Professional Development for Parent-Teachers: Education Outside the Box!
Whether your child has an interest in a video game, book series, movie, or anything else, join me to see how you can create a multidisciplinary learning experience using your child's interests!
One of my favorite things to do, as both a teacher and a homeschooling parent, is to create a curriculum for my learner(s) based on what they already know they enjoy. My Dungeons and Dragons class is a good example of how this works: on the surface, this is just a table-top role playing game. But, if you look deeper, you'll see many things are required to make this game work. We use storytelling, math, science, creative writing and the writing process, executive function skills, and much more each time we play. We will discuss, in depth, your child(ren)'s interests, and how we can use those to teach. From teaching math using the Pokemon card game to using a fishing trip to teach a wide range of subjects, we will see how learning does not have to happen at a desk or kitchen table. Creating lifelong learners is my passion! The best way to do this, in my opinion, is by using (positively) what already motivates the learner to encourage them to seek answers and work hard.
Because every person is different, different things motivate us and help us learn. In this workshop, we will discuss how to use your child's interests to shape an education that's exciting, fun, and legitimately educational.
Hi! I'm a homeschooling mom of 3 and a home daycare provider. I've been homeschooling for about 3 years, and I realized there was a need for nontraditional schooling in my community. After sharing my lesson plans and activities with parents across the globe, I was inspired to share them online with you!


"What!?!", you may say. That sounds pretty non-eco, right? Lots of water being wasted…just down the drain. I've heard over and over again that shaving in the shower is bad for the environment. Well I'm here to tell you that it's much more eco than you may think, if it's done the right way. I'm not saying I'm doing it the best way possible, just the best way possible with the knowledge I have so far.
Here's the jist of the thought process, and the personal results, from this "project". Whiskers can be, let's say, stubborn. When we use hot water they get less stubborn. The ideal place to shave, then, would be in the shower – right? All the hot water, and steam, this all makes the whiskers much easier to shave. If we make the whiskers easier to shave then the razor won't get dull so quickly. Hopefully we're all on the same page so far.
I have been shaving in the shower for the past 16+ years, based off of a suggestion from a co-worker back in 1994. The thing that I've noticed since I've been doing that is that my disposable razors have been lasting 2-3 months. My wife bought me a pack of 50 disposable razors from Costco almost six years ago, and I just got rid of the last one. That averages to one razor every 6 weeks. Some my wife used and some I could only use once or twice for various reasons, so the numbers might seem off, but don't freak out over the math ;). I've recently been privy to information from current co-workers that they can't use disposable razors for more than 3-4 uses. Wow. Now to be fair, I only shave every other day, and have done so for the past 16+ years, because I never seem to get a job that requires I present myself in a clean-cut fashion on a daily basis. That's an advantage to working in the tech industry.
When I started learning about how to reduce my environmental footprint, and then started using the 5 gallon bucket in the shower (the 5th paragraph down) it made me feel like I was making a difference, albeit in a small way. My shower water collection has progressed, changed, and matured in several ways (which I'll discuss in a later post) and now I think it's pretty close to being somewhat mature. I collect the shower water the same as I've always done, but now when I shave I use a cup or mug to collect a small portion of hot water, then turn off the shower, then I shave – rinsing the razor in the water in the cup, then turn back on the shower. Because of this, I save even more water, minimize the disposable razors I put in the landfill, and get a better shave than I would if I had used the sink. Oh, and when I do dispose of the razor I remove the head from the handle and recycle the handle. I actually don't know if I can recycle the head of the razor or not – let me know if you know the answer to that.
So what are you doing to save water? I'd be curious to hear.


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HomeMotorsportsFollowing Turnaround, E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series Standout Mike Castellana Pushing Forward at Virginia Nationals
Following Turnaround, E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series Standout Mike Castellana Pushing Forward at Virginia Nationals
May 16, 2019 Motor Sports NewsWire Motorsports, NHRA, Racing 1
DINWIDDIE, VA – May 16, 2019 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – After massive struggles to open the 2019 E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service, Mike Castellana was simply happy to have the opportunity to race during eliminations on Sunday at the most recent event in Atlanta.
But Castellana showed it might not be wise to base his season on the early frustrations, as he impressed in Atlanta en route to the victory, the ninth of his standout career. Heading into this weekend's race as part of the Virginia NHRA Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park, Castellana and his team, led by crew chief Frank Manzo, are excited to see where this momentum leads. After not qualifying at the first three races of the year, Castellana's fortunes have clearly turned, which could lead to another big outing in Virginia in his supercharged Al-Anabi Performance Camaro.
"I owe it to my crew," Castellana said. "Frank, he is amazing what he does with this thing. We struggled a little bit, but he worked at this and my crew, we all just came together at the right time. For all these Al-Anabi Performance teams, it's amazing what they do for us and we're looking forward to the rest of the year."
The race, which is presented by the Real Pro Mod Association (RPM), is the fifth of 12 events during the 2019 E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series season and will be shown on Fox Sports 1 (FS1) and Fox Sports 2 (FS2). Reigning world champion Mike Janis is the defending winner of the event, while Castellana became the fourth different winner in as many races to open the 2019 Pro Mod season. Just as importantly, Castellana finally found a consistent car in Atlanta.
Castellana had to deal with a record qualifying bump to open the season in Gainesville, but he had barely made a full pass to open the year, missing out on eliminations there as well as in Houston and Charlotte. Castellana, though, maintained his usual calm demeanor and things came together in Atlanta. Former Pro Stock standout Larry Morgan helped Manzo and the team there, and Castellana was able to breathe a sigh of relief when he qualified ninth. He knocked off Janis in the semifinals with an impressive 5.809 before going 5.825 to beat a red-lighting Jose Gonzalez in the final round, feeling vindicated after so much went wrong to open the year.
"We had struggled a lot early in the season, but I knew everything would come together," Castellana said. "I just didn't expect it to happen as quick as it did. But Frank and my team do a great job and they really came through (in Atlanta)."
The challenge now is finding consistency in a class loaded with talent. But Castellana believes his team turned a corner in Atlanta, and he'll be ready to take on the likes of points leader Stevie "Fast" Jackson, Al-Anabi Performance teammate Todd Tutterow, Chad Green, three-time champ Rickie Smith and Jeremy Ray in Virginia. More than anything, the belief the team can win has returned and that could go a long way during a stretch that includes four races over the next six weeks.
"We feel real confident now and that's big in this class," Castellana said. "We're making a lot progress with the car and when we make laps, Frank just keeps tweaking on the car, and that makes a big difference. We'll be ready for Virginia."
