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The 24th annual Native American Festival on Saturday transformed The Casements into an indian encampment, with intertribal native dancers, Aztec dancers from Mexico, hawks, falcons, alligators and snakes, Native American cuisine and more than 30 trading booths.
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Not so long ago, my mother-in-law took me to Bloomingdale's so I could try on my first real makeup. I was 34. I had worn mascara and lipstick. I had owned eyeshadow. But I'd never thought to apply colored cream (or powder, or cream-to-powder) all over my face on a daily basis. Until I started looking old.
An hour later, I left the store transformed, my newly purchased makeup bouncing along in the brown bag like a first box of tampons. Back home, my husband smiled when he saw my face. Wow, he said, that's a lot of makeup. I giggled. It was a lot, but I felt gorgeous and bold.
Then our three-year-old daughter, Sylvie, saw me. She stared for about two seconds before bursting into tears. "Mommy! Not Mommy!" she screamed.
I held her—trying not to smear her face with Luminizing Satin Face Color—and soothed her with calm words, even as part of me wondered if she was right: Had I become someone else? I wondered, too, if it was Sylvie who'd driven me to it. Wasn't it she who made me feel so old, not only because of the sleepless nights she'd occasioned but also because, next to her poreless skin and smooth, compact body, I couldn't look any other way? As I held her, I grew aware of the makeup, felt it stiffening my skin. That made me feel even older, as if instead of hiding my lines, it had revealed my desperation. "This is Mommy," I said, rocking her. "I'm Mommy. I just painted my face."
I came so late to cosmetics partly because of my temperament, partly because of my personal aesthetics but mostly because of my mother and her habits. I have no childhood memories of watching my mother put on makeup. She remembers "some moisturizer" she bought at the Harvard Coop when she was 40, and a particularly nice Lancôme eyeliner in aqua that a friend had let her try. She wore her hair frizzy. When she taught me how to shave my legs, she said it should be done only in a bathtub, which told me how often (not very) she shaved her own. My mother was—is—beautiful, but in an accidental, haphazard-seeming way. She was 36 when she had me and 40 when she had my sister, which in the late '70s was so radical that our family appeared on Good Morning America, yet she never spoke about feeling or looking old. She wanted us to be confident and to that end instilled in us the idea that appearances were just that. What really mattered was inside us. In our bathroom, directly across from the toilet, hung an old-fashioned sampler that read a well-kept house is the sign of an ill-spent life.
We were sent to feminist summer camps and raised within a certain New England culture in which hair was usually allowed to go gray and the only statement clothing made, if it spoke at all, was one of natural, easy understatement. Makeup, jewelry, money: All of these could be deployed, but only if one did so quietly.
Even in this culture, of course, beauty was prized. Beauty is always prized. I must have known that even as a tween, because in private I despaired of my frizzy hair. But to admit that one put any real effort into appearing beautiful was seen as its own form of ugliness.
As it turned out, my mother's apparent lack of effort, and her insistence that smart and strong trump pretty, were an act of rebellion (or, as she would say, survival). She'd been raised in Charleston, South Carolina, by a mother who spent most of her time putting on makeup and shopping for clothes. "You were either a girl or a lady," my mother says, "and a lady is what I was raised to be." She was still in grade school when her mother let her know that her nose was too Jewish and, later on, that her breasts were too large. Like other girls her age, my mother wore girdles and garter belts and even a little makeup. Then she went north to Mount Holyoke College, where the girls were in blue jeans. My mother closed her trunk of fancy suits and handbags, let her hair grow long and bought a wool crewneck sweater that she wore until spring.
That was the woman I knew: the one in the sweater. The one who didn't bother with gardening or dish gloves, or any gloves at all. The one who'd left the South, gotten her doctorate and never looked back.
It wasn't until my mother was 62 and my father left their marriage that I recognized her tendency, in the company of certain men, to seem not very strong or smart at all but instead wide-eyed, almost worshipful. She listened with a charming tilt of her head. I felt as if I were glimpsing her at a Citadel hop, circa 1957.
