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The topic of "free will" is basically how we chose. After pursuing this forever here is a brief summary of hundreds articles, studies and a cogillion hours of thought.
Science has strongly suggested that every organism goes through an implicit "decision?" process whenever a non automated/habitual circumstance is stimulated.
That is the Organism conjures up the most likely options to the stimulus, apparently predicts which will bring the greatest reward and selects that one. After that behavior the mental system considers if the projected rewards were realized and adjusts, if needed, the reward value of the projected pre-behavior predictions (the RPE - reward prediction error). Not bad for a flippin' rat!!
More importantly -- is this basic "if - then - because" paradigm a realistic metaphor for future "delayed reward" thoughts/behaviors as opposed to the above "instant gratification" process?
Everything I have experienced and learned suggests that it is -- despite mixed reviews by researchers (at least the ones I have perused). One thing no one seems too be able to get around -- with all of the future mental time travels, anticipated rewards, hot-cool, abstract-concrete, different brain structures for this that and everything else is that what ever decision or action we take is in that single moment -- when the CNS/mind "decides/acts on" what will bring the greatest immediate satisfaction (less grief).
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Personally, I don't believe in free will. Causality is absolute. Many people have a hard time thinking about their mind as being a part of the universe/system. They see it as if the mind is outside, looking in. But IMO there is no outside, everything is inside and everything follows the same laws of physics.
Its also unbelievably complex. There is an unbroken chain of events from the beginning of the universe leading up to right now that could only result in you sitting at your computer reading this post right now.

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One solution to a dinner party crisis - especially if you are not a magnificently confident cook (who is?!) - is to throw a lot of money at the problem.
I don't like doing this, because I have been brought up to think that if I do not buy all my clothes from H&M and make dinner out of half a loaf of stale bread and some turnips then I am wretched and profligate and will probably go to hell. Although when you're from a family as protestant in thought and word and deed as mine, hell is a far too good, interesting and racy place for sinners.
This is why I'm always cooking cabbage.
But it is a fact that you can just go out and spend a lot of money and throw an impressive dinner party. Like doing this Lucas Hollweg thing I found in the Sunday Times the other week. I don't have much time for Lucas Hollweg normally - partly because he says things like "I cooked this for my book group and they loved it!!!!!" but mostly because he's got a fucking wicked job and I am not big enough NOT to hate him for it.
Nigella's always going on about how marvellous poussin are for a party and my objection has always been meanness. "£3.99 each?!?!" I find myself screaming silently to myself. "Absolutely not. They can have boiled ham and carrots."
But if you are half-minded to unload some cash, poussin are a good idea - as everyone gets one each, so you don't have to do any tedious carving and they're more festive, somehow. The idea is to pile up the poussin in a bowl and everyone helps themselves in that modern, faux-naif, nauseatingly bourgeois way.
Lucas does this with a sort of middle-eastern marinade thing, which works pretty well and smells great. It also means that you can do this with a salad and couscous, rather than dicking about with a lot of veg.
This is not his exact recipe, but it's kind of the same idea.
For 3 poussin you need the following quantities for the marinade:
4 tbs olive oil
1 tbs groundnut oil
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tbsp paprika - any sort
3 crushed garlic cloves
Soak the birds in this mixture for as long as you can. Ideally for a few hours, but even one hour makes a difference. If you've got a lot of poussin, increase the quantities of your marinade accordingly.
Then sprinkle over with salt and roast at 180C for 35-40 mins.
If you're doing this with couscous, add to it some lemon juice, coriander, salt and pepper, chopped cucumber and toasted pine nuts. We also had this with some minted yoghurt, which was just a lot of fresh mint chopped up and added to Greek yoghurt with some salt and pepper.
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Velib, Barclay's London Bike Hire and other public shared bike schemes
I recently heard on the BBC news that London is to get 6000 shared bikes by 2010 and that the most optimistic estimates of their use say they will each be used 10 times a day. That's 60000 cycle trips per day (and is somewhat optimistic based on the take up of other shared bike schemes. update: as it turned out, London's bikes are actually used about a quarter so often so all my estimates below are actually wildly optimistic compared with real life).
