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First fish fry today at revitalized Turner Hall Restaurant
Long time no fish fry. Friday will be the first one in a renovated Turner Hall Restaurant. In case you missed Monday's blog post, the restaurant has reopened after being closed for more than two years.
The restaurant, in Turner Hall at 1038 N. 4th St., had a soft opening about two weeks ago, and opened with its full menu on Monday. »Read Full Blog Post
Street party at Burnhearts benefits Bay View neighborhoods
They'll be dancing in the streets from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday outside Burnhearts, 2599 S. Logan Ave. No worries: They've been doing this for six years. They've got it down. The idea is to raise funds for the Bay View Neighborhood Association.
Restaurants Honey Pie and Classic Slice will be selling food, and there will be an art and craft fair with goods from local artists, plus live screenpainting with Redwall. Braid, Mama Digdown's Brass Band and the Championship will provide the music. DJ WHY B will be on hand. »Read Full Article
Artists turn Fond du Lac Ave. into their canvas
In 1842, Johnsons Park was a farm where escaped slave Caroline Quarlls stayed, marking the start of the Underground Railroad in the area. A century after that pocket of the city harbored slaves seeking freedom, and a generation after homes in the neighborhood were razed to make way for a freeway, dislocation remains an ongoing issue for many living and working in and around a swath of Fond du Lac Ave., according to the organizers of a community-driven, yearlong public art project.
The public art initiative along 20 blocks of Fond du Lac Ave., between N. 17th and 37th streets, is designed to help Milwaukeeans rediscover this once vital artery and its history while engaging with artists and each other. »Read Full Article
Bonfire on the Beach lights up lakefront with music
Make a list: You'll need a beach towel, a swimsuit, maybe some flip-flops and a party attitude for Bonfire on the Beach.
It may be the opening week of Summerfest, but this party kicks off at 6 p.m. Thursday at Bradford Beach with music from De La Buena. The band plays until 7:30 p.m. when DJ Kid Millions takes the stage, followed by Kane Place Records from 9 to 10 p.m. Bonfire pits will allow party-goers to see each other and keep them warm if the temperatures drop. »Read Full Article
Good day for a swim? Check out our guide to area swimming spots
Now, this is what summer feels like.
With temperatures headed for the upper 80s — and the humidity not far behind — it should be a good day for a swim. »Read Full Article
Fond du Lac Ave. art project; flamenco guitar performance
Ties that bind
Fond du Lac Ave. ties Milwaukee's downtown to the northwest side of the city. And the In:Site temporary public art project to be on display along the avenue from 17th to 37th streets hopes to tie together the people of those neighborhoods and the rest of the city. "Art on Fond du Lac" features thought-provoking installations that put a spotlight on the area and the needs of the people who call it home. Included in the projects are a sculptural urban greenhouse by George Jones; a tribute to Mattiebelle Woods, the first lady of Milwaukee's black press; and a painting on the avenue itself (at its intersection with Locust St.) by Reggie Baylor. »Read Full Article

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Fabian 8 Cinema(1.09 miles)
301 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07505
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317 Bloomfield Avenue, Caldwell, NJ 07006
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Deputy Oakland County Executive Robert Daddow will visit West Michigan to give his presentation, "A Perfect Storm," a look at the fiscal problems Michigan will face in the months and years ahead.
The event, sponsored by the Seidman Investment Portfolio Organization and the Seidman Economics Club, will take place Tuesday, October 12, at 6 p.m. in Loosemore Auditorium of the DeVos Center on Grand Valley's Pew Grand Rapids Campus, 401 W. Fulton St.
The event is free and open to the public. Media coverage is encouraged.
Daddow is a CPA who specializes in governmental finance and accounting. As an adjunct scholar for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, he has researched and written on a variety of state issues including the decline of the auto industry and drawn-out budget debates in Lansing.
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CHICAGO—Patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas may be treated safely with doses of radiotherapy than are lower than the current standard of 70 Gy. That is the conclusion of the Phase II ECOG 1308 study reported here at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (Abstract LBA6006).
The rates of freedom from disease progression and overall survival were equivalent to those with standard therapy in patients treated with only 54 Gy in total.
Lead study author Anthony J. Cmelak, MD, Professor of Radiation Oncology at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, said that although lowering the radiation dose did not compromise outcome in this study, longer follow-up is still needed, as well as confirmatory Phase III data, before reducing radiation doses in daily practice can be recommended.
"This potentially allows a significant—23 percent—reduction in overall radiation dose and a corresponding decrease in long-term toxicities associated with that," he said in an interview, describing the approach as a potential "new paradigm" in this select group of patients.
He and his co-researchers chose patients with good functional status who had resectable HPV-related cancers; patients were generally younger, and there were about 50 percent who were smokers and 50 percent who were non-smokers. Patients who achieved complete remissions after three cycles of cisplatin, paclitaxel, and cetuximab went on to receive reduced-dose radiation using intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) together with weekly cetuximab.
Among the 62 patients who did so, the progression-free survival rate at two years was 80 percent, and overall survival was 95 percent.
Toxicity was very mild, he noted: "There were very few grade 4 toxicities, and only one patient had one grade 3 toxicity in the long term—low magnesium at 30 months."
Up until now, he noted, oncologists have been satisfied to have achieved cures for head and neck cancers by "pushing chemotherapy and radiation, "but this has been at the expense of life-long toxicities such as stroke, swallowing dysfunction, loss of taste, dry mouth, dental problems, chronic fatigue, and hypothyroidism.
