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A Place of Their Own: Teens Make Programs Come Alive at the Walker Art Center
Minneapolis' Walker Art Center provides teens with creative opportunities that serve as a model for America's cultural institutions.
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In a program that can serve as a model for cultural institutions, Minneapolis' Walker Art Center actively engages teens, bringing thousands of them to the museum every year, according to this Wallace-commissioned feature article. The centerpiece is a 12-member teen council that organizes and promotes activities affecting every area of the museum, from performing arts to new media.
Hot Art Injection (Hold Still) artists, 1997
Artists and teens have an immediate connection because they are both actively engaged in asking questions about life and culture and in overturning the status quo.
- Kathy Halbreich, Director, Walker Art Center
Over and over again, we saw that they were successful when they chose what projects to work on.
- Christi Atkinson, Assistant Director, Teen Programs
Working on the 'zine gave us a lot of freedom within a structure and gave me confidence in my creative abilities. Not a lot of kids have the opportunity to make so many decisions.
- Leslie Dolland, former Teen Arts Council member
Before 1996, teenagers rarely crossed the threshold of the Walker Art Center unless on a school field trip. But by actively engaging young people and putting their interests at the center of its mission to diversify audience and increase participation, the renowned contemporary arts center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is attracting an unprecedented number of the under-21 set — nearly 10,000 of them in 1999, a 29-percent increase.
As part of a New Directions/New Audiences initiative that also targets low-income families and people of color, the Walker Art Center's teen program has become a national model for America's cultural institutions. It has also helped create a dramatic shift in the life of the Walker, compelling board members, staff and the surrounding community to turn its back on the conventional wisdom that teenage audiences are trouble waiting to happen.
"Most teens don't see museums as places they can call their own, but I believe that they are the ones who should get the most of what we do, most of the time," says the Walker's director Kathy Halbreich. "Artists and teens have an immediate connection, because they are both actively engaged in asking questions about life and culture and in overturning the status quo."
The centerpiece of the Walker's teen programming is the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC). WACTAC's 12 members, which come from various high schools and socioeconomic backgrounds throughout the Twin Cities, are selected by their peers and serve from one to four years. With the support of virtually all of the museum's departments and an annual budget of approximately $30,000, Walker's teens select, organize and promote programs that have made an impact on every area of the museum, from visual and performing arts to film and new media.
"Early on we realized that teens didn't want to be told what to do," explains Christi Atkinson, assistant director, Teen Programs. "And over and over again, we saw that they were successful when they did what they wanted."
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Urban Messages Workshop with Artist-in-Residence, Barry McGee
Since the first WACTAC convened in 1996, the teens have met weekly to sponsor sold-out openings and performances, as well as workshops and residencies by such artists as painter Sue Coe, the Guerrilla Girls, hip-hop artist Michael Franti, choreographer-dancer Bill T. Jones and mural artist Barry McGee. Other programs have included exploring how gender is represented on the web with multi-media artist Robin Marks and creating original art based on selections from the Walker's collection with visual artist Glenn Ligon, whose work includes text along with African-American cultural and political imagery.
The teens also created Fig.12, a quarterly mini-magazine that features their original writing and art and promotes upcoming events they think will interest their peers. As well as providing an opportunity to work with a professional writer and to learn about the production process, Fig.12 is one of the places where such controversial subjects as drugs and violence have been explored, and where the teens have learned to balance artistic expression with censorship, audience and the business of art. But even as these thorny issues arise, the 'zine's circulation is growing and, with it, the museum's reputation among this target audience.
"The teens initially wanted to use images that wouldn't be acceptable in schools, which is where the bulk of the 'zines are distributed," says Atkinson. "The Walker provides a very safe place where they can express themselves freely and talk about things they're concerned with, but they still have to understand how their work is going to be received by their audiences."
"Working on the 'zine gave us a lot of freedom within a structure and gave me confidence in my creative abilities," says Leslie Dolland, who served on the WACTAC for three years and now attends Northwestern University in Chicago. "Not a lot of kids have the opportunity to make so many decisions. As long as it related to a museum event and wasn't offensive, it was wide open."
A Showcase For Teen Talent
Also wide open was the third-biennial Hot Art Injection exhibition of art created by teens, for which the WACTAC selected 75 photographs, paintings, sculptures, video and performance pieces from more than 1,000 submissions. The teens also installed the work, created and produced marketing materials and hosted the show, which opened to an audience of about 800 last June.
"We wanted to show that we're not just sitting around watching Britney Spears," says Josh Sovell, who also spent three years on the WACTAC and entered Wittier College in California fall 2001, with the goal of eventually landing a job in museum education. "Teens have a wide variety of talents and skills, and we wanted to show that we're putting them to good use."
The success of the Walker's teen programs, and of the entire New Directions/New Audiences initiative, sends an important message to the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul community about the museum's ability to increase the diversity of its audience. Community partnerships, a cornerstone of the initiative, have helped shape such other outreach efforts as "Free First Saturday" programs for families and young children; tours, bus service and free memberships for low-income area residents; and the annual Lake Street Cultural Festival.
Just how successful the Walker has been shows in the numbers. Attendance has risen 28 percent since 1993. Thirty-six percent of all visitors have household incomes of less than $25,000, and 15 percent of visitors are non-white, a number that eight years ago was too low to measure.
"We're bucking the notion that cultural institutions are elite, and we've seen how deeply our programs can touch the community," says Halbreich. "Opening doors and windows in one respect makes it easier to become diverse in others."
A Conversation with Kathy Halbreich
Working with Glenn Ligon
The Teen Arts Council
Injecting Art, Not Drugs
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Partial-birth abortion ruling: Where is the victory?
The Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold restrictions on partial-birth abortion (actually, it's infanticide) in most cases has stirred up the folks who support the act of abortion in ways that boggle my simple mind. Goodness! If we believe their rhetoric, we would have to admit that indeed, the sky is falling and all people of good will should run for the hills.
I'm so sorry to have to burst this bubble of fear and hysteria, but it is perhaps time to be realistic rather than emotionally blathering about what five Catholic men on the Supreme Court actually did-and more importantly, what they did not do.
One can only wonder if anybody actually read the decision. Or perhaps they all feel it best to ignore what the decision said and raise money for their cause through deception. Or even worse, they're totally misrepresenting what is at stake-just energizing their supporters to quickly write a check and to not even think about asking any questions.
To be honest, however, far too many leaders within the pro-life movement have been doing the same thing for 10 years. As Denver's Rev. Bob Enyart recently pointed out, tens of millions of dollars have been raised to defend this faulty law and during those 10 years, millions of preborn children have been killed by acts of abortion. Even now, with the Supreme Court having ruled the partial birth abortion law constitutional, the hard truth is that not a single abortion will be stopped. Rev. Enyart accurately points out that law enforcement cannot use this law to protect a single preborn child from death by abortion.
The 10-year debate over this particularly gruesome form of infanticide has certainly raised public awareness about the procedure's ghastly nature. Thank God such practices will no longer be allowed-unless a doctor can show that he inadvertently delivered a living fetus, 90 percent of the way, because he claims he had to do so to save a woman's life.
