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From left: Laotian children along the banks of the Mekong; Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex; kayaking Vietnam's Ha Long Bay.
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Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam 1 2 3 4 5
Indochina's Waterworld
Outfitter: Explorers' Corner (www.explorerscorner.com)
Length: 16 days Price: $3,800
Mick O'Shea has logged first kayaking descents down 18 different rivers in Southeast Asia, including a first ever full kayaking exploration of the Mekong River from source to sea. Next September he leads a brand-new Explorers' Corner trip to Ha Long Bay, the Xépian wetlands, and the Mekong River in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. "Needless to say, Mick knows his way around Indochina," says Explorers' Corner owner Olaf Malver. "We asked him to create an itinerary that includes his favorite paddling locations in one diverse trip, and he came back with a proposal that simply blew us away."
O'Shea's 16-day excursion begins with the exotic lagoons and islets of UNESCO World Heritage site Ha Long Bay before visiting Laos's Louangphrabang: an unspoiled French colonial city with teakwood houses and rows of ancient Buddhist temples. Paddlers then swap boats for elephants to enter the freshwater marshes of the Xépian wetlands and commence a three-day journey down the Mekong River deep into Cambodia. The Mekong carries kayakers past Khone Falls, the mightiest cascade in Southeast Asia, and into one of few remaining habitats of the rare Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin, and the itinerary finishes with a paddle into the Angkor Wat temple complex—a first descent of its own sort. "As far as we know, we will be the first group ever to visit this incredible sight by kayak," says Malver. Pick this if: You're seeking an under-the-radar tour of Southeast Asia led by its preeminent modern-day explorer. Departs: September
Pakistan 1 2 3 4 5
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Outfitter: World Expeditions
Length: 33 days Price: $5,890
Next summer, after a five-year hiatus, World Expeditions returns to Pakistan with a journey deep inside the Karakoram Range to 23,064-foot (7,030 meter) Spantik. "Only about a hundred people have ever summited Spantik," says World Expeditions' Brad Atwal. "It's one of the few blank spots left on the globe." Big-mountain experience is a must; expedition members will participate in all aspects of setting the route and planning a summit bid. After a three-day approach and several days of acclimatizing, two guides and 20 Pakistani high-altitude porters will lead climbers up the mountain, breaking trail up steep snow slopes to the summit. There, tremendous panoramas of the surrounding peaks and glaciers await—360-degree views take in the rugged, unexplored region where two of the greatest mountain ranges in the world, the Karakoram and Himalaya, collide.
The World Expeditions trip will be led by British mountaineer Simon Yates, climbing partner of Joe Simpson in the best-selling book Touching the Void. For inspiration, ask him about his first ascents in Patagonia, his climbs up Pakistan's other peaks, and his famously harrowing experience on the west face of Peru's Siula Grande. "Participants will feel like true explorers, which is tough to do in today's world," says Atwal. "This is a perceived off-limits destination with a challenging objective in a part of Pakistan that few have explored before." Pick this if: You've watched your Touching the Void DVD more than five times. Departs: July
China 1 2 3 4 5
Mekong River First
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Outfitter: Mountain Travel Sobek (www.mtsobek.com)
Length: 15 days Price: $4,990
Nearly half of the fabled Mekong's 2,700-plus miles (4,345 kilometers) flow through China, and no commercial rafting company has yet guided clients down any of them. Next year, Mountain Travel Sobek will be first, floating the upper Mekong as part of their continuing work with the Nature Conservancy to help locals create sustainable industries. Crowned by glacier-covered mountains, the high-walled gorge of the upper Mekong is practically uncharted—and a lack of shoreline and fast-running, cold-water rapids adds to the Class IVV challenge.
The run begins in China's Yunnan province, primarily Tibetan in history and tradition, and a vivid cultural backdrop is evident from the start: A Buddhist monastery overlooks the put-in at the village of Xidan, where prayer flags flutter over the waters. Downstream, paddlers will mix river camping with village stays in traditional rammed-earth homes. The rafting trip culminates with a passage through Moon Gorge, a narrow 50-foot-wide (15 meter) chasm full of Class IIIIV rapids lined by steep walls and towering mountains above. But the physical adventure, says guide Jim Norton, is just a slice of the big-picture objective: to help build a locally owned and run tourism economy that's self-supporting and culturally sensitive. "What we're ultimately trying to do," says Norton, "is make ourselves obsolete." Pick this if: You crave uncharted white water and a sustainable global economy, too. Departs: March
India 1 2 3 4 5
Song of the South
Outfitter: Alpine Ascents International (www.alpineascents.com)
Length: 21 days Price: $4,400 DIY potential: ( 3 )
"In northern India, the major destinations—Taj Mahal, Rajasthan—are all clustered near Delhi," says Gordon Janow, program director for Alpine Ascents International. "But in the south, there aren't huge sites lined up one after the next; they're harder to reach. You might wind up hiking through the jungle to reach the temples." Jungle jaunts are just a part of Alpine Ascents' new 21-day tour of southern India, where the nation's finest Hindu temple architecture lies alongside dense virgin forests that contain some of its most impressive wildlife: elephants, tigers, crested hawk eagles, and more. "It's very Kiplingesque," says Janow. "It's an incredible feeling to get lost in there, where there are no people or buildings and where it's hard to imagine developed life outside."
