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This is not going to end well, even if Bishop Finn gets off. Coverage of a motion to dismiss, via Reuters:
In a preview to the upcoming trial of Bishop Robert Finn of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, a lawyer for Finn asked Jackson County Circuit Judge John Torrence to dismiss the charge against him because he said there was another Diocese official who should have reported the priest to police."Bishop Finn had no statutory duty to report. We believe that this is clear," said attorney J.R. Hobbs in arguing for Judge Torrence to dismiss the case against Finn.Judge Torrence said he would take the matter under advisement and likely rule on the matter next week.Bishop Finn is the highest-ranking Catholic leader to face criminal charges in the United States related to alleged abuse by a priest.His case marks what some observers see as a key turning point in assigning accountability to an organization that has a long history of protecting priests who abuse children.The priest in this case, Father Shawn Ratigan, has been charged with 13 counts of child pornography, some of which he kept on a church computer, and is jailed awaiting trial.Bishop Finn and others in the Diocese became aware of the pictures in December 2010 but Finn never made an official report to authorities even though he did send Ratigan for psychological evaluation and ordered him to stay away from children.Another Diocese official finally reported the situation to police in May 2011.
Finn's lawyers argue that Monsignor Robert Murphy was the "designated reporters" so Bp. Finn did not have the technical legal responsibility. Perhaps that argument could work legally, and the bishop has hired a team of the best lawyers in the state. But will that fly in the court of public opinion?PS: Mark Silk notes that in the similarly-themed Philadelphia trial of Msgr. William Lynn, the guy who oversaw priests for the archdiocese there and is accused of covering up abuse cases, defense lawyers are taking the opposite tack and saying Lynn should be excused because the archbishop was where the buck stopped:
Lawyers do what lawyers are paid to do, of course, and in these cases it is to get their clients off the criminal hook. But it's hard to imagine a better way to drive Catholics further away from the church than by such denials and shifting of responsibility. Sure, over the past decade many apologies have been made and new rules and vetting procedures put in place. What's clear from Philadelphia and Kansas City, however, is that when push comes to shove, the apologies can turn out to be lip service and the rules are honored in the breach.
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Professor Silk has some good and pointed comments about the shirking of accountability, both by Bishop Finn and Msgr. Lynn's defense that Cardinal Bevilacqua was the puppet master of the Philadelphia cover-up:http://www.religionnews.com/blogs/mark-silk/war-on-catholicism
While I would agree there could be troubling aspects to the potential defense strategies, why don't we wait to see the actual trial before rushing to judgment, as I believe Mark Silk has with:"Whats clear from Philadelphia and Kansas City, however, is that when push comes to shove, the apologies can turn out to be lip service and the rules are honored in the breach."If we've learned anything about the fiasco in Florida, it's that we should wait until we know all the facts before making sweeping statements.
These 'it was the other guys' defense did not work at Nuremberg.
Always wait til the facts are on.... minimize on the defense side while greedy lawyers(isn't that the phrase the hierrachy uses to attack victim attorneys?) defend the hierachs who pay them handsomely.We say we're about honesty, accountability , no more secrecy etc. but use any technaclity -Finn knew admittedly but wasn't THE designated reporter - a nice technicality -but, wait til the facts are in?Lynn's letters to parishoners about Avery having no problems were read into evidence yesterday -but he was just following orders- wait til the facts are in.(I though tabout Hennenverger;s writing on sexual assault at Notre Dame and the many comments on line there from NG alumna backing up the cultural problem -and the high powered attorney's response ripping Ms. Henneberger).Wait til the facts are in indeed!The real lesson ought to be that innocent victims of crime especialy women and children are not expendable to the technaclities of institutional protection!!!!!!!
Bishop Finn is in charge and responsible for every Catholic group, org, school, employee, priest, office worker, etc. in his territory. He is the boss and he makes the final decisions.Isn't it interesting that in KC-St Joe diocese the bishop is blaming the vicar general, yet in Philly Archdiocese the vicar general is blaming the bishop?ALL who covered up sex crimes against innocent kids need to be held accountable, and Bishop Finn needs to be held accountable for his crimes by the law of the land.Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, USA, 636-433-2511 "Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests" and all clergy.(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 12,000 members. Despite the word "priest" in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers and increasingly, victims who were assaulted in a wide range of institutional settings like summer camps, athletic programs, Boy Scouts, etc. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
It would seem to me that as the bishop of the diocese Finn is responsible for all aspects of "running the church." If he had, say, received a mandate from Rome to do a study on "xyz" and to report back you can be sure that, even if he delegated to someone else to compile the information, the report would be in Rome in a very timely manner. And if the report was not done on time Rome woujld be calling FINN and no one else. So, while there may have been a "designated" person, the bottom line is that the bishop is responsible for the inner runnings of the church, and therefor is responsible to be sure the report to local authorities was done in a timely manner.
I hope Principal Julie Hess of St. Patrick School gets a bit of honor out the Finn mess. In May 2010, she wrote for herself and concerned teachers and parents to the responsible Church authorities to tell them their subordinate - Ratigan - was a hazard to children and required their attention and action. It hadn't taken state laws and investigations and trials for the adults to identify an evident behavioral threat to the children for whom Hess was responsible. If she made a mistake, it was to trust the bishop and vicar to act appropriately on behalf of her schoolful of children. The trial shows what accountability means to the clerics involved, 10 years after Dallas. http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2011/05/principal-warned-kc-diocese-over-priest/
"Isnt it interesting that in KC-St Joe diocese the bishop is blaming the vicar general, yet in Philly Archdiocese the vicar general is blaming the bishop?"When in wonder, when in doubtRun in circles, scream and shout.And Catholic loyalists STILL won't accept that the ever-increasing desertion of this church by so many people is based on the reality that it is a sick, sad, self-deluding clerical-dominated organization. Those laity who refuse to wake up and demand change deserve to suffer the consequences. Remember the 11th commandment: Thou Shalt NOT Fund Fools and Fiends.
Bp Finn and those like him need to remember Harry Truman's axiom: The buck stops here.These people make me want to vomit.
I'm not surprised that Bishop Finn's lawyer made that motion.But I will be surprised if the judge grants the motion.
While Canon Law means little in the civil system and requires experts to interpret, one is interesting for the two cases of current interest: "Can. 480 -- A vicar general and an episcopal vicar must report to the diocesan bishop concerning the more important affairs which are to be handled or have been handled, and they are never to act contrary to the intention and mind of the diocesan bishop." http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P1O.HTM How the mind-melding is to accomplished is not specified.
Fascinating canon law reference, Jack Barry. I do wonder whether that could be cited in the case. It seems possible, if Finn tries to argue that he wasn't responsible within the ambit of ecclesiastical governance. From what I know having a "designated reporter" doesnt really absolve others of their responsibility, and besides, Finn has acknowledged he was in the loop on all this stuff. It seems he'd have to produce evidence that he ordered the monisignor to report and the monsignor disobeyed him.
