Ornamental Shadowplay

Ornamental Shadowplay

Vera Tataro – acrylic paintings

September 3 – 30, 2013 Art House

Na Chvalske tvrzi 858/8, Prague 9

The Magic Garden

or Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk

Vera Tataro – paintings and illustrations

September 3 – 30, 2013

Chvaly Castle

We invite you to the openings of the exhibitions

on September 3rd, 2013. The first opening begins at 5 p. m.

at Art House, the second opening starts two hours later,

at 7 p. m. at Chvaly Castle, which is next to the Art House.

In the evening there will be a concert of rock legends.

Admission free.

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AlgoRates.com Says Gold To Continue Downward Trend

…By January… After Predicting Gold’s Decline, AlgoRates.com had sold the majority of their holdings prior to the downturn…

PRESS RELEASE (NEW YORK, NY) – Thomas Wentworth, a senior strategist at Algo Capital, the financial house which operates AlgoRates.com, is predicting that gold will hit record lows in the near future. In late 2012, AlgoRates.com’s analysts correctly predicted the precious metal’s price decline and by January 2013, the fund had sold the majority of their gold holdings prior to this year’s downturn.

“Since 2008,” says Wentworth, “the United States Federal Reserve and other central banks have been printing trillions in currency in order to help add liquidity to their ailing economies.” This “stimulus”, also known as Quantitative Easing, depreciated the value of paper money because its quantity in the marketplace increased. “Thus,” says Wentworth, “central banks helped ignite the rush to gold as an asset whose value cannot be decreased by government policy or economic downturns.”

Indeed, the actions of global central banks stimulated an explosion in the value of gold, with the precious metal soaring to USD $1921 in 2011. Since then, global economies have partially rebounded from the worst of the financial crisis, and central banks in the United States and Europe have started to make references to the coming reduction of their monetary stimulus activities.

According to recent data, in June 2013, consumer confidence in the United States has jumped to its highest level in more than five years. In the same month, durable goods orders were higher than expected and new homes sales rose to their strongest level in nearly five years. These economic indicators also help explain the reduction in gold prices.

Predicting that economies worldwide would take a turn for the better and that Quantitative Easing would begin to wind down in 2013, Algo Capital market strategists believed that gold would lose some of its “safe heaven” appeal. They began divesting in gold in late 2012. Today, from its USD $1921 peak, gold has plummeted to a three year low of USD $1224 this month.

Is there still room for further depreciation of gold? Thomas Wentworth, who helped develop the industry’s leading algorithmic trading robot for AlgoRates.com, believes the answer is yes.

“We are positioned for the extension of the collapse of gold, with our analysis signaling that the plunge of gold has just begun and may carry on well into 2014.” In 2014, the United States Federal Reserve is expected to terminate its quantitative easing program altogether, thus halting the flow of cheap dollars into the market. Accordingly, gold may then fall below the USD $1000 level.

“There comes a time when an asset inflates and then deflates,” says the AlgoRates.com strategist. “Barring any dramatic economic or geo-political development, we see this as the beginning of gold’s deflation.”

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Bread and Roses Festival Announces Performer Line-Up

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

July 30, 2013

BREAD AND ROSES FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES PERFORMER LINE-UP

LAWRENCE, MA. The Bread and Roses Heritage Committee announces the line-up for the 29th Annual Bread and Roses Heritage Festival.

This year’s festival will occur on September 2, 2013, in and around the Campagnone Common located at 200 Common Street in downtown Lawrence, Massachusetts, from noon to 6:00pm. The festival is free and open to the public. Over 4,000 people from the greater Boston and Lawrence areas and beyond attend this annual event.

Three stages filled with over 15 live performances ranging from music to dance to jugglers will entertain festival attendees.

Five-time Grammy nominee, Marcia Ball headlines the main stage festival performers; her band will end the day following appearances by Bread and Puppet Theatre, Odaiko New England Taiko drummers, Emma’s Revolution, and Ten Tumbao.

