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Walt Disney Animation Studios has produced one of the boldest animated films in years. Here's why Paperman is so important...
UPDATE: Here's our original article on Paperman, now with the full short film itself, that's been released online by Disney...
After a period where it was hard to get excited about the films coming from Walt Disney Animation Studio (I've yet to meet anyone who raved about The Wild, a film distributed under the Disney banner, even if it wasn't made by WDAS itself), the past five years have seen it really start to fire back into life.
It was the animated films that Disney was putting out in the late 80s and 90s that really got me into big-screen mainstream animation in the first place. Even in the films that some unwritten law says you're not allowed to like - Treasure Planet being a prime example - I was finding lots to enjoy.
But, as history has told, it all fell apart. Walt Disney Animation Studios stopped being the innovators. Instead, it was Pixar, and to a lesser extent, DreamWorks, that was doing that kind of work. That's before you even begin to consider what Brad Bird turned around with far fewer resources with The Iron Giant.
It was a depressing time, watching films such as Home On The Range, Chicken Little and The Wild come and go, and realising that Walt Disney Animation Studios had lost its boldness. As a result, I only ended up catching Meet The Robinsons at a kids' club screening months after it came out, so far had Disney animation fallen off my radar. But I was glad I did. I still think Meet The Robinsons is something of an underrated treat, the first Disney film to directly benefit from bringing John Lasseter and his Pixar team into the company. It, consequently, marked something of a turnaround, and the momentum has been with Disney since.
The films that followed? Bolt demonstrated a real commitment to quality character design, The Princess And The Frog rediscovered the initiative in hand-drawn animation, Tangled was glorious, Winnie The Pooh likewise. And now, we've got the small matter of Wreck-It Ralph to look forward to, a film that feels like it's been made specifically to make everyone who reads this site happy.
But it's Paperman I want to talk about, and it's Paperman, I believe, that's arguably most important for where Walt Disney Animation Studios is heading. If you dig back into the history of big-screen American animation, it's Disney that did lots of the innovating, that took chances on new things. Even Pixar would have struggled to get where it is now had Disney not taken a chance of investing in Toy Story, back when CG animation was never considered a mainstream proposition (Disney also employed Pixar as early back as in 1991's Beauty And The Beast).
Paperman is a short film directed by John Kahrs. At heart, it's the straightforward story of a man trying to track down a woman he meets one morning in mid-century New York. Primarily in black and white, it's accompanied by glorious music from Christophe Beck, and the simple idea is quite brilliantly realised.
What's particularly interesting about Paperman, though, above and beyond what a superb short it is (and it really is), is what it says about Walt Disney Animation Studios. Because there's genuine innovation in animation here, and not just in a technological arms race kind of way. Much of the progress in big screen blockbuster animation in the past few years has been on getting computers to do things that look better, and move faster, than ever before. The trick to Paperman is that John Kahrs has spent as much time looking backwards as he has looking forwards.
Paperman, thus, tries something different. It builds on the work done in CG animation, and the film is rendered with computer visuals. But then Kahrs - with the aid of Glen Keane - has overlaid traditional 2D hand-drawn visuals over the top. Not everywhere, not least because this is a tightly-budgeted production. But to get across the added character that 2D drawing can inject, the likes of eyes and facial expressions are drawn over the CG visuals.
It's a striking, wonderful effect, married to a terrific little film. Furthermore, one by-product of the heavy work and investment in the two main characters is that Kahrs and his team had to be careful and clever in how they approached the backgrounds. I got a chance to ask Kahrs and producer Kristina Reed about this, and they confirmed that marrying CG and hand drawn animation together obviously involves some doubling up of already labour-intensive work.
Thus, when they approached the backgrounds, they're deliberately kept a little rough (just look at the jagged detail on the clocks in the picture above). Edges aren't smoothed out in places, and yet they feel a perfect fit for the material. I can't think of an animated film where New York has looked quite so striking before.
Paperman is playing before Wreck-It Ralph when it arrives in cinemas (November in the US, February in the UK). It's an over-used cliché, perhaps, but it is worth the entrance money alone. Longer term, it also sees Walt Disney Animation Studios taking the kind of risks it absolutely should be taking. Once upon a time, the studio was the standard that everyone else strived for. Short films like Paperman, which you can't imagine anyone else making, are confident steps towards reclaiming that mantle. And if the 2D on 3D effect can stretch to a full feature, then I'll be first in the queue to see it. Especially if John Kahrs is directing...
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Is it just me who starts to lose interest as soon as someone tells me a film is important?
It usually means it won't be particularly entertaining.
"It's an over-used cliché, perhaps, but it is worth the entrance money alone."
- Most 90 minute feature films aren't worth the hideous prices at the cinema these days, let alone this.
It looks sublime, but hasn't Futurama been blending 2D and 3D for years now? Doesn't seem that revolutionary.
looks mesmerizing.. anywhere where one could get a preview/trailer or something?
Futurama isn't handdrawn. But there has been anime that have already done this.
It's just you.
when, where and how can I see this?
It looks terrific and I can't wait to see both Paperman and Wreck-It Ralph on the big screen. One clarification though: The Wild was not done by Walt Disney Animation Studios (thank God), it was only distributed by Disney.
'November in the US, February in the UK' How gutting is that?! This will be as bad as the ridiculous wait we had here for The Muppets.
The Wild was not a product of Walt Disney Animation Studios. It was distributed by the Walt Disney Company, but not produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Wow. That is beautiful.
I have to say I really enjoyed that. I'd love to see it turned into a full feature.
I feel all warm and fuzzy inside now.
When I saw Wreck-It Ralph in the theater, Paperman brought tears to my eyes. Absolutely lovely.
I saw this in a preview showing of Wreck it Ralph last week, very good but it did remind me of some Japanese animation. Not sure its as cutting edge as you make out but certainly for mainstream Disney it is.
Pixar? Is that you?
That's such a wonderful little story. It brought joy to my heart to watch.
Yes, it is Pixar, in a way. Note that John Lasseter is exec producer. Didn't the paper aeroplane remind you of the little desk lamp from all those years ago?