Moving at a slow pace, you'll cover several hundred miles from the state of Tamil Nadu to Kerala, pausing in small towns to hike through ruins and witness temple ceremonies in which Brahman priests swing flaming candelabra. You'll also trek through the jungles of Periyår Sanctuary, where elephants have worn paths through the wilderness and a 75-foot (23 meter) tower hovers within the blooming canopy, offering views of langurs, water buffalo, wild boars, and the few remaining tigers below. The trip closes with a two-day boat ride down the palm-fringed canals of Kerala and a stay at an exclusive ayurvedic center, where you can rejuvenate with meditation, yoga sessions, and 3,000-year-old traditional herbal treatments. Pick this if: You'd rather bushwhack than ride a tour bus. Departs: October
Mongolia 1 2 3 4 5
Trekking With Kazakh
Eagle Hunters
Outfitter: Sierra Club Outings (www.sierraclub.org/outings)
Length: 17 days Price: $3,695 DIY potential: ( 3 )
Everyone's clamoring to visit Mongolia—the Gobi's Flaming Cliffs, shimmering Lake Hövsgöl—but next summer, Sierra Club Outings plans to go deeper, to the Altai-Sayan Montane Forests eco-region in far western Mongolia. There, they'll explore snow leopard and lynx territory in the Tavan Bogd ("Five Saints") mountain range, where the 14,350-foot (4,374 meter), triple-divide peak of Nairamdal separates Mongolia, China, and Russia, and where local Kazakhs famously continue the traditional sport of hunting with trained eagles.
A support staff of Mongolian interpreters and guides facilitates travel through the region; baggage is transported by shuttle, so you can hike at elevation with only a daypack. Nights are spent camping and visiting with local families in their gers (yurtlike homes) where you'll experience that uniquely flavored (think fizzy, boozy yogurt) emblem of Mongolian hospitality: airag, or fermented mare's milk. As you trek through the undulating terrain of the Tavan Bogd, you'll observe the life of a people living on a true frontier: Wind turbines charge television batteries, and satellite dishes are mounted atop family gers. "In the middle of nowhere, these people are caught between a very old nomadic life and what's going on in the world today," says Kern Hildebrand, veteran Sierra Club Mongolia guide. "We're very excited to spend time with them." Pick this if: You've caught the Mongolia bug but want to go where others haven't. Departs: August
Jordan 1 2 3 4 5
Dead Sea to Red
Sea by Bike
Outfitter: Exodus Travels (www.exodus.co.uk)
Length: Nine days Price: $1,060
The pink-and-white sandstone landscape of Jordan's Wa¯dı¯ Rum served as headquarters for Lawrence of Arabia and Prince Feisal during the planning stages of their legendary 1917 attack on Al 'Aqabah. Now, an international climbing camp has replaced the guerrillas' canvas tents and, thanks to British outfitter Exodus Travels' new week-long, van-supported cycling tour of Jordan, mountain bikes, not camels, are the preferred mode of transport. Averaging 26 miles (42 kilometer) a day for five days on tarmac and unpaved roads, the Exodus trip is the first to trace the historic trading route from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea. "This isn't an area that is widely used as a biking destination," says Exodus' Andrew Appleyard, a trained archaeologist who recently returned from the trip. "And we like that."
Starting in the capital of 'Amma¯n, cyclists wend their way south past carefully restored sixth-century Byzantine mosaics and 2,631-foot (802 meter) Mount Nebo, believed to be Moses' burial site, before cruising down to the Dead Sea. After pausing for a dip in the sea's buoyant waters, the tour continues along its eastern shore toward the startling canyon city of Petra, the Arab capital in Hellenistic and Roman times that was more recently featured in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Often called the eighth wonder of the world, Petra was carved directly from rusty red-and-yellow sandstone and boasts intricate houses, tombs, and a centerpiece treasury. From there, the journey heads south toward Al 'Aqabah and, after a long day of biking to Wa¯dı¯ Rum, ends with a night under the stars in a desert camp flanked by the dry river bed's signature soaring cliffs. Pick this if: You'd enjoy pedaling in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia. Departs: Year-round, beginning in February
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Calling All Stans
Outfitter: Eco-Expeditions (www.zeco.com)
Length: 18 days Price: $8,980
Central Asia's five Stans are home to some of the most legendary mountain ranges on the planet: the glacier-clad Pamirs, the jagged Tian Shan. In 2006, Eco-Expeditions pioneers a new trip to these five former Soviet republics, beginning on the steppes of Kazakhstan and moving west toward the Caspian Sea shoreline in Turkmenistan. "The ethnic groups and cultures that make up these places are incredibly diverse," says Spencer Lee, spokesperson for Eco-Expeditions. "And the whole area is really just now opening up to the West."
