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Interview Recap - Kaos vs Vampiro
Posted in Interview Recaps by Jack at 17:54, May 23 2008
by Neal Jones
Vampiro vs. Kaos IYH Interview Recap
by Neal Jones
Vampiro was the scheduled guest, and Kaos was the surprise guest on In Your Head Wrestling Online Radio hosted by Jack, OneInchBiceps and Barbie Richards. Listen live every Wednesday 8:00-10:00 PM EST at http://www.inyourheadonline.com and check out our full FREE archive section with over 3 years of archived interviews.
Vampiro was scheduled to come on IYH at 8 PM EST. He could not be reached, when his opponent at XPW Cold Day In Hell, ?the Triple Threat Superstar? Kaos called in.
XPW Cold Day In Hell
Saturday Night, May 24 2008
Aviation Park
Redondo Beach, CA
Kaos said Vampiro is always like this, he leaves everyone hanging. Kaos goes on to say Vampiro never lives up to promises, and tells a story about how Vampiro left him at the airport. Kaos hopes Vampiro shows up for their match at Cold Day in Hell.
Jack asks if Kaos has come across veterans with big heads. Kaos says he is a guy who brags about beating Hulk Hogan and Sting and doesn?t have time for the young guys.
Kaos talks about missing XPW, and ever since it?s demise in 2003 he has searched for a home. No locker room has compared to it, and everyone is really excited and wanting to prove themselves.
Jack asks if XPW guys were blackballed after XPW?s demise. Kaos says absolutely he and Webb, Pogo, Supreme etc were blackballed after the Heat Wave ECW PPV incident.
Kaos talks about admiring Vampiro and all he has done in wrestling. Going from a young Canadian kid who ate out of dumpsters and making a huge name for himself in Mexico. He thinks maybe Vamp sees Kaos as someone young and hungry to take his spot.
Kaos talks about the return of the Gangstas after about 10 years. New Jack and Mustafa didn?t get along well, and now they are back for one show.
Caller Jason asks what Kaos? favorite match was. Kaos talks about facing off with Dynamite D. Kaos talks about Supreme and their wrestling school. Kaos talks about the infamous match where Supreme was burned badly, they had a falling out but recently got back together. Jack mentions how Kaos still got the pinfall after Supreme was laid out and burned, Kaos said he was a little lost when he saw him charred but Supreme wanted a finish for the match.
Jack brings up Dynamite D ?Mr. 80?s?, who passed away a few years ago, and the tribute Battle Royal that will take place at XPW Cold Day In Hell. Kaos tells some stories of the different impersonations Dynamite D did.
Kaos talks about getting himself into the greatest shape of his life for his match with Vampiro. Jack asks if he thinks Vampiro is taking this match seriously. Kaos thinks Vampiro just sees him as a young chump, and he has has wrestled big names and might not be training hard for the comeback match.
Jack says the IYH Crew will be rooting Kaos on in the match with Vampiro because he now showed IYH tonight.
Caller Jason brings up Chris Hamrick as one of the most underrated wrestlers and his matches with Kaos being great. Kaos says Chris knows how to pop a crowd, work hold for hold, comedy he can do it all. Kaos talks about learning a lot just working with guys like Hamrick and Shane Douglas.
Kaos talks about ?The Dead Sleep Easy? movie with Vampiro, where he also no showed the premier of. Kaos talks about being in the movie with Aguilera and Luke Hawks. Kaos said Vamp was in and out of the set like a big star with a big head. Kaos says Vamp didn?t have respect for the smaller characters on the set.
Kaos puts over the Fan Fest at XPW Cold Day in Hell before the event.
XPW Cold Day In Hell
Saturday Night, May 24 2008
Aviation Park
Redondo Beach, CA
Kaos says Vampiro hasn?t wrestled for 3 years.
Kaos talks about working with Rob Black, and never having a problem with him. He credits Rob for his start in the business and exposure for a lot of guys.
Jack asks if the show does well, could XPW come back. Kaos says they want to focus on this one show being off the charts. If the show does well and the upcoming DVD?s sell well he could see it. Kaos says everyone had their hopes up for WSX, so he knows not to get too excited about anything.
Kaos hoped WSX was going to be everyone?s big break. He doesn?t believe MTV ever got behind the product. He thought it was a great experience and so different than anything else he ever did. Kaos liked the Fight Club look of the show.
Jack asks if the season being taped at once was frustrating because they couldn?t change the show the next week based off feedback. Kaos says that?s true plus it was a hectic schedule.
Caller El Santo asks if Kaos ever wrestled in AAA or CMLL. Kaos says he frequents NGS with Supreme, it is a supreme ECW based promotion. Kaos says as Konnan says Mexico is 10 years behind American wrestling and hardcore is taking off there.
Kaos doesn?t see Vampiro wrestling much longer. Kaos talks about Vampiro being in the Guardian Angels now, and he was in the group 20 years ago in California. Kaos sees Vamp doing it as a way to hide behind a group, just like he hides behind his make-up.
Caller Kronus asks about working with John Kronus. Kaos says he was one of the best guys in the locker room, he didn?t have a big head coming from ECW. Kaos talks about how tremendous Kronus was in the ring for a big guy, and the Eliminators finisher The Total Elimination being one of the best double team maneuvers ever.
Kaos compares Vampiro to Sean ?no show? Waltman.
Kaos talks about the WSX team with ?Jesus? Aguilera. He spent some time with him working on double team moves before WSX. Kaos personally wanted to be a singles but he felt the team worked well. Kaos says there was a lot of talk for the 2nd season of WSX, they had actually written 4 seasons and eventually the team was going to split and feud. Jack says Aguilera is an underrated promo guys, Kaos said that?s why Vince hired him because he was a good talker and the injuries were bad timings for him. Jack puts over Jesus?s suspenders. Kaos mentions Jesus pushed for him to wear suspenders in the tag team.
Kaos talks about the Miss Xtreme contest at the XPW Cold Day in Hell.
Caller Flea asks if XPW ever stopped any ideas the guys had. Kaos said no but maybe they should have liked the 30? scaffold or explosions. Kaos talks about XPW TV, and how crazy it was with all the vignettes. New fans are now discovering XPW on the DVD?s from www.bigvisionentertainment.com
Kaos talks about how XPW really innovated the DVDS and t-shirts on the Indy Wrestling scene. Now everyone has them, but XPW was the first one to do it. They even had DVD?s before WWE. Kaos credits Rob Black for the XPW DVD?s.
Kaos credits GQ Money for really helping him develop his promos. Jack asks about his falling out with GQ, Kaos says they can still work together but they are no longer friends and at one time they were really close. Kaos says he was against the Enterprise group at first, he thought he?d be lost in the shuffle. It was the total opposite and really catapulted his character.
Kaos talks about a lot of the footage being guerilla footage filmed at 3 on the morning in people?s garages and even a church. At times they would stop traffic and just film their stuff. Kaos talks about basing a lot of the scenes off of movies like Pulp Fiction, Clockwork Orange, Reservoir Dogs etc.
Jack asks who?s idea was it for Kaos to wrestle with the TV title on. Kaos says it was Rob Black?s idea. He couldn?t do his 450 splash, but he did bang up some of the guys like Hamrick and Danny Doring while wearing it.
Kaos talks about getting to see all these guys again either one more time, and hopes this is done right not like the Vince McMahon?s ECW. He believes there is still an audience for hardcore wrestling.
Jack asks if there is a spot for another TV product. Kaos thinks there is, he says a lot of good indys are out there, but there can be one at the next level. Kaos puts over the David Marquez NWA shows.
