Baren Digest               Monday, 19 August 2002       Volume 20 : Number 1931


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From: slinders@attbi.com
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:30:30 -0500
Subject: [Baren 18936] Re: Limestone quarry 

To G. Jarvis:

You may find further information in your "litho stones in Iowa"
search through sources usually used by genealogy researchers:

<http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamitche/localdat/mitvol1.htm>
HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES,
IOWA                             
J. F. Clyde and H. A. Dwelle, Editors                    
Published 1918 by The S. J. Clark Publishing Company, Chicago
CONTENTS FOR MITCHELL COUNTY IN VOLUME I & II

<http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamitche/> may provide a source for
further information through the historical society, etc.

<http://www.rootsweb.com/~iafloyd/> Floyd County, Iowa history
(a most interesting history!)

The idea of 'other sources' for litho stones, especially in
Iowa, is an eye opener for me!  Thanks for sharing it.

Sharen

jarvis wrote:

> 
> ) Limestone City.  Does anyone know if this town

> > used to (or still is) near a limestone quarry?  And/or if this town was

> ever

> > involved in supplying limestone for litho stones?  I think there is also 

> .....
> Commercially useable litho stones were quarried in
> a town originally called appropriately 'Lithograph
> City' Iowa.


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From: Myron Turner <mturner@Ms.UManitoba.CA>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:34:20 -0500
Subject: [Baren 18937] Re: Baren Digest V20 #1927 

Perhaps I'm a bit paranoid about this, but I carry a commerical insurance 
policy for both tenant's and third-party liability.    If you are going to 
rent your studio to someone, you are still responsible if they burn the 
place down or if one of the people in the workshop gets hurt.  Perhaps you 
can work around this in a contract--but that's something for which you'd 
need advice from someone who knows the law in your location.

Myron Turner

At 10:18 PM 17/08/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>Can anyone help me with this question?  What is a reasonable fee to charge 
>someone to rent your studio to conduct a workshop? Have you had experience 
>doing this? Do you have a sample contract you'd be willing to share?  Or, 
>have you rented space for such an endeavor from another artist?  I have 
>been approached by someone to use my facility, and I have absolutely no 
>idea where to begin to find such information. I'm hoping some of you can 
>fill in the blanks or steer me to a resource for the answers!
>
>Sharri



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From: Myron Turner <mturner@Ms.UManitoba.CA>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:42:49 -0500
Subject: [Baren 18938] Re:   Baren Digest V20 #1929 

This type of email was very common before 9/11.  After 9/11 they slowed 
down for a while but have
now obviously started up again.  They spurred an investigation by I forget 
which U.S. agency because a good number of gullible people were defrauded 
of their money.  But there didn't seem to be much that could be done about 
it since the sources were countries which placed the perpetrators outside 
the reach of international and/or U.S. law.

Myron Turner


At 09:43 PM 17/08/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>I, too, have receieved many emails concerning Nigeria.  That is really a
>problem for the State Department or whoever deals with foreign affairs in
>the U.S. government.  There may be a sympathetic person there who can
>decipher that message.  I will try forwarding it to the State Department.  I
>have not done that already because I get so many emails and have so much
>work to do, that I just cannot spend the time to research which government
>department should deal with that person's probl
>
>Jean



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From: slinders@attbi.com
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:46:58 -0500
Subject: [Baren 18939] Re: $ for John 

Hi, Carol,

Here's the address:

John Center
P.O. Box 59288
Chicago, IL 60659-0288

Thanks for helping John with this!

There was something very special that happened at the Harper
College Firefighters' Benefit Print Show, ...something that
might repeat as we open our various anniversary exhibits.  It
gave people another reason to linger, to view the prints more
closely, and to have conversations.

