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E Komo Mai! The Hawaii Eclipse User's Group exists to provide a place for Eclipse enthusiasts to share, learn and contribute to the Eclipse community. We meet once a month on the 3rd Tuesday at 5:30pm. At each meeting, we'll have a quick dinner (pizza, subs, salads, etc.) and then have a presentation / demo. There will be lots of time for questions and discussion as well.
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The seventh annual Ms Superpark presented by Gatorade concluded today at Keystone Resort in Summit County, Colorado. For four days female pros stepped up to the plate and sessioned the massive setup Keystone's Park Crew assembled in Area 51. The first day was blessed with bright blue skies, day two and three were filled with pow, and perfect spring conditions set the scene today.
Given the awesome weather, the girls spent the day throwing down on all of the features. The triple jump line was the spot for heavy action in the am, while whales tail and gap jumps were prime spots in the afternoon. The ladies lapped continuously throughout the day and displayed utmost dedication and drive.
The consensus among all the riders was that the innovative course allowed for progressive riding which helped to make this the best Ms Superpark to date.
With everyone sending it and shredding so well, there were many standouts throughout the week. We went to the riders and photogs to get the scoop on their favorite parts from Ms Superpark 7 presented by Gatorade.
Kimmy Fasani:
My overall experience of coming to Ms Superpark is everything in the park flowed so well. Jamie Anderson proved that today by hitting every single jump in a row and making the whole park work. That's a sign of a true slopestyle snowboarder. I would say that everything looks really intimidating to the eye, but once you hit it, it was really smooth and as long as you had the right speed everything was really fun.
Day 4 Standout: Jamie Anderson did a front 1 off the pole jam, into a switch back 5 and she was hitting the next jump. I think that line was just so creative and so tough. That's a really hard line to make work together and she definitely killed it. Spencer was just on fire. She was doing really sick back 1 tails and she was riding really well.
My standout moment was honestly just watching girls progress and push each other. That's the point of this event and there's been such an amazing group camaraderie. Every type of snowboarder can come out and get something done.
Keystone did a really good job with that.
Colleen Quigley:
My favorite part of Superpark is that every pro girl in snowboarding is here and it's a super fun vibe taking laps with everyone. It's awesome to see how much everyone has progressed throughout the season. For me it's been insane watching all the girls and seeing how progressive everyone is.
Day 4 Standouts: I couldn't choose just one, so I'd say the top three are Celia Miller who did a sick back 3 rodeo off the pole jam. Melissa did a front three off the pole jam which was super stylish and Kjersti's front threes are just so sick. She's corks them, gets vertical and grabs stalefish- It's so stylish. Also Jamie destroyed the triple line. Her 5's were sick.
Keystone is amazing. Hands down this has been the best park setup I've ever seen at women's Superpark. They just build stuff that looks so sick and the guys told me that they actually cut the sides of the features with chainsaws and shovels. All the trannies are perfect and just to look around at all the work they did for us is awesome.
Leanne Pelosi:
This Ms Superpark was the best Ms Superpark I've ever been too. I've been to all of them except for one, including the very first one. I think it was really cool to be apart of this because the course was so progressive and all the trannies matched up perfectly.
Jamie was my favorite person to watch in the park because she hit every single feature all the way down and she looked like she was having so much fun. There were so many people doing really cool things. I liked Kjersti's 3's and 7's, and Sarka's back rodeo and Celia's back rodeos. They were killing it.
I would love to see Ms Superpark come back to Keystone. This was awesome.
Raewyn Reid:
My favorite part about Superpark is coming here and getting to see all my friends ride and do cool tricks. It's always just fun and there's free Gatorade- yellow Gatorade is awesome. The course this year is insane. They did such a good job and there's so many cool creative ways to hit things. It's probably my favorite setup that I've ever had at a Superpark.
Day 4 Standouts: I saw Colleen do a really cool handplant on the wall ride on the top of the quarter-pipe. And the girls have been killing it all day on the whales tail. Jamie has been riding the entire park like a champion. It's just been a great day.
Bev Vuilleumier:
I really liked the setup this year. It was just super fun and there was a lot of girls killing it.
Day 4 Standouts: Jamie spinning the jump line was sick. I think she did front 3, to back 1 to cab 5. And Celia's back rodeos, Sarka's rodeo 7's, Kjersti's front 7's- Everyone was killing it. This has been my favorite Superpark . Next year it's on.
Photog's insight:
Huggy (SNOWBOARDER's Photo Editor):
This has been one of the top three most productive shoots I've ever been at. The first three days weren't very productive but the fourth day made up for it.
Keystone's setup was insane. When we first rolled up, we thought the setup may have been a little too gnarly- We didn't even know if the girls would be hitting it. By the end, everyone was hitting everything. We knew it was going to be good because Keystone's park staff guinea-pigged everything first in front of everybody so that was a huge help.
Day 4 Standouts- Colleen's handplant on the wall ride was awesome and the 7 am photo shoot we did with Erin Comstock was amazing. Also, being in the cherry picker, up forty feet was great. I could see almost everything that was going on and I was shooting like three things at once. I didn't want to come down.
Probably the best Superpark ever. I've been to four and this is certainly the best I've been to.
Laura Austin (SNOWBOARDER's Online Editor):
If I had to pick one standout it would be Kimmy Fasani. She's been killing it the whole time. Just charging. She's really been pushing other girls to step it up, and I can tell a lot of the other girls look up to her. Today she has been here since 7 in the morning, and now the lifts are closing and she is still here hitting a massive gap jump. We were wondering if we were going to see a double out of her, but she's just not feeling it, and that's alright.
Today Celia Miller was doing some rodeos all over the place which was awesome to see, it is a trick that looks really good in the air, especially for photos. Erin Comstock was doing back threes on the log tap, and going into that thing backside and blind is insane. Kjersti was has been killing it these past 4 days as well, I think she is one of the smoothest riders here.
All the girls have been saying that this is the best setup and the best time they've ever had at a Superpark. It's awesome to see so much progression in female snowboarding come out of one event – I'm really glad I got to be apart of it.
Thanks to Gatorade for keeping everyone hydrated, Keystone for creating such a sick park, and everyone else who helped make Ms Superpark 7 such a phenomenal success.
Until next year….

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AYER -- Since Sal Perla took the helm as president of Nashoba Valley Medical Center, he has met with 11 local town administrators and numerous EMS services to learn about the communities the hospital serves.
"It's really important that we stay connected with our local EMS services to make sure we are serving their needs," explained Perla, who has been conducting an ongoing needs assessment. "For example, in Lunenburg, we will be doing an expanded ambulatory center."
Perla came to NVMC from Milford Regional Medical Center where he served for 13 years, starting out his tenure there as administrative laboratory director, having a background in clinical lab science.
After growing the lab part of the business, bringing in robots and the latest technologies, the hospital gave him a business development role where Perla initiated large-scale programs, including expansions in the rehab centers, bringing Dana Farber on campus and overseeing a facility-wide expansion.
Perla was then promoted to vice president of clinical and support services of the hospital, a role he spent the last five years in before joining NVMC in January.
Perla explains that his new role as president of NVMC was a natural progression for his career, plus it afforded him the opportunity to work in the community where he lives.
"My last job was difficult because I lived so far away," he said.
