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Kings Of The Dance
Sergei Danilian presents Kings of the Dance, Co Production of Ardani Artists and Segerstrom Centre for the Arts.
In 2006, Kings of the Dance had its world premiere at Segerstrom Center for the Arts followed by its? East Coast Premiere at New York City Center. Now, the critically acclaimed Kings of the Dance makes its London debut showcasing the phenomenal artistary, style and power of today's most celebrated male dancers. This latest incarnation showcases the incomparable Roberto Bolle from Teatro all Scala, American Ballet Theatre 's reigning stars Marcelo Gomes and Ivan Vasiliev, Russia's brilliant Denis Matvienko of the Mariinsky Ballet and Leonid Sarafanov of the Mikhailovsky Ballet. These virtuoso performers will dance seven diverse pieces from Roland Petit, Patrick De Bana, Nacho Duato, Marco Goecke , Marcelo Gomes and Massimiliano Volpini.
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Friday, 21st March 2014
Friday, 21st March 2014
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London Coliseum
St Martin's Lane
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The week in review
Worst snowstorm: Seven inches (although it seems like more) blanket Charlottesville, the worst since two feet fell in 1996.
Best opportunity to skip class: UVA cancels classes for the first time since 1996.
Worst deja-vu, part 1: The woman who was attacked February 3 on her Camelia Drive porch is assaulted by the same man inside her house on February 12.
Worst deja-vu, part 2: A Louisa man is run over by his girlfriend in her SUV February 12, even as a Texas jury deliberates before sentencing dentist Clara Harris to 20 years in prison for mowing down her cheating husband with her Mercedes.
Worst legislation for owners of vicious pit bulls: Del. Rob Bell's bill that sinks some teeth into prohibiting dog fighting passes the Senate and awaits Gov. Mark Warner's signature.
Best legislative news for Planned Parenthood: A Senate committee narrowly defeats a bill requiring upgrades that would have closed all but one of Virginia's 19 abortion clinics.
Worst news for teens in trouble with adamant antiabortion parents: The same Education and Health committee narrowly approves a bill calling for parental consent for teenagers seeking abortions, a bill that has already passed the House of Delegates.
Best news for teens who don't want their parents to know they've got scabies: The Education and Health Senate committee rejects a bill that would have required parental notification of teens seeking a pregnancy test or treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.
Worst waste of time in the General Assembly (besides specialty license plates): The House of Delegates and Senate Education and Health committee pass a bill banning "partial birth infanticide," which prohibits doctors from killing infants during birth. Isn't that already illegal?
Best specialty license plate for putting two civil liberties organizations– the ACLU and the Rutherford Institute– on opposite sides: The "Choose Life" plate has the former calling it unconstitutional, while the latter calls it "constitutionally sound."
Best sound bite from the sponsor of the "Choose Life" plate: Del. Richard Black suggests "Choose Death" to those who want a pro-choice plate.
Worst news for gun-toters planning a night out at Golden Corral: A Senate committee lets a bill die that would have allowed concealed weapons in restaurants where alcohol constitutes 30 percent or less of total sales.
Best source for everything you've always wanted to know about cockfighting: George Loper's website, www.loper.org.
Best sign there is no free lunch: Virginia prisons cut back to two meals on weekends, serving brunch instead of breakfast and lunch, which leaves some inmates complaining.
Worst break for Darrell Rice, the accused murderer of two Shenandoah National Park hikers: Inmates do not have a constitutional right to have guitars, keyboards, or other electronic instruments in federal prison, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rules, rejecting Rice's challenge to allow him to play guitar in Cumberland, Maryland, where he's now incarcerated awaiting trial, the Washington Post reports.
Worst potential traffic bottleneck for 2003: The Locust Avenue Bridge will close to all traffic March 3 for four to five months. Repairs at times will also close lanes of the Route 250 Bypass.
Next worst potential bottleneck: And then the Park Street Bridge will be closed.


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AUSTIN, TX – 15 Jul, 2017 – Mesquite Independent School District is once again using Hellas Construction for its quality and construction to install new running tracks at Kimbrough and McDonald middle schools this summer. Hellas crews are hard at work completely removing the old tracks that date back to when each school was first built.
Steve Bragg, Mesquite ISD Athletic Director since 2007 said, "I always enjoy working with Hellas. They are truly a one stop shop and you always know what you are getting."
Both Kimbrough Middle School and McDonald Middle School are having their tracks torn out and completely rebuilt from the subbase. "They both had the old cinder tracks that had never been done before," said Bragg. "The cinder tracks just aren't as durable or reliable as the asphalt-based tracks."
Bragg said he has used Hellas for 13 different campuses throughout the school district. "The quality and construction is always first rate and their products hold up. You can't go wrong with Hellas," Bragg said.
Mesquite ISD selected the epiQ Tracks® S200 track system, a paved-in-place system made from Hellas' own eco-friendly, non-petroleum based materials and suitable for any facility. Both middle schools will be black S200 track systems, ready just in time for the beginning of school in August.
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Changing Direction On A Project Car - Haul Monitor
Snowball Effect
Ever start a project with a simple premise and then find yourself making excuses as to why it's taking you ten times longer than it should? This, my friend, is the snowball effect. And while there are multiple reasons as to why this happens, for me, it's simply because I can't leave well enough alone. When I started my F-1 project, it was going to serve as my daily driver / shop truck that would replace my '92 Ford Ranger (almost a classic according to a few sources!). Well, one thing led to another and soon it was obvious that the old Ford needed to be treated with equal parts gratitude and respect that a constant, daily flogging just wouldn't yield. I found myself going from building a truck built to go to a truck built to show.
Changing direction halfway through a project is a classic recipe for disaster, this I know well as I've seen it countless times over the last six years in the magazine business. But sometimes it's just unavoidable. As you tear into a build, oftentimes you find things that just can't be left alone and demand attention, such as rusted out and damaged panels. Fixing these commonly leads to fixing an entire fender or door, which takes that 20-footer angle and cranks it up a notch. Now it wouldn't make sense to fix one fender and leave the other three rough now would it? Pretty soon, you taken the entire truck down to bare metal, massaged every square inch of sheetmetal, and covered it in primer. Heck, a few more hours worth of work and the whole ball of wax could be blocked out nice and straight. Now, do I really want to do all that work and shoot the thing in single-stage paint? Naw, let's do it right so that the clear can be cut and buffed to perfection. And so it goes.
What started as a real-world truck has quickly turned into a puss mobile simply because of the fact that once you start, you just can't stop. I've managed to add a handful of modifications to my F-1 that I never intended to do in a million years given the fact that I was building a purpose-built hauler. One of them is in this month's issue; the bed side pipes. While not the most appropriate exhaust setup for a daily driver, given the turn in intention, it seemed like something that suddenly made sense. The aesthetics of the build were taking precedence over the nuts and bolts that make for a good truck. Suddenly, it was more important to add something that made it better fit the criteria of the build style in which I was going for than simply getting it finished and down the road.
More and more I find myself staring down that same road on other projects around the house. My roadster is a perfect example of that. Built on a stock chassis with a small-block Chevy, it could have been done ages ago. Instead, I decided to build a tube chassis and install a Potvin blown engine to ensure that I never get it done. My RD400 motorcycle project is the same way. The stock parts were sold off on Ebay to make way for all the trick ideas I had up my sleeve and now it sits, as it has for the last year or so, waiting patiently.
But with all these snowball projects, I've promised myself that the next project won't turn out like all the others. No, this one is going to be a legitimate, low-buck driver. How I'm going to ensure this is simple; I'm not going to tackle anything that can't be done in an evening or over a weekend's time. That will keep me from turning it into a ground-up, frame-off project and keep it on the road, so that I can drive and enjoy it instead of tripping over it in the shop.
That said, it's time to start perusing the internet and dare I say, the classifieds (they still have those?!) searching for the next addition to the CCT family. I have an idea as to what I'd like to build, but I'm really looking for input from you guys, our readers, as to what you'd like to see us build next in CCT.
Log onto the CCT forum at http://forums.customclassictrucks.com and go to "Magazine Topics" and respond to the post entitled "Next Editorial Project for Custom Classic Trucks." I'll give it a few months to generate some buzz before revealing the results or you guys can keep up by checking the forum from time to time.
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A team of researchers, led by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist, has identified a lettuce gene and related enzyme that put the brakes on germination during hot weather — a discovery that could lead to lettuces that can sprout year-round, even at high temperatures.
Discovering the gene mechanism that inhibits hot-weather germination in lettuce seeds could be increasingly important as global temperatures rise plant, predicts plant scientist Kent Bradford.
A team of researchers, led by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist, has identified a lettuce gene and related enzyme that put the brakes on germination during hot weather — a discovery that could lead to lettuces that can sprout year-round, even at high temperatures.
The study also included researchers from Arcadia Biosciences and Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, India.
The finding is particularly important to the nearly $2 billion lettuce industries of California and Arizona, which together produce more than 90 percent of the nation's lettuce. The study results appear online in the journal The Plant Cell.
"Discovery of the genes will enable plant breeders to develop lettuce varieties that can better germinate and grow to maturity under high temperatures," said the study's lead author Kent Bradford, a professor of plant sciences and director of the UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center.
"And because this mechanism that inhibits hot-weather germination in lettuce seeds appears to be quite common in many plant species, we suspect that other crops also could be modified to improve their germination," he said. "This could be increasingly important as global temperatures are predicted to rise."
Most lettuce varieties flower in spring or early summer and then drop their seeds — a trait that is likely linked to their origin in the Mediterranean region, which, like California, characteristically has dry summers. Scientists have observed for years that a built-in dormancy mechanism seems to prevent lettuce seeds from germinating under conditions that would be too hot and dry to sustain growth. While this naturally occurring inhibition works well in the wild, it is an obstacle to commercial lettuce production.
In the California and Arizona lettuce industries, lettuce seeds are planted somewhere every day of the year — even in September in the Imperial Valley of California and near Yuma, Ariz., where fall temperatures frequently reach 110 degrees.
In order to jump-start seed germination for a winter crop in these hot climates, lettuce growers have turned to cooling the soil with sprinkler irrigation or priming the seeds to germinate by pre-soaking them at cool temperatures and re-drying them before planting — methods that are expensive and not always successful.
In the new study, researchers turned to lettuce genetics to better understand the temperature-related mechanisms governing seed germination. They identified a region of chromosome six in a wild ancestor of commercial lettuce varieties that enables seeds to germinate in warm temperatures. When that chromosome region was crossed into cultivated lettuce varieties, those varieties gained the ability to germinate in warm temperatures.
Further genetic mapping studies zeroed in on a specific gene that governs production of a plant hormone called abscisic acid — known to inhibit seed germination. The newly identified gene "turns on" in most lettuce seeds when the seed is exposed to moisture at warm temperatures, increasing production of abscisic acid. In the wild ancestor that the researchers were studying, however, this gene does not turn on at high temperatures. As a result, abscisic acid is not produced and the seeds can still germinate.
The researchers then demonstrated that they could either "silence" or mutate the germination-inhibiting gene in cultivated lettuce varieties, thus enabling those varieties to germinate and grow even in high temperatures.
Other researchers on the study were: Post-doctoral researcher Heqiang Huo and staff researcher Peetambar Dahal, both of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences; Keshavulu Kunusoth of Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, India; and Claire McCallum of Arcadia Biosciences, which provided the lettuce lines with variants of the target gene to help confirm the study's findings.
Funding for the study was provided the U.S. Department of Agriculture - National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation.
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I eat with my hands.
Most of the time I don't need a utensil. I'm good. I eat asparagus with my hands. Also, steak, rice. Also, lettuce, macaroni. I have eaten mashed potatoes with my hands. I will eat Thai occasionally with my hands (but only at home).
I thought about this recently as I stood before a wall that I visit once a year, usually right before the holidays, usually when I'm at the stocking-stuffer stage of my gift buying, and always when I'm buying stuff that, by now, the receiver of my gift has almost certainly stopped using. I am talking about, of course, the gadget wall at Williams-Sonoma, the area of the store that holds kitchen tools with dominatrix-black silicone grips and can openers from Oxo that appear to be sturdy enough to fix the flats on small cars.
Here is where design comes to die.
Of course, I could go to Crate & Barrel, too. There I would find a "recipe rock" (a kind of kickstand for recipe cards) and an ergonomically designed cutting board with a curved raised back to prevent "juice runoff." Or I could go big and head to Alessi, the fun, colorful Italian design store where everything looks as though it were created for either the home of a cartoon badger or home magazine photos in which living room tables are metal and never have phone bills stacked on them. Here you can buy a "communicator plant," a metal cup with a wooden tree growing out of it (also known as That Cup Where You Put Your Pens and Loose Change), and a magazine rack that resembles a bunch of old sticks thrown on the floor and hastily arranged to hold back copies of Us Weekly firmly in place. The company's official description of the magazine rack explains: "Newness, freshness and poetry dominate the aesthetic/constructive approach developed by the Campana brothers, Fernando and Humberto."
Newness, freshness and poetry.
I would like my kitchen utensils and magazine racks to have newness, freshness and poetry, and other days I wonder if I would rather save the money and keep my old crap. For instance, that paper-towel roll we own, the one in the shape of a dachshund, looks nice, but it constantly breaks apart and it's annoying.
Besides, I'd rather have a vertical towel rack now -- and I'm not even sure that dog-shaped towel rack looks that nice anymore. I think it looks very 2003, and I can see the 2015 yard sale reflected in what I regard now as a sudden failure of design. Indeed, I would like to believe, five years after the economic collapse, as we enter the economic inch-back, we have learned our lesson about design creep and recognized how overdesigned and unnecessary many things are. And yet all these years later, Williams-Sonoma still has that giant stupid wall.
Here you can buy dough gloves and potato scrubbing gloves. There is a corn stripper and a corn remover and an herb snipper, which are small green scissors that cut very thin stems. There is also a fruit muddler, a strawberry slicer, a banana slicer, an herb wand, an herb keeper and a lobster mallet, which, as a native New Englander, I feel qualified to say is only slightly more needed than an herb snipper. Also, I detect a hint of violence in the names: strawberry huller, citrus reamer, mango pitter, avocado cuber, olive stuffer, peach slicer, melon knife. Also, shrimp deveiner.
There is no Williams-Sonoma "murderer."
Which is too bad. It's a cute name for a beet slicer.
My grandfather used to open clams with the flat end of a broken steak knife. He used it so often that he wrapped the handle in several rings of beige masking tape. The knife lasted for many, many years. Then one day I saw in Yankee magazine a neat clam shucker thingee, a device that looked relatively simple and well-designed and partially solved the problem constantly bedeviling a clam-eating family: You have to open clams to eat clams.
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This clam opener was a wooden board. At one end, a blunt silver knife rested on a hinge. At the other end, a small wedge allowed you to secure your clam. The idea was, you lowered the blunt edge on to the waiting clam and split the shell in half, like some medieval killing device.
He loved it.
He used it twice, then went back to his broken knife.
Which is still in the family utensil drawer, and unlike the clam-shucking thingee from Yankee, it smells like clams.


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GRAYSON COUNTY, TX-A study conducted by Kimberly-Clark will make you think twice about the things you touch everyday. After analyzing the data they collected from swabbing surfaces in several cities across the nation, researchers found the site that proved to be the filthiest. Victoria Maranan tells us which one it is.
A.T.M machines, mailbox handles and parking meters are some of the top breeding grounds for the worst bacteria and viruses, according to a study by Kimberly-Clark Professional, but none of them is considered to be the filthiest. The surface that gets the title may shock you.
We touch thousands of things everyday. It makes you wonder what could be lurking on those surfaces.
But the surface that's the filthiest? Gas pumps!
"I had no idea, I had no idea it's so filthy...I figured the seats in your bathroom are more dirty than that."
Sherman resident, Richard Norris was surprised along with fellow motorist, Jeff Eklund.
"No, not a chance. I had no idea. I know they're nasty smelling and looking, but I never gave that a thought," he said.
TexomaCare family physician, Dr. Angela Latham agreed with Kimberly-Clark's findings.
"I think if you went and swabbed all those things that we all touch...you are gonna find some things. Now I think the key to that is you don't want that to make it to your mouth or your nose," she said.
Dr. Latham also said germs are all over these surfaces because people constantly touch them and they're almost never cleaned.
"I think germs are all around us and they always will be and we're going to have some exposure," she said.
After Kimberly-Clark hygienists swabbed hundreds of surfaces in six U.S. cities, including Dallas, they found viruses, like ones that cause the common cold and flu, all over gas pumps. They also found bacteria that causes staph infections, which can be spread person to person.
"I don't know what I gotta do, I need to buy gas," said Eklund.
Since not all of us can always have a pair of gloves every time you get gas, you can keep a bottle of hand sanitizer with you to stay on the safe side. Or, better yet, just wash your hands.
Dr. Latham added that it's also important to watch what you put into your body to help protect yourself from those germs.
"You want to make sure that your defenses are up and that you can fight them off. So all those things that momma always told you: get eight hours of sleep, drink eight glasses of water a day, eat your vegetables. You know, all those things that you know to do to take care of yourself, that's going to help you fight off any type of infection," she said.
Now that Jeff Eklund and Richard Norris knew how dirty gas pumps can be, both were in a hurry to get their hands clean.
"I either want gloves, the little plastic gloves to put on or sanitizer, which some of them do but I thought it was for the smell," said Eklund.
"I'm gunna go in my truck and use some sanitizer right now," said Norris.
The Kimberly-Clark study also stated that on average, germs from people's hands transfer seven times before leaving the skin. So, it's best to make the extra effort to make sure you're protecting yourself from germs that will make you sick.


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Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney admits handing in a transfer request two years ago was the biggest mistake of his career.
Rooney issued a statement in
Two days later, though, the England international performed a dramatic U-turn and signed a new five-year contract at Old Trafford.
He looks back on the whole affair now with a sense of regret.
In his latest autobiography, which is being serialised by the Daily Mirror, he recalls: "In
"I get frustrated with myself, my game, my injury and everything around me.
"I'm stuck in a cycle of bad form but I can't get out of it.
"And that's when I make the biggest mistake of my football career.
"In October, I release a statement which publicly questions my happiness at Old Trafford. Am I better off elsewhere?
"Everyone makes a fuss. There are discussions inside United to sort out the issue, people outside United chuck their opinions around, but the thing is, nobody really knows what's going on in my life.
"None of them understand where I am in my career. They don't know where my head's at.
"The only person who really knows what's going on in there is me, but even I'm not sure what I want."
He continues: "Then the manager has his say. 'Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you have in your own field. And it never really works that way'.
"He's saying the grass isn't always greener, and he's right.
"I like what's in my field. I'm wrong. United want the same as me: trophies, success, to be the best."


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My entire medical career "PE" used to be about a pulmonary affliction where a blood clot goes to the lungs: pulmonary embolus. Now, thanks to the power of marketing gurus who have little regard for medical nomenclature, there's a new "PE" in town involving the same organ as the heavily marketed malady, "ED."
Talk about the yin and yang of urology...
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Name Alert! Treating PE
3 comments:
- Michael Katz said...
"As a study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior notes, PE is the most common male sexual dysfunction."
Does this mean CVS is going to stock lytics next to the condoms?
- Sun Feb 21, 05:33:00 PM CST
I hope the GU folks don't start using that abbreviation. Could get confusing.
Re: the new drug - It would probably be a lot cheaper to treat them with a generic SSRI.
- Mon Feb 22, 08:01:00 PM CST
- Marco said...
Just waiting for a woman to show up at an ER somewhere with a complaint of 'PE'...
- Tue Feb 23, 03:39:00 PM CST
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While reviewing the list of deprecated features in SQL Server Denali's books online, my friend and colleague Herbert Albert discovered a small thing that will have important implications on anyone who's writing T-SQL code. Under the article: Deprecated Database Engine Features in SQL Server "Denali," section: Features Not Supported in a Future Version of SQL Server, you will now find the following deprecated feature: Not ending Transact-SQL statements with a semicolon.
Related: The New Kid in Town: SQL Server Denali
The Replacement is (unsurprisingly): End Transact-SQL statements with a semicolon (;). Deprecated features that appear in this section will still be supported in the next version of SQL Server, but will be removed in a later version. This could mean two versions down the road or later.
Note: Addition 2011103 is courtesy of Sean McCown and Aaron Bertrand, this deprecated feature already appeared in the documentation starting with SQL Server 2008.
Already in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 there are cases where it is a requirement to use a semicolon, including:
- Terminating the statement prior to a WITH clause defining a CTE
- Terminating the statement prior to a SEND or RECEIVE service broker statement
- Terminating the MERGE statement
These cases make the use of a semicolon a requirement to avoid ambiguity in the meaning of certain keywords. For example, the WITH keyword is used in the language for a number of different purposes. When the T-SQL parser analyzes the WITH token it needs to know whether the token starts a new statement defining a CTE or belongs to the previous statement, e.g., defining a table hint in a query. Many T-SQL developers got to the habit of starting a new CTE definition like this:
To me this form seams unnatural and nonintuitive, and such properties are not desirable properties for your code.
Also the fact that so far it wasn't a requirement to terminate all statements with a semicolon makes it hard on Microsoft when considering new language features purely due to parsing complexities. For example, consider the new OFFSET-FETCH filtering clause in SQL Server Denali which I covered in detail both in a past blog entry and in my column. In standard SQL the OFFSET clause is optional when you specify a FETCH clause; the default is supposed to be OFFSET 0 ROWS. However, in T-SQL if you specify the FETCH clause, the OFFSET clauses is mandatory. The reason is that otherwise the parser can't tell whether the FETCH clause starts a new statement that fetches the next record from a cursor, or is the new filtering clause belonging to the previous statement.
So far it was a requirement to use a semicolon only in specific cases. Now it looks like the plan is to make it a required terminator for all* T-SQL statements in some future version of SQL Server.
* Naturally there are cases that aren't supposed to be terminated with a semicolon; those include (but are not limited to):
It remains to be seen in which version exactly Microsoft will decide to enforce this. My guess is that the decision will probably be influenced by how customers and the SQL Server community will react to this plan. Trying to guess how much T-SQL code is out there in production systems, probably many millions of lines of code if not billions. Obviously from a practical perspective it's not a simple feat for customers to achieve, and very likely there will be some resistance. However, in the long run it is only logical to make it a requirement to terminate all statements with a semicolon for a number of reasons:
- It is standard
- More and more specific cases make it a requirement to avoid ambiguity as demonstrated
- The fact that currently it's not a requirement across the board for all statements causes complexities for the parser and likely prevents additions of some new language features
- It makes your code cleaner, more readable and easier to maintain
- Your code is more portable
So now is a good time to get to the habit of terminating all of your statements with a semicolon, and making it a policy among all developers. Once you get to the habit, it becomes effortless. Then it will be more realistic to accept such a requirement in a future version of SQL Server and help Microsoft and ourselves achieve this important goal.


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Whenever I go to a gathering or event that is comprised of entrepreneurs or business owners or CEO wannabes, a predominant part of conversation is "where do you get your funding from?" I have to reply, in my most assertive, happy-to-be-here voice that "we are unfunded ... we grow by revenue ... oh, wait, no, that's not quite right ... after our fourth year in business we got a credit line in case we needed some stretch with cash flow issues as our growth continues with reckless abandon."
It's fun to sometimes use my timid, quiet, not-so-sure-this-is-the-right-answer voice because, either way, the reaction is one of the disbelief and shock.
"Why? Why is this?" The other person asks me in a you've-got-to-be-kidding me voice.
When I encounter this reaction, we typically go on to round two of this discussion, which is of the intellectual nature. It goes something like this: "I'm not sure what we would do if we had more funding. We operate within our budget guidelines, are profitable (and always have been), and are able to provide well for our employees and clients."
The person with whom I am conversing will say things like, "How do you fund your growth? Expansion? Don't you need to invest in infrastructure?"
I continue with, "We are growing at the average rate of 100% a year, based on revenues. We are intending to grow by 2 offices a year, through revenue and perhaps some conservative use of our credit line and banking relationship. We have always invested in infrastructure and it's all in the budget."
By this time, people have either lost interest and assumed a blank "this is not the real world" stare, or are much more intrigued, and a very interesting conversation ensues.
It could go something like this:
Other Person: So, what is your exit strategy?
Me: Well, you should read this article (If You Don't Know the Way, Ask for Directions) I wrote on why I don't like that phrase. The end game is to do an IPO.
Other Person: But you need "Vulture" Capital to do that.
Me: Vultures? They really aren't so bad. Your investor choice is just that-a choice! Know the risks of any type of investor. Venture capitalists are great if you understand, in advance, what you're buying. I don't like the "Vulture" term.
To answer your question, there is an argument for getting Venture Capital before an IPO, and we are considering this option. Some feel it adds validity to your IPO and as a result, boosts your valuation. Right now, it doesn't make sense for us to take in money that we don't need and give up control that we do need.
Other Person: But shouldn't you get funding, from any source, when you don't need it so that you get the best terms?
Me: Yes, that is a good argument for getting funding now. Right now, we are considering some angel level funding rather than venture funding, and part of the rationale is just the argument you made.
Other Person: But you said you are growing by revenue!
Me: And we are! The funding that we may bring in would be to support some potential extraordinary expenses, allow for us to grow more aggressively, and allow for us to bring some interesting investors on board. We could just as easily use debt financing for this level of funding and give up no further control. Our needs are too small to involve VC at this point.
Other Person: So, when you are ready to IPO, how will people know who you are?
Me: We are working on getting our name out through many venues. We have presented at the Mass Software Venture Forum and have attended events with investment bankers and met with people who are either VC or Investment Banking partners to tell them our story and let them know who we are. There is strong interest in our company within this community, and we feel that we have good momentum and potential should we need to go this route.
Other Person: How do you meet people who are angel investors?
Me: I spend a good portion of my life, it seems, networking and meeting people. The more people I meet, the more leads I get. The more events I attend within groups like Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO), the more exposure I get to people who know people or people who are the people. We tell a good story and have a high quality group of advisors.
Other Person: It can't be that easy.
Me: Oh, no. It's not easy, at all. Networking is a skill and it's hard work! You can't just meet people - you have to be able to tell a compelling story in a short time period, it has to be believable, you have to be genuine, and you have to know what you want. And it helps to be honest. And it helps even more to be patient. To me, knowing who I'm going to allow to have a piece of my company is priority one. I am much less comfortable in getting direct input and control information from people who I neither know nor have had sufficient time to develop a relationship with. This is the case no matter who the investor is - angel, banker, VC.
Other Person: Why does that matter?
Me: To me, it is a critical part of our success. Through networking, telling our story and meeting and greeting, we've been able to enjoy huge success and rapid growth by our own steam. That makes for a company of proud people and it makes our assets all the more valuable. If we have on-board employees, then they are invested assets. I'm not willing to sacrifice that on purely financial grounds. The value of any investor, I think, comes in their understanding of who I am, why our company is headed in a certain direction, and their possession of the same type of pride in ownership that I have. They need to be able to have the same convictions as mine about where we are going and why.
Other Person: Do you think that's possible?
Me: Anything is possible. And more to the point, yes. I think it is entirely possible with any funding source. In my mind, the key to a successful and happy investment and investor relationship is having the relationship. Keeping your banker in the loop and well-informed without exception will play in your favor. Choosing the right investor, for the right reasons, is critical. If you need funding, it's critical that you evaluate people for the right reasons. Just needing funds is probably the worst reason.
For us, angels are the right fit. We don't need the weight of VC yet. We could work with investment banks or pure debt financing, too. The angel route allows us close control, small investment and close relationships.
There is no formula for which route to take. You should try each option on first, to see what feels right.
Other Person: That doesn't make sense. You are looking for investments so that you get funded? Which comes first?
Me: When you look for funding, you look for an investor - not a money bag. Investment comes in many, many forms. Time, energy, interest, understanding and dedication are critical features in an investor. There is a lot more to an "investment" than pure dollars. You have to be able to communicate and work with the person who will invest in your company. If you don't like the person or the group, you're never going to like them! Chances are that you know, or will have the opportunity to know, an angel investor. VC and investment or traditional bankers are often, though not always, a more institutional relationship.
It's not unlike a marriage - it's the worst kind of marriage when you marry a partner assuming that, over time, you can change their critical flaws. It just won't happen. Similarly, if you want an investment to work for you, it has to be the right fit. Venture funding, debt financing, friends and family rounds, and angel financing should all work this way.
Other Person: Okay. I see that. Huh. Thanks!
Me: So, are you funded?
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OTTAWA — Pregnancy is no time for women to refuse a flu shot since it may bring unexpected benefits to their unborn children, says a new study that analyzed vaccination rates during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
In addition to protecting pregnant women from the flu, the vaccine also may lower the risk of premature births, stillbirths and underweight babies, according to the study by an Ottawa research team.
Evidence is growing, based on the findings of this study and a few others, that flu vaccines are safe and effective, not only for expectant mothers, but also for their unborn infants. While these groups stand to benefit most from flu vaccines, little research has been conducted on how they respond to them.
Researchers say the latest findings could help debunk persistent myths about the flu shot and its effects on pregnant women — people who, as a group, remain reluctant to get the shot.
"The most important thing about this study was that the flu vaccine did no harm to the fetus," said Dr. Mark Walker, an obstetrician at the Ottawa Hospital and the study's co-author. "Not only was the vaccine safe, there was a potential benefit."
Walker and his collaborators studied the records of 55,570 Ontario mothers, 23,340 of whom were vaccinated during pregnancy from November 2009 through April 2010. Compared with unvaccinated mothers, women who got the shot during the H1N1 pandemic had fewer preterm births and stillbirths and fewer underweight babies, the study found.
The findings held even after researchers adjusted for factors that could skew the results, including age, education and income levels, as well as whether the mothers smoked, had hypertension or suffered from other chronic illnesses.
For every 1,000 vaccinated mothers, there were 2.6 stillbirths compared to 4.3 among unvaccinated moms — a 34 per cent decreased risk for vaccinated women.
Likewise, there were 83.3 underweight babies for every 1,000 vaccinated women, compared with 98.2 among those unvaccinated, translating to a 19 per cent decreased risk.
And there were 6.1 premature births for every 1,000 vaccinated women, compared with 8.4 among those unvaccinated, leading to a 28 per cent decreased risk.
The study, published in the June issue of the American Journal of Public Health, was a collaboration between the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and BORN Ontario, the provincial maternal-child health registry.
For Walker and his collaborators, the vaccination data from the H1N1 pandemic proved useful because, for the first time, they had information on a large enough group of pregnant women to compare the vaccine's effects on birth outcomes.
In normal years, so few expectant mothers get the seasonal flu vaccine that researchers lack a large enough sample size to conduct reliable studies.
During the pandemic, health authorities identified pregnant women as the group most threatened by the H1N1 virus and most in need of the vaccine. "Pregnant women, for whatever reason, were much more susceptible to H1N1 and when they did contract it, got much sicker than the average person," said Walker.
Even so, only 42 per cent of expectant mothers in Ontario got the vaccine.
Previously, a small-scale clinical trial showed that pregnant women who received a flu vaccine provided immunity to their newborns as well. The finding was significant because existing flu vaccines have little effect on babies in their first six months of life.
The 2008 study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, was the first to show that babies whose mothers got the vaccine were 63 per cent less likely to catch influenza compared with the controls. Experts say such immunity typically lasts until a baby reaches six months. After that, additional flu shots are needed to once again build up an infant's immune response.


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In close harmony voicings with section soli, i.e. 5 saxes in close harmony, what rulings apply, if any? From the early US big bands - 1930 onwards through each era of swing, be-bop, modern, contemporary.
These half-tone voicings between the top two instruments can upset the ear in some instances, when the inner voicing suddenly shoots out audilby, seeming to unbalance the rest of the lateral harmonic movement. (The piano is different of course, and doesn`t apply).
Of course the tempo of the music can hide or display even wrong notes to some degree, but I`ve no wish to suggest that writing half tones can be right or wrong. .
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In a conference call on Thursday, Bob Kaplan, ING U.S.'s national retirement consultant, outlined for advisors listening in the key points they should address with their plan sponsor clients in their year-end reviews. It's especially important to recognize that many clients may have been distracted by the Affordable Care Act, so advisors need to refocus their attention on their retirement plans.
"As we approach the year-end, we realize that so many plan sponsors and participants have just focused on their health care issues and might have lost focus on the retirement plan," Kaplan said. "Advisors should prepare accordingly and be able to talk about some of the retirement plan changes," Kaplan said. Some of those changes may already be in motion, but some could be coming next year. "As we all know, sometimes plan sponsors and participants read or hear something that might happen and they take it as something that has happened."
In addition to typical topics of discussion during year-end meetings—investment lineups, plan demographics—they need to look at plan design as well.
"One of the items that often gets overlooked at year-end plan reviews, is very simply the question, 'how is the plan design working for you now?' When was the last time that somebody looked at the plan design?"
He noted that sometimes plans will have been designed 10 or 15 years ago and haven't been revisited. "They've looked at everything but [design]: rates of match, how they enroll, timing of enrollment, timing of distributions, and often when you go over items like that you can make the plan sponsor a little bit happier."
One new change for plan sponsors is the result of the Windsor case, which recognizes same-sex marriage for federal tax purposes. "We talk about it in a retirement plan context because ERISA, which oversees retirement plans, is a federal tax law," Kaplan said.
The IRS issued a rule in August that became effective on Sept. 16 that addressed tax status for married same-sex couples. "The rule is this: If the affected couple was married in a state that recognizes same-sex marriage—I'll use California as an example—of course they are considered married in California. Even if they move to a state that does not recognize same-sex marriage—I'll use Texas as an example—they are still considered married for federal tax purposes once they move to Texas. They may not be recognized for state tax purposes, but that's a whole different issue," Kaplan said.
Another way the decision can affect retirement plans is in beneficiary designations. "We might have a lot more people in qualified plans now who have spouses," Kaplan noted. Prior to the Supreme Court ruling, a participant could name anyone their beneficiary; if after the decision that participant is recognized as married, his or her spouse is automatically named the beneficiary, unless they waive that right. Kaplan suggested advisors regularly update all participants' beneficiary forms. "It's a good idea to do it anyway, but it's really important now because we have a lot more people who could be considered married."
Spousal death benefits are another area of retirement plans that could be affected by the decision. A spouse can opt to leave assets in a plan until their deceased spouse would have turned 70½. Other beneficiaries don't have that option, Kaplan said. Withdrawal rights are also different for married and non-married beneficiaries.
However, Kaplan reminded listeners that beneficiary designations should be updated across the entire population of participants at one time. "When an employer wants to get updated information, what they probably by state law, they are not allowed to designate certain individuals and ask, 'Hey, are you married because of this new Windsor decision?' You can't do that. That's discrimination in collecting employee data. When you're asking those types of questions, you need to do it across the board."
Finally, the IRS and Treasury haven't issued specific guidance on how the Windsor case will impact qualified decisions. "They haven't told us what amendments we need to plan documents, and probably more importantly, is there going to be any retroactive application?" Kaplan suggested distribution election forms may need to be updated retroactively to the effective date of Sept. 16. Furthermore, participants with open tax years may be able to re-file those returns. "Bottom line on this one, we are on hold to see the specific guidance that we need from Treasury and the IRS."
Another change is the participant fee disclosure reset, Kaplan said. Sponsors must provide these disclosures annually, but "what happened was they were so set on getting them out in 2012 with the initial release being Aug. 30, they told us that we have to get a second set out and annually thereafter within 12 months of when the prior ones went out."
That means, Kaplan said, that if a sponsor sent out the disclosure forms in waves, the new forms will be due on different days. Another complication is if a sponsor switched providers at some point during the year and the new provider is on a different schedule.
