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The fitted pencil design features solid and sheer mesh-like oblique panels for the ideal balance of rustic and refined aesthetics. The knee-length scalloped hemline adds a feminine touch to the minimalist style and ensures this is the right piece for dressing up day and night outfits. Style yours with a monochromatic top to keep the attention on this skirt. It looks stunning on a beach resort as well.
The process was quite interesting because instead of chaining foundation row and working upwards or downwards I have crocheted the diagonals with oblique edges. This skirt has no side seams and is worked in one piece.
Detailed crochet PATTERN is available here:
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Projects by other crocheters:
Made by Nicky: http://mycrochet.conceptcreative.store/spiral-skirt/
Made by Tanya: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/tanace/diagonal-beach-skirt


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January 5, 2018, Adrian, Michigan – If you've made a New Year's resolution to learn more about the world around you, Weber Center's monthly Lunch & Learn Series might be a great place to start. Each month, a different speaker will make a presentation on practical topics, while you enjoy your own lunch, with drinks and dessert offered by Weber Center.
Bring your lunch to Weber Center on the following days, and prepare also to feast on the practical tips and advice of each speaker. The program itself lasts from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m., but come early to enjoy your lunch.
The Lunch and Learn Series is free and open to the public; registration is not required.
Weber Center is on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters' Motherhouse Campus, 1257 E. Siena Heights Drive, Adrian. Enter the Eastern-most driveway of the complex and follow the signs to Weber Center. For information, call the Weber Center at 517-266-4000.

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African Rain
Click on the frog for information needed to
teach African Rain Forests
Author: Jill
Grade Level: Early
1. Students will draw
a picture and label the layers of a rain forest in
map of Africa
highlighting where the rain forests are
2. Copy of
in the Forests"
on chart paper. By Debby DePauw from Fun in the Rain
Forest. Evan-Moor Corp. p. 7.
3. Pictures of
the rain forest. Pictures can be found in book such
Life in the Rain
Forests by Lucy Baker. pp. 4, 8-9,
A Walk in the Rain
Forest by Kristin Joy Pratt. pp. 8, 10, 12,
Explore the World
of Exotic Rain Forests by Anita Ganeri. pp. 24-45
Here's the
Tropical Rain Forest by Madeline
At Home in the
Rain Forest by Diane Willow.
4. 1 piece of
white construction paper for each student (9"x12") with
dotted lines, dividing the paper into
1. Ask students,
"Have you ever been in a rain forest?" When most
students reply no, explain to them that today they will be
exploring what a rain forest in Africa looks
2. Show students
map of Africa and ask them, "What do you notice about
the location of the rain forests?"
3. When students
reply that they are close together, explain to them that the
reason for that is that rain forests need warm temperatures
and lots of rain. These are conditions you find here
(point to the equator). Inform students that the
imaginary line, known as the equator, is located at the
widest part of the earth between the poles.
4. Also
point out to students that most of Africa is not a rain
forest; that only one fifth of Africa is actually rain
5. Ask students
"Are you ready to take a trip into the rain forest?"
Have students sing the song "Layers in the Forest" with
you. (Read from chart paper.)
6. After
repeating the song, ask students to recall what they
remember about each layer. Some questions could
be: "What is the name of the top layer?", "What
kind of trees are located in canopy?", "What can you
find on the bottom floor?" If necessary, repeat the
song until students can recognize the four layers of the
rain forest.
7. After
students have recognized the four layers, hand out the piece
of white paper so they can make a picture showing the layers
of the rain forest.
8. To have
students make the picture of the rain forest, discuss
each layer, one at a time. Start at the top and
proceed to the bottom. Display pictures to help
students illustrate their picture. When students are
finished, have them label the top of their page "African
Rain Forests." Also have students label the name of
each rain forest layer.
9. Discuss each
layer briefly. The top layer, known as the emergent
layer is the top of the rain forest. You can see a few
tall trees that grow higher than all others. Have
students draw a few very tall trees on their
10. The canopy is
where the trees form a roof that protects plants and animals
from the wind and heavy rain. There are many fruit
trees at this level. Have students draw several trees
that are medium high.
11. The next
layer is the understory. The understory is quite dark
because not much sunlight comes through. Palm trees
and short trees with big leaves live at this level.
Show pictures and allow students to draw plants at this
12. Explain that
the forest floor is where small plants such as ferns
live. It is very dark at this level. Show
picture of a fern and allow students to draw this layer on
their paper.
13. After
students have finished illustrating their pictures ask them
questions such as: "Who can tell me the name of the
four layers?", "What does the forest floor look
like?", "What layer does fruit grow at?",
"What layer would you be at if you weren't protected from
the rain and wind?"
1. Assess accuracy of
pictures and picture titles.
2. Assess student
answers at end of lesson.


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Seated behind me are two projectionists who have just met— Elizabeth Lilley from Garland, Texas, and Barry Took from Send Woking in Surrey, England. They're swapping booth talk. "I love projectors," she says. "The new platters are not much fun. I miss the good old single-screen days and the old changeover projectors." From across the aisle, her dad, retired boothman Roy Ragsdale, nods assent.
We're in one of three buses containing 150 theater-crazed individuals rattling around western New York during a sweltering four-day Fourth of July fete. This is the 30th Conclave of the Theatre Historical Society, founded in 1969 by Ben Hall, author of The Best Remaining Seats, an invaluable history of the movie palace.
THS publishes a quarterly journal Marquee, has built up an impressive archive, and has expanded its activities year by year. The archive and THS's American Movie Palace Museum (where this summer there's an exhibit on drive-ins) are located in Elmhurst, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. The conclaves bring together members from around the world to a different locale each year— recent assemblages have taken place in Detroit, Montreal, and Salt Lake City— where theater buildings are relentlessly toured, in front of and behind the scenes, from basements to projection booths.
