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The following article is from the July/August issue of Modern Painters. To see an illustrated gallery of the figures listed here, with their descriptions, click on the slide show.
Robbie Antonio
Manila/New York
Antonio may be the biggest art collector in the Philippines. He is certainly the youngest: The 35-year-old scion and managing director of Century Properties has already amassed a cache of modern and contemporary blue-chip art that rivals that of some small museums, with works by Picasso, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Takashi Murakami, and Richard Prince. If Antonio is young, his collection is even younger — he only began buying in 2005. It's a point of pride that he is on the short list of Asian collectors who are players in the international market. He sees himself as an emissary of sorts, with a mission to bring the world to the Philippines. "The artists who are household names in the West aren't there," he says. "I want to change the psyche of a population," to normalize, in a way, the notion of collecting and arts patronage in an increasingly prosperous country.
Antonio has a taste for artists associated with New York's 1980s scene. He tends to buy in spurts, he says, delving deeply into one genre or another. "I really like my Bacon," he admits, "but what represents me more is my commissions." Many are self-portraits of a sort, conceived in collaboration with the likes of David Salle, David LaChapelle, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation. "Marina Abramovi? asked me 50 questions over e-mail before she agreed to do a project with me," he notes. "I like to participate in the genesis of an idea — that way I have a stake in it." For now much of Antonio's art is in storage, but he dreams of opening a space to exhibit it. "Collecting art is different from buying anything else," he says, "because it's so damn obsessive." — Sarah P. Hanson
Jen Bekman
New York/San Francisco
A founder of 20x200, a Web site offering affordable, high-quality editions and prints, Bekman also runs a New York gallery, Jen Bekman Projects. She now divides her time between the East Coast and the West, where she lives with her boyfriend. "It's nice to have a clean slate, as the walls of my New York apartment filled up long ago, but it's a bit of a challenge since he needs to like it too," she says. "Of everything we've got teed up for framing, I'm most excited about the biggest piece — an 80-by-60-inch artist's proof of one of Christian Chaize's 20x200 editions, which will add some much-needed color and sunshine to our currently bare living room walls. I'm equally excited about the smallest, a drawing that Jason Polan made of the gorgeous potted succulent plants we've got sitting on our terrace. Jason did the drawing during an artists' gathering we hosted, tore it out from his sketch pad, and handed it to me on the spot — the best housewarming gift ever!"
Alfonso Gracia Castillo
Monterrey, Mexico
A former financial adviser, Gracia Castillo has been collecting since he was quite young. In his words, he has "been in contact with the art scene since an early age." While he pursues emerging artists with a focus on those from Latin America, he is guided in his purchases largely by instinct, he says. His recent acquisitions include etched light boxes by Marcela Armas, cutout photographs by Jose Dávila, sculptures by Cynthia Gutiérrez, and drawings by Françoise Vanneraud.
Cesar Cervantes
Mexico City
A restaurateur who doesn't use consultants for buying art, Cervantes lives in suburban El Pedregal with his collection and his family. Indeed, he considers his art pieces — including works by Abraham Cruzvillegas, On Kawara, Jimmie Durham, and Gabriel Orozco — family members. Only his ownership unites the collection, but he does feel that his profession "is now more influenced by my involvement in culture through collecting art than the other way around." Most recently he acquired "Dieu," a 1974 work by Robert Filliou he's wanted for seven years. Yet the thrill never wanes. "I honestly still feel excited about acquisitions made 5 or 10 years ago," he says.
Bill Clarke
Executive editor of Toronto-based Magenta magazine, a journal of international art, his collection has been expanding for 12 years and focuses on works on paper, artist's books, and multiples from the likes of Christian Marclay and Jonathan Monk, though it also includes an impressive array of pieces by emerging artists.
Moisés Cosio
Mexico City
A producer at Detalle Films, Cosio is already an active supporter of public culture at the young age of 28. Last February he began Alumnos 47, a foundation that seeks to create learning communities for contemporary art, and launched his first major project, a mobile library that travels throughout Mexico City. The project grew out of earlier collaborations with various art institutions (including soma in South Korea and moma in New York) to design community-specific libraries. Even though he has been collecting for only four years, Cosio has made enough of a name for himself to have been included in the "New Collecting: From the Personal to the Political" panel at this May's edition of arteBA. His collection includes work by the self-taught Mexican artist Dr Lakra, and in 2010 he helped finance a Marxist puppet show by the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes.
Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan
Gopalkrishnan has always been passionate about art. She once collected ukiyo-e, Japanese wood-block prints, particularly first editions by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, "best known," she says, "for his violent interpretations of traditional horror stories." However she lost the collection four years ago and "was left looking at bare walls and a tight budget. Right around that time," she says, "I began transitioning from a successful corporate career to a more experimental, asymmetric philosophy that I call 'simply transformative': the process of aligning outside with inside, image with inspiration, who you happen to have become with who you were meant to be." This approach guides her nascent lifestyle consultancy venture. "At its core, this philosophy explores contrast and exploration. It rests not in erasure or absolute reconciliation but in that space between sound and silence, journey and destination," she continues. "This is my commitment, in life and work as in art. I am drawn to pieces that are composed, clean to the touch of the eye, but then invite deconstruction and realignment that is authentic to my experience and aspiration." Recent acquisitions include work by Canadian artist Tom Burrows, Bratsa Bonifacho, and Izima Kaoru's "Nagasaku Hiromi wears Louis Vuitton," 2001. — Orit Gat
Alon and Betsy Kasha
The Kashas established an interior design firm specializing in renovating and reselling Parisian apartments in 2004; they started collecting art 10 years earlier. "We bought a painting on our honeymoon and decided to buy a work of art each year on our anniversary," they say. "We buy what we like, not with an eye to investment." They recently added a 1951 painting by François Willi Wendt to a collection that includes multiple works by John Zinsser, as well as pieces by Richmond Burton, Cindy Sherman, and Louise Bourgeois. Overall though, "it is the younger, lesser-known artists" — such as the sculptor Nils Darsonval and the painter Julien des Monstiers — "that truly inspire us. This includes furniture designers whose works we have incorporated into our own designs." The couple's collecting activities work in tandem with their profession: They often put newly collected works and pieces of furniture into their designs and sometimes sell them to clients. — OG
Celso Fioravante
São Paulo
Founder and editor of Mapa das Artes, a Brazilian art guide with both digital and bimonthly printed editions, Fioravante started his collection in 1996 while working as an art journalist. Today it includes some 500 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs. Among his holdings are pieces by Eliseu Visconti, Antonio Maluf, Sergio de Camargo, Franz Weissmann, Amílcar de Castro, Vania Mignone, and Egidio Rocci. "About 90 percent of my collection was purchased at auctions and galleries. I rarely buy directly from an artist's studio, unless he or she is not represented by any gallery," says Fioravante, who in 2010 created the annual Exhibition for Artists Without Galleries, with artists submitting their work for consideration via an open call.
Arthur de Ganay
As a young architecture student in Paris, de Ganay was inspired to begin collecting art after encountering Hiroshi Sugimoto's large-scale photographs in 1995. He has since expanded his collection to include works by a number of architectural and landscape photographers like Elger Esser, Thomas Ruff, and Arwed Messmer. A building that used to be a jam factory along the river Spree now houses his collection and is open to the public by appointment.
Maxwell Graham
New York
The owner of Essex Street, a Lower East Side gallery that he recently relocated from its eponymous block to Eldridge Street, Graham, formerly director of Renwick Gallery in SoHo, is an art dealer and curator. His move to the LES reflects his interests, which tend toward artists — including Mandla Reuter, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and Helena Almeida — whom he feels get more attention in Europe than they do in New York. As a gallerist Graham seeks to correct this wrong: Just last winter, for example, he mounted the critically acclaimed New York return of text-based artist Peter Fend. To inaugurate his new space in April, Graham turned to Owen Land, a well-regarded American filmmaker who nonetheless had yet to have a solo gallery exhibition in his home country.
Taymour Grahne
New York
Originally from Beirut, Grahne now lives in New York, where he is pursuing an M.A. in art business. His collection focuses on contemporary Middle Eastern works. "There is a significant level of artistic talent and creativity coming out of the region," he says. "New Yorkers are enamored when they visit my apartment and see all the Middle Eastern art on the walls." (Grahne also keeps a blog tracking his own interests and discoveries at artofthemideast.com.) Recent acquisitions include work by Reza Derakshani (Iran), Mohannad Orabi (Syria), and Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui (Lebanon). The latter artist created one of Grahne's prized pieces, a suite of paintings called "3 Divas." The series "came from the artist's desire to pay tribute to some of the greatest singers and musicians in the Middle East and France: Oum Kalthoum, Edith Piaf, and Asmahan."
Emma Hall
New York
"I am definitely drawn to painting — I like to feel the artist's presence in the work. I like to feel color and emotion in art," says Hall, who, as head of external affairs at Haunch of Venison, ought to know what she likes aesthetically. For her Greenwich Village home, where she lives with two dogs, she recently bought a small nude by Ridley Howard called "Bedroom #3, night." "It's a very intimate and sensual piece," she says. "I also recently acquired a small work on paper by Walter Robinson, 'Untitled (Painter and Model on the Beach).' He paints such fearsome, sexy women."
Daniela Hinrichs
Hamburg, Germany
"Perfection," is the ambitious theme that Hinrichs says unites her collection, which "allows space for different directions, with a clear call for excellence." She currently runs the company Yellowdine Ventures while acquiring new work; she's particularly enthused about photography. "Recent excitements are Edgar Leciejewski's 'Seven Eggs' and Armin Morbach's 'Golden Cut.'"
John Andrew MacMahon
New York/Houston
A founding partner of Bell Point Capital Management, MacMahon finds collecting "a cathartic experience that allows me to recharge from the pressures of work." His collection consists mainly of photography and has, he says, "a bias toward architecture and geometry. Specifically, I am fascinated by built structures and how they relate to their surroundings. A subcomponent of the collection is the human condition in response to the environment. The first photograph I purchased was Swedish Bachelor by Julius Shulman, which I wake up to every morning."