This may sound impressive, but the greater London area has around 8 million residents. In most places, people make an average of around 2.5 "trips" by all modes each day, so that's around 20 million trips per day in total. If we assume that the bike hire scheme really does reach the number of trips that its proponents say, this means it has a capacity to replace one in 400 trips. 0.3% of the total. And that's the best case if they complete the scheme.
i.e. on average these bikes will account for just 0.002 trips per person per day.
That's tiny. Barely a start, in fact. Where people really cycle they use their bikes an awful lot more than that. For example, here in Assen the population make just short of 1.2 bike trips per day (the population of 65000 make over 70000 trips, more than the total capacity of the London scheme). Up in Groningen that grows to 1.4 bike trips per day. The Dutch, who are only twice as numerous as Londoners, make more than 14 million trips per day by bike. London's estimate of 60000 trips per day may impressive, but it's not. It's more than two orders of magnitude short of what is required (2011 update: actual usage has been under a third of what was predicted, but the hype continues unchecked).
It's great to see anything which encourages people to cycle. However, this scheme can never genuinely result in a large cycle culture. It can only ever be a small part of the picture.
It seems to me that public cycle hire is being picked on by many cities largely because it's the smallest thing can be done which will make it look as if something is being done. No longer do you need to do anything complicated and expensive like re-arranging the streets to make them more suited for cycling, or risk alienating motorists as you do it. Just allow a company to set up doing bike hire and the world's press will be amazed by your achievement.
How are other schemes doing ?
It's much the same picture in other places where these schemes have been introduced, even if there are far more bikes per inhabitant than are planned for London:
Barcelona has a population of 1.6M and 6000 bikes. They claim each one is used 10 times a day, so that's enough for 1.8% of journeys.
The Paris metropolitan area has 12M people, and there are 20000 bikes. Maximum capacity of Velib is therefore 0.8% of the journeys. What's more, the system in Paris is in trouble.
To see successful policy you really can't look for inspiration to nations where virtually no-one cycles. The country to look to is the Netherlands, where there is the highest rate of cycling in the world.
The Netherlands also has a public bicycle scheme called OV-Fiets. I previously covered the amusing promotional videos for the scheme. This has a different emphasis specifically targeting people who need bikes at the ends of journeys on public transport. (i.e. Exactly the opposite emphasis as London) and it is growing in popularity very quickly. But here also OV-Fiets can only cope with a very small proportion of total journeys.
November 2009 update
Can you believe that every one of the 20000 bikes provided in the Velib scheme in Paris has had to be replaced in the first two years ?
In other news, a comparative study of Bike Share schemes around the world showed that none were proven to be effective at increasing modal share.
Update July 2010
Since this post was written, Ve-Lon was renamed and implemented as the "Barclays Cycle Hire" system. It is no more ambitious than ever, and will still not provide for more than a tiny fractional increase in cycling in London. The fact remains that London already had plenty of bikes, and plenty of people who would like to cycle. The lack of decent infrastructure stood in their way and still stands in their way.
Further updates
Actual figures for usage in London have turned out to be much lower than predicted while costs are higher than predicted . My remark above that 10 rides per day was optimistic has proven to be right. It's closer to three in reality.
A later report from London pointed out that there's been no meaningful shift from car to bike and that a large proportion of total users are people who already rode bicycles in London. They use the shared bikes as insurance against their own bikes being stolen.
Nevertheless, London has continued to hype the figures for the bike share scheme though usage has now dropped to just over 2 rides per bike per day. i.e. less than a quarter of the optimistic estimates.
Regardless of this less than stellar success, other countries have gone ahead with their own bike share schemes rather than looking to the world's leading cycling nation and copying policies and infrastructure with proven success at increasing cycling modal share.
London's "Superhighways" are another example of not doing remotely enough.
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- anna said...
In Vienna we have our "Citybikes" since 2003 (and even an earlier version in 2002), but it never really worked out that well. I guess that's because we only have 60 stations (and 800 bikes) which is nothing compared to Paris or even Barcelona. But just today I read that they will expand the current system by one third. Surely that will help, but still not be enough. Plus, most bike lanes in Vienna are just crap. They are dangerous and in the summer too crowded because far to small. Most summer cyclists don't know how to use one way bike lanes and also ride on sidewalks, both of which I'm completely against. But well, I don't think that infrastructure itself would help so much. I really think that promotion is missing. Most people have a bad attitude towards cycling here. There should be some high politicians and other famous people who cycle in public. If they only tell other people to do so it just won't work..
