Friday, June 08, 2007

Weekly 6/8/07 - 5

Happy Gay Pride Weekend!

Don’t miss Leonard Orr at the Lloyd House!  Father of “Rebirthing”, a psychotherapeutic technique wildly popular in the late 80’s and 90’s; an unforgettable character; thought to be a creative genius by many.  Sunday, 17 June at 6 pm.  He will talk on “The Five Greatest Ideas”.  The session will be 1 to 2 hours long.  This guy is fascinating. Only $10 (instead of the usual $35 since I am putting him up.)   E.B.

Salon Weekly

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          • Table Notes
          • Events & Opportunities
          • Articles, Letters
          • Books, Reviews, Films, Magazines


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Section One: Table Notes ............................................................................ (Note: these notes were taken at the table and have NOT been approved or corrected by the speakers.  Reader
beware of inevitable misunderstandings and misrepresentations.  E.B.)
At the Table on  Wednesday, 6 June 2007
Nick Urbina , Himavat Ishaya, Mary Biehn, Elaine Urbina, Daniel Lewis, Steve Sunderland, Ellen Bierhorst, Kes Baladad-Binns,  Avedon Baladad-Binns, Isabel- friend of the Baladad-Binns family, Acela Baladad, Guy Binns, Spencer Konicov, Barrie Konicov, Ellen Bierhorst, Chris Metzger, Neil Anderson (Welcome Nick, Kes, Avedon, Isabel, Acela and Guy!)

ANNOUNCEMENTS
NICK: I will talk (at the Salon) about central Amer. Literature.  In Nicaragua we have a new left wing gov’t and a lot going on.  A new Latin Amer. Revolution.  Every thing has pros and con.  
 (Nick, that’s interesting, but even more I want to hear your personal story, immigrating from Nicaragua as a refugee...)

Ellen:  nice memorial for Scott Dominion this past Sunday, almost 70 people…
Steve: The peace Village is going to have a first college camp at UC this summer.  70 people invited who have retardation, learning disorder, neurological disorders… six days, see what college life could be for these folks.  
 
Acela: opening reception at Sitwell’s, 6-8 pm, photographs by Acela Baladad.  
 
Sitwell’s threatened; join in signing the letter.  (see below in Events section for the letter you may want to sign)
 
Spencer: Lillian Gaines TANNER, 93, fell and broke her hip.  Got up.  Then got some pain.  She had no arthritis in the joint.  She exercises an hour a day minimum for 55 years.
 

TOPIC:  Calm in the face of stress; clarity in the face of conflict
Himavat Ishaya, special presenter and salonista.


H:  I was known as Hank.  Have a fraternal twin Chuck.  As a boy I was a jr. acolyte in church.  Loved the stories about Christ.  “There’s a better way!”  I wanted to be able to do the things that he did.  I felt we are the miracle workers.  
Chased after many gurus, practices, Native Americans, Chinese, Indians, one another. Buddhists.  Australian aborigines.  Finally Siddha Yoga.  A bookstore owner said, You gotta read this.  At first I said, no, I’ve read all the books I need. She insisted.  First Thunder.  Relates to the Book of Revelation.  Ascension.  So I went to one more workshop, and in the first praise attitude I had a greater experience than every before in all the modalities I had studied.  I knew I was to be a teacher of this. That was in 1996.  M.S.I., Sadashiva Isham.   He was there at the intensive.  About 100 people I the room.  I was checking this guy out.  He was bona fide.  He blew me away every night.  He was different with each person.  I told him I wanted him as my teacher.  He said, “OK, then take vows.”  I did not want that, but I agreed.  I knew I had to be willing to do anything he asked. He then cognized my name as Himavat.  Prior, I had been certified as a massage therapist, and developed my own technique. Himavat means God of the spinal column.  That name was profoundly resonant with who I am.  
            Vows: nonviolence, truthfulness, non stealing, non grasping, self restraint.  Then there are five more.  Enlightenment is easy. Many people t hink it is hard…sit in lotus position…take vows…  it is not true.  
“Guru” means darkness-light.  One who brings light to the darkness.  The truth is inside you.  
What I teach is about people’s experience.  What is it you want?  Look at what is and is not working your life.  
Powerful tendency to ignore.  E.g. that which is uncomfortable, people who are uncomfortable.  
What is the truth of who we are?  
I just couldn’t buy the Darwin stuff.  (Creationist?) I hope! there is another option.
 
Barrie: why should I want enlightenment?
H: calm in the face of stress, clarity in the face of conflict.
What you focus on grows bigger.  
Model I work with: as humans we have one foot in the finite, and one in the infinite.  
We are infinite beings; but that is not typically our experience.  Typically we encounter our limits.  
e.g. retarded people …
Steve: a friend, with Downs’s syndrome, college jr., chemistry major.  Blew my mind.
H: Wonderful!  … My job is to present the possibility.
For ten years I have taught “ascension attitudes”, simple tools. Thoughts.  Directions.  Unlike any other meditative practice I have tried.
Elaine: what about neg. thoughts?
H: yes.  These tools tend to bring up negative stuff. I finally realized that when the negativities come up we can use “keys to freedom”.  Notice the challenges we have, and dive into them in a safe space.  
            Especially with very young children, less than a year, I like to engage joyfully.  I can get blissed out.  
            Consider the child who has a new sibling born. “Don’t bother the baby.”  We get something wrong with our world. … We go to school. Experience “failure”.  In adolescence we are stressed by being to big or small, light or dark, etc. etc.  All these experiences say “We are not infinite; something wrong with us.”  How get back to the infinite mind?  This is what I teach.
            Peak Experience:  Maslow, psychologist, studied.  A moment when we feel totally at peace with everything; nothing is wrong; everything is connected.  Brief.  Most people have had, but discount it.  He found it is a universal experience.  
            Hemi sync technologies, bilateral coherence of the brain.  Left and right coherence in the brain.  The two hemispheres don’t communicate.  But in a peak experience, they integrate.  It is a joyous experience.  
            Also when you use ascension attitudes. They are designed to create measurable bilateral coherence, reliably, every time.  Trick is to integrate the peak experience state with the normal state of cs.  
            Also, since these give bliss, there is a huge contrast w ith how we feel the rest of the time.  
There are 4 parts of the mind, according to the Vedas, over 4,000 yrs. Old.  1) The monkey mind, or manas. Makes thoughts.  2) ahamkara, like our notion ego.  3) like  reservoir of impressions.  Chitta.  4) the part which chooses where our attention focuses, buddhi. When people tell their story, then we can ask them to witness that.  The buddhi is the witness part.  
            Consider:

  • Love.  
  • Gratitude.  Two of the ascending emotions.  
  • The first is “Praise attitude”.  Praise is ascension attitude.  The good thing is you don’t have to even feel praise in order to say praise. No matter what is there, there is always something to praise.  

