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Sunday, February 11, 2007
Thanks, Richmond!
Some Favorite in-Richmond Posts:
i keep finding treasures
broad street robot dance
the Belmont Library is ruined, later... restored!
in-between alley
Castle Masters!
Spahr Brothers - not into their work, but the post is cute and funny.
Some Favorite Richmond Artists whose work I'm REALLY glad to have seen, and shared with all of the people who look at this blog -
Danielle Reide
Michelle Arthur
Nick Kuszyk
Kirsten Kindler, and here
Dawn Latane
Rachel Hayes, and here and here
Michael Mewborn
Eric Hall
Jeannine Harkleroad, and here
Tom Harte
Carolyn Henne
Joel Holmberg
Bruce Wilhelm, and here
Travis Conner, and here
Don Crow, and here
Paul DiPasquale, and here
Ron Johnson
Michael Lease, and here
Haigh Jamgochian, and here
Christopher Weideman
Scott Eastwood, plus Scott with Drew Liverman.
Jason Coates, and here
Timothy Sean Johnston, and here
Amanda Blackmon
That is NOT a listing of all of the Richmond artists that have been included on anaba, just a listing of some of my favorites to have been featured. They have all probably been mentioned multiple times, those links are to posts that look at their work in a little more detail. Use the little box in the top-left corner of the blog to search for any names.
Some Excellent Richmond Art Efforts to Remember -
Dinah and Paul Ryan's Adaptation Syndrome - panel post 1, panel post 2, panel post 3 (shocking conclusion!), Dominique Nahas follow-up.
John Ravenal's Artificial Light - post 1, post 2, secrets of Ceal Floyer revealed!, miami boo-boo.
Radius250 - here and here.
Amy Hauft's Relativity - here, here (17 comments!), and here
Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk's Surface Charge - pre-post (NOT a Karin Sander), post 1, post 2, my collaboration with Maix Mayer, cute fox.
Sculpture Invitational 2005 - here, here, here, and here.
Sculpture Invitational 2006 - pre-post (i'm in it as a social sculptor!), post 1, post 2.
VCU MFA Thesis Shows: Round One - here and here, Round Two here.
Some Richmond Art HEROES!!
Ashley Kistler - for her work with the Visual Arts Center of Richmond
Harry Kollatz
Amie Oliver
Jeremy Parker - for both Gallery5 and RVA Magazine and that whole community.
John Pollard - for ADA
Kirsten Kindler - i don't think ADA would have gotten very far without Kirsten's work, and support.
John Ravenal
Beverly Reynolds - the MOST gracious and beautiful gallerist in Richmond!
Melissa Roberts - for Nonesuch and that whole community.
Tom and Amanda Robinson - for Gallery5
My Richmond Flickr Set -
a TON of Richmond art pictures, like 800.
Some Favorite me in Richmond -
Face of Jesus
Super Surface Charge!
Seal of Approval
Guggenheim Richmond, Pictures From Another Planet, the Assault on Taste review
Jerry Saltz at Art Basel: Stuffy's, followed by a Studio Visit!!!
Meatballs at Stuffy's - the first Stuffy's show explained!
i might update this post later with things i've missed....
I wish that each of Richmond's nine Fortune 500 companies would chip in and give me four grand a year or so to keep anaba/me in Richmond.... that would be NICE.
5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Wherever you are and wherever you'll be I find comfort in knowing you'll be present on Anaba or another blog so we can continue the dialogue.
Bon chance!
- Anonymous said...
Martin, did you move? where to?
- Anonymous said...
i didn't really move, i'm just in limbo.
i need a job somewhere.
- Anonymous said...
i mean, i'm not in richmond, but i haven't "moved" anywhere. i'm in upstate ny for now.
it's cold.
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Hilda Wuenschel, 102, a resident of Flourtown for more than four decades, died March 7 at St. Joseph's Villa in Flourtown.
Shortly after arriving at the Villa in 2006, Mrs. Wuenschel became seriously ill and was placed in hospice care, but after six months she returned to nursing care for the next four years. Her son, James, described his mother as "the valedictorian of the hospice class."
Nicknamed "Queen Hilda" by the Villa staff because she was meticulous about her appearance and that of her room, Mrs. Wuenschel was known for her frugality and bargain hunting, especially in dollar stores. For her 100th birthday, more than 100 friends came to the Villa in response to her personal invitation that read:
"I hope you can come/To a picnic celebration/To meet my family and friends,/And to add to my elation.
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A Pittsburgh native, she worked for a time as a clerk in the film industry. She and her husband, the late Herman J. Wuenschel, were married in 1932 and moved to Avalon, Pa., where they raised four children. They moved again in 1958 to Flourtown where Mrs. Wuenschel became an active member of St. Genevieve's Church.