A friend of Barcelona who actually started cycling because of BiCiNG there, already complained many times, that BCN doesn't have enough bike infrastructure and that there are problems because the city is not prepared for so many cyclists.
- 6 March 2009 at 00:40
- Miguel said...
I agree with your conclusions. These bike share programs are a silly promotion sold by companies like clearchannel. Cities would do much better for their citizens and their future by facilitating bicycle riding through better infrastructure including bike parking, more favorable traffic regulations for bikes, and more punitive measures for private vehicles.
It's nice for a town to have a bunch of bikes available for tourists to use but private bike shops can easily handle that need.
- 6 March 2009 at 09:47
Stuttgart's system seems to work- they're expanding it at any rate. It'S based on the same principle as in Ansterdam, tat you arrive on public transport and then use the bike in the city, and it's very heavily used.
I'd say anything that gets more people cycling in the city is good because it makes it 'Normal' and increases pressure for infrastructure. That said, it could be used as a greenwash scheme.
- 6 March 2009 at 13:02
- David Hembrow said...
Miguel: I think it's fine to have lots of bike hire schemes, and I don't have anything against the way that these schemes work. However this is only a very small part of what is required.
Workbike: Sounds like Stuttgart are doing the right thing in making it work with PT. The Dutch system is not just in Amsterdam. It's already at over 170 different locations all around the country (including here in Assen), and they're now starting to install them at places where people need bikes other than at railway stations. e.g. in the industrial estate in Groningen.
- 6 March 2009 at 13:40
One thing that will be important will be the provision of cycle parking spaces around London.
One poor example would be the Dutch embassy :)
- 7 March 2009 at 17:16
- David Hembrow said...
Martin: That's hilarious. The Dutch embassy ought to at least provide a good example. There is, after all, quite a lot of cycle parking over here.
If the hire scheme results in lots of cycle parking spaces that are not reserved just for the hire bikes then that could be helpful.
- 7 March 2009 at 17:28
I was in Berlin in 2005, and I liked their public bike scheme. Seems to be fairly successful there too.
- 8 March 2009 at 21:32
The embassy thing is probably a security thing. There are more embassies and consulates where one can't park in front of or near entrances.
- 9 March 2009 at 03:04
- David Hembrow said...
Son of Shaft: Unfortunately, as John Adams points out, the actual existance of any bicycle bombs, ever, is in doubt.
Most places where you can't park a bicycle for "security reasons" you can still park a car, or drive past with a van. Cars and vans can hide huge bombs and are a genuine security threat.
- 9 March 2009 at 10:02
- spiderlegreen said...
But everybody knows that cyclists are anarchists.
Anything that gets people on bikes can create pressure for infrastructure changes, when those riding start complaining about it.
- 11 March 2009 at 15:24
- Erik Sandblom said...
You make some good points but I think the bicycle sharing schemes make good use of one of the bicycle's many advantages: it's quick and easy to get started. Bicycles are inexpensive and just about anyone can hop on and ride.
This is too often forgotten, and it might be one reason why bicycle sharing gets so much press coverage. It's a quick fix which really can pay off handsomely in relation to the time and money expended.
- 5 May 2009 at 10:13
I know it's been a year since you wrote this, but to be fair: *Greater* London has "8 million residents". I highly doubt that your estimate of "20 million trips per day in total" actually cover the area where the cycle hire scheme, at present, exists (an area smaller than Zone 1). Not everybody travels into the centre of town every day.
So, while I do like your blog, your numbers here are completely unfair.
Give the study here: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/businessandpartners/cycle-hire-scheme-feasibility-full-report-nov2008.pdf a read. It looks like expansion is on the way if the early 6000 bikes are a success.
- 5 August 2010 at 03:24
- David Hembrow said...
Anonymous: You make a good point in that the area covered by the scheme is much smaller. However, this actually is yet another way in which the potential for the system is small. London has spent 140 million pounds on a scheme which can cater for only a tiny proportion of journeys in a limited area of the city.
