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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 Wednesday this week:
Eve Harper, Vlasta Molak, Ginger Lee Frank, Adrienne Cooper, Carolyn Aufderhaar, Spencer Konicov, Marilyn Gale, Rob Nendahwaab, Alan Jozwiak, Jeff Cobb, Mr. G., Gerry Kraus, Marvin Kraus, Elaine Bradford,
Announcements:
- The Drop Inn Center called and thanked us again for serving our meal to the 300 homeless people.
- The Breadline blog (www.the-breadline.com) is a hub for people looking for jobs to share stories, humor, and tips.
- Earth Hour update: Jeff Cobb: turning off all non essential lights 8:30 pm March 28, Sat, for one hour. I talked to the mayor, and the city will participate officially. Larry Falkin, head of the Dept Environmental Quality... This was started 3 yrs ago by the World Wildlife Fund in Sydney Australia, now cities all around the world. Thanks to Ginger Lee Frank, salonista, for helping me negotiate City Hall. It would help a lot for you to call council members and urge the city participate. It looks favorable at present.
- Earthsave Sunday: 4:30 at Clifton U. Methodist Church, on Permaculture, with Braden Trauth
- Play Forward benefit 8 pm Madison Theater in Covington, Thursday 3/12. Tickets avail. Online. Peter Framptom might be there.
- Alan Jozwiak play “Only When I Bleed”. It went exceptionally well. We placed third at Cinti Directors’ competition. Now getting into film making, short plays.
- Marilyn Adam’s Blood Hounds;
NOTE FROM LAST WEEK’S DISCUSSION ABOUT THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
Spencer: Wall St. Journal. We all know about this mortgage backed securities, bundled, sliced, resold. The problem is that no one knows the true value of these bonds. There is no market for it. When Lehman Bros went under, they had been the major marketer. So then there was no market for them. No one wanted to buy. Billions of dollars, now no one wanted them. Many of those slices are still bringing in mortgage payments.
Gerry: my son and dau in law have an estate in Washington they just sold a couple weeks ago. They can’t close because they can’t locate “the” mortgage. They have a buyer. Can’t find who has the mortgage document.
Marvin Another aspect...if you are the property owner, it is a wonderful opportunity to stop paying because nobody is going to throw you out. This will only make the economic crisis worse.
Rob: There is a bill in congress to allow the courts to adjust the mortgages to keep people in their homes. Ohio Sen. Voinavich is against it.
TOPIC:
The Murder of Esme Kinney Saturday afternoon by a recently released sex offender.
Carolyn: I read briefly in the Enquirer online the background of the suspect. Why is this man on the streets? Police are going after petty crime perpetrators, pot smokers rather than these people.
Marilyn: there were a couple of black girls murdered before. Now he has crossed racial lines. There is a greater outcry.
Rob: the others were bodies found well after the fact.
Marvin: he had been in a half way house and was evicted for fighting. It wasn’t reported until 48 hours. The halfway house was operated by the volunteers of America. Makes us wonder how carefully they operate their facility; how carefully the courts and probation departments are monitoring ... What kind of a system do we have ?!
Ginger: wasn’t there a search for him on Friday, but stopped on the weekend because they don’t work on the weekend?
Rob: the social workers etc. are overloaded... He spent 16 yrs in jail, then was in the halfway house.
Jeff: at City Hall, there were many meetings, council members were grilling people. Somebody asked to shut down the Volunteers of America. So Council is looking into this.
Gerry: What should be done to prevent this happening?
Spencer: let go the drug dealers and use jail and police to get the criminals. If you have an ounce or more of marijuana you go to jail.
Rob we got medical marijuana legalized in Michigan this year past; It passed with over 70%.
Marilyn: he should have been in the system, would have had a case manager; have manager.
Ginger: this is the guy who stabbed his ex girlfriend’s boyfriend ten times the day before. They were looking for him.
Marilyn: we would want to know from the prison the nature of his crime and his behavior in prison; Why was he released from prison. What info did the halfway house get when they got him. The VOA facility has 62 sex offenders...
Adrienne: we closed our mental health facilities who used to house the criminally insane...
Marilyn: did this man have mental health issues? He doesn’t look right.
Jeff one person speaking at City Hall today wanted to have VOA closed.
Ellen: are there any measures that the community can take to make our neighborhoods safer?
Gerry: Law that you cannot jog alone...?
Spencer: we have to accept risk in a free society.
Ginger people like this are going to stalk and kill if that is what they want to do.
Gerry: I know that is a very caring community. They were out beating the bushes before dusk on Sat. that’s where David Rosenberg lives.
Elaine remember the LEAP presentation, asking that we let go the petty drug offenders, and use our resources to work with dangerous criminals instead.
Marilyn: I knew of a man who was paranoid schitzophrenic who cut off his mother’s head and they released him; he told me that he wasn’t going to take any meds.
Mr. G. Obama has come out in favor of charter schools.
Ginger: I was told that 90% of prison and jail inmates are there for minor drug offenses.
Gerry: marijuana still being illegal after all these years must be because somebody is making money. The prison industrial complex.
Marilyn: Rivercity is a county correctional facility with low level people. They won’t take people with mental health issues. Felonies 4,5 and 6.
How many criminals don’t have mental health issues.
Vlasta I was very much involved in the new jail voting thing. One cell would cost 110,000 for adult, 220,000 for a child. I thought it was highway robbery. Fortunately it was voted down. I went with the public defended to see who goes to jail: some young mother who went to see her child even though court ordered not to; some guy who peed in the park; 80% of people in jail don’t belong there. Not dangerous. They are blocking this whole justice system, so that the dangerous people fall through the cracks.
Spencer: 90% of all crimes in America have a drug component. So if you legalize all drugs; can buy them in the drug store, then 95% of the jail cells are empty!
Ginger: there is such a gang violence substructure that is screwing up world economy...
Spencer: heroin in Afghanistan...major crop.
Ginger Why is alcohol and tobacco legal, while marijuana and PCP etc. are illegal. ... There is tons of money to be made in hemp...
Vlasta Cocaine is mostly for rich guys... Crack is for the poor.
Elaine We went from Esme’s death to prisons to legalizing drugs. Sounds idealistic...
Spencer: ... War does bring economic prosperity to those engaged in the war, but at the expense of the rest of the population!
Let’s write a letter to congressmen that there is a link between the money to the Taliban for heroin, our criminal justice-overcrowding in jails, and our non efficient economy... And the death of Esme. People not out producing the goods and services that make life better rather than working as prison guards...
Garden project in Cincinnati
Ginger we are thinking of creating a Cincinnatus Award, from Warriors to Gardeners. Crowley introduced the Cinti Farms Proposal, renamed Urban Gardens Pilot Project. City ows 15000 pieces of land; of those 80 are suitable for growing vegetables. Of these 15 have been selected as pilot projects in 9 neighborhoods; S Cummingsville; California; OTR; ... Idea is get proposals by March 20. Applications to parks department Go to website of Cincinnati govt. “Urban Gardens Pilot” http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/pages/-35862-/
...
Spencer all these things are linked together; decriminalize drug behavior.
Marvin: people with mental health problems like Mr. Kirkland (the acused murderer)... Do we want them in the jails just vacated by the drug people.
(aGo around with talking stick)
Elaine I like the fact that we are a group who know the best outcome, but the only action I have heard proposed is Spencer’s letter to be sent out. What actually will we do.
Vlasta: I think that letter should go to all the congressmen and senators and Obama and the State officials. Carefully composed.
Board of Corrections; mental health board. Simon Leis. He is blocking progress in this county. Has he sold his submarine yet?
Eve You are all civilized people, want right things to happen. Personally I don’t think legalizing drugs is an answer to anything. I know people who have been into drugs, and behavior can be altered... I think that it would be chaotic. ... There does have to be issue resolution.
