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Lesson Objective
Students will learn how an artist can use personal images, symbols and contemporary references to address both universal and specific social and political issues in a pluralistic society, and put that learning into practice by creating a work of art themselves.
Artists Teach Us to See the World Through Visual Symbols
Time Alloted
4 Class SessionsState Content Standards
History/Social Science
10.11 Analyze the integration of countries into the world economy and the information, technological and communications revolutions.
Visual Arts
1.1 Identify and use the principles of design to discuss, analyze and write about visual aspects in the environment and in works of art, including their own.
2.6 Create two- or three-dimensional artwork that addresses a social issue.
4.1 Articulate how people's personal beliefs, cultural traditions, and current social, economic, and political contexts influence the way they interpret the meaning or message in an artwork.
4.5 Employ the conventions of art criticism in writing and speaking about artworks.
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Writing prompts, paper
About Joseph Fitzpatrick Was Our Teacher
Reproductions of the focus artwork for each student if possible
Paper for written responses
Student Reflection Worksheet
11" x 17" sheets of black construction or drawing paper
Smaller sheets or scraps of white, and other bright colored papers
Glue sticks
Magazines, newspapers, etc. for images and text
Pastels – White, red, yellow, blue (limit the palette)
Target Skills
- Vocabulary development in the visual arts
- Observation and recognition of artistic elements, principles and content in a specific artwork
- Comprehension and interpretation of visual details and symbols in a specific artwork
- Collaborative learning through participation in group inquiry and discussion
- Ability to express an important idea through an effective composition
- Effective use of media to communicate an important idea
- Ability to develop a student commentary that reflects thoughtfully on the process of developing an important idea through visual media
Lesson Procedure: (Sequence times are only approximate)
1. Students will be divided into small groups of 4-5 members.
2. Each student will first look carefully and silently at a reproduction of this work of art, for approximately 10 minutes. (Hide the title from the students at this time.) During this time, each student will record his/her observations and responses to specific questions on a worksheet or from an overhead transparency prepared by the teacher:
Prompt: How did the artist use the following art elements in this work of art? Be specific in describing where in the artwork you see these elements.
* How did the artist use line? What kinds of lines can you identify?
* How did the artist use shapes?
* How did the artist use color?
* How do you react to the artist's use of a black background for this artwork?
* Are there examples of pattern or repetition used in line, color or shape in this artwork?
* How does the artist create a sense of "unity" despite the use of numerous images and colors throughout the composition?
3. Students will discuss these observations within their small groups. One member of the group will serve as a recorder and write out as well as report out the group's collective responses. (20 -25 minutes)
4. The teacher will prepare a second worksheet or overhead transparency for the following discussion Prompts : The teacher will facilitate a student-centered discussion with these questions and chart the responses so that all ideas are in front of the class. The teacher will keep this list of responses for student reference.
* Where does your eye go first in this work of art? Does everyone come to the same conclusion? Is there one correct response?
* Name all of the images that you recognize in this work of art?
* What do you think the artist is communicating to the viewer?
* Can you identify any clues to place this work in its time or place? Identify these clues and give your reasons.
* (Share the title of the artwork with the students) What do you think this title might mean?
* What do you want or need to know more about to appreciate or understand this artwork?
Have students conclude this session by writing out their personal responses to this work on a journal sheet, and keeping it for future reference. (20 minutes for discussion and writing)
5. Students will begin their second session focused on this work by reading Information about the Artist and Artwork (either the entire commentary or a jigsaw divided between table groups). They should also have a reproduction of the artwork available to them while they are reading. As the students complete their reading, the teacher will facilitate a discovery session, matching what students learned from reading about the artist and artwork that addresses some of the questions they raised earlier. (15 minutes)
6. The teacher will facilitate a discussion on the issues that the artist raises in this work. Use the following Prompt : In what ways do you think the artist addresses social, political, economic and other significant issues? In what ways does he address our pluralistic society (world view)? (20 minutes)
7. The teacher will then ask each small group to select a significant issue of global concern that can be addressed through art. Using a Worksheet with lines for written ideas and blank space for images and symbols, students will brainstorm both group and personal responses to arrive a focus issue and ideas for communicating the issue through an effective composition. (15 minutes)
8. This Computer Lab Learning—Extension activity for students step is integrated into the lesson, not an add-on. The objectives and skills addressed are consistent with the overall lesson plan objectives. The description is included in this step. (It can be done as an in-class lab activity or homework assignment)
After students have identified as a group what important issue they want to explore, they should research that issue through the internet. They need to identify three significant facts about their issue that can be communicated through symbols or some form of visual expression. This will help to focus their artwork and their prior brainstorming. The students may return to their brainstorming worksheet to refine their ideas. (30 minutes, if done in class)
9. The teacher will show students the available materials for creating their collage artwork along with instructions for use of materials as needed. Students will be given time to go through magazines or other sources to find images that can be cut out or appropriated/reinterpreted from these sources. Remind students that they are limited to four colors of pastels. Have them notice how effectively these four colors are used in the magazines they are viewing.
