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Great little bow!
By Chad
from Cranbrook, BC Canada
About Me Recreational Archer
Comments about Kaya Korean Horse Bow:
I got this bow for Christmas and absolutely love it. I have just recently started to focus all my attention to it and am seeing great results. I have a 65lb recurve as well and this little bow @50# is way faster and has at least as much power as my big one. Speedwise I am sure I am keeping up with some of the lower poundage compounds out there. As someone else posted I get some giggles when guys first see it but they sure shut up quick once I loose an arrow, then the questions about it start.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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great and beautiful bow
By Jasper
from Los Angeles, CA
About Me Beginner
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The Kaya KTB is beautiful and shoots fast. Contrary to what I expected, the bow was very easy to string considering it has a fifty pound draw weight. I've already shot many arrows with it and was surprised by its power. Couldn't really notice any stacking, although I didn't really pull further than 28''. The bow feels very smooth upon release and noise is nearly nonexistent. The loudest part about shooting this bow is when the arrow hits the field target. I would recommend using a thumb ring for anything higher than a 45 pound draw weight, and I speak from experience. The leather thumb glove starts to wear on your thumb after a few dozen shots. Good thumb rings aren't easy to come by however. I made a custom leather laminated thumb ring and it works well. I also recommend using arrows that use real feathers, since fake ones can cut your hand... I speak from experience. Well, that's all I can think of right now. Cheers
Service and delivery comments:
Delivery was prompt and came in good condition. (box seemed beat up and torn at some parts, but didn't seem to affect anything inside)
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
great bow
I am a complete beginner, and I'm starting with a 50# draw weight. It was actually pretty easy for me to string (following the directions), despite what others have said... I'm using this exclusively to practice the thumb release, and it's quite challenging. If your form isn't perfect, it shows. Definitely would need lessons or just a whole lot of practice and research. Proper guidance would definitely help. The bow is very strong, so if you practice form, (which I recommend with a lower draw weight around 30#) you can really have powerful dead eye shots with higher draw weights... But all in all this bow is beautiful and all that I hoped for. Once again, for beginners I recommend the lower draw weights for this bow. I am going to buy or rent another bow at a lower draw weight to practice exclusively my form. I'm still keeping this one though, cause I love it.
(4 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
KTB Efficienty Test
By Curtis
from Bountiful, UT
Just got back from a local archery shop where we tested this bow for performance.Arrow weight = 719.4 gr (I prefer heavy arrows).measured weight @ 28" = 54 lbs (this bow is 55lbs)brace height 7"draw length = 21"We marked an arrow at 28" and shot it through the chronograph several times. Speed = 153ft/sec average with less than 1 ft/sec variation.. . . . . . .energy out . 37.39 ft*lbsEfficiency = ---------- = ------------ = 79.1%. . . . . . energy in . 47.25 ft*lbsI am new to archery, but have been reading a lot. 79.1% is very efficient for a traditional wood bow. This bow also includes carbon which probably helps increase efficiency. Also this shape of this bow is known as being very efficient. Just as the recurve bow is superior to a straight bow. This bow when unstrung is C shaped. This is a superior shape compared to the traditional American otherwise straight recurve bows. This bow almost looks like a toy, but it is a very serious bow.Since this bow is rated at 31", I was expecting my 55# bow to have a draw weight of about 48# @ 28", but at 28", its draw weight is 54lbs.I am unable to string this myself. I put the handle on my knee and pull back on the ends and my kids or wife then strings it. This takes practice to do right.
Kaya KTB Bow is Awesome! Best value bow!
By Korean Traditional Bow Hunter
from New York
Wow! Smooth drawing bow! Feels lighter at the draw than stated poundage, Hits Hard and Fast! This is my first traditional bow after shooting compounds for years, going to take it hunting for the first time, definitely a great value, and so much fun to shoot! If you ever wanted to try thumbring shooting this is the bow to buy!
(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
By Bergsteiger
from Firestone, CO
I was looking forward to receiving the Kaya after so many good reviews and I wasn't disappointed. I shoot a 55# long bow and was amazed that this little Korean bow could sink arrows just as deeply without as much effort. It looks like a toy, but really packs a punch. If you're looking for fun, this is it!! I didn't give it 5 stars because the string guides broke off the first time I strung it-I glued them back and all is good.
