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The Minnesota Accountable Health Model
Minnesota has received a $45 million grant to provide better care at a lower cost from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as part of the State Innovation Model Initiative (SIM).
Minnesota will use the funds to drive health care reform in the state and to test the Minnesota Accountable Health Model. The goal of this model is to ensure that every citizen of the state of Minnesota has the option to receive team-based, coordinated, patient-centered care that increases and facilitates access to medical care, behavioral health care, long term care, and other services.
The model will expand Minnesota's current Medicaid Accountable Care Organization demonstration and include 15 accountable communities for health. These communities will develop and test models for integrating care across the health care system.
By 2016, nearly 3 million Minnesotans are expected to receive care through the model. The model is projected to save $111 million over three years and lay the foundation for additional savings in years to come.
This is a joint project between the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Department of Human Services. The project will include advisory groups, such as the State Innovation Model Community Advisory Council.
Visit SIM Minnesota to learn more.
Better Health Care, Lower Costs
On October 31st, 2011, Governor Mark Dayton signed executive order 11-30, establishing a Vision for Health Care Reform in Minnesota. The order charges the Minnesota Health Care Reform Task Force, along with members of the Governor's Cabinet, to develop an action plan for reforming how we deliver and pay for health care in Minnesota.
Governor Dayton has appointed leaders from business, labor, foundations, the public sector, and Minnesota's health care organizations to the Health Care Reform Task Force. A list of task force members is available here.
The Minnesota Health Care Reform Task Force is charged by Governor Dayton to develop strategies that:
• Improve access to health care for all Minnesotans
• Lower health care costs by reforming how we pay for health care and changing the incentives, so we encourage preventative care and reward healthy outcomes, not sickness.
• Improve the health of all Minnesotans and address the huge health disparities that plague our state.
On December 13th, 2012, the Minnesota Health Care Reform Task Force voted to endorse the Roadmap to a Healthier Minnesota , including its recommendations for how to increase access to high-quality car at lower cost. The report outlines eight strategies for policymakers to consider as they work to implement federal and state health reforms, including recommendations regarding increased access, care integration and payment reform, prevention and public health, and preparing the Minnesota health workforce of the future. The Roadmap and Supplement are available at these links.
In addition, the Department of Commerce announced the formation of a Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Advisory Task Force focused on establishing a Minnesota made Health Insurance Exchange. The members of that Task Force is available here.
Timeline of Health Reform
- May 2008: Minnesota Health Care Reform Bill Signed Into Law
The law aims to improve the health care of Minnesotans, making services more accessible and affordable. It focuses on new approaches to primary care, reducing the burden of chronic disease, and establishing community standards for quality measures across the state.
- August 2009: Minnesota Awards Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP) Grants
SHIP is a $47 million, two-year, community-level grant project aimed at reducing the burden of chronic disease associated with obesity and tobacco use. The Minnesota Department of Health awards grants to all 87 counties and eight tribal governments. Focus areas include:
• Increase affordability and access to healthy foods in communities and schools.
• Create and enforce tobacco-free policies in post-secondary institutions and worksites
• Increase capacity for walking and biking – for transportation and recreation
• Implement comprehensive worksite wellness initiatives
• Work with providers to refer patients to community resources for the prevention of chronic disease.
- January 2010 - December 2010: Rebates begin for Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Gap
Minnesotans who have fallen into the Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage gap, also known as the "donut hole" receive a one-time, tax-fee $250 rebate check to help cover the cost of their prescriptions. 66,746 Minnesotans received the $250 rebate check in 2010.
- March 23, 2010: Affordable Care Act Becomes Law
On March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became Law. Some of the pieces are in effect now, and others will go into effect through 2018.
- March 2010: Minnesota Announces Health Care Home (HCH) Payment Rates
The Minnesota Department of Human Services announces its HCH care coordination rates – ranging from $10 to $60 per enrollee per month, depending on the complexity of the patient's illness profile. Read more about the payment methodology.
- June 2010: Coverage for People with Preexisting Conditions
Minnesotans who have been denied coverage and who have been uninsured for at least 6 months can qualify for a Preexisting Condition Insurance Plan. This is in addition to Minnesota's own Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association Plan (MCHA).
- June 21, 2010 - January 1, 2014: Early Retiree Coverage
A new fund for early retirees ages 55-65 will provide financial help for their employer-sponsored coverage plan to continue.
- August 2010: Minnesota Announces First Certified Health Care Homes
The Minnesota Department of Health certifies the first 11 health care homes in the state, located in both urban and rural areas and ranging for single-physician to large systems clinics.
- September 23, 2010: Young Adults Covered
If a young adult does not have health coverage from their employer, they can stay on their parents plan until they turn 26. Minnesota law requires some state-regulated health plans that offer dependant coverage to cover unmarried children up to age 25, regardless of whether the child works for an employer that offers health insurance.
- September 23, 2010: Preventive Services
If you are enrolled in employer health coverage or a health insurance plan that was created after March 23, 2010, you can now receive certain preventive services at no cost to you. If you are covered by a Minnesota health plan, state law already requires coverage of many preventive services at no cost to you. Starting in 2014, all health insurance plans will be required to cover the full cost of preventive services.
- September 23, 2010: No Lifetime Limits on Coverage
Insurance plans can no longer place a dollar limit on the health benefits they cover during your lifetime.
- September 23, 2010: Annual Limits on Coverage Begin to Phase Out
Employer health insurance plans and individual plans issued after March 23, 2010 will gradually increase the dollar limits they place on how much care is covered in a year. In 2014, there will be no annual limits on coverage.
- September 23, 2010: No Denials for Kids with Preexisting Conditions
Insurance plans can no longer deny coverage for children under 19 who have preexisting conditions.
- September 23, 2010: Plans Cannot Revoke Coverage
Insurance plans cannot deny coverage, except in the case of fraud, because an application was filled out incorrectly or contains a technical error.
- September 23, 2010: Appealing Insurance Decisions
Minnesotans can appeal coverage decisions or claims to their insurance provider and have access to an external review process.
- October 2010: Community-based Services Through Medicaid
Minnesota expands access to community-based services to residents. Waivers for community based care programs are available for elderly, people with severe brain injuries, chronically ill people, disabled Minnesotans, and people with developmental disabilities. Minnesota also supports increased use of community-based programs through Medicaid.
- November 2010: Minnesota Releases first Health Care Quality Report
The Minnesota Department of Health issues its first report on health care quality for diabetes care and vascular care based on 2009 data.
- 2010: Improving Access to Primary Care
New incentives expand the number of primary care doctors and nurses, and include financial incentives (i.e. loan forgiveness, funding for scholarships) primary care providers working in underserved areas.
- January 2011: Minnesota Announces Health Care Homes Outcome Measures
The Minnesota Department of Health announces the quality measures that will be used to certify health care homes. Clinics and clinicians participating as certified health care homes begin submitting information on the quality of asthma and vascular care, health care costs, and patient experience.
- January 2011: Discounts for Rxs in the Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Gap
Minnesotans in the Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage gap, also known as the "donut hole," receive a 50 percent discount on covered, brand-name prescription drugs and a 7 percent discount on generic prescription drugs. Savings on brand-name and generic drugs will continue over the next 10 years until the coverage gap is closed in 2020.
