Everyone knows there is amazing, collectible artwork being made here in Baltimore, and not just because Amy Sherald is now super famous. Over the past few years I have been approached by hundreds of individuals asking for advice and guidance about how to buy the work of Baltimore-based artists, and I have curated studio tours for cultural leaders, curators, and collectors including our Beyond the Frame Studio Tour: 22 Baltimore Studios in 2 Days with Mera Rubell and Chris Bedford, as well as one for college presidents from MICA and Johns Hopkins University, visiting critics like Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic and Carl Swanson of NY Magazine, and BmoreArt readers who want to build their own collections.
I'm not an art dealer – I'm a writer and researcher, so I'm not selling anything, except perhaps Baltimore as a locus for excellent cultural production. In each case I have been one hundred percent confident that the work I have put in front of curators and collectors is excellent and collectible, based on a decade of research and writing. I have seen how even a small amount of investment, in the form of purchasing work from an artist from a gallery or studio or a donation to a museum, can help to catapult an artist to a greater level of success, an act that can also raise the value of their work.
I believe that "it takes a village" to grow a successful career of even the most dedicated and talented artists, and that working strategically as a community to make this happen significantly improves the odds – for Baltimore's artists, for the city's reputation – and that this movement will be exciting to be a part of.
I recently partnered with Jeffrey Kent, an artist and former gallery director of the Sub-Basement Artist Studios and Unexpected Art, with support from the Robert W. Deutsch foundation, to conduct more specific research around collecting practices in the region and we have spent the past six months interviewing collectors, curators, and artists about their experiences.
Jeffrey was one of the first individuals to recognize and support Amy Sherald's painting practice when she was a grad student; he offered her a studio at the Sub-Basement and sold her portraits to a number of Baltimore-based collectors… and the rest is art history! At this point you cannot buy an Amy Sherald painting – even museums have to wait in line for one – but Jeffrey and I have conducted enough research to identify a short list of artists who have the talent, drive, and experience to potentially step into a national spotlight, especially if they have enough support.
Overwhelmingly we have been told that collectors want to be a part of Baltimore's growing arts movement, that they see collecting art of a specific place – their own place, Baltimore – to be an exciting and worthwhile venture, but they don't know how or where to begin.
How to encourage an art collecting shift in Baltimore? How to create interest and momentum for collecting works by Baltimore-based artists? How to educate people about general collecting practices to make them feel comfortable in this process? How to educate artists about how to be better prepared for the opportunities that materialize? There are a number of galleries and excellent arts professionals tackling this problem in a number of different ways and we want to support and supplement what they are doing, to build a network of advocates for artists based in Baltimore that can work in a strategic and collective way.
In our research, we discovered a number of collectors who spoke passionately about the work they purchase and how they have built a significant collection. We talked to them about how they conduct research, where and why they buy art, and how they build relationships with artists. We realized that we could make the act of collecting more accessible and more visible by making these conversations available to a wider audience. We also discovered that human beings enjoy getting together in person and that events create positive energy, so this is the impetus behind our new Connect + Collect Speaker Series initiative, where we bring art collectors and artists together for honest conversations to demystify the practice of collecting.
We are proud to present our first C+C conversation on Thursday, January 24 with Schwanda Rountree, a Washington, DC-based lawyer, collector, and art consultant, whose purposeful method of collecting the art of our time simultaneously elevates the careers of the artists who have been historically left out of art history with artist Mequitta Ahuja, a Baltimore-based painter who has been awarded both a Guggenheim and Louis Comfort Tiffany award and has gallery representation elsewhere but not in Baltimore. Not only is Rountree a fan of Ahuja's work, she is now an owner of it.
In October 2018, Rountree announced a new acquisition: a large-scale, mythic self-portrait by Mequitta Ahuja. The painting boasts hieroglyphic-like drawings, sweeping paint strokes, and hand stamps on collaged vellum, and was purchased at auction in London. Although the paintings is almost too large for the walls in her home Rountree admits that she has loved the piece since she first saw it at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in 2012. Compelled to keep the painting in the United States, as well as in supporting the artist in maintaining a solid auction record, she knew that it needed to be a part of her collection, whether it hangs in her home or on a museum wall.
Rather than presenting art collecting as the super expensive leisure time activity of the rich, our series presents collectors like Rountree, whose collection is personal, relational, and manageable in the relatively small Petworth rowhouse she shares with photographer Jati Lindsay, her husband, and their young daughter, Autumn. Rountree's selections prominently feature international artists and women artists of color, but also strike a balance between DC-based artists on the cusp of greater renown with internationally recognized artists.
What are the criteria for her selections? "I love how the image looks, but for me the most important thing is the dialogue they provoke," she explains. Although she invests in the art and artists she loves, Rountree often follows an artist's career for years, beginning with their MFA exhibition thesis. She pays attention to where they show, who else is collecting them, and how their work evolves. For her, it's not about whether an artist will blow up internationally, but more about her own feelings of commitment to their work, ideas, and career.
Since then, her collecting practice has grown beyond her own wall space; she now purchases work with the goal of placing them in museums. In addition, her devotion to artists and placing work in significant private and museum collections has grown into Rountree Art Consulting, an independently run business that makes her a regular at international art fairs, as well as to New York, Chicago, and DC galleries, where she conducts on-site research, both for her own collection and for her clients. Most often Rountree serves as a conduit between artists, galleries, collectors, and museum acquisition committees, and was a regular advisor to the now deceased Peggy Cooper Cafritz, a significant collector of African-American artists, who recently left her collection to the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Duke Ellington School for the Arts in Washington.
In the case of artist Mequitta Ahuja, The July 24, 2017 issue of the New Yorker described her work, then on view at the Asia Society Museum, as "whip-smart and languorous." According to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, where she was just named a 2018 Fellow, Mequitta Ahuja's works have been widely exhibited, including venues such as the Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, Saatchi Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Crystal Bridges, Baltimore Museum of Art and Grand Rapids Art Museum. Ahuja, a Baltimore-based artist whose parents hail from Cincinnati and New Delhi, has long employed her own image to challenge historic traditions of portrait painting.
"My central intention is to turn the artist's self-portrait, especially the woman-of-color's self-portrait, long circumscribed by identity, into a discourse on picture-making, past and present" – for my Guggenheim application, I took my artist's statement and reworded it in the future tense. The fact that I may well be working on this "project" for a lifetime as opposed to the yearlong duration of the fellowship is a benefit not an obstacle.
We are thrilled to bring these two women, collector and artist, together for a conversation about collecting the art of a specific place and best practices for building ethical, respectful, productive relationships between artists and patron. Although we are not sure what the impact will be upon those in the audience, our goal is to inspire a shift in thinking – from short-term to long-term, and from cultural bystander to participant.
We welcome artists to this conversation who want to strengthen relationships with collectors, as well as those who want to build private and public collections, including curators, collectors, gallerists, and art professionals. Our panel will be followed by a reception in The Showroom and each ticket includes an adult beverage at the bar.
Attorney and Art Consultant Schwanda Rountree places contemporary art in museums and private collections, domestically and internationally. She currently serves as Consultant for the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has also served as Advisory Board Member of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Advisory Panel Member of CulturalDC, Executive Board Member of the Porter Colloquium on African American Art, member of ArtTable, and Advisory Board Member for the 30 Americans exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Schwanda has curated several art exhibitions including ones during Miami Art Basel and the DC Jazz Festival. She has spoken on art panels at institutions and galleries, such as the Corcoran, the Phillips Collection, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Rush Arts Gallery in New York. She has served as Contributing Writer for the International Review on African American Art.
Baltimore-based painter Mequitta Ahuja turns the artist's self-portrait, especially the woman-of-color's self-portrait, which has long been defined by identity, into a discourse on picture-making. Of South Asian and African American descent, the artist positions herself boldly within her compositions, but makes the turn away from subjectivity by focusing on painting as a received form. She visually catalogs painting conventions, established over centuries while using those conventions to make new meanings. Ahuja is the recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim fellowship award. She studied at Hampshire College (BA,1998) and the University of Illinois (MFA,2003). Ahuja's works have been widely exhibited in institutions and galleries including Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, Saatchi Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Crystal Bridges, Baltimore Museum of Art and Grand Rapids Art Museum.


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Women are still romantics, despite what Hollywood thinks
By Naomi Schaefer Riley
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"I think the show ultimately betrayed what it was about, which was that women don't ultimately find happiness from marriage."
That was Darren Star, creator of the "Sex and the City" series, explaining in an interview why he thought the resolution of the show — in which Carrie Bradshaw and her leading man, Mr. Big, are reunited in Paris — completely missed the point.
