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CONCORD JOURNAL
West Nile found in Concord
Two mosquitoes test positive for the virus
Rob Carter
rcarter@wickedlocal.com
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced Aug. 16 that two mosquitoes collected in Concord had tested positive for West Nile virus.
Concord is one of many towns in the state where recent hot and humid weather, combined with frequent rainfall, have provided "perfect conditions for mosquito species carrying West Nile Virus to breed," according to Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel.
The trend across the state has prompted the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to elevate the risk from low to moderate statewide.
According to the Center for Disease Control, most people infected with West Nile virus have no symptoms from the infection, but about one in five people who are infected develop a fever and other symptoms. In rare cases, people can develop a more serious and sometimes fatal infection.
State officials said people over the age of 50 were at a greater risk of developing severe symptoms.
No cases of West Nile virus have been reported in humans or creatures other than mosquitoes, according to the state's Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Since the disease is most commonly transmitted to humans from mosquito bites, public health officials are asking residents to be especially vigilant about avoiding mosquitoes.
"I strongly encourage everyone to keep using insect repellent and to be especially aware of mosquito activity at dusk and dawn when the risk of being bitten by mosquitoes is greatest. Move indoors if you are getting bitten," said Bharel.
Concord town officials released a list of steps residents can take to protect themselves and their loved ones from West Nile virus, as well.
To prevent bites, the list suggests using a repellent with DEET, permethrin, picaridin, IR3535 or oil of lemon eucalyptus. They also recommend using clothing to create a physical barrier.
"Although it may be difficult to do when it's hot, wearing long sleeves, long pants and socks when outdoors will help keep mosquitoes away from your skin," according to the town's instructions.
Town officials also recommend residents "mosquito-proof" their homes by draining any standing water where mosquitoes could lay eggs and by installing or repairing window screens to keep the insects out while windows are open.
Concord has hired East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project to assist with mosquito control through adult mosquito surveillance and larval mosquito control with two biological agents called Vectolex WSP and Bti, according to the town's website. The town does not use any aerial spraying as a means of mosquito control.
In an information packet distributed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, state officials remind residents that while caution is recommended, the risk of contracting West Nile virus is still low.
"Only a small proportion of mosquitoes are infected at any given time. Thus, being bitten by a mosquito does not mean a person will become sick," according to the booklet.
Michael P. Norton/State House New Service contributed to the reporting in this article.


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Jamile: If You Could See Me Now
By MARTIN MCFIE
Jamile grew up in Cachoeira do Sul (South Falls), a small town in Brazil towards the border with Uruguay. Her supportive family had no particular interest in music. Imagine her surprise, then, at finding her twenty-something self launching this debut album at Gianni Valenti's Birdland Theater in New York City.
After completing her studies in Brazil, Jamile decided to do her masters in jazz in New York. "When I came to New York City in 2017," she says, "that was the first time I had traveled outside of Brazil. I found New York uncompromising and immeasurably tough. It was not a little scary for a young woman on her own. In the beginning, it was hard to get gigs, but after lots of self-promotion, once I started booking and performing, things began to flow.
"I had guidance from pianist Antonio Ciacca in production, though I found the overall process at times almost overwhelming, particularly in post-production. I prepared financially to pay musicians, studio, mixing, mastering, licensing, album design, printing, and promotion. It's a lot of work which takes a long time to do right, more than I thought. I hope to show where I am now in my music with this showcase album."
Jamile gathered around her Ray Gallon on piano, Steve Wilson on alto saxophone, Jay Leonhart on bass and Vito Lesczak on drums. The quality and precision of this group of musicians interacted crisply with Jamile's soft voice.
Jamile has a library of beautiful Brazilian music in her native language. She included two tracks on this album, "O Pato" (The Duck) filled with rapid and amusing onomatopoeia, and "Luiza," a fast and diction-demanding tune for the singer. She began swinging up-tempo with Dizzy Gillespie's "In the Land of Oo-bla-dee," a fairytale story of a beautiful princess switched for her ugly sister at the altar, and slowed into her after midnight presentation of "Ugly Beauty." "This Is New" showed both Jamile's vocal range and scat singing abilities against an excellent solo sax section from Wilson.
"Shiny Stockings" was a charming novelty track from Count Basie. "Jobim" was a reflective tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim sung in English with a distinctly bossa nova rhythm. "Everything I Love" was played fast and acted as a vehicle for some rapid scat, and fast piano from Gallon with clean drums rattling along to a sharp finish by Lesczak. The title track to the album was delivered with a gentle lilt and a 1940s feel, a tribute to Sarah Vaughan both from the admiring Jamile and Tadd Dameron who wrote the music. The last track, "Nobody Else But Me," was a slow and relaxing number from the Broadway musical Showboat. The whole album sounds sharp, confident, and professional.
Track Listing: In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee; Ugly Beauty; This is New; Shiny Stockings; Jobim; Luiza; Everything I Love; If you could see me Now; O Pato; Nobody Else but Me.
Personnel: Jamile: vocals; Steve Wilson: alto saxophone; Ray Galon: piano; Antonio Ciacca: piano (track 5); Jay Leonhart: bass; Vito Lesczak: drums.
Title: If You Could See Me Now | Year Released: 2019 | Record Label: Self Produced
About Jamile
Jamile Staevie Ayres Album Reviews Martin McFie If You Could See Me Now Self Produced Jamile Birdland Theater New York City Antonio Ciacca Ray Gallon Steve Wilson Jay Leonhart Vito Leczak Count Basie Antonio Carlos Jobim Sarah Vaughan Tadd Dameron
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Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 23 Apr 1942 - 02 Jun 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/184A-C
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (23 April) in secret session on the war situation including: Japan's entry into the war; setbacks including battleship losses; defence of the Admiralty over the escape of the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau; events and operations in the Far East, the Middle East and the Soviet Union; air battles including the bombing of Germany; and aircraft and ship production. Also includes correspondence from: Maurice Dean [Assistant Under Secretary of State,...
Dates: 23 Apr 1942 - 02 Jun 1942
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Speeches
Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 27 Jul 1943 - 13 Oct 1943
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (27 July) on the fall of Mussolini including an assessment of his regime and the principles to be used in negotiations with Italy; and also on events and operations in the Soviet Union and the bombing of Germany. Also includes correspondence from 1st Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States]; Francis Keenlyside [Assistant Secretary in charge of Shipping Policy]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the Cabinet]; and...
Dates: 27 Jul 1943 - 13 Oct 1943
Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 11 May 1943 - 30 Jun 1943
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/194A-B
Scope and Contents Press cuttings of WSC's broadcast from Washington, United States (14 May) on the Home Guard in which he pays tribute to the members of the Home Guard. Also includes correspondence from Sydney Redman [Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War]; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore [Chairman of the Home Guard Joint Parliamentary Committee] (3); Robert Gransden; George Anderson, Principal Officer Eastern civil defence region (2); telegrams from the Ministry of Information;...
Dates: 11 May 1943 - 30 Jun 1943
Subject: Air warfare X
Subject: Maritime transport X
Subject: Asia-Pacific War, 1941-1945 X