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Mississippi State right fielder Hunter Renfroe hit a three-run homer and the Bruins continued to be patient, pesky and prudent as the lone teams yet to lose in Omaha remained that way on Friday.
OMAHA, Neb. -- Mississippi State did it with power and pitching. UCLA did it by being, well, UCLA.
Mississippi State right fielder Hunter Renfroe hit a three-run homer and the Bruins continued to be patient, pesky and prudent as the lone teams yet to lose in Omaha remained that way on Friday.
The Bulldogs defeated No. 3 Oregon State, 4-1, in Friday's opener, while UCLA beat top-seeded North Carolina, 4-1, in the nightcap at TD Ameritrade Park to set up what promises to be an intriguing and well-played College World Series final.
Mississippi State (51-18) and UCLA (47-17) open the best-of-three series at 8 p.m. ET on Monday.
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UCLA left-hander Grant Watson allowed four hits in six scoreless innings and the Bruins bullpen followed suit until David Berg allowed one in the ninth, but ended the game by leaving the bases loaded.
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Mississippi State 4, No. 3 Oregon State 1
UCLA 4, No. 1 North Carolina 1
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Is the recession actually sparking entrepreneurship? In this week's Times column, Rob Walker examines the successful rise of Garment Valet, a business founded by 23-year old college student Dominic Coryell.
Tata, India's largest carmaker, has seen its stock price rise more than 70% since the beginning of 2009. The Company has sold more than 51,000 order forms for the world's smallest car. Car deliveries will begin in July of this year.
The Zimbabwean economy is an unfortunate living example of what happens when a government prints too much currency. With an inflation rate peaking at over 100 million percent, some newspapers are using the country's devalued bank notes to educate citizens on Robert Mugabe's atrocities in a public art/advertising campaign.
The U.S. trade deficit, defined as the amount of goods/services America exports minus the amount of goods/services America imports, shrank 28% in February — the largest drop since October 1996. While much of the decrease can be attributed to declining consumer spending in the U.S., translating to less demand for foreign good…
Several prominent economists and bankers, including James K. Galbraith and Roger Altman, express their opinions on economic recovery.
As the $800 billion stimulus package and growing budget deficit fan fears of inflation, heads with gold fronts are looking lovely.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that Wall St. executives may be forced out as a precondition to further government assistance. As with the removal of Rick Wagoner from the top post at GM, Geithner and Obama believe ousting management will be key to ensuring accountability and protecting the taxpayer.
Good graphic on the ripple effect of a company going out of business
Prominent economists such as Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz have denounced Geithner's P-Pip bank detox plan as "robbing the taxpayer." Others have stated that the plan equates to "bribery" of investors. Based on the positive repsonse from large fixed income managers, including PIMCO, both sides may have compelling arguments. But one conclusion is clear: if Geithner's goal is to sell bank's troubled assets — even at above-market prices — it appears to be working.
Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz has three serious issues with Uncle Geithner's P-PIP (Public Private Investment Partnerhsip) plan to detox bad assets from bank balance sheets. First, Stiglitz believes the plan robs the taxpayer by privatizing gains (enriching the already rich) and socializing losses ("robbing the taxpayer" in Stiglitz's words). The plan requires private investors to put up a modicum of skin in the game with the government shouldering most of the financing burden and a huge % of the potential downside.
In a noble (read: French) display of defiance, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is threatening to leave the London G20 summit if his country's demand for a more stringent global regulator of the financial system is not met. Sarkozy's request comes in the face of pressure from Gordon Brown and Barrack Obama to increase coordinated global stimulus. So Anglo-Franco strife is already plaguing the "summit," jeez.
Pimco's Mohammed El-Erian hopes the opportunity to "globalize" the solution the the world economic crisis will not be lost at this week's G-20 summit in London. In a paper released today on Pimco's website, El-Erian likens the current positioning of three broad approaches — the U.S. approach, the European approach and the emerging market approach — to Princeton's economist John Nash's equilibrium.
CEO Semiotics: M.I.T. management professor Simon Johnson discusses the Bank CEOs response to their public "vilification." Chiefs of Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and City have all stated that the public denouncement of bankers from Washington and the media has impeded well-conceived problem-solving. But what portion of the banker retort is self-serving?