10. Students should be given at least one class session to work on their compositions. Students should develop a title for their artworks.
11. Students should use a Student Reflection Worksheet to review and critique their artwork and process with the following sample questions as Prompts : What idea did I want to convey through this artwork? What I did first …. What I did next … How did I know that I had completed the work? Is this an effective composition? What might I do differently the next time?
12. After completing their artwork, and cleaning their workspaces, students will leave their artworks with the teacher.
Assessment :
13. At the beginning of the final session , the teacher will distribute the artworks to other students so that each student has an artwork created by someone else. Each student will critique the artwork of another student for the class group using the following questions as discussion Prompts : The strongest part of this composition is… I wish I knew more about …. I think this work addresses … Following the critique, the teacher will return the artworks to appropriate students.
14. As a final reflection, students will respond to these writing Prompts on a journal sheet:
By creating a work of art on a significant issue, I learned … By critiquing a work created by someone else, on a significant issue, I learned … By studying Raymond Saunders' work, I learned ….
Additional Tips:
In order to keep students focused on the purpose of their computer search for background on their "significant issues," it might be helpful to have a list of teacher-previewed web sites available for their reference.
The purpose of a classroom critique is to reinforce respect for the works of others, and there should be a "safe" environment for these artworks to be presented and for these comments to be made among peers.
Aboout the Artist
Raymond Saunders was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania in 1934. He developed an early interest in art. By the time he was a teenager he had won awards and other recognition for his talent. In particular, one teacher, Joseph Fitzpatrick inspired him. After attending college and majoring in art he moved to Oakland to study art further. Saunders has lived in Oakland since the 1960s. In 1969, he joined the faculty of California State University, Hayward , and since the late 1980s he has been a faculty member at CCA. He has taught art to college students for several decades.
Saunders loves to travel and has drawn influences from such diverse places as Mexico and China . A sense of place , especially sense of urban settings, figures prominently in his work. He also draws upon personal experience and contemporary as well as past events like to present fascinating visual ironies through visual juxtapositions. For example images evocative may be contested with more genial images evokes mass consumerism, popular culture and global politics. Saunders' works though provocative probe contemporary culture and the ideas and response to it.
Saunders is best known for his large-scale mixed-media compositions. His generation reacted against the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, but Saunders did not abandon its qualities entirely. Instead, he draws on its emotionalism and active painting gesture. Since the 1970s, he has gained increasingly more recognition for works in which he incorporates bold swaths of color, delicate fine drawings, geometric symbols, hand-lettering and images torn from newspapers, advertising, and children's drawings, all set against a black background. Art critic David Bonetti writes: Saunders is essentially a visual diarist, and his canvases ... bear the traces of his thoughts as they come to his mind and vision.
Although Saunders draws on personal experiences and observations, his meanings are often open-ended. "I try not to explain how I work" and "I can't tell you why I put these things together the way I do." Many works remain in progress for many years allowing the artist to further flesh out his intentions. According to Saunders, "There is no such thing as a finished canvas. Alteration is the rule rather than the exception."
Saunders constantly looks and listens to nature for ideas as well as materials. Found objects are often integral to his process and are often accumulated and used in a work to emphasize artistic process. He seeks to improvise the improvisational qualities of jazz. Many of his most significant heroes are musicians whom he regularly incorporates into his works through visual symbols of his own invention.
About the Global View in Saunders' Art:
Although Saunders is African-American, he finds his voice as an artist by drawing upon a plurality of experience and cultural references diverse sources ranging from Chinese banners to Japanese cereal boxes, to French newspaper articles. Politics and social are present, but are encoded in his works, although intended his meaning may be elusive.
Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison "reconstitutes reality for us and with us… We look at his pictures and (suddenly or slowly) being to imagine our own humanity – a kind of trembling tenderness touched with menace, exhilaration, relief and the outrageous bounty at our disposal."
Aboout the Artwork
About Joseph Fitzpatrick Was Our TeacherSaunders is known for inventing and borrowing images, ready-made as well as for working with found objects. Over 20 years ago, he began working on what has come to be called the black paintings . In addition to applying bold splashes of color and collaged pieces to the painted surface, he also incorporates delicate still-life drawings and chalk-like messages evoking urban graffiti.
