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Trailer Trashon November 5, 2010 at 01:18
Oh my..! The "romance" tag didn't quite cut it here, so I've introduced the "kinky" tag.
Much like the old Optimus question, where *does* the trailer go when she transforms??? ;)
I guess I'll be the one to say it.
That robot's got a cunt like a trailer.
Hehe, glorious. Love the embarassed look on Bumblebee (it's him, right?).
She's got some junk in her trunk.
Oh god the leopard print
This is a lil piece of awesome! You've pretty much got the expressions on the robots nailed.
How unrealistic! You always gotta pay first.
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i bet he would have bolted.
My brother said you also could've named this strip 'box truck'.
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Forum to discuss proposed State cuts to emergency mental health programs
September 24, 2008Forum to discuss proposed State cuts to emergency mental health programs
Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday September 30
Evergreen Behavioral Services and Franklin Community Health Network are hosting a community meeting concerning the impact of State budget cuts to the emergency mental health programs for Franklin County. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, September 30, from 7:30-9 a.m. in the Ben Franklin Center at Franklin Memorial Hospital. Anyone is welcome to attend.
Emergency mental health services include immediate crisis-oriented evaluation and treatment to individuals, including children and adults, with serious mental health problems including substance abuse. Services are provided through mobile outreach and at sites such as the Franklin Memorial Emergency Department. "The Franklin County program serves approximately 900 individuals per year," according to April Guagenti, executive director of Evergreen Behavioral Services. "The crisis team that includes a psychiatrist, a psychologist, and qualified mental health crisis workers, receives an annual grant from the State of about $244,000 to subsidize the program that operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week."
The implementation of budget cuts targeting emergency mental health programs will have a negative effect on rural areas such as Franklin County says Guagenti. The legislation requires the statewide reduction in costs by consolidating programs and eliminating duplication of services in Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford counties. Franklin County residents fear that management and access to critical services will be centralized to the more populated Androscoggin County leaving more rural areas to deal with a shortage of local resources.
"Reducing or eliminating the program will have a devastating effect on the community. Emergency room providers, law enforcement, and schools have relied on Evergreen staff to deal with many complicated and critical issues in the past 14 years. The community trusts our psychiatrist and crisis workers to stabilize situations and help people get back into the community safely with local providers to treat them," said Guagenti.
Other local programs such as Seniors Plus, and AWAP have centralized services in Androscoggin County due to economic cutbacks, which result in limited or lack of services for Franklin County.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU - Agricultural Resource Management Solutions of Cape Girardeau is presenting "Strategic Ag Marketing Outlook Seminar 2005" for local grain and livestock producers. The free seminar is open to area farmers and is designed to provide them with critical information as they complete the 2004 crop marketing year and prepare for 2005.
The Strategic Ag Marketing Outlook Seminar will be presented twice on Dec. 1 at the Show-Me Center in Cape Girardeau. The first session will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. with the second session following from noon to 4 p.m. A barbecue lunch will be served attendees of each session.
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"There is a mountain of information available regarding grain marketing and input pricing, sadly not much of it works to the advantage of the farmer," said Wade Baumgartner of Agricultural Resource Management Systems. "There is a huge gap between what farmer can do with that information and what the big companies can do. We aim to close that gap and help producers gain a competitive advantage."
Presenters for the seminar include Dr. Chris A. Hurt, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University; Chad Henderson, market analyst with Prime Agricultural Consultants Inc. of Wisconsin; Russ Mothershead, president and CEO of Midwest Agri-Chemico Inc. of Cape Girardeau; and Russ Murray, wholesale representative with J.S. Streett and Company Inc. of St. Louis.
Seating for the session is limited. Local farmers can sign up for the seminar by contacting Baumgartner at 573-332-1123 or tollfree at 1-866-355-2764.
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Named both the Player of the Year and the Cy Young award winner in Division II-North, Sanabria led Tolman to a 14-2 regular season record with a 10-1 pitching record. He allowed only nine runs in 70 innings and struck out 88 while walking only 12. Opposing hitters only posted a .167 batting average against him and a .247 on-base percentage. He also hit .390 and led the Tigers in eight of 13 categories. He will play at Johnston & Wales next season.
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
The Crucible Introduction
In A Nutshell
Imagine a super-constrictive time in history. Think confining apparel. Think proper social etiquette. Think mass hysteria that makes entire communities suspicious and paranoid.
If the first image that popped into your head was of Mad Men's Betty Draper—bingo, you're 100% correct. If, on the other hand, the first image that popped into your head was of Salem's Anne Hale—bingo, you're 100% correct.
Yep—Arthur Miller's The Crucible gives us a parable that spans centuries. This play is a commentary on the claustrophobic Puritanical-code-of-conduct-fear-of-witches nonsense of Massachusetts in the 17th century and a commentary on the claustrophobic, girdles-white-picket-fences-fear-of-Communists nonsense of America in the late 1940's and 1950's.
Sure, on the surface this play appears to be totally about the Salem Witch Trials. But Arthur Miller intended to use the Salem Witch Trials as an allegory for the anti-communist Red Scare and the congressional hearings of Senator Joseph McCarthy going on in the United States in 1953, when the play was first performed.
The similarities between Miller's portrayal of Puritan fear-mongering and McCarthyism don't quit. Compare the rallying cry of the McCarthy era—"Are you now or were you ever a member of the Communist Party?"—with the question that haunts The Crucible—"Did you see (insert name here) with the Devil?"
And compare the life (and—spoiler—death) of protagonist John Proctor with one of the many people whose lives were derailed because they were accused of being a Communist. John Proctor, whose affair with a young girl jumpstarts the witch-hunts, is accused of being a witch when he tries to stand up to the insane-o accusations that plague Salem. As a result of this, he's asked to name names of other "witches." When he refuses, he's hanged.
Although the penalty for being a Communist wasn't death during the McCarthy era, it was the complete loss of respectability and career. For example, some of the most brightly shining Hollywood stars of the era lost their jobs because of Red-baiting.
And many more—including Arthur Miller—were disgusted and horrified by the way that American politics circa 1950 had started seeming an awful lot like Salem politics circa 1692.
This play caught on like wildfire...a wildfire that's still burning today. It won Miller a Tony. It's been made into three movies and a Pulitzer Prize-winning opera. And it's been introducing students of literature to two periods of fear-mongering in American history (double your pleasure, double your fun?) for more than six decades.
Why Should I Care?
We wish we could say you should read The Crucible for its awesome costumes. Or its snappy dialogue. Or its hawt forbidden love story. Or the fact that, hey: witches are cool.
We wish we could... but we can't.
There is something about the potent cocktail of fear, anxiety, passion, and jealousy in The Crucible that we find disturbingly familiar. As wild as The Crucible's plot is, we've seen this episode in history over and over again. The Crucible drives home just how sickeningly often history repeats itself.
The Crucible is a parable that tells the tale of a similar "witch-hunt" that went down in playwright Arthur Miller's time. Fearing the spread of Communism and seeing it as a threat to the nation and to individual freedoms, the American government, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, sought out every single communist in the U.S. They put suspects on trial and forced them to "name names" and rat out their friends and compatriots. Soon the whole country was whipped into a moral frenzy.
Arthur Miller, playwright extraordinaire, realized that the lingo being thrown around by McCarthy sounded very similar to the language used in the Salem Witch Trials (some 300 years before), a historical period he researched heavily while in college. So he wrote The Crucible.
This might sound moderately cool to you, even if it contains two layers of retro—the 1950's and the 1690's. "Oh, how nifty," you might think, "A dated morality play."
Except these aren't the only two examples of witch-hunting in history.
In the 1980's, a similar a witch-hunt developed over the issue of child molestation. Stalin's Great Purge was eerily similar to a witch-hunt in its erratic and demented nature. Today in Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific, there are still witch-hunts taking place... and yes, they're hunting actual witches. And in America, parallels are being drawn between the events of McCarthyism, the Salem Witch Trials, and measures being taken to guard against "the threat of homegrown Islamist terrorism."
Where would you stand if history were to repeat itself once more and you found yourself in the middle of a witch-hunt? Would you agree to say something that wasn't true in order to save your family? What would you do if you became the scapegoat? Arthur Miller helps us try to think about how we would handle ourselves if we were to find ourselves in this situation... and he also makes us think about how emotional humans can get when justice is on the line.
And, on a lighter note: the Puritan costumes on display in The Crucible are pretty dang stylin'.


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Witchdoctor- "
Heaven Comin'"
Witchdoctor- "
The Ancient Sahore"
from …A S.W.A.T. Healin' Ritual (Organized Noize/Interscope, 1998)
Witchdoctor – "
Holiday (ONP Remix)"
from Heaven Comin' 12″ (Organized Noize/Interscope, 1998)
EJ Da Witch Doctor f/ Mr. Trill – "
Are You Happy There?"
from 9th Wonder Of The World (Dezonly1, 2000) *FIXED*
Despite what some headwrap, true school or backpack types will tell you, the relatively recent rise of the south into national rap consciousness through crunk and post-bounce music can only be seen as a positive influence on the all too NYcentric landscape. But I wonder what the rise in popularity has done in eclipsing the other southern sound. As much as Bounce and Bass have their place in getting the party started, I've always been more interested in the handful of rap records that explore the mellow side of the south. I'm talking backwoods slow living, spirituality and home cooked meals. The production is more organic and slower (and I ain't talking about screw tapes either) and the lyrics, while similarly eschewed by a gold fronted drawl, are more meditative and personal, painting a south where the artists do give a damn and a fuck, no disrespect to Jon, Sam, Bo or the YB'z.
