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Reading is HOT this Summer!
Whether you're 3 or 103, summertime is fun time at Broward County Library, as the 2012 Summer Reading Program (SRP) kicks off with a host of exciting programs and events. Visit your library and sign up for the Summer Reading Program sponsored by the Miami Dolphins Foundation. The more you read, the more chances you'll have to win prizes!
Summer reading is crucial when it comes to maintaining children's reading skills, with studies showing that reading over the summer prevents "summer reading loss." Children can lose up to three months of reading progress and they don't catch up in the fall. The Summer Reading Program keeps children motivated and reading. For the grown-ups, the SRP is the perfect time to relax and read for the fun of it.
Children & Tweens: Visit Broward County Library and "Dream Big" this summer! Find fun, free programs that make your library the place to be this summer! Here's a sample of the events for kids:June 12, 19, 26 – Techie Tweens: Interactive computer games, contests and more, ages 8-12, 3 to 4 p.m., North Regional/Broward College LibraryJune 19 – Masks Around the World: Learn the significance of masks and make your own, grades 3-5, 3 to 5 p.m., Sunrise Dan Pearl Branch LibraryJuly 7, 14, 21 – Princess Dream Dance Camp: Little princesses can learn a magical dance routine during this free workshop for children ages 3-5, 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Davie/Cooper City Branch Library. Pre-register: 954-680-0050July 16 – Tween Book Club Event: Book discussion, crafts and treats, ages 8-12, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., West Regional Library. Pre-register: 954-382-5860.
Teens: This summer, "Own the Night" at the library. Have fun, hang out, make friends, get creative –dream it and do it this summer at Broward County Library. Summer Reading Program events for teens include: June 13 – Magic Workshop: Learn magic tricks and keep a free set of magic props, middle/high school students, 4 to 5 p.m., Southwest Regional Library July 11, 25 – Watch the Movie, Win the Book: Teen Edition, ages 13 and up, 3 p.m., South Regional/Broward College Library July 16 – Teen Murder Mystery Dinner: Play a part or solve the mystery, ages 12 and up, 5 to 7:30 p.m., North Lauderdale Saraniero Branch Library Pre-register: 954-968-3840
Adults: With the theme "Between the Covers," you know the Adult Summer Reading Program is going to sizzle! Heat up the summer with these programs for adults: June 23 – How to Write Love Letters, 1 p.m., Southwest Regional Library July 10 – Uncover the Magic of Free Music Downloads with Freegal, 2 to 4 p.m., South Regional/Broward College Library July 21 – Between the Covers Literary Cinema, 2 to 4:30 p.m., Imperial Point Branch Library
Complete list of Youth and Adult Summer Reading events available at your local library!
Broward County Library Publishes First eBook
Broward County Library has published its first eBook, The Bienes Museum Catalogs of James A. Findlay. This beautiful publication honors the work of librarian and curator James A. Findlay, who served as director of the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, a rare books and special collections library located at Main Library. Findlay, who passed away in 2010, was responsible for organizing and curating exhibitions from the special collections which totaled more than 15,000 items, including rare books, artifacts, manuscripts and reference materials.
The new eBook, the first of its kind to be created in-house at Broward County Library, is a survey of the approximately 30 printed publications Findlay and his staff prepared to accompany Bienes Museum exhibitions. The Bienes Museum Catalogs of James A. Findlay provides an exciting look back at publications that Jim Findlay (1943-2010) wrote, edited or contributed in some capacity. Jim and his colleagues produced an array of exceptional print pieces, at times in collaboration with expert collectors.
The Bienes Museum Catalogs of James A. Findlay may be accessed for free by visiting Broward County Library's online Digital Collections page. It is available in EPUB eBook (iPad, NOOK, Sony Reader) Kindle Book. You can also view the EPUB eBooks on your computer with Adobe Digital Editions.
American Heritage Month
Show your pride in your country this July and celebrate American Heritage Month with music, crafts, movies and more.
Displays: • Historic Broward County, Northwest Regional Library • Civil War Exhibit, West Regional Library
Book Displays: Stirling Road Branch Library, West Regional Library and Galt Ocean Mile Reading Center
Events: June 12 – American Sewing Guild, 1 to 3 p.m., Stirling Road Branch Library June 12 – Shade Tree Pickers: Bluegrass Celebrates American Heritage Month, 3 to 4 p.m., Tamarac Branch Library (Free for Friends of Tamarac Library; $3 for nonmembers.) June 21 – Historical Commission Brown Bag Lunch Program: Broward County Sports, noon, Broward County Historical Commission Building June 26 – Lesley McDonald Sings America, 1 to 2:30 p.m., North Regional/Broward College Library July 7 – Film: For Love and Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots, 2 to 4 p.m., North Lauderdale Saraniero Branch Library July 9 – Life During the Civil War: Presented by Robert and Kathy Feeney, 2 to 3 p.m., West Regional Library July 17 – Make It and Take It Craft Special: Native American Dream Catcher, ages 5-12, 2 to 3 p.m., please pre-register: 954-785-2181, Pompano Beach Branch Library July 20 – Moon Day, 1 to 3 p.m., Main Library July 21 – Shade Tree Pickers: Bluegrass Celebrates American Heritage Month, 1 to 2:30 p.m., North Regional/Broward College Library July 23 – Life During the Civil War: Presented by Robert and Kathy Feeney, 1 to 4 p.m., West Regional Libraryy
Paul Friedberg
When Paul Friedberg moved to South Florida in 1999, his daily drive took him past the Century Plaza/Leon Slatin Branch Library. Although he lives in Boca Raton, Paul Friedberg makes Century Plaza Branch his home library and willingly pays the $50 non-resident fee to enjoy Broward County Library's services. "The people at Century Plaza are very friendly and accommodating," he explains. "I read so many books that it would cost a fortune to pay for them. Broward County Library gets the new books so quickly – I never have to wait for bestsellers." Paul is also a fan of the new BCL WoW mobile app.
"It changes the way you use the library. My phone is always with me. I hear about a book I want and I get my phone and order it from the library," he explains. "It couldn't be more perfect. It does everything but go to the library and pick up the book for me!"
Father's Day Fun!
Inspired by Mother's Day, a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd pushed for a special day for dads. Raised by her single father, Dodd worked with her pastor to write the original Father's Day resolution.
The first Father's Day was held in Spokane, Washington in 1910. Today, there are nearly 66.3 million dads in the U.S. who will receive nearly 95 million Father's Day cards this year, accompanied by 95 million neckties!
June 7 – Early Literacy Story Time Celebrates Father's Day, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Imperial Point Branch Library June 11 – Super Monday Father's Day Stories, Crafts and More! All ages, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., North Lauderdale Saraniero Branch Library June 12 – Film Celebrating Father's Day, 2 to 4:30 p.m., call 954-537-2877 for title, Galt Ocean Mile Reading Center
June is also Men's Health Month! Men's Health Month Book Displays: Stirling Road Branch Library and West Regional Library.
Anancy Festival at the Library!
The Anancy Festival 2012, a celebration of Caribbean-American culture and history is coming to South Regional/Broward College Library on Saturday, June 9 from noon to 5 p.m. Named for Anansi, the West African trickster of folklore, the Anancy Festival will feature music, stories and dance and will be presented in four cities: Pembroke Pines, Orlando, Washington, D.C. and Kingston, Jamaica. The event will be simulcast between each city so attendees can view performances at different locations. Geared toward children and teens, the festival is free and open to the public. For more information, call 954-201-8825.
