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Hello Everybody! On October 18 Sichuan University took it's Foreign Exchange Students on a field trip to the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project and what they call and "ancient town." Some of my classmates joined me, and I met many other exchange students who are in different classes. It was a really fun time getting to know them, where they come from, and also about the area around Chengdu.
My friend Diviya who is wearing a plaid type dress, is from Nepal and is studying medicine in Chengdu as well as learning the language with me. Qing Qing is the gal in the red coat from the top picture, she is from Vietnam and is super sweet. She is studying finance in China. The other gals are from Bhutan and their names are escaping me at present. All these ladies are exceptionally nice and friendly and we enjoy practicing our limited Chinese together and hanging out after classes.
I'll be honest, the trip to the irrigation project was difficult to see since the pollution was really bad when we got there. I couldn't take many great pictures of the dam itself because it was invisible behind the smog screen. We did get to walk over a suspension bridge though which was pretty cool. I also saw some really neat architecture and statues. I'll try to include the one with the intricately carved elephant in this blog.
The "ancient town" wasn't so ancient. Considering the Dujiangyan project is over 2000 years old, that is ancient, the town is not. So basically this town has been converted into a giant tourist trap full of shops that supposedly tourists want to visit. I saw people making silk scarves, bone combs being carved (only thing I purchased was a water buffalo horn comb that I got engraved while I was there), and people performing in the streets carnival style. I did get a great picture of grandma and her grandbaby singing for the visitors. At this "ancient town" my group of ladies met up with Michiel who is from the Netherlands. Nice young guy, also an exchange student with us.
So the trip was fun, not for the history, or the sights, but for enjoying the company of others and seeing places we might not get a chance to without the school taking us. I learned that I do want to go back to Dujiangyan simply because I didn't have the time to do what I wanted there. There are many unexplored gardens at the site and I would like to revisit and see them.
Beyond that, my life is busy. I have a nasty head cold for which I bought some flower tablets which help with the cough but also leave me groggy. I also got a job working at a school teaching K-1 students English 2 days a week for a couple hours each day. I like those kids a lot, and if you know me, that is saying quite a bit! I need to study now as we are getting mighty close to midterms and I want to do well. I realized I miss America in ways that aren't always evident, but when I hit my head again on my stove's fan hood I realized I miss things being of what I consider "normal" height, not half a foot lower like everything is here.
Hi Everyone! I begin by saying I may never eat apples or tomatoes in the US after being spoiled by such high quality fruit and produce here in China. That leads into my mini adventure this afternoon. I was fortunate that I had no students lined up for classes this afternoon so I decided to go and pay my rent at my apartment agent's business in the Music District. Since I didn't know how to get there I took a taxi and paid attention so I would know where it was for the future. FYI in China you pay rent quarterly which is kind of nice actually. I noticed the business was not all that far from my apartment, maybe 50 minutes to an hour away by foot. So after speaking no English and conducting my payment using limited Chinese (yes I was successful and rather proud of myself) I headed back home on foot.
It's a nice day, cold but not uncomfortable, and most of the walk looked like it hugged Bar Street which is exactly what it sounds like, a street lined with bars/pubs. I saw some really interesting trees with flowers on my way to Bar Street and then I noticed a bank at the corner. I got a message on the ATM today to check with my Chinese bank so I popped in. I was delayed and finally they managed to say that I need to come back with my passport and they can get the message to go away. Again, I used limited English, though admittedly they used some trying to convey this though mostly it was hand signals.
The delay was extremely welcome because it made my next stop incredibly awesome. On my way home, between the university and the river crossing is a gas station. Sometimes I stop there to get a drink if I am walking to school. This time I decided I wanted my Vitamin C drink and also a candy bar (cravings man!). When I walked in the young lady who works after school at the gas station had just finished washing some apples. She spoke English with me and offered me an apple. I asked her in English if the apples came from Chengdu, but she didn't understand so I used my Chinese to ask the same thing. She understood my Chinese and said that the apples were not from Chengdu, but rather from Xichang.
I enthusiastically said, "I went to Yanyuan and Xichang! The apples there are especially delicious!" in Chinese and she nodded and agreed with me. It turns out this was the variety of apple I had had in Yanyuan while visiting friends and doing my research in August. I fell in love with those particular Red Fuji apples while there and I will forever hold them close to my heart as they truly are the most delicious apples I have tasted, this coming from a girl who grew up in Wenatchee Valley the center of the apple universe! After she confirmed they were actually from an orchard in Yanyuan she graciously handed me a second apple which I thanked her profusely for and headed home. One of those apples didn't make it home.
So the moral of this story is: sometimes taking the long way, and going with the flow, can lead to great mini adventures in China.