What I'm talking about is shit that's probably closer to Willie Dixon or Willie Mitchell than Willie Puckett. It can be heard in a mature late-era Scarface or Bubba Sparxxx refining the cliched white trash "Ugly" gimmick into a distinctly personal approach on Deliverance or in Young Bleed stripping the ghetto fabulous No Limit "uggggh" to mafioso whisper on My Balls & My Word. But, of course, the finest (and more or less the earliest) explorers of this vein of rap are the Dungeon Family and their production team Organized Noize. They mastered it on Goodie Mob's Soul Food and released a handful of great records refining and reapplying that style.
Perhaps the rawest example of this would be the much slept on A S.W.A.T. Healin' Ritual by Witchdoctor. A Dungeon Family first stringer, Witch a far cry from the lyrical complexity of some of his Dungeon peers and at times this works to his advantage. He speaks softly in a slow, sing songy flow. He goes a little overboard with the whole witchdoctor concept but on the whole that ritualistic/primitive thing he's got going on is an interesting one.
With the exception of maybe the dollar hungry "Holiday" (which some might vaguely remember bumping incongruously out of a LA lo lo in Bullworth and appears here in a more restrained remixed form), there is not a hint of the raucous or materialist nature that many southern artists explore (not that there's anything wrong with either approach). Instead it's a subdued and introspective religious experience.
Even if you can't fuck with Witch's voice or flow (it is an acquired taste), at the very least you can appreciate the production, Organized Noize at their best (and darkest). And top to bottom it's a very consistent record, I had a very hard time taking any track out of that sequence and just throwing it up here. Every track is in it's right place. But it doesn't matter since I'm sure you're going to go out and buy the album, right? Since virtually nobody did it at the time of it's release. Even diehard DF fans are unaware of it's existence. This works to your favor, because you can probably find it in any used bin the country.
Unfortunately, much of the Dungeon Family has taken a step away from this sound since about '98 (which, was the year the first Witchdoctor dropped, and, if my all too cluttered hip hop timeline is correct, was about when Cash Money was blowing up airwaves), the entire crew has not been pursuing that approach. Goodie released the damn near sell out World Party which more or less caused Cee-Lo to leave the group, to record psychedelic funk and stop rapping, and left the remaining three fourths to record competent but mostly boring attempts at party starters. Shouldn't the crew who coined the "dirty south" nomenclature be setting the trends not chasing them?
Witch, now renamed EJ Da Witch Doctor, later reemerged on the indie tip and released 9th Wonder Of The World, which was similarly underwhelming. This is mainly due to the fact he went for mostly outside and self production and ONP worked so comfortably within the confines of his concept. It's a far cry from SWAT's although there are a few exceptions, most notably "Are You Happy There?".
But I haven't lost faith in Witch yet. He managed to steal the show on his few appearances on the DF crew album (most notably on his duet with Big Rube, "What Is Rap?") and i think it's no coincidence that he spits on the two most well refined goodie mob related songs of the past few years ("God I Wanna Live" and Gipp's "Creeks"), so if he (or a financing record label) ever gets his/their shit together, we could have another classic on our hands.
Now who's going to bite the bullet and buy his new book? I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued, but I don't know how well his rhymes will translate to the written word. Plus I'm apprehensive i'll get some thirty page photocopied manuscript.
A couple footnotes –
Bubba Sparxxx, who recently left Timbaland's camp to sign with Big Boi's Purple Ribbon, has been promising a regression to his inferior party starting bama sound ("People keep saying they want to see me get crunk"…. riiiight….)
Even the critically infallible Outkast made a turn for the worse in a post-cash money world, in my opinion. Of course, they were still making incredible records, but let's be honest – Southernplayalistik and ATLiens were a lot of things but they were far from being party starters, at least not in the traditional sense, or in the "Rosa Parks"/"Hey Ya"/"Way You Move" sense. Soul Rap vs. (P)Funk Rap. I mean they're still dope, it's just different and not quite as dope;
Goodie Mob is back together, and may or may not be recording a new record;
Shout to t3 and the Stankonia.com DF Board for hipping me to that book and reminding me to go listen to witchdoctor on a hot sunday afternoon;
I understand a lot of the mp3s today in print, but really, it's waaay slept on, so go buy those albums;
this carpetbagging motherfucker hasn't been south of VA in about eight years, but that doesn't mean Witch or Face or the Goodie MO can't take me there every day…


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We went to our Blissdom conference and the overall message was be yourself. I am sure most of you know this site is owned by two women. We are very different in a lot of ways and similar in others. One difference is I am Jewish. Yes, my husband is Catholic and my son goes to a Baptist school. I believe that everyone's religion has value and there is something to learn from everyone.
So on to my new column idea- Chutzpah. This is a word that is used often by myself because sometimes I just can't believe what people do. I mean really! I thought it would be fun to share our Chutzpah moments. The only rules are no names of stores, people, or events. You may also not use inappropriate language. Leave a comment listing your favorite Chutzpah moment! I mean laughter is the best medicine.
Or khutspe. Nerve, extreme arrogance, brazen presumption. In English, chutzpah often connotes courage or confidence, but among Yiddish speakers, it is not a compliment. For more Yiddish Words
Last night, I went to bed early at 8:10 PM. I was beat I had a busy day and the night before my little princess decided to play from 1:00 AM until 3:00 AM. I am sure you can all relate. At 8:45 PM EST my phone rang. I was offered the chance to renew my magazine subscription. Are you serious at 8:45 PM! I was furious is this an acceptable time to call someone? I was in such a wonderful mood that I just hung up.
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STOCKTON — Work is complete on replacing 1,950 feet of aging water mains on Alpine Avenue between Grange and Margaret avenues, according to the California Water Service Company.
The cast-iron main, installed in the 1950s, was replaced with ductile iron, which should increase flow capacity and last longer than other alternatives, according to a news release from the company.
Cal Water provides water to about 168,000 people through about 43,000 service connections. It has been in service since 1926.
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At some point, the home-rulers will have to be able to make a pitch a DISD student can understand
[Note: Shortly after I posted this, Villalba called back. Our Q&A follows at the bottom of the original item.]
My wife and I took our 10-year-old son on a little field trip last night — to the Support Our Public Schools Dallas ISD home-rule sales pitch at the Preston Royal Branch Library, which, maybe you've heard, did not go well. Long story short: They tried to pack more than 100 people into a room that comfortably holds 14 (OK, maybe a few more — it did when we used it as our D&D game room in junior high), more than half of the presentation was a PowerPoint Q with a little bit of A, and when it did come time to take questions, the panel consisting of DISD parents (many of whom I know quite well) and an Educate Dallas PAC-man only responded to a few that had been jotted down on notecards ahead of time, which always endears you to an anxious mob held hostage in a sweltering shoebox filled with TV cameras.
I'm a DISD parent (and a DISD graduate and the son of a DISD grad and the brother of a DISD grad and grandson of a little Lithuanian fellow who learned to speak English at a DISD school about 90 years ago). The missus and I have no idea if we're going to sign the petition triggering the commission that triggers the charter that triggers the November election backers of home rule are banking on. Our fifth-grader doesn't want us to, because he's heard all about the likelihood of an extended school year. As he said last night, "You had summer vacation, and you turned out OK." Which is highly debatable. Teachers don't want us to sign it, because under home rule they could get fired without much warning or recourse. But Mayor Mike wants us to sign it. Because bad schools are bad for business, to say nothing of the … the … oh, right, kids.
Meanwhile, state Rep. Jason Villalba, who actually has kids in the district, isn't doing a terribly good job of closing the sale. I know why: He's not using his words, but someone else's — Allyn Media's, John Arnold's, Louisa Meyer's, Mike Rawling's, who knows. (No, really — does anyone know? Because last night, Meyer told us it was the donors' right to remain anonymous, which most in the audience just felt was a little, ya know, wrong.) This was painfully apparent last night, and again this morning, when he flunked out on FOX4.
But when he uses his own words, he's at least more … listenable.
Last night, I tried to use my son Harry as a prop. I offered him a not insignificant amount of money to raise his hand and ask, ya know, something along the lines of "What about me?" He declined, citing a severe case of Nervous Around Angry Grown-Ups. But after the meeting, he went up to Villalba and asked him, point-blank, "What will this mean for my fellow DISD students and me?"
Villalba asked him how old he is, what grade he's in, where he's going to school next year. The state rep then told Harry that for far too long, people like him — "people who make laws in Austin" — have been telling DISD what to do, and it's time for people like me — "your parents" — to decide how he's educated. (Per the SOPS FAQ, 50 percent of the board would be made up of district parents.) That didn't work on Harry, who gets plenty of his parents at home. And it didn't work on me, because I got into journalism because I was told there would be no math, and he needs to be taught math and science and other educational essentials by, you know, trained professionals and not somebody whose chemistry knowledge extends as far as Barry Allen's accident in the police lab the night he became the Flash.
Then Villalba talked about the changing face of DISD — about black flight to the south, white flight to the north and "green flight" (meaning, money) to private schools, and about how DISD has to stop the bleeding. By which point Harry tuned out, because, look, there was a table full of M&M cookies sitting behind him to celebrate the end of his hour-long hostage situation.