Conclaves traditionally kick off with slide shows. This year's batch included a tour of Long Island City theaters; 75 years of Hawaiian theaters; and a superb presentation, "The Picture Palaces of Sweden," by Kjell Furberg, project coordinator at the Stockholm Museum of Architecture. There is generally a sprinkling of THS members from abroad; everyone's favorite visitor this year was the youngest, 10-year-old Simon Fox from Australia, who was accompanying his father, organist Robert Fox, former manager of the Regent, one of Sydney's finest movie palaces. "A lovely old place," the elder Fox said, heaving a sigh. "I cried when it came down."
Fox is one of many organists in THS; the membership includes theater managers and professionals, active and retired, but also publicists, designers, IRS agents, writers, scientists— you name it. And although most members have a general interest in historic theaters, there's a healthy sampling of the truly obsessed for whom god is the details— vertical-sign freaks, cove-lighting aficionados, deco devotees, neon nuts, projection-room passionals, and lounge locos.
Steve Markham, from West Hollywood, was described by one of his colleagues as "queer for curtains. He puts curtains around curtains." Markham, an exconcert violinist and a champ baton twirler in vaudeville, "does" the curtains for the "Last Remaining Seats" series of classic movies in historic theaters sponsored by the L.A. Conservancy. He owns a famous collection of drapes— a number dating from the 1920s— kept at L.A.'s Orpheum Theatre under the stage in a room especially built for him. During our tours, he could often be heard muttering: "Ugly, ugly curtains!" A friend noted, "He says that about every theater."
We hit 20 theaters in four days— everything from neighborhood playhouses to opera houses to true glamour palaces— busing through the lovely Finger Lakes area, through sleepy backwater burgs, and rolling farmland in Erie Canal territory. At Jamestown there was an obligatory stop at the Lucy-Desi Museum. Lucille Ball's hometown has turned the late comedienne into something of a cottage industry, to the extent of renaming the opera house "The Lucille Ball Little Theatre."
The big guns were four opulent movie palaces, all of which now serve as performing arts centers. The dazzling Warner, in Erie, Pennsylvania (built in 1931), was designed by Rapp & Rapp, architects of the Times Square Paramount. In its elaborate lobby, Versailles meets art deco; a local cinephile dubbed the place "Erie's Very Own Xanadu." Another extravagant Rapp & Rapp house in the French style, Shea's huge (3200 seats) Buffalo, was built by Paramount in 1926. The Stanley, finest and last of the six theaters that once served downtown Utica, was designed for the Mastbaum chain in 1928 by the prolific Thomas Lamb (who studied architecture at Cooper Union) in a flashy hybrid Moorish-Mexican baroque style. The curving staircase leading to its mezzanine is said to be a replica of the grand staircase of the Titanic. The most sumptuous of all western New York's theaters, Syracuse's Landmark was designed by Lamb in 1928 as Loew's State, a showcase for MGM films. Fantasyland incarnate, its spectacular Indo-Persian lobby incorporates a huge mural depicting a royal procession of elephants and riders, all silhouetted against a deep blue night sky.
After these colossi, a visit to the mom-and-pop Syracuse Palace was a marked change of scale. The house was designed, built, owned, and operated by Al DiBella, an emigrant Sicilian carpenter who stayed in charge until his death in 1959. Since then, his daughter Frances has managed the theater. The movie showing, Cookie's Fortune, was recent, but this charming 1200-seater is pretty much the way it was when DiBella opened it in 1924.
The last day of the conclave, one of my dreams came true. I've always wanted to meet someone who wore "the pants of a Roxy usher." The Roxy was my favorite childhood haunt— the golden age of the movie palace reached its pinnacle with this grandest of all theaters. During a lunch break between tours, I was introduced to Simon Saltzman, a writer from Chatman, New Jersey.
"I went to the Roxy in 1956, straight from high school. D-Day, The Sixth of June was my first picture there. We had inspection every morning. It was like the army, with military-type pants. The ushers' officers were tough. It was actually more like being in the marines. I didn't brush with celebrities often, but I did take Sonja Henie on her skates up in the elevator when she was performing there. When AMC shows Anastasia, they precede it with a Fox newsreel of its premiere at the Roxy and you can see me in uniform opening the door. I was there during the last gasp of the glory days. It was impeccably maintained, right up to the end. When the Roxy was demolished, it was like losing a member of the family."
He continued: "But I had really grown up in those movie palaces. My dad, Moe Saltzman, was a pit musician, he played in the orchestra for The Birth of a Nation. He was a theater organist, but also played piano and clarinet. I went to union meetings with him and made friends with all his cronies who were playing in movie theaters around town. Both my parents were in the business. My mother worked for a milliner for Broadway shows. She was sent to South America to buy plumage for hats and fell in love with my dad who at that time had his own orchestra on the Cunard Line. I was also an usher for a while at Radio City Music Hall, which is a bit funny because my mother went into labor with me while she was looking at Bette Davis in Jezebel at Radio City. From that I attribute my love of Bette Davis movies.
"Being able to revisit some of the great picture palaces up here— now that just about all of those in New York City are gone— supplies a kind of closure to the era I grew up in."
For info: Theatre Historical Society, 152 North York Road, Elmhurst, IL 60126.


