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Born in Maiquetía, Venezuela, in 1920, Luchita Hurtado has dedicated seventy years of her painting and drawing practice to the investigation of universality and transcendence. Developing her artistic vocabulary through a coalescence of abstraction, mysticism, corporality and landscape, the breadth of her experimentation with unconventional techniques, materials and styles speak to the multicultural and experiential contexts that have shaped her life and career. Hurtado emigrated to the United States in 1928, settling in New York where she attended classes at the Art Students League. She relocated to Mexico City in the late 1940s and, in the following decade, moved to San Francisco Bay, making frequent visits to Taos, New Mexico, and ultimately settling in Los Angeles.Read More
Although she associated with a vast network of internationally renowned artists and intellectuals, including members of Dynaton, Mexican muralists, and Surrealists, Hurtado's practice has always remained an independent pursuit. Her body of work is cohered through an examination of self-affirmation, introduced in her early period from the 1940s to the 1960s in an output defined by surrealist figuration, biomorphism and geometric abstraction, executed in brightly hued palettes with striking expressive range. Hurtado's work continued to evolve throughout the 1960s and 1970s, demonstrating a marked shift toward naturalistic representation and figuration that led to a production of contemplative self-portraits known as her 'I am' paintings. Asserting her presence through a personal perspective of the body— rendered from above at skewed angles— Hurtado coalesces our gaze with hers, creating a depth of field activated by the unexpected position of the floor as a backdrop, juxtaposing soft corporeal lines against the hard edge geometric patterns of a Southwestern rug. This series was followed by a group of surrealist Body Landscapes wherein the human figure assumes the form of mountains and desert sand dunes. Functioning as a symbolic proxy and an intimate meditation on the Earth as mystic progenitor, these works underscore the interconnection between corporeality and the natural world— a delicate balance that is now in jeopardy. Hurtado recognizes the urgency of this ecological crisis and her environmental advocacy continues to inform and suffuse the ever-expansive visual language of her work.
Los Angeles' art scene has a lot to offer during Frieze Los Angeles, with galleries, non-profits, and museums gearing up for the fair's second edition between 14 and 17 February 2020. In this Ocula Lowdown, Tessa Moldan lists a selection of the city's must-see shows.
LONDON — The Venezuelan-born American artist Luchita Hurtado is among a group of women artists finally getting their due as nonagenarians. At 98, her exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery, I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn, is her first solo show in a public institution. Earlier this year she had a solo show at Hauser & Wirth, New York...
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After the 2nd Annual Conference of the 3 Fora and the 4th EUSAIR Forum had been held in Budva, from 6 to 8 of May, the Budva Declaration has been adopted on the 8th of May 2019 by the high-level political representatives of the AII/EUSAIR participating countries at the Adriatic Ionian Council / EUSAIR Ministerial meeting.
The 3 Fora, representing the civil society, have been recognized as important stakeholders of the EUSAIR Strategy. During the official opening of the IV EUSAIR Forum, in which also Forum AIC President took her greetings and speech, the importance of the 3 Fora contribute (FAIC, UNIADRION and FORUM AIC) to the strategy and to the values of EU has been underlined by Mr. Markovic, prime Minister of Montenegro.
In this wider context, Forum AIC Governing Board and General Assembly meetings took place, with the election of the new President: Mr. Gino Sabatini, President of Marche Chamber of Commerce, has been unanimously elected by the Assembly. After 2 years of Croatian Presidency, held by Mrs. Mirjana Cagalj, President of Split Chamber of Commerce, the leadership comes back to Italy.
Forum AIC Governing Board has also a new Vice President: Mr. Marko ŠantiĆ of the Chamber of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, until the meeting of the extraordinary Assembly of the Forum to be held in Arta next autumn. Arta was indeed chosen for hosting the 11th Congress of women entrepreneurship in the Adriatic and Ionian Area. On that occasion, an amendment to the Statute, already discussed in the meeting held on 8 May, will be brought to the approval of the Assembly, with the inclusion of two additional vice presidents, as well as the alternation of Presidency and Vice-Presidency founding Chambers of the Forum: the Split Chamber of Economy and the Marche Chamber of Commerce.
On the date of 7th and 8th May, moreover, the Workgroups on Societal Challenges, Economic and Policy Analysis, Women Entrepreneurship took place. The Workgroups, structured on the basis of the EUSAIR Pillars, were held in the framework of the AI-NURECC project. "Development of Adriatic Ionian area through cooperation – opportunities and challenges" was the title of the first Workgroup, moderated by Phd. Marko ŠantiĆ, President of Chamber of Economy of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"DIGITALIZATION – a tool for the development of society and economy"and "Innovative women in creative industries of the Adriatic and Ionian Region" were the main topics of the respective Workgroups on Economic and Policy Analysis and Women Entrepreneurship. The first one was moderated and introduced by Giuseppe Ieraci, PhD Political Science DiSPeS – University of Trieste, while the second saw as moderator Antonija Bašić, from the Chamber of Economy of Croatia, Split. Forum AIC Workgroups took place togheter with the EUSAIR Pillars Sessions, in which some of our speakers have been involved.
A last mention goes to the EU-project Workgroup, which saw the intervention of Lodovico Gherardi, Coordinator of the managing Authority Unit of Interreg ADRION Programme: during his speech, he underlined as the Facility Point, held by Regione Marche, and the AI-NURECC project are examples of good practices for the implementation of the EUSAIR strategy.
All the useful materials and speakers'presentation, togheter with a more detailed report of the event, will be published soon.

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Wishing a very happy birthday to our founder and first music director Theodore Thomas on the occasion of his 184th birthday!
"During his musical career, Theodore Thomas conducted more than ten thousand concerts, and on a majority of his programs, he placed a work by Beethoven. Nevertheless, it was his invariable rule to study each work anew whenever he gave it, and he was so particular in regard to everything that concerned the music of Beethoven that I have known him to spend an entire evening verifying the opus number of a Beethoven quartet before he would copy it on a program for the printer."
—excerpt from the preface to Talks About Beethoven's Symphonies by Theodore Thomas and Frederick Stock, edited by Rose Fay Thomas, 1930.
"The man who does not know Shakespeare is to be pitied; and the man who does not understand Beethoven and has not been under his spell has not half lived his life."
—excerpt from the epigraph to Theodore Thomas: A Musical Autobiography by Theodore Thomas, edited by George P. Upton, 1905.
Happy, happy birthday!
We recently received an extraordinary donation to our collections: a mounted photograph—in remarkable condition—of the Civic Music Student Orchestra onstage in Orchestra Hall from March 1920. This image appeared in the Civic's first program book (see here), and previously, the only copies in our collections were quite grainy and not the best quality.
In this newly acquired image, clearly visible—downstage, front and center—is the Civic's founding leadership: (standing) Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Frederick Stock and (seated, left to right) assistant conductors Eric DeLamarter (the CSO's assistant and associate conductor from 1918 until 1936) and George Dasch (a member of the CSO's violin and viola sections from 1898 until 1923).
Also clearly visible in the assistant concertmaster chair is Mildred Brown, the previous owner of this artifact. The photograph came to us from the archives of the Sisters of Saint Francis in Rochester, Minnesota, where Brown—later Sister M. Ancille—lived from 1924 until her death in 1963. The handwriting at the bottom of the image reads, "Mildred Brown (Sr. Ancille), Assistant concert mistress, Front & center," and an arrow points to her.
