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Aiming for greatness
Aiming for greatnessWhen it comes to raising children, what is your goal?
Like many parents, I don't have a clearly defined goal in my mind.
Also like most parents, I want the best for my children. I want them to get a good education, have a good job and make a nice living. I want them to be successful and happy in life.
What is success?
In our society, success is often defined as having wealth, power, fame and beauty. Be the first, the best, and have the most.
There is nothing wrong with this goal. But is this enough? Is that all I want my children to be and to have?
I know the answer is "No." I know there is more to life than being successful and having wealth, power, fame and beauty.
Though I wasn't very clear what more I wanted for my kids, in 2002, when they were four and two years old, I started taking them to Sunday school after being invited by a church at Woodbury Days.
At least I understood the importance of living a balanced life of mind, body and spirit, and a balanced life of outward success and inward fulfillment.
Recently, I read "Raising Kids for True Greatness" after a friend invited me to a group discussion based on that book by Tim Kimmel. The book helps redefine success in parenting. It also helps clarify what my parenting goal should be.
True greatness, Kimmel writes, is "a passionate love of God that shows itself in an unquenchable love and concern for people. It is based on grace. Its attitudes are humility and gratefulness. Its actions are generosity and a servant attitude."
True greatness is exemplified by love and service for others as opposed to accomplishments for oneself. Successfulness should not be the primary goals we set for our children, we should aim for greatness.
Every child has the potential to make an extraordinary difference in life.
It is the parent's job to aim for greatness and significance and raise our children who will use their talents, their skills and their lives to make a real difference in the world.
I know in many families, we parents put too much emphasis on our kids' academic achievements. We focus on their school report cards, their grades, their scores, or their extra curricular activities while neglecting the aspect of building characters.
We like to compare, compete and control.
We feel good when our kids are doing well. We feel like failures when our kids don't meet our expectations.
When we prepare our kids for success as defined in this world, the focus is on what is in it for me, how can I be the first and the best, and have the most.
This helps create a self-centered attitude in our kids.
People are truly great, attractive and valuable, not because of outward appearance and possessions, but because of inward qualities.
Success as the world sees it is an illusion. It is short-living and does not bring true happiness.
Successful people come and go. But the truly great people touch lives and their impact and legacy last forever.
We all know Mother Teresa. She was not beautiful, wealthy and powerful, and didn't achieve fame by worldly standards.
Yet she was one of the greatest people who have lived on the earth. The legacy she left is way beyond what success can bring. She touched lives and made a difference in the world.
Mother Teresa had the qualities that identify a truly great life: humility, gratefulness, generosity, compassion and a servant attitude.
After I read the book, I have a more clearly-defined goal in raising kids.
It should not just be helping my kids achieve success, but, more importantly, aiming them for greatness.
I need to teach them humility, gratefulness, generosity, compassion and a servant attitude. In addition to providing them with a secure love, I should also help them find their significant purpose in life.
"Raising Kids for True Greatness" not only gives me a better understand of a higher goal in raising kids, it also challenges me to better myself for a simple reason.
Before I can teach my kids the qualities of humility, gratefulness, generosity, compassion and a servant attitude, I have to learn myself first in order to be a role model for them.
So aiming for greatness is not just a goal for my kids, it is a goal for myself as well.


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CAP CANA, Dominican Republic -- Count the Mavericks' J.J. Barea as among those who doesn't think the Celtics should trade Rajon Rondo.
"I think he is the Celtics right now," Barea, the ex-Northeastern star, said to a group of reporters that included SportsNet Central's Jessica Moran. "He controls the defensive end, he controls the offense completely. His hands have the ball all the time . . . I think . . . they need to stay with him."
Barea -- here for David Ortiz' charity golf tournament -- thinks the Celtics could win without him, though "they better trade for another good point guard like him. But it will be a lot harder without him."
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A film star, businessman and leader in skills training have been named in the Queen's New Year Honours.
Actor Earl Cameron, who lives in Kenilworth, is to be made a CBE for services to drama.
The 91-year-old has been on screen for over 70 years.
He is known for his roles in shows Doctor Who, Dangerman and The Prisoner in the 1960s.
He starred alongside Sean Connery in the James Bond movie Thunderball and was also in The Interpreter with Nicole Kidman and the hit movie The Queen with Helen Mirren.
He said: "I was tickled pink when I found out. It was something I suppose I thought might happen one day, but I never gave it a lot of thought really.
"I have no idea who nominated me but I am very grateful. I should hear within the next few weeks when I will receive it officially."
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Written on: 20/04/2012 by GoodGrief (1 review written)
Now just because I've given this bike a 1 STAR rating don't go getting upset - actually it deserves a 5 STAR rating because it's possibly the finest 'ped we've ever seen. It looks superb, starts first time - even after standing for 6 months, sips fuel, is clean to ride, looks great and is very comfortable to ride.
The 1 star rating is just if you want to sell it on...
Our story...
My son has got one of these - a 2010 (60 plate) Gilera Runner SP50. It's brand new and is a great looking bike. His has a white and black fairing with black sports wheels (red rim pin-striping) and looks absolutely fantastic - it should do, it's barely 2 years old and he's basically never used it. It's been garage kept since new and has a grand total of 212 miles on the clock - less than a week's use!
This year, he's off to uni so has decided to sell it to help towards his living and accommodation costs. We paid £2,200 for it and if you check the web, they go for at least that now.
But we have advertised it locally in the newspaper, nationally on the MCN website and in eBay classifieds.
Have we had ANY responses? Nope! Not one!
We started advertising at £1700 - £500 cheaper than new for what is basically still a brand new bike. Nothing!
We dropped the price to £1500 - that's a £700 discount. Nothing!
We have just re-advertised it for £1300 - nearly £1000 off the new price and still nothing.
We are now thinking we'll just keep hold of it, keep it in our garage and not use it. Then, in another 20 years, HIS kids can sell it - it'll prolly be worth £20,000 by then!
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How do I make sides of a cushion cover to go over a 5" thick foam? Somehow I've managed to get this old without ever doing this.
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How do I make sides of a cushion cover to go over a 5" thick foam? Somehow I've managed to get this old without ever doing this.
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I don't dance with wolves; I quilt with dogs!
I was going to try to explain....but I'm not terribly good at it, so here's a reasonably straightforward method
This is for a piped cover without a zipper.....you could leave out the piping if you wanted.
If you're sewing cushions, etc - allow for 1/2" seams and don't forget to allow for some ease also - just 1/4" is enough...
my name is becca and i'm a quilt-a-holic :-)
I would for sure use the piping, it will give a nice finished look. Just my opinion.
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This life is the only one you get - enjoy it before you lose it.
And use a zipper foot if you are using piping.
Excellent directions available in the link. One more suggestion. Cover your foam cushion with the thin plastic bag from the dry cleaners (like they put over coats or dresses). It will be easier to slide the new cover over and then you can just rip it out before you sew the seam opening closed.
Two comments on the post 1) 'The ring should open at the corners' I assume she means you have the clip the ring at the corner in order to make a turn. 2) Be sure that your ring, as she calls it, starts at the same place on the top and the bottom. If the seam is in the center of one side, be sure it's exactly in the center on the other. And for good measure, if you're using older foam, a wrap of polyester batting around the foam refreshes the look.


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masada (4.5)...YetAnotherBrick (5)Don't forget about Rubber Soul...Necrotica (5)Who knew that a "transitional" album would sound so great?...SlMBOLlC (5)Well fuck, they really are that good...
Humor99 (4)...cagedbutterfly (5)Beauty without the beast....rapsucks (5)...thedoors55 (4)"Egotistically, we like to think that we created the idea, but actually what we did was no...
crandynewman (2.5)Listening to this does make my soul feel more flimsy than normal...
Do we really need more reviews of Beatles Albums???
I say no.
Album Rating: 5.0Does it really matter? If you don't want to read another Beatles review, don't click on it. I will review whatever appeals to me.
Don't listen to that guy.
Good review. I'm a huge Beatles fan, but buying Rubber Soul never appealed to me, but heck it's probably be worth a listen. Norwiegen Wood kicks @$$
Keep up the good work.
Album Rating: 3.0This is the one of my least favorite Beatles albums. There are some good pop songs but nothing really stands out and grabs me.
Good job on the review, but you didn't need the George Martin quote at the beginning.