A previous study—ECOG 2399— had already found that patients with HPV-related oropharyngeal cancers had better progression-free survival times when treated with standard induction chemotherapy and radiation. So the ECOG 1308 study went on to test the hypothesis that cure rates could be maintained in these younger, healthier, non- or light-smoking patients to avoid a future burden of toxicity that they could have to endure perhaps for 30 or 40 years.
Non-smokers had the best outcomes, and in those who had non-bulky tumors—less than T4 and no contralateral lymph node involvement—both two-year progression-free and overall survival rates were 96 percent.
Still, since historically these patients have had recurrences at three, four, or five years out, he said, "we need longer-term follow-up and we also need to determine whether this is safe for all patients. We need to test what the best combination is so we don't jeopardize their chance for cure as well."
Speaking at an ASCO news conference highlighting studies showing improved patient care and quality of life, he said did not recommend using lower doses of radiation outside of clinical trials, and neither did the designated ASCO expert, Gregory A. Masters, MD, Director of the Medical Oncology Fellowship Program at Christiana Care Health System's Helen F Graham Cancer Center in Delaware.
In an interview, Masters said he welcomed the fact that tumor biology is now guiding precise therapies for individual patients. But he warned that this is still in the research phase and that the ECOG 1308 trial studied a particular group of patients only: those with oropharyngeal cancers selected for HPV positivity—not all head and neck cancers in general: "This was a Phase II trial, so I'm not ready to say that this is a standard of care for any patient: but it certainly is ready to be studied in a randomized trial in this group of patients," he said.
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Cousin Frank's "Family Heirloom" Polish Sausage
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 30 mins
My cousin's husband-to-be, who was very proud of his Polish heritage, used to bicker with one or our uncles. One day the uncle said that Frank probably didn't even know how to cook Polish sausage. Frank responded that he made the best Polish sausage in the world! As time went by and the wedding got closer, the whole family started nagging him to make his famous sausage for the wedding reception. (Anyone from a large family will understand this with no problem.) This is what he brought, but he refused to give anyone the recipe for years. His mother-in-law finally wormed it out of him, along with the fact the he didn't have a clue how to cook much of anything, let alone Polish sausage. He devised this out of desperation the day before the wedding, and most of us have been eating it ever since. Good for appetizers or main dish.
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- Polish sausage
- Open Pit Barbecue Sauce (original flavor)
- Cut sausage into bite-sized pieces and place in oven-proof dish.
- Pour barbecue sauce over sausage and bake in 350-375 degree oven until sausage starts to brown.
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I do not eat Polish Sausage (or any for that matter), but I'm giving this 5 stars because Cousin Frank is hilarious! My mom used to make polish sausage in the same manner, except she pan fried it and then put the sauce on it. (I think she used Mauls brand). It always smelled good, but I don't eat sausage. :)
Quick and super easy This would be great for a potluck or barbecue get-together. All I can say is, why didn't I think of that? Made for PAC Spring 08. Thanks for posting Nancy Jo.
Wonderful! Loved the barbecue sauce with the sausage!


text: Stickybuds - Fractal Forest Mix - Shambhala 2012 by Stickybuds~ published on 2012-08-26T11:41:36Z Here is the set that I made for my annual performance at Shambhala Music Festival. As always I have poured my heart and soul into making the best set I could, and this year, like every year, it was an amazing time. Thanks to the few thousand people who came to hear it live, and Rich E Rich / Fractal Forest for having me back to play, 8 years counting. I'd like to also say thanks to all the artists / labels who sent me upfront music, stems, acapellas and anything else I could get out of them… haha. Without you guys I wouldn't be able to make the arrangements that I do. Almost everything in this set is my own edit for arrangement or what I needed the music to do, but on the track list I have listed the original tracks instead of putting "edit" beside everything... I sincerely hope you enjoy the music. I'll be working hard over the next few months writing new records, and getting ready for next years tours… Stay connected with my music at the following sites… www.Stickybuds.com www.Facebook.com/Stickybuds www.Soundcloud.com/Stickybuds www.twitter.com/#!/djSTICKYBUDS SIGN UP ON MAILING LIST for updates on new releases and free uploads. http://www.stickybuds.com/2012/08/20/stickybuds-subscribe-to-mailing-list/ Also thanks to Xavier Walker for the awesome photo of my set, catching a great moment... Check out his Photography skills here.... https://www.facebook.com/XavierWalkerPhotography Genre Good Music Comment by Riley Farquharson omg 2016/08/20 08:53:07 +0000 Comment by Rachael Woods How do you think of these songs together fuark <3 2016/07/05 08:25:24 +0000 Comment by Clemoumou WHOOOOOOOOO 2016/06/04 21:43:47 +0000 Comment by Dale Cushway so dope 2016/04/08 07:21:48 +0000 Comment by Iftimescu Matei @slayney: what's the name of the song? 2016/03/06 22:46:26 +0000 Comment by Iftimescu Matei what's the song at 39:36 ? 2016/03/06 22:37:53 +0000 Comment by Paradoxical Milk Snare 9K amaze 2016/01/29 06:14:22 +0000 Comment by Paradoxical Milk Snare 9K fuck yeah man 2016/01/29 06:14:18 +0000 Comment by Klokkman some of the best mixing I've ever heard! 2016/01/17 13:32:26 +0000 Comment by Dana Lahey So warm, beautiful energy. Love it!! 2015/11/20 03:44:35 +0000 Comment by Karington Buuuu 2015/11/05 01:15:26 +0000 Comment by Pogodrop holy fucking god! !?!? :PP 2015/10/18 19:37:43 +0000 Comment by l66l6lll TITS 2015/10/01 21:53:20 +0000 Comment by AKronic Ghettofuckylicious 2015/06/10 21:32:30 +0000 Comment by Cashel Mckenzie !! 