Looking for parents who are having issues with teen daughter because she had a baby at an early age. All parties must be willing to talk openly and honestly on national reality television show about problems that have developed in family relationships due to pregnancy. Intent of show is to find solutions to bring the family closer together and help teen mom become a better parent.
Nashville Celtic rock band Molly Ramone will come to West Tennessee on Thursday, May 17, when singer/songwriter Mark Harriman and Joe Khoury will perform at Arts in the Alley in downtown Henderson. Beginning at 6 pm, the event will be hosted by the Henderson Arts Commission in the alley off Main Street beside Frix-Jennings Clinic.
Originally from Leiceister, England, Harriman came to America in 1995 when he signed to Gravelsauce Records. Since then he has established himself as an integral part of the Nashville music scene. Khoury plays lead guitar and mandolin and sings backing vocals. He is a prominent session player and music producer in Nashville.
Regularly featured at both the Opryland Hotel and on Music Row, Molly Ramone has a delightful way of encouraging audiences to join the excitement by clapping or singing along to both traditional Irish ballads and newer Celtic rock music.
Around St. Patricks Day, Molly Ramone released Irish After All, an album with an original song by the same title that was featured on Nashvilles Lightning 100. Harriman currently is working on a new album, The Captain’s Bride, and plans to perform a sneak preview of some of its songs. The albums songs intertwine to tell a story of forbidden love, love deferred and love that stands the test of time.
At each Arts in the Alley, vendors sell work that includes items such as sewn crafts, paintings, wreaths, wood cuttings, altered art crafts, handmade soaps and photography. Vendors confirmed to date include: Tracey Snow of LillyKates with jewelry; Butterfly Vintage and Sunshine Smith with up-cycled vintage accessories and hand-painted decor items; LaVons Timeless Treasures with local painter Barbara Long; and Stajah Lee Hoeflich displaying paintings in a variety of media, including watercolor, oil and acrylic ranging in size from 8×10 to 30×44.
Booth spaces are $15 for non-members and $10 for Henderson Arts Commission members. Membership is $25 annually. The requirement for a having a booth is that the vendor is selling something handmade.
Celebrity grillers will cook hamburgers and hot dogs on site for brown bag specials. The meal includes two hot dogs or a hamburger, chips, drink and dessert for $6. The HAC brown bag special helps offset costs of Arts in the Alley events.
The Henderson Arts Commission exists to recognize, educate, enrich and entertain through the arts in Henderson, Chester County and the surrounding area. Arts in the Alley events are planned for third Thursdays throughout the spring, summer and fall. For more information about the event or becoming a vendor, visit http://www.facebook.com/HendersonArtsCommission or contact Jason Bramblett at jason@bramblettgrp.com or 731-989-8019
Clarion has launched a new flagship in-car audio unit, with new technology tie-ups and an increased emphasis on the high-end audio experience making the CZ702E the standout single DIN solution for 2012.
The CD/USB/MP3/WMA radio with built-in Bluetooth offers a whole host of premium audio features, such as Digital Time Alignment, 5 band parametric equalizer, 24 bit Digital to Analogue Converter, 50W x 4 amplifiers, digital 2 or 3-way crossovers, and 5 volt 6 channel RCA outputs for a far superior system installation.
Despite the prevalence of Bluetooth technology as standard in in-car audio systems purchased on the high street, Clarions new relationship with premium provider Parrot Bluetooth ensures that its supporting units now offer the greatest level of mobile phone compatibility on the market. Maximum hands-free communication via the built-in microphone and multiple phonebook access and unrivalled audio streaming are both possible with the minimum of fuss.
Clarion has also long-since recognised its customers desire and need for fully integrated operation of Apples iconic mobile media device, the iPod. Utilising Clarions solution, lsquo;Simple Control, is made straight-forward by connecting an iPod or iPhone via the USB cable supplied with the device, to allow operation using the iPod/iPhone controls that youre used to using, in addition to control direct through the source unit.
In addition, the ABC Search function lets you list the names of Songs and Artists stored on the device that start with the alphabet letter you choose. This is much more convenient than scrolling through long lists, or having to enter a specific name. Whats more, your iPod or iPhone battery is charged while connected to the source unit, so its ready to go at full power the moment you reach your destination.
In line with an increased use of video via both devices, Clarions CZ702E will also support playback of MP4 file formats with the optional addition of a CCA750 cable and external monitor.
With a host of in-car audio lsquo;firsts behind it, Clarion has crammed all its expertise in sound reproduction techniques into the top of the range single DIN showpiece.
