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Choosing a comfortable industrial metal tv stands may take some effort and thoughtful aspects. Speaking of tv stand can be bought in several decorative aspects, features, ranging from featured with rack to square shapes to irregular angles. Pairing unsuitable variations results in confused decoration, so stick with TV units that fitted well along with your existing design. Easy geometrical designs and open shelving produce the minimalist feel of a modern home. Select pale neutrals, bright, or soft gray to bring about the surrounding show up more bright and spacious. Dark hues and minimalist aspects have reached home between minimalist furnishings, while highly varnished materials, larger frames, and beautiful details combine the trendy of numerous old-fashioned interiors.

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05 May 2008, 02:01 AM
(http://assets.cgsociety.org/nvart/186702_1209780080/1024bound)The image is modeld in 3d studio max 9 (renderd with vray), and alot of post work in photoshop cs. I tried too make a 2d pen drawing an 3d image. Anyway, I hope that you like it. Please give me any critisism you like.
05 May 2008, 08:18 PM
wow, I liked the ideea
This image doesn't presents so deeply your intention, so I would say, Work ! for another days, weeks and create really stuning. Really the ideea worths it :)
05 May 2008, 04:36 AM
@j0hny, thanks for your comment. I really appreciate it. Even though I liked the outcome of my image, you might have a point :p
Anyone knows if you can submit a second image with the same concept?
05 May 2008, 06:03 AM
:wip: ur idea is --> in my own word "joss"..:)..but i do believe u can do a lot more to it..
05 May 2008, 09:33 PM
@Sleeky, thanks for the comment.really apreciate it.
05 May 2008, 01:32 AM
Very cool idea. I like the outlined white machine against the colorful bands. I think if you play more with a depth of field you will really make this piece pop out much more. Try having more of the ribbons come sweeping by the camera to give a nice foreground element and lead the viewers eyes back to the center. Keep up the good work! :cool:
05 May 2008, 02:45 PM
@FrizzleFry0, thanks for the suggestion. I will try it out :)
05 May 2008, 05:11 AM
Sleeky and j0hny are right.! ..you have the action needed for a good design and now you need to put it into the proper space. Your elements that spreads from the center need to be placed in more spatial environment, because they themselves are spacial (at least most of them excluding those standing on the background).
Do not waste the good composition. You can try to make some shade of the "spin-drill" thing that stands in the upper side, and thus to change its interaction with the bground. Ok, good luck.
05 May 2008, 08:45 PM
@asparta, thanks for the comment. I truly will try to make an update to this picture.
Everyones comments have beem helpfull :p
05 May 2008, 09:26 AM
ey, sometimes less is more! , hehe. good job!
05 May 2008, 10:20 AM
@cobaltblue, well thanks :)
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The La Junta Tiger Sharks, the local competitive youth swimming organization, are ready to put their fins in the water, but before they do, they need to raise some funds.
To do that, the organization, coached by Aubrey Cook, will host a fundraiser dinner on March 24 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the First Church of the Nazarene.
Swimmers have tickets and the dinner will cost $7, with all the proceeds going toward entry fees and equipment needed for the swimmers during the summer season.
If anybody would like more information about the organization and is interested in joining, go to the Web page by Google searching La Junta Tiger Sharks or at https://sites.google.com/a/lajunta.k12.co.us/tiger-sharks/.
The spring swim to begin building skills will begin in April and competitions will begin in June.

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Due to the recent removal of my own artist page on Wikipedia which has existed for over a decade and is now linked ONLY to the Nymphomatriarch page against my wishes... it is time for me to set the record straight.
In the time before burgeoning social media platforms, artists usually relied on two major channels to disseminate their works to their intended audience. The dichotomy of underground music and mainstream fare stayed repellent to each other as both were charged with the same amount of intent, no matter the diverging message. Rarely, mass media would find one unknown to the majority of their public to champion and then to exploit. Knowing this, I spent the beginnings of my music career in the darker quadrants, preferring the anonymity to the pressures of what I had seen surrounding my friend´s more public careers. Music managers, preconceived posturing, and necessary involvement with unsavory alliances were never part of my scheme when I co-founded Zhark Recordings at age nineteen.
For those of you who are not familiar with my history in the world of Electronic Music, it all kicked of in Detroit´s abandoned warehouse parties in the early 90´s. Legendary, the parties remain almost mythic and have had a lasting impact on electronic music globally to this day. Being a regular fixture in the party scene was never a problem as a young girl, until I actually wanted to stop partying and learn how to use the synths most of my friends were using to program their tracks. At the time many of my friends were hunting out and collecting old analogue synths which were found for extremely low prices around the city, installing them in make shift studios and banging out beats. I never seemed to grasp why they wouldn´t include any of the women in their sessions. Not one to take things so personally, I set out to teach myself through reading about basics of synthesis, gear mags, and the occasional invite to join in. As with anything, if you have a passion and desire to do something - it just takes a concentrated effort to make it happen.
After releasing my first 12" in New York city, 1996, I made my way to Berlin on invitation of Alec Empire. Being offered a place to stay with Atari Teenage Riot´s Hanin Elias, I headed over both excited and even a bit intimidated, thinking that she must have so much experience in the studio with her having such a strong "riot-grrrl" role in the band. As this article is not meant to serve as a memoir, I will skip dwelling on the details of my experiences in this new environment except to say I had my first insights into the truths which lie behind the projected image many larger bands are coerced into portraying. Turned off by what I saw in terms of ATR´s management and internal conflicts, I continued to work on my own sound and study of programming - happy to have my own label to release on. Never one to be told how to live my life or even caring to make music which people actually enjoyed, I stayed true to creating dissonant pieces which were focused on leaving the listener uneasy at best.
Disharmonic and rife with Occult underpinnings, the work of Throbbing Gristle and their connected cohorts remain just as influential today as it was to me back in the early days of my electronic experiments. Presenting art and music to challenge instead of comfort always seemed to me to be the natural way to express myself. The industrial landscape in which I was reared was mirrored in my dusky compositions. Venturing further into my solo project as HECATE, I found myself naturally drawn to continue the work of my predecessors - formatting unsettling sounds up against a backdrop of twisted sexuality and occult art. In 2001, after several EPs my first full length LP entitled "The Magick of Female Ejaculation" was released and quickly put on the list of "pornographic" art by the German government which was confiscated from the distribution warehouse upon release.
By 2001 I had already had many communications with Nymphomatriarch´s Aaron Funk, and in fact had released him on Zhark the previous year. He first contacted me back in 1998 when I was studying in Vancouver BC, having heard I was working on new music in Canada at the time. Being based in Winnipeg, he sent me a demo for Zhark under the pseudonym Venetian Snares which I had to turn down as it was not anything I would release. Lacking any dark overtones his sound seemed more suiting to some of my other friends record labels. This demo would finally surface the year later on Low Res Records after I failed to shop it to both Ambush and Praxis, with both owners telling me to tell him to work a little harder and send a new demo then. In 2000, based back in Berlin once again, he finally succeeded in harnessing the attributes I needed from all of my artists, a dark menacing atmosphere and broken break beats. His "Salt" EP was very well received by not only the underground, but this time the owner of Ant-Zen/Hymen records who strangely enough only heard of his work because many people were asking if it was his own, being that his own artist name is S.ALT.
Directly after having found Aaron´s work through hearing his first European release on my label, Stefan Alt contacted him to make a new release on Hymen records, further widening his audience through the more Industrial channels. At the same time, I started working with Stefan Alt, as his interest in Zhark´s sound profile started to push him to release more break influenced releases. We scheduled plans to release a 7" of my own on Mirex, when I could find the time to record some material for him as I was already in the middle of three other solo releases. Breakcore at this time took on a life of it´s own and I subsequently found myself in the middle of it even though my work was conceptually rooted in more Industrial and Occult territories. Both Aaron and I were very busy releasing on multiple labels at this point, which led to me organizing his first ever European tour which I naturally joined in on. The workload I took on organizing several international artists and running another sublabel strictly dedicated to women in electronic music known as The Homewrecker Foundation never seemed like a job which is obviously why I was able to take on so much and always deliver a quality product while enjoying myself.