            Soul.  A sheath for the individuation of the oversoul so that consciousness can experience itself.  
            My system is a little outside the box of our usual understanding.
Not just, I am born, I have stuff, I die.  The yoga sutras by Patanjali.  After the bible, the most often translated book in the world. 5,000 years old.  The point is: it is possible to have a new experience, and begin to touch your infinite nature. 100% of all my students have some experience of the infinite.  We are used to judging and assessing everything through our intellect, which is inadequate to evaluate enlightenment.  Besides intellect there is intuition.  Then there is a third level, “cognition”, a higher form of thinking, opening to the infinite source.  Cognition requires acknowledging that there is something beyond the intellect, beyond the infinite.  Direct knowing.  
            This system of enlightenment is a different perspective.  I teach access to that.  
 
(Enlightenment experiences?)
Elaine: first year I led a medical mission in Nicaragua. I had sent an ambulance with a bunch of wheelchairs.  Not picked up .   I was asked for a wheel chair for a lady with diabetes and could not walk … primitive home.  She then told how Nick’s grandfather had brought water and electricity out to this village.  A priceless gift.  I felt enlightenment at that moment.  … made me want to devote my life to that kind of work.
 
Chris: an experience of unenlightenment.  I don’t think I have had an enl. Experience. I’ve worked the intellect side of the scale.  Intuition from time to time.  I do believe in enlightenment, though.  I have learned a great deal about the affairs of man.  … I am fascinated by knowing stuff, but it is not enough. I have a yearning for enlightenment.  Knowing t hings and not believing; believing things and not knowing.  
            All my life, if you get sick, you go to a Dr. At times I have not been helped, and then went to the alternative dr. like acupuncturists, and experienced that they worked.  … There is something that holds me back from going beyond the “box’.  I have a “how to” book on contacting spirits… practical exercises; I can’t make myself go beyond the introduction.

Barrie:  I can help, Chris.
For a long time I wanted to be enlightened.  Very passionate.  Over the last several years I have decided I am.  I get more praise than anyone I have met, and more thank yous.  … now working for a chiropractor, get to meet with people.  A miracle … 10 year old boy, in an accident.  “He’ll listen to you because you look like Santa.” I put  him in a light trance.  I said “You knew that accident was going to happen, didn’t you.”  He cried because he had.  … Cleared that up. Then I told the mom I need to see them together.  I put them both in to trance, went back to his birth process.  After they did that, they slept deeply for ten minutes.  Then on awakening, they were totally in love with each other.  That trauma had been healed.  …  
 

~ End of Table Notes~

Hugs to everyone,
Ellen




Section Two: Events & Opportunities


Please read the letter about Sitwell’s Coffee House and why Clifton needs it to be preserved... Below at end of Events section. E.b.

SATURDAY 9 JUNE (TOMORROW)
GREAT MUSIC (Ginny Frazier and friends) and Sing-a-Long
GREAT CAUSE / BENEFIT
FABULOUS VENUE: Price Hill city overlook, fascinating house.  

 

“SING-A-LONG the OHIO RIVER ” HOUSE CONCERT

 

Fundraiser to Create and Pilot the
 Green Curriculum for Our Schools,
 SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2007,

 6:00pm to 10:00pm,

 2626 Glenway, Price Hill

 Riverview home of Jeanne Nightingale.
  Look for sign on Jeanne's mailbox
  Street Parking is available.
  Jeanne’s house is on top of a hill. We will have valet parking available.

 Join us for music, food, and to learn more about the

 Green Curriculum Project.
 This is a child friendly event
  

Please RSVP via email at nsgreenschool@yahoo.com <http://us.f530.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=nsgreenschool@yahoo.com>  or call 513-541-4607

 
 
 Schedule:      
   6:00 -  6:45 Networking/Food
6:45 – 7:30 Singing
7:30 – 7:50 Presentation of Curriculum Guide and Music CD project
 7:50 -  8:15 Break
  8:15 – 10:00 Singing
  

 ALLY: Alliance for Leadership and Interconnection
  (513)541-4607, nsgreenschool@yahoo.com <http://us.f530.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=nsgreenschool@yahoo.com>
 Donations accepted at the event. Checks and cash only

 Directions to 2626 Glenway Avenue in Price Hill
 Driving 71 South toward Cincinnati :

• Take Rt. 50 “ River Road ” Exit off 71-5 and drive West across the 6th Street Viaduct toward Price Hill.
• Stay in right lane and follow signs to the Elberon- Warsaw exit.
• Turn right at the Warsaw exit ramp.
 At first stop sign turn right onto Wilder.
• At next stop sign, turn left onto /enway.
 Drive up Glenway about 1/8 mile. (If you pass the Cincinnati Christian University going up Glenway or hit Grand Avenue , you’ve gone too far.)
 
• #2626 Glenway is on the right. Jeanne’s house is not visible from the street. A winding drive leads 200 feet up a steep hill through the woods to her house.
 

