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11.0304(7) (7) Reports of late contributions. If any contribution or contributions of $1,000 or more cumulatively are received by a political party from a single contributor during the period beginning on the day that is 14 days prior to a primary or election and ending on the day of the primary or election, and the contribution or contributions are not included in the preprimary or preelection report required of the political party under this chapter, the treasurer of the political party shall, within 72 hours of receipt, provide the appropriate filing officer with the information required to be reported for contributions received by the political party under this subchapter in such manner as the commission may prescribe. The information shall also be included in the political party's next regular report.
11.0304 History History: 2015 a. 117 ss. 24, 74 (1m); 2021 a. 265.
subch. IV of ch. 11 SUBCHAPTER IV
LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES
11.0401 11.0401 Registration; treasurer and depositories.
11.0401(1)(1) Each legislative campaign committee required to register under this chapter shall designate a treasurer to comply with the registration and reporting requirements under this subchapter.
11.0401(2) (2) The treasurer shall ensure that all funds received are deposited in the legislative campaign committee depository account.
11.0401(3) (3) No disbursement may be made or obligation incurred by or on behalf of a legislative campaign committee without the authorization of the treasurer or a designated agent.
11.0401(4) (4) The treasurer shall maintain the records of the legislative campaign committee in an organized and legible manner for not less than 3 years after the date of the election in which the legislative campaign committee participates.
11.0401 History History: 2015 a. 117.
11.0402 11.0402 Registration; timing. Every legislative campaign committee that makes or accepts contributions, makes disbursements, or incurs obligations to support or oppose a candidate in a calendar year shall, upon its inception and prior to making or accepting any such contribution, making any such disbursement, or incurring any such obligation, file a registration statement giving the information required by s. 11.0403.
11.0403 11.0403 Registration; required information.
11.0403(1)(1) Required information. The legislative campaign committee shall indicate on the registration statement that it is registering as a legislative campaign committee and shall include all of the following on the registration statement:
11.0403(1)(a) (a) The name and mailing address of the legislative campaign committee.
11.0403(1)(b) (b) The name and mailing address of the treasurer and any other custodian of books and accounts. Unless otherwise directed by the treasurer on the registration form and except as otherwise provided in this chapter or any rule of the commission, all mailings that are required by law or by rule of the commission shall be sent to the treasurer at the treasurer's address indicated upon the form.
11.0403(1)(c) (c) The name and address of the depository account of the legislative campaign committee and of any other institution where funds of the legislative campaign committee are kept.
11.0403(1)(d) (d) A statement signed by the leader of the party in the house for which the legislative campaign committee is established attesting to the fact that the legislative campaign committee is the only authorized legislative campaign committee for that party in that house.
11.0403(2) (2) Certification. The individual responsible for filing or amending a legislative campaign committee's registration statement and any form or report required of the committee under this chapter shall certify that all information contained in the statement, form, or report is true, correct, and complete.
11.0403(3) (3) Change of information.
11.0403(3)(a)(a) The legislative campaign committee shall report any change in information previously submitted in a registration statement within 10 days following the change. Except as provided in par. (b), any such change may be reported only by the individual or by the officer who has succeeded to the position of an individual who signed the original statement.
11.0403(3)(b) (b) The administrator or treasurer of a legislative campaign committee may report a change in the committee's registration statement.
11.0403 History History: 2015 a. 117 ss. 24, 74 (1m).
11.0404 11.0404 Reporting.
11.0404(1)(1) Contributions and disbursements.
11.0404(1)(a)(a) Each legislative campaign committee shall make full reports, upon a form prescribed by the commission and certified as required under s. 11.0103 (3) (c), of all contributions, disbursements, and obligations received, made, and incurred by the committee. The legislative campaign committee shall include in each report the following information, covering the period since the last date covered on the previous report:
11.0404(1)(a)1. 1. An itemized statement giving the date, full name, and street address of each person who has made a contribution to the legislative campaign committee, together with the amount of the contribution.
11.0404(1)(a)2. 2. An itemized statement giving the date, full name, and street address of each committee to which the legislative campaign committee has made a contribution, together with the amount of the contribution.
11.0404(1)(a)3. 3. The occupation, if any, of each individual contributor whose cumulative contributions to the legislative campaign committee for the calendar year are in excess of $200.
11.0404(1)(a)4. 4. An itemized statement of each contribution made anonymously to the legislative campaign committee. If the contribution exceeds $10, the legislative campaign committee shall specify whether the committee donated the contribution to the common school fund or to a charitable organization, and shall include the full name and mailing address of the donee.
11.0404(1)(a)5. 5. A statement of totals during the reporting period of contributions received and contributions donated as provided in subd. 4.
11.0404(1)(a)6. 6. A statement of the cash balance on hand at the beginning and end of the reporting period.
11.0404(1)(a)7. 7. An itemized statement of each loan of money made to the legislative campaign committee, together with all of the following:
11.0404(1)(a)7.a. a. The full name and mailing address of the lender.
11.0404(1)(a)7.b. b. A statement of whether the lender is a commercial lending institution.
11.0404(1)(a)7.c. c. The date and amount of the loan.
11.0404(1)(a)7.d. d. The full name and mailing address of each guarantor, if any.
11.0404(1)(a)7.e. e. The original amount guaranteed by each guarantor.
11.0404(1)(a)7.f. f. The balance of the amount guaranteed by each guarantor at the end of the reporting period.
11.0404(1)(a)8. 8. An itemized statement of every disbursement exceeding $20 in amount or value, together with the name and address of the person to whom the disbursement was made, and the date and specific purpose for which the disbursement was made.
11.0404(1)(a)9. 9. An itemized statement of every obligation exceeding $20 in amount or value, together with the name of the person or business with whom the obligation was incurred, and the date and the specific purpose for which each such obligation was incurred.
11.0404(1)(a)10. 10. A statement of totals during the reporting period of disbursements made, including transfers made to and received from other committees, other income, and loans.
11.0404(1)(a)11. 11. A statement of the balance of obligations incurred as of the end of the reporting period.
11.0404(1)(b) (b) The legislative campaign committee shall begin each report filed under this chapter with the first contribution received, disbursement made, or obligation incurred during the reporting period.
11.0404(2) (2) Reports to support or oppose candidates at partisan primary. A legislative campaign committee that makes or accepts contributions, makes disbursements, or incurs obligations to support or oppose one or more candidates for office at a partisan primary or a candidate at a special primary held to nominate candidates to be voted for at a special election held to fill a vacancy in one or more of the state or local offices voted for at the general election, or to support or oppose other committees engaging in such activities, shall do all the following:
11.0404(2)(a) (a) File a preprimary report no earlier than 14 days and no later than 8 days preceding the primary.
11.0404(2)(b) (b) File a preelection report no earlier than 14 days and no later than 8 days preceding the election.
11.0404(2)(c) (c) In an odd-numbered year, file a report on January 15 and July 15.
11.0404(2)(d) (d) In an even-numbered year, file a report on January 15 and July 15.
11.0404(2)(e) (e) In an even-numbered year, file a report on September 30 indicating contributions, disbursements, and obligations received, made, or incurred after July 1 that are not included in the preprimary report.
11.0404(3) (3) Reports to support or oppose candidates at general election. A legislative campaign committee that makes or accepts contributions, makes disbursements, or incurs obligations to support or oppose one or more candidates for office at a general election or a candidate at a special election held to fill a vacancy in one or more of the state or local offices voted for at the general election, or to support or oppose other committees engaging in such activities shall do all of the following:
11.0404(3)(a) (a) File a preelection report no earlier than 14 days and no later than 8 days preceding the election.
11.0404(3)(b) (b) In an odd-numbered year, file a report on January 15 and July 15.
11.0404(3)(c) (c) In an even-numbered year, file a report on January 15 and July 15.
11.0404(3)(cm) (cm) In an even-numbered year, file a report on September 30 indicating contributions made or received and disbursements made after July 1 that are not included in the preprimary report.
11.0404(3)(d) (d) Unless a continuing report is required to be filed under this subsection on or before the 45th day after the special election, file a postelection report no earlier than 23 days and no later than 45 days after each special election.
11.0404(4) (4) Reports of late contributions. If any contribution or contributions of $1,000 or more cumulatively are received by a legislative campaign committee from a single contributor during the period beginning on the day that is 14 days prior to a primary or election and ending on the day of the primary or election and the contribution or contributions are not included in the preprimary or preelection report required of the committee under this chapter, the treasurer of the committee shall, within 72 hours of receipt, provide the appropriate filing officer with the information required to be reported for contributions received by the committee under this subchapter in such manner as the commission may prescribe. The information shall also be included in the committee's next regular report.
subch. V of ch. 11 SUBCHAPTER V
POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES
11.0501(1)(1) Each political action committee required to register under this chapter shall designate a treasurer to comply with the registration and reporting requirements under this subchapter.
11.0501(2) (2) The treasurer shall ensure that all funds received are deposited in the political action committee depository account.
11.0501(3) (3) No disbursement may be made or obligation incurred by or on behalf of a political action committee without the authorization of the treasurer or a designated agent.
11.0501(4) (4) The treasurer shall maintain the records of the political action committee in an organized and legible manner for not less than 3 years after the date of the election in which the political action committee participates.
11.0501(5) (5) No person may register more than one political action committee under this subchapter, except that a person may register both a political action committee under this subchapter and an independent expenditure committee under subchapter VI.
11.0502 11.0502 Registration; timing.
11.0502(1)(1) Every political action committee that makes or accepts contributions, makes disbursements, or incurs obligations to support or oppose a candidate in a calendar year in an aggregate amount in excess of $2,500 shall file a registration statement giving the information required by s. 11.0503.
11.0502(2) (2) A political action committee that triggers the registration requirement under sub. (1) shall file the registration statement no later than the 10th business day commencing after receipt of the first contribution by the political action committee exceeding the amount specified under sub. (1), before making any disbursement exceeding that amount, and before incurring obligations exceeding that amount.
11.0503(1)(1) Required information. The political action committee shall indicate on the registration statement that it is registering as a political action committee and shall include all of the following, where applicable, on the registration statement:
11.0503(1)(a) (a) The name and mailing address of the political action committee.
11.0503(1)(d) (d) The name and address of the depository account of the political action committee and of any other institution where funds of the committee are kept.
11.0503(1)(e) (e) The name and address of the political action committee's sponsoring organization, if any.
11.0503(2) (2) Certification. The individual responsible for filing or amending a political action committee's registration statement and any form or report required of the committee under this chapter shall certify that all information contained in the statement, form, or report is true, correct, and complete.
11.0503(3)(a)(a) The political action committee shall report any change in information previously submitted in a registration statement within 10 days following the change. Except as provided in par. (b), any such change may be reported only by the individual or by the officer who has succeeded to the position of an individual who signed the original statement.
11.0503(3)(b) (b) The administrator or treasurer of a political action committee may report a change in the committee's registration statement.
11.0504(1)(a)(a) Each political action committee shall make full reports, upon a form prescribed by the commission and certified as required under s. 11.0103 (3) (c), of all contributions, disbursements, and obligations received, made, and incurred by the committee. The political action committee shall include in each report the following information, covering the period since the last date covered on the previous report:
11.0504(1)(a)1. 1. An itemized statement giving the date, full name, and street address of each person who has made a contribution to the political action committee, together with the amount of the contribution.
11.0504(1)(a)2. 2. An itemized statement giving the date, full name, and street address of each committee to which the political action committee has made a contribution, together with the amount of the contribution.
11.0504(1)(a)3. 3. The occupation, if any, of each individual contributor whose cumulative contributions to the political action committee for the calendar year are in excess of $200.
11.0504(1)(a)4. 4. An itemized statement of each contribution made anonymously to the political action committee. If the contribution exceeds $10, the political action committee shall specify whether the committee donated the contribution to the common school fund or to a charitable organization, and shall include the full name and mailing address of the donee.
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Here are some outputs from the research team specifically related to digital health.
We will also be posting updates of publications and talks emerging specifically from the project. In these outputs we will be reporting on our research findings, theoretical approaches and methods.
Rich, E. (in press) Healthism, Girls Embodiment and contemporary health and physical education: Form weight management to digital practices of optimisation. In L.Mansfield, J.Caudwell, B.Wheaton and R.Watson (Eds) The Palgrave handbook of feminisms in sport, leisure and physical education.
Lupton, D. (in press) Digital health and health care. In Scambler, G., Sociology as Applied to Health and Medicine, 2nd edition. Houndmills: Palgrave.
Rich, E. (2017) Childhood, surveillance and mHealth technologies. In E.Taylor and T.Rooney (Eds) Surveillance Futures: Social and ethical implications of new technologies for children and young people. Ashgate. 132-146
Rich, E., and Miah, A., (2017) Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies: Towards a critical research agenda. Health Sociology Review. 26(1): 84-97 Available here:
Gard, M. and Lupton, D. (2017) Digital health goes to school: digitising children's bodies in health and physical education. In Taylor, E. and Rooney, T. (eds), Surveillance Futures: Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People. London: Routledge, pp. 36—49.
Lupton, D. (2017) Digital bodies. In Silk, M., Andrews, D. and Thorpe, H. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 200—208.
Lupton, D. (2017) Lively data, social fitness and biovalue: the intersections of health self-tracking and social media. In Burgess, J., Marwick, A. and Poell, T. (eds), The Sage Handbook of Social Media. London: Sage.
Lupton, D. and Williamson, B. (2017) The datafied child: the dataveillance of children and implications for their rights. New Media & Society, 19(5), 780—794.
Pink, S., Sumartojo, S., Lupton, D. and Heyes Labond, C. (2017) Mundane data: the routines, contingencies and accomplishments of digital living. Big Data & Society, 4(1), online, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951717700924
Thomas, G., Lupton, D. and Pedersen, S. (2017) 'The appy for a happy pappy': expectant fatherhood and pregnancy apps. Journal of Gender Studies, online ahead of print: doi:10.1080/09589236.2017.1301813
Lupton, D. (2017) How does digital health feel? Towards research on the affective atmospheres of digital health technologies. Digital Health, 3, online, available at http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZCuMrRHMP3RsH9Z8f9v7/full
Lupton, D. and Michael, M. (2017) 'For me, the biggest benefit is being ahead of the game': the use of social media in health work. Social Media + Society, 3(2), online, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305117702541
Lupton, D. (2017) Digital media and body weight, shape and size: an introduction and review. Fat Studies, 6(2), 119-134.
Lupton, D. (editor) (2017) Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine. London: Routledge.
Lupton, D. (2017) Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. London: Routledge.
Lupton, D. (2016) The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking. Cambridge: Polity Press
Lupton, D. (editor) (2016) Digitised Health, Medicine and Risk. London: Routledge
Lupton, D. (2015) Donna Haraway: the digital cyborg assemblage and the new digital health technologies. In Collyer, F. (ed), The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 657—81.
Lupton, D. (2016) Digitized health promotion: risk and personal responsibility for health in the Web 2.0 era. In Davis, J. and Gonzalez, A. M. (eds), To Fix or To Heal: Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine. New York: New York University Press, pp. 152—76.
Lupton, D. (2016) Digital health technologies and digital data: new ways of monitoring, measuring and commodifying human bodies. In Olleros, F. X. and Zhegu, M. (eds), Research Handbook of Digital Transformations. New York: Edward Elgar, pp. 84—102.
Lupton, D. (2016) 'Mastering your fertility': the digitised reproductive citizen. In McCosker, A., Vivienne, S. and Johns, A. (eds), Negotiating Digital Citizenship: Control, Contest and Culture. London: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 81—93.
Lupton, D. (2016) Towards critical health studies: reflections on two decades of research in Health and the way forward. Health, 20(1), 49—61.
Thomas, G.M. and Lupton, D. (2016) Threats and thrills: pregnancy apps, risk and consumption. Health, Risk & Society, 17(7-8), 495—509.
Lupton, D. (2016) The diverse domains of quantified selves: self-tracking modes and dataveillance. Economy & Society, 45(1), 101—122.
Lupton, D. (2016) The use and value of digital media information for pregnancy and early motherhood: a focus group study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 16(171), online, available at http://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-016-0971-3
Lupton, D., Pedersen, S. and Thomas, G.M. (2016) Parenting and digital media: from the early web to contemporary digital society. Sociology Compass, 10(8), 730—743.
Lupton, D. and Pedersen, S. (2016) An Australian survey of women's use of pregnancy and parenting apps. Women and Birth, 29, 368—375.
Sumartojo, S., Pink, S., Lupton, D. and Heyes Labond, C. (2016) The affective intensities of datafied space. Emotion, Space and Society, 21, 33—40.
Lupton, D. and Jutel, A. (2015) 'It's like having a physician in your pocket!' A critical analysis of self-diagnosis smartphone apps. Social Science & Medicine, 133, 128—135.
Lupton, D. (2015) Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary. Health Promotion International, 30(1), 174—83.
Lupton, D. (2015) Quantified sex: a critical analysis of sexual and reproductive self-tracking apps. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 17(4), 440—53.
Lupton, D. (2015) Data assemblages, sentient schools and digitised HPE (response to Gard). Sport, Education and Society, 20(1), 122—32.
Lupton, D. (2015) Fabricated data bodies: reflections on 3D printed digital body objects in medical and health domains. Social Theory & Health, 13(2), 99—115.
Jutel, A. and Lupton, D. (2015) Digitizing diagnosis: a review of smartphone and computer applications in the diagnostic process. Diagnosis, 2(2), 89—96.
Lupton, D. and Thomas, G.M. (2015) Playing pregnancy: the ludification and gamification of expectant motherhood in smartphone apps. M/C, 18(5), online, available at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/1012
Miah, A., and Rich, E. (2015) Digital health: Medicine, Methods and Mobile Devices. Editorial for Salute e Soceità, the Italian Journal of Sociology of Health.
Rich, E., and Miah, A. (2014) Understanding digital health as public pedagogy: A critical framework. Societies, 4: 296-315. Online, available here: http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/4/2/296
Lupton, D. (2014) The commodification of patient opinion: the digital patient experience economy in the age of big data. Sociology of Health & Illness, 36(6), 856—69.
Lupton, D. (2014) Apps as artefacts: towards a critical sociological perspective on health and medical apps. Societies, 4, 606—22.
Lupton, D. (2014) Critical perspectives on digital health technologies. Sociology Compass, 8(12), 1344—59.
Lupton, D. (2014) Self-tracking cultures: towards a sociology of personal informatics. Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design, ACM Press, 77—86.
Lupton, D. (2013) The digitally engaged patient: self-monitoring and self-care in the digital health era. Social Theory & Health, 11 (3), 256—70.
Lupton, D. (2013) Quantifying the body: monitoring, performing and configuring health in the age of mHealth technologies. Critical Public Health, 23(4), 393-403.
Lupton, D. (2012) M-health and health promotion: the digital cyborg and surveillance society. Social Theory & Health, 10(3), 229—34.
Miah, A., and Rich, E. (2010) The bioethics of cybermedicalization. In P.K. Nayar (Ed) The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell: 209-220
Rich, E., and Miah, A. (2009) prosthetic surveillance: the medical governance of healthy bodies in cyberspace, Surveillance and Society, 20, Feb 2009. (online)
Miah, A., and Rich, E. (2008) The Medicalization of Cyberspace. Oxon and New York: Routledge.
The obesity epidemic and how bodies come to be through the pedagogies of digital health. Talk by Emma Rich given at the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) at the University of Oxford. Available here
We will be posting details of talks about the project here
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The Albertus Magnus men's basketball team shot 61.3-percent from the floor in the second half en route to an 88-71 Great Northeast Athletic Conference victory at Emmanuel on Thursday night. Tonight's win marks the Falcons' 11th-straight since Dec. 8.
Darius Watson (New Britain, Conn.) led all scorers with 32 points as he shot 15-of-22 from the field. Ray Askew (Hamden, Conn.) tallied his third-straight double-double with 23 points and 15 rebounds as well for the Falcons.
Albertus improves to 16-1 on the year with the victory and a perfect 11-0 in GNAC play. Emmanuel moves to 7-11 overall and 6-5 in league action following the loss.
After going into the halftime break with just a four-point lead, the Falcons jumped out in the second frame with determination. The Falcons shot 61.3-percent on 19-of-31 shooting from the field to outscore the Saints 42-29 in the frame. Watson finished the game a perfect 8-of-8 from the field in the second 20 minutes of play, while Askew grabbed 11 rebounds and scored 14 points in the second half alone.
Emmanuel's largest lead of the game was five points, an advantage they held into the middle of the first half, but the Falcons battled back - eventually taking a 38-30 lead with less than four minutes left until intermission. At the break, the Falcons led by four thanks to 16 first-half points from Watson.
The Falcons extended their lead to their largest of the night at 18 with 7:03 left in regulation before cruising to the conference victory. On the night, the Falcons out-rebounded the Saints 49-30.
Askew is now just 27 points shy of hitting the 2,000-mark plateau as he currently has 1,973 points in his career.
Zach Dugas (Monroe, Conn.) also contributed for the Falcons on the night as he pulled down 10 rebounds, all coming on the defensive end. Teammate Jefferson Lora (Brnox, N.Y.) added 11 points.
The Falcons will head to Mount Ida on Saturday, Jan. 28 for a GNAC contest. Game time is set for 1:00 p.m.


