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This week Joe Bun Keo catches up with Jaclyn Conley. A 2004 graduate of the University of Guelph MFA program, Conley accepted a tenure-track position in 2010 at the Hartford Art School where she currently teaches painting and drawing. In 2006, she was selected for the Aldrich Museum's Radius Program for emerging artists.
Jaclyn Conley, A Donnybrook, 2012, oil on canvas, 40 x 34 inches. Images courtesy of the artist.
JOE BUN KEO: This work isn't pet portraiture or realistic renderings of farm animals. Your work isn't novelty decor honoring a love for horses or dogs. The animals are the storytellers. Animals are no longer beasts that are lesser than humans, rather they are equal or even more significant than the subject matter for work. What's your take on there being a difference or distinction between and humans and animals?
JACLYN CONLEY: I question this distinction without coming up with a firm conclusion. It's not an easy task to sum up an individual or what it is to be human. Essentially humans are a species of animal and yet there remains a separation. There are certainly traits that overlap between species. Our tendency to anthropomorphize is not entirely a bad or irresponsible thing and whether we're humanizing the animal or animalizing the human we're getting at what it means to be a social being.
I've found that the potential for empathy, a fair goal for art, comes easier using the subject of animals rather than human figures. Although distinctions of race, gender, social status, age etc. can be interestingly implied with animal figures they don't pose the immediate barriers that they can in depicting human figures. As a painter I enjoy the freedom of working from images of ultimately anonymous animals; I don't know if you can do this with individual people.
Jaclyn Conley, Done Over, 2012, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches.
JBK: The animals seem to have wandered onto your composition. They seem to have stumbled into a still life without a live model. When an animal enters the worlds of humans, the sense of chance encounter seems to complete the world where there once was a void. How does your work relate to coexistence?
JC: The depicted animals are generally situated out of place. I like the idea of the peaceable kingdom and the whole history of images to take on the subject. The impossibility of it is implied and so we're left with what to do with the unavoidable strife on both large and small scales. This isn't unique between animals and humans and again I like to think of the animals as implied human figures caught in moments of aggression, passion, anxiety and play.
Jaclyn Conley, Soft Center, 2012, oil on canvas, 40 x 48 inches.
JC: Ultimately these are paintings, so going back to the nature of co-existence; I tend to see humans as having the upper hand in this arena. Humans dominate over something like image-making. For animals it's irrelevant but if you believe that there is potentially power in imagery, like most aspects of the modern world, humans are the ones setting the terms. More broadly, this is the case with the types of animals that I tend to depict; those especially exotic, child-like and mostly mammalian ones that play the roles in so much of our story-telling. There are groups of animals, species and organisms that, perhaps with less complicated strategizing, continue to be in a position of control. I'm not sure how intelligence and sophistication play into it however; it's such a human thing.
Jaclyn Conley, The Volcano, 2012, oil on canvas, 40 x 34 inches.
JBK: The paintings aren't rendered precisely. There are brushstroke blurs that indicate action and confusion, alluding perhaps to chaos. A crisp representation would imply comfort and stability, but your work is a little unsettling, even when the animal seems to be resting and at ease.
JC: I'm glad that they do have this effect. The paintings are planned carefully but are made very quickly and responsively and this is largely why they take on the look that they do. I'm more engaged with making and looking at work that requires some "filling in the blanks". The paintings begin as propositions to myself and for them to remain active it's important that they aren't totally resolved in one way or another.
JC: I'm glad that they do have this effect. The paintings are planned carefully but are made very quickly and responsively and this is largely why they take on the look that they do. I'm more engaged with making and looking at work that requires some "filling in the blanks". The paintings begin as propositions to myself and for them to remain active it's important that they aren't totally resolved in one way or another.
|Jaclyn Conley, Spotted From The Neck Down, 2011, oil on canvas, 36 x 40 inches.
JBK: Tell us about what's next for Jaclyn Conley? Are there any upcoming exhibitions or other creative opportunities?
JC: I'll be taking part in the group exhibition "Figure Eight" at Artspace in New Haven February 7 through March 19, 2013 and from November 16 through December 21 I have a series of paintings titled "Hammer and Tongs" at Artspace Torrington in Torrington CT.
Jaclyn Conley, The Ballyhoo, oil on canvas, 2010, 30 x 24 inches.
Jaclyn Conley, You Make Me Feel Stupid, 2010, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches.
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This essay by senior writing major Lani Prunés pertains to an experience she had while on her EMU cross-cultural in the spring of 2013. Lani is a native of Philadelphia, where she is active in Oxford Circle Mennonite Church. All along, Colombia's leading politicians have told the leaders of displaced peoples in rural regions to be quiet about their struggle to survive. Last A ...More


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Stadium Naming
Today, new Barcelona FC president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, denied that naming rights for a redeveloped Camp Nou Stadium have already been sold to the club's financial partner, Qatar.
Former Barcelona presidential candidate Agusti Benedito stated he had evidence the club's redevelopment plans had been orchestrated in association with Qatar. The current president disagreed. "Qatar is not behind the reform. "We don't want the same sponsor to pay for so many assets. It's better to diversify," said Bartomeu.
The potentially refurbished stadium, the new home to Neymar and Messi, will be such only after a Yea vote by the members of the club later this week.
Transfer ban
Yesterday evening, at a press conference, new Barcelona FC president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, defended the club's international transfer of minors stand in relation to FIFA's announced 14 month tranfer ban, without addressing the issues. He did say the club would appeal the ban, though.
He stated that the club agreed with the protection of minors in sports that FIFA's rules lay out and insisted that the club has a similar philosophy in its dealing with underage players. He also stressed that the Masia,the fabled youth football academy, is a world wide reference point for the development of young players. Nevertheless he did not refute the multiple allegations against Barca that are spelled out in the ten player transfer regulation violations FIFA states the club committed over a five year period.
The ban and Barca's response come on the heels of the release of the FIFA Transfer Matching System reports BIG 5: Transfer Window Analysis, and Global Transfer Market 2014. The Big 5 report provides statistics about player transfers in Spain, England, Germany, Italy and France while the Global one reports on every official transfer that occurred last year.
It will be interesting to follow how Barcelona's appeal plays out.
Meanwhile, today, Real Madrid vice-president Pedro Lopez Jimenez felt the need, at a press conference, to deny that his club had anything to do with the transfer ban imposed by FIFA upon Barcelona for breaking the youth transfer regulations. "Not Real Madrid, nor me myself, as a member of FIFA, have had anything to do with the punishment which Barcelona have suffered," said Lopez.
Neymar Transfer
In January of this year one of the most important transfers of the past decade took place when Brazilian club Santos transferred Neymar to Barcelona for 57 million Euros. Only the cost of the transfer, as investigated by the Spanish courts, generated an additional 11-12 million Euros in back taxes for the club. Taxes paid after the club had paid the taxes warranted by its stated expenditure.
