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Tag: Portland Oregon

  • Art and artists

    This is the weekend of my art group’s show….I’ll be back to more regular blogging next week.

    Getting ready is a bit stressful – but it’s a good kind of stress – the kind that can motivate and get you revved up!
    This is one of those kinds of stress I do not wish to eliminate – or I won’t get everything done : -)

    If you are in the Portland Oregon area this Sunday – here is our Press Release

    ORA: Northwest Jewish Artists
    503.244.0794
    info@northwestjewishartists.org
    http://www.northwestjewishartists.org

    CELEBRATION OF ART:
    Portland, Oregon- October 28th, 9am-3pm
    Neveh Shalom
    2900 SW Peaceful Lane
    Portland Oregon

    The magic begins as you enter our Main Exhibit Hall. Live music by well known recording artists and performers will greet your ears, and a coffee house featuring fresh treats will tantalize your palate as you listen to the musical stylings of Stephanie Schneiderman (of Dirty Martini fame), George Fendel, jazz pianist, and Justin Jude, recently named “Oregon’s Best Singer/Songwriter 2007!”

    Stroll from exhibit to exhibit to experience a unique show that blends the best elements of a gallery opening with an artist colony tour — with a coffee house of a forgotten age tossed in. Celebrating their second year as a collective, ORA artists invite the public to
    discover their new work. Although the artists are Jewish, Judaic and secular works are available for purchase.

    Members of ORA are: Rosana Berdichevsky , collage and multi-media; Lynn Dorman, photography; Leslie Elder water colors, Robin Esterkin, water color, acrylic and mixed media; Laurie Fendel, fabric construction; Diane Fredgant, silk painting; Sara Harwin, fabric construction, acrylic painting and serigraph prints; Julie Hockley, hand-cast precious metal jewelry & ritual objects; Esther Liberman, handmade bead work; Sharon Segal, acrylic and mixed media paintings and cards; Eddy Shuldman, fused glass; and Sabina Wohlfeiler, water color paintings.

    You don’t need to be Jewish to come look, schmooze with the artists, nosh a little, and buy art that speaks to you., Best of all, admission is free!

    For more information please visit our website: www.northwestjewishartists.org

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  • Good news; Bad news day

    Good news

    Simple blood test could predict Alzheimer’s risk
    Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:39am EDT

    By Julie Steenhuysen

    CHICAGO (Reuters) – Researchers have developed a simple blood test that may be able to predict whether mild lapses of memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease.

    In a study published on Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine, an international team of researchers describe 18 cell-signaling, or communication, proteins found in blood that predicted with 90 percent accuracy whether a person would develop Alzheimer’s disease.

    Bad news

    Depressed at work? Get a new career
    Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:26pm EDT

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Child care workers, home health care aides and other people who provide personal services have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers, according to a new survey to be published on Monday.

    It found that 10.8 percent of personal care and service workers and 10.3 percent of food preparation and serving workers — both usually low-paying jobs — experienced one or more major depressive episodes in the past year.

    It’s good that we may be able to predict Alzheimer’s early – but unless we also figure out better how to treat it or avoid it – I am not sure I’d like to know if my memory lapses are an early signal – what if they aren’t?

    I found out last year that I have some odd white spots in my brain – they are usually related to MS and other conditions but I was told by the neurologist not to worry as it turns out that more people have these than they used to think…and since I bike and ski I certainly have no balance problems…

    But now that I know they are there? I have a nagging something in my head about them.

    And the depression? It seems to be more prevalent in those professions where we find more women – care giver careers.
    Are women more depressed or do these profession tend to appeal to those who get depressed?

    Lots of questions that need answering.

    In the meanwhile if you are depressed – see someone to find out why – it may be situational..

    or as the news said – get a new career…

    If you have read other of my posts – that’s a great idea for many reasons –

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  • The Friday scam laugh – an "honest" scammer

    Edited from an email I just got – wow if I believed all these scammers – I’d have enough money to pay off the USA Federal Debt, support whole communities and still have billions left for me : – ) – and that’s just in the past few months!

