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The Reapers are the Angels
by Alden Bell
Holt Paperbacks (August 3, 2010)
I have always been a zombie movie watcher. In the waning years of the last century, my girlfriend (now wife) and I amused ourselves with numerous zombie movies of the 60s and 70s, both classic and obscure. Until reading Seth Grahame-Smith alteration of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I had never read or even considered horror-type novels (notable exception: Dracula by Bram Stoker). I liked that one enough to go back and read the original Pride and Prejudice. I wondered, then, about the zombie portion. A blogger I like, Tbogg, described this book as
... what you would get if you asked Harper Lee, Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy to collaborate on a Walking Dead script.I'm not familiar with Flannery O'Connor, but the rest of the description sounded intriguing.
The desolation was not as bleak as we often see in stories of the ruined society genre. It is not a cheery picture by any stretch, but it is somewhat less hopeless than most. We follow the path of a somewhat bright illiterate teen aged girl named Temple. The author sprinkles background information throughout the story, but just enough information is given to leave some sense of mystery. She had been born when society was already in deep collapse, which provides for an interesting perspective.
Unlike most stories of the genre, Temple is not on a quest. She is simply living. In the course of her travels, the protagonist encounters characters that are fully developed, rather than the simple hollow characters that often fill in the background. When she finally does acquire a purpose, it is almost ancillary to the narrative. Imaginative and rich (as much as can be expected, given the state), the story was never silly or over-the-top. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a simple adventure story and is not turned off by the intrinsic darkness of the topic.


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Empowered: Sonya, Official Spoiler
To give her more movement, she straddled his legs. While she ministered to the other side of the neck, she undid the buttons of his shirt and pulled it off. Graham was a gloriously fit man. She ran her hands over his sculpted chest and sighed. Kissing him full on the lips now, her thumbs flicked his nipples until he reared up and crushed her to him. She loved how they moulded together from her head tucked into the crook of his neck to his erection nestled against her.
Touching Graham like this, rocking on the evidence of his arousal, fanned her own desire.
“All the way,” she murmured into his ear.
Permission granted, Graham lifted her off his lap and stood.
“Are you sure?”
Yes, it was in the library, but it was sound-proofed, and yes, it was day-time, but the customers were at dinner and no one would think to disturb them here, and yes, it was still light, but she didn’t have to undress all the way to make it good, so yes, she was sure.
She opened his trousers, and slid her hand inside his boxers in reply.
Empowered: Sonya, Blurb
The Empowered Series is a collection of (stand-alone) steamy romantic novellas.
Central is The Empowerment and Well-being Centre for Women – a spa with a difference.
Located in a mansion house in the beautiful Kent countryside, the centre offers everything you would expect from a spa. In addition, it runs empowerment seminars for women.
Women enrol for many reasons, but they have one thing in common: they have lost a part of themselves.
In Book 2, Sonya’s life begins. Exploited and brainwashed, she inherits millions, but doesn’t know how to balance a cheque book or buy a cup of tea. How does she overcome her early life of abuse to get an education and turn her inheritance into an empowering business helping others? More importantly, Sonya embarks on a journey to learn to trust so that love, real deep abiding love, can transform and complete her life.


Narrative Magic Press
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Galveston, Tx. -- Heber Taylor's recently released book King Fisher is available in print and as ebooks. King Fisher is the story of an 1800s southwest Texas gunslinger who challenged cattle rustlers on both sides of the Texas border. Fisher's skill with a gun made him a convenient target for zealots and those who would try their hand at fame. Fisher defended his own cattle spread while helping his neighbors. But for his efforts, he was pursued by a Texas Ranger.
Also available by Heber Taylor is, The Old Farm, a fictional representation of life in East Texas during the US depression of the early 1900s. He writes passionately about the lives of people who struggled to survive a time of too few resources but a great deal of determination.
Heber Taylor is a retired news writer living in Galveston, Texas. Write to him at P.O. Box 3942, Galveston, Tx. 77552.
Narrative Magic Press
Check out Ela Bell's newest release, Archi: Mysterious Embrace as Archi, who can see into the future, comes eye to eye and heart to heart with Ranhita, who can suggest things. How does she do that? Archi is on the case of some bad characters when he meets Ranhita. At first, she seems to be in the way. Then, he wants her very much in the way. They pursue a group of bad characters who are stealing women and babies and combine their talents.
More is coming in this series on the Briant siblings. Herman can see into the past. Will can manipulate the weather. Roland speaks to dead people, and their sister Althea is a healer of the first order. Follow this family of talented marvels as they solve mysteries and pursue their true loves.
Ela Bell's Archi is her fifth release. Her other books include Heat, Hot, Desire at Sea and Engaging Passion. In late fall, Bell will release a historical novel featuring First Nations characters. Ela Bell lives of the Texas coast with her husband, also a writer. They enjoy traveling and music. Ela Bell's novels are available at most ebook outlets and various online retailers. Contact her at email@example.com.
Texas Gulf Coast –
New romance writer Ela Bell makes her debut this year by releasing three novellas. Ms. Bell, a writer of long standing and former college professor, published the three short works under Narrative Magic, which handles writers working within various genres.
The three books, “Heat: An Erotic Romance,” “Hot: An Erotic Romance,” and “Desire at Sea” can be purchased as ebooks at various ebooks outlets, such as ibooks, Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook and several other ebook retailers.
Bell wrote the three books following an interest in texts such as “Fifty Shades of Gray.” However, she says the books are not similar to E.L. James’s work.
“The women in my books are ‘agentic’ in that they express courageousness, independence, competitiveness and assertiveness,” Bell said. “I began with the first novel thinking that I might be as sexually innovative as James; however, as I wrote it, I realized that I need to write a work that I would read. That meant I needed to make the sex easier to get to for readers.
“One of my favorite writers has been Bertrice Small. I noticed that in her more contemporary modern erotica, the characters encounter some conflicts, but ultimately, we the readers get the sex – not as a tease – but soon,” she said.
“Though I enjoy reading historical romances, when I’m ready for something a little more raw and immediate, I look for contemporary erotica. I noticed that even in those works, the writers sometimes teased the reader before the sex was offered. So I wrote the first two novellas with sex scenes early in the narrative.”
Bell admits that the story lines are rather simplistic for “Heat” and “Hot,” but intentionally wrote the pieces in this manner to offer the reader the juicy parts immediately.
“’Heat’ and ‘Hot’ both have female characters as the lead protagonists,” she said. “The male characters figure in prominently, but not as well as the female characters.
Val and Brice feature as central characters in “Heat,” while Sadie and Spenser take the spotlight in “Hot.”
“Each piece is written in third person so that we can see into the minds of the principal characters,” Bell said. “Also, the female characters in ‘Heat’ and ‘Hot’ know each other. Their close friendship is the catalyst for their sexual explorations.”
The third novel in her three works, “Desire at Sea,” features a woman who is also loosely associated with the previous two women. However, Kara is not from the same class or living the same kind of life as the other two women. Her male counterpart, Alex, plays a subdued but powerful role as a sea captain. This makes an interesting contrast to Kara’s troubled past. In spite of this, Kara evinces her own brand of power in overcoming obstacles to her happiness.
All three books are available online and can be purchased for under $5 at various ebook outlets. Ms. Bell plans to offer the books as paperbacks.
Ms. Bell will give free copies of her books to readers who sign up for her newsletter or offer a review. Write to her at firstname.lastname@example.org.
For more information or to order copies of Ela Bell’s books, write to email@example.com or write to Ms. Bell at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Heat: An Erotic Romance
Heat: An Erotic Romance—Val and Brice meet at a wild party and heat things up later at his hotel. A host of sexy couples are busy at the party, but Brice only has eyes for Val. They both have all but love in their lives. However, Val must come to terms with an emerging identity.
Publication Date: Dec. 21, 2014
Number of pages: 74
Subgenre: Erotic Romance
Heat at Smashwords (books are sold at various platforms such as iBooks or can be obtained at Smashwords.)
Heat at Kindle: (Amazon) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RCC44OM
Hot: An Erotic Romance
Sadie and Spenser meet at a rocking Manhattan club and sparks fly as these tall athletes heat things up in a cab, at a racquetball club and in bed. These two can’t keep their hands off each other. However, each has issues that need resolution.
Publication Date: March 28, 2015
Number of pages: 65
Subgenre: Erotic Romance
Hot: An Erotic Romance at Smashwords:
Hot: An Erotic Romance at Kindle (Amazon):
Desire at Sea
Kara Carlise, a well-to-do accountant, and Alex Murdoch, a ship’s captain, meet at a New York ballet where things heat up at first glance. Kara’s an enigma to Alex who is in town for a short time while his ship is being repaired. After a short and hot romance, he heads off for Europe, thinking of her as he meets the challenges of his last voyages. Kara surprises him by arriving at his return docking and slips on board without his knowing. When they encounter some danger on the high seas, Alex shows his metal and so does Kara. But the incident leaves Kara deeply disturbed. Alex loses touch with Kara and can’t find her after she leaves the ship. Will these two find one another again?
Publication Date: July 1, 2015
Number of pages: 168
Subgenre: Contemporary Romance
Living off the coast of Texas, Ela Bell enjoys telling stories, from steamy romance to the literary. Her interest in topics and settings reflect a wide range of values. She grew up partly on Navy bases, which included a diverse population. She’s been a literary, journalistic and romance writer under various pennames. She taught college courses for a number of years before trying her hand at romance writing. She enjoys reading, traveling and playing the piano. She and her husband live off the coast of Texas where they share their home with a German shepherd and a wily cat. They enjoy walking and spending time at their seaside cottage.