The unexplained nature of the finances that brought the highly sought prodigy to Barcelona instead of to rivals Real Madrid, who until the last minute seemed to have the inside track on obtaining his services, have not yet been fully scrutinized. Then Barca club president, Sandro Rosell, had to resign under the pressure of charges of fraud, but at his resignation he stated he was leaving because: "I don't want unfair attacks to negatively affect the image of the Club."
It is interesting to note that if 13-year old Lionel Messi's transfer from Argentina to Barcelona had taken place under the new FIFA guidelines, he would have been obtained in violation of those regulations.
Asked about the transfer controversy recently Barcelona coach, Tata Martino, said: "Neymar transfer controversy? I don't know much about that. I manage a team that focuses on playing football."
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On Saturday, Barcelona FC's official members will be voting Yea or Nay on a referendum to build the Nou Espai Barca. The multibillion dollar renovation, financed in part by the club's financial partners, entails refurbishing the Camp Nou football stadium and the indoor stadium that houses basketball, hockey, handball, and other events, known as the Palau Blaugrana. The referendum also bundles, in its up or down vote, other improvements to the many installations that comprise the Barca complex.
The nearly 120,000 members of the club will have one 12-hour day to go to the club in person, present appropriate valid ID, and vote to approve the plan or send the directors back to the drawing board. The new football stadium is being built in response to the club's needs to keep in lock step with many of Barca's rivals who now own more updated state of the art facilities, such as the Bernabeu.
As the vote approaches the current club administration is eager to have the Yea vote win out and have spent over a million euros in promotions to obtain that result. Bartomeu called the unprecedented outreach "an information campaign" while Benedito labeled the communication "propaganda."
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Do you have a passion for filmmaking? Are you a creative storyteller? Can you go 48 hours without sleep? If you answered "yes" to these questions, then the 48 Hour Film Project might be for you. According to their website, the 48 Hour Film Project is "a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours." Teams will be assigned a character, prop, line of dialogue, and genre. After that, you have 48 hours to bring your movie to completion.
Filmmaker Mark Ruppert founded the 48 Hour Film Project in 2001. The event has produced over 19,000 films made by over 278,000 people. This year, the 48 Hour Film Project will visit more than 120 cities and expects more than 60,000 people to make short films. The teams have ranged from one person doing everything to a team from Albuquerque with 116 people.
Awards will be given out for Best Directing, Best Writing, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Actor, Best Musical Score, Best Sound Design, Best Special Effects, Best Use of Genre, Best Use of Character, Best Use of Prop, and Best Use of Line. The Grand Prize Trophy winner will receive $5,000 and the top ten best films will be screened at Cannes Film Festival in 2015. Click here to see the winners from last year.
Still interested? Then it's time to get your team together! The 48 Hour Film Project will be in Philadelphia on the weekend of August 15-17. Registration is $160. A complete list of 48 Hour Film Project events can be found here.


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Huber, L C; Jüngel, A; Distler, J H W; Moritz, F; Gay, R E; Michel, B A; Pisetsky, D S; Gay, S; Distler, O (2007). The role of membrane lipids in the induction of macrophage apoptosis by microparticles. Apoptosis, 12(2):363-374.
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Microparticles are membrane-derived vesicles that are released from cells during activation or cell death. These particles can serve as mediators of intercellular cross-talk and induce a variety of cellular responses. Previous studies have shown that macrophages undergo apoptosis after phagocytosing microparticles. Here, we have addressed the hypothesis that microparticles trigger this process via lipid pathways. In these experiments, microparticles induced apoptosis in primary macrophage cells or cell lines (RAW 264.7 or U937) with up to a 5-fold increase. Preincubation of macrophages with phosphatidylinositol-3,5-bisphosphate (PtdIns(3,5)BP) reduced the microparticle-induced apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. PtdIns(3,5)BP is a specific inhibitor of the acid sphingomyelinase and thus can block the generation of pro-apoptotic ceramides. Similarly, the pre-incubation of macrophages with PtdIns(3,5)BP prevented microparticle-induced upregulation of caspase 8, which is a major target molecule of ceramide action in the apoptosis pathway. PtdIns(3,5)BP, however, had no effect on the spontaneous rate of apoptosis. To evaluate further signaling pathways induced by microparticles, the extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK-) 1 was investigated. This kinase plays a role in activating phospholipases A2 which cleaves membrane phospholipids into arachidonic acid; microparticles have been suggested to be a preferred substrate for phospholipases A2. As shown in our experiments, microparticles strongly increased the amount of phosphorylated ERK1/2 in RAW 264.7 macrophages in a time-dependent manner, peaking 15 min after co-incubation. Addition of PD98059, a specific inhibitor of ERK1, prevented the increase in apoptosis of RAW 264.7 macrophages. Together, these data suggest that microparticles perturb lipid homeostasis of macrophages and thereby induce apoptosis. These results emphasize the importance of biolipids in the cellular cross-talk of immune cells. Based on the fact that in clinical situations with excessive cell death such as malignancies, autoimmune diseases and following chemotherapies high levels of circulating microparticles might modulate phagocytosing cells, a suppression of the immune response might occur due to loss of macrophages.
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Chief Matt Martell
Chief Matt Martell joined the Foster City Police Department in 1991. He has 28 years of law enforcement experience serving the last 22 years of that with the FCPD family. Before coming to Foster City, he worked for the Antioch Police Department and also served as a Military Police Officer in the US Army.
As a Foster City Police Officer, he served in patrol, detectives and as a field evidence technician. He was also an active member of the FCPOA and served several terms on their board of directors.
In 1995, he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and served as a patrol team leader and watch commander until 1999, when he volunteered to serve as an American police officer in the United Nations Mission to Kosovo. While working for the UN, he received valuable international and multicultural experience working with police officers from 35 different countries. In 2000, he returned to his role as a Sergeant with the Foster City Police Department and was assigned to supervise the detective bureau.
In 2002, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and once again served for periods of time in both the patrol and administrative divisions. As a lieutenant, he was instrumental in developing new procedures and technologies, which helped the Department become more efficient and provide a higher level of service to the citizens of Foster City. In 2004, he was promoted to the rank of Captain and served as the Commander of both the Administrative Services Division and the Patrol Division until October 2012, when he was appointed Chief of Police.
Chief Martell earned his Bachelor's Degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master's Degree from California State University at Long Beach. Matt is also a graduate of both the POST Supervisory Leadership Institute and the West Point Leadership Program.
Chief Martell is a Foster City resident and is active in the community. In addition to the Foster City Rotary Club, where he is currently serving on the Board of Directors, he is also an active volunteer with the American Red Cross Bay Area, serving on the Leadership Council for San Mateo County. He is a member of several professional organizations and is a past commodore of the Coyote Point Yacht Club. In his free time, he enjoys being on the water.
