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But the large health care system here that Dr. Trescott helps manage has placed controls on how painkillers are prescribed, like making sure doctors do not prescribe too much. Doctors on staff have been told to abide by the guidelines or face the consequences.
So far, two doctors have decided to leave, and two more have remained but are being closely monitored.
"It is excruciating," said Dr. Trescott, who oversees primary care at Group Health. "These are often very good clinicians who just have this fatal flaw."
High-strength painkillers known as opioids represent the most widely prescribed class of medications in the
"Doctors are prescribing like crazy," said Dr. C. Richard Chapman, the director of the Pain Research Center at the
Medical professionals have long been on high alert about powerful painkillers like OxyContin because of their widespread abuse by teenagers and others for recreational purposes.
Now the alarm is extending from the street to an arena where the drugs had been considered legitimate and safe: doctors' offices where they are prescribed — and some say grossly overprescribed — for the treatment of long-term pain from back injuries,
Studies link narcotic painkillers to a variety of dangers, like
Data suggest that hundreds of thousands of patients nationwide may be on potentially dangerous dosages. And while no one questions that the medicines help countless patients and that most doctors prescribe them responsibly, there is a growing resistance to their creeping overuse. Experts say that doctors often simply keep patients on the drugs for years and that patients can develop a powerful psychological dependence on them that mirrors addiction.
But changing old habits can be difficult — for doctors and patients alike.
The most aggressive effort is under way here in
Even before the new provisions took effect, some doctors stopped treating pain patients, and more have followed suit. Christine Link, 50, said that several doctors had refused to refill the prescription for painkillers she had taken for years for a
"I am suffering, and I know I am not the only one," she said.
Washington State officials acknowledge some of the law's early deficiencies, including its sometimes indiscriminate application, and they are seeking to address them. But there is no retreat on the goal of moderating opioid use, and the movement extends well beyond Washington.
The federal
The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are trying new programs to reduce use among active-duty troops and veterans. Various states are experimenting with restrictions, including
"We are trying to prepare our state for what we hope is the inevitable curbing of the use of opiates in chronic pain," said Orman Hall, the director of Ohio's Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services.
The long-term use of opioids to treat chronic pain is relatively new. Until about 15 years ago, the drugs were largely reserved for postoperative,
At the same time, pharmaceutical companies began to promote newer opioid formulations like OxyContin for chronic pain that could be used at greater strengths than traditional painkillers. Sales of painkillers reached about $8.5 billion last year, compared with $4.4 billion in 2001, according to the consulting firm IMS Health.
Along with Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, other producers include
Dr. Russell K. Portenoy, who championed the drugs' broader use, said the new data about the potential high-dose risks was concerning. But he added that the medications were extremely valuable and that their benefits needed to be factored into policies like the one in Washington State.
"I don't think opioids need to be thought of any differently than any other therapies," said Dr. Portenoy, chairman of the pain medicine and palliative care department at
A pain expert here in Seattle, Dr. Jane C. Ballantyne, said she once agreed with Dr. Portenoy, but she now finds herself in the role of former believer turned crusading reformer.
"We started on this whole thing because we were on a mission to help people in pain," she said of the medical profession's embrace of opioids. "But the long-term outcomes for many of these patients are appalling, and it is ending up destroying their lives."
Alarms Sounded
The clues were buried in the dullest of places: thousands of workers' compensation claims.
In 2006, a state official here, Dr. Gary Franklin, called together 15 medical experts to discuss some troubling data found in the records.
Thirty-two injured workers who were prescribed opioids for pain had died of overdoses involving the drugs. In addition, in just a few years, the strength of the average daily dose of the most powerful opioids prescribed to patients treated through the workers' compensation program had shot up by more than 50 percent. The number of patients taking the drugs in large quantities had grown to 10,000.
Doctors often increase opioid dosages because patients can adjust, or develop tolerance, to the drugs and need greater amounts to get the same effect. Pain specialists, including Dr. Portenoy of Beth
But the Washington data suggested that doctors were not monitoring patients; they were simply prescribing more and more. Such practices are common, said Dr. Trescott, the official at Group Health in Seattle, because treating pain patients, who are often also depressed or anxious, is time-consuming and difficult.
"Doctors end up chasing pain" instead of focusing on treating the underlying condition, she said.
That is what happened several years ago to a former nurse, Mary Crossman, after she was found to have
Five years later, she was taking dosages so high that another doctor who examined her was shocked. "She said, 'I don't want you to die,' " Mrs. Crossman recalled.
In 2007, the Washington State panel approved a guideline that urged doctors to refer patients on large dosages for evaluation if they were not improving. Two professional groups representing pain specialists had already taken a similar step. But the Washington action had an important difference that soon proved contentious: it set a dosage level meant to prompt the referral.
As with most medical guidelines, doctors in Washington largely ignored the panel's suggestions, a later survey found — until last year, when the guidelines became law.
That bill moved so quickly through the State Legislature that its opponents were caught off guard. The maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, tried and failed to stop it. Several national pain experts, including some with ties to the drug industry, also sought to block it, saying the new provisions would cause chaos by restricting patient access to care.
Even some supporters of the new law agreed that there was little evidence to support the dosage threshold, which was the amount of any opioid equivalent in strength to a daily dose of 120 milligrams of morphine. Nonetheless, they believed that drastic change was needed.
"I thought the new law was a necessary evil," said one Seattle-area physician, Dr. Charles Chabal.
A Cycle of Abuse
The state law has transformed the clinic at the
"They all said that I can't treat you, you need to see a specialist," Ms. Link said of her other doctors.
Before the widespread use of opioids, the University of Washington's medical school was known for an approach to chronic pain that emphasized nondrug treatments like
"If doctors understood how hard it is to get patients off of these drugs, they would not prescribe them to begin with," she said.
Born and educated in
Dr. Ballantyne, 63, once embraced the wider use of opioids. Her transition to skepticism began about a decade ago, when she noticed that hospitalized patients taking high dosages screamed when they were examined — as if the drugs had increased their sensitivity to pain.
She decided to research long-term data about the drugs and published a medical journal article in 2003 with her findings. It concluded that high doses might not be safe or effective.
Other experts accused her of undercutting years of effort to erase stigmas about the drugs. "They'd say, 'How could you do something like this after all we have worked for?' " Dr. Ballantyne recalled.
Since then, other researchers have published papers about the drugs' medical dangers. Studies have shown, for example, that the drugs greatly suppress the production of sexual hormones.
"It is not just our sex lives that go away; it is our ability to get things done," said Dr. Chapman, of the University of Utah.
Dr. Portenoy, the expert in New York, agreed that doctors needed to be aware of such risks. But he said that the dosage threshold used by Washington officials was arbitrary and that the state had failed to put a system in place to evaluate the law's impact on patients.
"You would always want to look at outcomes to see what you did either harmed or helped," said Dr. Portenoy, who consults with opioid producers.
A patient advocacy group, the American Pain Foundation, which receives much of its financing from drug makers, has continued to oppose the law, calling it "inhumane." And even some supporters believe it needs reworking.
Dr. Ballantyne said she also feared that the problems encountered by patients seeking treatment could cause an adverse reaction to the law. But she said she hoped that the quandary for patients like Ms. Link, who was given a new painkiller prescription, were "teething pains" that would be remedied.
She has little patience, however, for those who believe that the opioid problem can be solved simply by screening out those patients who might abuse the drugs.
"I think that after 20 years of a failed experiment that there are not many people supporting this except for the die-hards and the pharmaceutical industry," she said.
