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Viva la Vita: "During the Casual Connect conference in Germany this past month, developer SFB games held a postmortem on their PlayStation Mobile title Haunt the House: Terrortown. Tom Vian shared how the studio got started working on PlayStation Mobile, as well as some of the difficulties developing on the platform, such as the SDK accepting only WMV files for audio, size restrictions, and even some fundamental stuff like playing more than one music track at a time. Despite these struggles the team only had good things to say about Sony's support of independent developers, saying that there were times where Sony's platform engineers would help them with issues. Unfortunately, in what's becoming a worrying trend, the sequel to the popular 2010 flash game has not sold well. Tom revealed that the title had only sold 1100 copies after a month of sales, counting for revenues of about $2800. The team blames the poor sales on the limited userbase of both the PlayStation Vita, and the Android Certified devices. He later went on to say that those who do own a Vita are in Japan, a market that is nearly impossible for western mobile developers to get publicity in. The company said the plan is to port the title to proper mobile platforms for release later this year.
The side-scrolling action puzzle game features five unique locations to explore, hundreds of objects to possess, and dozens of people to haunt all set to stunning score. After 66 ratings the game sits with a 4.65 review score on the PlayStation Store. It'll set you back $3.49, £2.79, or €3.49."


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I started by doing this one in colour, but I thought it actually looked better black and white, it sort of unified the drawing better so you see the joke straight away
any way, its another one for bobby and kei's competition
any way, its another one for bobby and kei's competition
lol! this is fantastic!! - great twist on the original pic... - I must say though the colourist in me looks at this and screams to see it in colour! it's a shame there wasn't time for a collab on a coloured version too!! \:]
yeah ~sigh~ just found out about the comp a bit late, aww well, next time ^_^
hey, maybe if you send a high-res of the line art over I could stick it in my "to colour" folder.... it probably wont ever get done but it'd still be fun to do it even if the comp is over!
I'd be honored! where should I send it?
Awesome! Great line art =]
Love this, the style and layout is awesome!
ah I like the birds good luck
Thanks! ^_^ did you enter as well?
awww look at the wittle baby. Nice concept how come all your characters have this clueless expression to them lol. Reminds me of you.
thanks...I think? for this little one I was going for more an annoyed expression rather than clueless, oh well, maybe next time ^_^

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In the Course Descriptions, listed below, the Class Numbers link to HUB registration information - updated nightly.
Professor Lewis Powell
Friday 1:30-4:20
Class #22317
David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature is among the most influential works of philosophy ever written. Though Hume was disappointed in its reception during his lifetime, scholars have come to appreciate the work's depth and richness. In this seminar, we will be doing a close, careful reading of the first book of the Treatise, "Of the Understanding", in which Hume articulates his approach to philosophy, and develops his treatment of human cognition. Readings from the Treatise will be supplemented with readings from other early modern figures, and from contemporary scholarship on Hume.
Professor James Lawler
Tuesday 4:00-6:50
Class #23807
Kant's ethics occupy a central place in his three critiques. The first Critique prepares the metaphysical space for the second. If deterministic science is true of reality, then morality, with its crucial assumption of free will, is an illusion. So it was necessary for Kant to "to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith" as he says in the Preface to the Critique of Pure Reason. Since the first Critique establishes that knowledge is limited to appearances, we cannot know that we have free will. But we can still believe that our will is free. Kant's faith-related moral philosophy therefore occupies this metaphysical space opened up by the critique of scientific knowledge. It is important to keep in mind this perspective in considering what Kant says about morality. To focus exclusively on the role of reason in Kant's ethics is to miss the significance of this initial framework, with its critique of knowledge and its grounding of a moral faith.
Moreover, it is not enough to understand what is morally right; it is necessary to realize one's moral duties, the culminating ideal for which is the creation of a just society, what Kant calls "the highest good." Kant's third critique, the Critique of Judgment, develops a teleological conception that complements the mechanism of science but is open to incorporating the perspectives of morality. In this perspective of the realization of the moral ideals, both Kant's aesthetics and his historical and political essays provide essential components for the understanding of morality.
The second critique therefore makes complete sense only within the frameworks provided by the first and the third critiques. In the light of the system of three critiques, the course focuses primarily on Kant's small but intricate work, the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Lectures and supplied reading materials will provide sufficient information regarding Kant's three critiques and relevant essays.
In addition to regular attendance and participation in lecture discussions, a final 15-20 page paper, incorporating both research in Kant scholarship and the essential ideas of the course, will be required.
Professor Richard Cohen
Wednesday 1:00-3:50
Class #23814
Close reading of selections from the two chief works of Emmanuel Levinas: Totality and Infinity (1961) and Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence (1974), to discover what is original and profound in his thought. What does Levinas mean, and what are the ramifications of arguing that ethics is first philosophy? Therefore close intellectual confrontations with the epistemology of Kant, the phenomenology of Husserl and the ontology of Heidegger, as well as with the history of philosophy.
Professor Lewis Powell
Wednesday 4:00-6:50
Class #21080
"The Graduate Dissertation Seminar is a course designed to assist students as they make progress on their dissertations, and approach the job market. The course focuses on presenting one's work, giving and receiving feedback to other students on their work, and professionalization."
Professor Jorge Gracia
Tuesday 7:00-9:50
Class #23793
What is race? What is ethnicity? What is the relation between race and ethnicity? What are racial and ethnic identities? How are these identities related to personal identity? Can the same person have several identities? How are racial and ethnic groups individuated? How can we tell that someone belongs to a particular racial or ethnic group? Does belonging to these groups entail particular rights? Do ethnic groups have linguistic rights? Are groups entitled to reparations for past wrongs committed against members of the groups? Can affirmative action policies with respect to racial and ethnic groups be justified? What is racism? These are some of the metaphysical, epistemic, and ethical questions we will be dealing with in this course. The readings come from the writings of well-known philosophers who have recently staked out important, and often controversial, positions on these issues. Among the authors to be read are: Appiah, Haslanger, Garcia, Gracia, Corlet, Arthur, Alcoff, Glagow, Blum, Bernstein, Pogge, Young, McGary, and Zack. All but two of these authors are actively working in this field and several readings will come from recent debates among them.
