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Nervous about beginning a new chapter of her life, Dana Millio joined the Realizing Dreams Living and Learning Community (LLC) with hopes that she would make new friends who shared similar interests.
Despite her anxiety about the transition to college, Dana felt reassured that, by the end of Orientation, she already had 17 best friends.
Soon after Orientation, she met Michele Filling-Brown, Ph.D., the faculty director of Realizing Dreams, as well as the LLC's faculty fellows: Courtney Smith, Ph.D., assistant professor of history/political science, and Maya Gordon, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology.
"Knowing that these well-respected faculty members wanted to see me succeed and are invested in my future made me feel empowered to achieve my goals," Dana says.
The LLC faculty not only wanted Dana to succeed, but also appreciated Dana's contributions. Smith says Dana's enthusiasm "played a critical role in transforming our classroom into a vibrant learning community."
Dana's relationship with these three faculty members has extended beyond the first year, and she remains in contact with them.
In fact, Filling-Brown continues to serve as her advisor, as she is now an English and Human Resource Management double major with a Leadership Studies minor.
Although the Realizing Dreams LLC went on many trips during her first year at Cabrini, including sightseeing in Philadelphia and Lancaster and a community-building day at Six Flags Amusement Park, Dana reflects that her most memorable moment was the fall Leadership Retreat.
"We were able to intellectually connect with each other and spend a really constructive day together." This annual Leadership Retreat helps Realizing Dreams LLC students to learn more about each other and how to communicate effectively and develop leadership skills.
Gordon remembers "the look in her eyes when she learned something new that day" and how she utilized those leadership skills in the classroom as she motivated her peers to achieve new heights.
Dana's experience in the LLC catalyzed her involvement and leadership during her sophomore and junior years. Dana is involved in the P.in.K women's professional-development group, LEADstrong leadership program, and Delta Xi Phi sorority. She also has served as an Orientation Leader for incoming students, giving her time to help new students who might be nervous just as she was three years ago.
She's so grateful for the experience she had in her first year that has catalyzed not only her success, but also her lifelong friendships.
She's looking forward to walking across the graduation stage in 2015 with friends from the LLC who she met at New Student Orientation.
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Continuing the expansion of its hospitality division, Trigild – a San Diego-based real estate firm specializing in property/asset management and fiduciary services – has taken over a portfolio of five franchised hotels in Valencia, Thousand Oaks and San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Trigild, which has nearly four decades of experience in the hospitality industry, was appointed receiver of the five hotels – including three Marriotts, a Best Western and a Holiday Inn Express – by the Superior Court of California, County of Monterey.
As court appointed receiver, Trigild is charged with taking possession and control of the five hotels while a legal action is pending. The court also provided for Trigild to serve as the management company handling day-to-day operations.
"Trigild's role is to minimize any disruption to guests and employees and maintain value of the assets for the benefit of all parties involved with the hotels," said Trigild President Judy Hoffman said. "Our operations team is working closely with the onsite property managers for each hotel and will concentrate on improving revenue, as well as the overall guest experience.''
In addition, Hoffman said, Trigild will work closely with the franchisors throughout the receivership to ensure operations run smoothly.
The hotels all primarily serve the corporate and extended stay markets and are each strategically located near major commercial hubs. They include:
•The 139-room Courtyard Marriott, 1605 Calle Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Calif.
•The 93-room TownePlace Suites/Thousand Oaks, 1712 Newbury Rd., Thousand Oaks, Calif.
•The 120-room Courtyard Marriott, 1710 Newbury Rd., Thousand Oaks, Calif.
•The 120-room Best Western Valencia, 27413 Wayne Mills Place, Valencia, Calif.
•The 118-room Holiday Inn Express Valencia, 27513 Championship Way, Valencia, Calif.
This latest project marks another milestone in the continued growth of Trigild's hospitality division. In late 2012, the firm announced a strategic alliance with Blu Hotels – combining Trigild's strong operational background with Blu Hotels' lodging investment expertise to jointly develop, acquire and operate hotel properties with institutional or individual investors.

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The fundamental goal in the creation of the "Arterial and Capillary Blood Gases" was to provide medical students, trainees, established specialists with a practical guide to commonly encountered ABG Sampling. Much emphasis has been placed on maintaining a standardized format throughout the manual to allow the reader to predict the flow of the chapters. The detailed narrative text is complemented with illustrations created by two artists to maintain a uniform presentation style and conceptual consistency that facilitates comprehension of the procedure.
Completely updated with the latest techniques, this edition enables you to make optimal use of today's best options. A new format makes the book easier to consult than ever before. You'll see exactly how and when to perform ABG Sampling, so you can choose and implement the best possible approach for every patient!
This book can be recommended with confidence to all specialists with recognized credential for ABG sampling: MD, DO, CRTT, RRT, RN, RPFT, CPFT, MLT, RCVT, CPT I, CPT II- whose training will be accelerated and benefited by the reference to this book.
Dr. Ramaz Mitaishvili became a president and chief executive officer of RM Global Health Inc. on July 27, 2000. As president, he leads the RMGH's efforts to protect the health of people around the world and provide essential emergency services to those in need. He manages one of the largest private departments in the field of Health Services, with more than 500 employees and contractors.
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Popular media would have us believe unless your business is something an investor (like one of the sharks on Shark Tank) might like, it's not a good business. The same could be true if your try to get a loan from the local bank.
Whether or not you are able to lure an investor to give you money or find a banker to give you a loan, neither are an indication of whether or not you have a good idea.
"Investors can support ideas with capital, but they aren't the end game," writes Schroter. "They are a tool in the equation, but not the result. If you're hearing 'no' on a regular basis and are becoming increasingly frustrated that your idea isn't getting the attention it deserves, consider that you may be seeking validation in the wrong places."
At the risk of exposing my 'geezer-ness,' I'm going to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the 'find equity capital, ramp up revenues, sell to the highest bidder, and walk away' mentality that is so prevalent in small business today. I feel like it encourages short-sighted thinking. Because equity investors, like the sharks, are looking for opportunities where an infusion of capital will help a company exponentially grow, most investors are looking for highly scalable models and entrepreneurs who are usually looking for an exit at some date in the near future.
I grew up in a small business family. The business my father wanted to build was one that could become his life's work—decidedly different than building a business to flip. As a result, and because I like the dynamic in a Main Street type businesses, I tend to look at owning a business the same way he did. However depending on the audience, I might be considered a little old-fashioned.
If an investor isn't interested in your business, it might just mean that your idea might not scale easily into something huge with an influx of cash. A hardware store, florist, construction company or dry cleaner might be wonderful businesses that enable their owners to make a nice living, support their families, and might even be passed down to the next generation—but it's unlikely an investor looking for something to flip will be interested in investing in them.
Does that mean they aren't viable businesses? Absolutely not.
"Only one person can validate your idea: the consumer," continues Schroter. "Anybody else, including investors, is merely hypothesizing about the value of your product. Your consumer already knows whether your idea is great or not, and that's why the are either engaging with you or ignoring you."
If your customers love you and your product and an investor isn't interested, don't allow that to discourage you. If you have a product or service that resonates with your customers, but you can't get a banker to give you the time of day, it could be something else. You may need to work on improving your credit score or otherwise make yourself a more attractive borrower.
I wish I could say there was a quick and easy way to improve your credit worthiness, but there isn't. Unless your credit report is riddled with errors, it's going to take some time to repair a bad score. That doesn't mean there aren't financing options available to business owners with less-than-perfect credit, but they won't be low interest loans and you'll probably have to look somewhere besides the local bank.
Investor capital or borrowed funds shouldn't be the end game. I completely agree with Schroter when he suggests, "…customer attention is what the real end game is all about."


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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia
On-line version ISSN 1982-0232
OLIVEIRA, Bruna Ferreira Valenzuela de; SOARES, Erika Queiroga Werkhaizer; AZEVEDO, Luciana Lemos de and BRITTO, Denise Brandão de Oliveira e. Analysis of acoustic and auditory-perceptual parameters in stutterers. Rev. soc. bras. fonoaudiol. [online]. 2009, vol.14, n.3, pp.323-331. ISSN 1982-0232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1516-80342009000300007.
PURPOSE: To analyze auditory-perceptual and acoustic parameters of the voices of adult stutterers. METHODS: Fifteen male stutterers in the age range from 21 to 41 years (mean 26.6 years), attended at the institution's Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Center in the period from February 2005 to July 2007, were analyzed. The auditory-perceptual parameters analyzed were vocal quality, type of voice, resonance, vocal tension, speech rate, pneumo-phonic coordination, vocal attack and pitch range; the acoustic parameters analyzed were fundamental frequency and its variability during spontaneous speech. RESULTS: The auditory-perceptual analysis showed that the most frequent characteristics among the subjects were normal vocal quality (60%), altered resonance (66%), vocal tension (86%), altered vocal attack (73%), normal speech rate (54%), altered pitch range (80%) and altered pneumo-phonic coordination (100%). However, only the presence of vocal tension and the altered pneumo-phonic coordination and pitch range were statistically significant in the stutterers studied. In the acoustic analysis, fundamental frequency varied from 125,54 to 149,59 Hz, and the variability of the fundamental frequency ranged from 16 to 21 halftones, or from 112,50 to 172,40 Hz. CONCLUSION: The auditory-perceptual parameters that were significantly frequent among stutterers were: presence of vocal tension, altered pneumo-phonic coordination, and altered pitch range. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the vocal aspects of these patients, for the fluency disorders might undermine some vocals parameters, causing dysphonia.
