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Ian Lundberg
In print and forthcoming
Lundberg, Ian, Rebecca Johnson, and Brandon M. Stewart. Forthcoming. "What is your estimand? Defining the target quantity connects statistical evidence to theory." American Sociological Review. [replication]
Our framework grounds methodological choices in a clear statement of the estimand: the goal an empirical analysis hopes to achieve.
We make only one point in this article. Every quantitative study must be able to answer the question: what is your estimand? The estimand is the target quantity---the purpose of the statistical analysis. Much attention is already placed on how to do estimation; a similar degree of care should be given to defining the thing we are estimating. We advocate that authors state the central quantity of each analysis---the theoretical estimand---in precise terms that exist outside of any statistical model. In our framework, researchers do three things: (1) set a theoretical estimand, clearly connecting this quantity to theory, (2) link to an empirical estimand, which is informative about the theoretical estimand under some identification assumptions, and (3) learn from data. Adding precise estimands to research practice expands the space of theoretical questions, clarifies how evidence can speak to those questions, and unlocks new tools for estimation. By grounding all three steps in a precise statement of the target quantity, our framework connects statistical evidence to theory.
Lundberg, Ian. 2020. "Does opportunity skip generations? Reassessing evidence from sibling and cousin correlations." 2020. Demography. [open access] [replication].
2020 Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility.
What do various data generating processes imply for the similarities of siblings' and cousins' income attainments? This paper links empirical evidence to a series of candidate Markov processes unfolding over many generations.
Sibling and cousin correlations are empirically straightforward: they capture the degree to which siblings' or cousins' outcomes are similar. The meaning of these quantities, however, is complicated. A multitude of theoretical processes can produce any particular set of sibling and cousin correlations. Using multigenerational mobility as a substantive example, I show that sibling and cousin correlations in published research are equally consistent with several theoretical interpretations. While some prior authors have concluded that opportunity must skip parents to directly link the outcomes of grandparents and offspring, I show that this evidence is often consistent with alternative theories of latent transmission (measurement error) or of dynamic transmission (a parent-to-child transmission process that changes over generations). I clarify that point estimates which seem to contradict a given theory may also arise from estimation error. I develop a Bayesian procedure to estimate sibling and cousin correlations and quantify uncertainty about the statistic central to the argument. I conclude by outlining how future research might use sibling and cousin correlations as effective descriptive quantities while remaining cognizant that these quantities could arise from a variety of distinct theoretical processes.
Lundberg, Ian, Sarah L. Gold, Louis Donnelly, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sara S. McLanahan. 2020. "Government assistance protects low-income families from eviction." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. [open access] [replication]
America faces an affordable housing crisis. Eviction is alarmingly common. Public policies can help.
A lack of affordable housing is a pressing issue for many low-income American families and can lead to eviction from their homes. Housing assistance programs to address this problem include public housing and other assistance, including vouchers, through which a government agency offsets the cost of private market housing. This paper assesses whether the receipt of either category of assistance reduces the probability that a family will be evicted from their home in the subsequent six years. Because no randomized trial has assessed these effects, we use observational data and formalize the conditions under which a causal interpretation is warranted. Families living in public housing experience less eviction conditional on pre-treatment variables. We argue that this evidence points toward a causal conclusion that assistance, particularly public housing, protects families from eviction.
Salganik, Matthew J., Ian Lundberg, Alex Kindel, Sara McLanahan, and 108 others. 2020. "Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (latest articles). [replication] [project website]
The Fragile Families Challenge is a scientific mass collaboration designed to measure and understand the predictability of life trajectories using the common task method.
Participants in the Challenge created predictive models of six life outcomes using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a high-quality birth cohort study. We evaluated these predictions on holdout data not available to participants. This paper reports the predictive performance of the Fragile Families Challenge and presents implications for scientists and policymakers. We are not posting results of this project online until the paper is published.
Salganik, Matthew J., Ian Lundberg, Alexander T. Kindel, and Sara S. McLanahan. 2019. "Introduction to the special collection on the Fragile Families Challenge." Socius. [replication]
Hundreds of social scientists and data scientists participated in a scientific mass collaboration to predict life outcomes. This paper introduces a special collection of articles written by some who participated.
Participants in the Challenge created predictive models of six life outcomes using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a high-quality birth cohort study. This Special Collection includes twelve articles describing participants' approaches to predicting these six outcomes, as well as three articles describing methodological and procedural insights from running the Challenge. This introduction will help readers interpret the individual articles and help researchers interested in running future projects similar to the Fragile Families Challenge.
Lundberg, Ian, Arvind Narayanan, Karen E.C. Levy, and Matthew J. Salganik. 2019. "Privacy, ethics, and data access: A case study of the Fragile Families Challenge." Socius.
Data access is a key barrier to knowledge creation. Our framework for ethical data access, developed in a social science setting, could serve as a model for other data science settings.
Stewards of social science data face a fundamental tension. On one hand, they want to make their data accessible to as many researchers as possible to facilitate new discoveries. At the same time, they want to restrict access to their data as much as possible in order to protect the people represented in the data. In this paper, we provide a case study addressing this common tension in an uncommon setting: the Fragile Families Challenge, a scientific mass collaboration designed to yield insights that could improve the lives of disadvantaged children in the United States. We describe our process of threat modeling, threat mitigation, and third-party guidance. We also describe the ethical principles that formed the basis of our process. We are open about our process and the trade-offs that we made in the hopes that others can improve on what we have done.
Lundberg, Ian, and Louis Donnelly. 2019. "A research note on the prevalence of housing eviction among children born in U.S. cities." Demography. [open access] [replication]
Eviction is alarmingly common among American families, suggesting a failure of social policies.
A growing body of research suggests that housing eviction is more common than previously recognized and may play an important role in the reproduction of poverty. The proportion of children affected by housing eviction, however, remains largely unknown. We estimate that one in seven children born in large U.S. cities in 1998–2000 experienced at least one eviction for nonpayment of rent or mortgage between birth and age 15. Rates of eviction were substantial across all cities and demographic groups studied, but children from disadvantaged backgrounds were most likely to experience eviction. Among those born into deep poverty, we estimate that approximately one in four were evicted by age 15. Given prior evidence that forced moves have negative consequences for children, we conclude that the high prevalence and social stratification of housing eviction are sufficient to play an important role in the reproduction of poverty and warrant greater policy attention.
Killewald, Alexandra, and Ian Lundberg. 2017. "New evidence against a causal marriage wage premium." Demography. [open access] [replication]
Marriage does not cause men's hourly wages to increase. They are already increasing prior to the marriage date.
Recent research has shown that men's wages rise more rapidly than expected prior to marriage, but interpretations diverge on whether this indicates selection or a causal effect of anticipating marriage. We seek to adjudicate this debate by bringing together literatures on (1) the male marriage wage premium; (2) selection into marriage based on men's economic circumstances; and (3) the transition to adulthood, during which both union formation and unusually rapid improvements in work outcomes often occur. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we evaluate these perspectives. We show that wage declines predate rather than follow divorce, indicating no evidence that staying married benefits men's wages. We find that older grooms experience no unusual wage patterns at marriage, suggesting that the observed marriage premium may simply reflect co-occurrence with the transition to adulthood for younger grooms. We show that men entering shotgun marriages experience similar premarital wage gains as other grooms, casting doubt on the claim that anticipation of marriage drives wage increases. We conclude that the observed wage patterns are most consistent with men marrying when their wages are already rising more rapidly than expected and divorcing when their wages are already falling, with no additional causal effect of marriage on wages.
Lundberg, Ian, and Brandon M. Stewart. 2020. "Comment: Summarizing income mobility with multiple smooth quantiles instead of parameterized means." Sociological Methodology. [open access] [replication]
Our methodological comment proposes a visualization to pack more information into summaries of economic mobility.
Studies of economic mobility summarize the distribution of offspring incomes for each level of parent income. Mitnik and Grusky (2020) highlight that the conventional intergenerational elasticity (IGE) targets the geometric mean and propose a parametric strategy for estimating the arithmetic mean. We decompose the IGE and their proposal into two choices: (1) the summary statistic for the conditional distribution and (2) the functional form. These choices lead us to a different strategy: visualizing several quantiles of the offspring income distribution as smooth functions of parent income. Our proposal solves the problems Mitnik and Grusky highlight with geometric means, avoids the sensitivity of arithmetic means to top incomes, and provides more information than is possible with any single number. Our proposal has broader implications: the default summary (the mean) used in many regressions is sensitive to the tail of the distribution in ways that may be substantively undesirable.
Lundberg, Ian. "The gap-closing estimand: A causal approach to study interventions that close disparities across social categories." [replication]
Goals that appear vaguely descriptive are often actually causal. Framing them as such points to new machine learning estimators and provides language for clear interpretation.
