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I haven't done either but If I had to choose I would go CBT. With drugs you have to find the right one and then you are never really sure what will happen when you stop taking them. CBT changes the way you think and therefore SHOULD have better long term benefits. After all it is our minds that have us in this horrible situation.
I totally agree with Jan on this one. I have not done either too. I don't want drugs to fix things. My reasons are I don't to play for something that prob won't even work. Plus I don't really want to fix things by taking something because I feel I won't be able to do it without the drugs. CBT is suppose to be able to change our thinking and how us deal with it on our own.
yeah i totally agree, the doctor keeps wanting to put me on drugs and im very against it but again he wrote me another prescription. im very anemic at the moment and been dizzy weak tired for nearly the 3rd week, hopefully get the iron tablets to help it soon, but before this i was doing better but he keeps sorta forcing me on pills and i dont want that, it is your mind, and the side effects from the tablets are awful, then not to mention the coming off them, i think il stick to my cbt for now, thanks :) x
I'm doing both. I needed the drugs to right the chemical imbalance in my brain and the CBT to question my thinking process. I agree, i am not looking forward to coming off the drugs(again) because the side effects can be a pain, but for me, i needed the drugs as CBT alone was not helping my mood swings.
I believe CBT, but with me, I need to get off my backside and do the stuff its personal motivation for me, its helps this stuff but I don't bother with it and am selfish and unmotivated to do it. But I don't want to use drugs, but feel I may give in because I'm vunreable and sick of feeling this way. But I think its individual circumstances and choice, sometimes both can work together and for some it might be neither and other options, because I feel it cant be just either cbt or drugs or both its got to be more than that.


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Spreading a Passion … Through Church Planting:
A Brief History of Bethlehem Baptist Church's Church Planting Involvement
Compiled by Matt Wireman and Brett Toney
The Planting Church Plant
In 1871, twenty-two Swedish believers of the First American Baptist Church in Minneapolis were granted a request by the elder board to branch out from the church and begin a new body of believers. This new church plant, First Swedish Baptist Church of Minneapolis, aimed to impact the influx of Swedish immigrants in the area with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This church, which later changed its name to Bethlehem Baptist Church, has – throughout its existence – been devoted to the development of biblically founded churches that are equipped to effectively reach their respective communities. Bethlehem's church planting efforts fall into three distinct epochs: 1871 to 1980, 1980 to 2002, and 2002 to present.
The Early Years: 1871–1980
1871 – Bethlehem was planted by the First American Baptist Church and originally named First Swedish Baptist.
1879 – The need to reach out to Norwegian and Danish immigrants brought about Bethlehem's first church plant in the form of the First Norwegian-Danish Baptist Church, which became Powderhorn Park Baptist. Twenty-nine charter members were sent from Bethlehem to establish the church. When the church closed in 2006, the building was given to Bethlehem and is now known as the 16/33 Center.
1888 – The growing need for work in Northeast Minneapolis led to the founding of Elim Baptist Church under Dr. Frank Peterson. Elim Baptist had their first service on February 21 as a result of people being willing "to throw themselves into another [church] for the spread of the Good News where they lived." (Winston Sherwick, Bethlehem Baptist Centennial, p. 54, Free Church Press, 1971.)
1896 – The Seward Neighborhood was noted to have "practically no religious work going on." (Sherwick, p. 51.) Seeing this obvious need for the Gospel, Bethlehem planted Bethel Baptist Church from the Sunday School and Industrial School outreach of the Bethlehem members in the neighborhood. The 146-member congregation was folded back into Bethlehem in 1961.
1941 – Partnering with sixteen other churches, Bethlehem sent some of its own congregation to the suburbs for the first time to form Spring Lake Park Baptist Church. ( Unpublished Anniversary Paper from Elim Baptist Church, p. 8.)
1944 – Bethlehem sent eleven of its members to help form Saint Louis Park Baptist Church. This fellowship became Park Baptist that later merged with First Baptist of Hopkins to form Cross of Glory Baptist Church. (Cross of Glory website, October 8, 2004.)
1948 – Edgewater Baptist, once known as Bethlehem Baptist Chapel, (Sherwick, p. 57) received 106 Bethlehem members to create a firm foundation for the congregation.
1949 – Bethlehem voted to support Wayside Chapel with $400, given in $50 monthly increments, and helped organize the chapel. Bethlehem also sent member Rev. John Lundberg to pastor the body of believers. The chapel became known as Wooddale Baptist and met on the corner of 71st and Nicollet. (Sherwick, p. 58)
1952 – Rev. Winston Sherwick was sent, with other Bethlehem members, as an interim pastor to establish, organize, and guide Brooklyn Center Baptist as it began to gather for worship.
1963 – Bethlehem came alongside of Cedar Grove Baptist by making the down payment on the church's parsonage and contributing funds for the ongoing ministry of the church.
1971 – In May, the Primera Iglesia Evangelica Bautista (First Evangelical Baptist Church) began to meet in Bethlehem's chapel (now Room 203) free of charge and also rented office space for $25 per month. While meeting at Bethlehem, the church was under the leadership of laymen Antonio de Paris, Jaime Martinez, and Roberto Morales. Bob Swanson, a missionary to Mexico, returned to the States and aided the church by taking on preaching responsibilities until Rev. Dagoberto Aguilar was called in April 1973. When Aguilar returned to his home country of Costa Rica in 1977, Delmar IntVeld was called to shepherd the flock. The relationship between the Hispanic church and Bethlehem was essentially limited to use of shared space, which formally ended in 1987 when the First Evangelical Baptist Church decided to change locations since Bethlehem was growing so rapidly and needed more space.
This time for Bethlehem set a great launching point for further church planting. A summative statement on Bethlehem's church planting efforts from its centennial publication still resonates true today: "One message at least that these churches bring to us is that churches that are born do grow to maturity. It is through local bodies of Christ like these that God gets much of the work of His whole Church done. Churches beget churches. And God's people within churches travail triumphantly in the birth of persons into His family" (Sherwick, p. 60).
