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(Remsen) -- Get ready to polka!
It's Oktoberfest in Remsen, and Remsenites will be celebrating today with activities steeped
in tradition. If you're of German heritage and want to find out more about where you come
from, Organizer Angie Galles says you might want to start the day on a low-key note by
taking a look at some pictures and historical documents.
If you're more interested in shopping the arts and crafts fair at Old City Hall and the
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Galles says that the party gets started at 1pm today in Remsen.
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Three young ladies are also competing for the title of Okoberfest Queen. That ceremony
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And if you want to get your polka on, Bruce Bradley and Jim Strehlke will be playing from 3
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The tapping of the keg, polka music, childrens costume and dance contest, queen contest, and dinner all take place at St. Mary's Hight School. Have fun and be safe at the 39th Annual Remsen Oktoberfest!
(Le Mars) -- The state fire marshall has lifted the burn ban that was issued for Plymouth
County. As of 8:00 a.m. today, (Saturday) the burn ban is discontinued. Officials believe
conditions are better and they are allowing for open burning to occur. Le Mars Fire Chief
Dave Schipper reminds people to use caution when burning piles. He suggests to make several
small piles when burning, and to make certain the wind is blowing the embers away from any
buildings, and to have a water supply source close to the fire.
(Le Mars) -- Iowa counties are finding it more difficult to adequately finance mental health
services, especially when the legislature has reduced some of the tax levy that is used to
pay for mental health services, and the caseload for mental health is on the increase.
Recently, the state has suggested counties form regions so that a group of counties can
share in the growing expense of providing mental health services. Sharon Nieman, Plymouth
County C-P-C director recently met before the Plymouth County Board of Supervisors to inform
them of the latest developments regarding the status of funding mental health services.
Nieman says the counties have found out that in many cases the state has not allocated
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Nieman says the state has under-estimated the total costs by several million dollars.
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The County Supervisors adopted a resolution that gave approval for a letter of intent to
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mental health services program.
(Sheldon) -- On Wednesday morning, the Sioux County Sheriff's Office investigated a burglary that occurred at a business storage building one half mile south of Sheldon.
Upon further investigation it was discovered that sometime during the overnight hours of October 23 to 24,the Sheldon Cooperative propane service warehouse was burglarized. Entrance was gained by prying open a walk in door. Once inside, unknown person(s) opened an overhead garage door and parked their vehicle inside. Items taken include a variety of copper and brass fittings and pipes. Some of the valves are valued at $300 each. The total value of the stolen items is approximately $5,000.
Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact the Sioux County Sheriff's Office.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Iowa City has agreed to work with an engineering firm in a lawsuit filed by a Nebraska company that claims it's owed over $700,000 from a job after the 2008 flood. The City Council has voted for an agreement with the co-defendant, VJ Engineering of Coralville.
They are being sued by Judds Brothers Construction of Lincoln, Neb., for breach of contract on a $1 million project that involved installing a sewer under the Iowa River. The project was completed
in 2009.
The lawsuit contends, among other issues, that defective design and the failure to disclose the scope of the work led to substantial added costs. The city denies the claim.
John Judds, CEO of the construction company, declined to comment on the lawsuit.

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The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Marin Alsop have challenged students from Parsons The New School for Design and its sister school, Mannes College The New School for Music, to envision the future of orchestral performance. The resulting work will debut in an event that brings together music, fashion and technology in new and innovative ways. The yearlong collaboration is led by Parsons faculty members, fashion designer Gabi Asfour of threeASFOUR and wearable technology designer Sabine Seymour, with support from Richard Kessler, dean of Mannes College. The fashions, designed by students in the Integrated Design program at Parsons, bring together new and vintage garments to create performance wear that is sustainable and responsive to the way musicians move and play. Wearable technology, designed by students in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons, is being incorporated into several of the looks. This technology will demonstrate how the performance itself can be enhanced by new means of visual expression, with the garments and performance space itself serving as a canvas for motion and sound-activated digital projections.


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What model year is the TALAS fork?
Hey Moshe,
This bike comes with a 2015 Fox TALAS Fork. Feel free to contact me directly with any additional questions or if you would like to set up an order.