Professor Kenneth Shockley
Tuesday 12:30-3:20
Class #23789
Aldo Leopold famously said it is wrong to undermine the "integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community." But are there sufficient philosophical grounds for this claim? If not, what are the relevant alternatives?
The attribution of value to the environment is fraught with conceptual difficulties. Aside from concerns about the moral realism presupposed by Leopold's famous claim, there are related concerns about coherently ascribing intrinsic value to objects of environmental concern, concerns over the right way to frame the relation between the human and the nonhuman world, and concerns over the relation between environmental values and other value schemes (e.g., economic value). There are also worries over how to express those values normatively. Are environmental values to be responded to consequentially, such that those values are to be promoted? Are they, rather, to be respected? Are they best thought of as reflections of human character? And, however they are to be understood, how do we explain differences between the way we treat values in "environmental" contexts and the way we treat values in more interpersonal, traditional contexts where the exclusive concern is with human values? In this advanced course in environmental ethics we will explore these difficulties and their relevance to a range of practical problems.
Professor Maureen Donnelly
Monday 1:00-3:50
Class #23809
In this class, we will focus on the debate in the philosophy of time between detensers (or, B theorists) and tensers (or, A theorists). Very roughly, tensers hold that times/events have objective changing 'A properties' (pastness, nowness, futurity) which can be captured only by tensed claims like 'It is (now) March, 2015', or 'Elizabeth Warren will be elected president of the United States'. Detensers deny this, holding in that all objective facts about temporal position reduce to unchanging ordering relations between events or between events and times.
We will spend part of the semester looking at some influential arguments for and against tensed or tenseless theories of time. In particular, we will look at McTaggart's early argument for the incoherency of changing A properties, along with contemporary assessments or reconstructions of McTaggert's argument. We will also look at Prior's 'Thank goodness that's over' argument for A properties along with more recent developments of and responses to it. But the main focus of the class will be on getting a feel for what tensed or tenseless theories might look like--what, in particular, they might say about how the world is structured. To this end, we will read most of Mellor's Real Time II and probably also parts of Craig Bourne's A Future for Presentism as examples of, respectively, tenseless and tensed theories of time.
Grading for this class will be based on short written assignments, one class presentation, and one final paper.
Professor Neil Williams
Thursday 1:00-3:50
Class #22320
This course is a writing intensive seminar required of all incoming philosophy graduate students. The content for this year's 1st year writing seminar centres on background readings for a manuscript draft in contemporary metaphysics. That manuscript re-approaches the problem of persistence from within a distinctly non-neo-Humean metaphysic based on causal powers. Our main focus will be the first half of the manuscript, which deals with the alternative metaphysic, but we will still spend some time dealing with its applications. Readings will be taken mostly from the associated literature, but may include drafts of chapters. Weekly meetings will involve discussion of the readings, student presentations, and discussions of student writing.
Students will be expected to submit 8 critical response essays of at least 1500 words each, and two major responses essays of at most 3000 words. The 3000 word essays will be substantial revisions of two of the 8 shorter critical responses. The first 3000 word essay will be due half way through the term, the second at the end of term. There will also be a series of brief exercises to help students focus and refine their writing skills.
The main readings for the course will be placed (free!) on UB Learns, but it is strongly recommended that you purchase the following guide to help you with general issues in metaphysics that will come up in the course:
Beebee, Effingham, and Goff (2010) Metaphysics – The Key Concepts. New York: Routledge.
See HUB Registration site for Individual Tutorial Course Sections with Philosophy Department Faculty, to be Arranged with Permission of Instructor:
599 Graduate Tutorial
PHI 701 MA Thesis Guidance Tutorials (Arranged with Professor)
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J. A. Kaplan MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Dean Emeritus, School of Medicine, Former Chancellor, Health Sciences Center, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Associate Editors
G. R. Manecke Jr MD
Cardiac Anesthesia, Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, CA
P. Slinger MD
Thoracic Anesthesia, Professor of Anaesthesia, The University of Toronto, The Toronto Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
B. S. Rasmussen, MD
Vascular Anesthesia & Critical Care Medicine, EACTA Scientific Secretary, EACTA President Elect, Department of Cardiothoracic Vascular Anesthesia, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
Section Editors
P. G. Barash MD
Review Articles, Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Yale University, New Haven, CT
G. Landoni MD
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G. R. Manecke Jr MD
Emerging Technology Reviews, Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, CA
M. A. Chaney, MD
Case Conference, Professor, Director of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
V. C. Baum MD,
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M. Capdeville, MD
Pro and Con, Chief of Cardiac Anesthesia, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
P. S. Pagel MD, PhD
Diagnostic Dilemmas, Professor and Director of Cardiac Anesthesia, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
J. G. T. Augoustides MD, FASE, FAHA
Literature Review, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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F. Mahmood MD
E-Challenges & Clinical Decisions, Director, Vascular Anesthesia and Echocardiography, Beth Israel Medical Center, Boston, MA
M. Swaminathan MD
E-Challenges & Clinical Decisions, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Director, Perioperative Echocardiography, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
D. A. Banks MD
Cardiac Anesthesia Fellow's Education, Director, Cardiac Anesthesia, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, CA
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New Haven, CT
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Milan, Italy
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The students, staff, administration, and parents of students at Kenai Central High School would like to thank the City of Kenai for their continued help in making KCHS a better place to be. As crazy as it may seem, we have been holding practices for our spring sports since the middle of March. As one might guess the two feet of snow on the ground has made holding track, baseball, softball and boys and girls soccer practices a little tricky. This is where the City of Kenai has stepped in to help.
