University Women's Club

Opera Brunch – Gianni Schicchi & Suor Angelica

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:37:32 +0000

Brunch: 11:30 AM, UMC Aspen Room
Opera: Sunday, March 18, 2012 — 2:00 PM, Macky Auditorium

by Giacomo Puccini
Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica are two parts of a trilogy of one-act operas composed by Giacomo Puccini in 1917-18. Suor Angelica is a drama of desire set in a 17th century convent; Sister Angelica longs to reconnect with her noble family and make peace for her sins, but has hidden a terrible secret from the sisters with whom she lives. When her aunt comes to the convent, Angelica must face the truth of her past. By contrast, Gianni Schicchi is a farce based on an incident in Dante’s Divine Comedy. When Buoso Donati dies without leaving a will favorable to his relatives, they connive to inherit the property by deceiving the townspeople with the help of Gianni Schicchi, a newcomer to the town. Yet Schicchi has plans of his own regarding his daughter’s marriage and Buoso’s wealth. These two operas show the breadth of Puccini’s work, from his haunting melodic talent to his comic skill.

David Shneer: Through Soviet Jewish Eyes

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:30:19 +0000

Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
University Memorial Center, Room 235
(Reservations and payment due March 6)

David passionately tells the stories and highlights the work of an elite group of Soviet-Jewish photographers—never-before-published photographs from families, collectors, and private archives. These artists participated in a social project they believed in and with which they were emotionally and intellectually invested—they were charged by the Stalinist state to tell the visual story of the unprecedented horror we now call the Holocaust. Books for purchase and signing will be available.

David Shneer is a CU Associate Professor of History.

Meg Campbell: Kids, Cartoons and Cookie Consumption

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:24:33 +0000

Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
University Memorial Center, Room 235
(Reservations and payment due February 7)

As written on the web in HealthDay: Seeing overweight people can cause you to choose unhealthy foods and to eat more of them unless you consciously focus on your health goals. Images of overweight people can affect the eating habits of children and can also thwart a diet, according to Meg’s research. Through her work with children and adults, Meg delves into the psychological aspects of our relationship with food.

Meg Campbell is Associate Professor of Marketing in Leeds School of Business.

Nabil Echchaibi: Islam as a Media Spectacle

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:19:02 +0000

Nabil Echchaibi
Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
University Memorial Center, Room 235
(Reservations and payment due December 6)

Have the media compounded a minor conflict with the debate around the building of a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan, or have they simply chronicled a rampant fear of Islam and Muslims in American society? How can we have a sensible and constructive conversation about the place of Muslims in America? Nabil is a scholar doing important and very interesting work.

Nabil Echchaibi is a CU Assistant Professor in the Journalism & Mass Communication Graduate School.

Leslie Leinwand: A Woman is Not a Small Man

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:13:57 +0000

Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
Spice of Life Events Center,
5706 Arapahoe Avenue
(Reservations and payment due November 1)

There is benefit in tailoring medicine to each gender. As an example, women suffering from heart attacks might have different, and sometimes milder, symptoms than men. One of the preeminent researchers on the Boulder campus, sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Leslie will entertainingly describe her fascinating findings. If we’re lucky, we may hear a bit about her work with pythons in relation to human cardiac therapeutics.

League of Women Voters of Boulder County Annual Picnic

admin — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:05:16 +0000

League of Women Voters of Boulder County Annual Picnic

When: Wednesday, July 13, 5:30-8:30pm

Guest Speaker: Bridget Bacon, Manager of the Louisville Historical Museum, and a Board Member of Historic Boulder.

Potluck Supper: Come to a pleasant summer event (the farmhouse is air conditioned). Bring dish to share (6-8 servings) and your own table service. Drinks will be provided (no alcohol allowed at Goodhue).

We will eat at 6pm and Guest Speaker begins at 7pm.

Topic: Hannah Barker House: The Home, The Woman, The Project

Location: The Goodhue Farmhouse is accessed from Hwy 287 (between South Boulder Road and Hwy 36). There are brick pillars leading into Rock Creek Farm. Railroad tracks and a traffic signal are near the entrance.