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Santa Cruz doesn't really conform to model years. They did, however, release the Bronson 2.0 a few months back, so this is no longer the current version.
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Here's a video describing how to unpack and assemble your bike. It is pretty easy! If you have questions or would like some help placing an order, give me a call at 801-736-6396 ext 4076
Here is the new bike assembly video.
Pics show Race Face bars, not Easton as...
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Will we ever go to another planet?
Posted 12 June 2013 - 03:53 PM
I thought "what a ridiculous viewpoint he has."
200 years ago two cousins were having the same conversation about using a rocket to get to the moon. One said it would happen. The other said it would not, and well... we see how that turned out.
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They are close to within reach right now.
If we put all our planetary resources and technical skill into the endeavor, I am willing to bet we could build a generational starship that could span the gulf to the next nearest solar system.
Whether anything would be there is another question. Aslo, since the best speed of the ship would, at best, be a couple percent of light speed our descendants might not want to disembark from the only home they ever knew for some dirtball of a planet.
But putting humans on another planet in another system is doable with close to our present technology (we'd need a crash Apollo program again).
If we could get the Big Fat Ship (BFS) up to 1% of the speed of light we could make the transit to the nearest star in 4 or 5 generations.
Pesse (Of course, it might be nice to know if anything is there first...) Mist
Posted 12 June 2013 - 05:37 PM
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Posted 12 June 2013 - 07:43 PM
If by "we" is meant the United States, then it cannot be stated often enough that the entire impetus for the US entrance into the "space age" was entirely political, an artifact of the Cold War. Once the "space race," with the Soviet Union," was "won" by a number of moon landings (and by a Soviet abdication of manned space attempts beyond earth orbit), the US saw its manned space program coopted by a Shuttle program that was driven by military needs. Science was appended to this, but the foundation was military.
This is not a denunciation; it is a simple statement of the fact.
Today, with complex military problems that are largely involved with less technological opponents, not technological equals, the impetus for state-financed manned space exploration beyond earth orbit is non-existent (I am aware of private ambitions in this regard but doubt that the necessary resources are really there). It is possible that a successful manned landing someplace by a rival nation (no need to name names) could tweak US nationalist pride into making a commitment to spending the money required for future US manned space exploration, but it would happen under very different economic conditions than those the US enjoyed in the 1950s-1970s and would be very difficult, in part because the nature of US "civilization," too, is changing rapidly from the one that entered the space age over half a century ago.
Posted 12 June 2013 - 08:16 PM
Perhaps the cold war mentality has ossified our attitudes towards space, or perhaps it's too abstract for the average person to grasp, and thus support. I don't know. But we're doing ourselves (in a global sense) a huge disservice by neglecting the opportunity for advancement that space offers.
While I agree that for now corporations like SpaceX, Bigelow, Sierra Nevada, Orbital Sciences, and even Boeing lack the resources to do any more than take small bites out of the pie, and most of these may not have the ambition to even try, my hope remains that somebody will make enough money in that business to inspire others to join.
I'm not happy that the only way "we" are likely to get excited about space again is if it becomes immediately profitable to a small cadre of organizations, and I DON'T like the approach that Jeff Bezos is taking of patenting every space flight-related item he can draw a picture of (Particularly since amid all that flurry of patenting he's still not launching anything). But if that's what it takes to get us off the planet and pushing deeper, then better that way than no way.
Hopefully, when the corporations start to succeed, the governments will come around, and maybe we'll see not only international cooperation for important explorations, but even significant budgetary commitment.
A guy can dream...
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There is, I believe, a potentially stronger motivation to re-engage in our attempts to escape the gravity well. I know you've heard me say this before, but the most basic tenet of ecology is that organisms alter their environment. This is neither good nor bad, it's 'nature'. We humans are incredibly capable when it comes to garnering ever more resources to support our exponentially increasing population. So, I postulate that the need for resources is highly likely to motivate exploration.
To return to the topic, I believe it is also much more likely that long, long before we go traipsing off to an unknown, dirt ball planet, we'll return to local space in search of those resources. Add a few generations to that scenario and I suspect we'll have done a pretty good job of filling our immediate neighborhood.
Posted 13 June 2013 - 12:15 PM
One first has to answer the question: "who is 'We'"?