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* Please coordinate with Client Services prior to adding permanent resources to the wireless network. Although TCC is supported with a very robust wireless network, "wired" connectivity is still the preferred method of connectivity in classroom environments. Wireless technology can be adversely affected by many devices that utilize radio frequencies. There is also the potential for over-saturation in certain areas. As a result IT coordination is necessary to ensure adequate coverage.


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2013 was an outstanding year for the UCLA Baseball team. The Bruins earned their first NCAA Championship in the program's 94-year history, setting numerous records along the way. 2014 looks to be an equally exciting year for UCLA, as the Bruins aim to continue the success they enjoyed last season.
John Savage enters his 10th year as head coach of the Bruins, leading the program to never before seen heights in his tenure as head coach. Aside from guiding the Bruins to their first championship in school history in 2013, Savage has coached the Bruins to College World Series appearances in three of the last four years, the College World Series Finals in two of the last four (2010 and 2013) and the postseason in seven of the last eight.
Last season, the Bruins went a perfect 10-0 in the postseason, posting a 4-0 record against national seeds in the tournament while eliminating two of them (No. 5 Cal State Fullerton, No. 1 North Carolina). During the Bruins' postseason run, Savage became UCLA's all-time leader in postseason wins, posting his 27th postseason win in UCLA's 3-0 win over Cal State Fullerton in the NCAA Super Regionals to pass Gary Adams. At the College World Series, the Bruins' pitching staff only allowed four runs over five CWS games. In the 67-year-history of the College World Series, only one national champion gave up fewer runs than UCLA, as California allowed three in 1957. The Bruins were also the first team in CWS history to allow one run or less in each of the five games they played.
2014 will undoubtedly provide a new challenge for the Bruins, as they are now the team on everybody's radar. The success the program has enjoyed over the past four years has brought the team into the conversation among the nation's elite and the 2014 squad will look to continue to build upon that foundation of success.
"This year we have a big target on our back and we're the hunted," Savage said. "Now that we've won the championship, it puts you in a different light and raises expectations. But we look forward to getting better every day and taking on the challenge of being the team that everybody is trying to beat."
The Bruins will have to replace two of the best starting pitchers in school history in right-handers Adam Plutko and Nick Vander Tuig, both of whom were selected in June's MLB Draft. Vander Tuig and Plutko earned All-Pac-12 honors last season and finished their careers as the winningest pitching tandem in school history, combining for 56 wins.
Sophomore James Kaprielian is projected to take the place of Plutko on Friday nights after spending his freshman year in the bullpen. Kaprielian made 34 relief appearances last season, posting a 1.55 ERA, two saves and 53 strikeouts in 40.2 innings pitched en route to earning freshman All-America honors from Perfect Game USA and Collegiate Baseball. He was especially key during the second half of the season, logging a 1.65 ERA in 16 Pac-12 appearances before appearing in six postseason games and allowing only one run in 5.2 innings pitched. This past summer, Kaprielian pitched for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox of the prestigious Cape Cod League, striking out 28 batters in 20 innings while recording a 1.80 ERA.
"With James, everybody saw his abilities last year coming out of the bullpen and again in the Cape Cod League over the summer," Savage said. "Now he needs to establish himself in our program as a starter and pitch to our style. He's been a starter his whole career in high school, so starting is nothing new for him, and overall I think he's more comfortable this year. We look for him to be leading the charge on Friday night. He's got a power arm and power stuff and that's what you're looking for out of your Friday night guy."
Junior Grant Watson is the one holdover from last year's weekend rotation, as he served as the Bruins' Sunday starter in 2013. This year, Watson projects to be the Saturday starter, filling the void left by Vander Tuig. Watson went 9-3 with a 3.01 ERA in 2013, striking out 55 batters and walking just 16, the sixth-fewest in the Pac-12. He pitched particularly well in the postseason, winning both of his starts while not allowing a run in 13 combined innings. In addition, Watson was named to the 2013 NCAA Los Angeles Regional All-Tournament Team.
"What can you say about Grant Watson," said Savage. "He's an 18-game winner, a preseason All-American and has had as good a two-year career as maybe any starter in the history of the school. He established himself on Tuesdays as a freshman and then again on Sundays as a sophomore, and even though he went almost a month and a half without a win last year, I think he learned from that. He's an underrated athlete, a great competitor and pitched in some huge games last year. He handled San Diego and North Carolina in the Tournament and is a very reliable guy for us."
The last weekend rotation spot is slated to go to sophomore right-hander Cody Poteet. Poteet served as UCLA's Tuesday starter last season, going 4-4 with a 4.69 ERA in his 11 starts. He also made 18 appearances out of the bullpen for the Bruins, recording a 4-6 record with a 4.84 ERA and 56 strikeouts in total. Poteet spent the summer with the Walla Walla Sweets of the West Coast League, being selected as one of the league's All-Stars.
"Cody got a little taste of starting last year and showed some flashes of what he could do," Savage said. "He also had some moments this summer with Walla Walla while also being named the best prospect from that league. Cody is a lot like Kaprielian in that he needs to adapt to our style of pitching and get to that dependability mode. He needs to become a six-inning, three earned run guy and just gain that consistency. Him being a four-pitch guy allows us to have more variety on Sundays than most other teams. There aren't a lot of teams out there that can match up with his pure stuff. But again, he has to go out and pitch and establish himself on Sundays."
Freshmen right-handers Scott Burke and Grant Dyer are currently battling for that final starting spot on Tuesdays. Burke enjoyed an outstanding three-year varsity career at Glendora High School before being selected in the 31st round of the 2013 MLB Draft by the Houston Astros. During his senior season at Glendora, he went 7-3 as a starter with a 2.32 ERA and 79 strikeouts in 60.1 innings pitched. Dyer was a three-year varsity letterwinner at Dana Hills High School in Laguna Niguel, Calif., posting a 6-4 record as a senior in 2013. He also logged a 1.24 ERA and 54 strikeouts in 62 innings pitched.
"Both Scott and Grant had a really strong finish in the fall," said Savage. "Both guys are very young, but we like having young pitchers on Tuesday that we feel are going to be potential weekend guys down the road. Right now we look for both guys to compete to be the guy on Tuesdays."
One of the strengths of this year's team will again be the bullpen. Returning for his junior season is All-American closer David Berg, who has enjoyed one of the finest two-year careers of any reliever in NCAA history. In 101 career relief appearances, Berg has logged a 12-3 record with a 0.98 ERA and 141 strikeouts. In 2013, he became the first relief pitcher in conference history to win Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year honors and was awarded the NCBWA Stopper of the Year, given out to the nation's top collegiate relief pitcher. Berg also set the NCAA Division I single-season record for saves last season with 24. Finally, he is UCLA's all-time record holder for most postseason appearances (17) and saves (6), career saves (25) and has the second-lowest ERA in UCLA postseason history with a 0.98 mark.
