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Everyone's wearing Tartan - brief history....5:34 PM
Katherine Hamnett
From a long time fashion has an enduring love affair with the pattern of interlocking stripes called a tartan. This classic print from Highlands is here again.
The earliest known tartan in Scotland can be dated to the third or fourth century AD. Tartans originated in woven wool, but now we can find them in many other materials. There are certain colors or pattern motifs that are more common, but there is no regulation about tartan system.
It was specially popular in Scottish Highland culture and became characteristic of this area dress. In XVIII century it was even forbidden to wear in a an attempt to suppress the rebellious Scottish culture. As the effect when the law was repealed in 1782, it was no longer ordinary Highland dress, but was adopted instead as the symbolic national dress of Scotland
In fashion tartan started appeared in association with british aristocracy showing its preppy face. But it started be really popular in 70s with the emergence of punk fashion, as symbol of british discontent with the ruling class. Tartan started to appear in Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen designs, in different ways, but they made it popular. Than in 90's arrived Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz and we all wanted to looked like her. Today her looks are once again in.
Nowadays there are about 7000 tartan designs, enough to satisfy all of the tastes:-) Tartan trend was transformed and enlightened, we can see the perfect combination of its preppy and punk side. Last seasons brought us layering, awkwardness and androgyny. It's started to be a part not only of winter collection, but also moved to spring summer designs.
Lately we could see some tartan looks from top-to-toe at Lanvin, Emilia Wickstead, Dolce & Gabbana and Tommy Hilfiger. As well as subtler combination with one or two tartan elements at Stella McCartney, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton, among the others.
Here I leave you with some inspirations from 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and last few years, you can see how tartan appeared at fashion world and decided to stay there.
Diana Princess of Wales
Famous photo of Naomi Cambell at Vivian Westwood catwalk.
Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in her famous college looks that inspired todays fashion.
Last seasons catwalks and some of memorable looks with tartan.
- 3.1 Philip Lim
- Tommy Hilfinger
- Dolce&Gabbana
- Emilia Wickstead
- Calvin Klein
- Stella McCartney
- Celine
- Celine
- Stella McCartney
- Alberta Ferretti
- Moschino
- Moschino
- Moschino
- Saint Laurent
- Mulberry
- Mulberry
- Mulberry
- Marc by Marc Jacobs
- Versace
- Alberta Ferretti
- Stella McCartney
- Louis Vuitton
Photos: Getty Images, Vogue, Style.com
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Kansas City, Missouri to Pineville, Missouri
Snapshot: Length: 382 miles | Length in MAFC: 175 miles | Intersecting Interstates: I-10, I-20, I-30, I-35, I-44, I-70
I-49 is an emerging north-south corridor in the state of Missouri. I-49 begins in Pineville, Missouri and runs 175 miles north to Kansas City Missouri . While this segment appears specific to Missouri, a portion of I-49 also exists in Louisiana and plans are underway to complete the interstate designation in the state of Arkansas. Discussions among the State DOTs, including Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, are underway as of August 2013 as the agencies discuss the possibilities of completing the corridor to fulfill its planned border to border route, from the Gulf Coast to Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada .
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In the MAFC, I-49 is paralleled by rail service but not water. Further the northern BNSF intermodal development at Edgerton, KS and the east-west I70 connection suggest a robust future for I-49.
In Missouri, a Commercial Vehicle Restrictions/Closures Map is provided and I-49 is included in the state's designated truck network. I-49 is not tolled on existing sections but toll financing has and is being discussed as a funding stream to complete section of the corridor in Arkansas.
In the MAFC, I-49 connects the communities of Joplin and Kansas City, Missouri. Ultimately, this emerging corridor is expected to play a role as a border-to-border trade corridor.
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|GDP (2011, in millions)
|Freight-related Employment
|Metropolitan Planning Organizations
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National Connectors
There are no national connectors on the I-49 corridor in the MAFC region.
Freight Projects Impacting Truck Traffic
Between 2010 and 2012, Missouri completed a number of upgrades to the US 71 to achieve interstate highway standards. Once the Arkansas and Texas portions of the proposed I-49 corridor are completed and joined with the existing portion in Louisiana the region should see even greater benefits from I-49. In total, the I-29 and I-49 corridor links the Gulf Coast ports at New Orleans with Winnipeg, Canada .
Truck Traffic
I-49 is a 175-mile corridor that crosses one state in the MAFC, Missouri.
- Truck VMT 2007: 705,189
- Percent Truck VMT: 19.58 percent
Operational Efficiency (ITS)
There are four message boards along the I-49 corridor, three of which are located within the bounds of the urban area of Kansas City, and the last is found roughly 20 miles south of the city. The 15 cameras found on the corridor follow a very similar pattern, the majority (10) are found in Kansas City and the remaining 5 are found within 20 miles.
Missouri collaborates with Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma through ITS Heartland.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Yearly tons of CO2 assuming 4 mpg: 510,000
- Yearly tons of CO2 assuming 7.5 mpg: 270,000
- Data: Truck Counts (HPMS 2011)
- Assume 4 and 7.5 miles per gallon
- No control for level of service or elevation changes
- 22.3 lbs. of CO2 per gallon of diesel
Fuel and Truck Parking
|There are 7 fueling stops that also offer truck parking along I-49. Two truck stops have less than 25 parking stops, 2 have between 25-84 spots, and 3 have 85+ spots of parking capacity. Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) stations are listed to the right.
Infrastructure Condition
The International Roughness Index (IRI) measures the cumulative amount of vertical deviation (the bumpiness or roughness) for each segment of road, and is reported as a ratio in inches per mile. IRI values less than 95 are generally considered good, while values between 95 and 170 are generally considered acceptable. Since only corridor segments with reported IRI values from the 2011 HPMS dataset were considered in this analysis, some states may be missing from certain corridors.