A Lost Generation
About a year ago, Mary Crossman, the former nurse with lupus, was at a neighborhood cookout with her husband when she noticed something odd: she was more relaxed, talkative and sociable than she had been in a long while.
Not long before, her doctor had suggested reducing her use of the painkillers OxyContin and methadone. The doctor, who worked at Group Health, said they would reduce the drugs slowly but warned Mrs. Crossman that she would initially feel more pain and increased anxiety.
Mrs. Crossman, who is 58, was scared but agreed to try. When her lupus flared up, she took more drugs, but over all, her daily dosages steadily came down. Today, she no longer takes methadone, and the amount of OxyContin she takes each day is 80 percent lower than it was a year ago.
Looking back, she said the high dosages helped mask her pain. But the pain relief came at a price; she now feels more mentally alert.
"There are days when I still hurt a lot, but over all I'm doing O.K.," she said.
Big health care systems like Group Health, which treats 420,000 patients at 25 clinics throughout Washington, can oversee how doctors prescribe drugs and provide patients with alternative treatments. Over the last four years, Group Health has cut the percentage of patients on high opioid dosages in half, the system says, and reduced the average daily dose among patients who regularly take opioids by one-third.
The system is now examining how those changes have affected patients. Studies elsewhere suggest the benefits of lower opioid use may be significant for many patients. For example, Danish researchers have published a study indicating that chronic pain patients getting nondrug treatments recover at a rate four times as high as those on opioids.
"These drugs don't seem to be even doing what they are supposed," said Dr. Per Sjogren, a pain expert in
The obstacles to lower opioid use remain formidable, however; both insurers and public agencies must be willing to pay for other treatments, which can be costly.
"You can't just take things away," said Dr. Roger Chou, an associate professor at
There is also political and professional resistance to adapting requirements like those at Group Health to taxpayer-financed programs like
Few programs are in place to deal with patients now on high opioid dosages who are not benefiting from them.
If the patients were taken off the medications, many would experience severe withdrawal or have to take addiction treatment drugs for years. Even avid believers in the new direction, like Dr. Ballantyne, suggest that it might be necessary to keep those patients on the opioids and to focus instead on preventing new pain patients from getting caught in the cycle.
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Have you guys been watching the World Cup? So many upsets! So many OWN GOALS! SO MANY FLOPS AND FOULS! We don't have cable, so I can't say I watch much soccer during the non-World Cup years (but I play it guys, I'm not just a fair-weather fan). I read about it, and wish I were a better, more knowledgeable soccer fan. However, I'm loving the chance to watch these teams.
A lot of (American) people don't understand the World Cup, "…Fast-kicking, low scoring, and ties? You bet!" I don't know when everyone turned into such jerks about it, but just because a goal is 1 point (go figure) and not 7, and soccer players don't run around a square a thousand times, doesn't mean soccer isn't 1. hard work, 2. an awesome sport to watch, 3. strategic, and 4. physical. So stop complaining and enjoy it. Or else!
Today we find out if Costa Rica knocks England out (in group play!). Spain who WON the cup last go-round is totally out! I cannot focus on much else recently.
The fact that I'll be starting a new job on Monday (what?!). That, plus I was accepted into the MBA program at Kennesaw State University!
Do you ever make a decision fairly quickly, and then wonder if it was the right choice? That's how I felt about changing jobs, but everything fell into place within 2 weeks, and I just keep getting confirmation after confirmation from the universe that this is the direction I need to be heading.
More details to come, for sure. Happy Friday, folks!

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The view from the Sherwood Forest "ledge" on Mt. Wilson as we make our way to the final section of Dogma. I'd like to build my winter cabin up here. =)
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"Bu-Ngasari Florist" aims to propagate and preserve Thai traditional art of flower & banana leaf crafts which were inherited from the Thai Royal Palace. As long as a craftsmanship, which requires a finely detailed and meticulous. All these aboriginal art could reflect the way Thai ancient lived and how beautiful & exquisite our eating culture was. This is so hard to admit that nowadays, fewer people are interested in this, thus, unfortunately, making it fade away with time.
Accordingly, we believe that big change could be started from a normal little one. And for this reason, we established "Bu-Ngasari Florist" to expose our intention toward Thai cultural heritage preservation. Bu-Ngasari Florist is the difference due to all the techniques and knowledge are relayed from each generation until the present, along with our strong intention.
Even though we encourage the cultural design, we also adapt our courses to have a contemporary teaching class, an international flower arrangement standard. Which students are required to pass study criteria of both theoretical and practical sections in order to ensure that students truly understand it and affirmative completion of the course, our students shall receive a certificate in both Thai & English version?
A variety of petal and leaf are neatly collated to form a fresh flower Thai Garland, another scrupulousness of Thai people which should be preserved and continue to carry on. Hence, our school has gathered many types of flower crafts for adaptability and usability of our students.


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12 / Conflict and Resistance
Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw: So much of visual arts production arises out of moments of military and political conflict. You have huge bodies of painting and public sculpture and popular press images, broadsides that were posted on walls. So much of the importance during those political moments was translated into visual imagery. Because the images themselves can often be more persuasive, especially if they are supposedly created around some true moment if they are supposed to be eyewitness scenes, they can convey much more than words alone.
The importance of the visual, the power of the visual, the power of it to change the ways that people think is a way to express dissent.
Segment Title: The Concerned Photographer
Melissa Harris: You have Koudelka, the thirty-year-old photographer at the time, who had never done any kind of photojournalism or documented any kind of news event. I think his girlfriend called him and said, "You know they say the Soviets are going to invade." This is one week of work. That's it. It's just one week and that he got this is absolutely exceptional.
He was there as a Czechoslovakian. He was photographing, but where he is most impassioned is about what was going on with Czechoslovakia and this incredible moment of resistance and courage.
When you have somebody like Koudelka doing this, or you have Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam, or you have Gilles Peress in Rwanda, or Paolo Pellegrin in Lebanon or Susan Meiselas in Nicaragua, on the one hand you are talking about the evidentiary value of photography, so that whole sort of concept of bearing witness. The photographer is there, it's happening in real time and space, and then it becomes evidence in some way. But still, the best of those photographs have a metaphorical value as well. That's why they stay with you. We see evidence all the time, but those images that stay with you are the ones that sort of become transcendent. I don't mean they become spiritual, I just mean that they somehow encompass all of this other kind of the weight of the history of all of this emotion and everything that has happened and the idea that somebody dies for something they believe in, or kills for something they believe in, and the savagery that we are capable of.
To be so intimate in the face of conflict and to be that close and have that immediate visceral gut response is extraordinary. Joseph's signature image from this body of work to many people would be the image of the watch, which operates on a very metaphorical level and, in fact, doesn't show conflict outside of the context. But you can go into this in many, many different kinds of directions. You can talk about war, you can talk about aggression, you can talk about conflict, you can talk about resistance, you can talk about courage, you can talk about gesture and facial expression. And you can talk about photography.
Segment Title: Perspectives on War
Christine Giviskos: Beginning in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, one of the big sort of changes that sort of signals the modern era is that artists are more willing to put very recent events into major paintings.
John Elderfield: Rilke, who was very deeply interested in painting. said once that what great artists do is put themselves in danger. And they put themselves in danger by carrying things through to their conclusion. Manet said once that you just have to dive in, it's like you are diving into a river and you see what happens. And you know, I think that is what he did. And there was, I think, this quality in his work from the beginning of the1860s to be provocative.