大家好!今天星期五在中国但是我们去学校明天。Hi Everybody! Today is Friday, but tomorrow we have school :( I don't know how many of you paid attention to the World News but a lot has happened since 10/1 in China. We celebrated the beginning of the PRC from 10/1-10/7 by not having school and many people did not work. It was a time for people to travel, which is exactly why I did not choose to leave Chengdu! The roads were crazy busy with tourists, but from those that went somewhere it sounded like they all had a good time. My Polish and Turkish friends and I chose to stay close to home and study as we found ourselves lacking writing skills (Chinese characters, our English is fine!).
I finally found time to explore the East Lake Park which is across the road from my apartment. That was so awesome and beautiful! I will attach some pictures of it. It is a park that travels along the river then it joins with another section of the river. The cranes have a great time along the river fishing and making horrible noises as they talk to each other and look annoyed at us humans who are interfering with their hunting grounds. There are a couple of walking/biking bridges you can cross and it is very peaceful. I found myself forgetting that I was in a city of approximately 9 million residents (14 million if you count the people who live here as foreigners and who come in from the country to attend school or work).
I've also attached a pic of part of the UW Family from our outing to a friend's store opening in Chengdu. The owner is a friend of the UW Family and invited us to tea and to see the new shop so of course we played tourists and took a picture. By being foreign and shopping there it helped promote his shop as well. It's complicated to explain how that works, but any time a place can show that they have foreigners shopping at their location they gain in popularity and status.
Depending on how well you know me, you may have noticed my writing style is changing slowly, I am noticing it. It has to do with my learning Chinese. I can feel my brain pushing English out and Chinese in, it is a rather strange feeling, but not entirely unwelcome. Partially to avoid becoming totally lost in English I interviewed and was hired on the day before Holiday for a job teaching conversational English to local Chinese adults. I also discussed joining the US Embassy in Chengdu for their library's English Corner on Tuesdays which is open to the public in Chengdu and allows folks to come in and talk with native English speakers about subjects like what it takes to go to school or conduct business in the US. I'm looking forward to both adventures.
Some people might have noticed that historically, I cannot just do 1 thing in my life. You can stop laughing now. I've held up to 3 jobs at a time during my adult life. I've gone to school and worked full time and even made sure to attend the gym 10 hours a week all the while sacrificing my social life. One of the reasons I wanted to come to China was to be able to focus on my studies and not be influenced or stressed by work. Quickly I should mention I am doing really well in school, that won't change. I just noticed after 2 months that I had too much free time and wasn't meeting enough people. So I talked to a friend who got me into the school where I will be teaching; they hired me without a demo or even an official interview as I am American and a native speaker so I am perfectly qualified to hold classes evidently... Yeah, I was skeptical too, but I want the job to keep me busy 2 days a week and to get me out to another part of Chengdu and meeting new people.
I have to admit that one of the things I am finding difficult is meeting Chinese people, mostly this stems from not being a bar hopper which most of the students here are. I can't drink beer due to my wheat allergy and I don't enjoy the bar scene when I'm stuck drinking a $2.50 soda and everyone else is getting sloshed. So the challenge has been acknowledged and I will be finding more solutions in the days to come. I'm always up for a challenge, wish me luck folks!
大家好!今天是我的生日,我请日记一杯咖啡。好吃了!Hi Everybody! Today is my birthday, I treated myself to a cup of coffee, it was delicious! I thought you might like to hear that school is going well, my teacher for comprehensive Chinese is wonderful and my classmates are just as great. My speaking/listening teacher is really nice though his class is tough to sit through but since I learn a lot about how to say words I don't complain. I began Chinese Calligraphy and it is difficult but very interesting. Our teacher told us it is only during times of wealth that China has time to create works of Calligraphy and China is seeing more money therefore there are more people taking up the art.
On my search for coffee today I went to Wanda Plaza which is a shopping area about 10 minutes walk from my apartment. It is often crowded but it has Ito Yokado which is a Japanese store that has everything from household supplies to groceries that are quality so I tend to buy my food there. When I got to the square/plaza it had the huge blow up children's toys like bounce houses and a blow up climbing wall and those bungee jumping activities. Many kids and their mom's were playing on those. Next to that was the Korean Food Festival 2014 with all sorts of booths set up and a stage. I mingled and checked out some of the booths and watched some Korean drummer girls perform, they were very good and I'm glad they were filming their performance as they deserve recognition for their talent. Today was another lesson in contrast though. As I walked back towards the apartment I went from listening to Korean drumming to hearing Frosty the Snowman coming from a convenience store a half block down. I'm sure people were wondering why I was holding in my laughter when I passed the kids toys that were blaring the Frosty song in the street. In general it is true that Chengdu is very noisy, from cars to people, to music being played on scooters and bikes or people playing movies on their phones while they walk. That doesn't even include the music pumping out of the shops that line every street.
Tomorrow I have a meet and greet at the American Consulate for Gilman and Fulbright scholars which I am looking forward to attending after class. I hope you all are enjoying the tail end of September as much as I am and I hope to be able to post more pictures soon.