Copper, the red metal used in pipes, doorknobs, wires, and electronics, is often called Dr. Copper thanks to its historical ability to predict broader economic trends. Investors generally see rising copper prices as a positive (if sometimes inflationary) sign for the economy and vice versa.
John F. Burns and Landon Thomas Jr. discuss the lofty expectations surrounding this week's G-20 summit in London. The meeting of world leaders will be a chance for British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to redeem himself in the face of plunging popularity; Brown faces an election within 14 months.
Jonathan Jarvis' animated 11-minute video provides the best explanation of this complex situation.
The Washington Post provides an incredible graphic breakdown of the spending package
Jake DeSantis publicly resigns through NYTimes. DeSantis represents the latest casualty of the vitriol spewing out over the AIG bonus debacle. He is the type of person AIG needs most right now but has been ungraciously driven out of the company by political grandstanding and media villification.
Is Geithner's plan as anemic as respected economists like Simon Johnson and Paul Krugman have suggested?
Amid political and populist upheaval surrounding controversial AIG bonuses, Goldman Sachs is reportedly planning to repay its $10 billion government investment within the next month.
According to European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet, America's attempt to "spend its way out of the crisis" will be ineffectual.
Thomas Friedman argues that the vilification of AIG's bonus recipients is undermining serious recovery efforts.
Bailout as Scapegoat: Kimberley A. Strassel's lucid editorial in today's WSJournal opines on how Washington's persistent demonization of Wall St. thwarts even the best conceived economic recovery plans.
While there are compelling arguments on both sides of the "should we nationalize banks" debate, there should be no questions about keeping the international trade of goods and services as open and buoyant as possible.
Is the nationalization question as intractable as it is beginning to appear?
C. Fred Bergsten, Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, calls for a coordinated global prescription for the world's economic woes.
Will Uncle Ben Bernanke's decision to purchase $1 trillion in long-term government bonds and mortgages kindle inflation (inflation means increasing consumer prices) over the long-term?
Has demonizing Wall St. become an American political tradition?
Who most personifies the new American Dream?
Yesterday's New York Post cover captures pubic sentiment over the AIG bonus story — characteristic subtlety and all.
Richard Thaler on Mortgage Reform: Simplify! Thaler is a behavioral economist from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has been instrumental in shaping Obama's early economic policy (in tandem with Austin Goolsbee). In yesterday's Times, Dr. Thaler weighed in on the debate over mortgage reform. In his reading. many subprime borrowers (even prime borrowers) did not understand (tangent: real shocker right?) the complex mortgages that were marketed and sold to them during the housing bubble.
Enjoy U.S. Entrepreneurial Dynamism. Penned by Adrian Wooldridge, @TheEconomist's Lexington column has offered the British perspective on American society for many years. Sadly, Mr. Wooldridge will move on after 13 years at the Lexington's helm. In this weeks' issue, the journalist reflects on America's recent blunders: Iraq, Abu Gharib, mounting fiscal deficits, poor regulation, xenophobia, over-consumption etc. Given the challenges facing America's future, pessimism is the order of the day.
In response to the crisis, the Chinese government is using a $600 billion stimulus package to propel the long-term global competitiveness of its economy.
Your favorite former financial fugitive strikes again.
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan recently said this is an opportune time to form a new bank.
Last night Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to Americans in a rare interview with 60 Minutes.
Designers and artists graphically interpret the current economic predicament.
Is the NYTimes fanning the financial fire by over-emphasizing negative economic news?
EB believes that the 24-7 news cycle clearly played an important role in fueling the financial excess between 2003-2007.
So does the world need a new form of capitalism? Or do we need a better understanding of what capitalism means
Warren Buffett is presently searching for takeover opportunities in the U.S.
Brazil's President, Lula da Silva, criticizes emerging signs of protectionism across the world.
The Harvard Corporate Governance Blog is a MUST read.
McDonald's same-store sales rose by 1.4% in February 2009.
Bernanke: "Recession could end this year"
Schering Plough, Merck, Pfizer and other major names in the drug-making industry are looking for ways to join and streamline their operations
Noted Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues against nationaliziation.
Voltaire was right: il faut cultiver notre jardin. The American Dream endures through gardening.