A New Vision: 1980–2002
Bethlehem called a new, young, inexperienced man in 1980 who had never pastored a church before and did not have any extensive plans or programs with which to revitalize the fading congregation; he had only one vision for the church: "To magnify Jesus Christ by His Word so clearly that He draws people from [the demographically diverse surrounding area] to Himself and builds a church out of those kinds of people." (John Piper, from an unpublished talk given at a TBI Table Talk on 10/30/08). John Piper proceeded to carry out this vision, by God's grace, as he labored to transform the small, elderly, and theologically uninformed congregation into a vibrant, growing church that is passionate about theology and making much of God. This vision did not contain any church planting goals or strategies, but as the church grew both numerically and spiritually, the need and desire to plant likeminded churches became evident. Any efforts to plant churches stemmed from members seeing a need and rising to address it.
1988 – Growing out of the Bethlehem ministry to refugees from Southeast Asia (which had been led by Annette Carlson, Olga Mortensen, and Florence Martin), the Laotian Church of Peace was organized and established by Rev. Steven Cable. Cable had succeeded this position when his father-in-law, Rev. Phaitoon Hathamart, returned to Thailand. The church is currently pastored by Phouratsaphone Littana.
1989 – In the Spring of the year, the few leaders of Immanuel Baptist, a struggling independent Baptist church, came to Bethlehem looking for help. By August, Bethlehem had sent Brent and Kathy Nelson, along with a team of about a dozen Bethlehem members including Mike and Mary Jacobson, the Dingers, Fowlers, and Salzmans to help revitalize the church. Bethlehem was a crucial means of God's grace to Immanuel, namely through its financial support and release of members to crossover; and also through its wisdom, encouragement, and camaraderie. After seventeen faithful years, in October 2006, the Nelsons' personal ministry came to a close at Immanuel. Seeking to proclaim and live out the Gospel among the unique and progressive Seward Neighborhood in Minneapolis, Immanuel Baptist Church continues to look to God with great hope and confidence.
1996 – After being an apprentice at Bethlehem for four years, Steve Treichler led a group of fourteen believers to start Hope Community Church on the campus of the University of Minnesota, relying solely on God for provision, both financially and for the growth of the church. The church seeks to reach students at the university who are unfamiliar with the things of the Lord and to foster true Christian community while not forsaking truth. Relocated to the corner of 7th Street & 10th Avenue, Hope Community is associated with the Acts 29 Church Planting Network and had about 600 people in regular attendance in Fall 2008. Hope Community has gone on to plant five other churches in the Twin Cities, and Steve has since helped Bethlehem develop its own method of church planting.
1998 – On Easter Sunday, Bethlehem commissioned three cell groups, which had been meeting as Celebration Community Church, as an official church plant that sought to incarnationally and holistically reach the urban poor of the Phillips Neighborhood. Jim and Raquel Bloom led the ministry (joined by Jeff and Krista Noyed and Kevin and Robin Olson) and sought to raise indigenous leadership in order to reproduce the cell group model. The vision for the cell groups began in 1993 and initially began meeting in 1994. The cell groups dissolved in 2000, but rejoined in 2001 after restructuring into a house church plant rather than as cell groups. The church planting fellowship "Rising" was developed through the ministry of Celebration and has grown and been strengthened since its restructure.
2000 – Bethlehem partnered with Grace Church in Richfield, which became Sovereign Grace Church in Lakeville, to help get the church back on its feet. In February, Bethlehem set apart Rick Gamache to pastor the church, Randy Westlund to help lead as an elder, and about seventy others from Bethlehem to join the fellowship. They came alongside of Paul Dreblow, a Bethlehem member, who had been serving as the interim pastor for two years. The combined congregation had their first Sunday service in April. The church continued to face struggles, but was greatly strengthened in 2003 when it joined the Sovereign Grace Ministries church network. The congregation of approximately 260, as of Fall 2008, is notably Reformed in its doctrine and charismatic in its practice.
2000 – The elders of Bethlehem were presented with a proposal in May by Russ Gregg and Cecil Smith regarding their desire to plant a church, Sovereign Joy Fellowship. This vision was a result of God stirring in the hearts of those within their "Pilgrims" Sunday School class at Bethlehem since February 1996. The first service was held on July 1 in Bethlehem's chapel (now Room 203). (Cecil Smith, A Proposal for a Cell Church Plant Sent Out from Bethlehem Baptist Church in AD 2000 (unpublished), May 1, 2000, pp. 7, 8.)
By the beginning of the millennium, Bethlehem had grown tremendously and was striving to use church planting as a means to handle the influx of attendees while learning how vital church planting is to a healthy, God-glorifying church. This growth, partnered with dissatisfaction with how church planting was being done, shed light on how a better, more strategic approach to church planting was needed.
Treasuring Christ Together: 2002–Present
In 2002, the Bethlehem council of elders began to pray and plan for the growth that the church was experiencing. The resulting vision was titled "Treasuring Christ Together" (TCT), which aims to develop more Bethlehem campuses, new churches, and aid for the global poor. That vision proposal, guided mainly by Kurt Swanson's desire to aid foreign outreach, was passed quickly and now paves the way for Bethlehem's continued growth. Developed along with the TCT vision was the Church Planting Residency. The program aims to equip called and qualified church planters by instilling in them the biblical convictions of Bethlehem's mission and Elder Affirmation of Faith, and by providing opportunities to observe how those convictions are lived out in the manifold life of the local church. It is through TCT and the Residency that Bethlehem entered into this third era with a more focused and deliberate approach to spreading a passion for the supremacy of God through church planting on a local and national level.
