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It's the town where dreams could become a reality. I always imagined some day making my fortune in America and moving to a small town with white picket fences, quaint restaurants, adorable stores and well-maintained parks just like this one.
As I drove into South Hadley, Massachusetts last Friday the sun shone brightly overhead, making the town from the offset sparkle with hope and beauty.
For a minute I was lost in the white washed houses, oversized gardens and expensive cars parked out front. As I drove slowly up Newton Street I opened the car window and turned off the radio. The air was fresh and I could hear the birds singing overhead as I crawled up the road.
And suddenly, as I glanced to my right, a dark cloud suddenly draped over my brief notions of South Hadley.
There it was; the school that an Irish girl, just like me, but half my age, was bullied relentlessly before she took her own life on January 14.
I pulled slowly into the school car park. It was early morning and the only sign of life was coming from the football field.
South Hadley High School where Phoebe Prince spent the final hours of her life being called horrific names such as "Irish slut" and "whore" was on spring recess but activities on the football pitch brought life to the place.
As I sat there for a few minutes trying to imagine what went on through those walls that caused Phoebe to hang herself, I became almost nauseated. I was lost in my emotions, anger, upset and confusion. The sound of car doors closing and engines roaring to my right caught my attention.
A group of girls, no more than 16 or 17 had finished up what appeared to be hockey practice and were going their separate ways, in top of the range SUVs. I felt slightly intimated by their confidence, their big cars and loud personalities.
After the crowd thinned out I approached two young women. Albeit friendly, when I told them who I was and what I wanted (their opinions on what happened to Phoebe) they cut me off and said, "We've been told not to talk to any media," said a taller girl, although not divulging who told her to remain mum.
I'd hit a dead end before I started.
I crawled back out onto the main road and was in front of Phoebe's home, the home she shared with her family after moving from Ireland last September within minutes.
The house, brightly painted white with elegant purple shutters, is also on Newton Street. It's a few hundred yards from the high school.
It struck me that Phoebe hadn't far to walk home from school, yet the day she died she was taunted on that very road by some of her school peers. They even went as far as throwing an energy drink at her.
It hurt to the core as I saw in my mind the beautiful Irish teenager walk through the front door and up the stairs to her death.
After a short prayer for her and her family I continued into the main strip in South Hadley. An impressive little village adorned with stores, restaurants and offices.
I had lunch with a mother and daughter teams who have been very vocal on the responsibility the school should be taking in Phoebe's bullying and were eager to share their opinions with the Irish Voice.
Erica Laughlin, 39, and her mother, Susan Clow, are beyond angry at the way school authorities have handled themselves in dealing with Phoebe's death.
Laughlin, a parent of four children, lives in South Hadley. However, her children attend school in the next town over.
There is a chance that next year her kids will be expected to attend South Hadley High School.
"This will not happen," said Laughlin.
"If it comes to that I'm ready to home school my kids," she said.
"There is no way I'm going to send them to South Hadley High."
Clow said South Hadley has a "culture of bullying.
"It's always been like this and people have turned a blind eye. If you don't fit in or wear a certain type of clothes then you are looked down on and bullied," said Clow.
Laughlin has attended all the school committee meetings to show solidarity for the few people in the town that are standing up to the South Hadley school authorities.
"I've been at meetings where several people stood up and spoke about the bullying of their own child," said Laughlin.
"But nothing has been done- Gus Sayer (schools superintendent) had neglected to do anything. It's a disgrace."
Clow said she would like to see the "school stand up" and taking responsibility.
"It would be nice to see adults in the school, morally coming forward and standing beside the kids who are being charged."
Both mother and daughter agree that although it's imperative the six students charged in relation to Phoebe's bullying should be punished they feel the South Hadley school authorities are hanging them out to dry.
"Their life is being ruined and the school is doing nothing to take responsibility," she said.
Darby O'Brien, 61, is also asking South Hadley High School administrators to own up to their role in Phoebe's bullying.
O'Brien, founder and president of Darby O'Brien Advertising and Public Relations in South Hadley, has been very vocal with his opinions at school committee meetings. His outrage and opinions have caused threats to his life.
"I was walking the dog along a major road when this car came right off the road and up on the curb towards me," he said, adding that he managed to get out of the way on time.
He has also received threatening letters.
Some letter writers even went as far as saying they would kill him.
But O'Brien is not prepared to give up the fight to have the school authorities exposed.
O'Brien blew the whistle on the bullying and the school's neglect of the situation after Phoebe's parents visited O'Brien's office in South Hadley. "I've never seen people so broken," shared O'Brien.
"They asked me to keep fighting the fight they couldn't," said O'Brien promising them he would do everything in his power to keep the spotlight on the school authorities.
Phoebe's parents, who are still living in South Hadley with their other children, told O'Brien they are very grateful for the support they are getting from the community.
"There are a few people helping them cope with this tragedy and they are very grateful to them," said O'Brien.
Phoebe's mother Ann, has a brother, sister and aunt living in South Hadley.
O'Brien confirmed reports that Phoebe's aunt visited the school last August, a month before her niece started there, to inform them that Phoebe was "susceptible to bullying" and asked them keep an eye on her.
"This school has a history of turning a blind eye to this sort of thing," he said.
O'Brien told me a story about a mother who came to see him. Her child was also relentlessly bullied in South Hadley and after numerous reports to school authorities nothing was done.
Like Phoebe, this young girl could no longer cope. Her saving grace was that her mother got her into a hospital for treatment.
O'Brien, whose step-daughter attends South Hadley High, said the kids charged should not be left carry "all the blame."
"It's time someone held the school authorities responsible."
And that is exactly what O'Brien intends to do.
He will not give up - despite the threats on his life.
Both O'Brien and Laughlin feel alone.
"People are backing down," said Laughlin.
"They are becoming afraid and think if they keep quiet this will all go away and be forgotten about," she added.
O'Brien and a gentleman by the name of Luke Gelinas, who has two children the South Hadley school system, are the last two standing on the issue.
"We had another man, Dave Leonard, whose daughter was also bullied in the school, but he died tragically in a motorcycle accident recently."
O'Brien misses Leonard's passion. He attended the school meetings wearing t-shirts with Phoebe's picture on it.
"He, like me and Luke was passionate for change."
Although feeling the pressure from the town's people, O'Brien will continue the battle for justice.
As I continued on my journey through South Hadley, I was quickly learning that Laughlin, Clow and O'Brien were the minority in their opinions.
