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Literacy Learning at a Distance – A New Approach Prepared for the AlphaPlus Centre by Michelle Eady of Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council March 2006 Table of Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 3 Our Learning Community Profile ............................................................................... 3 The Pilot Project ............................................................................................................. 3 First Nations Management Training – 18 classes................................................... 4 Pelican Falls First Nations High School – 22 classes............................................ 4 Teacher Assistant Career Training (TACT) – 25 classes...................................... 4 Pre-GED – 6 classes ................................................................................................... 4 English Primer – 6 classes ......................................................................................... 4 Technology...................................................................................................................... 4 Mail ................................................................................................................................. 4 Telephone ..................................................................................................................... 4 Floatplanes and Airplanes.......................................................................................... 5 Fax.................................................................................................................................. 5 Videos and CDs ........................................................................................................... 5 Centra Symposium ...................................................................................................... 5 AlphaRoute ................................................................................................................... 6 Sioux-Hudson Literacy Website................................................................................. 7 Keeping it Simple ........................................................................................................... 7 Sharing our Strengths .................................................................................................. 7 Literacy Learning at a Distance – A New Approach 2 Prepared for the AlphaPlus Centre by Michelle Eady, 2006 Michelle Eady is the Distance Projects Coordinator at Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council and can be reached through their website at www.siouxhudsonliteracy.com. Introduction Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council has been pleased to offer Good Learning Anywhere, as part of the larger Distance Learning Project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) section and the National Literacy Secretariat. The Distance Learning Project, now in its third year in Ontario, and coordinated by the AlphaPlus 1 Centre in Toronto, engages four LBS-funded delivery agencies to explore possibilities for distance learning in Ontario. Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council is one of four participating literacy agencies. Our Learning Community Profile Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council is a First Nations literacy organization that services learners in the community of Sioux Lookout and the surrounding area. Sioux Lookout is situated 280 km northwest of Thunder Bay and 380 km northeast of Winnipeg. If you are travelling to the northern communities of Ontario, Sioux Lookout is the final town with full amenities such as hospitals, banks, hotels, and an airport. The 35 communities directly north of Sioux Lookout have a total population of approximately 35,000 people, and are often accessible only by plane in the summer months and by ice roads during the winter. Many of the residents are First Nations adult community members who have not had the opportunity to develop strong structured educational backgrounds or to improve their existing reading, computer, and employment skills. In some of these communities, there are currently programs offered to high school and college students via video- and audio-conferencing. It appears, however, those individuals who would benefit the most – the people who need assistance to attain the literacy levels required to achieve success at the high school and college levels – are those who have had the least educational opportunity. The Pilot Project Generous funding from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and the National Literacy Secretariat has made it possible for the Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council to deliver Good Learning Anywhere, a distance literacy education pilot project, in collaboration with AlphaPlus Centre, a Toronto-based adult literacy resource centre. Over the last three years, the Sioux- Hudson Literacy Council has been offering solutions for the literacy learner at a distance. Along our journey during that time, we have discovered many challenges and issues surrounding the obtaining and retaining of both online learners and mentors in Northwestern Ontario. Good Learning Anywhere started with focusing on pilot groups in three locations. In two of the locations, a mentor/facilitator is available at the site for assistance and support. The third group consists of individuals who are living in isolated communities across the North. These learners are accessing literacy classes strictly by use of computer. Some are accessing home computers, workstations in the office, and computers at the local learning centre. Some learners have no assistance from anyone outside their online learning community. This pilot group began with 18 individuals preparing to upgrade for a college-level program. This group has now expanded, through community partnerships and word of mouth, to over 70 registered learners and counting. As of April 1, 2006, the Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council has delivered 77 classes. We have designed classes for different purposes. 1 AlphaPlus Centre actively supports research and promotes best practices in adult basic education, for practitioners and programs that work with adult learners in the Deaf, Aboriginal, Francophone, and Anglophone communities, through the innovative use of technology, research, and the design, development, and dissemination of information and resources. See http://alphaplus.ca for more information. Literacy Learning at a Distance – A New Approach 3 Prepared for the AlphaPlus Centre by Michelle Eady, 2006 First Nations Management Training – 18 classes This group of learners is comprised of people who are currently holding positions in the band offices or in other places of administration in their communities. They require training in business, communications, accounting, et cetera, in order to fulfill the newly legislated requirements of their jobs. Good Learning Anywhere has provided upgrading in language and communications in order to help prepare these students for the college credit courses they are required to complete. Pelican Falls First Nations High School – 22 classes The learners at Pelican Falls have had difficulty passing the required literacy test for successful completion of their high school diplomas. These learners live in a residential school outside of Sioux Lookout and are mature students who have returned to a literacy class to fulfill the requirements needed to graduate. Good Learning Anywhere provides these learners with a class to supplement what they are doing in school, to help strengthen the skills needed to succeed in attaining their high school diplomas. Teacher Assistant Career Training (TACT) – 25 classes In partnership with Confederation College, TACT is providing workplace literacy training for those individuals working in schools in remote northern communities. These learners are teachers' aides, and many have had no training in the field. Good Learning Anywhere provides a platform for these students to acquire the skills they need to become experts in their jobs. Pre-GED – 6 classes Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council is adapting the PBS Pre-GED program to suit the platform and geographic circumstances of our