My mother was devastated by my father's leaving, and not just because it left her alone for the first time in 28 years. It also peeled back the cloak of marriage, the seeming safety of forever. It made clear that she had aged and that her age was not, in fact, irrelevant. She was an older woman in a society that likes its women young. My mother spent a lot of time in bed in the early months. Sorrow and a colitis flare-up took off 20 pounds, and she decided to keep the weight off. She got out of bed and bought nicer clothes. Sometimes I would see her in front of a mirror, pulling back the skin from her jawline, letting it fall again and frowning. She consulted her most put-together friends on makeup and started wearing it every day.
By the time my daughter was born, my mother's makeup seemed like part of her complexion. And one morning, soon after the Bloomingdale's trauma, Sylvie went to wake my mother in our guest room, found her sans maquillage and once again burst into tears. My mother understood immediately. It made her feel a little bad, but she understood. "Wait just a second, I'll put on a little makeup," she said. Sylvie nodded gratefully. "OK," she sniffed.
When they came downstairs a short while later, Sylvie kept looking from my mother to me. We were familiar to her now—my mother made up, me not—but back and forth she went, her mouth open, as if at any second we might transform. She seemed to be silently exclaiming, "How many faces these women wear!" I felt a pang of sorrow. Some trust had been stretched, but that wasn't all. Sylvie is a girl, after all. She knows that she, too, will become a woman someday. And here she was getting a glimpse of how strange and mysterious and possibly scary that might be. She stared and stared at us, too young even to feel shame.
Between that morning and now, I've managed to develop a beauty regimen as unique and haphazard as my mother's. Many days, I wear no makeup at all. Others, I use under-eye highlighter and a flick of mascara. For social or professional events, I break out the foundation, layer on some shadow and line my eyes and lips (thanks to the Bobbi Brown whiz who patiently showed me how).
Each version of my face has become familiar enough to Sylvie that she rarely comments. Yet recently, when I heard her coming down the hall as I was putting on mascara, I panicked and shoved the tube into a drawer. That made me realize I'd gotten comfortable with a double standard: Her knowing about my makeup was one thing, but seeing me apply it? I thought of my mother self-correcting her sagging jawline in the mirror and how she might have felt equally uncomfortable if she'd seen me watching her. Then I wondered, But why? Does hiding our own insecurities and efforts actually encourage our daughters to be stronger women? Could pretending not to care about our beauty or age be just as corrosive as caring too much? Maybe the point isn't to model total, unattainable confidence for Sylvie but to let her see the real me, with all my contradictions intact.
The next time I heard her coming, I continued applying my mascara.
"Is that grownup stuff?" she asked.
I told her it was.
"Can I put on lipstick?"
I smiled apologetically. "You mean lip balm?"
"Lipstick. Just for pretend?"
I sat down on her step stool, opened a tube of bright pink lipstick and showed her how to hold her mouth. "Now press your lips together," I said once I was done. Sylvie pursed her lips, wiggled them this way and that and somehow spread the lipstick an inch wide around her mouth. She dabbed at it with her finger, then touched her cheeks, her forehead, her chin. She smiled, pink faced and radiant. "Do I look beautiful?"
A year before, I might have nodded yes, then said, "But what's important is on the inside!" Now, though, I was overcome by just how beautiful Sylvie really is. I let it all in: her skin, her eyes, her teeth, her perfect ears. I felt as if this was why I'd had her: to be close to that kind of beauty as often as I can.
"Yes," I answered. "You look so, so beautiful."
Anna Solomon is the author of the novel The Little Bride.
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:23 pm
Post subject: Can the Same-Old, Same-Old Be Great?
Jean has written an interesting review of Jo Goodman's book, THE LAST RENEGADE. She ends by saying she couldn't give it a DIK (desert island keeper) status because Jo Goodman has repeated herself in this book like her previous ones, and that you can't be great unless you stretch yourself.
Unfortunately, I think she's on to something. As a former teacher, I knew that some of my lessons were great: I enjoyed them, the kids did too, and most importantly, I could tell that they learned something. However, if I repeated these lessons, something I could so easily do, they continued to succeed, but I got bored. I know that if the audience had not changed every year, it REALLY would have been deadly. Fortunately, teaching offers a constant challenge, but I suspect that anything you are really good at leads to boredom, if repeated too often. I am bored by my chocolate chip cookies, and I suspect if I made them for dessert all the time, so would all my guests.