Editor’s Note: After reading Helpful Products, Dangerous Toxins by Fatima Ramirez, reader Adriana Garcia wrote in to commend Fatima for her article. She suggested Fatima watch Bag It, a documentary about the impact of plastics on the environment, marine animals and human health. The following is Fatima’s review of Bag It.
FATIMA RAMIREZ/Coachella Unincorporated
With a perfect blend of humor and eye-opening truth, Jeb Berrier sets out to discover the path a plastic bag takes once it’s disposed. The documentary Bag It goes on to explore the awe-stricken moment Berrier experiences while purchasing a peach yogurt and carrying it home in a single plastic bag which he eventually throws away.
Such revelation proves to have an impact on Berrier, a self-proclaimed “average guy [who is] not what you consider a tree hugger.” He begins to realize that not only plastic bags, but also plastic itself, is the most produced material and is essentially everywhere.
Berrier’s normal-guy appeal serves to flawlessly entertain the audience while explaining hard-hitting facts and the repercussions of a plastic world. The film goes onto exploring the many aspects of plastic, from its manufacturing and distribution to its disposal and the many misconceptions that unknowingly come with it.
The film becomes more in-depth and personal when Berrier discovers his wife is pregnant. Upon such news, he begins to passionately change his ways and examine different options to everyday activities such as shopping, drinking coffee, and eating. This experience helps the audience realize how vulnerable children are to chemicals like BPA and phthalates, which are in almost every single form of plastic.
In addition to dealing with the effects plastics have on human bodies, Bag It also touches on the subject of its increasing impact on marine life. When you consider the fact that all plastic caught in drains ends up in the ocean and the statistics on diminishing species, it is easy to see how plastic has managed to pose a threat to ocean animals as well.
With interviews of experts, scientists, and environmentalists – along with side commentary from Jeb Berrier himself – this documentary enlightens the consumer about the many ways plastic is in their daily lives. Not only does it explain its effects, but it also encourages alternate options.
Easily relatable to everyone, Bag It is the perfect film for anyone wanting to become more informed about the prominent role plastic plays in their lives and how they can make changes that will benefit all of us.
Come watch Bag It with Coachella Unincorporated on Monday, June 17, 3 p.m. at Raices Cultura, 1494 Sixth Street.


As the book itself puts it, “Quoting someone else’s words gives a tremendous amount of credibility to your summary” (42). The introduction to the chapter explains that many authors fail to provide sufficient quotations, whereas those who overquote tend to be short on commentary. However, as Graff puts it, “the main problem with quoting arises when writers assume that quotations speak for themselves” (43). He argues that many students fail to explain the meaning of quotations after using them. Graff also mentions that a quote must be relevant to the text in order for it to be used. He writes, “finding relevant quotations is only part of your job; you also need to present them in a way that makes their relevance and meaning clear…” (44). In other words, time has to be spent on researching applicable quotations as well as on framing them and displaying them in a clear and correct manner.
After explaining “hit-and-run” quotations (quotations are not explained by the author) with childish drawings and texts about anorexic women, Graff summarizes the first half of the chapter with the term “quotation sandwich.” A quotation sandwich is made up of an introduction statement and an explanation to a quotation that goes in between them. According to the authors, “The introductory claims should explain who is speaking and set up what the quotation says; the follow-up statements should explain why you consider the quotation to be important…” (46). The authors explain here the correct use of quotations, which requires an appropriate introduction followed by a thorough explanation of it. Graff then provides templates for introducing and explaining quotations. These templates, I believe, are the heart of the text: they provide variations of different styles that one may use to successfully introduce and define quotations. These are finally followed by a conclusion, mainly composed of examples of how NOT to introduce quotations, which I consider a very fruitful yet comical part of the text.
Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2010.


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Kim E. Naples
These photos are projects I have made and taught teens how to make at the Urbana Free Library's Teen Open Lab.
I wrote two tutorials for the sewing machines at the Teen Open Lab at the Urbana Free Library. Click the links to see the Google Docs. Feel free to copy and reuse.
How to Thread the Sewing Machine
Check out the photos from a book display I made at Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School Library. As you can see, I am a fan of puns and color coordination.
3D Modeling Workshop
Click here for the outline of a 3D modeling workshop I taught at the Urbana Free Library. Feel free to use my materials to teach a similar workshop yourself!
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Tom, Pope, and Pope's gang are in the forest, staking out the spot where Ben and Jimmy were hunting. Pope is angry that Ben and Jimmy took his bullets. Tom finds Jimmy's compass and the dead Skitters draw attention to another Skitter, so Tom orders that they should hide behind a log, and while Pope is about to shoot the Skitter, Tom stops him. Another member of Pope's gang is about to shoot, but Tom also stops him, which draws an argument between Tom and Pope. A Mech shows up and Pope admits that Tom made a lucky guess. The Mech is seen picking up dead Skitters' bodies and walking away.
Meanwhile, Hal is staring at Ben, which he calls out. Maggie and Hal start talking about Ben, and Tom shows up saying that Jimmy is still in surgery. Tom hands Ben Jimmy's compass, telling Ben to give it to Jimmy when he wakes up. Anne shows up saying that she has done the best she can, but it's up to Jimmy to wake up.
Meanwhile, Tom is seen buttoning up a shirt on Jimmy, and Ben says that he can't find the compass. Tom finds out that Pope is going to miss the funeral. As Tom approaches Pope, he notices that Pope has taken the compass and calls him out on it. Pope challenges Tom to a fight for Tom to get it back. Tom ends up getting pulled away from Pope. It is later found out that Tom had snatched the compass back. Pope laughs and calls Tom a name.
Later, the 2nd Mass hold a funeral for Jimmy and people attending each throw dirt on Jimmy's body, which has been laid in a grave. Much later after the burial, Ben meets the lone Weaver, who's still near Jimmy's grave. Upon returning the compass to Weaver, Ben breaks down about unintentionally causing Jimmy's death. Weaver then comforts Ben.
Explore the compass of the eight winds, a magical circle at the heart of Traditional Witchcraft. More than a tool for protection or raising power, this framework provides the ritual means to traverse the worlds and a mythic landscape that can be accessed at any point in time and space. Traditional Witch Ian Chambers teaches how the Witch Compass represents an entire worldview, a cosmological map, and a method for magic and revelation. He helps you develop your own compass and use it for divination, spirit work, and practical sorcery. This book shows you the world through the lens of your Witch Compass and reveals the many realms and spirits available to you.
Exploring the realms of spirit, including the Divine in all expressions, the realm of the dead, the realms of nature, and the spirits of our civilised humanity, is difficult to navigate. Realms that are, in truth, not geographical but, rather, distinct states of being require us to employ a tool of translation and mediation. The compass is the most important tool of any spirit-based practice; it is a living spirit that arranges itself within context much like a tarot deck does when depicting the mechanics of fate. Due to its fluid nature, the compass can serve innumerable expressions of cosmology, and even though this book does not present the specific way those of my line work the compass, I clearly recognise the root mechanics in play as completely true to my understanding of this sacred tool of the winds!
By contrast, the compass of Traditional Witchcraft is a tool for location, positioning the witch within an ensorcelled worldview and a mythological map. In addition, it provides the ritual means to traverse the worlds, enabling spirit congress and a mythic landscape that can be accessed at any point in time and space.
Through experience and use, the compass is an expansive cosmological model of mystical and magical operation. As a Ring of Art, it may occasion an appearance similar to that of the magic circle in form. However, the purpose and basis of the compass are far greater than the sum of its parts, unifying the Hermetic idiom: That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above.
The Witch Compass is such a complete system of magico-mystical operation that it becomes extremely restrictive to discuss in and around the subject of Traditional Witchcraft without exploring from within the limitless bounds of its multifaceted wisdom. Indeed, in order to approach the very body of Traditional Witchcraft, we may utilise the working airts compass as a tool for expression of all that lies between and betwixt. This grand exposition underlies much of Traditional Witchcraft and is the mainstay of this book.
The particulars and details of this outlook may vary to the extent that considerable conflict was present through various schisms that plagued the church at the time. However, it should be understood that the overall model that the common people operated within, including the names and identities of classical gods and spirits, was encompassed by a worldview which held Christ and his teachings as central.
Freddy: It's very hard to tell, morally, where Angela stands. Her boss is clearly trying to use some kind of power domination to invite her out to dinner. I have no faith she's about to collect documents and start leaking them to the Intercept. I don't think she has a moral compass as so much a personal one. She seems to care about Elliot because of their history with their families but it doesn't across in this season. So I think she just goes with the proximity of people.
Kate and Henry quarrel over Kate's materialist attitude, while Magnus explains that the EM shield was unstable when Ashley teleported out and was presumably killed. However, she says she needs Will as an "emotional compass", since her acting only on her feelings almost destroyed the Sanctuary Network once before.
David Brown is the President and CEO of the Greater Omaha Chamber. In this episode, he describes how his dad helped him develop his moral compass. He shares a story when he called upon that compass to help him navigate a potentially career-jeopardizing situation. 041b061a72