(4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
great bow at a reasonable price
By notyal
from columbia,sc
About Me Expert Archer
I bought this bow because it was different from any of the other bows I own and shoot. The bow came without instructions as to stringing and brace distance but I called 3R and my questions were answered. You need to use a cushion stringer or get a helper when stringing to avoid twisting the limbs.The bow I ordered was only 40 pounds but the bow is so fast I am having to shoot a stiffer arrow than I thought would be needed. I added a trimmed brush rest under the leather wrap where a rest would normally go. 40# is on the light side for deer but for turkeys and small game, it should be excellent.The bow appears to be a toy until you shoot it and it is very quiet. I am experimentingto find the best arrow combination but the Heritage 150 flies very well cut to 29". I like the bow and would recommend it to experienced archers but not for a beginner unless he has a good mentor.
Only ounces light and really fast!
By Artemiz
from Dallas, Texas
Decided to buy this from all the great reviews from the ATARN forum. The shooting experience is very comparable to the other more expensive Hwarangs from Korea although the cosmetic finish could use some more work. Also, my center serving came loose after a while but it was easy to correct.This is a super light bow (only ounces) and shoots arrows with authority provided you use correctly spined arrows (for me that's 340 @ 55lbs). You can shoot a Mediterranean 3-finger draw but I highly recommend shooting with a thumb ring/draw as it was originally intended.
best traditional bow i ever owned
By broken arrow
from Clarksville, TN
About Me Competitive Archer
Awesome little bow, would highly highly recommend it. I lucked out, the stringer that i use on my other bows worked perfect, if not, it would've been an issue trying to string it. I feel the reason for stacking on this bow was the placement of the handle being center of the bow making the arrow higher up on the string. I lowered the handle about an 1" or more, to get the arrow closer to center of the string making it stack less. Shooting the bow is a challenge and a little less forgiving then a long bow, probley from being so light and finger pinch, but i enjoy the challenge. However, the smoothness of the draw and the power as spoiled me from using regular traditional bows. The things i didnt like is the tips or siyahs had a slight twist in them and the quaulity of the secound bow i purchased wasnt as good as the first one.
(5 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
I am gobsmacked
By Jeff the Chef
from Scotland
An absolutely phenomenal bow. It looks like a toy, and it weighs nothing. But it is more archery fun than anything I tried before, and I tried a lot. Smooth, fast, zero shock. So easy to draw. Does not stack even at 32". Easy to string.People's first reaction is a smirk - until you loose a few arrows. Then a queue forms to try it out. Then the whole place goes up in Oooh's and Aaaah's.


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Labapalooza! at CSHL attracts 330 guests, raises $125,000 for cancer and brain research
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY
– Rock bands with names like Big Band Theory, One Million Counts Per Minute and Dragoneyeseven– composed of molecular biologists and other Laboratory employees -- performed throughout the evening of April 21 on the waterside campus of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). The event also featured work by artists from across Long Island, the New York area, and elsewhere in the nation. The event, produced by the Laboratory's community-based CSHL Association, raised $125,000 to support the work of young scientists whose research focuses on cancer and brain disorders including autism, Alzheimer's diease, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease and depression.
"Labapalooza is a really fun and unique fundraising event in which the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Association brings new people to the Laboratory to enjoy an evening featuring tasting dinners in local restaurants and an art show curated by CSHL Association Director David Peikon. It also enables participants to experience the creative range of our scientists performing as the evening's musical entertainment," said CSHL Association President Sandy Tytel. "It's a true blending of communities and there is something for everyone. It was a wonderful evening."
The event's musicians who double as CSHL scientists by day included guitarist Tim Kees, Ph.D., who focuses his research on understanding ways to use the body's own immune system as a weapon against cancer. Another rocker was Ph.D. candidate Kristen Delevich, who studies how a genetic risk factor for schizophrenia changes the way that neurons communicate in the mouse brain.
Notable painters, sculptors and photographers from Long Island and across the country were featured during the event, and donated proceeds from the sale of their works to CSHL: Robert Armetta, Charles Camarda, Franco Castelluccio, Dennis Cheaney, Leeanna Chipana, Steve Forster, Shoshana Golin, Dr. Ron Israeli, Tom Mason, Cinthya Zepeda Mendoza, Edward Minoff, David Peikon, Catherine Prescott, Carlo Russo, Lori Shorin, and Jackie Watson
Labapalooza guests were also treated to fabulous fare from the area's finest food establishments including Anthony Scotto Restaurants' Rare650, Blackstone and Insignia, Bar Frites, Butera's, Cardinali Bakery, CoolFish and Jewel by Tom Schaudel, Fiorello Dolce, La Bonne Boulangerie, Mara's Homemade, Messina Market, Mirabelle Tavern, and Rothmann's Steakhouse.
The event was produced by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Association (CSHLA) directors, including event chairperson Deb Parmet Sondock, art show director David Peikon and organizer Pat Woods.
