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ZagZum – Visual art by artists who have a lived experience with a mental or physical disability.
August 24, 2016 March 13, 2018 hcmart
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"Minneapolis, I am home."
April 22, 2016 July 24, 2016 hcmart
Remembering Prince.
"I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back" – Prince
Prince dead at 57: Legendary musician found at Paisley Park
Worldwide grief over sudden death of musical genius
By Pam Louwagie and Chris Riemenschneider Star Tribune
April 22, 2016 — 7:49am
Read the entire article click here…
"Growing up in Minneapolis
The son of a social worker mother and jazz pianist father, Prince Rogers Nelson grew up playing music at home. His father, John Nelson, led the Prince Rogers Trio. His mother, Mattie Shaw, sang, as does his younger sister, Tyka Nelson.
A huge crowd came out to downtown Minneapolis on Thursday night and into Friday morning to remember and celebrate Prince.
Prince formed his first band with friends at age 13 and over time became the driving force behind the "Minneapolis sound," a hybrid mix of funk, rock, pop and new wave.
He became known for shunning interviews, creating his own mystique and controlling his image with a team of stylists, publicists and lawyers. Even after becoming a global superstar, he stayed close to home, recording at Paisley Park and appearing often at late-night concerts and dance parties there.
Born on June 7, 1958, Prince had a thing for the number 7. On 7/7/7, he held three concerts at three venues in downtown Minneapolis, telling the crowd at one show, "Minneapolis, I am home.""
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Creative Art Therapies Week, 2016!
March 14, 2016 March 13, 2018 hcmart
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In honor of Creative Art Therapies Week, March 13-19, 2016, I would like to spotlight Art of Counseling, pllc, whose mission is to create a unique specialty using Creative Art Therapies to foster emotional healing, encourage internal resiliency, enhance personal relationships and give a unique perspective to human storytelling and expression. Art of Counseling is a psychotherapy group practice located in Saint Paul, Minnesota that provides mental health services to clients in the metro area. We have clinicians that are Registered Art Therapists (ATR & ATR-BC); trained in movement, play and poetry therapies; licensed or on track for Marriage and Family Therapy (LMFT) or Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC); trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and intertwines a trauma-informed therapy model in our clinicians' individual theoretic model of therapy.
Clients that have been attracted to our unique approach have been those who struggle with feeling stuck, depressed mood, anxious, nightmares and sleep issues, trauma, dissociation, self-harm and risk taking, shame and guilt, childhood issues, anger, addictive behavior, eating and body image issues, sex and sexuality, cultural exploration, blended family situations, couples and marriage counseling, abandonment, grief and loss, etc. Even though we in-network for some insurances, Art of Counseling is proud to say that our clinicians' dedicate a percentage of their case load to individuals on a sliding-fee-scale or pro bono, to help bridge the gap for affordable mental health services. We recognize Creative Art Therapies Week honors the importance of how the arts can heal, enhance and help us all to grow.
Introducing our newest clinician!
September 28, 2015 March 13, 2018 hkleese
Introducing our newest clinician Hannah Kleese, MA, AT. Now accepting new clients. Hannah specializes in art therapy and utilizes meditation, various art mediums, and writing in her work with clients. Areas that Hannah has worked with include clients that struggle with PTSD, depression, life transitions, grief/loss, anger management, codependency, Anxiety, Autism, and dual diagnosis. Hannah uses a strength-based approach and is supportive of each individuals specialized needs towards healing.
Read her profile below to find out more!
Hannah Kleese MA , AT
Email Hannah
Direct Line: (651) 318-0109 ext #702
Hannah brings warmth and compassion to a therapeutic process that promotes a cooperative journey between client and therapist. Hannah believes that clients have the capacity to be the master of their own experience. She creates an environment that supports everyone's unique quest for healing and balance.
Hannah uses a blended approach that includes visual art, writing, meditation, and talk therapy. Through self understanding and a strength-based approach Hannah will assist to unearth personal strengths in order to find coping strategies for outside of therapy. She welcomes adults, adolescents, and children from all walks of like to come and see if her approach is a good fit for the therapeutic process that they seek.
Hannah received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking, Papermaking, and Bookmaking from The Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a dual Masters of Arts degree in Art Therapy and Clinical Counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM. Hannah is currently working towards her licensure as a Licensed Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and a registered Art Therapist (ATR).
Profile can also be found at our website
World Suicide Prevention Day 9/10
September 11, 2015 March 14, 2018 hcmart
It's World Suicide Prevention Day, Take 5 to Save Lives. Join the movement by visiting www.take5tosavelives.org and updating your status with this message.
Join the virtual Facebook event as your Pledge to Take 5 to Save Lives on World Suicide Prevention Day. Invite others to join!
Pet Therapy: How Animals And Humans Heal Each Other – Reblog
January 19, 2015 March 14, 2018 hcmart
Pet Therapy: How Animals And Humans Heal Each Other
March 05, 2012 3:44 AM ET
Julie Rovner
Those of us who own pets know they make us happy. But a growing body of scientific research is showing that our pets can also make us healthy, or healthier.
That helps explain the increasing use of animals — dogs and cats mostly, but also birds, fish and even horses — in settings ranging from hospitals and nursing homes to schools, jails and mental institutions.
Take Viola, or Vi for short. The retired guide dog is the resident canine at the Children's Inn on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The inn is where families stay when their children are undergoing experimental therapies at NIH.
Vi, a chunky yellow Labrador retriever with a perpetually wagging tail, greets families as they come downstairs in the morning and as they return from treatment in the afternoon. She can even be "checked out" for a walk around the bucolic NIH grounds.
Thelma Balmaceda, age, 4, pets Viola, the resident canine at the Children's Inn on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Families stay at the inn when their children are undergoing experimental therapies at NIH.
Melissa Forsyth/NPR
"There really isn't a day when she doesn't brighten the spirits of a kid at the inn. And an adult. And a staff member," says Meredith Daly, the inn's spokeswoman.
But Vi may well be doing more than just bringing smiles to the faces of stressed-out parents and children. Dogs like Vi have helped launch an entirely new field of medical research over the past three decades or so.
The use of pets in medical settings actually dates back more than 150 years, says Aubrey Fine, a clinical psychologist and professor at California State Polytechnic University. "One could even look at Florence Nightingale recognizing that animals provided a level of social support in the institutional care of the mentally ill," says Fine, who has written several books on the human-animal bond.
But it was only in the late 1970s that researchers started to uncover the scientific underpinnings for that bond.
One of the earliest studies, published in 1980, found that heart attack patients who owned pets lived longer than those who didn't. Another early study found that petting one's own dog could reduce blood pressure.
More recently, says Rebecca Johnson, a nurse who heads the Research Center for Human/Animal Interaction at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine, studies have been focusing on the fact that interacting with animals can increase people's level of the hormone oxytocin.
"That is very beneficial for us," says Johnson. "Oxytocin helps us feel happy and trusting." Which, Johnson says, may be one of the ways that humans bond with their animals over time.
But Johnson says it may also have longer-term human health benefits. "Oxytocin has some powerful effects for us in the body's ability to be in a state of readiness to heal, and also to grow new cells, so it predisposes us to an environment in our own bodies where we can be healthier."
Animals can also act as therapists themselves or facilitate therapy — even when they're not dogs or cats.
For example, psychologist Fine, who works with troubled children, uses dogs in his practice — and also a cockatoo and even a bearded dragon named Tweedle.
"One of the things that's always been known is that the animals help a clinician go under the radar of a child's consciousness, because the child is much more at ease and seems to be much more willing to reveal," he says.
Horses have also become popular therapists for people with disabilities.
"The beauty of the horse is that it can be therapeutic in so many different ways," says Breeanna Bornhorst, executive director of the Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program in Clifton, Va. "Some of our riders might benefit from the connection and the relationship-building with the horse and with their environment. Other riders maybe will benefit physically, from the movements, and build that core strength, and body awareness and muscle memory."
On a recent day, one of the therapeutic riding program's instructors — speech therapist Cathy Coleman — worked one on one with 9-year-old Ryan Shank-Rowe, who has autism.