The sad fact is that even though the pundits are now telling us that abortion will be a key issue in the 2008 political campaigns, the reality is that there is a critical aspect missing from this discussion: the exposition of the scientific fact that every single time a surgical or medical abortion is performed, a human being is killed. One type of abortion is not worse than another. Every abortion, regardless of how it is carried out, is evil. Every abortion is a crime.
The human being who is the victim of abortion is rarely the focus of the public discussion. Take another look at those headlines. We seem to be concentrating on "rights," "political reality" and semantics designed to raise money, get votes and keep everybody in line in the process. Why has the agenda deleted the facts? Why are we more interested in the hype than we are in the actual facts?
Even as abortion proponents, as I have indicated above, are well on their way to frightening all of us to death, some of the better known pro-life groups have showered us with glowing news statements celebrating a major victory. But why? Where's the beef?
Note, please, that Kennedy uses politically correct language. No passion need be part of a scholarly decision. But he also makes it excruciatingly clear that those very same heinous abortion procedures are OK as long as the baby dies in his mother's womb rather than after he is 90 percent delivered.
There is no doubt in my mind that the five Catholic justices who concurred in the opinion agree that partial-birth infanticide is cruel and inhumane. What is not clear is whether this decision is really a step toward re-criminalizing surgical abortion and defining it as an act that kills a human person.
For example, the decision explains, "If intact D&E is truly necessary in some circumstances, it appears likely an injection that kills the fetus is an alternative under the Act that allows the doctor to perform the procedure." Additionally, the justices tell opponents of the law that if they believe the act should have contained a health of the mother exception, they must bring those arguments before the court in an appropriate case, which thus far they have not done.
To my mind, this decision is fraught with deliberately crafted language that not only accommodates Roe v. Wade and its progeny, but does little to suggest that the justices are even concerned about setting forth adequate protections for a single preborn baby whose body is not 90 percent outside the womb.
So while so many on the pro-abortion side are screaming, and too many on the pro-life side are cracking open the champagne, nearly everyone is being left in the dark; and I am left with a real dilemma.
Not once in that decision did the justices even remotely suggest that the preborn child is a human being. Not once did they stipulate that the act of abortion is direct killing. So while the Houston Chronicle opines that "The court's ruling assaults the autonomy not only of women's physicians, but of women, themselves," I get this sinking feeling that public relations, politics and polemics have completely taken over and nobody is any longer interested in pointing out that if those five justices were truly attempting to do something historic, they would have at least mentioned the four-letter word b-a-b-y. Or is that word now too pejorative to be considered part of the legal lexicon?
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Santana / Coltrane Collaboration Shines On Quadraphonic SACD
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Unless you happen to follow uber-niche enthusiast forums on the Internet, chances are you haven't heard about a somewhat new series of seemingly officially authorized reissues of original "Quadraphonic" (aka "Quad") recordings from the 1970s. These recordings were issued on long playing Quad vinyl records and / or 8-track tape cartridges back in the day, formats which never really caught on in a mass market sense. So, I think it is a fair guess that the majority of people never really got to hear the full discrete quad mixes.
I didn't know about the relatively new reissue series until recently when, in fact, I was reminded by Facebook that I hadn't been to a particular audiophile-type forum I'd joined years earlier. It had seemingly stopped notifying me along the way of new posts so, it faded from my daily view. The information superhighway is a busy place, kids…
Fast forward, after I started participating in said forum again with some related posts I noticed a few folks talking about latest SACDs they'd ordered from a company called Dutton Vocalion out of England. Tracking down the website, I was far too tempted to do a lot of research and just went ahead and took a chance on ordering some titles.
Amazingly, they arrived in the mail rather quickly! And, generally, I've been pleased. Not all of them are perfect, details which I'll call out as necessary in future reviews. But, overall, it is great to finally officially be able to enjoy some of these rare mixes in a high quality modern disc format that can still be played over a home theater system with minimal hassle.
You do of course need a surround sound system equipped with a disc player that can support multi-layer SACDs. These being pretty much straight transfers of the original Quadraphonic mixdown tapes, you will only hear the music coming through your front and rear, right and left channels. Unless indicated otherwise there is no information in the center channel nor in the subwoofer.
The first SACD in this reissue series that I've been exploring is a 1974 collaboration between Carlos Santana and Alice Coltrane called Illuminations. I have owned and enjoyed this spiritually inclined and mostly instrumental album on vinyl for a number of years but the Quadraphonic mix has been a revelation.
With the music opened up into the room across the four channels, I find it much easier to immerse myself into the welcoming warmth of this powerful music which Devadip Carlos Santana and Turiya Alice Coltrane created. While the mix is discrete, the overall effect is more like a deep enveloping sonic hug. For the most part Carlos and the band are in the front channels while Alice Coltrane's Harp and orchestral parts flow in from the rear. The effect is spectacular and rich, especially when you are sitting in the sweet spot of your listening area. There are lovely moments when Santana's Guitar seems to flow into Coltrane's Harp and orchestra in a dance above you in the middle on the room.
The liner notes in the Illuminations SACD — by David Zimmerman — are particularly enlightening for this modest fan of Santana's music. I have long appreciated his early albums and the multitude of side projects which came out in parallel with that first run of albums (Caravansarai being my favorite, in case you are wondering). This release trajectory was admittedly a bit perplexing at the time, what with side projects appearing — successfully so, mind you! — with the likes of John McLaughlin and Buddy Miles.
It turns out that Santana was grappling with some serious business related problems — that is, band member drug problems were affecting his business as a band-leader and music maker. It is a fascinating story which I won't try to summarize here (you should buy the physical SACD to hear the music and read it yourself) but I will say that it was a process of an artist regaining control of his art and the future of his career. So all these side projects make much more sense now in the grand scheme of things.
Overall, I am very happy with this SACD of Devadip Carlos Santana and Turiya Alice Coltrane's Illuminations. The remastered Stereo mix on the disc sounds very much like my original 1974-era vinyl LP copy of the album. Coltrane's orchestrations are appropriately rich with a certain just-bright-enough sparkle.
Santana's guitar tone comes across rich, round and heartfelt, with a McLaughlin-esque fire appearing when needed, mostly on "Angel Of Sunlight."
When the band kicks in — which includes jazz legends like Jack DeJohnette on Drums and Dave Holland on Bass — the result is simply mesmerizing.
But really, the Quadraphonic mix of Illuminations is really what this disc is all about and you'll want to give yourself the time to close your eyes and float away with the music on this one.
I am very happy that Illuminations is one of my first SACDs from Dutton Vocalion. It is a refreshingly simple but affordably-priced package that puts the these Quad mixes within reach of most anyone who owns a home theater system.
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2 Replies to "Santana / Coltrane Collaboration Shines On Quadraphonic SACD"
fdog says:
Nice. Definitely will get this. (It's been so long since I've listened to this album.)
jim brunsman says:
Thanks for this review. Sounds really good on Tidal even though the high end sounds too bright in places. The playing is soulful and I'm sure Santana's meditation practice is a prime factor.
Mark Smotroff
Mark Smotroff is a freelance writer and avid music collector who has worked for many years in marketing communications for the consumer electronics, pro audio and video games industries, serving clients including DTS, Sega, Sony, Sharp, AT&T and many others. www.smotroff.com Mark has written for EQ Magazine, Mix Magazine, Goldmine/DISCoveries Magazine, BigPictureBigSound.com, Sound+Vision Magazine, HomeTechTell.com and many others. He is also a musician / composer whose songs have been used in TV shows such as Smallville and Men In Trees as well as films and documentaries. www.ingdom.com Mark is currently rolling out a new musical he's written: www.dialthemusical.com.
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from .base import TestCase
from django.utils import timezone

