Projects by Deborah Aschheim in partnership with Raleigh Arts and historical information by Carmen Cauthen Raleigh Stories is a community engagement public art project by Deborah Aschheim about Raleigh neighborhoods and communities. Aschheim creates unique drawings of the people and places that make up the Raleigh community. Participants receive a free signed print of their drawing and are featured on the Raleigh Stories Instagram.  In addition to Aschheim's drawings and stories she has partnered with other artists to tell the stories of communities and neighborhoods across Raleigh Learn about all the Raleigh Stories projects below hands-on art exhibit where participants can unpack customized backpacks containing artifacts that tell the history of Method Road There is also a podcast with stories told by the pioneers who built the neighborhood and the next generation of community builders Artist Deborah Aschheim has installed 24 Raleigh Stories portraits at Peach Road Park The portraits include park patrons and residents of the nearby neighborhoods.  Artist Deborah Aschheim has created a series of 30 portraits of community members who have a connection to the Walnut Creek Wetland Center You can visit the wetland center to view the portraits Artist Cianna Jackson created an artwork in collaboration with local teens at the Saint Monica's Teen Center Program The work features elements that glow during black-light dodgeball and pickleball games Artist Deborah Aschheim has installed a temporary exhibit of artwork at Barwell Road Park, featuring portraits of community members from the Barwell Road area. As part of her Raleigh Stories project Aschheim creates drawings based on interviews with local residents capturing their personal histories and connections to the city Aschheim’s art brings these narratives to life through detailed You can view the exhibit at the park during its open hours and drawings about memory and place for buildings She has explored themes of collective memory and social justice themes in vernacular history projects that blend participant interviews with drawing to bring the stories of diverse communities to life Learn more about Deborah Aschheim Subscribe to the Arts Flash Newsletter to learn about upcoming events with Deborah Aschheim and other Raleigh Arts news Raleigh Stories Instagram Public Art Learn more about Carmen Cauthen This feedback widget is not intended for customer service issues This feedback is reviewed monthly to help us improve our site. For immediate customer service please refer to our staff directory « Back will deliver a public lecture on her work at 5:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public an artist from Los Angeles who is interested in thought the function of the brain and the connections between sensations that make intelligent life possible is in residence in the Department of Art and Art History from Jan She is the first Hixson-Lied Artist-in-Residence The program was created with a grant from the Hixson-Lied Endowment to complement the instructional program in the department Aschheim is assigned a working studio in the department where students can observe and interact with the artist on a regular basis She is producing artwork for her next exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisc Aschheim served as the Hellman Visiting Artist in the Department of Neurology’s Memory and Aging Center at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco where she met with scientists studying memory and cognition observed all aspects of the clinical research program and created artworks for the patient waiting areas drawings and sculptures based on invisible networks of perception and thought I have been trying to understand memory and forgetting,” she said “A project that has led me to collaborate with musicians and neuroscientists.” She has created temporary and permanent installations for museums galleries and public art spaces across the United States and in Europe including the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh; Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach Calif.; the Weatherspoon Museum in Greensboro N.C.; The Los Angeles Police Department; and the Wellcome Trust in London Aschheim received her Bachelor of Arts degree in studio arts from Brown University in Providence She received her Master of Fine Arts in ceramic sculpture from the University of Washington Her recent exhibitions include “Deborah Aschheim” at Roger WIlliams University in Bristol in 2009 and at Gallery 2.5 at Illinois State University in Normal Ill.; “Earworms” (with Lisa Mezzacappa) at the Pasadena Museum of California Art; and “Deborah Aschheim: Reconsider” at the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St In 2009 she received an artist in residence grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs she received an individual artist grant from the Pasadena Arts and Culture Commission She has been an artist in residence at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar Spain; the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte N.C.; and the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Calif For more information on the artist and additional photos of her work, visit http://www.deborahaschheim.com/. For more information on Aschheim’s residency at UNL, contact the Department of Art and Art History at (402) 472-5522. Some parts of this site work best with JavaScript enabled. As an addendum to this traveling retrospective, which originated at the Krannert Museum in Illinois last year, a small exhibition uptown at CDS gallery affords a look at selections from Sterne’s oeuvre. The show encompasses works ranging from a small gouache on paper and paintings on canvas from the early 50’s to oil pastels over acrylic on canvas from 1994. The walls of the gallery are painted a light but warm gray, which sets off the yellow ochres, blacks and whites in Sterne’s paintings, making them feel lighter than they might be if seen against white. The surfaces of her paintings are fairly activated through the application of paint and oil pastel, letting us know that the artist’s concern is not only with the representation of light in her subject, but also with the reflection of light off the surface of her paintings. Composed of mainly horizontal lines with only two verticals, “Rungs without ladders” jumps out from the group right away. Being the only drawing without any diagonal lines, the strokes sit so consciously on the surface of the page that it’s the body of the duralene Mylar itself, slightly bowed, that implies the void beyond. Like Sterne, Aschheim consistently raises the bar. In some works, the merest few gestures render a world that in others is clearly hard-won. This ebb and flow of inspiration is manifested in the pairing of works throughout the exhibition, and renders the artist’s journey in palpable terms enabling us to move with her to a higher level. Tough but generous, intimate yet vast, highly personal experiences set in universal terms, Aschheim’s drawings embrace a dialectical vision. The openness in Aschheim’s work is reminiscent of Hedda Sterne’s drive to remain in flux. Aschheim, as much as the women of her generation, benefited from the groundbreaking Hedda engaged through her life and work. Coming in Sterne’s wake, Aschheim can offer us a great generosity of spirit, and she does. Editors’ Note: In the interest of full disclosure, it should be mentioned that Eve Aschheim is the spouse of Rail Art Editor John Yau. Home A public art project created by artist Deborah Aschheim for Raleigh Arts Artist Deborah Aschheim has installed a permanent display of 24 Raleigh Stories portraits at Peach Road Park The portraits include park patrons and residents of the nearby neighborhoods You can find the portraits on the exterior walls of the community center and visit during park hours View the portraits and read the stories below The  portraits are posted in alphabetical order by first name.  I serve as the Director of Operations at Southeast Raleigh Table and also as a Body Liberation Ambassador at Current Wellness.   we really care about doing no harm and creating safe space for spirituality We're building partnerships around the church and make requests of us.  We really care about who our neighbors are I get to help members of our gym and wellness space celebrate their best selves We are a space and community centered on developing holistic and healing relationships with our bodies.  I get to co-create structures to support people as they transform Whether it’s coordinating details for an event developing protocol around the use of space I get to cheer people on as they make magic happen!  I live in Southeast Raleigh and have high hopes for our community I hope that its residents who have been here a long time can stay in Southeast Raleigh I know that we are experiencing a lot of change But I want people who have called Raleigh home to still be able to do that and whatever ways we can come alongside them to make that possible I want my skills and gifts to be a key part of that.  Aleccia loves to do art and says she may want to be an artist when she grows up I work at NC State for the North Carolina Extension Question: What can people find out about when they come over to booth today?Answer: How to eat smart and move more I teach how to prepare healthy 30 minute meals You can find information at the North Carolina Extension website I painted the mural called Sweet Bee on the outside of the handball court I had to repair it due to a storm and water damage A former director of the park wanted to have art in the park She had studied how art helps people understand they are important and their local community is cared for Murals promote park usage and help keep graffiti off park structures  She wanted an artist who would incorporate working with the after-school program and the camp programs done in the park The kids and adults in those programs participate in painting the mural along with volunteers from the larger community A lot of refugee families who were Muslim had moved into the neighborhood as well as depicting where we see it in nature—the honey bee comb I used the colors from the playground at Peach Road Park as well as the primary colors that make them up to represent the people that are from different cultures that come to this park and maybe realizing ways to understand one another. That was the inspiration for the design of the mural Since the honey bee is the only bee that makes that an hexagonal cell I put a queen honey bee and a flower to tie the hexagon to nature getting to know the people who use the park and being in this little oasis of nature in the city I heard many different languages spoken while I was working on the mural and saw people of all ages come together to play in the park.  where I'm the studio coordinator for the metal/jewelry studio I teach also at Sertoma Art Center and at NC State Crafts Center I came to the event at Peach Road Park to support my friend Iona and she makes really good skincare and I'm a fan of skincare I moved here from South Florida with my family. I'm really just feeling the city out, I'm really new. I like all the trees. I like the lake. I'm so used to being by the beach, so this is a different scenery. The bugs are different. The heat is different. But I like it. I told myself I give myself three years. If I don't like it. I'll go back.  Watch Aziah tell her story  to some of the summer camps that the City of Raleigh Parks and Recreations had at several different locations so coming here was a nice walk down memory lane.  and they're continuing to expand so we go biking on the Greenway Being outside and doing things on the weekend is another thing that we really like to do as a family.  I studied statistics in college. I took a class my high school senior year in statistics and next thing you know I was majoring in it. Now, I’m into supply chain management. I’ve been in supply chain my entire career I’ve worked in different areas of it in different cities around Raleigh. Supply chain is definitely a huge focus now I now do more consulting at my company. The best way to describe my company is, we're kind of the plumbers of the pharma industry. They need disposable ware to actually mix the products, and we provide all of that. Watch Jackie tell her story I’m born and raised in North Carolina, I grew up in a small town called Warrenton on the border going to Virginia. I knew I wanted to go to a big city and leave the small town One thing that I definitely enjoy about Raleigh it’s much bigger that Warrenton but not too big It’s been wonderful raising Ethan here in Raleigh. The school system is really good and it’s been a joy to support him in all the things that he wants to do, to have a vast choice of activities. From time to time, Ethan and I will volunteer with the SPCA The food bank is another good opportunity that we’ve done Alabama, a small town in the Southwest part of the state I went to college at Alabama A&M University Growing up in a small town, my friends and I did a lot of things outside hunting and fishing. I also took forestry classes I got a job working in the forestry and environmental field and I moved to Raleigh in 1998.  My work involves ensuring that the studies we conduct on the ground are producing results that can be used to protect our environment and water resources Whether that’s studies on cutting trees, performing prescribed fires or applying other kinds of forest management practices we want to ensure that the environment is protected. As part of my outreach efforts, I've been engaged with the Walnut Creek Wetland Center and other parks in the city, to teach kids and college students about tree identification and watershed and water resource protection.  