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|Charles Ives
|Background information
|Birth name
|Charles Edward Ives
October 20, 1874
Danbury, Connecticut
May 19, 1954 (aged 79)
New York, New York
|composer, insurance agent
Charles Edward Ives (/aɪvz/; October 20, 1874Template:Spaced ndashMay 19, 1954) was an American modernist[1] composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown,[2] though his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, he came to be regarded as an "American original".[3][dubious ] Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones,[4] foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century.
Sources of Ives' tonal imagery are hymn tunes and traditional songs, the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.
Charles Ives was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1874,[5] the son of George Ives, a U.S. Army bandleader in the American Civil War, and his wife Mary Parmelee. A strong influence of Charles's may have been sitting in the Danbury town square, listening to his father's marching band and other bands on other sides of the square simultaneously. George Ives' unique music lessons were also a strong influence on Charles; George Ives took an open-minded approach to musical theory, encouraging his son to experiment in bitonal and polytonal harmonizations. It was from his father that Charles Ives also learned the music of Stephen Foster.[6] Ives became a church organist at the age of 14[7] and wrote various hymns and songs for church services, including his Variations on 'America' , which Ives wrote for a Fourth of July concert in Brewster, New York. The work is considered challenging even by modern concert organists, but Ives famously spoke of it as being "as much fun as playing baseball", a commentary on his own organ technique at that age.[8]
Ives moved to New Haven in 1893, enrolling in the Hopkins School, where he captained the baseball team. In September 1894, Ives entered Yale University, studying under Horatio Parker. Here he composed in a choral style similar to his mentor, writing church music and even an 1896 campaign song for William McKinley.[9] On November 4, 1894, Charles's father died, a crushing blow to the young composer, but to a large degree Ives continued the musical experimentation he had begun with George Ives.
At Yale, Ives was a prominent figure; he was a member of HeBoule, Delta Kappa Epsilon (Phi chapter) and Wolf's Head Society, and sat as chairman of the Ivy Committee.[9] He enjoyed sports at Yale and played on the varsity football team. Michael C. Murphy, his coach, once remarked that it was a "crying shame" that Charles Ives spent so much time at music as otherwise he could have been a champion sprinter.[10] His works Calcium Light Night and Yale-Princeton Football Game show the influence of college and sports on Ives' composition. He wrote his Symphony No. 1 as his senior thesis under Parker's supervision.[9]
He continued his work as a church organist until May 1902. Soon after Ives graduated from Yale, he started work in the actuarial department of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York.[11] In 1899, he moved to employment with the insurance agency Charles H. Raymond & Co., where he stayed until 1906. In 1907, upon the failure of Raymond & Co., he and his friend Julian Myrick formed their own insurance agency Ives & Co., which later became Ives & Myrick, where he remained until he retired.[12] During his career as an insurance executive and actuary, Ives devised creative ways to structure life-insurance packages for people of means, which laid the foundation of the modern practice of estate planning.[13] His Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax, published in 1918, was well received. As a result of this he achieved considerable fame in the insurance industry of his time, with many of his business peers surprised to learn that he was also a composer. In his spare time he composed music and, until his marriage, worked as an organist in Danbury and New Haven as well as Bloomfield, New Jersey and New York City.[9]
In 1907, Ives suffered the first of several "heart attacks" (as he and his family called them) that he had throughout his lifetime. These attacks may have been psychological in origin rather than physical. Following his recovery from the 1907 attack, Ives entered into one of the most creative periods of his life as a composer.
After marrying Harmony Twitchell in 1908,[12] they moved into their own apartment in New York. He had a remarkably successful career in insurance, and continued to be a prolific composer until he suffered another of several heart attacks in 1918, after which he composed very little, writing his very last piece, the song "Sunrise", in August 1926.[12] In 1922, Ives published his 114 Songs, which represents the breadth of his work as a composer—it includes art songs, songs he wrote as a teenager and young man, and highly dissonant songs such as "The Majority."[12]
According to his wife, one day in early 1927 he came downstairs with tears in his eyes. He could compose no more, he said, "nothing sounds right."[14] There have been numerous theories advanced to explain the silence of his late years, which seems as mysterious as the last several decades of the life of Jean Sibelius, who also stopped composing at almost the same time. While Ives had stopped composing, and was increasingly plagued by health problems, he did continue to revise and refine his earlier work, as well as oversee premieres of his music.[12] After continuing health problems, including diabetes, in 1930 he retired from his insurance business, which gave him more time to devote to his musical work, but he was unable to write any new music. During the 1940s he revised his Concord Sonata, publishing it in 1947 (an earlier version of the sonata and the accompanying prose volume, Essays Before a Sonata were privately printed in 1920).[15]
Ives died of a stroke in 1954 in New York City. His widow, who died in 1969 aged 92, bequeathed the royalties from his music to the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the Charles Ives Prize.[16]
Charles Ives career and dedication towards music was from the time when he started playing drums in his father's band at a young age. Ives published a large collection of songs, many of which had piano parts. He composed two string quartets and other works of chamber music, though he is now best known for his instrumental music. His work as an organist led him to write Variations on 'America' in 1891, which he premiered at a recital celebrating the Fourth of July.
In 1906, Ives composed the first radical musical work of the twentieth century, "Central Park in the Dark". Ives composed two symphonies — "The Unanswered Question" (1908), written for the unusual combination of trumpet, four flutes, and string quartet. "The Unanswered Question" was influenced by the New England writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
Around 1910, Ives began composing his most accomplished works including the "Holiday Symphony" and "Three Places in New England". "The Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass.", by Charles Ives, known as the "Concord Sonata" was one of his most remarkable pieces. He started work on this in 1911 and completed most of it in 1915. However, it wasn't until 1920 that the piece was published and the revised version appeared only in 1947. This piece contains one of the most striking examples of Ives' experimentalism. In the second movement, he instructed the pianist to use a 14¾ in (37.5 cm) piece of wood to create a massive cluster chord. The piece was a typical Ives as it juxtaposed various elements and it was very mysterious.
Another remarkable piece of orchestral music Ives completed was his "Fourth symphony". He worked on this from 1910 to 1916. This symphony is notable for its complexity and over sized orchestra. This symphony has four movements and a complete performance of this symphony was not given until 1965, i.e. half a century after the symphony was completed.
Ives left behind material for an unfinished "Universe Symphony", which he was unable to assemble in his lifetime despite two decades of work. This was due to his health problems as well as his shifting idea of the work.
Ives's music was largely ignored during his lifetime, particularly during the years in which he actively composed. Many of his published works went unperformed even many years after his death in 1954. However, his reputation in more recent years has greatly increased. Juilliard commemorated the 50th anniversary of Ives's death by performing his music over six days in 2004. His musical experiments, including his increasing use of dissonance, were not well received by his contemporaries. Furthermore, the difficulties in performing the rhythmic complexities in his major orchestral works made them daunting challenges even decades after they were composed.
Early supporters of his music included Henry Cowell, Elliott Carter and Aaron Copland. Cowell's periodical New Music published a substantial number of Ives's scores (with the composer's approval), but for almost 40 years Ives had few performances that he did not arrange or back, generally with Nicolas Slonimsky as the conductor.[15] After seeing a copy of Ives's self-published 114 Songs during the 1930s, Copland published a newspaper article praising the collection.
Ives began to acquire some public recognition during the 1930s, with performances of a chamber orchestra version of his Three Places in New England both in the U.S. and on tour in Europe by conductor Nicolas Slonimsky and the New York Town Hall premiere of his Concord Sonata by pianist John Kirkpatrick in 1939, which led to favorable commentary in the major New York newspapers. Later, around the time of the composer's death in 1954, Kirkpatrick teamed with soprano Helen Boatwright for the first extended recorded recital of Ives's songs for the obscure Overtone label (Overtone Records catalog number 7). Boatwright and Kirkpatrick recorded a new selection of songs for the Ives Centennial Collection that Columbia Records published in 1974.
His obscurity lifted a bit in the 1940s, when he met Lou Harrison, a fan of his music who began to edit and promote it. Most notably, Harrison conducted the premiere of the Symphony No. 3, The Camp Meeting (1904) in 1946.[17] The next year, this piece won Ives the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Ives gave the prize money away (half of it to Harrison), saying "prizes are for boys, and I'm all grown up".[18] Ives himself was a great financial supporter of twentieth century music, often supporting works that were written by other composers. This he did in secret, telling his beneficiaries it was really his wife who wanted him to do so.[19] Nicolas Slonimsky said in 1971, "He financed my entire career."[20]
At this time, Ives was also promoted by Bernard Herrmann, who worked as a conductor at CBS and in 1940 became principal conductor of the CBS Symphony Orchestra. While there, he championed Ives's music. When the two met, Herrmann confessed that he had tried his hand at performing the Concord Sonata. Remarkably, Ives, who actually avoided the radio and the phonograph, agreed to make a series of piano recordings from 1933 to 1943 that were later issued by Columbia Records on a special LP set issued for Ives' centenary in 1974. New World Records issued 42 tracks of Ives' recordings on CD on April 1, 2006. One of the more unusual recordings, made in New York City in 1943, features Ives playing the piano and singing the words to his popular World War I song They Are There!, which he composed in 1917, then revised in 1942–43 for World War II.
Also in Canada, the expatriate English pianist Lloyd Powell played a series of concerts including all of Ives's piano works, at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s.[21]
Recognition of Ives's music steadily increased. He received praise from Arnold Schoenberg, who regarded him as a monument to artistic integrity, and from the New York School of William Schuman. Shortly after Schoenberg's death (three years before Ives himself died), his widow found a note written by her husband. The note had originally been written in 1944 when Schoenberg was living in Los Angeles and teaching at UCLA. It stated:
There is a great Man living in this Country – a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self-esteem and to learn [sic]. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives.[22]
There is a report that Ives also won the admiration of Gustav Mahler, who said that Ives was a true musical revolutionary. Reportedly, Mahler talked of premiering Ives's Third Symphony with the New York Philharmonic, but the famous composer soon died (in 1911) thus preventing the premiere. However, the source of this story is Ives; since Mahler died, there was no way to verify whether Mahler had seen the score of the symphony or decided to perform it in 1911–12 season of the New York Philharmonic.[23] Nonetheless, it is known that Ives regularly attended New York Philharmonic concerts and probably heard Mahler conduct the Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.[citation needed]
In 1951, Leonard Bernstein conducted the world premiere of Ives's Second Symphony in a broadcast concert by the New York Philharmonic. The Iveses heard the performance on their cook's radio and were amazed at the audience's warm reception to the music. Bernstein continued to conduct Ives's music and made a number of recordings with the Philharmonic for Columbia Records. He even honored Ives on one of his televised youth concerts and in a special disc included with the reissue of the 1960 recording of the Second Symphony and the Fourth of July movement from Ives's Holiday Symphony.
Another pioneering Ives recording, undertaken during the 1950s, was the first complete set of the four violin sonatas, performed by Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster Rafael Druian and John Simms. Leopold Stokowski took on Symphony No. 4 in 1965, regarding the work as "the heart of the Ives problem". The Carnegie Hall world premiere by the American Symphony Orchestra led to the first recording of the music. Another promoter of Ives was choral conductor Gregg Smith, who made a series of recordings of the composer's shorter works during the 1960s, including first stereo recordings of the psalm settings and arrangements of many short pieces for theater orchestra. The Juilliard String Quartet recorded the two string quartets during the 1960s.
Today, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas is an enthusiastic exponent of Ives' symphonies as is composer and biographer Jan Swafford. Ives's work is regularly programmed in Europe. Ives has also inspired pictorial artists, most notably Eduardo Paolozzi, who entitled one of his 1970s sets of prints Calcium Light Night, each print being named for an Ives piece (including Central Park in the Dark). In 1991, Connecticut's legislature designated Ives as that state's official composer.[24]
The Scottish baritone Henry Herford began a survey of Ives's songs in 1990, but this remains incomplete because the record company involved (Unicorn-Kanchana) collapsed. Pianist-composer and Wesleyan University professor Neely Bruce has made a life's study of Ives. To date, he has staged seven parts of a concert series devoted to the complete songs of Ives. Musicologist David Gray Porter reconstructed a piano concerto, the "Emerson" Concerto, from Ives's sketches. A recording of the work was released by Naxos Records.
Ives continues to be very influential on contemporary composers and arrangers as shown by the most recent Planet Arts Records release Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra.
Note: Because Ives often made several different versions of the same piece, and because his work was generally ignored during his lifetime, it is often difficult to put exact dates on his compositions. The dates given here are sometimes best guesses. There have also been controversial speculations that Ives purposely misdated his own pieces earlier or later than actually written.
- Variations on America for organ (1892)
- The Circus Band (a march describing the Circus coming to town)
- Psalm settings (14, 42, 54, 67, 90, 135, 150) (1890s)[25]