- January 2011: Medicare Preventive Services
Minnesotans on Medicare receive certain preventive and screening services, such as mammograms and colonoscopies, at no cost to them. Those new to Medicare can receive a "Welcome to Medicare" exam within the first 12 months of enrolling. All Medicare enrollees can receive an annual wellness visit with a health care professional 12 months after their "Welcome to Medicare" exam.
- January 2011: Lowering Health Insurance Premiums
Insurers are required to spend 85 cents of every premium dollar received from large employer plans on health care services and health care quality improvements. They are required to spend 80 cents of every premium dollar received from individual plans and small employer plans on health care services and quality improvements.
- January 2011: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
The new Center will work with states to deliver innovative care to patients to improve the quality of care and reduce costs for Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
- January 2011: Community Care Transitions Program
For Medicare enrollees who have been hospitalized, the new program will help coordinate care and connect patients with services to avoid unnecessary hospital readmissions.
- January 2011 - December 2015: Medicare Bonus Payments to Health Care Professionals
Primary care physicians will receive a 10 percent bonus payment for office visits with Medicare enrollees. In addition, general surgeons practicing in underserved areas also receive a 10 percent bonus payment.
- January 2011: Premium Increase for Higher-Income Medicare Part D Enrollees
Medicare Part D enrollees who earn more than $85,000 a year and couples who earn more than $170,000 a year will pay a higher premium for their Medicare Part D coverage.
- January 2011: Changes to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
FSAs no longer reimburse for over-the-counter medicine that isn't prescribed by a health care professional.
- March 1, 2011: Expansion of Medical Assistance
Minnesota adults with incomes up to 75% of the federal poverty level and without children are eligible for Medical Assistance.
- March 23, 2011: Nutritional Labeling for Restaurants
Chain restaurants must include nutritional content for standard menu items. This change also applies to food sold in vending machines.
- January 2012: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
Health care professionals can join together to form an Accountable Care Organization through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to help coordinate and improve patient care and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions. Health care professionals can share in cost savings if they meet certain quality standards.
- March 23, 2012: Date Collection for Health Disparities
Current and new federal health programs are required to collect and report data on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, disability status and underserved geographic populations to help understand and fight health disparities.
- September, 2012: State Innovation Model Proposal
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (the CMS Innovation Center) has made funding opportunities available to support states to transform their health care payment and delivery systems. The following documents have been utilized in the statewide planning activities related to preparing Minnesota's proposal.
Summary of the August 7th meeting discussion
List of attendees from August 7th
Stratis Health Rural Accountable Care Community Logic model
Safety Net Coalition presentation
MN Association of County Health Plans presentation
CMMI Grant Application Charter (PDF)
- October 2012: Electronic Health Records
Insurance plans must establish rules for secure and confidential electronic health records to help improve coordination and to reduce paperwork and administrative costs.
- October 2012: Value Based Purchasing Program (VBP)
Financial incentives are offered to hospitals that improve the quality of care. Performance is required to be publicly reported on a number of measures, including surgical care, patient's perception of care, and heart attacks.
- 2012: Medicare and Medicaid Home Based Care
Those enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid who are receiving home and community based care have reduced Medicare Part D cost sharing that is equal to those enrollees who live in a skilled nursing facility or Intermediate Care Facilities.
- January 2013 - December 2014: Primary Care Doctors Payments
Minnesota is required to pay primary care physicians performing Medicaid services no less than 100 percent of Medicare payment rates in 2013 and 2014, through the use of federal funds.
- January 2013: Medicaid Preventive Health Coverage
New funding is available for state Medicaid programs to provide preventive services for Minnesotans at little or no cost.
- April 2013: Financial Disclosure
Health groups, such as doctors, hospitals, pharmacists, manufacturers of medicine and medical devices, must disclose financial relationships with one another.
- July 2013: Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program
The Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program will create nonprofit, member-run health coverage plans.
- Fiscal Year 2013: (October 2012 - September 2013): Extension of CHIP
States will receive funding for two more years to continue covering children who are not eligible for Medicaid through the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
- January 2014: Individual Requirement to Have Health Insurance
Uninsured Minnesotans are required to purchase basic health insurance. Minnesotans who would spend more than 8 percent of their monthly income on health insurance are not required to purchase coverage.
- January 2014: Health Insurance Exchange
An Exchange would allow uninsured residents, people with individual coverage and small businesses to compare and shop for affordable health insurance plans. Plans offered an Exchange would have to meet basic benefit and cost standards. Eligible Minnesotans and families could be enrolled in Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare through an Exchange.
- January 2014: Medicaid Expansion
Minnesotans who earn less than 133 percent of the FPL ($14,484 in 2011) will be eligible for Medicaid.
- January 2014: Tax Credits and Cost-Sharing Subsidies
Minnesotans and families earning between 133 and 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) will be eligible for a tax credit to help pay for health coverage through an Exchange. Minnesotans and families who earn up to 250 percent of FPL—about $27,225 for an individual and $55,875 for a family of four in 2011—will also be eligible for cost-sharing subsidies on plans offered through the Exchange in 2014.
- January 2014: No Annual Limits
Insurance companies can no longer place dollar limits on the amount of care that is covered in a year.
- January 2014: No Denying Coverage for Preexisting Conditions
Insurance plans can no longer deny coverage or charge higher rates because of a preexisting condition.
- January 2014: Employer Requirements
Large companies face a penalty if they do not offer health insurance to full-time employees or if their employees receive tax credits to purchase a plan in an Exchange because the employer plan is unaffordable.
- January 2014: Wellness Programs
Companies can offer employees additional financial benefits for participating in wellness programs.
- January 2014: Medicare Advantage Requirements
Instead of money being spent on administrative costs, Medicare Advantage plans are required to spend 85 cents of every dollar on health care for patients.
- January 2014: No Health Condition Requirements
In Minnesota, health plans cannot require an applicant to complete a health questionnaire or deny them coverage because of their health condition.
- January 2014: Under 30 Coverage Plans
Minnesotans under age 30 can purchase a comprehensive coverage plan or a catastrophic plan designed just for their age group.
- January 2014: Hospital Care
Low-income, uninsured Minnesotans who need hospital care can be presumed eligible for Medicaid (Medical Assistance) if approved by hospital staff. Currently, hospital staff may only help who complete an application for coverage.
- January 2014: Plans Must Accept All Applications
Health plans must accept every employer and every individual that applies for coverage, although they may create special enrollment periods.
- January 2016: Insurance Across State Lines
Qualified health plans may be purchased across state lines through agreements between states.


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For people who haven't spent much time with the music of Diana Krall–and I am among them–the piano-playing jazz chanteuse seems like a rather adult, mellow musical confection designed primarily for easy-listening audiences rather than serious music geeks.
The Canadian songstress's show at Red Butte Garden Wednesday night proved that notion wrong on several counts. For one, rather than sticking to poppy standards, Krall led her band through serious jazz instrumental excursions throughout the show, starting with the very first song. For another, Krall interspersed songs by the likes of Tom Waits and Bob Dylan among her tributes to long-time Krall fave Irving Berlin, inspiration for her 1996 tribute album, All For You.