Given the scope of the question, I think we can safely say "We" is Mankind.
And since we know who we is, we just need to decide what us do.
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"Is" and "ought" are different things, as you know, Dave. While I certainly have my own list of "oughts," I have also concluded that discussing "oughts" in a public forum is useless—especially before there is an agreement on what "is," and in today's globally polarized environment, agreement on even what "is" is impossible.
Well that depends on what your definition of "is", is. (I've been waiting forever to use that one on my own behalf! )
There is the "hard - is", unchanging facts of nature, such as "The speed of light in a vacuum *is* 299,792,458 m/s", or "The mass of an electron *is* 9.10938291 × 10-31 kilograms". There is the "firm - is", facts of nature that are true as of the present time, but are likely to change as things evolve, such as "The length of a sidereal day *is* 0.99726958 that of a mean solar day", or "The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (European, not African) *is* roughly 11 meters per second."
There is the "Civic/Historical - is", facts of history or civilization or geography that are well established, but may change if circumstances do, such as "The capital city of Texas *is* Austin", "The southernmost point of any state of the U.S. *is* the south coast of Hawaii".
THEN there is the "Soft - is", things that are true only because there is a local or temporal consensus, and can change fairly easily. This kind of *is* is, in fact, manufactured by the cultural acceptance of "oughts". A good example of this is "There *is* a lack of national or global commitment to an intensive program of space exploration".
BTW, I made up all these categories out of thin air, which *is* probably obvious to most of you. That categorization is another example of a "Soft - is", unless there's a consensus that it's wrong.
I think there's a broad agreement here that the *is* in question is that there *is* no real appetite among the general population for major national commitments to space travel. If there was, we would be doing it. So if true, according to your post above, we've already won half the battle.
That's where the "ought" comes in. Yes, most of the time there's no point in discussing "oughts" on a public forum, although if you take a sweeping survey of internet fora all over the world, I suspect you'll find that the great majority of all discussions involve exchanges of "oughts". Whether anyone's personal "oughts" ever change as a result of these discussions is debatable, but they're certainly popular. Anecdotally, I've found that a few of mine have been modified over time, and I've known a few other individuals who's opinions have changed due to informed and deep internet discussions combined with real curiosity and subsequent research.
Anyway, no amount of advocacy can change the hard or firm *is*-es. They are fixed by forces beyond our control, for the most part. However, the "Soft - is" is ripe for advocacy. And advocacy, properly managed, the skillful transfer and promotion of "oughts", has been proven time and time again to change these kinds of established facts, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. The Civil Rights movement is a perfect example of "ought-advocacy" that changed the current *is*.
Now this issue isn't anything like Civil Rights, particularly due to the fact that there are good and rational valid arguments not mired in prejudice on both sides. In a way, that also makes the discussion more interesting, and more educational for all concerned.
So yes, I have my "oughts", and a desire to change what *is*. And I think it's possible. You may with very good reason disagree with my "ought", holding that the current *is* is perfectly satisfactory. Other than by arm wrestling, this kind of issue will be resolved eventually in one way or the other, either by natural evolution of civilization, environment and technology, by catastrophe, or by a change in the public mood. I'm personally hoping to take advantage of the first, avoid the second, and be annoying about the third.
Posted 14 June 2013 - 12:45 AM
As Ion propulsion is created for these asteroid chaser drones the most likely candidate would be mars..
Posted 14 June 2013 - 09:02 AM
I think we certainly could, one way or the other. But I don't think we have the will to make the commitment.
It would take a planet wide effort. Perhaps if our sun was determined to go nova, or a black hole was gonna to make a close flyby or more Kardassians were going to be born....something like that.
Pesse (I bought 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy--you know, just in case) Mist
Posted 14 June 2013 - 09:11 AM
There is, I believe, a potentially stronger motivation to re-engage in our attempts to escape the gravity well. I know you've heard me say this before, but the most basic tenet of ecology is that organisms alter their environment. This is neither good nor bad, it's 'nature'. We humans are incredibly capable when it comes to garnering ever more resources to support our exponentially increasing population. So, I postulate that the need for resources is highly likely to motivate exploration.