Florida points out that financial capitals have "remarkable longevity" in spite of their boom/bust nature.
Keys to recovery
Cousin Bill Safire drops science on the interesting language surrounding the recent "plunge" in the global economy.
Cousin Bill Safire drops science on the interesting language surrounding the recent "plunge" in the global economy.
This story fuckin rocks
Enjoy Great Depression Aversion. According to Martin Wolf, output data indicate that year one of this recession is as bad as year one of the Great Depression.
George Soros outlines a three-part vaccine to protect our economy against future financial epidemics.
Enjoy Smaller Banks. Does Geithner's re-regulation perpetuate the 'Too Big To Fail' pandemic?
According to Ken Lewis, BofA has a significantly higher tangible common equity than its competitors and is benfitting from its substantial deposit base? Does this mean no nationaliziation? EB hopes so.
Over the past several decades, globaliziation has been one of the most important economic trends. The term refers to the increased free-flowing movement of goods/services , capital, and jobs.
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Earlier this month, reports out of Miami indicated running back Reggie Bush was confused about the Dolphins' lack of interest in re-signing him this offseason.
Bush can stop wondering. General Manager Jeff Ireland told Mike Florio on PFT Live Thursday that the two sides have spoken.
So there is interest, although Bush may now choose to be confused about the level of interest. Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald reports that the Dolphins don't want to give Bush a raise from the $5 million he made in 2012 and that they probably aren't willing to even match that salary since they'd like to see Lamar Miller carrying a bigger load in the backfield in 2013. If Bush's price were to settle in a place where Miami's comfortable, then he would have a chance to return.
Until there's more of a sense of the overall market for Bush, it's hard to make any prediction on where that price will settle. So, for now, Bush's return to the Dolphins still feels like an unlikely outcome.


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Plein air class available at garden
In collaboration with SEEDS, Laguna Beach artist Doug Stotts will teach a plein air painting class for children Saturday at the Hortense Miller Garden.
The garden's natural setting will provide a backdrop for the class, which will focus on the basics of open-air painting. The Crystal Cove Alliance will provide some materials. Children will get to take their artwork home.
The class is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the cost is $25. For Friends of SEEDS members, it's $20. Children ages 8 to 12 are welcome.
To register, visit seedsed.org.
Laguna artist selected to exhibit in Monaco
A local artist has been chosen to showcase her work at an international art show next April in Monaco.
Polina Hryn, an artist once known for using the "Living Brushes" technique of painting with the human body, will represent Laguna Beach at the invitation-only Arte Monaco 2012 at the Grimaldi Forum, according to a news release.
A member from the selection committee for the show came across Hryn's work in June 2010.
Hryn formerly owned the Embodyment Art Spa in South Laguna, but financial issues forced her to close in 2008. She now operates out of her home studio.
Her current work, painted with regular brushes, has been compared to French artist Henri Matisse, according to the news release.
LCAD hosts preview day for students
The Laguna College of Art & Design is hosting an event for prospective students from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the campus, 2222 Laguna Canyon Road.
Staff and faculty members will be on hand to speak with students thinking about attending the school. There will also be workshops and presentations to discuss the admissions process, financial aid and scholarships. Tours of the campus will also be available.
Prospective students will also be able to present their portfolios and receive critiques and guidance on their work.
For more information, call (949) 476-6000 ext. 248.
Cove Gallery artists to show off new works
An artists' reception for the "Figuratively Speaking" exhibit will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Cove Gallery.
Artists from the gallery will showcase at least one new figurative work, according to a news release.
The event also includes music from Dano Forte and an appearance by portraitist Marianne van der Veer, who will do pastel sketches of guests.
Also, all guests will be invited grab a paintbrush and help create a collaborative painting, with the final result being posted on YouTube after the reception, according to the news release.
The Cove Gallery is at 1492 S. Coast Hwy. For more information, call (949) 494-1878 or visit https://www.covegallerylaguna.com.
Palette competition winners picked
The Laguna Beach Arts Commission has selected two winners in its annual palette competition.
Audrey Miller and Carla Rogers of Laguna Beach were chosen to have their original works be put on large palettes and displayed throughout the city during the holiday season.
The work will go on display Dec. 1 until the beginning of January.
