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School starts back up on September 7th and for those of you who are debating whether or not to follow along this semester, here is what I'll be taking. I've decided to to step outside of my photo comfort zone and learn more about video and performance art. I want to try to have as much new sensory stimulation as possible to help shape and inform my work. We'll see how it goes!
History of Video Art 1965-1985
What is referred to as "video art" has become a ubiquitous feature of 21st-century art practice, yet it is an art form whose emergence is still a relatively fresh aspect of contemporary art history. This course will explore the origins of video art, examining its sources in film, photography and performance art. Through screenings of key works; discussion with artists, critics and curators, and in directed readings, students will be exposed to important works and individuals associated with the first two decades of video. Special attention will be paid to an understanding of the cultural and social context that supported the emergence of video art. We will focus upon the evolution of video art from both a technological perspective as well as the development of a video's critical and institutional framework. Artists whose works will be viewed and discussed include Nam June Paik, Jud Yalkut, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Peter Campus, Vito Acconci, Frank Gillette, Juan Downey, Joan Jonas, Chris Burden, Lynda Benglis, Stanton Kaye, Iras Schneider, Andy Mann, Martha Rosler, Allen Sekula, Shigeko Kubota, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Mary Lucier, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Ilene Segalove, William Wegman, Tony Oursler, Klaus vom Bruch, Muntadas, Keith Sonnier, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Lynn Hershman, Dara Birnbaum, Ant Farm, TVTV, Videofreex, Marcel Odenbach, Thierry Kuntzel, David Hall, Dan Graham, Valie Export, Douglas Davis, Doug Hall, Marina Abromovic, Eleanor Antin, Richard Serra, Adrian Piper, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Paul Kos, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and Ernie Kovacs.
Master Critique III
Group critique seminars are the focal point of student activity in any given semester. Assisted by their peers, and guided by prominent figures in the visual arts, students will concentrate on producing a coherent body of work that best reflects their individual talents and challenges the current boundaries of their media.
Thesis Forms I
This course is required as a preparation for the second-year thesis. Students will finalize the central ideas for their thesis projects, and consider appropriate strategies for the form, presentation and distribution of these ideas. In a highly practical way, the course considers the history and features of various visual solutions available to photographic artists, depending on their audiences and goals. Books, exhibitions, installations, interactive presentations—the course helps students identify the questions each form raises, and work through them to find appropriate answers for their own projects.
Criticism & Theory: Critical Reading
This course will combine a format of reading and classroom discussions aimed at providing critical perspectives on the issues that inform the practice of contemporary art and photography. Readings include texts by artists, writers and theorists of the past three decades that bear upon the practice of the students' art-making today. Students will be required to develop a framework from these readings that is relevant to their own objectives. Discussion will be based on interdisciplinary study, screenings and exhibitions.


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I want to start this with a somewhat un-horse-related tale, so please bear with the tangent! A few weeks ago, I found out that I was accepted into a competition here at my university called "Three Minute Thesis", which is a public speaking competition wherein you introduce a general audience to your thesis topic and work under a strict three minute time cap. You cannot use any props or dynamic powerpoints, just one static slide with an image that (hopefully) succinctly sums up your entire Master's or PhD thesis.
When I first signed up, I didn't really think my application would be accepted. When it was, I had a bit of a paralyzing sense of anxiety as I realized I would actually have to present this speech in front of people. I've never been a particularly accomplished public speaker, and while I can get along okay with a Powerpoint to base my ideas off of (and draw the audience's eyes to), I have a lot more issue with a crowd of more than one or two staring blankly at me while I blunder through a (hopefully) memorized spiel.
So I worked at it. And practiced it. Wrote it out first of all, tried it in front of my supervisor first, my friends second, and a local branch of Toastmasters third, getting different but relevant feedback from each group. I practiced nonstop driving to the barn and back, in the shower, and in front of my patiently-suffering boyfriend. I filmed myself with my phone and watched the video, cringing at some of my nervous shuffling, trying again, and seeing a bit of improvement.
Yesterday was my first heat, and my heart was pounding as though I was going to go into the ring for a jump-off. I was fourth in, and while I was hooked up to the lapel microphone I was fleetingly convinced I was about to pass out. Anyway, I managed to pull through, get out there, and do my thing. And you know what? I felt pretty damn good about it. I didn't stutter or freeze, as I'd been afraid I would, and I didn't lose the thread of my speech. I finished with 12 seconds left on the 3 minute limit.
But I didn't place, and I didn't advance.
At first, I was really disappointed. I felt like I'd wasted my time working so hard on that presentation, and I even felt a little embarrassed for spending so much time on it and not being able to pull off a win. Did everyone else spend that much time preparing? Maybe not. I had started to put a lot of significance on this competition, and had hoped that placing in my heat and advancing to the final would be a good show of competency as a speaker to my supervisor, colleagues and friends. But it didn't happen. I failed.
I've always had a tough time dealing with failure. I tend to set my sights on a certain goal, and if I achieve it, write that goal off as being "small" or "insignificant", and move on to a more lofty goal. And that more lofty goal becomes the only thing important, the only thing worthwhile, whether it's a class at a show or a competition at school.
At a big A show a few years ago with my hunter, I went in feeling prepared and strong. We'd been schooling well all winter and I was ready to dominate the three foot hunter divisions. But more than that, I had my sights set on the end of the week 3'3 hunter classic. We'd been schooling over higher fences, and I felt ready for that class. I wanted to win that $1000 hunter classic so badly. It would be proving to myself that we were ready for the 3'3 amateur divisions, that we were real competitors. All week my classes went great and my horse was a star. We ended up pinning in every over fences and flat class we went in, and I took home a Reserve Championship in my division. He tried his heart out and never put a foot wrong. Our last day was the day of the hunter classic. I was incredibly nervous. Heart racing, palms sweaty, the whole deal. But I was confident. We could do the height and my horse had a killer jump, knew the fences. He warmed up great. My coach warmed us up over a few spread oxers, then a big upright vertical at almost 3'6, and my horse rounded over and snapped his knees like a Wellington open hunter. We had this, it was ours.
The first round was okay — the first oxer was almost a chip, but not quite, and we got the strides and all the fences, though not as sharply as we had in the 3′ divisions earlier in the week. It was enough to advance to the second round call-back. And then I butchered it. My horse was tired after a long week, and I was too. I wasn't fit enough. Galloping down to the two stride, I lost core strength, second guessed my distance, and he jumped in weak, stuttering in the combination, and stopped at the out-oxer. That was it. We wouldn't be in the ribbons. I jumped the fence and exited the ring, feeling a wash of disappointment. My horse had tried his heart out, and I had dropped the ball. That was the only chance we'd had, the show was over, and I'd failed.
It seems like such a silly thing now, and I think a few years removed I can maybe begin to rationalize how I felt to myself a little better, especially after the Three Minute Thesis competition. I like to win. I'm competitive, even in ridiculous things like Risk and rec-league Ultimate. But I have a stupid tendency to decide that the only competitions that matter are the ones that I fail in. When I do win something — when I get an A+ on an exam, when I win a class, when I place at a conference — I write off the achievement as unimportant, easy, trivial. But when I fail, when I get a C, when I have a rail, when I place nowhere amid my peers — now those are the moments that matter! Those were the competitions where I should have had it, I was so stupid, I wasted such an opportunity, I showed my mediocrity against a field of exceptional students/athletes/researchers — basically, I give more weight to my failures than my successes, nine times out of ten. I let them define me.
But you know what? That's exactly the opposite of what truly successful students/athletes/researchers do. When they fail, they accept it, and they move on, and when they succeed, they let themselves feel that they earned it, that it means that they are doing the right thing, and they develop confidence. They learn to deal with failure so that they can enjoy success. And maybe that's a lesson I need to learn!
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Last night before bed I watched a movie that I've been postponing ever since it came out – not intentionally, though. In the sea of new movies I wanted to watch, The Book of Henry never really made it. So last night I thought I'd give it a chance, especially after watching the Naomi Watts-Jacob Tremblay duo in Shut In last year (which I didn't get to review) where they both did an excellent job.
The Book of Henry tells the story of a a genius boy named Henry who, throughout his short life, crafts a notebook where he carefully describes a plan how to save his friend Christina from her abusive stepfather. When Henry dies from a brain tumor, his best friend and little brother Peter gives their mom Henry's secret notebook. Now the mom's mission is to stop her next-door neighbor from abusing Christina, following Henry's guide step by step.
I must say that I was pretty surprised while I was watching this movie because, based on the name and the official movie poster, I thought The Book of Henry would be a colorful movie. However, it turned out to be dealing with some of the toughest issues of life – death, abuse, and apathy. Apart from the bad rating on IMDb (6.5) and its cast, I had no prior knowledge about The Book of Henry, which is why I spent half of the movie gasping in surprise – it had so many twists that the audience doesn't see coming, the first one being the sudden death of the main character. Furthermore, this drama manages to include us in the movie as it appeals very much to our feelings, especially post Henry's death where both the mom and Henry's brother deal with the aftermath. Both Naomi Watts and Jacob Tremblay do a fantastic job portraying their characters' feelings in a way that we are left with a little heartbreaking feeling every time they do a scene that involves Henry's death. Contrary to Wonder, Jacob Tremblay is not the lead in The Book of Henry and the focus is mainly on Jaeden Lieberher as Henry, and wow, does the future seem bright for Hollywood if these kids are the future of acting! As for Naomi, she does a good job as a grieving mother but I can't help but compare her character to the one she portrayed in Shut In. The acting is similar and she grieves in both movies, so I guess I was missing something different from her given that she is an A-lister with a huge A.
The funny thing about The Book of Henry is that, in the middle of watching it, I was wondering what genre I was witnessing. I don't know if it's because I have this weird horror movie obsession, but I couldn't help but spot elements from that genre at various points, and at other points, it was pure James Bond kind of action. It creates a lot of suspension in various ways and at various points, which I'm personally very fond of, as it gives the movie a certain quality. The Book of Henry is a special movie but it has its flaws. We are not introduced to the background of the characters, which would've been interesting because the foundation is really missing. The characters would be easier to read and understand if we knew their past and background. Maybe that's why some characters seem unnecessary – I can't see a meaning with Sarah Silverman's character because we are not told much about her. Overall, I think the movie is okay and it most certainly doesn't deserve the bashing it's been getting. It has its flaws and many things could've been done better, but the acting and the length are perfect, and the story itself is solid. I will give The Book of Henry 3 out of 5 and recommend it if you want a dark half morbid story that will shake you.