- String Quartet No. 1, From the Salvation Army (1897–1900)
- Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1898–1901)
- Symphony No. 2 (Ives gave dates of 1899-1902; analysis of handwriting and manuscript paper suggests 1907-1909)[26]
- Symphony No. 3, The Camp Meeting (1908–10)
- Central Park in the Dark for chamber orchestra (1906, 1909)
- The Unanswered Question for chamber group (1906; rev. 1934)
- Piano Sonata No. 1 (1909–16)
- Piano Trio (c. 1909–10, rev. c. 1914–15)
- Violin Sonata No. 1 (1910–14; rev. c. 1924)
- Violin Sonata No. 4, Children's Day at the Camp Meeting (1911–16)
- A Symphony: New England Holidays (1904–1913)
- "Robert Browning" Overture (1911–14)
- Symphony No. 4 (1912–18; rev. 1924–26)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1913–15)
- Pieces for chamber ensemble grouped as "Sets," some called Cartoons or Take-Offs or Songs Without Voices (1906–18); includes Calcium Light Night
- Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1) (1910–14; rev. 1929)
- Violin Sonata No. 2 (1914–17)
- Violin Sonata No. 3 (1914–17)
- Orchestral Set No. 2 (1915–19)
- Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60 (1916–19) (revised many times by Ives)
- Universe Symphony (incomplete, 1915–28, worked on symphony until his death in 1954)
- 114 Songs (composed various years 1887–1921, published 1922.)
- Three Quarter Tone Piano Pieces (1923–24)
- Orchestral Set No. 3 (incomplete, 1919–26, notes added after 1934)
Ives proposed in 1920 that there be a 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would authorize citizens to submit legislative proposals to Congress. Members of Congress would then cull the proposals, selecting 10 each year as referendums for popular vote by the nation's electorate. He even had printed at his own expense several thousand copies of a pamphlet on behalf of his proposed amendment. The pamphlet proclaimed the need to curtail "THE EFFECTS OF TOO MUCH POLITICS IN OUR representative DEMOCRACY." His proposal joined his music in being ignored during his lifetime.[27]
It is claimed in the biographical film A Good Dissonance Like a Man that the first of Ives's crippling heart attacks occurred as a result of a World War I-era argument with a young Franklin D. Roosevelt over Ives' idea of issuing of war bonds in amounts as low as $50 each. Roosevelt was chairman of a war bonds committee on which Ives served, and he "scorned the idea of anything so useless as a $50 bond." Roosevelt changed his mind about small contributions as seen many years later when he endorsed the March of Dimes to combat poliomyelitis.[28]
- ^ Leon Botstein. "Modernism", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed December 20, 2008), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
- ^ Hitchcock, H. Wiley, and Perlis, Vivian, editors. An Ives Celebration: Papers and Panel of the Charles Ives Centennial Festival-Conference. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago and London, 1977. pp. 45–63. ISBN 0-252-00619-4
- ^ See: Hall, David (September 1964). "Charles Ives: an American Original". Hi-fi/Stereo Review 13 (3): 42. OCLC 17931951.. Burkholter (p. xi) contests the widespread exaggeration of this to the position that Ives owed nothing to Europe.
- ^ Burkholder, p.4
- ^ Charles Ives
- ^ J. Peter Burkholder. "Charles Ives", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 20, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
- ^ Henry Cowell, "Charles Ives and his Music," page 27
- ^ Grove, "Youth, 1874–94"
- ^ a b c d Grove, "Apprenticeship, 1894–1902"
- ^ James Peter Burkholder. Charles Ives and His World Princeton University Press. 1996. ISBN 0-691-01163-X
- ^ Gill, Ardian (July–August 2013). "A Free Agent: Charles Ives' Dual Careers". Contingencies (American Academy of Actuaries) 25 (4): 24. ISSN 1048-9851.
- ^ a b c d e Grove, "Maturity, 1908–18"
- ^ Otto Karolyi, Modern American Music: from Charles Ives to the Minimalists, p. 10
- ^ Grove, "Last works, 1918–1927"
- ^ a b Grove, "Revisions and premières, 1927–54"
- ^ American Academy of Arts and Letters - Awards List
- ^ Leta E. Miller. "Lou Harrison", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 21, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
- ^ Lewis, Uncle Dave. "Charles Ives." All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music. Eds. Chris Woodstra, Gerald Brennan, Allen Schrott. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2005. 642.
- ^ "Nicolas Slonimsky Eats Dinner"
- ^ "Nicolas Slonimsky Eats Dinner" (part 2, after 28:50)
- ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia: Lloyd Powell
- ^ Ross, Alex (2007). The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 132. ISBN 0-374-24939-3.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/20/arts/music-review-ives-and-mahler-through-the-same-lens.html
- ^ State of Connecticut, Sites º Seals º Symbols; Connecticut State Register & Manual; retrieved on January 4, 2007
- ^ James B. Sinclair: A descriptive catalogue of the music of Charles Ives (Yale University Press, 1999) pp. 264 - 276
- ^ J. Peter Burkholder. "Charles Ives", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed September 13, 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
- ^ Broyles, Michael (1996). "Charles Ives and the American Democratic Tradition". In James Peter Burkholder. Charles Ives and His World. The Bard Music Festival. Princeton University Press. p. 154. ISBN 069101163X.
- ^ Timreck, Theodor W. (2014). A Good Dissonance Like a Man, New York Foundation for the Arts
- Block, Geoffrey (1988). Charles Ives: a bio-bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-25404-4.
- Budiansky, Stephen (2014). Mad Music: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England. ISBN 978-1-61168-399-8.
- Burkholder, J. Peter (1995). All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05642-7.
- Burkholder, J. Peter (1996). Charles Ives and His World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01164-8.
- Cooper, Jack (1999). Three sketches for jazz orchestra inspired by Charles Ives songs (Thesis). University of Texas at Austin: UMI Publishing. OCLC 44537553.
- Cowell, Henry; Cowell, Sidney (1955). Charles Ives and His Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC 56865028.
- Herzfeld, Gregor (2007). Zeit als Prozess und Epiphanie in der experimentellen amerikanischen Musik. Charles Ives bis La Monte Young. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-09033-9.
- Hitchcock, H. Wiley, ed. (2004). Charles Ives: 129 Songs. Music of the United States of America (MUSA) vol. 12. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions.
- Johnson, Timothy (2004). Baseball and the Music of Charles Ives: A Proving Ground. Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-4999-2.
- Kirkpatrick, John (1973). Charles E. Ives: Memos. London: Calder & Boyars. ISBN 0-7145-0953-1.
- Perlis, Vivian (1974). Charles Ives Remembered: an Oral History. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80576-6.
- Sinclair, James B. (1999). A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07601-0.
- Sive, Helen R. (1977). Music's Connecticut Yankee: An Introduction to the Life and Music of Charles Ives. New York: Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-30561-3.
- Swafford, Jan (1996). Charles Ives: A Life with Music The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-03893-9.
- Woolridge, David (1974). From the Steeples and Mountains: A Study of Charles Ives. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-48110-0.
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- Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra Tippett rehearses Putnam's Camp (short video from 1969).
- The Charles Ives Center for the Arts. Inc
- Art of the States: Charles Ives Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos (1924)
- Charles Ives at Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music
- The Concord Sonata at La Folia
- The Charles Ives Papers at Yale University Music Library
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California's 4th District Court of Appeal overturned the conviction of San Diego medical cannabis provider Jovan Jackson today. The decision in People v. Jackson recognizes the right of medical cannabis dispensaries to exist and provide medicine to patient-members. The decision further clarifies that members can participate in the association though financial contributions (sales) alone. This is an important milestone, because until now, some law enforcement and law makers all have refused to acknowledge that patients can organize cooperative and collective associations that sell medical marijuana. Today's decision may have far-reaching implications for local and state implementation and regulation of medical marijuana.
Jovan Jackson was first arrested for providing medical cannabis in the City of San Diego in 2008. He was prosecuted for cannabis possession and sales and acquitted by the jury. San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, a steadfast opponent of medical cannabis, retried him on the same charges in 2009. In that case, Superior Court Judge Howard Shore denied Mr. Jackson the right to use California's medical cannabis laws as a defense in court. Judge Shore referred to medical cannabis as "dope" and called state medical cannabis laws a "sham" during the trial.
Americans for Safe Access (ASA) took Mr. Jackson's appeal last year, because we knew this case was important for the future of safe access in California. Medical cannabis opponents have argued steadfastly that every member of a patients' association must physically participate in the cultivation of plants and that no member can buy medicine. ASA disagreed, and this was just the case to settle the issue. Relying heavily on People v. Colvin, a prior appellate decision in the California's 2nd District, the court ruled that
"Jackson was only required to produce evidence which would create a reasonable doubt as to whether the defense provided by the [Medical Marijuana Program Act] had been established… the collective or cooperative association required by the act need not include active participation by all members in the cultivation process but may be limited to financial support by way of marijuana purchases from the organization. Thus, contrary to the trial court's ruling, the large membership of Jackson's collective, very few of whom participated in the actual cultivation process, did not, as a matter of law, prevent Jackson from presenting an MMPA defense."
The California Attorney General may decide to appeal the Jackson decision, and ASA will be ready to fight this case all the way to the state Supreme Court. Regardless of what comes next in court, patients should hope lawmakers are listening to court today. California votes called on state officials to "to implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana" when they approved Proposition 215 in 1996. State lawmakers tried to further clarify the issue when the adopted the Medical Marijuana Program Act in 2003. That bill explicitly allowed collective and cooperative associations and provided for reimbursements for medicine. It is past time for prosecutors like Ms. Dumanis, local law makers, and state representatives to stop stall and start regulating.
Dozens of combat-clad police officers, deputies and federal agents swarmed a southwest Santa Rosa neighborhood Wednesday morning in the region's largest-ever operation against residential marijuana gardens.
"A team of 150 law enforcement officers raided 32 homes on Moorland Avenue, Eddy Drive, Barbara Drive and Neville Way, immediately south of the Corby Auto Mall.
Following the initial raid, officers carrying search warrants went into yards and confiscated a large amount of marijuana plants. Residents, many of them handcuffed, sat in front yards and watched as the pot was piled in great heaps.
The raids began about 9 a.m. when FBI agents in full military gear ordered residents to leave their homes, then rushed into the residences, most of them modest multi-plex units. The neighborhood was punctuated by the sounds of exploding flash grenades at several homes.
The FBI assault team, its large military-type truck and a big-wheeled SWAT vehicle had left the neighborhood, but people still sat handcuffed in their front yards, as a woman who asked not to be identified surveyed the scene from the hood of a parked car.
As pot piles grew in the street, groups of neighbors gathered to watch. Several called the officers' tactics "overkill" and questioned the value of ripping out the gardens.
"It's a big bunch of crap," said one neighbor Lora Wilson. "How much taxpayer money did we just waste doing this?"
The staging ground for the operation was the parking lot of the Santa Rosa's Veterans Memorial Building. At about 9 a.m., a long line of FBI and sheriff's SUVs, trucks, patrol cars and large assault vehicles snaked out of the parking lot and onto Highway 12, then southbound 101.
Onlookers said an FBI team dressed in fatigues and helmets and carrying an assortment of battering rams, shields, ladders and weapons first entered a residence on Moorland Avenue at Barbara Drive.
That team then moved to several homes on Barbara Drive. Soon, handcuffed and guarded residents sat in front yards up and down Barbara Drive and the adjoining streets."
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"So you want to clone your nice plant do you? And maybe you've been running around the forum, looking up rooting hormone posts, and if it's necessary or not to have rooting hormone? And then you went onto wondering which medium would be the best, peat pucks, rock wool maybe?
How about instead you rinse out that old 24 of beer bottles you have sitting around the house, and get to work cloning that plant right now? Huh sketchy? Can you calm down for a minute and do that for me? Good!"
proceed to the link above for the rest of the method.
I am posting this up here because there is some controversy about this strain, and whether or not this is the legit strain or not.
I haven't ever had the pleasure of smoking the Black Rose but it does look good so I won't comment on the controversy. From what I can gather Heath Robinson's seeds are being sold on the Highlifeseeds site with his knowledge and approval. I can't guarantee it, its the internet. Anyway for those who are interested find the Black Rose here: http://www.highlifeseeds.com/Black-Rose.php
From the site:
The Big Purple one.. sticky, sweet & smelling delicious!
Black Rose by Heath Robinson is an interesting variety with its genetics coming from carefully selected breeding.
In California there are many different varieties such as Purple Sativa, "the Purps" & Californian orange of course. These strain are as interesting as much for their colours as for their fruity tastes & zingy highs
Black rose belongs to the "purple family" of cannabis strains, these plants are called purple even if they are lightly coloured e.g. light pink or light violet, contrary to the Black Rose ones which are sometimes almost black . Unlike other purple strains, temperature does not play a role in the colour definition of the Beautiful Black Rose.
Black Rose has a healthy dose of the Shiva Skunk characteristics, genetics and growth patterns. It is easy to cultivate and finishes flowering to perfection in 9 to 10 weeks although can be harvested sooner.
Its has a very high THC for a "purp"content being around 18.07% and CBD 0.53.
Black Rose gives the smoker a energetically cerebral high, perfect for enjoying the great outdoors or for partying & clubbing with your friends, and obviously the strong purple is a welcome bonus!
Sonoma Coma – Sativa Dom Hybrid – San Jose
Sonoma Coma strain review at: https://www.stickyguide.com/dispensaries/canna-culture-collective/products/sonoma-coma
via Sacramento Bee:
ARCATA – The pot market is crashing in California's legendary Emerald Triangle.
The closure of hundreds of marijuana dispensaries across California and a federal crackdown on licensing programs for medical pot cultivation are leaving growers in the North Coast redwoods with harvested stashes many can't sell.
via SacBee:
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Police are investigating after an improvised explosive device was thrown through the window of a South Lake Tahoe marijuana dispensary [Patient to Patient Collective] on the eve of a marijuana holiday.


