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Thanos has extensive experience in the field of environmental microbiology, with research focusing on the microbial ecology of polluted environments and biotransformations of metals.
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Thanos obtained his PhD from the University of Sheffield, before working as a postdoctoral researcher in Geomicrobiology at the University of Manchester. During these years, he participated in multidisciplinary projects, which investigated the diversity of microbial communities and their contribution to various biogeochemical processes, including bioremediation of organic contaminants, biotransformations of metals and radionuclides, and mobilisation of arsenic. He has experience with culture-based and molecular microbiology techniques, including high throughput DNA sequencing and metagenomics. After a short term post as a Lecturer in Microbiology at Manchester Metropolitan University, Thanos joined UCLan in September 2016.
PhD, Environmental Microbiology, University of Sheffield, 2009
MSc, Soils and Environmental Pollution, University of Reading, 2004
BSc, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2002
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The 2017 conference of the Idaho Association of Soil Conservation Districts will be held November 14-17, 2017 at the Riverside Hotel in Boise, Idaho.
Find details at: http://www.iascd.org/iascd-conference.html
At this time, the draft agenda has not been published. Please check back at the link above for more information about the IASCD conference.
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"Go forth and make disciples of all nations" ~ Matthew 28:19
I'm Hungry!
By: Chris Spilka
Well I guess I've got to eat at some point right? Let's see what's currently in my kitchen cabinet. Some peanuts from the local grocery store, some canned corn that my dad gave me before he left for Florida, a can of Chef Boyardee ravioli, some pancake mix and some bread. Ok so clearly I need to do a little bit more shopping! I'll save you the agony of hearing what's in my fridge but let's just say there is not a lot going on in there either. So I'm hungry and I have nothing to substitute the remorse I feel that it's not the Thanksgiving dish that I long for. Do you feel that way too?
Today we should all feel a sense of hunger for something. Naturally before Thanksgiving we're hungry for that masterpiece of a meal! However, I really want you to take a second and think about what it is that you truly hunger for day in and day out. It's fascinating when you think about it isn't it? How about who is it that you hunger for? Maybe you hunger for a future spouse or a stronger friendship with someone. Then you ask yourself, 'why is it that I'm hungering for these things?' That my friends, is the battle that I want to break down with you today.
What Do I Hunger For?
4 years ago the greatest and worst thing happened to me in a split second. Before I felt the calling to youth ministry I worked as an entertainment supervisor at a Resort/Casino in central New York (Talk about transition!). At this position I was required to accommodate and organize entertainment at four different venues on the property. This job was a lot of fun! It was extremely difficult at first but once I started getting the hang of it I had dreams of being a talent agent in a big city! Why did I have this dream? Well society was telling me that I needed to climb the corporate ladder. I needed to start climbing because I needed more money, I needed to start being more successful than everyone else and I needed to go to a big city because I couldn't be happy in central New York.
So what happened next? Due to budget cuts in my department, I was let go a few months after being promoted. I was devastated to say the least. I remember calling my parent's and basically crying like a 3 year old kid who literally had his stuffed bear torn to shreds by his dog. I didn't realize it at the time, but the Man upstairs was working some miracles behind the scenes. At this job, I was living a life that almost certainly would have brought me down a darker path. If I hadn't been let go I wouldn't have felt God's call to youth ministry. In fact, if I didn't get let go, I probably wouldn't have listened to God's will for my life at all.
What I hunger for now is different from what I hungered for before I was hired at Holy Family. I originally hungered for money, prestige, power, pleasure and a huge house. Now I hunger for happiness, trying to be a better boyfriend, simplicity, God's will and focusing more on today instead of tomorrow. Do I always hunger for this, sadly no. When the going gets tough it's easy to focus on desires that you think bring you happiness but really bring you brief pleasure. However, I would ask yourself 'what do I hunger or thirst for?' Sometimes the things we thirst for the most are like lemonade—a great tasting drink that ultimately leads us to be thirstier moments later. I think the woman at the well would like that analogy. (John 4) In scripture she was the individual who sought out love through multiple partners (5 in fact.. Yeah she was a bit of a player) Jesus, knowing that her ultimate thirst for love could only be quenched through him, offers her living water. I strongly encourage you to read and reflect on this passage because you'll come to realize that everything you thirst for in life should indirectly connect to that living water that God offers us everyday!
Who Do I Hunger For?
While I was at my previous job I didn't really have a person that I hungered for other than myself. I think when you're a 23-year-old guy fresh out of college, it's easy to focus on yourself and put the blinders on towards others. Now don't get me wrong, caring about yourself and your well being is incredibly important! I frequently tell people that if a plane is crashing and you're on board, listen to the advice of your flight attendant and make sure you put the oxygen mask on yourself first before you help out the others on board (sorry for the morbid image that I just planted in your mind!). However there needs to be people that you hunger for in your lives or else your self-worth is worthless. You also deny yourself the amazing privilege of seeing God work through other people.
4 years ago I found myself in a very unhealthy relationship with this girl that I had recently started dating. Those of you that are reading this know exactly what I'm talking about! I'm not going to divulge all of the details that made it a bad relationship, but I think I can some up the number one quality that makes every relationship go south—you care more about yourself. If you look at the spectrum of all the bad relationships around you it is primarily because someone's being selfish. The reason for jealousy? You're upset because you think your partner is doing something better than you. The reason for lust? You care more about your own personal pleasure than you do the other persons soul. The reason for emotionally abusive relationships? Your partner is a jerk and they care more about making you feel worse than making you feel good. I could keep going but I think you catch the drift that it's centered on selfishness.
I brought up that bad relationship to you before because I knew when I came to Holy Family that I had to get out of that relationship in order to be an effective mentor to my teens. When I went to a Theology of the Body Conference in my first year at Holy Family it changed my life. I had things going on personally that needed to change and it was going to take some time. I'm going to save my experience at this conference for another blog post, but if there was one thing I could express from that experience now it is to be selfless. I'm thankful to God everyday that he didn't plant my current girl friend in my life until 2 years later. Why? My hunger for relationships was driven by selfish desires. At times do I fall down that path of being a crappy selfish boyfriend, absolutely! Am I still working on it? I'll be working on it until my last breath. Who are you unselfishly hungering for today? I can tell you this, who you hunger for is indirectly connected to the "Big Guy" above.
Why Do I Have This Hunger?
"Dangit Chris, you had to bring God into the picture here didn't ya? So now every time I give my girlfriend a smooch I'm going to be thinking of Jesus' face". All right, if you're doing that, I'm a little creeped out. What I meant by saying 'who you hunger for is indirectly connected to the "Big Guy" above,' is that God works through good relationships. That's the way he set up from the start! Every good deed that we do on this earth is connected to God and strengthens our relationship with him.
When you've found that particular person that you want to spend the rest of your life with you marry them. You both decide that God is calling you together as one and that you're going to do all that you can to get your spouse into Heaven. With this commitment you also indirectly promise to change dirty diapers, hold back each other's hair after a bad bout of food poisoning and run to the store during a blizzard (this happens frequently in central New York). Relationships to another person are not easy and we constantly find ourselves hungering for more.
"So if we're hungering for more Chris does that mean we are with the wrong person?" No way! If you are not hungering for more during your relationship than quite frankly you've given up on it. You've indirectly said that I do not feel like I can grow closer to God through this person anymore. If you have no hunger for something, than you no longer have the urge to strive for more and draw nearer to God. Relationships are full of love, happiness, responsibility, complication, struggle, pain and everything in between. All of things that accurately describe the relationship that Jesus had with humanity throughout scripture. A relationship where Jesus showed his ultimate hunger by dying for us! He hungers for us everyday, and through all that we do, we should be ultimately hungering for him. We should hunger for him at work, at the gym, at home, at bingo night with your grandma, everywhere! This hunger will bring us to become the best version of ourselves and to follow God's incredible plan for our lives.
Final Thought
Each and everyday we should be hungry! So many times when we have physical hunger we seek out the things in our pantry that ultimately can never replace the satisfaction that we get from devouring that amazing Thanksgiving meal. In many cases, maybe you rely on these foods that don't satisfy your appetite and you start getting fat by eating too much of it! If that's you, than I invite you to channel your hunger. Hungering for this kind of crap eventually gives you diabetes.