In the Philly trial, the lawyer is arguing that Msgr Lynn took action to prevent abuse but his recommendations were not heeded by his higher ups. The memo Lynn complied with the list of possibly abusive priests was sent up the chain of command, ending up with Bevilacqua, who ultimately quashed it. But along the way, the memo went to Lynn's boss, Joseph Cistone (now Bishop of Saginaw), I think this implicates Cistone now as well in this cover up.http://catholicphilly.com/2012/03/news/landmark-clergy-sex-abuse-trial-b...
The designated reporter did eventually report the priest in question.So if the designated reporter disobeyed Bishops Finn, the designated reporter was not disobeying an order to report the priest in question, because that was done.But the timeliness of the report could be an issue here.But did the designated reporter delay reporting the priest in question, contrary to Bishop Finn's explicit order to report the priest immediately? But in this imagined scenario, Bishop Finn would have to produce evidence that he ordered the priest to be reported immediately.
Let's finally not forget that Bil Donahue, close confidnant of the head of USCCB, made major arracks on SNAP and sought their records be brought forward.I repeat we we say nice words aboutr caring for victims, accountability, etc. but credibility is sorely lacking.
" -- we say nice words aboutr caring for victims, accountability, etc. --"In other words: don't expect us to do what we say. That's for other folks.Credibility, indeed.
Bishop Finn's first pastoral letter may be interesting if it shows up in court. He established his expertise on the pornography problem before the Ratigan incident. His letter was the 20-page Blessed are the Pure in Heart: A Pastoral Letter on the Dignity of the Human Person and the Dangers of Pornography (2/21/07). It was written at the request of the diocesan Anti-Pornography Task Force he established in 2005. Chaput's Archbishops Column of the Denver Archdiocesan website warmly praised it: Bishop Finns excellent pastoral letter . has a wealth of good information about the scope of pornography, the damage it does and many practical tips to fighting it in our homes. Presumably it was meant for other people.http://www.diocese-kcsj.org/_docs/Pastoral-02-07.pdf http://www.catholickey.com/index.php3?gif=news.gif&mode=view&issue=20070... http://www.archden.org/dcr/news.php?e=411&s=2&a=8636
Both the Philly and the KC gambits continue to highlight the actual issue per retired Bishop Geoffrey Robinson at a speech in Chicago:"The roots of the decades-long clergy sex abuse scandal lie not in any set of rules or practices, but are found deep in the culture of the church itself.The "major fault" of the church in the scandal, Robinson said, is that it "refuses to look at any teaching, law, practice or even attitude of the church itself as in any way contributing" to the crisis. "In studying abuse, we must be free to follow the argument wherever it leads rather than impose in advance the limitation that our study must not demand change in any teaching or law," he continued. "We must admit that there might be elements of the 'Catholic culture' that have contributed either to the abuse or to the poor response to abuse.'""With authority goes responsibility," Robinson said. "Pope John Paul many times claimed the authority, and he must accept the responsibility. The most basic task of a pope is surely to be the 'rock' that holds the church together, and by his silence in the most serious moral crisis facing the church in our times, the pope failed in this basic task." And note the typical response from the currea letter Monday from Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron to the priests of the Detroit archdiocese asked they not attend Robinson's talk Tuesday."I would discourage your attendance at this presentation and ask that you share my concerns with anyone you know who is planning or considering to attend," writes Vigneron in the letter, which was obtained by NCR. http://ncronline.org/news/bishop-total-re-examination-catholic-faith-cul...
And another added note: per the KC lawyers for Finn, they are stating the the actual reporting reg applied to his vicar and his lay review board: ".....Finn claims Vicar General Robert Murphy and a diocese review board not the bishop were responsible for reporting suspected images of child pornography to the state."Understand that in this whole, sad episode, Finn and Murphy hid or never gave its lay review board any information about Ratigan. Thus, how could the lay board be responsible for reporting" It is a nonsense - if Finn or Murphy chooses to withhold or hide evidence or allegations, then the board can't report and thus, nothing happens.Read it here: http://theworthyadversary.com/631-another-lay-review-board-thrown-under-...
A well-placed priest in the diocese, and no basher of Robert Finn to be sure, told me that this bishop keeps his own counsel on clergy affairs. In 2005-08, there were ... interesting personnel decisions with a few clergy that left some wondering, including a few loyal to the bishop. My sense is that Bishop Finn is a 1950's prelate: earnest, pious, dry, a tad awkward, and naively confident that the Church can be remade in the fashion of a rosier, happier era. I suspect that abuser-addicts are able to play him like a fiddle. Shawn Ratigan went from suicidal back to stalking kids in just three months, despite his "supervisor" getting "tough" on him. A guy like Robert Finn might have made a good pastor--he's no dummy. But he'd need about two decades of seasoning in pastoral work, especially in a big parish.I know Msgr Murphy; I've worked with him. He strikes me as a sensible man, in contrast a quite experienced pastor. Even as a VG, I can certainly posit that his counsel would fall on deaf ears. It did on other personnel matters. He's also loyal to a fault, and unfortunately, I could see him taking the fall for this.
An extraordinary variety of changes in diocesan personnel and programs that Bp. Finn made in his first year in office as bishop in 2005 are described in http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006b/051206/051206a.php .
Why don't KC parents make an effort to find out what children Fr Ratigan had sex with under Bishop Finn's watch?The children will never come forward and say anything.Catholic pedophile priests always tell the children that they will get in trouble if they say anything. Ratigan definitely had sex with at least a few KC children, but KC Catholic parents are too afraid of their priests and bishops to ask.Every child who was around Ratigan should be questioned.Catholic parents just don't care about child rape.
As far as I know, the main charge against Fr. Ratigan involved photographs that he took of children, evidently unbeknownst to them. He stored the photos on his computer.
Cardinal Dolan and others appear horrified at the prospect that his old Riglali co-protege from St.Louis, Opus Dei's Finn, will be convicted. Once one US bishop is convicted, an understandable fear of a deluge of bishop prosecutions arises. It is telling that Bill Donohue made a massive recent effort to intimidate the Kansas City Star for its full and continuous reporting on the Finn case.In Philly, it appears tome to be going as follows. Archbishop Chaput pays Lynn's lawyers fees. Who pays the piper, call the tune. The prior Philly judge warned Lynn to get a lawyer who was not paid by Chaput---too many conflicts. One of Chaput's main lawyers is a law partner of the former PA governor and former head of the US Democratic Party. He is close to Obama, who appoints Federal judges. The current Philly state court judge, who once worked for the former PA governor, has reportedly expressed a strong interest in a Federal judgeship. The current Philly DA appears to be a politically ambitious Democrat. The Philly criminal case resulted from a grand jury called by a maverick Philly DA, Lynne Abraham, who is now retired from government service and is mostly out of the picture.Against this backdrop, Lynn's lawyerseeks to blame dead Bevilacqua and his old subordinates who may now be protected by the statute of limitations. This "blame the boss" defense is legally ineffective, but good public relations strategy for Chaput. It's "just a rehashing of old abuse news about guys long since gone" is the theme. Lynn may not realize all of this, but his legal case was mainly over months ago given the overwhelming evidence against him.A principal benefit of this evident strategy is that it takes the media lights off of still powerful Cardinal Riglai, a long time close colleague of two popes. Rigali was boss in Philly for almost a decade until a few months ago. Two criminal grand juries happened on his watch. A copy of the famous memo about Bevilacqua's abuse document shredding was apparently suppressed until recently on Rigali's watch.My bleak prediction: Rigali will get a pass. Chaput will get a red hat. In due course, the Philly DA will move up politically and the current judge will get a Federal judgeship. The Philly criminal investigation will end. And sadly, many defenseless Philly children will remain at grave risk.Some of you will claim I am being too cynical and conspiratorial. I wish that were the case. But in light of my decades of lawyering and the already 100,000+ American abuse victims to date (Vatican's own recent estimate), this in my view is the most likely scenario.
