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Welcome back. In case you missed it, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the second edition of its Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. There’s a summary of the 117-page report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Like the first edition, published in 2008, the report’s overriding message is that regular physical activity has health benefits for everyone, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity or body size.
Guidance on the types and amounts of physical activity to improve health outcomes is provided for preschool-aged children to older adults, with a section for pregnant and postpartum women and adults with chronic conditions or disabilities.
To encourage and be accommodating the key guidelines for adults opens with: Adults should move more and sit less throughout the day. Some physical activity is better than none.
Which brings me to the main topic of this blog post: a pilot study from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The researchers compared the metabolic and work-skill effects of pedaling, while sitting at a pedal desk, with those of just sitting at a standard office desk.
Different configurations of pedal or bike desks or detached under-desk peddlers have been around for several years. They’ve found principal acceptance occupying fidgeting students in K-12 classrooms, but along with standing desks and treadmill desks, they’re making inroads in other venues.
Under-desk peddlers in a North Carolina middle-school classroom, 2016 (from www.thisisinsider.com/teacher-bike-pedals-desks-concentration-2016-9).
The study was undertaken because desks configured with a seated pedal apparatus could be an important tool for reducing workplace inactivity. This is especially the case since pedal desks are self-paced, relatively easy to use by workers with existing musculoskeletal problems or reduced mobility, oriented toward non–weight-bearing activities and minimally disruptive.
Twelve overweight or obese, sedentary office workers (6 men, 6 women, age 21 to 64) were tested in two conditions at least six days apart: (1) seated at a pedal desk, pedaling at a self-selected, light-intensity pace for 2 hours and (2) seated at a conventional workstation for 2 hours.
(see P.S. link to study).
At both test sessions, participants rested for 20 minutes and had an intravenous catheter inserted for blood sampling. After baseline fasting sample collection, the participants were given a standardized meal (cornflakes, heavy cream and whole milk) to be consumed over a 10-minute period.
Blood samples for glucose, insulin and free fatty acid concentrations were collected every 15 minutes during the remainder of the post-meal test while participants performed scripted computer-based work tasks (Stroop test, mouse proficiency test, choice reaction, typing and reading comprehension).
The study found the participants’ use of the pedal desk required significantly less insulin to maintain glucose concentrations than did their use of the standard desk. There were no significant changes in plasma glucose and free-fatty acid concentrations with the pedal desk at any observed time.
In addition, the only significant difference in work skills measurements was a slower mouse-clicking response with the pedal desk; however, the average difference was only 2.2 seconds over approximately 1 minute of testing.
Although the study results are based on only 12 participants, the lower post-meal insulin concentrations with no negative impact on work skills suggest that use of a pedal desk could help achieve public and occupational health goals in sedentary work environments.
And there’s another potential benefit. All that pedaling could be used to produce some amount of electrical power. In fact, CNET featured a company that was seeking Kickstarter funding to pursue that goal in 2013, and at least one company is now marketing power-generating bike desks and sustainable office kiosks.
Pedal desks in elementary school classroom—note the blurry pedaling feet (from www.youthfit.com/kinesthetic-classroom/pedal-desks).
Who knows? Perhaps those fidgeting grade-school kids could keep the whole school lit up. Thanks for stopping by.


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The Columbus Dispatch Publishes Article on HB 413 | Public Employee Retirees Inc.
(February 19, 2018) A revealing article on the status of H.B. 413 was published in the Sunday edition of The Columbus Dispatch yesterday shedding light on where the bill stands in the legislative process. It was authored by Dispatch reporter Catherine Candisky and can be read by copying and pasting this link in your web browser: http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180217/opers-retirees-fight-back-against-proposed-cut-in-benefits. It appears that in its present form the bill is not going to move toward passage in the Ohio House, according to its sponsor, Rep. Gary Scherer (R – Circleville). This is good news for PERI members and all OPERS retirees.
PERI resolves to keep up the fight against the passage of HB 413 until OPERS and the General Assembly recognize the need to maintain the current 3% COLA.
Thanks PERI, finally a ray of hope .
Food for thought for all retirees, Keep contacting members of the general assembly to vote down h.b.413! Keep the heat on!
What is meant by, “It appears that in its present form the bill is not going to move toward passage in the Ohio House”? It sounds like good news at first, but the issue is not over. I’m very happy by this delay, but we still need to work to have it dropped altogether.
Something seems very wrong here. With all the sweeping changes OPERS made since 2012, including dropping spouses and jacking up premiums, why aren’t they putting money into the health care plan? If the current administration can’t seem to manage our money, maybe it’s time to find others who will. This doesn’t add up and an independent investigation seems to be in order.
I would like to share some info. with all retirees. i retired from O.D.O.T. in 2012. When i worked for O.D.O.T. I was active in o.c.s.e.a. for a time. O.c.s.e.a. is the union for state employees in most agencies. When opers introduced their c.o.l.a. reduction fiasco last august, I contacted Chris Mabe who is o.c.s.e.a. president and opers board member for state employees. As per the conversation, The reasons he gave me for the proposal were as follows. The alleged 2 billion dollars in unfunded liabilities as per Karen Carraher. Mabe also gave me a personal reason for the proposal. Mabe told me he thinks it is not fair that people who retired prior to Jan. 2013 keep their 3% C.O.L.A. And people who retired after Jan. 2013 get their c.o.l.a. adjusted as agreed upon in the 2012 opers changes. So with this info. you have an opers board member who also had personal reasons for pushing this proposal. I spoke to Chris Mabe over the phone in late august of 2017. He returned the phone call after I left him a message on his voicemail. I also emailed him at that time.
Well what everyone has to remember is if your already retired you have no way to increase your percent of retirement other than the COLA. If your not already retired you have the option to work longer and increase your retirement. “ Go figure “ Compell people who can retire before 2013 by sending out papers that say anyone who retires prior to 2013 will recieve 3 % COLA fixed ,then switch it with H.B. 413 COLA based off cpi after. People already retired don’t have an equal right to work longer and boost there percentage and increase there F.A.S. I believe PERI was able to exspress that concern during there presentation in Opposition of H.B 413.
Ron Alexander is a candidate for OPERS Trustee to represent the retirees. He is also the retiree representative on the OCSEA Board with Mabe. I have emailed Ron Alexander requesting his position on this issue. We certainly don’t need two OSCEA officials on the OPERS Board voting together to cut our COLA.
Right. We do not need a fox in the hen house.
More food for thought. Late last December, The Opers board voted to make Chris Mabe Vice Chair!
So I just read the Dispatch article and here’s what bothers me. It is clear that Karen Carraher is trying to play on the fear that If we don’t make these changes now we risk healthcare in the future. What I urge everyone to consider is that regardless of whether they make changes or not we could still lose or have changes made to our healthcare in the future. Healthcare is not a guaranteed benefit. I for one will not stand for changes being made to a guaranteed benefit, which my 3% annual COLA is, to take the chance that they won’t turn around at some point in the future and reduce or eliminate healthcare anyway. I won’t fall for their scare tactics.
Retiree – I totally agree. I will not stand for changes to a guaranteed benefit either. If they take that away, then everything is fair game.
The article in the Columbus Dispatch was an interesting read. Keep up the good work, PERI!
Although this is encouraging we can’t let up. I have written to my State Representative and Senator and have received a response only from my Representative that he is opposed to HB 413. So far my state Senator seems to be non-committed.
Remember the old adage “the squeeky wheel gets the grease”.
Jerry – That is very interesting. I have long suspected a severe case of COLA envy has been going around at OPERS. And yes, I believe those pushing the proposal have a personal agenda. Otherwise, nothing else makes sense. The system is healthy and with the sweeping changes made including dropping spouses and jacking up our health care premiums, there should be no reason for fear of losing health care funding.