Mother Theresa was an individual who focused her entire ministry on God's constant thirst for us. She came to see God more often reaching out to her through all of the poor individuals that she served in her ministry. As she continued to grow her ministry, she came to know God more intimately and his constant longing to draw nearer to her each and every day. God is hungry for us! That should get us incredibly excited! For us it's going to be all about how we take that hunger and channel it to God's will for our lives. Heaven will be much more satisfying than that Thanksgiving meal on Thursday. If you still say Grandma's turkey beats it, well, at least it will be more satisfying than the Chef Boyardee.
Many blessings to you and your family this Thanksgiving!


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Many moons ago I started a blog on Blogger called Life's Little Purls. My intention was to maintain a blog that focused solely on my crafting endeavors, but somewhere along the way it turned into more of an "experiences" blog with a little crafting thrown in here and there. While that is all well and good, I'd still like to have a blog that is just for my creations and nothing more.
I chose WordPress for two reasons. Number one, it fell in my lap, and number two, I can blog directly from my handy-dandy phone. I'm going to have to brush up on my typing skills, though. I'm not much of a speed demon on my teensy QWERTY keyboard. Anyway, I feel I should explain this blog's title. It's obviously a play on Moby Dick – the title of a book that I have no desire to read. My title is very different in meaning, though, as "Moby" stands for mobile (as in phone – since I'm going to be doing most of my blogging via phone), and "Knit" pays homage to my main craft, knitting.
I hope that this blog will serve as a place to post my projects, comments, tips, self-written patterns, hardships (craft related only!), and accomplishments. Thanks for stopping by!
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"Art for a New Understanding: Built-in Voices, 1950 to Now," currently on appearance at the Crystal Bridges Building of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, is billed as the aboriginal above assay of Built-in American abreast art. With that exhibition in mind, beneath is Robin Cembalest's commodity "Native American Art: Pride and Prejudice," originally printed in the February 1992 affair of ARTnews, with a spotlight on a arrangement of aboriginal artists in America and the abounding issues they face while aggravating to get their assignment into boilerplate institutions. (The commodity makes use of the appellation "Indian," a characterization acclimated added about than "Native American" at the time.) During the '90s, the adventure notes, abreast Built-in American artists were faced with a decision: How abundant or how little should they await on their heritage? For some, arena up their character in their assignment was unavoidable. As the artisan Kay WalkingStick told Cembalest, "I appear to be a built-in person. Of advance it affects what I do." —Alex Greenberger
"Native American Art: Pride and Prejudice"By Robin CembalestFebruary 1992
Outdated images of Indians abound in museums and the art market. As the Built-in American association fights to transcend those stereotypes, building policy, scholarship, and Indian art itself are alteration radically
In 1845 John Mix Stanley corrective a abhorrent scenario: a bandage of Indians advancing a white mother and child. Half naked, chaotically bouncing their weapons, they band their victims. One abandoned warrior raises his arm to assure them. But their apparent fate is appear by the title—Osange Scalp Dance.
This painting hangs in the Civic Building of American Art in Washington, D.C., allotment of the Smithsonian Institution. Agnate works adhere in museums beyond the country. They date from the era of westward expansion, aback Indians were beheld as savages—dark-skinned, non-Christian primitives who accomplished barbarian ceremonies and wore accoutrement and paint. Those images lingered on continued afterwards the West was "won," abnormally in Hollywood.
They were actual abundant on the apperception of Jeffrey Thomas, a columnist from the Onandaga/Cayuga Nations, aback he began his alternation "Strong Hearts: The Acceptable Powwow Dancer" in 1979. "Native bodies hadn't been cutting the powwows, so I had no predecessors," he explains. "The botheration was, 'How do you photograph a stereotype?' "
To reflect his subjects' self-esteem, he fabricated abiding they maintained eye acquaintance with the camera. To authorize a abreast context, he photographed them in artery clothes as able-bodied as costume. "It's a cairn to survival, and it's accepting stronger every year," he explains. "I'm adage there's a absolute faculty of pride and history actuality that bodies don't booty anniversary of."
Thomas belongs to a large, diverse, and about affiliate association of Built-in American artists. Some animate on reservations, some in cities. Some went to art school, some didn't. Sometimes their works reflects Indian themes. Sometimes it doesn't. Whatever they do, they call a agnate challenge—to accomplish assignment that is contemporary, whether that bureau depicting beat Indian activity or afterward beat trends.
Several exhibitions now touring the country certificate the advanced arrangement of solutions to that challenge. They ambit from the paintings in "Our Land/Ourselves," which explores Built-in American approaches to the accustomed world, to the political, about abrasive pieces in "The Submuloc Show" (intended to be apprehend backwards), an Indian acknowledgment to the Quincentenary of Columbus' "discovery" of the Americas. That appearance is advised to annul the "perception of Indian artists as bourgeois and decorative," says Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a painter from the Flathead Nation who organized it. "We acquire a acceptability for not actuality as cutting-edge, as political, as blacks or hispanics." (Like best bodies interviewed for this story, she uses the appellation "Indian" interchangeably with others, including "native people," "indigenous people," and "Native Americans.")
Quick-to-See Smith is one of a growing cardinal of Built-in American artists who acquire "crossed over" into the boilerplate art apple while advancement abutting ties with the Indian one. She shows at New York's Bernice Steinbaum Gallery as able-bodied as LewAllen Gallery in Santa Fe; she lectures frequently on anxiety and includes alien artists she encounters there in shows she curates.
Many others, however, accuse that like African Americans and Latinos, they ache from "ghettoization"—they are included in Built-in American art exhibitions, or accessories like this one, but are not advised for projects about photography, installation, video, abstraction, or the abounding added areas in which they are working. (Several artists beneath to be interviewed for this commodity on those grounds.)
But the better problem, abounding say, is that the easiest art to advertise is art depicting an angel of the Indian that is arctic in the past. "Art should be a anniversary of who bodies are," says sculptor Bob Haouzous, a Chiricahua/Apache based alfresco Santa Fe. "Our bodies are the accomplished on the calibration of pain, poverty, alcoholism, unemployment. You'd anticipate their art would reflect it. Best Indian artists are assuming an angel that doesn't abide for this acutely aboveboard admirers that wants adorning art."
"We cannot aggrandize our accomplished through art," stresses Richard Hill, who admiral the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, the nation's alone Indian art college. "If Indian art is anytime activity to change or evolve, it has to get out of the bartering mode." Aback that happens, he believes, the stereotypes will change as well—one aim of the institute's new building spotlighting Indian art from the aftermost three decades, which opens after this year. "Through the arts bodies will get to see what Indians are saying, thinking. It's important for bodies to understand."
Art history, scholarship, and building action with anniversary to Indian art are already changing. The Indian art in best American museums was acquired by collectors and ethnologists who believed in Vanishing Red Man theory—that Indians were bedevilled to afterlife in the face of westward expansion. They adored millions of objects—household utensils, hunting implements, masks, dolls, and games, but additionally basic dug up from angelic burying sites and altar all-important for religious ceremonies conducted by cultures actual abundant alive.
A actual altered affection led the North Carolina Building of Art in Raleigh to acknowledgment a Zuni war god to the Zuni pueblo aftermost fall, alive that it was to be placed in a altar in adjustment to deteriorate. "People are advancing out of the woodwork to accord them up," says Edmund Ladd, a affiliate of the Zuni Nation and a babysitter at the Building of New Mexico who has helped accommodate the acknowledgment of 70 such objects. One impetus, certainly, has been a 1990 Federal law mandating the acknowledgment of Built-in American skeletons and added angelic and august objects. But addition reason, says Ladd, is that non-Indian curators acquire assuredly accustomed a absorption that was actual adopted to them—"The war gods cannot be endemic by anyone, not alike the bodies who accomplish them."
The Smithsonian is planning three new accessories adherent alone to Indian art—and they were will be run by Built-in Americans. One will accessible on the aftermost accessible atom on the Mall in Washington, D.C., by 1999; another, absolute added than one actor altar aggregate by the beneficiary George Gustave Heye, will accessible abutting year in the U.S. Custom House in city Manhattan; and a advanced accumulator ability in Suitland, Maryland, is beneath construction. "We are absorbed in interpreting Indian ability as a dynamic, vital, evolving phenomenon," says W. Richard West, Jr., a Cheyenne/Arapaho who will baby-sit the institutions. "Not asleep or dying."
While Built-in American lobbying was absolutely amenable for the government's accommodation to actualize those museums, West credibility out, it was not the alone reason. "The absolute nation is advancing to grips with its cultural diversity," he says. "Native peoples are appropriate at the centermost of all of that." The furnishings are axiomatic in abounding areas—from Congress, which afresh voted to abolish George Custer's name from the Little Bighorn battlefield, to Hollywood, area Dances with Wolves became the aboriginal above motion anniversary to present authentic, subtitled Indian dialogue.