Disparities across social categories such as race, gender, and class are central in social stratification. The complexity of these constructs, however, hinders their placement within a causal framework. On one hand, it is difficult to imagine a manipulation to alter the category to which one is assigned. On the other hand, categories themselves may be mutable across time and place as a result of social forces such as government definitions of racial categories. This paper advances gap-closing estimands that define precise causal research goals without reifying the definitions of social categories or appealing to a hypothetical world in which one's categorization were different. Instead, a gap-closing estimand directs attention to a manipulable treatment variable and asks a causal question: what gap across categories would persist under a local intervention to equalize the treatment? The proposal extends related work from epidemiology in three ways. First, I clarify that the hypothetical intervention is local rather than global in nature; there is no appeal to simultaneously equalize the treatments of the entire population. Second, I formalize equalization at a single treatment value or at a stochastic rule for treatment assignment. Third, I connect these estimands to doubly-robust estimators that combine treatment and outcome modeling. I illustrate with an example about the gap in pay by class origins under an intervention to equalize occupational class destinations. The paper concludes with implications for practice: gap-closing estimands provide tools for the rigorous study of inequality across social categories that could inform policies to close gaps.
Lundberg, Ian. "Occupational segregation contributes to racial disparities in health: A gap-closing perspective." [replication]
By applying the gap-closing estimand, this paper presents new evidence about the degree to which occupational segregation contributes to racial health disparities.
Racial disparities in health are widely understood as the consequences of systemic racism across spheres of American life. This paper focuses on one aspect of structural racial inequality: the racial segregation of occupations. Linked panel data from the Current Population Survey show racial disparities in the onset of work-limiting disabilities among the employed. Further, the onset of work-limiting disability is particularly common in occupations with many non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic employees. I therefore examine a causal gap-closing estimand: the racial disparity that would persist in a counterfactual setting where people were allocated to occupations equitably. Through a causal identification strategy that involves adjustment for lagged measures of demographic, health, and human capital variables, I estimate racial disparities in work-limiting disability that would persist in that counterfactual setting. Eliminating occupational segregation would reduce but not eliminate racial disparities in the onset of work-limiting disabilities: the Black-white disparity would reduce by one-third. This result illustrates the interconnectedness of the labor market and public health: disparate exposures to hazardous occupational conditions become embodied in population health disparities.
Ian Lundberg [cv]ilundberg at princeton dot eduDepartment of SociologyOffice of Population ResearchPrinceton University


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The supply chain software is changing for the integration of AI, IoT, Blockchain, ML, etc.
Barcelona, October 3, 2019.- AndSoft selects the best experts and experts in Software applied to the Supply Chain. Specifically, to the TMS for transport and logistics. Today's analysis confirms that the developers' work in assuming new technologies, such as the Blockchain, for transport. We recommend a careful reading of the details in the market opinions.
Author: Bridget McCrea is a Contributing Editor for Logistics Management based in Clearwater, Fla.
This doesn't surprise Kaushal Dave, global head of digital supply chain products at Aera Technology, who says supply chain software developers have spent decades getting customers to put aside their manual ways and use technology to work smarter, better and faster. "It's always been about replacing Excel spreadsheets," says Dave, "and introducing collaborative technology that brings all different types of data together under a single umbrella."
The process that propels that mindset shift has changed over the last few years, according to Dave, who sees scenario management, robotic process automation (RPA) and cognitive automation (i.e., decision-making) as a few of the key game changers. The latter, for example, is completely transforming the way supply chain software has historically been built and sold.
Walmart and other large companies are imposing 30% penalties on suppliers that don't deliver their orders on time in full
"We're now telling companies that they no longer need to manually collect and enter data, put it on PowerPoint slides and use it to consider different scenarios and make decisions," says Dave. "Cognitive automation does that." For instance, the supply chain manager who has to manually run five different scenarios to determine which of them provides the best return ROI due to lower costs, largest margins and highest profitability, can use automation to handle that time-consuming task.
"You can still evaluate whether that decision from the system is correct or not, but we're definitely moving toward a day when cognitive automation and decision-making take place within the software itself," Dave explains. "This reduces the amount of time and energy spent manually doing things in the software, versus the software doing it for you and giving you the magic wand to say 'yes' or 'no.'"
Tackling supply chain complexity
As software vendors fold more artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and RPA into their solutions, many outside factors are also driving the charge. Salim Shaikh, senior director of global industry strategy for JDA Software, says the fact that supply chains are becoming increasingly complex is driving up demand for more advanced features and capabilities.
"When you're buying from suppliers around the globe, working with contract manufacturers and collaborating with distributors, the need for visibility increases exponentially," says Shaikh. Concurrently, customer service level expectations are growing, and pushing the ongoing need for faster delivery speeds and better responsiveness. Exacerbated by the "Amazon effect," these demands directly affect the supply chain for both B2C and B2B companies.
Global fuel shortages, driver shortages, tariffs and supplier compliance aren't making the situation any easier for supply chain organizations. "Walmart and other large companies are imposing 30% penalties on suppliers that don't deliver their orders on time and in full," says Shaikh. "In the past, organizations have been able to survive by keeping excess inventory and/or throwing additional resources at the problem. That's just not sustainable in an environment where margins are shrinking, labor is scarce and competition for capital is increasing."
Combined, these challenges are prompting more companies to leverage technology that goes beyond the basics and that incorporates AI, ML, Big Data and other advanced capabilities. With these tools in hand, organizations can effectively analyze vast amounts of data, make better decisions, spot trends and even predict events before they actually happen. The company that uses software to incorporate social data and news events into its global supply chain planning, for example, is working with a more complete picture of both the opportunities and challenges that it faces.
"Companies want to be able to make better and faster decisions using better visibility, speed and automation," says Shaikh, "while at the same time addressing increasing supply chain complexity and staying profitable."
Ask Zia Zahiri, CTO at JAGGAER, what he thinks about AI's proliferation in the supply chain software space, and he'll tell you that it's already past the innovation stage and pretty much just has to be implemented. A force in the e-procurement space, JAGGAER is putting more effort into intelligent or "adaptive" procurement right now. It's also integrating augmented reality (AR), natural language processing (NLP) and IoT-based sensor technology into the mix, all with the goal of helping customers make better, data-based decisions.
"If you have good data, you can make good decisions," says Zahiri. Add ML to the equation and the user can begin detecting and leveraging patterns and pattern recognitions. "With ML, you can really look inside the data and get the valuable information that you traditionally wouldn't even know how to detect or perceive," says Zahiri. Layer in some IoT sensors and things start to become more programmable and automated, enabling the construction of both rules and logic around key functions within the supply chain.
These technologies ultimately work together to help streamline supply chain operations, enable good decision-making and even reduce risk. "Companies have always had to deal with data, but not the way they're being forced to manage it in today's supply chain," says Zahiri, who expects both innovation (on the vendor side) and adoption (on the user side) to continue growing over the next year or so. "It improves decision-making, reduces the time it takes to make those decisions and provides valuable data that companies are coming to trust and execute upon."
Using the past to predict the future
Forced to manage avalanches of data, more supply chain organizations are looking to their software vendors for help. Christopher Orban, VP of data science for Trimble, Inc., says the large majority are still focused on figuring out what's costing them the most money and using technology to help whittle down those numbers. This really just scratches the surface with data analytics, says Orban, who refers to this approach as "straight-line analytics."
"We're still kind of stuck in the past and reporting on it," says Orban. "It's not true machine learning, where you can actually use the past to predict the future." To get there, he says software providers will have to build algorithms that reside within a company's internal system (and, learn how that company operates).
For example, a transportation manager may want to know why a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier is different than an over-the-road (OTR) hauler, or why a fuel delivery company is different than a flatbed transport option. "Supply chain software makers may already understand the need for this type of data," says Orban, "but they don't necessarily have the solutions inside of their systems to be able to say: 'You need to do these three things differently because that's primarily a flatbed company,' or 'you should do these four things because you're working with a regional auto hauler.'"
To supply chain managers that are implementing new or upgrading existing software right now, Orban says it's best to focus on how it will enable faster decision-making. "Don't necessarily buy into the hype that a certain solution will cut your order management staff by 50% or that claims to be able to increase order throughput in the double digits," Orban cautions. "Companies are making those claims, but they can't always substantiate them."
Also, understand that no supply chain software platform is a magic bullet for all companies. "You can't just install any supply chain management solution and magically be done," says Orban. "There are always going to be customizations and configurations needed, plus an understanding of how your business is just slightly different than someone else's. This is where those ML algorithms will come in, learning from your operation over time and pushing that needle farther and farther to the right."
The days when AI, ML and IoT were considered experimental "extras" are long gone in the supply chain software space, where for some companies it's a question of survival, says Shaikh. "For many companies, it's a strategic mandate at this point. Either they look at business use cases and leverage these technologies or they get disrupted."
Just look at how companies like Netflix are making movie recommendations, e-tailers like Amazon are making product recommendations and apps like Google Maps are figuring out the fastest routes between points A and B. Using AI, ML, Big Data and even facial recognition, these companies are positioning themselves as the frontrunners in their respective industries.
Source: Supply Chain Management Review
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Changes in In-Canada Medical Examination Procedures for Live-In Caregiver Program
Section 30 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):
(2.1) A foreign national who has applied for permanent resident status and is a member of the live-in caregiver class is not required to submit to a medical examination under subsection (1).
Under this Regulation, the mandatory requirement for all live-in caregivers to complete a standard medical examination at the application for permanent residence stage is eliminated.