And rather than coming off as a slick pop songstress merely dressing up her pop songs in the accoutrements of jazz, Krall appeared a little unhinged at times. She wore sunglasses throughout the show, and her between-song banter was pleasingly off-the-cuff and odd.
When one audience member screamed "I love you!" early in the show, Krall responded quickly, "Thank you! I'm very difficult. Should we just do some group therapy for a while?" She followed that up by saying, "It's nice to play a place where you don't hear the bottles rolling down the aisles."
Leading a small group that included a bassist, guitarist and drummer–all ace players–Krall would settle down when she was playing music, whether crooning a tune in that husky voice that makes even the darkest of ballads go down smooth, or picking at her piano keys with underappreciated skill.
There were several highlights during the show, starting with "So Nice" early in the show. The Tom Waits songs were great surprises; "Clap Hands" was a brilliant version, nestled between Irving Berlin tunes. And Krall's version of "Jockey Full of Bourbon" was excellent as well.
Toward show's end, Krall's band sat to the side while she delivered a solo, piano-driven take of Bob Dylan's "Simple Twist of Fate," and it was around that time I found myself fully engaged with Krall's show for the first time. The somewhat off-kilter stage presence and long jams gave way to an artist simply singing and playing what must be one of her favorite songs.
It was a stirring performance, and a credit to both the performer and the songwriter.
Dan Nailen has written about music, arts and culture in and around Salt Lake City for Salt Lake magazine, The Salt Lake Tribune and Salt Lake City Weekly since 1998. He's currently a contributor to saltlakemagazine.com, and you can find more of his work at SLCene.com.

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Most people, if they're familiar with Sjögren's syndrome at all, think of it as a disease that makes the mouth dry and the eyes gritty. That's true, but it can affect the skin, mucous membranes, circulatory and nervous systems, as well as the heart, liver and kidneys. Here's a look at what Sjögren's can do to you – and what you can do to fight back.
Dry mouth can be more than uncomfortable. Without the protection saliva offers, you may experience tooth decay, mouth pain, oral infections and difficulty swallowing.
Treatment: Many people get the relief they need from artificial saliva products, which are available over the counter under various trade names including Glandosane, MoiStir, MouthKote, Optimoist, Oralube, Salivart and Xero-Lube, says Robert I. Fox, MD, a leading Sjögren's expert and practicing rheumatologist at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Calif.
Also helpful are toothpastes and mouth rinses developed specially for dry mouth. These include:
- Biotene Dry Mouth Toothpaste and Biotene Mouthwash with Calcium
- CloSYS Toothpaste (formerly Retardent) and CloSYS Oral Rinse (formerly RetarDEX Oral Rinse)
- Orajel Dry Mouth Moisturizing Toothpaste
- If replacing moisture doesn't relieve dryness, your doctor may prescribe a medication to stimulate your own salivary glands to produce more saliva. Two such drugs, pilocarpine (Salagen) and cevimeline (Evoxac), are approved for dry mouth associated with Sjögren's syndrome.
Tips for relieving a dry mouth.
- Keep a water bottle with you and sip throughout the day.
- Suck on sugar-free candy or lozenges or chew sugar-free gum.
- If possible, avoid using drugs such as antihistamines and antidepressants that cause dryness.
- Avoid mouthwashes with alcohol which can worsen dryness.
For an inexpensive option to oral lubricants that is available in almost any pharmacy or discount store, Dr. Fox recommends vaginal lubricants. Although they aren't marketed for oral use, the FDA requires safety testing for vaginal lubricants and the risk of side effects is small, he says.
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Treatment: If you suffer from dry eyes, artificial tears may help restore moisture. Many are available over the counter under trade names including Artificial Tears, Bion Tears, Gonak, Isopto Tears, Lacril, Nature's Tears, Ocucoat Refresh and Systane. If dryness is still a problem, your doctor may prescribe the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine in the form of an eye drop (Restasis) to be applied every 12 hours or a cellulose pellet (Lacrisert) that is placed in the lower eye lid where it dissolves, adding moisture, when artificial tears are used.


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Located in El Peten, Tikal is the crown jewel of Mayan ruins in Guatemala. Though it has many of the same beautiful temples as its well-known counterparts in Mexico, Tikal stands apart because of its ... Read more
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The Metropolitan Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Guatemala City, is the main church of Guatemala City. Located in the heart of town, the main portion of it was built between 1782 and 1815. ... Read more
Lake Atitlan
Considered to be one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, Lake Atitlán, located in the Guatemalan Highlands, is the deepest lake in Central America and surrounded by three volcanoes. ... Read more
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Constitution Plaza
Located in the Centro Historico (Zona 1) district of Guatemala City, the Plaza de la Constitución, or Constitution Plaza, is considered the best place to kick off a tour of Guatemala City. ... Read more
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A beautiful neoclassical church, Santo Domingo rose to fame because the Virgen del Rosario was dedicated here and crowned as the queen of Guatemala in 1933. The church took nearly two decades to ... Read more
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Considered to be one of the best zoos in Central America, La Aurora opened in 1924. This small zoo offers four permanent exhibits: Africa, Asia, Granita and American. Not only does this zoo give ... Read more
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Whenever I mention certain cousins, I have to put air quotes around the word so my husband knows which ones I mean. No air quotes means they're the ones I'm related to through blood. Air quotes, and I'm referring to the ones whose family used to own mine. They are my cousins through slavery.
In 1858, when a wealthy Louisiana cotton broker named Colonel W.R. Stuart married Elizabeth McCauley, who came from a long line of North Carolina plantation owners, her family gave the couple a slave named Tempy Burton as a wedding gift. Elizabeth was sickly, unable to have children. But Tempy could and did have several with her new master, the colonel. Their youngest child, Josephine, was my great-grandmother.
I stumbled onto this tangled legacy back in 1981, when I was 12, by asking my fair-skinned paternal grandfather, Martin Ford, if he was white. In his liquid Louisiana drawl, he said he wasn't and told me the story of his grandparents, the colonel and Tempy, and his mother, Josephine. I filed this history away for decades until my daughter one day declared that she was white, like her father (who is of Irish-Finnish ancestry), and not at all black like me.
My daughter has butterscotch skin; I'm cocoa colored, like my mom, my dad's mom and Tempy. I wanted my daughter, then five, to embrace all her roots, but at almost 40, I wasn't sure I had ever done that myself. Perhaps learning more about Josephine, my mixed-race great-grandmother, would help my daughter identify with my side as well as her father's. So I set out to unearth the story of my own interracial, Confederate-era kin.
As Zora Neale Hurston put it in Their Eyes Were Watching God, "Us colored folk is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways." Investigating my family's branches uncovered enough history to fill a dozen binders; they now line my office shelves, filled with everything from newspaper editorials by Josephine—in eloquent prose, she laid out the dangers of being too prideful—to her great-grandfather's ruminations on the Revolutionary War as he headed off to battle. And it led me to my living history, which included new friends like Monique, my third cousin once removed, who is also descended from Tempy and the colonel. Like me, Monique lives in New Jersey; like me, she is a black woman married to a white man and raising two biracial girls. I was happy to meet her—what I'd never bargained for was also meeting descendants of the people who had enslaved Tempy. But it happened. And what brought us together was a 120-year-old photograph of our ancestors, black and white.