The IRI is used as a measurement to determine infrastructure conditions within the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) such as pavement deterioration, pavement condition trends, cost allocation studies, and other analytical purposes. It is reported, at a minimum, for all road segments that fall under the Full Extent classification which includes the National Highway System (NHS), all principal arterials (interstates, freeways, and expressways), and rural minor arterials within the Sample Panel dataset. The data is collected by the states and submitted to the FHWA. The FHWA verifies the data, and houses it within the HPMS. For more historical information, see MnDOT's Introduction to the International Roughness Index.
Freight Facilities
Intermodal Terminals
- Kansas City Southern (KCS) International Freight Gateway, Kansas City, MO: TOFC-COFC (70,000-lift/yr. capacity)
Major Rail Yards
- Kansas City, Missouri (MCI)
Automotive Distribution Facilities
- Mazda USA
Freight Rail
There are a few rail lines that cross the northern part of this corridor in Kansas City: the Kansas City Southern (KCS) Pittsburg Subdivision and the Union Pacific Coffeyville Subdivision. Further south, near Lamar, the BNSF Scott Subdivision crosses the corridor. In Joplin, the KCS Heavener Subdivision enters the corridor and heads south. These lines, according to 2010 rail density data available from the 2013 National Transportation Atlas Database are medium-density carrying between 50-100 million gross tons (MGT) per year. This corridor sits at the junction of BNSF's MidCon and TransCon Corridors and KCS' corridor to Mexico and its ports.
Emerging Intermodal
Mexico has made considerable investments in its Port of Lázaro Cardenas and in new automotive factories. KCS' subsidiary, Kansas City Southern de México has direct links to the booming manufacturing industry. KCS also has trackage rights to many of the automotive terminals in the Midwest.
Passenger Rail
There is no passenger rail service that runs through the I-49 corridor.
There is one air cargo airport along the I-49 corridor.
MCI in Kansas City is ranked 11th within the MAFC region and 50th nationally in terms of landed weight in 2012. MCI is considered a primary hub airport, and is serviced by both UPS and FedEx air cargo facilities.
|Kansas City International (MCI)
|Cargo Facilities
|Warehouse 30 000m² (322 917sq ft), Bonded Warehouse, Transit Zone, Free Port/Foreign Trade Zone, Aircraft Maintenance, Mechanical Handling, Heated Storage, Air-Conditioned Storage, Refrigerated Storage, Animal Quarantine, Fresh Meat Inspection, Health Officials, X-Ray Equipment, Security for Valuables, Dangerous Goods, Radioactive Goods, Very Large/Heavy Cargo, Express/Courier Centre, Handling Equipment: Airport owned CAS Wide-body Main Deck Loader for lezse per use
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|3 (10,800 feet)
|Warehouses & DCs within 5/10 miles
|1 / 2
|Air Cargo Businesses within Urban Area
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|2010 Landed Weight (lbs.)
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M-49 is the designated Marine Highway reliever route for I-49. However, M-49 only extends as far north as Shreveport, LA, and does not intersect nor run parallel to the northern portion of I-49 within the MAFC region. M-40, which serves as a Marine Highway Connector, is located to the south of Missouri's portion of I-49. It can be accessed as far west as Port Catoosa, OK or south of Missouri at Fort Smith, AR, and connects to the M-55 Corridor at Napoleon, AR. Another option for shippers located along I-49 wishing to utilize the marine highways would be to access the M-70 Corridor (which intersects M-55 in St. Louis) at ports in Kansas City.
Freight Generators, Warehouses, and Distribution Centers
There are a total of 2,441 freight generators employing 39,569 people within three miles of the I-49 corridor, and a total of 7,437 freight generators employing 117,281 people within 10 miles of the corridor. If the extent of analysis focuses on the metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) intersected by the I-49 corridor, there are a total of 26,021 freight generators employing 440,731 people. Within the MSAs, there are a total of 128 warehousing and distribution centers employing 3,991 people. Freight generators were determined by using the NAICS codes prescribed for freight-related sectors in NCFRP Report 19, and include agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, and eating and drinking places.
- Interstate 49. Wikipedia.
- Saylor, Ryan (2013). Officials from three states gather to talk I-49 funding. The City Wire.
- Maximizing Transportation Efficiencies and Economic Impact of the Southwest Missouri Foreign Trade Zone. Missouri Department of Transportation.
- Missouri Vehicle Route Map: 2012-2013. Missouri Department of Transportation.
- FHWA Interstate Brief (2011). US Department of Transportation.


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...the one lingering demon from the Belichick-Brady years: the pursuit of perfection that met a devastating end in their Super Bowl XLII loss to the New York Giants. ...
On the [Eli] Manning escape, the New England rush overwhelmed nearly the entire Giants offensive line. Jarvis Green exploded past Shaun O'Hara to the center's left and plowed through left guard Rich Seubert, and Richard Seymour looped behind Jarvis Green and beat O'Hara to his right. The offensive linemen tried to play the rush as if they were switching on a basketball pick-and-roll, and they failed miserably. As Seymour and Green converged on the immobile Manning, O'Hara said he saw "Eli curl up in the fetal position, which he normally does," and then thought, "OK, we're probably going to lose this game."
But as Manning kept moving his feet and staying alive, struggling to break free from the grasp of both New England rushers, a desperate O'Hara slid his gloved right hand onto Seymour's throat. "I said, 'Screw it,'" the Giants center would recall. "I was squeezing his trachea as hard as I could and not letting go." Choked by a 300-pound man, Seymour was temporarily disabled for the split-second that allowed Manning to get away. O'Hara gambled that the officials would miss his WWE move, and miss it they sure as hell did. If they threw a flag there, the Patriots would have ended up 19-0.
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N.C. Farm Honors Kay Yow With Corn Maze Portrait
Oct. 14, 2009
CARY, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina farm is honoring Kay Yow with a corn maze portrait of the late women's college basketball coach.
Michael Phillips of Phillips Farms in Cary says up to 2,000 people have traveled through Yow's ear, navigated through her hair and necklace, and exited her right shoulder.
The North Carolina State University women's basketball coach died in January after a long fight with breast cancer. She led the 1988 U.S. Olympic women's team to a gold medal. She was 737-344 in 38 seasons.
