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Incredible Marketing necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 256 diseños de 72 diseñadores freelance.
Our Client, Lucero Dental Group, is going through an entire re-branding. The Logo will be the centerpiece of print work and a new website. We are looking for something clean and sophisticated, but still cutting edge. We want something creative, attractive, and easy to use in print.
Please view the "under construction development website for ideas
Lucero Dental Group
Our Client, Lucero Dental Group, needs a cutting edge and unique logo. They are building a brand ID and need the logo to be the focal point.
This logo will not be complex. It will be simple, but dynamic. It will captivate the audience, and be completely recognizable, but will still utilize the name of their center.
They do not need an actual icon. You may use the name "Lucero Dental Group" as the logo. You may also play with "LDG", but that is your discretion, and I am not sure that will ultimately be the direction in which we move.
The website has already been created!! Please visit the development site for ideas on colors -
Our ideal colors would be some variation of black or white, and silver. There is also an eggplant color used on the new design of the website, but I am not sure we want a logo with color. That will be your decision.
We want creative fonts, creative designs, and creative presentations. Please do not make anything too flowery or cursive. They are looking for a more cutting edge, rough, manly look and feel taht is still inviting.
Good luck, and all feedback will be provided within 24 hours.
Let us kow if you have any questions.
- An awesome simple text logo. simple, elegant and distictive.
- Use the colors of silver, black and white. Eggplant / purple may also be used at your discretion.
- A logo using the words "Lucero Dental Group" or "LDG".
- A strong and cutting edge design.
- No other colors besides those mentioned.
- No elaborate logos.
- Nothing too flat. There should e depth to the logo.
- No elaborate cursive or flowery logo.
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John Waters Interview
For decades, filmmaker John Waters has lovingly made films that make us cringe, raise an eyebrow or two and kind of throw up a little in our mouths. From sketchy bestiality scenes to characters who love to kill, he has notoriously sculpted a world where disgust is something to smile about and the underdog always wins. When it's up to John, the chubby girl snatches the studly male dancer from the snobbish blonde bitch (Hairspray), a schoolgirl will show the world what happens when you don't get cha-cha heels (Female Trouble), and there's nothing wrong with selling heroin in schools and selling babies to gay couples (Pink Flamingos).
Mainstream media has been stamped with his prints several times- he has served as host of Court TV's true-life crime series Til' Death Do Us Part, enjoyed recent name-dropping with the success of a remake of 1988's Hairspray and made recent appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and VH1's I Love the 70s. Before anything else, though, John will always be the man whose cult following clamors for his special brand of bizarre cinematography and the man who truly has, as he puts it, made trash one percent more respectable.
Becky Fritter: To start, it was mentioned that you're fan of Chuck Palahniuk's… I speculate that's partly because you see a little of your own style in his work.
John Waters: I don't know if it's a matter of style, I just like that he's out of control and that his work has this extreme vision, which is very funny to me. A lot of people don't find extreme taste to be funny and there's always going to be that debate. But really, I'm just a fan that he's a one-man genre. I'm very impressed by that. Certainly I think we're kindred spirits; I'm happy at his success… and I love the fact that he's a brand name, which is always the best compliment you can give someone.
BF: How do you recognize when your own brand name is imitated or used as an influence?
JW: People don't imitate me that much, I think- it's less direct copying and more that I've been referenced in movies, and I never mind, especially because it seems to always be in a good way. People have probably ripped Chuck off more than they have me. (Laughs.) I think I've helped to loosen boundaries in taste, but that's a small effect. Some movies that have made millions of dollars that are much broader than mine, considered to be bad taste comedies… I'm always jealous of those movies. It's not like my movies have ever made that much money.
BF: When you first started working on film, how would your creative process have differed had Baltimore been as yuppified as it is now?
JW: Well, it isn't yuppified, I promise you. Not the parts I go to. Real Baltimore, which is the Baltimore I make films about, is still very much alive. Certainly there are neighborhoods that have been yuppified, but I'm not a fan of fancy Baltimore so I don't visit those places. If I want fancy I'll come to New York, where they can pull off fancy much better. As far as Baltimore's concerned, we do edgy much better. In New York there's no such thing as a real biker bar; everything's influenced by fashion and the very fact that you move there proves that you believe in irony.
BF: You've got an envious connection to Baltimore.
JW: Of course, it's what inspires me. I've got apartments in New York and San Francisco and I live in Provincetown sometimes in the summers, but Baltimore has always been the canvas for me. The locations and the fact that I know every neighborhood makes it home in many ways. It's also where most of my real, close friends and family are. Maybe Philadelphia could be a place to find similar inspiration, but I'm not as familiar with the neighborhoods and it's too close to New York. Really, I haven't found a place that could compete. In Baltimore, no one wants to be in New York, they don't want to be trendy, they're not impressed and they have a good sense of humor about themselves. They like what other people hate. And you know, in any other city, when you're asked "What school did you go to," someone will respond with a college… except in Baltimore, where you'll get a high school.
BF: After writing Pink Flamingos while smoking pot, did other substances contributed to your film?
JW: In the old days, I smoked pot before I wrote. Pink Flamingos was definitely a movie made by a pothead for potheads, but when it came out I stopped smoking pot and didn't start up again until just a couple summers ago in Provincetown at the beach, and now I'll do it occasionally. When I write now, however, I don't smoke. Now, other substances? LSD was very important; that drug formed a lot of my earlier films, along with the way I thought and the bond I had with my characters. But we were never on drugs when we made the movies, we couldn't have gone through those typical low budget movie days on LSD. They were twenty-hour days, it would have been impossible.
BF: Ever tapped into that past LSD use for inspiration?
JW: If you're referring to flashbacks, then I'm afraid I don't have them. The thought of taking LSD right now is horrifying because I have no desire to take another LSD trip in my life. Although many of the people I took LSD with went on to become drug addicts or are now dead, I don't regret doing it. It didn't have a negative effect on me. It did with some, and it is a dangerous thing to abuse, but there are also stories of those of us who took LSD and look back on it very fondly.
BF: A while back said your work doesn't have much redeeming value, but wouldn't you say tastelessness serves as a good sort of social commentary?
JW: Absolutely, and anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's political. It's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless- they laugh, they listen. My films are very political because they're asking the audience to root for someone that they probably would not root for in real life. So that's asking for change in judgment, which is political and social commentary.
BF: If I'm not mistaken, I did hear something about some animal rights activists who were upset with Crackers and the chicken sex scene in Pink Flamingos.
JW: Really? I never heard about it. Never in my life have I had any animal rights activists say anything negative to me, although perhaps they should have. (Laughs.) In Pink Flamingos, we bought the chicken at a place that sold freshly killed chickens. It got fucked… but it was only simulated. It was simulated chicken fucking and it got killed, but we ate it afterwards. And that's much better; since we ate it I don't feel guilty. It got to be a movie star, and people still talk about that damn chicken.
BF: They must have been very passive activists.
JW: Yeah, they must not have been very aggressive. Animal rights activists were the least of my problems though. It was the police that I really had to watch out for! (Laughs.) I got arrested many times and any time I went to court I was found guilty. It's insane, but funny and insane.
BF: Even if the animal rights activist thing was a myth, where do you see that outrage directed at extreme media now as opposed to then? Oversexualized teenagers are exploited on daytime talk shows and no one seems to care much about that…
JW: Maybe not in that venue, but for the most part people cry out when sex is involved. Violence has always been okay- we're an anti-sexual, pro-violent country, which is ludicrous. I'm against real violence, I hate real violence. But I don't mind it in movies. I love it. Would I want to go see a real life fight club? No, but I love it when it's fake or simulated. The censors don't go after violence in movies and I'm definitely not asking them to but the point is, they go after sex. They're even going after smoking in movies now- it's not more relaxed, perhaps it's even worse. Could Last Tango in Paris be made in a studio today? I doubt it. People are equally as uptight about sex, if not more, and for a lot of reasons I can understand why. I was around when sex was out of control in the seventies, when you'd see a hooker taking a shit on 8th Avenue in the middle of the day. But I used to go to sex clubs, and that will never happen again in either of our lifetimes. Sex clubs were insane, but I'm thankful I saw it. It was sexual for a while because the freedom was so new and beautiful but God, it ended badly.
BF: Paint the picture for those of us who didn't get to see it.