Half the thrill of the excursion is witnessing cultural treasures that few Westerners have seen since Marco Polo: in Kyrgyzstan, Saka petroglyphs that date back to the Bronze Age; in Kazakhstan, the Zenkov Cathedral, a wooden masterpiece built entirely without nails; in Tajikistan, early Persian ruins at Bunjikath; in Uzbekistan, the massive Bibi Khanym mosque, crown jewel of the Silk Road trading city of Samarqand; and in Turkmenistan, the brilliantly woven carpets (a regional specialty) in As˛gabat. The other half of the fun? Being among the first to check out the region's untrammeled natural landscapes—hiking to Kyrgyzstan's Ala-Archa Gorge, searching for rare snow leopards along Kazakhstan's Aksu River, and blissing out on unparalleled mountain views in Tajikistan, "the Nepal of the Stans." Pick this if: You won the Central Asia geography bee but have yet to go there yourself. Departs: May, September
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- "You can't always tell who the good guys are. I'm not a good guy, but I'm fighting with them..."
- ― The U.L. Paper Contact
The Contact is a senior agent working for United Liberty Paper in Grand Theft Auto IV. He also appears in Grand Theft Auto V as an agent of the IAA.
The Contact is first seen in Grand Theft Auto IV wherein he works for United Liberty Paper, a front company for the International Affairs Agency. He works as a senior agent and gives several missions to Niko. The Contact also mentions a past military career in the Army.
He justifies his and the organizations actions by saying that that foreign terrorist groups and governments that conflict with America are ready to commit even more heinous actions that could bring harm to the American population (which Niko finds to be true while working against said terrorist groups), but he also doesn't deny that a lot of his actions are not for procuring public safety but rather to satisfy the government's sometimes greedy requests. In the first cutscene of his first mission, it is revealed that he speaks Serbian, the language of Niko's home country, as he says, "Just like the old country.", to which Niko replies, "Just like it".
Events of GTA IV
The Contact blackmails Niko to work with the U.L. Paper after Niko finds out that his girlfriend, Michelle (Karen), was an agent assigned to monitor him. The Contact then gives Niko several tasks that usually include killing people that are "supposedly" linked to a powerful terrorist group. He also has him cover up some of U.L. Paper's activities, such as by killing a man who knew of the Organization, killing another man who funded terrorist plots and stealing a helicopter from the terrorist group to kill yet another man who funded the group's activities.
During the course of the mission line for The Contact, he tells Niko that, in repayment for his cooperation, he will find the man that Niko came to America to find. He ends up keeping that promise towards the end of the game when he has Darko Brevic delivered to Francis International Airport for Niko to deal with him.
Events of GTA V
- "Put the weapons down, boys. Fun time is over. We've got you. Anti-American activity."
- ― The U.L. Paper contact in 2013.
The contact (credited as United Paper Man) makes his first appearance in GTA V at the end of the mission Monkey Business, where he, along with several other agents, discovers Steve Haines, who shoots himself in the leg so that Michael De Santa and Dave Norton could get away with the chemical agent they had stolen.
He appears again later in the mission The Wrap Up. Here, he shows up to the stand off between De Santa, Norton, Haines, and Agent Sanchez, alongside several IAA agents. Then, corrupt FIB agents show up, compromising the situation even further, and then Merryweather shows up as well. After the opening cutscene is over, a three way shootout commences on the roof. During the fire fight, the contact can be killed, either by Michael, FIB agents or Merryweather agents, as seen here.
Missions appearances
- Wrong is Right (Boss)
- Portrait of a Killer (Boss)
- Dust Off (Boss)
- Paper Trail (Voice/Boss)
- Weekend at Florian's (Post-mission phone call)
- Payback (Post-mission phone call)
- Liquidize the Assets
- That Special Someone (Voice/Boss)
- Monkey Business
- The Wrap Up (Can be killed)
- A diploma hanging on The Contact's wall has the name "Edward T. Fortune". The same diploma can be seen hanging on the wall of Vic Manzano's office in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
- The diploma on the wall also has a seal that is very similar to the one used by the C.I.A.