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On February 1, 2017, about 10 pm, my cousin (who I had just "met" on Face book messenger an hour before) typed a phone number and my birth mother's name and said, "Here is her number, she is waiting for our call."
I looked at my husband and son who were in the room, and asked, "What do I do?!" My husband, in his wisdom, said, "Call." One word that would change the trajectory of all I had known my entire life until this point.
What would I learn? How would she receive me? What would she say? What would I say? Would I recognize her voice from my 9 months in the womb? Would I even be able to speak? Would she all I had ever hoped and fantasized about my entire life?
I was about to find out!
I dialed the phone. Picked up on the 1st ring. I said, "hello, this is Janet" She said, "hello this is Barb." And there we were, two women, on the phone, talking.
She said, "I never thought you would find me." The first sentence from my birth mother was one I did not expect.
I said, "I never thought I would either."
I explained how I had been looking for 25 years for her. How I did a DNA test. How I matched with a cousin. How I was so happy to finally talk to her.
She then started to give me facts.
That she was living in Las Vegas. How her boys had been put in foster care. How she couldn't keep me. How she wanted me to have a family. She told me my birth father's name and told me "he was tall."
Then she dropped a bombshell.
"There are 5 boys before you and 3 boys and a girl after you."
A GIRL!!?? More boys. I never could have imagined this in my whole life. It never crossed my mind that she would have had MORE kids after me!
As my brain tried to do math, I realized, SHE HAD 10 CHILDREN….! I suddenly had 9 siblings.
She gave me a run down of their names, and some brief info. The oldest is here, the second one has died, the third one may still be in Vegas working, the 4th and 5th she was not sure about. Then me…. Then one other boy with the man she met and married after I was born.
Then my sister, who….get this…..had also been placed for adoption! (In Texas) She gave me her name, and told me how they had met about 20 years ago, but she had lost track of her. I immediately plugged her name into Facebook and found her in about 30 seconds. (I did not say anything to my birth mother, but was waving my arms at my husband to come to the computer to LOOK!)
Then, there were, finally, as set of twin boys. Holy cow.
I grew up with one adopted brother who had passed away in 2000, so this was uncharted sibling territory for me.
We then talked about my life, what I did for a living, my education, my family. I could not believe that I was actually SPEAKING to the woman who gave me LIFE! It was the most surreal moment in my life.
We exchanged pleasantries, I thanked her, (I may have gushed) and we hung up the phone.
I then set out to write my SISTER a message.
Holy moly – I have a SISTER! My dream had come true.


