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Sept 2011
Vol.30 No. 7
A publication of the
International Sculpture Center
On the Cover
This selection of shows has been curated by
magazine editorial staff and includes just a few of the great shows around the world.
Ca' Pesaro
Ctr Int d'Art & du Paysage
Denver Art Museum
Foundation Catier
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Governors Island
Kunsthause Bregenz
Miami Art Museum
Middelheim Museum/GEM
Museum De Paviljoens
National Gallery of Art
Nouveau Musee Ntnl de Monaco
Parco Arte Vivente
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Submarine Wharf
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Ca Pesaro - Venice: Pier Paolo Calzolari
Through October 30, 2011
Perhaps the most inventive and unconventional practitioner of Arte Povera, Calzolari has devoted his career to the ethereal and the evanescent. From early time-based acts involving people and animals through experiments with a dizzying array of materials (from tobacco leaves, margarine, moss, and lead to musk, smoke, ice, and combusted black salt), he has combined transformative process with an ascetic devotion to purity and simplicity to create breathtaking expressions of time and infinity. This show of 25 works dating from 1968 to the present, features sculpture (including the outdoor Struttura ghiacciante in the Grand Canal), performance and dance, installation, and video, all capturing the delicate connections conjoining art, reality, and nature.
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Pier Paolo Calzolari, installation view at Ca' Pesaro
Centre International dArt & du Paysage - Ile de Vassivière, France
Thomas Houseago: Through October 23, 2011
Koo Jeong A: Permanent
Houseago takes a Janus-like approach to sculpture, looking simultaneously to the past and the future. His deconstructed figures strike classical poses, but their shifts between solid mass and hollow planarity betray a steady interchange between the traditional and the postmodern. All about process, these primitive, totemic beings exude urgency and brute physicality, every crude gesture countered by an equally sophisticated reference. Unapologetic and relentless in their art historical evocations, these statues for contemporary times shoulder a difficult psychological role, serving as awkward, unresolved reminders of the past. On Vassivière Island, totemic new creations move out of the gallery and into the woods, finding emotional resonance in a landscape that heightens their animal origins and vulnerability.
Koo Jeong A has spent more than 20 years highlighting the idiosyncrasies of the world around us through visually evocative riddles and playful environments that leave no room for the ordinary. Otro, her new commission at CIAP applies the same probing sense of curiosity to a sculpture/skatepark. Integrated into a meadow, the phosphorescent green ovoid offers an unfolding terrain of discovery that extends beyond recreation.
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Thomas Houseago,
Pile II
Denver Art Museum - Denver: Overthrown: Clay Without Limits
Through September 18, 2011
Working in all scales, from the architecturally expansive to the almost impossibly small, the 25 artists in Overthrown fuse 21st-century technology with traditional modeling and molding techniques. Some push the forms of functional objects, others the limits of fragility; many take risks with material chemistry and maverick kiln techniques, courting failure to find success. Highlights include a number of site-specific works created in response to the museums starchitect Libeskind building, not least among them, Jeanne Quinns 23-foot chandelier and Neil Forrests installation of suspended clay flakes (the largest weighing 300 pounds). Over?throwing our expectations of ceramic art its size and context, its methods and meaningsthese artists demonstrate the continuing vitality of a versatile and timeless material.
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Jeanne Quinn,
You Are the Palace, You Are the Forest
, from "Overthrown."
Fondation Cartier - Paris: Vodun
Through September 25, 2011
Few subjects carry as much mystery and misunderstanding as Vodun, the ancient religious cult and philosophical tradition that originated along the coast of West Africa and spread across the Caribbean and the Amer?icas with the slave trade. Followers of Vodun (possibly meaning messenger of the invisible) believe that the visible world of the living is linked to the invisible world of the spirits, with communication between the two made possible through sacrifice, prayer, possession, and divination. Sculptural objects (bocio) play an essential role in this cosmology, serving as mediators and protectors, but they are also power centers in their own right, capable of effecting change. Constructed of efficacious elements such as twine, bone, shells, and chains and covered with thick layers of clay, palm oil, and medicinal unguents, these uncanny objects exude a force both visual and metaphysical. Some protect crops, others encourage fertility, still others guard against sorcery. But the empowered cadaver draws on the full spectrum of human needs and desires, from the noble to the base, and its secret ingredients distill (more often than not) the deepest and rawest of emotionsjealousy, fear, pain, distrust, and loathing. With more than 100 bocio, this show makes significant strides toward understanding an image-steeped system of belief as rich and multi-layered as the cult of the icon.
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Double-Headed Vodun Sculpture, Benin, from "Vodun."
Fondazione Querini Stampalia - Venice: Marisa Merz
Through September 18, 2011
Artists as diverse as Kiki Smith and Mona Hatoum have found inspiration among the historical furniture, tapestries, musical instruments, and porcelains (not to mention paintings and sculptures) at the Querini Stampalia. Merz, who was in residence in 2006, has used the foundations 16th-century palazzo to create an ambitious new environment for work both old and new, where, as the exhibition title states, It doesnt match yet it flourishes. Placed among relics of the past, her intimate sculptures and works on paper take on new resonance within a timeline that reflects her faith in the duration of the artworkbeyond material creation and the limitations of time and space.
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Marisa Merz,
Governors Island - New York: Mark di Suvero
Through September 25, 2011
A pioneer in the use of steel, di Suvero has helped to shape our notions of modern sculpture. His instantly recognizable compositions balancing industrial salvage and masterful form have punctuated landscapes and urban environments for 50 years now, drawing critical as well as popular acclaim for their free play of movement and emotion. Mark di Suvero at Governors Island, the largest outdoor presentation of his work in New York City since the 1970s, features loans from public and private collections, including a number of sculptures from Storm King.
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Mark di Suvero,
Kunsthaus Bregenz - Bregenz, Austria: Ai Weiwei
Through October 16, 2011
For Ai, architecture is about more than form. His early writings and blogs demonstrate how injustice and disrespect for human rights find physical expression in inhumane buildings and unlivable cities. This show, which focuses on his architectural collaborations, begins with models, plans, photographs, and video documentation of specific projects, then expands into progressively more abstract notions. Conceived with Ais close cooperation before his arrest, the exhibition lays out the social and politic significance of his approach to building. A spectacular new hybrid of architectural model and sculpture, which fills KUBs second floor, offers a different perspective on the ORDOS 100 project (2008), Ais masterplan for a village in Inner Mongolia with houses designed by young architectural practices from around the world. At its best, Ais vision eschews the errors of Modernist social engineering, advocating an architecture of flexible creativity that respects its users and its environment.
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January 2011 demolition of Shanghai studio complex designed by Ai Weiwei/FAKE Design.