Tempy is in the center of the picture. Elizabeth and the colonel are sitting behind her. On either side of Tempy are two mixed-race-looking girls, probably her daughters with the colonel. The one on the left, curly haired and creamy skinned like my daughters, might even be my great-grandmother, Josephine. Ever since I found this photo on a genealogy website on my 38th birthday, it has become like a brand on me, a searing reminder of the people, and the pain, from which I came. The photograph is now the screen saver on my computer, the face of a homemade clock in my office, the sticker attached to a jar full of sand taken from the beach of my ancestral home, Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Tempy's expression is haunting, as if she's trying to solve a puzzle. The puzzle I need to solve: Why would she pose for what amounted to a family portrait, a good 25 years after slavery ended, with people who stole her freedom?
"I've always wondered whether those two girls were children of Colonel Stuart and Tempy Burton," wrote Joel Brink, an art historian from New Mexico, in his first e-mail to me. Joel's wife, Joan, is a descendant of Elizabeth's maternal grandparents, Hill and Judith Jones, the first people we know of to have enslaved Tempy (she came into the family when Elizabeth was a child and probably helped raise her; her previous life remains a mystery). Joel found the picture the same way I did, on the Internet, and reproduced it in a book about his wife's lineage. I didn't consider our complicated connection when I contacted Joel. I just hoped his book might provide new clues about Tempy. In establishing contact with him, I gained a passionate travel companion on my quest to reclaim my ancestors—not exactly a family member, but someone the genealogy community would term a "good as cousin," meaning a person linked through history but not necessarily through blood.
Soon after we got to know each other online, my good as cousin sent me photos of portraits of the colonel and Elizabeth, which were painted by G.P.A. Healy, a renowned artist of the time. (Healy's painting of Abraham Lincoln hangs in the White House.) Joel also sent me both a will in which Tempy was bequeathed as property to an heir and an appraisal of her cash value—a bone-chilling document that listed "Tempy a woman & child, year old" for $1,600. The child was Josephine's big brother (and Monique's ancestor), Alfred. Monique and I helped my good as cousin, too, sending Joel obituaries we'd found about Elizabeth's family. Together we were reclaiming our kin. Then he found the thing I most wanted: my great-grandmother Josephine's funeral notice.
All Grandpa had ever told me about his mom was her name, Josephine, which he passed on to my dad, Joseph. Other than that, we knew nothing about her. But information in the funeral notice enabled me to obtain Josephine's death certificate, which told me how she'd died (from tuberculosis) and in what year (1922). It also contained a rare thing for African Americans with slavery in their family history: documentation of her white parentage. The certificate listed the colonel as Josephine's father. Thanks to my good as cousin, I had now resolved the greatest mystery of my family's past and uncovered a piece of myself in the process. So when Joel said he was coming to visit his brother, who lived only 20 minutes from Monique, I knew we had to meet.
It was a misty spring afternoon; when Monique and I arrived, Joel was standing at the top of his brother's long driveway, his white hair pulled back in a ponytail and his arms spread wide to greet us. No sooner had we hugged like lost family reunited than my good as cousin got down to ancestry business: Had we heard the rumor that one of Tempy's sons had been lynched?
"I didn't know if I should tell you before lunch," he said as we drove toward a restaurant in town.
It felt as if someone had sunk a hook into my chest and was pulling on it. At the quaint country inn, I stuffed my face with crab cakes and tried to distract myself by guessing what tangled family histories might connect the other diners there to one another. Still, I couldn't help thinking about the son Tempy had lost so violently and the improbability that she had ever sat down at a table while someone served her food the way I was being served. I'd read how some people went to lynchings as if they were the circus, gathering their children, packing a picnic lunch and heading off to see the spectacle. Thinking about it, I could barely speak, but Joel kept the conversation going. We heard how he'd met his wife while they were both in college, how they had lived in Italy while he earned his master's degree, how his children are artists like their mom. Monique had Italian connections, too. Her white maternal grandmother had immigrated to America from Bari.
Then my good as cousin turned the subject to land, asking if I had ever turned up the colonel's will.
Just a few weeks before, I'd called the Ocean Springs probate office for that very thing. The kind woman on the phone tried to find it, even though she wasn't supposed to, but no luck.
Maybe it was this talk of wills that caused Joel to mention one of his wife's ancestors, William Hill Howcott. Will was a cousin of Elizabeth, the colonel's childless widow. As Joel notes in his book, Will acquired land from Elizabeth in 1913 and was named executor of her estate when she died in 1925.
I quietly simmered. Could this be property that had once belonged to the colonel? Without access to his will, I would never know. But this discussion of his estate reminded me that I'd never found evidence that any of his land had passed down to Tempy and her children. And that didn't seem right.
It was time to go. But before saying good-bye, Joel gave me a gift: an antique silver child's cup that had belonged to Elizabeth's sister. "We want to pass this on to you as a family memento. It is to remind us of the connection that once existed and that has been renewed," his wife had written to me on a card she'd made by hand.
The cup fit perfectly in my palm; I balanced it there, trying to imagine Tempy holding it. I could see her face in its shiny surface, stoic and calm. In relief on the front of the cup was a child's face surrounded by flowers. It reminded me of the silver cup a wealthy client of my husband's had given us when our first daughter was born.
Kissing the cup on the side where there was no decoration, I silently thanked Tempy for being so strong, for carrying on and courageously bringing children into a world that refused to promise them even basic humanity. I knew this gift of an heirloom was well intended, a symbol of long history between us. But it felt like a burden.
I didn't want to have to thank Joel and his wife for something my great-great-grandmother may have polished while living in unpaid bondage to their family. I didn't want to comb through any more of their family's wills and deeds, documents in which Tempy was passed down through the generations along with cattle and farm equipment. It seemed a double indignity to have to be so intimately connected to them in the present to learn about my past.
My anger scared me. I feared that if I gave it an inch, it would open like a crater in my soul and swallow me whole. It's an emotion that I consider a luxury belonging to others—people, like my freckle-faced husband, who don't have to fear being stereotyped as an angry black person. I tried to meditate my fury away, outrun it on the elliptical machine. But the second I thought I had it licked, Joel would do something innocent like
e-mail a picture of his wife, her sister and their mom with the subject line your cousins, and I would go into a rage.
As uncomfortable as I felt, however, I didn't want to close the door on this journey. Still, I needed a road map for how to proceed—or at least a chance to hear from others in the same situation, such as the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Perhaps we could start a support group, another AA: Ancestry Anonymous.
It's two and a half years later now, and I've gotten an e-mail from my good as cousins inviting me to a family gathering. My feelings about them, the information they've shared and what I should do with it, have been as varied as the palette of skin tones in my family tree. In those first weeks after that lunch at the inn, I'd vacillated between two plans: hiring a lawyer to see if we had any claims on the colonel's estate and going back into therapy and forgetting all about this family-history business. Last night, when I saw Joel's name in my inbox, I just smiled.