Album Rating: 3.5My opinion of this flucuates a lot. Right now I think it's good, but not one of the Beatles best.
Nice review. :thumb:
Album Rating: 4.0I love this album, as I do most Beatles albums. In My Life is just awesome.
Digging: Iron Chic - You Can't Stay Here
Don't listen to gimme slack, we could all use good reviews, especially on an album that's only been reviewed once.
This is my opinion their best album
Excellent review
Album Rating: 5.0Why thank you gentlemen.
Album Rating: 5.0This may very well be my favourite Beatles album. It's the album that really got me into The Beatles (1 Sparked my interest). All the songs are excellent and all of them are catchy. In My Life is a contender for the best beatles song. And I love I'm Looking Through You.
As for the review it was a good track by track, and it was an entertaining read as a result of how you intergrated some facts that fans might not know (the Beatles singing tit for example). This Message Edited On 04.17.06
Album Rating: 5.0Awesome album and review. The Beatles are one of my favorite bands, so I never get tired of reading reviews of their stuff as long as the review is good and entertaining like this one.
This was the first Beatles album that was mine, not my parents, so it's very special to me. When I was like 10 years old this was my favorite album ever, and it still is one of my favorites.
I knew the tit fact:cool:
Oh yeah, and If I Needed Someone has more in common with The Byrds than just having the 12 string sound. George took the riff of the song right from the Byrds song Bells of Rhymney. He wrote a letter to the Byrds to get their approval to use it though, so he's not a thief. Beatles Anthology facts ftw. This Message Edited On 04.17.06
Album Rating: 5.0Mr. Zebra, thank you for your compliment. But it was a Paul McCartney quote at the beginning, in which Sir George Martin is mentioned.
Album Rating: 5.0My reviews seem to be slipping into obscurity...
Album Rating: 5.0This album has only been reviewed once. It's not like a did one on Nevermind or something
Album Rating: 5.0I have a feeling you and I will clash alot.
Album Rating: 5.0It is quite alright. Perhaps I'm reading to much into your comments. However, don't think I cannot sense your wit. Anyway, how is this review?
Album Rating: 5.0indeed.
Album Rating: 4.0Mr. Bron-Yr-Aur. You insist on stalking me- perusing me to the far reaches of this forum, just to get me to comment on this album. Why? Why so persistent?
...well, fine. Do you know why I've been avoiding this album for so long? Let me tell you- any minute, any minute, this album is going to sneak up behind me, put a knife to my throat, and anally rape me with it's sheer genius! Do you understand? I'm fearing for my bloody life- any week now, I'm going to go on the largest Rubber Soul tangent ever- and Lennon have mercy on anybody who gets in my path.
That's why I've been avoiding this for so long. It's just a matter of time, Mr. Bron-Yr-Aur. I can feel it.
Album Rating: 5.0.......Yeah. Stalking? No. I was referring to a conversation we had earlier about how you hadn't listened to this album in a long time and "didn't know what to make of it". You told me you'd comment and I left it at that. You misinterpreted me, I'm afraid.
Album Rating: 5.0I thought "Paperback Writer" was the first song that the Beatles wrote that didn't have to do with love at all. Paul wrote it on the urging of his Aunt.This Message Edited On 06.23.06
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Janesville Craig girls basketball cruises to title
After blowing a 17-point lead against Waunakee in the first round of last year�s Optimist Classic, the Cougars finished the job this time a 60-40 championship victory over the Warriors here Tuesday night.
Behind 15 points from point guard Amanda Hamilton, the Cougars cruised to a 7-1 season record by winning the tournament for the first time since 2007.
Craig coach Kerry Storbakken said his team had no thoughts of giving up the 20-point lead the Cougars had built midway midway through the fourth quarter.
�This is a different group of kids,� Storbakken said. �We have eight seniors. I wasn�t worried about losing the lead, and they weren�t, either. This is a poised group.�
Waunakee led 10-9 lead after the first quarter, but the Cougars picked up the tempo in the second period and took the lead for good at 13-12 when Emily Hinman scored at the 4:55 mark.
Hinman then took a charge with 4:28 left in the first half to extend her streak of at least one every game�an event that always puts the Cougar fans into a frenzy. Craig went on to a 28-20 lead after three quarters on the strength of Hinman�s scoring, which included three field goals in the period, and her defensive play.
Waunakee entered the fourth quarter 10 points down, but if the Warriors had visions of another comeback, they were dashed early.
Craig started hitting from long range, and the lead went to 20.
�Good shooting is contagious,� Storbakken said. �Emily Legreid hit two, and then Hamilton hit one, and they started dropping.�
Craig sank seven three-point goals overall, including five in the fourth quarter.
�Yes, good three-point shooting is contagious, but so is poor shooting,� Storbakken said. �Tonight, we had the fortune of seeing the threes go down.�
Hamilton finished her night with a 10-point fourth quarter, while Kelly Preston led Waunakee with 15.
Storbakken said Hamilton, his 5-4 senior point guard, plays much taller than her size.
�You noticed that Amanda came away with rebounds against much taller players,� he said. �It�s fundamental basketball to get inside position, and that�s what she�s so good at� fundamental play. It�s doesn�t hurt that she�s a very tough, scrappy player who doesn�t back down.�
The recent Craig win over Janesville Parker was a Christmas present for his team, Storbakken said.
�And I just said, �Happy New Year� after tonight�s win,� he said. �We can enjoy this as we go into a break, but it�s back to Big Eight play in a week.�
Craig plays at once-beaten Madison East on Thursday, Jan. 6.
�East is not a big team like Waunakee, but their girls are very quick,� Storbakken said. �They have a girl who will be a scholarship player for the Badgers, so she will be a handful, and they have a group of 10 seniors who play well together. It�s always tough up there.�
Waunakee (40)�Johnson, 1-1-4; Hagen, 1-4-6; Vanden Brook, 3-4-10; Preston, 5-5-15; Statz, 2-0-5. Totals: 12-14-40.
Craig (60)�Hamilton, 3-6-15; Storbakken, 1-0-3; Legreid, 5-0-12; Marshick, 1-0-2; Hinman, 5-0-10; Sroda, 2-0-4; O�Donnell, 2-2-7; Crandall, 3-0-6; Kennedy, 0-1-1. Totals: 22-9-60.
Waunakee 10 10 12 8�40
Janesville Craig 9 19 14 18�60
Three-point goals�Waunakee 2 (Johnson, Statz), Craig 7 (Hamilton 3, Legreid 2, Storbakken, O�Donnell). Free throws missed�Waunakee 11, Craig 2. Total fouls�Waunakee 16, Craig 18.
Junior varsity�Semifinals: Craig 59, Oregon 34. Championship: Craig 64, Waunakee 59.
(Third Place)
Oregon (58)�Jahn, 5-0-13; Ricker, 6-1-14; Peach, 6-2-17; Sessler, 3-1-8; Grits, 2-2-6; totals: 22-6-58.
St. Catherine�s (75)�Molback, 1-0-2; Miles, 2-0-4; Libby Zimmerman, 3-0-9; Le Count, 1-2-4; Rammelt, 1-0-2; Olliey, 3-2-8; Braun, 9-6-24; Tepley, 10-2-22; totals: 30-12-75.
Oregon 9 10 25 14�58
Racine St. Catherine�s 21 21 19 14�75
Three-point goals�Oregon 8 (Jahn 3, Rickert, Peach 3. Sessler), St. Catherine�s 3 (Libby Zimmerman). Free throws missed�Oregon 5, St. Catherine�s 5. Total fouls�Oregon 15, St. Catherine�s 11.
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The side-splittingly funny Newbery Honor Book about a rebellious boy who is sent to a home-schooling program run by one family—the creative, kooky, loud, and loving Applewhites!
Jake Semple is notorious. Rumor has it he managed to get kicked out of every school in Rhode Island, and actually burned the last one down to the ground.
Only one place will take him now, and that's a home school run by the Applewhites, a chaotic and hilarious family of artists: poet Lucille, theater director Randolph, dancer Cordelia, and dreamy Destiny. The only one who doesn't fit the Applewhite mold is E.D.—a smart, sensible girl who immediately clashes with the defiant Jake.
Jake thinks surviving this new school will be a breeze . . . but is he really as tough or as bad as he seems?