Well, not really one on one. The co-therapist in this session was a speckled pony named Happy.
Cathy Coleman is a speech pathologist for the Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program. She uses a horse named Happy in her therapy sessions with 9-year-old Ryan Shank-Rowe, who has autism.
Maggie Starbard/NPR
"Walk on" said Ryan, and Happy obediently did. "Excellent," Coleman replied.
As the session progressed, Ryan made Happy trot, weave in and out of poles, and he even rode bareback, all the while answering Coleman's questions and keeping up a continual back-and-forth chatter.
Coleman says she used to see Ryan in a more formal office environment. But since he started horseback riding, his speech has actually improved.
"I get greater engagement, greater alertness, more language, more processing, all those things," she says. "Plus, he's just really good at it."
And Ryan's mother, Donna Shank, says the riding has helped with more than just his speech.
"It's helped his following directions, some really core life skills about getting dressed and balance — which really translate to a lot of safety issues, too."
But not all the research is focused on the humans. "We want to know how the animals are benefiting from the exchange," says Johnson of the University of Missouri.
Much of Johnson's research, for example, has focused on the value of dog-walking by studying volunteers who walk dogs at animal shelters. She even wrote a book, Walk a Hound, Lose a Pound.
Those programs have clearly helped people get healthier, she says. Not only do they increase their exercise while they're walking the dogs, "but it increases their awareness, so that they exercise more during the week."
But it turns out the program was also helping the dogs.
"What we found was that they were significantly more likely to be adopted if they were in the dog-walking group," she says, thanks to the additional exercise and socialization they were getting.
Johnson is now working on a new project with likely benefits for dogs and humans. Military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are providing shelter dogs with basic obedience training.
And while it's still early in the research, she says, one thing seems pretty clear: "Helping the animals is helping the veterans to readjust to being at home."
Now the research is getting an even bigger scientific boost.
The National Institutes of Health, with funding from pet food giant Mars Inc., recently created a federal research program to study human-animal interaction. The program, operated through the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, offers scientists research grants to study the impact of animals on child development, in physical and psychological therapeutic treatments, and on the effects of animals on public health, including their ability to reduce or prevent disease.
Johnson says it's critical to establish the scientific foundation for the premise that animals are good for people, even if that seems obvious.
"The last thing we want is for an entire field to be based on warm fuzzy feelings and not on scientific data," she says. "So it's very important that now the NIH is focused on this … and it is helping scientists across the country like myself to be able to do our research."
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Pets grieve too
March 8, 2014 hcmart
Recognizing the symptoms of missing a departed owner or pal
July 23, 2013|By William Hageman, Tribune Newspapers
When a family pet dies, people grieve. But the reverse is also the case: When you go, your dog, cat or rabbit may grieve over losing you. And when a pet dies, a surviving pet may take it worst of all.
Pet grief exists. It's not the same as the grief a person experiences nor is it as deep. It's not present in every case. But it exists in ways recognizable to us.
The most evident manifestations of grief are a loss of appetite, social withdrawal or the frequent revisiting of places that were meaningful, according to Barbara J. King, a professor of anthropology at Virginia's College of William & Mary who specializes in animal behavior.
King, the author of "How Animals Grieve" (University of Chicago Press), says that in some cases an animal's response to a death can be explained by the pet being in tune with the surviving people in the house.
"We know with dogs, they're so tuned in to our gestures and facial expressions," she says. "There's fascinating research that they're more attuned than chimpanzees are, and chimpanzees are supposed to be the end-all and be-all of cognition. The problem comes in when some animal grief gets dismissed (on that basis). … The depth of an animal's response and the length it lasts seem to go beyond responding to people in the home."
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals did a still-quoted behavioral study in 1996 to gauge the degree of pet responses to the death of another pet. The survey asked about changes in eating habits, sleeping, vocalization, solicitation of affection and more.
In both cats and dogs, the survey found, the category showing most change was solicitation of affection. In dogs, 34 percent demanded more attention, 12 percent sought less, 24 percent became clingy/needy, 4 percent avoided contact with their human. Only 26 percent were unchanged. In cats, 38 percent sought more attention, 8 percent sought less, 20 percent became clingy/needy, 10 percent avoided contact, 23 percent remained unchanged. (Figures were rounded off.)
Eating habits showed considerable change, with 36 percent of dogs and 46 percent of cats eating less than usual following the death of a housemate. The observed decreased appetite lasted from less than a week to six months.
In their conclusion, the researchers wrote, "we can assure pet owners that signs of grieving are not uncommon in dogs and cats."
"I don't want to say dogs grieve, cats grieve, horses grieve," King says. "I say some dogs grieve. Sometimes people contact me and say (they) had two dogs and one died and the other didn't grieve — why not? It's animal individuality … the survivor's relationship to the dead, the survivor's personality. Sometimes animals recover quickly or do not grieve at all, but I think they grieve for us."
Grief isn't limited to cats and dogs, King found. "It was very surprising to me how much rabbits grieve. Ducks too. There was a duck rescued from a foie gras factory who had a duck friend die, and it didn't survive the friend's death. There can be a slow decline and death."
If you suspect a pet is grieving, provide extra attention and love for your pet. King also suggests letting the survivor see the body if possible.
"Lots of animal people on farms and in homes do this now," she says. "Sometimes the survivor seems to get a sense of closure. You have two close pets, friends, one goes to the vet and … doesn't come back. … If it's possible, let them smell the dead animal, see it. It might help. Or get a clipping of fur from the animal at the vet and let the survivor smell it."
Bringing a new animal, a young animal, into the home has been shown to rejuvenate an older pet. But in the case of grieving, it might be best to let things run their course.
"Animals do love," King says, "and we know one of the risks of love is grief."
bhageman@tribune.com
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Color Therapy & Healing – An Introduction
From Art Therapy Blog…
It is everywhere you look, and everywhere you don't look. You delight in its marvels both consciously and sub-consciously. You see color all the time, but how often do you think about its origins and effects? In a series of articles, we are going to explore this topic further. With this first article, we'll go over some basics of color therapy and healing. You can read the next 2 articles here: 1) Color Meanings and 2) Color Psychology. You can also download our color meaning and symbolism charts.
Topics covered in this article:
What is Color?
An Introduction to Color Therapy
A Brief History of Color Therapy
As most of you know, color is light and energy. Color is visible because it reflects, bends, and refracts through all kinds of particles, molecules and objects. There are a variety of wavelengths that light can be categorized, producing different types of light. Visible wavelengths fall approximately in the 390 to 750 nanometre range and is known as the visible spectrum. Other wavelengths and frequencies are associated with non-visible light such as x-rays & ultraviolet rays. Most people are aware of the effects of non-visible light, so it makes sense that visible light would also affect us.
One example of the way light can affect us is a mild form of depression known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which causes many people suffering during winters.
Color therapy and healing (also known as chromotherapy or light therapy) is a type of holistic healing that uses the visible spectrum of light and color to affect a person's mood and physical or mental health. Each color falls into a specific frequency and vibration, which many believe contribute to specific properties that can be used to affect the energy and frequencies within our bodies.
While it is common knowledge that light enters through our eyes, it's important to note that light can also enter through our skin. Given the unique frequencies and vibrations of various colors, people believe that certain colors entering the body can activate hormones causing chemical reactions within the body, then influencing emotion and enabling the body to heal.
Colors are known to have an effect on people with brain disorders or people with emotional troubles. For example, the color blue can have a calming effect which can then result in lower blood pressure, whereas the color red might have the opposite effect. Green is another color that may be used to relax people who are emotionally unbalanced. Yellow, on the other hand, may be used to help invigorate people who might be suffering from depression. (We'll dive deeper into specific colors in a future article.)
Alternative therapies also believe that a person's aura contains different layers of light which can be used for cleansing and balancing. Knowing the colors in your aura can help you better understand your spirit, and thus help you better understand how to heal. Additionally, the colors surrounding you can also have various effects.
It's no mystery that the sun and its source of light (or lack thereof), can have a profound effect on us. Thousands of years ago, some countries began exploring color and its healing capabilities. Egypt, Greece and China are known for their forays into color healing and therapy. A few examples include:
Painting rooms different colors with the hopes of treating certain conditions.