from graphite.events.models import Event

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    def test_timezone_handling(self):
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        with self.settings(TIME_ZONE='Europe/Moscow'):
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            response1 = self.client.get(url)
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            response = self.client.post(url, json.dumps(data),
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    def test_event_tags(self):
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    def test_tag_as_str(self):
        creation_url = reverse('graphite.events.views.view_events')
        event = {
            'what': 'Something happened',
            'data': 'more info',
            'tags': 'other',
        }
        response = self.client.post(creation_url, json.dumps(event),
                                    content_type='application/json')
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 400)
        error = json.loads(response.content)
        self.assertEqual(error, {'error': '"tags" must be an array'})
        self.assertEqual(Event.objects.count(), 0)

    def test_tag_sets(self):
        creation_url = reverse('graphite.events.views.view_events')
        events = [
            {
                'what': 'Something happened',
                'data': 'more info',
                'tags': ['foo'],
            },
            {
                'what': 'Something else happened',
                'data': 'even more info',
                'tags': ['bar'],
            },
            {
                'what': 'A final thing happened',
                'data': 'yet even more info',
                'tags': ['foo', 'bar'],
            },
        ]

        for event in events:
            response = self.client.post(creation_url, json.dumps(event),
                                        content_type='application/json')
            self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

        url = reverse('events_get_data')

        # should match two events using old set logic
        response = self.client.get(url, {'tags': 'foo'})
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
        events = json.loads(response.content)
        self.assertEqual(len(events), 2)

        # should match one event using set intersection
        response = self.client.get("%s%s" % (url, '?tags=foo%20bar&set=intersection'))
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
        events = json.loads(response.content)
        self.assertEqual(len(events), 1)

        # should match zero events using set intersection and unknown tag
        response = self.client.get("%s%s" % (url, '?tags=foo%20bar%20nope&set=intersection'))
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
        events = json.loads(response.content)
        self.assertEqual(len(events), 0)