In addition to her son James, she is survived by sons John and Daniel; a daughter, Mary Ann Miller; 15 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Wuenschel's husband died in 1996.
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Liars have a new record. In something of a departure from an act that brought you such classics as 'The Frozen Glacier of Mastadon Blood' and 'Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris With ESG', it's simply titled: Liars.
No witch hunts or suchlike skulduggery; Liars is ambitious in the respect that it retains certain limits. The act's fourth record is less conceptually focused, yearning to tap into childhood nostalgia. Since the release of Drum's Not Dead in 2006 Julian Gross and Aaron Hemphill have relocated to Los Angeles, leaving vocalist Angus Andrew back in Berlin. Has it affected the recording dynamic? "We often find we were thinking about the same thing but just coming around to it from different directions," responds Andrew. Sat round a South Kensington hotel suite, we meet...
Liars, gentlemen, Liars. With the new record, whilst there is your fair share of standard noise-mongering, more so than on Drum's Not Dead, there seems a focus on the pop sensibilities of it all. Was there a conscious decision to make something with a more conventional focus, away from the grand themes?
Angus Andrew: Yes. We had a goal on this record to focus on songwriting rather than anything else, be it musical or conceptual.
Aaron Hemphill: There comes a time after touring where we get ready to make a new record and Angus and I will talk about what we're thinking about. It was the same focus on songs that connected and were influenced by things that had an impact on us when we were younger but were still relevant. So I think that is a powerful enough common agenda to make for a cohesion within the album. I think with this one unlike the other albums we feel comfortable with the tracks being separated and taken apart. It's less academic and instead just putting out tracks that are really good.
AA: We were previously really concerned with that whole album concept to the point where we would wrap them quite nicely in concepts and images. We had similar ideas in mind but this time there was no sort of parameter that everything had to fit within. There was a lot more freedom to the process. We didn't worry as much about how certain songs related to each other on the record because, again, the songs in themselves should be able to stand on their own. I think the plan was to tap in to when we were at a young age when we didn't have any concerns like a job or rent and so music and your fledgling attempted love life was all you cared about. When I was younger I always just wanted to get away from my family. Not in a negative way but in way that I was ready to fly away.
So would you say the record was concerned with a youthful escapism then?
AA: Yes, with certain instances with certain songs but then equally there is a very melodramatic sense of love there.
AH: Things are based on very personal experiences to generate songs that have universal connections, and you draw from what you know and it becomes something people connect to more, maybe removing your source of connecting to that experience.
Liars - 'Plaster Casts of Everything'
As with Drum's Not Dead, the record was self-produced in Berlin. Is it a place that provides an atmosphere that you actively seek to record in or more a matter of convenience?
AA: Berlin provides somewhere functional as a working place. It's cheap and centrally located to places we like to tour. It was somewhere we were familiar with from the last record, so rather than a new experience using somewhere different each time - like we have previously - we wanted somewhere we knew we could get the most out of.
Compared to previous efforts, you spent a short period of time recording the album. How did that affect the final product?
AA: We spent less time sat round talking about it and was a matter of setting some deadlines and getting on with it rather than slowly working away at it. It defiantly feels a lot fresher to us now at this point than any other record has. Obviously there is a long lag, a long period of production, but with this one it seems really fresh and exciting to be putting something out in half the time.
Are there certain influences which had a particularly prominent influence?
AA: Just the ideas that you associate with many melodramatic bands like The Smiths or The Cure that maybe you remember listening to when you're young and how those songs are really poignant and direct. They're not about a concept the whole album has or anything like that but more the feeling of a particular song. Just any music that affected us in that way, the melodramatic romantic idea of music but equally anything else that when we were young floated our boat whether it was Guns N' Roses or anything like that.
Choose a child. Are there particular favourites from the record?
AA: Well, yes, it is like choosing a child.
Julian Gross: There are certain kittens that are more playful than others.
AA: I like 'Freak Out'. It's Aaron's song and I think it is this nice meeting point of his songs and my songs on the record, one of Aaron's more conventional moments. These points come only with hindsight. They'll be points when it will seem like Aaron is on another planet and I am worried how that will work out. But then we often find we were thinking about the same thing but just coming around to it from different directions.
After the release of They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument in 2001 to critical acclaim, Liars - then Andrew, Hemphill, bassist Pat Noecker and sticksmith Ron Albertson - took a turn. Noecker and Albertson went their separate ways from the band and Gross came on board. When They Were Wrong So We Drowned was released in 2004 it splintered opinion, distancing itself with many of the conventions that had landed Liars with crass associations as dance-punk. Here was a noise record to distance those notions. The album, recorded by TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek in New Jersey, focused around accounts from the Salem witch trials, and with winding instrumentation suggested the act had ideas beyond those that most had perceived. Drum's Not Dead followed in early 2006. Recorded in Andrew's new home-from-home Berlin its harrowingly isolation followed many of the disorientating traits of its predecessor but garnered vast critical acclaim for an album so conceptual. Sign o' the times?