One thing the rather one-sided media gets right about Nyphomatriarch´s conception was that all sounds were synthesized from the minidisk recordings Aaron and I made on our "Re-Programming Tour". Living it up on the road included all the elements you would imagine to find, in this case our public seems focused on the "sex and drugs" aspect, naturally, as the media has a way of playing this up in its process of exploitation. One thing I have noticed... not one report or news outlet ever covered was how the actual record, which remains as some type of ground breaking production due to the concept, came into being. Somehow, in the biased world of sexist mass media, glossed over journalism and online "electronica" forums generally frequented by men many details which refer to my part in this project have been either completely deleted or falsified based upon personal shortcomings in dealing with intelligent women. At this point of writing, I can now finally take a breath and laugh to myself as I do know how this debacle which proceeds to haunt my life actually found its way into the world.
Believe it or not, my first contact with Industrial Ambient producer Lustmord took place only two hours before the historic terrorist attack of September 11th. Popping up on my chat window in my Berlin flat, he shared with me how he had heard of my music and we took it from there. Naturally, I was extremely excited that he would know of my work as I have always been a huge fan of his collaborators from SPK and his own solo ambient albums. We planned on making a collab project that would start first, due to our distance, with me remixing his albums. The concept I came up with based upon the minimalistic approach he took to his sound was to remix the entirety of each individual album into one individual track. Having mentioned it to Stefan Alt, who I was in close contact with at that time, he offered to release it as soon as I could have the finished material to him. Knowing that the audience both Hymen and Ant-Zen catered to held Lustmord in very high esteem and had an open mind in so far as break based music was going at that time, I happily agreed to the terms while I finished off my first 7" for his sublabel under the name Raquel de Grimstone. Upon hearing the finished tracks, both Stefan and Lustmord were so enthusiastic we all decided to go one step further and work towards getting me to Los Angeles to record a full length collab in his studio there.
At the still rather young age of 25 and having been given my first ever advance of 3,000eu, I set about on my travels to Los Angeles giddy with the promise of recording a full length with one of my longtime influences there. Needless to say, this collaboration fell apart in the length of 48 hours. Due to there being none of the equipment promised to record with, namely a good Mac running a current version of Cubase, and the subsequent complete meltdown of his computer system (naturally attributed to "bad vibes") within that short space of time - I quickly realized I would not be able to be comfortable working in this environment. Being based in the valley with no car of his own and his wife always at working outside of the house plus the rule that nothing could be recorded (if it was even possible at that point) after midnight - I had to arrange some other plan to get out of that situation. Having left my own computer behind in Berlin we had no way of recording in any case. Surely I was extremely unhappy to have to miss our plans to record with Cosey Fanni Tutti and Monte Cazzaza, more of my ultimate influences, but the whole thing seemed totally unworkable as our arguments increased. Being so young and alone in such a strange situation so far away from home, I turned to my friends who organized parties in LA where I was booked to play later that month. Making a late night call to Stefan Alt, I laid out the bad news and told him I would come up with a new plan.
Within three days of landing in Los Angeles with a ten week plan of staying there to record and play shows up and down the coast, I quickly found myself pulling what some friends were referring to as a "Sex Pistols" move. After talking to Aaron from Lustmord´s house in the valley, explaining how uncomfortable I felt there, we conceived a plan so I could get out of there and we could see each other as I was already on that side of the world. The easiest way we could work out would be to tell the owner of Ant-Zen that his money on my advance was not totally wasted, as we were set to make a release out of the recordings we made on tour, even though it was originally only a "tour joke". As it was common knowledge we were sexually involved on the tour, Stefan jumped at the chance and agreed to send me even more money for the recording as well as pay my flights up to Winnipeg. Everything seemed to be sorted and make sense even though the gravity of what we were to set out upon had not even begun to sink in. On my third day in LA, I quickly moved into a Dj Baseck´s art loft in Hollywood, happy to have somehow rearranged a promising new release with one of my best friends and still be able to play my gigs on the West Coast with a safe place to stay.
As mentioned above, this piece remains far from a being an autobiographical work. The impetus to even delve back into this subject, lays primarily in the fact that since programming and finishing up this rather new website, my wikipedia artist page has been removed. Even with several of my friends and fans writing to them, they refuse to put it up and remain steadfast in only linking it the Nymphomatriarch release, siting my page for having lacking "sources" whilst the page I am now linked to has not one. Not only is the page which represents Nymphomatriarch filled with one-sided media clippings concentrating on rehashed promo texts, it also has no information about me as an artist which I find rather unsettling. From the succinct text I have already penned, you can see the release had more to do with my own life than with Venetian Snares. No matter, this is once again just another example of how disproportionate and slanted the media treats independent and forward thinking women. This tale has many facets, not all negative, as I still stand by my releases and remain proud of the immense release history I have been responsible for over the past twenty years. Moving on with what sounds like fiction, with over a decade between now and this release, let me present you with the conclusion to how this debacle unfolded as it hit the public.
Upon informing our fans over the "IDM" message boards that I had arrived in the destitute city of Winnipeg to get to work over the next weeks on this new release, word quickly leaked that our new offering would be based on the sounds of our European tryst. Not only would we be sampling some moans to place over the common Amen break which surely had been done before. We confirmed and set upon crafting every single drum hit, choir, bass jab, etc out of these rather twisted field recordings. The process at times was grueling, of course others were pure magick in themselves. We both took turns sequencing and synthesizing, sometimes with time constraints to make it more interesting. Until I came down pretty ill and had to visit the hospital, subsequently finishing up the last part of my stay wasted on Morphine, we worked diligently until I had to hit the road and go back to California to play my shows. By this time, people were begging for clips and more info, Stefan Alt was being inundated with press questions and quite naturally most armchair producers cracked their jokes about us having sex. All in all the entire LP actually took almost a year to be completed based around following breakup of Aaron and I (for reasons quite outside of this albums domain) and at one point almost never saw the light of day. We finally agreed to just release it as Hymen had invested so much into it, and we had both moved on to other things.
I will never forget the week my phone in Switzerland started ringing off the hook. Granted, the week before "our" interview in Playboy magazine, which not very surprisingly contained no quotes from myself had hit the press. With the first call from a US based friend asking me why Jay Leno was making jokes which contained my full name, and talking about "what would she ever do with a solo career" I hung up the phone quickly, finishing my joint in my Swiss music studio thinking... "this must be a joke". After the fifth call that week from overseas friends I quickly realized it wasn´t, and had made the rounds into other stand-up comedians monologues also in London. Next thing I knew, I had television shows in the UK inviting me on to parade me as some type of new found sex novelty. Knowing this could only end in more one sided, sexist exploitation I made my stance clear with few "fuck off and die" responses and got back to recording and releasing as usual. Surely it was still pretty funny to have people pick up their London TV guide and have to read about my sex life, and being awarded a British honour of being the years best new sound instrument but after waiting almost 9 months the music press were set to slate it, no matter what they were offered. Back in my twenties, I had an irrational temper when it came to being in magazine shops and finding my friends being mentioned in them as the journalists always seemed to regurgitate the same stock text and this time it was really no different.
Six months later I received an email from a colleague of mine with the subject line "Congratulations". As I had absolutely no idea what he was referring to, he replied with sending me a link to the coveted ARS Electronica 2003 Awards website. It appeared that Aaron and I had won an honorary award for our LP, however upon further inspection there was absolutely no mention of me as it was listed as "NYMPHOMATRIARCH - AARON FUNK". Thats it. No word from Aaron. No word from Hymen. No word from the supposedly well established Austrian foundation. In fact, I would have never known, unless my friend who was based in Austria had seen it. As soon as I contacted them I was told "oh, well now we will have to change the book we are about to publish and by the way, we are releasing one of your songs on the forthcoming CD". Although they slowly fixed the website to reflect my contribution and "had to fix" the almost published book to include me, I still do not even know which song of ours they put on the CD - and only in 2009 when I was in Linz to perform for the European City of Culture did I even get a copy of the book after making it known how badly they treated me and what I thought of their organization. It is despicable enough to not be given the credit as a co-producer and co-writer of an LP I had just as much to do with as my male counterpart, but to be once again exploited and treated as badly as the mainstream press by an upstanding intellectual foundation still works to make my blood boil.
