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Rock band Low headlines Minneapolis cemetery concert

MINNEAPOLIS — Indie rock band Low headlines the second annual benefit concert at Minneapolis’ Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery.

Tickets are now on sale for the June 9 performance. Proceeds will help support efforts to restore the historic steel and limestone pillar fence on the cemetery’s border.

Nearly 1,500 people attended last year’s cemetery benefit concert featuring Jeremy Messersmith. That concert was recognized as best community project at the 21st annual Minneapolis Preservation Awards.

The Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery had its first burial in 1853. The cemetery contains the graves of some of the first settlers of Minneapolis.

Tickets are $16 in advance and $20 at the show. Gates open at 4:30 p.m. Opening act Zoo Animal performs at 5:30 p.m. and Low takes the stage at 7 p.m.

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Article source: http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/361369/

Spring into Summer Charity Events

WeRaiseIt is an all-in-one online auction platform software for the use by non-profit or charitable organizations that holds online/live auctions. Summer is a great time to hold auction events, and WeRaiseIt would be a great choice to help with all of your auctioning needs.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) May 16, 2012

The WeRaiseIt Fundraising Web Portal Software offers a platform for credit card processing for online donations, auctions, and the promotion and processing tools for physical event activities. The portal provides a nonprofit the ability to design their own fundraising website based on a large collection of standard customizable templates and host any number of online or physical events. Full scale online auctions can be conducted and the comprehensive features allow for important details like registering silent auction donations, building and printing catalogs and bid sheets. Visitors to the website can give donations, make advanced reservations, purchase event tickets, pay sponsorship fees, participate in online auctions, etc.

The summer is just around the corner, which means getting ready for your summer event. WeRaiseIt is feasible with all types of summer charity events. These events include, but not limited to, charity golf events, marathons, walkathons, luncheons, banquets, camp registration, sports event registration, and many more.

To learn more about what WeRaiseIt has to offer please visit the website or connect with WeRaiseIt on Facebook or Twitter.

About Event Payment Services: Event Payment Services was created by BancCard Financial Services, Inc. (BFSI) to specialize in the fundraising needs of nonprofit organizations. ePSPay ™ and WeRaiseIt are brands of Event Payment Services. Since 1997, BFSI has provided credit and debit card processing, check verification, check conversion/imaging, gift and loyalty card services, and merchant processing terminals. BFSI provides these services through its terminals and web-based software. EPS was created in 2006 to focus on the fundraising needs of nonprofit organizations. BFSI, through ePSPay ™ and WeRaiseIt brands, is an innovator in fundraising tools for the nonprofit world. BFSI, EPS and WeRaiseIt can be found on the web at http://www.eventpaymentservices.com, http://www.weraiseit.com.

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BancCard Financial Services- WeRaiseIt
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Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/spring-summer-charity-events-151223245.html

Wyatt Cenac & Ted Leo

Wyatt Cenac & Ted Leo
Event on 2012-06-01 20:00:00
Minnesota Public Radio presents Witsâ„¢ with Wyatt Cenac and Ted Leo at the Fitzgerald Theater on Friday, June 1st at 8:00 p.m. With two seasons under our belt, Wits is preparing for an incredible spring season, bringing some of the country's funniest storytellers and musicians to the Fitzgerald Theater. Host John Moe engages his guests in a raucous discussion and the audience can join in conversation on Twitter.

You most likely know Wyatt Cenac from his work on The Daily Show as a correspondent and writer or from his one hour Comedy Central stand-up special "Wyatt Cenac: Comedy Person." He was also a writer on FOX's animated show "King of the Hill" and did stand-up at shows like "Comedy Death Ray" and "The Tomorrow Show." He starred in the film "Medicine for Melancholy" which was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards.

Ted Leo, loved for his wit and energetic performances, is the front man and main songwriter of the indie rock band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, a band radio host Tom Scharpling says "embodies the perfect synthesis of head and heart." The band's latest album is "The Brutalist Bricks."

Shows start at 8:00 p.m., but the party starts early. Come at 7:00 p.m. for the Tweet-up. Current DJ Barb Abney will spin some song and you can get yourself one of our drink specials. After the show, we keep the lights on and the bar open, so everyone can join in the conversation and have a Big Ginger®, made with 2 GINGERS Whiskey.