It's "not that they can't" find happiness in marriage, Starr clarified. "But the show initially was going off script from the romantic comedies that had come before it. That's what had made women so attached."
Indeed, the media certainly loved that hook. In 2000, Time magazine ran the women on the cover with the headline: "Who Needs a Husband?"
Following single women's adventures in New York certainly was part of the draw of the show. It's part of the draw of any romantic comedy — at the beginning. They are living the glamorous life, complete with expensive shoes and expensive dinners. They are enjoying the pleasure of female friendships and the luxury of time to spend on them.
But for most female audience members, there is an expiration date on this kind of thing. In movies, it's about 90 minutes; in television, a few seasons. After that, women want to see the happy couple drift off into the sunset together. The number of shows where happily ever after occurs without a wedding or at least the reunion of the favorite couple is pretty limited.
And why shouldn't it be? According to a 2013 Gallup poll, 54 percent of Americans are married and another 21 percent say they have never married but would like to. Only 5 percent were never married and would never want to. For most women, a permanent single existence seems unappealing.
Describing the show in a 2003 article in City Journal, Kay Hymowitz writes, " 'Sex and the City' presents single life — even in the midst of a glamorous New York and even at these relatively high career altitudes — as a kind of purgatory." Purgatory? Was it that bad? Why yes. "Caught between adolescence and middle age, renting and owning, freedom from attachment and future husbands and children . . . They want success in work, which they seem to have achieved; they want success in love, which continually eludes them."
And that's it. Despite all the career success they achieve — columnist, lawyer, gallery owner, public-relations guru — the women spend the vast majority of their time talking about men.
The New Yorker recently put out a video that parodies the kind of conversations these women — and single, overeducated women across the country — have every day.
"It takes the sharpest minds to answer the toughest questions. Recently, five of America's top-rated experts convened to debate a question that has stumped many, throughout history — was it a date?"
In the disturbingly accurate clip, 20- and 30-something professional women gather round a boardroom table with computers and phones and notepads trying to parse whether a request by a man one of them met recently to "grab drinks" has romantic overtones.
Since "Sex and the City," there have been plenty of other edgy movies and shows about the single life. It's not getting any more enticing. If anything, Lena Dunham's vision of the single life as portrayed in "Girls" is even less attractive than Darren Star's. Her group of friends don't even have the career success and the money to make up for the terrible ways men treat them.
Or how about Amy Schumer. The cutting-edge feminist comedian offered one of the least happy single protagonists in recent memory. Her movie "Trainwreck" may have given us a vision of what it would have been like if Samantha of "SATC" had been born a couple of decades later — she would have even more meaningless sex and consumed much more liquor — but until Schumer's character winds up with the right guy, it's hard to feel anything but pity for her.
The creative types in Hollywood will continue to create single, independent women who seem as though they don't need a meaningful relationship with a man in order to be happy. Doing so will earn them the plaudits of feminists and media elites, who love the idea that Carrie needs Mr. Big like a fish needs a bicycle. But there's a reason most of America wants romance in their romantic comedies.
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Towns express desire for 5th penny
Officials from municipalities around the county agree One Percent Sales and Use Tax critical
hotos in this article courtesy individual townships and the CCCOG
Elk Mountain uses some tax funds for maintenance.
The 5th Penny Tax is coming up for approval by voters on election day. The Sun reached out to many of the municipalities to find out how the tax effects each community.
"In Encampment the 5th penny tax represents about 27 percent of our income for general purposes," Doreen Harvey, Encampment town clerk/treasurer said. "It funds emergency services, police, fire, EMS, parks, recreation, streets and maintenance, and helps to provide funding through service contracts to our local organizations."
Harvey continued, "Also benefiting is the museum, the senior center, library and preschool."
She said the Family Career and Community Leaders of America, Prostart, Encampment Community Choir as well as various events throughout the year are also helped.
"The town events of the Sierra Madre Winter Carnival and our community barbeque and Music in the Park would be affected," Harvey said. "It is a significant portion of our general fund budget and is crucial to the services provided by Encampment."
Harvey reiterated the importance of the 5th penny tax to her community.
"If the tax were to fail, the affect would be devastating to the services in Encampment," Harvey said.
Elk Mountain
"Municipal funding for our town is a very unpredictable thing," Morgan Irene, mayor of Elk Mountain said. "A few of the biggest variables come from the state of Wyoming 'Local Government Direct Distribution'. Due to the fact that our state budget is largely funded by minerals we have all taken a big hit. With the decline in coal production, and continued reduced natural gas prices it has pinched back tax revenue that we have historically counted on."
Irene said with coal taking a hit in recent years, it has made budgets harder for towns in Wyoming.
"When the coal economy suffered so did the state's sales and use tax," Irene said. "Our state budget contains distributions to local and county entities for them to operate with. Since the state's budget has decreased through the years, so has local funding. The amount of direct distribution is always a variable and could be cut even lower depending on how the state's budget session goes."
He said budget cuts have been inevitable.
"Our Carbon County entities, including the Town of Elk Mountain, has repeatedly cut our budgets to react to our decreased state and mineral royalty funding," Irene said. "There isn't any fat left to trim-not that we had any to begin with."
With budgets of towns having to scale back, he said the 5th penny tax has helped offset the cuts.
One important venue of funding that is vital to our budgets is the 5th penny local option tax," Irene said. "This sales tax creates one of the few bits of funding our towns may function with. When the economy slumps it is noticed with the tax proceeds but these still provide a stable base to plan with."
He said the timing of the 5th penny tax getting passed is especially crucial this go around.
"With the impending wind development, if this tax is re-approved, we will enjoy an extra boost," Irene pointed out. "Since we have been 'making due' with what we have and continue to live within our means, any extra revenue will give relief that may allow a few things to be shored up and properly taken care of."
Irene said the 5th penny tax not getting passed would put tremendous pressure on his community and the other towns in Carbon County.
"I cannot stress enough how difficult it is to function as a municipality with the current funding model," Irene said. "Not only do we use these funds to exist independently but these are also used together with other towns and the county to provide vital services such as fire, EMS and sanitation,"
Irene said the Carbon County Council of Governments has helped the different communities come together and try to help voters understand how essential the 5th penny tax is to Carbon County.
"Our county has a unique and effective organization that has gone far to stretch the limited funding even further. The Carbon County Council of Governments meets regularly to maintain good relationships between entities," Irene said. "The issues that are addressed usually have a component of funding included that needs sorted out. Our-unique-to-Carbon-County team effort has gone far to solve many issues and the local option 5th penny tax helps these efforts."
Irene said he cannot stress enough how important the 5th penny tax is to the people of the county.
"I urge the people of Carbon County to use this information to make their decision when they vote on the local option 5th penny tax," Irene said. "The people of Carbon County have always been very supportive in the past. This funding is as important today, or possibly more important with the increased cost of operating, as it was when it was first put on the ballot many years ago."
He said without the 5th penny tax being re-approved town budgets could really suffer.
"So many hard budget decisions have been made to cut to get us to where we are now. Another big cut like the loss of this funding would be harmful and hard to make work," Irene said. "I respect the voter's opinions and appreciate their support with this vital funding we depend on."
"The 5th penny tax has allowed the Town of Hanna to pay all utilities and insurance for the Hanna Library as well as all the Hanna Basin Museum buildings," Ann Calvert, Hanna town clerk said. "It has allowed for the Town of Hanna to provide insurance and fuel for the 'Senior Bus' which is for all Hanna residents who cannot drive or who do not have transportation to the Post Office, grocery store and bank."
Calvert said the tax has helped keep an education center open for preschool children.
"The 5th Penny Tax has allowed the town of Hanna to allocate money to the Wee Folks Place Preschool for at least the last 8 years," Calvert said. "This little school is very important not only to Hanna, but also Medicine Bow and Elk Mountain, due to the fact it is the only preschool in the area."
Calvert said another way the tax helped the town that is located on the high desert land of north Carbon County is helping control the wildlife that preys on domestic animals of the town.
"Predator Management has been another service afforded by the 5th Penny Tax," Calvert said. "This helps to keep the number of fox and coyote out of town in protection of our pets."
Calvert said the tax is helping with the closure of the Hanna landfill.
"With the High County Joint Powers Board having to close the landfill, the 5th penny has made it possible for the town to be capable of setting some funds aside in anticipation of the costs going up for residents," Calvert said. "Of course it is also used for street maintenance and operations."