2015/02/01 03:04:13 +0000 Comment by Cashel Mckenzie opiou! 2015/01/30 06:41:21 +0000 Comment by Krishdi Schraufilizious this song is so banger 2014/12/19 20:25:11 +0000 Comment by Graham England Awesome mashup! 2014/09/18 20:03:27 +0000 Comment by Philip Benson Gaaahht Daaayyyum that drop!!! I can't help but get way down when that bass kicks in! I won't be missing your set at #Shambhala next year. 2014/08/14 08:49:43 +0000 Comment by DabberDarren Get the fuck outta hear! 2014/07/06 02:19:06 +0000 Comment by Raggamuffin247 Meggaaaa 2014/05/30 14:02:30 +0000 Comment by user430998141 Its epic ceap it going 2014/05/24 22:40:04 +0000 Comment by Shellshockedx good stuff (Y) 2014/05/16 09:43:41 +0000 Comment by Easum Twit @zoggzoggs: kujfyvbkvbgk 2014/05/07 20:37:04 +0000 Comment by liouxx. that was amazing 2014/05/07 03:43:28 +0000 Comment by krazi_ladi Yeah la di da di da!!! 2014/05/07 03:26:33 +0000 Comment by Captain Bufkin fucking GENIUS!!!! 2014/05/02 14:49:39 +0000 Comment by [L4M] Rec. LOVE FEREVER <3 !!!!!! 2014/04/29 21:15:54 +0000 Comment by Josue Soto Webb Boomboclaat! 2014/04/19 00:57:43 +0000 Comment by Princess Peaches @peyooooo: oohh yeah I love the war zone sounds :) 2014/03/27 18:14:21 +0000


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Get an overview of this hotelDowntown boutique hotel with vibrant style
Near museum, shops
This fashionable Seattle hotel is 3 blocks from the Seattle Art Museum and within 7 blocks of Pacific Place and Westlake Center shopping, Pike Place Market, and the monorail.
Taste of New Orleans
Kimpton Hotel Monaco Seattle features Sazerac restaurant and bar serves Southern-inspired fare and fresh Northwest seafood.
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Hotel Amenities
The locally popular Sazerac restaurant and bar serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and room service during limited hours. Guests can work out in the Kimpton Hotel Monaco Seattle's 24-hour fitness center with cardiovascular equipment and free weights, or receive discounted access to a health club 4 blocks away.
Complimentary morning coffee service is available in the hotel's stylish lobby.
On-site meeting and event space accommodates 160 guests, and high-speed WiFi access is throughout the hotel for a surcharge (complimentary for Kimpton InTouch loyalty program members).
Valet parking is available (surcharge) and a discount is available for hybrid cars.
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Conference space
- Express check-in
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 189
- ATM/banking
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Babysitting or childcare
- Fireplace in lobby
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Number of floors - 11
- Elevator/lift
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- One meeting room
- Conference space size (meters) - 557
- Conference space size (feet) - 6000
- Smoke-free property
- Spa services on site
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( USD 14.99 per night )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( USD 14.99 per night )
Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Designer toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Iron/ironing board
- Daily housekeeping
- Room service (limited hours)
- Frette Italian sheets
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Sazerac - Named after a New Orleans cocktail, the hotel's vibrant restaurant features hand-crafted chandeliers, custom woodwork, velvet drapes, and an elevated exhibition kitchen. Specialties include gumbo, catfish, wood-fired pizzas, and a variety of Southern-inspired dishes that make use of fresh local ingredients. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Nearby Things to Do
The 24-hour fitness room has free weights, a treadmill, an elliptical trainer, stationary bikes, and stair machines. The complimentary "Om Away From Home" in-room yoga program includes the Yoga Channel and a basket of accessories for guest use. Guests also receive discounted access to an athletic club four blocks away, providing personal trainers, exercise classes, and an indoor pool; additional fees may apply.
The hotel is six blocks from the Seattle waterfront area, where sailing, parasailing, scenic cruises, and fishing excursions are available (surcharge).
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Sailing nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 11:30 PM
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 10 children 12 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 25.00 per stay.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets stay free
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Pets allowed (no fees)
Group bookings of 10 or more rooms cannot be accommodated via this website.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 12 and USD 34 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 14.99 per night (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: USD 14.99 per night (rates may vary)
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 55 per vehicle
- Valet parking fee: USD 42 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25.00 per stay
Hotel Name
- Hotel Monaco
- Hotel Monaco Seattle
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Up to 10 children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
Awards & Affiliations
- Kimpton Hotel Monaco Seattle is listed in the 2015 Condé Nast Traveler Top 100 List.


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Siqueiros and Stein reunite at Take My Picture Gallery
By Lionel Rolfe 05/24/2012
Longtime Echo Park residents Anne Stein and Gary Leonard are planning to showcase the paintings of Anne's father, Philip Stein, at their Take My Picture Gallery in downtown Los Angeles.
With the restored mural "América Tropical" by legendary revolutionary Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros — Philip Stein's mentor — about to be unveiled on Olvera Street in October, the timing of the new exhibit is not coincidental.