2003 – Desiring God Community Church was initiated by a group of Bethlehem members who were moving to Charlotte, NC, to continue working with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The group, along with the elders of Bethlehem, asked Coty Pinckney to join them in prayer about his involvement in planting a church in Charlotte. In the Fall of 2002, Coty and his family were given confirmation of God's call in his role to pastor the church. The first Sunday morning service was held on March 9, 2003, at the University City Hilton. The church seeks to build true, joyful community from the many people groups in the Charlotte area.
2004 – After serving as a St. Paul paramedic for ten years, Dwayne Gibbs sensed the need for a new way for the people of St. Paul to be reached with the Gospel. He and his wife, Mary, began to minister to at-risk and high-risk youth in the St. Paul area. This ministry developed into the Harvest Movement Youth Center with the aim to develop a church, now Berean Missional, that the Youth Center would function under. The church and Youth Center strive to be a redemptive force in the city and seek to continue to develop indigenous leadership through holistic evangelism and discipleship.
2005 – Treasuring Christ Church first opened its doors for a public service on March 27 with sixty people in attendance. The church plant was led by Sean Cordell, Travis Williams, and Kent Capps, who had initially desired to plant the church in Knoxville, Tennessee, instead of in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, where the Lord eventually led them to start the church. The church has faced its shares of difficulties, having met in eight different locations in only three years, but the Lord continues to bless this ministry, evidenced by the steady growth both in the maturity of the congregation and in its numerical size. In the Fall of 2008, the 138-member fellowship was seeking a permanent facility as they continued to be known in urban Raleigh as a church devoted to the city, racial harmony, the poor, and one another.
2006 – Gregg Heinsch, a pastor from the Stillwater-Hudson, WI, area; and Matthew Molesky, a TBI graduate, left for Florida to establish Celebration Community Church as part of the Vision USA Church Planting Network, now Vision360. Christ Lent, another TBI graduate, has also joined in the church's efforts as they seek to make worship a way of life, respond to the Spirit of God, connect with the people of God, and join in the mission of God. The church had about 200 people in regular attendance in the Fall of 2008.
2006 – Grace Community Church began having weekly services on November 5 in an urban neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee. The eighty-person congregation, led by former TCT Church Planting Resident Jordan Thomas, is supporting two church plants in Nigeria and is actively involved in numerous in-home Bible studies. Grace Community intentionally strives to be Christ-centered by not busying themselves with many programs and activities and instead focusing on exalting Jesus; this emphasis comes from a desire to not only act like a follower of Christ, but to be a follower of Christ.
2006 – In 2005, three pastors from Bethlehem, Wally Brath, Sherard Burns, and John Erickson, began to pray and meet about planting a church. Their desire was to plant an intentionally diverse, biblically faithful church that intends to live out the gospel reality of racial harmony on the north side of Minneapolis. On March 5, 2006, the Lord granted them their desire and All Nations Christian Fellowship held its first service at Garden City school, in Brooklyn Center, with about 100 people. In September, Sherard Burns resigned from the senior pastor position and John Erickson took on the responsibility of preaching until May 2008 when Dr. Allan Joseph was called to fill the senior pastorate. There were about 180-200 people in attendance each Sunday in Fall 2008 while this body of believers sought a more permanent facility in which to meet.
2007 – Several years before Glory of Christ Fellowship started regular worship services, Mike Perry and Greg Chaffin were leading a Bethlehem small group that desired to plant a church in the area of Elk River/Rogers, Minnesota. After submitting a vision document to the Bethlehem elders, Charlie Handren was asked to join the TCT Residency in order to lead the church plant. The plant opened its doors in the Fall 2007 as Glory of Christ, and 100 attendees met in the Handke Family Center in Elk River in Fall 2008. This body of believers is strongly devoted to see the gospel proclaimed among the nations.
2009 – After completing the Church Planting Residency in January, Tim & Abbey Cain moved to El Cajon, California, and began work on planting the church that they had been planning and preparing for during the previous year.
2009 – Bethlehem took on two Church Planting Residents in August to begin learning and developing their church planting philosophies. Jason Vaden and his family came from North Little Rock, Arkansas, planning to return to Arkansas and plant a church there. Brett Louis and his family came from Clinton, Mississippi, unsure as to where the Lord would have them plant a church.
2010 – After nearly a year of preparation and planning, John Erickson left All Nations Christian Fellowship (ANCF) with the elders' and congregation's blessing to plant Jubilee Community Church in South Minneapolis. Joining John and his family in initiating this plant was Dan Porch and Kurt Swanson, along with several families from ANCF. Meeting at the 16/33 Center, they hope to reach minority groups in the Phillips and Powderhorn neighborhoods.
2010 – Jason Vaden began working to plant Urban Harvest Fellowship in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The vision for this church was born out of the burden to bring the power and presence of God, in the gospel of Jesus Christ, to bear upon one of the darkest areas of North Little Rock.
2010 – Brett Louis started Christ Redeemer Church, working to advance the kingdom of God on the east side of the Twin Cities when they began meeting in September in Woodbury, Minnesota.
2011 – Bethlehem approved Mike Bartlett to begin planting Redemption City Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mike is currently building a core team of supporters and forming a launch team to begin Redemption City Church. His goal is to plant a missional, orthodox, reformed church in the downtown corridor of Grand Rapids.
2011 – Bethlehem started a partnership with Global Church Advancement to help form both national and regional networks to further the multiplication of theologically aligned churches. TCT is in the process of training leaders and recruiting coaches to continue strategic church planting in the Twin Cities as well as in other regions where TCT Church Plants already exist.
The most significant, strategic action for Bethlehem in church planting has been the establishment and cultivation of a church planting network. The first TCT Network Meeting took place in August 2007, and the network is continuing to meet with a strong sense of shared mission to work together to plant new churches whose elders gladly embrace Bethlehem's mission statement, the Elder Affirmation of Faith, and the summary of biblical life.
Bethlehem looks forward to enriching its church planting efforts by further developing the TCT Network by equipping current Bethlehem church plants to reproduce other churches and by continuing to encourage and train those pastors already within the network. Bethlehem is excited to see how God will continue to use faithful bodies of believers to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things by planting churches for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ.