Utilizing colors in nature in their surroundings (blue from skies, green from grass, etc.)
Healing rooms that utilized crystals to break up sunlight shining through.
There is evidence of people attempting to use color for healing and therapy from as far back as 2000 years. And it has gained in popularity throughout the years, with numerous books being written about it, including Johann Wolfgang Goethe who studied the physiological effects of color. As we mentioned though, many people are skeptical about using color and light for healing or therapy.
Stay tuned for upcoming articles over the next few weeks where we'll introduce color meanings and symbolism, how we see color, and the various effects of specific colors.
Does color affect you? Let us know in the comments.
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18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently – ReBogg
By Carolyn Gregoire
Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process.
Neuroscience paints a complicated picture of creativity. As scientists now understand it, creativity is far more complex than the right-left brain distinction would have us think (the theory being that left brain = rational and analytical, right brain = creative and emotional). In fact, creativity is thought to involve a number of cognitive processes, neural pathways and emotions, and we still don't have the full picture of how the imaginative mind works.
And psychologically speaking, creative personality types are difficult to pin down, largely because they're complex, paradoxical and tend to avoid habit or routine. And it's not just a stereotype of the "tortured artist" — artists really may be more complicated people. Research has suggested that creativity involves the coming together of a multitude of traits, behaviors and social influences in a single person.
"It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self," Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist at New York University who has spent years researching creativity, told The Huffington Post. "The things that stand out the most are the paradoxes of the creative self … Imaginative people have messier minds."
While there's no "typical" creative type, there are some tell-tale characteristics and behaviors of highly creative people. Here are 18 things they do differently.
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"I have the blue handicapped hanger for my mirror in my car. I went down yesterday — I have a payment agreement — and the handicapped spots for City Hall are way, way from the handicapped entrance. They told me I could come in through the door in the Daniel Boone Building, but there are two big steps. Also, when you have a payment agreement, they give you a hard copy of it, but you have to get out of your vehicle and actually go into the cashier's office to pay it, and I think as long as we have that hard copy to match up with the check, I don't see why we can't just give that hard copy of the bill to the drive-up person and let them give us a receipt for it."
"I believe it's up to business owners to let people smoke in places because they own property or lease property, and they are taxpayers. I don't see anything wrong with the vapor cigarettes or if a person wants to smoke in a business — that's their right. I don't think it's any more harmful than walking by a beauty shop or an auto repair place or a body shop or somebody who's out there smoking on their barbecue grill because charcoal puts out the same or more carcinogens. If they want to be real forceful and try to tell us what to do with our health — well that's our personal rights and our business."
"I was just so happy to see the article about the police officer who bought a booster seat for a child who didn't have one when he stopped the car because of that. It was a Michigan police officer. That was just such a praise for our police departments."
"I know a lot of people are going to laugh at the article in the Oct. 9 paper about giving chimpanzees personhood. It's not really that unusual. There's a professor I had at the University of Oklahoma, 1956-60, Dr. Maurice Temerlin, who actually adopted a chimpanzee as his daughter. She didn't have any legal rights, but he taught her to eat at the table and use the silverware. She was able to understand a lot of the language, and she was treated as though she was a human being and was a little girl. He even wrote a book about it. Actually, the first thing he tried to do was teach chickens how to talk. He once was on one of the quiz shows or something talking about it. So don't laugh because someday the little girl next door might be a chimpanzee."
"Is it really paranoid to be concerned about contracting a virus with an average mortality rate of 50 percent? The WHO statistics say Ebola is fatal in 25-90 percent of its victims. Compare this to the influenza virus, which has a mortality rate 0.56 per 100,000 in the United States. Let's not forget that while influenza has an incubation period of one to four days, the Ebola incubation period is 21 days or longer. Do you remember everywhere you were and everyone you came into contact with for the past three weeks? I sure don't. If it's paranoid to be concerned about being exposed to this virus, the likes of which our health care system is currently ill-equipped to handle, then call me paranoid."
"I'm 61, and I'm every bit as big a pothead as I was when I was 15 and love doing it. I think tobacco is a million times worse than any form of pot. If they wanted to go after somebody for something, they ought to go after people for doing something that kills themselves or other people. Cigarettes and tobacco are the worst things that ever happened to our country and our nation."
"Your Oct. 9 article 'MU students stage die-in' said the demonstrators read the names of blacks killed in confrontations with police. There was no mention of blacks being killed by anyone else. By comparison, on Feb. 6, 2013, the St. Louis Post Dispatch printed a summary of the 113 murders that occurred in St. Louis in 2012. Of the 113 murdered, 92 percent were black, 83 percent had prior felony arrests, 67 percent tested positive for drugs and 86 percent were men. Of the killers, 97 percent were black, 84 percent had prior felony arrests and 91 percent were men. Black-on-black murders do not get the same attention in the papers that the white- or police-on-black gets. I wonder why."
Robertson replies: In the Tribune — and in most community newspapers, I suspect — murders get similar attention no matter the race of the perpetrator or victim. A police officer, who has extraordinary power and discretion in the use of deadly force, is in an entirely different class. Police shootings are scrutinized in every instance, and I'll bet the overwhelming majority are found to be justified. But they deserve the scrutiny they get.

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Jesse Roderick, 74
Jesse Alvin Roderick, age 74, of Three Rivers, passed away on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 at the Heartland Health Care Center following a long illness. He was born March 30, 1937 in Ann Arbor, MI. the son of Francis and Rose Mary (Bastien) Roderick.
On Oct. 5, 1966 Jesse married the late Helen Zampanti in Buchanan, MI. Together they raised a large family and Jesse spent most of his working years as a farm hand,While earning a degree in Department of Agriculture in dairy farming at Andrews University, spending twenty two years with Corey Lake Orchard and earlier with Don Kline Farms. Later in life Jesse loved to scrap metal, work on vehicles, and fix most anything with two parts. He also loved his long country rides.
Mr. Roderick was preceded in death by his parents, his loving wife, Helen in 1993; a grandson Jake Michael Ash in 1994 and eight brothers and sisters, Leonard, Frank, Joe, Elmer, Tim, Pansy, Vesta, and Mary.
He leaves to cherish his memory, his loving family, daughter, Melissa (John) Ash, of Three Rivers, three step-children, Linda (Ted) Smith, of Dowagiac, MI., Herman Langelan, of Niles, MI., and Nancy (Richard) Hart, of Niles, MI.; nine grandchildren, Michelle (John) Hassle, of Dowagiac, Jaymie (Michael) Miller, of North Dakota, Stacey Langelan, of Hawaii, Jasun, Mallori, and Kody Langelan, all of Maryland, Tyler Langelan of Tenn, Rishia and Nathan Langelan, both of Niles; one brother, James Roderick; one sister, Lorainne Taylor; many great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews also survive.
The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at the Hohner Funeral Home.
Funeral Services will be held 11:00 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 at the Three Rivers Nazarene Church, with Pastor Bob Anderson officiating.
Interment will be held in Riverside Cemetery, Dowagiac, MI.
Memorials may be donated to the family of Jesse Roderick c/o Melissa Ash. Envelopes available at the funeral home


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January 1. The Tan Ireland moves into England's (873) house.
Queen Strawberry Toadstool declares the sovereignty of the Mushroom Kingdom, uniting the Shrem, Toad, and Goomba races under one crown.
October 2. Samuel Adams (81) dies.
September 12. The Doctor (second incarnation) and Serena save Lord Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley from a bomb. They then travel to Paris, where Robert Fulton's submersible is sabotaged by interfering with the atomic drive the Contessa set up.
October 21. Admiral Horatio Nelson dies at the Battle of Trafalgar.
October 22. Rufus (49/2688), Bill Preston (16/1988), and Ted Logan (16/1988) arrive in Austria in their time-traveling phone booth. When they depart, Napoleon Bonaparte (36) is accidentally pulled into the time vortex in the vessel's wake. Bill and Ted later return Napoleon to the same date.
March 3. Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci is born in Carpentino Romano, the Papal States.