Perla is already known for his energy and enthusiasm at NVMC. In the six months he has under his belt, he has already accomplished several short-term goals he set for the hospital.
One was the establishment of the hospital's new Center for Weight Management, which is now open to the public, and utilizes the OptiFast Program. The program is a patient-centric, medically supervised weight-management program in which participants report an average 50 pounds of weight loss in 18 to 24 weeks.
Under Perla's administration, NVMC became the first Steward Hospital to partner with local fitness centers to offer its weight-loss center patients special discounts, wellness assessments and even personal training sessions. Anytime Fitness in Devens and Orchard Hills Athletic Club in Lancaster are two of the partnerships that Perla forged to benefit patients at the new Center for Weight Management.
Another short-term goal of Perla's was to expand primary-care services at NVMC. He has accomplished expansions in primary care with the recruitment of a dozen new doctors in internal medicine, in addition to bringing on board more specialists in neurology, otolaryngology, gastroenterology and cardiology services.
Perla says the largest issue for him at NVMC is raising community awareness.
"People do not know what medical services they have right in their own community and they drive to Boston to get services that are actually right here," he said. "This is by far my biggest challenge, and I have a comprehensive plan to improve communications regarding our various service lines."
Not only is NVMC a full-service community hospital, said Perla, with a top notch emergency department, ICU and surgical and rehabilitative services, it boasts the region's largest accredited diabetes and endocrine center that serves hundreds of patients a week for pump therapy and various treatments.
NVMC also has a new $5 million geriatric psychiatry unit that serves patients 55 and older who have a primary diagnosis that is psychiatric related. The center includes 16 beds, a sensory therapy room and hallways that double as a walking path for seniors.
In addition, Steward just signed an agreement with Dana Farber so that NVMC now has a full-service oncology program affiliated with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
"There are many service lines at the hospital that impress me. If I had to choose one department to highlight, it would be our emergency department," said Perla. "We have the lowest wait time in the region with most patients being seen, in and out, in 90 minutes or less."
NVMC's emergency department is a specialized treatment facility with a team of board-certified emergency physicians who care for both adults and children with illnesses or injuries. There are two behavioral health clinicians available in the ED to conduct emergency mental-health crisis evaluations. The current ER wait time is posted live on the hospital's website at nashobamed.com.
"What impresses me most about NVMC is that the people here are amazing," said Perla. "The nurses, doctors and support staff are so committed. They go over and beyond their call of duty for our patients."
Just announced on Aug. 7, NVMC is the first hospital in the region to acquire the Olympus EVIS EXERA III video endoscopy system. This advanced imaging and magnification system enables physicians at the hospital to detect GI tract diseases, such as colon cancer, at an earlier stage, when treatments are most successful.
Another major investment for the hospital that has not yet been announced to the public is the new CT scanner that utilizes iDose technology. This high-tech scanner enables technicians to adjust the radiation based on a patient's body-mass index, allowing for clarity of image but reducing the radiation exposure for the patient.
"In addition to our recruitment of new medical staff and state-of-the-art technologies, we are excited to announce that we will be doing a cosmetic upgrade to the hospital, including hardwood floors and new ceilings," said Perla.
His long-term goals for the hospital are currently under development. Perla has established a Strategic Planning Oversight Committee comprised of doctors, nurses and community members to work together on the long-term plans for NVMC.
"What I want the community to know about me as CEO of this health-care region is that I am a clinician and I truly care about each patient's experience here," he said. "Every patient that visits our emergency department gets a card from me with my phone number on it. I also visit with every patient who stays inpatient at NVMC before they are discharged from the hospital. I want to know how they are feeling and hear all about their experience in the hospital."
Perla said 99 percent of patients report a positive experience.
To help keep the community up to date on all the latest developments at the hospital, NVMC posts updates daily on its Facebook page.


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Charles Schwab Corp has been quietly meeting with exchange-traded fund providers to try to persuade them to join a new network that would make ETFs available commission-free to the brokerage's 8.6 million customers.
ETF providers, however, have been reluctant to sign on to Schwab's plan because they would have to pay the firm a marketing fee they say is too high, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.
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While it is common in the mutual fund world for asset managers to pay a fee (known as 12b-1) to brokerages that sell and promote their funds, it is rare in the ETF market. Most brokerages market ETFs for free and make their money by charging investors a trading commission.
Schwab's plan, if successful, could blaze a trail through the ETF industry, which experts say has few other options to grow while keeping costs low. And if Schwab's pioneering effort in mutual funds is any indicator, competitors such as Fidelity and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp would likely follow suit.
"This is the next area for price competition," said Noah Hamman, chief executive of AdvisorShares, a Bethesda, Maryland-based exchange-traded fund provider.
An ETF network could be a financial boon for Schwab since fees paid by ETF providers generate a source of steady revenue. Commissions, on the other hand, are paid by investors or financial advisers for trades, which are less predictable. Trading volumes this year are at multi-year lows. In November alone, trading volume at Schwab fell 27 percent year-over-year.
For ETF providers, joining Schwab's platform could help raise assets in an increasingly crowded market. But despite more than a year of wooing, the sticking point is the marketing fees that would make it harder to keep the cost of investing low ��� a hallmark of index-based ETF portfolios.
The ETF industry is in the midst of a fee price war and some popular ETFs now charge investors as little as a few pennies per $100.
Schwab is proposing that ETF providers pay the brokerage distribution and marketing fees in the range of 0.05 and 0.10 percent, said two officials, who declined to be identified as the talks were private. Schwab has proposed a choice of an annual flat fee or an asset-based fee within that range, said one of the officials. The range, though, is too high for many providers to make a profit, they said.
"This is ultimately being subsidized by the ETF providers, who have to put the cost somewhere else," said Ben Johnson, director of ETF research at Morningstar. "This could just be the situation where we learn that there is no free lunch."
A Schwab spokeswoman declined to comment on whether the brokerage is pursuing an ETF platform.
"As the largest custodian of retail ETF assets and a top provider of proprietary ETFs, we have many conversations across the industry and are constantly exploring new opportunities," she said.
As the $1.29 trillion ETF market has become more crowded - more than 1,234 funds are now available in the U.S. compared with 658 five years ago - some have agreed to pay marketing fees in exchange for commission-free status on brokerage platforms.
BlackRock Inc's iShares has had such a deal with Fidelity Investments' brokerage for three years. E*Trade Financial Corp last year started offering commission-free ETFs by WisdomTree Investments Inc , Global X and Deutsche Bank AG . The companies would not disclose the marketing fees.
But Schwab would be the first to create a commission-free ETF supermarket with funds from multiple firms, so figuring out how much ETF providers should pay is a challenge.
Some ETF providers are also uncomfortable that Schwab has its own ETFs - some of which are cheaper - and would not be subject to the fees, officials said.
Despite these concerns, three ETF officials told Reuters that, if one of the big three ETF providers, BlackRock, State Street Corp's State Street Global Advisors or The Vanguard Group, participated in the platform, they might follow suit.
"Schwab probably has the best connection to the self-advised account," said one of the ETF officials familiar with the discussions. "But we are not going to jump into this alone."
Spokeswomen for State Street, BlackRock and Vanguard, the latter of which does not pay marketing fees to any firm, declined to comment.
Schwab's proposed ETF network is modeled after its highly successful platform for mutual funds called OneSource.