learners. Learners use computers to watch the CDs that are sent to them, do their lessons in their workbooks, and come together once a week on Centra to discuss assignments, do mini–lessons, and have any questions answered by an instructor. English Primer – 6 classes The learners who participate in the English Primer class are attending in hopes of improving their English language skills. This class is run as an interest-driven program. This distance project portrays the true meaning of the word "distance". All the learners are a considerable distance from the learning centre in Sioux Lookout. Some learners are as far away as Fort Severn, 450 km north of Sioux Lookout, and most learners we have never met face to face. Technology Good Learning Anywhere has encouraged us to be creative in the types of technology we use to reach our learners and to facilitate our classes. There are many modes of technology and considerations for practitioners who are exploring the possibilities of distance literacy learning. Mail Perhaps the oldest and slowest mode of reaching our distance students is still our most reliable. Much of the print-based material prepared for learners is sent by mail. Large packages such as Good Learning Anywhere binders or textbooks are usually sent this way to avoid huge airplane costs. Ordering the paper-based resources and having them ready to send requires much organization and preparation time. It can take several weeks for mail from Sioux Lookout to reach our learners. Telephone The telephone has played an important role in direct communication with our learners. Learners are notified by phone on the day of their class and reminded to attend. Students often call with Literacy Learning at a Distance – A New Approach 4 Prepared for the AlphaPlus Centre by Michelle Eady, 2006 questions about their work or about problems with technology. The Sioux -Hudson Literacy Council has a 1-800 number students can call to discuss school work questions or technology issues. Floatplanes and Airplanes When an emergency arises, someone's headset breaks down, or a workbook is lost, Good Learning Anywhere relies on airmail to keep things on track. Whether it means racing a package to be delivered to a learner up to the airport, or down to the lake to the floatplanes, we have used this mode of technology when problems arise. We try to send small packages like CDs or copies of sections of the workbooks to tide the learner over until the mailed package gets there. Fax The fax machine at the learning centre has become very active since we started our pilot project. Whether we are faxing notices to learners, or learners are faxing in assignments to us, the fax machine has become a very important tool for our project. Videos and CDs Our TACT program and Pre-GED program both involve students watching videos for their classes. Our classes are using the PBS Pre-GED program material and other relevant documentaries that deal with the subject matter of their courses. We have burned copies of the relevant material to send to learners, because that is more convenient and less expensive to send. Centra Symposium One of the greatest advantages of our partnership with AlphaPlus is our ability to access the Centra technology. AlphaPlus manages the use of Centra Symposium, a virtual classroom that enables real-time effective delivery of training and meetings for LBS agency use across Ontario. AlphaPlus Centre provides us not only with access to Centra, but training and support for using it, and also coordinates information-sharing meetings among all distance research partners. Centra technology provides a platform where synchronous online classes take place. This online classroom environment is user-friendly, fun to use, and provides anonymity with respect to students not being on camera, as they would be in a videoconference. When students enter the environment with a username and password, they can see the names of other learners in attendance, as well as the instructor's name. The environment allows learners to talk to the instructor, ask questions, "raise their hand", and even applaud and laugh with certain icons. Good Learning Anywhere has found this environment advantageous when working in a Native learning perspective. Many learners have commented on their relief at not having to be seen on camera. Our instructors upload a PowerPoint presentation into the environment before class, and when the class starts, all participants can see the slides onscreen. The instructor can mark up the slides using various tools including a laser pointer, highlighter, arrow, et cetera, to help guide the learners. The Whiteboard is a wonderful tool that Centra offers. While in this application, the instructor and/or students can write freely on the Whiteboard to ask/answer questions, draw diagrams, post information, and then save everything to the agenda so the Whiteboard can be revisited. The Whiteboard feature is used frequently during class. Centra has other features such as Web Safari, which enables the instructor to take a class virtually to a website and share the site with the class. In turn, students can browse the website from their computers. This tool is used most commonly when an item or subject matter arises and the instructor wants to share more than just a description. For instance, in the TACT program, we were talking about cushions, and instead of just verbally explaining to the students, I took the Literacy Learning at a Distance – A New Approach 5 Prepared for the AlphaPlus Centre by Michelle Eady, 2006 students to a website about sensory integration items. This allowed the students to see the items and explore other areas of sensory integration for themselves. A feature called Application Sharing allows instructors to share documents previously created on their computers. The instructors can take the students anywhere on their computers to share documents pertinent to the lesson taught. We find that for our purposes, we use this tool the least. The Breakout Room feature allows the instructor to break a large group of students into smaller workgroups, which can work privately and discuss their answers, make and save a Whiteboard, and then come back to the larger group to share their findings. Often, in face-to-face classrooms, teachers have students go out into the hallway to do group work, answer their questions on chart paper, and then return to the class to share their answers. The Breakout Room allows distance students to do the same thing – it's group work online! Many of our learners have made comments about how "cool" the classroom environment is. Often, students don't want to leave and we have to have some discussion time each class to catch up with the happenings of the students in our online learning community. Centra technology provides opportunity for group work, presentations, class discussion, lectures, group web , searches, and application sharing. Centra also allows for recorded classes which can be revisited if a learner wants to go back and listen to the class again, or wants to listen to a playback of the class if they have missed a session. With the help of the AlphaPlus technical team, we have had few technical difficulties with Centra Symposium. There have been occasions of the server being down, or glitches that interfere with our classes: however, the team is working hard to make Centra a seamless operation. Our local technology expert has ensured that all our students have been able to attend class at least once. We find troubles with firewalls to be the most frequently occurring, and the most difficult to solve from a distance. Some students attend and can hear, but at times cannot be heard. One of the best things we did for our learners was hire a local computer technician to be available to learners when they need technical assistance for Centra Symposium. The technician is hired on retainer and is available, whenever classes are running, to help the learners take care of glitches in their systems. We have also ensured that instructors are signed onto MSN Messenger so students can text message the instructor whenever there is a problem. At one point, we had an instructor online teaching a class, using Messenger to help one student, while speaking with another student on the phone. Once on board, our computer technician took over the calls, making the problem-solving workload more manageable for the