Digital Time Alignment ensures the sound from each speaker reaches the listener at the same time, for perfect sound imaging, whilst the digital 2 or 3-way crossover guarantees that each speaker receives an optimised signal.
Built-in high pass and low pass filters and Beat EQ pre-sets (BASS BOOST, IMPACT and EXCITE) allow greater customisation and with separate subwoofer volume control, the impressive 4 x 50 Watt internal amplifier is put to good use.
With analogue radios date of demise in the UK remaining a hot topic for debate, Clarion has at least ensured its top of the range audio head unit is DAB ready, with the optional addition of a DAB302E hide-away receiver allowing access to DAB/DAB+/DMB-A radio stations.
With 29% of all radio listening now done via digital platforms, and digital-only stations accounting for almost 25% of all digital listening, Clarions CZ702E features a host of methods to search for an expanding list of exclusive channels, as well as further helpful features and functions designed to maximise enjoyment.
Embracing style as well as substance, the CZ702E benefits from a fresh design impetus for 2012; featuring a large rotary volume control, a white LCD display (13 segment 10 x 2 Line), piano black fascia and variable 728 colour button and display illumination, allowing for a more seamless integration into any dashboard configuration.
The CZ702E and DAB302E hide-away receiver will be available from April via Clarions dedicated network of appointed dealers, priced at RRP pound;229 and pound;149 respectively.
For full details, visit clarion.co.uk.
The Private Club world has changed in the last decade and these improvements will enhance the enjoyment for our members and guests.
Central Bank of Lake of the Ozarks has always given back to the community. Every year they allow 15 to 18 employees the day off work (with pay) to participate in the Shoreline Cleanup.
Qamp;A with John Porth of Central Bank
How important is this event to the community?
Very important. Not only is it important to keep the lake clean for our personal enjoyment, but also because most of us make our livelihood of the lake. If we dont take care of this natural resource, the tourist will quit coming to the lake.
How important is this event to you?
Very important. Again, we need to be good stewards of our planet. Only by taking care of these natural resources can we give our children and grandchildren the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors like we do.
When you worked Shoreline Cleanup 5 years ago what were you finding in the lake?
Refrigerators, waverunners, large piece of docks, boat motors. One year we found a gun.
Compared to now?
The lake is much cleaner today. We dont see close to the amount of dock foam. I feel the encapsulated foam has made a huge difference in the amount of trash we find in the lake.
Are residents and visitors taking more pride in the cleanliness of the lake?
Absolutely. Not only are we finding that the lake shoreline is being better taken care of, we also have many residences come out of their house and thank us for what we are doing.
Qamp;A with Joe Loth of Central Bank
How important is this event to the community?
It is very important! The lake is the biggest asset to the lake area in general.
How important is this event to you?
I spend a lot of time on the lake with my family. It is important that the lake looks the best it can and clean for everyone to use.
When you worked Shoreline Cleanup 5 years ago what were you finding in the lake?
A lot of foam and a moderate amount of trash.
Compared to now?
With the foam being required to be encapsulation, it has made a huge difference.
Are residents and visitors taking more pride in the cleanliness of the lake?
Yes, and you can tell. Residents appear to be taking pride in their lakefront ownership.
Qamp;A with Brian Vance of Ameren
How important is this event to the community?
This sets the tone for the boating season. Great to start the season with a clean lake.
How important is this event to you?
Very. It is the most fun you can have in the Spring.
When you worked Shoreline Cleanup 5 years ago what were you finding in the lake?
Discarded dock flotation.
Compared to now?
Much cleaner, water bottles, soda cans, etc.
Are residents and visitors taking more pride in the cleanliness of the lake?
Yes. It is important for the economy to have a clean and healthy lake.
Assembly member Amy R. Paulin (D-88th AD), chair of the Children and Families Committee, is introducing The Child-Parent Security Act to update New York law to make it easier to establish parentage in cases of assisted reproductive technology.
It will allow gestational carrier agreements, contracts which are currently unenforceable in New York.
“Allowing gestational surrogacy will give hope and opportunity to women and men facing the heartbreak of infertility,” said Paulin.
“The bill also includes a process for obtaining a ‘Judgment of Parentage’ to be issued prior to birth which would allow hospitals to put the intended parents’ names on the child’s birth certificate – instead of having to go to court after the fact, Paulin said. New York State should remain on the forefront of this groundbreaking issue that supports families, both medically and legally.”
Bronxville resident Marisa Horowitz-Jaffe knows the trauma of infertility firsthand.