JW: Well, we used to go to a lot of clubs like The Hellfire- that one was straight and gay- you had one bathroom where you could go and pee and the other one where you had people you peed on. Take your choice. You didn't have to participate, but it was strange to be standing there discussing literature because a dick would just pop through the glory hole and hit some society lady in a fur coat. It was a time where almost no behavior was deemed over the top, and it was funny. There was this place called Night Shift on 8th Avenue where you'd go up an elevator and if you didn't get robbed, once you reached the top you'd see a movie set of a park, like a public park, but it was a sex club. There were a lot of bums, too, that would go in there and sleep and people would be trying to blow them. The confusion was amazing, you didn't know who was homeless and who was there for sex, all on this movie set of a public park. So bizarre.
BF: And the bad ending?
JW: Those times will not come back, and it's not that I liked those times anyways, because most people my age have friends who have died from AIDS. It would be very irresponsible to want those times to come back, really.
BF: In the eighties you worked at Patuxent Institution (teaching a writing/film class to convicted felons), what did you get out of it?
JW: I wrote about it Crackpot and Shock Value, and during the film course I changed many of my opinions and judgments. Although she was eventually fired and the whole program was shut down, I had a great warden who hired me and I actually took the classes very seriously. It's very different in prisons today, where they don't believe in education, they're not for anything but punishment. The inmates taught me a lot, especially that we can all go bad very quickly. One of my best students got out after serving twenty-nine years and he's doing very well. Another got out and killed two more people. Although it's impossible to tell who's going to behave a certain way, and I had no say in their sentences whatsoever, maybe it's better that way, because I was certainly surprised at the one who did get out and kill more people. He was actually in Serial Mom.
BF: Really?
JW: Yeah, and now we call him Serial Extra. Let's just say this… he'll never work again. (Laughs.)
BF: What was a typical day like?
JW: I would have one class about once or maybe twice a week at its peak, I can't really remember, but I would bring my projector and my little teacher's pet student would meet me at the gate and carry my projector to class. I tried to be a good teacher and motivate my students to write well and participate. We screened a lot of films, like Pink Flamingos. We did a lot of improv, and I feel like it was a success overall and that I was a good teacher. I still run into people in Baltimore who were in my class. One guy was a rapist, I saw him at a book signing with a girl, but I didn't say anything to her because he seemed to be doing fine. Another has become a very successful coke dealer, which is great. He's out of jail, and he's found a way to work in society.
BF: So the main point of the class was to give your students means of expression.
JW: Sure, that's the point of any writing class… along with acting and seeing how low budget films are made. I'm talking serious low budget, we shot the films in the camera with no editing. We'd do a take, and wait for a song to come on the radio to use as a soundtrack. There were no costumes, just whatever the students could grab. The bikers played the girls, the black people played the rich people and the white people played the servants. Everything was backwards.
BF: All of your characters seem to be backwards or off point in some way, they've had odd sexual fetishes, sold heroin to children, murdered other people… and no matter how revolting, they're still so damn likable!
JW: Because they're joyous about what they do! (Laughs.) I'm trying to get people to understand all types of behavior. I make the people in those worlds likable because I like them. You have to like who you've written a film about or else it becomes mean-spirited and something mean-spirited can be funny for twenty minutes, but I'm not so sure about ninety minutes. Underneath it all, you've got to care and know about your subjects and ultimately understand it partly. For example, with people on the other side of the law, like my students, you have to figure out why they're there. That's why there are so many true crime books- people are interested in behavior they cannot understand and cannot imagine doing themselves.
BF: In your work, it seems like you understand your characters' behaviors very well.
JW: Not always. What's the fair answer here, do I understand every fetish that was in A Dirty Shame? No, in some ways I think it's crazy, but it interests me. Being intrigued by a behavior doesn't require you to do it. You just want to understand it. And I think my films have brought me a better understanding of so-called "stranger" behaviors.
BF: You've asserted in a few past interviews that you don't try to shock people, yet that's the result of almost all your work. What was your initial intention when you started writing films all those years ago?
JW: Everything from Ingmar Bergman art films and Walt Disney to underground movies and exploitation movies like I Spit On Your Grave, they all shocked me in a good way. It's easy to be shocking, even unintentionally, but it's difficult to be witty and shocking. And in 1972, when I made Pink Flamingos, no one seemed to be shocked by anything. In grade-school English class, I was taught the term "shock value," which is something you use to get people's attention. Basically, I made it my lifestyle. Simple as it is to be shocking like every repulsive horror movie out there, you have to use surprise to make it good. Honestly, I never tried to top that last scene in Pink Flamingos (where female impersonator Divine eats a handful of dog feces). If I had tried, I would've never made another movie ever again. It's hard enough to keep up with this business.
BF: So the last scene of Pink Flamingos was a very intentional attempt to shock.
JW: Yes, and that was the first idea I had for the whole movie. The thing we heard from (director) Gordon Lewis when he made Two Thousand Maniacs! and Blood Feast was that you could go as far as you could go with nudity and get away with it legally. What couldn't you do that there wasn't a law against yet? Gore. That's why he made gore movies. The most shocking things are the things that aren't illegal. That's the trick- it's all about whatever they can't get you for.

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The Capitals have the undeniable poster boy that is Alex Ovechkin. The Panthers have a charismatic vet in Ed Jovanoski. The Lightning have one of the league's top work horses in Dominic Moore. And the Huricannes have a one-man double-threat — half sniper, half heartthrob — with Jeff Skinner.
But what about the Southeast Division's newest addition – which Jet will emerge as the fan favourite in Winnipeg?
Although when the franchise called Atlanta home it could be argued top-end talents Evander Kane and Dustin Byfuglien received the loudest cheers, it doesn't necessarily reflect the possibilities ahead.
With a market that does not exactly mirror Atlanta, Georgia, a changing of the guard may be in order. It won't happen overnight, but one Jets roster player will eventually surface as the perennial fan favourite.
Evander Kane
It's hard to ignore the combination of skill and personality he brings to the table. Just 20 and with sky high on-ice expectations, Vancouer, B.C.-born Kane has plenty to prove but, at the same time, a ton to gain in the end. Although Kane notched just 19 goals in Atlanta last year, with every passing shift his developmental curve continues to impress. In terms of fan interaction, Kane leads the pack by fully embracing social media.
Eric Fehr
The province of Manitoba's population is largely concentrated in the city of Winnipeg. Nevertheless, tough western Canadian kids from small towns are not exactly a dime a dozen. Eric Fehr, who hails from the prarie town of Winkler — which has a population of 9,000 and is 100 kilometers from the 'Peg — is the Jets' closest resemblance to a home-grown kid. Even though he doesn't boast a stat line that will wet fans' pants, Fehr could turn into the Jets' beloved secondary scoring product.
Derek Meech
Technically more local than Fehr, Meech has the chance to truly live the dream. From Winnipeg but not guaranteed quality ice time in 2011-12, the 2002 229th overall pick lags behind his fellow Manitoban as the top candidate from the area to garner serious fanfare. Luckily, the 27-year-old has a fair amount of time to turn some heads on the backend.
Zach Bogosian
Standing at 6-foot-3 and weighing in at 215 pounds, the right-handed d-man has yet to show his true colours in the NHL. Bogosian, 21, is one of the most highly-touted defenseman in the league who has yet to post a breakout campaign. With a change of address and atmosphere in 2011-12, last year's minus-27 could turn into something more respectable for the American. Once he shakes the defensive liability tag, fans will drool over not only Bogosian's tangible offerings but his intangibles as well.
Andrew Ladd
Everyone loves a leader – it's that simple. Everyone also loves buying a customized jersey with a steadfast name on the back. Ladd fits both profiles and has the captaincy to show for it. At only 25, the left-winger from nearby B.C. won't have any difficulties pleasing Jets nation. Moreover, considering management didn't exactly break the bank during this summer's free agency period, a long-term face of the franchise type like Ladd is automatically put into the pool of serious contenders for fan favourite.
Dustin Byfuglien
Known mainly for his get-out-of-your-seat style of "defending", Byfuglien offers Jets lovers an uncontested level of excitement. While some may fret over his inability to put his defensive responsibilities before scoring goals, the majority should warm up to Big Buff's unique blend of massive size and soft hands. In 2010-11, the former Blackhawk recorded the second most shots in the league. On a team with below-average fire power, said statistic will be yearned for by fans.