Forgive my cynicism, but mankind is far more likely to 'prune back' its population than to expend limited resources heading off into space.
The Apollo program came out of a fear of the Soviets, not from any egalitarian notions. Exploration for the sake of exploration falls way down on the priority list. That's why we stopped sending men to the moon. No threat-no reason to go.
When technology allows relatively cheap escape from our gravity well, that will spur further reaching out. But right now, there is no overwhelming driving force or fear that will cause major resources to be committed to, say, a manned Mars mission.
I love space but I see no reason to make the huge commitment to send men to Mars right now. I mean I love large TV's, but also don't allocate the thousands for a 75" Plasma screen!
Another problem we have is legacy: Everyone wants their own. To support projects that may span a couple generations is very difficult. That's why a president may expand some grandiose mission only to see the next president trash it for his own vision.
Pesse (Mars or bust!) Mist
Posted 14 June 2013 - 10:57 AM
There is, I believe, a potentially stronger motivation to re-engage in our attempts to escape the gravity well.
And this is the part where most folks are a little bit misled by popular conception. Everybody seems to think the earths gravity well is a huge detriment to 'going to the stars'. Reality is, earths gravity well is a difficult enough problem for current propulsion systems, but, it pales in scale compared to the REAL gravity well we have to escape.
The gravity well of our sun is many orders of magnitude larger, and a much more difficult problem, but, we dont really consider it today, because we still haven't got out of the smaller one with any sort of efficient mechanism.
A direct trajectory out of the solar system, that doesn't rely on multi year hallman trajectories and gravity assist encounters with other objects, is beyond the technology we have today.
Posted 14 June 2013 - 11:02 AM
I love space but I see no reason to make the huge commitment to send men to Mars right now.
I do - but it is purely personal and selfish. I want to be alive when it happens so I can witness it!!
Posted 14 June 2013 - 11:34 AM
As Ion propulsion is created for these asteroid chaser drones the most likely candidate would be mars..
Just getting to Mars faster is only half the battle. Once there, it's necessary to decelerate. The faster the approach, the longer the slow-down. Some of the Mars landers have had to make multiple elliptical orbits, barely skimming Mars' thin atmosphere on each pass, in order to slow down enough to initiate the landing sequence. The process often takes months. It's not an insurmountable problem (other issues relating to human health and safety are far more vexing), but it does prove, once again, that there's no such thing as a free lunch.
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Why do we need to send humans to other planets? Why not send robotic missions (also sample return missions)? I am not sure what astronauts will accomplish which robotic landers cannot? The desire to have a human foot-print on the surface of another planet though exciting is not really worth the cost, risk and what could be achieved by undertaking such a mission.
What will make it worth the cost is the potential for profit. The one thing humans can possibly do on other planets that robots cannot is live, inhabit, colonize, and reproduce there.
Posted 14 June 2013 - 07:31 PM
What will make it worth the cost is the potential for profit.
Profit? Who would profit? And how?


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i have a question for the group that answered....have any of you HONESTLY been in the cabelas alaknak for any length of time in the backcountry? the reason i ask is because i have hunted in a canvas wall tent for over twenty years and about 5 years ago bought the alaknak 12x12. so i have been in both long enough to really get a good grip on things.
with all that said....both tents are absolute quality and if i have to pick one today to buy.....i would no question buy the alaknak. the ONLY thing I like better about the wall tent is that it seems to keep heat a little better from the stove and it does not hold the condensation as much. i believe that it does not hold the condensation because it is less air tight. the alaknak is a boatload lighter and easier to put up. it is waterproof no matter what and has a floor that is NOT zip in. you can attach a 10x10 vestibule to use as a gear garage or an area to cook in if needed.
the only reason why i even wrote a response is because i think most elk hunters use the wall tents and there is nothing wrong with them, if taken care of.....except weight, especially if you have to pack it out wet. people would be very surprised at the quality and over all room inside the alaknak. this tent has been at 10500' the last 5 years and has been under a ton of snow and abused by the wind over those five years. we added the vestibule to give us more gear storage and its like having a 10x10 muddroom. we put down a tarp on the inside of that vestibule and nothing gets wet and have actually cooked inside it on several occasions because of the snow and wind outside.