Kaos says Steve Austin motto DTA Don?t Trust Anyone is something you need to live by in the wrestling business. A lot of Indy guys need to stand up for themselves and not let promoters make false promises, and want you to kill yourself for them.
Kaos talks about how WWE looks for a certain look and style. It?s hard for a guy who can?t do a 3 minute match to get over or get called up.
Kaos tells all the fans to come to XPW Cold Day in Hell. It could be your last chance to see hardcore wrestling, plus dream matches like Supreme vs. Necro Butcher, Kaos vs. Vampiro, the return of the Gangstas and Terry Funk special ref for Sabu and Homeless Jimmy vs. Raven & Johnny Webb.
XPW Cold Day In Hell
Saturday Night, May 24 2008
Aviation Park
Redondo Beach, CA
Kaos says he thinks Vampiro has a big chip on his shoulder and doesn?t respect him or the show www.inyourheadonline.com Kaos says he pisses on everything Vampiro stands for. Kaos says he wants to use Vampiro as a stepping stone in his career.
Vampiro calls in 80 minutes late and confronts Kaos live on the show. Kaos tells him he is very disrespectful to himself, XPW and IYH.
Vampiro says he personally told people that Kaos had it, he put him in the movie and now he hears Kaos talking this stuff about him.
Kaos and Vampiro get into a verbal war over respect.
Vampiro says he specifically came back to wrestling to help XPW, and Kaos is ungrateful and doesn?t have the ability to draw people or get out of LA. Vampiro says Kaos blames his failures on other people. Vampiro says Kaos should go back to washing dishes and getting coffee for Kevin Kleinrock.
Kaos says Vampiro needs to put the nail in the coffin of his career. Vampiro says he has dealt with so many idiots like Kaos over his career. Vampiro doesn?t need to call people for work, people call him. Kaos says Vampiro is all about excuses and demanding things like a superstar. Vampiro says they go back a long way, he?s never cared about fame only the fans. Vampiro says Kaos will never hang with him.
Kaos and Vampiro talk about wanting to meet in a parking lot to fight, but they want to give the fans something special to see at XPW Cold Day in Hell.
XPW Cold Day In Hell
Saturday Night, May 24 2008
Aviation Park
Redondo Beach, CA
Vampiro talks about coming to the show to help out the young guys, and then he gets disrespected.
Jack asks if he sees himself in Kaos. Vampiro says no, he always showed respect to the veterans, he was brought up in the old school. Vampiro talks about Kaos sending bogus emails and messing up his plane tickets. Vampiro tried to help out Kaos in XPW, WSX and in Mexico. Vampiro says it is really hard to get people in wrestling to be your friend. He took Kaos under his wing, now he talks bad about him and blames Vampiro for not making it.
Vampiro talks about being in the federal police force in Mexico, and the Guardian Angels.
Vampiro talks about charisma being the biggest thing in not just wrestling but any form of entertainment. If you can?t connect with the fans you will never make it. Vampiro says Kaos just doesn?t connect with the fans and doesn?t have it.
Vampiro talks about fans asking him why he doesn?t wrestle anymore. He wants to come back as a Guardian Angel, to help use his popularity as a wrestler to help the Guardian Angels group.
Vampiro talks about all his injuries over 25 years. When he took off, he started feeling his injuries aching.
Caller Duane asks about Vince Russo. Vampiro says he never got along with Russo. He was so frustrated in WCW. He was at the height of his career and because of jealousy and ego he never got a shot. Vampiro felt like he was his most motivated, but Russo kept wanting to do stupid things with him.
Vampiro says Sting was an egomaniac and very jealous of him. He learned a lot working with him though and it was an honor.
Vampiro also talks a lot about working in Mexico, and Konnan. His time in WSX, and MTV not giving it a chance. The Guardian Angels in Mexico. His brief stay in TNA, where Shane Douglas puked all over the ring. His feud with Raven he wished was bigger, him almost going to ECW. Working with Rob Black and his memories of XPW.
Vampiro talks about the Warrior?s return in Spain for NWE. He will not be on the show, and thinks Warrior will be brutal and does not want to work with him.
Caller Jason asks about The Great Muta. Vampiro says it was one of his idols and huge for him to get a chance to meet and work with him. Vampiro puts over Muta?s moonsault and how people today do 100?s of big moves that don?t mean anything because they are never a finish.
Vampiro tells everyone to come and see him and all of the guys at XPW Cold Day in Hell, and he will be part of the Fan Fest as well.
XPW Cold Day In Hell
Saturday Night, May 24 2008
Aviation Park
Redondo Beach, CA
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Vernet's links with Rudyard Kipling and the Entente Cordiale
Walks near Vernet and to the summit of Canigou mountain
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Vernet shares a station with Villefranche-de-Conflent, easily reached from Perpignan, but, whereas Villefranche is near the station, Vernet is a fair trek and uphill on a road so a bus or taxi is necessary.
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From the station the Petit Train Jaune follows its scenic line over numerous impressive viaducts to Latour du Carol.
Bus or walk to the nearby hamlet of Casteil at the top of the road beyond Vernet.
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The village takes pride in being the first 'village-arboretum' in France. There are certainly some wonderful trees and many signs describing them. Walks range from the ascent of the 'Pic du Canigou' to easy strolls suitable for children. Unfortunately the TIC only sells the walks guide in summer, which starts by decree on June 1 - but hotels are likely to have copies that you can see at other times.
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Go to the casino if you must but in any case don't miss the geological museum where the owner gives a most informative tour in several languages.
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Bistrot le Cortal. It's very small so book beforehand. Food and views to die for.
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If you've not arrived from Perpignan, it's certainly worth a visit.


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Recycled Bricks - Paving Quality
It's common for our brick yard to have 85,000 in stock of recycled paving quality bricks at anytime. We keep this amount of used bricks on hand as to keep up with demand. The end result when these recycled bricks are laid as pavers is an overall rustic feel. These recycled bricks are normally used in driveways, garden edging, and walkways. They are the most popular bricks among landscapers wanting the grey and brown brick colouring, to help blend into the surrounding greenery and achieve an overall natural look.
Antique & Historic Bricks
Bricks dating from all the way back to Australia's earliest colonial settlers up until today. Great for matching existing brick work when renovating or extending current structures. We can match specific bricks chromatically, dimensionally and chronologically.
Feel free to send us some images or even a sample brick and we will endeavour to find identical counterparts for your project.
Used Bricks - Feature Walls
Used Bricks look great in feature walls. Whether you apply a racked joint with an off white mortar or acid wash the bricks, there are lots of different looks you can achieve. they can range in colours from greys and browns to recycled rusty reds just to name a few. These bricks add a timely feel and character to any feature wall. Fast becoming a statement in the hospitality industry with cafes and restaurants purchasing these bricks by the thousands to create a rustic atmosphere and comfortable overall dining experience.
Forming the bedrock for most of the Sydney region, Hawkesbury Sandstone or 'Yellowblock' was the building material of choice for the majority of city's earliest structures. Although no longer mined, this durable sedimentary rock is as versatile as it is decorative. Great for feature walls, lining and decorating and can be precisely carved with intricate detail.
Second Hand Bricks - Soho Grade
These second hand commons are also known as a dry pressed brick, and are for clients looking for something unique. We have supplied these second hand bricks to customers inspired by New York loft-style apartments, and images they have seen in magazines. They have also been laid in internal dwellings as pavers for that "wow factor". Used Bricks Sydney have large amounts of these recycled bricks in stock, as they are fast becoming our best seller and are named Soho Grade for the apparent reason.
Assorted Blocks
Thanks in part to the very nature of rescuing bricks from demolition, we regularly have all kinds of oddities on site from cobblestone to firebricks and flooring specialties to veneers, we have seen it all. Due to the associated supply and demand of recycled bricks, we may not always be able to meet your exact requirements on the spot but we will gladly contact you as soon stock becomes available.


