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Used Book Sales in Ludington, Manistee & Hart
Book Lovers rejoice! Looking for bargain books? Your search may end at one of several Used Book Sales, organized and sponsored by area Library Friends groups. Book sales are held in Hart, Manistee County and Ludington. At these sales, books of all types may be found, from mystery and western, to travelogues and textbooks...all at reasonable prices.
"There is no such thing as too many books."
Here is the schedule for 2019:
- June 20-22 - AAUW Used Books Sale, Lakeview School, 502 W. Haight St. Thursday and Friday, 9am-6pm, Saturday 8am-2pm.
- July 12-14 - Ludington Friends of the Library Annual Used Book Sale, Friday 6pm-9pm, Saturday from 9am-5pm and Sunday from 1pm-4pm, Ludington Library, 217 E. Ludington Ave.
- November 9-10 - Friends of the Library Indoor Book Sale, Saturday 10-4, Sunday 1-3, Ludington Library, 217 E. Ludington Ave.
Check out the most current Ludington book sale information from the Mason County District Library.
Friends of the Manistee County Library book sales (except the Bear Lake Days) are held at the Book House behind the Manistee Library at 95 Maple St., Manistee. Check out the most current Manistee book sale information from the Friends of Manistee Library.
- February 8 & 9 - Book Lovers Sale, 10am-4pm Friday, 10-3 Saturday.
- April 13 - April Showers Sale 10am-4pm.
- July 5 - Forest Festival Sale, 9am-5pm.
- July 13 - Bear Lake Days Sale, 9am-5pm.
- August 31 - Summer's End Sale, 10am-4pm.
- November 16 - Book Hunter's Sale, 10am-4pm
- June - Friends of the HAPL Book Sale, 9am-5pm, Hart Library, Hart. (Part of the Asparagus Festival events)
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In his interview with al-Naba , Barnawi, who was previously the spokesman for the group, said Boko Haram "remained a force to be reckoned with," adding that the group was in the process of recruiting new members. The BBC describes Barnawi's manner of speaking as "considered" and gentle, unlike Shekau's loud threats, taunts and ideological ramblings.
A Shift in strategy
In the interview, Barnawi declared that every resistance to the creation of an Islamic State in Nigeria will be brought down, and that attacks will henceforth be targeted at Christians and churches, not on mosques or in market places attended and patronised by Muslims. He described Boko Haram's battle against West African states as a war fought by Muslims against "apostates" and "crusaders."
This indicates a shift in strategy for Boko Haram, who have killed both Muslims and Christians alike in random attacks on mosques, churches, schools, and crowded markets. The new "Wali" said fresh attacks will be carried out by "booby-trapping and blowing up every church" that the group is able to reach, and "killing all of those (Christians) who we find from the citizens of the cross."
Barnawi accused the West of trying to Christianise the region using aid offered by charities and international organizations. "They strongly seek to Christianise the society…They exploit the conditions of those who are displaced under the raging war, providing them with food and shelter and then Christianising their children," he's quoted as saying .
Boko Haram's reign of terror in Nigeria has left over 20,000 dead, and displaced more than 2.2 million people from their homes, creating a
catastrophic humanitarian emergency with people suffering malnutrition and children dying of starvation daily. Under the past leadership of Shekau, the group became more radical, and carried out more killings, overtaking ISIL to become the deadliest terrorist organisation in the world.
Although the activities of the group have reduced, following ardent attacks and counter attacks by the Nigerian military, they recently launched attacks against regional security forces. They also ambushed a UN humanitarian aid convoy last week in north-eastern Nigeria, leaving about five people, civilians and soldiers, wounded, and prompting the UN to temporarily suspend aid deliveries within Borno State.

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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Chuck Holton's Bullet Proof
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Interesting; I can't tell you the number of times I've told people that very thing: that until it's "your time," you're bulletproof.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2009 4:15 PM
Interesting. I've used the term "invincible" from time to time, but never "bulletproof."ReplyDelete
I may need to locate this. It reminds me of the testimony of Major Brooks.
- elf_manFebruary 23, 2009 10:02 AM
Hah, like a child that catches a stray bullet from an otherwise unrelated shooting, and they thank God the child survived, "must have been a miracle", but never question the child getting shot in the first place. Or winning the Superbowl, but it's the teams' fault if you lose. Thank you, confirmation bias. It's "all God's plan" unless it's something bad. Because the author being "bulletproof" had nothing to do with hours upon hours of training...ReplyDelete
Elfman, You ought to read the book before you dismiss it as confirmation bias just based on my short (and probably poorly-done) review. It really is a quite remarkable book.ReplyDelete
So far as I can tell, Holton is not talking about "It's all God's plan unless something bad happens." He's talking about God's sovereignty - about the fact that even the stuff that we see as bad can be (and often is) worked to the greater good and/or to the greater glory of God.
Holton is not dismissing the value of training - rather, emphasizing the importance of training for the right purposes, and then using that training and that assurance of righteousness as motivation to go do good in the world despite what we tend to see as extreme risk.
And I don't figure God cares much about who wins the Superbowl - but He could ever work that to good ;-)
- elf_manFebruary 23, 2009 12:15 PM
Fair enough. It's just one of those... patterns, I guess you could call it, that seem to crop up, and always seem so willfully ignorant. But that's based on me reading a short review, of course, so that's a bit distanced from the book, true enough. And I didn't mean that's quite what Horton is saying, so much as something of the same basic mindset that ends up as a form of circular reasoning. Eh. Learning to accept that bad things happen and being able to take risks anyways, is a necessity of life, Christian or not, and of course the "problem of evil" is an argument we really don't want to start up. :P No offense was meant to you.ReplyDelete
Ha ;-) Elfman, I also get the heebiejeebies when I see someone fire three shots into the side of a barn and then draw a bulls' eye around the group and call it a miracle.ReplyDelete
You know, a discussion of hte Problem of Evil would actually probably be really appropriate to a martial arts blog like mine, where folks like to think about violence, etc... BUT it's a topic that I feel woefully un-prepared to host at Mokuren Dojo, so perhaps we should leave-off with that one.
No offence taken. Thanks for dropping by and reading and commenting. Keep it up...
Thanks for the great review - and Patrick is right, it's easy to dismiss the book before reading it, but I think you'll be pleasantly surprised if you take the time to pick it up.ReplyDelete
A lot of the book comes from the idea that we fear things that aren't really dangerous, and we don't fear things that we really ought to fear. Often, the perception of danger or risk is very subjective, and therefore doesn't necessarily line up with reality.
Granted, the book takes a Christian view of reality, but I think the premise stands.
I appreciate the comments - great blog!
Chuck Holton
HEY! It's great having you drop in and see the review and leave a comment! I really enjoyed the book and have recommended it to several people at work, church, folks I've overheard at resturants talking about religion. I loaned my copy to my aikido teacher and he said he really enjoyed it.ReplyDelete
Keep up the good work!
Here is a good example of one phenomenon that I talked about at the seminar this past weekend. In these film clips, the point of view...
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Bonked during a hard effort yesterday; Upcoming article preview.
Friday, June 27, 2014 by John Stone
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I've been in a caloric deficit for nearly two weeks now, and things have been going quite well (my weekly report will be on Sunday, as always). On yesterday morning's ride, however, I bonked a bit. Nothing too serious, but there's no question that it was a fuel issue.
I was putting in a strong, supra-threshold (Zone 5: VO2 MAX) effort over some rolling terrain when the bonk hit me. The stretch of road I was riding for time is a little shy of 7 kilometers (4.2 miles), and it's divided by a busy road crossing at the halfway point. I was doing well when I reached the halfway point, averaging 333 watts and 41 km/h (25.5 MPH)–I set a new PR and got the segment KOM, too.
So I slowed for the street crossing, and there were cars left and right. Drat. I had to stop and wait for a short time before I could make the crossing. Once the road cleared I quickly began to wind things back up; that was when I hit the wall. Picture a knife in a beach ball: the escaping air was my energy. That's how fast it happened.
I backed off on the intensity, somewhere in the 200 watt range, and scarfed a GU Energy Gel. Less than a kilometer later, the weakness began to abate, but I was definitely still in the bonk zone. Between the unlucky street crossing and the bonk, I wound up missing the KOM on the 7.2 kilometer segment, and had to settle for 2nd overall. Next time. 🙂
Before this ride I had a couple fairly intense Zone 3 / Tempo rides (including a pretty tough mountain bike ride on Wednesday), and I probably should have done a recovery yesterday.
Today I'm going to do a light recovery ride, as tomorrow I'll be doing a longer and, presumably, more intense group ride. I'll also be doing a refeed tomorrow, including my weekly splurge meal.
Finally, last night I began working on a new article. I've written, on occasion, about the stuff I carry with me on my training and club road rides, but I've never actually taken the time put it all together a single cohesive article. I receive a fair number of questions on this subject, so I decided it would be worthwhile to go into a decent amount of detail, with plenty of pictures. I should have the article ready to go by tomorrow morning, Monday at the latest.
Time to ride! Happy Friday!