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- Ages: 8 to 12
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The Beijing-bound Boeing 777-200 flight of Malaysia Airlines had 227 passengers aboard, including five Indians and one Indian-origin Canadian, and 12 crew members.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of a Malaysian plane with 239 people aboard deepened today with multinational search teams still unable to find the debris from the missing aircraft after over two days.
"Unfortunately, we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft itself," Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, head of Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation, said at a televised news conference.
Also Read: Missing Malaysian jet may have disintegrated in mid-air
The Beijing-bound Boeing 777-200 flight of Malaysia Airlines had 227 passengers aboard, including five Indians and one Indian-origin Canadian, and 12 crew members.
Vietnamese searchers on ships worked throughout the night but could not find a rectangle object spotted yesterday that was thought to be one of the doors of the plane.
Rahman said Vietnamese officials had not confirmed to Malaysia, reports that debris believed to be from the plane had been found.
He stressed that authorities were looking into all angles and aspects that could have led to the disappearance of the aircraft including hijacking.
Malaysia yesterday launched a terror probe into the disappearance of MH370 flight that suddenly vanished from the radar one hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur Airport on Friday midnight.
The probe was launched after it emerged that two passengers boarded the flight with stolen passports.
Preliminary investigation also indicated that plane may have turned back.
Five passengers holding tickets had failed to board that flight, Rahman said. "Their luggage was off loaded and would not have been in the plane. All check in luggage was screened," he said.
Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi yesterday said the two passengers who used stolen passports to board the plane had "Asian facial features" "I am still puzzled how come (immigration officers) cannot think, an Italian and Austrian (passengers) but with Asian facial features," he told reporters yesterday.
Asked about how the two passengers with Asian features could have been allowed to pass, Rahman said the investigating officials were looking into it and added that authorities were going though all video footage and records.
"There are a number of reports, number of sightings that we have made. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement agency also spotted slicks in the South China Sea and they took samples of it and those samples have been sent to the labs," Rahman said.
The Malaysian official said the authorities were as "puzzled" as others over the mysterious disappearance of the plane and stressed that search efforts had been intensified expanding area of search to the Andaman sea.
The list of passengers on board the plane included 154 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, 7 Indonesians, 6 Australians, 5 Indians, 4 Americans and 2 Canadians.
Indians have been identified as Chetna Kolekar, 55, Swanand Kolekar, 23, Vinod Kolekar, 59, Chandrika Sharma, 51, and Kranti Shirsatha, 44.
"There are various objects our team has seen but none of them confirm any of them are from the aircraft. And for the aircraft to just go missing just like that from the radar. We are equally puzzled. The honourable Prime Minister used the word 'perplexing'," Rahman said.
"To confirm what had happened on that particular day to the ill-fated aircraft, we need hard evidence, we need concrete evidence. "Every hour, minute, second we are looking for the plane. We are looking at every inch of sea," he said.
The plane has not emitted any signal from the time it went missing. A massive search operation was launched after the disappearance of the aircraft with 40 vessels and 24 planes scouring the Malaysian, Vietnamese waters and the Andanan Seas in a multi-nation operation.
Rahman said various reports of sightings of parts of debris like a door and a piece of tail had not been verified.
Meanwhile, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said yesterday all air travel security procedures at Malaysian airports would be reviewed after the discovery that two passengers boarded the flight using stolen passports.
Najib said air security protocols would be further enhanced if the review found it necessary.
"At the moment, when we don't have any solid evidence there are surely many theories swirling about but they are not conclusive," Najib said.
On the possibility that missing flight's apparent "turn-back" indicated that there was suspicion of terrorism, Najib said,"We have to find all possible leads and investigate before we can arrive at a definite finding."
Royal Malaysia Air Force chief Rodzali Daud said yesterday that there were indications on military radar that plane could have made a "turn-back".
Authorities are also puzzled over the lack of signals from the plane's Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) emergency beacon, which can help rescuers locate the aircraft.
He said recordings captured from the radar had shown a turn-back. In an air turn-back, a plane returns to its airport of origin as a result of a malfunction or suspected malfunction of any item on the aircraft.
The airlines group CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said a turn-back could be launched when a pilot is unable to proceed on a planned flight path, and he would inform the air traffic control tower of his intention. "But no distress signal was issued. We are equally puzzled as well."
The Australian government has joined the search operations for the plane.
"This afternoon I spoke to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to...offer our assistance with the search for the missing aircraft," Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.


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The journey
The Velux is a magnet for fatigue. Sailed in three legs of 12,000, 14,200 and 3,200 miles, the race bounces back and forth from brutal conditions to the mind-bending challenge of the windless doldrums.
In the earlier editions of the event, sailors spent weeks in total isolation.
Even today, conditions on the 50- or 60-foot sailboats are anything other than elaborate.
Something as simple as going to the bathroom becomes difficult in boat-bashing seas--especially when there are no restrooms on board.
In the Velux, it's a bucket to do business and a "chuck-it" overboard to flush it.
At least today's technology has made some things more bearable.
The modern sailor relies on amenities such as the Internet, satellite telephones and GPS-guided autopilots to help get them through.
"It's a night-and-day difference," Adams said. "When weather permits, the autopilot can be turned on, they can fix problems on their boat, call the wife and kids at home, and spend much-needed time on the computer looking for weather and the best wind."
But the reliance on technology does have its drawbacks.
"The sailors grow to depend on it," Adams said. "When it breaks down, they have to know how to fix it or do without."
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston knows the old and new ways. In 1969, he became the first to sail solo around the world. This year in the Velux, on the second leg from Australia to Norfolk, he told race officials he loathed today's technology. He hated it because it wasn't working properly and actually was depriving him of much-needed sleep.
"It's dangerous because the other day I went out to sleep because I was so exhausted and I missed the radar alarm going off," Knox- Johnston wrote in his log. "I had a cruise liner go within 2 miles, and I didn't know until that had passed.
"It isn't amusing."
Sunday, four of the five racers will leave the Chesapeake Bay in their wake and head toward Spain on what must seem like an afternoon cruise compared to the first two legs. The fifth contestant, Dalton, is still trying to make it to Norfolk.
When the four leave, sleep--and the problems a lack of it cause--won't be as much of a problem. The leg is relatively short, about a fourth of the distance of the previous two. And anticipation of completing the endurance test is high.
But for Stamm, who enjoys an overall lead of two weeks and three hours over the closest competitor, the final leg will hold all of the same challenges.
"I will be pushing hard to finish," Stamm said. "But as with the other legs, it is important to listen to the body. It talks to you and tells you what you need.
"It's more important than ever at sea. The body will tell me to eat or sleep, or even to stop racing if I am in danger.
"With the win so near, I can assure you, I will not be so tired as to see anyone else on board my boat."
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China's Thirst For Cars Overtakes U.S.
13.6 million cars were sold in China in 2009, while American sales slumped 21% to 10.4 million.
From Bloomberg News: "China's vehicle ownership climbed to 51 million by the end of 2008 from 1 million in 1977. Per capital disposable income for Chinese households increased 46-fold in nominal terms during the period, also making the country the world's biggest markets for products such as cell phones, beer and microwave ovens.
GM and Volkswagen have targeted growing Chinese demand to compensate for slumping sales in the U.S. and Europe."


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Lucy has the look of love
At just 23 Lucy Evangelista is a top model, has launched a new business and is planning her wedding to rugby star Matt McCullough. She tells Audrey Watson of her hectic life
Former Miss Northern Ireland and Miss UK Lucy Evangelista certainly knows a thing or two about model behaviour. At 15, the Ballymena girl was strutting the catwalks of London and now, at the grand old age of 23, she's passing on her valuable knowledge to other young women who dream of following in her footsteps.
Along with fashion photographer Ciaran O'Neill, Lucy has set up the Voodoo International Modelling School, which offers two-day courses providing everything a girl needs to try and forge a career in this highly-competitive industry.
"We only began in November and so far have had a fantastic response," says Lucy. "When I first started modelling, I was thrown in at the deep end and hadn't a clue what to do. On the course, as well as advising about posture, posing, catwalk and make up etc, I also talk about my experiences and what I've done and offer advice.
"Plus participants get a professional portfolio that they can then take to modelling agencies."
When Lucy says that she was thrown in at the deep end, she isn't joking. As a pupil at Portglenone Primary School and then Ballymena Academy her early ambitions were far from glamorous.
"I had no aspirations to be a model at all," she insists. "I wanted to be an air hostess because I love to travel. I was actually very shy and always stayed in the background.
