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Ballyogan House
Country House
- Croquet
- Equestrian (nearby)
- Fishing (coarse on site)
- Fishing (Fly Fishing nearby)
- Forest / Woodland with trails nearby
- Garden Visits (nearby)
- Gardens (Outstanding)
- Golf nearby
- Horse Racing nearby
- Hunting/Shooting (nearby)
- Quad Biking nearyby
- Walking (established walks)
- Walking - Hillwalking (recommended routes or guides available)
- Broadband WI/FI (No Charge)
- Budget Accommodation (under €100 for two)
- Children's Baby Sitting Arranged
- Dogs - good walking nearby (offlead)
- Dogs permitted - no charge
- Family Friendly
- Location - By a river
- Location - Peaceful
- Location - Scenic
- No Smoking Establishment
- Pet Friendly
- Romantic Venue
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Hermanus House Rental Photos and Description
House with 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, for up to 8 people.
In Francolin close you feel right at home.
Upstairs is the living room, which opens onto a beautiful balcony where you can enjoy the view and the sound of the rolling sea. Till the wee hours There is a large kitchen with dishwasher and everything you need to enjoy a cook and a bijleuken with washer and dryer and ironing equipment.
A parent-bedroom, two balconies. Downstairs are the bedrooms and entertainment room with billiards and table tennis, opening onto a lovely terrace and garden where you so dives into the pool.
For convenience, there is an extra kitchen downstairs and cooling, so you do not have any time to the top.
The house has an inside-outside and have a braai.
Has underfloor heating, intercom, electric gate and ADT security.
Very suitable for families, couples or a couple, because there is plenty of room for privacy.
The house is located at the end of a cul de sac, so it really auction for children to play just outside the door.
Behind our house is the Fernkloof Nature Reserve, with more than 40 km. roetes of hiking and is both the novice hiker and the experienced walker thought.
From the mountains to see how beautiful Hermanus lies, with the mountains as a backdrop and impressive sea and stunning views.
Golf Location: On loopafsrtand is a magnificent 27-hole golf course.
Possibility of private lessons, alswel in groups is possible, like renting the clubs.
You can enjoy dining, or just take a nice glass of wine and enjoy the view and the players.
Also unique is the cliff walks along the coast, with a variety of birds and fynbos.
Expansive beaches, ideal for hiking, horseback riding, surfing and boat activities for every age.
The Hermanus Wine Route, the southernmost of Africa, bringing top quality and world renowned wines, accompanied by gourmet restaurants for cursing.
Today Hermanus a popular resort, without losing fishing town its charm.
- Suitability:
- Long-term Renters Welcome
- Low Allergen Environment
- children welcome
- pets not allowed
- unsuitable for elderly or infirm
- wheelchair inaccessible

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We are restoring native vegetation to this park so that Great Blue Herons and other native wildlife will return and thrive there. On Green Seattle Day we will plant native grasses and spruce the place up a bit(yes,, we do have several Sitka spruces!)
Open to the publicAll ages OK
Dress for the expected weather, bring lunch and your water bottle, knee pads if you want them. We will provide gloves, tools, and some coffee at the start of the day.
At Commodore Park on West Commodore Way just west of the federal locks on the ship canal. This is on the Magnolia side, not in Ballard.
There is a free parking lot at Commodore Park
November 8, 2014 10am - 2pm
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Debbie Jacobsen and Mike Marsh have become our new Heron Monitors and stepped in to replace Pam Cahn who left after many years of wonderful service. Thank you Pam! Debbie and Mike have brought fresh enthusiasm to the task of monitoring the herons in their new location in Commodore Park on the hill above the Hiram Chittenden Locks, and they have been snapping photos and giving weekly updates on the nesting and mating herons. Current members will be receiving these weekly reports during the nesting season.
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The state of Alaska has a jet for sale. It's actually a very nice little jet that never did anything to anybody to deserve the treatment it's getting. But it made the mistake of being associated with possibly the most unpopular governor our state has ever had and now it's paying the price. Won't someone give it a good home, please? It even has a toilet!
There is a new underarm deodorant out with Olay in it as a conditioner. I'm almost sixty years old and I never knew my underarms needed conditioning. How have I survived for so long?
In Barrow, my cutoff point for a walk was 29 below - or 20 below if there was a windchill. It was only 10 below in Anchorage the past two days with just a slight wind blowing yesterday and I was too cold to walk. Am I just becoming an urban wimp or is age catching up with me?
According to a Bush administration official, not capturing Osama Bin Laden is not a failure on their part. It's a success that has not yet happened. All you kids out there remember that the next time you bring an F home on your report card. It's not a failure. It's a success that hasn't yet happened.
May god have mercy on the English language.
