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Task force recommends complete overhaul of Ann Arbor's public art program
Ann Arbor could see sweeping changes to its taxpayer-funded public art program if a task force's recommendations are approved by the City Council.
The city's public art task force has been meeting regularly since its formation in December and it's close to finalizing a set of proposed ordinance changes to take to council.
Among the recommendations coming out of the task force: Hire a full-time public art administrator, establish a new fund for accepting private donations, engage the community more in the selection and funding of art projects, and eliminate the Percent For Art funding mechanism that automatically channels 1 percent of city capital project dollars to a pooled public art fund.
Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com
After that, the changes to the city's controversial Percent for Art Program could end up on the City Council's agenda for first reading March 18, with a public hearing and final reading April 1.
"The issues that we particularly wanted to speak to were those consensus issues that included how and where public art should be placed, what we should use as the funding to pay for public art, and how we could change our public art ordinance in order to allow for temporary art, art that the public selects or the public helps to pay for, and performance art," Briere said.
"We're also working with language that would eliminate the so-called Percent For Art funding mechanism, but would allow capital improvement projects to have public art associated with a project and have it what we call 'baked in' as an ingredient of the project," she said.
Under a Percent For Art ordinance approved by the City Council in 2007, 1 percent of the budget for city capital projects — up to a limit of $250,000 per project — is set aside for public art.
Millions of dollars from various city funds, including the water and sewer utilities and the streets and parks millages, have been channeled into a pooled art fund as a result. The funding mechanism has left the city's Public Art Commission with its hands tied at times — legally able to spend the pooled dollars only on permanent art installations that somehow relate to the source of the funds.
The City Council voted in early December to partially suspend the Percent For Art Program while the five-member task force looked into options for taking a new approach.
The task force's formation came after city voters in November rejected a proposal that would have replaced the Percent For Art Program with a dedicated millage for public art.
The five task force members working out a new solution for public art in Ann Arbor are Briere, Sally Hart Petersen, Stephen Kunselman, Christopher Taylor and Margie Teall.
Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com
The task force has determined the pooled Percent For Art funds place a burden on the city's staff to effectively account for each funding stream. It recommends eliminating the pooled funding and removing any reference to a specific percentage of a capital project budget for art.
Instead, the city's staff would have to work to determine whether a specific capital improvement project should have enhanced design features, including either enhanced architectural work or specific public art. And then the funding for such elements would be included in the budget for the project, and that would become part of the request for proposals process for the project.
"The biggest thing for me was making sure we weren't taking money out of our restricted funds and we're going in that direction, so I'm really pleased," Kunselman said.
"It'll be baked into capital projects where council feels it's appropriate. The reality is that's how a lot of percent for art programs actually work. They bake that art into the project itself."
Kunselman said money from restricted funds like the streets millage and the water and sewer utilities still could be used to pay for public art. It just wouldn't be channeled to a pooled fund without a specific project in mind — it would have to be planned up front.
He said the Stadium bridges project is a good example of a project that could have benefited from that approach. Instead of including public art in the project from the start, the city is now trying to figure out how to use $360,000 in pooled art funds for art of some kind on or near the new bridges.
"Rather than having art attached after the fact, art can be a part of the project at the very beginning and that's really important," Kunselman said.
Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com
The task force is recommending establishing a funding mechanism that allows members of the community to propose and raise funds for specific pieces of art, including projects in public locations with no connection to city capital improvements. Briere mentioned the idea of a bronze Adirondack chair in memory of Coleman Jewett at the Farmers Market as the type of project that could be funded through what the task force is calling an "Art in Public Places Trust Fund."
The city doesn't have a mechanism to accept tax-exempt funds, so the task force recommends working with an organization such as the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation to establish a fund into which donations for public art can be placed. The task force wants that fund to be able to accept direct donations through one or more "crowdfunding" websites such as Kickstarter.
The task force also found that good public art programs, however they are funded, rely heavily on professional staff.
The city has a part-time public art administrator right now, but the task force argues the city needs a professionally trained public art administrator employed more than 50 percent of the time.
The Percent For Art Program's pooled funds include more than $400,000 of unallocated dollars at the moment. The task force recommends those funds be placed in the proposed Art in Public Places Trust Fund, and that funding for up to two years worth of salary and benefits be paid from the fund for a full-time administrator to help reorganize the program and establish new relationships with the city's staff as needed for any capital improvement projects with artistic elements baked in.
The task force recommends the city's staff review the implementation of any changes in the ordinance after three years. The timing is based on the task force's awareness that capital improvements might take longer than two years to move from inception to completion.
Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com
Some task force members voiced a concern that if each project that includes enhanced architectural design or public art elements needs to be approved by council, future councils might not honor the consensus position that some public dollars can be used to enhance Ann Arbor's public spaces.
Some also believe the best funding mechanism remains a dedicated millage for public art, and the task force is asking that idea not be permanently shelved.
Teall, a staunch defender of public art, said there are risks as well as gains by going with the approach recommended by the task force, and she considers it a compromise.
"My own focus has been on maintaining not just public funding, but a responsibility that I think we have to help support cultural and artistic endeavors in the city," she said.
"It's my hope that we don't lose out on opportunities for actually publicly funded art," she said, expressing fears that art could be "value-engineered" out of projects by future councils that don't want the city paying for public art. "That's a risk that we're going to have to take, and hope that future councils value art as much as they value parks."
Ryan J. Stanton covers government and politics for AnnArbor.com. Reach him at email@example.com or 734-623-2529. You also can follow him on Twitter or subscribe to AnnArbor.com's email newsletters.
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 : 11:15 p.m.
Public servants in Ann Arbpor have been laid off and the state of Michigan is in financial ruin. And all the residents of OZ can concern themselves with is public art?
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 : 8:08 p.m.
Let me state that I am a strong proponent of public art. I can immerse myself in the beautiful vast whiteness of todays snow as it covers the pine and birch trees I see. I love the deep dark colors of a thunderstorm especially as it transitions to the multicolors of a rainbow. I love the brilliance of the blue sky, yellow sun punctuated by the fleeting of colorful song birds, the vast aray of flowers seen on my daily spring, summer and fall walks. I enjoy the reds and oranges of the sunsets. These are all things that I consider and value as public art. Unfortunately, the public art that I see here as continuing to be proposed, is only that of green; the green that can be garnered from my wallet
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 : 5:27 a.m.
Leave it to City Council to come up with a solution that spends yet more taxpayer dollars, i.e., hiring a full-time administrator, on a program the people made it clear that they do not want in the first place. A useless position, in a city that is proposing shutting down fire stations for lack of money.
Sam S Smith
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 : 2:58 a.m.
The city council better do something about this because it is illegal to skim off other funds to fund art! Especially since the voters did not approve of this!
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 : 1:08 a.m.
lets put this thing to rest.Put on the ballot should taxpayer money be used to fund art.No beating around the bush,no hidden meaning.Just a straight up question WITHOUT SUBTERFUGE.What a concept
A A Resident
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 : 2:19 a.m.
What, you think you live in utopia? That would be way too simple, and wouldn't waste nearly enough money on studies.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 10:53 p.m.
It's an end-run around the millage defeat.
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 10:04 p.m.
After reading the article a couple of more times, I too am starting to wonder if this is little more than a shell- game shuffling of the various taxpayer-based funding sources, but with an additional and probably unnecessary city employee to pay.
David Bardallis
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 9:53 p.m.
I will create an "installation" of personally emptied beer bottles of rare and exotic libations for a mere $500,000.
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 10:12 p.m.
Is that more or less than you could get by returning the empties, and are you a local artist? We'll get back to you after we commission a 50K study to examine the proposal.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 5:09 p.m.