As the old adage goes, when something doesn’t make sense, look for the dollars.
Where did you obtain information on the 3 candidates and their positions?
Thanks James for your insight. I agree after reading the Retiree Representative Candidate Biographies page included with my ballot, it becomes clear that Timothy Steitz is the correct choice if you want to protect your 3% COLA. His job experience and credentials make him the most qualified candidate to oppose Carraher’s dirty mess now and in the future. It’s important for anyone who hasn’t voted yet to do it now before the March 30th deadline and keep contacting our state legislative officials.
Every day I e-mail, tweet, call or write. I point out the 50 people at OPERS making more than the governor, the billions invested in poor performing hedge funds, the most of any State and paying the managers of those hedge funds billions since 2011 and also paying their own chief financial officer over 1/2 million a year and millions more in incentives. Incentives for what, to invest in poor performing hedge funds or does he get incentives for cutting our COLA. Kasich was with Lehman Brothers and went around Ohio talking the public pensions into investing in Lehman Brothers. Lehman went out of business and the pensions lost multi millions. He becomes governor in 2011 along with Carrahar and we start investing in hedge funds. Funny hedge funds donated to his run for President in 2016.
This cozy relationship the OPERS seems to have with some of the medical providers needs to be looked at. Double Dipping needs to be looked at, California does not allow it at all, go back to a public employee and your pension stops. I don’t know if we need to go that far, but the amount they pay in for pension goes into an annuity. That money should stay in the pension system, they are already collecting a pension and working for a public employee. QEBA needs stopped, violating IRS rules stating that they don’t have to pay pension out over around 215,000 per year. QEBA makes that extra money come out of the medical fund. I could go on for pages, however, that is some thing needing fixed.
Keep writing as the State and every organization in it hates the sun light shine down upon them. When I worked I was told to work on clients that bitched first. Why should they get serviced first? The answer, we don’t want to have them calling every day and bothering us. Is that fair, no, but the squeaking wheel gets fixed first.
Michael – Could you share copies of your letters? I don’t know the facts like you do. I would like to send that information to my representatives too.
First, the “3% COLA” quit being a 3% increase in retirement benefits one year after retirement. It is a simple interest increase on the base retirement amount. It is NOT a true cost of living increase. Rather it is: 3%, 2.91%, 2.83%, 2.75%, 2.68%, 2.61%, 2.54%, etc. Next year I will get a 2.4% increase. We retirees who retired prior to 2013 are both diminishing in both numbers and our effective COLA increases. The only reason that I can see for the OPERS board to act now is because it will become a moot point in a the future. They want to treat retirees as welfare recipients. Why else would HB 413 contain a provision to INCREASE the retirement for a select few retirees?
Second, as determined in the case of John J. MASCIO v. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF OHIO, the vested rights statute (ORC 145.561), once the conditions of retirement are fulfilled, there is a contractual obligation. The Ohio Legislature (OPERS) does NOT have a legal right to alter a contract after the fact.
Third, why the heck would any rational person (retiree) wish to trade a statutory guaranteed contractual right (pension + COLA) for the “promise” of health care? Back when I was working, 35 years, a percentage of my contribution was going for the health care of retirees. Now that I am retired, the OPERS board has cut health care to the bone and is out to get retirees who may have gotten a few percent ahead of inflation.
Finally, I’m not trying to be political but the Federal deficit spending is such that the ten year Treasury rate is approaching 3%. Depending on the financial projection, 3% or 3.5%, is the break point at which money flows from the stock market to bonds and inflation becomes inevitable. Either way, a one trillion dollar Federal deficit will lead to higher inflation. That higher inflation will inflate OPERS investments, but will not change our COLA.
Dean you just made a fantastic point, Retirees do not need Ron Alexander on the Opers board to represent retirees. Ron Alexander will be a yes person for Karen Carraher. Chris Mabe has proved he is a yes person for Karen Carraher! Retirees please consider not giving Ron Alexander a vote! I hope Alexander has an opponent for this board seat! If Ron Alexander has an opponent, Please consider that person! Ron Alexander is still on the O.C.S.E.A. payroll as an retirees Rep. He has taken enough dues money as o.c.s.e.a. president and now in this role as a retirees rep! I was an o.c.s.e.a. activist for a time. The internal politics at o.c.s.e.a. is sickening! Just food for thought. Thanks.
I witnessed Ron Alexander manipulate the members and staff at o.c.s.e.a. for years! Please consider not voting for him for this open opers board seat! Please consider the opponents of Ron Alexander for this opers board seat! To vote Ron Alexander on the opers board would be a huge mistake. Remember, Chris Mabe will be lobbying on his behalf. And in private, I am sure Karen Carraher will be doing the same. She will be very quiet in doing so.
I’ll keep writing and making phone calls until there is a full administration restructuring at OPERS.
Jim – Who are you contacting? I will do likewise.
Attention all retirees, I have taken a careful look at all the candidates for the open Opers board seat. I will vote for Tim Steitz, He seems to be the candidate that will stand up for retirees. Just food for thought. Vote carefully.
If you worked when Ron Alexander was head of the union… you know he was very friendly to the statehouse. Personally I believe that the State of Ohio employees did benefit from collective bargaining I am just saying that was not while Ron Alexander was running things he was very close fo to management we do not need his self serving agenda in our retirement. Most people do not realize that public sector is not always the easy jobs they think. Too many managers politically connected (and union presidents) willing to do whatever necessary for their own personal advancement . But I thought once retired we would be away from the politics and the deals made in back rooms. Karen Carraher does not have enough respect for retirees to keep her as OPERS Ex Director. She wants to say that she has OPERS funded 100% and will do so at any cost. Keep fighting calling writing and unfortunately not relaxing and enjoying our earned retirements. Ohio politics once again rears its ugly head. We are fortunate that some in the statehouse see OPERS bill for what it is…. an unnecessary broken promise to retirees. Don’t stop being vocal, writing and calling state reps and telling them OPERS needs to keep their gritty hands off of our COLA.
I noted it in my retirement letter as well. Actually I stated that it was “the” reason for the timing.
Amen Frank! It is time retirees post their concerns about Ron Alexander on social media. All retirees should know about the troublesome background of Mr. Alexander! Also, It is time retirees start calling for Karen Carraher to be replaced! Start sounding the alarm on social media!
Chris Mabe is just as bad as Ron Alexander if not worse!
I’m with those who will vote for Tim Seitz as my candidate of choice. Thanks to those you who shared your views on all three candidates. Your comments were really helpful.
The comments helped me vote for Mr. Seitz too. This kind of input is always great.
I voted for Mr. Seitz also.

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Prepare as much as is possible the night before, and do your best to remain calm.
I’m not a morning person, so not sure I’m the best person to ask. Give yourself time. You might not feel like getting out of bed early, but those few extra minutes to read some news, listen to birdsong, just gather yourself for the day, it’s worth it.
Keep to a routine, and make breakfast last- you can always do something on the go if there’s not enough tme.
Pre-prepare, get as much as you can readyy the night before. Turn chores into a game with toddlers, we often race to see who can get dressed first.
have a second alarm that wakes you half an hour before get up time so you feel like getting up when the second one goes off!!
Definitely prepare everything the night before so that you’re good to go in the morning.
Get as much as you can ready the night before.
Have a well worked out routine and as much possible prepared the evening before!
Do as much as possible in advance and stay calm!
Lots of preparation the night before.
Try not to do too much. Some stuff can wait.