But aloof how far anniversary for "minority" cultures should go has been a amount of debate. If non-Indians admit that anachronous stereotypes endure, should they feel answerability about accomplishing the "tomahawk chop" to acclamation on the Atlanta Braves?
What should we anticipate aback we appointment stereotypes in museums? What if some artists were—from the angle of the politically actual 1990s—racists? Remington, for example, already declared "Injuns" as "rubbish of the apple I hate."
The curators of "The West as America," a arguable exhibition at the Civic Building of American Art aftermost year, took such attitudes into anniversary aback they advised works by Remington, Charles Russell, and abounding added Western painters. Because prejudices adjoin Indians, forth with concepts such as Manifest Destiny, were about universal, the archive argues, those behavior surfaced—sometimes unconsciously—in the art of the time.
For example, abounding whites against miscegenation, aflutter that their claret would be attenuated by inferior Indian stock. That dread, says the catalogue, was bidding by Irving Couse in The Captive (1892), which shows a shackled, blood-soaked white woman sprawled on the arena in advanced of a solemn, cross-legged Indian. How do we apperceive that? For one thing, there's "cross-cultural touching"—the Indian's bottom nudges the girl's shoulder. Besides, "the arrangement of phallic altar pointing in her direction, calm with the teepee's accessible entry, added betoken a animal encounter."
Such readings were frequently cited in the acerb criticisms that appeared in the civic media, which absolved them as "contrived aesthetic analysis." The attacks were fiercer in Congress, area senators stood up and denounced the appearance as "perverted" and "distorted." Best art historians, however, were unfazed by the outcry, pointing out that this affectionate of apostle scholarship has been accepted for a decade.
What's important to remember, says Peter Hassrick, who directs the Buffalo Bill Centermost in Cody, Wyoming, is that aback we accessory at the assignment of Western artists, we're application our own affection to appraisal their sensibility. "Certain artists were conceivably added enlightened, in a 1990s fashion, than added artists," he explains, citation the "noble savages" in the assignment of George Catlin, who visited added tribes than any added artisan in his time.
"There's a abode for consciousness-raising, and it needs to be done by museums," Hassrick adds. "But if you alpha slapping bodies on the face too adamantine with that affectionate of stuff, it gets amid them and the art—it makes it too confrontational. It's like cogent them there's no Santa Claus."
But alike the Buffalo Bill is accomplishing its allotment for consciousness-raising. Its summer appearance is "Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts," organized by Yale University Art Gallery. "Artists larboard out traces of Built-in American address if they capital to characterize clear wilderness, or added Built-in Americans to add a arresting element," says Susan Schoelwer, a Yale alum apprentice who is analogous the exhibition.
Native Americans are not as anxious with reinterpreting Western pictures, says Alfred Youngman, a Cree assistant of Built-in American art and art history at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. "I don't say change the labels, booty them down—I say acquaint the history right."
The history of Indian art began bags of years ago, aback Indian ability emerged. The history of beat Indian Indian art began aboriginal in this century, and it was accomplished by white advisers who encouraged Indians to assignment in the Western mode—on cardboard and for art's sake, not for august or applied purposes. "Shared Visions," an exhibition of 20th-century Indian art organized by the Heard Building in Phoenix, traces the history of these representational paintings depicting acceptable activities.
Though the years artists began to absorb modernist imagery—Oscar Howe, Fritz Scholder, and Allan Houser, whose affected biomorphic sculptures sometimes border on absorption and reflect the access of Henry Moore. But it was not until the '60s that Indian art began to change radically.
One bureau was the founding of the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1962. Addition was the foundation of the American Indian Movement, a civilian rights alignment for Indians accustomed in 1968. In 1973 the accumulation alive Wounded Knee, South Dakota, area U.S. troops dead several hundred Indians in 1890. Institute acceptance became absorbed with symbols from Ghost Dance, the key rite of the messianic Indian religion, advised destructive by the government, that set off the massacre. They were additionally attractive at works by Rauschenberg, Warhol, and added abreast artists. The aftereffect was a brand accepted as Indian Protest Art.
Simultaneously, added Indians were accessory university art schools. "With a university training, you're apparent to archetypal art and traditions from about the world," says Quick-to-See Smith, who advised at the University of New Mexico. "You wouldn't be accurate to yourself if you didn't absorb what you were accustomed with." Mixing absorption with affiliated motifs is hardly new, she credibility out—it's aloof that critics booty the assignment added actively if the artists appear to be white Abstruse Expressionists. "Contemporary built-in people, including myself, are accomplishing the aforementioned affair that Pollock and Newman did in demography images from built-in cultures," she says.
George Longfish, a Seneca/Tuscarora artist, teacher, and babysitter based in Woodland, California, credits his use of Built-in American adumbration in his colorful, agreeable paintings to the assignment of Arshile Gorky, which he encountered while belief at the Academy of the Art Institute of Chicago. "Gorky goes aback to his Armenian heritage. He became a role model, an apostle for application one's own cultural information." But that cultural admonition includes non-native adumbration too, of course. Longfish advantaged a 1989 assignment Goodbye Norman Jean, the Chief Is Dead.
On the added hand, Indian adumbration can be misunderstood. "I appear to be a built-in person. Of advance it affects what I do," says Kay WalkingStick, a painter of Cherokee/Winnebago ancestry who shows her impastoed, abstruse diptychs at New York's M-13 Gallery and Elaine Horwitch Galleries in Scottsdale and Santa Fe. "But as anon as you say, 'I'm a built-in person,' again they alpha seeing teepees. If I didn't use my beginning name, bodies would say, 'It's about tragedy, hope, balance, the accustomed world, the airy world.' "
"If Michael Tracy uses icons, he's allotment of the postmodern debate. If Jimmie does, he's advised primitive, ethnic, an 'Indian artist,' " says Jeanette Ingberman, who runs Exit Art, an another amplitude in New York, apropos to Jimmie Durham, an artisan of Cherokee ancestry who shows there. "When the alleged boilerplate does the history of the begin object, from Duchamp to Haim Steinbach, they don't accommodate Jimmie."
Durham responded to a appeal to be interviewed for this commodity with his own request—not to be mentioned in it. "He is a abreast artisan and should be discussed with the critical, conceptual, and bookish chat actuality generated by issues surrounding all-embracing abreast art," a letter from his New York dealer, Nicole Klagsbrun, said.
Another artisan who affably beneath to be interviewed is Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, a Cheyenne/Arapaho based in Oklahoma. Some of his works are adjoining argument panels that chase a beat attitude of "language art." Abounding of them additionally appear to be belittling indictments of how white association has advised Indians. "Syphilis/Small Pox/Forced Baptisms/Mission Gifts/Ending Built-in Lives," apprehend the posters he did for the accessible bus arrangement in San Jose, California, aftermost year, as allotment of his one-man exhibition at the San Jose Building of Art.
Ironically, says Bob Haozous, it is easier to appearance assignment with political capacity alfresco the Indian bazaar than central it. "There's no bazaar for Indian bodies attractive at themselves honestly," he comments. Haozous, who exhibits at Rettig y Martínez Gallery in Santa Fe and has had several building shows, makes up to as abundant as $200,000 for a monumental, accessible sculpture. While some of his pieces accommodate austere images—skulls, acid wire—many are irreverent, like his "Apache Pull-toys," riddled with ammo holes. "My account is choleric with amusement so bodies can acquire alive with it," he remarks.
Such prices are still attenuate for works by Indian artists. The alone artisan who consistently commands alike added than that—up to $500,000 for a large, accessible carve commission—is Haozous' father, Houser, who shows at the Glenn Green Galleries in Santa Fe and Scottsdale. Paintings about advertise for abundant less. Quick-to-See Smith's medium-sized works amount about $7,000; WalkingStick's, $6,000.
Some of the costliest items in the Indian bazaar accommodate works that in added contexts could be alleged crafts, admitting abounding artists and dealers acquisition that chat pejorative. Above pieces by Maria Martinez, an early-20th-century ceramist, advertise for $35,000 to $80,000 at Santa Fe's Dewey Galleries. Works by abreast ceramists such as Jody Falwell, who has explored such innovations as asymmetry, advertise for amid $8,000 and $12,000, at Gallery 10, based in Scottsdale and Santa Fe.
