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Tacoma Murals Project
Source: Slabs of gray all around the city are being transformed into bright, positive images about community.
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The Tacoma Murals Project has completed murals in neighborhoods throughout town since 2010. It was originally created as the Community Based Murals Project as a part of the city's Community Based Services (CBS for short) and the city's arts program.
Artists are selected through job ads posted on the city website. Teams of artists are then formed, consisting of lead artists and around five assistants.
The art team has to work with the community on ideas for the mural through a series of community meetings, which can range from hosting formal meetings to visiting garage sales.
Rachael Dotson, a lead artist, used the community meetings to extrapolate ideas and said she enjoyed meeting people she probably wouldn't have a chance to interact with otherwise. Dotson wants to make an impact on the community with the murals, while at the same time putting Tacoma on the map. She wants people from the east coast to fly out here and see them.
According to Daniel Crittendon, whose family owns the wall where the Hilltop mural is located, community feedback on the mural has been very positive and helps brighten up the community. "This was just a brick wall falling apart like the rest of the building", Crittendon remarked.
Currently there are nine murals of different shapes and sizes which can be found on a variety of surfaces, such as retaining walls, the sides of buildings, and across bridges.
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Bergerson Terrace
Location: An apartment complex at 5301 S. Orchard.
Lead artists: Rachael Dotson, Joni Joachims, Jeremy Gregory
Participating artists: Liza A Brown, Kate Cendejas, Brian Hutcheson, David Long, Mary McFarland, Laura Ospital, Chelsea O'Sullivan, Natalie Oswald, Yvette Simone, Shannon Wallace, and Janice Lee Warren.
Description: A very surreal and imaginative landscape, a great backdrop for a children's playground. The mural includes images of children singing and dancing on giant flowers, while the moon and other celestial objects watch from above. The mural not only spreads out over the whole playground but also includes details up and around nearby stairways.
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43rd Street Bridge
Location: A bridge that connects 43rd street over railroad tracks.
Lead artists: Chris Sharp, Kelda Martensen
Participating artists: Kate Cendejas, Brian Hutcheson, David Long, Mary McFarland, Laura Ospital, Chelsea O'Sullivan, Natalie Oswald, Yvette Simone, and Janice Lee Warren.
Description: There's a bird on it! This mural spotlights and accentuates the natural beauty of the surrounding area, depicting various flora and fauna. It’s located on a bridge that goes over railroad tracks. When we took pictures of it we noticed a few shopping carts had been tossed over into the valley below.
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Fern Hill
Location: On the side of a wall of the Foam and Fabric building near S. 84th Street & S. Park Avenue.
Lead artist: Kelda Martensen
Participating artists: Dionne Bonner and Brad Pugh.
Description: This mural really puts the Fern Hill neighborhood on the map and has become something of a local icon. The message "Greetings from Fern Hill" uses bright, colorful lettering like something from a vintage postcard.
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Hilltop
Location: On the side of a building at 2143 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Lead artist: Jeremy Gregory
Participating artists: Kate Cendejas, Larine Chung, Jena Marks, and Marlin Peterson.
Description: The hilltop mural displays a landscape of flowers and a big blue sky with clouds. Figures include local heroes and a prominent young girl playfully interacting with a small slug. Jeremy Gregory took notes on comments from the community, like "[you're] making our property tax go up, but that's alright." Gregory also recounted when Marlin Peterson was working on the part of the mural with the little girl, when a girl who looked very similar to the girl in the mural walked up, except she had knockers holding her hair together, so they added them to the mural.
South Tacoma Way
Location: On the front of the building at 5148 S. Tacoma Way.
Lead artist: Rachael Dotson
Participating artists: Michael, Corcoran, Josh Everson, Jani Freimann, and Trinda Love.
Description: Includes images of the community and Tacoma's past, featuring some neat horse-drawn carriages!
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St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store
Location: 4009 S. 56th Street facing the street.
Lead artist: Christopher Jordan and Kenji Stoll.
Participating artists: Tiffanny Hammonds, Kisha Rardin, Alex Schelhammer, Christian Vicente, Alex Williams, and Ernesto Zamora.
