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There is no "normal"
Sarah Mali writes to her friends in Toronto's Jewish Community, after having recently returned to Israel following several years as their Shlicha (Jewish Agency Emissary).
"Wear pretty pajamas for bed just in case something happens and you need to leave the house in-flight."
This was the advice my aesthetically-conscious nana (bubbie) gave me when I was a little girl living in North-West London. I had always giggled when she told me this knowing it was silliness but not really sure why.
Last night when my children asked how to prepare for another siren I recalled this advice to them hoping they would giggle like I once had.
It is hard to imagine a military siren in Jerusalem especially since only a few minutes earlier the shrill shofar-sounding call for Shabbat had been heard above the city. During dinner my theologically sensitive 8 year old invoked the phrase from Grace After Meals on Shabbat and asked defiantly: but we say that God looks after us particularly on Shabbat? We praised her for her Talmudic thinking but realized that the question hadn't really been directed at us to answer…
Here is the most absurdly-sounding thing of all: we Jerusalemites have it easy: we have 1minute 45 seconds to get to a place of safety – that is compared to Ashdod (40 seconds) or Sderot (15 seconds) under a constant barrage of rockets. But it isn't the drama of the 15 seconds itself – it is what these 15 seconds do to the space in time that lies between them.
To me, that has been the strategic sensitivity behind Toronto Jewish Federation's continuous funding of Sderot despite intermittent periods of quiet.
Let me illustrate this: My sister-in-law lives with her husband and four little children next to Ashdod. Her oldest is the same age as my 8 year old and suffers from a severe genetic disorder; she cannot eat properly, talk or walk. This past summer when my husband took the kids for a visit he had his first encounter with her existential situation. Behind her in his car with our kids, as the siren went off he saw my sister-in-law slam on the breaks, stop her car and begin to try and get her children out. She quite literally threw her little baby at a passer-by who was just about to turn around himself and run for cover and then proceeded to untie her four year old and then her 6 year old. Then she reached for her beautiful first born daughter and tried to release her from her seat at the back of a specially designed van and lug her out of the back towards safety.
The siren by this time had long since passed – danger had subsided, everyone could continue as normal.
The problem is that there is no 'normal' for my sister-in-law: she lives with the reality that she won't make it.
That is worth repeating: My sister-in-law knows that 40 seconds by herself is simply not enough to save her family.
And therein lies the heartbreak.
In synagogue this morning, with many men missing as they had been called for reserve duty, Israeli cynicism prevailed. Friends commented to me with a smile; 'welcome back to Israel.' We all muttered something like 'yehiye beseder' (all will be ok) and continued on.
Eric Yoffie wrote beautifully in Ha'aretz, that Israel was established to protect our children.
The truth is that Jewish sovereignty is about that and more: it is about the two sirens getting mixed up in my mind, about the cell phones and army uniforms in shul, about the question of a child wondering about Divine justice in a place she regards as home and, maybe most significantly, the fact that I am writing this to you straight after Shabbat out of dual feelings that I need to tell you and I need you to hear.
This for me is Zionism and this is why I am here.
Shavua tov from Jerusalem, Sarah


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February in America means two important holidays for retailers: the Super Bowl and Valentine's Day. While the specific items and reasons for purchasing may be different, both are days when retailers aim to get it right either through sales or advertising. To break down this consumer data, the Retail Insight Center released its projected spending for both events to see how it relates to past years.
If these figures are any guide, 2015 may be the best year for consumers in over a decade.
Starting with the Super Bowl on Feb. 1 (Go Patriots!), the RIC estimates that 80 percent of all purchases for the game will be for food and beverages, with roughly 50 percent of people either going to parties, hosting them, or heading to a bar to watch the game. On average, people will spend $77.88 for Super Bowl Sunday, which is up from $68.27 in 2014, suggesting a greater propensity to spend for the big game.
However, the increase in spending on the game might not translate to secondary spending that comes in the form of the multimillion dollar advertising spots during the game. Over 35 percent of adults consider the game the most important part of the Super Bowl, while commercials lag behind at under 20 percent. When asked about the commercials, 80 percent of survey respondents thought of them as "entertainment," while only 20 percent said they helped raise brand awareness, and almost 17 percent thought they were a waste of time and money. But who doesn't love seeing Clydesdales and puppies together regardless of whether or not you'd actually buy a case of Budweiser?
Valentine's Day, on the other hand, is a big spending holiday, and V-Day 2015 might be the biggest spending day of the decade. RIC survey data shows that even though just 54.9 percent of adults will celebrate the holiday, those who do will spend an average of $142.31 on the day, up from the $133.91 spent on 2014. That comes out to a total of $18.9 billion, a new survey high.
Where will this money be spent? According to the data, 70 percent of adults will spend money at department and discount stores, while 25 percent will go online for gifts. Local and specialty stores remain well represented in the survey data, with 30 percent of adults going there this year, while florists will receive a visit from about 20 percent of people. However, the market for Valentine's Day doesn't extend to the non-celebrants, of whom a vast majority plan on doing nothing for Valentine's Day.
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On Wednesday, July 27th, Machine will be participating in a scrimmage against the US Men's Under 20 team from 8:30pm - 10:00pm at North Central College in Naperville.
The Men's Under 20 team is a collection of the top young players from across the country, who are currently in Chicago for a week long training camp prior to traveling to Wroclaw, Poland for the World Junior Ultimate Championships.
Coached by Chase Sparling-Beckley, Sam O'Brien, and George Stubbs, Machine will face off with the U20 team under the lights at Benedetti-Wehrli Stadium on North Central College's campus. The game will start immediately following the U20 Women's scrimmage with Chicago's Elite Women's team, Nemesis at 7:00pm - 8:30pm.
Both scrimmages are open to the public. Come see the future stars of the sport as they prepare to represent the country at the world level!
Post-Scrimmage Facebook Post- Machine had the opportunity to scrimmage against the US Men's Under 20 team yesterday evening in Naperville. (Both the US Men's and Women's Junior National teams are conducting week-long training camps at North Central College, prior to departing for Poland for the Junior World Championships next week.)
The scrimmage was competitive and high energy from start to finish, with numerous displays of elite athleticism and highly skilled execution on both sides. Machine came away with a W, but it was clear that the US U20 team is discipline, spirited, and talented beyond their years. It is a testament to the organization of their coaching staff and the dedication of their players. We are happy to have had the opportunity to meet these young ambassadors of US ultimate and to have had the chance to help them in their preparation for a run at a gold medal. We will be following their progress closely, and are very confident they have what it takes to become world champions in Poland! Good luck!


