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Commissioner hopefuls discuss public safety, water
by SAMANTHA TIPLER, Herald and News 10/14/12
Editor's note: This is the second installment of three parts asking candidates for Klamath County commissioner candidates about issues they will face in office. The first part ran Saturday.
Klamath County will have two new commissioners after the Nov. 6 election.
Tom Mallams won the Republican primary for Position No. 1. Kirk Oakes joined the race for the November election as an Independent.
Jim Bellet won the Republican ticket for Position No. 3, and also received the Democratic nomination by write-in. Bellet has no challenger in the November election.
Today the candidates address public safety and the commissioners' role in water issues — specifically if they have opinions about the controversial Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement or the issue of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) when it comes to water quality. Here's what they had to say.
Position No. 1: Tom Mallams
Q: Please speak to the issue of public safety. What should happen and how can commissioners help that along?
A: There is no easy, quick fix for funding of public safety. Our county has to live within its means. Then, and only then, will we be able to have continual funding in place for our necessary public safety. Raising taxes is not an instant fix. Raising taxes can actually encourage over-spending.
I will continue to fight for the continuation of the Secure Rural Schools funding. I have been in contact with many federal legislators and their staff promoting and working toward this end.
I will also continue fighting for the reform of the ESA (Endangered Species Act).
Even achieving these goals will not prevent further funding problems for public safety and other county budgets. Strong fiscal leadership and long-term planning is absolutely critical for Klamath County to get back on track and stay on track.
Q: Please speak about water issues. What's your thinking on what, if anything, commissioners need to do?
A: The KBRA began as a good effort to solve the Klamath Basin's water problems. Unfortunately, the process was taken over by our own federal agencies, dam removal thrown into the agreement and now does not deliver any guarantee of water for agriculture, no protection from biological opinions and also no protections from the ESA and no affordable power for agriculture.
The TMDLs are another example of our own government's out-of-control, unattainable mandates being forced on the citizens. The TMDLs are absolutely unattainable even if the city spends millions of tax dollars and irrigated agriculture was completely eliminated.
Klamath County commissioners have to take a firm, united stand against these out-of-control mandates tearing apart and attempting to destroy the Klamath Basin.
Editor's note: Tom Mallams' comments were shortened from the written comments he submitted. The Herald and News requested each answer be kept to about 100 words.
Kirk Oakes
A: First we have to define our terms. Public safety is not achieved by "locking up all the bad guys." Public safety is a physical state of being but it is also a mental state of being. When you perceive it is safe on the streets at night and it actually is, that's public safety. I am a firm believer in appropriate law enforcement and I also believe that public safety begins with appropriate staffing, for if law enforcement officers feel threatened, they will respond accordingly.
I also believe in restorative justice, meaning that punishment that does not give back to the community or the aggrieved becomes a burden on the community. These things are achieved with proper funding, proper attitude, proper expectations and an overall community awareness of the kind of neighborhood we wish to foster.
Q: Please speak about water issues. What's your thinking on what, if anything, do commissioners need to do?
A: As stewards in a managerial capacity for the county, the commissioners need to be active in anything that impacts the county. The water issues are critical and ongoing.
When looking at ways in which the TMDL is implemented, and where its proposed rating and management system is concerned, we need to make a serious differentiation between natural and introduced phosphorus pollutants in the watershed. If we are to comply and be involved in the evolution of the regulations, we must utilize scientific method and leave emotion at the door. The current TMDL projections and costs are untenable. KBRA is in adjudication, quite rightly.
Position No. 3: Jim Bellet
A: On the issue of public safety, I am waiting to see what the advisory committee comes out with in the next few months. Hopefully we will see many options that help solve our problems. The commissioners need to make the best decisions given those options, to know how much money there will be to spend.
A: In regard to Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for the sewer discharge, the DEQ continually comes up with new rules and regulations. Eventually, our citizens will not be able to afford the answers. We need to persevere in the facts that we meet the standards set by the state, that the water is acceptable. If the county and city do not win this argument, they need to shift water discharge elsewhere.
As for the KBRA, the commissioners need to do everything possible to make sure we keep the dams in place, make new and lasting agreements on water use and eliminate the KBRA agreement that misses the main point of more water storage.
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Book Review—Symbols of the Spirit: A Meditative Journey Through Art
By Glen Rogers, ©2019 Luna Arte Contemporáneo
Paperback, 104 pages, US$30 or 500 pesos plus US$5 shipping from glen@glenrogersart.com
You will want to savor your time with this gorgeous volume created with love and wisdom by very talented printmaker, painter and sculptor, Glen Rogers. The book is filled with Glen's beautiful artwork expertly laid out and printed in rich colors, accompanied by short text and guided meditation.
Glen's work has long been grounded in archetypal imagery—metaphysical symbols from the collective unconscious. As a young feminist artist, Marija Gimbutas' insights in The Language of the Goddess spurred Glen to walk in the footsteps of early goddess cultures. Over the next several decades Glen made spiritual and artistic pilgrimages to sacred sites around the world. On these journeys and in her art and life in between, Glen discovered and nurtured an internal resonance with sacred archetypal symbols, which then became a focus of her work. When she began authoring this latest volume, she set out to write a book about two of her favorite symbols: the bird and the lotus. Once she began, however, she quickly realized there were eight key symbols that appear again and again throughout her body of work.
In Symbols of the Spirit Glen writes a two-page essay on each of these eight symbols that have imbued such meaning and beauty into her art and daily life: the bird, circle, lotus, moon, seed, spiral, vessel and vesica piscis. She covers the symbols' historic use and meaning as well as how they came to speak to her personally. Glen includes a short meditation or experiential activity inviting the reader to connect with the energetic properties of each of the symbols: to "experience it with your heart and allow the images to become part of your visual and spiritual vocabulary." Click on any photo to enlarge it or view a slideshow.
The effect is one of pure joy and thoughtful contemplation. If you are looking for reading that nurtures the spirit, the heart, one's creativity and authenticity, you will find it here. Merely touching the rich pages deepens and calms one's breath. Keeping this book near you in your home or work space provides a quick escape from the harried world we live in.
Most Mazatlán residents have much to thank Glen for, including the First Friday Art Walks in Centro Histórico and the OMA Gallery at the airport. She owned Luna Art Gallery in Mazatlán, and currently splits her time between our city on the bay and San Miguel de Allende. Born in Mississippi, Glen holds an MFA from San Jose State University and has a long and esteemed art career. For decades she worked in public art and as a community leader. Glen has had solo exhibitions throughout the USA and Mexico plus several in Peru, and group exhibits on four continents.
Glen feels that these eight archetypal symbols offer a promise of healing and transformation, a spiritual and artistic anchor to the Sacred Feminine. She views the creation of art as meditation—a communing with a higher power. Working with ancient symbols provides a bridge to our ancestors and a heart connection to the past. Glen's experience tells us that these symbols provide healing on a subconscious level, and that once we've healed ourselves we can heal the world, because archetypes allow us to go deeper inside to find new truths to the dilemmas we face individually and collectively. Do we really need reasons more powerful than these to invest our time and talent?
Glen's record of giving back to the community and trying new things is evident in this book. Making such personal works available to everyone—artist and non-artist alike—allows us a peek into what pushes someone as amazingly talented as Glen, and in doing so inspires us to look inward as well. Meditating with Glen via these precious pages is a truly therapeutic endeavor. Contact Glento start enjoying your copy.
"The man who speaks with primordial images speaks with a thousand tongues."
Posted in Entertainment, Human Cultural Treasures
Tagged A Meditative Journey through Art, art, art book, book review, coffee table book, Glen Rogers, Language of the Goddess, Marija Gimbutas, Mazatlan, Mexico, Sinaloa, Symbols of the Spirit
Mazatlán's Famous Feminist: La Maya
Move over, Billy Jean King! While you are awesome, Mazatlán's own Margarita Montes won 28 of her 33 professional boxing matches against men—and that was back in the 1920s! She is perhaps the only Sinaloan woman to be interviewed by Ripley himself for his Believe It or Not, and was also interviewed by the French magazine Liberation for her life as a feminist.
In an era when women were expected to be quiet, submissive and obedient, "La Maya," as she was affectionately called, was anything but. Born with the need to achieve and be seen, she excelled in several sports and fought for women's rights long before it was cool. The sixth of eight children of a poor farming family, La Maya was a baseball player (state champion pitcher in 1929), boxer (Pacific League champion), bullfighter, mechanic and pig hauler; she owned a traveling movie theater, a tortillería and a bicycle repair shop; and she was a wife, mother, grandmother and friend. Sadly, she died before I was able to meet her, in 2007. Last night, however, I saw her house and met the man who recorded her oral history back in 1997, when La Maya was 82 years old—local writer, photographer and Carnaval float designer, Alfonso (Poncho) Cornejo Galindo.
La Maya's former house on Calle Rosales in El Centro.
The author today, in a throne from a Carnaval float.
I recently read his booklet, and it is a fantastic story! The photos in this article are taken from that story, and the contents are a summary in English of the Spanish text, shared with all of you with Poncho's permission.