Most Santa Fe galleries do a block of their anniversary sales during the Santa Fe Indian Market, which will be captivated on August 22 and 23 this year. Added than 70,000 visitors, including collectors, artists, and dealers from all over the country, are accepted to analyze added than 400 booths announcement pottery, jewelry, painting, sculpture, textiles, and assignment in added mediums. All are advised by a board that verifies that whatever the medium, the works are fabricated by Indians.
The acumen is that the Indian art bazaar has been abounding with fakes, knockoffs bogus in places like Hong Kong and Santa Fe. The money spent on these knockoffs, say advocates for Indian art, is like the bound cardinal of scholarships accessible to Indians—it should go to the bodies who so badly charge it. In 1990 Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a Colorado adumbrative who is the alone Built-in American in Congress, as able-bodied as a celebrated adornment maker, sponsored the Arts and Crafts Act, a bill acute that art awash as "Indian art" charge be fabricated by Indians who are certified by their tribes. The amends for contravention can be bristles years in bastille or a $250,000 fine.
Although the act was accounting to administer alone to art for sale, it has acutely bound nonregistered artists' exhibition opportunities. They can balloon about assuming in Santa Fe's new museum, in the Smithsonian museums, or in others that about affection Indian art, such as the Heard. Aftermost year American Indian Abreast Arts, a nonprofit amplitude in San Francisco, canceled a appearance of assignment by Durham—who is not registered—on the admonition of its lawyers. The Centermost for Abreast Arts of Santa Fe, additionally nonprofit, "postponed" Durham's appearance until he could "produce documentation." David Bradley, an adviser at the Institute in Santa Fe, has filed complaints with the New Mexico advocate general's appointment about nonregistered artists. "If a assertive actuality has been advertised as Mister Bigshot American Indian Artist," he explains, he checks if the artisan is registered. If not, "I can seek civilian amercement as able-bodied as claimed damages."
But the law's opponents say that actuality registered is not as simple as it seems. Artists can be nonregistered because they abridgement documentation; their ancestors larboard their tribes to get jobs; or their tribes are not clearly accustomed by the federal government. "We've consistently been inclusive, philosophically," says Youngman. "For anyone to accept that you can analyze Indians by what the law says about them is foolish. If you say you're a built-in person, you are a built-in person."
Longfish calls the law's implications "a witch hunt." Added artists, who compared the law's supporters to "vigilantes" and the Ku Klux Klan, asked not to be quoted, citation fears of anarchic the amount further. Several nonregistered artists did not acknowledgment calls and one, accomplished by telephone, begged not to be mentioned, authoritative buried references to a career in accident and callers who fabricated aggressive remarks.
Bob Hart, administrator of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, an bureau of the Department of the Interior, admits that the affair of allotment is "a problem. There are so abounding variations about bodies who acquire not been enrolled. The catechism is, How are they activity to be accommodated?" That question, and the added acute one—whether or not accomplished art was alike meant to be included—will not be bound until regulations are written. But that won't appear until Congress grants the funds, and the process, Hart speculates, should booty about a year.
Many artists accede this altercation decidedly adverse because it confuses issues of indigenous character with those of aesthetic identity. The way a Built-in American who chooses to be accepted should not necessarily be based on indigenous pride, credibility out Bill Soza War Soldier, a Cahuilla/Apache painter from Denver.
The artisan was an artist of American Indian Protest Art, is alive in the American Indian Movement, and lobbies for Built-in American prisoners' rights. But aback it comes to anecdotic what he does, he says article else. "I absolutely accede myself an American painter, although I am an Indian," he explains. "No one calls Picasso or Dalí Spanish painters."
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Interiors and Equipment lobby and aesthetic premises of the palace "Ukraine" made an outstanding architect and designer Irmoyu Karakis.
In 1996, the building was in an overhaul (reconstruction project architects have T.Hnyezdylova, A.Dumchev, A.Yevko, V.Zubchenko, V.Pruskyy, O.Suhodubovskyy, Z.Uret, N.Shvets) established press center, equipped with modern technical facilities (conference system, simultaneous interpretation equipment, multimedia projectors, screens, DVD-players, videomikshernyy control, etc.), Big Brown and banquet facilities.
April 22, 1998 received the status of National Palace with the wording: "Given the importance of the Palace" Ukraine "in the conduct of national and international socio-political and cultural events, his work focused on the development of the creative potential of Ukrainian people."
During the period of the palace were national and international socio-political events: congresses of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1971, 1976, 1981, 1986), celebrating the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv (1982), the inauguration of President of Ukraine, Ukraine Independence Day celebrations; celebrations on 2000 anniversary of the birth of Christ, and so on.
December 2, 2011 at the Palace "Ukraine" held the final round draw for the European Football Championship 2012.
Of the Palace "Ukraine"
Meaning of used terms:
Administration - Officers of the State enterprise "National palace of arts "Ukraine".
Visitor - a person who came with tickets to the Palace "Ukraine" to attend an event.
Auditorium - Small hall and/or the Great Hall of the Palace "Ukraine".
Ticket - a document in a form of an invitation, accreditation or an ordered data set confirming the right to a single visit to an event.
Event - plays, concerts, performances, shows and other entertainment or cultural events, forums and more.
Organizer - an entity which carries out activities related to the organization of an event.
Palace "Ukraine" - State enterprise "National palace of arts "Ukraine", 103 Vasylkivska St., the city of Kyiv,
Security service - licensed security structure involved by the Administartion or an Organizer for the conduction of an event.
General provisions
These rules were approved to improve the organization, preparation and conduction of an Event, to ensure public order, safety of People who Visit an Event, also they determine the rules of conduct for visitors of the Palace "Ukraine".
Rules of behavior are governing the relations between the Visitor, Administration of the Palace "Ukraine", Event Organizers and the Security service that arise when visiting the an Event at the Palace "Ukraine". They are a part of an agreement concluded between the Organizer and the Visitor regarding purchasing a Ticket.
1.3. Attendance of an Event is voluntary and all risks associated with attending an Event the visitor takes upon itself.
1.4. When purchasing ane/or receiving a Ticket the Visitor agrees to:
- comply with these Rules, to participate in the possible photo, video shooting, television, radio broadcasting of an Event, allows the Administration, an Organizaer to use photo, video and audio recordings with its participation in the advertising purposes;
- monitor the information on possible changes of the place, the date and time of the event;
- the fact that the responsibility for visiting an Event on a certain day, place and time, in case of timely notification of change of place, postponing the date and time of its conduction are borne by a Visitor;
- the right of the Administration and/or the Organizer or the Security service not to let in the Palace "Ukraine" in case of violation fo the Rules without refunding the ticket price;
- the right of the Administration and/or the Organizer or the Security Service to force it to leave an Event in case of violation without refunding the ticket price, and in case of committing illegal acts by such person - to bring it to administrative or criminal responsibility in accordance with the current legislation of Ukraine;
- with aim to avoid stressful situations before the start of an Event, with the aim of saving time while monitoring tickets and personal inspection, visitors shall come to an Event in advance.
Terms of passage of Visitors to an Event
2.1.Passage of Visitors to an event is conducted exclusively based on tickets that are approved by the Organizers of an event and the Administration.
Doors of the Auditorium of the Palace "Ukraine" open one hour before the start of an Event, the entrance to the Auditorium is being opened 15 minutes before the start of an Event.
2.3. Passage ot the Palace "Ukraine" is allowed only through the line of control, equipped with special technical means.
2.4. Visitors with cardiac pacemakers and other electronic devices for life support shall inform the Security service before passing the control point.
2.5. A ticket is valid for one person, regardless of age of a Visitor.
2.6. Passage of children under 4 years without provision of an extra seat is free.
2.7. Children up to 12 years old are allowed to enter the Palace "Ukraine" only if they are accompanied by adults in the presence of a separate ticket for each of the accompanying persons.
2.8. Visitor shall take a seat according to its Ticket.
2.9. Ticket shall be kept to the end of an Event and presented on demand of a representative of an Administration, Organizer, Security service.
2.10. The organizer does not address claims regarding counterfeit tickets.
2.11. If visitors need to leave an Event during its conduction and to come back later, it shall apply to the official representatives of an Event in order to obtain additional passage document which will allow to return to an Event. Thus the entrance to the auditorium is conducted according to p. 2.14. of these Rules.
2.12. In case if the Visitor left an Event and did not receive an additional passage document, it will not be allowed to enter an Event.
2.13. If a visitor came late after the beginning of an Event, an entrance to the Auditorium is to be conducted exclusively during breaks/intermission. Thus the value of the ticket for the missed part of an Event is not refundable.