Miami Art Museum - Miami: Rivane Neuenschwander
Through October 16, 2011
Merging sculpture, painting, photography, film, installation, and participatory action, Neuenschwander creates visual poetry from ephemeral means. Simple materials create multi-sensory experiences that blur the line between art and life, beauty and metamorphosis. As deeply engaged with Brazilian history and culture as she is with global concerns, Neuenschwander acts as editor, collaborator, social organizer, and commissioning agent, investigating language, movement, and consumption. This survey features two of her most poetic installationsRain Rains, a rain forest presided over by dripping buckets, and I Wish Your Wish, a votive room filled with thousands of ribbons, each one printed with a wish left by a previous viewer. Visitors choose a ribbon and leave a wish in its place, turning private desire into collective responsibility.
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Rivane Neuenschwander,
Rain Rains
Middelheim Museum/GEM - Antwerp/The Hague: Erwin Wurm
Through September 25, 2011/ September 18, 2011
Every time Wurm produces a sculpture from a real objectcars, potatoes, cucumbers, pieces of clothinghe creates something strange and wonderful. Embracing the absurd, his work invites us to consider different possibilities for the ordinary and familiar. Experiments in performance, photography, installation, drawing, video, and text add another dimension, pushing the boundaries of sculpture (particularly in the one-minute sculpture performances) by investigating elements of time, mass, and material form. The works in these connected showsGEM hosts the artists first Dutch retrospective; while Middelheim features monumental works installed outdoors (another first), new work, and participatory performancesturn the world on its head, pointing out the pervasive weirdness that lurks beneath the surface of social norms and unquestioned conventions.
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Erwin Wurm,
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Museum De Paviljoens - Almere, the Netherlands: Suchan Kinoshita
Through September 18, 2011
Kinoshita, whose background is in theater, thinks of the world as performance, complete with actors and audience. In her eyes, there is no one and no thing that lacks the ability to act (in both senses of the word). Fragile objects, often constructed of unconventional materials, take the stage in her installations, accompanied by sound and video. Subtle interplays in her mise-en-scènes allow us to explore the free spaces between sound and silence, near and far, transience and persistence. This theater without boundaries or hierarchies takes the idea of interaction literallyif things can play, so can viewers. In her first retrospective in the Netherlands, she restages her work within transparent walls, manipulating time and space while merging language, objects, and architecture.
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Suchan Kinoshita,
Gordign (Curtain)
National Gallery of Art - Washington, DC: Nam June Paik
Through October 2, 2011
Video artist, performer, composer, and new media sculpture visionary, Paik was one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century, countering doomsday Future Shock premonitions with witty and humanized renderings of technology. More than 40 years ago, he saw the significance (and dangers) of TV and rapid communication and devoted the rest of his career to proving that technology can do more than lull and enslave. A student of commercial and ideological forces, he upended appropriated imagery (and its delivery devices), turning propagandistic pablum into a call for thinking resistance. In the process, he transformed the video image into a tool capable of redefining the parameters of sculpture and installation. This small show stands out for its selection of previously unseen works on paper (including charming scribbles that send up the conventions of TV), and its presentation of One Candle, Candle Projection (1988/2000). Every morning, a candle is lit and a video camera follows its progress, sending flames up the walls and ceiling in a mesmerizing display. In the darkness, Zen-like illusionism almost prevails, but Paik was never one to mystify his operations. All of the bulky, even intrusive, technology stands front and center, its physical mass giving the lie to disembodied fantasy.
Tel: 202.737.4215
Web site - www.nga.gov
Nam June Paik,
Three Eggs
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco / Musée Océanographique de Monaco - Monaco: Oceanomania
Through September 30, 2011
Dions ambitious projecta new curiosity cabinet and an exhibition of ocean-themed work by more than 20 artistsdraws on two diametrically opposed milestones in the history of humanity and the sea. Balancing the cautionary tale of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which dumped 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico and produced an 80-square-mile kill zone, with the Census of Marine Life, a 10-year effort that has identified more than 6,000 new species, he weighs exploitative greed against wonder. Dions large-scale Wunder?kammer gathers a vast taxonomy of the weird and marvelous, demonstrating how fascination can lead to knowledge and respect. The group show, which includes works by Matthew Barney, Katharina Fritsch, Klara Hobza, Allan Sekula, and Rose?marie Trockel, focuses on the ocean as a realm for discovery (both scientific and imaginative), as well as a site of unregulated human industry, a barely understood world endangered by ignorance, neglect, and unfettered consumption.
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Mark Dion,
OCEANOMANIA: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas: From the Expedition to the Aquarium.
Parco Arte Vivente - Turin: Eduardo Kac
Through September 25, 2011
Since the early 1980s, Kac has explored the frontiers separating human, animal, and robot, raising important questions about the cultural and ethical implications of biotechnologies. Teleroboticssystems of remote communication linking software, invented hardware bodies, and live creatures with humansand telepresencethe human, embodied experience of these worksled him to provocative works of bioart that manipulate genetics. Thanks to synthetic green fluorescent protein, GFP Bunny (2000), better known as Alba, became a living chimera, a unique (and controversial) creation. Other projects explore even more radical alterations, creating living plants infused with the artists DNA. Through Kacs practice, which he sees as a challenge to corporate biopolitics, we rediscover ourselves and our responsibilities as components of larger organic systems that include non-humans, transgenic creatures, and our own technology.
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Eduardo Kac,
Transcription Jewels
(from the "Genesis" series).
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - New York: Lee Ufan
September 28, 2011
In the late 1960s, Lee emerged as the theoretical leader of Mono-ha (or School of Things), a Japanese movement that focused on system, structure, and process amid general chaos and disorder. His sculptures dispersed arrangements of stones combined with industrial steel plates, rubber sheets, and glass panesrecast the object as a network of relations based on parity among the viewer, materials, and site, with the artist serving as mediator. Deeply versed in Asian metaphysics and modern philosophy, particularly phen?omenology, he has coupled his artistic practice with a prodigious body of critical writing that attempts to re-position our understanding and experience of the objects, beings, and materials around us. Like his sculptures, these ideas encourage us to encounter bare existence as it is, and not as we conventionally assume it to be.
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Lee Ufan,
Phenomena and Perception B
Submarine Wharf - Rotterdam: Elmgreen & Dragset
Through September 25, 2011
In perhaps their most ambitious undertaking yet, Elmgreen and Drag?set have transformed Rotter?dams former submarine wharf (an industrial cavern rivaling Tate Moderns Turbine Hall) into an apocalyptic vision of urban decay that blurs the line between art and real experience. Like a wormhole between worlds, a long pedestrian tunnel leads from our reality into a surreal underworld of blighted dreams. A Modernist apartment block dominates a streetscape populated by a public toilet, cracked paving and broken street lamps, a parking lot with the carcass of a limo, and flickering neon signs. Teenage mothers, hustlers, security guards, and gangs of kids might request assistance or threaten violence. A ride on the Ferris Wheel offers voyeuristic glimpses into apartments where residents lose themselves in reality TV and Internet chat rooms. Neither passive nor active, viewers assume an ambiguous position in this disquieting, but artificial tableau (which has been likened to the Bronx in the 1980s). Cultural tourists, slumming interlopers, or do-gooder judgesthis uneasy status carries unavoidable moral/ethical questions, implicating all comers in risk-free stories of deprivation.