When Stein died at 90 in 2009, Anne Stein and Leonard — perhaps best known for his "Take My Picture" column, which first gained attention in the old Los Angeles Reader, then LA CityBeat and the Downtown News and now LA Observed — rented a truck and drove the artwork from New York to Echo Park, then installed the paintings at Take My Picture Gallery.
Anne Stein was born in Mexico City in the 1950s, after her father left Los Angeles on the GI bill to study art in San Miguel. He ended up working with the great Siqueiros between 1948 and 1958 on most of the artist's major murals. Stein then brought his family back to the New York area and, except for an eight-year sojourn in Spain, spent the rest of his life as an artist and activist on the East Coast.
Siqueiros — considered, along with Diego Rivera and Jose Orozco, among the greatest muralists of modern times — had been commissioned to paint three murals in Los Angeles. One was "América Tropical" at El Pueblo, which depicted a crucified man with an American Bald Eagle sitting atop the cross. Within a few months of its unveiling in 1932, the work was whitewashed by local authorities. Shortly after that, Siqueiros was deported. Mexican revolutionaries — or any revolutionaries — never found Los Angeles to be a friendly place.
In the 1940s, Stein had done set design for New York theaters, studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn then arrived in Los Angeles, where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute. Later, as a Columbia Studios set designer, he became involved in the great 1946 Hollywood strike and spent several months in jail in Lincoln Heights for his efforts.
When he and his wife left Los Angeles and moved to Mexico City, Stein was a veteran of the Great Depression as well as World War II, where he had served as a meteorologist. After the war, with the help of the GI bill, he pursued a career in the one area he had cared about most — art.
According to Mark Vallen, a well-known artist and art historian with his own blog , Stein had a very special relationship with Siqueiros. "Stein went to work for Siqueiros for 10 years and that relationship grew and deepened. Siqueiros gave him the name Estaño. Stein-Estaño was at first one of several Siqueiros assistants, but he became the main assistant and got involved with several of his greatest murals in Mexico City during that time," Vallen said.
In the 1980s, Stein wrote "Siqueiros: His Life and Works," which is still the definitive biography of the artist. Vallen said that Stein became so "closely aligned" with Siqueiros that people hardly knew Stein was a significant artist in his own right, or that he had been heavily influenced by the American jazz scene. In fact, when Stein died in 2009, The New York Times noted his passing with a substantial article titled, "Phil Stein, Muralist Who Adorned Village Vanguard Club, Dies at 90."
The famed jazz club, which is still operating, was run and founded by Stein's sister, Lorraine Gordon, and her husband, Max Gordon. For years, there were three large Stein murals on the club's triangle of walls. Two were removed due to water damage, but the mural on the back wall remains. Stein loved hot jazz like Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, but was less enthused by the cool jazz being performed at the Vanguard.
"What sustained Stein and enabled him to go to hell and back, what sustained his art, was the thought that art could make the world a better place, and that was the school of American realism," Vallen said. For Stein, the great Mexican muralist was the inevitable mentor.
"Unfortunately, fame eluded Stein because he was persistent in following realism when the abstract was dominating," Vallen said, noting that Stein wasn't going to go anywhere anyway, because this was the time of Joseph McCarthy, when the United States flirted heavily with fascism. "Maybe things will be different with the passing of time," Vallen said.
Vallen said his own interest in Siqueiros began when his parents took him downtown and showed him the mural on Olvera Street. This was in the 1950s, and Vallen was 6 or 7 years old. He was fascinated by why it had been whitewashed. "There were enemies coming from all quarters," he said. "Siqueiros' politics were very clear," he said, admitting he was "amazed" that the mural is getting such love and care now, when the forces of fascism are once again swirling around. The nearly $9-million restoration of the mural and the David Alfaro Siqueiros América Tropical Mural and Interpretive Center, sponsored by Amigos de Siqueiros, the city government of Los Angeles and the Getty Conservation Institute, is expected to be unveiled in October.
Luckily, Vallen said, there are "some people who love this mural and understand its historic significance," adding, "I'm sure there are others who will snipe at him."
Vallen is grateful that the Getty Museum has been a main proponent behind restoring "América Tropical." It did so despite the fact that the mural depicts revolutionary scenes and speaks up unabashedly about the oppression of Mexican Indians by American imperialism.
Alongside Diego Rivera and Jose Orozco, Siqueiros helped create the Mexican muralist movement, which had its roots in the most classic of traditions begun by the Renaissance muralists of Italy.
In preparation for the unveiling of "América Tropical," the city fathers of Los Angeles declared April 20 "Siqueiros Day." And although Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may have lost much of his credibility with folks on his political left, he talked glowingly of the great man. He just didn't use terms like "American imperialism." Just as well, said Vallen, who complimented Villaraigosa for managing to avoid being overly political when he endorsed efforts to save the mural for posterity.
Anne Stein said a turning point for her father before Siqueiros came when, as a 15-year-old teenager growing up poor in New Jersey, Stein used to catch the tail winds of trucks while riding his bicycle to Newark Airport. He loved experimental airplanes and liked to photograph them with his homemade camera. Like many who grew up during the Depression, he was good with designing and keeping machines working. Anne said her father talked about watching artist Archile Gorky painting a mural on a building at the airport. Gorky was an artist who insisted he was related to famed Russian author Maxim Gorky. He was not. He had been born in Armenia, escaped the nation's 1915 Genocide and ended up in New York, where he became a significant artist. He was what would now be called a "social realist," not part of the "modern art" movement. For Stein, encountering Gorky triggered a revelation that art could be a higher calling.