All that said, with the Maximilian, obviously it's a very different kind of subject to what he's usually dealing with. Maximilian has been shot, and more news comes through about actually the truly horrible manner in which he did die, and the fact that the squad was inept and didn't manage to kill him.
Manet's response and, which is what's so amazing, I guess it's his modernism as well, it isn't to increase the temperature of the paintings, but it's to turn it down and down and down until it's really cold.
He was criticized generally for being overly cool in terms of his relationship to his subject matter, but I think that the result of it is actually more powerful than overly expressed emotion.
When you look at what battle pictures were of that time, they're heroic and they're not particularly shocking in the way in which this seems to be shocking. It's interesting to see him working through this whole thing, smoke everywhere and people are beginning to fall, and so it seems in a kind of sense looking back to the Third of May, the Goya prototype. Manet doesn't give you things which are horrible in the way in which Goya would do.
Susan Galassi: By 1789 Goya was appointed painter to the king. He retained that position until the end of his life. But he nevertheless tread a very fine line. Goya, of course. had mastered traditional portraiture, but he wasn't content with that.
Christine Giviskos: Goya created his print series The Disasters of War in direct response to the serious warfare taking place in Spain following the invasion of Napoleon's troops in 1808. The essential theme is man's inhumanity to man in times of war. There's nothing heroic about war in these prints.
Susan Galassi: When Picasso painted Guernica, he had to refer to Goya because Goya had made the greatest statements condemning war that had ever been made. In Guernica there are no victors, and that was a way of depicting war that began with Goya where there were no victors.
John Elderfield: Modernism has largely been about personal imperatives. It's the rare artist who's willing to take this on and understand that political subjects can be dealt with in this sort of way. Guernica, although obviously more modern chronologically and typologically, in terms of the actual approach it's more traditional than the Manet because it uses old-fashioned allegory—you know, the dying horse, the light bulb, and so on—to actually transmit its message.
Segment Title: Caricature
Christine Giviskos: Social commentary is attractive to artists because of the variety and the opportunity to really tell a story, send a message, and to do it in an inventive way.
Steven Heller: The use of caricature historically was to break the strictures of academic and official art. But early caricature was really just taking the world and saying, "Okay we're not going to romanticize it anymore, we are going to draw what we see, warts and all." So that evolved into a form of commentary and a form of satire and it hit England, it hit France, anyplace that had a working press where you could either run off etchings or lithographs or a publication.
Steven Brodner: Caricature is a subcategory of illustration in which you are using the elements of the face to do those same things that you are using in general illustration to do. You are using eyes, a nose, a mouth, teeth, ears, wrinkles, waddles, hair, lack of hair, all these things as elements in storytelling. People with power need to be watched. They need to be watched very carefully because it corrupts them. Power corrupts. You have to keep your eyes on them.
Steven Heller: When Daumier and Rowlandson and Gillray and Cruikshank were producing their caricatures, they were making very strident critiques of society. They were being the tricksters of their day. And instead of doing it through fable, they did it through visual.
Christine Giviskos: Honore Daumier established his career with the lithographs that he made criticizing, satirizing, caricaturing the government of Louis Philippe.
Luis Philippe ascended to the throne in 1830. He really wanted to be a monarch in the old style. And Daumier was hired by a publisher named Charles Filipont who was extremely anti-royalist.
And his charge to the artists working for his newspapers was to keep the pressure on Louis Philippe and the legislature. Their constant criticism built up to eventually topple Louis Philippe's government.
Segment Title: Art of the State
Steven Heller: In Soviet art, they were creating a new language that came about on the crest of the revolution. It wasn't that the new language was instigated by the revolution, it was on the occasion of the revolution. It was tolerated by the revolution until it was no longer tolerated.
Jane Ashton Sharp: The pre-revolutionary avant garde experienced a tremendous sense of resistance to the Czarist state in the last years of the Russian empire. So that when the revolution occurs, many of these artists are thrilled, elated, and view it as their mission to really join forces. A kind of unity of leftist, political fervor, together with artists who had resisted all institutions of power prior to the revolution. It's really the period I would say between 1917 and 1921. So there's this shift from political opposition to supporting the state. It was primarily through the distribution of graphic images, posters, that are mass distributed, but also on what were called agitprop trains. And so this is a huge phenomenon, the sending of cars that were painted themselves like posters for a population that is largely illiterate, so the visual is tremendously significant.
Sylvia Wolf: If you think about the fact the images could be broadly disseminated, and images were being made in higher numbers and higher volume under different circumstances. I go back to the advent of the half-tone printing process, when for the first time visual images could be reproduced and newspapers could be disseminated with pictures.
Jane Ashton Sharp: In the late twenties you see this encroaching of state interference, so there's discussion of "heroising" the worker, representing scenes of labor, representing the formation of Soviet power in its revolutionary development. What's understood, however, is that art has to be realistic, based on the traditions of the Wanderers group, founded in 1870. Socialist Realism is the style. By the time it cycled through various art academies in China as well as in Cuba, people do know, they at least have models for what art should look like.
Melissa Chiu: Posters from the Cultural Revolution served a very important educational role. That when, in fact, we think about the Cultural Revolution, which spanned from 1966 to '76, we think immediately of posters. In a time when China was really going through great political turmoil and change, it sought to modernize itself by destroying anything that resembled tradition. And posters became a part of that. They disseminated in a very quick way, political messages, but also the types of images that were deemed revolutionary in their time. What most people don't realize is that the posters were actually based on large-scale oil paintings, many of them dealing with historical subjects or validating Mao's role in the revolution, or even talking about the life of workers or peasants who were the heroic figures. Some of the oil paintings, such as Liu Chunhua's Mao goes to Anyuan, were reproduced nearly a billion times. And so you had, I think, more than any other country and any other period in time, really wide dissemination of visual culture. There was not a person living in China during this period that did not know this painting.
Segment Title: Iconoclasm
Freyda Spira: The Reformation was a movement that came in waves. In the early sixteenth century Martin Luther really picked up the mantle of the Reformation in terms of cleansing the church of all its luxuries, of all its debauchery, of all the things that it was getting away with that it probably shouldn't have been doing. The Reformation really used imagery to not only celebrate their own movement, but also to tear down the power of the church. It did that through circulating broad sheets and prints with imagery that showed the corruption in the church and did it in sort of ironic and fun ways so that it could be understood by the masses. It also created images with text so that there could be several levels of understanding in society of what was going on with papal authority. And iconoclasm was really another way for the Reformation to assert its own power. Iconoclasm is the destruction of images which usually have a political or religious leader, and the image is usually endowed with some kind of mediating power. The fear is that people will begin to worship the image. And so images needed to be cleansed from the churches and from religious worship. Most of the iconoclasm during the Reformation was happening in southwest Germany and in Switzerland. In some cases literally crowds or masses came into churches with axes and pitch forks and destroyed the images with their hands. Most of them were white-washed and the images that were really incredibly important to certain societies or villages were kept and they were just covered over so that the power of those images were negated from the ritual of the church.
Iconoclasm is something that happens all over the world in all cultures, for various reasons. We see it everywhere.
Tarek Kahlaoui: The emphasis on the idea of uniqueness of God is a central theme in the Islamic discourse from the beginning. The Prophet Mohammad was never seen as a godly figure. The Muslims decided to emphasize mainly an artistic discourse, a visual discourse, that marginalizes images because they were afraid that images may be used in a religious context to be venerated.