2.14. Visitors undertake to leave the Palace "Ukraine" during 30 minutes after the end of an Event or in a period determined by the Administration.
The rules of conduct of Visitors in the Palace "Ukraine"
3.1. Visitors are required to behave calmly inside the Palace "Ukraine", not to create excessive noise.
Upon entering the auditorium of the Palace "Ukraine" all mobile telephones must be switched off or converted to silent mode throughout an Event.
In case of the use and/or distribution of narcotic/psychotropic/toxic substances or alcohol abuse in the territory of an Event, aggressive behavior of a Visitor to the others, violation of public peace, etc., officials of the Administration, Organizers, security service are entitled to make a Visitor leave an Event without the right to return or compensation of the ticket price.
Attendees of the Palace "Ukraine" are prohibited
4.1. The entrance to the auditorium with an ice cream.
4.2. The entrance to the auditorium in outdoor clothes.
4.3. To bring on the territory of the Palace "Ukraine" the prohibited objects, substances, firearms and cold steel, special equipment (pepper guns, stun guns, etc.)., stabbing, cutting, large (larger than 25x25x25 cm), and other items that can be used for bodily injury, fireworks, explosive, radioactive, flammable, toxic and corrosive substances and items with an unpleasant odor, laser pointers, any aerosols and drinks in any containers, alcoholic beverages, food.
To enter an Event with animals.
To smoke in non-designated for it places. Smoking in premises of the Palace "Ukraine" is strictly prohibited.
To drink alcohol, beer in places not designated for it, to appear in public under the influence of alcohol, drugs, toxic substances, having a look that offends human dignity.
To throw on stage of an Auditorium and other venues of conduction of an Event foreign objects, including fireworks and to perform other actions that violate the order of conduction of an Event.
To scream or perform other actions that degrade dignity of participants of an Event, the Visitors.
To stay in gangways during an Event, on stairways or at the places of evacuation, to interfere with the movement of participants of an Event, to climb fences, parapets, lighting devices, platforms for sound-amplifying devices and television filming, masts, roofs, supporting structures, to damage equipment and elements of decoration of the installations, other equipment.
To enter the scene, as well as other office premises and technical facilities without the permission of the Administration, Event Organizer, Security service.
To conduct trade, apply labels, stick and distribute ads, posters and other products with informational content without written permission of the Administration, the Organizer of an Event.
To wear, flaunt signs or other symbols inciting racial, social, national and religious hatred.
To conduct photo and/or video recordings without permission of the Administration, the Organizer of an Event.
Return of a Ticket
Return of a Ticket is conducted exclusively by the Organizer in cases established by the current legislation of Ukraine.
Rules of conduct in the event of the squash, fire
Never go opposite to the movement of people.
Stay close to the edge, beware of rails, corners and steps.
If you dropped any thing (a bag, jacket or umbrella) do not try to pick it up - it can cost you a life.
Do not perform dynamic actions in a crowd.
If you fall, immediately cover your head with hands, try to rise sharply.
If you felt the smell of smoke or other signs that may lead to a sudden fire, immediately inform the Security service or other workers or the Palace "Ukraine".
During the fire try to be quiet and carefully listen to the representatives of the Administration, Organizer, Security service.
If you find suspicious objects report them to the representatives of the Administration, Organizer, Security service. Do not attempt to examine a suspicious object by yourself.
Administration, Organizer are not responsible
For damage caused by Visitors because of their carelessness, as a result of violation by them of safety requirements, fire safety and the Rules.
For damages related to the deteriorating the state of health if the state of health of a Visitor deteriorated as a result of acute disease, worsening of an injury or a chronic disease which a Visitors already had prior to the moment of attendance of an Event.
For lost things of the Visitors while attending an Event.
For counterfeit tickets and tickets purchased not from official distributors.
The rights of Administration, Organizer, Security service
To inspect Visitors to ensure the security and to exclude the possibility of bringing the prohibited things to the Palace "Ukraine".
To deny a Visitor to visit an Event (without compensation of the ticket price) for the following reasons:
- if a Visitor is unwilling to be inspected;
- if a Visitor violates these Rules;
- if a Visitor disobeys lawful requirements of the Administration, the Organizer, law enforcement bodies' representatives, Security service;
- if a Visitor is under the influence of alcohol, drugs, toxic substances, with a look that offends human dignity;
- if a Visitor came to an Event in slovenly, dirty clothes and/or clothing with an unpleasant odor;
- in case of inadequate, aggressive behavior of a Visitor.
To stop an event in case of emergencies or circumstances that have a threat to the health and lives of Visitors, threat of causing material damage to property of Administration or the Organizer.
To delay the beginning of an Event if the extra security measures shall be taken, without compensation of the Ticket price.
8.5. Things indicated in p. 4.3 of Rules are to be seized by Security service officers before the start of an Event and to be returned after the end of an Event. In case of refusal to give the officers of Security service the prohibited on the territory of the Palace "Ukraine" things specified in p. 4.3 of the Rules, the Visitors will not be allowed to enter an Event without compensation of the ticket price.
Visitor can be forced to leave an Event and leave the territory of the Palace "Ukraine" without the right of return or compensation of the Ticket price in the event of the use and/or distribution of narcotic, toxic, psychotropic substances, alcohol abuse, aggression to the others, breach of the public peace etc.


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7 Secrets Successful Content Marketers Don't Want You to Know
You've got a platform, a website or blog, and now you're ready to start filling it with content. For many people, this is the most daunting part of the whole process. Coming up with ideas isn't enough – the ideas have to be interesting to your target audience and provide useful information while being created in a way that makes people want to keep reading. It certainly can be overwhelming to stare at a blank page. Here are some of the most important secrets that content marketers don't want you to know so you can create the best possible content.
Secret 1: Brainstorming Ideas Is the First Step
The first step towards writing good content is finding ideas that work for your products or services. There are plenty of places to find ideas for your blog, if you know where to look. Before you think about keywords and optimization, get back to basics and consider the features and value of your products or services. Think about what makes your company different from others that supply the same types of items.
Think outside of the box by gathering ideas from a number of sources. For instance, look to some of the current social media platforms to see what is trending there. Look at Pinterest to see what types of products are being sold there that relate to your type of product. Allow yourself to be led to other sources and pages online to see what you can find, making notes along the way. Write down every single snippet of an idea you have and you'll have plenty to draw on later.
Secret 2: Your Audience Will Be Your Judge
Now you can begin to narrow down all the ideas you garnered from your brainstorming exercises. Take all of this information and pare it away by removing some of the things that won't apply to your audience. Your audience is your target market – the people who you want to eventually purchase your products or services. The audience is also a group outside of these people, such as those who will pass the information along to others or share it online.
If you haven't identified all of your target market, now is the time to do so. Make sure that you put effort into exactly who will be purchasing your products. While you probably have a good idea of who wants to purchase your products, you should now hone your vision and drill down to see if there are some additional areas that you haven't yet identified. This will help you better tailor your articles and blogs.
Secret 3: "Stealing" from the Competition Is Not Always Bad
Look at some of your main successful competitors online to see what types of content they are providing. They may have some important information that you haven't considered when planning your online content. It's important that you don't copy any of their ideas, but you can learn some important take-aways that you'll be able to utilize on your own website.
If you haven't yet identified your competitors, it's best to take a close look now. According to the Small Business Administration, SBA, a necessary step in business operation is competitive analysis. It's also essential that you review your competition on a regular basis to ensure that you are aware of the latest information. You can take advantage of online data such as what you can find using Moz Open Site Explorer.
Secret 4: Dated Content Can Literally Kill Your Efforts
Your content and blog posts have a lot of competition. There are more than 2 million blogs posted online every day, according to Worldometers. In order to be noticed, your content needs to be fresh. However, if you aren't adding more content regularly (which you should be doing), content that utilizes current news events could become more like an albatross on your site. It will immediately show readers that your site is not kept up to date. If you want to use fresh ideas, keep them grounded by avoiding details that could make them appear old.
The solution? Make it evergreen.
While content needs to be fresh to be interesting, it also has to find the perfect balance between fresh and evergreen content so it won't get stale too quickly. In order to do this you can take a current topic in the news and relate to it without providing specific details. When looking for content ideas, dismiss those that don't have a twist that can be made to keep them evergreen. This is particularly important for sites where you don't plan on adding new content on a continual basis.