        # should match all events using set union
        response = self.client.get("%s%s" % (url, '?tags=foo%20bar&set=union'))
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
        events = json.loads(response.content)
        self.assertEqual(len(events), 3)

    def test_get_detail_json(self):
        creation_url = reverse('graphite.events.views.view_events')
        event = {
            'what': 'Something happened',
            'data': 'more info',
            'tags': ['foo', 'bar'],
        }
        response = self.client.post(creation_url, json.dumps(event),
                                    content_type='application/json')
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

        url = reverse('events_detail', args=[1])
        response = self.client.get(url, {}, HTTP_ACCEPT='application/json')
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
        event = json.loads(response.content)
        self.assertEqual(event['what'], 'Something happened')
        self.assertEqual(event['tags'], ['foo', 'bar'])

    def test_get_detail_json_object_does_not_exist(self):
        url = reverse('events_detail', args=[1])
        response = self.client.get(url, {}, HTTP_ACCEPT='application/json')
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 404)
        event = json.loads(response.content)
        self.assertEqual(event['error'], 'Event matching query does not exist')

    def test_render_events_issue_1749(self):
        url = reverse('graphite.render.views.renderView')
        response = self.client.get(url, {
                 'target': 'timeShift(events("tag1"), "1d")',
                 'format': 'json',
        })
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
        response = self.client.get(url, {
                 'target': 'timeShift(events("tag1", "tag2"), "1d")',
                 'format': 'json',
        })
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

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I think it's a certainty that Apple will introduce an ad serving platform for the iPhone (and any tablet) in 2010. This will amount to a checkbox that developers will check when submitting their app to the store. Doing so will allow Apple to place ads on the app in return for a check in the mail to the developer for the impressions.
One observer has posted that WMM (Microsoft's answer to iTunes App Store) has 520 apps in it now. The store launched in Nov 1 with 281 apps. That means there will be about 300 apps added in the first two months. The growth rate is therefore about 150/mo.
This has to be the slowest growing app store among all the contenders, though Palm may also be similar.
By way of comparison, iTunes App Store is growing at about 10k apps/mo. with Android about 3 to 5k/mo.
How does this make sense coming from the company that is known for "developers, developers, developers" and is the largest software company in the world?
My bet is we'll see the same thing in Korea. In both Japan and Korea the incumbents mounted campaigns against the iPhone and mustered means at their disposal (including major newspapers, TV and government agencies) to hinder Apple's entry.
The reality however is that captive customers in those economies have always yearned for better products. There will always be a segment of the population that is informed about alternatives and will buy what works, at the expense of purchase decisions based on nationalism. It's that group which will influence behavior over time.
This is how Toyota won against GM in the US.


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package de.tudarmstadt.ukp.clarin.webanno.telemetry.matomo;

import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.panel.Panel;
import org.apache.wicket.model.CompoundPropertyModel;
import org.apache.wicket.model.IModel;
import org.apache.wicket.model.Model;
import org.apache.wicket.spring.injection.annot.SpringBean;

import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.clarin.webanno.telemetry.TelemetryService;
import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.clarin.webanno.telemetry.TelemetrySupport;
import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.clarin.webanno.telemetry.model.TelemetrySettings;
import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.clarin.webanno.telemetry.ui.ToggleBox;

public class MatomoTelemetryTraitsEditor
    extends Panel
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 794251464227546704L;

    private static final String MID_FORM = "form";

    private @SpringBean TelemetryService telemetryService;

    private final MatomoTelemetryTraits traits;

    public MatomoTelemetryTraitsEditor(String aId, IModel<TelemetrySettings> aSettings)
    {
        super(aId, aSettings);

        TelemetrySettings settings = aSettings.getObject();

        TelemetrySupport<MatomoTelemetryTraits> support = telemetryService
                .getTelemetrySuppport(settings.getSupport()).get();

        traits = support.readTraits(settings);

        Form<MatomoTelemetryTraits> form = new Form<MatomoTelemetryTraits>(MID_FORM,
                CompoundPropertyModel.of(Model.of(traits)))
        {
            private static final long serialVersionUID = 815916036034433206L;

            @Override
            protected void onSubmit()
            {
                super.onSubmit();
                // Need to fetch the support again here since it is not serializable!
                TelemetrySupport<MatomoTelemetryTraits> support = telemetryService
                        .getTelemetrySuppport(settings.getSupport()).get();
                support.writeTraits(aSettings.getObject(), traits);
            }
        };

        form.add(new ToggleBox("enabled"));

        add(form);
    }
}


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It's that time of year again, time to unbury the boxes of holiday decorations hidden away in the attic. Many of us spend a great deal of time (and money) worrying about how best to decorate our home for our families and guests. This can cause excitement for some of us, and some stress for others. Part of the art of dressing up a home is a desire to create a warm, welcoming space that is unique for your family. This year, you may consider adding rustic DIY Christmas ornaments to the tree to add a familiar touch.
These embellishments can add an interesting element to your tree, and they're fun to make. Decoration-making around the holidays can be a fun way to take some time to enjoy the spirit of this time of year. These trimmings can be an enjoyable activity for all skill levels and could be a perfect project for an afternoon with kids or friends. While the items in this post can be made with a few simple materials, they are sure to enhance the rustic feel and personality of your home.
These fun decorations are a unique addition to rustic DIY Christmas ornament ideas. They provide a welcoming touch with a unique message and beautiful wood frame. The addition of a quote adds a new dynamic to your home by providing additional sentiments about the holiday beyond the site of the decorations themselves.
Bring some class to your decor with these elegant wine cork trimmings. We are always searching for ways to use those unneeded corks, and this may be a perfect solution! The addition of the metal pendant at the end of it adds a tasteful touch to these eye-pleasing decorations.
We all know the importance of sweets around the holiday, so why not showcase them! These S'mores are sure to get people talking (and eating) and are sure to be a hit with the children. This rustic DIY Christmas Ornament idea is sure to create a welcoming atmosphere.
This adornment is a comforting addition to any theme, as it can be incorporated into multiple color schemes and styles. It features a white polar bear looking at the observer. The polar bear adds character to the tree by displaying wildlife. Polar bears and other animals can be hard to find with commercial decorations, adding a nice touch.
Wreaths are a common symbol of Christmas. Many of us hang one from our door or in other parts of the house. This ornament allows you to display your unique wreath style in a mini version on the tree. Choose your own color schemes to create a rustic look that meets your needs.
What better rustic adornment than a mini tree! This DIY is designed with multiple green beads in the shape of pine tree branches. Brown beads are added to the trunk to complete the design with a tree trunk. This adorable and creative item is an easy tree accent.
The rustic style of this item truly creates a warm and comfortable look. It features a sphere surrounded by your choice of country fabric, held together by twine. In this way, it resembles a wrapped present, with a decorative bow (star) and tag. You are sure to get some compliments using this rustic DIY Christmas ornament idea.
For this project, it is the texture, as opposed to the shape or object, which provides the country feeling. This decoration is a simple sphere bulb, covered in a delicate braided white cloth. It is adorned with a bright red ribbon to place it on the tree. The braided cloth look provides a more subtle take on a rustic decoration.
This beautiful decoration is made out of patterned paper, twine, and thin ribbon. It is a delicate embellishment for any rustic look and provides interesting patterns and texture for your unique look. The paper is pleated, providing additional depth that is sure to be a welcomed addition to your decorations.
The twine ornament is an interesting, lightweight garnishing for your home. Trimmed with a small pinecone and a sprig of holly, this sphere appears to combine many great elements of Christmas. The jingle bells add an additional flair to attract the eyes (and ears) of guests. This interesting trimming would additionally make a fun gift for friends.
The cubed shape of this decoration is sure to draw your eyes to it. The 6 sides of this stylish adornment provide multiple surfaces to express your creativity through words. Have a favorite Christmas quote or a favorite song? Showcase it on the decorative cube ornament! The sides are secured by twine to give it a rustic feel.
We have all seen wood slices used in décor, for coasters, wall art, etc. So why not use wood slices for tree decor? These simple unfinished slices are a beautiful way to emphasize the assets of the tree. In addition, they can be easily customized to display holiday themed phrases.
These tasteful twine angel decorations are another great way to bring a rustic touch to your tree. The rough twine contrasts beautifully against the thin wire or string wings. Brought together by two pieces of ribbon, these stylish decorations are a nice accent that will last for seasons to come.
Have some great embroidery skills, or looking for a first project? These embroidered adornments could be a perfect idea to practice your embroidering. Embroidery in your decorations brings an element of the past into the present, almost reminding one of time spent at grandma's house as a child. The embroidered element provides added meanings to the words chosen.
This rustic DIY Christmas ornament idea is a playful take on a well-known holiday animal, the reindeer. Three reindeer heads made of walnuts, with adorable construction papers ears and a red nose make up these reindeer. Children and adults alike are sure to appreciate the joyful addition.
This adorable project utilizes a common Mason jar lid with holiday elements to create a rustic look. The rounded shape of the lid ring provides a container for the tree and holly to sit in, creating a picture-like effect. This adornment is a perfect addition to your decor as it provides a snapshot of Christmas time.
These owls are an adorable and creative way to make your decorations come alive! The small pinecone base provides a perfect shape for the owl, with pinecone scales appearing like feathers. Make a whole flock of them or just a couple for accents.
This beauty has a lot of interesting textures and shapes that are sure to be a talking point of your decor. The use of a feather ensures that each arrow has a unique look, and uses natural beauty to create amazing designs. The beads and colored paper allow for endless possibilities to fit your rustic look.
This rustic DIY Christmas ornament creates beauty out of a fun country material, burlap. The hand stitching of the two sides can be done easily in a short amount of time and makes for a finished-looking decoration. The heart shape reminds us that the holidays are a time for giving, a perfect reminder for a Christmas tree.
This adorable trimming could be simply made with a few materials at home. Made out of yarn and some small pompoms, this adornment gets its shape from an underlying wood structure. It's a beautiful yet simple idea for a DIY ornament, but one that is sure to turn out awesome for your tree.
This lightweight ornament is a great idea for a nontraditional, flat, decoration for a Christmas tree. It provides a needed dynamic in contrast with the multiple round adornments that generally adorn a tree. An old holiday tablecloth or flannel shirt could be utilized for the fabric, and the addition of lettering brings additional interest.
Twine rope gives this candy cane trimming a home-grown touch that makes it so appealing. While you obviously can't eat this candy cane, its simplicity provides a comforting element to your home. These would be a great first rustic DIY Christmas ornament idea to try for someone wanting simple accents.
The real materials found in the project are not easily replicated in commercial decorations. The artistic combination of the pinecone cap with the black stone creates a unique look only found in nature. The best part, these two natural elements are combined to resemble another natural element, an acorn. Your friends are sure to commend your artistic eye.
This tasteful design takes a new twist on the traditional conception of an ornament. The flat bulb-shaped ornament is made of cork as opposed to traditional round plastic or glass. The paint dipped look gives it additional sass as it creates a writing surface for short quotes (and looks like its candy dipped).
This simple yet rustic star can be fashioned in multiple colors to fit your color scheme. Stars are a common symbol used around the holidays, due to their religious significance. These creative items feature woven yarn around a star structure. Colored paper of your choosing, or even a photo, is featured in the center.
Nothing is better than a cup of coffee or tea by the tree during the holiday season. This adornment is a reminder of the little joys in life. It reminds us to take time for ourselves during the Christmas season and to spread joy to others. This is a cute addition that provides a unique personality to your home.