Dario Bressan, a student in CSHL's Watson School of Biological Sciences, performs with his band fully comprised of CSHL students and scientists.
Jim Simons, artist Franco Castelluccio, and CSHL Association Director David Peikon.
Long Island chef Tom Schaudel served tasting dinners on behalf of his restaurants CoolFish and Jewel
CSHL Association Director Lauryl Palatnick, Mary and Paul Auersperg, and Rob Palatnick
About Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Founded in 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has shaped contemporary biomedical research and education with programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology and quantitative biology. CSHL is ranked number one in the world by Thomson Reuters for impact of its research in molecular biology and genetics. The Laboratory has been home to eight Nobel Prize winners. Today, CSHL's multidisciplinary scientific community is more than 360 scientists strong and its Meetings & Courses program hosts more than 12,500 scientists from around the world each year to its Long Island campus and its China center. Tens of thousands more benefit from the research, reviews, and ideas published in journals and books distributed internationally by CSHL Press. The Laboratory's education arm also includes a graduate school and programs for undergraduates as well as middle and high school students and teachers. CSHL is a private, not-for-profit institution on the north shore of Long Island. For more information, visit


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Book your room at Indaba Hotel
Standard Double or Twin Room
4-star hotel in Johannesburg with 2 restaurants
Situated in Johannesburg, this spa hotel is close to Montecasino. Area attractions also include Lion Park and South African Lippizaner Centre.
Hotel Features
In addition to 2 restaurants, Indaba Hotel features an outdoor pool. Other amenities include a full-service spa and a poolside bar.
Room Amenities
In addition to satellite television, guestrooms include beds with Select Comfort mattresses, complimentary wireless Internet access, and refrigerators.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Indaba Hotel
- The Overview
Indaba Hotel features a full-service spa and an outdoor pool. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center, audiovisual equipment, and small meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 764 square feet (71 square meters) include a conference center, conference/meeting rooms, and a ballroom. This business-friendly hotel also offers a garden, coffee/tea in the lobby, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. A casino shuttle and a shopping center shuttle are complimentary for guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Indaba Hotel has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Audiovisual equipment
- Ballroom(s)
- Banquet facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Beauty services
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Concierge desk
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Exhibit space
- Fireplace in lobby
- Casino shuttle (complimentary)
- Shopping center shuttle (complimentary)
- Theme park shuttle (surcharge)
- Computer station
- Designated smoking areas
- Half board rates available
- Full board rates available
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Total number of rooms - 260
- Laundry facilities
- Medical assistance available
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Free self parking
- Garden
- Patio
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free secure outdoor parking
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 71
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 24
- Year Built 1952
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 764
- Security guard
- Tour assistance
- Wedding services
- Full-service health spa
- Conference center
- Swimming pool - outdoor
- Connect
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi, Free wired high-speed Internet
- Parking
Free secure outdoor parking, Free self parking
- The Room
- Climate control
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Air conditioning
- Direct-dial phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Satellite TV service
- Free Wi-Fi
- Hair dryer
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
- The Eats
A complimentary full breakfast is served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Chiefs Boma - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Reservations are required.
Epsom Terrace Restaurant - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Reservations are required.
Epsom Courtyard - This café serves lunch only. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Reservations are required.
24-hour room service is available.
- Out and About
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Bird watching on site
- Running track/path on site
- Swimming on site
- Tennis on site
- Mind and Body
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa, Mowana Spa. Services include hot stone massages, massages, facials, and body wraps. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
- Hot stone massage
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Massages
- Facial treatments
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
The Fine Print for Indaba Hotel
- Check-in
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is 10 AM
- Pay
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa
- You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No elevators
- Fees
- Unless otherwise indicated, the charges below are not included in the overall room price. If not included in the overall room price, they will be charged by the property at check-in or check-out. Charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book. This property told us they will charge you for the following:
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- A city/local tax will be charged
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: ZAR 1.00 (for 24 hours, rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: ZAR 1.00 (rates may vary)
- We Should Mention
Children 11 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
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North Dakota is booming. Its unemployment rate is the lowest in the country, 3.7 per cent, and so many people have moved there for jobs that last year local officials declared a housing crisis. The new workers have been drawn by the Williston Basin, in the western part of the state, which holds the largest accumulation of oil identified in North America since 1968, when the Prudhoe Bay field was found, on the North Slope of Alaska. Oil companies have booked motels within two hours' drive for a year in advance; last summer, relocated workers converted the lawn of a town park into a tent city.