Phillips said his family was initially skeptical about the investment. But the 8-acre maze has brought in profits to the farm.
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When I first joined the Samsung Imagelogger program the first camera they gave me was the Samsung NX300.
It has a funky retro look and comes in several colors. They gave me the brown one.
I've tried to love this camera because of the tilt out screen on the back making for great angles and the interchangeable lenses. But, for some reason the auto-focus hasn't performed as well as I would like to see.
But, after seeing so many of the other Imageloggers using it with great results. (me and the team wonder if I might just have a bad unit) I decided to get out with the camera more when I don't need all the advanced connectivity features of the Samsung Galaxy NX which has become my go-to camera lately.
Every March my family gets together for a birthday lunch to celebrate my Aunt and Dad's birthday. This year we opted for a good old boiled dinner. It was a quiet afternoon of laughs and good food. A staple of any Chapman get together.
All photos below taken with the Samsung NX300 camera with their 30mm Pancake lens.
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There are many aspects OF who I am and what I do. Putting together THIS PAGE is one of my least favorite things to write because talking about myself is not my idea of a fun time.
When asked what I do my current answer is, "I create, teach and motivate people to do more good in the world."
Of course, that doesn't cover all that I work on professionally and personally, so that is why I created this page.
Official bios and headshots can be found below.
Who is C.C. Chapman? I'm a…
I'm constantly writing and always working on my next book. You may have read some of my published works including Amazing Things Will Happen, Content Rules or 101 Steps to Making Video Like a Pro.
Freelance writing or citizen reporting assignments excite me.
If I had to choose a style, I'd say my photos are a mix of documentary, travel and lifestyle photography. While I may not enjoy taking head shots, I love to shoot faces. I rarely go anywhere without a camera in my hand and I've been fortunate to see my photos on the pages of Rolling Stone and The Wall Street Journal.
I'm currently shooting with a Canon 80D, an iPhone 7+ and a Chroma 4k Drone.
My photos can be found on Instagram and Flickr.
With over twenty years of marketing, online media and community building experience I have the skills and experience to help your organization no matter the size. Previous clients have included The Coca-Cola Company, American Eagle Outfitters, and HBO.
I focus on social good/impact marketing, content marketing, and brand strategy. My favorite clients are NGOs, nonprofits or brands looking to make a difference in the world.
Feel free to double check my credentials on LinkedIn.
I'm happiest when on stage educating and inspiring an audience of any size, anywhere in the world.
I have spoken at everything from large international events, corporate retreats and at special gatherings of unique individuals. If you need someone who will inspire, educate and entertain your audience I'd love to chat.
I believe in using my skills, time and voice to champion causes that are important to me. I'm especially interested in anything military, dogs or children focused.
I'm currently the President of the Board at Wediko, a member of the ONE Girls & Women Advisory Board, serve on the board of The Hockey Foundation and recently joined the No Kid Hungry Social Council.
Helping others learn and inspiring them to achieve their goals is the most fulfilling thing I do. As a Visting Instructor of Business and Management at Wheaton College and as an Adjunct Professor of Marketing and Communications at Bentley University I get to do this with the next generation. I've also developed and taught courses for LinkedIn Learning, Lynda.com, CreativeLive, and Treehouse.
On top of all that I'm a proud life long New Englander who was born and raised in New Hampshire, but now resides outside of Boston.
I married my high school sweetheart, have two amazing kids and love being a dad.
I've been online since 1989, began blogging in 2002 and podcasting in 2004.
Previous endeavors I created include Accident Hash, Passion Hit TV, Digital Dads and The Advance Guard.
Tattoos, travel and the outdoors turn me on. There are fewer things more perfect than a well-done cocktail, a delicious meal or live art of any sort. I love my GORUCK, Field Notes and am a proud Misfit.
To understand me is to understand that I try to live a purposeful life every day that is full of adventure, love and making the world around me a better place for all.
C.C. Chapman describes himself as a New England raised storyteller, explorer, and humanitarian. Others have described him as a thought leader in the online marketing space, a grounded futurist and one the nicest guy on the Internet. Over the years of his career, he has worked with a variety of clients including Nike, HBO, American Eagle Outfitters, ONE, Verizon FiOS and The Coca-Cola Company.
He is the co-author of the International bestseller Content Rules and is also the author of Amazing Things Will Happen. He travels the world speaking in front of audiences to do more in the world and how to understand content marketing better. C.C. has taught classes for Lynda.com, CreativeLive and now as an adjunct professor at Bentley University (where he also graduated from).
C.C. is an advocate who speaks about building passionate communities and the strategic values of content-based marketing. He is a Samsung Imagelogger, the original ONE Dad and a UN Foundation Social Good Fellow. As a storyteller for hire, his work has appeared on the pages of Rolling Stone and The Wall Street Journal.
C.C. is the past Chairman of the Board at Wediko and currently serves on the board of The Hockey Foundation. He happily lives in the woods outside of Boston with his loving family. Find out more at CC-Chapman.com
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more multi-faceted or enthusiastic creative/strategic partner in the marketing and content creation fields. This greatly hails from C.C.'s unstoppable combination of marketing experience and savvy (which a great many professionals claim to have), and incalculably valuable "on the ground" knowledge and insight as an influential content creator himself (which a great many professionals do not). The result is a best-of-both-worlds mashup of marketing expertise.
C.C. Chapman sports the pro cred to be a talker (working closely with such clients as American Eagle Outfitters, Coca-Cola, HBO and Warner Bros.), and the passion and gumption to be a doer (creating content for the emerging Online Dad market, marketing professionals, music fans and more). He's helped create, manage and execute ambitious online and offline marketing campaigns for startups and multinationals — and has the invaluable good sense to know which outreach strategies work with audiences, and which ones fall flat.
He authoritatively speaks your language. He speaks your CMO's language. Most important, he's fluent in your market's language. It's a killer double-chocolate-and-peanut-butter combination. Contact C.C. to learn how he can help your organization achieve its business goals. There's, even more, to know about C.C. Chapman if you want to read it — and you should. C.C.'s skills are an embarrassment of riches.