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PHOENIX (FOX 10) -- Phoenix Police say two people have died following a crash involving multiple vehicles at the intersection of 52nd Street and McDowell Road Monday night.
Police say they were responding to a collision involving a vehicle and a motorcycle in the intersection when a second collision occurred. A Toyota Camry turned left in front of a Mercedes and the two collided. The Mercedes then continued onto the sidewalk and hit two pedestrians.
In all, five people were injured, with four of them being taken to local trauma centers. Police say the two female pedestrians involved, 46-year-old Deqa Osman and 36-year-old Jane Hurley, died.
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Sergei Prokofiev in Palais Garnier - 2 February, 1925, at night
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 2 February 1925, page 137:
Went with Schubert to the Grand Opéra for a performance of Boris Godunov. Koshetz in the part of Marina. An appalling production - Paris should be ashamed of an institution like this! It was limp, incoherent, the scenery ancient, in short a disgrace. Nor was Nina Pavlovna herself up to much: the role is too low for her, and she has put on weight to an embarrassing extent. All the same, she is having great success in paris and neighbouring countries, and has eclipsed Janacopulos.
Sergei Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 2 February 1925. In Sergey Prokofiev, and Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries, volume 3 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 137. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1460141638423 accessed: 27 January, 2023
location of experience: Palais Garnier
performer, Composer, Musician
written by Modest Mussorgsky
performed by Nina Koshetz
Date/Time 2 February, 1925, at night
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public
Originally submitted by isobel.1111 on Fri, 08 Apr 2016 19:53:58 +0100
Approved on Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:30:33 +0100