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Following the 2010 NFL Draft former Rockets safety Barry Church found himself as an undrafted free agent with a host of suitors vying for his services.
Impressed with their level of interest, the four-time, first-team All-Mid-American Conference honoree chose the Dallas Cowboys, with whom he inked a three-year deal.
Church started just one game his first two seasons but played a significant role in special teams and spent time in substitution packages on defense.
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"It does show my versatility, and if you can do more for the team, you're going to stick around longer," Church said. "It makes my value go up."
The Cowboys will look to benefit from Church's array of talents in 2012, and in the final year of his contract, it appears that they will do so by making him the fourth player in as many seasons to get a crack at the safety spot opposite veteran Gerald Sensabaugh.
"It was definitely a rough path coming undrafted out of Toledo. It was a long road but I've worked hard, earned my stripes my first two years going through special teams and being that back-up guy who fills in," Church said. "Now I have my opportunity, maybe, to start for the Dallas Cowboys so I'm definitely trying to take full advantage of that."
Dallas head coach Jason Garrett preached competition at all positions this offseason, however, Church has seen little of that at safety since training camp began July 31. Free agency pickup Brodney Pool failed the team's conditioning test before being cut and rookie Matt Johnson is still learning the playbook while recovering from a hamstring injury that relegated him to the Physically Unable to Perform list until late last month.
Church has shined regardless, making highlight reel plays, including an interception off franchise quarterback Tony Romo the first day of camp. In the five days following, while taking every first-team snap at safety, he picked off another pass and broke up four more to go with a quarterback hurry. Before a preseason snap had been taken, Church had already become a virtual lock to start at strong safety this season.
"It's my second year in [defensive coordinator] Rob Ryan's system and I feel like I know it pretty well now so it's allowed me to be more confident in my game," Church said. "[The Cowboys] have seen that they can have a lot of confidence in me and my game. They saw that the first week of camp and they decided to go with me and that just makes me want to play harder, knowing the organization has my back."
Church took steps in pursuit of earning the starting job during Organized Team Activities this offseason, working with Sensabaugh and All-Pro tight end Jason Witten to improve his pass coverage skills as teams increasingly look to involve tight ends in the aerial attack.
"In the offseason during OTA's I got to cover Witten a lot one-on-one. He's one of the greatest tight ends ever to play the game so it gave me a chance to fine tune the art of covering the tight end and how they run their routes," Church said. "Gerald Sensabaugh shared some tidbits on how to play the safety position, like where to drop to in your zone and how to read the quarterback so you can get a better jump for an interception. Those two guys definitely helped me out a lot this offseason."
Church continued to master the team's defensive system in the offseason as well. Ryan's scheme can be challenging for a safety, particularly because it does not cater to the traditional free/strong safety combination.
"It's more right and left," Church said. "They want us to learn both, but the strong safety is more likely to help out in the running game and the free safety will be back deep. But with motions and reloads, you've got to be able to play both. For a safety in this defense, it's pretty hard."
During most of their storied playoff runs Dallas has possessed forgettable safeties, leaning instead on an unusually gifted cornerback rotation.
The franchise has not enjoyed sustained success at either position since Hall of Fame-bound safety Darren Woodson's retirement seven years ago. The Cowboys have not forced more interceptions than touchdowns scored against them, fielding one top-10 passing defense and consequently earning just one playoff victory in that time.
Upon joining Garrett's staff in 2011, Ryan brought a renewed emphasis on the secondary to Dallas. Church, Johnson, cornerbacks Brandon Carr and Morris Claiborne — the sixth overall pick in 2012 — could all play a hand in bringing Dallas' pass defense back to elite status.
The five-time Super Bowl champions already tout an All-Pro quarterback armed with a full arsenal of weapons and almost the entire Dallas defensive line and linebacker corps are in or near the prime of their careers. Church and the developing Cowboys secondary are potentially the final piece to a Super Bowl puzzle which has gone unsolved for 16 seasons.
"We have big-time key players on both sides of the ball that can take this team the whole distance," Church said. "I'm looking forward to the season and what it has to offer the Cowboys."
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Respiratory syncytial virus infection and disease in infants and young children observed from birth in Kilifi district, Kenya
Nokes, D. James, Okiro, Emelda A., Ngama, Mwanajuma, Ochola, Rachel, White, Lisa J., Scott, P. D. (Paul D.), English, M. (Mike), Cane, Patricia and Medley, Graham. (2008) Respiratory syncytial virus infection and disease in infants and young children observed from birth in Kilifi district, Kenya. Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vol.46 (No.1). pp. 50-57. ISSN 1058-4838Full text not available from this repository.
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Background. In developing countries, there are few data that characterize the disease burden attributable to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and clearly define which age group to target for vaccine intervention. Methods. Six hundred thirty-five children, recruited during the period 2002-2003, were intensively monitored until each experienced 3 epidemics of RSV infection. RSV infection was diagnosed using immunofluorescence of nasal washing specimens collected at each episode of acute respiratory infection. Incidence estimates were adjusted for seasonality of RSV exposure. Results. For 1187 child-years of observation (CYO), a total of 409 (365 primary and 82 repeat) episodes of RSV infection were identified. Adjusted incidence estimates of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI), severe LRTI, and hospital admission were 90 cases per 1000 CYO, 43 cases per 1000 CYO, and 10 cases per 1000 CYO, respectively, and corresponding estimates among infants were 104 cases per 1000 CYO, 66 cases per 1000 CYO, and 13 cases per 1000 CYO, respectively. The proportion of cases of all-cause LRTI, and severe LRTI and hospitalizations attributable to RSV in the cohort was 13%, 19%, and 5%, respectively. Fifty-five percent to 65% of RSV-associated LRTI and severe LRTI occurred in children aged > 6 months. The risk of RSV disease following primary symptomatic infection remained significant beyond the first year of life, and one-quarter of all reinfections were associated with LRTI. Conclusions. RSV accounts for a substantial proportion of the total respiratory disease in this rural population; we estimate that 85,000 cases of severe LRTI per year occur in infants in Kenya. The majority of this morbidity occurs during late infancy and early childhood-ages at which the risk of disease following infection remains significant. Disease resulting from reinfection is common. Our results inform the debate on the target age group and effectiveness of a vaccine.