You can purchase a full season ticket package to all six Wits or create your own package to a minimum of four shows. When you purchase the Six-Show Package or the Choose-Your-Own-Show Package you will receive a .00 discount off the price of each single show ticket. All single show tickets are .00. Minnesota Public Radio Members receive a .00 discount of the price of each ticket.

at The Fitzgerald Theater
10 East Exchange Street
Saint Paul, United States

Minneapolis panel recommends demolishing Peavey Plaza (update)

Posted: 1:54 pm Thu, May 17, 2012


By Mark Anderson
Tags: Gary Schiff, Heritage Preservation Commission, M. Paul Friedberg, Minneapolis City Council, Peavey Plaza, Tom Oslund

Residents told a Minneapolis City Council committee on Thursday that Peavey Plaza’s current design isn’t welcoming to many people, especially those with disabilities. (Staff photo: Bill Klotz)

After a Minneapolis City Council committee listened to 90 minutes of testimony Thursday on whether to demolish downtown’s Peavey Plaza, members finally agreed with a city employee.

“It’s pretty simple,” said Mike Kennedy, director of transportation, maintenance and repair for the Minneapolis Public Works Department. “Peavey Plaza was built in a different era, and it has outlived its useful life.”

The council’s Zoning and Planning Committee voted 6-1 to override an April 17 recommendation by the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission to block the plaza’s demolition until a lengthier study of its historic value is completed. The committee’s decision is a recommendation to the full City Council, which will consider the issue on May 25.

Preservation activists have asserted that the Heritage Preservation Commission’s delay is required by Minneapolis statute because city staff reports acknowledged that the plaza meets standards for historic protection. The plaza was designed by the renowned landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg in 1971.

But Council Member Gary Schiff, the chairman of the Planning and Zoning Committee, said the requirement applies only to sites that already have an official historic designation, and Peavey Plaza does not.

The dispute made it to the pages of The New York Times, which reported Thursday that Friedberg had offered design ideas for correcting some of the plaza’s failings.

Members of the committee made it clear that their goal now is to build a new plaza that will be financially sustainable and serve the needs of more people in the community, especially those with disabilities.

City Council President Barb Johnson said her goal was to expand the plaza’s accessibility.

“I’m stunned, when I’m there, at how much space can’t be used easily” because of the steeply raked concrete levels, she said. “Peavey Plaza is an important gathering place, and it needs to support use for all people who live downtown.”

Some of the changes are needed to fix major structural problems on the site. The plaza is built on multiple levels of concrete that sink 17 feet beneath street level. There are tall cylindrical fountains and a large reflecting pool at the lowest level.

But Kennedy said the pumps, plumbing and filtration systems for those water features have failed and will be very expensive to replace because of their age and because they are buried in the levels of concrete.

“We’re deferring maintenance on the plaza because we don’t have the money to do all these things,” Kennedy said.

The plaza also poses accessibility obstacles. Only one accessible ramp enters the plaza, and it must be entered on the back side of Orchestra Hall, beside the building’s loading dock.

“Peavey Plaza was built in a different era, and it has outlived its useful life,” said Mike Kennedy, a Minneapolis Public Works director, at Thursday’s hearing. (Staff photo: Bill Klotz)

“I’m all about preservation but not if that prevents accessibility,” said Phil Ailiff, a downtown resident who uses a wheelchair. “I can tell you, Peavey Plaza as it stands is a very unwelcoming place for people with disabilities.”

Gina Bonsignore, a landscape architect from St. Paul, urged the panel to proceed with the study to gain a better measure of the site’s historic and architectural value.

“This was designed and built in an era where energy was returning to central cities, and much of that energy was coming from the urban design” that was developing, Bonsignore said. “Peavey Plaza and the Nicollet Mall were big contributors to that movement.”

But Council Member Lisa Goodman said the extent of repairs would push the project beyond what’s eligible for historic protection.

“When we make all the changes that everyone agrees on, it’s just not preservation anymore,” Goodman said.

Schiff said the Planning and Zoning Committee’s action leaves room for more debate on what will be included in Minneapolis landscape architect Tom Oslund’s new design for the plaza. Changes could reflect more of Friedberg’s original design, he said.