In the beginning of the formation of the Islamic empire was the Umayyad Dynasty, which was the first dynasty in Islamic history. We have an instance in Upper Egypt when an Umayyad prince, while visiting a Christian Coptic church, he saw the mural painting, or mosaic of the Virgin and the child and he was unpleased about that. But not because it was an image, he was unpleased because he saw that this is an example of Christians venerating Jesus, and this was a highly doctrinal issue for Muslims, and one of the major conflicts between Islam and Christianity.
Freyda Spira: With iconoclasm the images are at the center of the conflict and they become the main vehicle for expressing power or resistance.
One of the best known examples in our day and age of iconoclasm is the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas.
Tarek Kahlaoui: This is not simply a religious reading towards these Buddhas. This was part of a whole discourse from Taliban that includes also a rejection of Western European domination of Afghanistan. This was not a debate about what's cultural and what's religious. This was the whole package including the definition of the Buddhas. The power of the act of iconoclasm has its own way of projecting power.
And the Taliban was very aware of that process and that's why they invited foreign journalists to cover the whole thing. Because they knew that this was something to be viewed. So here they used images to empower their iconoclastic act. So the act of desecration, viewable for later generations, is something that is an essential part of iconoclasm.
Segment Title: Race, Gender, and Sexual Politics
Lalla Essaydi: Coming from Morocco, when I started working in the beginning my investigation was really with Orientalist paintings. I wanted to use the female body to change that perspective in a sense and also to just show how Orientalist painting is still really a fantasy of the West.
I think that the writing was always present in my work. In my culture we don't have that separation between image and the text that you find in the West. I just wanted the words themselves to become part of the skin of the women when they wear it.
The idea of calligraphy when I was growing up, it wasn't really accessible to me at school. It's a male art and the henna is a craft decorating the hands and the feet, so I wanted to merge this male art with female craft. The text is really my diary, and it's the story of these women. The women became the pages, the chapters.
My work, sometimes it's open to interpretation and you can see also how it deals with the veil and the time where they start using the veil, and when I talk about this, I'm really using the veil as a symbol, and also just to emphasize the stereotype that people always associate the veil and oppression and how women are submissive. And so I play with that in the sense that I seem to cater to that. People are drawn into the work, but in Morocco really women don't veil any longer, specifically my generation. And that's where you see a lot of fragmentation in my work as well.
Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw: The interest in very dark moments in our pasts is a desire to understand what these image worlds meant and how can we continue to deal with those legacies. You know, what are the ways that artists can engage them?
William Blake's illustrations for John Gabriel Stedmund's diary of his campaign against the Maroons in Surinam from the late seventeen hundreds, these were very popular images during their day. And these were images which were criticized in abolitionist circles, which were used to demonstrate the inhumanity of enslavement, but they're also images which provided a certain type of prurient access to black bodies. And this is something that I think has received a lot of kind of visual criticism in the work of somebody like Kara Walker. She was somebody who was looking at the historical images from the eighteenth and nineteenth century from Europe, from the United States, referencing that earlier period through the medium that she is using.
It has a sense of the past, it has a flavor and kind of a smell of old rooms and old spaces and dramas played out and witnessed in the shadows or behind a curtain. And I think that's one of the things about her work that is so disturbing to people, because it is about projection of your own issues in many ways colliding, of course, with her issues.
With Walker's work, when she first came on the scene in the middle nineties, she was working with a medium—the cut paper silhouette—which had not been utilized by contemporary artists in any significant way. So her choice of material was very novel.
It really is about the power of that blackness, this kind of black hole into which everything can fall and can be absorbed and contained. This is a direct sexual reference to, you know, black women's bodies, and the penetrability of them in racist, sexist discourse of the nineteenth and the twentieth century. By working with racist imagery and also by standing on its head the kind of myths of slavery, Kara's work resists that desire to homogenize the past. She wants to go against these received histories and say, "There are many possible ways to look at this."
How do we resist, the pull of these very visceral, and affecting images? How do we resist, the desire to be a voyeur, a witness to somebody else's pain, to somebody else's suffering, how do we do that from our safe spots? What does it mean for us to not be able to pull ourselves away?


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Perini is a family owned winery and a large one at that. Production of about 125,000 12-bottle cases comes from 92 hectares (225 acres) of estate fruit that is supplemented by purchased fruit. The winery is 40-years-old, but the family has been privately making wine for much longer. They successfully navigated the transition from producing a little bit of wine back in 1928, to high volume, bulk table wine production beginning in 1970, and then finally to becoming fine wine producers over the past two decades.
The wines at Perini are rather attractive, though many have yet to shake a certain rusticity that seems rooted in the history here. That history is not exclusive to the past, as evidenced by the continuing focus on large format, hybrid 'table' wines that are produced here to satisfy the domestic market. Still, there is enough to like with Perini's wines that I think they are worth watching.
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The title is an Anais Nin quote.
I was driving home from downtown Denver today and I put my iPhone/iPod/iTunes on shuffle, which is always a risk when you've had an iTunes account since 2005. The first song that played was Bombay Bicycle Club's 'How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep'. Do song titles go in scare quotes? I'm not sure. I should know that, but I don't. I thought hard for a minute about last night when I had told Adam I hadn't written for myself in a long time. And that song made me want to write again. So I figured I should light up this little corner of the internet that used to be mine.
That song is one of those timeless classics for me and I tried to think of the time in my life when I first heard it and I cannot remember. I know I snagged it from a rocketshoes playlist but I cannot even remember the year. Sometime in my undergraduate career, for sure. I have it on a playlist called 'Writing Songs'. And I'm listening to it now.
And I moved to Colorado, so maybe we should start there. But before there I absolutely have got to write about the experience that was the last shove out of Flagstaff.
I got Cohen when I was 21 years old. He was a gift from the worst boyfriend I've ever had. I was probably too young to care for an animal but it's one of those situations you just kind of get thrown in because of cuteness and lust and a fleeting feeling of believing. When I first got Cohen was when I first met Emily Prange and Lauren Vranich - two of my now roommates, and two of the funniest people I've ever met in my life, and one night when Joe told me he didn't want to be with me, Emily was the first person over. The third is Kelsey Peppers - the only person that could ever convince me to actually use the alien face emoji.
I'm rambling because this is hard to write about. Which means it should be written about.
There was a lot of heartbreaking that went on for me in Kalamazoo for a few years, and I buried my face into Cohen's neck and cried hundreds of thousands of tears during those times. When I finally got the courage to leave that relationship is when I started to run. And I ran because of Cohen. Great Danes aren't exactly exercising dogs, but we ran together from my apartment and through campus, topping out at about 3 miles. Thinking back on it, it had to be an odd scene. A girl who was smoking a pack a day and drinking every other night jogging around with a dog that was bigger than herself.
From there, life got better. Running took off for me and I didn't stop, and Cohen was happy to join me for leisurely trail miles. He was three then.
There's a comical blog post I wrote a couple of years ago when I couldn't catch Cohen at the trailhead during the winter. I think it's titled 'A Cohen Conversation'. I can't bring myself to reread it quite yet.
We moved to Flagstaff and kicked life around at 7,000 feet for a year and a half. Cohen remained my right-hand-man, my body pillow, my conversation starter at bars and my occasional pain in the ass. In February of 2015 he needed surgery on his spine and the grand total was just under $10,000. And I made it work. I wiped out my savings, spent my tax return, used some student loan money and had generous donations from a GoFundMe account. It was then that I realized how many people loved my dog. How could you not? Cohen loved every person and every animal more than I ever could. At the time I thought he had a few good years left. I never imagined it'd be just one.