As the new legislature convenes in Juneau, at least some members are determined to make health benefits for same sex partners an issue whether the public wants it to be or not. According to an article in the Anchorage Daily News recently, Representative Mike Kelly of Fairbanks is quoted as saying, "The people of Alaska are sound asleep on this and they better wake up." Adding to the general fun being had up there where the cold seems to be freezing brains at an astonishing rate even for legislative gray matter, House Majority Leader John Coghill of North Pole added that he would introduce legislation to strip benefits from everyone, stating, "That's the only solution we've got."
Well, no, it's not, The other solution would be to provide these benefits and get on with some of the real problems facing this state instead of creating ones that don't exist.
I think the best moment was when John Coghill added that he wished the governor had defied the law and gone to jail to defend whatever it is he thinks he's defending here, despite the fact that such an action could have led to a constitutional crisis.
So let's go back and see what all this fuss is about. The people of Alaska amended their constitution to say that marriage can only be defined as the uniting of people of the opposite sex. Fine. What in the world does that have to do with benefits? No one is trying an end run around the constitution and saying that this makes people married. It just extends to same sex couples benefits they can never receive any other way because they are banned from marrying.
Some people ask why these benefits wouldn't apply to opposite sex partners living together without the benefit of marriage. Simple. They can marry. No constitutional amendment has taken that right from them. They have a way to access state benefits for their partner that is clearly denied to same sex couples. It's the same as singling out a group of our citizens and denying them the right to learn to read and then saying you have to read to vote. It's called discrimination.
But let's set aside the legal issue for a moment and look at the human issue. Health care costs are exorbitant. Caring for an ill person in this great country of ours is almost impossible without insurance. Many people in the lower middle class fall into that great hole in our safety net where the don't qualify for government programs because they make too much money but they aren't working for an employer who can afford to offer them coverage.
Wanting to take care of your life partner is a human impulse we can all relate to. Why would this make anyone so angry that they would jeopardize the health care of others to prove some point?
Well, I hate to bring this up but it seems that Christianity is once again being designated the fall guy for why we cannot allow same sex couples to receive state benefits.
I'm certainly not qualified to get into a theological discussion with people on this, nor do I want to get into a discussion of separation of church and state or the fact that, once again, this is not about same sex marriage. I simply want to pose one question to the Christians whose panties are in a knot over this. And that question is simply, "What would Jesus do?"
The God of the Old Testament was a vengeful god. I always thought that the big change that Jesus brought to us was the love and compassion he showed to everyone. The only time he got angry was at the moneychangers in the temple. And that should certainly give some televangelists cause for concern.
The poor, the lepers, the prostitutes, the tax collectors, all were welcome to come to Jesus. So I'm betting that if Jesus were alive today, he would respond to the request for health care benefits for same sex couples with kindness and love. I'm even willing to wager that he would stand outside our legislative halls in Juneau with same sex couples holding up a sign demanding they be treated in a truly Christian manner.
I am honestly unaware of the passages in the New Testament where Jesus adds any caveats to his love for all of us, sinners and saints alike. His message, I believe, goes something like this, "Love your neighbor as yourself." Why do some people find that so hard to accept?
If you eat a whole bag of sugar free red licorice sticks before you go to sleep, you will not feel all that good when you wake up in the morning. Trust me on this.
OK, I get it. I live in Alaska and it snows a lot here. Now could we please have a little break so I can restock my emergency grocery supplies?
Pat Robertson has announced that god has told him there will be a terrorist attack in America this year. If there really is a god, that attack will happen in Robertson's pants and we will be rid of him and his gospel full of hate forever.
For those of you idiots out there who think Bush is escalating our troop levels in an attempt to do god know's what in Iraq, please be assured this is not an escalation. It's a surge. LIke those power surges that destroy your hard drive. Or those tide surges that destroy shorelines during storms. This surge will, in all likelihood, destroy whatever shred of credibility we have left in the world. You've got to love the surge.
I have two dogs. They poop a lot. My yard is full of their poop. But the snow that keeps falling hides it faster than I can get out to scoop it. OK, I don't exactly rush out to scoop it up but still. The only down side to this is that while I am enjoying no poop scooping in the winter, my yard this spring after everything melts should resemble Calcutta in July.
I walked the dogs the whole three miles yesterday despite the forty foot of snow that had fallen since morning and despite the fact that I was often wading in snow above my knees. I came home pumped up on adrenaline and caffeine. Then the high wore off. It was, ultimately, a painful victory.
Well, this year made it a clean sweep. Every year since I've moved to Anchorage, I've spent Christmas Day with a kid on my GAL caseload either at McLaughlin Youth Facility or API. And let me assure you that if you want to be depressed for the holiday, there is no better way to be sad than to spend your day with kids in places like that.