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AthleteSpeakers has built very close direct relationships over the years with top athletes, agents, publicists and managers. We specialize in assisting small, medium, and large companies as well as event planners with booking athletes like Denise Austin for speaking engagements and appearances at trade shows, golf outings, casinos, conferences, conventions, and corporate events. For years, companies have turned to AthleteSpeakers to get Denise Austin's booking fee, appearance cost, and booking agent contact information.
Denise Austin's route to being named to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports began when she fell in love with athletics as a youngster in San Pedro, California. Growing up she got into gymnastics as a hobby and eventually earned a scholarship as a gymnast at the University of Arizona. After competing at Arizona she moved on to Cal State University and earned her bachelors degree in physical education with a minor in exercise physiology. Upon earning her degree she began teaching fitness classes, producing and distrusting instructional fitness videos and writing books and columns on fitness and healthy living. In 2002 she was named to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and went on to serve several terms in that role. In addition to her over 50 fitness videos and instructional dvd's she has hosted her own fitness show on ESPN2 called Getting Fit.
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ARMs fall to new record low in June's first mortgage rate survey
The average cost of a five-year, adjustable-rate home loan has plunged to a new record low in Interest.com's latest weekly survey of mortgage rates from major lenders.
The average interest rate for a 5/1 ARM fell to 3.39%, the lowest it's been since we began tracking that type of loan in January 2005.
It's the first mortgage rate to reach a new all-time low this year, breaking one of the record low rates that all types of home loans set last November.
But the average cost of the three other major types of financing we track fell to new lows for the year and are approaching the exceptionally affordable interest rates we saw in the fall of 2010.
Our June 1 survey found the average interest rate for a:
30-year, fixed-rate mortgage fell to 4.69% from 4.75% the previous week. Interest rates remain lower than they were this time last year, when a 30-year loan averaged 4.95%.
15-year, fixed-rate mortgage fell to 3.88% from 3.93% the previous week. A year ago, it was 4.36%.
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Himeji - Koko-en
Koko-en, located just west of Himeji castle, is composed of nine separate gardens, making use of the exact former site of where the Lord's West Residence and other samurai houses once existed. The gardens show the essence of the Edo period. They are surrounded by mud walls with roof tiles. These walls are the replicas of the original walls that were located there. I was lucky: Koko-en housed a nice Ikebana exhibit at the time of my visit. Too bad I came too late: did not have time to see the tea ceremony garden.


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He died doing what he loved to do: - from the Obituary in The NYT;
"He was on his way to interview Y. A. Tittle, the former New York Giants quarterback, for a book about the 1958 championship game between the Giants and the Baltimore Colts, considered by many to be the greatest football game ever played."
In sports, economics and war reporting - with his small town narrative style; David Halberstam was a shinning example of what a reporter and writer should strive for.
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Weston will celebrate its 25th Applefest Saturday and Sunday in historic downtown Weston.
The festival begins with a parade at 10 a.m. Saturday on Main Street followed by a balloon release in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.
KC Wolf will appear in the parade and later at the city park for the children's activities. The event also includes 60 art and craft booths, Garden Harvest vendors, Lost Art and Craft demonstrations such as candle making and wood turning. Food for sale will include a variety of apple dishes.
Children's activities include pony rides, games and pumpkin painting.
Live entertainment begins at 12:30 p.m. Saturday with family entertainer Mr. Stinky Feet on the Main Street stage. Other concerts will be the Ernest James Zydeco band at 2 p.m., Dog Tree at 3:30 p.m. and Hillbilly Starship at 5 p.m.
Sunday entertainment starts at 1 p.m. with barbershop quartet Rural Route #4, Truck Stop Honeymoon at 2:30 p.m. and Hootin' Anne at 4 p.m. The Applefest closes at 5 p.m.
For Applefest information call816-640-2909 or visit www.westonmo.com
A portion of children's ticket sales as well as other donated funds will be given to fight Breast Cancer.5k supports families touched by mental illness
Tri-County Mental Health Services will hold its second Heart and Sole 5K Saturday at Happy Rock Park, 7600 N.E. Antioch Road in Gladstone.
The run/walk is a benefit for families affected by mental illness. Proceeds will go to wellness programs, family holiday assistance and monthly art contests at Tri-County.
Business and organization sponsorships are available.
Registration is $30 and can be made in advance atwww.tri-countyheartandsole5k.org
or before the event at 8 a.m. Oct. 5. The run/walk starts at 9 a.m.
For information call816-877-0406 or go online to www.tri-countyheartandsole5k.org
.Programs for the over 50 crowd
Liberty's "50 after 5:00" program for senior citizens has scheduled several events for October. They include:
• A writing class to help seniors with personal stories at 6 p.m. Oct. 7. Three sessions are planned at the Liberty Community Center, at1600 S. Withers Road. Lolly Ockerstrom, associate professor of English at Park University, will lead the mini course. Registration is $15 per person or $24 per couple and can be done that night.
• Game Nights at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9 and 23 at the Liberty Community Center. Participants can bring card and board games. Wii games will be available. Cost is $6 for the two nights.
• "Engage As You Age," a class on maintaining physical, social and mental health, at 6 p.m. Oct. 15. The presenter is Emily Roper-Parsons, older adult outreach coordinator for Tri-County Mental Health Services. Registration is $4 each or $6 for couples. Register by Oct. 4 at816-439-4360
• Healthy Cooking Class for empty nesters by Hy-Vee nutritionist Rochelle Hochgraber at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at Liberty Hy-Vee, 1332 W. Kansas St. Registration is $12. Register by Oct. 4 at816-439-4360
• The Liberty Silver Center's Wonderful World of Words, a presentation on the history of words and phrases, at 1 p.m. Oct. 15 at the Liberty Silver Center in the Liberty Community Center. The cost is $5. Register at816-439-4360
by Oct. 8.Health Center offers Obamacare answers
Health Insurance counselors from the Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center will answer questions about the Affordable Health Care Act Health Insurance Marketplace every Tuesday in October at the Clay County Public Health Center, 800 Haines Drive, Liberty.