A picture of what coffee and macaroons look like here in Chengdu. Very common to see macaroons as the French and European pastry business is quite large here.
Hi Everyone! So some of you already know I went on a large adventure with Professor Stevan Harrell, Noah my partner in research, and another UW group of students to the mountains. We stayed in Yangjuan which is a small village tucked into a valley surrounded by mountains. It is really beautiful and the people are very special and kind. They gave us rooms to stay in, cooked meals for our group and also helped us find guides to show us the village and help interview subjects for our research. It was a wonderful time though I missed showering for 6 days.
What impressed me the most about that trip was the generosity and honest goodness the people showed us. The Nuosu/Yi people are an ethnic minority group in China. When I look at them physically they remind me of some Native American groups in America. The Nuosu in Yangjuan were warm, and loving people and had a strong sense of honor and community. I'm incredibly lucky to have spent time with them, and also to have the opportunity to spend more with them for my research this year. I was fairly ill while up there as I could not eat without immediately getting sick and I got a little weak, but I was able to go a little slower when we hiked the hillsides for great views of the village and I enjoyed myself no less for the lack of nutrients.
Professor Harrell said if he could sum up our trip into one word it would be "mud." I must agree with that. It was raining heavily just before we got there and the entire time we were there. Since the dirt is a mixture of clay it was incredibly slippery. I wore a Chinese brand of Crocs, I call them my rubber shoes since they don't have any fabric and are easy to clean, but I still had problems since the mud wanted to steal my shoes into its great depths.
So after leaving Yangjuan, Noah, Professor Harrell, and myself went to Xichang which is a larger city (smaller than Chengdu but larger than Yangjuan by a lot)and interviewed some teachers and students there. We also visited a museum about the Yi culture which was very interesting though sometimes insulting as the Han Chinese don't think highly of the Yi people and consider them still to be in a slave society. The museum is located on this huge hill overlooking a lake in what is considered a banana belt region so it is quite tropical. I have a picture of the monkey who decided my apple soda was his and I chose not to argue. I would feel really silly if I had to go through rabies shots over an apple soda that cost $0.50 USD.
After returning to Chengdu from Xichang, Noah and I have been running ragged trying to get ready for school, get registered with the Public Safety Bureau and meet our teachers all while attending lectures and meetings with important people with Professor Harrell. So I feel this post is late, but it was unavoidable and worth the wait. We have made some great connections in Chengdu, Xichang, and Yangjuan and will be heading back in the near future to continue our research.
Since this weekend is the Autumn Moon Festival we have Monday off and begin classes Tuesday morning. I am looking forward to settling down and getting into a routine. Its been great getting back to my apartment and purchasing a scooter for travelling to and from school. I'm really happy to be here.
A side story about mama pig: I posted a picture here because she was an introduction to my adventure. When we got off the 6 hour bus ride which was not by any means smooth as the roads were trashed from the rain and many people got very ill while travelling, we were greeted by some friends of Professor Harrell who took us to their house which is above their orchards and fields. The family was very warm and welcoming and had sacrificed a pig in our honor for dinner. It was delicious in case you were wondering :) So before we left for the next hour long drive I asked to use the toilet. I was directed to a stone building near the entrance of the compound. Upon entry I found mama pig and her very short wall next to the squat toilet (really its a hole in the ground) and her baby piglets in a pen with a gate that faces the toilet. So laughing, or trying not to in all reality, I proceeded to do my business while the piglets got their front row view of my hind end and mama pig jumped onto the short wall and proceeded to drool into my shoe. I was laughing so hard it was almost impossible to compose myself and exit the building and find the hose to wash my foot off. That my friends was my introduction to outhouses in China.
Hi Everyone, I am home in Chengdu again. I will tell you all about my time in Yangjuan and elsewhere shortly. Stevan Harrell, our coordinator through the UW-SU program has been in Chengdu and taken Noah and myself all around the north part of Yunnan to do our research. I promise more is to come in the next couple days as I clean up my pictures and ready them for your viewing.
This week we have taken our placement tests for classes and all of us have been put into appropriate classes. I met my teacher today, she is super sweet and her English is wonderful so I expect no problems. She also has a great sense of humor which is appreciated.
Eason, a coordinator from SU helped a few foreign students out, myself included, to find transportation. I bought an electric scooter for less than $200 USD. It is nice, it has a racing suspension so it rides really well. I parked it in my apartment's garage for only $0.50 per day. It is a nice scooter and has plenty of power, ok really it intimidates me since it will go 40mph and a helmet is not required!
So, next Tuesday we begin classes and for this weekend I plan on working on my research and partying with the other foreign students and our network of Chinese friends. Tomorrow we celebrate Eason's test being over and also the beginning of our school year after the Autumn Moon Festival (Monday).