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January 21, 2014
WePay is a Silicon Valley Payments firm that was founded in the year 2008 by Bill Clerico (CEO) and Richard Aberman (Vice President). WePay has processed transactions for more than 2,50,000 users and 300+ API partners. The company's customer service team recently won the 2013 Gold Stevie award for its outstanding work serving customers. Some of the customers using Wepay API to handle their payments are GofundMe, Honeyfund, Fundly, Custommade, care.com and Less Accounting.
Since its inception, the company has raised total funding of $35 Million till date.
On 15 January 2014, Wepay raised funding of $15 Million from investors like Series C Financing led by Phil Purcell of Continental Investors (co-founder of the Discover Card who served as a CEO of Morgan Stanley). The other investors include Max Levchin, Maynard Webb (WIN Investment Network) and Raymond Tonsing.
Wepay's initial solution was designed to help friends send and receive money with each other online. In 2012 its API was designed to leverage its years of experience directly working with small merchants.
WePay in 2013, The Company started Intelligent Proprietary engine Veda, deployed within the company internal system to evaluate the risk of potential merchants and catch fraudsters before they act. In just six months, the patent-pending technology behind Veda has stopped more than $30 million in attempted fraud. Veda also uses pattern recognition, integrated support data, and automatic cross-referencing to analyze risk.
Following are the features of WePay Veda:-
Veda asks for only five pieces of information i.e. (first name, last name,Name of business, email address, phone number).
Wepay helps in making the payments faster by reducing the settlement time in sending and receiving money.
Video on How WePay Works
According to the CEO Bill Clerico A traditional credit score only shows a sliver of who you are, but online data paints a more complete picture and is more difficult to fake. This allows us to know our merchants better and get them their money faster.'
WePay easy-to-use online payment tools for small businesses include a Mobile application, online invoices, on-site checkout buttons, virtual terminal for charging credit cards, as well as an application programming interface (API) for partners. New customers can be up and running and accepting credit cards in less than one minute.


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Sunday is 'God's Work, Our Hands Sunday' at Emmanuel Lutheran
Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Prescott Valley participates in hands-on service throughout the year. But this Sunday, Emmanuel joins other churches and people across the nation in a special day of service.
Sunday, Sept. 11 is the national day of service and remembrance, in memory of the 15th anniversary of 9/11/01. But at congregations throughout the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Sept. 11 is God's Work, Our Hands Sunday. Congregations are encouraged to make a difference in their local communities on this day.
"This is the second year Emmanuel Lutheran has been a part of this ELCA national day of service," said Pastor Kirk Anderson. "It's taken a lot of work to organize such a big venture, but our congregation has taken this idea and run with it!"
Last year, the congregation participated in 17 service projects. This year, that number has increased to 19, including projects in Prescott Valley, Chino Valley and Prescott, since Emmanuel's members come from all over the area.
Emmanuel's members, from toddlers to seniors, will participate in projects that include partnering with nonprofit organizations like Prescott Area Shelter Services, Yavapai Family Advocacy Center, Horses with Heart, Hope's Attic, Stepping Stones, Prescott Valley Senior Nutrition Program, CASA Senior Center, and the Project Aware Men's Shelter; caring for veterans at the Northern Arizona VA; and taking care of the home of a local woman who has a disability.
Several projects will take place at the church, such as a feeding project, and packing care packages for teachers at Emmanuel's adopted school, Liberty Traditional School.
On God's Work, Our Hands Sunday, instead of the usual two Sunday services, Emmanuel will have one big blended worship service at 9 a.m. Then, the congregation will be blessed and sent to serve at project sites for several hours.
Each project has one or two team captains and a staff of participants.
"Rolling up our sleeves and making a difference in the community is just our way of taking the Gospel message seriously," Anderson said. "This Sunday and every day, we are encouraged to take love into the world and serve."
Thrivent Financial is supporting God's Work, Our Hands Sunday at Emmanuel Lutheran Church with funding for Thrivent Action Teams. Congregation members will be dressed in either God's Work, Our Hands gold shirts, or Thrivent shirts.
Emmanuel Lutheran Church is located at 7763 E. Long Look Drive, Prescott Valley. For more information about Emmanuel's ministries and programs, go to www.EmmanuelLutheranPV.org or call 928-772-4135.
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Rachel Slade, Ph.D., Joins L&P
Laurence & Phillips IP Law (L&P) is pleased to announce that Rachel Slade, Ph.D., has joined the firm. Rachel will focus on patent prosecution and post-grant proceedings.
Rachel previously worked with both Kevin Laurence and Matt Phillips at a general practice firm. Kevin is delighted to work with Rachel again because "she has a stellar scientific background and can critically assess the IP aspects of technologies involving sophisticated chemistry." Matt Phillips added that "Rachel's expansive chemistry knowledge and industrial experience allow her to efficiently evaluate both the business and patentability features of chemical technologies."
More information about Rachel Slade is provided below.
Dr. Slade brings nearly 10 years of experience to the firm, in patent-related services involving complex chemical, pharmaceutical and diagnostic technologies. Her experience includes patentability searching and analysis, patent drafting and prosecution, and patent litigation support. Prior to her legal career, Rachel worked as a bench scientist in the pharmaceutical industry for over a decade, receiving multiple patents in the process. This legal, technical, and practical experience enables her to effectively and successfully communicate with inventors, business personnel, and the Patent Office.


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Introducing Automatic Subtitling and Broadstream Integrated Playout at IBC 2018
We are pleased to announce that after a preview period and market testing we will be launching VoCaption our New Automatic Live Subtitling system at this year's IBC! Following our initial demonstrations at previous trade shows we're expecting a really high level of interest at this year's IBC so be sure to book in some time with us. PLUS! We're delighted to announce our partnership with integrated playout specialists BroadStream…talk to us at IBC about OASYS!
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VoCaption Automatic Live Subtitling has Landed!
We're launching VoCaption Screen's Automatic Live Subtitling solution at this year's IBC; including features like:
- Automatic failover to Speech when integrated with our market-leading Polistream platform.
- Processes audio content from line-input, AES or directly from SDI/HD-SDI/3G-SDI signal.
- Language output support is limited only to the respective Speech Engines capabilities.
- When used in conjunction with Polistream VoCaption enables the widest range of linear broadcast and OTT delivery mechanisms available in the market today.
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With more than 500 million hours of video being watched each day on YouTube alone, wouldn't it be great if just a small percentage of that was captioned? Plus, Facebook has suggested that 85% of its video content is viewed with the sound off. So why doesn't more online content carry captions? Possibly because it's time-consuming and fiddly to do. NOT NOW! Screen has created an intelligent online service to automatically create accurate captions for online content. And it will hold your hand through the trickier parts. And we'll be launching it at IBC.
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WT 146: Discontentment in Marriage
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We all walk down the aisle with hearts full of hope, but a few years and a kid or two down the road, we often discover marriage is more work than we thought it would be. Right after discipline, questions about spouses and marriage are the most common questions we get for Wire Talk and today we have some great ones.
Question 1: Help! How can I be better at not feeling resentful and jealous when my husband gets to leave in the morning to go to work.. even though we do have a great relationship!!
Karen's Answer: I relate 100%! You aren't going to like my answer and I'm sorry. I do love you and get EXACTLY what you are saying, because I've been there so many times. But, here is the deal…. being joyful is a choice. So, when your husband leaves for work, you can be joyful that he has a job, a good job, that gives you the luxury to stay home with your children, OR you can be resentful and jealous that he is having so much fun and you are doing the SAME OLE boring thing! But, here is the deal, in Proverbs 31:28 it says, "Her children arise and call her BLESSED; her husband also , and he praises her." I believe that verse is true, and it's true because you are doing a great work in raising your children, and your husband knows the sacrifice you are making. Just a month ago, Greg said to me, staying home with the kids is HARD! Thank you for all those years you did it while I was traveling. I never realized how hard it was. Choose joy!