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Elmgreen & Dragset,
The One & The Many
Yorkshire Sculpture Park - West Bretton, Wakefield, U.K.: Emily Speed
Through September 18, 2011
Speed uses found and throwaway materials like cardboard and tape to explore transient aspects of architecture and the body. She examines buildings, both literally and metaphorically, as physical shelters and as containers for memory, bound with the history of their occupiers. The inevitability of decay plays an important role in her works, which often seem to exist in an in-between state, conflating the half-built and the half-derelict. Her new projects at YSP continue this exploration of precarious habitation. Using furniture that served generations of students in a residence hall now slated for demolition, she constructed hiding spaces that restore fleeting life to vacated spaces. A floating shelter in the form of an adapted coracle and a group of plaster eggs containing tiny fragments of buildings complete this intimate view of fragile protection.
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Emily Speed,
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Keva Planks are the simplest and most complex of building sets. They were identical, precision cut maple planks measuring 1/4″ x 3/4″ x 4 1/2″. Mindware has added a lower priced pine version in the past few years, but we do not carry the pine planks because they do not hold up as well as maple. Pine is more affected by the oil from your hands than is maple and is more likely to be affected by climate (humidity), so the maple planks are the superior choice in terms of quality and durability.
Keva Planks come in sets of 50, 200, 400, 800, and 1000 planks. While we keep the 50 and 200 piece sets in stock, you can special order a larger set. They are not blocks; they are planks (there actually is a difference) and are suitable for everyone in the family (kids, teens, parents, grandparents, the neighbors, you name it). While younger children (5 to 7) might build fairly simple structures, the complexity of the structures increases with age. While the initial investment may seem a bit expensive ($89.99 for a 200 piece set), you will find that they may be the most cost effective building set you will ever purchase.
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Question of the Day: Some teachers say that graphic novels don't count as reading due to the amount of pictures. What do you think of reading graphic novels? Can they have intellectual value?
Personally, I've started to get more into them. I think they count as reading, but you need to read more if them. I can read one in twenty minutes! You also need to actually read the text and select graphic novels with some substance to them!
Let me know what you think in the comments below!! 🙂
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Archive Gallery seeks to champion young emerging artists and designers. Housed in the former Hackney Archive vault, the space is now a new platform for a transitional showcasing of the contemporary arts.
This summer we've got The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Brighton and Edinburgh Universities showing in the space.
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DiscoverOrg founder and CEO Henry Schuck is the winner of Oregon Entrepreneur Network's 2015 Growth Stage Award winner at the 22nd Annual OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards.
Vancouver, Wash. – Oct. 27, 2015 – Oregon Entrepreneurs Network announces DiscoverOrg founder and CEO Henry Schuck as the 2015 Growth Stage Award winner at the 22nd Annual OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards held on Oct. 22, 2015 in Portland, Ore. The Tom Holce Awards not only celebrate the "brightest, boldest and best entrepreneurs," but also highlight their importance to the region's economy.
"[We are] so proud tonight of what we have built @DiscoverOrg and thrilled to be recognized by @oenorg at the #oenawards as the growth stage winner!" tweeted DiscoverOrg CEO Henry Schuck, @HenryLSchuck.
Out of more than 60 nominees, only 19 entrepreneurs were named finalists across six categories: Launch Stage; Development Stage; Growth Stage; Entrepreneurial Achievement; Game Changer; and Wyatt Starnes. In early October 2015, sales lead company, DiscoverOrg, was announced as a finalist in the Growth Stage category, along with Billups and Janrain. OEN's video features interviews with the Growth Stage Award Finalists.
OEN judges reflected: "The company [DiscoverOrg] was chosen because it has shown strong growth; has cultivated a vibrant, engaging collaborative workplace; and offers a winwin service that works."
DiscoverOrg's human verified sales intelligence and sales lead solution resonates with top sales, marketing and staffing professionals across sectors. The company has experienced considerable growth in 2015—hiring more than 60 new employees, acquiring iProfile and expanding to the European Union.
"The secret to being successful is just a lot of hard work. There's no shortcut," says Schuck.
DiscoverOrg is a three time Inc. 500 Company and now recognized as one of the nation's fastest growing companies. Learn more about DiscoverOrg at www.discoverorg.com.
About DiscoverOrg
DiscoverOrg is the leading marketing and sales intelligence tool used by the top technology vendors, staffing companies and consultants targeting IT, Finance and Marketing departments of Fortuneranked, MidMarket, and SMB companies in North America and Europe. Offered in the form of a constantly refreshed database, DiscoverOrg specializes in mapping out the org charts, including verified email addresses, directdial phone numbers, reporting structure, new projects & initiatives, and technology installed base. Each of the decision makers in the DiscoverOrg database are updated and refreshed by the company's team of 100+ inhouse researchers at least once every 90 days, enabling customers to reach the right person at the right company with the right message. For more information, please visit www.discoverorg.com.
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Miley Cyrus joined Alexa Chung on the red carpet yesterday evening for the 30th Annual Night Of Stars presented by The Fashion Group International at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
The singer presented Marc Jacobs with the year's Superstar Award, fittingly wearing a full-length, backless halter dress from the designer's Fall 2013 collection in a majestic colour to covet, I love how the green sparkles catch the light.
I have to say this is the best she's looked in a long time. Deciding not to make the night all about her, she toned down the theatrics, didn't go half-naked, and kept her tongue in her mouth.
Slicking back her cropped locks, she accessorized with Lorraine Schwartz jewels and Saint Laurent sandals, with green eye makeup complementing her gown and making her baby blues pop.
While I have a feeling she toned down for one night only, do you think this look is much improved?
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Ed Swan offers on-site consultations to help landowners learn how to increase species diversity and overall numbers of birds to their property. You don't have to go on a big trip to see beautiful birds and enjoy their behavior. Many factors combine to create attractive habitat for birds. By providing food, water and shelter, one can greatly expand bird activity. Ed Swan presents up-to-date advice based upon over thirty years of watching and attracting birds to his yards.
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Older industrial communities throughout our county and Commonwealth, in particular in the Mon Valley, are struggling to revitalize and reinvent themselves. Part of the job of county commissioner is to try to help these towns succeed. There is absolutely no reason why my colleagues should continue to be an obstacle to the city of Monessen's revitalization efforts.