Jackie and I met in Raleigh in 1999, through a mutual friend. We got married in 2004. Raleigh—the area and the people are really nice. I love my career and the people that I work with. We've built a wonderful network of friends in this area, and I cherish both the Raleigh community and the people that live here. Watch Johnny tell his story I go to the Wake Young Men’s Leadership Academy We have an early college program for our Juniors and Seniors Animal Science is a broad spectrum of different sciences related to animals I want to research and learn more about them so I can teach people about animals.   My all-time favorite animal is definitely the wolf One thing that many people probably don’t understand about animals is that they really don’t like us animal attacks happen when they are provoked and people are in their territory I’m a Boy Scout, I’m a part of Troop 253, and in February, I attained my Eagle Scout rank. I am very proud to be an Eagle Scout! We go on campouts a lot, hiking, and swimming. I really enjoy being outside with my troop and having fun with them.  Watch Ethan tell his story and super-duper layered shaggy haircuts are my favorite thing I'm friends with Hot Wendy, one of the bands that are playing here tonight. I tried to go to all their events and support local music. This is my first time at Peach Road Park.  Super cute. I love all the colors. Watch Cassidy tell her story and we also help people with the immigration process residency documents and vaccinations and physicals health services that are required as part of the process of becoming a citizen positive future in the energy field by investing my life into sustainable technology Question: What's the most interesting thing that you've learned that surprise you about wind technology?Answer: That there's so much more room for development There's a major amount of investment that's going towards fossil fuel production rather than green technologies If we could maybe have a little bit more investment to have more research in green technology Crystal: I'm originally from Texas…Josh: …and I'm originally from Vermont We both met here in Raleigh, and have been together for about a decade and going through so many ups and downs and learning experiences and growing and really just figuring it out. Watch Josh tell his story Question: I know you want to be a singer when you grow up Do you know yet?Cynthia: I want to be an artist.Question: You do You have to work hard at them.Emeli: We come here a lot sometimes sing a little when I'm walking by myself.Cynthia: Art’s my favorite thing I just get so excited.Emeli: I feel like that about singing They came to Peach Road Park for the first time to attend the Peach pARTy event My name is Dravious Wright, I go by Dre. I have a dog kennel, Blitz Bully Dog Kennel I always liked dogs as a kid growing up but I found out about them a couple of years ago I just fell in love with the Pocket Bullies that were short and stout I don't really too much tell people that I played football— kind of keep that on the quiet you really have to just play and let the scouts come to you out of how you play on the field you're going to have a lot of scouts coming If you’ve got the grades to go to that school they're going to acknowledge you and try to recruit you to go to their school I was recruited from multiple Division One schools but I ended up coming to NC State on a scholarship It was welcoming and it felt like it was the right place to make home for four years being able to go travel and meet different people It was very nice for football to take me this far in life to where I can experience all those things becoming an undrafted free agent to the Rams I did training camp all the way up until mini-camp and then I just decided to come back and finish school and take a different route all the traveling and training and things like that It's a little bit more chilling and relaxing just hanging out with puppy dogs from a litter I decided to keep— I'm actually going to show him and try to get him some recognition Another adventure or another opportunity might take me somewhere else My name is Indira Bautista. I’m 25 years old and I’m a Communications and Fundraising Coordinator at ISLA NC a non-profit organization located in Durham We bring Spanish Language Heritage programs to our community for children and Advocacy leadership resources for parents I love to bring my creativity to the organization Indira Bautista's Instagram and I assist with teaching artists and other community members who come in to do work. I am also a part-time artist I do pet portraits and some faith-based pieces I went to High Point University and received my B.A I really love drawing animals. I enjoy doing commissions for other people and showing the beauty of their animal through my portraits. My love for animals and art has lead me to where I am today! Watch Jabari tell his story Jabari Harris' Instagram I came to Raleigh with my family and for school I have been freelancing and working on proposals for the city In my art, I like to focus on the Black perspective, but specifically, from my point of view, I see other people's perspectives to my community. My art is very emotional, you can see it on my Instagram at @_nocturnal_vibez Right now I am working on a proposal for a project I want to do at Latta University Park which used to be a trade school for orphans.  I want to portray the original mission of that school which was to teach kids how to be themselves and be sustainable through art I want to combines  history and community engagement from the cultural perspective of particularly Black experience I was at Peach Road Park in April because I was helping with Akira Dudley’s Raleigh Stories event Raleigh is very familiar and it has a lot of nature Marissa: I worked in the Wake County public schools as a teacher and instructional coach for 20+ years.  WAKE Up and Read provided the opportunity to work with families and community partners in a unique manner to support learning at home so children are better prepared for school I am able to help families and community leaders realize that learning happens everywhere every day learning experiences yield high impact literacy outcomes.  WAKE Up and Read is a community coalition of 30+ agencies across Wake County We collaborate with community partners to provide high quality access to books and resources and walk alongside families to ensure they feel empowered and equipped to support learning at home We have co-created a Parent Leader Network with parents These gatherings are held every 2nd Saturday of the month from 10-12 at the WAKE Up and Read Center at 1820 Capital Blvd Cristina: I have worked for Wake County public school system for 6 years I started as a parent liaison for the early childhood program and now I am working with families during the application process as a Processing Technician I support and help facilitate the gathering of documents that are required for the program I started working with WAKE Up and Read almost a year ago my job consists of educating families about the programs and the extensive opportunities offered for families to engage in their child’s education Our website is wakeupandread.org My responsibilities are registering people for different programs and managing chairs and tables for different programs Question: It helps a lot that you can speak multiple languages?Answer: Yes I'm working in a place that's full of good people I came from Afghanistan one year and six months ago I started woodworking from having some skateboards laying around in my garage I primarily make everything out of upcycled skateboard decks That really snowballed into all of the woodworking I do now Skateboarding in Raleigh increased popularity with the Olympics and the rise of Raleigh funded parks and skateable areas is really helping out the scene The new park off Capitol Boulevard is definitely bringing skateboarding to the forefront.  It's way more of an accepted sport or activity than it used to be when I was growing up which is really good for everybody involved I've been buddies with Akira Dudley, who was the main host of the event at Peach Road Park in July, since high school. We've been involved through the arts together for many years. He asked me to come set up a little booth and be a part of the Peach Road pARTy. I'm local in the area. My online storefront is Dusted Woodworking or  @Dustedwoodworking on Instagram.  I’m here supporting Bela Flor which is a new body I am officially relocated to Raleigh from Washington Question: Is there anything that you miss about DC?Answer: Oh The School of Engineering lost a dear colleague and friend last June and Sustainable Engineering, passed away after a two-year struggle with cancer Department Chair Edwin Maurer shared the following remembrance of Mark at a memorial gathering in October "Mark Aschheim was a gift to Santa Clara University When he arrived in 2003 he brought with him the highest level of technical competence a commitment to advancing sustainable technologies while modeling them in his own life and a passion for the education of our students to serve their communities and the world This alignment of institutional mission and Mark’s professional and personal commitment was reflected in everything he accomplished at SCU This includes prolific academic research into structural performance under seismic conditions public service as a core member of the California Straw Building Association as they drafted revisions to the International Residential Code and as a devoted teacher promoting pedagogical advances and leading the practical implementation of bamboo structural members in SCU’s Solar Decathlon projects "It is easy to be in awe of the many accomplishments Mark achieved though it is at least as telling how understated he was about them He stood firmly where his values placed him SCU strives to educate people of competence In Mark we received all three generously." The Mark Aschheim Memorial Award has been established to honor Mark's many contributions to Santa Clara University Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Department The memorial fund grants a financial award to a rising senior majoring in Civil Contributions may be sent to Santa Clara University professor of American studies; director of the Center for Leadership and Learning (CLTL); and a standup comedian leads the Skidmore community in laughter and learning Ewen Donald from the Skidmore College baseball team was selected as the Liberty League Performer of the Week while the senior pair of Konika Dhull and Grace Truong were chosen as the Liberty League Women's Tennis Doubles Team of the Week baseball pitcher Chase Siegel was recognized on the Honor Roll for the week ending May 4 Director:Rebecca Shepardrshepard@skidmore.edu second floorSkidmore College815 North BroadwaySaratoga Springs Monday–Thursday 10 a.m.–6 p.m.Friday 11 a.m.–4 p.m.Weekends 11 a.m.–4 p.m.Closed on academic holidays Summer Hours subject to change; please call for updated information Map & Directions The Community Artist Selection Panel selected Deborah Aschheim as the public artist for Tarboro Road because of her ability to gather and include historical subject matter as well as her ability to work in a variety of media (glass, sculpture, drawings, video, etc.). Deborah has been working in Raleigh for the last few years on the Raleigh Stories project she has been able to connect with hundreds of residents and gather personal histories from all over SE Raleigh This foundation has been beneficial for her initial research and work on Tarboro Road Park.  and social justice in vernacular history projects that blend participant interviews with drawing to bring the stories of diverse communities to life is an existing 3.2-acre park site approximately half mile east of downtown at the corner of Tarboro Road and East Edenton Street.  The park was established in the 1970’s to serve the surrounding historically African American community.  Today it is the host to a heavily used community center and the historic Saint Monica Teen Center.  Site amenities include a picnic shelter and a playground constructed in the 1990’s Since the establishment of the Tarboro Road Park the community center has been incrementally enlarged over the past several decades to serve recreation and education needs of the expanding neighborhoods.  The current room layout along with the age and condition of the facilities are no longer adequate for the needs of the growing and transforming community The redevelopment of Tarboro Road Park is funded via the 2022 City of Raleigh Parks Bond in the amount of $29,300,000 for community engagement and construction.  Redevelopment of the park will center around a new community center and may include a new playground and stormwater improvements.  The project also includes improvements and upgrades to the historic Saint Monica Teen Center and construction of these improvements runs from 2024-2028.  Kelly MarksPublic Art Project Managerkelly.marks@raleighnc.gov Julia WhitfieldPublic Art Community Engagement Coordinatorjulia.whitfield@raleighnc.gov NOTE: This page's content is part of the JUF News archives. To see the latest content from Jewish Chicago: The JUF Magazine, please visit Jewish-Chicago.org JUF amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place — for everyone we consider the totality of local and global Jewish needs and how to address them we help people connect to Jewish life and values enduring community that comes together for good works with students to express themselves through drawing and painting she leads a class through a drawing exercise using the lines and shapes of the Icahn Laboratory.  Apply Now Schedule Sign Me Up Five postdoctoral scholars have joined Dartmouth’s Society of Fellows, bringing to 18 the number of junior fellows mentored by senior fellows in a close-knit intellectual community that integrates research with classroom experience.  