But to get back to romance books, I have fallen deeply in love lots of times with authors, but unfortunately, I ALWAYS fall out of love. I cannot think of even one author that I have read with pleasure for, say, ten years. Or probably even two, if I can get her back list. Some authors have only one story, one set of characters, regardless of setting. Some have lots of different stories and authors, but their quirks become too irritating. When you notice that the heroine always says, "I'm sorry" to people when things go wrong, or the hero--cowboy, former Regency cad or were-dragon--at some time leaves the heroine "for her own good," the author is on her way out.
Right now, my author of choice is Courtney Milan, but her last two books (novellas, really) have fallen short of my esteem. I'll definitely buy the one coming out next month and maybe one of two after that, but I fear I see the writing on the wall.
Are you as fickle as I am? Or is it that just as in the past, really great writers who produce work after astounding work are very rare?
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I don't know, but I think that, in the case of romance, the same-old/same-old is exactly what people are looking for. A great number of posters state that they have comfort reads that they return to many times. Just recently, for example, Mark wrote in a post that he had read the same books dozens of times. Surely that suggests that same-old/same-old has a power all its own. Even the formulaic patterns of genre fiction suggest that familiarity is exactly what readers want.
And, in other things, too, we often find greatness of a kind in certain products and return to them exactly because they never fail to repeat the sameness.
The reviewer saw the book as lacking greatness because it didn't, in her judgement, stretch beyond the author's usual output, even though I assume from what you wrote that she found it a satisfying read. Another reader/reviewer might read the same book and find it great exactly because the author did well what she always did well--met expectations.
So I guess I do think same-old/same-old has a kind of greatness to it.
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Quite easily. As I have said many times (e.g., in "Genre Labels" on the WWW board), how much we enjoy anything depends on our expectations before the event. This is why good books can still receive poll votes as "most disappointing" if the reader read them after too much hype. It is also why I can enjoy a book more on a rereading than on the first reading--my expectations are more accurate. (And in stories with heavy world-building, the world is familiar on a reread.)
I have been enjoying books by JAK ever since I started reading romances, and I can still count on her for new stories I will enjoy. I notice some patterns and repetitions, but none that prevent enjoying the books.
All of these authors have more than one book with my highest humor rating:
holbrook, cindy
evanovich, janet
quinn, julia
macalister, katie
alexander, victoria
lansdowne, judith a.
nelson, judith
These authors have one book with my highest humor rating and more than one with my next highest rating:
michaels, kasey
leclaire, day
crusie, jennifer
laurenston, shelly
davidson, maryjanice
krentz, jayne ann
quick, amanda
smythe, sheridon
garwood, julie
thompson, vicki lewis
phillips, susan elizabeth
jensen, trish
joy, dara
jensen, emma
Several of these authors repeat elements in their works, but I'm still quite ready to read the next book I get from any of them.
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I don't mind the same old same old if its compelling can't put down reads.
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Lynda X wrote:
I cannot think of even one author that I have read with pleasure for, say, ten years.
That's interesting, Linda; because, even though like you, I've fallen away from some authors and their books, I've also held on to quite a few for 10 years or more. For instance (in no particular order):
Debbie Macomber
Mary Balogh
Candace Camp (and her alternates)
Robyn Carr
Sandra Brown
Jayne Krentz
Linda Howard
Nora Roberts
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Karen Robards
Lisa Kleypas
Jennifer Crusie
Dorothy Garlock
JoAnn Ross
Linda Castillo
Claire Cook
Tess Gerritsen
Lisa Gardner (and her alternates)
I have read the books of these authors for many years; and with few exceptions, had no lull in them. I continue to read them today and look forward to their new issues.
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Anything will get old, tedious, or just too much if you are exposed to too much of it. Example: As a teen I worked the summer in a chocolate factory in Germany. Loving chocolate I thought at first I was in summer job paradise. Well, at the end of the summer I couldn't even stand the sight of chocolate and it was a good long time before I wanted to eat chocolate again.