Please keep an eye out for another posting soon as I will be working on that as well this weekend. Just in case you were wondering what I miss about America: clothes dryers, consistent hot water, mirrors, wall clocks, soap/hand towels or dryers and toilet paper in public restrooms, quality chocolate, and driving!
A wild attempt to try and show you how awesome of an apartment I scored in Chengdu. I live on the top floor (11th) in an area overlooking the river and 2nd ring road. I have a nice balcony, a large bedroom with closet, a kitchen with 2 burners (unusual but very welcome!), and a Western Style bathroom. I also have a large living room with a fridge, sofas and TV which I get many channels because my internet connection came with TV for the year. It is very nice here. I live far enough away from town that I get peace and quiet and can walk along the river while listening to the cicadas in the trees. I also get to watch the cranes fish in the river and dance on the bridge. It is very nice here. Thank you Patti the UW coordinator and DaAn the apartment agent for finding me such a lovely home for the year!
Hi Everyone! I spent my Saturday touring Shanghai with my tour guide Heidi. She took me to Xintiandi which is the former French Concession, the Bund (where the Pearl Tower is), the Confucious Temple, People's Square, Yuyuan Garden and the old part of Shanghai, and also the Silk Museum. We mutually agreed to skip the Shanghai Museum as the lines were about 2 hours long and it was pouring rain. Besides, I need something to see next time I am in town :)
So I learned about pearls, jade, silk and tea on my adventures with Heidi. Our driver was very good and didn't hit any pedestrians. I think that is the main challenge in a city where lanes are suggestions and merging is always an option even if there is a car in the way. My favorite part of town was Old Shanghai, it had the classical architecture and felt very natural. The Yuyuan Gardens were wonderful and I enjoyed my time surrounded by dragons, carved faces in the eves and all elements of nature (wood, water, rock and air). I really enjoyed the silk museum and did purchase some silk pillow cases (Marcy eat our heart out!). They are tan colored and feature the phoenix and the dragon which also symbolizes man and woman. I must admit to some vanity in that I also purchased some pearl face cream which is really cheap here. It has silver flakes, pearl powder and ginseng gel. I look forward to trying it as it feels very nice and soothing.
Today is Sunday my time, and I decided to take it easy as my authentic lunch and tea yesterday did not do well in my stomach. For those traveling to Shanghai beware that the food is very oily. Heidi the guide and also a native even has problems, she suggested you drink 6 or more cups of green tea to help cut the oil in your diet and feel more healthy. I must be a glutton for punishment though since I do like the food very much.
So, no one will guess where I went today, Wal-Mart is about 25 minutes by foot from my hotel. It was the food section and it was so cool!! I bought sesame duck, chili peanuts and chocolate. Don't worry if you don't speak English when grocery shopping, chocolate does not translate, it is just "chocolate" so everything in the world is just fine.
So final thoughts: don't stay in Wujiaochang district if you don't speak excellent Chinese as you won't be able to get around and can't order food since the locals don't understand and there is no English translation or pictures. Another thought, take a tour, they are cheap like $100 plus tip your driver and guide 100-150 RMB which is about $16-25. Next visit I will take the harbor tour, if you come ask your concierge who will be priceless how to book things. FYI on tours they take you to places that expect you to buy things, you are not obligated I chose to buy from the temples instead of street hawkers as the temple purchases go towards maintenance and scholarships to poor students. Last thought, start at the silk museum and work your way down that street, so many vendors which things like mystery meat on a stick, turtles and snakes for pets or food they didn't care which, and make sure you haggle for good deals.
Take care everyone and my next blog will come from my future hometown of Chengdu. Wish me luck finding my apartment and getting settled.
The stories I have from being in the Vancouver B.C. area must be abbreviated for my audience, but here are the highlights from the last day and a half. Arrival into Canada was uneventful, except we got stuck at the gate watching a man push his car over the border. It was very nice of the border patrol officers to assist him in pushing it out of the gate area and to the side (yes, small hill involved and 4 patrol officers were pulled from their posts to do this). We decided to visit Gastown and Chinatown Saturday evening after checking into the hotel. We met a fellow Olympian while bar hopping and avoiding panhandlers. About 4am we had a moment of hilarity when the bed literally fell off its supports without provocation! Our Sunday included some awesome Chinese food, stores, and garden tours. I must say that I have seen more police action in the last 27 hours then I had in over a year at home. Those Vancouver PD officers sure are fit, watched one scale a residential fence with room to spare! Oh, did I mention we got blocked into a parking spot while at dinner? Yeah, took us an hour and a half to wait for the family to move their vehicles which made us miss our karaoke event, but it gave us an excuse to check out another Hong Kong Restaurant. I can't wait to see how the rest of our time in beautiful Vancouver turns out. We have met some wonderful people and even learned how to make tea properly Cantonese style.