Description: A colorful and imaginative commentary on humans and their interaction with nature. Incredibly vibrant and unique, based on the idea of community togetherness inspired by the thrift store itself.
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38th & Portland Ave.
Location: Retaining wall at 3804 Portland Avenue.
Lead artist: Chris Sharp
Participating artists: Shanna Duncan, Asia Tail, and Patricia Vazquez Gomez.
Description: According to the city, this had been one of the most-tagged walls in Tacoma. The community wanted the mural to include a message of Hope and Home. An interesting aspect of this wall is that unlike the other murals, it has a ridged surface that must have been difficult to paint on.
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Lincoln District
Location: On a hillside retaining wall near S. M Street and S. 24th Street near Bob's Java Jive.
Lead artist: Joni Joachims
Participating artists: Brad Dinsmore, Rajaa Gharbi, Kathleen Gray, and Tenold Sundberg.
Description: This mural is adorned with many images of goats playing and grazing contently amongst trees, flowers, and a Sasquatch. One of the larger murals, with a variety of different scenes.
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Portland Ave Community Center
Location: On a restroom building in the Portland Avenue Park.
Lead artist: Rachel Dotson, Jeremy Gregory, Joni Joachims, Kelda Martensen, and Chris Sharp.
Participating artists: Dionne Bonner, Kate Cendejas, Larine Chung, Mike Corcoran, Brad Dinsmore, Shanna Duncan, Josh Everson, Jani Freimann, Jill Frey, Rajaa Gharbi, Kathleen Gray, Alexandra Kerl, Trinda Love, Jena Marks, Marlin Peterson, Brad Pugh, Tenold Sundberg, Asia Tail, and Patricia Vazquez Gomez.
Description: This was the first completed mural of the project and was created by several mural artists and features many different styles and subjects. Overall, it looks like a big jam session featuring animal-human-robot hybrids of all shapes and varieties.
Future murals are in still in the planning stages and artists have been meeting with the community to come up with ideas for them. The five walls are located at:
220 Puyallup Avenue on the east wall facing C Street. Lead artist: Chris Sharp.
A retaining wall on the 3200 block of East L Street. Lead artists: Rachael Dotson and Jeremy Gregory.
The south and east walls of Waterhouse building at 2502 Commerce Street. Lead artists: Rachael Dotson and Jeremy Gregory.
On the south wall of 6323 McKinley Avenue facing 64th Street. Lead artist: Joni Joachims.
On the south side of the building at 5441 South Sheridan Street facing 56th Street. Lead artists: Kenji Stoll and Chris Jordan.
When coming up with ideas for the murals, "I like to focus on the future of the neighborhood", said Jeremy Gregory, a lead artist on many of the murals. "We'll go to a community meeting and gather information about the community, like stories and history about the community, but I don't want the history to be dominant."
One of the goals of the mural project was to discourage graffiti, particularly on the retaining wall near 38th and Portland Ave., according to Cultural Arts Specialist for the Tacoma Arts Program, Naomi Strom-Avila. What used to be one of the most-targeted walls in Tacoma for tagging now sports messages of "Home" and "Hope." Murals are covered in a special coating called Vandal Guard. According to the product's website, Vandal Guard is a trademarked anti-graffiti polyester overlaminate. The coating enables the murals to be washed off if they get tagged.
Rachael Dotson got her start doing a mural by the waterfront, and has since created murals in Auburn.
Jeremy Gregory will be involved in a mural project with designer Robert Gilbert around the Point Ruston development.
The project currently runs on a two-year budget of $50,000. The City of Tacoma has invited citizens to give their input at several public Community Budget Input Meetings throughout July. Specific dates, times, and places are posted on the City of Tacoma website.
The city runs a detailed website on the Tacoma Murals Project, with more pictures and information at http://www.tacomaculture.org/arts/murals.asp.