I was wrong to think that the key to my identity lay solely in reclaiming my African ancestors. After all, to know Josephine, I had to learn not only about her black mother, Tempy—so full of faith that three ministers spoke at her funeral—but also about her white father, Colonel Stuart, a planter who was audacious in all his pursuits. In the 1980s, when Jesse Jackson declared that we should start calling ourselves African Americans, I clung to the term black. Africa was a huge continent with people as diverse as Egyptians and Ethiopians. It had been more than a century, maybe even several, since any of my relatives had actually lived there. African was my ancestry, but black was my experience. It had taken me so long to feel comfortable in my own skin and unashamed of my color that I wasn't going to let the word go, even if it was not PC. Now even black seems too small a container to hold me. These days I think of myself as a member of various African and Celtic tribes. In the same way, researching my ancestors has broadened my understanding of family. I define it now as not just the people with whom I share blood but also those with whom I share transformative experience.
Monique and I have been to the graveyard where our ancestors are buried. Tempy, the colonel, Elizabeth, Josephine and Alfred all rest in the same cemetery, the way families do. I've had lunch with Elizabeth's cousin twice removed while the colonel stared down at us from a portrait that hangs in her living room, and have spoken by phone with this woman's brother, who met Tempy when he was just a boy; I felt as if I'd reached out and touched my great-great-grandmother via his memories.
I've even found that new AA, the Ancestry Anonymous support group I longed for. It's called Coming to the Table. Started by the descendants of enslavers, including a relative of Thomas Jefferson's, it is dedicated to healing the wounds of slavery. When I was invited to speak at one of its events, one of my good as cousins, Renée Monrose, came to support me.
"Thank you for doing all of this research," she said. "It is something that we all need to face." We both wore, pinned to our shirts like badges, the photograph of our ancestors that had brought us together. That night, whenever anybody asked, I pointed to the picture over my heart and introduced Renée as my cousin.
My relationship with all of my good as cousins continues to evolve. Recently I met Joel's wife, Joan, for the first time. Now she and I have begun our own conversation about our complex connection.
There's nothing we can do about our mean and messy history, but there is something we can do about our legacy. We can acknowledge our past, be one another's present and live.
To see pictures of Dionne, her family and her good as cousins, plus portraits of the Stuarts, visit My Family Album: In Black and White.
Dionne Ford is at work on a memoir about her slave and master ancestors and her immediate interracial family. For more about her research, check out her blog, Finding Joesphine.
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Outfielder who has made the most of his limited opportunities ... one of the hardest-working players on the team ... a career .250 hitter with a .304 on-base percentage in 59 games (12 starts) over three seasons ... has three doubles, eight RBIs, 10 runs, six walks and four steals.
2015: ACC Academic Honor Roll member ... hit .118 with two runs, a .211 on-base percentage and two walks in 15 games (two starts, including one in left field and one in right field) ... hit a pinch-hit single at Virginia Tech on March 21 ... went 1-for-1 with a run and walk off the bench at Western Carolina on March 24 ... suffered a shoulder injury at Wofford on May 5 and missed the rest of the season.
2014: Hit .250 with five runs, one RBI, a .300 on-base percentage, two walks and two steals in 21 games (four starts in left field) ... hit a single off the bench against Maine on Feb. 22 ... hit a single off the bench against Maine on Feb. 23 ... went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run off the bench at Western Carolina on March 4 ... went 1-for-3 with a team-high two runs and two steals against Virginia Tech on March 7.
2013: Was 9-for-27 (.333) with three runs, three doubles, seven RBIs, a .367 on-base percentage, two walks and two steals in 23 games (six starts in left field) ... was 4-for-10 (.400) with two doubles, three RBIs, three runs, two walks and a .462 on-base percentage in his 17 games off the bench ... was 5-for-12 (.417) against lefthanders ... was 7-for-16 (.438) with runners on base ... hit a run-scoring double and scored a run against William & Mary on Feb. 17; it was his first career game ... hit a pinch-hit double and scored a run at Boston College on April 6 ... went 1-for-3 with a sacrifice bunt at Boston College on April 7; it was his first career start ... went 2-for-2 with an RBI off the bench against Western Carolina on April 24 ... stole a base and scored a run off the bench in the first game of a doubleheader at Furman on May 8 ... went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs against Georgia Southern on May 10 ... went 2-for-3 with two RBIs against No. 3 North Carolina in the ACC Tournament on May 24 ... played for Vermont in the New England Collegiate Baseball League in the summer, where he hit .198 with two doubles, nine RBIs, nine runs and seven steals in 37 games.
2012: Redshirted ... won the Dedication Award for outstanding work in the strength training room ... won the Omaha Challenge competition among fielders in the fall of 2011 ... played for Albany in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League in the summer, where he hit .226 with nine RBIs in 28 games.
Before Clemson: Selected to the Vermont North-South All-Star Game ... led his team in batting average (.528) as a senior ... named team MVP and won the team's Hustle Award as a senior ... lettered three times in baseball, three times in basketball and two times in football at Rutland High, where he was coached by Kevin Bellomo, who played under former Clemson head coach Jack Leggett at Western Carolina.
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DENVER - University of Idaho track and field athlete Eugenio Mannucci was honored on Friday as the recipient of the Western Athletic Conference's Stan Bates Award, which is given annually to the league's top male and female student-athlete.
"It means a lot to me," Mannucci said. "I feel like I've accomplished a lot in the last three years from an athletic point of view and in my studies."
Mannucci, who finished his career in 2011, was a five-time first-team all-WAC honoree, three-time WAC champion, two-time NCAA qualifier and a 2011 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Second-Team All-American in the shot put.
"It's an amazing accomplishment for him," Idaho Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Wayne Phipps said. "He's obviously had a lot of success athletically, but for him to overcome the language barrier and immediately adapt to an American university at the highest level is just an incredible achievement."
Coming from Viterbo, Italy, Mannucci struggled with the English language when he first arrived on campus in 2009. He overcame that barrier and quickly stood out in the academic arena, as well. He was a WAC All-Academic honoree in 2010 and 2011, a USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic honoree in 2010 and a Capital One Second-Team Academic All-District VIII honoree in 2011. He was also named Pre-Vet Senior of the Year for the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in 2011.
Mannucci graduated from Idaho in December 2010 with a 3.75 cumulative grade-point average in Animal and Veterinary Science, and will start veterinary school at Oregon State University in the Fall. He plans to focus his studies on high-performance equines.
"It's invaluable to have someone like Eugenio, who's not only a great athlete, but also gets it done academically," said Idaho Head Track and Field Coach Julie Taylor, who coaches the throwers. "He's showing the other kids that you can be successful both ways. I'll miss having someone like that, because he was a great leader on the team."
In addition to his academic and athletic achievements, the Vandal coaching staff also lauded his personal development during his senior season. He was voted a team captain in 2011 and became one of the team's emotional leaders. He also participated in the team's Pen Pal program with local elementary schools and helped coach at the team's free We Are Runners, Jumpers, Throwers kids camp.
"He was really excited about his performances, and also everyone else's, and I think a lot of people really fed off him at the indoor and outdoor conference meets," Phipps said. "For me, he was our most exciting field person to watch, because he was just exuding confidence and excitement in the shot put."
Mannucci is the sixth Vandal student-athlete to earn the award in the last six seasons, and the fifth from the track and field program. A University of Idaho student-athlete has been honored in five of the six years since the school joined the WAC for the 2005-06 season.