When Harry turned around, Villalba acknowledged that, yeah, maybe the night hadn't been a rousing success. He said it wasn't his presentation, and that if it had been, he would have said and done a few things differently. He said there would be time for further discussions and debates; he promised this was the beginning, not the end. But try telling that to the hundred or so who walked out without signing the petition. Try telling that to DISD residents who've been warned that this charter commission has just a few months to come together and redefine the district's mission before it has to go to a vote. And try telling that to people who make Channel 4′s morning show the perennial chart-topper.
I've left messages for Villalba today, asking him to use his words. I'll update when he calls back. Because I know he will. I promised Harry he would.
Update: And, sure enough, about 10 minutes after I posted this, Villalba called back. "I can't believe you used your kid as bait," he said, laughing. Seemed only fair. What follows is some of our chat.
Me: So, last night, after the presentation, you said if this has been your show things might have gone differently. How so?
Villalba: In all honesty I got involved in this project because I'm a parent. I wasn't part of any of the planning commission. I wasn't involved in the early stages of talking about the roll-out. Some friends came to me and said, 'We have a unique opportunity to get involved in the fundamental transformation of the DISD,' and whenever I hear that I am interested. I am a reformer. I believe strongly in that, in true educational reform.
I tried that during the last session, and the reason we were shut down was because in Austin you have a rural versus urban issue, the wealthy versus the least wealthy issue. You can't get consensus from 150 of the cats you need to wrangle. So when somebody was smart as [DISD trustee] Mike Morath comes to me and says you can do this or that under home rule, which I'm very familiar with, I'm interested. I think this is a good initiative. It's smart the way it's been proposed, in that we're not asking the people to vote up or down today on whether this makes sense. But we're asking them to let us have the discussion. Now we're trying to educate people about what we're trying to do.
That was the objective last night. It became more of a debate and a restless group of folks trying to crash this initiative before it begins, and I don't understand that. I would like to have this conversation, and in the end if we come up with a charter that's terrible we can vote it down or start over. But let's at least have the conversation.
Me: Absolutely. But let's pretend my kid's still standing here. Tell him how this is going to make his school better. Tell him how this will make his education better.
Villalba: What you really want is an enumeration of things that can happen. The charter hasn't been drafted, but let start with the big [change] that we don't talk about that much.
Chapter 21 of the [Texas Education Code] deals with teacher contracts, teacher evaluations, teacher promotions and disciplinary procedures. It's one of the biggest impediments we have to being able to property evaluate teachers and give them the feedback in the classroom and transition out of the classroom those who might be under-performing. It takes appeal after appeal and it costs money — a lot of money …
Me: But why the rush on that? After all, in May the board will finally vote on Edwin Flores' long-in-the-works Teacher Excellence Initiative.
Villalba: Teacher evaluations are a way to reform. That's a way to advance incrementally this initiative of reform, and in May we'll vote for it and go forward, because it makes sense. But it's only one dial on this very large machine. Education is very complex. There are thousands of levers and knobs that can be manipulated. Teacher evaluations are one knob. In order to be able to manipulate all those knobs and levers and buttons, we need home rule, which gives us the authority to be able to manipulate the metrics.
And then we can start the school year before the fourth weekend of August. We believe there are good reasons we should be able to do that in DISD. We can't do that now. There's lengthening the school day. That's something people say we can do under the current system. That may or may not be true, but it'd be more flexible and agile under home rule. Those are three things we can do under home rule and not today.
Me: But you've yet to say, specifically, how this benefits our kids' education. Pretend I'm 10. Trust me, it's not that hard.
Villalba: One thing is more dollars in the bank for schools, because you won't have to pay for all those teacher appeals. That's millions of dollars being put back into the school system we don't have to pay for appeals on both sides of that. And if your kid's at school today, let's say he had a bad teacher. Under home role it would be so much easier to get a good teacher. That's direct. It's something that will directly benefit our kids. And they don't understand that. You know the cornerstone of education is quality educators. And we have a strong majority of those in DISD, and some could use remedial helpand some that probably need to go.
Me: You have a kid in the district, and another who's about to in the fall, right? Seems to me you're the best guy to make the case. So … why didn't you, either last night or this morning?
Villalba: Absolutely. I've got skin in the game. That was no fun for me this morning with Tim [Ryan]. I am a volunteer, a citizen volunteer, who came to this because they asked if I want to do something that might help the kids. I am not getting paid, I don't go to the briefings. I am trying to help. And when I was asked to participate last night, it was as a citizen volunteer. And when you're that, you're not intimately involved.
You've seen the Jason Villalba show. It's a little different. This isn't my initiative. I am not the one spearheading this. I am not putting this together, and I don't feel like I have the authority to tell people who are working longer and harder on the roll-out how they should run their show.
I will say this: Going forward, if I am going to be somebody speaking on this, participating, I am going to demand a little more input. I don't need to be looking goofy on television.
And about that: That spot was at 7 in the morning. I jumped out of the shower minutes before that, and I had water in my ear, which is why that earpiece kept falling out. I missed two of the questions. I kept fiddling with that. And, look, Tim had an agenda. He said something like, 'The next time you guys put on a show, you'd better have a better plan of action.' I thought that was a little disingenuous.
We expected to get some good feedback. We were genuinely hopeful last night would be about this plan, and it became a confrontational situation. Let's not pull punches: The folks who showed up late do not have children in the system, and they wanted to disrupt the presentation.
But, absolutely, it's healthy to have conversations. And let's have a forum later on for people to get their three-minute rants out to tell us what a dumb idea this is. That will come. They will be able to tell us why this is the worst thing that's ever been suggested in all of Texas.
Me: So what would you have done differently?
Villalba: If it had been my show, any time you have a controversial topic you're better off having the give-and-take as opposed to the postcard with the questions, so people think you're rigging the system. We knew there was a real risk of confrontation, and we didn't want it to elevate. We used the venue because others were booked. We tried to get bigger rooms. But next time, if we can't get a bigger room, yes, let's change the date to a date where we can get a large auditorium that's well-air-conditioned with good acoustics and a translator. That makes sense. We'll let people talk about their concerns and let them talk about their issues.
There are some issues I know people have that have come up: Who's behind the initiative, who's paying for the program, what's the charter going to look like. Let's craft a charter that has all the permutations of what it could look like, the top 10 things. Those are the things people want to hear about. That's fair.
And we'll have to address the timing. People want to know: Why are you rushing this? And maybe it's not this election cycle. Maybe it's the next one.
Me: This is all entirely too rational. You could have said all this last night, ya know.
Villalba: It wasn't my show. And those folks who brought me in are good people. They're just not good with confrontational politics. I am an expert on that subject.


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I believe fall has arrived! Which I would be totally excited about, but it also means football season and my Bears had a rough game last night.
What makes things worse is they lost to the Packers. It's one thing to lose a game. It's an entirely different thing to lose to the cheeseheads.
But alas! Next week is a new week and you'll find me sitting at Soldier Field cheering them on.
This is going to be an interesting Gin and Topics because Mr. D and Rusty Speidel (with a little help from Jason Konopinski) rule it.
In fairness, they were on their A games this week. They found some seriously funny videos.
These are in no particular order. My favorite is not in the number one spot. I do this so as not to persuade you in any way.
5. Selling is Service. Service is Selling. I don't really know how I can explain this. I feel like it's just something you have to watch. They say it's a video to learn how to bring your retail skills to the next level. But, well, um, yeah. Just watch.
4. Best of Farting Preacher. I can't believe this is true. Surely they put the noises over the top of the videos?? Regardless, people think farting is funny (sorry, Lisa) so here you go!
3. Two Hamsters, One Wheel. This seriously is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The poor hamsters. Oh who am I kidding? It's hilarious!
2. Razorbacks: United We Stand. OK. I'm a HUGE Bears fan. I can tell you ridiculous stats about the players like I'm a 12 year old boy. I watch every game as if my life depends on it. But this? This is over-the-top. A Razorbacks fan records a song for the team, after a loss. I particularly like her taped-up nose.
1. Awkward Pregnancy Photos. You've seen awkward family photos? Well this is awkward pregnancy photos. I have to say, I cannot imagine how this conversation goes at home. Honey, I'd really like to do some interesting photos with my belly? Yeah? Let's do it! How about we have photos taken with your belly showing while you're pulling my gun out of my holster.
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45 Comments on "Gin and Topics: Crazy Football Fans and Awkward Pregnancy Photos"
Bwahahahaha!!! "Hallelujah, I am smelling fresh bread."
@yvettepistorio LOL!
What – no penguins?!?!
@jasonkonopinski Heck no. The penguin was just for me.
I started watching the preacher video at work and I had to walk away because I was laughing so hard. I have the sense of humor of my five-year-old daughter.
I can't wait to share it with my friends.
@bradmarley We're all like five year olds when it comes to farting.
Ah, the farting preacher. That's one of the oldest viral videos on the web. Oldie, but goodie.
@KenMueller I'm pretty sure it's not real. But funny anyway!
I can't even bear to watch these. Except for Selling is Service — now that's internet greatness.
@barrettrossie And service is selling.
I almost called in sick today over the Bears game…..I feel like I got sacked 7 TIMES!!! On to next week.
@PattiRoseKnight I'm so sure … like I wouldn't know you were sick from the Bears game. LOL!