Joseph Fitzpatrick Was Our Teacher , like many of Saunders' works, is autobiographical. It pays homage to the high school art teacher with whom both Saunders and Andy Warhol studied (at different times) when they attended the Carnegie Institute. Saunders acknowledges some of Warhol's iconic artworks by using images of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Coca-Cola Bottles, etc. The slogan "Bring the Troops Home" and the color photograph of the bombing of Baghdad address the Persian Gulf War of 1991, but may also speak to the divided opinions of the Vietnam War to as well The photograph captioned Tiananmen , surrounded by the Chinese characters (presented upside down), also addresses then recent events and other cultural experiences.
Symbols often used by Saunders -- hearts, x' s, crosses, marbles, the name Marie (his mother), the word Harlem, the number 8-- as well as his heroes (Charlie) Bird (Parker), (Martin Luther) King (Jr.) and Malcolm X also appear. Many images are torn from the pages of childhood experience: drawings by children, activity pages and, advertisements for games. The words PAX and Peace next to the finely drawn still life, contrast with the Persian Gulf and Tiananmen Square references, and reveal Saunders' wish to resume more beautiful drawing when the world becomes a calmer place. This complex assortment of symbols and vignettes is unified by being "mounted" like posters on a blackboard. For Saunders, the references to school, teaching and teachers, and the honoring of Joseph Fitzpatrick, manifests the artist's vision of the individual potential in us all.
Bonetti, David. "Saunders Brings the Truth Home." San Francisco Examiner, May 17, 1991.
California Consultancy for Arts Education, Inc. Print Portfolio. Lesson Plan Packet for Raymond Saunders' Joseph Fitzpatrick Was Our Teacher.
Hamlin, Jesse. "Artist Finds Music in Cast-Off Objects," San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 1994.
Powell, Richard J. "The Art of Raymond Saunders: Colored," Exhibition Essay. San Francisco: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 1993.
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Then read further at the rules of them applied for the so-called start up. 3 years in operation. Can a 3 year old company be called a start up? If I can manage my business for 3 years, it probably cant be in the start up stage, otherwise it means the company is doomed. And the time when a start up needed fund must be right at the start of the venture, the bank want to wait 3 years to see if u survive and then come in as a white knight?
By then, you probably have taken some black market fund if u needed money, or u have done so well to survive the 3 years and ignore the bank's offer. Afterall, after 3 years, I would qualify myself to other sources.
These are some weird rules that I always observed in Thai banks. Companies with good track record and profits would be the least to need your facilities. The bank should be less conservative and look at the business feasibility of the company instead for financing.
I once had a trade deal that everything was tied up and it generate some good profit. I need a turn round facility, after I presented my business plan, documentation to the deals and even a confirmation from customer with a trade L/C, the banks here turned me down because my company was less than 3 years old. At the end, I had to turn the deal to a bank outside Thailand and the bank said it was a easy task for them.
Today I had managed the recurrent deals for more than 2 years and the bank is pleased that they facilitated me earlier. At my stage, the Thai banks came knocking on my doors to offer me facilities and I politely told them, when I need you most, you turn me away; today i dont need you anymore because I found the right bank for myself.
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What I find baffling is that if you have any foreign directors, you can't get a loan or a company credit card. So no bridging finance, borrowing money against you receivables or paying for anything on line.
Oh wait, what I really find baffling is how our administrator can deposit a cheque made out to me into the company account.
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Missouri Supreme Court denies survivor benefits to fallen trooper's partner
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled against a Highway Patrol trooper's same-sex partner who sought survivor benefits.
Patrol Cpl. Dennis Engelhard died in December 2009 when he was struck by a vehicle while investigating an accident on Interstate 44 in Eureka.
Missouri law entitles surviving spouses of Highway Patrol officers killed in the line of duty to an annuity. Engelhard's partner, Kelly Glossip, did not receive the benefit.
In a 5-2 ruling Tuesday, the Supreme Court said Glossip was denied benefits because he and Engelhard were not married - not because of his sexual orientation.
The court noted that Glossip had not challenged Missouri's prohibition of same-sex marriage.
Bakery tax dispute heads to Missouri high court
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court this week is considering taxes for baking doughnuts and cookies.
Ameren Missouri sought a tax refund on behalf of Schnuck Markets Inc. for energy used by the grocery store's bakeries. The company points to a tax exemption for energy used in manufacturing, processing, compounding, mining or producing, and a Department of Revenue regulation with examples of what is considered "processing" that deals with bakeries.
