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A: That’s a priority, yes. ... I’d like to feel that over the course of the year, most people in this city will find at least one exhibition that is of interest to them. For example, right now, we have three generations of Moulthrop family on view, which is wood-turned bowls. Some of the bowls are made from wood salvag...
This fall, we have a show of photographs from the segregation series by Gordon Parks, and we also will have a show called “Reflections” that’s scenes of African American life from the collection of Myrna Colley-Lee. We intend to keep that going, and in the spring we’ll have a World War I exhibition that will tie into t...
Q: What are your goals for the museum over the next, say, five years?
A: I have an interest in seeing what we could do with the gallery spaces that we have, probably do a re-installation of our collections. It’s been a few years, and it’s probably time for that. We received a wonderful gift from the Amos (family) for a fund to collect African-American art. And with Jonathan on board, tha...
Previous Jobs: Executive director of the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, Ind.; operations manager and curator at the Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; curator at the Union League Club of Chicago; curator of American Art at the Dayton Art Institute and supervisor of education at the Brandywine River Museu...
Education: Graduate of Oberlin College, bachelor’s in art history major with history minor; master’s in art history, University of Delaware; doctoral work in art history at the University of Illinois - Chicago.
Family: Single, with a brother in north Georgia, a sister in Indiana, and her father and other relatives in Atlanta.
Our client is a successful and well-respected manufacturing business. Operating in the UK marketplace supplying installers and fabricators. Our client is part of a major international Group of Companies.The business is enjoying an exciting period of opportunity and growth. There are significant opportunities for the bu...
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As rumors continue about the next possible matchup for lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, RT reports that Nurmagomedov knows exactly who he wants to face next in the octagon. It’s none other than long-time UFC legend Georges St-Pierre.
At 37, GSP is obviously at the tail end of a long career in mixed martial arts, including three UFC championships at welterweight and a return from retirement. Nurmagomedov competes at lightweight, with the presumption being that St-Pierre would cut weight to meet Nurmagomedov at the lighter weight class.
GSP would have some time to prepare, as Nurmagomedov will not be ready to return to this octagon until November. He is currently serving a nine-month suspension by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for the melee that followed his win over former lightweight champion Conor McGregor at UFC 229 in Las Vegas in October....
Despite being technically eligible to fight again as soon as July, Nurmagomedov has vowed to stay out of competition until his cousin, Abubakar Nurmagomedov, and teammate, Zubaira Tukhugov, have themselves finished out their own suspensions stemming from the incident. Their suspensions continue until October 6.
According to the interview, Nurmagomedov would like to face GSP in November in New York City at Madison Square Garden, and iconic venue that the Russian fighter enjoys and respects.
St-Pierre has also spoken on the topic of a fight with Nurmagomedov.
St-Pierre is widely considered to be the most accomplished fighter in MMA history and retired as reigning welterweight champion in 2013, a title he defended nine consecutive times. He returned to the sport in 2017 to defeat Michael Bisping to capture the middleweight title, becoming only the fourth fighter in UFC histo...
Call them a band for soccer moms; say they are preaching to the choir. It doesn’t change the fact that the members of Casting Crowns are among the farthest-reaching Christian musicians at work today—the sonic equivalent of a Max Lucado book or a Sherwood Pictures movie.
And with that settled, the group’s fifth studio album, Come to the Well, is as strong and yet relatively safe as anything it has done before—a dozen finely crafted songs that can and probably will soon double as sermon outlines at a church near you. Look forward to some good lessons.
Petty infighting among believers is creatively addressed on the folk storyteller-like “City on the Hill,” where Melodee DeVevo’s violin and backing vocals add nice texture to the listening experience. “Spirit Wind” also has an airy acoustic charm to it coupled with straight-from-the-Bible source material.
Of special note, there are several songs that speak directly to men. The soft rock anthem “Courageous” is based on the new film of the same name, a call for husbands and fathers to be true spiritual leaders. The emotionally stirring mid-tempo ballad “Just Another Birthday” gives voice to teen girls who need more attent...
Following the tradition of epic Casting Crowns chart-toppers “Who Am I” and “East to West,” the most likely signature track of the future may be “Wedding Day,” loaded with soaring melody and an aim-for-the-heart lyric that drives home the idea of the church being Christ’s bride.
If anything doesn’t work here, it’s the amped-up “My Own Worst Enemy” which attempts to be a hard rocker from a band that clearly does the adult contemporary thing much better. But that’s a minor quibble, and putting all art vs. ministry debate aside, Come to the Well is sure to be among 2011’s most popular and endurin...