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by Inoljt, Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 10:15:08 AM EST
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On the eighth anniversary of 9/11, a professor of mine made a comment that caused a lot of soul-searching for me. He remarked, quite casually, that the United States is in decline.
Those words angered me. Nobody likes to hear their country characterized in that manner. But ever since then I've been considering that casual statement.
I think it accurately describes the state of our nation.
We are a nation in decline.
We are in decline for a variety of reasons, some more controllable and some less so. Economic weakness has something to do with it, as does the popularity of anti-Americanism (thank you, George Bush). Misadventures in the Middle East and the rise of China also play a participating role.
But enough about why we are in decline. What can be done to stop it?
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Asteroid Bingle For February
Well I wanted to do an Asteroid Bingle to vary it up a bit from being all about the major planets in Capricorn-Aqua-Pisces…Especially the latter two.
But guess what? All the asteroids I fancy to follow are there too…So it really is an intense Piscean moment. Get this: Circe is between Pluto and the North Node. And then Ishtar is conjunct the North Node. We have to do spells and being cunning to help manifest our destiny? Why not. So long as it doesn't degenerate.
Mercury, Neptune and Chiron are all in Aquarius, as you know. So is asteroid Persephone and the Dark Moon Lilith. More witchery concentrated in the same area. Magic is brewing, i swear it.
And then, this is what's in Pisces for the weekend and beyond: Asteroid Lust, the Sun, asteroid Pan, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Asteroid Psyche. Yes, that's quite a lot.
If you look at the chart, with or without the fun extra bits, nearly all the houses are empty barring Capricorn, Aquarius & Pisces. Aim for an enchanted & fast tracked evolution where-ever you've got Pisces going on. Don't repress the Lilith-Circe style energy or it will bank up and turn to bitcherel.


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HINTON — With two major blazes and multiple structures in the line of fire Tuesday morning, fire victims, families, friends and members of the community stepped up to ensure each other's safety during the fire that leveled 11 homes and six separate structures in downtown Hinton.
Randy Weikle said he smelled smoke and heard sirens and looked outside his back window, which faces the backside of "the brick row" where Tuesday morning's fire started.
He said he could see flames and smoke in the building next door to where his hearing impaired and wheelchair-bound mother-in-law, Priscilla Martin, lived.
"I went out front and started getting them out of there and it was not long before the fire had spread. I kicked a lot of doors in and even got some birds out of there," he said.
Weikle first got to his mother-in-law, who was unaware the building next door was on fire. Once she was safe on the street he returned to help others evacuate.
Katherine Boggess lived in the center block with her four children, a 16-month-old grandchild and another small boy she cares for.
"My smoke alarm went off and woke me up. I opened the bedroom door and there was smoke everywhere. I got downstairs to get my kids out," she shared. "I had to go back upstairs to get my dog. She panicked and went back upstairs under the bed and hid."
Like several of the fire victims, Boggess has family and friends nearby to stay with.
"Right now I'm staying with my uncle but I'm at a loss. There is just so much of a loss you don't know what to do. I'm not sure what we are going to do from here," she said.
Jeremiah Martin, also a fire victim, said he woke up to the sound of his ex-girlfriend pounding on his door to alert him the neighboring structures were on fire.


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Mary Katheryn Eliason, 65, Kokomo, passed away at 8:58 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2013 in St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis.
She was born Feb. 1, 1947 in Indianapolis, she is the daughter of the late Everett Moulden and Garnet (Heath) Moulden. On Sept. 30, 1967, in Kokomo, she married Daniel C. Eliason, and he survives. She was a homemaker who enjoyed camping, playing cards, games, fishing and spending time with her grandchildren. She was a member of the Cornerstone Christian Center.
Survivors include her husband of 45 years, Daniel C. Eliason, Kokomo; one son, David (Jeannie) Eliason, Kokomo; one daughter. Julie Rogers, Kokomo; one brother, William (Beth) Moulden, South Carolina; four grandchildren, Dameon Clark, Tyler Gatlin, Hannah Eliason and Shaelah Eliason.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, at Ellers Mortuary Webster Street Chapel, 3400 S. Webster St., Kokomo. Pastor Paul Enochs will officiate. Burial will follow in Albright Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at the mortuary.
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Dyadic exercises, belief systems, sharing, complying to the rules, accountable for 100% of our lives, we set things up to be that way, "get out of your head", "quit anal-yzing everything"...
Any of this sound familiar? I'm referring to large group awareness, mass marathon training, and self-awareness seminars.
It seems little has been discussed about groups like these. I know a number of people who gone through the "training".
I attended all three courses at Impact Training in the early '90s. Like most attendees I was recruited by family. At General Conference in 1997 LDS church leadership denounced such groups. Yet I still hear of LDS members getting involved. Perhaps it's confusing because there are many training companies under different names as opposed to having one unified church.
I was later recruited again in 2003. Despite my objections I was told this was a completely different experience from what I had when I went through Impact Training when I was a teenager. Though the name of the company had changed and the facilitator was new, I could immediately see they were using the exact same Day 1 script.
I was the last one standing and I chose not to consent to the rules because I objected to any activity that suppressed critical thinking of the participants. I walked out of the large room but was taken to another room for 30 minutes while they attempted to persuade me "go for it". I left but not without first expressing my disappointment in the character of the loved one who attempted to recruit me.
Her ex-husband, coincidentally, was the one who recruited me for the second course, back when I was 16. However she had only recently discovered the program. I later regretted criticizing her, I was perhaps too harsh telling her that she should know better than to waste time with them. You should never blame someone for getting involved in groups like these -- it's not their fault. Although they'd likely respond, "Don't should all over yourself"...