However, the state is not buying what they're cooking. The deputy solicitor says the tax exemption is aimed at producing products in industrial plants and facilities.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled in a March 2012 decision a convenience store could not claim a tax exemption for energy used to prepare food. The court concluded food preparation for retail consumption is not "processing."
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri Supreme Court again is considering a court challenge to a law permitting students to transfer from unaccredited school districts to other districts nearby.
The court upheld the law earlier in a case from the St. Louis area. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court's focus turned to Kansas City, which has been unaccredited since 2012.
Taxpayers from five surrounding districts filed suit and contend the transfer law is an unfunded mandate violating the Missouri Constitution.
A Jackson County judge ruled in favor of the Independence, Lee's Summit and North Kansas City plaintiffs but rejected the argument for Blue Springs and Raytown. The state and some plaintiffs appealed.
Transfers from Kansas City schools have been on hold, but student transfers have caused acrimony in the St. Louis area.
Missouri Supreme Court sides with governor on budget battle
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Gov. Jay Nixon in a budget battle with State Auditor Tom Schweich.
The court ruled Tuesday that Schweich did not have legal standing to challenge about $170 million of spending cuts announced by Nixon in June 2011.
The cuts to education and other services were based partly on the expectation that Missouri would incur millions of dollars of unbudgeted costs from a deadly tornado that hit Joplin a month earlier. As it turns out, the Joplin costs came in lower than expected.
The Supreme Court said Schweich's challenge to the governor's budget-cutting authority amounted to a pre-audit of state spending. The court says the auditor does not have such powers.
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St. Louis juvenile judge to be honored in Washington, DC
A St. Louis judge will be honored by the U.S. Supreme Court for his work in juvenile justice. Judge Jimmie Edwards will be the 2013 recipient of the William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence. Chief Justice John Roberts will present the award in Washington on November 21st.
Judge Edward has been the driving force behind the Innovative Concept Academy. The five year old school is credited with turning troubled youths into academic successes and productive members of the community.
Edwards has been on the St. Louis Circuit Court bench since 1992, serving as Chief Juvenile Court Judge for five years.
St. Louis Archdiocese issues statement on DOMA ruling
The Supreme Court invalidated parts of the Defense of Marriage Act, but the Archdiocese of St. Louis is standing firm on its opposition of gay marriage.
The Archdiocese says in a statement that "marriage predates both the U.S. government and Western civilization". The statement also states the ruling does not change the Archdiocese "responsiblity to defend marriage as being between one man and one woman".
Wednesday's ruling allows same-sex couples to receive the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples.
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The Supreme Court's decision to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and to dismiss the California Proposition 8 appeal does not change the reality of marriage, nor does it change the Archdiocese of St. Louis's responsibility to defend marriage as being between one man and one woman. It is important to note that marriage predates both the U.S. government and Western civilization.
From a Catholic perspective, it is not enough to offer the Church's position on same-sex union without also saying how it fits into a broader understanding of the sacrament of marriage, human sexuality, and the Gospel of Life as taught by Blessed John Paul II. The vocation to serve God and society through married life is a sacred union in which man and woman become one flesh. The Catholic Church does not condemn individuals for having same-sex attraction. She teaches that all people are called to responsibility regarding sexuality. The sexual union of a man and woman, when not obstructed by contraceptives, is the kind that is open to life even if new life is not the result.
We understand that married persons imitate the way Christ offers His body completely and permanently to the Church so that we might have life, and have it abundantly. This truth is written into our bodies as well as on the pages of the Old and New Testaments. While the law can allow other things to be called marriage, it cannot make them into the kind of union that is marriage.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for more time to decide whether to appeal a lower court's order saying citizens should be allowed to publicly carry concealed guns.
Madigan already got one extension - until June 24 - to challenge the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that said a ban on concealed firearms is unconstitutional. Now she wants until July 24.
The request was filed late Friday, but The Associated Press obtained a copy Monday before it was posted electronically.
The appellate court ordered the ban be lifted by July 9. Lawmakers complied by sending Gov. Pat Quinn a plan on permitting concealed carry.
A spokeswoman says one reason Madigan's seeking another delay is because of uncertainty over Quinn's plans for the measure.
Missouri man at center of Supreme Court DUI case
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has ruled that police must usually try to obtain a search warrant from a judge before ordering blood tests for drunken-driving suspects.
The justices on Wednesday sided with a Missouri man who was subjected to a blood test without a warrant and found to have nearly twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said for the court that the natural dissipation of alcohol in the blood is generally not sufficient reason to jettison the requirement that police get a judge's approval before drawing a blood sample.