Margarita got her nickname, "La Maya," from her father because he hair always hung in her face as a child. In the book she narrates her own story. She tells us she was born in the small town near Mazatlán called Chilillos. Her father cut himself with a machete and came to a hospital in Mazatlán, where he decided to move the family, in 1917 or so. The children had never before seen cars. La Maya remembers her sister Pachita and her arriving into town at sunset on a burro. She played as a child amongst the corrals of cattle on Rosales street, where the PRI building now stands.
Poverty taught her that to win she had to fight hard, to stand out she had to overcome, and she especially wanted to overcome the condition of being a submissive, quiet, obedient woman. She tells us she was always very motivated to overcome the obstacle of the difference between the sexes.
La Maya only went to school through first grade. She learned to spell a bit, but there were so many kids that they had to work to eat. At 12 she started to work in the nixtamal mill of Mr. Xicotencatle del Valle.
She tells us she was a wild child. Her father tried to change her, but her destiny was decided. She had a fever inside motivating her to do something! They used pieces of canvas to make baseball mitts, and silk stockings to make the balls, which they then covered with a milky juice that hardened over the balls. The bat they used was a tree branch, formed with a machete. She had a good arm and pitched very hard. She remembers that she was a sore loser who couldn't stand losing. Strength, muscles and triumph were her goals.
Delfina worked with her at the mill and lived near the baseball stadium, where the Escuela Nautica is now. She insisted La Maya go with her to play baseball, but La Maya's dad wouldn't let her. She then invited a neighbor to go with her one afternoon, and they went without telling anyone. The team members loaned La Maya a real glove that fit so well, and a real ball that caressed her hand, unlike what they had in the barrio.
They named La Maya pitcher on that very first day. It was the first time she felt she could be successful, break barriers, that her restlessness could serve a purpose. Don Julián Ibarra and El Güero Eliso were the team's coaches. They went to talk to her Dad and talked him into letting La Maya play. Every Sunday the old stadium would fill up. Most of the spectators were train workers who came to watch the women. The stadium was made of wood. The catcher, Juana Lerma, asked La Maya to pitch softer, but she told her to go to hell and learn to catch.
One day La Maya told El Güero that she didn't want to pitch anymore, because it tired her out and she had to work in the mill. He was smart and offered her ten pesos for every game she pitched, as long as she didn't tell anyone else. Since her pay for her full-time job was seven pesos a week, her side job, which she enjoyed, provided a huge salary!
There were three women's teams in that era: Cigarrera La Conquistadora, Molino del Valle, and Cervecería Díaz de León, La Maya's team. They won the championship and got a silver cup donated by Casa Huerta, a local artesanías shop. That was 1928. To get into the stadium cost 30-50 centavos. La Maya recalls that was the year the women in England got the vote.
She remembers participating in exhibition games in Hermosillo. And that one day El Güero Eliso bet her 50 pesos that she couldn't ride the wild horse that grazed on the lot where they practiced baseball. She mounted the horse in one jump, and and proceeded to ride him calmly around the lot. El Güero didn't realize she had learned how to ride while living in the country as a kid.
In 1931 La Maya still played baseball and was well know for her batting and pitching. She liked the fame, that she was important to people. One day some people told her about a boxer who was looking for someone in Mazatlán to fight. She'd always liked a challenge, so she got to thinking, "I'm good at baseball; how about boxing? What would happen if I put on the gloves?" She knew the boxer was training in Playa Sur, near the balnearios on Alemán. La Maya went to watch her; there were many spectators. "I can beat her," she thought. She knew her muscular arms were strong, and decided to do it. She was ecstatic when the organizers said they'd pay her 150 pesos to fight! El Güero was her manager, and the promoter was Chano Gómez Llanos. She had a month to get ready and trained with Kid Milo, Mike Rubí, Benjamín Pérez, El Borrego Torres and Mike Herrera who helped her a lot.
In the days leading up to the fight everyone was talking about it; two women, boxing! The lady's name was Josefina Coronado, and her manager was the Cuban Roberto Negro Molinet. She never expected the type of rival that La Maya would be. Tickets sold out for the fight in Teatro Rubio, today the Angela Peralta. She was nervous at first: three floors full of screaming people. The fight was four rounds and she felt she dominated; La Maya won by decision. The main fight of the evening was between Mike Herrera and Joe Conde, the Dandy of the Ring.
La Maya tells us that once the bantam weight champion, Raúl Talán, came to fight Joe, fresh from Japan where he'd been traveling. He watched her train, congratulated her, and gave her some gifts. They remained friends for years; she visited him in Mexico City when he was retired and wrote for El Nacional. He interviews La Maya several times. Joe Conde was her sparring partner. He was a fine boxer. Joe was a gentleman in and out of the ring. Elegantly dressed with a cane and bowler hat. It was the era of the famous Zurita-Casanova-Joe Conde triangle.
In 1931 La Maya traveled to Nogales to box, with permission from her employer, Mr. del Valle. Even though she went for three days, the trip ended up lasting three months. By then her brother Pepe was her manager. She was fighting men and winning by knockouts. She traveled to Tucson to fight and toured Nayarit.
La Maya remembers going to the mascarade ball for Carnaval in the As de Oros. Her brother Pepe chaperoned her. Someone got into a fight with him, she jumped to defend him, and everyone said "a little masked lady" had knocked the guy out! It was quite the scandal.
La Maya tells us she never looked for a fight. She traveled all over and made 150 pesos a fight touring Sonora, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Arizona, Baja California. She had 33 professional fights, five against women and 28 vs. men. She was the first woman boxer to fight against US American men and won the Pacific Coast Championship when she beat Josefina Coronado.
In 1933 she had a boyfriend, the son of a German and a Mexican, a very handsome guy with whom she'd had a five-year relationship. It was hard for them, because she traveled a lot. One time at a bull fight the people asked La Maya to fight. He said he didn't want to see her do it, but she did it anyway. She punched the bull several times to much applause.
Several days later General Juan Dominguez came to La Maya's house to ask her to become a bullfighter. María Cobián was coming, nicknamed La Serranito, and he wanted her in the ring, too. "You have good legs to run if you have to." They paraded in a convertible before the fight, accompanied by a banda sinaloense. The fight was in Plaza REA, where the Angel Flores school is now. They paid La Maya 250 pesos. But she tells us she was scared when the bull came out. People shouted at her to stick him with the banderillas. She got one in, but the other went into his butt. Her boyfriend was in the first row, applauding. That would be the last corrida that La Maya did formally, as she didn't want to play with bulls anymore; they frightened her.
A while later she saw her boyfriend in the theater with another girl. For the first time in her life she was hit with disillusion; it was like a knockout. She broke off their relationship right then and there; La Maya's blood would never mix with German blood.
In 1939 La Maya married José Valdez Alvarez. He was a stevedore on the docks. They saved enough money together to buy a cargo truck that they used for hauling. They had three sons: José, Alejandro and Efraín, but the youngest would be the only one to survive. At the time the book was published Efraín was married with three kids, her grandchildren Efraín, Alfonso and Alicia Margarita.
In 1948 La Maya returned to work in the mill but because the pay was so low she decided to also open a bicycle repair shop. Pepe her brother helped her. They rented bikes for 40 cents an hour. She came and went on bike from El Venadillo every day, which kept her legs in good shape. She would race to Villa Unión on bike sometimes, always against guys.
After tiring of bicycles she put in a tortillería, and then changed that for a mechanic's shop. When she sold that Mr. Valeri Saracco paid her with a Studebaker. With that she started to haul pigs; people were impressed with how easily she lifted them into the truck.
La Maya always worked hard and could learn how to do anything. She had lots of victories and triumphs. She believed she led the way for many women athletes, especially on the Pacific Coast. She was good at weight lifting and all sports, and wonders if perhaps she could have gone to the Olympics.
La Maya tells us of the satisfaction she felt appearing in several magazines, including Ripley's Believe it or not. On March 11, 1988, the reporter Michell Chemin from the French magazine Liberation's sport section published an article on La Maya.
She closes the booklet by saying that, "Now, at 92 years of age, with my physical and mental abilities intact, I look back on my life with nostalgia and feel I was born in the wrong era."
Now you know a bit of the story of La Maya. Please pass it on; we shouldn't let this woman's legacy die out!
Posted in Human Cultural Treasures
Tagged athlete, boxing, feminist, history, La Maya, Mazatlan, Mexico, Sinaloa, sports, women
Of Friends and Transitions
Living overseas seems to bring with it a mobile and transitory lifestyle of a caliber foreign to those who steward the home traditions. We become accustomed to a series of pronounced and frequent life transitions. In Tokyo foreign friends would transfer to assignments in other exotic locations every three to five years. It makes it nice for traveling, a privilege to be able to stay with friends around the world, but their departures leave huge holes in our lives. In Mazatlán there seems to be a frequent seven to ten year cycle to expat life, with beloved friends moving to the interior of the country or back home, closer to grandkids, so they can be an integral part of those children's lives.
Transitions are a normal part of life; I know this. Life is comprised of cycles; I know and believe this from the depths of my heart. Yet dealing constructively with transitions is the reason I made a career as an interculturalist oh so many decades ago. I am not good at them. They hurt. Things change. They can even change for the better, open new doors and windows for which we'll forever be grateful. But, they involve change nonetheless. Someone "moves our cheese."
Our friend Janet Blaser