These trainings are regarded with full-on religious fervor. I find these seminars to be over-rated, potentially damaging, and at the very least a waste of time and money regardless of whether you listen with "your heart" or "commit one hundred percent". Admittedly at the time I personally experienced the typical elation and sense of heightened well-being, I thought as a result of courageous "sharing" and learning to fully "commit".
This subject comes to mind tonight because a TV show reminded me of my past experiences. There's a story-line involving a group like this in Season 2 of Six Feet Under, episode 3, The Plan. "...it's one of those self acualization things in the '70s where they yell at you for 12 hours and don't let you go to the bathroom." LOL
There are very few references to groups like this in pop culture. It must be because we were all sworn to secrecy.
I'd like to learn where it came from and what its true purpose is. I don't believe that it's to empower people. Is it designed to start a new movement or religion? Are we just lab rats? Is it purely a business for profit? Or a way to find suckers for another scam?
I am interested in finding studies and critiques on what some would call a brainwashing cult. Here's a start.
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Soon after the game of basketball, now played in more than a hundred countries around the world, got its start in 1892 in Springfield, Mass., at the YMCA training school, Boises YMCA had teams that played each other and high school teams in the area. The Idaho Statesman and other newspapers regularly reported on the games, often with strong home-town bias.
The Emmett Index, for example, was most unhappy with the outcome of a game between its high school boys and a Boise YMCA team played on Jan. 12, 1907: Prize Fighters Won Slugging Tactics of Boise Wins Basketball Game. The next time the Emmett basketball team goes to Boise for a game they will take with them a hospital and ambulance corps fully equipped with all appliances for the sewing up of wounds, cutting off of limbs, and setting of fractured bones.
Many who wanted to see that game couldnt get seats, and the Index fumed: They even charged the Emmett crowd 50 cents admission while Boise paid 25 cents. (How the door-keepers knew who the Weiser supporters were is not explained). The score was Boise 40, Emmett 20, but only because of what the Index called Boises disgraceful tactics. A rematch was scheduled to be played in Emmett on Feb. 9, 1907, but, the paper said, Slugging wont be allowed this time. Emmett won that one in overtime 26-24.
When the Weiser High girls beat the Boise High girls 15-11 at Weiser on March 20, 1908, the Statesman reported: The game was clean and interesting, few fouls being recorded, though the visiting team made most of its points on fouls. The first half resulted in a score of 9 to 6 in favor of Weiser. Marguerite West, one of the Boise forwards, was hurt in the second half and was unable to finish the game. Her injuries are not serious.
In 1909, a Boise City League was formed with teams sponsored by local merchants. In December that year, 600 fans turned out to watch two games played in the new high school gymnasium between University of Idaho and Boise High teams and Caldwell and Boise girls teams. Not surprisingly, the university team won 23-9 while holding the high-school boys to a single field goal. The Boise girls won their game 12-10. Although his name is not mentioned in the Statesman story, it is possible that Moscow native Clarence Hec Edmundson, one of the first great athletes and coaches in Idaho sports history, played in that game. His illustrious career and my personal memories of him are the subject of next weeks column.
In the 1920s basketball flourished all over Idaho. Nampa formed a city league made up of teams sponsored by the American Legion, Nampa Free Press, Knights of Columbus, Oregon Short Line, and Nampa High School. Boise YMCA and Boise High School teams met regularly for years before new high schools Borah in 1958 and Capital in 1965 were created. Scores were still low, and play was deliberate, since the fast-break style of play had not been created yet. On New Years Day, 1921, the YMCA beat the high school 28-12. In April that year the First National Bank team won the championship of the Boise Commercial League.
In 1926 the big news in Idaho basketball was a University of Idaho team that beat Hec Edmundsons Washington Huskies team for the second time that season 31-27, and the Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State) 24-13. In March 1926, Lewiston High School won the state championship and traveled to Chicago to play for the national high school championship. They lost 25-24 to a team from Pine Bluff, Ark. The winning team from Fitchburg, Mass., was multi-ethnic, with players whose backgrounds were Italian, Finnish, Greek and Nova Scotian, and the coach was French a microcosm of a sport that would become truly international.
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Downtown Boone Art Crawl Friday
Hosted every first Friday of the month (this time on Aug. 5), the Downtown Boone Art Crawl sees area galleries and businesses open their doors in celebration of art, community and a combination of the two, oftentimes served alongside refreshments and live music.
Hands Gallery (543 W. King St.) will be open until 8 p.m., featuring the work of longtime cooperative member Chrissie Callejas, who creates unique and whimsical paintings and sculptures. In addition to Callejas, the gallery features work by 19 other local artists.
Gladiola Girls (549 W. King St.) hosts stained glass artist Debi Dwyer, whose award-winning work has appeared at festivals and shows from southern Florida to the beaches of Virginia and everywhere in between. Dwyer and her friends at Gladiola Girls will greet visitors from 5 to 8 p.m., promising an evening of art, refreshments and conversation.
Dancing Moon Earthway Bookstore (553 W. King St.) presents its "Spirit Fair" featuring readings, intuitive arts, energy work and more, inviting crawlers to join in the enlightening entertainment from 5 to 8 p.m.
The Watauga Arts Council and Jones House Community Center (604 W. King St.) will host new exhibits from the High Country Watermedia Society, Linda Elksnin and Marilyn Herman, with an opening reception - refreshments included - from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Woodcarver James Miller will give demonstration at ArtWalk (611 W. King St.), beginning in the late afternoon and continuing throughout the night. Stop by to see the artist at work on his early 1900s pedal lathe.
Anna Banana's (641 W. King St., Suite 1) is art crawling to a different tune, featuring live acoustic music from Of Good Nature, featuring Appalachian State student and former Anna Banana's employee Joey Vachon on djembe, Chris Andrews on bass and Cameron Brown on guitar and vocals. Of Good Nature specializes in a mix of reggae, funk, rock and jam. Customers can strut their best dance move to earn 10 percent off their total purchase.