With retrospect does it seem odd that whilst many spat out They Were Wrong... because of its change in direction from the first record Drum's Not Dead, which actually shared many parallels, went on to garner such praise?
AH: I think there are a lot of parallels. Maybe it just took another effort to magnify different aspects of our sound for people to get involved in it. A positive to be drawn from that is that perhaps we have become better at conveying our ideas.
AA: Maybe people weren't ready. Every record we look at as an opportunity to re-evolve. Or de-evolve. That one was probably the most written about. Change. Because it seemed to upset some people. I'm not sure if it actually did. So that one was sort of made significant, but each time we've done a record I think it's been as significant as that change.
Liars - 'Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack'
The Frieze show here in London was the last time you performed. How do you think the new material will transmit live?
AH: It seems odd because in the time between then and now we've recorded – practically released – a new record […]
AA: This is the record that most suits being played live. A lot of the intensity and the power of the songs can be communicated really well in that format but we're working on it still.
Do you approach live performances with the aim of using material to complement or contrast with each other?
AH: We sort of build it so it complements. Certain tracks complement each other so that often it dictates what material we play. We've really focused on putting together a good show.
JG: I think increasingly we've focused on catering for what the audience wants. Like a lot of people particularly like 'Broken Witch' and if that makes people happy then we'll try keep that in.
AH: But that's more from past experience this presuming that they're going to like it after we write another concept album. We spent a lot of time putting together orders for songs for live sets that have a flow that complements each other.
JG: I think it's about tapping into your adolescence a little bit too, especially with me and looking back to thinking about what songs people like and thinking back to what I wanted to The Melvins to play and how excited I was when they played that song I wanted them to play and how excited I was when they played that song and how bummed I was when they didn't.
The record leaked. Reactions?
AH: We thought about this a fair bit. It's not that we're not bummed that people got it for free, but I guess we want for its release to be exciting and not an apathetic sense of, "Oh, I got in yesterday", or, "Oh, maybe I'll get it today". We download music constantly, and with the whole teen theme to it all it's important to keep it exciting.
But with the elements you seem to pay a particular focus to - the artwork, accompanying DVD and all - do you not feel it can take the emphasis off the release?
JG: But at the same time you cannot really focus on it because that's just the world.
AA: Really we're stoked people would even would want to download it.
AH: I think it is important to remember what was exciting when we were young. Our exciting 'record moments' and looking at the environment now.
AA: Trent Reznor did well with that, right? He just started to make it a bit more fun, left in the bathroom and things like that. There's better ways to think than just, "Shit, man…"
JG: You can't anymore. For a moment you are disappointed like you would be a parent with a kid that keeps doing something bad and you're thinking with the guy that originally leaked it and you're thinking, "I'm just a bit disappointed that you couldn't just wait", that this was selfish. But you look at all these blog comments and then it reinstates the excitement. "I hate track three, I love track four" and all this discourse with all these kids. It's refreshing.
Liars release Liars through Mute on 20 August. Expect a review over the next week or so. Want more now? WEBSITE. Nice. Liars play ATP's Release The Bats party at London's Kentish Town Forum - with Deerhoof, Black Lips and more - on November 2 – click here.


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By COLLEEN LEDDY
I couldn't convince David to accompany me to Traverse City last week for a library conference, so when I stepped into the tub full of hot water and oatmeal goat milk bath soak, I was all alone.
Alone, and immediately given to paranoid thought once my big toe hit the water: "What if I had a heart attack? Or what if I just passed out? And then fell in the water and drowned? Nobody would know until the maid knocked on the door in the morning. Did I put the 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door? It could be days before they find me."
I let those thoughts drift as I sunk into the tub, wafts of lavender calming me down. I had selected lavender essential oil to scent the bath soak I made at the library's Spa Products from the Kitchen session, and taken it and a couple other samples with me on the journey north. I suppose it was just as well David didn't come. He probably wouldn't have appreciated looking at the pumpkin mask smeared all over my face and bits of it falling off here and there.
And he surely would have complained the next night about the clumps of brown sugar scrub that dropped all over the sink when I tried applying it to my face. I finally decided the whole operation should move to the bathtub where I again entertained paranoid thoughts of dying...this time from slipping on the oily clumps of sugar scrub and hitting my head on the faucet.
I needed my granddaughter Caroline in the bathroom with me. At age one, she loves bathrooms. On her last visit a couple weeks ago, she spent a good deal of time there, discovering a variety of items under the sink after she figured out how to open the cupboard door.