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UW physics department helps discover the “God” particle, a framework for the universe
Source: [caption id="attachment_173" align="alignnone" width="300"]<a href="http://thetacomaledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/LHC.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-173" title="LHC" src="http://thetacomaledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/LHC-300x196.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="196" /></a> Worker at CERN inspects components within an oversized waveguide inside the Large Hadron Collider. Photo by Peter Ginter, courtesy of CERN.[/caption]
On July 3rd, a gathering of physicists, students, and science fans waited eagerly in a Lower Queen Ann restaurant to view a two a.m. live broadcast of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)’s recent findings in the search for the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle believed to confer mass itself. In the crowd were two of several UW physicists who aided in the search and discovery of this subatomic particle at CERN, Anna Goussiou and Gordon Watts. Elated, the two cheered as CERN confirmed the discovery of a new boson.
The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle believed by scientists to have existed for decades, but plausible proof was compiled only weeks before CERN’s early July announcement. Definite existence of a boson was found to be at five sigma, which is a statistical scale for determining the certainty of a discovery. Anything at or above five marks an extremely likely existence. Whether or not it is an actual Higgs requires more time and research at Geneva, Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and although it was scheduled cease operation in December for a two year maintenance and upgrade period, it was announced that it will stay running for an extended three months in light of the recent findings. The maintenance time will double the tunnel’s power, which is currently at 3.5 Tera-electron Volts (TeV). The LHC smashes protons together at such high energy levels in its seventeen mile tunnel that it is compared to the Big Bang, and physicists gather massive amounts of data through different channels of the LHC like the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) and CMS (Compact Muon Spectrometer). With one billion proton-proton collisions every second, combining research from each channel and cross examining is an extensive task for the 3,000 scientists and 1,000 graduate students currently at work in Switzerland. Four UW physicists and several graduate students are included in this count, each with different focuses in the massive project. With extended months of operation and nearly unlimited research paths to follow with the LHC’s soon to be amped up power and data collection ability, hopefully more UW students will have the opportunity to contribute to breakthroughs similar to this one.
The Higgs boson, believed to be the key to why matter has mass, is the last missing piece to the Standard Model, which is particle physicists’ running theory for discovering the universe’s particles and comprehending the forces that direct them. Existence of the Higgs boson not only potentially confirms the Standard Model, but also begins a new era of scientific research, which could further our understanding of the universe, including the structure of dark and anti-matter. It is called misleadingly by some the “God” particle because the Higgs boson and its relationship with how particles have mass infer that it in a sense created everything and is the framework for the entire universe.
Stephen Hawking, world renowned physicist, had denounced CERN’s search for a new boson, believing such particle could not be found, and lost a bet against colleague Gordon Kane of the University of Michigan following CERN’s announcement.
A major advancement in the realm of particle physics, the discovery of the new boson and impending confirmation of it being a Higgs boson is an exciting opening of numerous scientific doors, all leading to new discoveries of the universe and how it was created on a subatomic level.
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“ObamaCare” upheld, what this means for UW Huskies
Source: A key aspect of President Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Act, the individual health insurance mandate, was approved by the Supreme Court in late June, with both widespread support and opposition.
The Affordable Healthcare Act, which was signed into law two years ago, has already implemented some of its features into the American healthcare system. A brief summary of the Act shows that for those who already have insurance, many changes appear beneficial. Patients with preexisting conditions cannot be discriminated against by healthcare providers, so thousands of asthmatic or diabetic patients will begin receiving care.
Insurance coverage will no longer have yearly or lifetime limits, mean<a name="_GoBack"></a>ing cancer patients will no longer have to worry about hitting their plan’s dollar limit and having to pay for treatments out of pocket. Required free access to preventive measures such as diabetes, cancer, and blood pressure screenings will also take effect. In a 2010 speech, Obama promised that taxes and insurance rates will be lowered and kept down “by creating a new insurance exchange: a marketplace where individuals and small businesses will be able to shop for health insurance at competitive prices.” Obama also stated that implementation of the law would be paid for not by tax dollars, but rather by finding savings within the present health care system.
For Americans without health insurance, options will be varied and personalized to an individual’s financial situation. The new marketplace structure will allow for customers to find an affordable healthcare plan among competitive rates. Tax credits will also be provided to middle class families to aid them in finding insurance plans.
But what does all of this mean for college students?