Missouri and the Obama administration were asking the court to endorse a blanket rule that would have allowed the tests without a warrant.
However court rules, gay marriage debate won't end
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NEW YORK (AP) - However the Supreme Court rules on same-sex marriage, the issue seems certain to divide Americans and the states for years to come.
After considering two cases involving gay couples' rights this week, the justices left open multiple options for rulings expected in June. But they signaled there was no prospect of imposing a 50-state solution at this stage.
With nine states allowing same-sex marriages and other states banning them, that means a longer spell with a patchwork marriage-rights map - and no early end to bruising battles in the courts, legislatures and at the ballot box.
Opponents of same-sex marriage seem resigned to a divided nation where the debate will continue to splinter families, communities, churches.
Supporters of same-sex marriage believe a nationwide victory is inevitable, though perhaps not imminent.
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British doom metal seems to be on the rise again, and with this self-released debut full length, De Profundis have thrown their (large quantity of) weight into the fray. The UK seems to have finally shifted away from the right-then-let's-mope-about-in-the-rain style of doom made so famous by My Dying Bride, Anathema, Paradise Lost, and countless others, and Beyond Redemption is a neat example of their countrymen's newly diverse approach. Rooted squarely in punishing doom but mixing in heavy doses of both death and black metal along with a teensy pinch of jazz, this disc is a rarity: an effective, mature, fine-sounding debut album from an unsigned and untested band.
Well, maybe not entirely untested per se. Drummer Sterghios Moschos also holds down the throne for fellow London doomsters Pantheist, and the band wisely invested in the production/mastering expertise of Steve Watkins and Tim Turan—Beyond Redemption features a gravelly, muscular sound that easily outstrips most of their unsigned peers. Don't let the Pantheist connection fool you, though; unlike that band or Esoteric, these fellas are not mired in über-slow funeral doom tempos. Rather, De Profundis tend to lumber rather than crawl, and that pendulous doom "swing" drives the vast majority of their material. Guitarists Roman Subbotin and Soikot Sengupta's bludgeon like a really deliberate (or lazy) Stockholm death metal act; though there's definitely melody to be had here, there's no MDB melodrama or Finnish gloss to be found anywhere. Instead, a caustic blackened miasma hangs over Beyond Redemption, even during guitar solos and introspective clean moments, and it's this dash of black metal grit that really helps distinguish De Profundis from their peers (though the actual blastbeaten black metal sections tend to flop—largely due to Craig Land's inadequate attempts at a Norwegian rasp).
This said, De Profundis definitely stick pretty close to well-worn doom metal conventions: long songs, slow tempos, growled vocals, sad lyrics, clean/heavy dynamic changes, and the like. Sure, there's the aforementioned touch of jazz, mostly in Aleksej Obradovich's bass playing (which is only periodically audible). Fortunately, their conventionality works in their favor here. Their omnivorous riffing spares them _____-soundalike status, their execution is mostly right on the fuckin' money, they've got a great-sounding production—and they're not even signed yet. Beyond Redemption isn't earth-shattering, but it's definitely worth a listen; De Profundis are up-and-comers for sure.


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Boy, you talk about backwards logic, it takes 6 countries, mostly south of u.s. border, to keep our gigantic bellys full, and you're claiming that you feed them? Besides, you don't know that I know you, but I do. You probably didn't know that I saved your life the other day. I saw you walking across the street, right in front of me, and, I decided to not run over you, thus, saving your life. I hope you appreciate everything that I did for you.
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LoP Guest Wrote: (10-28-2012 08:53 AM)someone being dying... Oops. Either way, thanks for not dying me. ;)
Now the Chinese have been marked to take up the same roll the US had for 60 years, the consumers of the world.
LoP Guest Wrote: (10-28-2012 08:55 AM)Oops. Either way, thanks for not dying me. ;) "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Oops. Either way, thanks for not dying me. ;)
I mean consumers feed the world. It just so happens that most consumers are in the western world. Because our countries have been turned to shit, people have to buy things made elsewhere. The consumers feed a lot of the Chinese people that make the garbage we buy. Also, because of the police state and all the selfishness, imported violence and culture destruction that accompanies the universal consumer culture, people have to get out of here to have fun. Mexico? Thailand? Where do tourists go to find a little trouble or have some fun? Wherever they go, they are seen as a wallet and end up feeding people in these great, little relaxing countries. All those rich people, I think consumers put most of the food on their table, too, by buying anything and everything they can almost afford. It must feel nice, yeah?
interesting post, i took it in it's sarcastic tone.