The medical examination completed to qualify for the initial work permit/temporary residence as a live-in caregiver will now be assessed by medical officers overseas for excessive demand in anticipation of the applicant subsequently applying for Canadian permanent residence under the Live-in Caregiver Program. This change applies to:
all new applications for a temporary work permit under the LCP received on or after April 1, 2010; and
all instances where applications for a temporary work permit under the LCP and related medical examination have not already been reviewed.
The medical examination completed at the initial work permit/temporary residence stage will continue to screen for health conditions that would pose a risk to public health and safety.
If the officer determines that a medical examination is not required as part of the live-in caregiver's application for Canadian permanent residence, then the officer will accept the result of the medical examination undertaken at the initial work permit/temporary residence stage as valid and record the medical requirement as met in the Case Processing Centre (CPC) system. If the officer determines that a medical examination is required as part of the live-in caregiver's application for permanent residence, then the officer will:
issue medical instructions to the applicant;
consider the results subsequently provided by the medical officer in the Medical Notification (IMM 5365B); and
record the outcome of the medical requirement accordingly as either met / not met in the CPC system.
In cases where an application for permanent residence from a live-in caregiver includes a medical examination, and it appears the result of the medical examination could negatively affect the outcome of that application, officers are encouraged to support the applicant in requesting consideration on humanitarian and compassionate grounds; Officers are encouraged to take a generous view of any such humanitarian and compassionate applications or written requests for consideration under humanitarian and compassionate provisions; and before rendering a negative decision on any such humanitarian and compassionate applications or written requests, officers are encouraged to ensure that every reasonable consideration has been given to supporting the application. This would likely include consultations with a manager and/or National Headquarters in advance of rendering a final decision.
The elimination of the second medical requirement for live-in caregivers to apply for permanent residency has been referred to as "Juana Tejada Law" in memory of a Filipino live-in caregiver who has been denied permanent residency twice after she was diagnosed with cancer. She asked for humanitarian considerations, got her residency and pleaded the government to make changes in the live-in caregiver program.
LCP extended to 4 years + Juana Tejada law in effect


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Seasons greetings and all the badgery best to ya!
I while ago I was totally honoured to be contacted by the awesome Imagine FX magazine who wanted to do a spread on my work environment. It's a magazine that I have always enjoyed and picked up a few times over the years so it was really nice to be asked. The spread is in the latest issue which features childrens book illustration, and is totally crammed with artists work that makes me swoon with admiration (and go green with jealousy, hehehe).
Review of Battle Badgers issue 2 .
The lovely peeps over at Pipe dream comics have only gone and reviewed issue 2!
Painty practice = New header for the Battle Badgers Facebook page.
Having spent hours pouring through the art books of legends like Wayne Reynolds and James Gurney I wanted to do an action filled piece in a widescreen format that I could use as a header (and maybe even a DM screen one day) for the BBHB Facebook page. I think this may be of of the first pics I have fully coloured up that includes Lawson the Shell mage!
Beast Hunting Battle Badgers sketches and art available at DEV CON.
Battle badger book 2. Roll up! Roll up!
Issue 2 done, time for a shin cup!
Many fridays later………and it's finally all done! All pencilled, inked and lettered, issue 2 is in the bag.
Another music video collaboration from myself and the incredibly talented Jonni Slater. I did the artwork for this just after christmas so its cool to finally see the finsihed product.
Bristol con cover sketch fun.
Twas good to be back in Brizzle for the 2016 comic expo. Bristol was the first comic convention I ever attended back when I was a wee nipper so holds a special place in my scribbling heart.
Lots of love for the Badgers which was really cool, I hope people enjoy the book.
Rising from the ground to some awesome sounds.
In prep for the upcoming collaboration on the "Not giving up" EP, the ultra talented Jonni Slater took the art from Kaiju: Fire and Grimstone and made an awesome mini movie. Using his wicked eye for atmosphere and applying one of his top tunes he has made it look flippin darn cool if i do say so myself.
Seems like a while ago now, but a few months back I did some work for an EP by Jonni Slater. A seven page mini comic that could also be used as a motion comic for the music video. It was good fun to work on and is finally being released. The idea revolved around someone longing to escape to the place of there dreams and "not giving up" in their pursuit of freedom.
One of the flashback spreads from issue two. Will hopefully be keeping these as pencil in contrast to the inked pages in order to show the difference in when the action is taking place.
Time to relax a little.
Phew! after a crazy busy day of scribblin and talking all things Beastly with the younglings at Blackbrook Primary its time to chillax to the max. Issue two of BBHB is coming along nicely (slightly side tracked by all the real world stuff but still on target), almost halfway inked so tiz all good.
Pencils in the bag, time for a massive shin cup!
Well, pretty much four months (of fridays) to the day and issue two is all pencilled.
Cracking out the King size Shin cup to celebrate!
Quick sketch of the shadowy shriek!
An early idea for the "Bobomoth", It's not a million miles away from the final design. I decided to remove the tail and tweak the eyes to make them more Owl like in the final version.
Had a blast today at the Plymouth Dev con. It was awesome to see so many enthusiastic comic fabs in search of a scribble or two. The Badger Bros seemed to have a good following down in that neck of the woods, looking forward to the next one!
Make way for the champ!
A meeting with the master.
This weekend, after many years of following his work and enjoying the many tales of his famous Rabbit Ronin, I finally got to meet and chat with the great Stan Sakai. Such an awesome guy and total legend. I tried not to be a total geek and shower him with praise, but to be honest I failed haha.
I bow to you Sakai san!
Added a bit of colour to the Badge Bros sketch I did at the Cheltenham con a few weeks back. not quite where i want it to be, but still, practice is the key innit!?
Tea time with the Mystics.
A sneaky peek at BBHB book two. The Brocken Mystics have gathered to serve tea to an unexpected visitor.
Phew it's been a busy few weeks. Managed to get back on to a page or two of Battle Badgers today, and looking through my sketchbook found this sketch I did a few weeks ago of the grumpy cart driver.
Bowser was always one of my favorites and sadly he is no longer with us. Got the urge to sketch a quick portrait of his last incarnation (which has to be one of my favorites), inspired by the awesome video to "Lazarus".


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You're busy working that 12 hour 'life of an entrepreneur' shift (because contrary to what they told you managing a business is hard work), barely have enough time to develop relevant content, competitor social media channels, on the other hand, are bustling with loads of content and you're just sitting, phone in hand and wondering – where do I start?
A few years back and we were like you, the tedious task of consistently churning out relevant social media content was overwhelming, every social media (good/bad) storm took us unawares and slowly, but steadily our social media game was slipping to obscurity. Then came our saving grace and its name was a social media content calendar.
A social media content calendar; where the main goal is to develop a timetable for dispersing relevant content on social media.
Both can be developed and managed as an excel spreadsheet or via a dedicated mobile app. Dedicated mobile apps usually offer a slew of features unattainable from an excel based social media content calendar. The former, however, comes at a premium; the template for the latter can be obtained free from blogs like HootSuite and CoSchedule.
If the potential to take your social media journey from a string of randomized posts to an intricately articulated social media campaign isn't reason enough for you to adopt a social media content then perhaps the following should convince you.
Time, as you must have already discovered, is a scarce commodity in the business world. Social media calendars present you with an opportunity to save more of it. Because calendars itemize what you need to do and how you should go about doing it, you get to operate your social media campaign like clockwork – no wasted time thinking or procrastinating.
Apart from freeing up time, which allows you to assess your marketing campaign better, social media calendars, by virtue of their detailed structure makes it easier to spot trends, patterns, and growth spurts. You are more likely to identify which content strategy is deriving results and which is underperforming and can then use these indices to up your strategy game.
Anyone can pick up your social media calendar at any point and know which post, comment or ad campaign is coming up next. With a social media content calendar, there's no need to dwell too much on unnecessary explanations, if any member of your team requires info or needs to act on your current social media campaign, everything he/she needs is right there for the taking on a social media calendar.
Given this body of proof, it is easy to see just how relevant a social media content calendar can be to your marketing campaign and business as a whole. Granted, it might take time and some commitment to create, but trust us when we say it's definitely worth the stress.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Scientists have completed the most detailed map yet of the geologic fault at the foot of the Teton Range, one of the most visually striking and potentially dangerous seismic areas in North America.
They're hopeful the map can improve understanding of the earthquake risk in and around Jackson Hole in western Wyoming. Millions of tourists visit the vacation spot every year.
One side of the Teton fault can be seen in the famous profile of the Tetons. Slippage along the fault has pushed the mountains to their present height some 7,000 feet (2,130 meters) above Jackson Hole.


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Home Entertainment Plus One: A Delightful Rom Com
Plus One: A Delightful Rom Com
Looking for a rom com that's not too silly or too improbable? Look no further than "Plus One," starring Maya Erskine and Jack Quaid as Alice and Ben. They're almost 30 now, enjoying successful careers, and have remained friends since college.
But they couldn't be more different. Erskine is adorable as Alice, with her unfiltered, wild-child approach to life a perfect complement to buttoned-up Ben. Alice is Ben's "wingman," helping him meet single women at wedding parties. While Ben gives grieving Alice a shoulder to cry on as she tries to recover from her broken engagement.