MacMahon serves on the photography subcommittee at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), as well as on the Contemporary Arts Council at MOMA in New York, and he is involved with his alma mater, Davidson College in North Carolina, which displays part of his collection. Of the work that most excites him, he cites "a photo collage piece by Carter Mull titled 'Unrest,' which was recently on display in 'Utopia/Dystopia' at MFAH, as well as Mull's 'Leader (Obama).' Another artist that I am excited about is Doug Rickard; I purchased a number of photographs, Google street views from his series 'A New American Picture.' The work is extremely powerful in raising questions of racial and social inequalities explored through the Web 2.0 world today." — Tracy Stuber
Fawaz Kanoo
"I tend to buy art based on my mood," says Kanoo, who collects contemporary Middle Eastern art by the likes of Sabhan Adam, Fadi Yazigi, and Lalla Essaydi. But the general manager of Kanoo Vehicle Leasing displays his artworks according to subject matter, "such as diverse faces from different artists in a specific area." He hopes one day to open his own gallery. His taste, he explains, is inpired by everything around him: "It creates a whole language that resonates through my daily experiences, which creates my current taste." Of his recent forays into the market he says, "I'm super excited about my new Mustafa Horasan," one of a number of pieces by young Turkish artists he's been acquiring.
Adam Kimmel
New York
A fashion designer, Kimmel takes inspiration from the lifestyles of both long-established artists — such as Willem de Kooning and George Condo — and the contemporary artists he spends his time with, like Dan Attoe, Ryan McGinley, and Oscar Tuazon. For his fashion collections Kimmel has often collaborated with these and other well-known artists; most recently, he enlisted Dutch photographer Ari Marcopoulos to shoot and star in the look book for his collection with Carhartt.
Sally Lyndley
New York
A fashion stylist who worked for such brands as Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Chloé, Versace, and Anna Sui, as well as numerous fashion magazines, including Vogue, Lyndley started her career as a model. Her love of art dates back to her early days in New York, when she used to go to galleries as a fun, free pastime. She now owns works by the likes of Jeff Koons and Elizabeth Peyton, and blogs about art, music, and their intersection with fashion on her Web site.
Amy and John Phelan
New York/Aspen
Along with her husband John, a cofounder and co-managing partner of MSD Capital, Amy has established herself as a prominent art enthusiast, collector, and philanthropist. She serves on the boards at MOMA, the Guggenheim, and the Aspen Art Museum, among others. While the couple began with classic works of modernism by Picasso, de Kooning, Dubuffet, and Chagall, they soon ventured into contemporary art with the purchase of a Thomas Ruff nude photograph. The sensuous content of that photograph runs throughout much of their collection, which includes work by Marilyn Minter, Mickalene Thomas, Roni Horn, Jeff Burton, and Richard Phillips. Amy also counts many of these artists among her personal friends — particularly Minter, who claims the blonde former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader as one of her muses. Nonetheless the couple doesn't work with an art adviser. Recently, they've focused on outfitting their contemporary mountain lodge in Aspen, which houses large-scale works by Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Prince.
Rik Reinking
With an interest in various artistic periods and schools — from Minimalism to Fluxus to contemporary street art — Reinking is an avid collector who began acquiring at the age of 16. Having studied law and art history, he has tried his hand at curating (including an exhibition of street art at the Von der Heydt Kunsthalle in Wuppertal-Barmen, last year) and is eager to lend his works out to museums (he contributed a Jimmie Durham piece to the retrospective currently on view at MuHKA in Antwerp, Belgium). "I like to combine different art movements," he says, of a collection that includes Cady Noland, Barbara Kruger, Swoon, and KAWS.
Alain Servais
An independent financial consultant, Servais is also a diligent collector and part owner of European Art Tour, an interactive tool for art lovers and tourists. Since buying his first piece about 10 years ago, he has amassed a diverse yet selective group of approximately 300 works of contemporary art. Servais feels art is a language. This idea comes through literally in both his interest in text-based works by artists such as Barbara Kruger and Claude Closky, and in his general insistence that the work he buys say something, both in itself and about him as a collector. For this reason, Servais focuses on established artists rather than emerging ones, relying especially on curated retrospectives that offer a considered look at an artist's oeuvre. His collection, housed in the three-story Brussels loft where he lives and works, includes Lynn Aldrich and Ghost of a Dream and has most recently tended toward digital art.
Marianna Stark
Oakland, California
Founder of the Stark Guide, a gallery-listing blog for the Bay Area contemporary art scene that seeks to connect emerging artists and collectors, Stark is also an active member and former chair of SFMoMA's Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art. After earning a degree in art history at Berkeley, she made a career in communications at Gap Inc., where in the company's San Francisco headquarters, she encountered the collection of company founders Don and Doris Fisher. Her own collection tends toward younger and particularly local artists, such as Nicholas Coley, Monica Canilao, and Dustin Fosnot. In addition to collecting, Stark writes about art for the San Francisco Arts Quarterly and SFArts.org and recently cochaired the 2012 Private Collections spring art tour.
Nilani Trent
New York
After having worked at both Christie's and Sotheby's, Trent founded her eponymous art advisory firm in 2006. "When I first started, I looked at my collection like a stock portfolio," she says. "I wanted to prove to my family I really knew what I was doing. Back then there were a lot of musts: must have exhibition history, must be represented by a major New York gallery, must be a good investment, etc. Now I buy with my heart. There are no rules except that I must love it and want to live with it every single day." As an adviser, she admits to having access to "works that aren't available to most collectors. However, I never buy a work for myself without offering it to a client first. I joke that I get all of my clients' sloppy seconds, which are still museum quality." She means that literally. "Twigs," her Nick Cave sound suit, is currently on loan to the Brooklyn Museum. At last year's Art Basel Miami Beach, Diddy tried to buy her Mickalene Thomas painting, but, she assures us, "nothing in my collection is for sale."