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Contra Costa Times: Political Theater Rules Richmond City Council Meetings
Reposted from the Contra Costa Times: Robert Rogers
The Green Party matriarch of a mayor sits poised with gavel in hand, watching for any colleague who crosses the line of decorum. Police stand guard nearby, ready to clear the chamber of boisterous spectators at her command.
The dais is bookended by a blunt Arkansan known to occasionally berate colleagues and a curly-haired former trial lawyer who equivocates like a nervous witness. The next two seats are held down by a junk parts collector who has threatened to slug people and a hardened stalwart who has held office here since the 1960s and never tires of telling his followers that this is a City Council like none other. Next comes a progressive firebrand who drops the occasional F-bomb and sometimes catches an in-meeting snooze (allegedly), and, finally, a 28-year-old neophyte whose steely disposition belies his legislative inexperience and encyclopedic knowledge of hip hop history.
Descriptions of the proceedings take on a nasty, even apocalyptic, tone.
"Circuslike." "Pandering fools." "Sliding into the abyss." "A laughingstock." "God help us." "Shut him up!"
And that's just what these politicians say about themselves and each other. The colorful rebukes that come from residents reach new levels of excoriation.
Welcome to the Richmond City Council, where impassioned meetings often careen past midnight and public business, including items as simple as building a public restroom, takes weeks or even months to resolve. Crowds 200 strong sometimes pack the chamber, cleaved along interest group lines, haranguing council members and often each other.
The endless drama takes a toll on workers at every level of city government.
"City Council went till almost 1 a.m. on Tuesday," police Chief Chris Magnus once wrote on Facebook. "They like to keep staff around so we can be as tired, ineffective and crabby as possible the next work day!"
Among the council itself, everyone seems to agree that the situation has spiraled out of control; they just can't settle on who is to blame or what to do about it.
"This has to be the very worst and most dysfunctional council I have witnessed during my 35 years as a council member," Nat Bates wrote in a mass email to residents.
Weeks ago, Bates sent those on his email list a YouTube video of a scrappy Florida swamp cat named Mugsy that swats alligators with his paw, wryly suggesting that Mugsy is needed to enforce decorum among his garrulous colleagues.
But smoother nights could be on the horizon. The council voted 6-1 on April 22 — with Councilman Corky Boozé dissenting -- to impose time limits of five minutes per council member for each item, limitations on monthly presentations and a provision to hold additional meetings if a backlog of agenda items aren't cleared within 30 days.
Or not. At the first meeting since establishing the rule, on May 6, Boozé and Mayor Gayle McLaughlin jawed at each other over how many five-minute terms each member was entitled to before McLaughlin whipped out her gavel, declared her colleague out of order and recessed the meeting.
"Nobody tells Corky how to vote!" Boozé harrumphed, in a baffling non sequitur. When the meeting reconvened -- and Boozé ambled back to his seat after stoking the crowd -- the residents in attendance were as dyspeptic as ever.
"These new rules you guys have are crap," said resident Naomi Williams.
The meeting droned on to nearly midnight as one item -- a directive to staff to merely draw up a minimum wage ordinance for later review -- burned nearly four hours. The meeting ended with a backlog of at least a dozen items left unheard.
Even passing the five-minute rule in the first place was the source of considerable teeth gnashing, gumming up the machinery of government at two prior meetings and debate lasting hours before passage.
Long and combative council meetings aren't a new phenomenon in Richmond, a rough and tumble town with a council divided among progressive, passionate environmentalists and African-American stalwarts who back big business, with plenty of overlap in between. Raucous applause and lusty jeers provide the meetings' nightly soundtrack.
But in recent years, some say particularly since the 2010 election of Boozé and Councilwoman Jovanka Beckles, the situation has grown worse. A rule tweak last year automatically ended council meetings at 11 p.m. unless the council votes to continue -- which they often do not -- but the effect has been that bread-and-butter public service items are left unheard, postponed to a future meeting. The backlog has fouled the machinery of government.
In a telephone interview, City Manager Bill Lindsay noted that in recent months two key items -- one to install a restroom in a Marina Bay park and another to send a memo to the UC Board of Regents regarding the coming development of a UC campus project -- have been repeatedly delayed to the detriment of public services because of inefficient meetings.
"The atmosphere makes it challenging to get work done," Lindsay said. "It tends to suck energy out of the organization. It can be demoralizing to a staff person who goes to a meeting to give a presentation on an item and waits hours only for the item to be held over to a later meeting."
CLASHING COUNCIL MEMBERS
While Boozé's one-man show gobbles up most of the time, with a mix of long soliloquies to the local cable TV cameras ("I want the people at home to see what's going on here ..." he says regularly) and testy interrogations of staff members, archrival Beckles has locked horns with Boozé and Bates as well. Soon after she and Boozé were elected, she requested her seat on the dais next to Boozé be moved after she claimed he threatened her.
On April 22, after McLaughlin pounded her gavel to call a recess to stem growing disorder, Beckles directed a profanity toward Boozé, prompting Bates to suggest that she needs anger-management training. In the past, Beckles has publicly called Boozé "delusional" and "a liar."
Residents get in on the action too, often taking to Facebook to vent their disapproval.
"All of our council members need to stop acting like squabbling children and grow up," resident Ellen Seskin wrote on a Facebook group called "the REALRICH Richmond, Ca". "Stop pulling up the past and stop calling names or insinuating someone's lack of intelligence, and start deciding what is better for our city as a whole."
The festering animus on the dais has fueled interminable hand-wringing among the public. Over the past few years, several items about free speech rights and council decorum have been discussed, with mixed results.
Since as early 2008, the city's Human Relations and Human Rights Commission has taken up the issue of unruly council meetings and poor manners several times but has never been able to proffer a sustained solution.
McLaughlin, whose job is to maintain decorum on the dais, has shouldered some blame in the past. Earlier this year, Councilman Tom Butt stormed out of a meeting after yelling at McLaughlin and wagging his index finger in her face. He has since apologized.
In a telephone interview, Butt said his outburst was the result of "frustration," and tossed some blame to colleagues Jael Myrick and Jim Rogers, whom he blamed for not backing him up with votes when he calls to muzzle Boozé.
As the council meanders deep into the night, the members' fuses shorten and their chins sink into their chests. The few hardy souls that remain in the audience sit with arms crossed, braced against fatigue and disgust.
In an email, McLaughlin put most of the blame for the dysfunctional meetings on Boozé, and defended her practice of calling five-minute recesses when civility breaks down.
"Long and acrimonious meetings are a disservice to our residents, staff, and our democratic process," she wrote.
That's one of the few things Richmond's City Council can agree on.
Contact Robert Rogers at 510-262-2726 or [email protected]. Follow him atTwitter.com/SFBaynewsrogers.


