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Temple of Promise
Dreamers Guild
A Temple’s purpose is to provide a safe space where the diverse and essential needs of the soul can take root and grow or surrender and find solace. This year, the Temple of Promise welcomes participants through an archway soaring 97 feet overhead. Once inside, the structure curves in on itself, tapering in width and height down to just 7 feet tall. Along the way, alcoves formed by the supporting arches, as well as wooden sculptures reminiscent of stones in a stream, create altars and semi-private spaces for individuals and smaller gatherings. The lines of the curved wooden walls draw the eye inward and create a canvas for written messages and mementos. As the path continues to curve, it opens into the contemplative altar and the heart of the Temple: a grove of three sculpted trees. The branches are initially bare. Participants will write messages on long strips of cloth and attach them to the trees, creating the gentle shade of Weeping Willows, increasing as the week progresses.
Forgive the blurred picture please....I shall try tomorrow again....
This is devoted to sweet Madhu, coz I promised....
To the point:
-> beige sleeveless, woolen dress, worn as a skirt: Orsay
-> short sleeve cotton mix blouse (from the twin set)
-> cotton mix cardigan (from the twin set )
-> cotton mix ,light brown twin set: from a local "no name" shop, where I sometimes
find nice, good quality & low priced items. The cost of the set was €20
-> the very long belt of the skirt ending in two, small pon - pons, worn as a neck
warmer, twisted around 4 times
-> boots ( Zara): NO comments...but there is hope...Sping is here...I will simply
HAVE TO wear other shoes...
-> big, brown, leather, croissant bag: Mexx (one of the many considerate presents
from him to me, bought last autumn )
-> light beige, textured tights: H&M
-> hair: freshly washed, wrapped in an Ikea towel.
I also wore my wooden bangle of course before leaving...and dried my hair ; )
Update of update: after having felt silly & rather discouraged by the first comment, for appearing with my hair wrapped in a towel, I took the head down....but to be honest, I love these moments when " wearing" a towel. I also consider styling to be an issue that doesn't start only when we put on clothes on and do our hair ( I don't mention make up, as other than mascara, it's not used by me, despite the so many imperfections)
but a way of approaching every moment in life.
Moreover, as one of the group rules is to either appear headless or wear a hat, I see nothing wrong in a litttle bit of a creative approach and replacing a hat with a turban - towel.
Finally, it seems that some friends here would like to have the original version, so here it is!
Broken promises and sad goodbyes you
left me standing all alone with tears in the
well of my eyes.
In the blink of an eye, you turned your back
and walked away;
often I wonder if I'm the reason ..........
- By LaKandace Harris
On our way back from CZ we drive two days, because the cars are not fast... So we stayed the night near Leipzig, in a small village. Walking just a small bit through the street to reach a restaurant, we saw an opened garage door with a Wartburg 353 inside. The owner was working in the garden, and we talked for a bit. We promised to return after having dinner.
When he found out we were car enthusiasts, he said: "It's Thursday evening. Usually this night I'm with car friends, but now I'm preparing my holiday. If you want, I can bring you to them for some more car talk." It was very close he said, but "you don't walk to a car meet". So we sat down in the Wartburg for a drive a few streets down.
There we found a bunch of guys eating fast food, surrounded by their cars, motorbikes and lots of parts. We learnt that this town is home to the largest annual Barkas-meeting, and we sat down with the former and current organizers.
With some beers in our hands we also heard that there's a DDR museum in town. "We'll visit that later, we have to leave tomorrow morning". That was not an option. The owner of the museum was called and we were told that we would leave for the museum in half an hour. Sure!
Flower buds are like the promise of beauty. Each one hold so much potential, just like each of us. I see these buds and know there is a promise of more beauty to come. I hope to reach my potential and help others reach theirs too.
A documentary film by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson.
Caption: Idris and Seun.
Credit: Michèle Stephenson.
PBS Air date: Monday, February 3, 2014 at 10pm (check local listings)
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New sports complex promises more room to practice
By Ambria Hammel | March 1, 2010 | The Catholic Sun
Home-field advantage will soon take on a whole new meaning for the Brophy Broncos.
The school’s new $5.2 million sports campus — which boasts separate practice and playing fields, a running track and a host of other amenities not offered in Bronco history — is nearly complete.