Medicine Bow
"The Town of Medicine Bow could not operate without the local option tax," Karen Heath, Medicine Bow town clerk said. "It pays for our fire department, maintenance of equipment and streets, our water treatment plant, museum and many other things."
Heath said it could hurt the town's ability to provide services that are already stretched by budget cuts.
"We would have to cut our personnel, and we are already at the minimum," Heath said. "We would have no fire service and the streets would not be plowed in the winter time. It is a critical tax to keep offering basic services and I'm sure the other communities in Carbon County are in the same boat."
"The 5th Penny Sales & Use Tax provides approximately $2 million annually to the City of Rawlins' general fund," Marla Brown, Rawlins City Clerk said. "State budget cuts over the years to municipalities make this revenue stream essential in providing general fund services to our citizens."
Brown said the tax not being approved would cause serious hardship for the city of Rawlins.
"The loss of these revenues would result in a dramatic cut in services and approximately one third of full time employees paid through the General Fund, which includes the police, fire, streets, landfill, cemetery, parks, City Hall and community development."
"We usually do not receive enough from the 5th penny to earmark it for any particular project but if/and/or when it passes this time around we would like very much to install a wind generator at the town sewage lagoons to run the air pump for our bio domes," Leroy Stephenson, Riverside mayor said. "This pump provides the necessary aeration to keep our biologic processes healthy and active through the winter months. The electric costs have been a bit problematic so that we have cut back the operation to alternating eight hour shifts and it would be much better to run it 24/7. Monies collected beyond the cost of the generator would be used in our day-to-day operations."
Ed Glode, mayor of Saratoga, said sales taxes are his favorite type of tax because they are paid by all, including people who are out of state.
"So the foundation of our sales tax in this state is four percent which gets collected, and then distributed back to counties and municipalities," Glode said. "The 5th penny tax came in as the local option tax and I don't remember the last time we didn't have it."
He said Saratoga and other towns use the monies from the 5th penny tax for general fund expenses.
"I think it is smart for voters to familiarize and educate themselves with how the different taxes work,"Glode said. "If we don't have the sales taxes, then we might have state income tax, or other taxes that might be ugly and complicated. Sales taxes are simple and have proven to work over the years."
Susie Cox, Saratoga Town Clerk echoed the importance of the 5th penny sales tax.
"In November 2014 the 5th Penny Tax was renewed, Saratoga's projects were to improve streets, make capital improvements, infrastructure needs and operating expenses. The projects discussed this year have been street maintenance, public works, police department, facility maintenance and capital equipment," Cox said. "Additionally, unlike our enterprise department fund accounts the 5th Penny Tax places a greater focus on day-to-day operating needs associated with streets, police, fire, 911 emergency support, parks, and community programs."
She said the tax is important to towns because the state funding doesn't cover all services needed to keep a town running.
"State funding has readily been available for water and sewer improvements, maintenance and repair projects, however street improvements, general services and maintenance has always been left up to the cities and towns," Cox said. "The state legislature's joint commissions are currently considering slashing its direct aid to municipalities by $105 million. That could mean that towns would lose funding with no real replacement coming from the state."
She said town administrators in Carbon County know the passing of the 5th Penny Tax is essential.
"Town mayors, clerks and treasurers understand how critical it is to have the 5th Penny Tax and we know it adds crucial funding to our shrinking budgets," Cox said. "It provides additional funding that makes the difference between being able to provide the services that our residents have become accustomed to or having to cut or reduce those services."
Cox concurred with Glode on how the 5th Penny Tax is paid by many that are going through Carbon County.
"If you are a local resident, tourist, visitor, seasonal or permanent, it's a tax that everyone pays equally and makes possible the many things we all equally enjoy and take advantage of," Cox said. "It helps us to provide basic services, great parks, a swimming pool, 911 services, street maintenance with the addition of really good snow plowing."
She is hopeful the residents of Saratoga and Carbon County will pass the tax again.
"I believe our Saratoga and Carbon County residents know and understand the importance of the additional one percent tax that provides a valuable addition to our budgets each year," Cox said.
"The Town of Sinclair would like to express the importance of renewing the 5th Penny Tax and ask all voters to please vote 'yes' in November," Michelle Serres, mayor of Sinclair said. "This tax has generated money for the municipalities in Carbon County for 41 years. The 5th penny one percent sales and use tax funds vital projects for all communities in Carbon County."
Serres explained how the tax has helped the town of Sinclair.
"The Town of Sinclair has used this important tax to fund improvements to the historic town buildings, maintenance to our streets, parks and much more," Serres said. "A few examples of projects that have been funded form this 5th Penny Tax are: street sweeper and sewer camera and the replacement of several windows for the town."
She said the tax generates funds from not only residents but also people coming through the county.
"This tax is paid for by everyone that travels through Carbon County," Serres said. "Approximately one third of the money generated from this tax is from non-residents to the communities in Carbon County and this is a great way to fund vital projects and services to the residents of Carbon County."
"Taxes are a vital source of revenue for municipal and county governments to enable us to fund essential services and infrastructure for our citizens," Gwynn Bartlett, Carbon County Clerk said. "The 5th Penny Tax in Carbon County assists the county and its ten municipalities with financing government and public projects as well as making the business environment in the country conducive for economic growth."
Hanna has used a portion of their 5th penny funds to help with the museum.
Bartlett pointed out there were many services that the 5th Penny Tax helped fund.
"The money citizens pay in the form of this tax goes to many places including support of common services such as police, fire, senior services, libraries, and more," Bartlett said. "Citizens must understand that paying taxes is meant to be more than just a "money grab" from government but rather used to maintain and hopefully raise the standard of living."
The 5th Penny Tax is on the ballot for renewal on Nov. 6.
Categorically, all the administrators in the municipalities who interviewed with the Sun, hope the residents of Carbon County will vote the tax in. Given the services that could be lost in each town if the tax isn't passed, it is understandable why all want to the tax to stay.
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Admission to Atlanta's College Football Hall of Fame just became free
August promotion aims to pay homage to facility's fifth anniversary and 150th year of collegiate football
By Josh Green@JoshGreen1234 Aug 1, 2019, 1:45pm EDT
The pigskin pantheon's exterior along Marietta Street downtown.
Whether you worship college football, abhor the violent sport, or fall somewhere in between, it's a pretty safe bet that you're a fan of free.
Seems like yesterday, but the $68 million College Football Hall of Fame—designed by the same architecture firm behind the Georgia Aquarium, tvsdesign—opened five years ago this month, another feather in the cap of Atlanta's downtown tourism district.
To commemorate that milestone, along with the 150th anniversary of collegiate pigskin, admission to the hall will be free throughout the month of August, officials announced today.
A standard adult ticket usually costs $21.99, while kids get in for four bucks cheaper.
The gratis entries are made possible through a partnership between the hall and hometown corporate titans Coca-Cola and Chick-fil-A.
Officials didn't specify how much the companies are contributing to freely fling open the doors as Southern college football hype reaches a boil. But a nifty promotional aspect is that fans must scan a Chick-fil-A app at the hall's ticket window to get in.
For the uninitiated, the Marietta Street football pantheon is more like a touchscreen-heavy, interactive experience than a temple full of artifacts and busts.
After several years of fundraising struggles and construction delays, the facility opened in August 2014 near Centennial Olympic Park.
Prior to Atlanta, the hall had operated in South Bend, Indiana, and before that, suburban Cincinnati. Both previous locations had drawn fewer visitors than anticipated, and tickets sales dwindled to just $177,000 in the hall's final year in the Hoosier State.
The South Bend Tribune in 2017 conceded the uprooting from Notre Dame's home turf to the ATL had been a winning move, as ticket revenue had swelled by about 15 times, while major Peach State corporate sponsorships kicked in another $15.5 million.
Earlier this year, Coke stepped up in a similar way before Atlanta's Super Bowl, making admission free to another downtown attraction, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, by way of a $1 million grant.
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AmTrust: Among Artisan Contractors, Plumbers Account for Most Workers' Comp Claims
The company's workers' comp report also found while older workers have a lower frequency of claims, their injuries are more severe.
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Younger, new employees at contracting firms pose the greatest risk for injury and almost a third of workers' compensation claims over 10 years came from the plumbing profession, according to a recent report from AmTrust Financial Services.
Matt Zender, senior vice president Workers' Compensation Strategy at AmTrust, discussed the findings of the AmTrust 2021 Contractor Risk Report with AM Best Audio. The report is based on 26,000 workers' compensation claims over 10 years.