Question 2: Things have been really difficult between my husband and I since this past summer. We are in counseling, but I don't know what the future holds. Some days I feel like we can work it out and on other days I don't even know how I ever married this man. We have agreed that we will have a "truce" in front of our two boys (7 and 5) – but it is soul crushing to "fake it". Any suggestions for how to best to protect our boys from our mess while we're in the middle of it?
Karen's Answer: I am so sorry to hear that your marriage is going through some hard times. First off, I'm proud of you for trying to work it out! So many people either give up, or never address a problem until it's too late. Secondly, I want to encourage you to keep at it, and lay your burden before God, asking Him, what is your part of the pie that you can work on and be open to what He shows you. We all have something we can always be working on in relationships. I think your Truce in front of the kids is exactly what you should be doing. At ages 7 and 5 they would have a hard time understanding and I think you are protecting them for any undue pain. I'd keep doing what you are doing. I've been married for 32 years, and I can tell you, marriage is tough. It is however, worth the fight, but sometimes you have to fight to stay together and fight to love each other. Keep at it. I have seen God do some amazing work on marriages, ones that I thought there was no hope, and then God restored the entire marriage. You do what you can do and let God do the rest.
Question 3: What are some ways I can draw/incorporate my husband into the philosophies you taught us in Mom Core? I feel enlightened now … but don't want to "preach" at my husband.
Karen's Answer: Get our newest curriculum Parenting Together from Preschool to Prom, that Greg and I did together. We filmed this curriculum for this very reason! I think your husband will enjoy listening to another man. Go on a date night, and tell your husband that you want to really work as a team in parenting, and that you think this new curriculum will help get you both on the same page.
Question 4: I'd love to start taking my girls (1 & 3.5) to church as there are several fantastic churches where we live and I think I'd find some great women to connect with —here's the issue—my husband is not so into church. He grew up Catholic (me presbyterian) but his parents only seemed to go to church so he could attend private Catholic school… he kind of looks down on churchgoers ( I even kept the side of myself a bit hidden from him because he makes me feel like I should be embarrassed) … any advice on this tricky topic— how to have your kids get to know God and go to church when your husband may not necessarily be supportive? He has gone to church with me a few times and he seems to like it sometimes so there is hope on that front! I just don't want to push it too much! I really appreciate any words you have on this subject.
Karen's Answer: If he has gone to church with you and seemed to enjoy it, I'd keep going. You can tell him, that you think church would be good for the kids, so they will learn good morals and values. How can he be opposed to that. I would start praying like crazy for your husband and the entire church experience. If you will allow Christ to shine through you in love toward your husband, he won't be able to refuse. Think about Jesus and how he exhibited love to everyone he encountered. Start reading the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and pray daily for your husband to be receptive. If your husband is not willing to go, but is open to you taking the girls and yourself, I would just go. You never know what God is going to do. God could use your little girls to say something to their dad, and that will excite him about learning more. You never know!
Moms, we know your time is precious. Thank you for spending it with us. We hope you feel encouraged, equipped and most importantly—the peace of God. You can receive encouragement each week by tuning in to Wire Talk; so subscribe today and be sure you never miss an episode.
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Boards Community Odyssey Contest: Wrap up!
Helloooo my lovelies, this is your practically perfect pilot speaking~
The time has come to end this little explosion filled chapter of our journey together, but there's still some exciting news to share with you all! It was great fun seeing the depths of death and destruction you all went to for a chance at adventure, and this is our way of saying thanks! Let's get the two smaller missions out of the way first shall we?
The Myth, the Legend, ME!:
Heaps of you rocked up in Discord and found teammates and good times! While we can't promise when, or what, we plan to use this server for in any future events we do, you are more than welcome to stick around to find clash teams, duo partners, or any other community fun times :)
Rock Boy:
Oodles of great feedback here! Volunteer event feedback will be taken into consideration for any future events we do (and if you have any more now that the event is over, please share!). Gamemode and official event feedback will be packed up and sent off to HQ for their perusal.
Big Bad Captain Yas:
We had a whopping 580 of you complete our good ol' Captain Yas' mission and you should have all received your prizes for it by now. Truly spectacular effort from you all- we had way more of you hit the point threshold than we thought!
If you think you should have received a prize and haven't, comment below or ping @Organiser in the Discord server, and we'll go from there :) Since there were quite a few, I will mention that match history screenshots weren't counted, as we needed proof of club tags from post game.
Last and definitely least! ugh Sona:
Just kidding! (mostly). Even I can admit that reading all your entries was a blast, I mean, who doesn't love being immortalised in verse? I know I did! So without further ado (oh no she's rubbing off on me!):/
Our third place entry who will receive a Masterwork Chest and Hextech Key: Black Wizard 11! (What? You picked this one? But it's about you! Ugh fine I guess it was pretty good)
"Odyssey Sona searches
For the seeds of mankind
Which take root
And like thoughts,
Stay confined.
She sees the truth
However grim
And rallies her team behind.
Because like the others,
She does not shudder
To speak what's on her mind."
In second place, with a charming poem recounting our explosive exploits and recipient of 500RP, Honour Bound!
"Wanting to journey? then gather the crew,
However, a warning, they're worse than a zoo!
With tornadoes, hexmines and explosions galore,
There's nothing out there that you can't explore!
So go out and fight, though you'll die constantly,
Gather all of the ora, in the new odyssey!"
And finally, in first place, a poem with the worthiest of subjects. Me! (No I'm not biased, you're biased), immortalised for all eternity right here and now, and receiver of the largest of prizes in the form of 1000RP, MissKittyKat!!!
"Logging on to join the search for Ora
Departing with the awesome Morningstar
Embracing the challenge of onslaught,
Laugh and taunt at monsters fought.
Zap! I shoot the enemy!
This power, this madness! It's getting to me!
Look! it's Kayn! He's so hot,
Ouch! The heck?! Got one shot…
A huge thanks to all of you who participated in any or all of our crew's missions! Barring a few exceptions (you'll know who you are), all prizes for Yasuo's mission are out, and Sona's prizes will be coming in the day or two following this post!
Until next time, from the crew of the Morningstar, the star of the show (me obviously) and the OCE Volunteers!
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How to Make "Self" Consciousness Cool 4 Kids
To make the consciousness of a personal "Self" cool you first have to define it. To do that you need a framework, a way of speaking to the question to begin with. In our conversation the human "Self" has an evolving quality that we believe we can visually represent in a meaningful way – both for the user and for society as a whole – and over time.
So, to make Self-consciousness cool you have to make the process of personal evolution entertaining, ergo cool. You have to make the thought-framework you are using, in our case, a human evolutionary-ontology, entertaining and cool.
Then, of course, you have to create a brand universe of products and services founded upon this "framework-as-ontology." Not a simple nor obvious solution as this complex brand universe is born from a synergetic system of words, images and meaning-rich messages. And this system of words images and messages will grow out of this idea of evolving personal YOUnique-ness; TheSelf; and so on. AND all of this, schtuff… you know… must be truly kewl to fly.
The model, we call LeModel (Learning-to-Evolve the Model), consists of 6 core "state" or "process/operator" variables, facets or components. It was first created and presented to academic audiences as a new way to frame, and speak to the idea of, gift-centric Self-evolution. These first presentations occurred at Stanford University between 1983-1985.