Jerry, my prediction is equally bleak. European prelates were weak and ineffective against the forces of warmongering in 19th/20th century Europe. The US faces a similar challenge with the cover-up scandal today. In the long run, this will go much worse for American bishops as long as they remain on this trajectory. Crimes against children, and conspiracy to hide them will taint this succession of bishops as long as they continue the hard line. The Temple Police will get their wish for a smaller Church. But purity is a matter of grace, not of personal resolve or even conservative ideology, as events show us time and time again.For it to end, bishops will need to get serious about contrition. They could do worse than to jettison their lawyers, and throw themselves on the mercy of the Catholic laity. Americans are very forgiving of criminals--notice Mike Vick and Martha Stewart. And who knows? Robert Finn could end up like a Richard Nixon in the end. More likely, the Jovial One, the Catechetical One, and their confreres will continue on their current path, wringing hands, lamenting the issue-of-the-month like it's a rotation of parish societies sponsoring pancake breakfasts and the fish fry. The most crucial issue still stares them in the face: loss of credibility.
" The most crucial issue still stares them in the face: loss of credibility. "And ever-increasing loss of membership among the young, women and disaffected others.Sooner or later the diminishing coffers will begin to have a very negative effect.
I think the Philly DA is pretty courageous; as a Catholic himself this is not a great situation for him to be in. I believe he is the person who actually brought the charges against the defendants.Also, I have to say, while I am not an admirer of Archbishop Chaput, he inherited a real mess in Philly and, while it's early days, he is doing a pretty good job cleaning things up. He just created an Archdiocesan Pastoral Council which is majority lay people and quite diverse (one member is Rocco Palmo, who I assume is the blogger). He is doing a lot to clean up their fiscal mess and he has managed, with help from generous donors, to keep open a number of high schools slated to close.
What stunned me a little in the article Jack Barry linked to is, not that Finn made such sweeping changes, but that one man could make such massive changes so quickly, dismantling decades of work in months. That's a structural problem, that any one person has that much power.
Such is life in an autocracy. Until the faithful exercise their voice and their pocketbooks to change the Church's structures of governance, the situation will not change.
Irene - many bishops act in the exact same way; it just doesn't make the press - understand that Finn is in the same diocese as NCR.Other examples in the past few years - Vasa in Oregon; George in Chicago; Belleville, IL, etc.On a smaller scale, this type of wholesale transition takes place all the time in parishes throughout the US depending upon the style of the new pastor.
Thanks, BillI would posit we are now seeing another major point in the US Chujrch, viz. it wil be more and more evident to those trying to be moderate, hold it together, overcome the division, dialogue with the reactionaries, wil see that leadership - policy makers - are uninterested in that but will more and more care about their "rights", status, , etc.Pious words and reflections will continue, lovely words about care for vistims, for example, but the same hardball will increase against SNAP and victim groups and SOL legislation.It's almost time to hear the Scripture about having the mind of Christ who emptied Himself even unto death.What we get is more and more self service.
" Such is life in an autocracy. Until the faithful exercise their voice and their pocketbooks to change the Churchs structures of governance, the situation will not change. "The 11th commandment is, and remains: Thou Shalt NOT Fund Fools and Fiends. Do so at your own peril.
Trpotyed yesterday -the court says Finn must stand trial -trial date is late September.


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Dancers who look alikePast and present dancers who resemble each other in looks.
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[Edit]: Evegenia Obratszova and Anastaisa Goryacheva kind of look alike, too.
Posted 08 December 2009 - 08:41 AM
Also any likenesses to Margot Fonteyn would be very interesting. If you would be so kind as to state your feelings on this. (Dancers only)
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I will carry forward my post from the earlier thread, when I mentioned the likeness between Aurelie Dupont and Dominique klaufouni. It is not just their features that are similar, but also their way of moving. They both share a lyrical expression and are similar physically although Aurelie may be shorter in stature than Dominique.
Also any likenesses to Margot Fonteyn would be very interesting. If you would be so kind as to state your feelings on this. (Dancers only)
I happen to think Kathryn Morgan resembles Fonteyn both in looks and style of dancing. Just look at these photos: Margot: http://www.nndb.com/...got-fonteyn.jpg
Kathryn: http://www.nycballet...tic/morgan.html
Kathryn, while not a fully developed dancer yet, has that ballerina quality that Margot had. They both have beautiful lyrical styles and great interpretations of the roles that they perform. Plus, they both have big beautiful eyes. Does anyone else agree?
Posted 09 December 2009 - 10:27 AM
Have you ever heard her speak? Pity the BBC did not look further afield for someone to take Margot's role. The dance element would have been better as well.
Posted 10 December 2009 - 12:44 AM
There are two dancers at Northern Ballet Theatre - Julie Charlet and Micaela Paolacci who have a striking resemblance to each other. When they first joined the company (at the same time) we were always getting them mixed up. One of the young ladies actually told us recently that their colleagues also sometimes still get them mixed up!
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Have you ever heard her speak?
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Join her for a photo session with Dance Spirit, here.
Have you ever heard her speak?
Thank you Carbro she is lovely, even could almost pass(with the accent) as a young Fonteuyn before her elocution lessons
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Oh, well.
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I must admit, I've been struggling since Observer first observed a resemblance between Morgan and Fonteyn, and I just can't find it. Nor can I catch canbelto's likeness between Tiler Peck and Patty McBride.
Oh, well.
It's the eyes and the shape of the face I do not know Cambelto's two ladies so I cannot answer on that score. I suppose we all see something different in people. A friend who just watched the Margot official documentary said she thought Margot was like the late Princess Margaret. But that is off topic, as we are talking about dancers.
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I'm looking to buy a tripod for use with "Tripod Adapter Type A".
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You can as well use 055XDB, 190CX3. 190 series is not as high as 055. You have to be sure to get a model with a center column that uses an adapter at the end with the 3/8"screw.