Great Danes are known as the heartbreak breed. I thought I'd know when the time had come to say goodbye but my mom had to kind of help me see that. And when I saw it, I couldn't stop seeing it. When did he get so grey? When did he stop getting up quickly? When did he start laying down so slowly? When did his body start to fail him? Why didn't I see that?
I put him down on a Wednesday night. The thing about Cohen is that everyone always has to talk to me when I'm with him, and they have to pet him, and they have to ask his name and how much he weighs and how old he is and if I've had him since he was an 8 week old puppy and if it was just me and if he was okay and if he likes other dogs and if he can have treats and some godforsaken horse joke. I had answered all of these questions for six and a half years and I knew that on that Wednesday evening it was the last time I was going to answer them. And I managed some nods because I couldn't speak around the lump in my throat. I remember sitting there, with him standing over my legs and leaning his body onto my torso and looking at the receptionists behind the desk and listening to their conversation. One of them was having relationship problems and was discussing how to approach her significant other about it in a 'non-threatening way' because he 'gets so mad'. And I remember clenching my jaw as hard as I possibly could and having anger run wildly through my veins because what I wouldn't fucking give to be dealing with a shitty relationship rather than putting my dog down. Fuck them. Fuck that girl and her shitty relationship. Who fucking cares. Your life is trivial and I hate you and my heart is breaking so hard I swear to God I can feel it.
I couldn't talk to my vet without crying and she understood and we agreed on the decision. We agreed that it was the humane thing to do. Because I had always said I wouldn't be that person that made their dog hang on to life because they couldn't let go. What happens is they take you to this nice room. There was a huge dog bed, a fireplace and it was dimly lit with plenty of tissues within an arm's reach. And you take as long as you want and then press this button. So I sat next to him and put my arms around his neck and told him what an amazing dog I thought he was and how much he had changed my life. Cohen had led me to running and running had led me to Flagstaff and Flagstaff had led me to Colorado, but I wasn't there yet. I told him about how he had helped mend my heart from some breaks, but nothing compared to the break that was happening with him dying. And he did that thing where he lays his entire body weight into mine and throws his huge head into my lap and stares up at me and I couldn't even breathe in that moment, and I almost can't while remembering it, either. And my vet came in and it was two simple injections and then she listened for his heartbeat and told me he was gone. And I cried harder than I ever have, with the shortest breaths I've ever taken. And I had to choke out "He's-[gasp]-lean-[gasp]-ing-[gasp]-on-[gasp]-me."Because his body weight was still against my bent knees and if I got up I wasn't sure if I could take seeing his lifeless body move. So my vet moved him a little for me. This is a weird thing to recall, but for some reason I remember it so clearly.
And I sat in my car and called my mom because that's what you do, even when your'e 27, that's what you do when your heart is shredded. You still call your mom. And we cried together. And I couldn't pick my head up off of my steering wheel for an hour. My whole body shook with every sob and I remember thinking it almost sounds like I'm laughing really hard. And then I drove home.
And I texted Nick Irvine who is my friend and was my boss and I knew had gone through the art of losing a dog last summer. And he texted me back and so did his amazing wife, Amanda. And Amanda said that when they lost Pongo she was okay during the day, and whisky helped at night.
Because that's what it's like. It's the ultimate heartbreak, and I knew how to deal with heartbreak.
You surround yourself with people. Constantly. And you drink. You have to keep busy. So Sarah came over with wine, hummus and cookies. And I forced Dave to climb with me almost every day. And Giselle finally came back from California.
It took me about a week to realize I should probably tell the world that Cohen was gone. I was running into people around town and they asked "How is/where is Co?" and I had to awkwardly say "Uhh, I actually had to put him down." and once I just blurted out "Dead". I instantly laughed at how blunt and morbid and awkward but oh-so-Kelsey that response was. The responses I got from everyone were incredible. I distinctly remember Gayle texting me and saying how she remembers Cohen always leaning on her and standing directly in front of her when she was sitting on the couch, staring her down, waiting to be pet. And that made me remember how he would do those things. I remembered every detail. I remembered the weird little low-key whine he would do until you pet him, and he'd shift his weight on his front legs. I realized I was remembering. Why had I forgotten it? How had I forgotten it? What the fuck, Kelsey?!
Because you force yourself to forget things, sometimes. You protect yourself when you're that hurt. And sometimes you're not ready to remember them. But I remember it now. I remember all of it.
(Queue my psychology friends)
I had read a few days prior that it's normal for people to think they hear or see their animals after they're gone. That didn't happen for me. I'd like to think it's because I'm very in-touch with reality, but I think it's because I held him as he slipped away and I knew he was gone. And I knew he wasn't coming back. And I think that's closure. There were two times that I did catch myself thinking he was still around. One was at the grocery store when I had stopped for avocados and thought "Oh, I better get dog food," and was two steps towards the pet aisle. I had always needed dog food. Another was a local commercial that came on when I was baking my 8th loaf of banana bread, reminding people to make sure their pets were up-to-date on their vaccines and I, without skipping a beat, thought "Is Cohen due for his Bordatella?" But just for a half of one second.
I wasn't sure what to do with Cohen's body. I had him cremated because in that situation it's hard to think of any other option. I didn't have my own place to bury him, and even if I did, I couldn't carry him. I'm not that strong. I asked how much the cremation was, and she said she wouldn't charge me for the euthanasia because she wanted me to be able to take him home. This is why vets are the most under-appreciated and under-paid doctors.
I was halfway through my bedroom door with my phone in my right hand when I watched the screen move from
Canyon Pet Hospital calling to
Missed call from Canyon Pet Hospital to
Missed Call + Voicemail from Canyon Pet Hospital.
I knew what that voicemail said, and six days later I actually listened to it.
Three days before I left Flagstaff I knew I had to actually go there and pick up his ashes. As I walked up to the counter one person told me they'd "be right back to be with me" and the other sat at the computer without glancing my way. And I stood there and stared at the corner that I hung out with Cohen in and wished that someone would just hurry the fuck up and give me the ashes and let me get the fuck out of there because goddammit I was going to lose it.
And once I got back to my car I did lose it. But not for very long.
The next night Giselle and I camped at the End of the World in Flagstaff. We made a fire and drank cups of wine. She fueled the fire with some memories that needed to be let go, and our conversation bounced from me realizing that I can't stop chasing things, and neither of us want to own a house and whether I should eat a third hotdog or not and where she will be next and was the wine gone?
G set an alarm for sunrise and we slept through a windy night. I remembered how the last time I was at the End of the World it was so windy the highline webbing snapped and the next day I had flown to Boston.
Spreading ashes is kind of a weird thing. It's also kind of a really funny thing. I thought it'd be this emotional experience and it'd be like a movie and out of nowhere the perfect song would play. Cohen was a huge dog, and his ashes came in not one container, but two. G and I each hiked out with one, and she asked when the last time I was able to carry Cohen like that was. I laughed and couldn't even think of the answer. 10 weeks old, probably. She also pointed out that this was our last hike with Cohen. I laughed again, and felt like I was healing.
We found the perfect spot and I couldn't get the containers open and found myself muttering "Goddammit, Cohen" one last time. Once open, I wasn't entirely sure to do. "Do I just.. like.. dump it?" "Yeah I think so." ... "Like this? Am I doing it right?"
There was a nice breeze that worked in our favor that morning, but when I started dumping the ashes it died immediately. They just sort of piled up on this rock a foot or two below the ledge I was standing on and I just started laughing. Of course this scenario wasn't working out like the short movie I had in my head. When does it?