Marshal on the move
“A wave is the smile of the ocean.”
A book for children and adults.
A metaphysical story, written with a beautiful and pleasant flow. Marshall is a being who brings good news. It invites the reader on a journey to the land of goodness and love. This land, as it will turn out, is ourselves.
In this book I will include photographs of my paintings. An interesting fact will be that part of the book will be written in Polish and part (the same text) in the lunar alphabet, which I invented a long time ago. The alphabet will, of course, be accessible to everyone.
To live with you is an unearthly sweetness.
There was only one thing missing – Myself.
So I found Myself.
The longer this goes on, the calmer I breathe, the brighter my inner Sun shines.
And even though there are days when my heart rumbles like a bridge with horses galloping over it…
I know that I Am.
I know that You Are.
Everything else is a bliss, Celebration, carrying in our arms, God.
A long time ago I stopped believing that I could be myself, and yet it was inevitable that I would be able to begin to live truly.
It could only happen if I lived in Myself.
I experienced such a deep homelessness that I could not bear it.
And that was what saved my life.
Extract from the book ‘Marshal w Podróży’
We all come from one Source and one day we will return to it.
That is where Our Home is.
We have chosen Earth because it is a beautiful planet.
Here we have the opportunity to grow and experience.
We are Love.
We are the Light.
The Source that is within Us never fails.
We choose how we feel with ourselves.
So let us feel good about ourselves.
We have the power to do things that bring us joy.
So let us do them, for then we live fully.
We deserve freedom, love, joy and Happiness.


One really can’t talk about modern Indian writers without mentioning Ruskin Bond. This man is one of the most wonderful storytellers of our time. His stories are simple yet evocative. He takes us back to an India that has sadly vanished, where hill-stations were still thickly forested and populated with big cats; where people and time itself moved more slowly; and where the simple pleasures of life were enough. The themes are everyday matters, but he captures an innocence and gentleness that seems to be lost in the world today, and which we are in dire need of. Ruskin Bond is one of those writers who quenches a reader’s thirst.
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Keywords: Intriguing. Moving. Thought-provoking.
Imagine having a non-human sibling. That is essentially, what this book is about. Yet, it’s also about a lot more. It explores the deep bonds of sisterhood, the relationship between humans and animals, the human need to ‘fit in’, love, jealousy, devotion, resentment, and more. The novel is both humourous and heart breaking, a coming of age tale unlike any other. At times we’re rooting for the protagonist, at other times we’re disappointed with her. Moving beautifully between past and present, this is a story that challenges our notions of family and humanity.
Author: Jeet Thayil
Keywords: Evocative. Offbeat. Authentic.
Narcopolis takes you deep into the heart of another world. Welcome to the opium dens of 1970s Bombay, with their seedy little rooms, gritty alleys and notorious inhabitants. There are just a few main characters: a eunuch, a dealer, a Chinese officer, but each is endlessly fascinating. The overall mood of the book is dark, of course, but not as dark as one would expect. The writing style is riveting and intoxicating. Not many writers can write a first chapter that is one continuous paragraph, and yet not have the reader feel the strain of reading it. The writer touches upon the struggle to free oneself from addiction, and shows human nature with all its flaws. The drug world has not been glamourized (as it typically is in film/tv) or looked down upon (to send out a preachy ‘message’). Its story has been told with all its grime and glory. A semi-autobiographical tale, the authenticity of the writing shines through. The unsentimental storytelling makes for a refreshing read.
Author: Neel Mukherjee
Keywords: Family. Epic. Political.
In this well-titled book, the author takes us deep into the lives of a large joint family who live in Calcutta in the 1960s. There are the elderly parents, their children, and their children, growing up and growing old together. There are the servants, who play a critical role in the household in more ways than one. Within this one building we see different characters, their insecurities, fears, their political leanings, and how they clash and merge with one another. One character leaves home to help farmers in the Marxist struggle. Another struggles to accept that she is perhaps too dark-skinned to get married. Their lives are a fascinating labyrinth of emotional connections and intersections and arguments. They are just one family, but they are a world within themselves and that makes this book a fascinating read.
Author: Tan Twan Eng
Keywords: Intriguing. Mysterious. Historical.
This is the tale of a judge who has been a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp in Word War II. After the war she tries to make sense of her life. She is also battling an illness in private. While visiting old friends, she meets a Japanese artist who was previously the Emperor’s gardener. She is conflicted, as she wants to learn the Japanese art of creating a garden from a master, but she also hates the Japanese for what they did to her and her people.
The Japanese philosophy of building a garden, which goes beyond the obvious, affects her without her knowledge. She also overcomes her hatred and anger against the gardener to become friends, and later lovers. This tale moves effortlessly across different times of her life. Her journey draws the reader in. Although the book is set against the backdrop of war, it is not only a war story. We see her young days with her parents and sister in Malaya before it was torn by war. We get to know her as a well-known judge, and later, as a person searching for peace, and searching for herself. The slow revealing of her character, and the story, makes for a wonderful read.
Author: Richard Flanagan
Keywords: Realistic. Epic. Historical.
This book tells the tale of an Australian doctor living as a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp. This is not a story for the faint of heart. Detailed descriptions and narrations of conditions in the camp, the illness, the starvation, the cruelty, the air of death that hangs over everything make for a serious, albeit very moving read. It is disturbing to imagine the conditions under which thousands lived, and died. Intertwined with the main narrative is the love story of the protagonist and the feelings of guilt and inner conflict that torment him. This book describes war in all its forms, in the external world between countries and in the internal world of one man’s heart.
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Keywords: Pithy. Honest. Entertaining.
More people know of The Help as a movie, and though it is a fantastic movie, the book is miles better. Set in the 1960s, The Help tells the stories of African American maids working for white families in the deep South, USA. All the characters are interconnected in one way or another, either as friends, employers, parents or spouses, and through these connections we see the best and worst of human nature. The Help reveals the deeply ingrained attitudes and racism of the time. It shows us the helplessness, grit and spirit of the oppressed. On a another level, it discusses women’s and class issues. But above all, The Help is supremely entertaining and moving from the first word to the last. Best of all, it leaves you with that positive feeling that change, however small, is always possible and we should never stop striving for it.
Author: RK Narayan
Keywords: Delightful. Humourous. Natural.
Few writers have the gift to make everyday life interesting. RK Narayan does so with a flourish. He makes us want to journey back in time to the town he writes about. Life was simple, and the range of characters makes for a perpetually entertaining townscape. The reader feels as if these are real people, so effortless is Narayan’s storytelling. The stories themselves may be simple, but the writer’s astute observations give us insights into human nature and the societal norms of the time. RK Narayan is one of those rare writers who notice what most of us overlook.
Author: Arthur Miller
Genre: Realistic fiction (maybe)
Keywords: Moving. Intense. Disconcerting.
I don’t read many plays but All My Sons is more than just a play. Based on a true story, it reveals the deeply complex and fundamentally flawed nature of human beings. It delves into ethics and idealism, and questions how personal greed and selfishness allow people to ignore their moral responsibilities. Its broader themes hint at the corruption prevalent in any system, and it questions the American dream of the 1950s. All My Sons is so relevant to India today; it will strike a chord in many readers’ hearts. A story that stays with you, and haunts you for a while.
Author: Bel Kaufman
Genre: Epistolary novel
Tags: Realistic. Humourous. Unconventional.
My cousin – a school teacher – never stops raving about this book. So I finally got my hands on it. And no wonder teachers love it, because no book explains the life of a teacher with all its trials and triumphs as well as this one.
Set in a school in the New York area in the 1960s, Up The Down Staircase rings true even today. The book unfolds in different voices, in the form of dialogues between people; notes between teachers, from the trash, or the suggestion box; letters between characters; scribbles on papers and so on. This lends authenticity, landing the reader smack into the life of a teacher, with all its challenges and rewards. It also makes for an interesting read, as you experience school life from various points of view. We see the growing pains and difficult lives of certain students, the insecurities and pettiness of some of the staff, and the dedicated teachers who truly love their profession. There are plenty of little stories sprouting around the main theme. Even fifty years later and continents away, one can relate to and enjoy Up The Down Staircase.


Custom Built-In Library
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Our client, Jeanne, is an education professor at Texas A&M, and needed a storage solution for all of her books. She contacted us to turn her dining room into a library. We installed custom mahogany bookshelves on the empty walls of her dining room and a custom-built bench was installed beneath the windows. We love the classic and ornate look of these shelves in this traditional dining space.
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IN THE TURBULENT FINAL DAYS OF CUBA’S BATISTA REGIME, A POSSIBLE TRAITOR WITHIN THE CIA THREATENS TO CHANGE THE OUTCOME OF A REVOLUTION
AUGUST 1958: former CIA agent George Mueller arrives in Cuba’s volatile capital, where he has been assigned to monitor the CIA’s “man in Havana” and possible traitor, none other than his old friend Toby Graham. Under the guise of their brotherly affection, Mueller is recruited to vet rumors that Graham is putting weapons, covertly provided by the CIA to the unpopular Batista regime, in the hands of Castro’s forces. Public exposure of the CIA weapons mission, and the activity of one rogue agent, threaten to embarrass the agency. It is up to Mueller to distinguish whether Graham’s rebel sympathies are true and, if they are, how deep his loyal ties to his old friend lie . . .
Beneath the political turmoil and deadly intrigue lie complicated emotional ties that may blind everyone to the truth. A passionate love affair with an American expat; a world of deceit within the FBI, CIA, and State Department; and dangerous lies and moral bankruptcy from all sides further complicate the already treacherous circumstances in which Mueller finds himself. But both his own code of honor and the outcome of the revolution depend on Mueller’s ability to navigate the corruption and betrayals which permeate his world. Paul Vidich has written a powerful story of the competing ideals, passion, hypocrisy, and destructive rivalries that played out in the months before Castro’s triumphant march into Havana on New Year’s Day 1959.


Back by popular demand is “Paddle to the Sea” - where children decorate their own little wooden paddlers, place them into small boats, and enter them in a river race. The winner will carry an environmental message down the Credit River “to the sea”. Prizes too!!
Our race is based on the 1941 book by Holling Clancy Holling - "Paddle to the Sea" - about a young Indian boy from Nipigon country in the Canadian wilderness who carves a twelve inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and sets it off to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean. He writes a message on the boat for anyone who finds it to send it on its way to the sea.
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Bill Mason later filmed the story as the first movie in his long career of movie-making, art, and writing.


My name is Sarah Ocampo. In my spare time, I volunteer for my union’s history and archive committee. I want to tell you about fun ways to learn history, and about why preserving and sharing your story matters.
History is usually recorded from a perspective that serves the interests of wealthy, influential individuals, by recounting famous exploits and a narrow view of how public events were shaped. Much historical writing has ignored the presence of working-class people, women, natives, and other oppressed groups. Workers have always understood that to advance their interests, they would need to take matters into their own hands.
In the 1800s, unions began to publish their newspapers, because the owners of the first printing presses were unsympathetic towards workers. Similarly, workers today more than ever are actively preserving and sharing their own stories. They are rediscovering the people’s history and uncovering their role in building and running this country. If workers don’t record history, they risk being left out of it or recast in inaccurate roles.
There are many ways the past has been preserved, and for people to learn about history. Documents kept by individuals, institutions, or governments serve as primary sources. So do artifacts, which are objects – and much more than just union memorabilia, like buttons or banners. They include everything from tools to materials from homes. Workers have recorded their history by writing down thoughts about their lives and struggles, through their decisions to join or fund unions and political parties or to participate in cultural activities.
Records also exist of what workers said when they appeared in courts. Government and union records, newspapers, and other contemporary writings are also useful. Labor historians and other social scientists dedicate themselves to researching and writing about workers.
At first, they focused on the development of trade unions and workers’ politics. Still, a new generation of historians broadened the field to examine the experience and culture of all workers. The writings of historians are valuable secondary sources. It’s important, though, to always identify the political perspective of the author.
Archives, libraries, and museums play an important role in collecting and disseminating workers’ history. Some are even dedicated specifically to working-class heritage and arts. Research collectives, often staffed by activists, publish accessible materials from a particular region. The most vibrant of them rely on the support of volunteers and the funding of trade unions, foundations, and individual donors. Though much remains to be done, they have led the way in ensuring workers’ stories are a part of both public broadcasts and the official curriculum of public schools.
As technology has improved, so too has our ability to consistently and accurately record and preserve events and stories. Take images, for example. At first, only drawings, paintings, or engravings existed. Relatively few artists chose to depict workers as doing so was, at times, considered subversive. Though photography was invented in 1839, it would take decades before workers were regularly featured, and even longer before cameras reached the hands of ordinary people.
Early motion pictures were more concerned with providing a diversion than reflecting workers’ lives, with notable exceptions. Dramas now tell the stories of characters that might as well have been real workers, and documentaries have surged in popularity. Enough films are about workers that we can now search for labor film databases and attend labor film festivals.
Music is a vital historical resource. Some musicians and new media specialists develop video ballads to retell workers’ stories. Others have reinterpreted and recorded folk or protest songs, and many perform at working-class music festivals. Some novels have been written as historical fiction, and the roots of labor history graphic novels can be traced to a tradition of activist and underground comics that emerged in the late 19th century.
Many political cartoons used by unionists to communicate left politics are now artifacts in and of themselves. Workers can sometimes find their history by watching stage plays and theatre, or by following walking tours. It is up to workers themselves if public monuments, murals, and place names are to reflect their lives.
Every community has a working-class history worthy of its tour. In the information age, incredible advances in computing have made a tsunami of digital resources available. Personal computers and smartphones also mean that workers record their history in new formats, like e-mails, blogs, and messages on social media accounts.
Creative specialty websites now curate historical information, collecting digitized documents to make the sentiments and struggles of workers more accessible. Unions have also established microsites that preserve and share the stories of their members. Perhaps one of the most important technological advances for preserving labor history occurred in the early 1950s when recording on magnetic tape came into general use. Tape enabled people to conveniently record oral histories, that is, accounts of the past by word of mouth.
For the first time, workers’ voices could be heard directly, and interviews with ordinary people began to form the basis of social, community, and even union histories. Everyone has a story worth sharing and preserving. The stories of workers’ lives matter. Working-class history gives insight into today’s circumstances, putting lives into a deeper and broader context.
When people see themselves in history, they gain new consciousness and understanding of how to go forward. Labor history teaches workers about their resiliency and agency- – about their ability to improve the world and shape history’s outcome. They discover it is the ‘countless small deeds of many people together who make possible the significant events that become history.’ And while no union was ever perfect, and many have long since disappeared, unions help unite workers and empower them to make history. Looking back, workers have faced hardships, cruelty, and exploitation. But there was also resistance and triumph, moments in which courage, compassion, and love defined the day. These stories give hope and strength to carry on today’s struggles.


Welcome to ElectionJudgments! This database of election case law from around the world is easily filtered and searchable to help you identify relevant cases to your needs.
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Gulliver’s Travels is justly regarded as one of the best satirical novels of all time, although its author, Jonathan Swift, claimed he wrote the book “to vex the world rather than divert it.” Politicians of the time were indeed vexed at being mocked in its pages. It seems the author’s physiological descriptions also proved a bit vexatious, according to a charming new paper in the Journal of Physiological Sciences.
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First published in 1726, Gulliver’s Travels relates the fictional adventures of one Lemuel Gulliver, “first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships,” according to the book’s lengthy subtitle. During his voyages, Gulliver encounters several unusual species: the tiny people of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, talking horses called Houyhnhnms who rule over the deformed, uncouth Yahoos, and the inhabitants of the flying island of Laputa, who devote themselves to the study of science and the arts but have never figured out how to apply that knowledge for practical applications. Apart from its literary qualities, Gulliver’s Travels provided ample fodder for eagle-eyed experts, since Swift couldn’t resist going into great detail about the physiology of his fictional species, practically inviting closer scrutiny.
Toshio Kuroki, special advisor to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Gifu University, read Gulliver’s Travels for the first time with his book club. Having spent a long, prestigious career conducting cancer research, Kuroki immediately noticed an error on Swift’s part when estimating Gulliver’s energy requirements compared to that of the diminutive Lilliputions. It spurred him to look more closely at similar passages in the book, and to make his own comparative physiological analysis of the fictional creatures encountered by Gulliver during his travels.


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Raw Data Season 3 is a 12-part series: Origins of Power in Silicon Valley.
In this series, we explore how Silicon Valley came to play such a huge role in everyday life, and how the Valley today challenges our notions of privacy, autonomy, and freedom. People we interviewed for this series include Leslie Berlin, Steve Blank, Franklin Foer, Kevin Kelly, John Markoff, Alice Marwick, and Fred Turner. Here is a summary and a link to each episode.
Introducing the series. Silicon Valley’s power: How did we get here?
Leslie Berlin, Fred Turner
The seeds of Silicon Valley were sown long ago. The Gold Rush, the railroad barons, the founding of Stanford University, and myths of the American West still echo today.
Richard White, DJ Dull-McKensie, Laura Jones
Before tech, there were orchards in the “Valley of Heart’s Delight.” Federal funding for Cold War research changes everything, and the semiconductor industry brings silicon to the Valley. The Traitorous Eight create Fairchild Semiconductor. And the weather here is “perfect.”
Daniel Swain, Steve Blank, Margaret O’Mara, Leslie Berlin
Inspired by cybernetics and LSD, Stewart Brand creates the Whole Earth Catalog as a how-to manual for the commune movement. The catalog articulates a philosophy of tech idealism and individual empowerment.
Fred Turner, John Markoff, Kevin Kelly
The Valley comes of age as the center of innovation and personal computing. Doug Englebart delivers the Mother of All Demos. Steve Jobs makes a fateful visit to Xerox PARC. On The WELL, people learn what it means to socialize online.
Leslie Berlin, John Markoff, Howard Rheingold
In the post-Watergate era, two academics battle the NSA and establish the technology that protects our online information. Cryptography remains a fundamental tool, but can it save us from entering a post-privacy world?
Michal Kosinski, Whit Diffie, Marty Hellman, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs
Netscape’s IPO electrifies the dotcom era, and “New Economy” proponents insist that cyberspace will redefine the rules of prosperity. The data economy is born.
Fred Turner, Kevin Kelly, Lou Montulli, Rosanne Siino, Tim Wu
Silicon Valley reveres garage start-ups and the myth of the entrepreneur. But in the wake of the dotcom crash, power dynamics shift. Have the entrepreneurs, these quintessential American characters, captured too much power?
Steve Blank, Sarah Lacy
Within 15 years, social media has become the dominant force shaping the Valley. What does it mean for individuals around the world and for society at large to be publicly performing in so many aspects of our lives?
Andrew Smith, Alice Marwick
The tech giants that control the internet have destroyed 20th century institutions and challenged the role of an independent press. Whither the 4th estate?
Susan Athey, Frank Foer
Can democracy survive the internet? What country will take the lead in shaping our online environment – and how?
Technology is an almost god-like force that acts upon all of humanity. What does it actually want?
Silicon Valley and Washington DC have a showdown when Zuckerberg goes before Congress. Silicon Valley has grown powerful because it advances a vision for how technology will set us free. So what’s missing from the story?
Leslie Berlin and others
Raw Data (Seasons 1-3) was produced and hosted by Michael Osborne and Leslie Chang, with help from Isha Salian, Jackson Roach, and the Worldview Stanford team. The podcast is supported by the Cyber Initiative at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and by Worldview Stanford.
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A macronation is what micronationalists call recognised states.
However, this impression is not entirely correct or comprehensive. Macronations in of themselves are just medium- to large-sized nations, irrespective of whether they are actual recognised states or not. Under this perspective then, macronations can also be non-states, and are in fact Fourth World nations.
- HMRD Cesidio Tallini. (2009). The Fifth World: Micronationalism on Steroids. CreateSpace. ISBN 1448663539


An archive of oral history of Kashmir, recorded in video, audio, and writing. Let the people speak.
Here is how you can browse through the various video and audio recordings and transcripts of oral narratives:
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You can click on a ‘topic’ on the right sidebar, or on the home page and directly go to a listing of all video, audio, and transcripts tagged with that topic.
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In the Archives section, you can view the various posts according to the date of posting.
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The periodical publication “News of the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” publishes articles by domestic and foreign authors containing scientific results in mathematics, physics, computer science, economics, history, philosophy, and geophysics. By order of the editorial board, the magazine also publishes review articles.
The journal is intended for researchers, teachers, graduate students, undergraduates. Frequency of publication – six issues per year. Journal articles are referenced and indexed at the RSCI (eLibrary.Ru).
|Postal Address of the Editorial Board:||Russia, 360002, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Nalchik, Balkarov street,.2, KBSC RAS. Editorial board of the journal “News of the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences”.|
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By order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, the list of peer-reviewed scientific publications has been defined, in which the main scientific results of dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Science, for the degree of Doctor of Science should be published (as of 26.12.2019)(https://vak.minobrnauki.gov.ru/uploader/loader?type=19&name=90988005002&f=5298).
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'Who are the princesses of Arabic song? If they had to name ten, twenty, fifty of them, no two connoisseurs would agree. But if there were a choice of only three names, they would be those of Oum Kalsoum, Fairouz and Asmahan. Princesses, queens, empresses, whatever. These three hold court above all the categories: glory, power, legend, splendour...
Dorsaf Hamdani sings all three of them. And what female Arabic singer has never contemplated measuring herself against the Himalayas of her culture: the immense achievements of Oum Kalsoum, who died in 1975 at the height of her fame? She who made into one a genre both popular and classical. Who had the ability to make soar an enormous ensemble of violins and piano. And who had the power to promptly produce the radiance of a voice more sublime than any other...
Yet Dorsaf has not only approached that monument. She also addresses the repertoire of Fairouz, who knew how to build links with Latin American and international popular music without ever losing the Arab soul of her songs. The greatest Middle Eastern voice of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first – Fairouz began to sing professionaly in 1957 – the Lebanese singer has ventured into much formal audacity without losing the sense of the primary emotion of a song. Perhaps Fairouz was inspired at the beginning by the equally deeply moving voice and repertoire of her compatriot Asmahan, who died in 1944 at the age of twenty-six. The sister of composer Farid El-Atrache, Asmahan had the time to give the Arab world recordings which were of a singularly modern melancholy, combining traditional poetic values with Western music.
Dorsaf thus sings three legacies: the sophistication and virtuosity of Oum Kalsoum, the distinct vocal timbre and revolutionary tastes of Fairouz, and Asmahan's emotional depth and natural affinity for drama...
Since discovering music, Dorsaf has always looked beyond the splendours of Tunisia's classical tradition, always listened out for the music of the East. During her childhood, on Thursday nights, her father tuned in the radio for the Oum Kalsoum concert. And at family gatherings, her grandmother went back to the great classics of the Egyptian diva but also the best sellers of Asmahan, the sublime Lebanese singer whose fate might have come out of a novel. Very young, Dorsaf also succumbed to the more contemporary charms of the great Fairouz.
Naturally, to become a singer was for her not only to achieve mastery of the Tunisian malouf (traditional Arab Andalusian music) but also become the interpreter of those large repertoires shared by all the Middle East. Not for her solely the role of interpreter of Tunisian music. This requires boldness as much as humility – to keep in sight the peaks of the ideal, while serenely conquering each step that leads to them without cutting corners...
Dorsaf has therefore gradually polished her voice, in malouf music as well as the semi-classical genres which came into being in Egypt and the Middle East in the twentieth century. She learned Western music theory and attempted more or less world fusion experiments. She has earned awards and prizes at home and abroad... Above all, she has travelled, from master classes to encounters with teachers, from festivals to post-graduate studies at the Sorbonne. She sings at Cairo Opera House and collaborates with the greatest maestros of Arab music including Salah Ghoubachi and Selim Sahab. In 2010, she participates, along with the Iranian singer Alireza Ghorbani, in the creation of Ivresses, which centres around the poetry of Omar Khayyam – another great critical and public success.
Since her debut in 1995, she has continuously ventured into reciprocations and contacts to enrich her practice and connections, “In straying away from my country,” she explains, “I defined what is my culture. I understood where I come from and what I desire. I am Tunisian, but not only.” She also defines herself by the past: “
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About the Visual History Archive
In 1994, Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation with the goal of gathering video testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. Between 1994 and 1999 the Foundation recorded over 52,000 testimonies in 56 countries and in 32 languages. These testimonies have been digitized and indexed and are now accessible to educators, students, and researchers all over the world.
The purpose of oral history testimony is not only to gather facts, but also to gain a deeper understanding of events as they were lived and filtered through personal reflection. Unlike most documentation from the period of the Holocaust, which was written by the perpetrators, oral testimony gives a voice to the survivors and other witnesses, allowing them to speak directly about their personal experiences. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimonies are unedited, primary sources of information. Each interview consists of a single survivor or other witness speaking about his or her life before, during, and after World War II, guided by questions from a trained interviewer. The interviews average two-and-a-half hours in length.