Directions: http://www.bouldercounty.org/find/maps/pages/parks.aspx?mapid=29

History of Goodhue Farmhouse: http://www.bouldercounty.org/play/recreation/pages/goodhue.aspx

Tri-Board Meeting 2011

admin — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:49:52 +0000

Dear UWC Board,

Mary Ann Hartigan has very graciously agreed to host our Tri-Board Meeting of May 17 at her home at 1336 Meadow Ave. Let’s plan to gather at about 11:00 for our meeting, followed by a pot-luck lunch. Current board members, please each bring a dish to share. Please email me what you intend to bring so I can request some adjustments if we’re short in one food group or another. The Tri-Board consists of this year’s board, next year’s board and the officers-elect who will be officers in 2012-13. I will email you later with the expected attendance number when I send the agenda.

Please bring your notebook to pass on to next year’s committee chair if you are not continuing in the position and 5 (note increase) copies of your annual report. Reports will be distributed as follows:
         Incoming President (Rosemary)
         Incoming Officer or Chairperson of your committee
         Incoming President-Elect (Jeannie)
         Archival Record (Historian – Ginnie)
         Outgoing President (Kathy) – this is the additional copy

I’m attaching the Annual Report format here. Tri-Board Annual Report Blank Form

If you would like a paper copy of it, let me know and I’ll get it to you this week. Also, if you don’t have an easy way to make copies, get the original to me, and I’ll make the additional copies.

If you are not able to attend the Tri-Board Meeting, please let me know, and please arrange to have your annual reports and notebook delivered to me before the meeting.

Thank you,
Kathy Randall

How to Defeat Spam

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:22:48 +0000

It’s a rare computer user who hasn’t been bothered by Spam at some stage. By Spam, we mean unsolicited emails that try to sell you things of a dubious nature that you certainly didn’t ask for and, in all probability, don’t need. Everybody hates spam. It can clog up your email box, threaten the security of your PC, try to trick you into opening dangerous attachments, and even render the mail box entirely unusable. You can defeat spam (well, most of it). Here’s a few ways.

Don’t post your email address on a web page, unless you’re disguising it in some way. As an example, an email address in this format is very difficult for a Spider to read, but quite easy for a human: firstBit @ co. uk. homeandlearn (re-arange the ending)
Be wary of giving your email address to websites. Ask yourself, is there a privacy statement anywhere on the site? Can you easily opt-out if they send an email or newsletter to you? Do you trust them?
Never reply to a email sent to you by a spammer. If you do, you’re telling the spammer that the email address is live and active – the very thing that he was looking for! (Remember: the spammer probably bought his list off someone else, and has no idea whether an address is active or not.)
Careful when opening attachments. Save the attachment to your hard-drive first, scan with your (up-to-date) Anti Virus software, and only then consider opening it. If you weren’t expecting an email with an attachment, it’s safer to just delete the entire email!
Set your email software to view message as text and NOT as HTML. In Outlook Express you can do this by clicking Tools > Options from them menu bar. From the Options dialogue box, click the Read tab. Put a tick in the box “Read all messages in plain text”. The reason you’d want to do this is because HTML emails can be very helpful to spammers. They insert an image that tells them the email has been read, and thus that it’s a live email box.
Consider getting some Anti-Spam software. The best of these are very good at detecing spam from the genuine emails.

Boulder Garden Club Annual Plant Sale-Saturday, May 7

admin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:56:02 +0000

PLANT SALE
BOULDER GARDEN CLUB
And Boulder Orchid Society

SATURDAY, MAY 7
9 A.M. – 1 P.M.

EISENHOWER SCHOOL
1220 Eisenhower Dr., BOULDER

This year the Boulder Orchid Society will also have a booth at our sale where they will have orchids for sale. The sale is indoors, so it will take place rain or shine. Ample parking is available in the school parking lot. We’ll have perennials, annuals, shrubs, trees, herbs, used tools and other items for sale.

If you have any questions, contact Mary Stewart, mgsniwot@comcast.net, 303-530-3505

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Affordable Housing in Boulder County

admin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:15:46 +0000

LWV Unit Meetings on Affordable Housing in Boulder County. Five unit meetings will be held March 14-16. Details about discussion topics, time and place can be found at http://www.lwvbc.org/.

Submitted by Freida Holley

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