LxMAxkNA Wrote: (10-28-2012 11:00 AM)interesting post, i took it in it's sarcastic tone. Thanks. Unrefined sarcasm, perhaps. I think I missed the mark.


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Celia Eron says diabetes runs in her family both her mother and sister were found to have the disease, so when her blood glucose levels started to increase, she knew she needed to do something.
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Celia Eron says diabetes runs in her family both her mother and sister were found to have the disease, so when her blood glucose levels started to increase, she knew she needed to do something.
Janice Moen has a membership to a gym, but that's not where she gets her exercise.
Who doesn't love the smell of a warm kitchen during the holidays? They're designed around food and bringing family, old friends and new friends together.
When you think of eating right, does your mind immediately turn to what you should cut out of your diet? The list of things you might consider giving up can be long and daunting.
Nov. 16: This run/walk will be held at Camp Alexander, south of Wisconsin Rapids. It's great for competitors, leisure runners, joggers and walkers. Chip timing will be available, and prizes given out to top-placing participants.
Cathy M. Mueller of Merrill received a $50 grocery gift card after her name was drawn from the completed September Commit to Change checklist.
Don't smoke. Diabetic smokers are three times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than nonsmokers who have diabetes.
In 2012, diabetes health costs in the U.S. were $245 billion, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that by 2020, one in every three health care dollars in the U.S. will be spent on diabetes-related care.
Tom Hanks' recent disclosure that he has Type 2 diabetes spotlights one of this nation's most troubling health dilemmas: a national diabetes epidemic.
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As we age, some changes in the body can alter the way adults experience their sex lives, either mentally or physically.
Dale Millard said he wasn't exactly 'at the top of the class,' but now the 63-year-old volunteers to be in school, helping elementary schoolchildren at Lincoln Elementary in Wausau.
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With more and more seniors getting fit inside the gym at rehabilitation centers and major advances in technology, we're seeing more and more electronic fitness resources.
According to the U.S. Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health, inactive people are nearly twice as likely to develop heart disease as those who are more active.
Often we think of fall prevention and safety in the winter months due to the ice and snow, but falls happen year-round and many can be prevented.
Researchers hoped to determine whether retirement was associated with either weight gain or weight loss.
Lori Yonash of Stevens Point received a $50 grocery gift card after her name was drawn from the completed June Commit to Change checklists.
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Add together the percentage of Americans who fall into overweight, obese or extremely obese categories of health, and you have 75 percent of all adults, most of the population, according to 2010 survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent
People who are overweight might have the impression that they cannot be healthy until they lose all the weight and more and more, research is pointing to the benefits of healthy actions, despite weight.
About one-third of U.S. children are overweight or obese due to poor diet and lack of exercise, which puts them at risk for other health problems like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and sleep apnea.
The blood is a great starting point of overall health. If it's been years since your last blood test, your doctor will likely want you to have a lipid panel, a series of blood tests to measure blood cholesterol.
Holding up his previous sized pants with a 68-inch waist band you could see the pride on the face of Bob Saal as he stood in front of a statewide conference for Taking Off Pounds Sensibly in Wausau.
Leave time in your busy schedule to follow a walking program that will work for you.
Make a promise to eat well, move more, and get support from family members and friends. If you need to lose weight, do it slowly over time.
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Body image is a much written about topic by authors such as Jack Canfield and Glenn Schiraldi. They touch on the importance of positive self-image.
If you are obese, losing even 5 to 10 percent of your weight can delay or prevent diseases such as: diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some cancers. For example, that means losing 10 to 20 pounds if you weigh 200 pounds.
Wellness coach and author Karen Wolfe participated June 24 in an online chat with 13 For 13 Editor Carrie Hutton to discuss strategies for healthy eating.
Obesity-related medical expenditures total $1.5 billion in Wisconsin. Without action, this number could quadruple within the decade.
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Senator Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) gun control bill, which includes provisions to perform required universal background checks, has piqued the American Civil Liberties Union. The bill, which includes language from earlier bills introduced by Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), has been the subject of criticism from pro-gun advocates, but is also drawing fire from civil liberties groups who recognize the potential for privacy and civil liberties violations.
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Liberal Democrats in Congress are proposing mandatory liability insurance for gun owners, and a hefty fine for those who do not comply. The legislation was introduced by New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney last month, who emphasized that it is "the first bill to require liability insurance of gun buyers nationwide."