Earlier this year, the city approached the county about being a partner in an ambitious redevelopment effort called "Monessen Rising". It's a multi-faceted approach that includes development and demolition, residential and business, and a special emphasis on the arts. It is hopefully the start of something new and exciting for a city that – like a lot smaller cities in southwest PA – has seen its population decline and its businesses struggle. While Monessen's challenges are not unique, its proposed solution is.
In order to facilitate its redevelopment efforts the city approached us about transferring ownership of 271 properties in the county's repository of unsold properties. These are properties that are held by the county due to unpaid taxes and have been passed over many times during various tax sales. They have little value to homebuyers or developers. Many have vacant, dilapidated structures on them. They are not currently on the tax rolls, meaning the county – or any other taxing body – earns no tax revenue from them. More often than not, properties like these are purchased by out-of-towners who look for a quick "flip" and have no vested interest in the community. They are, in short, the worst of the worst.
And to put all this in perspective, more than half of the properties described above are in Monessen.
So the city has offered to pay the county $1 for each of these parcels. It's a good deal all the way around.
Most importantly, the agreement would get these properties under control of the community, who through its elected leaders can forge a strategy to deal with them – either one-by-one or collectively. It opens the potential to cluster properties for development, target areas for demolition, revitalize neighborhoods for housing, and set up a real long-term plan to engage the private sector in these efforts.
It has been reported that the county somehow has absorbed thousands of dollars in administrative costs for these properties. That is misleading. This calculation is based in very large part on expenses, like staff, that the county would pay anyway. But the cost of doing nothing is much greater – these properties will sit idle, no one will collect any taxes, and they will remain blight on the community. Getting them to the city is the best (and right now, only) plan to make them productive again and get them back on the tax rolls, which will have much greater long-term financial benefits for the county than trying to recoup some made-up administrative costs.
Further, the county should do this as a simple matter of good government. We should encourage this type of pro-active cooperation with our municipal governments. We should not try to micromanage a community's ambitions or play nanny state to a city's redevelopment.
Plus, we've seen far too often what happens when a city does nothing to change its fate. For its efforts to save itself, Monessen deserves not just our praise, but also our assistance.
I've been warned by one of my skeptical colleagues that the county's action would set a dangerous precedent. Indeed, it would set a precedent, but there is nothing dangerous about it all. It would send a strong message to other communities in the county that we will proudly partner with them in their efforts. Put together a plan, and we will help you. It is municipal cooperation at its finest and something we should be striving for – not running away from.
While it's immensely disappointing for the Mon Valley that my fellow commissioners are blocking Monessen's plans, I remain confident that they will eventually come around. There is too much of a potential reward, and absolutely no risk, in doing so.


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At Skyline Cruises, We're Doing Our Part…
If there is anything that Skyline Cruises values as much as planning wonderful New York City cruises, it would have to be giving back to our community. We at Skyline Cruises believe in doing our part and offering as much support as we can to those amazing organizations that go above and beyond in order to do something special for those in need. There is nothing quite like helping others to achieve their goals and make a difference in the world!
Below you will find a sampling of some of the many local and international organizations and charities that Skyline is proud to have supported over the years, as well as a few words of gratitude for all that we've helped them to accomplish. The work they've done and the progress they've made is a true inspiration and testament to all the good that everyone can work together to create, and we are happy to continue to sponsor them in all of their future endeavors.
- Making Headway
- Winthrop University Hospital
- St. Jude's Research Hospital
- Queens Botanical Garden
- City Parks Foundation
- Rocking the Boat
- Marine Toys for Tots
- A few charities we donate to…
- Long Island Cares
- City Harvest
- Wounded Warrior Project
- The Hole in the Wall Gang
- NYS Hospice and Palliative Care Asso.
- Queens Centers For Progress
- Intrepid Fallen Heroes
- American Red Cross
- Franciscan Friars
- Empire Dragon Boat Team
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- Nassau Suffolk Services for Autism
"Thank you always from the bottom of my heart for your generous and caring support in the past. I certainly don't take it for granted."
– Making Headway
"On behalf of the Empire Dragon Boat Team, we thank you for your donation. Our team is one of 140 women's breast cancer survivor teams worldwide that serves to promote the sport of dragon boating as part of a healthy lifestyle, as well as provide a unique support system for all women fighting cancer."
– Empire Dragon Boat Team
"Thank you so much for Skyline Cruise Lines' generous donation in support of City Parks Foundation. Your gift will help City Parks Foundation to continue creating vibrant, active parks for the people of New York City…"
– City Parks Foundation
"Loyal supporters and friends like you are instrumental in making this Garden flourish and in amplifying QBG's message of environmental stewardship. With your help, we are nurturing a place where city-dwellers can experience the beauty of nature."
– Queens Botanical Garden
"We want to take this opportunity to express our sincere appreciation for your generous donation. Your gift played a large role in the resounding success of our silent auction. Your generosity is essential to the event. On behalf of the people we serve, our Board of Directors, and staff, please accept our heartfelt appreciation."
– Queens Centers For Progress
"On behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and the clients we serve, I would like to thank you for donating. MDA is the world's largest non-governmental sponsor of research seeking the causes of, and effective treatment for, neuromuscular diseases sponsoring some 400-research projects annually."
– Muscular Dystrophy Association
"On behalf of Winthrop-University Hospital and the patients and families we serve, please accept my sincere appreciation for the gift certificate donated by Skyline Princess to our Community Auction benefiting our Annual Gala…!"
– Winthrop-University Hospital
"You were so kind to make a Gift Certificate donation to the New York State Hospice Association for their annual fundraiser. Your support has helped the Hospice community to service hundreds of patients in the metropolitan area."
– NYS Hospice and Palliative Care Association
"Words cannot express our gratitude for your recent gift to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital."
– St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
"Thank you for your latest very generous gift to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. We very much appreciate your continuing to share in our mission to support the men and women of the Armed Forces and their families."
– Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
"Thank you for your gift to City Harvest. We greatly appreciate your support of our work."
– City Harvest
"Your generosity to Wounded Warrior Project – expressed through your recent gift – speaks worlds about your concern for the young men and women who stand on the frontiers of freedom in our world today."
– Wounded Warrior Project
"Thank you for your kind gift. Because of your generous support and that of a wonderful family of friends like you, we served 17,500 children this year. We are tremendously honored to share that success with you."
– The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
"Thank you for your generous donation to Nassau Suffolk Services for Autism at our Annual Bar Night. For over twenty-seven years NSSA has been changing the lives of individuals with autism and their families."