We the people are once again left out of the important issues that concern our medical care and who delivers that care. The Borough Mayor retread has taken his office and the hospital to a new low in politics with one thing in mind, ultimate power over health care services. I suggest we the people take back our borough with a no confidence vote for every politician involved in this "one world order" we see at the CPGH Inc. board. Now its the resident owners of the hospital to stand up and let them know how its going to turn out in the near future.
Few of us will answer the call to public service, but Dave Carey is such a man, dedicating his life in the service of others. The members of Homer Electric Association could do no better than electing Dave Carey to the HEA Board of Directors. Dave is a leader and educator who has a clear-cut interest in the well being of HEA and its members.
The state has directed the Department of Natural Resources to implement a statewide private guide concession program. If you are involved in or benefit from the Big Game Guiding Industry in any way it's time to take notice.
I read with interest the article about creating browse for urban moose and Ted Spraker's comments about the public being involved in growing browse for winter feeding. Was he "other-Directed? We should plant and nurture trees, watch them grow with pride and then have them destroyed by resident moose. My wife and I have cleared the forest, built our home and landscaped our property with pride only to have the moose destroy the fruits of our labors.
We would like to thank the many generous people who donated hundreds of dollars at our recent talk at the Kenai Peninsula College about woolly mammoths. The donations will help defray the costs of radiocarbon dating a tusk fragment, a rib fragment, and one or two molars.
On May 1, City of Soldotna residents will go to the polls to decide the fate of the new visitors center. Lets add up the numbers -- purchase price $2.1 million, renovations $0.5 million, additional city employees $$$. Lost tax revenue $21,000 per year. Lost potential commercial enterprise that would generate tax revenue. Do you hear it? The sucking action of government, sucking the very life out of the taxpayers. This parcel of land is one of the most desirable commercial properties in the city.
Regarding Ordinance 2012-07, Service Area Boards from Elected to Appointed:
Learning moments. There are many when serving on the Assembly. But, I think the vocal public reaction to the above ordinance is unfortunate. Yes, anyone who is willing to step up and serve on the Borough Assembly, had better have a thick skin, because there will be those who insult you, and attack you. It is called being in the line of fire.
Our hospital, a place of health and healing, suffers from a serious illness.
I support borough assembly Ordinance 2012-07 to appoint, rather than elect, members to service area boards.
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The D700 travels through Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Mar 9, 2010
Just last February I spend two weeks in lovely Mexico. My first real outing with a D700. Destinations included Oaxaca city, Mazunte beach, Yucatan peninsula and Veracruz city. Great weather, awesome food, lovely colors, what's not to like?
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Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D
Vivitar Series 1 28mm f/1.9
Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G
Nikkor 105mm f/1.8 AI
Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 HSM
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A couple of weeks ago, Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson, speaking at The National Press Club, said the nation "would never tolerate white unemployment at 14 and 15 percent." Black unemployment has been double that of white Americans for more than 50 years. The black youth unemployment rate is more than 40 percent nationally. In some cities, unemployment for black working-age males is more than 50 percent. Let's look at this, but first let's look at some history.
From 1900 to 1954, blacks were more active than whites in the labor market. Until about 1960, black male labor force participation in every age group was equal to or greater than that of whites. During that period, black teen unemployment was roughly equal to or less than white teen unemployment. As early as 1900, the duration of black unemployment was 15 percent shorter than that of whites; today it's about 30 percent longer. To do something about today's employment picture requires abandonment of sacred cows and honesty.
The typical answer given for many black problems is racial discrimination. No one argues that every vestige of racial discrimination has been eliminated. But the relevant question is: How much of what we see can be explained by discrimination? I doubt whether anyone would argue that the reason for lower unemployment, higher labor force participation and shorter duration of unemployment among blacks in the first half of the 20th century was that there was less racial discrimination. I also doubt whether anyone would argue that during earlier periods, blacks had higher education and greater skills attainment than whites. Answers must be sought elsewhere.
I was a teenager during the late 1940s, living in North Philadelphia's Richard Allen housing project. Youngsters in my neighborhood who sought after-school, weekend or summer jobs found them. I picked blueberries in New Jersey, caddied at Cobbs Creek Golf Club, shoveled snow for the Philadelphia Transportation Co., delivered packages for a milliner, performed janitorial work at Horn & Hardart restaurant, and huckstered fruits and vegetables. As a high-school student, Christmas employment for me included after-school and weekend work at Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s mail-order house, and one year, I delivered mail for the U.S. Post Office.
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A Cafe For Dogs? You Have To Be Kidding!
With a special cable television network, hotels reserved just for them, surfing competitions and even beauty pageants, dogs are almost as pampered as humans. So why not a cafe inside which canines can just chill and hang out? Welcome to South Korea's, Dog Cafe!
Located in the city of Busan, the concept was adopted from the cat cafe phenomenon that has spread across Japan like wildfire. The goal is to get the people of this busy city who work long hours and live in apartments not big enough to accommodate dogs, a chance to bond with man's best friend.
As soon as patrons walk in, dogs of all breeds and sizes jump up and try hustle for their attention. While there are gates to separate the small dogs from the big ones, the boundaries are hardly ever kept and the dogs pretty much roam all around the cafe nuzzling and even jumping into the laps of the people who gives them attention.
However, a price has to be paid for this affection. Every customer who enters is charged 8,000 won ($7.20 USD). But it is totally worth it, since the price includes an unlimited supply of coffee or smoothies, a scrumptious buffet of donuts and cake and most importantly, the opportunity to hang with the dogs as long as they like. The best part is, that all the dogs are rescued or strays which means that without the cafe, they would be homeless - A true win-win for everyone!