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The disastrous Citizens United decision in 2010 is often blamed for the explosion in dark money in recent elections. But that decision actually presumed full disclosure of donors in elections. Instead, the failures of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to enforce existing disclosure laws is one reason we have dark m...
Recently, in a victory for transparency in elections, a lower court ruled that groups spending money on this fall’s midterm election races must disclose their donors. Then, days ago, both the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a plea from a dark money group to stay the lower court’s decision, so it now ta...
The lower court order struck down an FEC rule that had arbitrarily narrowed the scope of disclosure required by Congress for election ads that explicitly call on viewers to vote for or against candidates. There is still work to be done to improve the transparency of electioneering communications that are less explicit ...
The law states that groups running “express advocacy” ads must publicly disclose their contributors, but the FEC wrote a rule that distorted and narrowed the requirement and thereby defeated almost all donor disclosure by non-profit groups spending money in elections. Then, in response to a 2011 rulemaking petition fil...
Now, finally, the courts have ruled in favor of the disclosure that Congress mandated years ago. However, it shouldn’t take six years of administrative complaints and litigation to arrive at a point where the FEC is finally being forced to apply disclosure laws as Congress wrote them.
For years, CLC and other watchdog groups have been pushing the FEC to interpret and enforce this law as Congress intended by requiring disclosure of those who fund politically active groups – and, where that failed, by urging Congress to clarify the law. CLC and Democracy 21 filed that 2011 petition to warn the FEC tha...
Since then, dark money has continued to afflict our elections. New groups have been created for the manifest purpose of obscuring the identities of their donors – many of whom do not wish to be publicly associated with candidates they support. And undisclosed outside spending has become increasingly concentrated amongs...
According to a new report by the nonprofit Issue One, in the post-Citizens United era, the 15 top dark money groups alone have accounted for more than $600 million in election spending. Already in 2018, at least $65.27 million in dark money has been spent. Not all of this money will have to be disclosed after yesterday...
Moving forward, the FEC could further advance the cause of disclosure by following through on CLC’s recent legal complaints against politically active nonprofits, such as the National Rifle Association’s lobbying arm and 45 Committee. In the case of 45 Committee, CLC recently filed a complaint claiming the dark money g...
Until the law is enforced properly, the fight for disclosure is not over. Now that the statute’s full disclosure obligations for independent expenditures have been restored, we will be monitoring groups closely to ensure they follow the law—and the FEC, to ensure it’s enforced.
While the path forward is still difficult – in fact, the district court decision has already been appealed – today we can say that as a result of this decision, groups will have to disclose more information about those funding “express advocacy” campaign ads. It is a victory that the American people will be better info...
Trevor Potter (@TheTrevorPotter) is president of the Campaign Legal Center and a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission.
Village People policeman Victor Willis underwent surgery at a local hospital on July 7, reportedly to remove nodules from his vocal cords.
The former singer tried to launch a comeback last year with his first concert performances in over a decade and a planned autobiography. The surgery caused several dates of his Victor Willis Dance Tour to be canceled in Europe, the U.S., and Canada.
The 57-year-old Willis cowrote Village People hits such as “YMCA” and “In the Navy.” He’s claimed the band fired him in 1980 for being the lone heterosexual member.
Willis briefly reunited with the People between 1982 and 1984. He spent the next 20-plus years refusing to perform Village People songs and do interviews. During this period, he racked up eight criminal convictions and was featured on a 2005 episode of America’s Most Wanted.
While serving time in prison, he became engaged to a San Diego woman named Karen, with whom he shared a home in La Jolla for a time. In March 2007, she told police that Willis had assaulted and choked her, but city attorneys declined to press charges.
Could future clothes, bottles and chairs be made from carbon emissions?
Finding materials that are both sustainable and affordable has long been a central quandary in sustainable design. Certainly, high-cost, high-end materials, like sustainably-sourced hardwoods and post-consumer paper products, exist. However, the price of these products often pushes them out of the reach of many consume...
Adding to the frustration is the fact that there is no dearth of available sustainable materials, including recovered waste. What if companies could move the recovered materials needle up a notch? What if, instead of simply diverting materials from landfills, they could recover a harmful waste material before it is eve...
Those questions lie at the heart of a new level of sustainable materials engineering. Across the globe, a growing cadre of engineers and researchers are looking for ways to transform greenhouse gasses into useable materials.
For the most part, the push to deal with greenhouse gasses has focused on limiting, offsetting and sequestering the materials, either by regulating the gasses that factories release, encouraging manufacturers to offset their "carbon footprint," or collecting greenhouse gasses and burying them deep within the earth. How...
The vast majority of plastic is produced from petroleum, which means that the long carbon chains that make up the material come from one of the most environmentally costly materials on the planet. The question, then, is how to take the carbon molecules that make up greenhouse gasses like methane, carbon dioxide and car...