Train your pre-teens and teenagers to make strong coffee.
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Get a good coffee machine. A BIG latte makes everything more bearable!
get yourself prepared as much as is possible the night before, and do your best to remain calm and collected.
Take 5 minutes to think it will help you relax and be easier to do what you need to do.
if your doing the school run little ones in pushchairs will be ok in their pjs and coat until you return back home.
It’s all about preparation everything needs to be done the night before if not then just try and grab the essentials.
Have everyone in the household organised in a routine, there is no point having everyone waiting outside the bathroom.
Always have a comb and foundation in your bag so you can spruce yourself up in a hurry.
Try to prepare the night before – less to so in the moring equals leas stress!
Have a routine. Get ready before the kids.
do everything you can the night before, also get up 30 mins before the kids you can get so much done before the kids get up!
Prepare everything the night before, it`ll save so much time rushing around in the morning.
Prepare as much as you can the night before, and stick to a routine.
Have breakfast things, including your own, ready the night before.
Have clothes set out for the morning. Including shoes as I tend to find one always goes missing.
I always get everything ready the night before for example: School clothes out ready, Lunches done, My clothes out ready and babies clothes out ready too!!
Get organised the night before!
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Unfortunately the only solution I’ve found is to get up an hour before the children!
Get clothes out the night before. Run the dishwasher overnight and load and set the washing machine to go off first thing in the morning.
I prepare pack lunches whilst making the evening tea so it’s ready to go in the morning. If I do it whilst preparing one meal it doesn’t seem so much of a hassle to prepare a little extra at the same time?
I find the only way to get everyone ready in the morning is to find a routine that works and get everyone to stick to it!
Just go with the glow and do not stress. You will find a routine and then stick to it. I still have the same routine and my kids are all grown up!
Apply primer and eyeliner on days when you don’t have enough time to apply full makeup. It’ll make you feel much more confident than wearing nothing at all.
Set your alarm for 10 minuites earlier – you will be surprised how much them few extra minutes make a difference!
Set the table the night before if you can, so when the kids come down breakfast is a doddle!
Keep your beauty routine simple by using multipurpose products such as tinted moisturiser (or BB cream) with sunblock included and have everything to hand in the bathroom.
Lay out clothes the night before so there’s no last minute panic when you can’t find something or you realise the top you want is in the wash.
Take your make-up to work and do it there.
Get as much ready as you can the night before. E.g. packed lunches, clothes, baths.
Set your alarm 30 minutes earlier than you think you need to get up…that gives you 30 minutes extra time for when things don’t quite go to plan!
Sort breakfasts and lunches the night before and have clothes organised and ready to go!
Sort clothes, lunches etc the night before.
Get as much ready as you can the night before and have a routine for the morning and getting up a little earlier than you think you need to.
Be organised and prepared, get as much as possible ready the night before….i.e. lunches ready and in the fridge, uniforms ironed and out, school bags packed etc etc..
Lay your stuff out for the morning.
Try and get into a regular routine, with everyone doing their bit, so that things are more manageable!
Wash your hair the night before!
Inevitably my hair looks like I’ve been dragged through a hedge in the mornings, I just throw it in a messy plait and hey presto instantly fool people into believing I look presentable on the school run.
Prepare any kids meals the night before, and make sure they have clothes ready to go.
Be organised and don’t stress!!
Don’t leave everything for the last minute and have 2mins shower.
Agree what everyone is wearing the night before and make sure it is clean and ironed ready for the morning.
Have a rota for the bathroom, so that everyone knows when to go in.
Pick out clothes the night before and anything else that you need to grab and take with you. Also prepare the breakfasts as much as possible the night before.
Lay out all clothes and shoes and coats the night before.
Prepare all flasks, snacks and lunches for school etc the night before.
If you are always stressed and in a rush then set your alarm 5 minutes earlier. I caved in and now set mine 15 minutes earlier and I feel so much better.
Be organised, do what you can the night before, allow yourself plenty of time in the morning, set your alarm.
Have absolutely everything done and laid out the night before. Saves a massive rush or forgetting things!
Go to sleep an hour earlier and get up an hour earlier in the morning.
Try and get packed lunches, uniforms etc ready the night before, and set your alarm 10 mins earlier to give you some time to wake up and have a bit of me time!
Lay your clothes out the night before!
Make sure everything is ready the night before, check the diary to make sure there are no surprises and of course, get up earlier!!
Try to do all your preparation the night before.
Focus on just the things that have to be done and spend half an hour before you go to bed getting anything ready that can be done in advance!
I set my alarm 15 mins before I need to get up so I can pretend I’m having a lie in!!!!!
Get everything prepared where possible the night before. Bowls of muesli can be made up and left covered, tablet set, clothes etc. put out, especially if your children struggle. Wet wipes can be used to wipe messy faces and sticky hands instead of traipsing to the bathroom and lunch boxes can be prepared night before and put in fridge if needed.
Prepare for the night before and give yourself an extra 20 minsutes to get out of the house.
Get everything out and ready the night before including what make up you’re going to wear so you don’t have to search for it. I wash and straighten my hair before I go to bed so it’s quicker to do in the morning as I have wild hair. Get yourself ready first while the children throw porridge over their pj’s.
Get the children into a smooth routine, put things ready the night before and always read letters from school when they first arrive home to stop last minute panics.
Get up half an hour earlier than needed and enjoy the peace and quiet before the madness begins, it’s amazing how this will recharge the batteries.
I used to get my daughter up half an hour before I woke up my son, who was more trouble to get ready in the morning. My daughter & I would have a reasonably quiet breakfast, then she was tasked with getting my son out of bed, dressed, fed and ready for school. She took it upon herself to make him get his clothes ready the night before, she would make sure he had done his homework and she would get breakfast for him. I should point out that she was the younger of the two, and they had (and still have) a great relationship. Using this method meant that I could get ready for work in peace. My grown-up daughter now has a job as a project manager, which suits her perfectly.
Get things ready the night before.
Simply leave everything ready when you go to bed the night before.
Have storage boxes by the front door for each child so that everything they need is in one place and you don’t have to go looking all over the house.
I’m not a Mum but when I’m in a rush, I do whatever I can go on the go e.g. finish your make-up/hair on the bus!
Take a quick 5 mins at night before bed to organise some things and then in the morning multitask!!!


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I am choosing to “opt out” of the proposed settlement in the Fred Dryer v. NFL Films lawsuit. By opting out I will preserve my rights against the NFL and their NFL Film division. If you choose to opt out of the proposed settlement your letter must be postmarked by August 30, 2013.
Here’s why I am opting out: The proposed settlement does not do what it purports to do.
The proponents of the settlement suggest that the settlement is fair for all players, and that it provides a mechanism to obtain access and use of your likeness, plus provides benefits for players in need. It does neither.
The settlement does not guarantee the player his rights or access to his likeness when he played in the league. The lawsuit is based on abuse and access to our likeness; however, the settlement does not indicate how that access to our likeness will happen. Nor does the settlement guarantee any tangible monetary benefit to the player for the past, present or future use of his likeness. Instead, there are unnamed organizations that may get funding to help players in need. Again, nothing tangible.
The most glaring omission, in my opinion, is the fact that no one has determined the value of NFL Films library or the potential value of that asset. Without the value of that asset being determined, the players will never know what a fair settlement would be. Many believe the value of NFL Films to be in the billions of dollars.
Moreover, with the advent of advancing technology, there will be endless possibilities to repurpose all of the archived NFL content (including practice tape and video) along with distribution channels to anyone who wishes to view this content – so long as the consumer pays the NFL to view the content. This settlement would leave the player on the sidelines without access or any future revenue streams.