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A timely and per my wife's criticism a bit spiced up recap of the JGL action from week 5. Philadelphia Freeloaders (3-2) 86, Virginia Gentlemen (2-3) 85
In a matchup where Vince Young outscored Matt Schaub by 13 points and Mike Tolbert outscored Arian Foster by 5 points there is no other way for it to end except by being decided by 1 point. The worst part for Amy, manager of the Gentlemen, is that if she had not started a Defense she would have won the match. But I agree that the Rams looked to be a great start against the Lions.
Fairport Diehards (3-2) 85, Sedalia Seamonkeys (2-3) 78
And Diana's Seamonkeys get exactly what they want out of Ray Rice, finally, but when your second leading scorer is your Kicker it's hard to finish with the W. And running into an on-again Chris Johnson and hated (by me) Cowboy QB who was racking up points playing from behind meant that Tom Stone's Diehards took the win. Both teams can look at the high bench production and play that age old Fantasy football game of second guessing yourself.
Connecticut BNS Brawlers (3-2) 77, GeekPress Generals (3-2) 58
The Brawlers victory gives me the opportunity to talk about my favorite subject and that is me winning fantasy football games. Because his victory and mine came in lockstep due to the huge day by Malcom Floyd which necessitated a huge day by my QB. Paul's Generals who have been solid all season, had the typical fantasy week where almost nothing goes right which was capped by Aaron Rodgers going down with a concussion at the end of the game.
Dr. Ego Spengler (4-1) 69, Washington Oppressors (1-4) 53
The good Dr. Spengler led by Mike King has been the most consistent JGLer over the past two years. But this is ridiculous to get a victory where the top scorer is TE Marcedes Lewis with 17 is illegal, and I plan to use my commissioner powers to correct this miscarriage of Justice. However I will insist that John Britely's Oppressors still retain their loss as well due to the fact that he snagged LeSean McCoy on waivers on Sunday morning when I am the one who's supposed to have the best player on my favorite team. Unfortunately for the Oppressors in the best possible week to defeat the Ego got nothing from their team.
Portland Agents Of Fortune (2-3) 109, Culver City Conmen (2-3) 88
In true fantasy football fashion the Conmen have a solid week from many of their starters even with 4 players on BYE, but still manage to run into a team that had an even a better week. As Brian Reich's Agents managed to put together huge numbers despite starting my least favorite Manning. Yes I must admit Cooper is my favorite Manning.
Rearden Steelers (5-0) 99, KC Money Barons (0-5) 74
I am considering changing both of my daughters names to Philip Rivers as his consistency this season is the main reason I am 5 - 0, also a timely Falcons pickup before last weeks games helped me quite a bit here. All I can say to Corey and his Money Barons is the winner of the league last year had a losing record, so anything can happen. Also to illustrate this I'm 1 - 4 in the fantasy league my brother runs.


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Life Groups at Shawnee Church of the Nazarene (formerly known as home groups) are groups of 12-20 people who meet together on a regular basis for the purpose of fellowship, prayer, and spiritual growth.
Life Groups are intergenerational, meaning that all ages participate. We believe that the church is an inclusive community. We also believe that as the body of Christ we all have responsibility for each other and can learn from one another. So, in Life Groups adults of all ages, teens, and children meet together and help each other to grow in the faith.
Most groups meet on Sunday evenings once or twice a month. There are some that meet at other times, (Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon, etc.)
Interested in being a part of one of these discipleship small groups? We would love to help you get connected. Contact the church office.