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Thjis is how the bottom part does look like: screw at top plate http://mediacdn.shopatron.com/media/...pdf?1328225290
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I have a table on a web page where I need to let the user reorder the rows. I was thinking of letting the user drag the rows to reorder them. But how would I let the user know that he could do that? Should I make an empty cell as the first column with dots or vertical lines like gmail has for each email in the inbox? Where can I get an image like that? Do I use a "grabbing hand" icon for the cursor or a "move" cursor? Do I show the cursor while hovering over the table or just the "grab area"? Do I let the user grab any part of the row to drag?
37signals' Basecamp does a great job with this:
When hovering over an item, controls appear to the left of the item. One of the controls is an up/down arrow. When hovering over that control, the mouse cursor changes into a move cursor. Holding down the mouse button moves the position of the grabbed item on the vertical axis corresponding with the position of the mouse. Releasing the mouse button drops the item in the nearest acceptable position. The position of the item being dragged is constantly updated on the screen so you know where it is.
Gmail's Tasks feature handles it a bit differently by showing a drag surface to the left when you hover over an item. Hovering over the drag surface changes the cursor into a hand icon (not a grab icon, which is a closed hand). Further behaviour is identical to Basecamp.
For more information on this pattern, consult the Yahoo Design Pattern Library and refer to the interesting moments storyboard grid.
As long as your layout is not overcrowded, multiplying the hints does help users figure out what features are available.
In addition to the drag handles, you might therefore want to add a "Drag rows to reorder" caption near the top of your table.


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White Mountains (NH/ME) > Mount Bond > Climber's Log
Mount Bond Climber's Log
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|Partial Pemi
Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2015
|Amazing mountain!
|Posted Oct 6, 2015 8:39 pm
|Nice way point
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2014
|I bagged this peak as part of a 1.5 day Pemi Loop trip where I bagged 10 4K summits in all (plus a few that didn't count). The weather was incredible, but the ridge line was bone dry and had I been smart I would have refilled my water at Liberty Spring because I was desperate by the time I was coming off Garfield. Bond was nice but to me it was a waypoint between The other two Bonds because my favorites of them all were West Bond and Bondcliff where solitude abounded and the stark beauty of the ledges around the summits made for a fantastic opportunity to sit and soak in all of natures beauty.
|Posted Nov 9, 2014 8:22 am
|Great Peak
Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2014
|A great peak in the Whites. Summitted twice, as we were staying at the Guyot campsite and did a trip up and over to Bondcliff and then back. Definitely worth the extra night at Guyot campsite to summit the Bonds. Peak #9 on our 5-day trip.
|Posted Jun 14, 2014 9:18 am
|Route Climbed: Pemi Loop
Date Climbed: May 15, 2013
|Did as part of a 2 day pemi loop. The views were incredible on an otherwise cloudy day.
|Posted May 16, 2013 12:34 pm
|Pemi loop backpack
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2011
|Did a Pemi Loop over 2.5 days with a couple of friends. Going counter clockwise, camped at Guyot and Garfield tent sites. Saw an awesome lightning over a town to the north storm from Garfield; got hailed on in a lightning storm on the way out on the last day. Had a bottle of Bowmore with us.
|Posted Jun 21, 2012 4:41 pm
|overnighted it at guyot
Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2011
|bonds are beautiful and secluded, way out there, great overnight
|Posted Apr 3, 2012 3:00 pm
|One of my Fav's!
|Just an awesome location and some of the best views. The guyot campsite was crowded and did not live up to my expectations tho.
|Posted Nov 24, 2011 11:52 am
|one of favorite memories are the laser red sun rays coming into the shelter early one morning on the eastern side of mt bond
the whites have an endless amount of natural beauty to enjoy
|Posted Aug 6, 2011 2:23 pm
|Does anyone know the fastest time?
Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2011
|So I did about 19.8 miles in eight hours from trailhead back to trailhead. Hitting all the bonds, guyot and zealand. I did not do hale though. I was just wondering if anyone knows that fastest KNOWN time for that hike. I am well aware its not a standard hike that has listed fast times but just curious. I was shooting for 9 hours and was pysched to hit eight. So I was just curious if anyone out there knows of ay claims to that specific hike.
|Posted Jul 24, 2011 4:01 pm
|My first Bond
Date Climbed: May 22, 2011
|of many more
|Posted May 22, 2011 7:34 pm
|my dad's 47th
|I climbed the ridgeline from Lincoln Woods and out by Zealand Falls with my dad, brother, and sisters. We stayed overnight at Guyot.
|Posted Oct 7, 2010 11:19 am
|Traversed the ridge
|Traversed the ridge via Zealand and out Lincoln Woods
|Posted Jun 15, 2009 8:36 am
|start of fall
Date Climbed: Sep 22, 2008
|I arrived on Mt. Bond after going over Zealand, Guyot, and West Bond. It's a great mountain.
|Posted Jan 17, 2009 4:55 pm
|Great Climb!
Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2008
|This was part of a great trip across the Pemi as part of the AMC's MLS. The views and the trails were great. Can't wait to do it again!
|Posted Oct 2, 2008 1:36 pm
|Brian Jenkins
|Long Day
Date Climbed: Sep 23, 2008
|Came up from Bondcliff. Didn't wait too long as we had to do West Bond and then get to the Guyot Campsite. Was about a 13 mile day.
|Posted Sep 29, 2008 1:12 am
|Mount Bond
Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2007
|Climbed with South Twin, Guyot and North Twin via the Twinway Trail from Galehead. Amazing views from both peaks. At times it threatened to rain but we were lucky as we were able to avoid the worst of the storm. Things started fogging in on Bond so we decided to save Bondcliff for another day. It was the right decision.
|Posted Aug 12, 2008 5:19 pm
|Sam Page
|Aborted one-day Pemi-Loop
Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2008
|Managed 29 miles and 6100 vertical feet on a day with wet and muddy trails, intermittent rain, and three shoe-soaking, nerve-rattling stream crossings on the Franconia Brook Trail. Took 15+ hours.
|Posted Aug 8, 2008 11:11 pm
|Bondcliff Trail
Date Climbed: May 27, 2008
|Came over from Bondcliff, the clouds started rolling in midway across the ridge. Wind picked up to around 50mph knocking a few of us over. Summit was in clouds. Guyot Campsite was reached through 3-4 feet of snow.
|Posted Jun 13, 2008 11:33 am
|Great Weekend Trip via BondCliff
Date Climbed: May 26, 2007
|Part of a weekend of Bond, Bond Cliff, Zealand. Guyout was almost full when we got there. Glad we had a tent. It filled so that folks were in overflow later. Still a bunch of snow and ice around, could have used crampons.
|Posted May 25, 2008 11:18 pm
|Cloudy one day clear the next
Date Climbed: Oct 17, 2007
|I convinced my wife to go up after a 10 year hiatus for her. The plan was to wilderness camp one night, head up and hit all 3 (Bond, W Bond, and Bondcliff. Camp abother night, and head back so that each day would be a relatively easy day and we could relax at the campsite. We went up the Wilderness (Lincoln Woods) trail. Did some bushwacking and found a great site in the woods with a short walk to water. Set up camp and hiked up. Soon after we got to that short scramble area, the fog rolled in. We got to Bondcliff but couldn't see more than about 75 feet so went back down. The weather turned beautiful the next morning. We summited Bond and Bond and Bondcliff, but my wife didn't have the stamina to try for the 3 rd on in one day. We camped another night and hiked out the next day. All in all some nice "Bonding" goin' on (pun intended). That photo is me on Bondcliff.
|Posted Mar 4, 2008 4:19 pm


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I've stumbled upon the definition of exact sequence, particularly on Wikipedia, and noted the use of $\hookrightarrow$ to denote a monomorphism and $\twoheadrightarrow$ for epimorphisms.