Keywords : Voice; Stuttering; Respiration; Phonation; Speech acoustics; Auditory perception.


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December 23, 2008
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Diversity and Stratification in California's Early Care and Education Workforce
By Marcy Whitebook, Fran Kipnis & Dan Bellm
Using data from the California Early Care and Education Workforce Study, this policy brief finds that the ethnic and linguistic diversity of California's Early Care and Education (ECE) workforce is stratified by educational level and job role. In other words, diversity is disproportionately concentrated in some areas of the field. The brief discusses the implications of these findings for workforce development, higher education, and the ability of ECE programs to address the needs of diverse children and families.
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J Street National Leaders Meet with King Abdullah in Jordan
May 7th, 2012
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Camping in the White Mountains of New Hampshire is not only a lot of fun but an inexpensive way to spend some time away from everyday life. The quiet and cool of the mountain forests are enough to end the nerve jangle of any city-bound nature lover.
Private or public, what's your style
The kind of campground you choose is a matter of preference. Private campgrounds, of which there are many in the White Mountains, often offer more amenities, with full bathroom and shower facilities, electricity available at campsites and more facilities for campers and trailers. These privately operated campgrounds often also have recreation facilities including sports fields and swimming pools. On the down side, most often campsites are open, or mostly open spaces and close together, with privacy at a premium.
Most of New Hampshire's public campgrounds are operated by the National Forest Service or by the state. In New Hampshire the state campgrounds are located in state parks around the state and the federal campgrounds are in the White Mountain National Forest. Campsites in these government-operated campgrounds are generally well spaced, creating privacy between campsites. Some of them have water from faucets located throughout the camp area, while others may have hand operated water pumps. Some areas may have shower facilities and flush toilets, others may have no washroom facilities and enclosed pit toilets. These campsites are usually located in forests and are surrounded by trees and often near running streams or lakes and ponds.
What you need to bring
Camping can be as modest as you want it to be. While there is expense involved in getting started, once you have the gear you are set for years of camping enjoyment. The basics are a tent and sleeping bags, both available at sporting goods stores. National chains are good sources but don't overlook locally owned stores where the owners are usually sportsmen themselves and know what you need and are able to give you first-hand advice. Pop-up tents are small, light and easy to put up. Choose a sleeping bag carefully. It needs to be light but warm. A couple camping together can get a pair that will zip together, making a double bag. Because weather can vary at any time of year, it pays to bring along an extra blanket or two. Although you can use thin pads as hikers do, air mattresses are more comfortable. A lantern is very handy; get a double-mantle one operated by propane. A hammer for pounding tent pegs is also handy, as is a length of clothesline rope.
If you plan to eat out you won't need a stove, but half the fun of camping is cooking. You can do it on the campfire but a small propane stove is very handy for warming coffee water, making bacon and eggs for breakfast or even cooking up a batch of chili for dinner. You will also want to have a cooler big enough to hold a large block of ice to keep food fresh. Those are the basics, everything else you probably already have at home.
What to do after you are there
Again, what to do is a matter of style. Some people like to set up camp and then lie back in a folding lounge chair (which they also brought with them) and read a good book. The mountains are crisscrossed with hiking trails that offer options for all skill and energy levels. Another option, especially for families with young children, is to plan on visits to several of the White Mountains attractions. Places like Santa's Village in Jefferson, Storyland in Glen and Clark's Trading Post in North Woodstock all have enough rides and activities to keep families occupied all day. Whales Tale Waterpark in Lincoln is a good choice for hot days and there are several options for train rides. In Lincoln the Hobo Railroad runs down the valley. In Conway the Conway Scenic Railroad has a ride through the Mt Washington Valley to Conway Village, a ride up the Mt Washington Valley to Bartlett, or an exciting five-hour ride through Crawford Notch on track that clings to the steep sides of the mountains. And then, there are the natural attractions in Franconia Notch State Park.
Getting there
Access to the eastern side of the White Mountains is best done via I-95 to Portsmouth, New Hampshire and then following Route 16 north to Conway. For the western side of the Whites take I-93 north through Concord, and into the White Mountains at Franconia Notch.


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Cynthia LaFollette Alford
This book is a commemoration book on the jubilant celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Ordiantion of Rev. Father Simon Mary Zayas, T.O.R. Father is a Franciscan priest assigned to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Province in Loretto, PA and who regularly visits our parish to celebrate Mass. It is a work of "pouring out heart and soul" for his honor as a dear friend and priest and with and for my community to celebrate his awesome accomplishment as a Catholic priest.
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A listing of the most recent Ceres reports.
Below are some of the most recent Ceres reports. For a list of all reports, click here.
Multiplying Our Impact: Ceres 2009-2010 Annual Report
Nov 20, 2010
- November 2010 - This Ceres Annual Report highlights the remarkable achievements that we have made over the past year in working to build a sustainable global economy. It highlights our successes in four of today's most pressing sustainability issues: the scarcity of water, the need to replace fossil fuels with clean energy, supporting human rights and combating climate change. Ceres' Annual Report also includes case studies of the achievements we have made with our partners, including Oxfam America, Ford Motor Co. and the California Public Employees' Retirement System.
The Ripple Effect: Water Risk in the Municipal Bond Market
Oct 22, 2010
- October 2010 - Growing water scarcity in many parts of the United States is a hidden financial risk for investors who buy the water and electric utility bonds that finance much of the country's vast water and power infrastructure, according to this first-ever report by Ceres and Water Asset Management. The report evaluates and ranks water scarcity risks for public water and power utilities in some of the country's most water-stressed regions, including Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas and Atlanta.
The 21st Century Electric Utility: Positioning for a Low-Carbon Future
Jul 27, 2010
- July 2010 - This report identifies five key elements of a 21st century electric utility business model and makes specific recommendations to utilities as they transition to a low-carbon future. It is by no means the final word on this complex and constantly evolving subject. Rather it is a starting point for utilities, policymakers, regulators, investors, analysts, and advocates to consider the utility decisions and behaviors best suited to helping us realize the energy future we all want – a future that, as the report says, "minimizes cost, risk and environmental impact, and maximizes opportunity, options and societal benefit."
Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Power Producers in the United States 2010
Jun 14, 2010
- June 2010 - The 2010 Benchmarking report is the seventh collaborative effort highlighting environmental performance and progress in the nation's electric power sector. The Benchmarking series began in 1997 and uses publicly reported data to compare the emissions performance of the 100 largest power producers in the United States. The current report is based on 2008 generation and emissions data.
Mutual Funds and Climate Change: Growing Support for Shareholder Resolutions 2010
Jun 01, 2010
- June 2010 - This year's report evaluates proxy votes on climate change shareholder resolutions by 46 leading mutual fund families, with collective assets under management totaling more than $5 trillion. The analysis covers 17,834 proxy votes cast from 2004 to 2009 on 96 climate-related shareholder resolutions.
Canada's Oil Sands: Shrinking Window of Opportunity
May 14, 2010
- May 2010 - This report examines how carbon and land reclamation regulations, climate change and other environmental and social issues may adversely affect the future of oil sands development in Alberta.
Climate Change Risk Perception and Management: A Survey of Risk Managers
Apr 22, 2010
- April 2010 - This report describes the results of a survey of corporate risk managers conducted by Zurich Financial Services, the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA) and Ceres. The survey is a first step in assessing whether and to what extent risk managers are concerned about the risks posed by climate change regulation and/or by climate change itself, and how well the insurance industry is or is not serving risk managers to transfer or manage the risks in this arena.
2009 Ceres-ACCA Reporting Awards Judges Report
Apr 01, 2010
- April 2010 - Ninety-three sustainability reports from companies and organizations, representing over 20 sectors, were submitted for review this year. Of these, fourteen reports were short-listed and an expert panel of judges met in January 2010 to select the award winners.
The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability
Mar 10, 2010
- March 2010 - The Ceres Roadmap serves as a vision and practical guide for integrating sustainability into the DNA of business — from the boardroom to the copy room. It analyzes the drivers, risks and opportunities involved in making the shift to sustainability, and details strategies and results from companies who are taking on these challenges. The Ceres Roadmap is designed to provide a comprehensive platform for sustainable business strategy and for accelerating best practices and performance.
Global Climate Disclosure Framework for Oil & Gas Companies
Mar 10, 2010
- March 2010 - In general, companies in the Oil and Gas industry are more transparent than the average of other sectors in respect of their climate-related performances. Nonetheless, the information provided by most companies remains inadequate to fully gauge the exposure of companies to evolving climate change related pressures. This report outlines the main areas of reporting necessary to allow investors to fully assess the impacts of climate-related changes on Oil and Gas companies.