Right now I'm dealing with the wonderful new cycle of a dear friend who has done so very much for Mazatlán during her life here—astoundingly so, in my opinion. I admire her greatly and love her dearly. Janet Blaser started and has run M! Magazine, that terrific English-language monthly we are fortunate to have seasonally. As part of that endeavor, she's thrown some of the best parties the expat community has had over the past decade, in some of the most unique venues in town. Janet also was the visionary and founder of the Farmer's Market, our local organic produce market, which has played a crucial role in transforming the reality of food and restaurant offerings in Mazatlán. She pretty much single-handedly organized our Women's March Mazatlán last January, bringing together nearly 500 locals and expats so that we could be "on the map" and have our voices heard with the rest of the world as Trump took office. Personally, she's always ready with an alternative viewpoint, a contradictory opinion, the inside scoop on goings-on around town, and a good belly laugh. I will miss that.
She is so ready for her new life cycle. She's rented a darling home with a killer view in Nayarit (the state south of Sinaloa), and has it fully furnished in her mind. She has a two-minute walk to a quiet and incredibly scenic little beach; it's going to rock. She's already made her first new friends, who share her passions for organic, sustainable living and surfing. She is excited about the new projects she'll now have time and energy to work on, which will take her new places mentally, emotionally and physically. All is good. I'm thrilled for her. It's full of growth and wisdom; it's right. Click on any photo to view it larger or see a slideshow.
A bit of history: M! Magazine
A bit of history: Farmers' Market
The M! Team
Cuchupetas
With Doctor Simi
Photojournalist at work!
And she is doing it right. With a month before she actually moves, Janet has already cleaned many things out, packed up a bunch of stuff, and advertised for a garage sale. This way her apartment reminds her on a daily basis of the excitement of her new life, and helps her deal with the reality of the shift. She's smart and wise. Damn her. 😉
What a gift to be that type of person, one who leaves a place better than when she entered it. A new owner is now the custodian of M!; the growers themselves are now in charge of the organic market. Good karma for beginning a new cycle.
Godspeed, my dear. We will be visiting you very soon. Know you will be missed, by so many, in deep ways. And know we are all rooting for your joy. Thank you for moving my cheese, even though I hate it. Life is change, it is a journey, it's all about transition. Darn it.
Posted in Expat Life, Human Cultural Treasures
Tagged expatriate life, expats, Janet Blaser, life cycles, M! Magazine, Mazatlan, Mazatlan Farmers Market, Mercado Orgánico de Mazatlán, Mexico, move my cheese, relocation, Sinaloa, transitions
The Clock Whisperer
Gabriel Alfonso Gamez Zuñiga is Mazatlán's resident clock whisperer, an incredibly talented, personable guy who is the last of a dying breed—the keeper of knowledge and skill that is nearing extinction.
People from throughout the municipio and surrounding communities ask Gabriel to work his magic on their timepieces. He does so with everything from the most expensive, bejeweled wristwatches— Chopard, Piaget, Rolex—to the brass mechanisms of antique wooden clocks and high-tech GPS-enabled dive watches. He also sells clocks and watches on commission. Click on any photo to enlarge or view a slideshow.
The son of clockmaker Alfonso Gamez, who learned his craft via a correspondence course with Swiss-based Vaucher, went on to train five different apprentices over a 60-plus year career, and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as Mexico's best clockmaker, Gabriel grew up sweeping floors amidst the hairspring levers, count wheel trains, chiming movements and recoil escapements on his father's workbench. He tells me he loves challenges in his work, "the more difficult the better." He approaches his craft as problem solving: "it's like putting together a jigsaw puzzle." What he hates is boredom.
Gabriel is the last of his father's apprentices still in business; he has been repairing clocks and watches for over fifty years—the longest in Mazatlán. Most of those decades he worked just up the street from his current location on the corner of Canizales and Rosales downtown. During that time he has seen clocks trend from the mechanical to electrical, quartz, chronographic, digital and back again. "Life is circular; everything old becomes new again. Now is the perfect time for my skills, because the old is in fashion again," he tells me.
Gabriel is so humble that he refuses to call himself a relojero or clockmaker, but says he "only repairs" watches and clocks. Everyone else raves about how gifted he is. On any given day he also repairs lights, computerized car keys; you name it, Gabriel fixes pretty much whatever his beloved customers bring in. His shop is constantly bustling: several people at the counter, cars pulling up to drop off or pick up merchandise. When Gabriel needs time to focus on a project, he has to roll down the doors of his shop and refuse to answer the knocks or the phone. When he tries to take a day off people come to his home for assistance!
The demand for his skills is obvious. We live in an age that is hyper-vigilant of time—it blinks on our cell phones, dashboards, microwaves, computers and televisions. Over a billion watches are sold each year—we have more need than ever for clock makers and repairers. Despite that fact, Gabriel tells me young people just aren't interested in learning his trade, and only a handful of clock repairers remain in Mazatlán; their "heyday" was in the 60s and 70s when there were dozens of shops in town. Gabriel is very social, so in addition to the steady flow of customers through his shop, there are usually at least one or two people just visiting.
Sprawled across Gabriel's workbench are hundreds of movements, wheels, rods, and springs, yet our clock whisperer knows exactly what parts he has where. He buys his parts from the Central de Funitura, the clock market in Guadalajara. He has a magnet attached to the end of a pole to help him find and pick up any small, dropped parts, and another magnet in his pocket to capture pieces he might put there.
Relojes Gámez is open Monday through Friday Clock 9:30am to 1:30pm and 4:00-7:00pm, and on Saturdays 9:30am to 1:00pm, on the corner of Canizales and Rosales, telephone 985-5620.
Talented and dedicated tradespeople are one of the joys of living in Mazatlán. Here we are fortunate to be able to have shoes, pots and pans, electronics or clocks repaired expertly and at a reasonable price. Every year, however, it becomes more difficult to find these quality-driven artisans; the world has changed, and people no longer want to spend years apprenticing to learn a trade. It makes me all the more grateful to know Gabriel and endorse his work, as he has helped us with more than a few watches. If you know anyone seeking a much-needed and rewarding trade, I'd urge them to contact Gabriel!
Tagged clockmaker, Gabriel Gamez Zuñiga, Mazatlan, Mexico, Sinaloa, time, time pieces, watch repair
Do You Love Maestro López Saenz, Too?
Do you love internationally renowned Maestro Antonio López Saenz' work? We are so blessed to have such a talented artist who is a native Mazatleco. You'll remember that back in September the Maestro told us he would be issuing canvas prints very soon. Today was the official launch of an exhibit of those prints in the Museo de Arte, although Victor Manuel, his nephew and agent, and the Maestro have had the prints on sale for some weeks now. The giclee prints are incredibly high quality, printed on canvas with original signatures. The color really pops, and at first glance you don't even realize that they are prints. I am so excited to finally be able to afford a López Saenz for our home (an approximately 15″ x 25″ print costs 2800 pesos)!
The exhibit officially opened a little after 5:00 this afternoon. The Maestro arrived on time, and spent a few minutes hugging and greeting his fans. Then the Mayor arrived, and after a big more mingling, a few very short speeches were given and the red tape was cut. The event was extremely well attended. It was difficult even to get to see some of the artwork, and definitely not easy to move in the galleries! There was also a reception in the patio area of the museum, with wine and snacks. Below are some event photos, and a video of the opening ceremony as well.
The Maestro guides the Mayor through the exhibit
López Saenz and Felton
Artist, Mayor and artist's family
The Maestro makes a few comments
Me and the Big Guy
The ribbon cutting
The Mayor reminds us how lucky we all are
A reception was held in the courtyard
Huge crowd for the opening
The exhibit, "Todo López Saenz," is well worth seeing. It will continue at the Museum of Art all through February and March, 2014, and from there will travel to Culiacán, Los Mochis, El Fuerte, Guadalajara and San Francisco (California). If you are interested in purchasing some of the works, contact Victor Manuel López de la Paz (in Spanish) at 6691-47-0582. And please tell him Dianne and Greg sent you.
Tagged Antonio López Saenz, art, canvas prints, giclee prints, Maestro Antonio López Saenz, Mazatlan, Mexico, painting, sculpture, Sinaloa
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Another Wednesday is here and this week's topic is Forgettable Books - the books that, whether you loved or hated them, you just don't really remember. These five books are ones that I do plan on rereading, either because I read them years ago, or because they are the first books in series that I do want to continue.
For those who don't know, Top 5 Wednesday is a Goodreads group created and run by Lainey and Samantha, with a new topic every single week to discuss. It's such a great way to to talk about different books and your opinions on them, as well as connecting with other members of the community - so definitely check it out and join!
It's Wednesday which means another Top 5 Wednesday! This week it's all about books that you just didn't manage to get to in 2017 but will prioritize in 2018. There were definitely a lot of books that I just didn't manage to read last year, but I managed to narrow it down to my top 5!
This year, I thought I'd try and get back into doing Top 5 Wednesday! And what better way to start of the year by talking about my 2018 reading resolutions.
I haven't done a 'Top 5 Wednesday' post or video in a while now, but the topics for September sound really good and ones that I've got ideas for. So I thought I'd jump back into it this week to talk about my top five books that I would love to see as TV shows!
Halloween is only 3 days away and I am excited. Here in Australia, we don't really celebrate Halloween as much as everyone does in the USA and UK, but that doesn't stop a lot of us from enjoying the day. Most shops have Halloween items for sale - decorations, costumes, lollies, even though I'm pretty sure very few people go trick-or-treating (at least where I live anyway).
Today, I'll be recommending my top five Halloween recommendations, which you can spend the day reading (if I haven't finished my last spooky read by Saturday, I'll be trying to finish it as well as the Saw movies).
I haven't read that many Halloween-esque books, but I think this list is great for those who don't really want to read anything to scary, but still want to be in the Halloween mood.