Kai van Hasselt
Now in his 30s, Van Hasselt has been collecting since he was 18. "I had a part-time job during university as a trend watcher and that got me to a lot of cities where I could see art in museums and galleries," he says. "I also like going to art fairs — not all collectors do, I realize."
When he's not collecting art, Van Hasselt fancies himself a theorist of cities, a passion that resulted in the founding of Shinsekai Analysis, a company that specializes in "cultural intelligence and urban strategies." From 2005 to 2010 he ran a lecture series at Amsterdam's W139 exhibition space. "I do not necessarily buy with a strategy. At first I was thinking a lot about topics and themes within (the relatively small) collection; now I do that less," he says. "A core group of works is about transformation: from one image, material, situation, medium to another — and that theme is still there."
Esther Kim Varet and Joseph Varet
Venice, California
Copresident of Plum TV and a former strategic planner for MTV, Joseph Varet has always had an interest in art. He funded the launch of Whitney Focus, the museum's Web video platform, in 2008, is on the Capital Campaign Committee for the Whitney's new building, and chairs the Future Leadership Council. In 2009 he met Esther Kim, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University and part-time art dealer. Married in 2011, the couple recently moved to Venice, California, where Kim Varet opened a contemporary art space — named Various Small Fires, after the Ed Ruscha book — this past January. While she finishes her dissertation on the impact of technology on the Conceptual art movement, the couple stays involved in the contemporary art world by helping to fund Performa 11 as well as projects by artists like Liz Magic Laser. Joseph Varet is also on the board of the LAXART and Artis.


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Instead of just listing my favorite plugins, I would like to post about one particular plugin that I found very elegant and powerful in my Rails applications. Today's flavor of the week is scope_out written by X Andrews.
I first got hip to the power of Rails' builtin with_scope function, thanks to a brilliant screencast by ryanb, our resident genius and noob savior. However I started to quickly make a mess of things as I got carried away and pushed the limits of my scopes.. but no more.
Thanks to this ingenious little plugin, creating and nesting scope conditions for my finds are so simple, it's stupid. You can read more about this plugin at the above links, and you can also check out this blog post
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Thinking outside the 'heliocentric box'
To the editor:
Sometimes when writing something controversial, I will get a response from an anonymous online commenter, who will say: "Isn't this the guy who wrote letters a few years ago about the Earth being at the center of the universe?" ( I hold the 'geocentric' viewpoint); see March 6 letter on homosexual marriage.
The idea I suppose is to get people to believe that I cannot be relied on to deliver a trustworthy opinion on other subjects.
I do not have absolute proof that the Earth is at the center of the universe, but it appears that the preponderance of evidence does indeed support that viewpoint. Do those who teach the non-geocentric viewpoint have absolute proof for their position? They do not; but it is their viewpoint that gets absolute dogmatic status within the education establishment, with generous support from the media.
Imagine yourself sitting at the center of a merry-go-round in a large dark room, the only light is coming from the horses going around you. You feel no vibration and sense no inertial movement from the equipment or floor, and it is completely silent. How do you know if the horses are going around you; or if they are standing still and the room in which you are seated is turning around? Same idea extends to the sun going around the Earth or Earth going around the sun.
It's understandable that some people get quite emotional when asked to think outside the "heliocentric box." But please consider the views of some big name physicists and astronomers:
1. Stephen Hawking "…the evidence, (galaxies moving away from us) seems to indicate we are at the center of the universe." However, he also makes an assumption that the universe might look the same at any other point in the universe but admits we have NO EVIDENCE for or against this assumption.
2. George F.R. Ellis- "I can construct for you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations. You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds."
3. Max Tegmark- "Our entire observable universe is inside this sphere of radius 13.3 billion light years, with us at the center". (after analyzing the distribution of cosmic microwave background)
4. Max Born. "Thus we may return to Ptolemy's point of view of a 'motionless earth' This has been done by Thirring. He calculated a field due to a rotating, hollow, thick-walled sphere and proved that inside the cavity it behaved as though there were centrifugal and other inertial forces usually attributed to absolute space."
5. Albert Einstein seems to be saying that a stationary Earth and a rotating Earth are equally justified under relativity.
Finally, science writer Kitty Ferguson profoundly sums up the situation in her book "Measuring the Universe:" "School children learn that we live on a planet that revolves on its axis and orbits the sun." .. "Yet our own contemporary science backs away and tells us that when it comes to proving what moves and what doesn't, and whether or not there is an unmoving center no one can make an air tight case that any answer is right or wrong.""Scientists today merely prefer to picture everything in motion and nothing as being the center, but no one can prove that the Earth moves."
P.S. : Getting back to the March 6 letter; online commenter Eburke posted an interesting question for it on March 15 at 9:34 p.m. What does the pro-homosexual marriage camp offer for response?
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Thanks Slow Duck for starting the new thread ... next year will be my 4th (3rd down) and I am in for sure. I think entry opens on 1 September and finishers this year do not need to do a qualifier (thats been the criteria for the last 2 years at least).
Hernia fixed yesterday ... so taking a forced break now!
I'm back!!
Come on Keith, you know you want to.....