Directed by Randall Balmer the society fosters both individual scholarship and cross-disciplinary collaboration.  “When we started the Society of Fellows in 2014 at President Hanlon’s behest my fondest hope was that these postdoctoral fellows arriving on campus would enrich scholarly life here at Dartmouth,” says Balmer The junior fellows have integrated themselves into the community while at the same time tapping into the vast intellectual resources Dartmouth has to offer.” promising young scholars want to come to Dartmouth,” says Balmer who puts the acceptance rate for the society at below 1 percent Victoria Aschheim studies music of the United States particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries Her book project, Citizen Composer: David Lang and the Aesthetics of Community traces the musical language and artistic strategies by which the American composer David Lang reshaped principles of objectivity and transparency after the zenith of minimalism. The results of this transformation and community action in a digital age and in a political moment of polarization and alienation minimalist and post-minimalist composers responded to “conditions of social emergency” by turning to the choral ensemble and to the genre of the oratorio.  Aschheim says she is “happy to join Dartmouth’s department of music because of its cherished past and vital present in experimental music and thought I hope to contribute to the cause of humane forward-looking teaching and to dialogue among composers and scholars at all points on their artistic paths.”Image who holds a PhD from the University of Chicago is a historian of the pre-modern Mediterranean world and cultural history of medieval Iberia and North Africa He’s working on a book tentatively titled Lord of the Sword and Pen looking at the phenomenon of the “scholar-statesman”—jurists and litterateurs who ascended to the highest administrative and executive offices of state—in the late medieval world Its focus: the career and writings of Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb and chancellor of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada Ballan’s study situates this figure within a dynamic intellectual and political network of scholars who comes to Dartmouth from the University of California researches and teaches 20th- and 21st-century American literature and visual studies Her first book project, American Graphic to recognize moments in written and visual texts as “graphic”:  at once viscerally grotesque and coolly clinical Clark is planning a second project about uninvited guests in contemporary American literature and film She’s interested in producing scholarship that is “not just about the relationship between image and text but (was) created using both.” Her publications include an original comics adaptation and analysis of Thomas Hoccleve’s 15th-century poem “My Compleinte” in the journal postmedieval. Image Yui Hashimoto received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Her dissertation highlights how so-called “colorblind” redevelopment strategies actually exacerbate existing racial and class inequalities in Milwaukee and gender intersect with the contested terrain of urban economic change which she says both shapes and is shaped by multiracial solidarities and “socially reproductive work”—labor that helps to perpetuate a social structure Hashimoto is interested in how different scales of racial politics in American cities give contour to economic change and the building of movements.  “I came to the Society of Fellows for the opportunity to work and grow with a vibrant and rigorous scholarly community,” says Hashimoto “I hope to build relationships with intellectual collaborators and friends that extend beyond our time together at Dartmouth.”Image Lakshmi Padmanabhan writes about film and other media specializing in South Asian and diasporic visual cultures “The Untimely Image: Cinematic Form and Feminist Historiography,” addresses the recent turn to experimental documentary and video in South Asian art and activism examining links between formal experiments with cinematic temporality and queer feminist politics. Padmanabhan is working on a book-length study of documentary cinema in the aftermath of September 11 within the South Asian diaspora This study seeks to understand the aesthetics and politics of the archival turn in diasporic avant-garde film and contributes to contemporary debates on visualizing racialized violence and the role of documentary in representing political crisis Padmanabhan says she came to Dartmouth for the “support and the intellectual freedom” that the Society of Fellows provides. “Our seminars treat the pursuit of knowledge as a communal and transdisciplinary activity, and engaging with scholars across methodological divides has always been a part of my research,” she says. “The campus-wide resources, particularly the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the community of junior faculty and post-doctoral researchers that Dartmouth has fostered for the last couple of years are noteworthy and encouraging.” As the newest members of the society embark on research projects and teaching assignments at Dartmouth other fellows are finishing their time on campus and taking the next steps in their academic careers recently left for Scotland to begin a lectureship in the history of science at the University of Edinburgh.  “This position is especially meaningful to me because the research and teaching unit I will be joining was the source of some of the scholarship that first drew me into the disciplines of history and sociology of science as an undergraduate and that has played a central role in my work since then,” says Barany “As I was waiting for the stars to align in the academic job market Dartmouth’s Society of Fellows gave me an important space for developing the global perspectives of my research in the history of mathematics which I will carry into both research and teaching in my new position.”  Charlotte Albright can be reached at charlotte.e.albright@dartmouth.edu The framers were acutely aware of competing interests and they had great distrust of concentrated authority We inspire students to practice good global citizenship while strengthening their own communities Act Now On the occasion of the artist’s new exhibit, Flannel Tongue, which will be on view at Pierogi 2000 from Sept. 6 to Oct. 6, 2008, the painter Eve Aschheim talked with John O’Connor in his apartment/studio in Queens about his life and work. Eve Aschheim (Rail): Would you talk about the new piece, based on your landlord attempting to predict the winning lottery numbers? Rail: Well, it’s either brilliant or crackpot or both. O’Connor: Exactly. I don’t think he can predict anything with certainty but he did predict the winning numbers once. His system isn’t complex, but he has a compulsion to do this thing. Rail: You’d think someone could come up with a system on the computer, but not manually. Rail: You used winning lottery numbers to generate other pieces in the past? O’Connor: Yes, several, and the new one “Pay to Play” will be in the show. In that drawing, I recorded the winning numbers in New York in 2007. I took the last winning number of that year and used the last 5 digits as a zip code, which led me to a different state, and I recorded the winning numbers in that state. The winning numbers formed this colorful thing—shape–which was also a map connecting different places, and leading finally to the people who had played them. Rail: It’s brilliant. When did you first use the lottery? O’Connor: I first started using it in 2000 while at Skowhegan. I was doing a lot of chance-based work and at a certain point I ran out of ideas, and lost interest in chance as a guiding idea. The next thing I turned to was the lottery because it was really personal. I had almost a mystical belief that those numbers are special. Rail: What was the evolution of your use of chance, abstraction and conceptual processes? O’Connor: In high school I was doing pen and ink drawings with lots of detail, very labor intensive. They could take a year to make. In college I saw my first abstract painting in an art history class. I didn’t know what abstract painting was, and didn’t understand how or why someone would make something like that. I started making my own paintings to figure out what abstraction was about. I was excited by it because it was unlike anything that I’d seen. O’Connor: I bought a big bag of chips, a huge coke and thought “This is it, I don’t know what to do, I can’t do anything that’s my own.” I felt like if I were an alcoholic I’d be drinking, but I came back and ate the bag of chips, drank the coke, and thought “Oh man, I gotta get outta here.” O’Connor: The accumulation of his marks came together in ways I would never do intentionally. I was also interested in chaos theory. I started to use chance as a way to trick myself into doing something I couldn’t control. O’Connor: When I started the chance-based stuff, I wasn’t as rigorous as Cage. I would do something chance-based or random and I’d change it, respond to it. I saw myself as in between—being an abstract painter but using chance as a device, but not for the same reasons as Cage. Rail: You’re doing the opposite of Cage, because you couldn’t let go. Cage took chance to mean one thing, acceptance of everything, but for you it was a chance at the lottery, an ideal moment of reality. When you were measuring how long it took to get the chips, did you end up using those measurements in any pieces? O’Connor: No I didn’t even keep track of the actual measurements. The information wasn’t important, it was the result. Rail: Because your work does deal with issues of data collection and management, sorting, organizing, charting… O’Connor: Yeah, I know. I think it kind of started at that point. I didn’t use it directly. I was trying to recreate that moment, but I couldn’t. At a certain point I started to incorporate the process into the actual pieces. I ran out of ideas again at Skowhegan in 2000. I started to count the number of hairs that fell out in the shower, or how many steps it took to walk somewhere. I didn’t feel engaged with the more serious, purely abstract paintings I was making. Rail: Do you know Kenny Goldsmith’s work? He records everything. There’s a book called Fidgets, documenting every bodily movement he had during a day. O’Connor: I’ll have to look at that. Around that time I discovered Alfred Jensen’s work, which I liked a lot, because I couldn’t understand it. He was important for me. . Rail: Like you, Jensen has a grid, with numbers, a code. His forms a mystical numerology, but yours has skepticism—the system leads to absurdity. What about Paul Laffoley? O’Connor: I discovered Laffoley at Skowhegan and was amazed by him. Rail: Were you interested in Outsider art? O’Connor: Yeah, Outsider art has always been interesting for me because it is also tied in to the stuff that wasn’t even outsider art, marks I would see, or some kind of scribble written down somewhere, not intentionally aesthetic. Rail: The unselfconscious, inadvertent, and accidental. O’Connor: Yeah. I was drawn to that stuff, but I didn’t know how to turn that into something. Rail: Which Outsider artists? Chris Hipkiss? Adolf Wolfli? Bill Traylor? O’Connor: I love their work. I also like Daniel Johnston, Martin Ramirez, Judith Scott, Richard Nisbett... It’s their ability, compulsion, passion to follow a personal logic with complete conviction. I just discovered Country McCody. His album covers are pretty great. Rail: Did women artists engaged with the body, such as Kiki Smith and Janine Antoni, influence you? O’Connor: Janine Antoni was a visiting artist at Skowhegan and did a studio visit with me. She reacted strongly against the chance work, but encouraged me to explore the personal ideas. Tom Nozkowski came too. I loved his work, but at the same time I liked Lombardi. I wanted to find a way to bring all three together—the body, abstraction and language. Rail: Tom has lot of rules informing his process, even though it might not be apparent. It’s now clear the pervasive effect feminism had in freeing up the possibilities for male artists. Antoni took the negative shape of the body and turned it into an object or almost a statistic. O’Connor: Yeah. I’d seen her work before and then she gave a talk at Skowhegan that influenced me. At that time I didn’t talk about many of the really personal ideas in my work because it was embarrassing. The body was an important thing; it became more of my subject. As a kid I had issues with weight, and kept track of my weight for years. O’Connor: The whole counting thing, I love to eat chips. As a kid, I wanted to lose weight, and I thought my biggest problem was eating chips. [laughing] I tried to time myself, less time instead of less portion. Then I could eat what I wanted, just in a limited time. So I would sit in front of the TV and say “Okay I can eat chips for five minutes”. I would get to four minutes and give myself an extra two. It really didn’t work, that timed diet. I was 12 or 13. Rail: You seem preoccupied with the body—its limitations, imperfections and idiosyncrasies. Your subjects have included talking in your sleep and memory loss. So, I did this drawing where I would draw a shape, then close my eyes, time myself, try to remember that shape, and try to redraw again and again. The loss of memory became this thing that grew and built; it was formed into a shape, into something that you could see—it was form and color —and everything. The language part of it—when my stepmother was moving through the disease she’d say things that we didn’t know how to react to… fragments of thoughts, she’d swear, she’d laugh. Her mind was trying to