a guy has surgery, I like to watch him play catch next to somebody that's been healthy," said Kranitz. "You don't want him to be apprehensive, and he's not.

"He looked good out there today. He needed this. He needed to see hitters. It's been almost a year. That's a long time. He's been playing catch and rehabbing. It's part of the process. His next one we're going to treat a little different, more game-like. Let him get up and down (simulating innings) and move forward."

Asked if Narveson would be ready to pitch in an exhibition game after that, Kranitz said, "I don't see why not. We'll see where he's at."

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A 49-year-old Provo man is being investigated for exposing himself during a flight to Salt Lake City — but the man told police the in-flight flashing occurred after he accidentally rubbed peppermint oil on his genitals.

According to a search warrant filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, the FBI Terrorism Task Force is investigating an incident last November when a woman on a Delta flight from Minnesota to Utah reported to her flight attendant that she saw the passenger next to her expose his penis during their flight.

The man allegedly fled the airport, leaving his luggage behind, according to the warrant. Two days later, he was interviewed by police at his Provo home, where he allegedly told them that he had put peppermint oil on his forehead to treat a headache while he was in Amsterdam, before boarding a string of flights returning him to Utah.

After applying the oil, the man went to use the bathroom.

"I obviously touched my privates," the man told police, adding that he must have had peppermint oil on his hands, because he felt his genitals burning afterward.

According to the warrant, the man told police he placed a coat over himself during the flight to keep warm and began "scratching and adjusting" his groin area because he was uncomfortable. The man admitted to police that at one point, he unbuttoned his jeans and removed his penis from his pants.

FBI agents searched through the man's luggage — which had been kept in the Salt Lake City Airport Police's possession — and found candy, gravy mixes, pretzels and other edibles. Also found in his luggage was two small boxes labeled "Olbas Oil," which had a scent of eucalyptus and mint, the FBI agent noted in the search warrant.

The search warrant, signed by a Utah federal judge, asks for the FBI to have possession of the two boxes labeled Olbas Oil and the luggage tag affixed to the man's bag.

The man was charged in federal court in April with lewd, indecent or obscene behavior on an aircraft, a class C misdemeanor. A bench trial is scheduled for the man on Sept. 19.

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My Penis and I

his is the first part of the documentary My Penis And Everyone Else’s. All television invites ridicule. Barging your way into someone’s living room and occupying their time is quite an audacious act. You’re totally at their mercy – they can turn you over, turn you off or tape you and replay your crap parts over and over.
For these reasons My Penis And I is either the most courageous film ever made or a self-indulgent piece of nonsense. Film-maker Lawrence Barraclough made the film about his tiny penis and the effect it has had on his life. Which takes balls. I guess.
Whether this betrays a remarkable faith in his fellow man or a need to be the centre of attention is unclear. Either way, he’s dealt with being self-conscious about his wiener by telling 4 million people about it. No wonder he’s confused.
He’s been in a relationship for nine years but his girlfriend takes some persuading to appear in the film. Lawrence wonders what it is about penis size that so obsesses men. “So, I’m going to Birmingham to talk with my dad about his penis”. There’s a sentence I hope I never have to say again.

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If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. – Roald Dahl

Twee Mysterious Howl coverChildren’s literature can be divided into two broad genres – a saccharine world of rainbows and happy endings or a darker world filled with otherworldly beings and surreal towns. For every Perrault and Andersen tale there exists an offbeat counterpart found in works by the likes of Roald Dahl and Chris Van Allsburg. Closer to home, an interesting book for children surfaced recently – entitled Twee and the Mysterious Howl  – featuring the literary talent of local writer Rosalind Chua and the skills of Lithuanian artist Artur Širin.

Twee tells the story of a young person and her talking, airborne dog wandering the streets on a quest to investigate strange sound outside her window late one night. Twee lives in a strange and slightly sinister town that is reminiscent of old Penang streets and the Spirited Away netherworld of Chihiro Ogino. Twee is the first instalment of a trilogy. This is Chua’s first book for children. Twee was launched in Penang on 8 November. An European launch is planned for 2015.

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The Argaum End of Season Dinner & Dance was held at The Cooperage on 22nd May.

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The trophy cabinet at Moorlands Lane will today be filled with spoils from the RNEC and Pedrick Cups as Saltash first and second teams head back across the Tamar. Ashes' second-string overawed Argaum Wanderers with a 45-5 scoreline which included a hat-trick for centre Matt Simmonds.

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Civil coach Danny Avery conceded, "It was not what we expected and hat's off to Argaum, who defended heroically."

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St Columba are through to the final of the RNEC Cup and a date with Saltash at The Rectory next month after grinding down Argaum in their semi-final.

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new swap-bot cards

On the way to Canada today!

Mimi said...

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I'm loving that card! LADYHIGHTOWER Swap-Bot Blog Me, Baby!

Lesley said...

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Like the cards!

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Hi! I love the new swap bot cards you posted and the picture of the St Patrick's day dog! Sew cute!
I am following you now too! Cute stuff! I will also post a link to your blog on mine! YAY!
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mireillie said...

only on 2nd glance did i realise that that's a pretty creepy doggy @.@ looks like its got the scream or a skull on its face.

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Your cards are wonderful and I can see the inspiration you have for nature through them. I love them! :) Your unique streak is shown through them. Much love Ana Goncalves, Swapbot-Blog me Baby

Ariel Bouvier said...

Thanks for all the comments. My partner for the ATC swap was really into skelanimals. Skelanimals are adorable little animals who have met an untimely end-mostly due to their own reckless and ill-advised behavior.

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That secong one, the dog, reminds me of the dog in Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride :) I really like them !
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OK I actually bought this TV, I don't work for Walmart & this is not part of a contest.. I got the TV on sale for $299 I was very sceptical about the purchase & the reviews on here weren't much help. But I took a chance and got it the price was great and it's a much nicer picture & sound then I expected you might need a soundbar if you like it loud but so far I am very satisfied feel free to ask questions I'll keep you posted once I break it in I've only had it for 24 hours so far...

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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Aver's First Birthday Celebration - 16 December 2007

Aver turn one today.
Had a birthday celebration.
A special thank you to Pam (Honeymeow) for taking photographs for us.
Photos can be viewed in Aver's blog...

Here... I am going to talk about this past year.

Birth of Aver was smooth and really quite easy.
Taking care of Aver can be a challenge as she does not really like to take naps.
She was expected to be a big size baby like her sister but she did not live up to the expectation.
People around were always commenting that she is small for her age...but she is healthy and active so who cares what they say.
Then came the rashes... the coming and the going of the rashes really makes me quite upset.
However, with constant prayers and medication, I am very sure that it will be cured.
Aver wears me down with her constant need for my attention but she always made sure that she will give me her sweetest smile when I need it.
Aver loves her sister, Ash.
She follows Ash everywhere she goes and always get excited when we go to school to fetch Ash home.
A year... a very tiring year but yet a very fullfilling year.
A year... I breastfed Aver for a year and am willing to go on.
A year... I promise the next year will be just as fun as this year...

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Guess there isn't any update yet as you are so burned out after the parties and you are busy rashing the Christmas gifts sewing. Averlyn is not helping by waking up crying every 15min.


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Mickey McGillicutty
08-15-2011, 05:59 PM
I was thinking about GC stats recently, hides not finds. And I wanted to compile a list, of the top cache-hiders in AR. To give an extra shout out to all those who give so much back to the game we all love. Anyone who is on the list has at least 100+ non-event caches on their profile. I could have simply ranked everyone by sheer volume, but I thought why not figure out who's got the best cache-maintenance scores. The % of placed caches that are still active & not archived.