"Plus One" is a joy. We share the fun and bumps along the way during a summer where everyone else is getting married. After agreeing to be each other's date for any and all weddings, the often-bickering duo develop a closer-than-expected bond.
Somewhere along the way, they discover what great chemistry they have together. They meet each other's families when Maya's sister marries, and Ben serves as reluctant Best Man for his own dad's wedding. We all know romance is meant to happen for these two. They seem perfect for each other. But do they know it?
Even though we hope we know how this romantic comedy will end (after all, it's a comedy, not a drama), it's still very satisfying to see how it develops.
Also starring Ed Begley Jr. as Ben's dad, along with Perrey Reeves as Gina, his much-younger bride. Rosaline Chao is a whirlwind as Maya's overbearing mom. Beck Bennett, Finn Witrock and Jessy Hodges also have featured roles in the film.
Scriptwriters Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer (who also directed the film) have created a delightful modern romance with two very likable leads. The film opened in limited release June 14. RLJE Films' "Plus One" is rated NR. It runs 99 minutes and is now streaming on iTunes, fandango now, and Vudu
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'XML processor', which seems like a more fundamental piece of machinery.
them as separate chunks of functionality.
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either? Don't we need to be able to link to any arbitrary XML document?


Vishnu Shankar talks about his LASIK eye surgery experience at AVC.
He is a keen runner and wanted to run without the need of prescription glasses. He also adds that he had aesthetic reasons to undergo laser eye surgery.
He chose AVC for his vision correction journey firstly because Advanced Vision Care is well regarded as THE specialist Laser Eye Surgery clinic in Harley Street, London. And secondly from his initial consultation, Dr CT PIllai the laser eye surgeon and his team made him fell very comfortable with the concept of LASIK eye surgery. He was really impressed with the skills of the AVC team as a whole.
"LASIK has been absolutely PERFECT".
On the actual surgery day he was nervous, though he found that his surgery was incredibly quick and painless. He was back home the same day and back to work within three days of his treatment. Aftercare has been really great at AVC: his progress has been closely monitored, he has had various post surgery checks after a few days and months and then the final sign off to perfect vision.


Texans are asking questions about the emissions and payback on shifting to PHEVs.
Texas politicians are offering to put up to $5,000 in your pocket if you join the first wave of buyers of new-generation plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Plug-ins will be green indeed, getting the equivalent of more than 100 miles per gallon and emitting just a whiff of a conventional car's pollution. But they'll cost a lot of green, too – about $40,000 for one of the first in the showroom, Chevrolet's Volt, due out late next year.
Although plug-ins have been in development for years, by a stroke of unlucky timing, they're headed for the market at a time when even regular vehicle sales are stalled.


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in Education, Featured, Feminist Censorship
Once, I nearly got lynched in a sociology class.
We were discussing domestic violence (because that is, ultimately, the point of most sociology classes run by women in general and feminists in particular). After much throwing around of angry bromides and accusations against men for the wretched crime of their existence, someone invoked the "no excuse for domestic violence" cliché, which was then echoed and repeated by nearly all present.
I was a youth mentor between 1989 and 2014, and was familiar both with the statistics and culture of domestic violence in the US. So I threw in the fact that, according to official reports from the Dept of Health & Human Services, women in general and mothers in particular were responsible for about 2/3 of violent child abuse.
Naturally, "it's not the same thing!" They began to venture all kinds of reasons why we needed to "understand what was happening first" before "rushing to judgment" on female abusers. They began to rationalize, and after a couple of them I began to write them on the whiteboard:
the child was being disobedient and needed discipline
the definition of "abuse" is too broad and easily misinterpreted
sometimes kids are just egging you on
you don't know, you weren't there!
kids lie because they know CPS will act on unfounded claims
Then I pointed out that ALL OF THOSE could just as easily be used to justify a man slapping a woman around:
the woman was being disobedient and needed discipline
sometimes a woman is just egging him on
women lie because they know police and social agencies will act on unfounded claims
The women got REALLY quiet… then exploded like Vesuvius. There was talk of having me kicked out of the class, and I was labeled all manner of horrible things. But I stood my ground, since the facts were on my side and–unlike Duke or U of VA–could be readily produced and objectively assessed.
Happily nothing came of it other than a lot of ugly looks and various snide comments about my undisguised "misogyny" (which is Feminist for "he who wants to protect children, even from women"). But what an excellent demonstration of Michael Crichton's statement about a role-reversal scenario being a powerful instrument for determining where our rules and ethics REALLY lie.
The premise behind their objection to man/woman violence was that it's unfair for a big person to hit a small person. This is true. But the premise falls apart under simple observation: there is nothing more out-of-control than a person who knows that her actions will not reap any real consequences. In this, women own a two-way advantage. A woman accusing a man of abuse will be assisted without concern to the man's side of the story, as demonstrated in microcosm by the episode in the Sociology class. But a woman accused of abusing a child will be allowed to defend herself–often in the judgment of other women of similar background and sympathetic leaning–before any corrective or disciplinary action comes around. Further, she will enjoy (and I do not use that word lightly) the assistance and defense of other parties who lean forward to her defense without solicitation. And this is partly what informs the 2/3 majority in violent child abuse: a woman knows she will be the sympathetic party, and acts accordingly.
And this–I must add here–is merely what they DO report. There's a glut of violence committed by women that's either ignored, denied, excused, rationalized, or blame-shifted by women or sympathetic male social workers, teachers, and others in positions of authority. And woe to the man who reports it as violence, for he shall be cast out for "misogyny" by those protecting the woman.
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Despite Being Short, Sesame Street Platinum All-Time Favorites Is Perfect!
The Good: Very catchy songs, Good educational value for some of the songs, Fun
The Bad: Shorter than it needs to be.
The Basics: A perfect album as well as a perfect children's album, Platinum All-Time Favorites is a great compilation of the most memorable and meaningful Sesame Street songs.
It might seem a little odd for me to review a children's album when I have an avowed and true loathing of children and children's music, but sometimes I encounter something that is fun and enduring and reminds me of how wonderful it can be for a child to have music in their life. That is where I fall when I consider the Sesame Street album Platinum All-Time Favorites. This is a compilation c.d. from the Sesame Workshop from their many prior c.d.s and this album pretty much melts the collection of children's songs down into the most pure and memorable collection one may imagine.
Platinum All-Time Favorites is given the unenviable task of finding the best children's songs from Sesame Street that do not involve visual cues and putting them on one c.d. The result is a truly memorable album for anyone who grew up on Sesame Street (the program, not the actual street) and who either wants a great nostalgic experience or wants to pass the best of those moments on to their children. As a result, Platinum All-Time Favorites includes such wonderful "Sesame Street" songs as "'C' Is For Cookie," "Rubber Duckie," and the "Sesame Street Theme." There are also newer songs, like "Elmo's Song" and "We Are All Earthlings."
With twenty songs taking up 45:28, Platinum All-Time Favorites is a perfect compilation (indeed, the only Sesame Street song I remember that isn't on this compilation is the ode to the One Way sign, which relied on visuals from the television show). Vocalists like Frank Oz, Jim Henson and Caroll Spinney embody Bert, Ernie, and Big Bird to sing songs as their personas. The album is appropriately produced by the Sesame Workshop and Ed Mitchell and Christopher Cerf.
The songs on Platinum All-Time Favorites are generally up-tempo - very danceable - piano or guitar tracks which are designed to make tunes memorable and enjoyable. Songs like "Sing" have more complex orchestration, but all of the songs have simple melodies which make them easy for children to learn. Indeed, I suspect there are few in the Sesame Street generation who could not hum "The People In Your Neighborhood." The songs might not be complex, but they are memorable.
Vocally, the songs are all performed with clarity in mind. Most of the songs are sung by men who have clear, clean voices which sound good and are not trying to win any range contests. Again, the songs like "One Fine Face" and "Lambaba" are intended to be easy to learn and perform as opposed to be feats of complex singing by those performing them. In this fashion, the album succeeds at what it sets out to do.
The songs vary between the fun, like "Fuzzy And Blue (And Orange)" which are largely self-referential to the muppet monsters on Sesame Street and educational, like "One Fine Face." On "One Fine Face," the song tries to teach children the parts of the body with a simple back and forth with lines like "I've got two eyes . . . So I can see . . . I've got two ears to listen to / What you say to me . . . I've got a mouth . . . So I can speak . . ." The rhymes are simple but they work perfectly to educate the listener to the parts of the body.
Overall, Platinum All-Time Favorites tries to teach a sense of camaraderie and togetherness. With lines like "Some of us have feathers. / Some of us have fins. / Some of us are furry. / And some of us have grins. / We swim and hop and slither, / And leap and soar and run, / And we all live together / On a planet of the sun. / We are all earthlings" ("We Are All Earthlings") the album tries to engender attitudes that foster peace and understanding. This is admirable for children as well as adults.
In fact, the only drawback of Platinum All-Time Favorites is that it is so short. The c.d.'s capacity is greater than this album uses and more songs could have been included. Indeed, with the child's capacity to enjoy the same things over and over and over again, one might have hoped for more tracks. But still, what one gets is pretty phenomenal with this disc, so it is hard to complain.