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An Ohio woman is suing an abortion clinic for not successfully performing an abortion on her, claiming that she pursued the abortion after her doctor told her that her life was being endangered by the pregnancy and then realized she was still pregnant a week after the procedure and subsequently gave birth to a healthy baby girl. The clinic is denying that the doctors were negligent.
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School Cancels Honors Night to Avoid Hurt Feelings
A Massachusetts school principal has cancelled his school's Honors Night in the belief that it would cause students who are not receiving an award to feel self-conscious and disappointed in themselves. According to Principal David Fabrizio, Honors Night could be "devastating" to the students who worked hard, but did not earn good enough grades to receive an award.
Man's Home Raided After Son's Facebook Picture Shows Gun
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Democratic Budget Proposal Faces Further Criticism
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Texas Law Causes Decrease in Abortions
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Oz the Great and Powerful: Not so Great
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With their home loss this last Saturday to Michigan State Gonzaga fell out of the top 25 while the win propelled MSU into the top 25. How did a ranked Zags team lose at McCarthey Athletic Center, which is one of the toughest places for opponents to play?
McCarthey Athletic Center is not a big arena and it can get loud to say the least, which is why it is a little shocking that the Zags lost.
Falling to MSU was only Gonzaga's 7th loss in their home gym since 2004.
Here are 5 reasons they did lose.
1. Gonzaga had no answer for Draymond Green - Green quieted the hostile crowd going for a career high 34 points and was simply unstoppable hitting on 11 of his 13 shots including burying 4 of his 5 3-point bombs and was 8/9 from the charity stripe.
2. The Zags struggled with their shot - For the game Gonzaga only shot 43% from the field and they really struggled to score in the first 10 minutes of the 2nd half. They also failed to come through in the clutch and after they had a chance to come back with MSU missing 9 of 16 free throws in the last 3 minutes. In the last 2 minutes and 50 seconds in the game the Zags only made a grand total of 1 field goal.
3. Sloppy play - Gonzaga had many chances to come back and hit some big 3-pointers to start some runs, but for the game the Zags committed 20 turnovers. They had 13 turnovers in the first half and had the lead for a while, but they kept coughing up the rock.
4. Kevin Pangos could not get it going - While Gonzaga leading scorer Robert Sacre shot over 65% from the floor and scored right on his average of 16 ppg 2nd leading scorer Kevin Pangos (13.3 ppg) really struggled. For the game he was only 3/8 from the field for 7 points and he only had 2 assists and he had 4 turnovers.
5. Elias Harris was a no show - Not only did Pangos struggle, but Harris, who is the Zags 3rd leading scorer at 12 ppg, stunk up the court in the MSU loss going 2/11 from the field for only 6 points. He misses all 3 of his 3-pointers and after coming into the game averaging just over 8 rebounds per game he only had 5 in the loss to the Spartans.
Next Up: The Zags have a good chance to get back in the W column in their next game when they host a 7-3 Oral Roberts team on Thursday night that has lost both of their away games against legit opponents.


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This month's deadly assault on the U.S. Consulate in eastern Libya was clearly a planned attack by terrorists, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday.
"As we determined the details of what took place there and how that attack took place, it became clear that there were terrorists who planned that attack," Panetta said.
Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Panetta said investigators had not yet determined exactly what terrorists were involved in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.
"There's a lot of different kinds of terrorism in that part of the world," he said.
It's the administration's latest assessment of the September 11 consulate attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. The incident fueled increased global scrutiny of the North African nation and increased political sparring in the United States over the investigation into who was behind it.
The FBI is investigating the attack, although its agents are in Tripoli and have yet to access the consulate, which is still unsecured, according to senior law enforcement sources. Libyan officials have said they have brought in dozens of people for questioning in connection with the attack.
Conflicting assessments
In the days after the assault on the Benghazi consulate, U.S. administration officials offered conflicting assessments of what led to the fatal security breach. Some top officials said the violence erupted spontaneously amid a large protest about a U.S.-made film that mocked the Muslim Prophet Mohammed.
Administration, intelligence officials and lawmakers have disagreed about whether the violence was the result of a mob gone awry, a planned terror attack or a combination of the two.
On September 14, White House spokesman Jay Carney said U.S. authorities had "no actionable intelligence" indicating the attack "was planned or imminent."
Two days later, Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said U.S. officials believed extremists carried out the attack after a spontaneous protest began outside the building.
"We do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned," she said.
On September 19, Matthew Olsen, the nation's counterterrorism chief, told senators it had been a terrorist attack. The next day, Carney also said it was "self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack."
The administration's response has drawn sharp criticism from Republican lawmakers, who have argued that it mischaracterized the attacks and gave unnecessary credence to the film.