I waited for a second and the wind started again, and then we got that movie scene where the ashes wisp away in a little ash tornado. And then they were gone. And I had a deep, satisfied sigh and then realized there was still another container to go through. And how can you not just kind of chuckle at that?
Over the past six and a half years, I've lived alone a lot. Not entirely alone, of course, because it was always me and Cohen, but I've started to recall my best memories with him with laughs instead of tears. Cohen always got reallycrazyexcited when I'd dance, and for a few months I had a routine of getting up in the morning and playing music and we'd dance around whatever one-bedroom-apartment I was in at the time and I'd start laughing at him and not be able to keep dancing. And I'd collapse on top of him, give him a huge hug and shake his ears and get in the shower.
I did that every single morning for months and I'll never do it again.
But that was a long time ago.
And you're never the person you are at 24 ever again in your life, anyway.


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ONE of our Members is currently seriously ill and TWO Rotarian spouses are suffering from it.
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Understanding the Evolution of Mammalian Brain Structures; the Need for a (New) Cerebrotype Approach
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Brain Sci. 2012, 2(2), 203-224; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci2020203
Received: 20 March 2012 / Revised: 25 April 2012 / Accepted: 3 May 2012 / Published: 18 May 2012
The mammalian brain varies in size by a factor of 100,000 and is composed of anatomically and functionally distinct structures. Theoretically, the manner in which brain composition can evolve is limited, ranging from highly modular ("mosaic evolution") to coordinated changes in brain structure size ("concerted evolution") or anything between these two extremes. There is a debate about the relative importance of these distinct evolutionary trends. It is shown here that the presence of taxa-specific allometric relationships between brain structures makes a taxa-specific approach obligatory. In some taxa, the evolution of the size of brain structures follows a unique, coordinated pattern, which, in addition to other characteristics at different anatomical levels, defines what has been called here a "taxon cerebrotype". In other taxa, no clear pattern is found, reflecting heterogeneity of the species' lifestyles. These results suggest that the evolution of brain size and composition depends on the complex interplay between selection pressures and constraints that have changed constantly during mammalian evolution. Therefore the variability in brain composition between species should not be considered as deviations from the normal, concerted mammalian trend, but in taxa and species-specific versions of the mammalian brain. Because it forms homogenous groups of species within this complex "space" of constraints and selection pressures, the cerebrotype approach developed here could constitute an adequate level of analysis for evo-devo studies, and by extension, for a wide range of disciplines related to brain evolution. View Full-Text
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UFC 129 earns SBJ nomination for "Sports Event of the Year"
March 19, 2012
The Sports Business Journal has named UFC 129 in Toronto as one of the nominees for Event of the Year in its annual sports awards. The awards will be handed out May 23rd in New York.
As you know, UFC 129 was the biggest show in UFC's history. It was the first stadium show for the company and received the biggest gate and attendance for an MMA event.
UFC 129 will compete in the "Event of the Year" category with the 2011 Carrier Classic (November's men's college basketball game held on an aircraft carrier between North Carolina and Michigan State), 2011 Humana Challenge, 2011 NBA Finals, and Super Bowl XLVI.
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While the awards are not an indication of the success of the UFC, its a recognition of its accomplishments in the sports industry. UFC 129 may have a shot at winning its category although the 2011 Carrier Classic may be the front runner for that award simply due to the uniqueness of the event. As Junkie points out, its interesting that Dana White was not nominated for Sports Executive of the Year although Hill was named. Obviously, Hill did other things for Fox this past year but the UFC deal was one of the bigger acquisitions.
4 Responses to "UFC 129 earns SBJ nomination for "Sports Event of the Year""
Sampson Simpson on
March 19th, 2012 9:14 AM
The main event itself was probably one of the most boring "sporting events" of the year. Period
michael on
March 20th, 2012 12:47 AM
hehe, that's probably right…
Diego on
March 20th, 2012 6:51 AM
Yeah, thank God Aldo and Hominick had the decency to bust each other up for 25 minutes before that.
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March 20th, 2012 9:39 AM
Unfortunately based on the PPV buys and live gate, 99 percent showed up to see GSP "fight". In reality they got the UFC "champion" throwing wild haymakers all night. The same kind that you would see when a toddler first steps into the boxing ring for the first time….
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About Chef Joseph Hsu
Joe Hsu is originally from Taiwan, but moved to the States when he was 12 years old, settling in Pennsylvania. After attending Penn State University, Joe followed his childhood interest in cooking to the Circular Dining Room at the Hotel Hershey, a AAA Four Diamond-rated resort, where he worked as an apprentice and later as an executive sous chef. Joe served as the Executive Chef at Willie G's in Denver and then as the Regional Chef with Landry's Restaurants where he spent five years heading up four of the Landry's concepts which had him working in Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. After spending a year as the Executive Chef at the South Hampton Inn on Long Island, Joe returned to the D.C. area where he worked as the Executive Chef at the Red Cross National Headquarters and later at the AOL Headquarters in Dulles, VA. Returning once again to Denver, Joe served as the Executive Chef at Simm's Steakhouse where he established himself as a top chef in the Denver region. In 2013, the waves of change brought him to Indiana where he currently works as the Executive Chef at the Indianapolis Zoo and oversees two other Centerplate facilities. One of his accomplishments during his time at the Indianapolis Zoo is achieving REAL Certification. The Indianapolis Zoo is the first zoo in the country to receive this high honor as well as the first establishment in the state of Indiana. He is an ACF Certified Executive Chef and remains an active member of the ACF. Joe was one of the first chefs to become involved in the Chefs Move to School program and spent two years working with the Cherry Creek School District in Denver, CO. He continued his work in Indiana with the Washington School District in Indianapolis. Joe continues his efforts in educating children on healthy eating as a guest chef at Riley's Children's Hospital in Indianapolis. Joe has competed in ACF events and has participated in several fundraisers such as the Great Chef of the West, March of Dimes Star Chefs Event and the Have a Heart event. He describes his cooking style as international fusion and contemporary American cuisine.
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Established in 2016, 5280 Bistro's mission is to provide fresh, delicious, high-quality food to those who do not have the time or knowledge to prepare their own and to those celebrating a special event. Our job is to simplify your life. Chef Joe strives to prepare meals that satisfy your senses as well as your appetite.
Chef Joe offers custom in-home meal services and cooking lessons along with event and catering services.
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As any chef will tell you, an excellent meal begins with excellent ingredients. 5280 Bistro sources all their ingredients from the most reputable local food suppliers and markets in the Midwest region. Each ingredient is hand-selected and inspected for quality and freshness by the chef prior to your event. We pride ourselves in using certified organic ingredients when possible.


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Top DIY Tips to Maintain Your RV
A recreational vehicle, or RV, is a great way of traveling the country, taking in the sights, while still in the comfort of a home on wheels. They are often reliable for long distance transportation, making them ideal for road trips. However, after some time of use, eventually an RV can start to break down, like any other motor vehicle would. Because of this, it is vital to ensure that you properly maintain your RV so that it can last for a long time. Without that, you may end up purchasing a new one every few years or so. It is far more economical to keep up with maintenance. With that in mind, here are some of the best ways that RV owners can keep moving forward.