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Diese Beispiele sind computergeneriert, und so klingen sie auch. Sie dienen nur dem Lernen einzelner Stimmen.
Oh had I, my Saviour, the wings of a dove,
How soon would I fly to thy presence above;
How soon would I flee where the weary have rest,
And hide all my sorrow in thy shelt'ring breast.
I flutter, I struggle, I pant to get free;
I feel me a captive while banish'd from thee;
A pilgrim and stranger, the desert I roam,
And look on to heaven, and long to be home.
Ah, there the wild tempest forever shall cease;
No billow shall ruffle that haven of peace;
Temptation and trouble alike shall depart,
All tears from the eye and all sin from the heart.
Soon, soon may this Eden of promise be mine;
Rise, bright sun of glory, mo more to decline:
Thy light, yet unrisen, the wilderness cheers;
Oh what will it be when the fulness appears?


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One of our longest residents, she is a senior girl that is full of life. She loves to go for walks or car rides.
She is a picky girl about her companion, lets just say as an older women she knows what she wants in a friend. She prefers a boy that will let her be the boss. She also has to have allergy medicine to keep her coat looking pretty. She needs a cat free home.


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When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn't love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn't want love, she doesn't have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.
Never ask about the past.
Don't expect a future.
They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can't handle it at all.
Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.
Never ask about the past.
Don't expect a future.
They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can't handle it at all.
Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.
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This is my first Colleen Hoover experience, and it was a pleasant one. I listened to this on audiobook as i walked to and from work. I had a few gripes but overall enjoyed it all. So ;
We follow Tate and Miles. Tates story is based in the present day, Miles for the majority is based six years earlier up until the very end. Tate, is a nursing student who is moving in with her brother for a few months before she finds her own place. We meet her just as she is moving her things in and meets a drunk man in the hallway adement he has to get into her brothers apartment, after a few frantic phonecalls to her brother, she realises this is her brothers best friend Miles.
When we start to follow Miles' story it starts six years previous as he shows the new girl at school to her new class. We follow as the pair become friends, we also meet Miles' family and learn briefly about his personal circumstances.
The narrative runs alongside, learning more about each character but in completley different times of their lives. I found it gripping, in parts hear renching and i found myself fully engaged in the book. Tate, is strong, independent and adament she can settle for just sex with miles - if that is all he is prepared to give her. Miles, doesnt do love, not now - not anymore. Tate, learns she can't cope with just that.
As we learn more about why Miles doesnt love, i start to felt warmer towards him, he did have a reason he wasnt just been stubborn which is how in parts (especially in Tates chapters) how he came across. In parts this was a story about true love, and how it can change you. We learn Miles is very emotive, in parts i thought it was silly but again as we learnt about him, i began to see that is how he is as a character.
So onto the gripes, well the one - the male narrator and the way he pronounced Rachel. It really irked me, it was just grating, and well annoying. Thats the only issue i had.
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When we are compelled by our human nature, very often we conduct ourselves in a manner that is designed to achieve our personal goals. This is normal, every day human life.
Yet we also have a capacity to rise above in order to conduct ourselves in a manner that serves Hashem in an altruistic way. This is a moment of holiness. When we do have these moments of transcending our nature out of love for Hashem in service to Hashem for His Sake alone, what we reveal in our actions reveals His Glory – the love and value that is coming to us in every moment. It also removes something from our nature, dissolving something, rectifying our unrefined characteristics in the process, whittling away at the mask over nature as we take steps towards ein od milvado consciousness.
We can "donate" our unrefined characteristics and by revealing Hashem's Glory not only rectify ourselves but we also create merits for the Jewish people. The Jewish people are one soul, and whatever we rectify in regard to our unrefined characteristics affects in a good way everyone, raising the amount of Hashem's Glory that is revealed in the world and aiding everyone to a higher level from which people may have more choice at their own free will points to rectify their unrefined characteristics and in turn reveal Hashem's Glory.
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July 17, 2014 morning
At this writing there is military action with ground troops. if you have any bitterness, anger, resentment and the like within you toward anyone, please consider doing the teshuva below now to create positive influences for fire:
Please Hashem I feel the bitterness of resentment toward… (or anger, or judgment, etc.) I am calling out to You! The path these bitter feelings are leading me by default are unpleasant, there is no love to be gained from it and there is no value to my eternity for pursuing this. Wherever the trigger is coming from is Sourced ultimately in You for my growth, although it may have come through the animal soul that has impurities!
I wish to remove the impurities causing bitterness yet I ask to keep the strength involved in order to fold that strength into the element of fire that can serve to reveal Your Glory as follows:
to a revealed good use of fire that produces warmth and light and protection for our soldiers and for Israel
to nullify the weapons that fire upon us so that enemy fire has no ability to harm any Jew
to fire that destroys only what needs to be destroyed for the elimination of the threat to Israel
Please Hashem by virtue of this teshuva regarding the element of fire, may I strengthen within my heart and mind awe of Hashem to recognize when to repeat this teshuva in the moment, repairing unrefined characteristics with which to add to a rectified capacity to serve You and reveal Your Glory. May I develop an ever-deepening ability and passion to reveal Your Glory through rectified expressions of the element of fire and receive the experience of true pleasure, real love and eternal value.
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updated: http://beyondanydoubts.com/2014/07/17/teshuva-within-format-submission-separation-sweetening-example-toolbox/
Please listen to Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen on Kol HaLashon after the ground invasion and downing of the Malaysian Flight 17 plane http://beyondanydoubts.com/2014/07/18/rabbi-simcha-bunim-cohen-notes-shiur-ground-invasion-gaza-kol-halashon/
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The teshuva sheet we are reading from is a cross-pollination of Torah True Judaism and within it are the four steps of teshuva but the context in which we are doing that teshuva is a teshuva that returns us to our primary functioning as Nishmas Am Yisrael. By virtue of saying Hashem Echad, that effort takes what is static in the world and through our prayers "adds strength" to the world. Just for saying the statements that we say, we create positive influence through functioning in our primary role of nishmas am yisrael. That is the key. The hishtadlus regarding Nishmas Am Yisrael is to create an arousal from below of love with emunah, faith. The specific hishtadlus is to find that deep switch regarding where we associate happiness and pleasure and to deeply reconnect happiness and pleasure to emulating Hashem's Attributes Mercy. Once we use free choice with emunah and love of Hashem to align happiness and pleasure with the reality that His Glory fills all the world and is the sole Source for all pleasure, then we are empowered to visit our unique tikun, how the warring inclinations within us are to be resolved with the four steps of teshuva.
Especially at times of national suffering such as now, remembering our role as Nishmas Am Yisrael and our functioning create positive influence by removing the mask of nature from what conceals Hashem's Glory from being seen is of the utmost importance and is the context in which we are growing as we rectify our unrectified characteristics.
Rabbi Zibersteiin sent around 5 steps for dealing with the missiles in Israel. In chutzla a'retz, his third suggestion is really the main thing for us. In it Rabbi Zilberstein gives us a segula to nullify all harsh judgments. "You are just in all that happens as Your ways are Emes but I am the one who strayed" In the teshuva sheet we are using, this corresponds to the work we do in the section separation where we remove impurities, the specific impurities from nature so that Hashem's Glory that fills all the worlds is visible.
July 23, 2014 morning
May our efforts be the arousal from below in prayer and teshuva that Hashem is waiting for to bestow the arousal from above with all the blessings intended for the Jewish People as stated in Torah.
May our efforts to clean off our individual impurities benefit klal yisrael because are all one Nishmas Am Yisrael
May our increasing awareness of the empowerment that Hashem gives to Nishmas Am Yisrael through speech and davening help us have a new relationship with our suffering and challenges based on an expanded understanding of our identity as well as our esteem as effort to use tefilla and speech in this way
May the tremendous awareness we are gaining to bend and glue happiness and pleasure to emulating Hashem's Attributes of Mercy, tolerating insult, overlooking faults, bearing the burden of confusion of mind, forgiving, and casting sins into the sea, become a merit for all klal yisrael as triumphing tzelem elokim over the animal soul and growing in the ability to see happines and pleasure in our consciousness as stemming from tzelem elokim in lieu of worldly concerns.
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July 25, 2014 erev Shabbos
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Hear Rabbi Lazer Brody speak about emunah and the elements http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2014/07/balance-of-power-1.html
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After this morning's call, i had to go through a round of battling with the darkness of my will being very caught up on my own glory. Perhaps it was the next step in finding what I need to find in order to serve Hashem with deeper sincerity, in finding what I had to wash off that is masking His Good, I think so, but sometimes we can trip and fall in the mud. When our will has been telling us that this is "who we are" for a long time, it is meritorious that we take immediate steps so that such messages become less credible. BH the three quick steps of submitting, remembering all is good, telling Hashem that with the concealed energy and the will that was holding it I wish now to use the will to serve Him and then turning to a mitzvah, Hashem restored a sense of calm and inner quiet.That is a return to true identity, tzelem elokim inseparable from Hashem who is good. Above the clouds it is always a sunny day!!!!! The article below is important to making sure we don't get kidnapped by the darkness.
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Moshiach is not a spectator sport – if we don't like what we are seeing in the world, we actually have access to make a positive impact on the elements of nature in the world that affect everything and that access is through our own unique human nature. In exploring the confusion generated within us from the experience of lack, of ego goals, and imagination applied to that, we can find where our lower will has been influenced by our human nature. With free will and speech we can "reset" the elements of nature as we experience them in our human nature, in teshuva. We are designed to do this. Our effort to do so is our esteem. Just as a liver cleans out impurities yet is not those impurities, so too, our free will and speech can do teshuva for what blocks us from reflecting true good into the world.
Below are the guided teshuvas from Sunday Aug 3 at night and Monday Aug 4 in the morning. May these help!
Summary of the work we did for the three weeks of the guided teshuva: http://beyondanydoubts.com/2014/08/05/tisha-bav-5774-moshiach-spectator-sport-can-create-positive-influence/
In this way we begin the journey of tikun to shine light into a world of confusion and darkness. just making the effort creates positive influence. it is a loving and gentle journey. Hashem loves us!!! He wants us to be able to experience the pleasure of His Presence when He is revealed in the world. Let us work now to triumph tzelem elokim over the natural urges.
Please join us on our continued daily journey for 13 days into Tomer Devorah with hisbodidus suggestions http://beyondanydoubts.com/tomer-devorah-hisbodidus-cards/
Below is a summary of insights from the Tomer Devorah readings. We are headed into elul.
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Eight of the top vineyards across the county have formed the pro-active Vineyards of Hampshire group, with support from Hampshire Fare, the official organisation promoting the produce of what is one of the largest rural counties in England.
This friendly collective, made up of Danebury, Exton Park, Cottonworth, Hambledon, Hattingley Valley, Jenkyn Place, Meonhill and Raimes English Sparkling have gathered together to promote Hampshire's superb quality sparkling wines, and the county's unique, and prized, terroir, to both the wine trade and the wider consumer market locally and nationally.
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I don't shoot a lot of film- maybe a roll of 36 frames every 4 weeks or so. I continue to do so, primarily because it has a different feel, a different color pallette than I'm used to with digital. I also wait for the right timing. There is also a palpable cost with each frame, so I'm not going to just fire away.
Because I shoot so sparingly, I often wish for smaller rolls of film. 12 would seem about right. I'm also a little spoiled by the resolution and latitude I get with my digital cameras so there's a thought of experimenting with medium format film eventually.
Either way, the types of film I shoot are either hard to get or unavailable in smaller rolls. These were made with Kodak Portra 400, but I set the camera to 200 on the advice of a couple great photographers.