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Buena Vista STR freeze thaws, more file
By Douglas P. Marsh, Times reporter
Buena Vista's moratorium on short term rental license applications has expired, allowing applicants to submit for licenses or renewals since Monday, Nov. 8.
"It was quite an interesting thing to walk up to town hall yesterday with a welcoming committee," said town clerk Paula Barnett at the Nov. 9 board of trustees meeting.
Barnett reported 15 applications for new licenses and 34 for renewals on Monday alone. Of the applicants for new licenses, 10 resided out-of-county, two applied for in-county primary residences and three for in-county non-primary residences.
The newly established ordinances limit licenses for out-of-county residents to 6 percent of local housing stock and 3 percent for in-county residents renting non-primary residences. Licenses for primary residences are not limited.
While the moratorium was in effect and the new ordinance being drafted, out-of-county residents held licenses for 101 properties. This number put OOC STRs at 5.5 percent of total housing stock, which would allow for nine more licenses before reaching the limit.
For in-county residents renting non-primary residences, 12 licenses were active, allowing up to 43 more licenses to be issued before reaching the 3 percent limit.
Applications for new licenses will not be processed until renewal applications are finished being processed.
This is to maintain up-to-date figures with respect to active licenses and the percent of total housing stock under license.
As of Monday, Nov. 16, over 80 renewal applications were pending review, said town clerk Lillian Simpson.
As applicants race to acquire licenses for over 10 percent of BV's housing stock, an additional provision allows any project currently under construction to be licensed regardless of limits, as long as the owner receives a certificate of occupancy by Aug. 31, 2022.
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'Modest' Buena Vista budget hits $20M


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Stickleback populations have increased significantly in the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia. It is also a species that currently has no commercial value. With support from the BalticSea2020 foundation, researchers at Umeå University are examining the possibility of commercially fishing stickleback to provide fish feed. Fishing for stickleback could have a positive impact on the environment in terms of the promotion of species of predatory fish, but also by the reduction of the symptoms of eutrophication along the coasts of the Baltic.
The increase in the numbers of stickleback has been associated with negative effects on Baltic coast ecosystems. This is most likely due to the stickleback eating the fry of predators such as perch and pike and thus having an effect on the growth of stocks of such. Stickleback also feed on organisms living on the sea bed, such as zooplankton. This has the effect of reducing their consumption of phytoplankton, which in turn leads to increased propagation of algae in the Baltic Sea's coastal areas.
With this project, biologists at Umeå University are considering the possibility of commercially fishing stickleback as fish feed and are determining whether reduced populations of stickleback could reverse the negative trends along the Baltic coast.
Their expectations are that commercial fishing of stickleback will be favourable to the environment of the Baltic. Inter alia, reduced stickleback populations can have positive effects on the populations of coastal predatory fish and increase the opportunities for the recovery of perch and pike, for example. It would also produce additional income for the fishing industry, since such activities are not likely to conflict with those of other stakeholders and users of the Baltic's fish stocks. Using stickleback as fish feed can also promote future expansion of the aquaculture industry in the Baltic Sea catchment areas, for example in power reservoirs, where net nutrient salt loads into the Baltic Sea would be reduced to zero if the feed used is based on ingredients from the same maritime source.
The project is divided into two phases. In the first of these, the viability of fishing stickleback for the production of fish feed will be examined. If this precondition exists, the project will continue into its second phase, the aim of which is to stimulate commercial fishing of stickleback, production of fish feed and large-scale evaluation of the impact on the coastal ecosystem, as the quantity of stickleback diminishes. Phase 1 of the project will take place during 2015.
BalticSea2020 is now launching a project to strengthen cod stocks, including a recommendation for a permanent ban on trawling for cod.
Scientists at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) will evaluate the importance of parasites in cod condition and survival.
Pike wetland – Do they have any importance for the Baltic Sea coastal area?
International project that will examine the growth of eastern Baltic Sea cod.


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This term, the Court is confronting a range of stare decisis issues, including in cases that don't exactly qualify as blockbusters. The contrast between these cases and last term's relatively big overrulings in Janus and Wayfair got me thinking about different ways that the doctrinal stare decisis factors can play out. Here are some initial thoughts, with an invitation for comments and reactions.
Imagine that a court thinks a precedent is incorrect and is deciding whether to overrule it. In that situation, the court will naturally be drawn toward two basic dimensions of pragmatic impact: the harm of overturning the erroneous precedent and the benefit of adopting the correct legal rule. And we can further distinguish between scenarios where each of these variables is either large or small. Paradigmatically, the harm is large when a precedent has engendered reliance and small when it hasn't; and the benefit is large if precedent is either unworkable or insensitive to changed circumstances.
The result is a simple two-by-two matrix.
In two of the cells, it is fairly clear which way the analysis points, at least if we view cost/benefit analysis as relevant to stare decisis. When benefits are small and costs are large, it is probably a good idea to preserve the precedent. And when benefits are large and costs are small, it is probably a good idea to overrule the precedent.
But what about cases where the benefits and costs are both either large or small? I'll call those cases teardowns and cleanups, respectively. In other words, a teardown is a case with large benefits and large costs; and a cleanup is a case with low benefits and low costs. For recent examples, we might take Janus as an illustrative teardown and the still-pending Hyatt as a cleanup. How should courts approach these sorts of cases?
Nevada v. Hall is a decades-old sovereign immunity precedent that the Supreme Court nearly overruled several years ago, before Justice Scalia passed away. Now that the Court is back to full size, the question of whether to overrule Hall is again before the Court, and it seems likely that—once again—a conservative majority is inclined to answer yes. From one standpoint, that outcome is unsurprising: Hall has been a target of conservative critics for many years. Yet there seems to be a generational shift afoot: younger conservatives seem much more likely to think that Hall came out the right way. That apparent generational divide could shed light on Hall's fate, as well as on broader trends in precedential change.
When I began law teaching, I asked Justice Anthony Kennedy for advice. I had clerked for him a few years before and knew that he had taught hundreds of law students in America, Europe and elsewhere. His advice: "Let them see you think." For Kennedy, engaging with hard issues – deliberately, honestly, and independently – is a critical skill to teach by example. He applied a similar approach to judging.
Supreme Court practice will not be the same without Kennedy, and something will be lost as a result. Because of his pivotal position on the court, lawyers and commentators have spent years, even decades, trying to get inside Kennedy's mind. That habit led to a lot of false predictions and fawning citations to his opinions — but it had a silver lining. It forced the profession to think sympathetically about principled positions that cut across the familiar views expressed in party platforms and ACS or Fed Soc conventions.
[…] Kennedy represents a distinctive judicial philosophy marked by two words: freedom and dignity. Those values are united for Kennedy in that each requires and demands the other. To lead a dignified life is to speak, worship, work and love freely. Other values, including equality, responsibility, and, yes, civility are all important but derivative. Kennedy wants choice first, even if it means choices that go wrong.
By letting us see him think through these complex issues, Kennedy helped reveal the tensions and judgment calls that make the hard cases of constitutional law so hard. And because he not only surfaced those difficulties but also offered his own approach to them, Kennedy's views will abide in the law for years to come. The next justice would do well to take Kennedy's work seriously. And he or she almost certainly will.
In particular, Monday's opinions suggest that a Catch-22 has arisen. When one party raises a new position, the opposing party is apparently placed in a bind. If the opposing party responds on the merits, the fact that the issue is "fully briefed" could counsel in favor of entertaining it. But if the opposing party declines to address the new position, then the Court might entertain it precisely because the opposing party "explicitly chose not to grapple with it." Either way, the opposing party's reaction can be cited as a reason to rule on the new position, notwithstanding the "first view" principle.
Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear argument about the Marks rule, which holds that a fragmented Court decision stands for the "position taken by those members who concurred in the judgments on the narrowest grounds." When the Court granted cert in Hughes v. United States, I expressed my hope that the briefing would explore not just how best to apply the Marks rule, but also whether the rule is worth retaining at all.
Happily, the now-completed briefing does explore that more fundamental question. The petitioner argues in the alternative that Marks be abandoned, and the United States attempts to rebut that view. I have also filed an amicus brief (now posted here on SSRN) that makes the case for abandoning the Marks rule. There are several additional amici, including a pro-Marks professors' brief authored by Maxwell Stearns and a brief on the underlying merits question on behalf of Douglas Berman.


Born in 1976 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Visual artist, filmmaker and curator by training. He is part of a generation of artists that arose in Mexico City in the 90s, breaking away from the standards of academia and pictorial traditions inherited from the muralist movement. Through the use of conceptual art, installation and video, he questions violence, structures of power and the relationships they gen erate, and proposes reinterpretations of pop culture. His works are characterized by an added dimension of cutting wit.
Founder and faculty member of SOMA, he directed La Panadería in 1998-1999 and 2001-2002. As curator, his projects have been shown around the world in countries including Peru, USA, Mexico, Bolivia and Spain.