@ginidietrich Ours too! Thanks for the laugh 🙂
@SpinSucks You do know that being with crazy footnall fans at a sports bar usually ends in an awkward pregnancy? 🙂
I just got sucked into some vortex of time and I can't tell you what happened to the past 34 minutes. Damn, wonder if the Razorback nation abducted me again for making fun of them.
More importantly I want to let Jay Cutler know that for the paltry sum of $1 million per year I can fix what he has broken in that locker room and convince the fellas to block for him again.
@thejoshuawilner I am telling you. He must have slept with someone's wife and they are all out to get him. They're horrible.
Okay, I'm an animal lover but I have tears from laughing so hard with the poor little hamsters.
@debdobson62 It's kinda like what the inside of my brain is like. 🙂
@debdobson62 Poor hamsters. When they start going around as one little fur ball, I laugh every time!
OMG the hamsters! I'm crying!
@TaraGeissinger Right?!? I thought that was so stinking hilarious!
@ginidietrich I will take Gin and Topics and Gin and Chocolate. He he. Have a great weekend!
@ginidietrich Gin and Topics! I have a feeling I could turn this into a book/debate/drinking club idea. #MyKindOfHobby
@ebonysager It would totally work for book club!
I watched those hamsters last night and damn near DIED I was laughing so hard. But, *ahem* you DO get the reference of the title, right….? "Two Hamsters One Wheel"….
And the selling is service video…? There really are no words.
head. desk.
@belllindsay Ok. I'll bite. Please explain yourself. My wheel has one hamster and one hamster only. Sadly, that why I am struggling with this……
@rdopping @belllindsay Hah now you have to explain it, Linds!
@RebeccaTodd @rdopping HAHAHA! No way Rebecca!! LOL
@belllindsay @RebeccaTodd Tease.
@belllindsay You know @jasonkonopinski sent that one to me? I get these little gems from him in the middle of the week and it makes me laugh, no matter where I am in the country.
@ginidietrich @belllindsay One from the wayback machine: http://www.webhamster.com/
@Carmelo I AM DYING!!!!! LOL!! It's a good thing I wasn't there. I would have been busting up! HAHAHAH! That's pure gold.
@ginidietrich LOL…. it was awful, Gini. It was so intense I could feel her hands suddenly asking "what made this guy tense up so much?" I probably should have busted up laughing because she probably left thinking she did a horrible job on the massage!
(and i wouldn't have had to tip her so much either!)
@JeffCutler that @ginidietrich collected some goodies 😉
The hamsters totally planned this out.
@AnneReuss It looked like a set up.
@AnneReuss Don't you love how one of them finally gets out of there?
Selling IS service. Gold, pure gold.
@rdopping Service is selling.
I liked this post, fun and a great read.
So the Hamsters are one of the best things I've ever seen. Is that your fav, G?
But…where do I even start with Service is Selling?!? The woman in antlers? The way the one woman has a cheat sheet? Or the fact they have to quickly edit away from the woman falling off of the chair? This was a great start to my Monday.
@RebeccaTodd I want to know how the selling is service video gets made. And who wrote the script? And who decided the dancing down the aisles was a good idea?
@ginidietrich The hamsters absolutely killed me.
@carlaasprague When the hamsters start going round and round together? I laugh every time!


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Miya Ando
'1o Certificate of Completion, Public Art Academy Northern California
'99 Apprentice to Master Metal Smith, Hattori Studio / Okayama Japan
'98 Yale University, East Asian Studies / New Haven CT
'96 UC Berkeley, East Asian Studies BS Magna Cum Laude / Berkeley CA Phi Beta Kappa, Dean's List
Public Commissions
Nippon Club, Tohoku Memorial Installation "Meditation Room"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, Josie Robertson Surgery Center "Tides" NYC
Montefiore Hospital Lobby Public Commission, Bronx, NYC "Ascension Leaves & Bodhi (Ficus Religiosa Leaf Mandala"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC Painting Installation Lobby
'Since 911' Public Memorial Sculpture installed permanently at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Zaha Hadid Aquatic Centre, London
Collaboration with Calvin Klein Home, Collective Design Fair, NYC
Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Program, Cancer Center NYC "Evenings"
The Queens Museum, 'Obon' [Hudson River]
Narthex Chapel Installation, Saint Peter's Church NYC
"Obon: Puerto Rico", Fist Art Foundation, Puerto Rico. Outdoor, ephemeral public art commission.
"Obon: Temple", Haein Art Project, Outdoor public commission, 108 luminous resin and phosphorescent cube sculptures for the millennial celebration of The Haeinsa Buddhist Temple, South Korea
"Reflectivity", September 11 Memorial Sculpture made from a 24" piece of World Trade Center Steel, for CalFire California Fire Department.
"After 9/11", September 11 Memorial Sculpture, created from 30 foot pieces of World Trade Center Steel, London UK
"Quietness", Non Denominational Chapel, San Francisco General Hospital/ / San Francisco
"Obon [Meditation 1-8]", Thanatopolis Outdoor Memorial Sculpture / Norwalk, CT
"Sakura Reichstag", temporary outdoor installation, invisible luminous paint on snow / Berlin, Germany
"Beautiful Night", Invisible luminous wall mural, Safdi Plaza Realty / Brooklyn, NY
"Shelter [Meditation 1-12]", 40' installed, The Healing Place Non Denominational Chapel Woman's Shelter / Louisville, KY
"8-Fold Path" Against The Stream Buddhist Meditation Society / Los Angeles, CA
"Let There Be Light", Non Denominational Chapel St. John's Bread & Life / New York, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Sky/Emptiness (Sora/Ku) Sundaram Tagore Gallery Hong Kong
Sky/Emptiness (Sora/Ku) Sundaram Tagore Gallery Singapore
Evenings, Madison Galleries, La Jolla, California
Outside Looking In, Lesley Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Fleeting Light, Narthex Gallery Saint Peter's Church, New York
Kisetu (Seasons), Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
Aurora, Mead Carney Fine Art, London
Light Metal, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
Hamon (Cloud-like Pattern), Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Tides & The Phases of the Moon, K Imperial Gallery / San Francisco
Mujo (Impermanence), Sundaram Tagore Gallery / NYC
Transformations, Martin Asbaek Gallery & Bang Olufsen / Copenhagen
Miya Ando, Dixten Les Docks, Paris
"Meditations" Madison Galleries/La Jolla CA
"The Color of Light", Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Elements" Galerie Sho, Tokyo
"Reflections" Shibuya Seibu Artspace, Tokyo
"Chado: The Way of Tea" Artxchange Gallery, Seattle
"Miya Ando Solo Exhibition" Galerie Sho / Tokyo Japan
"Shinobu" de Castallane Gallery / Brooklyn NY
"Meditations", Art Ecology Gallery / Louisville KY
"Small Meditative Works", Lora Schlesinger Gallery / Santa Monica CA
""Luminous Transcendent", Bryant Street Gallery / Palo Alto CA
"Meditative Fields", Michael Ingbar Gallery / New York NY
"Next Post: 18 Solo Projects", Rupert Ravens Contemporary / Newark NJ
"Vanishing Point of Departures", Anne Reed Gallery / Sun Valley ID
"Revelation and Reflection", Bandini Art Gallery / Culver City CA
"Introspective Environments", Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art / Staten Island
"Miya Ando Stanoff", Edith Caldwell Gallery / Sausalito CA
"Miya Ando Stanoff", Galerie Sho / Tokyo Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
ABSTRACTION Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, NYC Group Show
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong Winter Group Show
212 Gallery, Miya Ando & Karen Gunderson, Aspen Colorado
Winston Wachter Seattle, Summer Group Show
Little Piece, 'Tsuru No Ongaeshi' Video Installation, Custom House, Ireland
Nova Gallery, 'Do You See What I see', Manila Philippines
Memorial Sloan Kettering, Vantage Points curated by Sarah Campbell, NYC
Samurai In Contemporary Culture, Worcester Art Museum
2015 56th Venice Biennale, "Frontiers Reimagined" Exhibition, Museo Di Palazzo Grimani
Scope 2015 Tribeca Grand Hotel curated by Natalie Kates
Group Show, Lora Schelsinger Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Night Light, Fresh Windows Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Summer Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2014 Current Projects at Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto
Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica
Summer Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
Shock of the New, Mead Carney Gallery, Monte Negro
Queens Museum of Art, 'Raising the Temperature: Art works in environmental reactions", curated by Luchia Lee
Wutang Exhibition, Wallplay NYC
Unseen, Cult Exhibitions/ San Francisco
All Of The Above, Church of St Paul The Apostle, New York
Surface Tension, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
Summer Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles
AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum & Wave Hill, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Archives of the Ephemeral: ten interventions in Nature, Escuela de Bellas Artes de Ponce, Puerto Rico
8 Stories, 8 Women, Sundaram Tagore Gallery Hong Kong
A Strong Hand That Nonetheless Gets You Nowhere, Kunsthalle Galapagos, New York
Limuw: An Ode To The Sea, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Thinking Like The Universe, K Imperial Gallery, San Francisco & Hatch Gallery, Oakland
The Hermitage, St Petersburg & IMAL Brussels, "Timekeeper"
Sagrado Corazon University, "Archives of the Ephemeral: Ten Artistic Interventions in Nature", Puerto Rico
Sundaram Tagore Gallery "Installation 1" NYC
Galerie Sho Contemporary Art/ New York Armory Fair, New York
Shibuya Seibu Gallery "Art Meets New York" Galerie Sho, Tokyo
Stories To Wake Up With, The Market Studios Dublin, Ireland
Kunstfilmtag, Language Is The House We Live In, Auditorium of the Artists Association Malkasten, Düsseldorf
"Perspectives" Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
"Wa: The Art of Japan" Gensler Art Gallery / San Francisco
"The Cutting Light" exhibition, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris France
"Wide Open" BWAC, Red Hook, NY Curated by Nate Trotman, Guggenheim
"Misc" Art Finance Partners, New York, NY
"Sweetcake Enso" Travelling Zendo Exhibition, Empty Hand Zendo New Rochelle / NY Village Zendo / NY, Brooklyn Zen Center / New York
"The Happy Tree" Monster Children & Element / Sydney Australia
"Diversity in Dialogue" Muriel Guepin Gallery / Brooklyn NY
"The Art of Light", Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery / Berlin Germany
"Post No Bills: Art is Not A Crime", Art Ecology Gallery / Louisville KY
"Hypothetical Landscapes", Janet Kurnatowski / Brooklyn NY
"nAscent Art", Cipriani Club / New York NY
"ScopeNY", Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery / New York NY
"W Hotel", White Gallery / Times Square NY
"Out of the Blue", Attleboro Arts Museum / Attleboro MA
"Places and Manners of Worship", Museum of Byzantine Culture / Greece
"Theme of Compassion", ArtXchange Gallery / Seattle, WA*
(*exhibit collaboration w/gathering feat. His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet)
"Lack of Desire", Brooklyn Arts Council / Brooklyn NY
"Duopolis", Chandra Cerrito Contemporary / Oakland CA
"Distilled Moments", 111 Minna Gallery / San Francisco CA
"New Wave Contemporary", Galerie Sho / Tokyo Japan
"Homo Bellicus, A Geneology of War" / Berlin Germany
"Director's Selection", Edith Caldwell Gallery / Sausalito CA
"Coast East", Art Gotham / New York NY
"The 69th Regiment Armory", Art (212) / New York NY
"Miya Ando & Jeremy Morgan", Concourse Gallery: Blue Tangerine / San Francisco CA
"New Visions: Introductions 2006", Pro Arts Gallery / Oakland CA
"2-d-2", Energy Gallery / Toronto, Canada
"Engineered Constructs" SJ Works / San Jose CA
Selected Bibliography (2008 – pr)
"Miya Ando's refined, subtle works of rolled steel, made of sheets of burnished and chemically treated metal, are also a must-see for anyone interested in post-minimalist contemporary art."