There wasn't anything particularly dangerous under there except for the deconstructed hangar David uses to de-rat the drain. I dispensed with that gross item pretty quickly and Caroline spent a long time examining and discarding empty Dr. Bronner's soap bottles.
When she tired of that and crawling her skinny self inside the cupboard, she fixated on the bathroom scale, laughing as the red arrow responded to her swatting by moving back and forth. I could have sent her into gales of laughter had I stood on the scale and sent the little red arrow into territory never before seen by its pointy little red head.
But Caroline and Rosie were back in Baton Rouge and I was on my own. I had a pretty great time nonetheless, attending conference sessions during the day and visiting one night with my friend Kate and the other with my son Ben's mother-in-law, Kim. Both visits involved the consumption of Poppycock cake.
Poppycock is actually the name of the restaurant, not a kind of cake, and it was closing when Kate and I arrived. So, we just got cake to go, Chocolate Oblivion for her and Almond something-or-other for me. We traded bites, and, although mine was good, Kate's was divine. It was so good, I met Kim there the next night. I was all set to order Chocolate Oblivion, when I got a yen for Key Lime Pie. Actually, I could have chosen everything but tiramisu ("ugh" to coffee) on the dessert menu, but I decided I would have the Key Lime Pie (absolutely delicious) and order the Chocolate Oblivion to go in David's honor.
On the way home Friday night I stopped at a rest area to eat the cake and go to the bathroom, but David had warped me about rest areas when I once took a nap at one on the way home from East Lansing. He accused me of being nuts, that I could have been killed by some crazy person lurking there. I could have died in the bathtub, but he never warned me about that.
When I pulled off I thought the rest area looked spookily dark, but decided it was only because it was situated behind a lot of trees and probably looked beautiful in the day time. When I approached the parking lot, though, there was only one car...on the other side of the lot, away from the bathrooms and nobody was moving about. The place looked completely uninhabited.
It had been three hours since I started the trip and probably four since I'd gone to the bathroom at the Cherry Republic, but there was no way I was getting out of the car.
However there was a way I was going to eat the cake and that was with the car still running and a fork shoveling it in. I put the container right up to my mouth and gobbled a few bites before I had one of those mini freak-out, get-me-out-of-here moments. It was just too dark and spooky.
It must be obvious by now that I had only pretended the Chocolate Oblivion was for David. Had he come with me, he, number one, wouldn't have eaten dinner at 8:30 at night, and two, wouldn't have ordered dessert. He almost always passes on dessert...and then tries to eat mine. There's a reason he's gained only three pounds since we've been married, whereas I am moving on toward a whopping 45-pound gain.
Like I said...get me on a scale and I could send Caroline into fits of laughter.


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Being a child in the '60s, one of my favorite toys was Mattel's Thing Maker. If you're too young to have experienced the perilous thrill of creating a collection of plastic bugs by heating a colorful substance the Mattel designers playfully called "Goop" poured into metal molds baked on a potentially skin bubbling electric griddle, the creation process was far more satisfying than the final product. This dangerous aspect was actually part of the product's appeal; if you weren't careful, you could get badly burned. What also made the Thing Maker so fascinating was its ability to pour different color goop into different bug parts to ultimately create a unique mixture that satisfied an intrinsic inventive need. While the end product provided passing interest to friends and family, the reward was almost entirely realized during the creative phase.
That sense of joyful wonder, playful construction and even sense of danger was resurrected both literally and metaphorically when I began exploring the learning potential of Bug Labs' BUG -- an open embedded Linux-based combination of a BUGbase and four BUGmodules.
The BUGbase is a Java-programmable electronic base with various I/O ports: MicroUSB storage slot, 2-line LCD display, buttons, a 4-way joypad and four large interfaces (two each on the top and bottom) for Bug Labs' variety of BUGmodules. BUGmodules are individual modules that supply additional functionality to the BUGbase. Four BUGmodules currently exist:
- A color LCD screen (BUGview).
- A combined motion detector/accelerometer (BUGmotion).
- A GPS (BUGlocate).
- A 2-megapixel color camera (BUGcam2MP).
A much needed WiFi module is in the works, but no release date was available at this time. An active thread of BUGmodule ideas ranging from cell radios to infrared modules can be followed at buglabs.ideascale.com/ . While each of these components can be purchased separately, the best way to experience the BUG is to obtain the combined BUGbundle. This is the edition I reviewed.
Bug Labs adopted the Apple packaging experience philosophy, as the BUGbundle is boxed in a sturdy, attractive, and innovative geometric design that folds out to reveal a snugly seated BUGbase and four BUGmodules along with a thick 4-color card stock deck mapping the hardware and prompting new owners to follow the software download and installation steps at www.buglabs.net/start. You can check out the BUGbundle un-boxing in this video.