When OneSource was launched two decades ago, asset managers also balked at the 0.25 percent marketing fee Schwab proposed and only 80 mutual funds signed on. The number increased as the platform proved essential to gaining visibility with investors and financial advisers.
As of September 30, OneSource had more than $215 billion in assets and 4,197 funds. Schwab says it gets 0.31 percent for every client dollar that goes to the funds.
"That is a good number given the scale they have," said Rich Repetto, an analyst at Sandler O'Neill. "Schwab has so much going through OneSource and it's not extremely volatile, while trading can go up and down."
The average expense ratio for an equity mutual fund is 1.24 percent, compared with 0.356 percent for an equity ETF, according to Lipper Inc, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters Corp . That means an investor pays $1.24 for every $100 invested in a mutual fund and less than 36 cents for every $100 invested in an ETF - a 71 percent gap.
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Carol Wilkins leaned over the side of her father's wheelchair and handed him the small red box, a heart-shaped cutout revealing its contents: a weathered, bent silver dog tag.
"Oh, Daddy, look," Wilkins exclaimed as her 90-year-old father opened it, his eyes beaming and smile wide. "They're back."
Sixty-nine years after losing his dog tag on the battlefields of southern France, Willie Wilkins reclaimed it Wednesday after a trans-Atlantic effort to return it to him that started more than a decade ago in a French backyard and ended with a surprise ceremony in Newark City Hall.
"I am so happy," Carol Wilkins said. "You don't know what joy is on my heart for what you have done for my father."
In August 1944, Willie Wilkins was an Army corporal fighting in the Allied invasion of southern France. Amid the horrors of battle, Wilkins's job was one of the grimmest. A quartermaster, Wilkins was responsible for removing and identifying the bodies of dead American servicemen and having them buried or transported back to the United States.
At some point during the invasion, Willie Wilkins's silver dog tag slipped off his neck. It's unclear how it happened.
"It could have been an arm, it could have been a hip that dragged it off, because he was picking up dead bodies," Carol Wilkins said. "He said it was horrible. Blood everywhere. Parts. All he knew was to pick up those bodies for the family members of dead soldiers."
Willie Wikins returned to Newark, and work on the assembly line at Western Electric in nearby Kearny. He was a happy man who doted on his only daughter, but his service as a quartermaster took an enormous toll. He had a nervous breakdown and post-traumatic stress disorder and retired at age 44, Carol Wilkins said.
Willie Wilkins would sometimes talk about his war experience, especially when Carol was young, mentioning that he lost his dog tags. He and his family were convinced the small medallion would remain a tangible piece of the history of the invasion, buried somewhere in what were once the bloody battlefields of Provence.
In a backyard 4,000 miles from Newark, Anne-Marie Crespo was tilling the soil around an olive tree tucked into a corner when she found the dog tag. She was enjoying an early spring day in 2001 in Istres, France, a village about 35 miles northwest of Marseille.
Crespo hit a small piece of metal stamped with a name and numbers. She brought it inside, cleaned it and tried to straighten out the tag's bend, only to break it slightly.
Crespo knew the tag belonged to a soldier and kept it on a bookcase shelf. She presumed the soldier died on the battlefield, and held a ceremony at her home to honor Wilkins and other American war dead.
"I often thought of this poor soldier dead for FRANCE + FREEDOMS," Crespo later wrote in a handwritten letter to Carol Wilkins, dated April 13, 2013. "WILLIE WILKINS what a pretty name, as it sounds good for us French, for me anyway."
Crespo would often show the dog tag to visitors, proud of the "treasure" she found in the backyard but unsure how it got there.
She showed the artifact to a friend over a meal. The friend mentioned that her brother had a passion for history, so she took photographs of the dog tags and emailed them to him.
The brother, Philippe Clerbout, posted the photos in an online history forum. He got a reply from the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., which said Wilkins joined the military on Dec. 31, 1942, in Fort Bragg, N.C.
Clerbout became a man with a mission: finding Willie Wilkins.
His quest to help an American soldier was personal. Cherbout's father was a prisoner in Germany from June 1940 until the camp was liberated in 1945. He returned to France with American troops and married Cherbout's mother.
Cherbout sent emails to anyone he thought could help, from the White House to media outlets. A woman from the U.S. Department of Veteran's affairs in Minneapolis located Willie Wilkins in Newark.
Carol Wilkins thought the phone call was a prank. It was the woman from Minneapolis, asking for her father's honorable discharge number because someone found his dog tag.
Carol Wilkins didn't believe the woman and insisted on calling her back. The call was legitimate.
"I said, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy," she said, "They found your dog tags. You know you never had them."
Wilkins said her father "was just smiling. He was so happy."
Veteran's affairs got in touch with the GI Go Fund, a Newark nonprofit that connects veterans with services and helps them make the transition to civilian life. The organization brought the dog tag to New Jersey.
Dog tags are "who you are in the military. It's how you're identified. This is me. This is who I am," said Jack Fanous, executive director and co-founder of the GI Go Fund.
As rain fell outside, Willie Wilkins was honored in a ceremony under Newark City Hall's soaring rotunda, where Mayor Cory Booker presented the Wilkinses with the dog tag on Wednesday, Victory in Europe Day. The ceremony was attended by Bertrand Lortholary, the Counsul General of France.
"The people of France are very grateful for the courage it took, the incredible courage, it took for American soldiers to come fight on French ground," he said.
Carol Wilkins plans to display the tag in a case on her father's dresser. Willie Wilkins has been in a rehabilitation facility and suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and other ailments. She expects him to return to their home soon.
When asked if he ever thought he would see his dog tag again, Willie Wilkins shook his head.
"I never did," he said.
Associated Press writer Verena Dobnik in New York contributed to this report.
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BLUE JACKETS (5-10-2) at BLUES (9-6-2)
Last 10: Columbus 3-6-1; St. Louis 3-5-2
Season series: This is the second of four meetings this season between the Central Division rivals. The Blues won in Columbus, 4-1, on Jan. 31 and went 4-2-0 against the Blue Jackets last season.
Big story: After losing five straight to start the month, the Blues are hoping to return to the torrid pace they started the season with. The Blue Jackets have also struggled for much of this month and have gone 1-3-0 so far on their current season-long six-game road trip.
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Blue Jackets: After losing their first three games on their trip, the Jackets looked to rebound on Thursday against the division rival Red Wings. The losers of six of their previous seven games, Columbus fell behind early, with Damien Brunner opening the scoring just 18 seconds into the contest. Valtteri Filppula doubled the Detroit lead just 2:22 later, putting the Blue Jackets in a bind.
But Columbus fought back and Derek Dorsett was able to tie the game 5:03 into the third period. The game appeared destined for extra time until Vinny Prospal notched his team-leading sixth goal of the season with just 25 seconds remaining in overtime. Taking a pass in front of the net from James Wisniewski, Prospal spun around before putting a backhand past Wings netminder Jimmy Howard.
But the big win came at a cost, as Artem Anisimov left the game on a stretcher after being left motionless on the ice following a collision with Detroit defenseman Kyle Quincey. He was taken to the hospital as a precaution and was released Friday and allowed to travel back to Columbus.
Blues: After going 6-1-0 in January, the Blues suddenly fell back to earth in February, starting the month with five straight losses. But a 3-0-0 road trip gave the impression that St. Louis was suddenly turning the corner and returning to its early-season form. Following a 2-1 loss to a San Jose team that had previously lost seven in a row, the Blues came to Colorado to face off against the Avalanche.
