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EDUCATION: M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, May 1998; J.D., University of California, Berkeley; B.S. University of Oregon
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Director, Center for Impact at California College of the Arts and Associate Professor, 2014-present; Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, 2001-2018
2016 "Liminous" The Exploratorium, East Gallery, San Francisco, CA (March)
2013 "RGB Space" collaboration with Nick Lally, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (March)
2013 "The Cinema Snowglobe," collaboration with Scott Minneman, The Workshop Residence, San Francisco, California (April)
2012 "Portable Portraiture," collaboration with Scott Minneman, The Workshop Residence, San Francisco, California (June-August)
2012 "Evolution" film commissioned for "Pacific Standard Time," J. Paul Getty Center, San Francisco and Los Angeles, California (January)
2011 "Magic Stories, Bishkek," interactive installation commissioned by CEC Artlink/ProArte, Bishkek, Krygystan (October)
2011 "Portal," a public art outdoor film projection for the Children's Discovery Museum, San Jose, CA (May)
2011 "Journey", and "Portal," multiple public art projections in storefronts, SubZero Festival, San Jose, California (June)
2011 "Magic Stories: Saint Petersburg," interactive installation commissioned by CEC Artlink/ProArte, St. Peterburg, Russia (June)
2010 "Potrero Hill," screening of film commissioned by the Mobile Arts Platform Project, San Francisco, California (Oct.)
2010 "Anti-Master," collaboration with Dave Aju, screening/live score performance, commissioned by the De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (Sept.)
2010 "Material Language," Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California (January - March)
2009 "The Magic Story Table/49 Stories," (interactive installation), 826 Valencia, City of San Francisco (March)
2007 - 2009 "Downtown Mirror," (installation), Public Art Installation, City of San Jose (October 2007 - March 2009)
2003 "Twenty-One Secrets," (installation), Mezzanine Gallery, San Francisco, California (July)
2001 - 2002 "eleventh," (public art installation - outdoor projection), Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington (October-December)
2001 "The Making of a Portrait," Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington (October - December)
2000 "Portraits, Blue," Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri (September- November)
1999 "Portraits," The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998 "Portrait," Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California (May)
1996 "Storyscapes," Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California (January)
2016 "Neighborhood Climate Change", Northern Lights Festival, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Minnesota (Photography project can be seen here) (November-June 2017)
2016 "Code & Noise", Arena 1 Gallery, Los Angeles, California (September-October)
2016 "Skowhegan.WATCH," Online juried film exhibition which can be seen here (June-present)
2016 "Annual Auction," Root Division, San Francisco, California (September-October)
2016 "Peepers," The Peephole Cinema, San Francisco, California (August-October)
2016 "Liminous," The Exploratorium, East Gallery, San Francisco, California (March)
2016 "Currents 2016," Santa Fe New Mexico International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico (June)
2015 "Code & Noise," Silicon Valley Art Fair, San Mateo, California (October)
2015 "Resonate," Root Division, San Francisco, California (September)
2015 "Technological Mediations," San Rafael, California (July-September)
2015 "24/7, International Film Festival Rotterdam," Rotterdam, The Netherlands (January-February)
2014 "Update_5," New Technological Art Award 2014, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium (November)
2014 "DorkBot at Stochastic," Stochastic Labs, Berkeley, California (October)
2014 "Making___that Matters," Oliver Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California (September)
2014 "Smoke and Mirrors," Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California (March)
2014 "Electronic Pacific," Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China (March)
2014 "Paraphrase," Southern Graphics Council International Conference, San Francisco, California (March)
2014 "Mind Matters: Mapping the Human Mind," (interactive collaboration with Scott Minneman) Sandler Neuroscience Bldg, Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA (March)
2014 "100 Performances for the Hole," collaboration with Sebastien Bachar, SOMArts, San Francisco, California (January)
2013 "Metamorphosis," California Academy of the Arts, San Francisco, California (November)
2013 "Electronic Pacific," SOMArts, San Francisco, California (July)
2013 "The Making Of...," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ("The Making Of..." Launch Event), San Francisco, CA (May)
2012 "The Future, Imagined: What's Next?" 2012 Zero1 Biennial at the Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, California (November - Jan 2013)
2012 "Eat My Words," (curator and artist), McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA (September)
2012 "Intercept 3:7" (film collaboration), Multiplexer, Las Vegas, Nevada (June - July)
2012 "Instant Narrative," collaborative performance project with Dora Garcia, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (March)
2011 "Here Be Dragons: Mapping Information and Imagination," Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, California (October - January 2012)
2011 "Portal," a public art outdoor film projection for the Children's Discovery Museum, San Jose, CA (May)
2010 "Shadowshop," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (project with Stephanie Syjuco), San Francisco, California (September)
2010 "Artists Leading Artists," Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California (September)
2010 "Unexpected Reflections," Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California (January)
2009 "The Best of New York, Part 1," Broadway Gallery, New York, New York (September)
2009 "Cantocore" Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, California (February-April)
2009 "The Ingenuity Festival," Cleveland, Ohio (July)
2008 "The Geography of Conflict," Swell Gallery, San Francisco, California (December)
2008 "Girls On Film," The Garage, San Francisco, California (November)
2008 "DMFest 2008," Singapore Digital Media Festival 2008, Singapore, (October)
2008 "Intimacy," [also co-curator and co-producer], Litquake, San Francisco, California (October)
2008 "Cantocore: Export," Ping Pong Gallery, Guangzou, China (September)
2008 "The Unconvention," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (August- September)
2008 "Downtown Mirror [Airplanes]," 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California (temporary public art installation, San Jose, June 4 - 9)
2008 "Reconciling America: Miraculous Encounters with the Mundane," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, (Jan - Mar)
2007 "Plant Lives," Garage Biennale, San Francisco, California (curatorial project) (November - December)
2007 "Mastercopies," Colorline, Oslo, Norway [permanent installation] (June - present)
2007 "The Ingenuity Festival," July 19-22, Cleveland, Ohio (July)
2007 "SFAI Now," Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, California (May)
2007 "Driving Obsession," Mezzanine Gallery, February, San Francisco, California (video screening, February 2007)
2006 "Stanlee's Brain", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Annual Artist Ball and Auction, San Francisco, CA (October)
2006 "ISEA/ZeroOne Festival", C4F3, San Jose Museum of Art, ISEA 2006- Zero One San Jose Festival, San Jose, California (August)
2006 "Bedtime Stories," Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA (August)
2006 "Alien Presence H - [handmade echo]", First Draft Gallery, in conjunction with the Sydney Biennale, Australia (June)
2006 "Momentum", Southern Exposure Exhibition/Auction, San Francisco, CA (May)
2006 "Peer Pleasure 1," (reading), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California (February)
2005 "Mayhem," juried show, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA (November-December)
2005 "Mayhem," juried film and video screening, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA (December)
2005 "Black Market Auction," Independent School of Art, Hayes Valley Market, San Francisco, CA (September)
2005 "New Langton Arts Auction and Benefit 2005," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (December)
2005 "Commission 05," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA (Oct.)
2005 "Losing It," Grotto Nights at the Koret Theater (video screening), Main Public Library, CA (June)
2005 "{self}_representation," Le Musee Di-Visioniste, Ongoing Online Project, NewMediaArtProjectNetwork
2004 "Biennale for Electronic Arts," Perth, Australia (September-November)
2004 "Creature Comforts," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (December)
2004 "Festival VIDEOFORMES," AuctionVideoteque Ephemere, Clermont-Ferrand, France, (March)
2004 "Love and Other Difficulties," Axiom Theatre (Independent Exposure Series), Houston, TX (Feb)
2004 "Main Street Microcinema," Houston Downtown Entertainment Development Association Screening, Houston, TX (Feb)
2003 "Images of Desire 3," Artwalk Amsterdam, Platvorm Jonas Snijder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (June-August)
2003 "Single Channel: Collaborating with the Moving Image," The Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston (April)
2003 "ID/Entity: Portraits in the 21st Century," interactive self-portrait installation commissioned by the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
and The Kitchen, NewYork, NY (curated by Christina Yang and Judith Donath); interactive DVD at The Beall Center for Art and
Technology, University of California, Irvine, and San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (January to March)
2003 "Self/Projected: The Moving Image As Self Portrait" (video screening), San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (March)
2003 "Shifting Perspectives: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection," Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University (March- present)
2002 "New Langton's 18th Annual Auction and Exhibition, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (December)
2002 "Cite Des Ondes Fifth Manifestation Internationale Video Et Art Electronique," Montreal, Canada (September)
2002 "The One?" (performances, readings, video and screening of film produced and co-curated with Po Bronson), Grotto Nights, San Francisco
Main Library, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco, CA (September)
2002 "Independent Exposure," (video screening), Fire Station Gallery, Houston, TX (August)
2002 "Independent Exposure," (video screening), 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA (August)
2002 "Yourself - Autoritratto (Self-Portraits)," Sesto Senso, Bologna, Italy (July)
2002 "Mirror at the Bottom - Artists Portraiting Themselves," Le Musee Di-Visioniste, Online Project, NewMediaArtProjectNetwork (July-October)
2002 "Images of Desire 2," The Fields Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (June-July)
2002 "Hi Tech/Low Tech Hybrids: Art in a Digital Age," Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA (curated
by Carrie Lederer) (March to June)
2002 "Sixth Annual National Exhibition," Nexus Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Craig Houser, Guggenheim Museum) (May-June)
2002 "Art Auction 2002," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (May)
2002 "SoExquisite," Southern Exposure Auction and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA (April - May)
2002 "Cinergy 5," The Coach House, Santa Barbara, California (video screening) (March)
2002 "All Media Invitational 2002," Period Gallery, Omaha, NE (February)
2002 "ID/Entity: Portraits in the 21st Century," interactive self-portrait commissioned by the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
and The Kitchen, New York, NY (curated by Christina Yang and Judith Donath) (November to January 2002)
2002 "San Francisco on Edge," The Grotto Series (video screening), San Francisco Main Library, San Francisco, CA (November)
2002 "Many Moons," The Hammond Museum, North Salem, New York (curated by Barbara Bloemink) (September to October)
2002 "Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition and Auction," Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York (September)
2002 "Art Equinox 2001," Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT (August to October)
2002 "Realism 01," Period Gallery, Omaha, NE (July)
2002 "INsideOUT," Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida (June)
2002 "SYNESTHESIA," Southern Exposure Exhibition and Auction, San Francisco, California (June)
2002 "San Francisco Art Institute Art Auction 2001," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California (March)
2002 "art.communication," Sonoma Museum of Visual Art Exhibition and Benefit Auction, Sonoma, California (February-March)
2000 "The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, California (September 2000 - January 2001) (curated by Heather Jain)
2000 "Blur," Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California (December 2000) (curated by Marina McDougall)
2000 "Fuzzylogic," Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California (November – December 2000) (curated by Tom Finkelpearl)
2000 "Blueprint," Benefit Auction for TILT, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California (November)
2000 "Ana 29," Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana (August-October) (curated by Lucy Lippard)
2000 "Nest," Rotations, Sebastopol, California (June -December)
2000 "Circus SOEX, Southern Exposure Annual Benefit," San Francisco, California (April)
2000 "San Francisco Art Institute Art Auction 2000," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California (February)
1999 "Bay Area Now 2," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California (curated by Renny Pritikin,
Rene DeGuzman and Arnold Kemp) (November 1999 - February 2000)
1999 "The ArtCouncil 1999 Grants to Individual Artists Exhibition," San Francisco, California (September-October)
1999 "The Self, Absorbed," Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington (September-November) (curated by Brian Wallace, Chief Curator,
Bellevue Art Museum)
1999 "ANA 28," Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana (August-October) (curated by Peter Plagens)
1999 "'Hover,'118th Annual Exhibition," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California (July-August)
1999 "95th National Open," Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, California (June) (curator Martin Betz, Director, Long Beach Museum of Art)
1999 "Wallworks, LA Artcore's 14th Annual Juried Competition," LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California (May)
1999 "11th Annual National Art Competition," Ophelia Parrish Art Gallery, Truman State University, Kirksville,Missouri (March) (curated by
Marti Mayo, Director, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas)
1999 "Expo 18," b.j. spoke gallery, Huntington, New York (February- March) (curated by Clare Bell, Associate Curator, Guggenheim Museum, New York)
1999 "International Juried Show '99," New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey (January-February) (curated by Lisa Dennison,
Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum, New York)
1999 "The Millennium Exhibition," The Alternative Museum, New York, New York (January-February) (curated by Gino Rodriguez, Director,
The Alternative Museum)
1998 "Nothing But Time," Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California (November-December) (curated by David Ross, Director,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
1998 "New Fangle," Gen Art Exhibition, San Francisco, California (November) (curated by Ken Coupland, John Couch, Catherine Clark and Gail Wight)
1998 "Plugged In," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California (September-October)
1998 "ANA 27," Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana (August-October) (curated by Peter Frank, art critic for the L.A. Weekly and Village Voice)
1998 "(a collective)," Gensler, San Francisco, California (September-October)
1998 "Bank Holiday," Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Skowhegan, Maine (August)
1998 "Open Spaces," Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California (June-July) (curated by Mary Ceruti, former director, Capp Street Project,
and Ann Hatch, founder, Capp Street Project and The Oxbow School)
1998 "San Francisco Art Institute Master of Fine Arts Exhibition," San Francisco, California (May)
1998 "Figuring the Decorative," Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California (January)
1997 "Browsing Beauty," Interactive Website (digital media), Gallery 16, San Francisco, California (October - January 1998)
1997 "New Work," Microsoft Gallery Space, San Francisco, California (April-June)
1997 "Juried Spring Show," Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachussetts (April-May)
1996 "Friends," 2451 Harrison Art Space, San Francisco, California (November)
1996 "Event," 2451 Harrison Art Space, San Francisco, California (October)
1996 "Emerging Artists of San Francisco," Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens (NAACP Media Symposium), San Francisco, CA (September)
1996 "Error Type 11," Anon Salon, San Francisco, California (September)
1996 "Magnum Opus IX," Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, California (July-August) (curated by Phillip Linhares, Director, Oakland Museum)
1996 "New Work," Artspace Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (June-July) (curated by Bill Arning, founder and former director,
White Columns Gallery, New York)
1996 "State of the Arts," Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, California (March-April) (curated by Kenjilo Nanao)
1995 "The Book Show," Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, California (May)
2012 "Eat My Words," (Evening of readings and film screenings), McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 "The One?" (Evening of performances, readings, art, video and film co-curated with Po Bronson), Grotto Nights, San Francisco Main Library,
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco, CA (September)
1997 "Mirror, Mirror: Current Reflections of Self-Portraiture," Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California (April) (foreword by Donald Kuspit)
2015 Awarded Selection for the 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014 Awarded New Technological Art Award, One of the Top 21 Art & Technology Projects Worldwide, Ghent, Belgium
2014 Awarded Stochastic Labs Grant and Residency, Berkeley, California
2013 Awarded John H. Hauberg Fellowship, The Pilchuck School, Seattle, Washington
2013 Appointment as Master Public Art Plan Curator for the Yerba Buena Community Benefits District
2012 Appointment as President of the San Francisco Arts Commission
2012 Awarded Artist Workshop Residence and Fellowship, May-December 2012
2012 Nominee, SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2012 Finalist, Creative Capital Emerging Fields Grant
2011-12 Appointment as Interim Director of the San Francisco Arts Commission
2011 Selected to write Huffington Post online art and culture column
2010 Appointment as Vice President of the San Francisco Arts Commission, and serving on Executive and Visual Arts Committees
2010 Appointment as Vice President of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Chair of the Marketing Committee (initial board appointment in 2007)
2010 Award for the Annual Design Review 2010, "Magic Story Table" chosen as one of the top international Interactive Media projects, ID Magazine
2010 Nominee, SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2009 Appointment to the San Francisco Arts Commission, serving on the Executive Committee and the Visual Arts Committee
2009 Awarded Public Art Network Award, Year in Review, "Downtown Mirror" Most Outstanding Public Artworks in the United States 2009
2009 Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program Writing Workshop Fellowship
2009 Selected to write SFGate.com San Francisco Chronicle online art and culture column ("City Brights")
2009 Awarded Marcus Visual Arts Fellowship and Residency, Montalvo Center for the Arts
2008 Nominee, SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2007 Awarded Individual Artist Commission, San Francisco Art Commission
2007 Faculty Teaching Award, Most Outstanding Graduate Faculty Member 2006-2007 [LOGS], San Francisco Art Institute
2006 - 2009 Awarded Public Art Commission for "Who's on First, What's on Second" City of San Jose Public Art Project
2005-2007 Artist's Pool (Pre-Qualified), San Francisco Arts Commission Public Projects
2005 Nominee, SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2004 Nominee, Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation
2003 Nominee, InSITE (formerly SECA) Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2002 Silver Award, 2002 Interactive Media Design Review, Installation Category, I.D. Magazine
2002 Teaching Residency, The Oxbow School
2002 Nominee, SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2001 Awarded Artist in Residence and Solo Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
2001 Awarded Associate Artist Residency to study with Kerry Jame Marshall, Atlantic Center for the Arts
1999 Selection for "Bay Area Now 2," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
1999 Artadia (formerly The ArtCouncil) Artist's Grant Award
1998 Awarded Residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1998 McMillan Award for Most Outstanding MFA Graduate Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute
1998 Judith Banks Memorial Award
2002-present Faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, in the Art & Technology, Film, New Genres, Printmaking
Contemporary Practices (Freshman Core), and Critical Studies Programs
2010-present Director, City Studio Program for Youth Arts Education
2012-present Faculty at the California College of the Arts, in the Graduate and Undergraduate Design Programs
2006-2009 Chair, Post-Baccalaureate Program, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Arts Commission, President and member of Executive and Visual Arts Committees, October 2009 to present
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Board of Trustees and Chair, Creative Visioning Committee, July 2014-present
San Francisco Writers' Grotto, member, April 2002 to present
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Board of Directors, May 2007-June 2014
Keynote Panelist, 2016 Swisspier Opening and Inauguration, "Living Lab for Diplomacy," September 2016
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "Can We Talk About Art" collaborative artist and featured speaker, October 2015
Performance Art Institute, "Women, Art, and Technology An Uneasy Access?" Panel on gender and technology for Zero1 Festival, January 2013
Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley ART/CITY Panel on Public Art, March 2012
SOMArts, San Francisco, "I Am Crime: Art on the Edge of the Law" Panel on Art Law, March 2012
Intersection for the Arts, "Art as Placemaking," Panel on public art as a tool for social change, October 2012
Murphy & Cadogan Award, Judge and Panelist, June 2007
Bay Area Art Alliance, Founding Member, January 2006 to 2007
San Francisco Camerawork, Board of Directors, April 2003 – December 2007
San Francisco Media Arts Council (SMAC), Board of Directors, July 2002 to 2006
Murphy Cadoghan Award, juror, selection committee, May 2007
San Francisco Photo Alliance, panelist, "Are We All Photographers Now?" May 2007
San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Individual Artist Grant Panel, July 2005
San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Advisory Board, Exhibition Committee Chair, Sept. 2000 - June 2003
San Francisco Art Institute/ ArtSpan, panelist on The Professional Artist, May 2001
San Francisco Art Institute Anniversary Keynote Panel, presentation and discussion with playright and composer Peter Sellars, May 1996
2016 "Santa Monica Art Studios: CODE and NOISE," Kristine Schomaker, Art and Cake Magazine, October 15, 2016
2016 "CODE and NOISE," Carpe Diem Los Angeles, September 10, 2016
2016 "How Shape Semifinalists turned an artwork fundraising project into an interactive crystal ball," Andrea Morton, AT&T Developer Program Blog, July 21, 2016
2016 "Currents New Media Festival in Review," Ellen Berkovitch, Adobe Airstream: Art, Music and Film from the West, July 2016
2016 "All the Pretty Software: CODE and NOISE," Paul Weideman, The Santa Fe New Mexican, June 10, 2016
2016 "Can We Talk About Art," Amanda Eicher, Open Space: SFMOMA, January 25, 2016
2016 "Snowglobes 2.0: A new twist on classic kitsch," Now Labs: News and Perspectives, January 2016
2015 "Art SV/SF," Gentry Magazine, December, 2015
2015 "JD Beltran & Scott Minneman: Learning Interactively," Jeremy Joan Hewes, Glance Magazine, pp. 28-29, Fall 2015
2015 "San Francisco Hospital Celebrates Public-Private Partnership," Market Wired, November, 2015
2015 "Selected Artists Tour Golden 1 Center Site"Comstock, September 2015
2015 "Things to Do and See in Marin County,"Marin Independent Journal, September 2015
2015 "Finalists Selected for Public Artwork at Sacramento Arena,"Sacramento Bee, August 2015
2015 "Art Institute Vernissage Celebrates Free Speech," Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, May 2015
2014 "Tip-Top Soiree at SFMOMA," Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle, September 11, 2014
2013 "Last Day for Two of the Best Fall Bay Area Shows," Huffington Post, (art and culture column) December 16, 2013
2013 "Hot Thursday Night Ticket,"Huffington Post, (art and culture column) November 13, 2013
2013 "The blue beacon of art," Christine Ryan, Sunset Magazine, January 2013
2012 "Maker's Mark," Zahid Sardar, Dwell Magazine, November 2012
2012 "Mixed Media,'" Anne Sage, 7x7, November, 2012
2012 "The Making Of the Cinema Snowglobe," The Kitchen Sisters, KQED/National Public Radio, September 28, 2012
2012 "The Cinema Snowglobe: A snowglobe for the 21st century," The Kitchen Sisters, KQED/National Public Radio, August 7, 2012
2012 "What Happens When You Cross An Animated GIF And A Snowglobe?'" Reyhan Harmanci, BuzzFeed, July 25, 2012
2012 "A Preview of This Evening's RE: COMPOSITION," Kyle Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles I'm Yours, January 27, 2012
2011 "Artists Illuminate Amazing Territory Using Map Technology in 'Here Be Dragons,'" Jonathan Curiel, SF Weekly, December 27, 2011
2011 "JD Beltran's 'Portal' Considers Our Relationship to Time and Place," Christian L. Frock, KQED Arts, December 20, 2011
2011 "Even Unfinished, the New Bay Bridge Inspires Artists," Reyhan Harmanci, New York Times, November 26, 2011
2011 "Art and Culture," Blog column, Huffington Post, July - present, see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jd-beltran/san-francisco-art_b_895680.html
2011 "Connecting Cultures," Olga Khrustaleva, The St. Petersburg Times, June 8, 2011
2010 "Bay Area Emergent - Galleries and Artists Put San Francisco Back on the Map," Anuradha Vikram, Artillery Magazine, May/June 2010
2010 "Destination Art: Taking Off," (author), cover feature for Public Art Review, fall/winter 2009 edition, published January 2010
2009 - 2012 "Art and Culture Fix," blog column, San Francisco Chronicle online at http://blog.sfgate.com/beltran/
2010 "Photography Merit Award," Creative Arts Quarterly Issue number 17, January 2010
2008 "Cantocore Import/Export," Lu Fang and Jon Phillips, ArtMap, December 2008
2008 "Viewpoint," Terri Cohn, Artweek, November 2008
2008 "Reconciling America: Miraculous Encounters With The Mundane," Valerie Imus, Shotgun, Mar 2, 2008
2008 "Charles Guice and JD Beltran," Interview by Zefrey Throwell, Frank Prattle, February 2, 2008
2008 "Reconciling America: Art Gets Personal," Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2008
2007 "Who's On First ?" The Wave Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 19, November 2007
2007 "San Jose Debuts Major Temporary Public Art Initiative," Sys-Con Media, October 25, 2007
2007 "Digital Images Dominate – But With a Down Side," Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2007
2007 "Adding Cool Technology to the Ingenuity Fest," Karen Sandstrom, The Plain Dealer, April 19, 2007
2007 "JD Beltran and Michael Arcega," Interview by Zefrey Throwell, Frank Prattle, March 10, 2007
2007 "'Secrets Series' goes 4-wheelin," Susie Gerhard, SF360, February 6, 2007
2006 "ZeroOne/ISEA: Entre nous," Susie Gerhard, SF360, August 9, 2006
2006 "ZeroOne Exhibits Get An Early Start," Jaweed Kallem, San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2006
2006 "Attualita," Donato Ramani, D Magazine, July 2006
2006 "Ten Astonishing Reasons to Find Your Way to San Jose This Summer," Marketwire, June 22, 2006
2006 "San Jose, On the Bleeding Edge," Janos Gereben, San Francisco Classical Voice, June 13, 2006
2005 "Artist Goes to Bat for Local Musicians," Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 2005
2005 "Losing It," Christina Ducklow, SF Gate, Culture Blog, June 23, 2005
2004 "The Oxbow School," Spark, KQED Television, first aired June 2004
2003 "Buzz Town," Beth Lisick, SF Gate, July 9, 2003
2003 "Hooked on Classics: New Tech Art is No Longer Just About Technology" Glen Helfand, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Gate, February 27, 2003
2003 "Id/Entity" Images," Mark Mardon, Bay Area Reporter, February 13, 2003
2003 "Face Forward," Alison Bing, SFGate, February, 2003
2003 "The Message is Medium-Small," Rebecca Schoenkopf, Orange County Weekly, January 17-23, 2003
2003 ""ID/Entity Challenges Portraiture Concepts," Michael Rydzynski, Irvine World News, online edition, January 9, 2003
2002 "Telephone Story: A Portrait," Jenny Schnetzer, I.D. Magazine, November 2002
2002 "Report From San Francisco," Stephanie Cash, Art In America, November 2002
2002 "'High Tech/Low Tech Hybrids' at Bedford Gallery," Marisa S. Olson, Artweek, June 2002
2002 "Idiot Savant," Marisa Olson, Mute, March 2002
2002 "ID/entity", Barbara Pollack, ArtNews, March 2002
2001 "MIT Art Project: Messy Kitchen," Noah Shachtman, Wired News, December 21, 2001
2001 "Arise, Armchair Readers!" David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle, November 11, 2001
2001 "Some Have Turned to Art as Solace in the Aftermath of Tragedy," Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 11, 2001
2001 "Bellevue Art Museum Wall to Reflect Flicker of Optimism," Rick Schweinhart, Eastside Journal, October 10, 2001
2000 'Forever on the Move: San Francisco Bay Area Overview," Amy Berk, World Sculpture News, Winter 2000
2000 "Thinking Outside the Frame: Artists Explore Extra Room with Electronics, Video and More" Robin Trafton, Kansas City Star, Oct. 19, 2000
2000 "Self Portraits," San Francisco Magazine, February 2000 (Annual Arts and Architecture Issue)
2000 "Bay Area Now II," kult avanguardie creative, (Italian publication) February 2000
2000 "Artists, Art-Lovers Paint the Town," James Sullivan and Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle, January 31, 2000
2000 "Bay Area Now: MFAs in Toyland," Tessa DeCarlo, Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2000
1999 "Critic's Choice: Bay Area Now 2," Sarah Coleman, San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 8, 1999
1999 "Jack Larry Alshire, J.D. Beltran," Julie Nelson, New Art Examiner, December/January 1999/2000
1999 "Bay City Best: Art," David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, November 28, 1999
1999 "the self, absorbed," Anna Fahey, artaccess, October 1999
1999 "Images of, and Mostly by, Women From a Variety of Perspectives," Helen A. Harrison, New York Times(L.I. Edition), March 14, 1999
1999 "Expo 18 at BJ Spoke Gallery," George Wallace, The Northport Journal, January 21, 1999
1999 "Gen Art's New Fangle Exhibit," Meg Grey, RES Magazine; The Future of Filmmaking, Winter 1999
1998 "Jack Hanley Resurrected in Mission," David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, December 18, 1998
1998 "Nothing But Time," Colin Berry, citysearch, November 29, 1998
1998 "High Aspirations: High-Tech Art," John Alderman, Wired Magazine, November 6, 1998
1998 "Open Spaces," Donna Schumacher, Art Papers, September/October, 1998
1998 "Plugged In," Colin Berry, citysearch, September 1, 1998
1998 "Plug This In," Kay Marie Jacobson, San Francisco Chronicle, The Gate, September 9, 1998
1998 "Arts and Craft, Skowhegan style," Joseph P. Kahn, The Boston Globe, July 7, 1998
1997 "Self-Re/Presentations," Donald Kuspit, Prologue to Mirror, Mirror: Current Reflections of Self-Portraiture, April 10, 1997
The Getty Institute
The Walker Art Museum
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The M.H. De Young Museum
The Denver Art Museum
The Ulrich Museum
Bellevue Art Museum
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The City of San Francisco
The Exploratorium, San Francisco
The City of San Jose
Cleveland IngenuityFest
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Kitchen, New York
Association for Contemporary Art, Hand Off Video Archive, Graz, Austria
MediaArtFriesland, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest Archive
Kulturedrang Nach Osten Kansk International Video Festival Archive, Moscow, Russia
Split Festival of New Film Video Archive, Split, Croatia
Spiral Arts Video Bank, Tokyo, Japan
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Looking for photography classes in Woodland WI? Whether you are a hobbyist, professional, or beginner, the best approach to improving your photography abilities is through hands-on classes with skilled instructors.
There are many accredited and recognized photography schools in Wisconsin. Photography classes cover subjects like portrait capture, exposure and composition, lighting, posing and unposing, and other photography fundamentals. Growing into an expert photographer can lead to a lifelong hobby or successful professional career.
There are numerous Photography Classes in Woodland WI:
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Carroll University
100 N East Ave
Waukesha, Wisconsin 53186
Phone: (262) 547-1211
37.24 miles away
Madison Area Technical College
3550 Anderson St
Madison, Wisconsin 53704
Phone: (608) 246-6100
37.39 miles away
Madison Media Institute
2702 Agriculture Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53718
Phone: (608) 663-2000
38.48 miles away
Concordia University-Wisconsin
12800 N Lake Shore Dr
Mequon, Wisconsin 53097-2402
Phone: (262) 243-5700
41.13 miles away
Cardinal Stritch University
6801 N Yates Rd
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53217-3985
Phone: (414) 410-4000
44.40 miles away
Milwaukee Area Technical College
700 W State St
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233-1443
Phone: (414) 297-6370
47.09 miles away
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
273 E Erie St
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202-6003
Phone: (414) 847-3200
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If you're anything like us, the go-to method of communication in your office is email. It's not the best way to communicate, but it's certainly one of the most widely adopted. Unfortunately, that means it's one of the easiest places for someone with a nefarious agenda to attack. Hackers have had decades to come up with new tricks.
In this post, we're going to discuss some of the best practices for general email usage. The tips below aren't for any specific service or program. No matter how you get your email, there are certain rules you should follow in order to avoid attack.
Password Security
Let's start from the beginning. Choosing a complex password is essential to security for all computer systems. Microsoft recommends that complex passwords contain characters from three of five categories. Uppercase, lowercase, numbers, Non-alphanumeric characters, and Unicode characters. The chosen password must also not contain more than two consecutive letters also found in the account name.
It's also important that you have different passwords for different services. The reason is that, in reality, there's not much you can do to prevent hackers from getting your password from Target or any other service you've set up an account with. However, you can mitigate the amount of damage they can do with the password they find. When a hacker obtains a password, one of the first things they do is test that password and username against banking websites and software, then they move on other services. The goal is typically to get ahold of the holy grail; your credit card numbers that could be stored with that service. By having different passwords for different services, you stop the attack with only one account being compromised.
One of the best ways for an attacker to infect your computer is to send a file to your email with some official looking language in the body, telling you open the file. Once you open the file, the outbreak starts. It's impossible to predict how it will start, and what will be infected. There are just too many methods in the wild to make any predictions. Once you're infected, your best weapons are a good piece of anti-virus software and a recent backup of the system. Be wary of any and all attachments sent from unknown sources. Abstinence is the safest method of protection.
Spam mostly consists of bulk email that is soliciting some sort of business. Perhaps it's trying to sell you a new computer or advertising some service that sounds interesting. This mail can clog mail servers and slow them down. In order to prevent spam, we'd recommend that you don't publish email addresses on websites, and don't just give your address to any text field asking for it.
Many of the services sending these emails are trying to amass more email addresses to add to their lists, then they sell them to the highest bidder. Some companies buying these addresses are legitimate, and just looking for a wider audience for advertising. Others, however, could be purchasing the addresses so they have one more piece of the puzzle leading to access to your accounts.
Phishing is the act of trying to gain information through social engineering. The people that send these messages are simply looking for information that could lead them to your passwords, and ultimately, your money and identity.
Most of us have received email from the Nigerian prince that needs to transfer some money to the US. Even though he's a wealthy member of some sort of royal family, he's resorted to sending emails to complete strangers, hoping some kind soul will help him out of the dire situation he's found himself in. We know not to respond to these emails. It's obviously a scam. However, some of these aren't as obvious.
One of the most effective phishing techniques involves the user receiving an email that appears to be coming from their bank. The message usually says something is wrong with the account, or that there's been a bank error in the user's favor. The user is instructed to click on a link which takes you to a website made to look like the banking website. It asks for your credentials, but once you input them, it says something is wrong the info provided, then forwards you to the actual banking site. Once there, the user inputs the credentials, and enters the site like normal. Seeing nothing wrong, the user thinks nothing of the warning, and moves on with their day. Meanwhile the hacker has banking credentials that work.
These are some of the most basic ways to protect yourself from attacks on your email. A good password and a little no-how is your best defense. If you have any questions about best practices or concerns about the security of your email, feel free to contact us. You can reach Responza West, in Seattle, WA, at (206) 762-5100, or Responza East, in Charleston, SC, at (843) 990-9200.
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text: Artifact Details Title MAC 16 Catalog Number 102646151 Type Text Date 1970 Publisher Lockheed Electronics Company, Inc. Place of Publication U.S. Identifying Numbers Other number 5M 4/70 Extent 6 p. Dimensions 11 x 8 1/2 in. Copyright Holder Lockheed Electronics (LEC) Description A four color brochure for the MAC 16. The cover is dark blue at the top and fades to a bright green. It is divided into boxes that contain the company's name, Lockheed Electronics, and the word "Software." Under these boxes, MAC 16 is written in stencil. Lockheed Electronic's address is on the back cover. An explanation of the MAC 16 begins on the second page of the brochure. It is divided into subsections such as System Building Tools; Single Precision Fixed Point; Double Precision Fixed Point; Single Precision Floating Point; Double Precision Floating Point; Complex Numbers; Multiplexing System; Real Time Monitor; Real Time System Core Allocations; Basic Hardware Requirements; and Real Time Monitor System Configurations. Information on the MAC 16's programs and system building tools is included, with particular attention given to the Lockheed Electronics Assembler Program (LEAP). There are three charts featured in the brochure; "Multiplexing System Capability (MIOP)," "Real Time System Core Allocations," and "Real Time Monitor." Technical specifications are included. Category Promotional Material Subject promotional materials; Software; Lockheed Aircraft Corporation; MAC 16 (Computer); Military/Aerospace applications; Punched card systems; Lockheed Electronics Company, Inc.; Lockheed Electronics (LEC); FORTRAN (Computer program language) Credit Gift of Thomas J. Buckholtz and Helen T. Buckholtz Lot Number X2592.2004 Lockheed.Mac16.1970.102646151.pdf


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Texas Senator Wendy Davis apparently seems to think Kermit Gosnell and Douglas Karpen are the same abortionist. When asked by the Weekly Standard about Gosnell, she gave this response.
I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case. But I do know that it happened in an ambulatory surgical center. And in Texas changing our clinics to that standard obviously isn't going to make a difference.Only Gosnell's clinic was obviously not a surgical ambulatory facility. But you know whose is? Texas abortionist Douglas Karpen. The same abortionist who was exposed for killing infants who survived abortion (just like Kermit Gosnell) and has been called the Texas Gosnell. Either Davis got the two confused or isn't aware they're different people.
The landlord of building which will soon house a Sacramento abortion clinic made a deal with the clinic regarding how many abortions they would perform in a year because he "didn't want them to turn into an abortion clinic."
He said the amount of Women's Health Specialists' business related to abortions is less than 5 percent.
"It's not some abortion clinic that's cranking out abortions," he said. "They provide all kind of health services. Ninety-five percent of their services are non-abortion-related."
Still, he said, he did negotiate with Women's Health Specialists to place a "tight" restriction on the number of abortions that they could perform at the location. He declined, however, to specify the number.
"I didn't want them to turn into an abortion clinic," he said. "I want to do a good job as a landlord. I'm surprised that anyone is concerned about this."
The Irish Medicines Board has detained more than 250 abortion pills so far this year.
The IMB, in conjunction with the Revenue's Customs Service and gardaí, monitors and investigates instances of the illegal supply of such produces via the internet, "and actively enforces against suspected breaches of the law", a spokeswoman said.....
A total of 259 tablets have been detained in 10 consignments since the start of 2013. Of these, 256 contained misoprostol and three mifepristone.
Last year, 487 abortifacient tablets were seized, of which 471 contained misoprostol and 16 mifepristone, from 25 detentions. A total of 635 tablets were seized in 2011 from 28 detentions.


text: Anna Jarvis, a West Virginia native, started Mother's Day in 1908. She believed the nation needed a day to recognize the contribution of mothers to our lives. After all, Jarvis pointed out that your mother is "the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world." For the Christian, however, honoring mothers does not only fall on the second Sunday in May. Honoring our mothers is a way of life. God commanded his people to honor their mothers in the Old Law. Jesus honored his parents, and he taught us to do the same. On Momma's Knee by Dr. Justin Imel, Sr. explores the biblical view of motherhood and urges us all to honor our mothers.


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Master scheduling is the process by which a manufacturing operation is run. The master scheduler is the person or department in a manufacturing plant responsible for scheduling. The master scheduling department may be responsible for all aspects of scheduling such as demand forecasting, the master production schedule or mps, production planning, and inventory planning. In large operations, the master scheduling group is its own department and the other aspects of planning are handled by additional groups or departments.
A master scheduler takes input from the marketing department to determine how many of each particular product the sales team plans to sell in the next month, quarter, or year. The information is then either run through a "what if" scenario tool or loaded directly into the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The master scheduling department then produces reports that advise the factory and management what part shortages or capacity issues have resulted from the schedule that was loaded.
When the materials or procurement department reviews the part shortages, it will place any required orders. The procurement team will also begin expediting the components, if needed, so they arrive in time to support the planned build requirements. If the parts cannot be pulled in or scheduled to arrive on time, the master scheduler will move the demand around so the production plan matches when the parts are going to arrive.
During this same time period the production planning group, which may also include the master scheduler, will review any capacity constraints to determine if the products being planned can all be run through the factory in time to meet the customer requirements. If there is a capacity constraint due to equipment, the team will look to the master scheduler for possible solutions such as pulling in the demand to build earlier or working with the capital asset team to get additional equipment. If there is a capacity constraint due to lack of human resources, the master scheduler may also need to pull demand or schedule weekend and overtime work to meet the overall production plan.
Inventory is typically the single highest cost manufacturing companies have, so keeping inventory turnover at a high rate is desirable. As part of the master scheduling duties, the scheduler often works with the asset managers to set the production plan in such a way to maximize how quickly the product flows through the factory. By reducing cycle time, the factory runs leaner and the inventory turns more quickly, which reduces the overall cost of capital and increases the company's profits.
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The Windham Region No Freeze Project, Inc. is a not-for-profit agency dedicated to the survival of homeless adults who are in the Windham Region. We provide safe temporary shelter; we strive to address unmet needs including food, clothing, hygiene, case management, emergency and transport funding; we facilitate regional community and social service agency collaboration to these ends.


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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Expect the Unexpected!
So some time around the end of January I got this text from my son: "Soooo....I kinda have something to tell you. you're kinda sorta gonna have another grandson.. :)"
Hmmmmm.....okay...when? I think this was my reaction.
What else was I gonna say? NO? Too late. Cry? Maybe. Continue to love and support my son? Definitely.
I've stopped being shocked by life and all the things it throws at me. At my age, I just go with the flow. I've also come to expect the unexpected which saves me a lot of heartache. How does this work? Just think...if it can go wrong, then it will. Expect and anticipate and plan for the worse case scenario. Then if it happens, you're prepared to deal with it. If it doesn't, well, then you'll be tickled pink!
Well, he was born, and he's beautiful. So did I expect another grandchild so soon? Would I have wished my son to have two children at such a young age. No, but the world didn't explode, and I'm still standing and stronger than ever. My son has two beautiful boys, and he is a great father. What else could I ask for?
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|Dr. Navas Nadukkandiyil
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|I acted as a bedside teacher and trainer of clinical examination for medical graduate students for their OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) since January 2013 ? to present date. As a senior physician, my role was to give directions and advice in relation to the course and also to undertake some work-based assessments. I was actively involved all kind of clinical sessions, lectures, seminars, journal club presentations for medical, dental, nursing students. Lead Clinicians for Internal Medicine (IM) and Family Medicine (FM) Residents Rotating in Geriatrics Department. Regular Weekly teaching sessions are planned and organized for IM and FM residents. My teaching includes didactic lectures, bedside teaching, and presentations. Team Leader, Mentor for clinical care improvement training(CCITP) Program, in HMC My role is to guide, direct, supervise, and monitor a CCITP project team Members to train their respective Multidisciplinary level staff. Geriatrics Curriculum Committee core faculty, Preparing the curriculum for geriatrics fellowship program and helps in preparing and completing their clinical research
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|My research interests are mainly focused on improving the life standard of elderly with special emphasis on the elderly people in the state of Qatar. I was the co-Investigator in a Study Epidemiology of Vitamin D Deficiency Among Elderly Population. The research was intended to know the prevalence of vitamin D Deficiency in the elderly in the state of Qatar. A high prevalence of VDD (72%) was observed among elderly population in Qatar. Lower VDL was associated with higher HbA1c and lower HDL levels. Further studies are warranted to evaluate whether vitamin D supplementation controls DM and low HDL levels among elderly population.


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The Responsible Gambling Council (RGC) is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to problem gambling prevention.
Newscan (Vol. 14, Issue 18)
The Responsible Gambling Council has been creating large-scale awareness and social marketing programs for over a decade. From time to time we ask ourselves what we are learning from this mountain of experience. The reality is we have learned many lessons on many levels: how best to work with ad agencies, the best vehicles for our message, the best time to buy ad space etc.
A lot of us who communicate social/safety messages are really good at knowing the messaging. We are immersed in the topics on a daily basis so we know what we want to say. Sometimes we get so focused on what we want to say that we overlook the audience. It is not useful to provide a message that the audience will not believe, even if the message is right.
There are many examples of this. Any game, including poker, is heavily influenced by randomness. But, young poker players often have so much belief in their skill and the deficits in other players that they will not accept the randomness message. They think it is a message for slot players and they discount it.
There is another side to the audience issue. Even though you may be speaking primarily to one group, there is massive 'spill over' in advertising. Many people who are not in the target group will hear or see the ads. They matter. The people who see ads form opinions about the messages, the organization behind the messages and, inevitably, the people funding the ads. That means that when you are creating messaging, you always have to think about who else is out there.
Here's an example: In the 1980s the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services was promoting 'community living' for people with developmental disabilities. The Ministry created a video showing a variety of people with disabilities in a variety of settings. One was a farm. The video showed the person with a disability riding on the fender of a tractor driven by a farmer. A lot of money was spent redoing that video because that same year the Ministry of Agriculture had spent millions of dollars telling people not to ride on the fenders of tractors.
There is precious little science in the social marketing process. Surveys and focus groups help form the messages and the tactics of marketing, but they are only a piece of information. The critical piece is knowing how to interpret information from these sources. Sometimes it's better to go with the information and sometimes it's important to ignore it.
When I was in high school, I made the questionable decision to study Latin. It was, for the most part, unhelpful. But I remember the Latin phrase "Repititio est mater studiorum." (Repetition is the mother of learning.) There is probably some truth to that adage. Most people, most of the time, understand what is healthy and not healthy for them. But they/we forget for a variety of reasons (probably having to do with short-term benefits derived from forgetting). There is a lot to be said for simply providing frequent reminders. Anti-smoking advertising is a good example of this. Surely we don't need to be made aware of the dangers of smoking again. We have all seen uncountable messages about the negative effects of smoking. But, the messages need to keep going not because they are new, but because they keep the information top-of-mind.
When you have a message for which there is no demand, you have to go out of your way to attract the audience. Problem gambling prevention messages are rarely sought out. In order to get our messages to people, we normally have to wrap them in something else. That could be a piece of entertainment, a fact previously unknown, or something that surprises people into looking twice. The shiny wrapper is critical and, of course, it's the hardest part to figure out.


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ClubZap is a communications platform for sports clubs which enables clubs to better engage their members and supporters and increase revenues. Basically it allows sports clubs to get content directly to their subscribers' mobile devices as well as initiate interaction and participation in club initiatives. From a club's perspective, a major benefit is the ability to extend the availability of existing fundraising initiatives to the app. This increases the target audience and simplifies the process of supporting such initiatives.
ClubZap originally started out with GAA Clubs in mind but has since expanded to cater for 10 genres of clubs in both sporting and community organisations. We also now cater for Schools. If you have a community around your organisation (i.e. members, supporters, parents) then you can use ClubZap. You do not need to use all of the available features. If you don't have any immediate need for fundraising, then that's fine. Most organisations just want to publish news, fixtures, results and integrate with existing social media accounts.
ClubZap was founded by Aidan Quilligan and Declan Murphy in 2016. We are a team of experienced mobile and web developers. We are also members of numerous clubs, including GAA, soccer, rugby, athletics and triathlon.
We have some really big plans for the future and expect to consistently add new and improved features to our platform each month. Watch this space! Have a feature request? Get in touch with us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Check out our FAQs page for lots of things we've answered for other people. If that's not enough, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will get back to you in a flash! You can also follow us on Twitter or Facebook to hear about new features, general announcements and some random stuff which might interest you and your club.


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Blogging Against Disablism Day: More than a Mascot
In 2008 I was blessed with the opportunity to teach a class for students with multiple and severe disabilities in grades Kindergarten through second grade. Unfortunately I had to leave this teaching position at the end of October as my own disability progressed and I became seriously ill. However, in the two months that I taught this amazing class of children, I witnessed disablism in a public school that I had hoped was a thing of the past. At the beginning of the school year, the principal made it clear to me that it was a school tradition that I was to continue for each and every class and each and every grade level to visit my classroom to "see" my kids and ask whatever questions they might have- in front of my children! My children were to be used as a combination object lesson and in school field trip exhibit. I refused on the grounds that my children had the same dignity and respect as the other children in the building and were not attending school to be put on display. Also, my children may have significant disabilities but they have the capacity to understand when people are staring at them, when people are asking questions about them, and when people are talking about them and they deserve the right to not under go this experience. Every child is entitled to be treated as a child first and foremost. My students were more than cute little school mascots to be patted on the head in the hallways (I put a stop to that practice immediately as they were literally patting my children on the head!). We were a part of the school and a part of each grade we attended for class.
Inclusion was not about a general education teacher being so kind as to let us visit their classroom daily, it was about being educated alongside peers who are typically developing and being one of the class. You are not "doing me a favor" by allowing my student to be included in your classroom. Talk to my student, ask them questions, engage them, give them access to materials. Let me know prior to that day what you will be doing so I can adapt the lesson and have accessible materials for my student so they can learn along with their peers. Your attitude as the general education teacher will impact the attitudes of all of your students towards my students. You set a huge example. My students do not want tolerance, they want acceptance and appreciation of both their differences and their countless similarities to the other students.
On field day, I took my class out during the Kindergarten through second grade time and we participated in every single activity that I could modify or adapt. We were there to play alongside and with our peers. This shocked parent volunteers who felt that surely it was too dangerous for us to be running races with our children who use wheelchairs - although I am pretty sure that their boisterous laughter proved otherwise- and to be allowing our children to play T ball. Heck, this shocked teachers and administrators who informed me that in the past my class had always just come outside and watched the activities of field day but never participated. Just because my children used wheelchairs or had developmental disabilities did not mean that they did not thoroughly enjoy throwing a basketball at the hoop, tossing a football into the endzone, setting off air rockets, running races, playing with the giant parachute, or running our own version of the sack race as pictured above. We were not there to be school mascots, we were not there to watch, we were there to be included and I made sure that my children were not left out even as other teachers and administrators were left speechless.
My students attended school for the same reason every other student attended that school: to learn, to grow socially, and to be appreciated as an individual. Tradition may have put us on the outside looking in, in the backrow of every assembly where we could not see and could not hear but also could not be seen, and on the sidelines. Tradition may have viewed inclusion as a favor, as a time when my students went and sat in another classroom but were never a part of the action. Tradition may have encouraged the head patting school mascot view of my students. It was and is time that traditions change. My students are just as worthy of respect and dignity, as eager to learn, as social, as communicative, and as valuable as every other student. Every child is first a child, and should be treated as such. The labels used to categorize and separate children need to be left at the school door and education should focus on teaching all children to meet their needs and building a community where all are not tolerated but appreciated.
yer, preachin' to the choir here!
Here, here - I'm sure your kids missed you when you had to leave!
These are the reasons that ANY child attends school. Such articulate advocacy is important. I hope that the lesson learned was learned -- even if it wasn't the one originally planned. Displaying people as object -- the learning experience of others -- is appalling.
This is so important to say out loud as many times as we have to. Thank you for your advocacy.
This should be required reading in every school everywhere!!! Awesome advocacy.
Good that you 'get' it, so sad that so many others in your position don't.
May 2, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Agreeing with Terri - you could write THE book on this topic.
May 2, 2010 at 3:40 PM
Love the post and the attitude! You go girl!
Well said! I'm with Barbara and Terri :)
May 3, 2010 at 4:32 AM
This great past and full of so much truth and wisdom.
Thanks for letting them be kids. No way should they be sidelined!
Wow, I can't believe these kids used to be treated in that way! That's appalling, and I'm so glad you were there, even if it was only for a few months, to do things differently. I hope the example you have set will be followed.


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Every week -- often with your help -- Food52's Executive Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius.
Today: A last-minute, 2-ingredient DIY host gift -- or a party trick for your own New Year's celebration. Either way, you'll start 2015 making an impression.
In 2015, our pantry shelves will finally look like the ones on our Pinterest boards. We will fashion our own hot sauce, and bread, and other sundries. We will be the most generous hosts and most thoughtful guests. But why wait until 2015 to start doing those things? Waiting is the death of doing. Here is a baby step, one that doubles as a self esteem-booster and a New Year's Eve ice-breaker. "This technique generates a disproportionately large amount of amazement in comparison to the actual effort that goes into it," the recipe's author Carey Nershi told me. "Which is why it has become my favorite NYE party tradition."
The dawn of 2014 may have been a time to grab a bottle of whatever bubbly and just show up, but 2015 deserves a little bit more. Look around and find your bitters and your sugar, your loaf pan and your oven, and make DIY sugar cubes for Champagne cocktails, which is a delightfully simple thing to do. If, on top of that, you want to feel like you're really good at thematic present bundling, throw in a bottle of Champagne (even coupes!) to give a ready-to-go celebration in a bag. (Admittedly, I bundled with Prosecco here, and any good sparkling wine will do -- but apparently good Champagne is getting more affordable.)You'll be saying to your friends, "Here is a cocktail you don't need to shake or stir or swizzle or crush ice for. You're welcome." They will say, "You made sugar cubes? Are you a scientist? Do you work in a sugar factory?" You'll always be remembered for this.
More: The last step in ensuring legendary status? Sabering the bottle.
Same deal if you're hosting -- you might already have all the cute noisemakers and streamers and crepe paper disco balls on order, or maybe you were planning on just dragging a case of cava out to the porch to chill. In either case, your party will be better with a little more effort (that looks like a lot more effort).
Not only that, but you can avoid a schlep. Nershi came up with the idea after striking out making Champagne cocktails for a New Year's party in 2012. "I spent the better part of my afternoon unsuccessfully searching several supermarkets for sugar cubes, and wound up begrudgingly spending way too much on demerara cubes from a natural foods market," she told me.
The next year, she not only realized she could avoid the frustration by making her own, but she could flavor them with the bitters at the same time. "They would be pink. I'd get to put them in a cute jar (complete with mini tongs!) and be that crazy person that made sugar cubes. WIN," she wrote on her blog Reclaiming Provincial.
To win like Nershi, all you do is mix sugar with just enough bitters to make it feel like the damp sand at the edge of the beach, then form it into cubes. Nershi used silicone mini ice cube trays and got perfectly smooth blocks, but you don't need a special mold if you're up for something a little more craggy-edged and rustic-looking -- just pat it into an even layer in a baking pan and score it with a thin, pointy knife.
You can leave them out to dry for a few hours, or microwave them for 20 seconds or so (if the pan isn't metal), or bake them for an hour. Or, as I found out on photo shoot day, bake them for 10 minutes, take them out to make room for something else, and discover they've finished cooking themselves a couple hours later.
Essentially, exposed wet sugar is inclined to dry out, so it's up to you how you go about facilitating that. They'll break apart easily and be ready for packing as soon as they're cooled.
This recipe calls for superfine sugar, which you can make yourself by blasting granulated sugar for few pulses in your food processor. But you can also use fancier sugars if that's more your style. A brown turbinado base just won't say "I have a secret ingredient in me" quite as immediately.Nershi uses Angostura bitters, a classic ingredient in Champagne cocktails, but you can use any bitters you have, with a rainbow of options coming out the other side.
Later in the year, you can pull the same trick out again and again. Make honey sugar cubes to set out at a fancy tea, or grind lavender (or chamomile or orange peel) with sugar, then add water. Mix in cinnamon or maple or bourbon for a brunch with big pots of coffee. Make vanilla or almond cubes with the kids for hot cocoas.
Cut them in triangles or diamonds or Xs or Ys to reveal that the baby is a boy or girl, or buy elaborate candy molds to make them shaped like flowers or hearts or dinosaurs. Pack them in a pretty jar or mug or pour-over situation for more cohesive gifting. Whatever you decide to do, put it on an inspiration board, maybe here on Food52 -- you'll be the source of a lot more resolutions for 2016.
Carey Nershi's Angostura Sugar Cubes for Champagne Cocktails
Adapted from Reclaiming Provincial and Wikihow
Makes about one pint jar's worth of sugar cubes for many Champagne cocktails
1 cup of superfine sugar1 tablespoon (1/2 fluid ounce) of Angostura bittersSee the full recipe (and save it and print it) here.Got a genius recipe to share -- from a classic cookbook, an online source, or anywhere, really? Please send it my way (and tell me what's so smart about it) at [email protected]. Thanks to Kenzi Wilbur for this one!
Photos by James Ransom
The Genius Desserts cookbook is here! With more than 100 of the most beloved and talked-about desserts of our time (and the hidden gems soon to join their ranks) this book will make you a local legend, and a smarter baker to boot.
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ABERYSTWYTH Robotics Club, open to all years of students from Penglais and Penweddig schools, is run out of the Physical Sciences building on the university's Penglais campus. Run by members of staff from IMAPS and assisted by student ambassadors from the university, ARC allows the students involved to try some things you don't get to do in the classroom, such as building and programming their own robots.
Recently, on the 10th of March, ARC won an award, which they received on the 16th, for 'the best use of their STEM Ambassadors' . This national award was presented to the club on behalf of the STEM Clubs programme run by the national organisation STEMNET – the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network – and was voted on by thousands across the country. The club received a certificate noting their achievement, as well as a £200 voucher for club use. Both of the schools which are part of the club also received awards. STEM ambassadors are there to enthuse and encourage the members to get involved, both in the current activities and in future STEM projects and fields.
I had the chance to speak to some of the talented students in the club about the projects they were showing at the British Science Week event.
Iestyn, 13, introduced me to his robot, Joseph, which he had been working on for about a year. He had used InMoov, an open-source, 3D printed, life-size robot. Joseph has 10 wires in his hand to allow for clenching and releasing of the digits, as well as five motors in his arm to power this movement. Iestyn was also able to make Joseph's neck move.
Owen, 14, and Seren, 14, spoke to me about Handles, a Cyberman head which Owen had bought at a car boot sale. Both boys told me how they had come up with the idea, which they then discussed and planned with the group, to program Handles to speak and react to people walking past.
Katie Hope, one of the student ambassadors, told me how much she enjoyed working with the students, and spoke highly of the staff who run ARC, naming Hannah Dee, a senior lecturer in Computer Sciences, as "one of the most inspiring females I know", and expressed her gratitude and admiration for Stephen Fearn, a technician in the Physical Sciences building, who donated significant portions of his time and funds to allow the Robotics Club to continue.


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The recent fall in oil prices and with the signs for another global slowdown on the horizon, there is scepticism about the state of UAE's economy. The Middle East famously dependent on oil as a major source of income is facing major fears of reduced incomes from oil exports. Fortunately, this won't be the case. Experts predict that with continuing investments in extensive public assets, combined with smart diversification of economy, UAE's economy will remain robust and not be swayed by the swings due to oil prices crashing or the impending global doom.
Let's see if the UAE's economy will remain stable and resilient and how.
The resounding verdict is that the UAE economy will remain stable in the face of impending changes in the oil prices and the global doom.


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HOPEX Internal Controls helps companies turn their internal control system into an asset, which ensures compliance and reduces risks. Our solution offers predefined processes and functions - resulting in higher productivity and better quality.
Who should attend?
- Internal Control Directors
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Expected Benefits
- Put in place internal controls based on business context, including entities, processes and requirements.
- Define control steps, steering calendars and campaigns.
- Assess controls via direct assessment and assessment campaigns.
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- Monitor progress on action plans through standard reports and alerts.
Course Content
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The Austin Municipal Court accepts many different payment methods and offer many ways for your to make your payments. We accept cash (American dollars), money orders, cashiers' checks, personal checks (from American banks in American dollars), and the following major credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express. See if and when your payment has been applied by locating your case at www.austintexas.gov/public.
- Only full payments and payments on previously approved payment plans may be paid online with any major credit card.
- Cases are updated immediately upon payment.
Pay in Person at any Court Location
- Cash personal checks, money orders, cashiers checks and major credit cards are accepted.
Pay by Mail
- Send a copy of your ticket(s) (or note the case/citation number) with plea and payment to:
Austin Municipal Court, P.O. Box 2135 Austin, TX 78768-2135
- Personal checks, money orders, cashiers checks and credit cards (see above) are accepted
- Do not send cash
- Allow up to 7 days for the payment to be applied to the case(s) before contacting the court.
Pay by Phone
- (512) 974-4800 Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Room to Read
I have fondly supported this charity for many years since I heard the founder, John Wood, speak in our area. Room to Read helps build small libraries in remote corners of the world, and, best yet, funds local authors to write books in the language and about the culture where the children nearby understand.
The fund raisers for Room to Read are held all over the world. They range in price of a few dollars and beer for drinks, to quite a bit more and champaign.
One of the best ways to find out more about Room to Read and help spread the word about our mission to educate children in developing countries is to attend an event in your area. Room to Read has volunteer chapters around the globe that host events to help us raise money and awareness for our programs. If you're interested in attending one of our local events, please download the invitation and/or contact the name listed below. We hope to see you soon at a local Room to Read event!
Room to Read seeks to transform the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education. Working in collaboration with local communities, partner organizations and governments, we develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and support girls to complete secondary school with the relevant life skills to succeed in school and beyond.
Note also that they have a wide variety of very interesting jobs available, too, in the US and around the world.
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Dear Blog Readers,
It has been a while since updating! We are currently on a missions visionary trip to Thailand. Wow, what a land!
Thailand-a land with many gods. So few who know the true God who sets people free!
Monk Chat-Buddism is one of the main religions. Well indoctrinated, well-educated, but without hope in the saving power of Jesus Christ!
My beautiful girlfriend who is currently serving the Lord in the red light district of Chiang Mai Thailand. Notice the joy and peace of the Lord in her eyes!
Ahh, this coffee haven! Each morning that I go to the coffee shop around the corner from our house, the barista's eyes light up! The coffee above, was black enough to "walk" on! I'm sure there must be coffee in heaven, don't you? 🙂
This lady was eagerly and aggressively selling her wares. Here she is showing off how her wooden toad croaks. Are we this interested in telling a lost world of Jesus?
Impact one life-it may change a family, a village, and/or a nation!
"At the end of broken dreams, people need the Lord!" Our sungtowl driver fell in love with Jordan. He was experiencing much difficulty in his marriage our meeting was God-ordained.
And yes it rains for it is currently rainy season! Rain also happens in the lives of missionaries. The fight against evil for the hearts and minds of the millions is REAL! "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of darkness in high places."


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