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Chef Tomo Owada began his career over 20 years ago in Japan. He apprenticed as an assistant sushi cook under Chef Miki for 4 years. He then went on to garner his Chef License in Tokyo. In Japan, this particular license allows you the required certification to manage a kitchen as well as ensuring top level skills for Japanese Cuisine.
In 1999, Chef Tomo came to the United States on a work visa as Sushi Chef for Chef Yoshi at Takara. He remained there for 7 years honing his skills. He then moved over to Yoshi's as Sushi Chef and has been working there for the past 5 years.
This year, after nearly 20 years of working for other restaurateurs, Tomo decided to break away and open his own house. He found the perfect location on San Pablo Avenue and University, in Berkeley and will open Tomo's Japanese Cuisine early next month.
Tomo comes from a culinary background of preparing traditional Japanese cuisine. His menu will reflect that along with using the highest quality ingredients that he can find from local farmers and markets. Because he may not be able to pass up something bright and fresh from the market but not necessarily traditional, Tomo will add a California twist to some of his items that will reflect local and sustainable produce. His menu will be ever-changing to reflect the season's best.
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The grey butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus) is a widely distributed species endemic to Australia. The grey butcherbird occurs in a range of different habitats including arid, semi-arid and temperate zones. It has a characteristic "rollicking" birdsong. It appears to be adapting well to city living, and can be encountered in the suburbs of many Australian cities including Sydney and Brisbane. The grey butcherbird preys on small vertebrates including other birds.
Other birds in the same family include the Australian magpie, the currawongs, woodswallows and other members of the butcherbird genus Cracticus.
The grey butcherbird was first described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name Lanius torquatus.[2]
Closely related species include the silver-backed butcherbird (Cracticus argenteus) and the black-backed butcherbird (Cracticus mentalis). The silver-backed butcherbird (Cracticus argenteus) from Arnhem Land and northwestern Australia over to Port Hedland, originally described by John Gould in 1841, was later deemed to be a subspecies of the grey butcherbird. Recently, however, it has again been re-described as a separate species. The silver-backed butcherbird has two subspecies C. argenteus argenteus and C. a. colletti. The black-backed butcherbird occurs in Australia on the Cape York Peninsula and in Papua New Guinea and has two subspecies.[3]
The grey butcherbird has three subspecies:[3]
- C. t. torquatus in south-east Australia.
- C. t. cinereus is restricted to the island of Tasmania.
- C. t. leucopterus is widespread; its distribution stretches from the west to the east coast of Australia.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Cracticus torquatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ Latham, John (1801). Supplementum indicis ornithologici sive systematis ornithologiae (in Latin). London: Leigh & Sotheby. p. xviii.
- ^ a b Schodde, Richard; Mason, I.J. (1999). The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 9780643102934.
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For months, the question asked softly around Silicon Valley has been: Is this another tech bubble?
With restaurants filled with well-paid tech workers and home prices soaring into the stratosphere, such doubts are usually shrugged off with a phrase that hasn't been heard much around the San Francisco Bay Area since the spring of 2000: "It's different this time."
Yes, it is different. Significantly, Silicon Valley giants, unlike the tiny start-ups of the dot-com era, are highly profitable, and some have billions of dollars in cash. However, the outlook for technology rests on a highly complex economic and geopolitical landscape, and that has been shaken recently by the potential for Russian intervention in Ukraine, the strikes by ISIS in Iraq, Israel's actions in Gaza and new fears about the debts of some European governments.
Since setting a new high a month ago, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, like much of the broader market, has fallen back in choppy trading. And, in just the past week, two independent studies have found new signs of doubt that technology sales, while still growing, will reach levels expected when 2014 began.
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According to a statement, three-quarters of the managers said they were on target or ahead of their 2014 revenue goals halfway through the year, well ahead of the 68 percent who could say that a year ago. By company size, execs at 93 percent of medium IT firms and 80 percent of larger companies said they were on track for sales. The same was true for 74 percent of small companies and 58 percent of "micro firms."
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Facebook pages is one of the best tool to promote your site on Facebook. Facebook has been adding many new features like Facebook schedule message, Sponsored stories and today I spotted new feature call Facebook offers on my fan page. This new feature will directly help E-commerce companies to offer special discount coupons and offers to their fans and customers. I just tried my hands on new Facebook fan page offer feature and here is a quick guide and information related to creating an offer on your Fan page and how you can use this to make money from Facebook pages.
How to create Facebook offer for your Fans?
Like you create a new status update, similarly you will be creating a new Facebook offer for your Fans. Go to Fan page you admin and click on Offer, Event+ and select offer from the drop down options.
To create a Facebook fan page offer, you need few details only. You can select from three options:
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You can easily select online only offer and use your affiliate link and discount coupon to offer something useful for your fans. Believe it or not, people like discount and offers which are hard to resist. So, lets say, if you are a Dreamhost affiliate or any other Webhosting affiliate or any other affiliate programs, you can simply add your affiliate link and add the coupon code. Here is an example:
If the affiliate program which you are using doesn't offer any coupon code or you embed coupon code directly into link, you can skip the coupon part. For example, I can directly offer following link, which offers $97 off without any coupon code on Dreamhost.
Click on next and now the creative part comes in, you need to add a catchy offer headline in 90 characters along with an image. Make sure to use an image which can bring maximum interaction and use clickable offer lines. Here is the final screenshot of created offer:
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If you know about Facebook edgerank, by default any status update you post on Fan page, doesn't reach to all and that's where Facebook come with sponsored stories, where you set a budget to make your status update or offer reachable to more Facebook users. You can also publish your offer without spending any money, i.e with 0 budget, but if you are promoting something irresistible, make sure you start with minimum budget of $10. When you are setting your budget for Facebook offer, you can also see the estimate number of reach. Here is a screenshot for the same:
Click on share and your offer will start appearing in your Fans timeline. Now, here is interesting bit, your fans can quickly click on claim option to see the offer and they will get an Email notification with offer details, which will make this more effective. Along with it, fans or you can claim the offer and reshare the offer with your friends, specific list or to the public. You can also see the number of people claimed the offer, now it doesn't mean that they have made a purchase, but it means they clicked on claim to see the offer.