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Bernice M. Vannorsdel, 91, of Kingsley passed away Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at North Memorial Medical Center Hospice in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Funeral services will be held Monday, April 30, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Kingsley, Iowa. Officiating will be Reverend Roger Kurtenbach. Visitation will be held at the church at 10 a.m. until service time on Monday. Rohde Funeral Home of Kingsley, Iowa is handling the arrangements.
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Gray hair is an inevitable change as we age, but when those first hairs appear varies dramatically. Some people start seeing silver strands in their 20s, while others don't notice these stray hairs until they are middle-aged. Several factors and conditions affect when hair grays, making this aging experience different for every person. Whether you want to eliminate your gray hair or age gracefully, you have plenty of options.
Generally, aging causes gray hair. Your hair color is determined by two pigments: eumelanin, the dark pigment, and pheomelanin, the light pigment. Together, these pigments determine your natural hair color. As you age, production of these pigments slows down, which explains the gradual shift to gray and then white hair. Another explanation for this hair change is the buildup of naturally occurring hydrogen peroxide, which slowly bleaches the hair, stripping it of color.
Researchers continue to study why pigment production decreases with age and, further, why the age at which hair starts to turn gray varies so dramatically. Graying has a genetic link, so family members often start graying around the same age. Your ethnicity plays a role in this process as well—Caucasians tend to go gray earlier than Asians and African-Americans.
Premature graying, defined as gray hair by age 20 for Caucasians and before age 30 for African-Americans, has several causes. Certain conditions, such as vitiligo, Werner syndrome, and alopecia areata, are associated with gray hair. A Vitamin B-12 deficiency and issues with the pituitary and thyroid glands can also lead to silver hair, but treating the cause can reverse the process in these cases.
Many people, particularly those who go gray prematurely, turn to color treatments to eliminate this sign of aging. Your hair doesn't change colors overnight, so you have many options when it comes to coloring your hair. If you have just some stray gray hairs, you can touch up your hair without a trip to the salon. Color pens come in many shades, from blonde to black and everything in between, allowing you to cover those stray gray hairs. You can choose a color pen that matches your current hair color, or you can add some depth to your hair by creating some highlights or lowlights in place of the gray.
You can eliminate subtle touches of gray in your hair with salon-created highlights or lowlights. Complement your hair color with lighter or darker shades, which cover up the gray while adding some depth and texture to your hair. Choose a shade that blends well with your current hair color and masks the gray hair.
All-over color is another way to eliminate silver locks. If the majority of your hair is turning gray, all-over color is the best solution. Choose a color that complements your skin tone and blends in with whatever natural color you have left. A semi-permanent or permanent color will last the longest, requiring fewer touch-ups as gray continues to grow. In between colorings, you can use a color pen that matches your current color. Apply it to your roots to camouflage new strands of silver. Gray hairs are more resistant to hair color, so work with your stylist to find a color that is effective in covering non-pigmented strands.
Not everyone wants to eliminate grey hair; some people embrace the new shade. A rich shade of grey can be quite striking and can brighten your face. However, grey hair can also take on a brassy yellow shade, caused by environmental factors and chemicals, such as chlorine. You can reduce the brassiness by using a clarifying shampoo and conditioner specifically for grey hair, which counteract the yellow with bluish tints. Use these products a couple of times a week, and mix them with regular shampoos and conditioners to avoid changing that yellow tint in your hair to a blue one.
Keep your silver locks healthy with regular deep conditioning treatments, which you can perform at home or in a salon. Many over-the-counter deep conditioners allow you to rehydrate your hair at home. Grey hair tends to be coarser and drier, so regular conditioning is a must. In addition, you can enhance your rich silver shade with highlights or lowlights in a complementary shade of grey.
Grey hair happens to everyone eventually. No matter when those first silver strands appear, you have many options when it comes to coloring and treating your hair. Whether you want to say goodbye to grey or embrace your new shade, you can create healthy, vibrant hair.


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Jan. 19, 2008
Butler University will be holding a College Prep Camp on Friday, March 14 and Saturday, March 15 for boys' soccer players. The Butler Soccer Prep Camp gives players an opportunity to train and play in an environment that resembles the college soccer experience. There are limited spaces available for this camp and is limited by age to high school age players.