May. The Kingdom of Hawai'i is formally established in the Hawaiian Islands under King Kamehameha.
The Tan Hawai'i builds a house.
Time-travelers Mr. Peabody (5) and his son Sherman Peabody (7) (both 1959) visit Napoleon Bonaparte.
2. Events of Doctor Who novel Interference Book One (1999).
7. Events of novel The Prairie: A Tale (1827). Date arbitrary.
9. Events of novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004). Date explicit.
10. Events of novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004). Date explicit.
12. Events of film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989).


system-lifted: Lifted versions of System functions.
Lifted versions of functions provided in System.Directory, System.Environment and others. User can derive instances for EitherT, ErrorT, MaybeT, etc.
Lifted versions of Haskell System functions.
While haskell promotes the use of Maybe and Either as smart ways of dealing with errors, I found that the support for their Monad Transformers counter-parts is less than stellar.
While some packages like Errors simplify this, they still add a lot of boilerplate to the code.
The goal of this project started out as a way to write cleaner directory related code in either one of the error related monad transformers, namely EitherT, ErrorT or MaybeT (non-determinism and ListT are not yet supported).
getXdgConfigFolder = isRW =<< getEnv "XDG_CONFIG_HOME"
Currently the System.Directory and System.Environment are fully supported, and there is partial support for System.Unix.Users.
More examples and wider System. support is planned. Contribuitions are welcomed.


A photography friend and I took a recent trip to a local nature preserve called Neale Woods north of Omaha. Ticks were plentiful and flowers were spars. We did encounter one flower that was pretty plentiful, so I decided to try my focus stacking technique. I knew that we would more than likely be taking photos of the same flower and in an attempt to be a little bit original, I thought I would do that. Now the challenging part of the whole focus stacking in the wild, is there is nothing to brace yourself on unless you carried a walking stick or a monopod, the wind was blowing like crazy (which didn't play nice with my suddenly developed allergy), and I didn't want to walk to far into the grass for fear of coming home with a tick attached to every part of my body. Ticks are plentiful this time of year and walking in a nature preserve by the river is always a wonderful spot to encounter these nice little #$@#$. So with that, my attempts.
I had a couple different runs at the same type of flower, but due to the wind, lining them up in photoshop took a lot more work that I was willing to spend. So grabbed one of the shots that I preferred and worked with it. Below are the results. I also caught a wild daisy during a slight halt in the wind.
Next, I had recently purchased a Tiffen VariND filter. For those who don't know what that is, it is a neutral density filter that you can turn from 2 stops to 8 stops. For the novice, stops are the amount of light that the camera lets in. Thus, using this filter along with my Fotodiox 10 stop neutral density filter, I was able to move the light from regular to 12 or up to 18 stops slower. Why you ask? There were clouds moving over head for most of the day and at 2pm in the afternoon, you really need to make it dark coming into the camera as possible to get the illusion of movement. Not wanting to hold up others with us photographing things that day, I did a couple quick shots. One was 2 minutes and one 90 seconds. The two minute exposure, I was using the full 18 stops and it wasn't nearly long enough of an exposure. I adjusted the exposure and stops using the VariND and 90 second brought out all of the shadows in the building and the grass, exposed the sky correctly, but blew out the clouds. Now that I have an idea, I am going to try this spot again sometime for a more dedicated session. Below is the photo to go with the story.


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I'm trying to export notes out of a Local Notebook. After selecting all notes and choosing Export, Evernote hangs on the "Downloading content..." dialog box. No progress.
If I choose individual notes or a handful of notes, I'm able to export successfully. Seems there is a corrupt note somewhere in the mix. There are 335 notes in this particular notebook so I do not want to manually export each one.
My exports also get blocked by "downloading content" but thats a sync thing and should not be connected to Local Notebooks.
Anything of value in the log file?


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CEOs most worried about global recession in 2019
Survey found that an economic downturn ranked No. 1 on executives' list of external concerns
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by Andrea V. Brambila |
CEOs worldwide expect more regulation in the future, mostly in the realm of data privacy protection, environmental impact, unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous vehicle technology, according to a new survey.
Home prices aren't rising as fast as they used to, but could a recession be on the horizon?
It's the top external concern of business leaders around the world for 2019, according to the "C-Suite Challenge 2019," a global survey of CEOs and other executives from nonprofit business think tank The Conference Board.
That stands in contrast to last year's version of the survey, when CEOs ranked a recession 19th among their concerns. Other external concerns on the list include: cyber security, currency volatility, rising interest rates, terrorism, Brexit, income inequality, uncertainty in corporate tax policies, and more.
The survey's respondents include more than 800 CEOs and more than 600 other "C-suite" executives, mostly from the U.S., Europe and Asia. Respondents said attracting and retaining top talent was their main internal concern for this year — a worry that seemed driven by awareness of new disruptive technologies and business models.
Source: The Conference Board
"While CEOs are quite anxious about the external challenges the global economy poses to their businesses right now, the survey results suggest they're aware of the need to stay focused on the longer-term disruptive forces impacting their future go-to-market plans," said Bart van Ark, a report author and chief economist of The Conference Board, in a statement.
"That awareness reinforces the need to continue the development of new business models, a strategy that will be tempting to neglect if and when the economy starts slowing."
These executives are hardly the only ones concerned about a recession: Last year, a Zillow survey of economic experts had some respondents predicting a recession would hit the U.S. come 2020, but that the housing market would not be the catalyst. Other experts believe the housing market in particular will be strong through at least the early 2020s.
According to The Conference Board's C-Suite Challenge 2019, threats to global trade systems, global political instability and new competitors were the second, third and fourth-most pressing external concerns of CEOs internationally.
Broken down by geography, cyber security was the top external concern for CEOs in the U.S., while it only ranked 10th among external concerns for CEOs in China. New competitors were the second biggest concern for U.S. CEOs, while recession risk ranked third.
In Europe and Japan, the top external concern for CEOs was global political instability (tied with recession risk in Japan), which ranked sixth among U.S. CEOs.
Top talent wanted
CEOs in every single geographic area named attracting and retaining top talent as their no. 1 internal concern for 2019.
"As global competition increases while the pool of available workers decreases, it comes as no surprise that executives cited talent as a top issue in 2019 that's keeping them up at night," said Rebecca Ray, a report author and The Conference Board's executive vice president of human capital.
"Moreover, they think talent shortages will only intensify beyond 2019, which underscores why organizations should constantly reexamine how they're attracting and retaining their best and brightest."
The second-biggest internal concern overall was "creating new business models because of disruptive technologies" and the third-biggest internal concern was developing next generation leaders.
CEOs believe that exposing their potential leaders to different aspects of what the company does is important, but they may be overlooking a critical factor in leadership development by not including digital experiences in that education, according to the report.
"Less than one-third of CEOs globally rate this as one of their top three leadership development priorities and only about one in five in the U.S. do so," the report said.
How CEOs plan to succeed in the future
CEOs around the world are "clearly" feeling anxiety around digital technologies, The Conference Board said.
But in general, CEOs seem confident about their companies being able to thrive in 2025, in part because they believe they have the right culture in place to succeed, according to the report. This is particularly true of U.S. CEOs.
CEOs worldwide recognize that customers are starting to put more value on the experience of using a company's product or service rather than on the actual product or service, according to the report. Accordingly, two-thirds of CEO respondents said they would need to emphasize "servitization," a term The Conference Board defined as "providing services and solutions that supplement traditional product offerings."
"CEOs sense fundamental changes coming in the expectations and preferences of future customers," said Chuck Mitchell, a report author and The Conference Board's executive director of knowledge, content, and quality, in a statement.
"They see the importance of moving from a product-central approach to servitization to enhance the customer experience. This approach turns customers involved in one-time transactions into 'users' who seek continuous interaction with the firms they deal with.
"But that bar is high since they are now competing with the best experience a consumer has had with any company, regardless of product or service. It widens the field of competitors in unexpected ways."
In general, CEOs see getting the right balance between long-term vision and short-term performance as the no. 1 hallmark of operational efficiency in the coming years, according to the report.