Like many others of that age, Stein was a dedicated and talented artist who was also highly political. He had come to the conclusion that he needed Siqueiros, because Siqueiros was not just an artist; he was one the greatest revolutionary artists of the past century. The muralists all owed their inspiration to the Renaissance fresco painters. Think of Italian murals in the 1500s — think of Michelangelo painting the ceilings and walls of the Sistine Chapel.
For Stein, meeting Siqueiros was a turning point. "It solved the problem of the basis of my art," he said.
Plainly, Anne Stein said, Siqueiros had an enormous impact not only on her father, but a lot of other people. "His energy, his world view, the boldness of his painting all became very embedded in people around him."
The paintings of Philip Stein can be previewed at Take My Picture Gallery, 860 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, Call (213) 622-2256 or visit takemypicture.com.
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Sword vs. No sword...requires you having the "connected" body, and...you apply kuzushi to the person simply by touching him.
But what do you do about the sword?
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(To the other guy it just looks like you raised your arm straight up, but somehow his blade is still deflected, and he's way off balance)
Yes. What is the 'somehow'? How do you avoid being hit by the sword?
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...use of the internal pressures allow you to make slight minute adjustments in your own body simply, almost indicernable to the outside viewer, but with the result being that you still take the guys center on contact and hence his sword as well. (All the while not "resisting" against the line of attack)
Granted, that's a simplistic explanation.
I don't find it very clear. What does it take to avoid the sword?
And what is it that differentiates aikido from judo, jujutsu or sumo? You've said that the internal pressure ideas come from sumo in large part (as does much of Japanese martial art). So what you and Tim have described could speak as well for jujutsu and judo. In fact, it seems to describe those arts better than it does aikido.
How do you differentiate? What's the difference in the arts? Mike Sigman likes to point to the "sudden" development of Tenryu to mastery of aikido, but that overlooks literal decades of training in sumo. So it wasn't really very quick development at all. But what was the difference in what he had been doing and in what he learned from Morihei Ueshiba?
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The part I remember most is that the man (LBJ) I saw in those last years, in his retirement, was really a desolate man, because he was out of power, had absolutely no interest to keep him going once the presidency was gone. So that retirement was almost like a little death for him. He'd wake up in the morning and really not even know how to get through the days. And I think what it convinced me of more than anything was that kind of success, bought at that price, isn't worth it, unless you have other things to balance you. He had no hobbies, no interest in sports. His family loved him, but they couldn't fill the hole in him that he needed to be filled by the applause of millions. So he almost willed himself to die in those last years.
He hardly ever left the ranch. The only comfort he got was having staff meetings in the morning, just as he used to in the White House. But instead of telling people which bills we're going to get through committee on the Hill that day, it would be but rather how many eggs he hoped would be laid on the ranch that day, or how many people he wanted to visit the LBJ Library.
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I think I was so aware of the privilege of having this man, for some reason, having chosen me to talk to. He talked to me about his mother, his father, his dreams, his sadnesses. And I realized that it was just a pretty lucky thing in some ways that he had chosen me to be there in those last years, and use that information for that first book on Lyndon Johnson. I think from then on, it made me want to understand the private side of the public figures, because I'd had that connection with this first one I ever knew. So the kind of books that I wrote from then on were not simply the public sides of President Kennedy or President Roosevelt, but really what their lives were like in the White House at the same time.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin: After the Lyndon Johnson book came out, I was still a professor at Harvard. I taught a big course on the presidency in the Government Department there.
Not long before Lyndon Johnson died, he called me and he said that he had this terrible feeling that no one was really going to remember him. He had been reading Carl Sandberg's biography on Lincoln, and trying to bring Lincoln to life, and he couldn't do it. And he said that now he realized that maybe he would have been better off searching for his immortality through his children, and their children in turn, instead of through the fickleness of the American public, who were now preoccupied with Nixon, his successor. I remember trying to tease him out of that, and saying, "Oh, they will always remember you. I'll put a question on every exam on you," because I was teaching this course on the presidency. And he said, "You're not listening to me. I'm telling you something important. Get married, have children and spend time with them." Only two weeks after that, he was dead. He died of a heart attack at his ranch.
I think I spent three or four more years after his death finishing my book on Lyndon Johnson. Once it came out, because of the way it was received and the pleasure I had in writing it, I decided that I wanted to be a writer. Up until that time, I think I saw myself mostly as a professor, writing on the side. But at that point, I had gotten married, had three kids, and couldn't do it all. I couldn't be a teacher and a writer and a mother. I had to choose. So I gave up teaching at Harvard in order to become a full-time historian, which is what I've been ever since.
Thinking back now, what books did you read when you were young that inspired you?
Doris Kearns Goodwin: When I was in high school, there was a book by James MacGregor Burns, a wonderful historian, called The Lion and the Fox, about FDR. And it was about his personality, his character, his early years in Hyde Park, his polio experience and... I remember that so vividly as the first real, live history book that I love so much. And I later met him, and have gotten to know him as a colleague, and he's about 30 years older than I am, and I couldn't wait to tell him, "You were the one who made it happen."
What type of books do you enjoy reading these days?
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Right now, I'm working on a memoir about growing up in love with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1950s in Long Island. So I'm reading books on baseball almost entirely. Baseball is another huge love of mine, not only because of that experience keeping score for my father, but after the Brooklyn Dodgers left Brooklyn and went to Los Angeles, I later moved to Boston and became a Red Sox fan. So I have season tickets to the Red Sox, and live and die by this crazy team. At the moment, I'm reading memoirs to understand the whole form of memoirs, and at the same time reading books about baseball.