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Sunday, October 15, 2006
Christopher Condo Sales to Begin Next Week
Sales are expected to begin this week for the Christopher condominium project, according to a representative from the Cornerstone Group (which has taken over sales for this project from the Tenacity Group). The Christopher, a renovated 84-unit building located at 3109 Naylor Rd. SE, near the Naylor metro station in Hillcrest, offers some of the most affordable unit prices inside (barely) the DC line, with 1-bedroom units starting at $140,000 (there are also 2-bedroom units available). Delivery is expected for the end of this year.
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
Nuts to You
Little acorns. Maybe not so little, about hand-palm size. The bisque-fired clay (Longhorn White) unglazed is the white of the caps, the black is black iron oxide rubbed into the markings. I never bothered to glaze them so Susan took over and did some magic with alcohol ink on the bottoms and a little gold paint on the top.
School is out for a while so I'm trying my best to drive her nuts.
I'm listening to The Goldfinch from Audible.com, pretty darn good. Last night we watched Elysium from Netflix (we love to get red envelopes). Nope, just barely 3 stars - overdone acting by the villain and (per Susan) stereotyped characterization of the females. Matt Damon was OK but Jodie Foster ... she could out-do Bette Davis and Joan Crawford on the evil stuff.
I've been asked my opinion about the VA hospital horrors. Yes, I was in the military but qualifying for VA care is on a tiered system and the top of the tier is veterans who have a disability due to actual combat injuries. The tiers go down, at the bottom is the group of veterans who just need to see a doctor and had a very minimum time in the service and who were discharged when they were healthy. That group is pretty large because (obviously) everyone would like free medical care and after all, that was what they were promised. So I'm eligible for that tier but no thank you, I'll go to a regular doctor and deal with my co-pay.
Do I believe the horrors of the wait time? Absolutely. But everyone is ignoring "the elephant in the room." There wouldn't be long wait times if they had more doctors. But they don't have enough doctors because nobody wants to work for the VA because they can make more money elsewhere and not have to put up with petty turf battles and entitled staff/clerks who will get their salary regardless of how they deal with the veterans.
Footnote to the whole mess: I have a friend who uses VA exclusively. He needed to see a podiatrist so in early May they gave him an appointment in mid-August. No surprise there, he expected that time delay. But.... last week, Surprise! Surprise! they called him ... Surprise! Surprise!... and offered him an appointment in mid-June instead. Somebody is running scared.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Armed and Ready
I got in big trouble over these little arms, about 2" long. Susan painted them for me with Golden's gold and stainless steel paint. And then I went and sold them at our student art sale. Oops! She liked them and wanted me to keep them. I told her I'd make some more and got her typical response: "Oh, sure, I've heard that promise before." In my defense.... well, I have no defense.
She also painted this little squash for me - alcohol inks on the bottom and acrylic on the top with gold dots. It sold late in the day at the sale, which surprised me because I thought it was a pretty good piece. I used to be hesitant to paint clay pieces (already bisque fired) because I thought everything had to be glazed or it wasn't "real". She's found numerous examples in books and in museums that list "paint" as one of the materials on a contemporary ceramic piece so I've finally gotten over that hangup. It seems that the Old Rules are fading away in favor of just making a piece look the way you want, regardless of the materials or style.
I did set this piece aside for Susan, as I thought it was the best of the three "fantasy" birds I made. The other two I sold at the sale. They are all about 3-4" high.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Remembering, Memorial Day, May 2014
I'm going home
Without the sorrow
Going home
Sometime tomorrow
Going home
To where it's better
Than before
Going home
Without my burden
Going home
Behind the curtain
Going home
Without this costume
That I wore
Without the sorrow
Going home
Sometime tomorrow
Going home
To where it's better
Than before
Going home
Without my burden
Going home
Behind the curtain
Going home
Without this costume
That I wore
Leonard Cohen, from Going Home
|Killed in Action, Vietnam, 1968
|Missing in Action, Vietnam, June 1967
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Washington DC, Part 3
Image above by Wolf Kahn at an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. We were really surprised at the quality of the collection shown - another one of those times when we didn't plan to see the exhibit (it was across the building from a Monuments Men exhibit) but thought we'd just rush through but wound up looking for over an hour.
How can you not want to have art like this in your home? These two in the National Gallery of Art were Susan's favorites this time, Degas' Before the Ballet above and Rousseau's Boy on the Rocks below. She winds up with different favorites every visit.
Here's one of my favorites:
And here's something at our Metro station that had me Fully Flummoxed:
What the ....? An angel with black wings? Huh? Contrary to New York City where we talk to everyone, Washington DC is very uptight and unfriendly so we just behave ourselves.
Well, not exactly everyone. We happened to be there when the Cherry Blossom Festival was going on so we stopped to watch their parade and wound up talking to these people. You might not recognize him but I've now put his books on my Amazon wishlist -- Andy Straka. An interesting thing about him, aside from the fact that he is famous and that we had fun talking to him and his charming young accomplice, is that he is a licensed falconer.
The parade was kind of a bust, slow moving because it kept stopping so people in the parade could sing or perform for the fat cats who had paid to have grandstand seats. The ordinary people like us just waited and waited on the sidewalk for the parade to move on. Definitely not like the Macy's Thanksgiving parade. Not to mention the fact that we had no idea what this float was supposed to be.
The weather was great, the art was great, but it was a very long day and I got really tired and it's really easy to fall asleep on the Metro... or in the station.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Jamie Fine and Lori Katz (DC, Part 2)
Both Jamie Fine and Lori Katz are ceramic artists who are so willing to share information about how they work that it is almost frightening. They are one of the reasons we always go back to the Torpedo Factory. I didn't know which one to feature as the lead-in picture on this blog so my Blog Wrangler settled my dilemma by choosing a Selfie she made in the bathroom on our trip. She told me if I stared at it long enough the mirror fog would evaporate and she would be revealed in all her splendor, glory and hotel towel.
Above is a wall installation of Lori's tiles, set up at the Torpedo Factory where she has a space. Her website is here.
Below is Jamie Fine giving me an up-close-and-personal lesson in texture tool making.
Not until I got home and checked her info on the internet did I find out she had studied with Ruth Duckworth, who is one of my favorite artists. We saw a show of her work in Chicago years ago and the book of her work from that show survived our downsizing and has a prominent place in my collection of artists' books.
I've watched Jamie's video several times now.
Usually we see Susan Finsen at the Torpedo Factory but this year we missed her. You'll have to settle for a shot taken through the window of her studio. I really like her idea of "pocket" paintings..
A fine finish to our day? Could you ask more than to have your name on a porta-potty?
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Washington DC, Part 1
We go from New York City to Washington DC every spring to see the Smithsonian Craft Show, an absolute 5-star show. Loads of great images of artwork on the website.
Here I'm showing you just a few of the 90+ artists who are juried in to exhibit there. The piece above is a purse made of polymer clay by Kathleen Dustin, below is a sculptural piece. No, I didn't realize polymer clay could look that good. There is an interesting video of her working here.
I don't know anything about weaving but the designs in the tapestries by Wence and Sandra Martinez were really eye-catching.
Jackie Abrams wove baskets using scraps of fabric. We talked about how she would take clothing that people gave her, old childrens' dresses, wedding clothes, their favorite shirts, and use that to make the basket. I told her I thought a lot of military veterans (including me) kept the last uniform they wore so that might be another source of fabric for her. The piece below didn't have old clothes in it but instead had stones woven into it.
Gerard Justin Ferrari made some really cool ceramic pieces and was a fascinating person to talk to, very thoughtful about what he made and why he did the series he did.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
New York City, Part 6
Let's wrap this up because 6 days days was too long for us in a big noisy city. And expensive! We finished with the American Museum of Natural History because I'm really interested in space (love watching Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson on Sunday nights) and they have the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater there. We saw the Dark Universe show(YouTube link here) in the Space Theater and then looked at a lot of dead stuffed birds. That was supposed to help me with the shapes in my birds. Maybe.
We wandered through the Poison exhibit. The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was all about poison - hatters went mad because they were exposed to chemical poisons when making hats. Susan really liked the exhibit (which made me a little nervous) but the best part about it was that we were practically the only ones in there and it was quiet. You had to pay extra to see it so I guess most people didn't bother. Or maybe it's because most people in that museum were children yelling and screaming. Why is it that kids have to scream when they see dinosaur bones? Or any kind of bones?
We finished with Mysteries of the Unseen World movie - there is an excellent trailer for it on YouTube (here). This is what the flea on your cat looks like, not that you really wanted to know:
The museum is interesting but creepy-antiquated and very, very user-unfriendly.
Friends we made on this day? On the C Line subway to the museum we talked to the teacher with 28 first-graders, all excited about going to the museum. They were from a charter school and were incredibly well-behaved (but probably screamed when they saw the dinosaur). In the line for the Dark Universe movie, Susan and the guy behind her discussed how you said the title "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in Hebrew and how mice behaved.
Real friends we saw here in New York City know who they are and we love that they can take time to be with us and we love the wide-ranging conversations we get into and we love that they can come to museums with us and not hover and we love knowing people who live in this city because they see their city in a different light than we do and we love that.