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I love fresh cut flowers (take note would be suitors). They always seem so luxurious to me and usually only make an appearance in my place when it is freshly cleaned. It would seem wrong to have beautiful flowers in a messy apartment.
So here is my latest flower bouquet and it marks a special occasion. The apartment being cleaned by someone else. I have been toying with the idea for a long time of hiring someone to clean my apartment on a regular basis, but I have never followed through. I always felt guilty about it. Every time I would think about it I would tell myself that I could do it and there is really no point in spending the money. But the words of a fellow music teacher always stayed with me. She said it was one of the best things that she had ever done.
This first half of the school year with its hellish hours finally broke me. After two separate incidents where I was under the weather for a week, but still working long hours and the apartment turning into a disaster zone, I finally couldn't take it anymore. The plan is to have the apartment cleaned twice a month. I'm hoping that in between I will be good about keeping it picked up since it will be regularly cleaned. It's only been two days but so far so good. I've put my shoes and dishes away just like a real grownup. I really hope this is a turning point because my life feels so much happier when my apartment is neat and tidy. I guess I just need to be nudged in the right direction. Maybe I'll have flowers all the time.


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For nearly 35 years, John Montgomery has fashioned violins, violas, and cellos from his Raleigh workshop, shaping the wood with handmade planes and knives, making string quartets out of maple and spruce.
You can find his work in the hands of North Carolina Symphony musicians, or with musicians playing sonatas at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. — each instrument a tree slab that Montgomery taught to sing.
On an average Thursday, he restores a cello made in 1850, its wooden parts strewn across his office like the battered components of a Model T Ford.
He mentions casually that he maintains a violin for the concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra, and that he counts the violinist of the Carolina Chocolate Drops among his clients. But he humbly admits that his own playing isn't something you'd fawn over. Master craftsman by day, casual fiddler by night.
"It's not critical to perform well," he says. "I joke that I'm not distracted by repertoire."
Character in the chords
Montgomery was born in California and bounced between Wisconsin, New York, Utah, and France before landing in 1983 in Raleigh, where he soon set up his landmark shop on one of the quieter blocks of Hillsborough Street.
Back then, the N.C. Symphony was small-time, compared to its modern lineup, and Raleigh's budding musicians needed someone who knew how to make and repair things with strings.
Montgomery fit the void. His path to violin making grew out of his twin passions for music and tinkering.
He chose the cello in junior high school because it seemed like such a novelty. Then he drifted into violin a few years later, playfully fiddling along with the folk revival of the 1960s.
At the same time, he became interested in leather working, making belts, vests, and guitar straps to fit the folk mood around him.
But the key to his future appeared while at college in Wisconsin when he won a Thomas Watson Fellowship to study folk music in France. There, he fell in with a pair of brothers working outside Dijon, learning to make what may be the world's oddest instrument: the hurdy-gurdy.
Shaped like a gourd, turned with a crank, the hurdy-gurdy is commonly associated with monkeys, who dance and beg for spare change while the music plays.
But however strange the hurdy-gurdy is to American ears, it's a staple of French folk music, and its crank-operated wheel works much like a violin's bow.
When Montgomery returned home, seeking his fortune, he was already on the path to making violins, a small jump from hurdy-gurdies. Two years later, he finished up at The Violin Making School of America, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, where many of the world's best craftsmen first sharpened a knife.
Today, Montgomery and his family live within walking distance of the shop, and he splits his time between repairs, dealing in instruments and building his own. He tries to make a quartet per year: two violins, a viola, and cello.
"My favorite one is always the last one," he says. "They take on a lot of character because the tree gives us a lot of character."
He offers this advice to a dabbler: Sharpen your tools. Don't be so impatient to get working that you cut with a dull knife.
Montgomery picks up a sample of maple, an unusual cut with the grain showing like the loops on a topographic map or the whorls of a fingerprint.
Before long, someone will cradle that wood against his chin, draw a bow across the strings, and coax out the music Montgomery placed inside.
Montgomery Violins
509 Hillsborough Street
Raleigh, N.C. 27603
(919) 821-4459
Josh Shaffer is an award-winning writer for The News & Observer in Raleigh. His most recent story for Our State was "Wrightsville Beach" (July 2012).


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Johnny Depp plays Indian scout Tonto in Disney's "Lone Ranger".
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Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Walt Disney Pictures are gearing up for an October, 2011 filming start date on the feature film "Lone Ranger" starring Armie Hammer as The Lone Ranger, and Johnny Depp as Tonto. The film's main stars are being cast in Los Angeles, and smaller speaking roles, extras, stand-ins, and photo-doubles for the film's stars are being cast in New Mexico and Texas, where shooting will take place.


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Pretty Blanco has recently bombarded the hip-hop scene, receiving praise from Chris Brown, Travis Barker, Method Man and many other highly innovative musicians. His story starts in Staten Island, New York, where his wild flow and broad imagination caught the heart of the underground hip-hop scene. While working through local showcases and leaking freestyles online, Blanco caught the attention of a variety of influential artists after flying to Los Angeles to master his craft.
Once Blanco returned to his home town in New York City, he began recording his debut project Victory Blvd. with long-time friend and producer Young Lucid. After signing with DeadLife Entertainment, Pretty Blanco released his debut single "IDK" to positive review.
Today, Blanco serves up his debut, 9-track project titled "Vicotry Blvd." He is also set to have a possible cameo on Method Man's forthcoming album The Meth Lab 2.


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On September 8th, the FWA kicked off the fall season with another elegant reception at Le Cirque. The gracious atmosphere of this sophisticated venue stimulated some excellent networking and conversation, while host Sirio provided a delicious menu of Italian specialties.
The nearly 100 members and guests attending had an opportunity to meet and chat with FWA president and host Katrin Dambrot and other FWA leaders. In her welcoming remarks, Katrin recapped some highlights of the FWA programs and introduced the association's fall schedule. She also presented Ria, FWA's president-elect.
The value of committee membership was the theme of the evening. Both Katrin and Ria discussed the contributions that a variety of committees make, and members learned firsthand how joining a committee could expand their network and add immense value to their careers. The leaders' discussion was followed by a brief networking event that Membership Chair Hermina "Nina" Batson had organized. It asked attendees to talk to each other about the committees they were interested in. For each participant, interests had been recorded on the front of her badge.
To join an FWA committee, you must first become an FWA member.
If you haven't yet joined FWA, click here.
If you're already a member but haven't signed up for a committee, click here to engage with a committee where you can become a vital part of the overall success of the FWA and build your skills and leap forward.