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Our September Author Takeover comes from debut author Anna James, whose dazzling new middle-grade adventure book, Pages & Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers, is out this month. Anna James is a former school librarian, a writer, and a journalist, and you can watch her bookish YouTube videos at A Case For Books. In her MuggleNet post, Anna explores the bookish wonders of Harry Potter and how her own favorite library spots have lent themselves to her imagination.
Irma Pince does not do a lot in the fight against librarian clichés. She's described as "vulturelike," with "sunken cheeks," "skin like parchment," and a "long, hooked nose." She seems to hate students and is suspicious and rude and definitely a shush-er. But while Madam Pince might be one of my least favorite characters in Harry Potter, the Hogwarts library itself is one of my favorites. "When in doubt, go to the library," are words to live by, and Hogwarts definitely had an impact on me when I was creating the secret, magical Underlibrary in Tilly and the Bookwanderers, where my heroine goes to learn more about her ability to travel inside of books.
Libraries have always been a huge part of my life, so much so that I was a school librarian myself (although hopefully none of my students would compare me to Madam Pince) for nearly five years before I became a writer. I grew up in a small village in Northumberland, with no bookshop, but we did have a public library, and I was fortunate that all three of the schools I went to had small but well cared for libraries, and my high school had a full-time librarian (who recommended me what turned out to be one of my all-time favorite novels, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger). Our public library only had a small children's section, and the teen books were all mixed in (this was a little before YA was seen as a distinct thing, and the teen offerings were mainly Sweet Valley High and my beloved Scrambled Legs books). Moving on to the adult books was just a natural thing to do once I'd read the children's section, and whether it was because the librarians had more important things to worry about, or because they encouraged reading without censorship, I was left to my own devices. I read without pattern or plan, jumping from Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations to Discworld to Austen to women's fiction – where I learned a lot, some of it far too early.
Nowadays, I choose what I read a lot more consciously, which is largely a good thing; I'm much more aware of publishing and authors and what I like, so I rarely read things I don't enjoy. But there's a bit of me that misses choosing books so serendipitously and discovering authors I've never heard of. And that's one of the reasons libraries – and brick-and-mortar bookshops – are so magical. Part of what inspired Pages & Co, the bookshop where Tilly lives with her grandparents, is the idea of infinite unknown portals to other lands waiting for you, lined up on the shelves, and the idea that you might stumble into an adventure you didn't even know was waiting for you.


I'm a huge fan of the UFC. If you don't know what it is, look it up. It's as close to a real fight as you can get legally. Right now their greatest and most revered champion, Anderson Silva, is getting a lot of crap from UFC fans.
There are two basic fighters that step into the cage, an eight-sided fenced in platform where the fights are held. One type of fighter comes in to win. Another type comes in not to lose.
Silva was on a huge winning streak, winning eight straight fights. Less than a handful of people have ever accomplished that in the UFC. His last fight that was held a couple of weeks ago would have marked his ninth, breaking the record.
He stepped into the cage to defend his title. Without going into details, both he and the challenger fought not to lose, which made for a boring fight. The president of the UFC even apologized.
When going for your dreams, taking risks is necessary. That's the hard part.
I spent more than three years writing my book. I went in to win. I didn't think about winning when writing the book. But my intention was to get published.
Is there a limit to the risk?
Justin Lin is known for directing movies such as THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT, ANNAPOLIS, and FAST AND FURIOUS to name a few. I first knew of him when he directed BETTER LUCK TOMORROW. He'd spent about $100,000 on the movie by maxing out eight to ten credit cards.
That's going in to win.
MTV ended up buying the movie, recouping Lin's cost. But the win came when we got to direct James Franco, Donnie Wahlberg, Jordana Brewster, Roger Foo and Tyrese Gibson in ANNAPOLIS. His risk brought him his dream of filmmaking.
Is there a limit to risk?
I think the risk should be somewhat related to the goal. If I'm writing my fantasy, risking my life shouldn't be part of it. What I'm risking is my ego, three years of my life and my dream. The win in my mind is awesome. If I'm a fighter, then my life is at risk. The aims are different, which brings in different sets of risks.
Ultimately, the limits are personal.
I've been watching UFC since it first came out in the early 90's. And I was disappointed with Silva's performance, even though he won. He definitely came in to the fight not to lose. And the fans are speaking out.