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text: Pubdate: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 Source: Ann Arbor News (MI) Copyright: 2004 The Ann Arbor News Contact: http://www.mlive.com/aanews/index.ssf Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/20 Author: Tracy Davis, News Staff Reporter Cited: the Ann Arbor initiative http://www.aammi.org Cited: Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana http://www.wamm.org Cited: Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.org Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal) POT GOES TO THE POLLS Both Sides of Medical-Marijuana Ballot Proposal Agree Passage Wouldn't Settle Legal Issues A wheelchair-using multiple sclerosis patient and her driver are pulled over for speeding in Ann Arbor. When officers approach, they see two marijuana cigarettes on the console between the front seats. But the patient shows the officers a note from her doctor, which recommends that she use marijuana to ease her symptoms. If Ann Arbor voters pass a measure to decriminalize medical use of marijuana on Nov. 2, will this hypothetical patient still be arrested? Some law enforcement officials and legal experts say absolutely. The drug is illegal under federal and state law, and local officials say Ann Arbor officers can enforce state law, even if local laws change. But other observers, legal experts and proponents of the measure say a new law will safeguard those patients, since most marijuana-related arrests are made by state and local officials. The two sides agree Ann Arbor's law likely would wind up in court, as have many cases in other parts of the country. As in other states, many agree that even if a local law is passed, medical marijuana will remain an underground movement as officials, patients, doctors and growers fear arrest and prosecution for openly using, endorsing or recommending its use. Patients, growers and doctors stay as anonymous as possible. As a matter of policy, municipal marijuana programs won't keep patient records, or anything that could be subpoenaed. But even then, jurisdictional issues are unclear. Police in towns with new marijuana laws say they "probably" won't arrest patients; Ann Arbor is not revealing how it will handle the issue. And then there's the issue of how to fill a "prescription;" where will Ann Arbor patients get their medical marijuana? "Probably the same old place they've always gotten it," said Timothy Beck of the Detroit Coalition for Compassionate Care, which initiated Detroit's successful marijuana referendum. The California Experience In 1996, California voters became the first to pass a medical marijuana law that removed criminal penalties for qualifying patients who grew, possessed or used marijuana. The law gave cities such as Santa Cruz and San Francisco, which previously passed municipal laws, the backing of state law. In San Francisco, citizens can apply for a voluntary identification card by submitting a physician recommendation letter to the public health department. The department charges $25 and provides forms for the notes. Patients can get their marijuana at buyer's clubs. Some of the clubs have Web sites; many are known about through word of mouth. San Francisco has 18, according to officials. Oakland and Berkeley have four and two, respectively. There are physicians willing to recommend marijuana use for their patients, although cities do not keep any records on them or the patients themselves, said Dr. Joshua Bamberger. Even so, people are still arrested from time to time. And although state and local agents are mostly no longer a threat, federal agents can, and do, make arrests. In Santa Cruz, a grower's collective called the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana grows and distributes marijuana to more than 250 sick members. The group started after founder and director Valerie Corral was arrested in 1992 for growing five marijuana plants. Corral was in a car crash in the early 1970s that caused a brain injury, leaving her suffering from as many as five grand mal seizures a day. She discovered using marijuana kept the seizures at bay. She challenged her arrest on the grounds of medical necessity and won. That same year, 77 percent of Santa Cruz voters passed its medical marijuana law. Corral was arrested again in 1993, but the district attorney threw out the case and said the prosecutor's office had no intention of pursuing it in liberal Santa Cruz, where an unsympathetic jury would be hard to find. When California's state law passed, it legitimized the city's laws, recalled Corral. Law enforcement stayed largely off the backs of medical marijuana users and of WAMM, whose membership was growing. Corral and her husband, Mike Corral, were officially recognized by the city in 2000 as medical marijuana providers. Santa Cruz Sheriff Mark Tracy was elected in 1994. His administration has been more sympathetic than previous ones, Corral noted, and that makes a big difference. "If it's a clear case where they're using it for medical marijuana, we just walk away," Tracy said. But he adds there are a couple of cases every year where people are obviously not using marijuana for medical reasons. San Francisco has roughly 7,000 people in its program, said Dr. Joshua Bamberger, San Francisco's medical director of housing and urban health. Not all physicians will recommend it, he said. Bamberger said he has had patients ask him for letters for everything from pain to shortness of breath to anxiety. He has given a recommendation in only two cases. It's not clear what Ann Arbor-area physicians will do. A survey of 522 San Diego physicians showed about 25 percent were willing to recommend it. The Washtenaw County Medical Society has not taken a position on the issue, said president-elect Dr. Stan Reedy. A key difference in the momentum of medical marijuana movements, many experts and observers agree, is a having a state law. Whether it gives enough of a literal or symbolic change in law, it has allowed groups like WAMM to run their distribution programs with less fear, Corral said. No Arrests With a Doctor's Note? According to the Marijuana Policy Project, a Washington, D.C.-based legalization advocacy group, state and local police make 99 percent of marijuana arrests. Take local police out of the equation and that goes a long way toward protecting people who use marijuana for multiple sclerosis, cancer, AIDS-related wasting, and a host of other diseases, reasons spokesman Bruce Mirken. "The question is how local authorities will choose to apply it," he said. 'It's not going to stop state police or the state attorney general from going after people if they want to. But they tend to focus on major traffickers. So it probably does provide some substantial protections." "The obvious effect is no longer will the authorities that have the most direct contact with citizens in Ann Arbor be able to arrest them," said Randy Barnett, a constitutional law professor at Boston University. "People will still be subject to federal prosecution. But (federal authorities) have other priorities and other demands on their resources." On the other hand, Mirken notes, "Even in California, where the law is absolutely unambiguous, there have been some cases where cops and local prosecutors have chosen to ignore the law." But the Ann Arbor law won't apply to state police. Detective Lt. Garth Burnside of the Michigan State Police said the measure won't affect his officers. "If someone hands me a note from a doctor saying they can have marijuana, they're still getting arrested," he said. Of 503 drug charges in Livingston and Washtenaw last year, 150 were marijuana charges, he said. And marijuana remains illegal under federal law. "...This initiative would not impact our efforts," said U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency spokesman David Jacobson. "Medical marijuana initiatives have unfortunately become a Trojan horse for marijuana-legalizing