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B.J. Atwood-Fukuda
BJ ATWOOD-FUKUDA lives and works in Spuyten Duyvil, NY and Woods Hole,
Mass. Her work has appeared in various publications, including American
Letters & Commentary and the anthologies Great American Prose Poems
from Poe to the Present (Scribners, 2003) and Free Radicals: American
Poets Before Their First Books (Subpress, 2004). She's working on a
novel, Trainwreck.
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Bob Bradley
Bob Bradley was born in Mansfield, Ohio, May 31, 1959 at 6:30am. Grew up in Sanford, North Carolina and Georgia. He was educated at Beecher Hills Baptist Church Kindergarten and Cascade Road Elementary School in Atlanta, GA, Marietta High School in Marietta Georgia, the University of Georgia, Athens, where he studied with Coleman Barks and at the University of Virginia, where he studied with Charles Wright and Gregory Orr.
Writings include poetry published in Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, Southern Poetry Review, Seneca Review, Poetry East, Antioch Review, Plainsong, Iris, and Painted Bride Quarterly among others.
For this poetry, he has been awarded fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has won the Academy of American Poets Prize in 1984.
Non-fiction writings include articles on and interviews with Lucinda Williams, Madison Smartt Bell, Ruth Stone, Vic Chesnutt, and Robert Francis, among others.
As editor of Haw River Books, Bradley has published limited edition chapbooks by David Daniel, Tom Andrews and Molly Bendall, as well as National Book Award-winners Robert Bly, Ruth Stone, and William Stafford. Stafford's, WRITING THE WORLD, Haw River's first publication, was nominated for the LOS ANGELES TIMES Book of the Year in Poetry.
As singer songwriter, he has created three independently-produced song collections: SECULAR MUSICS, WOODCHIP STEW, and SPARKLES FROM THE WHEEL. His most recent album, BOB BRADLEY, produced by Don Dixon, features Dixon, Mitch Easter, and Peter Holsapple.
As a supporting and headlining performer, he has shared the stage with, among others, Peter Buck (REM), David Mead, Joe, Marc's Brother, Lucinda Williams, Mindy Smith, Robert Bly, Keith Urban, Madison Smartt Bell, Vic Chesnutt, Jim Clark, David Daniel, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Coleman Barks, the Chickasaw Mud Puppies, Night Ranger, Wyn Cooper, Steve Earle, Ted Nugent, Deep Purple and Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie).
He lives in Nashville, TN.
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SuzAnne C. Cole
SuzAnne C. Cole is a retired college English instructor, traveler, mother and grandmother.
An award-winning writer, she has published more than 300 poems, essays, short stories and articles in commercial and literary magazines, anthologies and newspapers. Her plays have been produced in Houston, Baytown, Sacramento, Long Island City, and NY. She was a juried poet at the Houston Poetry Fest in 2003 and 2005 and a featured poet at the 2004 event. She's won a Writer's Digest personal poetry contest and a haiku festival in Japan. In 2004 she was Poet Laureate for Sol e-zine.
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Jeff Crouch
Jeff Crouch is an amateur artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. He plays at art as though it were a game of hide and go seek. His graphic work has appeared in The Blue Smoke Band, ardent, moria, eratio postmodern poetry, Speculative Fiction Centre, JMWW, Quill and Ink, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Spoiled Ink, Lunatic Chameleon, Triplopia, Events Quarterly, Skive Magazine, Subtle Tea, Literary Vision Magazine (LitVision), Prose Toad, Lily, Ink Pot, Generator Press, Monkey Kettle, BluePrintReview, DogEar, Expose'd, Misanthropists Anonymous (with Molly Crouch), Above Ground Testing (with Molly Crouch), Dicey Brown, Unpleasant Event Schedule, The Dreaming Pool, Underground Window, and zafusy with more forthcoming in Ancient Heart Magazine, Neon Highway, Unlikely Stories, Bending Spoons, 63 Channels, Internet Fiction, The Aurora Review, Acton, Poems Niederngasse, Mad Hatter;s Review, Forklift Ohio, DISPATCH Literary Review, and edifice WRECKED.
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Spencer Dew lives in Chicago. Some of his recent work has appeared in Girls with Insurance, Juked, Thieves' Jargon, Turk Magazine, VerbSap and Wandering Army.
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K. Sean Farragher
Sean Farragher, a graduate of Columbia University in New York and CUNY, has been writing poems for thirty-five years. He can be contacted at Great River Press, firstname.lastname@example.com.
He is editor of BLAST magazine, and poetry editor of FRiGG magazine.
His work has appeared in print, and if you google him by name you can read poems written since 1972 published in numerous media.
His personal website contains his most recent poems and in the Poetry Sampler on his site, his older works,
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Raymond Federman
IN THE SANDBOX He constantly tortures himself to know who he is, he wants to know, wants to understand himself, but perhaps it is this ignorance of his self that is his strength, his destiny, never to understand himself and to remain always misunderstood ... He offers himself totally, his head, hands, mind, soul, zipper, all open, not to expose himself, but as an initiatory gesture ... This is his way of saying, I am here, everything I have is here take it ... Such ego as he may be said to have is the referred ego of those outside of him who give it back to him as they see him ... He is not generous in any received social, sentimental sense, it is simply his nature not an acquired virtue, a personal gesture, like the way he watches over others ... He is a child in a sandbox asking others to come and play, but no one comes to play with him ... More often than not, they mirror him, but the mirroring does not reflect, it obscures who he is ...
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Brentley Frazer
Brentley Frazer - Poet living and working in Melbourne Australia.
Has poems in mnay reputable international publications including
Rattapallax Magazine, Fuse Box, The Moosehead Review, Thylazine,
Exquisite Corpse Journal Of Letters, Nth Position, Identity Theory
Get Underground, Tiger Magazine, The Age, The Courier Mail
and many others. Brentley keeps his finger on the pulse as
publisher and editor of Retort Magazine.
More information is available at www.brentley.com
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Janice J. Heiss
Janice J. Heiss, originally from the Midwest, has lived in San Francisco long enough to qualify as a native. In the early 1980s, Janice performed stand-up comedy at clubs throughout the Bay Area. In the mid-1980s, she joined the theater troupe, The Plutonium Players, a political satire theatre troupe. She was also a member of the short-lived improvisation group, Comikaze. Her writing has appeared in various publications including Urban Spaghetti, Limestone, Storyglossia, Black Dirt, the SoMa Literary Review, Passages North, and the Lullwater Review, etc. One of her short stories was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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Bob Heman
BOB HEMAN's prose poems have appeared in numerous publications including Sentence, Quick Fiction, Paragraph, The Prose Poem: an International Journal, Caliban, First Intensity, Artful Dodge, Key Satch(el), Lost and Found Times and many others, and have been translated into Arabic, Spanish and Hungarian.
Since 1972 he has edited Clown War and its successor CLWN WR, one of 84 "important magazines" honored with annotation in The Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History (Pushcart Press, 1978).
His "cut-outs" [participatory cut-out multiples on paper] have been featured in a two-person show at the Brooklyn Museum, a one-man retrospective at the Brooklyn Downtown Cultural Center, and in group shows in Toronto, Los Angeles and Brooklyn. They have also been included in a textbook on writing poetry and an anthology of performance scenarios. During the late 1970s he was an artist-in-residence at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Chloe Chester lives in California.
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Ludovic Janvier was born in Paris in 1934, where he still lives for part of the time. Janvier is a novelist, short story writer and essayist (two books about Samuel Beckett), and has published two poetry collections, La mer à boire (Gallimard, 1987) and Entre jour et sommeil (Seghers, 1991).
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Paul Kavanagh
Paul Kavanagh was born in 1971. He likes to drink gin. He has not smoked a cigarette in ten years. He once lost a bet because of a donkey. He reads Shakespeare and admires the art work of John Constable. He is happy. His wife is happy. Together they are happy.
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My work has appeared in a number of publications, including The Mississippi Review, The Hiss Quarterly, Poems Niederngasse, Voices Magazine, T-zero Xpandazine, SaucyVox, ERWA, CleanSheets, Citizen32 and the recently released Women of the Web anthology (Sun Rising Press).
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Pierre Le Pillouër
écrivain et poète né en 1950 à Louhans en Saône et Loire. Vit et travaille à Vallauris. Membre de la rédaction de TXT de 1983 à 1993.
Il a créé et il anime depuis décembre 2001 http://www.sitaudis.com
« le premier site de poésie comparative ».
A publié plusieurs ouvrages parmi lesquels
Sabots les abats, (Muro Torto-1983),
Pancrailles, (Txt-1991)
Une anse, (mem Arte/Facts-1998),
Poèmes jetables (éd. Le Bleu du ciel-2002)
Privatif (éd. Le mot et le reste-2003)
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Pierre Le Pillouër
Pierre Le Pillouër
writer and poet born in 1950 in Louhans (Saône &Loire).
Lives and works in Vallauris (French Riviera).
Member of the editorial board of the TXT review (1983-1993).
He created since december 2001 http://www.sitaudis.com
"the first site of comparative poetry".