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What do Warwick Castle, Liverpool Cathedral and the doorway to 10 Downing Street have in common?
They are all made of sandstone from Grinshill in Shropshire.
This summer I am having a break from compiling geotrails but have ended up working on building stones. How a geophysicsist ends up working on building stones is a long story but I'm having to take a crash course in the local natural building materials. The biggest problem that I have is that most of the local building stones are red sandstones, but from a whole variety of different stratigraphic layers.
To try to get a handle on the characteristcs of some building sandstones I visited Grinshill Quarry in Shropshire which has supplied a variety of buildings including those listed above. This Lower Triassic sandstone is formally known as the Helsby Sandstone Formation, but to stonemasons it is the Grinshill Sandstone. In fact the nomenclature is quite bewildering. Its lateral equivalents to the east are, in West Staffordshire, the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation and in East Staffordshire, the Hollington Formation. Hollington Stone is quarried for building stone at Hollington, near Uttoxeter and is commonly used in Staffordshire. All of these formations used to be called the Lower Keuper Sandstone. You see the kind of problems I have to deal with.
In just the Grinshill Quarry there are three predominant colours, a red, a white and a pale yellow.
The quarrying operation is quite interesting. In order to split the rock into large blocks without damage from blasting, a series of holes are drilled in a line and then liquid expanding mortar is poured into the holes. The stress induced by the expanding mortar causes fractures to connect the holes with very little other damage to the rock.
The split blocks are then cut to the required shape on this rock saw.
So that is just one of the formations I have to work with. Now I just have to get my head round all the Carboniferous gritstones…
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My grandparents lived in Wem, just north of Grinshill, and it was a very popular place for us all to walk their dogs. The "Front Of Grinshill", which we accessed by parking next to the church in Clive, was the more usual walk, straight up to the top of the hill.
Sometimes we would do the "Back of Grinshill", which meant we parked in Corbett Wood (correct me if I'm getting the names a little wrong – the dogs died over a decade ago!) just along the road from the quarry. We'd walk through the woods to what I remember as a very tall (by young child standards) pale yellow stone cliff.
Interestingly enough, my grandparents told me that both Grinshill and the Wrekin were "extinct volcanoes". I now realise that much of the "lava" I found on the path up from Clive was tarmac…
Thanks for allowing me my trip down memory lane!
[…] My squelchy summer fieldwork continues with a visit to the Red Hole Quarry at Hollington, Staffordshire. Hollington Stone is Staffordshire's most important building stone and has been used for many important buildings around the county including Lichfield Cathedral. It is Lower Triassic in age and at the same stratigraphic level as the Grinshill Stone I looked at in a previous post. […]
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Going to funerals
I sure have been to a lot of funerals in the past year. I guess when you become older than dirt, that happens.
One funeral was conducted by a preacher who loved to sing. Not only did he lead the congregation in song, but when he followed the deceased up the aisle, he was belting out a song with all he had. And yes, he was good at it.
At another funeral, the deceased for decades had always sat in the same seat. If you're a church-goer, you know that the faithful will always sit in the same spot, and woe be to those who dare to occupy that spot.
At this funeral, a huge spray of red and white carnations was fashioned, at least three feet long, and placed in her spot. It probably remained there for days. I have a feeling it will be years before anyone new sits there.
While this individual was a longtime member at a Baptist church, she had been in the county for over five decades, and those present were half Baptist and half Methodist.
One service was for a Sunday School member. It has taken several weeks for the color to come back into the wife's face, and I was glad to see a smile on her face Sunday. It had been a long, difficult year for her.
When it's my time to head to that Head Historian in the sky, I will be buried with my parents in Akron, Ohio, my hometown.
C. J. Mowell seems to have taken to shipping people to their final resting place. I told him that if he didn't personally drive me to Akron, I would come back and haunt him.
If folks want to have a memorial service for me, that's fine with me. If not, that's also fine.
I have instructed Shelby Travis and C.J. as to an engraved bench I would like placed in the Fayetteville City Cemetery. Shelby knows where it is to go.
I was 80 years old in December (good grief) and I expect to live another 10 years. It's distressing enough that my baby has two in college.
When I came to Fayette County in 1966, there were 8,000 people in the entire county. Now there are 110,000 people. Whenever "that time" comes, I want you all to know, it's been my privilege to have lived in Fayette County and contributed to it in various ways.
Although, I'm not looking forward to those five Union Civil War soldiers I have as ancestors. I imagine they're going to have some questions about what I've written about in the last half century.
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My clump of succulent labeled "Delosperma cooperi" produced a yellow flower yesterday. It's possible I shuffled the tag into the wrong position in an overhaul of the rock garden earlier this spring- but I haven't attempted to grow D. congestum for years, and never seemed to get lasting seedlings when I did. I did attempt Bergeranthus jamesii in 2012 and 2013, but am pretty sure they didn't survive the winter. Another case of confused seed identity?
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Thanks. Now that you mention it, I did grow some D. nubigenum from seed a year or two ago - but never saw it bloom, and figured it had perished.
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Some benefits of weight loss surgery are off the scales. At the NMMC Bariatric Center, we measure our patients' success in more than pounds. Our dedicated team of experts works with you before, during and after surgery to attain all the good things that come with reaching a more ideal weight. Here are just a few of our success stories.