connect itself, involve itself. The only way we could understand anything was through her words. Whatever phrases popped out would give us an idea of her thoughts, maybe something from her past; time was all mixed up. So I was thinking about her Alzheimer’s mainly in terms of language. Earlier I had recorded myself talking in my sleep. I listened to the tapes and noticed a weird similarity to Alzheimer’s. I would say things in my sleep that were bizarre, foreign to me, but might give insight into what happens in the brain at night. The two things came together at the same time; the patterns of my sleep talk could kind of relate to memory loss and the fragments of language I heard from my stepmother. Rail: You are mapping the workings of the unconscious, and trying to find order in it. O’Connor: I guess so. This little drawing is based on a Freud text “Determinism, Chance and Superstitious Belief.” Rail: You invent systems that try to make logical things that are actually illogical and out of control…But then your systems end up being illogical too. Rail: How much of your plan is predetermined? O’Connor: I don’t really plan much ahead of time. I usually start out with one element, a shape maybe. Sometimes I have an idea of where the work will go, but it almost never goes there. I don’t know how long it will take, when it will be finished or what it will end up looking like, but I like to let things happen. The final work is an accumulation of small events, missteps, or changes of direction, recorded over time. Rail: How long does it take to finish a large drawing? O’Connor: From a month to a couple of years. Rail: How do the smaller drawings relate to works that are 6 feet or larger? O’Connor: The smaller drawings are experimental. I try out ideas and then rework them in the larger ones, changing the process to enhance the image. I had been looking at a lot of diagrams and thought the connection with paper made sense. Many of my drawings incorporate both the system of making the image, along with the image itself. It’s like the diagram of something along with the final thing itself—they exist simultaneously. Rail: That’s interesting. And your works have a digital quality. O’Connor: I’m a product of the transition from hand-made, hand-written information, to the faster, constantly changing, more fragmented way of thinking and receiving information via the Internet, etc. I make work slowly, yet my process of continually adding, changing, revising is almost frenetic and ADD-like. The viewer has to slow down to decode what’s there. Rail: The gridded bits of information feverishly overload a larger shifting image that emerges like the ghost in the computer. Was Sol Lewitt an influence? O’Connor: He was someone I looked at, but not a huge influence—I don’t think I could be as true to a system as he was. I was more influenced by Ellsworth Kelly’s random grid pieces. Rail: What are the key ingredients to your method of generating work? O’Connor: I see it as two parts coming together—the conceptual and the formal. If I like a certain color or shape, then I find an idea to connect with it. Or I start with an idea, gather information, and think about how that might look so it emerges as something visually interesting. The processes used for each work will be described in detail in the wall text and the catalog for the show. For someone to render a prediction, I imagine that it would first emerge as an abstract vision, which has to be translated into language. I thought, “What if I take the language of a prophesy and translate it back into abstract form, to get to its origin?” A drawing from that group, “Leisure Riots” (2007) is based on a prediction by Dr. James Murphy that, in 2007, because of a lack of political conflict we would riot over our need for leisure time. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Rail: The opposite. When you translate abstract non-linguistic thought and sensation into language then back to a visual form, the ambiguity gets visualized, but also gives you room to inject other imagery. Perhaps the ambiguity registers as an amorphous quality. How do you get such interesting shapes in your work? O’Connor: For me to consider a drawing successful it has to end up looking like something I couldn’t predict; it has to take on a life of it’s own. In the process I need to get lost in the information. I feel that there’s a lot—whether it’s earthquakes or itching—that I cannot possibly understand. It’s confusing and difficult to make sense of it, but I have to have that loss of control. That’s when it’s going to start to do something that I don’t understand. Rail: A framework that’s big enough for you to get lost in. O’Connor: Yeah. Although I use specific bits of information, the overarching structure is difficult for me to see. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable, but I want to not know and lose track of the idea that started the whole thing. I feel like in the end it will look like something I didn’t completely make. Rail: So maybe the structure is shifting as you go. O’Connor: Yeah, sometimes I’ll set up some way to push two things together, two types of information, and see what comes from that. When that first stage is done, I’ll do something else, change it in another way and combine it with something else. And over time, I’ll lose track of where I started and forget the meaning or importance of what I had. A lot of it is my attempt to set up something that happens, like a little experiment, and try to give it some kind of form. Rail: There’s a performative aspect to this, you’re setting up a duel, or plotting something that’s happening in real life. O’Connor: Yeah, good point. Much of my work …like the “Itch” drawings are more personal, but feel like performance. When I feel an itch I mark it on my face, then transfer it to paper. That’s like literally tracking the performance; the drawing is a result of that mapping. Rail: You’re interested in games, sports, chess, the moves, strategy, etc. How has music seeped in? Now, I record personal “performances”. It might be making myself dizzy, or charting memory, itching, weight loss, body temperature and blood pressure. The works are extensions of these very personal performances done in my room, alone, when no one is watching. Rail: Pseudo-science, you worked with predictions, what about phrenology (studying bumps on people’s heads) or astrology? O’Connor: I’m drawn to pseudo-science because you’ve got to believe in it, there is no tangible proof that the thing can work or that it’s real. Rail: Your use of pattern—are you looking at psychedelic or Islamic patterns? O’Connor: I look at a lot of things as sources, but most of my patterns are invented. Rail: You use vivid color. You contrast stark black and white pattern with bold color areas, broken up into bits of many intense colors, rainbow color. It’s almost impersonal, random, but you also create depth and dimension in certain areas. O’Connor: I started using the “rainbow” somewhat unintentionally when I began working more systematically. Color differentiated data; I used as many colors as there were pieces of information. That palette also came from my love of scientific diagrams, like those illustrating the brain’s temperature. Rail: Do you ever abandon a piece if it’s not working? O’Connor: I usually hit a point in each one where I feel like I should abandon it. I’ve spent so much time and it’s not working in a way I thought it might. But I’ve invested so much that I usually find a way to work through it. I might paint over a section and draw back into it. At a certain point it’s going to be what it is; I can’t erase the thing. I’ll try to find a new direction. O’Connor: My mom worked, and still does, as an admitting secretary in a hospital, and my dad works as a lineman for the phone company. My grandfather was a role model. I have one brother, and we were raised Catholic. A real work ethic was instilled in us. I feel like I need to work a lot, and hard, at things. Art wasn’t a part of my early life, so I had to discover how and what an artist could do. O’Connor: The title of my last show was important to me—“100 Days in a Year”. When I was young, a teacher of mine asked our class how many days there are in the year. I excitedly yelled out 100! She corrected me and I was devastated. Rail: The new work for your show at Pierogi seems to focus on language. O’Connor: I began to use language specifically five years ago in the sleep talking drawings. My show, “Flannel Tongue,” will have a lot of words! The title is a phrase my grandfather used to describe someone who is a smooth talker, but it really means someone who has trouble speaking—somebody drunk. I liked that mix-up. But more seriously, it’s the idea of how we use language to persuade, motivate, mask or conceal, etc. Rail: Portraits of the culture’s unconscious changing shape. You’re work is very original, unlike anybody else’s. It involves rules that insist on the execution of repetitive actions that are taken to an extreme logic, involving information that is useful and useless. I think there’s a level of insanity to it. Rail: Insanity, one definition is, “A. extreme foolishness or an act that demonstrates it, and, B. legal incompetence or irresponsibility because of a psychiatric disorder; obsessive.” O’Connor: What are you trying to say? [Laughs]. If someone’s insane, I’d say that they might not know they’re insane. But I’m not insane. There you go. [Laughs] New Jersey) is known for making landscape new by finding poignant moments of beauty in the everyday—colorful laundry hanging on a line a close-up of a dandelion bloom or condensation on a window—in contrast with the avant-garde who found the new by rejecting the ordinary in search of the transcendental Dodd found a way to reinvent painting within a circumscribed life painting directly from observation at or near her homes in Maine New York City, and Blairstown Dodd will be in conversation with Eve Aschheim artist and lecturer in visual arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts her framing and compositional adjustments, her attention to light and the geometry and abstraction she incorporates Dodd will describe the experience of painting directly in the landscape—for example standing in the snow for hours at the Delaware Water Gap. She will also elaborate on specific works from her recent major gift of twenty-eight drawings and watercolors to the Princeton University Art Museum.  Event Details University programs and activities are open to all eligible participants without regard to identity or other protected characteristics Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented Artist Deborah Aschheim has installed a selection of Raleigh Stories  portraits at Walnut Creek Wetland Center You can find the portraits in the two meeting rooms at the community center and visit during park hours George C. Jones, Jr., the Executive Director of Partners for Environmental Justice (PEJ). He is working to honor Dr. Norman Camp’s vision for WCWP while he leads PEJ into the next era of environmental stewardship and restoration. Read more about George the Executive Director of Partners for Environmental Justice grew up in Biltmore Hills and is a longtime member of St Norman Camp’s vision for WCWP while he leads PEJ into the next era of environmental stewardship and restoration I am the Executive Director of Partners for Environmental Justice I've been in a nonprofit management for over 10 years My parents built our house at 2008 Gilliam Lane My father was the assistant principal at Carnage Middle School I had an appreciation for outdoors growing up church and community leaders came together to say to the City of Raleigh we've got to do something about the dumping We don't have enough investment in this community to protect people's lives and livelihoods Partners for Environmental Justice was formed out of three churches: Trinity Episcopal Church in Fuquay-Varina Camp’s leadership and his priority of educating the community about the importance of the habitat and wetland protection of Walnut Creek Trust issues between the city and residents go back to the building of the first Black subdivisions in Raleigh They designated the first neighborhoods for African Americans in a floodplain area the area along Walnut Creek was a junkyard full of trucks and vehicles Walnut Creek has high nutrients and chemical toxins that come off the streets and flow into the creek beds it was an opportunity to put a flag in the air and say We want Walnut Creek to be a part of the solution to build a better model Some of the solutions we’re promoting in community partnerships are individual scale solutions like using cisterns at your home that filter water for gardening or removing impervious surfaces like asphalt driveways and replacing them with porous surfaces Some solutions require investment from the city or even federal government Raleigh is one of the fastest growing communities in the country Targeted economic development really can only expand south and southeast of downtown into historically Black neighborhoods I think equitable development would be making sure that any displacement is done in a way that's environmentally and economically beneficial to the residents living in the community as an example of infrastructure improvement is to address the degradation of the streams and creeks and the history of raw sewage and contamination to water quality particularly affecting minority communities It becomes a working experiment and demonstration of what can and should be done in helping to address the problem Harold Mallette grew up in Biltmore Hills. His concern for environmental justice grew out of his parents’ friendship with Dr. Norman and Betty Camp. Read more about Harold moving to Waters Drive shortly after the neighborhood was developed