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The ultimate gift of life is a life.
A life misspent is a life unworthy of this gift.
A life lived in reverences and knowledge of its' true purpose is one to be sought after with all our being , plunging down to the depths of this knowledge caves way to the achievement of our life's' purpose.
There is only one life to live.
Live it with the Word -JESUS
Live it to the fullest
Live it with understanding
Live it with an aim
Live it with a vision
Live it with a destination
Live it with Joy
Live it with hope
Live it with Grace
Live it with determination
Live it without regrets
Live it without fear
Be Good, Be True, Be Kind, Be Just, Be Faithful and above all Believe in God cause he is the ultimate gift-Life.


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The check engine light is associated with several different aspects of your vehicle. The issues and severity of problems can vary greatly. A diagnostics check is needed in order to understand the issue fully. In 1996, the On-Board Diagnostics version II (OBD II) was put into place by the US government. The OBD II gives more information and monitors more things than the previous system did. The check engine light can mean that your vehicle is emitting higher levels of pollutants. A loose or missing gas cap can lead to higher emissions of hydrocarbons and other pollutants. It's important to get check engine light issues resolved to keep your vehicle working efficiently, keep your gas mileage up, and keep your emissions as low as possible.
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Pornclub is a kind of malware family of Monkey Test, Time Service Provider, Adobe air and Measure. According to Cheetah Mobile, a developer and security company this are called "Ghost Push malware" that affect million of Android Phone users today. This malware installed in your phone without your permission and also can't delete easily even on factory reset. To remove this just the same with my tutorial on how to remove Monkey Test and Time Service Provider.
To prevent from installing unwanted apps you can follow my tutorial here. This using third party apps like Titanium Backup Pro can disable this attack. However, it can't totally remove the malware but preventing it from installing unwanted apps.
If you have backup in ClockWorkMod (CWM) that has no malware you can restore it. Just Go to Custom Recovery, Wipe Cache first then Restore Backup. Check Settings App if still have Pornclub in your device.
The best way to remove Pornclub malware is to flash stock rom or custom rom for your device. This can format all your system and can delete this malware totally. Unfortunately there are no available Stock Rom and Custom Rom for other device. Beside this is more complicated procedure. Were still finding easiest solution to remove this malware.


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For the latest COVID-19 health guidance, statistics and resources, visit Coronavirus.wa.gov.
Ed Spilker, WSDOT Active Transportation Division, 360-705-7387
Megan Conaway, Cascade Bicycle Club, 425-243-3588
OLYMPIA – Each year, the number of people who choose to walk, ride bicycles or take other active travel means as their mode of transportation is increasing in Washington. How do we know? Volunteers annually count the number of people who walk or ride bicycles at selected locations during a three-day survey. For those who would like to help, volunteer registration is now open for this year's survey starting Tuesday, Sept. 25.
Volunteers are vital to the success of this project, and about 400 people are needed for the count. For the 2017 count, volunteers tallied more than 63,500 people biking and walking in communities across Washington. In 2017, the number of people who walked, biked or used other active modes increased 4 percent over the 2016 count, when evaluating comparable sites.
For this 11th annual survey, the Washington State Department of Transportation and Cascade Bicycle Club are partnering with FeetFirst, Washington Bikes and Futurewise to help count the number of people bicycling and walking Tuesday, Sept. 25, through Thursday, Sept. 27.
"This volunteer effort makes sure that people who bike and walk are counted as essential users of the transportation system," said WSDOT Active Transportation Division Director Barb Chamberlain. "Each year that volunteers make the collection process possible, we get a more robust picture of the growth in active transportation."
"We're excited to once again work with the Washington State Department of Transportation to ensure that biking and walking counts across Washington state," said Richard Smith, Executive Director of Cascade Bicycle Club, "This is possible only because of the hundreds of volunteers who care about safer biking and walking."
Data collected during the count is used by state and local agencies to estimate demand; measure the benefit of bicycle and pedestrian project investments; and improve policies, project designs and funding opportunities. The data also helps agencies understand how and where to address active transportation options for people who don't have the income to choose other transportation alternatives. For these people, walking and biking might be their only mode, or part of a multimodal trip to access transit.
As WSDOT embarks on an update to the statewide active transportation plan, this effort will shape the vision of a future with a complete, comfortable network for all ages and abilities.
In addition to the annual count, WSDOT, Cascade Bicycle Club, and local agencies are partnering to install permanent counters at locations around the state. To see counts from both data collection programs, visit the WSDOT Bicycle and Pedestrian Count Portal.
Get involved
To learn more, visit the Washington State Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project page, email Cascade Bicycle Club or call 425-243-3588.
To sign-up to volunteer, visit bikepedcount.wsdot.wa.gov
Participating communities
WSDOT and the Cascade Bicycle Club are asking volunteers from across the state to perform the counts in nearly 60 communities including: Anacortes, Bainbridge Island, Battle Ground, Bayview, Bellevue, Bellingham, Bothell, Bremerton, Burien, Burlington, Concrete, Ellensburg, Everett, Federal Way, Ferndale, Gig Harbor, Issaquah, Kelso, Kenmore, Kent, Kirkland, La Conner, Lake Forest Park, Lakewood, Longview, Lyman, Lynden, Mercer Island, Milton, Mount Vernon, Mountlake Terrace, Oak Harbor, Olympia, Orting, Parkland, Pasco, Pullman, Puyallup, Renton, Richland, Seattle, Sedro-Woolley, Shoreline, Snoqualmie, Spokane, Spokane Valley, Sumner, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Reservation, Tacoma, Tukwila, University Place, Vancouver, Vashon Island, Walla Walla, Wenatchee and Yakima.
WSDOT's count is part of the National Documentation Project, an annual bicycle and pedestrian count and survey effort sponsored by the Institute of Transportation Engineers Pedestrian and Bicycle Council. The count will also help measure WSDOT's progress toward the goal of increasing bicycling and walking to reduce the number of vehicle miles driven.