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Francis Scott Key High School presents "Little Shop of Horrors"
With a man-eating plant as its star, "Little Shop of Horrors" biggest challenge was finding a plant and learning to operate it, according to director Matt Lamb.
"You have to have a man-eating plant," Lamb said.
After renting puppets from a company in Columbia, another challenge was operating the puppets with someone else providing the voice.
"It's been interesting," said Lamb, a vocal teacher. "There's one guy in the plant operating it and one guy in the catwalk acting and singing for it."
Things are coming together, he said, and the cast of about 40 students is ready to go.
Performances are April 19 at 7 p.m., and April 20 at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $10; $8 for students; $12 for preferred seating
Francis Scott Key High School is at 3825 Bark Hill Road, Union Bridge.
For information, call 410-751-3320.
North Carroll High School presents "Les Miserables"
"This is definitely a hard show," said director Roberta Gore. "I think the fact that it is an operetta ... and everything is sung. It is difficult music, high notes. It is a huge struggle for everybody."
"It's hugely challenging and incredibly gratifying when you bite off something so, so difficult, and nail it. The kids are really excited," Gore said of his cast of 57.
Performances are on May 3, 4,10 and 11 at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door.
North Carroll High School is at 1400 Panther Drive, Hampstead.
For information, call 410-751-3450.
Westminster High School presents "Into the Woods"
Featuring four fairy tales — Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel — as well as a new tale about a baker and his wife, "Into the Woods" is almost two different shows tied up in one, said Melissa Purdy, director.
"The first act is basically as you know them to be," Purdy said of the fairy tales. "The second act asks: Did they live happily ever after? What happened to them?"
The show allowed the cast of 50 to experience musical comedy in one act and drama in the second.
That shift in gears is challenging, Purdy said, as is the music and creating the forest.
Performances are April 25-27 at Westminster High School, 1225 Washington Road, Westminster.
Tickets are $10; $12 for reserved. Matinee tickets are $6.
For information, call 410-751-3630.
Winters Mill High School presents "Zombie Prom"
With neon costumes and a set that looks like a haunted house, this production is "out of control," said Meredith Birmingham, director.
"It's like a living comic book," Birmingham laughed. "It's ridiculous."
The story of a good girl breaking up with a bad boy who later becomes a nuclear zombie with the help of her love features a cast of about 32, she said.
Performances are April 19, 20, 26 and 27 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8.
Winters Mill High is at 560 Gorsuch Road, Westminster.
For information, call 410-386-1500.
Century High School presents "Bye, Bye, Birdie""
Performances are April 19 and 20, 7 p.m. Tickets are $10.
The school is at 355 Ronsdale Road, Sykesville. For information, call 410-386-4400.
Manchester Valley High School presents "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
Performances are April 25, 25 and 27 at 7 p.m.
The school is at 3300 Maple Grove Road, Manchester. For information, call 410-386-1674.


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DagHB necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 207 diseños de 68 diseñadores freelance.
At the moment we are an internet store focusing on selling merchandise for tame birds/parrots. We have recently bought a physical store and will continue to set up more such stores to become a pet store chain focusing on merchandise for all kinds of pets (not including live pets). Current store exists on http://poppis.no but will be completely redesigned, and logo is one of those issues.
Quality is the number one value for the customers, cheap merchandise and price competition comes quite far down our priority list. The store is focusing on Scandinavian markets.
The brand, poppis, is a short form/slang for "popular" in several of the Scandinavian countries. It has no connection with pets whatsoever, but was selected three years ago as it is a general term that could describe "anything", was associated with something positive and in such a way, the brand could evolve over time without limits.
Merchandise includes products for birds, dogs, cats, horses, rodents.
Does not include tropical fish.
Geography: Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark)
Audience: Pet owners, and pet owner wannabees
Gender: 70%/30% women/men
Age: Main audience between 6-16 + 25-40
Income: Lower middle class citizens and above
We haven't decided whether to use capital letters or not (poppis, Poppis, POPPIS) for the brand, but will leave that to the creative process. The logo should work on both internet sites, store signs, letterheads, ads (online or printed).
The logo should radiate moods like "happiness", "fondness". "Cartoon like" could be a way to illustrate this.
We do not want a mix of many pets on the logo, but at the same time it should not exclude any. This means, a logo consisting of a dog and a cat is not general enough, and a logo with 10-15 animal heads is too messy. Simplicity is a virtue. A fantasy animal consisting of parts from 4-7 animals could be a solution, but not necessarily the solution. Other ideas are welcome. No paw prints, they're too widely used for pet brands (Eukanuba etc.)
Please use a limited number of colors. Again, simplicity is good and we want to avoid mess. That does not mean it has to be one color.
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Trump condemns 'many sides' in Charlottesville violence; Prominent Republicans blame white supremacists
By Greg Hadley and Amy B Wang
McClatchy and The Washington Post
President Donald Trump addressed the country Saturday afternoon in the aftermath of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, between white supremacist groups and counter protesters.
In televised remarks, Trump said he and his administration "condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. On many sides."
"It's been going on for a long time in our country," Trump said. "Not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. It's been going on for a long, long time. It has no place in America."
Trump went on to say that "no citizen should ever fear for their safety; the hate and division must stop now."
"I love all the people of our country. We're gonna make America great again but we're gonna make it great for all the people of the United States of America," Trump continued.
Trump's remarks came soon after the mayor of Charlottesville tweeted that one person had died as a result of the protests. In his remarks, he did not address this report, but he did call for a "swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives."
Trump's comments also came shortly after he tweeted about the protests Saturday afternoon, saying there is "no place for this kind of violence in America."
"We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for," the president stated on Twitter shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday. "Lets come together as one!"
Trump's remarks have brought reactions from Republicans as well as Democrats.
A Republican senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner, tweeted "Mr. President - we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism."
Another Republican, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, wrote: "Nothing patriotic about #Nazis, the #KKK or #WhiteSupremacists. It's the direct opposite of what #America seeks to be."
The father of Trump's press secretary, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, posted that white supremacy is the "worst kind of racism-it's EVIL and perversion of God's truth to ever think our Creator values some above others."
Trump was later criticized Saturday evening for tweeting about the people who died when a State Police helicopter crashed, but not mentioning the 32-year-old female pedestrian who was killed when a car plowed into a crowd of counter protesters. The President later tweeted his condolences to her family.
The president's silence had been noticeable Friday night, as a few hundred tiki torch-bearing white supremacists - mostly young men - paraded through the University of Virginia campus while chanting racist taunts and flaunting Nazi paraphernalia.
Even as many online called for Trump to respond, his Twitter feed remained quiet into Saturday morning as the Charlottesville clashes escalated into open brawls and weapons being hurled into the air.
Vice President Mike Pence had also remained quiet until Trump tweeted his message Saturday, at which pointed the vice president appended it with a note urging people to "join together & oppose those seeking to divide us."
Trump has been on a 17-day vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, a point he reiterated in a follow-up tweet Saturday:
"Am in Bedminster for meetings & press conference on V.A. & all that we have done, and are doing, to make it better-but Charlottesville sad!"
His messages came about an hour after first lady Melania Trump addressed the tense protests taking place in Charlottesville. She tweeted:
"Our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in our hearts. No good comes from violence. #Charlottesville"
Our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in our hearts. No good comes from violence. #Charlottesville— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) August 12, 2017
By then, other public figures had already spoken out forcefully against the demonstrations in Charlottesville. Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan denounced the white supremacist views "fueling the spectacle" as "repugnant."
The views fueling the spectacle in Charlottesville are repugnant. Let it only serve to unite Americans against this kind of vile bigotry.— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) August 12, 2017
In declaring a state of emergency in Virginia, Gov. McAuliffe said he was "disgusted by the hatred, bigotry and violence these protesters have brought to our state over the past 24 hours."
Below is the Governor's statement regarding the emergency declaration he authorized this morning: pic.twitter.com/yS1E9mispG— Terry McAuliffe (@GovernorVA) August 12, 2017


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Americans are surely passionate about sports, but we think of athletics, for the most part, as fun and games. In Europe, however, especially in international competitions, sports carry the weight of world events and regularly elevate or deflate the hopes of an entire nation. But even in that context, the story told in the captivating "The Other Dream Team" is totally out of the ordinary.