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Jake Nickell also known as skaw to the Threadless faithful posted this picture of him in a tee with, well, himself printed on it! The shirt was printed by a company called Nodbod, that specializes in all-over-printing. I'll surely have to review Nodbod in the future, maybe send in my own funky picture to use as an all-over-print, though, something tells me that if I did have a tee printed with my face plastered on the entire shirt that it would look unbelievably tacky.Â
haha and my face on an all-over printed tee isn't incredibly tacky? it's funny i'm embarrassed to wear this outside without my coat zipped up over it but i'll post a picture wearing it on the internet.
Oh damn i read about this Allover service…but what the hell should i print on a tee…:-)


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If you ask the typical hyper-political gun owner (and I have � at Thanksgiving dinner) why it's important to own a gun, they'll bark about the Constitution. Yes, the Second Amendment: "The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed!"
This, of course, is the slogan the National Rifle Association adopted in the 1970s. It was then that owning a gun became an absolute right endowed by God and the Constitution � a blessing passed down by our forefathers to obliterate game and protect our property. The NRA was founded in 1870, and for its first hundred years, it was for gun control and didn't mention the Second Amendment as its cause.
Adam Winkler points out in his delicious book, "Gun Fight," that what we call the "wild west" had some of the strictest gun control laws we've seen as a nation. The shootout at the OK Corral took place, after all, because Wyatt Earp was trying to disarm the outlaw Cowboys in accordance with a Tombstone ordinance. The KKK was, among other things, a gun control organization. It was trying to keep guns out of the hands of newly freed slaves � but still gun control.
The part of the Second Amendment omitted from the NRA's slogan is: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State�" Yes, well-regulated � it's in the Constitution!
Now, to some, guns are as sacred as scripture. If you ask, again, typical hyper-political gun owners why they need to stockpile assault rifles, you will get an answer much like Pat Flynn's, a recent candidate for a Senate seat in Nebraska. "Really, we have our guns to protect ourselves against the government, No. 1," Flynn said in a debate right before the primary. "Hunting's No. 2. But protecting us against our government is No. 1." Remember, Flynn was trying to land a job in the government (he didn't win his party's nomination, by the way).
The idea is that we have to be just as armed as our government to be safer or have more liberty (or something). The U.S. government has unmanned drones armed with supersonic laser-guided anti-armor Hellfire missiles, "bunker busters" and nuclear weapons. Are far-right politicians saying we need civilians to have shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles "for protection?" Of course they're not. They actually do want limits on ownership.
And if you ask the most vehement gun rights advocate why gun owners shouldn't have nuclear weapons, I'd bet you'd get the same answer as to why we don't want every country to have the capability: "Because they could get into the wrong hands."
So weapons-grade plutonium should be limited. But the ever-handy semiautomatic Glock pistol with a 30-round high-capacity magazine is an absolute right?
A recent gun buyback drive in Los Angeles resulted in someone turning in a rocket launcher � comforting.
So we're not actually talking about limited versus unlimited. We are talking about degrees of weapon ownership.
Guns fall into the wrong hands all the time. More guns and fewer requirements for ownership don't curb this. George Zimmerman was the wrong hands. Zimmerman, a Florida man now infamous for shooting an unarmed black teenager at close range after a 911 operator told him to wait for police, is now being defended by said hyper-political gun owners. There's no reason a Neighborhood Watch captain should be patrolling his block with a criminal record and a pistol. Zimmerman was a catastrophe realized. Even in the wake of new evidence about this case, the fact remains if Zimmerman didn't have a gun, Trayvon Martin would be alive.
The United States is No. 1 in the world in civilian gun ownership. And because we're not last in gun violence (we're the 14th-highest in deaths and way higher in injuries), it's safe to assume increasing the number of guns doesn't decrease the number of gun deaths. Just like cutting taxes doesn't increase revenue, making gun ownership unlimited doesn't make us safer. It's a lie, a fairy tale of the gun lobby, completely unsupported by data or logic, a falsehood.
So unless you think all Americans should get Daisy Cutters this Christmas, you believe in regulations as to who gets a weapon, what kind and where they can have it.
Gun control laws are not tyranny. As the family of Trayvon Martin can testify to, a deregulated militia is.