Celebrate Juneteenth at the Blues and Sweet Potato Pie Festival! (Back to Top)
Northwest Branch Library will host their annual Blues and Sweet Potato Pie Festival starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 16. The festival is held each summer in honor of Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
The festival features live music, lots of fun kids' activities and, of course, delicious sweet potato pie! It also kicks off the Summer Reading Program at Northwest Branch Library, and children, teens and adults are invited to sign up to read and win great prizes.
Celebrate National Dance Day (July 28) All Summer Long!
Kick up your heels @ the library this summer. Young or old, you can try out hip-hop, jazz, salsa or line dancing. Go around the world and watch a Hawaiian dance performance, learn Latin American folk dancing or hear about African beats. What are you waiting for? Get moving at your library with these great programs:June 9 - Hip Hop Dance Summer Reading Kick-Off, 3 to 4 p.m., Miramar Branch Library and Education CenterJune 14, 21, 28 - Toddler Time: Short story time, dancing and play, ages up to 3, parental participation required, 11:30 a.m., Hollywood Branch LibraryJune 16 - The Dream Big Show with Holy Cow and special guests Mr. Pig and Bully the Bull: Funny audience participation skits & dancing, all ages, 2 to 3 p.m., West Regional Library June 18, 25 - Own the Night @ the Hip-Hop Palazzo for Teens! Learn the hip-hop moves with the music of today's most popular vocal artists, ages 12-18, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Lauderhill Towne Centre Branch LibraryJune 19 - Hip-Hop & Jazz Dance Class with instructor Miss Raquel from 5-6-7-8 Let's Dance, ages 7 & up, 6 p.m., North Lauderdale Saraniero Branch LibraryJune 20 - Griselda Castro's Latin American Folkloric Dances, 6 to 7 p.m., Sunrise Dan Pearl Branch LibraryJune 23 - Line Dancing Class. 2 to 3 p.m., Northwest Regional LibraryJune 25 - Just for Tweens: Caribbean Heat: Learn the latest Zumba moves, ages 8-12, 3:30 to 3:30 p.m. No large groups. Pre-register: 954-201-2626. North Regional/Broward College Library June 27- Ethnotricity Cultural Art Studio Dance Performance, 12:30 to 7 p.m., African-American Research Library and Cultural CenterJune 28, 29, 30 - Ethnotricity Cultural Art Studio Dance Performance, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., African-American Research Library and Cultural Center July 2, 9 - Own the Night @ the Hip-Hop Palazzo for Teens! Learn the-hop moves with the music of today's most popular vocal artists, ages 12-18, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Lauderhill Towne Centre Branch Library July 3, 17 - Hip-Hop & Jazz Dance Class with instructor Miss Raquel from 5-6-7-8 Let's Dance, ages 7 & up, 6 p.m., North Lauderdale Saraniero Branch LibraryJuly 6 - Let's Move It! Move It! Dance, games & more, all ages, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Pompano Beach Branch Library July 7, 14, 21 - Princess Dream Dance Camp: Learn a special dance routine to perform for their parents at the end of the session, ages 3-5. Pre-registration required, 954-680-0050, 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Davie/Cooper City Branch LibraryJuly 11 - Own the Night: JUS HIP-HOP: Free dance workshop conducted by artist Ms. Maraj, ages 8-15, 5:30 to 6 p.m., Hollywood Branch LibraryJuly 12, 19, 26 - Toddler Time: Short story time, dancing and play, ages up to 3, parental participation required, 11:30 a.m., Hollywood Branch LibraryJuly 12 - Teen Zumba, 5 to 6 p.m. Riverland Branch LibraryJuly 14 - Salsa Dancing Class, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Northwest Regional Library July 14 - Drumming with Ndakhte: Drum, Dance, Dream! Learn the drumbeats and music of Africa, ages 5 and up, 2 to 3 p.m. Southwest Regional Library July 14 - Rock On, Classic Rock from the 60s 70s & 80s. Performed by the Long Road Back band, 4 p.m., Southwest Regional Library July 16 - Kids Summer Specials: Hawaiian Dance Show! All Ages, 2 to 3 p.m., Southwest Regional LibraryJuly 18 - Geddy the Gecko Interactive Show, singing, dancing and lots of laughter, ages 3-12. Day camp groups welcome. Pre-register, 954-201-2626, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., North Regional/Broward College LibraryJuly 21 - Line Dancing Class, 2 to 3 p.m., Northwest Regional Library July 23 - Pre-Recital Hip-Hop & Jazz Practice with instructor, Miss Raquel from 5-6-7-8 Let's Dance, ages 7 & up, 4 to 6 p.m., North Lauderdale Saraniero Branch Library July 23 - African Dreams: Drum & Dance Workshop. Learn authentic techniques under the stars with troupe performers from Drumming with Ndakhte. (Indoors in case of rain). Middle and high school students, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Southwest Regional LibraryJuly 23 - Vampire Dancing, 6:30 to 7 p.m., Jan Moran Collier City Learning LibraryJuly 24 - Hawaiian Culture! Learn about Hawaiian culture through song and dance and storytelling with Ohana Arts, 6 to 7 p.m., Hallandale Beach Branch LibraryJuly 28 - Summer Reading Program Grand Finale, with hip-hop and jazz dance performers, all ages, 2 to 4 p.m., North Lauderdale Saraniero Branch Library
Stonewall Exhibit at North Regional/Broward College Library Honors LGBT Pride Month
What's Cooking for National Culinary Arts Month (Back to Top)
This month-long celebration held each July promotes awareness of professional cooks and chefs and their contributions to new culinary trends and dining excellence. Visit your library in July to check out the latest and greatest cookbooks or these tasty National Culinary Arts Month programs: July 9 – Book N Cookin' with Robyne Friedland, ages 5-10, 2 to 3 p.m., Pompano Beach Branch Library. Sponsored by Friends of Pompano Beach Library. Pre-register: 954-786-2181. July 14 – See What's Cooking with a Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute chef, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., Miramar Branch Library and Education Center.
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- Mission & History
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South Florida is home to the only subtropical wilderness area in the country, and Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) is the only program bringing artists to the Everglades. AIRIE's purpose is to inform, connect, and support artists, writers and musicians who wish to be ambassadors for the Everglades by providing month-long residencies in the Park.
AIRIE was born in 2001 when the $8 billion Everglades restoration bill had been passed by the U. S. Congress. Painter and former arts administrator Donna Marxer thought it would be a good idea for artists and writers to become a part of this new interest in one of the most compelling and environmentally endangered parts of our nation. With the full cooperation of Everglades National Park, she started a program by which qualified professionals in arts and letters could reside in the Park for a month and create unimpeded in the wilderness setting.
AIRIE residents supply their own transportation and food. They are treated as treasured Volunteers In the Park (VIPs) by an enthusiastic staff and visitors to the Park where they offer events in the form of exhibitions, lectures or workshops. Each visual artist donates a work inspired by their residency for the Park collection, and writers and composers offer some publication rights to the Park.
The program has been a success. Today, there are over 90 AIRIE Fellows who have produced an outstanding body of work, and inspired visitors and Park staff alike. With proposed projects like traveling exhibitions, publication in the form of books, film and video and ideas yet to come, AIRIE brings attention to this unique national treasure.
"In a park known for its spectacular and diverse wildlife, the art and voices of AIRIE artists reveal other unique, and often missed, dimensions of this special place," remarks Park Superintendent Dan Kimball.