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Featured Resident Artists :: Rose Beerhorst & Jeffrey Kriksciun
Join us Sunday, August 18th at 6:00pm for a slide talk by our two featured artists:
Jeffrey Kriksciun was raised in various stops around the country; as an adult he was based out of San Francisco, then Portland Oregon, and for the last five years he has lived and worked in Stockholm, Sweden. Working with any materials he comes across, Jeffrey is mostly self-taught, while taking art classes here and there along the way. He is currently focusing on self-publishing drawing zines and tattooing.
Jeffrey arrived August 11th, and will be in residence until September 2nd. Of his work he says:
"Life and everything that encompasses it, is weird.
Taboos, perversions, chaos, technology, simplicity, peace, love; it's hard to find an uninteresting subject.
Our thoughts are ancient. The way we process and interpret them remains a mystery. Primal instincts embedded in plastic.
Through my work, I try to bring to surface the absurdity in the mundane, highlighting ideas that make us who we are, good and bad. Creation as coping mechanism."
Jeffrey tattoos a grapefruit.
Rose Beerhorst was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Rose's parents Rick & Brenda Beerhorst are both visual artists and unschooled Rose along with her five younger siblings. Rose was involved in the family business of making and selling art. She started selling her own work to high-end toy stores at the age of 14, when her family lived a year in Brooklyn NY in 2005.
Rose chose to skip Art School and has been supporting herself through her art and craft since 2011. Notable sales include six rugs sold to Urban Outfitters, and a series of custom puppets for the National Czech & Slovak Museum. Rose and table-mate Rachel Mckay, have been voted "Best In Show" at the UICA Holiday Art Market consecutively 2011- 2012. Rose sells her work on Etsy and locally under the name "Brave Hand Textiles"
She arrived at Shared Space on August 2nd, and will be in residence through the 26th.
Sitting on her completed quilt, Rose winds strips of fabric for her next rug.
ANNOUNCING... Shared Space Resident Artists 2013! (part one)
We are excited to be building a new team of amazing resident artists to activate Shared Space Studio this summer. The residency season runs August 2nd to September 2nd this year, and will host eight residents, staying from 10-21 days, overlapping and collaborating as they will. As confirmations roll in and travel is arranged, I'd like to introduce our new crew a few at a time:
SARAH HAAS : aug 2 - aug 14
desires to merge work and play, to navigate and record the body as a cultural landscape, and to become a self-sustained, eco-conscious, yet collaborative entity, while garnering a sense of freedom within a rapidly corporatized world.
www.sarahhaas-rawart.com
ROSE BEERHORST : aug 2 - aug 26
makes rugs, quilts, toys, and accessories, enjoys the process of making something new out of discarded items, and takes pride in creating both beautiful and functional objects.
Rosebeerhorst.wordpress.com
ALIYA BONAR : aug 23 - sept 2
makes interactive installations and events that are exaggerated versions of vaguely familiar worlds, inviting viewers to step outside of reality and share beyond normal limitations and rules.
www.aliyarosebonar.com
Recap Week Five : BOOK BRANCHES SINGING
This is our last weekly recap for the season, and it is hard to sum up all that has happened. Eight artists held residency here over four-and-a-half weeks, and they all ended up contributing not only their specific projects to the space, but a sense of the studio being well-used. With classes, events, and residencies, our summer has really activated the studio and set a precedent for future greatness. Thank you to all involved.
As we said goodbye to Amy, the two remaining residents, Paul and Mary, finished or extended their projects in graceful manner. Paul's audio book, recordings of The Gardener of the Dunes by Swift Lathers, took form in a trio of handsomely executed CD cases. He gifted one to the Pentwater Library and one to Shared Space. I can't think of a better soundtrack to working in the studio than poems and musings reflecting on the Silver Lake Dunes by our local hero.
One for Shared Space, one for the Pentwater library, and one for Mary.
Mary constructed a new hoping machine on the meadow homestead, this one built with foraged branches to remain onsite, settling under the winter snow. This A-frame construction acts as a meditative space and an entryway into the homestead, around which Mary piled walls of the same sticks. The installation to be left behind is a functional space; with twin trails to camping platforms, a fire pit, and a picnic table to work at, eat at, or lay on top of and watch the clouds.
The Meadow Hoping Machine
A forked path to two camping platforms.
A hidden text, referencing a missing text by Swift Lathers.
Paul & Mary birdwatching in the meadow at dawn.
Mary and Paul left the residency mid-week, went on an upstate kite-flying adventure, and Paul returned to New York. We were happy to welcome Mary back for one last Sunday, and she and I attended "A Pleasant Afternoon" at the Oceana County Historical & Genealogical Society. We were greeted by a rainbow of pies and Mears community elders, and made sure to pick up several copies of Swift Lathers' Mears Newz.
An image of participants quilting for Quilt Stories.
For our last talk of the summer season, I stepped in as a visiting artist and gave a presentation on my traveling project Quilt Stories. I shared the fabric collages, patchworks, and storytelling projects that led up to this ongoing body of work. Quilt Stories began as a quilted tent, to collect stories in, and now exists as installation, video, songs, ceramics, and a white quilt covered with stitches from people across the country.
Our second speaker of the evening was the amazing Larry Krone. Larry is from St Luis, now resides in New York, but has spent every summer of his life in a cabin with his family in Pentwater. He opened his presentation with one of his signature country songs, played on ukulele, and led us through a progression of his sculptural works. Utilizing and honoring folk art techniques, Larry has made latch-hook rugs, wisdom tooth dolls, sequined embroideries, and text art with his own hair. He incorporates his meticulously crafted objects and costumes into performances of his personal country-western song repertoire. The crowd was happy to watch Larry strip from his ruffled baby costume down to his underpants of many colors, and connect his wide-ranging body of work to his personal experiences in Pentwater.