It is unfortunate that now at this juncture, fourteen years after the fact, I have to return to the somewhat traumatic results of this album only because Wikipedia refuses to restore my artist page for unknown reasons. In the time since the Nymphomatriarch release, I continued to have many solo releases and collaborations while touring the entire globe with my work as HECATE and also went on to very notable work as a lyricist and stage performer for Austria´s most internationally know Metal band, BELPHEGOR, with whom I have worked for 10 years and on five LPS. It is a shame and also a disservice to treat one of the rare and invaluable women in Extreme Music (of any genre) like this. I urge readers of this article to forward it on to Wikipedia and/or supplement the site with information either found here or on other sites to rectify this situation. Share and Repost! Surely, if this can happen to me, it can happen to you or one of your friends. Do not let the system of #fakenews and sexist music journalists decide what you are worth.


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In Buried, the moment you open your eyes you find yourself locked in a coffin. Your oxygen is slowly running out and you have to get out of this coffin. You must find a way out of this narrow place where you do not remember how you came and fight against the creatures trying to scare you.
All you have is your phone and a lighter for lighting. You must solve the puzzles in the coffin as quickly as possible and come to light. The battery of your phone is low and you have to use it in a very balanced way. There are various items in some parts of the coffin you are in, and you can access them by searching the coffin. Use the items you find to escape and always stay at a low stress level.
To survive inside the coffin, you have to use your battery power, the last remaining liquid food and oxygen correctly. In Buried, which offers a short 30-minute gaming experience, solve puzzles and get out of that coffin that you dont know how you got into.
You should be at a low stress level in the game. Otherwise, you will panic, running out of oxygen and quickly leading to your own death. If you want to solve puzzles and get out of the coffin, you can download Buried.
Buried System Requirements
- Operating System: Windows 10.
- Processor: 2 GHz or higher.
- Memory: 4GB RAM.
- Graphics Card: Geforce 960 or above.
- DirectX: Version 11.
- Storage: 1 GB available space.
- Platform: Windows
- Category: Game
- Language: English
- File Size: 1000 MB
- Licence: Free
- Developer: Authogin
- Latest Update: 09-11-2023
- Download: 1

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The game starts, with everyone singing the rhyme:
"On a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Oh beware, of the snare, of the Tricky Tricky Bear".
As you sing you must pass you cup on to the next person (to the left) in time with the rhyme. You pass for every day etc.
As you sing, the speed of the rhyme gets faster and faster. When you get to the line "Tricky Tricky Bear" you place the cup to the next person but don't let it go, then take it back.
So it goes:
"TRICKY" - give it to the person
"TRICKY BEAR" - take it back
If you drop a cup, you go out.
When it gets down to 2 people, just pass the cups in front, until someone messes up.
Winner is the last man in.
Switch Definitely sounds like fun but I'm not sure any...
Black Magic I go to fire camp YMCA camp I played this game ...
One Brown Bear 1 fat hen couple of ducks 3 brown bear 4 run...
5,000 If you get 5 2's on first roll, how many points...
Black Magic I got it right away
Piggly Wiggly No it can't unless you mean two sleeping bag hi...
Piggly Wiggly sounds really fun I'm going to do this for my p...
Boy Meets Girl it is awesome
Alphabet Bags I am throwing a surprise birthday party for my ...
Murder in the Dark v2 You should play it


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The US Department of Justice has sued Texas over a new law that severely restricts access to abortions, saying it is “in open defiance of the Constitution”.
The legal challenge from the DoJ will stoke tensions between the Biden administration and the Republican-led state government and legislature in Texas, which championed the bill despite criticism that it is draconian.
“This kind of scheme to nullify the constitution of the United States is one that all Americans, whatever their politics or party, should fear,” Merrick Garland, the US attorney-general, told reporters on Thursday.
“If it prevails, it may become a model for action in other areas by other states and with respect to other constitutional rights and judicial precedents,” he said.
Garland said the justice department would bring similar lawsuits against states which would use “provisions to deprive [their] citizens of their constitutional rights and . . . of the ability to seek immediate review”.
The Texas law is considered extreme even by conservative standards. It bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know that they are pregnant, without any exceptions for rape or incest. The law allows individuals to report people to authorities for helping women get abortions, and potentially receive at least $10,000 in payment.
“The statute deputises all private citizens without any showing of personal connection or injury to serve as bounty hunters,” Garland said.
The US attorney-general on Monday had said his agency was “urgently” exploring “all options” to challenge the Texas abortion law, “in order to protect the constitutional rights of women and other persons, including access to an abortion”.
At the same time, Garland promised to increase the enforcement of federal law against violence or intimidation aimed at abortion clinics and women seeking an abortion.
The justice department’s move comes after the Supreme Court, which is now dominated by conservative justices, declined to block the law when it took effect last week.
The Supreme Court’s decision has raised concerns that it could eventually overturn the legal precedent set by the 1973 Roe vs Wade case, which enshrined the constitutional right to an abortion, according to legal scholars, activists and Democratic lawmakers.
President Joe Biden attacked the decision after the law took effect last week. “The Texas law will significantly impair women’s access to the healthcare they need, particularly for communities of colour and individuals with low incomes,” he said.
“My administration is deeply committed to the constitutional right established in Roe vs Wade nearly five decades ago and will protect and defend that right,” he said.
Some Republican governors have praised the Texas law and even vowed to follow with their own additional restrictions on abortion. But many in the party at the national level are concerned it could alienate moderate voters.
Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, sought to defend the law this week but triggered another furore by insisting that he would try to “eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas” rather than loosen the abortion curbs.
Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, fired back: “If Governor Abbott has a means of eliminating all rapists or all rape from the United States, then there’ll be bipartisan support for that.”
Some Democrats have been pushing for Congress to pass legislation to codify abortion rights as a way of pre-empting any Supreme Court move to strike down Roe vs Wade.
While such a bill would probably pass the House of Representatives, it would struggle to clear the 60-vote supermajority threshold required to advance in the Senate.

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When demand for coronavirus vaccines was at a peak in early 2021, a wave of community advocates sprung into action to help connect Travis County residents with appointments. Now that demand has declined, groups, such as Kendra’s COVID Coaches, Austin Vaccine Angels and VaxTogetherAustin are considering the effect of their work so far—and what effect they can have moving forward.
Kendra’s COVID Coaches formed when Bee Cave resident Kendra Wright began helping friends and neighbors get access to scarce vaccine appointments in late January. Likewise, Jodi Holzband started her organization, Austin Vaccine Angels, during February’s winter storm, seeing that elderly neighbors needed help finding shots. Volunteers have carried the efforts of both groups, with around 80 volunteers contributing to Austin Vaccine Angels alone.
Both organizations are on the board of VaxTogetherAustin, a group that has likewise connected thousands of Austin-area residents with vaccines, but aims to take that advocacy a step further by providing transportation for appointments and partnering with other community organizations and businesses to host vaccine clinics for underserved communities. VaxTogetherAustin started as a “loose coalition” of volunteers from different groups, but today is a centralized nonprofit.
“We were all kind of working somewhat independently,” said Sharon Cohan, VaxTogetherAustin founder and executive director. “At some point, it became clear that collaborating was what was important, because we were now getting to the point where there was vaccine hesitancy. That’s when [the idea] of equity really started kicking in and we realized that it wasn’t just that we needed to find vaccines—we needed to help get vaccines to people.”
A glance at the VaxTogetherAustin website today shows a slate of clinics sponsored by the organization—some hosted at Austin ISD and Round Rock ISD schools, some at local Walgreens locations and some at other community hotspots. These clinics, VaxTogether board secretary Katie Van Winkle said, are the tip of the iceberg: The organization has also partnered with Todos Juntos Learning Center to increase multilingual vaccine accessibility for Spanish and Arabic speakers and has contributed to educational outreach materials produced by Todos Juntos, Capital Metro and others.