Born in Chicago on March 23, 1894, Brown earned a master's degree in violin at the Chicago Musical College in 1915, where she studied with Alexander Sebald, and Leon Sametini, along with Chicago Symphony Orchestra assistant concertmaster Hugo Kortschak. She also attended the Juilliard School where she was a student of Franz Kneisel.
Brown was a member of the Civic Orchestra for its first season in 1919-20, one of fourteen women on the ensemble's roster. At Stock's invitation, she returned to the Civic in 1922-23, this time as concertmaster—the first woman to hold that position in the ensemble. During that season, Stock also invited her to be a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on a Popular concert on February 8, 1923. Brown performed Wieniawski's Fantaisie brillante (based on themes from Gounod's Faust).
After her first year in the Civic Orchestra, Brown embarked on a solo career and enjoyed considerable success. A press brochure itemized generous critical praise:
- "Miss Brown has traveled far upon the road to success [performing] with so much brilliance, so much technical clarity with tone so pure and round. Hers is an admirable gift" (Felix Borowski, Chicago Record Herald).
- "A young violinist of high attainments, both in the technical and interpretative sense (Eric DeLamarter, Chicago Tribune).
- "She dashed into the finale with brilliance and carried it off with joyous abandon. Miss Brown has the right stuff in her and made such a 'hit' with the audience that she had to give an encore (Karleton Hackett, Chicago Evening Post)
- "Mildred Brown possesses all the attributes of the finished artist [with] rich tone and brilliant technique. . . . The difficult harmonic passages were played with security and in a flawless fashion" (Milwaukee Free Press).
While on tour in 1923, she performed a concert at the College of Saint Teresa in Winona, Minnesota and served as an instructor for its summer session. In January 1924, she joined the Sisters of Saint Francis. As a postulant, she directed the Teresan Orchestra and gave frequent concerts, and later—as Sister M. Ancille—she served on the faculties of the School of Musical Art and Lourdes High School (both in Rochester) and the College of Saint Teresa. She completed a second master's degree in music from the University of Michigan in 1941 (likely attending for several summers, as it was common for Sisters teaching at the high school and college levels to continue work on advanced degrees by taking summer classes).
Sister Ancille died unexpectedly on November 19, 1963, at the age of sixty-nine. An obituary published in The Campanile (the college's newspaper), she was remembered for "her performances as presentations of impeccable technique, finesse of style, and the artistry of a great musician, [always] striving for perfection. Sister Ancille had a reserve and repose that persons of all ages admired and respected. Her complete composure and graciousness exemplified the fullness of her life as a Franciscan. It seems, to us, very fitting that God called her home on the feast of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, the patron of all Third Order Franciscans."
Special thanks to the Archives of the Sisters of Saint Francis in Rochester, Minnesota, and congregational archivist Sister Marisa McDonald, OSF
Sergei Rachmaninov made his first appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on December 3 and 4, 1909, conducting his Isle of the Dead and performing as soloist in his Second Piano Concerto with Frederick Stock conducting.
"Mr. Rachmaninov appeared in three different roles on yesterday's program as a creative musician (a composer, as a conductor, and as a pianist), in all three capacities he displayed unusual preeminence and gifts of a transcendent order," wrote the critic in the Chicago Examiner. "At the conductor's desk, [he] is a striking personality [and] the members of the Orchestra responded readily to his minutest directions." In the concerto, "Rachmaninov made no less an artistic impression. He is endowed with a comprehensive technique, his scale passages and chord playing are clean and rapid, his tone is rich and musical, and in his concerto he displayed remarkable gifts . . . after a half dozen recalls [he] responded with his celebrated C-sharp minor prelude."
According to Phillip Huscher, "Although Chicago didn't get to hear it, by then Rachmaninov had written a third piano concerto, tailor-made for his first North American tour in late 1909. Rachmaninov introduced the work in New York on November 28, with Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony. He played it there again in January, with Gustav Mahler conducting the New York Philharmonic."
For the first time with Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he performed his Third Piano Concerto on January 23 and 24, 1920. Despite a nasty Chicago storm, Orchestra Hall was packed for the Friday matinee. "The concert of yesterday afternoon was an event," wrote Karleton Hackett in the Evening Post. "I do not care what the verdict of twenty years from now may be regarding this concerto, for I have just listened to a performance of it that stirred me deeply. . . . It was a work of a man who understands the capacity of the instrument and can write for it in the fresh, vigorous idiom of our day such music as brings out its peculiar power and charm. What is quite as much to the point, he himself can play the instrument with a mastery that makes every phrase a delight. Rachmaninov has supreme virtuosity. There is nothing he cannot do at the keyboard, from the most exquisite delicacy of ornamentation to the downright stroke of elemental power. . . . The music was so vigorous, expressing so spontaneously the emotion of our own time that it seemed as though it were being struck out in the white heat of the creative impulse of the moment."
In January 1932, the composer was again in Chicago for three concerts with Stock and the Orchestra. After a performance of the second concerto on January 12, Herman Devries in the American reported, "It was not Chicago . . . it was not Orchestra Hall . . . it was not Rachmaninov . . . to me it seemed Olympus, and we were all gods. Thus does music glorify when it is itself glorious. It is not the first time that I have waxed passionately enthusiastic over the genius of Rachmaninov. After hearing Horowitz [in recital] on Sunday [January 10], we thought that the season's thrills were nearly complete."
Later that week on January 14 and 15, Rachmaninov was soloist in his third concerto. "The most exciting event in the history of Orchestra Hall occurred last night," wrote Glenn Dillard Gunn in the Herald & Examiner. "With one impulse, the audience rose and shouted its approval. Many eyes were wet and many throats were hoarse before the demonstration ended. For once on their feet, the listeners remained to cheering after the Orchestra had trumpeted and thundered its fanfare and long after the composer-pianist had brought Dr. Stock to the footlights to share his honors. Never have I witnessed such a tribute . . . and never, it is my sincere conviction, has such response been so richly deserved."
Rachmaninov's final appearances with the Orchestra were on February 11 and 12, 1943, in Beethoven's First Piano Concerto and his own Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, under the baton of associate conductor Hans Lange. "Sergei Rachmaninov evoked a series of ovations when he appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall last night," wrote Claudia Cassidy in the Chicago Tribune. "His entrance won standing tribute from orchestra and capacity audience, his Beethoven stirred a storm of grateful applause, and his own Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini ended the concert in a kind of avalanche of cumulative excitement."
The following week, Rachmaninov traveled to Louisville and Knoxville for solo recitals on February 15 and 17, in what would be his final public performances. He died in Beverly Hills, California on March 28, 1943.
Portions of this article are included in the February 14-17, 2019, program book and also previously appeared here.
John Glessner and his wife Frances were among the most generous and loyal supporters of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since its founding in 1891. They extended that generosity into their own home, and both Theodore Thomas and Frederick Stock, their families, along with members of the Orchestra and visiting soloists, were frequent guests, especially during the Christmas season (see here).
Frances meticulously kept diaries, detailing menus, decorations, guests, and seating arrangements, giving us a glimpse into the family's frequent entertaining. According to her diaries, during the holiday season she frequently served one of her favorite cookies—Hermits. Here's her recipe:
Makes about 1 1/2 dozen bar cookies
3 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 cup nutmeats (chopped coarse)
1/2 cup dates (chopped or diced)
1 orange rind grated
1/2 cup butter or shortening
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 tablespoons sour milk
2 eggs (beaten well)
Cream together butter, sugar, and orange rind. Sift together flour, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and soda and set aside. Add beaten eggs to butter and sugar mixture. Alternate adding dry ingredients and sour milk, then fold in dates and nuts. Spoon into (greased and floured) 9-by-13-inch pan and bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Cut into bars when cool.