"As the economy starts slowing, the temptation will be to cut long-term investments to boost short-term results. If organizations pull back too much, they will be behind the curve when the economic downturn ends," the report said.
CEOs worldwide expect more regulation in the future, mostly in the realm of data privacy protection (84 percent), environmental impact (80 percent), unmanned aerial vehicles (72 percent), and autonomous vehicle technology (71 percent), the report added.
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Timothy Caughman's murder – the murder of a black New Yorker, targeted because he was black – is an outrage. We must not remain a country where people are assaulted and murdered simply for being who they are. Hate is a plague afflicting our country, and we are all responsible for fighting it.


Known by many names such as chrysanthemum greens or edible chrysanthemum it is another essential in the vegetable garden.
In the kitchen, the green leaves and young shoots of Garland Chrysanthemum are wonderful when added, (at the last moment) to soups, omelettes and stir-fries.
Garland Chrysanthemum are easy to germinate and just as easy to grow.
You can plant the seed where you want them to grow or just as easily sow them into a punnet for later transplant.
Garland Chrysanthemum do quite well in pots and do create a great verandah decoration.
In hot climates the seed is best planted in Winter, Spring or early Summer as late planting can result in the plant 'bolting' into flower before the leaves have been used.


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UPDATE 1-Atlantic Basin Refining to buy, restart Hovensa St. Croix Refinery
(Adds information on company executives)
NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A little-known entity, Atlantic Basin Refining, has agreed to buy the shuttered Hovensa LLC oil refinery in St. Croix and restart it with a 300,000 barrels-a-day capacity to handle crude from the U.S. shale boom, according to a statement on Monday.
The project's managing partners are Robert B. Moore Jr., Jack Thomas, William D. Forster, and Steven D. Schmitz, executives with trading and refining experience, according to biographies provided by the company to Reuters.
The agreement between ABR and plant owners Hess Corp and Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is subject to a vote by the Legislature of the U.S. Virgin Islands, scheduled for Nov. 12.
The details of the agreement and information on the project's financial backers remain well-guarded.
The company's managing partners have decades of experience in the energy business, according to information provided by the company. Moore was previously a trader and manager at companies including Sun Oil Trading Co, Marubeni Inc, Castle Oil Corp, and Reliant Energy. Thomas is a senior partner in the St. Croix Renaissance group, which redeveloped the former Alcoa facility adjacent to the Hovensa refinery, with experience in environmental mitigation. Forster is an investment banker with 16 years at Lehman Brothers and 23 years working independently. Schmitz managed U.S. business development activities for Glencore and was a member of the refinery acquisition teams for PBF, Tosco and Hill.
Their plan focuses on upgrading the refinery, once the largest plant in the Western Hemisphere, which processed heavy Venezuelan crude before its January 2012 closure, to refine light sweet crude of the kind produced in shale formations, the statement said.
"The U.S. shale revolution has created an abundant supply of U.S. light sweet crude, and there is currently a limited ability to process this type of feedstock at U.S. refineries," said Mark W. Eckard, Atlantic Basin's managing director for legal and governmental affairs.
The shale boom has enabled other East Coast refineries that were shuttered for underperformance to restart.
The reconfiguration and restart will take approximately 24 months, according to the company's website. ABR plans to restart the refinery with partners including Samsung Engineering, Wyatt Field Service Co., and an affiliate of SunExcel.
The company's website does not address how much the restart will cost or where the financial backing will come from. The company declined to immediately comment on the financing. (Reporting by Jessica Resnick-Ault; Editing by Alden Bentley and James Dalgleish)


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Sunset Park – Fuscoe Engineering, Inc.
Award-winning Sunset Park, situated on 18.2 acres, includes amenities such as sports courts, ball fields, playgrounds, splash pad, restroom facilities, picnic areas, parking lots, walking trails and a caretaker unit. Balancing the earthwork cut and fill volumes on the hillside site, while preserving the project site plan was particularly challenging, requiring innovative grading design solutions that also minimized impacts to adjacent property owners. The site and grading designs were crafted to preserve an existing wetland drainage channel with buffer zones to protect sensitive habitat and a pedestrian bridge spans the channel, linking the two sides of the park. Fuscoe's drainage and water quality design included detention basins and vegetated swales. Runoff from the splash pad drains to a graded swale where water infiltrates and recharges the groundwater table. A decorative rock-lined drainage channel with boulders and weir walls was also incorporated into the landscape design. Also, Fuscoe, working closely with the Vista Irrigation District, developed plans for relocation of a major onsite waterline and both the Vallecitos Water District and Buena Sanitation District collaborated on sewer plans for the park. Fuscoe was the team lead in coordinating landscape design, architecture, site electrical and well-drilling activities.


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Prancer
Lyric Arts Main Street Stage
420 East Main Street, Anoka, MN 55303
Presented by Lyric Arts Main Street Stage
By Greg Taylor
Directed by Laura Tahja Johnson
In this area premiere, young Jessica Riggs' family has fallen on hard times. Despite recent heartbreak, she keeps her steadfast belief in miracles—and in Santa Claus. When an injured reindeer appears in Jessica's backyard, she believes it is Prancer. She vows to nurse the creature back to health and return it to its home in time for Christmas Eve. When the entire community finds out about Prancer, it causes big problems for Jessica and strains her relationship with her disheartened father.
With delightful puppetry and an uplifting message about hope, this heartwarming tale, based on the cherished 1989 film of the same name, is sure to bring joy to your holiday season.
Runs 120 minutes
Wurtele Thrust Stage
818 South 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN 55415
$34 -$107
Presented by Guthrie Theater
A miserly and miserable man, Ebenezer Scrooge greets each Christmas with a "bah humbug," until he is visited one Christmas Eve by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. Through a restless night, the spirits show him happy memories from his past, cruel realities from the present and the grim future should he continue his cantankerous ways.
This perennial favorite continues our holiday tradition for the 42nd year. Now is the time to experience this cherished production with your loved ones!
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's MARY POPPINS JR.
1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Presented by Stages Theatre Company
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's MARY POPPINS JR.
It's a JOLLY HOLIDAY with Mary!
NOVEMBER 16-DECEMBER 27, 2018
Original Music and lyrics by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman. Book by Julian Fellowes. New Songs and Additional Music and Lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. Co-Created by Cameron Mackintosh. A Musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film
Join us this holiday season for a practically perfect experience for the entire family! "It's a jolly holiday with Mary" in this Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious adventure based on the award-winning Broadway musical and classic Walt Disney film. Step in Time with everyone's favorite nanny and share the magical transformation of the Banks family with your family this holiday.
In alphabetical order: Kimora Collins (Katie Nanna), Aidan Einhorn (Ensemble), Gretchen Emo (Winnifred), Sofia M Fraser (Ensemble), Riley Gamades (Michael), Jonathan Grommesh (Chairman Of The Bank), Ian Handeland (Bert), Grant Hudson (Ensemble), Delaney Hunter (Mary Poppins), Sayer Keeley (Messenger), Indra Khariwala (Ensemble), Samara Koshiol (Mrs Corry), Chase Kozak (Robertson), Ella Kozak (Ensemble), Caroline Lyngen (Mrs Brill), Jackson Lyon (Von Hussler), Chloe McMahon (Mrs Smythe), Brittany Parker (Mrs Andrews), Caiah Rodgers (Bird Woman), Asgerami Semkoff (Ensemble), Medi Semkoff (Ensemble), Zachary Thomas Sullivan (John Northbrook & Policeman), Brent Teclaw (George), Josie Turk (Jane), and Tad Williamson (Neleus)
CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Sandy Boren-Barrett
Director & Choreographer: Michael Matthew Ferrell
Stage Manager: Cody R Braudt
Set Designer: Sarah Brandner
Lighting Designer: Jeff Brown
Costume & Make-Up Designer: Samantha Fromm Haddow
Technical Director: Gretchen Katt
Assistant Stage Manager: Andi Mickle
Sound Designer: Alan Pagel
Production Manager: Melanie Salmon-Peterson
Prop Designer: Sadie Ward
Assistant Choreographer: Krysti Wiita
Music Director: Kimberly Willow
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com
The Lab Theater
700 North 1st Street Minneapolis, MN 55401
Presented by The Moving Company
A hotel. A year.