They are also focused on incentivizing vaccine uptake, offering refreshments from Kona Ice at some clinics and planning vaccine opportunities for popular festivals and events. In one case, the driver of a Kona Ice truck actually decided to get vaccinated himself after volunteers from the cheerleading team at an Atkins High School clinic persuaded him.
“[They] were incredible problem solvers and morale boosters at an event serving several hundred people,” Van Winkle said.
While Cohan and Van Winkle say they plan to focus on vaccine equity for the foreseeable future—including possibly helping with outreach for booster shots as they become available—VaxTogetherAustin has become one sub-project of a larger initiative. The organization now is a licensed 501c3, TogetherAustin, which will work on additional projects connecting people with community resources in the future.
Holzband, of Austin Vaccine Angels, said her organization will remain focused on connecting people with vaccine appointments as long as there is a need. She wants people to know the work she and her legion of volunteers have done is in reach—they saw a need and met it.
“We could come together again if there was a need in the community and sort of just go. It doesn’t need to be a slow ramp up,” she said. “It’s amazing what a small group of people who really care can do. ... We don’t need to look to organizations that are established to make change—we can do it ourselves.”
Wright shared a similar sentiment on the effect of Kendra’s COVID Coaches. In her own city of Bee Cave, where the group first launched, more than 90% of eligible residents are fully vaccinated as of June 16, she said, citing data from The Texas Department of State Health Services. The high percentage of vaccinated residents is, at least in part, a reflection of the group’s efforts, according to Wright.
By late May, Wright said there were more volunteers than individuals in need of appointments, and after more than five months, Kendra’s COVID Coaches reached what she called its “natural end.” For the 80-plus volunteers, it is bittersweet but expected, as the goal was always to “work themselves out of a job,” according to Wright.
At its peak, the group amassed over 80 volunteers, many of whom put their lives on hold despite having full-time jobs, children and other personal responsibilities. While there are no immediate plans to organize additional clinics, several group members have joined VaxTogetherAustin.
“I think the biggest thing that we provided was hope from chaos,” Wright said. “It was such an honor to be of service to the place I live.”

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Dhruma Jhumkhawala, PTA
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Dhruma Jhumkhawala, PTARequest An
Dhruma graduated with high honors and earned an Associate’s degree in Physical Therapy Assistantship from Ohlone College. She is licensed by the Physical Therapy Board of California. She has more than 10 years of experience working with patients of all age groups. She also has experience working in different settings, including outpatient care and home health. She uses manual therapy and therapeutic exercises to help patients achieve functional goals to improve their quality of life.
- Undergraduate: St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, IN
- AA Degree: Ohlone College, Fremont, CA
"I enjoy spending time with family and friends, dancing, traveling, and photography."

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Pope and Trump are Tied for Second Most Admirable Men of 2015
Donald Trump and Pope Francis Tied for Second Most Admired Men in Gallup’s Top 10.
The most admired woman and man in the world, as per Gallup Poll's Most Admired List, among Americans are Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, and President Barack Obama. However, what is noticeable, even shocking, is the people populating the second spot. Pope Francis and Donald Trump took joint positions for the first time. The gap between the first and second positions is huge, with Obama taking 17 percent of vote and Trump with the Pope together scooping up five percent.
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Gallup stated that Trump's frequently controversial but robust presidential campaign has catapulted him to a prominent public persona always in the news, and this enjoy a higher recall value among a large number of Americans. It is not the first time Trump has caught the public eye. The businessperson has earlier ended in top 10 lists four other times- 1988 to 1990 and 2011.
The Gallup poll was conducted telephonically within the December 2 to December 6 time span. The respondents were made of a random sample consisting of 824 adults. The minimum age was 18 years and scattered all over 50 American states. The confidence level of this survey is 95 percent and the sampling error is calculated to be +/- 4 percentage points.
The men who made it into the Top 10 List of Most Admired include three presidents- Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Three present presidential candidates- Trump, Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders- also made the list. Invariably, a smattering of spiritual and religious leaders also made the list- the Dalai Lama, Billy Graham and Pope- makes the list.
When it comes to women, the most admired are a mix of human rights leaders, political figures and television personalities. Hilary Clinton holds apex position in the list. In politics, she is followed by Carly Fiorina, the presidential candidate in 2016, Elizabeth Warren, the senator from Massachusetts and Sarah Palin, the former Governor of Alaska. The list of Human Rights leaders includes Myanmar's Aung San Suu Ki and Pakistan's Malala Yousufzai. Television personalities Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey makes the cut. The leading women in ceremonial positions include Michelle Obama and England's Queen Elizabeth I. Clinton lead in such polls as usual- this being here for the 14th time.
When it comes to making the top 10, getting a Nobel Prize goes a long way. Malala Yousufzai got five percent of total votes. Clinton received 13 percent.


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At Nancy Kowalik Real Estate Group, we strive for FIVE STAR SERVICE for Everyone and making CLIENTS FOR LIFE!
We love happy endings! We love sharing them with you. Read on to meet our newest Clients For Life:
OUR HAPPY BUYERS ARE RAVING FANS!
NEW HOME AND A NEW BABY!
Please join us in congratulating The Kiernan Family on the PURCHASE of their NEW HOME in #MantuaNJ! 2020 was quite a big year for them, from the SALE of their home, to the birth of their THIRD little baby boy and now a BRAND NEW HOME to call their own (thanks to their Seller’s Agent, @Angela Hess) We can’t wait to see what 2021 has in store for this wonderful family, wishing them many happy memories to come!
BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, BEAUTIFUL HOME!
Congratulations to The Mackey Family, the proud new OWNERS of a gorgeous home in #MedfordNJ! This wonderful family couldn’t be happier to have found their DREAM HOME, located in a magnificent neighborhood where they will make many happy memories along with their two young ones. We are so happy to be a part of your journey!
REPEAT CLIENTS FOR LIFE!
Congratulations to our REPEAT clients, Lorraine and Bob, on the SALE of their home in #SewellNJ and the PURCHASE of their NEW HOME in #SewellNJ. This is the LaMastro’s 4TH TIME doing business with NKREG and we are so THANKFUL to have such DEDICATED clients such as these two! Wishing Lorraine and Bob many happy memories to come as they begin their NEXT CHAPTER! ????❤
THEY BOUGHT THEIR DREAM HOME!
Please join us in congratulating Wes and Kim on the PURCHASE of their NEW HOME in #Sewell! Thanks to the HARD WORK of their dedicated Buyer’s Agent, @Angela Hess, and the whole NKREG team, the two are THRILLED to start their NEW LIFE in their fabulous new DREAM HOME in the HIGHLY DESIRABLE neighborhood of Wedgewood Greens! ????❤
FROM NY TO NJ WELCOME HOME!
Please join us in welcoming the Guppy/Subran Family to #NewJersey! With the EXPERT help of our Buyer’s Agent, @Migna Barner, and the whole NKREG team, these FIRST-TIME HOME BUYERS left their life in #NewYork and are happily moving onto their NEXT CHAPTER in a beautiful NEW HOME in #WoodburyNJ! A special shoutout to our friend @Michael T Livesey at @AnnieMac Home Mortgage for providing the family with a smooth closing! ????❤
WELCOME BACK TO MULLICA HILL
Congratulations to Jeffrey and Erika on the purchase of their GORGEOUS new home in #MullicaHill! These two came to us with a goal of moving back to The Hill and with the help of our EXPERT Buyer’s Agent, @Angela Hess, & the whole team here at NKREG, we MADE THAT HAPPEN for them! ????❤
A NEW HOME FOR THEIR GROWING FAMILY
Please join us in congratulating Jimmie and Tia on the PURCHASE of their #NEWHOME in #SicklervilleNJ! The two just recently SOLD their former home with us, also in Sicklerville, which ended up closing just ONE DAY after the OPEN HOUSE! After selling their home, they were determined to find a larger home, one that would be suitable for their ever growing family, and still remain in the Sicklerville area to keep their child in the same school system as he continues his education. With the dedicated help of our Agent, @Jerome Kersey, and the entire NKREG team Jimmie and Tia are happily settling into their DREAM HOME! ????❤
SANTA DELIVERS! NEW HOME WITH A POOL!