For example, right now at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, the Cirque du Soleil has produced Michael Jackson in Hologram dancing with live actors on stage. So real is the appearance and movement, that when I first saw it, I thought of the Likeness Lawsuit and thought someday NFL films could re-create a Superbowl having the 1967 Packers play the 1985 Bears in Hologram, or have the consumer choose the teams to play against one another in Hologram. Again, the possibilities are endless and mindboggling.
On August 20, 2013, NFL Commissioner, Roger Goddell, met with the CEO of Google to discuss access and content deals ( http://allthingsd.com/20130820/is-google-ready-to-buy-its-way-into-tv-with-an-nfl-deal/). This is all one needs to know to realize what the NFL intentions are.
A player’s right to his likeness is his legacy for his family and heirs, just like it is for the person who has created something of significance which has lasting value. The same should hold true to any settlement that involves the player’s likeness.
I am opting out to preserve my future and my rights.
If you choose to opt out of the proposed settlement your letter must be postmarked by August 30, 2013.
Mel, I stated the same reasons. It seems as if these guys have made the same deal the NFL has now. Different benefactor!
I choose to opt out.
I am opting out to preserve my future and my rights. The proposed settlement does not do what it purports to do.
Mel, I opted out of the Dryer settlement. I want to become part of the Culp Case.

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On June 6, RISE brought together neighbors to share their thoughts about the Safe Communities Act with Senator Mike Rush. Unfortunately due to a scheduling conflict the Senator could not attend. But RISE members shared testimony with the 180+ neighbors in attendance, as well as aides to Senator Rush and Rep. Liz Malia, and Representative Russell Holmes. Thank you to Rep. Holmes and the aides for attending!
Click here to see more videos from that meeting.
1) Senator Russ will read one of the Children’s Immigration Stories at the Roslindale Farmers’ Market children’s story hour, the Roslindale Library or the Sumner School this Summer or Fall.
2) Senator Rush did commit to an evening meeting in Roslindale in the Fall knowing we will want to hear his opinion and what progress he has made on the Safe Communities Act.
3) Senator Rush is unlikely to co-sponsor the bill. He says he is very careful to only co-sponsor bills he has more expertise in and fully backs, such as those related to veterans affairs.
4) Senator Rush serves on the Joint Committee for Public Safety and Homeland Security which is considering whether to recommend the Safe Communities Act be debated in the House and Senate. Sen Rush will most likely support the Committee moving the bill forward to be debated on and voted on in the Senate and the House. (This only happens if the bill gets recommended out the Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee this legislative session.) However, Sen. Rush has not yet heard from the Chair or Vice Chair of the Committee that this bill is a priority to get out of Committee in this legislative session. When asked, Sen. Rush was vague about whether he would initiate contact with the Chair of the Committee.
5) In concept, Senator Rush agrees with most of what’s in the Safe Communities Act. He does not want to see local and state police be put in the position of being ICE agents, nor does he want to undermine community policing relationships. However, he needs more details on whether or not the bill will limit information gathering and cooperation among local, state and national law enforcement agencies. He is concerned about Homeland Security matters and going after “really bad guys” and “terrorists.” Our understanding is that the bill does not interfere in criminal investigations nor national security investigations, but we will do more research on this point.
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An ailing chimpanzee who refused to eat and could barely move somehow found the strength to let out a great big smile for an old human friend who paid her a visit.
The touching 2016 footage, which is currently making the rounds again on social media, shows Mama, a terminally ill 59-year-old chimpanzee, lifelessly laying inside her enclosure at the Royal Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, a city in the Nederlands.
However, a visit from Mama's old friend, Professor Jan van Hooff, who met her in 1972 while setting up the zoo's chimp colony, proved to be just the dose of medicine the sick animal needed.
In the sweet clip, van Hooff approaches Mama and begins gently stroking her side.
While at first Mama doesn't react to the professor's presence, the moment she realizes who he truly is her face lights up in the most heart-warming fashion.
Sadly, Mama died about a week after the touching moment took place -- but her memory lives on in those who worked closely with her.
"She had an exceptionally strong and dominant personality so that no man who wanted to come to power could do so around her," said Frans de Waal, a behavioral scientist who worked with Mama. "She also brought consolation when there were tensions and mediated conflicts."
"She will be sorely missed, also by me, because I have rarely seen such an admirable character in both humans and apes."


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Behold the 2017, J.J. Abrams-directed reboot of 'Football in the Groin', 'Tennis Ball to the Crotch'.
Everything is more intense Down Under and that apparently includes tennis, if this scene from the Australian Open is anything to go by.
This first round game between Stanislas Wawrinka and Martin Klizan nearly ended in tears after Wawrinka accidentally smashed a ball directly into his opponent's groin in the final set of the game.
Wawrinka, who immediately jumped the net to apologise to Klizan, went on to win the game, and apologised once again to media after the match.
"That was, for sure, a tough shot for him. The thing is there are some players they fake you, and you stop playing and then they just put up the racquet," Wawrinka told SMH.
"So for me I already miss some easy ones. For me the most important thing was to run straight over to him. I just wanted to make sure he was OK. I realised he was OK. I'm sorry I touched him in the wrong place. But I think it was OK at the end," he said.


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Imagine that it was not the 9th Circuit, but the United States Supreme Court that made the “under God” decision. Imagine that instead of two nervous circuit judges, it was five brazen Supreme Court Justices declaring the Pledge unconstitutional in some nightmare future years from now – five secular devotees who’d been patiently waiting for a chance to save government from the “ancient superstitions” of its people. And soon more secular decisions come down from the high court: “In God We Trust” is rejected as the national motto. Prayers are forbidden at inaugural ceremonies. And on and on.
No second chance. No appeal. The Supreme Court has spoken, and as far as government is concerned, “God is dead.” Yes, you can worship at home or in church, says the court, but don’t you dare act on your beliefs in the public square. Finally, religious Americans awaken to see the dangers of secularism, but nothing can be done. With a powerful secular media cheerleading and a huge secular lobby pouring money into Washington, there’s no real chance to correct the tyrannous decisions with an amendment.
So now America becomes officially a nation under “nothing” – government no longer recognizes any authority higher than its own democratic opinions, a true “dictatorship of the people,” as Lenin called it. Atheism is thus able to rise to a legal dominance never seen before in America, never even imagined. After all, atheism and secularism are twins – one doesn’t believe in God, and the other can’t. The end result is the same: Believers are made outsiders.
Sound farfetched? It isn’t really. An Al Gore victory easily could have given us a high court that looked like Judge Stephen Reinhardt, the Democrat appointee who shared the “under God” decision with Judge Goodwin. The truth is that even now we are only one or two secular Supreme Court Justices away from a solid ACLU court, and all that it implies – virulent hostility to America’s religious traditions.
While so many in the media have been doing their best to make light of the 9th Circuit decision on the Pledge of Allegiance, others recognize the very real dangers involved in that decision. By most accounts, the ruling is likely to be overturned, but that doesn’t change the sobering message that was sent to all Americans.
As currently interpreted, our Constitution is choking our religious traditions out of existence, and there seems to be no stopping it as the “under God” Pledge decision indicates. Even with a supposedly conservative Supreme Court, victories against the secular encroachments of government are too rare, and when they do come, they are attacked on all sides by groups like the ACLU. It is often a battle for inches.
Recently, a number of congressmen called for a constitutional amendment to preserve “under God” in the Pledge, but we need more than that. We need something more historically based, something capable of inspiring average Americans by eliminating the relativist interpretations of the First Amendment, something that would help our federal government reclaim its lost identity.