  
Driving 75 South toward Cincinnati :
Take Freeman exit off 75 5.
 At second stop light, turn right onto West Eighth Street and cross the Eighth Street Viaduct heading for Price Hill.
 As you cross State Street, West Eighth Street becomes Glenway Avenue .
• #2626 Glenway is about 1/2 mile up the hill on the right. (If you pass the Cincinnati Christian University going up Glenway, or hit Grand Avenue you’ve gone too far.)
• #2626 Glenway is on the right. Jeanne’s house is not visible from the street. A winding drive leads 200 feet up a steep hill through the woods to her house.


Need Help: Call 513-471-6622
 


Cincinnati Gay Pride This Weekend!

Festival in Northside at Hofner Park (on Hamilton Ave...you’ll see it) Sat. and Sunday; entertainment.  Parade from Burnet Woods to Northside Sunday 6/10 starting at noon.  Down Ludlow Ave.  Great time.  


(Join with our neighbors of African descent to celebrate this.  Free.  Important!)

Juneteenth Festival

(20th annual): Saturday, June 16 12:00-9. Celebrate the end of slavery in 1865. Festival includes childrens activities, food, arts and crafts, music, health pavillion, history re-enactors. At 12:30 a parade of children carrying flags of 74 countries with historical ties to the slave trade and the African diaspora. At 1:30 an authors forum, and at 3:30 writers workshops. Veteran's Pavilion: military veterans (and their families) of all generations are invited to contribute to the Cincinnati Library’s oral history project and add their own history to the Veterans’ Commemorative Quilt; exhibits by local Tuskegee Airmen and historical actors from Camp Nelson and the James Ramage Civil War Museum. History Pavilion: Exhibits and demonstrations including the Maysville Underground Railroad Museum, the American Saddlebred Museum (featuring the history of black horsemen from the late 1800’s), the National African American History and Cultural Center, and the Shakers of Pleasant Hill. Free. Mirror Lake, Eden Park. More info: Lydia Morgan, 631-7289 www.juneteenthcincinnati.org <outbind://100/www.juneteenthcincinnati.org>  


June Fest Father’s Day Concert,

Sunday, June 17, 2-6:00 pm. The Cincinnati May Festival is Juneteenth Cincinnati’s partner in presenting this revival of annual concerts that began in the days when Cincinnati music was racially segregated. The Father’s Day concert offers families a relaxing afternoon of inspirational music, including performances by talented young classical musicians, liturgical dancers, several outstanding church choirs, and the Charles Folds Singers. Free. Seasongood Pavillion, Eden Park. More info: Lydia Morgan, 631-7289, www.juneteenthcincinnati.com <outbind://100/www.juneteenthcincinnati.com>

 



Don’t miss Leonard Orr at the Lloyd House!  Father of “Rebirthing”, a psychotherapeutic technique wildly popular in the late 80’s and 90’s; an unforgettable character; thought to be a creative genius by many.  Sunday, 17 June at 6 pm.  He will talk on “The Five Greatest Ideas”.  The session will be 1 to 2 hours long.  This guy is fascinating. Only $10 (instead of the usual $35 since I am putting him up and he is doing us a favor.)
    I use his affirmations technique consistently in my own life and teach it to my clients all the time.    I have never met Leonard in person but I can’t wait.  I’ve heard some marvelous stories.  E.B.




Ellen Bierhorst, Ph.D. Is a holistic psychotherapist with over 35 years experience.  Specialty area: Optimizing Mental Health ~ “Better than well”.  Also: healing trauma, strengthening families and relationships, alcohol and other addictions including food, and weight management, EMDR, GLBT, chronic pain and physical illness.  Clifton.  513 221 1289  www.lloydhouse.com


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Also is available by the night for guests from out of town.

Beautiful and Charming, spacious first floor office space at the Lloyd House, fully furnished including bodywork table, chairs, love seat, rugs, armchairs, wood burning (gas ignited ) fireplace.  Rookwood even.  Available by the hour.  Share waiting room.  Powder room.  Outside entry.  Terms: contribute 20% of gross to the house.  Call Ellen 221 1290


“A Closer Look”                
A Collection of (Photographic)(Art)Works
by
Acela Baladad (new Salonista)
showing June 2007

Sitwell’s Coffeehouse
324 Ludlow Avenue
(next to the Esquire)



   

 
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Events & Teaching Update from GSL Monastery: Consider these & other options from Cincinnati's Tibetan Buddhist Monastery:
    Fridays 8, 15, 22 June @ 7 PM: Vajrasattva mediation practice
    Saturday June 16 @ 5-7 PM: Picnic & Open House. More details below.
    Saturday 23 June @ 10 AM - 12 PM: Dharma Discourse, lamrim teaching.
At 3046 Pavlova Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45251. More info & RSVP @ 513.385.7116, gsl@ganden.org, & www.ganden.org.
 
Special Wine for that Special Time: Do you need a special way to commemorate an event? Consider doing a private label wine. For a minimum order of 12 bottles, have any label you want. Bride & groom, milestone birthday, special party. Put any image you desire on your bottles for your guest to enjoy & then keep as a reminder of the special day. Prices range from $18.58 - $21.08 per bottle (plus shipping & tax) depending on the wine. California boutique chardonnay, merlot or cabernets of exceptional quality. More info from Suzanne @ 513.721.2234.
 
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Extreme Puppets by Soque du Soleil [Friday 8 June @ 6:30 PM]: Bet Steward directs this puppet show for the fringe festival, where Monty Python meets the Muppets. Bawdy Extreme Puppets; a one hour adult puppet play. At Ink Tank, 1311 Main Street, Cincinnati, OH 45208. More info @ 513.621.ARTS, bet@intuitiontheatre.com, & www.cincyfringe.com.
 
New York jazz singer, Deadra Hart [Friday-Saturday 8-9 June @ 9 PM - 1 AM]: Deadra Hart will be performing with her father's (Jim Hart) quartet singing an eclectic mix of her special arrangements of jazz standards, beautiful Latin melodies & her original compositions. The band includes Steve Flora on bass, Brian Ahler on drums, & Jim Hart on piano. Admission is free. At the Palm Court of the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Hotel, 35 West Fifth Street @ Race, Downtown Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.421.9100 & www.deadrahart.com.
 
3rd Annual Magnitude Seven Exhibit of Small Art Works [Opening Friday 8 June @ 6-10 PM]: Juried, 50 small works by 30 artists from 14 states & the UK. Works in a wide variety of media including sculpture, fibers, printmaking, photography, painting, drawing, mixed media, & collage. Small works are very portable & fit well into many spaces. They evoke a sense of one's own physicality, in a completely different way than larger works. Small works are intimate; inviting approach & inspection. Like short poetry, they are a challenge to craft with the same presence of their larger counterparts. The exhibit consists of works no larger than 7 inches in any dimension. Exhibit runs thru Friday 6 July. At Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.861.3638, jason@manifestgallery.org, & www.manifestgallery.org.
 
King "Fruitbowl" Reeves & Charlie "Bunns" Wilson @ Friday Jazz at the Hyatt [Friday 8 June @ 8:30-12 PM]: Accompanied by their close friends Eddie Bayard, Mark Lomax, and Brandon Meeks. $10 cover; free for Jazz Club Members & under 18; $5 for CCM & NKU students. Sponsored by National City Bank. At the Sungarten Room, Hyatt Hotel Cincinnati, 151 West 5th Street, Downtown Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.579.1234, waltb31@fuse.net, & www.jazzincincy.com.
 
Celluloid Fringe Video Art & Series of Shorts [Saturday 9 June @ 2-4:15 PM]: This year, Celluloid Fringe encompasses regional, national & international pieces with submissions from as far as Japan & as local as Cincinnati’s urban core. For the last 3 years Celluloid Fringe has grown as a mini-festival within the Fringe Festival, attracting fans of experimental film & creating cross-over audience fans of theatre & dance. Celluloid Fringe screenings are free with your Official Fringe Festival Button. At Know Theatre, 1120 Jackson Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.300.5669, info@knowtheatre.com, www.cincyfringe.com/Shows/LineUp/CelluloidFringe.shtml.
 
The Great Baking Powder War [Saturday 9 June @ 10 AM]:
 From 1890 to 1925 numerous law suits were filed over the supposed safety of baking powder made using sodium aluminum sulfate or SAS. The story of these suits forms a prototype for similar law suits today over the safety of various consumer products & raises interesting issues concerning the abuse of science, the inherent conflict between scientific versus legal proof, & the questionable motives which sometimes underlie such legal activism. William B. Jensen is Oesper Professor of the History of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati & Curator of the Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry. He is a frequent speaker at both ART & FIG on a variety of topics related to both the history & philosophy of science. Free. Association for Rational Thought. Molly Malone’s Restaurant, 6111 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ 513-533-8142, rrdavis@fuse.net, & www.cincinnatiskeptics.org.
 
Rivertown Breakdown: A Taste of American Roots Music [Saturday 9 June @ 8 PM - 2 AM]: A show about the river for the river by the river, with Bluegrass, Folk, Blues, & more. Featured performers are The Katie Laur Band, Karin Bergquist & Linford Detweiler, Queen City Zapatistas, Bernie Franklin & Disciples in Praise, Stardevils, Jake Speed & the Freddies, Rumpke Mountain Boys, Zumba, Greg Schaber, Cincinnati Dancing Pigs, Lagniappe, Ricky Nye & Chris Werner, Comet Bluegrass Allstars, Cuz n Jake, The Sidecars, & Blue Rock Boys. Ages 21 and up. Benefits River Sweep, the annual clean up of the Ohio River. Presented by Southgate House, a historic mansion that combines a bar & music venue in an intimate setting. At Southgate House, 24 E. Third Street, Newport, KY  41071. More info @ 859.431.2201, rtownbdown@gmail.com, & www.rivertownbreakdown.com.
 
1st Annual Silver Lining Festival [Saturday 9 June @ 11 AM - 2 PM]: A public festival & celebration to learn & experience methods & techniques for inner peace & physical well-being. Music, Tai Chi, QiGong, Meditation, Yoga, Movements of Peace, info, & more. Bring a picnic lunch & non-alcoholic beverage & explore the possibilities. At Silverton Park, at the intersection of Montgomery & Stewart Roads, behind Ester-Price candy store, Silverton OH 45236. More info @ 513.791.9428 &
vince@whateverworkswellness.com.
 
2nd Annual Opera Dogs [Sunday 10 June @ 11 AM]: Unleash your inner diva & dress your dogs as your favorite opera characters for a chance to win prizes, including tickets to Cincinnati Opera's 2007 Summer Festival performances. The event begins in historic Washington Park & continues with a doggie parade & more contests at the Second Sunday on Main street festival. Free. Sponsored by iRhine & Cincinnati Opera. From Historic Washington Park to Main Street, Over The Rhine, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ www.cincinnatiopera.org, &
www.secondsundayonmain.org.
 
Studio 89 Free Concerts @ WNKU [Mondays 11 June - 27 Aug
ust @ 8:30 PM]: Was once Monday night's best kept secret, Studio 89 now requires advance reservations. This year's schedule: June 11 = Chuck Brodsky; June 18 = Xavier Rudd; June 25 = Ellison; July 2 = NO CONCERT; July 9 = Peppertown; July 16 = Swinging Steaks; July 23 = Rob Fetters; July 30 = Hobex; August 6 = Kim Taylor; August 13 = TBA; August 20 = Toby Myers & Moe Z; August 27 = Jayne Sachs Band. Seating is limited, make reservations up to a week in advance. Performances will be video taped for broadcast on WKET TV. At Studio 89, 301 Landrum Academic Center, Highland Heights, KY 41099. More info & reservations @ 859.572.6500, radio@nku.edu, & www.wnku.org/page_wnku.asp?p=0530720.
 