groups exploiting the health situations of seriously ill people to promote their own agenda. Marijuana is still illegal." In a California case, a federal judge ruled in favor of two women whose medical marijuana plants were seized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. The women sued the federal government on the grounds that the Controlled Substances Act, which authorizes the feds to enforce drug laws, was unconstitutional as applied to marijuana. An appeals court ruled in favor of the women, citing an unconstitutional exercise of the commerce clause. The federal government has appealed to the Supreme Court, and the case is expected to be heard in December or January. The outcome of that case could have repercussions on city initiatives like the one Ann Arbor voters will decide on. Barnett, the Boston University law professor, is representing the two women before the high court this winter. He said if the court rules on the basis of the commerce clause, that would eliminate federal prosecution even in states that have no medical marijuana law. That greatly increases the power of municipalities, because they control their police departments, he said. But Temple University law professor Mark Rahdert, an expert on constitutional law and federal jurisdiction, disagrees. "It think that's a little similar to the situation we had last spring in San Francisco where the registrar of marriage licenses was not enforcing state law regarding heterosexual marriage," he said. "I don't think it's generally within the province of a local entity to decide which laws it will or will not enforce. If there's a state law that prohibits the medical use of marijuana, it's incumbent on city authorities to (enforce it). They can be directed to do so by proper authority from the state, and a local initiative simply can't override that." City attorney Stephen Postema won't comment on what directions he intends to give Ann Arbor Police until after the election, he said. The Michigan attorney general's office has already sent a letter to Ann Arbor officials warning them the new amendment is in conflict with state law. Police Chief Dan Oates is concerned about the additional burden his officers will have, in proving someone is using marijuana for medical reasons. "We'll have to prove that it's not," he said. Beyond that, he said he is waiting for legal guidance from the city attorney and administration. "Law enforcement in California has been left in a situation where it becomes very complicated," said Tracy, the Santa Cruz sheriff. "The best way to put it is, this issue is still evolving and with each change ... we've tried to get good legal advice and move forward within the parameters of the law. But I will say it has been very difficult." Keeping the Issue Alive If the measure does pass, city officials say anyone could sue to have the amendment overturned. Even if it stands, a 1977 court case may have set legal precedent for city law enforcement to refer marijuana violations to other jurisdictions. In that case, the court ruled that local law enforcement could not be prevented from enforcing state laws by local ordinance or charter amendment. It also said they could not be prevented from referring a case for prosecution. But proponents say the day Michigan voters will face a question about medical marijuana is not far off. Plans are for a ballot question in the 2006 election. Beck, who led the effort for Detroit's medical marijuana ordinance amendment that passed in August, said there are already state lawmakers planning to introduce a medical marijuana bill. He acknowledges it likely doesn't stand a chance in Michigan's House and Senate. But he predicted it will legitimize future efforts for a state referendum. Proponents hope it will be more than symbolic. "What we really believe . is they are not going to mess with people who are truly sick," Beck said. "What we have done, is we have protected really sick people." Many people will be watching the issue closely. "It will be interesting to see how this plays out," said Ann Arbor criminal defense attorney John Shea. "It's partially a way to get a workable law on the books. But it's partially also a way for them to keep the point alive. They want the debate, they want people to be thinking about this." - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake


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Phyllis Gordon and Wendy Davenson
Jane Lobdell, LMFT, unexpectedly passed away on Saturday, July 14, 2012 from complications related to lung cancer treatment.
As Director of Naugatuck Youth and Family Services, Jane supervised many Southern Connecticut State University MFT interns as well as interns from other MFT programs. Many students will remember her for her warm yet astute, supervision direction. Recently Jane had begun to teach the AAMFT Approved Supervisor course, continuing to show her dedication to the profession and therapist personal growth.
As CTAMFT's President from 2005-2007, Jane directed the Association in the hiring of a dynamic lobbyist, whose presence ensured the progress of CTAMFT's mission to improve the professional lives of Connecticut's marriage and family therapists.
Jane's CT license plate read "BAMBI". That is what Jane's grandchildren called her. When a grandmother puts her 'grandmother' moniker on her license plate, that speaks volumes about the love of her! Jane had many friends in many venues. She touched everyone with whom she worked, taught, volunteered, befriended. She will be sorely missed but remembered with many smiles!
Jane lived her life with honesty, integrity, and love. Jane's legacy to all who crossed her path includes being enriched by her wisdom, spirit, humor and heart. Because she was teacher, mentor, friend, mother, and hero to hundreds of us, we will keep her memory alive and vibrant. As she lived in life, may she live in death.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to her mother and sister, son Sean and his fiancée Soraya, daughter Alicia and her husband RIck, grandchildren Libby and Jake and to those with whom she worked most closely at Naugatuck Youth and Family Services.
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I created this scene using a fun kit from Create A Smile called Beach Party.
This was so fun to make. First I die cut the wave and then hand cut the desert storm to create the sand. I adhered them to a light blue card base. I die cut the palm tree and created a little more depth using Copic markers. I stamped the Rhino and the box and colored them with Copic markers. I fussy cut them and put them in place on the card. I added some Glossy Accents to the bottles, swimmies and goggles. I created stripes on his shorts with white gel pen. The greeting was stamped in black in. I thought it needed a more finished edge so I used a stitched rectangle die around the outside edge. I put some fun foam behind the scene and attached it to a white card base.


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There's always been room for childhood in Jennifer Zwick's art. Even before she became a mother to two boys she strived to evoke a sense of mirthful surprise and carefully avoided self-seriousness in her work. Her art is fun to look at—you don't need to know anything about aesthetics or art history to appreciate it. It ranges from large-scale trompe l'oeil installations to meticulously staged absurdist photographs to paintings the size of a matchbook. She aims to give people the opportunity to step outside themselves for a moment — a "little tiny hiccup," as she describes it. She says children are her favorite art audience.
"For kids, there's less of a boundary to interacting with the art; they're more interested in just exploring something," explains Zwick, "A grownup might stand back and want to understand it first — to 'solve' it. Kids are just as thoughtful as adults but they have less of that buffer, which means they have a really easy road to enjoying art."