I have loved reading since I was a little one but I have learned that I better vary my reading and don't read too many books in the same genre and/or by the same author in a row or I'll burn out on the genre and the author. This becomes quite tricky when I discover an author and have the urge to glom everything they have written - then it's a conflict between "gobble, gobble!" and "uh, better put the breaks on".
I have found that all the big names in romance have their own stick that they are usually ...erm... sticking with and if one reads too many of one writer it can get pretty repetitive.
As for Jo Goodman in particular - good writer but every single romance I read by her has a heroine who has an abusive past, usually sexual abuse. It really kind of makes me ponder what Goodman is working out in her romance writing.
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I've just read the review for Victoria Dahl's latest and have come to the conclusion that comfort reads in romance--or genre fiction, in general--doesn't necessarily mean desiring the same thing from an author in every book.
To use the Dahl review for example, though I loved the four books I've read in her catalog, the well-worn groove in Dahl's writing--namely, the H/H deciding to have no-strings attached sex on their path to HEA--doesn't attract me when this situation is fostered between characters as prickly and damaged as Cole and Grace. I can be attracted to an author for their voice and talent in making particular elements fresh time and time again, but if those particular elements are mixed with something I'm not crazy about, it's quite easy for me to nix reading the book.
The same goes for re-reads--it's a testament to the author's skill that I can read a book ten, fifteen, twenty times over the years and it still feels like the first time I discovered it. Yet, this doesn't mean I find every book in the author's catalog re-read or keeper-shelf material. It's that delicate alchemy that no one has been able to distill.
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I'm relatively new to romance novels, having only been reading them for the past few years, but I've certainly found that an author, although very good, can easily get repetitive. I read Mary Balogh's entire backlist all at once a year or two ago, and since then I have had difficulties reading her new books without thinking that such and such part is just like her other books. Since then, I have learned my lesson, and try to refrain from reading too many books by the same author in a row.
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That an author's repetitions of material eventually bore the reader, are not, it seems to me related to whether that repetitiousness has elements of greatness in it. Greatness in a particular book should reside in whether the first reading of it makes a reader say to self, "I'll want to repeat the experience I just had." If the reader then re-reads the same book many times, or reads another of the author's books to find the repetition of that experience because h/she expects a repetition of the experience, it seems to me the book has some greatness in it. Even if the reader never repeats the experience again, that the book aroused the desire suggests that something about it was great. I don't think, either, that it has to be the same book for all readers, and that seems especially so for readers of romance fiction.
The original question was whether repetition in itself could create a "great" book. I think most of the evidence suggests that it can, even if the greatness is discovered by only a single reader.
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There have been authors that I've tired of, definitely. On the other hand, there are authors I have been able to glom without having to take a break because I feel like I'm seeing more of the author's worldview through each of her books. A similar style or some familiar themes don't bother me if the author has done her job and caught my attention in a new or different way--or angle. I guess the risk is how much the author has to say. It's wonderful to see new things or see an author spreading her wings, but kinda sad when an author has only one or notes to play.
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>>but I've certainly found that an author, although very good, can easily get repetitive. I read Mary Balogh's entire backlist all at once a year or two ago, and since then I have had difficulties reading her new books without thinking that such and such part is just like her other books. Since then, I have learned my lesson, and try to refrain from reading too many books by the same author in a row.<<
I've found this to be true. I loved Mary Balogh for years--since the early 90's when she was doing Signet Regencies. I glommed her backlist last year (some I'd read way back when; others I hadn't) and this is the first year in a while that I haven't pulled all of her Simply novels off the shelf and reread them.
I was really wanting to make a chart counting the number of silver-eyed Dukes by the time I was done.
Not that I still don't love her, but I think the things we like about an author--and like again when we revisit every year or so--and the things that make them comfort reads are the very things that become annoying when you read too much at once. You know, like the chocolates.
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It's funny. I can still love a particular book by an author whom I no longer read because of repetition or for any number of reasons. A comfort read is different, IMO, from your still liking everything by an author. Is that your experience too?