instructor. Students who are in shared lab settings or communities have helped support each other in downloading Centra, setting up the microphones, or otherwise accessing the classes. Quite often this peer assistance has occurred without the input or direction of the instructors. AlphaRoute Managed by the AlphaPlus Centre, AlphaRoute is an adult literacy online learning environment developed for the Deaf, Native, Francophone, and Anglophone streams of the Ontario LBS Program. AlphaRoute is for adults who want to improve their reading, writing, math, and computer skills to achieve their learning goals. AlphaRoute is unique in Canada because it does all of the following: • Targets adult literacy students who want to learn online • Offers adult literacy students ongoing mentor support from trained literacy practitioners • Offers Canadian online content and ongoing learning opportunities which complement and reflect learning goal areas such as employment, health, further education, and independent living, as expressed by adult literacy students Literacy Learning at a Distance – A New Approach 6 Prepared for the AlphaPlus Centre by Michelle Eady, 2006 • Offers an online community for adult literacy students to learn online and to learn together, within a password-protected learning environment We encourage learners to use AlphaRoute as a supplement to the online courses and print - based materials used when meeting with mentors/facilitators at their learning sites. Although we have a direct link to the AlphaRoute environment through our website, the vast majority of our learners have specific goals and guidelines to be met, and due to the minimal time available to work with those learners, they have not yet had the opportunity to use AlphaRoute as extensively as we would like. The majority of our distance learners come to us from community partnerships and have a specific curriculum and time period set out by their corresponding organization. This leaves access to AlphaRoute as an optional extra activity for the learner. In the case of learners 2 who come to us independently, we are encouraging them to use AlphaRoute. Sioux-Hudson Literacy Website The Sioux -Hudson Literacy Council has also designed a unique website that has direct links to synchronous online classrooms, and that offers a solution to the growing number of First Nations learners who have had few opportunities to improve their literacy skills. Our website is hosted by the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) and can be found at www.siouxhudsonliteracy.com. This website is a user-friendly solution for helping learners find their classes and for providing a direct link to classes for learners. A handy reminder card, with our website address and the learner's username and password to access their classes, helps to ensure learner success in entering the class. A number of learners have been concerned about having to miss some sessions because of other commitments, and we are pleased that those learners could access the recorded classes and stay on track with their learning goals. Students also use the recording option to review classes they have already attended. Keeping it Simple The most important lesson we have learned on our journey of distance delivery of literacy skills is to keep things as simple, as user-friendly, and as organized as possible. We provide the simplest route for our learners to download the Centra software to their computers and to gain access to their classes. Each learner is provided with a Good Learning Anywhere manual that introduces them to the program and the facilitators, and provides contact information and a CD with the four simple steps to downloading Centra. We also provide the students with a phone number for technical support available most times of the day. The students also receive the necessary technological accessories and textbooks/workbooks for their class. We go to great lengths to ensure that the learners involved in the Good Learning Anywhere project are not frustrated or confused. We have found that if learners get to that point, they will be less likely to stick with the task at hand. It has been a priority for our organization to ensure that all aspects of the online literacy learning experience are thoroughly checked and rechecked. The dates, times, content, and links are as uncomplicated and fluent as possible. Technical support is always available to learners and instructors, as is training in using the software and equipment. Sharing our Strengths Our learners have been able to experience a supportive learning community in an online environment where print -based and computer-based resources come together in a blended learning environment. Despite the great geographical distances between them, learners from similar walks of life and with similar goals are coming together. In the same way, the Good Learning Anywhere project aims to share our experiences, challenges, and solutions with other agencies that are attempting their own distance delivery literacy classes. We look forward to sharing information, created content, and presentations, and, in turn, to creating a learning 2 For further information about Centra Symposium and/or AlphaRoute, please contact the AlphaPlus Centre by visiting their website at http://www.alphaplus.ca. Literacy Learning at a Distance – A New Approach 7 Prepared for the AlphaPlus Centre by Michelle Eady, 2006 community of distance delivery literacy practitioners. In this way, we will be able to broaden our audience by sharing teachable course materials and developed content that will help all agencies reach their goal of bridging the distance between the distance learner and their personal literacy goals. Literacy Learning at a Distance – A New Approach 8 Prepared for the AlphaPlus Centre by Michelle Eady, 2006
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A family's long search after the Oso mudslide
The carpenter, avid fly fisherman and father of four was among the dozens of people missing after the March 22 mudslide.
As soon as they could, his relatives flew in from out of state and, in one case, from overseas. They spent day after frustrating day scraping through a wasteland of mud and wreckage.
A few days in, son Jeremiah Gustafson found something that could only have come from his dad's house: a photo of himself in the fourth grade.
"You knew he was somewhere around there," he said. "We all knew it."
The photograph gave him hope. It also drove home why they were there.
He loved the river
Mark Gustafson bought his mobile home on East Steelhead Drive in 1997. For those who knew him, it was obvious why he chose the spot only a few hundred feet from the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River.
"My dad loved fly fishing," said his daughter, Mindi Peake. "He loved that area."
That's most likely what attracted him to Western Washington from the tiny prairie town of Belt, Mont., nearly 30 years ago, his daughter said.
Gustafson would spend his days framing houses, then return home to enjoy the outdoors. His children — three sons and a daughter, all in their 30s— didn't grow up in the area, but they have fond memories of their visits.
"We would just hang out at night and have bonfires," said Peake, who lives in Virginia, where her husband is stationed in the Army.
She described her father as a no-drama, no-nonsense guy. A private man, Gustafson lived by himself, but stayed close to a circle of family and friends. There were his children, eight grandchildren, brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews.
His friends included Eddie and Lydia Gaumond, a couple from Arlington, who had season tickets with Gustafson for Everett Silvertips hockey games.
Gustafson turned 55 on March 12. Ten days later, the hillside looming north of his home gave way. It was 10:37 a.m.
The Gaumonds started contacting Gustafson's relatives to let them know.
Together in sorrow
Youngest son Joshua Gustafson, 30, arrived at Sea-Tac International Airport on Monday from Italy, where he's stationed as a U.S. Army sergeant.
Jeremiah Gustafson, 32, arrived next from Colorado.
Peake, 34, and her husband, Jeremy, soon followed from Virginia with their 6-month-old son. Sister, Patty Gustafson and her husband, Doug Smith, flew down from Alaska.
"That was pretty much our group," Jeremiah said. "Every day, consistently, it would be me, Jeremy, Joshua, Doug, Eddie and Lydia."