Congratulations to Craig & Amanda on the PURCHASE of their NEW HOME in #BridgetonNJ! Last year for Christmas their children requested a new home WITH A POOL and Santa sure did DELIVER on this gift this year! We wish this wonderful family many happy memories to come in their DREAM HOME! ????❤ Shoutout to our incredible Agent, @Stacy Griffin, and the whole NKREG team for WORKING HARD to find Craig, Amanda and their little ones the PERFECT ‘Home Sweet Home’!
FIRST TIME BUYER ALERT! CONGRATULATIONS!
Please join us in congratulating Richard (and Monica) on the purchase of their #NEWHOME in #Sicklerville thanks to the help of our Buyer’s Agent, @Angela Hess, and the entire NKREG team! The two couldn’t have chosen a more perfect FIRST HOME, a beautiful house in a GREAT neighborhood. Their children are beyond excited to add a pool and trampoline to their big, FENCED-IN backyard! We wish this happy family many great memories to come! ????❤
BEST PARENTS AWARD!
With the help of Buying Agent, Trish Applegate, Jim and Donna purchased their daughter and her growing family their FIRST HOME!
Congratulations to The Williams family, we hope you LOVE IT!
NEW HOME, NEW PUPPY!
First time home buyers, Jeremy and Brooke, snapping an adorable family photo with beloved pup, Simba, in front of their NEW HOME at 9 Curriden Ave!
We couldn’t be happier for them!
THEIR FIRST HOME is WATERFRONT!
Ken and Samantha had a goal to leave their current home in Philadelphia and move to a quiet home in New Jersey.
With the help of Buying Agent, Beth Aja, they were able to find the PERFECT place in Pennsville with GORGEOUS view of the river!
THEIR FIRST FAMILY HOME!
Congratulations to Steve, Kaitlin and their two girls on the purchase of their FIRST HOME together, We wish you much happiness and success at your new address!
NEW HOME AND A BABY
With the help of our Buying Agent, Barbara Ernst Pucilowski, Buyers Tom and Amy closed on their new home and just two days later Amy happily delivered their newborn third child! The two couldn’t be happier to welcome their new addition in their BRAND NEW HOME!
WELCOME TO THE HILL!
We would like to formally welcome this lovely couple to The Hill! With the help of our Buying Agent, John Williams, Wendell and Jennifer were able to find their PERFECT home at 9 Chestnut Ct.
We know you’re going to LOVE Mullica Hill!
HAPPY “HILL” FAMILY!
We would like to formally welcome the Mullens to The Hill! With the dedicated assistance of our Selling Agent, Angela Hess, this lovely family found their PERFECT ‘home-sweet-home’ in Mullica Hill!
You’re going to love living here!
NEW HOME AND A BABY
Frank and Kait for came to us for the sale of their FIRST home. After being pleased with our service, they came to us again to purchase their NEW HOME at 666 Bridgeton Pike to raise their growing family (Including Baby #2 on the way!)
SELLERS TURNED INTO BUYERS!
Anthony and Amy came to us to sell their home and ended up purchasing our listed property at 25 Turtle Creek with the help of our Buying Agent, Scott Sherer.
Welcome to Mullica Hill!
HAPPY BUYER ALERT!
Please join us in welcoming The Raab’s to Mullica Hill! Zachary and Kaitlin came to us with a goal of moving back to The Hill with their children, Juliette and JT. With the help of our DEVOTED Buyer’s Agent, Angela Hess, and the entire team at NKREG for finding The Raab Family their PERFECT new home.
We ???? SUCCESS STORIES!
Welcome to NEW JERSEY, Butch! This North Philadelphia native was ready to leave his busy city life and settle down in the quiet suburbs. Thanks to our TALENTED Buyer’s Agent, Lori Mayland Tworzydlo, and the entire team at NKREG for finding him the PERFECT home in Monroeville NJ!
WELCOME TO SOUTH JERSEY!
Please join us in congratulating The Gancheva Family, our newest residents to The Hill! After making the decision to leave their current home in Jersey City, the family came to us with a goal of moving to Mullica Hill, where they could enroll their girls in the highly acclaimed Kingsway School >District. Upon attending one of our ZOOM open houses, the family was SOLD on the house and are now THRILLED to be the proud owners of the home! A special thank you to our SKILLED Buyer’s Agent, Beth Aja.
OUR CLIENTS ARE FOR LIFE????
Congratulations to Mike and Steph on the purchase of their DREAM HOME in Franklinville NJ- their THIRD property purchased with us! With the help of our Buyer’s Agent, Noreen Weatherstone, and the whole team at NKREG, their previous home was SOLD this past July for ABOVE ASKING PRICE within just 24 HOURS!
MORE HAPPY “HILL” BUYERS????
Please join us in welcoming Austin Renzi & @Kaitlyn Renzi (Golembski) to Mullica Hill! Congratulations on the purchase of your BRAND NEW home with the help of our EXPERT Buyer’s Agent, Angela Hess!
WE MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE!
Christian and Daniela came to us with a goal to find the PERFECT HOME here in South Jersey. With the help of our TALENTED Buyer’s Agent, Noreen Weatherstone, these two are now ready to start their NEW CHAPTER at their BRAND NEW home in Laurel Springs! Congratulations from the NKREG Team and welcome to #NJ!
FIRST TIME BUYER ALERT!
Congratulations to our FIRST TIME BUYERS, Evan and Lindsey, on the PURCHASE of their beautiful new town home in Washington Township! With the help of our EXPERIENCED Buyer’s Agent, Beth Michener Aja, these two are able to leave the rental world behind and enjoy watching their boys run around and play in their brand new BACKYARD OASIS.
HAPPY INVESTOR ALERT????
Congratulations to Rander on the purchase of his FIRST EVER duplex investment property in Salem, NJ! A special shoutout to our Buyers Agent, Scott Sherer for delivering a 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ SELLING EXPERIENCE! ????❤
ANOTHER HAPPY FAMILY!
Congratulations to Lillian and Jake on the purchase of their BRAND NEW home in Pilesgrove NJ! We wish you and your family many happy memories! A special shout out to our Buyers Agent, John Williams for finding this family the PERFECT ‘home-sweet-home! ????❤
WE ❤ HAPPY BUYERS
Congratulations to The Collazo Family on the purchase of their BRAND NEW home in Clementon, NJ! Best of luck with this NEW CHAPTER in your life! A special shout out to our Buyers Agent, Jerome Kersey for all of your HARD WORK! ????❤
HAPPY BUYER ALERT!
Congratulations to Rosalind and her son on the purchase of their BRAND NEW HOME in Sicklerville, NJ. We wish you many happy memories at your new address! A special shout out to our Buyers Agent, Jerome Kersey, for helping Rosalind find the PERFECT home! ????❤
JOSH IS ANOTHER HAPPY BUYER!
Congratulations to Josh on the purchase of his NEW HOME in Sicklerville NJ! Best of luck at your new address! ????❤ A special shoutout to our Buyers Agent, Angela Hess for delivering a 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ BUYING EXPERIENCE! ????❤
OUR HAPPY SELLERS ARE OUR RAVING FANS!
SOLD OVER ASKING AND BOUGHT THE PERFECT HOME!
Congratulations to The Ramos Family on the SALE of their home in #SicklervilleNJ, which was sold OVER ASKING PRICE after being on the market for TWO WEEKS, WOW!! Regina and Jamille, good friends of our Agent @Beth Michener Aja, came to NKREG looking to sell their home so that they could purchase a new home. They outgrew their former home and needed something bigger, while staying in the same school system. With only a couple of neighborhoods to choose from, on top of a very competitive market, it was certainly a challenge. But nonetheless, they were able to find the PERFECT HOME, which also happened to be in their FAVORITE NEIGHBORHOOD. A true WIN-WIN for these two! ????❤
$10K OVER ASKING PRICE! WOW!
Please join us in congratulating our Sellers, John and Mirella on the SALE of their home in #LoganTownship. Thanks to the HARD WORK of our amazing Seller’s Agent, @Trish Applegate, and the entire NKREG team, the McConathey’s home sold for $10K OVER ASKING after receiving MULTIPLE OFFERS, WOW!! ????❤
OVER ASKING PRICE MAKES HAPPY SELLERS!
With the help of our SKILLED Seller’s Agent, @Lori Mayland Tworzydlo, and the entire NKREG team, The Osiek’s received MULTIPLE OFFERS during the OPEN HOUSE and SOLD their home in #WenonahNJ for OVER ASKING, WOW!! Please join us in congratulating @Krystal Osisek and @Kyle Osisek on the SALE of their HOME as they head ontop their NEW CHAPTER at a BRAND NEW HOME in #DelawareNJ!
SHE’S MOVING ON TO HER NEXT CHAPTER!
Please join us in congratulating Megan on the SALE of her townhome #WestDeptford! With the help of our dedicated Seller’s Agent, @Trish Applegate, and the entire NKREG team, she is happily moving onto her NEXT CHAPTER in a single-family in #Wenonah. We wish you all the best on your new journey, Megan!
$20K OVER ASKING PRICE? YES THAT’S CORRECT!
Please join us in congratulating John and Fawn on the SALE of their home in #MantuaNJ! Our Integrated Home Marketing Program scored these two a VERY SUCCESSFUL open house (OVER 25 Families Attended) and ended up receiving an incredible 15 OFFERS! In the end, The Kiernan’s were THRILLED to SELL their home for $20K OVER ASKING PRICE, WOW!! Thank you to our skilled Seller’s Agent, @Angela Hess, and the entire NKREG team for all of your HARD WORK! ????❤
THEIR OTHER REALTOR DIDN’T DELIVER RESULTS BUT WE DID!
Congratulations to Ray and Lynn on the SALE of their home in #WestDeptfordNJ. The Rogowski’s came to NKREG in search of assistance after previously listing their home with another realtor. After months of being on the market and NO LUCK finding a BUYER, they knew it was time to find a TRUSTED REALTOR, such as us! Thanks to the help of our EXPERIENCED Seller’s Agent, @Angela Hess, and the whole NKREG team, Ray and Lynn’s home is SOLD and they are HAPPILY moving forward with their next life chapter! We wish you two the best of luck with your new endeavours! ????❤
104% OF ASKING PRICE!
With the dedicated help of our Selling Agent, Trish Applegate, Mr. McAlee’s home at 25 Turtle Creek sold for 104% asking the price!
Thank you for trusting us with your home Mr McAlee!
101% OF ASKING PRICE!
Kevin and Sharen are so THRILLED that their home at 9 Curridan sold for 101% OVER asking!
We are thrilled for them, too!
RECEIVED MULTIPLE OFFERS!
With the devoted help of our Selling Agent, Trish Applegate, Roy and Enid’s property at 106 Karen Ct. received MULTIPLE offers after being on the marketing for ONLY two weeks!

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Main Gas Pipeline Linear Production Divisions (MPLPDs), as well as Operational and Repair Divisions (ORDs) of Ukraine’s GTS Operator have received preparedness certificates for operation during the autumn-winter period of 2023/2024.
“Ukraine’s gas transmission system is ready for operation during the heating season of 2023/2024. 100% of repairs of linear parts of pipelines, as well as of compressor and gas distribution stations have been finalized. We analyzed the results of the previous heating season, simulated possible crisis situations and took all of that into account during the preparations for the second wartime winter,” the Company’s Chief Engineer Yuriy Zyabchenko noted.
In addition to the preparation of Ukraine’s GTS to serving domestic consumers, a set of scheduled preventive maintenance works has been an important focus, too, as it helps ensure the reliable transmission of gas from Europe and Moldova to Ukraine.
Let it be reminded that the preparatory works on Ukraine’s GTS started immediately after the end of the previous heating season, in April 2023. Since then, 858.3 km of the pipelines’ in-line space have been cleaned and 188 gas distribution stations have been reconstructed and repaired. Similarly, 978 automatic control and signaling systems at gas distribution stations have been reconstructed and repaired, too.


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Global investment firm Eurazeo has raised an additional €70m for its Eurazeo Smart City II Venture, taking the smart city fund’s total capital raised at second close to €150m
Eurazeo said the fund, which raised an initial €80m last year, received capital commitments from new institutional and corporate partners in Europe and Asia.
The manager said the second close was backed by investors including the European Investment Fund, the Korean Venture Investment Corporation, Momentum Venture Capital, SCG and SWK the German electric utility.
The first close was backed by investors including carmaker Stellantis, electric utilities EDF and Mainova, mass transit operator RATP, energy major Total, logistics firm Duisport and Thai real estate developer Sansiri as well as institutional investors PRO BTP and family offices.
Eurazeo said, Smart City II – which has started to invest – will invest in the most critical sectors to transition towards a low-carbon economy worldwide: energy, mobility, logistics, buildings and industrial tech.
Matthieu Bonamy, partner at Eurazeo, said: “Cities play a huge role in climate change as they consume 78% of the world’s energy and produce over 60% of the world’s greenhouse gases.
“We think ambitious entrepreneurs and digital technologies can be part of the solution to transition towards more livable and sustainable cities.”
Alain Godard, CEO of the European Investment Fund, said: “Smart Cities significantly contribute to reducing pollution, waste, energy and water consumption, whilst inducing positive change in urban and consumer behaviours.”
“We are pleased that EIF can support the Eurazeo Smart City Fund II which prioritises new technologies, making cities more sustainable and liveable.”
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31 Oct 2022 - Local People into Local Jobs initiative
The Tasmanian Government is providing more than $3.1 million to TasCOSS over three years to support Tasmania’s community services sector meet workforce needs estimates of an additional 4,000 jobs by 2024.
This funding is supporting four key projects under the Local People into Local Jobs initiative:
- Community Services-based Project Team (Workforce Coordination Project) This initiative will establish a community services-based project team in TasCOSS, to drive research and data collection and reduce barriers to employment in the sector.
- Community Services-based Workforce Ready Team This initiative will establish a Workforce Ready Team, working across sectors to coordinate better integration of education and training with community sector needs.
- Community Services Sector Recruitment Campaign This initiative will provide for a recruitment campaign to ensure the community sector is a career of choice for Tasmanians. Community Services.
- Sector Workforce Development Fund This initiative will establish a Workforce Development Fund to deliver a coordinated increase to the sector’s training capacity.
TasCOSS are currently working to deliver the ten-year Community Services Industry Plan and this workforce development initiative fulfils some of the identified actions in the Plan.
A key feature of the project is the role of the Community Services Workforce Coalition to position Tasmania as a national leader in thinking and best practice in strategic workforce planning and to deliver industry led workforce projects. The objective of the Coalition is to steer and support the implementation of the Workforce Coordination project.
The collaboration shown since the Coalition formed in March 2022 has seen a true collective of actively engaged industry leaders seek to connect resources and networks. This is the first time such a broad representation of the community services sector has formally worked in partnership to progress multilayer investments and initiatives, whilst balancing the challenges of diverse sub-sector specific requirements. Valuable workforce strategies are emerging, supported through a direct network of workforce connections.
Introduced at the September Workforce Coalition meeting, the recently recruited Workforce Ready Team will provide support to the initiative as well as build collaboration and coordination across the broader industry. The roles provide opportunity for industry sub-sectors to participate in the whole of industry activity both as members of the Workforce Coalition and also to implement activity in their sub-sector by resourcing a workforce development role in or for the sub sector.
The first round of industry enrolments for Cert IV Training and Assessment (TAE) commenced July 2022. Further rounds of accredited Training and Assessment qualifications and skill set offerings over the course of the project will support tailored activity and participation by subsidising the backfilling of participant’s positions. The backfill subsidy is the first of its kind offered by Skills Tasmania as a response to barriers to training within the community services industry.