Leaving New York City and remembering the world's worst comb-over:
and a creative museum visitor:
Just so you don't think New York City has everything, here's Austin own Nekkid Guy. He rides his bike everywhere and he definitely personifies TMI.
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Saturday, May 10, 2014
New York City, Part 5
We were at the MOMA for a day. The whole day? Just about. But with us "whole day" means starting at 10 a.m. and ending about 4 p.m. with at least two coffee breaks and lunch. After that, our feet and our eyeballs and our brain are fried. Above is a piece by Mark Tobey that Susan has seen twice now (previously in November) and is totally enchanted by. Maybe it's the title: The Void Devouring the Gadget Era. It was done in 1942 but is probably more appropriate today.
|Dave Walker cartoon
She also likes John Cage's Fontana Mix (?) but whatever...
We saw a cool Jasper Johns exhibit where I learned that he used Kurotani Kozo paper so I'm sure that if I used that kind of paper I would be asked to exhibit at the MOMA. We never know what to expect from the "smaller" exhibits but are always pleasantly surprised. Robert Heinecken had some Polaroid prints that he included with some "He said/She said" disjointed fictional dialogue, designed for Mature audiences only, but very creative.
The links above may disappear after the exhibit goes down but you can still do a search on the MOMA website. Unfortunately, sometimes their website is big on descriptions and sparse on works, even those in their own collection.
And of course, a Gauguin exhibit. Sometimes the big name exhibits are just too much to take in at once, sort of like eating too much dessert, but you have to do it because .... it's there! For you! And better than in every art book you've ever seen, but sometimes almost surreal compared to your memory of those art book images.
Making friends again, with Natasha at lunch (she's studying to be a massage therapist) and Allie in the bookstore (she's originally from California). We had also made friends with a Chinese woman with two children, waiting at the bus stop with us. She and Susan had a discussion about the best app to use to see when the next bus is coming, which was not going to be any time soon.
We've been asked why, if we consider ourselves Introverts, do we talk to strangers? Actually, we are Pseudo-Extroverts -- people who pretend to be Extroverts to prevent being labeled as an Introvert, with all the accompanying tsk-tsking that seems to evoke. Talking to strangers is much easier than talking to people who know you because you can literally walk away from the conversation (and friendship) within minutes. It does take practice. When we first started talking to strangers it was a horrific terrible pain to do but then it became a easier challenge and now it's almost like a joke - "Who will we meet today?"
Just to be sure you know it's always about Me, here's Vanton and another birdie.
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Jami Milne (Artist-in-Residence with Ballet Des Moines)/
Last winter, Jami Milne was the inaugural "artist in residence" with Ballet Des Moines. Jami was given space within the ballet studio, as well as access to staff and dancers. Over a six week period she documented their virtuosity in a series of stunning, sometimes ethereal portraits. Read about her experience with the residency below.
Before we discuss the residency, I'd liked to know a bit about how you became an artist. Can you tell me about that?
I assume in womb that there was this spark of DNA that said you will be an artist. (Laughing) But more officially, I studied advertising in college. I have this innate desire to research and to write, but there's also a part of me that wants to create and I felt that advertising was the right blending of passions for me.
Fast forward twelve years and I felt this unrest within my corporate job - I wanted to create and add value to something outside of that arena. So last fall I decided to take the jump: end my corporate career and dedicate myself to producing art for one full year. I'm aware not everyone can take that jump, but we sat down as a family and we all decided this venture was something worth supporting.
Since you're now a full-time artist, do you feel external pressure to create things more consistently?
I don't know if this is unique to me, but I certainly feel that when I don't have the time to create, there's a millions things that I wish I could create. As an artist, you will often hear the phrase if I just had the time? bouncing around your head. So when I finally gave myself a full year to create, I had to ask myself: I have the time, what am I going to do with it?
Being given a amount of time can be slightly debilitating until you take that first step, but once you take that step, it's a snowball. I've found that when I create one thing, I create dozens of things. But if I create nothing, it's like crickets. I've always been pleasantly surprised by that part of creating.
Tell me about how you became the first artist-in-residence. Did you reach out to them or did they reach out to you?
Six months into my career as an artist, I started to panic because there wasn't money coming in. Being a veteran of the corporate world, I was used to climbing that ladder and knowing what was coming up next; the paycheck was always on its way. So not having that next rung on the ladder felt somewhat terrifying,
So I sat down and began to think if I could manifest this paycheck, what work would I want to be producing? Over the last few years, I've grown increasingly fascinated by the art of ballet and that sparked the initial idea. I don't have much history being graceful or wearing tutus, but I was always enchanted by the athleticism of those beautiful dancers.
What if the ballet had an artist-in-residence? And what if I was able to live in the studio and was paid to document their art? Those are questions I began to ask myself. I grew curious about what body of work I could produce with that sort of access.
How did you approach Ballet Des Moines about this project?
I put together a proposal for them, detailing what I wanted to do and how it would benefit the ballet and community-at-large. It wasn't just give me this thing because I want it. I offered to help them manage it throughout the entire season if I was able to be the first artist. I really wanted to help give them a context for what it would all look like.
As with many non-profits, after I presented to them expressed their interest, but made it clear they had no additional funds to allocate towards this kind of project. Obviously, hearing that was difficult, but not unexpected. But it was equally as difficult to not just stop and say oh, you can't pay me? I'll just do this anyway! I know what I can create, just let me.
So I sat down with them again, told them how much I would need for six months of work, and then we began to talk through how I could help raise funds or apply for grants. The fundraising process took about a month and half and we were able to gather enough funds (and receive a serendipitous grant) that the residency was fully-funded within that time. It was this beautiful combination: luck of the universe and plain hard work.
How was the residency once it started? I can't imagine how stimulating that would be as an artist.
The beauty of it all is that I had my own office in their studio. My office was a desk, filing cabinet, and a garbage can but I'd never felt so proud to walk into a space! I'd worked so hard to get there. There was this sense of you're doing it. Holy hell, you're actually getting paid to be an artist!
Everyday there would be nine individuals that I was able to watch while they danced their hearts out. As I watched, I would tear up almost every time because I was very aware that I'd been given this wonderful opportunity to surround myself with these particular artists.
I will never be a ballerina, but I could witness this company create their art and I think being so entrenched in it made it feel like an out-of-body experience. It was almost like I felt that I could jump that high because I'm watching the dancers jump that high. In a career, that's an amazing thing to experience. It moved me greatly.
Did you face any challenges or difficulties during the residency?
As with any job, there was some aspects that sucked. (Laughing)
One thing that was tough was learning how to honor the vision of the artistic director. Often, I felt there was this dissonance that could occur if the director thought I was attempting to impede on his work or perhaps, infringe on the dancer's space.
That dissonance was something you have to learn to work through and I definitely understood fairly quickly that my role was to capture the images I saw and then quietly back away. I learned to value and respect his perspective and find a way to work within the perimeters so that he felt I was an asset, adding value to his artistry.
You were the first artist and there has already been a second. Next week, applications open for the spring semester and third residency. Was the artist following you a photographer as well? And do you hope to see this residency continue in Fall 2017?
The artist after me was a mixed-media artist named Christine Hilbert. She would take these ornate pieces of antique jewelry and creates watercolors with them. Her work was for the Nutcracker and I think her style complimented that production very well. Christine's work was very rich and dramatic, it felt so right for such a magical production.
As for continuing into next year...that's my hope! After the third residency concludes, it'll be up to the ballet to decide if it's worth the effort. It's an additional thing they have to organize, you know? It's a lot of work. But I truly believe it's so beneficial to the ballet and the artists trying to make it within the city.
I'm hopeful about it, though. I think people in Des Moines are owning their artistry and understanding that success may not mean the quintessential "get a degree, get married, and have child." People are beginning to understand that success means living a life that's authentic to who you are as a person.
Do you feel supported by the creative community in Des Moines?
I do! But it's important to note that I feel that continued support because I keep putting myself out there. It's easy to sit back and say people don't understand me or people don't understand my work. But every time I create, it creates an offshoot of two or three things other things and I feel that continued work creates opportunity for people to take interest in what I'm doing.
I still feel insecure sometimes, but I try to minimize the self-criticism going on in the back of my mind. One of the things that helps me is to create on a daily basis. I think that making something every day has held me accountable and has made me more comfortable with the act of creating consistently. Over the last year, I've committed myself to the 100 Day Project. I did it once before, but didn't get past day fifty-three. It's so easy to let the rest of life get in the way. This time, instead of photography, I made collages.
It's been both rewarding for me and even surprising - realizing what I'm capable of creating. It's exciting to think about what else my mind will come up with.
If you want to learn more about Ballet Des Moines, you can visit their website here. Also, if you haven't checked out aol's documentary series city.ballet, I suggest you do. It's an enchanting glimpse into New York's ballet scene and very engaging (also episodes are tne minutes long, so easy-to-watch, too!)