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I just had the opportunity to finally volunteer at a dog pound this morning. Seeing more and more dogs left abandoned by their past owners, I chose to volunteer for Justice for Dogs at the Pasig City Pound. There were about 80+ dogs currently in the pound. The moment we arrived everyone of them started barking. I brought with me my one sack donation of dog food and wish I had bought more because we finished almost all of it when we fed the dogs. They eat only once a day because of the lack of volunteers and people to take care of the pound. Food is also quickly running low. Imagine having to feed 80+ dogs everyday, equivalent to almost one sack of dog food. I provided links by the end of this post if you're interested in donating 🙂
As I was taking photos, I couldn't help but get teary-eyed. Just seeing these poor dogs wait for someone to adopt them made me quite emotional. I have dogs of my own too, and I promise you that you'd want to hug yours when you get home.
Some of these dogs were surrendered by their past owners and some were left abandoned. If only I had a huge house and was capable of accommodating more dogs into our family, i'd save them by adopting.
All of these dogs are up for adoption! They are also capable of the same love and loyalty like the dogs you get from pet stores if you give them the proper guidance and be a responsible owner. I hope this post also raises awareness. I'm looking forward to volunteer again and to spend more time with the dogs!
If you are interested in helping or adopting, you can contact Justice for Dogs on their….
>Facebook page
They are open to volunteers and donations (Paypal and Bank deposit). You too can save these dogs! 🙂


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Tread types
Today's market offers an immense number of tires with an unimaginable variety of tread patterns. But actually the tread pattern isn't such a complicated and manifold thing.
According to the physics laws the best grip could be provided by a tire without any tread as it would have the largest contact area with the road surface. Such kind of tires (also called "slicks") are using on "Formula 1" bolides. But in the same time these tires have a significant shortcoming - they demonstrate their full potential only on the perfectly even road and in dry weather. If someone would use it while raining he likely would face to aquaplaning effect which causes the loss of control over vehicle due the slipping on the water surface.
To ensure that the water film is not formed between the tire and the road and in the same time the water is pushed out of the contact patch the special grooves are made on the tire. Their structure specifies the pattern of the tread.
At the moment there are three main types of tread patterns.
1. Non-directional treads
Symmetrical non-directional pattern is the most universal, averaged version of the tread. As a rule, such tires are suitable for moderate driving in both rain and dry weather. The absence of drainage grooves makes it difficult to remove water from the contact patch, while the block structure of the tread pattern makes such tires relatively noisy. With all the shortcomings, tires with such a pattern are durable and have a very affordable price.
2. Directional treads
A directional tread pattern is required for more efficient water drainage from the contact patch. When rotating, the wheel squeezes out water and keeps grip with the road. The rolling resistance of these tires is reduced, they produce less noise, but in the same time have two major drawbacks. First, they are much more expensive, and second, their effectiveness entirely depends on the direction of rotation of the wheel. Usually the correct direction is indicated by an arrow on the sidewall of the tire. If the tire is placed wrongly, the tire will not push the water out of the contact patch, but will admit it. This will greatly affect the quality of the traction with the road.
3. Asymmetrical
The tires with the asymmetrical pattern have the best grip characteristics both on wet and on dry roads. They combine the best features of the both previous tread types but have a very huge shortcoming - their price is too high.


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Scout Distressed Leather Conditioner
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- Restores distressed leather.
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Condition and restore the original texture of distressed leather. A must-have to care for your distressed leather cowboy boots! 8 fluid ounces/236 milliliters.
Not all boot care products are intended for use on all types of leather. Please carefully read the manufacturer's instructions located on this care product before applying to your footwear or other leather product.


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Global Development Programme Research
Emerging Markets Industry Metrics Programme
The Emerging Markets Regulatory Review Times (EMaRReT) database provides regulatory benchmarking and trend analysis of regulatory approval times for 18 Emerging Market countries. The goal of the project is to provide an analysis of various factors that impede or accelerate the time it takes companies to deliver a medicine globally, providing stepping stones for companies to define and implement a global regulatory and development strategy plan.
- Industry activity metrics (EMaRReT)
- Industry Discussion Meeting
- EMaRReT-specific teleconferences


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Here at the NY Microsoft Technology Center (NY MTC), we recently ran a series of SQL Server Upgrade/Application Compatibility Labs with various customers and ISVs.
To learn more about the labs, watch this video blog entry shot during one of the actual labs: http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcny/pages/sql-server-2008-upgrade-lab-april-2008.aspx.
The two tools used in these labs were SQL Server Upgrade Advisor and SQL Server Upgrade Assistant.
SQL Server Upgrade Advisor helps you prepare for upgrades to SQL Server 2008. Upgrade Advisor analyzes installed components from earlier versions of SQL Server, and then generates a report that identifies issues to fix either before or after you upgrade. Additional information on the Upgrade Advisor can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144256(SQL.100).aspx.
SQL Server Upgrade Assistant (SSUA) is a tool made available as a free download from Scalability Experts. The tool can be downloaded at the following link: http://www.scalabilityexperts.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=43 . SSUA uses traces to allow an IT professional to evaluate the behavior of an application on different versions, service pack levels, editions, or configurations of SQL Server. The tool can even be used to test the behavior of different version of an application release when a hotfix or service pack is installed on SQL Server. SQL Server Upgrade Assistant currently supports upgrading SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005, as well as supports SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008.


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NCAS Forum 2016
The National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship (NCAS) will hold its first annual forum at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity on the 9th November.
NCAS is the first One Health NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence working in the Health Services stream to improve practice and policy around antimicrobial prescribing in humans and animals across hospitals, primary care, aged care, companion and livestock animals.
The day will commence at 09:30 with presentations from the Director, Professor Karin Thursky and senior co-investigators providing a comprehensive overview of the status of antimicrobial use in Australia, the risk of multidrug resistant pathogens, and the challenges of using data to effect change.
After lunch NCAS PhD students will present their research projects together with their primary supervisor.
The day will finish at 16:30.
Attendance at the Forum is free for all delegates.
A light lunch will be served, so RSVPs are essential for catering purposes.
If you cannot attend in person, the Forum will also be broadcast live.
Click here to register for the broadcast.
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Support the Mary Rose and become part of something unique
The Mary Rose Trust is a registered charity which receives no core government funding. We rely on the support of people who care for our nation's rich cultural heritage and who want to be part of our continuing story.
The Trust has an ongoing commitment to the wreck site where the Mary Rose lay and the continuing conservation of the hull and the thousands of artefacts recovered with her. There are many ways you can supports us – from becoming a member or Flag Officer to making a donation or volunteering. With your help, we can make sure this glorious ship can be preserved and displayed in an innovative museum for generations to come.
After years of planning, fundraising and building, the Mary Rose opened to the public in 2013. It closed for eight months at the end of 2015 for the second phase of the project. Since July 2016, the museum provides stunning panoramic views of the ship and visitors have been able to breathe the same air as the Mary Rose.
This is yet another chapter in her long story. The Mary Rose's story will continue with plans already being discussed for the rudder, stem and other parts of the ship's structure to be reinstated.
Please support us and be part of a remarkable piece of history.
We rely on donations to support our work.
We have several ways to make a donation to the Mary Rose Trust.
Sign up for EasyFundraising and everytime you buy something from a number of online retailers, a donation is made to the Mary Rose Trust, at no extra cost to you!
By joining the Portsmouth Lottery you can help us and other good causes in Portsmouth plus be in with the chance of winning prizes up to £25,000!
Tickets are £1 per week. From the tickets sold via our Portsmouth Lottery page, 50% will go to the Mary Rose Trust and 10% will go to other causes in Portsmouth.
This ensures their gifts are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by US law.
The Campaign for the Mary Rose
PO Box 308, Georges Mills
Tel: +1 (212) 333-9481
Our membership scheme is undergoing a change so membership forms aren't currently available online.
We hope to launch the new Patron scheme soon. Keep an eye on our website and social media for updates.
If you're interested in leaving a legacy for the Mary Rose Museum, please contact Sally Tyrrell for more information.
Volunteering at the Mary Rose
From the earliest days of the Mary Rose project, we've relied on the work of volunteers. We're always looking for new people to join our team, are you one of them?
Every day the Mary Rose Museum receives hundreds of visitors. To make their visit as enjoyable as possible we need passionate people of all ages to share their knowledge of Tudor history and our collection, and you could be one of them!
Whether it's helping with family workshops, assisting our education team with schools or answering questions for visitors, we have a wide range of roles available.
To find out about volunteering, contact us using the form below.
The Mary Rose Information Group is a group of volunteer speakers who give talks on the Mary Rose to U3A, Probus, Historical Societies and other interested groups.
Our aim is to have speakers all around the country so we can share the history of the Mary Rose with as many communities as possible. We are always on the lookout for new speakers. Would you be interested in volunteering?
If you are, please fill out this form or if you have a query about becoming a speaker, send us an email to email@example.com
Fill out this form, and let us know you are interested. Our volunteer coordinator will be in touch within a few days.
Job and Volunteering opportunities
We're always looking for volunteers, but we also sometimes have career opportunities too.
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Stiff Necks
what a way to start a great morning. anyway managed to find out why the backup imap files are showing up as a bunch of empty emails yesterday (no header data, so subject and to fields are annoyingly empty.). chown'in the imap user dir to its rightful owner did the trick.
onwards to trying out a new webmail imap client. previously used horde. but attracted to the oven fresh goodness of hula and zimbra. downloading the sources as we speak. google seems to indicate uphill wrestling building those two on FreeBSD. but a rather nice excuse to refresh unix build debugging skills.
back to my stiff neck. hurts like hell. crossing mmy fingers salonpas would help a bit.