His concern for environmental justice grew out of his parents’ friendship with Dr There’s always been an ethos of service in my family My parents were educators out of Robeson County We moved here from Wilmington when I was seven along with Carolyn Winters with the environmental people They help to initiate concern about the Wetland Park nobody was calling it “wetland,” it was sewage It ended where State Street comes down to Bunche Drive As kids we played in little platoons of concrete We would go out in those little platoons and ride up and down the water we became more and more aware that this is really sewage would often come in and flush that all out so it looked like regular water it was the first African American Episcopal Church in North Carolina This whole neighborhood was 3 or 4 four years old I had never seen a neighborhood specifically developed and planned for African American homeowners there may be 10 or 20 houses owned by African Americans But there were at least 100 houses in Biltmore Hills and Rochester Heights Most of the homeowners were veterans who had lived in different parts of Raleigh and they finally gotten to where they could utilize the GI Bill to get financing Desiree Bolling is a member of St. Ambrose Congregation and an advocate for those who don’t have a voice, with a focus on health. Read more about Desiree Ambrose Congregation and an advocate for those who don’t have a voice She served under four North Carolina Governors on boards for Developmental Disabilities and Autism and advocates for people who are blind or have low vision I knew my purpose was to be an advocate in the community I started getting involved with “Project DIRECT” (Diabetes Intervention Reaching and Educating Communities Together a program of the Federal Center for Disease Control) which continued as the nonprofit “Strengthening the Black Family” I was involved in raising awareness of health priorities and chronic diseases that particularly affect the Black community I served under four North Carolina Governors on boards for Developmental Disabilities and Autism I advocate for those who don't have a voice I also advocate for people who are blind and with low vision People are not educated about these disabilities A lot of people lose their vision now due to diabetes I encourage them to use the tools they have trying to help people change their eating habits and their lifestyle I live in Southeast Raleigh not too far from St Ambrose and it was the first time I really felt Father Taylor sees my independence and he knows I will try to work things out before I will ask for help I am really proud and excited about the Labyrinth The Labyrinth gives you spiritual direction you’re close to nature but you’re close to God you can feel His presence and shut everything out around you I could really appreciate hearing people engaged around me and the beauty of it Mark Aschheim's students building cob test walls in a SCU civil engineering lab; CRI board member Anthony Dente is at far right Engineering professor launched students in key research that underpins new cob building code The memory of her late colleague Mark Aschheim often brings tears to the eyes of Santa Clara University civil engineering lecturer Tonya Nilsson but the realisation that he will forever share an honor tied to the work of a group of his SCU students brightens her mood their research contributed to a new international residential building code recently approved for sustainable “cob” homes the students’ participation in key seismic testing of the full scale walls of cob material at Santa Clara was instrumental to the success of the years-long effort led by the Cob Research Institute “It will be a part of Mark’s legacy,” says Nilsson of her close friend who passed away last June after a two-year battle with cancer but at the same time he was a passionate person ‘How do I use my knowledge in structural engineering to improve things?’” A SCU senior design project Aschheim envisioned that focused on the seismic testing of full-scale cob walls was prescient. Not only would it introduce students to a centuries-old sustainable building material, they could also work alongside some of the nation’s top experts from the Cob Research Institute (CRI) including architect and founder John Fordice and practitioner Massey Burke.Since 2008 the Berkeley-based CRI has been developing building code standards for safe cob construction its members have reached out for research and testing help from students in civil engineering programs at various California universities The new code will be added as an Appendix to the model 2021 International Residential Code (IRC) and to the 2022 California Residential Code The IRC is used as the residential code in 49 of the 50 U.S “Jesuit universities believe in social and environmental justice and I think that’s an important reason Mark and his students became involved in this work,” says renowned sustainable architect and CRI advisor Martin Hammer Central to the SCU students’ project was the massive testing frame Aschheim had built inside the former Bannan Engineering Building it allowed civil engineering students to gauge how much lateral load walls of varying materials and connections could resist the frame was used to test four 7’H x 5’L x 16’T cob walls the students had made in-plane lateral forces were applied to the cob walls the SCU student team determined the capacity of the wall systems tested and concluded the most effective wall used a combination of vertical steel and horizontal wire mesh reinforcement all four wall types proved structurally viable including the wall that used only its straw as reinforcement “Professor Aschheim built the machine himself which is why he was so influential,” says Joseph Novara ’18 one of six SCU students who worked on the project from the spring of 2017 until graduating in 2018 we would not have been able to do the experiment.” civil engineer and CRI board member Anthony Dente guided the SCU students’ seismic research “Mark had an exceptional understanding of seismic engineering and a willingness to apply it to materials and building systems outside the conventional realm with the intention of allowing and encouraging more sustainable ways of building,” says Hammer.“I miss him professionally and personally He was one of the best people I have ever known.” Years before Aschheim landed at Santa Clara in 2003, Hammer was aware of the civil engineer’s investigations into sustainable building, particularly with straw bale construction First developed in Nebraska in the late 1800s after the invention of baling machines straw bale homes were constructed regionally into the 1930s But the method was abandoned for decades as steel and glass became readily available nationwide Yet straw bale witnessed a rebirth in the 1980s in the American southwest at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aschheim did seismic testing with students and fellow engineer David Mar on straw bale walls covered with reinforced cement-lime plaster that is part of the structural system Mark Aschheim standing next to a straw bale wall specimen he tested at SCU in 2015 Straw bale construction continues to be valued for its resource and energy efficiency and there are straw bale buildings in all 50 states and more than 50 countries “Plastered straw bale houses survived some of the terrible Northern California wildfires while nearby wood-framed homes did not,” says Hammer who has designed 10 such homes in California and in Haiti and Nepal after earthquakes there Hammer worked on updating straw bale codes together with Aschheim and David Eisenberg a veteran sustainable building and code expert Hammer spearheaded approval of an appendix for straw bale construction in the International Residential Code testing and understanding the seismic safety of the system and his reputation in the academic and code development communities were vital to the landmark approval of the appendix Meg Ackerson ’17, an engineer in training at Arup Advanced Technology + Research in San Francisco recalls working with Aschheim doing seismic testing on straw bale walls at Santa Clara benevolent energy,” says Ackerson of her mentor “When you had questions that seemed confusing or hard he always had a way of talking through them with you to make it more digestible and more manageable Traditional Devonian cob and lime cottage in Devon creating a cob construction code was the next challenge in the sustainable building systems continuum The method of earthen construction has been used for thousands of years around the world in regions including Britain cob means “lump,” as these buildings often feature curved or sculpted walls water and usually sand is placed in layers to create walls that can support a roof with no need for structural posts cob homes have proven to last many centuries “Cob uses the same materials as adobe,” says Hammer “But adobe walls are built with adobe bricks and mortar whereas cob walls are stacked in integrated layers That’s why cob is often called monolithic adobe.” and easy to learn to build by eco-friendly communities as well as in developing countries where affordable material costs are paramount Cob is also highly fire resistant—it was used for centuries to build ovens and kilns—and earthquake-safe when built to the methods outlined in the new IRC appendix cob buildings are non-toxic and environmentally friendly “Our conventional building materials are devastating to the environment,” she explains “Just the production of cement alone accounts for at least five percent of all CO2 that we put into the world’s atmosphere every year.” Steel manufacturing adds another seven percent of carbon emissions even as cob buildings have been making a comeback the lack of a building code for cob construction has resulted in difficulty obtaining permits in most parts of the U.S After years of research and testing by CRI and its university partners the Cob Construction Appendix approved in December 2019 should address that problem “It’s definitely something cool,” says Novara of the new code and underlying research documents that will include the names of all those who worked with CRI to create the new code “Professor Aschheim set the foundation for sustainable building material testing at Santa Clara University and was essential to the eco-friendly building community,” says Novara a Senior Project Engineer with McCarthy Building Companies.“He exemplified the mission statement of the School of Engineering and was an inspiration to our research team and all civil engineering students who had the pleasure of working with him.” Santa Clara University established the Mark Aschheim Memorial Award to honor his many contributions to the University Artist Deborah Aschheim has installed a temporary exhibit of artwork at Barwell Road Park, featuring portraits of community members from the Barwell Road area. As part of her Raleigh Stories project You can find the portraits on the interior walls of the community center and visit during park hours Vera worked for the City of Raleigh for 28 years Southgate and Apollo Heights Community Centers and worked for the City of Raleigh for 28 years I was a Director of the Community Centers at Halifax That's where I ended my days of work and retired into rest and relaxation I remember going to Biltmore Hills and teaching a lot of the kids how to swim because they didn't know how a Girl Scout group and a girls’ drill team read the right books and have the right experiences so we would go far he transferred all his kids to Garner Elementary I was going to predominantly white schools when I was in the fourth grade Fourth grade was the first time I encountered discrimination I remember one time I told the teacher about something that was going on I don't know if that was good or bad because Because she took me out in the hallway and then talked to the to the class about being so bulling I continued my education at University of North Carolina now what is it that I can get into that is similar I enjoyed my years here. To be able to get a job here, come back to Raleigh, that was good. I met my husband here, it’s just wonderful. Somebody asked me one time, are you still in Raleigh? And I said, yeah, I can’t help it if I was born where I was supposed to be. Watch Vera Wilson tell her story Yvonne grew up in Garner and has worked part time at Barwell Park since the Community Center first opened We were the first Blacks to integrate Garner elementary and high school My sister Vera was at the elementary school The sad part is that Garner had their big Centennial and they did not include about the integration of the schools Q: Vera said she experienced discrimination in elementary school I used to get notes passed to me or thrown at me and we got it from the white school as well they had her in a class where the kids were a little slower One teacher that saw that she did not need to be in that [remedial] class and moved her into a class that was excelling Because they cannot take that away from you I didn't fear what the kids said but I was afraid I was a little afraid about being pushed down the stairs but that was one of the one of the things that I was afraid of and I worked as a department manager at the Hudson Belk I've been working here part time since they opened the doors I feel like if I can greet someone with a smile and a hello I like to think that I make them feel welcome when they come through the doors whether they’re Hispanic or Black or white or whoever Esther is a dental assistant and has a photography studio She and Robert come to the park to play and see friends We came to Barwell Community Day so the kids could have a lot of fun We do a lot of competitions with family and friends They have been in the same class since kindergarten I'm a dental assistant. I started a photo studio in November, 2024. It is called Good People Society photo/podcast Studio, at 807 Spring Forest Rd. All are welcome. Watch Esther tell her story She and Nasir enjoy coming to Barwell playground I've been in the Southeast Raleigh community for 17 years I love serving the people in the community We're here to participate in some of the activities Q: What are you excited to eat?N: The ice cream Q: Real estate seems to be taking off in this area, right? Is it hard to find houses for people that need them?S: No, you’ve just got to be creative. Watch Shuntrelle tell her story for meetings of her Homeowner's Association and I have visited Barwell Community Center for HOA (Home Owner’s Association) meetings and I’ve come here to vote and for festivals and special events I moved from New York to Raleigh for the wonderful weather— I liked that Raleigh has all four seasons, and I have friends and family here. I enjoy being two hours from the beach and a few hours from the mountains. I love the walking trails in Raleigh and the fact that there is always something fun and culturally interesting do here. Watch Colleen tell her story Vickie had a career in banking and in social work and now is a recreation leader at Barwell Road Community Center We are one of the oldest towns in North Carolina Governor Tryon was responsible for making sure that we had a nice place to visit who come from out of town I got bored a little bit where I was working The bank president thought that I would be a better fit here because he said I had a bubbly personality and “you would do well floating around Raleigh going to different banks.” I ended up being a social worker at Wake County Human Services Q: What did you like about being a social worker sometimes they just wanted to talk or shoulder to lean on and also to do the job that I was supposed to do to help them Now I am working part time here at Barwell Road Community Center I couldn't sit still long, so I decided to come here. I love working with people and families. Family here is very important. I love working with each and every one of them. Watch Vickie tell her story joined the Senior Group after they retired from Wake County Sheriff’s Department (Lucius) and NC Division of Employment Security Commission (Sonya.) and our dad worked for Brown-Wynne Funeral Home Rosemont Avenue over in the Cameron village area [now The Village District.] We stayed in Kingwood Forest you better find a job in Raleigh North Carolina L: I went to Prairie View A& M University S: I went to Hardbarger Business College here in Raleigh I ended up working for the employment office[office [the NC Division of Employment Security Commission] for 36 ½ years I was supervisor of the communications unit My brother had been eating my food ever since I was eight years old L: Sonya was cooking dinners for our whole family people are arrestees but they haven’t been convicted L: I used to come to Barwell Road Community Center to work out downstairs that's a good thing for us to enjoy one another Diana worked on helicopters for the military before moving to NC She is the treasurer for Barwell Road Senior Group We vote on what we want to do—everybody has a say and most of the time everybody wants to do the activity that is proposed we have a luncheon that we buy out of that money I could have gone to the senior center near where I live instead of sitting in the center all the time We have flexibility to go different places and do things because we're taking up dues we can use everything is inside their own center and they don't really venture out too much I moved here from Connecticut when I retired making helicopters for the Navy and Army and the Marines they were playing Motown music at the Arts Theater in downtown Raleigh I've been a member of the senior group for over a year is enjoying retirement after working and raising her sons in Raleigh but I moved to Raleigh about 40 some years ago I moved into the city when I was probably about 20 years old I was I worked at a place called Raleigh Linen Services I left there and went to a Duraw Manufacturing and then I went to the Research Triangle Park for Northern Telecom At Raleigh Linen Services I was a linen sorter I was told to come and check [Barwell Road Senior Group] out what are some of the things that you like to do in Raleigh I just like to do anything I can find to do Jackie moved to Raleigh for her job in Human Resources She and Benicio love Raleigh’s green spaces and museums Community Day last April was the first time we’d been to Barwell Road park We have not been back to Barwell Road park since Community Day in April My son Benicio and [Ester’s son] Robert went to school together last year and really liked to play during recess and sometimes play video games together We live about 15 mins away. I am in Human Resources, and not originally from Raleigh. I moved from Wilmington to Raleigh for work. We really appreciate the green spaces and activities all around Raleigh to explore. Especially the museums! Watch Jackie tell her story Rachel does community outreach for the nonprofit Advanced Community Health making a difference in people’s lives by connecting them to resources Advanced Community Health has been around for over 51 years in Wake and Franklin Counties We are a comprehensive health care facility-- we're like a one stop shop We help everyone despite their insurance status and then we have something called the Sliding Fee Scale which is based on personal income and household size and we are adding more services for expectant mothers I've been with Advanced Community Health for about four years I started off as a temporary employee during COVID doing outreach and helping with registration for COVID vaccine testing and then I transitioned to the marketing and outreach team doing community outreach I was working part time at the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina with the Summer Meals Program And then I have a background in the restaurant and retail industry I went to North Carolina Central University My favorite thing is being able to make a difference in someone else's life just by a conversation by connecting them to the resources that we have within our health center and just seeing that smile on their face as well Lavongue does outreach for SouthLight Health Care and provides peer support to people in transition I'm doing an outside event for SouthLight Health Care We are doing a community event with Barwell Road Park and I am establishing a resource center to meet people that are in transition exactly where they are They are in transition from drugs and alcohol We've been around Wake County for the last 50 years We work with people with insurance or without insurance We have people who can interpret if they don’t speak English and we don't care about their immigration status we're passing out information for people that might not know about us People who come to our clinic pass the word on to other people I had my own personal problems, and I’ve worked professionally for 47 years. This is my way of giving back because somebody gave to me, and this is my way of giving back. It’s a no judgement zone. Watch Lavongue tell his story Errico is a part time Recreation Leader at Barwell Road Community Center and a full time property tax evaluation specialist for the State of North Carolina I am a recreation leader at Barwell Road Community Center I love working at the center. I love meeting people, talking to people, just engaging. I love community service! Watch Errico tell her story.  Ulysses chairs the Southeast Citizen Advisory Council and is a member of the Community Engagement Board of Raleigh I'm chair of the Southeast Citizen Advisory Council (SECAC) We do a lot of work with the Southeast Raleigh community We’re involved with a Master Plan for developing Barwell Road Park I'm also a member of the Community Engagement Board (CEB) of Raleigh The Community Engagement Board will help to develop and implement the City of Raleigh's community engagement efforts The board works with Raleigh’s city council to affect outreach for the community on city policies practices and projects that may impact residents The Citizen Engagement Board is appointed by City Council It's one of the newer areas of expansion of growth and development in southeast Raleigh The park has not grown with the neighborhood and the park has the community garden and the playground The unique playground was partly funded by the Panthers The rest of the activities that we have for the plan has not been started yet because of funding We have three parts of this plan we call Play We have plans for fields for soccer or football In the back part of the park where the wooded area is we are planning a discovery area with trails and meeting places The park is about (54) fifty-four acres all together but we share it with the community center and the school We want to work with the city and maybe private sector to see if we can get funding to complete the master plan Originally there were 19 CACs around the City Their function is to work as a liaison between the City and residents SECAC brings residents information about all Raleigh programs and allows residents to give feedback to the City about how programs will impact the community The park is one of SECAC`s projects of which I am very interested any issue that the city deals with that impacts the community and residents right down the street from Barwell is the Old Towne a new development that was planned maybe 10 or 15 years ago We worked in partnership with the developers I was doing outreach here at Barwell Community Day to make sure residents were familiar with the Southeast Citizen Advisory Council to learn how get involved and give input on issues that impact them we’re going to see increased growth all around that highway as the property owners/farmers sell their property to contractors that want to build people want to sell their property to contractors and make more money There's no one thing that's impacting our area there's a lot going on in the city that people just aren't aware of One of the sayings I have is that informed plus engaged Dominque works for Wake County Cooperative Extension Cienna and CJ participate in sports and community activities at Barwell but I've been in Raleigh for well over 10 years where I participate in activities and my HOA partners with Barwell community center to do activities I work for Wake County Cooperative Extension connect them with organizations that can provide resources as well as identifying grants and opportunities for the organizations to continue this mission Barwell is one of the sites we sponsored to create the community garden who can help educate those who are interested in learning about gardening having their soil tested to see if it's applicable those are resources that we provide as well Joanne is the Recreation Business Office Manager for the City of Raleigh She volunteered to work at Barwell Community Day I volunteered to work at Barwell Road Community Day I like to get out in the community when I can I was supposed leave at 1:00 and I'm still here I put the call out a couple of places and ended up getting the job here I had never been to Raleigh before I moved here an accounting tech for the State of North Carolina and her granddaughter Sariah live in the Barwell Road neighborhood We got wind of the community coming together out here and we decided to come and have some fun for the day I don't know that this community center was even here but that's what the City of Raleigh is known for I'm an accounting tech with the State of North Carolina We hold our Homeowners Association meetings here Dariel volunteers at Barwell Road Community Garden helping connect people to where their food comes from I’m a community volunteer here with the Barwell Road community garden We're getting set up and we're going to start planting things I think that the cost of food has gone up so much Gardening is a good way of augmenting that and offsetting some of those costs And it is definitely a thing that you're more conscious of when you know where it came from Q: What inspires you to want to volunteer your time D: You have to believe in what you're doing You got to believe in that there's a purpose that you're going to gain from this There is always value in being paid for things But there’s also value in doing things for yourself I want to make sure that not only I can benefit from this but also other people can benefit from this Barbara S and Barbara E both moved to Raleigh from Whitakers in Rocky Mount They are enjoying their retirement in Raleigh BS: I moved here from Whitakers in Rocky Mount We have really seen some changes in Raleigh I said I would never live there because there are no stores and there’s nothing nearby BE: And now you wouldn't want to live over there… BS: I wouldn’t want to live over there for the opposite reason BE: Today we went to most of the vendor booths Marilynn operates Sprinkles of Joy Childcare in Southeast Raleigh and is learning about the garden to share with her preschool kids I wanted to come out and see what was going on So I came out to look at the garden and see what you guys are planting this year ranging from age infant up to five or six years old Q: So you're hoping to integrate a garden and then the children will actually get hands on experience but I want to try to do a vegetable and fruit garden this year So hopefully I'm able to accomplish that by coming here and seeing the garden I'm just so excited to have wonderful families come in every year Most time they stay with me from infant until they go to school age But I've been in Wake County for about 30 years now every summer I have the most beautiful yard in the whole community and neighbors say oh you make the community look so pretty because of your flowers This