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It's funny. I can still love a particular book by an author whom I no longer read because of repetition or for any number of reasons. A comfort read is different, IMO, from your still liking everything by an author. Is that your experience too?
Yep. And not liking an author's newer books has nothing to do with annual revisitations of that same author's backlist.
My "long term" authors are Mary Balogh, Johanna Lindsay, Julie Garwood, and Amanda Quick (I hadn't read any JAK until she did the Arcane books, but now I've read some of her older ones, and like them, too). I started reading them all in the early 90's.
I can't say that I'm drooling any more about their new releases. But, I'll still read them eventually (the library is a wonderful thing), and I still have piles of analog books that I pull out once a year or so and read again.
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There is repetition and then there is recycling. To me, if an author has a certain type of story she tells and she tells it well, that works. For example, Suzanne Brockmann told the story of the military hero coming in to save the day very well. Every one of her guys was strong, brave and true. They excelled at what they did. I loved the comradery the guys shared and how they were just so tough until it came to their ladies. I stopped reading her when she began to try new things. I wasn't interested in the new stuff, I'm interested in the same old, same old. And could she still score a DIK hit for me when she delivered a well written same old same old? Yes.
What doesn't work for me is complete recycling where we have the same characters in the same story with maybe a change of location. This doesn't even have to be done by the same author. So for example, if I read one book about a Regency miss who defies convention and is supported in doing so by her socially acceptable friend who is fabulously wealthy and therefore beyond societal censure and there is a kooky elderly character and then another and another with the same elements there is no greatness in the book. This is cooking by the recipe or painting by the numbers. It defines the word average to me. Can an author shake that up and somehow still deliver a DIK? Yes, she can reach deep and really define the characters and make them memorable. But for the most part that isn't what happens.
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You said it perfectly, Maggie B.
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Editor: David Puckett's Feb. 21 letter stated there's no need to rename a road after Jesus Christ. Google Maps shows one road renamed "Jesus Christ Way" in America, but there are many roads named after Martin Luther King Jr. in about every city. There's no road named after Christ in N.C. Why is Dr. King more important than Christ?
(Lexington) Mayor (Newell) Clark says roads named after churches honor Christ. Roads named after a church don't honor Christ because many churches support homosexuality, abortion and the sins of this world. Very few churches do God's will today. Anyplace can claim to be a church of God, but you'll know a tree by the fruit it bears. Would Lexington and the NAACP support honoring King by renaming these two roads King Road?
Puckett said Dr. Ray Howell's actions (concerning the road renaming) don't determine if he's a man of God. God says we're to try the spirits of everyone who claims they're pastors and children of God. Ask Howell to say unto you "Jesus Christ is come in the flesh." God said anyone who can't say these words unto you are Antichrists, and there's many Antichrists already in this world. Howell stated King's voice will never be silenced but doesn't fight to keep God's voice alive.
Crosses soaked in urine are shown in art galleries, but it's illegal to harm the Koran. Christ said if you're ashamed of me, I'll be ashamed of you as you stand before God my Father in judgment.
Clark said I didn't have the right to ask for a road to be renamed to honor Christ, because I don't live in Lexington's city limits. Why did Clark and the Lexington City Council welcome the NAACP's request to rename roads after King but don't care about Christ? Are these people ready to stand before God without a savior? God must come first in your life before you can enter heaven.
America worships a dead King but turns a living Jesus Christ away. Christ shed his blood upon the cross for the sins of all mankind, but King died for nobody. Is America "One Nation Under King" and "In King We Trust"? Would King want America worshiping him today instead of God?
I call every church and Christian to fight to honor Christ for all the Lord's done for you. How many churches and Christians will show that Christ is worth fighting for? You'll reap what you sow upon this earth. You can't turn your back on God and still enter into heaven. Only those who remain faithful until the end are saved and enter into heaven.
What will happen as you stand before God in judgment and King will be your savior, because you told Christ to leave and placed all your trust in a dead man? You can't serve two masters at the same time. Rename a road after Jesus Christ.
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Oh I would soooo love this.. comes with perfect timing : D love the illustrations and I loooove calendars.