The residency's basecamp is a small live-work cottage/apartment in the Park's Pine Island District near Anhinga Trail. Artists get free access to the Everglades for the period of the residency, and the possibility to work with scientists in the Park during their stay.
AIRIE, Inc. cooperates with Everglades National Park's Volunteers-in-Parks program to manage the residency. Since 2009, AIRIE, Inc. has been incorporated as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization with the sole mission of supporting the Artists in Residence in Everglades program at Everglades National Park through fundraising and producing special projects. The Park provides administrative staff (Board Members and Rangers co-administer the program), a live-work space at Long Pine Key, and access to the Everglades' 1.5 million acres. AIRIE, Inc. coordinates the selection process and special events or opportunities for AIRIE Fellows.
More information on the program can be found at Everglades National Park's AIRIE page.
Announcing the 2013 AIRIE Fellows
MIAMI, FL January 7, 2013 – Now in it's thirteenth year, Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE), proudly announces the 2013 AIRIE Fellows. This year AIRIE has selected a diverse group of local and national artists across several disciplines, including, painters, sculptors and installation artists, photographers, writers, performance artists and a composer.
South Florida is home to the only subtropical wilderness area in the country, AIRIE is the only program bringing artists to the Everglades. AIRIE's purpose is to inform, connect, and support artists, writers and musicians who wish to be inspired by the Everglades and then become ambassadors for the Park and its resources. AIRIE partners with Everglades National Park staff to offer month-long artist residencies in the Park's subtropical wilderness. At least twelve AIRIE Fellows per year live and create new work in the Park, and in return lead interactive activities with visitors and donate artwork to the Park.
2013 AIRIE Fellows include South Florida-based artists Naomi Fisher, Alice Raymond, Harumi Abe, dancer and performance artist Ana Mendez, and composer Gustavo Matamoros, New York-based artists Bryan McGovern Wilson, Susan Silas, Mathias Kessler, as well as Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen Nguyen of Striped Canary, writers Wendy Call, Beth Raymer, and Bill Maxwell, and painter Jane Abrams from New Mexico. Read more about each of the AIRIE 2013 Fellows.
With generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant, AIRIE is now focused on deepening its mission by connecting Fellows with the South Florida cultural community to bring attention to this unique and endangered part of our national heritage. Building on the success of the 2011 partnership with O, Miami poetry festival (an installation of banners with poetry by AIRIE Fellows throughout the Park and readings in the Park and in Miami), AIRIE will again partner with O, Miami in addition to new collaborations with other cultural organizations. AIRIE's expanded programming will feature a year-round calendar of events both in the Everglades and outside the Park, including readings, performances, workshops and lectures. Through these outreach events, Fellows will use their art forms to engage the public, showcasing the Everglades as beautiful, ecologically important, and worth protecting.
The 2013 Fellows join nearly 100 AIRIE alumni who have produced an outstanding body of Everglades-related work, and inspired visitors and Park staff alike. AIRIE Fellows have the unique opportunity to get to know the ecology of the Everglades by being immersed in it, and then share their perspective through creative public programs. "In a park known for its spectacular and diverse wildlife, the art and voices of AIRIE artists reveal other unique, and often missed, dimensions of this special place," remarks Park Superintendent Dan Kimball.
AIRIE Art on View at MDC Mueseum of Art + Design
MIAMI, FL December 1, 2012 –Art works from AIRIE Fellows John Louder, Terry Kramzar, Annie Helmericks-Louder, Judith Greavu, Karen Glaser, Cameron Gillie, Caroline Court, and Tori Arpad will be featured in Miami Dade College Museum Art + Design's show Forever is Composed of Nows. The exhibition features art works inspired by Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park,Dry Tortugas National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve. Each work will be on display in the President's Gallery located in the ballroom of the Freedom Tower at MDC located on 600 Biscayne Blvd. The show runs from Nov. 30- Dec. 14.
A panel discussion, Stories Yet Untold: Cultural Resources and Why They Matter in our National Parks, will explore parks' cultural resources and why they matter. The discussion will examine the significance of local cultural artifacts found in south Florida's four national park sites, the state of these artifacts, and a vision for their future care, interpretation, and dissemination. Jacqueline Crucet of National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA); Melissa Memory, chief of Cultural Resources at Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks; and Nancy Russell, curator at South Florida Collection Management Center of Everglades National Park, will examine topics ranging from the Florida panther and Cuban rafter vessels to Nuclear Warheads and how these objects offer an insight into America's shared cultural heritage. The panel discussion will take place from 10-11 am on November 30, in conjunction with the exhibition's opening.
Photographer Krista Elrick Follows Audubon's Path to the Everglades
By Giselle Heraux, AIRIE
Photographer Krista Elrick
MIAMI, FL November 1, 2013 –Photographer Krista Elrick is not taking an ordinary road trip. There is no visit to the Grand Canyon or a Broadway play on her agenda. Instead, Elrick is following in naturalist painter John James Audubon's footsteps, and the trail has led her to Everglades National Park, where she is Artist in Residence during the month of November.
Elrick has been rephotographing the sites where Audubon lived, traveled, and sketched his famous bird paintings, and will lecture about her project during the Deering Estate at Cutler's Deering Goes to the Birds event, at 10:30 AM on November 17th. Referring to Audubon's journals, which she collected from various institutions, Elrick has been able to pinpoint the exact locations he visited.
Of the 500-mile Natchez Trail, which Audubon walked several times, Elrick observed, "No place is at all how he first saw it." At Three Buttes, where Audubon camped and sketched during his last expedition, in 1843, she found a lot of cows and oil rigs. "I have rules for my project," she says, "and no matter what the places look like I am going to make the images."
Elrick came to her love of birds while she was working with artist Jack Loeffler, on a film about cancer survivors. Loeffler and Elrick decided to use birds to represent the emotions of the survivors, so she began photographing birds and instantly became intrigued.
"Birds were more of a metaphor of life and passing," says Elrick, herself a cancer survivor. "I felt I could relate to them." She began her five year project on Audubon, studying his work and then tracing his footsteps.
Several institutions with particular interest in Audubon have agreed to display her work when it is complete, and in 2013, her work will be hosted at the 75 anniversary celebration at the John James Audubon Museum in Henderson, Kentucky.
Elrick is partnering with the crowd-funding program USA Projects to raise $10,000 in support of the project. The funding will allow her to process and print her negatives, and to rent a plane in order to photograph some sites from the air, or as she calls it "a birds eye view."
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By Andrea Clark Mason, AIRIE
MIAMI, FL October 1, 2012 –"If a baby rattler gets inside your house, just sweep it out with a broom," Alan, the head of Pine Island Interpretation tells me. I am neighbors with the deadly coral snake, who likes to sunbathe under blue skies. If I'm bitten, no trip to the hospital will help. I'll be a goner. For this month, I'll also be sharing my backyard with several species of lizard and butterfly, and more mosquitoes than anyone would want. When I talked to Alan, over the phone, and told him June was the first month I had available to come to Everglades National Park to do some research as a writer/artist-in-residence, he said, "Are you sure you want to come in June?"
"Why? Is it that bad?" I replied.
Later, after I'd already arrived, right after he'd told me about the rattlers and the coral snake, he said, "You're brave to come in June," handing me a bag of naturalist books and a hooded bug jacket, complete with face mask.
I've come here to spend time in a land where my family lived for a year – Miami, Florida, and the National Park that spreads out to the west of it. I decided I needed to visit places I mention in the amorphous two hundred page manuscript that has piled high on my desk over the last year. I decided before I could write more, I needed to know what it was like to walk on the hard limestone crust covered with grass that Floridians call a lawn. I needed to understand a deep love for air conditioning. I decided I need to revisit nearby Fairchild Gardens, Parrot Jungle, eat tart key lime pie, and fall in love with a heartbreakingly beautiful ecosystem that might be damaged beyond repair.