– Nassau Suffolk Services for Autism
"Thank you so very much for your support of our Silent Auction. Through your generosity, the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement will be able to continue serving the poor and needy, the homeless, those living with HIV/AIDS, those in hospitals and prisons, as well as those seeking help in recovering from alcoholism and chemical dependency."
– Franciscan Friars of the Atonement


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September 25, 2019 We, members of international Civic Solidarity Platform, condemn the recent efforts to defame Andrey Rudomakha, coordinator of Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus, and demand that his safety is ensured.
Natasha Estemirova's daughter speaks in support of Oyub Titiev and Memorial
Lana Estemirova, daughter of Natalia, has recorded her videomessage in support of Oyub Titiev, head of Memorial office in Grozny, who was arrested in January.
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Ford began selling the Fiesta subcompact in Canada this summer and, while it's a very fuel-thrifty ride, Ford in North America isn't offering the most fuel-efficient Fiesta in the world. And that's a shame.
For "business reasons," Ford in Canada and the United States can't offer the Fiesta ECOnetic even though in Europe it's been sold as a sporty subcompact with seating for five, loads of electronic features and fuel economy rated at – hold on to your hat here – 3.6 litres/100 kilometres, or 65 miles per U.S. gallon.
The Fiesta ECOnetic is a perfect illustration of the sort of vehicle for sale in Europe that so far cannot break into the North American marketplace.
[...] -- Read rest of the article at the Globe & Mail here.
The emerging trend of driving small autos, electric cars, technical advances, new designs, and other fun stuff.
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A little history about North American small cars
There was a nice article in yesterday's Globe & Mail paper about the (mostly failed) attempt of U.S. automakers to enter the small car market in the early 1960's. [article link] A quote from an auto journalist at the time still rings true today; it's taken a recession and high gasoline prices to start to change buying habits, and only slightly.
"Personally I go along with the thinking that America is basically a big-car country with big-car needs. I feel that unless we have a depression of major size or 60 cents a gallon gasoline, the so-called big cars will still grab off 80 per cent of the market."
-- Tom McCahill, Modern Mechanix (circa 1960)
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Our first step will be to have a strategy session with you to determine your requirements. If you are wanting assistance finding an investment property we will determine your financial and lifestyle goals over the next 5, 10 or 15 years and then devise a strategy on how you can achieve those goals through property, including the importance of having a great team around you. If you are looking for assistance in getting that dream home for your family we will prepare a full brief on your requirements.
Once we have your strategy in place and have prepared a brief for the purchase of your property, there are many steps that go into the actual purchase process.


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What Are The Common Causes of Real Estate Disputes?Sep 25
Disputes involving real estate properties can be complicated and time consuming in nature. For this reason, resolving the issue can often be difficult and expensive. According to the website of Slater Pugh, Ltd. LLP, they involve a wide range of risks and pitfalls that could have an impact on your commercial or personal undertaking. In this article, we shall be focusing on the different causes of real estate disputes.
1) Incomplete Information
When you do not disclose facts about the real estate property, conflicts may arise and you may be even held liable. Non-disclosure of vital information can also cause delays in the purchase of your property.
2) Fraud
Fraud in real estate happens when one of the parties involved in a negotiation makes a false representation and causes injury. An agent who withholds information can be subjected to actual and punitive damages.
3) Boundary Disputes
This usually happens when the boundaries are not clearly registered or determined. So it is important to research property boundaries to determine whether there are potential issues of disagreement.
4) Title Issues and Insurance
When you are buying a property, it is important for the title to be clean to avoid any conflicts and disputes.
5) Breach of contract
Any purchase and sale agreement is a form of contract between the buyer and seller of the property. When the parties involved do not live up to their end of the agreement, they can be held liable for breach of contract. As such, the aggrieved party can pursue damages resulting from the breach of contract.
There is no agency or governing body that regulates the real estate industry. For this reason, it is quite common for disputes or conflicts to arise. For any transaction, it is important to have a clearly drafted contract.


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Scott Englund is a terrorism, counter-terror policy, and international security expert. Currently, he is a Lecturer in Political Science at the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, a Visiting Scholar with the Orfalea Center for Global and international Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Non-Resident Fellow at TRENDS Research and Advisory. Prior to his present academic career, Dr. Englund was a political and counter-terrorism analyst for the Department of Defense and the Federal Bureau of Investigation; in that capacity he provided assessments for the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and other senior US policy makers. Between 2006 and 2009, Dr. Englund was deployed to Iraq four times. Dr. Englund has also served on the professional staff of elected officials at the federal, state and municipal level of government in the US.
He loves being on the water, and is a sailor: from tall-ships to dinghies, racing to relaxing (but mostly relaxing).


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Saphir Hiver-Winter Salt & Snow Stain Remover is specifically developed to eliminate white marks caused when leather comes into contact with salt, water and snow. It can be used on all leathers, including fine leather shoes.
If the area is still affected, consider using Saphir Juvacuir Recolorant or Saphir Renovating Repair Cream to recolor the leather.
If the leather is very worn, consider using Saphir Dubbin Graisse to soften the leather.
- With a horsehair brush, clean any dust or dirt that may have accumulated on your shoes or leather item. If necessary, use Saphir Cleaning Soap or Renomat.
- 2. Shake the Hiver-Winter Bottle.
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Here is a some magic from the KOKE TV 2014 archives!
Paul Thorn stopped by the studios to visit during his Too Blessed To Be Stressed album radio tour in December and performed "Pimps And Preachers" in the KOKE FM Lone Star studios.
"If you only get your information from one source, you'll be ignorant…" Paul Thorn
Sidenote: Eric gave me hell for being on my phone the whole time during this performance, but I swear I was listening. I was just too giddy to look up and I was posting pictures on Twitter. It's what I do.
More Paul stuff from my Music Fest "Operation Stalk PT" coming soon via my Steamboat recaps!


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Lord Karan Bilimoria founded Cobra Beer in 1989. In 2004 Karan was appointed a Commander of the British Empire(CBE) for services to business and entrepreneurship, and in 2006 he was appointed an Independent Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords and created Baron Bilimoria of Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the President of India in 2008 in recognition of his exceptional achievement and holds honorary doctorates from several universities including London Metropolitan, Brunel, Heriot-Watt and West London. In Parliament, Karan is active in a wide range of matters and has been acknowledged as an ambassador for Britain, India and the Parsi Community.
Dr Carol Cooper is a well-known media medic, an award-winning author, and president of the Guild of Health Writers. She writes for The Sun newspaper, is a regular on TV and radio and has recently published her first novel.
Carol teaches medical students at Imperial College, London, and is an Associate of Newnham College, Cambridge. She has three grown-up sons.