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Greensboro in Hale County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
Gayle - Tunstall House
Birthplace of Amelia Gayle Gorgas, wife of Gen. Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance, CSA, mother of Wm. Crawford Gorgas, US Surgeon General who freed Canal Zone of yellow fever.
For many years was the home of the Hobson - Tunstall family: Wiley C. Tunstall, member of first Alabama R. R. Commission; his son, Alfred Moore Tunstall, Alabama legislator for 39 years and twice Speaker of House.
Erected 1957 by Alabama Historical Association.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Industry & Commerce • Science & Medicine • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels.
Location. 32° 42.242′ N, 87° 35.952′ W. Marker is in Greensboro, Alabama, in Hale County. Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Ward Street, on the right when traveling east on Main Street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Greensboro AL 36744, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 7 other markers are within 15 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Greensboro Presbyterian ChurchSt. Paul's Episcopal Church (approx. 0.2 miles away); Magnolia Grove (approx. half a mile away); Southern University (approx. 0.9 miles away); Oak Grove School (approx. 11.9 miles away); Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar (approx. 14.7 miles away); St. Andrew's Church (approx. 14.7 miles away).
Also see . . .
1. Alabama's Womens' Hall of Fame: Amelia Gayle Gorgas. (Submitted on July 29, 2010, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama.)
2. Alabama Governors: John Gayle. (Submitted on July 29, 2010, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama.)
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on July 29, 2010, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama. This page has been viewed 1,275 times since then and 38 times this year. Last updated on May 26, 2015, by J. Makali Bruton of Querétaro, Mexico. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on July 29, 2010, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.


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Sid Turtlepuss is one of Earl Sinclair's WESAYSO co-workers in Dinosaurs. He was voiced by Michelan Sisti.
Role in the series
Apart from Roy Hess, Sid was the most frequently seen work buddy. Although Sid's surname was the most frequently used within the show (on his work jacket, during Monica DeVertebrae's hearing or being addressed as "Mr. Turtlepuss"), in the early episode "The Golden Child", his name tag gave his surname as "Jacobs," in reference to Michael Jacobs, and his coworkers also had in-joke surnames.
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The Department of Labor recently announced the introduction of a new online toolkit that guides employers through the process of hiring veterans. "Many employers have told us that they are interested in developing or enhancing a veterans hiring initiative for their company, but that they don't know where to begin," said Ray Jefferson, assistant secretary for the department's Veterans' Employment and Training Service. "This toolkit was created with these employers in mind. It's designed to simplify the process and put valuable, vetted resources at the employer's fingertips."
The toolkit is free and was developed as part of the DOL's "America's Heroes at Work" initiative. The toolkit provides six steps for the successful hiring of veterans, including designing a hiring strategy, creating a welcoming environment, active recruiting, hiring qualified veterans, promoting inclusiveness, and other tools. There is also helpful information on hiring injured and disabled veterans.
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FREZYDERM may well be new to British shores, but with an annual turnover in 2015 of over £25million it certainly is not a new brand. Established 30 years ago, and still family-owned, it is a well-renowned and trusted dermocosmetic brand worldwide.
The organisation is motivated by helping people, offering a tailored solution for specific skin-related issues with their baby, kids, beauty and dermatological ranges.
Recognised by industry bodies and internationally acclaimed competitions, FREZYDERM has been awarded 7 awards in the last 7 years; including 5 times by the internationally acclaimed Prix De Beaute competition, widely considered the most prestigious competition for the beauty and cosmetics industry.
With one of the most dynamic R&D departments in Europe, their internationally respected team create innovative and pioneering skincare products, sold in over 10,000 pharmacies in Greece, and in thousands more in 24 countries worldwide.
FREZYDERM sources the highest quality raw materials available, making their products extremely effective and safe.
Their research is so wellrespected that they have produced sunscreens and many other products for a number of international high-end and high-street brands.
And with over 20 own brand product lines and more than 200 products to choose from, everyone can find their ultimate skincare solution.
Top product: SUN SCREEN VELVET FACE SPF 50+ Innovative sun protection for your face with a unique velvety texture. It has a revolutionary Second Skin Technology, which gives a matte appearance for 6 hours after application, absorbs excess oil and softens the appearance of wrinkles. The sunscreen's clear, non-oily texture leaves no white marks and makes an excellent base for makeup. Has to felt to be believed.


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Mark 2:3-4
No really–have the compassion to connect others to Christ!
A number of years ago, I went to Windermere as a cabin counselor for children's camp. Since I'm headed off to children's camp today, my history in that endeavor is on my mind. One day during that long-ago summer, one of my boys came to me and announced that he had prayed to receive Christ–on his own–at the hilltop chapel overlooking the camp. Honestly, I don't remember how I responded to that news, but I'd like to think I was properly celebratory.
It was several years later, when that ten-year-old had become an older teen, that he took his own life. I'm not sure what difficulties, what pains, what obstacles led him down that road. Honestly, I had very few dealings with him after that camp.
Was he really saved or did he just say something that would please church people? I don't know, but that's perhaps why the matter sticks in my mind. If I really cared for this kid, I would have maintained the connection. If I really care for him, I would be much more certain whether his experience was genuine. But I didn't follow up. I don't know.
We say things. "I'm praying for you!" "Just trust God to work it out!" We say things–churchy things–but sometimes we don't back those things up with actions. Sometimes we fail to pray–or to pray enough. Sometimes we are supposed to be part of the way God works that problem out.
I don't feel as if that boy's death is lying at my feet. But I do know that I should have been more of a friend, more of a connection for him than I was.
- What sort of "churchy" things are you guilty of saying and not acting upon?
- What people's connections to Christ should you not only initiate but maintain?
- Pray that God will open your eyes to the genuine compassion that will help others build a strong connection to Jesus.