—Kelly Parker
PTA Reflections artists recognizes
Students from Laguna Beach schools were recognized for their art — whether it's photography, video, song composition, dance, literature or painting — at the Laguna Beach Unified School District's board meeting Tuesday.
Students competed in the six categories and all were recognized in a slideshow presented to the board.
The theme of the contest was "Diversity means…," and students responded to the prompt in many different ways.
The students are:
From Laguna Beach High School: Nolan Gunsolley.
From Thurston Middle School: Austin Fickman, Molly McMillen, Mark Elliot, Emily Baker-Diaz and Sophia Anderson.
From El Morro Elementary School: Jade Nicolette, Gretchen Webb and Colette Reed.
From Top of the World Elementary School: Jeremy Leeds, Karmen Schmidt, Lauren Trautenberg, Giovanna Cecutti, Lya Veski, Christina Veski, Sol MacDermott and Ziggy Molteni.
The winning pieces are on display at the Susi Q Senior Center at 380 Third St.
—Joanna Clay


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MARCH 2011 Celebrate Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras is one of the worlds most celebrated carnival & parades. The festivities start March 5th-8th in New Orleans. Disney World has a Mardi Gras celebration for the family and if you can't travel just decorate & throw your own party! The colors are vibrant purple, gold, and green. Those official colors were assigned in 1872 here is what they represent. Purple: Justice - Green: Faith - Gold: Power. If you are not in costume you should wear these colors in New Orleans. Grand Balls, Costume parties , parades and lavish decorating fills the month of March in honor of Mardi Gras. History tracks it down in Europe in the middle ages while French-Canadian explorer, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville, landed on a plot of ground 60 miles directly south of New Orleans in 1699 and called it "Pointe due Mardi Gras." He also established "Fort Louis de la Louisiane" (which is now Mobile) in 1702. In 1703, the tiny settlement of Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrated the very first Mardi Gras. In 1875, Governor Warmoth of Louisiana signs the "Mardi Gras Act" making it a legal holiday in Louisiana
Sweetopia is a wonderful site filled with goodies for every occasion! Look at what she came up with ! Please click here to visit this yummy site! The idea is from p. 26 of Peggy Porschen's book Beautiful Cakes
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MARDI GRAS KING CAKES History behind the King Cake...
As part of our Christian faith, the coming of the wise men bearing gifts to the Christ Child is celebrated twelve days after Christmas. The baking of a special cake in honor of the three kings called "A King's Cake." Inside every cake is a tiny baby (generally plastic now, but sometimes this baby might be made of porcelain or even gold). the person who receives the slice of cake with the baby is asked to continue the festivities by hosting the next King Cake party.
February 2011 A MONTH FULL OF LOVE!
Love letters from Yesterday...
Valentine's day traditions fill homes with romance! Don't forget to send your valentine cards out! Here are some vintage valentine's that will warm your heart! Vintage valentine cards are highly collectibe! I have some antique valentine's day cards with lace on them and gold pins and hankies attached to the cards! They are precious and beautiful!
January is the perfect time to start Traditions and one of my favorites, is a "FAMILY TREE" and a Family Wall. It makes a House a Home. It adds Memories, Love and thoughtfullness & if done right it's beautiful decor! My Daughter has a Huge "R" for her last name in the middle of her hallway wall surrounded by Family photos. It is her Family Tree. She has it organized with each part of our Family and her Father's Family. It's truly inspirational to see! Everyone loves to go to her wall and so many are surprised to see their photos! Find a Special place for your Family photos and start your story today! Here are some Fantastic Family Tree/Photo ideas!
Shabby Chic, Elegant, Traditional, Country or Modern, you can decorate with family photos.
There are all kinds of decorative Wall Decals to accent your Family Wall! Amazon has the best deals most are under $20 www.Amazon.com
These are easy to apply vinyl decals that look great on a wall with a quote & then add your photos to make your own Family Tree by adding framed photos or below are Family Tree Templates that you can order or download free to make your own Family Tree Photo.
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Designed with a sporty white collar, cap sleeves and a breast pocket, our jumpsuit is a fun and practical addition to their school uniform. Crafted from a cotton rich fabric that repels water based stains, it's perfect for kids on the go and it has the bonus of being easy iron too.
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