The Real Pro Mod Association (RPM) is the presenting sponsor for the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series race in Virginia, as the class nears the halfway mark of an exciting 2019 season. Featuring the world's fastest doorslammer race cars, the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service offers something for every kind of hot-rodding enthusiast. The class is highlighted by historic muscle cars, like '67 Mustangs, '68 Firebirds and '69 Camaros, as well as a variety of late model American muscle cars.
The RPM Association was created by Pro Mod team owners and drivers to preserve and promote the future of the category, helping fuel strong participation and interest in the class.
The first of four E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service qualifying sessions takes place at 1:15 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Friday, and the final two rounds of qualifying take place on Saturday at 12:15 and 3:15 p.m. The first round of Pro Mod eliminations are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.
To purchase tickets, call (800) 884-NHRA (6472) or visit www.NHRA.com/tickets. Kids 12 and under are free in general admission areas with a paid adult. To honor the Salute to First Responders, military and first responders can save 20 percent on general admission tickets at the gate. For more information about the NHRA visit www.NHRA.com.
ABOUT THE REAL PRO MOD ASSOCIATION
The Real Pro Mod Association (RPM) was created by Pro Mod team owners and drivers to preserve and promote the future of the category. RPM is committed to securing sponsorship to the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service, providing input to NHRA on rule changes to achieve parity between the different power adder combinations, promoting diversity within the class to invite spectator interest and involvement, as well as maintaining the most exciting and competitive door to door racing on the planet.
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Jerry Bickel Race Cars Named Co-Presenting Sponsor of Pro Mod Event at Gainsville
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Todd, B. Force and Hines Lead Qualifying Friday at Arby's NHRA Southern Nationals
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COMMERCE, GA – May 4, 2019 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – Defending Funny Car world champion J.R. Todd raced to the provisional qualifying lead on Friday at the 39th annual Arby's NHRA Southern Nationals at […]
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PMU Foal Controversy
With increasing demand for hormone replacement drugs made from pregnant mare's urine (PMU), there is growing concern over what will happen to the foals born in the process.
Mary Beth Gordon with Gem, one of 11 PMU foals to be sold at a benefit auction for Rutgers' equine programs, April 28. ? Sarah Ralston
There are few more controversial or emotional issues in the horse world than that of the PMU foals. PMU stands for Pregnant Mares' Urine, which is used in the production of Premarin, a hormone replacement drug for menopausal women manufactured by Wyeth Ayerst. As the baby boomers age, there will be more of a demand for such therapies; the question is, what happens to the foals born because the farmer needs their mother's urine?
The California-based United Pegasus Foundation states, in 2001, there were 450 PMU farms in Canada and 50 in the U.S., with approximately 60,000 mares. Mares are hooked up to urine collection devices, and stand on-line in large barns. Collection is generally from October to March, and the mares give birth in the spring. They are usually re-bred within a few weeks of foaling. Foals are sent to auction in September.
UPF board member Lara Stringfield claims about 10,000 of the foals die young, for various reasons, including early weaning. She estimates another ten thousand are bought at sales by individuals or groups to use as riding or driving horses. The rest go for meat. UPF is one of many organizations actively buying foals at auction and finding homes for them. Stringfield also has concerns about mares, citing Wyeth's 30 minutes every two weeks exercise regulation when mares are on-line.
Dr. Sarah Ralston, associate professor of equine science at Cook College, Rutgers, and an expert on equine nutrition, has traveled to North Dakota for the past three summers and brought PMU foals back to New Jersey. The foals are used for research studies, such as the use of vitamin supplementation in the reduction of disease for long-haul transport. Ralston's students gentle the foals and teach them basic ground manners. They are sold in the spring at a benefit auction for Rutgers' equine programs. This year's auction is April 28 and 11 fillies, including purebred Quarter Horses and Belgian/Quarter Horse crosses, will be up for bid.
According to Ralston, "The treatment of the mares is now highly regulated by Wyeth on the licensed Premarin farms. There are strict regulations that insure the humane treatment of the mares, especially when they are "on-line" in both Canada and the U.S. If ranches don't comply with the requirements for stall size, cleanliness, ventilation, feed, water and veterinary/farrier care, their contracts are revoked. Ranches are inspected at least twice a year. Mares are given thorough veterinary inspections two or three times a year - more than the average pleasure horse, according to recent USDA statistics. This is probably the most controlled and regulated equine industry in the world!"
As to the 30-minute exercise regulation, Ralston observes: "It is a minimum - most ranchers I have spoken to say they let the mares out 'as needed,' which means if they get stocked up or antsy before the two-week deadline. The draft and quarter horse mares which predominate in the industry are perfectly content to stand in a nice, warm barn, eating all day next to their friends. Think about it - most of the farms are in the North Central plains, where from October through March there is three feet or more of snow on the ground and temperatures are usually below zero with the wind blowing! The ranchers say that when they do turn the mares out they might run around for a few minutes but then congregate at the barn door, asking to be let back in."
Ralston also disputes the notion of 10,000 foals dying from various causes each year. "There is less than 5 percent losses on the farms, which is about average for large breeding farms in the U.S."
The North American Equine Ranching Information Council represents those engaged in PMU farming. They have developed an incentive program to improve the marketing of the PMU offspring.
"NAERIC will match, dollar for dollar, up to one million, payouts awarded to approved horses when they are successful in designated competitions throughout North America," according to their website, www.naeric.org.
The Council also runs the North American Breeding Enhancement Program, which acquires or leases thoroughbred stallio
ns to breed to the draft mares, creating foals for the sport horse market.
A NAERIC spokeswoman says, "Now we are competition [for people who breed horses]. There is no monetary incentive to send a foal to slaughter."
"If people can be educated about the alternatives available to Premarin, there is the solution," says Stringfield. There are several synthetic estrogen replacement drugs on the market, but none are as widely prescribed as Premarin.
Says Ralston, "The Premarin industry has been in place for over thirty years and provided a lot of benefits to women world-wide. It is not going to go away."
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Y4AW conservation interns (July 2015).
Everyone involved in conservation has a story of how it all began. Some had passion for wildlife and it translated into a lifelong dedication. Some got involved after finding out that our destruction of the environment eventually affects our wellbeing. Others got involved purely because of the prospect of monetary gain in the conservation industry. Having been part of three Youth 4 African Wildlife (Y4AW) conservation internship programmes puts me in a privileged position of witnessing how the mind-set of an intern changes as they start their lifelong conservation journey. I started off as an intern myself then later on was promoted to a supervising role on the Y4AW internship. During this 4 week long internship pure passion evolves to a strong conservation ethic and meaningful action to preserve wildlife.