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By John Van Auken
In 1969, scientists analyzed a meteorite that landed in Murchison, Victoria, Australia,
called the Murchison meteorite. To everyone's surprise, this little piece of space rock
contained all the ingredients necessary to form physical life! It contained nucleobases,
uracil, and xanthine—nucleobases are molecules that are the precursors to DNA and
RNA (Ribonucleic acid, present in all living cells). These are the basic building blocks of
physical life. The meteorite also contained 92 amino acids, 19 of which are found on the
earth (Earth and Planetary Sciences, June 15, 2008).
As far back as December 27, 1976, Time magazine was publishing the origins of life as
being from the stars: "In fact, the earth and its star—the sun—are built in part from the
ashes of dead stars, and human beings are literally star children. People—and all other
forms of life on earth—are collections of atoms forged in stellar furnaces. 'All of
chemistry and therefore all of life has been formed by stars,' says Astrophysicist Patrick
Thaddeus of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. 'With the
exception of hydrogen, everything in our bodies has been produced in the thermonuclear
reactions within stars.'"
Astronomers explain that all the elements heavier than hydrogen originated inside stars,
long ago, as the stars shone by the fusion of hydrogen. The iron that carries the oxygen in
our blood was created when a star, in its dying phase, exploded.
Henry Moray, in his book The Sea of Energy, was among the first to reveal that space is
the biggest sea of energy that is known to exist, and we're floating inside it. Not only is it
big, but its energy exceeds nuclear energy densities, so even a small piece of it is super
powerful. This space energy is called "zero point energy" or ZPE. Most agree that virtual
particle fluctuation contributes to it and that it may be an unlimited source of free energy
for homes, cars, and space travel. Zero point electromagnetic radiation energy has the
potential to power future interplanetary spacecraft and provide all the energy needed to
maintain a city on a distant planet.
But what's more important is that it is the energy in which our bodies live and have our
being. Dr. John Bahcall from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (Einstein's
workplace) said, "We are all quantum fluctuations. That's the origin of all of us and of
everything in the universe." These virtual particle fluctuations are changes that generate
energy, ZPE, and we are all virtual particle fluctuations, as is everything in the universe.
And then there is consciousness or "self-awareness." Evolutionists admit that
"consciousness is one's most precious possession" In their book, Evolution, the late
geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky and his co-authors wrote: "In point of fact, self-
awareness is the most immediate and incontrovertible of all realities. Without doubt, the
human mind sets our species apart from nonhuman animals." And yet the origin of
consciousness and self-awareness is a mystery to scientists.
Edgar Cayce, and many others, saw the idea that brains developed consciousness as
having the whole process backwards, teaching that consciousness developed superior
brains in order to function better in the physical universe. And, human consciousness is
the highest form of awareness, revealing such functions as judgment, common sense,
insight, aesthetic sensibility, compassion, and—most of all—morality. No other animal
under the influence of instinctual urges will discern between females that are taboo
(sister, mother) and those that are acceptable for mating. Only the human shows the
ability to constrain powerful instinctual urges based on higher ideals and morals.
Human powers of rational comprehension exceed anything that could be simply an
evolutionary necessity. Perhaps that is what drove Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington to say,
shortly before he died: "The idea of a universal mind, or Logos, would be, I think, a fairly
plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory." Or, as John Beloff put it in
his article "The Mind-Brain Problem": "The position of mind in nature remains a total
mystery. It could be that there exists some sort of a cosmic mind, perhaps co-equal with
the material universe itself, from which each individual mind stems, and to which each
ultimately returns. All we can say is that it looks as if a fragment of mind-stuff becomes
attached to an individual organism, at or near birth, and thereafter persists with this
symbiotic relationship until that organism perishes (The Journal of Scientific
We are physically children of the stars and mentally symbionts of the Cosmic Mind, or
God's Universal Consciousness. And we are seeking our way home.
Excerpt from the A.R.E. Member Newsletter (Spring, 2016), available at
John Van Auken, is a long-time A.R.E. staff member and current Director of E.C.F. and one of our
most popular teachers of meditation and mystical spirituality. He has appeared on several television
programs and is the author of dozens of books, audios, and DVD's including Angels, Fairies, Demons, &
the Elementals. He manages A.R.E.'s Archaeological Research and is a respected leader of international
tours to sacred sites.
I have never doubted the authenticity of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Decades ago I was moved by the experiences of Dr. George Ritchie and Raymond Moody. When I recently heard the neurosurgeon, Dr. Eben Alexander, talk about his NDE and read his book (Proof of Heaven, which I highly recommend), I was assured again of heaven's accessibility for each and every one of us.
I had been taught in Sunday School about heaven as an end time, but now I was beginning to think of it as a present reality, as close to me as my breathing.
How could I doubt the truth of heaven as a present reality? At age 23 I sat in a room with Edgar Cayce as he gave a reading. Hearing that quiet voice so in tune with some beautiful far-away source (I thought then), and listening to that message of hope and healing, I said to myself, Oh, dear God, I must be in heaven! The atmosphere here is so breathtakingly holy, God must be in this room!
Then I remembered another moment of God's heavenly presence. I recalled the charged atmosphere I felt as I walked into the vault for the first time to file correspondence or a typed-up reading. As I entered that long dimly lit room in the addition built onto Edgar's and Gertrude's home on Arctic Circle and 14th Street, where Harmon and I worked with the Cayces and Gladys, I felt as though I was entering a cathedral. How many healings in those files? How many lives changed? How much hope given to people with none? How much love given by Edgar as he lay still on that couch? How much compassion as Gertrude stayed composed and focused, giving the instructions Edgar needed? How much earnest concern did Gladys show with her stenographic skills and her daily loving presence?
Then I remembered something else. When Harmon and I came to Virginia Beach in 1943, I had a full scholarship at the Chicago Musical College, studying with the most coveted piano teacher in the area and I had expected to teach in one of the best music schools in the country or become a concert pianist. I never dreamed that Edgar's reading for me would say anything different. But it did. He said, "Do make the home the career for this is the greatest career there is in the earth, and those who shun same will have much yet to answer for. Then make thy home as a shadow of the heavenly home." (5070-1)
I yearned for the time when our home would be filled with a heavenly fragrance, but we moved every few years and there were always boxes to unpack, new schools to attend, new friends to be made, and much anxiety over being unsettled and often broke. It was hard to create a peaceful, heavenly environment amidst that turmoil. Edgar's beautiful picture of the soul and its journey kept me sane and plugging on.
The prophet Isaiah's image of the "peaceable Kingdom" was a picture of heaven on Earth. He said in essence that a time would come when the inhabitants of Earth "would not hurt or destroy on all God's holy mountain, and the earth would be as full of the Lord as the waters covering the sea."
Eben is a scientist who believed before his NDE that consciousness came entirely from the brain. After a short time of being seriously ill with a rare strain of meningitis, he was pronounced brain-dead for seven days, but his journey past death taught him that consciousness does not come from the human brain. Cayce said, "Thy brain is not thy mind, it is that which is used by thy mind!" (826-11)
After our nine months with the Cayces was done, Harmon and I felt that to sing with the world-famous St. Olaf College choir would be the only way to fully absorb that special experience. The founder of the choir, F. Melius Christensen, had once listened to a top his children were spinning and heard the loveliest sound he had ever heard—a beautiful, clear, balanced chord. He had decided then and there that he would direct a choir some day that would sing that chord perfectly in unison. It meant that his group of singers would have to become one with him and the other choir members. It was an ideal of oneness which matched the oneness with God that Cayce had talked about.
We don't have to be struck down by a terrible accident or illness to experience the equivalent of a near-death experience. We can become still, and remember the heavenly bliss that exists inside of us and all around us.
Excerpt from June Bro's "The Art of Living" from the Apr-Jun 2013 issue of Venture Inward magazine available to A.R.E. members at Edgarcayce.org/members.
Dr. June Avis Bro found her life deeply affected by working daily with Edgar Cayce when she and her husband, Harmon, came to Virginia Beach in 1943. She set about sharing her interests with others as a pastoral counselor and minister, as well as by using her skills in the performing arts. She has a graduate ministerial degree from Andover-Newton Theological School, near Boston, and a doctorate from Chicago Theological Seminary. In addition to teaching on six campuses while raising five children, she has been a research assistant at Harvard, lectured and held workshops in many cities, led overseas tours to the Near East and China, and served as pastor. A concert pianist, she has served on the music staff in churches of most of the major Protestant denominations and draws on her background in the arts to illuminate myths, symbols, and dreams. At age ninety, she released her first piano CD called "Soul Soundings," which is being sold in the A.R.E. Bookstore. Her column for A.R.E.'s Venture Inward Magazine, "The Art of Living" is based on her life reading given by Mr. Cayce in 1944. She wrote the forward to the re-released book A Seer Out of Season written by Harmon Bro.
This is my update for June 2016 to A.R.E. members and friends who are interested in the new and exciting trends occurring within Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. and Atlantic University. A number of exciting things are happening this month! Please share the following with your friends:
The memorial service will be held at the end of Congress on June 25, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. in our Main Auditorium. Harvey Green, former Board Chair will be officiating. You can read the Press Release about Charles Thomas's passing at the following link:
We hope you can join us for this celebration of Charles Thomas's life and his lifelong commitment to this great Work.