Modern cooking tip: sour milk can be fabricated by adding a few drops of lemon juice to milk.
(from Carol Callahan's 1993 Prairie Avenue Cookbook)
Keeping with the Glessners' holiday traditions, the Glessner House was beautifully decorated for the holidays this year. It recently was open for docent-led candlelight tours, complete with executive director and curator William Tyre playing carols on the late nineteenth-century Steinway grand piano in the parlor.
And a footnote . . . we couldn't share the recipe without trying it ourselves . . . delicious success!
Looking south from the Art Institute, a parade of American soldiers marches up Michigan Avenue in this image from the Pritzker Military Museum & Library collections. Orchestra Hall—complete with movie marquee—can be seen at the far right.
The Nineteenth Amendment—giving women the right to vote—passes the House of Representatives on May 21 and the Senate on June 4, 1919, and is ratified on August 18, 1920. Chicago's League of Women Voters soon parade through the city, encouraging women to register to vote in upcoming presidential election.
The influenza epidemic in Chicago first appeared at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station on September 8, 1918, and two weeks later, cases began appearing within the city. At the height of the epidemic in October, all of the city's theaters—including Orchestra Hall—movie houses, and night schools were ordered closed, disrupting the CSO season for two weeks. By the epidemic's end in November, over 50,000 cases of influenza and pneumonia had been reported. The article is here.
During Sergei Prokofiev's first visit to America, he appears with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on December 6 and 7, 1918, in two U.S. premieres: as soloist in his First Piano Concerto (under the baton of assistant conductor Eric DeLamarter) and conducting his Scythian Suite.
Prokofiev returns to Chicago and performs as soloist with the Orchestra on December 16 and 17, 1921, giving the world premiere of his Third Piano Concerto with Frederick Stock conducting. Two weeks later, he leads the Chicago Opera in the world premiere of his The Love for Three Oranges at the Auditorium Theatre on December 30.
On July 27, 1919, seventeen-year-old Eugene Williams, an African American, was swimming in Lake Michigan when he crossed the unofficial barrier at 29th Street between the city's "black" and "white" beaches. A group of white men pelted stones at Williams and he soon drowned. Black eyewitnesses identified the aggressors when the police arrived, but they refused to arrest them. News of the event spread and violence soon erupted, primarily in the city's South Side neighborhoods. Riots, shootings, and arson attacks continued through August 3, leaving nearly forty dead, over 500 injured, and more than 1,000 black families homeless. The article is here.
On October 9, 1919, the Cincinnati Reds clinch their first World Series victory, winning game eight against the Chicago White Sox, amid suspicions that the games had been fixed. A grand jury convenes in September 1920 and indicts eight White Sox players who, though acquitted in 1921, are permanently banned from the game. The article is here.
The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified on January 16, 1919 authorizing prohibition of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol, beginning the following year. The amendment's passing on December 17, 1917, was possible in part due to the wave of anti-German sentiment. Since many of the nation's beer brewers were German, Prohibition became closely tied to American patriotism. The amendment is repealed on December 5, 1933, with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.
On November 20, 1919, Frederick Stock leads the first of a regular series of Children's Concerts specifically designed to introduce young Chicagoans to music. After hearing several auditions from promising young instrumentalists, Stock chooses eight-year-old Anita Malkin to become the first youth soloist on a Children's Concert, and she performs the first movement of Rode's Violin Concerto with the Orchestra on February 12, 1920.
January 23 and 24, 1920, Sergei Rachmaninov is soloist in his Third Piano Concerto. Frederick Stock conducts.
During the summer months, Orchestra Hall frequently was used as a movie house, and in 1920, Paramount Pictures' Humoresque—a silent film based on Fannie Hurst's short story—enjoyed a multi-week run.
On December 31, 1920, Frederick Stock leads the Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Gustav Holst's The Planets, less than two months after the world premiere in London. Stock also leads the Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony on April 15, 1921.
On December 18, 1921, Richard Strauss returns to Chicago to lead the Orchestra in a special concert at the Auditorium Theatre. The program includes his Also sprach Zarathustra, Death and Transfiguration, and the love scene from his opera Feuersnot, along with several songs—"Morgen!," "Wiegenlied," "Freundliche Vision," and "Ständchen"—with soprano Claire Dux.
A Time for Reflection—A Message of Peace—a companion exhibit curated by the Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with the Pritzker Military Museum & Library—will be on display in Symphony Center's first-floor rotunda from October 2 through November 18, and the content also will be presented on CSO Sounds & Stories and the From the Archives blog.
This article also appears here. For event listings, please visit cso.org/armistice.
This exhibit is presented with the generous support of COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired), Founder and Chair, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, through the Pritzker Military Foundation.
Additional thanks to Shawn Sheehy and Jenna Harmon, along with the Arts Club of Chicago, Newberry Library, Poetry Foundation, and Ravinia Festival Association.
Thousands of soldiers stand in formation at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in this 1918 image at right from the Pritzker Military Museum & Library collections.
During the second decade of the twentieth century, Chicago was an extraordinary hub of cultural activity. Art, architecture, literature politics, music, and sports all contributed to the city's vibrant landscape.
The Chicago Grand Opera Company—the city's first resident opera company—opens its first season on November 3, 1910, at the Auditorium Theatre. Cleofante Campanini conducts Verdi's Aida with Janina Korolewicz in the title role, Nicola Zerola as Radamès, and Eleanor de Cisneros as Amneris. The fourth and final season of the company comes to a close on January 31, 1914, with a matinee of Février's Monna Vanna starring Mary Garden and an evening performance of Flotow's Martha with Jenny Dufau and Ralph Errolle under the baton of Arnold Winternitz.
In 1912, Ellen Van Volkenburg and Maurice Browne establish the Chicago Little Theatre, performing Greek classics, works by contemporary writers, and puppetry at the Fine Arts Building. Founded in March 1916, the Arts Club of Chicago also moves into the Fine Arts Building on the fifth floor, and charter members include Rue Winterbotham Carpenter and her husband, composer John Alden Carpenter, along with Frederick Stock.
During the first season of the Ravinia Opera Company in 1912, Gustav Hinrichs leads the Orchestra in acts and extended scenes from Puccini's Madama Butterfly and La bohème; Verdi's Aida , La traviata, and Il trovatore; Massenet's Thaïs; Gounod's Faust; Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor; and Wagner's Lohengrin. On August 21, the company presents its first full-length production: Masagani's Cavalleria rusticana with Jane Abercrombie as Santuzza and Henri Baron as Turriddu.
Founded by Harriet Monroe, the first edition of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse is published in Chicago in October 1912.
The 1912 Progressive "Bull Moose" Party Convention culminates at the Auditorium Theatre on August 6 with Theodore Roosevelt, president from 1901 until 1909, proclaiming, "We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord!" He had attempted and failed to wrangle the Republican nomination from his successor and incumbent president William Howard Taft, so Roosevelt's supporters declared their independence and formed a third party behind their candidate, who boasted he felt "strong as a bull moose." Democratic New Jersey governor Woodrow Wilson won the November 5 election in a landslide against the divided Republicans.