When an editor at the New York Times Book Review contacted me to review a Young Adult novel, I thought she might have confused me with someone else. But of course, I never say no. And then I read one of the most beguiling novels I've had the joy of picking up this year, Wishtree, by Katherine Applegate. The book is narrated by a tree—hence, the connection with me; because of the garden and great outdoors books I review for the Times, I'm kind of a resident tree-hugger.
When I finished Wishtree, which I read through in one go, I had my own wish: that all across this country, libraries and schools and nursing homes and television stations and government offices would sponsor Read-Ins with the novel.
This wish is even more vivid today, because of what feels to me like a cruel, sour decision to throw the lives of 800,000 young people, brought to this country in the arms of their parents, into disarray.
What does any of this have to do with protecting our children's health from climate change and air pollution? Lots. Leaving aside the brilliant work of each and every tree we plant in sucking up carbon and returning it to us in more usable form—the extreme weather that is hitting our cities and towns with more frequency and power disproportionately threatens this vulnerable community, intertwining with the roots of our mission.
Note how many families along the Texas coast had no flood insurance, no home insurance. When you get right down to it, families torn apart, threats to children's health and well being—whether by the heavy weather or hurricanes, or politics—is what we are all about.
Here's the link to my review. I hope you enjoy Wishtree.


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Q: Pareto optimality in game theory Consider the classic Game Theory game Prisoner Dilemma:
  ______C_____________D______
 C|   -1,-1    |   -4, 0
  |------------|-----------
 D|   0, -4    |   -3,-3