Now I don't want anyone thinking a lower score means you're a worse CO. Caches get archived for all kinds of reasons, from muggles to bulldozers. And the more caches you own, odds are the more susceptible you are to these things. You'll notice there are more CO's with 90+ scores in the 100-200 hides range then in the 200+.

That's why I just want to give a little extra shout out to my friends L2C & QC! To have 250+ caches & have a score above 90% is a testament to how much time & effort ya'll must spend keeping up with maint & your abilities to pick GZ's that endure the test of time. I haven't quite made the list yet, but I hope to live up to the standard you guys set.:D

Cachers with over 200 hides:

97% 336/348 likestocanoe
93% 240/256 QuartzCachers
89% 233/261 edieo
84% 256/303 rklmbl
83% 265/320 arkfiremedic
82% 275/335 woodwalker9
77% 163/211 hot~rod
66% 157/239 AR-HICK

Cachers with 100-200 hides:

98% 182/186 Rhone
96% 164/170 backpacknjack
96% 135/140 Jffok
96% 160/166 allenearl58
94% 146/155 captaincooder
91% 108/119 AstroDav
83% 100/120 pshelto
79% 92/116 angel06
62% 79/126 Saddlebags
60% 61/102 BSA534
50% 51/102 CacheNaFlash

Even if you're not on the list yet, thanks to ALLL the CO's out there who place caches. We couldn't play this game without you! Also I figure if we have a milestone "cache-finder" thread, why not have a milestone "cache-hider" one too. We can give shout outs to CO's when they hit 100, 150, 200, 250 etc.:D

08-15-2011, 09:17 PM
Pssst, don't tell anyone but I like hiding caches better than finding them :)

08-20-2011, 10:21 PM
Well thanks!! I too enjoy hiding; I see a spot, pull over and place the cache. I will be honest that I don't put in a lot of effort on my caches, but I do try to find neat places to put them so that people see something new (even if the cache is all broken, missing, etc).

p.s. How about special notes for cachers with caches in multiple states?

08-21-2011, 11:10 PM
I have an earthcache in Kentucky, and I adopted two of them in Utah, I have one on the AR/OK border, and I think that's all my multi state caches.

08-22-2011, 04:25 AM
Thanks .I also like to them almost as much as finding them...lol..

Mickey McGillicutty
01-30-2012, 09:58 AM
There may be others that need added to this list, but I want to add a quick
"Super Awesome Congratulations" to the Likestocanoe Gang for...
being the 1st AR cachers to pass the 400 hide barrier!!!!!!

01-30-2012, 03:04 PM
Wow, Likestocanoe, that is awesome that you now have more than 400 hides. You guys are amazing. Thanks for all your hard work in planning, placing, financing, and maintaining all these caches for everyone to hunt. You are truly inspirational.

01-30-2012, 08:44 PM
Thanks for the recognition, CF55. I've got at least thirty more on my list of caches hidden and not published, caches in progress, etc. I just love hiding them as much as finding them. I tell you, it's a full time job maintaining all these caches.

01-31-2012, 08:54 PM
And don't forget Semipaw, who has 195 active hides and 27 archived ones for a total of 222 since he started playing! Thanks for keeping the north central part of the state stocked!

01-31-2012, 09:26 PM
This is a really cool and inspirational thread. Thanks!
I worry about my 13 Caches to much, I think I would go crazy with 2 or 3 hundred. Wow you guys are awesome. And 400? Thats insane. Thanks you guys!


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1776) Revolution By Hrach Bayadyan

Unlike certain words that have been removed from the vocabulary of modern politics - `rebellion', `uprising' and `revolt' - `revolution' continues to be used, but with a different meaning, or in a much broader sense, sometimes even without any political tones. . . Therefore, the ways in which in a revolution is achieved are also different. Today, in Armenia's reality, new methods of political struggle and opposition have emerged in political practice, or at least new names - `Alternative', `Civil Disobedience', `Impeachment', for example. Major changes in society have forced people to find new means of political struggle and action.

Theater Square, which had become an arena of the national freedom struggle in the final years of the Soviet Union and was later renamed Freedom Square, was insultingly but successfully transformed in the early 2000s into an entertainment zone. It seems to me that the opposition political movements (particularly Impeachment) are, among other things, aiming to re-politicize the square. If that is the case, then the struggle is not confined to politics alone, but takes on a social and cultural dimension and is transformed into a struggle for specific values. Such a struggle, which is typical of the so-called new social movements, does not just unite people around a political idea (and is not even principally aimed at that) but rather seeks to make changes in the government's objectives and in cultural dimensions which seem to have become entrenched.

Thus, one can assume that the fight is also for Freedom Square, to change its significance, to give it new meaning or to restore the meaning that it used to have.

A Struggle for Meaning It is obvious that space, and particularly political space, as well as the means and ways to organize that space all have ideological and political dimensions. There are some clear examples of the connection between the organization of space and politics, starting from the architecture in totalitarian countries in the 20 th century (Moscow, Berlin) as well as the large-scale reconstruction work in Paris (where using barricades on the wide streets was no longer practically possible) and American university campuses built after lessons were learned from the concerns that students expressed in the 1960s.

In Soviet Yerevan, the areas surrounding the Opera and Lenin Square were complementary, yet at the same time opposite, poles. While Lenin Square was an expression of the state and the capital, the Opera embodied the modernization of the Armenian nation and the national heroes (Tumanyan, Spendiaryan, Komitas, Tamanayan, Saryan) who created the Armenians'rich culture (literature, music, architecture, art). This was an overt space of embodiment and inspiration for certain values and their immortalization, achieved through architecture and sculpture. The Opera, as a building and a cultural institution, and the cultural icons surrounding it were symbolic, giving the whole area a spirit of national ideology for the future (where national had been indistinguishable from Soviet).

This was the area which could serve as the epicenter of a national movement, because that movement was in harmony with that ideology for the future, with both its pathos and its illusions. In that period, Theater Square became the podium for the expression of purely political motives and the ceremonial space for the transformation of the public.

Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity on a number of occasions to write about the political landscape in Armenia, particularly the process of transforming the territory around the Opera into an entertainment zone. I have mentioned two main points. The first is about the rethinking of social space - removing all traces of selflessness and dedication from the space and using modernization and symbolic resources to exploit it for business. The second is the authorities' obvious desire to remove the political dimension of Freedom Square. Freedom Square attracted the attention of the authorities as a public space which was not only associated with national identity and an expression of collective will, but also a place linked to free speech, the possibility for consultation and political debate. It was unacceptable to leave it as a space to be claimed, allowing it to remain open before new political pretenders, who would try to gain public support and legitimacy by occupying it. Thus, from the early 2000s, a new revolution was in place - a slow and unnoticeable one which transformed it into an entertainment area. That transformation is a fact today - we live in a new society. Everything that occurs in that square and the adjacent areas - concerts, celebrations and other events - serve to further strengthen the idea of consumerism and the replication of the current social situation. Certain values have been established, which are seemingly impossible to change through demonstrations and protest marches...

In order to give a space certain values, promote new ideas or reestablish old ones, one probably has to widen the sphere of one's activities (if we assume that the space is as sensitive to similar practice as before, especially since the new values do not unite the nation, but rather divide it).

Let me now list the difficulties which, in my opinion, clash (in the form of individuals or groups) in the attempts to re-politicize Freedom Square or save the last shreds of its political meaning.