- On being asked by Niko at their introduction if U.L. Paper is actually FIB, the contact replies sarcastically asking if he looks like a homosexual, which might be a reference to the semi-confirmed homosexuality allegations of the FBI's first and longest serving director, J. Edgar Hoover.
- GTA IV's game files have the U.L. Paper's missions named "CIA".
- His name in the game files is possibly Charles Doberman. Since this is not revealed in the game, it can be determined that this is not canon.
- The Contact is similar to Mike Toreno, as they are both connected with the Government, and both make the protagonist work for them (Carl Johnson, in Toreno's case).
- He is also very similar to "the Professor", played by Leo G. Carroll in the 1959 film North by Northwest, as both are senior agents for the government, and they have a striking visual resemblance to each other, as well as not having their actual name revealed.
- Sometimes after Niko gained 5 or 6 star wanted level and clear all the wanted level, he will call Niko to say that he wanted Niko to lay low and Niko said he just can't help himself.
- Ironically, during the mission Portrait of a Killer, the Contact is joking about his non-existant wife having an affair with her tennis coach. His future killer's wife also has the same affair.

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People don't always die in motor vehicle crashes where alcohol is to blame. Sometimes they only break a few bones. Sometimes there are just a few bumps and bruises or maybe only property damage. Sometimes everybody walks away unscathed, but somebody will face drunk driving charges.
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And yes, sometimes people die. They might be people you love. In any case, they are people that someone loves. Maybe a young mother or father. Maybe a child. Maybe you.
Tonight is a time when there will be more alcohol poured and consumed than on a typical Tuesday night or maybe any other typical night because folks will be out and about partying to welcome in the new year. Go on out and join them if that's your thing. Most folks like a good party.
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Another method for improving the student's G.P.A. is academic renewal. The following regulations permit students who earned bad grades to change their transcripts. Such students may petition the Admissions and Records Office for exclusion of prior substandard course work under the following conditions: The petition arises out of a consultation between the student and a counselor. A maximum of 15 units may be removed from calculations of the cumulative G.P.A. The units proposed for exclusion were taken at MiraCosta College. All proposed excluded course work was completed at least two years prior to the petition. The student completed a minimum of 15 units with a G.P.A. of 2.0 or better (on a 4.0 scale), with at least nine (9) of the fifteen units taken at MiraCosta College, subsequent to the completion of the units being petitioned for exclusion. The excluded units remain on the record annotated as excluded for satisfaction of requirements for a degree or certificate and for computation at MiraCosta College only. The student petitions for exclusion of units under these regulations only one time. No excluded units can be reinstated. Any units excluded by other institutions will be recognized as excluded by MiraCosta College and will be included in the maximum 15 unit allowance. Appeals to any portion of these regulations will be referred to the Committee on Exceptions.


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The next two school years in Garfield School District Re-2 will look much the same as this school year.
The Re-2 school board adopted calendars for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years at its March 12 meeting that essentially match this school year's calendar, said Director of Districtwide Services Theresa Hamilton. It continues to include 149 days of student/teacher contact time, or school days.
The current school year calendar was the first to see students attend school four days a week, with Fridays off, as a cost-saving measure needed after state budget cuts. The four-day week was continued in both of the calendars just adopted.
The district's Collaborative Solutions team, composed of district and school administrators, staff and teachers, and a calendar committee, reviewed five calendar options, Hamilton said, and eventually narrowed those down to two draft calendars to present to the board.
The first draft had school starting on Aug. 13 with three days off at Thanksgiving and school ending before Memorial Day.
The second draft was similar, except school started a week later, on Aug. 19. The board unanimously adopted this draft.
District staff and the community were surveyed, with slightly over half of the 342 community responses and 204 staff responses preferring the Aug. 19 start date, Hamilton added.
"We know that school calendars can be such a personal thing to people," she said. "We always want to do our best to meet the needs of all our constituents. I can assure people that they were heard."
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The Jurys Inn Chelsea is centrally located in the trendy area of Chelsea, just opposite the Imperial Warf Station providing easy access to all parts of London. One of the finest hotels near Victoria station, this lively and modern 4 Star city hotel has Wi-Fi Internet throughout (charge), a great onsite restaurant and bar, and full service business facilities. Warm and welcoming with a friendly and helpful staff, the Jurys Inn Chelsea offers 172 comfortable guestrooms chocked with all the amenities one would expect from a 4 Star city hotel and you can also treat yourself to a Superior upgrade for extra pampering!
Getting to the Hotel: Imperial Wharf Train station less than 100 m from Jurys Inn Chelsea and connects you to all London has to offer. Heathrow Airport is 26 km from the hotel easily accessed by the Paddington Express.