Write Out Loud! InkTank Summer Camp for Teen Writers [June 11 - July 30; times vary by location]: InkTank is partnering with the YMCA/CincyAfterSchool & the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County to facilitate writing programs for teens at 10 locations throughout the city. Students pre-register to participate in 12 sessions, each session is 2 hours long - times vary by location. There is only room for 15 students per session/location. These sessions are intended to be different from an academic creative writing class, while still developing the students writing skills, self-expression, & by extension, their self-confidence. Students will meet other writers, develop their writing skills, find their voice & be heard, perform their work publicly, get published, have fun. Free. More info, register, locations, & schedules @ 513.542.0195,
sanctumsanctorum@yahoo.com, & www.inktank.org.
 
Professor Zygmunt Krauze In Recital [Tuesday 12 June @ 8 PM]: Free. Presented by Polish-American Society of Greater Cincinnati. At University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, Robert J. Werner Recital Hall, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ 513.458.5244x121, jbaranki@aol.com, www.pasc.us, & www.ccm.uc.edu.
 
Au Hasard Balthazar [Tuesday-Wednesday 12-13 June @ 7 PM]: Often praised as one of the greatest films ever made, but long unavailable in the U.S., Au Hasard Balthazar combines spiritual allegory with a naturalistic, austere, & minimalist aesthetic style. The film tells the story of Marie, an unlucky farm girl, & her beloved donkey Balthazar. Years pass, the pair become separated, & the now-teenaged Marie drifts into increasingly destructive situations, while Balthazar moves from owner to owner. But "this is the story of a donkey in somewhat the way that Moby Dick is about a whale." The film traces both their fates as they live a parallel existence. Marie & Balthazar become martyrs, eventually taking on the sins of others & finding transcendence in the process. In a body of work known for its purity & transcendence, Au Hasard Balthazar is perhaps the most wrenching & astute of Bresson's visions. Post-film discussion with Paul Clark (Cincinnati Enquirer Arts & Entertainment Editor) & Mendle Adams (Pastor of St. Peter's United Church of Christ in Pleasant Ridge). France, 1966, Black & White, 95 minutes. French with English subtitles. New print & new subtitles. Not rated, suggest nominal PG-13 for occasional violence. Tickets are $8, or $6 for Art Museum members & students with valid ID. Presented by Cincinnati World Cinema. At Fath Auditorium, Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mt. Adams, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info, tix, trailer @ 859.781.8151, worldcinema@fuse.net, & www.cincyworldcinema.org.
 
Professor Zygmunt Krauze in a Piano Recital [Wednesday 13
June @ 7 PM]: A piano recital of contemporary & classical music by a world-renown Polish composer, professor Zygmunt Krauze, featuring piano works by Szymanowski, Chopin & Krauze. During his first-ever Cincinnati visit, professor Krauze is hosted by the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music & participates in the Music 07 Summer Festival. Free. Presented by Polish-American Society of Greater Cincinnati in co-operation with Crossroads. At Crossroads Atrium, 3500 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45209. More info & RSVP @ 513.852.4952,  pkasprzycki@hotmail.com, www.zygmuntkrauze.com, www.crossroadscommunity.net, & www.pasc.us.
 
Highlights from the Cincinnati Opera Archives [Wednesday 13 June – Tuesday 2 October]: Cincinnati Opera Association began its life on 27 June 1920 as the 2nd oldest opera company in the U.S. with a sold-out performance of Martha. The Opera performed at the Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion until 1972, when it moved to Music Hall. Over the years, singers who have graced the stage include Plácido Domingo, Norman Treigle, Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, James Morris, & Barbara Daniels, to name a few. The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County will now house the archives of the Cincinnati Opera, previously maintained by the Cincinnati Historical Society. The Main Library will exhibit some of the Opera’s treasures as Highlights from the Cincinnati Opera Archives. The archives include photographs, programs, scrapbooks, posters, articles, publicity, & much more from 1883-1994. The Library will add to the collection as items become available from the Opera. To learn more, search the Library’s catalog for Cincinnati Opera Archives (782.109771 C5742 Archives Box 001) or ask to see Cincinnati Opera, 1883-1994 (782.109771 qC5742Zm 1995), a catalog detailing the contents. The Art & Music Department also maintains bound copies of the Opera programs (Cincinnati Opera, 782.101 qC574), & an index to all seasons, operas, & performers. At Art & Music Department, Main Library, 800 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.369.6959, Emily.Mueller@CincinnatiLibrary.org, & www.cincinnatilibrary.org.
 
Picnic Under the Pines & Open House [Saturday 16 June @ 5-7 PM]: Teachers & students of GSL Monastery invite you to try some traditional Tibetan dishes like momos (like Chinese fried dumplings or pot stickers, but better) or just grab a burger, potato salad and some chips. Invite your friends & family if they are curious about the Tibetan Buddhist monks teaching in Grosbeck.  Please RSVP. At 3046 Pavlova Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45251. More info & RSVP @ 513.385.7116, gsl@ganden.org, & www.ganden.org.
 
OUTReels [Saturday 16 June @ Noon–10:30 PM]: Cincinnati’s only Gay Lesbian Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival will screen 8 films showcasing gay romantic comedies, documentary profiles of pioneering lesbian activists, a long-term male couple & a 70s iconic personality, & a shilling portrait of gay men & meth addiction. $25 Full Festival Pass available online; $8 single tickets at the door. Both sold at the Pride Festival June 9-10 at Northside’s Hoffner Park. At Fath Auditorium, Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mt. Adams, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info, tix schedule & descriptions @ outreels@glbtcentercincinnati.com & www.outreels.com.
 