Founded by Edgar Cayce in 1930, Atlantic University focuses on educating students through a holistic, interdisciplinary perspective. The teachings and philosophies of the A.R.E. and Edgar Cayce are infused in the mission and vision of Atlantic University and can be found in nearly every course and resonating throughout our virtual halls. Learn more about how to nourish your soul and expand into the inherent possibilities of human development at these links: Transpersonal Studies| Leadership Studies| Mindful Leadership | Regression Hypnosis | Spiritual Mentoring | Lifelong Learning.
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"He that is grounded in the truths as set forth here is grounded indeed in the truths that makes the individual one with, in will and purport, the whole creative energy, and will make for that individual the faith that moves mountains and maketh the pastures green where there was consternation and trouble before." 254-48
"He that is grounded in the truths as set forth here is grounded indeed in the truths that makes the individual one with, in will and purport, the whole creative energy, and will make for that individual the faith that moves mountains and maketh the pastures green where there was consternation and trouble before." 254-48
Cayce/Reilly is still accepting applications for the next class starting June 20, 2016. Spaces are filling up quickly – if you still want to be included in the summer class, apply online today and become part of a new era in holistic healthcare - www.caycereilly.edu.
Our current students are offering the unique Cayce/Reilly massage technique and foot reflexology sessions at a reduced price in our Student Clinic. Call 757-457-7146 to schedule your appointment. We usually have a 2-3 week waiting list, so call now to book your next session!
We have hosted over a dozen fantastic weekend workshop courses so far this year! Our Continuing Education program includes many wonderful classes for massage therapists as well as a number of great courses available to the general public like Reiki, CPR, Jin Shin Do Acupressure and MORE! Please click this link for details:
ASTROLOGY CHART SALE AT ARECatalog.com
From now until July 11, all astrology charts at ARECatalog.com are on sale for only $14 non-member/$11.20 A.R.E. members. Now is a great time to buy and save!
The A.R.E. Health Center and Spa happily presents our June Spa therapy special. To commemorate the
A.R.E.'s 85th anniversary, for $85 we are offering an hour combination of Cayce/Reilly Massage & Foot
Reflexology. This would normally be valued at $110! (No other discounts or specials apply.)
We are also excited to share our revamped Wellness Retreat September 17-23rd which includes
kayaking, a dinner cruise, Cayce-readings-recommended walks on the beach and in the state park, morning yoga, etc.
along with our traditional Cayce body-mind-and spirit rejuvenation. The group size is limited to 12. Details can be found
at http://www.arehealth.org/#!wellness-week/c4mb.
We have two unique and insightful one-day programs coming the HQ this August—perfect for a summer vacation
for the soul!
Saturday August 13 Medium Rev. Janet Nohavec and "spirit artist" Joseph Shiel share the art and science of
mediumship with tips and techniques plus live gallery readings. And, experience a special evening of messages from the
other side as part of the full program or as a separate event.
Sunday, August 14, 2016, we have Edgar Cayce's Sacred Stones: Using Gems to Enhance Your Spirit, Mind,
and Body! featuring Shelley Kaehr, PhD. Based on her best-selling new book, a highlight includes a guided
meditation where you are led to the stone that will help you most on your current soul journey, by your
higher self and Edgar Cayce!
Exciting New Tours Being Planned for 2017:
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COMING SOON: New Website Design!
Sometime this summer, we'll be rolling out a new design for our website, EdgarCayce.org. Besides the beautiful modern look, the new site will enable users from mobile and tablet devices to view and use our website functions with ease! (A growing number of people are visiting our site from these devices!) Some other functions that we're excited about include:
We hope you enjoy visiting our current website, and look forward to greeting you with a new design this summer (as early as next month!)
John Van Auken partnered with long-time A.R.E. Member and donor Ruben Miller, PhD, to bring us the story of the Essenes as given in the Edgar Cayce readings. Their new book, Edgar Cayce on the Mysterious Essenes: Lessons from Our Sacred Past, is available now from ARECatalog.com (or 800-333-4499). You can read an excerpt from this book at EdgarCayceBooksBlog.com.
The New Thought Channel, a new broadcast channel introduced to us by Mitch Horowitz, has added his Mind As Builder talk and will add two additional videos of ours: Guidance from Dreams by Dr. Pam Bro and Cayce 101 by Peter Woodbury. This is an opportunity to introduce Cayce to a larger audience, as they describe it: The New Thought Channel is a central location on your television and on Roku and Amazon Fire TV that is a gathering place for the spiritually open-minded: www.newthoughtchannel.com
Joyce Keller, American television and radio host, psychic medium, and the author of the new A.R.E. Press book Why Am I Here? A Concise Guide to Your Purpose and Potential will be on Coast to Coast with George Noory (CoasttoCoastam.com) on Sunday night July 3 at midnight Pacific time (which is Monday morning July 4 at 3 am Eastern or 2 am Central) for two hours. According to Edgar Cayce reading 2823-1, "Each soul…has a definite job to do. But ye alone may find and do that job." Her new book, written with daughter Elaine Keller, reiterates this important concept and includes information on using angel guides, astrology, karmic patterns, the Akashic records, and more.
A.R.E. CAMP – Join us for your vacation, and/or send your kids!
Summer at A.R.E. Camp is officially under way! We've been enjoying all of the friends and volunteers that have joined us in the Camp valley for Construction Camp to help get our facilities ready for the coming programs. We're anxiously awaiting the arrival of our all-summer staff, who will be filling the valley in just a few days.
We still have space available in our Children's, Family, and Adult Sessions! Give this gift to your child or your entire family and expand your mind and soul. At A.R.E. Camp, you will fill your days with meditation, workshops, arts and crafts, late afternoon swims in the pond, plentiful home-cooked, family-style meals full of veggies from our organic garden, long conversations with new friends, and hikes through Blue Ridge Mountain paradise. Contact A.R.E. Camp Manager, Malenka Kaydan, for information at 757-457-7162 or email email@example.com. Check our 2016 offerings and register online at: www.EdgarCayce.org/camp or by calling 800-333-4499.
The Camp Dining Hall rebuild is going well, and we are pushing hard to get it built in time for this summer's sessions. We need your help to make it happen:
Matching Gift Fund for Dining Hall Still Available – A committed group of Camp fans has put together a $40,000 Matching Gift Fund that will match your donation of $200 or more dollar-for-dollar AND they'll match donations of $1,000 or more at a rate of TWO-TO-ONE! Think of all of our happy campers… and please donate what you can. Thank you. https://secure.edgarcayce.com/supportCampBuildingFund.aspx. Keep us in your prayers and consider making a donation.
This year's Donor Appreciation event for members of the Golden Circle (donations of $1,000 or more in a year) and ECLS (those of you who have included us in your will or estate plan) will be held on Friday, June 24 – the last day of Congress. We will be treating these donors to an evening at the Norfolk Botanical Garden, featuring a scenic tram ride, a Secret Garden wine reception, special dinner, and an inspirational program with Kevin Todeschi and Sidney Kirkpatrick among others. Join the Golden Circle and RSVP by June 20. Last year, donations accounted for almost 50% of all revenues at the A.R.E. and these two donor groups accounted for almost 90% of those donations. Thank you for entrusting us with your donations and helping us make the world a better place.
It's the A.R.E's mission to help people transform their lives for the better, just as you, yourself have experienced. Did you know that carrying out that mission through the programs you are so passionate about are, in very large part, funded by your donations? From keeping operations running smoothly, digitizing the circulating files, sending Cayce books to prisoners, planting an organic garden at A.R.E. Camp, and SO much more, every dollar makes a difference. As we celebrate A.R.E.'s 85th Birthday this summer, we are asking our members to consider joining the Golden Circle by making a donation of either $1,931 (the year we were founded) or a monthly donation of $85 or more. Being a member of the Golden Circle has special benefits like receiving unique gifts and event invitations throughout the year. Thanks for all you do to support this great work. https://secure.edgarcayce.com/donate-DW165.aspx
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Thank you for all you continue to do for this great Work!
Ever the same,
Kevin J. Todeschi
Question: Did Lemuria and/or Atlantis have a written language? Can it be deciphered
now? What language is most similar?
Answer: This is a good question and one that will help all of us regain a level of
consciousness we once had—I should say, our souls had, for our personalities never had
this level of consciousness. In answering your question, I am using Edgar Cayce's
information from four principal readings: 364-10, 378-13, 378-14, and 2329-3, but also
bits from the entire 364 series, the so-called "Atlantis Series."
We must understand that Lemuria was a very, very ancient time, literally millions of
years ago, and Lemurians were not physical until the very last stages of their push into
matter, roughly a few centuries. Atlantis, on the other hand, was a much closer period
that lasted from 210,000 BC to 10,014 BC. And it is helpful if we divide Atlantis into
three periods: the early formative centuries, the middle struggling centuries of increasing
self-awareness resulting in rising selfishness, and then the final migration period as
Atlantis sank in stages.