Has published several books among which :
Sabots les abats, (Muro Torto-1983),
Pancrailles, (Txt-1991)
Une anse, (mem Arte/Facts-1998),
Poèmes jetables (éd. Le Bleu du ciel-2002)
Privatif (éd. Le mot et le reste-2003)
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Michael Marks
I am a baby-boomer, the middle child of five born in a six year span. My
mom escaped to teach horseback riding full-time, obviously overwhelmed by
her progeny. My dad was a traveling shoe salesman. Gwendolyn Brooks became my mentor in 1967. I am riding my poetry horse somewhere between Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan. Anita and I had our own five children, while I
operated an art gallery for thirty years. The children are gone, but the poetry stays.
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M. Maxwell
I graduated from college with three useless degrees and have worked meaningless jobs that I detested. I am employed and employable merely because the people and companies I owe money expect restitution. I have more interests than time to master them and none of the money required to dress the part. At any social gathering, if you happen to see the sneering, mute wallflower, envious eyes openly mocking the privileged, that might be me. If you notice me, then I need to work harder on being invisible.
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1960s experimental writer Henry Mescaline is the perhaps pseudonym of
noted writer/critic Henri d'Mescan, who, after escaping from execution at the
hands of a French War Crimes tribunal, altered the American literary landscape
Forever. The 1964 publication of Hallucigenome: A Henry Mescaline Reader (Atom Press) cemented Mescaline's
place in the nascent consciousness-expanding movements of the period, and
collaborations and performances with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs,
Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, and others. His work can be found in Multifesto: A Henri d'Mescan Reader (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006): www.spuytenduyvil.net/fiction/multifesto.htm
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Corey Mesler
COREY MESLER is the owner of Burke's Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, Cranky, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet Lore and others. He has also been a book reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal. A short story of his was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, published by Algonquin Books. Talk, his first novel, appeared in 2002. Nice blurbs from Lee Smith, John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Barthelme, and others. He has a new novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, just out from Livingston. His latest four poetry chapbooks are Chin-Chin in Eden (2003) and Dark on Purpose (2004),Short Story and Other Short Stories (2006), and The Heart is Open (2006). He also claims to have written, "Pleasant Valley Sunday". Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe's dad and Cheryl's husband.
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Neil Mincey
I live in Coralville, Iowa; a corn row away from the literary echelons of Iowa City. I am the former stickman for the obscure, yet highly regarded proto no-dough band, Randy Rockit & the Blast. I've since traded my drums for dreams of poetic glory and aspirations of acquiring a vast (non) readership. To that end I have achieved publication in The Breath E-Zine, ken *again, A Cup of Poems and a Side of Prose, and KotaPress.
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Claire Olivia Moed
Claire Olivia (C.O.) Moed was born on the Lower East Side of New York City when it was still a tough neighborhood. A violinist until her mid-twenties, C.O. quit music and started performing, writing and producing at the Women One World (WOW) Café, an anarchistic theater cooperative in the East Village. With masters from New York University (Dramatic Writing) and the City College of New York (Directing), C.O. was nominated for a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship and attended the Berlinale Talent Campus 2005 and the Berlin Today Award Summer Campus 2005. Her short stories and dramatic works have been published in several anthologies and literary reviews. She shoots, writes and works a day job in New York City.
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Brian Morrisey
Brian Morrisey has been noted as "sensitive bastard" and other ironies that denote his affliction for hopeless romanticism. His words derive from the solid foundation of Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg. More recent inspirations include Todd Moore and the Café Babar poets (Babarians). He has dedicated over half of his mere existence to POESY, a journal for poetry and photography aimed at boosting the esteem of American Poetry. He has interviewed such celebrities as: Diane DiPrima, Jack Hirschman, A.D. Winans and Todd Moore. He lives by the beach in Santa Cruz and spends his days talking about the physical properties of glass. www.poesy.org
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Anne Portugal is the author of Le plus simple appareil (P.O.L., 1992; translated as Nude by Norma Cole, Kelsey St., 2001), Fichier (Editions Michel Chandeigne, 1992), De quoi faire un mur (P.O.L., 1987), and Les Commodités d'une banquette (P.O.L., 1985). Translations of her work have appeared in Five Fingers Review, Série d'écriture, and The Violence of the White Page. She lives in Paris.
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Christian Prigent est né en 1945. Après des séjours à Rome (1978/1980) et à Berlin (1985/1991), il vit depuis 1998 dans un village du Perche normand. Il a dirigé de 1969 à 1993 la revue d'avant-garde TXT et la collection du même nom. Il a publié, essentiellement chez P.O.L, à Paris, mais aussi chez Christian Bourgois, Cadex, Zulma, une trentaine d'ouvrages (poésie, fiction, essais sur la littérature et la peinture) et donne régulièrement, dans le monde entier, des lectures publiques de son travail.
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Christian Prigent was born in 1945. Having lived in Rome (1978/1980) and Berlin (1985/1991), he has been living in a village in the Perche normand region from 1998 on. From 1969 to 1993 he ran the avant-garde journal, TXT, and the series with the same name. He has published about thirty works (poetry, fiction, literary essays and paintings), mostly with POL publishers in Paris, but also with Christian Bourgois, Cadex, Zulma, and gives public lectures about his work regularly all around the world.
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Charles P. Ries
Charles P. Ries lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His narrative poems, short stories, interviews and poetry reviews have appeared in over one hundred and twenty print and electronic publications. He has received three Pushcart Prize nominations for his writing and most recently read his poetry on National Public Radio's Theme and Variations, a program that is broadcast over seventy NPR affiliates. He is the author of THE FATHERS WE FIND, a novel based on memory. Ries is also the author of five books of poetry — the most recent entitled, The Last Time which was released by The Moon Press in Tucson, Arizona. He is the poetry editor for Word Riot and Pass Port Journal. He is on the board of the Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Most recently he has been appointed to the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission. You may find additional samples of his work by going to: www.literarti.net/Ries.
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Kris Saknussemm
KRIS SAKNUSSEMM's first novel Zanesville was published by Villard Books in October 2005. The Austin Chronicle called it "The most original novel of the year" and it received a Starred Review in Booklist, which praised it as "brilliantly inventive black comedy." Kris is a native of the Bay Area but for many years has lived in Australia. A painter as well as writer, his work has appeared in such publications as The Boston Review, The Hudson Review, The Antioch Review, River Styx, ZYZZYVA, New Letters, Prairie Schooner and Nimrod, to name a few. He was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 2004 and his second novel is scheduled for publication in 2007. For more information see www.saknussemm.com
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Fred Schepartz
Fred Schepartz is a published science fiction writer and is the
publisher and executive editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change
(www.mobiusmagazine.com). This is Fred's true identity, but in the
make-believe world of market capitalism, he pays the bills driving cab
at Union Cab, a worker-owned-and-operated taxi company in Madison,
Wisconsin, happily subverting from within since 1979.
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Davis Schneiderman
Davis Schneiderman is the author of the forthcoming novel Multifesto: A Henri d'Mescan Reader (Spuyten Duyvil 2006), co-author of the forthcoming novel Abecedarium (Chiasmus Press, 2007), and co-editor of Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto 2004) and the forthcoming The Exquisite Corpse: Creativity, Collaboration, and the World's Most Popular Parlor Game (Nebraska, 2007). His creative work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and accepted by numerous journals including the Notre Dame Review, Fiction International, The Iowa Review Web, Exquisite Corpse, and Gargoyle. Dr. Schneiderman is an Assistant Professor of English at Lake Forest College, and co-editor of literary journal Potion (potionmag.org). Visit Davis Schneiderman's website.
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Peter Schwartz
Peter Schwartz is a poet, author, editor, painter and playwright. He has over
120 poems published or pending. He has fiction with 'Pindeldyboz', 'Dispatch',
and 'Monkeybicycle'. His more recent digital artwork publishings can be seen
at 'The Pedestal Magazine' and 'Sein und Werden'. See 'Mannequin Envy' for
an example of when he combines both word and image. To learn more about
his own journal 'eye' which focuses on poetry editors themselves, visit:
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David Thornbrugh
I am an American poet now living in Poland, getting some distance from America's Roman period and absorbing "Old Europe" values, sights, experiences. I wasn't here in time to attend Milosz's funeral, but I have begun an open mic venue in a great local English-language bookstore. Stop by if you're in town.
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A former stevedore and bartender, Peter currently teaches remedial English, GED classes, and Creative Writing to incarcerated adults and juveniles in Central Mississippi. In his spare time, he makes complex art objects out of recycled film strips. This summer, Peter will be attending a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute that deals with the Brazilian Contemporary Urban Novel. He is also translating and editing a chapbook of poetry devoted to the World Cup.
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Ania Vesenny
Ania Vesenny was born and raised in the former USSR. Currently she lives in Toronto. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Per Contra, SmokeLong Quarterly, Cezanne's Carrot, Heavy Glow, Grimm Magazine, Staccato, VerbSap and FRiGG. She is an associate editor for Vestal Review.
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Ann Walters
Ann Walters is a mother, writer, and physical anthropologist. Her
work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Salome, Gator Springs
Gazette, edificeWrecked, and NOÖ Journal.
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Liz Amini-Holmes
Liz works from her home and studio in Woodside, California, she affectionately calls "the tree house", with her artist/writer husband Mark Holmes and their twin sons.
A native of San Francisco, Liz graduated with a BFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has worked for numerous magazines, newspapers, book publishers and the children's publishing market. Liz has also has created artwork for a variety of industries such as multi-media, corporate, educational and game companies.