Today's society in Armenia is largely deprived of the leaning towards modern ideas and capabilities which existed in Soviet Armenians, and the youth have grown up in precisely such conditions as the ones of today. Freedom Square is no longer selfless and its previous meaning has remained largely unknown to the young generation - politics has been replaced by consumerism. The space has changed, people have changed and the principle to unite society has changed with them. People are a lot more active in their ideas of leaving the country (even if those ideas are only imagined) rather than in thinking about a unified national sense of belonging to their `homeland', as they were before. On the contrary, society is much more divided, individuals are much less active socially, because there are now clear lines that separate different sections of society from each other.

Finally, the increased reach of the electronic media is also a decisive factor. In an era of tens of television channels and widespread use of mobile phones, people are living in a society which is progressively being dominated by the media. Print has lost the power it once had and political movements which do not use electronic media cannot expect any kind of significant mass influence.

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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Doing much better - Sinus issue is almost resolved

Sorry for all the down time but ..... I did not know how sick I really was. My wife thought that I had pneumonia and I just could not move from the bed/couch/bed routine.

So thanks to the modern medical science of molds, thank you Mr. Fleming, I'm getting the old energy back.

Here is the start of a painting of NYC for my daughter Ann who requested this for her blank wall. Its rather large so I will be doing it with acrylics since I really don't have time to mess with the drying time of oil on this one. Its 30 x 40 inches and I want to get this one done before Wed of next week since I have a lot of new projects in my head from lying around for two weeks with my idea book and the internet.

Here we go!

NYC for Ann - 30 x 40 inches


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Advocating the impact and value of the arts touching our lives. Creativity is contagious.

Saturday, April 29, 2017

CALL FOR ARTISTS: 13th Annual LeucadiART Walk

Hello Artists:

Early applications are open for our 13th Annual LeucadiART Walk on Sunday August 27, 2017! Thank you to all who have participated in the past, we look forward to another successful year in 2017.

The LeucadiART Walk is a must attend event in San Diego drawing 5,000 people to Leucadia for the day to purchase art, interact with art and enjoy the performing arts. This event is free and open to the public. Our media reach through the Leucadia 101 is growing and so is the exposure for the event.

Please visit our website to view the 2017 vendor application.
Click The early application deadline closes on May 31st. We only accept a maximum of 101 fine artists into this juried show. If you have questions please contact the Leucadia 101 Main Street office by emailing or by phone (760) 436-2320.

Thank you and the selection committee looks forward to reviewing your application soon!
Carris Rhodes, Executive Director, Leucadia 101 Main Street Association.

CALL FOR ARTISTS: La Jolla Art and Wine Festival 2017

La Jolla Art and Wine Festival 2017

Lower Girard in the heart of La Jolla
La Jolla, California (West)

Event Dates: 10/7/17 - 10/8/17
Application Deadline: 7/20/17 Midnight PST
82 day(s) and 16 hour(s) remaining

Images: 4 (a booth shot is required)
Fee (Jury Fee): $25.00
You can submit up to 2 applications for this show.

Event Summary
The 2017 La Jolla Art & Wine Festival returns to La Jolla for its ninth annual season on October 7th and 8th in the heart of the village, between Prospect Ave. and Kline St., on lower Girard Ave. This two-day juried art show and fundraiser has quickly garnered a reputation as one of the most prestigious art & wine festivals on the west coast, expecting to draw in the largest crowd to date.  The La Jolla Art & Wine Festival is FREE and open to the public, with cash donations accepted at all the festival entrances. Featuring the works of over 150 established artists from San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, Baja and beyond, the LJAWF features something for everyone including a silent auction, roving entertainment, a gourmet marketplace, and a wine and beer garden which will include premier wineries from around the world in addition to San Diego’s top breweries.

For additional information on the La Jolla Art and Wine Festival, please visit our website at

General Information
For assistance with the application process, please visit Zapplications help center at:
To speak with a Zapplications representative, call 303.629.1166 or email

CALL FOR ARTISTS - Art on 30th, San Diego

Summer in the City

...and the living is easy. If you love San Diego summers, this is the exhibition for you. All art that resonates with the "feeling" of our fair city is eligible. Anything that says San Diego summer for you: the fair, a snow cone, the beach, the sun, the flowers, the hot, rich colors, cool jazz, wet dogs, late sunsets, the races - you get the idea! The exhibition will be juried by Robin Sanford Roberts, Scenic Designer, Artist and Professor at USD. The exhibition runs from June 3 to July 1, 2017.

All art must be ready-to-hang. Art pieces must be outfitted with two D-rings affixed to the back of your work (The gallery utilizes a wire hanging system).

Entry fee is $35 (for 1-2 pieces).
Submit art at gallery: May 18th–27th.
Submission deadline: Saturday, May 27th by 4pm.

Artwork may be dropped off from May 18 through May 27, 2017.
Opening Reception: June 3, 2017 from 6 to 8 pm

4434 30th St.
San Diego (North Park), California 92116

All artists juried into the show will be notified after the juror has made her decisions.

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Opening Reception: 2nd Annual Bad As* Women’s Expo, May 5th, 7pm - Oceanside

Oil painting by Isabel Zaman

The 2nd Annual Bad As* Women’s Expo
Opening Reception, May 5, 2017, 7PM

Art, music, sculpture, weaving, dance. the spoken word and more….

Muramid Mural Museum and Art Center
212 Artist Alley, Suite F, Oceanside, CA 92054,
(between Mission Avenue and Pier View Way)

Phone: 760-231-1010, Website:

Muramid Mural Museum and Art Center - Silent Auction and Exhibition, April 23, 2017, 1-4pm

Muramid Mural Museum and Art Center Proudly Presents A Silent Auction And Exhibition
April 23, 2017, 1-4pm

Join us in an incredibly amazing, warm and wonderful collaboration with Mountain Shadow Outreach Center, Art Miles Mural Project and California State University San Marcos-Tukwut Leadership Center. Mural By Carlos

Muramid Mural Museum and Art Center
212 Artist Alley, Oceanside, CA 92054

Phone: 760-231-1010,

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

GALLERY RECEPTION: Del Mar Art Center Gallery, Saturday, May 6, 5-8pm

Please Join us for our new show & Reception!
Saturday May 6th, 5-8pm

Come take in the artwork, meet our talented artists & enjoy the party.
The Gallery is glowing with original art, jewelry, ceramics, fused glasswork, sculpture and more.

We are located in the heart of Del Mar in the Del Mar Plaza,
top level on the corner of Camino del Mar and 15th Street.
Onsite parking is available with the first 2 hours free with validation.

We hope to see you!

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

UPDATED WEB LINK: Call for Artists - Vista, CA - Shades of Red 2017

Shades of Red 2017
Vista Chamber of Commerce, Vista, CA 92084

The awards will be presented during the Strawberry Festival on May 28, 2017 (90,000 people attend) with the winners being announced on the Main Stage at 4:00 p.m.

The entry fee is $25 for the first two entries and $10 for each additional entry. You may submit up to five entries for consideration in the exhibition via Entry deadline is May 10, 2017. Entry fees are non-refundable and must be paid by the entry deadline. Acceptance is not guaranteed.

DEADLINE: 5/10/2017

Saturday, April 1, 2017

City of Encinitas, Cultural Arts Seeking Artists to Exhibit in 2018

The City of Encinitas - Parks & Recreation, Cultural Arts, invites artists to apply and exhibit two-dimensional and three-dimensional art, to be selected for one of the city’s three art galleries; Civic Center Gallery, Encinitas Library Gallery or the Encinitas Community Center Gallery. Both amateur and professional artists are encouraged to submit an application for consideration.
All proceeds from the sale of art goes to the artist, there are no fees or gallery commission. “The visual art program is a service to Encinitas and San Diego County artists.