Lucy Dimes is Chief Executive Officer of UBM EMEA and was previously Chief Executive Officer of the UK & Ireland at Fujistu having held senior leadership roles at the likes of BT and Alcatel-Lucent. She was recognised at the CBI First Women Awards in 2013 as the winner in the Science & Technology category, and as the Corporate Leader of the Year at the Everywoman in Technology Awards, also in 2013.
Lucy has a First Class Honours Degree in Business, an MBA from London Business School, and is an alumna of the Harvard Business School Global Women Leaders Programme.
Danny is a popular and prolific actor who has appeared in numerous television series as well as on the stage and in films. He started his career at the age of 14 years in Prime Suspect and is a familiar face as Mick Carter in Eastenders. He has three daughters and in 2016 married his partner who he originally met as a teenager.
Dr. Stephen Fear is an English entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist and author with over 40 years international business experience.
Bristol-born Fear first went into business at the age 15 after reading an article in the Financial Times that would affect the way industrial ovens were cleaned. He used a red phone-box on the council estate where he grew up and persuaded an American firm to send him its product for him to sell in the UK.
Four years later, Fear sold his first business for £100,000 and invested the money in property.
He is Chairman and Founder of Fear Group, an international organisation he runs with his son, Leon Fear. Fear Group has interests in multiple markets and sectors ranging from green technology, hotels, residential care and manufacturing, spanning the UK, Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
On 24th July 2013, during a ceremony at Bristol Cathedral, Fear was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of the West of England for his continued services to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship over the past 40 years.
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Monique specializes in regulatory advice and, over the last 20 years, has worked with the FCA, various types of investment firms and asset managers.
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Jorvik Odin Electric Mountain Trike (500W)
An all-terrain adult tricycle with an electric motor for the ultimate expression of freedom.
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An all-terrain adult tricycle with an electric motor for the ultimate expression of freedom.
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Go where no trike has gone before. The Odin Electric Mountain Trike with its fat tyres and front suspension gives you the confidence to conquer mud, sand, or snow with ease.
Pedal without breaking a sweat for up to 31 miles with the help of a powerful 250W motor. Or go faster for longer with the monstrous 500W motor, for the ultimate adrenaline-fuelled experience on private land like farms or estates.
The Odin also boasts a unique rear differential for stability in the corners, and ample storage to transport heavy-duty tools with ease.
Designed with zero compromises, front and rear disk brakes and high-end Tektro brake levers make stopping feel equally effortless. Complete with an LCD display and 5-speed settings so you're always in control.
As this is a non-EAPC regulated tricycle, it can only be ridden on private land. Please refer to https://www.gov.uk/electric-bike-rules on riding guides and instructions. For the road legal version please see our 250W Odin Electric Mountain Trike.
Visit our showroom or get in touch to arrange a no-obligation test ride.
Odin Trike will be delivered 90% assembled. Please see terms & conditions (1.9) for further information.
- Full Mozo aluminium alloy suspension
- Tektro brake levers
- Rear differential
- Rear cargo basket (60x40x25cm)
- Front and rear mudguards
- Fat Kenda Tyres
- 24-inch front wheels and 20-inch rear wheels
- Aluminium alloy frame
- Front and rear disk brakes
- 6-speed Shimano gears
- PAS (pedal assist system) and electric only modes
- LCD Display with 5-speed selection
- 250 or 500 Watt Bafang motor
- 48V 10Ah Samsung Cell Lithium battery
- Maximum speed: 20mph (500W) 15.5mph (250W)
- Maximum range electric only: 22 miles (500W) 20 miles (250W)
- Maximum range pedal assist: 33 miles (500W) 31 miles (250W)
- Charge time: 5 to 7 hours
|F: 24" Wheel R: 20" Wheel
|Length with front wheel turned
|Floor to stepover height
|Width of back wheels
|Floor to seat at lowest point
|Floor to seat at highest point
|Floor to handlebars at lowest point
|Floor to handlebars at highest point
|Floor to top of the headtube
|Bottom of forks to top of headtube (with wheel removed)
|Maximum user weight
|Maximum speed
|15.5 mph
|Maximum range (approx)
|30 miles
Electric tricycles are popular with those who want to get outdoors and cycle but may need a helping hand. Whether it's down to age, injury, fitness, physical limitations, or simply personal preference.
Working the same as their non-electric counterparts with the addition of a battery and electric motor to get you moving.
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Feel the benefits of a healthy body and a happy mind. Electric tricycles cost pennies to recharge and can even replace your car. Saving money on fuel, insurance, road tax, and other expensive running costs.
Power is delivered via a Pedal Assist System. Here's how it works:
Pedal Assist Systems (PAS):
Simply apply pressure to the pedals and the electric motor will kick in and do the hard work for you. Driving the front hub wheel motor. You can adjust the PAS to tackle steep hills with ease, and lower the assistance as your fitness improves. At which point the tricycle works in the same way as a non-electric model.
Walk mode:
Twist throttle walk mode allows you to cruise along at a slow walking pace while seated on the tricycle, all without pedalling. Walk mode is perfect for giving your legs a break on flat, smooth surfaces, but can't be used to carry you up hills.
All our electric tricycles feature removable lithium-ion batteries. Unlike old-style batteries, lithium-ion batteries are low maintenance and should last around 10 years or 2,000 recharge cycles.
We ship worldwide, once the postcode has been added the delivery charges will be calculated.
Postage and packing to mainland UK is FREE (self-assembly tricycles only).
We try to dispatch all our in stock items within 1 working day of the order being placed. Please allow a further 3 to 5 working days for delivery (This may be longer due to bank holidays/busier periods or if the order purchased is on backorder). Delivery times to Worldwide Countries, Europe, Highlands, Channel Islands and the Republic of Ireland will vary. Please Note – we will update you accordingly of any delays.
Buyers outside the UK are reminded that the currency is GBP.
We package all our trikes in recyclable bubble wrap and cardboard cartons to prevent unnecessary waste and to help the environment.
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How-To: Wear Special Stockings11:00 AM
Tatto Tights/Stockings, Printed Socks, Printed Stockings - there are a lot of ways to call it so I would prefer to call them Special Stockings because they are, in many ways, different from the standard white, skin tone and black tights/stockings.
Okay! Let's face it, these special stockings are sometimes hard to wear than the standard stockings. The difference? They have designs and the standard ones usually have no prints or follow a single color all throughout. When you wear these special stockings the same way you pull up the standard ones, well, sometimes you just can't get the designs right in place.
Cases in point:
- The prints/designs are stretched sideways
- The whole stocking looks like it flipped itself to the back
And this post will show you a little trick on how you can wear your stockings properly!
This post is mostly for female readers so guys, just recommend this to your female friends or girlfriend! [or maybe you can use it if you want to wear a printed stocking!] Hihi~
I got my stockings from Kawai Hayari. Vogue Royal Cosplay's sister shop. Check their shop out for ready-to-ship special stockings (or whatever you prefer to call them ^^V)!