I don't think this warrants a full time position. What about contracting the service with an arts oriented non-profit?
Brian Kuehn
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:53 p.m.
"The city has a part-time public art administrator right now, but the task force argues the city needs a professionally trained public art administrator employed more than 50 percent of the time." Paying the salary and benefits for a professionally trained public art administrator sounds like an expensive luxury. Clearly our City government must have too much money if establishing this position is a priority. Think of all the service cuts and staff reductions that have occurred and now we are going to hire a full time director of public art?
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:51 p.m.
they need to forget about Art and and fund the POLICE and FIRE Departments
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:49 p.m.
Or perhaps we could come up with something which is artistic, iconic, and and also useful, like the Golden Gate bridge (but a lot cheaper)?
Andy T
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:33 p.m.
This is such a charged subject to say the least, since the value of art, and what people consider art is 100% subjective. There are some people who say it is utterly vital, while others see no value in it at all. Both are entitled to their opinions, and neither are truly 'wrong'. I somewhat like the concept of trying to acquire work largely from the community. The art would say 'this is us'. The only issue I see with restricting funds in this way is the scope of what can be accomplished. The pool of area artists is only so big and the scope of what one person or group can complete is limited. If there was a rule about 'only Ann Arborites' or 'only Michiganders' we might not be able to see more ambitious or grand projects that a wider net and decent budget bring. When I think of great examples of public art, I think of 'the Cloud Gate' (better known as 'the bean') in Chicago. This sculpture dazzles everyone who comes in to contact with it. To people who decry public art, I ask them to go check this out the next time they're in Chicago. I don't think anyone who was there the day that I visited it will ever forget that experience. That piece has become so iconic that it's just become part of what Chicago 'is' and people lose sight of the fact that that thing is first and foremost a piece of art. A piece of public art. To me, these kind of unique 'experiences' that you can have at these ambitious installations is the best of recent public art. You don't have to be an art lover to walk away from such a thing with a smile on your face. (Now, this comment is basically for people who see value in public art at all. If not, then this is all moot.)
John Floyd
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 : 5:39 a.m.
Discontent with public funding is not the same thing as discontent with art.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:17 p.m.
I understand "Arts" helps living quality. But I thought fill the potholes, stop the break-ins, stop the rapists and capture them also improve living quality. I can't recall when was the last time my sub's potholes are filled and I have not yet seen any plow pass tru my sub this winter!
Joel A. Levitt
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:14 p.m.
Briere, Kunselman and the rest of the task force, thanks for your good work.
A Voice of Reason
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:13 p.m.
I would rather have flowers hanging for the lamp posts (like Chicago) than art. I do not like the government telling me what is considered "art". I thought we voted this down? Why is it still be discussed?
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:03 p.m.
This town is getting ridiculous. Can Public art be used to put out fires? Or patrol the streets? It could be used to fill the holes in the road...
Marc Stephens
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3:33 p.m.
Use art by local/Michigan artists only, please! Spending $750k on the fountain thing in front of city hall, commissioned from some German artist, is reprehensible.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3:23 p.m.
$360,000 for "art" near the new Stadium Bridge?!? Streets full of potholes, cuts to police and fire staffing but that kind of money for "art near the bridge"! Ann Arbor has lost its mind!
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3:12 p.m.
You can't legislate good taste.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:53 p.m.
NO Per cent for art,,, No Pool for art,,, No BAKED IN for art,,, NO TAX money for art.... Do ya get it??? Call it what ya want, it ends up being a tax. USE PRIVATE FUNDS FOR ART!
J. A. Pieper
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 7:53 p.m.
You need a louder voice! Why isn't this a choice in the vote?
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3:14 p.m.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:49 p.m.
So, the voters reject the millage for public art by a significant margin. Of course the task force of enablers that sanctioned the siphoning of public restricted monies into art projects then double-down and call for a doubling of cost the for a director of public art, and for hiding the cost of public art in capital budgets. Vintage Democrat behavior. The people say no, and our alleged public servants say "yes" because the Nanny statists know far better than the people how to spend the people's money.
Ricardo Queso
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:49 p.m.
400K unallocated would fund the Ann Arbor Saline bridge repair, but then we would have no aluminum trees in the parks nor an upended pinball machine on Huron.
John Floyd
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 : 5:37 a.m.
It's not an upended pinball machine, it's a washboard.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:28 p.m.
Hire a full time public art administrator? You can't possibly be serious, can you? Could we maybe hire another policeman instead?
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:27 p.m.
After all the jokes and comments on Ann Arbor money being spent on art? I guess the board listened and they have spoken. Got your wish folks. No more art in Ann Arbor. Now what are we going to complain about next?
Sam S Smith
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 : 4:12 p.m.
Few are saying, "No more art in Ann Arbor." Even so, they are entitled to their own opinion. I love art and I would like an art program that isn't funded illegally (perhaps there can be fund raisers for art), has art from local artists and well as national or international artists, that isn't cost prohibitive (hiring a full time art administrator? bet it's a friend of city council that they already have in mind!), that is as dynamic as art. If you consider others' posts as "complaining" or "whining," you missed the boat or are in the same boat as A2 city council!
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:41 p.m.
Yes or course Ann Arbor will henceforth be completely devoid of any and all art. I mean, everyone knows that art can only exist when it's financed by millions of dollars skimmed off municipal coffers from a dubious and probably illegal financial swindle that has been universally condemned by the citizenry.
Guinea Pig in a Tophat
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:22 p.m.
Chelsea has a good city art program. Local artists put up their work around town for around a year (pretty sure it's a year, someone please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), and the pieces are available for purchase. Free advertising for the artists, free for the city, and it adds visual appeal to the city.
Sam S Smith
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 : 4:01 p.m.
This makes too much sense. Ann Arbor city council will never be open to any other ideas other than its own, what they want to dictate to the ignorant citizens that we are. God forbid that Ann Arbor city counsel looks at any other idea especially from "Chelsea" or other communities that actually have a nice art program! Ann Arbor has become arrogant. Should be called A3. How sad!
Unusual Suspect
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:26 p.m.
That's a very good idea. However, if that's now how they do it in New York or San Francisco or Bounder, CO, we can't do it.
Homeland Conspiracy
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:10 p.m.
How much did this so called "task force" cost?
Sabra C Briere
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:20 p.m.
Nothing extra. Council members are paid a flat rate, no matter how many meetings they attend, hours they spend researching, or time they spend responding to constituent questions.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:56 p.m.
Frankly, I believe that all of the funding for art that was taken from other sources should be returned to those sources. I love art, but when times get tough to the point where streets are in need of repair, the AAFD and AAPD are short staffed, and several other factors, put the art funding back when it belongs. We have tons of galleries and other avenues that can bring great art to the city. The city should not be in the art business -- just from what they have done already makes that a no-brainer.
Unusual Suspect
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:55 p.m.
What the heck would a "full-time public art administrator" do for 40 hours week? Oh, sorry - government work. Make that 30 hours per week.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:39 p.m.
I'm trying to imagine what that administrator's day would be like. Go into work, pour a cup of coffee, then what?
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:15 p.m.
I'm guessing $75,000 to $90,000 to start with a huge raise after 6 months. And of course they will need a personal assistant, an administrative assistant, and a free car.
Kai Petainen
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:54 p.m.
with regards to the art outside of city hall... give credit where credit is due. what the news fails to mention over and over again... .... that thing is due to the HRWC.
Ryan J. Stanton
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:52 p.m.
Just an FYI - I mentioned Kickstarter as an example of a popular crowdfunding website in the story. I asked what crowdfunding sites the art task force had in mind for raising money for public art in Ann Arbor. Sabra Briere told me the task force members are concerned that any crowdfunding has to be able to work with the external-to-the-city fund for art in public places. She said the task force isn't suggesting a specific site, but she and other task force members have looked into some to see how easy they would be to work with. She mentioned Sponsume as one that looks interesting to her. She also pointed out if you Google crowdfunding art, you can find a number of sites intended to help artists raise funds for art projects.