The Nth˚ Gallery & Studios (683 W. King St.) presents "Visage of Ether," a collection of paintings and sculptures from ASU senior Joseph Zarrilli Duffer, who said his work "exhibit(s) abstraction of the human figure and landscape as if they came from the upper regions of space. They depict transcending the physical self and focus on the inner realities of emotional and expressive states of existing as spiritual beings in physical bodies. They display a discovery of our eternal yet ethereal connections to the myriad sentient beings omnipresent throughout the world and the universe." The show opens at 7 p.m.
Shear Shakti (693 W. King St.) hosts the work of photographer Sheena Laine Honeycutt.
The Art of Oil (819 W. King St.) will offer art to taste, with an oil and vinegar tasting, dessert and tasting of Spanish wines from 5 to 9 p.m. Expect sculptures and paintings, as well as jewelry by Laura Fly and Bella Vita Jewelry.
Murphy's Restaurant & Pub (747 W. King St.) presents music from Bertram, Bertram, Brown, Huffman & Harris, members of local favorites The Native Sway and BPL.
Vidalia (831 W. King St.) offers Friday Night Flights, from 6 to 9 p.m., meaning personal wine-tastings with visitors' choice of three white or red wines, or both. Each wine is paired with a small appetizer, and flights cost $20 each.
Custard Depot (158 S. Depot St.) will help crawlers cool down with a free waffle cone with any sized custard purchase.
Modern Rustic (182 Howard St.) will open its doors on Friday from 5:30 to 11 p.m., welcoming visitors to its gallery and "think-tank for creativity." Featured art includes cast concrete and locally reclaimed wood used to unique cabinetry, countertops, furniture, sinks and more. Commissions are also welcome.


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The ACF Newsletter is published every two months and offers a preview of programmes organised, initiated or supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum London. In addition, it highlights relevant cultural events in the UK and Austria.
The Austrian Cultural Forum London is calling for new oboe pieces to be performed during an evening with renowned oboist Christopher Redgate. Click here to find out more.
The award is for doctoral research on a topic related to Austria and available to an Austrian or UK citizen. The grant provides up to £10,000 and may be used towards tuition fees or maintenance. Click here for further details.
The Austrian government is looking to award Nonprofit organisations in the fields of Education, Participation & Business for innovative and solution-oriented projects that operate under the umbrella of intercultural dialogue. For further information click here.
The ACF London is calling for scores for solo violin to be performed during a special concert with renowned violinist David Alberman on 21 May. Click here to find out more.
The BMUKK, Graz-City Writer and other Austrian scholarship bodies have announced their 2014/15 scholarships. Click here to find out more.
Listen to the curator of our upcoming exhibition Destination UK discuss female post-war migration on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
The ACF London has compiled a set of links and resources on the 75th anniversary of the November pogroms. Click here to find out more.
The Austrian Ministry for Siceince and Research has just announced scholarships in these fields for 2014/15. Find out more information by visiting www.grants.at
Listen to an interview with writer Iain Sinclair about the soul of London's streets on Shoreditch Radio in response to Hubert Blanz's photography exhibition Homeseekers. The interview was conducted at the ACF London.
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There was a Sheep farmer who had four daughters.
One night, he heard a knock at the door and found a young man standing there.
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The farmer thought that this was cute, so he let them go out.
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Stolen Belgium iPhones Show Up in Russian Black Market
Where did the Russian Black Market, get 4000 stolen iPhones? If you guessed from that from that Belgium warehouse, where do you think they will end up? you would be 100% correct.
Russia currently does not sell the iPhone and the importing of unlocked phones is a hot commodity. Cult of Mac is reporting that the stolen goods are being sold for cash on the Russian Black Market in lots of 100 at below average prices to cell phone vendors.
Some vendors are a little skeptical about purchasing the devices since they know where they came from and know that they can be tracked via IMEI numbers that are all on file. Even so, there are some vendors out there who are not aware and are eager to snatch up a good deal and make a profit. Again, the problem with a vendor selling these phones is if law enforcement forces the local carriers to block the IMEI numbers they will have many customers returning very unhappy.
Our advice to you if you live in Russia, avoid these phones.
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no one cares
@ Drew J--You obviously cared enough to leave a comment & read the story...hater
I thought IMEI blocking only affected the country that the phone is sold in? IE if a phone is blocked in the UK it will then not receive any signal from any carrier in the UK, yet will pick them up fine in any other country? If that's the case then blocking the IMEI of these stolen iPhones will be futile, no? Unless the Russian buyers decide to visit Belgium, anywhoo :-)
I'd like to buy one or two just to tinker with them.
in soviet Russia you don't buy iphone...iphone buys you!
Bhahaha this is hilarious. "Law enforcement" ;-)
No one gives a f@ck in Russia. You may trust me in this.
You can steal a phone from an old lady and sell it for cheap at a 2nd-hand dealers next door and get away with this. Piece of cake :-)
I reckon Russia has the world's largest market of stolen phones. All stolen phones from neighbouring countries go to Russia. Why? Because IMEI tracking equipment upgrades are expensive and not compulsory in this country hence carriers can't be bothered having it.
It's funny because one of my friends just picked up an unlocked 32 GB iPhone 3GS in Russia for a dead crazy cheap price - $450!!
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I was expecting to see Mr. Smirnoff's jokes somewhere around, hmmm, the first commentary.
@johm, you've disappointed me!
I am not sure how many carriers they have in Russia but it's safe to say that any carrier in Russia who has future plans of being a carrier for the Iphone, will be blocking the stolen phones or face being passed over.
In soviet Russia (and indeed, in modern Russia), even they know that a thing from Belgium is a "Belgian" thing. Sadly not in the US.
@Dreadnutz, market in Russia is a bit different. Selling phones for all the carriers is not a major business.


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Jingle Mingle 2012
WHAT The DFW Jingle Mingle is a multi-organizational holiday event and fundraiser created by professionals in the marketing, creative, interactive, media, and communications industry to benefit the DREAM Fund. Since its inception in 1991, the DREAM Fund, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, has directed hundreds of thousands of dollars to people in the advertising, marketing, public relations and media industries in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisiana who have experienced unexpected difficulties and life-changing events, such as illness, tragic loss and injury.