Construction workers are laying down the track, installing bleachers for some 800 fans and taking care of other finishing touches in time for an early April opening. They’ve been transforming the nine-acre campus from a rundown apartment complex to a multi-use sports haven for two years.
Its strategic location on the southwest corner of Seventh Street and Camelback Road sandwiches the sports campus between Brophy and Xavier College Preparatory. Commuters will see students from both schools using it daily for physical education classes.
Soccer teams from both schools will claim the artificial field as home turf each winter. The athletes broke in the natural grass field as a practice area when it opened in December. The lacrosse team is using it now.
“It’s a beautiful, huge, open space,” said Ben Anderson, captain of the varsity soccer team. Although Anderson didn’t get to use the playing field, he’s glad that the top-quality facilities finally mirror Bronco agility.
Marc Kelly, his coach and a 1987 Brophy grad, agreed.
“It’s a 21st-century facility that will honor the athleticism these guys have shown,” Kelly said.
The soccer team won state championships in 2008 and frequently fares well in league and division matches. Brophy football and lacrosse earned the state title in 2007 among other awards in its trophy case.
Kelly expects faster, more accurate play when the sports campus opens.
He also foresees fewer rained-out games thanks to a drainage system on the artificial field and wouldn’t be surprised if other schools ask to use the field to avoid cancellations.
Kelly also looks forward to holding simultaneous practice drills and speed training at the new sports campus. Loyola Field, Brophy’s sole practice field for all levels of play in four different sports — plus intramurals — rarely provided adequate space.
By the time spring sports teams hit the field, the trampled grass often became dirt and divots that bordered on unsafe, said Bob Ryan, principal. He’s happy that the sports complex will eliminate such problems.
It will allow for better scheduling opportunities too, he said.
Limited space made early morning and evening practices necessary. Pile that on top of long commutes for athletes hailing from Ahwatukee, New River and the far West Valley, and that made for long days.
Freshmen football resorted to 6 a.m. practices. Other athletes were bused daily to a school-owned practice facility at 20th Street and Campbell Avenue for practices, returning to campus around dinnertime.
“It’s going to cut down on travel so they can spend more time on homework,” Ryan said of the sports complex.
Other logistics problems will vanish too. The sports complex has team locker rooms, equipment storage and maintenance areas and restrooms.
Jeff Glosser, Brophy’s assistant principal for activities, estimated that nearly 900 students would regularly use the sports campus.
Once fully open, it will bring the track and field team home. The athletes had been running up and down Central Avenue for training and using the track at nearby Central High School for meets. The runners will soon use the new eight-lane, Olympic-sized track surrounding the artificial turf field.
The north end will feature other dedicated competition areas including long jump and shot put.
Varsity football games will remain at Phoenix College to better accommodate fans, when its season resumes in the fall.
Brophy administrators are planning a formal dedication of the sports campus April 15.
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Promise Fulfilled, Accomplishment Achieved at WSSU Commencement on May 14
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- For Jeanette Valentine, earning her bachelor’s degree in business administration will be fulfilling on many levels.
Valentine, 50, is one of the approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students who are expected to participate in WSSU’s Spring Commencement exercises on May 14 at 9:45 a.m. in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Stephen A. Smith, noted journalist, media personality and motivational speaker, will be the keynote speaker.
Commencement will mark a special satisfaction not just because Valentine, a travel audit officer in WSSU’s accounting department, will be graduating with her 24-year-old son William R. Valentine. It’s because of a long-time promise fulfilled. Valentine made the promise to her mother back in 1978. Her mother and father never graduated from high school. When Valentine’s mother, who was battling cancer, asked her to promise she would graduate college, Valentine did. Valentine’s mother died two weeks before she graduated high school. Valentine was devastated over losing her mother.
“I started school at WSSU that year, but it lasted only one semester. I didn’t have the drive. I was still too distressed and overcome by my mother’s death. I couldn’t focus on school,” Valentine said.
Instead, Valentine got married, had two children and eventually went to work at a few jobs before coming to work at WSSU in 2006. In 2007, she decided to return to school since her children were adults. At the same time, her son who graduated high school in 2004 was thinking about returning to college after quitting previously. By fall 2007, both with full-time jobs returned to school at WSSU. He was an exercise science major and she was in the School of Business and Economics.