AirCarbon entrepreneur Mark Herrema thinks that he may have a solution. By combining methane and carbon dioxide with a proprietary catalyst, his company rearranges the carbon into long chains, producing a plastic that can then be used to make bottles, chairs or almost anything else that plastic is currently used for.
AirCarbon diverts carbon from the atmosphere, but instead of burying it in the earth or storing it in canisters, it repurposes it as a useable material. Herrema emphasizes that his company's product is completely carbon negative: from collection of the greenhouse gasses to transportation to production of the plastics. ...
"Keeping up with demand is our biggest challenge right now," Herrema explains. In August, 2013, the company scaled up to commercial production for the first time, and are now focusing on expansion. It plans to open another plant in late 2014 or early 2015.
Part of AirCarbon's high demand comes from the fact that it not only competes on sustainability, but also competes on price. "We want to make a global scale difference with this resin, and the only way we could do that was if we out-competed on price," Herrema says.
AirCarbon isn't the only company that is working on putting greenhouse gasses to better use. Novomer, a US-owned company, is also trying to find ways to replace existing materials with sequestered carbon. Novomer uses carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, both greenhouse gasses.
Its carbon monoxide work is largely comparable to AirCarbon's: it uses organic catalysts to encourage the carbon in carbon monoxide to form long chains, producing a material that can replace many current plastic uses. Eventually, the company estimates, its work with carbon monoxide could yield a market potential in exc...
But Novomer goes in a different direction with its carbon dioxide. Rather than using it to create a plastic, the company uses traditionally-produced plastic monomers to trap carbon dioxide, creating foams that can be used in construction, clothing, footwear and a host of other products. Simon Waddington, a market devel...
"Our foams have less carbon than most existing foams, which could make them less flammable," he notes. In addition to sequestering carbon, they could also be less bulky and more rigid than existing foams, allowing them to offer the same protection and insulation properties of current foams, but in more compact forms.
Right now, Novomer's foams are in the development stage; the company is still five years from being ready for the market. Ultimately, however, it hopes to kill two birds with one foam: provide a way to sequester dangerous greenhouse gasses, while simultaneously expanding the materials available to designers. As an adde...
This multi-faceted perspective is also apparent in the plans of Mineral Carbonation, an Australian startup that hopes to do commercial-scale carbonation of minerals. In a nutshell, the company's plan is to combine waste carbon dioxide with naturally-occurring magnesium and calcium to create magnesium carbonate and calc...
Given its goal of mine stabilization, Mineral Carbonation has partnered with Orica, an Australia-based mining concern. However, Marcus Dawes, the company's CEO, notes that Mineral Carbonation is also branching out to interact with designers and building companies. "Eventually, we'll create bricks, pavers, cavity walls ...
As more and more companies look for ways to transform greenhouse gasses into useable materials, it's clear that a variety of other concerns are coming into play. After all, while sequestering carbon into environmentally-sustainable forms is a worthwhile goal in its own right, the process becomes truly attractive on a b...
The 2019 SDGs in Action Film Festival is now open! Coordinated by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ Division for SDGs, the Festival seeks short films that highlight how people and organizations around the world are taking action for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The Festival was launched in 2018 in connection with the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development that takes place each July at UN Headquarters in New York.
The competition offers amateur and professional filmmakers around the globe the chance to submit animated or live-action films up to 20 minutes long that showcase a person or project working on tangible solutions to the world’s biggest threats and making the SDGs our reality.
August 6, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - Ministry of Defence said the 5th round of the joint Sudanese-Egyptian military talks on the level of experts would kick off on Tuesday in Khartoum.
In a statement on Sunday, the Defence Ministry said the Egyptian Army Chief-of-Staff, Lieut.Gen. Mohamed Farid would arrive in Khartoum on Monday evening to take part in the talks.
Head of the Sudanese team to the talks Lieut. Gen. Hisham Abdel-Mutalab Ahmed, pointed to the need to benefit from the accumulated experience of both armies to enhance joint cooperation and exchange of expertise.
For his part, head of the Egyptian side Maj. Gen. Khaled Labib stressed his country’s keenness to promote cooperation with Sudan on all domains.
WASHINGTON — The end of the workweek could come with a big hit to wallets for some drivers who take a chance by breaking the rules to avoid pricey tolls on the Interstate 66 express lanes.
Between 5:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. on the eastbound lanes into D.C., and between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. westbound out of the nation’s capital, drivers looking to take the express lanes for free must have an E-ZPass Flex installed with the HOV button in the “on” position.
Any driver by themselves with the transponder in HOV mode face a hefty citation — so do drivers without an E-ZPass trying to use the lanes.