Hi Everybody! It's almost 11pm and after spending the last 12 hours packing, unpacking, repacking and sorting, I am finally ready to leave tomorrow. I had to repeatedly laugh at myself regarding how much stuff I feel I need and keep justifying that it is because I'll be gone for 12 months not for short term. In the end I found out I have a weight limit on my backpack which is unusual but eventually I got my carry on bag to the right weight, and I also managed to get my checked bag within a couple pounds of limits and feel rather satisfied with my hard work.
Tomorrow my partner Joe and I will drive to Vancouver, B.C. for 3 days of relaxation and then I will depart for Shanghai. My only concern is that the airports in Shanghai are having some issues because of military drills in the area. So I am crossing my fingers that things go smoothly and as planned but if they change I can work with that too.
Take care friends and I will post more in the near future!


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The hamlets of Milston and Brigmerston comprise about 50 dwellings; there are no schools but an active Parish Council and a small village hall. St Mary's is a charming little church with a maximum seating capacity of about 80. The churchyard is closed but there is a churchyard extension some 150 yards up the road and this becomes more beautiful as time goes on.
A monthly Family Service was started ten years ago as a result of a questionnaire sent to all houses in the parish and the congregation often numbers over 40 and sometimes more; we try very hard to make everyone welcome and to bring their friends.


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Check out our Festival Front Porch at Velo Vino (November 15-16, 2013): Where you can mingle with filmmakers, enjoy our Clif Family Winery wines, sample our Gary & Kit's Napa Valley Specialty foods and enjoy an espresso drink.
Join us and meet the star of the film Little Tin Man, Aaron Beelner, Screenwriters Dugan Bridges and Matthew Perkins will also be in attendance at 11:00am - 12:00pm. Our NVFF Front Porch continues with star, Aubrey Dollar from One Small Hitch. Guests will meet Aubrey during an informal, wine fueled conversation from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm.
Little Tin Man: The story of a quest for the role of a lifetime: the Tin Man in Martin Scorsese's (fictional) remake of The Wizard of Oz. It's also an intelligent and humorous exploration of a struggling actor's big dreams and staunch refusal to accept the status quo.
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We have a PI /24 we'd like to advertise out of our primary data center
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We have a disaster recovery site which will have a clone of the myriad
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This is the editorial note to TNI Vol. 13: <3. View the full table of contents here.
With its isolating interfaces, the Internet is — much like sex itself — no place for intersubjectivity. Maybe that's why it has lent itself so well to dating. With Issue 13, the New Inquiry Magazine looks at looking for love in all the wrong places. Like, say, in books: Rob Horning reviews Love in the Time of Algorithms, which poses the economization of love as inevitable, along with the end of monogamy. But are people really so helplessly altered by online romance? After all, dating sites still generate actual dates, bringing together actual people: vulnerable, unpredictable, ultimately uncommodifiable. As Whitney Erin Boesel notes, online dating doesn't differ profoundly from dating pre-Internet; the sites may offer speed and volume and "efficient" encounters as bait, but users aren't necessary taking it. The fastest path to partnership, she concludes, isn't necessarily the most appealing one.
In "Whips with Friends," Helena Fitzgerald examines BDSM dating sites, wondering how well sex that thrives on secrecy can survive the exposure. Hannah Black chronicles romance grown too secret, finding a parable of surveillance in the story of an undercover cop who falls in love while on the job. Of course, not every stranger is a threat, as Adrian Chen points out in his piece on the oldschool social-networking site Makeoutclub.com, which had the virtue of not being explicitly dating-oriented. On that site, sexual tension was high because ambiguity lived: Other people's intentions were never foreordained.
Yet ambiguity can be crazy-making. With Camille Paglia as her guide, Natasha Vargas-Cooper reminds us that romantic obsession can be fascistic — at bottom of the urge to clarify things is the impulse to dominate. Getting free sometimes means joining up: Mandy Stadtmiller, in conversation with Mike Thomsen, describes identifying as a sex and love addict. And in "The Withdrawal Method," Erwin Montgomery argues that the only way out of the marketplace of desire is to politely refuse both relationship "work" and the equal and opposite labor of being a player: in other words, to emulate Bartleby, who simply "prefers not to."
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The idea behind Christian 12 step programs is more cultural than anything else. Spirituality already plays a strong role in the 12 step model; the difference comes from the language and concepts used. By customizing a program that "speaks" to Christians, the concepts are more easily grasped.
Jesus, the power of prayer and the Bible all figure significantly in any Christian recovery group. It isn't hard to match up the steps to relevant Bible verses either. An example can be found at Alcoholics Victorious , one of many such pairings on the net. From a Christian perspective, biblical principles trump those given in AA, but there doesn't have to be a direct conflict.