The towns folks were expressing their anger at the "overdramatic" (someone said this to me) attention the media are giving this story.
"Kids kill themselves in every town across the country but it's the media that's keeping the focus on our small town and it's not very fair," said Francis Ambrose.
Not wanting any more disruptions to life as she knows it in South Hadley, Ambrose asked the media to leave the school, its staff and the kids alone.
Ambrose was not alone in her feelings.
Robert Castro said South Hadley "is a good town where people are nice."
"It's getting an awful reputation and it's not justified," added Castro.
When I asked him if he thought the school should take responsibility he immediately defended them.
"They didn't know it was going on so what could they have done," he said.
I quickly tried to tell him the facts that have come to light since the Northeastern District Attorney's office concluded their investigations but he didn't want to know.
"The kids are getting enough slack for what they did, isn't that enough," he asked, waving a hand in my direction and walking away.
A woman in her early forties spoke to me on the condition of anonymity.
She admitted her children – now in their early 20s- attended South Hadley High School and they were bullied.
"My son more so than my daughter and when I reported it to the principle he said he would put a stop to it," she said.
Nothing happened. The bullying continued until this woman took matters into her own hands and approached the parents of the bullies themselves.
"Even at that, my son still got abused both physically and verbally," she said.
After a few more encounters with people of the same minds as Castro and Ambrose I knew it was time to leave South Hadley.
I had enough.
I drove back out of town, past Phoebe's old home and past the school where nightmares were created with a sick feeling in my stomach.
Will the school authorities ever stand up and take responsibility?
Well if the likes of O'Brien keeps the fight up – and I sincerely hope he does- then it's a possibility.
Watch this space.


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My first project back in gaming was NHL Hitz Pro, working at Next Level Games in Vancouver. It was great because it was a startup studio, and we were working on a hockey game to boot! After that project wrapped, I was offered a job as an associate producer at Midway (who published NHL Hitz Pro) on the sequel, and be based in Chicago. I took the job, and when I arrived in Chicago they canceled the NHL project and put this small-town Canadian boy on Americas Favorite Pastime, baseball.
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According to a recent client alert from law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, the Treasury has set the sequester percentage for Section 1603 grants at 5% – lower than the standard 7.6% figure that was originally expected. The change resulted from recalculations following the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (i.e., fiscal-cliff legislation).
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Leonard Rowe asks: Why aren't Black people winning discrimination lawsuits anymore?
Leonard Rowe asks: Why aren't Black people winning discrimination lawsuits anymore?
By Leonard Rowe
Most Black Americans are not aware that there is an ongoing conspiracy currently being waged against them in this country. This conspiracy is designed to keep Black people powerless and financially drained. The way this is being accomplished is by keeping Black America totally divided and eliminating as many possibilities for prosperity as possible, without it being detected. Having money gives us power. Most of us remain ignorant to the tactics that are being used to keep us subservient. When Black people come together on any given issue we are a powerful race of people. Why? Unlike other races of people in America, we have no fear of anyone or anything when we feel that we are being mistreated or discriminated against as a group. This is why all efforts are made to keep Black people separated in this nation and to eliminate our access to the media.
When Black people were fighting for civil rights in the 60's, there were other groups that secretly stayed out of sight, that were with us, morally and financially, but did not want it to be known that they were supporting us because of their fear of whites in this country. While knowing all along that the passing of a civil rights bill would also benefit them as well as it would us, they privately gave us their support. Today, the same group of people that stood with us secretly is mainly the ones that are mistreating Black people and violating our civil rights. We, as African Americans, have been mistreated by this country more than any other race of people on earth, but have never received compensation for the abuse. Practically all other groups and nations that have been mistreated by America have received some form of compensation for past wrong doings committed by our country.
I have often wondered how we as Black Americans can support and approve of our tax dollars going to countries like Israel to help the Israeli people, but never demand that our homeland, which is Africa, receive the same financial and military support as we give to other nations. We must always remember the wealth of this country was mainly created from the forced free labor, pro-vided by our enslaved ancestors who were kidnapped from our native continent of Africa.
Black people, we must wake up. We are still asleep and being bamboozled and tricked. Do you ever hear of minorities, especially African Americans wining discrimination lawsuits in our courts anymore? I don't. It's not because whites have stopped discriminating; they will never stop giving the advantage to their own people.
Rather in most cases, Judges have been put in place in our federal court system to ignore the law as well as the evidence and dismiss the discrimination cases, not allowing them to ever be heard and decided by a jury. I had often wondered what white Republican politicians like New York former mayor Giuliani meant when they would say that they are not for redistributing the wealth. I learned later that what they really meant was that no matter how they obtained the wealth, whether by fraudulent or discriminatory means, they are not giving it back. To ensure this, they have quietly taken control of our courts, and we as Black people are not aware of it. Our federal court system has become biased when it comes to the rights of African Americans. I hope this next statement does not sound racial because I am not a racist. Black people must stop allowing an all white jury to decide their fate in our courts. We must also make wise decisions when choosing our attorney or attorneys.
The United States Constitution entitles you to a jury of your peers. When you allow an all white jury to decide your fate, in most cases you are being tricked. No matter what your attorney may tell you, don't do it. An all white jury will not be able to relate with your struggles in life and very seldom will they have compassion or sensitivity for you or your family. No matter what, don't do it; stand firm on this issue.
Black people do not own much of anything any longer in this country. Why? Because the white power structure makes it their business to buy it and take it away from us, once they see that we have something that has the potential to become a profitable or a successful business venture. Money is power, and they know it. Basically all groups and races have their own business industries except African Americans. Let's take a close look at our Black hair care products industry. We don't even own that any longer: It has been taken over by the Koreans. Black people should stop buying their own hair care products from the Korean people and demand that they give us back our business. If we would stop patronizing them, they would have no choice but to relinquish it and turn our business back over to us. We are the only race of people that would allow this type of financial rape of their own people and community.
Let's take a look at the Black record companies that were once thriving but are now gone and out of business. Such as LaFace Records which was located in Atlanta, Philly International Records that was in Philadelphia and Solar Records which was run by my good friend the late Dick Griffey in Los Angeles, and there were many others.