THE case of the man here referred to is a very extraordinary one–it occupies a place among the memorabilia of Christ's life, perhaps as high as anything which is recorded by either of the Evangelists. This poor wretch being possessed with a legion of evil spirits had been driven to something worse than madness. He fixed his home among the tombs where he dwelt by night and day and was the terror of all those who passed by. The authorities had attempted to curb him. He had been bound with fetters and chains but in the paroxysms of his madness he had torn the chains in sunder and broken the fetters in pieces.
Attempts had been made to reclaim him but no man could tame him. He was worse than the wild beasts–for they might be tamed. But his fierce nature would not yield. He was a misery to himself for he would run upon the mountains by night and day–crying and howling fearfully–cutting himself with the sharp flints and torturing his poor body in the most frightful manner. Jesus Christ passed by. He said to the devils, "Come out of him." The man was healed in a moment–he fell down at Jesus' feet. He became a rational being–an intelligent man. Yes, what is more–a convert to the Savior.
Now this teaches us a very important fact, namely this–that true religion does not break in sunder the bonds of family relationship. True religion seldom encroaches upon that sacred, I had almost said Divine institution called home. It does not separate men from their families and make them aliens to their flesh and blood. Superstition has done that. An awful superstition, which calls itself Christianity, has sundered men from their kind. But true religion has never done so.
Avoid, my Friends, above all things, those romantic and absurd conceptions of virtue which are the offspring of superstition and the enemies of righteousness. Be not without natural affection but love those who are knit to you by ties of nature.
To all who think that those must be good people who break the ties of relationship, let us say, "Those are the best who maintain them." Christianity makes a husband a better husband. It makes a wife a better wife than she was before. It does not free me from my duties as a son. It makes me a better son and my parents better parents. Instead of weakening my love, it gives me fresh reason for my affection. And he whom I loved before as my father I now love as my Brother and co-worker in Christ Jesus. And she whom I reverenced as my mother I now love as my Sister in the Covenant of Grace to be mine forever in the state that is to come.
Oh, suppose not any of you, that Christianity was ever meant to interfere with households. It is intended to cement them and to make them households which death itself shall never sever–for it binds them up in the bundle of life with the Lord their God and re-unites the several individuals on the other side of the flood.
Now, I will tell you the reason why I selected my text. I thought within myself there are a large number of young men who always come to hear me preach. They always crowd the aisles of my chapel and many of them have been converted to God. Now, here is Christmas Day come round again and they are going home to see their friends. When they get home they will want a Christmas Carol in the evening. I think I will suggest one to them–more especially to such of them as have been lately converted I will give them a theme for their discourse on Christmas evening.
It may not be quite so amusing as "The Wreck of the Golden Mary," but it will be quite as interesting to Christian people. It shall be this–"Go home and tell your friends what the Lord has done for your souls and how He has had compassion on you." For my part, I wish there were twenty Christmas days in the year. It is seldom that young men can meet with their friends. It is rarely they can all be united as happy families. And though I have no respect to the religious observance of the day, yet I love it as a family institution. It is one of England's brightest days–the great Sabbath of the year–when the plow rests in its furrow. When the din of business is hushed–when the mechanic and the working man go out to refresh themselves upon the green sward of the glad earth.
If any of you are masters you will pardon me for the digression, when I most respectfully beg you to pay your servants the same wages on Christmas Day as if they were at work. I am sure it will make their houses glad if you will do so. It is unfair for you to make them feast or fast, unless you give them wherewithal to feast and make themselves glad on that day of joy.
But now to come to the subject. We are going home to see our friends and here is the story some of us have to tell. "Go home to your friends and tell them how great things the Lord has done for you and has had compassion on you." First, here is what they are to tell. Then, secondly, why they are to tell it. And then thirdly, how they ought to tell it.
First, then, HERE IS WHAT THEY ARE TO TELL. It is to be a story of personal experience. "Go home to your friends and tell them how great things the Lord has done for you and has had compassion on you." You are not to repair to your houses and forthwith begin to preach. That you are not commanded to do. You are not to begin to take up doctrinal subjects and speak at length on them and endeavor to bring persons to your peculiar views and sentiments. You are not to go home with sundry doctrines you have lately learned and try to teach these. At least you are not commanded to do so.
You may, if you please and none shall hinder you. But you are to go home and tell not what you have believed but what you have felt–what you really know to be your own. Not what great things you have read, but what great things the Lord has done for you. Not alone what you have seen done in the great congregation and how great sinners have turned to God but what the Lord has done for you. And mark this–there is never a more interesting story than that which a man tells about himself. The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner derives much of its interest because the man who told it was himself the mariner.
So if you would interest your friends, tell them what you felt yourself. Tell them how you were once a lost abandoned sinner, how the Lord met with you, how you bowed your knees and poured out your soul before God and how at last you leaped with joy, for you thought you heard Him say within you, "I, even I, am He that blots out your transgressions for My name's sake." Tell your friends a story of your own personal experience.
He says nothing about his own doings, or willings, or prayers, or seeking–but ascribes it all to the love and grace of the great God who looks on sinners in love and makes them His children–heirs of everlasting life. Go home, young man and tell the poor sinner's story. Go home, young woman and open your diary and give your friends stories of grace. Tell them of the mighty works of God's hand which He has worked in you from His own free, sovereign, undeserved love. Make it a free grace story around your family fire.
Look them in the face and say, "If you had found Him, too, you would not think it little. You think it little I have lost the burden from my back? If you had suffered with it and felt its weight as I have for many a long year, you would think it no little thing to be emancipated and free, through a sight of the Cross." Tell them it is a great story and if they cannot see its greatness, shed great tears and tell it to them with great earnestness and I hope they may be brought to believe that you at least are grateful, if they are not. May God grant that you may tell a grateful story. No story is more worth hearing than a tale of gratitude.
And lastly, upon this point–it must be a tale told by a poor sinner who feels himself not to have deserved what he has received. "How He has had compassion on you." It was not a mere act of kindness but an act of free compassion towards one who was in misery. Oh, I have heard men tell the story of their conversion and of their spiritual life in such a ness of their crime. And they have mentioned the love of God not with a tear of gratitude–not with the simple thanksgiving of the really humble heart–but as if they as much exalted themselves as they exalted God.
Why, then, my eyes began to be fountains of tears–those hearers who had nodded their heads began to brighten up and they listened because they were hearing something which the man felt himself and which they recognized as being true to him–if it were not true to them. Tell your story, my Hearers, as lost sinners. Do not go to your home and walk into your house with a supercilious air, as much as to say, "Here's a saint come home to the poor sinners to tell them a story." But go home like a poor sinner yourself. And when you go in, your mother remembers what you used to be–you need not tell her there is a change–she will notice it–if it is only one day you are with her.
II. But now, in the second place–Why SHOULD WE TELL THIS STORY? For I hear many of my congregation say, "Sir, I could relate that story to any one sooner than I could to my own friends. I could come to your vestry and tell you something of what I have tasted and handled of the Word of God. But I could not tell my father, nor my mother, nor my brothers, nor my sisters." Come, then. I will try and argue with you to induce you to do so–that I may send you home this Christmas Day to be missionaries in the localities to which you belong and to be real preachers!
And should the children of God be backward in declaring how they were saved when their feet made haste to Hell and how redeeming mercy snatched them as brands from the burning? You love Jesus, young man! I put it to you, then, will you refuse to tell the tale of His love to you? Shall your lips be dumb when His honor is concerned? Will you not, wherever you go, tell of the God who loved you and died for you? This poor man, we are told, "departed and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him and all men did marvel." So with you. If Christ has done much for you, you cannot help it–you must tell it.
My esteemed friend, Mr. Oneken, a minister in Germany told us last Monday evening that so soon as he was converted himself the first impulse of his new-born soul was to do good to others. And where should he do that good? Well, he thought he would go to Germany. It was his own native land and he thought the command was, "Go home to your friends and tell them." Well, there was not a single Baptist in all Germany, nor any with whom he could sympathize, for the Lutherans had swerved from the faith of Luther and gone aside from the Truth of God. But he went there and preached and he has now seventy or eighty churches established on the continent. What made him do it? Nothing but love for his Master who had done so much for him, could have forced him to go and tell his kinsmen the marvelous tale of Divine goodness.
Oh, what a happy thing it would be if some here who had gone astray should thus go home! It was my privilege a little while ago to preach for a noble institution for the reception of women who had led abandoned lives. Before I preached the sermon I prayed to God to bless it and in the printed sermon you will notice that at the end of it there is an account of two persons who were blessed by that sermon and restored. Now, let me tell you a story of what once happened to Mr. Vanderkist, a city missionary, who toils all night long to do good in that great work.
There had been a drunken broil in the street. He stepped between the men to part them and said something to a woman who stood there concerning how dreadful a thing it was that men should thus be intemperate. She walked with him a little way and he with her and she began to tell him such a tale of woe, and sin, too–how she had been lured away from her parents' home in Somersetshire and had been brought up here to her soul's eternal hurt. He took her home with him and taught her the fear and love of Christ. And what was the first thing she did, when she returned to the paths of godliness and found Christ to be the sinner's Savior?
She said, "Now, I must go home to my friends." Her friends were written to–they came to meet her at the station at Bristol and you can hardly conceive what a happy meeting it was. The father and mother had lost their daughter–they had never heard from her. And there she was, brought back by the agency of this institution [The London Female Dormitory] and restored to the bosom of her family. Ah, if such an one is here! I know not, among such a multitude there may be such an one. Woman! Have you strayed from your family? Have you left them long?
And when the father opened the door, he said, "Father! I am not what I was, all the evil spirits are gone. By God's grace I shall live in the tombs no longer. I want to tell you how the glorious Man who worked my deliverance accomplished the miracle–how He said to the devils, 'Get you hence,' and they ran down a steep place into the sea. And I am come home healed and saved." Oh, if such an one, possessed with sin, were here this morning and would go home to his friends to tell them of his release–methinks the scene would be somewhat similar.
Then I say, "Young man, you may just go and see your father before I have anything to do with you. If you are at illwill with your father and mother I will not receive you into the Church. If they are ever so bad they still are your parents." Go home to them and tell them, not to make them glad, for they will very likely be angry with you–but tell them for their soul's salvation. I hope, when you are telling the story of what God did for you, that they will be led by the Spirit to desire the same mercy themselves. But I will give you a piece of advice. Do not tell this story to your ungodly friends when they are all together, for they will laugh at you.
Take them one by one when you can get them alone and begin to tell it to them and they will hear you seriously. There was once a very pious lady who kept a lodging-house for young men. All the young men were very merry and giddy and she wanted to say something to them concerning religion. She introduced the subject and it was passed off immediately with a laugh. She thought within herself, "I have made a mistake." The next morning, after breakfast, when they were all leaving, she said to one of them, "Sir, I should like to speak with you a moment or two," and taking him aside into another room she talked with him.
The next morning she took another and the next morning another and it pleased God to bless her simple statement–when it was given individually. But without doubt, if she had spoken to them all together, they would have backed each other up in laughing her to scorn. Reprove a man alone. A verse may hit him while a sermon flies right by him. You may be the means of bringing a man to Christ who has often heard the Word and only laughed at it but who cannot resist a gentle admonition. In one of the States of America there was an infidel who was a great despiser of God, a hater of the Sabbath and all religious institutions.
"Oh, that fellow," he said, "I cannot answer him." And the tears began to roll down his cheeks. He went to his wife and said, "I can't make this out. I never cared about my soul but here's an Elder that has no connection with me but I have always laughed at him and he has come five miles this morning on horseback just to tell me he is under concern about my salvation." After a little while he thought it was time he should be under concern about his salvation, too. He went in, shut the door, began to pray and the next day he was at the Elder's house telling him that he, too, was under concern about his salvation and asking him to tell him what he must do to be saved.
What a dear Savior they have found.
III. I shall not detain you much longer but there is a third point, upon which we must be very brief. HOW IS THIS STORY TO BE TOLD?
First, tell it truthfully. Do not tell more than you know. Do not tell John Bunyan's experience, when you ought to tell your own. Do not tell your mother you have felt what only Rutherford felt. Tell her no more than the truth. Tell your experience truthfully, for maybe one single fly in the pot of ointment will spoil it and one statement you may make which is not true may ruin it all. Tell the story truthfully.
In the next place, tell it very humbly. I have said that before. Do not intrude yourselves upon those who are older and know more but tell your story humbly. Not as a preacher, not ex-cathedra but as a friend and as a son.
And then, tell it very devoutly. Do not try to tell your tale to man till you have told it first to God. When you are at home on Christmas Day let no one see your face till God has seen it. Be up in the morning. Wrestle with God. And if your friends are not converted, wrestle with God for them and then you will find it easy work to wrestle with them for God. Seek, if you can, to get them one by one and tell them the story. Do not be afraid–only think of the good you may possibly do, by God's grace. Remember, he that saves a soul from death has covered a multitude of sins and he shall have stars in his crown forever and ever.
To close up, by a short and I think a pleasant turning of the text, I will suggest another meaning to it. Soon, dear Friends, very soon with some of us, the Master will say, "Go home to your friends." You know where the home is. It is up above the stars.
And when we go home to our friends in Paradise, what shall we do? Why first we will repair to that blessed seat where Jesus sits, take off our crown and cast it at His feet and crown Him Lord of all! And when we have done that, what shall be our next employ? Why, we will tell the blessed ones in Heaven what the Lord has done for us and how He has had compassion on us. And shall such tales be told in Heaven? Shall that be the Christmas Carol of the angels? Yes it shall be. It has been published there before–blush not to tell it yet again–for Jesus has told it before.
Wait awhile. Tarry His leisure and you shall soon be gathered to the land of the hereafter to the home of the blessed–where endless felicity shall be your portion. God grant a blessing for His name's sake. Amen.