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It's true, some of the information that you want to present has been written about before, maybe hundreds of thousands of times. Your goal is to make sure that you find a better or more unique way to provide meaningful and useful information to your readers. Remember that although the ideas may have been used before, many of your readers will be encountering them for the first time. Stay away from fluff and non-information. Ultimately, you want to become a source of information to your audience – an authority on your subject that will keep readers returning again and again.
Secret 6: Presentation Really Counts
Once you have an arsenal of ideas, it's crucial that you present the topics in ways that your audience will best be able to utilize them. A study from the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab found that 46% of those surveyed said that the way a website is designed is the foremost criterion used to determine credibility. This means you need to arrange your site and your content in a way that gives a professional and polished appearance.
Use various subheadings that allow your readers to more easily skim the content of the blog. Break ideas down into more palatable bites so people can easily digest them. Keep in mind that most people take only a few minutes or less to read a particular blog before moving on. If they like what they see, they'll keep reading, but if not, they may never return. Be sure that you include important information in bold letters or with bullet points so it can be more readily accessed.
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__By Alex Holmes
*"I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money." —Jack Nicklaus
Forty years ago, Nicklaus won the inaugural Tournament Players Championship by two strokes over J.C. Snead. The Golden Bear would go on to win the event twice more during his career and remains its only three-time winner.
While Jack's classic style and attention to fit always made him look like a million bucks on the course, but his Players titles netted him just $170,000. By comparison, this week's winner will walk out with close to $1.8 million.
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The holidays are almost upon us! Wow, this year seems to have flown by. I read some marvelous novels this year and hope to do a round-up of my favorites in January, before the TBR pile starts to build again with 2011's offerings.
On the writing front, I'm happy to report that I recently delivered the manuscript of my third historical novel (tentatively titled, I, ISABELLA OF CASTILE) to my editor at Ballantine Books. While she reads it and provides feedback, I'm hard at work on the second novel in my Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles. In this second installment, our lead character Brendan returns to court during the time of Mary I's betrothal to Philip II and matches wits with a deadly Spanish ambassador hell-bent on Elizabeth's destruction, as well as a seductive Englishwoman recently returned from exile, who may be an Imperial spy.
The first book in the series, THE TUDOR SECRET, will be in stores on February 1, 2011. I'm very excited about the novel's release, because I first independently published it years ago (under the title The Secret Lion) and because it has undergone a thorough revision, with a new scene added, under the guidance of my St Martin's Press editor. This is my little-book-that-could; and it's not ceased to astonish me with its tenacity. I recently learned that Target has selected The Tudor Secret as a Breakout title and Borders will feature it as part of a BOGO (Buy One, Get One) promotion! The news couldn't be better for the book's release.
I sincerely hope that you, my reader, enjoy it. Though some of us may be feeling a slight case of Tudor fatigue these days, please let me reassure you that the Spymaster books are an antidote. Featuring a fictional character with a deadly secret of his own, who becomes the intimate spymaster for Elizabeth Tudor, these novels are fast-paced tales of adventure, suspense, and intrigue. Some of the most famous (and infamous) characters in Tudor history, as well as some of the most controversial events, are re-interpreted through the eyes of a man who delves into the underbelly of Tudor life, promising a different slant on what we think we know about this remarkable, tumultuous era.
I'm planning a blog tour through PumpUpYourBook promotion in February, so if you're a blogger interested in hosting me and/or reviewing The Tudor Secret, please check here for when my listing appears. In addition, interested bloggers can always contact me via my website. Though review copies are limited, I promise to do my best to accommodate your requests. Please note that review copies should be ready to send in early January.
In closing, I want to thank you all of you who follow this blog and read my books, talk about them, befriend me on Facebook, LibraryThing, and Goodreads, and let me know through your comments, e-mails, and reviews how you feel about my work. You make this often hectic business of writing a true pleasure, and I hope to entertain you for many years to come.
Happy Holidays!! May the end of 2010 bring you much joy, laughter, and good health.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Happy Holidays and an Update
Posted by C.W. Gortner at 10:08 AM
4 comments:
- Marg said...
Yay for handing in your manuscript,and yay for the Tudor Secret. I can't wait to read it. I have it preordered already!
- December 9, 2010 at 7:00 PM
- C.W. Gortner said...
Thank you, Marg!! I really appreciate it.
- December 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM
- Teddyree said...
Woohoo great news, can't wait for The Tudor Secret ... no tudor fatigue here :)
and of course I absolutely cannot wait for Isabella's story!
Safe, healthy and happy festive season to you and yours.
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"When we asked for a daughter we were sent a princess." – Sally Huss
One of my last sessions in Belgium was a princess session and when this family showed up–they brought not one or two dresses but more than I could even count! They were tumbling out of every door of the car and the shoes were in the back! These little girls had such a blast playing in the park and having tea together and I had a blast capturing their beauty, grace, and spunky personalities. It's so great to have the chance to work with clients again because it's like seeing old friends and having a chance to play together again!
See my other princess sessions here: Adventures with Little Beauty! and Little Princesses and Painting with Vision.


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Questions & Answers (Q&A) or FAQ
Homeworks Trust is an Auckland based group of women who are concerned about the lack of specialised housing options and services available for women.
Homework's Trust was started in 1998 by Terry Baxter and Debbie Hager, inspired by discussions on Terry's research for a Masters in Town Planning at Auckland University, concerning the lack of safety for women in commercial boarding houses and Debbie's work with women. Subsequently Debbie researched the relationship between domestic violence and mental illness for a Masters in Public Health at Auckland University.
The aims of the trust are:
- To fill the gaps in service provision, primarily in housing and accommodation for women.
- To carry out or to support research that highlights housing, accommodation and related needs of women.
- To base the service that the Trust provides on an identified need.
- To advocate and lobby for policy which enhances the provision of services and housing for women.
- To encourage equity in accommodation and housing for women.
The initial service aims of the trust were to set up and administer, or to support other organisations to administer:
- a refuge for women with drug and alcohol problems
- a refuge for women with mental illness problems
- a professionally run residential service, exclusively for women who currently live in commercial boarding houses.
Since incorporation we have:
- Gained formal incorporation as a charitable trust in 2000.
- Written business plans and budgets and had these checked by a number of people to ensure that they are robust and reasonable.
- Written a policy document for specialised refuges that gained CYF approval in December 2004
- Lobbied, networked and educated people about the issues
- Encouraged research into women's housing needs
- Produced a teaching resource
- Started two websites
However, there are still no specialised services.
There are very few services and housing strategies that are gender specific. If a service is not gender specific, the needs of women – for safety, for security and for environments that develop constructive bonding with children and enable goodparenting - are often overlooked.
Situations that are mixed gender are frequently developed around the needs of men.
Advocate for: women only services – these are needed in every area of women's lives – mental health services, drug and alcohol services, specialised units for mothers with children, residential situations.....
Fully funded services for women. Women's refuge, sexual abuse counselling services, women's centres all are under funded.
Contact: Chairperson Debbie Hager
mobile :+64 210 588 567 phone +64 9 816 9339
Why do women need refuges?
Women who are being abused often require a safe environment where they can think about their situation and what they want to do next. Because of the stress of living in an abusive relationship, this is often not possible at home. Also, refuge staff have specialised knowledge and networks that help women access help and support as quickly as possible.
What is a specialised refuge?
It is a safe house for women and children who need to escape domestic violence. However, as women with mental health or drug and alcohol problems can rarely access conventional refuges, this would specifically cater to those women unable to enter a conventional refuge. This service would offer clinical and non-clinical support to women for the mental health/addiction problems that they are experiencing.
Why do you want to start specialised refuges?
Mental illness symptoms, drug and alcohol abuse and not having dependant children are all conditions that can exclude women from entering an existing refuge service. The primary reason that refuges do not like to take women with drug and/or alcohol problems/mental illness symptoms is that these women cause disruption and exhibit behaviours that upset the other women and children in the house. Specialised refuges would be run in conjunction with mental health and alcohol and drug services, staff who have professional expertise in these areas, plus a very good analysis and understanding of domestic violence.
The needs of women who do not have children will be considered to be of equal importance to those of women who do have children in their care.
Are you talking about women who use mental health services?
Not necessarily. Many women are just feeling crazy, or are being treated by their GPs. However, they still require specialised services as these issues cannot be addressed properly by non specialised services
What's the relationship between domestic violence and mental illness/substance abuse?
The mental health effects of domestic violence are:
- Alcohol abuse – Up to one third of abused women will abuse drugs or alcohol as a way of coping with abuse. A number of studies suggest that most abused women only begin drinking heavily after the abuse has started.