Setup instructions are available for each of the the Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms. This is because the BUG SDK (appropriately named "Dragonfly") is an Eclipse Perspective and, as such, can run within the same operating system environments that can host the Eclipse IDE. This software distribution decision lets Bug Labs continually iterate on the evolving Dragonfly software without the added expense of stale CD-ROMs and ensures that its customers are obtaining the latest bits to interact with the device.
After considering the different OS platforms to plug the BUGbase into, I opted to use OSX 10.4 as it required the least amount of prep work and, unlike the other platforms, it didn't require any additional software driver installations. This is not the case on other operating systems, including OSX 10.5, because of the need to install a USB networking driver to talk to the BUGbase's private network address of 10.10.10.10. Once the USB configuration has been set up, plugging in the BUGbase using the supplied USB cable and telnet'ing or secure shelling to its address verifies that it is ready to accept Dragonfly-constructed applications.
Unpacking, downloading, installing, and configuring application and device dependencies took me about 20 minutes although this setup time may take longer for those who don't already have the latest Eclipse IDE downloaded and configured on their computer.


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Biohacking and Brain Computer interfaces: the future of Human Computer Interaction (video/youtube)
As a discipline, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has always wandered on the boundaries between art and science, mainly due to its multidisciplinary genealogy, but often because it is a process of envisioning and questioning the future. The ideas of Cyborg, Augmented Humans and Bio-Feedback have been strong research themes for decades in HCI.
However, two currents need to merge in order for us to grasp the "augmented human": firstly, to sense and understand ourselves is crucial – reading and understanding our bio-signals and secondly, to let ourselves be controlled. My keynote (video here) on the Leonardo Stage revolved around such matters, where art and science naturally meet to discuss how contemporary bodies will sound and look.


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Siegel, Marjorie
Professor of Education
Curriculum & Teaching
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Educational Background
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison (1973);
M.S., Major: Reading Education (1979), Indiana University;
Ed.D. Major: Reading Education, Minors: Socio-Psyholinguistics
and Educational Inquiry Methodology, Indiana University.
Dissertation Title: "Reading as Signification"
Scholarly Interests
Reading in mathematics classrooms. Cultural and critical perspectives on literacy education. Literacy and the arts. Literacy and Technology.
Selected Publications
Reading Counts: Expanding the Role of Reading in Mathematics Classrooms (Teachers College Press).
"Critical approaches" (Handbook of Research on Reading, Vol 3).
"Supporting students' mathematical inquiries through reading" (Journal for Research in Mathematics Education).
"More than words: The generative power of transmediation for learning" (Canadian Journal of Education).


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Filibuster change needed to 'save the Senate,' Harry Reid says
WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asserted his determination to end the use of the filibuster to block presidential appointments Monday, saying the change was needed to "save the Senate from becoming obsolete."
"This is really a moment in history when circumstances dictate the need for change," the Nevada Democrat said in a morning speech at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. "All we want to do is what the Constitution says we should do. Filibusters are not part of the Constitution."
Reid's remarks represented a further escalation in his rhetoric in the dispute with the Senate's Republican minority over procedural maneuvers that have left a number of President Obama's choices to executive branch postings unconfirmed nearly a half year into his second term. The speech comes ahead of a rare gathering of the full Senate membership Monday night in the historic Old Senate Chamber in a final effort to short-circuit the changes.
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In response to Republican allegations that the changes he seeks would forever change the character of Congress' upper house, Reid described the change to Senate rules as "minor." The filibuster in its current form would continue to apply to judicial nominations, which unlike the administration posts are lifetime appointments, and to legislation.
"The power of an extreme minority now threatens the very integrity of this institution," he said. "Everyone knows that under the Constitution we have a responsibility to give advice and consent to the president on his nominations, but all we have from the Republicans is … obstruct and delay."
Republicans can avert any attempt to implement what they have called the "nuclear option" by simply allowing seven stalled nominations to move ahead for up-or-down votes, he said. They include three members of the National Labor Relations Board, and the heads of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Labor Department and Environmental Protection Agency.
Changing Senate rules typically requires a two-thirds majority, but Democrats say there is a loophole available that would allow them to do so with 51 votes. Reid claimed he had sufficient support among his 54-member Democratic caucus to do so. Vice President Joe Biden, expected to come to the Senate on Tuesday to swear in Massachusetts Sen.-elect Edward Markey (D), would also be available to cast a tie-breaking vote if necessary.
PHOTOS: Team Obama, where are they now?
Republicans counter that Democrats now seek a higher standard for confirming presidential appointments than they had allowed when they were in the minority during President George W. Bush's second term. Then, Democrats successfully blocked Bush's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton (who later took the post in a recess appointment). No Obama Cabinet nominee has yet been defeated, and the two scheduled for votes Tuesday would likely be confirmed.