A stranger-than-fiction look at how sports and politics have intersected to highly dramatic effect in the history of modern Lithuania, "The Other Dream Team's" tale was a classic saga waiting to be told, but it took a Lithuanian American director, Marius Markevicius, to know enough to bring it to the screen.
If you know anything about Lithuania, you know this story couldn't involve any sport but basketball, a game that has captivated this small country of 3 million since 1939, when Lithuania hosted and won the European championships.
After World War II, when the country was annexed by the Soviet Union, basketball remained so popular that exiled Lithuanian dissidents regularly played it during their Siberian exiles. One of the byproducts of that annexation was that Lithuanian athletes were forced to play for the Soviet Union in international competitions. This compulsory alliance reached its climax at the 1988 Seoul Olympics basketball semifinals, when, in a stunning upset, the United States team lost, 82-76, to the Soviets.
Though not many Americans knew it at the time, four of the five USSR starters were Lithuanians infuriated at having to forgo their nationality. The team's two stars, spectacular guard (and later Golden State Warrior) Sarunas Marciulionis and legendary center Arvydas Sabonis had played together since they were teenagers.
As involving as "The Other Dream Team" has been up to this point, it really kicks into gear with its detailing of the maneuvering that enabled Lithuania to free itself from the Soviet Union and how basketball figured in what transpired. With the 1992 Barcelona Olympics coming up, Marciulionis and Sabonis were determined to put together a team that could play together under the Lithuanian flag, a team that could demonstrate to the world what their country had achieved.
In a tale almost too outlandish to believe, a chance encounter with the Grateful Dead led to a sizable check and, more colorfully, a group of tie-dyed practice jerseys with the band's classic skull motif designed for the team.
With this gear in tow, the Lithuanians went to Barcelona. How this all worked out makes "The Other Dream Team" a sports film to remember.
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Merry Christmas Eve everyone! It's the Art Gallery Fabrics Fat Quarter Gang time again. Today I'm excited to share my third project with you, the
This baby quilt features fabrics from one of Art Gallery Fabrics newest designers, Sarah Watson. The fabric line is Luxe in Bloom and it is starting to arrive in shops now. It is absolutely stunning!
This quilt pattern is a simple paper pieced pattern. If you have never paper pieced before, no worries, I have a tutorial right here on my blog! The quilt goes together quickly and easily. I backed mine with minky making it perfect for keeping a special little girl warm this winter.
You can find the link to my new pattern on the Art Gallery blog.
As a celebration of the release of this *free* pattern for all of you, Art Gallery Fabrics is giving away a fat quarter set of each of the prints used in this quilt.
Top Row: LIB-8205 Extravagarden Bold, LIB-8206 Crystalline Reef, LIB-7205 Extravagarden Hush, LIB-7204 Flumes Citron Bottom Row: LIB-7200 Marquise Azure, LIB-8204 Flumes Indigo, LIB-8208 Petite Petalie Pearl, LIB-8207 Jeweled Peony Boreal
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My rules: • Leave a comment on this post
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I will pick a winner Friday evening, December 28th.
And don't forget to add photos of your finished quilt to the Fat Quarter Gang Flickr Group. Happy sewing everyone!
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The winner is #55, Linda! Congratulations Linda, I will email you for your address! Thank you for commenting everyone. :)


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Our summer is going well in Alaska guiding wilderness trips all over the state. The fireweed is blooming and fall is in the air. Won't be long before we see the first snow flakes fall in Alaska. The 2013 race roster has been full since April with many racers on a waiting list. We are planning to make a few more changes to our website this fall and winter. Anyone with ideas or interest in helping us with a new map or image gallery is welcome to send us an e-mail or call us.
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New Brewery Hopes To Open Soon In North Sioux Falls
The north side of Sioux Falls could be the home of a new brewery. Blake Thompson and Derek Fernholz, two local brewers, are partnering to open their brewery off North Cliff Avenue near the KOA.
This won't be the first time that Thompson and Fernholz have tried their luck at brewing.
Blake Thompson has family members that own two Napa Valley wineries. An internship then inspired Thompson to enroll in a six-month Master Brewers Program at the University of California-Davis, then courses with the Siebel Institute of Chicago, all part of the World Brewing Academy.
It was eight years ago when Derek Fernholz started doing some home brewing with friends after college. He quickly realized that he not only liked what he made, but was pretty good at it. He then became a certified beer judge with the Minnesota Homebrewers Association, before moving back to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to continue his dream of starting his own brewery.
After realizing they both had the same dream, Thompson and Fernholz combined their talents.
Equipment from Minnesota's Minnetonka Brewing & Equipment Company should start arriving to the 12,000 square foot building that will eventually become home to a 30 barrel brewing system and canning equipment.
Thompson and Fernholz are currently working on different recipes that will be featured from their brewery. Already planned is the Farmhouse Ale and a Double IPA.
A distribution deal is in progress, with plans to start with taps around Sioux Falls and six-pack cans in stores.
Plans are moving forward for Thompson and Fernholz. What's next on the agenda? After thinking of hundreds of possibilities, they have started working with a team to find the best name possible!


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AUSTIN, TEXAS -- It's South By Southwest season in Texas, and Tuesday is the day when the interactive and film portions of the conference schedule wind down and the music festival kicks in. That means Austin is overun by tens of thousands of executives, tech nerds, agents and attorneys touting everything from cell phone aps to better algorithms for interacting with fans.
There's music, too, including heavy hitters such as Jay-Z, who played a Monday set for an invite-only audience, and Bruce Springsteen, who has a show with the E Street Band at a still "secret" location scheduled to follow his conference keynote address Thursday. And then there's everbody else -- 2,000 bands and artists playing at hundreds of clubs and bars over the next six days.
One of South by Southwest's enduring traditions is the daytime panels, which vie with an increasingly active daytime party schedule of live music for conferencegoers' attention. On Tuesday, the film conference was treated to an hour-long interview with Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, who has forged a lucrative second career out of scoring music for movies and TV shows.
The success of many of the panels turns on how well the moderators are able to steer questions and frame the debate, but Mothersbaugh didn't get much help from his inquisitor. Nontheless, the affable maverick composer and conceptualist was able to take even the most innocuous question -- "So, tell me about Ohio?" -- and weave multiple story lines out of it.
Mothersbaugh said that Devo's music was as strongly influenced by the music heard in elevators and television commercials as it was other kinds of pop music. He was attending Kent State when National Guard troops gunned down student protesters, and Devo was formed in response -- "we were protesting the war in Vietnam ... trying to describe what was going on around us." But he didn't see the rhetoric of revolution in music as a viable vehicle for changing the way the world works. So he and his bandmates looked to another source of inspiration: Madison Avenue.
The advertising machine was "scary and impressive" in the way it enticed consumers to buy products, he said. "Subversion" became Devo's mantra, tied in with Mothersbaugh's interests in film and art. His later scores for"Pee Wee's Playhouse"and the "Rug Rats" movies surely qualify, as does his recent work as an art teacher in theNick Jr.cable TV hit "Yo Gabba Gabba!" The humor, he said, "works for 2 year olds."


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As cyclists, we all hit our breaking point of carrying beers, groceries, or books all on our backs. Let's face it -- pointy things hurt, eggs crush easily, and sweat maps of a messenger bag don't look good on anyone's back. It's time to get to some racks, and the Portland Design Works Loading Dock Rear Rack is the perfect place to start. With ample storage room, a beautiful design, and a 35lb weight capacity, the Loading Dock acts as the extra set of hands that you need to carry your stuff.
Portland Design Works' Loading Dock uses oversized aluminum tubing for its frame construction. The lines of the frame elegantly move from the rear droupout to the brake bridge area of your commuter. It attaches using a minimal amount of hardware -- four bolts to be exact. And even if your steed doesn't have upper-mounting bosses, PDW has provided two P-clamps that attach the rack to the seat stays. To ensure a proper weight capacity, a longer lifespan, and timeless aesthetics, the Loading Dock features a double-ply bamboo deck for you cargo to rest on. Once attached, the angle of the deck is fully adjustable -- finally, a rack that can adjust to any awkward load.
The Portland Design Works Loading Dock Rear Rack is available in a 140x381mm size and in one color. Please note that this rack is designed for bicycles with, at a minimum, mounting bosses located at the rear dropouts. The Loading Dock also has a maximum recommended carrying load of 35lb, and the rack height measure to 368mm.