Now in this game there are 3 Pareto optimals: (-4,0), (0,-4) and (-1,-1).
I have had some trouble about considering (-1,-1) as a Pareto optimal, maybe because there is a better outcome for both players (not at the same time) in other outcomes.
Is the following reasoning correct?

*

*initialize the set of Pareto optimals with all the outcomes (a,b);

*if there is another outcome (a',b') such that a'>a ANDb'>bthen remove from the Pareto optimals set(a,b)`.

Is this correct?
Another question: is the outcome where a player has the maximum of his/her utility always a Pareto optimal?

A:
I have had some trouble about considering (-1,-1) as a Pareto optimal, maybe because there is a better outcome for both players (not at the same time) in other outcomes.

No.  It does have to be at the same time. that is, since none of the outcomes have the feature that it is better than $(-1,-1)$ for both players at the same time. So, it is Pareto optimal.
You say this yourself: for some outcome $(a,b)$ to not be Pareto Optimal, you must have some other outcome $(a',b')$ where both $a'>a$ AND $b'>b$. This is not true for $(-4,0)$ (worse for player 1), $(0,-4)$ (worse for player 2), and $(-3,-3)$ (worse for both players).
p.s. in explaining your reasoning you say:

*

*assume every outcome (a,b) is Pareto Optimal.

I don't understand why you would be assuming that. It's typically not true.

Another question: is the outcome where a player has the maximum of his/her utility always a Pareto optimal?

Yes, because for some outcome to not be a Pareto Optimal, there must be some other outcome where that player can do better, but that is not the case if the player is already at his/her maximum.

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Effective worldwide vaccination campaigns have dramatically reduced the number of deadly infections. Watch our video (turn on subtitles in your language!) and learn more about the vaccination success stories on the fight with smallpox, polio, tetanus and measles.
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Vaccines have been used to prevent diseases in millions of people worldwide. But who monitors the safety of vaccines and how do they do it? Watch our video (turn on subtitles in your language!) to learn more about the safety net ensuring that all vaccines in the EU are safe and help to protect you and your family!
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The rapid development experienced across the globe over the last several decades has seen competent ground become scarce. Owners and developers now look at marginal land affected by geoenvironmental and geohazard issues as having more potential than it may have before. Specialist engineering is necessary to resolve these issues to make the land viable.
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ALE's latest jacking innovation, the Mega Jack 300, has demonstrated its time efficiency, increased stability and ability to work within a restricted project site to jack-up pipe rack modules over 5m high in Kuwait.
This is part of the wider Al Zour Refinery Project EPC 2 and 3, where ALE is providing the full onshore heavylifting solution for one of the largest refineries in the Middle East. ALE is currently receiving pre-assembled pipe rack modules from barges at the project's construction dock, where they are transported on SPMTs over 4km to a staging area. Once at staging, the modules are required to be raised to various heights to suit the finish foundations on site, where ALE has provided the Mega Jack 300 system.
The project comprises modules of varying weights, sizes and foundation heights, requiring flexibility and speed in terms of the transport and jacking equipment. A total of 188 modules will be delivered to site, measuring as large as 50m in length and weighing up to 2,100t.
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local cmd = vim.cmd
local execute = vim.api.nvim_command
local fn = vim.fn

local install_path = fn.stdpath('data') .. '/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim'

if fn.empty(fn.glob(install_path)) > 0 then
  fn.system({'git', 'clone', 'https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim', install_path})
  execute 'packadd packer.nvim'
end

cmd([[
  augroup PackerUserConfig
    autocmd!
    autocmd BufWritePost plugins.lua source <afile> | PackerCompile
  augroup end
]])