Marvin: in our letter...use this newly liberated space in our jails to help people with mental problems who have been involved in crimes... There is this “not guilty by reason of insanity” rule, it is crazy. Also, if you are insane, cannot be tried until you have regained your sanity.
So we are dealing with mentally ill people involved in a crime, and we want to keep these people in custody.
Spencer: the economy is a mess; we can’t afford to put all these people in jail. Since the major cause of incarceration is the Hatch Act which I want repealed. Decriminalize drugs; tax drugs.
Adrienne: I am just sick about this poor little girl. I just cannot believe that these people are out on the street,... I know they are! I try to tell myself We are all safe, when I know very well we are not.
Marilyn The miracle is that this doesn’t happen more often. That guy was public record...dangerous... There should be better tracking.
Ginger what can we all do? It is great to write a letter... I try to participate in committees ... Tonight will be writing a letter about reforming the food served in captive populations like schools, prisons, hospitals. It is known that milk is bad for most children for color, for instance. ... I am writing these templates about this. My templates will be perceived as “too radical”. I do what I can but I am getting tired.
if people will do anything to get their crack, wouldn’t it be better if they can just go to the drug store and get it? They wouldn’t have to steal to get it.
Adrienne: the problem is not just milk, it is sugar. Everyone has candy in the schools! It is an addiction.
Ginger There was a high school for the violent, terrible kids in Wisconsin city. They fed them 3 meals a day; took away beef, turkey, milk. Kids behavior changed radically in only 2 weeks. Every year that principal fills out bad behavior reports — from graffiti to bringing arms to school. During the 5 years they had changed food, she was able to put zeros in all those categories. (See http://www.michaelfieldsaginst.org/programs/urban/case_study.pdf
Or also: http://www.feingold.org/PF/wisconsin1.html
Gerry: I would recommend in the letter we say that the system must be improved and made more accountable... Maybe electronic data keeping, like Obama wants in the health care system. A guy like that perpetrator shoud not be running around loose. He should never have been on the streets in the first place.
Mr. G. pass
Alan: lots of interesting points made here tonight. Many of them have deep merit. The thing strikes me about all this is that even though we cn try to prevent thee things, there will always be a time when no matter how hard we try, they are going to happen. There is always a risk. I am also involved in the Cinti. Area Puppetry Guild. I think Esme Kinney and her family are involved with that. They want to have some sort of puppet show for young people to help deal with the issue of sexual predators, heighten awareness. Maybe I will help in writing.
What we want is to make these incidents as infrequent as possible.
~ End of Table Notes~
- Hugs to everyone,
Ellen
Section Two: Events & Opportunities
Imagine a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim creating a Totem of Tolerance. Fanchon Shur's choreography and Bonia Shur's music make it possible. Join us for this free event: tonight, Thursday, March 12. Dinner at 6:30. Performances - including a brass band, a gospel choir, a Muslim rapper and Totem of Tolerance - begins at 7:30. Faith United Church of Christ, 6886 Salem Road, Cincinnati. 513.878.8402 or 513.221.3222 for more information.
SATURDAY 14 MARCH Vegan Cooking Class with Adrienne Cooper
2:00-4:00 $35 at Park and Vine store down town (corner Central Pkwy and Vine)
Register ahead by phoning 542 0055
(I have taken Adrienne’s class before and it was super, and the food absolutely delicious. Ellen)
PERMACULTURE DESIGN
with Braden Trauth
Braden has traveled the world researching permaculture.
He teaches a 72 hour certification course in Permaculture Design.
Sunday, March 15, 2009, 4:30pm
Clifton United Methodist Church
3416 Clifton Avenue 45220
Please bring a vegan dish to share
and your own plates, cups, utensils
and please remember to take home everything you brought that is not compostable.
For more information call: 513-929-2500
Email: cincinnati@earthsave.org
Visit: http://cincinnati.earthsave.org
EarthSave educates people about the powerful effects our food choices have on the environment,
our health and all life on earth, and encourages a shift toward a healthy plant-based diet.
Everyone Welcome!
A Morning Cup of Yoga! With professional teacher Phoenix Wilson
When: Fridays 9:00 – 10:30 AM
Where: THE LLOYD HOUSE third floor Zendo
Leave your car in the back or on Lafayette Ave., bring a sticky mat if you have one, let yourself in the front door, leave your shoes in the foyer and find your way to the third floor. We’ll see you there!
Date: Starting January 30th 2009
Cost: $ 13 each class or $ 77 for the 7 week session
Greetings and Happy New Year!
Start your day and weekend with a clear mind, invigorated body and renewed spirit.
This class is open to new and experienced students.
Instructor, Phoenix Wilson, RYT , 859-341-9642 phoenixwilson@mac.com <mailto:phoenixwilson@mac.com> , please call or e-mail if you are interested in or have questions about the class.
A little bit about my background ~~ I am a certified Yoga and Tai Chi Chih instructor. My studies include various styles of Yoga primarily focusing on Iyengar and Anusara. I have been teaching for the past eight years in the greater Cincinnati area including three years of training and teaching in Japan. My goal is to blend what I have learned into a fully integrated practice. Our practice will focus on the cultivation of healthy body alignment, the flow of energy in the body and a more peaceful and open heart. I am excited to have this opportunity to share in the practice of Yoga at the Lloyd House!
Namaste. Phoenix
See our CRAIG’s List Ad for Lloyd House Vacancy:
http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/roo/1055829081.html
April 1 2009 avail.
2 rms + private bath in Gaslight Clifton Historic Castle, 3rd floor. Huge, Multicultural house (4 other adults plus you). Other (shared) rooms: living room/music room, grand piano, zendo meditation room, big dining room, spacious veranda, TV room with wood burning fireplace, weight room, laundry rm, sauna. You share kitchen with 3 others. Furnishings available. High speed wyFi. Beautiful environment, awesome vibes, great people. Weekly pot luck salon, yoga and tai chi classes, monthly drumming circle, vegetable garden, off street parking, seasonal parties w/ live music. Two mi. N of U.C. Great for mature grad student or visiting prof. No undergraduates, no smoking. Available 1 April 2009. $460 includes utilities. Call Ellen 513 221 1289.
Ed Gutfreund offers: Music, food, community, conversation, Sunday 15 March. (Ed is a terrific guy, known him for years, does body work, psychotherapy etc. etc. I plan to be there. Ellen)
Ellen,
I am planning a concert-community conversation for March 15. Can you add it to your events portion of the weekly a couple of times till then? I would appreciate it. Hope you are well these days,
Ed
The healing social life is found when in the mirror of each human soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the community the virtue of each one is living. - -Rudolf Steiner.
You are invited…
To an afternoon of music and community conversation…
I have arranged with some long-time musical friends (Bobby Fisher, Steve Hayes, Mary Schulz, Jeff McLemore, Skip Kroner, Mark Davis) to do some music for your inspiration and enjoyment. We want to anticipate the changes of the Spring Equinox and season as well as to consider and celebrate the possibilities that arise when we are well-connected in community. I would like you to come and participate!
The late afternoon gathering will be made up of three sets of music along with reflections, stories, and some singing together. Between the music segments I’ll invite and guide everyone to participate in a community conversation based on the generous work of Peter Block’s A Small Group. I believe quality conversation is right up there with good music as a highly influential experience. These conversations will offer you an opportunity to meet new people, to make connections, and to find ways to recognize, celebrate, and bring forth the positive possibilities available to you at this time.
After a final set of music we will share food and the conversations can continue. Please bring some easy finger food for the potluck.
I am looking forward to seeing friends as well as new people who are interested in bringing their wisdom and hope to this feast of community. Please pass this email on to others who might want to participate in the joy of this gathering.
See you in a few weeks,
Ed Gutfreund
Date: Sunday, March 15.
Time: 4:30-6:30 or so. Cost: Donations will be asked to cover expenses.