Liz's paintings have been exhibited at MTV corporate offices in New York and various galleries, bookstores and cafes in the SF Bay Area. Her work is currently shown at Canvas Gallery in San Francisco, CA and Esteban Sabar Gallery in Oakland, CA. She has also been a featured artist in several literary and art industry magazines.
Working primarily in acrylic paint on board, Liz has developed a highly personalized, evocative painting style.
Regarding her work Liz says, "In some pieces my work is whimsical but also has a bittersweet quality that emanates from them. I like that sweet sad aspect of life and let it leak into my work. Other pieces are more about the tense moments that are just around the corner, the ambiguity of what will happen next. I like the feeling of being a bit scared. Life is paradoxical; a bit scary and fun which what makes it exciting!"
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Svetlana Bakushina
Professional creative photo & video artist, member of Union of Photoartists of
Russia, designer. Was born in 1979 in shaman's family deep in Siberian taiga.
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John Barbato
John Barbato lives in a village in southern Mexico where he writes and paints and is the poetry editor of the Oaxaca English Language Literary Quarterly "ZOCALO".
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Nancy Calef
Born in Bronx, New York, I completed Bronx High School of Science at age 15 and received a scholarship from the College of New Rochelle to study painting and sculpture. In 1977, I moved to San Francisco, where I've continued to paint; I also exhibit nationally in solo and group shows.
I have lived in Europe and Thailand, traveled throughout the U.S., Mexico, Central America, Southeast Asia, India and Nepal, all of which served to develop my painting style and sharpen my understanding of the cultural and spiritual diversity of the world landscape. Having experienced the harsh side of urban life, I'm moved to paint society from my imagination, juxtaposing characters in ordinary situations. I often tackle difficult issues while incorporating humor and adding the third dimension (sculpture and found objects on canvas). I have come to realize that art is truly a universal language. read more >>
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Patrick Christiano
Formerly salesman of ice to eskimos, currently on fire. Street artist from the bad old Guliani days and poet. Web site, www.picturetrails.com, member name patrick84, poetry website www.artistkunst.de/pat
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Tom Denlinger is an artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois. Mr. Denlinger is a photographer and videographer who has had solo exhibitions in New York and Chicago, as well as participated in exhibitions in Berlin, Seoul, Madrid, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Medellin, Colombia. He has received grants from the Artadia organization of New York, the Kunstlerhaus, e.V. in Hamburg, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Illinois Arts Council. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Frankfurt Allgemeine, Szene-Hamburg, the New Art Examiner and Art Papers, and he has been collected by Art Frankfurt, the MacArthur Foundation, the City of Chicago, LaSalle Bank, and the Refco collection of photography. He is currently co-editing an anthology on contemporary uses of the Surrealist Exquisite Corpse. Denlinger operated a Heidelberg KORD sheet-fed printing press for six years.
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Claudia Drake
I love to explore the placement of things, piecing parts to uncover and
create associations. My art is a manifestation of this process, which I
term as 'Urgent Alchemy'. Each new work is a puzzle to me, a process of
interlocking forms and alterations that I adjust until I feel that they
fit. Antique engravings and etchings fascinate me, so I use them as the
basis for this exploration. My main interest is in the fusion of forms
and the narratives that emerge.
Art history is the foundation of my visual education. I'm self-trained
through lessons learned from the early Surrealists and Dadaists, a love
child of Ernst and Magritte. My work draws largely on their legacy,
bridging antique to modern.
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Military brat. Tried those careers that were 'fun' as opposed to
work (bass guitarist, actor, director, writer). Pretty standard stuff.
Nowadays I work in the video/computer game field
as an digital artist/animator.
"…when I was using brush and ink, very time-consuming. Nowadays it's scan the pencil sketch and paint it up in Photoshop. Whenever I work with the pencil, I always have a moment where I look for the undo button on the pencil and then realize it's called
the eraser."
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Alice Egoyan
I have been creating digital art since 1997, when I opened my first
website, The Keeper of Fragile Things. I cultivated a love for macro
photography & multiple exposure because I could melt images
together to create a sort of visual story. Using Photoshop helped
me expand my visions even further.
My inspiration is derived mostly from myth, religion, & fairy tales
& my artistic expression encompasses several media. I grew up
on a diet of foreign fashion magazines, modern art, classical art,
& street art~~all which have inevitably contributed to my style.
Last year, I self-published a book of my earliest artworks titled
The Intercourse of Angels.
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Serhiy Kolyada
1972- was born in Odessa, Ukraine
1973- moved with my parents to Berdyansk (a little town on the Azov Sea)
1979-1989- studied at secondary school and attended the drawing classes at the state art studio.
1989- entered State University in Zaporizhzhya (Faculty of Foreign Languages)
1991- was excluded from the University for the taking place in democratic anti-communist regime compaigns. Then went to Sweden to ask the political asylum. In a month get the refusal ( it was the time when the putch failed in Moscow and Ukraine got the independence in few monthns ) and went back to Ukraine.
1993- applied for the emigration to the Canadian Embassy i Kyiv (Ukraine) and got the refusal. Entered Teachers Training Institute in Berdyansk (home town ) and continued my education.
1997- finished the Institute and went to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine to make an artist career. Got acquainted with a lot of foreign diplomats and began to sell my art. At that time applied to a lot of Kyiv's galleries for an art-show and got the refusals because of the criticism of anti-human regime of president Kuchma.
2001- had my art-shows at the residence of South African Ambassador Mr. Delarey van Tonder and at Kyiv International School (founded by Americans ) and had a great success.
2003- My friend Andrey Vashchenko made the web-site for me. So people got the possibility to see my art on the Internet.
2004-2005- took part in the Orange Revolution which didn't bring the real democracy to Ukraine and real freedom to Ukrainians.
2005- married a great girl who's name is Larissa and till now live in Kyiv.
All the Ukrainian galleries still refuse me to make my show. You can also read some articles and interviews on my site.
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Peter Malinoski
Peter Malinoski went to college for more than 15 years
to gain as many degrees in fine art as possible. He
ended up with a BA, MA and MFA. The plan was to teach,
which he did for a while, but he determined that he
was not a very good teacher. He really just wants to
make things and not talk about it much.
"I haven't had a profound thought in 20 years ... and
I can't remember what it was."
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DK McDonald
DK McDonald is an award-winning artist residing in the mountains of southern Colorado. Working primarily in watermedia and collage, her commissioned works and series are held by collectors across the US.
Possessing an innate and inexplicable fondness for classical literature, ancient greek philosophers, and obscure Catholic poets, her figure work and abstracts are heavily influenced by her readings of the same.
When not in the studio, she spends her time hiking Colorado's numerous mountain trails, camera in hand. More of her work can be seen at www.artbeacon.com/dkmcdonal
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Kenney Mencher
Originally from New York, NY, Kenney Mencher earned a BA and MA in Art History from City University of New York and University of California, Davis, respectively, following which he went on to obtain a MFA in painting from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. He has taught at a number of institutions including the University of Chicago and Texas A&M University, and now teaches at Ohlone College in Fremont, California. He is the author of a text book Liaisons: Readings in Art, Literature and Philosophy. His exposure via solo and group exhibitions is extensive nationwide. read more >>
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Jessica Minckley
Jessica Minckley came of age as an atheist, fraternal
twin in the Mecca of Mormonism only to flee to Los
Angeles, an equally weird environment, to make a
living from her artistic tendencies. She likes to draw
and knit and read and eat burritos- all at the same
time. She likes using hyphens and alliteration,
driving around aimlessly, and cleaning other people's
messes up to distract her from her own.
Minckley's artwork references pop culture, sometimes
draws from magazine images/personal photos, and always
values poetics and perversity. Most importantly, it
asks questions about American culture and gender
roles, (instead of answering questions at large.)
Minckley graduated from Otis College of Art + Design
in 2005 with a BFA in painting and a minor in writing.
She has been included in shows at L.A. Louver gallery
in Venice, CA, and at the University of Southern
California. Presently, she dreams of New York,
Istanbul, and Reykjavik; she also teaches drawing at
Otis Evening College and works at Richard Telles Fine
Art Gallery.
View Jessica Minckley's Art HERE or click on a thumbnail:
Dee Rimbaud
Dee Rimbaud was born in 1962, in Glasgow, Scotland. Both his parents were artists. He started writing poetry in his teens and was inspired to take his writing seriously after he won the Lochaber High School poetry competition in 1979. He was active in the London poetry scene in the early 80's and published a couple of chapbooks. He also produced an alternative arts/ poetry zine, Dada Dance.
In 1986, he commenced studies at Edinburgh College Of Art, specialising in Sculpture, which he studied to post-graduate level. Whilst at art school he won an Andrew Grant travelling scholarship to India; a John Kinross Scholarship to Florence, Italy; and participated in an exchange programme, studying for three months at L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Le Havre, France.
After graduating, he worked in community arts, arts development, film & television, and as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. He did his fair share of less glamorous jobs too, including a six month stint at a fish factory. He's also put in a great many unpaid hours as editor of Acid Angel magazine and The AA Independent Press Guide. read more >>
View Dee Rimbaud's Art HERE or click on thumbnail:
Shalo Smith-Olaya
Shalo Smith-Olaya is a Venezuelan artist living in Bogota, Colombia. He is predominantly interested in the Indigenous Art that he is studying as part of a Cultural Anthropology program at the Universidad Externado in Bogota. Like many intelligent and good people, he loves the Tiburones de La Guaira baseball team. While baseball has influenced his life, his intention is to go into museum curation. He can be in reached English or Spanish at: email@example.com. And he'll be mounting a website of all his art soon-ite.
View Shalo Smith-Olaya's Art HERE or click on thumbnail:
Michael Tino
okay. so i paint. i write because i have to. the corporate world on me.
this is an outlet. like the ocean. that's all i have to say for now.
you can see my bio on my site. that is out-dated but so what?
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Michael Whalen
Michael Whalen, aka megavillain, lives and works out of Chicago. More work can be seen at megavillain.com.
View Michael Whalen's Art HERE or click on a thumnail:
The Los Angeles artist X-8 began creating abstract paintings utilizing
mud, hair and blood in 1981.
In 1993 he began creating 'exorcistic' works, utilzing macabre and
internal imagery. His work is ultimately cathartic and therapeutic.
He currently creates large scale works based on mythology, decay and
He is represented in the UK by the Henry Boxer Gallery.
View X-8's Art HERE or click on a thumbnail:
Rich Andrews
Guest Columnist
Rich barely survived 27 years working for the NYCTA as a Bus Operator. Step to the Rear stories were compiled over several years of lunches attended by a bunch of damaged but undaunted retirees who fought for every penny they earned. Rich prays he's done justice to the stories of his brothers and sisters in arms, for he loves them dearly.
Read Rich Andrews's Column
Tamisue Jones
Guest Columnist
Tamisue Jones was born 1970, a contradictory Sagittarian that tries hard to
balance on that three-foot-wide tightrope between the crosswalk stripes from
responsible adult to lazy teenager. She flunked her initial English major -
turned out that getting pregnant and sleeping through classes was not part
of the core curriculum. She did graduate with a B.A. in History, which has enabled her to answer a few questions on Jeopardy. The love for writing that
started it all, though, survives. To pay the bills she works in a psychology
office. For fun, she procrastinates, calling it 'mental exercise'. She
also enjoys gaming, reading, computers, making up excuses for not typing out
the stories in her head, and figuring out her teenage son. She, her
partner, and their critter children live in North Carolina.
Read Tamisue Jones's Column
Composer and musicologist Donald C. Meyer, collaborates with choreographers, filmmakers, theater directors, and authors to create multi-media works that interweave classical and contemporary sounds forms into poly-vocal aesthetic structures. He is the author of articles on American cultural history and rock music and a music appreciation textbook called Perspectives on Music (Prentice Hall, 2003). Dr. Meyer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Lake Forest College.
Listen to the collaborative recordings of David Schneiderman's Whatnots
Helen Ruggieri
Guest Columnist
Helen Ruggieri lives in Olean, NY, and has an MFA from Penn State. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford, PA.
She studied with Bill Stafford and tries to pass on Stafford's process, witnessing for poetry. Her work is in many magazines from Abraxas to Z Miscellaneous.
John Balaban, director of the MFA Program at the University of Miami, stated: "Ruggieri, with an intense regard for right diction and informing imagery looks at those things that come her way - both from books and from her rural river town of Olean, NY and saves them for us, saves them from passing into oblivion, saves their enduring values."
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As we approach the Halloween holiday, it may be appropriate to retell a frightening story that happened here on the Big Island; in fact just some twelve miles south of Hilo in the quiet village of Ola'a.
Ola'a is in the sacred Ola'a forest, which was once an area restricted to bird-catching families (whose occupation was to collect hulu or feathers for the ruling class) until the abolishment of the kapu system in 1819 and the arrival of the missionaries shortly thereafter. A small church was established in 1835 to serve Hawaiians living in the area. As Hawai'i island developed with small coffee farms and with the establishment of sugar plantations in the 1890's Ola'a saw the arrival of immigrant labor. Soon the church and community embraced an ethically and culturally diverse plantation community. Ola'a Church
|Ola'a Church
In 1947 in Ola'a children were playing near the local pond when one of them fell in and drowned. The boy, named Tanaka, was later found by divers sitting on a rock with his eyes and mouth open and body swaying with the currents. Yet, he was dead and his corpse was retrieved and buried.
Later, people who walked by the pond would often fell something tug at the bottom of their trousers. Rumors spread that the boy's spirit was trapped beneath the water. In his book, Obake Files, Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawaii, Glen Grant writes:
"On some evenings the villagers could hear a cry emanate from the pond in the middle of the night. At first most everyone believed that the haunting cry was the wind blowing through the tall sugar cane fields. But a few of the older people said they knew the spirit of the Tanaka boy- cold, wet, and desolate at the bottom of the pond. The soul was crying out for help and deliverance. Trapped in this world by accident, he sought someone's spirit as a substitute. They would take his place at the bottom of the pond so that he could be free to go to the otherworld.
"Those who were present at the second accident swear that the other boy was pulled into the water against his will. It was the noon hour. He was walking about 50 yards behind his father along the edge of the pond, occasionally picking up a flat stone to skim across the water. When he fell, he screamed out to his father that something was pulling him into the pond. He clawed at the earth, trying to hold on, to fight back. But in what seemed like an instant, the force tugging at his legs pulled him into the watery depths of the pond. By the time the young boy's body had been located, it was found sitting naturally on a rock on the bottom of the pond. He seemed so natural sitting there- arms placidly at his side, eyes and mouth open, swaying gently to and fro in a light current. Fortunately, the rescuers were able to bring him back to the surface in time to be resuscitated.
"A Shinto priest was brought from Hilo to bless the waters, and the haunting cries finally ceased. Yet, on peculiarly dark nights when the evening skies seem bathed in black ink, those who live closest to the pond say that they sometimes hear the Tanaka boy's cry. But are the cries melancholy or sinister? And will the Tanaka boy ever find peace?" Weird Hawaii
Pretty spooky…..I'd say!

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HomeReady(r) mortgages are offered by Fannie Mae, a leading source of financing for mortgage lenders who originate mortgages to a diverse group of home buyers. Fannie Mae, also known as the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), is a government-sponsored enterprise created by Congress. First chartered in 1938, Fannie Mae plays an important role in the nation's housing finance system, providing affordable mortgage solutions to borrower's who have difficulties through traditional channels. The HomeReady mortgage program is their enhanced affordable lending product designed for creditworthy, low- to moderate-income borrowers.
How It Works
This program meets the diverse needs of many of today's borrowers who have decent credit scores, but limited incomes or who don't fall into typical lending approval guidelines. Although it's ideal for first-time home buyers, you can still qualify as a repeat buyer or to refinance any single-family home, if you meet all the criteria. If you can't afford a large down payment or rely on non-traditional sources of income, you can still qualify for a HomeReady mortgage in many cases, because it's considered even more flexible than those offered by the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). Similar to this program, you do have to reside in the home you're purchasing and you're required to completed a homebuyer education course. HomeReady offers numerous mortgage options, including fixed rate mortgages of 10, 15, 20 or 30 years and adjustable rate mortgages for five or 10 years.
Income Eligibility Requirements
In July 2016, income eligibility requirements for HomeReady mortgages were simplified to 100% of the median income of the area in which the home you're buying is located. You can look up specific income requirements on the HomeReady web page or ask your lender to see whether you qualify. Luckily, if you're regular income isn't enough to cover the maximum 45% debt-to-income ratio amount, you can utilize many other income sources to help you qualify. This includes using household income from any household member regardless of whether they're listed on the loan. This works great for unwed couples, extended family members who live with you like aging parents you care for or even non-relatives, such as roommates, who'll help pay your mortgage. In some situations, you can also use a co-signer's income, who won't live in the home.
Income Limits
This program does have income limits based on geographical areas. For properties in underserved or low-income areas, there aren't any income limits; high-minority (at least 30%) or designated disaster areas, you can earn 100% of the area's median income; and any other areas, you can earn 80% of the area's median income. Income limits are intended to ensure the HomeReady program is reserved for borrowers who need it most.
Flexible Down Payments
HomeReady mortgages offer a low 3% down payment option, but sources for this down payment is flexible. Saving for a down payment is often the biggest obstacle to homeownership, so unlike most other mortgage programs, this one doesn't require a minimum contribution you have to come up with yourself. Your parents or other relatives can fund 100% of your down payment as a gift and cover closing costs. You can also use a qualifying grant from an approved down payment assistance source. The biggest difference is this program allows you to use cash-on-hand immediately for your down payment, unlike many other programs that require you to put these funds in a bank account for 60 days before you can use them for your down payment. Fannie Mae also reduced the amount of required private mortgage insurance (PMI) in this program to further lower borrowers' costs.
HomeReady(r) Credit Scores
Credit score requirements is the one aspect of this loan program that's not as flexible. You must possess a fairly good score to qualify, but it doesn't have to be perfect. Typically, Fannie Mae requires your score to between 680 to 700, but your lender may have higher requirements. You can qualify with a score as low as 620, if you can afford to put down 25%, but this isn't feasible in most cases.
As a final stipulation to financing real estate through this program, you must complete home buyer education. You can do this by taking an online course at your own pace for a small fee. This course is designed to prepare you for sustainable homeownership. However, if your loan includes a down payment assistance program, you may complete this requirement through an education course or counseling offered by a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved agency.


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-Kohtalo- by blackeri
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This image copyright © 2004.
Artwork Description
Two lovers set apart by the God's enviousy, who trapped the boy for eternity in the misty forest. Lead by delusive hope, the girl begged the Gods to let her into the forest to find her beloved. For the girl's sadness and desperair were so overwhelming, the Royal Spirits agreed.
Without sleep or rest she has been searching for him throughout day and night.
Soon, as the months passed by, out of loneliness and obsession, the girl began to lose her mind. She is now speaking with trees and flowers, hearing her lover's voice in the nightingale's song, seeing his shape in blades of grass.
Her once great love turned into hatred, as in her madness, she has blamed the boy for the whole misery she was going through. She is now therefore hunting him, seeking revenge for her disastrous fate.
I'm searching for you - where are you my dear?
Is it your warmth I felt in the wind's morning breath?
And if this riven thunder was your cry of fear,
Was it me you were calling in the face of death?
I'm waiting for you - where are you my dear?
I loved you so badly you tore me apart!
But did you see my bitter tears,
when with starlit madness you have crowned my heart?
I cannot find you - where are you my dear?
You whipped me with sin and shattered my skies!
But my entity's rememberance will find you here,
and rusted cry will burn in your stoppered ears
Howling lullabies
So uhm yeah, I present my newest work
It took me a long long time to finish, but at the end I am very proud of it. You will also be able to buy a printout of it (as well as some otherartworks)
Technical info: ~50hrs for the drawing process, ~3hours for the poem&story, bg is mainly manipulated (using custom textures as well) ^_^
February 17th, 2008
Do you do portaits? And is so how much?
January 12th, 2008
This is an amazing peice of art. I love it. It looks so real!
November 6th, 2006
impressing work you make....
August 16th, 2005
Almost unbelievable that this is a painting - so great! love the light - and of course herself and that smashing dress
June 9th, 2005
Amazing, such a perfect creature. I love the similarity between the bird's tail and her hair
May 22nd, 2005
truly amazing! this woman seems so realistic as if you kidnapped her and shoved her into the paper! (what has the world come to kidnapping people for paintings!?!?) :)~
Another thing though nature has blessed you with an amazing gift, your 0 how incredible! I hoped you get to
March 13th, 2005
tien? elle me fais pensé a une actrice dans la série les aventure de sinbad...^^ elle est super belle;)
February 22nd, 2005
Nie ma takiej rzeczy ktora by mi sie nie podobala. Brawo!
January 27th, 2005
Por fin una artista que hace que me enamore de un cuadro, belleza y sentimiento puro se unen en unos trazos perfectos
December 4th, 2004
Nice Photo work , this is genuine retouch at its best.
September 24th, 2004
May I ask about the name of this picture? Kohtalo. Why? I suppose you knew that it means "Destiny" in Finnish. The work is amazing, couldn't do it better
September 18th, 2004
Wow. Marta, my dear, truly, your future is bright. I adore your work. Again,wow. Thanks for the enrichment. Love ya.
September 11th, 2004
the folds look photorealistic and the colours have a really magical feel in the the mystic look in her eyes fits this perfectly too
September 8th, 2004
I think this is very good. I tend to disagree with Ville's comment about the lighting. I don't feel its that much of a difference to distract from the overall image. Also, she is in the foreground and the two large trees to each side are somewhat behind her, so who is to say there isn't another tree to the right (out of the picture) that she is in front of but is between the light source and those trees just behind her? Just a thought. Anyway, I think it's a beautiful painting. Well done Marta.
September 8th, 2004
How wonderful you are at Epi, too! I've always liked this one. So pensive and romantic. The hair and dress are especially fantastic work.
September 7th, 2004
Kohtalo. An interesting name for a polish artist to choose.
On a more technical note the lighting of the character is quite a bit off from the lights of the forest. As a remedy I recommend doing the background and the characters together, I used to do them separately myself and often found problems with my light directions and colours.
Overall it's a very lovely piece, I especially like how the girl's hair and the bird's feathers look alike. A surprising detail.
September 7th, 2004
I love your attention to detail on the satin material of the dress, and the flowers at the bottom look amazing. Well done, its beautiful.
September 7th, 2004
She looks like Angelina Jolie Its great image i love it.. good job


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This is the fabric that started it all:
I was given 3/4 metre of this gorgeous fabric as part of a gift when my baby girl was born. This was my introduction to quilting fabric, and the concept that you could use it to make garments. What began as 3/4 metre has turned into this:
and this:
I was so pleased to find the charm packs and the honey bun online, so that I at least own a scrap of each of the 40 prints. Some creative Internet searching turned up some more yardage, but I was overjoyed with the limited reprint and picked up the larger scale prints (below) and the dots. I love these (forgive the creases):
So, what are my plans with all this beautiful fabric? Quilts, skirts, dresses, bags, you name it. In my next post, I'll discuss the quilt I plan to make. It will be my first quilt so I'm trying hard to keep it simple. Then some day soon I may actually start to sew it!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Adventures in Wonderland
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One Peter Five takes it apart.
It has been said that Bishop Bergoglio of Rome does not read anything on the Internet and reads only one newspaper.
The one that published this:
In the same phone conversation of the past Wednesday, he declared himself very interested in the article I had dedicated to him two Sundays beforehand. He asked me what I thought of the conclusions of the Synod on the family. I responded -- as I had already written -- that the compromise that the Synod had reached did not seem to take into account the changes had had taken place in the family in the past fifty years, [and] therefore pointing towards the recovery of the traditional family was an objective that was completely unthinkable. I added that the open Church willed by him finds herself before a family that is open both in its goodness and in its wickedness, and that it is this that the Church finds before her.
"It is true -- Pope Francis answered -- it is a truth and for that matter the family that is the basis of any society changes continuously, as all things change around us. We must not think that the family does not exist any longer, it will always exist, because ours is a social species, and the family is the support beam of sociability, but it cannot be avoided that the current family, open as you say, contains some positive aspects, and some negative ones. ... The diverse opinion of the bishops is part of this modernity of the Church and of the diverse societies in which she operated, but the goal is the same, and for that which regards the admission of the divorced to the Sacraments, [it] confirms that this principle has been accepted by the Synod. This is bottom line result, the de facto appraisals are entrusted to the confessors, but at the end of faster or slower paths, all the divorced who ask will be admitted." [Rorate translation, emphasis added]


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The Alekhine-Levitsky match, which a scant few days ago gave the appearance of a runaway affair, has transformed into a much more closely-fought contest after yesterday's fifth game, a slashing victory by Stepan Levitsky. Levitsky, recording a success for the second consecutive game, defeated Alekhine with a violent attack and now trails his younger compatriot by a single point, 3-2, in this match of seven games up.
After the obligatory 1.e4 e5, as prescribed by the match conditions, Levitsky employed the Center Game, against which Alekhine reacted vigorously. At his 13th turn Levitsky, facing a situation in which routine play would cede the initiative to Black, chose instead to launch a sacrificial attack, shattering the opposing King's defensive position at the cost of a piece. The soundness of this approach may be open to question, but the dangers it presented for the defending side were without doubt, and Alekhine, by his own estimation, committed a serious error at the 16th move. Thereupon Levitsky, making excellent use of a pin on the d-file, combined with threats of a mating attack, applied continuous pressure until his opponent, short of time, opted, as in the fourth game, to yield his Queen for Rook and minor piece in the hope of mounting a defense with his remaining forces, a hope that soon proved vain when, at his 25th turn, and facing further loss of material, the young Muscovite resigned. We present the game, along with commentary by Alekhine:


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The next Appalachian Community Action & Development Agency, Inc., (AppCAA) Board of Directors' meeting will be held February 25, 2019 at 6:00pm at the LENOWISCO Board Room, 372 Technology Trail Lane, Duffield, Virginia.
Formerly known as RADA, AppCAA has effectively served the needs of low- to- moderate income individuals in southwest Virginia since 1965. AppCAA serves Lee, Scott and Wise Counties as well as the City of Norton.
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National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Main Getting Started Teacher's Guide Student Activities About NIH and NIDCD
Students learn how loudness is measured. Using a Web-based loudness-pitch square, students generate a hearing-response curve. They also listen to recordings that simulate hearing loss. Students investigate the relationships among loudness, pitch, and hearing.
Loudness and pitch are distinct properties of sound. Loudness is related to the amplitude of the sound wave; pitch is related to its frequency. Humans do not hear all pitches equally well. Specifically, the loudness of very-low- and very-high-pitched sounds must be increased to detect them. A healthy sense of hearing is characterized by an ability to recognize a wide spectrum of pitches. Hearing loss may involve failure to detect specific pitches.
After completing this lesson, students will
Consult the following sections in Information about Hearing, Communication, and Understanding:
|Web Version?
|Activity 1
| Master 3.1, The Decibel Scale (Make 1 copy per student.)
Master 3.2, Sound Intensity Table (Make 1 copy per student and prepare an overhead transparency.)
|Activity 2
| Master 3.3, Loudness and Pitch (Make 1 copy per student.)
Master 3.4, Hearing Response (Make 1 copy per student and prepare an overhead transparency.)
|Activity 1
|a small bell
|Activity 2
|a computer with an Internet connection and a sound card
To achieve the best results, calibrate the computer sound levels with the Web activity. To do this, go to http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/hearing/web click on "Web Portion of Student Activities." Then click on "Lesson 3—Do You Hear What I Hear?" After listening to the introduction, you will advance automatically to a page containing a large graph, the loudness-pitch square. Play the 2,000-Hz (2-kHz) tone at a value of about 20 on the loudness scale (y-axis). Adjust the volume control on the speakers so that the tone is barely audible. This will ensure that your computer plays the tones at appropriate volumes for the activity.
Teacher note
This activity is concerned with measuring levels of sound intensity. Sound intensity is a scientific measurement representing power per unit of area and is expressed as watts per meter squared (W/m2). Loudness, on the other hand, is a subjective impression of sound intensity. Perception of loudness varies from person to person. It is influenced by factors such as sound frequency (we don't hear all frequencies equally well) and the performance of our hearing (a person with a partial hearing loss may perceive a given sound as being less loud than a person with normal hearing does). Although sounds of greater intensity are louder than sounds of lesser intensity, use of the term loudness does not permit us to make quantitative comparisons. Therefore, in this activity, we will focus on measuring and comparing sound intensity rather than loudness.
The bell serves as a vehicle to engage students' interest in the activity.
Students may suggest
If students have trouble understanding the relationship between sound intensity and decibels, use the first few entries on Master 3.2 as examples to clarify the relationship. Completing the worksheet will help students better understand the decibel scale and also reinforce the meaning of sound intensity and the large range of sound intensities that the human ear can detect. Only a few reference sounds are presented here. Students will have the opportunity to relate more sounds to the decibel scale during Lesson 5, Too Loud, Too Close, Too Long.
|Sound Intensity
|Decibels (dB)
|just detectable
|quiet room
|normal conversation
|alarm clock
|rock concert (90–130 dB)
|shout into ear at 20 cm
|air raid siren
Students should respond that the sound levels increase by powers of 10. Furthermore, the number of decibels (dB) corresponds to the number of zeros in the sound-intensity column, followed by a zero. That is, a sound intensity of 1,000 in the table has a decibel value of 3 (as in 3 zeros) followed by a zero, or 30 dB.
Answers to questions on Master 3.1, The Decibel Scale, follow:
Question 1. How many times more intense is a sound of 30 dB than a sound of 20 dB? A sound of 40 dB than a sound of 20 dB?
A sound of 30 dB is 10 times more intense than a sound of 20 dB. A sound of 40 dB is 100 times more intense than a sound of 20 dB.
Question 2. How many times more intense is the sound of an alarm clock than a quiet room?
The sound of an alarm clock is 10,000 times more intense than a quiet room.
People have different preferences for sound intensities. For example, some people prefer to listen to music at higher intensities than others. Differences in loudness perception can also result from damage to the hearing pathway. A person with a partial hearing loss will hear a given sound as less intense compared to a person with normal hearing. People who prefer to listen to loud music put themselves at risk for noise-induced hearing loss.
Sound intensity plays an important role in human speech. First, speaking loudly can convey an emotional state such as urgency or anger. Second, as seen in Lesson 2, putting greater stress (sound intensity) on a particular word can change the meaning of a sentence. Third, stressing a different syllable within a word can sometimes change its meaning.
Figure 3.3. Speech can be either loud or soft.
Teacher note
In this activity, students generate a hearing-response curve, which depicts the threshold of hearing as a function of frequency. This technique is the basis for a test commonly used to detect hearing loss. However, this activity should not be used as a diagnostic tool in any way. Students will likely generate curves that differ from each other. These differences are much more likely to be caused by differences between computers than differences between students' hearing.
Although they may not be able to explain the physical basis for the bell's pitch, most students will probably know that its pitch is related to its size, and that the only way to increase the bell's pitch would be to change (decrease) its size or somehow to electronically change the sound waves that it produces.
Students should understand already that loudness is described using words such as loud and soft, whereas pitch is described by words such as high and low. Students should be able to explain that both the low-pitched keys on the left of a piano keyboard and the high-pitched keys on the right can be played softly or loudly. Similarly, males (with lower-pitched voices) can sing as loudly or as softly as females (with higher-pitched voices).
Sounds of rapid vibrations are perceived as higher in pitch than sounds of slower vibrations. The unit hertz (abbreviated Hz) is used to measure the pitch (frequency) of sound. For example, a sound with a pitch of 262 Hz vibrates at a rate of 262 times per second, which corresponds to middle C on a piano.
Students should pay close attention to the introduction. It explains how changes in wave amplitude reflect soft versus loud sounds, and how changes in frequency reflect low- versus high-pitched sounds.
Figure 3.4. The loudness-pitch square.
Students may work in teams, although each student should collect his or her own data.
Depending on your computer, sound card, and speakers, you may not be able to hear the lowest or highest frequencies, even at the maximum intensity. Also, students might hear a very short "squeak" initially. Tell them to ignore this noise and listen for a constant, uniform tone.
Other tones may be louder than this one, and they will be assigned an arbitrary number relative to 1.
Question 1. Did the sounds produced at each frequency seem equally loud? How did the loudness change with frequency?
Sounds vary in loudness as pitch (frequency) increases. At the low end of the spectrum, the sounds seem louder as frequency increases. As one moves up the spectrum, however, loudness seems to decrease at the higher frequencies.
Question 2. Why did you hear variation in loudness with changing pitch?
The hearing system's sensitivity to loudness varies with the frequency of the sound. Generally, the ear is most sensitive to sounds in the 3-to-4-kHz region. Sounds outside of this range must be more intense to be perceived as loud. Any student answer that relates this phenomenon to the functioning of the human hearing system is acceptable.
Teacher note
In this second task, students generate a hearing-response curve. This curve has no clinical value and should not be viewed by students as an indication of whether or not they have a hearing impairment. However, if a student has responses that are well outside the norm and is concerned, encourage him or her to see the school nurse, a doctor, or an audiologist. The purpose of this task is to explore the different sensitivities of the human ear to different pitches. If you or the students have not already calibrated the sound level of their computer as described in the Preparation section at the beginning of this activity, instruct them to do so now.
Note: the lowest frequency the students hear may be at 250 Hz, 125 Hz, or 62.5 Hz depending on the quality of the computer's sound card and speaker system.
Note: that at the two highest frequencies, students might hear a very short "squeak" initially. Instruct them to ignore this noise and listen for the loudness setting at which they hear a constant, high-pitched tone.
Student results will vary, although the shapes of their curves should be similar. The values on the y-axis are high at the lowest frequencies, drop for frequencies from 500 to 4,000 Hz, and slowly rise beginning around 8,000 Hz.
Figure 3.5. A sample hearing-response curve.
Answers to questions on Master 3.4, Hearing Response, follow:
Question 1. At what frequencies is your hearing most sensitive? Circle these frequencies on your graph.
Hearing is most sensitive at those frequencies for which sound can be detected at the lowest loudness levels. Human hearing is most sensitive at frequencies associated with human speech (between 250 and 4,000 Hz).
Question 2. As we get older or are repeatedly exposed to loud sounds, we tend to lose hearing at higher frequencies. How might the hearing-response curve change for an individual with high-pitched hearing loss?
As hearing loss occurs, progressively louder sounds are required for higher-pitched sounds to be heard. The hearing-response curve for a person with high-pitched hearing loss would show a steeper curve on the part of the graph corresponding to high frequencies. Because louder sounds cause damage to hair cells, a mild hearing loss can lead to even greater hearing loss.
Both the filtered 4,000-Hz and the filtered 2,000-Hz sound tracks simulate how a person with high-pitched hearing loss might hear the passage being read. The filtered 2,000-Hz sound track corresponds to a more severe hearing loss than does the filtered 4,000-Hz sound track.
Pitches ranging from 2,000 Hz and above have been removed from the filtered 2,000-Hz sound track, while pitches ranging from 4,000 Hz and above have been removed from the filtered 4,000-Hz sound track. Therefore, the filtered 2,000-Hz sound track is missing pitches between 2,000 Hz and 4,000 Hz, which are present in the filtered 4,000-Hz sound track.
Loudness seems to decrease as pitches are removed.
Understanding becomes more difficult. Words seem to be less distinct. This is because some of the information provided by the sound has been lost.
As hearing loss occurs, progressively louder sounds are required for hearing. An individual may turn up the volume on a television, stereo, or radio or ask a speaker to talk louder. Students may have noticed such behaviors exhibited by their grandparents or other older adults. A person with such a hearing loss may elect to use a hearing aid, which uses a microphone to collect and amplify sounds coming into the ear. The hearing aid does not restore normal hearing but can greatly aid hearing and communication.
|Activity 1: Measuring Intensity
|What the Teacher Does
|Procedure Reference
Ring a small bell and challenge the class to suggest ways of making the bell ring louder.
Steps 1 and 2
Introduce the concept of the physical basis of loudness and the decibel scale using Masters 3.1, The Decibel Scale, and Master 3.2, Sound-Intensity Table.
|Step 3
Have the class complete Master 3.2, Sound-Intensity Table, and discuss their answers.
|Steps 4 and 5
Instruct the class to answer the questions on Master 3.1, The Decibel Scale.
|Step 6
Discuss the relationship of loudness to human communication.
|Steps 7 and 8
|Activity 2: Pitch Me a Curve
|What the Teacher Does
|Procedure Reference
|Ring the small bell again and challenge the class to suggest ways of making the bell sound at a higher pitch.
|Part 1, Step 1
Ask the class to distinguish between loudness and pitch and relate their answers to the concept of sound waves.
|Part 1, Steps 2 and 3
Have students log onto the Web site and click on the button labeled "Lesson 3—Do You Hear What I Hear?"
|Part 1, Steps 4 and 5
Have students collect data on the relative loudness of sounds using the loudness-pitch square and Master 3.3, Loudness and Pitch.
|Part 1, Step 6–10
Have students answer questions on Master 3.3, Loudness and Pitch.
|Part 1, Step 11
Have students collect data on a hearing-response curve using Master 3.4, Hearing Response.
|Part 2, Steps 1–3
Have students plot their data and answer the questions on Master 3.4, Hearing Response.
|Part 2, Steps 4 and 5
Challenge students to describe how speech would sound with high pitches removed.
|Part 3, Step 1
Have students return to the Web site and play unfiltered and filtered sound tracks.
|Part 3, Steps 2 and 3
Reconvene the class and discuss the following questions:
|Part 3, Step 4
|= Involves copying a master.
|= Involves using a transparency.
|= Involves using the Internet.


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CLARK — All junior health classes at Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark are learning how to perform CPR.
Junior Victor Rizzuto said, "If someone passed out and stopped breathing, I am capable of saving their life and that's pretty awesome."
CPR is a combination of simulating the breathing of the lungs and the pumping of the heart. CPR is made up of two parts: rescue breathing and chest compressions. Rescue Breathing is when you exhale air from your lungs into the victim's lungs so they can take in oxygen. When you breathe into a victim's mouth and have their nose closed, the air is forced into their lungs and you can see the chest rise. Chest compressions are when you manually compress the heart by pressing down on the chest. The hope is that by compressing and expanding the heart, the blood flows through it as intended.
From left to right, Juniors Victor Rizzuto, Jake Egner and Greg Gouillon (Photo courtesy of Clark Public Schools)
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"You just haven't had your 'Glasto Moment' yet," the husband said last weekend as we trudged through crowds, the children whining (it was in all fairness the first day and they hadn't caught wind of the kid's field yet - just frolicking drunk people in crazy costumes meandering through mad fields with no apparent destination in mind - and I include the husband and I in this).
No indeed I hadn't. But it wasn't long after until I did. In fact I'm not even sure when it happened. Perhaps it was hooking up with my sis and a load of our friends in a sunny field, sipping vodka-based cocktails and working on our tans whilst the boys gleefully zip-lined across the field and buggered off for sufficient enough time for the husband and I to put our new Cath Kidston picnic blanket to the test.
In the end, the four days we spent at the worlds biggest music festival passed in a delightfully surreal blur of music, laughter, adventure, panic, amusement and downright ridiculousness. In fact the biggest downside wasn't even at the festival itself, but during the arduous four hour drive home wherein we discovered that our headlight deficient campervan rendered the road ahead utterly invisible and required the husband to keep his finger flexed at all times on the high beam lever just to catch the odd glimpse of tarmac. Nightmare.
Bear in mind we'd both had next to no sleep and could barely keep our eyes open - so were not at all able to handle the relentless screaming of what was normally our smiley baby. I had to contort my body around just to hold hands with him, and it wasn't until we stopped for some emergency petrol station coffee that we discovered the poor soul had been screaming not because he was an escaped minion from the depths of hell but rather because he was covered in his own vomit and likely had been for quite some time - clearly suffering from a profound bout of car sickness. (Gulp). Oops.
Add to this the fact that I was openly snoring in what must have been a most attractive stance, head thrown back, mouth agape, drifting in and out of dreams - waking only to have the husband repeatedly ask me whether I'd know what to do if he had a heart attack right there and then whilst driving. That sobered me up. But only momentarily.
In the end it was my shitty little speaker hooked up to my iphone which saved the day. I began playing a selection of tunes - some to wind the husband up and some to keep me in the land of the living. It must have worked as we arrived alive.
At any rate, suffice it to say that a grand time was had by all. I was let loose to do whatever I fancied on the Friday night and found that after a few hours of furtive guilt texting to the husband whilst watching The Horrors at The Park Stage (amazing) I soon forgot about anything but having fun, and learned that left to my own devices, much like a homing pigeon, I would eventually find my way back to the campervan and resume normal duty. Albeit at breakfast the next day, but hey - as I told the husband - at least I came back.
The husband duly returned the favour by taking off to see geriatric rockers 'The Rolling Stones' the next night and not rolling in until 6am Sunday morning - a stunt which pretty much determined that the ride home for him later that day (headlights or no headlights) was going to be U.T.T.E.R. H.E.L.L.
So I'll let the pictures do the talking and bid you adieu now. I went, I saw, I participated, and i had fun. What more is there to say?
(Next year the husband and I go it alone)
|A friend helps herd the monsters around...
|Ready for another day of silliness...
|Future circus performer
|Dumps and a mate checking out the talent
|Mama checking out The Horrors
|A near version of '127 Hours'. But in a campervan. With Mama sat outside unawares and kids freaking out inside.
|Squit decides he's had enough. And is outta there.
|Too many bands...too many girls...too many late nights
|My motley crew of disgraces...thanks for a brilliant night well spent :)
|Whilst Dada catches 40 winks, Squit uploads pic of his passed out Dada on twitter
|Dada happy as a proverbial... Nuff said.
|"Umm...where to next?"
|"Dude looks like a lady" (but was most certainly...a dude :)


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I've spent my life being told to cheer up. 'Smile darlin', it might never happen', was a phrase I heard at least once a night when I worked in a bar. One time I snapped, told the patron my uncle had just died. It was a lie, a terrible lie. Touch wood for my Uncle Nigel - sorry. But I was trying to prove a point.
And today something happened that has led to me writing this blog post to make my point loud and clear.
I was on my way into work this morning. I was fighting with an allergic reaction to something so my eyes were bright red, sore, dry and itching. I got barged by someone rude when I was trying to get onto the tube, and then I was reading a horrific story in the newspaper about a woman who got her unborn baby stamped on by the father in broad daylight because she refused to get an abortion.
As all of this was happening, I got a text. 'You look grumpy in the mornings!' It was from a friend who has spied me on my commute, and I was unreasonably angry about this. That was when I realised, I wasn't angry at my naive friend. It was a pent up rage at all of the hundreds of times I had been told to 'smile' by men. That I looked 'unapproachable', 'miserable' or 'angry'. I get it at work. I get it walking down the street. I get shouted at out of cars. I'm sick of it.
- You don't know how their day is going. Something truly terrible could have happened, and you're putting your foot in it.
- When you say it to someone at work, like myself when I was a barmaid, think to yourself: would you smile during an 11 hour shift with no break? Would you walk around serving arrogant assholes with a big cheesy grin while you pour their drinks? No. Because for one, your face would hurt. For two, you would look like you were high as a kite. And three, you're there to work, not to smile. Don't get me wrong, anything relating to customer service should always include a smile in the service. I'm happy to flash a smile when taking an order, or handing them their drink. But when a barmaid is wiping a table, collecting glasses, reloading the dishwasher, pouring ten shots of jager... don't tell her to smile. Ultimately - it's sexist. Would you be saying the same to a male server?
- Who are you to make a comment or a joke about someones appearance? I'm fully aware that when I'm relaxed my face looks furious. You think I like the fact that I have to work ten times harder to prove I'm not a bitch when I first meet people? I hate it. And I don't need people constantly reminding me every day that I naturally look unfriendly.
- What are you hoping to gain from it? OH, HE TOLD ME TO SMILE, HAHAHA *GRINS AWAY*. No. It's patronising and a weird way of trying to assert dominance over someone. I have the right to walk down a street with my natural features relaxed, if this is displeasing to your eyes then stay home.
To conclude, I've got better things to do than spend my time giving myself a muscle strain trying to hold a smile in place just so that men might think I'm prettier. I am not obligated to smile.
Disclaimer: Once again I do want to point out, obviously women can be just as ignorant and say these types of comments to men. And obviously women do subject men to the same type of sexual gaze and objectification. However, as always, I'm writing from my own experiences in which I have never, ever, been told by a random woman to smile, against countless experiences with men.


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Canadian Respiratory Journal
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 233-234
Editor's Page
End-of-Life Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Canadian Respiratory Journal, Canada
Copyright © 2008 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article has no abstract.


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The Beijing Olympics have come to a close and by all accounts have been a success. Kudos to you Beijing, although I still don't have it in my top five vacation destinations.
The games will be remembered for Michael Phelps' eight gold medals or Usain Bolt's blazing speed in the 100 and 200, but for me the memory is Angel Matos kicking Chakir Chelbat.
Sounds innocent enough given the sport is Taekwondo but Chelbat was the referee and when a referee gets kicked intentionally by a competitor – that is funny.
I watched the video of the incident several times and each time it brought a smile to my face. It was a good kick, well executed. Clearly Matos has talent.
It got me thinking – is it justified/understandable? Here is an athlete that has trained in Cuba for four years leading up to the Olympics. He is in his final match and it isn't the gold medal match – this was for the bronze. Win you get a medal, lose you finish in possibly the worst place you can at the Olympics. Fourth. He was winning by one point when he was hit by his opponent and fell to the mat. In taekwondo you get a full minute of injury time after which you are disqualified. Matos took the full minute and a few seconds later was awarded his fourth place… medal.