So I spent part of Christmas Day sitting in a bare room on molded plastic furniture staring across at a 14-year-old boy who, under the best of circumstances, would have had trouble making conversation with me. Under these circumstances, it was downright painful.
We reached the nadir of the visit when he told me he got an IPod for Christmas as his gift from API. I brightened up at the thought that this would give us something to discuss. So I asked him what kind of music he liked because I'd be more than happy to go find him a CD to play on it.
Yes, you can stop laughing now. I have since been informed that IPods don't take CDs. You have to have access to a computer to download music on to it. And, of course, this boy had no access to a computer. The one gift he got, aside from the North Slope magazines I brought him, he couldn't use.
And so another Christmas passes in his youth and another unhappy memory is created. Why couldn't this child be placed elsewhere so he didn't have to spend his Christmas in API? The answer is simple. His problems are such that there are few if any programs in Alaska that can or will take him. This means that ultimately he faces deportation to the lower 48 where there are facilities that try to make children like him better.
Alaska made a promise a few years ago to keep these children home if at all possible. Alaska promised it would build a locked facility that was a treatment center so that we could keep them right here in their home state. What a wonderful concept.
But the promise remains unfulfilled and this child faces the increasing likelihood that his next Christmas will be spent in an even more foreign environment than this one.
Selling the public on a facility that will lock kids up is not easy. It wouldn't be a jail or a psychiatric facility, concepts the public can easily grasp. Because the kids that need the physical restraints of a locked facility are sometimes neither criminals nor psychotic, they don't belong in those facilities. What these kids are, are children who have been so badly damaged for whatever reason that they need to be in a secure facility where they can't hurt themselves or put themselves in harm's way. And this means being able to lock doors so they can't run when the pain of treatment gets too much for them.
Placement in an outside facility only happens after many, many attempts at keeping the child in state in a group or foster home. But when those placements fail for the umpteenth time, when the child runs and endangers himself, when the child starts inflicting self-harm, when the child starts to threaten harm to others as a way to make their own pain go away, then that child can no longer be safely placed in an unlocked facility. That's when we give the kid a ticket to the lower 48.
There is much made about the distance causing problems for families who want to work with the program to re-integrate the child back into their home life. The reality is that with many children, there is no family who wants to or can do that. The distance will make not one whit of difference to them
But oh what a difference it makes to the child. Imagine being so far away from everything familiar and comforting. Imagine spending your days surrounded by strangers who want to get into the most intimate details of your life without ever seeing a face that looks like yours or a friend who understands the life you left behind. For a village kid, these placements can be so initially devastating that it can take four to six months of adjustment before we even reach the beginning of treatment.
I think it's time we fulfill our promise to these kids and get this facility built. Every year I hear promises about bringing our kids home. I hope this will finally be the year we actually follow through on that promise and make it more than just words said to shut people like me up.
Blue slept at my side through all the noise of firecrackers and other assorted bangs that started at midnight on New Year's Eve. Blondie didn't do so well. She actually made Mr. T's gyrations look almost calm. Maybe because she weighs about four times what he weighed so when she jumps up on the bed to try to bury herself inside my skin, it's a little more forceful. She tried to dig a hole in a plastic bag in my clothes closet to hide in. She tried to get under the couch and pushed it halfway across the room before I could stop her. So I guess Blondie doesn't like loud bangs and noises. Yep, I think she's made that perfectly clear. And I'm sure those nail marks on my neck from her frantic digging motion will go away in just a few days. The lesson I learned? When a dog is trying to get so close to you as to become your second skin, and that dog is freaked by ongoing loud bangs, don't hold her too close when a bang occurs. Dogs apparently can't control that frantic motion of their paws as they try to dig deeper into whatever is at hand...even if that's your neck.
I do know how to have fun on New Year's, don't I?
One of our more intelligent Alaskan politicians...and believe me, in this state to be called more intelligent than most politicians is to be damned with faint praise...has announced that rather than give same sex couples state health benefits, he would strip those benefits from everyone, including people who in his mind are legitimately married. How much hate does that take? Since this is based on his Christian belief that marriage is only between a man and a woman (forget that this is not about marriage - that is a concept way beyond his level of hate), I have to ask what would Jesus do. And you know, somehow in my reading of the Bible, Jesus has never come across as mean and vindictive. In fact, I think he would probably want to see everyone get care when sick and get all the help they need to get that care. But then, maybe I'm missing some chapters in the Bible that say that Jesus would rather you die in pain and poverty than give you the right to have state health insurance if you are a gay employee's partner.