The closing of these companies was not coincidental like they would have you to believe. It was all part of a plan by those that control the music industry and Hollywood. The same thing has happened to all Black Concert Promoters who have all been run out of business solely because of their race. We don't even own Jet or Ebony magazines any longer. They bought them from us as well. These moves are done to take away our voice, financial power and means of communication. BET is gone now also. They bought that from us as well. It became too powerful of a communication tool for a Black person to own and control. By controlling the media and all communication outlets, they control the way we think as well as the conscience of America.
I would like for you to also take a close look at what happened to my close and dear friend, Michael Jackson. He owned a billion dollar music catalog which was, to my knowledge, the largest and most valuable music catalog owned by any individual in the world. He personally told me that he would never sell or relinquish it. He wanted to keep it and pass it on to his children. That, also, was too much power for a Black man to have and control in the entertainment industry, so they killed him and took it back. We don't even control our civil rights organizations any longer, Such as The NAACP, The Urban -, the MLK Center For Social Change, Operation Push, Al Sharpton's Action Network, and even The SCLC.
Have you ever thought about it. You never see or hear of these organizations fighting for the protection of Black people's civil rights any longer? When was the last time you saw one of these organizations picketing or marching against discrimination? You haven't, why? It's not because discrimination has stopped. Let me tell you why, it's very simple. We have allowed these organizations to be infiltrated by others with the use of their finances. They all are doing something that the late Malcolm X. said we must not do, and that is to accept their money. This is how these civil rights organizations have been neutralized and they don't even know it. They are afraid of losing that annual contribution that they are receiving each year, which is tax deductible to the contributor. These donations are often given to those organizations to ensure that they will turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the discriminatory policies and practices designed to prevent African America people from advancing. These donations mostly come from the very same people that discriminate against African Americans on a daily bases, such as Hollywood and the Entertainment Industry. These donations keep our Black leaders silent, and allow these racist companies to continue discriminating against Black people with continuity.
When Black people charge Hollywood companies with discrimination, such as I did, with documented proof in hand, showing that behind closed doors Hollywood executives have been referring to Black people as "ni**ers," "coons", and "spooks" hundreds of times; oufederal courts turn a blind eye to this racist behavior.
Our civil rights leaders become hard to reach once they see who the perpetrators of this racism are. You can no longer reach them by phone because they have all been bought. It is so awful what we have allowed these people to do to us in this country. We are losing ground rapidly, and we must wake up people. All of this is being planned and accomplished by de-stroying and neutralizing our leadership. They never want to see another creation of an President Obama or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in this country. They are targeting our future Black leaders at an early stage and destroying them. They have tarnished the legacy of our future leaders like Congressman Jessie Jackson, Jr. and Kwami Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit. I am not saying that these individuals are innocent, but what I do want to say is that white politicians and federal judges are committing more heinous and despicable crimes than these two individuals have been accused of and are not being pursued as vigorously by our government or FBI as these individuals were, and most of us don't even have a clue that all of this is being done intentionally.
When whites victimize Black people, our law enforcement agencies do not move as expeditiously or as vigorously as they do when white citizens are victimized by Blacks. In most cases they pretend not to see the crime. Our sons, daughters, fathers and mothers go abroad, when asked by our government, and put their lives on the line for this country, but are denied equal protection under the law upon their return, solely because of their race. Think about it. This is all being accomplished and done with their control of the media and the courts. We as Black people have very little in the way of communication. The media is often used by those that control it to destroy the character of African Americans that are viewed as a threat to their corrupt way of life. It is not used in the same manner to destroy the character of white American citizens, because they will not allow it, and if it was attempted, it would be taken away from those that maintain control of it. And they know it. It's mainly used (the media) to destroy African Americans and other nations and leaders that are disliked by those in control of it.
We as Black people must first come together and confront our civil rights leaders, organizations, politicians and demand that they stop being controlled by those that are hurting and destroying prosperity for our race of people. We must also come to the aid of other Black Americans when they are being denied justice by our judicial system; we did that when the brutal beating of Rodney King took place in California. We also stood up when Trayvon Martin's life was unjustly taken in Florida. We must also stand with Black Americans like Mr. Marcus Washington who is presently fighting for his constitutional rights in a discrimination law suit in New York District Court against the financially powerful giant, The William Morris Agency.
Because what affects him in his fights directly, will affect all African Americans indirectly. His fight, as well as my own against this entertainment giant is similar to the fight of David and Goliath, but we must always remember that David came out ok.
We can't make people change how they feel about us, but we have laws firmly put in place to make sure people change their wrong behavior towards us. We can never change things if we continue tolerating them. I write this article with the belief that it is sinful for one not to share the wisdom and knowledge that God has given them.
I pray that Dr. Boyce Watkins will continue to have the courage to bring us your Black World News, which I view as being truthful and reliable. We as Black people must support him in every way possible. We need this publication now more than ever to ensure that the voice and conscious of Black America will continue to be heard.


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Joe Montana, who is rightly worshiped as a God here in San Francisco (I recently built a shrine to him out of crack pipes and bum hair), was recently on Dan Patrick's radio show, when the subject naturally turned to Sean Astin movies from the early 90s. It turns out Comeback Joe was a freshman on the Notre Dame squad in 1975, when the real-life Rudy Ruettinger, the basis for Rudy, scored a sack (sort of) against Georgia Tech. You'll never believe this, but he claims the reality was a little different than what happened in the movie. Coach Dan Devine, for instance, never told Rudy not to dress for the game, nor did his teammates respond by turning in their jerseys. Probably because it was the 70s and they were college football stars, and they were too busy slaying big, hairy Debbie Does Dallas poon all day. That's how I imagine it anyway.
DP: Were you there when Rudy was there?
JM: Yeah. It's a movie, remember. Not all of that is true.
DP: What wasn't true?
JM: Well, the crowd wasn't chanting. No one threw in their jerseys. He did get in the game. He got carried off [at the end of] the game. […] Back then they tried to play someone at the end of [the season] that all the seniors could get in the last home game. The schedule was kind of set that way.
So he got in. He did get a sack. And then the guys carried him off, just playing around. I won't say it was a joke, but it was playing around. He worked his butt off to get where he was and to do the things he did. But not any harder than anyone else. [Yahoo]
So basically, seniors all got in the game back then, and they even set up the schedule so that they'd play a crappy team at the end and it wouldn't matter. Rudy was one of those seniors and when he got in, he sacked a guy, or at least held onto him until a bigger guy could bring him down (video of the play below). And such is the foundation of a successful motivational speaking career when you've been portrayed on screen by Sean Astin, the greatest human being to have ever lived.