Keep Things Moving Well
Oftentimes, one of the biggest enemies of an RV is rust and stickiness. Not only in the engine components but also in the general parts of the interior. Keeping all of the moving parts in the vehicle lubricated is in your best interests. Use a small amount to lubricate any and all of the hinges, joints, locks, and the like. If you have some available, apply lubricant that resists dirt and grime buildup. In the long run, that should work the best. You should also seriously consider getting an onboard diagnostic scanner to understand what's happening under the hood and better take care of your rig. If you need education around these highly useful devices and to get a good one, these obd2 scanners are the best.
Keep Things Tight
With all of the time spent out on the road, RVs are often exposed to jostling and bumping around that can loosen some components in the vehicle. Should you notice this happening in your RV, use a screwdriver to tighten any and all screws that are present in the vehicle. This preventative maintenance could save you a lot of headaches in the future. Should you have any external loose objects on your RV, take extra care in checking and maintaining those, as they are a potential safety hazard should they come loose.
Keep Your Tires Inflated
A popped tire is easily one of the worst misfortunes that could befall a trip, because it means time spent out in the sun doing manual labor. Very few people enjoy doing that. While ensuring that you have good tire pressure will not prevent a blown tire, it does go a long way towards making them last for as long as possible. Before you head out on a trip, be sure to do a full check on your tires to ensure that they are safe to drive on. Makes sure that all of the lug nuts on your tires are tightened to the optimum amount.
Keep Your Tanks Clean
One of the most common issues with RVs after some time is that the water can start to smell bad. Of course, this is due to bacteria getting into the tanks. This requires you to sanitize the water system every so often. Obviously it depends on how often you use it, but look to flush and clean the fresh water system out every two or three months. Probably the most effective way of doing this is by running a bleach and water softener mixture through the water system. This scrubs it, sanitizes it, and helps the water tanks to smell fresh.
Keep Moving Forward
If you follow these basic tips, your RV should last for many years to come. You should be able to keep driving it, keep seeing sights, and keep making memories with your family as long and as often as you wish. Not only that, but properly maintaining your RV like this also helps it to keep its market value, letting you upgrade more easily should you so choose.


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The Central Valley Regional is one of many FIRST Robotics Competitions held each year. These events are an exciting, multinational competitions that teams professionals and young people together to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience and a lot of fun. Each year the competition reaches more than 68,000 students on over 2,700 teams in competitions held across the USA and in other parts of the world. The teams come from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, the U.K., and every state in the U.S. The competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events, the result of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork, dedicated mentoring, outstanding innovation, and intense deadlines.
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Adobe this week announced the release of its Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, which includes additional support for creating HTML5 and Flash apps, along with the ability to create apps for Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and Apple iOS devices.
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On Sunday, ESPN announced that its show ESPN Gameday will be live once again from Tuscaloosa covering the Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Penn State Nittany Lions. The last time Gameday was in T-Town was when the Tide hosted (and lost) to Georgia in 2007. While news of the show coming wasn't a surprise to most, one host, Kirk Herbstreit may find his welcome a little cold this time around since recently choosing Auburn to beat Alabama and win the SEC West Title.
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Summer in the Region is everything All-American, speckled with some of the world's most unique, whacky, and fun-filled happenings. These events draw locals to cross city and county borders without a blink and bring scores of visitors from all over the nation. Decades of tradition weave their way through events like 100-year-old parades, while newer events like nighttime bike rides reflect today's trends.
But don't take our word for it. Check out this preview of the most popular events about to explode in the Region in 2019 and browse the stories and photos of years past to really get the flavor.
#CreatePlayRepeat. It's just that easy to have constant fun in this lakeside community, especially in the summer. The locally-famous Patriotic Parade is strategically scheduled for 11 a.m., June 29, just before the crazy Independence Day rush. It's also affectionately known by natives as the Michigan City Big Parade, because it's just that – stretching more than a mile along the Franklin Street artery leading patrons to post-parade fun in the revitalized downtown shops and restaurants. Fireworks this year are on July 4 at dusk, launched from the Lighthouse pier over Lake Michigan. Details can be found on the city's Facebook page.
The first weekend in August, though, is the heavy hitter for MC. Catch the Super Boat Great Lakes Grand Prix August 1-4 – four days of high-energy boat races featuring the world's fastest and most powerful offshore power boats speeding past spectators on the Washington Park Beach at nearly 175 miles per hour. Nestled in middle of that event is the Taste of Michigan City, brought to the community by the Uptown Arts District (UAD) and the Michigan City Mainstreet Association on August 3-4. Discover culinary concoctions of local restaurants, musical acts, and a thirst-quenching beer garden right in the heart of the UAD.
Stay up-to-date on the Michigan City events by following them on Facebook.
Want to see them more in-depth? Check out these galleries and articles:
2018 Michigan City July 4 Fireworks
2018 Taste of Michigan City and Boat Parade
2018 Super Boat Great Lakes Grand Prix
The city of Hammond has the "go big or go home" approach to their events that draw massive audiences from the entire Region and beyond. It certainly reflects Mayor Tom McDermott's personality, but also represents the all-in attitude of everyone who makes the events possible.
The 2019 Festival of the Lakes is July 17- 21, at Wolf Lake Memorial Park. So far, these acts have been announced: Nelly and 3 Doors Down, Bad Company, Roots, Los Huracanes del Norte, and The Empty Pockets. Aside from the huge musical acts, Festival of the Lakes features a carnival, splash pad, polka party, boat rides, fishing derby, a 5K Run/Walk, and even a special Senior Day. The full VIP experience is available for the concerts, and mega passes for the carnival. Otherwise, the only fee is for parking.
Brand new this year is the Cold Roses Brew and Music Festival on August 9 in downtown Hammond. One night, one incredible music lineup, and more than 30 breweries. The acts are super chill, and so far include The War On Peace, Tristen, Louder Than Bombs: The Smiths/Morrissey Cover Band, CoJack, and Rhythm Scholar.
Go Hammond is the city's tagline. See where they took us with these photo galleries and articles from past events:
Crown Point
Two words for this bustling city: Bulldog Park. In December, the city opened the Bulldog Park ice rink so families could get a jump-start on winter fun. From May 31 – June 2 this year, they'll celebrate the grand opening of the entire nearly $11 million event center complete with amphitheater, band shell, and splash pad for summer fun. Mayor David Uran has said the 2-acre park will transform the city's festival and gathering atmosphere. The festivities start May 31 with a festival that includes a kids area, food, beverages, and music from 4-10 p.m. A ribbon cutting will take place at the Amphitheater Stage at 5:45 p.m., and the band Breaking Down will play from 6-10 p.m. On June 1, the Farmer's Market will be open from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m., and the festival with kids area, food, and music continues from 4-10 p.m. The band Positive Vibe Technicians will play from 6-8 p.m., and Dirt Born will play from 8-10 p.m.
The city will welcome autumn with the 12th Annual Oktober Fest on Oct. 5 this year. The event is the perfect mix of German brew fest flair (Thanks to craft beer from Crown Brewing) and hometown Indiana fun, like last year's applesauce eating contest for kids, and pumpkin pie eating contest for adults.
Stay current on special events in Crown Point here, and in the meantime, check out coverage of past Crown Point celebrations!
2018 Bulldog Park Ribbon Cutting
Lakefront fun, summer markets and movies in a historic theater have pushed the city of Hobart and Hobart Events into the forefront of fantastic destinations for seasonal fun.
The Summer Market on the Lake runs all summer long in Festival Park on Thursday afternoons from May 30 – Aug. 29, featuring food and craft vendors, and movies in the park, summer concerts, a graft beer garden, hydro bikes, and kayak rentals.