The character images are called LeToonz and were added to illustrate the phrases within LeModel in 1990-91. These "toon-ish" illustrations were done in collaboration with Jack Dempsey, a Chicago (Illinois/USA) artist.
From Left to Right and riding directly atop the wave (LeWave) we see AskYourSelf, LetGo, Ah-Ha, and DoIt. Below AskYourSelf and on the circular pedestal, and in blue, is Flo, Across from Flo and in front of and below Ah-Ha is BeIt. BeIt is a comnbination of all the LeToonz characters. BeIt's shapre is that of a chalice and a torid… see the donut around BeIt's waist. The arms and legs spread up and out to form the shape of the chalice (bi-spiral vortices).
"Ah-Ha" (aka: "aha-moment") is one of the LeModel "state" variables.
It has taken some time but all the LeModel linguistic variables have, as of 2010, become part of the consumer lexicon. This is not to say the utternace "ah-ha" did not occur before Oprah. It is only to say that broad and commonly defined consumer awareness of what an "ah-ha" means and its "reality" as a shared experience started with Oprah. The same with "Do-It" via Nike; and "Flo" or "Being in the Zone" via our star athlete Brand scripting (and Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi).
It took 1 human generation, approximately 25 years between 1984-2010, for all of the variables within LeModel to achieve this level of awareness and frequency-of-use in the consumer market. One thing LeModel provides that we have yet to see is to show the natural interplay and relationships that exist between each of these core variables and how these operate within our lives.
The phrase "Do-It" is one of the "process" or operation variables within LeModel. Nike made "Just Do It" famous 1988. Once a phrase becomes has developed a certain permanence within our conversations with each other, or within our Selfs, we can assume a new level of awareness, or consciousness, has been achieved related to the idea, or meaning of the word or phrase and its emergent associations. In this case, "Do-It" became part of our common lexicon by the early 90's and has persisted into present day conversation. Ah-Ha, or aha-moment, emerged in and around early 2010 and will continue to spread dramatically.
"Flo" is one of the LeModel "state" variables that made it to verbal ubiquity in the late 90's under the umbrella of pop sport psychology with its early roots found in the published and later more broadly popularized work of Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1985, 1989).
"Ask Your Self" we began to see in a number of Print, Radio and TV ADs and then TV comedy scripts such as Seinfeld in the late 90's early 2000… to date each and every one of these phrase-as-variables has been isolated, or seen as separate by the consumer-mind. In our model they are unified as a system. Over time each and every one of these phrases has migrated across multiple social-semantic contexts.
Ah-Ha clicked-in-relevance with the consuming mind in the last quarter of 2008 w/Oprah: http://www.oprah.com/packages/aha-moments.html … and is now being used in media scripting, business, academic and product and service presentations and speeches around the world. Speaking to perceived value of a "phrase", Mutual of Omaha even sued Oprah over use of the phrase "Aha Moment."
So, how can we get kids to think, see and viscerally experience this idea that their SELF, and the Consciousness of their innate and evolving Self is actually amazingly cool? This has always been the big question.
We have looked at the array of product domains and channels and age-groups by which to enter the market, knowing full well that the "thought-product" we are offering can manifest itself within any number of product domains – from fashions and accessories; to toys; to educational-tech to media/entertainment content (TV, Video, Music, Film); to mobile (dedicated learning and/or learning-game) and social media apps… to knowledge, collective intelligence and semantic web apps…. and even to coffee cups. http://letoonz.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/letoonz-product-kids-8-13-lewave-wremoveable-letoonz-characters-and-embedded-songs/
We also know a number of these categories are inherently synergistic (Cool Mobile-App Suite meets new Brand Toys (assume younger demog) and/or Fashions + New "Brand" Music/Video, etc) and we have been looked at these scenarios as parallel devel waves.
For example, we know we can build an exciting game-culture (with sequel and age-migration legs) specific to human-evolution (EvoReVo!). Not a simple task. We could use a treasure hunt, mystery and puzzle storyboard format with a focus on the discovery (recorded ah-ha's) of innate personal gifts and dispositions (The Natural-Self Revealed)… "Yea so." & "…then what?" …the user asks. Well, it's inherently Self-developmental and social developmental, or simply "social"… so we build in connectivity into the game… it is global multi-player treasure hunt, the treasure being "The Self" and Synergies-of-Self's defined by who the users really are; defined by a significantly more authentic "Me."
Further, with this game-generated data and experience, can you then build an evolving social (MP) culture – a social synergy culture connecting individually evolving human beings based on a new platform of individual innate (born-with) characteristics used to mirror personal and YOUnique evolution… If we can make it fun and insight-full then we win the first round.
Can personal evolution be perceived as "kewl" today? We think so. We believe this in part based on social and semantic events that have unfolded consistently and progressively over the last 25 years in the consumer global marketplace – these emergent linguistic patterns we believe speaks to a value-perception and readiness for the ideas behind: Self-Evolution, YOUniqueness, SELF-Consciousness; and even the emergence notions of an Ecology-of-Mind and The Human-Singularity.
What do you think? Ask yourself.
It is an amazing that each and every LeModel variable has become more and more commonly used in "shared experience" conversation by human beings around the world starting around 1990 +/- 1 yr or so and LeModel was first created and presented to the "academic" public as a whole, dynamic and unified system of these same phrases in 1983/84.
To date, the powerful connections of each of these phrases to one another has not been articulated, much less illustrated, outside of LeModel. We look forward to sharing these thoughts and insights.
Written by JohnBrian
April 18, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Posted in LeCompany - The Learning-to-Evolve Company, New Social Movements, The Business of EcoMind
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How To Recognize Our Innate and Natural Gifts – The Source of Our True Self – Part I
As most of you know, my life-work centers around personal and social human evolution and to see this idea of "evolution" as a process that occurs within a individuals lifetime. The work is founded on the notion that we, as unique human beings, have a fundamental need to:
- more effectively express and live our natural gifts and dispositions;
- discover healthier and fuller human relationship synergy born naturally from this truer "Self";
- come to know sooner, and live more fully with intention, our YOUnique "Life-Purpose."
What I wish to do here is very simple. The beginning bottom line to living one's gifts in one's lifetime is to come to discover them, to value them, and then act on manifesting and living them most fully and in our daily life over time.
This idea of discovering and living our natural gifts and dispositions "over time" cannot be over stated. This process is anything but a quick fix. It is a lifetime deal. A lifetime of learning is involved in this idea of Self evolving. As it should be. Personal evolution is The Never Ending (life) Story for each of us.
Now, invariably, and naturally, when my conversations with people in real or virtual life get to this point I will get the same question from someone in the audience, or that person I am speaking with directly in front of me (… and their inner-dialog is most likely something along these lines, "BlahBlahdiddlyblah")
Here's THE question:
I have capitalized this question as the speaking voice of the inquirer typically carries some shade of emotion. My answer is surprisingly simple, even elegant, but the application of the insight found in the answer is incredibly difficult to do.
Here's my reply:
"As an adult we can see our natural gifts through our reaction to others… over time. Specifically, it's those things that consistently frustrate us about other people that represents our natural and innate gifts and dispositions."
It is those things others can't do, that we do easily, that reflect our innate gifts and dispositions. As an adult, with life memories, and built-up pattern of thought and behavior, this is the simplest way I know of to begin seeing one's naturally gifted Self…
It is quite illuminating as we consider our own negative reactions to others as being unreasonable. All along we thought they were the idiots, or simple minded, or just plain incompetent, when it turns out they were none of these, that we were simply not accurately valuing that which made us unique.
Written by JohnBrian
January 9, 2011 at 12:49 pm
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It is really very simple. Minds NEED other Minds that fit.