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They say music brings us together and although this performance only lasted four minutes, its epic orchestration brought together 1000 drummers, bassists, singers and guitarists united in a single plea–directed at five guys.
"Please come and play for us in Cesena, Italy."
Fabio Zaffagnini worked a year on producing the project. The result is a stunning video that is making his dream of seeing the Foo Fighters in concert come true.
The song, played on July 26 by 1000 musicians in an open field with amplifiers–and 250 drum kits, was the uplifting Foo Fighters anthem, Learn to Fly.
The multi-camera video has tallied almost 12 million views in two days, but one viewer mattered the most.
There's a reason Dave Grohl is the "nicest guy in rock and roll." 23 hours ago, a day after it went up on YouTube, he posted his response, speaking in Italian, the band's Facebook page.
"Hi, Cesena. I am David. I'm sorry I don't speak Italian. Only a little, a little. That video…how beautiful! Very beautiful. Thank you very much–a thousand times. We are coming, I promise. We'll see each other soon. Thank you very much. I love you. Bye."
Ci vediamo a presto, Cesena.... xxx DavidePosted by Foo Fighters on Friday, July 31, 2015
Learn more at the project's website, www.Rockin1000.com


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Today I'm back with another snippet from The Three Thieves and The Dom. Last week, Isidora was remembering Conall, this week she's recalling the day Penelope called her to speak about Grace...
The Three Thieves & The Dom
(The Witches' Mischief Series 3)Conall Dougal, infamous rake, wakes up one morning to find his most precious possessions have been stolen by the women he loves. Devastated, he goes in their search determined to find them and extract the truth from them in any way possible.
Penelope, Isidora and Grace are on the run. They've committed a crime and left behind the man they love. Presumably safe, they are stunned when he turns up ready to claim them back and discover the truth.
But, what is the truth? And will Conall's special kind of coaxing make them speak?
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Glessner House is offering specialized, free tours for CPS third grade classes. The tours use the museum to explore concepts about architecture and design, social history of late 19th and early 20th century Chicago, and how life in the earlier era compares today. The lessons are tailored to meet Illinois Learning Standards in Social Science, History and Art.
The Time Travelers program is made possible by a grant from the
Society of Architectural Historians, American Architecture and Landscape Field Trip Program
Students will receive a uniquely designed tour followed by several activities chosen to reinforce what they've learned. Activities include:
Working with floor plans
Reflecting on the lives of people who lived and worked in the house, through writing and drawing
Planning and building a structure for themselves
Teachers will receive classroom materials in advance including:
Stories about the family and staff who lived in the house
Information about architecture and design
Background on the architect of the building
Pictures of the house and related buildings
Suggested lesson ideas
The tour and activities last 90 minutes, and there is space available at the museum for students to eat their lunches.
Tours are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
To sign up for a tour or for more information please contact Gwen Carrion, Visitor Services Manager (firstname.lastname@example.com), or call 312-326-1480.
Glessner House will provide bus transportation to and from the Museum
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The Only Sane One Left/
Being a parent has been one long slog of worry punctuated by occasional moments of joy and inspiration. They say as a parent you are only as happy as your unhappiest child. While that is certainly true I find myself only truly relaxed when all the planes are back on the mother ship and in the hanger. The way it tends to work though, one rolls in for a fleeting visit and another rolls out on a new crackpot scheme. In the odd idle moment of reflection I sometimes think I am the only sane one in the asylum.
This time, it is Georgina, who is to have a crack at a 53 mile ultra marathon, The Race To The King from Arundel to Winchester, on June 23rd.
Very cool graphics of the route.
"On the 23rd June I will be attempting to run The Race to the King, a 53 mile ultra marathon along the South Downs Way.
After realising I would never run a fast 5K it seemed like a good idea to focus on a challenge where having a slow pace is an advantage. This weekend I completed my first 30 mile training run with over 1,100m of total elevation (more than Snowdon!).
A large part of my motivation for completing is the ultra marathon is the two charities I will be running for. The first is MIND, the mental health charity, which provides advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. The second is the Get Exploring Trust, which aims to inspire and support 13-25 year olds from disadvantaged backgrounds to get into the outdoors.
I understand that you receive emails like this all the time but I really appreciate the support. Here is the link to my fundraising page, any donations will help motivate me on the day!"
MIND is a fantastic charity but we are thrilled that she is also running for the 'House,' charity, the Get Exploring Trust. GET is still a young and small charity. We have though made grants this Spring to a range of groups and individuals for the 2018 expedition season. These include a 22 strong team of cadets from East London heading to Namibia, other individuals joining British Exploring expeditions to Iceland and Peru and some self organised expeditions such as one with two young men cycling from China to Paris.
So the game old Support Team will be dusting itself down for another outing. Do come and join me along the route. There are after all, some very fine pubs between Arundel and Winchester.


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Where To Find Freelance Writing Jobs/
Now that I've finished my Masters Degree in Creative Nonfiction, I am have room in my schedule to take on more freelance writing clients. My ultimate goal is to freelance write full-time so in the past three weeks since I finished school, I've really hit the ground running. To my surprise and delight, it hasn't taken long for me to find work. There are SO many great opportunities for writer out there, you just have to know where to look.
Here are the main three types of resources I use every day to continue to build my client list and achieve my dream of writing full-time.
Facebook Groups
Facebook Groups are an amazing resource for bloggers and freelancers alike because they connect you instantly to thousands of like-minded people. There are groups exclusively for writers to help each other find work, like Binders Full of Writing Jobs. In this group, members share any and all job listings they come across and they often also share any contacts they have to help your application or pitch get to the top of the pile.
Another great group is Online Business BFFs which caters to online entrepreneurs and digital freelancers of all kinds. This group has weekly collaboration threads where you can post your services and find business owners who are looking to hire writers.
Job Boards
Before I started freelancing, I had no idea that there were so many job boards out there dedicated solely to writers. I started with Upwork since they list dozens and dozens of jobs per day, but you have to be careful because many jobs posted there are underpaying. But if you're careful and comb through the less-than-fair paying jobs, you can find some great ones.
The Writer's Job Board is my current favourite place to search for higher paying, long-term jobs. These jobs are more competitive, but they're definitely higher quality. A few other job boards and websites for writers I like are the ProBlogger Job Board and the Freelance Writer's Den.
Word of Mouth
This may sound obvious and old-school, but it's a cliché for a reason. I got my first ever paid writing job simply through word of mouth. I was on the table at my chiropractor's office when he asked me what I did for a living. I told him about writing and blogging, and to my good luck, he happened to be in the process of hiring someone to write blog posts for his business. He practically hired me on the spot, simply because he wanted to help out someone he knew personally.
I also got a client because my Uber driver asked me what I did for a living. He happened to own his own business as well and was also looking for a ghostwriter for his blog posts. Never be afraid to tell people what you do for a living and that you're taking on new clients-- in a non-pushy way of course. To leverage your word of mouth and maximize your job potential, carry business cards in your wallet everywhere you go, and make sure you have a website set up to advertise your services. You never know who may be looking to hire you.
I knew when I decided I wanted to be a writer that freelancing was going to be hard. But I have been so pleasantly surprised by how much work I've gotten over the past three weeks, simply by using the resources listed above. If you've been thinking about freelancing writing as a career, I hope some of these tips help you achieve your dream.


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- Cascade Nikki ~ 100% wool
- Cascade Handpainted Sock Yarns
- Cascade Eco Duo
- Cascade Pure Alpaca
- New colors of Cascade 220
- Maggie Knits Melange
- Mango Moon Capra ~ 70% mohair, 30% silk
- New colors of Malabrigo
- Lots of new Schaefer yarns with patterns from Lauren Nelkin
Monday, August 2, 2010
New Arrivals
In the past few weeks, we have stocked many beautiful new yarns and more colors of some of your favorite yarns. Come by soon to find your next fiber inspiration!
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#11 - Oxford @ Clarksdale - Football 2005
"Getting Over the Hump"
This is back in the day Clarksdale was really good in Football. They were routinely going to the playoffs and reaching North Half and the State Championship game. It was nearly impossible to win in Clarksdale. Only South Panola would have the nerve to come in and get a win.
Oxford was blasted back home from Clarksdale in 2004 having lost 53-2 - biggest blowout Oxford has experienced in recent memory. Oxford also had an unheard of 10 turnovers in the defeat.
2005 was a completely different story. Oxford was sporting an 8-0 record, but one could easily say the hardest two games of the regular season schedule was coming up in Clarksdale and Lafayette a week later.
Oxford certainly showed why it had an 8-0 record early, scoring first to lead 7-0. It was a defensive juggernaut in the first half with Oxford clinging to a 10-7 lead into halftime. Both teams managed to score in the 3rd quarter to make the score 17-14 going to the 4th.
Around 5:30 left in the 4th, Clarksdale received the ball around its own 25 yard line, clearly enough time to still execute its offensive game plan and score a game winning drive and leave very little time on the clock for Oxford to mount a comeback.
That went out the window on the first play. The Clarksdale Running Back fumbled the handoff from the Quarterback and Oxford jumped on it. Clarksdale could not keep Oxford out of the end zone and it made the score 24-14 - a two possession game with 4:00 left.
Oxford did a lofty sideways kick - a hybrid Kickoff onside kick - and Anderson raced to the ball and managed to get to it before falling out of bounds. Oxford proceeded to score (but missed the PAT) to make it 30-14.
Clarksdale did manage to score but for whatever reason they had decided to go for 1 and not 2 to make the score 30-21. If Clarksdale went for 2 and made it, it would make the score 30-22, an 8-point game and within one possession of tying the game with a Touchdown and a 2-point conversion. Going for 1 made it 30-21, a two-possession game. A team can only get as many as 8 points per possession.
It became a moot point anyways; Oxford was able to recover the Clarksdale onside kick on the ensuing kickoff, icing the game with a couple knees to win it 30-21. Oxford went on to beat Lafayette 28-25 - the last time Oxford defeated Lafayette in football - and went undefeated in the regular season at 10-0 for the only time thus far in school history.
Oxford like it had all season brought a big crowd to this game in its quest to its best season record-wise in school history. Plenty of students came as well to see them play despite the dangers Clarksdale has been known to have in the past. Oxford finally getting over the Clarksdale hump is the reason this is at #11 in the Top 20 countdown.