Interns generally start this program with a rose tinted view of conservation. They imagine conservation to be all about army-green jeeps, khakis, untouched landscapes and peaceful bushveld nights. This, of course is the more romantic version of conservation, and as with everything in life they learn to take it with more than a pinch of salt. First there is a realisation that living in a tent for a month means discarding most of your city-savvy ways. You realise that you are more of a trespasser than any of the wildlife in the reserve will ever be. It becomes apparent that nature is more in control than you despite our species being top of the food chain. When a lion or any other predator strolls through camp you stay out of its way as the local SPCA will not come remove it. Monkeys are not cute and cuddly animals to be hugged, and when elephants are munching on the vegetation outside your tent you keep quiet and let them eat in peace.
Once the new rules of engagement sink in and all notions of a comfort zone have disappeared, you start on an emotional rollercoaster as you learn about the harsher truths of conservation. You wonder why most television shows tend to romanticize conservation while neglecting to speak about the rising extinction rates that conservation is struggling to contend with. A seemingly simple fence becomes a subject of hatred when you realise how it decreases sizes of habitats, blocks ancient migration routes and may eventually drive some species to extinction. The fence hatred reaches fever-pitch when game wardens mention that populations of certain animals have to be regulated to suit the size of a reserve. Anger leads some interns to ask; "Why don't we regulate our own population numbers more effectively and leave the wildlife alone since they got here before us?" The question is valid yet loaded with so many ethical pitfalls that I dare not answer it. How would we morally justify suppressing human populations while letting other animals flourish? Then again, how do we justify our superiority when the most fundamental of Earth's life-giving processes assign the same value to all life forms?
The hatred of fences is usually followed by anger at the world as interns ask themselves how we carry on with current ideas of development even though they are slowly killing our environment. This anger is coupled with confusion as to how we can claim to be bettering our lives while simultaneously destroying Earth's processes that give us life. Learning that one of the biggest conservation challenges is poaching and canned hunting leads you to concentrate your anger on certain nations. The East annoys you because of its obsession with either eating almost any animal or using it for dubious medicinal purposes. Any wildlife product that is not consumed is then likely to be used as a status symbol or collector's item. There's disgust towards the West's incessant need to shoot animals and hang them on living room walls for friends to see. A society that has supposedly reached the pinnacle of civilisation still conforms to ancient ways of proving one's manhood by hanging dead animals on walls. Respect for western nations diminishes further as you fail to understand how such seemingly smart people get duped into believing that canned hunting or lion petting has conservation's best interests at heart. African nations are not exempt from this dismay. There are questions as to how such a proud continent can sell off its soul for short-term gain. Poverty may be rife in Africa but poaching will only make matters worse as any gains from it cannot be maintained indefinitely.
The focus shifts to individual governments that seem content with letting criminal syndicates do as they please with the world's natural heritage. Faith in most governments is lost as you realise that they have little political will. Some poaching kingpins are known but they are rarely ever brought to justice. Corruption is so rampant that it seems part of normal administration. South Africa has the world's biggest population of rhinos, the recent rhino poaching problem has been going on for more than 4 years, and yet there is still no commitment to laws that adequately protect rhinos. The US has some of the toughest anti-terrorism policies, poaching has strong links to terrorism, some poached wildlife products end up on American shores, and yet they have not really cracked down on this form of terrorist activity.
Scrutiny of the world's governments eventually leads to self-scrutiny. We live in a largely democratic world so we have the power to change the status quo. We may not be as powerful as politicians but collectively we can lobby our governments towards more environmentally responsible ways. With realisation of individual power comes disgust as interns realise how ignorant they were to some of the world's most pressing issues. Some question how they continued with their seemingly normal lives unaware that poaching not only threatens the lives of wild animals but theirs too. At this point there comes a commitment to changing one's own ways and leading a more environmentally-friendly life. There is a commitment to being a conservationist. This commitment is not only backed by passion but there is an epiphany behind it. There is a realisation that through saving wildlife conservation is saving our own lives.
Personally I have also gone through change while on this internship. I started with an idea of how urgently we needed conservation. Now I know that we urgently need to communicate the importance of conservation to those without first-hand experience of the wildlife crisis. I know that we need to show others that conservation is not a lifestyle choice, but a struggle to ensure that our great grandchildren have a chance at life.


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Breaking news from KGRA Radio tells of a healthwatch for a well-known individual in UFO circles.
American physicist and UFO investigator/author Stanton Friedman suffered a heart attack this weekend [it took place Friday, June 27, 2014] in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, where he lives.
According to his co-author Kathy Marden, he's in stable condition and is going to be moved to a larger facility on Monday [June 30, 2014], for possible surgery.
We can safely say, Stan won't be attending next weekend's annual Roswell, New Mexico, event.
He's also scheduled to travel to the Philadelphia for the annual MUFON symposium in three short weeks, as he, George Knapp and Lee Speigel are scheduled to be on a panel together.
Lee will be on the first hour of George Knapp's show tonight at:
(1am Eastern) and is expected to comment further on Stanton.
From all of here at the KGRA ask everyone to please keep our good friend in your prayers at this time. Source.
Stanton T. Friedman is a dual citizen of the USA and Canada and lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, just across the Maine border from the USA. (UFO film & television writer, producer, director, and author Paul Kimball of Nova Scotia is Stan's nephew.)
Kathleen Marden reports around 10 am Monday, June 30th, that Stan was talking from the hospital and experiencing a batteries of cardiac tests. Stan turns 80 years old on his next birthday, July 29th.
I last met Stan in 2013, at a special VIP dinner for speakers at the Experiencers event in Portland, Maine. He was fit, healthy, and joy, as always. This is terrible news, and I wish Stan a full, quick recovery.
A word about the terms "UFO" versus "flying saucer": Friedman has consistently favored the use of the term "flying saucer" in his work, saying "Flying saucers are, by definition, unidentified flying objects, but very few unidentified flying objects are flying saucers. I am interested in the latter, not the former."
Friedman formerly called himself "The Flying Saucer Physicist," because of his degrees in nuclear physics and his work on nuclear projects, according to ufo encyclopedia authors Ronald Story and Jerome Clark.
Stanton Friedman drawing by Nick Shev.
Because Stan is a prolific speaker at UFO-related conferences, his biography is well-known to most in the field.
Nuclear Physicist-Author-Lecturer Stanton T. Friedman received his BSc. and MSc. Degrees in physics from the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. He was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist by such companies as GE, GM, Westinghouse, TRW Systems, Aerojet General Nucleonics, and McDonnell-Douglas working in such highly advanced, classified, eventually cancelled programs as nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and various compact nuclear power-plants for space and terrestrial applications.
He became interested in UFOs in 1958, and since 1967 has lectured about them at more than 600 colleges and 100 professional groups in 50 U.S. states, 9 Canadian provinces and 16 other countries in addition to various nuclear consulting efforts. He has published more than 90 UFO papers and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs including on Larry King in 1997, 2007 and twice in 2008, and many documentaries. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident and co-authored Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident. TOP SECRET/MAJIC his controversial book about the Majestic 12 group, established in 1947 to deal with alien technology, was published in 1996 and went through 6 printings. An expanded new edition was published in 2005.