The third day, I am half expecting to find a baby rattler or perhaps a coral snake, but instead, I hear a quick tapping on the wall of the bathroom. I look up. Eight legs. A leaf-green spider as big as my hand. I go into the living room and come back armed with a stiff folder and a large piece of Tupperware, which don't seem like likely tools, but they're the best I can find. Although I am fast, this spider is faster. Here, there, and all over the bathroom in a few seconds flat. I put down the envelope and Tupperware, resigned to try again later. I take a shower, aware that the spider might be thirsty. I towel off. The spider has not moved. Later on that night, after another stiff envelope and Tupperware incident, I resolve that I will probably never catch the spider. It's too large to smush, even if I could catch it. It seems more mammalian than arachnid. If I smush it, there will be blood and tissue, guts, like a mouse. Not at all like a spider.
Outside, the humidity fills my mouth like a wet rag. Outside, I sweat as a matter of course. The lightweight, long-sleeved shirt and pants I wear like a uniform don't shield me from the bugs after the fabric, soaked with sweat, sticks to my skin, despite my whole-body spray of deep woods OFF.
On my trips into the park, I venture out of my house with the attitude of an explorer. In my backpack, I bring field guides, water, and binoculars. Down the causeway, I ride my bike, looking for herons, marsh rabbits, alligators, fish, snakes, anything else that reminds me where I am.
My neighbor, a poet and park volunteer, tells me she likes to visit Anhinga Trail regularly, daily if possible, to see what's changed. I've taken to her routine and notice there's always something different – a splashing marsh rabbit, a collection of birds I haven't seen before, butterfly orchids, newly in bloom. This day, I notice just off the trail, a mess of reeds has been shaped into a mound. On top, a large alligator egg lies exposed. I peer into the reeds, hoping to catch a glimpse of the mother, but the nest appears to have been abandoned. Perhaps against my better judgment, I peer more closely into the cattails that line the path. No gator. No mother.
The next day, when I ride my bike over to the Pine Island interpretation office to check mail and report the abandoned nest, the rangers are already on it. "A teen pregnancy situation," Alan says. "She didn't pick a good spot to build her nest, and the raccoons got to it. Still, there are some eggs that might be ok."
One of the other rangers chimes in that I should have seen the bellowing mother chasing Alan down the trail. "She chased you?" I ask.
He nods. "She was not happy." Since I met Alan, he's had one arm in a cast that he keeps outstretched at a 90 degree angle to his body. Motorcycle accident. Alan running with his cast-encased arm outstretched only adds humor to the scene I imagine.
In Alan's office, I sit in a chair next to the door, and ask him to explain the water to me. "I know there's not enough," I say, but that's all I know.
He points to a scientific-looking map on the wall and starts talking about levees and canals and a delicate balance. Delicate is a word often used to describe the Everglades ecosystem. Everything operates in relation to its environment – the food chain, the water table, the mercury level in the fish. Still, when the Valujet plane crashed into the Shark River Slough in 1998, one of the rescue workers, hot, sunburned, eaten by bugs, and cut up from the sawgrass is quoted as saying, "there is nothing delicate about the Everglades."
After the impromptu lecture, I don't feel like I know any more about water. The people here – the rangers, the naturalists, and anyone who cares – talks in a desperate way about water. The way people who live in the desert talk about water. But here, it looks like there is plenty. The issue seems to be about balance. When there's not enough freshwater, saltwater intrusion threatens the freshwater aquifers. If water is released from the elaborate system of dykes, levees, and canals at the wrong time, alligator nests can flood. The water that flows south to the Everglades from Lake Okeechobee – as it always has — can become rich with nitrates from farm runoff, making way for cat tails and the wrong kind of algae. And of course, there are the fish full of mercury. Ten years ago, one of the few remaining Florida panthers was found dead, poisoned by mercury. He'd eaten a raccoon that had eaten too many fish, the mercury concentrating in the top of the food chain. But from what I can tell, that's not related to the water problem. It's like the issue of invasive species – important, but just one of many looming reasons the Everglades is in trouble. Later in my month, when I give a reading to a boat full of chemistry PhD students, they'll tell me I've oversimplified, that I don't – that maybe I can't – understand the Everglade's water issues.
When, a day later, I return to the Anhinga Trail, orange netting prevents tourists from approaching the nest. A sign reads "Wildlife nesting habitat. Do not disturb." The nest looks the same. I wonder if any of the baby gators will hatch. The water level is rising, and no gators are out sunbathing. It's the beginning of the wet season. I've been told that as the water level rises, the wildlife disappear, dispersing into the slough. I scan the surface of the lake and double check with binoculars to see if a stick disturbing the surface of the water might be a gator. The green heron babies grow larger, and they are less cautious, walking out on the branch of the pond apple, perhaps thinking about their first flight.
While I work, while I read, and increasingly, while I sleep, the spider is in residence. Sometimes in the bathroom. Sometimes, to my surprise, in other parts of the house. When one of the rangers also in charge of building and grounds comes by to check on me, I show her the spider, then high on a wall in the bathroom. "Is it dangerous?" I ask.
She nods her head no. "A daddy long leg," she says.
"A daddy long leg!" I say. It looks nothing like the daddy long legs I knew growing up in Pennsylvania. This spider could eat ten of those daddy long legs for a snack.
She nods.
"Maybe a subtropical one?" I suggest, but she doesn't seem interested, and instead wants to know if I have enough pans in the kitchen and if my bike lock is sufficient. To her, perhaps spiders – even large ones – are just something to live with in South Florida.
One day, I borrow a park truck to drive down to Flamingo, another end of the park. While moseying through the visitor center, reading the plaques and the history, I meet a group of tourists: two men and a pre-adolescent boy. They are all wearing long sleeved shirts, hats, and pants. "Have you seen a ranger around here?" they ask me. It's the slow season, and the rangers, I've noticed, occasionally attend to things other than the vacant information desk. "I saw one earlier," I say. "I'm sure she'll be back."
"We're getting ready to head out camping," the man with the long, white beard says. He has a map in his hands that marks different canoe trails through the surrounding islands and canals.
"I wanted to do that," I say, "but everyone told me it was the wrong season. Too many mosquitoes." I remember the sign at the entrance to the park, like the fire signs out west, post the mosquito hazard on a daily basis: from annoying to crazy.
"We know it's going to be bad, like a weed cutter in your ear. The rangers told us not to go, but we're from Minnesota," the man with the white beard says. Then the three of them show me the rubber bands they've used to secure their wrist and ankle cuffs. The boy looks less than enthusiastic.
I read more field guides. I read Man in the Everglades, about the history of trappers, hunters, and outlaws who subsisted off the land before it became a national park. I read about how the plume trade almost demolished the wading bird population. When I come across a mosquito tip sheet, I realize I already know them: open and shut doors quickly, move briskly except when there's a wind. Stay in open, bright areas, off grass, away from shade, where mosquitoes often hide. Wear a hat, socks, long sleeves, sunscreen, bug spray.
Week two or three, the spider moves into my bedroom. At first, I am anxious, and then, perhaps after too much reading and time alone, I am reassured by its friendly animal presence and consider accepting it as my roommate. (Do I have a choice?) For the first time, when I finish reading and before I turn off the light, I look up to green bulb surrounded by eight tiny sticks in the far corner of my room and say, "goodnight."