- The New York Times / Mar '09
"The 28-foot-tall London shard, adapted into a sculpture by a New York-based artist, Miya Ando, was erected in London's Battersea Park last week."
- New York Times, September 10, 2011
Artscene "Abstraction Group Show" by Genie Davis, Vol. 35, NO. 9, June 2016
Wired Magazine 'Miya Ando's Artwork Brings Colour To Sheets of Aluminum"
Gotham Magazine, Miya Ando Smile Design Gallery Charity
The Standard Hong Kong, 'Steeling The Show; Miya Ando'
South China Morning Post, 'Arts Preview, Miya Ando'
Asian Art News, Review of Miya Ando Solo Exhibition, Hong Kong
Art Radar Asia, Light Metal interview with Miya Ando
Artnews, Sundaram Tagore Gallery Singapore 'To Be A Lady' exhibition review
Asia Tatler, Miya Ando at Sundaram Tagore Gallery Hong Kong
HK Magazine, Miya Ando Light Metal
Queens Chronicle 'Raising the Temperature at Queens Museum"
Engadget, Miya Ando & Bang Olufsen
Metro News Russia, Miya Ando
Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium, Miya Ando 'Tides & Phases of the Moon' exhibit
Newsweek: Mighty Miya: 'Artist Miya Ando's alchemy on display at Sundaram Tagore'
Blouin Artinfo review: Miya Ando's burnished metals at Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Modern Metals Magazine: Metal Masterpieces
Qidye (Chinese) : Miya Ando
Artspace Magazine: Artist Miya Ando on her connections to the natural world
I09: The bioluminescent leaves of Puerto Rico
Tricycle Magazine: Miya Ando Solo Show Mujo 'Impermanence'
Studio Visit Magazine: Miya Ando
Wall Street International: Miya Ando Mujo 'Impermanence' at Sundaram Tagore Gallery
The Forward: The Sisterhood 'Searching for Impermanence'
Shambhala Sun Magazine: Roses, Steel and Slave Ships
Avant Garde Diaries: Easy Pieces, Miya Ando
Government Technology Magazine: Photo of the Week – 1000 Bioluminescent Leaves
Tricycle Magazine: Miya Ando 'The Alchemist' studio visit video
Who and Whom Magazine: Miya Ando: her upcoming exhibition
Buddhist Art News: Miya Ando
Surface Asia: Brevity and Light
This is Colossal: Miya Ando's floatilla of 1000 bioluminescent leaves
Inhabitat: Artist Miya Ando's bioluminescent leaves emit a soft night time glow
Artseen – Miya Ando solo exhibition video
My Modern Met: Miya Ando
The Wild Magazine: Miya Ando's meditative metals
La Mono Magazine: Element Eden Advocate Miya Ando
Artpulse Magazine: Archives of the Ephemeral
Art Radar Journal: Drawing Attention: female artists across asia
XOXO Magazine: Miya Ando Interview
Eden Behind the Seams: "Miya Ando, Eden Advocate"
Sculpture Magazine: Commissions in Brief, Miya Ando Obon
Artpulse: Miya Ando Obon, Fall 2012
Written River Journal: Feature Interview Miya Ando, Winter
The Village (Russia): Office of the Week Moscow, December
The Artpoint: Miya Ando, Ceremonies of the Ephemeral, December
Huffington Post: Remebering September 11th, 2001: 20 Artworks Inspired by 9/11,
Nasaji (Iran): Miya Ando Iron & Silk
Cool Hunter: Miya Ando Studio Visit, July
Yanko Design: Iron and Silk Scarf, July
Design Sponge: "Miya Ando", July
Design Boom: "Miya AndoTetsu to Kinu Scarf", July
Moco Loco: "Iron and Silk Scarf by Miya Ando", July
NotCoture, NotCot: "Tetsu to kinu scarf", July
Spoon and Tamago:"Studio Visit: Miya Ando", July
Spoon and Tamago: "Obon: Miya Ando's installation of 1000 bioluminescent floating leaves", June
London Design Journal: "Obon Installation || Miya Ando" June
Artista International Miya Ando Obon, June
Clam Mag (Paris): "Fresh by Miya Ando" May
Visual Art Beat Magazine: "New Collections; Miya Ando" January
Minimal Exposition: "Miya Ando Color of Light Exhibition", January
"Lost Lives, Diminished Power" New York Times, September 10, 2011
"The Remains of that Day" The Financial Times, September
"9/11 Defining a Decade: Towering Peace Symbol" Documentary of Miya Ando's 9/11 Memorial project, NHK News
"London Unveils 9/11 Memorial" The Wall Street Journal, September
"9/11 Sculpture Unveiled in Battersea Park" BBC London, September
"Britain Launches 9/11 website for schoolchildren" Yahoo News Canada, September 5,
"London unveils 9/11 Memorial" Reuters
"9/11 Ten Years On Families Mark date around the world", The Irish Times, September
"9/11 Unveiling" The Star, September
"A Decade on, project aims to explain the events of 9/11 to the teenagers of 2011" The Evening Standard, September 2, 2011
"Why a Piece of 9/11 has found a home in Britian" Sunday Express London
"Remembrance" Evening Standard, September
"American Artist Miya Ando poses with Sculpture" Getty Images
"What's Bringing Boris Johnson, Simon Schama, Thomas Von Essen, the New York Fire Commissioner on 9/11, Tracey Emin and Wim Wenders Together Next Week", Education Today, September
"September 11 Sculpture Unveiled in Battersea Park" Jewish Chronicle, September 6
"Sculpture created from Sept 11 Ruins" Sky News Austrailia, September 6
"London Unveils 9/11 Memorial" Market Watch, September 6
"Britain launches 9/11 website for schoolchildren" NDTV
"9/11 Artwork Unveiled in Battersea Park as part of educational project" Surrey Comet
"9/11 Artwork unveiled in Battesea Park as part of educational project" Your Local Guardian
"Britain launhes website on U.S. Attacks, Windsor Star September 6
"9/11 artwork unveiled in Battersea Park as part of educational project" This is Your London
"A Nation Hit Hard" Deutsche Welle WORLD, September 11
"Lost Lives, Diminished Power" International Hearld Tribune, September 10
"Lessons in Terror" The Australian September 7
"Britain pays tribute to 9/11 victims" Mid-Day, September 7
"Art exhibitions reflect on the tenth anniversary of 9/11" My Daily, September 10
"Art Historian Simon Schama on Why He Supports London's Controversial 9/11 Memorial" Art Info, September
"Artdaily Best Photo of the Day: New York Artist Miya Ando poses next to her sculpture After 9/11 in Battersea Park in Central London" Artdaily, September 6
"World Trade Center Steel in London: A sculpture by the New York artist Miya Ando uses wreckage from the 11 September Attacks" The Art Newspaper, September
"Today in Pictures: Eagle scout Jeff Cox looks up at New York artist Miya Ando's sculpture" ABC News, September
"Remnants of Twin Towers find role in London's 9/11 Memorial" Washington Times, September
"Brooklyn Artist's 9/11 Sculpture Debuts Across The Pond" NY1 News, September
"US Artist Miya Ando poses for photographers after the unveiling of her artwork 'After 9/11" Forbes, September
"New York artist Miya Ando poses next to her sculpture 'After 9/11'" World News, India Times, September
"Steel from Twin Towers used for 9/11 Artwork" Artwork of Contemporary Artists Magazine, September
"Sculpture Created from 9/11 Ruins" Big Pond, September
"Pictures of the Day Telegraph London, couple looks at Miya Ando Sculpture" Telegraph London, September
"Why a piece of 9/11 has found a home in Britain" Express UK, September
"Remnants of twin towers find role in London 9/11 Memorial" Epak Magazine
"9/11 Artwork unveiled in Battersea Park as part of Educational Project" Guardian UK, September
"9/11" Haunqiu China, September
"Britain launches 9/11 website for schoolchildren" Interaksyon France, September
"11 Settembre: in Gran Bretagna un sito per I ragazzi" La Stampa Italy, September
"Mangled girders from Twin Towers unveiled as 9/11 London Memorial" Mail online News UK, September
"London unveils memorial for 9/11" The Sun, London, September
"9/11 haunts New York fire chief" Montreal Gazette, September
"No pleasure in Bin Laden's death: Bush" Mid Day, September
"Simon Schama delivers Southwark's John Harvard Memorial Lecture" London SE1, September
"London launches 9/11 website for schoolchildren" OFW Magazine, Philippines, September
"El ex jefe de bomberos de Nueva York recuerda a 'sus hombres' Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, September
"UK Memorial Events on the 10th Anniversary of September 11th" Suite 101, September