WHY The inaugural Jingle Mingle was a smashing success due to the support of 750 attendees representing 9 different organizations, who helped raise over $26,000 for the DREAM Fund to use in assisting industry colleagues during times of crisis. The Second Annual Jingle Mingle includes 12 organizations with a projected attendance of 1,000 and a goal of raising $30,000.
WHO Organization Hosts:
- Alliance for Women in Media DFW
- American Advertising Federation Dallas
- American Institute of Graphic Arts Dallas
- Big (D)esign / UX Dallas
- Dallas Society of Visual Communications
- DFW American Marketing Association
- DFW Interactive Marketing Association
- DFW Search Engine Marketing Association
- International Association of Business Communicators
- Social Media Club of Dallas
- Southwest Media Representatives
- Women In Wireless
Event Partners:
- THIRDinteractive - Interactive Partner
- Speakeasy - Social Media Partner
- Pierpont Communications - Public Relations Partner
- AMS Pictures - Creative Media Partner
- Dallas Business Journal - Media Partner
- CultureMap - Digital Media Partner
- Gilley's Dallas - Venue Partner
- The Walton Stout Band - Music Partner
WHEN Thursday, December 6, 2012 from 6 to 10 PM
WHERE Gilley's Dallas, 1135 South Lamar Street, Dallas, TX 75215
Just south of the Dallas Convention Center on Lamar Street in downtown Dallas.
Easily accessible from I-30 and Hwy75 and minutes from the Dallas North Tollway.
TICKETS $55 - $95 depending on quantity and date purchased


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The Fork in the Yellow Brick Road
by David B. Parker
"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. --By Order of the Author." So wrote Mark Twain in the prefatory remarks to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's warning has gone largely unheeded--as has a similar note in the Introduction to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, where L. Frank Baum warned that his book "was written solely to please children of today." Scholars, refusing to take Baum at his word, have looked for all sorts of hidden meanings in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, examining it from feminist, Marxist, sociopolitical, psychoanalytical, mythical, philosophical, and spiritual perspectives.
The most interesting of these interpretations are those that put The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into its historical context, showing how it reflects the issues and concerns of its day--the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Baum's classic was first published in 1900, a time when the United States was in a tremendous state of flux, its rural, agrarian society steadily giving way to cities and factories. Some Americans championed the new urban/industrial order, while others mourned the loss of a more traditional life and the values and virtues that had accompanied it. Where did Baum fit into this debate? For scholars, the Yellow Brick Road forks at this point; some see The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as supporting the old against the new, while others see just the opposite.
For most Americans, "The Wizard of Oz" is the 1939 MGM movie, not Baum's book. Even those of us who prefer the literary original must admit the strong impact of the movie. But we also know that the two versions of the story were quite different. Take the very beginning of the movie: a happy rural scene, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry in their comfortable home, hired help to do the chores, and so on. Compare that nice pastoral image with the way Frank Baum opened the story:
This is very different from the movie. After this brief opening passage, we know something about life on the Kansas prairie, something of what can happen to the human spirit in the midst of that gray existence. The passage is also some of the book's strongest writing. We get the idea that Baum knew Kansas and what life on the Plains could do to people.
Baum did know. In 1888, when his family's business (Baum's Castorine, an axle grease) fell apart, Baum took his growing family to Aberdeen, a pioneer town in the Dakota Territory (South Dakota did not enter the Union until 1889). The passage above is reminiscent of the writings of others who lived on the prairie in the late nineteenth century. Luna Kellie, a young woman who with her family--husband, daughter, and infant son--went to Nebraska where she wrote of drought, locusts, the death of her baby boy, and in general the same sense of "grayness" that Baum described so well. "The sun was very hot and bright. The prairie had all been burnt and grass just starting [and] not one spear seemed to dare to grow an inch higher than another. Not even a shrub or even a gooseberry bush was to be seen all the way and not many houses and most of them sod. The first one I saw I said 'But it is most black.' Pa said 'What color did you think a sod house would be?'"
Kellie and her husband joined the Nebraska Farmers' Alliance, a forerunner of the Populist party, as did thousands of other Midwesterners in the depression decade of the 1890s. (In fact Kellie was an official in the state organization.) Some people think The Wonderful Wizard of Oz reflects Baum's empathy for the prairie farmers, even seeing in his story an allegory of the Populist movement. One of the pioneers in this interpretation was Henry Littlefield. In 1964, Littlefield, a high school history teacher in New York, was trying to figure out a way to get his summer school students to understand the political and economic issues of late nineteenth-century America. His moment of epiphany came one night as he was reading the opening chapters of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to his children after trying that day to teach the issues of the Gilded Age to his class. Suddenly he realized that the two meshed in ways he'd never imagined, and over the next few days his students helped him find other connections.
The wicked Witch of the East, who "held all the Munchkins in bondage for many years, making them slave for her night and day," represented the eastern industrialists and bankers who controlled the common people--the "little" people, the Munchkins--who were powerless to resist.
The scarecrow stood for the midwestern farmer, wise but naive, who for years had put up with ridicule from people like journalist William Allen White (whose 1896 essay, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" derided Populists as a group better at whining and complaining than at finding solutions for their problems).
The Tin Woodman was the industrial worker, dehumanized, made heartless, by the toils of industry. Gilded Age workers were often portrayed as mechanical; labor leader Samuel Gompers once told members of the American Federation of Labor, "So, there you are, wageworkers in general, mere machines...."