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Newtown Row and High Street
High Street Photos >>
Harry Taylor Manager of Richards' Pork Butchers >>
Harold Cooper's Shop by S. Foster >>
A Walk Down Newtown Row >>
We realise the following pictures are mostly of High Street, but it can be said that both Aston folk and outsiders refered to both as Newtown Row, thats why they are under a common title.
High Street begins at Six Ways Aston and ends at Asylum Road west side and Bracebridge Street on the east side.
Newtown Row begins at this point and proceeds south towards Birmingham city centre, until Princip Street west side and Bagot Street east side.
Newtown Row or High Street
Just a little way up from Black's and Avril's
Where Once Upon A Time Stood The Globe
The Dog and Duck had a fantastic tiled frontage, all sadly destroyed
c1960 Griffins and The Wagon & Horses on the left
Blacks and Avrils on the right
The majestic
House That Jack Built in the distance
W Griffin Purveyors of English and Colonial Fruit
Baines Bakers, Manageress Mrs I Birch c1975
The Stork Public House Being Demolished
Taken From Ray Coopers Papershop
High Street Bracebridge Street Corner
The Butchers Tevor Buftons had previously been Richards Pork Butcher
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Harry Taylor Manager of Richards' Pork Butchers
High Street, Bracebridge Street, was a place of happy memories for me. My Dad was the manager of "Richards of Aston" the Pork Butchers. Then "Farr & Smiths" at the same premises, right on the corner of Bracebridge Street. His name was Harry Taylor and if anyone remembers him or those days, drop a line to this site.
I remember as a young lad of eight or nine, going along to the shop to help make the pork pies, and the delicious aroma of them baking. I recall the dozens of turkeys and chickens hanging along the rails outside the big windows (no hygene regulations in those days) at Christmas time. My dad stayed open until the very last piece of meat or bird was sold, and that meant late nights on Christmas Eve, as people from all around came to see what Harry was going to auction off as the day drew to a close.
"OK Love, then who'll give me a quid for this lovely bird, only a few left now so lets be havin you". The shop ran around the complete corner of High Street & Bracebridge Street, with the shop entrance on the actual corner. All the deliveries went in through a side gate in Bracebridge Street. My Dad used to work from o6oo hrs through to nine thirty or ten pm at Christmastime, then the staff and Dad would all go across the road to a pub opposite the shop.
Further to the picture of my Dad and the piece about RICHARDS of Aston ( corner of High St. and Bracebridge St.) here is a wonderful photograph of the entire staff that worked for all the shops. I believe this was 1950 or 51 and it was a works outing. Does anybody recognise themselves in the photograph? My Dad "HARRY TAYLOR" is standing next to the lady in the white coat on the front row. The lady is my Mom, now 95! Dad passed away in 1962. He was the manager at the Aston shop.
Gerry.
Harold Cooper's Shop by S. Foster
I remember Mrs Harold Cooper's shop being open as I was 10 years old at the time and Saturday night in Aston, Newtown, has been vividly in my memory all my life. I love my family to recall incidents that happened in those days. The scene in the shop and outside it was tremendous.
always stood inside, against the wall, in a position where I could see all the 'cutters up' in the back room. With a young sister, probably about 2 and not always the same sister because I grew older and new sisters arrived. I watched and listened, enthralled at the scene which really had to be experienced to be believed. Mrs Cooper was the pivot of the whole thing, shouting her head off with plenty of good humour surrounded by a turmoil of women with only a very limited amount of money clutched in their hands but with experienced eyes for the joint they were after and quick to pounce when their bargain came up. I think there were 4 people behind the counter, an elderly man and woman and a younger man. There were at least 2 assistants cutting up joints in the back room and the whole scene was enthralling. The purchaser would successfully get her bargain and pay for it after it had been wrapped in last weeks Sunday Mercury, The Sports Argus or whatever.
Sunday dinner was the most important meal of the week and for many the only dinner when you had roast meat. It was the pride of the working class that however poor, Sunday dinner had to be roast beef with a good slab of Yorkshire pud which was lovely with gravy from the beef, lamb with mint sauce, pork which used to have beautiful crisp crackling or very occasionally roast veal. Never chicken in those days except at Christmas and that was usually from someone's back yard pen or picked up cheap late on Christmas Eve.
Mrs Cooper was one of the characters of Newtown Row always immaculate with her hair, very short back and sides, as was everybody's and brushed back flat on her head. I can remember her in the quieter days up to when she closed, as I always passed in my car after the war and she did not seem to look any different.
Newtown Row was a world in itself. The old fat lady shouting, 'Sage, thyme and parsley, a penny a bunch' and other gutter edge traders or buskers trying to earn a meal or nights lodging. During the week, I would have to go for a 'pound of mixed vegetables and please include an onion,' so that we could have a stew made with a pound of stewing pieces which I think was four pence. The marvel of the maypole where margarine was cut off huge slabs in various quantities, deep yellow at sixpence a pound, mid at eightpence and creamy at ten pence.
Next door to Mrs Cooper was of course, 'the house that Jack built' (did a good trade in chamber pots) and then on the corner of Bracebridge Street, Richards, the pork butchers. I went there only occasionally when dad's 3d double had come up and we could afford bacon and sausage. There was the Hippodrome and Barton Arms and the Slobe (one penny matinee on Saturday afternoon) and only three pence at night on the first three rows of bench seats.
To get back to Sunday dinner, this had to take place late enough to accommodate my father who did not leave the pub until they closed which was 2 o'clock on Sundays then and early enough to give us children time to get to Sunday school which was at 3 o'clock so it was usually at about 2.30 but I have known it later if it took my father longer than usual to make his way back from the pub home. Poor mother would be pacing around the table, first with the saucepan of spuds, then the cabbage, Yorkshire pud if appropriate and then the meat and gravy. No such thing as starters or sweet trolley not even rice pudding which was often a meal on its own during the week.
Sunday school only catered for children up to 14 years and this concerned one of the teachers so he started a young men's class to go to and it had been in existence for two years when I became 14. I joined and am still a member and there are twenty of us who still meet at St. Pauls church in the Lozells once every month so that I have been giving 52 years. There are also two or three founder members who still go. The teacher who started it was Mr George Field, a prominent butcher who had several shops and one at the Perry Barr tram terminus. Another butcher, W. Y Baker, who was president of the Butcher's Association and also had a shop in Perry Barr, used to come and speak to us and became a good friend and had a long association with us.