Unusual Suspect
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:52 p.m.
"... if a task force's recommendations are approved by the City Council." Ha ha! "Baked-in." More like half-baked in. I am disappointed that City Council members are still ignoring the cries of, "No public money for art!"
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:37 p.m.
Get rid of it completely. What a waste.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:31 p.m.
"up to a limit of $250,000 per project — is set aside for public art." According to the article there is a limit of 250,000 dollars per project. The bronze sculpture/fountain cost 750,000 dollars, how is that? It is pathetic and disgusting that this sculpture is considered a signature achievement. It's an achievement all right, an achievement in decadence and stupidly.
Sabra C Briere
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:44 p.m.
The $250,000 limit is not on the cost of the art, but the contribution of the project. A $1,700,000 capital project today sets aside $17,000 for art; a $25,000,000 project sets aside $250,000, and a $47,000,000 project sets aside $250,000, because the cap is reached. This money is 'pooled' and can be combined to pay for the selection, installation and maintenance of art. The task force is likely to recommend the elimination of 'pooled' dollars for art.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:29 p.m.
Re: stadium bridge, seems kind of ridiculous that art is required. Why can't the creation and maintenance of the landscaping there count as art? Seattle has some beautiful greenery draped over and masking cement here and there. We have less rainfall and probably can't sustain that, but even shrubbery could be considered "artistic." Something needs to change about this, especially after that wasteful eye sore on E Huron. I resent that the city is crying poor (police and fire fighter cuts, past threats to cut garbage pick up) when taxes here are insanely high.
Homeland Conspiracy
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:26 p.m.
"We want....a shrubbery!!!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UbtcmjfKa8
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:17 p.m.
Before I drink the Kool-Aid I have to wonder if the "baked in" amount has a cap for any given year. If not, we could end up spending more than the 1% we complained about before. For many, including me, it was not so much the 1%, but the fact that decisions were being made on the sly, local artists were not being used and some of the art was not even accessible to the public. There definitely is a lack of trust when it comes to the council. By the way, love the pic of the city hall "art". Makes it look like the large, imposing, impressive piece of art we were led to believe it would me....when, in fact, I could sling that thing over my shoulder and carry it to the junk yard.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:30 p.m.
"If not, we could end up spending more than the 1% we complained about before. For many, including me, it was not so much the 1%, but the fact that decisions were being made on the sly, local artists were not being used and some of the art was not even accessible to the public." Great observations.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:15 p.m.
"This $750,000 bronze sculpture/fountain in front of Ann Arbor's city hall is considered the signature achievement of the city's Percent For Art Program" I agree, but I sure wouldn't repeat that!
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:12 p.m.
it is about time this happened. this is the biggest waste of money ann arbor spends. i like what i have been reading. lets hope it goes through. it is not bad when we fix things that are broken or out of control or does not make sense. this is one of them that needs fixing.
Elaine F. Owsley
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:57 p.m.
Wow!!! The voice of the people has been heard. Now, my only fear is that they are serious that the brass thing on North Main is the "signature achievement" of the Public Art program. Say it isn't so!!
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:45 p.m.
If the tongue depressor is considered the " crown jewel " of the program ...W. C . Fields was spot on .." never give a sucker and even break or smarten up a chump " ...
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:36 p.m.
Can council recommend a complete overhaul of the Greenbelt Program too? I don't think we can afford it!
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:34 p.m.
I'm against the "full time public art administrator" Sounds expensive, and that they are passing the buck and the decisions to someone else so they can influence them and blame them then. Once again the poll does not give enough insightful choices.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:32 p.m.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the $750,000 sculpture created by an artist in Germany?
Ryan J. Stanton
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3 p.m.
Here's a breakdown of the budget for that piece: http://www.annarbor.com/news/less-than-150k-of-ann-arbor-city-hall-sculpture-budget-will-go-to-german-artist/
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:49 p.m.
The "artist" was Herbert Dreiseitl whose headquarters is in Überlingen, Germany where, I imagine, that he is spending most of his $70,000 fee.
Unusual Suspect
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:38 p.m.
It looks like it was designed by somebody 2 years old.
Nicholas Urfe
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:18 p.m.
It was created in a Michigan foundry. Michigan workers did the installation. They do the maintenance. It created jobs in Michigan. It was designed by someone from Germany.
Unusual Suspect
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:48 p.m.
For all that money, the "artist" didn't even fabricate it himself. He paid somebody else to build it.
Elaine F. Owsley
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:59 p.m.
That was my understanding as well. One of the rules should be if it can't be an Ann Arbor artist, at least for heaven's sake, make it American.
Stephen Lange Ranzini
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:29 p.m.
Certainly, this committee is moving this unpopular and unsuccessful program in a better direction. However, I wish city council were more focused on why we don't yet have fire services up to national standards and why we still don't have the statistics as to whether or not our police services are up to national standards even though having those statistics were required in the annual budget that started last July 1st. If you cannot measure something, you cannot properly manage it. Also, why do substantial sums still remain unspent in our road mileage funds, when so many roads remain in awful shape? I am disappointed the committee doesn't recommend returning the $50,000 taken from the General Fund for this 1% For Art Program. Also, please explain to us where did this "$400,000 of unallocated dollars" come from?? Finally, I wish that the reporter @Ryan Stanton would call the $750,000 Dreitsel Water Sculpture by the proper name it has been christened with by public voting and public opinion. It is the Huirinal (from Huron + Urinal)!
Ryan J. Stanton
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:58 p.m.
Here's the most recent budget summary: http://www.annarbor.com/public_art_budget_Feb_2013.pdf
Ricardo Queso
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:40 p.m.
This "art" program is indicative of the central planning mentality of the liberals of this era. "We know better how to spend the dollars you have earned". Stephan, you are absolutely correct. Basic services, police, fire, road repair are being ignored while a mega rich elite few flex their political power for their own pet projects.
Nicholas Urfe
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:15 p.m.
"this unpopular and unsuccessful program" This program, even with the current limitations, is supported by approximately half the voters. Spin it however you like, but I contend your characterizations are inaccurate.
Ryan J. Stanton
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:46 p.m.
Here's the art budget summary as of Dec. 1: http://www.annarbor.com/art_budget_summary_Dec_2012.jpg I'm seeking clarification on how the task force determined there was more than $400K unallocated. It looks to me there's nearly double that from the December report.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:27 p.m.
A task force, made up of council members, will make recommendations to the council. Hee HAw!
Nick Danger
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:24 p.m.
If they use Michigan artist I am all for it.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:20 p.m.
Hire a police officer instead.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 7:28 p.m.
Hire a mime police officer that also paints?
Ricardo Queso
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 5:36 p.m.
To paraphrase The Great One, if spending on cops saves even one child we must do it.
Unusual Suspect
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3:33 p.m.
"And we would especially still hear over and over how we still need more cops." That's because we need more cops. And firefighters.
Ricardo Queso
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:36 p.m.
1000 pieces of art would make no difference!
Nicholas Urfe
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:14 p.m.
Won't more cop would make any difference. You can't put one on every corner. And we would especially still hear over and over how we still need more cops.
Stephen Lange Ranzini
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:17 p.m.
Repeatedly, when this topic comes up, a popular concept is a rotating art gallery of local artists' work in city hall, with all the costs to running the gallery funded by commissions generated from selling the work via a written bidding process during the three or four months each exhibit runs. The highest bid buys each work. I'm disappointed the committee didn't consider this idea.