One of Oslund’s ideas is to bring the plaza up close to street level to make it more accessible, more functional for events and more visible.

The plaza’s neighbors complain that fights, drug and alcohol use, and public urination are common there because the sunken design shields the activity.

Stewart Higgins, owner of Brit’s Pub, which is near the plaza, and a resident of Symphony Place south of the site, said those factors drive many people away.

“It’s been a magnet for public nuisance and petty crime for as long as I’ve lived here,” Higgins said.

The city’s Planning Department asked Mortenson Construction to estimate the cost of rebuilding the plaza, with accessibility improvements and a storm water management system. The estimate was $8.7 million, said Peter Brown, a project consultant with the city’s Public Works Department.

The current estimate for a new plaza design and overhaul is between $8 million and $10 million, Brown said.

The Minnesota Legislature approved $2 million in bonding authority to help pay for repairs on the plaza, and the rest will be raised in private donations.

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Minneapolis Tussles Over Peavey Plaza

But things have changed. These days two of the plaza’s three fountains no longer work, their pumps and lines not easily replaceable. Concrete is stained and crumbling, exposing rebar. The reflecting pool is dry more often than not. And those intimate spaces are occasionally put to unsavory uses. Peavey Plaza’s time may be up. Even as preservationists argue for rehabilitation of what they consider the finest surviving example of Mr. Friedberg’s work, the City of Minneapolis, which owns 75 percent of it, has commissioned a significant redesign of the space. The plaza has become another battleground in the wars being fought around the country between preservationists determined to save what they see as underappreciated Modernist designs and cities and developers pushing to move on.

On Thursday the city’s public works department will appeal the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission’s recent denial of a demolition permit, and if the permit is approved, the issue will be voted on by the City Council on May 25. Fund-raising has begun for a new design by Tom Oslund of Oslund and Associates, a Minneapolis firm, which is expected to cost between $8 million and $10 million, with $2 million provided by state bond funds.

“Even though Peavey Plaza is not a city landmark, the commission is considering it to be an historic resource worthy of further study and possible designation,” said Chad M. Larsen, chairman of the preservation commission.

Whatever it may once have been, the plaza “is not a beautiful space now,” said Gwen Pappas, the director of public relations for the Minnesota Orchestra, which owns 25 percent of it and has used the planned $50 million remodeling of its 1974 building to generate momentum for remaking the plaza. “The concern was if the hall was to get a shiny, new refurbishment and Peavey was left in its current state of disrepair, the discrepancy between the two would be even greater,” she said.

In addition, the city points out that Peavey Plaza meets neither Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility requirements nor sustainable water-use standards, and that it lacks the electrical supplies necessary for outdoor events. Mr. Oslund’s design addresses those issues and also creates a more open space, sunken less deeply below street level.

Supporters of rehabilitating Mr. Friedberg’s design say the city has not met its legal obligation to prove “that there are no reasonable alternatives to the demolition” as required by the code of ordinances on historic resources.

In June a group of people recruited to give feedback on proposed changes to the plaza was shown four concepts with preliminary budgets, said Erin Hanafin Berg, a member of the group and a field representative for the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota, which supports saving Mr. Friedberg’s design. In July the group was told that the city would move forward with developing two of those concepts, both by Mr. Oslund: a new scheme and one that adapted the original design.

But at an October meeting, “it was a rude shock when only the new, reconfigured scheme was on the table, and we were told that the restorative scheme was unfundable,” Ms. Berg wrote in an e-mail. In its demolition application, the city maintained that no feasible alternative was available because of the scope of construction and because funders would not contribute millions of dollars to restore the original design.

“There have been some conversations” with potential funders, said Charles T. Lutz, deputy director of the city’s Community Planning and Economic Development Department. They believe Mr. Oslund’s design “better reflects what is needed on the plaza today,” he added.

Mr. Friedberg had originally been on Mr. Oslund’s team; in an e-mail, Mr. Oslund said he removed Mr. Friedberg after he made it clear that he thought the plaza should not change.

Mr. Friedberg, who has recently come up with a set of design additions to Peavey Plaza that he believes would bring the space “into the 21st century,” said he would be open to more extreme change “if I thought what was being created advanced the idea of landscape architecture and urban culture.” Mr. Oslund’s design, in his opinion, “is not a significant view in that direction.”

Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/arts/design/minneapolis-tussles-over-peavey-plaza.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Disney’s Phineas and Ferb Live: The Best LIVE Tour Ever!

Disney’s Phineas and Ferb Live: The Best LIVE Tour Ever!
Event on 2012-10-21 16:00:00

at Xcel Energy Center
199 West Kellogg Boulevard
Saint Paul, United States

Dance troupe to collect Minneapolis tornado stories

Dance troupe to collect Minneapolis tornado stories

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Urologix Announces Three Events at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association

• Sponsor of Expert Panel Lecture on In-Office BPH Therapies, Moderated by Dr. Claus Roehrborn
• Presentation of Cooled ThermoTherapy(TM) (CTT) Clinical Outcomes for Improving Nocturia by Dr. Lori Lerner
• Exhibitor and Sponsor of a Skills Enhancement Workshop on Advancements in BPH In-Office Therapies

MINNEAPOLIS, May 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Urologix(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:ULGX – News), the market leading medical device company for BPH in-office procedures, announced scheduled participation in multiple events at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2012 Annual Meeting to be held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta from May 19^th through May 23^rd. The Company’s event participation is intended to sharpen the focus on advancements in the in-office treatment of BPH. Urologix offers early and effective treatment of obstructive and symptomatic urinary conditions due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and provides urologists with two proven technologies to treat the widest range of patients, with Cooled ThermoTherapy(TM) and Prostiva^(R) RF Therapy.

Urologix will sponsor a one-hour expert panel lecture titled “Fact, Not Fiction: The Truth about In-Office BPH Treatments” on Tuesday, May 22^nd. This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Claus Roehrborn from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and participants will include three experienced urology practitioners of in-office BPH therapies — Drs. Mark Fallen, Robert Pugach, and John Harb. Panel discussion subjects will include patient selection, patient comfort, and a comparison of treatment efficacy, durability, and cost-effectiveness.

Additionally, Dr. Lori Lerner is presenting a poster on CTT on Sunday, May 20^th. Dr. Lerner is coauthor of the accepted abstract: “Medication vs. Microwave: A Comparison of Nocturia, Quality of Life and Cost” and her presentation topics include clinical outcomes for improving Nocturia using Urologix’s Cooled ThermoTherapy(TM) (CTT) product.

Finally, Urologix will be an exhibitor and sponsor of an In-Office BPH Therapies Skills Enhancement Workshop at the 2012 AUA Annual Meeting. The Workshop will be staffed by experienced urologists who will offer in-depth discussions with attendees on both the advancements in, and the clinical experiences with, in-office BPH therapies — specifically, the Cooled ThermoTherapy(TM) and Prostiva(R) RF Therapy technologies. The workshop will include the most recent clinical data, educational videos, and product demonstrations.

“We are excited to introduce the ‘New‘ Urologix, demonstrating our commitment as the market leader for in-office BPH therapy at the 2012 AUA Annual Meeting,” commented Stryker Warren jr., Chief Executive Officer of Urologix. “Most importantly, we look forward to providing evidence, to enable urologists to see Cooled ThermoTherapy(TM) and Prostiva(R) RF Therapy as safe and durable treatment options for their BPH patients failing or unhappy with drug therapy, or those seeking a non-surgical alternative.”

About Urologix

Urologix, Inc., based in Minneapolis, develops, manufactures, markets and distributes minimally invasive medical products for the treatment of obstruction and symptoms due to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH). Urologix’ Cooled ThermoTherapy(TM) produces targeted microwave energy combined with a unique cooling mechanism to protect healthy tissue and enhance patient comfort. The Cooled ThermoTherapy(TM) product line includes the CoolWave(R) and Targis(R) Control Units and the CTC Advance(R) and Targis(R) catheter families. The Prostiva(R) RF Therapy System distributed by Urologix delivers radio frequency energy directly into the prostate destroying prostate tissue, reducing constriction of the urethra, and thereby relieving BPH voiding symptoms. Both of these products provide safe, effective and lasting relief of the symptoms and obstruction due to BPH. Prostiva(R) is a registered trademark of Medtronic, Inc., used under license. All other trademarks are the property of Urologix.