The Harper College Show opened on the six month anniversary of
9-11.  The evening before the opening there was an amazing
presentation on television...the story of the two French
brothers who had been filming the 'plebe' firefighter's story
when the Towers were attacked.  The morning after the television
show interest in it was high. As people gathered in the
corridors pausing at the prints, their minds were still echoing
the photographs and sounds of the film they had just seen.  They
stood together in the corridors to talk.  This is a busy, well
travelled corridor, and it became a much quieter place, with
softening of voices in the clusters of viewers.

Initially we had planned to have anniversary exhibits of these
prints, and I would encourage those of you who have received
your sets of prints to earnestly find a place to exhibit them
for the anniversary. It may be in your  local library, a
gallery, a place of worship or a school.  The prints were
designed for this purpose, to benefit the emergency workers'
families, and it would be a shame for the prints to spend this
sad anniversary waiting in a flat file somewhere.  

I agree that I did not intend to keep prints without sending
contributions to the fund to pay for the prints I kept.  

Some of the prints that were purchased at Harper were bought
with students' funds, which I found especially moving.

Best wishes!
Sharen

ArtfulCarol@aol.com wrote:

> 
> Hi Sharen,
> 
> I will send John $5 to help with the postage and I hope others will do the
> same.
> Do you have his address?
> 
> I did not expect to keep the remaining set of prints which I still have. A
> few are missing because  they sold out or I returned them separately . I will
> send the rest of  them  wherever needed. If there are no more planned
> exhibits perhaps people will want to exchange with each other privately  They
> can see the full set  on the  Baren site. At least one set should be kept for
> our Archives, dont you think?


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From: "Jean Womack" <jeaneger@jeaneger.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:52:08 -0700
Subject: [Baren 18940] Re:   Baren Digest V20 #1930  

And, no, I did not leave my purse out there for bait.  I was taking a P.E.
course where there were no lockers, so I left my purse in my car.  The car
was broken into and the purse was stolen.

Jean


> My purse was stolen several years ago at that college, which is a
> historically African American college.  The telephone credit card was the
> only thing used.  They made many telephone calls to Africa, so apparently
> some foreign student was very homesick.  Luckily the phone company did not
> charge me for all those long distance calls after I received my phone bill
> and called them.  I had already called them to cancel the card.
>
> Jean


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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon@mlyon.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:53:46 -0500
Subject: [Baren 18941] Re: Baren Digest V20 #1927 

Security may be a concern...  I opened my studio to a poetry reading -- 
three readings in one day, each to an audience of about 40.  The readings 
were in my 3rd floor studio.  On the first floor hung a wonderful painting 
by my mentor, Wilbur Niewald, a portrait of his wife which I had 
purchased.  Sometime during the 3rd reading, someone walked out the door 
with the painting.  Not everyone has the integrity we expect, and it didn't 
cross my mind that one of our guests might be a thief.  I never recovered 
the painting.

Mike

At 10:18 PM 8/17/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>Can anyone help me with this question?  What is a reasonable fee to charge 
>someone to rent your studio to conduct a workshop? Have you had experience 
>doing this? Do you have a sample contract you'd be willing to share?  Or, 
>have you rented space for such an endeavor from another artist?  I have 
>been approached by someone to use my facility, and I have absolutely no 
>idea where to begin to find such information. I'm hoping some of you can 
>fill in the blanks or steer me to a resource for the answers!
>
>Sharri
>


Mike Lyon
mailto:mikelyon@mlyon.com
http://www.mlyon.com 

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From: "Cathryn BACKER" <cbacker@bigpond.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:32:08 +0800
Subject: [Baren 18942] litho stones boundary

Hi all,
The stones in use for litho in the Art Dept. of the Northern Territory 
University (Darwin) are limestone from the ballast of old sailing ships!
Limestone was used for ballast and then used for building materials 
before quarries were dug in Australia. Some have ended up as litho 
stones in Art Studios.
This is what I was told anyway.
Cathryn
 West Australia.