That's my take… the human mind wants to meet optimal other minds.
I think it is this simple. Defining "optimal" becomes interesting but let us assume it is about creating new "anythings." The moment of insight "Ah-Ha" (…and yes, I spell it differently than the popular market and for good reason) is the most intoxicating experiential phenomena known to the human mind… So having more of these that are resonant to our innate and unique gifts and dispositions and doing so with others of complementary unique-ness is… well… a real watershed party. This is what our minds want AND need intrinsically – and are designed to create, are creating, and will continue to create for themselves.
There are few if any technologies in the world today that over time have evolved outside of this idea of mind-driven architecture, design and functionality.
I am sure I am not saying anything new but I hope I am saying it uniquely and therein reaching more "minds" in the process.
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July 15, 2009 at 6:34 pm
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Album Love - Lux Edition
When a client of mine arrived with her grandparents' wedding album wrapped in her arms, the edges worn, pages loose and falling out, it hit me instantly that every grandchild should have the opportunity to look at their grandparents' wedding album. EVERY SINGLE ONE!
That means getting your images in print, gorgeous print, not having them saved somewhere on a hard drive or backed up online.
This began the search for the perfect album company. I found them quite some time ago and was smitten from the second I opened the box. I myself was hugging this sample album, I loved it so much. It doesn't even have photos of me in it! That was my clue that THIS was the right one. If I was hugging a book, with photos of other people inside, I knew my clients would love it even more with photos of themselves inside.
This is the lux version of our album! 10"x10", lux linen, thick pages, deep matte paper, 14 spreads, debossed cover and canvas cover pouch. It's stunning and it will be beautiful for years to come, so you can enjoy it now and, someday, your grandchild will get to love it just as I saw that bride-to-be loving her grandparents' album that afternoon.


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Season three of "The Voice" continued with blind auditions during Tuesday night's episode. During Monday night's season premiere, [artist id="1350855"]Adam Levine[/artist], [artist id="1163841"]Cee Lo Green[/artist] and [artist id="1164298"]Blake Shelton[/artist] all landed some good contenders, but round two belonged to[artist id="509026"]Christina Aguilera's night[/artist].
The judges had no problem putting their fellow judges in their place as they pitched their selected hopefuls. But, it was Aguilera who landed the two strongest singers of the night, prompting the pop princess to jump up from her seat and do some fierce victory dances.
Here were the stand-out moments of the night:
Powerhouse Meet Powerhouse
Aguilera got her pick of the night's best singers, including New Yorker Adriana Louise. She was the night's first performer and had all four judges banging their buttons for her. "We belong together," Aguilera told Louise, who could only respond by saying, "You're Christina Aguilera, you're talking to me!" Louise's charismatic "woo" in the middle of her verses was very reminiscent of her new mentor.
Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch
The night only got better for Aguilera when she scored the handsome Aquile, whose voice Levine called "buttery." Aquile had the girls swooning from his first note. While Levine and Green put up a fight for Aquile, Aguilera won out. "I kinda want a private concert, to be honest," Aguilera said, smitten.
Karaoke Disaster
Ryan Fogarty might be good enough to be Leann Rimes' tour production coordinator (and receive a glowing recommendation from the country star) but didn't quite make the cut on season three of "The Voice." Admittedly having only sang karaoke, Fogarty could hold a note, but he couldn't keep up with the stiff competition. He was applauded for his consistency but all four judges agreed he needed development, that he just wasn't "compelling enough." Fogarty left with his head held high and Rimes still on his side.
The 'Magical Pop Star'
That's what Adam Levine called 19-year-old MacKenzie Bourg after he was compared to both Harry Potter and Justin Bieber. What was really magical was his story of contracting a virus that caused him to suffer congestive heart failure just a year and a half ago. "Too many take waking up, breathing every morning for granted," Bourg said, making him someone you wanted to root for. Surprisingly, though, when the eclectic singer took the stage, only Green heard what the world saw, and they became automatic partners.
Mariachi Madness
Julie Cesar Castillo became the first singer on "The Voice" to sing an entire song in Spanish. Shelton was first to jump on the Castillo bandwagon and Green joined in after he saw the audience's positive response. "I saw people stand up with pride" Green said, "Different is what I do. Blake is good at doing the same thing over and over again." Castillo opted for Shelton, though. Maybe it was his strange pitch about seeing a banner in a gymnasium with his name on it as season three's champion. Whatever, it worked.
The final tally after two episodes left Aguilera and Shelton in the lead with four team members each, Green with three and Levine with two.
"The Voice" returns Wednesday night (September 12) as it faces off against "X Factor" for the first time.
What was your favorite moment of the second episode of "The Voice"?


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Popejoy Hall
Popejoy Hall is the premier performing arts center in New Mexico. Seating up to 1,985 patrons, Popejoy is the largest multi-purpose venue in the state. Following a major renovation in 1996, Popejoy hosts touring Broadway shows, symphony concerts, musical soloists and artists of international caliber, world-renowned ballet and modern dance companies, and noted speakers from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
The University of New Mexico Center for the Arts houses Popejoy Hall, three other performance spaces — Rodey Theatre, Keller Hall, the Experimental Theatre — and the University Art Museum. The various theaters host events for the Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance in the College of Fine Arts.


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Emergency repair works on one of Huddersfield's main roads may well drag on towards the end of this week.
Engineers last week discovered the source of a gas escape at the bottom of Chapel Hill at Folly Hall.
But the job will take a few more days while the road is reinstated.
Paul Sadler, Customer Operations Area Manager for Northern Gas Networks said: "Engineers from Northern Gas Networks are making good progress with essential gas mains work on the A616 at Chapel Hill in Huddersfield.
"Repairs to the main at the junction of Lockwood Road were completed on Friday, February 10 and a specialist team has been working to reinstate the surface of the road since Saturday. The concrete base is being laid and a final layer of Tarmac will be applied this week.
"The reinstatement is progressing as scheduled and we're aiming to reopen the lane as soon as this process is completed.
"The safety of our customers and engineers is our number one priority. We'd like to thank customers for their continued patience during this essential repair work and apologise for any inconvenience experienced."
For further information about the work, customers can contact the NGN Customer Care team on 0800 040 7766 option 7 or email email@example.com


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What is HOT in Human Resources?
Whilst checking out some analysis software for a project I came across a way of finding out what is hot in and around HR in the UK in the last week.
Great for looking at trends:
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|employment law
|HR Manager
|Business Partner
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|employee engagement
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What do you think?
Any surprises?


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Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, students in Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade will attend Thomas Jefferson Elementary school. Students in Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade will attend Mount Daniel Elementary School.
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, in partnership with our families and community, educates and challenges every student to succeed and become a responsible and contributing member of the global community.
In March of 2012, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School became authorized to implement the Primary Years Program of the International Baccalaureate (IB). FCCPS is the first K-12 IB World School Division in Virginia.


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I'm back. This was supposed to be a blog about my ongoing craft and design work and I've failed. Miserably. But the good news is, I've been designing and making stuff, I just haven't kept up with blogging about it.
Here's what I can think of off the top of my head that kept me busy in the last year that I look forward to writing about:
1. My sister's wedding (90% of the decor was DIY!)
2. My Etsy shop!
3. The interior design of our new St. Louis apartment
4. My favorite handmade wedding gifts from the 2013 Wedding Season
5. Christmas Cards (2 seasons worth!)
6. My first attempt at quilting (a work in progress)
7. Halloween Costumes 2013
...and much more! I have lots of projects on my list for the next month or so leading up to the holidays, so I hope to get this blog active and caught up so I can move forward!