I was wondering whether this notation was widely used, or if it is common to define a morphism in the general form and indicate its characteristics explicitly (e.g. "an epimorphism $f \colon X \to Y$").
Also, if epimorphisms and monomorphisms have their own special arrows, are isomorphisms notated by a special symbol as well, maybe a juxtaposition of $\hookrightarrow$ and $\twoheadrightarrow$?
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I was thrilled to read today that the book BBQ Makes Everything Better one of my top picks for Christmas Gift giving this year has won one of the most prestigious awards that can be won by a cookbook ;
Gourmand World Cookbook Award Best Barbecue Cookbook !!!
Huge congratulations to Aaron Chronister & Jason Day authors of the cookbook and owners of the awesome website BBQ Addicts. I am a huge fan of theirs and they are truly awesome guys.
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5 Authors More Badass Than The Badass Character They Created
#2. Sherlock Holmes
The Character:
Sherlock Holmes is probably best described as "Sherlock motherfucking Holmes," a man capable of making incredible deductions from the smallest of details with the power of logic alone. Also, he's an expert with all sorts of weapons; from guns and swords, to singlestick cane fighting, to beating your ass with a riding crop.
If for some reason none of those things are around, Holmes is a formidable boxer and a proficient student of Bartitsu, a martial art which he used to simultaneously kill his arch nemesis Moriarty and save himself from death.
Hold on: incredible powers of deduction, badass fighting abilities, general unkillability--where have we heard this before?
The Writer:
Arthur Conan Doyle seems to have spent every waking moment either writing or being awesome. As a 20-year-old kid, Doyle joined a whaling expedition to the Arctic, presumably hanging off the bow and waving his dick at all the whales. After finishing medical school, Doyle mucked around on boats being a ship doctor for a couple years before settling down to start his own practice, take both a wife and a mistress, and churn out some books.
When the Boer War broke out he promptly enlisted as a medical officer and spent months in Africa patching up bullet holes and battling hundreds of cases of typhoid fever. For his service in the war, he was made a knight and then spent his time "playing golf, driving fast cars, floating in the sky in hot air balloons, flying in early archaic and rather frightening airplanes, and body-building."
The man was pure mustache.
Right before WWI broke out, Doyle wrote essays that talked about the importance of submarine warfare and aerial combat, conceived the Chunnel, and detailed such preposterous and fanciful inventions as "inflatable life jackets," "inflatable rafts" and "body armor," proving that in addition to all of his rugged manliness he could also see the goddamn future.
#1. Robert Jordan (from Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls)
That's right; here's the one case on our list where the writer is so much more famous than any of his characters that we had to explain who he was.
The Character:
Robert Jordan is a guerrilla fighter behind enemy lines during the Spanish Civil War tasked with blowing up a vitally important enemy bridge, which sounds a lot like the opening sequence of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. Before he gets around to the bridge, he seduces a beautiful young woman named Maria, presumably in a bid to fill the monthly quota imposed on all badass heroes.
An enemy spy infiltrates Jordan's camp, so he shoots the guy on sight and steals his horse. He rides the horse out to the bridge and kills all the sentries guarding it before finally blowing it to hell.
Unfortunately, during the escape Jordan's horse falls on him and fatally wounds him. Instead of yelling different variations of the word "fuck" as loud as physically possible, Jordan calmly decides to stay there and keep conscious long enough to kill the enemy troops pursuing his friends, and while we don't actually get to see what happens, we'd be pretty surprised if anyone made it past him alive.
Originally titled My Giant Fucking Balls.
The Writer:
Ernest Hemingway is a guy that was so manly you grow a beard just reading his name. He was a boxer, a track runner, a football player, a water polo player and a key figure of the debate team, presumably winning most of his arguments with terrifying scowls.
Hemingway served in the first World War as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Paris, which at the time was getting the shit bombed out of it. While there, he was seriously wounded by mortar fire but managed to carry an Italian soldier to safety, becoming the first American to win the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery.
"Either give me that medal or I'll take it from you."
He spent the next few years vacationing in Key West and the Bahamas, hunting big game in Kenya, and getting shitfaced with James Joyce. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Hemingway traveled there and saw combat as a reporter, and in WWII he served in the Navy, tasked with destroying enemy submarines off the coast of Cuba. Later he organized his own partisan group and helped liberate Paris, proving that he could win any conflict with or without the military.
Hemingway spent the last years of his life refusing to die, surviving two consecutive plane crashes, a concussion, temporary paralysis and a massive bushfire.
At one point he was so injured that some American newspapers ran his obituary. Yes, that's right--Hemingway was so badass that he got to read his own obituary.
As for his love life, he went through four wives in 40 years, never spending more than three months as a single man (and in one case, only 17 days). We're guessing that the instant he announced that he was available, a line of women formed outside his door that wrapped around the block.
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September 14, 2009
Beauty in Stellenbosch, Western Cape – Flickr pic of the day
This other-worldly composition was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Dom Wills aka domonFire.
Dom says, "This picture was taken on Muratie wine farm, Stellenbosch. I find that wine-tasting and photography are very complementary pastimes."
The town of Stellenbosch is close to Cape Town, and is known for its good university and excellent wine farms.
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!
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Tompkinsville Mayor Windell Carter will soon be in court to face a misdemeanor and felony charge after two outstanding charges against him surfaced this week.
Mayor Carter was in court Tuesday to plead not guilty to a traffic ticket he was given for riding his ATV down a highway just outside the city limits. During a routine background search of the court docket, the Monroe County Attorney found two outstanding criminal charges against Mayor Carter.
Carter is charged with the misdemeanor of leaving the scene of an accident in 1994, and a felony charge of wanton endangerment after he allegedly pointed a loaded revolver at a local man and his mother in a downtown confrontation in 1993.
Mayor Carter claims he doesn't remember anything about the incidents or charges, but now faces a pre-trial hearing on Sept. 2 before a judge to determine if their is enough evidence to proceed with the case.
If convicted, Mayor Carter could face one to five years in prison and immediate eviction from office upon conviction.