Republicans say they would be willing to confirm new nominees to the NLRB instead of two of the pending choices that Obama had attempted to install through recess appointments. Their appointments were struck down by appeals courts that said Congress wasn't actually in recess.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pointed out Sunday that the Senate has confirmed 1,560 nominees, and blocked just four.
"We have never changed the rules of the Senate by breaking the rules of the Senate in order to diminish the voices of individual senators," the Kentucky Republican said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "We've never done that, and we sure shouldn't start it now, particularly since every one of the president's nominees that would be subject to this rule change have been confirmed."
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Well this is where Greenwich out performs almost any area in London. With the Royal Greenwich Park offering the most activities in the area there is much to see and do here. Greenwich Park is home to the largest herd of deer in the area, showcasing two species types and large protected herds. The park is home to a beautiful Herbaceous Border garden, and features the Queens Orchard. The park covers a lot of ground and was enclosed by a wall in 1427. However, the park land dates back to Roman times. There is a great statue of General Wolfe where from the elevated position you have an opportunity to shoot the very best photo or St. Paul's Cathedral across the River Thames. The park land itself, after being inherited by Henry V has been a favorite of monarchs for hundreds of years.
The Park is home to a number of museum attractions, the most famous of which is the Royal Observatory. There are many activities also held in Greenwich Park, namely concerts and festivals happening at least every fortnight in the summer. While the Royal Observatory also has year round attractions and is a tourist favorite; housing the Prime Meridian, a meeting of the globe's east and west and the beginning of time for us all. The Cutty Sark is dry-docked a few blocks from the Thames and is easily accessible by the Tube or rail stations. It is the only surviving tea clipper of its kind and in its 19th century hay day was the fastest ship in the seas.
In addition, the park has the National Maritime Museum where they offer year round exhibits as well as more than one ever needed to know about the British naval history. Last on the museum list is the Queen's House. An architectural masterpiece the immense buildings are a must see. The buildings are also home to art exhibits and galleries and offer a fantastic courtyard for summer day walks.
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Lifetime is in the early stages of developing Clarice, a drama based on the Clarice Starling character that earned The Silence of the Lambs star Jodie Foster an Academy Award for best actress.
Clarice would follow the exploits of a young Clarice Starling soon after she graduates from the FBI academy. The show's development comes as NBC preps the 13-episode series Hannibal, which also takes place in the world of author Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter series of books. But Hannibal, from Bryan Fuller, won't include the Clarice character, and instead focuses on the relationship between Hannibal and FBI criminal profiler Will Graham (played by Hugh Dancy).
MGM is producing Clarice, which Lifetime boss Nancy Dubuc first hinted may be in the works during the network's upfront presentation. Dubuc has been busy making over Lifetime by bringing in more original series with strong female leads at their core, including Jennifer Love Hewitt's The Client List.
As originally envisioned by Harris, Clarice grew up in West Virginia until she was 10, when her father, a police officer, was shot and killed. She moves to her uncle's farm in Montana, but later runs away and winds up in an orphanage. After college, she applies to the FBI academy. The Silence of the Lambs was published in 1988, and the movie adaptation hit theaters in 1991. Ten years later, Foster declined to reprise the role in 2001's Hannibal. Instead, Julianne Moore took over as the character.


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Tale of two games in this one for the Cubs as they fell behind 4-1 in the fourth inning then went to work. Cody Ransom just barely snuck a three-run homer inside the left field foul pole to tie the game at four in the fifth. The Cubs jumped ahead in the sixth inning as Ryan Sweeney came through with a big RBI single. The Cubs hung onto that one run lead until the eighth inning when Mark Trumbo took James Russell deep to tie things up. It stayed that way until the tenth inning when the Cubs loaded the bases with two out for Anthony Rizzo. Up until that at bat Rizzo was scuffling, but that's the great thing about baseball, always a chance to turn the day around. That's exactly what Rizzo did as he laced a two-out bases clearing double to give the Cubs an 8-5 lead, and they held off the Angels in the bottom half to take this one 8-6.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Police say a 20-year-old St. Augustine man gave up his helmet for his friend before their motorcycle crashed and he died.
Kyle Good was killed Wednesday when a car hit him and his friend on U.S. Highway 1 near Daniels Street, investigators said.
His passenger, Samantha Bartosch, remains in serious condition Saturday.
Channel 4's Hailey Winslow went to the Oasis Restaurant in St. Augustine, where one of Good's coworkers described the kind of man he was.
"He always put people first. He always took care of his little brother, took him around. He was just in here the other night," said Sunny Welsch, who worked with Good.
Memories of Good's life and contributions are captured in images. One image provided to Channel 4 shows the young man helping build a home on a mission trip in Jamaica.