Time to get started~
Step 1: Prepare your stocking.
- Remove the packaging and determine which one is supposed to go in front and at the back.
For this, you can either:
Option 1:
- Put your right (or left) arm through the Stocking.
- Collect the stockings on your arm by pulling the stocking. Repeat the same process on the other side [Right or Left, whichever you did first].
- Use your thumb and pointer to collect the stockings into one hand. [And kind of do the same way for the other side of the stocking - multi-tasking]
Whichever option you followed [even your own technique] it should get you to this point:
|Both sides are collected :)
IMPORTANT! Make sure that when you collect the stocking, you do not turn it in some other direction because you might end up putting in front what is supposedly at the back so don't rush this step! Now on to the next step~
Step 3: Put on the stockings on both feet simultaneously.
Step 4: Slowly pull up the stocking. This has to be done simultaneously for both sides.
|Oops! My right stocking is not aligned! Next step please~
Step 5: Create a half-fist (my own term, hehe) and put it inside the stocking where the print/design is not aligned.
Step 6: Carefully open your half-fist inside the stocking while keeping the fingers close together. Slowly move your hand to align the stocking in position.
Step 7: Once you have aligned the design, pull up the stocking up to the end. Repeat Step 6 if the design in some parts is not aligned or looks a bit stretched sideways.
Voila! You have successfully worn your Special Stockings with its design in tact!
This How To is actually my technique into wearing Special Stockings which was taught to me by my aunt. Before, I used to just pull up the stocking haphazardly. I would usually pull the stockings from the outside to align the design and because of that [sometimes] my stocking would run! So, when she taught me this trick, I was able to keep my stockings in tact. I hope this technique helped you too!
Special Stockings are a huge trend nowadays so I thought this would help my fellow ladies out there who are having problems in wearing them.
Thanks for reading! :)
Disclaimer: I used the term "Special Stockings" here as a general term as there are different kinds of stockings nowadays with different names such as Tatto Tights/Stockings, Woven Tights etc. So as not to be specific on what stocking I am referring to, I used a more general term so that the post can transcend the boundaries of what type of stocking the reader has.


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Taliban Terrorist Targets Washington
Baitullah Mehsud is confident about the success of his targeted assassinations. Before the 35-year-old Taliban commander in Pakistan sends out a death squad to murder an individual, rumor has it he sends the intended target a needle and thread to sew his own burial shroud. Those targeted under his command allegedly include a former head of state (Benizir Bhutto), pro-government tribal leaders, and Pakistani police, army, air force, and intelligence agency officials.
Cloistered, elusive and, until recently, unknown to most of the world, Mehsud's photograph on the Rewards for Justice website is just a black silhouette. Up until this week, Mehsud didn't give interviews or allow his picture to be taken. But on Monday, Mehsud switched tactics and telephoned the BBC, the Associated Press, and a local radio station called Dewa and vowed to attack Washington D.C. In doing so, the ambitious terror leader went as public as it gets.
"Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world," Mehsud told an Associated Press reporter over the telephone. He didn't offer details but later told Dewa that the White House was his target.
Mehsud is angry that the U.S. is having equal if not greater success with its targeted assassinations -- in his own backyard. In the tribal region of northern Pakistan where he lives, Mehsud is the reigning warlord -- or at least he is supposed to be. According to Stratfor, a private intelligence forecasting company, "by some accounts, Mehsud [has] amassed an armed following numbering as high as 20,000 or even 30,000, and has dozens if not hundreds of trained suicide bombers at his disposal."
His deadly power became evident on Monday, when a suicide squad attacked the police academy in Lahore, killing at least 12 people including seven policemen. After an eight hour standoff, Pakistani commandos stormed the compound. Mehsud's terror operatives then blew themselves up. Of the attack, Mehsud told the BBC: "We wholeheartedly take responsibility for this attack and will carry out more such attacks in future." He called it "revenge for the [U.S.] drone attacks in Pakistan."
The Predator drone has taken out dozens of al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan's tribal areas. At least two Predator strikes targeted a safe house in Mehsud's hometown of Makeen, where he was believed to be hiding out in the third week of March (see Bill Roggio's reporting in the Long War Journal).


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Archive for January, 2011
Weekly Overview January 31, 2011
Hello Everyone. We have a busy, fun week planned.
Several notes:
1) Your child has a Black History Month schedule of events with them today. Please look over and please join the activities as you can. Please note that the Black History Gallery Walk will be held on February 25th. Your child will complete a project for the walk. Your child should be thinking about an influential African-American that they are interested in writing a report about. We will discuss more this week and your child should have someone in mind by next Monday. Thanks. More information will come. The projects will be due no later than February 22-that is a Monday.
2) ISAT's will start on February 28-Monday. This whole month we will continue to practice math, language arts and science materials that they should know. A lot of this material comes naturally through our programs, but I will also be working in the ISAT material that we have. I hope everyone has been working in their books at home. Thank you for all the letters from you that have told me where you are in each book.
I am asking you to have your children bring in their ISAT books tomorrow. I would like to go over some of the material and regroup. I know I have different students working in the book differently-I just want to touch base and we might do things differently this month. Thanks.
3)Thanks for all the wood and recycled material that continues to come in!!! We will start our sculptures this Thursday with our preschoolers!!!
4) Chinese New Year!!! Your children will have a special treat this week during lunch!! Our art will also focus around Lunar New Year!
Language Arts: As stated above, we will be reading and responding to content of material, then correcting our own work for the next four weeks. We will still read from our Journeys stories and review concepts and vocabulary and target words. We are on lesson 15 this week. Your child will have their focus wall sheet to share with you later this week, but homework will not come from this. Again, please have your children bring in their ISAT book tomorrow.
Homework: Your child has a Language Arts Glossary Book and some worksheets that they will be working on all week. We have reviewed and completed the first "word box" together. Ask your children what they should do. The instructions are on the worksheet your child has. They should work each night and return with the language arts homework each day. Thanks. All these vocabulary words should be becoming very familiar -please review with your child. Thanks. The completed book is due Friday-your child knows that extra pages can be added if they need more. Thanks for your help-they all seem excited about this homework!!
Math: We will have division fact tests all month!!! Practice at home. Also, we will complete lessons 6.3-6.6 this week. I hope you reviewed the Unit 6 parent letter that your child had last week. Thanks. Lots of division practice this week!!! Can your child show you Partial-Quotients???? Ask them!!
Science: We will continue in our Magnetism and Electricity Unit this week, working with a battery and light bulb!!! They will have a blast along with a lot of learning!!!!
Art: We will focus on a Chinese New Year theme in creating our art this week.