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Utility Chief Quits in Wake of Sandy
The head of one of the New York City region's biggest power companies resigned Tuesday evening amid a turbulent period for the utility, which has been under fire for its performance after Sandy wiped out power to almost 90% of its 1.1 million customers.
The acting chief executive of Long Island Power Authority, Michael Hervey, said in an interview he had planned for months to step down. His decision Tuesday came on the day that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would form a special state commission to investigate the response by the government-owned utility, which covers some of the region's most densely packed suburbs.
On Monday, Fitch, a bond rating agency, had downgraded the utility's outlook from stable to negative.
Mr. Hervey on Tuesday submitted a letter of resignation offering to leave on Thursday. He said he discussed the matter with lawyers and trustees and was persuaded to stay through the end of 2012.
Mr. Hervey, who has been with the utility since 2000, said the storm delayed a resignation he had long planned. "The company had changed and was changing over time," he said. "I was in the interim position as acting CEO and COO for the past two years plus, and it seemed like I didn't have further opportunities here."
LIPA has been under rising pressure from Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat. The commission he announced Tuesday, under the state's Moreland Act, would have subpoena power to investigate utility companies' "response, preparation, and management" of major storms and recommend ways to change what the Cuomo administration referred to as the "overlapping responsibilities and missions" of the state's energy providers and regulators, including the New York Power Authority, LIPA and the Public Service Commission.
The commission's recommendations would be issued by early 2013, Mr. Cuomo said.
"Whatever their recommendations are, I want to get back with the legislature the beginning of next year, incorporate them and come up with a better system. Many of these systems were failing to begin with," he said.
Most utilities in the region have restored power to nearly all their customers whose homes or businesses were not too damaged to have power turned on in the wake of Sandy, which hit the area on Oct. 29.
Some 8,000 LIPA customers remain without power on Long Island and on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. Officials say they can't hook up about 30,000 other customers because of a risk of returning electricity to flooded buildings with damaged infrastructure.
Fueling the frustration has been a lack of communication with customers. LIPA's network is operated by the U.S. arm of U.K.-based National Grid NGG -1.20 % PLC, which was responsible for computer systems meant to keep customers informed with text messages and also help coordinate repairs. Instead, LIPA was using an archaic system of paper drawings and photos and post-it notes to coordinate its efforts.
National Grid is in the process of being replaced by another contractor, but the new contractor and system aren't due to start until 2014. Officials said they are now trying to accelerate the transition.
Some customers, meanwhile, have been so angry that they have attacked utility workers, according to police reports.
Mr. Cuomo said he had campaigned for governor in 2010 on revamping the utility companies, particularly LIPA, which has a long history of service problems. In April 2011, Mr. Cuomo directed then-inspector general Ellen Biben to investigate LIPA's rate-setting methods.
"I talked about consolidating LIPA and the other energy agencies in my campaign two years ago. Hopefully now we're going to have the political will to actually do something about it," he said.
Asked why his administration didn't take steps to address LIPA's problems in advance of the storm, Mr. Cuomo said the utility was beyond his help.
"LIPA did not work for many, many years," he said. "It was fatally flawed. It was without function. I believe LIPA has been beyond repair for a long time. I don't believe you can fix it, I believe it has to be overhauled and you need a new system."
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On the side of a package if it states "Cholesterol 0%" in the Nutrition Facts does that mean the food is vegan?
No. The per-serving nutrition numbers are rounded and only reflect the value for a single serving. A value of 0 simply means "less than 0.5 mg" in a single serving.
Your question implies that cholesterol only comes from animal products. This is not correct. Cholesterol is present in many plants.
Other answers and comments claim that only amounts "less than 0.5" (units omitted) of cholesterol is permitted to be listed as 0, and that "no cholesterol" is an added claim that a product is truly cholesterol free. This too is incorrect. The FDA permits amounts less than 2mg/serving to be listed as both 0 and "cholesterol free". There are additional caveats which can be read at the link.
The bottom line is, not only does 0 mg of cholesterol not indicate anything regarding the presence of animal products, but neither does the presence of cholesterol.
Another point to mention is that there are many animal products that have no cholesterol. A great example would be honey, or egg whites. (Or gelatin, I believe) So even if you could actively figure out whether there is any cholesterol, that would not mean that there are no animal products in the food.
As mentioned by Joe and gordoco, US labels aren't of much help for this level of detail due to the ridiculous rounding rules. But there are other sources of info. Check out Calorie Count for example. That site's info is accurate down to .1 probably due to its origins as a european-based web resource. (Europe's governments seems to trust its public with decimal notation.)
Still, even though it's a much more accurate source of info you shouldn't count on it alone to decide whether the product is vegan. And depending on how strict you want to get even a food that is labeled as entirely animal product free may have been processed in a very un-vegan manner. The discussion of whether your basic Heinz Ketchup is vegan is a prime example. (Bone char is used in the processing of the sugar which is used in the final mixture.)
Almost all organic vegetables are not vegan as they use Blood Meal fertilizer. It is made of dried and powdered blood of animals (usually cattle), and is used as a nitrogen-rich fertilizer for plants. It has been utilized by organic gardeners for years. Ironically, many vegans choose to be vegan for moral reasons.


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I have Ubuntu 12.04 and I would like to the default Window Manager to help me setting "Always on Top" and "Always on Visible Workspace" properties to some windows. Ideally matching the title with some regular expressions.
I would like to keep the Window Manager, (I know there are others), since I am used to it, I like for most of the things and I configured some settings to my tastes.


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Continuing Education Blog
PNCA offers evening and weekend classes for adults and young people. For adults we offer courses in art, craft, and design, as well as professional development classes. For children we have Saturday classes during the school year and week-long camps during the summer. In addition to our regular teen classes, we also offer immersive summer Pre-College Studios. Our blog below gives you an idea of some of the goings on, and you can see our full course catalogue online here.
Picture of the Week - May 4, 2013
This week there was a lot of paint and play going on in our Young Painter's Workshop. There were several abstract compositions crafted by various students in the class… lots of experimentation on the art-making front! That is what we like to see! One student worked a great deal with splatters and drips. This was her hand… you should have seen her shirt.
That was such a fun day. If you would like to check out what else we did on Saturday, including plate printing and creature glazing, check out our Flickr Site.
Picture (Video) of the Week - April 27th, 2013
This week our Picture of the week is actually a video. How sweet is that! As we grow as a program, we would like to capture more comments from students about what they are making or what they enjoy… how they respond to a new medium, etc. Below is a short clip of one of our 'Young Painter's Workshop' students trying out the program's digital SLR cameras. Here is the result!
If you would like to see more photos and videos from this round of Spring classes, check out our Flickr Site.
Web Development
Jack Bouba, a former Continuing Education student who is now a front-end developer at Planet Argon, wants to give back to the community the gifts of learning that he received as a student and that prepared him for his professional practice. Jack and the Planet Argon team are offering a one-day web development workshop on May 6 that will provide an introduction to Github, SCSS, Bootstrap, and Jekyll. Be sure to take advantage of the 10% discount, promotional code "PNCA."