"David Berg has probably had as good a two years as any reliever that's ever pitched in college with the appearances, saves, ERA and everything else," said Savage. "It's just been an incredible two years for David and we would never be in the position we are now without him. We hope to have that sort of strength in the back of the bullpen again."
Other guys who will be counted upon to play large roles in the bullpen are left-hander Max Schuh and right-handers Jake Ehret and Nick Kern. Schuh and Ehret saw limited action in 2013, but are expected to contribute more in 2014, while Kern will look to see his first collegiate action this season.
"Our bullpen has really been as good as our starting pitching over the last four seasons," said Savage. "We love to establish roles in the bullpen. Right now, Schuh looks to be that seventh inning guy. He's made great strides this fall and had a good summer in the Northwoods League. Kern probably had one of the best falls of any of our pitchers. He's another guy who has four pitches and has really improved since the summer. Finally, Jake Ehret really has thrown as hard as anybdoy we've had. He's taken some strides as well and is another guy that could fit into that setup role."
The Bruins appear to be very deep at the catcher position coming into 2014, with junior Shane Zeile returning behind the dish after starting 57 of UCLA's 66 games last season. Zeile handled a pitching staff that posted a 2.55 ERA and held opponents to a .222 batting average, both the second-lowest marks in the Pac-12. At the plate, he recorded nine doubles and 20 RBI while hitting at a .286 clip in Pac-12 play.
"We have tremendous depth at the catching position," Savage said. "Shane will be back for his second year as a full-time catcher after being one of the main pieces of our team last year. He converted to catcher during this time last year after his injury in the fall of 2012 and has become a big-time player. We really feel his offense is going to improve dramatically this season. He can catch and throw, he can block, and really is one of the better prospects in the Pac-12."
Freshman Dominic Miroglio and sophomores Darrell Miller Jr. and Justin Hazard will all compete for playing time at the catcher spot as well. Miroglio, who was a three-year varsity standout at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, Calif., was drafted in the 40th round of the 2013 MLB Draft by the Oakland A's. Hazard and Miller Jr. each saw time behind the plate last year. Miller appeared in 10 games, making three starts at the catcher position, while Hazard made six starts behind the plate while hitting .333.
"Right now Justin will be our backup catcher," Savage said. "He's a talented guy with a good arm who can also hit well at the plate. With Miroglio and Miller as well, we have four guys who are holding that position down very well right now, so we feel really good about our catching."
UCLA will have plenty of experience returning in the infield in 2014.
Senior Pat Gallagher returns to man first base after enjoying a great second half of last season. Gallagher hit .274 with 20 runs, seven doubles, one home run and 20 RBI in 2013 while slugging .331. In the postseason, he proved to be one of the Bruins' best hitters, starting all 10 games and batting .351 with a .405 slugging percentage. Additionally, Gallagher earned Most Outstanding Player honors at the NCAA Los Angeles Regional after going 5-for-9 with four RBI.
"Pat had a really strong second half of last season," said Savage. "He was the Regional MVP and was really reliable at first. Defensively, I thought he improved tremendously and is really another guy who will improve offensively this year. Overall, I think Shane and Pat had two of the best falls with the bat."
Also looking to earn time at first base will be freshman Luke Persico, who was selected by the Colorado Rockies in the 37th round of last June's draft out of Great Oak High School in Temecula, Calif.
"Pat will be our everyday first baseman along with Luke Persico," said Savage. "Luke is a right-handed guy who was really brought in to play the outfield, but we're converting him to an infielder. He's another guy who has tremendous power and is probably the best, young right-handed hitter in our program."
Senior Kevin Williams returns at second base this season after spending the majority of last season as the Bruins' designated hitter. After a shoulder injury kept him out for the first half of last season, Williams returned to hit .227 with one home run and 12 RBI. He again is projected to miss the start of the season as he recovers from another shoulder injury.
"We're looking for Kevin to get back healthy again after he had another setback with an injury," said Savage, "hopefully by March 1. Kevin's a very talented defender whose offense we expect to improve as well."
In place of Williams, UCLA will turn to sophomores Brett Urabe and Trent Chatterton to fill the void at second base. Chatterton played in 41 games in 2013, posting an on-base percentage of .358 while hitting .257 with 18 runs, four doubles and 10 RBI. Urabe appeared in 25 games last season, mostly off the bench, adding to the Bruins' depth and providing a nice spark on the basepaths.
"In addition to Williams, we also have Brett, who is a utility guy who can play all three positions and can really run, and Trent, who is another utility guy who can play all three positions," Savage said. "While Kevin will be the face of that position, Brett and Trent are both utility type guys who can fill in for him and play second base."
After spending the past two seasons as UCLA's everyday third baseman, junior Kevin Kramer will look to move over to shortstop in 2014. A 2013 honorable mention All-Pac-12 selection, Kramer tied for the team lead in hits last season with 68 while batting .278. Kramer also led the team with 11 multi-RBI games and finished second on the squad with 42 RBI.
"Kramer was a shortstop and a quarterback in high school and was really drafted as a shortstop out of high school," Savage said. "He played third base very well last season and had a tremendous fall. He has really gotten stronger. Kramer's yet another guy that I think will be better offensively. He's one of the best prospects on our team and I think he's going to feel pretty comfortable playing short."
Taking Kramer's spot at third will be junior Chris Keck, who is projected to step into a full-time role this season after spending his first two seasons in Westwood as a part-time player. Keck played in 31 games last year, making 22 starts and recording 10 RBI.
"Chris Keck is a guy that we are really depending on at third base," Savage said. "He's a good prospect with a lot of power offensively and a big arm in the field. Chris has not been an everyday player in his first two years in the program and kind of falls into the similar role that guys like Brian Carroll and Pat Gallagher played last year. Nevertheless, he needs to step up in his junior year and we think he is more than capable of doing so."
There looks to be a lot of competition for playing time in the outfield with four guys competing for three spots.
With last year's starting right-fielder Eric Filia out for the season with an injury, sophomore Christoph Bono will be counted on to begin the year as the starter in right. Bono made 55 appearances a year ago mostly as a defensive replacement, and will look to improve upon his offense from last season while continuing to play stellar defense in the outfield.
"Christoph is a tremendous defensive player," said Savage. "He can really run and throw out there. It's about him making adjustments at the plate and getting enough contact while also cutting down on his strikeouts, both of which he's done this fall. He was really reliable in left last year and was a big part of our late game defensive adjustments. We look for him to have a bigger role in 2014."