The second stage boasts the talents of The Good Time String Band, Berklee College of Music’s International String Trio, folk artists Charlie King and Karen Brandow, and local artists Jose Luis Rodriguez and Guillermo Ortiz.

On our kids and family stage, we’ll offer inter-active dance instruction with Veronica Robles, Irish dancing with O’Shea & Chaplin, the New England Civic Ballet, and salsa dance instruction.

The Festival celebrates Lawrence’s labor history and ethnic diversity, and particularly the historic events of the “Bread and Roses” textile strike of 1912. – This year’s Festival will also feature the re-dedication of the new Strikers’ Monument, on the Common, at 12:30 pm.

A History and Labor Section features Lawrence History Live—a tent for lively conversations on labor and the city in past and present. This year, we will highlight the history of the Ettor and Giovannitti Trial, Wobbly Songs, the work of the painter Ralph Fasanella in Lawrence, and the present-day work of numerous labor and social justice organizations.

Many information tables present a full range of cultural and social justice organizations.

Free trolley tours and walking tours around the city highlight the historical sites. Great ethnic food. All events are on or starting from the Campagnone Common in Downtown Lawrence.

Bread and Roses is the only festival in the region which celebrates the true spirit of Labor Day.

The event is free and open to the public. It is a true family event that also includes entertainment for children such as pony rides, jugglers, hula hoops, and face painting. Come join Bread and Roses for Labor Day and learn more about Lawrence’s history, its people and struggles.

For more information, to find vendor applications, to volunteer or to sign-up for the mailing list, go to http://breadandrosesheritage.org or call the office at 978-794-1655. Find us on Facebook and Twitter.

Media Contact:

Carmela Lanza-Weil

carmela@breadandrosesheritage.org

Festival Phone: 978-794-1655

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Artist Ulli Kampelmann Speaks About the “Most Valuable Picture Collection”

PRESS RELEASE (7/30/2013)- Within the society of art lovers and those in art related fields there is an ongoing discussion about the future needs of pictures as a tool to drive society forward.

In his speech about Iconic Turn, the German publisher and art historian Dr. Hubert Burda summarized thus: “Where ever is a change in communication, there are changes of the fundamentals of the society. We are living in a time of radical changes. We must think about how to create new pictures. Visual communication is expanding.”

We are attached to pictures. Pictures have the tendency to pluck a string in one’s past that resonates in our present beingness. Looking at or listening to a work of art reflects something of what you have already seen and felt, arousing you to reach out for similar sensations or spurring you to avoid it.

During the “Felix Burda Memorial Lectures, film producer Wim Wenders said, ”Every picture tells a story. Pictures reflect a location and the story behind it.”

The American architect Norman Foster said, ”Artists have the privilege of being able to create visible representations of images generated in the mind. They develop innovative means and ways to bring images from the inner world into being. I think that this perspective should not be left out on the debate on of the nature of images and the Iconic Turn. One aspect of design is curiosity. It is emerging itself.”

This is what I wish to convey with my art works. Currently I am producing a series of paintings with a fairly narrow format. The reasons for this are twofold. Keeping the size of a painting narrow suggests the glance into the past; into a slice of time. As well, these narrow views from the past might also depict an aspect of life such as I lived growing up behind the “Wall” in East Germany before my escape in 1975: Restrictions on creativity, constant surveillance and utter lack of privacy and even restrictions on one’s freedom of thought . Unfortunately there exist even today societies living under these warped conditions. My desire is to create artworks which provide a hint toward a condition, a mood, a story.

With some of my other art-forms, light becomes an essential element. Light brings another dimension into an artwork as well as the additional wavelength. For example: I filmed an interview with US ambassador Max M. Kampelman wherein he told me how much he loves to read books on the subject of Ethics. Ethics brings more clarity and understanding into problem-solving. I got the idea of a book of light which I then made for Max. For this sculpture I used glass in which are embedded lights as an association to thought.