"When I was 15, my mum entered me in a Specsavers competition and I won the NI and Dublin heats. I had to go to London for the UK final and was on my way home after coming third, when I met a guy from the L'Oreal Colour Trophy Awards who asked me to do some catwalk work.
"I spent a few days on my own in London, completely terrified at first. I remember watching the models walking up and down in six- and seven-inch heels and thinking that I would never be able to do it. But I picked it up.
"When I returned to Ballymena, I took lessons after school in beauty therapy, speech and drama and photography and although I continued modelling locally, I still wasn't considering it seriously as a career.
"Then a few years later, my sister entered me into the Miss NI competition. She had been pestering me for three years to do it and I always said no, but she went behind my back and entered me anyway."
Lucy won the competition in 2005 and went on to win the 2005/2006 Miss UK title. She was also placed in the Top 10 of the 2005 Miss World Competition.
"That was a wonderful experience," she says. "That year Miss World was held in Sanya, China and I was there for five weeks. I had a brilliant time and became very friendly with Miss Ireland and Miss Scotland — we still keep in touch."
Beauty competition success propelled Lucy on to the international modelling map and she was soon mixing with celebrities such as Naomi Campbell and Liz Hurley and featuring in a TV show with Hollywood stars.
"The most amazing part of my career so far is probably last year's Grand Prix in Monte Carlo," she recalls. "I was there with Red Bull and met Naomi Campbell (who was really nice), Liz Hurley (who was really gorgeous) and Elton John.
"It was one of the most bizarre moments of my life, being in a room with all these famous people.
"I also really enjoyed my time in Australia in 2006, where I was working for the Tamblyn and Boss model agencies. There was a pilot for a possible ABC mini-series being shot out there called Starter Wife, starring Debra Messing from Will & Grace, and I got a very small part, which was great. Sadly, I didn't make it into the subsequent series," she laughs.
Lucy denies that modelling is a bitchy business — at least in Northern Ireland.
"It's not that way at all, I think that that's an image people like to create. At Miss NI all the girls became great friends and at things like Fashionweek, the craic backstage is brilliant.
"Northern Ireland is such a small place that you work with the same people all the time and become friends and socialise."
When Lucy returned from Australia, she moved to Belfast and started dating another Ballymena native — Ulster Rugby star Matt McCullough.
"Matt went to Ballymena Academy as well. He was a few years above me, but I knew him to see.
"When I moved to Belfast I always saw him out and about and we bumped into each other one night in Apartment. We kept meeting each other that week and then Matt asked me out to dinner and that was that.
"We've been together for more than two years now and got engaged last summer."
The couple have set a date for their wedding —June 25, next year — but Lucy reveals that she initially turned down Matt's very romantic proposal.
"I had my baggy jeans on, my Ugg boots and my hair was greasy," she recalls. "Matt picked me up from work with our dog in the back of the car and said, 'Let's go for a walk'.
"We drove to Crawfordsburn and as soon as we had parked, the dog jumped out of the boot and ran off up the beach with Matt running after him.
"It started to rain and I was left straggling behind. I got really cold and wet and very annoyed. When I caught up with them, Matt was down on one knee and had written 'Lucy McCullough?' in the sand surrounded by my favourite candles.
"I said 'No, you have to ask my dad first'. He said that he had, but I didn't believe him because I was sure dad would have told me.
"But he kept insisting that he had asked permission and so, I eventually said 'Yes'.
"I don't know how he managed to hide all those candles up his top — he's a big softie.
"Matt's been a really positive influence on me in many ways. He encourages me to go out and do things like Voodoo. And being a sports star means he's really careful about what he eats, which has rubbed off on me. I had a terrible diet before.
"But his love of rugby hasn't rubbed off. I'm not a fan, though I am starting to understand it a bit more now."
Matt (27) has been playing professional rugby since 2001, when a contract with the Ulster team cut short his studies at Trinity College Dublin and brought him back to Belfast where he continued his course in business, economics and social studies at Jordanstown.
And he reveals that although they don't share a love of rugby, the pair do have a pastime in common — houses.
When he's not on the pitch, Matt has a property development business and the couple have just finished their latest project in Belfast.
"I bought my first house at the end of 2002," he says. "And I've renovated and rented out a few since then. It's something I'm keen to pursue even more after my rugby career is over."
"I take care of the interiors," says Lucy. "I really enjoy bringing the look of a house together and it's something Matt and I can work on as a team."
Lucy is dismissive of the term 'wag' and laughs at the idea of that label on any of the Ulster wives or girlfriends.
"I'm definitely not a wag," she says firmly. "And I don't see any of that going on in Belfast. The other girls are just like me — we go about our own business every day.
"We're all very independent and have our own careers."
For more information on Voodoo International Modelling School log on to voodooims.com
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If their genes walk them to the edge of the cliff, their lifestyles send them tumbling over the edge, or so goes the thinking among those who study the health of South Asians.
A bounty of research suggests this group is at greater risk of developing diabetes – about three to five times that of the Caucasian population. Rates of hypertension and heart disease are also higher. While genes cannot be changed, lifestyle modification has become a priority for health-care practitioners and new community organizations that serve ethnic groups – in particular Chinese, Afro-Caribbean and South Asian populations – with elevated rates of chronic disease.
The South Asian Professional Network for Health Awareness launched an action plan in Toronto last month to reduce levels of diabetes, hypertension and heart disease among its high-risk population. Also in the Greater Toronto Area, the Regional Municipality of York granted a local organization $45,000 last month to create healthy eating programs targeting the Chinese population.
But practitioners of these programs have found it's not as easy as asking patients to swap basmati rice for brown, or pickled carrots for raw ones – that the principles of cultural accommodation extend to discussions about diet and nutrition. What many consider to be basic diet modifications can overlook the ties between culture and food – ones that link hefty portions of rich, fatty foods with economic prosperity and refined grains with purity.
In North America and Western Europe, lower socioeconomic brackets tend to be the hardest hit by chronic disease due to a diet high in fat, sugar and sodium. But in many parts of South America, Africa and Asia, it's the middle class that is the most afflicted by chronic health conditions. Foods that are higher in fat tend to be more expensive and their presence at the dinner table reflects a higher socioeconomic standing. And while immigrants are typically healthier than their Canadian-born counterparts when they first arrive – what's known as the "healthy immigrant effect" – studies suggest that after living in Canada for a few years, immigrants lose that edge.
Cooking traditional high-fat, high-sodium dishes is also seen as a means of cultural preservation, says Mustafa Koç, the founding co-ordinator of Ryerson University's Centre for Studies in Food Security.
Michelle Ladha can relate. The 35-year-old purchasing co-ordinator in Richmond Hill, Ont., says preparing Indian food – which her East African parents of Indian ancestry always cooked – is a way to share her roots with her family. "Any Indian [dish]you'd think of, we'd make it," she said. "Every other day there's always a curry in the house."
Priti Chawla, the director of the SAPNA, says many cultural factors are closely tied to food in the South Asian community and pride often blocks positive change. If a guest turns down chai with sugar in favour of water, the host could see it as disrespectful; if rice is prepared without salt, it's a sign of low socioeconomic status.
Family Lifestyle Community Services in York Region notes that many unhealthy cooking methods have persisted in Chinese culture for generations: Vegetables are braised so long they lose the bulk of their nutritional value and because few homes in China have the space for ovens, most meat is cooked by frying in butter or oil. The organization's staff hope to overcome those habits with cooking demonstrations and health seminars.
All of these cultural factors mean that doctors have to have a more nuanced approach when counselling patients about low-fat diets, Ms. Chawla says. Failure to do so can mean inaction on the patient's part. The authors of a 2008 study published in the Canadian Journal of Diabetes that cited "poor rates of compliance" among South Asian diabetics when it came to diet modification said more "structured, culturally and linguistically relevant" programming was needed.
Colin Saldanha, a Pakistan-born Mississauga family doctor who treats many South Asian patients, has taken up the cause. He has met with dozens of family physicians, nurses and dietitians throughout the Greater Toronto Area who treat South Asian patients to counsel them on strategies.
"We have to say in public-service announcements that when you're entertaining people, you don't have to put these big, oily foodstuff on the table to equate it with generosity," Dr. Saldanha said.