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These are so cute! I love the idea of having each guest bring a board book to add to the Baby's library. You could have a "Book Brunch" theme!
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I used a pregnancy calendar for my first little one and I'd love to have one for when I have my next baby. These are way cute! My favorite baby shower item that I've seen was a diaper cake. They are so fun and decorative.
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For my sister's baby shower, in the invitation, I put an insert "To bring a pack of diapers to be entered in a special raffle!". Needless to say, she ended up with a ton of diapers and didn't have to buy any until her baby was 4 months old! I raffled off gift cards and truffles! The guests and my sister loved it!
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My least favorite thing about all baby showers is anything that is purposely made to embarass those who came. I don't get it. I still go, but loathe that part. :)
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A man from New Jersey suffered serious injuries Wednesday afternoon when troopers say he lost control of his car and caused a wreck on Interstate 95, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Charles Hroch, 48, of Monroe, N.J., lost control of his 1998 Chevrolet Corvette for unknown reasons and was unable to maintain a single lane, troopers say.
Hroch collided with the guardrail on the west side of I-95 in the Ormond Beach area and hit a Palm Coast resident's 2000 Nissan Altima after coming back into traffic, troopers say.
The Corvette continued to travel across the southbound lanes of I-95 in an easterly direction before hitting a concrete barrier wall, troopers say.
Gabrielle Henrey, 19, who was driving the Altima, did not suffer any injuries, troopers say.
Hroch was ticketed for failing to maintain a single lane, troopers say.
The crash, which happened shortly before 4:30 p.m., occurred near the U.S. 1 overpass and caused troopers to shut down the southbound lanes for about an hour, spokeswoman Kim Montes said.
The southbound lanes were reopened a couple hours after the crash, according to the FHP.
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OK folks. Willie Nelson will be in Salt Lake City tomorrow night (Friday, Sept. 10), at Red Butte Garden, for the final show of their amazing outdoor concert season.You probably know that-and that tickets sold out shortly after they went on sale, months ago. If you still want to see the ole Red-Headed Stranger (or well, silver-haired stranger), there's still hope.
Sure you can head up to Red Butte tomorrow and look for people selling extra tickets. (Note: A Jan. '10 bill proposed that ticket scalping become illegal in Utah, like it is in most states, so keep that in mind.)
There are also some online sites that still have tickets available. Check them carefully, because your tix will either have to be fed-exed today with priority delivery or you can arrange to pick them up at will-call.
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ticketluck.com (Six available as of this posting)
stub.com (14 tickets available)
Good luck! And check back here saltlakemagazine.com for a review of the show.
WHAT: Willie Nelson with Chuck Mead
WHERE: Red Butte Garden (redbuttegarden.org)
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Vain to open on Saturday night in downtown Orlando
Looks like the new club Vain, taking over the former Lyrica space at 22 S. Magnolia Ave in downtown Orlando, will be opening this Saturday, Oct. 30. Here are the details:
"Downtown Orlando finally has a new nightclub and it is serious. The team that put together Vain did so with the vision of creating a mega club with attitude.
You can expect an amazing venue fully equipped with lights & sound unlike any other venue in Orlando. I know you think I am kidding but this is the first 3-D Nightclub on the East Coast.
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The party is from 10 p.m. – 2 a.m. and is $10 at 10 p.m. (Cover will go up as night progresses but I'm not sure yet on how much).


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The University of Idaho Vandals will be scrimmaging for the second time this camp Saturday at 10 a.m. on the SprinTurf Field east of the Kibbie Dome.
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Full SubmissionJoint submission by World Animal Net and 109 partner-organisations to the compilation document in preparation of the zero draft of the Rio+20 outcome document Expectations for the outcome of Rio+20: Together with 109 partner-organizations from more than 50 countries from all UN regions, World Animal Net believes that by focusing on the theme of a Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, the Rio+20 Summit will provide a key opportunity to address how we treat animals, be they wild, companion, working or farm animals or more generally animals in disasters. We believe that the welfare of animals needs to be considered within policies that affect them and particularly the welfare of livestock used for farming, as their welfare is directly affected by human activities. 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And with the Bills twice, the Jets, Pats, Raiders, Redskins, Cowboys, and Eagles, its certainly theoretically possible. Who knows with division games (and the Patriots are not that good!). The Redskins are not that great. The Cowboys are beatable. And the Raiders have had an up and down season.