“He was so career focused on his job and he was doing well. But I kept pushing him and telling him he had to get a degree. I was thrilled he came back to school and that we were in school at the same time. It was exciting,” said Valentine.
Eventually Valentine saw her son was distracted by work. They talked and it was he who asked they agree to push each other so they could graduate at the same time.
That time is now. Valentine is thrilled they are graduating together. She says it feels like she has kept the promise made to her mother times two.
“In addition to the accomplishment, it may be quite an emotional day,” Valentine said.
Valentine is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society for collegiate schools of business as well as Alpha Sigma Lambda, a national honor society for Adult Learners in Continuing Higher Education. She plans to pursue her master’s degree at Liberty University.
Extraordinary Journey
It will be a festive ending to an extraordinary journey for Jerrica Scott, 24, of Winston-Salem. For Scott, commencement will symbolize the end of a passage marked by limitations, fear and uncertainty. It will be a celebration of a personal renaissance, driven by a theme that anything is possible with faith, passion and purpose.
“No matter how bad things may look, you can make a difference in your own life and the lives of others if you work really hard and know things can change. Soon things may look different, then not so bad, better, even good.”
Scott’s journey is verification of her belief. She entered WSSU to earn a four-year bachelor’s degree in elementary education six years ago as a single teen-aged mom. During that time as a full-time student, living on her own with her young daughter, she worked full-time, changed majors multiple times, quit school, got married, had another child, returned to school, made up a semester of credits lost when she quit and found her way back to the major that gave her the purpose.
“Just before I started my freshman year, I could hear people saying now that I had a baby as a teenager, my life was over or I wouldn’t get very far,” noted Scott. “Because I got pregnant in high school and had a baby in my first year of college, it didn’t mean I would be a failure. I did not want to be the stereotype of a young single mom who would work only at fast food restaurants or be on welfare the rest of her life.”
Although Scott was determined, she became distracted during her second year.
“I was failing classes miserably. I was living on my own and I was 18 years old. I felt lost and beaten, so I quit school,” Scott said who worked as a waitress. “Then one day, my manager told me the biggest thing he regretted was not finishing school. So if you don’t want to be waiting tables for the rest of your life, you need to go back to school. “
That was the turning point for Scott. She also thought about her mother, a cosmetologist, who always stressed the importance of education and often expressed interest in wanting her children to be greater than she. Scott soon quit her job and returned to school. Her best friend and others helped her find her way back to the major that aligned with where her talents and passions had always been -- elementary education.
“My best friend told me this is what I suppose to be doing. She told me we are going over there right now and you are going to get enrolled back into school. I just thank her,” said Scott.
Then she met a good man who cared about her and her daughter. It was like an unattainable dream. They soon married. Her second daughter was born in 2010. Now in school and completely focused on her education, Scott delivered the baby on a Friday and returned class on Monday.
Scott is currently working as a substitute teacher and searching for a fulltime permanent teaching job. She is also going to be the “first in my family to graduate college.”
Multiple Job Offers Early in Her Senior Year
Information technology major Kristen Dunlap, 21, of Charlotte, has accomplished a standout achievement, even before she completed her last year of college. In this challenging economy, she had two job offers from Fortune 500 companies one before her senior year, the other early in her senior year. She selected one position which she will begin this summer.
Dunlap attributes her success to internships, which she began participating in back in her freshman year. That first one was a summer research experience for undergraduate WSSU computer science students at WSSU, funded by NASA. She used, GIS visualization tools to visualize North Carolina weather patterns. The goal of the summer program was to expose students to researching skills and help to develop their problem solving and critical thinking skills.
For her second year, Dunlap interned at the NASA Langley, Va., facility where she worked as a liaison between the technology and client teams for the database tracking system used to manage NASA’s contractual projects.
For summer 2010, she was an intern at Altria Client Services in Richmond ,Va., where she worked on data archiving to consolidate previous and current information to migrate to a new system.
“You can never underestimate the value of internships. I started utilizing the WSSU Career Services office in my second year. My parents always told me to be aggressive at seeking job opportunities. I didn’t want to be a person to work hard for four years and have no job in the end,” Dunlap said.
She will start her new job at Altria Client Services as an IT assistant analyst.
The Entertainment Mogul
Erikka Rainey, 22, of Philadelphia wants to be a female Sean “P-Diddy” Combs. In fact, she has wanted to be an entertainment mogul from a very young age. As a child, she dabbled in music and even took classes, but by age 14, she knew wholeheartedly that she wanted to be on the business side of the music industry.
“When I first learned about P-Diddy, I knew that was where I wanted my future to be,” said Rainey. “I look up to P- Diddy because I’m working to be the first female to start a record label, then restaurants, clothing lines and television shows.”
When she sees a famous entertainer, she wonders what sort of things they did in their career to get famous. If not famous, she wonders what it would take to make them famous. While at WSSU she jumped at every opportunity to market and promote musical artists and events. She worked with Hidden Beach Recordings to promote events for a new CD. She passed out flyers and did social media and internet marketing for jazz artist Monette Sudler of Philadelphia this past summer.
“If there’s one thing I live by, it’s take advantage of all opportunities. Don’t close yourself off to anything. You never know what you will learn that can be the key to your future,” Rainey said.
An honor student, Rainey will be attending New York University’s (NYU) music business program in the fall. She plans to maintain at least one home in New York City after graduate school when her career kicks off.
As always NEoN celebrates its festival with a late night party. Acts include Plastique Fantastique, Verity Brit & Musician U, Fallope & The Tubes and Resident DJ RHL. With a pop up bar and performances amongst our large group exhibition the vast factory space West Ward Works, this night promises to be a visual audible delight.
Plastique Fantastique (UK)
A performance fiction envisaged as a group of human and non-human avatars delivering communiqués from the past and the future. The communiqués are channelled through installations, writing, comics and sound and moving image work and performances, addressing technology, popular and mass media and sacred cultures and also human-machine animals and non-human entities and agents. Over several years, numerous people have produced Plastique Fantastique but there is also a core group producing the performance fiction. Plastique Fantastique was first presented by David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan and developed with long-term collaborators Alex Marzeta and Vanessa Page, and more recently with Mark Jackson. For NE0N 2017, this group will call forth and trap a bit-coin-fairy-spirit to ask it seems questions. The performance – Plastique Fantastique Protocols for the Society for Cutting Up Mun-knee-snakers (S.C.U.M.): I-Valerie-Solaris-AKA-@32ACP-Amazon.co.uk-recommends-‘Pacific-Rim’ may/may-not shoot b1t-c0in-f@iry-sp1r1t) – uses drone-folk-songs, moving image projection, reliquaries and ritual to manifest the block-chain-spirit.
David Burrows, Alex Marzeta, Vanessa Page and Mark Jackson will be performing.
Rites of the Zeitgeber, Verity Brit & Musician ‘U’ (UK)
9 channel video installation, live score performed by musician ‘U’
The Zeitgeber (‘time giver’ or ‘synchroniser’) is honoured by a triadic henge of stacked CRT monitors in which past durations collide with future vacuums. Strange extra-terrestrial topographies are traversed across geological time and the internet. Curious substances are unearthed and lost languages resurrected. Fragments from Mina Loy, J. G. Ballard and Henri Bergson emerge amongst an archaeology of media from Super 8, VHS, to HD. Time bends from matter, history is up-set and the clock is obsolete.
Verity Birt an artist based in London. She studied an MA in Moving Image at the Royal College of Art (2013–2015) and BA in Art Practice at Goldsmiths University of London (2008–2011). She is involved with collaborative research groups; The Future is a Collective Project, Reconfiguring Ruins and a founding member of women artists collective Altai. This summer, Verity was artist in residence at BALTIC and The Newbridge Project in Newcastle. Previous exhibitions include: Our House of Common Weeds; Res. Gallery, London (2017); Relics from the De-crypt | Gossamer Fog Gallery London (2017), Altai in Residence, Experiments in Collective Practice, Dyson Gallery, London (2017); Chemhex Extract, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen (2016); Feeling Safer, IMT Gallery, London and Gallery North, New York (2016); Come to Dust, Generator Projects, Dundee (2016)
Fallopé & The Tubes (UK)
A weirdo-punk performance band. Each live show features live humans! film and visuals! costumes! sculpture! visual props! and music/a sequence of sounds!
Fallopé and The Tubes is a fluctuating live musical and performative event with contributions from Sarah Messenger, Ruby Pester, Nadia Rossi, Rachel Walker, Catherine Weir, Emma McIntyre and Skye Renee Foley. The group are made up of Scottish based artists and musicians that are also filmmakers, festival organisers, librarians, boatbuilders and more who work collaboratively to devise live performances. Drawing influence from a wide range of fringe and mainstream musical genres, exploring sexuality, elements of social satire, self promotion and leftist political ideologies.
The group was established in January 2014 at Insriach Bothy, Aviemore and have developed their practice during numerous residency experiences across Scotland. By living and working together ‘off grid’ the group have developed experimental techniques to create a collective energy. Fallopé & The Tubes draw influence from a wide range of fringe and mainstream musical genres, as well as sexuality, elements of social satire and self promotion and leftist political ideologies. Soakin Records
DJ RHL (UK)
Resident NEoN DJ has been entertaining us since 2010. Djing for about 25 years, he predominately plays Techno but you often find him playing anything dance music related. Spinning old school vinyl sets containing an eclectic mix of old and new stuff. RHL just likes making people dance. Check here for past performances.
Accompanying DJ RHL is ‘The Wanderer‘ aka Naomi Lamb. Naomi works layers of diverse video loops into an ever evolving collage colours textures and shape and intuitively mixies visuals live. She improvises, freestyles and channels the room, customising the ephemeral moving collage in response to the tone of the happening.
For the past 20 years Naomi has been a prolific live video art performer utilising techniques and process that is often associated with the ever growing subculture of VJing and presents under the name of ‘The Wander’. Naomi has an intimate knowledge of not only the process of live video performance but also an wide reaching connections within the VJ community and has performed at many of the leading outdoor music and art festivals in New Zealand with a debut at two English Festivals this summer and she is super please for her first time mixing it up in Scotland to be at NEoN. “
AGK Booth
Yuck ’n Yum hereby invites you to attend the Annual General Karaoke booth at this year’s NEoN at Night. The AGK is a fiercely contested karaoke video competition, getting creative types to make videos that will shock, delight and confound its audience. First staged back in 2010, over the years the AGK has built up a sizeable back catalogue of singalong anthems encompassing everything from pop classics to the most extreme avant garde out there. Now Yuck ’n Yum will bring the AGK archive to NEoN revellers in an audiovisual extravaganza that will overturn everything you ever thought you knew about karaoke convention. This November, Yuck ’n Yum together with NEoN are making a song and dance about it.
About the Artists Yuck ‘n Yum is a curatorial collective formed in Dundee 2008. Until 2013 its main raison d’etre was to make zines and distribute art. The AGK booth is the first of three projects that will kick start a period of activity after a couple of years of hibernation.
Yuck ‘n Yum are Andrew Maclean, Gayle Meikle, Ben Robinson, Alexandra Ross, Alex Tobin, Becca Clark and Morgan Cahn.
WEST WARD WORKS
Guthrie Street
DD1 5BR
Images: Kathryn Rattray Photography
I sat here and wished for you to dance across the diamonds bright
I watched until the lonely day, turned into lonely night
My heart sore cried, I can't go on, this waitng bleeds my soul to dry
I heard the water softly whisper, as the breezes gently sighed
And, I waited.
You promised that you would come back, into my open arms and then
We'd dance together 'cross the light through every road, past every bend
Our hearts, they two, would beat as one, our spirits soar to heavenly heights
I look for you, your face is gone, my heart has lost all fight
I want to turn and run
Its lonely here beside the stream, and I am one as in a dream
but dreams they never do come true, and I wait now, but, not for you
I wait to see the end of day, the dancing light to darkness turn
and wonder where the fire went, the raging blaze that in us burned,
and I cry.
Here is your hand. You are but three weeks old. My hand is much older but I am touched by yours.
This is my promise. I know I am not perfect, but having you makes me strive to be more so. You are my daughter, uncontaminated and pure. It is my job as a parent, and as a father to watch over you, and when the time is right, to let you go. But not yet. Right now I just want to hold your hand.
Andy Coco (one of my dj's in Yes FM Cdeo) and his wife to be.
Taken in Midway, Initao, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
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Teachers in the Gulfton and Sharpstown neighborhoods came together August 17 to meet each other and become inspired by a community movement. The Gulfton Promise Neighborhood is a collaboration of community partners and schools who are working together to make education a priority in this community – this event will honor the teachers that have a front row seat to making this happen. A special guest, the City of Houston Mayor Annise Parker, shared the message of ‘Houston’s Promise’.