It was news to a lot of the doctors Dr. Saldanha advises that there are traditionally long gaps between meals because dinner takes a while to prepare and children wait until the whole family is ready before they eat. Doctors also asked for advice on ingredients they could recommend to patients that would have a degree of familiarity, such as whole-wheat flour imported from India.
When Ms. Ladha decided to switch to a healthier diet a few years ago, she signed up for Weight Watchers, but soon realized the points system didn't accommodate her diet of fried foods – samosas, kebabs, cassava and pakoras – or the curries made with fatty coconut milk and filled with vegetables cooked in clarified butter.
"When you have Indian food, your points rack up because you have oil, you have butter, you have this. One dish of coconut curry puts you back for the day," she said.
She hired dietitian Anar Allidina, who specializes in South Asian nutrition, to help her modify recipes, rather than overhaul her diet. She now uses buttermilk as a replacement for coconut milk in curries and satisfies cravings for deep-fried samosas by eating pappadums with lean ground beef. She hopes to set her family on a healthier path than the one previous generations followed.
"My husband's father, he's almost 300 pounds," she said. "I see my husband doing the same habits as him and that's going to lead to no good."
Annie Chung-Hui, a registered dietitian at South Riverdale Community Health Centre, shares Ms. Allidina's philosophy, modifying traditional recipes for her Chinese immigrant clients and holds cooking demonstrations at the centre.
"The physicians say limit your salt intake and they send the patients home," she said.
Even the widely accepted recommendation among dietitians to divide a plate into one-quarter protein, one-quarter grains and one-quarter vegetables exposes a blind spot in our thinking, said Ms. Chung-Hui, who is of Chinese descent herself.
"When you work with Chinese people, it doesn't work that way. They're eating from a bowl."
Diabetic risk
The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes among Ontario women who have immigrated from different parts of the world:
South Asia: 12 per cent
Latin America and Caribbean: 11 per cent
Sub-Saharan Africa: 8 per cent
North Africa and Middle East: 7 per cent
East Asia and Pacific: 6 per cent
Western Europe and North America: 5 per cent
Source: Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital published 2010


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Some themes in art appear over and over because they need to. That's the case with this play, whose story is built around a forgery. It's about deception, authenticity, and our need to believe. It's all stuff we "know" but often have trouble remembering – or simply find agreeable to forget.
Just as with the multiple kimonos one character wears, playwright Naomi Iizuka dons, then strips away, layer upon layer of story. The forgery is of an 11th-century Japanese courtesan's journal, written by an overeducated 21st-century white American guy. His boss is a sketchy art dealer (named Darius Wheeler) who covets the forgery, and whose reasons for that include the fact that he's fallen for Setsuko, an Asian-American scholar of that very sort of writing.
So: A portrait soliliquied upon in one scene is dismissed as of "iffy" authenticity in the next. Later, Darius – whom we've seen insisting that "happy" simply "means happy" – says of one artwork, "There are fakes and then there are fakes." Then we learn he's lying there, too.
Iizuka (and maybe director Karla Boos) employs a couple of smart techniques to express the subjectivity of our gaze. At one point these include a literal veil over one artwork that's literally lifted as one character's illusions are dispelled.
The dialogue, meanwhile, often suggests not only characters trapped in a web of lies, but interesting games being played with the audience. For instance, Setsuko lauds the "pillow book" (which we know to be fraudulent) as having "a voice that was … unmistakably female." But of course we understand that the playwright, three of whose characters are men, is practicing the same sort of gender impersonation. What's engaged on one level is that eternal question of our willing suspension of disbelief in a work of fiction.
Ultimately, however, the play mentions more themes than it explores, including but not limited to Westerners' tendency to exoticize the Orient, and whether art becomes less beautiful as it becomes more graphic in its depictions. The central romance plays out a bit flatly, too.
Meanwhile, the production, with its handsome outdoor setting in an amphitheater at one end of Washington's Landing, is ankled by ambient noise. Train horns blow; motorboats growl; the cicadas provide a constant percussive background; barges honk. (At one point in the performance I saw, after Setsuko offers Darius her theory about how the courtesans' habit of writing in their native language -- men wrote in Chinese -- freed them to express their true emotions, a barge passes, and Darius responds, "Well, that sounds [hoooonnk].")
One thing 36 Views surprisingly brought to mind was the recent L.A. Fitness shootings here. The shooter's online journal was widely quoted. In all the news coverage I saw, no one seemed to question whether the man's account of his social and romantic isolation might not be entirely true. It was a "journal," true. But because it was one he knowingly posted online, it was also a performance. Perhaps then, also, part lie.
What 36 Views reminds us is that we all to some extent (perhaps a large extent) believe what we want to believe, for our own reasons, facts be damned. (Why might people want to believe the gym shooter might go on a rampage simply because he hadn't had sex in year?) And we lie in the same way. At its best, 36 Views gives us characters' subtle negotiations with themselves as they gauge how much they want to tell a lie, what it will get them, and how much the other person wishes to hear it.
And the little fake moons of the stage lights illuminate all.
36 Views continues through Sun., Aug. 30.
The first IMAX movie I ever saw, some 25 years ago, was about skydiving. But quite a few of these large-format spectacles have taken up themes of nature and the environment. Perhaps it's something about how the domed screen suggests the sky.
In any case, my second IMAX was about beavers (10-foot incisors, comin' at ya!), and takes on our imperiled oceans, the power of hurricanes and the like include this one that opened Aug. 13, about pollution in the five huge fresh-water bodies to our north. (Note from the film's press preview screening: Avoid arriving early unless you're prepared to hear the Science Center's sound system play two verses of Gordon Lightfoot's Great Lakes-themed folk-rock epic "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," looped continuously.)
While the film is structured around efforts to save the threatened lake sturgeon from extinction, the "mysteries" thing is a red herring, a nod to Native American lore, buttressed by a biologist's reverential visit to some Indian rock art. (No living Native Americans are featured.) The film blames the lakes' problems on the "systematic ravaging" of the ecosystem by human industry from the mid-19th century on.
The sturgeon is Exhibit A: This magnificent fish, which can grow to length of 7 feet and attain 300 pounds, is 150 million years old, a contemporary of the dinosaurs whose skeletons we pay museum prices to see. But Westerners first considered the fish an inedible nuisance -- they burned the massive bodies like logs, for fuel -- and then hunted it relentlessly, for its roe, which we call caviar.
Dirty water, of course, is another culprit: industrial effluent, agricultural runoff, discharges of raw sewage.
The film empathetically portrays the Wisconsin state wildlife biologist who's leading efforts to repopulate the sturgeon through a breeding program. But its handling of the larger environmental issues it raises is slightly dubious.
Take two issues. One involves the trouble caused for the sturgeon by hydroelectric dams, whose prevalence can keep the fish from its spawning grounds. The film notes that some dams are working to accommodate the spawning runs -- but ignores that any dam necessarily and permanently destroys thousands of acres of wildlife habitat. Even more jarring, in this 45-minute film, is a five-minute digression into the marvels of hydroelectric power itself, which is touted as "clean," a designation many environmentalists question.
Likewise the infiltration of the lakes by nonnative species like the lamprey, whose presence is shown to be indirectly responsible for the renewed poisoning of the once-resurgent bald eagle. (Some eagles feed their young the lampreys, which accumulate especially large amounts of toxins in their flesh.) The film reports that invasive species are often carried in the bilgewater of cargo ships. But its claim that shipping companies are working on this problem probably engenders a false sense of security: Invasives can cling to hulls, too, one of many routes international trade affords them.
None of this is too surprising, given that the film's prime sponsor is the global megacorp Unilever, which despite its attempts to raise a green profile is at least indirectly repsonsible for many of the eco-ills the film cites, agricultural runoff in particular.
Still, far from fabricating a happy ending, Mysteries leaves the fate of the sturgeon unsettled. That's one of the ways the film could perhaps raise consciousness about that "systematic ravaging," mixed messages or no.
Summer and fall are house-tour season, but I doubt there's a more intriguing look at living spaces than the one arranged by this South Side artists' co-op.
The former Duquesne Brewery (whose big clock tower looms over the neigbhorhood) is some three decades into an experiment begun when a group of artists squatted in a portion of the huge old vacant space. After years of legal battles, the co-op got all legal-like, with official control of its portion of the building, enough for dozens of artists.
Even for audiences who haven't been attending the monthly art exhibits in its first-floor gallery space, or the frequent performances in its theater, the Aug. 15 open house demonstrated that the Brew House remains a pretty vibrant space as well as a practically venerable landmark.