Stan was presented with a Lifetime UFO Achievement Award in Leeds, England, in 2002, by UFO Magazine of the UK. He is co-author with Kathleen Marden (Betty Hill's Niece) of a book in 2007: Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. The City of Fredericton, New Brunswick, declared August 27, 2007, Stanton Friedman Day. His book Flying Saucers and Science was published in June 2008 and is in its 4th printing. His newest book Science Was Wrong with Kathleen Marden, was published in June 2010. On July 2, 2010, he was inducted into the Roswell UFO Hall of Fame.
He has provided written testimony to Congressional Hearings, appeared twice at the UN, and been a pioneer in many aspects of ufology including Roswell, Majestic 12, The Betty Hill- Marjorie Fish star map work, analysis of the Delphos, Kansas, physical trace case, crashed saucers, flying saucer technology, and challenges to the S.E.T.I. (Silly Effort To Investigate) cultists.
Stan has spoken at more MUFON Symposia than any other individual.
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Bourbon Street Shooting
An angry-sounding man shot at another man and then emptied his gun into the crowd in the 700 block of Bourbon Street early Sunday morning, June 29, 2014, according to an eyewitness.
New Orleans Police say nine people have been injured during a shooting on celebrated Bourbon Street.
Police spokesman Frank Robertson says the incident happened early Sunday. Seven people were hospitalized in stable condition, and a female was listed in critical condition. Another victim's condition was not available.
Bourbon Street is New Orleans' most famous street, a nightly swirl of bright neon and happy tourists with beverages in hand. The French Quarter's Bourbon Street is a blend of jazz joints, strip clubs, bars and four-star restaurants. Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo is located on the corner of St Ann. Reverend Zombie's House of Voodoo is down St. Peter Street from the site of the shooting.
Sunday morning's incident is the third major shooting on Bourbon Street in the last three years. In February on the Saturday before Mardi Gras, an argument in the 400 block of Bourbon Street led to a shooting that sent four people to the hospital. During Halloween in 2011 on that same block, one person was killed and seven others were injured after gunmen opened fire on each other in the crowd, according to the USA Today.
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Suffer The Little Children, Part II
A 3-year-old girl (identified as Wynter Larkin) is dead after an accident occurred at a Rita's Water Ice Saturday afternoon [June 28, 2014].A security gate detached and came crashing down on the child shortly after 4 p.m. when she was standing outside a Rita's location at 2829 Girard Ave. in Philadelphia's Brewerytown neighborhood, according to reports.
An ambulance rushed the victim to Hahnemann University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 5:02 p.m., according to officials.
Police say the girl was with her mother attending a fundraising event for the Omega Psi Phi fraternity and the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority when the tragedy occurred. (Read more at source.)
Photos from the scene show the black metal gate lying on the sidewalk, pink balloons still tied to it in front of the shop's red and white striped awning.
Several popped balloons appear trapped underneath the gate, which businesses typically roll down after hour to prevent crime. (These details were graphically mentioned in the Daily Mail.)
Omega Psi Phi (ΩΨΦ) Fraternity, Inc. is the first international fraternal organization to be founded on the campus of a historically black college.
Omega Psi Phi was founded on November 17, 1911, at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The founders were three Howard University undergraduates, -- Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman. Joining them was their faculty adviser, Dr. Ernest Everett Just.
From the initials of the Greek phrase meaning, "friendship is essential to the soul," the name Omega Psi Phi was derived. That phrase was selected as the motto. Source.
Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African-American college women. Membership is primarily for college educated women, but not all members have attended college. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of twenty students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle. Source.
In an update of an earlier "Suffer The Little Children" item about the child who died in a SUV in the Atlanta area, CNN reported:
The suspect in a Georgia toddler's death told police he used the Internet to research child deaths inside vehicles, a search warrant said.
The father, Justin Ross Harris, 33, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and second-degree child cruelty in the death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper Harris. The boy died after he was left seven hours in a sweltering SUV on June 18.
"During an interview with Justin, he stated that he recently researched, through the internet, child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur," according to a sworn statement in the warrant from a police officer. "Justin stated that he was fearful that this could happen."
According to search warrants from a Cobb County magistrate court, investigators seized a number of items from the father's home: An iPhone 5, Hyundai car, home laptop computer, computer tower, a Google Chromecast Internet searcher and other electronic devices.
On Sunday, June 29th, CNN noted:
Leanna Harris, the mother of a Georgia toddler who died locked in a hot car, has told authorities that she previously researched such deaths and how they occur, according to a police affidavit.
In a followup on another earlier report, "Solstice Missing Teen Found Dead in Maine," details have emerged about his slaying:
Three young men, one of them from Sanford, Maine, face the possibility of life in prison after being charged Thursday [June 26, 2014] with the premeditated stabbing death of a teenager whose body was dumped last weekend in Lebanon, Maine.
Zachary Pinette, 18, of Sanford appeared Thursday in Dover District Court to be formally charged with the first-degree murder of Aaron Wilkinson.
His co-defendants, Michael Tatum, 21, of Barrington, New Hampshire, and Tristan Wolusky, 18, of Rochester, New Hampshire, appeared from the Strafford County Jail through a video link.
The three are charged with killing Wilkinson outside his house in Madbury, a small town next to Dover. Pinette drove them there from Maine after midnight on Saturday, and held a machete as the other two stabbed Wilkinson with knives and then the machete, according to documents filed by prosecutors.
The documents say that at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Pinette aided Wolusky and Tatum in committing first-degree murder. The documents also say that Tatum stabbed Wilkinson with a knife, and that Wolusky used a "knife and/or machete." Source.
It may not be a coincidence that this killing took place a few hours before the Solstice.
See also, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin."
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Controversial Authors Terry Hansen and Louis A. Frank Die
Two revolutionary intellectuals, both authors of books that made people think, passed away recently this Spring.
Overnight on June 20, into June 21, 2014, nearing the Summer Solstice, journalist and researcher Terry Hansen died. Hansen was a ufologist and author of The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up.
Hansen died quietly in his sleep. His wife Jessica reported the doctor said her husband had a massive coronary, and felt no pain.
The site The UFO Chronicles first shared the news, and quoted Hansen's wife as saying:
He was the most honest person with the greatest sense of integrity I have ever known. My first impression of Terry was one of nobility of spirit and he never let me down He had a lot of wonderful adventures the last few years of his life and I am so grateful for that.
Terry Hansen was a former magazine editor and then became an independent journalist with a special interest in scientific controversies and the politics of knowledge. He followed the UFO controversy for much of his life and had occasionally written about it for various media, including National Public Radio and the Minneapolis Star & Tribune. He was a guest on various regional and national broadcast programs, including Dreamland, the History Channel, and Strange Days. He had spoken before various groups about UFO-related censorship and propaganda.