About a hundred new wells are blasted into the ground every month. Seen from a distance on U.S. Highway 2, the derricks form a straight crease—giants reduced to props by a landscape that the novelist Larry Woiwode described as a vast plane, "its flatness tugging the sky tight at every horizon, as if it were tied there." One day a few months ago, beside a trailer parked near the center of the basin, half a dozen men prepared to send enough explosives underground to dismantle an armored tank. The firepower consisted of twenty-four "shaped charges"—little cone-shaped shells housed in foot-long metal cannisters called perforating guns. When the charges were detonated by an electrical signal, each shell would explode into the surrounding rock, forming corridors through which oil could flow into the well.
The workers, who were mostly in their twenties or thirties, wore hard hats, steel-toed boots, and coveralls stained to the chest with crude oil. One of them screwed four perforating guns together, attached them to a heavy wire, then lowered them into a hole bored in the ground. As the wire unspooled from an enormous drum mounted on the back of the trailer, another man, inside, used a joystick to control the guns' descent. It took almost an hour before the guns neared the far end of the L-shaped wellbore, an underground trip of nearly four miles, and began to withdraw. A third worker knelt on the floor of the trailer like a preacher and studied a column of numbers written on a window, down-hole distances where the men were to set off the explosions: 19,971 feet, then 19,909, then 19,850. On closed-circuit radio, a voice from a trailer across the lot addressed the worker on the joystick: "Steady, keep it steady."
"He's got to have a doctor's touch on that drum wire," the engineer in charge of the well, Russell Rankin, said. Rankin, who was clean-shaven and had on a class ring and a carefully ironed golf shirt, works for Brigham Exploration, based in Austin, Texas, one of some hundred and fifty oil companies that have entered the basin since 2006. "Everybody sent up here is on the same mission, which is: Solve the puzzle of this place," Rankin said. "We know there's oil there. But how much of it can you get out of the rock?"
The rock is the Bakken formation, a layer of the basin that geologists believe holds a twenty-five-thousand-square-mile sea of oil. (The formation is mostly beneath the surface of North Dakota, but it extends into Montana and Canada.) The head of the state's department of mineral resources, Lynn Helms, recently estimated that the region could contain eleven billion barrels of oil that can be obtained using current technology, nearly enough to supply the United States for two years. That assessment has doubled since a 2008 United States Geological Survey study, and the amount that will eventually be recoverable is the subject of intense speculation. "The Williston Basin is still relatively underexplored and poorly understood in terms of its geology," Helms said. "It's a subterranean detective story."
A hundred and thirteen million barrels of crude oil were produced in North Dakota last year—more than five per cent of the country's domestic output. (The U.S. produces slightly less than half of the oil it consumes.) The increase is well timed. Last month, with oil prices rising, President Obama announced the goal of reducing by one-third America's reliance on foreign oil by 2025. But the restrictions on offshore drilling that followed the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill have limited domestic oil production, and the disastrous blowup at Japan's Fukushima plant last month has made an increase in nuclear power politically untenable. Meanwhile, the past two years were the first since 1991 in which domestic oil production increased, owing substantially to North Dakota's contributions. Geologists believe that Williston could be at the beginning of a twenty-year boom.
When the perforation guns were lined up at the proper depth, the man on his knees placed his hands on a wall panel that held knobs, dials, switches, and a key in a keyhole. "Plug it?" he asked. Rankin nodded, and he gently turned the key. A few seconds later, the needles of a meter bounced abruptly. A worker who stood hugging a vertical pipe near the wellhead gave a thumbs-up, to indicate that he had felt a rumble from the faraway explosion. In the trailer, all was quiet.
Oil companies often name their wells after the family that owns the surrounding land, and, because this part of the state was settled overwhelmingly by Norwegian immigrants and their descendants, the well names have a certain uniformity of character: the Erickson, the Sorenson, the Mortenson, the Tjelde, the Bakke, the Brakken. Rankin's new well was registered with the North Dakota Industrial Commission as the Abe, after Abe Owan, a local businessman, on whose property Brigham had already installed the Owan, the Abe Owan, and the Owan-Nehring. "Abe's got a lot of land, and we're starting to run out of names," Rankin said.


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UCLA associate professor of history Lauren (Robin) Derby visits Transcultural Pilgrim to discuss the slain Dominican leader Olivorio Mateo Ledesma, depicted in one of José Bedia's monumental paintings.
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UCLA associate professor of history Lauren (Robin) Derby visits Transcultural Pilgrim to discuss the slain Dominican leader Olivorio Mateo Ledesma, depicted in one of José Bedia's monumental paintings. Ledesma, also known as Papá Liborio or Dios Olivorio, is regarded as a revolutionary hero and is among the historical figures from the Caribbean Bedia pays homage to in his work.