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Cy Twombly, one of America's most celebrated painters, known for large-scale works with loose, cursive-like scrawls, died in Rome Tuesday. He was 83.
Twombly, considered one of the most important Abstract Expressionists since Jackson Pollock was one of the first artists to take the language of graffiti seriously. Often, his work looked simple, dashed off even, though it was inexplicably personal, like the handwriting of someone you knew. In his work, painting, drawing and writing seemed to cohere into a single medium.
Twombly had his first solo, U.S. museum show and his first exhibit in the country outside of New York City at the Milwaukee Art Center, what is today the Milwaukee Art Museum, in 1968. Working closely with Leo Castelli and Ivan Carp of the Leo Castelli Gallery, the art center put together a show of what was then recent work, what Twombly had developed since the heyday of 1950s Abstract Expressionism.
"We were saddened to learn of the death of Cy Twombly today," said MAM's chief curator Brady Roberts. "His recent years as a painter and sculptor have been as remarkable as his early breakthrough period – a rare late-career flourishing recalling Titian or Rembrandt."
From that 1968 exhibit, the museum acquired an iconic painting that resembles a just erased, dusty chalkboard with a few simple, chalk-like marks and shapes. One of Twombly's more Minimalist works, the untitled work remains one of the strongest works in the permanent collection and is on view in Gallery 21. It exemplified was Twombly's work was fundamentally about, that most basic impulse in art – mark making.
Target Corp. is joining forces with the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers for a new, back-to-school clothing and accessories campaign called "Cool Never Fades."
Not only is Target going to feature more than 50 unique designs from this treasure of a museum, it is going to make telling the story of Hamilton Wood Type part of the campaign, the Herald Times Reporter in Manitowoc reports. The line of hats, T-shirts, sweatshirts, handbags and jackets will be sold nationwide.
The museum is home to the largest collection of wood type in the country, with 1.5 million pieces of wood type, carved letters buffed smooth and once used for newspaper headlines and commercial advertising. The museum is on the site of the Hamilton Manufacturing Co., once the nation's largest manufacturers of wood type. It is also one of the largest printing museums in the world, with about 30,000 square feet of space. Type ranges from miniscule to the height of a man.
The company was founded in 1880 by James "Ed" Hamilton, who made his first pieces of type from holly wood in a back room at his mom's house. He sent samples for his "Hamilton Holly Wood Type" to papers around the country and got his first order the Green Bay Gazette.
The museum is also a working studio that attracts contemporary artists, designers and typeface enthusiasts who are drawn to the tactile, centuries-old process.
Here is an Art City column about the museum from February of this year.
If you needed proof that Milwaukee's art scene is about more than big museum shows, this month is it. Here are some of the more promising art exhibits and events to jot down on your July calendar .
Spencer Sweeney
The Green Gallery East, 1500 N. Farwell Ave.
Opens July 9
Interview magazine has described artist, musician, DJ, curator, club owner and "playboy mystic" Spencer Sweeney as having his hands in so many pockets of New York City's downtown of the last few decades that "it is hard to find one that doesn't have some sort of association with him."
Today, Sweeney's paintings "tend to possess an air of comic-book mythology, evocative and violent and troubled and teeming with hope," according to the Interview piece.
Still, when this bohemian creative and former drummer for '90s art-rock band Actress was still a relative newcomer as an artist a decade ago, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith wrote a crisp, critical review of his work, steering him toward the redeeming qualities in his work: color range and petiteness.
Pssssst. Hey you, Milwaukee art scene. Got a second? Could we have a quick word?
Every now and again it seems worth repeating just how we can help you get a little ink. I know, it can be frustrating to spend the time to put together an event, to hang and perhaps ship art, to maybe even fly in an artist or two only to be seemingly ignored by the local paper.
For what it's worth, one of the single most difficult things about my job is making hard choices about what to cover when there is such a strong array of things to choose from. There are worthy exhibits, very worthy ones, that sometimes don't get coverage. This actually hurts sometimes. I'm doing the best I can and am lucky to have the help of a group of dedicated contributors to the blog. But, with the changes in the newspaper industry, we're all doing more than before. So, time and newspaper column inches are always at a premium.
So, I'm looking for a little help.
I do spend a maddening amount of time chasing down information that I wish were at my fingertips. Sending an invitation to an exhibit a few days in advance with a "press release" that has no information about the artist is appreciated but not very helpful. Sending me a Facebook instant message? Ditto. And yes, these things do happen.
Long before the heightened media attention on the crackdown of Chinese artists, bloggers and activists, the Milwaukee Art Museum recognized the need to make what's happening in China today part of its "Summer of China" event.
The role that cultural institutions should play when creative expression is suppressed became a subject of international art-world dialogue in the wake of the detention of China's most famous living artist, Ai Weiwei. And MAM was criticized for not speaking out on the subject.
Tonight comes MAM's answer to that criticism, a panel discussion about the collision of art and politics in museums. Participants will include Barrett L. McCormick, professor and chair of the political science department at Marquette University, Melissa Chiu of the New York's Asia Society and Kathryn Kanjo, from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, where a quiet, 24-hour protest calling for Ai's release took place.
MAM is one of only three U.S. venues to show "The Emperor's Private Paradise," an exhibit of 18th century art and decorative objects from China's Forbidden City. But it was the only one to buttress that exhibit about imperial China with contemporary art.
As part of a whole suite of exhibits spanning 3,000 years of history, it is hosting an installation by contemporary artist Zhan Wang, for instance.
Also, opening this evening is an sculptural installation by Yue Minjun, a leading contemporary artist from Beijing, known for his self portraits. Referencing the utopian propaganda of earlier Chinese Social Realist painting, Yue depicts himself with a hyperbolic smile, a wide-mouthed, laughing face (image, left).
Recalling the formation of the terra cotta warriors from Xian, Yue's warriors are happily lined up in MAM's contemporary galleries, "an absurd army of compliant citiizens," according to the museum.