Saturday, you could have spent the evening either in that theater -- with a variety of edgy acts from experimental music to a fire-breathing sideshow dude -- or wandering the studios and live/work spaces on the second through sixth floors. The place retains admirable demographic variety, from a young painter fresh out of Pitt who'd just moved in to a commercial photographer (his portfolio older than the aforementioned painter) who's been there for years.
The work ranged from high-end woodcraft to macabre oil paintings and a one-night installation featuring goofy variations on county-fair games (like throwing a small bike tire over a traffic cone 20 yards down the hall while balancing on a wheeled rocker board).
The event was well-attended, visitors streaming through the lobby and traversing the stairwell. The dozen artists I visited included self-taught Curt Sell, who uses a big magnifying glass to melt colored glass (bottle or stained) for sculpting. It's about as green as you can get working with molten glass.
The turn-of-the-century industrial brewery, with its steel bones and concrete skin, is great for creating art, but aesthetically too it makes for a wide variety of spaces. The Brew House has everything from little windowless chambers to grand corner lofts with full kitchens and big casement windows overlooking the South Side, even Downtown panoramas. Some are just studios; others mostly apartments, or some combination of the two. (In the higher-ceilinged spaces, living areas are often added with a half-story platform.)
One space is also a school: The Academy of the South Side, a collaboration by three local artists to teach classic portraiture the old-school way. Two of the artists, in fact, had spaces on the tour. One was Tim Meehan, who showed off paintings he and his students had done, including a work-in-progress from that day, when their model was a man dressed as Napoleon.
The American Shorts Reading Series has changed a lot in its seven seasons. In its original incarnation, it featured local writers and performers reading favorite works of short fiction in a different venue each month. (Six shows per season, I think.) One highlight was actor Chris Josephs's delightfully chilling rendition of Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" (it was around Halloween) in the parlor of one of those repurposed Mellon mansions on the Chatham University campus.
Gradually, the series assumed new shapes; now formally called American Shorts a@ WYEP, it hosts writers and talkers in a variety of fiction and nonfiction genres. Often, admirably, it focuses on topical, even political themes; this season's four shows have tackled "Sexuality & Faith" and "Iran Unveiled," among other themes, for instance.
The Aug. 13 installment found the series playing presenter as much as curator, hosting a road-show version of the popular New York-based storytelling series The Moth. Created in 1997, The Moth has brought everybody from a pickpocket to movie stars to stand before audiences in intimate settings and tell real-life stories, sans notes.
Though The Moth's lone national tour didn't hit Pittsburgh, it's pretty well known here. On Aug. 13 (competing against the Steelers' preseason opener and Bill Clinton at the Netroots Nation conference), it drew some 350 people to the Pittsburgh Opera's Strip District gathering space. About one-third of them raised hands when host Tom Shillue (a comedian and Daily Show contributor) asked who'd seen a Moth podcast, and likely others know it from frequent Moth-derived segments on public radio's This American Life.
The show's theme was "Building Bridges." The three storytellers included Moth regular Boris Timanovsky, a Russian-born New Yorker who gave an hilarious deadpan account about deciding to pose as his 11-year-old son to be an e-mail pen-pal to a Russian friend's adolescent daughter. ("How hard can it be?") New York actor Stephanie Summerville told of a bizarre, racially charged assignment she got as a temp-agency home-health worker when she was a clinically depressed college student. Poet and Carnegie Mellon professor Terrance Hayes recalled meeting his biological father for the first time, as a new father himself. ("Yeah, Butch, he's one of yours," says Hayes' dad's girlfriend the second he walks through the door.)
The Moth was created with a back-porch storytelling ethos; somewhat like the original American Shorts, I guess, it made a formal, paying event out of something one could do any night for free, given a case of beer and the right bunch of friends.
I later learned the performances weren't as informal as descriptions made them sound. In other words, it wasn't just recruited 'tellers hopping up on stage and spieling. New performers were required to audition stories, and even got coached on shaping their narratives. Timanovsky's story, in particular, with its cascade of ironies and his flawless, rapid-fire delivery, had obviously been told more a few times before.
That's not a complaint: No one went away disappointed (and there was beer on hand, too, after all).
In a post-performance Q&A, someone asked Shillue whether the Moth vets these nominally true stories for truthfulness. It seemed an odd question; truthfulness seemed almost implicit in the intimacy of a person standing up to tell a story about their lives, even if essentially to a roomful of strangers. On the other hand, even if we know it's not true, "The Cask of Amontillado" is a pretty good story anyway. We just like to listen.
I spent 45 minutes or so Wednesday evening watching Obama "Hope" poster artist Fairey and his crew of four as they made a Downtown stop on their rounds during a week-long mural project.
Fairey is a veteran street artist whose work is now the stuff of museums and sanctioned public works. Indeed, this mural initiative was arranged by The Andy Warhol Museum, where Fairey has a show opening in October.
On First Street, just off the rush-hour traffic on Wood, the Los Angeles-based Fairey drew a small crowd by taking over one end of a small parking lot to wallpaper-paste big sheets of pre-painted paper to the side of an old three-story brick building (the studios of architect L.D. Astorino). This was the first Downtown stop on a multi-day route that had taken them through the Penn Avenue corridor, to buildings including the Sprout Fund's, in Garfield.
Working in a spitting rain, the crew unloaded its supplies including an aluminum ladder from the hatchback of a late-model gray Chevy Traverse. Using long-handled brushes, they soaked the wall with paste. The paper ranged in size from small posters to strips a couple feet wide and several feet long.
"We're going to put the lotus and the peace fingers up first, then we'll rip patterns back into them," Fairey told his crew. "Just start getting it lathered up."
Fairey gained fame years ago by posting in public places his images based on pro wrestler Andre the Giant over the legend "Obey," usually without permission. (Fairey later copyrighted "Obey" slogan, leading to a brief legal battle this year with a Pittsburgher who used the word in an online project.) His iconic, red-and-blue Obama poster -- which got him into legal trouble because it was based on an appropriated news photo -- is arguably the most recognizable campaign art in recent decades.
In his old guerilla-art days, Fairey painted murals right onto the wall, and had to work fast, lest building-owners object. But his Pittsburgh sheets were all hand-painted, in his LA studio. The big ones, with a dark brown background, featured either a version of the famous '60s hand making the peace sign or a big kind of mandala. The small ones were a rich red, bearing another abstract. All of them incorporated stylized renderings of "Obey" and barely legible versions of his Andre the Giant logo.
Once they'd stuck the sheets to the wall -- again using brushes, in the style of old-school billboard plasterers -- the crew, under Fairey's direction, folded or ripped them into new patterns.
"If you look at my work, it's just like a puzzle I keep adding pieces to," he said.
Fairey's also in town to do an event with the Netroots Nation conference: Friday night, he'll hand out 1,500 free clean-energy-themed posters and DJ at the Warhol and the neighboring former Rosa Villa restaurant.
If you want to watch him work, he told me that he'd be at the Rosa Villa most of the day Thursday and Friday, doing another mural.
Sometimes you don't know something's missing until it pops into place. The Pittsburgh Visionary Arts Festival feels that way. The inaugural version gathers at Schenley Plaza a few dozen local artists and artist collectives for three days of avant-garde, outsider or otherwise nonmainstream work that's got something to say.
Notwithstanding the familiar sight of white peaked display tents arrayed in neat rows across the Schenley green, the VAF immediately strikes you as different from any of the area's other outdoor arts displays. My first sight was of Connie Cantor's tent. On a big white cloth spread like a picnic blanket out front, a young man and a young woman were engaged in "Yoga With Pens." It's Cantor's latest experiment in instinctual doodling: The flexible pair, one a trained instructor, let the exercises tell them how to wield the colored markers grasped in fingers and toes. Anyone can play, by the way. (I tried, but be advised that sun salutations are not necessarily conducive to draftsmanship, even the most unselfconscious kind.)
Elsewhere: a tall table lamp whose post was crafted from a deer spine; a wall-mask fabricated from discarded little buckled straps, lashed together and painted matte black; Deanna Mance's crazily intricate large-scale ink drawings; Mike Budai's deceptively cute rock posters (and a couple of his racier take-offs on skin-mag photos); the politically radical silk screens of the Just Seeds Artists Cooperative; and Amir Rashid playing thumb piano before a tentful of his elegant found-object assemblages.