When I was young, I spent an inordinate amount of time begging my parents to let me stay up till midnight. Eventually they did. I don't know what I was expecting, but it didn't happen. Midnight came and went, indistinguishable from 11:59 PM or 12:01 AM except for the fact that my parents woke up long enough to say Happy New Year and go to bed. So my New Year's Eve expectations are limited. When I hosted the KBRW Barrow radio show on New Year's Eve, I actually stayed up till midnight because I had to. Then Mr. T exhibited hysteria when the fireworks went off and that kept me up even later. Then, as he aged, Mr. T went deaf and the loud bangs no longer bothered him. So I no longer stayed up till midnight. Now, I have two new dogs and tonight will get to see their reaction to loud bangs and booms. Will they panic like Mr. T did and keep me up half the night holding them and telling them everything will be ok? Or will they, and I, sleep through the whole thing? Stay tuned.


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bull****. Read it again.
$4.66 + tax.
Assuming the TRU price of $6.99 is nationwide, it's 100% exact.
I think we've see that the lesser characters, tend to get left out of the loop by the main characters by design. No need to worry the troops until they need to be worried.
$4.66 + tax to be exact.
I might have nissed it , so I apologize if I did, but what's the DCPI for Aayla Secura's Starfighter ? Thanks.
That's not the best example considering that Steve Young went on to win a Superbowl.
More accurate would be what happened to Brian Griese after John Elway.
As for getting this sucker, starting in early July, I'll be hitting Target customer service with the DPCI...
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Saw, but didn't buy, the new vehicles... AT-AP and Grievous' Fighter. I want the fighter but I'm waiting I think, at least for the time being.
I did find the Jedi Evolutions and last of the Comic Packs I needed though, so now I'm down to needing the other 3 Evolutions sets and, now I guess, Wave 2 as well. Don't know when Pitt will see Wave 2 though, as we've yet to get Wave 1 in any abundance.


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"I don't understand why they didn't [sign] me,'' World Peace said. "But then again, I'm very direct. I think I was too direct in the locker room, too direct to J.R. Smith. It wasn't from a bad place. I'm older, been on great teams in Sacramento and L.A. "If someone is not playing defense or not giving effort, that's my specialty. I don't hold back on my words. Nobody wants to talk direct to them. We don't give it to them straight. New York Post
According to World Peace, on one occasion, owner James Dolan walked into the film room for a bull session. World Peace said he was the only player to speak up about why the team was in disarray. "You don't hold nothing back when things are going wrong,'' World Peace said. "You have to tell Melo [Carmelo Anthony] when he's being lazy. You have to speak about these things, so when the playoffs come, everyone knows where everybody stands.'' New York Post
David 'Dubi' Pick: Older brother of Portland guard C.J. McCollum, Errick McCollum, scored 63 points in China. Most worldwide this season. Twitter @IAmDPick
He has started well for Guangdong, a team in the Chinese Basketball Association with a long history of players from the United States, including Aaron Brooks, James Singleton, Fred Jones, Lester Hudson, Lamond Murray and Smush Parker. His fast start is enough to spark speculation from front offices that Mudiay will leave before the regular season ends in mid-February to keep him healthy and keep his Draft standing high -- and keep him from the prying eyes of NBA scouts. "They could," an executive said of the decision to shut down that Mudiay's inner-circle may face. "They could for sure." NBA.com
Said an NBA general manager: "I could see, if his stock is raised, him saying, 'I'm checking out.' I could see that. Does he do it? I don't know. But look what happened with [Dante] Exum last year. It didn't really hurt him, did it? There's an argument to be made that [Mudiay] doesn't have to do anything." NBA.com
Ben Bolch: Doc Rivers said a friend mentioned "MWP" and he replied, "Who?' Told it was Metta World Peace, Rivers said, "I guess that's the new rumor." Twitter @latbbolch
What are your thoughts on Mudiay in China and the D-League and foreign leagues as a destination for prospects? Chad Ford: He's been really good. He just finished his fifth game for Guangdong. His team is 4-1. He had 16 points and 9 assists in his last game versus Fujian. He's already had a triple-double. He's shooting the ball really well from three. He's young and he turns the ball over too much at times, but every scout I've spoken with who's seen him is impressed. He'll make a major play for the No. 1 pick -- especially if a team really in need of guard play gets the pick. ESPN.com
Marc Stein on the possibility of the Clippers signing Metta World Peace: "This is something that wouldn't happen until February. Metta World Peace is committed to playing in China through the whole season there. That's mid-February or March before he comes back to the United States." ESPN.com
The Los Angeles Lakers have flown in center Ater Majok -- their 58th overall draft pick in 2011 -- from China for a couple days of workouts with the team, league sources told RealGM. RealGM
Alex Kennedy: Metta World Peace's brother @DMArtestQB says that Clippers have expressed interest in Metta, who is overseas. He could sign later in year. Twitter @AlexKennedyNBA