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Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia
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Large-scale figurative paintings and drawings and an installation by José Bedia come together in this major retrospective that explores the artist's spiritual genealogy as it relates to his Cuban-based religion and its central African source, as well as his explorations of the beliefs of indigenous American peoples. It is here that this "transcultural pilgrim" has found so much personal material for his spiritual and artistic practices. The exhibition also includes an altar created by Bedia and three alcoves that present selections from his vast collection of indigenous arts—ledger drawings from the Southern Plains, peyote boxes, Yaqui masks, and Central African power figures—that are the wellspring of his creativity.
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If your last artistic endeavor was a childhood paint-by-number or a high school art class, a new Henrico business provides the opportunity to uncork your inner artist and fuel your creative spirit – with 30 or 40 friends if you so desire.
Open since November, Spirited Art is located in West Broad Village, adjacent to The Wine Loft. That's where the "spirit" comes in.
Individuals and groups who attend painting sessions or classes during Wine Loft hours can order from a menu of flatbreads, sliders, cheese boards and beverages to enjoy while they create.
And the creations? Depending on the night, participants paint may anything from flowers and trees to animals to (the most popular) the Richmond skyline.
No artistic experience is needed; as promotional literature emphasizes, all that painters need to know are their shapes, letters and colors. And it helps to bring a friend and a sense of humor.
On a recent evening, Spirited Art hosted a record crowd of about 65 primarily-amateur artists gathered to paint blue crabs while they raised funds for the non-profit organization Boaz & Ruth, which has transformed the Highland Park community of Richmond by creating jobs, renovating buildings and starting businesses.
Before buckling down to their masterpieces, the painters heard from a Boaz & Ruth spokesperson, who described the organization's job training sessions, conflict resolution classes and coaching and counseling programs and their empowering effects for participants who had struggled with homelessness, prison and addiction.
"We rebuild [not just] stores and houses," said the spokesperson, who like most graduates of Boaz and Ruth programs was once incarcerated. "We rebuild lives."
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After a brief explanation of the process from a Spirited Art guide, and turns with the crab template to outline paintings, 65 heads bent over their canvases and the color-mixing began in earnest. Among the varied groups tackling the task were several residents of Wellesley, members of Christ Church Episcopal (a supporter of Boaz & Ruth), and employees of Free Agents Marketing. Many were encouraged to come by Marilyn Wayland of Free Agents, who organized the fundraising event.
But others who attended independently included the team of Stephanie Evans and her 12-year-old daughter Sarah, who decided to share one canvas and paint their crustacean as a collaborative effort. Their cousin and friend, Tracey Papas, was on her fourth trip to Spirited Art and had invited the Evans to join her for some family bonding.
"It's a good summer outing," said Stephanie Evans, as she and Sarah fine-tuned the shade of pink that would form the crab's background.
"And nice mother-daughter time."
On another recent afternoon, a group of 30 employees from Capital One gathered in the Spirited Art studio to paint one of the most popular subjects – the Richmond skyline – while doing some corporate team-building.
The atmosphere at the studio lends itself easily to team-building activities, say the owners, because it gets colleagues outside the comfort zone of their offices, breaks down workplace barriers and puts everyone on a more-or-less equal footing -- not to mention building camaraderie and injecting fun and humor into the mix.
In addition, participants finish the session with a memento to take home or back to the office – typically the skyline painting, but sometimes a corporate symbol or abstract piece of art. A group of 40 employees from University of Richmond, for example, all contributed to the same masterpiece: a multiple-paneled portrayal of the UR gazebo.
And after a visit by the Bon Secours Memorial School of Nursing, faculty member Trina Gardner told the Spirited Art staff, "We had no idea what to expect of this adventure, but we ended up with some excellent paintings – and insight into our true personalities!"
Among other Henrico groups and corporations that have visited Spirited Art for team-building events, said co-owner Dami Snyder, are Snagajob, Henrico County Schools, AmeriFinancial and CapTech. And although the Capital One group decided to focus on the social aspects for their experience, groups can also choose to add a challenging exercise or two. In one such exercise, explained Snyder, colleagues reach the halfway point of the session and take their communal break – only to hear the announcement that after the break, everyone will
move three seats over and resume painting on someone else's canvas.
"It's a good lesson," said Snyder, pointing out that the exercise highlights surprises and setbacks that can occur in the typical workplace. "You don't always get the project you want," she noted as one example. "You may get a project better than you thought you'd get. And you may walk into a hot mess!"