Hansen organized and moderated two symposiums about "The Science and Politics of UFO Research" for the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. His one book was The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up. Find excerpts from the book by clicking here.
Hansen held a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in science journalism, both from the University of Minnesota.
Terry Hansen was a founding partner of KFH Publications, Inc., a Seattle computer-magazine publishing company. He was also an active private pilot with ratings for single-engine aircraft and gliders, and the skipper of the converted diesel-powered wooden fishing trawler, New Rosa. He had lived on the Canadian Gulf Islands, and on Bainbridge Island, Washington State, with his wife, Jess, and two parrots.
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Louis A. Frank
Word has also reached me, via Patrick Huyghe, that the revolutionary thinker Louis A. Frank died over a month ago. Frank thought outside the box, often, and was Patrick's coauthor on The Big Splash.
Frank, an experimental physicist, was often on the breaking edge of science, as he made the first measurements of the plasma ring around Saturn, was the first to measure solar-wind plasma funneling directly into the Earth's polar atmosphere and was the first to observe with a scientific instrument the belt of ions around the Earth known as the "ring current." Frank also discovered the theta aurora, a light phenomenon that looks like the Greek letter theta hovering above the polar cap.
As a young scientist, when he was 42, Louis Frank got in the most hot water (no pun intended) when he started talking about small comets and their importance in the history of Earth. The grueling nature of Frank's battle with other scientists was even briefly highlighted in The New York Times.
The Des Moines Register summarized Frank's concept and what happened because of the controversy this way:
Louis A. Frank, a retired University of Iowa scientist who believed small comets made of ice and water crashed into the Earth to create the planet's lakes, rivers and oceans, died Friday. He was 75.
In 1981, Frank and his UI colleagues analyzed data from the NASA satellite Dynamics Explorer I, which looked at Earth in ultraviolet light. Frank and his team were interested in small black dots found in the images.
While some believed the dots were transmission errors, Frank and his team concluded the spots were caused by the disintegration of small comets — each weighing about 20 to 40 tons.
In 1986, Frank published his findings in Geographical Research Letters, a scientific journal. He argued that as many as 25,000 small comets disintegrated in the Earth's atmosphere each day.
Eleven other researchers published responses refuting Frank's claims, and Frank and his co-other responded to 10 of them.
In 1990, he and science writer Patrick Huyghe published the book The Big Splash: A Scientific Discovery That Revolutionizes the Way We View the Origin of Life, the Water We Drink, the Death of the Dinosaurs, the Creation of the Oceans, the Nature of the Cosmos, and the Very Future of the Earth Itself.
In 1999, Frank, a Chicago native, compared his earlier research to images from NASA's Polar satellite, which he believed supported his theory. However, again, scientists in the field objected to his findings.
In an opinion piece published by the Washington Post and The Des Moines Register, Frank described the painful experience of advocating for an unpopular idea in the scientific community.
"The science game can be brutal," he wrote. "I was shunned by almost everyone. … I paid a stiff price. Perhaps I shouldn't have been so naive, but the behavior of some former friends and colleagues amazed me. It went far beyond what I expected."
Here is his formal obituary:
Dr. Louis A. Frank, Professor Emeritus of Physics & Astronomy from the University of Iowa died Friday, May 16, 2014.
Memorial services will be held 10 a.m., Tuesday, May 20th at the Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City with visitation from 4-7 p.m., Monday at the funeral home. Private family interment will take place at Oakland Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Van Allen Physics Scholarship Fund at the University of Iowa Foundation.
Louis was born in Chicago, IL and graduated from high school in Fort Madison, Iowa. He enjoyed nurturing trees and wildlife as well as automobiles. His passion in life was science.
Dr. Frank was a Professor of Physics at The University of Iowa, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1964. His first professional research activities occurred in 1958 when he assisted Professor Van Allen in the calibration of the first U. S. lunar probes, Pioneers 3 and 4, as an undergraduate student. Since then he had been an experimenter, co-investigator, or principal investigator for instruments on forty-two spacecraft. Dr. Frank was the principal investigator for the auroral imaging instruments for the Dynamics Explorer Mission, the plasma instrumentation for the Galileo Mission to Jupiter, the U. S. plasma instrumentation for the Japanese Geotail spacecraft, and the camera for visible wavelengths for the Polar spacecraft of the International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Program. His publications encompassed such topics as the first direct measurements of the terrestrial ring current and of the polar cusp, the current systems in Earth's magnetotail, the plasma tori at Jupiter and at Saturn, and global imaging of Earth's auroral zones and atmosphere. His research interests were directed toward magnetospheric plasmas in the vicinity of Earth, wave-plasma instabilities, active experiments in the ionosphere, interpretation of auroral images in terms of global convection and current systems, the Jovian magnetosphere and its relationship with the Galilean satellites, computed tomography, geocoronal hydrogen, comets, and optics. He served on various NASA and NAS/NRC committees and as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the American Astronomical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science and the International Academy of Astronautics. He was a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a recipient of the National Space Act Award.
His family includes his two daughters, Jessica Frank of Iowa City and Suzanne Frankof Waterloo; brother, Clyde Frank of Virginia; sister, Emilou Woods of Colorado, and grandson Taylor Bergstrom of New York.
Labels: Authors, Bainbridge Island, Books, Louis A. Frank, Media, Obituary, Patrick Huyghe, Small Comets, Terry Hansen, theta aurora, UFOs
The new multicolored clothing on the stranger made people feel slightly uneasy. The man's name, Bunting, was a reflection of his attire, the residents of the small Westphalian town were soon to learn. The tall, thin newcomer offered his services to the town council, and they readily accepted. Pest control was a serious problem in 1284 and this fellow Bunting said he could get rid of all the rats in town. Thus the beginning of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin was born. Bunting did lure the rats with his mystical music into drowning in the Weser River, but the townspeople refused to pay him. The Pied Piper decided to collect in another fashion. On St. John's Day, June 24th, Bunting returned to Hamelin and piped his haunting tune. Soon all one hundred and thirty children were enchanted into following him out of the town and into a cave in the Koppenberg Mountain. The entrance was sealed and the children were trapped forever.
[Some fix the exact date of the exodus on St. John and Paul's Day, June 26, 1284.]
The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is said by some scholars to be based on truth. Others feel the story grew out of the Children's Crusade of 1212 in which 20,000 young crusaders marched towards the East and were never seen again. Whatever its origin, the tale is a well known one, having been retold in many ways at various times. Robert Browning's poem, for example, was written in the 1800s, and places the events of the Piper's last visit to Hamelin on July 22, 1376. The town of Hamelin does exist, and perhaps the sinister character and deeds of Bunting did as well.