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About Chaudhary Birender SinghChaudhary Birender Singh is a prominent Jat leader of Haryana who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party just before the Assembly election, concluded recently. Though he was close to become a cabinet minister during Manmohan Singh's second tenure, he was not included in the UPA-II cabinet at the last minute. He is referred as Tragedy King in the political circles because he was denied Chief Minister's position or a berth in the Union Cabinet Ministry for a long time. However, current Prime Minister Narendra Modi inducted him as Union Minister of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Sanitation & Drinking Water. Chaudhary Birender Singh took over as the Minister of Steel on July 5, 2016, in a Cabinet reshuffle.
Early Life of Birender SinghChaudhary Birender Singh is the grandson of Chhotu Ram, a renowned peasant leader in Haryana. Ch. Bijender Singh was born on March 25, 1946, in Dumarkhan Kalan village in the Jind district of Haryana. Prior to partition, his father Ch. Neki Ram was a prominent face in Undivided Punjab and the areas that today comprise Haryana.
Ch. Birender Singh completed his graduation from Rohtak's Government College and went on to complete his law from Chandigarh's Panjab University. He has always been a sports enthusiast during his formative years. Singh was not only cricket captain from 1964 to 1967 but also played for Punjab University from 1969 to 1970.
He has always been a social activist. He worked hard with the rank and file for creating educational institutions for technical as well as higher education in Haryana. He has been an educationist and is the founder of Haryana's Bangar Education Trust as well as Birender Singh College of Nursing in Jind and Uchana. From 1974 to 1977, he was Haryana Harijan Sewak Sangh's member.
Political life of Birender SinghSingh started his political career as a social activist. He is known as a truthful and fearless politician. That's why many people call him 'Babbar Sher'. Some of the ideals he has always vouched for include inclusive politics, people's participation, honesty, and definitely good governance. Some of the qualities people praise him for include his oratorical skills (he speaks from his heart), keeping in touch with the people at grassroots, and a knack to listen to people's woes.
Ch. Birender Singh first made his foray in elections in 1972, after which he went on to become Uchana Block Samity's Chairman. He remained in that position from 1972 to 1977. He has always been popular among the masses and due to his constant contact with the grassroots he has been successful in winning the Uchana assembly seat five times. His first term as MLA was from 1977 to 1982, followed by 1982 to 1984, 1991 to 1996, 1996 to 2000, and 2005 to 2009. During these five stints he became Cabinet Minister of Haryana thrice (from 1982 to 1984, 1991 to 1992, and 2005 to 2009).
He headed multiple committees including Government Assurances Committee and Estimates Committee. In 1984 he was elected as an MP and completed the full term in 1989. During that stint he also became member of several committees including Estimates, Defence ministry's Consultative Committee, and Ministry of Energy's Consultative Committee.
However, problems started to crop up within the Congress with the power tussle between him and Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Ch. Birender Singh's straight forward attitude started to become a problem for many. As the difference between the two stalwart leaders of Congress in Haryana started to spill over in public, INC made him Rajya Sabha MP in the year 2010. He was all set to become a minister in the erstwhile UPA-II government, but for the last minute change of plans. The Congress tried to placate him by inducting him in the Congress Working Committee and by making him a permanent member. This was the time when BJP started to surface as a prominent political force in Haryana. Singh didn't lose time to grab the opportunity and took a calculative risk by joining the BJP. After the BJP emerged triumphant in the assembly election in Haryana, Singh was duly rewarded by Narendra Modi through his recent introduction in the cabinet.
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S.S. Beaver Medal
The Maritime Museum SS Beaver Medal for Maritime Excellence recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the marine sector in our Province. These attainments may include-but are not limited to- science, technology, business, applications of maritime skills and academic contributions. Up to three candidates nominated by the public are selected each year through a rigorous screening process. An organization or ship is also unusually granted an award. The awards are selected by a blue-ribbon panel of representatives involved in various aspects of BC's maritime interests.
SS Beaver –the first steam-powered vessel on the west coast of North America- operated up and down the BC Coast for 52 years. Built for the Hudson's Bay Company on the Thames, she functioned as a floating trading post and coastal freighter. The Royal Navy had a constant presence in the coast starting in the 1840s and it was its hydrographic work which opened up BC for shipping. Beaver was chartered by the RN as a survey ship for 8 years. At the end of her career this pioneering vessel was sold by the Hudson's Bay Company and used as a towboat.
The gold-plated medals are cast from materials salvaged from the wreck of the ship after she grounded on Siwash Rock outside Vancouver in 1888.
2019 Nominations
The nominations for 2019 are now closed. Award winners will be announced this fall. Thank you to all who submitted a nomination!
2019 SS Beaver Award Nomination Form
Please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions.
2018 Awards
The winner of the 2018 SS Beaver Award were:
Mr. Robin Inglis, former museum and archives curator, internationally recognized as an authority on the maritime history of the northwest coast. Robin Inglis first began working in the Canadian museum field 47 years ago. He established a reputation for willingness to share his vast knowledge with individuals and institutions. His contributions to scholarship include authoring standard books of reference and articles. Robin Inglis continues his work with the Moachat and Muchalat to obtain World Heritage Status for Yuquot, Nootka Island.
Mr. Donald Krusel, harbour management executive. Don Krusel joined the Port of Prince Rupert in 1987 and became President and Chief Executive Officer in 1992. He successfully led the efforts that transformed an underused resource-export port to a thriving and expanding container terminal and diversifying trade gateway. Under his leadership the Port Authority fostered the involvement of First Nations communities in port-related activities. Since retiring from Prince Rupert Don Krusel has recently been named managing director of a project to build a container terminal for the Port of Quebec.
Mr. John MacFarlane, Curator Emeritus of MMBC, compiler and disseminator of lore about BC maritime heritage. He is the creator and co-director since 2011 of NAUTICAPEDIA, a unique on-line resource with more than 50,000 entries about the mariners and vessels of western Canada and the Arctic. More recently he created the BC Nautical History Facebook page. John MacFarlane is the author of 14 books including a guide in four volumes about the 5,500 oldest vessels still afloat in BC and many articles.
Ms. Jane McIvor, communications executive, and publisher and editor of BC Shipping News. This is a well-respected magazine founded by Jane McIvor in 2011 that covers the west coast marine industry. It tracks a wide span of issues including business, technological and economic trends, current developments, and regulatory and legal issues. Jane McIvor is passionate about promoting BC's marine industry and has established a reputation among its members for her knowledge, insight and sense of the industry's pulse.
The 2018 special award was to the Wahl Family of North Coast Boatbuilders, represented by Mr. Edward Wahl. Three generations of the Wahl family have been involved in building wooden and glass fibre work boats and some recreational vessels on the BC coast boat. Their distinctly styled wooden fishing vessels made a significant contribution to our Province's fishing and boat building industries. Mr. Edward Wahl is a shipwright and the grandson of the Norwegian immigrant who began building fish boats outside Prince Rupert in 1923.
Reading from left to right: Mr. Donald Krusel, Mr. John MacFarlane, Ms. Jane McIvor, the Honourable Janet Austin, Mr. Edward Wahl, Mr. Robin Inglis.
2017 Awards
The recipients of the 2017 SS Beaver Award were:
Mr. Campbell Black, entrepreneur who established and remains the driving force in Quadrant Marine Institute, an apprenticeship training facility in Sidney to school marine service technicians for careers in BC's boat and ship repair/building sector.
Mr. Barrie Farrell, innovative fish boat builder. When fiberglass became available in the Sixties he was one of the first boat builders to realize its advantages and developed an innovative hull form which suited what the fishing industry required at the time. Mr. Farrell has built over 300 commercial and pleasure boats at various locations on the south coast.
Captain Keith McLaren, retired deepsea and coastal mariner, formerly Senior Master of Spirit of Vancouver island, author of award-winning books on seafaring.
Mr. Roland Webb, Certified Marine Engineer and senior executive in the ship repair and shipbuilding sector, currently Senior Vice President Robert Allan Ltd., Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Vancouver BC.
A special award will recognize the Sail life and Training Society (SALTS) of Victoria for its youth sail training and motivational programs. SALTS programs reach 1,700 young people aged 13 to 25 each year and have mentored between 50 and 60 thousand youth afloat since 1974.
Reading from left to right: Tristan Hedley, SALTS, Derek Rand SALTS, Tony Anderson SALTS, Loren Hagerty, SALTS, Her Honour, Barrie Farrell, Brian Henry, Keith McLaren, Roland Webb
Presentation Maritime Museum of BC SS BEAVER Awards at Government House Victoria Nov 18, 2016: Reading from left to right Captain David Woodman, Arctic Researcher and former BC Ferries Master, Captain Stephen Brown, Past President Chamber of Shipping of BC, Lieutenant Governor The Honourable Judith Guichon, John Horton, Marine Artist and Search & Rescue Volunteer, Captain Derek Sweet, BC Ferries, MV Salish Orca, Captain Jamie Marshall, VP Ops BC Ferries.
Presentation of the SS Beaver Award to Dr. John Harland in Kelowna, BC on April 12, 2017.
2016 S.S. Beaver Medal for Maritime Excellence
The 2016 recipients of the MMBC SS Beaver Medal for Maritime Excellence were:
- Captain Stephen Brown: Past President Chamber of Shipping of BC, retired deep sea Master Mariner and shipping line operation manager;
- John Harland: retired physician recognized worldwide as an authority on marine technology and author of standard books in this area;
- John Horton: marine artist and Outstanding Marine Search and Rescue Volunteer; and
- Captain David Woodman: retired mariner and author of groundbreaking studies collating Inuit oral testimony about the fate of the Franklin expedition and participant in 10 Arctic Investigation Expeditions;
A special award recognized BC Ferries for their over five decades of providing essential coastal infrastructure at high operating standards. Two vessels well known to the travelling public – the Queens of Burnaby and Nanaimo- will be replaced next year by new state of the art vessels after operating for more than fifty years. These pioneering ships helped establish the foundation for today's very successful service by transforming car ferry operation on the coast.
Congratulations to all winners, and thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination in 2016!
Past winners are:
2015 Captain Ronald Burchett, marine industry entrepreneur and builder of dynamic working models used worldwide for operator training of tugboats; Mr. Sydney Heal, veteran marine author; Mr. Helmut Lanziner, developer of universally- employed electronic marine chart display and information systems; special award was to the Pacific Pilotage Authority, the Federal Crown Corporation responsible for administering pilotage services for vessels in Canadian west coast waters.
2014 Dr Barry Gough, maritime historian; Leonard McCann, long-time curator Vancouver Maritime Museum; Captain Tom McCulloch, hydrographer; special award to the Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Sciences (ROPOS), a research submersible designed and built in BC and operating world-wide out of Sidney.
2013 Malcolm Barker, General Manager, Victoria Shipyards; Dr. William Hick, for his close involvement in the dramatic development of the Port of Prince Rupert; Howard White, marine author and publisher; special award to the Thermopylae Club of Victoria for its role in preserving marine heritage.
2012 Robert G. Allan, naval architect, Peter Bernard, QC, maritime lawyer; Dennis Washington; marine industrialist; special award to SS Coho, veteran Victoria- Port Angeles ferry
The awards are normally presented by the Lieutenant Governor, Honorary Patron of the Museum.
Awards Committee
Barry Rolston, Past President MMBC
Dr. Michael Hadley, marine historian
Don Krusel, CEO Prince Rupert Port Authority
Commander (Retd) Robert Lewis-Manning, RCN, President Chamber of Shipping of BC
Captain Jamie Marshall, VP Operations, BC Ferries
Captain David Snider, Canadian Coast Guard (Retd)
Dr. Marianne Scott, marine journalist