I find a canoe partner. Allyson the ranger and I haul a canoe out of an open air porch where the flies, mosquitoes and ants are so thick both Allyson and I put up the hoods and face covers on our bug jackets. We lift the canoe, carrying it to a sloping bank, where we set it on the water.
We paddle out to the first mudflat, and Allyson points out the birds. "Willet, black stilt, white heron, blue heron, white egret, tricolor heron, reddish egret." I look through my binoculars at the birds, all different colors, doing various activities, some looking, some probing at the mud with their beaks, some flapping their wings. We watch, paddle a little farther, and amuse ourselves with the redfish and mullet jumping in front of us. It's hot, and I'm sweating through my light-colored long pants and long-sleeved shirt, even though I've adapted to the weather some: at least now, I expect to sweat. And I don't have the delusion that there's any way to avoid it.
We steer left around the bend to "snakebite", an area of the Florida Bay where Allyson says there is usually good bird watching.
Allyson looks farther away through her binoculars. "Are those?" she says. "I think those are flamingoes." Wild flamingoes are a rare find down at the Flamingo ranger station. No one knows why, but they don't nest in the bay any more. We paddle until we are fairly close to the flamingoes. "Twenty three," she says. I don't even try to count. I just trust her.
Then the flamingoes turn around and begin walking towards us. We are in awe. They stop twenty feet from us, making their strange ha ha noises and extending their long necks as they look around. They look almost like aliens I think, tall and thin and intelligent-seeming. And in this other-worldly place, that makes sense. I take a picture, but it is the last one. The camera noisily begins to rewind the film, and I hide the camera under a fleece in my bag to try to muffle the sound. The birds don't seem to notice. They are beautiful, elegant, gangly. They look nothing like the flamingoes I saw just a few weeks ago at Parrot Jungle. A plane goes by, and then Allyson and I realize that we can even hear the highway from here.
We watch the birds for a while longer. Then Allyson takes a picture, and her camera also noisily starts rewinding the film. We laugh a little, but the birds are unfazed. We gaze out to the horizon where the water and the land are the same color.
"Well, I hate to say it, but we probably ought to get going," Allyson says.
"Aww," I say, but just then, almost like they heard us, the flamingoes turn around and begin to walk away from us, towards the other end of the mud flat.
"It's like they heard us," Allyson says.
Paddling back, we can see the tide advancing towards us. A horseshoe crab scuttles across the bay floor. Then we pass by a blue crab just floating around in the water. "Can they swim?" I ask. "I thought they were always on the bottom."
A month in the park has left me with more questions than answers. Sure, I have a better sense of the setting for my book, but there are so many plants and animals to learn about down here that even a ranger doesn't know all the answers. Two nurse sharks swim back and forth in front of us. When we paddle close, they make a splash as they scram out of the way. The reddish egret is still poised on the farthest mudflat, the same one we saw her on when we paddled by. Most of the other birds have left, following the tide and the food as it comes in. As we reach the bend where snakebite cove ends, we catch a glimpse of the eyes and snout of a gator before it disappears under water. Allyson tells me a story about the key in front of us, named goat key. There was a man who kept goats on it. It was difficult for him to come back and forth to shore to get fresh water for them, so he decided to wean the goats onto salt water. Of course, the goats died. I am realizing many of the stories about original settlers are similar to stories of the Old West. There are bandits and outlaws, nontraditional thinkers, poor people, Indians, bootleggers, and criminals, all looking for a better life and a way to live off the land. Peter Mathiessen wrote a novel based on the rumored killer Edgar J. Watson, an outlaw and pioneer who lived for years in the nearby Ten Thousand Islands.
Perhaps not that much has changed. Perhaps the Everglades, now subject to a contrived flow of water from the North, courtesy of engineers, are still the wild area Glen Simmons describes in his book. Gladesmen is an account of people—almost wholly men–who lived in and off of the Florida frontier before the formation of the National Park. These were men who knew their way by heart through a mangrove forest, hunted wading birds and gators because there were plenty, and were often isolated from other humans for weeks and months at a time. A local still living near the glades, Simmons has written on the title page of my book, next to his signature, "Truer than the Bible."
I have been in the habit of riding my bike in the late afternoon or evening, after the heat has died down. Even then there are a lot of bugs, but I can handle them, especially when I know my destination: Anhinga Trail. Each day, there are discoveries: the newly empty nest, absent of baby green herons. Finally, they've flown. The silky pink blooms of the pond lilies. After a prescribed burn: a single black alligator amid singed sawgrass. A marsh rabbit diving into the water. A lone hawk perched on a snag. The orange and purple rays of sun setting in the background. I know when I stop to show my soon-to-expire artist pass at the gate, the man behind the glass will make waving motions from his air conditioned cubicle to signal I have bugs on my face. I'm not surprised. I shrug. I am used to them.
AIRIE Honors National Poetry Month
By Anne McCrary Sullivan, AIRIE
April, 2012
My good people,
I guarantee you monster weather events—
gargantuan winds of epic proportions—
more authentic than anything
you'd ever see at Epcot Center.
Come aboard the Wilma Tram
at Flamingo: You'll live the hurricane!
–from "Step Right Up," Karla Merrifield
April is National Poetry Month, and all April long poems bloom on banners that hang at every visitor center and on every trail in Everglades National Park. Some of the poems are playful and/or ironic, some serious, some inquisitive. All are by Poetry Fellows of the Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) program and are the result of extended engagements with the Everglades.
Cerisa Swanberg installing a poetry banner at Pahayokee Overlook
have I seen as radiant a light as that
reflecting off tawny sawgrass where
that master of illumination, great white heron,
stands in the niche for lights.
–from "Existence Is Light," Diana Woodcock
Michael Hettich's "Nature Poem" in the filtered light of Mahogany Hammock
The first occurrence of this blooming was in 2011 when the AIRIE program joined the Knight Foundation supported O'Miami project of placing poems in unexpected places all over Dade County. The poetry banner project has since taken on a life of its own and with new support from the Knight Foundation thrives. This year, poetry banners went up on World Poetry Day, May 21, and stayed in place through April for even larger numbers of visitors to view.
Roger Mitchell's "Slough Song" on the approach to Pahayokee Overlook
Let me be honest,
some of these animals
here in the Everglades—
make the saddest music
ever heard. Enya
would stoop and say, 'hey,
too sorrowful.' The Irish
know these things.
–from "Music," Mary Kate Azcuy
It is with a personal and particular joy that I have witnessed the increasing dynamic presence of poetry in the Park. In January of 2003, I became the second poet to enjoy the privilege of an AIRIE residency. (The first AIRIE poet in residence was Roger Mitchell of upstate New York.) Upon arrival at my quarters on Pine Island, I had no idea how deeply the experience I was about to have would impact my life and my work; no idea that it would re-orient me in relation to dominant images and patterns of attention or that it would lead me to a new methodology. It did.
"Blood Meal" sings of mosquitoes at the entrance to West Lake Trail
In the intervening years, I have returned to the Everglades many times, sometimes for extended periods, camping, volunteering, writing, adventuring. I have written two books out of my Everglades experience and am working on two more. I have become actively involved in AIRIE, Inc, the supporting and guiding body for administration of the program by the Park, and I now have multiple ways of contributing to the growing presence of poetry in the park.