The above passage is from my book, Mysterious America, in my "Phantom Clowns" chapter because "Pied Pipers" continue to visit themselves upon the children in the USA and elsewhere.
Illustration by D. Baum.
H/T to C.T.
Labels: Children, June 24, June 26, Mysterious America, Phantom Clowns, Pied Piper
Solstice Missing Teen Found Dead In Maine
Authorities said an 18-year-old from Madbury, New Hampshire who was reported missing from his home on June 21, 2014, Saturday, the Summer Solstice, was stabbed to death.
Parents of the missing teen called local police Saturday morning to report their son missing. Shortly after the initial report, the state police and their major crime unit joined the investigation. Authorities spent much of the afternoon and evening on Saturday at the teen's home on Evans Road. They returned on Sunday. State police officers could be seen gathering evidence and processing the scene.
Meanwhile, in nearby Lebanon, Maine, authorities just across the border were trying to determine the identity of a body discovered along Long Swamp Road on Saturday afternoon. The body was found by a woman walking along the road at about 4 p.m.
In a news release early Sunday morning, Maine police said the body had no identification on it and they were reviewing missing persons reports from Maine and other New England states.
Authorities in New Hampshire said they would wait until a definitive identification was made to connect the two, but family members of the missing teen were told by police it was likely their son. Source.
Authorities confirmed Monday that the person who was found stabbed to death in Lebanon, Maine, on Saturday was the teenager who was reported missing from his home in Madbury that day, but they shed no light on what they believe happened or whether they have identified a suspect.
Aaron Wilkinson, who stopped attending high school last year and worked until a few months ago at a warehouse at the Kittery Trading Post, was an avid skateboarder who frequented the John C. Littlefield Memorial Skate Park in Exeter, New Hampshire.
... Wilkinson left Dover High [School] and attended Oyster River High School in neighboring Durham, according to his Facebook page, though he left before this year, which would have been his senior year.
Prosecutors in New Hampshire would not say when or where Wilkinson was killed, or when he was last seen by his family before he was reported missing Saturday morning. Source.
At top: A makeshift memorial stands along Long Swamp Road in Lebanon on Monday. Police have identified a man who was found fatally stabbed in Lebanon on Saturday as 18-year-old Aaron Wilkinson. Photo credit: Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer Portland Press Herald.
It is a name with Hebrew origins, meaning "mountaintop" or "exalted."
Wilkinson:
"Son of Wilkin," from Wilkin, a diminutive for William from the Germanic nameWilhelm from the elements wil, "will or desire," and helm, "helmet or protection." Wilkinson is just one of many surnames derived from William, or "son of William."
For a followup, see: Suffer The Little Children, Part II
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Labels: Death, Lebanon, Long Swamp Road, Maine, New Hampshire, Solstice. Missing
Miami's Liberty City: 9 Shot, 2 Dead
Nine people, according to CNN, were shot Tuesday morning, St. John's Day, June 24, 2014, in the Liberty City section of Miami.
Five people were taken to the hospital. Two people died in the shooting, Miami Police spokeswoman Frederica Burden said.
One of the victims was a teenage girl, CBS4 reports.
The shooting happened around 2:00 a.m. outside an apartment complex in the Liberty City neighborhood, about 6 miles north of downtown Miami, at Northwest 12th Avenue and 65th Street (pictured above), according to CNN and the Miami Herald.
This Miami neighborhood is home to one of the largest concentrations of African Americans in South Florida, as of the 2000 Census. Although often referred to as "Model City" both historically and by the City of Miami government, the neighborhood is more commonly referred to as "Liberty City" by local residents and the media.
Liberty Square and Compass Freedom Pin
President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the construction of the Liberty Square housing project in 1933, the first of its kind in the southern United States. Construction on the initial housing project began in 1934 and opened in 1937.
The Masonic origins of the Liberty Tree to Liberty Square concept is quite apparent, and appears to be part of the history of this Liberty Square, as well as those traditionally linked to the Freemasonry origins of the Revolutionary War.
The Liberty City of the 1940s-1960s was the home of Kelsey Pharr, M. Athalie Range (the first African American to elected serve on the Miami city commission) and boxer Muhammad Ali.
Into the 1990s and 2000s, the region's music that gained popularity grew to reflect the area with locals such as Luther Campbell of the 2 Live Crew pioneering the Miami bass genre, which dominated Southern hip hop music during the decade. Other music and sports talents rose to national prominence from the area such as rappers Trina and Trick Daddy and NFL players Chad "Ocho Cinco" Johnson, Terry Bridgewater, and Willis McGahee.
Labels: Florida, June 24, Liberty City, Liberty Square, Miami, Multiple Shooting, St. John's Day
Sadly, Suffer The Little Children
Some sad, weird stories are crossing my desk, about kids, about deaths, about this time of year, and, of course, once again, from the Atlanta area. Maybe there's someone out there who can see some patterns or meaning in all of this horrible news.
First, something seemed to be in the wind about the Summer Solstice, more so than normal, this year. There was a rash of stories, seemingly causing some Satanic smoldering about the dates June 20-25. See "Satanists & Solstice Slayings." Of course, there was a hint of bizarreness just before the 21st on "Friday the 13th at Waffle House." Earlier, in May, a "Man Robbed A Waffle House With A Pitchfork."
The three Waffle House incidents - the pitchfork robbery at a WH, the killing of an on-duty policeman working as a security guard at a WH, and a WH employee shooting and killing a customer - all happened at Atlanta-area Waffle Houses.
In a strange link to Atlanta and an old name game previously identified here (= Tecumseh), the William Tecumseh Sherman monument (above) at the Grand Army Plaza in New York City was in the news because it is losing its gold covering. Tecumseh also showed up in the news this week with a lightning fire in Tecumseh, Ontario; a horse being killed in a fire in Tecumseh, Oklahoma; and a shooting at the intersection of Gloster and Tecumseh streets in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to name but a few examples.
The Union general who burned Atlanta was named after the great Shawnee prophet Tecumseh.
When another human tragedy struck, late in June, it was no surprise that the Atlanta area was a focus again. A toddler had been found dead, and had apparently been left alone for hours in a hot car. The distraught father blamed himself and faced serious criminal charges.
But there is a bit of mystery here. What was the truth behind the incident?
Cobb County, Georgia, police imply there is more -- much more -- to the story.
"Much has changed about the circumstances leading up to the death of this 22-month-old [Cooper Harris, pictured at top] since it was first reported," Cobb County Police Sgt. Dana Pierce told CNN. He would not elaborate, citing an ongoing investigation, but his words made it clear this was not just another case of a young life left and lost to heat exposure in a hot car.