Police said they believe the accident happened as he was leaving the beach with his friend Samantha Bartosch around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. They were heading south on Ponce de Leon Boulevard when they were hit by a car.
Good and Bartosch were flown to Orange Park Medical Center, but Good died.
Friends and former co-workers at the restaurant said Good lived up to his last name, and also described him as humble and caring.
Good was passionate about martial arts and joining the United States military, a friend said.
People who knew Good said they weren't surprised investigators believe he gave up his helmet for Bartosch.
"He was willing to give up his life for our country. He knew that going into it. So it wouldn't surprise, he was definitely a great character and person," said Welsch.
Visitation is Sunday, Jan. 20, from 4 to 7 p.m. with Deacon Bryan Ott leading prayers at 4:30 p.m.. A funeral Mass will be celebrated Monday, Jan. 21, at 1 p.m. with Reverend Tim Lindenfelser presiding. Both services will be held at St. Anastasia Catholic Church at 5205 A1A South, St. Augustine. In Kyle's honor, the family asks that attendees wear purple, his favorite color.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Kyle's name to Food for the Poor at www.foodforthepoor.org/stjosephacademy.
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First in Your Family
Choosing which colleges to apply to, filling out application forms, and figuring out financial aid—those aren't easy tasks no matter who you are or where you're from.
Those tasks can be even more stressful if your parents or guardians didn't go through it themselves and you need them to fill out the FAFSA — the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
If your parents or guardians don't have a four-year degree, you're considered a first-generation student by Grinnell College. Even if you have an older sibling who's gone to college, you are still part of the first generation in your family to do so.
Why does it matter if you're first generation?
Dan Davis '16, a first-generation student and a QuestBridge National Match Scholar who earned a full, four-year scholarship to Grinnell, used to wonder the same thing. "Now I see how different it is. As first gens, we don't know what we don't know," he says.
So we asked some fellow first gens for advice about navigating college.
Tip #1: Talk to Your Professors
Emma Lange '16 says, "Learn how to talk to professors." She's found that it's helpful to mention her first-gen status. "Not as an excuse or for pity points. It lets professors know where you're coming from."
Lange's older brother, Andy Lange '13, echoes that advice. "First gens sometimes tend to sit back and are more reluctant to go to professors' office hours," he says. "Break that awkward barrier your first semester. Make a connection with a professor. It sets the tone of the whole experience."
Davis says, "Professors are the number one reason I love Grinnell." He got a jump start getting acquainted with faculty his first year when he participated in the Grinnell Science Project. GSP helps first-generation, minority, and female students who are interested in math and science get a running start.
Stephen Sieck, associate professor of chemistry and a first-generation student himself, helps coordinate GSP. "We introduce students to what it takes to succeed in the sciences," he says. "We help them develop relationships with faculty very early. This can be intimidating for first-generation students. There's a stigma associated with talking to faculty for help, that it's not a good thing. So we help them develop a strong relationship with a number of faculty, so students feel it's not that big of a deal. We want to make students comfortable."
Tip #2: Share the Burden and Experiences
First gens often think they have to do everything themselves.
Emma Lange's best friend and roommate her first year was also a first-gen student. "We helped each other through a lot of first-year struggles," Lange says. Her older brother, Andy, was a senior at Grinnell during her first year, so she was able to use him as a resource as well as his first-gen friends. "We formed our own little group of people that we knew we could go to for different issues," she says.
Adam Lange '11, Emma's and Andy's oldest brother, gave Andy similar help. Andy recalls Adam's advice about the First-Year Tutorial.
"Adam suggested I take it from an English prof because the purpose of the tutorial is to learn more about college-level reading and writing," Andy says. He took the tutorial Dis Lit: Illness, Disability, and Contemporary American Life Writing with Ralph Savarese, professor of English. He loved it. "Adam steered me in the right direction," he says.
"Don't think it's all on you," Davis says. "I didn't fall into the trap of not asking for help because I wanted to optimize whatever I could in my education."
Tip #3: Be Patient with Your Parents and Yourself
Iulia Iordache '15 is a first-generation student from Romania. "I always thought of myself as an international student first," she says, "but the first-generation piece of it comes in with relation to my parents.
"Be patient with your parents," Iordache advises. Trying to explain what she's studying, especially the idea of the liberal arts, can be tricky.
As an international student, Iordache says she comes from a very competitive arena. "It's hard to let go of those competitive feelings," she says. "But it's more productive to work with groups and mentors."
Tip #4: Ask Questions
If there's something you really want to know or do at Grinnell, just ask.
Davis has spent many hours speaking with the Financial Aid staff. "I wanted to know where my money was going," he says. "They've been very helpful and explain things step by step."