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Should the Pacers be unable to keep him, Price will have options. Performances like Monday's catch the eye of other NBA teams who might be in need of a point guard, and he has an offer to play in China, where so many other ex-NBA players migrate. NBA.com
Jorge Sierra: Former Bakersfield Jam head coach Will Voigt tells HoopsHype he's taking a coaching position with the Shanxi Dragons of China. Shanxi's two American players this season are former NBAers Von Wafer and Jeremy Tyler. Twitter @hoopshype
The Thunder, Pacers and Grizzlies scoured the free-agent market for point guards after injury issues, and they contacted Lucas prior to deciding upon players this week. Lucas, who has been working out in Houston since his release from the Washington Wizards, also received proposals in the Chinese Basketball Association. RealGM
Last seasons runner up, Xinjiang Flying Tigers, has started off the season with a tough road victory over Sichuan Blue Whales. XJ is led by the NBA tandem of Jordan Crawford and Andray Blatche. Crawford, likely the most gifted pure scorer in the CBA this season has also learned to play the point guard role, and has become the teams main distributor. Teammates with the Washington Wizards, Crawford and Blatche hope to lead XJ to its first CBA title, after knocking on the door several times. Xinjiang Flying Tigers boasts the deepest roster of Chinese players, as they have contributors at each position along with newly signed Zhou Qi, who is thought to be the next NBA player out of China, a 7 footer who has guard like skills and can shoot with range, as well as handle the ball, should be on many NBA teams radar. This is the best chance for XJ to claim their first CBA championship, they clearly have the strongest 1-2 punch in Crawford and Blatche, and a top 3 Chinese roster as well. They open round 2 on the road against Chongqing. Asia-Basket
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The African art collection of the late Minneapolis collector Myron Kunin sold for a record $41.6 million at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday.
An extremely rare Senufo Female Statue (pictured at right) shattered the previous world record when it went for $12,037,000. Carved by an artist known as the Master of Sikasso, the Ivory Coast sculpture is one of only five Senufo figures of that type known.
Calling it the Kunin Senufo Female Statue, Sotheby's described it as a "quintessential masterpiece of African abstraction." It has been widely exhibited, published in numerous important books on the subject, and was included in the Museum of Modern Art's pivotal 1984 exhibition "Primitivism in Modern Art."
Three additional sculptures from Kunin's collection fetched record prices: a Ngbaka Statue of the Mythical Ancestor Setu which went for $4,085,000, a Fang-Betsi Reluquary Head, which sold for $3,637,000 and a Kongo-Yombe Maternity Group which fetched $3,525,000.
The Kunin sale brought in more than $10 million above the high estimate that Sotheby's had set before the sale. The auction house described the results as a "historic total" that was the highest ever for African art. The sale results totaled $41,617,500.
Of the 164 pieces in Kunin's African art collection, all but 40 sold Tuesday morning.
A Minneapolis-based businessman, Kunin (1928-2013) bought out a hair-care business founded by his father and parlayed it into a $2.7 billion enterprise, Regis Corporation, with more than 9,700 salons and stores owned or franchised in the United States, England and France.
Passionate, independent-minded and discerning about art, he amassed world-class collections in several fields, most notably American art from 1900 to 1950. His holdings in that area -- including pieces by Georgia O'Keeffe, Philip Guston, Morris Kantor, Marsden Hartley and Guy Pene Du Bois -- are considered by some to be even more important than the African collection.
More than 75 of Kunin's American paintings were shown at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 2005 in a show called "Villa America." The museum owns very few American paintings from the first half of the 20th century and officials there obviously hoped that Kunin would give or bequeath some key works to the museum where he was a longtime trustee.
Gregarious but publicity shy, Kunin and his wife Anita generously supported many cultural institutions in the Twin Cities. Those gifts were and are typically given in the name of Regis Corporation including the lead gift for the Regis Center for Art at the University of Minnesota, the Regis Master series of exhibitions at the Northern Clay Center and the Regis Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.
Often Kunin bought art in areas that were overlooked, unfashionable or neglected by museums as well as other collectors. As a result he sometimes was ahead of the herd and able to acquire unusual works for comparatively modest prices. At the same time he was quite willing to pay top dollar for prime pieces and he knew very well what they were. Unlike many business moguls who dabble in art, he did not rely on the advice of hired curators but on his own highly educated eye and mind.
"People know I'm psychotic about art and they submit a lot of things to me, but I can't buy everything because it depends on the cash flow of the moment," he told the Star Tribune in a 2005 interview. "So I'm sometimes forced to sell some things to buy something else."