Reeling from the success of our first residency season, we are looking forward to next year with new artists and new plans. I am closing this series of posts with this serene photograph Mary and Paul made of their geography lesson in the meadow. If all of the residents have taken one common sentiment away from their time here, it is a reverence for and infatuation with our beautiful state.
Two Penninsulas
Recap Week Four : KITE DANCE SAND BANNER
We started another great week with our two new residents, Emily and Amy. Amy Johnquest, our final resident to arrive, joined us for dinner on Monday and the following day set herself up to paint. Amy's paintings are often portraits or tributes to everyday people, places, and things, depicted as oddities or novelties in the style of a carnival banner. For her recent banners, she paints on found tablecloths and tapestries and incorporates the pre-existing embroidered motifs into the painting. She set up a painting studio for herself with a tack board of homasote, and began sketches for two banners: A tribute to her late dog Olivia, and a portrait of The Great Log of Pentwater, a local mystery that Amy has appreciated while visiting Pentwater over the last twenty years.
Amy's workspace with beginnings of banners.
Emily + Eliza's hand dance.
Emily Harris used her week in residence to read, write, and experiment with new ideas. She began a new project in which she measured and photographs the other resident's hands. After seeing Emily's artist talk on Sunday, local Pentwater musician Frank Galante offered to collaborative in a movement/music jam. Frank set up his guitars and pedals at the studio to play while Emily made drawings and movements in response. She set up a video camera pointing out of the sliding glass door towards the meadow, and filmed us hand-dancing to the sounds. She played with space, perspective, and illusion as she moved closer or further from the door, entered the frame from all sides, and made contact with the glass.
Emily's hand dance video - hands move in and out of the frame, her hand shrinks in perspective as she moves away from the building.
Paul painting birds.
Paul and Mary proved to be a power-team in the studio this week, with many late nights and early mornings. Paul learned how to use a sewing machine as he and Mary made patchworks from tents, and divided them into pairs of kites that will fly with lights at night to make sky drawings. The two had independently wanted to make a kite at some point in the past, and this was the opportunity for them to collaborate and make their kite dreams come true. For the first pair of kites, they made patchworks from old tents, cut them up, mixed them up, and assembled two diamond-shaped kites, each as tall as they are (a height difference of 14 inches). They then made one square patchwork together, and cut it in half to make two triangular kites. This process was also a way for the two to communicate by working together, as they had until now only had contact through mail correspondence. Outfitted with scalloped fringe and yarn tassels, when the kites were finally airborne in the meadow, it was a triumphant moment for us all.
Mary's kite, airborne in the meadow.
As Mary finishes patch-worked wind socks to bring to her next Cabin Time residency on Rabbit Island, Paul continues to catalog the birds in the meadow with drawings and paintings. His guide to the meadow birds will be accompanied in our library with Mary's Adventure Guide to outings in the Pentwater area; filling in future residents on all of the local places to go and see. The two made yet another trip to the former home of Swift Lathers, at the Oceana Historical Park, so Paul may have the chance to record himself reading The Yearning Years, Swift's book of poetry that stays in the museum's archives. Paul plans to put together his readings of Swift's writings on an audio CD, and gift it to the Pentwater Library.
The team at 8am.
Pentwater's annual Homecoming celebration was this weekend, and the four resident artists really bonded as a team when we entered the esteemed sand sculpture contest. In a brainstorming session we agreed the key to building with sand was to keep it wet, and we were dubbed Team Keep It Wet. After I crafted team spirit shirts, we were on the beach early, with shovel and spray bottles, to carve out and build up our take on the contest's theme "Year-Round Fun in Pentwater." Our design was a quilt draped over a trio of friends in a bed: Each square on the quilt depicted a fun Pentwater past-time. We had the most fun possible, and won a sweet little trophy to show off at the studio.
We were sad to see Emily go back to New York on Saturday, but continued the Homecoming festivities by enjoying a parade, fireworks, karaoke, and a stellar meteor shower. On Sunday, we welcomed another compelling artist to the space to give a talk with Amy. Laura Milkins is a native of Pentwater, who has traveled extensively and now lives in Tucson Arizona, working as an artist and teacher. She presented video and audio documents of two of her projects that involve walking and asking the people she encounters to talk with her and tell her stories. For her project "Walking Home," Laura walked from her home in Tucson, 2000 miles to her mother's home in Grand Rapids. She was a very interesting visiting artist, speaking on the idea of what can qualify as artwork, when you are not making objects, images, or performances.
Amy finished the evening by presenting a history of her paintings, from her early days through her transformation into The Banner Queen. She showed classic side-show banners that influenced her, personal works, and humorous and clever commissions. Diana really outdid herself on the reception snacks, and we had a great turnout with an engaged audience. With only a few days left of the residency season, and the last talk in our lecture series this Sunday, we are feeling satiated with all of the experiences of this season, and already hungry for next year!
Amy presented some of the work that influenced her style.
Recap Week Three - BUCKET BIRDS HOPING
We started out our third week of the residency with a great beach day. We said goodbye to our visiting artist, Michelle Murphy, after participating in her Second Skin video project, and suited up for the lake. We put Elodie's epic knitted blanket to use, filling the knit-in koozie pockets with a 12-pack of Bud Light Lime, and by the end of sunset we were billowing the blanket in the air in a good-old game of parachute.
Elodie on the 9x10 foot knitted blanket she dedicated to Shared Space resident artists.
Amanda Matles left us mid-week, but not before she finished putting our new compost system in place. She refaced two 5-gallon buckets that we will fill with our food scraps to be picked up by a local farm each week. The brightly-colored buckets read: COMPOST FOR CHICKENS. In the process she crafted herself an apron to paint in. She also finished several small ceramic pieces to take back to Detroit and fire. Her compost project is one of many that are giving directly to the studio and our residents. As new systems are put in place we become more organized and solid, even as people continue to come and go.
Paul Richardson joined us Tuesday, on his first visit to Michigan, from a lifetime in Baltimore. He has been Mary's diligent pen-pal for the last two years, and since they reside on opposite sides of the country, until now their interactions have been only through correspondence. For the next two weeks, the pair will be collaborating together, finding a way to maintain the ritual of sending a letter everyday, while living in tents 20 feet away from each other.
Paul began working with Mary on the homestead, rearranging the space she has constructed with found twigs and logs. His past drawing series suggest catalogs, so it is fitting that he is now drawing a guide to the wildlife in the meadow. We are also looking forward to his narration of Swift Lathers' The Gardener of the Dunes, the audiobook edition.
With a little help from Paul, Mary erected her new Hoping Machine in the meadow. Her last hoping machine sculptures were four-sided pyramids, based on the energy-gathering premise of Pyramid Power, a key text in her studies at Mystic Homeschool. This new construction is an open-ended A-frame, a space that one may pass through or dwell in with an awareness of the outside. She is also hoping that a meadow creature or two may spend time in the patch-worked meditative space.
Paul pondering in Mary's Hoping Machine, set up in the meadow behind Shared Space.
Elodie also set up a private space near the homestead. A forklift palette provided a base for her knitted tent, affixed to three trees with a system of buttons and button holes. This space gave Elodie some woodland solace to take coffee breaks in, and reflect on her past three weeks in residence here, before heading home to San Francisco on Sunday.
Another highlight of the week was a visit to our neighboring town of Hart's Historic District. The town has rescued and relocated several historically significant buildings to a single site, and some of them house a curious collection of collections. We had no idea that we would encounter a six-room journey of old-timey animatronics, doll houses, and toys. The fun didn't stop there, as the museum also offers two rooms entirely filled with furs and taxidermy animals anthropomorphized in open dioramas. Moving on, you will find a couple-hundred tiny pianos, dozens of hand-cranked cherry pitters, a needlepoint farmhouse and barn, and other collections that have been donated in the name of historical preservation and education. Our next stop was the Oceana County Historical and Genealogical Society Research & Library Headquarters. Here we furthered our research on Swift Lathers, and found that hundreds of copies of his weekly newspaper, Mears Newz, are available to read or purchase. The research librarian spent about an hour talking to us, and a visit to the local taqueria finished off another fruitful field trip.
Fishing rodents in a birch boat at the Hart Historical Museum.
As Elodie left, our newest resident Emily Harris arrived, just in time to give a talk on her work at our weekly Sunday evening slide lecture. She used John Cage's method of random chance to present her work and the work she admires: As the audience called out a number, she read a text, played a video, or showed a slide that correlated to this random number system. After four summers at Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art's low-residency MFA program, Emily's work has evolved from product to process. The rituals she was reciting while making objects became performance works in themselves, influenced by minimalist choreographers such as Yvonne Rainer.
Mary & Paul teamed up on their slide talk, presenting past work individually and talking about the projects they have and will make together. Paul was presenting his work to an audience for the first time, and explained his process of drawing with repetitive marks, leading into repetitive drawings, leading into series with repeated themes. Mary shared her site-responsive projects; noting several projects that involved a period of significant research, leading to a large-scale sculptural construction, that housed an interactive and extremely social element. Both artists charmed the crowd with their humorous and straightforward work, and although their shared language of correspondence was difficult to translate for us, the story of how they got here was enough for one night.
Recap Week Two: COMPOST POSTCARD MUSEUM
Our second week into the residency, and we have sure been busy! Two new resident artists arrived, along with a special visitor for the weekend, Michelle Murphy who was our first resident artist back in November 2011.
Our first official field-trip was a success, while new projects have been embarked on and in-progess pieces have been completed.
As our artists leave, we discuss the residency, what they thought they would do and what they did do, and how the space is run. Constant improvement is the goal here, and we are feeling our growth. We have celebrated so many small successes here, and I am anticipating more in the next two weeks.
Amanda Matles came to us from Brooklyn, by way of Detroit. A Michigan native, born and raised in Traverse City, she now spends part of her year in the Motor City visiting family and working on her documentary video projects about urban agriculture in Detroit. Her first few days at the studio were spent easing into life here and experimenting with materials. We set up the ceramics studio and visited a local sculptor who does Raku and pit-firings and got some advice on burnishing. With the idea of setting up a compost system for Shared Space, Amanda visited the Pentwater farmer's market and connected with the people at Vartian Farms, a small farm and bakery outfit that will take our compost and put it to good use- feeding chickens. Amanda began making a ceramic jar that we will collect compost in on the kitchen counter, and she will be repurposing and decorating two 5-gallon buckets to collect the compost for pickup by the farm.
