Plants everywhere will die, and the animals that depend on them will starve, and the animals that eat those will starve.
Winter will come early, and hard, and it will last a long, long time. It will end, of course, like every winter does, and then the world will return to its old self. Eventually.
The people of the Stillness live in a perpetual state of disaster preparedness. They’ve built walls and dug wells and put away food, and they can easily last five, ten, even twenty-five years in a world without sun.
Eventually, meaning in this case in a few thousand years. Look, the ash clouds are spreading already.
This is from the prologue of The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. In this universe, the planet undergoes apocalyptic seasons every few centuries and the sky is dotted with mysterious obelisks, “massive crystalline shards that hover amid the clouds, rotating slowly and drifting along incomprehensible flight paths.”
Orogenes, people with the power to move the earth, are persecuted in this world. You can see how all the elements of the story connect back to one key feature: setting. We have the backdrop: a world that faces constant earthquakes.
From that springs the plot, of a society trying to survive environmental catastrophe. Then we have main characters that face discrimination because of their unique ability to control
A well-chosen setting adds to the story in some way. