text: Oct. 16 MISSISSIPPI: Berry asks Miss. court to delay execution Earl Wesley Berry has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to delay his scheduled Oct. 30 execution. In an order signed this past week, Presiding Justice Bill Waller Jr. said nothing prevents the court from setting the execution date. However, in motions filed Monday, Berry said the Mississippi court should reconsider because it ignored his challenge to the legality of lethal injections, an issue now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Berry contends that if the case is decided in a Kentucky inmate's favor, it would affect his own death sentence appeal. Also, Berry said the Mississippi court had ignored stays of execution that it granted when the U.S. Supreme Court barred the execution of the mentally retarded and juveniles. Waller had said any decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on the legality of lethal injections would effect future death sentence cases, not existing ones such as Berry's. Berry was convicted and sentenced to death by a Chickasaw County jury for the 1987 killing of Mary Bounds. Bounds was beaten to death after leaving her weekly church choir practice, and her body was found just off a Chickasaw County road near Houston, Miss. Berry admitted to the killing, and the confession was used against him at trial. The U.S. Supreme Court case involves two Kentucky death row inmates' claim that lethal injection as practiced in Kentucky violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Every state that uses lethal injections - including Mississippi - employs the same 3 drugs, but there are differences among the states in the way the drugs are administered, training of executioners who administer them and dosages, legal experts have said. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case early next year. Robert M. Ryan, an attorney with the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel and who represents Berry, said the Mississippi court has delayed executions in past cases after issues have been accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court. "Berry is asking this court for the same consideration," Ryan wrote in the motion. "Absent a stay of execution, Berry's legitimate claim will not be resolved prior to the unconstitutional administration of his lethal injection." Berry also asked the Mississippi court to remove the attorney general's office from the appeal and appoint a special prosecutor. Berry contended that comments made by Attorney General Jim Hood to the news media about Berry show his office cannot be fair and unbiased. Hood, in interviews on the Berry case, said the victim had been in his mother's Sunday school class in Chickasaw County and that his office was "going to do everything we can do to move forward" against Berry. "Politics has no place in a fair and unbiased court system," Ryan wrote. "Likewise personal associations have no place in the administration of justice especially when violations of constitutional rights are at stake." The attorney general's office has not yet filed a response to Berry's motions. (source: Associated Press) NEVADA: A Reprieve in Nevada Adds to Lethal-Injection Drama----With Supreme Court Taking On Issue, Some States Apply Brakes to Executions An 11th-hour reprieve in Nevada last night for condemned murderer William Patrick Castillo marked the latest victory for opponents of the death penalty who do not regard lethal injection as the humane method of execution that its supporters say it is. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on the subject in the coming months, and death penalty opponents plan to argue that the 3-chemical cocktail used by most of the 37 states that carry out lethal injection immobilizes the condemned and hides the pain they experience before they die. They say the process violates the Eighth Amendment's ban against cruel and unusual punishment. Under the procedure followed by most states, the condemned inmate is strapped to a gurney, sedated with sodium thiopental, injected with pancuronium bromide to collapse the diaphragm and lungs, and then administered potassium chloride to stop the heart. Death penalty opponents have argued for years that the procedure is a cold and painful way to kill people, and that even veterinarians do not recommend it in the euthanization of animals. Condemned inmates are "alive all the way through the process, feeling pain until the bitter end," said Lisa McCalmont, a lawyer and consultant to the death penalty clinic at the University of California at Berkeley's law school. State corrections officials say lethal injection is a sound, scientifically tested and suitable alternative to the electric chair. They assert that challenges to the method are often attempts by death penalty opponents to end capital punishment. Still, several states have modified lethal-injection protocols to address concerns raised in lawsuits. The case before the Supreme Court originated in Kentucky, where inmates Ralph Baze and Thomas C. Bowling, both convicted of double murders, challenged the state's protocols, saying they violated federal and state constitutions. The court must now determine the effectiveness of the drugs used by Kentucky, McCalmont said. With the high court set to hear the case, more than a dozen courts, state commissions and governors have delayed lethal injections. Among those waiting are Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, North Carolina and California. Nevada joined that list last night, as its Supreme Court postponed all scheduled executions for the next 20 days. Castillo's death warrant is set to expire at week's end. "It's really wonderful," Nancy Hart, president of the Nevada Coalition to End the Death Penalty, said after last night's court ruling. "This court did not want to stand out there and be the only state to go ahead with an execution." Other states, such as Georgia, intend to go ahead with executions. Nevada officials attempted to go forward with the Castillo case largely because Castillo waived the remainder of his appeals and asked to die rather than live on death row. The appeal that halted the lethal injection was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of those who witness executions and argued that the paralytic effect of the pancuronium bromide creates a false impression of the event. Even if the court ultimately agrees with opponents of lethal injection, the opinion probably will not stop the method, many legal experts say. Rather, they predict, the court will demand that the federal government and states consider stricter and more uniform standards. In the 30 years since lethal injection was first proposed in Oklahoma, lawsuits have challenged the methods states have used to carry out the punishment in the absence of specific federal regulations. Some have accused the executioners of being poorly trained and unable to position a needle. "I think the thing that the Supreme Court has recognized is that different states are applying different legal standards to the Eighth Amendment claim about lethal injection, and people are living and dying based on the differing application," McCalmont said. "Lethal injections can be performed humanely, they just simply are not being performed humanely by departments of correction." A spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said a pharmacologist who was hired to review the state's lethal-injection protocols after a court challenge found that the procedure does not "unwontedly inflict unnecessary pain." "That's what we stand by," said the spokeswoman, Michelle Lyons. "We would stress that our method of execution is constitutional and does not pose a substantial risk of pain." Lyons said officials who administer the injections are medically trained volunteers who must attend at least four executions as part of their training before being allowed to participate. Lyons said the specifics of their medical training is withheld to protect their identities. Last month, the Supreme Court halted an execution in Texas by granting a reprieve to Carlton Turner Jr., who was convicted of killing his adopted parents 9 years ago. Turner and his lawyers asked the court to review the constitutionality of the state's protocols. About a week later, a Texas appeals court stayed the execution of another convicted killer, Heliberto Chi, giving the state 30 days to explain why the sentence should be carried out. Lawyers for Chi, who was convicted of killing a store manager, argued that Texas injections are unconstitutional because the chemicals paralyze the condemned as they slowly and painfully suffocate. Veterinarians are reluctant to weigh in on lethal injection. A spokesman for the American Veterinary Medical Association said his group does not take issue with state protocols for the procedure, but the organization does not recommend anything similar in the euthanization of animals. In a 2000 report, the association recommended using barbiturates to depress the nervous system and inhalant anesthetics to stop breathing and induce cardiac arrest. The use of other chemical agents on animals was considered to be excessive, the spokesman said. The association attached a caution to its report telling opponents and supporters of lethal injection for condemned inmates that the recommendations have no bearing on the issue. The history of how the 3-drug combination came to be used is spelled out in a lawsuit that delayed the scheduled execution of Michael Angelo Morales in California. 30 years ago, an Oklahoma legislator "sought a cost-effective alternative to fixing that state's broken electric chair," the California suit said. The legislator turned to the state medical examiner, who had no experience in lethal injections, but came up with a procedure that the lawmaker jotted down. A year later, the state legislature adopted the recommendations almost verbatim: "An intravenous saline drip should be started in the prisoner's arm, into which shall be introduced a lethal injection consisting of an ultra-short-acting barbiturate in combination with a chemical paralytic." (source: The Washington Post Company) **************************** State justices halt inmate's execution The Rev. Charles Durante of St. Teresa of Avila Church in Carson City leads a group of more than 50 people in prayer Monday outside the Nevada State Prison. Although death row inmate William Castillo was given a stay of execution, the crowd continued to pray, sing and stand for peace. "We stand here for peace, nonviolently, and for the end of the death penalty," Durante said. Death row inmate William Castillo seemed "very disappointed" Monday night that the Nevada Supreme Court canceled his execution about 90 minutes before he was scheduled to have a lethal injection. "He asked if it was possible to get more medication to calm him," Nevada Department of Corrections Director Howard Skolink said of Castillo's reaction. "He wanted something to take the edge off." The court convened at 4 p.m. to hear arguments and about 7 p.m. stayed the execution and gave the American Civil Liberties Union and the state attorney general 20 days to file briefs regarding the ACLU's last-minute request that the execution method is unconstitutional because the drugs masks the inmate's reaction, denying news media the First Amendment right to report the actual effects of the injection. The ACLU petition came on the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court review of the constitutionality of lethal injection methods in a Kentucky case. Lee Rowland, the ACLU coordinator in Northern Nevada and the lawyer who argued the case, termed the decision "clearly correct legally and morally." "Now, we are charged with convincing the Nevada Supreme Court that this stay should remain in place until the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled," she said. "This will put us in line with the rest of the country in awaiting guidance from the court as to whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment." Castillo, 34, who has been imprisoned since 1996, had declined to file appeals of his own. "The elderly relatives of the victims had hoped for closure, and they didn't get it tonight," Skolink, who told media of the court's decision, said at the prison in Carson City. "The inmate had prepared himself for the execution, and now it will be at least 60 days before he's going to know what happened to him." Castillo was sentenced to death for the tire-iron beating of Isabelle Berndt, 86, a teacher who lived in Las Vegas. His female accomplice is serving a term of life with parole. 2 of Berndt's elderly relatives had driven to the prison, were told of the cancellation and never went inside. Skolink said Berndt's family said they were going to ask the state supreme court and ACLU for their travel expenses for a "trip that need not have been made." Castillo family members were not at the prison Monday night. About 50 people chanted in protest against the death penalty. Some carried signs that said: "Every Human Life is Sacred," "Why Do We Kill People Who Kill People to Show that Killing People is Wrong?" and "We Remember and Pray for Isabelle." Earlier, Castillo had taken a Valium to calm his nerves, talked on the phone with his family and had his last meal: a cheeseburger, a half gallon of Dreyer's pralines and almond ice cream and three root beers. Skolink said Castillo was in a pleasant mood with the staff and felt bad for asking for an additional piece of cheese on his burger, which he got. The food was prepared by prison staff. The protesters huddled across the street from the prison, holding candles near parked police cars. The Rev. Charles Durante of St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church in Carson City read a history of Castillo's legal case and said that he had suffered abuse as a child. "What else?" Durante asked the group. "We need to take the energy we have that made us come out here and move it to work for change. Send an e-mail to your legislators or our brilliant governor. We don't want this in our state. "We don't need the death penalty." The stay pleased the Nevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which filed a separate last-minute petition to block Castillo's execution and one of another death row inmate, Pedro Rodriguez, who has a pending appeal. Coalition President Nancy Hart said it didn't matter that Castillo wanted to die and wasn't fighting his death sentence. "In general, our focus is on the process," she said. "It's about unconstitutionality, not about what he wants to do." Hart attended the court hearing and said the justices did not explain their decision. "I'm sure (Castillo) had a hard day and is not happy we intervened against his wishes, but it's important for people to follow the law and Constitution," she said. "It's not about him. It's not about what he wants. After he gets over his disappointment, I hope he appeals." Also standing in the cold protesting the death penalty was Sister Marie McGloin of St. Teresa of Avila and Ruth Gordon. They said they knew it was possible the execution could be stayed before they arrived to protest. "We as a state need to look at what we're doing," Gordon said. "I wouldn't want life in prison, and it was a horrible crime, but that doesn't mean we have a right to assist his suicide." McGloin said killing Castillo would not bring back his victim. "Why are we killing people to show that killing people is wrong?" Gordon asked. "Why don't we get it?" The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Sept. 25 to take a hard look at the method of lethal injection most states use. The high court will hear a challenge early next year from 2 inmates in Kentucky who claim that lethal injection as practiced by that state amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Executions in at least 10 states have been halted as a result of the litigation over lethal injections. The injections, devised as a humane alternative to electrocution and the gas chamber, have come under attack in recent years amid reports that the 3-drug cocktail doesn't always work as quickly as intended and that inmates are subjected to excruciating pain before they die. Nevada's lethal injection formula includes sodium thiopental, a "downer" that would have made Castillo unconscious and can cause death, followed by pancuronium bromide, a muscle relaxant that paralyzes the lungs, and a 3rd chemical, potassium chloride, which stops the heart. In the ACLU's petition, Rowland said the doubling of the pancuronium bromide would make Castillo look serene -- and that's a violation of a constitutional First Amendment right of reporters and other witnesses to observe the actual effects of an execution. The violation occurs because the person getting the injection "portrays a look of serenity regardless of what the inmate is actually experiencing," Rowland said. Castillo worked on a roofing job at Berndt's home and found a hidden house key. He and a female companion returned, burglarized the home and murdered Berndt. Castillo set the home on fire to destroy evidence, but he later admitted the murder to a co-worker and confessed to police. His companion in the burglary and murder was Michelle Platou, now serving a life term with the possibility of parole. 12 men, all but 1 of whom refused appeals, have been executed in Nevada since the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for capital punishment to resume in 1976. Daryl Linnie Mack, 47, was the last man to die in Nevada by lethal injection. He was executed April 26, 2006, for the rape and murder of a Reno woman -- a crime he denied committing. Mack was the first Nevada convict to be executed based solely on DNA evidence. He also was the first black convict to be executed in Nevada since capital punishment was reinstated. (source: Reno Gazette-Journal) ************************************* Nevada court stays execution of murderer at 11th hour The execution of a convicted murderer in Nevada was stayed at the 11th hour on Monday after an appeal by rights groups over the method of lethal injection to be used. William Castillo had been due to be executed at 8:30 pm (0330 GMT) but was spared following a last-ditch legal bid by the American Civil Liberties Union to the Nevada Supreme Court. The ACLU petition argued that one of the lethal drugs due to be pumped into Castillo was so potent that it made it impossible to determine if the recipient was in pain when the execution was carried out. "We're obviously delighted that the court has made the right decision," said ACLU attorney Lee Rowland, who presented oral arguments to the court. "It's not only legally correct, it's also morally correct." Under the terms of the order, the ACLU must present further arguments to the court within 20 days for a full review of claims made in their petition, Rowland told AFP. Castillo, 34, was sentenced to death for beating an 86-year-old Las Vegas woman to death with a tire iron during a burglary in 1995. He had not sought to appeal the death sentence. However rights groups had argued that the method of execution due to be used on Castillo made it impossible to gauge whether or not he was suffering pain. It followed months of nationwide controversy over lethal injections, the most commonly used execution method in the US. On September 25 the Supreme Court said it would sit to determine the constitutionality of lethal injections, examining the cases of 2 men on death row in Kentucky. Executions in several states across the US have been postponed pending the Supreme Court hearing, which is expected in early 2008. During execution by lethal injection, 3 drugs are administered to the condemned person: 1 to sedate him, 1 to paralyze him, and 1 to stop the heart. However, there is no national protocol for administering the drugs and it is not always done by a medical professional. While the prisoner may appear calm, several studies and botched executions have shown that death may in fact be prolonged and quite painful. A 2005 study showed only small amounts of sedatives in the bodies of the condemned, leaving open the possibility that they were awake when the other 2 medications were injected. In Florida in December, Angel Nieves Diaz, his eyes wide open, grimaced and shook for more than 30 minutes before finally suffering convulsions and dying. Authorities later found that the needles were inserted too far and the lethal cocktail was injected outside his veins. The high court has never ruled on a particular method of execution. Instead, under legal challenge, states that used gas chambers, hanging or electric chairs switched to lethal injection. (source: Agence France Presse) CONNECTICUT: Jury gives death penalty to Peeler Russell Peeler Jr. should get the death penalty for ordering the execution of a city woman and her young son eight years ago, a Superior Court jury recommended Monday. Peeler showed little emotion as the jury of 6 men and 6 women announced its verdict. Sitting at the defense table scratching his right leg, Peeler turned to his three lawyers and asked, "Do we have to go through all this?" Peeler will be sent to death row for orchestrating the killing of Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son, Leroy "B.J." Brown Jr., in 1999 at the hands of his younger brother, Adrian. The murders took place a few days before the boy was to testify as a witness against Peeler in another homicide case. Judge Robert Devlin Jr. continued the case for sentencing at a date to be determined, but by law he must impose the jury's verdict on Peeler. Following the verdict, State Police, several armed with assault rifles, escorted the van that carried Peeler, 35, from the courthouse. "On behalf of the people of the state of Connecticut I would like to express my appreciation to the 12 courageous jurors who decided this case," said State's Attorney Jonathan Benedict, who with Senior Assistant State's Attorney Joseph Corradino, tried the case for the state. "Our thoughts remain with the family of Karen and B.J." The victims' family said the verdict finally brings them closure. But Peeler's lawyer, Jeffrey Beck, said there will be an appeal. "Obviously we are disappointed with the verdict. Mr. Peeler is upset, but he looks forward to his appeal and we will take it from there," he said. "God have mercy!" juror Charles McKissick cried after he and 11 other jurors delivered the verdict. "I was very upset," McKissick said later. "I was thinking about the young man and I was asking God to have mercy on his soul." Peeler was convicted in 2000 of ordering his brother Adrian to kill Clarke and B.J. on Jan. 7, 1999, in their Earl Avenue home. The boy was scheduled to testify against Peeler for his role in the 1998 murder of Clarke's fianc, Rudy Snead, in a Boston Avenue barbershop. Peeler was convicted of 2 counts of capital felony, but the jury in 2000 deadlocked on whether he should get the death penalty. The state Supreme Court later ordered that another death penalty hearing should be held with a new jury. During the 16-day hearing, Benedict and Corradino presented a condensed version of the case used to convict Peeler. Among their 38 witnesses was Josephine Lee, a crack-addicted prostitute who lived across the street from the victims. She testified Peeler gave her a handful of crack cocaine to let him know when the boy and his mother were home. On the evening of Jan. 7, 1999, she called Peeler after she spotted the victims arrive home after going to a local supermarket. A few minutes later, Lee testified, Adrian Peeler arrived at her house. Lee said she knocked on Clarke's door, and when she opened it, Adrian Peeler rushed into the house. Lee tearfully related that Peeler killed Clarke as her wounded son screamed for his mother and then shot the boy in the head. Russell Peeler's former cohorts in his drug ring testified Peeler repeatedly told them he was going to kill B.J. to prevent him from testifying. The prosecutors had to prove 3 so-called aggravating factors: Was Josephine Lee paid for her part in the crime; was B.J.'s murder carried out with the intention of also killing his mother, and were the murders carried out in an especially heinous, cruel and depraved manner? Shortly after 2:30 p.m. Monday, the grim jurors filed out of the deliberation room, the foreman holding the 19-page jury verdict form. The foreman handed the form to a judicial marshal who handed it to Judge Devlin. As the judge leafed through the verdict form, his face did not betray the jurors' recommendation. He then handed it down to clerk Thomas St. John, who read the verdict aloud. In the verdict form, the jurors checked that the aggravating factors had been proved against Peeler. The jury also was asked to determine whether any statutory mitigating factors exist: Was Peeler only an accessory in the crime and his role minor; or could he not have foreseen that the gunman would actually kill the victims? Neither was proved, the jury found. The jury was asked by the defense to consider so-called non-statutory mitigating factors. The major one was that Adrian Peeler, the shooter, was convicted only of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crime. Others included that Peeler is loved by his 3 children and the claim that he was upset as a child when he learned his father had an affair with a white woman. In the verdict form, the jury checked that it had found one of these mitigating factors, but that it was outweighed by the aggravating factors. "It is therefore, persuaded beyond a reasonable doubt that death is the appropriate punishment on this count," the verdict form stated. After the verdict was read, Peeler's lawyers asked the judge to poll the jury. Each juror, called by name, firmly agreed with the verdict when asked by the judge. The jury was then sent back into the deliberation room to await the judge. (source: Connecticut Post) WASHINGTON: Election 2007----Few cases warrant death penalty, candidates say In 2003, in a SeaTac motel room, Dan Satterberg, Norm Maleng, King County Sheriff Dave Reichert and a victims' advocate met with the families of 44 women slain by Gary L. Ridgway, the Green River killer. Maleng, the King County prosecutor, had decided against seeking the death penalty, and wanted to explain it to the families. Under the plea deal, Ridgway would admit to 48 killings and lead authorities to the remains of 4 victims whose bodies had not been recovered. "At the end of spending time with all of these families, I was convinced and remain convinced that this was the right thing to do in that case because it was about finding justice for the victims of those crimes," said Satterberg, who was Maleng's chief of staff at the time. "And justice was finally knowing the truth." A prosecutor's weightiest decision is whether to seek the ultimate sanction in a murder case. Satterberg, who has consulted with Maleng on every death-penalty case in King County over the past 17 years, said he would pursue the sentence only "when there is a complete absence of mitigating circumstances." He said death-penalty cases result in more than a year of pretrial motions and can lead to decades of appeals. The sentence holds out false promises to families of victims who "feel like they have to be for the death penalty because that somehow is a measure of the value of the life that was taken," he said. "But we don't do it very well here in Washington," he said. "I want to be realistic about the practical ramifications of seeking the death penalty. I will be very conservative in how we apply it." Satterberg's Democratic opponent, Deputy Prosecutor Bill Sherman, also believes Maleng made the right choice in the Ridgway case. Sherman said there are "troubling examples where DNA evidence has exonerated people who have been sentenced to death, and we've seen cases where the death penalty is applied in disparate ways across racial groups, income levels and even geography." He said he supports a gubernatorial moratorium on executions while those imbalances are studied. But as a prosecutor obliged to apply existing law, he said he would make death-penalty decisions on a case-by-case basis. (source: Seattle Times)


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So the NBA players will be locked out for the rest of this year, start back playing in 2012, and will be doing it for much less money than they would have gotten under the proposal they just defeated. #RectalCranialInversion
You are right StayThirstyMyFriends, As in other great Union Debacles they will play for far less money than was in this proposal they just rejected.Not saying that NBAPlayersUnion 2011=PATCO 1981,the outcome will be similar.
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Maple teachers, board reach agreement
The Maple School Board and district teachers are once again on good footing, but it took and few tense months of negotiations and uncertainty to get there.By: Emily Kram, Superior Telegram
The Maple School Board and district teachers are once again on good footing, but it took and few tense months of negotiations and uncertainty to get there.
"We got a contract extension — and that's what we wanted — so we're pleased," said Sandra Thornton, president of the Maple Federation of Teachers, Local 1293. "We bought ourselves a year."
The board and the teachers' union agreed to a contract extension June 28 that preserves union members rights but allows the district to hand off part of its anticipated revenue shortfall to employees by asking them to pay more toward their health insurance and retirement costs.
The Maple school district faces an estimated $900,000 revenue reduction for the 2011-12 school year, and district finances are not expected to improve for 2012-13.
The deep cuts, coupled with Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill, left the district scrambling for options this spring, but Thornton said every indication has shown her the School Board is open and willing to work with the teachers' union to trim expenses as needed in the future.
"I think the lines of communication with the School Board are stronger than ever," Thornton said.
The Maple school district, long known for its high academic standards, was swept up in the turmoil of Madison this spring.
The first fallout from the state capital came in February, when district employees received preliminary consideration of non-renewal notices.
The move came as a surprise to employees, who worried about the future of their jobs, but superintendent Gregg Lundberg said it was a necessary response to Walker's budget repair bill. A provision in that legislation would have forced school districts to provide preliminary layoff notices to employees by Feb. 28, as required by state law.
By eliminating positions through attrition the Maple school district managed to avoid layoffs, but teachers continued to worry about their job security as they worked to negotiate a contract extension.
Over the next few months, that uncertainty created to a stressful atmosphere, which came to a boil last month at the Maple School Board's regular meeting.
More than a dozen community members spoke at the meeting, urging the board to support the teachers and put forth a fair contract proposal. Rumors had circulated that teachers would lose their prep time, maternity leave and sick leave, but none of those worries came to fruition.
The contract approved on June 28 requires union members to pay a larger portion of their health insurance and Wisconsin Retirement System costs. Salaries won't increase in 2011-12 either.
The new contract remains in effect until June 30, 2012.
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Puppies from mill arrive in D.C. for new life
Exhausted and flea-infested from a puppy mill, 23 dogs arrived in D.C. on Saturday night, hoping for a new life.
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Md. House to vote on expanding gambling
The House is scheduled to convene at 2 p.m. Tuesday to consider allowing table games such as blackjack at casinos, and to permit a new casino site in Prince George's County.
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ListenApp aims to make biking better
Bikers will still have to pedal to get from point to point, but now they can check ahead of time to see if their route is hilly or includes a shortcut.
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Pepco customers demand PSC take action
Upset that Pepco plans to ask for another rate hike, customers lashed out at Maryland regulators Tuesday night, demanding they take action.
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ListenSpinlister connects bicycles with travelers
A business that hooks up bicyclists with rentals in New York and San Francisco could expand to D.C.
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Pepco tried different strategies with derecho
Pepco says it tried new strategies as the June 29 derecho struck Maryland, according to a post-storm assessment the utility filed with the Maryland Public Service Commission Monday.
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Shelter dogs keep cool in kiddie pools
The term "shelter dogs" can conjure up images of unkempt animals in depressing settings. But that wasn't the case Thursday at Prince George's Animal Management Services.
Puppy thrown from car gets second chance
Tuesday night, a motorist saw something thrown from a moving car. It was a garbage bag and when it landed, out popped the muzzle of an 8-month- old pit bull puppy. The horrified driver stopped and called police. The dog was taken to the Prince George's County Animal Services Facility, assessed, and then handed over to "Mutts Matter," a local rescue group.
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O'Malley calls for study on burying power lines
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has issued an executive order that calls for a study into improving infrastructure and burying power lines. It comes less than a month after a devastating derecho and a week after regulators gave Pepco the approval necessary to raise electric rates.
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Refrigeration drawers from Ariston
Modern shapes and forms, plenty of space with flexible, functional solutions: the home is evolving. Ariston's keen eye for the new stylistic trends and changes in life styles is looking for new ideas to meet emerging needs. Like this built-in refrigeration drawer system with large storage baskets-drawers that compliment both modern and traditional kitchens. Not an alternative to the conventional refrigerator, just an extra comfort. A brilliant, revolutionary idea that will change the way your kitchen can be designed. ARISTON.
Bulthaup's b3 concept
When bulthaup talks of a new lightness in its system b3, the word is not used, to coin a phrase, lightly. For the bulthaup b3 kitchen, bulthaup uses the word on the strength of a new concept that allows elements to float and one that uses materials carefully: as thin as possible and as thick as necessary. Last, but not least, lightness of design refers to the effortlessness with which beauty radiates from functionality. Experience it for yourself.
Bulthaup's b3 concept offers a personalized living space that can be adapted to a variety of kitchen layouts. Emphasizing an ergonomic set-up and an architectural feel, the company's four-burner cooktop allows easy access to all pots and pans without having to reach across a hot flame. The linear cooktop combined with a multifunctional wall and worksurfaces makes a user-friendly and visually stylish composition that can easily merge into other living areas.
Aga Refrigerated Drawers
Aga Refrigerated Drawers apply Aga style to the latest must-have kitchen appliance.
At just twenty-four inches wide, it offers the greatest usable capacity available in its class. A stainless steel interior creates commercial-quality fresh food storage. Full extension slides and a unique lighting system provide easy access, all the way to the back. An extra deep lower drawer vertically stores two-liter soda and opened wine bottles. And the optional adjustable drawer divider and the European-style Gastronorm system are the finishing touch.
Stainless steel interiors with extra deep, full extension sliding drawers enable convenient vertical storage. The European-style E-Z Stor Storage System allows users to store foods in true commercial/restaurant style with stainless-steel containers and clear lids for easy organization that also separates flavors and keeps foods fresh. Unit measures 24″ wide.
Crafted to fit below countertops with zero clearance from surrounding cabinetry, Aga's undercounter refrigerated drawers offer a built-in appearance for a seamless look. Exterior features include Aga's classic contour door design and a bevy of colors that complement Aga cookers and ranges.
Miele Built-In Cup and Plate Warmer for Miele Coffee System
The Miele Plate & Cup Warmer is the finishing touch to perfect entertaining. The large in wall plate and cup warmer accommodates plenty of cups for entertaining and has adjustable temperature control so the cups are the perfect temperature for keeping your beverages hot and the cups comfortable to hold. The plate and cup warmer is the easiest way to preheat your cups for use with your Miele Coffee System. Preheated cups are important for keeping your espresso hot once it is brewed. Baristas know that a cool cup can quickly draw the heat from a freshly brewed espresso, adversely affecting the flavor of this alluring beverage that should be served fresh and hot. Of course it does double duty as a plate warmer too! The unique convection-based, forced-air heating system, developed by Miele, evenly and quickly circulates heat throughout the drawer cavity. An infinite temperature selection of up to 160°F can heat 12 dinner plates in less than 30 minutes.
HF 25 G 561 built-in microwave
The HF 25 G 561 built-in stainless steel microwave allows for the fact that modern kitchens have limited space for built-in appliances, which is why this appliance was developed for a wall-hanging cupboard. The control panel located beneath the door grants optimum handling and is a unique ergonomic feature on the built-in appliance market. The oven compartment is even suitable for baby bottles. The stylistic details and materials have been carefully selected and harmonise with each other. There are no protruding handles so as to avoid possible head injuries. The door opens electrically.
Miele Decorative Lift Door 4700
A genius ideea from Miele that will ease your way in the kitchen.
The Miele Decorative Lift Doors are a unique, integrated solution to create a home for portable countertop appliances like toasters, microwave ovens, mixers or even a television set—keeping them tucked away neatly—but convenient enough to quickly access them. All Miele lift doors come with specially designed hydraulic hinges to allow an easy movement . Simply lift the decorative door to access the product you need. These decorative doors create streamline look for all your built-in and portable countertop appliances like microwave ovens, toasters, or other appliances, so you can have an elegant, simple and efficient desing in your modern kitchen.


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Call for papers
Since 1995, Lex Electronica a bilingual online law journal published in French and English twice a year have introduced both jurists and non-jurists to recent developments in the areas of research of the Centre de recherche en droit public of the Université de Montréal: Law and New Social Relations, Law and Information and Communication Technologies, and finally, Law, Biotechnology and environment.
Articles submitted to Lex Electronica must be in the Word format (.doc) and come with a 300- 400 word abstract, preferably in both French and English. For more information about the editorial rules, please visit the following link.
Note that the articles received by the editorial Committee are subject to evaluation and approval by our Scientific Panel, composed of jurists and experts from Quebec, Canada and the international community. We invite everyone interested in submitting a complete article before December 1st 2012 for the winter 2013 edition.
For additional information, please contact:
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Liz is so NOT a drama queen. She's the kind of cool, calm and collected person you'd select to tame the most unmanageable details. Yes, all of the annoying, yet vital ones that elude the grasp of most creative types. When it's tasked to Liz, you can be assured of one thing: completion without complication. To her there are no problems, only solutions.
She's an impossibly good listener so, if she isn't saying anything, you know she is figuring out how all of the conflicting words, and thoughts are eventually going to fit together. With so many cooks circulating amazing ideas, it's nice to have a natural politician at your ready to bring the parties together for a workable casserole. In a not so secret ballot, we all vote for Beckworth.


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I got an email the other day from a blogger I follow. She wanted to let me know she nominated me for a "Liebster Award", which is some kind of award that says, "LOOK OUT WORLD! The owner of this blog is about to be a big deal!" I schlepped myself over to her site and sure enough my name was there, along with ten other bloggers that she deemed up and coming.
I'm a bit skeptical. I think this is like a pyramid scheme for blog traffic. Unless my award comes in the form of money, chocolate, or dancing girls I typically turn a critical eye. Also, I should have to arm wrestle the other nominees. The person who wins the arm wrestle match gets a year of bragging rights and cupcakes, the losers have to post pictures of their period panties on the internet.
I am just a wee bit competitive.
I also like people… which is why I am going to entertain said blogger. Thanks for the nomination Raquel! I am going to play along with the Liebster Award, but only partly… because I am still a rebel ::rock fist::
I am supposed to answer some questions and then nominate other bloggers. I'll answer the questions… but I am not going to link bloggers or nominate anyone. I am selfish and believe that the line of nominations should stop at ME.
11 questions for the nominees to answer
1. what's your favorite holiday tradition?
Kwanzaa….because I hate white people
2. name three things you have on you at all times?
Is this a trick question? My brain, my vagina, and chapstick
3. what's one word you say a lot?
Vagina. Fuck. No… vagina… noooo… fuck. Okay. BOTH
4. when you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
I have yet to look at myself in the mirror. I avoid it at all costs. Oh my god! Is this questionnaire designed to remind me of my own self- loathing? This is the worst award of all times!
5. how did you get into blogging?
I was rockin' a xanga back when the world knew what a xanga was because I liked to write and I thought people should keep up with my crazy life. I kept blogging for me. It has become my love.
6. what's your worst bad habit?
binge eating and masturbating to care bears. Just kidding about the second one.
7. would you rather have the power to be invisible or the power to read minds? why?
I feel like I already read minds. Also, being invisible is lame. I don't want either of those. I want to be Storm from the Xmen. Although there are way more Xwomen then Xmen and the name should be changed to be more inclusive.
8. you're given a million dollars right now. what do you spend it on?
On other people. I love giving people things and helping others. But after I spent my money on taking care of others I would invest in myself. I'd also buy a boston terrier, a new house, some shit I don't need from ikea, a farm, and a lock of chaka khan's hair.
9. what's the one thing you miss about being a child?
NOTHING. My childhood was horrific. Wait. I miss my school teachers. Those ladies were awesome. So awesome.
10. would you go back in time if it were possible? and if so, would you change something?
People say they'd never change anything. They say that what has happened to them makes them a better person. I think that is total bullshit. I'd change lots of things, BUT I've seen enough sci-fi movies to know that if I changed anything I'd tear the time/space continuum and so I am far too intelligent to fuck with the universe like that. As you should be too. The universe don't need no help, y'all.
11. what's your favorite personality trait? do think most people would agree?
I think my authenticity is the most powerful thing I have. I am vulnerable and honest with who I am in the world. Also, I don't care about other people agreeing with me… see! THAT is how authenticity works.


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"Nepal is an historic commercial and cultural gateway for Tibetans and for decades has provided refuge or safe transit for thousands of Tibetans fleeing oppression in Tibet. Now, in order to respect and preserve the bonds between Nepalis and Tibetans, Nepal must resist significant pressure from the Chinese government to comply with its hard line against Tibetans. Many Nepalis would resist what feels unnatural and manipulative, but pressure from China typically comes with economic and other inducements.Given the hardships, political instability and other stresses in Nepal continuing to this day, such inducements are increasingly well-received, rendering Tibetans and their status in Nepal commensurately vulnerable," says Mary Beth Markey, ICT President.
Conditions Impacting the Flight of Tibetan Refugees, describes how China seeks to delegitimize the Tibetan community in Nepal, rendering large numbers of Tibetans in Nepal vulnerable to political exploitation, and unable to partake in state services or travel without threat of harassment, extortion or detention. Dangerous Crossing documents the following:
A correlation exists between China's post-2008 engagement with Nepal and the suppression of the Tibetan community by Nepali security forces and bureaucracy. China's aid, support for security forces, high-level political visits, infrastructure development, and trade are openly contingent on Nepal's demonstrated commitment to preventing so-called 'anti-China' activities by Tibetans. Over the same period, Tibetans' rights to freedom of movement, expression, assembly, cultural life and religion have been significantly curtailed in Nepal.
Since the protests and crackdown in Tibet beginning in March 2008, the number of Tibetans who have successfully eluded capture and reached the U.N.-funded Tibetan Refugee Transit Center in Kathmandu has decreased, and border security has been intensified dramatically. Nepal is an essential gateway for Tibetans into exile that the Chinese authorities are seeking to block.
A 2010 intelligence-sharing agreement between Nepal and China has been followed by unprecedented levels of surveillance of the Tibetan community by Nepali and Chinese state agents, and facilitates the arrest and harassment of Tibetans.
Recent bureaucratic changes in Nepal restricting education, motorbike licenses, and travel in addition to existing restrictions on owning property, registering businesses, and working in the public section, are compounding the impoverishment of the Tibetan community.
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Category Archives: Marketing
Time to wake up and smell the coffee chaps…
While rummaging through my email inbox this morning I stopped and read the one from the professional institute of which I am a member.
It's compelling, and beautifully written, as it ought to be and it was asking me very nicely to attend the annual conference. And offering me a discount. What's not to like about that?
What caught my eye though was that the early booking discount was £200 + vat. If that's the discount I thought, how much is the conference? A mighty £445 + vat no less. Which means that if I don't book before the early bird discount runs out I'll have to fork at a eye-watering £645 + vat to attend a conference run by the association I pay to be a member of. Wow.
Possibly not for the right reasons, the organisation now had my full attention. Surely this must be a two day event I thought… but no, this was for a one day 09:00 to 17:30 affair (with an hour and forty minutes of break time; you'll be relieved to hear that lunch was provided) where I could attend ten sessions (if I had the fortitude to get through it all) of which there were some of only marginal interest.
The marketing line what smaller companies can learn from the "big boys" illicited a wry chortle. Because at that price how many small businesses are actually likely to attend. The HMRC definition of a small company is if your turnover is £5.6million or less or have fewer than 50 employees. In reality many small, and very dynamic, businesses fall well below these thresholds. In the Marketing Week/Ball & Hoolahan marketing salary survey for 2012 the salary for a marketing manager is somewhere in the region of £36,000. If you extrapolate down from this you can work out that this conference organiser is potentially asking a company to pay a quarter of an employee's monthly take home pay to attend a one day conference from which there is marginal company-wide return on investment.
You don't need to absorb much media in the UK to work out that these are straitened economic times. There is many a managing director trying to work out whether they should pay the wage bill or the suppliers, and telling their employees that "we're very sorry but there will be no wage increases this year". Training budgets may survive, just, but spending on expensive conference days out (we haven't factored in travel and accommodation/lost productivity costs in all of this have we?) isn't a priority for many. And what about those who have embraced redundancy and become freelance marketers… if you take the cost of the conference and the loss of a day's earnings why on earth would you even consider booking a place.
And conference organisers wonder why their attendance rates are down… Discriminating against large sectors of the audience by virtue of price isn't going to help much is it? And membership organisations are more at risk than ever because we're not even sure we need you any more guys.
It is in times like these that great innovation often occurs. Exhibition and live event organisers have recognised for years the need to add more and more value to their offerings, creating environments where visitors can get information or experiences that they just can't get elsewhere. It's time that conference organisers did the same. There is no point telling a potential attendee that they will learn new things and network with their peers, because they can do this via LinkedIn without spending a bean or having to get up at 6:15am to get to the venue, and a day full of plenary sessions with tiny comfort breaks (because the programme is crammed to make it look like it is value for money) doesn't deliver for many people.
So dear conference organisers I challenge you to do three things differently this year:
- Start your pricing strategy from how much you think your conference is worth and how much your delegate is willing to pay rather than from how much money you need to cover your venue costs. If the answer is £99+vat then find a solution that fits.
- Stop trying to cram too much into a programme to justify the huge sum of money you are asking for. Remember how exhausting it was to sit in a lecture theatre for a couple of hours as a student and ask yourself why you think people can endure it for eight hours or more now that they are older.
- Embrace some new technology to deliver to your audiences and members in a different, more inclusive and accessible way. Get out of that traditionalist box right now.
At present most conference organisers (associations included) attract on average less than 5% of their target audiences to their events. Which means that for every delegate you get there could be another 19 waiting to engage with your organisation. Time to go get them.
hellen @missioncontrol
Why 'must' I 'attend' your event?
Your brochure is finished. The design is great (though you haven't left a lot of white space because you've got to keep on giving those punters reasons to attend) and you think the copy covers all the bases.
Bet I can guess what phrase you have used to describe your conference/awards/expo?
… is the Must Attend Event for … professionals/lovers of jazz music etc. etc.
Oh how I wish I had a penny for every time that phrase is used. Why not a pound? I hear you ask. That's because I am so confident of the number of times it has been used that I think I will still benefit financially. And indeed I am proved correct: a Google search on the phrase 'must attend event' yields no fewer than 6,580,000 results! Even if I narrow the search criteria down to the last twelve months it yields 403,000 results.
It's a facetious point well made. Why do marketers describe their events in such hackneyed terms?
And is it marketing's problem, or is it something more fundamental to do with the way we create events, particularly large scale exhibitions, multi-streamed conferences and awards ceremonies?
Probably a bit of both if the truth be told.
It's easy(ish) to market a rock concert. You know which band is playing, you tell their fans where and when and hopefully they will buy tickets. Simple, single stage sell. But how do you get 5,000 people to a medical device exhibition or 100 delegates to attend a conference on social networking? You could tell them what's on offer, but you'll need to present the message differently to each of your audience sectors, and that causes problems because you might not be able to offer them all the same super attractive package. And then of course you might be the only marketer trying to cover off a number of events and your creative juices are spread too thinly.
So the easy option is to describe your product as the must attend event for 'anyone involved in the medical device industry' or 'anyone who wants to use social networking to leverage their business'. Phew – got all the potential audience covered - can sign off on the copy.
Stop and look again though. Instead of trying to find phrases that fit all, remember what motivates people to come to events. There will be a core of people who attend because they come every year; the health services that buy medical devices perhaps, and they make up 40% of your audience. You can clearly identify another 40%. So why not create copy that talks to these people? Because I will miss the other 20% you reply. But what makes that other 20% come along every year… they seek you out. And it wasn't because you kept harping on about the fact that you are the must attend event for… it's because they were looking for something and they found it in your copy/online content etc. and subsequently your event.
Be brave. Stop trying to talk to everyone at once. Create a series of miniture marketing pieces within your main message. Create multiple calls to action (and if you are asking someone to spend £750 on a conference place please don't use Book Now) that drive individuals to yet more compelling and targetted content. Tell a small business in Irving why embracing Facebook could transform their sales performance; explain to a manufacturer what installing a clean-room could do to their business; encourage an advertising agency in Coventry to enter an industry award.
Then, and only then, will your event be truly must attend.
hellen @purerocketscience


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Opportunities to Serve on the Church Campus
Sunday Coffee Service - Weekly Opportunity | Communion Cup Cleanup - Monthly Opportunity | Adult Luncheon Setup & Serving - Monthly Opportunity |
Serving beverages in Trinity Court after the Sunday 10 a.m. service is one of the most important functions of our church's hospitality. By offering coffee, tea, hot chocolate or a cold beverage, you give people a warm & friendly environment in which to linger, to neighbor, or simply to enjoy the fresh air in Trinity Court. | Looking for a fun way to meet other folks who attend SVPC? Communion is served monthly at the 10 a.m. worship service after which there are many small cups to be collected, washed and reassembled in the communion serving trays. Grab a green bucket and join us as we meet and catch up with each other. | Our older adults enjoy a monthly luncheon which features entertainment and tasty food in a fun and friendly atmosphere. Lisa McManis prepares the delicious meals from scratch while others are invited to set the tables and help serve the meal & dessert, and refill water glasses. Your help with these tasks is appreciated by every attendee. |
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Tech Booth - If you have a passion for technology and are looking for an area of service, consider volunteering in the tech booth on Sunday mornings helping with video recording or screen projections. Contact Julie Reilly.
Welcome Booth - If you have an interest or passion in helping new people feel comfortable in unfamiliar surroundings, or in helping newcomers learn more about the church, the Welcome Booth is a good fit for you. We're looking for friendly, welcoming people to work before and after the 10 a.m. service, as well as at special holiday service times. Training is provided. Contact .
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Central Virginia Community College
Merritt Hall Exhibit Showcases Photography and Studio Art Certificate Programs
Let Me Be Meek, Lauren Williams, Large Format Silver Print
Lynchburg, VA /Media Release/5/02/11 – "Collective Vision," the May/June art exhibition at Merritt Hall will feature the work of advanced and graduating students in the Photography and Studio Art Certificate Programs at Central Virginia Community College. Participating artists and photographers include Joshua Cahow, Glen Campbell, Jr, Spencer Case, Mark East, Jennifer Flack, Dick Frisbee, Rachael Hall, Zachary Hall, Cailin Leahy, Kaitlin McCombs, Tara Justice McDaniel, Wendell Pitsenbarger, Daniel Sablatzky, Vicki Shockley, Julie Stalnaker, Katherine Viar, Monica Viar, Ben Villarreal, Alex Walker, Lauren Williams.
The CVCC Career Studies Certificate programs in Photography and Studio Art provide a broad foundation for individuals interested in a career in either photography or fine art, as well as an opportunity for those individuals interested in art as an avocation to expand their horizons. The intent of the program is to balance technical competence with expressive concerns in order to free the individual to find his or her own artistic vision.
The exhibition includes paintings, drawings and photography using gelatin
silver, large format, and some digital work. The opening reception will be held
Friday, May 6, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
The exhibit will hang until the end of June.
The exhibit is sponsored by the CVCC Cultural and International Events Committee.
Contact Cindy Vener at email@example.com for further information about Merritt Hall Gallery and the exhibitions calendar.
Release Date: 10:00 AM (EST) 5/02/11
Release Number: 110502Collective
Media Contact:
Cindy Vener
Coordinator, Public Relations and Marketing
Central Virginia Community College
(434) 832-7609
Copyright © 2011 Central Virginia Community College. All Rights Reserved.
A Member Institution of the Virginia Community College System


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- Residency at Holmes Elementary
- Residency at Holmes Elementary
- Residency at Holmes Elementary
Haifa Bint-Kadi
Category: Visual, Sculpture, Installation, Mixed Media, Collage, Folk/Traditional Arts, Murals, Ceramics
- Address
63 Main Street, Loft 3
Yonkers, New York 10701 - Website
- www.artandsoul-studio.com
- Contact
- Haifa Bint-Kadi
- email@example.com
I am a nationally exhibited Arab-American mosaic artist with long term experience in teaching and lecturing. My M.F.A. was obtained from Instituto d\'Arte per il Mosaico di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy in 1993. I hold a B.A. in Film Studies from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. I am a roster artist at the Westchester Arts Council.
Most of my work has been centered around public art and mosaic murals. My most recent project is a Jewish Muslim Mosaic. The goal is to complete a mosaic that demonstrates our ability as Muslims and Jews to accomplish an artistic pursuit together, amidst difference, but in an environment of tolerance. Ultimately our objective is to create a model for peace, dialogue and mutual respect. I am currently working on a public art mosaic mural for the Peekskill Riverfront Green.
My most recent gallery show, \"Return,\" was at the Tribe Gallery in Manhatten. During the summer of 2004 I exhibited pique assiette for a public art project in \"Before + After: Imagining Public Art in Westchester.\"
My mosaic works are traditional in the sense that they combine form, color, function, order and durability, but juxtaposed is the reflective, unique quality of each individual tesserae against the assimilation of that tile into a whole image. There is an interdependence between what the tesserae define and what is implied by the mosaic as a whole. The medium never becomes subservient to the image, which is why mosaics are captivating on many levels. I explore the interactive quality of art by incorporating mirrors into most of my pieces. Observers literally become active by the incorporation of their reflections in the piece itself. My goal is to explore the notion of public art as interactive. I want to transcend the typical passive role of the observer by engaging them intimately with the art. I am interested in connections. What connects the artist to the vision and resulting piece, what connects or disconnects the viewer of the art and how are the artist and the viewers connected by the piece. Somehow the mosaic must bring all the interactions together not just in the image and tiles, but also between the piece, artist and viewer. This aspect is very crucial to my work in public art as well as personal design pieces.
- Resume
Teaching Artist63 Main Street, Loft 3 914-423-1893
Yonkers, NY 10701 firstname.lastname@example.com: 18 years experience implementing sustainable residencies which make meaningful & authentic connections between art and non-art subjects, which empower and build community and character through the arts, meeting and exceeding NYS Learning Standards and Blue Print for the Arts within public schools grades K-12.
Professional Experience
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY 2002-Present
Teaching Artist
Incorporating NY Blueprint for the Arts in elementary/middle/high school visual arts residencies and conducting in-house family and school workshops based on exhibits and museum collections. Engage and introduce local teachers to museum resources through in-service workshops.A partial list of recent residencies and workshops:
Narrative Houses: Family Workshop with Domino Sugar Employees emphasizing history of Hudson River, utilizing recycled and found materials gathered from the waterfront to create architectural structures based on Hudson River folklore.
The Hudson River School Painters: 8th Grade students collectively designed a mosaic that incorporated themes of The Hudson River School Painters to create a permanent mosaic for the entry of Riverside High School. 2009-2011.
Bringing Tiffany to Foxfire School 4th Grade: Students created a beautiful Tiffany-inspired glass mosaic in the school court yard to coincide with the students museum trip to view the Tiffany exhibit. Integrated Environmental Ed and utilized the school's aquariums and watershed program to guide students in designing stained glass fish images.
Tiffany Exhibit: Through the Family Saturday Program, patrons created Tiffany inspired mini-stained glass windows on plexi.
The Harlem Renaissance Comes to Elm Street Safe House: High school students created 3-D, life-sized historically-based pop-art figures from the Harlem Renaissance inspired by the Red Grooms exhibit.
Early American Quilt-Makers: 3rd Grade students observed Dutch quilt patterns and created intricate paper-cut pieces which connected to form one quilt based on the Patterns and Design exhibit.CityLore, Manhattan, NY 2003-Present
Teaching Artist
Inquiry-based residencies combining oral history and community study designed to integrate social studies curriculum and artistic expertise to foster students' awareness of traditions and cultural history, empowering them to express their ideas while understanding the world around them.A partial list of recent residencies and workshops:
Asia Through Ghost Stories and Narrative Figures: Integrated PS 217 MS social studies curriculum on Asia through ghost stories of Japan and China culminating in narrative puppets and dolls representing Asian values on ancestors mounted in alter-like structures, combined with mixed-media journals and family interviews.
Migration Journeys: Integrated PS 217 Latin America MS social studies curriculum through the Byzantine mosaic art form culminating in a mosaic mural depicting the migration journeys of plants and animals and the immigration journeys of people whose cultural contributions have enriched American life.
Immigration Journeys: Cultural Map of the World, Permanent mosaic installation at P.S. 11 in Woodside Queens. Conducted 5 month residency with 5th grade in collaboration with subject teachers and art teachers that integrated social studies, ELA and arts standards in research, journal writing, project documentation through photography and intense study of folklore, culture & mosaic studio techniques culminating in a 120 ft. permanent mosaic installation in school entrance. Students also created a performance, poetry workbook and an image catalog.
P.S. 29 Where Magic Happens, Permanent mosaic installation, Brooklyn, NY, working collaboratively with the art teacher, conducted week-long residency focusing on the history of Byzantine Mosaic in comparison to modern mosaic and connected to representative and abstract art. Students researched the history of the school and collaboratively created a traditional Byzantine mosaic sign installed at the school's entrance.ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY 2003-Present
Roster Teaching ArtistA partial list of recent Project driven residencies for K-12 & professional development opportunities for teachers.
Huntertwasser Comes to Elm Street year-long community mural residency based on research of the 1800's Elm Street Pickle Factory and Haberdashery and early Dutch settlers culminating in a public park with reclaimed painted sculptures representing Yonkers reinterpreted by Huntertwasser's colors and shapes. All ages and partially funded by WestHab Inc.
The Brazilian Rainforest: Mt. Kisco Elementary 6th Grade students learned Brazilian Rainforest curriculum and used painting, collage and mixed-media to create Niches.
What These Hands Have Done intergenerational residency focusing on elder's early history and connecting youth to personal and community narratives culminating in personal Where I'm From poems and illustrated books.
Do It the Holmes School Way: Holmes Elementary School, Mt. Vernon, NY. Fabricated 200 sq. ft. mosaic depicting history of Mt. Vernon over school days and over the holiday break with students, teachers, parents. Truly a "Third Space" project.
The Life Cycle of the Sunflower: F. Lee Jackson School, Greenburg, NY. Integrated 1st grade science curriculum and collaborated with teachers to teach through the art of mosaic culminating in 4 permanent mosaic installations and progress journals.
Coming Together: Phelps Rehabilitation & Development, Ossining, NY Worked with special population of physically challenged adults to develop themes of trust and community through movement exercises, culminating in illustrated mixed-media journals.
The Built Environment & Character Ed: William Cottle School, Eastchester, NY. Integrating the 5th Grade Social Studies curriculum with movement and trust building exercises, students designed and developed a public art mural based on the theme of the built environment, while also learning to create an empowered and safe environment to create this ambitious mosaic installed on the outside brick face of the school.
Literacy Through the Arts Mosaic Project, Mohansic School, Yorktown Heights, NY Integrated ELA and Art Standards for 1st and 2nd grades creating a literacy cut-paper mural based on Jacob Lawrences work.
Mural Painting and Communities Across the World: Diego Rivera, Casimir Pulaski School, Yonkers, NY, Combined 5th Grade Social Studies Standards with large scale mural painting to create a permanent mosaic mural for the school's cafeteria working with the entire 5th Grade.
Staff Development: French Hill School, Yorktown, NY, facilitated a series of workshops based on Augusto Boal's movement exercises, consequently instructed a creativity workshop focusing on skills of working collaboratively, culminating in personal mixed-media journals.BOCES of Putnam County, Putnam County, NY 2005-Present
Teaching ArtistIn-School and After School Teaching Artist
Springhurst Elementary School, Dobbs Ferry, NY: 5-year residency. Teaching 1st grade Hudson River social studies and arts curriculum through the art of mosaic culminating in outdoor classroom benches, murals and global garden.
Colonial School, Pelham NY, 5 year residency culminating in an annual addition to the Outdoor Classroom Habitats mosaic.
Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School, Shrub Oak, NY: 5-year residency teaching Character Ed through Mosaic Murals that permanently adorn the school hallways. Currently have installed 8 mosaic murals.
Mohansic School District: Conduct annual credited in-service training for district teachers and 1st grade science curriculum on the Monarch butterfly through mosaic and built outdoor environment.
French Hill Country Day School, Mohansic NY, constructed outdoor classroom utilizing Lanape and Mohegan inspired mosaic pole sculptures incorporating the district's Character Ed curriculum.Beczak Environmental Education Center, Yonkers, NY 2001-Present
Teaching Artist
For many years I have volunteered to teach environmental art through the Second Saturday Family Weekend Art Program to enhance and widen community awareness of environmental issues and the history of New York along the Hudson River. Projects have included: Half Moon paper replicas, hand made books and paper, Lenape masks, art journals, artist trading cards, found-object collages.Groundwork Yonkers, Yonkers, NY 2000-Present
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Program development for Seniors, at-risk youth and residents living in distressed and disadvantaged conditions in and around Yonkers, NY
Cottage Place Municipal Housing, Yonkers, NY, Conduct community building art workshops that involve residents in planning, designing and transforming the built environment through public art.
Westchester Community Foundation Intergenerational History Project: Directed seniors and middle school students in year-long project to broaden understanding and to create mentor and support relationships through art-based projects.
September 11, Memorial Park, Yonkers, NY, designed and constructed park.
Currently under permanent contract to conduct intergenerational mural projects, summer-long intergenerational art workshop, design after school art programs for youth that may be at-risk or have a low threshold for social interaction, execute public art murals in Westchester County.Duchesne Center for Social Justice , Manhattanville College, Purchase NY 2008-Present
Adjunct Professor
Assist and advise students participating in community service obligations. Conduct specialized public art program in which students volunteer to assist in building and beautifying community centers and public housing units.Awards, Recognitions and Additional Experience:
2011 Awarded Greenie by City of Yonkers for using sustainability art practices.
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Conducted creativity workshops for teachers at State Conference Common Ground
2007-2010 Facilitator, The Dialogue Project
2009 Selected as a Master Teaching Artist by the N.E.A.'s Nations in Neighborhoods Federal Grant to work with a subject teacher for 5 years teaching Social Studies through the Arts along with a Federal evaluator.
2007-2010 Awarded Teaching Fellow by the Empire State Partnership and the New York Council on the Arts and conducted teacher & arts administration professional development specializing in Understanding By Design & Third Space pedagogies.
2006 NYAAIE training with Dr. John Woodall, a psychiatrist with the Harvard Medical Center to use therapeutic methods in art workshops with at-risk youth.
2006 Bronx Museum of Art's Action Lab for teaching artists certificate in Augusto Boal's Theater Arts.
2005 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts award for Rescue Initiative Program for the Arts.Education:
1990, B.A. Film Studies & Studio Minor, Willamette University, Salem OR
1993 M.F.A Instituto d'Arte per il mosaico di Ravenna, Ravenna Italy.Affiliations: American for the Arts, Association of Teaching Artist, Wave Hill, The Hudson River Museum, ArtsWestchester, Society for American Mosaic Artists, New York State Alliance for Arts Education, National Association of Art Educators, American Folklore Society, Dialogue Interfaith Project, Women in the Arts.
Public Service: Serve as the Yonkers P.T.S.A. City Council Delegate, Democratic District Ward Leader, Manhattanville College Diversity Committee
Board Member: Yonkers Arts Council, Philipse Historic Manor, Yonkers, NY
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This blog is about the intersection between evolutionary biology and food. But also about practical applications, sustainable agriculture, and general tasty things.
When I was first becoming a foodie in college I decided to switch my major to food science. I registered for most of the required basic science courses, as well as the intro class for majors. Unfortunately that class is why I'm not a food scientist. It was taught by a former head food scientist from Kraft and you could have retitled it "how to sell massive and ever increasing amounts of garbage commodity foods to Americans." I remember in one lab we toured they were making crispy puffs out of some soy byproduct that they told us would otherwise go to waste. I ate my bag and went back for more, but I otherwise remember nothing about that "food."
Some of my friends in neuroscience study how to prevent addiction, food scientists at these labs were studying how to encourage it. The End of Overeating documents their extremely successful methods.
I decided food science was not for me and ended up not switching my major. In fact, I decided that food science was evil and I wanted nothing to do with it.
But is food science going to be saved? Since I've started getting into modernist haute cuisine, I've noticed a movement from within to turn food science back into quality rather than selling people mass quantities of commodities. Ferran Adria of elBulli was an early pioneer of using food science in the haute cuisine kitchen and Harold McGee brought food science to conscientious home cooks through On Food and Cooking. Now Ferran has retired from the restaurant business to teach a form of food science known as "culinary physics" at Harvard and research gastronomy there. Super rich internet entrepreneur Nathan Myhrvold funded the development of the "bible" of Modernist Cuisine, using his millions to assemble a team of chefs and scientists to figure out how to perfect food as an aesthetic experience. Here is a Ted talk from one of the authors, Chris Young, a biochemist.
And now there is a new open-access academic journal called Flavor that had an article that caught my eye yesterday: Seaweeds for umami flavor in the New Nordic Cuisine. Turns out it's a collaboration between a physicist at the University of Southern Denmark and the Nordic Food Lab, which was started by Rene Redzepi, who runs the restaurant Noma. Noma took the mantle of "best restaurant in the world" after Ferran entered academia. I suppose Rene is trying to do academia and restaurants at once, with some successful results from his own Nordic Food Lab.
I think now that the concept of "food reward" has come into popular consciousness in the evolutionary blogosphere, some people have confused high "food reward" with good. That's the interesting part- foods that are high "food reward" are not often particularly aesthetically pleasing. They are not "good" in any way. Few writers are going to wax poetic on a cheeto the way you can about ikura or fine wine. High food reward foods stimulate compulsion. They hit the parts of the brain that make you want to eat more.
As I wrote about in my Paleolithic Post-Modernist Cuisine post, Ferran conceptualized food that hit not only the taste buds, but also had intellectual value " in which other elements come into play, such as sense of humour, irony, provocation, childhood memories, or -- a very important point."
A major difference between the modernist cuisine* type of food science and the food science that has led to the creation of bran flakes and Cheetos is that the former is all about quality, whereas the later places more of an emphasis on creating foods people want to eat more of.
When your ingredients cost as much as $6000 a lb, the last thing you want to do is create dishes that make the eater crave more. I remember eating one of the rarest mollusks in the world, abalone, at Manresa. It was a tiny tiny sliver, but I'll remember more about it than I'll ever remember about the fried chicken I used to binge on in the dining hall in college.
This is why I think it's vital for the neuroscientists who study food reward to collaborate with the nascent scientists of the modern gastronomy movement. While I think Whole Health Source is one of the best blogs out there, the low-reward food diet seems kind of harsh to me.
"Eat only single ingredients with no flavorings added. No spices, herbs, salt, added sweeteners, added fats, etc. If you eat a potato, eat it plain." When I have tried a diet like that, it triggers anhedonia and I can't keep it up. I also simply don't think that "low-reward" has to mean miserable food. Reward is about triggering a system of compulsion, not about aesthetic reward.
Stephan says that "You may initially feel deprived, but you should become more satisfied by simple food over time." But I think for those of use who are very hedonic, this is unrealistic and why would I want to give up the pleasures of truly luxurious food if I don't have to? Maybe it's because I come from a family of people unusually attuned to risk and pleasure seeking and my dopamine receptors are insane.
The dishes I have eaten from the kitchens of the modern gastronomists have plenty of flavor and aesthetic reward. But they do not leave me craving more. They are not dishes that stimulate compulsion, but appreciation of beauty, complexity, and the unique flavors of each quality ingredient.
Here is a "dish" I ate at a 14-course meal at ElIdeas here in Chicago. It was titled "roe - katsuobushi / tapioca / coconut." katsuobushi is also known as "bonito fish" and is one of the foundations of traditional dashi, the broth that is the nucleus of Japanese cuisine. It is the quintessential "umani" ingredient, imparting savory flavors. But unlike purified umami, which is MSG, it has a complex heavy somewhat-fishy flavor. It's made of mackerel after all.
At ElIdeas the guests are invited to participate in the kitchen, where I happily saw that the chef was using the whole dried fish, shaving off flakes by hand. Most Japanese restaurants in the US use commercially-made "bonito flavored" flakes that are often mostly MSG. The real thing is not easy to find, it's not something you want to create a dish with where the eater will crave more, but one that highlights the unusual and rich flavors of each ingredient.
The food science that has dominated the industry and academia for so long is mainly concerned with making crap better. The new modernist food science is mainly concerned with getting the best out of wonderful things. I hope they can collaborate to work out culinary principles for food that tastes good AND doesn't hijack the senses in order to trigger compulsive eating. That's going to be hard, because everyone seems to have different triggers.
In my own kitchen, the practical applications of what I've learned from fancy food are pretty easy to spot. I cook with only the best ingredients and favor complex and unusual flavors, like spicy mustards, heavy misos, real high-quality fish sauce, seaweeds, and offal. Interestingly, haute cuisine shares elements and flavors with ancient peasant cuisine, probably because despite their divergent costs, they both have the same goal of making the most out of small amounts of things.
An simple recipe I enjoyed for breakfast today was Trader Joe's smoked wild salmon wrapped in roasted seaweed (I used seasnax), drizzled with some spicy mustard. Delicious, pretty, and satisfying.
* I would note that this movement is seperate from the gastropub and new american food movements, which often do feature compulsive little snacks like fries with aioli
Last month someone posted saying asking if I might have issues with anxiety/depression that might really be at the root of my stomach problems rather than diet. It's interesting because I once thought that to be the case, but if it was I seem to have de-coupled the issues. When I first started getting healthy, my main goal was to be stable enough health-wise to study abroad, a goal I met and indeed I did study for a year in Uppsala. But even there when I was stressed I would get stomach issues.
The past few weeks have been rough personally, but the amazing thing is that my problems have not been compounded by severe stomach issues like they were in the past. I think that while I have had other troubles, I am thrilled to have a achieved a degree of resiliency that I didn't think was possible for myself. I think the things that have gotten me through this time are utilizing simple gentle cooking methods. I told myself that it's OK to not eat perfectly, but that's not an excuse to survive on ice cream.
I was very grateful that I have a bag of Haiga rice. It is more expensive that normal rice, but it is more nutritious that white or brown rice. It has more of the rice germ, but not the hull. So it's digestible without being soaked.
In my experience I need very little of this to be full. I make it in my handy rice cooker. I first learned about rice cookers when I lived in grad student housing that provided me with a large private room...but no kitchen. Most of the other people there were exchange students from Taiwan, China, and Korea. They all had rice cookers. You can cook great meals with just an electrical outlet at your disposal. It's important to get one with a steamer to make your meal complete. In the past when I was grain-free I boiled roots in the rice container, but now I just put in some haiga rice. In the steamer you can put all kinds of things. Most roots and vegetables steam well. You can also steam sausage, fish, and Korean egg custard (I just put the custard in a dish and put the dish in the middle of the steamer). I love steaming sausage because it usually bursts a little and drips on top of the rice. I have also made a few other random things in the steamer like bucket dumplings and idlis.
I can't give you a recipe for a buckwheat dumplings, because I made mine up. I first had such a thing when I was at Himalayan Yak. They told me not to order the buckwheat thing (maybe it wasn't even a dumpling) because it was not something Westerners liked, but I don't know what they were talking about because it was delicious. They served it with TONS of butter and a stew of some sort made with goat liver and heart. If anyone knows what this is called I would be grateful :) It's not on their normal menu. Either way, if you can make it into a ball, you can steam it. I usually soak the locally grown buckwheat flour overnight in some water and it works OK. The butter is required :) I'm fascinated by the diversity of cuisines in Nepal...seems like there are at least five different regional cuisines.
I just put the stuff in, flip the switch, and go do other things. When I'm done I mix it all together and add random stuff like pickled vegetables, chutney, sambal oelek, seaweed, and raw egg yolks.
Also, of course I use my slow cooker. I find that Korean recipes work really well in a slow cooker and I get a lot of ideas at local Korean places. They are some of the few restaurants in the city where they still make bone stocks and cook meat on the bone. I've had old Bulgarian ladies tell me their MSG-laden bouillon is "traditional," but the Koreans know better. You can't make something like Seolleongtang without real bone stock. It's made with ox bones that are boiled for hours and hours. Properly, they should be boiled for days.
While I am not going to live in NYC much longer, I'm very grateful for the diversity and how it has inspired me to learn and develop ways of eating that are as resilient as the cultures they came from. Thanks to the internet, I really don't need to live here to enjoy such food anyway....


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From: | Brandon J. Van Every |
Subject: | Re: [Chicken-users] alternate build tools |
Date: | Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:29:32 -0700 |
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Thomas Chust wrote:
of the suggested system I have only tried ant so far and I instantly disliked it: It didn't run out of the box, although it is a Java program, it is a rather big package which makes it a heavy dependency and in my opinion it is very clumsy to handle, partly because of the xml format of the build control files.Of course that's only my personal opinion -- some Java programmers I know do like it. Apparently it integrates very nicely with Eclipse.
I looked into Ant and CC Task mainly because I'll soon be doing an Alias Maya project with Eclipse. In the process I sorta forgot that these concerns are mostly irrelevant to Chicken. I mean, just because I'll be using Eclipse and Schemeway doesn't mean other people will be. Well I suppose if Ant was simple to use, and it worked, then nobody would complain. But I've been leery of it myself because it doesn't sound simple to use. Rather, it's politically correct if you're going to be working with the Eclipse developers. They'll pay attention to it, and likely won't be interested in SCons or CMake.
For Chicken, I think CMake is the way to go. Cheers, Brandon J. Van Every (cruise (director (of SeaFunc) '(Seattle Functional Programmers))) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SeaFunc
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