In April 1913, the International Exhibition of Modern Art is mounted at the Art Institute of Chicago, introducing local audiences to the works of Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso, among numerous others. Students at the School of the Art Institute hold a mock trial of "Henry Hair Mattress" (Henri Matisse), finding him guilty of "artistic murder, pictorial arson . . . and contumacious abuse of title" and burning copies of his Blue Nude, Luxury II, Red Madras Headdress, and The Red Studio. The articles are here and here.
An occasional Chicago Symphony Orchestra subscriber, Frank Lloyd Wright also has an office in Orchestra Hall from 1913 until 1916. (It has long been rumored that he skipped out without paying his final months' rent.)
While living in Chicago, Ferd "Jelly Roll" Morton publishes his Jelly Roll Blues in 1915, widely acknowledged as the first published jazz composition.
On October 14, 1917, composer and pianist Ignace Paderewski gives a speech to over 40,000 people— "the largest Polish assemblage ever seen in Chicago," according to the Chicago Tribune—at the Dexter Park Pavilion (a horse racing track located next to the Union Stock Yards) advocating for a Poland free of Austro-Hungarian rule. The article is here.
In early 1918, Joe "King" Oliver moves to Chicago, bringing his New Orleans brass and dance band style with him. To win over northern audiences, many jazz bands played up their southern roots while drawing on stereotypes made familiar through minstrel shows, as can be seen in this image. Oliver's style also was called "hot jazz," later inspiring the name of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven bands of the 1920s. By the end of the decade, Chicago develops a style all its own, emerging as an important center for the genre.
Geraldine Farrar is the star of the Chicago Opera Association's first season opening in November 1915, appearing in the title roles in Puccini's Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Bizet's Carmen, and Marguerite in Gounod's Faust.
In 1916, Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems is published. He is soon awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Cornhuskers, published in 1918 and written while he lived in Evanston and Elmhurst, Illinois.
The Chicago White Sox win the 1917 World Series on October 15, defeating the New York Giants in game six. The winning team included outfielders "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Shano Collins, Happy Felsch, Eddie Murphy, and Nemo Leibold.
The U.S. Government War Exposition travels to Grant Park and nearly two million Chicagoans visit between September 2 and 15, 1918. Designed to encourage public support of the war, the exposition includes displays of new technologies, trench warfare and weaponry, and medical treatments.
A Time for Reflection—A Message of Peace—a companion exhibit curated by the Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with the Pritzker Military Museum & Library—will be on display in Symphony Center's first-floor rotunda from October 2 through November 18, and the content also will be presented on CSO Sounds & Stories and the From the Archives blog.
This article also appears here. For event listings, please visit cso.org/armistice.
This exhibit is presented with the generous support of COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired), Founder and Chair, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, through the Pritzker Military Foundation.
Additional thanks to Shawn Sheehy and Jenna Harmon, along with the Arts Club of Chicago, Newberry Library, Poetry Foundation, and Ravinia Festival Association.
The poster at left, from the Pritzker Military Museum & Library collections, shows French soldiers who fought in the First Battle of the Marne between September 6 and 12, 1914.
In the years leading up to the United States entering World War I, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave a number of premieres, featured prominent guest soloists, and made its first commercial recording. Additionally, Orchestra Hall hosted an extraordinary variety of events, several of which are illustrated below (all events in Orchestra Hall unless otherwise noted).
On December 8, 1911, Albert Spalding is soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Sir Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto. Frederick Stock conducts.
Albert Capellani's film Les misérables (parts 1 and 2)—starring Henry Krauss as Jean Valjean and billed as "the greatest motion picture ever made"—is screened from August 21 through October 10, 1913.
Frederick Stock leads the Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra on October 31, 1913. (On February 8 and 9, 1934, the composer returns to Chicago to lead the work as guest conductor.)
On February 5, 1914, the North End Woman's Club presents Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller in a demonstration of the technique used by Sullivan to teach Keller—blind and deaf since she was nineteen months old—how to speak.
William Henry Hackney presents a Colored Composers' Concert featuring music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Harry Burleigh, J. Rosamond Johnson, Will Marion Cook, and R. Nathaniel Dett on June 3, 1914. The Chicago Defender article (from June 6, 1914) describing the concert is here.
The Orchestra gives the U.S. premiere of Gigues from Claude Debussy's Images for Orchestra on November 13, 1914. Frederick Stock conducts.
The Apollo Club of Chicago presents its annual performances of Handel's Messiah at the Auditorium Theatre on December 27 and 28, 1914. Harrison M. Wild leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Edith Lees, author and the openly lesbian wife of Havelock Ellis, gives a lecture on February 4, 1915, advocating for the general acceptance of "deviants" (i.e. homosexuals). Offering Oscar Wilde and Michelangelo as examples of what the "abnormal" could accomplish, this is one of the earliest public calls for the acceptance of gay people.
On March 5, 1915, Frederick Stock leads the Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Alexander Scriabin's Prometheus.
Celebrating the opening of the Orchestra's twenty-fifth season on October 15, 1915, Frederick Stock leads the world premiere of his Festival Prologue, which he had written while in California for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. Stock considered the work "an expression of his esteem not only for that noble band of artists which for a quarter of a century has uplifted and upheld the musical culture of our city, but also for those who have permitted themselves to be thus uplifted and upheld—the music-loving people of Chicago."
On February 4 and 5, 1916, Amy Beach is soloist in her Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor. Frederick Stock conducts.
Percy Grainger is soloist in the world premiere of John Alden Carpenter's Concertino for Piano and Orchestra on March 10, 1916. Frederick Stock conducts.
On December 15, 1916, Frederick Stock leads the Orchestra in the world premiere of Thorwald Otterström's American Negro Suite, incorporating melodies from Slave Songs of the United States—the first and most influential collection of African American music and spirituals, published in 1867.
Bengali poet and the first non-European recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sir Rabindranath Tagore reads from his own works on December 19, 1916.
On May 1, 1916, Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra record for the first time (in an unidentified Chicago location): Mendelssohn's Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Columbia Graphophone Company.
Violinist Maud Powell and pianist Arthur Loesser (half-brother of Broadway composer Frank Loesser) appear in recital on February 18, 1917.
On March 25, 1917, Walter Damrosch leads the New York Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Efrem Zimbalist and Brünnhilde's Immolation from Wagner's Götterdämmerung with Julia Claussen.
A Time for Reflection—A Message of Peace—a companion exhibit curated by the Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with the Pritzker Military Museum & Library—will be on display in Symphony Center's first-floor rotunda from October 2 through November 18, and the content also will be presented on CSO Sounds & Stories and the From the Archives blog.
This article also appears here. For event listings, please visit cso.org/armistice.
This exhibit is presented with the generous support of COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired), Founder and Chair, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, through the Pritzker Military Foundation.
Additional thanks to Shawn Sheehy and Jenna Harmon, along with the Arts Club of Chicago, Newberry Library, Poetry Foundation, and Ravinia Festival Association.


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Exploring the Innovative Side of Medicine: Stephanie Wolff
Stop sign or sumo wrestler? One second-year Northeast Ohio Medical University student's career aspirations ran that quirky gamut before she decided to earn a degree in medicine and practice as a physician.
College of Medicine student Stephanie Wolff's sense of humor comes to the surface when she talks about her (very) early career ideas and the moment when her parents enrolled her in gymnastics, rather than sumo wrestling lessons or…how does one prepare to be a stop sign, anyway?