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Cory Robinson
Visual Arts: Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor
Robinson focuses his studio production around the idea of furniture as a vehicle of expression. He has continually sought ways to make his studio production reflect an interest in functional forms that speak with an artist's sensibility. The collective work shifts in series that represent different material explorations, form investigations, narrative qualities of art making against the formal vocabulary of design, and then back again to the simplicity of functional objects. Robinson is interested in the relationship the artist and designer both have in shaping an individual's experience and emotive response to objects of daily ritual.
rachel rogers
Graphic Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Photography, Works on paper
Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Elise Rorick
Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography
I am an artist and photographer currently living and working in Indiana (and visiting as much of the rest of the world as I can). I love reading almost as much as I love making beautiful art, and nearly always incorporate books, literature, or esoteric knowledge into my photographs. I am a self proclaimed nerd who loves Doctor Who, Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, Peter Pan, and Neil Gaiman. I am fascinated by stories as well as the sea, and I am in love with underwater photography (yes in Indiana). The name for Lusicovi Creative comes from my Armenian heritage. "Lus" means "light" and "Covi" means "sea." Most importantly, I believe in magic. Not in the sense of wands and wizards and spells, but in an everyday sort of magic. I believe in the magic of people. Of what they can do and achieve with passion and love and determination. Of how they can connect with other people and the world around them on a daily basis. I believe that there is a powerful type of magic in human connections, that emotions are how we connect, and I believe in capturing and spreading that magic and imagination to inspire the world.
Ginny Taylor Rosner
Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Photography, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Artist books
Ginny Taylor Rosner has been an active teacher, administrator, curator and juror. Her current studio practice embraces a variety of media, including photography, historic photographic processes, video, printmaking, and book arts. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo, group, juried, and invitational exhibitions around the country, and has been purchased for both private and public collections. Currently, she is teaching with Herron School of Art and Design and Ivy Tech Community College as an adjunct instructor.
Despi Ross
The process of becoming a painter has taken more than 20 years. As a young adult, art was effortless. I created with intention and confidence, communicating a nascent understanding of my world. But, when I enrolled in college I chose art history as my major instead of painting. I was convinced that I didn't have enough to say. I didn't realize that I was simply afraid. After graduation, I began a circuitous career that took me from museum jobs to technology and marketing. I spent my days climbing the corporate ladder seeking better job titles and more money and my nights struggling to make meaning. About 2 years ago, I returned to painting – after more than a decade spent seriously soul-searching. And, I finally found my voice.
SATCH Satch Art Space
Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture
Jessica Saunders
Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Works on paper
Jessica Saunders (Schultz) studied painting and printmaking at the Herron School of Art and Design, located in Indianapolis, IN. During her time at Herron, she earned a BFA in painting and a minor in art history. She currently lives and paints out of her home studio in Brownsburg, IN, and she works as a full-time graphic designer for Sincerely Hers, Inc., located in Bainbridge, IN.
Laura Kivela Schroeder
Visual Arts: Painting, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper
The poetic moments that occur when light, color, shape, and stories mesh together form the magic I try to capture in my work.
Lisa Sears
Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor
I graduated from Herron School of Art and Design in 2011 with a Bachelors in Fine Art with an emphasis in Drawing, a Bachelors in Art Education, and a minor in Art History. I have experience working in a variety of media ranging from oil paint, watercolor, acrylic, encaustic, printmaking, woodcut, and collage, darkroom photography, digital photography and digital alteration and creation with programs like Photoshop. I teach art by day at Greenfield-Central High School and paint by night. My work mostly consist of acrylic paintings on canvas based on layered digital collages. Layering of imagery and the transformative process that a work of art goes through are very fascinating to me. The art that I create will layer imagery until it is almost unrecognizable (the term Maximalism comes to mind at times). The formation of the work is always documented as well so a viewer can see the art come to life. I am really interested in historical artwork, spirals, architecture, and feminism so they tend to end up in my work.
Sheila Sellinger
Visual Arts: Crafts, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Works on paper
As a photographer and artist, I get great satisfaction in each one of my projects. Living in the heart of Indianapolis, I have the best of both worlds — city life and wildlife — to work with. I thank God that He has given me the ability to create such beauty in so many ways.
Melissa Serrano
Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting
Melissa Sue Serrano is a mixed media artist, who specializes in painted portraits of women. Melissa's contemporary portraiture mixes aerosol and acrylic paint with wheat paste collage to focus on the stereotyped female gender identity brought on by the past and present society and media. Melissa, originally from San Diego, California, currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband and two cats. Melissa has displayed her work all over San Diego County and Hollywood, CA.
Chi Sherman
Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Music, Spoken Word, Storytelling
I'm a freelance writer and editor with a deep affinity for essay writing and poetry. I have written for local publications like NUVO and the now-defunct Sky Blue Window, as well as blogs for Vidit Indy's site. My work has also appeared in HuffPo, the website for The Body Is Not An Apology, and brave Voices. My work is in flux. I have long put black text on white paper and considered that the end of the piece's creativity. After setting some writing to music on Shades, the CD I released with my father in 2015, I have become very interested in pairing music and dance with my work. I lost myself for a very long time. I am ready to be back at home in my body, comforted by my words.
Johnson Simon
Visual Arts: Painting, Sculpture; 3D Print
Johnson Simon, the Overachieving "Throw Away Kid", was born with severe Cerebral Palsy. He couldn't walk until he was 5 years old. He was born in the Turks and Caicos Islands then moved to Haiti to live with his grandparents while his parents went to the US to try to make a better life for their family. Haiti would not admit him into their schools, so he joined his parents in Florida. He was considered mentally retarded due his disabilities and was put into classes with others who were in that same category. He was never given the chance for an education like the "normal" kids, he was just thrown away. He was lucky to have Michael as his mentor, father figure, and best friend who discovered that Johnson had the unique capability of being able to paint, even though his hands were deformed. This discovery led to Johnson going to the Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, FL, in his senior year in High School being the only person ever admitted to the school in their senior year. That same year Michael passed away; Michael's mother took over as the advocate for Johnson. After learning that he had a 70 IQ from his school records because he was never given extra time to take a test or an aid to help him write, she insisted that he graduate and not be held back for 2 more years, as the school proposed. She hired a tutor to improve his ACT scores and then a year later he was accepted into Western Michigan University in the Frostic School of Art. With lots of hard work and perseverance Johnson graduated with Honors. He was then accepted into IUPUI in the Herron School of Art for his Masters in Fine Art Degree, which he got in May 2018. Johnson cares about others and wants to help other children succeed as he did.
Kelly Skeens
My name is Kelly Skeens, and I am a visual artist based in the Indianapolis area. I work in mixed media and specialize in pushing the limits of epoxy resin as a medium. I currently work full-time in marketing and am "Mom" to 4 (7, 10, 18, 24). I have primarily lived in Indianapolis my whole life and am currently a Lawrence resident.
Taylor Smith
Visual Arts: Film, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper
I received my degree from Indiana University (Bloomington), and studied at the AdBK (Akademie der Bildenden Künste) in Berlin and Nürnberg, Germany. I moved to Germany to study painting and sculpture, however I found employment and continued my studies in Berlin and Nürnberg until returning to the United States some years later. Some recent collaborations include the Mondavi Family's Charles Krug Winery in Napa Valley and a large-scale, world-wide project with Carnival Cruise Lines.
Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Works on paper; Graffiti
Nick is a multidisciplinary American artist, specializing in abstraction and post-graffiti stylings. He got his start producing large scale graffiti works in 2013 under the alias, Sean. (The name of his Autistic younger brother whom he dedicates his works to) Smith currently resides in the Midwestern US and travels to produce work worldwide.
Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Works on paper
Nicholas Smith is a mixed-media artist born and raised in Indianapolis, IN. He is a graduate of the Visual Arts and Humanities magnets at Broad Ripple High School, as well as a graduate of Butler University with a major in Recording Industry Studies and a minor in Art + Design. Nick's current body of work consists mostly of abstract paintings, drawings, and mixed media pieces which are often based around a stream of conscious process. Nicholas has collaborated on murals at various places around Indianapolis, including Einstein Bros. Bagels in Broad Ripple, as well as the Peace Learning Center in Eagle Creek State Park. Nick is also a producer and DJ, working under the pseudonym "Mandog", and can be found performing or recording with various artists in the greater Indianapolis area. #ManDogHandPaw
Jonathan Southern
Visual Arts: Illustration, Mixed Media, Works on paper; Freelance Portrait Artist
Jonathan Southern is a self-taught portrait artist living in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the owner and founder of J.South Art Studio. Throughout his life, Jonathan has always been fascinated with capturing images of people through his art work.
Jessica Springman
Visual Arts: Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper
Tim Stark
Visual Arts: Conservation/Restoration, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper
Originally from Colorado, Tim now lives and works in Indianapolis, Indiana. He received his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University and his BA from The University of Redlands.
Radie Lee Steiner
Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Photography; Epoxy
We are a husband and wife team. We met through our Art. Evan is from New Jersey and Radie is from Indiana. We live in Downtown Indianapolis. Evan is an abstract painter using mediums such as acrylic, epoxy and mixed. Radie is a landscape and lifestyle photographer. Photos on metal, canvas or framed print. We strive to inspire others through our art. Our motto- There is Light Everywhere.
Laura Stennett
Visual Arts: Painting, Works on paper
A Texan relocated to the Midwest, Laura Stennett paints contemporary landscapes drawn from her memories and explorations in the vast landscapes of Texas, the Western U.S. and the Midwest. Laura Stennett was born and raised in Texas. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting and a minor in art history from Texas Tech University and spent several years working for the university after graduation. Stennett is now located in Indianapolis, IN pursuing her career as an artist.
Boxx The Artist
Visual Arts: Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Photography
Boxx the Artist is a Purdue University graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communication, African American Studies, minor in Political Science and Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Innovation. She's a self-taught painter, instructor, and entrepreneur from Gary, Indiana. Boxx has been painting for 3 years professionally in Indianapolis, yet an artist for over 10 years.
Beth Ann Thomas
Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Printmaking, Works on paper
I am a fine artist, focusing on painting and drawing. I'm also an art history enthusiast, and I thoroughly enjoy being informed by past and present artists' work. Wherever I am (at home, downtown, outside, watching a film, making dinner), I am consistently intrigued by the small steps taken in the acts of learning, listening, watching, and creating, and I believe this shows in my work.
Willey Thompson
Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Photography
Would love to take my work to the next level, show to a larger audience gallery etc. Any direction/help would be appreciated! Feel free to contact me
Dave Thornburg
Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media; Kinetic Sculpture
One often hears musicians describing their childhood as being filled with music and being surrounded by musicians. My story is similar except that I came from a family of makers. While Mom was making clothes and knitting blankets Dad was welding trailers and repairing cars. And all the kids joined in. My parents and grandparents did teach me some basic making skills, but more importantly instilled in me the desire to make things with my hands. Somehow I have always known, even back to my early childhood, that something made with moving parts is better than without. I have delved into many different hobbies over the years, which has given me a little experience with many different media. Now working full time as an artist, I get to draw on this diverse experience and build with very few limitations
Visual Arts: Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Sculpture; Public Art
He seeks to impart a visual catharsis, supporting an experience of awe, introspection & harmony.
Stacey Torres
Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper
Born in Jamaica, NY in 1953, Stacey Torres is an African American folk artist and writer living in New Castle, IN. Her primary focus are unique women in natural settings. She paints with an abundance of brilliant color using different media, including watercolor, oil pastels, and acrylics, inspired by her Caribbean heritage. As a self-taught artist, Ms. Torres' love of painting began at a very early age. In the summer of 2014, she began to create again after a 40 year hiatus. Spending hours with her mother, who was in her final stages of Alzheimer's, Stacey began to paint her thoughts and emotions, with images to help her mother remember some things. Her artwork became therapy for her and comfort to her mother. "When the word, "artist" began to appear behind my name, I embraced my lost gift, and paint life as I see it. Art is just an exercise in emotional expression — a way of holding onto things from the past — documenting visions, impressions and dreams. I could write a journal or blog, however, my visions needed to be seen and felt … At times, I feel messages from beyond, like small glimpses of my past as ancestral folktales emerge with splashes of color on canvas. These primitive images of pleasingly imperfect subjects are bits of me; things I'm compelled to recapture. I suppose I'm guilty of living through my art by proxy." Stacey Torres Exhibits & Awards: Recipient of Indiana Lt. Governor & State Treasurer Hoosier Women Artists 2016; Richmond Art Museum's Holiday Art Mart; Whitewater Valley Arts Association Regional Exhibit 2015 (Advanced Merit Award), and 2016; Art Association of Henry County's 50th Annual Fall Show; Flava Fresh 12 (Annual Juried Multi-Art Exhibition Presentation Series of Contemporary Art in Indianapolis, IN); Hoosier Women In Art 2016 (Indy Parks Dept.); Twitter Art Show NYC 2016; Will Vawter Art Show, Hancock Art Association 2016; Naturally Inspired Paint-Out, Indianapolis Zoo 2016; Inspired by Dreams Exhibit 2015, Indiana Interchurch Center; and most notably, her art was featured on CBS TV's Criminal Minds (Season 10).
Robin Toulouse
Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media
I graduated from Herron School of Art and Design with a BFA in Fine Arts in January, 1980. I immediately began working as Assistant Registrar at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis where I accessioned new cultural, historical and natural objects into the museum's collection, helped install and de-install exhibits, performed condition reports on objects loaned to the museum. In 1987, The Children's Museum promoted me to Collections Services Manager. I supervised the registration, conservation and museum library staff, selected and implemented two collections management databases, drafted the museum's collections polices and procedures and instituted a peer review audit of our policies and practices that gained national recognition. In the early 19902, I was introduced to a book of historical photographs, Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America. I reacted so strongly to the imagery that I was compelled to combine objects with altered and manipulated vintage photographs, creating assembled vignettes, composed in found boxes. I exhibited some of these pieces at the Herron School of Art and Design Alumni show, at Crown Hill Cemetery and at The Children's Museum. My art making went "underground" for several years until 2014, when a friend saw my assemblages and urged me to begin showing them. Her suggestion prodded me to begin creating again, and I have been working steadily since 2014. I have shown my work at the 5547 Project in Coal Yard Coffee, at Oasis Creative Space, Art Bank, Full Circle 9 Gallery, Do 317 Gallery and Lounge and the Tiny Show at The Arts Council of Indianapolis. I am a founding member of Full Circle Nine Gallery, a cooperative where all the member-artists work to keep the gallery open First Fridays and weekends.
Katrina Valuyeva
Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Sculpture
My life consists of autodidactic learning using books, online tutorials and workshops, driven by the ever-present compulsion to create. After college (2012) I moved from my parent's house in New York to Indiana– where I started learning metalsmithing, lapidary and precious metal clay through workshops, books and tutorials online. I am currently focusing on sculptural jewelry and objects using a mixed media approach.