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Michelin star wars: Recognition not the tastiest dish
It's one of the most coveted measures of success in the restaurant business -- the prestigious Michelin star.
But some Hong Kong restaurants are finding such recognition is actually not the boon for business that it might be.
Eagerly anticipated in food mad Hong Kong, the Michelin Guide: Hong Kong Macau 2013 awarded 61 Hong Kong restaurants and seven Macau restaurants with Michelin stars.
Some 76 restaurants are also listed as Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurants -- quality restaurants offering affordable three-course meals for less than HK$300 (US$39).
Despite being sanctified by one of the most important guides in the industry, local media report several restaurants are less than keen on garnering a Michelin mention.
Though a Michelin rating automatically draws long queues of foodies, such popularity may be leading to a significant increase in rents.
Alfred Chang, owner of the Bib Gourmand-recommended Indonesian restaurant IR1968 in Central, appreciates the Michelin recognition but admits his concerns.
Famous for its braised ox tongue, the family business was forced to move last year from its original location in Causeway Bay after its rent was increased three fold.
"One of the reasons for the huge rent raise was because we were mentioned in the Michelin Guide," Chang told CNN.
"We will try to maintain a good relationship with our [current] landlord now."
Sky high rents
Two Tim Ho Wan dim sum restaurants (the Mong Kok and Shum Shui Po branches), the world's cheapest Michelin-star restaurants, were awarded one Michelin star again this year.
Owner Mak Kwai-pui is philosophical about the downsides of attention.
"The [building] owner has a reason to raise the rent if your business is good, but it will be the same if you are running a poor business," said Mak. "It's because a poor business may depreciate the value of the property."
Awarded one star in the latest Michelin guide, Mak says Tim Ho Wan's original shop in Mong Kok will be relocating "soon" to the Olympian City 2 shopping mall due, in part, to an increase in rent following its Michelin recognition.
Local media reported Tim Ho Wan's rent more than doubled.
With property prices in Hong Kong rapidly climbing in the past decade, residents have become accustomed to the blink-and-it's-gone lifespan of businesses getting edged out of retail spaces by sky-high rents -- rents that increase well beyond the level of inflation.
Many businesses in popular areas such as Central, SoHo and Sheung Wan have seen rent increases in excess of 50 percent over three years.
Though rent increases add significant pressure to a business' bottom line, the result is also an ever-changing scene in Hong Kong that fosters the rise of new neighborhoods such as PoHo, as tenants seek more affordable rents.
One rule of thumb with which all locals are familiar: before going out for dinner, double check that the restaurant hasn't moved.
More on CNN: Michelin docks stars but Tokyo still wear crowns
Tim Ho Wan, 2-20 Kwong Wa Street, Mong Kok, +852 2332 2896 (relocating soon)
Tim Ho Wan, 9-11 Fuk Wing Street, Sham Shui Po; +852 2788 1226; open daily, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
IR1968, 5F, The L Place, 138 Queen's Rd, Central; +852 2577 9981; www.ir1968.com
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L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, French
8 ½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana, Italian
Lung King Heen, Chinese
New Restaurants with two stars
RyuGin, Japanese
Sushi Yoshitake, Japanese
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L'altro, Italian
Zhejiang Heen, Zhejiang cuisine
Yu Lei, Shanghainese
Guo Fu Lou, Cantonese
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You can hear this song on Fred Da Godson and DJ Drama's God Son mixtape. In this video, directed by Taya Simmons, Fred and Maino go hollering at girls on a hot summer day and (surprise!) the ladies don't wanna hear any of it.
That is, she isn't interested until the rappers pull up in a Bentley, of course. So there is a lesson to be learned here, young MCs: the only reason to get into Hip-Hop is to be able to buy a Bentley and to pick up women. Is there any reason to ever do anything? Hit the jump and check the video out yourself.
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When dynamic keyword insertion goes wrong: Are *you* craving puppies?
By Chris Cardinal
On June 20th, 2008
I mentioned dynamic keyword insertion in my blog post earlier this week. Basically, it allows you to target a whole swath of keywords on Google AdWords with the same ad and simply have the keyword inserted directly into the ad. This works well for some things, like, say, shoes, or inkjet cartridges where you just need to replace a brand name or model number in an otherwise good ad.
It takes on a whole new level of creepiness, however, when a Honda ad asks me "Are you craving puppies?" No, Google. No, Honda. I'm not. I'm not even sure what that means. Am I craving puppy blood? The tender flesh of puppies? I mean, seriously, what the hell? Honda's ad campaign for their CR-V suggests "whatever you're craving, the Crave Reader can guess." (It's actually a stylized version of the cool 20Q game you've probably seen in stores.)
Now I'm sure that they applied a dictionary set to their keyword campaign but some of those words just aren't going to pair well when you ask me if I'm craving them. "Are you craving small children?" "Are you craving prison?" What a strange campaign. The moral of the story? Sometimes, you should check your dictionary lists. If you're at all concerned with appearing creepy. But maybe I am in the mood for a puppy ringtone after all.
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Flying Instructor is the title given to the professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who teaches Flying Classes and referees Quidditch matches. They are in charge of teaching their subject to the students of Hogwarts in their first year, on the Training Grounds at the back of the Castle. The Instructor also has an office, which is located in a safe place where the school Quidditch crate can be stored. Rolanda Hooch held the post from at least the mid-1900s and was still teaching in 1997.
Broomstick skills do not appear to form an integral part of any O.W.L. or N.E.W.T. course in any subject.
By 1991, Madam Rolanda Hooch held the post and was renowned as a well respected Quidditch teacher, known for her fairness and preference for clean play and good sportsmanship.
Madam Hooch taught the first years about basic broomstick flight and handling early on in the year, and greeted a Ravenclaw student she was familiar with, named Amanda. However, Neville Longbottom injured himself after losing control of his broom, and she was forced to take him to Madam Poppy Pomfrey in the Hospital Wing. Following Hooch's departure with Longbottom, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy quarrelled over a stolen Remembrall, resulting in the two using their brooms without supervision, and in direct contravention of madam Hooch's explicit instructions. One witness to the incident was Minerva McGonagall, Transfiguration Professor and the deputy headmistress.
It is believed that the students continued flying lessons throughout their first year, but Harry Potter did not have to, as he was selected for the Gryffindor Quidditch team and would practise with them. Hooch refereed the Quidditch match between Slytherin and Gryffindor, declaring that she wanted a clean game from all students playing. Later, the refereeing duty was taken over by Severus Snape for the Hufflepuff vs Gryffindor match.