In the early period, Lemurians and Atlanteans were not like the people of today. Back
then, you and I (our souls) would have been pure minds and spirits without physical
bodies. And, importantly, we (our minds and spirits) were still connected to the Great
Spirit and the Universal Consciousness of our Creator. We lived in conscious
cooperation with our Creator, and possessed "all the attributes of the spiritual or unseen
forces," giving us many abilities that we do not actively use today (they are now latent
within us). Therefore, we did not use language the way we do today.
The Cayce material teaches us that back then we were profoundly psychic. And when he
was asked, "Give in detail of the psychic powers he [a reincarnated Atlantean] developed
at that time [of Atlantis]?" Cayce replied, "This would almost be impossible." (378-13)
Then Cayce attempted to explain that during our present "material age," we could hardly
comprehend the oneness of consciousness among the Children of God and their Creator.
In another reading he adds, "Individuals in the beginning were more of thought forms
than individual entities with personalities as seen in the present..." (364-10) Can we today
conceive of ourselves as minds without bodies?
To a small degree, Edgar Cayce could be an example of an Atlantean, for even in his
normal conscious state, he could know what you were thinking and had been doing.
Telepathy was the means of communication back then, not sounds using vocal cords. But
even this example can be misunderstood, because we today think of telepathy as
"hearing" words in thought, but there were no words.
As we Children of God, or "Morning Stars" as the book of Job referred to us, pushed our
minds deeper and deeper into matter (this third dimensional plane), we became more
individualized, and our expansive consciousness was narrowed into this world of form
and physicality. When we were finally "out of Spirit, out of the ability to have all the
attributes of the spiritual or unseen forces…" (364-10) and more fully in matter, then we
moved toward writing and speaking.
Language began as pictograms and pictographs, a language in which ideas are
transmitted by drawing images, and these images are symbols representing a concept,
object, activity, place, and the like—a picture being "worth a thousand words." For
example, today if we saw a sign with an airplane and an arrow on it, we'd know, without
words, that it shows the way to the airport. From pictographs developed logographs with
increasing phonetics, symbols moving to sounds—mostly as a result of spoken language.
This required vocal cords, and we were now in physical bodies, though Cayce states that
bodies then were not as dense as ours today.
Hieroglyphs are both pictographs and logographs. For example, the name "Ramses" is
composed of pictographs of Ra (Sun god) and mess ("to be born"), meaning "he who is
born of Ra." (See illustration.) But these symbols are also sounds, thus the phonetic name,
which was originally spelled Ramesses, later simplified to Ramses.
Cayce's readings indicate that the latter stages of Lemuria and Atlantis was a time when
the whole world spoke one language, a time prior to the Tower of Babel legend in the
Bible: "the understandings were of one tongue! There had not been as yet the divisions of
tongues in this…Atlantean…land" (294-148) Therefore, we could assume that the three
sets of Atlantis records are in the same language. In one reading, Cayce indicated that the
Atlanteans had a slightly different dialect of the worldwide language: "…translations to
the various dialects…" (852-12)
In another reading (2329-3), he actually stated that there are 32 plates or tablets—
"records made by the entity itself," that are preserved in the Egyptian hall of records. He
said that these tablets would require interpretation, and that this interpretation would take
some time. It is likely that the glyphs on these tablets are a precursor to hieroglyphics,
and therefore we should be able to decipher them.
Excerpt from the A.R.E. Member Newsletter (Fall, 2015), available at
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Transferred from Oregon in 2005 ... competed in the high jump at the 2004 NCAA Championships ... one of two high jumpers on the UW roster with bests over seven feet.
2005-06: Missed all but the first month of the season with an injury ... cleared season-best 6-4 3/4 at the UW Invite.
2004-05: Redshirted the 2005 season after transferring from Oregon ... competed unattached on five occasions, recording a best of 6-6 3/4 outdoors, and 6-8 3/4 indoors.
2003-04 (Oregon): Cleared a lifetime-best 7-1 to place third at Regionals ... mark equaled the fifth-best in Oregon history ... placed 25th in the event at NCAAs ... ranked sixth in the Pac-10 Conference during the regular season ... earned second-team Academic All-Pac-10 honors.
2002-03 (Oregon): Qualified for first Pac-10 Championships with a season-best clearance of 7-0 1/4 at Dempsey Indoor ... placed 10th in Pac-10 meet debut, clearing 6-8 1/4.
High School and Personal: Parents are Jacqueline and Joe Camp ... fourth of five siblings ... a four-time state prep champion ... captured state titles in 2002 in both the high jump and triple jump, despite being limited by injury for a portion of the season ... also won the state high jump title in 2000, and again in 2001, with a prep-best clearance of 6-11 ... won six district titles as a prep, and seven league titles ... led Columbia to district titles as a junior and senior, and to state runner-up honors in 2002 ... also excelled on the football field, earning a pair of all-league honors at wide receiver ... helped Columbia to league football titles in 1999 and 2002 ... majoring in biology.
Collegiate Best Marks
High Jump....... 7-1


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An Ill Wind Blowing: Kevin Blythe Sampson
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The boat was supposed to be five times this large. Kevin Blythe Sampson was slated to create an epic vessel for "Vision and Vernacular: Eight African American Artists in Venice,†an exhibition of African-American self-taught artists and graffiti muralists organized by the American Folk Art Museum in New York for the 2011 Venice Biennial. But as the troubled museum faced collapse, sponsor funding was pulled and the show canceled. A year later, the former executive director of Intuit, Cleo Wilson, who knew of the artist's frustrated plans for the epic ship, began talking with Sampson about traveling from his hometown of Newark to Chicago to be the second artist in residence at the museum and create a site-specific sculpture related to his original plan in Venice. Sampson arrived on January 11th and has been putting together An Ill Wind Blowing for the two weeks since, using recycled material from previous work and found objects from the back rooms of Intuit. The result is a multimedia interactive installation with an aesthetic of contingency, vulnerability, and stratification that corresponds shrewdly to the thematic content of the show.
Now retired, Sampson worked for twenty years as a composite sketch artist while a police officer in New Jersey, after a superior in the department noticed the cartoons he doodled of everyone and sent him to sketch artist school. There, Sampson jokes, he discovered that he actually had to learn to draw, but when he enrolled at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, he was immediately recruited to teach airbrushing there and stayed for decades. Now focused on teaching younger students, Sampson collaborates extensively with graffiti artists and muralists and dismisses the label of "outsider,†dryly noting that the label tends to make contemporary African-American art more palatable to certain white collectors. Sampson has been focusing on sculpture, particularly movable memorials, since 2000 (he's been struck in Chicago by the white painted bicycles of cyclists killed by cars); and his first vessels and ships, now a common theme, began as responses to family tragedies. But it's Sampson's background as a self-identified "ex-cop with lots of Tea Party friends†as well as a "civil rights baby" that helps to explain the surprising complexity and ironic humor that coexists with An Ill Wind Blowing's deadpan directness about politics and history.
The conceit of the ship is a way of conceptualizing the brokenness of contemporary America. Divided into three sections, with space in between filled by rubber rats ("You think about rats jumping off a sinking ship, but I think of them as the waves floating the boat,†Sampson mused during a Q&A yesterday at Intuit), the prow of the ship is filled with artifacts of the "liberal elite," including work by established artist friends, copies of The New Yorker, and other cultural superstructure signifiers. A fishing net repurposed as a basketball hoop stands as an homage to Obama, and visitors are encouraged to write their own political frustrations onto scraps of paper emblazoned with pictures of politicians, crumple them up, and try to make a shot. (Sampson, whom I spoke to during the installation process, originally wanted to create an analogous interactive "penny toss†for the poor at the back of the ship but couldn't fit it in to the space). This kind of provocative, deceptively simple trope marks the piece as a whole; the middle section of the ship, representing the "nasty†contingent of politics and the "24 hour news cycle of insanity,†obstructs and separates the front of the ship from the stern, which is filled with debris and objects of the poor and working class, including a picnic basket of Cheetos and white bread, plastic coins, and chicken bones. Deeply textured and layered, even burdened, with physical symbols, the boat is the clear star of the exhibition; but related drawings that fill the gallery walls (including one of the best abstract portraits of Mitt Romney I've seen, depicting him as a tentacled alien driving a car with a shark-toothed grill) offer charged but more delicate, often humorous counterpoints. Earlier sculptures by Sampson, including an early ship, give a sense of the artist's larger sensibility. And lyrics to folk songs (Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind†and the African-American ballad whose tune Dylan appropriated) face off from the walls on either side of the ship; Sampson is deeply interested in the history of folk music in America, and the opening of An Ill Wind Blowing at Intuit tonight will feature folk ballads by Mark Dvorak.
But the symbolism of each individual element in An Ill Wind Blowing matters less to Sampson than process, whether political protest or art-making. He collaborates as a rule, constantly recycles work, and considers most of the finished work disposable. "I never work alone, and I work listening to CNN instead of music,†he laughs.
An Ill Wind Blowing opens tonight at Intuit, the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, and runs through April 20th.
[Monica Westin is a member of the collections and acquisitions committee at Intuit. She is not involved in the exhibitions committee, including any planning related to Sampson's residency, nor on the board of Intuit.]