"It's about giving people a chance to have insurance and to have a medical home and to take care of things before it gets too bad," said Jodee Fredrick, who directs the Division of Administration at the Clay County Public Health Center.
No appointment is necessary. A counselor will be available from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each Tuesday to explain insurance coverage options.
Brochures are available at the Health Center and more information is atclayhealth.com
.Tri-County names new CEO
Tom Petrizzo has been named the new CEO for Tri-County Mental Health Services.
Petrizzo is CEO of the Ozark Guidance Center in Springdale, Ark. He also has served as chief legal officer at Community Reach Center in Thorn, Colo., and Chief Operating Officer of the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center in Lawrence.
"We are delighted that we have offered the CEO position to such an experienced and knowledgeable executive," said Tri-County Board Chairman Jim Schmidt. "Tom is very familiar with community mental health services and will bring excellent leadership skills to the Northland."
Petrizzo will take the post in January.4-H Youth win at state
Three Clay County 4-Hers placed in a statewide public speaking contest held recently in Columbia.
Phoebe Alpern, Warren Barge and Karlin Peters competed against 130 other youth from across the state at the Missouri State 4-H Public Speaking Contest.
Phoebe, a member of Golden Clovers 4-H club, placed first in the state in extemporaneous speaking for age 14 and over.
Karlin, a member of 4 Corners 4-H club, placed first in technology-assisted speaking for ages 11-14.
Warren, a member of Project 4-H Fun, placed third in prepared speaking for the 8-10 age group.
"Future success depends on the ability to communicate," said 4-H youth specialist Nancy Elkins Mense. "This contest takes those communication skills learned in our county 4-H program and develops them on a larger stage."Gladfest opens Friday
Gladstone's annual fall festival opens Friday afternoon with a carnival, entertainment, vendor and craft displays.
The Little Mr. and Miss Contest starts at 6 p.m.
The Gladfest parade starts at 10 a.m. Saturday. The parade begins at 65th Street and North Oak, turns east on 70th Street, then north on North Holmes, ending at Antioch Baptist Church on 72nd Street.
A variety of entertainment is planned each day. Women of Rock plays at 7:30 p.m. Friday on the Linden Square Stage. On Saturday the School of Rock House Band plays at 6 p.m. and Almost KISS at 7:30 p.m.
Gladfest will also feature a Kid's Corner in Central Park, Kansas City Zoo Mobile, inflatables, train exhibit, camel rides, farmer's market, apple pie contest and dog show.
Also on Saturday, a free shuttle bus will run to the Atkins-Johnson Farm and Museum from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for free tours.
For a complete schedule go towww.gladstonechamber.com
.Chorus Gala
The Liberty Community Chorus Gala and Auction will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at Belvoir Winery in Liberty.
The event will include a small preview concert by the choir under the direction of Bryan Taylor with Danny Baker as accompanist. Martin Augustine of KMBC-TV will be the master of ceremonies.
Tickets are $30 and include appetizers and a glass of wine.
More than 50 auction items will be offered, including dinners, plane tickets, a stay at a cabin in Canada and a small choir performance at an event.
Belvoir Winery is at 1325 Odd Fellows Road in Liberty.
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To Tell or Not To Tell – By Dr. Sarah RavinDecember 14, 2012.
Re-posted from Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders (CCED) blog archives. CCED and The Emily Program partnered in 2014.
We are happy to announce that today's post is written by psychologist Dr. Sarah Ravin. Dr. Ravin utilizes DBT, CBT and ACT to treat adolescents and young adults with eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, anxiety, depression, OCD, and self-injury. We have often linked to and are inspired by the posts on her blog. A big thank you to Dr. Ravin for her contribution to our blog!
If you have an eating disorder, you have probably struggled with the question of whether to reveal your diagnosis to others.
Teenagers and young adults with eating disorders run the gamut of self-disclosure: some of them never tell a single soul about their illness, while others write about it on Facebook or tweet about it daily to hundreds of followers. In my practice, I advise patients to think carefully before revealing their illness to anyone. In this age of tell-all books, tabloid magazines, and Jerry Springer, it is easy to forget that the concept of revealing deeply personal information to large numbers of people is relatively new and quite controversial. There are consequences – both positive and negative – to telling people about your eating disorder.
In considering whom to tell, it is important to balance the desire for privacy with the need for social support. On the one hand, having an illness is a personal matter and is not typically something you would share with a large number of people. Think about whom you would tell if you had asthma or a learning disability. Most people would share this information with their close friends, relatives, and doctors. Most people would not share this information on a first date, or on a job interview, or on their Facebook page.
On the other hand, someone going through an eating disorder needs a tremendous amount of support in order to get well. Friends and loved ones can only support you if they are aware that you are struggling and that you need their help. Suffering from an eating disorder can be a lonely and isolating experience, particularly if you keep your illness a secret from everyone.


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Scientists know that when they measure the total amount of matter in the universe using two competing methods, one will give a higher value for the total density of matter than the other. To resolve this measurement discrepancy, two separate research groups have now proposed that the missing mass might be in the form of neutrinos. Accurately measuring the total amount of matter in the universe is a crucial cosmological parameter for interpreting a vast number of astrophysical phenomena.
Neutrinos are difficult to study because they interact only by the weak nuclear force, which acts only over very short distances, and by gravity, which is extremely weak. In the Standard Model of particle physics, neutrinos come in three flavours – electron, muon and tau. They were once thought to be massless, but the discovery of neutrino oscillations – whereby neutrinos change flavour, requiring that their masses be different – implies at least two of them have mass, with the rate of oscillation depending on the mass difference of each flavour. The rate has been measured in particle-physics experiments such as SuperKamiokande in Japan, which has allowed particle physicists to place a lower bound on the sum of the neutrino masses of 0.06 eV, but the absolute values remain unknown.