"Turning the stop lights and signs was my favorite thing to do with my play car set as a child. My sister would say that's the bossy side of me, but my parents and I call it leadership skills! My parents obviously knew those weren't viable career options, so they pushed me to explore other activities and interests," says Wolff.
As it turns out, gymnastics played a part in Wolff's educational journey. Because of the numerous back injuries and hospital visits she endured while competing, she encountered physicians and other health care professionals. Today, she credits those professionals with introducing her to an environment she could see herself being a part of.
Open to new opportunities
This summer, Wolff took a leap of faith (no back injuries involved) and applied for the REDIzone® Future MedTech Entrepreneur Internship, a new program supported by a grant from the Hudson, Ohio-based Burton D. Morgan Foundation.
The internship provides medical, pharmacy, business and law students opportunities to learn from regional experts in medical innovation. It also presented Wolff with an opportunity to research and pitch a protein therapy for neuronal injuries developed by Fayez Safadi, Ph.D., director of NEOMED's Musculoskeletal Research Focus Area and professor of anatomy and neurobiology, to a panel of start-up-savvy judges.
Wolff, alongside interns from NEOMED, Youngstown State University and the University of Akron, learned how products being developed at NEOMED can make it to the market and actually help patients.
Combining medicine and innovation
"Never in a million years will I stop and throw away the schooling that I've had this far, or completely change paths, but Elliot Reed (executive director of the REDIZone®) brought in guests that showed me that I can do both medicine and business. After I can no longer be a doctor anymore, I can teach, I can go into venture capitalism and more — there's so many opportunities out there," says Wolff.
While she does love the innovative aspect of medicine, Wolff will tell you that she prefers to be on the opposite side — on the bench looking at new technologies, rather than doing pitches for investors.
Regardless of the area of innovation, Wolff sees and appreciates the value brought to the field of medicine by new products.
As she puts it: "First and foremost, I want to be a physician, but I also want to see where the future's going so I can better help my patients."


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Most of you know the feeling. You could lose a few pounds and you wish your clothes fit better, but you feel pretty good – still young, still vibrant. And then you see a recent photo.
It's like that. For a native son and life-long southerner (excepting two years in Cleveland, OH), the Distressed Communities Index (DCI) map published Thursday in a report by the Economic Innovation Group (EIG) is profoundly troubling.
Dark reds are the most economically distressed communities; dark green are most prosperous. The ranking scale and methodology are explained on the EIG website, where you can also find the full report.
For those (like me) who missed it when EIG launched last March, it's a DC-based non-profit founded by entrepreneurs including Facebook's first President Sean Parker and investor/philanthropist Ron Conway. The group's stated mission is "to advance solutions that empower entrepreneurs and investors to forge a more dynamic and entrepreneurial economy throughout America."
It's disturbing to see the stark concentration of most distressed communities in the southeast.
Politically, as a progressive independent, I want to blame decades of conservative GOP senators, governors, and legislators blindly following fiscal policies that aren't working. I believe there is some truth to that – certainly to the extent these men and women failed to recognize and act on real issues of poverty. At the same time, I expect the situation could have looked the same a century ago.
Socially, it's impossible (at least for me) to ignore linkages to an agrarian past – an economy fueled by slave labor and the lingering effects of a people freed but not yet free to prosper. Also evident are the ravages of war on a region which lost. Frustratingly, the modern south is still a culture more obsessed with preserving the past than with staring soberly at the present and creating a brighter future.
When I drill down to the counties map for Georgia, another interesting pattern emerges.
The concentrated dark-green counties of metro Atlanta form an oasis of relative prosperity which transitions quickly blood-red as my gaze shifts south and east.
I see contrasting battle lines in exurban communities like my own Newton County, whose economic numbers are moderately good, though not as good as closer-in metro counties. The map suggests the path to prosperity lies west of us, but old-timers here and the politicians they elect are hell-bent on keeping our county from "becoming Atlanta." They're building a firewall north to south along Georgia Highway 36 just like the unsuccessful ones people tried to build in DeKalb, Gwinnett, and Rockdale earlier in my lifetime.
Like many, I find the suburban experiment started in the 50s and accelerated in 70s is failing. I believe cities offer a more sustainable model for communities that work for all. I believe that's why we see new cities like Brookhaven, Dunwoody, and Sandy Springs springing up around Atlanta, and older ones like Decatur, Doraville, Chamblee, and Woodstock revitalizing. But, I don't want to use the map to prove a point, only to suggest the data can lead us to more fruitful discussions.
One map is not the be-all/end-all for discerning what makes a great community. There is much to be said for lower traffic, less congestion, and a quieter way of life. But, economic facts show things are not sustainable as they are now. These aggregate views of counties and zip codes gloss over the reality of people doing well and not so well in every locale. But, we can't continue to ignore the things not working for a large segment of our population. And, when we zoom back from the map, it's glaringly obvious a disproportionate number of those folks are my neighbors.
Back to politics, I can't dismiss the ironic alignment of the Distressed Communities Index map and the electoral map for the President. I appreciate fully why Americans in the southeast would be fed up with how things are and a government they hold responsible. But, the GOP candidates in particular are loath to discuss real poverty and long past declaring ours a post-racial world. For those who would "Make America Great Again," show me the historical map that leads us to those answers.
I'm not suggesting answers are simple or clear – far from it. But, the questions are glaringly obvious, thanks to the data-centered work of groups like EIG. Now, will any of us take the time to examine the facts and ponder together what they tell us? Or, will we just get lost in the yelling and name calling.
Maybe the red on the map is just my embarrassment. I've seen the photo, and it's just not flattering.
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Maurice Carter is President and Founder of Breathe-Water, LLC, where he uses community building, storytelling, consulting, and social media to enable businesses, non-profits, and communities to understand and harness forces for positive change. An Atlanta native living in Covington, GA, Maurice is an active community volunteer, a freelance columnist, and an advocate for causes that build community and promote thoughtful responses to the opportunities and challenges of our day.


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It's a good thing some concerned neighbors checked the abandoned infant car seat they saw on the side of a road in Maryland, because someone had left their baby behind in it. After a social media push to find the 3-month-old's mom or dad, Sandra Clara McClary, 26, came forward as the child's mother.
McClary was arrested on child neglect and reckless endangerment charges for allegedly leaving her 3-month-old daughter in a scuffed infant car seat on the side of the road near midnight on Saturday, along with a diaper bag.
Before she came forward, the Anne Arundel County Police Department shared the infant's picture on social media, asking, "Do you know the parent of this baby?" The post was shared more than 27,000 times before McClary came forward, claiming that she believed her daughter to be with her dad.
When investigators began questioning her, they determined that she was in that neighborhood around that time, and in a statement issued Sunday night, they said she "removed the child from the vehicle and left her on the side of the road."
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Lt. T.J. Smith told the press, "We're most fortunate that the child is not harmed and appears to be in good condition." Thank goodness this little one was found! She's currently in protective services until someone can figure out what's going on with her parents. Obviously, leaving your child on the side of the road is very wrong, but we don't know what this mom was thinking.
Before she was charged, Smith told reporters that it would be "natural" to jump to conclusions, but also stated, "At the same time, we need to make sure that there wasn't any foul play involved, and that this person wasn't a victim of a crime herself. So we don't know the answer to that. We're trying to figure that out."
I can't imagine what must have been going through this woman's head to lead her to abandoning her baby. I hope that this little girl is OK, and has a safe home to grow up in.