'I missed art in my life'
Although Spirited Art is new to the Richmond area, the concept is based on similar successful programs in Huntsville, Little Rock and Knoxville. Lauren McCormick, who is Snyder's sister and one of four co-owners of the Richmond site, said that once she visited the Alabama location, she could hardly wait to open a similar spot back home in Richmond. When she had become a mother, said McCormick, her artistic pursuits had fallen by the wayside. "I missed art in my
life," she said.
Despite the obstacles posed by restrictive Virginia ABC laws, which forbade the BYOB format of other Spirited Art sites, the owners persevered. Learning that the space next door to The Wine Loft was available, she approached Jeff Ottaviano of The Wine Loft about a partnership. By Thanksgiving 2011, Spirited Art Richmond was off and running, with little more than word-of-mouth advertising.
As the Boaz and Ruth event wound to a close July 24 – at $1,120 in proceeds, Spirited Art's biggest fundraiser to date – it was clear that the session had not only made a substantial sum for charity, but had also made a substantial number of memories.
Tracey Papas, in fact, made a point of flipping her canvas over and telling the Evanses that she had recorded their names for posterity. "I always write on the back of it," Papas told them, "about who I was with."
Across the room, 90-year-old Irma Rich beamed for the camera held by her daughter-in-law Adrienne Rich of Free Agents, while noisy groups of co-workers and neighbors posed proudly with their paintings for photos for the Spirited Art Facebook page. And next to the Evanses, a professional artist from Chesterfield wrapped up her fourth crab painting and speculated on which charity might be the recipient of her latest effort.
A frequent studio visitor, Sally Valentine has already painted a half dozen projects for the purpose of donating them to silent auctions at charity events. The last time she painted a crab, it raised $85 for a fundraiser for the Cape Charles Museum; another Spirited Art painting made $185 at a separate silent auction.
But generating money for charity, said Valentine, is not the only thing she enjoys about her visits to Spirited Art. The evening sessions allow her a chance to get out and meet interesting people, while also freeing her from distractions and enforcing a built-in time limit.
"It's great," said Valentine, "that you can come here and and sit down and paint – and it forces you to finish it!"
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The Varina Ruritan Club hosted the winners of its 2014 Environmental Essay contest at its monthly meeting March 11 in Varina.
The contest, in its eighth year, was for the first time open to students in grades 3-5 at Varina Elementary School. (It previously was open to Sandston Elementary School students.)
The meeting included the winners, parents of the winners, Varina Elementary principal Mark Tyler and several teachers who were in charge of the contest at the school. > Read more.
Baseball game to benefit Glen Allen Buddy Ball
For the fifth consecutive year, St. Christopher's and Benedictine will play a varsity baseball game at Glen Allen's RF&P Park as part of a fundraising effort for the River City Buddy Ball program.
The game will take place Saturday, April 12, at 7 p.m., and the teams hope to raise $3,000 through donations, raffles and other efforts. Admission to the game is free, but fans who attend are asked to donate funds for the Glen Allen Youth Athletic Association's Buddy Ball program, which enables disabled children and teens to play baseball. > Read more.
Highland Springs field to be dedicated in honor of longtime coach Spears
The Henrico Division of Recreation and Parks will dedicate the Highland Springs Little League Majors Field in memory and honor of Rev. Robert "Bob" L. Spears, Jr., on April 12 with a ceremony at the field at 8 a.m.
Spears served the league as a coach and volunteer for 30 years and was praised as a pioneer for equality. His "Finish strong" motto embodied ethical perseverance on the field and in life. > Read more.
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Do the Bunny Hop over to Meadow Farm on Saturday for an introduction to all the farm animals there! An introduction to "Global Sounds" – featuring Japanese, Indonesian, West African, Indian, and Brazilian music and dance performances – can be found at the University of Richmond. The University of Richmond will also host the annual Spider spring game, as well as the inaugural Spiders Easter Egg Hunt. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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'Muppets Most Wanted' worthy of its franchise
Do Muppets sleep? It's hard to say.
They don't really eat (or breathe, as far as anyone can tell). And only occasionally do they have visible, functioning legs.
As far as anyone knows, sleeping might be off the table. And that makes it very hard to accuse the Muppets of sleepwalking through their latest feature, Muppets Most Wanted – even if that's exactly what's going on.
Jim Henson's beloved creations were back in a big way after 2011's The Muppets, with fame and fortune and even an Oscar, a first for the group ("Rainbow Connection" was nominated, yet somehow failed to collect at the '79 ceremony). > Read more.
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Even I say Yikes. Was sort of the whole point of the chop. Thank you Bob, Gummy, Pat, Hobbit, Evirio, Newsey, Balodiya, SS, Sulli, eric, and Luciano and anyone else I forgot
Silver Congrats, Hitspinner beautifully done she don't look half bad after a couple shots of Tequila I do wish I could see your sources just to know what elements were created and which ones were stock still, it's a great looking chop.