The eldest son, Casey Gustafson, 35, also traveled from Colorado, but had to stop searching after stepping on a nail.
The family stayed at a hotel in Smokey Point.
They spent the first days on the west side of the slide. Checking in at the Oso Fire Station in the morning, they would stay as late as they could. They would leave around 6 p.m., dirty, exhausted.
"You get so frustrated," Jeremiah said. "There's really not much a human can do without the equipment or the dogs."
Mud, quicksand and standing water made the going treacherous.
They carried big sticks to probe the ground. Going north from Highway 530, closer to the swollen river, the water got deeper.
"You would sink three or four feet," Jeremiah said. For safety, "you pretty much had to be by somebody."
On the fourth day, they walked more than a mile across the slide area, toward Darrington.
That's when Jeremiah found the photo. It was near a lone Sitka spruce that somehow survived the destruction. The six-foot-wide giant has since become a silent witness to the community's grief.
"When we found the picture, we didn't want to look anywhere else," Jeremiah said.
Other clues appeared on the east end of the slide, including some scraps of blue siding from their dad's home.
They saw other families who were searching. That was something new: to have families in the recovery zone, alongside foresters, firefighters and disaster-response teams.
The family was grateful for the dedication and respect shown by the pros. They were invested in finding the missing.
The family formed a special bond with Adam Rosenlund, a Pierce County firefighter assigned to one of the search teams. At 10:37 a.m. April 12, Rosenlund stood in the scarred valley and played the bagpipes, marking the third week since the catastrophe.
"He helped us so much," Jeremiah said. "You could tell he wanted to find him. He wanted to help."
He did. On Wednesday, April 9, Rosenlund's team called Jeremy and Joshua over to a spot perhaps 30 yards from the spruce. It was about half a mile from where their father's house had stood.
They'd found him. They called their sister at 10:32 a.m.
Saying goodbye
Mark Gustafson was the 35th name to appear on the medical examiner's list of identified slide victims. By the end of last week, there were 41 names plus two people still missing.
Gustafson's family say his recovery is a testament to the searchers' resolve. He was buried nine feet deep in mud shot through with logs and pieces of houses.
Whenever searchers found remains, the machinery rested. Workers removed their hard hats. The valley grew silent.
Jeremiah and Joshua took some time alone with their dad.
"We wanted to touch him one more time and say goodbye and tell him we loved him," Jeremiah said.
The work did not resume until they were ready.
They walked alongside a truck that took their dad to the medical examiner's tent outside the slide zone.
"The whole time, there was nothing running," Jeremiah said. "It all shut down."
Searchers had found the body of Mark Gustafson's dog, Lefty, several days earlier. Before leaving Washington, family members buried the border collie in the Gaumonds' yard, near a cedar sapling that had been a gift from their father.
The family brought Mark Joseph Gustafson back to Montana. A graveside service began in Belt at 10:37 a.m. April 19 — four weeks to the minute after the slide.
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Once again, expect a wonderful night in Jerome. Have dinner, stroll the streets and visit the galleries, sip some wine, sample some treats, savor the art…maybe even spend the night at one of the delightful hotels or bed and breakfasts. Jerome is once again the place to be on the first Saturday of the month. For more information, scroll the Events List below.
April 4, 2015
Flux Gallery presents ceramic sculpture titled " In a Fathom's Compass" by Novie Trump.
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Flux Gallery is proud to host touring textile artist Paul Nosa, during the April 4th Jerome Art Walk. For the past ten years, Tucson artist Paul Nosa has toured America, using a sewing machine to make custom patches inspired by people's imagination. On April 4th from 5 to 8 pm, Paul Nosa will set up his sewing machine and ask visitors to think of a scenario in '5-words-or-less', and then free sew his interpretation on the spot onto a piece of fabric or 'patch'.
The sewing machine is mounted to a custom built Solar Sewing Rover; a portable table powered by a solar panel and a bicycle electric generator. People can ride the bicycle and generate electricity to make their own patch. It's collaborative art intended to facilitate people's creativity and demonstrate alternative energy sources. Paul Nosa has toured the country extensively over the past decade, sewing hundreds of patches along the way. Notable locations include the CBS Morning News and The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. His mission is to navigate the country promoting people's creativity, providing a tangible patch of their ideas, and to teach how to use alternative energy sources.
Flux Gallery, the newest addition to the Jerome arts scene, exhibits emerging and established artists who create contemporary works using ceramics, encaustic, mixed media, metal, and glass. Flux Gallery's mission is to foster excitement and appreciation for high-quality, contemporary art and to promote the artists we represent through shows, workshops, and on our website. We aim to enrich and support the community in Jerome through the arts. Flux Gallery |is located in The Old Jerome High School, 889 Hampshire Avenue, Building B, Studio 104.
Beverly Swanson-Aylward and Patrick Aylward are presenting the fine art of Ray Swanson at Western Heritage Gallery's "meet-n-greet" at the April 4th Art Walk in Jerome from 5 to 8 pm. Ray Swanson is known as the foremost artist painting Arizona's Navajo Indians. During his 45-year career he has documented on canvas many other Indian tribes as well as the American cowboy. Regardless of the subject, his watercolors and oils are renowned for their richness in color, light and life. Ray's career in art began in South Dakota when, as a young boy, he began sketching. His greatest admirer was his artistic grandfather, who enthusiastically encouraged the youngster. Ray inherited his tubes of oils and drawing supplies from his grandfather, launching the humble beginnings of a multiple award winning profession. Western Heritage Gallery is an authorized local dealer of Swanson's high quality giclee (French: "spray of ink") canvas prints. For Art Walk, Beverly is bringing additional work in various sizes including original paintings. Swanson's paintings have inspired books, collectable plates and dolls that are available for purchase during this special evening. Beverly is looking forward to sharing the stories of the people who were the inspiration captured in the paintings. Western Heritage Gallery is located at 208 Main Street.