"The reason this is so important to the sponsor is they are the ones who are legally responsible for getting these forms out," Kaplan said. In 2013, however, sponsors have 18 months from the initial mailing to mail new disclosures. "I'm going to pat myself on the back here. I was part of the industry group that went in and sat with the DOL leadership and asked for the extension, and we were able to get the extension."
Some other changes to expect in 2014:
- The fiduciary definition is still up in the air. "It could be in the spring of 2014. I think the message here for your plan sponsors is there's been a lot of chatter about changing the definition of fiduciary, but bottom line, until they issue the new rule, nothing has changed."
- Early in 2013 as part of the fiscal cliff deal, roth conversions were expanded to allow participants to convert amounts that were not yet eligible for distribution. Specific guidance from the Treasury and the IRS on how to handle issues like the five-year clock and other tax problems have not been released yet.
- Some proposed rules from the DOL indicate benefit statements should include not just a balance, but the theoretical annuity a participant could by at retirement. "They're not mandating annuities be taken out, it's just theoretical so people can judge how much they would be getting."


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In preparation for the release of the new movie "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" this summer, the twins and I simultaneously re-read the sixth book in the series. (I claimed the house copy while they borrowed copies from the library.)
They've read the entire Harry Potter series anywhere from seven to 10 times, depending on which one of my 10-year-old twins you ask. They've been obsessed with the wizard saga -- the first installment of which was published the year before they were born -- ever since the spring of 2007 when they dipped their toes into a world of magic, heartbreak and bravery for the first time. Hooked, they devoured the J.K. Rowling books and then moved on to the films, despite the fact that the movies, as with the books, grow bleaker and more frightening as Potter gets older and his woes get more complex. In preparation for the release of the new movie "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" this summer, the twins and I simultaneously re-read the sixth book in the series. (I claimed the house copy while they borrowed copies from the library.)
I hadn't always been a party to my kids' Potter obsession. In fact, for a while, I didn't quite get it. Not when the two would hole themselves up in their rooms and stay up until the wee hours reading. Not when they dressed up as Potter, Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasley on various Halloweens. Not when I organized Potter-themed birthday parties, put up twinkle lights and labored over a homemade Sorting Hat I fashioned from paper grocery bags. However, last summer, I acquiesced to my twins' pleadings to dive into the Rowling series with them. Surprised to find myself so captivated so fast, I plowed through all seven books, which, all told, amounted to more than 4,100 pages. Then I finally understood what all the fuss was about: Harry Potter is to this generation of kids what Luke Skywalker was to mine. When "Star Wars" came out in 1977, my younger brother and I were smitten, especially with the lead character, the teenage Luke Skywalker, who was raised by an aunt and uncle who died in the first movie, just as Skywalker learned he possessed the innate abilities of a powerful kind of galactic wizard, called a Jedi knight, in "Star Wars" parlance. As two more "Star Wars" films were released -- "The Empire Strikes Back" and "The Return of the Jedi" -- our enthusiasm for the franchise grew. Our house became populated by "Star Wars" books, trading cards, stuffed animals and my brother's army of action figures and ships, including a large At-At Walker he got for Christmas one year. We'd transform the living room into a complex of blankets and pillows that took the form of imaginary secret bases that populated that galaxy far, far away. We acted out with the action figures the good guys versus the bad. Sure, Darth Vader did wind up being hero Luke Skywalker's father-turned-vicious-killer-bad-guy; however, by the third film, Lord Vader realized that he still had a heart and an emotional connection to his son, who had the ability to knock off the most powerful evil-doer in the "Star Wars" universe. With Harry Potter, the dynamic is similar, albeit much darker and more tragic because the series started when the hero was 11 years old. I asked my twins recently why they liked Potter -- known as "The Boy Who Lived," the sole survivor of a fatal Voldemort curse -- and they described his caring nature, courage, sense of humor and, above all, his devotion to his friends, and his white-haired mentor at the Hogwarts School, Professor Dumbledore, who reminds me of Skywalker's mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi.
"He's not one of those snobby, stuck-up kids even though he's famous," my daughter said. "[His fame] doesn't change how he acts."
"He fights. He wins," my son said. "He's a boy and Voldemort is a grown man who has all this power. And it's cool to think of how Harry and all of his friends survive and stop him."
After the thousands of pages of text, hours of movies, the Hogwarts school banners decorating my kids' walls, the wizard cloaks and Potter glasses they've donned and Potter chess set with which they've tested wits, there's one theme that runs through all of this Harry hubbub that's sunk in for my kids: Potter's ability to love, despite all of the horrible things that have happened to him. Throw in his penchant for surrounding himself with an eclectic group of friends -- from geeks, brainiacs and the socially awkward, to the odd ducks and the talented participants of the wizard sport called Quidditch who follow and befriend him because he's not one to seek aggrandizement, and you've certainly got a solid role model, certainly better than Hannah Montana or SpongeBob. And unlike Luke Skywalker, who had the tendency to whine and be gratingly self-absorbed, Potter suffers and doesn't whine, which sets my kids' favorite childhood character several notches above the one I admired as a kid. (Anakin Skywalker in the later "Star Wars" films: An insufferable whiner.) Despite the tidy sum of money the Harry Potter Industrial Complex has pried from my hands in order to nourish my kids' Potter fix, I'm delighted that my children decided to invite me to join them in the world of Potter, the boy who stars in the tales which tell my kids not only how to be brave, but how important it is to cherish the ones you love. Columnist Meredith O'Brien blogs about parenting at the Picket Fence Post (wickedlocalparents.com/picketfencepost) and about pop culture at Suburban Mom (suburbanmomnotes.blogspot.com). Follow her on Twitter: MeredithOBrien.


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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Treasure Chest Thursday - Mom's First Piano Book
Families are Forever! ;-)
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I love that she has written on it "My First Book". That is a very special keepsake!ReplyDelete
You do have so many wonderful keepsakes and memories, Bill. I can remember back in the 50's, Teaching Little Fingers to Play, was the first piano book for newbies.ReplyDelete
Great treasure to have. It's great she kept it!ReplyDelete
Thank you for each comment. It is truly a joy to share these memories, with this kind of support! ;-)ReplyDelete
I passed along the Ancestor Approved Award to you. Stop by and pick it up.ReplyDelete
You don't have to return it. I just wanted to show my appreciation & gratitude for your blog & your support!