Ryan J. Stanton
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:27 p.m.
Stephen, I think an idea like that could be within the realm of possibility under the kind of program that's being talked about here. They mentioned they want to be able to fund a wide range of art in public places, including community-inspired art.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:16 p.m.
steve it because the current program is so bad. people what to get rid of it and start with new ideas. i am sure we have many people that could be using art. heck we go a university that has an art program. why not have assignments and donate them to the city.
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:35 p.m.
It looks like there are many cost reducing measures the task force fails to consider. Sounds like saving money is either not very important to them, or they are not very creative.
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:17 p.m.
Most of it sounds good, but why hire a full-time public art administrator? Have they checked on whether the U of M art department will do this for free? Wouldn't it be a valuable real-world educational opportunity for the students, and aren't there good faculty people to provide expert oversight? I get a little frustrated when it sounds like unnecessary money is being spent. Shoot, a friend of mine actually had the U of M pay him, so students could work on an interesting project he was doing in his business.
say it plain
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 7:04 p.m.
I was thinking the same thing @AAResident...I think it's a great idea to see if a partnership with UM Art School could work! It seems a perfect opportunity to train students in arts administration/ program management. Maybe the Ford School too, because lord knows it would be an education in "public policy" matters as well.
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3:02 p.m.
No, I was suggesting that it be thrown to the staff of art professionals at the U of M. Like many successful university projects, much of the work could be done by students (if it fits with the educational framework), and the faculty would have control over the final work product. I'm curious though. Why would you assume that an art consultant chosen and hired by the non-artist city council would be better than the combined resources of the U of M art department?
Nicholas Urfe
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:12 p.m.
People complain about past art choices, spending, and then you suggest the million dollar fund should be thrown to some random students who likely won't live in this town past graduation? Not viable.
Ellis Sams
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:17 p.m.
Replacing Per Cent for Art with money "baked into" project funding is a distinction without a difference. Tax dollars are still being used to purchase art. Being a patron of the arts is not a government function. (The Com's pole is flawed because it assumes you accept the idea of tax money being spent on art. I do not.)
John Floyd
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 : 5:30 a.m.
Ellis Sams, Understanding that you oppose all public funding of art, I still think that there is a difference between case-by-case funding (or not funding) of specific proposals, and the indiscriminate funding of an "art" slush fund from all capital projects.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3:07 p.m.
And I support both of Mr. Sams' comments.
Ellis Sams
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:24 p.m.
Ryan, the task force began with the assumption that tax money would fund public art. Their job was to make it palatable to the public. Had your survey included the option, "I do not support public funding of art", the result would be different and meaningful.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:21 p.m.
Ryan, I wish you would have included a fourth choice in your survey, which would state: "No public money should be spent on artwork and capital projects should not be required to "imbed" art in their designs if it has no useful function or increases the cost of construction." I agree with a previous commenter who recognizes the recommended change for funding as a difference without a distinction.
Ryan J. Stanton
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:22 p.m.
You could vote in the poll that you don't support what's being proposed, which fits the opinion that you wish the task force had reached other conclusions about the continued funding of art in Ann Arbor.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:06 p.m.
To the Ann Arbor city council......I would like to offer my services for the public art administrator position.I'll do it for 1/3 of what you are willing to pay.I'll do a better than anyone else you can find.I do not live in nor am I from Ann Arbor.I will work for one year (I have my eye on a new 30ft Bayliner and a 2013 Cadillac )
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 4:01 p.m.
Dennis, why not? Partnerships rely largely on trust, and we both sound like trustworthy people. A non-profit with an ambiguous corporate name is a great suggestion. That's what I'm already doing with my brothel in Boulder Colorado, so it should be an acceptable model for anything we do here. And the brothel already has many utilities in place that could be useful when we become elected officials, like bribe channels, money laundering, transfer of profits offshore, and "enforcers".
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3:50 p.m.
Dennis and Resident.....Seeing that it's my comment that started this I think I should get oh.......20% ? kinda a " quid pro quo "
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3:09 p.m.
We should partner. We can form a non-profit corporation with an ambiguous name, get a contract with the city and award ourselves luxuriant salaries, benefits, a vehicle and travel funds. This will prepare us to become elected officials...
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:34 p.m.
Dennis, I'm not giving up yet. You may have out-grafted me, but my ideas are still idiotic enough to merit serious consideration.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:12 p.m.
I'll have to up the ante here. I'll create a PAC to support the reelection of the Mayor and his cronies, 'er, I mean esteemed council members. I will fund that PAC with substantial sums I receive in partial payment for my work that will be drawn from the Art Pool. I will use those funds to hold more fundraisers at $500 a plate in New York and invite "artists" who will bid for AA art projects and get overpaid for questionable works of art that would cause local artists to vomit and which any simian at the Toledo Zoo could produce while relieving itself. These will be strewn about the Stadium Bridge and the new dog park at West Park accompanied by a ribbon-cutting photo op. All that and a study report too!
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2 p.m.
TDW, I already have a boat, so I'm claiming that I would spend that 20K portion on a very artsy and expensive bicycle instead. We could call it "rolling art". It would incorporate a waterfall and colored lights (because that's been so successful in the past), and a bicycle would also promote Ann Arbor's "green theme". If I get the job, perhaps I'll commission it from myself, or a friend, along with any publicly funded projects we can steer our way.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:05 p.m.
Dennis and Resident.Please stop it.That Bayliner and Cadillac are really,really nice and I really want them. A2.com....Please remove Dennis and Residents comments. They are just being sarcastic
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:01 p.m.
Oh, I forgot to mention that all of us would like the option of resigning, with pension and benefits, shortly after taking the job, consistent with other important city positions.
A A Resident
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:49 p.m.
To the City Council: I will do everything Dennis will do, plus I will discreetly kick back half my salary to council members in the form of cash payments. And I happen to be a successful professional artist. See the benefits of opening things up to competitive bidding? LOL
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:20 p.m.
To the City Council. I would like to offer my services as a consultant to conduct a study about whether there should be a change in the public art administrator position. I'll do it for 3 times the cost anyone else can do it, will justify the decision you want me to arrive at in advance, will conduct flawed studies to make that decision "evidence-based", and will develop rhetoric to cloak the political reasons behind the decision while making it sound high-minded and too complex for the hoi polloi.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:01 p.m.
In my opinion the $750,000 bronze sculpture/fountain in front of Ann Arbor's city hall is the signature disaster of the city's Percent For Art Program. It is too small-- a mere trifle in a large space-- and cost a small fortune when compared to its value.
John Floyd
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 : 5:17 a.m.
Kilroy, making a bad work bigger will not make it better - unless one is of the school that holds that "If you are going to make a mistake, you should make it a big one".
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 5:47 p.m.
Oh come on, I get a priceless chuckle every time I go by the sculpture/fountain. Appreciate the joke.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:10 p.m.
... and a German, Herbert Dreiseitl, was commissioned and paid $70,000 for the design work, taking his fee back to his head office in Überlingen, Germany. Interestingly, Wikipedia lists many of Mr. Dreiseitl's creations but not the monolith in Ann Arbor. Also the landscape artist has received many awards for his creations but not one for his Ann Arbor work. Interestingly, I understand that Mr. Dreiseitl was commissioned six months before he produced a depiction of his proposed artwork. Perhaps that explains why the artistic design looks like it was drawn quickly on the back of a restaurant napkin, IMHO.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 11:57 a.m.
Tell me again why the city's art program doesn't fund local artists to create works around the city?
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 3:03 p.m.
Ryan: my understanding is that the piece was fabricated in Michigan, but the artist is German.
Nicholas Urfe
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:10 p.m.