Mannucci joins fellow track and field athletes Allix Lee-Painter (2010), Jonathan Marler (2010), Melinda Ouwerkerk (2007) and Jason Giuffre (2006) and football player David Vobora (2008) as Vandal Stan Bates Award winners.
"It says a lot for our program, and it means a lot to us," Phipps said about the five track and field honorees. "We've been very fortunate to have such amazing student-athletes who have been able to perform at the very highest level on the track and in the classroom. That's what we strive for, and having our student-athletes continually rewarded at the highest level means a lot to our program."
New Mexico State softball player Kandis Jones was the women's honoree. The award, named for former WAC commissioner Stan Bates, is based on athletic, academic and community accomplishments, and is voted upon by the conference's athletic directors and senior woman administrators. It also carries a $2,000 postgraduate scholarship.


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This emollient plant oil mix could have been great for dry skin, but ends up being a mixed bag when all is said and done. First, there's the company's assertion that this product is "rich in the living energy of biodynamic and organic" ingredients; that's mumbo jumbo and has no relevance to taking great care of your skin. Keep in mind that once a plant oil is harvested, extracted, and prepared for use in a cosmetic, its "living energy" is gone. That doesn't mean the plant extract has lost all benefit, but its living energy is effectively cut off once it's uprooted or cut off. Although the blend of oils offers relief for dry skin, this product loses points by including problematic plant extracts and an unidentified essential oil fragrance blend, which add up to irritation your skin doesn't need. It also contains fragrance chemicals known to cause irritation. You'd be better off blending the non-fragrant oils in this product yourself; all of them are available at health food stores and, used alone or together, can be helpful for dry skin. Plus, they'd be far less expensive than this mixture.
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As someone who has highly reactive sensitive skin, I was attracted to Jurlique because it purported to be "all natural" and chemical free. I was excited about this s/b oil because it contains a lot of "good" oils for the skin. I have to say though, that it might be more of a placebo than anything else. On the plus side, it caused no negative reactions. On the con side, I don't think it's changed my skin for better or worse. It's not a life changer, but it also isn't an irritant.
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So irritating!
By Elizabeth B.
This was a nightmare for my skin. I bought it from Sephora.com based on the good reviews, but this is WAY too fragranced and loaded with all those irritating essential oils components. My face become so red and itchy while using this. I then tried using it just on the ends of my hair but then my scalp became unbearably itchy, and I got little bumps on the nape of my neck! I've never had such an awful reaction.
A lightweight moisturising face oil that helps soften, protect and nurture skin. Rich in the living energy of biodynamic and organic Chamomile, Calendula, Marshmallow and Rose, this oil soothes and balances skin. Avocado, Macadamia and Rose Hip oils guard against moisture loss, improve skin elasticity and leave it feeling smooth and supple.
Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Rosa Canina Fruit Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) Oil, Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract, Althaea Officinalis Root Extract, Rosa Gallica Flower Extract, Bellis Perennis (Daisy) Flower Extract, Echinacea Purpurea Extract, Viola Odorata Extract, Viola Tricolor Extract, Symphytum Officinale Leaf Extract, Daucus Carota Sativa (Carrot) Root Extract, Tocopherol, Retinyl Palmitate, Beta-Carotene, Fragrance (From Natural Essential Oil), Benzyl Alcohol, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Citral, Eugenol, Coumarin, Benzyl Salicylate, Geraniol, Linalool, Benzyl Benzoate, Citronellol, Hexylcinnamal, Limonene
Jurlique International At-A-Glance
Strengths: A handful of good moisturizers whose plant extracts have established benefit for skin; no jar packaging.
Weaknesses: Expensive; only one sunscreen, which does not list active ingredients and contains potent irritants; all of the toners contain alcohol; minimal to no preservatives means the water-based products have a reduced shelf life; irritating lip balm; no products to successfully address the needs of those with acne or blackheads; most of the facial mask formulas will leave skin confused.
Australian-bred Jurlique is supposed to be all about creating beauty from beauty, based on their view that life begets life and energy comes from energy. It's this New-Age-meets-back-to-basics school of thought that forms the core of Jurlique's claims for their expanded selection of products. The husband and wife founders claim to use a unique three-step extraction process said to capture the "life-force" of the plants they use, 95% of which are grown on their own farmland. Of course, if Jurlique's claims of preserving a plant's vital energy are true, it just makes many of the problematic ingredients they include in their products that much more irritating. What they don't mention is that although they can pay the utmost attention to farming in an eco-friendly manner that's in tune with nature's cycles, it doesn't change the fact that a plant's "life energy" is damaged the moment it is pulled, plucked, or cut from the soil that nurtures it. After all a dead plant is a dead plant, the same way in which any other living thing that has its source of life support cut off will die. And that's even before the plant material is processed to go into a product. We grant you that there are nutrients and antioxidants from which you can benefit, but the life energy is long gone by the time you get it on your face.
Along with all their talk of plant potency is the company's statement that they make the "purest" products on earth. (Well, there are a lot of other product lines out there making similar claims, and given that the exact formulas aren't available to the public, it's hard to know how to challenge this assertion.) Nonetheless, despite Jurlique's commitment to organic farming and specialized extraction techniques, which is praiseworthy, it doesn't excuse their overuse of natural ingredients that are nothing more than naturally irritating to skin.
We know that several of the plants in Jurlique products will attract those seeking natural ingredients, and indeed some of those ingredients have strong evidence of their potent antioxidant or anti-irritant properties (such as turmeric, grape, green tea, evening primrose oil, and rose hips oil). The flipside is that just as many of their ingredients also have a large amount of research showing that they are either skin irritants or are seriously problematic for skin. And despite their claims to the contrary, Jurlique products absolutely do contain fragrance. What do the owners of Jurlique think lavender oil and geranium oil are for? You can attribute any miracle to these ingredients you like, but they are skin irritants (largely due to their volatile fragrance chemicals), and there is no research showing them to have any balancing benefit for skin, regardless of the farming or extraction methods employed.
Furthermore, their formulas are astonishingly similar. Product after product contains the same oils and plant combinations, yet the claims and skin type recommendations vary widely. Many of the products are sold in tiny containers, so you may very well use them up in one or two weeks, before they have a chance to become contaminated; of course, that makes your yearly expenditure on skin care rather steep.
There is only one sunscreen in the line, and it contains synthetic sunscreen agents, rather than one of the two natural inorganic options, zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, which is surprising considering Jurlique's "natural" angle. Setting all that aside, if you are looking for natural, and you have a sizable budget to boot, Jurlique offers enough natural products to satisfy, but the options are extremely limited if you're at all concerned about preserving the health of your skin and not inducing an irritant response without a benefit (at least a proven benefit, as opposed to the folklore, alchemy-laden claims made for most Jurlique products).
For more information about Jurlique International, call (212) 752-1912 or visit www.jurlique.com.
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And Jeremy, I'm sure you'll have fun shoulder to shoulder amongst men who shouldn't be in tank tops and jean shorts hoisting their sweaty kids on their shoulders so you can't possibly see the hundreds of hot, sad horses clomping on black top through the streets of SLC. Now that is surely a fine way to celebrate Utah's glory in true Pio fashion.