On Sunday evening, Amanda spoke about this project within the context of her other work as a master composter and a geographer interested in food systems. She shared her research on urban gardening, foraging, and the carbon footprint of imported foods. We were all impressed by the excerpts she showed of her recent video, Rerouting the Motor City: Notes on a City in Transformation, which was screened at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit in July and will be released later this year. Amanda also began experimenting with animation while in residence, and made a draft of an animated drawing that will never end, as it is a drawing of everything that could be composted.
Amanda's slab-constructed compost jar will be decorated with food and chicken drawings that remind us of the compost cycle.
Marlee Grace also arrived on Tuesday, and seeing as she just finished a BFA in dance, I convinced her and Amanda to join the evening movement class. They learned a dance to a tune from Hairspray, dubbed themselves the 'Gemini Twins', and recited their moves for the rest of us. Marlee is also a Michigan native, and current resident of Grand Rapids where she organizes her community to join in on DIY music and art events. She lives at and co-manages the Division Avenue Arts Collective, an all ages venue and art space.
Marlee got to work on crafting small books, redesigning vintage Michigan postcards, and beginning a new polaroid series considering where you stood / how you stand. Marlee spoke on her work at the Sunday evening lecture, and posed the idea that instead of DIY being 'do-it-yourself', it may be even more about 'do-it-together'. She shared a bit of Grand Rapids low-brow art culture with us, and reflected on the idea of her poster design being a meditative art of cutting, gluing, and stamping, much different than the process you would experience laying out the same imagery on a computer.
double-exposure polaroids by marlee
where you stood / how you stand
After Linda Kline's inspiring talk on Nuno silk felting last Sunday, she returned on Thursday to teach the process. Students had a great time laying out their colorful patterns with wool on silk, and a dash of silk on wool. They had to work hard to felt it all together, rolling their scarves back and forth on a dowel 400 times to laminate the fibers together and finish class with a thing of beauty.
Elodie Goupil and Mary Rothlisberger teamed up together on their second week in residency. They finished knitting 35 feet of multicolored cord to construct a net for our bare basketball hoop. Now we just need a ball to shoot. The pair spent more than one all-nighter together at the studio, spreading out in the workspace with sewing, knitting, and weaving projects. Mary is constructing a new Hoping Machine, specifically for the meadow homestead she has been building here; The Hoping Machine is a portable textile sculpture that makes good cheer. She has also managed to acquire scrap pieces of sailcloth from the wonderful makers at Teamwork, a Grand Rapids company that builds knapsacks and messenger bags from recycled Michigan sails. She is laying out patchwork with the sails to construct a series of regulation-sized wind socks. Mary's collaborator Paul Richardson shows up this week and we are looking forward to their artist talk this Sunday.
Elodie finished her Shared Space Blanket, just in time to test it out on the desert dunes of Silver Lake. The blanket fits us all comfortably, and has enough drink pockets to snuggle in a 12-pack of cold ones. The sand takes on a strangely soft doughy quality underneath this knitted coating; it's really a whole new beach blanket experience.
Elodie billows her oversized blanket on the sand to make a cozy shared space for the group to gather.
Josh Kermiet was hard at work this past week, with some assistance from his little brothers who came up from Lansing. Josh connected with a local printing source and wrangled all of us at the studio into submitting to the paper by his deadline. We contributed a postcard, a personal ad, a crossword puzzle, and a recipe, all deidicated to the wonders of Michigan. The layout for the cover is a take on the book Michillaneous, a compilation of obscure facts about Michigan, published in 1982 (the content is both impressive and terrifying).
Josh continued to be influenced by Swift Lathers, the local legend who published Mears Newz, a one-page paper whose content was entirely from the mouth of Swift and had a subscription list of over 2000 people. Josh included several of Swift's poems, and he also drew advertisements for local businesses and a review of the sunset.
The resident artists organized a field trip to the Oceana Historical Museum, the former home of Swift and Celia Lathers, to learn more about their new idol who came from the next town over. To commemorate his years spent roughing it in the dune forest, they climbed the Silver Lake Dunes and explored the strange sights of dune buggies and endless stretches of sand.
Josh shared his newfound knowledge on the history of Swift, along with images of his past work at the Sunday evening lecture. We were excited to see his psychedelic animations of morphing paint droplets and a Lake Michigan sunset flashing back and forth with an eyeball in stop-motion time. His youth as a zine-maker and critic has informed his current projects where he explores the possibilities of publications... What if a paper were only one page long? What do artists make for a satire paper, where they are asked to emulate the trappings of horoscopes, puzzles, and advertisements? What about a hand-drawn paper placemat, advertising local businesses, with a quirky twist? How can a paper be distributed for free, and how can it be distributed in personal ways, far across the land?
A historical society photograph of Swift Lathers at his press / home in the early 60's.
The residents returned from their afternoon trip in time for the Sunday evening artist talk. Marlee, Amanda, and Josh presented their work from their time at Shared Space and beyond. We had a great turnout of engaging locals and out-of-towners for the event. The talks were very interesting and a great conclusion to both Josh and Marlee's residencies, as they both returned home after the reception. With our lovely guest photographer, Michelle, we were able to snap a group photo in front of the mural before the sun set and the crowd dispersed.
Michelle, Amanda, Josh, Eliza, Elodie, Mary, Marlee
featured resident artist : MARLEE GRACE
Marlee Grace is a performance artist, community organizer, improviser, crafter, maker, and all around enthusiast of life. Born and raised in Grand Rapids, MI, Marlee returned after receiving her BFA in dance from the University of Michigan in June of 2010.