In left field, sophomore Ty Moore and freshman Brett Stephens will be competing for the starting job. Moore hit .219 with 10 RBI in 28 games last year after enjoying one of the finest high school careers of anybody in the state of California. At Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif., Moore was named the 2012 Gatorade State Player of the Year and earned USA Today National All-America honors.
"Ty Moore is another guy who had a tremendous fall," Savage said. "He looks to be our DH to start the season but will also see time in the outfield. We still have high expectations for him. Ty had an outstanding high school career and had some growing pains last year, but we look for him to be a force in that DH spot and to be a significant contributor in the outfield."
Stephens, a native of Moraga, Calif., was a two-sport athlete at Campolindo High School, competing in both baseball and football. He had a huge summer for the Wenatchee AppleSox of the West Coast League, hitting .326 in 48 games while being selected to play in the league's All-Star Game.
"Brett Stephens is someone who we really like," said Savage. "He's a strong, left-handed hitter who really hits the ball all over the ballpark. He is going to be a very good ballplayer in our eyes."
Back in center field will be senior Brian Carroll, who was one of three players to start every game last season. Spending the majority of the year serving as the Bruins' leadoff hitter in 2013, Carroll batted .258 with three doubles, two triples, 20 RBI and a .380 on-base percentage. He was especially a terror on the basepaths, leading the Pac-12 with 32 stolen bases in 40 attempts. Additionally, Carroll led the Bruins with 50 runs scored and 14 sacrifice bunts.
"We feel that Brian is the best defensive center fielder in the country," Savage said. "He can go get the ball with anybody and has great leadership skills in center. He's going to improve offensively as well and really knows his role as the leadoff guy. He knows how to get on base, steal a base and score and we expect big things out of him this season."
UCLA's 56-game regular season includes 30 Pac-12 Conference games against ten conference opponents. The Bruins open the season with four weekends of non-conference play. UCLA will kick off the season with an eight-game homestand that includes weekend series against Portland and Cal Poly and midweek games vs. Cal State Northridge and UC Santa Barbara. The Bruins will then travel across the country to Cary, N.C. to take part in the Notre Dame Classic from Feb. 28-March 2 at the USA Baseball Complex. There UCLA will meet tough non-conference foes Notre Dame, North Carolina State and Michigan. After the Notre Dame Classic, the Bruins will return home to host Pepperdine and Houston on March 7 and 8 respectively at Jackie Robinson Stadium. UCLA will then take on crosstown rivals USC in a road contest on March 9.
As in previous years, the Bruins will play a very competitive midweek schedule, lined with non-conference games against the aforementioned Cal State Northridge and UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton, Loyola Marymount, Long Beach State and UC Irvine. UCLA will also play a weekend series with Long Beach State from April 4-6.
The Bruins will open up Pac-12 play with a three-game series at California from March 14-16. The Bruins face a tough Pac-12 road slate in 2014 that includes trips to Arizona (April 11-13), Utah (April 17-19), Oregon State (May 9-11), and Washington (May 23-25). UCLA will host three-game Pac-12 series against Washington State (March 21-23), Arizona State (March 28-30), USC (April 24-26), Stanford (May 2-4) and Oregon (May 16-18).
UCLA's last eight schedules have been ranked among the top-five-most difficult in the country, as ranked by Boyd's World (strength of schedule ranking service, boydsworld.com). The Bruins' schedule was ranked No. 1 in 2006 and 2010, No. 2 in 2007 and 2013, No. 3 in 2008 and 2009, No. 4 in 2012 and No. 5 in 2011. In addition, UCLA's RPI has been ranked in the top-five two of the last four seasons. The Bruins were No. 1 in 2012 and No. 5 in 2010.
"We're challenging ourselves again this season," Savage said. "We feel we have five really tough non-conference weekends that are going to help us prepare for the Pac-12, as well as the postseason, and help our RPI. The Tuesday games really take care of themselves in Southern California with teams like Fullerton, Northridge, Irvine, LMU, UC Santa Barbara and Long Beach State. Then obviously Pepperdine on the weekend. I think it's a tremendous home schedule this year. You've got USC, Washington State, Oregon, Arizona State and Stanford all coming in for the Pac-12 slate and then Utah, Arizona, Oregon State, Washington and California on the road. The Pac-12 has won the National Championship the last two seasons and I think the depth of the conference is going to make it very difficult this year. We won 21 games last year and finished third and this year I think you may see 19 wins win the league. Overall, it's a very tough schedule, but we want to play the best schedule possible and we feel that we are doing that again this season."


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It didn't matter that Jones had a more qualified contender waiting in Dan Henderson, or that Forrest Griffin was already preparing for his December bout with Sonnen. The fight went to Sonnen, the man who could pull in the biggest ratings on a stale show and the biggest dollars on a pay-per-view.
This has fighters wondering if they should be in the gym training or at an improv class, working on their smack talking skills. Henderson tweeted:
I guess I should just quit training to win fights and to be exciting for the fans and just go to [expletive] talking school. @danawhite
Griffin wondered the same when talking to "UFC Tonight."
"I'm not mad at him," Griffin said, referencing Sonnen. "Why fight your way to the top when you can talk your way to the top?"
Who can blame them? They've worked for years in the gym and in fights to get the fights they wanted, but a middleweight stepped in front of him because of his mouth. On a press Wednesday, White said it made sense.
"Basically Jon Jones is out until April. He's going to be sitting around for months anyway unable to fight. So it made sense for him to do The Ultimate Fighter. And everyone has been talking about this fight with Chael so it made sense for them to do TUF and then fight," White said.
Hear that? White said the fight was made because people were talking about it, not because Sonnen earned it. Every fighter on the UFC's payroll should take notice. Talking will earn you a fight when your skills cannot.
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Sagamore Parkway was in the news last week as the city announced plans to repave the road from the railroad tracks north of South Street south to McCarty Lane. However, this is just a temporary patch job before a major construction project starts in the next couple of years which will span from just north of Greenbush Street all the way to Main Street.
I recently stumbled across a website run by BF&S, the civil engineering contractors responsible for the rebuild. Beyond just rebuilding the road itself, the plans call for turning Sagamore into a 'complete street' with facilities for pedestrians, bicycles, and busses. The planned upgrades include:
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Former Penn State New Kensington student George Adda, vice president for corporate marketing for the Elliott Group, will be the principle speaker at the campus' fall commencement ceremony at 10 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 22, in the Forum Theatre. The title of the address is "Attitude Makes the Difference." Fifty graduates will receive baccalaureate and associate degrees.
Adda attended the campus for two years before completing his bachelor's degree in psychology at University Park in 1974, and joining Lufkin Industries. He was with the company for almost 40 years and retired as director of worldwide sales and marketing. His executive experience includes sales and marketing of new equipment, parts, repairs and aftermarket services After a short retirement, he started a second career with Elliott. The Jeannette, Pennsylvania company designs and manufactures centrifugal compressor and steam turbines that are used in the oil and gas industry.