“Days like Friday, where the police are going to be intensifying their efforts, are very important to our overall enforcement efforts and to making sure that our express lanes run smoothly and effectively for people who are following the rules,” said Michelle Holland with the Virginia Department of Transportation.
The fines range from $125 for the first time, $250 for the second, $500 for the third time and $1,000 for a fourth-time offender.
The enforcement comes just ahead of the first-year anniversary of the toll lanes, which is Dec. 4.
PITTSBURGH -- In a series filled with eye-popping stats, two specific ones may determine the Penguins' fate. In a battle of 5-on-5 play versus special teams, the Penguins are slowly regaining an edge, and it's helped them stay alive the past two games.
Coach Dan Bylsma figured special teams would play a large role in the series, as is typical this time of year. But no one could have projected how large a role it's become. The Flyers have dominated special teams thanks to their blistering power play and a few opportunistic shorthanded goals.
But the Penguins have taken control of play at even strength. The Flyers have scored just 10 of their 25 goals at even strength and haven't scored an even-strength goal in the past six periods. They're at odds to describe how much danger they're in.
"Five-on-five we're getting badly out-played and badly outscored," Scott Hartnell said.
Max Talbot disagreed, brushing the notion aside with his trademark wit.
"I didn't know that, so I'm not that frustrated about it," he said.
Whatever the Flyers' feelings are on the subject, the disparity is quickly becoming a element to a series that has gone from a potential Flyers sweep to the very real possibility of a Game 7.
"We finally got what looks like a playoff game," Bylsma said Friday night.
With that new look to the series, the Penguins also are gaining confidence. If they stay out of the box, the Pens feel they're a team that can be in control of a game. Bylsma said they have the resume to back that feeling up.
"I think we've been a good team with leads, a good team 5-on-5, a good team in third periods throughout the year," Bylsma said. "I thought the last two games, and tonight in particular, the way we battled and played on the defensive side of the puck, it was evident.
-- With Paul Martin out, Dan Bylsma went with seven defensemen again Friday night. But where the Penguins spread the minutes around evenly in Game 4's 10-3 win, Deryk Engelland, Brian Strait, and Simon Despres were used considerably less in Game 5. The Penguins' top four defensemen -- Kris Letang, Brooks Orpik, Zbynek ...
-- A series in which five goals in a period has been the norm, Friday night's combined five goals in the Penguins' 3-2 win was rather tame. Still, Penguins veteran LW Steve Sullivan doesn't rule out a return of run-and-gun the rest of the way. "We still expect the unexpected," Penguins LW Steve Sullivan said. "We're no...
-- The NHL confirmed their will be no disciplinary hearing for C Evgeni Malkin. The presumptive MVP took a interference penalty in the second period with a questionable hit on Philadelphia C Sean Couturier. It was the second straight game the Flyers have accused Malkin of dirty play. "Just be patient and play my game,"...
-- The 25-game suspension levied against Phoenix F Raffi Torres on Chicago's Marian Hossa was a hot topic of conversation among the Penguins on Saturday. Said Penguins C Jordan Staal: "You don't want to see those hits in the game. We have to find a way to keep those hits out of the game."
-- It lasted all of eight seconds, but the Penguins may have found a secret weapon to their penalty kill: Sidney Crosby. Desperately in need of a faceoff win in their own zone toward the end of a third period penalty to Tyler Kennedy, the Penguins had Crosby on the ice. He won the faceoff and the Penguins cleared the p...
-- The team to score the first goal in all five games this series has gone on to lose the game.
Times Sports Staff writer Chris Bradford contributed to this report.
When Tyler Thiessen bought a house in Morris about 30 minutes south of Winnipeg, a high priority was replacing the original 1960s kitchen cabinets and countertops.
His parents and grandparents suggested he check out Fehr’s Cabinet Warehouse, which they had each used for their own kitchen renovations.
Thiessen did, and he was impressed when Fehr’s quickly came on-site to do measurements and then provided some excellent suggestions on kitchen layout, cabinet and countertop options.
“It’s been great throughout the entire process. And the price was really reasonable, too,” he adds.
Thiessen also found out from company owner Henry Fehr that he was actually the fourth generation of the Thiessen family to use Fehr’s, as his great grandfather had also done so many years ago.
“That was really cool to know, being the fourth generation,” he says.
Fehr’s Cabinet Warehouse has been serving customers for 25 years, and has one of the province’s largest showrooms and warehouse stock at its Morris location.
Henry Fehr says they use quality wood cabinetry made in Manitoba by Decor and Norcraft, two of the premier custom manufactured cabinetmakers in North America.

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