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What's in Your Bag? Heavy Purses Can Cause Back, Neck Pain
(NEW YORK) -- That designer bag may look fabulous on your arm, but what is it doing to your back?
Carrying bags that weigh more than five pounds can be hazardous to your health, doctors say. That's why ABC's Good Morning America decided to launch its very own "Purse Intervention," weighing women's purses across the country.
GMA ambushed women on the streets of New York and Los Angeles and found women are lugging around tons of extra weight with purses that weigh in the range of 5 to 10 pounds, and some even more.
But it's not just what's inside the bags that creates the weight. With heavy buckles and grommets, belts and more, trendy purses today have accessories of their own, which add to the load.
While it may seem minor, there are some fairly serious injuries heavy bag carrying can cause, including headaches, neck and upper back pain, even arm numbness and tingling if the nerves are being pinched, explains New York City chiropractor Dr. Randi Jaffee.
So what's a girl to do? Follow these tips from the experts to help lighten the load:
Two bags are better than one. Always carry an extra bag with you. That way if you have more to cart around, you can put it in this little bag and wear it on both shoulders.
Purses with long straps are better than short ones. Wear the strap across your heart to better distribute the weight and give your shoulder a little break.
Backpacks and rolly bags are the best bet for your back. The backpack gives you an equal distribution of weight on both shoulders, and the rolly bag takes the weight off your back altogether.
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Perimeter Institute would like to congratulate Faculty member Robert Spekkens for his first place entry in FQXi's fourth annual essay contest, with the theme "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong?" The $10,000 first prize was awarded to Spekkens for his essay, "The paradigm of kinematics and dynamics must yield to causal structure." In the essay, Spekkens suggests that we question the usual distinction between a physical theory's kinematics and dynamics. The content of a theory is usually specified by describing separately the physical states that are possible in the theory, known as its kinematics, and the rules that govern how one state evolves into another, or its dynamics. Spekkens notes that any change in a theory's dynamics can be compensated by an appropriate change in its kinematics, so that the modified theory and the original will have all the same observable consequences. Thus, he argues, the distinction is artificial, and only a kind of union of kinematics and dynamics has a bearing on the predictions of the model. In their stead, he proposes that physical theories be described through their causal structure, a promising new approach that is still being developed. There is a venerable history of major open questions in theoretical physics being tackled by essay contests, and they have helped to advance the field in ways that complement the traditional peer-review system and journal publication. The Gravity Research Foundation essay competition, for example, has offered prizes for essays on gravitational physics since 1949, and many of the winning essays, several of which were authored by Perimeter faculty or Distinguished Visiting Research Chairs, are now considered classics. Though Spekkens took home the top prize, he was not the only Perimeter researcher honoured by FXQi. Postdoctoral Researcher Flavio Mercati and former graduate student Sean Gryb were among the fourth prize recipients for their essay, "Right about time?" In addition, four separate papers by Affiliate member Steve Weinstein and former postdoctoral researchers Sabine Hossenfelder, Michele Arzano, and Olaf Dreyer were also among the 20 papers recognized. The FQXi essay competition entries are available for public viewing and feedback, resulting in lively online discussions between essay contributors and other members of the community. To read all of the winning entries, visit http://www.fqxi.org/community/essay/winners/2012.1.
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- Watch Researcher Presentation: Robert Spekkens
- PI Researchers Win Multiple FQXi Essay Prizes in 2009
About FQXi
FQXi is a non-profit organization that supports the investigation of fundamental questions in physics and cosmology, through grants and the burgeoning essay contest. This year's contest was the largest yet, with 271 entries. For more information, see: http://www.fqxi.org/home.


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Raising the Curtain
You may have seen the photographs: images of a boy or a girl on father's shoulders, cheering and waving a three-cornered hat, participating in a Duke of Gloucester Street drama, the lively reenactment of a real event from the days when the men and women of 18th-century Williamsburg transformed themselves from subjects to citizens. That glimpse of our new Revolutionary City programming is a snapshot of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's achievements in 2006. It is, to me, emblematic of what Colonial Williamsburg is becoming, an illustration of what this special place and institution is doing to assure that 21st-century audiences grasp the meaning of a town, a community, that is a part of every American citizen. Our goal is that they understand this as a place focused on them.
For the past few years, we have been designing, building, and setting the stage for the presentation. In 2006, we raised the curtain on an experience that, in all its components, is engaging and appealing, at once educational and dramatic, that makes strong emotional connections between guests and those formative events of the 1770s that continue to shape choices today.
The reviews have been encouraging, and so are the results.
The highly anticipated Revolutionary City program premiered in the Historic Area creating a spontaneous real-time feel to Williamsburg during the years of the American Revolution. Guests participate in the everyday life of the city during world-changing historic events as they witness a society transforming from subjects of the monarchy to citizens of a new nation.
Admissions advanced 5 percent, the biggest one-year increase since the 1980s, to 767,000; our Education for Citizenship emphasis garnered more and stronger support; and our first comprehensive fundraising campaign surpassed by $10 million its $500 million goal.
Total revenue climbed almost 5 percent, we introduced the renovated and restored Williamsburg Lodge with its new conference center, and we unveiled a Governor's Palace refurnished and rearranged to look as it did in 1775, complementing the Revolutionary City theme.
We enhanced and reopened the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum after updating the fire prevention system; attracted the support of a record 115,000 donors, whose $14 million in contributions to the Colonial Williamsburg Fund were 5 percent more than the year before; and, through outreach programming, reached the most people in our 81-year history.
The voyage of the Godspeed up the East Coast carried the news of Historic Triangle plans for Jamestown's 400th anniversary. We created a regional welcome center for 2007's commemoration of the event, and Colonial Williamsburg serves as a Founding Colony sponsor of America's 400th anniversary.
Guests were treated to behind-the-scenes makeover tours of the Governor's Palace as it was refurbished to reflect the lifestyle of the last royal governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, and his family.
Colonial Williamsburg's Regency Room was named to the 2006 Fine Dining Hall of Fame by Nation's Restaurant News, which welcomed only nine others from across the country for this special designation.
On January 14, 2006, Timothy M. Kaine joined an elite group of public servants taking the gubernatorial oath of office in Williamsburg, the first capital of the Commonwealth. The only other governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia to be inaugurated at the colonial Capitol were Patrick Henry on June 29, 1776, and Thomas Jefferson on June 1, 1779.
Guests join Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Trades carpenters to raise the frame of a tobacco barn at Great Hopes Plantation. The completed barn will further enhance the interpretation of life on a typical Virginia farm.
The Merchants Square and Resort Historic District, containing retail shops and the Foundation's flagship hotels, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Nation's Restaurant News inducted the Williamsburg Inn's Regency Room into its Fine Dining Hall of Fame, and our architectural collections and conservation experts were recognized by the Vernacular Architecture Forum for post-Katrina Gulf recovery efforts.
Timothy M. Kaine became the first governor of Virginia to be inaugurated at the historic Capitol in Williamsburg since Thomas Jefferson took the oath in 1779. Perennially strong, products revenues grew in 2006 while helping to extend the Foundation's mission, and the market value of our endowment after withdrawals to support operations grew 9 percent to more than $777 million.
In 2006, the prospective positive returns on our investments in programming, facilities, and marketing communications became ever plainer to Colonial Williamsburg, its supporters, and guests.
Attendance, press clippings, and guest surveys persuaded us that none of those investments was more important than the creation of Revolutionary City—the daily, two-hour, managed-access street-theater presentations of Williamsburg life before and during the War for Independence. The media notices—more than 225 stories, spread through 130 news outlets reaching 25 million people—reinforce our belief that today's audiences respond enthusiastically when Colonial Williamsburg introduces fresh thinking to its programming. We learned that theater presented by trained actor-interpreters—each spent 11 weeks in classroom preparation and study—appeals to our visitors, and the authenticity to which we are so deeply committed improves the performance. Staff scholars ensured that authenticity by participating in content development, assisting in instruction, and advising on the use of historic structures and sites. We experienced the benefits of applying the same high standards of faithfulness to history to the stories we told elsewhere, on site and off. No institution like ours reaches, through the variety of its programs, as many people as Colonial Williamsburg. Our task is to improve and enhance that reach and impact while remaining faithful to our mission.