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At the end of the day, targeting online ads is all about data. Whether you are a publisher, a network, an exchange, or any of the other players on the ad serving continuum, chances are you have something in your sales pitch about your data assets. Charts with cylinders and arrows are popular, as are impressive words like terabyte and petabyte. I've done so many of these presentations myself, I could even tell you what's bigger than a petabyte (an exabyte. Thanks for asking.)
However, to paraphrase the vernacular, it's not how big your data warehouse is, it's how you use it. At Tribal Fusion, we track more than 20,000 behaviours. Some of them are inferred from our own semantic technologies, and some are acquired from leading specialist providers. However, we don't just differentiate ourselves on the volume of information. We tell a story with it that helps advertisers get more value from their online investment.
We can pick and choose amongst those 20,000 data points to create a targeting pool for a campaign. Alternatively, we can use those same behaviours to describe the people that respond to an ad, whether they were targeted specifically or not. This approach provides some unique insight not only into how well the ad is working, but with whom.
To illustrate this point, we like to think about the lift versus reach tradeoff. Typically, there are a handful of behaviours and descriptives that correlate with high conversion rates, but those traits aren't usually found in a large part of the overall population. These are the upper left of the graph below.
As we work our way down the curve, we uncover behaviours that correlate to broader cross sections of the population. However, the more general your audience, the less likely they are to respond to a specific ad campaign. Intuitively, this tradeoff curve makes sense. It gets more interesting as we start to slice it into sections.
At the top, we have the head. This is the high performance/low reach section I referred to a moment ago. These users perform well, but are hard to deliver at volume. So what puts a user in the head? Usually there are no big surprises. We see primary behaviours that indicate purchase intent. For example, a mobile phone campaign will show mobile phone purchase intenders, and perhaps some general consumer electronics and related shopping comparison sites. We look to the head for validation. It shows that our ad technology is working. However, if we were to stop here, we would reach very few people indeed. This is not just an abstract mathematical concept, either. Let's put our marketing hats on for a moment. Essentially, we would be defining our target audience as "someone who wants to buy our product." Not only is that circular, it is very limited. Any good brand marketer will tell you they are not just selling a product, but an idea. You need to understand what your customer is about, and tap into their hopes and dreams to make sure your message resonates with them. This thinking is at the heart of many good customer segmentation initiatives, and it also brings us to the next section of our curve: the torso.
In the torso, we don't get the same performance as in the first section, but things do start to get interesting. Having exhausted the obvious choices, here some pleasant surprises begin to emerge. These might come in the form of secondary behaviours. For example, packaged holiday buyers might also turn out to be in the market for digital cameras. Perhaps even more compelling are the attitudes and lifestyle preferences that come to the surface. Recently we ran a campaign for a major utility provider. Looking at the torso, and applying some basic heuristics, two distinct groups were clear. There was a female head of household, who spent a lot of time on entertainment sites, social media, and shopping for women's apparel. There was also a male purchase decision maker, who was more tech savvy, and heavily into sports and automobiles. The campaign featured a single creative. However, it's fair to say that these two groups would respond to different messaging, and might even buy different utility packages. We recommended a number of tweaks, ranging from dynamic ads to separate campaigns altogether. The ultimate goal is to take these torso behaviours, and address them properly so they migrate to the head. I never found out if these groups corresponded to the advertiser's own market segmentation, but I hope they do moving forward.
Beyond the torso, we of course have the tail. Here we see all sorts of behaviours. These are the relevant masses. To the extent that we can find groups of traits that correspond to unique audiences, we can help craft a strategy to address them. In general, though, the story here is to pretty much do what you're doing already, as they will still outperform a run of network campaign, which is good news for those of you keeping track of effective CPA.
In summary, having good data will improve targeting, but it is even more interesting from an insights perspective. We are all too often focused solely on the best performers. If we set our sights too high, though, we miss some important lessons about who our customers really are, and what we should do next. That is the power of insights.
Monica Carvalho is an EMEA Marketing Manager at Exponential based in the London office. Monica has extensive experience marketing globally in online advertising, from ad ops events to integrating collateral and social media strategies. Previous employers include AdMonsters and the Orange ad network, Unanimis. Monica has a Masters in Marketing and BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent. Lives in Wimbledon and describes her outgoing nature as "most likely to attend the opening of an envelope".
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For 70 years from his teens until his age finally passed his body temperature Hope was ever on the move. He did concerts, hosted charity golf tournaments, did everything, went everywhere. Marlon Brando once said, dismissively, that Hope �would go to the opening of a phone booth.� Sure, if it was on a military base. An indefatigable ambassador for the USO (United Service Organization), he played to more than 10 million GIs in wars hot and cold from 1941 to 1991. �If I could live my life over,� he said not long ago, �I wouldn�t have time.� He was the salesman who had to stay on the road to stay alive and push his product. No, but I wanna tell ya, ladies and gentlemen, right heah: it�s Bob �American Icon� Hope. Yes sah!
In months before his death today at age 100, Hope was a frail creature confined upstairs in his Toluga Lake mansion, attended by nurses while his younger (94!) wife Dolores entertained guests. But for decades, on movie and TV screens, Hope was the young man in a hurry, propelled by ignorance and ego. In this guise, he embodied an utterly American comic figure the brash buffoon, confident against all evidence that he would triumph that influenced the personas of stars from Woody Allen to Steve Martin to Jim Carrey. As much as the Hope character was a loser, Hope himself was a winner: rich, laureled, happy. Or at least smiling. Neoning his letterbox grin, he got audiences to smile back, by the millions and across the generations.
Hope received more decorations than any civilian in U.S. history. He was an honorary knight of Great Britain and a Papal Knight of the Vatican. Months ago, with his centenary approaching, 35 states chose to designate May 29th as Bob Hope Day. Queen Elizabeth and George W. Bush, monarchs of his birth nation and his adopted one, sent him congratulatory messages. The burghers of Los Angeles recently gave a new name to that sacred showbiz intersection, Hollywood and Vine Bob Hope Square.
Bob Hope: Square. That says it, for those who came of age during the Vietnam War. He was square, and worse: a complacent, reactionary cheerleader-in-chief for the befuddled, immoral, rearguard vision of America. In a way, he was as controversial as Leni Riefenstahl, the German director, and Hitler favorite, who outlived most of her detractors by the time she turned 100 last August. But Hope was closer to home. It�s not a great exaggeration to say that, for the peaceniks of Vietnam, Nixon was Hope�s Hitler. (If the bombing sorties escalated, so did the rhetoric.)
Hope was the culture that the counter-culture was counter to. He was defiantly old-fashioned, remorselessly Republican, at a time when comedians were supposed to have stopped telling somebody else�s jokes and, like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor, extract stinging social criticism from their roiling insides. Even if he�d wanted to, Hope couldn�t have done that. He had no inside. He was all surface, polish, flash: the tailfin on a gas-guzzler.
How was Hope hated back then? Listen to Peter W. Kaplan read off the indictment, in a 1978 Film Comment essay (the best I know on Hope): �Old Ski-nose how detestable! Standing with Nixon, standing with Johnson, wearing hippie wigs for howling crowds of middle Americans; no worse symbol existed of our humor, no man more eager to promote all the wrong things.� Kaplan then lists the charges against Hope: �the reactionary apostle, the golf shoes, the putter, the Texaco sign and the fatigue uniform ... the grisly moment of �Say and there are so many Birds in the White House now I understand there�s a strategy to bomb Hanoi with eggs.��
But Kaplan doesn�t leave Hope with eggs on his conscience. As much as he deplores the comic�s autumnal political shtick (or did deplore it, 25 years ago), he loves the import of Hope�s movie character, and the lithe grace he lent it. Kaplan finally calls Hope �the most representative and influential force in talking comedy pictures at the moment of their greatest popularity. He created the type that, more than any spokesman for his times, made the jokes we wanted to hear. They were very funny.�
Like Bing Crosby his pal, golf buddy, comic sparring partner and fellow icon Hope is due for a reconsideration. In this column we�ll do our best to be fair, precise and appreciative to a guy who had all those medals but, as a superb showman, deserved a little more respect.
As an entertainer, Hope was le tout package. He sang, danced, told jokes perfectly, could occasionally play it straight. If he�d had the time, interest or nerve, he might have made a great Archie Rice, the music-hall monster of John Osborne�s �The Entertainer.�
He had �it� visually, verbally and kinetically. Hope�s profile was its own apotheosis, its own parody, and so arresting in its simple lines and cartoon contours that it could have been fashioned by Tex Avery or Al Hirschfeld or Raymond Loewy. He came to movies in the first decade of sound; they had voices then, distinctive enough to give full employment to impressionists. (Who�s worth mimicking today, besides Jack?) Hope�s vocal precision and Tommy-gun delivery earned him the sobriquet �Rapid Robert.� He was fast on his feet too. Woody Allen and Dick Cavett are just two of Hope�s admirers who emphasize the clarity and eloquent wit of his body language. Now strut, now cringe. Bluster; wheedle. A lifetime of showbiz savvy backed up each move and moue.
He didn�t come from show people. Hope gives a hint of his pedigree in some 1969 banter included in �The Best of Bob Hope: The Ultimate Collection,� a valuable new three-disc DVD of Hope TV clips and early radio and movie work. Chatting with actress Romy Schneider, he says, �You started your career in films at the age of 14. Isn�t that a little early to pick a vocation?� Romy muses: �Well, I think children often turn out to be what their parents were. My parents were actors in Vienna. What were yours?� �Butchers in Cleveland,� Bob snaps, �and let�s change the subject.�
Leslie Townes Hope was born in the South London neighborhood of Eltham, one of seven kids in a family whose patriarch, William Henry Hope, was restless, cantankerous, alcoholic. A stonemason by trade, William shipped out to the U.S. and found a job in Cleveland with his butcher brothers. The rest of the brood joined him in 1908, when Leslie was four-and-a-half. (In the biography �Bob Hope,� author Peter Carrick claims that the boy changed his Christian name when he got annoyed that the alphabetical reading of his name, �Hope, Leslie,� provoked his classmates to �hopeless� gags. Believe who will.)
Bob, from now on, was soon entertaining on street corners and in saloons to swell the family purse. Like Pittsburgh-born Gene Kelly another 40s star who blasted out of Broadway into Hollywood with a wide, welded-on, slightly suspect smile and the forward-leaning urgency of the desperate go-getter Hope was a hoofing prodigy who taught dance in a grimy mid-Eastern city before figuring he could be a headliner, not a tutor. He tiptoed into vaudeville, teaming with various friends in dance acts, then segued to comedy duos, where he usually played the straight man. �When I started in vaudeville,� Hope recalled on one of his TV specials, �the only thing that kept me alive was the vegetables the audience threw at me.� That�s a joke, son. He was doing fine.
Hope hit Broadway in the late 20s, just as the ranks of stage actors were thinning as they were lured to Hollywood to make the new talking pictures. The peculiarity is that Hope, with his jaunty looks and clarion pipes, wasn�t immediately drafted into movies he�d be 35 before he made a feature out there. Meanwhile he built his craft in other media. On stage, where he hadn�t yet developed the coward character, Hope was more a Coward character as in Noel. �I was an entirely different fellow on Broadway,� he told Brooks Riley in a 1979 Film Comment interview. �I was very chic and very subtle; I wouldn�t do a double-take for anything.�


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This day in sci-fi history turns out to be a huge day for television premieres. You're about to have a lot of different theme songs stuck in your head, so prepare yourselves:
First, it was on this day in 1964 that The Addams Family debuted on ABC:
Also, on this day in 1965, Get Smart debuted:
Also on this day in 1965, I Dream of Jeannie premiered:
Also! Three pretty exciting birthdays on this day in sci-fi history, gang ...
First, Beth Grant was born on this day in 1949. A native of Gadsden, Alabama, Grant studied acting and directing at East Carolina University, and as far as sci-fi movies go, you've seen her in some real doozies. She was most recently in American Gods and appeared in Pushing Daisies, Jericho ... and also Donnie Darko, where she definitely questioned your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
It was also on this day in 1970 that Aisha Tyler was born in San Francisco. She went to high school with Margaret Cho (!!), then went to Dartmouth and was a member of a co-ed fraternity. She definitely recently appeared as herself on both Supergirl and The Comeback, and she's been a big part of Criminal Minds, Ghost Whisperer, and 24.
But mainly, she's Lana Kane on Archer.
Tyler is consistently amazing and at her best when she's not at all safe for work:
And finally, on this day in 1973, James Marsden was born. Yep. Cyclops himself.
Marsden has also been in a ton of insane sci-fi movies and TV shows, including Enchanted, Westworld, a bunch of the X-Men movies, Hop, Disturbing Behavior, Superman Returns …the list goes on. Marsden was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, got his first acting gig on The Nanny, and has two children.
Tomorrow: Holy Greatest Batman ever, Batman.