His argument was that the referee and judges were too strict with the ruling. Now there would be my first area of disagreement with Matos – as a spectator, I think I'd like the referees to be strict about rules in the Olympics. He made his point by kicking the referee in the face, pushing a judge and horking on the mat. That, my friends, is funny stuff.
I realize that taekwondo is just a subset of MMA but the coverage of TKD at these Olympics does not help anyone's delusion about MMA becoming an Olympic sport. In addition to the Matos comedy, there was a match in women's TKD that was overturned after the bout that impacted the medals awarded. A kick was initially not ruled "solid" enough for points but after a protest it was deemed to hurt the opponent just enough to score two points. Please don't subject MMA to this type of scoring system for the sake of "mainstream".
Taekwondo – the way of the foot and fist – was on display at the Olympics and it at least gave me a chuckle.
Run as fast as you can Usain Bolt, and congratulations to you Michael Phelps but a gold medal also goes to you Angel Matos – you made me laugh.


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Kevin Odom
Kevin Dean Odom, 42, of Orange, passed away Nov. 17, at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
Visitation will be from 10:00-11:00 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 21, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City with the funeral service to follow at 11:00 a.m. Officiating will be Pastor Lee Wagliardo of Journey Community Church in Lumberton. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Orange.
Born in Orange, Aug. 1, 1973, Kevin loved rebuilding and racing cars, especially Mustangs. He worked as an auto mechanic for Superior Tire in Nederland. Kevin was a loving son, brother, companion, and step father.
He was preceded in death by grandparents, Joyce Thistrup and Corbit Odom; aunt and uncle, Rita and Jeep Cartwright.
He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Sherry and Will Parish of Orange; father and stepmother, Jay and Mary Odom of Brookeland; longtime companion, Laurie Saunders of Bridge City; step children, Shelby Ash, Justin Ash, and Tyler Ash; sister, Julie Cammack and husband, Terry of Bridge City; niece, Alyssa Strickland; nephew, Lance Cammack; grandparents, Dorothy Akers and Margie Schultz of Orangefield; aunt and godmother Diane Speece and husband Mike; uncles and aunts, Mickey and Ethel Odom, Danny and Vicki Odom, Craig and Mary Ann Odom; stepsisters, Alyson Parish and Haley Parish; step brother, Nathan Parish and wife Lindsey and numerous loving family and friends.
Serving as pallbearers will be Louis "Bubba" Long, Jeremy Gothia, Trevor Latiolais, Jason Vice, Justin Ash and Tyler Ash. Honorary pallbearer is Charles Saunders.
The family would like to extend their gratitude to the nurses and staff on the Oncology, fourth floor at St. Elizabeth Hospital.


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Art is everywhere in Los Angeles these days, from Santa Monica to Pasadena and all spots in between. But it seems as if downtown Los Angeles is the epicenter for great galleries, with warehouse space becoming large scale art hot spots, and the Arts District just one of many neighborhoods that really put the downtown part of our sprawling city on the art map.
Corey Helford Gallery
Corey Helford Gallery originally opened in Culver City in a much smaller space as a labor of love between an art-loving husband and wife team. Today, they are a major purveyor of contemporary art in an enormous three-gallery space in the warehouse district just across the Los Angeles River from the Art District. Their openings are a happening scene with a great D.J. and a glamorous crowd. Pop Surrealism is one of the many art genres the gallery features.
Corey Helford Gallery
571 S Anderson St., Los Angeles
MARS – Museum As Retail Space
This 6,000-square-foot commercial contemporary art gallery is as cool as the cutting edge art it displays. Installation art and performance art is often a part of the mix, which is sophisticated and unusual. The gallery door itself is a work of art, a thousand-pound single-pane of glass balanced on a central pivoting axis.
MARS – Museum As Retail Space
649 S Anderson St., Los Angeles
Art Share
You would be hard put to find a better collection of emerging artists than those whose work is often beautifully curated at Art Share. Located right in the heart of the Arts District, brilliantly themed shows support community artists. Above the gallery space there are subsidized live/work areas for artists. Terrific work and rising-star bargains make this location a must-visit.
Art Share
801 E 4th Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Hauser & Wirth
Possibly the polar opposite of Art Share is Hauser & Wirth, an internationally renowned gallery that took over a former flour mill and added a garden, a plaza, a chic indoor/outdoor restaurant, and of course, three high-ceilinged galleries of museum-quality art. At 100,000 square feet, this more museum than gallery, although the work is for sale.
Hauser & Wirth
901 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Charlie James Gallery
This contemporary art gallery often has a smart, trenchant political focus in its art, and is but one of a group of awesome galleries on Chung King Road. From the cutting edge art of Coagula Curatorial to the extremely well curated Gregorio Escalante Gallery and the outsider art of the Good Luck Gallery, there is a wealth of wonderful art here, often with exhibitions opening all on the same date, creating a lively evening scene in Chinatown. Charlie James Gallery is a favorite in this grouping of incredibly innovative, intimate, and always interesting gallery spaces.
Charlie James Gallery
969 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Durden & Ray
Durden & Ray is comprised of artist/curators collectively working to create exhibitions. Small, well-curated group shows are the thing here, featuring both emerging and established artists, some international, some local, always worth talking about.
Durden & Ray
1923 S Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles
www. DurdenandRay.com
CB1 Gallery
Under the always dynamic hand of gallery director Clyde Beswick, contemporary artists exhibited here could be LA based or international in focus; artists' works makes be sculptural, paintings, or mixed media in this sleek, open, pristine two-gallery space. From the wonders below the surface of Icelandic soil to woven wall hangings, there is always something fascinating afoot here. Note that CB1 and Durden & Ray are located in the same building.
CB1 Gallery
1923 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90021


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One of the great features in Windows Mobile is the ability to tether your device to your computer in order to piggy-back on your mobile devices internet connection. This works great in airports or coffee shops so you don"t have to pay for wi-fi usage. If you"re running Windows on your laptop and have ActiveSync installed, its pretty straightforward. However, if you"re running OSX, it can be a bit trickier to tether your WinMo device. These instructions were tested with a BlackJack II. Here"s how to do it:
In theory, you should be able to simply set up Internet Sharing on your Windows Mobile device with Bluetooth PAN. Then on your Mac, simply create a BlueTooth PAN connection. The problem with this is that you run the risk of eating up your mobile device"s battery much quicker as its using its 3G connection and its bluetooth connection simultaneouslly. Even though it should work, I never could get it Many of these businesses, along with plenty of others, also provide driver training programs for those possessing a cdl training permit, or comprehensive packages that prepare you for both written and driving tests complete with test-like sample questions. going, anyways. Ideally, we want to plug the phone in via USB, so that it is charging while sharing its connection. OSX won"t support the standard ActiveSync USB Internet Sharing method, so you"ll need to do a little work to get it going.
First download these files
Unzip and Copy all three files to /Library/Modem Scripts
Back on your Windows Mobile device, in the USB connection settings, change USB to mode to MODEM instead of ActiveSync. You may get a warning here that ActiveSync won"t work when Modem is selected. Remember to change it back later when you are ready to sync up again with a Windows computer. Once you"ve selected modem, plug your device into your Mac via USB.
Now, go to your Network Preferences menu.
On the left side, you should see your list of online casino Network Interfaces. Click the little " " sign to add an interface. Click Interface drop down menu, and you should see a choice for "Samsung CDMA Technologies". Go ahead and choose it, and click CREATE. it should populate itself on the left-hand pane now.
Highlight the new Samsung Entry, and on the right side make the following entries:
Configuration: Default
Telephone Number: wap.cingular
Account Name: email@example.com
Password: CINGULAR1
Now click Advanced…
On the Modem Tab, make sure Vendor is Samsung and Model is GPRS (GSM/3G)
On the PPP tab:
For Session, Uncheck "Redial if Busy"
Next to Settings, choose CONFIGURATION and select "Send PPP echo packets" and uncheck: Use TCP header compression.
Apply all these changes and lock the Network Preferences, and you"re ready to test.
Its a good idea when testing to disable your Wi-Fi so you can be sure you"re genuinely using your mobile devices WAN.
Now, highlight the Samsung modem, and on the right side, click CONNECT. If all goes correct, you should see a little meter with your connection strength, and you should now be able to surf the web. Go for it!
thanks this works like a charm & I've been using it since I got my mac. However, today was the first time I used it for an extended period of time (a couple of hours) and I noticed that the phone doesn't CHARGE like it does with Windows. Do you have the same issue?
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Scam alert - hoax email circulating offering free fuel from ShellIt seems that the message is simply a prank perpetrated by persons unknown. Clicking the link in the email opens a webpage that flashes the message "You are an Idiot", on the screen as depicted in the following screenshot:
It has come to Shell's attention that an email is circulating offering free fuel at Shell-branded service stations in Australia.
This email is a hoax and is not a genuine offer.
It has not been sent by Shell and we advise motorists to ignore the email.
Shell regrets any inconvenience caused as a result of this hoax.
Last updated: 16th September 2008
First published: 16th September 2008
Write-up by Brett M. Christensen
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