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Why You Should Keep a Writer's Journal
Biff Barnes
Call it a journal. Call it a diary. Call it a writer's notebook. Call it what you will. If you are contemplating or working on a major writing project like a memoir or family history you should keep one.
Keeping a writer's journal fosters creativity. Psychologist Susan Perry in an article in Psychology Today said, "To free your creative self, suggests Janet Burroway in her popular textbook Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, you must give yourself permission to fail." Said Burroway, "The best place for permission is a private place and for that reason a writer's journal is an essential, likely to be the source of originality, ideas, experimentation, and growth."
There are no rules regarding what a writer's journal should be. Virginia Woolf put it well when she said, "What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something looseknit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through."
A journal is certainly a memory tool. British novelist W. Somerset Maugham, who eventually published his Writer's Notebook, observed, "By making a note of something that strikes you, you separate it from the incessant stream of impressions that crowd across the mental eye, and perhaps fix it in your memory."
But keeping a journal is more than a memory aid. A writer can use one to reflect upon events and gain perspective on the past. Thomas Mann wrote in his Diaries, "I love this process by which each passing day is captured, not only its impressions, but also, at least by suggestion, its intellectual direction and content as well, less for the purpose of rereading and remembering than for taking stock, reviewing, maintaining awareness, achieving perspective."
We'll explore why so many of our greatest writers have found journals so valuable and how you might get the most out of one of your own in upcoming posts.


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I sort of understand the realtor urge to rename a neighborhood like "Hells' Kitchen", which doesn't sound all that great on the ads. I even went along when realtors carved the neighborhood due south of mine out of "Near Northeast" and named it "NoMA" (NOrth of MAssachusetts Avenue).
But I fiercely resist when realtors attempt to fold my neighborhood into NoMa; we have our own name, thankyouverymuch, and we're not giving it up just because you think it will widen your advertising reach. And this just floors me: realtors changing the names of neighborhoods that already have a name. It's not even like "Mount Vernon Triangle" is an ugly name. To my ear, it sounds distinctly superior to the proposed replacement. Nor do I think that everyone in Washington DC should have their residence designated by whether it is north or south of a major artery. That's the sort of thing that communists do, to make it easier for the Secret Police to find and arrest you.
I find it hard to believe that renaming Mount Vernon to SoNYA is going to improve sales, given that no one except this realtor has ever heard the term before. So what gives? Is this some sort of religious ritual? Or is it the urge to put your stamp, however stupid, on the face of your beloved city?


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Ahh, fall makeup. Dark lips, winged eyeliner, and full lashes will be my staple this season. New York Color sent over some new new goodies from their Fall collection to play with.
[blockquote](L to R: Faux Lashes-Halloween edition; Expert Lash lip color in Immortal Vixen and Red or Alive; High Definition Liquid Eyeliner in soft black; Sally Hansen Insta-Dri matte polish in Scaredy Matte; Big Bold Curl Mascara in black, Expert Lash lip color in Dark Rebirth, Sally Hansen lace fabric nail stickers)[/blockquote]
I wanted to stay as true as possible when showing you guys the color. Each shade is applied straight out of the tube with no lip liner underneath. Pure layered lipstick.
"Red or Alive" – You can never go wrong with classic red.
"Immortal Vixen" – Wine hues are big this fall. This shade looks great worn alone but would also be pretty with a darker liner underneath or as a matte finish by blotting with a tissue.
"Dark Rebirth" – I love a black lip! It just makes you feel so bad ass. Usually I line my lips first with a dark berry shade then apply the black lipstick so it's not so harsh. But I love the way this lip turned out by just applying the lipstick solo.
I finished each look with a mean cat eye and full lashes using all NYC products. I can't wait to play around with the nail products and show you what they look like!
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Tailor your tour
Can't make it to one of our group tours? Have a special request? No problem. A custom art tour is perfect for anyone who would like a personalized experience. Here are just a few ideas for custom tours:
Focus on a specific type or style of art
Incorporate a chocolate or wine tasting
See a printing demonstration at the Palace Press (this is super cool!)
Visit a local artist studio overlooking the historic Plaza
Add a private museum tour to your route
Gallery and artist introductions for collectors
Handicap accessible museums/galleries
Educational, curriculum-oriented tours (a perfect activity for homeschoolers!)
Custom tours generally start at $100 plus tax per tour hour for up to four people. Please send us a message with your interests and dates of travel, and we will get back to you shortly with options and pricing.
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2019 FESTIVAL 7th - 9th JUNE
Dir. Andrea Arnold, US, 2016
Cannes and Bafta winner about a teenage girl with nothing to lose who takes to the road and discovers the power of love. Breathtaking photography in a US magical mystery tour by British director Andre Arnold. Long but the journey will be remembered.


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Boozy Cherry Coffee Cake
Boozy Cherry Coffee Cake
Makes 1, 9" coffee cake
Take your coffee cake from teatime to cocktail hour with this boozy cake.
Crumble topping:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, chilled and cubed
1 cup dried cherries
1/2 cup Grand Marnier or orange flavored liquor
2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 stick unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup crème fraiche
Remaining liquor from cherries, about 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier
1/4 cup powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 350° F. Spray a 9" cake pan with cooking spray and set aside.
In a small bowl combine all topping ingredients and using hands smash until a "crumble" forms. Set aside.
In a small saucepan heat Grand Marnier until just simmer and pour over dried cherries, allow the mixture to sit for 10 minutes. Pour off excess orange liquor and save.
In a large bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add one egg at a time beating well after each addition. Add vanilla and crème fraiche and mix until combined. Repeat for dry ingredients and pour batter into the cake pan. Top with crumble and bake for 45 - 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Combine remaining liquor, adding more as needed, with powdered sugar and drizzle over cake.


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Buoyed by strong digital growth and cost savings, The New York Times Company reported on Thursday an increase in quarterly profit but said revenue was flat as its print business continued to decline. The earnings report came on the same day that a sweeping examination of the newsroom, which will include identifying further areas for cost reductions, was announced.
Dean Baquet, the newspaper's executive editor, will lead the newsroom effort along with David Leonhardt, the founding editor of The Times's digitally focused The Upshot, Mr. Baquet said in a note to the newsroom.
"We need to develop a strategic plan for what The New York Times should be, and determine how to apply our timeless values to a new age," Mr. Baquet wrote.
"Although our digital revenue is growing strongly, we continue to feel the impact of declines in parts of our print business," he added. "That means the company must continue to carefully manage its costs."
Among the questions Mr. Baquet said he would seek to answer were which breaking news stories deserved the newsroom's full digital, print and visual resources and whether the "system of powerful desks" could be a hindrance on wide-ranging topics like climate change and education that cut across coverage areas. He also said he would examine "which parts of our newsroom have not grown quickly enough" and how the newsroom would change as it became more internationally focused.
"We have to own up to the fact that the way people read us is different," Mr. Baquet said in an interview. "We also have to own up to the fact that The New York Times is under financial pressure.
"Everything we do now has got to include a certain amount of thinking about costs," he said.
He said The Times would always have a large newsroom, but it was "not going to get any bigger" and "we're probably going to get a bit smaller." He added that some areas of the newsroom, including those focused on multimedia and international coverage, could grow.
He did not rule out layoffs, but said he did not expect any in the immediate future.
"You should never say never," he said. "But as of right now, I'm not anticipating any layoffs this year."
Mr. Leonhardt, who was to join the Op-Ed page this year as a staff columnist, will delay the start of his column until the summer, Mr. Baquet said in his note.
In the quarterly report released on Thursday, The Times said its net income for the fourth quarter was $52 million, an increase of 48 percent compared with the same period in 2014. Company revenue was $445 million during the last three months of 2015, the same as the year-ago period.
For the year, revenue was $1.58 billion and net income was $63 million.
In the earnings release, Mark Thompson, the company's chief executive, described the fourth quarter as "strong" and extolled the company's progress, including its new virtual reality offerings and the growth of T Brand Studio, a unit that creates content for Times advertisers.
"The digital advertising market is undergoing profound change, and we are not immune to its volatility, but we believe that our strategic approach — to rapidly build out new high-value propositions for marketers in branded content, mobile, video and VR — is paying off," Mr. Thompson said in an earnings call with investors.
Digital revenue remained an area of growth. Digital advertising revenue increased 11 percent during the fourth quarter, to $70 million, a number representing about a third of the company's total advertising revenue.
For the full year, digital advertising revenue increased 8 percent compared with the previous year, to $197 million, and digital-only subscription revenue was $193 million last year, a roughly 14 percent increase from 2014.
The Times Company has set an ambitious goal to double its total digital revenue, a number that includes digital advertising and digital-only subscriptions, to $800 million by 2020.
The company said it added 53,000 net digital subscribers in the quarter, the most added in a quarter in three years. The Times now has close to 1.1 million paid digital-only subscriptions.
Print advertising revenue continued its decline, dropping 7 percent during the fourth quarter, contributing to a quarterly decline of about 1 percent in total advertising revenue compared with the last three months of 2014.
"One of our achievements in recent years has been to combine investment in digital growth with a tight grip on costs, and we are still determined to focus on both," Mr. Thompson said. "We believe that alongside investment in our newsroom and elsewhere, there is scope for further structural savings across our cost base."
Adjusted operating profit, the company's preferred measurement for performance, grew to $118 million for the fourth quarter, from $104 million in the same period a year earlier. For the full year, the company reported adjusted operating profit of $289 million, from $256 million in 2014.