Last month, I compiled a collection of interviews with a curatorial projects operating in the city of Chicago. In it, Happy Collaborationists, LVL3, New Capital, slow, Roxaboxen, Plaines Project, and Johalla Projects all answer the same four questions, discussing their respective curatorial agendas. I always love to hear the back room story behind spaces, the way administration and practical impasses influence day to day decisions. I would love to post all of them here, but as it is, I'm only going to wet your whistle on this Internet-machine. After all, the interviews were intended to go together. While the resulting zine, "AD HOC," was available for free in the Bad at Sports booth of the Chicago EXPO, you can download the entire booklet via the following link: EXPO_Bas_pamphlet_for_web. Below I have included an interview from that collection with co-director Paul Hopkin from slow gallery — a wonderful space that straddles the line between apartment space and storefront gallery. At present, slow is exhibiting Benjamin Bellas, Represent the sound outside these spaces wherein"Benjamin performs herculean tasks and shows what is produced by his efforts." That exhibit is open to the public until November 10th. For information about what they're up to, the show they have installed in Clutch Gallery (a portable exhibition site in founder Meg Dugid's purse). Hopkin's co-director, Jeffrey Grauel is carrying it around at present, and even brought it to Washington DC for its official opening. Visit their website here  and don't forget, the following interview is just the tip of the ice berg. Each of those seven spaces has a interesting and varied way of thinking about their curatorial work.
Caroline Picard: What kind of exhibitions excite you generally?
Paul Hopkin: I like an exhibition that gets under my skin. Art is best when I am not sure whether I like it or not, but I can't stop thinking about it. I always try to get artists to present work in ways they would be less likely to without me, or the kind of space I run. That means pairing people who otherwise would not be paired, encouraging a new direction in the work or taking more risks in its presentation. I have been really lucky to have worked with a lot of really fantastic artists, but I have two favorite shows: one was called the low down and featured the work of Jeffrey Grauel, Caroline Allison, and Danica Favorito. Jeffrey covered all the windows with panels of crocheted video tape. It brought a darkness to the space — clearly because it was a sort of blackout curtain, but it also just pushed its presence into the space generating a kind of tension. Well, the fact that you also walked straight into a slowly spinning baseball bat maybe helped that a little too. I also really loved the play between Caroline's gorgeously printed and beautifully framed photos with Danica's that were off her junky inkjet she had at home, wrinkled and hung with obvious pieces of masking tape. I think one of Danica's photos had a coffee stain on it.
The second show was last spring, titled, it ain't over. Brent Garbowski and Joe Mault collaborated on this work that was not just designed for the space, but for people who come to it, for me. There was a kind of specificity to the work that was truly remarkable. They cut down a power pole and lay it down on the floor so that it cut through the gallery, through the entrance of my apartment and ran alongside my bed. They fabricated a swing arm with the familiar arch of a streetlight, so that the bulb illuminated my bed, complete with the way-too-bright light of an outdoor fixture. They are in the process of installing parts of that pole in another space and it is becoming a wholly different work. I also love that I got Barbara DeGenevieve to make work that was really light-hearted. I was really excited that she, one of my more established artists, was excited to work with Brent and Joe, two boys still in undergrad.
CP: Do you have a particular story about what the back-end of your space is like? Something perhaps indicative of your administrative process?Â
PH: I would probably not be running a gallery if there were no separation between my private apartment and the storefront gallery. It is funny to me now, but I thought I wanted to keep people in the public space and keep my home out of the mix. A couple of shows into it I just realized it was ridiculous — it was more comfortable to use my home as the space to hang out in. If I haven't swept the floor in my apartment and there is an opening, I just let it happen anyway. "Y'all come to see the work and enjoy a beverage. Hell, some of you seem comforted that there are little mounds of my dog's hair everywhere.â€
I made a rule — if I find you difficult to work with, it is not worth it to me. I will also not work with you if I don't trust you to be alone in my home. I do this because I love it, and it is important for me to continue loving it. I have only had a few conflicts, and I hope I have resolved them well. Most of the artists I have worked with have truly been a pleasure. Not that there is never stress; stress is part of getting something worthwhile to happen. But the artists I have worked with have been helpful, resourceful, and interested in having good shows. I have been thrilled to see it work that way. I have had artists who have shown in my space just jump in and help with practical chores even when it is not their show.
I keep a running list of artists that interest me. Some, I check in with from time to time. I throw ideas around, often in casual conversations with friends. Just keep at things until an idea clicks. Then I approach the artists. Sometimes that doesn't work out and it means I have to start again. Maybe an artist is unavailable, or sometimes just not into the idea. I usually have three or four studio visits with each artist leading up to a show and I always run my show ideas by Jeffrey Grauel, my co-director.
The biggest practical decision I make is to avoid shipping work. I have done it, and it has worked, but I mostly show Chicago folks. I find the practical matters to be a part of the scene, so working within the resources and space I have is a part of the fun. I don't choose in a terribly practical fashion. I mean I had a power pole hovering over my bed for two months, and I let a performer live in my space drunk for a week.
I write for every show. It brings clarity about the show and why I put the artists together in the first place, and it helps the artists understand it too. When I get it right, the writing also helps generate some interest in the shows. But I try to avoid describing the work. I want to generate experience with the work on its own terms. I have my ideas, but I don' t ever want to impose them on the work in a way that overshadows the work itself. I don't have my writing in the space at all during a show. It resides on the internet on purpose.
I don't understand your question about, "engaging a public audienceâ€â€" I mean, people come; the events are, in some direct way, public. It is a bit of a mystery to me that I engage a consistent crowd of undergraduate artists, and a consistent crowd of adults who have been out of school for a good long while, whereas I don't draw a ton of graduate students. It is a little frustrating to me, because critical attention has a way of following the interests of those grad students. But I think the shows at slow are better than that. And not that the projects haven't received attention, because they have. But sometimes I still feel like slow is a secret. I have had a couple of grad students tell me straight up that it doesn't seem like a place where they can figure how to get in —and if it doesn't present them with opportunities then they don't get invested in the space. The funny thing to me is that it can present them with showing opportunities. And then there's the flip side of the same question: what good does it do for anyone if the venue will show anything that comes along? Editing, some kind of vision and hierarchy, seem to facilitate better things all the way around. I guess I am still figuring out some things, and those artists are too. But I want to maintain a kind of criticality, a kind of rigor, and I don't mind that there are interesting artists who remain outside my radar.
CP: Do you think non-traditional sites for exhibition are important?
PH: Important is a funny word. Curators that work in canonized venues rely on the rest of us to decide what is worth thinking about, worth seeing. But what burbles to the top is just that; it is the thing that garnered attention. Local food and local art — you know? A lot of the best stuff will remain unknown to most, and that is why we visit the places that produce locally. It isn't so much that that venues like mine are important, but we do a kind of work that isn't done by important venues. Not so long ago Hamza Walker spoke very directly about waiting in the wings until a certain few venues have chosen first to pay attention to an artist, or to a new kind of approach. I think it is common for important critics and curators to wait and see what the lesser of us do. If a non-traditional venue bites on a new hook, and the results are well received, it can move through a system and become important. But I want to work from a messier place that is full of risk and opportunity. I love to play with ideas on their own terms. I love the heady space of "why the hell not†and "it's about time.†That can happen when there is no bureaucracy. I can risk a big failure because nothing so terrible happens when I do fail. The payoff can be so much more satisfying when it comes from that sort of space. It isn't all just freedom and light, but it is so much closer to the fantasy of how the art world works. I support what strikes me, what feels ignored or absent from the scene, but nevertheless compelling. I hope to bring a critical eye to my part of the art world in a time where criticality is threatened and disappearing.
The television show The Wire changed how I think about storytelling. You get such a deep version of a really compelling story if you see the entire 5 year arch of the show. Artists usually work more like the storytelling in The Wire than in, say, Gilligan's Island. But we tend to see work that is from the fresh young thing just out of school. Or the work that has become important in the meantime. We see the same details, the same place in the storyline, repeated over and over. It is set up in this way that we think we are seeing a serial, but we're really seeing one or two pieces of a story set on constant repeat. But there is so much more happening than either of those snippets. And I get to pay some attention to work in a way that has a different piece of the puzzle precisely because I do not aspire to become important as a venue.
Importance is overrated.
CP: What are some administrative influences and how have they colored your own approach to running a space?
PH: Artists need good opportunities to exhibit. I feel privileged to have such a big part of my own creative process that functions through the work other artists have made. I try to make the work and the show the focus of the experience. As much as I have a point of view in this, I want that to support the artist's work, and not the other way around. I have worked as an administrator in several other capacities, and what everyone seems to want is freedom to choose things that have an importance, and for the things that aren't valued by the individual to just disappear, to be done by elves. I work to make everything simple, approachable, and pleasant for the artists. If I can't be the elf, I let them know. But if I can make something easier, I certainly will. My structure, my approach, is built on the philosophy that this will be what I want it to be, and what the artists want it to be, as much as possible. This is the place where you can ask to do anything, and it is a simple conversation. I am very aware that I am not an institution. I am not aspiring to be a lucrative business. I am opinionated, invested in fearless and sometimes transgressive art, I have a sense of humor, I have a sense of style, I am social and chatty, I enjoy a good beverage with friends, and I am intellectually motivated. I try to structure the shows to take advantage of all those qualities.