Local Tips: Jurys Inn Chelsea is in a perfect position for visits to the fashionable Kings Road and the football grounds at Stamford Bridge, as well as being close to Kensington Palace, the Royal Concert Hall and the Natural History Museum.
Enjoy lively Chelsea in affordable comfort at Jurys Inn!
Dining: Jurys Inn Chelsea is booked on a Room Only basis. Jurys Contemporary Restaurant offers delicious breakfast and dinner at reasonable prices with a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. The stylish hotel bar is a great spot for a quick lunch or to grab a bite to eat with colleagues and friends, and Il Barista coffee bar tempts guests with snacks and pastries while striving to serve the perfect cup of coffee for you to linger over or grab on the go!
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Blood magic is a form of sorcery, forbidden among the Dothraki. Mirri Maz Duur, a Lhazareen maegi and godswife of the Great Shepherd is a known practitioner.
Season 1
Mirri Maz Duur promises Daenerys that she can save Drogo's life using blood magic, but she needs to sacrifice a life to save his. She takes Drogo's horse into his tent and slits its throat as the ceremony begins. Qotho becomes enraged as Daenerys attempts to save her husband and tries to attack Daenerys, but Ser Jorah kills him. Daenerys starts to go into labor, but none of the Dothraki midwives will help her, thinking she is cursed. With no choice, Jorah takes Daenerys into the tent where the blood ceremony is taking place.[1]
In the wastelands beyond Lhazar, Daenerys wakes up to face terrible news from Ser Jorah Mormont. Her son, Rhaego, is dead. He was stillborn, a deformed monster with bat wings. The khalasar has moved on, leaving a small group behind. However, Drogo lives. Mirri Maz Duur takes Daenerys to see her him, only to find him lying in a catatonic state. Daenerys demands to know why, and Duur explains that when Daenerys saved her, she'd already been raped three times, and Drogo's men had destroyed her temple and killed people she healed. She explains that she killed Rhaego for revenge and has prevented the Stallion Who Mounts the World from causing more destruction and suffering.[2]
Season 3
Stannis Baratheon burns in a brazier three leeches gorged on Gendry's blood - considered by Melisandre King's blood due to his status as Robert Baratheon's offspring - representing the three "usurpers" he wants destroyed: Robb Stark, Balon Greyjoy, and Joffrey Baratheon.[3]
In the books
See also
- ↑ "Baelor"
- ↑ "Fire and Blood"
- ↑ "Second Sons (episode)"


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Robert Natkin, Apollo, circa 1976, acrylic on paper mounted on canvas, 16 ½ x 48 inches. Permanent Collection 2000.069. Gift of Lillian Heidenberg Reitman
Robert Natkin passed away last week, reported the New York Times
Robert Natkin was an abstract artist who rose to fame in the 1960s following the success of such luminaries as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Like many abstract artists, he had to fight an uphill battle against critics over the validity of his work. He fought the good fight his entire life and now has an impressive body of work left in his estate, represented by Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York.
Natkin's later works, although always abstract, explored different themes. Sometimes they are filled with geometric blocks of electric color, interrupting the eye's path as it travels across the plane, demanding attention in multiple places at once. They can also be pale washes of paint ebbing and flowing, interspersed with small solid shapes, like buoys, adrift in Natkin's serene world.
My personal favorites are his Palimpsest Series. If you were to see one in a gallery and read the wall label, it would simply have "Acrylic over printed matter on canvas" listed as the medium. For this series, Natkin took his critics' negative reviews, attached them to canvases and then painted over them.
Regarding this series, Natkin said:
"This exhibition, expresses, among its many ambitions, an attempt to exorcize the hostile arbiter of aesthetics through primitive means by eating the enemy."
And eat them he did. He consumed, digested, and then eliminated them with multiple overlays of the lyrical, soft colors, for which they derided him. Mostly, it is difficult to read the newsprint underneath the paint and textural overlay. However, what you can read most likely caused Natkin to gnash his teeth on more than one occasion.
For example:
"Both types [of Natkin's paintings] have undeniable sensual appeal, though like Chinese dinners, they don't stay with you very long."
But Natkin got the last laugh. He painted over that review in 1981, and that painting is still with us. You can't read the critic's byline, but Natkin's signature is visible in all of its sensual glory.
Joyce Weinstein conserving Stanley Boxer painting
Despite our strict storage standards and endeavors to handle art objects extra-carefully (no small feat for a klutz like myself), artworks still tend to degrade over time. No matter how careful museums are with their collections, gravity and time just take over.
That is what happened with our painting, Havocpockedfeysnowboughs by Stanley Boxer. Mr. Boxer was an abstract artist known for his heavy application of paint. He focused on texture and form in his paintings, and the paint literally rises up off the canvas in waves.