For the month of April, New Age Drinks is thrilled to be exhibiting textiles and linoleum block prints by Brooklyn, New York-based artist Kendall Glover. Inspired by 19th century American and European embroidery samplers, Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist compositions, and Richard Serra's hulking paintstick drawings, Glover's hand-woven and printed works are delicate, focused investigations of color and form. Her non-figurative, geometric imagery recalls the abstraction of Navajo loom rugs or Pythagorean diagrams, but manages to bridge a centuries-long gap in time to appear fresh and sleek, like messages from the future. In addition to Glover's work, we will be presenting a shelf full of organic, experimental, and functional ceramics by Phoenix-based artist Dennis Hubert, and a special New Age Drinks commission featuring traditional Japanese Shibori textiles by Rainbow Hands Gallery in Cottonwood. New Age Drinks will also be presenting Travis Iurato's immersive, labyrinthine installation, The Snake's Den at new studio 11.11 Art Vortex in suite A300 at the high school. Come see all we have to offer, Old Jerome High School, Suite B201.
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Tucson jewelry artist Clare Johnston returns to Pura Vida Gallery on the evening of the April 4th Art Walk for another jewelry trunk show. Clare will be debuting her newest line of sterling jewelry cast from the skeletons of prickly pear cactus pads. The line includes earrings, pendants, rings, and bracelets - all in elegant, organic forms. Join Clare at Pura Vida to be the first to see her beautiful new designs. Pura Vida will host a champagne and chocolate reception for Clare on the evening of the Art Walk.
Right next door to Spook Hall, the Cody DeLong Studio/GalleryCody DeLong Studio/Gallery will feature some new figure and portrait paintings by Cody, along with some new Grand Canyon pieces, including a large one of the North Rim. Stop in and see what Cody is working on today. 300 Hull Ave. CodyDeLong.com
Made In Jerome Pottery, 103 Main Street (in the turn by the fire station) is showing new work by David Hall, Jane Moore, Hanna Flagg, Mimi Easton, Natalie Jetter and Karen Myers. Plus we have many new pieces by Don Lash, made using traditional prehistoric methods with hand dug clay, as well as many new inlaid wood boxes by John Donald. Come and see and listen to the music played by David Hall and Pat Jacobson.
"Up Our Sleeves" is a show of new works by mixed media artists Michele Cokl Naylor and Marjorie Claus at the Jerome's Artist's Cooperative Gallery. In mixed media art, artists combine a number of mediums to create a single image. Cokl Naylor firmly believes that people need more color in their daily lives. Colors can evoke emotions or stir memories. They can soothe, startle, move and delight us. As fabric has always been a part of her life, the tactile and colorful qualities of fabric are a major influence in her new abstract pieces. In them, Cokl Naylor allows colors, textures and shapes to guide her as she intuitively composes abstract paintings. "These new works feel like a journey. By giving up a little control, I'm discovering things about myself, and for now, I'm enjoying a very colorful ride." Claus shares a similar love of color and texture. A creator of batik art since the early 1970's, she is now introducing paintings that combine colorful batiks with acrylic and digital collage. In these works she explores incorporating cave art and petroglyph forms in the images. Doing so enables her to express influences from her travels to ancient sites and primitive regions. "My break-through came when I decided to cut up some of my batiks and incorporate them as collaged elements on a canvas. I am thrilled with how this step has brought me to the doorway of even more possibilities." Jerome Artists' Cooperative Gallery invites you to view "Up Our Sleeves". The show runs though April 29. Jerome Artists' Cooperative Gallery at 502 Main Street.
Gallery 527 continues a group of show its talented local members. New plein air paintings by Susan Pitcairn amaze her collectors with their vibrancy and lovely subjects. Ramona Stites fascinates with her newest graphic paintings in her signature bold colors. Mary Phoenix has brought in new ceramic cups, mugs and vases adorned with delicate red roses. Rich Bettencourt, master of found objects, has created a bicycle themed kinetic piece, perfectly balanced and ready for indoor or out. Ron Gill has delivered some new small tables made of exotic wood with metal bases, proportioned for small spaces. Stop by for an evening for delightful food, drink, art and conversation at 527 Main Street, home to some of Arizona's top local artists.
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PRLog - Dec. 14, 2012 - SAN FRANCISCO -- NLC Inc., an outsourced sales and marketing firm based in San Francisco, recently celebrated its first succesful six month milestone in their new office space.
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Since opening its new doors in June, NLC Inc. has grown from 15 to 45 employees while expanding and taking on new campaigns for well-known Fortune 100 and 500 companies. NLC Inc., has successfully spread throughout the small business market bringing their clients quality customers over the past six months.
"There has been a lot of excitement moving into and personalizing our new office space to give it our own character. Seeing our guys channel their energy into the professional development of themselves gives me high hopes for the big expansion opportunities our office will continue to have in 2013," Brittany Peterson said. "If our team is happy and growing, our clients surely will continue to be as well."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Levien has no plans to hire more people for his real estate project management company in New York. He says his business has only about 85 percent of the amount of work it can handle because the building industry is still hurting from the recession.
"Things are looking down in the construction business in New York City," he says.
Levien has a lot of company. Many small business owners aren't hiring or expanding because the outlook for the economy, or their own companies, is uncertain.
That raises the question of whether small businesses will give the economy the boost that it needs. Economists say that in past recoveries, small companies were the first to hire. When the economy was improving, they were more nimble than large companies because they didn't have the bureaucracy that can slow the hiring process. Their hiring helped propel the economy forward.
The economy is growing, but that growth has slowed — and so has the pace of hiring among business with less than 500 employees. The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of just 2.2 percent from January through March, according to government figures. That's down from the moderate 3 percent growth during the last three months of 2011. Making things worse, the pace of hiring by small businesses is slowing, according to the payroll company ADP, which issues a monthly report on employment at companies in the private sector. ADP says that employment at small and medium-sized businesses rose by 181,000 in March. Employment rose by just 116,000 in April.