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Follow these few tips to prepare for your baby's very first doctors appointment
Your child's first checkup is the perfect time for you to receive answers to all the questions and concerns you have. You may feel nervous or anxious over your baby's very first appointment. During a newborn checkup, your pediatrician will examine your baby from head to toe. Your baby's weight, length and head circumference will be measured. The pediatrician may also have questions for you regarding your baby's sleep schedule and feeding habits.
Pack the Right Items
Dress your baby in clothing that is easy to remove. Consider a onsie during hotter months or a one-piece zippered outfit during the winter. Remember to pack a blanket to wrap your baby in, clothing, diapers, wipes, bottles if you are formula feeding and a pacifier.
Keep Track of Your Baby's Feedings
During those first few days of your baby's life, it is important to make sure you are monitoring how much and how frequently he or she is eating. Create a log to keep track of your infant's feedings. For formula-feeding moms, write down how many ounces your baby consumes and the number of bottles your baby drinks per day. Breastfeeding moms should keep track of how many minutes their baby nurses at the breast, how often the feedings take place, and how many wet and dirty diapers the baby has per day. Bring the log with you to the very first appointment.
Keep a List of Questions To Ask
New moms find they have a lot of questions about their baby's health and development. Even experienced moms may be caught off guard by a baby who seems to be to sleepy or one that seems to be constantly fussy. A list of questions to ask include:
- How often should my baby be eating?
- Is my baby gaining weight well?
- What situations warrant a call to the pediatrician's office?
- How often should my infant come in for well-baby checkups?
- When should my baby receive vaccinations and what types are recommended?
- How can I calm a crying baby?
- How do I reduce the risk of SIDS?
Setup the Appointment in Advance
Newborn babies are usually examined by a pediatrician before being discharged from the hospital. The physician will tell you when to schedule your baby's very first checkup. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends newborn infants be seen during their first week of life. Call your pediatrician's office as soon as possible to let them know that your baby was born and to schedule the appointment. Leave early for the appointment so you have time to fill out paperwork. Ask the receptionist to seat you in a private room or in a room that is only for well-child checkups.


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Squatober: 30-Day Challenge
No Stoptober for us Janes this month, just a whole lot of beautiful bums! Summer season may be over, but that's no excuse not to get perfectly perked!
Exercise and fitness challenges have been all the rage recently for raising charity awareness. This month we've seen people doing 20 press-ups daily for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder awareness. For October, it's the turn of our favourite leg-and-bum toner: the squat.
Ladies, we bring you the 30 day squat challenge. Not the most attractive exercise, but it will absolutely get you those J-Lo curves, and toned thighs. Who can say no to that?
Squatober: get your squat squad
Technique is super-important for a squat, so get all the inspiration, the technique and even a printable squat calendar (because who doesn't love a tick list!) below and dip those derrières for a peachy autumn look!
Technique Tips
Squat sheet
Take a look at this handy wall planner and stick it up at home to remind you to do your daily dips.
Get cheeky and send us your before and after pics!
Happy Squatober!
Are you trying it out? Share your experiences (and leg burn) with us – @tweetjanes.


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Remembered window II
TODA Tôshirô
1953 -
The theme of windows and walls has fascinated Toda for some time. Windows link the outside and the inside; they are the conduits to dreams and fantasy. However the window is defined by the two worlds on either side of it: darkness on both sides silences the window's existence.
In this print, the glowing light beyond the window and the concreteness of the wall to the right, create a metaphor for Zen enlightenment. According to Zen teaching, Bodhidharma, the Indian prince who brought the doctrine of Chan (or Zen) Buddhism to China in the early sixth century and who is revered as the First Patriarch of Zen, attained his enlightenment after nine years of implacable wall gazing. In Chan texts 'wall gazing' became a metaphor for the inexplicable suddenness of enlightenment. Toda evokes this association through the quietude and mysticism of his image.
Toda now lives in Tokyo. He was born in Aichi Prefecture and educated at the Musashino Art University and the Sokei Academy of Fine Arts. He lived in France for a while and this experience deeply affected his own work.
Jackie Menzies, Contemporary Japanese Prints: The Urban Bonsai, 1992, pg. 93.
Alternative title
Kiokusareta mado - II
Place where the work was made
Heisei period 1989 - → Japan
Media category
Materials used
etching and aquatint
45.5 x 60.0 cm image;57.0 x 70.0 cm sheet
Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Toda Toshiro '90".
Gift of the artist 1993
Not on display
Accession number
Where the work was made
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition history
The Urban Bonsai:
- Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane 04 Mar 1992–04 May 1992
- National Art Gallery, Wellington, Wellington 20 Jun 1992–09 Aug 1992
- Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch 12 Sep 1992–29 Oct 1992
- Manawatu Art Gallery, New Zealand 13 Nov 1992–10 Jan 1993
- The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne 18 Mar 1993–25 Apr 1993
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 08 May 1993–01 Aug 1993
- Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains 11 Mar 1994–24 Apr 1994
- Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra 19 May 1994–19 Jun 1994
- Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown 15 Jul 1994–21 Aug 1994
- Moree Plains Gallery, Moree 11 Nov 1994–24 Dec 1994
- Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah 01 Feb 1995–05 Mar 1995
Referenced in 1 publication
Jackie Menzies, Contemporary Japanese Prints : The Urban Bonsai, Sydney, 1992, 93, 104 (colour illus.). cat.no. 64


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Series: THAT'S NOT MY® series
By Fiona Watt
Meet five adorable chicks in this delightful Easter addition to the much-loved That's not my... series. Babies and toddlers will love touching the textured patches as they meet chicks with soft wings, fuzzy tummies and rough feet. The bright pictures and textures to stroke are designed to help develop sensory and language awareness.
"This range of touchy-feely books have been baby and toddler must-haves for 20 years."
The Sun
Fiona Watt is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She graduated from Exeter University with a Bachelor of Education in Art and Design. She taught for three years at a primary school in Kent, before spending two years at a British school in The Netherlands. She started working at Usborne in 1989 and has written and edited hundreds of books including baby and novelty, sticker, art and craft, cookery, science and activity books. She has written all the titles in the award-winning 'That's not my….' series and many in the highly successful Sticker Dolly Dressing series. She is the sixth biggest-selling UK children's author, with over 10 million of her books sold in the UK since records began.
The award is decided by Practical Pre-School product testers, who said of "That's not my puppy": "This book had immediate appeal for all the children. It is great for a wide age range as the babies enjoy the pictures and textures and the older children enjoy reading the words themselves and developing their vocabulary. It was also good for raising awareness of differences and similarities. It retained appeal for the children throughout the testing period."
Usborne That's not my... Touchy-feely books were voted Best Buy in the Toddler Book Category of the Prima Baby Reader Awards in 2004 and 2006.
Read the following reviews or write one of your own.
"That's Not My Chick..."
This cute little book is perfect to entertain young children thanks to its bright illustrations and different textures. It is also quite sturdy and able to handle a less than delicate handling!
Silvia (Toppsta Reviewer)
"That's Not My Chick..."
Great sensory book which keeps in theme with the series. My eldest has memorized the words so reads it to my baby who loves feeling the different textures, especially the fluffy ones!
Frey (Toppsta Reviewer)
"That's Not My Chick..."
My toddler has fallen in love with this beautiful vibrant book! It follows the theme of all the other 'That's not my ...' books and is equally full of vivid illustrations with textured patches for him to happily stroke! Thoroughly recommend this to all!
Samia (Toppsta Reviewer)
"That's Not My Chick..."
My 1 1/2 is obsessed with this book. We got it from the library and he's read it about 10 times a day. He loves feeling the different textures and giggles at each page.
Hannah (Toppsta Reviewer)
"Unlike other board books, there are swatches of different textures on each page designed to encourage your little one to explore and play independently."
That's My Baby blog
"The hardwearing pages, simple illustrations, repetition and lovely touchy-feely elements to each page make the [That's not my...] books ideal for reading with your child."
The Independent
"These wonderful books are awesome for helping children to develop. The stories are perfectly interactive and their simplicity means even the youngest readers will enjoy them and relate to them."
The Sun
"This range of touchy-feely books have been baby and toddler must-haves for 20 years."
The Sun