He serves on the campus Advisory Board and is a life member of the Penn State Alumni Association. Adda is a frequent guest speaker in business classes at the campus. He resides in Lower Burrell with his wife Sharon. Two of his daughters are Penn State alumnae.
For more on commencement, visit http://www.nk.psu.edu/academics/graduation.htm online.


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Nobody can make you feel inferior
without your consent.
Something to think about....
The body too has its rights; and it will have them:
Due to circumstances beyond our control, Dr. Peggy
Elam, publisher of my books and of this newsletter, had a long and
stressful February, so I didn't send out a Queen's Proclamation
that month. Hopefully, some of you noticed! [Ed. Note: Flu
and family emergencies are not a fun combination. Fortunately all are
Some patients I see are actually draining into their
Hi everyone!
I've had a fun and busy time since we last talked. I finished Dangerous Love and sent it to publisher Peggy. Husband Joe gave me the idea for this book. The heroine, Ava Manning, discovers data that has been tampered with and is going to blow the whistle on Cloneall Drugs, Inc. That is, if she lives long enough!
Son Eric and family came over last Sunday afternoon. The weather was nice, so we got to spend a lot of time outside. Joe, Eric and G-son Shaun played basketball while D-I-L Tiffany and I sat at the picnic table and watched and dodged the ball. I did get hit upside my head by an escaped ball once, but it only jarred my teeth a little. No harm done.
Kayla played in the swings and "explored," as she calls it
when she crosses the little bridge that goes across a concrete
drain. She likes walking along the fence line of our yard
looking for bugs, berries and flowers when they're in bloom.
When she got tired of that she went to the car and got a book
she had been reading and sat between Tiffany and me and read.
Tiffany says she's really into reading now. You know that made
my day!
I collect old
jewelry, so he bought a pre-packaged bag and brought it to me. I
was like a kid at Christmas! We both know that some of the
jewelry in those bags will be broken or useless, but it's like
looking for treasure. One never knows what will be hiding in
there. So far I've found four bracelets, three necklaces and
several pair of earrings that I will have fun wearing. Those are
the things I picked out first to research on the internet. There
was a pair of small diamond earrings. And I still have to take
time to go through the rest of the contents of the bag. Fun
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Then last week I ran across an article that was published in November 2010, titled: "Hospitalization For Eating Disorders Among Young Kids Rose 119% in 7 Years."
Hospitalizations of children younger than 12 years rose by 119% from 1999
to 2006, a report issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
revealed in the journal Pediatrics. Overall, including all age groups, the
same period saw a 15% increase in hospitalizations for eating disorders.
We've got to find a way to stop this
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In the last 2 days I have read Nobody's Perfect (1st), Dangerous Curves Ahead (2nd), A Worthy Heir (3rd,) His Brother's Child (4th) and just finished Abigail's Revenge. They were all awesome. My favorite is Nobody's Perfect.
I wanted you to know that you are now MY FAVORITE AUTHOR. Please tell me more books are coming. I have been overweight my entire life, I never thought that I was pretty— my husband tells me that I am, BUT until I read your books—WOW, I am telling you life changing. Anyway just wanted you to know that!
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Enriching Dining Experiences
Wednesday - September 16, 2009
By Taro Yoshida
Director of WDI International-Hawaii
WDI International may not be a household name in Hawaii, but many of you have patronized our affiliated businesses, such as Tony Roma's (California, Hawaii, Guam), Taormina Sicilian Cuisine and Wolfgang's Steakhouse by Wolfgang Zwiener in Hawaii; and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. (Japan, Indonesia), California Pizza Kitchen (Japan), Capricciosa (Japan, Guam, Saipan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan), Hard Rock Café (Japan), Inakaya (New York) and numerous other restaurants in the U.S., Japan and around the globe.
Established in 1954 in Japan, WDI is an international company with both wholly owned restaurants and restaurant management contracts. WDI gained momentum in the restaurant industry in 1974 with the opening of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Roppongi, Tokyo. Since then, our company has grown to 17 restaurant brands with more than 180 locations around the world.
Our mission is to enrich the dining experiences of all of our guests by providing a high level of personal service, quality food and a relaxed atmosphere in which to dine. Our objectives are:
* To participate in the prosperity of our community through our restaurants.
* To closely monitor trends and evolve.
* To design restaurant concepts to provide our guests with a unique and memorable dining experience.
* To strive for a reasonable profit and stable growth.
* To explore challenging business on a global level.
In 2006, we opened our first-ever original concept restaurant for WDI called Taormina Sicilian Cuisine. It is located at Waikiki Beach Walk, the new premier hotel-retail-entertainment redevelopment in the heart of Waikiki.
Taormina is an authentic Italian restaurant featuring Sicilian cuisine with a taste of Hawaii and fresh local ingredients. The food is delicious - simple but dynamic, authentic but creative, created by our executive chef Yoshifumi Shibata. Our wine list includes more than 150 excellent selections. The decor is modern and sophisticated, yet still intimate and relaxed, with both indoor and outdoor seating.
In February of this year, the fourth and newest Wolfgang's Steakhouse by Wolfgang Zwiener opened in Waikiki at Royal Hawaiian Center. Famous for its Porterhouse and other mouth-watering steaks and its in-house dry-aging room, Wolfgang's Steakhouse has welcomed a full house of locals and visitors since its celebrated debut, despite opening at the height of the economic crisis and lower tourism numbers. Wolfgang's Steakhouse in Waikiki and Beverly Hills are jointly operated by Zwiener and WDI International Inc. Zwiener owns and operates the flagship restaurant on Park Avenue in New York and his Tribeca location. Wolfgang's Steakhouse also will be opening soon in South Beach, Fla., and Mexico City.
My goal for WDI in Hawaii is to make sure our restaurants and partner restaurants perform to their optimum ability. WDI and our partners have the same mission: to create the best customer experience. When we provide a quality product and give the customer the best experience, even high-end restaurants can fare well in this economic downturn because the customer recognizes the value - in the food, the service, the ambience, the whole experience. Quality and value are key to success.
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Office of China Economic Area (OCEA)
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From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology's place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer for beginners and an invaluable resource for those deeply committed to understanding the new digital culture. The award-winning first edition (2005) has been comprehensively updated to incorporate new technologies and contemporary theories about them. Slack and Wise untangle and expose cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don't recognize their influence. The book considers the perceived inevitability of technological progress, the role of control and convenience, and the very sense of what technology is. It considers resistance to dominant stories by Luddites, the Unabomber, and the alternative technology movement. Most important, it builds an alternative, cultural studies approach for engaging technological culture, one that considers politics, economics, space, time, identity, and change. After all, what we think and what we do make a difference.