The objective for this camp is to afford the committed soccer player the opportunity to be trained and evaluated by the Butler coaching staff in a college training environment. It also allows players that are interested in Butler as their college choice to see the campus and meet the coaching staff.
The camp is set up as a day camp and does not include food or accommodations. However, the coaching staff can make hotel suggestions should they be needed.
The camp will begin on March 14 with check-in at 5:30 p.m. and the evening session starting at 6:00. There will be an evening session Friday and two sessions on Saturday with the camp concluding on Saturday at 3:00.
The cost for this camp will be $150.00. The camp staff will consist of the Butler University men's soccer coaching staff as well as other elite level coaches.
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Margaret Noble embarks on large-scale work for Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
When she was a child growing up in City Heights, Margaret Noble and her mother would escape their neighborhood's harsh realities by cutting out paper dolls.
"It was the cheapest toy you could buy," Noble said. "My mom had bows and ribbons and paper doll dresses lying around and it was like this fantasy escapism. I always just loved it."
Two decades later, Noble is again playing with paper dolls. They are at the core of a large-scale multimedia art work Noble is creating for the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
"44th and Landis," scheduled to open in early August at the museum's downtown space, is Noble's testament to both the neighborhood that shaped her urban sensitivities and an interest in the Victorian era (nurtured through those paper dolls) that helped her cope with growing up in a sea of concrete, crime and liquor stores.
"A lot of the things I pursued later — art making, dance, DJ culture, philosophy — all connected with that early experience" of growing up in City Heights, said Noble, a respected DJ, sound artist and electronic music composer who also teaches at High Tech High.
Funded by a grant from the San Diego Foundation's Creative Catalyst Fund, her project aspires to create a "visual (and aural) mash-up of 1980s urban pop culture, Victorian aesthetics and a personal remembrance of a City Heights neighborhood." It will involve a grid from which hundreds of paper dolls, cutouts, "props" and handmade speakers will be suspended. And it will open with a performance that, like the installation itself, is certain to transcend boundaries.
That's a specialty for Noble, whose pursuits cross the lines of classical, electronic and dance music and visual art. She's hoping her work might inspire audiences who have traditionally been put off by the formalities of a museum to transcend a few boundaries of their own.
"My greatest aspiration is to reach an audience that doesn't normally (visit museums)," she said. "I think it would be really great if someone walked in off the street, and they didn't feel intimidated by the museum and made a connection. That is a really, really important goal. It's always been a goal for me."
Forming the idea
Noble had been thinking about doing something Victorian-related for months, if not years, but she couldn't quite figure out what shape it might take. When she talked about it last year with a friend, filmmaker Mauricio Chernovetzky, he suggested she try to find something personal to bring to her potential project.
"I thought that didn't really make sense," Noble said, "because what's personal to me feels like the opposite of Victorianism, and that's my urban, City Heights upbringing."
Then she thought again.
"That night, I went to sleep and thought, 'Hmmm, that's genius, this idea of connectedness,' " Noble said.
That's when she realized her fascination with the Victorian ideal and her urban upbringing intersected in those simple, inexpensive, paper dolls.
Although Noble frequently works with artists and has an Master of Fine Arts degree in sound art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she knew she needed a visual collaborator to help make the dolls — as well as the other suspended elements in the project — a powerful, even dominant visual element.
"I knew I didn't have the strong visual skills to take it to that next level," she said.
And if the work was going to involve video, as she suggested in her original proposal to the San Diego Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, she needed someone to help with that as well. Then there was the issue of designing and engineering a substantial grid for hanging the work's elements.


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Philosophy Events
Dr. Frank Hoffman talks with keynote speaker, noted author and Buddhist scholar, Dr. Charles Johnson, from the University of Washington.
Dr. Justin McDaniel from the University of Pennsylvania, comments on Charles Johnson's talk: 'Why Buddhism for Black American Now?' Also in the picture, Jin Y. Park and William Grosnick of LaSalle University.
Keynote speakers David R. Loy, Jin Y. Park, and Charles Johnson share the podium with commentators Shigenori Nagatomo and Monte S. Hull from Temple University.