"Step Right Up," one of several banners on the approach to Coe Visitor Center
This year, I made three visits to the Park during the time the poetry banners were in place. Although I know where the banners are positioned and am familiar with the poems, each time I encounter poems in a wild place, each time I pause and linger with words that are closely associated with the place in which I stand, I find new ways of seeing, feeling, understanding. My already large experience of the Everglades grows larger.
I hope that others will begin to look forward to poetry in the Everglades each April, that they will put it on the calendar, make it a point to go in search of wildlife and wild poems, proliferating together on the trails of our wild Everglades.
Donna Marxer's "Hubris" in the tropical tangle of the Gumbo Limbo Trail
From a wide domesticated expanse—
neatly tame and furrowed rows,
tomatoes, beans, obedient fields,
this remnant of wildness rises.
Cross over a boundary and there you are
in some other dimension of the self—
a lush unfettered flourishing.
–from "Wilderness," Anne McCrary Sullivan
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Alice Raymond (April 2013) was born in Paris, partly raised in Germany, has worked and lived in France, Sweden, then Miami since August 2009. She attended the Master programs in Art at University of Visual Arts in Bordeaux, and in Science of Language at the University of Grenoble, France. Her work, based on social and cultural research, has been shown in cultural and educative venues in Europe and in USA, as the Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest (Hungary), the Harper College Gallery in Palatine (IL), the collective Projektraum Kunst in Potsdam (Germany), the Miami-Dade Public Library, the Alliance Française Gallery in Miami, the Castle of Châlus in France. She received a European Grant for the German Art Residency Art Aspects. Focused on socio-cultural issues, she started her photography series about urbanism and space occupancy.
Beth Raymer (May 2013) is an American writer and journalist. Raymer received an MFA from Columbia University. As a Fulbright fellow, she studied offshore gambling operations in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. Beth is the author of Lay the Favorite, a memoir of her experiences in the sex industry, amateur boxing and sports-betting. Her journalism has been published in The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine. She has held
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Ana Mendez (June, 2013), born in Miami and graduate from the University of Illinois, is a professional dancer and performance artist. In 2001, Ana present The Body is PResent, commissioned by Miami Light Project for the Here and Now Festival. She then collaborated with artist Richard Martinez in a site-specific documentation project of The Body is Present in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress Preserve. In 2010, she received a commission by Miami Art Museum to present Walking Spell for the New Work Miami 2010 show. Walking Spell, an endurance based performance inspired by the work of John Cage, was present in collaboration with artists Aja Albertson, Richard Martinez, Federico Nessi and Richard Vergez, members of Phsychi Youth, Inc, a collective she cofounded in 2008.Ana's solo work includes Valley of the Queen commissioned by Miami Art Museum, Parrucca presented by DACRA, and Bruise Blood presented at the Dorsch Gallery. She also presented choreography in collaboration with artist Jen DeNike for Art Public, part of Art Basel 2011 and with artist Christy Gast at the Bass Museum during Sleepless Nights 2009. Most recently Ana has been in performance in Natasha Tsakos' OMEN which premiered at the Here and Now Festival 2012 and has been dancing with Rosie Herrera Dance Theater since 2009.
Japanese native Harumi Abe (July 2013) has exhibited her paintings extensively in South Florida. At age 19 she relocated herself to Miami to study Art. She holds MFA fromFlorida International University. Harumi Abe's inspiration is in everyday life. Her interests are personal and emotional. The main issues of her art are not formally convoluted but rather simple observations of daily life. She paints about being Japanese and living in America, about being married to an American, living next to his American family and away from her home in Japan. In a strange, round about way, it is about being an American. Abe is a recipient of the 2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium for Visual and Media Artists and has attended residency at Vermont Studio Center in 2010. She now makes her art in a homemade studio in her backyard in Hollywood, FL. Abe is an adjunct professor at Broward College and FIU and the gallery director of BC Fine Arts Gallery.
Photographer Susan Silas (August 2013) is a dual American and Hungarian national, born in New York City. She completed her graduate studies at Cal Arts in 1983. Soon afterwards, she began exhibiting her work in group exhibitions including White Columns, New York and New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Her occasional essays have been published in The New York Times, Exquisite Corpse, thirteen.org REEL 13, Frog, and Podium. She is the co-editor of the art blog MOMMY, an interview format appreciation of mid-career women artists. Silas has been awarded residential fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, The Corporation of Yaddo, VCCA and the Ucross Foundation. Silas received her BA in History at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and her MFA in Fine Art at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Gustavo Matamoros (September 2013) is a Venezuelan composer, interdisciplinary artist, community organizer and educator who has established his residence in Miami. He studied at the University of Miami from 1979- 1983. He has taught critical and creative listening at the Design and Architecture Senior High School and at Miami International University of Art and Design. Matamoros has also offered periodical lectures about his work with sound. Matamoros was one of the founders of the South Florida Composers Alliance, a Miami based organization. Some years later he also participated in the foundation of the Subtropics Experimental Music and Sound Arts Festival, which was created "In order to expose Miami to a new music and the fine art of sound. Matamoro's music has been presented at numerous cultural events in the US, Latin America and Europe. He has co-directed the WORD(S) SOUND Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil and is the producer of FISHTANK, a radio journal of new and experimental music broadcast by WLRN in Miami.
Bryan McGovern Wilson (October, 2013) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work addresses themes of time, the body, and ritual. Wilson looks to craft traditions as methodology, archaic symbolism, and field research to inform his works. He currently lives and works in New York City.
Bill Maxwell (November 2013) is a journalist and professor at Stillman College in Alabama. A native of Fort Lauderdale, Maxwell was reared in a migrant farming family. After a short time in college and the U.S. Marine Corps, he returned to school. During his college years, he worked as an urban organizer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and wrote for several civil rights publications. He first began teaching college English in 1973 at Kennedy-King College in Chicago and continued to teach for 18 years. Before joining the Tampa Bay Times, Maxwell spent six years writing a weekly column for the Gainesville Sun and the New York Times syndicate. Before that, Maxwell was an investigative reporter for the Fort Pierce Tribune in Fort Pierce, where he focused on labor and migrant farm worker affairs.
The work of New York-based Austrian artist Mathias Kessler (December 2013) touches on human interventions into nature, and plays with our longing for nature which is seemingly untouched. He exposes these interventions with much subtlety, and in doing so cultivates, creates, and reconstructs nature while pointing out that nature is just another fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries. Kessler, who was born in Germany, also investigates the complex relationship between man and nature.
The postmark date for 2014 AIRIE residencies is June 1, 2013.
The full application can be found by following this link to the Everglades National Park website.
Artists have been an important part of the national park system for over a century. In fact, the writings, paintings, photographs, and public outreach of artists have not only created a permanent record of, but in many instances, helped preserve national parks. From landscape architect Jens Jensen to painter Frank V. Dudley to poet Carl Sandburg, many have understood the connection between unspoiled natural settings and artistic pursuit.
A National Park residency isn't for everybody. It is for serious professionals who wish to work alone and unfettered in the challenge and beauty of the American wilderness. It is for those who deeply care about the environment and wish to contribute to it as well as benefit from it. The park can accommodate ten to twelve residents per year.
Who's eligible?
This program invites visual artists, composers and writers to seek both solitude and solidarity in the inspiring environment of Everglades National Park. Artists are provided a furnished apartment for the length of the residency, usually four weeks. Visual arts include painting, sculpture, photography, video arts, and mixed media. Writers will include poets and authors of both fiction and non-fiction. Work submitted should be of professional quality. No student work will be eligible.
What's expected of the resident?