With starting goaltender Jaroslav Halak back from injury and making his first start in almost three week, St. Louis dominated the game early, outshooting Colorado 9-2 in the opening period. But the game remained scoreless until overtime, when David Jones snapped a shot past Halak with just 16.4 seconds remaining to give Colorado the win.
"We had all kinds of chances, didn't finish around the net," coach Ken Hitchcock said. "We left the game out there and then made a mistake on the backcheck [in overtime]. That was the end of the game."
Who's hot: After going pointless for nine games, Dorsett has three points in his last two games for Columbus. Prospal has four goals in his last seven contests and Wisniewski has three points in his current three-game point streak. … For the Blues, Patrik Berglund has four goals in his last five games while Chris Stewart has eight points in his last seven games.
Injury report: In addition to Anisimov, the Blue Jackets are missing forward Brandon Dubinsky (sprained knee) and defenseman Ryan Murray (shoulder surgery). … Blues forward Jamie Langenbrunner is out for the remainder of the season following hip surgery and rookie Vladimir Tarasenko is doubtful following a blow to the head sustained on a hit by Colorado's Mark Olver.


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Brooklyn Prospect Charter School students tackle global issues with Google for Education tools
Brooklyn Prospect Charter needed a way to give its socially conscious student body access to the Internet and the cloud to research and collaborate on global issues. The technology-forward school has a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program to allow high school students and staff choose the devices that work best for them. Because of this, they were looking for a technology solution that worked across devices. The faculty also wanted to provide teachers with more professional development resources
"Students are excited by technology. It motivates them to go above and beyond."
Tyra Frederick, Educational Technology Coordinator and High School English Teacher, Brooklyn Prospect Charter
Brooklyn Prospect Charter schools launched G Suite for Education, Chromebooks and Google Classroom for all students and teachers. "We had strong faculty buy-in. Teachers and staff have been using Gmail since day one and actively use G Suite for Education to share information and collaborate," says Tyra Frederick, educational technology instructor and high school English teacher at Brooklyn Prospect Charter.
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Brooklyn Prospect is nestled in New York City's bustling, diverse Brooklyn borough and is home to approximately 1000 students from grades K-12, and 200 teachers and staff. An International Baccalaureate World School, the school's curriculum has a strong focus on developing in students' creativity and international lens. Its mission is to prepare students to "become global citizens" by challenging them with project-based learning that centers on problem solving through critical thinking.
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Bob Brooks has degrees in geography and landscape architecture and has been a practicing landscape architect for 29 years. Having begun practice with John O. Simonds, author of Earthscape, he was directed toward an environmental sustainability ethic from the very beginning. The majority of his career to date has been at Halvorson Design Partnership where his scope focused on design of green projects such as Massachusetts Audubon's Boston Nature Center and the Appalachian Mountain Club's Highland Center in Crawford Notch, NH, both multiple award winning projects.
Bob has been involved in several green roof projects and in 2006 worked with Green Roofs for Healthy Cities in development of their 200-level course, first offered at their 2006 International Conference. He has been a LEED Accredited Professional since 2003, and was instrumental in forming the Massachusetts Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, where he currently serves on the Board of Directors. He has taught at Roger Williams University as well as the BAC.


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Rubio: Hispanics a GOP 'challenge'
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Wednesday morning that the Republican Party needs to move into the 21st century.
"The challenge for the conservative movement, the challenge for every movement in America … is applying [our] principles to the 21 st century," he said to POLITICO's Mike Allen at Wednesday's Playbook Breakfast. "We applied them to the 20 th century, but now we have to apply them to the 21 st century."
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The possible 2016 GOP presidential contender added that the party must do a better job of bringing limited-government conservatives into the fold as well.
"The Republican Party can do a better job of being a home for the limited government, free enterprise movement," he said. "I truly believe that the principles we stand for are the only way — free enterprise, limited government — is the only way to grow our middle class."
Still, he said Republicans have done a poor job of selling that message to voters.
"Sometimes people have forgotten the art of persuasion … understanding what is the right thing for the country and working hard to convince people that it's the right thing for the country," he said.
( Also on POLITICO: Ryan, Rubio plot GOP's path)
Asked about the GOP's issues with young and Hispanic voters in last month's election, Rubio said he considers the country's changing demographics more of a "challenge" than a "danger" for the GOP.
"The fastest growing group of voters are voters that vote for candidates, not parties," he said.
And with Hispanic voters specifically, he said it's important to remember that the demographic is not monolithic and that many Hispanic voters are liberal Democrats for whom "nothing [Mitt] Romney and [Paul] Ryan could have done" to sway their votes.
Still, he said Republicans need to temper their harsh rhetoric on the issue of immigration.
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"Unfortunately I think the Republican Party for many years allowed itself to be positioned as the anti-illegal [immigrants] party … what we really need to be is the pro-legal [immigrants] party," he said.
Rubio expressed optimism that Congress can pass comprehensive immigration reform in the next two years.
"We understand that legal immigration is not just an important part of our heritage, it's an important part of our future," he said. "We're not talking about plagues of locusts, we're talking about people."
The Cuban-American senator — his party's most prominent Hispanic face — said that rather than working on one comprehensive bill, Congress should accomplish reform through a "comprehensive package of bills" on issues like a guest worker program, border security and e-Verify that checks employees' immigration status.


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alikapadia necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
SurveyTool.com is a website that lets users create online surveys that can be distributed through email invitations and shareable URLs. Users get a great set of tools to view their responses in the form of grids and various charts. There is also some great customizability when it comes to the creation of the survey. Users can pick from our pre-defined survey templates (for example customer satisfaction survey or a student feedback survey, already pre-created for quick use) or create their own. Users can also choose from a variety of styles/themes for the actual survey they create.
The main advantage of SurveyTools.com is that it allows for the automatic sending of email invitations periodically to your contacts, and organizes response based on these periods. For example, an HR Manager may create an employee feedback survey with an invitation period set as 1 month. In this case, SurveyTools.com will send out email invitations for the survey to all the added employees, every month. Over time, The HR manager can then look at the report to see trends in the response to each question (like: How would you rate the work enviornment?) and keep a pulse by getting a monthly report on the status of their company employees. This feature is the main key focus of SurveyTools.com.
We are currently in the process of building SurveyTools.com functionalities.
The target audience are managers and professionals, possibly in higher up positions in organizations. These are aged between 35 and 60. 60% female. Our target audience are also online community managers and managers of any e-commerce websites or services. In essence these are mostly managers looking to get feedback.
Our target audience are also users who will be using search engines to look for a survey designing tool and will most likely need something that gets their survey created and started right away, therefore we need an action button on the home page like "Create Your First Survey" (we are flexible about changing the wording) that will take the user to a survey creation interface.
We need a logo for our website, SurveyTool.com
I am attaching 3 screenshots to give you a sense of the styles and color theme we are using in the website. The logo you see in the screenshots is just a temporary dummy logo.
The logo needs to be a horizontal style logo (such that it fits nicely in our website header taking up relatively more horizontal space than vertical)
We need the name in the logo to include a ".com" (not just "Survey Tool"), so that it is clear that the brand is a website. We need something that looks very clean cut, modern and yet elegant. One logo that we like is of Shopify.com. Since our demographic is of a bit older, we'd like to see how an elegance element similar to Mercedes or BMW can be mixed in.