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Live updates
NHS calls for young black Londoners to give blood and save lives
A new campaign is being launched to encourage young black Londoners to give blood and save lives. Currently half the country's black population lives in the country- and NHS Blood and Transport wants to recruit 7000 new black donors by 2020.
The black community makes up around 5% of the UK population - with about half living in London - but active black donors currently account for only 1% of blood donors. *
·NHSBT collects 1.8 million units of blood each year from over 23,000 blood donation sessions in more than 3,000 venues
Rarer blood groupsinclude B+, Ro and RoR which are more common and more in-demand among black communities.
Female blood donors can give blood every 16 weeks, while male blood donors must wait 12 weeks between donations. Platelets can be donated every 2 weeks.
Inquest into death of doctor who died in Syria enters its second day
The inquest into the death of a London doctor who died in a Syrian prison last December enters its second day today. Abbas Khan -- who was from Streatham -- was being held by the Syrian government when he died.
His family has always mantained he was murdered- while the authorities insist he took his own life. Yesterday his mother Fatima collapsed in court as she gave evidence. The inquest at the Royal Courts of Justice is set to last three weeks.
Mother gives evidence at Abbas Khan inquest
The mother of a south London doctor found dead in a cell in Syria in 2013 has been giving evidence at his inquest.
Fatima Khan told the jury that in July last year she went to Syria to rescue her son and visited a number of embassies, ministries and prisons to try to find out where he was. Some of the buildings she went to were shaken by bomb blasts and vans she travelled in came under sniper fire.
She said: "I felt scared, but my son was here so I had to be brave."
She would kiss the shoes of the officials she met and beg them to help her. At the end of that month, she saw her son at the Court of Terrorism.
She told the hearing: "I hugged him. He was a skeleton. He was in tears. I said, 'Look, mummy is here for you'. He said, 'Sorry, I shouldn't have come here, please take me home'. "His hands were cold as if he was fasting. They were full of black marks and one nail was missing as if someone had taken it off. His feet were completely burnt. "I said, 'What's all this?'. He said, 'This is nothing, I have suffered more than this'."
She said she threw herself at the judge's feet and begged for mercy but he said there were allegations against her son, who was taken away in chains and then transferred to a civilian prison.
Mrs Khan said that when she visited him there at the end of August, he said the conditions were much better.
He said the previous prison was "like Hell" with seven prisoners sharing an eight feet square cell 24 hours a day.
He said he was beaten up by other inmates and interrogated by five men who beat him with rubber hoses, leaving him with open wounds which became infected.
Jury to consider whether doctor was "unlawfully killed"
The coroner at in inquest into the death of a doctor from south London said Dr Abbas Khan, aged 32, was found "allegedly hanged" while in custody in Damascus on 16th December 2013.
He told the jury they would hear evidence that he was a "family man", and also a "respected" medical man.
He added: "It is clear that he wanted to use his medical skills to help others, and that included helping others in conflict-torn Syria."
The coroner said "things went wrong" on 22nd November 2012. Dr Khan, who was working in a hospital, went out for a walk when he was detained and "was never a free man again".
Just over a year later Dr Khan was found dead, he said.
"During that period of a year while in custody his family made superhuman efforts to try to get him released. In particular, his mother Fatima was extraordinarily persistent."
The coroner said the main issues for the jury to consider after hearing all the evidence were likely to be - did Dr Khan take his own life, or was he "forced in some way by his captors to take his own life against his will", or was he "unlawfully killed" by his captors.
Family made 'superhuman' efforts to free doctor
The family of a British doctor who died in a prison in Syria made "superhuman" efforts to secure his release, the jury at his inquest has been told.
The panel of seven men and four women heard from a coroner today of the steps the family took in the hope of winning freedom for orthopaedic surgeon Abbas Khan.
At the start of an inquest, set to last around three weeks at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, chief coroner Judge Peter Thornton told jurors that the medic's mother Fatima in particular had been "extraordinarily persistent".
Dr Khan, a father of two from London, died while being held in custody by Syrian government officials last December.
He was captured in the city of Aleppo in November 2012 after travelling from Turkey to help victims of hospital bombings.
His family claim he was murdered while being held. The Syrian government has always maintained Dr Khan killed himself and that he was found hanging in a jail cell.
Cameron: You are in our thoughts and prayers
A hand-written note at the bottom of the Prime Minister's letter to Mrs Fatima Khan says "You are in our thoughts and prayers".
The letter, dated December 20, calls Dr Khan's death a "sickening and appalling tragedy" and adds that "it is right that the Syrian regime should answer for it".
UK 'must ask Syria why they have let this happen'
Dr Abbas Khan's sister, Sara, has told ITV News that she expects the British government to get answers from the Syrian regime. "This is the least they can do," she added.
British surgeon's sister: PM vowed to help 'get answers'
The sister of the British surgeon Dr Abbas Khan who died in Syria said that the Prime Minister has sent the family letters.
Sara Khan told ITV News that David Cameron said "he is now going to help us get answers but nothing has actually been said as to how they expect to do this and when".
Scotland Yard 'actively involved' in British doctor's case
Scotland Yard is to be involved in the post-mortem process surrounding the death of British doctor Abbas Khan, the family's solicitor has said, after his body was flown back to the UK.
Nabeel Sheikh issued a statement which read:
Independent post mortem of British surgeon expected
The family of British surgeon Abbas Khan have employed an independent pathologist to oversee the post mortem on his body following his death in a Damascus prison.
Nabeen Sheik, a lawyer for the family said the results of the post mortem were expected tomorrow.
The body of Dr Khan was returned to the UK today.


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We know baggies are frequently associated with marijuana in addition to their usual legal uses, in this case they are being used for DUI checkpoints. Here's another idea that is circulating. Reported in an article on the American Bar Association Journal website by Martha Neil, Attorney Warren Redlich suggests that motorists faced with DUI checkpoints don't open their windows. They should "put their license, registration, proof of insurance and a flyer in a plastic baggie attached to the exterior of their vehicle and then roll up the driver's window as they approach the checkpoint, according to Tampa's Fox 13 News and PINAC News.
"One example of the flyer states in large-font capital letters 'I remain silent,' 'no searches' and 'I want my lawyer.' It cites statutory law to support the driver's claimed right not to roll down the window, explaining that any ticket can be placed under the windshield wiper and advising that the driver will obey 'clearly stated lawful orders.' "
A video of using the Florida flyer on You Tube has gone viral,
By doing this, it is claimed to protect your rights and that the police won't be able to smell alcohol or drugs in your vehicle or on your breath or hear if you slur your words. http://fairdui.org/flyer/dui-flyer-for-you/
Some law enforcement disagrees. Lee County's own Sheriff Mike Scott interviewed by WSFX-FM as reported by the Blaze is quoted as saying
"'I can tell you with certainty that if this gentleman enters a Lee County checkpoint the same outcome will not be the case,' Scott said, arguing that officers need to be able to interact with and smell drivers to ensure the driver does not seem impaired and no odors of alcohol or drugs emanate from the car.
"'By not rolling your window down, you're interfering with our investigation,' Scott said.'If a driver refuses to roll down their window they will be arrested.'
"Calling DUI checkpoints 'very structured, organized events that are taking place to save your life, my life and our families that are driving down these roads,' Scott acknowledged that drivers passing through checkpoints retain their right to remain silent, but he was adamant that windows have to come down.
"'Frankly I think people should roll their windows down [at DUI checkpoints] and just say 'thank you' [to police] for trying to keep drunk drivers off the streets.'"
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Centered in the wheat country of West Central Washington State, Prairie Cottage Corner started from the love of art, sewing and Sunbonnet Sue. Since then it has grown beyond that into a full bloomed garden of home designed patterns for quilts and more including needle cases and dolls. Our patters are made to be as simple as possible so that Beginners can learn the nuances of applique' and piecing techniques, with as little frustration as possible. There is no one way to make these designs!
Our blog on Blogspot contains tutorials on technique as well as news from the heart of the home, inclusive of cooking! From there we run Prize Giveaways and give updates on new patterns coming up as they bloom from the drawing board to publication. Also we have lots of pictures, including closeups and full quilt photos for your viewing delight! Please visit there and 'Follow' us!


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'KICK 2: House Expansion' brings you 50 kick presets and click sounds for Sonic Academy's KICK 2 Drum Synthesizer.
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Principal Investigator: Rachel Neuendorf, ND
Background & Significance: Up to one-fifth of adults report a food sensitivity or allergy. Symptoms of food intolerance are diverse and include skin rashes, abdominal complaints, fatigue, and mood changes. The gold standard test for food sensitivities is an elimination diet, which can be difficult to assess as reactions can take hours or days to appear. Using IgG antibody testing to identify food sensitivities could provide a more targeted elimination diet approach to relieving symptoms. Studies have shown that people with food sensitivities have an increased gut permeability which is likely caused by inflammation. Systemic inflammation present in people with an elevated BMI may increase the risk of food sensitivities via increased gut permeability and/or chronic impairment of immunological tolerance. An effective method to identify food sensitivities can help people develop an effective dietary plan to reduce sensitivities and improve quality of life.
Research Design & Methods: This randomized, controlled trial will assess the effect of an elimination diet plus nutritional counseling on serum IgG titers after three months. Items eliminated will be determined by serum IgG food antibody testing. A total of 30 participants will be included with 20 participants randomized to the treatment group and 10 to a wait list control group. Outcome measures will be collected at baseline and three month follow-up. The primary outcome will be serum IgG titers for foods that were eliminated during the study based on elevated IgG titers at baseline. Secondary outcomes include quality of life and change in participant-identified symptom severity. Exploratory outcomes will assess changes to BMI and waist circumference.