Havocpockedfeysnowboughs was created in 1976 so it is over 30 years old. At that time, Boxer did not use a fixative to protect the oil paints he daubed so generously over his canvases. Time took its toll and much of the parrot green, the pink and the white oil paint have begun to flake slowly off of his work.
Boxer died in 2000, leaving a widow, Joyce Weinstein. She is also an artist and was kind enough to grace our museum with her presence at the recent opening, Rememberingstanleyboxer: A Retrospective Besides charming the patrons and members of the museum with her cheerful demeanor, she also agreed to touch up Stanley's painting.
See more of Joyce Weinstein's art.
Of course, we have several professionals in the area that we use for the array of conservation needs that can arise in a museum setting. But truly, having Boxer's wife fill in the missing portions seemed much more appropriate. In our art storage area, Ms. Weinstein studiously bent bent over Boxer's large canvas, 50 x 80 inches, and recreated the textured swirls and swathes of color for which he is best known.
After hearing the Museums Senior Curator, Wendy Blazier speak on the Mary Cassatt: Works on Paper exhibition, I became enlightened to the quandary she and other Curators have when choosing works on paper to exhibit. I was one of the masses who consistently complained about the low level of illumination for works on paper in gallery spaces.
For the Boca Raton Museum of Art with an extensive collection of art works on paper the dilemma faced when exhibiting these works is ongoing. The balance between the visitors visual enjoyment and the protection of the artwork taxes the dual mandate of conservation and exhibition.
It is common for museums to set standard exhibition durations for works of this type. These seem to have a rather broad range from 4 weeks per year to six months per year. In a demonstration project published in 2000 in the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Christopher Cuttles research resulted in a major shift in envisioning museum lighting. Using a filter with three bands of colored light instead of one monochromatic light source reduced the energy which causes degradation. This type of lighting will probably inflict less photochemical damage at equal illumination and duration. Another large contribution was the Getty Conservation Institutes project to review, analyze and recommend new techniques for illuminating works of art on paper:
Although technology and the understanding of light qualities have advanced tremendously and will continue to address this problem, the fact remains light damage cannot be stopped or reversed.
Although I am now a convert to low illuminated gallery spaces I wonder if there is a solution for the institutions to satisfy the visitors high visual expectations? Is there a way to educate visitors so that they come to appreciate this dilemma?
Considering that I have been Curatorial Assistant at the BRMA for less than 2 years, I will be the first to tell you that I am probably not as well-versed in the deaccession process as Lee Rosenbaum or the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, who she takes to task in this article. Which is why it upset me to read the sweeping generalizations that Ms. Rosenbaum used as argument when criticizing the LACMAs deaccession policy.
Here at the BRMA, we are currently undergoing the long, arduous process of deaccessioning items from the collection. As an AAM-accredited institution, we must adhere to strict guidelines in terms of how we choose and ultimately disseminate our deaccessioned artworks. Based on what I have learned here, I take issue with a few points.
Rosenbaums Critique of the LACMA Deaccession
Firstly, Rosenbaum has it correct that items which are:
Usually are the least likely to be chosen for deaccessioning.
For the LACMA, admittedly, eliminating an Alberto Giacometti that was displayed in a three-part sculptural installation is a bit odd, to say the least. However, simplifying the curators desire to expand the collection merely to redecorate their shiny new edifices with some appropriately breathtaking acquisitions is short-sighted. By comparing the curators to overzealous interior designers she insinuates that they are acting frivolously, releasing a great piece to purchase a new one for decoration. I find it highly unlikely that the LACMA deaccession is akin to going shopping with the money to satiate a mere whim on the curators part.
It is obvious that Rosenbaum fears the dispersal of our countrys treasures. True, it is printed in most museums missions that their purpose is to act as custodians of culture and that deaccessioning items does not seem to be guarding them very well.
Read the Boca Raton Museum of Arts Mission.
However, it is at the discretion of the Board of Directors, Director of the Museum, and Head Curator to decide what exactly fits that mission and is a good reflection of the culture. This understanding should be fluid. If no business were ever allowed to revise its mission or goals, how would we progress in the world market? Are museums doomed to languish solely in the past, with decades-old visions, simply because we traffic in old things?
Again, Rosenbaum is correct in suggesting that the rules for the LACMA deaccession were to first lend out, or even give, their unwanted items to other museums first, if requested. This is one in a series of steps that the museum must go through before finally selling the item. For the LACMA deaccession, this act highlights the error that Rosenbaums op-ed points out, that of releasing such an esteemed piece of work as the bronze Giacometti.
However, Rosenbaum continues on to disparage the Guggenheim for deaccessioning a major Kandinsky in 1990 because they had so many. As she mentions, redundancy is an accepted reason to deaccession an item. She chastises the Guggenheim because they are also supposed to collect an artists work in depth.