Cosmic discrepancies
Measurements of the total amount of matter in the universe that are made based on cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the thermal remnant of the Big Bang – generally give a higher value for the total density of matter, as compared with the measurements that look at the number of galaxy clusters and gravitational lensing. In the first of the new papers, Richard Battye of the University of Manchester and Adam Moss of the University of Nottingham, both in the UK, suggest that massive neutrinos could account for the fact that the total mass inferred from the size of ripples in the CMB – measured by satellites such as Planck and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Telescope (WMAP) – is higher than the total mass measured by the other methods. Mark Wyman and colleagues at the University of Chicago in the US make the same suggestion based on different data sets in the second paper.
The CMB came into being about 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when neutral atoms first formed and the decoupling of matter and radiation allowed photons to travel freely across the universe. Neutrinos at this temperature (about 3000 K) would have been highly relativistic. Now, however, they have cooled down to the point where their mass is effectively their rest mass. They could therefore account for the apparently lower mass of the universe today than in the CMB.
The number of neutrinos produced when neutral atoms first formed can be calculated relatively easily, and if the sum of the neutrino rest masses is 0.06 eV, neutrinos would make a negligible contribution to the mass in the universe. The authors of the two papers therefore calculated what combined mass would actually reconcile the CMB observations with observations of the universe made today. Both groups considered two possibilities – the first, and simplest, involved adding to all the masses of the known neutrinos. In this case, Battye and Moss calculated a combined mass of approximately 0.32 eV and the Chicago scientists arrived at a figure of about 0.39 eV (well within each other's errors).
Sterile particles
Both groups also looked at models containing "sterile neutrinos" – a proposed and much-debated fourth type of neutrino that contributes mass but does not interact with the weak force. Such sterile neutrinos would therefore only interact with the other three "active neutrinos", making them that much more difficult to detect.
In the new work, the researchers kept the active neutrino mass pegged at 0.06 eV and attributed the extra mass to sterile neutrinos. Depending on the exact model they used, Battye and Moss found a sterile-neutrino mass between 0.3 eV and 0.5 eV, while Wyman's group found the mass would be around 0.4 eV. This model fitted slightly better with measurements of the matter in the universe made using other techniques than scenarios with heavy active neutrinos. "In our paper we were fairly even handed between the two situations," says Wyman, now at New York University, "but we chose to present our figures for the sterile-neutrino case because, in our collaboration, we all view that as the more likely case from a particle-physics standpoint."
Observational cosmologist Ofer Lahav of University College London, who in 2010 placed an approximate upper bound on the neutrino mass of 0.28 eV, is intrigued but sceptical. "It's extremely interesting to get the neutrino mass from cosmological data sets," he says. "It's also very challenging – I can easily see different analyses getting slightly different answers, and equally I think the tension in the data might have other explanations such as local variation of the Hubble constant or other systematic errors."
Both papers are published in Physical Review Letters (Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 051303; Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 051302).


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Bridgend's Local and Family History Centre is situated next to the Sunnyside Council Offices, just a stone throw away from Bridgend Recreation Centre or a five minute walk from the town centre. In the April of last year the Centre made the move from it's previous location of the Coed Park Reference Headquarters to the newly built Ty'r Ardd facility. Coed Park Headquarters has since been sold to the Wales and West Housing Association.
What can you access at Ty'r Ardd?
- The Registry Office: Registering Births, Deaths and Marriages. The building is home to various ceremony rooms including a 25 guest room and a 75 guest room. Ty'r Ardd also caters for civil partnerships, baby naming ceremonies and vow renewals.
- 13 computers with full internet access. Ty'r Ardd also has a find my past subscription which will allow you to trace your family tree through the Census, BMD, Armed Forces, Education and Travel records. (They will soon be switching to ancestry.co.uk)
- Burial and Baptism records donated by Glamorgan Historical Society.
- The Purchase of Certificates.
- The Tithe Registers and Tithe Maps.
- Original Parish Registers - donated by Cardiff.
- Various Periodicals.
- Various Archaeological Records.
- Ty'r Ardd is the only place in Wales where you will find the complete GRO Index for Great Britain.
- A large collection of local photographs and press cuttings.
- OS Maps
- Ty'r Ardd holds a large selection of local history, research and reference books.
Ty'r Ardd has a large news paper archive including:
- The Cambrian: 1804 - 1930
- Glamorgan Free Press: May 1891 - December 1943
- Glamorgan Advertiser: June 1919 - January 1962
- Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian: 1845 - 1874
- Merthyr Express: 1924 - 1953
- Glamorgan, Monmouth and Brecon Gazette: 1833 - 1844
There will always be two members of staff available to help you with any queries.
Directions from Bridgend Town Centre
For more information about Bridgend Libraries
Images: Old Bridge, Bridgend


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Employees at logistics centers of US retail giant Amazon have continued their strike action as they hope to see management agree to talks on higher wages. Unions said it might extend the walkouts beyond this week.
Amazon workers continued their strikes on Tuesday at two locations, upholding their demand the company should accept a collective bargaining agreement for the mail order and retail sector.
So far, Amazon has treated it staff as lower-paid logistics workers and insisted employees received above-average wages for that particular sector.
Following a day of massive walkouts at three logistics centers in Germany on Monday which saw a record 1,800 people participate, Amazon workers continued their strikes in Leipzig and Bad Hersfeld, with employees in Leipzig saying they wouldn't stop before Friday.
Ratcheting up the pressure
"We'll certainly have the stamina to do so, not just this week," a senior Verdi official, Stefanie Nutzenberger told the daily "Neue Passauer Presse." She added it was a scandal Amazon continued to decide arbitrarily how much it paid workers, and that at a time when employees were facing all the stress of a pre-Christmas season with extremely high parcel delivery volumes.
The current strike action in Germany had been supported by several US trade unions who staged a protest rally in front of Amazon's headquarters in Seattle.
hg/kms (dpa, AFP)
German labor union Verdi has intensified its strike action against online retailer Amazon, seeking to slow deliveries in the middle of the crucial Christmas holiday season. Amazon is rejecting a demand for higher pay. (16.12.2013)


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5-14 May 2017 | Prenčov, Slovak Republic
"Dragon Dreaming - participatory methodology in Youth Work is a Seminar for trainers, youth workers, leaders and all people who want to work on community projects.