La hoguera de las Vanidades [Vanity burned at the stake], Machete Galería, Mexico City (2019), Los que mueren son los otros [The others are the ones who die], MUCA-Campus, Mexico City (2017), Requiem for Maria, Y Gallery, New York (2012), Postmiseria/Revolution is the New Black, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey (2012), and ChakrAK-47, LAXART, Los Angeles (2010). His works have been shown in Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco (2010), Galería de La Raza, San Francisco (2010), Revolver Galería, Lima (2009), La Central, Bogotá (2009), The Hayward Gallery, London (2008), and the Siqueiros Public Art Hall (2008 and 2010), Carrillo Gil Art Museum (2001) and La Panadería (1997) in Mexico City.
He has participated in collective shows and biennials all over the world. He twice received the prestigious Jóvenes Creadores (Young Creators) scholarship from FONCA (Mexico's National Fund for Culture and the Arts) in 2001 and in 2007. In 2014 he released his first feature film, "Me quedo contigo" (I stay with you), which was shown in over 40 national and international film festivals and was awarded the Kukulkan prize for best film in the 2015 Riviera Maya festival.
His works can be found in important public art collections: The World Bank Collection (Washington DC), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Castile and León Contemporary Art Museum (León, Spain), the Carrillo Gil Art Museum (Mexico City), among others, as well as in private collections in the USA and Latin America.
Art isn't a mirror. It's a hammer.
2019 La hoguera de las vanidades, Machete Galería, Mexico City, Mexico. 2017 Los que mueren son los otros, MUCA-Campus. Mexico City, Mexico.
2013 Revolution is the New Black. Careyes Art Space. Careyes, Mexico.
2013 Grey Flag. ARTIUM Museum. Vitoria Gazels. Spain.
2012 AFTERDEATH. Diablo Rosso Gallery. Panama, Panama.
2012 Postmiseria/Revolution is the New Black. Centro de las Artes. Monterrey, Mexico.
2012 A Réquiem for María. Y Gallery. New York, USA.
2011 Murder Ballads. Van Der Mieden Gallerie. Antwerp. Belgium.
2011 Sic Transit Gloriae Mundi Newman Popiashvili Gallery. New York, USA.
2010 Radical Chic. Pinta Art Fair. New York, USA.
2010 ChakrAK-47. LAXART. Los Angeles, USA.
2010 Colt Fractiles. Pacific Design Center. Los Angeles, USA.
2009 AK47 AyaKrops47. La Central. Bogota, Colombia.
2009 AK47 Gesamtkunstwerk. YAUTEPEC. Mexico City, Mexico.
2009 AK47Ayakaypa Muyuquspan. Galería Revolver. Lima, Peru.
2009 Ghost. Trolebús. Mexico City, Mexico.
2008 if you leave me, can i go with you? Curro and Poncho Galería. Mexico City, Mexico.
2008 Hollywoodpedia. ICPNA Lima, Peru.
2008 Zenith. Galería Revolver. Lima, Peru.
2008 13. Y gallery. New York, USA.
2008 ARTEMIO . Hotel Condesa DF, Mexico City, Mexico.
2008 Hollywood Remix. Artemio & Ed Young. Hayward Gallery. London, England.
2006 if you leave me...can i go with you?. Galería ADHOC, Vigo, Spain.
2005 Hollywoodpedia. Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico.
2004 Apoohcalypse Now. ESL Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2003 Full Metal Jacket. Oficina de Proyectos de Arte OPA A.C., Guadalajara, Mexico.
2001 Rambo 2001 Artemio´s Cut. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
2000 Sexonwheelzz. Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
1998 MEX ATTACKS! Casa de la Cultura de Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico.
1997 Proyecto de Reivindicación Humana. Proyecto de Arte público alrededor del mundo.
1997 TROPIC-2000. Art-Media, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.
1997 La Mejor Manera de Pedir Perdón.La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico.
1997 Retrospectiva 50 años, 1976-2026.Ex-Convento del Desierto de los Leones, Mexico City, Mexico.
2013 México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990.The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Texas, USA.
2012 Ficciones en Serie.Galería Magnum. Lerche, Spain.
2012 Percepciones entorno al porvenir.Centro Cultural Británico. Lima, Peru.
2012 Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?.Enjoy Public Art Gallery. Wellington, NZ.
2012 La Quebradora.MCCLA, San Francisco, USA.
2012 About Change.The World Bank. Washington DC, USA.
2012 Revelation of wrath has already been destroyed.ONF. Monterrey, Mexico.
2012 Pobre Artista Rico.Casa del Lago. Mexico City, Mexico.
2011 Tiempos Violentos.Museo Carrillo Gil. Mexico City, Mexico.
2011 Proyecto Juárez.Matadero. Madrid, Spain.
2011 Lo mejor de no entender.Border. Mexico City, Mexico.
2011 Alarma! Death Be Kind. Victoria, Australia.
2011 Antes de la Resaca...MUAC, UNAM. Mexico City, Mexico.
2011 Everything Must Go!.Casey Kaplan Gallery. New York, USA.
2011 Suspended Between Laughter and Tears. MAZ. Zapopan, Mexico.
2011 Fashion is for ugly people. Illuminated Metropolis Gallery. New York, USA.
2011 Postmiseria. Y Gallery. New York, USA.
2011 Endism. 24HR ART Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia.
2010 1era Bienal de el Fin: COLAPSO. El 52. Mexico City, Mexico.
2010 Epilogo.Museo de Arte de Zapopan. Zapopan, Mexico.
2010 Suspended Between Laughter and Tears.Pitzer College. Claremont, CA. USA.
2010 Indian Summer.Arena México. Guadalajara, Mexico.
2010 The end of horror.Arena México. Guadalajara, Mexico.
2010 II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art "Qui Vive?" Winzavod Contemporary Art Center. Moscow, Russia.
2010 Billboard Project, Portugal Arte 10. Lisboa, Portugal.
2010 Creative Tensions. National Center for Contemporary Art. Ekaterinburg, Russia.
2010 Neoconceptualismo Tropical. Diablorosso. Panama, Panama.
2010 GRATIA PLENA.La Residencia. Bogotáa Colombia.
2010 Brucennial.Bruce High Quality Fundation. New York, USA.
2010 VIA.Pacific Design Center. Los Angeles, USA.
2009 Asesinos./em>Live with Animals Gallery. New York, USA.
2009 Cuerpo Maquinico.Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure. Venezuela.
2009 Inferno.YAUTEPEC. Mexico City, Mexico.
2009 On the Shoulders of Davids,JAUS, Los Angeles, USA.
2009 Manimal,National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
2009 Names and Places.First Draft Gallery. Sydney, Australia.
2009 10.Bienal de La Habana. La Cabaña. La Habana, Cuba.
2009 Una serie de microfacismos consecutivos y sin fin.MUCA Roma. Mexico City, Mexico.
2008 Celluloid Dreams,The Jackson Heights Film Festival, Queens, New York USA.
2008 Pretecnologías,Foro Internacional Art Tech Media Córdoba. Cordoba, Spain.
2008 A common effort.Ideobox Gallery. Miami, EEUU.
2008 TALENT PREVIEW '09,White Box, New York, USA.
2008 Here once again. Loop Gallery. Seoul, Korea.
2008 Fisuras.El Container. Quito, Ecuador.
2007 Fissures. Museo Del Barrio. New York, USA.
2007 Existencias. Museo Del Barrio. New York, USA. MEEUUC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain.
2007 Perdidos en el despacio. CELARG. Caracas, Venezuela.
2007 Eventos Sociales. Galería Arte Mexicano. Mexico City, Mexico.
2007 Rising Stars: North Latin Americans.Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico.
2007 Resistance or Surrender. ONF Object Not Found. Monterrey, Mexico.
2007 Otra de Vaqueros. CECCH - Centre d'édition contemporaine - Genève, Geneva.
2007 Perdidos en el despacio. OFF-LIMITS. Madrid, Spain.
2007 Thesis Exhibitions Series Two. Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies.
2007 Galleries at Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA.
2006 Plataforma 01. 1era Trienal Internacional de Puebla. Puebla, Mexico.
2006 Hysterical Horror. Union Docs. New York, USA.
2006 Perdidos en el despacio. Fundación Espais. Gerona, Spain.
2006 Distor. Museo de arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil. Mexico City, Mexico.
2006 My recived files. Alianza Franciasa. Torreón, México.
2006 Pulse.1st Durban video festival. Durban, South Africa.
2006 Prophets of Deceit.CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art. San Francisco, USA.
2006 In other words.Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA.
2006 Plagiarismos La Casa Encendida.Madrid, Spain.
2006 T1 Torino triennale trimusei.The Pantagruel Síndrome. Torino , Italia.
2006 Une promesse de malheur.Galería de Arte Mexicano. Mexico City, Mexico.
2006 Mextilo.C.N.A. Mexico City, Mexico.
2006 México Attacks!.MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José Costa Rica.
2006 Monuments for the EEUU.CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. San Francisco, CA Ok. National Gallery. Jakarta, Indonesia.