Levien says his company, Levien & Co., could handle another two or three projects without having to hire more people. The firm handles a variety of commercial building and renovation projects, but specializes in nonprofits like museums, health care facilities, social service organizations, churches and synagogues. Clients have included Carnegie Hall.
But "there's not a lot of building going on in New York City," Levien says.
His assessment is backed up by numbers from the New York Building Congress, a trade association for the construction industry. In a report issued this week, the group forecast that construction spending in the city will rise 5 percent this year after dropping 3.5 percent in 2011. But spending is expected to fall 13 percent in 2013. Levien notes that a lot of construction dollars in New York this year are going toward just one project: the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.
Levien says his company's revenue is stable, but it's still down 11 percent from 2008, the best year his company has had. It's up nearly 30 percent from 2009.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, in Las Vegas, Ruth Furman has become very cautious about her public relations business, Image Words. So she's not hiring employees and instead is depending on freelance writers, graphic artists and administrative help.
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So I am thinkng about purchasing a used free standing fireplace, its about 35 x 21 x 34 so it pretty good size my question is this. I really dont want the exhaust pipe..(chimney).. to run up the outside of the house. I live in a two-story house with no basement and it would be on the ground level. What I would like to do is run it up the inside along one of the walls. I have read that the chimney needs to be 9' from the wall.. I will be using double wall insulated pipe. How warm will the chimney get? will it be safe to run through the upper floor, leaving 2" space around the pipe, as I have read and through the drywall and all that? sorry this so long.. and thanks in advance for your help.
Be aware that fireplaces are tremendous heat losers ---maybe 10% efficinet at best.
FAR better would be buying modern free standing wood stove, which is probably 70% or so efficient, perhaps more.
And if you don't have the installation manual for the fireplace, don't even attempt to install it. Fireplaces are a great source of home fires, and it is ESSENTIAL to follow the manufacturers installation methods. Double wall pipe, for example, is probably not adequate. All fuel chimney is probably the right choice, and even that requires a 6" clearance to combustibles, if my memory is correct.
My suggestion would be to shop around for a certified wood stove from a good fireplace shop that will install it for you. That will cost you a lot more, but be FAR more efficient and safe, I would bet.


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National PTA Takes Sides on Homosexuality
Dr. Warren ThrockmortonWarren Throckmorton, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology and Fellow for Psychology and Public Policy at Grove City College (PA). He co-founded the Golden Rule Pledge which advocates bullying prevention in evangelical churches. His academic articles have been published by journals of the American Psychological Association and he is past president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association. He is the author with fellow Grove City College professor, Michael Coulter, of the book, Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims About Our Third President. Over 200 newspapers have published his columns. He can be reached at email@example.com.
- 2005 Jun 06
Please read these articles as background: http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050509-094332-3782r.htm and http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/202005d.asp.
I am asking 2 things:
1. Call President Linda Hodge at both locations below to complain about the PTA's rejection of PFOX despite the fact that PFOX supports school safety and has a perspective to share concerning homosexuality and schools that you support.
2. I am looking for people who are attending the national conference in Columbus June 23-26 or for people who know people who are going. We are planning a competing workshop on schools and sexual orientation and want to attract PTA conference attendees. This would mean finding out from the local leadership who if anyone is attending from your town. If you know the person or think they might be sympathetic to us, then I would like you to put the conference attendee in contact with me.
Oh yes, and pray for the meetings we will be holding in June in Columbus!
National PTA
Phone: 312-670-6782
Toll-Free: 800-307-4PTA (4782)
Fax: 312-670-6783
National PTA Washington DC Office
1090 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20005-4905
Phone: 202-289-6790
Fax: 202-289-6791
Hotline: 888-425-5537
Also, send an email:
Please let me know if you hear anything good or bad or indifferent.
Thanks, Warren Throckmorton, PhD
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James J. Corbett vs. Charley Mitchell
1894-01-25 : James J. Corbett 184 lbs beat Charlie Mitchell 165 lbs by KO in round 3 of 0
- Location: Duvall Athletic Club, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- Referee: Honest John Kelly
- World Heavyweight Title
- Winner was paid $20,000.
- The new champion Corbett had not carried his title well on the days he held it since dethroning long-reigning champion John L. Sullivan. He had been drinking heavily and was going up against one of the best fighters who mobbed the roped square at that time, Charlie Mitchell. Mitchell had previously held John L. Sullivan to a 51-round draw in France and was hoping to capture the title against Corbett. After Mitchell used his savvy tricks and experience to get the better of "Gentleman Jim" in round one, Corbett landed a right to the body that stopped Mitchell in his tracks and hurt him badly. Late in the round, after Corbett dropped Mitchell, Corbett was complaining to referee Kelly that he wasn't counting fast enough. After the bell sounded to end the round, Mitchell hit Corbett and instigated a fight. The seconds finally pulled the fighters apart to prevent a riot. When the gong sounded to begin the third, Corbett was all over Mitchell and knocked him cold with a picturesque right hand to the chin. Corbett had retained his title, regardless of the handicap drinking put him in before the fight.
- Source: "The Roar of the Crowd" by James J. Corbett
Another description of this bout can be found in the Ring Magazine: October 1933, p. 24.
From The Daily Huronite (26 January 1894):
How Corbett Won and Mitchell Lost the Great Battle at Jacksonville
The Details of the Much Advertised Mill, It Was Easy For the Champion
Duval Club Unmercifully Scorned For Lack of Enterprise In the Arrangements
For the first time since he has been acknowledged head of the pugilistic fraternity of the world, James J. Corbett has defended with success the title which he won by defeating his predecessor, John L. Sullivan. Pitted against the boasted exponent of the manly art in England,
America's brawny representative has proven his fitness for the place of honor which his sinews and muscles won for him and the tail of the British lion has been severely stepped upon by the foot of the mighty bruiser from the West There is exultation in the land, and Charles Mitchell is groveling in the dust of defeat, heaping imprecations on his ill luck, and mingling with them vain regrets of his inability to whip his victor. The British pugilist has attended his pugilistic funeral, and henceforth he will remember with permanent grief the time and place of his first defeat. It was all Corbett's battle, though Mitchell made a show in the first round.