You seem to really like your job as front-end developer with Planet Argon. What is special about the work you and your studio do?
The Planet Argon founders have done an impressive job of finding a group of people who are incredibly dedicated to their work. At the same time, we all take ourselves pretty lightly; the atmosphere at Planet Argon is extremely funny and sarcastic and terribly raunchy.
What is essential for anyone wanting to make a career in web and mobile design and development?
I think curiosity is immensely important, as well as a desire to stay informed and current. I think there is a tendency for schools as well as many if not most agencies to have a hard time keeping up, so it's up to the designer/developer to continue to learn, push themselves, and stay inspired. This is an incredible time to work in the field; there are a ton of jobs but there are also a lot of talented web creators out there. Set yourself apart; putting just a tad of extra effort into your portfolio, resume, or cover letter will go a very, very long way.
What draws you to teaching when you already have a quite demanding project schedule?
I taught front-end development and Flash classes a few years ago, and before I started working in this field, I taught adults and children with developmental disabilities, both in and out of the classroom. I proposed the idea of teaching this workshop because this is exactly the workshop that I'd want to take: contemporary, relevant, emphasizing best practices and forward thinking, etc. Also, it's a cliché, but teaching is absolutely the best way to truly learn something. Really, there are so many reasons to teach, e.g. to connect with your community, to meet new friends and peers, and to spread knowledge.
I was happily surprised to see Thich Nhat Hanh quoted on your web page. How do you bring the spirit of this sage to your work?
Honestly, as much as I try to remember to "walk as if I'm kissing the Earth with my feet," I don't do it nearly enough. I absolutely get stressed and overwhelmed and bogged down by the minutiae of my work, but I do love the sentiment of that advice. I know that I am immensely fortunate to be alive and healthy and working in a field that's exciting, inspiring, and important. That quotation helps remind me to try to stay light-hearted and positive, and to laugh at all the silliness that easily gets overlooked or dismissed.
Picture of the Week - April 20, 2013
So, our picture of the week is actually picture(s). Three to be precise. This Saturday seemed to be 'make a silly face at the camera' day. These are a few of the funniest/sweetest.
It's nice to know that students feel comfortable enough in our classes to be playful, and even act a little silly. Art class is, of course, the type of environment where 'play' is a major component of the artistic process. We try to encourage play, experimentation, and moments of free expression whenever possible.
If you would like to see more funny faces from our classes on Saturday you can do so by visiting our Flickr Page. You can also visit our Reggie Site to see what classes are coming up soon!
Sense-of-Place Mapping
Kimberlee Chambers will lead a workshop on sense-of-place mapping at PNCA, July 10-13, that explores Portland's foodscapes. I have recently come across sense-of-place mapping in a surprising variety of context and consulted Kimberlee on the topic.
What is sense-of-place mapping and why has it received quite a bit of attention inside, but also outside, of research and educational organizations?
Sense of place maps are an opportunity to document a particular attribute of a defined landscape that is not regularly seen on a topographical or political map. Sense of place maps provide opportunities to record things that are of importance to individuals and communities that a researcher or map maker may not see or value in the same way. Because these maps move beyond the traditional structure of cartography they appeal to educational institutions and those outside of academia who want to understand what a place feels like, smells like, sounds like and why it may be important to a group or individual. The best part is that the representation of this 'sense of place' can be done creatively and collaboratively.
Mayne Island. Map Coordinator: Tina Farmilo. Map Artists: Tania Godoroja with Sarah Sexsmith and Glenda Goodman. In: Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas. Sheila Harrington and Judi Stevenson (eds). TouchWood Editions, 2005.
What are "foodscapes" and why might Portland serve as an interesting focal point?
The term foodscapes is being used in a wide variety of fields from urban planning to the layout of your kitchen. Within the past ten years, the concept 'foodscapes' has become a pivotal point for research in food, food chains, food production, food ethics, food policy and other fields related to food studies. Although no single definition has yet to emerge, a foodscape is basically the multiplicity of sites where food is found and/or consumed. Food can provide a lense to explore everything from the meaning of the space, place, and attributes used for eating to the layers of global flows of people, technologies, ideas, money, and ethics shaping the future of food. Documenting and reflecting on foodscapes can help us to understand how the built environment shapes our behaviour and what may be unique or lacking in a particular place. Portland, with its fascination (obsession?) of all things food related provides a great place to use the foodscape as a focal point.
What will participants investigate and do in your July workshop?
Our objectives for this workshop are multifaceted. Both Rebecca and I find that our best teaching experiences are for classes that we do not have the answers to. With this in mind our goal is to share with the participants this valuable tool of sense of place mapping and then work collaboratively to understand and document the Portland foodscape. We look forward to working with diverse people to draw from their unique perspectives and experiences to build a broader understanding of what the Portland foodscape is and how sense of place maps may be used as a tool that results in an informational source and artform. Ultimately we hope that everyone learns more about this place and the unique foodscapes, explores their own ideas of place and how we interpret them, learns a new tool for their own explorations, and has fun while doing it.
Kimberlee Chambers is an interdisciplinary scholar and a sustainability advocate whose work focuses on food, agriculture, and systems of land and resource management. Her current research includes the 'locavore' movement in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Kimberlee received a Ph.D., from the University of California, Davis, in Agrobiodiversity Conservation and has published her research widely. She holds appointments as Assistant Professor of Collaborative Design at PNCA and as Research Affiliate and Adjunct Professor of Geography at Portland State University.
Picture of the Week - April 13, 2013
Wow! This last week of classes was so fun! Students are keeping pace with projects and making some very interesting things. Our MiniMasters class is making pizza… from painted paper and collage, of course. Draw, Paint, Sculpt. has been hard at work on clay castles and the creatures that live in or protect them. Young Painter's Workshop has been working on imaginative drawings inspired by a story. This week's image is from our YP Workshop.
This young lady brought in a tiny dry-erase board. Both she and I collaborated on the image you see above. If you would like to see more from last Saturdays classes, visit our Flickr Page!
Picture of the Week - April 6, 2013
We are now well in to our Spring session of Youth classes here at PNCA! In order to give you some insight into our classrooms over the next month or so, we'll try to post an interesting picture or two from classes on Saturdays. This guy was kind enough to show me the tool that we was using to draw his still-life in our Young Painter's Workshop.
If you would like to see more images from Youth classes, check out our Flickr Page. If you would like to learn more about future offerings with PNCA's Youth Program you can visit our Registration Site.
Congressional Art Competition
For 17 years, Representative Blumenauer has participated in the Congressional Art Competition. Each year, the Congressman looks forward to seeing all of the unique projects that high school students from his district create. For this year's competition, the deadline for submissions to the Blumenauer Office is Friday, April 12.