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Finding Truth in the Works of Joshua West Smith
Joshua West Smith's Every truth blocks another at PCC Sylvania's Northview Gallery does not provide an answer to a question, nor does it solve a problem. Rather than problem solving, Smith's work exists in the realm of problem seeking; one where curiosity is preferable. Through a series of sculpture and photography, Smith undulates the line of presence, grappling with the idea of "the thing's" existence as a whole. Not quite identifiable, and missing part of itself, the work yields to the human desire for completeness, validation, and truth in its existence.
The show starts before setting foot inside the gallery. Confronted by a perforated purple felt curtain that semi-cloaks the entry doors and windows, the weighty fabric stretches across the glass and functions in setting the stage for what's to come. Though it feels theatrical from the outside, once through, the show begins to reveal itself as a complete idea. Using the curtain as a jumping point, Smith creates a space of pattern, repetition, and balance that continue to come to play throughout.
Particularly intriguing is a trio of walnut wooden sculptures, whose perforations mimic those of the curtain. These Walnut screen sculptures individually maintain a strong presence in the space, despite their distance from one another, and are enigmatic in their illusion of substance. The sculptures are self reliant and rooted in balance, standing upright on their own accord, with a little help.The weight is equally distributed between its leg on one end, and a foundation of brass and stone on the other. While their formal aesthetic airs to a certain gravitas, there is a vulnerability in their perforation that serves a metaphor to the human condition. This is why I found the process fascinating. Smith created these sculptures by cutting holes into fabric, draping it on a previous sculpture entitled dummy, photographed the way it lay, and remade the work as a sculptural object. Smith states, "I like the idea of them going through a series of filters but still communicating the original form." Same idea, different material, making and remaking. The process is just as metaphorical as the object itself.
This idea carries over to a larger, more complex sculpture entitled Prussian blue and the soft satellite. In order to achieve this form, cut fabric was pinned to Smith's studio wall, photographed and re-made into a plastic replica. When thinking about fabric, the words softness, weight, and malleability come to mind. It is slightly unnerving to see softness become a calcified version of itself. Like a fossil, Smith's recreations play with preserving something existing a certain way in a moment of time. This way of record keeping is a strong nod to the possibilities of material. In the sculpture, the plastic screen balances on one side of a steel mobile, while the other balances a mobile of bells and a rock wrapped in wire. Three larger rocks are the weight and foundation in this piece, continuing the idea of resting on the solid and strong. According to Smith, the bells are a nod to the sacred, representing stillness, peace, and silence. The nuanced materials used in this piece dazzles visually while sparking our mental curiosity at the same time. Subtle moments occur in the work that resonate, for instance a moment where a rock is placed as such, that it reflects into the perforated plastic. The rock's reflection becomes a skewed abstract version of itself, despite being a solid object in reality. This again nods itself back to Smith's search for truth in making.
In addition to sculpture, a suite of Smith's landscape photographs entitled my back to my mind's eye line the periphery of the gallery walls. Taken in the Sonoran Desert, each photo captures the landscape and teal cut fabric, a clear foreign object for the setting. Smith drapes the fabric over the landscape, and it morphs into something sculptural and almost human as it takes on the rocky terrain. The pop of color the fabric provides adds a nice contemporary flare to the show, brightening it up in sea of deep hues in the curtain and sculpture.
Joshua West Smith's use of transformation and repetition of a single object ( a malleable scrap of fabric), is admirable and ambitious in exploring our idea of what things are, and can be. Scholar and theorist E.H. Gombrich states in his collection of essays Meditations on a Hobby Horse, "The choice is not between knowledge of the past and the concern for the future; if it were that, it would be a hard choice. It is between the search for truth and the acceptance of falsehood." Smith navigates this search for truth and does it through making. While Every truth blocks another at PCC's Northview Gallery has recently concluded, Smith's work is currently on view through May 31st at Elephant Art Space in Los Angeles, CA. More of Smith's work can be seen online here.
Images courtesy of the artist


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Financial Aid Counselor
Job description
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION: Student Financial Assistance/Student Development and Support Services
RESPONSIBILITIES: Under the general supervision of the Director of Student Financial Assistance, the Financial Aid Counselor will provide advice to students on the financial aid application process. The Financial Aid Counselor will serve as the expert on the Federal Direct loan process including awarding, monitoring and reconciling accounts with the COD and the College's records. They will also troubleshoot and resolve discrepancies and/or issues. All other duties, as required.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: A Master's degree in counseling or within a student service discipline as well as two years of experience in financial aid are required. The successful candidate must possess sound knowledge of all federal and state financial aid programs; experience working with the Federal Direct Loan Program; and experience with automatic packaging and electronic data exchange (EDE and COD). Computer software experience is required. Experience educating students and families about financial aid is also required. The successful candidate must have excellent analytical, writing and oral skills. They must be detailed oriented and have the ability to work in an interdependent working environment. Participation in relevant organizations is required.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 3 years of financial aid experience is highly preferred. PeopleSoft experience is also highly preferred.
POSITION EFFECTIVE: The position will remain open until filled.
SALARY & BENEFITS: The minimum starting salary is $63,570 plus competitive benefits.
TO APPLY: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire. Please send a resume, cover letter and three letters of recommendation to: [email protected]. Please indicate CODE:IHE "Financial Aid Counselor" in the subject line of the email or mail to:
Director, Human Resources
Westchester Community College
HR Department, Administration Building- Suite B42
75 Grasslands Road
Valhalla, NY 10595
Fax: (914) 606-7838
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Priority will be given to applications received by February 22, 2019.
Westchester Community College is committed to providing high-quality, low-cost, comprehensive education to meet the career, transfer, vocational, remedial, and recreational needs of the Westchester community. Westchester Community College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.


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10 May 2017: The Fluorescence
Free Radicals
Lately I've looked out and everything seems to be fluorescent. The edge of everything, anything, looks like a standstill against radical particles that you can almost individually see. Edges glow. The island has an aura, maybe. The wall of this apartment building, of the rusted barbed wire that defines the airport perimeter, the white rocks above the sea––all of these things are obvious to my eye because the sky is kneading at their edges infinitely and so nimbly. At night you can see it too. Even shadows in the moonlight have a brighter life to them.
A few nights ago, late, six small ships parked in the port that directly face the front door of my apartment. Earlier that day, about fifty refugees from Pakistan landed at that dock by the Guardia Costiera. Together, the ships looked like a blockade. Their lights on deck were on, and they were altogether causing too much of a scene to ignore; I had never seen them there before. I figured they were carrying more arriving refugees, but too many birds were circling overhead on the hunt for food: these were instead fishing vessels. They've stayed there for days because the wind kicked up, and only now that it's calming are they starting to depart. My friend said they're likely not fisherman from Lampedusa, but from Sicily maybe, or probably beyond that elsewhere in the Mediterranean that are forced to port on their way to wherever it is they're coming or going.
People are constantly stopping here. It makes me question the isolation I feel until my head is reverberating. Here, it always seems like no one is on the outside looking in, that no matter how far you stretch your gaze your eyes simply will not be met. Lampedusa is about being alone, it's the qualifying gesture of the land itself: lost, gone, drifted away. By now you know the line, "a little rock lost at sea," even some locals have issued that phrase to me.
Then, on the other hand, none of it's true. In perfectly contrary terms, Lampedusa makes clear that, here, the whole world is around you. From which country did those fishing boats arrive late the other night? Along Via Roma yesterday I met groups from The Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria; a Japanese couple sat together engrossed in a gelato break; the Polish barista was working her shift at the Royal, and the Romanian lady at the bakery told me where I could find coconut oil for my skin.