Quality linens and room service.
Vivaldi and Chekhov.
Piazzolla as well.
A change of weather.
A change of heart.
A get away, a hideaway.
A prelude, a refuge.
An interlude, a start.
Purgatory or paradise.
You can't beat the price.
Conceived by by Steven Epp, Nathan Keepers and Dominique Serrand.
Directed by Dominique Serrand.
Featuring: Heidi Bakke, Joy Dolo and Steven Epp
Designed by: Sonya Berlovitz (costumes), Marcus Dilliard (lights), Justin Burk (sound), Dominique Serrand and Safa Sarvestani (set)
Closing night
Chautauqua Fine Arts Center - Mahtomedi High School
8000 75th St N, Mahtomedi MN 55115
Presented by Mahtomedi High School
Ti Moune, a peasant girl, rescues a wealthy boy from the other side of the island, Daniel, with whom she falls in love. Unbeknownst to Ti Moune, the pompous gods who preside over the island make a bet with one another over which is stronger, love or death, the stakes being Ti Moune's life. When she pursues Daniel, who has returned to his people, Ti Moune is shunned because of her lowly status. Her determination and capacity to love, though, is not enough to win Daniel's heart, and Ti Moune pays the ultimate price; but the gods turn Ti Moune into a tree that grows so strong and so tall, it breaks the wall that separates the societies and ultimately unites them.
Thu Nov 15, 2018 | 7:00PM
Fri Nov 16, 2018 | 7:00PM
ASL translation provided, contact us for seating
Sat Nov 17, 2018 | 7:00PM
Sun Nov 18, 2018 | 2:00PM
Noël - The Musical
Ames Centre
12600 Nicollet Ave Burnsville, MN 55337 United States
Presented by VenuWorks Theatricals
NOËL The Musical is a wonderful family show, filled with mayhem, magic and music! NOËL, set in modern day London, tells a heartwarming tale of a little girl (Noël), who is prepping for her starring role in a school Christmas play when her mother suddenly disappears. She keeps her mother's disappearance a secret and embarks alone on a quest to find her. Along the way, she befriends a diverse group of homeless characters that have lost their way in life, including Nick, who believes the world has forgotten the true meaning of Christmas. Noël's bright innocence and unwavering belief in finding her mother, inspires Nick to embrace life once more, finding love and hope in himself and in the world.
The show's creators are the extremely talented Eoin Colfer (book) and Liam Bates (music). Eoin is a NY Times bestselling author who has achieved international acclaim for his hugely successful series of children's books Artemis Fowl, which has sold over 25 million copies worldwide and is being adapted into a major motion picture by Disney. Liam Bates is an award winning Irish composer, orchestrator and conductor. A student at the Royal Academy of London, Liam received master classes from composer Leonard Bernstein.
The Church Basement Ladies in You Smell Barn
Ames Center Black Box Theatre
12600 Nicollet Avenue Burnsville, MN 55337
From the basement to the barn, your beloved Church Basement Ladies are back and getting busy with life outside the kitchen. After the last of the hotdish is served, the coffee pot is emptied, and the Jello molds are put away, these steadfast, sturdy women head to their farms, peel off their good girdles, and get on with their daily chores. In between picking eggs, milking cows, and dusting knickknacks, they congregate with some of the other lovable folks who inhabit this rural community: Earl, who delivers the mail up and down Rural Route One; Fergus, the hired man; and Tillie, who chronicles the action for the Fish County Weekly.
With plenty of crazy antics, loads of fresh laughs, and spanking new original songs, YOU SMELL BARN celebrates rural life in the 1950's. And, at the center of it all, are your favorite Church Basement Ladies. Whether you've seen several versions, or are new to the world of the basement, the 7th in the Church Basement Ladies series is a musical treat for all.
Wake-Up Calls: A Collection of One-Acts
Dreamland Arts
677 Hamline Ave N Saint Paul MN 55104
Presented by Du-Al Theatrics
Co-founders of Du-Al Theatrics, Duane Koivisto and Alan Wittmer,
are pleased to announce a new production, Wake-Up Calls, including:
HAMLET AND OPHELIA (Excerpts from Hamlet) by William Shakespeare
THIS NEVER HAPPENED an original one-act by Jay McMahon
THE TRUE DEATH OF SOCRATES by Frank Higgins
(produced by arrangement with The Penny Luedtke Agency, New York)
FEATHERS by Judd Lear Silverman
(produced by arrangement with the author)
Arts Center on 7
18285 Highway 7, Minnetonka, MN 55345
Presented by Minnetonka Theatre
From Grammy, Emmy and Academy Award winning Steve Martin and Grammy Award winning Edie Brickell comes Bright Star, the five-time Tony nominated, Broadway musical that The New York Times called "a shining achievement."
Inspired by a real event, this original musical tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and '40s.Bright Star unfolds as a rich tapestry of deep emotion and beautiful melodies. It's both refreshingly genuine and daringly hopeful .
November 3, 10, 16, 17 at 7:30 pm; November 11*, 18 at 2:00 pm
109 Locust Street, Hudson, Wisconsin
Presented by The Phipps Center for the Arts
Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Glenn Slater, Book by Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner
Additional Book Material by Douglas Carter Beane
Based on the Touchstone Pictures Motion Picture, Sister Act, written by Joseph Howard
In this joyful musical comedy, a disco diva hiding from the Mob in a convent helps her fellow sisters find their voices as she rediscovers her own in a sparkling tribute to the universal power of friendship.
Presented by Old Log Theatre
This Tony Award winning madcap screwball comedy, set in 1934, will keep you laughing all night long!
"Non-stop laughter." "Uproarious! Hysterical!" "A rib-tickling comedy."
"The most inventive, original farce in a long time"
Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is set to welcome world famous Tito Morelli, the greatest tenor of his era, to appear for one night only as Otello. The star arrives late, and following a series of hilarious mishaps, is given a double dose of tranquilizers and passes out. Thinking Tito has died, Saunders convinces his assistant Max to put on Morelli's costume and fool the audience into believing they are seeing the star. Max succeeds, but Morelli comes to and puts on his other costume ready to perform. Hilarity ensues!
The Ritz Theater
345 13th Ave NE Minneapolis, MN 55413
Presented by Collide Theatrical Dance Company
COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company returns to The Ritz Theater with an innovative new dance theater interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel.
The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby, his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan and lavish parties on Long Island is an exquisitely crafted tale of the quest for the American dream.
Featuring bold choreography and raw talent, The Great Gatsby fuses dance, theater and live music into an unforgettable experience. Don't miss this limited run.
The Great Gatsby performances take place at The Ritz Theater- 345 13th Ave NE Minneapolis, MN 55413. The Ritz Theater is fully ADA accessible and wheelchair seating is available.
The Phantom Tollbooth JR
Blue Water Theatre Company
605 Rice Street East, Wayzata, MN 55391
Call N/A
Presented by Blue Water Theatre Company
Even surrounded by dozens of toys, Milo is bored. Nothing interests him at all . . . until he takes a trip through the Phantom Tollbooth. Transported to the Land of Wisdom, Milo is thrust into adventure when Princesses Rhyme and Reason need rescuing in order to bring peace between two kings. The kings, from Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, are feuding over whether "words" or "numbers" are most important in their kingdoms. Knee-deep in danger, language and math along the way, Milo learns everything has a purpose. Upon his return home, he realizes there is never a reason to be bored in a world full of hidden discoveries.