In return, the park asks each artist to donate a piece of art, representative of their style and reflecting their residency, to the park for the park collection, granting the park the right to reproduce the work for its use. Similarly, the park would require one-time publication rights to a portion of a literary work produced during a residency. Each resident must be willing to volunteer a few hours to interact with interested park visitors and staff during the residency. These interactions may take the form of slide lectures, exhibitions or "art walks" armed with cameras or sketchbooks, or even workshops.
Where will I live and what should I bring?
The Everglades has seasons: The dry winter season begins in October and ends in April. The hot, wet summer season also brings mosquitoes. A furnished apartment, large enough to provide studio space, is available in the Royal Palm area, near Park Headquarters, the Ernest Coe Visitor Center, the Anhinga Trail and approximately 15 minutes (by car) from the nearest towns of Florida City and Homestead.
Accepted residents will need to bring personal gear, food and supplies. The artist is expected to leave the accommodations neat and clean and to comply with all park regulations and standards governing park employees and visitors. The artist should be self-sufficient and expect to work closely with park staff and the local community to achieve program goals.
Who participates in the AIRIE Selection Process?
A prominent panel drawn from varying fields of expertise as professional artists, curators, or educators in the designated disciplines, along with park personnel, will review materials submitted. Selections will be made on the basis of merit and how a candidate's work can advance the mission of Everglades National Park and the National Park Service as well as enhance the growth of the artist's work. Selections will be made without regard to race, religion, sex, disability, marital status, age or national origin.
A USEFUL TIP: Although quality and suitability are always the primary criteria for selection, AIRIE is a small and highly competitive program. The most competition is for the prime months of winter for comfort in the Glades. Therefore, applicants have a better chance of selection if they make their second and third choices during the warmer months.
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Eleven of the conclave's 115 expected electors are from the United States, including the Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia.
Cardinal Justin Rigali, archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia, will be one of 11 American cardinals in the papal conclave set to choose Pope Benedict XVI's successor.
Thursday marks the final day of Pope Benedict XVI's term, as he becomes the first leader of the Catholic Church to resign in six centuries.
Soon, the College of Cardinals will convene in the Vatican to elect a new pope. It will consist, by rule, of all cardinals who are younger than 80.
Two such cardinals are sitting out the conclave, which leaves 115 electors, according to a list curated by Florida International University and archived by the Library of Congress.
Other American cardinals younger than 80 joining the conclave with Rigali include the archbishops of Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago and Galveston-Houston, as well as an archbishop emeritus of Los Angeles. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia is not a cardinal.
As for how many local people will be affected by the papal election, the Archdiocese maintains tables of census statistics on Catholics in the Philadelphia area.
As of the 2010 census, the following areas had total populations and registered Catholic populations as follows, according to archphila.org:
Deanery | Pop. | Catholic pop. | % Catholic |
1-E. Delaware Co. | 227,896 | 88,336 | 39% |
2-W. Delaware Co. | 339,311 | 118,700 | 35% |
3-W. Chester Co., Oxford Region | 296,979 | 79,214 | 27% |
4-N. Chester Co. | 219,561 | 75,022 | 34% |
5-W. Montgomery Co. | 413,760 | 133,000 | 32% |
6-Main Line, Bridgeport, Roxborough | 148,284 | 43,188 | 29% |
7-E. Montgomery Co., NW Philadelphia | 362,082 | 84,679 | 23% |
What sort of policies and approach would you hope to see from the next pope? Do you have a name in mind? Please tell us in the comments section below.
John Q. Public
7:14 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Odd headline, that has nothing to do with the story. Nothings changed; practicing Catholics trust the Holy Spirit.
8:43 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
My thoughts exactly JQP. The Cardinals are not our representatives and we are not their constituents. They are our shepherds and we are their sheep.
9:45 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Sheep being led to slaughter by old men who have no interest in the people in the pews.
12:26 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
yep - they lie and cheat. they allowed children to be hurt and only did something when the poop hit the fan. nothing changes, its still all about the money
Richard Weisgrau
4:33 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
The Catholic Church is an oligarchy with a dogma that is based upon the oligarchs' belief in what is right for Catholics. Followers interests are never considered, and followers are expected to follow. Some do. Some don't. Some leave. Some comeback. No one will represent followers's interests. That is OK since no one is forced to adhere to the decisions or dogma of the oligarchs. Free choice prevails.
7:01 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
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Nearly 40 percent of female veterans surveyed by The American Legion about VA health care were dissatisfied with the screening process for military sexual trauma. Among those, 26 percent said they were "very dissatisfied" with the screening process, which mandates that all enrolled veterans are universally screened for military sexual trauma.
These and other findings from the Legion-sponsored survey were made available today to the media and to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. The online survey was conducted Jan. 5-31 by ProSidian Consulting, LLC, based in North Carolina.t
During a press conference today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Legion officials and ProSidian staff explained results of the 67-question survey, which was taken by 3,012 female U.S. military veterans worldwide. The survey measured 10 attributes of service quality regarding VA – reliability, responsiveness, competence, access, courtesy, communication, credibility, security, tangibles and understanding the customer. The survey provided an assessment of specialized services for women at VA and wasn't designed to present a reflection of general VA services that women receive, according to ProSidian.
Among the findings: one in three female VA health-care users reported they were dissatisfied with their most recent experience with VA's Women Veterans Program Manager, who counsels female patients in the system. The survey suggests there is room for significant improvement for VA to provide gender-specific services such as PAP smears and mammograms. And 38 percent of the survey's respondents said they wouldn't use a VA doctor for a second opinion – even if that opinion was offered at no charge.
"Research on this subject is important, yet it's lacking," said Verna Jones, director of the Legion's Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation Division. "Women represent a vastly growing portion of U.S. veterans, comprising almost 20 percent of our armed forces and representing the fastest growing population of the VA health-care system.
"The results from this survey will be used to refine The American Legion's outreach efforts (and) enhance its written and oral testimony to Congress and federal agencies. The survey results will also help identify unmet needs among women veterans and guide the development of strategic remedies."
The survey results provided insight about the gap between desired and actual performance of the VA health-care system for women using it. Of the 2,936 respondents who answered that specific question, 63 percent were enrolled in the VA health-care system. Of those, almost 30 percent were dissatisfied with the "reliability" of health care provided by the VA when compared to private health-care providers, and more than 30 percent were dissatisfied when they compared the "responsiveness" of VA to that of private health-care providers.
Approximately 30 percent of respondents reported that they were not allowed an appropriate amount of time with their provider to discuss their specific health-related issues, and 38 percent expressed at least some level of dissatisfaction when asked to compare the credibility of health care provided by VA against similar services provided by private practitioners. Eleven percent were "very dissatisfied."
"We found in our survey about 66 percent of the women … not only registered for VA health-care service, but they also maintained their private health-care service," said Adrian Woolcock, managing principal of ProSidian. "In addition in that subset, only 40 percent have ever used VA. The women veterans overall do know what their benefits are. It's really a matter of focusing on improving the quality of service provided to women veterans."
Other findings from the survey:
Demographic information from the survey indicated that 34.6 percent of respondents were between ages 52 and 61, while 24.9 percent were ages 42-51. Eighty percent were white. More than 68 percent were non-combat veterans; the highest percentage of combat veterans who responded (16 percent) served in Operations Iraqi or Enduring Freedom.
Some who took the survey contacted The American Legion to offer details about their responses. In those discussions, the women said they didn't want aseparate VA health-care system for women; rather, they want the same quality health care that men receive but tailored to meet gender-specific needs. Others said they hesitate to use VA facilities because they can't get child care on the days of their appointments.