2006 Seleccion Oficial.Festival Internacional de Cine Expresión en Corto San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
2006 Seleccion Oficial.Festival de Video de Campinas, Brasil.
2006 Public projects.JNU. Delhi, India.
2006 Videos.AD HOC, Vigo, Spain.
2006 Norteamericanos de tercera, Sudacas de primera.udacas de primera. The Art Palace. Madrid, Spain.
2006 Declaraciones.Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, Spain.
2006 Allá en el Rancho Grande.Madrid, Spain.
2004 White Noise, REDCAT Gallery, LA, CA.
2004 Loop Stand Galería Ad Hoc, Barcelona, Spain.
2004 Solo los Personajes Cambian. MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico.
2004 Radicales Libres. Central de Arte WTC, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
2004 Videocreacion Latino Americana. Casa de América. Madrid, Spain.
2004 Laughing Allowed.Galeria Ad Hoc. Vigo, Spain.
2004 El secreto esta en la masa.Galería Coldcreation. Barcelona, Spain.
2004 Peacemaker.Centro Banamex. Mexico City, Mexico.
2004 Speedy Gonzales is German.Museo de la Ciudad. Querétaro, Mexico.
2004 Como Aprender a amar la bomba y dejar de preocuparse por ella..Central de Arte WTC. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
2004 Within Temporary Crossroads. Central de Arte WTC. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
2003 Everything is under control (remote).Sexta Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios. Santiago, Chile.
2003 Aparentemente sublime. MAM. Museo de Arte Moderno. Mexico City, Mexicoo.
2003 Aparentemente sublime. MAM. Museo de Arte Moderno. Mexico City, Mexico.
2003 Egeszsegedr. BPM Performance Space. Nueva York. USA.
2003 Speedy Gonzales is German.Main Gallery, The University of Texas at Dallas. Dallas, Texas.
2003 Mexico Illuminated / Iluminado. Freedman Gallery, Allbright College. Reading, PA , USA.
2003 México Illuminated / Iluminado. Freedman Gallery, Allbright College. Reading, PA , USA.
2003 Mexican Video Extravaganzza. / Iluminado. Bronx River Art Center. Bronx, NY, USA.
2003 Boys, Boys, Boys. Casa de America. Madrid, Spain.
2003 Mexican Video Extravaganzza. Bronx River Art Center. Bronx, NY, USA.
2003 Desmarcados. Estudio abierto Retiro. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2003 In the abscence of recombination. Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
2003 Alarma! RAID proyects. Los Ángeles, CA.
2003 México attacks! Chiesa di San Mateo. Lucca, Italia.
2003 Speedy Gonzales is German. University of Hertfordshire. London, UK.
2002 Art World's New Darling.Colima 115. Mexico City, Mexico.
2002 La vanguardia mexicana.Centro de Arte Santa Mónica. Barcelona, Spain.
2002 Zebra crossing. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlín, Germany.
2002 Radio Versiones. Sala Julian Carrillo, Radio U.N.A.M., Mexico City, Mexico..
2002 Coartadas. Centre Culturel de Mexique. Paris, Francia.
2002 Suitcase 3: Catastrophico. La Panadería. Mexico City, Mexico.
2001 BAC! Calles de Barcelona. Barcelona, España.
2001 Mutations, Hangar. Barcelona, España.
2001 Short stories. La fabrica del Vappore. Milán, Italia.
2001 Las molestias son temporales.Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil.Mexico City, Mexico.
2000 7th Biennial La Habana.(Videos) Centro Wifredo Lam. La Habana, Cuba.
2000 Erogena.Stedeijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst. Gent, Belgium.
2000 Bajo el mismo techo.Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil. Mexico City, Mexico.
1999 Punto de Vista: Entre dos ciudades (permaneceremos anónimos)Art in General. New York, EEUU.
1999 7th Annual Festival Cine Latino.San Francisco, CA, USA.
1999 Segundo Festival de Cine de la Ciudad de México. Cineteca Nacional. Mexico City, Mexico.
1998 JotoseptiembreLa Panadería. Mexico City, Mexico.
1998 Primer Festival Internacional de Cortometraje de la Ciudad de México,Cineteca Nacional. Mexico City, Mexico.
1998 CAMBIO II,Museo Universitario del Chopo. Mexico City, Mexico..
1998 Videos d art du Mexique et des Etats-Unis.Musee d Art Contemporain de Lyon. Lyon, Francia.
1997 Nacimientos Navideños hechos por artistas de Vanguardia. La Panadería. Mexico City, Mexico.
1997 Muestra de vídeo experimental Guadalajara, México.
1996 Somos diferentes, pero amigos de verdad. Estancia Infantil Topiltzin. Guadalajara, México.
1996 IV Bienal de Vídeo. Mexico City, Mexico.
1996 Festival de Cine y Vídeo Independiente. La Panadería. Mexico City, Mexico.
1992 Paisaje: Una visión actual.Galería Luis Nishizawa, E.N.A.P., U.N.A.M. México DF, México.
2013 Fue en un cabaret, Cortomeraje. Dir. Artemio. Director.
2013 La Isla perdida, Cortometraje. Dir. Colectivo el Naufragio. Coordinator.
2013 La Criada., Videoclip. Dir. Artemio. Director.
2013 Me quedo contigo., Largometraje. Dir. Artemio. Director.
2001 Y como es el?.,Cortometraje. Dir. Issa Garcia-Ascott. Production Designer/ Art Director.&lt.
1999 Coapa Heights,Largometraje. Dir. Yibran Asuad. Production Designer.
1997 Nancy.,Cortometraje. Dir. Sandra Arau.Art Director.
2009 Imitating Life.Sala Miro Quezada, Lima, Peru.
2006, 2007 Perdidos en el Despacio.Fundacion Espais, Girona, Spain. OFFLIMITS, Madrid, España. CELARG. Caracas, Venezuela.
2004 El Secreto Esta en La Masa.SGalería Coldcreation. Barcelona, España.
2002 Anónimo.Centro de Arte Santa Mónica. Barcelona, Spain.
2000 Art Club 2000Museo Carrillo Gil. Mexico City, Mexico.
1999 ¡Rayos y centellas!.La Panadería. Mexico City, Mexico.
1999 As seen on t.v. La Panadería. Mexico City, Mexico.
1999 Mas y Mas.Stadt in den Beinen. La Panadería.Mexico City, Mexico.
1999 What Would Satan Do. La Panadería. Mexico City, Mexico.
1998 3 pintores Mexicanos Jóvenes La Panadería. Mexico City, Mexico.
1998 Jotoseptiembre La Panadería. Mexico City, Mexico.
2008 Laughing Allowed.Hayward Gallery. London, England.
2007 Artemio VS Rubén Gutiérrez.Muros. Cuernavaca, Mexico.
2005 Public Art.JNU, New Delhi, India.
Video Art and New Medias. KHOJ, Delhi, India.
2004 Intervención y Yuxtaposición.MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico.
2004 Semana de la Comunicación. Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico.
2002 El malestar de la curaduría.Segundo Simposio Internacional sobre curaduría y arte contemporáneo. Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico.
2001 Guerrilla artística y vandalismo cultural Museo de la Ciudad de México. Mexico City, Mexico.
2000 Idealismo e Incomprensión en el Arte. Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.
2000 Taller de arte actual: Foto, Vídeo y video instalación: Hibridaciones. Escuela de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda. Mexico City, Mexico.
1999 Will remain anonymous Art in General New York, USA.
1999 Acción y Reacción: El punto G del Performance.Primera jornada sobre el performance, Salón Veracruz, Mexico City, Mexico.
strong>1999 Políticas de identidad: el ciudadano y el arte.X-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico.
strong>1999 La maquina Inteligente: creatividad humana versus inteligencia artificial. Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico.
strong>1998 Publicaciones y Performance. Segunda Semana del Performance, E.N.A.P., U.N.A.M. Mexico City, Mexico.
strong>1998 El Individuo y la practica de la civilidad frente a la globalización. Auditorio Santo Tomas de Aquino, Universidad Intercontinental, Mexico City, Mexico.
strong>1998 Convencionalismos y No Convencionalismos: Un Arte Irrevocable.Aula Magna de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, U.N.A.M. Mexico City, Mexico.
strong>1907 BLACK & NOIR. Madrid, Spain.
strong>2000 EL LABORATORIO. La Habana, Cuba.
strong>2016 Ejercicios de Desprendimiento.Tabacalera. Madrid, Spain.
strong>2010 Revisión de proyectos.SOMA. Mexico City.
strong>2004 Expediciones urbanas.MARCO. Monterrey, Mexico.
strong>2002 The flying sombrero.Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlín, Germany.
THE WORLD BANK. Washington DC, USA.
THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. New York, USA.
MUSACC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. León, Spain.
MAAA Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure. Acarigua, Venezuela.
ZELIKA GARCIA. Mexico City, Mexico.
NINA MENOCAL. Mexico City, Mexico.
Co-founder and council member of SOMA.
1995-98 & 2000-02 Director of "La Panadería".


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Healing Groups
Faith Friday Features
Healing from My Past
Living Your Best Life
Jocelyn J. Jones
The God of Second Chances. The Testimony of Johnny Banks.