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Four Things I Learned About Self-Worth From a Near-Mullet Experience
I've found myself in a styling chair on a stage, in front of an audience of fancy-pants, Los Angeles hairdressers. Describing what he's planning to do to MY hair, the stylist, just uttered the words, "Hip mullet". M-U-L-L-E-T! Business in front, party in the back MULLET!
Let's back up for a moment. I'm a 20 something, struggling actor in LA and a friend calls saying that the studio across the street is putting on this huge hair styling class, being taught by someone of importance in the styling world. Their model didn't show up and they need someone ASAP and they'll cut my hair however I want! My immediate thought, "Woohoo, a free haircut!" I hop in the car.
I'm having my makeup done when the stylist introduces himself and thanks me for coming on such short notice. I show him a picture of the style I'd like, and he agrees that it would be a great look. He's happy to do it!
Fast forward 30 minutes, I'm in the chair, on stage, having had the rug pulled out from under me. What should I do? In this situation, my job is to stay quiet and simply be a body with a head of hair. But the stakes are too high. I cannot afford to walk out of there with a "hip mullet." So, I speak up.
"Excuse me?" I say in a tentative voice, "That's now what we discussed. Can we go with the style that you said you'd do backstage?"
Silence and a look.
"This brings up a great topic." he says as he turns back to the crowd, "What do you do, when your client asks for a style that you know will not look good on them?"
I am FACING the audience trying to control the look on my face.
He turns back to me, "What if we cut it into the style I suggested and if, after that, you still want it cut your way, we'll do that?" I agree.
He gives me a mullet and it is terrifying.
"So! Do you still want me to cut it your way?" he dares me.
I muster all my strength, "Yup." And with that I give my head to a person holding scissors, who I've clearly upset, in a room full of his peers.
He does a fantastic job and the stylists in the audience are invited up to look at the cut close up. A handful, out of earshot of him, whisper to me, "You did the right thing."
Yes, this was a haircut, this was not life or death. But I did learn a few things.
1. Just because someone is an expert in a certain area, does not mean that they are better than you or know what is best for you.
2. Chances are, if you think something's not right, others do too, they're simply too afraid to speak up.
3. There will always be critics and there will also be people on your side. You're the one who has to look at yourself in the mirror the next day. Go with what feels right for you.
4. There is no such thing as a "Hip Mullet."
Ten years later, I'm a mom, wife and business owner. I face situations where the stakes are much higher, but these lessons have encouraged me to understand my worth and trust my gut through even the toughest of situations.


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Banda Atrakadero is a brass-based group of musicians comprised of local residents of San Pancho. The group was formed in June 2009 when Isabel Cienfuegos Polanco was approached by her son who wanted to start a banda, or a band. Since the traditional Mexican banda has a standard compliment of approximately 14 instruments, Isabel told her son that he would need many of his friends to make this happen. The next day her son returned with 17 friends that ranged in ages from 12 to 18. Isabel's nephew, an experienced banda teacher, agreed to help the boys form the group and practice.
With time, the boys became acquainted with the instruments they had to rent to practice on. Eventually Isabel realized that rental costs were increasing, and she began holding fundraisers to buy the individual instruments they needed: trumpets, trombones, alto horns, clarinets and others. The group progressed well. A professional banda teacher, Abraham Duran from Mazatlan, soon began working with the boys 3 days a week to hone their skills, and to learn a broader range of banda music.
Today, Atrakadero proudly participates in the annual Music Festival as a much respected band that is often in demand in San Pancho and the local towns. Isabel continues to manage the group, and provides the boys her home and it's backyard as a venue to rehearse and learn new selections. Atrakadero has become an inspiration to many of the younger children in the village, who commonly gather around the backyard as the group practices. Isabel generously accepts those that want to join and learn a particular instrument.
Atrakadero is a community symbol for all that the San Pancho Music Festival represents. Their rising popularity has allowed the group to mature and create a unique identity, making them an integral part of San Pancho's culture, and a valuable addition to the annual Music Festival.