One difference between a secular and a Christian 12 step program would be the role of prayer and church authorities. Prayer is used in "regular" AA of course. An example would be the Serenity Prayer. (Most AA groups would stop at the first verse though.) Prayer in a Christian program would be more of a centerpiece however and invoke Jesus by name instead of by reference. A second difference is that Christian 12 step programs are sometimes run by a pastor or other church authority who may not have been an addict or alcoholic himself. This departs from the 12 step model, but because of the strong religious element, a skilled pastor is valuable. The purpose is to meet the spiritual needs of those in the program and to give Bible-based direction and counsel.
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Being a church member or practicing Christian is usually not a requirement for attending a 12 step program based on Christian values. There is enough overlap that even the secular can gain something. The same is true for Christians who attend non-Christian meetings. For some, the anonymity of not being in a church setting is important enough to warrant finding a secular meeting.
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Art of the People, Inc. will be setup during the Fair in the Navajo Shopping Center Parking Lot under the Big White tent! Sponsored by Navajo Regional Behavioral Health Center in Shiprock, NM, the Navajo Shopping Center, Inc. and Navajo Arts & Crafts. With a performance stage and a large open space for Art! Stop by and experiance some thing new!!
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Until Feb. 28, take the Indiana Historical Society's Indiana Black History Challenge online for a chance to win one of several prizes, including a Downtown weekend getaway grand prize. The first 5,000 entrants will receive two tickets to the Indiana Experience, 30 players will receive four tickets to see the Indianapolis Indians and 15 people will win a pair of opening night tickets to see the Memphis at Clowes Memorial Hall. While you're at the Indiana Historical Society, explore The Legacy of Civil Rights in Indianapolis exhibit and view original documents and iconic Indianapolis photographs from the 1960s.
Meet the Artists at Central Library
From Jan. 29 – Mar. 22, the Central Library will house Meet the Artists XXVI, displaying the works of locally-prominent African-American artists. Meet the artists and enjoy an evening of cultural entertainment during the Meet the Artists Gala Reception on Feb. 8 from 5:45 - 10 p.m.
Sankofa Black Heritage Festival
The Indiana State Museum will kick off its annual Sankofa Black Heritage Festival on Feb. 8 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The festival showcases art, history and culture from West African and Hoosier African-American perspectives. Performance-based arts closely align with Black History Month themes that explore the African-American experience, both past and present.
Madame Walker Presents
Children ages 6 and up and their families are invited to the Lilly Theater at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis for Madame Walker Presents Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. and Feb. 8 at 1 p.m. Learn about African American history in Indiana and see a dynamic theatrical performance celebrating the lives of Madame C. J. Walker and Levi Coffin.
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Art & Soul – a celebration of African-American arts and artists in Indiana – returns to the Indianapolis Artsgarden with performances beginning Jan. 31 and running through the end of March. Catch the Art & Soul Celebration Launch Event with special guests Amos Brown from Radio One and a performance by Toy Factory. Performances will continue throughout the month featuring Tony Styxx, Bashiri Asad, the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra and many others. All Art & Soul events, including the kickoff celebration, are FREE.
Catch a FREE Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performance at Hilbert Circle Theatre Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m. for the annual Celebration of Black History Concert. Conducted by Kevin McBeth, a 30-year veteran in music ministry, this year's program includes a variety of classical works, hymns, spirituals and music from prominent African-American composers. Local MC Tony Styxx will also join in the celebration and perform a song from his recently-released album.
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A selection of portfolio projects
activateLA: Crafting an Aquatic Urban Identity Network
207mil g/day flow through the LA River over 48 miles, yet few Angelenos even realize it exists. What was once an anomalous aqueduct of storms and stories is now a straight of concrete ditches and division. Leveraging the legacy of the zanja system and the shifting forms of this historic braided alluvial plane, this project will establish an adaptive framework for city evolution, enmeshing New Downtown in an evolving network of canals that transform and activate disparate public places and interstitial spaces. This system will be the phenomenological foundation of a tighter grain for New Downtown that catalyzes vibrant life throughout the public realm and invigorates a new residential interest in the area. We will further position LA for evolution through retrofitting post-industrial building stock into hubs for novel recreation and commerce. It is through this increased density and activity, not through band-aid technologies, that this area will achieve higher performance, reduce emissions, and grow a more resilient community.
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RIVER CENTRAL: A Neighborhood Without Edges
What isn't nature? Every year, trees burst and bloom in technicolor. Sometimes we notice. Hawks perch on lampposts in the morning sun. Mountain goats scale freeway overpasses. Bears forage in city dumpsters. Coyotes turn up in street cars. The wild and sublime. What isn't nature?
River Central seeks to craft an identity for a dilapidated and largely vacant corner of San Bernardino through focusing on local ecology, novel commerce, and pedestrian community. By eschewing traditional zoning ideologies and leveraging what is endemic and existing, we can enmesh the lines between seemingly disperate living conditions to manifest a neighborhood without edges.