Ai Weiwei was recently released (Image, right) on bail. It was reported today that he has also been allowed to return to his art studio.
When Dan Keegan, the museum's director, did speak to reporters about Ai, he expressed the belief that museum's should not take a political stand or protest. The art in museums should sometimes be controversial and political, he said, not museums themselves.
The panel discussion at MAM, 700 N. Art Museum Dr., begins at 6:15 p.m. Seating may be limited.
"Ai Weiwei: The Collision of Art and Politics" falls on a Target Free First Thursday, when admission to the museum is free.
Top image courtesy the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Latex. It's that thin, stretchy sheath that gives us the most intimate proximity to the forces of nature while disuniting us from it utterly, too. It's the gloves surgeons pull taut over their fingers to manhandle our internal organs or the condoms donned to keep creation at bay.
It's a barrier. It's skin, imitated.
Though made from one of the gooiest materials found in nature -- the milky, primordial ooze of flowering plants -- latex also embodies notions of sterility, of human control and safety.
All of these incongruities, connotations and contradictions come wonderfully to bear in the odd objects fashioned from latex by artist Yevgeniya Kaganovich. Her works are in many ways about these points of intersection, where what's natural and what's artificial are like inside-out versions of each other.
Because many people are allergic to latex, visitors to the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum are warned of its presence by small, makeshift, computer-generated signs tacked to the walls along the route to the upstairs gallery where Kaganovich's latest installation is on view.
Long before we arrive, the scent, familiar to anyone who's spent time in a lab, dentist chair or hospital ward, comes to us – at us – rather than the other way around. With my sinus membranes laced with it, the bouquet wormed its way to some part of my psyche to do with pain and mortality.
And that was still out in the hallway.
The installation itself is in what was once a child's bedroom, a kind of magical, otherly space where human history and Earth time seem to face off, where notions of what's real and not are already at play.
David Adler, who designed this Italian Renaissance-style mansion, built in 1923, was known for recreating the architectural styles of the past in his residential commissions. He covered the walls of this room with a panorama dense with exotic birds, trees and blooms.
It took 50 men to create the 24 panels of wallpaper using a Napoleonic-era technique, more than 1,500 wooden plates and 192 colors. It had to be done "by hand," it was thought at the time. Any mechanical assistance would have made this faux scene somehow inauthentic.
So, fantasies of fictional landscapes and bygone periods comingle in this space, the Renaissance-era architectural style, the early 19th century interior design traditions and the early 20th century recreations, now themselves open to nostalgic fixation. And this ricochet of centuries is happening, let's not forget, in a structure that both recalled the past and is aging in real time.
Bringing all of this human history into perspective, of course, is the room's defining characteristic -- its expansive view of the lake. The windows open to a spill of formal gardens and that body of blue, a rare place on Earth, carved out by advancing and retreating glaciers over millennia.
Hello all. Welcome to a whole new week and more chances to see art. If you want a peek at the art I saw over the weekend, click and peruse away.
This week, I'm recommending a pair of shows at Inova, featuring two great artists who have little in common in terms of their practice but a lot in terms of their skill and seriousness, as well as a talk about public art.
Artist Martha Glowacki works with the exactitude and physical precision of a Renaissance-era biologist and the measured curiosity of a naturalist philosopher. She carefully dissects, inspects and records, always advancing her lines of inquiry and study. She invites a specific kind of discovery for herself and for us, entry points into subjects that interest her, including astronomical observation, bird migration and natural curiosities.
This Madison-based sculptor, whom many will remember from the poetic and rather Gothic "Loca Miraculi: Rooms of Wonder" installation she did at the Milwaukee Art Museum for the Chipstone Foundation in 2008, will have recent work go on view Friday. This cabinet of curiosities will open in Milwaukee's most contemporary of art venues, Inova.
Also opening at Inova on Friday is an exhibit of large-scale paintings by abstract painter Gregory Klassen, once a student of Gerhard Richter's studio in the early `90s. Klassen, one of Milwaukee's more serious painters, has titled his exhibition with the alchemical symbol for "air" and experiments with pooling, gravity and evaporation in his recent work. An opening reception will be held at Inova, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday.
Also this week, John Lippincott is speaking Wednesday at the Lynden Sculpture Garden. The author of "Large Scale," Lippincott will give a talk that takes us inside a time many consider to be the golden age of public art, the 1960s and `70s. The talk, at 6:30 p.m., will touch on several of the artists featured in the Lynden collection. A book signing will follow, courtesy of Boswell Book Company. The event is free with admission, which is $9 and $7 for students and seniors.
It's not everyday that a Leonardo da Vinci is discovered, but one thought long gone has surfaced and will go on view in London in the fall, the Associated Press reported today.
Like many art historical discoveries, this one involved long looking on the part of trained art connoisseurs and a work that had been kicking around for some time.
The recently authenticated oil painting, "Salvator Mundi," dates to around 1500 and depicts a half-length Chris with one hand raised in blessing and the other holding an orb.
London's National Gallery said in a statement Monday that the work was shown to its director, curator and other art scholars after undergoing conservation that was completed in 2010.
"Once you walked into the room it had that uncanny presence that Leonardo's have," said Martin Kemp, professor emeritus of art history at Oxford. A researcher of paintings, he was among the experts consulted on the painting.
It was telling that it was the political science professor and not the art experts who best articulated the meaning of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's detention at a recent panel discussion at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Barrett L. McCormick, chair of the political science department at Marquette University and an expert on China and the changing nature of its public sphere, said he hoped to persuade his audience that Ai Weiwei's work and his struggle was "something truly important...something that is of concern to all of us...a deep concern."
Ai was not only a figure of struggle and a critic of the Chinese government, he had become a public and visible example of how this emergent world power functions, he argued.
Tens of thousands of unknown people who have been wronged by the government in some way, by being cheated out of pensions or back pay, or who've complained about conditions in government-owned factories, are treated similarly, McCormick said.