In 1992, for example, he made headlines when he sold a painting by the 19th century British eccentric Richard Dadd at just shy of $3 million, then an auction record for a Victorian-era picture. It was snapped up by English musical producer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Elizabeth Armstrong, Minneapolis Institute of Arts curator. Star Tribune photo by Marlin Levison
Elizabeth Armstrong, founding curator of the contemporary art department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), will become executive director of the Palm Springs Art Museum in January 2015.
A dynamic personality who brought a casual style and keen intellect to her job, Armstrong joined the Minneapolis museum in August 2008 to head a new department of contemporary art and to serve as the museum's assistant director for exhibitions and programs, then a new post. The museum had previously collected contemporary art, but in a haphazard way that left huge gaps in its holdings along with masterpieces by Francis Bacon, Chuck Close, Philip Guston, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly and others.
Armstrong focused the acquisition program on contemporary works that extended or interacted in unexpected ways with the museum's holdings of traditional art. Key purchases included a photo by Yinke Shonibare, a British-Nigerian photographer whose staged pictures pose provocative questions about colonialism among other issues.
At the MIA Armstrong also founded the Center for Alternative Museum Practice (CAMP), a department that experiments with fresh ways to mix contemporary and traditional art and to engage the public in its appreciation and understanding. She raised $4 million for new acquisitions and curated a number of key exhibitions including "Global Remix I," " What is Sacred?," "More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness," and "Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010)."
In Palm Springs she will oversee a museum that operates from three sites. The main facility is the Palm Springs Art Museum, a 150,000 sq ft. building in the city's center. That entity has a satelite of the same name in Palm Desert and an Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion which just opened just opened on Sunday, Nov. 9.
Armstrong succeeds Dr. Steven Nash who oversaw the Palm Springs museum's growth starting in 2007. He is responsible for adding the two satellite locations.
Prior to her tenure at the MIA, Armstrong was Acting Director and Chief Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art (2001-2008) and Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego (1996-2001). She spent 14 years at Walker Art Center as an associate curator (1982-1996), and before that worked in various capacities doing research and curatorial assistance at museums in Berkeley and San Francisco, California and as a grants administrator at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D. C. She earned a B. A. in American Studies from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and a M.A. in art history from the University of California, Berkeley.
Among Armstrong's award winning publications are the books Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, and American Moderns: Villa America, 1900-1950 which showcased highlights from the collection of the late Myron Kunin, a Minneapolis-based arts patron and influential mentor to Armstrong and others.
After decades spent studying, researching and writing books about the history of world religions, British author Karen Armstrong (pictured) appears to have arrived at a stunningly simple resolution: follow the Golden Rule.
Armstrong spoke Tuesday night at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul as part of Talking Volumes, a series co-presented by Star Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio, in collaboratiion with The Loft.
In her new book, "Fields of Blood," Armstrong zeros in on myths and reality surrounding the role of religion in the history of warfare and violence.
With ISIS in the news, interviewer Kerri Miller of MPR asked Armstrong about the situation in Syria and Iraq, and the perception in the West that the violent leaders of ISIS are motivated mainly by their Muslim faith.
"First off, it is a mistake to think that all ISIS fighters are devout jihadists," Armstrong said. "Many are secular" militia, including troops left over from Saddam Hussein's armed guard. She said there had been a story about one ISIS leader who had ordered the book "Islam for Dummies" from amazon.com.
The resurgence of radical Islam in parts of the Mideast today, Armstrong said, is in part a response to the violence used to repress religion and impose a secular state in places like Iran and Egypt in the mid-20th-century.
Another factor, she said, "is a perception in many parts of the Middle East that the West is indifferent to human suffering."
While some have labeled Armstrong an apologist for Islam, she said she abhors the ISIS-sponsored aggression and says that it actually defies Islamic law that forbids violence against civilians and prohibits attacking any country where Muslims are allowed to practice their faith freely.
Armstrong has been a leader in the Charter for Compassion, a global effort to involving elected leaders, clergy and laypeople to sign on to this simple notion: "Do not impose on others what you yourself would not desire." She read an elaboration of that Golden Rule, which is available here.
Armstrong, who turns 70 on Nov. 14, lived in a convent, leaving it after six years, when she was 24. Since then, she remained unmarried and without children. She lives alone and spends much time in study, research, reflection and writing, so that her life today "remains very nun-like," she said.
But Armstrong is no stay-at-home. She travels globally to speak and promote her books. She has given TED talks and is a regular TV commentator. She has made numerous trips to Pakistan, where she has helped promote a chain of progressive schools.
While her topic is a serious one, Armstrong frequently displayed flashes of wit and self-deprecating humor. She acknowledged Britain's once-mighty status as a colonial power, but said "we now view ourselves as the poodle of the United States."