AmTrust ranks No. 7 in Best's Rankings of the top workers' compensation writers based on 2020 direct premiums written. Following is an edited transcript of the interview.
What were some of the other key findings of the report?
One of the first things that we noticed that really just kind of jumped right out of the data was the tenure of an employee and the effect that it would have on the frequency of claims.
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If you look at younger employees, newer employees, those who were employed less than a year made up a full third of the claims that we saw. That was surprising when you just look at the percentage of employees that they make up otherwise.
It's really clear to us that newer employees have more injuries, and it puts a lot of pressure on these contracting businesses to focus on the retention of the employees. Therefore, they can work with them longer and figure out how to work more safely.
Also, when they do have open positions they need to fill, onboarding is critical for them as well, and the ability for a business to train new employees right away on how to work most safely.
Plumbers are susceptible to awkward work spaces, so there's a lot of strain injuries that occur. In fact, 31% of our plumbing injuries did involve strains.
Matt Zender
AmTrust
Were there certain trades in particular where you were more likely to see claims than in others?
We went through 26,000 claims over 10 years of history that we have. Our focus was primarily on what we call artisan contractors, so we were looking at carpenters and plumbers and electrician/HVAC, tile work, and stuff like that. Along those areas, we saw that almost a third of our claims were coming from plumbing, and that's disproportionate versus the percentage of our total book that it is. In other words, we saw more claims coming from plumbers than we did coming from other artisan trades.
Any idea why that would be?
Plumbers are susceptible to awkward work spaces, so there's a lot of strain injuries that occur. In fact, 31% of our plumbing injuries did involve strains.
There's also more height involvement in plumbing than a lot of people think. I tend to think of the old plumber reaching underneath the sink, and that whole scenario, but there's a lot of times when they're involved in some heights, too. Twenty percent of our claims in plumbing came from falls, which was a little surprising to me.
What were the prevalent injuries that artisan contractors are suffering from?
Mostly, we saw a lot of multiple body parts as you might imagine, a ton of low back and a ton of knee. There's also a fair amount involving fingers and the different appendages. Certainly those fingers and wrists and hands are going to be involved in cut claims. There's a lot of blade activity and sharp tools and things that are going to put those at risk as well.
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Can you discuss frequency and severity trends?
Those tend to, interestingly, run down some age lines, so that the younger employees—they tend to have a higher frequency of claims. Older employees tend to have a much lower frequency of claims, but then when you look at the severity side, when those older workers do suffer an injury, they tend to be much more severe. The older employees know what to do to avoid a claim, but when they do get injured, it tends to be more difficult for them to bounce back.
What should workers' comp writers be taking away from your report?
A couple of things that we saw [involved] looking at some of the seasonal trends. Most of our claims occurred in the summer; August had 11 of our total claims, for example. If you look at why that is, you might look at a state like Arizona, where you've got some seasonal workers that are maybe working in the agricultural space, say, in the southern part of Arizona. It's hotter, and the harvest season is going to be during the winter, while in the summer, maybe they pick up some work in the contracting space.
Therefore, you would then look at that and say, "Oh, well then it's going to fly right in the face of what I told you before about younger employees and their length of tenure," because these are people that are working, basically, seasonally for you. I think it's important for anybody who's looking at this space to pay attention to the trends.
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Think the holidays are the time to kick back in your job search? Think again.
The widespread perception among those in career transition is that nothing happens over the holidays and they may as well just relax. While I am all for fully enjoying this time of year with your family and friends, you may be missing out on some important opportunities if you decide to relegate your job search to the back burner until January.
It is true that companies and their hiring managers as well as recruiters are human and things do tend to slow down a bit over the holiday season. However, there ARE still opportunities coming up and hires being made.
Also, your competition likely have the widespread perception mentioned above, and have effectively removed themselves from the arena–leaving you with a much smaller group of candidates to compete with.
A surprising number of positions are filled this time of year–as evidenced by no lack of LinkedIn profiles with jobs that have start dates in January. Many companies and departments have just been allocated new budget funds to spend on hiring, and they are eager to use them.
The holidays also abound with opportunities to build your network, in a time when folks tend to be mellow, receptive, and extra considerate.
* Only 3% more jobs were filled in January and February of 2013 (vs. November and December of 2012). (And it is very likely that many of those job offers made in January were based on interviews that happened in November and December).
* Only 1% more jobs were open in January and February of 2013 (vs. November and December of 2012).
Bottom line: If you totally quit researching companies, making recruiter contacts, and sending out your executive resume from Thanksgiving through the New Year, you could be doing yourself a disservice.


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Defective airbags, and delays for repairs, of greater concern in Houston
Ileana Najarro Nov. 5, 2016 Updated: Nov. 5, 2016 9:21 p.m.
Defective airbags, and delays for repairs, of greater...
1of6Jennifer Reitmeyer had to wait about 2 months to get replacement parts for a recalled passenger-side air bag for her 2010 Honda Pilot. Awaiting a visit from relatives, she asked for a rental car but had to fight for it.Photo: James Nielsen, Staff
2of6Jennifer Reitmeyer poses for a portrait in her Honda Pilot which took about 2 months to get repaired as part of a passenger side airbag recall Oct. 18, 2016, in Kingwood. ( James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle )Photo: James Nielsen, Staff
Dana Swearengin had to wait two weeks for parts to repair her 2006 Honda Civic after it was placed in a nationwide recall. In the interim, she made her sister sit in the back seat whenever they carpooled for fear the front passenger-side air bag might explode.
Jennifer Reitmeyer read news reports about the expanding recall and saw the horrifying injuries long before she received any official notice that her 2010 Honda Pilot needed the repair. Then she fought to get a loaner vehicle during the two months she waited to have her defective inflator replaced.
Serena Martinez never got word and is now suing Honda and air bag manufacturer Takata after being severely injured by a flying piece of red-hot shrapnel in an accident last Sept. 11.
"Air bags are supposed to protect and save lives," Martinez said last week.
At least 11 deaths and more than 150 injuries have been linked - so far - to the recalled air bags with ammonium nitrate, and Houston is emerging as an area of special concern. The air bags tend to degrade more rapidly in hot, humid climates, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the city has one of the lowest repair rates in such environments.
Honda has been aggressively trying to get the word out and says it has worked to solve a supply problem and is now able to fix cars much more expediently. Yet an estimated 300,000 of its most at-risk models - certain 2001 to 2003 Hondas and Acuras with a 50 percent rupture rate in very humid areas and the cars with the highest fatality rate - still need to be replaced.
The unease is spreading as co-workers swap stories about recall letters, waiting lists and the warning many of them received to not let passengers ride up front.
Wes Ball, a Houston lawyer who has handled injury cases related to the air bags, said automakers haven't done enough to prevent injuries. Instead, he said, they seem more inclined to pay off lawsuits.
"It's corporate greed at its finest."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says about 70 million inflators ultimately will need to be replaced in the U.S. by the end of 2019, making this the largest recall in the industry's history. The repairs are made at no charge to the consumer, but the price tag for Takata is huge. The company has been fined $70 million in civil penalties, and replacing the faulty inflators can cost up to $1,000 apiece.
Richard Dasher, director of Stanford University's U.S.-Asia Technology Management Center, said that even if car manufacturers don't want to rely on Takata for replacement inflators, the company controls 20 percent of the world market. That is putting a strain on others to produce replacements in a timely manner, Dasher said.
The scope of the recall and the challenge of alerting so many consumers, including those who own used cars, has put much of the responsibility on vehicle owners. They are urged to run vehicle identification numbers, or VINs, through websites such as safercar.gov to see if their cars are affected. Laws allow used cars to be sold even if they are under recall.
Heeding instructions from the federal highway safety agency, Reitmeyer took her Pilot to Sterling McCall Honda in July. Attendants there said they wouldn't have the necessary replacement parts ready until late summer or early fall, she said. With relatives coming to visit, she asked for a rental car and was told she hadn't proved a need to use all the seats in the car.
"Can you believe that?" she said. "Why would I buy a car without a front passenger seat?"
While some dealerships have offered rental cars to consumers waiting for a repair, there is no legal requirement to do so. And where there's a passenger air bag problem, dealerships are allowed, by law, to tell owners of certain models that it is OK to continue driving the vehicle.
At Sterling McCall Honda, service director Daryl Tucker said he couldn't address Reitmeyer's case, but he said the dealership was directed by Honda's corporate office to provide a contact number to customers waiting on passenger-side air bag parts who wanted a rental vehicle.
Tucker also said the supply problem at the dealership largely has been resolved in recent weeks and that customers now can get an air bag replaced within 24 hours.
What can car owners do?
Owners are urged to check their vehicle identification number, or VIN, at safercar.gov. Dealerships across the U.S. are offering free replacements under the recall, although delays have been reported due to availability of parts.
What are the affected models?
More than 30 vehicle makes have been affected by the recall. Certain Honda and Acura models from 2001 to 2003 pose a 50 percent chance of airbags rupturing upon deployment.
Other vehicle owners say they are still waiting. Greg Hill of Sugar Land, for instance, said he has been waiting since March for the replacement parts for the driver-side air bag in his 2014 Acura TL. He said he's "playing the bet" that his car will be fine in the meantime.
Honda spokesman Chris Martin said by email that the company has been proactive on all recall and repair issues. He urged vehicle owners to consult online recall sites or their local dealerships.
In a news release earlier this year, Takata chairman and CEO Shigehisa Takada said his company is cooperating fully with the U.S. recalls.
"We will continue to dedicate significant resources to maximize recall completion rates, including through our 'Get the word out' campaign and by working closely with NHTSA and our automaker customers on new and innovative solutions to reach consumers," he said.
Earlier this year, Takada told investors he would resign.
Bryan Thomas, a spokesman for the NHTSA, said older vehicles in the recall are of greatest concern because those inflators are more likely to trigger a hazard when they deploy. The inflators in question have propellants with ammonium nitrate, which can become unstable with exposure to moisture.
Water can enter, heat up and cool down repeatedly to the point that pressure builds in the airbag, and it deploys with more force than needed, thus turning the metal around the bag into shrapnel, he said.
Martinez, 42, was driving a 2002 Honda Accord to work, not far from her home in Cinco Ranch, when it was struck on the front passenger side. Her $1 million lawsuit, filed last week, alleges shrapnel from the air bag lacerated her chest and arm, requiring sutures and eventually will mean plastic surgery. Had the shrapnel struck 3 inches in a different direction, it could have severed an artery.
Her attorney, Mo Aziz, called the national recall "ineffective," citing the backlog of replacement parts. Even if the family had taken the car in for repairs, the necessary parts may not have been available to fix it before the crash, he said during a news conference to announce the lawsuit.
Earlier this year, Aziz represented the family of a Fort Bend County teenager who died after an accident in which her air bag sent shrapnel into her neck. The March 31 fender-bender involved a 2002 Honda Civic. The family's lawsuit against Honda and Takata was resolved, but Aziz declined to elaborate.
Thomas, of the NHTSA, said Houston is now a focal point for an on-the-ground awareness campaign. He said most notices so far have been offered only in English and on occasion in Spanish, but the new effort will include multiple languages.
The recall will last until Dec. 31, 2019, and includes both driver- and passenger-side air bag inflators, as well as inflators used for temporary fixes. In some cases, due to a supply shortage, dealerships have been installing "like for like" inflators. These interim inflators are also at risk of rupture, but since they have not yet degraded, they are plausibly safer.
Due to the supply constraints, the recall will be rolled out in phases up to 2019, with priority given to states categorized at higher risk due to higher humidity and to older models within these states. Texas falls into the first phase.
Thomas also noted that some 2016 models from some manufacturers have ammonium nitrate inflators and will have to be recalled in two to three years. Dealerships are not currently required to inform consumers about it.
Martin said no 2016 or later Honda or Acura vehicles will be subject to future Takata air bag recalls.
Dasher, of Stanford, said Takata acquired a large share of the market by manufacturing air bags with ammonium nitrate at a tenth of the cost of the compound it previously used. Several automakers relied on the company for air bags for about 15 years, even after the first reports of fatalities, he said.
In a September news release, Takata acknowledged lapses in testing and reporting of the original ammonium nitrate inflators but said those lapses did not correlate with the ruptures that led to the recalls.
By the time the federal government started formally investigating in 2014, Honda had already come under fire for not issuing a recall sooner. Honda became aware of a Takata airbag rupture in 2004.
Martin said Takata classified that incident as an anomaly and that Honda acted appropriately with subsequent rupture cases and ordered a series of recalls for air bags starting in 2008. At the time, he said, it was considered a limited manufacturing issue, not a design flaw.
Jim Perdue Jr., a Houston lawyer, has seen a steady number of cases over the Takata air bags in recent years.
And the pace is likely to continue, he said, given the long wait for repairs.
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Ileana Najarro covers race, labor and immigration. She formerly covered small business and the intersection of immigration and the economy. She previously interned at the Los Angeles Times, the Mexico City bureau of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Communication, Departmental Honors and Phi Beta Kappa distinction.
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A federal-district court has handed down a ruling in a class-action lawsuit that could have a direct impact on the fees you pay to the real-estate company at closings, whether as a buyer or seller.
WASHINGTON — A federal-district court has handed down a ruling in a class-action lawsuit that could have a direct impact on the fees you pay to the real-estate company at closings, whether as a buyer or seller.
The decision targets one of the most commonplace practices adopted by real-estate brokerage firms in recent years: charging consumers "admin," "processing," "ABC" and other mystery fees ranging from $150 to as much as $500 per transaction.
The fees are tacked on top of regular commissions and sometimes come as last-minute surprises on settlement sheets.
Typically the charges are imposed by the owners of the brokerage and go straight to their accounts, rather than being shared with sales agents.
When pressed about why buyers or sellers should be hit with hundreds of dollars extra at closing when thousands of dollars of commissions are already being charged in the deal, some sales agents say, "it's the broker's policy — we don't get any of this money."
For their part, brokers say they need the add-on fees to stay in business, especially when top agents can demand most of the commission that is split with the broker, sales volumes are down and overhead expenses keep rising.
The general counsel of the National Association of Realtors, Laurie Janik, defends the fees, arguing that brokers "ought to be able to charge what they need to make a profit."
But are these add-on fees legal? In a decision late last month that is sending shudders through the real-estate-brokerage industry, U.S. District Judge Virginia Emerson Hopkins in Birmingham, Ala., ruled that when a real-estate firm charges clients an "admin" fee, for which no specific settlement services are performed, the fee violates federal law.
The case involved RealtySouth, one of the 20 major brokerage units of Minneapolis-based HomeServices of America, the second-largest real-estate firm in the country.
RealtySouth was sued by homebuyer Vicki Busby of Jefferson, Ala., when she was required to pay a $149 "ABC" fee — an administrative brokerage commission. The court found no evidence that the brokerage performed any services beyond those covered by the commission, thereby violating a federal real-estate settlement statutory ban against "unearned" fees.
Other federal courts have interpreted the statutory language on unearned fees differently, so the RealtySouth case does not settle the issue.


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Virginia Woolf´s mixed feelings about Psychoanalysis
Author: Sabrina Zehetner (TVP)
"Freud is upsetting: reducing one to whirlpool; & I daresay truly. If we´re all instinct, the unconscious, whats all this about civilisation, the whole man, freedom &c?" Virginia Woolf was in two minds about psychoanalysis which she perceived not only as threat and competition, but also as reference point. Perhaps Freud´s rational observations of the mind were too close to comfort for the troubled storyteller.
When Freud met Virginia Woolf she was still resisting the raison d´être of psychoanalysis and described the doctor as "a screwed up shrunk very old man" who seemed "inarticulate: but alert", "an old fire now flickering" with "immense potential". This ambivalence would remain at the center of Virginia Woolf´s stance on psychoanalysis. The field was too rational, too objectified for the author´s romanticized approach to her work and self-image. To Freud, creativity was not an abstract concept but strongly linked to an artist´s biography. He took the mystery, the unexplained out of the equation and instead tried to interpret the underlying motives of the creative processes. It knocked the artist´s persona off its pedestal and, consequently, the impact wounded the egos of not a few writers. After all, the truth is rarely as exciting as the eccentric stories artists tend to weave around their lives. Virginia Woolf, however, was not only the victim of her own ego: "Virginia´s need to write was, among other things, to make sense out of mental chaos and gain control of madness. Through her novels she made her inner world less frightening. Writing was often agony but it provided the ´strongest pleasure´ she knew" (Psychiatrist Peter Dally, 1999)
Freud´s analytical and objective observations must have frightened her deeply. By using her character´s as an extension of herself, she avoided addressing her own shortcomings in a way that might have cured them. Later, she was convinced that her writing alone sufficed as treatment: "I suppose that I did for myself what psycho-analysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest". In one of her countless diary entries, she writes: "How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?"
Her tragic suicide, however, proved that nothing in Virginia Woolf´s mind had ever been laid to rest. Still, being ordinary was not a desirable option for the eccentric writer.