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This seems like a great offer and I'm sure in coming days, it will open many new door and oppurtunities for Bloggers and internet marketers to make money directly from Facebook fan pages. Have you tried this new feature from Facebook? How's your experience so far?
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Terrific staff.
Made us feel very welcome from the outset. The room was very comfortable and both food and pub atmosphere was first class. Excellent value for money.
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1st stay and not the last.
I had a short notice appointment near Banbury and found this place via late rooms.
The cost of the room was not high, which does make you wonder what type of place it was going to be. However I found the room clean, and warm after a long drive there. I had my evening meal in the restaurant and was impressed with the linguini. The breakfast was good however the only downside was it started at 8.30. Maybe I could have asked for it to be earlier but didn't as my appointment was not till 9 so thought I had plenty of time.
The only downside of my stay was the mattress was a little old, or well used and had a ridge down the middle where people don't normally sleep. But if you stayed to one side it was OK. The room was fitted out for a disabled person which was OK, apart from in the bathroom. The room is a wet room and the drain for the sink flows across the floor to use the shower drain. Albeit only a short journey from exit to drain hole. Not the best really to stand in your used mouth wash as you shower.
However I would use the pub again I would just ask for a different room.
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A lovely setting and quiet location.
The room was very comfortable. There were problems with the bathroom floor tiles lifting and held down with black tape. The back of the bath behind the taps needed attention and was grotty. The plumbing systems in room 3 and room 4 are extremely loud. I was woken up by next door's bathroom at 1am and 4am - so not a great night's sleep!!!. Good breakfast and friendly service.
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Very friendly welcome
This appears to be family run and as such has a very friendly atmosphere from the moment that you step in the door.
All requests are answered with a smile and I have to say that the quality of the food for the price was excellent. We had a very nice dinner in the restaurant and an excellent breakfast choice. This pub/restaurant/guest house is in a very quiet location so not the place to go to if you want busy local nightlife but excellent if you want a quiet and relaxing short stay. On the Sunday after we left we went to the village of Hook Norton on the way through to Chipping Norton and it has to be said that it is a beautiful village. Recommended.
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Friendly owners, cozy atmosphere. Good food, excellent beer.
Arrived during a motorcycle rally, we were camping in the pubs grounds.
Although crowded in bar area, my partner and I were made to feel comfortable & welcome.Would book again or would go just to eat the excellent food. Had a very pleasant stay.
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Homely and peaceful with a very nice breakfast
nice spot - good food and beer
Well worth a Visit
Great place to stay, rest and eat.
Service, drink and food excellent, accommodation very good but not excellent (some refurbishment?) but overall fine. Great stepping off point for exploring the area. Would choose to stay here again.
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Accomodation block behind the pub was very comfortable, well equipped and clean.
Plenty of parking and Wi-Fi in the bar area. Food was generally ok. Had steak and chips on the second night but the chips were so heavily salted that I could not eat them. When I pointed this out they didn't offer a fresh portion - just knocked the chips off the bill, leaving me hungery after having half a meal.
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You may not be 100 percent sure what you think about Vladimir Putin's maneuvers in Ukraine, Burger King's tax inversion, the indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry, or Scotland's independence referendum. But you know exactly where you come down on the Great Airline Reclining Seat Controversy, don't you?
Everyone has an opinion on the passenger in Row 12 who caused an uproar on a United flight from Newark to Denver when he used a plastic bracket called the "Knee Defender" to block the woman in front of him from reclining her seat. When a flight attendant told the man to remove the gadget — which United, like most airlines, prohibits — he refused. The infuriated woman in Row 11, reported the Associated Press, "then stood up, turned around, and threw a cup of water at him." Whereupon the plane was diverted to Chicago, and the two passengers were ejected.
Three days later, another passenger was booted from another flight because of another struggle over legroom. American Airlines diverted a Miami-to-Paris flight to Boston, where Edmond Alexandre was arrested on charges of "interfering with a flight crew" after fighting when the seat in front him was reclined.
Small wonder these stories have struck a nerve. You don't have to be a frequent flyer to know how cramped air travel has become, or how maddening — not to mention kneecap- and laptop-endangering — it can be when the already minuscule space between you and the seat-back in front of you suddenly shrinks further because a passenger one row up leans back without warning. Nor is it hard to understand the frustration of a passenger with an aching back or a need to sleep who presses the recline button, only to discover that the seat has been deliberately immobilized by a fellow traveler.
But how did the battle between knee defenders and recliners turn into an all-or-nothing clash of rights?
"I own the right to recline, and if my reclining bothers you, you can pay me to stop," asserts economics reporter Josh Barro in The Upshot, a New York Times politics and policy website. "If sitting behind my reclined seat was such misery .?.?. someone would have opened his wallet and paid me by now."
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We admit it's a little sad and counterintuitive to create a list of proper etiquette for karaoke, a ritual that embraces the tacky and tasteless, but lately we've been witness to such unmentionable transgressions, such gross violations, that the Don'ts clearly need to be spelled out for some participantsand we have an additional one for bars too. So tape the following rules to the mic, pass them out to your friends. Your near-perfect rendition of "Me So Horny" deserves only the most worthy audience.
1) God doesn't smile on Stevie Nicks. Not on karaoke night. "Changes" is the kind of sentimental poo you unleash at the high school talent showor your best friend's wedding.