One thing that is very important for us is to have a very memorable logo. For this, we would like some sort of object in the logo. We can be open to having a character in there, however our concern with that is the logo's appeal to our demographic (aged 35 to 60, majority female).
On first look, the logo must express what SurveyTool.com really is, what it does, and above all, it must be memorable.
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What happens when you don't notice warnings that your lane on the highway is closing for construction? Insane crashes like this, and that's if your lucky.
This crash happened on December 20th on a Moscow ring road. LifeNews reports that the 42-year-old Peugeot van driver did not notice construction warning signs and hit a concrete barrier at full speed.
Debris hit a number of construction workers, but the driver was the only one injured. He was hospitalized in a state of shock and with serious injuries.
That said, he's the lucky one. LifeNews reports that this area has seen five similar incidents in the past month, killing three and injuring four.


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The Southington Police Department is now the location of a permanent medication drop box, a longtime goal of town officials and several community organizations.
The box allows residents to safely dispose of expired or unneeded medication anonymously and at no cost.
"This is a one-way mailbox," said Town Council Chairman John Dobbins. "Medications dropped here are treated as abandoned property. They are not looked at or investigated."
Dobbins, who is a pharmacist, has been a longtime advocate of providing venues for medication disposal. While serving on the Board of Water Commissioners, he and the rest of the board hosted an annual event that invited the community to drop off medication they had no use for.
Steve Pestillo, another former Water Commissioner who is now Chairman of the Board of Police Commissioners, said the drop box had the potential to help the community in several ways.
"The original idea was to take the medication and keep it out of the water supply," Pestillo said. "I also had my eyes opened to how important it is to keep medication out of the hands of kids."
The Southington Town-Wide Effort to Promote Success (STEPS) has expressed concern about the amount of prescription drug abuse among teenagers in Southington and elsewhere and worked to make the drop box possible. Wheeler Clinic of Plainville, a frequent partner of STEPS, financed the cost of bringing the box into town. The Plainville Police Department has also recently introduced a permanent medication drop box.
"We want to build on this program and make the community aware of how unattended drugs can be dangerous," said Mihaela Fodor, an assistant program manger at Wheeler Clinic.
Water Commissioner Greg Klimaszewski, of Augustine Builders in Southington, installed the box as a gift to the community, while Covanta Energy will dispose of the discarded medication, also at no cost to the town.
The box is intended for prescription medications, over the counter drugs, medication samples, pet medication, liquid medication in sealed containers, medicated ointments and lotions, inhalers, narcotics and vitamins. It is not meant for personal care products, needles and syringes, thermometers, IV bags, infectious waste, hydrogen peroxide containers or aerosol cans.
STEPS plans to raise awareness of the box and its ramifications for the community within the next few weeks.
"We're really happy because once a year isn't enough," said STEPS Coordinator Kelly Leppard. "We want people to drop them off on an ongoing basis."


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Today, Monday, November 15, is America Recycles Day – the only national day dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and buy recycled products. Started by the recycling sector organization National Recycling Coalition in 1997, America Recycles Day has been a program of Keep America Beautiful since 2009.
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Peter H. Rossi Award Statement
Peter H. Rossi earned his PhD in sociology in 1951 from Columbia University under the wing of Paul Lazarsfeld. He was a stand-out student in the midst of many outstanding graduate students. After completing his doctorate, he went to Harvard University for a four-year stint as a Research Associate and Assistant Professor. In 1955 he moved to the University of Chicago's Department of Sociology where he stayed for 12 years. While at Chicago he was Director of the National Opinion Research Center form 1960 to 1967, the youngest director in the history of the Center. After leaving Chicago, he assumed the chair of the Department of Social Relations at Johns Hopkins University where he also served as Director of Research of the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts. Currently, Dr. Rossi is Director of Evaluation Design and Analysis, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, and Director Emeritus at the Social and Demographic Research Institute.
It is a daunting challenge to chart all of Dr. Rossi's contributions to the profession—there are many of them and they extend in many directions. Among them are his committed service on behalf of the discipline and the ASA. From 1968 to 1971 he filled the post of Secretary of the ASA and later chaired ASA Committee on Freedom of Research and Training. From 1978 to 1979 he was President-Elect and from 1979 to 1980 President of the American Sociological Association. He also has managed to accumulate an extensive history as Editor and Associate Editor of a number of leading sociological journals and other serial publications.
Most notably, Peter Rossi has applied his sociological expertise to policy-making and funding agencies outside of academia where he has been highly influential. Frequently, he has been called upon by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to participate in various investigative activities. A sample of these include the Committee on Federal Evaluation Research, the Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics, and Biomechanics, the Committee on Socio-Economic Effects of Earthquake Prediction, the Committee on measurement of Energy Consumption, the Committee on International Disaster Assistance, the Committee on Program Evaluation and Education, and the Committee on Behavioral Sciences. He also has been a consultant and reviewer for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Rossi has done more than plant the seeds of his sociological knowledge in policy-making bodies; he has taken what he has learned from these rich experiences back to sociology by treating the practical problems facing the society as part of mainstream sociology. This is repeatedly reflected in his writings, which number well over 200 books, book chapters and journal articles. From the pages of his extensive scholarly contributions emerges an image of a person of enormous intellectual energy who truly know how to practice sociology.


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Cindy Van Andel Also Passes Away
This weekend marks an epic loss for West Michigan. Not only did we lose Meijer superstore founder Fred Meijer at the age of 91 but Friday, Cindy Van Andel wife of Amway Chairman Steve Van Andel also passed away of a sudden illness.
Both of these people did great things for the city of Grand Rapids and all of West Michigan. Whether it was through the arts, community involvement or just being generous in any way possible... it has been a sad weekend for West Michigan.
Memorial event information is below.
Friends may meet the family Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Metcalf and Jonkhoff Funeral Home, 4291 Cascade Road SE.
A Celebration of Life will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. at Keystone Community Church, 655 Spaulding Avenue SE. A private interment service will follow.


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The National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA) is an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing public awareness of the benefits of true aromatherapy. Visit us at www.naha.org
Monday, April 5, 2010
NAHA News Going Green Article April 2010
Essential News-Going Green
E-tips for Aromatherapy Awareness
Contributed by Rose Chard LMT Aromatherapist
Tips for the Working Aromatherapist
There are a lot of people who want to enjoy the benefits of true aromatherapy yet unbeknownst to them, they purchase inferior products which do not provide the therapeutic property intended. They in turn pass off aromatherapy as pointless and the aromatherapy industry loses credibility. It is not the customer's fault that the majority of apparent aromatherapy products do not hold true to the principles of aromatherapy. As an aromatherapist, you have naturally been drawn to the botanical world, understood its value and decided to get educated. For many others, this knowledge would be embraced and welcomed if the proper principles were shown to them. This is why your dedication to supporting your clients with information about true aromatherapy and education about this industry is important.
Starting a business that involves aromatherapy as part of your business model is exciting as well as overwhelming. Exciting because a growing number of people are looking to take more control of their well-being. Overwhelming because it is often difficult to know how to start an aromatherapy business - there is no set model to follow. However, this is a growing industry so it is an excellent time to add aromatherapy to your current business or to begin one based on aromatherapy. Here a few tips to help you along the way.