year I will definitely try to do fruit and vegetables along with my flowers but I am going to do my own garden for my preschool kids this year Bonita is the team lead for the Community Action Team working with the Southeast Raleigh Community Advisory Council to develop Barwell Community Garden I am here at Community Day to offer the community access to our new garden CAT works with the Southeast Raleigh Community Advisory Council The Community Action Team that we work with does projects all over Southeast Raleigh Q: I see a lot of planting beds that have yet to get planted our volunteers will plant some of the plants And then on this side eventually will also be another 12 beds And you can look at the garden sign [on the fence of the Community Garden.] That sign has information on how to get in touch with us Brandi is a busy mom who finds her Woosah moments working in Barwell’s community garden I have been doing it for a year going on two Something I wish I would have realized a long time ago is But you can make some delicious stuff that is so simple This area [in Raleigh] is lacking knowledge of plants This is my first time having a garden and not going to buy at the farmers’ market so many people will come here and learn the art of gardening This garden will change how people perceive food and planting and gardening They'll come by and see it and ask questions oh we can come here and get some plants if we help out and plant a lot of the healthier places to get groceries are not on this side of town Q: Is there a mental health benefit to gardening I'm just doing this because I want to do it Gage works for the City of Zebulon Parks and plays on the Triangle Thunder Division 3 Wheelchair Basketball Team that practices at Barwell Road Gym which is a Division 3 Wheelchair Basketball team I found out about the team from one of my police department buddies They raised enough money for me to play wheelchair basketball which is the career that I want to go into and they found this team that's closest to me I've been living here in North Carolina for about seven years We ended up deciding that we wanted to stay down here for a while I've been working there for going on a year Q: And what's your favorite thing about Barwell Park he practices with the Triangle Thunder at Barwell Road Gym I’m one of the basketball players for the Triangle Thunder I’ve been coming here since I was in high school I've been full time for the last three years I actually own my own business as an entrepreneur M: Joint pain and a lot of pain from training I answer the phone—I call it directing traffic I started in the City of Raleigh working at Anderson Point Park off Anderson Point Drive and Arthur Rogers Lane Anderson Point was a large farm that was donated to the City the man hadn't farmed properly in 20 years or more The park backed up to my place—I built a house right on the corner it was easy for me to check on the horses and anything that needed to be done and I helped with the transition from privately owned farm to it being a city park They moved the house when they built Highway 264 I used to drive a school bus on the same road where I later built my house then personnel manager and then supervisor for delivery service I was the first Black in Professional Sales for the whole company I am in the senior group that meets on Tuesdays People who want to join can call or just show up Larry retired after many years as a chemist and chemical quality assurance technician He works at Barwell Park part time and is a member of the Senior Group make sure the basketball games are going smooth We check on what's going on in each other’s lives I retired from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals after 22 years I was a chemical quality assurance technician we made acetaminophen which is the main ingredient for Tylenol We’d make it in powder form and send it to other companies I helped test product to make sure it was alright for consumption Before that I worked at the State Mental Hospital for about 20 years and I worked at Central Prison for about four years but I felt like if you get to know the patients and treat them like you want to be treated there was something going on with the person you can deal with them and they can deal with you You have to set up your own way of doing things They couldn't start a new project unless you got the numbers right They could get shut down if they didn’t have the numbers right Company adds 2,250 sqm to Munich footprint with MU4 Equinix has opened a new data center outside Munich The company this week announced it has opened a new International Business Exchange (IBX) facility known as MU4 at Dywidagstrasse 10 in Aschheim The first $90 million phase of MU4 provides more than 2,250 square meters (24,200 sq ft) of colocation space and more than 825 cabinets of capacity Equinix currently has two other data centers – MU1 and MU3 – in operation in the Munich area Equinix said: "As one of Europe's major automotive Munich is home to some of the world's most innovative businesses This makes it a key strategic location for us to invest and grow in We are proud to start the year with the continued expansion of our German footprint and look forward to supporting more businesses in Munich as they accelerate their transformation with a powerful and sustainable digital infrastructure." The data center is expected to be powered by 100 percent renewable energy purchased through a green power certificate from local supplier The company said the next construction phase of the data center is due to see the installation of an Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) system that will enable thermal energy to be stored and recovered Equinix said it is also exploring options to provide waste heat from MU4 to external consumers in the future "We provide companies in Munich with the most dynamic digital infrastructure platform available and want it to be as climate-friendly as feasible As the first operator in the industry to commit to science-based climate targets we continuously explore and invest in new climate friendly technologies to further reduce emissions and save resources,” said Jens-Peter Feidner we are committed to working with operators and energy providers to target the long-term challenges of sustainable digitization to the benefit of the surrounding community This includes design aspects such as the use of greened facades as well as potential measures supporting the energy transition like the use of waste heat.” Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. 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Join today The Tarboro Road Community Center is sporting a new public artwork “Finding I AM,” a mural created by Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) class of 2016 alumna Cianna Jackson with a BA in Visual Arts concentrating on Graphic Design “I’m very grateful to the Visual Arts Program and Deborah for this opportunity,” says Cianna “I’m thrilled I could use the experience I gained at SAU in my community and showcase my talents.” This opportunity was brought to Cianna’s attention by her former professor “I am so happy that Cianna continues to share her generous heart and unique vision with the College Park community,” says Linda Dallas I am so pleased when the abundant talent of SAU’s creative community is recognized.” Raleigh Arts funded the project as part of Deborah Aschheim’s Raleigh Stories project Cianna Jackson was one of 4 Raleigh artists that Aschheim selected to mentor through their first public art project “Finding I AM” is an exciting beginning for Jackson’s public art journey “One reason I loved working with Cianna and Professor Dallas’s students is that I think SAU students are motivated by powerful social justice They don’t just want to make something nice-looking; they really want to connect with people through their art The mural adorns the wall of the Community Center’s gymnasium Inspiration for the mural came from Cianna’s work with young participants of the Saint Monica Teen Center’s summer program Jackson encouraged the teens to describe their unique qualities and how they can use them to better themselves for their future She hopes the mural will inspire everyone visiting the Community Center to consider their life purpose The staff at the Tarboro Road Center were eager to demonstrate the unique feature of “Finding I AM.” When the gymnasium is lit with ultra-violet light This makes it a real hit with black-light sports fans specifically the teens associated with the center the Tarboro Road Community Center will facilitate a black light dodgeball game on Tuesday in the Tarboro Road Community Center gymnasium Learn more about the “Finding I AM” mural here Learn more about the Saint Augustine’s University Visual Arts Program here Learn more about the Tarboro Road Community Center here Learn how to describe the purpose of the image (opens in a new tab) Leave empty if the image is purely decorative Raleigh Stories project "Backpacking Method" is a multi-sensory Artist Kulsum created customized backpacks containing artifacts that tell the history of Method Road for participants to unpack The artist worked with neighbors to gather content and host events with community members The project continues to bring together people from different backgrounds and life experiences who reside in the same neighborhood The exhibit is displayed at Method Community Park.  The Backpacking Method Podcast series unpacks the history of the Method Road neighborhood in Raleigh a place that people from very different backgrounds and life experiences call home Listen to stories told by the pioneers who built the neighborhood and hear from the next generation of community builders who continue to carry their legacy Backpacking Method Podcast on Spotify Albert Crenshaw with a Backpacking Method backpack."Backpacking Method" by Kulsum Tasnif Raleigh Stories is a community engagement public art project by artist Deborah Aschheim about Raleigh neighborhoods and communities. Aschheim creates unique drawings of the people and places that make up the Raleigh community. Participants receive a free signed print of their drawing and are featured on the Raleigh Stories Instagram.  she has partnered with other artists to tell the stories of communities and neighborhoods across Raleigh.  Learn about all the Raleigh Stories projects.  Kelly McChesneyPublic Art Directorkelly.mcchesney@raleighnc.gov Raleigh Stories Portraits at the Norman and Betty Camp Education Center at the Walnut Creek Wetland Park.  Artist Deborah Aschheim has created a series of 30 portraits of community members who have a connection to the Walnut Creek Wetland Park. The artworks depict the faces and narratives of people who love the park or have contributed to the creation or ongoing story of the park Visitors to the Walnut Creek Wetland Center can view the portraits during park hours scroll through the image galleries below and follow the links to view the full profile of each community member Learn more about the Raleigh Stories Public Art Project.  Ross Andrews, the first Director of Walnut Creek Wetlands Park, was an environmental scientist, an educator, and lover of nature. Read more about Ross Andrews Sarah Brim is a graduate of North Carolina State University, working as a park attendant and environmental educator. To achieve environmental justice, she helps build/rebuild relationships between nature and historically marginalized communities. Read more about Sarah Cashew Banks, and aspiring filmmaker, is a frequent visitor to Walnut Creek Wetlands Park. Read more about Cashew.  Derrick Beasley, a multi-disciplinary artist from Durham whose work deals with Black people and their relationship to the environment, created an artwork for WCWP that is a dedication to the power of collective action and organizing around wetlands. Read more about Derrick Glendia Bryson-Jacobs (here with her grandson, Cayden Saunders) has been participating in Walnut Creek cleanups since the park was founded. She and her three children have a lifelong connection with the Wetland Center through membership in Top Ladies of Distinction & Teens of America, a WCWP community partner. Read more about Glendia Dr.  Norman and his wife, Betty played a key role in galvanizing the community to support the construction of Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Wetland Center to alleviate flooding in Biltmore Hills and Rochester Heights. Read more about the Camp family Adrienne Chalmers experienced flooding as part of growing up in Biltmore hills. She went on to work for Wake County Public Schools and is now the After School Director at Lee Brothers Martial Arts. Read more about Adrienne Adrian Chamberlin is a Recreation Leader at Walnut Creek Wetlands Park, and an instructor for Neighborhood Ecology Corps Year 1 Cohort. Read more about Adrian Tzu Chen is an architectural photographer and a licensed architect, who lent his skills to documenting the Raleigh Stories installations and Derrick Beasley’s artwork for WCWP. Read more about Tzu Charles Craig is the Assistant Director of Raleigh Parks and Natural Resources Division: 10,000 park land acres/200 parks, 120 miles of greenway, 81 athletic fields and 96 playgrounds. Read more about Charles Julia Kay Daniels has fond memories of growing up playing in the woods near the park, but she also remembers Walnut Creek flooding neighbors’ homes. Read more about Julia Amin Davis is an Environmental Scientist for the NC Division of Water Resources, Board Member of Partners for Environmental Justice and Friend of the Walnut Creek Community. Read more about Amin Lina Edwards lives near Walnut Creek Wetlands Park and is in Year Three of the Neighborhood Ecology Corps (NEC). Lina is considering a career related to ecology. Read more about Lina Corie Griebel is a Master’s Student at NC State studying  Natural Resources. Corie works part-time at WCWP, teaching programs that help kids connect with nature. Read more about Corie Ivanna Solis Gutierrez lives near Walnut Creek Wetlands Park and is in Year Two of the Neighborhood Ecology Corps (NEC). Ivanna is hoping to pursue life as a marine biologist. Read more about Ivanna Stacie Hagwood was Director of WCWP from 2015-2022, carrying forward Dr. Norman and Betty Camps’ vision for the park and education center. After retiring, Stacie returned as a part-time employee. Read more about Stacie Cypriane Jacobs lives near Walnut Creek with her son Cayden. She has participated in creek cleanups and trash pickup along the park trails. Read more about Cypriane Kasey and her family were visitors to Mud Day 2023 at Walnut Creek Wetlands Park.  