Still, with Ai's recent "release" on bail, many have breathed a sigh of relief and attention has begun to wane. Instead, shouldn't we express horror that that such a singular voice has been silenced?
"Released is absolutely the wrong word here," said McCormick during the discussion. "We have every reason to believe that Ai Weiwei is surrounded by a thick wall of police and surveillance monitoring all of the coming and going in and out of his residence. Anyone who is a friend of a family member is at risk."
Sheboygan — Sometimes the past returns to the mind in wide swaths, with months or years surfacing as a single saga, like a remembered novel that spans generations.
At other times, the dense details of just a moment or two are recalled vividly, like the time my dad gave me sunflower seeds to eat from our garden. I remember sitting on the hood of our Chevy, still warm from a recent trip, and learning to crack the seeds open with my teeth, the bits of shell like slivers of wood in my mouth.
Maybe it's because we forget far more than we remember or perhaps it's the immense weight of human history, which continues to pile up in unruly heaps, but we seem to prize these recalled fragments of time more than ever before.
Memory is equated with intelligence itself today, points out Leslie Umberger, senior curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, which recently opened "Hiding Places," a series of exhibits organized around notions of memory.
Popular forms of remembrance such as family reunions, public memorials, heritage tourism, personal blogs and spontaneous tributes at the sites of tragic events, are at an all-time high, according to Erika Doss, author of "Memorial Mania" and a contributor to the "Hiding Places" exhibition catalogue.
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I was extremely busy working the hurricanes when I let a letter dated 12/13/2005 from Credigy Services Corp. go without disputing. This time they listed it as Our Client/Current Creditor; Credigy Receivables, Inc., Original Creditor: Metris, Original Acct. #; xxxxx42751, and balance as of today $30,915.16. I received another Credigy Services Corp. statement/letter dated January 17, 2006 with the information as listed in Dec. 2005, however, the balance as of today; $31,387.78.
I am amazed that large corporations are allowed to have business practices which purposefully deceive, defraud, and attempt to ruin peoples credit. I have never had a Metris, Providian (my research shows they may have been purchased by Metris), First Select credit card(s). In the eighteen months it has gone from balance at assignment of $11,914.22 in Jul 2000 to a whopping $31,387.78.
I disputed the report item(s) with all 3 CRA's. Credigy did not validate the debt and the item was deleted from all 3 CRA's. Now...as I go back I can see that they have placed the item under different names, acct. #'s, and balances.
A huge sigh of relief that all CRA's deleted the fraudulent items and moved on with life. So wouldn't you know it those scoundrels are at it again.
I received letter/stmt. dated Jun 6, 2007 listing Metris (oddly not First Select) w/ balance as of today at $39,798.33.
On Equifax response on page 1 the item was deleted for Metris #6810001658, however, you go to pg. 3 and 1st Select (note not listed as First Select and location is Pleasanton, CA),#416810001658* was reported on 5/2003 for $549 showing date opened 4/2001 (recall the debt validation ltr stated date of assignment Jul 2000 with acct. #xxxxxx16589796 adding last 4 digits when they like) Equifax listed addtl info; credit card;acct transferred or sold, however, the only listed dollar amount is under category "Scheduled Payment Amt" No amount listed under category amt past due, nothing for date of last pymt, nothing for date of last activity, nothing for date maj. del. 1st rprtd, nothing for charge off amount. Odd at the very least.
Experian report listed item investigated Providian Financial #416810001658 deleted 4/29/2006. But a response letter from Experian report dated 4-28-2006 stated they investigated item Credigy Receivables 416810001658 and verified its accuracy. I have Transunion report dated 3/10/2006 w/ investigation results for item Credigy #4188100016589796 deleted. On this same report pg. 3 they list Providian #4168100016589796 date opened 4/2001 date closed 5/2003 high bal. $11,914 pay status unrated, remarks purchased by another lender.
You can see it's like a shell game w/ the acct. #'s, original creditor, and the dates. This I am certain is a violation for fair credit practice for SOL's.
How can they do this time and again in multiple states and get by with it???? I cannot understand the process. It is clear that they are going to attempt to reinsert the deleted invalid debt onto the CRA's and begin this whole wretched cycle of proving the inaccuracies. It is insane!!!
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Further, on June 18, 2002, the Court entered the Final Judgment and Order of Dismissal and the case was closed. According to Providian Financial Corporations Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2002, the Company recorded a settlement amount of $38 million which was funded by the Company's insurance carriers.
On or around February 22, 2000, the case was transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The original Complaint charges that defendants violated the U.S. securities laws by issuing materially false and misleading statements and by omitting material facts required to be disclosed so as to make the statements issued not materially false and misleading throughout the Class Period.
Specifically, the complaint alleges that Providian improperly obtained revenues, and misrepresented the source of its revenues and income in public filings and press releases. Defendants are charged with improperly conducting its credit card business by, among other things, intentionally failing to post credit card payments on time in order to enable the Company to improperly record as revenues late fees and penalties, improperly enrolling new credit card customers without their permission, and improperly charging credit card customers for Providian's fee-based products not requested.
Once the facts concerning defendants' conduct became known and it was disclosed that Providian was the subject of an investigation by the San Francisco district attorney's office, the price per share of Providian's stock fell from a Class Period high of $131.63 to close at $78.43 on June 4, 1999, a fall of over 40%.
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Providian Financial's First Select Corporation Achieves Billion Dollar Milestone in its First Year of Operation
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Providian Financial Corporation
(NYSE: PVN) announced today that First Select Corporation, its wholly owned
subsidiary, has completed its first year of operation and has secured more
than $1 billion in contracts with seven of the nation's top credit card
issuers. The agreements represent commitments from creditors to sell their
charged-off receivables to First Select. First Select, which specializes
in the rehabilitation of consumer debt, offers accountholders a range of
payment plans to help them pay off this debt as quickly as possible and
begin to rebuild their credit.