Red Running into Water
Multiple Community Venues
WEEK ONE Wed, Nov 7th, 10:30 AM @ Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E Franklin Ave, Mpls, 55404 Wed, Nov 7th, 7:30 PM @ East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier St, St. Paul, 55106 Thur, Nov 8th, 10:30 AM @ Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E Franklin Ave, Mpls, 55404 Thur, Nov 8th, 7:30 PM @ MN Indian Women's Resource Center, 2300 S 15th Ave, Mpls, 55404 Fri, Nov 9th, 7:30 PM @ Takoda Institute - AIOIC, 1845 E Franklin Ave, Mpls, 55404 Sat, Nov 10th, 7:30 PM @ All My Relations Gallery, 1414 E Franklin Ave, Mpls, 55404 Sun, Nov 11th, 2:00 PM @ Public Functionary, 1400 12th Ave NE, Mpls, 55413 WEEK TWO Wed, Nov 14th, 7:30 PM @ All Nations Church, 1515 E 23rd St, Mpls, 55404 Thur, Nov 15th, 10:30 AM @ Takoda Institute - AIOIC, 1845 E Franklin Ave, Mpls, 55404 Thur, Nov 15th, 7:30 PM @ MN Chippewa Tribe Urban Office, 1308 E Franklin Ave, Mpls, 55404 Fri, Nov 16th, 7:30 PM @ Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E Franklin Ave, Mpls, 55404 Sat, Nov 17th, 7:30 PM @ All My Relations Gallery, 1414 E Franklin Ave, Mpls, 55404 Sun, Nov 18th, 2:00 PM @ Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center, 788 E 7th St, St. Paul, 55106
Pay-What-You-Can at the door, $25 advance
Presented by New Native Theatre
RED RUNNING INTO WATER follows Nana, a young Navajo woman who refuses to be a statistic. Nana and the women of her family in the Red Running Into Water clan reclaim their humanity and learn what it really means to Walk in Beauty.
*Trigger warning: this play deals explicitly with sexual assault.
The Clean House
Gremlin Theatre
550 Vandalia Street, St. Paul, MN 55114
Presented by Theatre Unbound
A cleaner who hates to clean, a doctor whose husband is struck down by love for a patient, and the quest for the perfect joke. Sarah Ruhl is a winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius grant. Her plays include Eurydice and In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play. Award-winning director Carolyn Levy last worked with Theatre Unbound on best-seller The Good Fight.
Cast: Ellen Apel, Lynda J. Dahl, Jasmine Porter, Craig Turino, Laura Wiebers. Creative Team: Grace Barnstead, Sarah Brandner, Keara Hannan, Jayce Hanson, Jenny Moeller, Patricia Santos, Inna Skogerboe
345 Washington Street, Saint Paul, MN, 55102
Call (612)-333-6669
Presented by Minnesota Opera
COMPOSER-Kevin Puts
LIBRETTIST-Mark Campbell
A moment of peace in the midst of war. Silent Night recounts a miraculous moment of peace during World War I. The Pulitzer-Prize winning music masterfully juxtaposes the bombastic sounds of war with serene songs from home.
Miracle on Christmas Lake
Yellow Tree Theatre
320 Fifth Avenue SE Osseo, MN 55369
Presented by Yellow Tree Theatre
Jessica Lind Peterson's original holiday comedy is back and sillier than ever! Soap opera star Colin Avery returns to his Minnesota roots to take over Christmas Lake Community Theater after his father dies. Colin's new wife Tess – a city girl with zero tolerance for mosquitoes – comes along for the ride only to find the theater on the verge of bankruptcy. After losing the rights to It's a Wonderful Life, they race to come up with another play. With piano tuner and Little House fanatic Neil Gunderson, and lizard-loving massage therapist Martha Knutson as the only cast members, hilarity ensues as this unlikely bunch scramble to save the theater. There's true love and off-key Christmas carols, lutefisk and bearded dragons, and best of all, unexpected miracles happen. A ridiculous and heart-warming holiday comedy guaranteed to tickle the funny bone of lutefisk-eating Minnesotans everywhere! "A madcap holiday farce!" – Twin Cities Daily Planet
Cast: Ryan Nelson, Jessie Rae Rayle, Mary Fox, Jason Peterson, Ryan Lear, Miriam Monasch & Diana Jurand
Shades of Living
2605 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55408
Presented by Deacon Frog Productions
How do you experience the world? Is it easy to wake up in the morning, excited to start your day? Or is it impossible to drag yourself from under the covers? We live on a spectrum, and it varies in our daily life. What does living at a 2 look and feel like? A 10? What breaks us? What restores us? Are we willing to help others come back from theirs? Using movement, poetry, real stories, and crisis as tools for investigating the human condition, Shades of living explores what it means to live the entire breadth of human capacity.
Directed by Sarah Broude
Written and Performed by Danielle Krivinchuk
Playing November 16th, 17th and 18th at the Phoenix Theater
Friday November 16th at 7:30
Saturday November 17th at 7:30
Sunday November 18th at 2:30
After the Show on Sunday, we will hosting a staged reading of a new play by Jennifer Kudelka, check out the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/336841177123280/?notif_t=plan_user_invited&notif_id=1541371138043496
TRIPLE ESPRESSO
Andy Boss Thrust Stage 20 West 7th Place, Saint Paul, MN 55102
$25 – $52.50
Presented by Park Square Theatre
Triple Espresso—a highly caffeinated comedy shines the spotlight on three hilarious performers as they reminisce about their ill-fated big break. Meet Hugh Butternut, Buzz Maxwell and Bobby Bean, a musician, an illusionist and a comic entertainer for whom nothing ever goes quite the way it was meant to. It's high-energy, vaudeville-inspired comedy that grabs the funny bone and just won't let go! "A triple jolt of inspired craziness … crackles with an energy and spirit of infectious fun!" — Los Angeles Times
Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn
501 W 78TH ST, Chanhassen, MN
Presented by Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
Nothing but blue skies ahead when Jim turns his new farmhouse into an entertainment venue and inn during the holidays. Together with the lovely schoolteacher Linda, they celebrate seven holidays with dazzling song-and-dance performances sure to warm your heart.
Noises Off
McGuire Proscenium Stage
818 South 2nd Street Minneapolis, MN 55415
In this rip-roaring classic, the audience is treated to a hilarious behind-the-scenes peek at an acting troupe rehearsing and performing the farce Nothing On. Despite nerves, dropped lines and technical difficulties, they make it through rehearsal and open the show. As time goes by, things deteriorate until pandemonium ensues and axe-wielding co-stars, drunken cast members and misplaced sardines take center stage during a disaster of a performance that threatens to jinx the old saying, "The show must go on."
Hot Funky Butt Jazz
Dowling Studio
Presented by The Guthrie Theater presents Interact Theater's production of Hot Funky Butt Jazz
At the stroke of midnight in the heart of 1900s New Orleans, Union Sons Hall would transform into the Funky Butt — a dance joint named for the throng of sweaty, soulful bodies moving to a provocative new groove called "hot music." Known today as Jazz, this sound revolution began with a black cornet player named Buddy Bolden who birthed an intoxicating brew of Afro/Caribbean, Latin, Native and European rhythms that became the essence of the Big Easy and set the Jazz Age in motion. Featuring an ensemble of more than 50 actors with and without disabilities, Hot Funky Butt Jazz tells the story of the creative and resilient personalities who stepped out of the shadows to defy racism and create an improvisational sound so unique, it changed music and culture forever.


Facebook has been given a deadline to provide more information about what is done with users' data, or it will face sanctions from the European Commission.
Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova said the firm had not acted quickly enough after being told to update its terms of service in February.
She said her "patience" had run out and threatened to apply penalties.
Facebook, which has to act by 31 December, said it had made some changes and would continue to co-operate.
"If we don't see progress, the sanctions will come," Ms Jourova told a news conference. "This is quite clear. We cannot negotiate for ever, we need to see the results."


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James Rowberry reflects on Colchester draw
Newport County manager James Rowberry was "disappointed" to only come away from Colchester with a point but he is happy with the club's progress under his tutelage thus far.
County drew 1-1 with Colchester in Essex on Friday night but would have been good value for the three points as Newport came out on top on the xG stats (1.6 to Colchester's 0.6) [Ben Mayhew] while the more traditionalist when it comes to stats would point to County having 10 shots on target with Colchester only managing one - their goal.
"I feel myself saying the same things every week. The only thing our goalkeeper's had to do is pick the ball out of the back of the net, for me," Rowberry began.
"I know they've had a lot of possession in the second half to a degree but they haven't threatened our goal. We've had so many chances again to win the game, we just weren't clinical enough. I'm disappointed not to get a win, I really am. I feel very frustrated, it's probably the most frustrated I've been tonight."