I never promised .. you a ray of light
I never promised .. there'd be sunshine everyday
I give you everything I have >the good ,, the bad<
~Tutor-girl's Halo song
Ese día fue maravilloso, lo pasamos super *_* amigas las amo en serio ♥
Esperando solo el tiempo dira que sucedera, prima estoycontigo y te mando todas mis fuerzas te amo hasta el infinito :c Espero ya no sufras más u,u </3
Tengo tu antidoto pal que no tiene identidad, somos identicos pal que llego sin avisar vengo tranquilito para los que ya no estan para los que estan & los que vienen ♫
Pal norte .- Calle 13 :L
Rene Perez Residente ♥ iloyiu ♥
when looking
forward
or looking back
are there times
when you doubted
were there
moments when
you couldn't
see the reason
or imagine
the outcome
trying to
justify the
pain
or push
through
the stress
in a hearbeat
it can all
be revealed
there is hope
a promise
of change
of growth
of joy
patience is
required
for time is
not something
we command
just hang on
hold on
and know that
the promise
is unspoken
Lemony, "Feels so goooood to get off my little feet!"
Miss Carousella, "Oh look ...another dolly pram full of dollies! Even a cabbage patch doll and cookie monster too!"
New Girl, "I haven't a name yet! Maybe call me Katy Perry - I'll melt your popsicle ...hehe!
Please welcome another new girl! She is a Simply Lilac custom with a dyed scalp. Love her little teeth!
A real antique doll buggy! It is a Wyandotte early pressed steel toy baby doll carriage 1930s
Yes, I still have a few more pics from when the girls were all dressed to model shop dresses. Why not - it was a lot of work dressing them all! :)
Carly Fiorina (born Cara Carleton Sneed; September 6, 1954) is a former business executive who is actively seeking the Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States. Starting in 1980, Fiorina rose through the ranks to become an executive at AT&T and its equipment and technology spinoff, Lucent. As chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1999 to 2005, she was the first woman to lead one of the top twenty U.S. companies.
In 2002, Fiorina pushed through the biggest high-tech merger in history with rival computer company Compaq, which made HP the world's largest personal computer manufacturer. HP gained market share following the merger and subsequently laid off 30,000 of its American workers. Fiorina famously said to Congress in 2004: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs as a nation." By the end of 2005, the merged company had more employees worldwide than they had separately before the merger.
On February 9, 2005, in the wake of the controversial Compaq merger, and following a 65% drop in the HP stock price, Fiorina was forced to resign as chief executive officer and chairman of Hewlett-Packard in what she described as being "fired in a boardroom brawl". Since then, she has served on the boards of a number of other organizations.
Assessments of Fiorina's business career have varied. During her time at Lucent and Hewlett-Packard she was named by Fortune Magazine the most powerful woman in business. However, two days before her ousting from HP, Fortune described her merger plan as "failing" and the prognosis as "doubtful". She has been described as one of the worst tech CEOs of all time, though others have defended her leadership decisions and business reputation.
Fiorina served as an advisor to Republican John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. She won a three-way race for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate from California in 2010, but lost the general election to incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer. On May 4, 2015, Fiorina announced on Good Morning America that she is running for President of the United States in 2016.
Welcome to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference
May 21-23 promises to be a rendezvous with destiny in Oklahoma City. The unofficial start of the 2016 Republican Presidential campaign begins here, in the new energy capital of America!
The 2016 election will be one of the most important in our lifetime. The choices we make in the next two years will define America for the next 50 years.
On behalf of the Oklahoma Republican Party and the entire SRLC Committee, please join us as we begin our shared Republican journey towards capturing the White House and renewing our nation.
It is our distinct privilege to invite you to attend the 2015 Southern Republican Leadership Conference, to be held at the Cox Convention Center and Downtown Oklahoma City Renaissance Convention Center Hotel on May 21-23, 2015. We hope you will join us!
The SRLC has a star-studded history as one of the premier conferences for all Republicans and conservative activists. This year we anticipate 50 speakers, break-out sessions with energy, utility and manufacturing opinion leaders, and 75 partnering organizations. In addition, we are hosting the largest regional presidential straw poll of the year.
We look forward to your participation in this historic conference as we energize the Grand Old Party and America together!