I will be back. I have a score to settle with this race
First though, a few targets to shoot for in the second half of 2011. Target 1 is sub 80min half. Target 2 is sub 2:45 marathon. I may kill myself trying to get them but it will be good fun nonetheless.
Warren - Target 1 will be a breeze for you and Target 2 is well within your reach with a solid training period and race. For comparisons, to get a championship start at London you need either a 2:45 marathon or a 75 half.
I'm very jealous of you all going back next year, I'm going to have to wait until 2013 or 2014.
A question.
I got 10.35 this year.
Can I get the Bill Rowan next year and what will it realisticaly take?
Jelly Bean-
I don't really bother with such distances for the most part.
My only marathon was a trail marathon and I got 4.02. I got 1.53 in a half marathon, but that was my first ever race, and I have never done one since. I recently got 2.45 in the Ashby 20, which would imply that I could probably get sub 1.40 in a half marathon today. My best and only time for a 10k is 46 minutes.
So what do you make of that?
Thanks for the advice.
Not tempted to go back right now (presumably if you are ever THAT desperate for a b2b medal you change your name and suck up the extra 2 races you will therefore need to get a green number) but who knows. It is not so much the race but it's just a hell of a long way to go and of the order of a thousand quid in travel expenses, and, you know, maybe I'm not just that sucked in to the collect-the-tokens stuff (different colour medal, extra medal, & so on). But never say never. It would be nice to overcome my gut issues and get a bronze -
- in fact I would be interested here and now to hear any tips on dealing with that.
I think it's a big leap from marathon running to Comrades (where folk like me are walking maybe about half the way and not running all the fast the rest of the time). Presumably (I should do the maths some time) a LOT more of your energy comes from fat and so the big mistake a lot of us make, perhaps, is not to scale down the gels/drink intake to be in line with the reduced rate of glycogen depletion...?
The other main issue I had was the horrible early start - I was thinking maybe I should have just spent most of my pre-race time in SA trying to sleep and not worrying about trying to acclimatize to the early start, but what do I know...?
Not sure btw there is a big correlation between marathon time (or other shorter times) and Comrades time - or rather there is certainly an enormous amount of variability because stuff just kicked off.
We could probably draw up a table of thread members mara vs comrades times, but the short version is that Carmen beat the Yelling/Williams pair by 4 minutes!
SlowDuck - I keep on forgetting to ask - when the cutoff was 11 hours, who did the 11 hour bus then & what was it like?
jelly bean-
I went pretty flat out in the Ashby 20, but I did not taper for the event, and effectively treated it as my long run that week.
The Leicester marathon is on my doorstep in October, and would be well suited to getting a better seeding/testing your theories.
Slotwin (assuming she has come over here from the 2011 thread) - for shin splints you could try sports massage. Might hurt like billy-oh but a good masseur/se can work wonders.
Still in Seattle here - it's half past 2 in the afternoon and there is a brief lull in the frenetic activity. Day started with 8am conf. call and I worked through lunch so nice to have a bit of down time (have just caught up with OH via a google talk video call, isn't modern technology wonderful).
Oh blimey - is it Father's Day on Sunday?!
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The mind of the person
The article on the front page of the Jan. 29 Iron Mountain Daily News titled "Active Training Shooter Program" stated in the first paragraph of the article that there was a school shooting every day of the last week in the United States.
I myself hadn't heard, read or seen of a shooting everyday of that week, not on the internet, television or newspapers including the Iron Mountain Daily News, I could only remember one that I knew of.
I then searched the internet under list of schools shootings in the United States to see what I could find regarding these shootings, I found information about the subject on Wikipedia which showed only one school shooting in the United States for the last week which was on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 in Houston, Texas.
Although I couldn't find any reference in regards to a shooting every day of the last week in regards to school shootings I did find that there were five other school shooting in the month of January 2013 – two in the second week and three in the third week, although there were shootings every day of that week they were not school shootings. That got me to where I did more research on school shootings and found that the first school shooting in the United States took place on July 26, 1764.
Wikipedia gives a chronological list of school shootings in the United States starting from 1764 to present day.
Prior to 1989, there were only a handful of incidents in which two or more victims were killed by firearms at a school, including the 1966 University of Texas massacre, the 1974 Olean High School shooting, the 1976 California State University, Fullerton massacre, and the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting (the 1927 Bath School disaster was a bombing, not a shooting, with a firearm used only to detonate explosives). School shootings prior to the late 1990s, when they received intensive press and official coverage, were considered local incidents and may be substantially underreported in current tabulations, raising questions as to whether school shootings are actually increasing or are simply receiving more attention in recent years. From 1989 to 2012, there have been at least 40 such incidents.
What I did find very disturbing is that in the month of January 2013 the six school shooting in the United States are the most in anyone month throughout American history. There were ten school shootings in the United States during 2012 and sadly within the month of January 2013 there have already been more than half as many as all of last year.
If we look back at our country throughout American history we can find that we have been a violent nation from the start. This is how our nation began from the Revelatory War to the wars we are in today, in between these we have had Indian Wars to take the land, a Civil War that divided the nation, bank, stage coach, train robberies and cattle rustling. The roaring 20's, the Depression of the 30's all of which involved guns and killing of people, all the laws and regulations that have been enacted have not deterred the killing of each other over these times.