Star Tribune writer Graydon Royce recently interviewed Armstrong, here.
Armstrong's full talk is scheduled to be rebroadcast at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, on Minnesota Public Radio.
POST BY CAROLINE PALMER, Special to the Star Tribune
Steve Paxton (pictured below) is a world-famous dancer and choreographer with a career spanning some five decades but he lives under the radar.
The José Limón and Merce Cunningham company member during the 1960's, key instigator within the transformative Judson Dance Theater and Grand Union postmodern movement groups, inventor of contact improvisation in 1972 and much sought-after teacher doesn't have a manager or booking agent. Now 75 and a self-described "old guy," Paxton lives at Mad Brook Farm in northeastern Vermont, a place he calls home with artists, artisans and other folks seeking alternative communities. But for the next two weeks he is the central figure of the Walker Art Center's mini-festival "Composing Forward: The Art of Steve Paxton."
"I started dancing professionally in the 1960s, and over 50-odd years you develop your instrument, your body and your mind," Paxton said from Vermont during a recent phone conversation. And while aging has exacted a toll, he said that "the feeling is still in my nerves and muscle memory continues even as the muscles stop functioning." He noted that Cunningham choreographed into his nineties.
According to Philip Bither, the Walker's Senior Curator of Performing Arts, Paxton "is under-recognized and deserves a much broader public understanding of his influence." William Forsythe, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jérôme Bel, to name a few major artists presented by the Walker have all drawn inspiration from Paxton and his innovative peers (including Trisha Brown, David Gordon, Lucinda Childs, Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer).
Yet while Paxton may be relatively unknown to a broader audience he is very much a "guru" within the dance world, said Bither, and "people from all over the country are coming for the classes."
Kristin Van Loon, co-founder of local choreographic duo HIJACK with Arwen Wilder, cleared her schedule for Paxton's visit. She has attended four of his two-week intensives, likening the experience to a "martial arts dojo" in which the participants dance, eat and even take naps together while learning to delve deeper into their movement potential. Paxton also lectures and recounts stories from Cunningham tours. "It's exactly how I want to study dance," she said. Van Loon will be performing Paxton's 1967 work "Smiling" with his longtime collaborator Lisa Nelson on Thursday, November 13 during the Walker's "Talking Dance" program (7 p.m.).
Aside from teaching and lecturing Paxton will also take the stage while in Minneapolis, a rare treat. He and Nelson will dance their 2004 duet "Night Stand" on November 21-22 at 8 p.m., which also features lighting design from Carol Mullins. "We have been performing together since the 1970s," Paxton said of Nelson, referring to their ongoing partnership as a "dance adventure." The residency also includes a performance of Paxton's 1982 solo "Bound," performed by Slovenian dancer Jurij Konjar on November 14 at 8 p.m. "He is a really incredible technician with great physical energy," said Paxton.
"Night Stand" and "Bound" are unique choices in that they are not contact improvisation works, although they are built on elements of improvisation intertwined with specific set events. The Walker's intent is to show different facets of Paxton's artistry – from improvisation to choreography – during "Composing Forward." But contact improvisation is still a big part of the conversation. "It is a global phenomenon," said Bither. "It opened up the idea of movement as a form of participation."
Contact improvisation transformed the act of partnering. Dancers support one another, exchanging weight, melting into the curves of bodies. Paxton explained that he drew upon research by Dr. Daniel Stern at Columbia University during the early 1970's that focused on the movement interactions between mothers and babies built upon intimacy, emotional nourishment and reliance on intuition. This movement foundation draws upon innate and common human experiences, which may explain why contact improvisation concepts are so readily embraced by dancers from different cultures.
An egalitarian form, contact improvisation is available to movers of any ability, and adherents hail from a variety of backgrounds, including ballet (local dancer Sally Rousse has been known to do it while wearing a toe shoes and tutu). Asked whether he anticipated contact improvisation's popularity, Paxton, who witnessed other the blossoming of other movements like Pop Art, said, "I did have a sort of inkling that it was probably going to grow. It grew very quickly by word of mouth. I've always conducted my career by word of mouth."
Paxton, however, is not possessive of his creation. "As long as I'm alive I maintain a position that lets contact just be in the hands of the people doing it. I'm not overseeing it. I feel like that's a moral position. If you are interested find it and explore it."
Contact improvisation can be either virtuosic or contemplative but it is always individualistic. According to Paxton, "We're trained to see dance validated as dance and to see physical exploits. We demand precision and in performance we want to see something spectacular. We want to see the training potential of the body exposed."