EcologyThe River Central neighborhood is situated within two latent ecological amenities, the Santa Ana River and the San Bernardino Golf Club course, already home to 43 species of birds. This new district builds on these ecological conditions to grow extended corridors of open spaces to facilitate habitat for regionally sensitive species. These corridors are the organizing feature of River Central, upon which a pedestrian oriented neighborhood was designed. More wild than a suburb, but also more organized than a wilderness, this move into a naturalized urbanism physically and aesthetically roots San Bernardino into its enveloping ecology without uprooting its existing light industry.
CommerceThough retail-centric mixed use neighborhoods have shown to be successful in urban redevelopment projects, this is not a viable solution for all communities. River Central plans for mixed use retail developments, but how many retail destinations can a city support before there are more stores than customers? As the creative/maker community continues to expand, it is imperative that cities organize desirable places to live that provide the necessary amenities, spaces, tools, and inspiration to attract and keep entrepreneurs that design and build products within their communities. River Central explores the potentially symbiotic relationship between light commercial manufacturing and high density urban development to create desirable and affordable live/work spaces.
CommunityThrough growing an environment that delivers accesible urban wilderness, novel live/work developments, and multi-modal transit options, we have designed a neighborhood plan that brings the community members onto the street to interface and engage. This framework can facilitate the fostering of an involved and interconnected community that is active, safe, and productive.
Though it looks "natural," Prado Basin is a constructed wetland. It is the result of human engineering for the purpose of water remediation, distribution, and flood control. But this infrastructual wilderness is also home to multiple sensitive and endangered species, most notably the Least Bell's Vireo, a small indigenous songbird. SPRAWLING DIVERSITY is a collection of performative frameworks for expanding this unique ecosystem beyond the existing edge of the basin out to the surrounding suburbs. This process will transform the suburban monoculture into a more environmentally resilient polyculture, better poised to provide livable and adaptable habitats for all local species, including humans, for years to come. In order to achieve this goal, existing ideologies, mythologies, values, and typologies must be confronted, overcome, and reborn. To survive our future we must transcend industrial development methodologies and, with moderate controls, embrace the wild entropy of life.
The primary intervention of this project is to harvest the abundance of invasive Arundo donax to form paper impregnated with native seeds. This paper will be used to form mailers to send out into the surrounding suburbs for homeowners to plant in their yards. Thus, the invasive plant becomes functional as the carrier for the proliferation of endemic ecologies. This is an opportunity to establish a participatory ritual that connects the community to their environment.
SPRAWLING DIVERSITY is about expanding the biodiversity within the Prado Wetlands into the surrounding suburbs for the extension of limited but vital habitat. From Prado will emanate large swaths of semi-indigenous habitat, similar to the kind that has formed behind the dam and that opportunistic plants and animals with limited and shrinking habitats have come to call home. The goal of the project is also to engender a deeper connection between communities and their environment/ecology through participatory action. The riparian condition in the wetlands is increasingly unique, as our development practices have quickly encroached on and choked out these ecologies.
As populations rise in this area and land becomes more valuable, the local dairies will finish their emigration out of the region and subsequent strip malls and suburbs will proliferate. What is the future potential of these antiquated development typologies? This project is partially a reaction to these faceless, nameless, unfulfilling conditions, fueled by the position and resources of the wetlands. By entwining the Prado Wetlands with the surrounding suburbs, this project seeks to grow homes and habitats for organisms all throughout the food web. Ultimately, "SPRAWLING DIVERSITY" is poised at the intersection of domesticity and wilderness, or maybe even wildness.
OCCUPY THE SKY: Architecture of Home & Revolution
A physical occupation speaks louder than any graphic or piece of propaganda, but the Occupy Wall St. movement is restricted to a limited occupation of space. The movement has also become complicated with/enriched by other movements being imposed on to what once was a simple and strong demand. We are now proposing a framework for further spatial occupation, one that has the ability to bridge the physical gap between the elite and the rest of the world.
"Occupy the Sky" is a push to exemplify the 99% movement with an installation piece that embodies the phsyical spirit of the movement. "Occupy the Sky" is the megaphone, elevator, and symbol of a community that seeks change in the world.
A SITE FOR THE UNDERSERVED RESTORING PERSONAL TERRITORIES FOR HOMELESS VETERANSLandscape Architecture as Social Critique, Activism, and Advocacy.
8,000 veterans are homeless on the streets of Los Angeles, mostly concentrated into the area of Downtown known as Skid Row. With that population on the rise, there is an increasing demand for facilities tailored to veterans' needs. We worked with Skid Row's Weingart Center, a leading transitional housing and support services organization, to develop a plan for a new facility that leverages site design to facilitate personal rehabilitation and social engagement.
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Deborah Villar, Vice President of Development and External Affairs, said of our work: "The projects that the students delivered captured the heart and soul of the work we do at the Weingart Center."