Shocking details in hot car death case
"I've been in law enforcement for 34 years. What I know about this case shocks my conscience as a police officer, a father and a grandfather," said Pierce.
Initially, Justin Ross Harris, 33, (pictured) told Cobb County police that he accidentally left his toddler son in his SUV on Wednesday. According to police, Harris told them he had forgotten to drop the child off at a daycare center, before going to work.
Harris initially told police he realized that he'd left the boy strapped in his car seat as he drove home Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators say patrol officers were in the area of the Akers Mill Square shopping center in the suburban Atlanta county when dispatchers received the calls from witnesses around 4:20 p.m.
"He kept saying, 'What have I done? What have I done?'" Dale Hamilton told CNN affiliate WSB-TV.
"Within moments of the first responders getting to the scene and doing their job and questions began to be asked about the moments that led up to their arrival at the scene, some of those answers were not making sense to the first responders," Pierce of Cobb County Police said.
On Thursday, Harris pleaded not guilty to felony murder and cruelty to children charges. He's being held without bond at the Cobb County Jail.
CNN spoke with the child's mother, Leanna Harris, on Friday. Harris says she's been advised not to discuss the case with the media.
"We have been in communication with the mother throughout the investigation. At this time, I'm not at liberty to discuss her involvement. That's a part of the case our detectives are working on," Pierce said....
According to the arrest warrant, the temperature reached 88 degrees in the area on Wednesday. Police said medical personnel believed the child had been in the SUV since 9 a.m., as Harris said.
But Pierce told CNN on Friday, "I cannot confirm that the child, as originally reported, was in the car at 9 a.m." ~ CNN
What's worse, there was another such death.
The [Atlanta-area] toddler's death was the second this week of a child in a hot car. On Monday, a 9-month-old girl died in Rockledge, Fla., after her father forgot to drop her off at her grandmother's house, leaving her in the back seat of his pickup truck for several hours as he worked at his job as a telephone solicitor for the Fraternal Order of Police.
As of Thursday, no charges had been filed against Steven Lillie, 31, of Cocoa, Fla. Rockledge Police say they still are investigating the death and allowing Lillie and his girlfriend, the child's mother, to grieve the loss.
"She's been in the car for hours, and I absolutely forgot about her," Lillie said during a 9-1-1 call Monday to police dispatchers. "She's not alive." USA Today.
Thus far, in 2014, the following incidents have occurred:
Incident # Date Location Temperature Name Age
06/18/14 Cobb County, GA 91° Cooper Harris 22 mo
06/16/14 Rockledge, FL 91° Anna Lillie 9 mo
06/12/14 Ardmore, OK 84° Mason Ryan Wood 2 mo
06/10/14 Flint, TX 88° Bella Lindstrom 4 yr
06/08/14 Sarasota, FL 85° Alejandra Hernandez 2 yr
06/04/14 Dolgeville, NY 73° Sophia Lea Marie Lyon 15 mo
05/25/14 Florence, SC 86° Jeremiah A. Kennedy 13 mo
05/25/14 Princeton, IL 84° Logan Jacobs 5 yr
05/12/14 Clarkston, GA 87° Julius Meh 2 yr
05/08/14 Hartsville, SC 93° Sophia Goyeneche 13 mo
04/29/14 Bakersfield, CA 87° Fernando Velasquez 5 yr
04/22/14 North Richland Hills, TX 84° Aurora Hollingsworth 17 mo
04/16/14 San Jose, CA 80° Giovanni Alonzo Hernandez 9 mo
For 2013, see the list here.
"Suffer the little children" seemed a fitting headline for this posting.
But Jesus said, "Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." ~ Matthew 19:14, English Revised Version, The Bible
Just to clarify, as pointed out by RC in a comment to me, the use of the word "suffer" in the biblical sense means to "allow" as in "allow the children to come to me."
What is the paradox is how the meaning has changed for people from Stephen King (see at bottom) to the self-styled Satanists.
Meanwhile, the BeforeItNews folks wanted to turn everyone's attention to Denver, Colorado, over the Solstice weekend. There was talk of the sacrifice of a human child there, due to the Summer Solstice.
It was also pointed out that around the time of the Summer Solstice in 2013, in Midwest City, Oklahoma,
a toddler was held hostage [on June 17th] at Walmart, the suspected criminal claimed he was part of a Satanic cult.
News9 reported Sammie Lamont Wallace grabbed the two-year-old child at knifepoint and began speaking about the Illuminati and a satanic cult. Police said they began to research the things Wallace said, and found out that the day of the incident linked to a day of human sacrifice.
Police shot and killed Wallace after he began to make attempts on the girl's life. According to the police report they found religious writings in a notebook to validate his actions. See a report that further explains the story here.
A school shooting, Stephen King, and Miss Sibley.
"Suffer the Little Children" is a February 1972 short story by Stephen King.
As King developed the tale, it was one about a school shooting long before the modern era of such events.
The plot centers on a frightened third grade teacher, Miss Emily Sidley, who brings her deceased brother's gun to school. There she takes twelve of her students to a room and shoots each one dead. Soon, she is interrupted by another teacher, and stops before she can kill another student.
Miss Sidley is sent to a mental hospital after the murders, and eventually takes her own life.
In 1993, King wrote that the story had "no redeeming social merit whatever."
Later, Stephen King discussed the role of his book Rage (which also contains a school shooting) after the school shootings by Barry Loukaitis of February 2, 1996, in Moses Lake, Washington. Eventually King apologized for writing the book, saying he penned it during a troubling period in his life. He said he wished it never had been published. Finally in 1999, after Columbine, King told his publisher to pull it from publication and took it out-of-print. He told the Today Show's Katie Couric: "I took a look at Rage and said to myself, if this book is acting as any sort of accelerate, if it's having any effect on any of these kids at all, I don't want anything to do with it, regardless of what may be the moral and legal rights and wrongs. Even talking about it makes me nervous."
H/T to Sibyl Hunter for some hints.
For a followup, see Suffer The Little Children, Part II.
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Non-Defining Relative Clauses
Combine the sentences using relative clauses. Note that all relative clauses are non-defining.
Samuel Johnson was the son of a bookseller. Samuel Johnson was born in 1709.
In 1728, he went to Oxford. He studied at Pembroke College in Oxford.
In 1728, he went
Johnson had to leave Oxford without a degree. He was too poor to pay the fees.
In 1737, Johnson moved to London. There he wrote poetry, essays and biographies.
In 1737, Johnson
In 1746, Johnson started to write his dictionary. It took him nine years to complete.
In 1746, Johnson started
His home at that time was in 17 Gough Square in London. It is a museum now.
17 Gough Square in London
In this house, his wife died in 1752. Her name was Elizabeth Porter.
In this house his wife
In 1755, the work was published. It was called A Dictionary of the English Language.
In 1755, the work
Samuel Johnson died in 1784. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.