Local artists don't need affirmative action to prop up their skills. They can submit proposals in response to the public requests just like anyone else. But there is a fair bit involved, and many are unwilling to put together a proposal, etc.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:58 p.m.
I have been told that a "state law" mandates that preference can not be given to local artists. This explains partly why a German was commissioned to design the rusty beam that is imbedded as "artwork" in front of the Municipal Building. This monstrosity and the chandelier soon to be installed inside the Municipal Building will form the personal art collection of the Ann Arbor Public Art Commission, or at least for one member thereof.
Ryan J. Stanton
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:17 p.m.
The piece pictured above at Allmendinger Park was done by a local artist.
Barbara Clarke
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1 p.m.
Good for you, "dancinginmysoul" . . . I have wondered that many times. And, why not include the U of M School of Art, etc. . . . surely there are talented folks right under our noses here in the "Athens of the Midwest".
Vivienne Armentrout
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 11:51 a.m.
Great job! I like most everything about it, including the recognition that public art might be suitable for some major projects on a case-by-case basis. Many successful programs around the country are designed this way, as I listed in my post of some years ago, http://localannarbor.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/taxes-for-art/ I don't appreciate Ms. Teall's comments about future councils. That's the way governance works - each new council has to make decisions based on the times and the wishes of the electorate. No council can or should bind the future irrevocably. I hope our council moves with this recommendation. I also think that a future millage vote makes sense, but only after the program is reformed.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:09 p.m.
With any luck the next "future council" will have different representation for the 4th ward. 19 votes cast differently in the last "primary" (a/k/a the real election) and we wouldn't even be hearing about this bogus concern.
Local Yocal
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 11:39 a.m.
This $750,000 bronze sculpture/fountain in front of Ann Arbor's city hall is considered the signature achievement of the city's Percent For Art Program. LOL
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:32 p.m.
heavy on the yocal
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:25 p.m.
LOL--no kidding
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:28 p.m.
If by 'signature achievement' they actually mean boondoggle, then yes, I agree.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 11:38 a.m.
Poll: What is your favorite public art installation? Painted fire hydrants
Alan Goldsmith
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 11:35 a.m.
Planet Earth to Margie Teall. If YOU want art, pull out YOUR checkbook instead of looting funds from the City's infrastructure. BTW, how is all your hard work on resolving the Lansdowne/Churchill neighborhood flooding issue going, you remember the one you ignored for most of your time in Government until you almost lost the Democratic Primary last August? Here's to hoping the 'future councils' don't include reps are out-of-touch as yourself. And if there is a full time arts coordinator, there is no reason the Ann Arbor Public Arts Commission should remain in place. Will that ineffective group be abolished as part of these new changes? Their work over the past few years has been a dictionary definition of fiasco.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:40 p.m.
@Urfe - I don't think that most of us in Ward 4 would disagree with Alan. Margie has ignored the problems we have in our neighborhoods, and she continues to do the same. She won the August Primary by a mere 18 votes, but there are many who ill never forget that. BTW, Margie's wish has always been 2% for Art.
Nicholas Urfe
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:09 p.m.
You can say the same thing about parks or trees or countless other "nonessentials". Fortunately, most of ann arbor disagrees with you.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 1:51 p.m.
Spot on! And the "baked in" art feature is no different than taking money from the capital project and having the Ann Arbor Public Art Commission then contract for art to be included at the construction site, especially if the architect needs approval of the included artwork.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 11:21 a.m.
Here's an idea: the Stadium Bridges don't need any art on or near them...just finish the landscaping. Will there be a mechanism in place for communities to vote on whether or not they even want public art on/near their homes?
Nicholas Urfe
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:08 p.m.
Near their homes? You live under the bridge? It's a nice bridge, but I had no idea..
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 12:03 p.m.
The landscaping for the Stadium Bridges project was always planned to be finished in the spring.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 11:19 a.m.
Note to city a2: Please convene a task force strategize how to fill potholes and better maintain our roads.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 10:29 p.m.
Those LED windmills were put up at no cost to us, what is the problem with them? Or have we (the city taxpayers) actually bought some since then? If so, it can't have been too much spent they are cheap to make.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 5:15 p.m.
Maybe there is a pothole artist who will fix the road/potholes and make it look artistic. I would love that!
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 2:51 p.m.
We can fill them with the old public art. LED Windmills would be a good start.
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 : 11:11 a.m.
I like the art along the main street in Tecumseh. Maybe something along those lines?


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Of course, there are some implicit assumptions that Konrath makes that I'm not really sure apply across the board. He seems to assume that it's easy to sell 1,000 ebooks per month (which is the basis for his calculations). If you have an audience already, that's possible, but if you don't, it's a lot harder. A publisher can really help an unknown author with marketing, and that's certainly not something that should be diminished. Now, obviously, that doesn't mean everyone has to do it that way. There are certainly other ways. Some authors may be naturally good marketers themselves, or they can outsource the function to someone else, at a lower "cost." Separately, while Konrath notes at the top of his post that in the past he hated self-published books because the quality was almost always low, he doesn't seem to mention that again. The editing process can be pretty important (though, again, there may be other options there).
So I think the real point of his post is that self-publishing can be right for a certain segment -- but others may still want to go the traditional route (but certainly with open eyes).
What actually struck me as much more interesting is what his post really says about pricing. He notes with self-published ebooks, you can keep the pricing significantly lower than otherwise. So his books run $2.99 -- which he says means a bunch of his books sell 2,000 to 3,000 copies per month at that price. He points out that a traditional publisher will never price an ebook that low. This does make me wonder if the market for ebooks will continue to bifurcate in interesting ways. It's already well known that the most popular books on the kindle are the freely available ones. It was also a big story earlier this year about how the big publishers pushed Amazon into finally increasing the pricing on ebooks, so they could sell them for more than the previously standard $9.99. But what Konrath is seeing suggests that pricing direction is all wrong. Not surprisingly, the size of the market grows quite a bit the cheaper the book gets. If traditional publishers keep trying to increase the price of ebooks, while a growing contingent offers cheap or free ebooks, the ebook market may become very different than the traditional book market very, very quickly.


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San Francisco Chronicle critic Mick LaSalle described the movie Van Helsing as "what a chimpanzee might do with an Etch A Sketch." I suspect that someone in your sphere has recently produced something similar--perhaps a bad work of art, a botched business deal, or an awkward relationship. It's not necessarily your sacred duty to try to make this mess more beautiful, and you certainly shouldn't try to prop it up or pretend it's well-done. But I do believe you should create something better to compensate for it--much better. Though almost anything you come up with will look good in comparison, you can't afford to merely act like a smarter chimpanzee with a more deluxe Etch A Sketch.
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Psychologist James Hillman says that taking action to correct social and economic injustice in the world can serve as powerful psychotherapy. In some cases, it may even be a more effective way to transmute one's personal pain than talking endlessly about the pain with a therapist. That thought is the seed of my advice for you, Cancerian. In the coming weeks, the sure cure for your problems--even your most uncomfortable enigma--is to take your mind off yourself and summon all your emotionally rich ingenuity to help others.
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In honor of your entrance into the Season of Romance, I've written you a love poem. Here it is. Be my slow-motion dance. Be my birthday earthquake. Be my ripe pomegranate floating in a blue plastic swimming pool on the first day of winter. Be my handstand on a barstool, my whirlwind week in clown school, my joke shared with a Siberian shaman while shopping for socks at Wal-Mart. Be my puzzle with one piece missing. Be the waves crashing on a beach in the south of France in the twenty-second century. Be my golden hammer resting on the moss of a ten-million-year-old rock.