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Online Poems by Ana Castillo
Women Don't Riot
(For N.B.S)
Women don't riot, not in maquilas in Malaysia, Mexico, or Korea,
not in sweatshops in New York or El Paso.
They don't revolt
in kitchens, laundries, or nurseries.
Not by the hundreds or thousands, changing
sheets in hotels or in laundries
when scalded by hot water,
not in restaurants where they clean and clean
and clean their hands raw.
Women don't riot, not sober and earnest,
or high and strung out, not of any color,
any race, not the rich, poor,
or those in between. And mothers of all kinds
especially don't run rampant through the streets.
In college those who've thought it out
join hands in crucial times, carry signs,
are dragged away in protest.
We pass out petitions, organize a civilized vigil,
return to work the next day.
We women are sterilized, have more children
than they can feed,
don't speak the official language,
want things they see on TV,
would like to own a TV--
women who were molested as children
harassed, which means
every last one sooner or later;
women who've defended themselves
and women who can't or don't know how
we don't--won't ever rise up in arms.
We don't storm through cities,
take over the press, make a unified statement,
once and for all: A third-millennium call--
from this day on no more, not me, not my daughter,
not her daughter either.
Women don't form a battalion, march arm in arm
across continents bound
by the same tongue, same food or lack thereof,
same God, same abandonment,
same broken heart,
raising children on our own, have
so much endless misery in common
that must stop
not for one woman or every woman,
but for the sake of us all.
Quietly, instead, one and each takes the offense,
rejection, bureaucratic dismissal, disease
that should not have been, insult,
shove, blow to the head,
a knife at her throat.
She won't fight, she won't even scream--
taught as she's been
to be brought down as if by surprise.
She'll die like an ant beneath a passing heel.
Today it was her. Next time who.
--1998, Chicago
Excerpted from I Ask the Impossible by Ana Castillo. Copyright© 2001 by Ana Castillo. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and Anchor Books, divisions of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Online Source.
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Foster Farms' employee animal welfare training program is one of the most comprehensive in the poultry industry. Employees are required to abide by the company's animal welfare policies and any inappropriate treatment of the birds we raise can result in termination.
As a best practice, Foster Farms is committed to continuous improvement of its animal welfare program and consults with an Animal Welfare Advisory Board consisting of leading academic experts in the field.
Our Simply Raised and Organic products are raised without any antibiotics.
Foster Farms is actively committed to responsible growing practices that help preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics for human health and medicine. We share a common goal with medical, veterinary and government leaders in working to curb antibiotic-resistance in humans that may be linked to livestock production. Foster Farms is working toward a goal of eliminating the use of all antibiotics that are used in human medicine, except in those instances where the clinical health of a flock is at risk.
Healthy chickens contribute to a safe and wholesome food supply. We prioritize the health and welfare of our broilers through all stages of life. Our program emphasizes preventative flock health programs, proper nutrition and advanced husbandry practices.
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We select only the healthiest and robust chickens and turkeys for breeding at each of our carefully maintained breeding ranches. Each resulting egg is carefully checked, cleaned and immediately taken to our nearest hatchery. To keep them healthy, the eggs are placed in incubators, where they remain warm and undisturbed until they hatch.
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After the chicks hatch, they are taken to a local ranch where conditions promote natural growth. Each ranch has a "buffer zone" of empty land all around, a biosecurity measure that helps to ensure bird health and promote food safety.
Foster Farms poultry flocks are never raised in cages. Our chickens and turkeys are grown in large poultry barns designed to protect the birds from environmental extremes, while allowing fresh air to constantly circulate. The interior temperature and climate are controlled, and clean water and feed are available at all times. Our barns are built with enough space for the birds to move about freely. The floors are covered with absorbent bedding materials such as rice hulls and wood shavings. Our veterinarians carefully monitor each flock's health and progress. Our Organic flocks are USDA Certified and raised free-range.
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In the beginning, Max worked as an editor at the Modesto Bee, a local newspaper, to help support their young business, while Verda concentrated on raising healthy chicks. The original hatchery was built right off their bedroom because the eggs required round-the-clock care. Verda would set a timer to alert her day and night when it was time to gently rotate the eggs. A feed silo soon followed. The back porch of the Foster's home became Max's office, and business was mostly done with a handshake. Over the coming decades, Max and Verda's sons George, Paul and Tom followed them into the business, expanding it along the way, building new facilities and adding new product lines, but always remaining true to the spirit of their parents. Today, Foster Farms remains a family-owned, family-managed company.
In 2014, Foster Farms celebrated its 75th anniversary on the very farm where Max and Verda first began all those long years ago.
In 2009, Foster Farms acquired a poultry production plant in Farmerville, Louisiana. By keeping the plant open, Foster Farms saved more than a thousand plant jobs and renewed contracts with more than 100 local poultry farms.


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A law school located in St. Paul, MN that has produced at least three Minnesota governors, various members of Congress, and multiple state and federal court justices, expects to offer a hybrid variety of education starting in 2015, which it claims is the first of its kind. The William Mitchell College of Law will offer an online and on-campus juris doctor program that has been approved by the American Bar Association (ABA).
While a number of institutions offer fully online law classes and master's programs in law, no online J.D. program has received approval from the American Bar Association, which means students in those programs can't sit for any state's bar exam. As the ABA states on its Web site, "Earning an education completely via distance education may drastically limit your ability to sit for the bar in many states." Most states simply rely on ABA approval to determine whether their "legal education requirements for admission to the bar are satisfied." (One exception to that is California, which allows for students in unaccredited but "registered" law schools to sit for the bar.)
William Mitchell, however, has received an official variance from the ABA, which allows it to combine its in-class curriculum with the "expanded use" of digital technology. Ordinarily, the ABA allows law schools to make a third of each course available as an online program; the variance allows for half of the curriculum to be delivered that way.
According to the institution, the variance is the first of its kind and arrives as the ABA is pondering the future of legal education and how it might allow law schools to experiment with instructional delivery methods.
The new program at William Mitchell will include "intensive" in-person experiential learning and online coursework. Students attend courses on campus at least one week each semester to participate in 56 hours of simulations and other coursework. The on-campus work will be supplemented with digital curriculum designed by faculty. Students will also be encouraged to participate in "externships" in their local areas under the guidance of practicing attorneys.