Do not assume clients or customers know the basics of aromatherapy
You are more of an expert than you think (given that you follow the ethical guidelines), and the education you have is very valuable to the interested consumer. I continue to learn this lesson every day when customers ask questions such as "Is it OK to blend eucalyptus with another essential oil in a diffuser?"
The knowledge you hold may seem obvious to you but it is a treasure to a great many that are beginning their aromatherapy journey. So while you continue to educate yourself to further advance your studies, the knowledge you have now is very powerful and is where you should be starting with your clients. It is a fact that a great number of people still do not understand the difference between an essential oil and fragrance oil, how to distinguish a true aromatherapy product by reading a label or that essential oils have uses other than aromatic pleasure. These people need you. And as an aromatherapist, you should recognize your role in proper education of the principles of aromatherapy for those that want and need that education.
Be specific about what you offer, start small and build from that.
It's true there are many essential oils out there and at least twelve different ways of applying them such as in carriers, a bath, in diffusers, etc. Then there are routes of absorption in the body such as inhalation and dermal. There is aromatherapy history, safety issues, the profiles of each of the individual oils, therapeutic properties, deciphering pure oils from synthetics, dealing with inaccurate information and dubious products with aromatherapy labeling and so forth. Even these aromatherapy basics are an incredible amount of information to absorb. Make no mistake that aromatherapy is a discipline but it is a worthy one.
Newcomers will not immediately be able to grasp the whole concept of aromatherapy and you are not going to be able to communicate this information without a good business model. It is so important to explain to your clients what you are doing and why - you should not deprive them of this valuable information. Think about the aspects of aromatherapy that are important to your business. Take those aspects and describe them in a way that makes sense to your customers or clients and allows you to effectively communicate a message. Then move on from there. For example, if you are a massage therapist you might want to begin with a selection of pre-made blends that your clients can choose from, such as a muscle blend for those who complain about fatigued muscles, a relaxation blend for those who need to unwind and so forth. You can promote your blends by explaining to your clients why a blend will have its intended effect and why the cold pressed carrier oil base you will putting on their bodies is healthy for them.
If you are using quality oils and quality carrier oils, your clients they need to know this and that one aspect of aromatherapy is that natural products limit the intake of synthetic toxins and artificial preservatives in their system. If you are providing your clients this service without promoting it, then how will you set yourself apart from other businesses? And worse still, your clients will not know the important added benefits of what you offer.
Offer quality
I have always been taught that if you are going to start something, do it right. This has served me well in differentiating what I offer from other services and products out there. I will give the same advice to you. If you are offering quality aromatherapy products or services, then you need to stick to that commitment. It is important to be discerning in your purchasing because you need to keep an eye on the finances in your business. However, purchasing inferior products to save a buck will not make you successful. Quality products and services will speak for themselves. Keeping costs down with quality stock is harder so consider starting out with a smaller stock of well chosen quality products. Another benefit of this approach that may not be obvious is that because there are more people using inferior quality products there is a lot of competition among those who work with inferior products. Happily, when you maintain a high standard of quality in your products, you will find yourself facing less competition.
Decide who your demographics will be
Before you can begin successfully selling your service or product, you need to understand what aspect of the aromatherapy business you are marketing and who comprises your market. Ask questions such as: Where do I practice? What is my typical demographic? How many people do I want to appeal to? For example, my company, Your Body Needs, is located just outside Washington DC. Most of the clientele in this area work long hours, are middle to upper income and are generally not considered the 'laid back' type. We have had great success explaining the basics of aromatherapy from a simple academic approach rather than a more ethereal one. We may say something like, "the essential oil of ginger and black pepper in our muscle rub encourages better circulation and brings blood to an area more quickly." Most of our clients would not understand a sentence like "ginger oil will stimulate the yang energy of the kidneys." We have made firm decisions about what is important to us as a company and how we want to represent the business of aromatherapy. We made these decisions based on who we are, what we offer and who our target audience is. This will be a very helpful tool for you to consider when beginning a business. Even though it is important to have your business reflect you, it is equally as important to access what your clients or customers really need or want.
Be proud to promote the benefits of aromatherapy
There are tremendous benefits to living an aromatherapy-based life. It is OK to explain why your clients' lives can be improved by making simple changes such as purchasing pure essential oils over fragrance quality or synthetic aromas, or using pure natural-based body products rather than inferior mineral oil-based products. If you are able to communicate truthfully the benefits of pure aromatherapy products versus the alternative, then you are respecting your business and clients who seek your services and want to understand the greater aromatherapy community.
Charge adequately to reflect the value of your service or product
Most of us do not get into an aromatherapy business because we are interested in making Forbes' 100 Fortune list. You likely got into this business because you have a passion for it. At the same time, maintaining a sense of the value of products and the service you provide is as essential to success as working your passion. If you do not value your service or product and do not put a fair price on it, then how will clients or customers come to respect it? Do not undervalue your aromatherapy service or product. Be fair - to yourself and your clients.
The aromatherapy business is booming. You will be in great shape if you: are respectful of the discipline as a whole, accept that the knowledge you have is valuable and people will benefit from it, and have clarity on how you will communicate your message about the benefits of true aromatherapy.
Rose Chard is the owner of Your Body Needs...a massage and aromatherapy studio providing products and services in Crofton, Maryland and online at www.YourBodyNeeds.com.
Rose gained her Certificate in Aromatherapy from the American College of Health Sciences in Portland, Oregon; a leader in natural health education. Rose's dedication to the field earned her a nomination as outstanding Graduate of the Year in 2004. Rose has incorporated essential oils in her personal life for more twenty years and now her company has its own growing line of quality aromatherapy products and essential oils. Your Body Needs helps people discover the everyday benefits of aromatherapy and also offers popular aromatherapy workshops. Rose is an adjunct staff member at Anne Arundel Community College teaching the principles of Aromatherapy to other health care professionals. She is a licensed massage therapist and member of the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy, the Aromatherapy Registration Council and the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. Visit her website at www.yourbodyneeds.com
5 comments:
- aspri said...
good idea.
- April 11, 2010 at 1:02 AM
- thebathoholic said...
Great post. Hopefully people will learn to understand the true benefits of aromatherapy.
- May 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM
- aromatherapy products said...
success of the business comes with great idea.. nice one..
- May 17, 2010 at 2:01 AM
- Yu-Ju said...
I am a teacher who gives aroma-music therapy class in Taiwan. Either some of my friends or students had solved their major problems by taking aromatherapy and music therapy together. I am glad to say " Aroma-music therapy is going to be very popular soon!"
- June 2, 2010 at 9:06 AM
A lovely post.
I think it is also important to add the important of making a sustainable income through mixing home treatments.
Massage is exhausting, but more importantly offering them every day to a customer is simply impossible as it makes the treatment prohibitively expensive.
By offering home treatments of creams and lotions you are able to dispense small amounts of their oils regularly and consistently.
Not only does this improve their treatment exponentially but also builds a sturdy income that is readily sustained.
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Orlando, FL- A little rain never hurt anyone, but a whole lot of rain can do some major damage, unless you are Coker women's cross country runner, Kendyl Seawright (Manalapan, NJ), then you set records in the rain. Seawright set a new Coker record at the Disney Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday, running a 19:51 5k, besting Cristina Grivetti's ('04) 20:05 mark. Kendyl finished the race in 72nd place out of 366 runners, leading Coker to a 32nd place finish out of 49 teams.