require('packer').startup(function ()
  -- Package manager
  use 'wbthomason/packer.nvim'
  -- Base Dependencies
  use 'kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons'
  use 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim'
  use { 'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter', run = ':TSUpdate', config = [[require('plugins.nvim-treesitter')]] }
  -- Interface Plugins
  use { 'folke/tokyonight.nvim', config = [[require('plugins.tokyonight')]] }
  use { 'chentau/marks.nvim', config = [[require('marks').setup({})]] }
  use {
    'SmiteshP/nvim-gps',
    requires = 'nvim-treesitter',
    config = [[require('plugins.nvim-gps')]],
  }
  use { 'folke/todo-comments.nvim', config = [[require('plugins.todo-comments')]] }
  use 'folke/which-key.nvim'
  use {
    'lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim',
    requires = {{'plenary.nvim'}},
    config = [[require('plugins.gitsigns')]],
  }
  use { 'lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim', config = [[require('plugins.indent-blankline')]] }
  use { 'luukvbaal/stabilize.nvim', config = [[require('stabilize').setup()]] }
  -- Enhancement Plugins
  use { 'AndrewRadev/dsf.vim', config = [[require('plugins.dsf')]] }
  use { 'AndrewRadev/sideways.vim', config = [[require('plugins.sideways')]] }
  use 'AndrewRadev/splitjoin.vim'
  use 'bronson/vim-trailing-whitespace'
  use 'dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode'
  use 'editorconfig/editorconfig-vim'
  use 'godlygeek/tabular'
  use { 'goolord/alpha-nvim', config = [[require('plugins.alpha')]] }
  use { 'jenterkin/vim-autosource', config = [[require('plugins.autosource')]] }
  use 'lambdalisue/suda.vim' -- temporary, see keybindings.lua
  use {
    'mhinz/vim-grepper',
    cmd = {'Grepper'},
    keys = {'gs', '<Leader>g', '<Leader>G'},
    config = [[require('plugins.vim-grepper')]],
  }
  use {
    'numToStr/Comment.nvim',
    requires = {{'JoosepAlviste/nvim-ts-context-commentstring'}},
    config = [[require('plugins.comment-nvim')]],
  }
  use { 'nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim', config = [[require('plugins.lualine')]] }
  use 'sickill/vim-pasta'
  use { 'sindrets/winshift.nvim', config = [[require('plugins.winshift')]] }
  use { 'szw/vim-maximizer', config = [[require('plugins.vim-maximizer')]] }
  use 'tmux-plugins/vim-tmux-focus-events'
  use 'tommcdo/vim-exchange'
  use { 'tommcdo/vim-fugitive-blame-ext', requires = {{'vim-fugitive'}} }
  use 'tpope/vim-abolish'
  use { 'tpope/vim-dadbod', cmd = {'DB'} }
  use 'tpope/vim-endwise'
  use 'tpope/vim-eunuch'
  use 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
  use 'tpope/vim-obsession'
  use 'tpope/vim-repeat'
  use 'tpope/vim-sleuth'
  use 'tpope/vim-speeddating'
  use 'tpope/vim-surround'
  use 'tpope/vim-unimpaired'
  use { 'vitalk/vim-simple-todo', config = [[require('plugins.vim-simple-todo')]] }
  use { 'windwp/nvim-autopairs', config = [[require('plugins.nvim-autopairs')]] }
  -- Movement Plugins
  use { 'ggandor/lightspeed.nvim', config = [[require('plugins.lightspeed')]] }
  -- Navigation Plugins
  use {
    'kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua',
    requires = {{'plenary.nvim'}, {'nvim-web-devicons'}},
    config = [[require('plugins.nvim-tree')]],
  }
  use {
    'akinsho/bufferline.nvim',
    requires = {{'nvim-web-devicons'}},
    config = [[require('plugins.bufferline')]],
  }
  use {
    'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
    requires = {{'nvim-lua/popup.nvim'}, {'plenary.nvim'}},
    config = [[require('plugins.telescope')]]
  }
  -- Text Object Plugins
  use { 'David-Kunz/treesitter-unit', config = [[require('plugins.treesitter-unit')]] }
  use 'kana/vim-textobj-user'
  use { 'kana/vim-textobj-indent', requires = {{'kana/vim-textobj-user'}} }
  use { 'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjects', requires = {{'nvim-treesitter'}} }
  -- Language Plugins
  use 'hail2u/vim-css3-syntax'
  use 'mattn/emmet-vim'
  use { 'plasticboy/vim-markdown', config = [[require('plugins.vim-markdown')]] }
  use { 'rust-lang/rust.vim', config = [[require('plugins.rust')]] }
  -- LSP
  use { 'folke/trouble.nvim', requires = {'nvim-web-devicons'}, config = [[require('plugins.trouble')]] }
  use {
    'hrsh7th/nvim-cmp',
    requires = {
      'hrsh7th/cmp-buffer',
      'hrsh7th/cmp-emoji',
      'hrsh7th/cmp-nvim-lsp',
      'hrsh7th/cmp-path',
      'hrsh7th/vim-vsnip', -- required for autocompletion to work, even without snippets
      'onsails/lspkind-nvim',
    },
    config = [[require('plugins.nvim-cmp')]],
  }
  use {
    'jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim',
    requires = {'plenary.nvim', 'nvim-lspconfig'},
    config = [[require('plugins.null-ls')]],
  }
  use { 'neovim/nvim-lspconfig', config = [[require('plugins.nvim-lspconfig')]], requires = {{'vim-illuminate'}} }
  use { 'ray-x/lsp_signature.nvim', config = [[require('plugins.lsp-signature')]] }
  use 'williamboman/nvim-lsp-installer'
  -- DAP
  use { 'mfussenegger/nvim-dap', config = [[require('plugins.nvim-dap')]] }
  use {
    'nvim-telescope/telescope-dap.nvim',
    requires = {{'nvim-dap'}, {'telescope.nvim'}},
    config = [[require('plugins.telescope-dap')]],
  }
  use {
    'rcarriga/nvim-dap-ui',
    requires = {'nvim-dap'},
    config = [[require('plugins.nvim-dap-ui')]],
  }
  use 'RRethy/vim-illuminate'
  use { 'theHamsta/nvim-dap-virtual-text', config = [[require('nvim-dap-virtual-text').setup()]] }
  -- Fun
  use {
    'tamton-aquib/duck.nvim',
    config = [[require('plugins.duck')]]
  }
end)