Most of the sources were dumped. There are only 12 or so sources anyway. The bulk of the chop was all the hand painting that you don't see if you never did it yeah, there was a ton of hand painting. The face was based on some Hollywood actress and a terrible facelift. I made her quite a bit worse. Thanks for the comment
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Sweet chop, actually excellent. You keep getting better too Got a wodden cup for your trouble.
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Si an amazing wonderful artistic compositon... I love tour job rally my friend
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Thank you all. It helps to have a couple a drinks some times before you start :0)
, another great entry, this is excellent. brainstorm
Thanks guys, really appreciate all the nice comments
, never expected this kind of response, Thank you all so much for the nice comments :0)
Sometimes the work speaks and demands comments. There you go. terrific job....
Thank you Hitspinner, That means a lot :0)
you all are TOO kind and thank you VERY much for the very nice comments
Thank you ALL for your very nice comments and support. Never thought I'd win. This is a fun site and a great place to learn and pick up some tips
Congrats on the silver, Gary. Great comeback entry.
, Never left NewsMaster :0) but thank you ALL very much. I make take a break every now and then but this site is WAY too much fun to ever leave :0)
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Big congrats for an excellent chop and win.
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Awesome chop... like the upside trick and the fish coming out of water is really tricky like it
Thanks.... Everyone.... I really love the site ,,and I am so happy I found it.
Congrats on gold Pre... your a master of colors.
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Top quality . Hard to make better . Congrats .
Now you need to put these two chops together.
Thanks Gummy, Armatien, Doc, Eric, Rajesh, Steve GSQ. Just truing to give you folks my best. Seems I have space themes on the brain
So slick. Gorgeous chop and congrats on the Gold.
Super-clean and clever work, Hitsmaker. Congrats on the gold.
Congrats on the Gold. Shame we don't have the stage for you like they did for her (ha).
Thanks Newsy and Bunacode. Nice compliment. Wish me luck, I jus did some poison oak removal. Pretty sure I did it cleanly but with that stuff... yikes...
Like the new program. awesome work, oh and congrads on the Super Gold Cup.
Hmmmm, Bob and Pix didn't show up in comments whereas Newsey and Bunacode did... Thanks guys. One of those 4 little boxes up there on the front page is plenty stage. Anything bigger and I'd probably fall off, Bob
TY HH. Yeah buddy, the new program is awesome. I knew once I got the same toys as the big boys I could pump out some pretty consistent A+++ chops. Many thanks to my secret benefactor for that. I still have a few ad-ons that create a sparkle in my eye but what I have seems to be getting er dun.
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|Stewart Mandel and Mallory Rubin celebrate the arrival of a playoff. BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock answers questions about the forthcoming selection committee and bowl rotation.
I always feared that when the day finally arrived that the BCS was put to pasture, the Mailbag might go out of business. But two-and-a-half years before we even play the first semifinal, the four-team playoff complaints are already rolling in. Even in the wake of a historic, sought-after-for-decades announcement, many of you seem just as grumpy as ever.
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But to start, let's celebrate just a little.
Stewart, do you think that the four-team playoff will remain for a long time or will it change to eight teams in 2026? I believe four teams is as perfect as it gets. It preserves the sanctity of the regular season -- more than one loss is almost a guaranteed miss of the playoff for most teams -- and it removes the stigma of the deserving team not having a chance. (Yes, the distinction between Nos. 4 and 5 will still remain, but that's a heck of a lot better than Nos. 2 and 3.) Plus, everybody can agree that every year there are no more than three "elite" teams.
-- Nick E., Irvine, Caif.
I couldn't agree more. I've only ever wanted four teams. In the BCS era, there have rarely been more than four teams with a legitimate claim to No. 1. In fact, according to my research, it's only happened once in 14 years, in 2008. A four-team playoff maintains the intense week-in, week-out stakes of the regular season while also creating a more climactic postseason. It eradicates absolute injustices like 2004 Auburn while still restricting the field in most years to the truly elite teams.
When I saw all the eight-team proponents flooding my Twitter stream during Tuesday's press conference, I loaded up last year's BCS standings. The No. 8 team was 10-2 Kansas State -- a good team, and certainly deserving of an upper-tier bowl berth, but not a squad anyone would mistake for a national championship-caliber team. As I've written before, that's what separates college from the NFL: A team can't go 9-7, like the New York Giants did last year, and still get a shot at the top prize.