The Urologix, Inc. logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=7867

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/urologix-announces-three-events-107th-200625684.html

Cheryl Wheeler with Peter Mulvey

Cheryl Wheeler with Peter Mulvey
Event on 2012-09-15 20:00:00
An evening with two of the finest singer-songwriters in the trade: the quite hilarious and yet often deeply thought-provoking Cheryl Wheeler, and the guitarslinging, wordplaying genius Peter Mulvey.

The Cedar is now fully air-conditioned for your year-round comfort!

Ticket options and info

• On sale date: noon Fri Feb 24
• Phone: 612-338-2674 ext 2 ( fee per ticket)
• In person: From a Cedar volunteer in the front lobby during events (no fee; cash, check, credit card), Depth of Field (no fee; cash or check only), or Electric Fetus (small fee)
• Online: Ticketweb (fees apply) (click on red Buy Tickets button at top of this page)
• All Cedar shows are all ages.
• Students with ID may purchase tickets at a discount at the door.

at Cedar Cultural Center 
Minneapolis
Minneapolis, United States

Mike Feltault loved mobilizing volunteers

Michel “Mike” Feltault, a tireless social networker and photographer who organized and chronicled hundreds of civic and corporate events in the Twin Cities, died at Regions Hospital in St. Paul on May 3, five days after suffering a heart attack. Feltault, who lived in Minneapolis, was 52.

He made his living as an entrepreneur, salesman and manufacturer’s representative for various companies, but his heart was in volunteering, said those who knew him. In a eulogy for his longtime friend, the Rev. Paul Jarvis, pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Rosemount, called Feltault “a catalyst for fun and gathering, and generosity of spirit.”

He was especially active on behalf of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, from which he graduated in 1981. He served on its alumni board and won its Monsignor James Lavin Award in 2009 for his volunteer service. Other events he took on sprung from his membership in the Serra Club, a Catholic service organization.

Feltault was born in Minneapolis and graduated from Benilde-St. Margaret’s in St. Louis Park and the then-College of St. Thomas, said his brother David, of Minneapolis. As a young Eagle Scout, Feltault worked as a counselor at Many Point Scout Camp near Ponsford, Minn., where he was “quite the organizer,” his brother said.

At St. Thomas, he studied business and economics and served as president of his senior class. His love of the institution made him the quintessential “Tommie,” friends and relatives said.

After college, he worked for Honeywell Inc., driving a show van decked out with company products. “He went all across the country, got to see everything,” and developed a love of skiing in the Rockies, David said. He then worked for companies in Chicago, Dallas and Sacramento, Calif., before returning to the Twin Cities around 2000.

When not working, he “was cultivating the local social networks,” his brother said. He loved every aspect of organizing and running fundraisers, from detail work to rounding up other volunteers, and most of all loved the events themselves. “Whenever an organization needed, say, 20 people to pour beer at the Aquatennial, he was the guy who could round them up,” his brother said. “He was an Energizer Bunny kind of guy, going all the time.”

Feltault’s girlfriend, Kari Cribbs of Eden Prairie, said, “He had a way of engaging people, of touching on just the subjects you’d most want to talk or laugh about.

“When I’d ask him why he worked on all these causes and events, he’d say, ‘It’s all about the people.’ He got the same kind of thrill from social events as someone who skis down a hill or climbs a mountain.”

In his eulogy, Jarvis said Feltault “was perhaps the most simple complex person in the world, the most private of public persons.”

“His generosity, his loyalty, his lived faith, his spirit, his emotional control, are legend,” the priest said. “What motivated this guy, who didn’t have two pennies to rub together, who could’ve easily parlayed his Rolodex of connections into a Rollex fortune?” He credited Feltault’s family and Eagle Scout experience with giving him “the discipline and loyalty and fun that would hone his sense for, and skill, in compassion and community-building.” He urged mourners to “be like Mike” in their service to others.

In addition to David, Feltault is survived by another brother, Jerome of Topsfield, Mass.; and two sisters, Michelle, his twin, of Belle Plaine, and Diane Keefe of Robbinsdale. Services have been held.

Pamela Miller • 612-673-4290

Article source: http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/151264415.html