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Realizations from the side of the desk of a Principal. It's education. There is no more money. There is no more time: there are 24 hours in the day. It's also the greatest job in the world, so let's get on with it.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Move from the Common to the Diverse
Last week, I participated in #edchat like I usually try to do for at least a few minutes on Tuesday mornings (depending on what is coming through my door). I really enjoy connecting with fellow learners in education, and I have a great deal of respect for each of the individuals who is willing to make public their thoughts and opinions on educational matters. Last Tuesday's chat was a philosophical one on 'the skills that we want to our children to have' when they leave the K-12 system. But as the chat progressed, I found myself beginning to get a bit frustrated with the ethereal comments that we (and I include myself in this--I made a few nebulous comments as well) were making as a group.
We say it all...
"we need to teach students to be lifelong learners"
"we need our children to be lovers of learning"
"students must be hungry for knowledge"
"our children need to be positive contributors in a connected society"
As these sorts of tweets were speeding by, I found myself beginning to wonder whether these comments are becoming esoteric. I came to this revelation because I feel like I am completely immersed in the field of education, and I don't know what some of these comments actually mean. Perhaps to be more fair, I find myself being one of the many that are starting to say "That sounds great! I am totally in!", followed by a long pause and then "Hmmm. OK, how we do this?".
Without a great deal of empirical data, I feel as though I am starting to see a trend on Twitter. When I first started with my Twitter account, I found myself spending hours each night watching perspectives on what needs to change in education, listening to philosophies around motivation, teaching pedagogy and closing achievement gaps, and finding snippets describing the types of learners that we need to create here in the 21st Century. I would share these clips with our teachers, with fellow administrators, and my PLN with verve and alacrity. I enjoyed (and still enjoy revisiting) these clips, and they have shaped my vision of education as I move forward with our school.
But over the last 14 months, I find myself yearning for the practical aspects of some of these constructs for education. For the first steps. For some promising practices that will lead us where we want and need to go. For stories of both 'we tried this and it worked', as well as 'we tried this and we blew it' (I have an infinite amount of respect those who can be vulnerable and admit that what they did was a total flop). Not a magic bullet, but maybe a holster and some gunpowder. A start.
I find that I don't open the links of educational philosophers as much as I used to. I still like the 'big picture' ideas, but I find myself more interested in that teacher, that Principal, or that Superintendent who is telling me how it is going in their class, in their school, or in their district.
I have spoken to a number of fellow PLNers about this trend that I am seeing in my own Twitter use, and I found that many of them are feeling the same way. They are "totally in" to the ideas of educational reform, but are finding that they really want to connect with people who are "doing it". They too are following the 'big names' less and the 'people on the ground' more. I wonder if this is in fact a trend for tweeters in educator circles.
Back to my #edchat last Tuesday. Armed with my 'esoteric' revelation, I tweeted that I thought we needed to get more concrete in what we were talking about. At that point, one of my mentors (and someone you should absolutely follow) Bruce Beairsto (@bbeairsto) responded:
As usual, Bruce found the eloquent and sensible way to say what I was trying to describe during #edchat. It's not that we shouldn't always remember and be refreshed with the WHY, we need to follow that up with the HOW.
In my estimation, the value in creating a Professional Learning Network comes from tapping into your PLN's diverse set of experiences, skills and knowledge. While at certain points it is important for me to get reaffirmation that what I am doing is the 'right thing' to do, I am finding that it is more important to be challenged and pushed by my peers. Challenged not only through discourse on educational topics and philosophy, but through the actions of others and turning those actions, possibilities and start points into actions which can be implemented into my own learning situation.
Right now, there are three things in education that are making me insatiably curious and wanting to move from the (as Bruce would say) common 'WHY we should do this' to the diverse 'HOW we can make this work in our own situation':
1) The West Vancouver School District and their latest initiative to improve digital literacy --the student dashboard.
They created an in-district portal for students in grades 4 to 12: students have their own internal instant messaging, access to district email, personal blog space, digital storage, calendar, announcements feed, and other tools. Very cool--we need this.
2) New Report Card Format - Parkland School Division (Alberta)- I have looked at our current method of formal reporting to parents, and I believe there are many things that we can do to better inform students and parents of progress in their classes. PSD has taken a big step forward with their template, and I believe that we have an opportunity to learn a great deal from their approach to reporting to improve communication with our educational partners.
3) Finland. In the last several months, there seems to a be a flood of information about Finland and they amazing education system that they have created. As a result, I have connected with a number of Finnish Principals, including Timo Ilomaki (@ilotimo), Aki Puustinen (@apuustin), and Kari Rajala (@KariRajala). There is so much talk about what's happening in Finland with education that I thought why not just ask them? Connecting with educators world wide and getting ideas--that is as good as it gets!
I am looking forward to continuing to connect with other educators that are diverse and of 'the HOW'. From my position as a Principal, I am realizing that I need to make sure that while I read research and theory and talk to many about the WHY, and I need to maintain and dig in to the logistics and practicalities of HOW for our staff.
I need to continue to move from the common to the diverse.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Moneyball and Education
In the past few weeks, I have had less of this academic focus for my reading, as my latest two books on the go are Scorecasting and Moneyball. Being an avid sports fan and a lover of trivia, statistics, and numbers, each of these books have satiated my appetite for the quantification of talent in sport.
As baseball fans know, there are statistics kept on EVERY aspect of baseball. Hits, runs and errors. Batting averages, fielding percentages, and earned run averages. Pitch counts, home runs, and RBIs. Batting averages during the day, at night, in domes, and outdoors. Batting success against left handed pitchers versus right handed pitchers. And the list goes on and on and on.
Moneyball details the surprising success of the Oakland Athletics in the 2002 using less conventional and more analytical scouting techniques to pick players for their team. More specifically, it describes how their general manager used oft-overlooked statistics as a predictor of success for a batter in Major League Baseball. Prior to the A's in the 1990s, major league scouts would go to little league games, college games and minor league games to watch prospects coming through the system. While a few statistics like batting average, home runs, stolen bases might be a part of the process of evaluating a player, a great deal more weight was put on the impressions of the scout. As a result, the players that would garner the highest recommendations (and subsequent salaries) would be those players who met criteria that were based upon the scout's own knowledge, wisdom and experience in scouting players. In the face of this 'conventional' scouting, the Oakland A's found that two statistics (on-base percentage and slugging percentage) were often overlooked yet highly effective in predicting offensive success for a hitter in baseball.
This use of data and metrics to predict success helped Oakland have a tremendously successful year in 2002 (which included 20 straight victories) with one of the lowest payrolls of any major league team. So successful was this concept that the lexicon phrase "the team plays 'Moneyball'" has been coined by baseball pundits to refer to those teams who rely heavily on these metrics in making organizational decisions.
Education is not baseball, of that there is no doubt (I would notice the hotdogs here at the school for certain). Regardless, I began thinking about how elements this book could apply in education, specifically in teaching and education administration. Data-driven improvement has been a popular concept for many years, but I am not thinking so much about that as I am trying to determine in my own mind THE characteristics of administrators that lead to school success. THE characteristics of teachers that lead to student success. To use the Moneyball analogy, what is that "On Base Percentage" equivalent that can help predict success for administrators? What is that "Slugging Percentage" equivalent that can help predict success for teachers?
When we visit a classroom, we might observe the teacher and their students for a few minutes and walk out saying "That was good teaching!". Someone could walk into a school and chat with an Administrator for a half hour and say "She really has it going on, what a great Principal." But how do we REALLY know? How are we determining this? Is it by 'feel' (much like the traditional scouts in Moneyball)? Is it by 'the numbers', like Billy Beane and the Oakland A's? Or is it a combination of both, and if so, what should weigh heavier in terms of determining our success in our classrooms and schools?
Several months ago, I wrote a post called "Research: The Educational BS Repellent" about the work of John Hattie in his book Visible Learning. It is an incredible collection of meta-analyses of the research on over 100 factors that influence student achievement in our schools. After reading the book (and re-reading it a couple of times), I realized that much like the traditional scouts described in Moneyball, I had preconceived notions of what comprises effective educational practice in classrooms and schools. Yet after reading the meta-analyses of the meta-analyses (yes, Hattie's book is that comprehensive), I came to the conclusion that in many instances, I have to check some of my beliefs at the door and open my mind when I walk into classes at our school.
In light of the talk of teacher evaluation that is making its way around education circles (and administrator evaluation, I would hope), it is important for us to work with educators and partner groups to collectively find those key characteristics that translate into student and school success. However, when working with our partner groups, it is important to make sure that we temper our feelings and beliefs about teaching and administration with some Moneyball/Hattie-like data that helps us determine effective practices that will truly benefit our students.
If we can work some of the concepts from Moneyball into schools, I can only hope that the hotdogs aren't far behind!
Friday, November 4, 2011
Like Little Kids
But aside from my own children, one of the neatest things for me to see as the Principal of our school is catching kids being 'kids'. At our school, a huge group of students came in on the Sunday prior to and early Monday morning of Hallowe'en to decorate our hallways (and the Principal's Office!) with ghouls, goblins, blood, body parts, webs and witches. We had our annual costume parade with staff members dressed like Jimi Hendrix and Gene Simmons, and students in every costume imaginable. The Hallowe'en Relay followed, and students were bobbing for apples, running through obstacle courses, and shrieking with laughter like little kids.
Like little kids.
As a coach, some of my greatest memories were not on the court, but rather on the bus with my teams. Singing "Dancing Queen" as loud as we could in downtown Vancouver. Having the "best animal sound" contest (my donkey was solid). Making up rap songs. Listening to the team giggle like little kids when we would dress up the rookies (often the seniors would dress up too) would make me laugh so hard that I would have tears rolling down my cheeks.
Like little kids.
At the end of the day on Hallowe'en, I reflected on how society wants to make our youth grow up so quickly: we want students to be literate, numerate, highly involved, polite, hard-working, conscientious, socially responsible "mini-adults", and the sooner the better. I find that I can fall into this mode of thinking far too frequently. And yet a day like Hallowe'en makes me realize that we need to give kids time to breathe, to play, to let loose, and to be able to laugh.
Like little kids.
And yet as I left the office at the end of the day, there were two unbelievable Grade 12 students who stayed behind to clean up the blood and webs and body parts and candy wrappers from a successful Hallowe'en celebration so that our custodians would not have an additional burden on their busy afternoon. And as they were finishing, one of them turned to me and said "Thanks for letting us decorate the halls and your office today Mr. Birk!".
Like the adults they have grown up to be.
It's Friday!
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Deep in the bowels of the AT&T Center last night, I managed to catch up with goaltender Richard Bachman after his 41 save shutout performance against the Rampage. These quotes didn't make it in time for the postgame, so I wanted to share them here.
On facing 41 shots after a week off:
"It was nice to get out there again and have some fun and play some hockey. There were a lot of perimeter shots. We didn't really give up a lot of 'grade A' shots so it was a nice game to come back in to."On San Antonio's lack of pressure:
"Our D did a great job hussling back and cutting off their rushes. We played it smart in the offensive zone also, waiting for our chances."On playing in Phoenix:
"It was awesome. It was unbelievable. It's one of those things you dream about since you were a little kid. I remember when I was 5 years old wanting to play in the NHL. It was a great experience. I was a little cold there going in with 10 minutes left in the game but I really enjoyed it."Bachman made the most of his NHL experience, stopping all 4 shots he faced from the Coyotes, San Antonio's parent club.