"I was very fortunate to have artwork exhibited in a show with the city of Encinitas, and to sell nine paintings, far beyond my expectations,” said artist Neil Brooks.

Artists who want to be considered for a gallery exhibition must complete an online application and submit digital images of their artwork. Application and instructions are available on the Visual Art page on the website: ,
deadline to apply is September 15, 2017.

For questions please contact Cheryl Ehlers, Curator, Arts Program Assistant at, or 760-633-2748.


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All-in-one machine from Samsung saves users time and...

May 15, 2000

All-in-one machine from Samsung saves users time and money

For those with limited funds and desk space, multifunctional devices such as Samsung's $399 Msys-5100P just make sense.

With a plain-paper fax, laser printer, copier and scanner, this one box aims to be the Swiss army knife of PC peripherals.

Setup is a breeze. Plug in the telephone line and power cord, and it's already a working fax machine and a desktop copier. As a fax, the 14.4 kilobits-per-second Msys-5100P features 10 one-touch speed-dial numbers and memory for 80 more.

FOR THE RECORD - A review of the Samsung Msys-5100P, a laser printer, copier, scanner and fax machine, that appeared in Monday's edition of Plugged In gave an incorrect price. The price is $795. The Sun regrets the error.

A convenient handset adds a telephone to the package.

As a copier, the Msys-5100P makes up to 99 copies at the push of a button.

Quality is OK, about what you'd expect from a fax machine.

This wonder box becomes a six-page-per-minute laser printer and a 200-dots-per-inch scanner after the Msys-5100P is connected to your Windows 95/98/NT computer using the included parallel cable. Thankfully, the machine's resolution as a printer -- 300 dpi -- is much better than its output as a copier.

The software package offers all the standard image capture and editing tools. While the optical character reader scanning mode converts images into editable text automatically, the additional ability to scan directly to an e-mail message furthers its usefulness.

The Samsung Msys-5100P's features makes it peripheral survival gear for the home office.

Information: 877-804-9949.

-- Jeremy M. Van Zee/KRT

Eyemodule's add-on turns palmtop into digital camera

Convenience is the best argument for the Eyemodule digital camera, an add-on for the Handspring Visor personal digital assistant. The trade-off is image quality.

The $150 Eyemodule is among the latest third-party devices that plug into the expansion slot of the Visor, which runs the same operating system as Palm Computing's PDAs. Others for the Visor include games and modems.

The Eyemodule adds only a couple of ounces in weight, about a half-inch in length and nothing to the palmtop's thickness. The Visor's screen becomes the camera's viewfinder, and pictures are simple to take. Included software for Windows 95 or higher allows users to beam images to other Palm devices or to download them to a desktop computer.

IDEO Product Development, the designer, promises to soon release Macintosh software.

Image quality, though, is poor. Pictures from the Eyemodule have a top resolution of 320 by 240 pixels. At about the same price, a cheap digital camera can get 640 by 480 pixels with better color.

Information: 800-741-9070 or

-- David LaGesse/KRT

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Free online education program's aim is better jobs for low-income workers

May 17, 2000|By Kate Shatzkin | Kate Shatzkin,SUN STAFF

The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake are joining forces to offer low-income workers a chance at better jobs with a new program to provide free education online.

In what its organizers are calling one of the first programs of its kind, Better Opportunities through Online Education seeks to break down the main barriers for entry-level workers, time and transportation.

Designed primarily for women who have completed Goodwill's job-readiness course for welfare recipients and have gone on to permanent work, the program -- to be unveiled at a news conference in Annapolis this morning -- aims to take participants from jobs to careers by offering certificates in accounting, management, workplace communications and computer applications. Credits earned in the program can be applied to UMUC college degrees.

Eight Baltimore-area women will begin the program in the next week, taking UMUC classes on personal computers installed in their homes and donated by USA Today. UMUC, the University System of Maryland's adult education institution, hopes to take the program national.

For women such as Judith A. Chandler, a pregnant mother of two who will be among the first participants, the program provides a path to her dream career, teaching special-education students.

Because her husband works nights and she works during the day, Chandler, 35, an instructional aide at Edmondson Heights Elementary School near her home, often wouldn't be free to leave her house for classes. But she says she'll be able to work online.

"This way, I can get my education and get the qualifications I need while still being able to maintain a family," Chandler said.

Deborah E. Powell, conference service coordinator at Marriott Hunt Valley Inn, hopes to finish the college degree she left incomplete after attending Morgan State University for three years. Her aim is to manage a "gorgeous hotel" or run her own catering company.

When her counselor from Goodwill called in December, inviting her to apply for the program, Powell, a 31-year-old single mother, was thrilled. "I said, `Yes, I'm willing. I'll do whatever I have to do.' "

The program will provide mentoring, tuition, books and instruction for the participants for up to three years, though most certificates can be completed within two years, said Robert E. Myers, UMUC's senior vice president for policy, planning and administration. At the end, the students are allowed to keep their computers.

"We hope this will make the difference between their eventually flipping burgers or having good-paying jobs," Myers said.

In addition to the donation of the computers, the program has raised about $100,000 from the Bell Atlantic Foundation, the France-Merrick Foundation and Citigroup Foundation, and from hundreds of UMUC employees who have pledged part of their incomes over the next five years.

Maryland's welfare rolls have plummeted by more than two-thirds over the past five years, but many former recipients languish in low-paying jobs, studies show. At the same time, companies facing a tight labor market are in constant need of skilled workers, said David W. Bower, a member of UMUC's board of visitors and president of Data Computer Corp. of America, an Ellicott City software developer.

"Because the program is online, the students are free from the inhibiting factors of both time and space," Bower said. "The participating students who are working can keep on working."

Better Opportunities is able to serve only a few of the people who go through Goodwill's welfare-to-work program. About 4,000 attended that program last year, and 1,200 of them got permanent jobs. A second class of 15 people is scheduled to start online classes soon.

Goodwill officials will look for candidates with basic writing and computer skills who have kept the jobs they got, said Lisa A. Rusyniak, Goodwill's vice president for marketing and development.

"This is fabulous, because we can now see people grow and advance," she said.

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Graduates celebrating faith

Baccalaureate: Howard County high school seniors will gather in Columbia for an ecumenical service.

May 26, 2000|By Diane Reynolds | Diane Reynolds,SPECIAL TO THE SUN

Community bonds and Christian faith will be celebrated Sunday evening as local high school seniors dressed in a colorful array of caps, gowns, suits and dresses enter Wilde Lake Interfaith Center for the eighth annual Ecumenical Baccalaureate.

These Howard County seniors, brought together from several area high schools, including Wilde Lake, Oakland Mills, Howard, Seton Keough in Baltimore and Notre Dame Preparatory in Towson, will be the focus of a Christian worship service that celebrates the spiritual dimension of their graduation and asks them to "stand up and be counted."

"This is a time our graduates can come together as one to celebrate their faith experiences and be reminded they have a very special community backing them as they go on to their next chapter," says Karen Douglas, one of the baccalaureate organizers and mother of a graduating senior. "Hopefully, this will help them to go forward and stand up as people of faith."

George Martin, lay deacon at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, echoes the sentiment: "It was seen that there should be more than just a secular graduation. It is fulfilling that their own religious communities recognize their accomplishments and give them a spiritual blessing."

Each graduate will choose an inspirational verse to read aloud during the service. At the start of the worship, graduates will proceed into the sanctuary, where they will sit together.

Dee Koza, a speaker at nationwide youth conferences, will deliver the keynote address. "She has a special way of connecting with the people she speaks to," Douglas says.

Talented seniors

The service also will honor the students by incorporating the talents of graduating seniors: Gene Grangerwill play the piano, Christine Levnowill dance, Jamie Stephenswill sing, and Alison McNeiland Sarah Cruzwill address graduates.