While Zwick was studying for her MFA in photography at the University of Washington, she worked as an education intern at the Frye Art Museum. That experience taught her how to talk to children about art. She learned to ask open-ended questions like, "What do you see?" and "Why does it look like that to you?"
She incorporated these insights into her artistic practice. At her 2017 show "The Idea and the Thing Itself" at 4Culture Gallery, which featured an upside-down waiting room (below) and other perplexing installations, she gave a "Tiny Talk" to children and their caregivers about the exhibit. The kids took part in papercraft activities that explored the idea of metaphor, designed with short attention spans in mind.
Zwick investigated her own childhood memories and fantasies in the 2017 "Constructed Narrative" photo series. She built fanciful life-size environments such as an open-air bedroom in the woods, an 11-foot-tall house of cards, and a doorway altered to give wide berth to a pregnant belly. She populated these tableaus with girls who stand in for her own adventurous younger self. The result is a series of images that are hyper-real, anxious and fantastical, like the wanderings of a child's imagination.
For her 2015 "Playful Photo Opportunity" series, Zwick printed out life-sized reproductions of everyday scenery and installed them at their original locations with face holes for viewers to poke their heads out, creating a ridiculous photo opp that looks Photoshopped but is, in fact, real. In the "Head Sets" series the concept took on three dimensions, and viewers were invited to insert their heads into tiny replicas of a living room and a gallery in the Frye Art Museum. She set up these works at outdoor art festivals, where they were major crowd-pleasers both for kids and their grownups, successfully creating a "little tiny hiccup" in mundane reality.
"It was just so fun to see people relax and want to be in this picture," she says, "Just getting to drop whatever they were thinking about for this little moment and be invited to be completely out of their context."
When Zwick began having her own children her attention turned to maternity. She mused on the public nature of the pregnant body in "Hello 2," in which her fully impregnated belly is presented out of context, projecting proudly from a vibrantly patterned fabric scrim. She elaborated on the piece in the recent exhibition "Kids/No Kids" at The Factory by adding a mesmerizingly rotating belly button, a madcap illustration of the absurd changes a pregnant body undergoes.
For one of her latest projects, Zwick takes her artistic preoccupation with kids to a new level. She solicited self-portrait drawings from her 7-year-old and his friends and reproduced them in embroidery. The pieces are touching and hilarious in their total faithfulness to detail, enshrining each little gesture including erasures and stray scribbles.
"One thing I like about kids' drawings is there's so much decision-making that goes into them," Zwick explains, "By translating them into embroidery, I'm calling attention to all those decisions in really specific ways. Embroidery anchors things that seem really casual in a [kid's] drawing, it shows how deliberate they actually were."
One consistent quality of Zwick's work is a willingness to chase a curious notion to its illogical conclusion, however arduous, silly, or unexpectedly elegant the result. Reflecting on how she experienced art as a child, Zwick says, "It felt like art was something you could never really do wrong. The process was truly as valuable as the end result; a situation where I was completely in charge, where I invented my own goals and decided when they were complete."
Zwick brings her eldest son to art shows around town, sometimes in his pajamas. Her youngest, age 3, understands that she "makes stuff." Both boys can point out art around the house that mommy made. Though motherhood has shaped — and limited — her work in various ways, art has always been what she does. At the height of her last pregnancy, when producing large-scale work was out of the question, she made tiny paintings of Nintendo consoles. Motherhood has sharpened her playful instincts; her children serve as a sort of auxiliary turbine for her creativity, a durable source of inspiration.
True to the open-ended nature of her approach to parenting and art, Zwick has no particular artistic aspirations for her kids. "I don't have any kind of grand scheme for them being artists," she says, "But whenever they want to make stuff I love to do it with them."
All photos courtesy of the artist. See more of her work here.


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Greetings, my name is John Heavern, I am a lyricist currently living in Charlotte, N.C. . I have 13 music demos, 10 of which are videos on youtube, link available here. Demos are country, rock, alternative, so far. MY influences: Roger Waters(Pink Floyd), Neil Peart(Rush), Jim Morrison, Freddie Mercury, Rainbow, Jeff Beck, Tommy Shaw...
I have over 250 complete lyrics of various subject matter and disposition I describe as: "Lyrical poetry of observational introspection", designed to accompany 4/4, 6/8 (mostly)musical composition and be "song-friendly", complete with verses, repeating chorus and bridges. I sometimes like adding an additional line of verse(I'm creative, big surprise!), no worries about augmentation. A lot of it's pretty deep stuff, some humor and love as well. I feel my lyrics lend themselves to psychedelic, country, rock, blues, some ballads, folk. Something to say is never an issue! Some demos are country but I am not. I enjoy writing to rock tracks. Rock was the catalyst that brought all this to fruition. I'm now working with various composers on several projects on different sites and through personal communications.
I hope to not only learn much more about music, but the business as well. I create videos for songs and not only promote the song but my lyrical aptitude.
I'm always willing to augment as needed and have done so often, no problem. I'm more of a lyrical wordsmith than lyricist.
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I bought a Lastolite Ezybox hotshoe the other day. It's a small softbox (38x38cm) for use with a hotshoe flash. I mounted it on a light stand and fired off a few test shots. This one I quite liked, it's of my daughter Ruby, aged 3 1/2. As it was right after breakfast I've had to clone out some of the mess! Otherwise post-processing is some masked levels and curves with a little sharpening on the eyes and a bit of blur on the skin.
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O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners,
comfort of the afflicted, thou knowest my wants, my troubles, my sufferings.
Deign to cast upon me a look of mercy. By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes,
thou wert pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence thou dispenses thy favors,
and already many sufferers have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and corporal.
I come, therefore, with unbounded confidence, to implore thy maternal intercession.
Obtain, O loving Mother, the granting of my requests.
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I will endeavor to imitate thy virtues, that I may one day share thy glory, and bless thee in eternity. Amen.