Place: St. Bernard Church Annex building
745 Derby Ave. (Spring Grove Village, formerly Winton Place.)
Cincinnati, OH 45232
Please RSVP to reserve a place. There is limited space for this event.
Email Ed@presencepractice.com <mailto:Ed@presencepractice.com> , or call 513-319-4432. Remember, bring a little food to share and something that makes a sound (shaker, keys, drum, your voice).
Ellen,
Here is the contact list for Mayor and Council. Please ask everyone to contact them in support of Cincinnati Earth Hour. As I mentioned there will first be a resolution put before the Education, Environment, and Health Committee (possibly on the 17th), then if it passes the vote there, it will go to the full Council for a vote.
Thanks again for another great Salon!
Jeff Cobb
cell 937.287.7208
Mayor Mark Mallory, Phone: (513) 352-3250
Fax: (513) 352-5201
Email: mark.mallory@cincinnati-oh.gov
Vice Mayor David Crowley
Phone: (513) 352-2453
Fax: (513) 352-2365
david.crowley@cincinnati-oh.gov
Y. Laketa Cole
Phone: (513) 352-3466
Fax: (513) 352-3957
laketa.cole@cincinnati-oh.gov
Jeff Berding
Phone: (513) 352-3283
Fax: (513) 352-3289
jeff.berding@cincinnati-oh.gov
Chris Bortz
Phone: (513) 352-3255
Fax: (513) 3264
chris.bortz@cincinnati-oh.gov
Greg Harris
Phone: (513) 352-5304
Fax: (513) 352-4657
greg.harris@cincinnati-oh.gov
Leslie Ghiz
Phone: (513) 352-3344
Fax: (513) 352-3277
leslie.ghiz@cincinnati-oh.gov
Chris Monzel
Phone: (513) 352-3653
Fax: (513) 352-4649
chris.monzel@cincinnati-oh.gov
Roxanne Qualls
Phone: (513) 352-3604
Fax: (513) 352-3621
roxanne.qualls@cincinnati-oh.gov
Cecil Thomas
Phone: (513) 352-3499
Fax: (513) 352-3218
cecil.thomas@cincinnati-oh.gov
Jeff
IDEAS FOR MENTAL HEALTH:
(See my pieces on wellness in my website http://www.lloydhouse.com ... Useful pieces about insomnia, eating disorder, visiting family at holidays, and the newest, how husbands fear their wives...etc.)
Everyone needs a psychologist sometime in their life.
Ellen Bierhorst Ph.D. is a good one. In practice over 30 years. 513 221 1289
Areas of particular interest: 12 Step Program support; Family and Relationship issues; Young Adult Issues; Chronic Illness and Senior Adult Issues; Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered Issues, Holistic Wellness (body/mind/spirit approach), Clinical Hypnosis, EMDR.
- Get a fresh perspective. Sort out tangles in interpersonal relationships. Clear away the messes of the past. Become empowered to launch your new life. Heal trauma, change, loss. Escape from the bondage of addictive behavior(alcohol, drugs, food, tobacco, gambling, etc.)
- Central location (Clifton Ave. at Lafayette)
- Beautiful setting (The historic Lloyd House)
- Many health insurance plans will pay a percentage. (Standard fee $125/hour. Some pro bono work available.)
- Compassion and good humor.
- Rapid results.
We'd like to invite you to join us for our first LEVEL I ANIMAL COMMUNICATION CLASS of 2009!
This class is designed to be both informative and experiential. Students will come away with both knowledge and experience in basic animal communication skills. We keep our class sizes small so that each student gets individual attention and instruction. You'll learn to communicate with animals both in person and at a distance. Our animal teachers include dogs, cats, horses, an iguana as well as your own pets.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28th & SUNDAY MARCH 29th 1 - 5 p.m.
Class is held in our home just north of Cincinnati in Pleasant Plain, OH
COST - $225
Certificate of completion is provided at conclusion of class.
Former students may repeat the class for $175.
CONTACT CINDY TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE IN THE CLASS!!
513-310-3997 or email cindy@cindyhuff.com
A flyer (below) is attached . Please join us!
Cindy Huff & Terri Noftsger
Animal Communication and Wellness Services
New Jewish Group Forming
3/8/09
A group of 14 women and one man met today in a Wyoming living room to discuss our concern that Jews who question Israel’s handling of the Gaza/Palestinian conflict are feeling alone, beleaguered, confused, and vilified by the major public voices of American and Cincinnati Jewry. We’d like to let others in the Jewish community (and wider community also) know that there are some Jews-- serious, loving, loyal Jews who are not at all sure of the correctness of Israel’s responses. We’d like to study these complex issues in more depth, and to let people know where they can get balanced information.
To these ends we planned today to pick a name, launch a website, and take out an ad in the local Jewish Community newspaper, the American Israelite to put people in touch with this alternative viewpoint. We will have another meeting on a Sunday afternoon, either April 12 or 26.
If and when such a website is launched, it will be announced in this Weekly newsletter. Watch for it every Thursday.
Friday morning Yoga class with professional Yoga teacher Phoenix Wilson (she’s terrific!) starting 1/30/09, $13, ($11 if you buy a series of 7). 9:00 – 10:30 am.
YOGA practice group at Lloyd House. Wednesdays 9:15 – 10:30 am. Open, free practice group led by Nina Tolley.
Tai Chi
Tai Chi practice group Sundays 10:15 a.m. Led by Jackie Millay. Experience the chi with this gifted leader. Beginners welcome. Qigong and Tai Chi forms. Ellen
Mark your calendar; Plan to attend; Ask for a brochure earthspiritrising@imagoearth.org; Register http://www.earthspiritrising.org/... these are the Powerful Dreamers. David Korten, et al.... Envision our world a different place...then see how you can bring it to being. ellen
June 12-14, 2009
Xavier University Cintas Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
EarthSpirit Rising: A Conference on Ecology,
Spirituality and Living Economies
examines economic models that are based on Earth's living systems.
highlights initiatives that support and expand local and regional production of food, energy, goods and services.
explores the cultural and spiritual dimensions of a transformation to living economies.
To register go here:
http://www.earthspiritrising.org/
Reduced price food!
on 2/22/09 8:02 AM, Mary Swart at morninglory@zoomtown.com wrote:
If you or someone you know is having difficulty putting food on the table here is a wonderful resource of good food at a greatly reduced price. They have numerous locations in Cincinnati.
http://www.angelfoodministries.com/
Articles
- Women’s need for each other...scientific study
- Readers’ responses about the economic crisis...interesting stuff.
- Report on the Environmental Justice Ordinance process
- Stimulus package details, state by state
Scientists Validate Women’s Need for Each Other
(Sent in by Sunny Collins, in Seattle)
I love it when the scientists discover the obvious! sunny
An alternative to fight or flight
©2002 Gale Berkowitz
A landmark UCLA study suggests friendships between women are special. They shape who we are and who we are yet to be. They soothe our tumultuous inner world, fill the emotional gaps in our marriage, and help us remember who we really are. By the way, they may do even more.
Scientists now suspect that hanging out with our friends can actually counteract the kind of stomach-quivering stress most of us experience on a daily basis. A landmark UCLA study suggests that women respond to stress with a cascade of brain chemicals that cause us to make and maintain friendships with other women. It's a stunning find that has turned five decades of stress research---most of it on men---upside down.
Until this study was published, scientists generally believed that when people experience stress, they trigger a hormonal cascade that revs the body to either stand and fight or flee as fast as possible, explains Laura Cousin Klein, Ph.D., now an Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University and one of the study's authors. It's an ancient survival mechanism left over from the time we were chased across the planet by saber-toothed tigers.
Now the researchers suspect that women have a larger behavioral repertoire than just fight or flight; In fact, says Dr. Klein, it seems that when the hormone oxytocin is release as part of the stress responses in a woman, it buffers the fight or flight response and encourages her to tend children and gather with other women instead. When she actually engages in this tending or befriending, studies suggest that more oxytocin is released, which further counters stress and produces a calming effect.
This calming response does not occur in men, says Dr. Klein, because testosterone---which men produce in high levels when they're under stress---seems to reduce the effects of oxytocin. Estrogen, she adds, seems to enhance it.
The discovery that women respond to stress differently than men was made in a classic "aha" moment shared by two women scientists who were talking one day in a lab at UCLA. There was this joke that when the women who worked in the lab were stressed, they came in, cleaned the lab, had coffee, and bonded, says Dr. Klein. When the men were stressed, they holed up somewhere on their own. I commented one day to fellow researcher Shelley Taylor that nearly 90% of the stress research is on males. I showed her the data from my lab, and the two of us knew instantly that we were onto something.
The women cleared their schedules and started meeting with one scientist after another from various research specialties. Very quickly, Drs. Klein and Taylor discovered that by not including women in stress research, scientists had made a huge mistake: The fact that women respond to stress differently than men has significant implications for our health.
It may take some time for new studies to reveal all the ways that oxytocin encourages us to care for children and hang out with other women, but the "tend and befriend" notion developed by Drs. Klein and Taylor may explain why women consistently outlive men. Study after study has found that social ties reduce our risk of disease by lowering blood pressure, heart rate, and cholesterol. There's no doubt, says Dr. Klein, that friends are helping us live longer.
In one study, for example, researchers found that people who had no friends increased their risk of death over a 6-month period. In another study, those who had the most friends over a 9-year period cut their risk of death by more than 60%.
Friends are also helping us live better. The famed Nurses' Health Study from Harvard Medical School found that the more friends women had, the less likely they were to develop physical impairments as they aged, and the more likely they were to be leading a joyful life. In fact, the results were so significant, the researchers concluded, that not having close friends or confidants was as detrimental to your health as smoking or carrying extra weight.
And that's not all. When the researchers looked at how well the women functioned after the death of their spouse, they found that even in the face of this biggest stressor of all, those women who had a close friend and confidante were more likely to survive the experience without any new physical impairments or permanent loss of vitality. Those without friends were not always so fortunate. Yet if friends counter the stress that seems to swallow up so much of our life these days, if they keep us healthy and even add years to our life, why is it so hard to find time to be with them? That's a question that also troubles researcher Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D., co-author of Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls' and Women's Friendships (Three Rivers Press, 1998). The following paragraph is, in my opinion, very, very true and something all women should be aware of and NOT put our female friends on the back burners.
Every time we get overly busy with work and family, the first thing we do is let go of friendships with other women, explains Dr. Josselson. We push them right to the back burner. That's really a mistake because women are such a source of strength to each other. We nurture one another. And we need to have unpressured space in which we can do the special kind of talk that women do when they're with other women. It's a very healing experience.
FROM PAUL RAVENSCRAFT (SALONISTA, INNACTIVE) SENDS THIS ON ECONOMIC CRISIS:
Caelidh Good posted this article on Facebook yesterday. While it takes a while to wade through the text of this article, it's well worth it. It outlines the bizarre issues surrounding this meltdown, the deregulation of credit derivatives leading to opportunities for some shadowy investors to make money by betting (against the rest of us) that the system was going to come crashing down.
Here is the link to the full article, followed by the first few paragraphs, then the full article link again.
Paul
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-28/news/what-cooked-the-world-s-economy/ <http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-28/news/what-cooked-the-world-s-economy/>
What Cooked the World's Economy?
It wasn't your overdue mortgage.
By James Lieber
Tuesday, January 27th 2009 at 2:46pm
It's 2009. You're laid off, furloughed, foreclosed on, or you know someone who is. You wonder where you'll fit into the grim new semi-socialistic post-post-industrial economy colloquially known as "this mess."
You're astonished and possibly ashamed that mutant financial instruments dreamed up in your great country have spawned worldwide misery. You can't comprehend, much less trim, the amount of bailout money parachuting into the laps of incompetents, hoarders, and miscreants. It's been a tough century so far: 9/11, Iraq, and now this. At least we have a bright new president. He'll give you a job painting a bridge. You may need it to keep body and soul together.
The basic story line so far is that we are all to blame, including homeowners who bit off more than they could chew, lenders who wrote absurd adjustable-rate mortgages, and greedy investment bankers.
Credit derivatives also figure heavily in the plot. Apologists say that these became so complicated that even Wall Street couldn't understand them and that they created "an unacceptable level of risk." Then these blowhards tell us that the bailout will pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the credit arteries and save the patient, which is the world's financial system. It will take time—maybe a year or so—but if everyone hangs in there, we'll be all right. No structural damage has been done, and all's well that ends well.
Sorry, but that's drivel. In fact, what we are living through is the worst financial scandal in history. It dwarfs 1929, Ponzi's scheme, Teapot Dome, the South Sea Bubble, tulip bulbs, you name it. Bernie Madoff? He's peanuts. MORE
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-28/news/what-cooked-the-world-s-economy/ <http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-28/news/what-cooked-the-world-s-economy/>
From: Ellen Bierhorst [mailto:ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:06 PM
To: 3 pot luck
Subject: Weekly 3/5/09 - 3
Fabulous discussion last night on the economic crisis. Send us your two cents’ worth!
I’ve been laid up with the flu, so can’t spend as much time on this edition. See you next week. E.
Ellen,
I did a report for my banking class based on this story, this is where I
got most of what I talked about yesterday.
Jeff
A Look At Wall Street's Shadow Market
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/05/60minutes/main4502454.shtml?source=search_story
CBS News Online
Your friend,
Jeff Cobb
peacefuljeff@gmail.com
EB
You're right. It (last week’s table discussion on the economy) does appear to have been fascinating. Our son, David,
the financial editor, says that the causes are highly complex, but that
two huge factors were 1)Repeal of Glass-Stegall in 1999 by Gingrich and
Clinton 2) Greenspan's reluctance to raise interest rates. We're all in a
horrible mess for which there seems to be no way out. Obama is trying, but
it may be too late.
Hope you have fully recovered.
hugs and kisses,
Evan Bukey (long distance Salonista in Arkansas)
PS Take a look at Eisenhower's Farewell Address. Aside from the famous
warning about the military-industrial complex, he also stresses the
necessity of maintaing a proper balance between the public and private
sectors of the economy. Too bad nobody paid any attention.
Hi Ellen,
Hope you feel better soon. If not, I can offer to perform a healing ceremony, if you like.
I was at the EJ (Environmental Justice City Ordinance) forum. As was Mira and Gerry Kraus. It was Crowley and some lawyer who doesn't oppose the concept of the EJ ordinance (he says), but has concerns it would keep businesses out of the areas of low income people. Crowley said the ordinance originally looked at race and income, then they just did income (lawsuit concerns). Now the ordinance is being adjusted to be city wide (maybe county wide, have to check with Crowley). At the Environmental Advisory Council, the ordinance was discussed, and Larry Falkin said it's being adjusted to deal with legal issues brought up by the city law dept. Falkin said they are virtually certain any ordinance will be contested in court, so they are trying to write it to minimize legal challenges. He said, 'You can't always pick your lawsuits, but you can pick the lawsuit you want to defend.' I love that quote!
The city still wants to move forward, but based on things people have said, Crowley isn't certain it would pass council, so he's waiting until he knows he has enough votes to put it forward. Hope that helps.
Jeff Cobb
Stimulus Package, state by state projects listed
-----Original Message-----
From: watsuannie@aol.com (Anne Frick)
Sent: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:05 am
Subject: stimulous plan-State by state-
Your Tax Dollars at work
Here's the state-by-state and city-by-city breakdown of the stimulus
package below. See the projects that are included in your town.
Click on your state to see some of the projects included in this bill. I
found it to be very interesting and informative. Also you can see that a
lot of city's & towns are not listed. I wonder why the leaders of the
missing cities and towns did not submit a wish list?