"This service is especially meaningful because it's fairly unique to Howard County," Douglas says.

"Students don't really understand what a special place Columbia is until they leave. Not many other places recognize graduation with an ecumenical service that celebrates people in their diversity. In other places, you might go to your home church and that's it," Douglas says.

Churches participating include St. John the Evangelist United Methodist/Presbyterian, First Baptist Church of Guilford, Columbia Baptist Fellowship, Mount Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church, Locust United Methodist Church, St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic, and the Lutheran Church of the Living Word.

Pastors and priests from all the churches will jointly bless all the students.

Although she will attend a religious service as she graduates from Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, Columbia resident Jamie Stephens looks forward to participating in a spiritual service in her home community.

"I think the baccalaureate is a celebration of all the graduates saying thank you and goodbye to everything that has supported them during school," she says. "At St. John's [Evangelist Roman Catholic Church], I have a lot of friends I won't otherwise get to say goodbye to. ... My church means a lot to me. I have come close to many people there. ... It's really important that I go to this service."

Common ground

Bringing together so many churches with different traditions for a single service wasn't difficult, says Karen Douglas, noting that churches that agree to participate are amenable to the idea of an ecumenical format.

"At this point, our baccalaureate service has its own culture, [which is] pretty applicable to all of our faiths. You look for the common ground," Douglas says.

Douglas and Martin welcome and encourage the community to participate in the event.

Says Douglas, "This is an occasion where people have a special window into their hearts. Even people without graduates will find this a meaningful service."

The baccalaureate will begin at 7:30 p.m., followed by a reception. Graduating seniors and members of the community are welcome. Graduating seniors who would like to participate are encouraged to call 410-964-1434 to register so that their names can be announced at the service.

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Academia`s Anarchist A Hit In Hyde Park

The High Priest Of `Deconstruction` Visits A Bastion Of Classical Education

May 05, 1991|By Ron Grossman.

Not since Freud or Marx has anyone captured the hearts and minds of America`s professors like an obscure French philosopher who recently visited the University of Chicago.

For a week, Jacques Derrida drew SRO crowds to his lectures in a 500-seat auditorium on the university`s Hyde Park campus. Between podium appearances, he was whisked from one seminar or reception to another, trailed by graduate students and faculty members eager not to miss a single morsel of the master`s wisdom. Considering local mores, that conquering-hero welcome was highly unusual.

FOR THE RECORD - Additional material published May 9, 1991:
Corrections and clarifications.
Steve Venturino was mistakenly identified in a photo caption in the May 5 Tempo section as a student at the University of Chicago. He is not. The Tribune regrets the error.

Secure in the 61 Nobel Prizes they and their predecessors have won, Chicago`s professors traditionally disdain academic fads like Derrida`s

``deconstruction``-an esoteric philosophy he has worked out over 25 years, whose purpose, he once wrote, is ``to make enigmatic what one thinks one understands.``

To Derrida, deconstruction involves the painstaking rereading of classic literary texts, tearing down accepted interpretations in favor of a nearly infinite number of alternatives. To his followers, though, the method invites a wholesale remaking of higher education, for substituting new, often politically selected works for the Great Books.

Some Chicago faculty members remained aloof while Derrida was among them. But the university`s Gothic quadrangles also witnessed a kind of excitement more often generated by show business celebrities, noted Richard Stern, novelist, member of the English department and transplanted New Yorker.

``My God, I thought: I haven`t seen anything like this since the 1940s, when bobby soxers threw themselves at Frank Sinatra in the Paramount Theater,`` Stern said.

Despite the intellectual turf wars that characterize academia, Derrida`s ideas have swept broadly across America`s campuses, so that deconstruction has generated an adjective that many scholars, especially younger professors, prefix to their academic credentials. There are deconstructionist literary critics, deconstructionist sociologists, deconstructionist theologians, deconstructionist legal scholars and even (though the terms seem incompatible) deconstructionist architects-just as there were Marxist art historians and Freudian political scientists during the heyday of those philosophies.

Many, however, find the lure of those earlier prophets easier to understand. Freud taught profound, even troubling, concepts linking our personalities with our sex lives, and promised relief from mental suffering to boot. Marx touted his ideas as a veritable new tree of knowledge: Study economics (his brand, of course), and the route will open to a more just society.

By comparison with such grand intellectual schemes, Derrida paints his philosophical word pictures with a very tiny brush. The subject of his final lecture was ``Counterfeit,`` a short story by his countryman, 19th Century poet Charles Baudelaire. In it, Baudelaire wrote: ``And so my fancy ran riot, lending wings to my friend`s imagination and drawing all possible deductions from all possible hypotheses.``

Those lines must be inscribed in Derrida`s cerebrum. Baudelaire`s story occupies less than two pages of text. Derrida spent almost three hours analyzing it.

Refusing to choose

It was a performance for which some members of the audience were not prepared. Even before Derrida reached the end of the story`s first paragraph, a few of his listeners started trickling out of the auditorium, an exodus that grew as the lecture wore on. Yet student ushers quickly filled the empty seats with people who had been standing in a corridor behind the auditorium, following the lecture on a public-address system.

Working his way through the story line by line, Derrida considered, if not all possible hypotheses, then a great, great many. Sometimes he would offer a half-dozen or more interpretations of a single, and seemingly not particularly critical, point in the text. Still, that part of his method does not truly distinguish him from his predecessors.

Plato wrote playlets, or ``Dialogues,`` in which a number of speakers offer different answers to a philosophical question. Plato then brings his philosophical protagonist, Socrates, center stage to proclaim the correct answer to the problem.

Derrida, however, does not give answers: Socrates never shows up to resolve the issue.

At moments, Derrida sounds like a satirical impression of a philosopher. Derrida alerted his audience to ``the possibility of impossibility`` and ``the symbol of the symbolic.``

Mostly, though, he kept churning out alternative explications of the story, while steadfastly abstaining from choosing among them. Under the barrage of all those concepts, the object of the lecture seemed to recede from consciousness. By the end of the lecture, the sound of Derrida`s voice seemed to obscure any other reality.

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Arthur Kruse, Fundraiser For Charity

May 12, 1991|By Lisa Newman.

Arthur H. Kruse, 81, retired head of the Community Fund of Chicago and the Crusade of Mercy and an active volunteer work with the Executive Service Corps, died Thursday in Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

When Mr. Kruse retired in 1973 after a 12-year tenure with the Crusade, he was credited with doubling its fundraising capacity while the organization lowered administrative costs.

His wife, Gwendolyn, who formerly worked in the family service division of the Salvation Army, said he was interested in raising the standards and efficiency of not-for-profit groups.

``He had an unusual capacity for management . . . and he had something to give, in terms of his skills and expertise. He did not want to retire,`` she said.

His daughter, Gretchen Call, said, ``Instead of sitting on a pier fishing, he wanted to stay active. That was my father.``

He was instrumental in persuading the private sector to participate in the Crusade of Mercy. Under his tuteluge, Chicago`s United Way campaign became the largest in the country.

Mr. Kruse was born and raised in Akron. He received his bachelor`s degree from the University of Akron in 1930 and a master`s from Syracruse University in 1932.

He held public welfare positions in Ohio and New York and taught at Western Reserve University, where he received his master`s in science.

He was a former president of the American Association of Social Workers, and served on the boards of many professional organizations, including the Governor`s Advisory Council of Illinois, the United Way of America and as a director of the Family Planning Coordinating Council of Metropolitan Chicago. He joined the Executive Service Corps of Chicago in 1979, and was elected to its board of directors.