Lots of people know that the Roman empire lasted for a 1000 years, then fell precipitously into decline in the West. Some know that the decline can be partially attributed to economic issues in the empire. But very few know that many of the policies implemented by the Roman government have very distinct echoes in 20th and 21st-century American politics.
Corporate and personal welfare in the Roman empire was very real, rather common, and, compared to current history, extremely surprising.
This somewhat arcane but exceptionally relevant topic is covered in the book The New Deal in Old Rome: How Government in the Ancient World Tried to Deal with Modern Problems. It was published in 1938 by newspaper journalist H.J. Haskell (and updated in 1946 to reflect what had happened since WWII).
You can download a PDF or Epub for free at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute (or pay $15 for a hard copy).
I’m about halfway through it and have found it fascinating reading. I would highly encourage anyone interested either in Roman history or modern economics (or both) to download a copy and jump into it. It’s easy reading and moves pretty quickly.
Haskell does a nice job painting a picture of what the Roman world was like during the 1000 year period from 500AD to 500BC, specifically talking about the life of the average person and their social/economic setting. He then begins to cite economic and political policies chapter and verse which sound remarkably similar to policies that have been tried (and normally failed) from FDR to Obama. If you want to prove the history repeats itself, here’s an easy way to do it.
Of course, one of the more useful things that can come from reading it is to see how these policies ultimately play themselves out over many generations. It is a somewhat sobering picture, to say the least. Haskell explains the basic premise in his preface:
The failure of the Roman system to furnish decent minimum standards of living for the mass of the people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic. The decay of character that attended the sudden rush of great wealth undermined the Republic even before it was submerged by civil wars. Later, in a society unstable through social bitterness, extravagant public spending proved fatal. A British commentator, Professor F. E. Adcock of Cambridge University, remarks on the price the world finally had to pay for ” the gilding of the Golden Age of the Antonines.” The spending for non-productive public works, for the bureaucracy, and for the army, led to excessive taxation, inflation, and the ruin of the essential middle class and its leaders. It destroyed the men whom Leon Homo, French historian, calls, in a brilliant phrase, “the general staff of civilization.” These facts have implications that may be pertinent today.
I would encourage this book as reading for high school students to adults. It’s a great introduction to some key economic principles from an ancient perspective.


by Elizabeth Van Buskirk
I’m here to work on my book of collected stories due to the publishers by October 15. Stories and retold folk tales, set in the Andes mountains of Peru, in high altitude villages around Cusco. My great passion is to give a glimpse of the wonders of Inca life today, so the working title is “Machu Picchu, Behind the Stones: Stories and Folk Tales of Inca Life.” The folk tales I’ve been collecting in Peru since receiving a grant from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI Barbara Karlin grant award.)
The collection will be for adults interested in the Incas, in the fabulous textiles, or those traveling to Cusco to visit Machu Picchu, etc. With strange and new characters and events, along with practical dilemmas of Inca families today, I hope it will also serve for family read-alouds. I’m overjoyed: “Behind the Stones..” will be fully illustrated by the great Inca folk artist, Angel Callañaupa whom I’ve been wanting to publish with for years!
August 27, 2012


Harry Drew & Joseph Hann
Following official approval of the transfer of the application and claim for a lease, the Paynes sold ‘Coolort’ Station to Harry Drew for 90 pounds. Drew did not hold the property for long and in February, 1854, he wrote to the Chief Commissioner, Crown Lands, requesting that his application and claim for lease be made over to Joseph Hann.
Little is known about Harry Drew, although he is mentioned in a history of the Preston region as one of the first horse-drawn cabbies in the original Preston settlement in the 1860s.
The history of Joseph Hann and his family is much better documented and their presence in the area is remembered by such local names as Hann Inlet, site of the RAN Naval Establishment, and Hann Creek Reserve.
Joseph Hann, a farm labourer, and his family arrived in Australia from Wiltshire in 1851, aboard the ship John Know. The family consisted of Joseph, his wife Elizabeth, four sons – William, James, John and Frank, and a daughter Caroline. They settled at ‘Coolort’ in 1853 and in 1854 were granted pre-emptive right of 640 acres (259 ha) in the southwest corner of Drew’s original Coolart.
However the Hanns were dissatisfied with their land. Despite good rainfall, the bush and scrub and poor native grasses – apart from dingoes and aborigines – prevented effective use of the land. In 1858 the stock assessment for “Coolart” was – 100 horses, 330 cattle, 20 acres cultivated, 620 acres uncultivated, 8000 acres Crown land.
In 1861, the Hanns decided to move to Queensland and Joseph with his sons William and Frank, went north seeking new land. In conjunction with Richard Daintree and other investors, they established Bluff Downs, Maryvale and Lolworth Stations on the Burdekin River, north of Charters Towers.
In 1864 Joseph was drowned in the great Burdekin flood of January 1864. His sons struggled with hostile Aboriginals, speargrass, dingoes and falling wool prices and in 1870 William had to overland their last 19,000 sheep back to Victoria; Lolworth and Bluff Downs were surrendered. William and Frank Hann both went onto to explore large sections of Queensland and Western Australia.


Shannon Huffman Polson (bio)
One of the first U.S. Army Women Apache Helicopter Captains and Pilots, Author of North of Hope and The Grit Factor
Tenacity, determination, grit and an innate ability to lead has defined Shannon Huffman Polson. An adventurous young woman, she summited Mount McKinley (now Denali) and, at the time, was the youngest woman to complete the attempt. From there, she was commissioned in the Army and was one of the first women to fly the Apache attack helicopter. Through her leadership and aviation skills she earned the right to lead two flight platoons and was the first woman to command an Apache flight company in the 2nd Infantry Division. With real-world stories and insights from in and out of the cockpit, she offers tangible leadership lessons for audience members to seek out their own targets and, where passion and purpose intersect, incorporate them into their own professional lives.