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Cognitive remediation could positively affect neurocognitive performance like attention, working memory and problem solving in bipolar disorder.
Cognitive remediation may be beneficial for executive function in patients with bipolar disorder and objective cognitive impairment, according to a study in the International Journal of Bipolar Disorders.
The findings are based on a cognitive remediation program developed by Julia Veeh, from the Department of Psychiatry, Goethe University in Frankfurt, and colleagues that was used to evaluate its effect on objective and subjective neuropsychologic performance, psychosocial functioning, and quality of life among patients with bipolar disorder.
The program involved the combination of cognitive training software along with group sessions to improve patients' cognitive skills. A total of 102 patients with bipolar disorder underwent neuropsychological screening. Thirty-nine patients had distinct cognitive impairments, and 26 from this group participated in the cognitive remediation program for 12 weeks and were then retested. Ten matched controls were measured at baseline and follow-up after 3 months with treatment as usual.
The researchers observed a significant improvement in cognitive performance after cognitive remediation within the training group in working memory, problem solving, and divided attention. The control group did not improve on any test measure. The investigators also observed a significant reduction of sub-depressive symptoms after the cognitive remediation program. However, no changes in psychosocial functioning and quality of life were detected. Subjective cognitive complaints were not associated with objective test performance, according to the study authors.
Dr Veeh's group wrote that the study "indicates that cognitive remediation could positively affect neurocognitive performance like attention, working memory and problem solving in bipolar disorder.
The authors noted that larger, randomized controlled trials are needed to fully identify the possible implications of cognitive remediation in bipolar disorder.