That is all well and good, but the Guggenheim has 17 Kandinskys listed on their website in their permanent collection:
Those were but a few from the listing. Not a broad enough cross-section?
Storage and Collections
In addition, Ms. Rosenbaums op-ed seems to have omitted something that many people forget when considering museums and missions. Museums do not have unlimited storage space. Although we would love to take in and care for all the little orphan artworks out there, it wouldnt be long before we turned into the crazy cat lady you see on the television series Hoarders.
There just isnt room enough for everything. Besides, it wouldnt hurt to let an established artist from the canon of art history go in order to make room for a lesser-known artist. Perhaps an artist who didnt, until recently, receive the attention they deserve (see: most artists who are not either male or white).
Finally, although clever, the last sentence in Rosenbaums op-ed article is misleading to those not of the museum world. When museums cross too many lines, the public's elected representatives must step in. Otherwise, it won't be long before pragmatic museum trustees sell a Degas Toilette to pay for the toilets. It is not accepted practice to use moneys garnered from sales of artworks to pay for building enhancements. It is quite clearly laid out by the AAM that sales of artworks are to be used to purchase new artworks only. Now, I would be remiss not to mention the outcry over the Rose Art Museums intent to deaccession its collection to pay for operating costs . But the Rose Art Museum using moneys to keep the lights on is vastly different than suggesting that a burgeoning museum like the LACMA would enhance the facilities at the expense of Mr. Degas.
Senior Curator Wendy Blazier just returned from a whirlwind trip to Madrid, accompanying our John DeAndrea sculpture, Released, back from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza where it had recently been exhibited. Unbeknownst to many, Senior Curators and Registrars get exciting fringe benefits, one of them being trips abroad. Of course, Wendy went to ensure the sanctity of our collection, but she still had a little fun on the trip.
Released has been put back into storage but the other piece from our collection that is in the midst of its world tour, Campeo San Cassiano, Italy by Maurice Prendergast, is now featured at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It is part of the exhibition Prendergast in Italy that debuted at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts and traveled to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice before returning to Texas. In May, the exhibition will close in Texas and it will return home. We will reinstall it in the Dr. and Mrs. John J. Mayers Gallery on the second-floor west wing.
It is such an honor to loan artwork to such great institutions as these. The John DeAndrea sculpture especially, since we do not normally display her in our galleries. She made an appearance for our Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited exhibition last year, but only for the opening nights.
This is why it is significant when a museum such as the Thyssen-Bornemisza, whose focus is comtemporary artists, borrows and displays our treasures.


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Millions of Americans will pick up and head out to begin their Christmas shopping, just a few hours after taking their last bite of Thanksgiving turkey. The special deals and midnight chain store openings that have come to define Black Friday are not limited to Friday any longer. More and more retailers are opening up Thanksgiving evening, on so-called Gray Thursday. But as Jay Field found out, small businesses here in Maine can't join them, even if they wanted to.
Few cities in Maine are experiencing as much growth as Belfast right now. Scores of new businesses have opened downtown in the past couple of years. There's an artesian cheese shop, a new restaurant and a computer store that services Macs and PCs. The city, always humming in the summer, now hums in the fall and throughout the holiday shopping season.
"It weighs equally with the summer, in terms of business that it brings the store," says Lindsay McGuire, one of three owners of Left Bank Books (right). McGuire is hoping the store's first holiday season in Belfast adheres to recent form.
But she pauses for a moment when asked if she and her partners have plans to open up Thursday evening or in the wee hours of Friday morning. "No, that's about the last thing we would consider doing in a million years. That's just really sort of vulgar and ridiculous."
In a nod to their colonial past, Maine, Rhode Island and Massachusetts all have so-called "blue laws" that prevent large
retailers from opening on Thanksgiving Day. Stores in Maine with five or fewer employees can remain open. But none of a handful of retailers surveyed in downtown Belfact indicated plans to open their doors.
"We'll all be happily sleeping in bed and so will our customers," says Michelle Walker, who says her women's clothing boutique, Coyote Moon, will be open later in the evenings, starting in mid-December.
"We're very customer oreinted but I'm also very employee oriented, and I wouldn't want to have my employees working on a holiday that's really about gathering with family and being together and offering a sense of appreciation for one's life and gratitiude for what's here," she says.
"I have a little men's department," says Dee Bielenberg, who runs City Drawers up the hill. The underwear store caters mostly to women, with a few choice items for the guys.
"We have some cotton and organic cotton, bamboo," she says. "And then, we just brought in a new line - it's a Swedish brand called Bread and Boxers. It's packaged like bread. It's kind of fun."
Bielenberg got the idea for the store about a decade ago, when Belfast was debating whether to allow big box retailers to set up shop. "The side that is in favor of the big boxes says we need them because there is nowhere to get underwear," she says.