I met an American––one of only four I've ever encountered on the island––a man from Pittsburgh. He was stationed here with the U.S. Coast Guard in 1978 when what really constituted Lampedusa was a military base. He returns every now and again to reconnect. He is dismayed at the development. Maybe he likes to come here to forget about civilization, but now that feeling can't be found. His wife died recently, and his son, he told me, died in an accident in 2007. He braced himself against his bottle of beer to keep his tears from falling. It all happened, by accident, under the afternoon sun. He apologized for the emotions, but it was unnecessary. I understand the lure of Lampedusa as a place go to conquer solitude, to master it. When you are this far out, you're inspired to think that if you can sit here alone with your thoughts and be at peace, anywhere else upon departing will be easy.
It's the other contradiction, or at least the misreading of the island, for there are endless distractions here. Namely, it's the distraction of formless time. The island is a pacemaker for its own bizarre reality. This is a location of limitless beauty and inconceivable nightmares. Somewhere in between, people actually report to work. They break for coffee. They collectively turn a street into a ghost town for three hours a day, every day, for the midday pause, only to reopen again in an unforeseen twist called aperitivo. Wine cocktails are poured and set next to a civilized spread of salty snacks and breads. I feel like I'm living in a scene of Miyazaki's Spirited Away (2001). All of the little phantoms lumber out of the ether to celebrate life again. This order suggests structure, but I have officially been in Lampedusa collectively for months and I still cannot perceive it in the normal course of my own day.
Locals, I believe, understand everything here tacitly. I bumped into my friend Fabio on Via Emanuele and he told me a political rally was happening soon, which is why the intersection was so clogged. But there was no announcement as far as I could see. I didn't bother to even ask how he knew about it, he just did. I met the mayor, Guisy Nicolini, who's seeking reelection in June, at her political rally last Saturday (there were posters around town announcing that one). She is strong in a way that makes you want to pity men. I really loved that recent McSweeney's article that said anything men can do, I can do bleeding, and a friend told me that people in town actually questioned if she, as a woman, was "too emotional" to handle the job when she made her initial run years ago.
Guisy delivered a rousing speech, of which I understood the broad strokes. My friend Mauro stood there prodding me to record more video with my phone and leaned in to tell me things people were saying. He said to stop him if I didn't understand something and he'd explain it again, or that he'd just say it in English. Mauro is from Modena and is typically swaying through the streets in voluminous cotton pants that blow up like curtains when they catch the wind. His head is wrapped in another stretch of fabric, he teaches yoga, and he is definitely the town hippie. Naturally, I like him.
He coaxed me out into the water at Cala Guitgia on Saturday saying the cloud of jellyfish hugging the shore were dead, so it was alright to step in. I did step in and then I got stung, but it was just a baby so it wasn't so bad. In a sick way I'm glad this happened, because I've always been afraid of it, and now that it's happened I see that I survived and it wasn't that big of a deal. Everyone, go get stung––it's easy, you'll totally make it. Mauro says that the problem is not the jellyfish but the pain you decide to feel that will prevent you from staying in the water to swim and enjoy yourself. He's on the next level. But he also understands the rest of us here back on earth. He says Guisy is tough, and likes her because she is an advocate for the many types who create the character of the island; he likes her because she values the life of the refugee.
There are so many coming. More than 200 arrived on Sunday. Between Friday and Saturday more than 6,000 had left Libya. Guys are transferred every day, but more are on their heels to take their place. There isn't fear here of the outsider though. Fabio says there are almost zero cases of violence or theft from migrants after they arrive. Once, his shoes were stolen after he placed them on his front porch; but he describes even this as more of a misunderstanding than any crime. The refugee was someone he knew from the hotspot, where years ago he used to work. He knew him by name, stopped him, and the man immediately handed the shoes over, explaining that he thought they were discarded. Whether or not that is true, the problem was assuaged. Fabio could not name another incident.
Mauro likes living on the island for the same kind of uncorrupted encounters he can maintain. Here, there has been no exposure to city life, to the full breadth of Italian society and culture. There is nowhere to run, even if you did do something horrendous enough to require escape. There is only a patch of limestone sand, crystal coves, and a small main street that mystically breathes life at varying moments of the day. And there is the trauma. When migrants step off the boat and onto Via Roma the next day, they are too blinded by the contrast of the world here and that of Libya and the open sea to do anything else but stare at the surreal fluorescent border between it.
Indeed, it was more than ten days after Yeussupha (17, Gambia) had arrived when he held my hand and wept through what was supposed to be an interview. His three friends sat at his side in support while I told them to not be ashamed to let go of any pain they had tied up in them. I told him it was okay to cry and he clung harder. And there was no self-consciousness, there was no question of why this scene was happening or what it meant. Everybody here already knows. In Lampedusa, in moments like these, you can cry openly. No migrant has developed the motivation to make crime so soon after being such gruesome victims of it. There is still just sadness.
And so, in the space of days, four of the world's continents had been represented on this 14-square kilometer stone that's too small to even make the map. On Sunday my friend from Rome who lives here part-time described the process of finding Lampedusa on Google Maps, zoom-zoom-zoom-zoom… We are nowhere to be found but the whole world keeps finding us.
It's a Jacque Cousteau scene at the eastern edge of Cala Guitgia. You stare down at perfectly clear water where guppies and fish dart around sea urchins and shiftless jellyfish. It's the first place I ever saw on the island and it continues to stagger me. I can still see how you can get drunk on this place, like I did for the first time last July. Scattered groups of refugees perched themselves on the rocks overlooking the water there too. More jogged up and down the length of the beach. Three others dug their fists into the sand and did sets of pushups.
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Last night I was at the trendy port bar sipping Aperol and waiting for the 9:00pm flight to arrive, the Alitalia-Etihad 1818 from Palermo. The locals said it wouldn't come from the west, where we were facing, but from the opposite direction on account of the wind. It was something else all the locals seemed to tacitly know about.
Headlights cut across the night in a neat, winding queue while soft lounge music pumped from the speakers where I sat. It was a slow stream of cars rounding the bend of the road that leads from the perimeter of the runway, and down into the old port. The sight reminded me of the long arrival path of planes over Brooklyn on their final approach to LaGuardia Airport. It reminded me that I would be going home soon.
But I think Lampedusa is home now, too. I'll be leaving a small box of toiletries and things from my kitchen with a friend, who offered to store them. My starter-kit for home will be ready when I return, a small but significant stake that makes Lampedusa ever-so-slightly less of a transient place.
. . .
This will be the last newsletter from Lampedusa until I return again.
Monday, I go to Naples to meet Bartholo, my friend from Cameroon. We met last November when he arrived in Lampedusa as a surviving passenger of a capsized boat that took the lives of many, including his brother who drowned before his eyes. I never posted his story, because being so traumatized, he told me a different version of it that omitted the incident of the capsizing.
A friend from the local NGO here told me what happened later; I talked to Bartholo about it and told him it was okay if he didn't want to talk, but if he did, I'd listen.
So, our second interview, and also our reunion, will happen next week when I meet him at his new state housing outside of Naples.


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Tara Del Borrello is a Sydney-based Pop/Soul singer and has been performing professionally for almost a decade. At 16 years old, Tara achieved a spot in the top 30 of Australian Idol where she made the decision to pursue a career in music.
In 2009, Tara completed a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance) at the highly acclaimed Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). During her studies, Tara maintained a heavy performance schedule, holding residencies at many venues throughout Perth such as The Ellington Jazz club.
Since permanently relocating from Perth to Sydney in 2010, Tara has been performing regularly within the Sydney music scene. She also performed at the Sydney Tsunami Appeal in 2005 with ARIA award-winning artist Conrad Sewell.
Watch Tara cover 'Elastic Heart' by SIA below.