- Suicide – research in New Zealand suggests that thee is an 8 times higher risk of suicide for women who live with violence and abuse.
- Mental illness including major depression, trauma and anxiety disorders.
- Diagnoses such as eating disorders, generalised anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, multiple personality and personality disorders. Bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia.
- Other issues - sleeping disorders, self-neglect, malnutrition, panic attacks, aggression towards ones-self and/or others, repeated self injury, chronic pain.
Long Term Effects for Women
Women involved in a New Zealand study identified a number of long term effects of being involved in an abusive adult relationship. These are indications of emotional distress:
Diminished ability to deal with stress
On going fear
Lack of volition
Being suspicious or afraid
Worn down, shattered, or isolated
Blocking out – having gaps in their lives
What happens if we don't do anything for these women and their children?
The number of women abused and suffering mental distress will not diminish and these women will remain trapped in horrendous circumstances. To exclude this group from refuge means excluding the most vulnerable women.
When living in an abusive environment, children are at risk from physical, sexual and emotional abuse and of being killed by the abuser. They are also at risk because of the instability that their mother is experiencing and manifesting. When there is nowhere for these children to go, they remain at risk, or experience the upheaval and subsequent emotional and mental health problems associated with being removed from their mothers and placed in long term care – or of having their mothers taken into care and being left with the abuser.
What are the ongoing costs of doing nothing?
The ongoing costs associated with the intersection between mental health and domestic violence include:
The long term effects on the children and wider family.
The increased risk of children developing mental and physical illnesses later in
their lives
Women's ongoing use of mental health and substance abuse services.
Rehabilitation and long term care.
The ongoing high use of GP and A&E services
The inappropriate care of women who have been abused – i.e. placed in mental health services when they really require domestic violence services.
Years of life lost because of suicide and homicide.
The length of time that women are unable to function without support.
Diminished realisation of educational, employment and personal potential
Surely not many women would need this service?
Because this is a hidden problem, it is not possible to estimate exactly how many women would require this service. However, in a 2006 survey of 39 refuges affiliated to the National Collective of Independent Refuges, it was discovered that in a six month period, 525 women with mental health and/or substance abuse problems, accessed, or attempted to access, refuge services. Between them, these women had 447 children. Some women are able to access appropriate help and support. 257 were unable to access refuge residential services. Many of these women were forced to either go back to their abusive partner or to live in unsafe conditions – caravan parks, short term situations with family or friends, or they end up in institutions or on the street.
What are the effects of domestic violence on children?
Children who live in an environment where abuse is occurring suffer trauma whether or not they are abused themselves. The children's stability is threatened and this influences their sense of security and ability to survive, which causes them lasting damage.
The psychological effects of domestic violence include low self-esteem, lack of empathy, depression, passivity, sleep disorders, eating disorders, anxiety, teen pregnancy, suicide and suicide attempts.
Children who experience abuse and those who only witness it, experience many of the same emotional and behavioral problems, including:
Psychological and emotional problems such as anxiety, depression, low self esteem, social withdrawal, hostility, nightmares, disobedience and aggression.
Poor school performance
Cognitive functioning problems such as lower verbal and quantitative skills and the development of attitudes supporting the use of violence.
Somatic health complaints and physical problems such as delayed motor skills, speech difficulties and multiple health problems.
Long Term Effects on Children Childhood exposure to abuse and other adverse experiences is strongly linked to:
Chronic adult health problems, including ischemic heart disease.
Chronic lung disease.
Diabetes, hepatitis, and liver disease.
Juvenile offending.
Alcohol and drug abuse.
Increased risk of later physical and sexual assault.
Interpersonal and parenting difficulties.
Isn't it unsafe for them to be with their mothers?
Child safety will always be a priority within the refuge services.
Generally, being an abused woman does not make a woman a bad mother. Women are usually working hard to protect their children from the abuser. Frequently, it is fear of her children being hurt that motivates a woman to take action against abuse.
It may occasionally be unsafe for children to be supervised by their mothers – but this will usually only occur when women are in crisis. Staff and respite arrangements can be put in place if this is necessary.
Homeworks Trust considers that children are placed at more risk if they are left in the care of an abuser, or placed in foster care. Homeworks Trust is committed to strengthening and enhancing the bond between mothers and children, with the long- term goal of reestablishing stability.
Who would use a specialised refuge?
Women who require a safe environment to escape domestic violence, but who are denied that refuge because of perceived mental health or drug and alcohol problems.
This could be a woman of any ethnicity, age, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, childless or with children.
Are there other services that do the same thing?
There are very few refuges that will take women who use/abuse drugs and alcohol, or who are taking psychiatric medication or exhibiting symptoms of mental illness. Often these women – and their children – require specialised support that is not available at existing refuges. In order to meet the complex needs these women have, staff require professional expertise in mental health or addiction along side an analysis of domestic violence. These services also need to be staffed 24 hours a day by paid, not volunteer, staff. This alone makes the service very different from existing refuges.
Will Homeworks Trust specialised services make a difference?
Specialised refuges will ensure that abused women have somewhere safe to go if they do not fit current inclusion criteria for refuge. It will offer a safe place for women and children to understand their circumstances and begin the journey of change and healing.
It will help women identify the services they require and it is intended that it will eventually lead to them accessing conventional domestic violence services for their ongoing support.
Is this just band-aid or will it make a difference long term?
Specialised refuges are only part of the network of services required to respond to domestic violence. The service can have long term effects on women and children who would otherwise be trapped by their circumstances.
However, if we are to tackle the causes of domestic violence, we must look more widely at society and how we reinforce and endorse this behaviour – and attempt to change the mores that enable the abuse of women and children to continue.
Questions about women only accommodation for women who currently live in commercial boarding houses
Why do women, who live in commercial boarding houses, need alternative accommodation?
Women become homeless for many reasons including poverty, the break down of relationships, mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse and experience of physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Boarding houses provide immediate, short-term options for people who are unable to manage the stresses of a more formal living arrangement, or who are unable to pay rent and bond. However, commercial boarding houses are frequently physically, sexually and emotionally unsafe for women.
Why a woman only house?
Research has identified that women who live in commercially run boarding houses are at risk of physical, sexual and emotional abuse both from fellow residents and from managers/owners. Woman only accommodation would provide security and would be managed by women who can assist the residents to develop the skills they need to move into longer term, safer accommodation than that which a commercial boarding house supplies. It would also be an aesthetically pleasing and soothing environment – of a level that women may be unable to afford else -where.
Are there other services that do the same thing?
Most boarding houses are mixed gender. Women who live in mixed gender boarding houses are at risk of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, plus become very stressed from living in an unsafe environment.
Will Homeworks Trust specialised services make a difference?
Women only accommodation will provide women with a safe, non-exploitative and secure environment in which to think about:
- why they have been living in insecure environments
- the changes they want to make in their lives
- how these changes could be made.
The staff will have the professional expertise and networks to support women in these processes and help them to make positive changes in their circumstances. The service is designed to help residents to acquire the skills required to move into long-term stable, independent living environments.
Is this just band-aid or will it make a difference long term?
Long-term changes will only come about when there is more analysis of women's specific housing needs and strategies put in place to implement constructive home ownership and secure tenure programmes. Until this time, marginalised, poor and disadvantaged women will continue to be homeless or live in unsafe and insecure situations.


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This is a shelf I made out of red oak for a young gal who owned and showed two Arabian horses. The design is my own. I made the two picture frames on the front and used two alignment pegs in two of the corners that fit into corresponding holes drilled in the shelf face. One magnet was used in each of the two corners opposite of where the pegs were located. Magnets were also set into the shelf face to draw the frames in and hold them in place along with the pegs. Below each frame are metal plaques engraved with each of the horses full registered name. I welded the horseshoe hooks out of two shoes from each horse and placed them below the name of the horse which they belonged to. I did not want nail or screws to show from mounting the hooks. To solve this I cut 1/4" bolts and welded three of them onto the back of each shoe. I drilled corresponding holes through the face of the shelf and then counter bored the holes on the back of the shelf to recess the nuts. On the back of the shelf I burned a personal note along with my name and the date. The shelf hangs by two key hole slots routered vertically into the back centered on 16" to mount to wall studs.