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Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
'HUMA BHABHA: WE COME IN PEACE' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Oct. 28). This spare and unsettling sculptural installation for the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden Commission includes two figures: one that is somewhat humanoid but with a ferocious mask-face and that visually dwarfs the jagged Manhattan skyline behind it, and another bowing in supplication or prayer, with long cartoonish human hands and a scraggly tail emerging from its shiny, black drapery. The title is a variant on the line an alien uttered to an anxious crowd in the 1951 science fiction movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still," but it ripples with other associations: colonization, invasion, imperialism or missionaries and other foreigners whose intentions were not always innocent. The installation also feels like an extension of the complex, cross-cultural conversation going on downstairs, inside a museum packed with 5,000 years of art history. (Martha Schwendener)
212-535-7710, metmuseum.org
'CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI SCULPTURE: THE FILMS' at the Museum of Modern Art (through Feb. 18). This show is built around works by the Romanian modernist (1876-1957) that have been longtime highlights of the museum's own collection. But in 2018, can Brancusi still release our inner poet? The answer may lie in paying less attention to the sculptures themselves and more to Brancusi's little-known and quite amazing films, projected at the entrance to the gallery throughout the duration of the exhibition. MoMA borrowed the series of video clips from the Pompidou Center in Paris. They give the feeling that Brancusi was less interested in making fancy museum objects than in putting new kinds of almost-living things into the world and convey the vital energy his sculptures were meant to capture. (Blake Gopnik)
212-708-9400, moma.org
'CHARTING THE DIVINE PLAN: THE ART OF ORRA WHITE HITCHCOCK' at the American Folk Art Museum (through Oct. 14). Love in the time of science — that could serve as the catchphrase for this ravishing exhibition of botanical and geological illustration from the first decades of the United States. Born in progressive Amherst, Mass., a few years after the Revolution, Orra White received a first-rate scientific education like few girls of her day; then, with her beloved husband, Edward Hitchcock, she painted the plants, reeds, flowers and mushrooms of New England in exquisite folios. Later, Edward became president of Amherst College, and Orra painted and drew large-scale illustrations for his lessons: Paleolithic skeletons, brightly striped cross sections of volcanic earth, a massive octopus munching on a three-masted schooner. While the plant and mushroom paintings are delicate and painstakingly exact, the classroom aids are boldly imaginative — but both are evidence of an extraordinary life in which carnal love and religious conviction intertwined with scientific discovery. (Jason Farago)
212-595-9533, folkartmuseum.org
'MARY CORSE' at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, N.Y., and 'MARY CORSE: A SURVEY IN LIGHT' at the Whitney Museum of American Art (through Nov. 25). Light, and specifically the radiant light of Los Angeles, shaped Ms. Corse's career. She became interested not just in representing light, but also in making objects that emitted or reflected it. This duo of shows features her light boxes — or "light paintings" — made with argon gas and Tesla coils, as well as her paintings on canvas that include glass microspheres, like those used in the lines that divide highway lanes. Both shows are overdue representations for Ms. Corse, who was an early member of the loosely defined Light and Space movement of the 1960s and '70s in California. (Schwendener)
212-570-3600, whitney.org
'CROWNS OF THE VAJRA MASTERS: RITUAL ART OF NEPAL' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Dec. 16). Up a narrow staircase, above the Met's galleries of South and Southeast Asian art, are three small rooms of art from the Himalayas. The space, a bit like a treehouse, is a capsule of spiritual energy, which is especially potent these days thanks to this exhibition. The crowns of the title look like antique versions of astronaut headgear: gilded copper helmets, studded with gems, encrusted with repoussé plaques and topped by five-pronged antennas — the vajra, or thunderbolt of wisdom. Such crowns were believed to turn their wearers into perfected beings who are willing and able to bestow blessings on the world. This show is the first to focus on these crowns, and it does so with a wealth of compressed historical information, as well as several resplendent related sculptures and paintings from Nepal and Tibet. But it's the crowns themselves, the real ones, the wisdom generators, set in mandala formation in the center of the gallery, that are the fascinators. (Holland Cotter)
212-535-7710, metmuseum.org
'THE FUTURE' at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Jan. 7). It flies and flows and creeps. You measure it, spend it, waste it. It's on your side, or it's not. We're talking about time, and so is the Rubin. It is devoting its entire 2018 season and all its spaces to time as a theme, with an accent on the future. There's a fine historical show devoted to the Second Buddha, Padmasambhava ("lotus born"), subtitled "Master of Time," and another, called "A Lost Future," that centers on a wonderful feature-length film by the London-based Otolith Group about a still-active, utopian-minded university founded almost a century ago by the poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore in West Bengal. And the Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh contributes a suite of bold large-scale drawings that weave references to South Asian religions, Indian pop comics and 21st-century feminism into a genre sometimes called Indo-Futurism. (Cotter)
212-620-5000, rubinmuseum.org
'HEAVENLY BODIES: FASHION AND THE CATHOLIC IMAGINATION' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (through Oct. 8). Let us pray. After last year's stark exhibition of Rei Kawakubo's irregular apparel, the Met Costume Institute is back in blockbuster mode with this three-part blowout on the influence of Catholicism on haute couture of the past century. The trinity of fashion begins downstairs at the Met with the exceptional loans of vestments from the Vatican; upstairs are gowns fit for angels in heaven (by Lanvin, Thierry Mugler, Rodarte) or angels fallen to earth (such as slinky Versace sheaths garlanded with crosses). The scenography at the Met is willfully operatic — spotlights, choir music — which militates against serious thinking about fashion and religion, but up at the Cloisters, by far the strongest third of the show, you can commune more peacefully with an immaculate Balenciaga wedding gown or a divine Valentino gown embroidered with Cranach's Adam and Eve. (Farago)
212-535-7710, metmuseum.org
'THE JIM HENSON EXHIBITION' at the Museum of the Moving Image. The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 1936 and died, too young, in 1990. Henson began presenting the short TV program "Sam and Friends" before he was out of his teens; one of its characters, the soft-faced Kermit, was fashioned from his mother's old coat and would not mature into a frog for more than a decade. The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 1960s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub. Young visitors will delight in seeing Big Bird, Elmo, Miss Piggy and the Swedish Chef; adults can dig deep into sketches and storyboards and rediscover some old friends. (Farago)
718-784-0077, movingimage.us
'ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU: CARNE Y ARENA' at 1611 Benning Road NE, Washington (through Oct. 31, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.). Perhaps the most technically accomplished endeavor yet in virtual reality — but closer in form to immersive live theater, created by a two-time Oscar winner — has arrived at a former church in Washington after outings in Cannes, Milan, Los Angeles and Mexico City. In "Carne y Arena" ("Flesh and Sand"), you explore the exhibition on your own with a motion-sensitive headset that transports you to Mexico's border with the United States; brutal encounters with border guards interweave with surreal dream sequences, which you can perceive in three dimensions. The characters are computer renderings of the bodies of actual migrants; the landscapes are photographed by Mr. Iñárritu's brilliant longtime cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki. It remains too early to say whether virtual reality will reshape art institutions, but this is a rare achievement, and not only for its political urgency. Tickets will be released only on the website at 8 a.m. Eastern Time on the 1st and 15th of each month of the exhibition's duration. (Farago)
'BODYS ISEK KINGELEZ: CITY DREAMS' at the Museum of Modern Art (through Jan. 1). The first comprehensive survey of the Congolese artist is a euphoric exhibition as utopian wonderland, featuring his fantasy architectural models and cities — works strong in color, eccentric in shape, loaded with enthralling details and futuristic aura. Mr. Kingelez (1948-2015) was convinced that the world had never seen a vision like his, and this beautifully designed show bears him out. (Roberta Smith)
212-708-9400, moma.org
'THE LONG RUN' at the Museum of Modern Art (through Nov. 4). The museum upends its cherished Modern narrative of ceaseless progress by mostly young (white) men. Instead we see works by artists 45 and older who have just kept on keeping on, regardless of attention or reward, sometimes saving the best for last. Art here is an older person's game, a pursuit of a deepening personal vision over innovation. Winding through 17 galleries, the installation is alternatively visually or thematically acute and altogether inspiring. (Smith)
212-708-9400, moma.org
'OBSESSION: NUDES BY KLIMT, SCHIELE AND PICASSO' at the Met Breuer (through Oct. 7). The highlight of this uneven but jewel-studded show of erotically charged nudes from the bequest of an eccentric woolen goods heir is Egon Schiele's incandescent "Seated Woman in Chemise." The 1914 drawing shows a nearly naked model seated on the floor holding apart her folded legs with her hands. From the top of her egg-shaped, doll-like head, so idealized it's practically inhuman, to the blunt exposure of her sex, rendered as simply and honestly as the medium allows, she's an unresolvable contest of fantasy and reality. (Will Heinrich)
212-731-1675, metmuseum.org
'GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: VISIONS OF HAWAI'I' at the New York Botanical Garden (through Oct. 28). Finding out O'Keeffe had a Hawaiian period is kind of like finding out Brian Wilson had a desert period. But here it is: 17 eye-popping paradisal paintings, produced in a nine-week visit in 1939. The paintings, and their almost psychedelic palette, are as fleshlike and physical as O'Keeffe's New Mexican work is stripped and metaphysical. The other star of the show, fittingly, is Hawaii, and the garden has mounted a living display of the subjects depicted in the artwork. As much as they might look like the products of an artist's imagination, the plants and flowers in the Enid Haupt Conservatory are boastfully real. (William L. Hamilton)
718-817-8700, nybg.org
'SCENES FROM THE COLLECTION' at the Jewish Museum. After a surgical renovation to its grand pile on Fifth Avenue, the Jewish Museum has reopened its third-floor galleries with a rethought, refreshed display of its permanent collection, which intermingles 4,000 years of Judaica with modern and contemporary art by Jews and gentiles alike — Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman and the excellent young Nigerian draftswoman Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze. The works are shown in a nimble, nonchronological suite of galleries, and some of its century-spanning juxtapositions are bracing; others feel reductive, even dilettantish. But always, the Jewish Museum conceives of art and religion as interlocking elements of a story of civilization, commendably open to new influences and new interpretations. (Farago)
212-423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org
'THE SENSES: DESIGN BEYOND VISION' at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (through Oct. 28). There's a serious, timely big idea at this exhibition: As social media, smartphones and virtual reality make us ever more "ocularcentric," we have taken leave of our nonvisual senses — and need to get back in touch, literally. Thus "The Senses" features multisensory adventures such as a portable-speaker-size contraption that emits odors, with titles like "Surfside" and "Einstein," in timed combinations; hand-painted scratch-and-sniff wallpaper (think Warhol's patterned cows but with cherries — cherry-scented, naturally); and a device that projects ultrasonic waves to simulate the touch and feel of virtual objects. The show also presents commissions, videos, products and prototypes from more than 65 designers and teams, some of which address sensory disabilities like blindness and deafness, including Vibeat, which can be worn as a bracelet, brooch or necklace and translates music into vibrations. And if you bring the kids, they will likely bliss out stroking a wavy, fur-lined installation that makes music as you rub it. (Michael Kimmelman)
212-849-8400, cooperhewitt.org
'SOUL OF A NATION: ART IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER' at the Brooklyn Museum (through Feb. 3). It will be a happy day when racial harmony rules in the land. But that day's not arriving any time soon. Who could have guessed in the 1960s when civil rights became law, that a new century would bring white supremacy tiki-torching out of the closet and turn the idea that black lives matter, so beyond obvious, into a battle cry? Actually, African-Americans were able to see such things coming. No citizens know the national narrative, and its implacable racism, better. And no artists have responded to that history-that-won't-go-away more powerfully than black artists have. More than 60 of them appear in this big, beautiful, passionate show of art that functioned as seismic detector, political persuader and defensive weapon. (Cotter)
718-638-8000, brooklynmuseum.org
'THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS: STANLEY KUBRICK PHOTOGRAPHS' at the Museum of the City of New York (through Oct. 28). This exhibition of the great director's photography is essentially Kubrick before he became Kubrick. Starting in 1945, when he was 17 and living in the Bronx, he worked as a photographer for Look magazine, and the topics he explored are chestnuts so old that they smell a little moldy: lovers embracing on a park bench as their neighbors gaze ostentatiously elsewhere, patients anxiously awaiting their doctor's appointments, boxing hopefuls in the ring, celebrities at home, pampered dogs in the city. It probably helped that Kubrick was just a kid, so instead of inducing yawns, these magazine perennials struck him as novelties, and he in turn brought something fresh to them. Photographs that emphasize the mise-en-scène could be movie stills: a shouting circus executive who takes up the right side of the foreground while aerialists rehearse in the middle distance, a boy climbing to a roof with the city tenements surrounding him, a subway car filled with sleeping passengers. Looking at these pictures, you want to know what comes next. (Arthur Lubow)
212-534-1672, mcny.org
'TOWARD A CONCRETE UTOPIA: ARCHITECTURE IN YUGOSLAVIA, 1948-1980' at the Museum of Modern Art (through Jan. 13). This nimble, continuously surprising show tells one of the most underappreciated stories of postwar architecture: the rise of avant-garde government buildings, pie-in-the-sky apartment blocks, mod beachfront resorts and even whole new cities in the southeast corner of Europe. Tito's Yugoslavia rejected both Stalinism and liberal democracy, and its neither-nor political position was reflected in architecture of stunning individuality, even as it embodied collective ambitions that Yugoslavs called the "social standard." From Slovenia, where elegant office buildings drew on the tradition of Viennese modernism, to Kosovo, whose dome-topped national library appears as a Buckminster Fuller fever dream, these impassioned buildings defy all our Cold War-vintage stereotypes of Eastern Europe. Sure, in places the show dips too far into Socialist chic. But this show is exactly how MoMA should be thinking as it rethinks its old narratives for its new home next year. (Farago)
212-708-9400, moma.org
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'CANOVA'S GEORGE WASHINGTON' at the Frick Collection (through Sept. 23). When Canova's statue arrived in Raleigh, N.C., in 1821, the American press went wild for the likeness by the Italian neoclassical sculptor of the first president, wearing Roman military dress and drafting his farewell address. Ten years later it was destroyed by fire, but the Frick has brought the full-scale plaster model of the lost statue over from Italy for this smashing show that reveals how European artists were inspired by American revolutionary ideals. Canova's Washington, looming all alone over the Frick's circular gallery, wears thickly curled hair instead of the pulled-back style he sports on the dollar bill, and in both his costume (leather skirt, strappy sandals) and his bearing, he embodies the ideals of the new republic, where principles come before power. Supplementary materials include a life mask of Washington and several smaller Canova models, including a nude Washington with some rather nice pecs. (Farago)
212-288-0700, frick.org
'HISTORY REFUSED TO DIE: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SOULS GROWN DEEP FOUNDATION GIFT' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 23). This inspired foundation is dispersing around 1,200 works by black self-taught artists from the American South to museums across the country. The Met's exhibition of 29 of the 57 pieces it received proposes an exciting broadening of postwar art. It is dominated by the dialogue between the rough-hewed relief paintings of Thornton Dial and the geometrically, chromatically brilliant quilts of the Gee's Bend collective. But much else chimes in, including works by Purvis Young, Joe Minter and Lonnie Holley. (Smith)
212-535-7710, metmuseum.org
PHOTOVILLE at Brooklyn Bridge Plaza (through Sept. 23). One of this year's defining images — a photograph of a 2-year-old girl from Honduras crying while her mother is detained at the border — will be on display at this sprawling photo festival, which runs this weekend and the next. More than 80 free exhibitions in and around shipping containers will stretch out under the Brooklyn Bridge and will explore themes such as elderly Japanese criminals, African religious traditions and youth prison camps. There will be a beer garden, workshops, portrait sessions in a tintype photo booth and booksellers; John Moore, who took the aforementioned photo, will be one of several photographers to discuss their work in evening talks and showcases. (Andrew R. Chow)
'WAYNE THIEBAUD: DRAFTSMAN' at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Sept. 23). Mr. Thiebaud has won a place in American art history for his densely slathered paintings of cakes, pies, ice cream cones, burgers, fruits and crudités. His drawings have been less celebrated, and this sweet show at the Morgan is the first devoted to his work in pen, charcoal and pastel. Mr. Thiebaud trained in commercial art and came to New York to work as a cartoonist. You can see the influence in his still lifes from the 1960s: The watercolor "Nine Jelly Apples" (1964) depicts the candied fruits to advantage from a high angle, while the pencil drawing "Ice Cream Cone" (1964) places the titular treat front and center, its edges as carefully teased as a model's coiffure. Mr. Thiebaud is sometimes called a realist, but that's not precise; his drawings (and paintings, too) rely less on artful imitation of appearances and affects than on a translation of low advertising into high art. (Farago)
212-685-0008, themorgan.org
'DAVID WOJNAROWICZ: HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT' at the Whitney Museum of American Art (through Sept. 30). This artist was there when we needed him politically 30-plus years ago. Now we need him again, and he's back in this big, rich retrospective. Wojnarowicz (pronounced Voyna-ROH-vich), who died at 37 in 1992, was one of the most articulate art world voices raised against the corporate greed and government foot-dragging that contributed to the early AIDS crisis. But he was far from a one-issue artist. From the start, he took outsiderness itself, as defined by ethnicity, gender, economics and sexual preference, as his native turf. And from it he attacked all forms of exclusion through writing, performing and object making. In the show, we find him working at full force in all three disciplines, and the timing couldn't be better. Not long before his AIDS-related death, during the culture wars era, he wrote, "I'm convinced I'm from another planet." In 2018 America, he would have felt more than ever like a criminal migrant, an alien combatant. (Cotter)
212-570-3600, whitney.org