With so many secular forces in society hostile to the faiths of our fathers, it’s time to codify the “self-evident” truths of the Declaration of Independence by putting them in the Constitution.
Let us declare ourselves to history by re-establishing the simple, but essential, political principle that we are uniquely created beings, precious before God, and that our rights come from God and not from government. There can be no neutrality in this where government is concerned. We either have souls or we do not. Our nation is either under God, or it is not.
Of course, no one wants a theocracy, something repugnant certainly to Christian Americans who are, after all, in the vast majority. However, decades of overreaching by the high court indicate that secularism is not the answer either. There must be a third choice, because as long as “disbelief” is considered to be on an equal footing with “belief,” not only will faith find itself unwelcome in our halls of power, it will eventually be removed from the body politic like a threatening tumor. This could happen if we let it.
Consider the current situation. Michael Newdow, the atheist who sued to get God out of the Pledge, says that right now there are four Justices he believes are favorable to his view: David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens. Newdow also lists Justice Anthony Kennedy as a possible fifth vote, due to a 1989 church-state dissent in which Kennedy pointed out that the “under God” Pledge is problematic for atheists.
Although unlikely, it’s also fair to consider Justice O’Connor as a possible 6th vote due to her stated position that citizens should not be made to feel like “outsiders” by the state when it comes to religion. Let’s face it, “one nation under God” leaves atheists out, and it’s no coincidence that Newdow made this very point a significant part of his argument to the 9th Circuit.
Sadly, radical atheists like Newdow will always feel like outsiders in a nation under God, and they will continue all efforts to undermine our religious traditions. That’s the reality of it. Newdow doesn’t believe his little daughter has a soul, or that her rights come from anywhere but government. These beliefs are in direct conflict with the views of most Americans. And yet, atheist views are more common than any of us would like to think within America’s judicial and political circles, the very people who will define the future Supreme Court.
So don’t be misled by my “shocked” fellow Democrats, and all the pundit proclamations that the “under God” decision will go nowhere. For now, it may not, but there’s nothing “nuts” about the judicial thinking of the 9th Circuit decision, and most liberal politicians know it, despite their election-year religiosity.
It’s true that many constitutional experts, including quintessential liberal Lawrence Tribe, say it’s likely the Supreme Court will reverse the 9th Circuit if the case gets that far. However, whether the “under God” decision goes anywhere now is not the point. There are many atheist, secular and anti-traditional organizations in Washington that are determined to win this fight eventually – and by current constitutional standards they have a case. That’s the problem.
So, clearly the 9th Circuit decision did not occur in a vacuum. It followed a well-established pattern of thinking that atheism is on an equal footing with America’s Judeo-Christian traditions. It also revealed another established belief, that monotheism itself – the pumping heart of Western Culture – is just another form of worship, essentially no different, as far as the government is concerned, than, say, worshiping ancient Greek gods like Zeus and Hera (pagan deities who were always squabbling over one thing or another).
In the context of the Pledge, the statement that the United States is a nation, “under God” is an endorsement of religion. It is a profession of a religious belief, namely a belief in monotheism. . . . A profession that we are a nation “under God” is identical, for Establishment Clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation “under Jesus,” a nation “under Vishnu,” a nation “under Zeus,” or a nation “under no god,” because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion.
This “neutrality” renders government completely dysfunctional. The bottom line? If you are someone who thinks thunder happens “when the gods are angry,” or if you burn incense to a rock you found on the beach, or if you believe in nothing at all, you’ve got as much potential credibility with this new government as those who believe the biblical worldview that reveals God as “love,” that speaks of the struggle between good and evil, and promises hope of true freedom and eternal peace for all mankind.
Increasingly, judges can view all these approaches to religion as essentially equal – which constitutionally means government can have little or no official understanding of life based on anything but atheist science, whether physical, biological, social or psychological. And as we’ve seen countless times, not only do these scientists change their minds regularly, their conclusions are often based on faulty or prejudiced interpretation of data. Not a very reliable source of wisdom.
This would be less of a problem if government were not involved in our lives in almost every possible way, from decisions on when a cause is worth the shedding of American blood to decisions related to family and the social order. What are the standards that inform these decisions? Americans have a right to ask this question, and demand a clear answer.
By character is meant integrity, courage, morality, humility and unswerving determination. Character is a spiritual force. It is a reflection of a man’s grip upon himself, the degree to which he is able to dominate the baser instincts that beset us all.
This is the kind of wisdom that created a truly great society. But current court vogue (not to mention some future ACLU court) would look askance at such presumptions. Atheists would object to the idea of a “spiritual force.” And the very expression “base instincts” suggests a lack of tolerance. Who gets to decide what base instincts are? Whose morality are we talking about?
A recent Zogby poll reports that three-quarters of American college professors still teach a post-modern worldview that accepts no universal right or wrong. So if you cook the books at Enron, it may or may not be wrong. Only one-fourth of all professors teach that “there are clear and uniform standards of right and wrong by which everyone should be judged.” Guess which professors are more likely to get secular government grants.
A government that lays claim to neutrality on religious – and thus on traditional moral – issues is a government that inevitably lacks dependable standards. This kind of government will be very uncomfortable with any religion that claims to have clarity on those issues – and that means monotheism. Thus “neutrality” becomes hostility. George Washington’s views would not be welcome. However, the accommodating vagueness of polytheism and pantheism doesn’t present the same problem to secular government and is therefore less threatening.
Remember, monotheism has One Creator, God, and thus one truth, and one path along which people can be guided if they are willing. That’s why monotheism was such a social revolution. There’s clarity on core principles – God knows what He thinks. And there are no squabbling divine personalities because God knows who He is. Monotheism is by its very nature a “theory of everything,” a unified field of thinking which allows for great social focus in building and maintaining civilization. So, when the judicial system tries to rise above this and treat all religions equally, it will necessarily come face to face with monotheism.
The other great problem is the court’s constitutional respect for atheism, which is, after all, the most vague of belief systems. But more than that, atheism also assumes an air of secular neutrality because it believes in nothing at all. This gives it a dangerous tactical advantage over monotheism in dealing with secular government. If nothing is done about this, government will continue to favor atheist organizations within society, and ultimately to favor religions with an indifferent worldview. Monotheism, with its sureness of vision and purpose, will become increasingly alien to secular government, which looks for compromise from its religious junior partners.
But God doesn’t compromise, and He makes a very poor junior partner. Consequently, under the current interpretation of the Establishment Clause, monotheism will become an outcast in its own society.
There is so little understanding of the anti-God bias involved in government’s secular “neutrality” that it is not only quietly accepted by many judges, and even some justices, it is loudly cheered on by the dominant media culture. Of course, often this cheering is not rooted in ignorance, but based on downright contempt.
The practical impact of the ruling is inviting a political backlash for a matter that does not rise to a constitutional violation. We wish the words had not been added back in 1954. But just the way removing a well-lodged foreign body from an organism may sometimes be more damaging than letting it stay put, removing those words would cause more harm than leaving them in.
Yes, nothing like trying to remove a “foreign body” and causing even greater problems in terms of “political backlash.” Better to wait until you have a 6-3 or even a 7-2 majority so you can cut God out cleanly and without much opposition. Better wait until the public is more ready to accept full secularism. In other words, now is not the time – but the time will come.
The secular left must be careful that religious Americans don’t catch on to the left’s true contempt for religion, especially not in a crucial election year. The left knows that if conservative America gets control of the Senate, President Bush will get his judicial nominees approved and that could mean a return to our traditional moral and political roots guided by the Founders’ original intent. Thus, the struggle in this country! And remember, it is not a partisan struggle. One of the two 9th Circuit liberals was a Republican. There are secularists in all parties.