The Fight By Rounds
The men entered the ring and time was called at 2:50 pm.The referee ordered them to shake hands, but neither responded. Then the fight began.
First Round
Corbett led with left on Mitchell's chin. They clinch. Exchanged body blows and Jim reaches Charlie's left eye, heavily. Mitchell reaches the ribs. Another exchange and Mitchell clinches. Mitchell gets in on Corbett's neck, and Jim lands right and right again. Just as time called good body blow. Honors easy in first round. It looks as if it was to be a wicked fight.
Second Round
A wild exchange and a clinch. Corbett uppercuts his man as they come together. Mitchell lands hard on ribs, and as Mitchell came in Jim caught him on head, staggering him. Corbett uppercuts Mitchell again and lands with right on Charlie's ribs, Mitchell reaching Jim's chin as a sharp rally, with Corbett having all the best of it. They are going to get at it. Mitchell got in twice on Corbett's neck. Corbett knocks him down twice in succession Jim floored his man clearly and knocked him down again as he assayed to arise. The gong saved Mitchell.
Third Round
Mitchell rather groggy. Corbett rushed at him swung right and left heavy on Mitchell's neck. Charlie went down. He took the full time to arise, and then Corbett rushed at him like a tiger. Mitchell clinched. Corbett threw him off and floored him with a stiff facer. Again he took all the time to rise, and when he advanced towards Corbett the latter swung his right with deadly effect on Charlie's nose. Mitchell reeled and fell on his face, helpless. Corbett wins easily.
The referee counted 1, 2, 3, 4,5,6, 7,8,9, Mitchell is knocked out. The referee declared Corbett winner of the match and champion of the world. Mitchell's face was covered with blood. He was carried to his corner in a helpless condition. Time of fight nine minutes.
Morning Of The Fight
All Jacksonville Was Up At An Unusually Early Hour
This city was up and doing earlier than it has been for many a day. It had been fairly lively all night long, for many of the sports were so late in getting ready for bed that they were afraid they might miss something, so they remained up and made themselves very much in evidence throughout the small hours. The rush toward the arena began at an early hour. It was long before the time set for the contest when streams of buggies, carriages and all sorts of vehicles began to drift out toward the arena. The price of transportation went up with the increased demand. Hard times in the North have made visitors fewer in number this year than for a decade.
The hackmen of Jacksonville, therefore, prepared to accumulate as much wealth as possible to tide them over a hard summer. Two, three and four dollars was asked and paid for a trip to the arena. The price carried with it the privilege of a return ticket, but there was no earthly chance of finding the original vehicle, as the avaricious just snapped up everything that had the price of a ride and let the majority of those whom they carried out get back to town the best way possible. The jam around the doors of the arena was dense at times, but there was plenty of room for all and no discomfort was experienced by anybody.
The betting in the morning was strong in Corbett's favor, the general impression being that the little Englishman would stand no show against him. This "general impression," however, did not exist to any large extent among the members of the Mitchell party. It did not bother Mitchell himself either. He was just as cool and confident before the fight as he has always been. Mitchell, in fact has never shown the slightest nervousness or anxiety over the result. He has always acted as though he was the person least interested in the fight. He climbed out of bed shortly after 7 o'clock, happy and cheerful and announced promptly, "I want my breakfast, and I want it pretty quick." He; went through a short series of light exercises, was rubbed down and then turned his attention to his breakfast, which consisted of mutton chops, a little steak, a small amount of potatoes, toast and tea. This over, Mitchell went quietly in his room waiting for the time to come for his departure for the ringside.
The champion Comes Up From Mayport Early In The Morning
Down at the ferry landing at Mayport a large crowd gathered to speed the parting guests on the way with cheers and good wishes. It was a motley gathering of people of both sexes and both colors. When finally the tall, lithe form of the champion, in a close fitting business suit, appeared at the head of his delegation, there was a loud cheer from the assembled throng at the station, a compliment which Corbett gracefully acknowledged with a nod of the head. There was happiness written all over his face, and as the train slowly steamed away the disappearing crowd in the distance enthusiastically waved their kerchiefs and hats and gave rousing cheers for the sake of patriotism.
The trip up the river was uneventful. Down at the landing here there were carriages in waiting and a reception committee made up of sports,gentlemen, ragamuffins and pickaninnies. Across the river at South Jacksonville a self appointed escort of enthusiastic people had put the champion aboard the ferry. When the boat landed on this side of the river Corbett and his retainers walked with a quick pace to the carriages, and then they were driven post haste to the St. James hotel, running the gauntlet of hundreds of eyes as they made their way to their rooms. Once in the rooms only the most intimate friends of the champion were allowed to enter, and Corbett carefully made preparations for his trip to ringside.
Dempsey and Hall Demanded a better Place to Fight In
Jack Dempsey went over to the ring to inspect the arrangements. He found the floor in a shaky condition, and the posts not padded, He emphatically told the officers of the Duval club that unless the matters were remedied there would be no fight, as Corbett would not enter the ring in that condition. Jim Hall went over to inspect the ring on behalf of Mitchell, and heartily approved of the alterations suggested by Dempsey, and intimated as Dempsey had done, that it would be wise action on the part of the club to get a move on itself if it cared to see his principal in a fight. This put the club almost into a fit, and it started to do things with what passes for a hurry in this land. The nearer the contest comes the worse seems to be the management of the Duval club. Its members seemed more than ever to justify Mitchell's caustic comment "There ain't a man in it with brains enough to have a headache." It is gelling tickets at all kinds of prices and charges are openly made that it has not hesitated to sell the desirable seats of the arena several times over. This means that the mill between Mitchell and Corbett will be the wind up of a long series of petty rows and fights among the audience.