The stereotype of the tortured but brilliant artists has a long and widespread tradition. Through their stories, female writers like Woolf or Plath provide troubled young women with relatable experiences. Sylvia Plath´s and Virginia Woolf´s mental illnesses were so interwoven with their imagination that a psychoanalysis would have certainly disrupted their dynamic as artists. What if a treatment would erase the very foundation of their creativity? The psychologist James C. Kaufman referred to the phenomenon of suicidal writers as the "Sylvia Plath effect" and demonstrated that especially female writers are more prone to developing mental illnesses and committing suicide. Virginia Woolf lost her mother when she was 13 followed by her father´s death nine years later. The list of her mental problems seems infinite. To her, Freud was another patriarch who threatened to undermine her creative talent and genius. The mere notion that all her artistic talent was the consequence of painful childhood experiences offended her. Romanticizing the problems of her characters and her own, Woolf was irritated by what she referred to as "Freudian Fiction" and preferred what Keats called "Negative Capability" – the ability "of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason". Part of her was in love with her own darkness, the unexplained mysteries of the self. Freud´s job was to shed light on them, to reveal the internal and hidden. Ironically, she had more in common with the father of psychoanalysis in that regard than she dared to admit, and perhaps even viewed him as competition. Both had a knack for describing the internal workings of the mind and were avid writers.
As a core member of the Bloomsbury group, it was almost impossible to escape the association´s fascination with psychoanalysis and Freud. In the 1920s, many Bloomsburies became psychoanalysts themselves, among them Woolf´s brother Adrian and sister-in-law Karen Stephen who - much to the writer´s chagrin- were trained by Freud. The analysis took a toll on their marriage which only validated Virginia Woolf´s suspicions. Adding insult to injury, her husband Leonard was full of praise for the Austrian doctor pointing out his "wide imaginative power" and even compared his imaginative mind to that of a poet.
The historian Lytton Strachey was an early admirer´s of Freud´s work. His brother James and his wife Alix translated his books for the Hogarth Press owned by Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard. It is not surprising that in such an environment Freud started to rub off eventually. After their encounter followed by Freud´s death in August 1939, she "began reading Freud last night; to enlarge the circumference. to give my brain a wider scope: to make it objective; to get outside." The technical, psychoanalytic vocabulary helped her "center" herself and his theories seemed to offer her a sense of orientation in this dark forest of her mind. At the end of her life, she started to draw on Freud´s insights: "It was only the other day when I read Freud for the first time, that I discovered that this violently disturbing conflict of love and hate is a common feeling; and is called ambivalence." Perhaps this very observation perfectly describes Virginia Woolf´s feelings towards psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud.
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Interview with Teri Wilson: Author of The Art of Us & Unleashing Mr. Darcy
Image via Teri Wilson / @teriwilsonauthor on Instagram
Earlier this week, production started on The Art of Us, a Hallmark original movie based on the popular book of the same name written by Teri Wilson. This is the second Hallmark movie based on one of Teri's books after Unleashing Mr. Darcy was an instant success for the network during their Winterfest series in 2016.
Teri Wilson was kind enough to take the time to answer some questions for us about her experience with Unleashing Mr. Darcy and what we can expect from the movie adaptation of The Art of Us. Check out the full interview below, but first a little back story on the movies.
Unleashing Mr. Darcy
Image via Hallmark/Crown Media
Unleashing Mr. Darcy is a modern day pride and prejudice story centred around a woman named Elizabeth (Cedar Cove star Cindy Busby). After losing her teaching job, Elizabeth decides to show her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel at an upscale dog show in New York. It's there that she meets the show's judge, Donovan Darcy (General Hospital star Ryan Paevey). Although she's put off by his demeanour at first, she eventually discovers that there's a kind soul behind his sharp exterior and the pair begin to form a mutual attraction.
The movie filmed in Vancouver and British Columbia during the fall of 2015 and premiered in January of 2016. Read more about Unleashing Mr. Darcy and check out the trailer HERE.
The Art of Us
Fans of Unleashing Mr. Darcy will love The Art of Us too. In the interview below, Teri describes The Art of Us as "a modern retelling of My Fair Lady with a gender reversal". The story is centred around Harper Higgins, a history professor and Vincent Van Gogh expert. When an artist unexpectedly pulls out of an art show Harper is putting on, she's forced to turn to an unlikely replacement: her handsome dog walker, Tom Stone. Although Tom is actually a talented painter, it takes some work to ensure they'll be able to convince the crowd that he's the classically trained artist they were expecting to see. Somewhere along the way the pair begin to fall for each other.
Taylor Cole (The Originals, Christmas In Homestead) and Steve Lund (Schitt's Creek) star as Harper and Tom respectively. Like Unleashing Mr. Darcy, this story will also have a cute dog (named Vincent) in the spotlight.
Additional cast we're aware of so far include:
Ken Tremblett (Caitlin's Way, Unleashing Mr. Darcy)
Katerina Katelieva (Evangeline, The Memory Book)
Jennifer-Juniper Angeli (Pumpkin Pie Wars, Wayward Pines)
Frances Flanagan (A Dash of Love, The Accused)
Brenda Crichlow (Fantastic Four, Walking the Dog)
Nathan Witte (Gutterballs, Ms. Matched)
The movie started filming in Maple Ridge on Monday and will continue in the Lower Mainland until April 13th.
Interview with Teri Wilson, author of Unleashing Mr. Darcy & The Art of Us
What's Filming: While Unleashing Mr. Darcy was filming in 2015, you spent some time on set and even made a cameo in the movie. What was your most memorable moment while being on set and how was your experience with the crew/production team?
Teri Wilson: I was on set for two days during the filming of Unleashing Mr. Darcy. The crew/production team were absolutely amazing. During breaks, people would come up and thank me for writing the book and tell me how excited they were to be working on the movie. I've kept in touch with most everyone I got to know on the set, and they are all wonderful people. My most memorable moment was when I was given a director's chair with my name and the movie title on it. I started crying when I saw it. I got to take the placard home with me, and it's now framed and hanging on my living room wall.
WF: Being the first of your stories to be adapted into a movie, can you describe what it was like to see Unleashing Mr. Darcy come to life on screen?
TW: Seeing my book come to life on film was extremely surreal. It was so exciting to be on set, and at the same time it was just so odd to see something that had existed only in my head become a real thing with real people. I still can hardly believe it happened. It's every author's dream come true, and it's even more exciting and fun than you think it's going to be.
WF: If you had to pick one scene from Unleashing Mr. Darcy that best captured your vision, what would it be and why?
TW: I love everything about the movie, even the parts that are slightly different from the book. But if I had to pick one scene as my favorite, I'd probably choose the ballroom scene at Mr. Darcy's mansion. Everything, down to the dresses, are exactly as I described them in the book. And Ryan Paevey's intensity in this scene is spot on. He's exactly as I wrote Mr. Darcy.
WF: A lot of great Vancouver & area locations were featured in Unleashing Mr. Darcy, is there one that stood out to you as a favourite?
TW: Again, my favorite is the mansion. The location for this part of the movie was Copper Stone Mansion in South Langley. Not only was the house gorgeous, but the surrounding grounds are just stunning. There's a scene in the movie in which Elizabeth is talking to Felicity out on the terrace, and the vineyard and sweeping views behind them are so lovely that sometimes I forget to listen to the lines.
WF: The Art of Us is the second movie based on one of your books, what has been your favourite part of the process?
TW: Honestly, we are just getting started, so I can't really say yet what my favorite part has been. I loved everything about the book-to-film journey of Unleashing Mr. Darcy. Every single thing. I was quite touched and overwhelmed by all the support the film received from readers, fans and my writer friends. It made the entire process even more meaningful to me, and I suspect I'll feel the same about The Art of Us.
WF: What inspired you to write The Art of Us and what makes it fitting to be adapted as a movie?
TW: The Art of Us is a modern retelling of My Fair Lady with a gender reversal. The stuffy college professor is the heroine of the story, Dr. Harper Higgins. She's an expert on Vincent Van Gogh and teaches art history. When a famous artist drops out of an art show she's putting together, she tries to pass her ruggedly handsome dog walker off as a classically trained artist. It's a romantic comedy with lots of heart. I think the visual aspects of the art theme will make it a really beautiful film. Of course the adorable dogs and gorgeous scenery will only add to its charm!
WF: Is there a particular part of The Art of Us that you're most excited to see portrayed on the screen?