But ironically, he added, this desire can limit movement opportunity. What contact improvisation does is provide an outlet for interaction that can range from the exquisite to the mundane – but is still altogether different from the norm. "We behave in certain ways in public with people," he said. "We don't roll around, we aren't upside down, we aren't supporting each other['s bodies] while we're having a cocktail or a chat over coffee."
For a full schedule of Paxton-related events visit www.walkerart.org.
Wonderlust cofounder Leah Cooper, right, recently received a $35,000 Arts Challenge award from the Knight Foundation's Dennis Scholl, at left. That money will be used to stage a play about the State Capitol. The theater company is also in the early stages of crafting a play about adoption in Minnesota and invites the public to share their stories.
Launched last year by the husband-and-wife creative team of Alan Berks and Leah Cooper, Wonderlust Productions creates and stages live theater that adds non-professional community members into the mix. Their first play, put on last fall at Fort Snelling, was themed around the experiences of military veterans, with a cast including both actual vets and actors. Written by a playwright, the show was based on soldiers' anecdotes and memories of war and its aftermath.
This time around, Wonderlust is soliciting the stories of people affected by adoption, including adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents and siblings. Several story circles are being hosted at various locations in Minneapolis and St. Paul over the next month to gather and weave these the recollections into a cohesive fictional play. The next one is 2-4 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 8 at Nautilus Music-Theater Studio, 308 Prince St. in Lowertown St. Paul. See wonderlustproductions.org for the schedule and more information.
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As the leading specialist organiser of Champagne Tours, we offer a very wide range of experiences in this region. A list of our 'off the shelf' tours can be found below.
Premium Champagne Tours
Our flagship Premium tours (Prestige Champagne & Deluxe Champagne) are available on specific weekends throughout the year and offer, in our opinion, the best overall experience in Champagne. These packages include a dedicated Grape Escapes guide and transportation throughout the tour, combined with visits to some of the best Champagne Houses and a gourmet lunch.
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Our Flexible and Budget Champagne tours are offered in a wide choice of hotels in Reims or Epernay. We have designed these tours to offer the maximum flexibility to our clients and they are available both mid week and weekend throughout the year. These tours offer a great introduction to Champagne.
Self Drive Chateau Breaks
For those looking for a more rural base for their stay in Champagne, we have created several of our popular self drive chateau break packages at selected chateaux in the region. Again, these are available both mid week and weekend throughout most of the year and combine a luxurious base, with gourmet dining and visits to several Champagne estates.
Exclusive Champagne Tours
Finally, we offer VIP Exclusive Champagne tours at the best hotel in the region. Based at Chateau Les Crayeres, this package provides a private chauffeur and dedicated guide for the tour and allows guests to select their preferred Champagne Houses for each of their visits. Also included is a dinner in the multi Michelin starred restaurant at the chateau.
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Premium Scheduled Tours
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Prestige Champagne 2 Nights
Our flagship Champagne tour is available on selected weekends. You will enjoy VIP visits and tastings at a prestigious Champagne House and two family-run estates.
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Premium Scheduled Champagne Tour
The Premium Scheduled Champagne tour is available on selected weekends and includes visits and tastings of Taittinger's les Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs and Veuve Clicquot's La Grande Dame .
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Essential Reims 2 Nights
The greatest flexibility is offered on this two night break in Reims city centre. Choose your travel dates and your hotel for a great introduction to Champagne.
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Spend three or four days in Reims to explore the city's world famous Champagne Houses and the smaller producers based in the Champagne vineyards.
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Epernay is the wine capital of Champagne and here, enjoy a tour and vintage tastings at the grandest Champagne House, Moet and Chandon as well as a half day guided tour of the prestigious Champagne vineyards.
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A therapist pours alcohol over a patient and sets him alight—for some in China, playing with fire is a treatment for illness.
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Ordering an unnecessary pacemaker, urging a woman to be hospitalised for a sore throat—a doctor's allegations of corruption spotlight troubles so endemic in China's healthcare system that patients frequently turn violent.
Chinese police Wednesday accused a British executive of GlaxoSmithKline of leading a sprawling scheme to bribe doctors and hospitals to use its drugs.
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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (BRAIN) — Alonzo Bodden, winner of "Last Comic Standing," will host the 2014 Interbike Awards gala. Bodden has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Conan O'Brian show, The Keenan Ivory Wayans show among other TV appearances.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (BRAIN) — Garmin made two product announcements as the Eurobike show opened here with an outdoor demo day Tuesday.
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (BRAIN) — BRG Sports has made a minority investment in the Swedish company that developed the MIPS helmet technology, which is used by several helmet brands including POC and Scott Sports.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BRAIN) — The League of American Bicyclists will host a webinar Thursday that will delve into data and insights on the impact of female cyclists on the bicycle business.