Global Shoes [June 16- July 11]: This exhibit encourages children & their families to explore global cultures within the context of a fantasy shoe store & factory. The exhibition incorporates intriguing collections objects & a variety of hands-on & feet-in activities. Visitors are encouraged to explore how shoes are clues to people & places through try-on, role-play & investigative activities. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
 
Juneteenth Festival [Saturday 16 June @ Noon - 9 PM]:
 Cincinnati's 20th annual celebrate of the end of slavery in 1865. Festival includes children's activities, food, arts & crafts, music, health pavilion, & history re-enactors. At 12:30, a parade of children carrying flags of 74 countries with historical ties to the slave trade & the African diaspora. At 1:30, an authors' forum. At 3:30, writers' workshops. Veteran's Pavilion: military veterans (& their families) of all generations are invited to contribute to the Cincinnati Library’s oral history project & add their own history to the Veterans’ Commemorative Quilt; exhibits by local Tuskegee Airmen & historical actors from Camp Nelson & the James Ramage Civil War Museum. History Pavilion: exhibits & demonstrations including the Maysville Underground Railroad Museum, the American Saddlebred Museum (featuring the history of black horsemen from the late 1800’s), the National African American History & Cultural Center, & the Shakers of Pleasant Hill. Free. At Mirror Lake, Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info from Lydia Morgan @ 513.631.7289, lydiajm@fuse.net, & www.juneteenthcincinnati.org.
 
June Fest Father’s Day Concert [Sunday 17 June @ 2-6 PM]: The Cincinnati May Festival is Juneteenth Cincinnati’s partner in presenting this revival of annual concerts that began in the days when Cincinnati music was racially segregated. The Father’s Day concert offers families a relaxing afternoon of inspirational music, including performances by talented young classical musicians, liturgical dancers, several outstanding church choirs, & the Charles Folds Singers. Free. Seasongood Pavilion, Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info from Lydia Morgan @ 513.631.7289, lydiajm@fuse.net, & www.juneteenthcincinnati.org.
 
C.R.E.A.T.E. You Teen Week [Monday-Friday June 18 - 22 June @ 10 AM - 4 PM]: Designed especially for girls ages 12-16, take a week to explore who you are now & who you are becoming. Art, crafts, journaling, yoga, photography & more. No experience required or expected. $245 includes supplies; bring lunch each day; reservations plus $50 required by May 15. At Creative Catalysts, Studio #231, Essex Studios Complex, Cincinnati, OH. More info @ 513.368.1994 & www.creativecatalysts.net.
 
O'Bryonville Animal Rescue Annual Garage Sale - Donations Wanted [Friday-Sunday 22-24 June]: They are currently seeking donations of  items for the sale; no clothing or old books, please. If you have items, contact Beth Muccillo at bjohnston@fuse.net. They have limited pickup ability or can arrange a time to drop your items in Madisonville.  All proceeds benefit feral & stray cats in Cincinnati. At 5619 Orlando Place, Madisonville, Cincinnati, OH 45227. More info @ 513.871.PAWS, info@theanimalrescue.com, &
www.theanimalrescue.com.
 
 
Ongoing Tri-State Treasures
 
Cincinnati Fringe Festival [Wednesday 30 May - Sunday 10 June]: The Festival is a collaborative organization striving to provide opportunities & exposure to artists who are willing to take a risk. During the festival hundreds of local, regional, national & international artists invade downtown Cincinnati for 11 days of artistic celebration in both traditional & non-traditional spaces. These artists represent a variety of media including theatre, dance, music, poetry, visual art, film & everything between & beyond. More info @ 513.300.5669, info@knowtheatre.com, & www.cincyfringe.com.
 

1st Bi-Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit & Indoor Art Gallery [thru September]:
Explore the newest art at Historic Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum. For centuries, the cemetery has showcased artisans' monuments, mausoleums, & stained glass. Now stroll the outdoor Garden Courtyard to see art from local artists tucked among the Arboretum's spectacular horticulture. Plus, several local artists contributed oil paintings, watercolors, photographs, & other art forms to the Indoor Art Gallery. Ten of the paintings are by local artist Richard Luschek. The artists used the beauty of Spring Grove as inspiration for their creations; each work of art representing a facet of the cemetery's grandeur. The Indoor Art Gallery is in the Historic Office Building, just inside the cemetery main entrance; a map of the sculpture exhibit is available at the Customer Service Center or the Indoor Art Gallery inside the Historic Office. Monday-Friday 8:30AM-5PM, Saturday 8:30AM-4PM, Sunday Noon-4PM. Co-sponsored by Spring Grove & Summerfair Foundation. At Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati OH 45232. More info @ 513.681.7526,
richard_luschek@yahoo.com, & www.springgrove.org/SG/CALENDAR/EventCalendar/SculptureExhibit.shtm.
 
Business As Unusual: Heroes of the Holocaust [thru July 29]: This exhibition tells the story of Oskar Schindler & his actions to protect Jews during the Holocaust which have earned him a special place among honored rescuers. Woven into this well-known story of courage is the story of a Cincinnati family that followed this same difficult path & the positive role of corporate social responsibility in fighting injustice & social crisis today. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
 
Collecting a Legacy: The Bernard Kinsey Collection [thru June 3]: This exhibition offers a roadmap to the cultural journey & transformation experienced by African American art collectors as they embrace & acquire art & artifacts.  Within the context of their own history & the past that speaks to them, we discover how the Kinseys are changed & nurtured by what they chose to collect. Ranging from painful-to-see slave owner’s documents, to brilliantly fiery expressions in sculpture, to private glimpses into thoughts of the ancestors, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage which they have been driven to capture, inspire & sustain for future generations. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.


Sitwell’s  Threatened with Eviction
Next Winter.  
We hear the owner’s son wants
To open an sandwich shop.
Please sign this letter.  
Highlight the letter, hit “reply”, make sure your name is added at the end of the letter.  E.B.

Dear John Kanelos (Owner of building where Sitwell’s is located),

    We are writing to let you know why we believe it would be a serious disservice to the community of Clifton should Sitwell’s close or be relocated to an (inevitably) much less favorable site.  

    This is much more than just another coffee shop.  The extremely attractive ambiance of Sitwell’s is entirely due to the constant, felt presence of proprietor Lisa Storie, a unique and unforgettable character.  The point is that no one could replace Lisa.  The success of Sitwell’s is not because it is a needed coffee shop next to the Esquire.  It is due to the atmosphere breathed into it by Lisa’s tireless efforts.  
    Anyone can feel, going into the restaurant, that “community” is happening here.  Lisa is there, it seems, every day 7 days a week.  Would anyone else do that?  Lisa knows the regulars and the not-so-regulars, by name, by story.  Lisa attracts a wonderfully varied and interesting group of characters who haunt the place.  Families with children, students, street musicians, poets, academics, elderly.  To say that the menu is good is beside the point.  Anyone could create a good menu.  It’s Lisa.  
    The great thirst in American society today is the need for community.  Here in Clifton we’ve got a fountain in the desert.  Wisdom says, “Keep it!”  
    