Most religious Americans do not grasp that the culture war is really about religion. Howard Kurtz, media critic for the Washington Post, made a revealing observation right after two high-profile First Amendment decisions on the “under God” Pledge and religious school choice. “The culture wars, after a brief time-out for such mundane matters as fighting terrorism, are back,” said Kurtz. He gets it.
America’s cultural struggle may take many forms, but at its heart, it’s about God, who He is and what He expects from His people. The atheist and pagan forces in American society also know this, and that’s why even “ceremonial deism” makes them nervous. God needs to be eliminated, but they’ve got to go slowly to avoid waking up the sleeping giant. According to an ABC poll, 89 percent of the American public is in favor of keeping God in the Pledge of Allegiance. That’s a problem for radical secularists.
So what’s going on now – and has been for decades – is a kind of seduction. Police officers have a useful expression for it when it comes to the corruption of innocence. They call it “progressive involvement.” In child molestation, for example, each step involves the child a bit more, until the victim submits to sexual activity he or she would have run from earlier. That’s how progressive involvement works, and secularists have been using it for years, one step at a time. Slowly our values are changed. Slowly our laws are changed. Slowly God is squeezed out – until it is too late to turn back.
However, now the embarrassing 9th Circuit has gone too far, too fast, and the secular left is nervous that the people are catching on to the motives behind “judicial progress.” All eyes are on Judeo-Christian Americans. The sleeping giant may yet awaken.
Because of the outrage over the appellate court’s rejection of the “under God” Pledge, people might be willing to stem the tide of secularism. Most Americans are tired of court rulings like those that forbid prayer at high school football games and graduations. They just don’t know what to do about it, especially since the supposed “wall of separation” has become so much a part of our social, political and media culture. However, after years of being intimidated by groups like the ACLU (which agreed with the Pledge decision, of course), the people might be ready to de-fang the beast.
But the question is how? We know for sure that radical secularists won’t cooperate. Faith terrifies them. So how do we protect American principles from being dismantled one at a time or in bunches? How can we guarantee our children and grandchildren that they will inherit a government that is officially allowed to recognize they have a soul? How can we prevent them from being ruled over by a secular government that thinks of them as mere “human resources” and that rejects any firm standard of truth or justice? And how do we do all that without undermining our First Amendment freedoms?
Most of us want a return to the “political prosperity” George Washington talked about in his farewell address, but again the question is how? How do we stop this national breakdown of character and conscience? How do we cut the Gordian knot that binds any sensible discussion of “religion and morality” in public policy? How do we break through to common sense? There is an answer.
In 1947, a Supreme Court dominated by secularists took those words “wall of separation” from an incidental letter Thomas Jefferson wrote during his presidency and used them to build the basis of the Separation of Church and State decision. Jefferson, by the way, had no part in writing the Constitution. Without precedent, the high court decided that government could be separate from the one thing our founders thought was essential to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – faith in the reality of God.
These few words from the Declaration of Independence have rung true to Americans throughout our history. They are the foundation of our freedom. We have lived for them and died for them – and so have others, for they have inspired freedom-fighters around the world. But, as important as they are, they are not law. So let us now give them constitutional permanence.
How wonderful it would be to know that these self-evident truths are not just ceremonial sentiments, but are actually part of our legal relationship with government – part of our social contract.
Words to think about. And words to act on.


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Believe it or not, I was a dedicated cotton socks hiker for a long time. I liked the extra texture of cotton, which kept my foot from slipping and sliding inside my shoes.
Of course, I also loved the next-to-skin comfort of cotton. Then I got a pair of Smartwool socks as a gift. By that time in my life I was a bona-fide wool skeptic, convinced the stuff would always be hot, itchy, and uncomfortable. Wow, how times have changed! Nowadays whether you catch me on trail or off, you'll likely find me wearing not only Smartwool socks but also a Smartwool crew top and bottoms.
Smartwool has updated their Ski Ultra Light to the 'PhD' version, which adds strategically-placed nylon and elastic panneling to better control moisture and abrasion resistance. The original Ski Ultra Light was a great ski sock—absolutely sheer, with no unwanted padding. The PhD version, if anything, is even better, maintaining the best aspects of the original while improving in-the-field performance.
If you're seeking an unpadded, ultralight-weight ski sock, I really don't think you can do better than these. This is the sock I use every single time I ski in the backcountry. I won't claim that they will magically cure all your blister problems...but if you're using a lesser sock, you'll certainly notice significant improvement in comfort when you hike and ski.
Alpine Skiers may wish to consider Smartwool's 'PhD Ski Racer' series socks, which adds varying degrees of padding at the shin and heel by weight. For the backcountry, I like the sheerness of the Ultra Light—at least for milder temperatures. Remarkably, I haven't been able to kill a pair yet (though I do rotate through several pairs). Their durability has been outstanding. Highly Recommended!


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We'll be briefly closed, from Friday, March 22nd and reopening to serve you on Wednesday, April 3rd.
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The Lehigh men’s tennis team opened its season with a 1-6 loss to Villanova on Feb. 3 at the Ulrich Varsity Tennis Courts.
Villanova played and won two games before facing the Mountain Hawks, who last saw action at the ITA Northeast Regionals held at Princeton University where a select few competed.
The loss served as an early lesson for the team and brought its offseason preparation into perspective while also exposing areas of weakness.
Senior Chris Auteri carried the momentum of a 12-3 overall 2018 season record into the opening of the 2019 season, pushing his opponent to three sets in the six flight but ultimately falling 14-12 in the final set.
Auteri said the Mountain Hawks held a commitment to a strict workout regimen during winter break and that the team returned as one of the strongest units he has been a part of.
He said that prior to the loss against Villanova, the team had been focusing on cleaning up their doubles game. He said that key aspects of a doubles game include a high first-serve percentage followed by a swift movement toward the net that puts pressure on the opponent to respond quickly.
The Mountain Hawks, however, did not take the doubles point, rather losing the first two doubles matches that ultimately eliminated the need to play the third.
Head coach Wouter Hendrix said the team is intelligent and willing to work, but they were not sharp enough against Villanova.
Hendrix said that the team has the ability to absorb adversity early on in the season and that while its game will not sharpen overnight, he’s confident it will improve over time with more match reps.
With four seniors and a junior, the ten-man team is guided by experience, but will rely on the work and commitment of every player moving forward.
Freshman Zack Elliott saw action in his first in-season match against Villanova. He said the team was confident in its fitness going into the Villanova match, but that they weren’t settled in yet.
Elliott said the team has worked to implement physicality into their game — both on the court and in the gym.
As much as the result hurts, the desire to not experience a loss again is motivating according to Elliott.
Elliott said that the team’s practice after the Villanova match was the most intense they’ve had during his time at Lehigh.
“Everyone was fired up and ready to go,” he said.
The Mountain Hawks will host the Drexel University Dragons at the Lewis Indoor Tennis Center on Feb. 10 at 11 a.m.


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Tooth by tooth, each restoration is carefully planned by Michelle Eng, DDS so that we can restore the full functional capabilities to your bite. There is no one right answer for everyone. Rather, each unique situation is planned on a case-by-case basis.
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Maybe you’ve always had relatively healthy teeth, but their shape or color caused you embarrassment. Such full mouth reconstruction cases are usually referred to as “smile makeovers,” because we are primarily focusing on the aesthetic irregularities and what you want your smile to look like. Dr. Eng will restore damaged teeth while implementing cosmetic treatments like veneers or whitening for a comprehensive approach.