Aim of the seminar is to provide leading competences supporting youth workers in their work, allowing them to raise the long lasting motivation and active engagement of young people to public issues, civic life and common projects. Therefore we will focus on two main topics: motivation and active participation. To reach this topics in educational process (as well as in civic life and public topics), it is important to create environment where personal ideas, abilities, competences and dreams of young people are not only accepted, but meaningfully integrated and used for common benefit. This creates a sense of belonging to community and raise of personal motivation and interest.
Dragon Dreaming method supports managing projects of any kind, focusing on deep engagement of every member. It offers methods for the realization of creative, collaborative and sustainable projects and organizations. The method integrates holistic aspects which have long been ignored, separated or divided in our culture: our right and left brain hemispheres, logic and intuition, individual and environment, theory and practice, thought and action, work and play, success and failure. Dragon Dreaming is based on liberating collective intelligence, creativity, cooperation and the sleeping power within ourselves and inherent in our communities.
D.D. is inspired by living systems, theory of chaos, development of organizations and knowledge and wisdom of aborigine spiritual traditions. D.D. is a game with new rules: together we develop and live win-win-win projects. We will learn to implement all important steps of D.D.:-Dreaming – Planning – Realization – Celebration. We include all the participants, their qualities and needs. We do our best to name and meet the dragons (obstacles) on the road. Then we can realize even that, we haven´t dream about. Together!
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Civic association ART KRUH is corporation of artists, craftsmen, creative and common people attempting to live harmoniously with nature and society.
Our mission is preservation and development of cultural heritage and traditional values in the fields of culture, crafts, arts and everyday life-style especially in rural area. Therefore the attempt of our organization is to create a space in which people are able to educate, self-realize and self-know themselves through non formal education and another activities. Following environmental awareness, we are using in our work principles of Permacultura. Our activities aim to contribute to local and regional development and sustainability. By providing non formal education we support personal development aim to motivate public to active, creative and sustainable happy life-style.
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the past couple of months have been, for lack of a better word, INSANE.
a sprained ankle for our bud.
emergency spinal surgery for our dog.
a nasty stomach flu that took us all out (including grandma and grandpa) for a couple of weeks.
horrible teething (canines and molars coming in).
transitioning from two to one nap.
some things are slowly returning back to normal and others will probably be around for a while.
official stats from his 15 month dr. visit -
- height: 33" (75th percentile)
- weight: 24 lbs (50th percentile)
what's new & what i want to remember about 16 months -
- swim lessons - so far he's had two, and overall, he's a fan, which isn't a surprise given how much he loves water. he's still learning to get comfortable floating on his back, and we skipped submersions during the second lesson, but he has no fear coming down the big 'slide' or sliding off the side, back into the pool.
- imitates sounds - his new favorites: wailing like a fire engine, 'who-who' (owl) and my favorite, 'uh-oh' which he says so sincerely anytime he drops something or something falls on accident. of course, he still has his favorite stand-by sound for motor vehicles of any kind ('crrrrrrr') and his barking sound anytime he sees a dog.
- obsessed with airplanes, motorcycles & bikes - he usually hears airplanes before we do, and points at them in the sky. if a motorcycle goes by, he's enamored with the sound, and if a bike goes by, he tries to chase it.
- also obsessed with trains and trucks - this is probably due to a couple of new books we've been reading, which he wants to read OVER AND OVER again. it's now really fun to see these things in real life, point them out to him, and see the connection being made in his mind. most recently, we've seen fire engines out and about, and he immediately starts making his 'woo-woo' sound.
- pointing at objects in books and wanting to know what's 'this?' or 'that?'. and he's not satisfied to be told once; he can stay on a page for a long time, asking what things are, over and over again. he's also able to point to most animals and other random objects when asked. the realization of how much he already knows boggles my mind.
- wants to help - whether this means grabbing the towel out of my hand and wiping down his own food tray, face or hands, or helping put away toys, he wants to do what he sees us doing.
- climbing - just in the last couple of weeks, our little monkey has mastered the art of climbing, and it's crazy how quickly he's learned this! basically, if he can reach it, he'll climb it, and he can reach just about anything, or at least huff and puff his way while he pulls himself up using his own strength. of course, this means a whole new level of attentiveness required on my part, but it is fun to see him come up with creative ways to climb. usually that entails pulling a toy near the ottoman or couch and using that to stand on, or pulling down a throw pillow off the couch, then standing on it to climb the couch.
- the backyard is his new world! the weather's was fantastic for a few weeks, and the hubs sectioned off the yard so that our zoe-girl has her section, and the rest of the yard belongs to our bud.
- multiple trips to the zoo - his first trip to the zoo was when he was about 6 months old, and he hadn't been since. however, in the last few weeks, he's been twice, and it's so fun to see the way he connects with animals he's only seen in books. we bought a zoo membership, and i have no doubt it'll be worth every penny!
- loves to dance - he's always enjoyed music, but we found the genre that inspires the most moves: OLDIES!
- is becoming much more adept at puzzles - not only does he want to play with his puzzles all the time, he knows where the pieces belong, and can usually make them fit. it's been surprising for me to see how long he can usually stay focused on this.
- loves pull-toys - he has a few, and didn't show any interest in them until recently. now, pulling them around the house (one in each hand) is a daily favorite activity.
- how much he understands - it boggles my mind just how quickly he went from exploring his world to actively participating in and understanding it. if i tell him 'it's time to go bye-bye, he immediately starts making the 'crrrr' sound for 'car' and goes to the garage door, waiting for me to open it. if i ask him to bring me something from the other room, he will retrieve exactly what i've asked for. if i ask him to help me find our car in the parking lot as we leave the grocery store, he becomes very excited when he sees it, and points it out to me.
- knows his animals - one of his favorite toys to play with is his fisher-price little people noah's ark. it's half his size, but every day, without fail, he pulls it out of his toy box, carries it to me, and wants me to sit and play animals with him. i'm not sure when it happened, but he knows all the animals by name, and will hand me the right animal when i ask him.