Lindsey Floyd of Blue Springs suffered from sleep apnea and borderline high blood pressure when she weighed 305 pounds. Even worse, she lacked the energy or desire to do much. Since having laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in June 2014, Lindsey has lost 140 pounds. Now she fishes and hikes with her husband, and still has energy left to jump on the trampoline with her daughter.
April Holmes of Caledonia suffered from high blood pressure, sleep apnea and severe back pain when she weighed 350 pounds. Back then she couldn't even tie her shoes without losing her breath. Since having laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in November 2013, she's down to 135 pounds. She works out, plays sports and "things I never dreamed I'd be able to do."
Golf may have saved Nick Robertson's life. Despite high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar and worn-out knees, Nick says he was the only one who couldn't see what the excess weight was doing to him. At 486 pounds, the day he could no longer bend over to tee up the ball was when he finally decided to do something about his weight. After having laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in October 2013, Nick is down to 185 pounds but at the top of his game. "Being overweight affects everything you do, from buying clothes to tying your shoes," Nick says. "This is the best decision I ever made."
Robin Carruth of Tupelo found it difficult to keep up with her students when she weighed 318 pounds. She had trouble tying their shoes, climbing stairs or sitting on the floor with them. She took prescription medicine for leg pain, and she dreaded buying clothes. Everything changed when Robin had laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in September 2013. Now 146 pounds lighter, she works out regularly, enjoys shopping, sleeps better and wakes every morning with plenty of energy for her "kids."
Amber Fowler of Meridian battled extreme neck, back and joint pain and constant fatigue when she weighed 380 pounds. But it was her family history--diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and stroke--that frightened her the most. Thanks in part to laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in May 2013, she's now 213 pounds lighter and loving life. "The word 'can't' is no longer in my vocabulary," she says. "I never imagined how vibrant, incredible and amazing my life could be."
Local pediatrician Nikki Ivancic, M.D., sees patients every day, but they're all seeing much less of her. Dr. Ivancic has lost 240 pounds since having laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in 2012. Before surgery, she struggled to get up and down with children, climb stairs and stay on her feet all day. Now she's not only breezing through work, but swimming and ballroom dancing with energy to spare.
When Marie Dendy of Ackerman weighed 267 pounds, she took medicine for high blood pressure and arthritis, and she suffered from gastroesophageal reflux disease. Climbing stairs was difficult, and she struggled to keep up with her active family. Since having a laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in September 2012, Marie has lost 135 pounds. She's off all prescriptions, and her blood pressure is back to normal. Now she rides motorcycles, climbs ladders, jogs and challenges her family to keep up with her.
When Missy Box of Amory tipped the scales at more than 300 pounds, she had a hard time keeping up with her three children--now ages 3 to 17--let alone juggling her handmade jewelry, boutique clothing and gift business, praise band and other interests. Since having a laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in 2011, she has lost 130 pounds and gained a new zeal for life, with energy to boot.
Billy Abbott of Mantee suffered from diabetes, arthritis in his knees and sleep apnea when he weighed almost 450 pounds. Within a year of having laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy, he lost more than 200 pounds plus all those health concerns. Now work is much easier, he enjoys playing ball with his kids, and he can finally ride his mule.
A nurse for 21 years, Cherri Southward Cox of Tishomingo knew excess weight was the culprit behind her blood pressure, diabetes and sleep apnea. At 300 pounds, she wondered if patients would even listen to her advice. Since having bariatric surgery in December 2007, Cherri has lost 160 pounds, as well as her health issues. Now as a certified bariatric nurse, she can not only educate her patients but share firsthand about being healthier and happier than ever.
Always an adventurer, Mike Scalf broke four chairs during one camping season when he tipped the scales at almost 300 pounds. Worse yet, his blood pressure was high, he suffered from back and foot pain, and he was being treated for sleep apnea. After having laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in 2012, Mike is down to 173 pounds, his blood pressure is normal and he's done with sleep apnea. Now he has plenty of energy for long motorcycle trips and camping... plus less weight means better gas mileage.
Tawana Dearing of Tupelo is singing our praises since losing 92 pounds. After having laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery in October 2009, she has dropped several dress sizes as well as the medication she once needed for high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Now Tawana has the energy she needs to work out and keep up with her 9-year-old daughter, with plenty to spare for her church's choir and praise team.
Jay Yates used to live to eat. Now he eats to live. The chef and owner of The Veranda Restaurant in Starkville, Jay has lost 110 pounds since having laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in August 2010. He no longer suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea and joint pain. Once barely able to walk, now he runs a busy restaurant with energy to spare for working out, riding his bike and traveling.
Sheila Reed of Baldwyn works with critically ill patients every day, so she knows firsthand that good health is precious. Realizing that she needed to improve her own health, Sheila had laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in 2011. Now Sheila has not only reached her target weight, but she no longer needs medication for high blood pressure and feels better than ever.
Only a few years ago, Lance Grissom of Baldwyn had trouble simply keeping up with his kids. Now, he's running circles around them. By his late 30s, Lance weighed 432 pounds and was being treated for high blood pressure and irregular heart rhythm. He suffered from back problems and other aches and pains. In less than two years after laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy, Lance lost 175 pounds and gained a new passion—running. He has several races under his belt and is now training to run the St. Jude Marathon (26.2 miles).