Bielenberg, like her fellow shop owners, doesn't have any special plans for Gray Thursday or Black Friday. But she eagerly mentions her excitement about taking part in Small Business Saturday. American Express got behind the promotion three years ago, as a way of encouraging more Americans to shop at small, independently-owned businesses in their communities.
Bielenberg also notes that Belfast merchants have their own special early-bird shopping day. "So they open at 6:00 a.m.," she says. "I think, traditionally, there was a graduated percentage off - so the morning would start off with, say, a 30 percent discount. And then, at 7, there would be a 20 percent discount. We don't do the graduated discount, but we do have deep discounts that will be available 6 to 9, Saturday the 1st."
So if Black Friday isn't your thing, you can head over to Belfast week after next, where you can have an early morning shopping experience, without total sleep deprivation.
Photo by Jay Field.


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Nina Ricci
Medium Ondine Tote
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When you leave something at home, Silhouette Kathy Iman can help you find what you need! Kathy has worked part time as one of our Gift Shop clerks for the past 8 years, after retiring from the local phone company. With 20 years experience in the service industry, Kathy says working at Skamania is the perfect job for her because she gets to meet new people everyday which always makes her job fun and interesting!


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- May 1:
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- Colorado couples celebrate midnight civil-unions ceremony
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- Colorado couples get ready to party Wednesday for civil unions
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The Denver Clerk and Recorder's Office stayed open until just before sunrise Wednesday to provide a license to scores of gays and lesbians who wanted one of Colorado's newly legal civil unions.
Of 114 couples who picked up the forms after the law took effect at midnight, 96 forms were completed and returned by 5:30 a.m. Eleven couples chose to exchange their vows elsewhere at another time.
The atrium of the Wellington E. Webb Building was the site of 85 ceremonies before hundreds of well-wishers.
The clerks office said 130 signed in at midnight to get a number for a place in line, meaning some dropped out because of the early hours and long wait.
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The pace was much slower in the daylight hours.
"Today has been slow but steady," said Nancy Reubert, spokeswoman for the Denver Clerk and Recorder's Office early Wednesday afternoon. "We were expecting a larger crowd today, but I think the weather has been a deterrent. Gotta tell you, the people we are seeing are so happy. Really a nice vibe."
Boulder County was the state's other county that opened at midnight and handed out 48 licenses, according to the Boulder Daily Camera.
Denver numbers for the daylight hours were not available. Boulder County added 19 more after the office reopened at 8 a.m.
The response was lower in other counties that began the process at 8 a.m.
Jefferson County, the state's fourth-most populous county with 535,000 residents, had 16 licenses by mid-afternoon Wednesday, said Clerk and Recorder Pam Anderson.
"With all the excitement in Denver and Boulder last night, I didn't know what to expect," Anderson said. "We didn't have any prediction, though. The mood, though, has been wonderful. It's been a fun day."
Mesa, the state's 11th most populous county, however, the response was unexpectedly low.
From 8 a.m. to about 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, only three licenses had been picked up.
"We were prepared for a lot more," said Kim Cole of the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder's Office in Grand Junction, where temperatures were in the mid-50s and the skies were mostly sunny Wednesday afternoon.
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Toy Story
You can try to go on your own adventure with Woody and Buzz when you dress yourself, or your kids, up in some of our Toy Story costumes. This Disney animated film is an amazing experience that follows the adventures that toys go through when humans aren't around. In the most recent film, Toy Story 3, Andy the owner is off to college and the toys find themselves in a daycare center that isn't as fun as it seems.
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These films feature Woody and Buzz Lightyear leading the rest of the toys out of the many dangers and troubles that they find themselves in. Whether it's getting stuck inside the evil neighbors home, getting stolen by a toy collector, or ending up in a daycare that's not as it seems; these toys must try to wiggle themselves out of bad situations. Reach for the sky, as Woody would say, and get some of these great Toy Story outfits.


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Get cute to win FREE rides
ELKHART — We want to celebrate the Elkhart County 4-H Fair by capturing the cutest photos we can. And we want your help to do it. Anybody who manages to capture a cute photo while at the fair this weekend – and upload that photo to our Facebook page – will be in with a chance of winning two FREE ride vouchers to the fair.
All you have to do to enter is take a cute photo while you're enjoying the fair festivities, "like" us on FB, upload your photo and tag us. You can upload it to our Facebook page or your own page, as long as we are tagged.
Deadline for entry is Sunday, July 22 at noon. We'll select our favorite photo and announce the winner on eTruth.com and on our Facebook page on Monday, July 23 at noon.
We'll contact the winner by email and you can pick up your ride vouchers at our Elkhart Truth offices that day.