Do you think this woman could have had a good reason for abandoning her baby?
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Downtown San Francisco's most exclusive landscape these days is a 5.4-acre rooftop park that captivated visitors as soon as it opened — and has been closed for nearly two months.
"A hummingbird hovered, a robin landed on a steel railing," writes Chronicle reporter Michael Cabanatuan, one of the few members of the public who has been allowed atop the Transbay Transit Center since two cracked girders were found there on Sept. 25. "A patio full of red, yellow, blue and gray chairs and tables beckoned ..."
We won't know the cause of the structural weakness before next month, although the problem most likely involves faulty welding rather than design. As for when the glorified bus station will be back in business, complete with that glorious vegetated terrain, an official with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority told Cabanatuan: "We will open it in phases as soon as they're ready."
For now, this means the plants and trees enjoy a sedate respite from the crowds that showed up in August on opening day and never really tapered off. The amphitheater lawn is lush and green. Japanese maples are changing colors. One downside of popularity, the worn patches on the decomposed granite pathways, have been smoothed out.
In the larger context of this tumultuous and often tragic year, an off-limits park is a minor irritation. That said, anyone who works or lives nearby will be glad when it returns.
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•Lingering scars: As containment efforts continue and the death toll of the Camp Fire continues to rise — 81 as of Tuesday night, with 152,250 acres burned — residents of fire-ravaged Butte County are returning to their land. But even people finding that flames spared their homes aren't sure whether to rebuild or move on. Or as one "lucky" person tells The Chronicle's Trisha Thadani and Megan Cassidy, "It'll take so long for it to come back to what it was: lush and gorgeous."
•A movable feast: The Thanksgiving dinner planned by World Central Kitchen will include such traditional fare as roast turkey with cranberry-orange-mint sauce. But this won't be a typical holiday meal: The organization gets called when the Red Cross needs to provide food for victims of disasters, and in Butte County it expects to serve 15,000 evacuees and first responders with the help of 2,000 volunteers.
•How soon they forget: One week ago, Ryan Zinke visited Butte County and said, "we need to pull together," not point fingers, to prevent future mega-fires. Tuesday, the Interior Secretary placed the blame for the Camp Fire on "radical environmentalists" who "would rather burn down the entire forest than cut a single tree." His view is at odds with wildfire experts, but in line with comments by his boss in the White House.
•Irate Tweet to follow: A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked President Trump's Nov. 9 proclamation turning back asylum-seekers at the border except for those at designated ports of entry. According to U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, the ban "irreconcilably conflicts" with existing laws.
•Police patrol: San Francisco's ongoing efforts to revive Mid-Market district and United Nations Plaza are taking a uniformed turn. Ten additional officers are being assigned to walk beats in the area — perhaps a holiday gesture, but one that families navigating their way from BART to "The Nutcracker" will appreciate.
•Crashed pad: Bad enough that Eric M. Rogers and Anshu Singh turned a Bernal Heights home into an illegal vacation rental and moved to Bali. Then the short-term tenants held a party that "devolved into a massive shootout," according to the City Attorney's office, complete with 18 cars damaged by gunfire. Now the couple has agreed to pay the city $185,000 in damages.
•De-cluttering, corporate style: Call it an early spring cleaning — 81 employees will be laid off by Corte Madera-based Restoration Hardware. Once the fallback of the tasteful hipoisie, the home furnishings retailer has rebranded itself as RH and has added cafes and wine vaults to some of its outposts.
•Tater tots for all!: Another reason not to eat your greens: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants us to steer clear of romaine lettuce until the source of a multi-state outbreak of E. coli can be identified.
•Mixed feelings: Charles Desmarais is of two minds about "Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey," the de Young's new exhibit on the French painter. "The best of the show is reason enough to place it high among your holiday cultural outing priorities," writes our art critic. "As a whole, however, it feels fluffed-up, marred by its inflation with the barely relevant."
•Listening in: As you stockpile podcasts for the long holiday weekend, here's one worth considering: the two-part companion to "Dark Days," Kevin Fagan's oral history of the Jonestown massacre and the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. Not fun listening, but a vivid insight into the twin horrors from 1978 that need to be remembered.
The Kicker
For those of you counting the moments until those 5 a.m. deals at big-name retailers — aka Black Friday — Style contributor Maghan McDowell takes the hype down a peg by asking, "Nostalgia aside, what is appealing about spending a day off in crowded stores?" Rather than succumb to "a relic of an earlier era in which camping out overnight was the proven path toward snagging an X-Box 360," she suggests that you find "an inspiring, enjoyable and authentic experience" — whether it's a cozy one-of-a-kind shop or, heck, hanging out with family and friends.
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Jurist Monique Picard-Weyl returns an "offensive" verdict against the planned US defensive scheme. Its very existence, she argues, would jeopardize the security and independence of the European countries which act as bases, and would spark off a new arms race across the world.
Little has been said about this project: satellite surveillance of enemy territory and activities. Which means a close watch over all the states and nations that want to break free from the domination of the US and from the system it imposes in its path, and mid-course interception - from a base in Europe and more precisely one of the East-European countries - of the enemy's missiles. The Czech government has already given its assent, despite the strong mobilisation of the population against it.
The German Foreign Secretary has issued a warning against the risk that this project might spark a new arms race, and Russia itself has declared its opposition to it. In France however the question has not been seriously broached, even though the question was raised during the presidential campaign, the candidates having in the main said the issue was to be settled at the European level; Ségolène Royal said that she doubted the efficiency and credibility of the scheme: "Would the Europeans be effectively protected by an American umbrella" over which they had no control?
And yet it is a major issue: not only because it would inevitably lead to a new arms race and would once more expose European nations to the threat of renewed dependency on the US, but also because the approach to the general question of disarmament and especially nuclear disarmament would definitely be altered.
It would be extremely naive to believe that a shield is just an ordinary defensive weapon; possession of a shield also encourages aggression because it gives the aggressor every confidence that the shield provides safe protection against the victim's potential retaliation against the proposed strike. And then of course, on at least two occasions (11/09 and the outbreak of the war in Iraq), we have have given proof of US Intelligence's fallibility with respect to surveillance.
As for its capacity to intercept missiles in mid-course, its attempts so far have proved unsuccessful, and where the interception would take place is a matter of grave concern. It could not take place over the country from which it were launched since the missile (possibly carrying a nuclear war-head) would be cruising at full speed, and have left behind that country's space, in less time than it takes to react. And as the inviolable US territory must be protected at all costs, barring the unpredictable possibility that the missile might get lost in the Atlantic, the European countries would be sure to bear the consequences even though they had no say in the operation, especially as the country from which the anti-missile missile was launched would be the first target.
This shows up the deception behind the doctrine of deterrence. And it shows that the only true protection against nuclear weapons in all places and at all times is a total, unconditional ban on them, the legal foundation for this being the criminal character of their use, and so of retaining, and of perfecting them. For the preparation of a crime must be assimilated to the crime itself: this follows from the principles on which international law is based, whether the rules established by the conventions of The Hague or Saint Petersburg and validated by the Nuremberg judgement in international law (notably the ban on indiscriminate bombings on civilian populations, on the use of arms likely to cause unnecessary harm to civilian populations and fighters), or the ban in the United Nations' Charter on using force or merely threatening to use it. As the preamble has it, the guardians of its principles are not the governments (the peoples' representatives), but the peoples themselves, who are "determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind."