Find projects by state or territory
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/AK Alaska (46 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/AL Alabama (318 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/AR Arkansas (199 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/AZ Arizona (743 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/CA California (1971 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch..org/project/by_state/CO Colorado (201 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/CT Connecticut (449 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/DC Washington, D.C. (8 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/DE Delaware (7 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/FL Florida (1752 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/GA Georgia (266 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/HI Hawaii (316 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/IA Iowa (51 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/ID Idaho (348 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/IL Illinois (1031 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/IN Indiana (713 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/KS Kansas (139 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/KY Kentucky (524 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/LA Louisiana (433 projects)
http://www..stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/MA Massachusetts (266 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/MD Maryland (54 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/ME Maine (72 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/MI Michigan (782 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/MN Minnesota (335 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/MO Missouri (403 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/MS Mississippi (552 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/MT Montana (57 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/NC North Carolina 319 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/ND North Dakota (61 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/NE Nebraska (154 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/NJ New Jersey (261 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/NM New Mexico (215 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/NV Nevada (163 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/NY New York (289 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/OH Ohio (847 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/OK Oklahoma (223 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/OR Oregon (159 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/PA Pennsylvania (352 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/PR Puerto Rico (340 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/RI Rhode Island (116 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/SC South Carolina (271 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/SD South Dakota (30 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/TN Tennessee (103 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/TX Texas (1240 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/UT Utah (298 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/VA Virginia (400 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/VT Vermont (61 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/WA Washington (368 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/WI Wisconsin (358 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/WV West Virginia (1 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/WY Wyoming (85 projects)
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state
Books,Movies, Reviews It’s up to you folks to send me blurbs. I know you are reading. and going to movies. What? Is it good? Ellen.............................................
My brother Jack, a scholar of American native literature has a new book out on Aztec material. Check this out: http://utdigital.org/index.php Ellen
From Amy, “the secular gentile”:
(elenorrigby_2@hotmail.com)
go to see 'the reader' (recent film favored by the oscars). it is astounding and devastating on so many levels, and highlights the fact that the german people were also clearly victims of the nazis.
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Triage with Eugene Goss & Billy Larkin [Thursday 12 March @ 7:30 PM]: Eugene Goss & Billy Larkin are both Cammy Award winners for their jazz; collectively they won the CityBeat 2005 Best of The City award for Entertainment & Music. Larkin is known for his virtuosity on the keyboards with rhythm & colors, building layer upon layer, sound on sound, beat after beat, harmony over melody. Goss provides emotional depth & showmanship with an original, authentic voice whose nuance & phrasing is inspiring & celebrative. Admission is $5; free if jazz club member or if you come to happy hour (5-7 PM). Free parking. At The Redmoor, 3187 Linwood Avenue, Mt Lookout Square, Cincinnati, OH 45208. More info @ 513.871.6789, waltb31@gmail.com & www.jaspersmtlookout.com.
Ohio Innocence Project [Thursday 12 March @ 11 AM - Noon]: The Wise Temple Senior Adults present the Ohio Innocence Project, dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted prisoners. Speaker will be Dr. Mark A. Godsey, Professor of Law & Director of the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project, University of Cincinnati College of Law. A released prisoner will be in attendance. A light lunch will follow the program (cost is $7 per person). At The Wise Center, 8329 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236. More info, RSVP & order lunch @ seniors@wisetemple.org.
Woman’s City Club's National Speaker [Thursday 12 March @ 7:30 PM]: Gail Collins, NY Times editor & columnist, will speak on "Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity & American Politics." A native of Cincinnati, Ms Collins joined the New York Times in 1995. In 2001 she became the 1st woman ever appointed editor of the Times editorial page. Presentation is $25, presentation & reception is $125. At Millennium Hotel, 141 West 6th Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & tix @ 513.751.0100 & wcc@womanscityclub.org.
Play It Forward Benefit Concert [Thursday 12 March @ 8 PM]: A huge coming-together of local musicians performing to help fellow musicians via the 501c3 nonprofit organization Play it Forward. Gary Burbank, local comedian, radio celebrity & musician, founded Play It Forward to support local musicians in need & to help foster a strong local music community. To this end, he recruited Cincinnati musicians, friends & music supporters to get this org off the ground. Outstanding local artists contributed their talents towards a 30 track, 2-disk compilation CD which will be released at the concert. The lineup includes Gary Burbank with Blue Run, The Blue Birds, Sonny Moorman, Ricky Nye, Tracy Walker, Keith Little, Noah Hunt, Scotty Anderson & many more special guests including celebrity artists. $12 presale or $15 at the door. All proceeds from the door & CD sales will benefit the org & their mission. At Madison Theater, 728 Madison Avenue, Covington, KY 41011. More info @ 859.491.2444 & www.pifcincy.org.
Reiki First Degree Class & Attunement [Thursdays 12, 19 & 26 March @ 7-9 PM]: Experience Reiki energy healing, & learn to heal yourself & those around you. A transformative experience & a great step on your spiritual path. $90 for 3 sessions; receive a certificate when you complete the class. Classes in Walnut Hills. More info & directions @ 513.281.6864 & patricia@patriciagarry.com.
On the Same Page: a book discussion of The Soloist [Friday 13 March @ 6:30 PM]: Social worker & psychoanalyst Merrilee Atkins, MSW, & retired newspaper editor & columnist Mike Phillips lead a discussion about The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, & the Redemptive Power of Music, authored by Steve Lopez, an inspiring true story about Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless violinist, whom the author tries to "rescue." Free; pre-registration requested. The Association for Psychoanalystic Thought sponsors this event as part of the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library's annual community-wide reading program. Wine & cheese reception @ 6:30 PM; discussion starts @ 7 PM. At Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute, 3001 Highland Avenue, Correyville, Cincinnati, OH 45219. More info @ 513.531.0415 & AssnPsaThought@aol.com.
Framed Freaks - art [reception Friday 13 March @ 6-10 PM]: Matthew Hamby's satirical illustrations have been described as having a strange & gnarled style, & have been published locally in CityBeat & Cincinnati Gentlemen Magazine. Reception includes music by DJMCMLXXIII & refreshments. Free. Exhibit runs thru April 26. At NVISION, 4577 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45223. More info @ 513.542.4577 & http://nvisionshop.com.
Beyond War: A New Economy is Possible [Saturday 14 March @ 12:30-4 PM]: Judith LeBlanc is an internationally renowned speaker, co-chair of United for Peace & Justice & frequent radio guest on national news outlets. In her dynamic way, Judith will draw historical parallels from Martin Luther King’s Beyond Vietnam speech & illustrate it’s application to today. She’ll energize the audience to move beyond a militarized economy & bring about an economy that serves human needs. Workshops: ending the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan; beyond war: realistic ways to retool the economy for the common good & improved national security; building skills & alliances to end the wars & retool the economy; & healing the wounds of war. Sponsored by Intercommunity Justice & Peace Center & Xavier University’s Peace & Justice Programs. At Xavier University at Hailstone’s 2 by Bellarmine Chapel, 3800 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45207. More info @ 513.579.8547, kristen@ijpc-cincinnati.org & www.ijpc-cincinnati.org.
Skeptics on TV [Saturday 14 March @ 10 AM]: This could be your big break! Join Cincinnati skeptics as they tape a show at the beautiful Anderson Township Center for broadcast on the Time-Warner local community access channel. Association members will introduce topics for group discussion. Everyone is welcome. Free. An event of the Association for Rational Thought. At Anderson Community Television Studios, Ground Floor, Anderson Township Center, 7850 Five Mile Road, Anderson Township, 45230. Event info @ rrdavis@fuse.net. ART info @ www.cincinnatiskeptics.org. Venue info @ www.andersontownship.org.