Paul Freese, Vice President of Public Counsel, a leading veterans advocacy group, said of our work: "Simply transformative and breath-taking. Visually it is both stunning and marvelous. Ergonomically it is brilliant in how it utilizes space efficiently, creatively and proactively in ways best calculated to not merely provide a humane habitat for those Weingart serves, but also an enriching environment that promotes social activity and productive interaction while being in harmony with and gracing its surroundings. Finally, it is ecologically sensitive and smart. I believe this innovative and visionary design has the potential to become a national model worthy of replication."
UN/CONTROL/ABLEThe public realm should be designed to facilitate and celebrate more and varied uses of streets and public space, not restrict uses.
An examination of Occupy Los Angeles through the eyes of Ian Rash, a 19-year-old computer and networking technician. Ian volunteered two weeks of his time to help set up and maintain a wireless network at Camp Solidarity, the Occupation at Los Angeles City Hall. Ian discusses the importance of digital revolution and the relationship of the movement's operations to the built environment.
Promotional video for the Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona. The piece features onsite events and public outreach in the local community, expressing the value of interpersonal and neighborhood relationships as a component of regenerative processes.
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The slots and table games have arrived on the SLS Las Vegas' casino floor.
Speaking of deliveries, when does Sam Nazarian's gaming license arrive?
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Well he better hope he gets one fast or these will be on sale the day the place opens.
Considering how many years he's had to get a gaming license, what's the hold up? He never applied for one back when the Sahara was still open, even though when SBE/Stockbridge acquired the Sahara in 2007 and Navegante was supposed to operate the casino for a year (with the potential for four three month extensions beyond that) while the new owners got licensed. It has been rumored that the reason why the Sahara closed when it did is because Gaming Control refused to extend the contract for Navegante to continue to operate the casino as none of the SBE/Stockbridge folks. There's also been rumors that Sam Nazarian may not be able to get a gaming license.
Those usually happen late in the process; Steve Wynn had his licensing hearing for The Mirage in October (it opened in November). What often happens now is that the Gaming Commission will issue a finding of "suitability" before construction begins, which basically means "we don't see any reason why we wouldn't give you a license when you apply for real close to opening."
I don't know why the licensing comes so late in the process, but I know it was a big issue in Atlantic City, where several companies had finished resorts before running into licensing issues.
My guess is that most of the heavy lifting is done months before the hearing, and that if any issues come up during the investigation, they would be dealt with earlier.
This picture makes it look like a warehouse with slot machines and ugly carpet inside. Is there more decor than this suggests?
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Hi mistymoon,
I would stay in one place since it's for only 2 nights. Depending on what you want to spend on lodging, Yountville would be a great place to stay. There are several lovely choices for lodging there and quite a few tasting rooms and fabulous restaurants within walking distance.
Make an appointment for Cakebread - go to their website and see the various types of tasting/tours that they offer. Domaine Chandon has pretty grounds, if you are interested in sparkling wines - and they are there in Yountville. Clos Pegase has interesting and unusual artwork on the grounds; Sterling has a wonderful tram ride and self-guided tour (think about doing a reserve tasting for their best wines); Castello di Amorosa has a great tour, but the wines are so-so in my book; Chateau Montelena is fun to visit and has a beautiful setting (check out the movie Bottle Shock for some background and history for Napa Valley); for a small, family owned winery, make an appointment with Chase Family Cellars - wines are wonderful and the people there are terrific. You might find Darioush to have a wow factor - I haven't tried their wines, but the building is pretty cool.
As far as restaurants - go to Opentable.com and under the San Francisco Bay Area section, find Wine Country. Put in your date and so forth, and then you will see all the wonderful restaurants in the area. Once you pick the wineries you want to visit and plot our your route, you will know what restaurants you might be close to for lunch or dinner. In Yountville, we have enjoyed Bottega, Bistro Jeanty, Hurley's, and Mustard's. Napa (town), we have enjoyed Celadon, Cole's Chop House, and Fume Bistro. In St. Helena, we've enjoyed Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant at The Culinary Institute of America, Cindy's Backsteet Kitchen, and Farmstead. In Calistoga, it was Solbar. mmmmmmmm, now I'm hungry! All were delicious and I would happily go again.
You might also consider taking along a picnic lunch for at least one of the days. There are several deli/grocery places to pick up supplies - near Napa (town) is Soda Canyon Store, in Calistoga is Palisades deli/cafe,
Good luck with the planning. Let us know if there is anything else you'd like to ask about...
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My husband and I will be driving from San Fran in September, early Wednesday and thursday for a wine trip,flying out on Friday. We are needing advise on where to visit and stay. We like reds and want to be "wowed" with the wineries that we see. I am a big fan of Cakebread and thought it may be one on the list. Should be stay at two different places the 2 nights we are there? Any recommendations on eating? After weeks of research we are very overwhelmed. Thanks for your help!!
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