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Visits to City and Seacoast, Farm and Factory, Mountains and Valleys. And Miles to Go Before I Sleep.
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On the Hammersmith Farm:
Lynn Shoen said...
The month after Jackie died, I took my three young nieces from Nevada to Hammersmith Farm. It was owned by Camelot Gardens at the time, and was open to the public. Since the Rhode Island schools had not recessed for the summer, we had the entree house and grounds to ourselves for the day. The guides let us go wherever we wished, into Jackie's bedroom, her bathroom, the kitchen, the deck room, and the wonderful sun porch. It remains one of the most memorable days of our lives, since the house was truly a family home, and we felt so welcome. Lynn Shoen
August 28, 2014
On Brigham's:
Paul Fox said...
I'm the son of the last owner of Brigham's, Paul F. Fox. He operated the store from about 1948 until it closed in 1970. At that time the store was still somewhat successful, but my father correctly believed that he would have to establish branches in the suburbs as Forbes & Wallace and Stieger's were doing. He did not want to run such a large operation.
Paul G Fox
August 2, 2014
On Forbes & Wallace - Springfield:
Helene Kelly said...
Thanks so much to all of you for keeping the 'old downtown Springfield alive. I am the niece of George Legos, the former owner and key cook of the Nuttie Goodie Tearoom. He just passed away this morning at the age of 80 from a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was a wonderful uncle and a great man. So many people have fond memories of my family's downtown Springfield landmark, the Nuttie Goodie Tearoom. Helene
17, 2013
On Iwo Jima Memorial - New Hampshire:
Anonymous said...
This article is rubbish. I am Rene Gagnon's grandson and this article seems to pull untrue information out of its ass. My grandfather never tried to capitalize on anything, he was never an alcoholic (who writes this stuff?) He wasn't embittered, and he never worked a menial job... in fact he owned a travel agency with my grandmother.
May 25, 2012
tammy chalbeck said...
Just found out by my brother that Rene Arthur Gagnon was my grandmothers uncle..makes me proud to know that I am related to this man...wish I had heard the same stories from my grandmother that my brother did but I was young...my grandmothers name was Lillian Gagne...would love to know more about him and wish she was alive to tell me! Thank you Tammy Chalbeck
May 28, 2012
On Esther DeGray's Scrapbook:
Val DeGray Orcutt said...
This is awesome stuff! Joseph DeGray was my father's great uncle, so his daughter would be some sort of cousin relation to me.I never knew that part of the family was this close to "High Society" :)Thanks for the information!Val DeGray Orcutt
March 23, 2012
On the Hartford Circus Fire:
smcallis said...
I came across this blog while doing research for my own novel about the Hartford circus fire, HARTFORD 1944. This has proven to be an emotional journey. As I do more research, these people become more real to me. 168 people lost their lives on that terrible July day in 1944. I feel a profound sense of duty to proceed carefully to avoid trivializing their tragic loss by juxtaposition my fictional story against the back-drop of their deaths. This is a story that needs to be told. A uniquely American tragedy equal in scope to the Titanic or Hindenburg—yet it remains largely a forgotten chapter in American history.
I plan to visit Hartford this summer, and your blog Ms. Lynch has inspired me to do so.
March 16, 2012
On The Ames Mfg. Company:
Yuki said...Hi, I loved your article. Very informative and well executed. I have 2 Ames Swords and was wondering if you know what year the business was sold to Ohio and who the company was it was sold to? Thanks! Still enjoying your article many years after it was written.September 27, 2013
Thomas Fowler said...Thank you so much for this well researched and interesting article on the Ames family and its swords. We are a Southern family near Danville, and have an Ames non-commissioned officer's sword...captured, of course. This is beautiful research, well presented. Thos. B. Fowler August 27, 2013
Mrs. LaFlamme said...
Fascinating article. I grew up in Chicopee and traveled past the old Ames Manufacturing Co. on my way to high school every day. I learned so much from your well documented article.
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Raedis is a lesser state, not as large or as grand as Akron or Jerat. However, its placement makes it the gateway to the east and trading ships skirting the Akron coastline stop off at Raedis on their way toward the ports of the eastern nations.
Thanks and rep to Steel General for the city map of Raedis
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