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Welcome to our residency/art show. Maybe you should come visit?
We have a few events coming up in the next 8 days.
Saturday 14th noon- 4:30pm Art21 recording session/loop gallery tour.
Tuesday 17th 11am-12:30pm Live interview with a special guest
Wednesday 18th noon-1:30pm Live interview with Manuel Orellana
THURSDAY 19th 5pm-8pm CLOSING/RECORD RELEASE PARTY with DJ Richard Holland
Saturday 21st Afternoon party 1-5pm
Here is what it has looked like…
ANNOUNCEMENT! Changes… oh my.
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Bad at Sports needs you to know a few things…
1. Our closing reception at Chicago's A+D Gallery has been pushed back to the evening of the 19th, 5-8pm. Here is a link to the gallery page which as of this writing has not been updated.
2. This is due to our catalog/record coming out a little later then we would have liked.
3. Richard Holland will be DJ-ing the event.
4. We have two other events planned that you might be interested in. On Saturday the 14th we are going to be running a gallery tour around a number of Chicago Loop spaces and then recording the show we do for Art21 live in the A+D Gallery. The tour will start around noon and the recording session will happen around 3:30 or 4pm, all who are interested are welcome. The following Saturday (the 21st) we are planning a beer pong tournament at the A+D to celebrate the end of our exhibition/residency, "kick off" will be at 1pm.
Here is what our residency has looked like so far…
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From the Bad at Sports Archives: Rodney Graham
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The latest in our "From the Archives" spotlight is dated February 11, 2007: Richard Holland, Duncan MacKenzie and Meg Onli talk to Rodney Graham on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Donald Young Gallery. And hey, coincidentally, Rodney Graham has a new show up at Donald Young right now, through November 23rd, 2011!
Click here to listen to Episode 76 featuring Rodney Graham.
Rodney Graham, on repeatedly recasting himself in his work:
"It was just easier to do that, and it gave me a certain limit, placing limits on what I would do. It was a way of maybe trying to distinguish my work from other Vancouver artists who are really masterful at that like Jeff Wall or Stan Douglas…I thought the performance thing was maybe more my thing. It was a way of doing something that was my own.â€Â — Rodney Graham, interviewed by Bad at Sports.


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TRAVERSE CITY, MI - Neoma Irene Colpitts, 95, passed away peacefully Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at Orchard Creek Assisted Living in Traverse City, MI, with her daughter and son-in-law at her side.
Neoma was born on November 3, 1917 in Flint, MI and earned her associates degree from Flint Junior College in 1937, B.A. from North Central College 1939. On June, 14, 1941 she married A. Hunter Colpitts. Neoma was a Kindergarten teacher in Flint, MI, a teacher of grades 1 & 2 in Mouton, Ohio, and a substitute teacher in the Wapakoneta, Ohio Public Schools.
She was a former member of Crescent Ave. United Methodist Church, Fort Wayne, IN and also served as a second grade Sunday school teacher. She was an associate member of High Street United Methodist Church in Muncie, IN and was actively involved in the aftermath of the High Street Church explosion in 1978. Neoma was supporting member of Calvary United Methodist Church in Syracuse IN. Neoma was a member of P.E.O. Chapter, E.J. As Hunter's loyal partner, Neoma lovingly embraced the many years of duties, responsibilities, joys and pleasures of the role of "The Minister's Wife". Prior to Neoma's move to Traverse City, she enjoyed many years as a property owner in the wonderful community of Oakwood Park, on Lake Wawasee. Neoma, Hunter, her family and friends made many happy memories there in their beloved little red cedar log cabin that they had built on the water. Later they constructed their second home next to the cottage and lived contently there full time after their retirement.
Surviving are her son, Craig Harrison (s.o. Faith) Colpitts of Ballston Spa, NY; daughter, Sarah Jane (Steve) Hall of Traverse City, MI; brother, James (Esther) DeMott of Peoria, AZ; sisters, Pauline Ballou of Kalkaska, MI and Thelma (David) McKellar of Grand Blanc, MI; grandchildren, Benjamin (Shelli) Finfrock of Grawn, MI, Katherine Finfrock of Traverse City, MI, Carrie Colpitts of Chicago, IL, Matthew Colpitts of Ft. Wayne, IN, Leah Masters of Cedar, MI and James Hall of Fife Lake, MI; great-granddaughter, Rebekah Hlavka of Grawn, MI; brother-in-law, Donald Vogelsberg of Chelsea, MI and many specially loved nieces and nephews.
Neoma was preceded in death by her parents, Harrison and Lona DeMott; husband, Dr. Rev. A. Hunter Colpitts in 1994; sister, Juanie Vogelsberg; brother-in-law, Kenneth Ballou; nephew, Kenneth "Chip" Ballou.
Service is 11:00 a.m. Saturday, January 26, 2013 at Syracuse Calvary United Methodist Church, 801 South Huntington Street (Rt. 13) with a calling two hours prior with The Rev. Dale Mendenhall and Rev. David Herr officiating. Interment will be on Saturday January 26, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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"For the first game, Rodriguez is making an effort to get all the former Wolverines that are currently in the NFL to come as honorary captains."
Tennessee is not recruiting well just because they got 18 dudes
Last but not least in roundtable interviews, head coach Rich Rodriguez:
Personnel & Schemes
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The Team
"For the first game, Rodriguez is making an effort to get all the former Wolverines that are currently in the NFL to come as honorary captains."
This is badass. We will have so many recruits, and big ones (what up, Dee) at that game, and giving them a chance to hang out with Henne and Braylon and Breaston and Long and Woodley and Harris and all those guys they see play on Sunday would be awesome.
If TB and Woodson make it, that would be incredible.
are the top two UM guys in the NFL, they should be mentioned first if anybody is.
Well, that's a debatable statement, but I wasn't listing them in any particular order, and my first group was mostly guys who played at UM more recently. There are probably that many more guys I could have named, I didn't want to list our entire NFL roster.
Hutch is a great player, one of the best ever at his position, but Woodson is right up there with him. It's hard to say definitively one is better than the other. As far as the one recruits would be more excited to see? Charles Woodson by a landslide, and that was where I was going with my comment.
It would be great if College Gameday were to come as well (Desmond!). Unfortunately, there are two bigger matchups that weekend in Boise vs VT, and LSU vs. UNC.
If RRod manages to get Woodley, Brady, Hutchinson, Woodson, et al up to the Big House, Desmond better tell Herbie to blow him and skip out for the Big House. College Gameday happens every week, a gathering of such epic proportions at a new Big House is a once-in-a-lifetime event.
While I agree with you that given our record the last 2 years we can't claim to be a marquee matchup in Game 1, a game involving Boise against anyone can't be one of the ones that are more attractive than ours, unless we play D St. again. While Boise has had top ten success, due almost entirely to their very weak conference, they are Boise. If they were undefeated 4 years in a row they would still be Boise, unless they do it in a top conference. And moving to the MWC will only help that some. A Boise matchup against VT it worth watching (I'm calling VT victory right now), but trust me, ratings for our game will beat that one.
I mean, most years you'd be right on. But Michigan is unranked and coming off of two losing seasons and UConn is unranked and has nothing for a football fanbase.
Boise St. is Boise St., but right now they're #5 Boise St. playing against #6 Virginia Tech. There are a lot of people who like Boise as an underdog and are excited to see them beat a top-10 team to start the season, and there are the mid-major haters who will want to see VT beat up on Boise St so they have a reason to keep them out of the BCS bowls.
Also, two top 6 teams only meet so many times over the course of the season, and that alone will give this a lot of hype, regardless of the names on the jerseys. That will almost always draw better than 2 unranked teams, one of which no one cares about.
which is superior to mine. Damn, because I'm one of those guys that believe Boise is overblown and would be mid level-at best- playing in the B!0. But the bandwagon does roll on, and a #5 ranking against #6 will make for a good promotion.
Plus, how many chances will the recruits get to meet the Space Emperor (of space)?
Hmmm, I didn't know Conelius didn't make it.
...here's the thing: Conelius Jones didn't make it.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
the other half of the battle resulted in Kevin Sousa
Our coach is awesome.
Thing, the first. Might Shaw have a learning disability? If I remember correctly, he aslo had trouble learning the playbook. Football be damned, let's help this kid graduate.
Thing, the second.
It's insulting to the team to peg them as a squad that will have to outscore people.
I absolutely love hearing this. I want my defense pissed off and with bad intentions (just keep it clean). My personal theme song for them--because it matters--is X Gon' Give It to Ya by DMX:
Break bread with the enemy
But no matter how many cats I break bread with
I'll break who you sendin me
You [guys] never wanted nothin
But your life saved, that's on a light day
Someone get the MMB an arrangement of this STAT!
In Football, don't you ALWAYS have to outscore the opposition? Even if your defense is pitching a shut-out, you still need to score more than the other team... I don't get his logic.