Colonial Williamsburg sharpened its appeals to families and children through the addition of costumed youth interpreters to street scenes and through the creation of engaging, interactive Historic Area opportunities. Among the innovations were three Kids Holiday Weekends, in-character conversations with Revolutionary City "extras," in-place instruction in such subjects as 18th-century dance, and trades shop apprentice tours—all encouraging direct participation in the experience. The guest-assisted raising of a tobacco barn at Great Hopes Plantation, the Historic Trades carpenters' program "Building Great Hopes Plantation: Reconstructing Rural Houses by Hand," and the African American history presentation "Workin' the Soil, Healing the Soul" had the same effect.
We also personalized the experience by offering digital technology on Historic Area streets. A grant from the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation supported the purchase of portable devices to deliver audio tours that give guests the option of self-paced introductions to Colonial Williamsburg with emphasis on important historical themes.
The same spirit of innovation infused our more formal instructional efforts—the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute, which graduated 500 teachers and attracted 912 more to off-site workshops and videoconferences; the Home Educators Week attended by 3,323 people; and our seven electronic field trips, telecast and Internet streamed, which reached five million students.
The annual two-session conference "Working Wood in the 18th-Century," which explored chair making, was a resounding success. "Celebrating the American Garden: Spaces for Relaxing and Entertaining" was the theme of the well-attended 60th annual Colonial Williamsburg Garden Symposium. Award-winning presenters drew appreciative audiences to the 58th annual Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, "In Search of the Past: Restoring and Furnishing America's Historic Sites." A behind-the-scenes Governor's Palace makeover tour gave guests the opportunity to see the Foundation's conservators and curators translating research into realism.
Colonial Williamsburg remained a popular destination for school groups and classes studying American history, and in 2006, we took Colonial Williamsburg into even more classrooms. In partnership with textbook publisher Pearson Scott Foresman, the Foundation placed a series of next-generation student and teacher texts, electronic media, and our proprietary active-learning strategies in 50 percent of the California elementary school system, the nation's largest. We gave students the chance to have a little fun, too, posting on the Internet a daily jigsaw puzzle and our brain-teasing citizenship quiz.
Colonial Williamsburg's websites attracted more than 15 million visits from people of all ages in 2006—students looking for homework help, educators engaged in research, teachers and parents looking for visit information, vacationers making travel plans, online readers of the popular history magazine Colonial Williamsburg, and the just plain curious. We are now looking forward to Virtual Williamsburg, a collaboration of the Foundation's Digital History Center and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, which in 2006 began planning three-dimensional, online models of 18th-century Williamsburg for research and exploration.
Through the Foundation's Internet initiatives run the three central strands of efforts so central to Colonial Williamsburg's success: educational programming; revenue-producing activities such as hotels, restaurants, and products, which help to underwrite programs; and the marketing effort that communicates this broad range.
Consider WilliamsburgMarketplace.com. In 2006, product sales on this website grew by 20 percent. Sales from the web now account for 42 percent of all direct marketing revenue. Or go to history.org/history/museums/online_exhibits.cfm and see the digital exhibit Pounds, Pence, and Pistareens: The Coins and Currency of Colonial America, featuring gifts from Joseph and Ruth P. Lasser's rich and important numismatic collection.
Grants, pledges, and gifts like the Lassers' totaled $52.5 million in 2006 and included Maureen and James W. Gorman's presentation of the magnificent Lord Dunmore Town Coach. The year's largest gift was a $5 million endowment for Historic Area programming and program renewal from David Rockefeller, youngest son of Colonial Williamsburg co-founder John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Theresa and Lawrence Salameno of Allendale, New Jersey, pledged $2 million, and Patricia and Peter Frechette of Minneapolis, Minnesota, another $2 million, to endow outreach efforts. John and Linda Muckel of Palos Verdes, California, endowed the Magazine with a $1 million gift. Ambassador Bill and Jean Lane of Menlo Park, California, committed $1 million to endow the position of director of the coach and livestock program, and board of trustees Vice Chairman Richard Tilghman and his spouse, Alice, of Richmond, Virginia, committed $1 million for endowment. Shirley H. and Richard D. Roberts of Virginia Beach, Virginia, endowed the position of director of architectural history with $1 million. Words are inadequate to convey our gratitude for such commitments.
Colonial Williamsburg President Colin Campbell and Nancy Campbell welcome former President George Bush and Barbara Bush at the Williamsburg Inn on the eve of the christening of the George H. W. Bush, last of the US Navy's Nimitiz-class aircraft carriers. The ship's builder, Northrop Grumman of Newport News, Va., hosted a dinner in the Virginia Room of the Williamsburg Lodge, while the George Bush Presidential Library hosted a gala in the Colony Room.
Colonial Williamsburg dedicated the Courtyard of Philanthropy to honor major donors whose generous gifts help advance the Foundation's mission. Names of benefactors are placed on the brick wall beneath the flags of the 13 original states at the entrance plaza to the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center. The Courtyard of Philanthropy is a prominent landmark honoring 65 lifetime donors of $1 million and above. Future donors will be honored as their giving level reaches the $1 million mark.
Colonial Williamsburg's Productions, Publications, and Learning Ventures division provided key production support services for Jamestown Live!, a one-hour educational webcast from Jamestown Settlement. Students from all 50 states and 13 countries gathered to join students online to learn about three of Jamestown's enduring legacies—exploration, diversity, and self-government. The live webcast was hosted by PBS senior correspondent Gwen Ifill (center) and included interviews with Jim Horn (left), Colonial Williamsburg's vice president of research, and Rex Ellis (right), vice president of the Historic Area.
Presentation of the Foundation's messages and mission to distant and diverse audiences—to more than 20 million people by electronic outreach in 2006—is essential to Colonial Williamsburg's future. We approached the job at a one-to-one level by meeting friends, new and existing, at such gatherings as Godspeed sail functions in Alexandria, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Newport, and Boston. In somewhat broader examples of outreach, Colonial Williamsburg produced 52 new image-enhanced podcasts; the CDs From Ear to Ear, Fourth of July, and Storytelling Festival 2006; and the books Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown—The Official Guide to America's Historic Triangle and 1607: Jamestown and the New World released early in 2007.
The Official Guide to America's Historic Triangle is a fine example of what was done in 2006 and before to prepare the Foundation for, and to support, America's 400th anniversary. As a Founding Colony sponsor of the commemoration, Colonial Williamsburg worked closely with anniversary planners and provided, among other things, satellite, sound, video, and Internet services for Jamestown Live!, a program moderated by the Public Broadcasting Service's Gwen Ifill and webcast to students in 50 states and 13 countries studying exploration, diversity, and self-government.
All these activities point toward achievment of a major objective: to increase substantially the numbers of people that come to the Historic Triangle and partake of Colonial Williamsburg's lively programming and citizenship message, as well as the attractive resort, dining, and shopping opportunities that help to sustain the core mission.
There is a synergistic aspect to the relationship of Colonial Williamsburg's hospitality businesses to its educational enterprises. The resort attracts guests to the Historic Area and vice versa. The income generated is crucial; it goes toward Colonial Williamsburg's primary enterprise, education.
We improved the resort's appeal, and gave people more reasons to stay with us, when we completed the phased renovation of the Lodge and opened its Nicholas and Tyler guesthouses as well as the 45,000-square-foot conference center. Room revenues advanced more than 12 percent in 2006.
Concurrently, the reopening of the Lodge gift shop, as well as the Museum Store at the DeWitt Wallace site, brought all our retail outlets back on line, and they had new products to offer. In 2006, we licensed eight more vendors: Campania, for garden products; Ellery, for bedding and window treatments; Hudson Valley Lighting, for interior fixtures; Reed & Barton, for stainless and sterling flatware and gifts; Sedgefield by Adams, for brass lighting and giftware; SPI, for garden products; Troy-CSL, for exterior light fixtures; and Windham, for quilt fabric.
Revolutionary City actor-interpreters joined guests at special tavern breakfasts during the year. The hospitality press celebrated the Williamsburg Inn's Regency Room, which earned the American Automobile Association's Four Diamond rating and Four Stars from the Mobil Travel Guide.
The Inn again made Condé Nast Traveler magazine's Gold List and Travel & Leisure magazine's roster of 500 Great Hotels in the World. The Golden Horseshoe Golf Club's Gold and Green courses earned recognition in Zagat's survey of America's Top Golf Courses as well as the Condé Nast Traveler 2006 "Reader's Pick: Top 100 Golf Resorts in the World" poll.