Littlefield found all sorts of hidden meanings and allusions to Gilded Age society in Baum's classic story: the Cowardly Lion was William Jennings Bryan, Democratic/Populist presidential candidate in 1896 (although he roared for the common people, Bryan was afraid to endorse most of the Populist platform); the Yellow Brick Road, with all its dangers, was the gold standard that bankers and businessmen supported as means to maintain their economic power; Dorothy's silver slippers (in the movie, Judy Garland's were ruby red, but Baum originally made them silver) represented the Populists' solution to the nation's economic woes ("the free and unlimited coinage of silver," an inflationary measure that would help debt-ridden farmers); Emerald City was Washington, D.C.; and the Wizard, "a little bumbling old man, hiding behind a facade of paper mache and noise, . . . able to be everything to everybody," was any of the Gilded Age presidents.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was no longer an innocent fairy tale. According to Littlefield, Baum wrote the book as a parable of the Populists, an allegory of their failed efforts to reform the nation in 1896. It was an interesting notion, one scholars could not leave alone, and they soon began to find additional analogies between Populism and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Political historian Richard Jensen added two new points, finding correspondences for Toto and Oz itself: Dorothy's faithful dog represented the teetotaling Prohibitionists, an important part of the silverite coalition, and anyone familiar with the silverites' slogan "16 to 1"--that is, the ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold--would have instantly recognized "Oz" as the abbreviation for "ounce." Brian Attebery, a literary scholar, suggested an analogy of his own: "Dorothy, bold, resourceful, leading the men around her toward success, is a juvenile Mary Lease, the Kansas firebrand who told her neighbors to raise less corn and more hell." Gretchen Ritter claimed that the book is "filled with metaphors generated in the money debate of the late nineteenth century."
Perhaps the most extensive treatment of the Littlefield thesis was an article by economic historian Hugh Rockoff, who saw in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz "a sophisticated commentary on the political and economic debates of the Populist Era." Rockoff discovered a surprising number of new analogies. The Deadly Poppy Field, where the Cowardly Lion fell asleep and could not move forward, was the anti-imperialism that threatened to make Bryan forget the main issue of silver (note the Oriental connotation of poppies and opium). Once in the Emerald Palace, Dorothy had to pass through seven halls and climb three flights of stairs; seven and three make seventy-three, which stands for the "Crime of '73," the congressional act that eliminated the coinage of silver and that proved to all Populists the collusion between congress and bankers. The enslavement of the yellow Winkies was "a not very well disguised reference to McKinley's decision to deny immediate independence to the Philippines" after the Spanish-American War.
As scholars extended and modified Littlefield's interpretation--one would be hard pressed to find any character, setting, or event in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that does not have a "Populist parable" analogy--laymen discovered it as well. Michael A. Genovese, in a widely-reprinted essay first published in the Los Angeles Times in 1988, described The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as "the story of the sad collapse of Populism and the issues upon which the movement was based." Genovese's brief analysis was pure Littlefield. But there was one notable (and somewhat disturbing) aspect of Genovese's piece: Littlefield's name was never mentioned. The phrase "according to one scholar" never appeared. By the 1980s, Littlefield's interpretation had entered the public domain.
Whether or not Littlefield got the credit, his interpretation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became the standard line, so widely accepted that everyone knew that the Cowardly Lion was really William Jennings Bryan, that Dorothy's silver slippers represented the silver movement, and so on. People in post-Watergate, post-Vietnam America were fascinated to learn that their favorite children's story was something of a subversive document, an anti-establishment fairy tale.
Supporting Littlefield's thesis is the fact that Baum endorsed the presidential candidacy of pro-silver William Jennings Bryan in 1896. At least that's the traditional story. But Baum's support for Bryan and the silver issue seems to be one of those traditional stories with little basis in fact.
In January 1890, a year and a half after moving his family to Aberdeen and trying his hand as a dry goods merchant, Baum bought a local newspaper, renaming it the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. The Pioneer was obviously a Republican paper. During the municipal elections that spring, Baum editorialized in support of the Republican candidates; after they won, he wrote that "Aberdeen has redeemed herself . . . after suffering for nearly a year from the incompetence of a democratic administration." Later that year, Baum urged unity against the growing Independent movement: "We are all members of one great family, the family which saved the Union, the family which stands together as the emblem of prosperity among the nations--Republicanism!" (Not only did Baum speak for the Republican party; he spoke against the movement that would soon evolve into the Populists.)
It must be noted that the Pioneer had been a Republican paper before Baum bought it, and perhaps he had to maintain its partisan identification in order to maintain its circulation. After all, he had a family to feed, and he would be neither the first not the last to espouse a particular political position for economic gain. Furthermore, the Pioneer, while clearly Republican, was quite progressive: Baum wrote in support of women's suffrage, alternative religions, occultism, toleration, and so on. So perhaps Baum was a closet Democrat in Aberdeen, forced to hide his true political feelings.
On the other hand, in the summer of 1896, the year of the election that would mark what has been called "The Climax of Populism" (and five years after he sold the Pioneer and moved to Chicago), Baum published a poem in a Chicago newspaper that began with this verse:
Hardly Populist rhetoric! Michael Patrick Hearn, the leading scholar on L. Frank Baum, quoted this poem as evidence that Littlefield's argument "has no basis in fact." This illustrates the big problem with this sort of literary interpretation: How can we be sure just what the author meant? The "When McKinley get the chair, boys" poem seems to prove, once and for all, without doubt, that Baum was a Republican, not a Populist sympathizer, in 1896. But is it possible that Baum was joking, getting in a gentle jab at the gold-bugs who were so opposed to economic reform? (Why else use the word "jollification"?)
In the last decade, the tide has turned against the Littlefield thesis. In 1996, the Smithsonian Institution, to celebrate its 150th anniversary, sponsored a traveling exhibit that showed, among other things, a pair of ruby red slippers Judy Garland wore in the movie. An audio tape provided by the Smithsonian to guide people through the exhibit noted that MGM had changed the color of the shoes for cinematic reasons silver shoes apparently did not film well) and explained that L. Frank Baum had originally made the shoes silver as part of an allegory of the Populist movement. A number of angry and vocal Oz fans objected, pointing out that the Littlefield thesis had been discredited, and before you can say "There's no place like home" three times, the audio guide had been changed.
