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Eric Padilla stands in front of the mural titled Face that he painted on the wall of Studio 121, a photography studio in Loveland. An aspiring artist, Eric paints and is enrolled in video and multimedia classes at Aims Community College. After attending two area high schools and flirting with gangs and other trouble, Padilla received his diploma from Aims and is now working to get his bachelors degree.
ERIC BELLAMY / ebellamy@greeleytribune.com
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Three matchmakers try to help, but Mr. Wrong leads her to Mr. Wow
The Matchmaking Institute in New York City molds novice meddlers into professional love brokers. "It's all about efficiency," says Rachel Greenwald, a professional matchmaker in Colorado. "If, say, you're a busy executive, a third-party setup saves you the time it takes to slog through all the dating arenas — spending hours at a crowded party only to go home having met no one." Since it's one thing to hear about the wonders of matchmaking from those who sell the service and quite another to experience it yourself, I decided to test the viability of this venerable institution by asking three matchmakers to work their magic on me. Here's what happened. Matchmaker No. 1 Rachel Greenwald, author of "Find a Husband After 35 (Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School)," believes in the efficacy of business tactics in every circumstance — even love.
56-year Disney Legend helped create `Small World'
In need of a job in 1944, Santa Monica High School graduate Joyce Carlson followed a friend to Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., where she landed work in the traffic department delivering mail and office and art supplies. But what started as just a job turned into a career for Carlson, who spent the next 56 years involved first with Disney animated movies and then theme park attractions worldwide. Carlson, who helped ink animated films such as Cinderella, Peter Pan and Sleeping Beauty before helping create the original model for the ''It's a Small World'' attraction for the 1964 New York World's Fair, died of cancer Wednesday at her home in Orlando, Fla. She was 84. As part of Walt Disney Imagineering, the company's theme park attraction design division, Carlson worked on many attractions but is most closely identified with ``It's a Small World.'' In addition to working on the model for the ride, she was known as the artist behind many of its singing dolls.
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