    My name is Mr.MORONIKE ADAMS

    [ yes Ike is a moron]

    I am compelled to seek your indulgence and active participation in a well thought out scheme for you to act as the NEXT OF KIN

    [but the scheme is not so well thought out – doesn’t moron Ike know he is not alone anymore in using this scam?]

    Should my proposal apeal to you,and upon the receipt of your reply, I can obtain and manipulate all vital document neccessary for a sucessful transfer of the fund into your bank account.I will also send you a detailed information about the transaction.

    [Misspellings are a dead give away that no real banker is involved and yes moron Ike is admitting to manipulating all documents so if there is a criminal/legal problem – you have no defense as you have agreed to cooperate]

    I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% risk free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within 14 banking days, after you apply …..

    [risk free to moron Ike – not you – a careful shading of the truth….]

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  • Holidays?

    Does anyone celebrate holidays anymore or have they just become part of a 3-day-weekend – for? SALES!

    Not that I am a big fan of Columbus Day – but it used to be on October 12th and it used to be a day where most things were closed. Now it’s only the day after the fat Sunday paper announces all the SALES you can go to on Monday…

    Maybe because it’s what I grew up with – but I liked it when holidays were celebrated on their “real” dates. Have an occasional week day off from school or work was sort of fun. It varied from year to year and broke up the week in a nice way – or at least it did for me.

    When I lived in Boston, there were Boston-only holidays so one got a day off in every month except August if I recall correctly. But now even those are Mondays – like April 19th…it’s permanently a Monday no matter when the 19th actually is.

    Makes it easier to plan for the marathon and make it a 3-day-vacation for the crowds that come to watch and/or run.

    And yes, I went to Costco yesterday as I needed a few staples and there were the Christmas trees – all lit up! Wonder where [they will find room for all the Halloween and Thanksgiving “stuff?”

    Think I have mentioned this before but – I’ll repeat. Again when I was a kid I worked at SS Kresge’s at the seasonal counter. Yes back when sales people were behind counters running their own registers….] We did school related items from mid-August to mid September. I sort of forget what came next but then we did Halloween til November – then Thanksgiving and only after Thanksgiving did we put out Christmas/winter related items and then end of year sales and so on. And when there were no special days, we did cookies, snacks, linens or whatever needed the extra space. Seems so quaint now. And back then I could add rapidly in my head as the registers only rang up the total sale – it did not do the adding – and then we also had a tax box for the NYC sales tax! Now I am so computer/calculator addicted I’m not so sure I could do that arithmetic in my head anymore : – (

    But progress in the form of computers? and word processing programs? Love it – I am a 2-3 finger typist and have to look at the keyboard as I type. So I live with spell checkers…they catch most of my typos….and I cut and past or click rather than type….

    Ah – progress is a mixed thing and guess it will always be so.

    We will continue to get advancing holiday seasons, 3-day-weekends, ad laden Sunday papers and the message to buy! But we will also keep getting advances in technology. It’s life – enjoy it…

    [but what will be the reaction when the 4th of July or December 25th become the “nearest Monday?”]

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  • Still a legal junkie

    I have been a legal junkie forever and that has not changed as I have aged…and if you have read some of my other blogs you know I also have a law degree – which I got when I was 51!

    Anyway – on October 3, our little neighborhood [Portland is made up of small neighborhoods and ours it s the smallest] is going to court to try and keep a TRO [temporary restraining order] in place to forestall cutting of over 100 trees.

    I live on the river side of a levee and we park and drive on the levee – it’s our road…also there are houses on the city side of this levee.

    Long story sort of but when I learned we were being outright lied to about the need to cut down all the trees – I jumped into this fight and have offered my research and writing skills along the way….

    If you are into trees, levees and or court hearings – you can read all about this at: http://ibridgeton.com

    As I am the neighborhood blogger, I have been posting about this and will be at the hearing.

    ain’t getting older fun?

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