OAR Cat Spay/Neuter Clinic [Saturday 14 March]: Appointments are available for spay/neuter of cats at the OAR Spay/Neuter clinic in Madisonville. Drop off your cat on Saturday AM; cats stays overnight after surgery; pick up the cat Sunday AM. All surgeries are $45; male & female. Vaccines are available at extra cost with surgeries. Appointments are required; directions & times determined at that time. Traps available for strays/ferals. More info @ 513.871.0185, clinic@theanimalrescue.com & www.theanimalrescue.com.
Your Spring Salad [Saturday 14 March @ 11 AM]: Get all the seeds & plants you need to grow your own delicious organic salads from Greensleeves Farm. Students attending this hands-on workshop can choose from a selection of containers & soils from City Roots & Outside. Cost ranges from $20-40 depending on container size & number of plants selected. Limited space. At Park + Vine, 1109 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & RSVP @ greensleevesfarm@gmail.com.
St. Patrick's Day on Fountain Square [Saturday 14 March]: Watch the 43rd Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Fountain Square & spend the rest of the day partying on the Square. O’Nati’s Irish Pub (aka Fountain Square) features beer, food & live music by 5 bands including a U2 cover band & Irish merchandise sold by Celtic Corner. The 2009 St. Patrick’s Day Parade begins at 8th & Broadway, travels south on Vine, turns left at 5th Street & ends at 5th & Sentinel Streets. Parade & party begin at 11 AM. The parade ends around 1 PM, but the party continues until 9 PM. Free. Food & beverages available for purchase. At Fountain Square, 5th & Vine Streets, Downtown Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ www.myfountainsquare.com & www.cincinnatisaintpatrickparade1.netfirms.com/.
The Miracle Grain [Saturday 14 March @ 2 PM]: Adrienne Cooper returns for a hands-on vegan cooking class that uses whole grains to prepare sushi, encrusted rice burgers & rice pudding. $35 registration includes food samples, recipes & educational materials. At Park + Vine, 1109 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.542.0055 & 513.702.1692.
Reiki Classes Levels I-III: Learn & be attuned to the gentle healing energy of Reiki. Level I class is Saturday 4 April (prerequisite: at least one full body reiki treatment); Level II is Saturday 14 March (prerequisite: Level I); Level III is taught in 2 parts on Saturdays 9 & 16 May (prerequisites: Level II & 1 year practice). Space is limited. Presented by Pure Reiki, Inc. Taught in instructors' homes in Green Township, 45233 & 45248. More info @ 513.347.3099, 513.451.7007, elfriede@lookitup.com & jan613@current.net.
Karuna Reiki Levels I & II Training [Saturday-Sunday 14-15 March @ 10 AM - 6 PM]: Attunement to & training on the 4 Karuna Reiki symbols for each level & how to use them with the Usui Symbols. How to empower your voice to chant & tone with Karuna Reiki for powerful healing, & additional advanced techniques such as healing the Shadow Self. You must have had Advanced Reiki Training/Usui Master IIIa for at least 6 months to be eligible. Attend 1 or both days. Nurses: 8 contact hours per day. Massage Therapists: 7 contact hours per day. Level I - $185, Level II - $225. If you have taken these levels before & have your certificates, you may review for $75 per level plus $16 for new manual if needed. Facilitated by JoAnn Utley. At Synergy Holistic Health, 7413 Hwy 42, # 3, Florence, KY 41042. More info & register @ 502.777.3865 & jutley5122@bellsouth.net.
Bach Concert [Sunday 15 March @ 3 PM]: Dr. Elmer Thomas will conduct the inaugural performance of the Bach Association of Cincinnati's Bachorale (B.A.C.H.) in a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata 140 "Wachet Auf" & Giacomo Carissimi’s "Jephte," to be sung by 6 solo voices & accompanied by the Bach Festival Orchestra. Organist Paul Welch will perform a selection of Bach organ works. This is the last of this season's Cathedral Concert Series. The concert is free. At the concert, B.A.C.H. will present the Mendelssohn Award to Robert & Rita Schaffer for their work to incorporate the music of J.S. Bach prominently in the Basilica’s many concerts over the years. The award recognizes those who champion the music of J.S. Bach. At St Mary's Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, 1140 Madison Avenue @ 12th Street, Covington, KY 41011. More info @ 859.431.2060, cathedralconcertseries@fuse.net & http://Cathedralconcertseries.org.
Blood - live theatre [Sunday 15 March @ 1:30 PM]: Just in time for the Saint Patrick's Day season, the Irish American Theater brings Irish history to life with its production of "Blood" by Larry Kirwan of the musical group Black 47. This 50 minute 1-act play is based on the Irish Easter Rebellion. Free. Suitable for teens & adults. At Reakirt Auditorium, Museum Center Union Terminal, 1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45203. More info @ 513.225.6915 & IrishAmericanTheaterCo@fuse.net.
Tea & Health Tasting & Seminar [Sunday 15 March @ 4-6 PM]: Explore the relationship between tea & health. This tasting format will include a discussion of the various health benefits of different types of tea, sorting fact from fiction. $15 per person. Essencha Teahouse, 3212 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH 45209. More info & RSVP @ 513.533.4832, tea@essencha.com & www.essencha.com.
Don Carlo: History, Music & Drama [Tuesday 17 March @ 7 PM]: Legendary opera expert Philip Gossett will take you on an amazing & thought-provoking tour of the Spanish Inquisition, the setting of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo - an opera based on a political scandal, star-crossed love & divine intervention. The Cincinnati Art Museum staff will also share information about their collection of art from Spain. $5. At Cincinnati Art Museum, Fath Auditorium, 956 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, Cincinnati, OH 45202. Use Dewitt entrance. More info & RSVP @ 513.241.2742 & www.cincinnatiopera.org/content.jsp?articleId=749.
African American Film Festival [Wednesday-Friday 18-20 March]: Miami University presents their 1st African American Film Festival. Most or all the 4 films will be shown on successive days on the 3 Miami University campuses. The films: "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans." Director: Dawn Logsdon, 67 min, 2007. Faubourg Tremé may be the oldest African American neighborhood in the US, & the home of jazz & birthplace of the Black Civil Rights struggle in the South. "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North." Director: Katrina Browne, 86 min, 2008. A family's confrontation with the continuing legacy of the slave trade. “Some kind of Funny Porto Rican? A Cape Verdean American Story." Director: Claire Andrade-Watkins, 83 min, 2006. The tragedy when an immigrant community was forced to move for urban renewal. "Revolution ‘67." Director: Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno, 90 min, 2007. An exposé of the urban rebellion in July 1967 in Newark, NJ. Schedules includes meals, discussions & Q&A with the filmmakers. Wed 18 Mar: Middletown Campus @ 142 Johnston Hall. Thu 19 Mar: Hamilton Campus @ various venues. Fri 20 Mar: Oxford Campus @ 102 Benton Hall. More info including film descriptions, schedules & locations @ 513.727.3358, camarab@muohio.edu & www.muohio.edu/africanamericanfilmfestival.
Hooray for Bollywood [Thursday 19 March @ 8 PM]: Alpana Sharma, Associate Professor in the Department of English at Wright State University, will present a lecture in which she will discuss "Slumdog Millionaire" & Indian cinema. Presented by Sigma Tau Delta (English honors society). Free. At McCoy Room, Kelly Center, South College Street, Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH 45177. More info @ james_mcnelis@wilmington.edu.
Introduction to Energy & Simple Muscle Testing [Thursday 19 March @ 7PM - 9 PM]: This class will introduce you to what energy is & why it is important to know. You will learn the steps to 3 types of effective muscle testing, how to prepare for checking, & how to ask questions needed to check yours & other’s energy fields. You will be able to more effectively check for supplements, choices, if you or your home/office are clear, check food & drink for appropriateness, etc. No experience required. Facilitated by JoAnn Utley. $30. If you have taken this with JoAnn before, you may review for $15. Registration required. At Synergy Holistic Health, 7413 Hwy 42, # 3, Florence, KY 41042. More info & register @ 502.777.3865 & jutley5122@bellsouth.net.