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The three C-prints included in this portfolio and printed in the artist's studio are:
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Aperture published the artist's monograph, Erwin Olaf, in 2008.
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Monday, May 21st 2018, 12:41pm
Not sure if events list for june is already sorted or set in stone? Just wondering if not, if we could get a FZ so there's a bit more gold knocking around in game and maybe liven up the AH - s13-15 certainly needs it.
I would really like to see a FZ soon we haven't had one in a while. I got all these gems and nothing to use them on besides gold
Date of registration: Nov 1st 2017
Monday, May 21st 2018, 2:15pm
Yea.. Miss FZ event. My stuff are ready to exchange...
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Monday, May 21st 2018, 4:17pm
PLEASE POST JUNE EVENTS (pretty please with sugar on top)
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Monday, May 21st 2018, 6:16pm
Yes please (to both)
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Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, 6:24am
We're asking.... Whether or not they acquiesce or not is anyone's guess.
Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, 3:31pm
What about the players who don't want Forbidden Zone? Can we have a poll to give an indicator to Demadrend as to whether to give us FZ or not? I've got a life, I can't spend it refreshing to see if I can exchange something for crystal packs or not.
Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, 7:58pm
Still crying about the 11th poll? damn dude get over it
Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, 8:04pm
This thread is about FZ, you should know that as you wrote it. Scroll up, I'm not even joking. Reported for offtopic.
Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, 9:07pm
It's just a poll mate, relax
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Saturday, June 9th 2018, 8:11am
Are We Gonna Get Another Forbidden Zone anytime?
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Saturday, June 9th 2018, 5:20pm
i m afraid not !
anyway, what was forbidden zone!!?
other similar servers had 3 FZs after our last one!
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Monday, June 11th 2018, 6:45am
TBH we having had a FZ in almost 2-3 months, but they rotate the same D*mn events repeatedly. We haven't had a Daily log on event either in a while. while other Platforms rotate them about once a month. just saying KAL needs to step its game up.
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Monday, June 11th 2018, 7:10am
we havent had zone in longer then that also Any chance of game STILL WORKING in June might be a better question to ask with the recent events ;P
Monday, June 11th 2018, 12:11pm
there is a daily log in a few days if that helps
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Tuesday, June 12th 2018, 2:12pm
Last FZ has been in the end of January 2018... I am pretty sure about this.
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Tuesday, June 12th 2018, 6:16pm
Good news players, we've got one on the way! (date to be updated)
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Tuesday, June 12th 2018, 7:54pm
finally!! I got gems stacked up waiting for it
Tuesday, June 12th 2018, 8:31pm
Thanks for the update Zidane
Tuesday, June 12th 2018, 9:11pm
Yes thank you, now I can sleep at night knowing that the poor souls in this thread have been saved from their eternal misery and everyone else is saved from their constant whining.
Tuesday, June 12th 2018, 11:05pm
Fancy an FZ poll Bast?


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Dannielle Tegeder Exhibition at Hamilton's Wellin Museum Opens May 11
The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art presents Dannielle Tegeder's first solo museum exhibition, "Dannielle Tegeder: Painting in the Extended Field." Tegeder is an abstract painter from New York City, and draws her inspiration from urban systems, architecture, data, infrastructure and geography.
Tegeder comes from a family of steamfitters, and says that she learned her style of drawing from her family. She therefore attempts to make visible the massive hidden systems and architecture in her work. Tegeder challenges traditional boundaries by moving between different mediums and employing new technology, and her innovative approach has distinguished her as a significant artist.
The show includes elements of Tegeder's work from the past five years, including a 70-foot wall drawing that was created with the help of student volunteers from Hamilton College and the Pratt School of Art at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute.
The community investment is further extended via Golden Artist Colors' generous contribution of the acrylic paint necessary for the huge wall mural. Golden, the largest U.S. manufacturer of acrylic paints for artists, is located in New Berlin, N.Y.
Students assisted with drafting, filling out paint, and masking. Tegeder says that she really enjoyed having the students participate, and having them drop in and out "was almost like a play or a performance." Tegeder said that Kate Bickmore '15, in particular, served as a crucial conduit for connecting her with the student body. Bickmore spent the past semester interning with Tegeder in New York City.
"Installing the show at the Wellin was a very different experience than working in the studio," said Bickmore. "It's been great to see all the projects come together in the space. I loved working collaboratively with both Hamilton and Pratt students on the wall drawing. I think for students to come and help out on the wall drawing was a beautiful testament to how art -- and the Wellin in particular -- can bring the student body together regardless of their major or concentration, as well as show how involved our student body is with the greater community," Bickmore remarked.
In addition to the 82-foot wall drawing, other elements of the exhibition include a collection of small sculptures on pedestals that creates the illusion of a tiny city, which is a remake of one of Tegeder's pieces from 2004. There are also various traditional paintings and drawings, experimental architectural models, a large "raw" drawing, and a 12-foot stained glass mobile. Tegeder describes one of her paintings an "ephemeral piece" because it repeatedly gets painted over, and we need to "embrace that it lasts only for a certain amount of time, like music," she says.
There are also several conceptual projects, including artist books and photography, and finally a "library of abstract sound." Tegeder explains that this collection of drawings function as music scores, and are physically played by translating the drawings into music by a sound engineer.
Tegeder says that she has enjoyed her experience working with Hamilton students at Wellin, and is excited to present her largest wall drawing to date. The exhibition will be open from May 11 through July 28, 2013.
- Danielle Tegeder at the Wellin Museum - Mohawk Valley Living - 5/3/13
(Episode #389 - start at 4:00)
- Unique Art Collaboration Between Students & Artists at Wellin Museum - WUTR 5/6/13
- Years of planning and prep lead to latest exhibit at Wellin Museum - WKTV 5/6/13
- "Wall of Art" Megan Austin and Kate Bickmore appearance on WSYR TV Bridge Street 5/8/13