A person who buries the pain from their past doesn't make their wounds go away. They just allow it more time to develop roots that will eventually surface in unexpected ways. For Johnny Banks, his pain took root at the age of seven, when he was molested repeatedly by a family member for two years. He knew it wasn't right, but while growing up in the deep south in the 1960s, he learned not to challenge the behavior of adults. Yet, his ability to stay silent about the abuse did not quiet the voices inside his mind. The memories from this dark period in his life remained strikingly vivid, warping his view of reality and his own identity. As he grew older, he was left wrestling with many questions like "Am I gay or less of a man because of what happened to me?" There was no one to talk to, but he had to do something to silence the noise, so he turned to drugs. Johnny was introduced to drugs at the age of 12. At first, he was pretty good at hiding his "recreational habit" from his family, but it wasn't long before the drugs began to turn him into someone else. Johnny became mean spirited, and couldn't care less about the world around him. School became an afterthought, and by his freshman year, he dropped out of high school. The streets became his classroom, and he started selling drugs, stealing, and engaging in every street hustle imaginable. Johnny's life continued to spiral out of control, as he desperately struggled to dull the pain from his past. As he got older, his use of marijuana eventually progressed into heavier drugs, and he sought temporary relief by engaging in casual sex with beautiful women. He became a teenage father, but the birth of his child did not stop him from continuing to go down this dark path.
Throughout the rest of his teens and 20's, his life remained a blur. He continued to live each day for that moment and had no hope for his future. Then one day, when Johnny was 31 years old, a guy randomly walked up to him and said "Hey man, I love you. Why don't you stop doing these drugs and do something different?" The man's words immediately struck his heart. He hadn't heard the words "I love you" in years. In that moment, Johnny made a decision that he would never use drugs again. He found a Narcotics Anonymous group and began attending the meetings regularly. In those meetings, he was reintroduced to God. God began to work on his heart and slowly started to heal his wounds from the past. During his early stages of recovery, he was introduced to James Bevel, who served as the chief strategist for Dr. Martin Luther King. James challenged Johnny to think differently and taught him the history and inner-workings of the civil rights movement. Johnny spent hours every day studying under James, which eventually ignited a strong desire for him to go into ministry.
Johnny became the guy at the NA meetings that always talked about Jesus. As time went on, he developed the strength in those meetings to confess to others the abuse he experienced as a child, which helped him to let go of the shame he held from his past. He realized that what happened to him didn't mean he was "soft" or less of a man, and he refused to continue to use what happened to him as an excuse for him to self-destruct. He took his power back and focused his time and energy on ministry and reclaiming the time that was lost. For years, he kept a book in his hand, constantly reading to obtain knowledge and learn from legends before him. In 2003, God showed him that it was time for him to utilize the what he had learned through his personal studies and under James Bevel to start an organization that would empower, educate, and strengthen his community. That year, he opened the doors to his nonprofit called "A Knock at Midnight." The agency, named after a famous sermon given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, grew from a vision to a force in the community that provides a range of resources like workforce development, parenting, social-emotional learning, and financial literacy classes. As AKAM continued to expand, Johnny recognized that his work could not remain behind the desk. Wearing a baseball cap and a suit, Johnny made it a point to go outside his office doors regularly to touch the hands of the members of his community.
While continuing to pour into his nonprofit, Johnny felt God prompting him to expand his ministry by starting his own church. He resisted the idea for several years, but God continued to tug at his heart. In 2016, he accepted the call and started the process of forming his church. One year later, the doors of Wayside Chapel Chicago were open. He wanted the church to reach those who had fallen by the wayside due to being marginalized by society or spiritually injured by those around them. As he envisioned, Wayside has helped to uplift and strengthen many of God's children who came to the church looking to grow in their faith and experiences a deeper understanding of God's love for them.
Now serving in ministry as a pastor and the Executive Director of a nonprofit, he sees how the hand of God has been so miraculous in his life. Although Johnny's journey has not been easy, he lives with no regrets. Everything that he went through in his past, from hustling on the streets to dropping out of school, served as one of his greatest assets in ministry. All of the brothers on the street respect him because they know that he has once walked in their shoes. That is why, in the midst of every success that Johnny has, he continues to remain humble because he recognizes that he did not get to this point in life because of his obedience or hard work, but his success is truly by the grace of God. He has seen how God opened doors in his life that were greater than anything he could ever imagine, which is why he is committed to helping people understand that even though their past might be full of painful and dark memories, it doesn't have to dictate their future. God is able to restore everything that the devil tried to take from us, and Minister Johnny Banks is living proof of that.
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Did 2020 Make You Bitter or Stronger?


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The Bold Dry Garden
Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden
Photographs by Marion Brenner
"For those of you—and your numbers are growing—gardening in drought-stricken parts of the country, The Bold Dry Garden will quench your thirst for inspiration." —New York Times Book Review
Ruth Bancroft is a dry gardening pioneer. Her lifelong love of plants led to the creation of one of the most acclaimed public gardens, The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California. The Bold Dry Garden offers unparalleled access to the garden and the extraordinary woman responsible for it. In its stunningly photographed pages, you'll discover the history of the garden and the design principles and plant palette that make it unique. Packed with growing and maintenance tips, profiles of signature plants for a dry garden, and innovative design techniques, The Bold Dry Garden has everything you need to create a garden that is lush, waterwise, and welcoming.
Johanna Silver
Marion Brenner
"This sumptuous book will inspire you to create your own water-saving paradise." —Flora Grubb, owner of Flora Grubb Gardens
"This book wonderfully reveals Ruth's enduring lessons in the power of creativity and imagination—and big, bold compositions—to transform even the most unpromising landscape into a work of art." —Jenny Young du Pont, president and CEO of The Garden Conservancy
"Ruth Bancroft's garden is a rare combination of an artist's vision and a meticulous collector's passion—an invaluable resource that showcases the rich textures, structures, and colors of dry plants." —Andrea Cochran FASLA, principal of Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture
"The Bold Dry Garden beautifully showcases the glorious garden Ruth Bancroft so courageously created." —Bernard Trainor, bernard trainor + associates
"For those of you—and your numbers are growing—gardening in drought-stricken parts of the country, Johanna Silver's The Bold Dry Garden: Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden will quench your thirst for inspiration. This dazzling three-and-a-half-acre succulent garden in Walnut Creek, Calif., was the Garden Conservancy's first preservation project. Marion Brenner's elegant photographs ably capture the architectural drama of its bold forms and eccentric groupings, as well as the strange and intriguing textures of individual agaves, cycads, euphorbias and sedums. Plump or spiny, tiny or looming, succulents have enormous variety and endless appeal. It seems almost criminal to avoid them in favor of lawns." —The New York Times Book Review
"The American garden, located in Walnut Creek, CA, that inspired the Garden Conservancy is handsomely portrayed precisely when people should follow Bancroft's lead of using xerophytic plants, challenging convention, and paying attention to climate cues." —Library Journal starred review
"Combining biography of the dry-garden pioneer with a landscaper's guide, Silver and photographer Brenner tour the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, Calif., and discuss the life and work of its creator and namesake. Replete with brilliant color photography, this hopeful book will win over anyone who doubts that a desolate landscape can support thriving life." —Publishers Weekly
"A must for any garden-lover's bookshelf, this book pairs Johanna Silver's eloquent storytelling and Marion Brenner's exquisite photography to show how the Ruth Bancroft Garden evolved into the 3.5-acre waterwise garden that it is today." —Garden Design Magazine
"An inspiring history of the Ruth Bancroft Garden, in Walnut Creek, California, that's packed with rich photography. You'll learn about design and plant palettes, as well as practical information on how to maximize a water-wise landscape from the pioneer of dry gardening." —Martha Stewart Living
"This book serves readers in several ways. If you live in a nearly frost-free, dry climate like that east of San Francisco, you can take it right out to the garden or a local nursery. If you are an avid indoor gardener with grow-lights or south-facing windows, you will be thrilled by the extensive picture-filled encyclopedia of cacti and other succulents. If you love gorgeous books with voluptuous pictures (by Marion Brenner, California's premier landscape photographer), this is a book for your collection. I'm happy to say that another reason to get this book is for the richly illustrated biography of this remarkable plantswoman." —Better Homes and Country Gardens
"Part coffee table book and part homage, The Bold Dry Garden is a beautiful book." —NYBG's Plant Talk
"Today, as the West wakes up with what fills like a collective hangover from the era of overly irrigated landscapes, the Ruth Bancroft Garden is the perfect antidote—dry yet lush, bold yet welcoming, and full of natural curiosities." —Sunset
"The book provides a history of the garden and its founder as well as practical information about design principles and plant palettes, all beautifully photographed by [the photographer] Brenner." —Hortus
"Everything about The Bold Dry Garden, from the beautiful cover to the wealth of authoritative information it contains, will appeal to fans of succulents and other arid-region plants. But even if you have never planted a single cactus, you will be inspired by the story of Ruth Bancroft and her exemplary dry garden." —The American Gardener
"This book is a loving tribute in text and magnificent photographs to the plant collecting passion of one woman—Ruth Bancroft. . . . Bancroft's adventurous plant choices, attention to climate cues, and lack of fear of failure all provide an exquisite lesson to contemporary gardeners." —Choice
"Lavishly illustrated with full colour photographs—including charming shots from the early years and eye-catching vistas or close-up details of plants taken more recently—all demonstrating Ruth's ability to blend art, horticulture and botany. . . .anyone interested in putting together a garden of succulent plants cannot fail to be inspired to try and replicate some of those vistas using hardier subjects. Otherwise, simply turn the pages and immerse yourself in the story of one of the world's great gardens." —The Garden