The highlight of the contest though was Dom Telford's latest goal, with the top scorer in the division netting his 13th of the season with a wonderful curling shot with the inside of his left boot from just outside the area. He has now scored in seven league games in a row.
"It's a terrific goal and he's hit the post in the second half. He's been terrific, fair play to him, he's done smashing, it's a wonderful finish and it's great play by James Clarke to lock into the lad who had the ball and knick it off him so fair play to Clarkey as well," Rowberry said of the strike.
Telford only had two shots on Fridayn night with one going in and the other cracking off the post in the second half after last Tuesday night saw him score his one shot of the game to salvage a point.
"Sometimes that's what strikers do, and maybe that's down to the way we play as well, it's another wonderful goal," Rowberry added.
"It's come from outside the box but how many chances have we had inside the box? I haven't seen it yet so I wonder what our Expected Goals will be."
While the gaffer obviously wants maximum points from every game, he is pleased with his team's return since he became boss at Rodney Parade.
It's two results on the road that we've had two draws and that's 11 points out of 18 since I've been in, I would've taken that at the start if you asked me."


For Canadian detention monitoring entities and other human rights actors there exist various other useful resources in relation to the monitoring of places of detention. Several international NGOs have played a key role in developing these tools (as well as other actors), which are often available in both English and French. What follows is a succinct overview of these resources with the related links from where interested persons can download the said documents.
The Geneva-based Association for the Prevention of Torture has published various guides and tools with a focus on either monitoring different places of detention (such as prisons, police facilities and centres for migrants) or on vulnerable persons and groups in detention (such as children, women, LGBTI prisoners, migrants and persons with mental disabilities). As an illustrative case in point, in late 2018 the APT added to its many other detention monitoring resources through the publication of its new tool, Towards the Effective Protection of LGBTI Persons Deprived of Liberty: A Monitoring Guide, as highlighted on this website.
As these monitoring guides are quite numerous (almost all of which are available in English and French), readers might wish to click on the preceding links to explore what is available. Alternatively, readers may wish to examine the following documents as limited examples of the APT's first-class work in this connection.
Penal Reform International (PRI) and the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) have invested considerable effort to develop their so-called Detention Monitoring Tool. The Tool comprises four thematic papers, which analyze broader detention-related themes, and six short fact-sheets which provide practical guidance on how monitoring bodies can focus on a number of systemic issues that are particularly high risk factors for torture or ill-treatment.
While the English versions of the papers were updated in 2015 to reflect changes in the revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules), these changes have unfortunately yet to be incorporated into the French versions.
In the above connection, in 2018 PRI and OSCE-ODIHR published a related report titled Guidance Document on the Nelson Mandela Rules, which was also featured as a news update in the pages of the Canada OPCAT Project.
More specifically, PRI has also undertaken some very invaluable work on women and children in detention, the former comprises a so-called 'Toolbox' with a focus on the UN Bangkok Rules, which readers may wish to consult.
Penal Reform International and the Human Rights Implementation Centre at the University of Bristol Law School have also developed a set of tools titled Monitoring Prisoners with Special Needs. The tools are aimed at assisting NPMs with their monitoring of four groups of prisoners, namely LGBTI prisoners, older prisoners, prisoners with disabilities and foreign national prisoners.
Dignity – The Danish Institute Against Torture is another respected international CSO, which has developed an excellent publication on the topic of women in detention, titled Conditions for Women in Detention: Needs, vulnerabilities and good practices (please click on the image below to access the document). Dignity has also made available a wide range of country-specific documents on torture, including on incarcerated women and children.
In 2018 a consortium of three organizations issued a new publication with a focus on minors titled Children in Pretrial Detention: Promoting Stronger International Time Limits. Based on extensive research, the authors, Juvenile Justice Advocates International, International Human Rights Law Clinic at Washington College of Law, and University of Minnesota Human Rights Center found that long periods of time in pretrial detention typically result in increased risk of torture, false confessions and unfair plea bargains, increased corruption, physical and mental abuse, prison overcrowding and increased recidivism. The report argues for a whole raft of measures to counter prolonged pretrial detention. An English version of the report can be obtained by clicking on the image below, while a summary of the report in French is also available.
Washington College of Law's Anti Torture Initiative (which is part of its Centre for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law) has other useful publications of potential interest to Canadian readers. Its 2017 and 2013 publications, Protecting Children against Torture in Detention and Torture in Healthcare Settings, are illustrative cases in point. The focus of the former in section 3 titled 'Children Deprived of Liberty in Non-Traditional Contexts' and the discussions on immigration detention, social care homes and orphanages are especially revealing, while the chapter titled 'Deprivation of Liberty of Children: The Importance of Monitoring' (see page 209 onwards) is worth at least two or three reads. Click on the images below please to access the publications (available only in English).
The Council of Europe's European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) similarly represents an invaluable source for Canadian actors engaged in detention monitoring. Even though the Council of Europe's overall legal framework may not directly apply to Canada (for obvious reasons!), the standards and tools developed by the CPT over the course of several decades are still highly relevant, not least as they advance and draw on best practice.
It should be noted that all of the documents relating to these categories are also available in French.
Depending upon the category, these groupings are then subdivided into sub-categories. Thus, under the category of 'police' the interested reader will find documents on Police custody, Developments concerning CPT standards in respect of police custody, Access to a lawyer as a means of preventing ill-treatment and Electrical discharge weapons. The category of 'prisons' is even more diverse, comprising nine sub-categories.
The age of these documents varies greatly from the early 1990s right up to the present day (see the document on Complaints mechanisms, for example, taken from the CPT's 27th General Report from 2018). No matter the era from which they originate, the CPT's publicly available materials are exemplary in all respects and well worth investigating.
Finally, for readers perhaps less familiar with the CPT as an entity, the following FAQ may be of interest, which is also available in French. Alternatively, there exists a short video of the work of this esteemed organization which can be watched on its homepage.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has also produced no end of high quality materials on the topic of detention. The limited space allocated below for ICRC materials simply does not do justice to the range of excellent publications, posters and videos which the ICRC routinely makes available to the public, which are often obtainable in both of Canada's official languages. Interested persons may therefore wish to conduct their own searches of the organization's so-called Resource Centre for materials. Below one can find a very small selection of more recent ICRC publications with detention as a theme.
Mention cannot be made to key resources on the prevention of torture without reference to Amnesty International, arguably still the world's leading human rights organization. While the organization has produced numerous crucial documents over the years, two more recent contributions include Combating Torture and Other Ill-treatment: A Manual for Action (2016) and Torture in 2014: 30 Years of Broken Promises (2014).
In particular, Combating Torture is a very useful reference document on a wide array of torture-related issues and is a must for human rights practitioners and detention monitoring specialists alike.
The use of solitary isolation and restraints in detention are certainly not unknown in the Canadian detention context. On the former issue there exists a very useful publication written by academic Sharon Shalev titled A Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement which is available in English and French. The Sourcebook provides detention monitors, human rights practitioners and other criminal justice actors with a comprehensive single point of reference on solitary confinement, its documented health effects, and professional, ethical and human rights guidelines and codes of practice relating to its use. Even though the publication is now 10 years old (it was published in 2008), when read through the lens of more up-to-date tools such as the Nelson Mandela Rules, it remains a highly relevant and valuable piece of work.
In a more recent set of publications the Omega Research Foundation and the University of Essex have secured a firm handle on the challenge of monitoring the use of weapons and restraints in places of detention. The two organizations have produced a very welcome Practical Guide and one-page foldable Pocket Book for this purpose. The latter is described as a detailed resource which collates standards around the use of firearms, less lethal weapons and restraints in places of detention, and provides checklists of questions to ask and key areas for monitors to observe, while its lighter-weight counter-part summarizes key points from the Practical Guide and is designed to be easy for monitors to print out and use in places of detention. These resources are available in English and French and have been previously featured on this website.
Have we forgotten to include a key detention monitoring/torture prevention resource? Please let us know and we will do our level best to feature it.