P.S.  One could predict that any business that would supplant Sitwell’s in its current harmonious location would probably encounter generalized community resentment.   ... Not a  happy circumstance for launching a new business!
   
(signed by the following Members of the Lloyd House Salon and readers of the Salon Weekly)

Ellen Bierhorst
Barrie Konicov
Acela Baladad
Mary A. Biehn
Guy Binns
Steve Sunderland
Daniel Lewis
Spencer Konicov
(select and copy this lettter, paste into a new email, add your name to the signers, email to me ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com.)



Section Three: Articles


Contents:
  • Internet freedom issue: dump Verizon!
  • David Pepper: Don’t put jail on ballot in Nov.

  • Working Assets Long Distance and ActForChange says:
(WorkingAssets has a lot of good cred.  Ellen.)

Tell the FCC: Don't Give Away Our Airwaves to AT&T
Dump AT&T and Verizon!

Are you supporting AT&T/ Cingular or Verizon with your cell phone payment each month? Get a mobile phone from Working Assets, and we'll buy out your contract with the bad guys.
 
The Federal Commmunications Commission (FCC) is about to give away a huge chunk of our public airwaves to the giant telecom companies, such as AT&T and Verizon, who want to make our Internet less free.

Broadcast television channels will soon vacate a very valuable piece of the broadcast spectrum when they are required to go digital by 2009. However, the FCC has devised an auction process that is rigged to favor only the biggest of the multinational telecoms -- and will sell off the most prized part of the digital spectrum at a fraction of its potential value.

Tell the FCC -- the airwaves belong to the public, not the corporations.

After years of phone and cable company control over Internet access, the United States has now fallen to 16th in the world in high-speed Internet rankings, with few choices and some of the highest prices for the slowest speeds in the world. The broadcast spectrum that will be vacated could deliver an open Internet into your house without the need for a telephone wire or cable modem.

Not only have the big telecoms facilitated illegal Bush administration wiretapping of American citizens, but they continually lobby to stifle innovations such as Internet phone service and to destroy Net Neutrality -- the one principle that protects equal opportunity and free choice on the Web. We need to end their stranglehold and demand a better Internet for everyone.

Tell the FCC to set aside a significant part of the spectrum for open and nondiscriminatory internet access.

Please share this message with everyone you know who cares about protecting a free and open internet from giant telecom companies.

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Will Easton, Manager
ActForChange.com/Working Assets



David Pepper: “No, we don’t want the jail on the ballot in Nov.”
From Nancy Dawley (salonista):

David Pepper was very persuasive tonight at the Madeira picnic in showing that his proposal is not the same at all from the one Phil Heimlich proposed before.  His is a comprehensive plan to develop programs to get drug dependent people and mentally ill the help they need so they do not return to jail.  Also programs to rehabilitate people, so they don't keep returning.  He talked about current facilities, how inadequate (inhumane is my word) they are, and that they need to be replaced for that reason and to save millions of dollars paid to Butler County.  Also that warehousing all sorts of people together just spreads the crime and causes recidivism.  
 
I'm still not convinced that the idea of rethinking what "crimes" require jail terms is part of general thinking (prostitution, drug addiction?).  There are 2 million plus people in prison today compared to 30,000 just 30 years ago.  So a lot of behavior has become criminal in the past 30 years that at one time was not considered so.  
 
Whenever possible discuss this county policy with friends, and
encourage them  not to sign the petitions to put it on the ballot. It will just delay needed reform and cause lots of wasted time and money.  You can see David's own comments and reasoning on www.davidpepper.com
<http://www.davidpepper.com> .
 


Firetongue Jeanette Raichyk Rebutts “safety of nuclear”:


Ellen,
Surely you jest....  see the hilarity exposed below.   Jeanette
(Ivan’s original essay in blue; Jeanette’s rebuttal in black.)



On Safety of Nuclear Power
By Ivan Maldonado, U.C Nuclear Engineering Prof
.


(Ivan also has written in rebuttal of the charges by Jeffrey Sea and Jeanette Raichyk that his testimony at the Piketon hearing was swayed by involvement with the DOE- U.S. Department of energy— and I would like to print them later, but the following remarks are of particular interest to me now.  ellen)
Dear Ellen,

I believe that nuclear power in the Western World is safe and has historically and consistently proven to be safer than all other large-scale "base load" type of energy productions (1000 MW-electric per plant).  Some will argue that Three Mile Island was a nuclear disaster, however, I believe that it was really mostly a "financial disaster" because it actually proved that containment buildings (1 meter thick steel lined dome over the reactor) protect the public from a "meltdown."  Chernobyl, on the other hand, was a design that broke many of the Western-world practices, among them a lack of a containment building, and its outcome was surely a wake up call for everyone; engineers and public alike, especially in that part of the world.

There was no meltdown at ThreeMileIsland so we have no proof of safety for this claimed design wonder!  No invulnerability proved.
  
Just because the Russians didn't provide that level of insulation for their own space doesn't prove a thing except that they were in such a hurry to emulate our own rush to 'modern living' that they compromised their safety principles and lots of other principles as well, including economics...  shoulda, coulda, woulda proof is void thinking.  Nor does their installing it now, after the barn has burned prove anything but current western involvement..  



The US nuclear power program, in particular, has shown an incredible safety record since TMI.  Their efficiency has basically increased by 30% (plant capacity/availability factors went from 60% to 90% in the past 30 years), a power output equivalent to about 30 nuclear power plants that never had to be built.  However, they cannot get any more efficient than they are and another 30 potential plant orders are looming in the horizon (about 30% increase from 103 operating nuclear power plants today in the US).  Investors, who make these things happen (at 3 to 5 billion per plant), and operators (those who run the plants) are more comfortable with the thought of profitably producing energy, so they will most likely follow through.