Tomorrow's high is 40 degrees and well, shorts don't exactly fly anymore. With winter right around the corner- throwing shade to Mother Nature-bundling up is the normal for the next five months. Enough of me blabbering on about the weather- hit up weather.com for the latest updates on Polar Vortexes and all that jazz.
Returning to the topic of seeking overalls, I've come to find a great long pair that are the answer to all my farmer meets runway aspirations. With the help of sand paper and a pair of scissors, a little distressing roughed them up to my liking. If you're anything like me the sight DIYs scares you away but after distressing two pairs of jeans, it is much easier than imagined. Poke some holes in the knee, a little sand paper here and there, fray the ends... easy peasy. I would recommend not splurging on overalls unless you plan on wearing them everyday.
To sum up today's post: 1) It's beginning to get very cold. 2) Second try with overalls was a success.


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Q: d3fc - Candlestick multi-series Cartesian chart How can I render a multi-series, cartesian chart with candlesticks?
I have this currently:
http://blockbuilder.org/anonymous/af3258802b35d6dc327dc813eb4c32e0"
On line 63:
d3.select(nodes[i])
  .select('svg')
  .call(candlestickSeries);

The above works, but the following doesn't:
 const multiSeries = fc.seriesSvgMulti()
     .series([
        candlestickSeries,
        volumeSeries
     ])

 const cartesianChart = fc.chartSvgCartesian(
        xScale,
        yScale
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     .plotArea(multiSeries);

 ...

 d3.select(nodes[i])
  .select('svg')
  .call(multiSeries); //or  .call(cartesianChart)

I need to render a candle chart + volume multi-series with gridlines. I can't find any examples of these things combined.

A: It's hard to determine what is wrong with your code, however, you might find the following example, which combines an OHLC series with volume, to be useful:
https://bl.ocks.org/ColinEberhardt/485ad09b7967e2a0f9bfe6e10192c26a

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If an extravagant and embellished watch is on your shopping list this year, our recommendation would be Graff Diamonds. Their Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond watch is part of the celebrated 2019 edition of Baselworld, and it has us doe-eyed.
For diamond amateurs, let us tell you that yellow diamonds are a rare find, and it takes years for the artisans to set the diamonds in a timepiece or a piece of jewelry. Graff Diamonds have always been a name synonymous with grandeur, elegance, and expertise, and hence the brand this year is unveiling a host of jeweled-adorned watches.
These two yellow diamond watches that Graff is showcasing are both made using the hardest-to-find yellow diamond color: Fancy Vivid yellow. Because Graff is a family owned and operated the company, a host of Graff family members are part of the organization from start to finish – meaning each of the more than 120 diamonds used in these two watches was most likely hand picked by a Graff family member. Each watch is built in 18-karat yellow gold to underscore the brilliance of the yellow diamonds, and each features diamonds in round and fancy ovals that are meticulously set by hand, as well as finished and polished by hand.
The GW9701 Round Graff Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond watch is set with 211 diamonds weighing an incredible 59.25 carats. The GW9639 Graff Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond Watch with an Oval dial consists of 60 diamonds weighing 25.85 carats. Both watches house Swiss-made quartz movements. The third yellow diamond watch is under wraps until Baselworld.
Each watch features a spectacular invisible setting further showcases the shimmer of yellow. Additionally, the bracelets – also set with diamonds – are created using a Graff in-house developed jointing system so that they are supple and ergonomically flexible, but also optimize the beauty of the stones thanks to the setting. The system was conceived of and devised by Sam Sherry, Graff's Head of Technologies, who deftly blends skill and craftsmanship with elegance.
Every step of the watchmaking and gem setting process is done in house by Graff and is carefully documented. Gold bracelets, cases and bezels are meticulously carved to make way for the stones, which are set by hand. Each step is time-consuming and tedious, with some steps requiring days upon days of work. In the end, though, the jewels of time are worth the wait. Unfortunately, the prices of these beauties are only available on request.