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In the film Catch Me If You Can, a character played by Christopher Walken tells a story that illustrates persistence under duress. "Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream," he begins. "The first mouse gave up and drowned. The second mouse wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out." I urge you to make that second mouse your role model in the coming days, Virgo. Can you summon that much courage, stamina, and strength of will? The astrological omens say you can.
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I suggest that you refer to yourself as "we" rather than "I" for the next couple of weeks. There is a power struggle going on among your various sub-personalities, and the best way to keep some of them from going berserk and doing something irrational is to treat them all equally. In fact, I suggest that you give each of them a name. Make each of them feel special. Then sit down with them in a big summit conference. Clear the air. Create an environment that fosters freedom of expression. Listen attentively as each of your many selves describes his or her needs, and try to come up with a plan that satisfies everyone.
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This is one of those odd turning points when you have a license to be a cute brat in charge of mischievous healing. I dare you to stir up the exact kind of trouble that will make everyone feel better. It's also a good time to start benevolent rumors, break out in song during committee meetings, and push your own buttons before anyone else can push them. Please try to be one step ahead of yourself at all times, Scorpio. And if you can't seem to resist your craving for the metaphorical equivalent of pickles and ice cream--and I'll be amazed if you can--be sure you balance it by cultivating a desire for ketchup and banana sandwiches.
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You can't get what you want until you ask for what you want. That's always true, of course. But in the coming days, Sagittarius, it will be even more intensely true than usual. Your life will be a desolate wasteland of frustration if you expect everyone to telepathically guess what you're fantasizing about. But your life will be an overflowing cornucopia of delights if you state concisely, without any whining and without any attitude, precisely what it is you desire. Oh, by the way, here's a corollary to this week's Main Rule: You can't get what you want until you know what you want.
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With the help of a dead man, Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling achieved success in baseball's post-season playoffs. Shortly before his team's biggest games, Schilling suffered a serious ankle injury. His doctors dreamed up an experimental procedure that involved sewing his skin to the tissue beneath it, thereby creating a temporary barrier to prevent his weakened tendon from slipping. Since they'd never actually done it, they tried it out first on a cadaver. It worked, and they applied what they'd learned to help Schilling. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Capricorn, you, too, will be blessed and aided by the dead in the coming weeks. It may not be as literal as in Schilling's case, but it could be equally dramatic.
No one knows you better than you do, Capricorn. But maybe you'll be inspired to dig up even more self-knowledge in the coming week if you tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
There will be times in 2005 when I will ask you to spend quality time wrestling with people who disagree with you; I'll suggest that you expose yourself eagerly to influences that are unfamiliar and even alien. But don't do any of that in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Right now your assignments are to hang around like-minded people, to talk shop with cohorts who share your biases, and to build your community through fun and games. You need to feel you're part of a thriving web that supports you in your drive to live out your dreams--and you need to feel a lot of joy as you do it.
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"If you want to build a ship," counseled author Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry, "don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." That's not only smart advice for a leader who wants to inspire the best in her team members, but also for anyone interested in motivating herself to risk great solo adventures. In fact, that's exactly what you should do in the coming weeks, Pisces. Whisper with wild abandon to your inner child, your inner explorer, your inner magician, and your inner monarch. Fill them with the desire to go in search of captivating mysteries that will thrill your heart.
Your destiny is a gorgeous mystery, Pisces. Your soul is awakening more every day. The secrets of life are ripening right in front of your eyes. For more clues, consider checking out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
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This is a game associated with activities during Solar Week, a twice-yearly event in March and October during which classrooms are able to interact with scientists studying the Sun. Outside of Solar Week, information, activities, and resources are... (View More) archived and available online at any time. During this game, learners use clues to find out the color, average size, temperature, and location of the Sun. This activity is scheduled to occur during Monday of Solar Week. (View Less)
This collection of activities is based on a weekly series of space science mathematics problems distributed during the 2012-2013 school year. They were intended for students looking for additional challenges in the math and physical science... (View More) curriculum in grades 5 through 12. The problems were created to be authentic glimpses of modern science and engineering issues, often involving actual research data. The problems were designed to be one-pagers with a Teacher's Guide and Answer Key as a second page. (View Less)
This textbook chapter introduces Earth's external energy source, and the nuclear fusion reactions that power the Sun, space weather and space storms. There is an interview with solar scientist, Dr. Janet Luhmann, UC-Berkeley. The resource includes... (View More) links to current news articles, and a suite of pre- and post-unit assessments. A teacher's guide supports classroom use. This is the fourth chapter in the unit, Energy Flow, exploring the transfer of energy through the atmosphere, oceans, land, and living things over short and long timescales. The resource is part of Global System Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global (View Less)
Using a set of activities, recommendations, and diagrams, participants will construct a fully functional Space Weather Action Center (SWAC) for use in a classroom. Students will access, analyze, and record NASA satellite and observatory data to... (View More) monitor the progress of an entire solar storm. Afterward, they will transform the data collected in their student journals into real SWAC news reports using an adaptable SWAC script. (View Less)
After researching information about the Sun, learners will discuss and share their expertise on related topics such as sunspots, the Earth's magnetosphere, and aurorae. This activity is a follow-on to the lesson titled "Understanding the Sun" in the... (View More) Space Weather Action Center Educator's Instructional Guide, which follows the 5E learning cycle. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the characteristics of planets, comets, asteroids, and trans-Neptunian objects. Learners will classify objects and then apply what they have learned by participating in a formal debate about a solar system object discovered by... (View More) the New Horizons spacecraft and by defining the term planet. (View Less)
This is a lesson about discovering distant planets using an Earth-based observing technique called stellar occultation. Learners will explore how a stellar occultation occurs, how planetary atmospheres can be discovered, and how planetary diameters... (View More) can be determined using actual light curves from stellar occultation events. Includes adaptations for younger students and those with visual impairments. (View Less)
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Net Radiative Flux (NRF) is used to determine the flow of solar energy in and out of the Earth system. NRF is influenced by seasonal variations related to the tilt of the Earth's axis and degree of cloud cover as well as Earth's surface features.... (View More) Using measurements taken by the CERES instrument, students will observe and analyze NRF patterns. Analysis will focus on seasonal shifts and the impact of both surface features and clouds. This lesson uses student- and citizen science-friendly microsets of authentic NASA Earth system science data from the MY NASA DATA project. It also includes related links, extensions, an online glossary and a list of related AP Environmental Science topics. (View Less)
This is an article about the electromagnetic spectrum, how atomic physics is used to obtain information out of stellar spectra, and how the Doppler effect is used to measure stellar motions. An activity at the end allows learners to analyze... (View More) scientific data displayed as graphs and identify several emission lines in the spectrum of the Sun. (View Less)
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This week's Photo Friday entry: 'The Body'
I missed the last two photo friday themes because I was away in Raja Ampat (Indonesia) with no network connection. Today I wanted to include some photos from there into this post. Usually when you see Peacock Mantis Shrimp you cannot see their body, you see them sitting up out of their hole as above. This little fellow was actually scurrying across the sand from hole to hole. In the photo below you can see that his body is made of corrugated pieces like a coat of armour.
I hope you found this post interesting. Stay tuned over the next few days for more tales from Raja Ampat.
If you want to see more of my underwater photos from various places then check out the galleries in my Reef Beasties Gallery. Or my best from 2012 here.
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An instant landmark of crap, "Upside Down" begins with an interminable voiceover as Adam (the permanently earnest Jim Sturgess of "Cloud Atlas") utters, "The universe is so full of wonders," and, "Gravity. They say you can't fight it. Well, I disagree. What if love was stronger than gravity?"