Guns, knives, clubs etc., etc., etc. don't kill. It's what is going through the mind of the person that commits these crimes and uses whatever weapon is at their disposal.
All the regions, governments laws and regulations that have been written have not deterred the killing of each other over time. The Bible says Cain killed his brother Able and the killing of another person has not stopped since.
We can only hope that as humans our morals would be for good rather than evil.
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
a cut above
iiiiii'm baaaaaaack!
ok. so i've been in AZ for awhile now. But we are officially staying! Can you say "holla?" That's right it is cactus, dirt, and hundred degrees for us and we couldn't be happier {although our NE friends and readers will surely be missed!}.
Anywho, let's celebrate - shall we?
How's about a free haircut?
that's right friends. cut and style by yours truly- for FREE at Habit Salon. just got a trimmy trim? go ahead and comment nominating someone else who needs it!
here's what you do:
1. comment and tell us how bad your mane needs taming (or just how much you love us ;) )
* You may FB, Tweet, or blog for extra entries- a separate comment for each
Winner will be announced FRIDAY.
xo and good luck.
27 comments:
- ***LIZ*** said...
Ooooo, I want a free hair cut. I wish you could make mine look like the last gal in the red polka dot shirt, a girl can dream, right?
- July 15, 2012 at 8:01 PM
- Brenn said...
Ooohhh, pick me! I'm dying for something brand-new!
- July 15, 2012 at 8:25 PM
- kate said...
I'll be visiting in AZ in a few weeks FOR a few weeks! This would be perfect!
- July 15, 2012 at 9:01 PM
- kate said...
- July 15, 2012 at 9:01 PM
- kate said...
- July 15, 2012 at 9:01 PM
- Kaitie and Blaine said...
I would LOVE a new do!! Love TBM! My go-to place for everything beauty!
- July 15, 2012 at 9:06 PM
- Kaitie and Blaine said...
Posted on FB!
- July 15, 2012 at 9:09 PM
- S & K Nielsen said...
Oh my goodness! Winning this would be like winning the lottery for me!!! I haven't had my hair cut in 2 1/2 years...what is wrong with me?!?! Even my husband thinks I'm crazy. Crossing my fingers...
- July 15, 2012 at 9:23 PM
- Kristina said...
So....I'm officially a Beauty Mark stalker....but I had to comment for this! I had a baby about a year ago and I've been growing my hair out since I got pregnant. I've had a few trims (including at the hands of my own husband!!) but I definitely need a revamp because this mane is getting long and scraggly! (FB and blogged too!!)
- July 15, 2012 at 10:09 PM
- Trenton and Brooke said...
My hair needs a haircut so badly! Bad as in, it hasn't been cut since October 2011 bad. Please pick me!
- July 15, 2012 at 10:53 PM
- Tiffany said...
I am in desperate need of a new haircut! And am moving back to Az in 2 days!!!!! :)
- July 15, 2012 at 11:08 PM
- Alvin & Jessica Pease said...
I NEED a haircut soo bad! Ive been putting it off for months. My hair is the longest its ever been & i just do know what to do with it. Would love to have you work your magic on my hairs:)
- July 16, 2012 at 6:56 AM
- Alvin & Jessica Pease said...
posted on my FB page. https://www.facebook.com/jessica.t.pease
- July 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM
- Ruth said...
I'm taking a MUCH needed Vegas getaway with my husband in two weeks and this would be perfect!
- July 16, 2012 at 10:18 AM
- Kirsten B said...
I am in desperate need of a new style! Hope I am the lucky one! :)
- July 16, 2012 at 10:31 AM
- Katherine Young said...
Oooh! So glad you are back for good! My mom is in DIRE need of a hair makeover! My mom can never seem to get a hair style that she loves, but I am sure you could get the job done :). Pick her, she would love it!
- July 16, 2012 at 11:35 AM
- ron&melz said...
My daughter, Jessica Pease, would love to get a haircut from you - the fact that it could be FREE makes it even better. She always puts her boys ahead of herself. I love my son-in-law, but if he could, he would make her cut her own to save a few $$$. Pick Jess!! MOM T.
- July 16, 2012 at 11:48 AM
- Jamie said...
I'm happy you are back Hillary. Are you moving back to your old house? That would be fun to see you from time to time. :) Anyways, I'd love a free hair cut! :)
- July 16, 2012 at 12:46 PM
- Clint, Marianne, Sage and Charlotte said...
I've spent the past year trying to grow my hair out. And now that it's finally getting length to it, I want to chop it off so bad I can't stand it. Whyyyyy do I always do that? Anyways. It gets super nasty sweaty at the gym in my ponytail and I want to whack it off. So let's win this.
Oh. And what can you tell me about extremely dry skin around my fingernails?!! It's driving me crazy. I've tried the vitamins and use tons of lotion but it's still peeling and snagging on stuff and making me scream.
And yea!! Hillary! Glad you're back.
- July 16, 2012 at 9:10 PM
- Kylie said...
i check your blog- and i love it! love all the tips! and love that you two are sisters! and i would love a cut!(a little change)
- July 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM
- Sarah S. said...
I love your blog and I love that you make beauty affordable. I am in need of a cute bob hair cut. I decided that because I'm getting older my hair is getting more dry and dull. Not long and luscious like I would like. So a bob it is.