"Changes in culture take time, and VA is starting to change its approach dealing with women veterans," American Legion National Commander Jimmie L. Foster said. "The American Legion wants to help VA make this important transition. VA health care needs to be more reliable, responsive and competent in its treatment of women."
Peter S. Gaytan, executive director of the Legion's Washington office, gave a copy of the findings to Shinseki earlier in the day during the organization's 51st Annual Washington Conference.
"To move into the future, we have to recognize the changing demographics of America's veteran population," Gaytan said. "The commitment of this organization is to take this information, stand side by side with the leadership of the Department of Veterans Affairs, (and) say there's a need to listen to what's being said. The Legion can be the voice, we can also be the action, but we need buy-in from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the administration and the leadership in this country."
To view the survey report, click here. http://www.legion.org/documents/legion/pdf/womens_veterans_survey_report...
Why are some American Legion Posts allowed to discriminate against women and minority Vets. They are not able to join certain Posts because of their sex or color. Why does this occur in 2011?
Our Post will GLADLY accept Female Veterans. We are a small, rural Post and CAN'T get area Women Vets to join. Thats the flip side. Same thing goes for the minority side. It sounds as though EVERY American Legion Post is practicing this discrimination and its not true! Don't judge ALL by just a few. We honor ALL Vets.
There are many fine Posts that treat ALL Veterans fairly and equally. EVERY Post is not guilty of discrimination ... but even 1 is 1 too many. There are Posts scattered across the Country that are still living in another era and have remained an 'old white guys club'... this must not be tolerated.
I commend the American Legion for standing up for woman vets. The 2,000,000 woman they are representing,some of them have children who can join the SAL or the Aux. The legion is a family with many different places a person can join. But...the spouse/hudband of a woman vet has no place. He can not join the Aux because he is the wrong sex. My husband and I met in the military and we were married while serving together 24 years ago. We served during the Cold War. After we both got out, I got called back in for Desert Storm and he didn't. I am a member or both the Legion and the Aux. My son is a member of the SAL. My daughter is a member of the Aux. But as a spouse he has no place. I can promise you that my husband went though the same trials and trubulations and any other military spouse while I was away. I am sure I am not the only woman vet facing this problem. Maybe more woman vets would join the Legion if there was a place for their spouses. Any thoughts??


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Jury picked in Madison Township murder case (with video)
A Lake County Common Pleas Court jury went to the scene of the crime Friday afternoon after being selected in a murder case.
Zachary Weimer, 23, is accused of burglarizing and killing 77-year-old Eleanor Robertson of Madison Township at her Canterbury Drive home to get drug money.
After less than two days of jury selection, seven men and five women were chosen to hear the case before Judge Vincent A. Culotta. Three alternates also were selected.
Opening arguments are scheduled to begin Tuesday.
But first, prosecutors and defense attorneys showed jurors where the crime took place.
Yellow police tape still surrounds all of Robertson's blue and white ranch-style home.
Jurors also went to the Austinburg Township home of Danna Weimer, the defendant's mother and co-defendant. The home has nine surveillance cameras on the property.
A Lake County Crime Lab expert testified at Danna's trial about a pair of Zachary's shoes that were found at his mother's house. When criminalist David Green talked about how the shoes matched footprints found at the murder scene, Danna Weimer began sobbing.
Zachary is accused of bludgeoning the victim and stabbing her 94 times. Continued...
Her house was ransacked of jewelry and other valuables.
His mother helped him by driving him to the murder scene, cleaning up the victim's home and taking some of Robertson's property, prosecutors said.
Danna Weimer, 53, was convicted of all 17 counts. She is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 12.
Zachary Weimer's trial is expected to last four to six days.
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Deliberations to begin in Madison Township murder case (with video) (Oct. 12, 2012) Continued...
Mother-son Madison Township murder trial: Defense rests without calling any witnesses (Oct. 11, 2012)
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Mother-son Madison Township murder trial: Mom cries during her trial (with video) (Oct. 9, 2012)
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Trial begins for Danna Weimer, accused of helping murder Madison woman (Oct. 4, 2012)
Mother-son murder trial jury visits victim's Madison Township home (Oct. 3, 2012)
Mother-son Madison Township murder case begins jury selection for mom's trial (Oct. 2, 2012)
Mother on trial for Madison Township murder wants evidence suppressed (with video) (Sept. 11, 2012)
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Despite my general negativity about movies of the Aughts, there were still plenty of great films released this decade (although I think a Top Ten list of 90s movies would probably omit films that could be #1 on this list). I've already provided a list of the ten funniest films of the decade, and there were other great comedies that didn't make the list. Today, though, we turn our attention to the dramatic category. As Josh has already declared, though, genre concerns can be distracting, so I will not be bound my technical genre classifications. Consider this a list of films I like for "dramatic" reasons:
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Hi there Twiworld!
Did you miss me? Well I missed all of you! Remember the good old times when we used to celebrate New Year's Eve on Isle Esme?
Well I wish all of you a happy new year with lots of great surprises and good times! And that you'll all get over your classic New Year's hangovers soon… Oh and also in case you're planning your wedding this year, you can go and get your Bella wedding dress now. No joke. Don't believe me? Here check it out, Alfred Angelo is indeed selling the Bella wedding gown. Then all that's left to do is ask the Cullens if you can rent Isle Esme for your honeymoon and your good to go.
PS: Please don't ask me how I ended up on their homepage. Kthxbye.
Just kidding I'm not done yet. You didn't think I could let the fact that someone is actually selling Bella's wedding dress pass without a few comments, right? So yeah in case you can't tell sarcasm (you know like Sheldon from Big Bang Theory): I do NOT think anyone should buy this as their wedding dress. Ever. Cause I think weddings should be unique and special. And not Twilight copy cat weddings. Twilight inspired maybe but not Twilight copies. Plus please imagine your future husband being made fun of for the next 50 years by his buddies for actually letting his wife plan a Twiwedding. Lmao. I would never do that to my fiance. Oh wait I don't have one right now… Well I wouldn't do it to him if I had one.
Might be the number 1 rule to get one anyway: Don't ever mention wanting to plan a Twiwedding haha. Well I'm not too fond of Bella's wedding dress anyways. I mean I think it fit in well with the movie (more on that in the soon to come review) but I wouldn't choose it as a wedding gown for myself. Period. Unless Randy from Say Yes to the Dress would pick it for me. Cause you know Randy always knows best. Who else is basically in love with Randy and wants him to help pick her wedding dress? Anyone? If not get off here cause then we can't be friends
Oh also has anyone seen Red Riding Hood? How did you like the newest project directed by Cathy Hardwicke, the woman who brought us Twilight aka the most sexy version of movie Edward in my opinion? SPOILER ALERT: 10 bucks say she wanted Billy Burke to play the wolf cause she thought it would mean he would have to run around shirtless for 90% of the movie. Cause you know she has a thing for him. and any other Twimen for that matter. Oh Cathy the Cougar, sometimes I really miss you…
Off to browse Alfred Angelo some more. Did you know they have a Disney collection? Now THAT is classy and super awesome. Cause who doesn't love a stylish Disney princess?
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The library at Kingston will be changing the opening hours from the 4th April 2011. From then on the open hours shall be as follows:
The library can be found at: Room 12 The library offers great services for Mummys and Daddys looking to introduce thier children to the world of singing, stories and rhymes. The below is a list of libraries and their opening times. Stories, Songs & Rhymetimes for Under 5s
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