"They were either incredibly naïve or willfully deceiving the American people. I don't know which," Republican Sen. John McCain told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Thursday.
Asked when he had concluded that terrorists were behind the consulate attack, Panetta said, "It took a while to really get some of the feedback from what exactly happened at that location."
An al Qaeda link?
A senior U.S. official told CNN that there was evidence within 24 hours of the attack that suggested it was the work of extremists either affiliated with al Qaeda groups or inspired by them.
"We started to get a strong sense of it," the official said. He declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the information.
The efforts by al Qaeda, especially the Mali-based al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, to extend its reach into Libya and elsewhere has been of concern to the United States, something that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned on Wednesday.
"For some time, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other groups have launched attacks and kidnappings from northern Mali into neighboring countries," she said. "Now, with a larger safe haven and increased freedom to maneuver, terrorists are seeking to extend their reach and their networks in multiple directions. And they are working with other violent extremists to undermine the democratic transitions under way in North Africa, as we tragically saw in Benghazi."
That comment has been interpreted as Clinton tying those behind the Benghazi assault to al Qaeda. But a senior State Department official said Clinton was speaking more generally about how al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is working to undermine democratic transitions such as the one in Libya.
"With regard to the specific issue of who was responsible for the Benghazi attack, as everybody in the administration has said, we can't go beyond our preliminary statements until we have the results of the FBI investigation," the State Department official said.
Key issue: Security concerns
Security concerns remain a top issue for the FBI and other U.S. officials in Libya.


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Mind Mapping Notes
1.No judgment, challenge, evaluation, criticism
2.Go for quantity, not quality
3.Put analysis & organization in background
1. Start in the centre with an image of the topic, using at least 3 colours.
2. Use images, symbols, codes and dimensions throughout your Mind Map.
3. Select key words and print using upper or lower case letters.
4. Each word word/image must be alone and sitting on its own line.
5. The lines must be connected, starting from the central image. The central lines are thicker, organic and flowing, becoming thinner as they radiate out from the centre.
6. Make the lines the same length as the word/image.
7. Use colours - your own code - throughout the Mind Map.
8. Develop your own personal style of Mind Mapping.
9. Use emphasis and show associations in your Mind Map.
10. Keep the Mind Map clear by using Radiant hierarchy, numerical order or outlines to embrace your branches.
Represent concepts with keywords *
Make associations *
Organize into hierarchy
* Visualize concepts using images
* Stimulate your brain with colors and symbols *
Order and emphasize according to importance The major benefits from the use of Mind Maps are:
* Images, colors, and associations stimulates creative thinking. *
Mind Mapping forces you to think actively about the things you learn. *
Efficiency in making/taking notes. *
Learning is simply more fun!
One word per branch
Left Side: Words, numbers, lines, logic, lists
Right Side: Colour, rhythm, imagination, day dreaming
Always add images to Mind Map
Organize, remember, compare, connect
"Whole Picture"
Place Symbol/Image in center of Mind Map
use codes and symbols throughout
Single Words per line
Geometrical Shapes
Artistic three dimension
The relative importance of each idea is clear indicated
More important idea will be nearer to the center
less important ideas are far away
The links between the key conpscets will be immdeialtey recongniable because of there promixty and connection
Recall and Review will be effete and more rapid
words are all in capital letters
10 Characteristics
Life Goal
Giant !
See into the far future
Persistence and comment to that vision
Make sure it come true
Persistence is the power
Focus on the vision
Know of their subjects
10,000 Hours of work
Mastermind Group
People around them, build towards their vision
Challenge each other
Comprehensive Positive Attitude
Learning from their mistakes
Knowledge about their brain, and its function
Energy at multiple levels
Whats is Mind Mapping ?
Colours of Nodes
Connection between nodes
Reflection of mind
non-linear note taking
Verbal Intl
Expand Verbal knowledge
Range of knowledge
Note everything in Mind Maps
Colour Code
Which colours mean what ?
Key Areas
3D Image Code
Mini Mind Map
10 Keywords
Helps Organize
Chapter Headings
logic + imageation + association
Energy +/= Memory = Creativity
Pictures: number: words : associations
Focus + time + daily improvement = genius
Use an image for your central idea
Brain works by association
Think radiantly
Allows you to develop detailed organization of your subject
Insert images into main nodes
Associations : with everything
Fluency, Flexibilty, Originality,
quickly learn something about a given topic.
We store words and images in different portions of our brain, and if you can mix the two together, you know, left brain and right brain, you have that perfect cohesion,
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