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There are many ways to jazz up your bagel sandwich and I believe that this is one of them. I love pian and simple cream cheese bagel, just like my whole family. We also have a love affair with lox and cream cheese bagel, but if you agree with me, this is one amazing idea, as well.
This is my fuel sandwich, but you probably already noticed it's pretty heavy. So let me explain, I eat one good meal a day which is perfect for my workout program so I burn it quickly, too and at the same time I am not hungry.
A month ago, I started with 16/8 Intermittent Fasting, so I allow myself to eat the calorie-loaded lunch and a pretty light dinner. I don't eat at all, not even snack, after 6 pm. I don't eat for 16 delightful hours, sometimes more, but 16 hrs is precisely my ultimate goal, and I have 8 hours window where I squeeze two decent meals.
I feel so much better when I naturally made that switch. I don't overdo it with calories. I stop eating when I am full, so I don't have to necessarily eat the whole sandwich or the whole plate of food, you know. You got to have some necessary self-control. Anyways, like I said I feel tremendously better doing it this way.
Anyhow, I hope yall enjoy this recipe and please give feedback if you try it. If you try this recipe or any other recipe from my blog please share with me on Instagram. Make sure to tag me @sandraseasycooking using hashtag #sandrasasycooking I would love to see all your delicious creations and share with my readers as well. Thanks!!! <3
Brunch Bagel Sandwich - egg, bacon, cheese, avocado and lettuce
- 1 bagel
- 1 Omelette 2 Large Eggs, drizzle olive oil, a pinch of salt
- 3 slices Hickory Smoked Bacon
- 1 Slice Mozzarella or Provolone Cheese
- 1/2 tablespoon Whipped Cream Cheese
- 1/2 Avocado
- 2 Lettuce Leaves
- Make Omelette by mixing eggs, then drizzle a bit of olive oil in the skillet or a frying pan. Turn the heat to medium high heat and just cook eggs. You can flip it but not necessarily. Cook for about 2 minutes.