Publicity and marketing are important undertakings. Our broadcast, interactive, and print campaigns draw on research to appeal to media-savvy audiences. Upbeat and memorable, they portray Colonial Williamsburg's relevance in the life of today's citizens, connecting across generations. Other advertisements present Colonial Williamsburg resort properties as places drawing on centuries of the American experience to offer opportunities to relax, enjoy 18 holes, and eat well, and maybe serve as a site for your company's next meeting.
We campaigned for earned airtime and column inches, too. For example, we sent our new home stylist on a tour of nine major media markets and took "The New Traditional" products line to a New York media event that attracted more than 60 editors. On the museum side, coverage of the DeWitt Wallace reopening was extraordinary.
Admissions revenue, which dropped 3 percent from 2005 because of a ticket mix assuring introductory access to the Revolutionary City program, covers but a fraction of operating costs, and there was again in 2006 a substantial operating deficit. The closing of major sections of the Lodge for construction and renovation and start-up costs for new facilities were significant factors. Reducing the shortfall is of primary importance, but a task to be undertaken with care, deliberation, and planning. If there were a quick and sustainable fix, we would already have made it.
Managing an operation as complex as Colonial Williamsburg requires prudent, and sometimes difficult, decisions. We reached a decision about Carter's Grove in 2006, completing a four-year evaluation and concluding the best approach is to offer it in a fully protected sale. Restrictions will ensure protection of the James River view shed, wetlands and forest, exterior and interior architecture, and archaeological sites on the property as well as prohibit residential and commercial development.
At bottom, the challenge with Carter's Grove was that it did not connect directly with the focus on presenting Revolutionary-era Williamsburg and was unable to attract sufficient audiences. Audience development—the appeal to rising generations—is fundamental to the Foundation.
In this connection, the success of the Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg and the meaning of that effort are most encouraging. Publicly launched in 2001, the campaign built on a quiet phase during which donors provided $256 million. In the campaign's final five years, contributors provided 30 gifts of $1 million or more, and from 290,000 individuals came $112.5 million. Planned gifts produced 20 percent of the campaign total. To each person who participated, no matter the size of the gift, my colleagues and I again offer our sincere thanks.
We appreciate as well contributions to our work made by other foundations. In 2006, they included $1 million from the Gladys and Franklin Clark Foundation of Williamsburg, Virginia, for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum exhibitions; $350,000 for religious programming from the Kern Family Foundation of Waukesha, Wisconsin; and $250,000 for educational outreach from The Pew Charitable Trusts of Philadelphia.
It takes leadership to earn such support, leadership like the kind provided by Vice President for Research Cary Carson, who retired after 30 years of service; Vice President for Operations Andrew Hungerman III, who retired after 10 years of service; and trustees Norman R. Augustine of Potomac, Maryland, Marshall N. Carter of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Richard D. Roberts of Virginia Beach, Virginia, who departed the board after 22 cumulative years of distinguished service.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation donated three conservation easements to the Williamsburg Land Conservancy on 230 acres of land west of Route 132 in York County, preserving a primary gateway to the Historic Triangle and providing permanent protection for scenic views along the entry to the Colonial Williamsburg Regional Welcome Center. This action preserves the natural environment around Queen's Creek and protects a significant archaeological site and is an important example of how the Foundation is protecting the vital greenbelt surrounding Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area for future generations. The conservation easements prohibit development on this land, and protect woodlands and wetlands. The Benjamin Powell plantation site, home to a prominent 18th-century builder, is preserved for future archaeological investigation.
A portion of the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum reopened to Colonial Williamsburg guests. Selected objects from the permanent exhibition Masterworks from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection were on display in the introductory gallery while major renovation work continued in the rest of the building.
Colonial Williamsburg President Colin Campbell (center, left), Rex Ellis (center, right), vice president of the Historic Area, and Revolutionary City cast members Hope Smith and Bill Weldon join Hearsay on the Road host Cathy Lewis (left) at the Kimball Theatre for a special live broadcast of the highly regarded program on NPR station WHRV-FM to discuss Colonial Williamsburg's popular, new interactive street-theater program and other recent initiatives.
The board of trustees elected to their number Thomas F. Farrell II of Richmond, Virginia, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Dominion Resources Inc.; Judith A. McHale of Bethesda, Maryland, immediate past president and CEO of Discovery Communications Inc.; Barbara Bowen Oberg of Princeton, New Jersey, professor and lecturer in the department of history at Princeton University, where she is general editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson; and Henry C. Wolf of Norfolk, Virginia, vice chairman and chief financial officer of Norfolk Southern Corporation. They and their colleagues will help lead Colonial Williamsburg into the future.
In the near term, at least at this writing, that future held Revolutionary City improvements and expansion, the opening of The Spa of Colonial Williamsburg, the opening of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in its new home at the DeWitt Wallace Museum site, exciting initiatives in distance learning, partnerships in outreach with textbook publisher Prentice Hall and with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, innovative use of technology in support of research and citizenship programs, and such Jamestown events as Queen Elizabeth II's spring visit and the 400th anniversary weekend in May followed by autumn's World Forum on the Future of Democracy.
All of these opportunities will be informed by the successes and lessons of 2006. On that basis, we turned to 2007 with confidence and optimism, as a year of great promise. This is, after all, an institution persuaded of the idea that the future may learn from the past—and in the process, improve upon the present.
Thank you for your interest and support.
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation


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We have have partnered up with 11 of London's largest cardrooms and casinos to build a calendar of over 100 poker events running throughout September. Alongside grassroots poker tournaments that will suit all budgets, we have some of the largest poker events in Europe, with total prize money around £12m. We are also putting on nightclub parties hosted by famous poker players, charity poker tournaments, poker tuition lectures, an award ceremony, a charity strip poker championship held at Stringfellows (the most famous strip club in London), possibly a music concert and also Poker in the Park (http://www.pokerinthepark.com), a two day poker festival in Leicester Square which attracted 20,000 people in 2009.
The London Poker Festival unites all these events, allowing everyone to see times, dates and locations in order to plan which ones they will attend.
Poker players, over 18, mainly male
This is the London Poker Festival's first year so the website needs to introduce visitors to the concept of the festival and allow them to see details of all the different events.
The website needs to have:
*Short amount of text, introducing the London Poker Festival and explaining what it's all about. (this is its first year)
*Email and social media (Facebook, Twitter) data capture
*Feed of the calendar (using Trumba)
*Small amount of text above the calendar explaining how to use it - e.g. you can export selected events into your Outlook calendar
*Results section
*Twitter feed box
*Footer that will include logos of all the participating companies and media partners
*A Google map with the different casinos plotted
We have mocked up a version at http://22.214.171.124/PokerFestival/Default.aspx. It's very rough and using random feeds, but it should help you to get a sense of the type of information needed. (The feed below the news letterbox isn't necessary.)


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Sunday, 31 August 2008
5k win!
The Lions Club in our town put on a 5k race this morning. We found a sitter for The Lorax, so we ran sans baby jogger.
As we warmed up, SR began scoping out the female competition. He didn't say this out loud, but I know him well.
And at the starting line, many females were giving me rueful glances. I thought to myself "If any of these women are fast, I'm going down." Of course I've always dreamed of winning races, but when it comes down to it, I will always lose in a sprint finish.
And SR was kind enough to instruct me in front of everyone at the starting line: "Don't start out too fast!" I laughed.
I ran the first mile in 6:09. I guess that's too fast, since that's a mile PR for me. I was in the lead for the women, but there was a woman right on my tail, who I figured would run much more intelligently than me.
It was so cool to see SR running with two other guys, one of whom I know fairly well, battling it out in the front.
I'm not sure what the second mile split was, but I'm guessing it was just slightly slower than the first. I couldn't believe I was keeping it up and was still in the lead!
Shortly after the two mile mark, I figured I had the win, but kept peering over my shoulder. And then there was that turtle head again. And, in fact, what came out can't be described as a head at all. I won't go into any more nasty details. But I finished in 19:46 (according to the official results), shaving 32 second off my PR, won my first race (!) and ran to the bathroom to wash out my shorts.
SR won, too, with a time of 16:40. He may win nearly every race he enters, but he certainly has not stopped amazing me.