During his years there, he also volunteered as a consultant to numerous not-for-profit social agencies in the Chicago area.

``He took his life`s work and gave it back through consulting and volunteer work,`` said Mary Felish, director of public relations at the Executive Service Corps.

Other survivors include a son, Stephen Arthur, and two grandchildren.

A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Winnetka Congregational Church, 725 Pine St., Winnetka.


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Royal Canada Mounted Geese?

May 16, 1991|By Kerry Luft.

The Du Page County Board took a gander at a rather offbeat proposal for security at the new $53 million courthouse.

It came from board member Carole Ann Pankau of Roselle, who said that instead of hiring 10 armed sheriff`s deputies the county should consider a volunteer force of 10 Canada geese.

``Seeing that the geese are nesting, as soon as their eggs are hatched, I`m sure we`ll have additional volunteers,`` Pankau said at Tuesday night`s board meeting.

Geese have been nesting for weeks outside the new courthouse, located at the county government complex on County Farm Road in Wheaton. Male geese have hissed and honked at employees entering the building since it opened two weeks ago.

Meanwhile, Sheriff Richard P. Doria and the County Board have hissed and honked at each other. Doria says at least 22 deputies are needed, but some board members disagree.

Pankau admitted that her idea was, well, rather featherbrained. After withdrawing it, she offered a more serious proposal to hire only four armed deputies and six unarmed guards, at a savings of $68,000 a year.

But board members, including Floyd Sanford of Medinah, said the additional $68,000 ``was one cheap insurance policy.`` They said the county has been lucky in avoiding serious incidents at the old courthouse in downtown Wheaton.

The board rejected Pankau`s amendment 13-7, then approved 18-3 the hiring of 10 deputies.

Doria said Wednesday: ``They finally did something. It`s totally inadequate, but at least they did something.``


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Mary Broomfield, 56, High-ranking Educator

May 20, 1991|By Lisa Newman.

A funeral service will be held Tuesday for Mary Broomfield, whose dream was to become a teacher and who rose to become a high-ranking official of the Chicago Board of Education.

She died of cancer Thursday in Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke`s Medical Center. She was 56.

Ms. Broomfield was a tireless champion of students, especially underprivileged and minority students, friends and colleagues said.

After beginning her teaching career in Milwaukee in 1956, she returned to Chicago and quickly rose in the school system from teacher, to principal of Hayt Elementary School, to co-director of the Access to Excellence program, and finally to become the board`s Assistant Superintendent for the Department of Equal Educational Opportunity Programs in 1985.

Colleagues remembered her as an educator who was not afraid to back controversial programs.

``Things people said couldn`t be done, she`d go and do it and then convince people it should have been done a long time ago,`` said Carolyn Curry, a teacher and a close friend.

``She was very task-oriented and gave 110 percent at all times,`` said Phyllis Aron, who worked for Ms. Broomfield.

In the 1970s, Ms. Broomfield battled critics of the Chicago Residential Schools, which taught truant children.

``So many of these children have experienced failure,`` she said in 1974. ``They have to see other lifestyles and know they have options.``

She developed Project CANAL, a program designed to help students in predominantly minority neighborhoods achieve. She also was instrumental in implementing Chicago`s magnet schools program.

Ms. Broomfield was born in Arkansas and raised in south suburban Robbins, her mother, Elizabeth Hatcher, said.

``She wanted to go through school to become a teacher. It was always her dream,`` her mother said.

Ms. Broomfield received her bachelor`s degree from the Illinois State University in Normal and her master`s degree from Roosevelt University.

Besides her mother, she is survived by her stepfather, Charles Hatcher, and a sister, Doris Jean Moore. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in Carter Temple CME Church, 7841 S. Wabash Ave. A funeral service will be held at 8 p.m. in the church.


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Judge Throws Out City`s Census Suit

May 22, 1991

CHICAGO — A federal court judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit charging the U.S. Census Bureau with undercounting Chicago`s population, but he left open the door for the city to refile the suit if it remains dissatisfied with the census figures.

The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Brian Barnett Duff came after the Census Bureau, through its routine administrative procedures, agreed to reconsider its original population count for Chicago.

The city has contended that its 1990 census of almost 2.8 million undercounted Chicago`s actual population by nearly a quarter of a million people.


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Vermont urges court to let state close Entergy nuclear reactor

January 14, 2013|Reuters

By Nate Raymond

NEW YORK, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A lawyer for Vermont on Monday
urged a U.S. appeals court to reverse a ruling preventing the
state from shutting down a nuclear power plant owned by Entergy

Last year, a U.S. district court judge ruled that the state
could not close the 620-megawatt Vermont Yankee plant because
federal regulators, not the state, had authority over safety

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
in New York is considering whether to uphold that order.

The case has been closely watched as a test of states'
rights to regulate nuclear power utilities at a time of
heightened concern about safety following the Fukushima disaster
in Japan in 2011.

David Frederick, an attorney for Vermont, urged the appeals
court to overrule the lower court's finding that federal law
preempted a Vermont law that would have shut the facility, the
state's only nuclear plant.

"There's clearly a role for the federal government to play,
but states have the final say in whether to allow nuclear energy
in their boundaries," he told the court, which handles appeals
of federal cases in New York, Connecticut and Vermont.

Kathleen Sullivan, a lawyer for Entergy, argued that the
federal Atomic Energy Act gives the federal government sole
authority to regulate safety at nuclear plants.

In January 2010, Entergy identified a radioactive tritium
leak at the plant. Shortly after that, the Vermont state Senate
voted down a proposal to let the plant keep operating.

Despite the state's action, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission in March 2011 approved a license for Vermont Yankee
through 2032.

In April 2011, Entergy sued Vermont, seeking an injunction
to keep operating after the plant's certificate was set to
expire in March 2012.

In January 2012, U.S. District Judge J. Garvan Murtha in
Vermont ruled in favor of Entergy and blocked the state from
forcing the company to shut the reactor.

The judge held that the U.S. Atomic Energy Act superseded
two state laws that were enacted based on radiological safety
concerns. Murtha also blocked enforcement of a state regulation
requiring Entergy to enter into power purchase deals with
Vermont retail utilities at below-market prices.

During Monday's arguments, Frederick contended the state had
non-safety economic reasons to want to close the plant, such as
to encourage moves to renewable sources of energy.

Vermont has garnered considerable support on appeal from
other states. New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri,
New Hampshire and Utah, along with the National Conference of
State Legislatures, filed briefs supporting Vermont.

Several environmental groups have also filed
friend-of-the-court briefs supporting the state.

Entergy has the support of business groups including the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Nuclear Energy Institute Inc.

The case is Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC et al v.
Shumlin et al, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 12-707.


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African refugees in Israel get a cold shoulder and worse

The influx of migrants has triggered a sometimes violent backlash in the country. Prime Minister Netanyahu says their presence 'threatens Israel's social fabric.'

May 27, 2012|By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
  • In Tel Aviv, immigrants protected by Israeli border police watch a demonstration protesting African asylum-seekers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says their presence “threatens Israel’s social fabric.”
In Tel Aviv, immigrants protected by Israeli border police watch a demonstration… (Ariel Schalit, Associated…)

TEL AVIV — The first Molotov cocktail ignited a backyard fence, just a couple of feet from where three Eritrean refugees were sleeping outdoors on makeshift beds of wood planks atop old TV sets. One man burned his arm trying to extinguish the flames with a blanket.

Moments later, a second firebomb was tossed through an open air vent into the adjacent apartment, where another family of African asylum-seekers was sleeping. It exploded in the shower without causing injury.