Meanwhile, veteran outsider-art collector Pat McArdle displayed work by Howard Finster, the Georgia preacher whose verbose images and naïve style helped launch the contemporary wave of appreciation for work by self-taught artists who make art with a purpose. Nearby, Kyle Ethan Fischer's unnerving sculptures – tortured human figures, flayed as if to their nerve endings – seemed alarmingly to erupt from the Oakland plaza's lush green grass. And around the corner, festival founder and organizer Alberto J. Almarza manned his own tent.
Sitting in his breezy corner tent, in front of his portraits of Walt Whitman, Nina Simone, Rachel Carson as a wood duck and "Rimbaud With Antlers," Bob Ziller noted that unlike many area fests, the VAF has little in the way of crafts. No clocks, mugs or even jewelery here. "It's much more arts-oriented than Three Rivers [Arts Festival]," Ziller said. "That it's local is great too."
Indeed, while many of the artists – from Ziller himself to Vanessa German, from Randie Snow to Encyclopedia Destructica – are familiar names on the gallery scene, there's something to be said from bringing them all together. And on a Saturday afternoon, this batch of local artists was drawing a steady stream of visitors – hopefully a few in the market for artwork, or at least enough of a turnout to warrant support for a future festival. (The Sprout Fund helped bankroll this one.)
The sense of community an event like the VAF can create was exemplified in the tent of artist and activist Jude Vachon. Its walls were hung with T-shirts reading "F**k Their Crisis." But Vachon was also soliciting people's ideas about how to address the global economic meltdown, which they were to write on scraps of cloth and hang up. "Reuse," said one. "Learn to Grow Your Food." "Is It Really A Crisis." "Live Life It Ain't Goin to Get Better." Vachon was stitching the suggestions into a quilt; I sat and talked with her for a few minutes about the upcoming G20 summit, the sort of conversation I can't recall having at any other arts festivals recently.
Pittsburgh Visionary Arts Festival continues Sat., Aug. 8, until 9 p.m. and concludes noon-9 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9. Both nights include 8 p.m. performances by experimental-music ensemble HiTEC.
When Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre announced this week that it would stream its Aug. 15 performance of The History Boys live online, the first thing I thought of was a conversation I had with some friends recently. We were discussing why stage plays documented on film or video always feel -- no matter how good the show -- strangely unsatisfactory.
We weren't talking about the film versions of plays: History Boys, by Alan Bennett, for instance, followed its award-winning stage run with a fine screen adaptation. But live stage shows captured on film are different than stage plays adapted for film. The latter might be talky, but they are created with the camera first in mind. The former are staged for a live audience, sitting and breathing a stone's throw away. The camera merely records what the performers are doing.
Anyone who's ever been disappointed by a concert film, for instance, knows what I mean. The camera can get you closer than even the top-priced ticket, but the performance styles and other aspects of stagecraft account for the person in the back row more than they regard the homebody with the slickest flatscreen. The intimacy is missing; you feel like you're eavesdropping, not like you're part of an event.
PICT's Live and In Person and Live and Online initiative also faces this challenge, I'm guessing. LIPLO grows out of PICT cofounder Stephanie Riso's Cabaret Pittsburgh series, and was developed with Alex Geis, of 21 Productions. In 2007 and 2008, selected performances were fed live to the Web. Riso deemed the experiment a technical success. Not having been advertised heavily, LIPLO didn't have many viewers, but "[t]he viewers that we had loved it," Riso told me today. One cabaret enthusiast accessed the Cabaret Pittsburgh site from Germany.
For History Boys, PICT's archival videographer, Randy Griffith, will capture the performance as he always does: with a single camera positioned in the orchestra pit, one he can pan and zoom for closeups.
But the differences between streaming a cabaret performance and doing so with a full stage production -- one with 13 actors -- are obvious. Cabaret is by nature intimate: One performer, or perhaps a singer and accompanist, speak directly to an audience no nearer to or further from hand than a discreet video camera might be. Stage actors, by contrast, are blocked for audience viewing but play off of each other -- and in character, to boot.
Live performance being more compelling than click-throughs, Riso says LIPLO might help PICT lure advertisers to www.picttheatre.org. It's good news, too, for theater fans who are laid up ill or out of town.
But I have to wonder whether, rather than reaching out to an online audience, the project won't merely emphasize the differences between the mediums -- between shows you're meant to attend and ones you simply watch on a monitor.
Still, if anyone can pull this off, it's PICT, which is among the city's most accomplished troupes. See for yourself: After History Boys, PICT has gotten playwrights and unions to also agree to live streaming of its next two shows, Crime and Punishment, in September, and Jane Eyre, in December.


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"Don't grieve for me now, for now I'm free, I'm following the path God laid for me, I took His hand when I heard Him call, I turned my back and left it all. I could not stay another day, to laugh, to love, to work, or play. Tasks left undone must stay that way, I found that place at the close of day. If my parting has left a void, then fill it with remembered joy. A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss, Ah yes, these things, I too, will miss. Be not burdened with times of sorrow, I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow. My life's been full, I've savored much, good friends, good times, a loved one's touch. Perhaps my time seemed all too brief, don't lengthen it now with undue grief. Lift up your heart and share with me, God wanted me now, He set me free."
Wade Hampton Carter , 47, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, May 29th, 2005 in Houston,Texsa. He was born on February 9th, 1958 in Tyler, Texas. An employee of Oceaneering International of Houston, Wade died doing what he loved best - surfing at the beach. He is survived by his mother Derella Biggs Hewitt of The Woodlands, Texas; step-father Thomas Allen Biggs & wife Jody of Shreveport, Louisiana; daughter Kristen Plaisance & her mother Wendy of Luling, Louisiana; brother Michael Lee Carter & wife Lavon of Arlington, Texas; sisters Leslie Biggs Carpenter & husband Van of The Woodlands, Texas and Katherine Biggs Bragg & husband Barry of Manitowac, Wisconsin; nieces Mandy, Lauren & Sara of The Woodlands, Texas and Kimberly & Courtney of Manitowac, Wisconsin; nephew B.J. of Manitowac, Wisconsin; paternal grandmother Mildred Biggs of Tyler, Texas; and many other relatives & friends. Funeral Services were held at 11:00 A.M. on Friday, June 3rd, 2005, at The Woodlands United Meth!
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For our Morning Glories this week, we're playing a series of new releases at full stick. That is to say, we're showcasing new releases featuring piano players -- not necessarily playing loudly -- but playing well.
Each day, tune in to Alison Young's shift to hear classic pieces recorded with new talent, or new pieces that fit right in among the classical canon. Enjoy!
Monday, 9/12
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 11 (for string quintet and piano) Chamber Players of Canada Janina Fialkowska, piano Atma 2518
Tuesday, 9/13
Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Ingolf Wunder, piano DG 4779634 (released 9/13)
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BOSTON (AP) — A movie director charged with defrauding the state of $4.7 million in film tax credits is scheduled to appear in court during the coming week.
A Suffolk County Grand Jury has indicted 50-year-old Daniel Adams on several counts of larceny and making false claims.
Adams was arrested Dec. 8 and ordered held on $100,000 cash bail.
He's due for a hearing on Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court.
Adams is accused of inflating expenses for two films shot on Cape Cod, "The Golden Boys" and "The Lightkeepers."
In one instance, prosecutors allege Adams reported paying actor Richard Dreyfuss $2.5 million, when he actually was paid $400,000.
Adams has pleaded not guilty.
His lawyer said there was a rush to judgment to arrest Adams before a grand jury had finished its work.
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MassHousing: Please don't finance the Milton Mews 40B development!
This proposed 276 unit, 5 story development on Brush Hill Road in Milton will damage wetlands, water quality, habitats and recreation in the Fowl Meadow. We are not opposed to affordable housing, or development in general, but this site has uniquely valuable natural resources that shouldn't be paved over with the help of state financing. Even more details at our website.
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We ask you to oppose the "Milton Mews LLC" project at 1259 Brush Hill Road, Milton and deny its application for state financing for the following reasons:
1) This largely undeveloped 20 acre site directly abuts the Fowl Meadow portion of DCR's Neponset River Reservation. Massachusetts deemed this area to be worthy of designation as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) in 1995 because it includes multiple overlapping natural and cultural resources that make it regionally significant. There are only 30 such designations in the state. The entire development would be located well inside the ACEC.