"Our success in achieving the billion dollar milestone in our first year
demonstrates that our operating philosophy is right on the mark," said
Roger Van Duinen, President of First Select. "Our goal is to bring value
both to the financial institutions from whom we purchased the accounts and
to our newly acquired customers by helping them to rebuild their financial
By selling charged-off debt to First Select, financial institutions can
improve their bottom lines and exit non-strategic markets. They can also
rely on First Select's consistency in the marketplace since First Select is
backed by the financial stability of Providian Financial. In addition,
First Select offers value to the customers whose accounts are purchased.
According to Robert J. Hanna, First Select's Senior Vice President,
Business Development, "First Select never loses sight of the fact that
every one of the accounts we purchase represents a valued customer," he
said. "With that in mind, First Select's mission is to treat all customers
with dignity, trust and respect, while working with each accountholder to
customize a payment plan for them." First Select also strives, once
customers fulfill certain repayment commitments, to assist them in
acquiring new credit.
"First Select fits well with Providian's mission of helping people build
or rebuild, responsibly use and protect their credit," said Shailesh J. Mehta,
Providian's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "And this business
represents an additional avenue of growth for Providian Financial."
San Francisco-based Providian Financial Corporation (providian.com) is
a leading provider of lending and deposit products to customers nationwide
and now offers credit cards in the United Kingdom. Providian serves a
broad, diversified market with loan products that include credit cards,
home equity loans, secured cards and membership services. With a commitment
to 100% customer satisfaction, Providian's mission is to help its customers
build or rebuild, protect and responsibly use credit by providing a quality
borrowing experience that leads to active and lasting customer
relationships. The sixth largest bankcard issuer in the nation, Providian
has $18 billion in assets under management and over 10 million customers.
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For this draft I focus on what I do every year: best player available and elite production. My draft last year included Keenan Allen, Jordan Reed, and Tyrann Mathieu... while all popular picks I think this strategy works just as well if not better than most NFL GM's. Time will tell if this draft will as well.
1) Marqis Lee- WR, USC- 6'0, 192 lbs
The 49ers go for value on a guy that coming into this season seemed like a lock for the top 5. A nagging injury, terrible qb play, and untimely drops cause him to fall into our laps. While his timed speed was not as good as expected this guy is about as quick and fluid of an athlete as they come. He is a true playmaker that gets separation and is a threat with the ball in his hands.
2) Phillip Gaines- CB, Rice- 6'0, 193 lbs
Gaines is flying very much under the radar now but we should be ecstatic if he falls to our 2nd round pick. He is fast, fluid, and long which really meshes well with our style of defense and Baalke's player preferences. He has been a true shutdown corner for Rice and has all the tools to become a number 1 cb.
2) Dominique Easley- DE, Florida- 6'2, 288 lbs
De ja vu? Like Carradine last year, Easley would be a top 10 pick without the ACL tear. While there are obvious injury concerns the value is too goo to pass up. We can redshirt him this year so he still has 4 years on his contract and doesn't take a roster spot, then once Cowboy retires at the end of this year we will have not one, but 2 elite longterm options at DE. Ray McDonald isn't getting any younger either and this would solidify our DL for the future. Two top 10 talents at DE and our lb core would be scary.
3) Marcus Martin- C, USC- 6'3, 320 lbs
Marcus Martin is a bit raw, but has the tools to become an elite center in the NFL. He can compete with Kilgore for the starter spot with minimal pressure and worst case would become our long-term starter in 2015 (where Kilgore can go back to being Mr. Versatile).
3) Robert Herron- WR, Wyoming- 5'9, 192 lbs
This may seem redundant given the Lee pick, but Herron is a better deep threat and further adds to our wr core. Both Lee and Herron are elite in areas that our wr core has lacked so they would be great complimentary pieces to our possession style wr's. With this young wr core we could rotate guys in and out, keeping everyone fresh, and able to stretch the field on every play.
3) Jordan Tripp- LB, Montana- 6'2, 235 lbs
Tough, instinctual, and great overall athlete. If he went to a bigger school he would be much more of a household name. To me he's a very similar prospect to Kiko Alonso coming out (though Alonso obviously played for a bigger school). He tested phenomenally at the combine (top 3 in several drills including number 1 in 3 cone). He would be a great longterm backup at lb and potential successor to Willis when he declines.
4) Aaron Murray- QB, Georgia- 6'1, 207 lbs
Aaron Murray is elite in every area that Kaepernick struggles and while not half the athlete that Kaepernick he is a clutch and elite between the ears. I see Murray at worst as an elite franchise backup qb and at best a starter in th NFL. He is smart, accurate, and can read a defense as well as anyone in the draft. Another payer falling due to ACL but he should be good to go by when the NFL season starts (and obviously won't need to play year 1).
5) Aaron Colvin- CB, Oklahoma- 5'11, 180 lbs
Colvin was looking like a solid 2nd round pick pre ACL injury. Lucky for us players recover from ACL injuries these days and we can afford to redshirt in order to add a starter worthy talent this late in the draft. Colvin and Easley become training room buddies and become starters in 2015.
7) Brandon Thomas- OG, Clemson- 6'3, 317 lbs
The beauty of Brandon Thomas is that he should go in the top 3 rounds if it weren't for an ACL tear but we wouldn't even need him this year. I think Iupati will be playing his last season as a 49er and Brandon Thomas would be a great fit in our offense to replace him. Once again another redshirt player that invests in our future without giving up a high draft pick. This guy was a solid OT for a great program and has the big body and feet to be a very good starting OG in the NFL.
7) Colt Lyerla- TE, Oregon- 6'4, 244 lbs
Yes Colt Lyerla was busted with cocaine and sent a controversial tweet following Sandy Hook. The guy is somewhat of a weirdo but he's also a college kid. He wasn't perpetually in trouble and I think slipping this far in the draft will give him a dose of reality. If it weren't for the off field issues he would go in the top 50. Even better, he could not be more perfect of a fit for our offense. He is a better version of Delanie Walker. What player has his intensity, ability to block, speed, hands, and even ability to carry the ball out of the backfield. This guy is a rare talent and his skillset could not be a better fit. This is why we can give him 1 free pass and take a gamble in the 7th.