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Visitors must register prior to visiting, with registration hours for Wednesday and Thursday running from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.. Registration times for other visiting days are from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to the City of New York Department of Corrections. The monthly schedule for visiting hours determines visiting days based on the first letter of a inmate's surname.


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VIENNA – (CT&P) – Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document seen by The Associated Press.
The agreement diverges from normal inspection procedures between the IAEA and a member country by essentially ceding the agency's investigative authority to Iran. It allows Tehran to employ its own experts and equipment in the search for evidence of activities that it has been lying its ass off about for years.
"This historic agreement will guarantee the world that Iran has not been lying about the Parchin site because if it were, that would mean that it was dishonest," said U.N. President Sam "I Am" Boutros Boutros Kahamba Kutesa Zimbabwe Smith.
"I feel confident that Iranian inspectors would let us know in a heartbeat if Iran was up to anything bad or mean-spirited."
Condemnation of the ludicrous agreement was swift and caustic by Israeli politicians in Tel Aviv and those assigned to work within the U.S. Congress.
Senator Tom "Dead Eyes" Cotton told Fox News that "the time has come to turn Iran into glass," and he would be more than willing to ride the first bomb targeted for Tehran.
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu told the Bethlehem Fair Dealer that he was ready to fly to the United States and "kick Obama's black ass."
Evidence of the concession, as outlined in the document, is sure to increase pressure from U.S. congressional opponents as they review the July 14 Iran nuclear deal and vote on a resolution of disapproval in early September. If the resolution passed and President Barack Obama vetoed it, opponents would need a two-thirds majority to override it. Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, has suggested opponents will likely lose.
The White House has denied claims by critics that a secret "side deal" favorable to Tehran exists. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said the Parchin document is like other routine arrangements that allow crazed bloodthirsty Muslims to inspect their own fucking weapons facilities.
"This agreement is no different from numerous agreements we've made with other religious kooks who want to return to the good old days before there was electricity and indoor plumbing," said Kerry, who looked like he had just been told he had a week to live. "I see no problem with it."
Republican critics are bound to harshly criticize any document that cedes to Iran the right to look for the very nuclear wrongdoing that it has denied committing.
Olli Heinonen, who was in charge of the Iran probe as deputy IAEA director general from 2005 to 2010, said he can think of no instance where a country being probed was allowed to do its own investigation.
"This is just fucked up," said Heinonen. "It would be like assigning Heinrich Himmler to inspect Dachau for evidence of crimes against humanity. It's insane."