2) The proposed development is not compatible with the legal purpose of the ACEC designation which is to "preserve and restore these areas." (see 301 CMR 12.03).
3) The proposed project will seriously degrade a large, contiguous area of high value wildlife habitat. Almost all of the site is mapped as BioMap2 Core habitat and a significant portion of the site is mapped as habitat for state-listed endangered species.
4) Storm water from the site will have unavoidable impacts on water quality and hydrology, thus affecting the wetland and river habitats downstream.
5) The plans propose filling wetlands, which is specifically prohibited in an ACEC, and the plans don't appear to reflect an accurate delineation of wetlands on the site.
6) ACEC regulations require that the project have "no adverse impact" to wetlands on the site, and the current proposal does not meet this standard.
7) The visual and traffic impacts of the project will adversely affect the cultural resources for which the ACEC was designated.
We support the goal of affordable housing, are not opposed to development generally, and we welcome re-development projects, but this site's location is too unique and valuable to sacrifice, and state financing should not be used to pave it over.
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In Valencia, Jamie Green (Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) finished the ninth race of this DTM season in tenth position. David Coulthard (DHL Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) moved up the field ten positions from grid position 21 and ended the penultimate race in P11. The race was won by Augusto Farfus (BMW).
DTM championship leader Gary Paffett (THOMAS SABO Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) was forced to retire on lap 28. The British driver has led the DTM drivers' championship since the season opener at Hockenheim.
Green is in third place with 109 points overall. Team THOMAS SABO / Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG leads the team standings with 151 points.
Christian Vietoris (Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Coupé), Susie Wolff (TV Spielfilm Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) and Ralf Schumacher (Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) finished the race in Valencia in positions twelve to 14 respectively.
Robert Wickens (stern Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) and Roberto Merhi (Junge Sterne Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) both retired from the race at an early stage.
Jamie Green (Mercedes AMG C-Coupé), Tenth: "After starting from 18th on the grid and then being given a drive-through penalty which cost me 20 seconds, I was never going to finish higher than tenth today.
The start was rather hectic – I tried to keep clear of all the trouble and to make sure that I came through the first couple of laps in one piece. I expect us to have far better pace at Hockenheim.
I'm really looking forward to the season finale that I won last year and the crowds of fans both in the Motodrom and in the Mercedes grandstand."
David Coulthard (DHL Paket Mercedes AMG C-Coupé), Eleventh: "Overall, we've had a difficult weekend in Valencia, but I'm well satisfied with my own race.
I didn't get off to the best of starts, but the confusion on the first lap worked to my advantage and I was able to move up the field by several positions. After that, I just focused on finishing the race as best I could."
Christian Vietoris (Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Coupé), Twelfth: "P12 was not what where I had intended to finish in Valencia.
I had a good start, but unfortunately, my car sustained damage immediately after that and I could not post any more fast lap times. I'm hoping for a better qualifying at the season finale in Hockenheim and a positive conclusion to the season."
Susie Wolff (TV Spielfilm Mercedes AMG C-Coupé), 13th: "There's always the danger of being involved in a collision at the start when you're way down the grid. Luckily, I came through the initial laps without sustaining any real damage.
I tried to push forwards, but it was impossible to do better than P13 from my position on the grid. We're off to Hockenheim in three weeks' time, and I'm really looking forward to being back in Germany and the fans there – I really want to put on a good show for them."
Ralf Schumacher (Mercedes AMG C-Coupé), 14th: "As expected, our pace was better than in yesterday's qualifying. Unfortunately, it was impossible to finish higher up the field than 14th from last position on the grid.
We have already shown at Hockenheim this season that our DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupe is really quick there and so I feel confident about the upcoming season finale three weeks hence."
Gary Paffett (THOMAS SABO Mercedes AMG C-Coupé), retired: "Of course, I'm disappointed about not finishing, but we still lead the championship ahead of the finale in Hockenheim despite a very tough weekend for our team.
I was next to Joey Hand at the start. He braked very early to let Bruno Spengler. We made contact, doing serious damage to my car. Now I'll just have to quickly forget this weekend and look to the future.
We proved with a one-two victory during the season opener that our DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé is very quick at Hockenheim."
Robert Wickens (stern Mercedes AMG C-Coupé), retired: "I had a good start and managed to gain a position. Unfortunately, I slid into the tire wall on the first turn and so my race was over – too bad.
We intend putting on a good show for all our fans in the finale at Hockenheim, though, and aim to finish the season on a high note with some decent results."
Roberto Merhi (Junge Sterne Mercedes AMG C-Coupé), retired: "Unfortunately, my race was over before it had properly begun and I had intended accomplishing so much here at my home race in Valencia.
There was some contact with Martin Tomczyk at the start. I tried to avoid an accident but without success. My car was badly damaged as a result and so I was forced to retire, sadly."
Norbert Haug, Vice President Mercedes-Benz Motorsport: "Our performance has been far from perfect since Friday because we could not find a setup at this circuit that would allow the tyres to be in the correct operating window to give the necessary development in grip.
Our C-Coupé was extremely competitive in all of the previous eight races and we expect that to be the case once again at the final race weekend in Hockenheim three weeks from now.
Any one out of the three – Gary Paffett, Bruno Spengler and Jamie Green – can win the title and two of them are Mercedes drivers. Mercedes has won the last six races at Hockenheim and that fact should give us all a welcome boost."
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TCS vs. Utah statistical matchup
SALT LAKE CITY — While the Utah offense hasn't exactly been saving plays all season, waiting to spring some new ones on TCU this week, don't be surprised to see a much more innovative and diversified offense this week — at least much more than last week at Air Force.
Coach Kyle Whittingham made that clear in his remarks early in the week when he said the Utes "have to open up the entire offense." He also said, "Jordan Wynn will have the entire offense at his disposal."
Whittingham admitted that the Utes were conservative last Saturday against the Falcons because they wanted to keep the ball-control AFA offense off the field. That's why the Utes ran the ball, mostly up the middle, on 11 of the first 12 plays on the opening drive.
Wynn, the Utes' quarterback, indicated the Utes will be opening up the playbook this week.
"We haven't run a lot of stuff," Wynn said. "We've run very few plays. It will be fun to open it up and show what we really have. The offense is going to open it up and that's exciting.
"We've pretty much stuck to a core group of plays that we own as an offense," Wynn added. "It will definitely be fun to get out there and show (more plays)."
But hold on just a minute. Don't expect the Utes to suddenly be pulling out triple reverse passes back to Wynn or tackle-eligible passes from Eddie Wide to John Cullen.
Offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick doesn't want to put a damper on Wynn's excitement, but says the Utes will "just play our normal offense" against TCU.
"We try to have a couple of wrinkles every week, but most of our offense is in," he said.
Roderick said the Utes have more than 100 plays they've worked on this year and that they usually try to carry 70-75 plays into each game. Of those plays, the Utes may only use 75 percent "from the menu" during the actual game.
One thing Roderick said was not to expect a bunch of crazy plays this week from the Utes.
"We're going to run what got us here," he said. "The biggest mistake we could make would be to trick ourselves by trying too hard. You don't want to put in too many new plays or too many tricks. You want to run what got you here."8 comments on this story
Roderick said most games the Utes try to have an even blend of pass and run plays, about 50-50. If you look at the season stats, it's 56 percent run plays to 44 percent passes. However, it was closer to 50-50 before the Utes ran the ball 51 times against Air Force with only 23 pass plays.
So will we see some plays this week that we haven't seen all year?
"That's always possible," Roderick said with a smile.
But he believes the Utes mostly have to execute their usual offense to have a chance to win.
"We're a good offense and we've had a lot of success this year. We've won eight games doing what we do," Roderick said. "TCU's not going to change their defense for us and we're not going to change our offense for them. The best team is going to win."
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It's extremely creepy. I found this lovable guy curled up around a very big tube amp.
Go down to the lobby and spread out a big swath of newspaper.
Wow, I bet you see a lot of things happening there. I hope that you will provide more details as time will allow you to do so. This is a really cute picture. Thanks for taking the time to upload it.
Nothing can be stranger than a "furry convention" in a hotel with no responsibility where you look around and see people dressed up in furry costumes that seem crazy.
neodymium magnet I think the CES and the AVN awards should make a round table conference to resolve the issue so that no difficulties will occur next time to the collision to occur. It was really a very nice image that you have shared to demonstrate the fury issue.