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Hatch Show Print: A Lifelong Fascination with Print Craftsmanship
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
My love of Hatch Show Print began in 1995. I was a young design student exploring the vibrant streets of Nashville. Either by chance or fate, I stepped into their old store, and that experience etched a lasting impression on my heart. The intricate designs, the vintage appeal, and the sheer dedication to craft spoke to the artist in me.
A few years later, my connection with Hatch Show Print deepened when I attended one of their gallery shows in Chicago. Fresh out of college, money was tight, but the allure of a particularly stunning print was irresistible. With both excitement and a hint of trepidation, I swiped my credit card, bringing home a piece of art and history.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to come full circle. Accompanied by three of my kids, I revisited Hatch Show Print, now in a new location but still teeming with the same magic and nostalgia. Watching their eyes light up as we toured Hatch Show Print, I felt like I was introducing them to an old friend, a piece of my past.
If you are unfamiliar with their history, Hatch Show Print still stands as a beacon of traditional print craftsmanship in America. Established in 1879, Hatch Show Print is not just a print shop but a living testament to an art form that has weathered the test of time. From crafting iconic posters for music legends like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, Hatch Show Prints' legacy is part of Nashville's cultural heritage.
When you step into Hatch Show Print, there's an undeniable magic. Seeing the artisans at work, smell of the ink, and the care taken with each poster crafted is always a profound experience for me. Hatch Show Print displays an art form from an era where every piece was a labor of love. The allure of Hatch Show Print is not only nostalgic but also the unwavering dedication to tradition, the embodiment of craftsmanship in every hand-carved detail. Living in our digital-dominated world, being surrounded by the tactile charm of manual printing is a refreshing experience.
To the team at Hatch Show Print - thank you. Not just for preserving this invaluable craft but for being a cherished part of my journey. And to anyone reading, if Nashville beckons, make sure to step into this iconic gem. Visiting is not just a visit; it's an experience, an ode to history, art, and the unparalleled magic of printing.


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As visitors venture back to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, shuttered for a year because of COVID-19 and reopening Thursday, they will find many changes.
Some, but not all, are a result of the pandemic.
I visited during members’ previews. That afternoon, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters that she felt a sense of “impending doom,” given sudden infection spikes. That gave me pause.
To protect patrons’ health, familiar precautions are in place at LACMA. Ticket reservations made online or by phone are necessary to keep attendance at reduced levels. Masks are mandatory, health screening (including a temperature check) and contact tracing data are required, and traffic flow directions are in place inside galleries. Exhibition text panels have been replaced by QR codes.
I found none of it onerous. Getting the reservation was easier than snagging a COVID-19 vaccination appointment not so long ago — although the online-or-phone requirement for a reservation would be a stumbling block for anyone without access to either.
One guard cheerfully greeted, “Welcome back.” Another barked, “Where’s your reservation?” — an odd papers-please request after jumping hoops for admission right outside the door. Most visitors were following the rules.
Beyond essential pandemic alterations, however, the museum’s other changes were optional. If you haven’t been down Wilshire Boulevard’s Miracle Mile in the last year, be prepared for the complete disappearance of LACMA’s four buildings dating from 1965 and 1986. They fell to the wrecking ball just as quarantining began, hauled off to a landfill in Eagle Rock to make way for the new building, the David Geffen Galleries, under construction to house the permanent collection.
Six new exhibitions — four in the Resnick Pavilion and two in the awkwardly named Broad Contemporary Art Museum building — have been installed. Together they give two clear indications of what to expect the new LACMA will look like, once the Geffen Galleries open.
One is a sizable theme show built around art in LACMA’s encyclopedic collection. Rather than permanent displays organized by the art’s chronology and geography, the Geffen Galleries will show the collection as changing theme exhibitions in seven exhibition halls.
The other is an emphasis — actually, overemphasis — on contemporary art. Five of the six shows feature art made since about 1960.
That raises the question: Given the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Broad downtown, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the California African American Museum, college outposts including the Vincent Price and Benton museums, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Torrance Museum, myriad nonprofit spaces like LACE, the Armory and LAXART, plus a large and lively gallery scene — and more — do we really need LACMA to be top-heavy with contemporary art?
I understand that’s where the money is. But, according to the LACMA website, since 2017 more than 80% of the exhibitions have showcased 20th and 21st century art. LACMA is the only encyclopedic museum the city’s got. The long pandemic closure is over, but the health crisis isn’t the only reason that I’ve missed the place.
The theme show is “NOT I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE),” with around 200 works, major and minor, selected across global cultures past and present (on view through July 25). The theme is ventriloquism — the art of speaking without moving your lips to make it look as if your voice is coming from elsewhere.
As an entertainment, the show is less Shari Lewis’ Lamb Chop than the disembodied chattering-mouth of Samuel Beckett in the writer’s frantic 1973 stage play “Not I,” which provides the title. Beckett followed an elliptical path in a rapid-fire, 15-minute monologue to ponder what makes up a person’s conception of the self.
The show ends with a BBC video clip of a Beckett performance starring Billie Whitelaw's motormouth. It opens with a 1992-93 Ann Hamilton video of a mouth full of marbles. In between, 10 sections consider sub-topics like artists’ images of puppets, animals as human surrogates and sound as a visual subject.
Philosophically minded but hardly frantic, LACMA’s “NOT I” is a meta-show — an art exhibition about making art exhibitions. It repeats the truism that art museums aren’t neutral. Curator José-Luis Blondet is the invisible ventriloquist, speaking through the selection and juxtaposition of mute objects.
What he has to say is often eloquent and always informed, although the show feels incomplete.
Take pipes. A display case features a lineup of 10 of the smoking implements drawn from a variety of world cultures, past and present. They include ancient Colima in west Mexico, 17th century India and Iran, 19th century Czech Republic and 20th century Congo and the United States.
Nearby hangs a stolid, 1853 academic portrait of four upper-class white children, primly decked out in velvets and lace, by the popular Victorian New York painter George Augustus Baker Jr. The kids wield pipes, too — pipes for blowing soap bubbles, a common symbol for innocence. The shimmering bubbles signify life’s fragility.
Tucked around the corner and embedded in a carve-out in the gallery wall is a skinny, 8-foot-tall, black-and-white photographic mural by Gordon Matta-Clark. Made in 1971, it uncovers plumbing and electrical pipes of the kind hidden behind the drywall inside any modern building. Matta-Clark’s pipes — in this context a Pop art pun — expose hidden structure.
A room away, in a different section about invisible air, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s brilliant “Soap Bubbles” is a lusciously painted picture of a young aristocrat, circa 1739, leaning on a stone window ledge and gently blowing into a soapy reed. An air-filled bubble expands, threatening to burst. The stone ledge, borrowed from a European Renaissance tradition in posthumous portraiture, implies a meditation on mortality.
All grays, browns and dusty whites, Chardin’s earthy and sensuous oil paint draws your eye to the play of delicate surface textures and soft luminosity across the canvas. The painting gets established as a material analogy for the pictured soap bubble’s fragility.
The splendid Chardin is the kind of first-tier painting that firmly established the symbolic soap bubble that Baker’s impassive American painting later relied on, albeit with far less inventive skill. The Frenchman painted rings around the American.
But the subject matter of wealthy 18th and 19th century youths bearing pipes does evoke the industrialization of tobacco as a primary source for the era’s great European and American fortunes. Kids played with toys while their elders had actual pipes and fancy snuff boxes.
The show’s decorated clay Colima pipe is likely a ritual relic, tobacco cultivation thought to have begun in ancient Mexico. “Old world” colonization of a “new world” — old and new, that is, to the colonizers — is implied if not declared. In this permanent collection installation, very different works of art from very different times and places are talking among themselves.
One absent voice is surprising.
“The Treachery of Images,” the famous 1928-29 Surrealist picture by René Magritte more commonly known by its juxtaposition of a painted pipe with the written text, “This is not a pipe,” is nowhere to be found. (According to the museum, the celebrated painting has been reserved for a Modern art installation opening in the summer.) Its influence on subsequent art is suggested by inclusion of a little 5-inch sculptural copy by Sherrie Levine and a photo by Eleanor Antin.