So 5-11 or 6-10 would put them somewhere in the range of "better" teams which takes them out of the sweepstakes for most of the top-tier QBs...which would mean that the team will look elsewhere for talent. And might draft that third team long snapper they've had their eye on!
And it also might, maybe, turn the tables on this whole firing thing. Suppose they are "in every game" and wind up with 6 wins. Does Tony get fired? What about Jeff? Will we get more of the same nonsense next year?
Both Jeff "the furious enigma" Ireland and Tony "the Bootin' Bull" Sparano must - MUST - be fired. There are no alternatives. And whoever comes in MUST draft a QB. End of story.
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Baxter is paying Onconova $50 million up front for European rights to the latter's targeted anticancer therapy rigosertib, which is undergoing Phase III trials against myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and Phase II/III studies in patients with pancreatic cancer.
Baxter already has a $50 million equity investment in Onconova. The deal gives Baxter commercialization rights to the drug in the EU and other European countries, and Onconova could receive up to $515 million in precommercial development and regulatory milestones for both the MDS and pancreatic cancer indications, plus sales milestones and royalties. Baxter retains an option to participate in the development and commercialization of rigostertib for other indications.
"Rigosertib's first anticipated indication would be a natural complement to Baxter's existing treatments for patients managing rare hematologic conditions, and will allow us to expand the product portfolio of our existing hematological sales force," states Ludwig Hantson, Ph.D., president of Baxter's bioscience business.
Rigosertib targets the PI3K and PLK pathways critical to cancer cell growth. Initial results from the Phase III trial in 270 MDS patients who have relapsed or failed to respond to current therapeutic options are expected in the second half of 2013. An oral formulation of rigosertib is separately being evaluated in a Phase II trial in transfusion-dependent low or intermediate-1 risk MDS patients.
Onconova is developing drugs for the treatment of cancer and radiation injury. The firm's clinical pipeline includes ON 013105, a targeted therapeutic in Phase I development against mantle cell lymphoma. Phase I trials have also been undertaken with Ex-RAD, biodefense candidate designed to protect against ionizing demonstration. Ex-RAD isn't a free radical scavenger, chelator, or cell cycle arrestor, Onconova claims, but exhibits a novel mechanism of action that involves boosting cellular DNA repair pathways and key elements of the DNA damage cascade in response to radiation. The candidate is being developed both for prophylactic and therapeutic use.
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This year, more than 80 organizations will participate in the fundraiser, and 32 of them are related to arts and culture.
Among those nonprofits are Arts-Kids, The Egyptian Theatre and Mountain Town Music.
Arts-Kids is a free, after-school youth development program held in Park City and Summit County-area schools, said Executive Director Pat Drewry Sanger.
"The program targets children with unique economic and social pressures, but also children who love art," she said. "The program involves eight-week sessions in all the elementary and middle schools in Summit County and at Park City High School. We go to different schools throughout the week and hold these sessions."
Arts-Kids participated in the Live PC Give PC fund drive last year and raised close to $2,000.
"That put us in the middle of the pack, which pleased me, because a lot of people don't really think about us when they donate to nonprofit organizations," Sanger said.
What helped boost the donations, was the list that was found at the Live PC Give PC website (livepcgivepc.razoo.com).
"Last year, many people saw the list of nonprofit organizations and saw us and donated to us for the first time," Sanger said.
Sanger and some volunteers teamed up with the Youth Winter Sports Alliance, another nonprofit, and held an event at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse.
"We took our laptops and art supplies and then went to the Park City Film Series later and did the same thing," Sanger said. "While we didn't have many people use our computers to donate, they got to know us by using our art supplies."
This year, Arts-Kids is collaborating again with the Youth Winter Sports Alliance and Habitat for Humanity of Summit and Wasatch Counties for another activity at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse.