On the way home, SR commented that most people would have stopped running rather than have an accident in their shorts. I asked incredulously if he thought I should have given up the win for that. To which he replied "Hell no!" Sometimes it is scary how similar we are.
I will say that one thing I'm sure helped me run faster was forcing myself to run 3 minute half miles on the treadmill two days before the race. That's probably obvious to most of you track people out there, but I'm a newbie.
Oh, and I got the great news from my dad this morning that my mom has started running at age 57!
Hope you all enjoy Labor Day weekend!
8 comments:
- SteveQ said...
Ummm, maybe you should change your pre-race ritual to avoid the problem... great race, nonetheless.
- 31 August 2008 at 19:27
- The Chapples said...
Nice race, although I don't think you can cram speed-training ;). I think your race success was due to overall fitness vs. your speed session earlier in the week.
- 31 August 2008 at 22:25
- Abbie said...
Seriously, your running inspires me. I feel though that I can no longer run injury free. I try to train for a 1/2 marathon and I strain my calf and am out for 2 weeks. So I decide to lighten my running load and just aim for a 10K and now I have come down with a heel spur. Seriously... do you think it's possible that some people's bodies just aren't meant to run? If so, I sadly think I'm one of them. Would intense stretching help? Just realized my comment is all about me... a bit selfish but you seem to know your stuff.
- 1 September 2008 at 03:10
- Heather said...
Congrats SeaLegs!
- 1 September 2008 at 13:15
- Meghan said...
Wow, busting through the 20 minute 5k barrier with gusto. To think what you could have done if your gut had been agreeing with you! Congrats on the win, the big PR, and breaking the 20 minute barrier. For women, that's a huge step. Bask in the glory, Sea Legs!
- 2 September 2008 at 20:31
- Danni said...
Nice work!!! Yeah I wonder what you're eating that's giving you trouble :(
- 3 September 2008 at 03:14
- Lisa said...
Congratulations, Great Job!!!!! As for the poo....Poor Sealegs. :D If it makes you feel any better, a few weeks ago we went for Mexican (curse of death) and the next morning I did all as usual, coffee, poop, etc. In the exact middle of our run I told my neighbor I just may hit the nearby fields and poop, the urge is so bad. She said, "Oh, I have an extra doggie bag that Shadow did not use, you can have it." I told her thanks, but I think some awful loud gas would wake any nearby families. I ran home with my cheeks squeezed together will all my might. LOL! I was grateful I made it. Do you go before your races? I suspect you are primarily a late afternoon/evening runner? You gotta get into a poopin' routine in the a.m., Girl.....
- 3 September 2008 at 19:05
- olga said...
You are the winner in the soul thus don't worry about things. Congrats!
- 3 September 2008 at 19:17


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by Dr. Boyce Watkins, AOL Black Voices
Many of you may already know about the "interesting" comments made by the rapperSlim Thug, and his frustration about the lack of loyalty among black women. His comments were met with resistance by myself and Dr. Marc Lamont Hill from Columbia University, who gave him the stable advice to keep his mouth shut. I say that "Slim Thugga" needs to be quiet, not because he's wrong, but because this is a battle he can't win and still sell records. Getting every black woman in America to hate you is simply not good for business. Even Talib Kweli, a fellow hip hop artist, had something to say about Slim Thug's remarks.
On his twitter page, Slim Thug went out of his way to try to protect his image in the face of all the backlash:


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Vatican City, Nov 27, 2012 / 12:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI met with six new cardinals and their families, just two days after they made their vows, and encouraged them to promote the "holiness, communion and peace of the Church."
The Pope addressed the gathering at noon on Nov. 26 in the Pope Paul VI Hall. He first greeted American Cardinal Harvey, Indian Cardinal Thottunkal, Nigerian Cardinal Onaiyekan and Filipino Cardinal Tagle in English, before addressing Cardinal Raï in French and Colombian Cardinal Salazar in Spanish.
"The College of Cardinals, whose origin is linked to the ancient clergy of the Roman Church, is in charge of electing the successor of Saint Peter and advising him in matters of greater importance," said the Pope.
"Whether in the offices of the Roman Curia or in their ministry in the local Churches throughout the world, the cardinals are called to share in a special way in the Pope's solicitude for the universal Church," he added.
He noted that "the vivid color of their robes has traditionally been seen as a sign of their commitment to defending Christ's flock, even to the shedding of their blood."
"As the new cardinals takes on the burden of office, I am confident they will be supported by your prayers and assistance as they strive with the Roman pontiff to promote throughout the world the holiness, communion and peace of the Church," Pope Benedict stated.
As he addressed Lebanese Cardinal Boutros Raï and his family in French, the Pope recalled his recent visit to Lebanon, saying that those days were ''happy memories.''
"I wish to encourage life and particularly the presence of Christians in the Middle East where they must live their faith freely, and start again an urgent appeal for peace in the region," he said. "The Church encourages all efforts for peace in the world, and the Middle East peace will only be effective if it is based on a genuine respect for each other."
"May Mary, most holy, who in those noble lands is sweetly invoked under the name of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá, always hold within her motherly love all beloved sons and daughters of Colombia, whom I have very present in my heart and prayers …" he said.
"I invite everyone to raise fervent prayers for the new cardinal, that he is increasingly linked to the Successor of Peter and to work tirelessly with the Apostolic See. Ask God also to assist him with his gifts, so that it remains a witness to the truth of the Gospel of salvation, righteousness and faithfulness …"
He told the new cardinals that their "ministry has been enhanced with a new commitment to supporting the Successor of Peter, in his service to the Church universal."
"Therefore, as I again offer to each of you my most cordial good wishes, I am confident in the support of your prayers and your help. Continue confident and strong in your spiritual and apostolic mission, keeping your gaze fixed on Christ and strengthened in your love for his Church. "
He finished his speech by saying that this love can also be learned from the saints, which is the fullest realization of the Church.


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Burmese President Thein Sein said that his government would use force if necessary to quell deadly religious rioting that started last week, as attacks on Muslims by Buddhist mobs continued in several towns.
In his first public comments on the violence, Thein Sein warned in a televised speech on Thursday that he would make all legal efforts to stop "political opportunists and religious extremists" trying to sow hatred between faiths.
Police announced on Thursday that 42 people have been killed, 37 religious buildings and 1,227 houses have been damaged or destroyed, and 68 arrests have been made in the three affected regions since the recent unrest started on Wednesday last week.
The violence began with rioting by Buddhists targeting minority Muslims in the central city of Meikhtila that drove about 12,000 people from their homes. It spread this week to several towns in the Bago region, about 160km north of the country's biggest city, Yangon. One incident was reported near Naypyitaw, the capital.
Curfews and bans on public gatherings have been imposed in the affected areas, but state television reported that groups of people attacked houses, shops and religious buildings on Thursday in two towns in Bago. On Wednesday, it reported that security forces fired shots into the air to break up attacks, which residents said targeted Muslim properties.
"In general, I do not endorse the use of force to solve problems. However, I will not hesitate to use force as a last resort to protect the lives and safeguard the property of the general public," said Thein Sein, who took office in 2011 as part of an elected civilian government after almost five decades of repressive military rule.
By instituting democratic changes and economic liberalization, he has built a reputation as a reformer and restored relations with Western nations that had shunned the previous military regime for its poor human rights record.
"We must expect these conflicts and difficulties to arise during our period of democratic transition," he said in a 10-minute speech. "As we rebuild our society, we must rise above 60 years of historical bitterness, confrontational approaches and a zero-sum attitude in solving our differences."
Myanmar became independent from Britain in 1948, but suffered from instability because of tensions between various ethnic minorities.
Occasional isolated violence involving majority Buddhists and minority Muslims has occurred for decades, even under the authoritarian military governments that ruled the country from 1962 to 2011. However, tensions have heightened since last year when hundreds of people were killed and more than 100,000 made homeless in violence between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya.
Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, welcomed Thein Sein's public call for the violence to stop, but said authorities "need to do much more" to keep the violence from spreading and undermining the reform process.
"The government has simply not done enough to address the spread of discrimination and prejudice against Muslim communities," Quintana said in a statement.
He also called on the government to look into allegations that soldiers and police stood by "while atrocities have been committed before their very eyes, including by well-organized ultra-nationalist Buddhist mobs."