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Jennifer Daryl Slack is Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. She is the author of Communication Technologies and Society (1984), co-editor of The Ideology of the Information Age (1987), and editor of Thinking Geometrically (Peter Lang, 2002) and Animations (of Deleuze and Guattari) (Peter Lang, 2003).
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«With its disarmingly modest tone – always attentive to the needs of the theoretically uninitiated, always ready with contemporary and captivating examples, always extending a hand to readers at every stage to join up as fellow travelers, Jennifer Daryl Slack and J. Macgregor Wise have written 'a primer' of the best sort. Their book is an open invitation to begin (or, for the initiated, to begin again with fresh eyes) an expertly mapped trek across a set of trajectories that reveals the twists and turns of the animating discourses knotted at the intersection of culture and technology. But more than this, Slack and Wise deftly show how knowledge gained can become knowledge for engaging – from background primer to timely intervention. The task of turning its readers into practical social actors in the everyday is truly this text's great accomplishment.» (Gregory Seigworth, Millersville University)
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"Breath and Imagination" (the current Cleveland Play House production now playing at the Allen Theatre at PlayhouseSquare) does what it promises. It takes your breath away and makes your imagination soar. The show tells the story of Roland Hayes (1887-1977) who is considered the first African-American male concert artist and his struggles against prejudice, in particular the Jim Crow laws in the South.
Among the champions of the Civil Rights cause, Roland Hayes' name rarely comes up. In life he was a soft spoken gentleman who worked quietly to solve the crime of segregation. Not only was he a wonderful performer who toured worldwide, he insisted on desegregating the audience at his performances and did much to nurture and promote the African-American singers of his day.
As the play opens, Roland is attempting to address the students and faculty of an integrated music school that he has founded at Angel Mo' Farm which is the land he has purchased (and named after his mother) where his parents had been slaves before being freed to work as tenant farmers.
During his address, Roland is having difficulty due to the fact that he has suffered a severe beating at the hands of the local sheriff after his wife and daughter are arrested for sitting in the "Whites Only" section of a shoe store in nearby Rome, Georgia. He has decided to close the school and move back north, but before he does he wishes to tell of his life and the events leading up to this decision. What follows is dramatization of Roland's life from son of tenant farmers to the highest paid singer in the world.
Roland Hayes grew up on a farm in Curryville, Georgia (near Calhoun) with his parents Fanny and William Hayes until age eleven. His father was Roland's first music teacher who also took Roland hunting in order to better appreciate the sounds of nature. His mother saw to it that he went to church at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (which she had founded) on a regular basis and sing in the choir as well as learn spirituals from the elders to teach to the congregation.
When his part Indian father is killed in a factory accident, his mother moves the family to Chattanooga, Tennessee. After a near fatal accident in a factory where a conveyor belt swept him into the machinery, Roland, despite the protestation of his mother (who wanted him to become a minister), resumed his academic studies and began a series of vocal studies. At age twelve, Roland hears his first recording of Enrico Caruso. It was then that along with his study of spirituals, he would also embark on a serious study of classical operatic singing. He begins his study with Arthur Calhoun and then attends Fisk University in Nashville in spite of his sixth grade education (one of his teachers is able to fund his tuition without his knowledge nearly up to his graduation) and later studies in secret with Arthur Hubbard in Boston (who did not want Roland to embarrass him by appearing at his studio with his white students).
As his career begins, he still fights against prejudice having to rent halls at his own expense and seek ticket sales through various black organizations and churches. After criss-crossing the country he travels to Europe in 1920 to study with Sir George Henschel (conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) which leads to a performance at London's Wigmore Hall. The next day sees a summons from King George V and Queen Mary to give a command performance at Buckingham Palace. This leads to a European tour where he is warmly received everywhere except Berlin where he is hissed at for ten minutes by a hostile crowd who feels a black man could not do justice to the great German operatic pieces. After the disturbance settles down, he sings and wins the hearts of the audience with his amazing voice.
He returns to the United States in triumph and begins touring. Although he initially has trouble getting bookings in the South, he is eventually able to tour there in spite of the fact that he insisted on integrated audiences. In 1932 he marries his cousin, Helen Alzada Mann and they have a daughter, Afrika Franzada. He continues to tour until his retirement in 1973 as well as support the development of several African-American singers including Leontyne Price, Dorothy Maynor, Edward Boatner and William Warfield to name a few.
To portray the life of such an extraordinary man is truly a challenge and without a doubt, Elijah Rock is up to the task. He even closely resembles early photos of Roland Hayes. Elijah was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and like Roland, began singing in church. He was soon discovered by the Cleveland Children's Chorus and The Cleveland Opera Children's Chorus where he developed his love for Classical, Broadway and Jazz.
In high school he spent two summers at the Interlochen Arts Camp and was accepted at the Cleveland Institute of Music Young Artist Program his senior year. From there he studied theater, drama, improvisation and sketch comedy at Karamu House Theatre. In his career he has toured worldwide with the "Los Angeles Jubilee Singers" and after moving to New York City has landed lead roles in theater productions across the country as well as roles in various movies. Elijah currently resides in Los Angeles, California where he continues to study classical voice privately with famous Russian baritone, Vladimir Chernov who teaches at the UCLA School of Music.
In short, Elijah Rock was born to portray the complex biography of the great Roland Hayes. He gives equal justice to the spiritual as well as classic operatic pieces. There is even a short dance sequence. Among his many talents, Elijah is also a professional tap dancer and has been hoofing since age ten. He credits his tap skills to his late teacher, Ed Bubba "Taps" Ferduson.
Daphne Gaines as Roland's loving mother, Angel Mo' seemingly ages before your eyes starting as a feisty young mother until her passing at an advanced age. Here is a woman, born a slave then freed with a feisty attitude whose advice to Roland is "Keep Your Focus". She is a person with determination but not lacking humor. In the end her "young voice" comes alive again in a farewell song to Roland. She is the perfect complement to Elijah during their many duets.
Tom Frey has got to the hardest worker on stage. His duties for the production include: Accompanist, Police Officer, Preacher, Pa Hayes, Mr. Calhoun, Miss Robinson, a French accompanist and King George V. Not only does he play each role convincingly, but he is also a terrific piano player as well. In short, the three fill the stage with their presence, never upstaging each other in the process.
The set consists of a plank stage with an antique grand piano on the left. There is a huge "tree" made up of wire and cloth that represents the front yard of the plantation of which the "big house" is hinted at with the use of three tall pillars. Various trunks and suitcases litter the stage and a cabin front with rocking chair up stage is Angel Mo's home. The lighting is well done with a proper mood set for each scene. Of special mention was the sound level of the miked actors. It was loud enough to understand the dialog and subdued so that the singing performances did not overwhelm us. The show lasts approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.