O MARY, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
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HOLY Virgin Mary Immaculate, Mother of God and our Mother,
speak thou for us to the Heart of Jesus, Who is thy Son.
OUR Lady of Lourdes, pray for us!
Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes
Composed by Pope Pius XII
Immaculate Virgin of Lourdes, in compliance with thy loving invitation,
we kneel before thee in the lowly grotto where thou didst appear
in order to point out the way of prayer and penance to those who had strayed
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O shining vision of Paradise, dispel the shadows of error from our minds with the light of Faith.
O mystical Rose, comfort dejected souls with the Heavenly fragrance of Hope.
O inexhaustible source of life-giving waters, refresh our barren hearts with the waves of Divine Love.
Grant that we, thy children, strengthened in affliction,
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Our #1 priority is respecting personal information and social boundaries. The Internet is becoming a very scary place. Large Internet giants and now most upstart websites have chosen to commoditize our identities and turn personal privacy into a product that can be packaged and sold. They offer "free" services to entice users, then gather our personal information and sell it behind our backs to the highest bidder.
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Baby elephants are nothing if not curious. They're either trying to figure out why they can't squeeze themselves into their old bathtubs, refusing to leave their favorite mud spot, or trying to determine why they have such a long nose.
So, when the baby elephant in the video below discovered some tourists, it wanted to investigate. The mother, though, was having none of that.
Nice job of parenting there. The mom didn't make a big deal out of it—she wasn't being a hero—but she calmly and effectively redirected her child's attention elsewhere to steer it potentially out of danger. Now the baby elephant can go back to doing what it does best—playing with birds.


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IN Israel, a nation marked by divides everywhere, a slender peace is being brokered between the religious and secular in an unexpected arena, contemporary dance. In forums as diverse as this city's leading alternative arts space, a conservative women's college in the West Bank, a popular Israeli television series, yeshiva-schooled men and pious young Jewish women are separately using movement to bridge this chasm.
Perhaps the epitome of this effort is Ka'et, a group of five Orthodox men working under the direction of a Tel Aviv choreographer, Ronen Izhaki. Together they create spare yet emotionally rich work that takes gestures from daily prayer movements along with chants and synagogue attire, and gently shifts and reframes these elements as postmodern dance. It's a savvy move, reflecting both the explosive body of Ohad Naharin's choreography and its social opposite, the trancelike swaying of devout Jews in deep prayer. "We are using the stage to awaken a new discussion between our lives and our bodies," said Amitai Stern, 25, the youngest member of the group.
The men of Ka'et (a Hebrew acronym that means "timely") are not professional dancers. In their 20s and 30s, some have families; all have day jobs one is a rabbi at a yeshiva, another works with runaways from ultra-Orthodox homes. But when they made their debut in the fall at the Lab, an important alternative space in Jerusalem, and afterward in sold-out concerts elsewhere, their lack of performing experience didn't matter. They presented an astonishingly intense dance, "Highway No. 1," with movement, costumes and sound score taken from Jewish religious practice.
Starting with Emmanuel Witzthum's techno music overlaid with chanted Kabbalah passages, the dance revealed prayer as not just its medium but also its subject. The men, barefoot and wearing worn slacks and shirts, sway softly, palms forward, eyes rolled back, lips moving noiselessly. Suddenly one begins accelerating his movements. With growing agitation he tries to climb over the others clustered around him like a sleepwalker driven by a disturbing dream. The ensemble responds reflexively, folding his swimming arms down to his sides and pressing him back into a posture of quiet prayer without breaking the steady rocking motions of their own davening.
When a group of religious men from Mr. Izhaki's dance school saw a performance, several chuckled out loud at this passage. "It reminds me exactly of when I am praying and an errant thought keeps trying to interrupt me," one of them, Yuval Azulay, said. "You try to put it aside and get back to the focus of the prayer, but it keeps coming back."
"Highway No. 1" takes its title from the road connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, which epitomize the secular and religious in Israel. "If you work in Jerusalem with religious people, you are right wing," Mr. Izhaki, 38, said. "And if you live in Tel Aviv and are a dancer, you are left wing and a vegetarian. But I didn't take the package with either of those."
What Mr. Izhaki did instead was scramble these categories. He began working with religious men as an outgrowth of an experiment in 2000 initiated by the head of a yeshiva in Akko, Israel. The idea was that introducing dance could help with the devotional quality of students' spiritual work. That first foray lasted only a few months, but, Mr. Izhaki said, "I discovered a different movement language."
Nothing much came of the experiment until 2007, when Eyal Ogen, a former yeshiva student, approached him about teaching a group of his fellow former students. Mr. Izhaki agreed, and it proved to be the start of a small school. Early on, the men asked Mr. Izhaki about performing, but he told them to wait, working instead on eliciting a unique movement vocabulary from them in classes and workshops. In rehearsal they come across as ethnographers researching their own religious lives and displaying the movement artifacts they've found.
As word spread, professional Israeli dancers have asked to work with Ka'et, but all of them must be male, since Orthodox men are prohibited from seeing women dance or even demonstrate dancing. Likewise Noga, a company of religious women at a college in the West Bank, may perform only for female audiences. That troupe, begun in 2009, also specializes in contemporary work based on religious themes, but it is more traditional, and its impact has been more limited than Ka'et's.
The men's ability to draw religious and secular Israelis into the same theater for a dance performance is highly unusual. Alon Ben-Yaacov, a tour guide and the one member of Ka'et who wears long payos, the side curls of Orthodox Jews, said it took three years for his family members to understand that he wanted to dance, but now, he said, they are supportive.
The Israeli media are joining this religious-secular dance wave. In what all involved say is a coincidence, an Israeli television series, "Another Life," that also had its debut in the fall, features a conflicted yeshiva student (played by the popular Israeli actor Oz Zehavi) who slips away from Talmud study to take a class secretly at a Tel Aviv dance studio. A researcher for that series, Yochai Hadad, has made a documentary about Ka'et that will be broadcast next month on Israeli TV.