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R. R. Church family home, 384 South Lauderdale, Memphis, ca. 1899. Library of Congress
The Fire That Sparked Memphis' Housing Inequality: Best #Cityreads of the Week
Linda Poon
A roundup of the best stories on cities and urbanism we've come across in the past seven days.
Tweet us your favorites with #CityReads.
"Memphis Burning," Preston Lauterbach, Places Journal
In the afternoon of February 26, 1953, fire destroyed a landmark in south Memphis, on Lauderdale Street. A stately three-story home, with eighteen rooms and twin gables, burned from its spires down.
Firefighters weren't late to the blaze — in fact, they'd ignited it. The city of Memphis, which was then hosting a convention of fire safety officials from around the country, had authorized the burning of the vacant mansion in order to demonstrate a new, efficient, fog nozzle fire-hose. Thousands stood in the street to watch. For two hours, firemen in black helmets and black slickers fought flames that burst through the roof and out of the windows. After blasting down each fire, they set another part of the home ablaze. Afterwards, the ruins steamed.
But there was much more to this demonstration than a test of new firefighting equipment. As locals understood, the burning of this particular home was an assertion of power, because of who it had belonged to and what it symbolized. Abandoned, weather-beaten, but still grand, the mansion at 384 South Lauderdale represented the pinnacle of black achievement in the city.
"When You Grow Up in Brooklyn, Staying Is Complicated," Emmy Favilla, BuzzFeed
Walking to a Long Island Rail Road station by myself on the sunny, unseasonably warm October morning after closing on my new condo, I cried, just a little. It was a visceral reaction, and I embraced it. In a state of semi-disbelief, I was proud to finally own a tiny slice of New York City, the gorgeous, strange, magical, dirty, inspiring metropolis I've always called home — much as I assume my parents had felt 20 years earlier; and my grandparents had in the 1930s, when they bought the six-family Brooklyn building (for a cool $8,000, mind you) my mother and I would spend our childhoods in; and my great-grandparents had in the 1950s, when they bought their Brooklyn house after arriving in America only one year prior.
When I announced on Facebook that I had purchased my first home, it was understandably met with various forms of "How?" by my peers. The New York real estate game is comically intense; Brooklyn has become the least affordable housing market in the United States. I've never made a salary close to six figures, and I come from a working-class, Sunday coupon–collecting family, but I've been fortunate enough to spend the majority of my adult years living in my parents' home on the Brooklyn–Queens border, just a few blocks from my new apartment. I've been working since I was 15, and my mom always advised me to save as much as I could stand. I listened, even when that meant living at home instead of on the NYU campus ("Where are you going?" "When will you be home?" "Shouldn't you be studying?") for four torturous, thrifty years.
Becoming a homeowner was simply something that I was going to do; there was no "might" or "maybe" in the equation, just a shaky sense of the timeline. Three generations of my family had done it with the bare minimum of expendable income, so there was no question I could as well, especially without children of my own to worry about. I won't say that I was inspired by them or that I owed it to my family; I'm not that sentimental. I just didn't want to be a renter for the rest of my life, and I didn't intend on leaving New York in the long term.
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"Why I'm Moving to the Place I Called 'America's Worst Place to Live,'" Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post
This isn't what I expected to happen.
Last August, in the middle of the summer news doldrums, I wrote a quick story on an obscure U.S. Department of Agriculture dataset called the "natural amenities index," which ranked America's counties on a number of physical characteristics -- mild weather, ample sunshine, varied landscape -- that usually make a place desirable to live in.
The piece had a few hundred words, a map and some charts -- standard data journalism fare. Per usual, I called out the winners and the losers, according to the data. On that latter point, some far-flung place I'd never heard of called "Red Lake County" (pop. 4,057) in Minnesota scored dead last. I did a quick Google search, added a dash of snark about its claim to fame -- "the only landlocked county in the United States that is surrounded by just two neighboring counties" -- and called it a day.
That's when the trouble started.
You can read all about the intense and exceedingly polite backlash to the original story here. At the suggestion of a local businessman, I took a trip out to Red Lake County to complement my spreadsheet smarts with some boots-on-the-ground knowledge. I met interesting people, petted friendly cows, and experienced firsthand the stark beauty of the northwestern Minnesota landscape.
"The Cult of Wawa," Amy Lombard, Mashable
It's around 10 a.m. in Ridley, Pennsylvania, at the local Wawa. The morning coffee rush has just ended at the convenience store, leaving only a handful of customers lingering during the calm before the storm of lunchtime hoagies.
"Are you interviewing people about Wawa?" a customer named Ferrenc Rozsa approaches me. "You know, I wrote a song about Wawa." He quickly retreats to his car and then back into the store with a country tune blasting through the speakers of his iPhone.
Coffee in the morning, hoagies in the afternoon
In the evening I fill up my tank
They got everything and more
I love my Wawa, I love my Wawa
I love my Wawa, it's my favorite store.
Rozsa imagines Blake Shelton on lead vocals.
To an outsider, Wawa appears like a normal, run of the mill convenience chain — except to residents in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and Florida. To them, Wawa is a community hub that deserves praise, fan mail and even country songs.
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"The Architect of the Reich," Michael J. Lewis, The New Criterion
It is one of history's cheekier pranks that the first architect ever to appear on television was that thirty-year-old prodigy with the movie-star face, Albert Speer. Nazi Germany was the first country to introduce television broadcasting, just in time to cover the 1935 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg. If you search for it, you can watch a short clip as Speer drives his convertible into his newly enlarged rally grounds, banters with a reporter, and then speeds off with a jaunty Hitler salute.
Of course the world knows Speer from an entirely different media appearance. This was his testimony at the Nuremberg trials, where he dramatically accepted full personal responsibility for Nazi war crimes, the only one of the accused to do so. His subdued, humble demeanor could not have contrasted more with the evasiveness, self-justification, and unconcealed haughtiness of his co-defendants. It was literally the performance of his life, and it saved him from certain execution. Having stepped into the role of "the good Nazi," Speer never relinquished it. Upon serving his twenty-year sentence, he published a series of fascinating though self-serving memoirs, beginning with Inside the Third Reich (1970). Through it all he played the part of the naïve and innocent artist, who was guilty of nothing more than letting his childlike eagerness to build overwhelm his good judgment and moral sensibility.
Albert Speer with Adolf Hitler at the mountainside retreat of Obersalzberg, discussing plans for a new opera house in Hitlers hometown of Linz. (Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archive)
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Linda Poon is a staff writer at CityLab covering science and urban technology, including smart cities and climate change. She previously covered global health and development for NPR's Goats and Soda blog.


After winning best cover of "Let It Go" in the Ryan Seacrest online contest, Elizabeth releases an updated cover of the beautiful song from "Frozen."
After winning best cover of "Let It Go" in the Ryan Seacrest online contest in 2014, Elizabeth releases an updated version of her cover of the beautiful song from "Frozen." You can check out the video on her youtube channel or website. Elizabeth is a singer/songwriter/teacher.