2) Socially-acceptable hoochie fest? Hmm, maybe not. In the same way that some women use Halloween as an excuse to slut it up, so too will they do the same with karaoke. Ergo: those sexy renditions of "Dirrty," "Voulez Vous Couchez Avec Moi" (i.e. "Lady Marmalade"). Have you ever noticed the comparatively less self-conscious picks from many of the guys? Journey. Jovi. Sir Mix-a-Lot. Something from the underappreciated Huey Lewis canon.
This disparity between the sexes always makes us a little sad.
3) Who let in the cast of Fame? Everyone has that one pal who can actually carry a noteinvariably the same friend who's always pushing karaoke night to begin with. This is okay. Let them belt out their college-acapella version of Hootie or Tori one more godforsaken time, because, hey, you're not a hater or anything. But we've been out when a 10-performer-strong party of Tisch grads descends, and all of a sudden, everyone's listening to perfect renditions of NKOTB, or Toto even. We once heard "Wicked Game" done so well that we half-expected Helena Christensen to materialize, sand-encrusted underoos, bored expression and all. But lo, it's just some pud nonchalantly crooning dead-on Isaak while guzzling a bottle of bud, cheered on by his equally voice-coached pals. Cheaters.
4) Nobody likes a songbook hog.
5) "But I didn't sing any songswhy do I have to pay?" This is like when you go out to dinner a friend's birthday, and somebody has to "duck out" early and thinks $20 will cover their share. "But I just got a Diet Coke and an appetizer," you'll hear later, when innocently inquiring why the dinner cost you an extra $80.
And so it is with karaoke parties. Walk into the rented room, and you're financially committed for as long as you're there. It doesn't matter if you didn't singno one ever seems to sing quite enough at these things, do they? Just by being there, you have partaken in karaoke magic. Now cough up for those shrimp wontons.
6) The boozin' must be cheap. Here's a Don't directed at the bar itself. Samantha Fox's "Naughty Girls" deserves all the glories of a high school rec room and $2 PBR. Yet on Friday nights, Second on Second Karaoke actually charges a $5 cover, we assume to pay off a DJ saddled with the Herculean task of manning . . . of manning . . . what, exactly? What you got there? A deck? Press-play karaoke machine? Add to that a coat check and a two-drink minimum per booth. Their website even makes mention of bottle service. I believe we've stumbled on Karaoke Fancy, as incongruous as slurping caviar off a Cheeto.
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Nora Kramer, Founder & Executive Director
Nora Kramer has worked as an educator and activist since 2001, teaching high school English, environmental education, at after-school programs, and — of course — working at camps, as well as working on numerous political and grassroots campaigns for various social justice issues that she cares about deeply.
Nora has combined her interest in activism and social change with her passion for working with youth through teaching at after-school programs, running a humane-education organization, mentoring school environmental clubs, working with students to get healthier options in the school lunch program, and teaching 9th and 10th grade English, in addition to over a decade of grassroots and political activism. Nora received her teaching credential from San Francisco State University, and has worked at several camps over the years, as a camp director and senior staff. She has training from the Institute For Humane Education, completed the intensive Basic Camp Director Course through the American Camp Association, has coached leadership programs with Landmark Education, and was certified in nonviolent conflict resolution with youth through the Help Increase the Peace program.
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Yvonne LeGrice, Operations Director
Laura Carver, M.Ed, Assistant Director
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After college, she pursued her passion for making a difference by working for several nonprofits including the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) in Connecticut, a non-profit organization that organizes students around the country on issues of the environment and consumer advocacy; Farm Sanctuary, the premier national organization working on behalf of animals raised for food; and the Tompkins County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the national leader for the no-kill animal shelter movement.
In 2006 she obtained her Masters in Education from Portland State University and a teaching license in middle and high school science and math. Laura was a teacher with Portland Public Schools for four years before joining YEA Camp full time in 2010.
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Andina Aste-Nieto
Andina Aste-Nieto grew up in two big, wonderful families in San Diego. Several of Andina's relations are social justice warriors and she grew up around conversations about oppression and justice for Chicano, American Indian, African-American, homeless, and LGBT communities.
In Andina's twenties, she found ways to travel the world and stay connected to her passions for social justice and and working with youth. She visited and volunteered in orphanages and poor indigenous communities in Mexico and Guatemala. She attended the Working Group on Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. One of her most impactful experiences was conducting anthropological research about how resorts are affecting the environment and the Maya community in Tulum, Mexico.
Between some of those adventures, Andina worked as a substitute teacher and teacher's aide in both public and private schools in the U.S. Her desire to empower the students that are falling through the cracks of the public school system led her to the social justice-oriented multicultural counseling program that she is in currently. Her internship is at the Southern California American Indian Resource Center where she serves children, teens, and adults. Andina is supplementing her Western education with teachings about traditional indigenous healing ceremonies and practices. One of her dreams is to create a program where she can facilitate the empowerment of youth of color through connection to their cultural identity and roots.
Charles Orgbon
After noticing his school's littering problem as a 12-year-old 5th grader, Charles Orgbon III began leading school-based community beautification projects. He quickly realized that the environment movement was not adequately supporting young environmental changemakers; therefore, he created Greening Forward. Today, six years later, the youth-driven, youth-imagined organization has grown into the largest movement of its kind. In all, Greening Forward has distributed over $40,000 in funding to youth environmental projects that have also planted over 300 trees, built over 80 compost bins, installed over 200 rain barrels, monitored 11 streams, recycled 120 tons of waste, planned two International Young Environmentalists Youth Summits, and advocated for a number of other environmental issues. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has dedicated a piece of the Power of Children permanent exhibit to Charles's efforts in order to inspire more young people to make a positive difference in the world.
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Claire Tamburello is a student, passionate social justice/animal rights activist, and aspiring photographer and marine biologist. She became vegetarian at age 11 and vegan at age 12 with support from her family. At age 16, Claire organized and attended her town's first ever circus protest. She's participated in numerous animal rights campaigns, including End Circus Cruelty and Keep Michigan's Wolves Protected. She's attended many protests, leafleted in groups and solo, aided in farm sanctuary fundraisers, and been an active member of VegTeens, an organization bringing together vegetarian and vegan teens in Michigan. She regularly volunteers at animal shelters and various nonprofits.