By the way...I started using volume exact mascara that you recommended many moons ago and just recently recommended a week or so ago. Love, loved it, but unfortunately they discontinued it about 6 months ago.
- July 16, 2012 at 11:07 PM
- Chandler Brooke said...
ummm HELLO! im your gal! Love, Love, Love the blog, and i may or not be obbsessed... dont jude!xoxo
- July 17, 2012 at 1:59 AM
- S & K Nielsen said...
I just blogged about it, too!
- July 17, 2012 at 12:43 PM
- The Stockton Family said...
Oh I would love a cut! Being that I just had a baby a few months ago and am nursing, I haven't gotten out much! I would love a little fix me up!
Welcome back!
- July 18, 2012 at 4:02 PM
- Trenton and Brooke said...
#2 Entry: I tweeted about your blog! https://twitter.com/BrookeEthington
- July 18, 2012 at 10:01 PM
- Alvin & Jessica Pease said...
#3 Entry: I tweeted about this giveaway. Not sure if it should count thou since i just started twitter & have like 3 followers.lol https://twitter.com/jessica10e
- July 19, 2012 at 9:22 PM
- Haleigh said...
I haven't had a haircut since last September! My ends are soo frazzeled! I'm dying to get my cute little bob back
- July 20, 2012 at 10:29 AM


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By CANDIS RIEDER
Benefit Bake Sale
AMVETS Post50 Ladies Auxiliary is hosting a bake sale on Saturday, Jan. 26. All proceeds from the sales will benefit the Sugar Grove Free Library. The bake sale will begin at 11 a.m. and continue until all supplies are sold. Any donations of food items to sell or donations to the library would be appreciated.
Donations can be dropped off at the Post on Friday or Saturday.
District Band Festival
The Pennsylvania Music Educators Association will be holding its District Band Festival on Saturday, Jan. 26 at Elk County Catholic High School in St. Marys.
Congratulations to some of our talented Eisenhower band students who were selected to take part. They are Senior Greg Mizak, trumpet; Junior Macy Retterer, clarinet; Junior Jessalyn Peterson, piccolo; and Senior Patty Bogniak, clarinet.
Tickets for the event are available by contacting the Elk County Catholic High School.
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The Pennsylvania Music Educators Association will be holding its District Jazz Band Festival on Saturday, Feb. 16 at Fort LeBoeuf High School in Waterford. Congratulations to Jimmy Palmer, a junior at Eisenhower High School who was selected to be a part of the event.
WCSD Schedule
The Warren County School District will not be having classes for any employees or students on Monday, Feb. 4 and there is also an Energy day scheduled no school for Monday, Feb. 18.
Wednesday, Feb. 20 will be the day to register for 2013-14 kindergarten at Sugar Grove Elementary School. Registration times are 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. or 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Bring to the school office the following items when you come to register: student's birth certificate, immunization records, proof of residency by means of a utility bill, credit card bill, deed, mortgage, lease agreement, or driver's license. Each student being registered will have the opportunity to meet the kindergarten teachers and also complete a vision screening.
Registration packets can be obtained at the school office or at the Warren County School District central office. Schools ask that your registration packet be completed prior to arrival on registration day. Everyone should allow at least one hour for the registration process. If you have any questions, contact the school office at 489-7851.
For those in the area attending school in Russell, the Russell Elementary School kindergarten registration will be held on Feb. 12 from 9 to11 a.m. and 1 to 2:30 p.m.
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Eisenhower Knight-Time Players will present their third Annual Dinner Theater on Feb. 15 and 16 in the Eisenhower gymnasium. The show, "Family Album," by Rod Frankel, is a series of monologues, duets, and skits about modern family life, including children fighting over a remote, and a child trying to make sense of a divorce. There will also be stand-up comedy and a selection of music.
The choices for the dinner on Friday night, Feb. 15, are Bacon Wrapped Filet or Seafood (Scallops and Shrimp) Alfredo. The dinner choices for Saturday night, Feb.16, will be Bacon Wrapped Filet or Chicken Cordon Bleu. All dinners include tossed salad, dinner rolls, entree, potatoes, vegetable, dessert and beverages.
Ticket are $15 and include both the dinner and all the entertainment. For more information or to order tickets, contact any Knight-Time Player cast member, the main office at Eisenhower High School (757-8878), or contact Director Mary Passinger at email@example.com. Tickets orders will be accepted through Feb. 7.
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ARLINGTON — That roar you heard or felt coming from here around 7:30 Saturday night? Earthquake? Tornado? Nope, but close: A force of nature named George Strait had just walked onstage at AT&T Stadium for the final show of his Cowboy Rides Away tour, a two-year, cross-country sweep that he says will be his last.
Dressed in a blue-checked Western shirt, jeans and his trademark black hat, the Poteet (south of San Antonio) native launched into the 1995 classic "Check Yes or No," motivating the giddy crowd into its first of many singalongs.
The 104,793 people in attendance made history — the event marked a new record for largest indoor concert in North America, easily zapping the earlier high mark of around 87,500, set in 1981 by the Rolling Stones at the Louisiana Superdome. Coincidentally, 1981 is when Strait launched his career with the single "Unwound" and the album Strait Country.