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Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Cookies; Usage Data; phone number; first name; email address; city; Data communicated while using the service.
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Displaying content from external platforms, Analytics, Contacting the User, Remarketing and behavioral targeting, SPAM protection, Traffic optimization and distribution, Tag Management and Hosting and backend infrastructure.
For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the section "Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data".
Google Ads conversion tracking (Google Inc.)
Google Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google Inc. that connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on this Application.
Phone contact (this Application)
Users that provided their phone number might be contacted for commercial or promotional purposes related to this Application, as well as for fulfilling support requests.
Personal Data collected: phone number.
Personal Data collected: city; email address; first name; phone number.
Displaying content from external platforms
This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Application and interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
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Personal Data collected: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
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Consider this your trophy bar accessory. At a whopping ¾ lb, the Brick has bottle cap busting power and its cast stainless design gives your bar top, office desk, or den a premium look. But this limited run of bottle openers won't last forever – kind of like your beer stash.
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Columbus Art Gallery provides creative custom framing and archival mounting in New York, NY. Since 1993, our locally-owned business has offered competitive prices and excellent customer service to residential and commercial customers in need of preserving their priceless artwork and memorabilia. We have a new computerized machine that cuts mats of any size with efficiency, enabling us to complete your order sooner.
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We had a few pieces of art framed here and couldn't have been happier. The owner was great to deal with and after shopping around to a few other local stores, we chose to go with this because of the price and customer service. The final products look great and it was a such an easy process (including home delivery). Highly recommend.
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Brisbane double-header launches Four Nations
Thu 10 Apr 2014, 11:15 AM
Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium will host a double-header to open the end-of-season 2014 Four Nations tournament ahead of a first ever final for the event in New Zealand.
NRL Head of Football, Todd Greenberg, joined QRL Chairman Peter Betros and CEO Rob Moore, Holden Kangaroos coach Tim Sheens, Kiwis coach Stephen Kearney and Broncos Test stars Sam Thaiday (Australia), Jack Reed (England) and Alex Glenn (New Zealand) in Brisbane on Tuesday to unveil the tournament schedule.
The seven-match tournament will also feature games in Melbourne, Wollongong, Dunedin and Whangarei, ahead of a first Four Nations Final in New Zealand, in the capital Wellington.
Roos to play historic Test in Wollongong
The 2014 tournament includes World Champions and Four Nations holders Australia, co-hosts New Zealand, England and the winner of the mid-season Pacific Test between Fiji and Samoa to be played at Penrith, in Sydney's west, on Saturday, May 3. Tickets for this match went on sale this week.*
The Suncorp Stadium double-header will mark the first meeting between Australia and New Zealand in Brisbane since the Kiwis' stunning final-minute triumph over the Holden Kangaroos in the final of the 2010 Four Nations tournament.
"The Four Nations double-header at Eden Park in 2010 exceeded all expectations and we have also seen how well fans have embraced the double-header concept in the Telstra Premiership in Brisbane," Mr Greenberg said.
"This is one of the great venues in sport and it will be an exciting way to launch the tournament.
"The World Cup in the United Kingdom last year showcased the growing strength of international Rugby League.
"The semi-final in particular between England and New Zealand was one of the great Test matches of all time and it will be great for fans here in Australia and New Zealand to have the opportunity to watch all four teams in action."
Queensland Assistant Tourism Minister, Mr Gavin King, said hosting the opening round of the Four Nations is an exclusive opportunity to see the top four international Rugby League teams battle it out in Brisbane in back-to-back matches on Saturday, 25 October.
"This fantastic event, hosting thousands of Rugby League fans gives our local tourism industry a chance to shine," Mr King said.
"Support for events like the Rugby League Four Nations tournament is part of our Government's plan to double annual overnight visitor expenditure from $15 billion to $30 billion by 2020.
"Queensland is a great state with great opportunity and the opening round played in Brisbane will see the city broadcast nationally and overseas into New Zealand, the UK and the Pacific Islands."
The staging of the Four Nations Final in Wellington follows the success of the Four Nations double-header at Auckland's Eden Park in 2010, as well as the stunning support from fans for the inaugural Dick Smith NRL Auckland Nines.
As part of the NRL, NZRL and Warriors' commitment to enhancing the continuing growth of Rugby League in New Zealand, Telstra Premiership matches will also be played in Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington this season.
"Bearing in mind we will be co-hosting the World Cup with Australia in four years, this is a great opportunity for us to show our capability," NZRL Chief Executive, Mr Phil Holden, said.
"But it's also a huge challenge, both on and off the field. On one front, we may be up against the other three semi-finalists from last year's World Cup, with England, in particular, itching to avenge their semi-final loss to us at Wembley.
"And then we're looking for Wellingtonians to show their passion for Rugby League, regardless of whether the Kiwis are in the final or not.
"Auckland has already shown it's ready for major World Cup fixtures, after successfully hosting the NRL Nines.
"Wellington prides itself as a sporting mecca and we're confident local fans can also support an international spectacle of this calibre."
The NSW Minister for Sport and Recreation, Ms Gabrielle Upton, applauded the decision to host one of the Four Nations Test matches in Wollongong.
"Having the Kangaroos playing at WIN Stadium is an absolute bonus for Rugby League fans in the Illawarra," she said.
"The NRL could have scheduled this match in Sydney, but they have decided to reward fans in Wollongong and the region for their lifelong support of Rugby League.
"I have had ongoing conversations with the NRL about the importance of playing big matches at WIN Stadium, and this historic decision to schedule the first ever Kangaroos Test match there is a terrific outcome."
Ticket details for the 2014 Four Nations tournament will be released in May.
2014 FOUR NATIONS SCHEDULE
Saturday, October 25: Australia v New Zealand, England v Pacific Team at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.
Saturday, November 1: New Zealand v Pacific Team at Toll Stadium, Whangarei.
Sunday, November 2: Australia v England at AAMI Park, Melbourne.
Saturday, November 8: New Zealand v England at Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.
Sunday, November 9: Australia v Pacific Team at WIN Stadium, Wollongong.
Saturday, November 15: Four Nations Final at Westpac Stadium, Wellington.
*Please note that tickets are now on sale for the Pacific Test between Fiji and Samoa to be played at Penrith's Sportingbet Stadium on Saturday, May 3. Tickets are just $10 for adults and $5 for children (Under 4 Free on Knee) and are available from Ticketek.
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This is the page of Iraqi Dinar (IQD) to United States Dollar (USD) conversion, below you can find the latest exchange rate between them and is updated every 1 minutes. It shows the exchange rate of the two currencies conversion. Real-time exchange rate quote of IQD USD including detailed information, live chart and news, profile and other market data.
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