After a diagnosis of unexplained infertility, numerous IVF cycles and multiple heart-wrenching miscarriages, Horowitz-Jaffe and her husband, Douglas, turned to gestational carriers in Colorado and Texas. Today they are the proud parents of twins after transferring their embryos to a gestational carrier in Texas.
“We were so lucky to find a gestational carrier to help us, Ms. Horowitz-Jaffe said. There is no reason for gestational surrogacy to be outlawed in New York, since it puts an even heavier strain on individuals facing infertility who already have numerous health, emotional, and financial concerns to surmount.
Allowing gestational carriers in New York State will not cost the state any taxpayer funds, but instead will bring in revenue to fertility clinics and doctors, she stated. Why not keep in New York the money that is currently going out of state to places like Dallas and Denver, while making it easier for infertile couples to find solutions?”
The new bill will bring New York law up to speed with medical technology.
Denise Seidelman, a resident of New Rochelle, spoke on behalf of New York Attorneys for Adoption and Family Formation, the legal advocacy group which assisted Assemblywoman Paulin in drafting the bill.
“The Child Parent Security Act of 2012 will provide clear and decisive legal procedures to ensure that each child’s relationship to his or her parent(s) is legally recognized, Seidelman said. Medical advances now provide virtually miraculous family building opportunities for parents who would otherwise be unable to conceive a child but in many instances, parentage created through these medical advances is not recognized under current law. The new legal procedures will take into consideration the best interests of the children and the need for clarity and stability in family relationships.”
-Contributed by the Office of Amy Paulin.
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has decided to shut down its Community School of the Arts, a year-round, 33-year-old institution bringing high-level instruction to students of all ages in the visual and performing arts, Kindermusik and Chinese language instruction.
Leslie J. Mangiamele, school director for 18 years and an adjunct professor of visual art in UALRs art department, said the program will end Aug. 15, after its Summer Arts Camp and Summer String Camp end.
The problem is the bottom line, Mangiamele said. The dean could not see a way around not cutting our salaries. She said the school has been under threat of closure for several years, but survived an attempt to close it two years ago because of support support.
Deborah Baldwin, dean of UALRs college of arts, humanities and social sciences, said yesterday she considers the closing of the school as temporary. She said the university will study a consultants report made in March on how to make the program self-sufficient and present a proposal to the provost in July 2013.
About 1,000 children and adults are enrolled in the program, which has seen growth over the years. Tuition pays for faculty (81 percent), operating costs (8 percent) and reimburses UALR for facilities use (11 percent). It does not pay the salaries for the director and her assistant. Baldwin said the school has regularly been $75,000 to $85,000 in the red by which she means the university is paying the salaries and UALR would like the program to be entirely self-supporting. Baldwin said she did not know how many university community schools are self-supporting. Mangiamele said that deficit budgets for the schools are sort of the nature community schools.
The school was opened in 1979, Mangiamele said, to make these wonderful professors [at UALR] in the arts accessible to people in the community. The faculty includes arts professionals and those with advanced degrees as well as UALR instructors teaching the once-a-week classes.
I feel terrible about the students we have been nurturing from age 5 to their teen-age years to become arts professionals, Mangiamele said.
Mangiamele is one of four visual art instructors. There are also 12 music instructors, a dance instructor and a language instructor. A string instructor, the language instructor, an art instructor and three piano teachers will lose their only employment, Mangiamele said.
Im sorry were in this position, Dean Baldwin said. We would love to be able to continue … we just have to figure out how to make this work.
Ironically, the school was created because of cutbacks in the arts in the public schools. The Community Schools website includes this statement:
When considering the education of the children in our community, we discover that for a variety of reasons our schools have been unable to provide consistent and varied arts instruction. Sadly, music and visual art classes are the first to be cut when money is short. To address this, the UALR Community School of the Arts, initiated in 1979, was created.
The school will continue after a fashion, Mangiamele said, thanks to an offer of studio space by Rhythm 88 on Bowman Road. Shed like to see the program get its own space. We could use a house, a building … empty strip malls. … Give us a space and we will continue to do high quality stuff.
UALR ended its planetarium and Urban Design programs in the past few years; neither was resurrected.
Some parents are wonderful. They are loving, teach appropriate guidelines and work hard to be good parents. Its no wonder that most children coming from such loving families lead happy and productive lives.
Interestingly, some of the worst children have come from such ideal homes. These children exercise their agency in destructive ways.
They seem unavailable for insight. They demonstrate a lack of gratitude and appreciation for the blessings they enjoy. They make terrible choices that lead to devastating consequences.