Well, have fun guys. Me? I'm getting out of the predicted-96-degree-SLC-sweat-fest and heading up for a weekend in the mountains. Camping you presume? NO THANK YOU to the mad-dash-to-beat-the-traffic-and-construction-laden-I-15 and thenno-showers-for-the-weekend. I'm going to enjoy my 3 day weekend in style and civility and at a total discount deal.
I'm Snowbird bound my friends.
Here's the deal.
Snowbird is offering a Deals of 47 package that includes room, fun at your lodge or inn's pool, full day Activities Pass (unlimited use of the alpine slide, tram, bungee tramp, mechanical bull, Peruvian Chair, the new static ropes course, climbing station, and zip rider) and the package includes a Days of 47 breakfast! All of this for just $65 per person (based on double occupancy.) Now if you want to bring the kid (like we are) 6 and under are free in the room and a special all day activity pass is just $19.
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We took our Smudge and the nieces up last weekend and the activities pass for each adult is $36 and $22 per kid. So you could figure you're staying at Snowbird for just $58 per night for two (and don't forget that free breakfast!)
I'll be upgrading to the Cliff Lodge so I can be one of those people out by the pool that everyone riding the Alpine Slide looks over at and says, "Ohhhh, that looks so refreshing. Why am I on this damn slide instead of lounging at the pool?"
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And when the daytimer's bolt down the Canyon to once again be en masse blanket to blanket at Liberty Park's fireworks show (oops, don't mind that glob of oil there) I'll be enjoying the FREE Cool Air Concert Series with the band Fictionist and a cool glass of Sauvignon on the plaza. I might even be persuaded to buy a t-shirt. Take that tent campers!
Blue-eyed Universe from Fictionist on Vimeo.
Now if you don't want to go for the night but still have a hankering for a race down the alpine slide and a ride up the tram, here are some tips on how to score a deal on your all day activity pass:
1) Head to my home away from home: Costco. For just $89.99 you can get 4 adult all day activity passes. That comes out to $22 a head, essentially 2 of you go for free. A savings of: $56! **Bonus if you do the math: If you have just 2 adults and 2 kids or even 1 kid, Snowbird will downgrade two of the adult passes for the kids. You'll now be able to afford their $3 bottles of water.
2) Cruise into your local Holiday Oil where you can pick up $10 off the adult activity passes. Sorry, not valid in kids sizes. Still, you'll save $20 bones so you can get yourself a 12-er of Natty Light and some chips to help survive Liberty Park.
Catch you at the Bird.


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Published May 27, 2008 - (Updated Dec 5, 2012)
Featured in Vallarta Lifestyles Magazine, Winter/Spring 2008 issue.
So, you're bending the elbow a bit, practicing the gentle art of Margaritaville on the beach when you decide to get more creative. Once it's time to dig your toes out of the sand, where can you find something for the soul? Surprisingly, many locals artists offer classes, for advanced students or even beginners. Check out the possibilities and find one more reason to stay in Puerto Vallarta or to come here more often for longer periods. You're sure to discover another world when you participate in your own creative experience.
Roberto Bermejo
One of the original art teachers of Puerto Vallarta, in 1980 Roberto Bermejo joined Javier Niño and the late Daniel Inchaúrregui to offer classes on Isla Rio Cuale as part of a state-sponsored program, which lasted about five years. Today, Roberto offers classes with two different focuses: one on the basics and techniques of painting, the other on creativity. Noting that the local educational system offers little in the way of artistic encouragement, he views art classes as a necessary alternative.
Evelyne Boren
Thirty-five years ago, Evelyne Boren began showing her work downtown in Manuel Lepe's gallery. Numerous students continue to attend her regular classes or visit her open studio in Sayulita on Wednesdays. Her color theory is that it takes grays to accentuate the brights. While Evelyne believes in working with a limited palette, preferably three colors, she says, "If you know what your work is going to look like, you can create it. Visualization is the crucial step to get there."
Meg Munro
In what became life changing, Meg Munro chose to take the watercolor route to happiness after classes with Lucille Shipley, among others. She currently offers ongoing weekly classes for continuing artists, while her annual two-week series in February allows for new students and beginners. Four years of instruction exclusively in watercolors have brought Meg to the realization that most people need encouragement and a safe space to create. "I prefer to meet people where they are, offering respect for their inner voice."
Javier Niño
While not currently teaching, Javier Niño was Vallarta's first art teacher, truly instrumental in the lives and careers of many of the most successful artists in Puerto Vallarta and beyond. His early years were spent not only teaching on Isla Rio Cuale but also in organizing exhibitions with local artists both here and abroad. As he says today, "Now, people have such a broad range of choices for studying art locally, the alternatives are endless."
Cassandra Shaw
Taking a series of classes with Lucille Shipley led Cassandra Shaw to offer children's classes when Lucille decided that the kids were too much to handle. "I was terrified that the kids wouldn't paint again and would go on to some other Saturday activity." While Cassandra's focus is on fast-drying acrylics, she encourages the use of other materials, such as pastels or pencil crayons. Weekly classes every Saturday keep her busy all year, except for annual summer breaks.
Lucille Shipley
Lucille (Luley) Shipley came to Puerto Vallarta in 1977 with over two decades of training and background in the fine arts. With extensive experience in watercolor, ink drawings and pastels, she developed "sancrylics" as a new medium, combining sand with acrylics. When friends begged her to help them "learn" to paint, Lucille discovered that once they started they didn't want to leave. Two books have grown out of her student workshops: "Bartholomew" by the late Bernice Starr, who is honored by a salon in her name at Los Mangos Library, and "El Niño de Vallarta," written in Spanish by Guillermo Colin Sánchez, with illustrations by 12 of Lucille's child students of that time. And every year since her first local exhibit in 1988 when Oro Verde first opened downtown, Lucille opens her home for a student show.
While she believes in studying the masters, calling her early shows "Old Masters and New Ideas," her preferred media include oils and acrylics. Students are encouraged to express their own personal view of the work of an artist that attracts them. "When I see somebody improving, I get so excited. Sometimes I can't sleep thinking about it. I find I learn from everybody as I'm working. There are students who take as many workshops as they can, with as many teachers as they can find. You learn all the time. I learn while I'm teaching. It's the passion that comes with time when you really give attention to what you love to do."
Cherie Sibley
Believing that everyone has an innate artistic feeling and ability, Cherie Sibley co-founded a now-defunct art institute after studying with Lucille Shipley for a year and a half. Her art background and experience with people eventually moved Cherie to the front of the class, now with five years' experience as a teacher. Giving private and scheduled classes to a maximum of 12 to 14 students in her own studio, she is busy all year. "I was always a fine artist, with a BFA in sculpture. Teaching provides me the opportunity to bring adults back to their creativity." As people move to Puerto Vallarta to contemplate a more tranquil life, Cherie sees that they seek ways "to reconnect to that wonderful creative energy that flows through all of us. I've learned that you can say 'no,' and that it's quality, not quantity, that counts. Older adults realize they have choices and they are much more willing to get rid of the BS in their life." Her thrill in teaching is seeing that "light bulb go off in a student's mind." Trying to make the environment of creating art secure and non-judgmental, she believes that most often it's "confidence that holds everyone back. I try to make the materials and methods fun and easy to use, so that the student enjoys the experience." Best of all, Cherie acknowledges, "As a result of finding my passion for teaching, I have become a better artist. It has made me articulate my craft more clearly and advance my abilities as a painter extensively."