Social Studies: Our last lesson in Chapter 3 will focus around the Northeast. We will start Chapter 4, Exploring the Northeast, by Thursday.
Thanks for the snacks coming in!!!!
Weekly Overview January 24, 2011
Just a reminder that the end of the quarter is this week. The last day your child can take an AR test is this Wednesday-All grades will be in this week (although if you check impact, most of the grades are already in.) Report cards go out next week.
Also, we are going to create a wood/recycled sculpture with our preschool buddies. Hopefully your child came home on Friday talking about collecting wood and recyclable items to bring into school!!!
We had a very busy and fun week last week, but didn't get to everything I thought we would!!! Hope you stop by the room and see the beautiful Chinese brush paintings!!! Your children had TWO! wonderful lessons in the art of brush strokes-it was wonderful-thanks to Lu!!(Adrian's mom and the artist that she brought!!)
We also did not get as much covered in Social Studies, but we will keep working on Chapter3 this week-moving on to Chapter 4 by the end of the week.
Language Arts: We will start Lesson 14 today-the Focus Wall sheet will come home tonight-please review with your child. Ask your child about the "Ant" story.
Homework: Language Arts/Social Studies: Due Thursday. Students are to write a business plan- Their task is to decide a product that they want to sell and why people would want to buy that product. Students should begin their paragraph with a topic sentence that states the main idea. The other sentences in the paragraph should give more information about the main idea. Students should start this tonight, bring in their rough draft tomorrow or Wednesday so we can read them together. The final draft is due Thursday. They should also illustrate their product. We will discuss in class and give some ideas for a product. I will type out a sheet for them to start this project and they will have this with them today. Thanks.
Math: We will review Unit 5 today and the test will be given tomorrow. They should have their Math Journal 1 with them today. The book should be returned tomorrow!!! Thanks.
Look for the Parent Letter for Unit 6 on Wednesday. We will complete lessons 1 and 2 on Wednesday and Thursday, with homework each night, due the next day. No math homework Tuesday.
Science: We have started our unit on Electricity and Magnetism!!! Hope you have heard!! What vocabulary can they tell you about? (north and south poles, repel, attract,property, iron, (ceramic ferrite-what is that???), force, and of course, magnet and magnetism. Can they tell you what they have learned?
No school this Friday-it is a Staff Development Day.
Thanks for the snacks coming in, but we could still use more from everyone!!! Thanks, your children do enjoy the morning snack!!
Weekly Overview January 18, 2011
So sorry about last weeks blog. I don't know what happened…..it disappeared!!!
Many thanks to all the parents who walk with us last week on the field trip!!! Thank you!!! Tomorrow, Adrian's mom, Lu, will follow up with an art project related to what we saw.
We need snacks!!!! Many, many thanks. If your family has not brought a snack in, please contribute!!! Thanks.
Language Arts: We are on to lesson 13. A great non-fiction story. Ask your child about it. They will have their book with them tomorrow to read at home. They have their Focus Wall sheet with them tonight. Please review with them. Thanks. What book is your child reading for AR? They should be reading at least 30 minutes each night! We have students in MANY of our AR Point Clubs!!!! What club is your child in???
Homework: One paragraph due tomorrow using at least 5 of the target words. An illustration and/or using more than 5 words in extra credit. They will have an extended-response question to answer the next 2 nights (Wednesday and Thursday evenings.) These extended-response questions should be answered in about 30 minutes-each night and returned the next day. We will share responses with the class.
Math: Lessons 5.9 through 5.11 will be completed. We will review the unit on Friday and Monday and have Unit 5 Testing on Tuesday of next week. We are introducing exponential notation for powers of 10, working with large numbers and looking at Data and Graphs.
Homework: Tuesday through Thursday. Look for Math Journal One on next Monday.
Science: We have started a new and very fun unit Magnetism and Electricity. Please ask your child what they learned today and what they wrote about in their Science Journal!!!
Social Studies: We will complete Chapter 3 this week, your child will have their book with them Wednesday evening and we will have an open book test on Friday. I will go over with everyone what the questions will be and we will review Wednesday and Thursday.
Art: On Friday we will have an extension of the positive shape, negative space art we created last week. They will be displayed outside our classroom-please come and enjoy!!!
Weekly Overview January 10, 2011
Homework: Your child will have a worksheet each night this week (double sided) to complete and return the next day. Homework Monday through Thursday.
Weekly Overview January 3, 2011
Happy New Year!!!! I am glad to be back and we are having a really good first day-
Please Note: Your child has a field trip form-the trip is a walking trip to the Smart Museum of Art. We will walk there next Thursday- January 13, 2011. Please sign the permission slip, indicate if you can walk with us and return the slip tomorrow-this trip is free!!! Thanks to Adrian's mom for arranging this!!!
Language Arts: We have started Lesson 11. We have read the story – Please ask your child about it. Your child has the new Focus Wall sheet and we have read and reviewed all Target Vocabulary. Ask your child about these words and review the whole sheet with them. The story has a great science connection with us – our owl pellets!!!
We have reviewed Reading-Extended Responses today and what a "4" means. (Basically an "A") Ask your child about this and what 4 criteria made up a score of 4. Your child has a rubric on this that you should have seen. We will be discussing and writing extended responses to our reading over the next 2 months.
We will also be having several classroom Spelling Bees over the next two weeks-has your child been practicing the words? They do not have to participate-it is optional. They each have a copy of the words to practice-and had these words over break-hopefully you saw them!!!
Homework: The story we are reading is a non-fiction story. I would like your child to write a response to the question: What clues does the author give to suggest Twig is a caring person? They should pull information from the story and then respond with a self-connection. They each will have another copy of the extended-response sheet and will have their book with them tonight. This paragraph is due on Wednesday, but I would like to see evidence of editing. They can make corrections and/or write over on another piece of paper. We will go over some of the responses on Wednesday. As always, the book needs to be returned every day!! Thanks.
On Wednesday, they will be given another question to answer that will be due on Friday.
Math: We started Unit 5 this morning. The Unit is all about Big Numbers, Estimation and Computation. This week we will cover extended multiplication facts, estimating sums and products. Please review these math vocabulary words with them. Lessons 5.1 through 5.4 will be completed.
Homework: Monday through Thursday, Lessons 5.1 through 5.4. Your child should also have the Unit 5 Parent Letter with them today. Please use as a reference. Thanks.
Social Studies: We will first review Chapter 2 – We The People, then move on to Chapter 3 – Regions Around You. Your child will have their Social Studies book with them tomorrow to browse Chapter 3 with you. This book has a lot of good information and is great vocabulary builder.
Science: I will review some quick ISAT practice lessons all week with the class. We will read and complete these lessons in class.
Art: A lesson titled "Paper Cutouts" focuses on positive shape and negative space.