The post-midnight attacks last month by unknown assailants continued across Tel Aviv's dilapidated Shapira neighborhood, striking another refugee house and a kindergarten catering to African children.

"We're just looking for some peace in our life," said Berhun Gergrehra, 60, a former Eritrean soldier who fled poverty and repression there two years ago, arriving in Israel after walking through Sudan and Egypt with his teenage son and daughter. "But everyone here just hates us. Why?"

Israel is a nation founded by refugees, mostly Jews escaping persecution in Europe and the Middle East. It grew and prospered thanks to additional immigration from Russia, Ethiopia and other nations.

But now Israel's identity as a refuge is being challenged by an influx of tens of thousands of Africans, who also see the country as a haven from oppression in their native lands. Since 2006, more than 60,000 Africans — mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, including the latter's Darfur region — have poured over the border from Egypt's Sinai desert, taking advantage of Israel's proximity as one of the nearest modern democracies accessible to African refugees.

But unlike past waves of Jewish immigrants, the flood of Africans is triggering an ugly and sometimes violent backlash in Israel. Refugee activists say some government leaders are fostering the intolerance and anger toward Africans, who are accused of committing crimes, stealing jobs from Israelis and potentially undermining the Jewish character of the country.

At a Tel Aviv rally last week, hundreds of Israelis gathered to protest the presence of African refugees. Right-wing lawmaker Miri Regev called Sudanese arrivals a "cancer" on Israel and urged immigration officials to deport all African "infiltrators."

Soon after, angry mobs rioted through the neighborhood, smashing store windows and attacking a car carrying Africans, police said. Seventeen rioters, mostly minors, were arrested.

It was the latest in a string of attacks, disturbances and incidents of harassment in the last month, after three Eritrean migrants were arrested in connection with the rape of an Israeli woman.

Amid a national uproar over the rape, Interior Minster Eli Yishai called most African immigrants "criminals" and vowed to either deport or jail them. He said on Israel Radio that a firm response was the only way to discourage more refugees from entering the country. "Once they're in jail, they won't want to come over here anymore," he said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu echoed the sentiment, saying the presence of African migrants in Israel "is extremely serious and threatens Israel's social fabric and national security."

Most of the African refugees walk into Israel via the Sinai desert, paying Bedouin smugglers thousands of dollars to deliver them from Egypt. In response, the Israeli government has begun construction of a massive fence along the border and an 8,000-bed detention facility in the southern Negev desert to hold those who get through. Both are expected to be completed this year.

After a brief detention at a military facility, most African refugees are released without government assistance and are given short-term visas that prohibit them from working. Many end up homeless in the resort city of Eilat or in the poor areas of cities like Tel Aviv, where they sleep in parks and seek jobs as construction workers or dishwashers, for which they are paid under the table. Children are allowed to attend school, but their parents receive no health insurance or other social benefits.

Interior Ministry officials say they are doing their best to deal with the influx, their goal being to provide basic protection without offering so much that it will encourage more arrivals.

"There's a pull factor," said Daniel Solomon, a legal advisor for the ministry. "If the government gives them a sense of permanence, millions more in Africa might come."

Critics call the government's treatment coldhearted and say the recent tone is fueling hatred, racism and xenophobia. In Eilat over the last month, there's been an increase in reports of Africans being pelted with rocks or doused with white paint.

Aid groups that have come to the defense of refugees say they, too, are coming under attack, receiving anonymous death threats.

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'W.E.' review: Madonna's embarrassing week continues

February 09, 2012|Matt Pais | RedEye movie critic

*1/2 (out of four)

“W.E.” may be Madonna’s second directorial effort, but she still tells a story like a virgin.

Guiding a script she wrote/botched with Alek Keshishian, the Material Girl takes a step forward visually from 2008’s sloppy, incoherent “Filth and Wisdom, which isn’t saying much. Unfortunately she also remains totally incompetent when it comes to shaping a story around humans with credible human feelings. Andrea Riseborough stars as Wallis Simpson, the real-life American woman whose controversial romance with Prince Edward (James D’Arcy) undermines his place on the throne (leaving room for his brother Bertie, the subject of “The King’s Speech”). Clearly a “commoner” like Kate Middleton would not have been so beloved in 1936.

Supposedly, the relationship between Wallis and Edward signified one of the great loves of the 20th century. Yet “W.E.” (whose title refers to “Wallis.Edward.”) vapidly suggests that Wallis simply preferred a rich, powerful guy like Edward to her perfectly nice husband Ernest (David Harbour), who was already a big step up from Wallis’ abusive first husband. Eighty years ago, evidently, there was quite the market for a woman named Wallis.

In late-‘90s Manhattan, Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish of “Sucker Punch”) has the unfortunate circumstance of being named after Simpson and the more unfortunate circumstance of being married to an untrustworthy man (Richard Coyle), who doesn’t share her desire to have a baby. Since her spouse doesn’t allow her to work, Wally spends her free time at Sotheby’s, where she fixates on an upcoming auction of Wallis/Edward items and a security guard (Oscar Isaac) talks to her with obvious hopes of doing more than walk her home.

Cutting back and forth between the beginning of the century and the end, Madonna drains all momentum from both storylines while misguidedly suggesting Wallis and Wally faced the same situation. Should we really feel sorry for Wallis and the privacy she sacrificed when ditching her husband for a man she should have expected would change her normal life completely? “W.E.” centers on a woman who seems to have known the consequences but whines anyway when they come true. It’s also unclear what Edward sees in her, other than her willingness to ask him about his work and ability to make a good martini.  Wally, meanwhile, oddly lacks friends and family for support but proves that anyone can obtain private access to confidential documents by simply lying and saying, “I’m writing a book.”

Even more problematically, Madonna again demonstrates horrid instincts as both writer and director, featuring dream sequences in which Wallis talks to Wally and absurdly emphasized smacks of a gavel during the auction. (It’s just a sale, not a death sentence.) Based on her awkward Super Bowl halftime performance, the time she spent making the grueling, deeply unromantic “W.E.” would have been better spent on dance practice.

Watch Matt on “You & Me This Morning,” Friday at 7:30 a.m. on WCIU, the U @mattpais

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This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition “MOT Annual 2016: Loose Lips Save Ships” at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and has been edited collaboratively by ARTISTS’ GUILD and Arts Commons Tokyo. Its content is original, comprising mainly interviews between members of ARTISTS’ GUILD and experts in various field other than contemporary art about self-censorship. We hope that this publication will reach many readers as another project that developed out of the “Loose Lips Save Ships” exhibition.

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Artist Trust Awards $137,500 to 18 Washington State Artists

For Immediate Release:

Artist Trust is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2013 Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement and 2013 Fellowships. Selected by independent panelists, these 18 awards total $137,500 in support to individual artists.

Artist Trust has been providing support to artists of Washington State through cash grants since the first Fellowships were awarded in 1988. Grants provide artists with a means to continue exploring their creative paths, and in so doing, enrich all of our lives.

The Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement awards $10,000 to a Washington State female visual artist, age 60 or over, who has dedicated 25 or more years of her life to creating art. Created in 2001 through a generous gift to the Artist Trust Endowment by Irving and Yvonne Humber, the award recognizes creative excellence, professional accomplishment and dedication to the visual arts. This year 40 applications were received. It is an honor to recognize Norie Sato as the 2013 Twining Humber Award recipient.