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Our leaders are not only experts in what they teach, most are also practicing artists. In fact, many are Creative Capital awardees. Leaders introduce concepts and practical tools, then share their own real world experiences. This approach helps inspire and motivate participants to see the value and potential of using the tools for themselves. It also sets the stage for participants to engage in peer learning and resource sharing with each other and in the local community.
Workshop Leaders
We provide the tools and strategies needed to gain self-sufficiency as artists. This spirit of community building and resource sharing inspired us to create a full suite of workshops accessible to artists everywhere. Since 2003, we have worked with more than 18,000 artists who are enriching over 800 creative communities across the country.
Byron Au Yong, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop, Art Business Management Online Workshop
Byron Au Yong composes songs of dislocation scored for voices with Asian, European and handmade instruments. Examples include Tzu Lho: Simmering Songs performed by the Stanford Chorale, O(pa)pera for the Seattle Art Museum, Salt Lips Touching for the Jeonju Sanjo Festival and Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas performed in 64 waterways throughout the Pacific Northwest. Byron has been an artist-in-residence with the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Rutgers University Center for Migration and the Global City, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab and Yale Institute for Music Theatre. Honors include support from the American Composers Forum, Darmstadt Institute, Dragon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Foundation Gaudeamus, Fukuoka Gendai Hogaku Festival, Jerwood Foundation, Meet the Composer and Time Warner Foundation. He teaches at Cornish College of the Arts and lives in Seattle. Learn more about his work at hearbyron.com.
Jackie Battenfield, leads the Promoting Your Work Team of the Core Skills Workshop
Jackie Battenfield is an artist known for her luminously colored paintings and prints of natural forces. Galleries throughout the United States represent her work including: Addison-Ripley, Washington, D.C.; Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Allyn Gallup, Sarasota, Florida, Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver, Colorado; and DM Contemporary, New York. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award (1991), the Warren Tanner Award (1996) and the Fulbright Scholars Program (2011). Jackie was the founding director of The Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, York overseeing its development into a stable art organization. She has been teaching Professional Practices to artists since 1992, first as seminar leader in The Artist in the Marketplace Program (AIM) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and currently in the MFA program at Columbia University School of the Arts. Battenfield is author of The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love, Da Capo Press, 2009. Learn more about her work at jackiebattenfield.com.
Ellen Bruno, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop
Ellen Bruno is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco. Drawing from her background in international relief work, Bruno's films focus on issues at the forefront of human rights, including sex trafficking in Burma, Tibetan political prisoners, the social alienation of people with leprosy and genocide in Cambodia. Her films include House of the Spirit, Requiem, Sacrifice, Blessed, Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy, Leper and Sky Burial. Bruno studied film at Stanford University. She is a recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships, a Goldie Award for Outstanding Artist, an Alpert Award for the Arts, an Anonymous Was A Woman Award for the Arts and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Bruno serves on the boards of the Buddhist Film Festival, the Pacific Pioneer Fund and EthicalTraveler.org. Learn more about Ellen's work at brunofilms.com.
César Cornejo, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop, Taller Profesional de desarollo para artistas
César Cornejo has received awards from the Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The British Council, The Arts Council of England, Center for Book Arts and the Ministry of Education of Japan among others. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in Japan,Peru, England and United States. His work has been included in group exhibitions including the V Biennial del Barro de America in Venezuela; Biennial (S) Files at Museo del Barrio in New York, Busan Biennial 2008 in South Korea, and Art Positions, Art Basel Miami 2011 among others. Cornejo received MA and PhD degrees in Fine Arts from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and bachelor and professional title in architecture from the Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru. He is assistant professor at the School of Art and Art History of the University of South Florida, Tampa. Learn more about his work at cesarcornejo.com.
Matthew Deleget, Online Learning Consultant, teaches Internet for Artists Workshop
Matthew Deleget is an abstract painter, curator, and arts worker. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Australasia. Matthew has received awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, Brooklyn Arts Council, and The Golden Rule Foundation, and his work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, Flash Art, Artnet Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Basler Zeitung, among others. He is a member of American Abstract Artists, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation's Artist Advisory Committee, and the board of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. In 2003, Matthew founded MINUS SPACE, a platform for reductive art on the international level based in Brooklyn, NY. Deleget holds an MFA in Painting an MS in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and a BA in Art and German from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN. Learn more at matthewdeleget.com and minusspace.com.
Hasan Elahi, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop
Hasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist working with issues in surveillance, privacy, migration, citizenship, technology and the challenges of borders. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as Centre Georges Pompidou, SITE Santa Fe, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Venice Biennale. He and has spoken to broad range of audiences on his work at the Tate Modern, Einstein Forum, the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, World Economic Forum, and at TED Global. His work is frequently in the media and has appeared on Al Jazeera, Fox News, and on The Colbert Report. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at University of Maryland. Learn more at www.elahi.org
Matthew Geller, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop
Matthew Geller is particularly drawn to overlooked or underutilized environments, from private imaginary worlds within brick walls, to back alleys, to sprawling open public spaces. It is in these environments that he teases out small fragments of narrative by augmenting or amplifying the raw materials of a given place. With all of his work he sets out to engage the public and foster a sense of community. The works are playful, accessible—and very often unexpected. By using disparate elements (including everything from mist to swings to showers) in surprising and interactive ways, his work encourages engagement with the work and among viewers themselves. Geller is currently working on public art commissions for Zoo Miami, Brooklyn's new Myrtle Avenue Plaza, the new Austin, Texas Civil Court, and Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco, among others. Geller received fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, the NEA and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the NEA, and NYSCA, among others. Learn more about his work at matthewgeller.com.
Sue Jaye Johnson, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop
Sue Jaye Johnson is an award-winning independent journalist and producer. In 2011, she spearheaded an unprecedented collaboration between The New York Times, NPR and WNYC to tell the story of the first women to ever box in the Olympic games. She is now working on a documentary film about Claressa Shields, the 17-year old from Flint, MI who won the gold medal and a book based on the radio series: Go For It: Life Lessons from Girl Boxers. Johnson has won numerous awards for her interactive documentaries about the US Criminal Justice System, the Kurdish Diaspora, an audio archive of the World Trade Center—including a Peabody Award, the Columbia-DuPont Award, and a Creative Capital artist grant. In 2003, she and her husband moved to South Africa where they co-produced Mandela: An Audio History for NPR's All Things Considered and she co-founded Iliso Labantu, a collective of township-based photographers. She has taught visual and audio storytelling at Harvard University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Learn more about her work at suejaye.com.
Daniel Alexander Jones, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop
Daniel Alexander Jones makes live art. His unconventional, interdisciplinary approach has yielded a dynamic body of work including the theatrical works Phoenix Fabrik, Bel Canto, Blood:Shock:Boogie, Earthbirths and Qualities of Light. Jones maintains long-running collaborations with artists Robbie McCauley, Vinie Burrows, Helga Davis, Sonja Perryman, Sharon Bridgforth, Walter Kitundu, Grisha Coleman and Barbara Duchow. Jones' collaboration with composer Bobby Halvorson, Jomama Jones* Radiate premiered in a sold-out run at Soho Rep in 2011 under the direction of Kym Moore – and was a New York Times Critic's Pick. The CDs Lone Star and Radiate, produced by Halvorson, were released on the independent imprint, Aries Records. He is currently at work on An Integrator's Manual, a volume comprised of his collected writing for performance and essays. Jones received the Alpert Award in Theatre and support from Creative Capital and the MAP Fund. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists, a Core Member of the Playwrights' Center and is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Fordham University in Manhattan. Learn more about his work at danielalexanderjones.com.
Colleen Keegan, leads the Strategic Planning team of the Core Skills Workshop
Colleen Keegan is a partner in Keegan Fowler Companies, an equity investment and consulting firm specialized in providing strategic planning and business affairs services to companies in the communications and entertainment industries. Previously, Keegan was a principal in The Strategic Planning Partnership. Her client list includes American Express, Bandai, Citi Group, ESPN, FM Japan, Hanna-Barbera, Paramount Pictures, Sprint, Sony New Technologies and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Keegan served as the president of Pacific Arts Video Production and Washington Video Services prior to establishing Keegan Fowler Companies. She also worked as a producer for MTV Networks, WETA and Showtime. Keegan developed the Strategic Planning Program at Creative Capital where she currently serves as Co-Chair of the Endowment Committee. She has served on numerous Boards of Directors including the American Refugee Committee, the MS Foundation, Texas Film Commission, Emily's List, the NOW Legal Defense Fund and Senator Dianne Feinstein's Advisory Council.
Aaron Landsman, leads the Funding Your Work Team of the Core Skills Workshop, teaches Artist Community Engagement Workshop
Aaron Landsman's performances combine formal experimentation and long-term community engagement. His works are often staged in spaces where people go every day, such as homes, offices and meeting rooms. Current projects include: City Council Meeting, a participatory work presented in four US cities in 2012-13; Appointment, a suite of performances for single viewers in small offices, presented so far in New York, Oslo and Detroit; and Running Away From The One With The Knife, a play about suicide and religious faith, to be presented at the Chocolate Factory in 2014. Previous work has been produced by The Foundry Theatre, PS 122, DiverseWorks and other spaces in the US, UK and Europe. Landsman's work is funded by the NEFA National Theater Pilot, Jerome Foundation, MAP Fund and NPN. He has performed with award-winning theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service and other artists, taught at Juilliard and NYU, and guest lectured widely. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and Urbana, IL with his wife, Johanna Meyer, and their son Harold. Learn more about his work at thinaar.com.
Maxine Lapiduss, teaches Authentic Branding Workshop and Online Workshop
In addition to her highly successful TV writing and producing career which spans over 25 years (Golden Globe winner, 4 Emmy nominations, Peoples Choice Award), Maxine has spent the last 10 years as an entrepreneur, non-profit founder, and Creative Strategist — helping visual artists, authors, filmmakers, and other creatives think more like successful businesses, and helping successful businesses think more creatively– expanding their brands and bottom lines. Currently Maxine is shuttling back and forth between Los Angeles, where she works in television and consults with clients, and Moscow where she is a Consultant for Sony International. Maxine is a Pittsburgh native and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. Learn more about her work at lapidusscreative.com.
Brad Lichtenstein, teaches Internet for Artists Workshop
Brad Lichtenstein has worked in documentary production since 1992. His recent film, As Goes Janesville, is a documentary about how a town survives and reinvents itself. Lichtenstein is developing technology and transmedia projects for the common good, including What We Got: DJ Spooky's Quest for the Commons. Before making his own films, Lichtenstein associate produced FRONTLINE's Peabody award-winning presidential election year special, Choice '96, and Lumiere Production's PBS series, With God on Our Side: The History of the Religious Right. Also with Lumiere, he produced and directed André's Lives, Safe, Caught in the Crossfire, and the BBC/Court TV co-production of Ghosts of Attica for which he was awarded a Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism. His film, Almost Home, a PBS Independent Lens documentary about an elder-care community, continues to be featured in workshops on aging and care giving. Brad taught documentary production for five years at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he founded doc|UWM, a documentary film center that provides students with professional documentary experiences. Learn more about his work at 371productions.com and bradlichtenstein.wordpress.com.
Beverly McIver, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop
Beverly McIver is currently the Suntrust Endowed Chair Professor of Art at North Carolina Central University. Prior to this appointment, McIver taught at Arizona State University in Tempe for twelve years, and has also taught at Duke University and North Carolina State University. McIver has held residencies at many of the nation's leading artist communities, including YADDO, the Headland Center for the Arts, Djerassi, and Penland School of Crafts. She has served on the board at Penland School of Crafts and currently serves on the board of directors at YADDO. McIver's work has been reviewed in Art News, Art in America and The New York Times and is in the permanent collection of museums across the country. She is also the subject of an HBO documentary, entitled Raising Renee which aired in 2012. McIver has received numerous grants and awards including the Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation award, a distinguished Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Learn more about her work at beverlymciver.com.
Eve Mosher, teaches Internet for Artists Workshop
Eve Mosher is an artist and interventionist living and working in New York City. Her works use investigations of the landscape as starting points for audience exploration of urban issues. Her public works raise issues of involvement in the environment, public/private space use, history of place, cultural and social issues and our own understanding of the urban ecosystem. Mosher's work has been profiled in international media including The New York Times, ARTnews, L'uomo Vogue and Le Monde. Her public- and community-based artworks have received grants from New York State Council on the Arts and New York Department of Cultural Affairs, both through the Brooklyn Arts Council and The City Parks Foundation. She is an Assistant Professor at Parsons the New School for Design. Mosher has an undergraduate degree in architecture and a Masters in Fine Arts. Learn more about her work at evemosher.com.
Richard Move, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop, Performance Documentation Workshop
Richard Move is Director of MoveOpolis!, a TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow and PhD Candidate at New York University. MoveOpolis! has been presented by Dance Theater Workshop, New York Live Arts, Jacobs Pillow Festival, River to River Festival and international venues. His commissions include productions for Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project, Martha Graham Dance Company, Deborah Harry of Blondie, American Festival of Paris, Florence Opera Ballet, European Cultural Capitol, Guggenheim Museum, Dame Shirley Bassey, Isaac Mizrahi and former New York City Ballet Principal, Helene Alexopolous. His films include Bardo, BloodWork-The Ana Mendieta Story, and GhostLight, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Move is Director/Producer of GIMP-The Documentary, currently in production. Martha@ …, Move's performances as Icon Martha Graham received two New York Dance and Performance Awards ("Bessies"). Martha@… tours globally and has been featured on the BBC, La Sept TV/France and PBS' City Arts. Martha@…The 1963 Interview was named "Best of 2011" by ARTFORUM International and Time Out, among others. He received his M.F.A. in Media Arts Production and has taught with Wendall K. Harrington at the Yale School of Drama. Learn more about his work at move-itproductions.com.