TW: I'm really looking forward to the big art show at the end of the story. Like Unleashing Mr. Darcy, The Art of Us culminates at a posh event, so I think it will be really fun to see another glamorous, visual scene like that come to life. I'm also especially interested to see the art and paintings that are chosen for the movie.
WF: Will the movie adaptation of The Art of Us have any key differences from your original story?
TW: I'm really not sure. I haven't seen the script yet. Even if I had, the script kind of evolves throughout the filming process and nothing is set in stone until the movie is edited. One of the aspects of the film that I'm really curious about is a dog character from the book named Vincent. Vincent is a Dachshund, and he only has one ear. (He's a rescue dog named after Vincent Van Gogh.) It will be interesting to see if there are any one-eared dog actors out there!
Excited for The Art of Us?
While you're waiting for The Art of Us to premiere, check out Teri's website for more information and links to purchase the novel. There you'll also find details about her full lineup of novels including Unleashing Mr. Darcy and her latest book, Royally Roma, which was just released on March 27th.
Other ways to connect with Teri Wilson!
The Art of Us will continue filming in British Columbia until April 13th.
Update 5/11/2017: Added the filming locations and trailer for the movie.
The Art of Us Filming Locations
Here are some of the locations where The Art of Us was spotted filming:
0 Block Powell Street / 0 Block Alexander Street outside of Hotel Europe / Maple Tree Square (Gastown, Vancouver)
Laity Street and Lougheed Highway (Maple Ridge)
Kanaka Regional Park (Maple Ridge)
Gratia Bakery and Cafe on Dewdney Trunk Road (Maple Ridge)
Check out The Art of Us when it premieres Saturday, May 20th at 9pm on Hallmark Channel.
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There are few countries on earth more loud, flamboyant and obvious than Argentina in their expression of religious zeal. For centuries a stark and orthodox form of Roman Catholicism has dominated the country's religious makeup, manifesting itself in a number of festivals, processions and rituals throughout the year that are at once instantly recognisable as Argentinian through and through. It's an aspect of the national character that simply can't be ignored, and one that continues to inform and transform most all the aspects of daily life here.
For the architecture-hungry visitor, this deep piety is nothing but good news. From even the smallest town stead of the Argentinian Andes to the sprawling cityscapes of Buenos Aires and Córdoba, you can pretty much be sure that there will be at least some kind of religious monument to uncover, whether it be a small and homely wood-built church, or dominating cathedral complex with elaborate adornments to boot.
But with churches come graveyards, and with religious orthodoxy so often comes a veritable cult of the dead. Accordingly Argentina is home to some truly magnificent graveyards and cemetery sites that, while perhaps not immediately appealing to a tourist who's come to sample the energetic life of this country, provide a unique glimpse of a nation that's largely in the grip of a mystical obsession with the afterlife. Think grandiose family tombs and richly decorated headstones, towering mausoleums and endless seas of monumental graves; a genuine artistic product of Argentina's religious devotion.
But of all the grave sites and cemeteries in Argentina there is one that stands out as the most prestigious and famous of them all. It's sprawled over 14 acres of downtown Buenos Aires, and has been commended by some of the world's most totemic travel guides and media outlets (think CNN and BBC) as one of the finest, most interesting and truly beautiful sepulchre sites in the world. Constructed at the same time as the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Our Lady of Pilar Church) by the religious brotherhood, the Order of the Recoletos (from which the gravesite gets its name), the La Recoleta Cemetery is home to the biggest concentration of famous graves and mausoleums is all of Argentina.
Amongst the people buried here are Argentina's much-loved former first lady, María Eva Duarte de Perón (most commonly referred to as simply Eva Peron or Evita), the famous Argentinian writer and winner of global literary prizes, Adolfo Bioy Casares, an array of well-known national film stars from the 20th century, a number of leading female academic writers and no fewer than 19 individual former presidents of Argentina. With such a line-up of big name graves, it's perhaps easy to see why the La Recoleta Cemetery is no longer simply a place to mourn and remember the dead, but also a focal point of political, religious and cultural pilgrimage for locals and travellers alike.
In terms of architectural wealth, the La Recoleta Cemetery is without question the finest site of its kind in the country, and possibly all of South America. Nestled amidst the towering high rises of downtown Buenos Aires, it's overshadowed by flats and business buildings that cast an ominous and surreal shadow over the patchwork of grandiose graves.
The overarching architectural theme is neo-classism, with many of the monuments adorned in grand style, like the formidable memorial to José Clemente Paz; an elaborate marble monolith of ascending angels and religious iconography.
However, while La Recoleta is far and away Argentina's most visited grave site and also its most commented on in terms of tourism, the Chacarita Cemetery has to take the prize for its largest. Originally instituted as an out-of-town spot to dispose of the dead at the height of Buenos Aires' destructive yellow fever epidemic of the early 1870s, it now dominates no less than 95 hectares of land near to the Federico Lacroze metro station.
For superstitious types and ghost hunters, the Chacarita Cemetery will prove to be particularly interesting. A stroll here will take you meandering around lichen-covered headstones and eerie monolithic protrusions adorned with angelic figurines, while there are a number of well-known myths and spooky stories that originate in the grounds.
The Chacarita Cemetery is home to a number of famous grave sites too, particularly those of national artists, poets and theatrical luminaries. Don't miss the sepulchres of Carlos Gardel, Aníbal Troilo and Alfonsina Storni, three of Argentina's artistic icons. For those looking for something of a more detailed introduction to Chacarita, regular tours of the grave sites are organised throughout the year, but visitors should check ahead for dates.
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MOSCOW, ST-PETERSBURG, JUNE 2002 - Whenever in a big city, I like to travel with local transport : trains, buses, taxi, and metro ! Most metro systems look more or less the same, but not the ones in Moscow and St.-Petersburg ! These subways have style, and making a trip on the metro and getting off at all the stations an excursion on its own !
First of all, the metro system is deep, very deep... It takes a couple of minutes of steep escalators to reach the platforms. And every escalator has an "attendant" in a little booth, and he or she can speed up or slow down the escalator, to adjust for the crowds. The reason these subways are so deep below the surface is that they were designed to resist under heavy bombing conditions. Also, they were equiped as shelters in case of war. Actually, there is a lot down there, far more than you can see as a commuter on the metro... see the article Mysteries under Moscow for more information. What is real and what is fiction ? I cannot tell, but one thing I can tell you : I was highly impressed by this metro system !
All stations are beautifully decorated, with statues, marble, mosaics, etc... Getting around in the maze of lines and stations (everything in cyrillic, including your map) is not that obvious, and walking distances are great down there. But you can't get lost, simply try to backtrack from where you came in emergency situations... Some other remarkable fact about this metro is that it is so well maintained (no "tags" found anywhere).


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View Full Version : Can't build on expansion?
Maybe I should add that I also can't move existing buildings to the new expansion.
Solved it myself. Deleted game and reinstalled. It works :-) Whatever happened it was blocking my game. Couldn't expand further, wasn't receiving building materials requested, etc.


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Home BusinessWire Roblox Developers Set to Earn Over $100 Million in 2019
Roblox Developers Set to Earn Over $100 Million in 2019
Company Introduces New Developer Tools for Immersive, Massive 3D Experiences
SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–At RDC, its fifth annual developers conference, Roblox, an online platform bringing more than 100 million people together through play, unveiled the community was on pace to earn $100 million in 2019. The company introduced a suite of tools to empower its global community of creators to build and more easily collaborate on immersive and massive 3D experiences.
"The Roblox creator community thinks of things we could never imagine, and their continued growth is our future," said David Baszucki, founder and CEO, Roblox. "With top Roblox experiences achieving more than 100,000 concurrent users and 1 billion plays, there's no denying the power of user-generated content. We are committed to supporting our creator community with the tools and resources they need to realize even greater success."
Over the course of the three-day event in California and at a viewing party in London, 500+ top Roblox creators from around the world gathered to hear keynote presentations, attend breakout sessions and participate in the annual Game Jam. The global community of more than 2 million creators spans from young creators getting their start in game design and coding, to teams of ten or twenty people forming studios.
"I've been a member of the Roblox community for over a decade, first as a player, then as a developer and now as CEO of RedManta, a game studio dedicated purely to Roblox development. Building and creating are a passion of mine, and from the early days I saw a future growing alongside the platform," said Alexander Hicks, RedManta CEO and RDC attendee. "With new tools and technology to more easily create massive and beautiful games, we are pushing even our own expectations for what we can create on Roblox, like our upcoming experience, World // Zero."