On the other hand, some parents dont know how to love. They are selfish, abusive and lack parental commitment. They may have come from toxic homes and are perpetuating that lifestyle onto the next generation.
It is no wonder that children coming from such toxic families often are damaged and lead unhappy and unproductive lives.
However, some highly successful people come from abusive homes. They have seen what doesnt work and try hard to do things differently in their homes. They have learned great truths: they have the power to forgive and to detach from their dysfunctional parents and/or toxic family relationships. They have broken the cycle of abuse.
Members of dysfunctional families can manipulate others to feel guilty; many people are conartists who make promises that they never keep. Some act powerless so others will rescue them while others have a sense of entitlement as if parents or children have the responsibility to see that their lives work out right.
Some justify stealing from family members. Some will not allow grandchildren to see their grandparents unless grandparents comply with unreasonable demands. Some of these family members seem stuck as if they will never grow up to be responsible adults.
The solution for those hurt by those they love may be to detach. Detachment describes the process of letting go and possibly of getting out of unhealthy entanglements. For example, detaching allows parents permission to stop shielding children from the negative consequences of destructive behaviors, thus allowing their children the freedom to fail.
We know when you ask, “what’s so gay about Glee?” the obvious answer is, “everything.” But we’re here to break down the queerest bits of Glee into bit-sized morsels for your enjoyment. Think of us as your gay cheat sheet to ‘Glee’ fandom.
This week was ‘Glee’ played a double-set, with two episodes, Props and Nationals. From bodyswapping to Uniques divalicious performances and the return of dreamboat Jesse St. James, there was a lot to love last night. And just a tiny bit to complain about, too.
1. Bodyswapping! After Tina knocks her head all the Glee club members shuffle their characters around. We enjoyed Mercedes-as-Britt and Artie-as-Santanas Eskimo kisses, and Puck and Finn definitely took to their transformations as Blaine and Kurt. All around one of the funniest sequences the shows done this season.
2. Jesse St. James returns! Eye candy time, because Jesse is looking good. And instead of being total conniving bad guy set on show choir domination and the breakup of Finn and Rachel, he shows a softer side and vouches for Rachel to her NYADA judge. We also found out his college audition was to Into The Woods Giants in the Sky, which wed pay a pretty penny to see.
3. They should have crowded Unique queen of Nationals for all eternity. We cant get Uniques version of Nicki Minajs Starships out of our head, and she owned on stage even under the pressure of her newfound Show Choir stardom. The show hinted that Unqiue might make a transfer come Season 4, and while often the transferring schools plotline is played out, for Unqiues diva voice well make an exception.
4. Can we just come back to the Bodyswap sequence? We forgot to mention that Kurt and Blaine (aka Finn and Puck) bringing up continuity with the Chandler jealousy mess, plus all their snuggling during the performance was more action than the actual Kurt and Blaine have gotten recently. Is there still trouble in teen gay paradise?
5. Are we really going to ignore all the trans issues, though? So not all our glee gaycaps can be the fun and positive gay moments. Props spent a great deal of time badgering Kurt Hummel about wearing a dress and referring to Unique by the pronoun he/she. The show edged on addressing it correctly, then completely fell short and missed all the opportunities for someone to vocalize fully that this, again, is the type of bullying Glees been fighting all season. Its at the top of our wishlist for Season 4.
Honorable Mention Only Kurt Hummel would weld while wearing the most fabulous of outfits. Theres hope for you yet, Glee.
Recently: How Gay Was Glee?: Prom Edition
Put a miniature cello in a troublemakers hands and she may wind up in the principals office less often. A kid struggling with concentration might find himself scoring higher on tests after studying the tuba.
San Diego Youth Symphony chief Dalouge Smith has been hearing anecdotes like that from principals and parents in the Chula Vista schools housing his organizations Community Opus Project. The program is based on a much-admired program in Venezuela called El Sistema, where music lessons are given to low-income kids with hopes of pulling them out of poverty and transforming communities.
But Smith and local scientists from UC San Diego and the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla want to go beyond anecdotes. Theyre taking 15 kids starting those after-school music lessons and sliding them into brain scanners, planning to track during the next five years what physically happens to their brains as they advance in music. Theyll pair the brain scans with cognitive and concentration testing and measure changes there, too. Theyre comparing them to kids not in the music lessons, and kids studying karate, too.
As Smith told me for our in-depth story this week, hes still a believer in the anecdotes that music is life-changing. But the studys potential to bolster that with empirical data fascinates him.