The hybrid option will be offered alongside the college's 113-year-old part-time program and its 40-year-old full-time program. The college currently has 813 students in both programs. The ABA variance will allow for enrollment of as many as 96 students in the first year.
"Our research demonstrates that when implemented thoughtfully, courses blending face-to-face and online instruction offer students the best of both worlds," said President and Dean Eric Janus. "By harnessing e-learning technologies, professors expand their repertoire of pedagogical tools, allowing greater creativity and flexibility in achieving desired learning. Adding to traditional law school teaching methods, our courses will include online interactions and content delivery that engage today's students, provide additional teaching and learning accountability and prepare students to use technology that they will encounter in practice."
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Administer all products on a single platform and dramatically improve risk management and analysis with DXC's reinsurance solutions.Visit WikonnecT for client communities and support.
Grow Digitally
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In today's quickly evolving marketplace, insurers need to create a personalised, omnichannel brand experience for their customers, with multiple high-touch interactions throughout the consumer life cycle.
DXC provides the insurance industry with innovative and differentiated systems to sell and serve policyholders on any device, while supporting enriched interactions between insurers and their policyholders, brokers and agents, and all other customer-facing personnel including ecosystem partners.
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The traditional insurance company is set up to best serve a type of customer that, in the very near future, may no longer exist.
Cyber Insurance. The Next Frontier
Discover how you can develop a strategy around cyber insurance to capitalise on this new revenue stream by gaining a better understanding of the cyber risk landscape and finding a balance between providing cyber policies that address your client's needs.
Transform IT
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cwfelice needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 33 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
C. W. Felice, LLC
Tag line - Service Above Self
A key aspect of a professional services firm is relationships and the linkage with clients
Geostructural & Construction Engineering Consultants
We specializes in delivering geostructural and construction engineering services to the contracting, design, and owner, communities. Our tunnel, underground and structural foundation experience has been gained internationally in all types of ground conditions. A core competency of CWF is the integration of design and construction services with an appreciation of traditional and alternative project delivery systems. What makes us different is our ability to integrate our understanding of ground conditions and load combinations to deliver cost effective "constructible" solutions on-time. CWF's professional services include:
• Design & construction engineering
• Project management
• Planning and risk analysis
• Peer review
• Claim avoidance and mitigation
CWF maintains state-of-the-art design tools for tunnel and foundation design, pile drivability, capacity analysis, earthquake and other dynamic loading conditions, as well as numerical codes to quantify construction sequencing and suitability of equipment selection.
CWF services are provided in the following markets:
• Tunnels and underground structures
• Long span bridges
• Pipelines
• Offshore and energy related projects
• Ports and harbors
Owners: Federal agencies, state departments of transportation as well as city and county engineering.
General contractors (i.e. Kiewit) and specialty contractors (Malcolm Drilling).
Multinational firms such as AMEC, Black & Veatch, URS and Jacobs Engineering.
Legal and Insurance carries specializing in construction claims (e.g., Zurich, Willis)
The objective is to create a logo that will provide a visual link between the firm and our clients
Feel free to be creative! For examples, a creative way to display the firms name or the type of projects and services we provide (foundations, tunnels and underground structures, bridges, pilelines, ports and harbors, etc...
3D visuals are acceptable
Single colors are preferred but multi-colors will also be considered
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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In the context of the Jesuit University in which the Service Learning Program is housed, the concept of community engagement is not a foreign one. Marquette's focus on community engagement rivals universities across the country and challenges students and faculty alike to incorporate service into every aspect of their academic and personal lives. Whether through community-based research, service learning, or individual service projects, Marquette excels at being a present force in the community. The annual Faculty Bus Tour is just one of many ways that the Marquette Service Learning Program works to strengthen this legacy of community involvement.
On May 16th, 2013, a bus arrived to the 707 Building, home of the Marquette Service Learning Program, to pick up a group of faculty for a day of learning, engaging, and building partnerships with the Milwaukee community. Along with faculty from Milwaukee Area Technical College, Marquette faculty had the opportunity for an inside look at four organizations within a mile and a half of the Marquette and MATC campuses. Faculty spent eight hours exploring opportunities for community engagement in the hope that new, fruitful partnerships would emerge to meet the community's needs and strengthen the scholarship, research, and teaching of the faculty at Marquette and MATC.
Dr. Lea Acord saw great benefit in the bus tour for faculty using Service Learning in their classes. After attending the bus tour, she said, "I think the most important information that faculty receive is an understanding of some of the sites where our students serve." Dr. Acord felt much more comfortable talking to the students in her Culture and Health class about their service learning experiences after visiting some sites herself. She also appreciated the way that touring each site gave her an appreciation for the hard work and determination that the staff and volunteers give to their organizations.
The sites on the agenda for this year's tour coveedr a broad range of populations and sectors. Through the Wisconsin Conservatory for Lifelong Learning, a K4-12 school teaching culturally diverse students, and the Pieper-Hillside Boys and Girls Club and Hillside Family Resource Center, a youth program and community center offering a wide range of activities and programs for the whole family, faculty will experience a range of programs geared toward the needs of children and families. Through the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, a health center working to ease the effects of HIV/AIDS in Milwaukee, and the Grand Avenue Club, a community-focused program for mentally ill adults, attendees will also experience a range of programs focused on community health issues. Spending an hour at each site, faculty will have the chance to learn about the needs, goals, services, and programming of each organization that could be supported by a partnership with Marquette or MATC.
At the completion of the tour, attendees returned to the Marquette Service Leaning office to debrief and discuss the day's events. Through meaningful dialogue about the day's experiences, faculty were able to connect with one another and voice their ideas for new partnerships, service learning projects, and community research prospects that will continue and strengthen the bond between Marquette and MATC faculty and the Milwaukee community they call home.
Annual Faculty Field Trip - Thursday, May 16, 2013
How Might Working with the Community Enhance My Teaching and Scholarship?
Join Marquette University and Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) faculty this May for the annual faculty field trip! See first-hand the amazing work that is being done in our community by visiting four local nonprofit community partners in our immediate neighborhood. Take advantage of this great opportunity to learn more about the agencies' needs, goals, services, and programming, as well as how we can better engage with the community through service learning and community-based research. Join us as we explore opportunities to collaborate with MATC faculty in order to have a positive impact on our shared neighborhood.