"What I love about Roblox is that it breaks down the barriers for game designers, giving them a chance to be creative, try new things, and share it with a massive player community," said Robin Hunicke, Funomena Co-founder, who delivered a keynote address at RDC on game design. She added, "The enthusiasm and camaraderie from these young creators was fantastic, and they share my belief in the power of games to bring people together. I can't wait to see what they create next!"
Immersive, Massive 3D Experiences
Roblox introduced game creation tools to help small teams of developers easily build massive, more realistic experiences that support hundreds of players. This technology builds on the existing networking support and hosting services the company provides for free, which automatically scales in real-time to meet player demand. As part of the toolset, creators can leverage Roblox's new enhanced lighting system and updated terrain and other visual upgrades to make deep, rich experiences that rival top mobile games. In addition, the company is enabling the community to easily build competitive matchmaking, which will ensure players of similar skill-levels can compete against one another.
Roblox will make Roblox Studio fully cloud-based by the end of 2019, allowing team members to collaborate simultaneously. All development files will be completely online and provide native support for collaborators across various computing platforms. Creators will be able to manage permissions, versioning, and rollbacks, allowing for more efficiency across all aspects of the development timeline.
New Ways to Monetize
Roblox also extended the power of user-generated content to its development platform, allowing creators to build and monetize development assets and tools in a new Developer Marketplace. In addition to offering a new channel to monetize their work, the Developer Marketplace will also help strengthen the overall experiences on the platform by crowd-sourcing solutions to help make development even easier. Creators will be able to sell game design tools including plug-ins, vehicles, 3D models, terrain enhancements, and more.
Localization Support
To further support the platform's growth internationally, Roblox announced improvements to its localization platform making it easier for creators to offer experiences in Roblox's supported languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Spanish.
Advanced Analytics Powered by Microsoft Azure PlayFab
Roblox outlined details of its earlier announced collaboration with Microsoft Azure PlayFab, making PlayFab's LiveOps analytics service available for free to the company's top 10,000 creators.
By delivering real-time analytics to their creators, including trends in player behavior, purchase history, and game telemetry, Roblox expects to empower those game creators to make their games even more successful and enjoyable for players. Some creators may choose to go even further with other LiveOps practices, such as updating their game more frequently, running live events, segmenting their players or targeting communications. This new service is driven by PlayFab's data pipeline and can support hundreds of thousands of games events per second coming from Roblox.
Crystin Cox, Director of Live Operations at Xbox Game Studios Publishing, who also presented the benefits of the new service for game creators at this year's RDC, commented, "LiveOps is driving growth, both in terms of player engagement and monetization, for the most popular games and platforms available today. LiveOps represents a new approach to game design combined with a better process driven by experimentation and we're excited to offer Roblox developers a new way to think about their players."
RDC keynotes are now available to view on the RDC Global website.
About Roblox
Roblox's mission is to bring the world together through play. Every month, more than 100 million people around the world have fun with friends as they explore millions of immersive digital experiences. All of these experiences are built by the Roblox community, made up of over two million creators. We believe in building a safe, civil, and diverse community—one that inspires and fosters creativity and positive relationships between people around the world. For more information, please visit corp.roblox.com.
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The Rock Halloween Costume
A Rock and Metal Halloween Costume
A metal and rock artist is a fantastic Halloween costume. These costumes are perfect for Halloween celebrations. They require an black costume, some eyeliner, as well as corpse paint. You can also use the guitar blow-up if desire. If you really want to be scary, you can even make a guitar that is blow-up as part of your costume! But be careful - a rock and metal artist is not for the faint of heart.
Kevin Hart dressed up as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
In a hilarious Halloween video he uploaded to his Instagram account, Kevin Hart dressed up as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. In the picture, Hart wore a black turtleneck sweater, blue denim jeans, a fanny pack, an wig, a silver necklace and a silver watch. The actor posed like Johnson did in a photograph from his early days as a professional wrestler.
Hart is believed to be fine despite the hilarious accident. Hart was a passenger in the 1970 Plymouth Barracuda on September 1, 2008. He suffered a fractured spine and was required to undergo major surgery. Since the time, Hart has been working on the sequel to "Jumanji: The Next Level."
The actor was recently tested in the "Tortilla challenge" video posted to TikTok. Participants hit each other with flour tortillas while trying to get it to spit water. Kevin Hart also tried out the game. The video was widely shared by fans and received more than 3 million views in just a couple of days. But the task was not an easy one.
Johnson is a close friend of the comedian, and they recently shared a behind the scenes look into Johnson's favorite friend. The two actors are laughing and sharing a kiss. Kevin Hart is physically smaller than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. The two appear to be extremely close and frequently troll each the other. Their friendship doesn't end there.
The joke is somewhat humorous. Hart's resemblance Johnson, though, makes the joke hilarious. Johnson even gives Hart a punch that makes Hart appear like a large frightening man. Hart later hit Johnson after the joke proved too hilarious. This is an excellent example of how funny Kevin Hart is.
The video concludes with a teaser of Jumanji: The Next Level. This sequel to the 2017 hit movie. It will star Danny DeVito and Danny Glover and will pick up right where the first movie left off. The sequel will also feature Nick Jonas, Awkwafina, and many more. Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle is scheduled to hit theaters on December 13th.
WWE The Rock costumes
Halloween is a great excuse to dress up in a WWE The Rock costume. These costumes are popular and sell out fast, so get them now! The costumes of WWE The Rock for Halloween are constructed from a variety of parts which include the body and face. The costumes consist of t-shirts, pants, pads, boots, and even the Championship Title belt. Think about purchasing the WWE The Rock T-shirt for your child to complete this Halloween costume.
Wrestling can be a wonderful method to express your personality. WWE wrestlers have done exactly that this year. There are photos of their best costumes from previous seasons. You can also make fun of Paul Heyman by dressing as the Special Counsel. Check the photos below to get some ideas for your next Halloween costume! There are many Halloween costume options from which to pick! Here are some Halloween costume ideas.
Kevin Hart's costume features brownface
A throwback photo of "The Rock" actor Dwayne Johnson has been a source of inspiration for comedian Kevin Hart to wear a 90s-themed costume for Halloween. Kevin Hart chose his costume to evoke the iconic '90s look, looking like a movie star in blackface. Kevin Hart's Halloween costume comprises a wig, black polo neckshirt and jeans.
Kevin Hart recreated the iconic photograph taken by Dwayne Johnson in 1994. Hart's costume was based off the iconic image in the film and consisted of an black turtleneck, curly hairdo, a bracelet, chain, and a fanny pack. Despite the controversy over this costume, Hart has continued to work on the sequel.


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Tim Hudson, Vladimir Guerrero, Brian Wilson, Rafael Soriano Win IBWAA Awards
The IBWAA announces its first set of 2010 season award results, naming NL and AL Comeback Player awards, the Hoyt Wilhelm National League Relief Pitcher of the Year, and the Rollie Fingers American League Pitcher of the Year awards.
Press Release - Oct 30, 2010
October 30, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) announces its first set of 2010 season award selections, naming its 2010 Comeback Player of the Year and Relief Pitcher of the Year awards.
The National League Comeback Player of the Year award was won by Tim Hudson, of the Atlanta Braves, with the American League Comeback Player of the Year going to Vladimir Guerrero, of the Texas Rangers.
The NL Hoyt Wilhelm Relief Pitcher of the Year award winner is Brian Wilson, of the San Francisco Giants, with Rafael Soriano, of the Tampa Bay Rays, being selected the AL Rollie Fingers Relief Pitcher of the Year.
Voting took place between September 15 and October 3, the final day of the regular season. Additional selections will be announced starting the second business day after the completion of the World Series
The IBWAA was created July 4, 2009 by Howard Cole, editor of BaseballSavvy.com, to organize and promote the growing online baseball media, and to serve as an alternative to the Base Ball Writers Association of America (BBWAA).
Among others, IBWAA members include Kevin Baxter, baseball writer for the Los Angeles Times; Tim Brown, YahooSports; Tom Hoffarth, Media/General Columnist, Los Angeles Daily News; Tony Jackson, Dodgers reporter, ESPNLA.com; Ben Maller, FoxSports.com; Gary Warner, Travel Editor, Orange County Register; and prominent baseball authors Peter Golenbock, Seth Swirsky and Dan Schlossberg.
Association memberships are open to any and all Internet baseball writers, with a yearly fee of $20. Discounts for groups and scholarships are available.
For more information on the IBWAA, please email Howard Cole, Director, IBWAA, baseballsavvy@aol.com.
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