Jana Caffee of Pontocola had no intention of having weight-loss surgery when she accompanied her sister to a free educational seminar. But after she saw her sister's tremendous success, she was sold. Jana, a reading interventionalist at Shannon Primary School, had tried several different weight loss programs but couldn't get below 250 pounds. Along with the weight came high blood pressure that required medication. The extra weight also aggravated her arthritis, making it hard to climb stairs and keep up with her students. After laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery, she lost 98 pounds. The adjustable gastric band helps control the amount of food her stomach can hold. She eats from a smaller plate and says she never feels deprived.
Janice Cruthirds says weight loss surgery is the best thing she ever did for herself. The 64-year-old from Columbus, who works as a consultant for area school districts, began struggling with her weight in her 50s. Along with the weight came high cholesterol and a blood sugar level that was climbing too high. Because her mother died of a heart attack at age 68, Cruthirds knew she needed to take heed. Shortly after laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy, she was completely off her cholesterol medication and CPAP device, and her blood sugar returned to normal. She lost 75 pounds, dropping from a size 18 to a size 6. "I can fasten my shoes, climb the stairs, things you take for granted unless you are overweight," she says. Traveling is now much easier, as are swim aerobics, tending to her flowers and the three grandchildren she is raising.
Misty Sheffield of Fulton has more to show for her weight loss surgery than weight loss. In October 2010, she became our first patient to start a family after surgery. Misty tipped the scales at 320 pounds before laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. After 18 months she weighed 160 pounds—half her original size. Gone also were her high blood pressure, high cholesterol and sleep apnea—resolved quickly and for good when she lost weight.
As a physician, Dr. David Booth of Eupora knew the toll diabetes could take on him. When taking insulin and three different medications failed to control his diabetes, he turned to laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery and a new lifestyle of healthy eating and exercise. Now that he has lost 85 pounds, he no longer needs medicine to control diabetes. And while his blood sugar, cholesterol and heart rate are well below normal, his energy level and zest for life are higher than ever.
Like daughter, like mother. Donna Wallis of Dry Creek in Tippah County lost almost 200 pounds after having weight loss surgery in 2008. Pam Wallis followed in her daughter's footsteps in 2009 and lost 75 pounds of her own. Gone too are the high blood pressure, joint pain and other health problems that often accompany excess weight. Now the mother-daughter duo enjoys shopping together for new clothes. "Before I had to order clothes from a catalog whether I liked it or not just because they had my size," Donna says, but no more. Pam says, "We're having a ball!"
Vercilla Adams sticks by her children Candy Dickerson and Kenneth Michael through thick and thin, and lately everyone is a lot more thin. Vercilla has lost more than 100 pounds since having weight loss surgery in March 2009. After seeing how great their mother looks and feels, Candy and Kenneth followed suit a year later, both with great results.
Kim Mayhall of Fulton now has a sunny outlook. After having laparoscopic Roux-en-Y surgery, she has lost more than 90 pounds and is even smaller than she was in high school. But even better than dropping seven dress sizes was coming off her high blood pressure medication and lowering her risk for heart disease.
Peggy Guenther of Columbus has traded in her fatigues for something much more fashionable after losing 80 pounds in less than a year. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force with 20 years of service, Peggy now trains civilian workers on base. Thanks to laparscopic adjustable gastric band surgery, and a new lifestyle of healthy eating and regular exercise, she has lowered her blood pressure, her triglycerides and her blood sugar. Now that the weight is gone, she no longer battles problems with her heart, kidneys, liver, pancreas and knees.
Alice Byars of Columbus has a new outlook to match all her new clothes, now that she's lost more than 100 pounds. Thanks to laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery and a new lifestyle of healthy eating and regular exercise, her cholesterol level and blood pressure are right where they need to be. And Alice is swimming, shopping and enjoying life to the fullest.
Holly Floyd of Grenada is writing a new chapter in her life now that she's lost 114 pounds. Her success can be traced to laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery and a new lifestyle of healthy eating and regular exercise. She has lowered her blood pressure and no longer suffers from gastroesophageal reflux, nor constant aches and pains in her hips and knees. Now this active mother and paramedic has the energy she needs to finish nursing school.
Doris Mitchell of Becker has pruned away 145 pounds after having laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery and launching a new lifestyle of healthy eating and regular exercise.. Her blood pressure and blood sugar are back to normal, and her flower garden isn't doing bad either.
Now that the Bariatric Center is designated as an Accredited Center by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program and is recognized in the Optum Centers of Excellence Network, weight loss surgery at NMMC is covered by more health plans, including those for teachers, state employees and many offered by employers. So, check your health plan benefits, talk to your doctor and weigh your options.
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A report by the Department of Veterans Affairs' inspector general and a separate "access audit" of appointment scheduling practices across VA healthcare facilities confirm system-wide abuses to distort wait times for care. It shows patients have been put at risk and shaken confidence in how VA hospitals and clinics are staffed, managed and resourced.
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Then the Senate voted 93 to 3 for similar language as part of a more comprehensive bill, the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (S 2450), from Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, VA committee chairman, and John McCain, R-Arizona.
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Why Should a Program Seek Accreditation through ELC AFP?
Some rewarding incentives may include:
- Receive a higher reimbursement per School Readiness child
- Tax incentives through the Department of Revenue or county tax appraiser for participating in the Gold Seal Quality Care Program
- Vendor membership discount
- Enhanced program marketing
- Recognition for increased resources and funding opportunities
- Additional child enrollment opportunities through community and government programs
For help in deciding which accreditation agency may be right for your program, become a part of the ELC AFP.
Licensing Versus Accreditation – What is the Difference?
Most child care providers are licensed and some are licensed and accredited. What is the difference?