"We'll take some art supplies and hard hats and stuff that will represent the Youth Winter Sports Alliance to get some attention," Sanger said. "We're hoping to get a crowd to support Live PC Give PC, because we need to deepen our donor base."
For more information about Arts-Kids, visit www.arts-kids.org .
The Egyptian Theatre
Another nonprofit that is returning to the Live PC Give PC fund drive is the Egyptian Theatre.
Its mission is to be a community-gathering place that will program live entertainment on the stage as often as possible.
Manager Randy Barton said he likes the idea of having a day set aside for the community to give to these organizations.
"The Park City Foundation is an incredible contributor to the community in their role of and umbrella entity that generates funds for nonprofits, and this is a great way to highlight how valuable nonprofit entities are in Park City," Barton said. "It gets the whole community thinking how important it is to support these organizations.
"Also, they have given people a way to see how many hard-working nonprofits are in Park City," he said.
Nonprofits are very different than businesses, because they are kept alive through donations and support, Barton said.
The benefit of Live PC Give PC is the option for donors to give a little to many organizations or give a lot to one.
"I like that it allows people to donate in small and large amounts, because those small amounts do add up," he said.
This year, Barton and some of his staff will stand outside the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., to solicit donations.
"Because we have an event that day we will be hosting the Winter Sports School graduation, we won't be able to invite the public into the theatre," Barton said. "However, some of our staff out and about at other locations spreading the word.
"It's not like we're all going to be sitting at our computers waiting for people to donate," he said. "We're going to be out there among the people in the community talking to them and connecting with them. In fact, all the nonprofits are doing their part to participate in the fundraiser."
For more information about the Egyptian Theatre, visit www.parkcityshows.com.
Mountain Town Music
Brian Richards, the director of Mountain Town Music, which provides free live concerts throughout the county during the summer, said the live-music pub crawl he scheduled for the evening of Nov. 16, is not just a Mountain Town Music event.
"We teamed up with musicians from the Local Musicians Network of Park City (LMNOP) to raise awareness and raise funds for many of the other nonprofit organizations here in Park City," Richards said. "It's more like a Live PC Give PC evening, that happens to feature live music."
Richards wants people to know that the crawl will give different nonprofits the opportunity to make their own presentations between music sets.
"That way people can come out and support their favorite organizations throughout the evening," he said.
The crawl will begin at 7 p.m. at the Spur Bar & Grill, 352 Main St. with music by Jack and Karri Walzer from the local band Lash Larue.
"They will be joined by some of their friends," Richards said. "The cool thing about this is that there will be a number of musicians who will perform at the different stops, and each set will last between 45 minutes to an hour."
From the Spur, the crawl will proceed to Downstairs at 625 Main St., where the audience will hear Junior Richard from Junior & the Transportation play with some of his friends from 8 p.m. until 8:45 p.m.
"Then we'll head to Lindzee O'Michaels (825 Main St.), which will be set up for Pete Ruud & His Soulmates," Richards said.
The crawl will end up at High West Distillery, 703 Park Ave., at 10 p.m. for a jam session that will run until midnight.
The session will include musicians from LMNOP and other local bands and artists, Richards said.
"We'll hopefully have representatives from other nonprofits get up and speak and we'll have our smartphones on hand so people can make donations along the way," he said.
The idea for the pub crawl is to get the community physically involved with Live PC Give PC, Richards said.
"Last year, a lot of people made donations at home from their computers, but this year, we're hoping that people will come out to the event, celebrate the nonprofits and support them," he said. "There are so many nonprofit organizations that make Park City such a fun, hip place to live. It's enjoyable knowing that we can celebrate them on one day.
"While we, as organizations, are constantly competing against each other for the same donors, it's nice to be able to have a day where donors can choose to support one of us or five or six of us," he said. "It's a day of solidarity and we're celebrating Park City together as nonprofits and the community."
For more information about Mountain Town Music, visit www.mountaintownmusic.org.
The Park City Foundation's Live PC Give PC fund drive, a 24-hour event that will raise money for Park City area nonprofits, will take place on Friday, Nov. 16. For more information, visit livepcgivepc.razoo.com.