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
A New Member of the Club
I sent her links to GITW and Stirrup Queens. Also the links from Julia and Chris's posts.
What else can I do? Something that helped me was messages from LFCA, but I don't think she's got a blog. Suggestions?
How about here? Feel free to leave her messages here. I'll pass them (or the link) to her through JK.
Times like these remind me how lucky I am to have you all. I know I've been whiny and a bad bloggy friend lately, but I really couldn't have made it this far without you.
6 comments:
- jill said...
That is so horrible :( My heart goes out to her.
- June 17, 2010 at 10:56 PM
- Reese said...
Sue, so sorry to hear this. I found MISS quite helpful those first few weeks after Ronan died.
She will have to 'register' to see the boards, but a lot of women are there, round the clock, and there is always someone to talk to...
- June 17, 2010 at 11:17 PM
- Reba said...
oh i'm so sorry for her. :( MISS was my most helpful resource right at the beginning. i also found reading blogs very comforting even though i didn't have one myself yet. and i had my therapist of course.
- June 18, 2010 at 8:22 AM
- Brianna said...
My heart goes out to this family :(
The four biggest things that helped me:
1. Finding and reading blogs written by people who had gone through what I was going through.
2. Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep. I'm not sure if they were offered this service, but I hope they were and accepted.
3. My counselor!
4. My local support group, where once a month I could talk about my kids without people being uncomfortable or not knowing what to say.
Also, suggest http://namesinthesand.blogspot.com/ or similar things so that they can begin acquiring things with their son's name on it.
Also, not sure of the logistics, but www.faithslodge.org, when they are ready.
- June 18, 2010 at 9:35 AM
- loribeth said...
I second the suggestion about a support group, if there's one in her area (the hospital can usually provide some information). Online support was my daily lifeline, but I also loved being able to meet & talk with "real life" parents who had been through the same thing & were dealing with the same issues as us.
P.S. Love the new look!
- June 21, 2010 at 8:55 AM
Thank you all for your suggestions and support. I passed it all along to my friend and hope that she finds the level of comfort and understanding that Sue has. Thank you all for being here, and for sharing your experiences.
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The 2019 Parenting Weekend is currently being planned. More info TBA! Check out last year's weekend below and watch the videos from each session!
Join us for a must-attend weekend for all parents of youth and children! Saturday evening Pastor Matt and Jordan Jinright will be discussing the Vision of Family Ministry at EG First. Dinner will be provided along with childcare. (6-8 pm)
On Sunday morning, all parents of kids and youth are invited to the youth zone to hear Dr. Richard Ross (veteran youth ministry guru and professor of youth ministry at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary). Dr. Ross will be preaching the 10:30 am worship hour followed by hosting a lunch for parents of youth with their youth.
RSVP for Saturday night and/or Sunday lunch by emailing Pastor Matt @firstname.lastname@example.com or calling the church office at 321-254-2339 x. 15
THIS IS A VITAL WEEKEND FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH MINISTRY!! We are praying for all our parents and guardians as we prepare. This could be a life changing weekend.
Watch the videos from amazing 2018 Parenting Weekend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKlcwSFjXmg (morning session)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIEN5kzw7mo&t=1009s (afternoon session)
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Let's make Christmas extra special...
To celebrate the festive season, our team at McCreas challenged Glasgow Warriors to take part in our People Like You Christmas Championships.
Our McCreas team, took on Matt Smith, Oli Kebble and Sam Johnson.
They faced off in three challenges to test their memory, gift-wrapping prowess and cookie decorating skills.
The thing is Christmas is for all of us.
People Like You wrap the presents, decorate the cake, cook the dinner and top the tree with a star.
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It's plump, purple, and its ancestors probably lived among dinosaurs 175 million years ago! It's a new species of frog. Doesn't it sound and look ugly and peculiar? Yes, it has a bloated body with smooth, blackish purple skin. The frog's pointed snout and heavy, strong hind legs help it burrow into sand.
Discovered in India, the amphibian rightfully belongs to an entirely new family of frogs. It's named Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis. These findings are made according to DNA analyses. The species is claimed to have traveled down from Africa to India, as its closest relatives are found to live 1,800 miles away on the islands of Seychelles, near Madagascar. The researchers found genetic markers in the new species suggesting a link between frogs in India and Seychelles.
But, the reply to the question on how did the frog travel down to India from Africa is further more interesting. Not, by hopping, by a vehicle or by drifting across the ocean – but, by continental drift. They speculate that when India broke apart from Africa and crashed into Asia millions of years ago, the frog rode India like a ferry.
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(Reuters) – This humanoid robot could one day be giving you directions.
Hitachi's latest offering EMIEW3 is designed to guide railway passengers to their trains, hospital visitors to the right patient, and even allow office workers to track down just wherever it is that Maureen in accounts sits.
Its developer says the EMIEW3'S light-weight design makes it perfect for the task.
"This robot is 60 centimetres high and weighs only 15 kilograms and has quite a compact body. Added to that, we redcued the data downloads needed for it to operate by making it work with the wifi network."
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If it's knocked over by a customer, it's programmed to be able to get back up on its own feet.
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Human costs of Foreign Relations Violence Paradigm Editing and brief comment by Carolyn Bennett
A pattern of deliberate harm. If these are not war crimes, I don't know what are crimes of war. With an "international community" that is corrupt and otherwise lacking in credibility, who will call war criminals to account? There must be a reckoning under the rule of law. If not, we will continue a descent, this headlong fall into utter lawlessness.
November 19, 2012 In Gaza (Israel 2008-2009; 2012 – and continuously occupied pre- and post-2008) Israeli "Operation Pillar of Defense": more risks for civilians, new weapons cause deformations in newborn babies
The Israeli military operations in Gaza have not only immediate effect but also a long-term effects:
the use of weapons containing phosphorus and uranium, as well as other toxic metals, leave contaminating elements in the ground for many years.
Since 2006 and even more after the operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), these contaminants have triggered an increase in birth defects and late miscarriages.
As experts are studying these phenomena in order to estimate the extent of the problem, the new Israeli military aggression is expected to accelerate and worsen the phenomenon.
The warning comes from the New Weapons Research Group, a committee of independent scientists based in Italy who along with a Gazawi team of professionals are studying the mid and long-term effects of the use of unconventional weapons on the reproductive health of the residents of Gaza and other areas.
University of Genoa geneticist Paola Manduca says: "Civilian casualties are not only those caused immediately by the bombings but also by the contaminants left by the conflict in the ground. These victims, unfortunately, seem even more numerous. We do not know how long those effects will last and whether they will affect only one generation.
"A study published by the group in May showed a "strong correlation between congenital malformations and the parents' exposure to white phosphorus".
This five-month study based on clinical data, reproductive, demographic, environmental and family history of more than four thousand newborns in the major maternity ward in the Gaza strip, Al Shifa Hospital, found:
27 percent of parents of children with major structural congenital defects had been exposed to the attacks, compared to 1.7 percent of parents of healthy children.
"In March 2010, the same group published another report showing that one year after the operation Cast Lead there were traces of toxic metals in the hair of children living in Gaza. The same metals were found in areas surrounding the craters left by bombs launched in the area in 2006 and in 2009."
Manduca said, "'The new military operation, Pillar of Defense, worsens the situation with unpredictable consequences on the long-term reproductive and general health of children. [This attack] has to be considered an aggression on a large scale, directed primarily against the civilian population, above all against the children of today and of tomorrow, which reminds us of the darkest days in the history of the twentieth century.'"