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Nice shelf and that is slick way to attach the frames!! Very well done!!.............Jim
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Steroid-free and Long-term Calcineurin-free Trial in Islet Cell Transplantation
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00315627
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 18, 2006
Results First Posted : May 25, 2017
Last Update Posted : May 25, 2017
- Study Details
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- Study Results
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- How to Read a Study Record
The purposes of this study are:
- To reverse hyperglycemia and insulin dependency in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus through islet transplantation utilizing steroid free, calcineurin-inhibitor free immunosuppression.
- To assess the long-term function of successful islet transplants in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus utilizing islets that have undergone a period of culture.
- To determine whether the natural history of the microvascular, macrovascular, and neuropathic complications are altered following the successful transplantation of islets.
|Condition or disease
|Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
|Drug: Islet transplantation
|Phase 2
The initial proposal submitted to the JDRFI was to compare 3 different groups of patients receiving islet cell transplants utilizing steroid-free, calcineurin-free protocols. The 3 groups were as follows:
- Zenapax, Rapamycin & MMF
- Campath, Rapamycin & MMF, and
- Thymoglobulin, Rapamycin & MMF.
The grant was awarded in December 2003, however the recommendations were to focus on a single group (group 3 or 4) in order to determine the relative efficacy and toxicity of a new immunosuppressive drug combination. We elected to perform the group utilizing Campath, since we have a similar protocol utilizing the same immunosuppressive regimen with the addition of CD34+ enriched donor bone marrow cells (2000/0024). The results of this trial utilizing a steroid-free/calcineurin-free protocol will be compared with the standard "Edmonton Protocol" (2000/0196), which we are currently conducting (14 patients have been transplanted). In addition, the results will be compared with those in 2000/0024.
Protocol 2000/0024 (utilizing the same immunosuppressive regimen; Campath, Rapamycin, Tacrolimus-switched to MMF at 3 months) is being followed by a DSMB established at the NIH.
We propose to evaluate 12 patients with steroid free, long term calcineurin inhibitor free immunosuppression regimens which can be directly compared to our historical group of patients who underwent the Miami version of the Edmonton protocol (Islet Cell Transplantation Alone in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Steroid-Free Immunosuppression - Protocol # 2000/196) and with the concurrent tolerogenic protocol (Islet Cell Transplantation Alone and CD34+ Enriched Donor Bone Marrow Cell Infusion in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus; Steroid Free Regimen - Protocol # 2000/0024) which uses the same immunosuppressive regimen combined with CD34+ stem cell enriched donor bone marrow infusions.
The regimen will consist of Campath 1-H induction, maintenance immunosuppression with sirolimus and tacrolimus for 3 months with subsequent introduction of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and removal of tacrolimus completely and TNF-alpha inhibition (etanercept) in the peri-transplant period.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|3 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Steroid-free and Long-term Calcineurin-free Trial in Islet Cell Transplantation
|Study Start Date :
|July 2005
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|January 2014
Experimental: islet transplantation
Islet Alone Transplantation under Alentuzumab (Campath1H) induction.
Drug: Islet transplantation
Islet transplantation
Other Name: islet
- Measurement of Glycemic Control by HbA1c and Prevention of Severe Hypoglycemia [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Number of subjects at 1 year with HbA1c < 6.5% and absence of severe hypoglycemia
- Islet Allograft Function [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Number of subjects with basal C-peptide greater than 0.5 ng/ml
- Improvement in Metabolic Control as Evidenced by Hemoglobin A1c < 6.5% [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Number of subjects with a hemoglobin A1c < 6.5% at 1year after islet transplantation
- Elimination of Severe Hypoglycemia [ Time Frame: 1 year ]The number of subjects with severe hypoglycemia after transplantation
- Restoration of Hypoglycemia Awareness 1 Year After Transplantation [ Time Frame: 1 year ]The number of subjects with restoration of hypoglycemia awareness 1 year after islet transplantation
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Potential candidates must have type 1 diabetes mellitus and fulfill one or more of the following:
- Manifest signs and symptoms that are severe enough to be incapacitating. Incapacitating signs and symptoms include hypoglycemic episodes requiring assistance by others and hypoglycemia unawareness (the inability to recognize low blood glucoses; glucoses < 54 mg/dl). These patients are at high risk for involvement in accidents (they can lose consciousness or act irrationally), thus causing harm to themselves and/or others.
- Patients with poor diabetes control (HbA1c > 8.0% but < 12%), despite intensive insulin therapy, as defined by: self monitoring of blood glucose ≥ 4 times/day, multiple insulin injections (≥ 3/day) or insulin pump, and close monitoring of blood glucose control by an endocrinologist. These patients can experience acute, rapid hyperglycemia secondary to several stress factors, that can lead to dehydration, disorientation, and in some instances, ketoacidosis.
- Progressive diabetic complications. These patients with chronically poor glycemic control are at higher risk for the development of a wide variety of complications (retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, and cardiovascular disease) associated with diabetes.
Exclusion Criteria:
Potential candidates will be excluded as per the following criteria:
- Age < 18 or > 65 years
- Duration of diabetes < 5 years
- Do not have a physician that is monitoring diabetes for > 6 months
- Body mass index > 26
- Weight > 80 kg
- Insulin requirement > 1.0 u/kg/d
- HbA1c > 12%
- Stimulated or basal C-peptide > 0.3 ng/ml
- Corrected creatinine clearance < 60 ml/min
- Serum creatinine consistently above 1.6 mg/dl
- Macroalbuminuria (> 300 mg/24 hours)
- Anemia (hemoglobin < 12.0 g/dl for males; < 11 g/dl for females)
- Hyperlipidemia (fasting low-density lipoprotein [LDL] cholesterol > 130 mg/dl and/or fasting triglycerides > 200 mg/dl)
- Abnormal liver function tests (consistently > 1.5 x normal range)
- Serological evidence of HIV, HBsAg and/or HBcAb, HBsAb without history of vaccination, human t cell lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1), or hepatitis C virus (HCV)
- Negative serology for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) or evidence of acute or chronic infection (IgM ≥ IgG)
- Lack of updated immunizations per current Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines (including lack of immunization against hepatitis B, pneumococcus and influenza - during season)
- Presence of panel reactive antibodies > 20%
- Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) > 4 ng/ml unless malignancy is ruled out
- Positive tuberculin test (unless proof of adequate treatment for latent tuberculosis can be provided)
- X-ray evidence of pulmonary infection or other significant pathology
- Gall stones and/or portal hypertension and/or hemangioma on liver ultrasound
- Abnormal abdominal or pelvic ultrasound (evidence of masses that are considered suspicious for malignancy or adenopathy)
- Active peptic ulcer disease
- Active infections
- Unstable cardiovascular status (including positive stress echocardiography if age > 35)
- Untreated or unstable proliferative diabetic retinopathy
- Previous/concurrent organ transplantation (except for failed islet cell or pancreas transplantation)
- Malignancy or previous malignancy
- Any medical condition requiring chronic use of steroids
- Active alcohol or substance abuse; smoking in the last 6 months.
Sexually active females who are not:
- post-menopausal,
- surgically sterile, or
- not using an acceptable method of contraception (oral contraceptives, Norplant, Depo-Provera, and barrier devices with spermicide are acceptable; condoms used alone are not acceptable)
- Positive pregnancy test or intent for future pregnancy, or male subject's intent to procreate
- Any condition or any circumstances that make it unsafe to undergo an islet cell transplant
- Psychogenically unable to comply
- Failed psychological evaluation
- Persistent leukopenia (white blood cell count < 3,000/uL on more than 3 occasions)
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00315627
|United States, Florida
|Diabetes Research Institute
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
|Principal Investigator:
|Rodolfo Alejandro, M.D.
|Diabetes Research Institute - University of Miami
Additional Information:
Publications of Results:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Rodolfo Alejandro, Professor of Medicine, University of Miami
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|April 18, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|May 25, 2017
|Last Update Posted:
|May 25, 2017
|Last Verified:
|April 2017
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
Islet Transplantation
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Diabetes Mellitus
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases


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Do you have ThunderShirts without Velcro? The Velcro bothers my dog. The sound.
Four Tips for Making the Most Out of Your ThunderShirt
Posted on 07/27/2018 at 12:01 AM | Advice | ThunderShirt | ThunderWorks
If you're a pet parent whose fur baby deals with anxiety on the regular, ThunderShirt can help. ThunderShirt's gentle, constant pressure hugs your pet's chest, making them feel safe, calm, and like everything's going to be okay. Whether you're thinking about buying a ThunderShirt, or you've already got one, we've got some tips to help make sure your pet reaches maximum calm.
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