Reactions to the troupe have been split. Some dance writers and bloggers have wondered where the technique is, while sold-out audiences have cheered. Hananya Schwartz, the young rabbi in Ka'et, was anxious about his own rabbi's seeing him dance onstage. His anxiety wasn't entirely misplaced: after the performance, his rabbi quoted a passage from the Talmud that Mr. Schwartz said could be summed up as "interesting but you are wasting your time."
He and the other members of Ka'et aren't deterred, however. Mr. Izhaki is in talks with producers about a tour in Switzerland next summer, and all of the men said they were looking for a way to teach movement in yeshivas and religious centers.
Several of the dancers noted that in the performance they actually do find themselves praying so intently that when Mr. Izhaki stops them with a correction, they are annoyed at the interruption. Mr. Izhaki sees a connection and says admiringly, "They brought to their bodies the focus they use in studying a Talmud page."


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Britvic invests £100m redeveloping Rugby factory
Leading soft drinks manufacturer Britvic is investing more than £100milllion redeveloping its facility in Rugby as part of a broader £240m three-year investment programme in its GB manufacturing capability. The investment, announced by the company in 2015, is designed to step-change the speed and flexibility of its production lines, whilst delivering environmental benefits through greater efficiencies.
As part of the investment in Rugby, Britvic has installed three new PET bottling lines, a new on-site warehouse and an aseptic line to manufacture preservative-free drinks, which will improve logistics planning and reduce road miles, helping the company to reduce its carbon footprint.
In addition, the company has introduced three new can lines which are amongst the fastest in Europe, collectively producing up to 6,000 cans per minute. The state-of-the-art design has led to a reduction in waste, significantly increased production, and gives greater flexibility meaning cans can now be made from aluminium or steel on the same line. This year, Britvic's steel can formats have also moved to aluminium cans, enabling Britvic to reduce the amount of metal it uses annually by 8,000 tonnes.
Britvic announced earlier this year the creation of around 80 new jobs at the site, which includes technical operators, engineers and team leaders.
Mark Pawsey MP met with Britvic colleagues, including Director of Production Jeremy Howard, and was taken on a tour of the factory which has been home to Britvic for more than 30 years and employs nearly 300 people. Mr Pawsey saw first-hand the production of its iconic brands, which include Purdey's and Tango, on its can lines.
Mark Pawsey, MP for Rugby and Bulkington said: "I was delighted to join Jeremy and his colleagues today at Britvic's redeveloped site in the heart of Rugby. Britvic has been a major employer in the constituency for many years and I was very interested to find out more about how their investment is helping to reduce the amount of material they use when manufacturing their world famous brands."
Jeremy Howard, Director of Production at Britvic, added: "We are delighted to welcome Mr Pawsey to our Rugby site today to see our new state-of-the-art manufacturing and logistics capability. It is a proud moment for the team here and for all our partners who have supported us in our ambition to create a world-class manufacturing site.
"Sustainability remains at the heart of our business and this project. Through our GB investment programme, we are investing for the future and remain committed to continuing to make a positive difference to our communities and to the world around us – helping to make it healthier, happier, and more sustainable."
Britvic's sustainability strategy, 'A Healthier Everyday', is fully integrated into the company's investment in manufacturing programme. It focuses on three key areas including:
• Healthier People: helping consumers to make healthier choices and live healthier lives
• Healthier Communities: helping our employees and communities to thrive
• Healthier Planet: helping to secure our planet's future
The 'Healthier Planet' element sets out Britvic's commitment to help secure the planet's future, ensuring that resources are used responsibly, and the natural world is protected. The focus is on resource efficiency, minimising the environmental impact of packaging and operating a sustainable supply chain.
Britvic's recent sustainability milestones
• 100% of Britvic's PET plastic bottles are recyclable in the UK recycling system
• Recent investment in new bottling lines eliminated over 300 tonnes of plastic bottle packaging in GB
• 99% of global manufacturing waste generated was diverted from landfill
• It achieved a 5% reduction in carbon emissions relative to production compared to 2016
• Water ratio (water consumption relative to production) from 2016 was maintained despite the commissioning of new lines
• Britvic was shortlisted for the 2017 GreenFleet Awards in the 'Private Sector Fleet of the Year' category for its work to promote the use of alternative fuel vehicles across its fleet. Work included installing charging points across its sites in Great Britain, and actively engaging with employees to demonstrate the total cost/benefit of hybrid vehicles.
• Britvic was a founding signatory of The UK Plastics Pact, a pioneering agreement which aims to transform the plastic packaging system in the UK and keep plastic in the economy and out of the ocean.
• Britvic is investing £850,000 a year in UK recycling infrastructure through its commitment to only purchase domestic Packaging Recovery Notes (PRNs) from UK recyclers.


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Hello everyone!
Part 4 of this tale begins with my sister and myself deciding to build a time machine from the report I had, The 10th Key to the Riddle of Time. There were a couple of projects to work on. The report detailed how to build a time portal, TA36 Time Antenna, QR7000 Quantum Resonator, and the Space Time Modulator. We decided upon the Space Time Modulator. It was a time machine that was apparently the size of a small pack of cigarettes. And from the standpoint of someone who didn't know much about electronics, didn't seem too complicated or expensive to build. From my research on the internet, found that all the parts could be obtained from Radio Shack.
To Radio Shack!