That said, I think we can all see the writing on the wall. The first time there's a dispute over No. 4 (presumably the very first season) we will hear every bit as much outrage as we did over No. 2 in the past. As soon as people get a taste of thrilling college playoff games, they'll want more of them. That's exactly why the commissioners are locking this thing in for 12 years. They don't want to be pressured into going back to the drawing board and doing this all over again four years from now. So those of you who agree with me and Nick should enjoy the heck out of 2014-25. Every other playoff in every other sport has eventually expanded, and this one will too.
How can you suggest that a four-team playoff is a "big move forward" for college football? It is a continuation of the stranglehold that AQ conferences have on college football. Can you think of a scenario where a non-AQ member gets one of the four selections? No, this "new" format will give the AQ's revenue from two more games and nothing more. Fans get shafted again.
-- Dave Tout, Graham, Wash.
Not to be condescending, but of all the reasons college football fans have clamored for a playoff, fairness to the little guy was generally pretty low on the list. I've never sensed the same love affair with Cinderella in football as there is with March Madness. If anything, it's quite the opposite, as evidenced by how Boise State unwittingly became a national villain two years ago when pundits had the audacity to consider the Broncos a national title contender. First and foremost, people want to see a more conclusive ending to the season, which they're going to get. They want to see at least two more exciting, high-stakes games between the nation's best teams. They want to see Ohio State play Alabama or Florida play Texas. They don't want to see USC play Louisiana Tech in the Southwest Regional semifinal.
It may well be more difficult for the mid-majors to play for the national title in a four-team event than it was in the BCS, but it won't be because of any grand conspiracy. For one, realignment has hurt the former non-AQ leagues more than any other factor. Nearly all the best programs have now joined the "haves," with the exception of Boise State, which is now sitting somewhere between "have" and "have not." And by putting such an emphasis on strength of schedule -- which any rational person would agree is a good thing -- it becomes that much harder for even an undefeated mid-major to make its case.
For instance, I fully believed that Boise State's 2010 team was one of the four best in the country before it lost to Nevada, but I could not have argued in good conscience that it had a better résumé on paper than most of the major conference champions. That's something people are going to have to get used to with the playoff: Assuming this selection committee does in fact follow much the same protocol as the basketball version, we are officially shifting from "best" (in the subjective opinion of voters) to "most deserving" (based on agreed-upon criteria).
But all is not lost for the little guy in this new world.
Stewart, under the college football playoff system, where do you think a team like Boise State would have ended up this past season? Many believe the most disgraceful treatment of any team this last year was Boise State playing a mediocre Arizona State team in a meaningless bowl, as the final score attested. Would this new system have made a difference or will we still see these kind of disappointing bowls?
-- Lars Justinen, Enumclaw, Wash.
It appears the selection committee will be enlisted not only to pick the playoff teams, but to fill out the entire bowl pool for those top six games -- not necessarily to dictate matchups, but to decide which teams qualify for selection -- using the same criteria. We will essentially have the top 12 teams (or close to that) spread out over six bowl games. "At the one-through-four level, champions, strength of schedule and head-to-head matter as tiebreakers," Jim Delany said Tuesday. "Likewise, at nine, 10, 11 and 12, those same principles will be used to separate teams from each other." Idaho President Duane Nellis, who was in the room for Tuesday's presentation, told the Idaho Statesman five additional non-BCS teams would have gained access to those six bowls over the past 12 years and that Boise State likely would have been selected last year.
No one can say for sure what would have happened -- it would still, at the end of the day, have come down to the committee's decision -- but the point is, this new tier of elite games is meant to weed out lowly ranked participants and avoid situations like last year, when Boise State and Kansas State got passed over by the Sugar Bowl for lower-ranked teams. It also throws a bone to the former non-AQs, seeing as the major conference champions are all still guaranteed berths through their contracted bowls (the Rose for the Big Ten and Pac-12, the "Champions" for the SEC and Big 12 and presumably the Orange for the ACC). I'm sure the bowls aren't thrilled about losing even more control over the selection process, but it's a sacrifice they'll have to make if they want in on the playoff games.
Stewart, I nominate you for the new selection committee for your clear thinking, sound analysis and cool-headedness on all matters college football. We engineer some outstanding body armor here at Auburn and would be happy to provide you with a kit, no strings attached.
-- Bart Prorok, Auburn
I'm flattered and honored by the suggestion, and while I'm fully supportive of the selection committee concept, it would take more than body armor for me to serve on it. I would demand seven-figure compensation, a fully-stocked bunker and secret, deluxe accommodations abroad during the other eight months of the year, preferably changing locations about once or twice a month. Maybe fake passports, too.
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It ties together polarization, confirmation bias, the media, David Simon and The Wire, and the need for addressing values and narrative before facts.
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