Monica Taylor (Lexington, SC) ran a time of 22:17, followed by Shannon Townley (Anniston, AL) with a time of 22:18. Dana Daves (York, SC) was next with a time of 22:25, while Heidi Rienstra (Brockville, Ontario) came in at 23:31. Nicole Coke (Summerville, SC) finished at 24:25, followed by Noelle Sharbono (Pembroke Pines, FL) at 24:51. Ashley Cupp (N. Augusta, SC) and Amy Jones (Hurricane, WV) rounded out the Coker runners with times of 25:03 and 26:11 respectively.
The Cobra Cross Country Teams now get a week break before they run in the 2007 Conference Carolina Championships on October 20, at Spartanburg, SC.


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Reversing a lower court, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously declared unconstitutional the eight-foot-tall religious display, which was erected at the local courthouse in 2004 after a campaign by a local minister and his supporters.Why this is even a controversy is beyond me. Let's review the Ten Commandments and see just why this is clearly a violation of Church and State (keeping in mind that these 10 vital 'laws' are not even delivered consistently in the Bible or agreed upon across various denominations):
This decision should send a clear message to politicians and religious leaders: Thou shalt not mix church and state, observed the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. "Our courthouses should focus on the Constitution and civil law, not religious law."
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As service members and their spouses face the stressors of multiple deployments, seeking marital counseling both pre- and post-deployment is becoming increasingly common. Separation from a spouse or loved one, coupled with the uncertainties of deployments, may result in additional stress for military families. However, DoD is taking steps to improve access to a continuum of counseling support for married service members and their families, and to inform service members and military families that seeking marital support is a sign of strength.1
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In addition to counseling, another way to strengthen a marriage is to take advantage of the marriage enrichment programs offered by each service and component. Whether you're an engaged couple, newlyweds or have been married for many years, marriage enrichment programs can help you and your spouse overcome challenges together. Get a full list of marriage enrichment programs from the National Military Family Association.
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- Community Circles of Support for Veterans' Families
- Share your stories of courage and strength with other military families at the Real Warriors Message Boards.
1Questions and Answers about Confidential Non-Medical Counseling, Military OneSource. Last accessed Nov. 29, 2015.
2Miles, Donna. "More Troops, Families Tapping Into DoD Counseling Services." American Forces Press Service. Published March 14, 2006.


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Breitz is best known for her video portraits of pop-music idols, which do not actually portray the stars themselves, but instead consist entirely of tribute performances made by communities of fans. Her practice also includes sampling, altering, and remixing clips from popular Hollywood movies to create fractured vignettes that amplify the clichés and stereotypes perpetuated in commercial cinema.
Organized by SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts Rudolf Frieling, the presentation will center on the U.S. premiere of Working Class Hero (A Portrait of John Lennon)(2006), the latest installment in Breitz's ongoing music series (previous works focus on Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, and Madonna). Here the artist recruited twenty-five ardent Lennon fans to individually perform the late musician's 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band in a professional recording studio. Aside from capturing intimate portraits of each participant, the resulting twenty-five-channel video installation provides a broader take on the phenomenon of fan culture.
On view in an adjacent gallery is Breitz's six-channel work entitled Mother (2005), which immediately preceded the production of Working Class Hero and forms part of the artist's acclaimed double installation Mother + Father (her contribution to the 2005 Venice Biennale). The work isolates six film performances by famous actresses playing the role of mother and edits them into a pastiche of exaggerated 'motherness' that reflects on the connection between Hollywood's representation of dysfunctional parenthood and the cultural experience of being raised on movies.
Together, Working Class Hero and Mother represent the range of Breitz's practice and also raise questions about the global impact of mass media, the complicated allure and pitfalls of the entertainment industry, and the way these forces influence contemporary consciousness.
"Breitz is interested in the biographical aspect of pop culture, the way music and films become personal soundtracks to our lives," says Frieling. "For her, and for so many of her contemporaries, using preexisting material from the mass media in order to create art is urgent, necessary, and practically unavoidablea condition that mirrors the way commercial entertainment infiltrates all of our lives. Breitz's art reminds us of how important it is to step out of the role of passive consumer and digest mainstream media to our own ends."
Breitz has created four portraits of pop-music stars to date. The first, Legend (A Portrait of Bob Marley, (2005), captures performances by thirty Jamaicans, each singing their own interpretation of Marley's posthumous album, Legend. Next, working with German-speaking participants in Berlin, she produced King (A Portrait of Michael Jackson) (2005), an installation that gathers sixteen renditions of Jackson's Thriller album. This was followed by Queen (A Portrait of Madonna) (2005), made in Milan with thirty Italians singing the compilation album The Immaculate Collection; and finally Working Class Hero (A Portrait of John Lennon), filmed in Newcastle upon Tyne with twenty-five mostly British fans singing along to Lennon's first official solo album after the breakup of The Beatles, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.
As with all the portraits, Breitz followed a set of formal parameters in creating Working Class Hero. She chose performers based on their genuineness as fans rather than on appearance or talent. Hundreds of self-identified enthusiasts who responded to Breitz's ads were required to complete a lengthy questionnaire designed to gauge the authenticity of their devotion. Finalists performed alone with minimal to no direction from Breitz, choosing what to wear, how to relate to the camera, and whether to move or dance between tracks. Each sang along with the album from start to finish, thus the running time of the video matches the length of the album, 39 minutes and 55 seconds.
Breitz strips away the album's original vocal and music tracks, leaving the viewer with twenty-five synchronized, a capella renditions that play on a row of vertical screens arranged in a long gallery. The nonhierarchical framing encourages comparisons among the fans' performances, from the cool, minimal gesture to the expressive, self-conscious act. With the celebrity figure now absent, the fans' imitative efforts serve to emphasize the memory of an idol and their emotional identification with his status as a working-class hero.
The album Breitz selected for this project is one of Lennon's most introspective and cathartic. Recorded at a time when the musician was undergoing psychotherapy, these intimate songs relate to childhood pain and Lennon's self-reinvention following The Beatles' breakup. In the searing track "Mother," Lennon laments the loss of both his parents early in life. It's clear in the fans' impassioned performances that they relate to such despair, which brings into focus Breitz's interest in pop culture as the lowest common denominator among people from drastically different backgrounds, or what she describes as an "extremely degraded lingua franca."
Archetypal notions of the maternal also figure in Breitz's Mother, a video installation that looks at mass media representations of parenthood. Presented on six plasma screens arranged in a semi-circle, the work lifts iconic celluloid mothers out of their respective filmsMeryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest (1981), Shirley MacLaine in Postcards From the Edge (1990), Diane Keaton in The Good Mother (1988), and Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts in Stepmom (1998)distilling from these Hollywood tearjerkers the characters' heightened moments of distress and defensiveness about being a role model.
Breitz's signature editing process isolates each actress against a black background, unmooring the performances from their original context and turning snippets of dialogue into absurd soliloquies. The confessional and self-analytic mode of these erratic monologues suggests a therapy process, appropriate given the almost psychotic quality that Breitz's editing technique lends the performances. Beyond Hollywood's portrayal of motherhood lies a more complicated media obsession with famous actresses in their real-life roles as mothers. In mapping the star-fan relationship onto the mother-child relationship, Breitz explores how the public projects onto and identifies with celebrities as well as the fictional characters they portray.