As a part of Dance in the Annex Marlee has had the opportunity to perform at the GRAM, UICA, ArtPrize, Richard App Gallery and RAD dance festival, as well as help organize, teach, and promote classes and create new work for shows at Wealthy Theatre. Marlee is a board member at the Division Avenue Arts Collective where she books shows, teaches the occasional yoga class, and curates the series ART GEOGRAPHIC with her partner/collaborator John Hanson. Marlee's work heavily emphasizes improvisation as a tool for performance, as it creates a platform for chance and risk taking, as well as honors the moment where we make choices and the bravery it takes to push through them. Marlee also makes zines, cards, flyers, scarves, and other kitschy wares under the name BRAVE HABITS.
Marlee is a Shared Space artist-in-residence from July 24th through August 2nd, and will lecture on her work July 29th at 7pm. During her stay she is creating zines and journals and improvising to the rhythm of everyday life in Pentwater.
marleegrace.com
Recap Week One: KNITTED HOMESTEAD NEWSPAPER
One week into our month-long season of visiting artists, and so much has happened already. The studio has been more active than ever, with resident artists utilizing the classroom, studios and outdoor spaces to work in day and night, and meeting in the evenings to make dinner together.
Elodie Goupil arrived first from San Francisco, and saw Lake Michigan for the first time. After an initiation of boating, beaching, and swimming, she got straight to work on her knitting machine. During her travels here, she collected yarn from across the Midwest and is using it to knit an oversized blanket dedicated to Shared Space. The blanket will be big enough for a small crowd to sit upon the beach, or take a communal power nap under at the studio. She designed her first knittable cursive alphabet to spell out 'shared space' all around the edges of the blanket, and is knitting in pockets that will serve as drink koozies. (If you don't know what a koozie is, please visit the Midwest.) She spoke about her romantic yet practical artwork at the Sunday evening artist talk, and gave us an interactive knitting machine demo the next day, where we took turns adding rows to the blanket.
Along with pitching in at Mary's homestead, Elodie also has plans to crochet a hammock with a boat hook, and weave a beach floatie out of old bird seed bags and pop bottles. She will be an artist-in-residence through August 3rd, and we are excited to see what else she creates during her stay.
Elodie set up her knitting machine in Eliza's studio, where her knit panels just keep growing.
Mary Rothlisberger, from Palouse Washington was our next resident to arrive, just in time to catch our young artist's slide talk and celebrate Elodie's birthday with us. Another newbie to Michigan and the Midwest, Mary has spent the last month in Grand Rapids working with artists from Cabin Time, a roving and rugged art residency. She came to us with her cosmic-energy-gathering Hoping Machine, and plans to construct another during her stay. Her main project this week has been homesteading in the meadow behind the studio. We have three open acres of sweet peas and brambles, cornered by deciduous forest, where Mary is setting up camp. Her first task was to repeatedly trudge through the rough grasses, forging a path back to the forest clearing that will become a home made of sticks, a meeting place, a library, a gathering of hoping machines and forts, and a sculpture park. She has constructed two walls made entirely of sticks found on the forest floor, piled and woven together. Always the earliest to rise, Mary truly is busy as a beaver.
There is much more site-specific fun to come, as Mary will be a resident artist for the entire season- until August 15th, and will be collaborating with her long-time pen-pal, Paul Richardson, who arrives on August 1st.
Mary forged a path into the meadow from our parking lot, by trampling the brambles with a sled made from a discarded forklift palette. Follow the rainbow to her homestead.
Josh Orion Kermiet joined us on Tuesday. He is coming from his home in Portland OR, but is really from Lansing, our fair state's capitol city. Upon his arrival we all took a field trip to the neighboring town of Hart to eat at the best taqueria, stock up on groceries, and tour the Shelby Gem Factory. Josh is making a newspaper during his stay, and Larry at the gem factory gave us a great lead to follow- a local hero named Swift Lathers who published a weekly one-page paper, and homesteaded in the Silver Lake Dunes. Josh's Michigan edition of Free Spirit News will include his own drawing diary, Michigan curiosities trivia, and submissions by artists and weirdos from around the state.
Along with his research on local towns and their folklore, he is also working on animations, and writing daily reviews of the sunset from Pentwater beach. Josh will speak about his work at our Sunday evening artist talk this weekend, July 29th, and will be a resident artist through July 30th, when he will release his much-anticipated publication.
Josh's desk with drafts for his paper and research materials from the Pentwater library.
We wrapped up the week here with our Sunday evening artist talk, featuring resident artist Elodie Goupil and visiting artist Linda Kline.
Linda was an excellent speaker, sharing her art-investigating travel stories, slides of her precious metal clay jewelry, and several of her silk-felted scarves in person.
She will be teaching two workshops on Nuno Silk Felting this Thursday, in the morning and in the evening, and we expect a good turnout of students and the creation of some interesting scarves. We were happy to see some new faces in the audience, and will keep working to connect local artists and appreciators with all of our amazing visiting artists.
Sunday Evening Lecture Line-Up:
Let the summer begin! We will be featuring all of our awesome visiting and resident artists in a series of slide talks, every Sunday evening from 7-9pm, with refreshments of course. Check out who is coming....
JULY 15 - The first lecture event is a special opportunity for teen artists:
Lucy Baker - Los Angeles, CA
Nathan Pace - Chicago, IL
Maddie May Kroll - Howell, MI
Elodie Goupil - San Francisco, CA (http://handandmachinemade.com)
Linda Kline - Vero Beach, FL (http://www.facebook.com/lindaklinedesigns )
Amanda Matles - Brooklyn, NY (http://blip.tv/amanda-matles-videos)
Josh Orion Kermiet – Portland, OR (http://joshorionkermiet.tumblr.com)
Marlee Grace – Grand Rapids, MI (marleegrace.com)
Emily Harris – Queens, NY (http://www.emilymharris.com/ )
Mary Rothlisberger – Palouse, WA (http://bangbangboomerang.com/)
Paul Richardson – Baltimore, MD (http://www.paugey.com/ )
Amy Johnquest – Northampton, MA (http://bannerqueen.com)
+ Amy will teach a mini-workshop, where you will design your personal banner.
Larry Krone – New York, NY (http://www.LARRYKRONE.com)
Eliza Fernand - Boise, ID (http://elizafernand.com/home.html)