The Littlefield thesis seemed perfect for the 1960s and 1970s, years that began in protest and a new (or renewed) sense of social awareness. But by the 1980s, one of Littlefield's basic assertions--that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was, like the Populist movement itself, a criticism of American industrial capitalism--was being challenged by scholars who argued that the book actually celebrated the urban consumer culture of the turn of the century. Among the earliest of these revisionist readings was by Stuart Culver, who argued that "Baum was particularly interested in the vagaries of consumer desire." Culver noted that Baum published another book in 1900: The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows, one of the first comprehensive guides to window dressing. The book had all sorts of wonderful ideas, from mechanical Easter eggs and Christmas trees to store floats in holiday parades.
The best spokesman of this revisionist view is William Leach. Baum's masterpiece was popular, Leach explained, "because it met--almost perfectly--the particular ethical and emotional needs of people living in a new urban, industrial society." Leach pointed out that the book exalted the opulence and magic of the metropolis. The Emerald City, with its prosperous homes and luxurious stores, resembled nothing so much as it did the "White City" of Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893, which Baum visited several times. (He had moved to Chicago about the same time construction began at the Exposition.) "Even with her eyes protected by the green spectacles," wrote Baum,
The book began on the prairie, with everything gray, so gray and desolate one wonders why Dorothy would ever want to return; the Emerald City is bright, beautiful, the color of money and prosperity.
Furthermore, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz reflected Baum's belief in theosophy, an occultist quasi-religious movement that was popular in the late nineteenth century. Specifically, the book emphasized an aspect of theosophy that Norman Vincent Peale would later call "the power of positive thinking": theosophy led, Leach said, to "a new upbeat and positive psychology" that "opposed all kinds of negative thinking--especially fear, worry, and anxiety." It was through this positive thinking, and not through any magic of the Wizard, that Dorothy and her companions (as well as everyone else in Oz) got what they wanted. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was an optimistic secular therapeutic text," wrote Leach. "It helped make people feel at home in America's new industrial economy, and it helped them appreciate and enjoy, without guilt, the new consumer abundance." Leach concluded that "the book both reflected and helped create a new cultural consciousness--a new way of seeing and being in harmony with the new industrial order."
Historian Gene Clanton, in a recent study of Populism in Congress, suggested that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is indeed about the money question, as Littlefield said, but rather than supporting silver as an inflationary reform measure, the book actually stood solidly in the opposite camp, arguing for maintenance of the gold standard. The way to prosperity was, after all, down the yellow brick road, and the silver slippers, for all the hoopla over them, actually did little to help Dorothy. The Wicked Witch of the West, who craved the silver slippers, "most likely was modeled after the specter created in the minds of conservatives like Baum by Populism itself." Clanton did not specifically address many of the issues Leach and others have raised, but his discussion implicitly supports the revisionist interpretation (and it explicitly denies Littlefield's pro-silver reading).
So where are we, a century after the book was published, concerning the fork in the Yellow Brick Road? Was Baum supporting silver and agrarianism? Or was he championing the new industrial order? Or should we throw up our hands in frustration and admit that sometimes a yellow brick road is just a yellow brick road?
Perhaps the best we can say is this: Thirty-six years ago, Henry M. Littlefield looked at The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and saw things no one had seen there before. The Littlefield interpretation remains a useful pedagogical device; Baum gave us a delightful and unforgettable way of illustrating a number of Gilded Age issues, from Populism and the silver movement to the Gilded Age presidency, from the problems of labor to the insurrection in the Philippines. More recently, William Leach and others have shown us a different new way of looking at the book, a way that emphasizes another side of the Gilded Age--the fascination with the city and urban abundance, the rise of a new industrial ethic, and so on. Leach's argument is just as compelling as Littlefield's. "Factual" or not, both are impressive achievements.
But even more impressive is the achievement of L. Frank Baum himself. In the preface to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum stated that he wanted to write a new sort of children's story: a modernized, American story, shorn of all the Old World images and motifs. He was tremendously successful in this, producing not only the first real American fairy tale, but one that showed American society and culture in all its wonderful diversity and contradictions, a story so rich it can be, like the book's title character, anything we want it to be--including a parable on Populism or a celebration of America's consumer culture.
Selected References:
Henry M. Littlefield, "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism," American Quarterly (1964), 47-58; Richard Jensen, The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Politlcal Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971); Brian Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin (1980); Gretchen Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865-1896 (1997); Hugh Rockoff, "The 'Wizard of Oz' as a Monetary Allegory," Journal of Political Economy (1990): 739-760;Michael Genovese, in Los Angeles Times, 19 March 1988; Michael Patrick Hearn, Letter to the Editor, New York Times, 20 Dec. 1991; Stuart Culver, "What Manikins Want: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows," Representations (Winter 1988), 97-116; William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture


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By TYLER MASK
For the past few years, Palo Pinto County Humane Society has been doing their part to keep the streets clean of stray animals and giving pets a chance to find good homes.
This coming Saturday, Feb. 1, they are giving the people of Palo Pinto County the opportunity to do their part and adopt a furry friend.
The adoption event will be held at Walden Farm and Ranch Supply in Mineral Wells from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Pet adoption in Palo Pinto County has come a long way compared to around four years ago, according to Sherry Seabolt of the Palo Pinto County Humane Society.
"People didn't even know Mineral Wells had a shelter because there wasn't any kind of advertising," Seabolt said.
But resources like the newspaper, websites and social media are changing everything Seabolt said.
PPCHS is a local nonprofit organization that works closely with the Mineral Wells Animal Shelter.
The key difference between the two is that MWAS is a city-run organization, whereas PPCHS is a 501c3 [non-profit organization] that depends solely on volunteers.
PPCHS volunteers take pets into their homes and foster them until they can find what is called a "forever-home" for the animals. Beyond providing shelter and a yard to play in, these volunteers commit to feeding and training the animals as needed.
The types of dogs they take in come from all over the area including strays, abandoned pets and a large percentage are even pulled from MWAS.
Unfortunately, not all dogs get pulled.
But the fact that more non-profits like PPCHS are coming to Mineral Wells is good news for pets and MWAS alike.
"We have been working closely with [Mineral Wells Animal Shelter], pulling dogs that were out of time," Seabolt said. "And now they have gotten other rescue groups pulling [dogs].
"It has just made a huge difference."


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