- he remembers everything - we have to be careful what we show him or do with him now, because once he's experienced something he wants to do it over and over, and remembers things days later.
- ability to stay focused - this has greatly increased. his attention span isn't always great, especially when he's surrounded by too many toys and play options, but when working on puzzles or reading books, he can now easily spend 10-15 minutes on one task, as long as someone's working on it with him.
- is very generous with his kisses!
- has learned to hold my hand - this is obviously a safety concern, and we've been working on it for quite some time. to say he was resistant to holding my hand while walking outdoors is a major understatement, but we kept at it, and he eventually learned it was fruitless to fight mama on this one. :)
- rocks, especially throwing them
- strawberries
- blueberries
- toast
- chicken (especially costco's rotisserie chicken)
- airplanes
- trains
- shooting hoops and balls of all kinds
- THE BEACH - sand, ocean, sticks, seashells, all of it!
- grandma sue
- playgrounds, especially slides and climbing the play structures
- daddy's jeep, especially the big wheels (and points to every jeep on the road that looks like daddy's jeep)
- bath-time - he can't get in the tub soon enough
- watching mama make smoothies (the loud blender is very fascinating)
- watching older kids play
- teething - there have been some pretty rough patches the last couple of months where i was convinced my sweet-tempered, playful, happy and silly child was replaced by a temperamental cranky, fit-throwing, whine & cry at the drop of a hat child i didn't recognize, and i just wanted MY child back! the only thing that makes sense as the culprit is teething since during this same time period he had 6-8 teeth come in, and just recently, i've started seeing glimpses of our former child surface again.
- eating - this has become a recurring theme, and i'm somewhat resigned to the fact that our bud simply isn't a big eater or the best eater. i'm not-so-secretly envious of children of good friends of mine his age who eat anything and everything even when they're not hungry!
- getting off the bottle - yes, he still gets a bottle, and even though the 'experts' recommend weaning children off around one year of age, i obviously haven't been too concerned about this nor found it to be a big enough priority to address...until now. the fact that he REFUSES to drink milk from a sippy cup is starting to worry me because i know the older he is, the more difficult the transition will be. there hasn't been a sippy cup that he's really taken to, so that's part of the issue. the kid's camelback cup we purchased a while ago was a hit for a few days, and now he won't even drink water out of it. oy!
- early wake time - he's up at 6am sharp each morning. those mornings he sleeps until 6:30, i feel as though i've received a gift! not sure why he's such an early bird, and yes, i'm also terribly envious of those mommy friends of mine whose children sleep till 7 or even 8/9...lucky!!
- transition to one nap - he's pretty much transitioned to one nap now, although he still gets pretty tired around 9:30/10am when he used to take his morning nap. i usually try and push his nap to at least 11:30, and he typically sleeps 2-3 hours. those times when i've given in and let him go down at 9:30 or 10 thinking he would also take an afternoon nap, have completely backfired, leaving a VERY long stretch of time until bedtime, and a cranky baby. so this one-nap thing is definitely a work in progress. overall, it's been a positive experience, and i really like that it (usually) allows us to be able to get out of the house for longer stretches of time.
- tantrums - over the past couple of months, our bud has started throwing tantrums. they haven't been the full-blown, melt-down type, but him reacting out of frustration, usually when he isn't allowed to do something he wants (like play in the fridge or climb inside the dishwasher). usually his tantrum entails him either sprawling on the ground and crying or throwing whatever object is closest to him. luckily, he calms down pretty quickly, and almost always they happen when he's hungry and/or tired, so that's pretty easily fixed.
despite its challenges, this stage is fun, fun fun. seeing him soak up his world like a little sponge and make new connections every day is thrilling as a mom. and although he is definitely asserting his independence and learning to manage h his emotions, he's still my little cuddle-bug, and still definitely needs his mama. :)
and some VERY belated pics from easter...i need to find another excuse for him to wear that bow-tie!


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Filed under: Review, Seattle | Tags: Erin Langner, Patte Loper, Platform Gallery
The small row of Patte Loper's modest, handcrafted sculptures from new exhibition Still Point of the Returning World discretely lines a pedestal in the back of Seattle's Platform Gallery. Untitled (Leipzig) resembles an awkward architectural model of stacked boxes, covered by a bulbous sheet; the nearby funnel created from sticks and cardboard strips stands stagnant in space, like a film prop without a set. Within the surrounding paintings, however, these foreign sculptural objects explode into complex cornerstones of the artist's fantastical, painted environments. The mound of boxes becomes a radiating acropolis, stranded impossibly between a fairyland and a modernist kitchen in the painting titled Queen Mab; in Remember Me as a Time of Day, the funnel transforms into a radiant, pink cyclone, expunging tree limbs and frolicking foxes into a two-dimensional forest. – Erin Langner, Seattle Contributor
Remember Me as a Time of Day, 20 x 24 inches, oil on panel, 2011. Courtesy Patte Loper and Platform Gallery.
Filed under: Art World | Tags: Angelina Gualdoni, Astrid Bowlby, Charles Burwell, Craig Drennen, Cynthia Ona Innis, Erik Parker, James Cook, Keith Mayerson, Kyle Field, Linda Geary, Liz Markus, Louise LeBourgeois, Marcus Kenney, Patte Loper, Stephen Dinsmore
Kyle Field, from the exhibition KYLE FIELD: Waxing Marks, Courtesy Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles.
This fall there are some really exciting shows at commercial galleries all across the country, especially in the case of artists previously featured in New American Paintings, and we're pleased to share with our readers the must-see gallery shows of the season. Our staff has put together a list of 40 of the top painting exhibitions at private galleries across the country—from New York to San Francisco to Houston, Chicago, L.A. and more—featuring more than 25 notable and not-to-be-missed shows of contemporary painting from major painting players like Brice Marden, Luc Tuymans, and Danny Rolph. Let the gallery hopping begin! —Evan J. Garza