Peter Spataro
Florida resident Peter Spataro has been coming to Vallarta for years and has offered on-location painting classes since last year. His three- to five-day intensive courses are designed for those who are ready to focus on color. "They never see the world the same way again," he says. His training as a teacher in elementary school stands him in good stead, but it was his years teaching art in the Massachusetts Correctional system that changed his life.
Ireri Topete
Ireri Topete created the ongoing classes in painting at the Isla Rio Cuale over 15 years ago, after teaching a watercolor workshop as part of her community service for a scholarship that put her through art school in Guadalajara. "My dream is to form an institute in Puerto Vallarta offering serious art instruction from basics to intermediate to advanced levels." Her artistic passion is funneled through ongoing projects in La Malagua, the award-winning artist cooperative.
Bill White
After nearly three decades in the design business, a chance class Bill White took at the Seattle Academy of Fine Arts turned his life around. While he didn't turn his back on the design community immediately, a couple of trips to Puerto Vallarta "opened up the possibility of new life choices that led me to a decision to move here and begin teaching about three years ago." He teaches beginning classes with still life or advanced portrait classes.
While much more was discussed in the interviews with each of the above art teachers, this is by no means an exhaustive list but a representational one.
Classes at the Cuale Cultural Center (CCC) and More
Many of the classes offered at the CCC are in Spanish only. Visitors are encouraged to take the leap into instruction in Spanish to make it an entirely immersive experience. Not only will you never forget it, but you also will make new friends and perhaps find new ways to integrate into the local Mexican community.
Some of the offerings are:
- Introduction to painting
- Sculpture in clay
- Modeling in clay
- Printmaking and lithography
- Folk dance
- Theater
- Painting for children
- Dance for children
- Drawing for children
- Latin American musical instruments
- Piano
- Guitar
- Violin and cello
- Flute
For more information and a current schedule, contact the center at (322) 223-0095 or stop by their office in the theater building on the east side of the Isla Rio Cuale. If you don't see classes listed that you're interested in, don't hesitate to ask at the nearest art gallery. During the summer, Galería Córsica co-sponsors a month-long class by Maestro Agustín Castro López. Manuel Palos holds sculpture workshops at Casa Alexandra at least once a year. Cesar and Gaby Dominguez offer sculpture workshops through Claudia Lovera's Galería Mata Ortiz in the spring, as does José Luis García. Sandra Leonard opens her Hacienda Mosaico for jewelry and mosaic workshops regularly.


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Hi all, ive recently found out about lego mindstorms and the lejos api both of which are great . So ive decided to base my computer science final year project on them.
However my creativity = el zilcho, and im in need of some project ideas which involve lego mindstorms, lejos api and some AI capabilities.
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The Pirates returned to work Monday after completing the spring's first scrimmage Saturday.
April 2, 2012
GREENVILLE, N.C. - Two days after competing in their first intra-squad scrimmage of the spring, the East Carolina Pirates returned to work inside the Cliff Moore Complex and turned in a lively 110-minute practice in shorts, shoulder pads and helmets Monday afternoon.
Although third-year head coach Ruffin McNeill and his staff completed full game-tape evaluations earlier in the day, thoughts of the video content remained consistent with their initial observations Saturday at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
"To be honest, I thought it wasn't bad for two weeks of work," McNeill said after reviewing the abbreviated 54-play contest. "I was pleased with the execution, especially for a first scrimmage, and saw many guys who did the fundamental things really well. I'm also encouraged about the progress I saw in our installment process.
Monday's session was ECU's ninth of the spring period, leaving just six more sessions remaining, including a second Saturday morning scrimmage later this week and the playing of the Purple-Gold Game April 14.
Although conducted in shells with the absence of hard contact, the Pirates' period-by-period schedule didn't deviate from McNeill's established norm this spring. East Carolina spent its final hour engaged in five segments that covered special teams, seven-on-seven skeleton drills and an 11-on-11 team segment.
"I know I keep saying this, but the competitive spirit of this team really impresses me," McNeill said. "The 'no complain, no excuse' mentality has defined them to this point and that has allowed us, collectively, to remain focused and get a lot of work done.
"One of the objectives every spring is to develop depth at all positions and, offensively, we've been able to do that on the line and running back positions especially. It's also been very competitive up front and in the secondary on defense, and when you have those battles every day, quality depth is usually the result."
NOTES: The Pirates took 33 snaps during the team-on-team session (17 passes, 16 rushes) ... While the ECU defense provided another dose of pressure with protective quick-whistle sacks by sophomore end Terry Biles and outside linebackers Montese Overton (redshirt freshman), Maurice Falls (sophomore) and Desi Brown (sophomore), the offensive unit responded with a pair of touchdowns and several big plays during the period ... Junior quarterback Rio Johnson hit junior outside receiver Reese Wiggins on a 35-yard scoring toss, while junior running back Michael Dobson reached the endzone from 10 yards out ... Johnson also completed a 23-yarder to sophomore inside receiver Justin Hardy and senior running back Reggie Bullock broke loose for an 18-yard ground gain ... Brown, who opened spring drills on the two-deep at strong safety, has experienced action at both outside linebacking positions in the last week.
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Remaining Workouts: April 6, April 7 (scrimmage), April 9, April 11 and April 14 (Purple-Gold Game, 2:30 p.m.)


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Sorting through pictures I took of my trip a few weeks ago, all from different parts of my flights. It's so easy to forget how small you are until you're in the air, looking at miles and miles at once. As I mentioned before, I'm a nervous flyer. I think about all of the possible negative scenarios about flying and am always relieved to land. It's great to visit new places and while I'd love to travel more, maybe I can just take a sedative until I land again. Am I the only one?
Anyways, the clouds looked so beautiful, even if I could only imagine myself falling through them.
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I loooove the second one!ReplyDelete
These are beautiful. When I was young and going back to Nica... I once thought the clouds were snow. It didn't all click until a nice lady beside me explained it. I think I ended up falling asleep on her arm (weird).ReplyDelete
ahh, great pictures. i love the second pic as well. it looks so surreal...ReplyDelete
I completely agree -- I am definitely a nervous flyer! Never bothered me as a kid, but nowadays I worry nonstop...ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos!
i like the final of the three it reminds me of a projected image, a memoryReplyDelete
Nice pics, even though you were a nervous wreck when you took them! I am with you on this...I'm the same!ReplyDelete
Ah, also a very nervous flyer and just took my first flight in about 6 years a couple of weeks ago. I love to travel but hate to fly but this time things were different. A couple of things made it easier. 1 - I lost a dear friend suddenly and unexpectedly last spring. It has had a profound affect on my outlook. Life can be very short - don't be limited by fear. Worry won't cause or stop bad things from happening but you can certainly regret things that you haven't done. 2 - I used my head - I decided to think about being in a plane as being on a bumpy bus ride. No big deal. 3 - I took gravol so it would calm my stomach and make me a little drowsy.ReplyDelete
And probably, like yourself, I decided that I love to travel more than I hate to fly. Kudos to you for getting on that flight!
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