The bus will meet at the 707 Building at 8:30am. Lunch will be served at Hillside Family Resource Center at 11:30am and will be catered by MATC. The bus will return to the 707 Building at 3:00pm for a debriefing in Room 303 until 4:00pm.
Tour Stops:
9:15am - Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning: 1017 N. 12th Street
10:30am - Pieper-Hillside Boys & Girls Club & Hillside Family Resource Center: 611 W. Cherry Street
12:30pm - AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin: 820 N. Plankinton Avenue
1:45pm - Grand Avenue Club: 210 E. Michigan Street
3:00-4:00pm - Debriefing Session and Evaluation at Marquette SLP
Registration has closed and the event has passed. Please contact the Service Learning Program for future dates.
On May 19, 2009, 45 current and prospective Service Learning faculty participated in the Program's Community Bus Tour which was the second half of a two-day faculty seminar focused on community-based research entitled, "Addressing Community Needs in Volatile Times: Opportunities for Teaching and Research." The seminar was co-sponsored by the Manresa Project, Center for Teaching and Learning, Institute for Urban Life, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, and the Graduate School.
The day began at the Service Learning Office with a continental breakfast and an introduction by Jen Filz, a Site Contact and the Director of the Campus Kitchens Program.
Faculty loaded the bus and headed north of campus, to Repairers of the Breach. On the way, the bus passed by several Service Learning agencies, including Aurora Sinai Medical Center.
Repairers of the Breach is a daytime shelter run by the homeless and for the homeless. Clients are able to receive clothes, a warm place to stay during inclement weather, and also work one-on-one with a tutor to earn their GED or improve reading skills.
The next stop was Milwaukee Center for Independence, a non-profit, comprehensive, community-based rehabilitation facility and sheltered workshop that helps people with developmental disabilities live and work in the community. MCFI offers over 50 programs and services to assist people of all ages.
The bus traveled past several more agencies and faculty were provided lunch by Amaranth Bakery, a bakery near Our Next Generation, the next stop on the tour. Our Next Generation is an after school program for at-risk youth on Milwaukee's near north side.
The last site visited was Voces de la Frontera, a low-wage and immigrant worker's center which responds to the immediate problems low-wage immigrant workers face and provides a legal clinic where workers can obtain free legal advice about labor and civil rights.
The faculty returned to the Service Learning Office mid-afternoon for a wine and cheese reception and reflection. The faculty discussed their experiences visiting the agencies and began to consider next steps in integrating service learning in their courses in the future. Following the tour many professors indicated interest in using service learning in their classes, or improving the way they integrate their teaching with the community. Several faculty are also examining how community-based research might shape their research agendas.


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A sitemap is a basic bit of any site, and it is being basic to just have a site, it will take the decent amount of time to optimize it. The sitemap is formulated in a way to gather information from the website by any individual. The sitemap is created with the supported formats of Google's webmaster tools.
Company Profile
Express Website
About Website
Internet Marketing
Webbazaar Media
The web-based business site encourages the shippers to achieve their clients past the topographical and time hindrances. The dealers further may give the purchasers their contact information on their site to assist the shopping procedure, or work the store online with the assistance of the shopping basket coordination Magento e-commerce platform encourages to finish the buying procedure with various modes for secure and safe installment, execute tax collection on each buy, ascertain shipping cost, track requests and conveyance records.
I would like to thank Ms.Shweta Shetty and the entire team of Web Bazaar for their wonderful co-operation for making Source Communications go online. It feels nice to see that we are noticed and present online.
In look them just two days to take us there and have satisfied us in all aspects.The team at Web Bazaar was very quick and fast.What impressed me the most was the process that they follow right from the initial discussions till the hosting of website. I have referred them to many of my friends and present business clients.All of them have given me a very positive response about their experience in getting their website done from Web Bazaar.
Business in the current decade depends lot on presentation and promotion along with assured quality of services rendered. Especially in the internet Age, apowerful business apart from being driven by value also depends on a dominating presence in the virtual world. One sureshot way to establish presence online is to have a domain name resistered, website commissioned and promoted aggressively.
Although there are numerous business entities which offer domain registration at dirt cheap prices, there is risk of authenticity of the registered domain. Further, there are also website that allow you to build website from a list of temaplates prelodaded. The troubles with these are investment of time and lack of facilities to fine tune the designs.
I am Asha Praveen from VERNAL CHOCOLATE SHOPPEE. Vernal is into making of delicious and lip licking chocolates, cakes and snacks.
I wish to thank Mrs, Shweta Shetty from Web Bazaar for her speedy service for my website www.chocolatescooking.com, in an affordable price compared to my earlier web designer, where nothing had developed with high price. The timely service with all necessary stuff of my website was done very well. Once again I thank Shweta Shetty from Web Bazaar and refer her services to all my contacts.
We had created a website using online tools that was nothing short of adventure and deep inside our hearts we knew it was no match for any of its contemporaries.
Some skill sets that seem quite easy and obvious upon observing and watching can never be mastered,but when you try to imitate or do-it-yourself ,you will know the value of experimentation.We ended up being a disaster by having a very unimpressive website.We now realize that adventure is just bad planning! When Shweta and her team at Web Bazaar were assigned to develop our website www.southdalenaturals.com, we had the faintest idea that it would be seen by any or many.We started off our business as usual and did not expect any miracles to happen overnight ,but today,after good 2 years of our website's existence,we realized its value when our esteemed customer M/S.Titan industries informed us that they found us thru the internet and they selected us only after seeing our website .We did a business of over 45 lakhs till date with Titan.This is one example of how one website can help in growing your business and how one can impress their customers with a very realistic creation.
Good Morning and Greetings to you all. On behalf of Inspired Indian Foundation, I would place on record the commendable job you guys have done in the making of www.inspireindianfoundation.org. It was a great learning experience in working with a completely dedicated team. This is the Foundation's second website and rest assured, we will come back to you in case we launch a third one.
Keep up the good work and make use of the ii platform to write about unsung heroes. Here's an interesting quote that signifies team-work: "None of us is as strong as all of us."
And, if Web Bazaar is looking for one catchline, then this could be the best: Bonding beyond bandwidth.


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Ryansmithpt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 57 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
SwingFit helps golfers overcome injuries and ultimately improve their physical performance through science-tested, golf specific rehabilitation and performance training.