In Iraq (U.S. UK March 20, 2003-officially ended 2011, still occupied) Horrors of war: shocking rise in birth defects in Iraqi children
A report titled "Metal Contamination and the Epidemic of Congenital Birth Defects in Iraqi Cities" documents 56 families in Fallujah, roughly 40 miles west of Baghdad; and examines births in the southern Iraqi city of Basrah.
The study concludes that U.S. and UK ammunition is responsible for high rates of miscarriages, toxic levels of lead and mercury contamination and spiraling numbers of birth defects ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs.
First invaded by U.S. Marines in the spring of 2004 and again 7 months later and where some of the heaviest artillery in the U.S. arsenal was deployed (including phosphorus shells), Fallujah was at the epicenter of these various health risks.
Sources and notes
"Gaza, new weapons cause deformations in newborn babies— More risks for civilians as operation Pillar of Defence expands," New Weapons Committee, Press Release, November 19, 2012, www.newweapons.org
"Horrors of war: U.S., UK munitions 'cause birth defects in Iraq'," October 14, 2012, http://rt.com/news/birth-defects-iraq-report-385/
LEADERS OF THE MIDDLE EAST: Portraits of Authoritarianism (Pierre Tristam-Ask dot com and Wikipedia notes)
"From Pakistan to Northwest Africa, and with a few exceptions along the way (in Lebanon, in Israel), people of the Middle East are ruled by three varieties of leaders, all of them men:
Authoritarian men (in most countries);
Men creeping toward the standard authoritarian model of Middle East rule (Iraq); or
Men with more proclivities for corruption than authority (Pakistan, Afghanistan). And with rare and at times questionable exceptions, none of the leaders enjoy the legitimacy of having been chosen by their people.
Gaza: Government City (from 1994); Head of Municipality: Rafiq Tawfiq al-Makki Gaza Strip: The Gaza Governorate governed by Mohammed Qadoura: one of 16 Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority located in the north central Gaza Strip which is administered by the Palestinian National Authority aside from its border with Israel, airspace and maritime territory. All of its seats were won by Hamas members in the 2006 parliamentary elections. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the district's population was 505,700 in 2006; the governorate consists of one city, three towns and a number of refugee camps.
Palestine: Khaled Mashaal, Plaestinian Political Leader of Hamas Since the assassination of Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi in 2004, Khaled Mashal, also transcribed Khaled Mashaal, Khaled Meshaal and Khalid Mish'al has been the main leader of the Palestinian organization Hamas. In addition, Mashal heads the Syrian branch of the political bureau of Hamas.
Palestine - Palestinian National Authority: Government Semi-presidential (elections not held since 2006) President Mahmoud Abbas; Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Jordan: Government Constitutional monarchy: King Abdullah II; Prime Minister Fayez al- Tarawneh
Syria: Government: Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic: President Bashar al-Assad; Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi
Lebanon: President Michel Suleiman
Iran: Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iraq: Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki Turkey: Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Kuwait: Government: Unitary, hereditary and constitutional monarchy: Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; Prime Minister Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
Pakistan: President Asif Ali Zardari Afghanistan: President Hamid Karzai
Qatar: Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani United Arab Emirates (UAE): Government Federation of seven emirates with one advisory body (Federal National Council): President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan; Vice President and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Saudi Arabia: Absolute monarchy: The government of Saudi Arabia is led by the monarch, King Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, who acceded to the throne in 2005. No political parties or national elections are permitted. Bahrain: Constitutional monarchy: King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa; Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa; Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Yemen: President Ali Abdullah Saleh
Egypt: President Hosni Mubarak (UPDATE: Government Semi-presidential republic: President Mohamed Morsi; Vice President Mahmoud Mekki; Prime Minister Hesham Qandil)
Morocco King Mohammed VI
Libya: Muammar al Qaddafi (UPDATE: Government Provisional parliamentary republic; President Mohamed el-Magariaf; Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib; Prime Minister-designate Mustafa Abushagur)
Tunisia: President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (UPDATE: Government Unitary semi-presidential republic: President Moncef Marzouki; Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali)
Somalia: Government Federal parliamentary republic: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud; Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali
http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/ig/Mideast-leaders-in-Photos/; Middle East, South Central Asia, East Africa, http://en.wikipedia.org/
MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES Background: Middle East (Near East) Countries
The Middle or Near East consists of the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. These lands extend from Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula and Iran, and by some interpretations beyond. Some of the first modern Western geographers and historians who tended to divide the Orient into three regions gave the region the name "Near East."
In their three-region designations: Near East applied to the region nearest Europe, extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf; the Middle East, extending from the Persian Gulf to Southeast Asia; and the Far East, encompassing the regions facing the Pacific Ocean.
The change in usage from "Near" to "Middle" East began evolving before World War II and extended through that war. The British military command in Egypt coined the term
The change in usage from "Near" to "Middle" East began evolving before World War II and extended through that war. The British military command in Egypt coined the term "Middle East" and, so defined, its states or territories included: Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon;Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Jordan;Egypt, The Sudan, Libya; andVarious states of Arabia proper (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, orTrucial Oman [now United Arab Emirates]
Subsequent events have tended, in loose usage, to enlarge the number of lands included in the definition. Among these are:
Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, three North African countries "closely connected in sentiment and foreign policy with the Arab states";
Afghanistan and Pakistan, because geography and geopolitics connect these with affairs of the Middle East;
Greece occasionally is included in the compass of the Middle East because the Middle Eastern (then Near Eastern) question in its modern form first became apparent when the Greeks in1821 rebelled to assert their independence from the Ottoman Empire. Turkey and Greece, together with the predominantly Arabic-speaking lands around the eastern end of the Mediterranean, were also formerly known as the Levant.
Historically the countries along the eastern Mediterranean shores were called the Levant. Common use of the term is associated with Venetian and other trading ventures and the establishment of commerce with cities such as Tyre and Sidon as a result of the Crusades. It was applied to the coastlands of Asia Minor and Syria, sometimes extending from Greece to Egypt. It was also used for Anatolia and as a synonym for the Middle or Near East. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the term "High Levant" referred to the Far East. The name "Levant States" was given to the French mandate of Syria and Lebanon after World War I, and the term is sometimes still used for those two countries, which became independent in 1946. ("Levant" is from the French "lever," "to rise," as in sunrise, meaning the east.)
Use of the term "Middle East" remains unsettled, and some agencies (notably the United States State Department and certain bodies of the United Nations) still employ the term "Near East." Encyclopædia Britannica Deluxe Edition, s.v. "Middle East."
Also in No Land an Island No People Apart by Bennett
Bennett's books are available in New York State independent bookstores: Lift Bridge Bookshop: www.liftbridgebooks.com [Brockport, NY]; Sundance Books: http://www.sundancebooks.com/main.html [Geneseo, NY]; Mood Makers Books: www.moodmakersbooks.com [City of Rochester, NY]; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center: www.enlightenthedog.org/ [Buffalo, NY]; Burlingham Books – 'Your Local Chapter': http://burlinghambooks.com/ [Perry, NY 14530]; The Bookworm: http://www.eabookworm.com/ [East Aurora, NY] • See also: World Pulse: Global Issues through the eyes of Women: http://www.worldpulse.com/ http://www.worldpulse.com/pulsewire http://www.facebook.com/#!/bennetts2ndstudy
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