The Wall Street Journal reported that the cost of university healthcare plans for students could rise exponentially with last month’s Supreme Court ruling, as most offer limited benefit packages, and coverage caps will become illegal in 2014, therefore raising university premiums. The current UW Tacoma insurance plan has a $100,000 annual limit with an individual deductible of $125 per quarter and a yearly coinsurance maximum of $2,500.
The law raised the age in which students can remain on their parents’ health insurance from 24 to 26, meaning that the more than 2/3 of students benefiting from this change can be covered through all or most of graduate school. However, many campus healthcare centers do not take outside health insurance, so students should be aware of that when seeking treatment. Also, single men and women with an income of less than $15,000 may be eligible for Medicaid, and those making $43,000 or below may qualify for tax credits upon purchasing healthcare.
Many details of the insurance act dubbed “ObamaCare” are being widely critiqued and debated. However, the individual health insurance mandate seems to be gathering the most attention. Beginning in 2014, those without health insurance will be required to pay 1% of their income to the IRS as part of their annual taxes. About 30% of 19-25 year olds in America are currently uninsured, but the new mandate is not necessarily a requirement to purchase healthcare: it’s the decision to either find an affordable insurance package or pay slightly higher taxes each year.
Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2014 collection was a study in tonality, and so were the wigs, individually dyed to match the pinks, creams, beiges, and brown shades of the clothes.
Wear it dry, and you’ve got your standard dusting of color—classic and predictable (in a good way). But wet! Wearing it wet opens a whole new world of opportunity. “What you’re doing is bringing out the pigmented nature of the shadow,” makeup artist Vincent Oquendo says. “Whenever I wet an eye shadow, it’s when I really want it to pop—but it really has to be a special kind of product to be able to blend after it sets. Because a lot of the times when it sets, you get streaking.” Nobody wants that. In order to avoid any wet shadow mishaps, follow these guidelines:
Product
Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2014 collection was a study in tonality, and so were the wigs.
First, go with the obvious: any eye shadow labeled wet-to-dry. The Nars Dual-Intensity line is the standout—the singles come in 12 different shimmery shades, and there’s a corresponding brush (then there’s the newly released Dual Intensity Blush line, which was all over Fashion Week—but that’s a product for another post). Burberry also makes a few very versatile shades specifically for this in their Wet & Dry Silk Shadows. And the technique-specific eye shadow category isn’t just a ploy to get you to buy more product. “You can’t just use any eye shadow for this,” Vincent says. “Certain ones will harden up on top and become unusable because they’re not made for this.”
Baked shadows are also fair game—we’re fans of Laura Mercier’s Baked Eye Colour Wet/Dry and Lorac’s Starry-Eyed Baked Eye Shadow Trio in particular.
For more advanced players, Vincent suggests moving on to straight pigment (MAC or even OCC’s Pure Cosmetic Pigments). With the added moisture, they’ll become easier to layer with other products. For a look with more depth, try using a cream shadow as a based before swiping with a wet powder shadow. “It’s like insurance,” Vincent says. “You’re doubling your wearability.”
Brush
This all depends on exactly what you want to do. “Mind the resistance,” Vincent says, particularly if you’re looking for uniform color across the lid. “I tend to recommend a blender brush, which is the brush that looks like a feather duster. If you do it with a stiff brush, you’re defeating yourself before you even start. The joy of a wet-to-dry is you have to get it right amount of product loaded up, and then it blends itself. If the brush is too stiff, it will leave the shadow streaky and then much harder to control.”
However, if tightlining or waterlining is in the cards, a much thinner brush is required accordingly.
Liquid
Do not, repeat, do not put eye drops, water, or any other sort of liquid directly on your eye shadow. This’ll screw up your product for later use. “Lately, I’ve been wetting the brush with the Glossier Soothing Face Mist, but Evian Mineral Water Spray is good for sensitive eyes,” Vincent says. If the top of your powder does get a little hardened by wet application, there’s a trick to remove it: Get a clean mascara spoolie and “exfoliate” your compact, Vincent recommends. This won’t crack the compact and will make it ready to go once more.
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