Angela Reginato, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Taller Profesional de desarollo para artistas
Angela Reginato is an experimental film and video director and producer based in Oakland, CA. Born to an Italian father and Tex-Mex mother, Reginato grew up in California, Mexico and Italy during the 1970s and 80s. Originally trained as an architect at UC Berkeley, Reginato is interested in filmically exploring the use of place in the construction of memory. Her films See Bikini Sea, Untitled 2 and Contemplando la Ciudad have shown at the MadCat International Film Festival for the last three years, and Contemplando la Ciudad has screened in San Francisco, Mexico City, London at the 2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival and the National Museum for Women in the Arts. Reginato's film and drawing installation Amateur was part of the exhibit Nisomos todos los que estamos in the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte Roma (MUCA Roma) in Mexico City in 2010. Her film Polvofor which she received Creative Capital award, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2012.
Chemi Rosado-Seijo, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Taller professional de desarollo para artistas
Born in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, Chemi Rosado-Seijo graduated from the painting department of the Puerto Rico School of Visual Arts in 1997. In 2000, he had his first solo show at the Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona. He has worked with residents of the El Cerro and La Perla communities of San Juan to present public art projects, workshops and other community initiatives, including La Perla's Bowl, a sculpture functions as both a skateboarding ramp and a pool. Since 2009, Rosado-Seijo has been organizing exhibitions in his apartment in Santurce, creating a center for meeting and exchange in the Puerto Rican contemporary art scene. Learn more: www.chemirosado-seijo.com
Blithe Riley, teaches Internet for Artists Workshop
Blithe Riley is an artist working with video, performance and installation. Her work has been presented at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, MoMA PS1 in New York City and at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Riley received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. In 2009 she was an artist in resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where she met Mary Coble and formed the collaborative team Coble/Riley Projects. Together they have traveled internationally working on site-specific video works. Riley has taught classes in web design and video at Carnegie Mellon, George Washington University and Parsons. In addition to her own work, she has organized and programmed video screenings since 1998. Prior to her role with Creative Capital Professional Development Program, she served as a media producer at the Video Data Bank in Chicago. Learn more about her work at blitheriley.net and coblerileyprojects.com.
Sue Schaffner, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop, Internet for Artists Workshop, Website, Blog & Email Essentials Online Workshop
Sue Schaffner is an NYC-based photographer and part of the public art-duo, DYKE ACTION MACHINE! (DAM!), founded by herself and Carrie Moyer. Sue is one of the first Creative Capital Awardees. Some notable exhibitions include: Mixing Messages, at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and Straight to Hell: 10 Years of Dyke Action Machine!, a retrospective originating at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco and traveling throughout the country. Sue's photography work has been widely published under the alias GIRL RAY and has appeared in Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, People, Esquire, Wired, and Glamour among others. Getty Images and Corbis license her photography library internationally. She currently works out of the artist collective studio, Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more about her work at girlray.com and www.dykeactionmachine.com.
Dread Scott, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop, Internet for Artists Workshop, Artist Community Engagement Workshop, Creating a Marketing Strategy Online Workshop
Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. He first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This work was denounced by President G.H.W. Bush and outlawed by the US Congress. In 2006, the Whitney Biennial included his art in the Down by Law section and his work was also included in recent exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. He is a recipient of a Creative Capital award, a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation: Artists and Communities Grant and Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum, the Akron Art Museum. He works in a range of media including installation, photography, screen-printing, video and performance. Learn more about his work at dreadscott.net
Andrew Simonet, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop, Real Cost Budgeting Online Workshop, Artists Raising Kids Online Workshop
Andrew Simonet is a choreographer and co-director of Philadelphia's Headlong Dance Theater, along with his collaborators Amy Smith and David Brick. Since 1993, Headlong has created collaborative dance theater in Philadelphia and toured nationally. Recent projects include Cell, a performance journey for one audience member guided by mobile phone, and This Town Is a Mystery, performances by regular Philadelphians in their homes. Simonet is in charge of fundraising for Headlong, securing grants from funders such as the New England Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital, The Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund, The Japan Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts. Headlong's work has been produced by The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), P.S. 122 (NYC), Central Park Summerstage, The Jade Festival (Tokyo), The Kyoto Arts Center, The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.
Amy Smith, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Financial Literacy Workshop
Amy Smith is founder and Co-Director of Headlong Dance Theater, a collaboratively run Philadelphia-based dance theater company. Headlong has been creating and performing their work since 1993. Smith has also acted in and directed theater productions, performed in cabarets, and choreographed for opera. She also has 15 years experience in for-profit and non-profit worlds doing accounting and financial management work. In 2008, Headlong started the Headlong Performance Institute (HPI), a semester training program for dance and theater artists who are college students or recent college graduates. In HPI, Smith teaches a course called "The Life of the Artist", teaching planning and financial skills. She also does tax preparation for more than 100 artists annually. She chaired the committee that created Dance/USA Philadelphia, a local service organization, and recently served as Board Treasurer for the national service organization for dance, Dance/USA. Her personal mission is to help artists improve their financial literacy so they can reach their financial goals. Learn more about her work at headlong.org.
Brad Stephenson, teaches Internet for Artists Workshop, Social Media Online Workshop
Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Brad Stephenson is a theater artist and a digital marketing specialist for Carnegie Mellon University. He previously served as the director of projects and marketing for the University's Center for Arts Management and Technology (CAMT), helping artists and arts organizations more effectively leverage technology resources. He is a regular writer for Bricolage Production Company's Midnight Radio series, and he founded and produces an annual 10-minute play festival. Brad manages, writes and produces podcasts for www.ActClassy.com, a humor site he recently co-founded with his wife, writer and actress Gayle Pazerski. Stephenson was a stand-up comedian in New York City for several years, sharing the stage with artists like Jim Gaffigan and Ed Helms. He is a freelance web developer and social media consultant for artists and arts organizations. He also has a beautiful, hilarious daughter named Sadie. Learn more about his work at bradpstephenson.com.
Brian Tate, teaches Seven Elements of Strategic Marketing Online Workshop
Brian Tate is a marketing strategist, musician, and culture creator. He is executive director of MAPP International Productions, a nonprofit producer of performing arts projects that raise critical consciousness and spark social change. He is singer-songwriter of the band, Shrine for the Black Madonna, and founder of The Tate Group, a consulting firm. Clients have included Creative Capital, Fractured Atlas, The Guggenheim Museum, the Romare Bearden Foundation, and Theatre Development Fund, among others. Arts projects he has created or co-created include the Brooklyn New Music Festival, Curate NYC, the Dark Harvest Film Festival, Dark Wonderland, Queens Royalty, and the Taste of DC Festival, among others. A skilled negotiator, Mr. Tate has raised millions in cash and media through deals with AT&T, Bloomberg LP, Deutsche Bank, NBC4, Pepsi-Cola, Target, Visa, and others. Learn more about his work at tatestrategy.com
Kirby Tepper, teaches Verbal Communications Workshop
Kirby Tepper combines his experience as a performer, writer and psychotherapist to help people acquire verbal communication skills for public speaking, fund-raising, conflict resolution and presentations. Aside from countless Creative Capital seminars, his clients include Hyundai, Washington Mutual, L'Oreal, Columbia Law School. Tepper's entertainment background includes co-authoring the "Robin Hood" song for the Oscar-winning' Shrek; authoring lyrics for a musical version of the Oscar-winning Gladiator; co-authoring the musical Lola (Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference); and co-writing the musical of A Room With a View (with Emmy-winning composer Craig Safan). He has performed his own songs everywhere from the Pasadena Playhouse to Carnegie Recital Hall; and performed in shows on Broadway (On Your Toes), regional theater, and on television (Cheers, Wings and Kennedy Center Honors). He has written speeches and musical material for Carol Burnett, Sydney Poitier, John Lithgow, Lily Tomlin and more. Tepper is a Licensed Psychotherapist in Los Angeles.
Ela Troyano, Creative Capital Awardee, teaches Core Skills Workshop, Taller Profesional de desarollo para artistas
Ela Troyano is a Cuban-born filmmaker based in New York City. Her work has been shown at the Berlin International Film Festival, MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Kitchen, PBS, the Kino Arsenal, the New Horizons Film Festival in Poland and other international venues. A retrospective of her work was screened in Berlin at the Arsenal Institute For Film and Video Art in 2012. A performance and installation of her work with her sister, performance artist Carmelita Tropicana, was presented at El Museo del Barrio with partner organization PS 122. Her films include Carmelita Tropicana Your Kunst Is Your Waffen and Latin Boys Go To Hell. Troyano has worked as a director for network and cable television in the US, Mexico and Spain. Select awards include USA and Rockefeller Fellowships, screenwriting workshop at Sundance with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and funding from the Jerome Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting, the Independent Television Service and New York State Council on the Arts.
Leaders Emeritus
Many thanks to the following Leaders Emeritus, outstanding and generous artists who have been part of our team and have worked with us over the years.
Chris Doyle is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
In addition to recent exhibitions in New York, Miami and Berlin, his work has been shown at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Queens Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Center, and as part of the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. His work includes temporary and permanent projects in the public sphere including "LEAP," presented by Creative Time; "Commutable," commissioned by The Public Art Fund; and "50,000 Beds," a large-scale, collaborative video installation involving 45 artists presented simultaneously by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, ArtSpace in New Haven, CT and Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. His work has been supported by grants from New York Foundation for the Arts, NYSCA and the Creative Capital Foundation. He received his Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Boston College and his Master's in Architecture from Harvard University. He recently completed "The Moons," a permanent outdoor, three-screen video and landscape installation in Kansas City, MO. Learn more about his work at chrisdoylestudio.com.
Jeffrey Gibson is a painter and sculptor living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
He was born in the United States but moved frequently and lived abroad as a child in Germany and Korea. He is also a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and half Cherokee. This unique combination of cultural perspectives and exposure are essential to understanding Gibson's artworks that combine and transform seemingly disparate references drawn from both Western and non-Western sources. Gibson received his Master of Arts degree from The Royal College of Art, UK in 1998 and moved to New York in 1999. His paintings and sculptures have been shown nationally and internationally at museums, galleries and art fairs. Selected exhibitions include No Reservations at The Aldrich Museum (2006), Off the Map at The National Museum of The American Indian (2007), SONOTUBE at The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (2007), Solution at Diverseworks (2009), and Totems at Sala Diaz (2009). His work has been featured and reviewed in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, ArtNews, Art Lies and The Brooklyn Rail. Jeffrey currently teaches at The California College of Art in San Francisco and is a Visiting Critic at Cornell University. He exhibited his art works at The Museum of Art and Design, NYC, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Peabody Essex Museum, and have a solo exhibition at Participant Inc., NYC, all in 2012. Learn more about his work at jeffreygibson.net.
Barbara Hammer is a visual artist primarily working in film and video honored with major retrospectives at The Tate Modern, London and Jeu de Paume, Paris in 2012.
In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art, New York presented a retrospective of 44 films. Her work reveals and celebrates marginalized peoples whose stories have not been told. Her cinema is multi-leveled and engages an audience viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make social change. Her trilogy of documentary film essays on lesbian and gay history has received numerous awards: Nitrate Kisses (1992), Tender Fictions (1995), History Lessons, (2000). Recent films, A Horse Is Not A Metaphor (2009), Generations (2010) and Maya Deren's Sink (2011) were awarded Teddy Awards for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The Feminist Press, City University of New York published her book, HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life. She is represented by KOW-Berlin. Learn more about her work at barbarahammer.com.
Maureen Huskey is an award-winning theater and hybrid-performance director based in Los Angeles.
Recent credits include guest directing A Splendid Death, her adaptation of Jean Genet's play Splendid's, for California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and directing the premiere of Julia Adolphe's chamber opera, Sylvia at The Lost Studio in Los Angeles. Huskey received her MFA in Theater Directing from CalArts, where she has also taught directing to undergraduate and graduate students. As a Rotary International Fellow, she received a Diploma with Merit in Drama from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. As co-creator and director of the New York-based, site-specific theater group Red Dive from 1996-2006, she brought audiences down Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal via pontoon boat (Peripheral City- a Creative Capital Project), through lower Manhattan and historic landmarks to explore the buried stories of New York landscapes. This experimental work garnered her a Bessie Award for performance installation and new media. Learn more about her work at maureenhuskey.org.
Steve Lambert helped develop the IFA workshop and continues to teach in the program.
His practice includes traditional media as well as free and open-source applications, browser extensions, and websites. Lambert's work has been shown everywhere from museums to protest marches nationally and internationally, featured in over fourteen books, four documentary films, and is in the collections of The Sheldon Museum, the Progressive Insurance Company, and The Library of Congress. Lambert has discussed his work live on NPR, the BBC, and CNN, and been reported on internationally in the Associated Press, the New York Times, Harper's, Newsweek and others. He has collaborated with groups including the Yes Men, Graffiti Research Lab, and Greenpeace. He is also the founder of the Center for Artistic Activism, and the Anti-Advertising Agency. He was a Senior Fellow at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology (2006-2010). Learn more about his work at visitsteve.com.
Carla Lynne Hall is a singer, songwriter and music marketing specialist based in New York City.
Her mission is to make music and share knowledge with other artists. Hall's musical compositions address themes of loyalty, temptation, loss and rebirth. She has released three CDs on her label, Moxie Entertainment. Hall has performed nationally and internationally for over 20 years as a singer/songwriter and professional vocalist.