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Netflix Jumps 40%, Hits Highest Level Since 2011
The former whipping boy for the tech industry is on the comeback trail.
Netflix, whose stock has dropped as low as $52.81 over the past year after almost hitting $300 in mid-2011, rose more than 40% since Wednesday's market close. The impetus appears to be a better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings report in which the company announced that it added 2 million domestic streaming subscribers — more than had previously been anticipated — and posted a surprise profit.
Many investors lost confidence in the company in 2011 when it uncoupled DVDs and streaming subscriptions and began charging $16 a month for streaming plus DVDs, nearly twice the original price. The company then frustrated and confused customers further with a plan to rename its DVD service Qwikster and have it run as a separate operation. Netflix abandoned the plan a month later and CEO Reed Hastings apologized.
Some 18 months later, in a letter to shareholders Hastings highlighted expanding international operations and more profits from streaming video. In fact, in the first quarter of 2013, Netflix expects to report for the first time that its streaming business is more profitable than its DVD business.
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Speaker - Brian John Spencer, Political Cartoonist Ulster Reform Club, 4 Royal Avenue, Belfast Thur 8th Dec 2016, 12.30 for 1.00 pm 'Impressions of the Presidential Election of a Visitor to USA' For details, click here.
Speaker - Diarmaid Mc Aonghusa, Chair of Educate Together (for biography click here). Wynn's Hotel, 35 Lr Abbey St on Saturday 19th November 2016: 12.30 for 1.00pm. Association AGM will be held at same venue at 3.30pm approximately. For details, click here.
To see above, click here.
Visit to the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on Saturday 17th September 2016 at 2.00 pm for a performance of the play 'Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme' by Frank McGuinness, which commemorates the centenary of the event that had such an influence in the history of the island. To be followed by dinner in the nearby Wynn's Hotel. For details, click here.
Patrick Mason, formerly Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre and currently Adjuct Professor of Drama at University College Dublin. 'Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme' Sandyford Hotel, Landsdowne Rd, Dublin. Sat 25th June 2016 12.30 pm For details, click here
Inaugural Sir George Quigley Memorial Lecture Professor Frances Ruane, Former Director, Economic and Social Research Institute Armagh Public Library 15th June 2016 For details, click here
Irish Association & Corrymeela Community Corrymeela Centre (near Ballycastle, Co Antrim) 3rd-5th June 2016 Minibus, prebooking necessary, from Belfast Central Railway Station to Corrymeela For details, click here For pre-conference report click here
'The Irish Diaspora in America: Mysteries, Myths and Legends' Prof Brian Walker, Irish Studies, QUB Malone Lodge Hotel, 60 Eglantine Ave, Belfast. 17th March 2016.
Prof Gerald Dawe spoke on 'Of War and War Alarms' (corkuniversitypress.com) Kildare Street/University Club, 17 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. Sat 23rd January 2016. AGM 12.00.


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Hilary Rau is a Research Scholar at Center for Policing Equity. Prior to joining CPE, Hilary was a staff attorney at the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where her work focused on developing evidence-based, practical resources to promote gender and racial equity in the workplace and in higher education. Prior to that, Hilary worked as a civil rights attorney in private practice, where she specialized in cases involving allegations of police misconduct and employment discrimination. She was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine in 2016 and 2017. She also served as a law clerk for the Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review, the civilian entity then responsible for overseeing the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
Hilary's work has been published in Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, and Advocate Magazine. Hilary received her J.D. from the University of California—Los Angeles School of Law and her B.A. in English and Linguistics from Pomona College.


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"I wanted to share my sincere gratitude for your support of the Artists-in-Residence program! This opportunity has impacted the trajectory of my artist practice and introduced me to new methods of making. This would not have been possible without your generous support – thank you!"
— 2019 Artist-in-Residence Kelly Taylor Mitchell
The Program
Anderson Ranch's Artists-in-Residence Program fosters creative, intellectual and professional growth for emerging and established visual artists. Residents have access to world-class facilities and studio time, free from everyday pressures. Residents can pursue interdisciplinary projects among a community of working artists, and gain feedback from prominent Visiting Artists and Critics. The Ranch setting is specifically crafted to aid artists in the production of their work. The residency is designed to allow artists to take risks and pursue new projects and ideas. Resident artists will be provided housing, studio space and meals. Residencies are offered in ceramics, new media, photography, furniture design, woodworking, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Fall residents pay a fee of $1,500 for the 10 weeks at the Ranch. Spring residents pay a fee of $850 for the five weeks at the Ranch.
Four of the 28 residencies are fully funded fellowships awarded by the jury panel.
The residency is offered during two terms each year (approximate dates):
Fall Term: October – December (10 weeks)
Spring Term: March – April (five weeks)
View the Artists-in-Residence Handbook
The Studios
Artists-in-Residence have 24/7 access to Anderson Ranch's artistic studios and state-of-the-art equipment during their residency—55,000 square feet of space in which to focus on their art and explore new ideas.
The application deadline for the Fall/Spring Artists-in-Residence Program deadline is FEBRUARY 15 and must be submitted via our online application form.
Notifications to applicants/recipients will be made by early April.
Approximately 14 artists will be in residence during each term. The Ranch strives to have an equal mix of emerging and established artists working together. Current housing and studio space allows for the following numbers of residencies in each area, each term:
Ceramics: 4
Photography & New Media: 2
Furniture Design & Woodworking: 2
Painting & Drawing: 2
Printmaking: 2
Sculpture: 2
Important Dates for Fall/Spring Artists-in-Residence Program
(The Residency is offered in two terms during the year.)
February 14: Online application submittal deadline
April: Notification to applicants/recipients
Term I – Fall: October – December (one 10 week session)
Term II – Spring: February – April ( two five week sessions)
Visiting Critics at Anderson Ranch
As part of our Artists-in-Residence Program, we invite internationally recognized artists and critics to give critical studio feedback to our program participants allowing residents a chance to receive constructive input on the direction of their work. There are two visiting critics during the term of each residency program. During their time at the Ranch, visiting critics typically give a public lecture and spend one to three days critiquing resident or student work.
Anderson Ranch invites leading artists, critics and curators to the Ranch to share ideas and practices in a supportive interdisciplinary environment. It is designed to foster the creation of artwork and/or to enhance the experience of program participants in other Ranch programs.
The Anderson Ranch Artists-in-Residence Program is generously funded by the following foundations and individuals:
• The Melva Bucksbaum and Ray Learsy Endowed Fund
• The Eskin Family Foundation
• Karen and Jim Frank
• The John M. Hartigan Endowed Fund
• The Joanne and Lee Lyon Endowed Fund
• The National Endowment for the Arts
• The PAJWELL Foundation
• Sara Ransford
• Mary and Patrick Scanlan
• The Windgate Charitable Foundation
• Baird Family Endowed Fund
Additional support is provided by the Kay and Matthew Bucksbaum Endowed Fund for Visiting Artists and other individuals.
Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a member of the Alliance of Artists Communities, the national organization of artists' residency programs, and Res Artis, the worldwide network of artist residencies.
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>OK so I have not posted in awhile; it is my computers fault. It has this mind-of-its-own thing happening lately and wouldn't let me see anything. The screen worked just fine; just no images could be seen, and I mean none. My desktop didn't even show up — just a fuzzy, bluish sort of color — so my husband finally got 10 minuets and fixed it for me. Not his fault; he is so busy with work. The bummer was I had two actual days off work last week, which I never get, and I wanted to post the last two parts of my tutorial and no computer to do it on. So what did I do? Pay bills, run errands, and clean house (maybe that was a good thing because, with the job/commute and all that goes with it, I just haven't had any time to do basic cleaning). So the three little ones and I surprised dad with a clean house. How sad is that, that something like that can be a surprise and a nice thing. Like I said, no time. I hung a few pictures that have been leaning against walls since we moved in one year ago.
Something else I discovered when my computer was working again (if you don't keep track of the blogs you read with bloglines this will mean nothing to you) I found out while I wasn't able to post a thing that all the blogs I read posted over 700, yep 700 and some posts, that bloglines saved for me to read, well at least look at the pretty pictures as that was way too much stuff to read; yikes!
Also during my disappearance I went to my MIL's house to pick up some aprons that had belonged to Great-Grandma Harbaugh (30 + of them). They are not mine; they are just on loan. I will post about them more later. Trust me, you want to see them if you like aprons; such a variety of vintage and antique aprons.


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