“NOT I” tells a cluster of mini stories. Even the absence of stories is considered, thanks to a clever commission from Istanbul-born, Stockholm-based installation artist Meriç Algün: Close to 1,000 books on a host of topics are displayed on 10 shelves — all loaned from the L.A. Public Library but none previously borrowed by any readers.
The limitation of “NOT I” is that LACMA’s permanent collection is presented as if a group of variously interesting asides whispered by a smart friend. Theme shows are the most difficult to pull off because they beg for persuasive discovery and definitive conclusion. Even with more than 200 objects, “NOT I” doesn’t offer that.
Is any encyclopedic museum collection large enough to accomplish it? Probably not. One virtue of simple chronology and geography as organizing principles for an art museum’s permanent collection is that they’re just unadorned facts without presumption of completion. I left “NOT I” wondering how the David Geffen Galleries might possibly carry it off when surveying everything LACMA owns.
Most of the great objects in LACMA’s long-shuttered collection remain in storage. Japanese, Mesoamerican, South Asian, European Baroque, colonial Mexican, American and more — few are to be seen. But there’s plenty of contemporary art.
German artist Vera Lutter’s 44 pinhole-camera views of galleries and art in the now-demolished LACMA buildings are on view (to Sept. 12) in a show organized by curator Jennifer King. Tied to the minor European and American tradition of paintings that record (and fabricate) the look of mostly royal picture galleries, they offer a bland critique of art museums as an ostensibly shady Enlightenment-era idea.
A big retrospective of middling but popular painter Yoshitomo Nara, 61, is twice as large as it needs to be to account for his market success at branding (to July 5, guest-curated by Mika Yoshitake). Endless, obsessive variations over nearly 40 years on a scowling, wide-eyed little girl adrift in fields of empty space are featured in nearly five dozen canvases, some 700 repetitive drawings and a few sculptures.
Childhood, a common contemporary Japanese motif, has been theorized as representing the infantilization of a once-belligerent imperial society laid low amid the death and humiliation of World War II. Nara’s are like the big-eyed children of kitsch icon Margaret Keane — albeit more skillfully painted and with post-nuclear anxiety replacing greeting-card sentimentality.
Sixteen recent acquisitions of contemporary art are also on view (ongoing), their welcome emphasis on work by women and people of color part of a larger, growing effort among museums to redress past exclusion. Most notable are sculptures by Lonnie Holley and Betye Saar, which add to LACMA’s collection of powerful assemblages that emerged full force in Los Angeles’ Black arts movement after the 1965 Watts rebellion.
It’s also good to see Bill Viola’s 1992 “Slowly Turning Narrative” (through June 27), an important video installation in the collection by the genre’s pioneer, who is based in Long Beach. Unseen for nearly 20 years, its two projections on a revolving screen, one side mirrored, absorb and reflect illusory fragments of imagery inside a darkened room.
Abandoned buildings, nighttime parking lots, fireworks and more merge with a man’s looming face chanting observations on various states of being. Your reflection gets tangled up in the slipping, sliding image stream as the flow of mediated modern life becomes an enchanted Plato’s Cave.
Consider Viola’s video manifestation of a mind forming fleeting thoughts as a coincidental ancestor to “Give It or Leave It,” a sprawling, visionary installation incorporating film, sculpture, video and stage sets by L.A.-based Cauleen Smith (to Oct. 31). The traveling show, which will be reviewed later, was organized three years ago by Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
It’s terrific, but I wonder where most of LACMA’s collection masterpieces went.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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Sen. Al Franken Nails Jeff Sessions For His Endless Series Of Russia Lies
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During an interview with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on The Last Word, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) revealed that he sent a letter to the FBI after he found out about Jeff Sessions unreported contact with Russian ambassador.
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it welcomed the new FAA ruling requiring commercial hot air balloon pilots to hold at least a second-class medical certificate when flying paying passengers, as is already required for commercial airplane and helicopter pilots.
The FAA first proposed the rule in November 2021.
At the time of the announcement last week, Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen said, “Passengers can now rest assured that commercial balloon pilots must meet the same strict medical requirements as other commercial pilots.”
In a statement, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy called it a “promising step” but suggested that the FAA should do more work to govern air tours.
“I remain concerned about passenger safety on commercial balloon flights,” Homendy said. “We’ve seen the deadly consequences of unscrupulous air tour operators time and again. We need strong FAA oversight of all revenue passenger-carrying flight operations.”
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Former presidential challenger banned by Fifa
Monday 17 December 2012
Fifa has imposed another life ban on former presidential challenger Mohamed Bin Hammam.
The world governing body said the 63-year-old Qatari had resigned from all his positions in football and had been banned for life by FIFA's new adjudicatory chamber of the ethics committee.
The ban is not in connection with allegations of bribery while campaigning against Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency but for "conflicts of interest" while president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
FIFA said in a statement: "Mr Mohamed Bin Hammam, FIFA executive committee member and AFC president, has resigned from all his positions in football with immediate effect and will never be active in organised football again.
"This results from a resignation letter of Mr Bin Hammam addressed to FIFA and AFC dated December 15, 2012.
"In view of the fact that under the new FIFA code of ethics, the FIFA ethics committee remains competent to render a decision even if a person resigns, the adjudicatory chamber decided to ban Mohamed Bin Hammam from all football-related activity for life.
"This life ban is based on the final report of Michael J Garcia, chairman of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA ethics committee.
"That report showed repeated violations of Article 19 (conflict of interest) of the FIFA code of ethics, edition 2012, of Mohamed Bin Hammam during his terms as AFC president and as member of the FIFA executive committee in the years 2008 to 2011, which justified a lifelong ban from all football-related activity."
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Cuttack: The pregnancy of a 14-year-old rape survivor was terminated at a hospital in Cuttack Saturday, following an order of the Orissa High Court, officials said. The girl was in the 23rd week of her pregnancy, they said.
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In the petition, the father of the girl prayed for the medical termination of the pregnancy of his daughter as per the MTP (Amendment) Act of 2021.
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On March 30, the referral hospital wrote to the Director of Medical Education and Training (DMET), stating that since the pregnancy was more than 20 weeks old, the medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) could only be done with permission from the court.
Considering the recent amendment in the MTP law, the HC directed the SCB authorities to form an opinion by Saturday noon and proceed to arrange for the termination procedure at the very earliest as the rape survivor is already in the 23rd week of pregnancy.
The new law has raised the upper limit for permitting abortions to 24 weeks for “special categories of women”, including rape survivors, victims of incest, minors and the differently-abled.


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Lincoln Center hosting diverse ‘Great Performers’
Thursday, January 20, 2005
BY BRADLEY BAMBARGER
NEW YORK — The British are coming. So are the Russians, along with an Argentinean and the usual Austrians and Germans. Lincoln Center’s 2005-06 “Great Performers” lineup was announced Tuesday, and the 40th season of the multimedia series once again draws a multicultural mix of classical performers.
The opening events of “Great Performers,” Sept. 28-Oct. 2, bring the return of the virtuoso London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis in programs ranging from the Verdi Requiem to Sibelius and Vaughan Williams. That kicks off a season featuring visits from 10 international orchestras, plus 31 recitals and chamber concerts.
The “Great Performers” offerings also include a festival devoted to Argentine-American composer Osvaldo Golijov and a new series of late-night, world-music concerts, as well as a 10-part film series on Richard Wagner and sundry educational events.
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International auditors met Greece's Finance Minister yesterday to finalise details of the latest round of austerity measures that would save the debt-strapped country at least €11.6bn.
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Zhongtong express release third quarter in 2018
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Posted Thursday Afternoon
Crop report unexpectedly cuts soybean yield estimate, which could add support for both bean and corn prices.
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Farmers hope recent rain helps crop shoot out of the ground.
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Bureau County farmer says his harvest started about two weeks late, which could have been worse if not for a hot September.
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