Films for "Fashion in Film" [Thursdays 19 March, 4 April & 16 April @ 6 PM]: What better way to appreciate the Taft Museum exhibit "Fashion in Film" than with exemplary films? This exhibit, which runs thru Sunday 26 April, features sumptuous costumes spanning 4 centuries of clothing design & 4 decades of filmmaking. Tom Zaniello (film scholar, professor & head of Honors Program at NKU) will introduce & discuss the mise-en-scene of each film, & how costume design is such an essential ingredient in movie-making. The films are "Elizabeth" (1998) with Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush & Joseph Fiennes on March 19; "Emma" (1996) with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam & Alan Cumming on April 2; & "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) with Albert Finney & Lauren Bacall on April 16. Film screenings are free; you may reserve a box dinner for $12. At Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & lunch RSVP @ 513.241.0343 & www.taftmuseum.org.
Oil Painting Still Life with Richard Luschek [Thursdays 19 March - 21 May @ 6:30-9:30 PM]: In this beginning painting course, students will not only begin with the very basics of painting, but will begin to learn how to see & study nature. The student's own work is the forum for inculcating this knowledge through verbal instruction, demonstrations & hands-on critiques. There will be plenty of suggested reading. The studio is in the Lindner Resthaven Barn marvelously reclaimed as an artist's haven. $250 tuition; $50 deposit to reserve your spot. Limited to 11 students. At the Women Art Club & Cultural Art Center, 6980 Cambridge Avenue, Mariemont, OH 45227. More info & supply list @ 513.479.3322, richard_luschek@yahoo.com, & www.richardluschek.com.
Juried Art Show for High School Students [Submission deadline: Friday 20 March]: Studio E (St.Elizabeth Arts Foundation) is hosting the 1st gallery show in their new studio space. High School students from across the region are invited to submit original artwork in response to the chosen theme: "The Way I See It." A panel of professional artists will select pieces to be included in the juried show. The public opening will be Wednesday 25 March; the exhibit will run thru Friday 10 April. At Studio E, 2nd floor, Studio 5, building next to St.Elizabeth’s Church, Carter & Lincoln Avenues, enter the Lincoln Ave door, Norwood, OH 45212. More info @ 513.578.3069, contact@stelizabetharts.com & http://tinyurl.com/dffgl2.
No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers [Friday-Saturday 20-21 March @ 8:30 PM]: In celebration of the rich depth & variety of styles present in the field of modern dance, Gesel Mason will perform works by leading contemporary African American choreographers including Reggie Wilson, David Roussève & Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Mason also choreographed one of the works for this performance "No Less Black." The project encompasses almost 70 years of choreographic imagination & expertise. Mason's performance brings these artists' work together to show the diversity of work by, for & about African Americans; her expression of their visions pushes Black Dance in America beyond stereotypes & color boundaries. Tickets are $22-27; students, seniors & ETA member are $17. At Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center for the Arts, 650 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.591.1222 & www.cdt-dance.org. Tix @ 513.621.2787 & www.cincinnatiarts.org.
Midwest Crystal Conference & Expo (Friday-Sunday 20-22 March @ 3-7PM (Fri), 10AM-6PM (Sat) & 10AM-4PM (Sun)]: The expo features national & regional vendors, healing sessions, readings, jewelry, healing tools, art, drums, books, CDs & specialty items. The conference has sessions for all levels including beginners, advanced classes & in-depth conference classes with internationally renowned crystal teachers & authors. Friday night equinox ceremony. Weekend pass is $15; 1 day pass is $10, kids under 12 are free. Full conference fee is $150 (includes weekend expo pass); single class is $40, Melody’s class is $90, class fees include Expo day pass. At Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road, Cincinnati, OH 45246. More info, registration & schedule @ 513.542.4400, www.midcrystal.com or www.4windsacademy.org.
Glass Art Demonstration & Public Participation [Saturday 21 March @ 1-3 PM]: Louisville glass artists Brook Forrest White, Jr & Susie Slabaugh White, currently showing their art in the exhibit, Double Vision, at the Marta Hewitt Gallery, will demonstrate how they make their art. Brook will demonstrate his encalmo techniques & Susie will complete 1 of her painted graal pieces at the furnace. Before the demonstration, visitors will be able to register for a drawing to occur later in the afternoon for 1 person to have the opportunity to design & create their own glass piece with Brook & Susie later in the month. The exhibit runs thru Saturday 18 April. At the Neusole Glassworks Studio hotshop, 1st floor (Marta Hewett Gallery is on the 2nd floor), 656 East McMillan Street, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.281.2780, marta@martahewett.com & www.martahewett.com.
How to Meditate [Saturday 21 March @ 2-5 PM]: Because our minds & bodies are interconnected, negative emotions like anxiety or anger can be expressed as an upset stomach or headache. Learn how to calm your mind with a simple meditation practice to bring harmony to mind & body. Monks will share the ancient practice of meditation in a half-day session of instruction, practice & discussion to help you apply these proven techniques in your everyday life. Suggested donation is $10. At Gaden Samdrup-Ling Buddhist Monastery, 3046 Pavlova Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45251. More info & RSVP @ 513.385.7116, gsl@ganden.org & www.ganden.org.
DIY Green Cleaning [Saturday 21 March @ 11 AM - 1 PM]: If you ever wanted to know how to make your own eco-friendly cleaning products then come to Abby Artemisia's DIY Green Cleaning workshop. This interactive workshop comes with plenty of recipes that include baking soda, vinegar & essential oils. Students receive 15% off any Park + Vine items used in the class. $40 registration fee is payable upon arrival. At Park + Vine, 1109 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & RSVP @ abby@goddessgardenhealing.com.
Compassionate Communication: Cultivating Peace, Within & Without [Saturday 21 March @ 10 AM - 5 PM]: Facilitator Theresa Horan-Sapunar guides participants to recognize their blocks to open, direct, honest, yet kindhearted communication & to practice the alternative method offered by this communication process. Based on Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication. $85 tuition includes lunch. Reservations with nonrefundable deposits required. Limited scholarships. At Grailville, 932 O'Bannonville Road, Loveland OH 45140. More info & registration @ 513.683.2340 & www.grailville.org:80/search_catalog.php?type=Programs.
Art of Healing [opening reception Saturday 21 March @ 6-8 PM]: This unique exhibit, "The Art of Healing," features the art of over 50 individuals dealing with grief, serious illness, disability, addiction & mental wellness. Free. Exhibit runs thru Saturday 25 April. At the Kennedy Heights Arts Center, 6546 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ 513.631.4278, ellen@kennedyarts.org & www.kennedyarts.org.
Musica Sacra Lenten Concert [Sunday 22 March @ 4 PM]: Dr. Helmut Roehrig will conduct the Musica Sacra Chorus & Orchestra in a performance of Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, Kurt Hessenberg’s Prayer of St Francis & Felix Mendelssohn’s Drei Geistliche Lieder. Free. At St. Francis de Sales Church, 1600 Madison Road, East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.961.1945, mikenell30@fuse.net & http://sfdschurch.tripod.com/.
In a Word, Literary Arts Series [Sunday 22 March @ 6 PM]: This 2nd installment of the In A Word literary arts series features Paul Debono of Pleasant Ridge, author of The Indianapolis ABC's & The Chicago American Giants., books that describe the Negro Baseball League. Meet men who played in the League who now live in Pleasant Ridge. Bring your baseballs for autographs. Hot dogs & other ballpark fare will be served. Free. At the Kennedy Heights Arts Center, 6546 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ 513.631.4278, ellen@kennedyarts.org & www.kennedyarts.org.
Sustainable Walking Tour [Sunday 22 March @ Noon]: Join the Sierra Club Miami Group for the 2nd annual Sustainable Walking Tour. Plan on a 3-5 mile walk through downtown Cincinnati & across the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge with a stop for lunch at Otto's, a wonderful little deli in Covington's MainStrasse Village. Tour ends around 3 PM. Starts & ends at Park + Vine, 1109 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.481.1926 & ejdurrell@mac.com.