Money is a common concern for first-generation students, who are often, though not always, high-need students too.
When Andy Lange considered studying in Germany for a semester, he was concerned about the cost. "I went to Financial Aid and said, 'I really want to study abroad, but I don't feel comfortable taking on more debt to do it.' They encouraged me to apply to scholarships. I won two that made studying abroad no more expensive than a semester on campus."
Sharing the Knowledge
Emma Lange, Iordache, and Davis are working together in 2014–2015 to create more opportunities for first-generation students to fill in the knowledge gaps and get the most out of their Grinnell experience. Ideas they're considering: a regular lunch meeting for first-gens; a textbook lending library; a mentoring program.
Grinnell students, alumni, faculty and staff who are or were first-generation college students are invited to join the Grinnell College First Generation College Students Facebook group.
Help for First Gens Before You Apply
Grinnell's Diversity Preview Program offers a free, fly-in visit to campus each fall for domestic students who identify themselves as diverse in some way, including first-generation status. In 2013, about 150 students applied and about 50 students came, says Patty Amador-Lacson, assistant director of admission and coordinator of multicultural recruitment.
I'm First is a nonprofit organization that specifically supports first-generation students; Grinnell is a member. You can ask questions in an online discussion forum, read students' stories, and get information about colleges that want first-generation students to attend.
QuestBridge is another useful resource for first-generation students who are still in the decision phase. QuestBridge seeks high-achieving, low-income students and helps match them to colleges and universities. Grinnell is one of about 35 partner schools. The program assists students through the college application process and helps high school juniors with college visits.
Help for First Gens After You're Admitted
In August each year, during the week before New Student Orientation, two programs run simultaneously that can benefit first-generation students. Both invite students to participate.
- The Grinnell Science Project is geared specifically for under-represented groups, including first-generation students, with an interest in math and the sciences.
- The Peer Connections Pre-Orientation Program invites students from under-represented groups, including first-generation students. "PCPOP provides new students with tools and insights on being successful both academically and socially by plugging them into campus resources and peer networks," says Narren Brown, director of intercultural engagement and leadership. Approximately 50 students participate each year.
New Student Orientation is for all new students and is a great way to get acquainted with resources on campus.
Dan Davis '16, a math major, hails from Wadsworth, Ohio. Emma Lange '16, a political science major with a concentration in technology studies, is from Carroll, Iowa. Iulia Iordache '16, who's majoring in psychology and Russian, is from Bacoi, Romania.


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In the abstractSeptember 21st, 2011 — ddelmoli
During conference season, it can be a challenge to come up with abstracts that you can feel passionate about, while making sure to craft them in a way that is both attractive to selection committees and the audience you feel like you want to reach. I often find that tri-purpose (satisfying myself, a committee, and the potential audience) to be daunting and occasionally conflicting — leading to abstract paralysis.
Starting today, I'm going to work harder at it. If you've been to any of my presentations in the recent past, you know that I like to spend more time on what I think are technical "culture" issues rather than examples of how to implement or interpret the technical features of the latest software release. It's an area that I'm passionate about, and it's one that I feel is drastically underrepresented and underserved at most technical conferences.
The biggest challenge I have with those kinds of presentations is making them selectable and attractive — for the topics mostly concern our ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in support of our business and mission objectives. And in that case, we all feel (myself included) like we're from Lake Wobegon.
To me, no where is this more apparent than in the discussions about the Agile movement in software development, testing and production operations. Fellow Oak Table member Martin Widlake has some excellent examples of these issues in his 2 recent blog posts on the subject:
"Friday Philosophy – Why Doesn't Agile Work?" and "In Defense of Agile Development (and their Ilk)"
(I especially like "Ilk")
In a small, forgotten corner of the Internet, I belong to a Yahoo! Group (yes, they still exist!) on Agile Databases, which has as its description:
Discussion about Database management with regards to Extreme Programming practices and principles.
You can visit the group here.
In a recent discussion, there was a post from Scott Ambler that I found myself violently agreeing with:
A question was asked about coordinating and scheduling changes made by database and ETL teams with the development teams in order to reduce confusion and churn during development.
Question / Comment: While one or more code iterations are taking place in parallel, the data design and ETL are working on their iteration of the db schema and data, which will be consumed by later code iterations.
Scott's Comment / Answer: Better yet, this could occur in a "whole team" manner where data-experienced people are embedded in the actual team. This can improve productivity by reducing overall overhead. Unfortunately this can be difficult in many companies due to the organizational complexities resulting from the cultural impedance mismatch between data and development professionals.
(Emphasis mine)
I feel like I've have the privilege of working in places where those organizational complexities and cultural impedance mismatches were overcome and I'd love to talk about what I think made that happen.
Now just to write some compelling abstracts on the subject — ideas welcome!