"9/11 Memorial Sculpture made from World Trade Center Girders unveiled in London" The Daily Mail London, September
"Boris Johnson: 'people believe a load of tripe about 9/11' The Telegraph, UK, September
"Dez Anos Do 11 De Setembro, Terra Brazil, September
"Gran Bretana lanza programa para explicar el 11-S a los ninos" Univision Noticias Mexico, September
"Anh lap trang web day sur kien 11/9 cho tree m" VN Express Tin Nhanh Vietnam, September
"New York artist Miya Ando poses for photographers next to sculpture, Yahoo Photo of the Day, September
"Steel From Twin Towers used for 9/11 Artwork", Yorkshire Post UK, September
"Peace [After 9/11] A Monumental New Sculpture by Miya Ando" Shambhala Sun, July
"Blinded out Adrenaline Rush" Business Insider, July
"Perspectives at Sundaram Tagore Gallery" Art In NYC, July
"Miya Ando Kimono" Japan Design Collective, July
"Miya Ando Furisode Kimono" Luxury Launches, July
"Weekend Picks: Sundaram Tagore Gallery" NY1 News, July
"Impermeable Dressing Gowns Miya Ando Kimono" Trend Hunter, July
"Miya Ando at Sundaram Tagore Gallery" Global Asian Culture, July
"Miya Ando Benefit Editions for Japan" Art We Love, July
"Temporal by Miya Ando" Art of the Day, July
"Miya Ando: Stainless Steel and Sterling Silver Kimono," Spoon & Tamago, July
"Miya Ando Kimono" Another Magazine, July
"Miya Ando's Stainless Steel Kimono," Audrey Magazine, July
"Japan is in My Heart: Ando donates 100% Print Proceeds to Japan" Element, June
"Miya Ando 'Cutting Light' Exhibit," Foam Magazine June
"Miya Ando - Ausstellung in Paris," Heartbeat Media June
"Talent You Should Know: Miya Ando 9/11 UK Memorial," Household Name June
"Recent Images from Miya Ando's 'Cutting Light' Exhibition," Lodown Magazine "The Cutting Light," Lodown Magazine May
"Miya Ando" Hesa In Print Magazine, May
"Miya Ando NYC," Monster Children April
"Miya Ando: Cold Steel, Warm Heart," Red Bull, March
"Pure Metal (Art): Miya Ando," Red Bull USA, March
"Dharma & Steel: Meet Miya Ando," Shambala SunSpace, March
"How Much Bearing Should Private Grief have on Public Art," Guardian News and Media, March
"Victims' concerns put London 9/11 Sculpture on Hold," Reuters, March
"And Now…Ando is Hot," The Bare Square, March
"Studio Visit, Miya Ando" MoMA PS 1
"Miya Ando," Art Log Magazine
"Ten Years On, New York Donates 9/11 Girders to Make London Sculpture" London Evening Standard, December
"9/11 Sculpture for London's South Bank" Artylyst, December
"Sculpture made from 9/11 ruins to be installed in London park", Fox News / December
"9/11 Memorial for Potter's Field Park?", Londonist / December
"London to Unveil 9/11 Memorial" Daily Mail UK / December
"9/11 Memorial for Potter's Field Park" Ethiopian News / December
"Shinobu Skate Art Opening in Brooklyn, NY" ESPN / October
"Miya Ando Shinobu [Perseverance] Solo Exhibition" Who What Wear Daily / October
"Shinobu Opens at de Castellane Gallery" Talk Art World / October
"Miya Ando's Art Show/Ramp Etched with Acid Creates and Is Art" About.com / October
"Works at the Empty Hand Zen Center Exhibition" Sweetcake Enso / October
"Miya Ando's Okyoo (Prayer 108) Scroll" Thus I have seen Blog / October
"Swords and Steel and Subtle Traces of Nothingness" The Awakened Eye / October
"Wool, Clay, Felt and Steel: Artists and the Crafts they Love" Oh Comely Magazine(UK) November/December
"Juice Magazine Daily Dose of Art: Miya Ando October 11, 2010" Juice Mag / October
"Shinobu [Perseverance] by Miya Ando at de Castellane Gallery Brooklyn, NY" Hypebeast / October
"Recap: Shinobu with Element Eden Advocate Miya Ando" Foam Magazine / October
"Miya Ando Steel Painting" Crashingly Beautiful / October
"Continued Steady Belief—Miya Ando" Push.ca / October
"Perseverance is a Virtue: Miya Ando Solo Exhibition" Brooklyn: The Borough / October
"Miya Ando Artwork" Beautiful/Decay / October
"Meditations in Steel" Ragazine Online Art Magazine / September/October
"Fall Issue Extra: Miya Ando" Audrey Magazine / September
"Night Light: Miya Ando Artwork" Audrey Magazine / September
"Diatom, Miya Ando" Greg Brewer, Diatom Wines / Fall
"Mrs. Smith | So vergänglich wie Stahl" StyleMag / August
"Miya Ando Veins of Luminous Steel" Lodown Magazine / Summer
"Mrs Smith" Miya Ando Profile and Interview, Style and the Family Tunes / June
"Miya Ando Girls in Da Hood" Slider Magazine (Japan) / May
"Art of Light Ausstellung in Berlin", Fauxami (German) / March
"Miya Ando, I'm Beautiful Night", Blonde Magazine (German) / March
"Over My Pride: Miya Ando" Vodka Tearz / March
"Miya Ando Steel Skateboard" Chile Magazine / March
"Hikari Cube" Sk8boarder Magazine / March
"Miya Ando Acel Element Boardja" Offline Magazine, (Hungary) / March
"Miya Ando Skateboard Steel" Skateboard Magazine / March
"Die Stahlschmiedekunstlerin Miya Ando", Epoch Times Interview / March
"Miya Ando Sakura Reichstag" World News / March
"Meditative Space for The Healing Place Miya Ando in Louisville", Leo Weekly / March
"Miya Ando Art of Light" India Times / February
"Miya Ando @ Berlin" Clark Magazine (France) / February
"Element Advocate Miya Ando Art of Light Ausstellung", We Are (German) / February
"Miya Ando Ausstellung Morgen!" Vice Magazine (Germany) / February
"Resplendency Art Exhibit" Lodown Magazine / February
"Element Eden Advocate Miya Ando" Disoriented Magazine (Italy) / February
"Hikari Cube//Miya Ando" Spoon and Tamago (Japan) / February
"Miya Ando Art of Light Exhibition" Huck Magazine / February
"Hikari Cube by Miya Ando" MoCo Loco Fresh / February
"Miya Ando" Quinquabelle ou Les Imperfections Parfaites (France) / January
"Second coming of Ando Steelworkers" Art Daily / January
"Artxchange" International Examiner / January
"New Fades and Small Meditative Fields" Santa Monica Mirror / January
"Miya Ando" Heyoka Magazine Interview /January 16
"Miya Ando" Conteart Fine Art News / January
"Miya Ando's Work is sublime", Art As Authority, Doug Simay / February
"Meditative Fields" Miya Ando at Lora Schlesinger / LA Times
"Post Minimalist Miya Ando", Buddhist Art News / January
"Miya Ando 'Art of Light'", We Are (German) / January
"Miya Ando" Imperfections are Beautiful (French) / January
"New Fades" Lora Schlesinger Exhibition, LA Weekly / January
"Elemental Advocate…" interview by Anna Langer, Cooler Magazine / Nov
"Miya Ando on Steel" Lowdown Magazine / December
"Metal Artist to Create for Center", Core Form-ula / Nov
"Miya Ando x Indigo Youth Movement" by Shelley Lee Jones, Huck Magazine / Oct
"Miya Ando" by Diane Chang, astory Magazine / Nov
"St John's First…" by Stephen del Percio, gbNYC / Oct
"Art for Food Pantry" by --- , Daily News / Sept
Brooklyn People by Caitlin McNamara, Brooklyn Eagle / Oct
"Artist's Work Feeds Hungry…" by National Coalition Against Hunger / Oct
"Miya Ando" profile in Art In Brooklyn / Sept
"Kickstarter Creative…", by An Xiao, art 21 / Sept
RI Selects, Rural Intelligence / July
"New Techniques / New Ideas" by Leon Graham, Lakeview Journal / June
"Hypthetical Landscapes" by Justin Terry, artcritical / May
"Pic of the Day", artcritical / May
"18 Solo Shows Under one Roof" by Tate Olsen, Flash Art International / May
"Newark Day Trip" by Grace Smith, Time Out NY / April
"Works from New Talent…" by Benjamin Gnocchi, New York Times / March
"Museums On Us" by L. Craig Schoonmaker, Newark USA, March
"Element" featured artist in national Campaign for Element, Nylon Magazine / Jan '09
"Surprising Idaho" by Richard Speer, art ltd. / Dec
"Miya Ando Standoff" by Anna Meliksetian, The Magazine LA / Jul
"Hot Summer Exhibits", Lux Magazine / May, Jun
"Review of Miya Ando Stanoff" by Michael Freesola, Staten Island Advance / Apr
"Miya Ando Stanoff", Studio Visit Magazine / Mar
"Miya Ando Stanoff", Beautiful Bokeh / Feb
"Miya Ando Stanoff: Steel paintings …" Artist of the Day by D.Durhrkoop, Empty Easel / Jan
"Sculptor Tanaka in 'Duopolis'" Hokubei Magazine / Jan
Marble House Artist Residency, Vermont
Smith Andersen Editions Residency, Palo Alto