Have you ever heard a football commentator even utter a single word? I'm serious.
"Here's a guy that, without his contact lens, he can't see very well."
The way I see it, he meant one of two things. The first is that he thinks we can win football games by scoring fewer points than our opponents. The second is that he was referring to the saying of "outscoring your opponents" which implies the team will need to win by scoring more points, not by allowing fewer points, implying the defense is bad.
It's 50/50 which he meant.
RR was talking about the feeling among some fans that there might be a lot of shootouts/high scoring games by both UM and the opponent this year.
Saying that a team has to rely on outscoring the other is meant to imply that they can't rely on the defense to keep them in the game. It's saying that it's a given that the opposition will put up high numbers, and that the team can't win unless their offense can keep pace with that.
I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you were making a funny. If only because I really enjoy seeing Bruce kick the snot out of that weird thing with the red O hat.
I think we still need one more explanation of what Rodriguez meant!
I like that Rich thinks the defense is better than we think. Rich is more optimistic than us!
It's a bit disappointing that the team gave a scholarship to a placekicker who is now in his second year with the program (Gibbons), and it's still no better than 50/50 that he'll see the field. Many teams give the kicking jobs to walk-ons, but if you're going to give a scholarship at that position, you'd like it to be a guy who actually wins the job.
Why Gibbons hasn't sealed the deal yet is hard to figure. Unlike some positions, the kicking jobs are basically the same at all levels of football. If you can hit a 40-yard FG consistently in high school, you ought to be able to hit it in college too. (Compare that to, say, a linebacker, where the responsibilities can be very different, depending on the kind of system you play.)
I wonder if it's just an issue of mental intensity and concentration. Gibbons must have had the chops in high school, to have been awarded a scholarship at placekicker. It's strange that he can't hit them consistently enough in practice to win the job outright.
Remember, the coaches haven't seen these kids for one second since spring practice. There's a good chance that Gibbons has improved enough to seize the gig by now. Also, this could be a motivational ploy for Gibbons, though that's just speculation.
Player X has earned the starting position. Maybe after fall camp, but what you're more likely to hear is "all positions are open to competition."
There is one major difference between kicking in HS and college. In HS you can use a 'block,' which elevates the ball off the ground slightly and makes it easier to kick (IMO). In college ball, you have to kick off the ground, which takes an adjustment. That being said, I agree that Michigan could probably find a suitable walk on in the student body without much effort.
Bryan Wright was another recent scholarship kicker that never panned out (he never even attempted a field goal). I'm wondering if there's more to coaching placekickers than we think, because it sure seems like OSU and Iowa, to name two programs, never seem to have the instability at PK that we regularly have.
I'll draw on my experience, which comes in two forms:
1.) I was one (I was a lineman first! Don't judge me!)
2.) I coach them now (Norwalk, OH - both Jr. High and HS)
The way I understand it, Gibbons has a mega leg, but--at least going into spring--he had the tendency to shotgun spray his attempts everywhere.
Bottom line: kickers can be headcases. A lot of the time, a team just doesn't know what it's getting until the guy steps out onto the field. I've seen kickers who will nail shots from 45 yards in practice, and piddle down their legs when called upon to do it in a game. Maybe some schools, as has been mentioned, seem better at weeding out the nutbars than others. In short, it's definitely more of a mental thing than anything.
Not sure what my level of concern should be about Moundros possibly seeing minutes at LB. They've got two guys who have seen a lot of action the last two years (Ezeh and Mounton) and a couple other guys who have seen the field and been LB's their entire time at UM(Demens and Leach). Now they've got a guy who I think has played fullback his entire career at UM switching to LB and possibly taking minutes away from those guys. Makes me wonder whether Moundros is killing it at LB, whether the LB's other then Moundros aren't that good or a combo of those two.
you wouldn't be asking this question. That is one intimidating individual. LB is a very natural fit for him. Some guys are just flat-out athletic (multiple positions, even multiple sports is something that comes naturally to them).
If only intimidating was a major factor in being good at a LB...
If one of those two is going to see the field, I'll take Moundros, plz.
Isn't that one of Brian's rules? If any player switches positions and is immediately in the 2-deep, that position group probably isn't very good.
He wasn't in the two-deep in the spring.
When coaching youth football, you have players play complimentary positions on both sides of the ball. A tight end plays DE, O line plays DT, fullbacks and half backs play LB, etc. Moundros has most likely played LB before.
Obi is the one most questioned in all the analyses I've seen. While there seem to be many options at OLB / hybrid roles, we don't seem to have a lot of MLB options. So hopefully the dynamic of Moundros in the mix creates some competition, and we end up with Obi and Jonas improving, as well as Moundros and a few other back-up options nipping at their heels.
If Moundros earns a spot, I am guessing it will be Obi's. As I've said before, Obi seems like a great guy though, so I'd really like to see him turn it up this year. Same with Jonas.
Woodson is the most prominent Wolverine currently in the NFL and it isn't debatable in my eyes.
Tom Brady called, he wanted to mention that he's banging Gisele.
Oh and that he's probably more recognizable to someone who is solely an NFL fan.
Woodson is our most prominent defensive player though, and obviously if you include college career he's more prominent than Tom Brady.
someone who knows nothing about the NFL. The only other NFL players who are even in the running are those who've appeared on Dancing with the Stars.
There is this guy that plays for the Patriots...what's his name again? He might be up there too...
On that note: what was the band McCartney was in before Wings?
Name that Wolverine: This former Michigan great and current NFL superstar has won 3 Super Bowls, 2 Super Bowl MVP's, and had the greatest single season in NFL history. He is a pop culture icon and bangs the biggest supermodel in the world. Plus, he was a fluke catch away from a 4th super bowl title, 3rd MVP, and being the quarterback for a perfect team.
I think this guy is the most prominent Wolverine in the NFL and it is not up for debate.
You mean that dude who threw five touchdowns in one quarter in the snow?
(Oh, I wouldn't call her the biggest super model - maybe the hottest ...)
I am going to go against the tide and agree with you. Brady is way more prominent in his post-Michigan career, no doubt, what with winning all of those Super Bowls (several as an MVP), marrying one of the hottest supermodels, being on the cover of just about every magazine and pretty much being perfect and all. But, in terms of just the Michigan fanbase, I would say that in recent years, Charlie Heisman would be our most prominent alum. There is probable no player that would get a louder or longer reception at the Big House.
You may have this perception, but it's completely wrong. He's embraced former Wolverines (even some who were given the cold shoulder by their head coach Lloyd Carr) since Day 1. It's this sort of crap that people bring up as "fact" when they're just looking for reasons to dislike Rodriguez.
you don't have to "look" for a reason to dislike his tenure. Not knowing the guy, I don't have any reason to dislike him personally.
That's my point. Being upset with the product on the field is fine, but saying he's an asshole, a hillbilly, "doesn't care about Michigan tradition," and all this other crap is not only uncalled-for, it's completely untrue.
I have also levied some criticism of RR (and have also defended him) but I actually never understood the criticism that RR did not have a connection with our program's history. RR didn't play for Michigan, didn't coach here and, in fact, never had a prior association with any of the B10 schools. How does everyone think that he should have an instant connection with Michigan's past. It takes time to learn the traditions, to get to know the former players / coaches / icons, and to fully appreciate what it is that makes us Michigan. It is unrealistic for us to all assume that on Day 1, RR would have shown up knowing everything that there is to know about Michigan.
But, much like many of us who spent 4 years at Michigan, I am hopeful that RR's love and knowledge of our program will grow with each passing year. Bringing back the former players is a great step in that direction.
Some people are raised by parents who are fans of Michigan. Others, like me, have to discover what it means to be a part of Michigan on their own. Either way, it is pretty evident that this is a fabulous place to be.


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Cuernavaca grew up as a sort of refuge for people working in Mexico City, close to the Capital District, but far from its noise, its traffic and pollution. With my camera and our descriptions, my wife and I tried to highlight the peculiarities of this Mexican city: its warm climate, its tropical vegetation and flowers, its wonderful colored sky, the majestic volcano that dominates this city. And, of course, the vitality of its people, and the richness of its culture and history. If the readers have already been in Cuernavaca, I hope they will find in these images the same emotions and sentiments they felt during their stay. Otherwise, I hope they will find in this book a reason to visit this beautiful city.
PhD in History, specialized in American and Latin American History, Riccardo Forte studied photography in Italy and digital techniques at the New York Institute of Photography. He has been teaching at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, living in the nearby city of Cuernavaca for thirteen years. His passion for history and photography and his love for this Mexican town were the starting points for creating this book. You can see more of Riccardo's works at www.rf-artphotography.com
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Related to the popular thrift, Armeria juniperifolia makes a neat plant with tightly packed rosettes made up of narrow, needle-like leaves radiating outwards to make starry shapes. In late spring, the mounds bear clusters of deep rosy-pink flowers which sit among the foliage - they have virtually no stem. Since the plants are so tiny they are easily swamped by more vigorous species, and are best grown in a raised bed or alpine sink. Also known as A. caespitosa. The Royal Horticultural Society has given it its prestigious Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
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