One day after school my sister, her future husband, a friend of theirs, and myself went to Radio Shack to price the necessary items and inquire someone who works there in what else may be needed. Electronic advice is what I mean. None of use knew how to read schematics or knew how to weld if that was necessary. Walking into the store I had a twinge of excitement but felt I had to hide it. My sister's future husband is a practical man and while he never directly made fun of me for pursuing this, he made comments about how this is a waste of time. (time, lol) This kind of critical attitude is one of the examples why I felt I had to hide what I was doing. I was still only 14 and still cared waaay too much about what other people think. Anyway, walking through the store I found some of the parts while my sister showed a Radio Shack employee the schematics but didn't tell him what is was for. His reaction to the schematic was something to the effect of, "What..is..this?" He told her it wouldn't really do anything except complete a circuit. This reaction did not discourage us. We left the store determined to build the Space Time Modulator, no matter what the results.
Shortly after our visit to Radio Shack my sister began to be tailed by black SUVs. Anytime she drove to work and back, she would be followed by a black SUV. She told me she would take a bunch of turns just to make sure she wasn't being paranoid, and sure enough they were following her. Looking through her rearview mirror, she could see the driver. Blank-faced man in a black suit. We both thought..crap, Men In Black! For those who don't know of the Men In Black other than the movies. The Men In Black, as the legend goes, are a group of slightly inhuman people dressed in black suits who suppress public awareness of aliens or anything "out there" through the use of intimidation or other means. At the time, we thought the Men In Black were trying to discourage us from time traveling. Whoever was following my sister matched a basic MIB sighting in appearance at least.
The tailing continued for a couple of weeks on an almost daily consistency and that's all it was. This event may have no connection whatsoever to our time travel endeavors, but it happened and neither of us still don't know why. Eventually it stopped, and sometime after that my sister ended up hittin' the road and moved out due to life circumstances at the time. Since then, there have been no mysterious cars tailing her and we never did build the Space Time Modulator.
My research into all matters concerning the Hyper Dimensional Resonator and other time travel related topics continued. Was looking for anyone online who had experiences with this thing and that is whenever I met CarlosX.
Next time: CarlosX, doubles from parallel universes, and prank phone calls.


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When, marshaled on the nightly plain,
The glittering hosts bestud the sky,
One star alone of all the train
Can fix the sinner's wandering eye.
Hark! hark! to God the chorus breaks,
From every host, from every gem;
But one alone the Savior speaks,
It is the Star of Bethlehem.
Once on the raging seas I rode,
The storm was loud, the night was dark,
The ocean yawned, and rudely blowed
The wind that tossed my foundering bark.
Deep horror then my vitals froze,
Death-struck, I ceased the tide to stem;
When suddenly a star arose,
It was the Star of Bethlehem.
It was my guide, my light, my all;
It bade my dark forebodings cease;
And through the storm and danger's thrall,
It led me to the port of peace.
Now safely, moored, my perils o'er
I'll sing, first in night's diadem,
Forever and forevermore,
The star! The Star of Bethlehem!


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Mark A-to-Z : K is for Kindergarten Schools
Most of us have been through one and most of us wish we could go back. Kindergarten schools are the foundation of our education and where the day is filled only with colours, imagination, and a whole lot of fun. Although school may be out right now, we can still dream of naps and playtime in these five projects that bring out the kid in us all.
Japan's architecture is for the children of the future
Photo Shigeo Ogawa
FUNABASHI – In Funabashi, situated only 40 km from Tokyo in Japan's Chiba prefecture, Aisaka Architects' Atelier has created a naturally stimulating playground for 160 children. This kindergarten is for the children Japan desperately needs in the future.
School Complex in Zaragoza by Magén Arquitectos
Photo Jesús Granada
ZARAGOZA – A new school complex in Zaragoza, Spain, was built on the 'pedagogical values of teaching spaces'. Spanish studio Magén Arquitectos used the 'sensorial relationship between children and architecture' to design this school that houses different educational levels for children from three to 12-years-old.
Moke Architecten and Gianni Cito help a historic town hall find its inner youth
Photo Thijs Wolzak
ANTWERP – The Vlaams Bouwmeester – the official government architect of Flanders – has held biannual competitions since the creation of the office in 1999 as one means of consolidating the region's often disorderly governance in town planning. A recent call for a new nursery school to serve the Antwerp municipality of Bonheiden stands as a prominent example.
Cobe's kindergarten in Frederiksberg looks like it was drawn by a child
Photo Rasmus Hjortshøj
FREDERIKSBERG – The new Smørblomsten Kindergarten in Frederiksberg is designed by COBE as a caricature of how a child might draw a house, with seamless black and white forms and a skyline of simple pitched roofs.
Eco-inspired education centre by (se)arch splits into two child-friendly modules
Photo Zooey Braun
TUBINGEN – Education is the flavour of the day for a small university town in south Germany. Stuttgart-based architecture firm (se)arch won a competition back in 2011 to build a new education centre just outside the medieval city.


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Trouble started early on Wall Street when traders grew worried about a 6 percent decline in Hong Kong's Hang Seng index Monday. The Asian economic crisis, which started the Hong Kong avalanche, spread to Latin America and continued to put severe pressure on European and American markets.
Fears that currency speculators would continue attacking the Hong Kong dollar, forcing the government to keep interest rates high to defend the currency, spurred investors to flee Hong Kong. Higher interest rates spell trouble for stock markets, because they slow down corporate growth.
Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa, meanwhile, drew a line in the sand for speculators, vowing the Hong Kong dollar's 14-year peg to the U.S. dollar is rock solid. He noted that the territory has US$88 billion in foreign reserves to defend its currency.
In addition to Asian currency woes, U.S. investors will have some important economic indicators to keep an eye on this week. Chief among them is Tuesday's key third-quarter employment cost index.
The ECI, seen as a barometer of labor costs and a key gauge of potential wage inflation, is expected to be reported at 0.9 percent, according to a Reuters poll of economists.
Also worth watching, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's update on the economy this Wednesday. More than once in the past year, comments from Greenspan have provoked market downturns. The Fed Chairman has the power to raise interest rates, which would pressure equities downward. But many analysts say Asia's woes make it less likely the Fed will try to push through a rate hike.