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The AG8 series BRAVIA OLED 4K HDR TV brings deep black, rich colour and a wide viewing angle for a deeply satisfying visual experience. 65” and 55” models of the television will be available in European shops from May.
Boasting a multitude of advanced proprietary technologies and delivering a true harmony of pictures and acoustics with Sound-from-Picture Reality™, Sony’s XG95 series 4K HDR Full Array LED televisions will be available in shops from early March.
Sony has announced four new TV series for 2019 – XG83, XG81, XG80 and XG70. They all come in a variety of screen sizes to fit different living room setups, making an ideal choice regardless of the room’s dimensions. With some of Sony’s latest picture and audio technologies on board, they can be an exciting starting point for anyone looking for a stunning 4K HDR experience.

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It will be another windy day in South Florida Thursday as early temps in the upper 60s and lower 70s will head up to about 80 degrees by the afternoon.
Though much of the day will be dry, isolated showers are possible during all time periods and an umbrella will come in handy.
Winds will range from 15-20 mph with stronger gusts. Advisories hold for the local waters, and dangerous rip currents are likely at the Atlantic beaches.
Skies will stay partly to mostly cloudy, though more breaks of blue than we saw yesterday are expected, also fewer showers.
We’ll go from a 30 percent chance of showers Thursday to only a 10 percent chance Friday. Winds will begin to lighten tonight.


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An exploration of sound as material.
As the origin and the end.
In Vedic literature, the syllable Om or Aum is ascribed various meanings including the sacred sound, the Udgitha (song of the universe), the infinite, the all encompassing, the whole world, the truth, the ultimate reality, the finest essence, the cause of the Universe, the essence of life, the Brahman, the Atman, the vehicle of deepest knowledge, and Self-knowledge. These vast interpretations testify to the prominence of sound and music in the Eastern world. Of course, Western religion also places a high value on sound (“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”- John 1:1) that is if we equate word with the spoken sound rather than its visual written counterpoint. We can do this because speech predates language and indeed some spoken languages that exist today continue to have no written counterpart. So here, thousands of years apart in distinct and diverse cultures we find the belief in an original sound, an origin in noise.
Indian music relies heavily on the drone, typically produced by the tambura, a long-necked plucked string instrument. This instrument provides no melodies but instead is played in a continuous cycle in order to provide a harmonic backdrop for other solo instruments. The sound it creates is both dynamic and static, due to the fact that while it is played without variation, the sound it creates interacts harmonically with other tones sung or played by the soloist. Indian music then can be said to be built on a continuous layer of sound which the melody exists within and interacts with rather than the Western additive system of musical composition which begins at silence and ends at noise. Indian music begins in noise.
If we extend the metaphor of the drone to our experience of living we can say that rather than living in a silent world beset by sound (“All I want is some peace and quiet!”) we are living in a world of noise; noise which can be filtered and tuned into infinite combinations and permutations. We are working with what is already there, in the hum of traffic or the sound of the earth. There is no silence. Even our ear is a sculpting tool, cutting away at frequencies to hear but a narrow spectrum of all possible sound. Music or sound-art is the highlighting and excising of this sonic material like a spotlight in a dark field or the whittling of a walking stick out of a full and rugged tree branch.
There is nothing to look for, for it is already there.
Obliging a trans-personal theory of time, Rickey’s installation explores the synchronic relationship that Charles Dickens’ The Chimes has had with his ancestry. He has assembled various heirlooms and photographs and re-published The Chimes in a unique hand-bound edition to create a living backdrop for his story, which begins in 1844 when the book was first published. His great-grandmother, Verna (who receives dedication in the re-publication), holds a special place in the story as she carries The Chimes still further into the 20th century when she names her own son Richard after a character in the book. Having thus shown how events over the course of time come to resonate with the present, this installation’s keynote piece will be an antique 19th century iron bell. A single-tonal note produced by this bell when struck symbolizes the installation in its entirety.
Explore the creative possibilities of that most familiar of musical instruments: the human voice. Wearing headphones, speak or sing into one of the microphones to hear your voice affected; your partner on the other side of the table will also hear you. Press the illuminated pads and slide your finger over the trackpad to drastically alter the pitch, tone, and character of the sounds coming out of your mouth. The tabletop spectrogram displays a graphical representation of the music you create.
So many ways to see a person.
So many ways to hear a person.
So many ways to be a person.
So many ways to perceive a person.
Several mini self-portraits compose this large audiovisual self-portrait.
The aim of the project is to express an emotive voice for the impact of global warming on the glaciers of Iceland as well as highlight the sacred, powerful and yet delicate nature of the glaciers. My means of doing so is through a piece composed of a collection of recordings I made in ice caps in multiple glaciers throughout Iceland when I was there in February; of natural sounds of the glacier and solo musical explorations that were coupled with long periods of meditation inside the ice caves.
– The music recordings were made in Iceland in Feb 2016, inside glacial ice caves.
– The intention behind the project is to help give a voice to natural sacred spaces threatened by global warming and societal ignorance.
– My process consisted of a pilgrimage onto the glacier to reach the caves, inside of which I set up my instruments and recorders and mediated until I could feel the melodies emerging, playing and singing them into being. The final piece is a compilation of three such musical prayers.
– The background cracking/thunder-like sounds are recordings of the calving (structural collapse) of an arctic glacier that I added to the piece to help give an additional voice to the power and pain present in the glacier’s receding.
Gabriel Gold is a San Francisco, CA, USA based sound healer, composer & acoustical researcher, specializing in the study of sacred resonant spaces.
Gabriel’s current work is founded on inspiring deeper connections to “sacred spaces” around the world, both natural and manmade and to help bring awareness to the need to protect them.
A selection of Gabriel’s past works include; his latest album “Halo”, recorded in sacred resonant places throughout the world; his “Healing Voice” workshops and singing circles, through which he has personally supported thousands of people on the journey of developing a spiritual and fulfilling relationship to their singing voices; the musical score for four feature length ballets with Labayen Dance Co. and Mudita Arts Ballet; the musical score for “Praṇām”, renowned yoga teacher Sianna Sherman’s internationally acclaimed yoga DVD; the live musical score for “Yoga on the Labyrinth”, a weekly, 700+ student yoga class taught by renowned yoga teacher Darren Main in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral; a 4 month tour of Australia as a featured member of Grand Mother Drum, a transnational group of musicians and healers, working in and fundraising for Aboriginal communities through performance, teaching, and ceremony; “Communion”, a ritual-performance in the De Young Museum’s “Three Gems” (architectural artist James Turrell’s resonant sculptural dome); a ritual-performance inside France’s Chartres Cathedral.
Sight, the predominant sense for most of us, is so fragile and yet we rely on it so heavily. We are so deeply reliant on our eyes to orient ourselves, physically in our surroundings and emotionally in relation to others and ourselves.
Our vision is created through colors, a spectrum of light running from one direction to another, only a portion of which we can see. We call this visible light. But what of the light we cannot see? What is beyond our sight? And if we close our eyes, or lose them – what can we “see” without our sight?
This colored light would guide Lusseyran through The Volunteers of Liberty, the Resistance group he founded and led beginning at age 17, and for which he successfully recruited hundreds of French men and women, based on the light they “emitted” and the truth in their voices. Light guided him in turn through his arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald, and torture by the Gestapo. He survived the camp, and eventually recorded his experiences in his autobiography, “And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance”, beginning with the moment he lost his sight and gained his vision.
His work inspires me to ask, what do you see when you close your eyes? What truth do you find there? What sort of light can you see then?
The world is littered with scraps of orphan talk.
Before dissipating in tiny, disappointed puffs of smoke.
We are drowning in words and letters.
And logic and order collapse into insensate anarchy.
Fill the space around us.
We live in a world of endless and constant communication.
There is no way to opt out from this chatter in the cities. But we only have so much listening power. That renders the majority of the words around us impotent and meaningless, drifting off in an ether of lost signals.
As a radio producer, I record and listen to hours of scenes and conversations across a spectrum of topics. I sometimes wonder what happens to the words that I record but never use. Do they feel disappointment?
These are the words that were entrusted to me, plucked from their original contexts, and layered together in a sea of sea of disparate thoughts, feelings and sounds.
With the oscilloscope synthesizer, the user is able to generate sound waveforms defined by the shape of a physical object. Optical feedback is utilized to cause the oscilloscope beam to trace the contour of the object placed in front of the screen. This allows direct and interactive waveform manipulation.
These recordings are an exploratory improvisation in sound and physical space. They were captured on the outskirts of Berlin in Teufelsberg, an abandoned NSA spy station turned graffiti mecca. Used as a listening station, the dome that sits atop this hill provides a surreal experience for anyone that enters, as the audio pathways completely disorients/distorts ones common relationship to space and sound. One can hear massive extensions via natural delay and reverb, making the space feel gigantic… yet a whisper can be heard from across the room, creating an incredibly intimate environment. Using found objects, instruments, and voices, we made this room our playground. These are the raw recordings, untouched.
Sound Machine is a metal box constructed from 3/16” steel plate and housing 12 sound cards. The sound cards each contain less than 20 seconds of a single type of noise recorded by the artist. The viewer accesses these noises by plugging an attached phono plug into any one of 12 phono jacks on the front of the piece. The noise on the sound card connected to the chosen jack plays through the speaker hidden in the attached can. The dimensions of the piece are 16”L x 12 .”D x 15 .”H (or 4”H when closed).
Through its title, Sound Machine alludes to the time machine and the notion that a physical mechanism can transport one to a different place or point in time. Sound Machine attempts to do this through memories triggered by its nondescript fragments of sound. While these sounds are not listener specific, one cannot help but access memory banks to try to identify the sound or source. In its form, Sound Machine also suggests the complicated and varied means we employ to preserve our memories: it folds to be portable, but is only awkwardly so, remaining bulky and heavy and with cords dangling; once set down, it then needs to be unfolded and activated to access its contents; and those contents are only prompts for moments that cannot be recreated. Its parts reference old-fashioned means of hearing and listening. Its vertical panel of phono plugs hint at the telephone operators of years ago, while its can on a string, old-fashioned children’s listening games.
Stephen’s Flower is an interpretation of Stephen Rawson’s future coming-out story as told by Faith Rawson.
On the roof of The Convent will be eight infrared door-entry chimes installed atop a concrete pillar. These sensors will reorganize the space they occupy through the construction of invisible boundaries, triggered only by the audience’s physical movement. The chimes will magnify the panopticonical quality of the building’s architecture, and will demarcate entirely new zones from this point. This work is concerned with notions of privilege, subjectivity, accessibility, and experience as they relate to art viewing. It rehearses, and faintly inverts, the model of the Victorian panopticon, producing a one-note imageboard which registers only the movement of its occupants.
Audiovisual noise in the basement.
A study of surfaces, figurative and metaphysical, with various levels and planes of a city combined and superimposed to become visual echoes, suggesting an animated city of grids, graphs, geometries and lines: layers of subterranean streets and shadows evoking multiple levels of consciousness. Filmed in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. An unintentional homage to Saul Bass.
Filming a chrysalis in Oakland on Sunday, October 2nd, 2016.
The Dead Alleys is a cultural experiment performed in a dadaist fashion by Ana Montenegro and Kaitlin Trataris. Through their performance of songs they are both drawn to and don’t understand, they explore the way in which music is transformed, transferred and transversed when dislocated from its original context and/or language.
Voice ^ Within, performance in conversation with audio installation of the same name located in the confessional booth.
Instrumentation: Voice and Crystal Singing Bowls.
Striations is Mike Finklea of Nefarious Activities label. Finklea works with sheet metal and synthesis pulling from a long history of industrial and power electronics styles.
Chris Latina’s Article Collection moniker employs generative and algorithmic techniques using custom built software and hardware, focusing on the intersection of natural and synthetic acousmatic phenomena. Latina is one half of label and ambient power electronics outfit Private Archive.
This piece explores the physical exchange between man and machine as the written word is digitized, compressed, exported, effected, and then projected into a physical space.
By providing information through performance, the piece highlights the imperfect nature of the human element; represented through the redundant process of manipulation and improvised performance.
Contrasting against the perfected means of technology used to perform the piece results in a sonically altered state, emphasizing the importance of physicality in the musical process.
I’m just here because my friends are rearranges the purpose of performance within the audience/performer dynamic and troubles the validity of that space through sound as a physical object. Inspired in part by David Fair’s essay “How To Play Guitar”, this piece is composed as a solo, electrified guitar performance, 2 minutes or less. Anyone can play it anywhere.
Sun Cycle is a collage of sounds mined from found cassette tapes. These tapes were found at garage sales, thrift stores, and in my basement. They contain disparate materials: from Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake to instructional meditation recordings to early blues and unidentifiable cassettes .Through an improvisatory performance I hope to act as a sonic archaeologist: (re)arranging, distorting, and illuminating commonalities and feedback loops between vastly different audio sources. This piece explores the role of the artist as archivist and contends with the vast amount of material that threatens to bury us in cultural and physical noise. The title alludes to both the cycles that signal the beginning and end of each “day” and the nascent possibility of the end of human beings and systems of production.


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So cheesy, delicious, quick and EASY… you’re going to love this Cheesy Lemon Pepper Veggie Flatbread!
Today’s recipe is sponsored by La Terra Fina®. All opinions shared are my own.
When I was asked to partner with La Terra Fina by creating a simple and delicious recipe for summer entertaining, I was more than thrilled. Why? Because first of all, I love their dips and spreads (and simple recipes!). Second of all, I just got settled into a new home that is the totally set up for entertaining… a win-win situation here!
Let’s face it. Life is crazy busy pretty much all the time. That’s why I’ve always done my best to cook and share simple, delicious recipes that don’t require a lot of exotic ingredients and are easy to prepare. And this cheesy veggie flatbread is just THAT. La Terra Fina’s Lemon Pepper & Asiago Dip & Spread boasts flavors of rich Asiago cheese, lemon and pepper. There’s no need for any other seasonings.
La Terra Fina has an array of flavorful dips crafted in small batches using only clean ingredients. They’re amazing hot OR cold as a snack, appetizer, or included in a main entree.
I topped this cheesy flatbread with broccoli, bell pepper, onions and diced tomatoes, but feel free to use your imagination. The possibilities are endless. Enjoy!
Be sure to connect with La Terra Fina on their website and on Facebook for more inspiring recipes.
Turn your oven broiler on high. Place flatbread onto a large ungreased baking sheet.
Spread both pieces of flatbread evenly with dip.
Broil for approximately 2-3 minutes, or until flatbread is crisp and dip is hot.
Top evenly with vegetables and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
Slice into desired serving size and serve immediately.
I never thought of using this spread heated on flatbread! Going to try this tomorrow. Looks delish!!!


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Since Joomla now uses a sophisticated tracking system (user logging), is there a way to show people visiting ones profile?
I know EP is not designed to offer this type of functionality but maybe you have some creative work arround in mind.
sorry for late reply, unfortunately these are not Easy Profile features. Of course there is a way to manage these things but require some development and these things are a bit complex to explain precisely.


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