At 10:40 p.m. Saturday, after 41 songs, nine superstar guest appearances (plus a couple of numbers with his son, songwriter-performer George Jr., known as Bubba) and hundreds of thousands of beers and sodas in George Strait souvenir cups consumed, the 62-year-old cowboy did indeed amble away — not riding, exactly, but no doubt buoyed by the crowd's earsplitting cheers and what seemed like a never-ending standing (and jumping) ovation (many fans stood for the entire show).
If you weren't there, you missed a landmark, musically superb evening, but don't panic about King George: He hasn't said he won't do any more concerts, just that he's quitting touring. He'll no doubt play the Lone Star state in many shows to come: In fact, he'll return to AT&T Stadium in April 2015 for the 50th anniversary Academy of Country Music Awards show (which sold out its 70,000 tickets in 18 minutes flat).
Strait has been named entertainer of the year five times by country's high court, three times by the Country Music Association Awards, in 1989, 1990 and 2013, and twice by the ACMs, in 2009 and 2014. Amid a slew of other accolades, he won a 2009 Grammy for best country album for Troubadour, whose title cut was one of Saturday's standout numbers, showcasing both Strait's vocal integrity and his acumen at finding songs (that one's by Leslie Satcher and Monty Holmes) that bring the "traditional" back to country while also gathering adoration among the younger, more pop-oriented crowd.
With apologies to AT&T, Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, they might just as well re-name that big football-shaped building the George Strait Stadium right now and get it over with, because that's how a whole bunch of folks will think of it from now on. In 2009, Strait (along with Reba McEntire, Lee Ann Womack and Blake Shelton) opened the venue, playing to 60,188 fans.
For this show, Strait used a different stage configuration that allowed for the extra seats: a custom revolving stage set center field (he's only used it twice before, in Houston and San Antonio). It was the best concert set-up I've seen at the venue (others who've played here include Paul McCartney, Kenny Chesney and Taylor Swift; next up is One Direction on Aug. 24).
The always-iffy sound seemed about as good as you could hope to expect inside a big echoing stadium that was built for, well, football. I crept up as far as I could into the rafters, and even in the notoriously acoustically bad corners, the sound seemed better than usual. In the "good seats," the acoustics were noticeably less tinny and bouncy than I've heard in previous shows.
It helped that Strait was in perfect voice, that trademark mixture of caramel and whiskey never faltering during his three-hour show, which followed a rousing hourlong set by Texas swing legends Asleep at the Wheel, led by the incendiary Ray Benson.
Speaking of fiery, one of Strait's best numbers was "The Fireman," sung with Chesney toward the end of the show. Other highlights included Strait's solo "Marina Del Rey," "Jackson" with Martina McBride, "Amarillo by Morning" with Alan Jackson and "A Showman's Life" with Faith Hill.
The audience showered special love on almost-hometown-girl Miranda Lambert, who hails from Lindale in East Texas and sang "Run" and "How 'Bout Them Cowgirls" with Strait. Lambert also gets the prize for edgiest attire; in a crowd full of floaty cowgirl dresses and pressed jeans, country's version of "dressed up," she wowed in a flirty new shorter hairdo (platinum, of course, like the title of her just-released fifth CD), black leather jacket and short-shorts, and sparkly silver boots. Strait and Lambert's voices melded gorgeously; they should consider cutting an album together, or at the very least releasing an EP of duets.
Other guest stars, all of whom oozed love and respect for Strait, were Vince Gill (who was limping; we hope he's OK), Jason Aldean, Eric Church and Sheryl Crow. For the three encores, "All My Ex's Live in Texas," "Folsom Prison Blues" and "The Cowboy Rides Away," Strait brought all the guests back on stage for what had to be one of the most star-studded 15 minutes in country-music history. Even on the big awards shows, you never see this many bona-fide superstars all singing together. Talk about generous: Strait also worked in plenty of moments for his backing Ace in the Hole band, a majority of whom are from Texas, to shine.
Strait's set list traversed nearly the full run of his career, from 1983′s "Amarillo," to 2013′s "I Got a Car," released in November as the third single from his latest CD, Love Is Everything. Along the way, Strait has racked up 60 No. 1 hits (another music-industry record) and sold more than 100 million records,
One of the evening's most uplifting, moving moments came with "I Believe," a 2013 single that was inspired by the 2012 elementary-school shootings in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and 6 adults were murdered. "The rivers flow now that used to be dry/as people all over the world start to cry/But I believe," Strait sang, obvious tears in his eyes (and in about 200,000 eyes that were watching him).
Another sniffle-inducing interval arrived on the heels of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry, a Medal of Honor recipient who saved other soldiers' lives in Afghanistan when, after being shot in both legs by Taliban fighters, grabbed a grenade and attempted to toss it away from them. Petry's right hand was severed and he now wears a prosthesis. At the concert, he and his wife were given a a new home courtesy of the Military Warrior Support Foundation, which Strait has partnered with on this tour, giving away a mortgage-free residence to a wounded combat veteran at each concert.
As is his custom, Strait wasted little time on banter, but when he did address the audience, it was with obvious love and thanks. "Mutual-admiration society" has never been a more appropriate phrase than it was for this show. The most fitting and sentimental (in the best possible way) number had to be "I'll Always Remember You," which features the lyrics, "I'm not saying I'm through by any means/There's still things I want to say and do."
Yep, George, we believe you do. And we'll be right here waiting when you decide to ride back out. And hey, Poteet and San Antonio, no offense, but after this show, George Strait is ours.


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