2012-2013 Bronx Museum AIM Residency
I-Park Outdoor Sculpture Residency, Connecticut
Northern California's Public Art Academy / San Jose CA
De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara Group Exhibition
Queens Museum Group Exhibition
Bronx Museum Group Exhibition Aim Biennale
The State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Exhibition
Attleboro Contemporary Museum Group Exhibition
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art
Byzantine Museum, Greece
Chapman University Collection
Selected Awards/Honors
2015 Shortlist Best Light Art Award, 9/11 Memorial Sculpture, London. Darc Award
2015 56th Venice Biennale, "Frontiers Reimagined" Exhibition, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Italy
2015 Shortlist Marsh Award for Best Public Sculpture, 9/11 Memorial London
2015 Invited to The White House to meet Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 2015 Washington DC
2014 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "Spark Talks" Lecture
2013 Bronx Museum AIM Residency
2012 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award
2012 Blooom Art Award Finalist, Germany
2010 Thanatopolis Special Artist Award and Public Outdoor Commission Winner
2010 Puffin Foundation Grant Award Winner
2009 Fundraiser Co-Chair, The Indigo Youth Movement / New York, NY & Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Element: Public Ambassador, Element Eden Advocate
2007 Jury Prize Honorable Mention, Nascent Art / New York, NY
Speaking Engagements
Asia Society Hong Kong "The Nature of Perception" Artist's Talk
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "Spark Lecture" 2014
Guest Artist Lecture, Pratt University, February 2013
Fashion Institute of Technology, January 2013, Guest Artist Critic
Guest Artist Lecture, Pratt University, October 2012
Visiting Artist Critic, Pratt University, September, 2012
Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico May, 2012
Artist's Talk and Panel Discussion: 3/11 Japan, Pratt University New York, June 2012
Artist's Talk, The New School, New York "Rethinking Inheritance: Creating Kinship", April 2012
Artist's Talk with Yoko Kobayashi-Baker, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo November 2011
Artist Talk in conjunction with solo exhibition 'Chado' The Way of Tea, Artxchange Gallery, Seattle October 2011
Pratt University, Guest Artist for Karl Chu Architecture, 2011
Artist Talk in Conjunction with Exhibition, Bryant Street Gallery 2009
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Louisville / November 2009
Cipriani Club Artist Talk / New York NY / /2009
BBC London News September 5, 2011 London Memorial Unveiling
ITV 1 London Tonight "London Memorial Unveiling" September 5, 2011
China Broadcast September 6, 2011 London Memorial
Sky News Austrailia, September 6, 2011 "Miya Ando Commissioned to create 'After 9/11" Sculpture for London
ITV 1 London Today "London Memorial Unveiling" September 5, 2011
"9/11 Artist Miya Ando Documentary" Good Morning Nippon, NHK News Japan, month of September "Brooklyn Artist Debuts 9/11 Memorial Sculpture Across the Pond" NY1 News, September
"9/11" Sky News England, September 5, 2011
"Artist Helps Forge Mission of Brooklyn Soup Kitchen" Stephanie Simon, New York One Arts Report, NY1 Television News / 2010
"Subtraction and Steel" Miya Ando Interview on The Morning, Noon and Night Show, Plum TV / 2008
BBC London 94.9 FM September 5, 2011 London Memorial
LBC 97.3 London
Heart 106.2 London September 5, 2011
BBC Radio Cumbria September 5, 2011
Selected Private and Public Collections
Collection of Daitoku-ji former Head Priest / Japan, Edward Bronfman Private Collection / New York, NY, Fogcreek Software / New York, NY, Michele Clement Studio / San Francisco, CA, Diablo Publications/Rivera / Sun Valley, CA, Fine Design Group / San Francisco, CA, The Emerald Fund / San Francisco, CA, Jonathan Rose Companies / New York, NY, Wachtel Private Collection / Berkeley, CA, Iron Stone Real Estate Group / Philadelphia, PA, Denka Seiken Corporation, Campbell / CA & Japan, MKD Architecture Firm / San Francisco, CA, Altair Advisors LLC / Chicago, IL, Arcanum Architects / San Francisco, CA, Steve Lopez Private Collection / San Francisco, CA
Galman Group Collection / Philadelphia, PA, Candace Barnes Private Collection / San Francisco, CA, Pierre Roset Private Collection, France, Ligne Roset Corporate Collection / Briord, France, Met-A Architecture Firm / San Francisco, CA, Dominic Pangborn Design Studio / Detroit, MI, Goldman Architects / San Francisco, CA
Paramount Pictures / Los Angeles, CA, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein / Tokyo, Japan
Brewer-Clifton Winery / Lompoc, CA, A Studio / San Francisco, CA, Commercial Property Associates / Louisville, KY, Peggy Cooper Cafritz Private Collection / New York
Philanthropic Collaborations
The Healing Place Woman's Homeless Shelter and Rehabilitation Facility
Sojourn Chaplaincy of San Francisco
Juvenile Diabetes Association of Louisville
Elemental Awareness & YMCA programs for kids
BAM Brooklyn academy of music
Art of Elysium for children battling serious medical conditions.
Love 146 Louisville to prevent human trafficking
Haiiti Envoy New York artists for Haiti crisis
Hospitality House San Francisco for homeless
Alcoholism Prevention – AA Louisville, KY
Rush Hour for St Johns Bread and Life Emergency Food provider, New York
Ovarian Cancer Research and Prevention
Shambhala Sun Auction for Buddhist publication
Collective Sound Music Education for Children
Dress For Success, Boston
Indigo Youth Movement for Art Supplies and Educational Materials for Children, Zulu-Natal Durban South Africa
Silk Road/Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
Art for the Animals, Kentucky
Shamrock Foundation, Kentucky
Brooklyn Breast Cancer Program at the Maimonides Cancer Center
Glaad Out Art Auction, New York
Common Ground Collective: Benefit for Katrina Victims, Brooklyn
Southern Exposure nonprofit Arts collective, San Francisco
Visual Aid Auction to Benefit Artists with Life Threatening Illnesses, San Francisco
David Dawes Nee II Foundation/ Columbia University Teen Screen Program for the prevention of Suicide, New York
Artspan nonprofit Arts Organization San Francisco
Morgan Adams ARTMA Foundation to Benefit Children's Cancer Research, Colorado
San Francisco Zen Center Benefit Auction
Maverix Auction to Benefit Hurricane Katrina Survivors,
Covenant House of San Francisco
Big Brothers and Big Sisters Organization, San Francisco


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LA Weekly asks, "What do Critics and Artists Really Think of Each Other?"
Colin Mitchell | Jan 02, 2013 | Comments 3 |
This is a fascinating read from LA Weekly, major kudos to Steven Leigh Morris, his cabal of critics and the theater artists that participated in the experiment. I found the honesty quite refreshing and illuminating from both sides of the stage.
Here are some highlights from the article:
How critics are treated at the theater is an issue. Our critic Tom Provenzano dreads "that the producer insists on talking about the show and then sits me in front of a company member shill who shrieks with laughter at every possible joke." On the other hand, he hopes for "that 5 percent chance that something transformative will happen."
Deborah Klugman, Lovell Estell III and Neal Weaver all dread being assigned a show with nothing to recommend it. For Weaver, it's "because I hate writing pans. … I know full well how much hope, work and striving goes into even the worst show." Nowadays, he adds, "when almost all reviews are reduced to a single, short paragraph, it imposes on us a pass/fail mentality, with no room for acknowledging that a show can be seriously flawed yet worthy of attention because of a strong cast, a provocative script, important ideas, adventurous spirit or simply that it is very funny or highly entertaining."