We just had a phone call from Brett to tell us he couldn't make it to work today as he hasn't slept all night. He took home his new Gyrodec and spent the evening setting it up. One thing lead to another which resulted in a 12 hour listening session. Its a rather good thing he isn't actually rostered on today.
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Ian William Craig – A Turn Of Breath
(Recital) UK release date: 22 August 2014
by Daniel Paton
published: 22 Aug 2014 in Album Reviews
Ian William Craig is a trained opera singer from Vancouver, although he appears to have made a conscious decision to occupy a very different musical space from that of the stately opera house. A Turn Of Breath, his first album for the Recital label, is a beautiful and strikingly intimate collection of 12 pieces for voice and 1/4" tape manipulations. Very occasionally, fragmented acoustic guitar accompaniment creeps in, such as on the curious closing piece A Forgetting Place, which functions as a kind of afterword or appendix. This fascinating music sits in a fertile hinterland between the plausible influences of John Tavener and Christian Fennesz.
A stereotypical view of an opera singer might be of an imposing presence both physically and musically, but what is most affecting about A Turn Of Breath is the way Craig's voice is subsumed within his overall sound collage. His voice proves flexible and multifaceted, sometimes offering vulnerable human emotion and at other times providing more textural sensations. The quasi-choral sound of many of the voice here might lead to speculation about some sort of devotional or spiritual element – and there is certainly something about the music that sounds purposefully isolated, perhaps even monastic.
Yet perhaps this is music that isn't quite so interested in being secure in its convictions. This is a work that seems to explore fragility and vulnerability. For a mostly wordless recording, it feels like a defiant and honest creation. Inevitably, its meaning can sometimes feel translucent or enigmatic, with some of the pieces feeling like puzzles awaiting solutions. One of the most moving of the pieces, borrowing its title from Kierkegaard (or perhaps from Elliott Smith), is even called Either Or. Yet, as eventually becomes clearer, there is something of resilience and strength fighting to cut through.
What the listener can be clear about is the powerful and affecting contrast between the enveloping warmth in Craig's layered vocals and the frostiness inherent in many of the tape sounds. The album feels like a coherently staged battle between turbulence and light – with the latter perhaps winning out during A Slight Grip, a Gentle Hold (pt 2)'s recourse to the English language (and also in the shimmering boldness of its accompaniment, which might be a harmonium or accordion). "I allow my heaviness," he sings, seemingly achieving some form of acceptance and tranquility. It's a different sort of peace from the weightlessness that meditative processes often strive for, but it feels convincing.
There are other notable reference points of course, from the intimacy and manipulated structures of Arthur Russell's World of Echo songs, to the layered one-woman choir brilliantly constructed by Julianna Barwick via the ceaseless wonder of William Basinski's Disintegration Loops. Admirers of that music will find much to enjoy here, yet it feels that none of these comparisons are entirely adequate. Ian William Craig has found a different kind of sonic space, one which allows for a wider exploration of the transcendent potential of the voice.
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NRCC's Dinner Faces Reservations
By Lauren W. Whittington
The two-week push to collect cash for the National Republican Congressional Committee's annual dinner next month is the latest headache for Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.), who already is grappling with Member retirements, an FBI investigation and an abysmal fundraising environment.
House Republicans will gather this morning at the Capitol Hill Club, where Cole is expected to make his final plea to Members for fundraising help before the March 12 dinner.
Earlier this year, Cole and the dinner chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), announced a goal of raising $7.5 million at the dinner, an increase from the NRCC's $6 million goal in 2007.
One source said that as of the beginning of last week, $2.2 million had been raised and the goal was to get to $2.7 million by week's end.
President Bush will headline the dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
An NRCC spokeswoman called the $7.5 million figure an "optimistic but realistic" goal and said Cole will stress to Members today that their involvement is pivotal to making it happen.
"The next two and a half weeks will be critical in reaching that goal," NRCC spokeswoman Julie Shutley said.
Cole will push Members to make fundraising calls and also praise those Members who have been involved in the dinner effort.
For example, Texas GOP Reps. Pete Sessions, Jeb Hensarling, Sam Johnson, Joe Barton, Kenny Marchant and Michael Burgess are co-hosting a March 7 event scheduled in Dallas that will raise money toward the dinner's fundraising goal. So far, more than $375,000 has been raised through that event.
"This shows that Texas fundraising is starting to turn around," said Sessions' chief of staff, Guy Harrison, asserting that it could be a bellwether for improved Republican fundraising elsewhere.
While the final two weeks before the dinner traditionally have seen the biggest push for dollars, fundraising in general has been sluggish and problematic for Republicans across the board this cycle. A well-connected GOP lobbyist said Member involvement, or lack thereof, also has hurt the party's overall effort.
"The problem is that the Members aren't making the calls," the source said.
And even the calls that are being made aren't as productive as they once were.
The source said a ranking member on a top committee, whom he declined to identify, made six or seven calls last week — calls that in previous years could have easily netted $25,000 each. This time, only one call proved fruitful with one person committing to raise money.
Another influential GOP lobbyist said he had not received as many calls asking for help with the dinner as he had in previous years.
"I haven't had the frantic phone calls like I have had in the past," the lobbyist said, adding that he had been contacted only twice so far, as opposed to getting as many as six or seven calls in the past.
Republican fundraising has been hit hard by depressed giving from the party's activist base, who are less willing to open up their checkbooks because they are upset with party leaders over issues such as illegal immigration and spending.
Morale within the Republican Conference also is an issue that has affected NRCC fundraising.
Earlier this month, the NRCC announced that authorities were looking into financial "irregularities" that had been discovered in the committee's records. The FBI is investigating the matter, and there is no evidence yet that money is missing from the NRCC coffers. Still, some Members are reluctant to give to the committee or fundraise on its behalf until a clearer picture of the matter emerges.
Also, today's meeting will be the first time the GOP Conference has gathered since the 35-count indictment of Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) on extortion, money laundering and conspiracy charges was announced last week. In another blow to party morale, the GOP nominee in the race to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.) abruptly abandoned his bid last week, further improving Democratic chances of picking up the seat.
Through the end of January, the NRCC had raised more than $53.3 million this cycle. In contrast, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had raised more than $71.2 over the same time period.
But the NRCC was saddled with a large debt left over from the 2006 cycle and worked aggressively to pay it down last year, making the cash-on-hand difference even more stark.
The NRCC had just $6.4 million in the bank at the end of January, while the DCCC had almost $35.5 million.
Senate Republicans also are lagging behind their Democratic counterparts in fundraising this cycle. The Republican National Committee is the only federal GOP campaign entity that regularly outraises its Democratic counterpart.
However, not all fundraising news is bad for the GOP.
The Republican Governors Association announced Monday that they raised $10.6 million through their annual dinner last night, a fundraising record for the event.


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DTU Space develops and produces instruments for international satellites and space probes, and the Institute ensures validation and calibration of the instruments using airborne campaigns in Greenland and the rest of Europe.
The Institute develops and builds stellar compasses for satellite navigation, magnetometers for measuring global magnetic fields in space and radar and radiometer systems for measuring the thickness of sea ice and ice sheets, for example.
Several of the Institute's projects have resulted in new inventions for the space industry. For example, the Institute is collaborating with an external company to develop a new type of device for detecting oil leaks from ships.
Concurrently with developing instruments, DTU Space analyses scientific data from the satellite missions, and the close link between science and technological development is of great benefit to both fields.


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