Before you can start singing "Defying Gravity" from "Wicked," the epically dreadful sci-fi/romance "Upside Down" becomes a black hole of pretentious self-parody. Put this concept in your pipe and spit it out: the very deliberately named Adam and Eden (Kirsten Dunst) grew up in worlds that exist on top of each other, with opposite gravity. Since people of the future are super creative, they dub the worlds "Up Top" and the lower-class "Down Below." The best restaurant at Up Top is called "Café Dos Mundos," or Café Two Worlds.
When people from Down Below spend a few minutes Up Top, they burn. You'd expect that would be pretty noticeable. Yet when Adam and Eden reconnect 10 years after Down Below's military fires at them and she suffers an amnesia-causing head injury, she somehow doesn't notice his smoky ankles or the flames coming from his feet.
"Are you OK?" she asks, oblivious to the evidence. No, he is not.
While the notion of opposite worlds and upside-down relationships allows Dunst an inversion of her kiss with Spider-Man, writer-director Juan Solanas forgets to establish any relationship between the two characters whose love could supposedly defy this dystopia's already-questionable laws of physics. (He also misses an opportunity to include Lionel Richie's "Dancing on the Ceiling.")
Somehow adolescent Adam tossing a paper plane to Eden gets full credit for their instant romantic bond. When Adam discovers Eden's alive, not yet knowing she doesn't remember him, she's working at a world-bridging company that's happy to dismiss their "No People From Negative Floors Can Go on Positive Floors" rule if Adam will share the secret of the anti-aging cream he's developing with his late Aunt Becky's pink bee goo. Really. He apparently sees no problem that he has no evident science background and tests the formula on a model head—and then a dog.
Solanas, who neglects to establish the details of his vision on screen and actually uses a stamp collection as a plot point, obviously thought he was making an Orwellian, "Romeo and Juliet meets Adam and Eve" story. He wasn't.
In truly mind-boggling fashion, the film teases a sequel with a serious dramatic revelation that's nearly identical to a hilarious plot development from the intentionally funny classic "Wet Hot American Summer." No one is being dumped because of tasting like a burger. It's much, much worse.
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Jim Lauderdale's new album is called I'm A Song, a title that suggests his deep
immersion in songwriting. His compositions have been covered by singers ranging from George Strait to Solomon Burke, from the Dixie Chicks to Elvis Costello. Since his debut album in 1991, he's recorded more than 25 albums for a variety of record companies, and I'm A Song contains a generous 20 songs. Rock critic Ken Tucker says Lauderdale's career is at once admirable and somewhat puzzling.
This is FRESH AIR. Jim Lauderdale has a new album called "I'm A Song." The title suggests his deep immersion in songwriting. His compositions have been covered by singers ranging from George Strait to Solomon Burke - from the Dixie chicks to Elvis Costello. Since his debut album in 1991, he's recorded more than 25 albums and "I'm A Song" contains a generous 20 songs. Rock critic Ken Tucker says Lauderdale's career is at once admirable and somewhat puzzling. Here's his review.
JIM LAUDERDALE: (Singing) Hello, my name is Mr. sunshine. I've been away until you smile. You gave me something I will treasure. Let's have a good thing together.
KEN TUCKER, BYLINE: Jim Lauderdale has a great voice for honky-tonk music - a plumy tone that lopes along the side the genre strong rhythms. On most Lauderdale songs you can hear the wide smiley he flashes so frequently on stage. He's a naturally cheerful fellow, at least in his public presentation, which hasn't stopped him from composing one of the most durable sad songs of the past few decades.
LAUDERDALE: (Singing) The king of broken hearts doesn't ask much from his friends and he has quite a few of them. They know he will understand that's just the way it goes. The king of broken hearts doesn't know he's a king. He's trying to forget other things like some old chilly scene he's walking through alone. He talks to angels and the stars start to spin. He thinks of trouble --
TUCKER: That's "The King Of Broken Hearts" a song that first surfaced on Lauderdale 1991 debut album "Planet Of Love", coproduced by Rodney Crowell and John Leventhal. The song, written in homage to George Jones and sung by Lauderdale in Jones's trademark clenched-jaw style, has been a consistent crowd pleaser right from the start. Lauderdale said recently that since "Planet Of Love" is now out-of-print he wanted to re-recorded for this new album for a hopefully new raft of fans. The song holds up so, it seems to me, will newer ones like this one "Today I've Got The Yesterday's featuring harmonies with Patty Loveless.
LAUDERDALE AND LOVELESS: (Singing) Today I've got the yesterdays. They took me to another place, just visiting what's gone away. Today I've got yesterday's. Me and cinnamon sometimes it won't send you back. Another return visit know how much I miss it to have what we had. Today I've got.
TUCKER: So with all of these good songs and strong singing, why isn't Lauderdale bigger star? I think one answer is the absence of the consistent persona in his work. Look at his idols - George Jones is, in Jim's phrase, the king of broken hearts. Gram Parsons is the sensitive tragic hero that Lauderdale is too optimistic and too wise to the ways of the music biz to emulate. Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley, with whom Lauderdale recorded a Grammy-winning album, is the kind of formalist that Jim never aspired to be. Lauderdale rarely goes as bleakly dark as his pal Buddy Miller can, both the guitar and lyrics with his wife Julie Miller. One reason Lauderdale is a success songwriter for others is because he can slip into others' skins and write from different points of view and moves. On his own projects, and on the satellite radio show he co-hosts with Buddy Miller, he projects a sunniness that to some listeners may come across as lightweight. But it takes as much craft to sound resilient as it does to sounds shattered and depressed. Listen the way he adroitly bounces back from a wrecked romance on a song Like "I Lost You."
LAUDERDALE: (Singing) I lost you. I've lost you. You've slipped from your costume. Like an actress in this tragedy you're just an apparition in this haunting mystery. I fear you've passed over me. And there's nothing I can do because I've lost you. Just like the rich man...
TUCKER: with its Whitman-esque title "I'm A Song" it's 20 songs and collaborators including Elvis Costello, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and the great country rock steel guitar player Al Perkins this album has the heft of as major a statement as Jim Lauderdale has ever made. That it also proceeds through 20 songs with such speedy ease suggests just what a satisfyingly deep lightweight Lauderdale has become.
GROSS: Ken Tucker reviewed Jim Lauderdale's new album called "I'm A Song." I'm Terry Gross. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Everybody knows the Phillies were the recipients of a blown call. The Phillies know it, the Milwaukee Brewers know it and even the umpires know it.
So instead of losing 4-3 in nine innings as the Phillies did on Saturday to the Brewers, the game should have gone into extra innings.
As all know by now Kyle Kendrick was called out on a pickoff play in the ninth inning at second base and then Cesar Hernandez hit a double that would have driven him home. For more details, here is the story.
This is another embarrassment for MLB, which keeps saying that it needs to perfect replay before expanding it.
That aside, despite the blown call, the Phillies are squandering too many chances.
They scored three runs but had 11 hits. The Phillies were 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position. They left 10 runners on base.
Injuries or not, blown call or not, they should be doing better.
"We had chances to definitely tie the game up," manager Charlie Manuel said. "We just couldn't pull it out."
Lack of clutch hitting continues to plague the Phillies.
Yes, they are banged up, but that is what happens with old teams. The bottom line is that they still have the ability to compete.
Milwaukee entered Philadelphia with six consecutive losses and that is a team that is fighting to get back to relevance.
So even though a call was blown, this was one of many games the Phillies let slip away.
Now at least they have Cliff Lee going on Sunday against Mike Fiers (1-3, 6.62). That should be a positive sign for a team that hasn't seen too many lately.


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If television is the nation's mirror, then no two TV characters reflect the intensifying "two Americas" gap better than Chris Matthews and Jimmy McNulty.
A recent New York Times profile of Matthews describes a name-dropping dilettante floating between television studios and cocktail parties. The article documents the MSNBC host's $5-million salary, three Mercedes and house in lavish Chevy Chase, Md. Yet Matthews said, "Am I part of the winner's circle in American life? I don't think so."