SRLC 2015 Committee
It took me a while to figure out how to capture something new with the distant lighthouse on Alcatraz. But with the square masted Balclutha promising the freedom of the seas I found it.
I remember being told the story of Noah's ark, the rainbow, and how that was God's promise to Noah (and, well, creation). I think I've never really separated God/rainbows in my head. I can't see them as just a natural phenomenon, water and light...
On Tuesday, March 18, 1969, Joan Hill, a 38-year-old Houston, Texas, socialite, became violently ill for no readily apparent reason. Her husband, Dr. John Hill, at first indifferent, later drove her at a leisurely pace several miles to a hospital in which he had a financial interest, passing many other medical facilities on the way. When checked by admitting physicians, Joan's blood pressure was dangerously low, 60/40. Attempts to stabilize her failed and the next morning she died. The cause of death was uncertain. Some thought pancreatitis; others opted for hepatitis.
Joan's father, Ash Robinson, a crusty and extremely wealthy oilman, remained convinced that his daughter had been murdered. Neither was he reticent about naming the culprit: John Hill. When, just three months after Joan's death, Hill married long-time lover Ann Kurth, Robinson threw thousands of dollars into a crusade to persuade the authorities that his son-in-law was a killer. Noted pathologist Dr. Milton Helpern, hired to conduct a second autopsy, cautiously volunteered his opinion that Joan Hill might have been poisoned.
Under Robinson's relentless badgering, prosecutors scoured legal textbooks, searching for a way to indict Hill. They came up with the extremely rare charge of "murder by omission," in effect, killing someone by deliberate neglect. Assistance came in the unexpected form of Ann Kurth. Hill had ditched her after just nine months of marriage. What Kurth told the district attorney bolstered their decision to indict Hill.
Jury selection began on February 15, 1971. Because of the defendant's undeniably handsome appearance, Assistant District Attorney I.D. McMaster aimed for a predominantly male, middle-class panel, one he thought likely to frown on a wealthy philandering physician. His opponent, chief defense counsel Richard Haynes, quite naturally did his best to sit jurors that he thought would favor his client. In this first battle McMaster emerged a clear victor, securing a jury made up of eleven men and one woman. Haynes wasn't that perturbed. In a long and eventful career he'd overcome bigger obstacles, earning a statewide reputation second to none for tenacity and legal acumen. Not for nothing had he acquired the nickname "Racehorse." It promised to be a memorable contest.
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American politician. He served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and is the younger brother of former President George W. Bush. Jeb Bush is the only Republican, and the third person of any party, to serve two full four-year terms as Governor of Florida.
Bush grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. Following his father's successful run for Vice President in 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until resigning in 1988 to help his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.
In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, narrowly losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and beat Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term Republican Governor. During his eight years as governor, Bush was credited with initiating improvements in the environment, as well as reforming the education system.
Bush has frequently been mentioned by the media as a possible candidate for president in 2016. On December 16, 2014, Bush announced he would explore the possibility of running for President.
Welcome to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference
May 21-23 promises to be a rendezvous with destiny in Oklahoma City. The unofficial start of the 2016 Republican Presidential campaign begins here, in the new energy capital of America!
The 2016 election will be one of the most important in our lifetime. The choices we make in the next two years will define America for the next 50 years.
On behalf of the Oklahoma Republican Party and the entire SRLC Committee, please join us as we begin our shared Republican journey towards capturing the White House and renewing our nation.
It is our distinct privilege to invite you to attend the 2015 Southern Republican Leadership Conference, to be held at the Cox Convention Center and Downtown Oklahoma City Renaissance Convention Center Hotel on May 21-23, 2015. We hope you will join us!
The SRLC has a star-studded history as one of the premier conferences for all Republicans and conservative activists. This year we anticipate 50 speakers, break-out sessions with energy, utility and manufacturing opinion leaders, and 75 partnering organizations. In addition, we are hosting the largest regional presidential straw poll of the year.
We look forward to your participation in this historic conference as we energize the Grand Old Party and America together!
SRLC 2015 Committee
HIstory of Hutchins Street Square:
The cornerstone for the new Lodi Union High School was laid on February 13, 1913 on land purchased from Thomas Hutchins just west of the city limits. As the grand buildings rose, people celebrated the promising future Lodi had with the state-of-the-art educational facility. The campus was opened for classes in the autumn of 1913.