MYSTERIOUS CITIES OF GOLD
Street Date: April 7
It is 1532 and Esteban, a Spanish orphan, is on a quest to find his father. He joins a party of Spaniards as they search for one of The Seven Cities of Gold in The New World. Zia, An Incan girl named Zia, and Tao, the last descendant of the sunken empire of Hiva, help Estaban on his search. On their journey, the three of them discover many lost technological wonders of the Mayans, Inca, and Olmecs including The Golden Condor, a huge solar-powered airship, capable of traveling considerable distances under the sun’s power alone. They are constantly pursued by antagonists Gomez and Gaspard, who are also in search of the Cities of Gold.
It is with great pleasure, and probably some bias, that I write this review of The Mysterious Cities of Gold. I have to take you back to the 1980’s when a young cable network started airing shows like You Can’t Do That On Television, Count Duckula, The World of David the Gnome, and Mr. Wizard’s World. This network was Nickelodeon, and before it began producing its own original programming it mostly borrowed shows from other networks and countries. One such show was The Mysterious Cities Of Gold. Originally airing in Japan beginning in 1982, the series premiered in English in the United States in 1986. The series also aired in France, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
The Mysterious Cities of Gold blends the history and mythologies of ancient South American civilizations with elements of science fiction and fantasy. Add to that the greed and zeal of Spanish explorers in search of riches beyond their wildest dreams in the New World. In the first episode, we meet Esteban, an orphan who has little knowledge about his past and a mysterious ability to summon the sun. Esteban meets Mendoza, a Spanish explorer who beckons him to journey to the New World in search of his long lost father and the titular mysterious cities of gold. On the journey across the Atlantic, Esteban quickly learns that Mendoza isn’t always a man of his word as he discovers Zia, an Incan girl taken from her people as a young girl and given to the Queen of Spain as a gift. Mendoza has kidnapped Zia and brought with them on the journey to the New World as he believes she can help them find the cities of gold.
The Mysterious Cities of Gold was created by Jean Chalopin who wrote and produced other familiar animated series from the ’80’s, including Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff, Rainbow Brite, M.A.S.K., and The Popples. Chalopin also created the company which evolved into DIC Entertainment. While watching, I thought my ears were playing tricks on me, but some of the music by the duo of Shuki Levy and Haim Saban was recycled and used on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. The Mysterious Cities of Gold certainly shows how animation could be; comparing it to other cartoons of the late 70’s/early 80’s, its almost like night and day. The Mysterious Cities of Gold draws a lot of parallels with a recent Nickelodeon series, Avatar: The Last Air Bender. Both feature a kid hero with mystical powers who is going to save everyone, fighting against armies of bad guys, and both feature a long, continuous storyline.
We received a screening disc, which only featured three episodes: “Estban, Child of the Sun,” “Crossing the Atlantic,” and “The Ship Solaris.” Still, it’s enough to get a feel for the series. Each episode is followed by a short documentary exploring subjects related to the episode. For a series that is over a quarter century old, Mysterious Cities of Gold has been wonderfully restored and looks and sounds great. The DVD menus are nice and crisp using CG effects to recreate the inside of an ancient pyramid. Unfortunately the extras were not available on the sampler disc, however we were still able to get a peek at what will be available on the official release.
* Series Synopsis
* Deleted Scenes
* Alternate Intro Sequence – Episode 1
* Realtime Storyboard Sequence – Episode 1
* Realtime Storyboard Sequence – Episode 2
* Original Episode Production Drawings
A special Deluxe Edition of Mysterious Cities of Gold will also be available, which will include a 32-page booklet, a 12-page historical facts booklet, 6 exclusive postcards and a double-sided fold out poster.
I’m not sure what it is about this series that made me remember The Mysterious Cities of Gold so fondly after all these years, but its been a long time coming to DVD. I have to admit, I was not overwhelmed with a wave of nostalgia, but I certainly did enjoy watching again after all these years. With 39 episodes in all, the series is an epic adventure told as one big story arc and is definitely worth a watch.
Extra Features: B
– Chris Lawrence