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The long-simmering debate about the design for a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower continues with the release of a letter signed by the 34th President's son, John S. D. Eisenhower. Dated Oct. 18, and released on the website of Eisenhower granddaughter Susan Eisenhower, the letter is addressed to Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, vice chairman of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission. The letter raises concerns about architect Frank Gehry's design for the memorial, calling it "too extravagant."
It also veers off into a dispute with the memorial commission's chairman Rocco Siciliano, who in an earlier letter (cited by the Associated Press) defended the Gehry design, arguing, "I am one person who feels competent to say that he believes President Eisenhower would be most pleased as to what the present commissioners have unanimously accepted."
In the latest missive, John S.D. Eisenhower, 90, fires back at Siciliano, saying "I am astonished by Rocco Siciliano's claim that his service in the White House gives him an unusual perspective on how my father would view this design." Eisenhower continues, "Besides being Ike's son…I would not make a claim like Mr. Siciliano's."
Chris Kelley Cimko, a spokeswoman for the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, said that the Commission "Respects the views of the family," but she pointed out that Eisenhower grandson David Eisenhower had been a member of the Commission for a decade, during the development of the memorial and the selection of Gehry as its designer. David Eisenhower resigned from the Commission in December 2011, around the same time that his sisters (including Susan and Anne Eisenhower) began a concerted campaign against the Gehry design.