Over the years, more buildings were added. In 1923, Principal William Inch oversaw the construction of the science building, shop, auditorium, and a second story swimming pool in the gymnasium which was called "Inch's Folly." As the decades went by, larger and larger classes of students were using the facility. By the mid 1950s, the campus was too small, and another campus was built on Pacific Avenue. The old campus continued to be used for high school classes. The buildings did not meet state earthquake standards, and in 1974 an arson fire damaged the administration building and set the facility's fate.
After the new Tokay High School opened for classes on September 6, 1977, the old, fire-scarred site just four blocks from downtown was abandoned. Meanwhile, the City Council, which had acquired a five-year option to buy the 10-acre site in June 1975, mulled over the suggestion to build a community center on the prime land. Various civic groups supported the idea, and a council-appointed committee agreed that Lodi needed a community center. A private group of volunteers organized themselves as the Old Lodi Union High School Site Foundation and sought donations. The Foundation lobbied the council to buy the site and promised to repay the city.
On March 6, 1980, the council voted to buy the school grounds from the Lodi Unified School District for $475,000 and set the wheels in motion for the community center that eventually became Hutchins Street Square. A public-private partnership between the City and the Foundation was born. The Foundation was given the responsibility of financing and planning the reconstruction projects, and the City agreed to maintain and operate the center.
The Foundation devised a master plan and began fundraising efforts. Field and Fair Day, an annual Labor Day event, began in 1980 as an all-day affair put on by volunteers to raise money. Work began right away to demolish some of the old buildings which could not be saved. Renovation began on the field and plans were drawn for remodeling the remaining original buildings - the girls and boys gymnasiums, cafeteria, and auditorium. Slowly, over the years, the community center which became known as Hutchins Street Square began to take shape.
In addition to Field and Fair Day, there were many other imaginative fundraising events which have been held to raise money for the renovation of Hutchins Street Square. The first fundraiser, held in 1979, was a play production of “Razamataz or Can a Little Girl from Lodi Make it in Tinsel Town?” performed by Lodi High School graduate Dale Lindholm's theater group from Walnut Creek. Other innovative fund-raisers over the years included a bachelor auction, numerous festive dinner/dances with auctions, the sale of a home built by Bennett & Compton, Inc., the sale of “Ruby”, the City's antique fire truck, the sale of personalized bricks to line a plaza at the Square, and the sale of theater seats inside the new performing arts theater.
The various and imaginative fundraisers held over the next 4 years were effective. In 1984, the Foundation paid off its $475,000 debt to the City of Lodi. Fundraising efforts then concentrated on paying for the facility renovation. Each Field and Fair Day and annual Christmas Dinner/Dance saw new improvements made to the Square including the Fine Arts Facility, rebuilt from the shell of the music building and Kirst Hall, which was the old boys' gymnasium.
Over the years, donations from individuals and corporations have enabled many improvements at the Square. The most notable contribution was $2.4 million dollars from the late William G. Holz, a Lodi industrialist. His gift was used in 1987 to reconstruct the girls' gymnasium into the Senior Complex, which today houses the Adult Day Care for the elderly, and the renovated indoor therapeutic swimming pool on the building's second floor.
By 1996, about $6.5 million had been raised through events and donations and was spent on the square reconstruction. The Square was nearly complete, but one project, the most ambitious undertaking, remained. The project to renovate the 73-year-old auditorium and the cafeteria into a state-of-the-art Performing Arts and Conference Center was slated to cost $10 million.
In order to fund this last project and complete the Square, the Foundation and the Lodi City Council returned to their loan arrangement of nearly 20 years ago. The Council unanimously voted to finance the construction by issuing bonds, and the Foundation will continue fundraising to pay off the debt in the future. F and H Construction began work on the Performing Arts and Conference Center in November 1996. After tearing down the inside of the brick auditorium, it was reconstructed with a 789-seat theatre complete with an orchestral pit, a majestic 65-foot rotunda and multi-purpose meeting rooms with connecting lobbies. The project was finished in April 1998, and the plans were rolled up for the final time. Hutchins Street Square was complete.
From its grandeur in the early days of Lodi as an educational center of town, to neglect and decay, then finally, within a span of 20 years, these former school buildings and its 10-acre site have been reincarnated into the City's crown jewel — the cultural, recreational and business center of town.