Read more about Kasey Celia Lechtman is the Assistant Manager at Walnut Creek Wetlands Park. Read more about Celia Sheryl McGlory is an Environmental Education Programs Manager with the City of Raleigh’s Nature Preserves and Programs team. Read more about Sheryl Enid Patterson, a long-time congregant at Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church, lives in Biltmore Hills. She is an active volunteer with Urban Ministries of Wake County and the Helen Wright Center for Women. Read more about Enid Elaine Peebles-Brown lives in the first house built in Rochester Heights. She is an advocate for excellence in health care for the Southeast Raleigh Community. Read more about Elaine Kyleene Rooks, Park Manager at Walnut Creek Wetlands Park, has an appreciation for the history of the park and its deep community involvement. Read more about Kyleene The Reverend Robert Jemonde Taylor is the eleventh rector of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church. His commitment to environmental justice and racial equality, and his personal connection to the land, deeply inform his ministry of resurrection and transformation, and his civic involvement. Read more about Reverend Taylor Karyn C. Thomas, a member of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, is a native resident of the historic South Park Community, growing up during her youth in Biltmore Hills. Read more about Karyn Katrel Thomas is studying to be a mental health counselor. She is passionate about the importance of mental health awareness for minority communities. Read more about Katrel Josie Wright and her mother, Rosie, live in Clayton and are members of St. Ambrose Congregation. They are very in tune to how important the wetlands are, not only for their church community, but for everybody around us. Read more about Josie Metrics details At the same time, our ability to culture human embryos in vitro has rapidly progressed to the point where they can be supported up to 14 days—the Rubicon determined in the 1984 Warnock report at which point all embryo research should cease. 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Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature23305 (2017) Download references Reprints and permissions Download citation Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Israel and Jewish Identity book review: Will the real Bruno please stand up?An intriguing and forensic new biography of the Jewish former Austrian chancellor Colin Shindler Israel and Jewish Identity By Daniel Aschheim University of New Orleans Press £15.32 Bruno Kreisky was the longest-serving Chancellor of Austria (1970-1983) He was also a Jew who had fled to Sweden when Hitler annexed the country to the Third Reich More than 20 family members perished in the Shoah but he returned to a country where “most Austrians had supported Hitler’s cause to the bitter end” he was conflicted about his Jewishness and about Israel where his disabled brother lived and where his nephew served as a paratrooper To figures in the Israeli peace camp such as Aryeh “Lova” Eliav and Uri Avnery but close it to Israeli diplomats — often on the same non-political subjects Many have written previously about the mass of contradictions that was Bruno Kreisky The Israeli diplomat Daniel Aschheim has now drawn on all past research interviewed former ambassadors and examined the archived correspondence between the Israeli embassy in Vienna and the foreign ministry in Jerusalem This is a forensic attempt to uncover the real Kreisky — even so it is akin to walking into a hall of mirrors Kreisky came from an acculturated family that belonged to the Jewish upper middle class Freud — and indeed Theodor Herzl — he found being Jewish in Vienna to be a problematic affliction Kreisky attempted to compartmentalise his affiliations at a time when 25 per cent of Austrians Kreisky believed in realpolitik and adopted a cynically pragmatic approach to former Nazis in public life Yet he was married to a Jewish woman who played bridge with her Jewish friends and he also had an affair with the wife of a leading Jewish intellectual Daniel Aschheim characterises him in private as very much a Central European Jew Kreisky allowed Austria to blur its recent past — Hitler Eichmann and Seyss-Inquart were all Austrians — by according it a victim status of German Nazism Indeed he provided a legitimacy to Austrians to contract a historical amnesia He was also aware that the word “Jew” in post-war Austria was not simply descriptive but also a weapon to be used against him A furious lifelong row broke out with the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal when Kreisky cultivated Friedrich Peter in 1975 to ensure his own party’s supremacy in coalition Wiesenthal revealed that Peter had served in the First SS Infantry Brigade which was responsible for the murder of 8,000 Jews Kreisky in turn labelled Wiesenthal “a Gestapo collaborator” — one of many emotional often bizarre outbursts that complicated his identity In 1973 Kreisky closed down the transit centre for Soviet Jews at Schönau when members of the Palestinian As-Sa’iqa held hostage new immigrants In a face-to-face acrimonious confrontation with Golda Meir Kreisky rejected the charge that he had “opened the door to terrorism” he opened a new camp at Wöllersdorf for Soviet Jews under the remit of the Austrian Red Cross instead of that of the Jewish Agency and gave them the choice of leaving for countries other than Israel Aschheim describes the demonising coverage of Kreisky in the Israeli and diaspora press — sometimes justified This reflected the simplicity of describing Kreisky as a “self-hating” Jew whereas Aschheim’s well-researched book depicts him more as a buffeted subject of the 20th century’s lethal storms Kreisky never fitted into a conventional Jewish template Books Austria One of the opening dishes in the 19-course degustation menu served at Tel Aviv’s OCD restaurant – recently voted third out of 50 restaurants in the Middle East by the Best Restaurant Academy – is a cucumber tartelette filled with grouper tartare smoked aioli sauce and garnished with slivers of crimson fried… seaweed Neither did the seaweed originate in the sea as you would presume which developed unique technology for land-based seaweed farming At its farm near the Mediterranean coastline, Seakura grows organic seaweed in pools with water pumped in from a deep-sea well filtered to remove pollutants including heavy metals The growing pools are divided into three sections Through regulating the temperature of the water and exposure to light the seaweed yield is maximized and constant year-round unlike the wild variety which is seasonal and subject to environmental conditions that negatively affect growth and quality In a world battling food shortages for a global population nearing 8 billion people and desperately seeking environmentally friendly sources seaweed seems promising — although it’s yet to catch on as other superfoods have even for those on a popular high-protein diet People haven’t discovered that when it comes to protein seaweed beats the usual sources on our plates “Seaweed is more similar to an egg than a plant,” says Oz “It contains 32 grams of protein compared to red meat (25 gr) Seakura chose only two: Ulva (also known as sea lettuce) a leafy green variety resembling the seaweed we are more familiar with; and Gracilaria which is a deep reddish color and has delicate fronds The company then carried out genetic selection to ensure the optimum amount of proteins calcium and most notably its higher iodine content Iodine deficiency is the most worrisome as it accounts for one of the major nutritional deficiencies in the world today and can lead to serious health issues such as goiter and pregnancy-related problems On a tour of the farm I sampled the green leafy sea lettuce straight out of its seawater pool with jacuzzi like bubbles the saltiness remained for a good few hours and I couldn’t imagine eating mounds of it For those who want to substantially increase their iodine intake the Seakura line of supplements would probably be preferable Another alternative are the new food products the company launched this year Nine Canadian supermarket chains sell Seakura’s organic seaweed falafel mix two pesto options and flakes for seasoning In Italy, Seakura supplies the established frozen food manufacturing company Rispo with fresh seaweed Rispo recently added a deep-frozen pancake ball with seaweed to its assorted range of savory frittelle The packaging suggests serving the balls with an aperitif or as a party food Overall exports to Europe have grown dramatically in the last few years So why do seaweed products not line our supermarket shelves in Israel “We are in touch with all the top chefs in Israel who love our freshly picked product seaweed has been an unfamiliar and exotic food,” Oz explains “People used to say they think of it as the annoying thing that sticks to your legs on the beach Now they are realizing how healthy and tasty it is.” Seakura aims to “put seaweed on the plate of every fifth Israeli and not just as sushi.” a delegation from the UAE was sitting down to eat a brunch laden with dishes made from seaweed: seaweed pesto with seaweed crackers steamed eggplant in a peanut sesame sauce with seaweed garnish and a healthful apple Perhaps our plates will look the same in the not-too-distant future For more information, click here WDHN - wdhn.com BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s finance minister says he wants to revamp the oversight system for the country’s financial industry in the wake of the accounting scandal at payment systems provider Wirecard The Munich-based Wirecard filed for bankruptcy recently after auditors couldn’t find accounts in the Philippines that were supposed to contain 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) The company’s former CEO was arrested and released on bail while its former chief operating officer is on the run Finance Minister Olaf Scholz told German weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in an interview published Sunday that he wants to empower the country’s financial supervisory authority to conduct unannounced checks at any moment He also proposed ensuring that BaFin has oversight of large payment processing companies — even if they don’t fall neatly into the category of a financial institution — and discuss whether auditors need to rotate more frequently German authorities have been criticized for failing to step in sooner despite reports of irregularities dating back at least five years largely welcomed the proposals but called for a lower threshold of liability for auditors’ failings The world record in the men's 100 metres stands at 9.69 seconds while a BMW M3 Coupe is capable of reaching 100 km/h in 4.6 seconds three-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt knows what it feels like to travel at both speeds because the 22-year old Jamaican was able to experience the outstanding driving characteristics of his future sports car while driving it to its limits at the BMW Vehicle Test Facility in Aschheim near Munich following almost three hours of BMW Driver Training He was greatly impressed by the tremendous power and the full sound of the engine Usain Bolt had obviously thoroughly enjoyed driving the 420 bhp sports car across the handling course in wintry road conditions - fully aware that he was taking the vehicle to its physical limits - under the professional guidance of a BMW driving instructor World record holder Usain Bolt describes his first encounter with a BMW M3 Coupe in Jamaica as "love at first sight" Even as a young boy he never missed a single opportunity of joining his uncle for a ride in his BMW The passion remained - and so did the dream of owning his own BMW M3 a dream his chief sponsor PUMA finally fulfilled in special recognition of three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics The black BMW M3 Coupe destined for the fastest man in the world is currently on the way to Kingston and is scheduled to be handed over to Usain Bolt before Christmas His enthusiasm for everything that travels fast was re-kindled during his visit to BMW Welt Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG introduced their athletic guest to the entire BMW portfolio He was particularly interested in BMW motorcycles and the various versions of the BMW M3 had won the sprint over 100 metres at the Olympic Games in Beijing in the record-breaking time of 9.69 seconds beating his own previous world record of May 2008 The giant athlete was also unsurpassed in the 200 metres in which he set a new world record of 19.30 seconds He seized his third gold medal by winning the 4x100-metre relay race together with the Jamaican team likewise in a new world record time of 37.10 seconds the Jamaican quartet improving on the previous world record set by the USA in 1993 by three tenths of a second Here you can see the webcast of the BMW Group Press Conference at the Auto Shanghai 2025.