Copyright: me. Today. I keel you.
The world of Arthurian legend is perhaps best known for Excalibur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Quest for the Holy Grail. While female roles might not be the first thing that springs to mind, each story has at least a small part played by a woman. Be they hags, maidens, queens or witches, the driving force of many tales of King Arthur are the women surrounding the knights. Guinevere may be the most famous, but arguably the most important female character is Morgan la Fey, Arthur’s half-sister, an instigator, and Arthur’s final embrace. Morgan is more than a character; she is a reminder of the Celtic foundation of the story, and the embodiment of a Celtic goddess. She is a lover, a mother, a healer, a killer, a sister and an instigator, which roots her identity firmly on the foundation of the Morrigan.
In the earliest tales of Arthur, the only mention of Morgan comes at the end of the story. After his mortal wounding at the hands of Mordred, the legend says “he was was taken to the isle of Avallach by Modron, and that he is waiting there until the time comes to resume his leadership of the British armies” (Markale 1977, 173). At this point in the story, Arthur’s sister, if mentioned at all, is a woman named Anna and otherwise unremarkable. The name Modron is the Welsh variety of the Gallic Matrona, both of which are generic names for the Celtic mother goddess (Markale 1995, 182). The similarity of these words to the Latin matronae should not be dismissed. “In various parts of Britain we find the Goddess referred to merely as Modron, which means ‘mother’ “(Stewart, 64). In several works it is plainly stated that Morgan is based on Modron/Matrona and not the Morrigan, but this is simple semantics. Morrigan is herself a mother goddess, albeit from Ireland, and thus fits under the heading of Matrona. Arthur is unarguably British, and thus the inclusion of an Irish goddess is suspect; however, the only difference is in name. While the source for the name ‘Morgan’ is more likely to be ‘Modron’ than ‘Morrigan,’ they are still one and the same; Modron and Morrigan are themselves from the same root.
In Ireland we see the Morrigan playing the part of the female deity embodying the land, counterpart and consort to the Dagda or Cernunnos. Often referred to as “the Queen of Demons” she is “both fertile and destructive” (Cunliffe, 186). Destruction is not something Americans would normally associate with a mother goddess**. In the Celtic mind, however, nothing can live without death.
Awesome goddesses like the Irish Morrigan, who often appears in triple form, are not the stereotypical seekers after blood and battle, but reveal an inherent unity of life and death: the Morrigan controls both death and sexuality, and may appear as an alluring but deadly maiden or a screaming hag in early tales; hence she takes in order to give. (Stewart, 58)
Evidence of the triplicate nature of Morgan can be seen all over the Arthurian legend. Some authors have chosen to split Morgan into three women, the sisters Morgan, Morgause and Elaine. The inhabitants of the isle of Avalon vary also, from just Morgan, to Morgan and her two sisters, to nine women (three times three).
It is ruled by nine sisters under a system of benign laws to which visitors coming from our regions are introduced. Of the nine sisters, one surpasses the others in beauty and power. Her name is Morgan and she teaches the use of plants and how to cure sickness. She knows the art of changing one’s appearance and of flying through the air with the aid of wings, like Daedalus (Markale 1995, 5).
This split into three separate characters is precendently Celtic, particularly in Ireland. “The great goddess, the Morrígan in her plural form, the Morrígna, resolves into three: Morrígan, Badb, and Nemain” (Cunliffe, 187). The similarity between Elaine and Nemain might also be noted.
Further evidence of Morgan’s origins in the Morrigan can be seen in the above reference to Daedalus and in the story of Owein son of Uryen. Owein is given a flock of ravens to fight for him; “the end of the tale of Owein tells how Owein stayed in Arthur’s court as his steward until he returned to his own land with the 300 swords of Kynverchin… and his flight of ravens, and they were victorious wherever they went” (Markale 1977, 135). Markale goes on to say “Owein’s mother is supposed to be the goddess Matrona, or Modron, who Thomas Malory identifies with Morgan; and Modron could turn herself into a bird.” Perhaps the most well known symbol of the Morrigan is the raven or crow, seen in one of the Morrigan’s triplicate forms; “Morrigan means ‘Phantom Queen’ while her other forms are Nemhain and Badhbh meaning ‘Frenzy’ and ‘Crow’ or ‘Raven’ “(Stewart, 80).
Understanding Morgan as the Morrigan makes her first appearance in the Arthurian legend painfully obvious: she is the bearer of Arthur’s body to Avalon. She appears after a terrible battle to claim the body of a great warrior, and not to bury him. The oldest Arthur tales see Morgan treating his wounds so that Arthur may one day return to rule Britain. There is perhaps no better way to personify a goddess responsible for fertility and destruction, life and death.
Since that initial inclusion, Morgan has been written more into the stories of Arthur’s knights, often as an antagonist in some form. While this antagonism is generally aimed at Lancelot, and sometimes other knights, in some stories she stands in direct opposition to Arthur himself.
In The Story of Morgan and Arthur by Thomas Malory, Morgan hatches a plan to kill both her brother Arthur and her husband Uryen, so she can be freed to marry her lover, Accolon. Arthur is imprisoned and Excalibur secretly replaced with an imitation. Excalibur is given to Accolon to use against Arthur and thus kill the king; the Lady of the Lake saves Arthur by pulling the real sword out of Accolon’s hands before he can use it against Arthur. Arthur then uses Excalibur to defeat Accolon; he dies of his wounds, but not before revealing the entire plot to Arthur. Meanwhile, Morgan, thinking Arthur is dead, tries to kill Uryen with his own sword while he sleeps but is stopped by their son, Yvain (seen earlier as Owein). Learning later that Arthur has killed her lover, she is infuriated and sends him a magic cloak that will burn his skin if he puts it on. Arthur is again saved by the Lady of the Lake, and this time he banishes Morgan from court. (Markale 1977, 45-46)
What isn’t shown is a purpose behind Morgan’s treachery beyond desiring to replace her husband with her lover. Given her eventual claiming of Arthur’s body and their bonds of kinship, her scheming to kill Arthur seems misplaced, or incompletely explained at the least. This story seems to be exception rather than the rule, as Morgan’s familial bonds with Arthur explain many of her other schemes, particularly her venomous relationship with Lancelot and Guinevere.
While the argument is made elsewhere that Guinevere and Morgan are the representatives of Christianity and paganism, respectively (especially in modern fantasy such as Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mists of Avalon), the simpler contrast between the two is one of color. Guinevere is depicted as blond and fair; her name contains the adjective gwynn or gwenn, “white” in Celtic (Markale 1995, 85) and she is associated with Arthur’s glorious kingship. Morgan on the other hand, “who is distinctly dark and somber, and who represents a force of darkness” (Markale 1995, 84) is associated with crows and ultimately Arthur’s death. Another telling difference is Guinevere’s barrenness, while Morgan (albeit sometimes under the guise of Morgause or Elaine) is decidedly fertile.
Whether attributable to defense of Arthur or opposition of Guinevere, many of Morgan’s schemes end up directed at Lancelot, the man who consistently cuckolds Arthur. In the third part of Lancelot in Prose, Morgan repeatedly attempts to expose Lancelot and Guinevere’s affair, which serves as a call to adventure for Lancelot and several other characters.
Morgan catches Lancelot shortly after he escapes the Valley of No Return and tries (unsuccessfully) to get Guinevere’s ring from his finger. There is another adventure after he escapes, and he inexplicably returns to Morgan, who now swaps Guinevere’s ring for a fake. Morgan sends the ring to Arthur, with a fraudulent deathbed confession from Lancelot begging forgiveness. Guinevere manages to convince Arthur that the ploy is false, and another long chain of adventures happen, in which Lancelot fathers Galahad with Elaine (Markale 1977, 37-38).
Much later, Morgan captures Lancelot again, this time locking him in her castle for more than a year. Lancelot decides to paint the walls of his prison with the story of his love for Guinevere, which Morgan endorses as a means of Lancelot incriminating himself. He escapes before she can use this against him, however (Markale 1977, 39).
This painting comes to light again in the fifth part of Lancelot in Prose when Arthur and some of his knights are lost in the forest and fortuitously come upon Morgan’s castle. Morgan shows Arthur Lancelot’s artwork, and although Arthur does not completely believe Morgan, this leads directly to Lancelot and Guinevere’s exposure (Markale 1977, 41).
In the tale of Sir Tristram, Morgan is again plotting against Lancelot. Tristram is portrayed here as a knight of some great renown, second only to Lancelot. “Tristram is himself manipulated by Morgan la Fey into bearing to Camelot a shield depicting Arthur and Guinevere being dominated by Lancelot, with the intention of bringing shame on the court” (Fulton, 291).
In Gawain and the Green Knight, the Green knight reveals at the end of the story that the entire plot was undertaken at the behest of Morgan le Fay (Fulton, 255). The purpose, again, is an attack on Guinevere: “She put this magic upon me to deprive you of your wits, in hope Guinevere to hurt, that she in horror might die aghast at that glamoury that gruesomely spake with its head in its hand before the high table” (Sir Gawain, 118-119).
That Morgan has a vendetta against Guinevere, and consequently Lancelot, is evident. The precise reason why she constantly plots against the lovers is subject to conjecture.
The first point to consider is that the Christianization of the Arthurian legend brought with it the concept of adultery as a deadly sin. Lancelot as a knight, a Christian, and a seeker of the Holy Grail, was supposed to be virtuous. Though Lancelot’s love for Guinevere was stated to be “perfect” (Markale 1977, 37) and he was never fickle to his lady, she was never anything but Arthur’s wife and queen, and thus her relationship with Lancelot was forbidden under Christian doctrine.
Something had to be done about Lancelot and Guinevere, both from a Christian perspective and to forward the story. Morgan then is placed in the role of prosecuter and penalizer, continually trying to bring Lancelot and Guinevere to justice. It is a surprisingly modern form of justice, with hearsay and verbal condemnation not enough to implicate Lancelot; Morgan needs solid proof, and preferably (in good Christian fashion) a confession. In the end, the lovers must be caught in the act for any action to be taken, and they are too far gone to be redeemed. The country is torn apart, Arthur is killed, and Guinevere ends up in a nunnery, Lancelot taking vows soon after.
The second matter to consider is rooted in Morgan’s identity as the Morrigan. The Morrigan gives and takes, kills and heals; the entire situation between Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot is in need of the sort of balance a Celtic goddess is especially suited to deliver.
A Celtic king, much like the Celtic god Dagda or Cernunnos, was married to the land. Arthur was virile, a strong king, and Britain did well under his rule; his marriage to a barren woman is counterintuitive. That this woman would then betray him constantly for many years compounds the problem. Guinevere needs to be removed so that the king’s line can be continued. Given that the Morrigan has already born the king a son – Mordred, bearing similarity perhaps to Mabon son of Modron in another myth – Guinevere and Lancelot’s intrusion in the natural order of things needs to be rectified. The Morrigan has been demoted into a mere student of Merlin (Stewart, 90), so the range of supernatural powers normally attributed to a goddess have been greatly limited and she is reduced to using glamours and trickery to try to bring balance to Britain. Exposing Lancelot with the Queen is less an act of vengefulness and more one of patriotism; colloquially, it wasn’t personal.
Conversely, had Morgan not worked so hard to expose Lancelot and Guinevere, there arises the possibility that Arthur could have died peacefully in his bed and Mordred quietly assumed the throne as Arthur’s next of kin and nearest relation. While that might have been the better thing to happen to Britain, it makes for a terrible story. At some point the desires of the storytellers have to be factored in; the great warrior king Arthur simply cannot die of old age. Betrayal, incest, treachery, patricide, regicide, scorned women and flawed heros make for a far better tale.
That Arthur’s legend is simply that – a story, greatly embellished so far as to make the original undiscernable – introduces the question of the Morrigan’s inclusion. As previously noted, the original stories only include Morgan at the very end of the tale, as Modron. She takes Arthur to Avalon, the other world, and tends his otherwise mortal wounds. Arthur’s original sister was named Anna and had no obvious connection to the Celtic goddess. It is long after the decline of the Celts and the Christianization of the story that Morgan makes inroads into the heart of the legend.
The obvious connection between Morgan and Morrigan/Modron/Matrona and her relatively late introduction to the story leads to the supposition that she was a result of the Christianization, and not a resurgence or regression. Many pagan forms and functions were absorbed into Christianity to make conversion easier to swallow. The timing of Easter every year is a clear illustration of this; that some form of secular or Christian holiday now falls on all eight of the Druidic sabbats is another.
Reintroducing the antiquated Celtic goddess as a force of treachery and malice against the more sympathetic treatment of Guinevere and Lancelot could have been used as a conversion tool. That the Arthurian legend survived at all during the Inquisition, with its overtly pagan themes, support of magic and near deification of Merlin, suggests that the legend was too important to be destroyed.
Morgan’s role in the Arthur legends as an antagonist to Guinevere can be likened to the struggle between Celtic paganism and early Christianity. Arthur the king chose Christianity in marrying Guinevere, but the country had not successfully converted. Morgan the mother goddess is fertile; Guinevere the sinner is barren. In the end, Arthur is reclaimed by the land, taken to Avalon with Morgan, while Guinevere goes to God, the abbess of the nunnery at which she takes vows. Arthur is thus lost, as much as the old faith is.
Regardless of the motives of those writing the story, the presense of the Morrigan looming behind the character of Morgan is difficult to deny. Whatever name assigned to her, she is the archetypical triple goddess of Celtic descent.
Within the Arthurian legend, Morgan plays all the roles we see in the Morrigan. She is a maiden as Arthur’s sister, a mother to Mordred and/or Owein, a wife to Uryen, a lover to Accolon, a wielder of supernatural power as a student of Merlin, a representative of the land as an herbalist and druid of Avalon, a bringer of war and chaos as the instigator of countless adventures including the conflicts between Arthur & Lancelot and Arthur & Mordred, and lastly a healer and bringer of closure when she takes Arthur’s body to Avalon.While Guinevere might be the first woman who comes to mind with the legend of Arthur, Morgan is undoubtedly the most important. Guinevere is a static character, committed to her marriage with Arthur and her love of Lancelot, never changing until the world changes around her. Morgan, on the other hand, is the vector for change in the world. Her instigations serve as a call to adventure for numerous knights, forcing the progression of the story. Morgan, as befits the Goddess Morrigan, leaves a profound mark on the world of Arthur.