Artist Trust Fellowships award Washington State artists of exceptional talent, demonstrated ability, professional achievement and continuing dedication to an artistic discipline. Fellowships are $7,500 cash awards given in two-year cycles: Music, Media, Literary and Craft Arts are awarded in even-numbered years; Emerging Fields & Cross-Disciplinary, Performing, Visual and Traditional & Folk Arts Fellowships are awarded in odd-numbered years. This year we are pleased to partner with ArtsWA to award two additional Traditional & Folk Arts Fellowships. 449 Fellowship applications from artists around the state were received. The 2013 Recipients are: Emerging Fields & Cross-disciplinary Arts: Robb Kunz; SuttonBeresCuller. Traditional & Folk Arts: David Boxley; Sharon Glenn; Delbert Miller; Oleksandra Pryveda. Visual Arts: Leo Berk; Chris Crites; Michelle Forsyth; Ronald Hall; Jeremy Mangan; Richard Martinez; Amie McNeel; Saya Moriyasu; Preston Singletary. Performing Arts: Etienne Cakpo; Amy O’Neal.

Fellowship recipients present a Meet the Artist event to a community in Washington State that has little or no access to the artist and their work. Support for the Fellowship’s Meet the Artist program comes from Target.

Artist Trust is grateful to the panelists that devote considerable time and energy and make difficult decisions in the selection of grant recipients. This year’s panelists were: Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Achievement: Kathleen Faulkner; Cheryl Hahn; Reuben Tomás Roqueñi. Fellowship/Visual Arts: Gloria Garcia; Margie Livingston; Scott Fife. Fellowship/Traditional & Folk Arts: Jill Linzee; Laurel Sercombe; Lisa Telford. Fellowship/Emerging Fields & Cross-disciplinary Arts: Douglas Gast; Perri Lynch Howard; Amber Cortes. Fellowship/Performing Arts: Lucia Neare; Valerie Curtis-Newton; Bill Marlowe.

For more information on this year’s recipients, visit our website.

This year’s Fellowships are made possible, in part, through generous gifts from: Eve & Chap Alvord, Nancy Alvord, Paul and Debbi Brainerd, Michael & Cathy Casteel, Anne Devereux & David Mills for the Gene and Liz Brandzel Fellowship, Robert E. Frey, Katharyn Alvord Gerlich, Alison & Glen Milliman, Linda & Jerry Paros, Linden Rhoads, Gladys Rubinstein, The Jon & Mary Shirley Foundation, Catherine Eaton Skinner & David Skinner, Merrill Wagner and Bob Ryman.

With great appreciation to our Fellowship program funding partners, ArtsWA.

Artist Trust has invested over $10 million in Washington State artists since its founding in 1986, through grant programs and direct support. Artist Trust also provides a comprehensive suite of career training and professional development resources to help artists achieve their career goals.

Artist Trust is a not-for-profit organization whose sole mission is to support and encourage individual artists working in all disciplines in order to enrich community life throughout Washington State. Find out more at

Major supporters of Artist Trust include many individual donors along with: 4Culture, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Amazon, ArtsFund, ArtsWA, The Boeing Company, The Dale & Leslie Chihuly Foundation, The Klorfine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Raynier Institute & Foundation, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Jon & Mary Shirley Foundation, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and Vulcan Inc.


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Friday, February 8, 2013

Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam's Public Art

Hakone Open Air Park
I don't often crochet afghans even though I love planning them and love the way they look.  It's just that they're so darned BIG!  Often I end up tired of working on the same project and put it aside for awhile - when you repeat this several times, it takes years to finish.  So when I first saw photographs of Toshiko Horiuchi Mcadam's giant crochet/knitted fiber art playgrounds I was stunned.  They're gorgeous and look like they'd be amazingly fun to play on, but oh my gosh .... they'd take me decades to get finished!

Fibre Columns/Romanesque Church, knitted nylon.
Toshiko started out her artistic career crocheting/knitting large sculptural pieces from different monochromatic neutral colors of different fibers.  You can tell that she's long been influenced by architecture from one of these pieces, Fibre Columns/Romanesque Church.  The story goes that she was exhibiting a piece titled Multiple Hammock No. 1 in a gallery when two children asked if they could sit in it.  She told them they could and had one of those art changing revelations when she saw the static sculpture come to life as they climbed over and swung on it.  At that point she switched to creating the brightly colored, public art for children she's become famous for.

Arch Daily, an architectural publication, has a great interview with her in which she talks about some of the nitty, gritty of how she creates her pieces - mainly long, long hours with some help from her husband and an assistant.

And her website has beautiful pictures of the projects she's worked on like these from the Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan and ...

the JangHeung Art Park in South Korea.

Very inspiring!!

Happy Creating!  Deborah

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Ashe Elton Parker

A Writer of LGBTQ+ Characters in Speculative Fiction

Molasses is Faster

I’m a slow thinker. Though I can be witty, it takes a little time to happen. Frequently, I’ll come up with witty and clever comebacks to comments days after the conversations which inspired them. It takes me time to adjust enough to habitually include new things in my daily habits, even if I’m at a job. If there’s a typical pattern to things, it takes me a while to adjust to changes regardless of what that change might be.

This slowness of thought is evident in my learning process. It takes me seeing a movie several times before I catch the whole thing, even if I’m focused on it throughout the first viewing. Same goes for videos. For this reason, I prefer not to learn by video, especially if I’m in a class situation where I’m unable to stop it or watch it multiple times to make sure I’m picking up on things as I should.

Part of the reason I haven’t been opening GIMP is because most of the tutorials I’ve been referred to for things are video tutorials. The two or three I’ve actually tried to use have had instructions like “Click on this, then enter this number in this field here . . .” which are not helpful to me at all. Unfortunately, GIMP is not a very intuitive program; I need the tutorials. I’m not quick enough to follow the mouse around the screen and see what all is happening.

I work best with written instructions, and friends have been pointing me toward more of them. My experience with the video tutorials has turned me off of GIMP for the time being, however, though I do intend to open it up and try to learn. Just need to print out the instruction booklet that I found online and do the same with the tutorials my friends have pointed me to.

And, once I’m comfortable with it, I have the insane desire to go through whatever video tutorials I find I must use and transcribe them with better instructions than “click this here and enter this number in this field.” It’s a goal. LOL

In other real-life things, I put a lot of forethought into them. For instance, my fitness goals. Up until the first part of last month, I was in the process of contemplating how I could become more active in my lifestyle. But this was only in a general sense. I was working myself up for taking walks, not realizing part of my aversion to it was due to a mood swing which had made me incredibly antisocial (to the point of not even checking my snailmail daily—I was that afraid of encountering someone I’d be hooked into having a chat with).

I was discussing contemplation of fitness goals in Forward Motion for Writers chat with a friend who happens to be a Beachbody coach. I mentioned part of what was holding me back on anything besides walking was my knees, and she did a search of the Beachbody site and came up with a fitness program based on tai chi, which had been developed by a fitness expert who also is an expert in tai chi—it’s called Tai Cheng. I watched the little video she pointed me to, and I heard some things from people who’d used it which I liked, and ordered it the day I got paid in May.

Ever since then, I’ve been contemplating adding this fitness regimen to my daily habits, and I’m getting there. Buying the program was just what I needed to galvanize me into thinking of fitness more seriously, and I’ve already done the best I can with my current budget to change my diet according to the program’s suggestion.

On occasion, I make quick decisions like with the Tai Cheng fitness program, then put the thought necessary behind them. But, there’s always that thinking process I go through, whether it’s before or after the decision. It’s just the way I think.

Still, when compared to me, molasses is often faster. LOL

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  1. Yeah, those Gimp video’s quite often leave a lot to be desired. I have to go back over them multiple times to understand what’s going on. Sometimes the same 15 second bit over and over and over until my husband comes in to see what I’m doing! Argh!

    Good luck on the fitness routine. It’s something I need to do more of too. Good for you for getting started.

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