Our demographic is 70/30 male to female, average age is 40-65 and 100K plus per year in earnings. We are looking for a simple, powerful design that clearly denotes this is for golfers. We want the SwingFit name in the logo. However, we DO NOT want cheesy, stock type images of golfers in the design. We would like to see a golf element incorporated into the name in the logo.
We prefer logos that are clean, elegant, and simple. Examples include lexus.com, apple.com, mediatemple.net, alter-g.com.
We want the logo to have a sense of motion to it, that this is an active place.
The logo should have the name SwingFit in it.
We look forward to your ideas!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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MarcAurel brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 162 Designs von 31 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I am a young entrepreneur from Germany. Currently I am still studying Business Administration but apart from that I am launching my own company. I believe that everybody should get the chance to pay for a great custom designed suit, as clothes make people. I want to offer people this opportunity - Online, of high quality cloth and sewn in China by experts. It is going to be a brand suit which is perfectly fitting and high quality while being cheaper.
Why Wang: I recently visited China and found out that also everything is cheap e.g. the skyscrapers are very modern and have a great style. That is also be true for our suits.
Our Customers only pay 300€ instead the usual price of around 500€ for a custome made brand suit.
As we sell online to our customers, they might ask themselves whether they can trust our service. Therefore we would be pleased if you are able to design a logo which creates the required trust to buy from us.
Apart from that it should look elegant, resembling a modern high quality product brand.
Colours: Use colours in the following order: Green-White-Blue.
Besides your passion to win this contest, good luck!
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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|"Monica Canilao arrived in Minneapolis with efficiently packed piles that were just waiting to explode out on to the gallery floor. Her fingernails were bright orange but under them she had smuggled us some authentic Oakland dust."
Photos by Aaron Anderson, Monica Canilao, Eric Timothy Carlson, J. Zachary Keenan & Daniel Palahniuk
Words by Aaron Anderson
Our Starry Universe
Monica Canilao & Hardland/Heartland (AA + CQ + ETC)
at Art of This Gallery
Minneapolis, Minnesota
February 28 - March 22, 2009
It's getting warmer again here in Minneapolis, but for three frigid and all too brief weeks in February we were blessed with the wonderful presence of our friend Monica Canilao. She arrived with efficiently packed piles that were just waiting to explode out on to the gallery floor. Her fingernails were bright orange but under them she had smuggled us some authentic Oakland dust. While she was here she saw the snow fall, stood on a frozen lake, and went sledding on a starlight evening.
Frozen Waterfalls.
When we weren't exposing her to the extremities of winter we were keeping our minds busy and our hearts happy. Lines were put down on paper, structures were built, drawings were cut apart and reassembled, ideas were had and music was made. As our four heads came together the space was filled as we saw fit. What follows is the culmination of our time together.
This is Our Starry Universe.
The opening was packed with warmth and positive vibrating people. There is something to be said about early spring events in Minneapolis. It's almost as if everyone realizes that the world exists outside their carved shapes of survival and that it is still filled with friends.
This in progress shot was too rad to pass up. Continuity Error!
Piles and light. Rosy cheeks. A yarn laser will guide the way. The space was too small to take everything in at once, so we made people get close and stick their noses in the work.
New goth tags were to be caught .
Art of This Gallery, Minneapolis Minnesota. This is the beginning of the show. The wall you see inside those windows was created specifically for the exhibition. It formed an antechamber of sorts, a place for the viewer to collect their thoughts or forget about their day before passing through to the other side of the wall
Our craftsmanship (or conceptualism) was flawed and though we may have tried to hide our energies - they cannot be contained and will always emerge - this is fact. All walls can be broken through and should be.
The length of the antechamber,
until you pass through the wall and out into the immediate reality of our creations.
This is the realm of chaos that forms from our connected energies. Symbols, signifiers and codes, decorated and recontextualized until their meaning is new and pure.
Birds perched on a branch pulled from an island surrounded by ice. Our fragile hands barely holding together under the cold night sky while the world sits there watching. What will save us? What do we really need to be saved from? We could live in these piles for years, forming them up into something around us from nothing.
We understand that we hold each other up. We have to, or we will all disappear.
The desk and the destruction are all part of the process, and from it comes endless intricate pieces that fit together in various ways. Our intention is not to overwhelm or impose, but this pile is the most honest and logical conclusion we could have ever arrived at...
Come Closer.
Back wall buffs. The Peace Flag and Grandfather's black battle-axe.
We all have come from various mothers and this our monument to them. They are all part of the same tree, branching off into pairs, their roots sinking deeper, holding stonger and keeping things together. (and they are never slaves to their femininity!)
Gold Chains (Detail)
Monica's hand made birds (detail)
Our Puffy Skies. Graphite Caverns.
This is where Crystal and Monica lived, slept and ate chips while creating work for the show. The perfection of protection.
The entrance of the "Drug Lair" or the "Shit Cave" - depending on who you were talking to.
Late nights with friends helped fill the interior of the lair with sloppy drawings,
inside jokes, green smoke, corporate sponsorship, shouts, laughter, mad beef
proper crew representation, tribal cats, alien drawings and whatever other junk we could attach to the walls. People attending the show were encouraged to add to the mess, and they really did.
Deeper into the cave.
Just do it yourself.
This is the catalog for Our Starry Universe. 8.5 x 11. Full Color. Perfect Bound. 50 pages of documentation, collaboration, process and works created by Monica Canilao and Hardland/Heartland. First Edition of 100. $25
Contact us at hardlandheartland[at]gmail.com if you are interested in one.
or just go here: http://hardlandheartland.blogspot.com/2008/12/c-o-n-s-u-m-e_18.html
Monica will have some on hand once we get everything shipped out to her and we will probably get a handful of them to Needles and Pens as well. (Hey Andrew - that box is slowly filling with more and more stuff, I promise we'll send it soon!)
So yeah, February was pretty crazy here in Minneapolis. The show could only be considered a success and everyone involved was more than happy with the way everything turned out. Special thanks to Brett and Conrad for their help and skills. Now it's March, spring is creeping up slowly here in the Twin Cities. Things are changing and rearranging and it's all for the best.
If you end up in Minneapolis, try to stop by Art of This Gallery, it is run by amazing people who are doing amazing things, or at least they are trying to, which is what we all really should be doing these days.
Until then.
Aaron Anderson (Hardland/Heartland)
Eric Timothy Carlson (Hardland/Heartland)
Monica Canilao
Crystal Quinn (Hardland/Heartland)
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