That stupefying comment sums up a pervasive worldview in Washington that is hostile to any discussion of class divides. Call it Matthews-ism -- an ideology most recently seen in the brouhaha over Barack Obama's statement about economic dislocation.
The Illinois senator said that when folks feel economically shafted, they get "bitter." Matthews-ism spun the truism into a scandal.
The Washington Post labeled Obama's statements "Bittergate." Tim Russert invited affluent political consultants on "Meet the Press" to analyze the "controversy," with millionaire James Carville saying, "I'm hardly bitter about things." Hillary Clinton called Obama "elitist," ignoring her mansions in Washington and Chappaqua, $109-million income, career as a Wal-Mart board member, and legacy pushing job-killing policies such as NAFTA.
This sickening episode was topped off by ABC's Charles Gibson, who only months ago humiliated himself by insinuating that typical middle-class families make $200,000 a year (95 percent make less). Last week, while moderating a debate, Gibson segued from the "bitter" comment into a tirade against rescinding capital gains tax breaks, implying the proposal would hurt most Americans. This, even though the tax cuts in question delivered the vast majority of their benefits to the richest 1 percent.
By downplaying inequality and couching royalism in middle-class arguments, the Beltway elite pretend there are not two Americas but only one: theirs.
Matthews routinely turns discussions of economic issues into debates about tactics, and then heads home to Chevy Chase telling himself he isn't "part of the winner's circle." Tim Russert asks millionaires to explain working-class struggles, and then reminds viewers he roots for the Buffalo Bills -- as if that proves he speaks for blue-collar America. Hillary Clinton makes a career out of speaking for powerful corporations, and then shows up at an Indiana bar to decry "elitism." Gibson suggests six-figure salaries are common, and then says the masses should worry about rich people like him having to pay slightly higher taxes.
In sum, economic blindness, sports symbols, beery photo ops and uninformed idiocy have become the iconography of working-class solidarity that disguises the ongoing class war.
How could this happen, you ask? How could it not?
Pop culture tells us "The Cosby Show's" economically privileged family represents the ordinary black experience, politics tells us a money-controlled electoral system is "democratic," and pundits tell us that aristocrat George Bush is a "regular guy." Propaganda is ubiquitous -- and it results in Jimmy McNulty.
He is the cop from HBO's "The Wire" -- the quintessential everyman. For a time, he tries to understand politics by watching vapid Matthews-style talk shows, but quickly becomes frustrated. "It doesn't matter who you've got [running for office], none of them has a clue what's really going on," he says, lamenting that politics treats him "like a [expletive] doormat" -- as if the day-to-day challenges he faces are "some stupid game with stupid penny ante stakes."
McNulty may be fictional, but McNulty-ism is a very real reaction to Matthews-ism. When the media responsible for explaining our world deny the existence of the world most of us inhabit, they breed -- yes -- bitterness. And the more the Matthewses treat us McNultys like reality is just "stupid games with stupid penny ante stakes," the wider the gulf between the two Americas will become.
David Sirota is a bestselling author whose newest book, "The Uprising," will be released in June of 2008. He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network-both nonpartisan organizations. His blog is at www.credoaction.com/sirota.
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On a May afternoon in 1972 a flight of four Grumman A-6 Intruders, the lead elements in an air wing strike, flew a hundred feet above North Vietnamese rice paddies west of the Gulf of Tonkin, about 25 miles south of Hanoi. Loaded with Mk 20 Rockeye bomblet canisters, the jets were headed toward Bai Thuong, an enemy airfield. Navy pilot and air group commander Roger Sheets flew the lead Intruder. He and his bombardier/navigator Charlie Carr, a Marine Corps captain, used the aircraft's radar and visual cues to guide them to Bai Thuong. "The A-6 was the all-weather attack aircraft," says Carr. "Monsoon season never affected our operations." But that day was clear; Sheets and Carr were getting a good look at North Vietnam, and any other aircraft sharing that patch of sky could get a good look at them.
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As the Intruders approached their target, they climbed to 200 feet. From the right seat, Carr spotted enemy MiGs above. They looked like little arrowheads circling watchfully about 1,500 feet up. He threw a switch and informed Sheets that the A-6's three-plus tons of ordnance were now armed.
"We came in underneath this wheel of MiGs," Carr recalls, "maybe 12, 15 of them. We were hoping to catch them on the ground and bomb the hell out of 'em. The airbase was alerted, however."
Sheets kept the A-6 straight and level as they approached the airfield. A few seconds later he thumbed the release on the stick, freed all 12 Mk 20s, and banked the Intruder hard to the left.
Carr remembers seeing one of the MiGs dive toward them. "OK, so now we had a problem," says Carr. "Now the MiG-17 was on our tail."
Compared to the MiG, the A-6 was no sprinter. Carr armed the aircraft's Sidewinder missiles, but there was little chance that Sheets could get into a position to take a shot. Instead, he began to jink, performing quick dodging maneuvers that made it tough for the MiG pilot to keep them in his sights. Sheets intended to drag the MiG toward the coast, hoping to run it out of gas. Carr remembers seeing puffs of smoke from the MiG's 37-mm cannon. That's when an F-4 Phantom appeared like a big brother late to a fight. The F-4 fired a missile, the MiG went down in flames, and Sheets and Carr made it back to the USS Coral Sea.
MiGs were among the reasons that A-6 crews preferred the cover of darkness or nasty weather. Using terrain-following radar, the crews flew low and fast no matter the hour. Because of the complexity of carrier operations, says Carr, only about a quarter of his flights from the Coral Sea were at night. "But missions from land," he says, "were almost all at night."
If darkness suited the A-6, perhaps one reason was that the airplane was no beauty queen. The twin intakes for the Pratt & Whitney J-52 P-8B turbojets swelled amidships, giving the craft a portly look. A bent refueling probe protruded from the top of a large, rounded snout. "The plane wasn't pretty," remembers Carr. "Only Grumman could make a plane that ugly."
The intruder's genesis predates Vietnam. During the Korean War the U.S. Navy lacked an all-weather, carrier-launched strike aircraft. So in March 1957 the service's Bureau of Aeronautics issued a request for proposals, detailing a requirement for a subsonic, two-seat attack bomber. Boeing, Douglas, Vought, Martin, Bell, Lockheed, Grumman, and North American submitted a total of 11 designs.
Interviews with flight crews led designers to focus on crew coordination. "The Navy wanted the side-by-side seating," says Joe Ruggiero, a Grumman engineer who worked on the A-6 from the prototype to the final A-6F, and was later a Northrop Grumman program director for the EA-6B Prowler, the Intruder's electronic warfare variant. "They thought, correctly, that it would enhance the workload in the cockpit. The design team knew it was going to be a bomber, and the radar system requirements did not lend themselves to a pointy nose. The engineers designed a plane that could carry lots of ordnance under the fuselage and wings. What eventually showed up on the drawing boards was the configuration of the A-6 Intruder."


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman found guilty of murdering her newborn twins has been sentenced to a minimum of 51 years in prison.
Lindsey Lowe was convicted last month of felony murder, premeditated murder and aggravated child abuse. The murder charges carry an automatic life sentence.
At a Friday hearing in Gallatin, Sumner County Criminal Court Judge Dee David Gay sentenced Lowe to the maximum 25 years on the aggravated child abuse charges. However, Gay ordered the sentences to be served concurrently.
Friends and family testified at the hearing that Lowe was a loving friend and daughter who had always been helpful and dependable. Friend Liz Kee, who grew up with Lowe, said she would trust the 26-year-old with her life.
Gay said he found Lowe to be untruthful and selfish.