Currently, Claire is helping to plan a teens section of the Grand Rapids VegFest, organizing a local park cleanup, and planning a trick-or-treating Halloween event for young vegans. Claire was a camper last year and, as a standout activist this year, will be a fantastic role model for this year's campers through her role as a counselor in training at our YEA Camp for Animal Advocates. Check out this profile we did on Claire for our YEA Camp Heroes campaign.
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Diana's singing career began at the age of seven with the New York City Opera Children's Chorus. For ten years she performed solo and ensemble roles with the company, while also collaborating on CD recordings such as The Trans Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Eve and Other Stories, and with Paul Simon on his demo, The Capeman. She continued her studies at a performing arts high school and college, and performed for six years with the young artist program, Seagle Music Colony, and toured with their Educational Outreach Program to bring children's opera to the community.
Ida Poberezovsky
Ida currently works as a tutor at a school in East Oakland and loves working with her sixth graders, especially when they draw her pictures of dragons or show her a dance they choreographed to a TLC song. Her passion for youth and social justice was sparked through volunteering as a youth leader at the Mosaic Project, an incredible organization that brings together disparate groups of kids to practice conflict resolution skills and embrace diversity. She is interested in creating a more peaceful world through healing interpersonal trauma with young people, particularly children of immigrant families (Ida herself moved to America from Russia and Israel when she was 7). Next year, she will begin her master's program in Community Mental Health at the California Institute for Integral Studies. She also loves performing improv comedy and exploring nature.
Kameke Brown
Kameke Brown is currently completing a term of service as a team leader with AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps). Kameke is living in Washington at the moment, but is (mostly) from Texas. Her involvement in issues of social justice, service, and activism paralleled with the exploration and evolution of her identity as a black queer female. She's passionate about intersectionality, developing community, and "changing the story". She's been vegan for several years now and is, at the moment, very much interested in animal rights, food justice, environmentalism, and sustainable agriculture–but as always is eager to learn more about social justice issues in general and get involved in any way that she can. She'll be at the New York session and it will be her first time attending YEA Camp. I'm very excited and looking forward to it!
Lacey Carlson
Lacey Carlson is a student, activist, and aspiring environmental educator who is passionate about compassion. At age 14 she became vegan with support from her family, and has continuously worked since then to open her own eyes, and those of others, about animal rights, environmental sustainability, social justice, and the intersections of all three. In high school, she worked as a docent for the Woodcreek Nature Center, guiding nature walks and teaching children about the environment, and volunteered with Sacramento Vegan Community Challenge for many events such as Sacramento Vegan Chef Challenge and 1000 Vegan Cupcakes for Charity. She has participated in many animal advocacy campaigns and protests, including the UC Davis Primate Research Protest and the Humane Lobby Day, in her hometown of Sacramento, CA. She currently attends University of California, Santa Cruz as an Environmental Studies major, and is an intern with Life Lab!, a garden-based environmental education program that takes local elementary schools on field trips to teach them about connections between the food we eat and the world we live on.
Madeleine Lifsey
Madeleine is an animal rights activist and educator from the East Coast. She is currently a graduate student in the Smith College Master of Arts in Teaching Program and holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Smith College. Throughout high school and college, Madeleine has worked in special education, one-to-one tutoring, and Philosophy for Children programs, empowering kids to engage in critical thinking and ethical debate from an early age. She has facilitated Philosophy for Children programs with the Balmoral School in Auckland, New Zealand, Eurekamp in Alberta, Canada, the Pioneer Valley homeschooling group in Northampton, MA, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School of Excellence in Springfield, MA. She is excited to learn more about bridging these experiences to more active work in the humane education movement.
Madeleine has been involved in animal rights and environmental activism since before middle school, and has worked with Farm Sanctuary, the League of Humane Voters, and The Humane League. In 2012, Madeleine co-founded Animal Advocates of Smith College, and has also been active with the American Sign Language and Deaf Culture Club, Transcending Gender (a trans* students and allies campus group), and the House Sustainability Representatives. Vegetarian for most of her life and vegan since fourteen, Madeleine sees making vegan living more accessible to a wider demographic as a necessary step in moving away from the speciesism, racism, ableism, sexism and cissexism that pervades our society. Madeleine is working to bring more intersectional awareness to her activism, and is thrilled to have the privilege to learn and grow with YEA Camp social justice community members of all ages and backgrounds.
Melissa Bergman
Melissa is a 6th grade English and global history teacher in NYC, and has been for the last 14 years. In class, they discuss many social issues on a regular basis such as gender inequalities, racial and religious prejudice and tolerance, animal rights, and other important issues. Melissa has been an aspiring animal rights activist since high school when she joined PETA for the first time, and has been interested in animal rights issues and vegan living ever since. Melissa also started a running camp for kids 6 summers ago when YEA camp began. It was, and continues to be, her inspiration.
Michael Mclendon
Michael is one of the amazing YEA Camp chefs, providing us with three incredible meals a day. Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Mike spent most of his life in in the Bay Area (Oakland and San Francisco). He enjoys writing, being a personal trainer, and, of course, cooking. This will be Mike's third year with YEA Camp, and he's really looking forward to it.
Mike says, "Last year I was so blown away with the work I saw kids put into making the planet a better place that I had no choice but to get on board. This camp is like no other camp I've worked at. The staff really care about the work that they are doing, and the kids are just as passionate. I have the honor of being one of the cooks on this voyage, so kids– be prepared to be spoiled!"