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Here is a tip to help you find out a TRICK from advertisers trying to make you afraid and preying on that FEAR,
When you typed in your search terms COLONICS RALEIGH NC, and the very first link is an AD, you will see the acronym AD typed in a box, next to the web address all the way to the bottom left of the web link.
For instance the search result heading stated:
The dangers of Colonics.
AD www.ACTVEBEAT.com
Well, I found out who bought the AD. The American Medical Association.
Follow the money folks, and remember getting healthy is NOT in their plans for you.


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The speculations have been right—today, Instagram is introducing video on its latest app update.
'Video for Instagram' lets you capture and share up to 15-second moments, that are more than just static images.
To activate video mode, all users have to do is to tap the 'movie camera icon' in the camera mode of the app.
With 13 built-in filters specifically for Video for Instagram, videos can have the same vintage-look throughout the clip.
The feature update also includes image stabilization, so videos can be taken while moving or on-the-go.
Instagram also allows users to select a favorite scene of the recoded video as the cover image.
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom wrote in a blog post, "Some moments… need more than a static image to come to life. Until now these stories have been missing from Instagram. Today, we're thrilled to introduce Video on Instagram and bring you another way to share your stories."
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By LIBBY CLUETT
Stoney LaRue and The Arsenals rocked the Palo Pinto County Livestock Association Expo Saturday, entertaining area civilians, military personnel and wounded warriors.
For the concert, dinner and auction, held in conjunction with the second annual Brazos River Wounded Warriors Outdoors hunt, the organization printed 500 tickets at $75 each. BRWWO President Mitch Bradshaw said they sold out of all the tickets they printed.
Although the wounded warriors didn't have as good of a hunt as Bradshaw said they'd hoped, they had the chance to spend some time with LaRue after his 2-hour concert.
Bradshaw said LaRue was generous with his time and stayed at his merchandise table, signing shirts and "pretty much anything" for concert goers.
"Stoney spent 10- to 15-minutes talking to the warriors after everything else," he said. "They got their picture taken with him.
"All those guys were really great to work with," Bradshaw added of the band. "Stoney worked out at Anytime Fitness between the sound check and concert. There weren't many people there, but a couple of people noticed him and he took pictures with them, too."
Seven hunters – one local and a few from Denton County – shot one doe and several hogs Saturday afternoon, according to Bradshaw. One of the event sponsors, Syracuse Custom Meats, participates in a program called Hunters for the Hungry, which lets hunters donate their kill to people who need it, Bradshaw explained. Since the BRWWO take was low this year, he said Syracuse offered to donate 36 pounds of venison per hunter.
In addition to healthy ticket sales and sponsorship, BRWWO had a raffle with numerous door prizes and a live auction, conducted by Dwain Eaton.
A 1911 vintage government-issue 45-caliber pistol topped the auction sales at $2,100, Bradshaw said, while a Texas Rangers' baseball ticket package – versus the Angels for eight seats plus two parking spots – sold for $2,000. In addition, Bradshaw said a Yeti cooler, a $330 value, garnered the most raffle tickets. As of Monday afternoon, he said they didn't have the figures in from the auction items and raffle ticket sales.
"It's definitely a community event," Bradshaw said of the dinner and concert fundraiser. He added that a group of U.S. Marines came from Fort Worth to help and local kids with the Civil Air Patrol volunteered.
"It was truly an outpouring of support and gratitude for a fine group of soldiers," he said. "One wounded warrior said he hadn't smiled in a number of years. And he said he wasn't able to wipe the smile off his face and told me, 'You changed my life.' We nicknamed him 'Smiley.'"


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How to setup the Reseller Storefront
The Reseller Storefront is where you showcase your products to visually attract clients to your business. It is the website they visit to check out products, plan specifications, and prices per plan. It is also where they can create an account or log in to their existing accounts to make purchases.
By default, the Reseller Storefront is white-labelled and it has no branding. An example can be found here.
You have the option of leaving the storefront white-labelled or customising it to suit the theme of your business' branding.
How to Setup Your General Storefront:
- Using your chosen browser, navigate to the following address: http://www.secureapi.com.au/reseller
- Enter your Reseller Account username and password and click Log In.
- Under the Account Settings tab, select Storefront. Then from the list under Storefront, click General Setup.
- On the GENERAL SETUP section, click on the blue UPDATE option found on the right side to edit the following settings:
Storefront Name Enter your business name. Storefront Status Ensure that Activate option is ticked. Domain Name Select this option and enter your domain/subdomain if you have an existing one. Free Address Select this option and enter the desired address if you do not have an existing domain/subdomain. The address you choose will become a subdomain to our free domain "secureapi.com.au". Log Out Redirect Page Enter the website address of the page you want your customers to be routed to after logging out.
Note: When using your own domain/subdomain, please contact your domain hosting provider and set the A records for your existing domain to 220.127.116.11 for resellers located in UK and India or 220.127.116.11 for resellers located in AU, NZ, and others.Then click on Save for the settings to apply.
- On the PRODUCTS section is a list of all the products you can offer in your storefront, categorized into three: Domains, Hosting, and Products.
- Click on the box beside each product you wish to sell.
- Click on the same box to remove it from your storefront.
- On the CURRENCY & TAX section, click on the blue UPDATE option found on the right to set your tax information. Once done, click on Save.
- On the CONTACT PAGE section, click on the blue UPDATE option found on the right to set the contact information you want displayed for your clients. Once done, click on Save.
- On the TRACKING CODES section, click on the blue UPDATE option found on the right to select your Tracking Type and add the respective Web Analytics or Google Analytics tracking codes. Once done, click on Save.
- On the PAYMENT GATEWAYS section, click on the box beside the payment method you wish to offer to your clients. Once done, click on Save.
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Here is my quick kitchen tip of the day. I use my grilled cheese maker all of the time. However, my waffle iron has been used maybe three times since I have been married. So, I can do one or two things:
1. Make waffles more often. I really should since it is so easy to do. Sometimes the thought of having to clean up afterwards just turns me off.
2. Or, I can use the waffle iron as a grilled cheese maker!. The picture this link shows makes the sandwich look ooey gooey! The link also says you can use it to make calzones. This is a very good idea!
There are other ideas on the page, so feel free to browse. Have fun making some yummy grilled cheese on your waffle iron!
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Haha maybe you can teach me how to make a grilled cheese sandwich. I always wanted to try one, but the recipes on Google seem to all use complicated mechanisms I do not have, and Singapore cafes do not really make them. I'm still desperately clinging on to the hope that one day I'll be able to try that delicious piece of heaven.
Here is a really simple recipe!
It calls for 2 slices of cheese. I am always very gernous with the cheese. Try 4 or 5 slices. It will make it ooey gooey! Here in the U.S., we sometimes pair grilled cheese with tomato soup. Try dipping it in the soup. Super yummy!


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Many companies want to view their total profit per transaction. QuickBooks has no profit report after fees like the one described. In addition, adding fees in QuickBooks will subtract from gross sales. Connex will keep the fees and the orders separate, so you can accurately track sales in QuickBooks.
How is this report compiled?
Connex pulls the purchase cost from QuickBooks. Connex matches the product SKU from Amazon to the name field in QuickBooks. Connex pulls an Amazon settlement report and adds up all the fees. Connex divides the total profit by the price of the product.
How do I view the report?
Here are the steps:
- If you have not already, pair your Amazon account with Connex.
- On the Connex my connections page, choose your Amazon connection.
- Hover over the gear and click reports.
- Click Amazon Profit and Loss.
- Enter a begin and end date of an Amazon settlement report.
Here is an example report:
Do you have any charts?
Yes, here are our charts:
- Total Sales Minus Fees
- Total Amazon Fees by Date
- Total Sales
Here is a diagram of the charts.


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Valentine's Day is coming up and you're wondering what to get your dog as a gift to show your appreciation for their loyalty and unwavering devotion to you over their life. Well, here are our Top 5 picks for this Valentine's Day! The Foobler: Really, who else in your life...Read More >>


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What Bill 10 and Bill 202 should be about, and why are we fighting them?
If you have been in the Parents are Paramount Group on Facebook, you have probably read much of this already. It was part of a rant I went on this morning.
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Yes, complete with the red cape and boots. However, unlike Superman I would very much like to wear my knickers under my tights please. And since I'll be super, that means I'll magically transform into someone svelt and tall. After all, have you ever seen a short and fat superwoman right?
In all seriousness though, what I really want to be is a SUPER, SUPER, SUPERMUM!
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SupermUm does not get tired even if she's been up all night soothing a toddler with a high temperature, a bad cough and awful cold. She will jump on her feet as soon as she hears the intro sound of groovy moves when her toddler is watching "Show me, Show me" on Cbeebies and will gamely do it without sagging or looking like a zombie about to fall off her feet.
Supermum will instantly know what is wrong with her child whether they are teething, have an ear infection and other life-threatening disease with just one look at their child.
Supermum can speak and understand baby talk, toddler talk and I'm-having-a-
tantrum-talk-and-don't-really-know-what-I-want-talk. Supermom will know! Supermom is all knowing.
Supermum can stay on her feet 24/7 without feeling exhausted, tired or depressed. Oh no, supermom is always happy, cheerful and positive. There is no job that supermom can't do or won't do.
Supermum will play with her children with the same enthusiasm as her kids and then without whinging, sweep up all their toys back in its place in an instant and her child's room and their house will be spic and span within a blink of an eye. Not only that, in the same breath, she will also be able to cook healthy and delicious meals for her family. Isn't she the greatest?
Guess what, I'll let you in a secret … supermum is also superwife and supercareer-woman!
And the best thing about supermum/wife/career-woman is that there is absolutely nothing in the world or any planet or universe that will weaken her – unlike superman who withers like an old woman in the presence of kryptonite.
Now tell me, do you know a Supermom? I'd very much like to meet her and maybe I could be her apprentice?
Oh and did I mention that supermum also has a super blog? Supermum has everything.