As in past years, PNCA faculty and the Pre-College Program will assist Congressman Blumenauer's effort by supporting the jurying process and providing scholarship awards to the competition winners. In preparation for this year's competition, I inquired with Kevin Pozzi, Field Representative for Congressman Blumenauer, about the exceptional efforts of the Blumenauer Office to get high school students from the district involved.
Reception for Congressional Art Exhibition 2011. Photograph Sara Kaltwasser.
Tell us a bit about the Congressional Art competition?
The Congressional Art Competition began in 1982 to encourage and recognize artistic talent in high school students across the country. Art students from local schools are encouraged to submit original works to their Congressman, with the winner from each district receiving 2 tickets to Washington, D.C. to see their piece hung in the U.S. Capitol Building. This is the 17th year that Representative Blumenauer has hosted the competition in Oregon's 3rd District.
Why has Representative Blumenauer been a consistent advocate of the event?
The Art Competition shows us that education isn't just about tests and grades, it's about fostering an appreciation for the arts in our youth and creating well-rounded citizens. In addition to the winning piece being exhibited in the U.S. Capitol for an entire year, which Members, staff, and visitors alike pass by each day, the Congressman hosts a gallery exhibition for all student submissions at the YU Gallery in SE Portland. We are really grateful that PNCA has partnered with our office and the Competition again!
Is Rep. Blumenauer currently involved in legislation involving arts education?
From his days on the Portland City Council leading the local effort to create a dedicated 'Percent for Art,' Congressman Blumenauer has consistently championed arts funding. He has co-sponsored bills in Congress that would allocate additional funding for after-school programs where children can get more actively involved in the arts, as well as support non-profit organizations that supply children with books and other art supplies. The Congressman was also the cosponsor to a house resolution that highlighted the importance of art and design into the Federal programs that are emphasizing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs. This resolution stated that arts are a vital part of all curricula.
Representative Earl Blumenauer. Photograph Sara Kaltwasser.
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Lines and Space
Damien Gilley, a lead-instructor in our Media Arts and Illustration program, is a Portland-based artist with an impressive record of exhibits and transforming environments. In fact, you might have walked "through" one of his current projects, Skywalker, if you have recently been at the Portland International Airport. Skywalker certainly electrified me when I came ambling down the carpeted hallway from the airport's central hub into concourse A. Gilley's work activated my experience of this space at the airport in surprising ways given the challenges this uncompromisingly transitional environment presents the installation artist (and others before him) with. Usually, this is quintessential airport non-space.
When preparing for our spring quarter, I inquired with Gilley about his now five-year-long teaching practice in our program.
With so many projects and engagements, what nourishes your passion for teaching?
Conversations with students are priceless. I love learning about all the professional paths my students have, and how they arrived at my class. Dialog is key in education, expanding both student and instructor knowledge continuously. Eventually I see students in creative contexts after the course and realize my network, and theirs, gets bigger in such an organic way through the classroom experience.
Participants in your classes say that they have built much strong skills illustration and desktop publishing, but that they are also come away with something they had not expected: a more acute sense of design and a stronger confidence in their creative abilities. How do you make this happen in your classes?
I really make sure that students are learning concrete skills that apply directly to creative production. But it's so important to discuss all avenues these skills come into play, and how the design process is necessary. I try to make students confident to approach a creative problem and solve it from the ground up: research, conceptualization, execution and revision, revision, revision…
Have you noticed any changes over the past years in the needs and expectations of adult learners and professionals in your classes?
Many people realize the power of the tools we use and that the creative process can enhance their profession in dynamic ways, especially in such a media saturated visual culture. Design is everywhere. If you don't engage in that critical creativity everyday you're not really connecting with contemporary culture. So I make it a point to connect the course to real life applications, and the students appreciate that.
To learn more about Gilley's work, visit his web site, spend time with Skywalker, online or at the airport, and read Sabina Samiee's recent essay covering Gilley's career.
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End of Winter Youth Classes
It has been a rather eventful 7-weeks on campus with PNCA's Continuing Education Youth Program. From finger puppets to hand crafted books; we've had some great moments making art with students this term. Each class term with the Youth Program is super fun, but this one has seemed more so than usual. Our students have been very dedicated, and worked especially hard in their respective classes to make their artistic visions come to fruition. Below are a few images from this term that speak to the awesomeness of the last 2 months.
This coming Saturday marks the end of another round of Winter classes. If you would like to see some of the artwork we've made you can do so by visiting our Exhibition Set on Flickr. If you want a peek into our classrooms, visit our Winter 2013 Classroom Set.
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My plan was to observe and estimate the apparent magnitude of the Moon during totality of the June 2011 lunar eclipse, but the clouds rolled in at the exact moment, so I couldn't make any useful estimates. What was the apparent magnitude?
According to NASA on this page, the penumbral magnitude was 2.6868 and the umbral magnitude was 1.6998. I was guessing that that meant magnitudes/arcsec, but the numbers don't make sense to me, whether eclipse magnitudes are listed as actual brightness or change in magnitude. Shouldn't the umbral magnitude be the larger number in either case?
Thank you for the answers! I just received an email from Dr. Richard Keen, turns out the visual magnitude of the eclipse from observers using naked eye, reversed binoculars, and photometry averaged -0.3 and the Danjon L values ranged from 0 to 1.5.
I was on the wrong side of the planet to see this eclipse, but I would expect it was an extremely dark eclipse, because the Moon passed very close to the centre of the umbral shadow.


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Edgbaston Reservoir
Situated close to the city centre, Edgbaston Reservoir is a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation. It was built in 1827 by Thomas Telford as a top up for Birmingham canal system and is still used for that purpose today. The 70 acres site is mainly open water and supports a variety of birdlife; it is also a valuable city site for animals such as newts and bats. A belt of woodland and grassland encircles the reservoir providing an oasis of natural beauty in an urban setting. There are currently no public toilets on site.
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The Ranger Service for Perry Barr and Ladywood is based at Edgbaston Reservoir. It provides a public information service, an annual programme of events and educational sessions which include school visits, Forest School and work experience placements. Working in partnership with the police, environmental services, wildlife trust and other agencies the aim is to protect, promote and enhance the natural environment of the Reservoir for the benefit of its wildlife, heritage, the local community and visitors.
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I can't help but look at a Mark Rothko painting from the Multiform series and see layouts for a data entry form, but that doesn't mean it would be an appropriate source of inspiration.
My interpretation:
Are there any elements of these designs that could be applied to help with layout for functionality? Could it be the proportions, locations of the blocks, or color choice (Draws your attention to important areas.).
Would there be any benefits to the fuzzy/blurred borders?
I can appreciate the proportions, but I'd like to know if there is any design theory at work here that could be applied to UX.
Edit: This article talks about Divine Proportion. I was thinking along these lines to see if there was some other principle at work in these paintings that are also used in UX. Here are some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%27Magenta,_Black,_Green_on_Orange%27,_oil_on_canvas_painting_by_Mark_Rothko,_1947,_Museum_of_Modern_Art.jpg
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