Michael Starkey
Michael G. Starkey is a biologist, activist, and public speaker working to educate and involve the public in animal rights and wildlife conservation issues. Mr. Starkey has a diverse background in the field of wildlife conservation and he has worked as an ecological consultant for environmental consulting firms and government agencies such as the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish & Wildlife. He has worked with a wide diversity of California wildlife, including San Francisco gartersnakes, giant gartersnakes, California tiger salamanders, bats, and ringtails. Mr. Starkey has also worked at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, studying larval development and parental behavior of the neo-tropical frog,Leptodactylus insularum. He began working with the world's leading amphibian conservation organization, SAVE THE FROGS!, in 2010 to inform the public about the threats facing amphibians and he served as Chairman of the Advisory Committee. In this position, he rallied together scientists, volunteers, and others in order to help broaden SAVE THE FROGS' mission of conservation. He co-founded Advocates For Snake Preservation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to snake conservation and continues to use his knowledge of snake ecology, positive attitude to inspire, and enthusiasm to engage the public with protecting these beautiful animals. Mr. Starkey has given presentations around the world to inform the public about animal rights issues and to help nurture a society that respects and appreciates nature and wildlife. Mr. Starkey currently lives and works in Belize, Central America.
Monica Carr
Monica Carr holds a BA in non-fiction writing and journalism from Hunter College of the City University of New York. There, she participated with various student clubs, organizations and campaigns including the Hunter V-day Team for four consecutive years, including her leadership role as co-director in the 2012 production of "The Vagina Monologues," has served as the secretary of Hunter's Women's Rights Coalition for six continuous semesters and volunteered with the International Action Center in phone banking, advertising and organizing the annual May Day protests in NYC for workers' and immigrant rights. Monica has worked with a non-profit called Girls Write Now, which serves to foster relationships between professional women writers and inner-city high school girls. Her passion for youth empowerment stems from her counselor position at Lead for Diversity, a weeklong program for high school students, where she facilitates large and small group workshops addressing issues of bigotry and prejudice. Some of her most recent ventures have been exploring sustainable modes of living, intentional communities and permaculture farming. Monica works as the Vegan Support Analyst for the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), a national nonprofit organization working to end the use of animals for food through public education and grassroots activism.
Nathan Brodie
Nathan's transformation from a privileged bully to an ally for humans and animals started in 2011. His curiosities led him to become a vegetarian and a Big Brother (Big Brother Big Sister) and he hasn't looked back. Currently an undergraduate BSW student at ASU, Nathan is involved in many student driven activities. His passions are steering him into the macro side of social work where he plans to make big changes with policies and legislation through research. One other passion that Nathan loves to talk about and act out is Hip Hop Pedagogy. Also defined as conscious Hip Hop, emcees rap about history and struggles in order to find the roots to positive change.
Pierce Delahunt
Pierce Delahunt is the Community Outreach Director of Solutionary School, a K-12 school scheduled to open in New York in 2018, founded on the premise that education be toward social change. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University, and is currently working toward an M.Ed. at the Institute for Humane Education. He is especially interested in social-emotional learning and advocacy education. During the school year, he performs in NYC schools with Family Life Theatre, a theater troupe for social change. During the summer, he staffs with CISV, a camp for global friendship, as well as YEA Camp. He currently enjoys yoga, parkour, and contortionism.
Shelby Kim
Shelby has always wanted to make a difference but last summer as a camper at YEA Camp, the forces of the universe really confirmed that activism is her true calling. She's so excited to be returning as a Counselor in Training! She just graduated from her high school in Los Angeles and will be going to Smith College in the fall. She has been the co-president of her GSA for two years and is a strong voice for queer representation at her school. In addition, she has invested a lot of time into coordinating inter-school GSA events and creating a local network. She has also been leading a small club called Animal Allies for three years. Her main passions are animal rights, the environment, and queer rights, but she loves learning about and showing up for all issues of peace and equality (because they're all connected)! She's known at school as the rainbow-sock-wearing, reusable-plate-bringing, poster-taping, hiking-boots-wearing, optimist-kid.
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Alegre Retreat History
Alegre Retreat, launched by Katie Pasquini Masopust in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1994, is the premier conference for devotees of the fabric arts, enabling art quilters to come together to learn and share their expertise and comraderie. Each year, dozens of quilting enthusiasts migrate to Gateway Canyons Resort, a stunning and inspiring oasis one hour south of Grand Junction, Colorado, to fulfill Pasquini Masopust's goal of showcasing the variety of methods and specialties in this rich branch of the fabric arts.
Alegre Retreat 2016
Alegre Retreat will return to Gateway Canyons Resort in April 2016. The conference will feature Nancy Crow's class, "Sets and Variables I & II Using a Simple & Compound Motif"; Rosalie Dace's class, "Cross Currents"; Gregory Case's class, "Travel Photography"; Cynthia Corbin's class "Emerging Style"; and Katie Pasquini Masopust's class, "Stitched Paintings – Landscape to Still Life".
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The six day package will span April 17th to April 22nd and will include five days of instruction. Students can choose to study with Rosalie Dace, Gregory Case, Cynthia Corbin, or Kaite Pasquini Masopust. The eight day package will span April 15th to April 22nd and will include seven days of instruction with Nancy Crow. Students will choose to study with one instructor and hear lectures from all five, including a closing banquet lecture with Nancy Crow.
Students are also welcome to come in early or extend their stay to enjoy the resort at the Alegre Day Student rate (call for the resort for details 970-931-2458).
Dates – Opening reception: April 17th, 2016
Lecture Series: April 18th & 20th
Classes: 5 day April 18th – 22nd
7 day with Nancy Crow April 16th – 22nd
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"The Alegre Art Retreat was one of the best quilting experiences I have had. I learned so much and the facilities and setting were exquisite. I can't wait for the next retreat as I am already enrolled!!!"
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2010 Recipients: Ana Stutler and Kaylee Kruzan
2009 Recipients: Amy Provenzola and Quinn Harris
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