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The NSW Waratahs admit the tightness of the Australian conference has added to the pressure of winning away matches in this year's Super Rugby.
Heightened pressure in the cut-throat Australian conference is giving the NSW Waratahs extra motivation to knock over Super Rugby's competition leaders in Durban this weekend.
With the Western Force, who have never made the playoffs, emerging as serious challengers to the Brumbies, NSW and Queensland Reds for conference honours, the Waratahs know away wins are more important than ever.
The Waratahs are on record as hoping to win all eight home games at Allianz Stadium this campaign and are aiming to pick up enough victories on the road to not only top the Australian conference but finish top-two overall.
Such lofty ambitions, and the tightness of the Australian conference, leaves the Waratahs hungry to storm the Sharks' Kings Park fortress on Sunday morning AEDT.
"We obviously landed over here in South Africa to news that the Force had a good win and the Brumbies had another win, so it's going to be a lot tougher than previous years – that Australian conference," said Waratahs skipper Dave Dennis.
"When you play an Australian team, it's like an eight-point game.
"So when you're away from home and you're playing in South Africa, which is usually a tough leg for all Australian teams, if you can pick up a couple of away wins it goes a long way to help you winning the Australian conference.
Five rounds into the competition, the Brumbies lead the Australian conference on 17 points, one ahead of the Waratahs – who have played one match less – with the Force (14) only three back after three straight wins.
The Reds are only on 10 points but have already played two games in South Africa.
NSW's round-nine clash with the Force in Perth already shapes as pivotal, but the Waratahs first have to face the Sharks and then the Stormers in Cape Town.
"We've very much come over here not looking at it as a three-match block or anything. This match this weekend is our focus," Dennis said.
"We always want to try to get four points out of each weekend first and foremost and, if we do that, that will kick off our trip on a good note.
"But pretty much all our energy this week is for the Sharks game.