And from the artists…
The douchebags have invaded. Says Martha Demson, artistic director of Hollywood's Open Fist Theatre, "I dread that the rock band to which our landlord has leased space adjacent to ours will start practicing, or that the therapeutic improv group to which the landlord has leased the space on the other side of us will start their primal ululations — and that no amount of professional production work will overcome the impression of cheap theater. You think I'm kidding? Both groups have our performance calendars, but still our final, sold-out performance of Foote Notes was accompanied in its most tender moments by the shrieks of at least 50 improv-group members."
Similarly, director-producer Jeremy Aldridge is very concerned about uncontrollable circumstances that might influence critics' impressions: "I worry about traffic, parking, the temperature of the theater, who will be the first face the critic meets, will that person deliver a good handshake, is the chair lumpy, will we have a 'good' or 'bad' audience and then, of course, the performance. … Much of this I have no control over, so it's a good exercise in faith and always a test of leadership."
There was also a very long-winded response from writer/performer Mike Daisey, that, if I might be so bold as to interpret, said something like, "I wish theater criticism was as good as I am" or something to that affect.
The article is an excellent read though, LemonHeads, definitely check it out.
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About the Author: COLIN MITCHELL: Actor/Writer/Director/Producer/Father, award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Broadway veteran, Marvel comics scribe, Van Morrison disciple, Zen-Catholic, a proud U.S. Army Brat conceived in Scotland and born in Frankfurt, Germany, currently living in Los Angeles and doing his best to piss off as many people as possible.
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Well said Deborah. And so true. People work read hard at this and it sucks to be in that position. Honestly (regarding Martha's remark)I kind of feel the same way. But who could blame a production if someone ELSE is doing their utmost to screw it up. Jeremy – yes I've often come out of a theatre to a ticket on my car after a show. Ugh! A hazard I wouldn't always mind avoiding, but what's to be done about it? Great stuff as always Colin!
If only more reviewers had Neal Weaver's attitude. Definitely one one of L.A.'s very best, and quite a playwright as well, as his Strip Tease made amply clear.


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SEBRING - Chelsea Bassett pitched a complete game and Sebring overcame a 3-0 deficit to edged Moore Haven Monday night by a score of 9-7.
"The best part of the night was us being down, and then being able to pile up some runs and not ever losing confidence," said Sebring coach Joe Sinness.
The home victory kept Class 5A Sebring perfect on the season, as the Streaks improved to 5-0. Class 3A Moore Haven dropped to 2-4.
After trading three scoreless innings, the Terriers got on the board first in the top of the fourth.
Alaina Lee led off the inning with a bunt single. Skyler Burke singled with another bunt, and Lexie Stors reached on a walk.
With the bases loaded, Jacqueline Phares calmly dug in at the plate and belted a bases-clearing double to the outfield fence.
Bassett recovered to retire two of the next three batters, while Phares ran into a tag, to get out of the inning with minimal damage.
Sebring's bats finally came alive in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Brooke Sanders opened with a single. After Kara Faircloth grounded out, a bad throw advanced Sanders to second base and Kalea Tanner followed with a single.
Moore Haven's Olivia Everett walked Amber Hicks, and Sanders scampered home on a wild pitch to give the Streaks their first run of the game.
Another defensive lapse allowed Hicks to steal second and Tanner to sneak in at home plate to cut the Terriers lead to one. Alison Hoffner brought Hicks home with a sacrifice fly to tie the game a few pitches later before Kiana Antone flew out to end the inning.
"I don't know what woke us up," Sinness said. "I think being a little more patient at the plate helped. Once we started being patient, Olivia started walking a few girls. So we settled in and started getting some walks, and she was forced to start throwing some strikes. And when she did, we made her pay the price."
Sebring's bats weren't finished just yet, though.
In the bottom of the sixth, Sebring tacked on six more runs to balloon its lead to 9-3.
The Streaks cycled through their lineup in the inning, as Bassett reached first base safely after a wayward throw from Moore Haven's shortstop. Emily Gilbert bunted for a single and Ariel Bauer walked Tanner to load the bases.
Following Sanders' pop fly, Faircloth brought in two runs with a single. Hicks walked to reload the bases and Hoffner recorded her second RBI of the game as she brought in Ciara Copeland to give the Streaks a 6-3 advantage. Morgan Andrews cleared the bases with a two-run blast, and Bassett reached base for the second time in the inning when she knocked in an RBI to give Sebring a commanding 9-3 lead.
But the Terriers still had some fight left in them.
Moore Haven put its first three batters on base to open the top of the seventh, and Kalgary Johns opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly.
Alexis Timms and Pharnes belted consecutive RBI singles, and suddenly, the Streaks were only up 9-6. After getting an out at first, Destiny Everett knocked in the third run of the inning to cut Sebring's lead down to just two runs.
But after a discussion on the mound with her teammates and coach, Bassett collected herself and forced Johns into a ground out to end the game.
With five seniors, seven juniors, and two sophomores on Sebring's roster, the Streaks are optimistic about the season.
But even with a large number of upperclassmen, there's still a healthy amount of varsity inexperience. But one thing Sinness is sure about is that he has a roster full of athletes.
"I have three to four girls that play travel ball, and some have dabbled in it," Sinness said. "But you saw tonight, some of the plays the girls made, they weren't even the ones with much softball experience."
Sinness is hoping that his team's athletic prowess carries over when Sebring begins its district schedule. The Streaks will face an uphill battle for the district crown, with Hardee, Lemon Bay, and DeSoto all vying for supremacy.
"District realignment has made our district (5A-11) really strong," Sinness said. "So we'll need to grow, and we've got to grow fast."


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Jackson, born 18 November 2010
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Photos from 24 October 2012
Jackson Grandma and Jackson reading
Grandpa and Jackson reading
Here are photos from Jan - Feb 2012.
LEFT: Jackson, no nap, tired, unhappy. RIGHT: Jackson with Aunt Stephanie at Cornell - Catholic U. Baseball game, eating banana.
LEFT: Little Joe making his first radio report in his Dad's rescue squad ambulance. RIGHT: Little Joe, eggs and sausage.
Two photos from November 2011
Little Joe (Joey, AKA "Bubba," "Buddy"), big brother, born 29 August 2007; Jackson, little brother, born 18 November 2010. In the left photo, Joey has just shown Jackson how to climb the stairs. In the right photo, they are flushing the toilet -- over and over -- Joey taught Jackson this trick and they think this is great fun.
Our SECOND Grandchild!!!!!
Jackson Lee Schlatter, our second grandchild, was born at 2108 hours EST, 18 November 2010. He weighed in at 6 pounds 10 ounces and stood 18 inches tall. Mother Rebekah ("Bekah") Wight Schlatter and Dad Joseph A. Schlatter, III, are doing well and are as proud as they can be. Little brother Joey Schlatter (Joseph A., IV) is very curious but is not certain why the little fellow doesn't want to play with his trains!! Grandparents Rose and Joe and Aunt Steph are excited and proud!!
Jackson Lee Schlatter with Grandmother Rose; he is about 18 hours old here.
Brothers napping -- three-year-old Joey and one-week-old Jackson.
Jackson -- bath time, May 2011
Photos of the two grandsons together, 13 December 2010.
Our First Grandchild!!!!!
Our first grandchild is Joseph A. Schlatter, IV -- a big name for a little fellow!! He was born 29 August 2007. Here are some photos of him at age 3 years 2 months.
With his wagon and garden tools.
Waving his cap and shouting "Ye-e-e-e-e-e-haw" as he slides down the slide.
How strange life is: Little Joe was born on 29 August 2007 -- two years to the day that we lost almost everything we owned in Hurricane Katrina -- 29 August 2005.
Finished and moved in -- July 2008!!
Follow the progress as we build our
new home in Virginia.
In Memoriam:
My mother died on 18 March 2007 after battling pancreatic cancer for seven months. She was diagnosed with cancer in August 2006; by January 2007 the disease had spread to her lungs and liver and throughout her abdomen.
In Memoriam:
My father, Joseph A. Schlatter, Sr., died on 29 November 2005. He was 90. Dad suffered a stroke on/about 5-6 November; he lost the use of his right arm and leg and the effects of the stroke progressed for three weeks. He died in his sleep early on the morning of 29 November. My mother and I were at his side. Here is his obituary.
In Memoriam:
Rose's mother died on 23 October 2003 after a three-year-long battle with Alzheimer's and the effects of diabetes and colon cancer.
In Memoriam:
Rose's father died in February 1966 from injuries suffered in an automobile accident.
Our 2005 Christmas greetings.
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My weather station is an Oregon Scientific WMR968 using Cumulus freeware as the software application that loads the weather station data onto the WeatherUnderground site.
As of February 2013, the WMR968 has been discontinued. However, there are several manufacturers who produce home weather stations that measure and record: inside temp and humidity; outside temp and humidity; wind speed and direction; and, rainfall rate and total. Most of these stations have the capability of feeding the data to a computer which then, with appropriate software, will load the data onto an Internet site such as WeatherUnderground, WeatherBug, or your own website. This company, Ambient Weather, sells home weather stations by several manufacturers.
And . . . here's a photo from my webcam, looking out my front window, across the road, across the neighbor's property, onto the Potomac River (If it's night, you'll see only a couple of dots of light from my driveway marking light and my neighbor's porch light):


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