The unique Dive In Movies at the Hobart Pool combine the best of summer pool party fun with favorite family movies.
And then there's the local favorite Hobart Lakefront Festival, a free event on the shores of Lake George with tons of family-friendly events, food, music, and the famous Damn Duck Tape & Cardboard Boat Regatta and the Dam Duck Race featuring 4,000 rubber duckies floating their way to the finish line.
For updates follow Hobart Events on Facebook. Here's a look at some past fun!
2018 Hobart Lakefront Festival
2018 Damn Duck Tape & Cardboard Boat Regatta
La Porte
La Porte is all about parades and fests this summer as it welcomes a blend of time-treasured events and newer traditions.
This year's Red Wine & Brew fest on July 3 sponsored by Bethany Church features the best of brews, bands, and BBQ (and wine tasting, too!), will proceeds benefiting local first responders. This lakefront event at Stone Lake is a 21 & older fest with renowned musicians. The Jaycees annual Fireworks Display is that evening at the fairgrounds. La Porte continues its patriotic tradition with the beloved annual Jaycees 4th of July Parade – the largest in the state running about 2.5 miles down the city's main drag. The city celebrates being State Capital for the day.
La Porte and surrounding communities celebrate the end of summer with the annual Sunflower Fair, this year on Sept. 21 in downtown La Porte.
Here's a look back at a couple of these hometown celebrations:
Huge things are happening inside this small town of a couple square miles this summer.
Now that the grand opening of the new Mascot Hall of Fame has been celebrated, the city is looking forward to a grand summer on the lakefront with the seasonal opening of the Woah Zone Wihala in June. The giant inflatable, on-water obstacle course in Lake Michigan provides hours of fun for the public, and private parties.
Whiting's annual July 4th Parade turns 100 this year, and Mayor Joe Stahura is promising some surprises along with the usual cherished tribute to soldiers and local veterans.
And then there's the event that puts Whiting in the national spotlight: Pierogi Festival! Busias abound during the kick-off parade, and the Polish dumpling is celebrated the entire weekend of July 26-28. Food, fun, music, and whacky shenanigans will be the norm once again at this 25th annual event this year.
Keep connected with all the events within the City of Whiting here. Check out some fun coverage of past celebrations:
Valparaiso Parks Department
Before we get all excited about the summer events coming up with Valpo Parks, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the already crazy-popular ValPAWraiso Dog Park. The space at the former Clifford Stone Property at 2902 Campbell St., won't open until Fall 2019, but news has spread quickly and fur parents everywhere are excited.
Until then, though, we'll celebrate all summer starting with the June 1 Party in the Park at Fairgrounds Park. A kickball tourney, food, premium drinks, and live music are the framework for this early summer celebration. We hear that the Valpo Police Department will be matching off against the Valparaiso Fire Department in an epic kickball battle.
The 4th of July Blast 5K Run Walk is a Valparaiso favorite, and this year they've added the Lit'l Firecracker 2K run for the kiddos as well.
Fireworks will follow that evening at Urschel Field (Valparaiso Street & Vale Park Road), and Valpo Parks expects to welcome new vendors to the party in 2019. Food trucks, music, and family fun are the cornerstones of this event.
Summer in Valpo ends with the annual Valparaiso Popcorn Festival on Sept. 7 this year, complete with Popcorn Parade, food vendors, drafts, and local specials at restaurants and taverns throughout the downtown.
Here's a glimpse at some of the fun from past year's events!
2018 Valparaiso Popcorn Festival


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Together with Creative Tech Week and Harvestworks, the Art and Technology Committee and Young Members Committee at the NAC has lined up a series of brief talks and an innovative electronic movement performance from 7-8pm. At 8, the lights dim, music begins, and the rest of the night is yours to catch up with old friends and meet new people.
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RSVP Strictly Required.
A dress code is enforced at the NAC. No jeans, sneakers, or t-shirts; please dress in celebratory costume or cocktail attire.
Thursday, April 28th – The National Arts Club – 15 Gramercy Park South 10003
6:30-7:00 – Arrive and Mingle
7:00-7:20 – Toni Dove – a talk
7:20-7:40 – Heidi Boisvert – a talk
7:40-8:00 – Marco Donnarumma – a performance
8:00-11:00 – Drinks, mingling and DJ Mark Flynn (Volume Events)
This free event will sell out.
Your Hosts
Carol Parkinson
Charlotte Kent
Danielle Cyr
Gary Shapiro
Isabel Walcott Draves
Persia Tatar von Huddleston
Steven Masur
Honorary Hosts
Andy Morris
Augustine Fou
Bernardo Joselevich
Courtney Pulitzer
Dawn Barber
Feisal Afzal
Howard Greenstein
Jack Hidary
Jeff Dachis
Jonathan Askin
Kyle Shannon
Laurel Touby
Murray Hidary
Steve Masur
Sunny Bates
Heidi Boisvert
Heidi Boisvert (PhD) creates groundbreaking games, web interactive, augmented reality and transmedia storytelling experiences for social change, as well as large-scale networked performances in dance and theatre using biotechnology. She co-founded XTH, a company exploring novel modes of expression through technology and the human body. She has been a Harvestworks Fellow with support by the Rockefeller Foundation whose works have been featured in Kotaku, TIME, Wired, Salon, Fast Company, Washington Post, the New York Times, and Atlantic, and showcased at EMPAC, Banff New Media Institute, Queens Museum, Kunsthalle and the Waag Society.
Marco Donnarumma
Marco Donnarumma (PhD) is an artist and writer merging sound art and performance art through science and technology. He is known for his wide range of performances, concerts and installations using and abusing human bodies, sound, infrasound, light, algorithms, body sensors and loudspeakers. He co-founded XTH, a company creating novel modes of expression through technology and the human body. Among other awards, he has been a Harvestworks Fellow with support by the Rockefeller Foundation, and his works have been featured at Sónar+D, ISEA, Venice Biennale, ZKM, transmediale, CTM, FILE, Panorama, NYEAF, Sound Art China, EMPAC, Stanford and CCRMA.
Toni Dove
Considered one of the pioneers of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove creates hybrid performance, installation and screen-based art that fuses film, game or instrument based interaction, and experimental theater. Her work has been shown internationally at Banff Centre for the Arts, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Museum of the Moving Image, ZKM, REDCAT, EMPAC, and the Kitchen. Dove creates large-scale responsive environments that connect embodied interface technologies, like vocal analysis or video motion sensing to media and robotics to create immersive narratives. In her work body motion creates an uncanny interface – a doubling – a sense of being in body and onscreen simultaneously.
Harvestworks' mission is to support contemporary artists in the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies. Innovative use of new technologies in the arts can help acclimate people to change, help allow the absorption of new ideas and enrich the imagery of our culture. We are dedicated to presenting the highest quality work across the arts and technology spectrum to the public.
Creative Tech Week
Between April 28th and May 8th 2016 in New York City, Creative Tech Week draws together artists, professionals and educators working where technology and art intersect. From VR, 3D printing and hackathons to fashion tech, data visualization, digital art, interactive installations and STEAM, Creative Technology is front and center in innovation success stories across the corporate and non-profit landscape. Creative Tech Week is a free and ticketed crowdsourced convention created to showcase the cutting-edge research, art, media, and community initiatives being generated in the field of creative technology. Join us for art installations, talks, panels, workshops, performances, and more!
The National Arts Club
The National Arts Club is one of the country's oldest institutions dedicated to the arts and artists.
Thursday, April 28, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM (EDT)
The National Arts Club – 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003