In conjunction with the exhibition, SFMOMA's education department will host a roundtable discussion with Candice Breitz, curator Rudolf Frieling, and additional speakers (to be announced) entitled "More About Pictures, or Appropriation Now" on Thursday, October 22, at 7 p.m. in the Phyllis Wattis Theater. Using SFMOMA's exhibition and the 2008 conference "Takeovers and Makeovers: Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use, and Copyright in the Digital Age" at UC Berkeley as starting points, this conversation takes up appropriation in contemporary art. The roundtable is co-presented with The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media, and is preceded by an artist and curator talk with Breitz and Frieling at 6:30 p.m. at SFMOMA.
Breitz was born in 1972 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and currently lives and works in Berlin. She holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), University of Chicago, and Columbia University (New York), and has also participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Studies Program (199697). She has had solo exhibitions at De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (2001); Modern Art Oxford (2003); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2005); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005); and White Cube, London (2007). The artist has contributed to biennales in Johannesburg (1995); São Paulo (1998); Istanbul (1999); Kwangju (2000); Taipei (2000); and Venice (2005).
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Panel: Offensive Names on Reservation Should Go
PIERRE - A South Dakota panel responsible for getting rid of offensive place names has proposed renaming two creeks and three other geographical features on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to reflect the area's traditional use for deer hunting.
The locations all feature a variation of the phrase "Squaw Humper," and each would get a new name in the Lakota language. For example, a creek by the name would instead be Tahc'a Okute Wakpa, which translates to Deer Hunting Ground Creek.
The names were suggested by Oglala Sioux tribal officials at a March 28 hearing on the reservation. The state Board on Geographic Names will seek public comment on the proposed names before taking a final vote in June.
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It's easy to get excited about the farm equipment business when you listen to Jim Irwin, vice president, North American Agricultural Business, for Case IH.
"2003 was a break-out year for our brands," Irwin told a group of editors attending a media event for the introduction of Case IH's new Farmall line of tractors. "Our business really mushroomed."
Irwin said Case IH introduced a number of new products last April. Then, from April until December, the company saw some of the largest sales increases it had seen in many years.
"In every category where we introduced new products last year, we had significant market share gains, and that's what makes us so proud," he said. "We are very proud of the fact that when the products started rolling, the customers really accepted them, and they have continued to do that.
Case IH is "sitting on the most significant order boards we've had since I've been in this business," Irwin noted. "We have customers who will wait a significant amount of time to get a product because they believe our story; they believe where this brand is going; and they believe in the hard-working people we have that support this brand."
The new models have meant a major turnaround for the company. "You think back five or six years ago, we basically were out of the small tractor business. We had the plant in Doncaster, England that was building tractors. The product was an average product; it was not a super product; it was a very high cost product because the production numbers were very slow. We were just barely competitive in the marketplace, to be honest with you."
Prior to the merger of Case IH and New Holland in 1999, Case had five families of tractors with a total of 23 models spread among them.
"With the introduction of the Farmall line — and we'll have more models coming in the spring — we'll have nine families of products with 42 different models," said Irwin. "We're going from five families to nine families and from 23 models to 42 models. You can imagine what's happening within this brand. And it's just been phenomenal what we're seeing taking place in the marketplace."
The expansion has made Case IH's dealers "a pretty happy bunch now," said Irwin. "You probably couldn't have said three or four years ago because they wanted more models from us to help them grow their business. The beauty of putting Case IH and New Holland together is that we have the scale now to do the things that actually no one else in this business can do. And we're taking it to the marketplace."


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LOS ANGELES – Toxicology tests were pending Monday to determine what killed the half-sister of Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts, although the family says the woman's death was an apparent overdose.
Nancy Motes, 37, was found dead around 2:15 p.m. Sunday at a home in the 1000 block of North Bundy Drive, where she was house- and dog-sitting, according to the coroner's office.
Her death was reported as a possible suicide or overdose, Ed Winter of the coroner's office said.
In a statement to the New York Daily News and People magazine, the Roberts family confirmed Motes' death, saying, "It is with deep sadness that the family of Nancy Motes .. confirms that she was found dead in Los Angeles yesterday (Sunday) of an apparent drug overdose. The family is both shocked and devastated."
Motes' body was reportedly found in a bathtub.
Julia Roberts, who is nominated for an Oscar this year for her role in "August: Osage County," was a no-show at Monday's annual Oscar nominees luncheon at the Beverly Hilton.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
A tasty tomato and goat's cheese mouthful
This is yet another tasty vegetarian recipe from Swedish-Italian Ilva of Lucullian Delights. I used mini plum tomatoes and for the topping a Maltese unpasteurised goat's cheese ('Gozo Cheeselets' from Camel Brand, a gift from a visitor from Malta a few months ago), some oil-cured black olives, and dried rosemary and oregano. I mixed the ingredients and spread the mush over halved tomatoes (I sprinkled tomatoes with some black pepper first) and grilled in the oven until the cheese mixture melted slightly.
These were lovely with some Estonian rye bread for a light supper. Very nice. Tack, Ilva!
Tomati-kitsejuustusuupistete retsept
8 comments:
- paz said...
Oh, yum! This recipe is on my list. Yours looks absolutely delicious.
- 5:33 pm, January 10, 2006
- FreeQ said...
Yes, that's a very good, tasty and healthy treat that we Maltese like it very much.
Also you can use the same mixture and spread it on small pieces of bread, then bake them a littl to make exquisite bruschettas, which are like small 2-bites pizzas.
- 8:11 pm, January 10, 2006
- Kalyn said...
Hey, thanks for linking to me. I'm honored. I added a link for you too.
- 7:03 am, January 11, 2006
- Clivia said...
What a great way to use tomatoes, they can sometimes feel a little boring in winter but baking them with yummy fillings is a good trick!
I don´t know how it happened, but one minute I was just visiting an online bookshop to check the prize on Nigella´s books and next minute I had ordered a copy of Feast (but in Swedish). In the poor month of January. Oops. But it cost only 179 SEK and the weather is really lousy...
- 4:56 pm, January 11, 2006
- sha said...
tack too in estonia?
takk in norway ;-)
- 2:40 pm, January 12, 2006
- Pille said...
Paz - delicious and easy - perfect combination, isn't it?
Freeq - thanks for the tip for using the same mixture to make delicious bruschettas, I'll definitely try it.
Kalyn - you're welcome.
Clivia - this certainly boosted the flavour of the tomatoes, so a good tip for using slightly under-ripe tomatoes off-season (thou the ones I got were rather tasty on their own).
I'm looking forward to reading how you like Nigella's Feast!
Shalimar - nope, 'thanks' in Estonian is 'tänan väga'. But Ilva is Swedish, and I speak some Scandinavian (i.e. Danish with a Swedish accent), so I was showing off my language skills here:)
- 2:50 pm, January 12, 2006
- briangrech said...
I like cooking that in summer generally! in winter prefer using the 'mix' on baguettes or other breads - then grill them (as done with bruschettas)
- 3:29 pm, January 25, 2006
- Pille said...
Thanks for the tip, Brian - I might try this as a bruschetta!
- 3:44 pm, January 27, 2006