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From: "John and Michelle Morrell" <jmmorrell@gci.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:38:59 -0800
Subject: [Baren 18943] sexy japanese girl 

Mike asked how I thought the virus sent with the subject line "sexy japanese
girl" or something to that effect, had anything to do with the Baren.  While
it may or it may not have had anything to do with my Baren subscription,
possibly there is a connection because Japanese woodcuts have a historic
association with erotic art, and maybe my interest in woodcuts would have
something to do with erotica, and so I'd really be interested to open that
e-mail.  Or so someone sending out such lovelies might think.  There is a
fine line between curiosity and stupidity that I too often ignore.  I
probably shouldn't open any note from someone I don't recognize (altho
friends have passed diseases as well), but that's like saying "don't talk to
strangers" to a little kid or never looking under a rock on a beach.

Michelle Morrell
jmmorrell@gci.net


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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon@mlyon.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:39:16 -0500
Subject: [Baren 18944] Re: sexy japanese girl 

Michelle -- DO NOT open that email -- in the first place, it is supposed to 
titillate you into opening it in the hope of seeing Aisian sex acts or 
something -- if you are really curious, do an Internet search for "Japanese 
Sex Girls" and you'll find your heart's desire!   [:-)] 

Otherwise, this is a common subject line for a virus transmission.  If you 
open it, all that will happen is that either your virus protection will 
alert you or your computer will become very 'sick'.

I was only joking around before -- Trash it and DO NOT open it!

Mike

At 05:38 PM 08/18/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>Mike asked how I thought the virus sent with the subject line "sexy japanese
>girl" or something to that effect, had anything to do with the Baren.  While
>it may or it may not have had anything to do with my Baren subscription,
>possibly there is a connection because Japanese woodcuts have a historic
>association with erotic art, and maybe my interest in woodcuts would have
>something to do with erotica, and so I'd really be interested to open that
>e-mail.  Or so someone sending out such lovelies might think.  There is a
>fine line between curiosity and stupidity that I too often ignore.  I
>probably shouldn't open any note from someone I don't recognize (altho
>friends have passed diseases as well), but that's like saying "don't talk to
>strangers" to a little kid or never looking under a rock on a beach.
>
>Michelle Morrell
>jmmorrell@gci.net
>
>
>
>



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From: Bette Wappner <bettewappner@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 23:52:04 -0400
Subject: [Baren 18945] Re: sexy japanese girl 

Mike and all

I consider myself still a "newbie" here at Baren and yet feel at home; but I
wanted to just add a cute response to your note.   What you say here is so
funny.  But I too have received such "sexy japanese girl" junk emails only
recently.  I've been receiving the obnoxious "begging for money" emails from
Africa as well for quite some time now.  I've tried replying to them with
"REMOVE" in the subject line, but they always return "undeliverable".  No
big deal anymore - I just push the "delete" button and return to enjoying my
Baren emails that I've been saving and reading and thanking God for because
I hope that someday I'll be a " real hanga girl".

Thanks again to all Bareners.  Can't ever express enough gratitude and like
I just said, I feel comfortable here.

Bette in Northern Kentucky (greater Cincinnati, OH area)





> From: "John and Michelle Morrell" <jmmorrell@gci.net>
> Reply-To: baren@ml.asahi-net.or.jp
> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:38:59 -0800
> To: "Baren Digest" <baren@ml.asahi-net.or.jp>
> Subject: [Baren 18943] sexy japanese girl
> 
> Mike asked how I thought the virus sent with the subject line "sexy japanese
> girl" or something to that effect, had anything to do with the Baren.  While
> it may or it may not have had anything to do with my Baren subscription,
> possibly there is a connection because Japanese woodcuts have a historic
> association with erotic art, and maybe my interest in woodcuts would have
> something to do with erotica, and so I'd really be interested to open that
> e-mail.  Or so someone sending out such lovelies might think.  There is a
> fine line between curiosity and stupidity that I too often ignore.  I
> probably shouldn't open any note from someone I don't recognize (altho
> friends have passed diseases as well), but that's like saying "don't talk to
> strangers" to a little kid or never looking under a rock on a beach.
> 
> Michelle Morrell
> jmmorrell@gci.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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