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MG Architects has designed numerous buildings for American National Bank over the past 20 years. Our recent design for their 18,716 square foot branch and multi-tenant office building in Mansfield is also the recipient of the IBAT Best of Community Banking Silver Eagle award for 2016.
Serving North Texas since 1875, American National Bank of Texas is built on loyalty and deep relationships. Much has changed since the bank's founding but their commitment to the communities they serve remains unwavering. The banking industry continues to work through a time period of modest recovery and significant banking legislation and regulation. Despite that, ANBTX remains a strong organization because of their roots, commitment to sound business, and diligent planning for the future. With the continued changes in the industry the bank continues to seek efficient, effective and sound growth to serve the community at large. To foster sound growth, ANBTX sought to develop a larger regional presence to serve the Mansfield community. Serving as an anchor tenant, the branch occupies a small portion of the larger building. Tenant spaces are currently underway, but long term future expansion can be accommodated as the bank continues to grow. The bank selected a prominent corner parcel in a yet unrealized master planned development.
As the anchor building in "The Reserve" ANBTX's construction has kicked off the initial round of broader infrastructure to spur continued growth in the area. Truly they have invested in the community they serve.
MG Architects is proud to be the only architect endorsed by the Independent Bankers Association of Texas since 1996.


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Did you spot our Spring Knit-a-Long announcement earlier this week? In that post we introduced two of the four pattern options for this year's KAL, so today we're going to take a quick look at the other two designs – Timeless Henley and Nogat.
A refined, tailored sweater with rib and lace details, Joji Locatelli's Timeless Henley is the sweater that you would wear to Sunday brunch or tea with friends. The buttons on the henley neckline are carried through the design to the deep cuffs on the sleeves, and the lace motif is an easy-to-memorise repeat that lends further interest to the overall design.
Choosing this pattern would allow those of you who are comfortable with Top Down Raglan construction, to try Top Down Set In Sleeves for the first time. This method will require close attention to gauge, which means diligent swatching, but again we're here to help!
Set In Sleeves are generally considered to be the most flattering of sleeve shapes so, if you're a fan of seamless knitting, it's certainly worth giving this method a go. For project inspiration, you can click on through to Ravelry here.
Also, to see the best and brightest versions of each design make sure you have selected "Most Favourites" from the drop-down menu toward the top of the page.
Our top yarn picks for this pattern are Malabrigo Mechita and Hedgehog Fibres Sock Yarn (we received a shipment from Hedgehog just this week).
Nogat really has it all going on: cables, lace, garter and rib plus a glamorous scooped neckline – this is one elegant sweater. The designer, Justyna Lorkowska, describes Nogat as a "lively and adventurous sweater". This is one adventure we'd love to help you embark on!
We're back to the Top Down Raglan method here, but the non-standard neckline should add an element of interest to the technique. And then the fun really starts, as every row will combine panels of intriguing stitch patterns.
There are many spectacular finished versions on Ravelry, and it would certainly be worth browsing through the projects to decide on the amount of ease and length that would suit your own shape best. This is one of the many advantages of top-down knitting: you'll be able to try on the garment and custom fit the project as you go.
As with all the project choices you can work them in any 4ply yarn, but we quite fancy Fade St 4ply and Debbie Bliss Rialto 4ply for this particular design.
Are you ready to join our Spring Knit-a-Long? Check back very soon for all the details on yarn discounts, fabulous prizes and, of course, how to register ahead of the start date of Saturday 4th of March.