All of these things are still true, as theyve always been true as long as people have been playing music — for millennia, he said. It is essentially asking the question: Is there more than we already know?
In the comments, reader Bob Dorn added a recommendation for the book This Is Your Brain on Music, and suggested reading it will make even a neocon want to take up the clarinet, if not fund the arts in public schools.
Youre reading the Arts Report, Voice of San Diegos weekly compilation of the regions arts and culture news.
Happening Here:
o They were one of the first ones to believe in the vision for a new arts district in a once-dilapidated military complex, but now theyre leaving it. An early tenant in the former Naval Training Centers arts and culture district in Point Loma is planning to leave for a larger, cheaper home in National Citys old library. Allie Daugherty reported the story for us about ARTS: A Reason To Survive. The plan goes in front of the City Council in National City today for final approval.
o Local arts and culture leaders last week asked San Diegos City Council to increase the citys funding to arts organizations in future budget sessions. The funding comes from hotel-room taxes, revenue that the mayor projects will increase next year. Though members of the City Council appeared supportive of the request during the meeting, there was no vote. The mayors Chief Operating Officer, Jay Goldstone, said the projected increased revenue is already earmarked for other expenses, but if even more comes in, the mayors office wouldnt object to increasing arts funding. (City News Service via KPBS)
o San Diego Dance Theater is gearing up for its intergenerational dance performance this weekend and is hosting blog posts from people involved in the production, like an exuberant, 84-year-old Kay ONeil:
Even though … I am the oldest in the class, and certainly the most challenged in all ways, I am dancing! I love it! I try to never miss a class. The other senior dancers are a collection of marvelous human beings. The mood is always up! Moving makes me feel alive. So look out, world! I am not looking back!
o An accomplished 16-year-old actor is the engine of a new theater company, Living Light Theatre, which opened its production of Master Harold and the Boys last weekend at the Lyceum Theatre downtown. Actor Austyn Meyers is teaming up with Shaun T. Evans of the California Youth Conservancy for the new company, and in a behind-the-scenes video, Evans admits working with Meyers is less teacher-to-student, despite Evans age, and more peer-to-peer. (U-T San Diego)
o The Bach Collegium San Diego ensemble recently traveled to Bolivia for a festival of early music. The group is known for interpreting centuries-old musical pieces in the style that mightve existed at the time the composer wrote them. They posted some photographs online.
o A new project, Artbound, from LAs public television station, KCET, attempts to highlight and connect audiences with art and culture happening in Southern California. San Diego is among 11 counties featured. Since the sites launch last week, several new articles have popped up including features on San Diegos house concert scene and a folk singer from Valley Center.
Kinsee Morlan, who recently left her post as arts editor for CityBeat, wrote about an artist who attempts to capture in photographs the absurdity and abandonment in foreclosure-embattled McMansion communities here. You can vote for the stories you think KCET should make short documentary videos about.
San Diego Roots:
o As San Diego grew by 100,000 people between the early 1960s and 70s, the city exploded with fashionable modernist architecture. Student of San Diego modernism Keith York highlights his picks for sight-seeing around town. (CityBeat)
o Heres a cool exchange from local art teacher Donald Masses blog: Masse models his lessons at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy in southeastern San Diego after living artists and then usually sends the artists the work his students make. He recently taught his students to make robot posters in the style of artist Zac Mallett, and Mallett responds in Masses blog: To see such thoughtful and aware pieces from kids that age is extraordinary, and to have played a small role is their artistic development is extremely humbling.
Masse said his job is one of 21 art teacher positions San Diego Unified is planning to cut.
o The Charlie Chaplin-inspired musical that originated a couple of years ago at the La Jolla Playhouse will open on Broadway in August. (New York Times)
o A costume designer who grew up in North County and designed the costumes for the Playhouse-originated Peter and the Starcatchers was nominated for a Tony award for her work. (NBC San Diego)
o Commercialization and consumerism are big themes in Encinitas-based artist Jean Lowes work. A show of her paintings and sculptures is up at Quint Contemporary Art, a La Jolla gallery, right now. Much of her work juxtaposes ordinary objects in big-box store displays with settings like cathedral ceilings. She tells the U-T: I’ve been thinking about how we use stuff to clarify who we are, to express our hopes and desires,” Lowe said. “How we can buy something and have it transform us somehow. If I could just buy that great dress…
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Kelly Bennett is the arts editor for VOSD. You can reach her directly at kelly.bennett@voiceofsandiego.org or 619.325.0531. Or you can keep up with her on Twitter @kellyrbennett or on Facebook.