I love to work with music. Listening to Joseph Haydn’s The Seasons conducted by Enoch zu Guttenberg…this flows one picture after the other into me.

And the first time I listened to Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach I had an almost spiritual experience. He writes about the time he was composing the music to the stagecraft of Robert Wilson “I put Wilson’s notebook of sketches on the piano and composed each section like a portrait of the drawing before me. The score was begun in the Spring of ’75 and completed in November. Those drawings where before me all the time.”

This is a further example of how one art-form leads to another. Everything we have experienced, learned and imagined are collected during the years of ones lifetime into the vessel we call our mind and we are capable of recalling them, reshuffling them and re-envisioning them to create something new.

This is the most valuable collection of pictures we own. Our own personal images; our imagination. Always available to re-look, always available to re-experience.

I’m very interested to hear from you.

Ulli Kampelmann

www.ullikampelmann.com

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MGH Institute of Health Professions is Only College in Metro Boston Named a 2013 Great College to Work For by The Chronicle of Higher Education

CHARLESTOWN – MGH Institute of Health Professions in Charlestown is the only school in Metro Boston named as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to a new survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The results of the prestigious education magazine’s sixth annual report on the Academic Workplace, the 2013 Great Colleges to Work For® survey, are based on a survey of more than 44,000 employees at 300 colleges and universities across the United States.

“Being named for the fourth year in a row as a Great College to Work For is an affirmation from our faculty and staff of our strategic commitment to being a ‘preferred place to work’,” said President Janis P. Bellack. “We are proud that the MGH Institute is considered a great place to work, and will continue to strive that it remains so.”

In all, only 97 institutions in the United States achieved “Great College to Work For” recognition for specific best practices and policies. The MGH Institute, one of just three Massachusetts schools on the list, was included in the Small Colleges division for schools that have fewer than 3,000 students.

This year, the MGH Institute received recognition in the following five categories:

• Collaborative Governance,


• Compensation & Benefits,


• Facilities, Workspace & Security,


• Confidence in Senior Leadership, and


• Respect and Appreciation.

“The institutions that the Great Colleges program recognizes provide innovative educational experiences—while also offering their employees outstanding workplace experiences—and we are eager to help readers learn more about them,” said Liz McMillen, the Chronicle’s editor.

Department of Physical Therapy Assistant Professor Tracy Brudvig, PT, DPT, PhD, OCS, Chair of the Faculty Senate, noted a culture of collaboration among faculty, staff, and administration, as well as the school’s state-of-the-art interactive classroom and physical therapy lab, as key reasons for the Institute’s high marks.

Assistant to the Dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Mary Ellen Ferolito, Chair of the Staff Council, noted the generous employee benefits for healthcare, retirement, and vacation. She also praised the Institute’s regular reviews of salary benchmarks and adjustments to ensure that employees are being paid in line with peers in other organizations.

The Chronicle’s 2013 Great Colleges to Work For program recognizes small groups of colleges, based on enrollment size, for specific best practices and policies. The survey results are based on a two-part assessment process: an institutional audit that captured demographics and workplace policies from each institution, and a survey administered to faculty, professional support staff, and administrators. The primary factor in deciding whether an institution received recognition was employee feedback.

Now in its sixth year, the Great Colleges program has become one of the largest and most respected workplace-recognition programs in the country.

MGH Institute of Health Professions, founded by Massachusetts General Hospital in 1977, is an innovative and independent graduate school in Boston’s Charlestown Navy Yard. A member of Partners HealthCare, the MGH Institute prepares advanced practice professionals in the fields of nursing, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy and rehabilitation sciences through a distinctive combination of academic study, clinical practice, and research. More than 1,200 students are enrolled in graduate level and certificate programs, with an increasing number of courses available online. The MGH Institute is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

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