7) Pierre Warren- FS, Jacksonville St.- 6'0, 190 lbs
Small school sleeper prospect with all the tools and production but not recognized due to the lower level of competition.


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Late 15th century: from Old French afiancer, from afier 'promise, entrust', from medieval Latin affidare 'declare on oath', from ad- 'toward' + fides 'trust'.
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Thanks for taking the picture. You are a credit to FindAGrave.
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on Apr 21, 2016 12:08 PM
Nancy Cornelius
Mildred and William Brumbalough
Thank You so much for the pictures you posted.
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on Apr 12, 2016 8:47 PM
Rosemary Newman
Jessie Schubert photo
Thank you so much for the photo.Jessie,family called him "Dink",is my uncle by marriage.His wife Katie Newman (the other name on stone)is still living.
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Thank you for "Paul" photo.
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Marilyn Wherry
Walter Knox Hoffman Jr.
Walter Sr. was born 1892 and died 1963 He was born Nov 3, 1892 in Maryland and died in Tenn Jul 22
He married Eliz 'Elsie" Steele B 21, Oct. 1892 in KC, Mo. and Died 30 Dec Tenn 1973
Walter Jr. had 2 siblings that I know of and they were; Margaret Ann Hoffman 1922-1946 and Daniel C. Hoffman 1930-2000. Appreciate any and all you can help with this family. Thank You Marilyn
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Marilyn Wherry
Re: Walter Knox Hoffman. I don't know if this is the Walter Knox Hoffman Jr. I am looking for. I didn't know if he was a Doctor or not as I haven't found much about him yet. The Walter I'm looking for was born to Elsie Steele and W. K. Hoffman Sr.
If you can help me please let me know at my Find A Grave site. Thank You Marilyn Wherry
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Marilyn Wherry
on Apr 04, 2016 4:21 PM
Unfortunately there's no stones for these two at N116 with their family. I will upload a photo of the plot with GPS so that is marked and remembered.
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Cooney at Mt Carmel
I uploaded what was available at Mt Carmel; there's no actual stone for your Cooney request. The cemetery is a bit of a mess in general. I did upload pictures of family members in the plot, including James and Elizabeth Field, and Charles & Georgianna Harrison.
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Judy Oldiges
Alvin C North
Also had son named Hiram C. This information for my g grandfather is from his obituary in the Springfield News 7/18/27. Thanks
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Nancy E.
David Yowler
Hello Ariana-concerning David Yowler, do you have any obituary information on him? I have his obituary available where I live, and will let you know where his actual burial location was. That way, you can re-edit his cemetery location and get the photo you requested. If you will remove your photo request, at this point in time, I can let you know where to re-edit his page. How does that sound to you? This is what I do, another volunteer. Thank you.
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Diversity and inclusion report proclaimed the 'end of the beginning'
September 27, 2011 Share When the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health met earlier this month to celebrate more than a year of hard work and the completion of a draft report, task force members understood that the greatest effort was yet to come. Assistant… Read more »
Leaders from Chinese CDC visit UNC to explore possible collaborations
September 23, 2011 Share School leaders and the Shanghai delegation Six delegates from Shanghai, China, met with faculty leaders at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health on Sept. 19 to discuss possible research and educational collaborations, including student and faculty exchange programs and distance education opportunities. Members of the delegation, who work… Read more »
Wood honored by Southern Health Association
September 23, 2011 Share Brittan Wood Brittan Williams Wood, MPH, received the Charles G. Jordan Memorial Award at the N.C. Public Health Association/Southern Health Association joint conference in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 22. Wood is accreditation administrator with UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health's N.C. Institute for Public Health (NCIPH). The annual award,… Read more »
Practice Pathways PHield Trip instructs, motivates first-year students
September 22, 2011 Share When incoming master's students at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health stepped outside the classroom to visit a local health department during the first week of classes, they expected to learn about public health work at the county level. They expected to meet public health leaders and interact… Read more »
Gillings Merit Scholars selected (2011)
September 07, 2011 Share Fifteen students at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been designated as 2011-2012 Gillings Merit Scholars. The scholarships, established in 2010 to help the School recruit graduate students with exceptional promise and potential, are made possible through a $50 million gift to the School from Dennis Gillings and… Read more »
Harrington to join NC Institute for Public Health
August 17, 2011 Share Dennis Harrington Dennis Harrington, MPH, a 30-year public health veteran, will join the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health to explore new ways to improve public health delivery throughout the state. Harrington recently stepped down from his role as deputy director of the N.C. Division of Public Health… Read more »
NC shares health systems lessons with the nation
July 21, 2011 Since 2004, North Carolina has been the only state in the U.S. to have mandatory public health department accreditation, requiring local departments to meet standards prescribed by the N.C. Division of Public Health. To date, 55 of the state's 85 local health departments have completed accreditation.UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health's… Read more »
REACH NC allows quicker, more efficient access to School's experts
July 19, 2011 For nearly every public health challenge, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has a team of innovative scientists quickening the pace toward a solution. But how do other scientists, students, members of the media, business leaders, legislators and others learn more about what we're doing? Until recently, those looking for detailed… Read more »
Cilenti named interim health director for Orange County
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Michalak Award presented to Inman, Blackburn
L-R, Eunice Inman, Sarah Michalak, Robert Blackburn, Anna Schenck Eunice Inman, NC Division of Public Health Nurse Consultant, and Robert Blackburn, Accreditation Board Vice Chair, both received the Craig Michalak Award for Excellence from the NC Institute for Public Health. NCIPH Director Anna Schenck presented the award with Sarah Michalak, the late Craig Michalak's wife,… Read more »