Just for the record, according to a letter I just received from Senator Voinovich the law that stands in the way of the building of any more nukes is still in place and no one has any way to intelligently succeed in meeting the law's requirement before any of those 'looming' nukes can be even licensed.  

Whether the big money 'investors' can buy a loophole in some subsequent law remains to be seen.  None of these nuke proponents has 'proven' that they can safely deal with the waste.  None, nada.  Unproven.  No more nuke licenses.

And 30 years is nothing compared to the eons that we will have to be constantly vigilant in hopes of no disaster from the waste already in our midst.



Unfortunately, there is a human price we pay to live the modern lives we lead.  I read in the paper just yesterday about 38 or so coal plant workers who died in a coal mine accident (not too long after the West Virginia and other similar type accidents).  Likewise, the millions of tons of NOx and SOx pollutants being tossed in the air daily by fossil fueled plants in an irretrievable from are basically being collected in our lungs as "filters."  Nobody really knows the long term effects of all this, and also global warming is another important aspect to consider.


Those of us who've studied and experimented in energy efficiency and simplification are here to tell you that what we will 'lose' if we do re-engineer our 'modern lives'  is well worth giving up.  And this bogus threat of a 'justifiable price' for wellbeing is a shellgame.  Lots of us live the 'cyberhobbit life' -- a blend of simple and high-tech -- and have not felt any loss, only the contrary, major benefits.

As for the mine accidents, that is a labor injustice, highly correctable.  Nuclear waste's undesirability on yours or my doorstep is not correctable for eons.

As for the dirty coal idea...  the solution is simple and actually saves us in many other ways.  Thermal depolymerization -- TDP -- is a proven technology that has already reached commercial viability and is capable of cleaning up coal before the generation of electricity is involved.  Yes it will cost a little more but look at it's 'side effects'...  TDP would also extract the mercury and other minerals that now enter the air and water, which not only saves us from those pollutants, but reduces our mining needs for commercially valued minerals.  But the icing is that TDP also produces oil, nice light clean-diesel-like oil.

We don't want, don't need nukes.  We want TDP and should demand it.


Nuclear waste is a scary and toxic thought, as are many chemicals handled for so many other modern activities that support our comfortable lifestyle.  However, nuclear waste is a byproduct (inevitable with any form of energy generation) that we actually have physical control over.  We know where it is, we can monitor and manage.  The science is there to protect the public (spent nuclear fuel has been sitting at nuclear power plant spent fuel pools for 30, 40, and more years).  So, in my opinion, would we rather blow the byproducts into the air, or have them somewhere where we can physically contain it and protect it.

Nuke waste is not a 'thought', it is a physical threat that lasts for eons.  The idea that we would need to be uncomfortable in order to reduce the toxicity in our industrial production is more threats without proof.

The 'byproducts' of TDP's production of energy totally dispels the velvet sleight of hand about 'inevitability'.  And the relatively low-tech nature of TDP displays the unreliability of these comfort-nuke connection claims.  

We have control over nuclear waste?  Not without arms that reach for eons.  What a sham, talking about 30, 40 years?  Totally a coverup of the real scary reality.



The GNEP idea revolves around recycling some of the components in nuclear waste, and minimizing the volume and toxicity of the waste, that is what I think.  However, it is obvious that there are many other political and financial interests involved.  There is a price we must pay to generate energy, no free lunch.  I think nuclear power gives us an option to perhaps invest our money and brains to deal with the waste, whereas fossil fuels take away that option and the sickness, disease, and global warming associated with it will just keep getting worse.


We don't need a free lunch.  TDP can deal with just about any of our usual wastes, including the industrial HAZMATs and the biomedically diseased wastes.  Just not nuke waste.

If the costs of some responsible industrial operation are too high, we should immediately question the necessity of that production.  Necessity justifies its own costs.

Nor is there reason to think global warming isn't containable without nukes.  Demand TDP, not nukes.


One other interesting consideration is the fact that about 80 nuclear reactors run the submarines, aircraft carriers and destroyers that protect our country.  They've been doing this safely for nearly 50 years.

I believe the experience (good and bad) acquired over the past 50 years with nuclear power has led the US and other Western countries to a safe and clean(er) way to generate very large amounts of electrical energy.  Plants and systems are getting better and safer, and more new ideas for even safer designs are being studied, including nuclear fusion.

If the glorious west is so magically safe and able to control the nukes in their history, why are the europeans -- especially the french with their major nuke game -- so eager to develop the nuke dump in the US with the potential to rid themselves of their own nuke waste???

As for the subs and carriers and destroyers...  the swedes are very successfully turning to an almost lost, old design from a Scottish engineer -- Stirling engines -- and their navy has been pleased with their submarines developed with this technology by Kockums.  The vaunted US Navy has been repeatedly unable to track the swedes hybrid diesel-electric Stirlings in joint maneuvers and testing because the swedes are air-independent and only use their diesels coming in and out of port.   Meanwhile the swedes were able to score hits -- taking closeup photos of unaware US subs and smiling all the while.   We've heard the Japanese are also actively working on applications.  Let's dump the nukes and work on the good stuff!


I think you just have to look at the record and you might agree....Regards,-Ivan

Not a chance!

Jeanette Raichyk, AEA (Alternative Energy Association) Co-Chair, which is where we tinker with lifestyle-energy connections






 
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Section Four: Books/Movies/Magazines/Reviews
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Come on... send me names of books and stuff  you are enjoying.  ellen
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I am
currently reading a new biography of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes.  Exhaustive, authoritative, fascinating.  Dylan is a Motzart in our time.  A shakespeare?  Surely a giant.  

Also enjoying Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card, the concusion of the Ender saga.  Fascinating writing.  Was grieved recently when told by my son that Card is a terrible homophobic.  


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