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Ongoing Tri-State Treasures
Clay Alliance 10th Anniversary Show [Saturdays thru 14 March @ 10 AM - 4 PM]: The show will feature clay works from the past decade from members of the alliance, both past & present. Free. At Kennedy Heights Arts Center, 6546 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ 513.631.4278, ellen@kennedyarts.org & www.kennedyarts.org.
Black History Month Art Exhibit [thru Sunday 15 March]: Works by Jariel Galloway, Eugenie Goggin, Joanne Honschopp, Judi Parks, Wolfgang Ritschel, Robert Scholl, Paul Vollman & Zeta Wolf yield over 90 paintings, photographs, & art in other media celebrate Africa & the African American Culture. Refreshments & jazz by local band Ain't From Around Here. Discover the "Lure of Africa" while enjoying live African American musicians. Art on the Levee, between The Reserve Restaurant & Piano Lounge and Cafe Istanbul, Newport on the Levee, Newport, KY 41071. More info @ www.artonthelevee.com & www.newportonthelevee.com.
Eurydice - live theatre [thru Saturday 28 March]: This play by Sarah Ruhl is a modern retelling of the classic love story about Eurydice's death, & Orpheus' voyage to the underworld to save her. This version boasts quirky twists & unforgettable characters, like a tricycle-riding lord of the underworld & a chorus of loud-mouthed stones. Tickets are $12. At Know Theatre of Cincinnati, 1120 Jackson Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info, times & dates @ 513.300.5669 & www.knowtheatre.com.
State of Eight - Presidential Exhibit [thru Wednesday 1 April @ 8 AM - 4 PM]: The William Howard Taft National Historic site hosts a traveling exhibit celebrating Presidents day; a Bicentennial Tribute to Ohio's Presidential Legacy, on loan from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center that examines the influential role that Ohio has played in presidential politics: 8 men elected President of the United States. A series of panels explores the lives of these leaders, plus broader aspects of the Buckeye State's presidential legacy. Ohio cities have been sites for 5 presidential conventions hosted by major parties & more than 20 third-party gatherings. A long list of Ohio hopefuls tried but failed to reside in the White House, including female presidential candidate, Victoria Woodhull, in 1872. National Park Service staff provide tours. Free admission. At William Howard Taft National Historic Site, 2038 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45219; ask about free parking. More info @ 513.684.3262 & www.nps.gov/wiho.
Signing Safari [Thursdays thru 2 April @ 11 AM]: Join your child in singing, signing, playing & rhyming during this 5-week series of 45-minute play classes. Cost for all 5 classes is $75. At Park + Vine, 1109 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & RSVP @ www.signingsafari.com.
Mythography: An Exploration of Narrative by 13 Artists [thru Friday 3 April]: We are fascinated with stories, legends, myths & fables. Stories help locate us &, form our personal identities. They often operate as larger metaphors for reality. Throughout history, visual artists have offered a unique contribution to the telling of tales. Manifest invited national & international artists to come tell stories in any visual creative medium. For this exhibit, narrative art includes comic art, sequential art, documentary, animation, video/film, illustration, performance, painting, sculpture, photography & drawing; 16 works by 13 artists from across the country comprise the exhibit. At 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206. Parking on the street & across the street in DeSales Business Parking Lot. More info @ 513.861.3638, jason@manifestgallery.org & www.manifestgallery.org.
Raymond Lane, Jr. Art Exhibit [thru Friday 3 April]: Raymond Lane Jr., a local artist, will host an opening reception for his original clay sculptures of Harriet Tubman. A unique chance to view this collection of 6 sculptures in uniquely historical setting. Children, students, teachers & adults are encouraged to attend this art opening that also includes events from the Underground Railroad. Free admission; donations welcome. Exhibit closing reception is Fri 3 Apr @ 5-8 PM. At the new Harriet Beecher Stowe House, 2nd Floor Gallery, 2950 Gilbert Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.324.2218 & stowehouse@zoomtown.com.
Awakening: Path to Spirituality - paintings [thru Saturday 4 April]: This collection of paintings by artist Chuck Marshall is a sensitive & beautiful celebration of the positive power of diversity. More than 20 paintings range in subject from the “Sufi Storyteller” to “Parzi Ceremony” to “Christ in the Garden” to “Mother Theresa.” This exhibit explores themes of faith & mysticism, but ultimately reveals the oneness of the spiritual path. At Gallery 42, 105 East Main Street, #101, Mason, OH 45040. More info @ 513.234.7874, Gallery42fineart@gmail.com & www.gallery42fineart.com.
Double Vision - glass art [thru Saturday 18 April]: The glass art of Brook Forrest White, Jr & Susie Slabaugh White. Artists' demonstration Saturday 21 March (see above). At Marta Hewett Gallery, 656 East McMillan Street, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.281.2780, 513.281.0076 & www.martahewett.com.
Appearances by Artist, Writer & Spiritualist Rex Oxley with his Natural Mandala [thru 30 April]:
<> Meditate on Rex Oxley's Natural Mandala [Sundays thru 30 April @ 10:30 AM]: The region’s only member of the United Churches of Spiritual Living will use the inspiration, creativity & earthiness of the mandala as the basis of Sunday talks while the Ohio artist's spiritual artwork is exhibited at Beacon of Life Spiritual Center. Artist Oxley will lead meditation workshops & talk about his meditative creative process in building the mandala.
<> Celebrate Mother Earth with a Mandala Meditation [Wed 22 Apr @ 7:30-9 PM]: Meet Rex Oxley & his Natural Mandala.
<> Mandala Meditation Workshops [Thu 2 Apr @ 6:30-9 PM]: Rex Oxley leads how-to-meditate workshops based on his Natural Mandala. $15. All events at Beacon of Life Spiritual Center, 5701 Murray Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45227. More info @ 513.218.2128, info@beaconoflife.org, www.beaconoflife.org & www.naturalmandala.com.
Miami University Italian-American Film Series [Wednesdays thru 29 April @ 7:30 PM]: Curated & presented by Professor Sante Matteo. Free & open to the public. In 102 Benton Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. This venue is a recently refurbished auditorium with very comfortable seating (& convenient adjacent parking) on the north side of High Street (Route 27 N from Cincinnati) at the intersection of Tallawanda Street. Map @ www.miami.muohio.edu/about_miami/campusmap/. More info @ matteos@muohio.edu.
Mar 18: Son of the Sheik, with Rudolf Valentino (1926) George Fitzmaurice
Mar 25: Saturday Night Fever (1977) John Badham
Apr 1: Donnie Brasco (1997) Mike Newell
Apr 8: The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola
Apr 15: Goodfellas (1990), Martin Scorsese
Apr 22: The Freshman (1990) Andrew Bergman
Apr 29: The Sopranos, episodes from the TV series, David Chase
Italian Film Series: Italy Is Made; Now We Must Make Italians [Thursdays thru 30 April @ 5 PM]: A 2nd film series curated & presented by Professor Sante Matteo. All movies are in Italian, some without English subtitles, & will be presented in Italian; those with English subtitles are noted. Free & open to the public. In 40 Irvin Hall, East Spring Street north of South Oak Street, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. More info @ matteos@muohio.edu & www.miami.muohio.edu/about_miami/campusmap/.
Mar. 19: Il Gattopardo, part II; Cavalleria rusticana, opera, Pietro Mascagni, 1890, subtitles
Mar. 26: Tosca, opera, Giacomo Puccini, 1900, subtitles
Apr. 2: Cuore, part I, Luigi Comencini (1984—TV mini-series)
Apr. 9: Cuore, part II
Apr. 16: Cuore, part III
Apr. 23: Tutti a casa, Luigi Comencini (1960)
Apr. 30: Tornando a casa, Vincenzo Marra (2001)
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