My only small complaint with the show is that it seems to play a bit fast and loose with historic fact. My research shows that Roland and his family soon returned to Brookline, Massachusetts, but for audience members being unaware of this it does not really take away from the splendid performances.
Prude Alert: This is a spotless show with a strong message on the evils of segregation and the Jim Crow Laws that once swept the South. There is no foul language but there is an abstract portrayal of violence. Bring the children to this one.
Shooting From The Lip (My Last Words): "Breath and Imagination" combines great theater, song, dance and acting into a strong moral tale concerning the evils of segregation and the Jim Crow Laws of the not too distant South. It is a show that all races should share together and learn from. Elijah Rock channels the soul of Roland Hayes in this not to be missed production.
The Crew
Written by Daniel Beaty, Directed by May Adrales, Scenic Design by Rachel Hauck, Costumes Design by Jennifer Moeller, Lighting Design by Jeff Nellis, Sound Design by James C. Swonger, Music arranged by Mike Ruckles, Musical Direction by Rahn Coleman, Projections Design by Jared Mezzocchi, Stage Managing by Jennifer Matheson Collins with Tom Humes as the Assistant Stage Manager, Carolyn Mraz as the Associate Scenic Designer, Melody Ekstrom as the Assistant to the Director, Jesse Kasper as the Spotlight Operator and Byron Brubaker as the Run Crew.
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"Breath and Imagination" will take place through March 9, 2014 in the Allen Theatre at PlayhouseSquare. Tickets range in price from $45-$72 each. Students under the age of 25 with a valid ID will be offered a special $15 ticket price.
Tickets are also just $25 for anyone under age 35, sponsored by Scene Magazine. To order single tickets please call 216-241-6000 or visit www.clevelandplayhouse.com.
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Founded in 1915, Cleveland Play House is America's first professional regional theatre. Throughout its rich history, Cleveland Play House has remained dedicated to its mission to inspire, stimulate and entertain diverse audiences in Northeast Ohio by producing plays and theatre education programs of the highest professional standards. It has produced more than 100 world and/or American premieres, and over its long history more than 12 million people have attended over 1,300 CPH productions. Cleveland Play House looks toward its centennial while performing in three state-of-the art venues at PlayhouseSquare in downtown Cleveland.
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Regina Hackett, the longtime art critic at the Seattle P-I, which recently laid off all but twenty staffers and ceased publishing a print edition, has joined Lee Rosenbaum (CultureGrrl) over at Arts Journal, the daily digest of arts news and commentary. Hackett and Arts Journal's editor Douglas McLennan used to work together when he was an arts writer for the P-I, so moving to Arts Journal was a no-brainer for Hackett.
According to Hackett, whom I spoke with yesterday from my faculty office in dreary Willimantic, Connecticut, blogging changed her life. "I used to get up in the morning knowing that no one cared what I wrote, very few people read it--and I was fine with that. I didn't see the big picture. I was too busy crafting my little sentences to lift my head and look around me. When I started writing the blog, I realized I could have an impact. There was an immediate connection with a larger audience that you don't have when you work at a regional newspaper."
And Hackett says she won't miss the click-counting mentality at the P-I, where Art To Go astounded the newspaper's suits by garnering over 60,000 hits a month. No more stories about American Idol and other pop culture stat bait. Her new blog, dubbed Another Bouncing Ball from a line in Delmore Schwartz's poem "The Ballad of the Children of the Czar," will concentrate on more in-depth reviews, with plenty of images. She looks forward to finding a larger audience for Northwest artists, and joining the larger art dialog on occasion. Naturally, I wondered how Arts Journal pays the bloggers."Well," she paused. "They've just started putting ads on the blogs. That should lead to some revenues…although not enough, according to CultureGrrl."
Hackett's modest severance package will keep her afloat for the time being while she looks for other revenue sources. Unlike other P-I staffers who were devastated by the layoffs, Hackett is electrified about the future, primarily because she sees so much potential in the evolving blog format. For regional art criticism, Hackett believes that traditional newspapers are useless, but blogging and other online formats offer new opportunities to engage a wider audience, promote artists and help regional arts organizations. "Arts Journal is moving in the direction of online regional arts coverage, and it's going to be really big. Lots of advertising." Now that daily print newspapers are dying, Hackett is sure it's just a matter of time before advertisers turn to blogs and other online publications to promote their products and services.
In addition to the blog, book projects are underway. Hunting Requires Optimism (titled after a Vanessa Renwick installation) examines contemporary landscape in the Northwest, and another is about the work Jacob Lawrence produced after he moved to Seattle in 1970. "I've got about ten more years, give or take, to do some interesting work," Hackett told me. "I want to make them count."
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Bouncing blogger Regina Hackett
Regina Hackett, the longtime art critic at the Seattle P-I, which recently laid off all but twenty staffers and ceased publishing a print edition, has joined Lee Rosenbaum (CultureGrrl) over at Arts Journal, the daily digest of arts news and commentary. Hackett and Arts Journal's editor Douglas McLennan used to work together when he was an arts writer for the P-I, so moving to Arts Journal was a no-brainer for Hackett.
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Hurray for Regina. I'm also excited at the prospect of her audience for Northwest art (and that she will keep writing)!
Idea: since new areas are expanding for reviewing artists' work and writing about artists, why not review artwork that's online, not just art in shows at galleries? There are a lot of artists who can not get into galleries, and a great many are women, with art "history".
It also opens up ways of interviewing artists about our work, also.
Good idea. No reason you shouldn't do it yourself. Anyone can be a reviewer.
Sharon, Thank you. My name is SANDA.
Your comment reminds me of Walt Whitman writing his own reviews for "Leaves of Grass". I am an artist.
Yes, I'm an artist, too, as are many bloggers and reviewers. Read my post at ART:21 about artists who pitch in and contribute beyond their own studio practice: http://blog.art21.org/author/sharon-butler/
In oother words, ask not what everyone else can do for you and your career, ask what you can do for the art community.
Sharon, Good point. I have been running the Disabled Artists' Network since April, 1985 Please see Artist Statement on my webpages of art www.artistlightbox.com/sandaaronson)
I have been keeping my art career going as can, since becoming disabled by illness. Art is problem solving, as well as an itch that must be scratched.
It has required me, and others, to be creative in finding nontraditional ways of getting our work seen, hence my original idea posted above in my first comment. I, like many others, am "outside" the traditional loop. I became ill half way through my career. I was involved in the feminist art movement before I became disabled by CFS/ME, so I know art from a couple of viewpoints, at least.
When I said that many of us have "history", but are not in galleries, I was speaking from over four decades of art career.
(I enjoy the exchange of comments.)
the link to the amazon thing is weird because it's not a page that lists terms. this one might be better.
thanks for being so on this, sharon!