Coming off a show in Brussels, Toronto-based artist Nava Waxman returns to Canada — to Ottawa specifically, where her exhibit, Untitled Wall, opens this Thursday, May 12 at Wall Space Gallery. The vernisage runs from 6 to 9 p.m.
Untitled Wall will be a mixture of encaustic (wax-based painting), photography, video, and installation — all mediums used to capture Waxman's creative process and leaving us with tangible moments of fleeting in-studio work. The idea behind the exhibit — in particular the use of different motives of art — is to show how they are connected through the process of creation. In other words, Waxman is much more interested in the potential of the act of creating, than the product itself.
For the vernissage, visitors will have a rare opportunity to see Waxman in the process of the "half told story" as she will be at work in the gallery.
The exhibition will continue until June 5.


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4-TIME WORLD CHAMPION ABNER MARES CONFIRMED FOR 5TH ANNUAL BOX FAN EXPO DURING CINCO DE MAYO WEEKEND, SATURDAY MAY 4, IN LAS VEGAS
Las Vegas (August 29, 2019) – Boxing's Four-Time World Champion Abner Mares has confirmed that he will appear and hold a meet and greet with his fans at the fifth annual Box Fan Expo on Saturday May 4, 2019 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Expo is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., during Cinco De Mayo weekend.The Boxing Expo will also coincide with the highly anticipated fight between Canelo Alvarez vs Danny Jacobs, that will take place later that evening at the T-Mobile Arena.
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Mares will make his third appearance at this years' Expo, where he will be selling his own branded Team Mares merchandise, signing gloves and taking photos with fans. Mares is a commentator on Telemundo's "Boxeo Telemundo" series and a co-host of FOX and FS1's "Inside PBC Boxing."
Mares joins Roy Jones Jr., Mayweather Promotions, Anthony Dirrell, WBA, Julio Cesar Chavez, Riddick Bowe, Mikey Garcia, Errol Spence Jr., Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez, Vinny Paz, Devin Haney, Earnie Shavers, Al Bernstein, Michael Spinks, WBC, Erik Morales, James Toney and Jessie Vargas as an early commitment to this year's Box Fan Expo, with more Boxing stars to be announced.
About Abner Mares
Mares was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and immigrated to the U.S. at age 7. Having been raised in both Los Angeles and Mexico. Mares is a Mexican-American professional boxer who formerly held the WBA (Regular) Featherweight Championship Title. Mares is a four-time world champion in three weight classes. Some of Mares most notable and exciting fights were against top level fighters, such as Vic Darchinyan, Joseph Agbeko, Anselmo Moreno, Daniel Ponce De Leon, Jhonny Gonzalez, Leo Santa Cruz and Jesus Cuellar from whom he won the WBA title on December 10 th, 2016. He is presently the co-host of FOX and FS1 "Inside PBC Boxing" and Telemundo's "Boxeo Telemundo."
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THE NEVADA BOXING HALL OF FAME CONFIRMED FOR INAUGURAL BOX FAN EXPO TO TAKE PLACE THIS SEPTEMBER IN LAS VEGAS
MEET AND GREET the world's biggest fighters, promoters and industry people at the 1st time, one of a kind BOXING EXPO event
THE NEVADA BOXING HALL OF FAME CONFIRMED FOR THIRD EDITION OF BOX FAN EXPO TAKING PLACE ON CINCO DE MAYO WEEKEND, SATURDAY MAY 6, IN LAS VEGAS
BOXING LEGEND EARNIE SHAVERS CONFIRMED FOR FIFTH ANNUAL BOX FAN EXPO, DURING CINCO DE MAYO WEEKEND, SATURDAY MAY 4, IN LAS VEGAS
Box Fan Expo to be present at the Carl Frampton vs Leo Santa Cruz rematch from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas
MIKE TYSON & CEO GARRY JONAS "IRON MIKE PRODUCTIONS" CONFIRMED FOR INAUGURAL BOX FAN EXPO TO TAKE PLACE THIS SEPTEMBER IN LAS VEGAS


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Typographically Speaking
1st Birthday Party Favors in my mother's typeface
I spend hours and hours choosing the perfect font for any project, card, letter, photo edit that I do. It's even harder trying to find the typeface that best express oneself. So I thought I would start here.
When I was a child back during the times of pens, paper and the "By Hand" mail days, my mother would always use her own special typeface for invitations and would insist that I follow suit. It was a child-like handwriting and on each letter she would create her own decorative serif by adding little round bulbs at the terminals, at the tips of the arms, legs, the stems, the chins, the crotch, and at the points where a crossbars would intersect the rest of the letter. This typeface, I would say captures me best, as it reflects my colorful energy and appreciation for my youthful days.
KG Miss Kindergarten + Serif/Decorative Bulbs
It was hard to find this font so I had to do some editing to turn a sans serif into this sort of serif. I used KG Miss Kindergarten as the base sans serif and added on the bulbs to the existing font. The kerning seemed a bit tight, so I also spaced the characters out a bit as well.
SmorgasbordNF, Serif
Smorgasbord shows a classy, throwback to the silent film era, which is a time period and a cinema genre that have been themes in my life. All of the letters in this typeface are the ascenders. The bowl of the rounded characters are all tall, egg-shaped. The serifs on the top of the tops of the "E" and the "F" are so close together that they appear as though they form a square bowl.
Edmunds, Serif
The Edmunds typeface is playful, reminiscent of trains and the "Laugh-In" logo mixed. Quite the combination, but makes sense. The bowls, arcs, arms and legs are all very curvy and round, supported by the stiff and sturdy stems.
Prototype, Sans Serif
Prototype is a sans serif designed after the old Epcot typeface. Epcot is where I spent most of my weekends and summers during middle school. My experience at Epcot was one of the reasons that inspired me to come to ITP. The stems and the edges are all very rounded. The arcs are rounded instead of pointed, giving the typeface more flow than the ones with the pointed arcs.
Adonais, Sans Serif
Another sans serif I chose was Adonais. This typeface is adapted from the original Caesar's Palace logo. My father worked here for 39 years and whenever we would visit, Ceasar's Palace was like a second home. It's a typeface that I often tried to recreate when writing. Contrary to Prototype, the arcs, heads and tips are all angular and pointed.
Ritzy Remix, Sans Serif
And finally I chose RitzyRemix, another vintage style font, as these are the decades that I relate to best. It's a throwback to silent film meeting old Hollywood and cinema, at the juncture of when talkies came into the picture. The arcs are and stems are a mixture of round and pointed. The upper case characters were more pointed, which is why I chose to use the lower case "A" instead of the upper case. It was more fitting and more flowing.
Grado GradooNF, Sans Serif
Luminari, Serif
Krungthep, Sans Serif
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