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Lianna è un personaggio immaginario dell'Universo DC. È un membro della razza immaginaria conosciuta come i Guardiani dell'Universo, e comparve per la prima volta in Green Lantern n. 160 (maggio 2003).

Storia del personaggio

Dopo che Kyle Rayner riaccese la Batteria del Potere Centrale di Oa, tutti i Guardiani deceduti furono riportati in vita. Tuttavia, furono rianimati sotto forma di bambini, in un misto di maschi e femmine, invece che di soli maschi adulti (che era la loro forma originale).

Kyle Rayner e Jade visitarono il pianeta Oa e incontrarono numerosi Guardiani bambini. Kyle fu sorpreso di vederne uno, Lianna, che aveva già sviluppato l'abilità di utilizzare una piccola quantità del suo potere. A questo punto, continuava però a somigliare a tutti gli altri. Più avanti nel numero, Lianna scomparve. Fu trovata lì vicino, sul pianeta Aroxe. Gli abitanti chiesero aiuto dopo che un misterioso attaccante distrusse la loro città capitale e seminò distruzione su tutto il pianeta. Rayner (come Lanterna Verde) e Jade arrivarono per aiutarli, ma solo per essere velocemente sconfitti da questo misterioso essere. Si scoprì che questa figura misteriosa era in realtà Lianna. Nel processo di risveglio prematuro dei suoi poteri, dimenticò chi era e in qualche modo il suo corpo cambiò sembianza rendendola adulta. Ganthet arrivò giusto in tempo per fermarla prima che distruggesse quel poco che era rimasto di Aroxe e la riportò su Oa al fine di insegnarle come utilizzare i suoi poteri nel modo più adeguato.

Lianna aiutò il resto dei Guardiani a proteggere Oa dall'attacco dei Qwardiani. Poi, venne mostrata mentre uccideva Amon Sur (figlio della ex Lanterna Verde Abin Sur) per fermarlo dal continuare ad assistere i Qwardiani (si scoprì più avanti che Sur era sopravvissuto). Durante la battaglia tentò di uccidere Kyle Rayner, sebbene le motivazioni di questo gesto non furono mai spiegate.

Omega Men

Lianna ricomparve successivamente nella miniserie del 2006 The Omega Men di Andersen Gabrych. Fatta fuggire dal controllo di Ganthet da Mother Zed, una delle Zamaron, Lianna divenne membro di un ordine sacro. Fu rivelato che la fonte della sua trasformazione in un'adulta pienamente sviluppata è una gemma chiamata "heartstone", un frammento del potere che creò lo stesso universo. Tuttavia, la criminale Lady Styx era in cerca di questa pietra e altre come simili per liberare i guerrieri della Spider Guild of Vega per ritrovarli. Durante la ricerca, Mother Zed fu uccisa. Lianna unì le forze a quelle degli Omega Men e, infine, divenne un membro del gruppo.

In Omega Men, ci si riferisce a Lianna come a un ibrido. Ci si riferisce a lei in questo modo, a causa del fatto che possegga le radici genetica dei Guardiani e delle Zamaron, e al fatto che sia un misto delle due razze.

Comparsa ed abilità

A differenza degli altri Guardiani, Lianna viene mostrata come alta tra il metro e 80 e i due metri, con una pelle bluastra tendente al grigio, capelli scuri con una leggera tinta blu, occhi verdi (a volte rossi), ed un fisico molto scolpito e muscoloso. Inizialmente indossava uno strano costume che sembrava essere una forma di costrutto, dato che la sua forma cambiava da figura a figura. Ha anche un marchio rosa/violetto sotto l'occhio sinistro, cosa che si vide quando la si ritrovò su Aroxe, ma che poi scomparve. La comparsa di Lianna su Omega Men la presenta con i capelli verdi tendenti al bianco, come quelli degli altri Guardiani.

Mentre Lianna possedeva "tutti i poteri di un Guardiano adulto", non fu mai spiegato a pieno cosa significasse. Fu mostrato che Lianna possedeva forza, velocità, e pensiero ben al di là delle possibilità di un umano comune. La si vide anche sfoggiare una serie di abilità psioniche, sebbene i limiti di tali poteri non furono mai affermati. Fu tuttavia mostrato che i Guardiani sono potenziati dalla volontà (lo stesso potere che alimenta gli anelli del potere delle Lanterne Verdi da loro stessi creati). Quindi si pensa che la forza dei suoi poteri sia determinata parzialmente dalla sua volontà (come Gladiator per la Marvel Comics).

In Omega Men, Lianna venne mostrata legata alla "heartstone" che accelerò la sua trasformazione, donandole così una specie di poteri elettromagnetici in aggiunta alle abilità naturali già possedute dagli Oani. Di queste ultime, l'unica abilità mostrata fu quella del lancio di alcuni fasci di energia dalle mani.

Voci correlate

 Ganthet
 Guardiani dell'Universo

Personaggi di Lanterna Verde
Extraterrestri DC Comics
Ibridi immaginari

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The following excerpt is from Farber and Green's Hollywood Dynasties, a biography of famous Hollywood families, from the Zanucks, Mayers, and Selznicks to the Douglases and Fondas. There was only a short paragraph pertaining to Planet of the Apes.
Having been consigned to the uncomfortable role of elder statesman for almost a decade, Darryl Zanuck died in Palm Springs in 1979 at the age of seventy-seven. Though he had already given most of his money to his wife in a property settlement when he left for Europe in 1956, he still left a sizable estate of his own, including his 200,000 shares in the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. The bulk went to his wife, his son and two daughters, and his twelve grandchildren. There was also a small bequest to Genevieve Gilles, the last of his European mistresses.