Promptly at 12 o'clock the doors were opened, and the crowd, which had by this time swollen to fully 500, made a wild surge through the doors. They carried the one lone ticket taker entirely off his feet, and before he regained a standing position at least 20 men had passed into the arena to view the fight without the necessity of going to their pockets for something which they probably did not contain. The workmen had not finished padding the posts, and fully a dozen of them were placing pillows around them. The pillows, however, were much too short, and a space of fully 30 inches was left between the bottom of the pillow and the floor of the platform. It made an ugly place for a man to strike his head upon if he should happen to be knocked against it.
While one gang of men were working on the resin on the floor of the ring, another was laboring to stretch canvas from the roofs to the sides of the edge of the arena. There was a feeble effort to keep out the rain which came down in fearful spurts but was death to the hopes of the men who had discovered the mode of entrance to the arena. It effectively prevented them from slipping over the edges of the arena. Referee John Kelly came into the grounds later, carrying a small unpretentious looking bundle, but it contained that that without which there would have been no fight here. It was in fact a bundle of banknotes, consisting of several $1000 bills, a lot of $500 and a whole chunk of smaller denominations, the whole aggregating $20,000. The purse which will belong to the winner.
The Corbett-Mitchell fight is logically the outcome of the downfall of the 12- years idol of the pugilistic world. Mitchell had fought a draw with Sullivan when Sullivan was in his prime. Before Mitchell and Corbett met each other in the ring. Mitchell equally with the San Franciscan was a formidable claimant for the laurels which Corbett wrested from the pride of Boston in New Orleans a year ago. When Corbett was proclaimed the champion he had to face a torrent of challenges It was a public cry that Corbett should meet the handsome English lad first and the conviction settled itself in Corbett's mind that a fight with Mitchell That was inevitable. A. long prelude of cross firing in the press finally brought the men together. An agreement was prepared early last summer and the month of December selected for the date. The articles of agreement included a stake of ?10,000 each, to be posted by the men and invitation to the then three leading clubs in America, to bid against each other for the honor of the battleground. Even before the match was made Mitchell had signed a promise with Charley Noel to give New Orleans the preference, but fighting got a black eye in the Crescent City by the Hall-Fitzsimmons fiasco and Coney Island was left to wrestle with Roby for the consent of the fighters. Judge Newton came out victor in the competition but prize fighting became an issue in New York politics. Mayor Boody signed the death warrant of Coney Island. and then Governor Matthews prepared a shroud for the club and its backers, and Mitchell and Corbett turned their eyes southward for money and a battle ground.
They dickered with the Olympic club of New Orleans, made their demands decisive, and finally lost the opportunity to fight without annoyance and police protection. Then from among a mass of offers the pugilists picked out the one from Jacksonville for serious consideration. J. E. T. Bowden, one of Jacksonville's first citizens was east when the death knell of the Coney Island was sounded. He rushed back here, consulted the Florida statutes, found no prohibition against boxing contests, sounded the oldest and the best and most influential citizens, and found bucking on both sides and the
Duval Athletic Club Was Born
Then the commissioner of the club went East met the backers of the pugilists, talked business to them and obtained their signatures to articles of agreement. Under the agreement the club offered a purse of $4O.OOO and acceded to a demand of the pugilists for $5,000 to cover training and incidental expenses. The Coney Island's original offer was $40,000 for the fight. Executive interference sliced the purse in two. After making the match the Duval club proceeded to advertise it broadest. Then telegrams began to pour into Jacksonville protesting against the contest. Governor Mitchell
He ranged himself in stern opposition The impolitic management hero bid open defiance to the authorities, and then commenced the long newspaper warfare between Jacksonville and his excellency, culminating in the marshaling of the troops hero and the institution of the action for an injunction. The club won the legal tilt, the state gracefully yielding, and the most interesting match which pugilistic history records was permitted to proceed to its finale. The fight was under Queensberry rules, with 5 ounce gloves, with a referee selected by the club and with no limit to the number of rounds.
Corbett's training was done at Mayport, a small fishing station unknown to the world at large until the advent of the pugilist and his party, and situated about 20 miles from Jacksonville and 7 from Pablo Beach, the summer resort of Floridians. The hamlet of Mayport is but a straggling one, possessed of few if any natural attractions, but a spot well fitted for a pugilist's training. The Atlantic stretches out its broad bosom to the eastward, leaving a broad and unbroken beach of firm white sand, and the wide river St. Johns courses past it to the west. Of the few cottages of which the hamlet can boast, the Corbett party secured four, and under their roofs and on the broad firm beach the champion took his daily practice at boxing, wrestling and running. With Corbett has been Billy Delaney, his trainer, the same who made him fit to whip Sullivan; John McVey, the wrestler; Dan Creedon, the Australian aspirant for Fitzsimmons' scalp; Professor John Donaldson, New York's expert boxing instructor; Dan Tracey, W. A. Brady, Corbett's manager, and "Kid" Egan, private secretary to the pugilist.
Corbett has trained hard and faithfully since he arrived in Florida and his appearance prior to his departure from his quarters fully justified the assertion of himself and his friends that he was fit to do battle for anything within the gift of man.
Mitchell Quarters More Retired
Mitchell, the English pugilist, was in a sense more fortunate than his opponent in the selection of training quarters, for the place which he picked out is far from Jacksonville, and, consequently, Mitchell has been subjected to fewer visitors. His quarters were located on Anastasta island, reached by the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West railroad, and with him have been Billy Thompson, his manager: Jim Hall, Tom Allen, exchampion: Bat Masterson and Steve Brodie. Mitchell's course of training has been practically the same as that followed by other pugilists preparing for an encounter, but in all of his training he has been singularly methodical and painstaking and has evidenced that intensity of purpose which has marked his career. His time has been divided between punching the bag, boxing with Jim Hall and long runs on the beach. Barring the spraining of a muscle in his ankle, Mitchell has been free from troubles during his weeks of preparation and was in excellent trim for the fray when he arrived hero from Anastasia island.


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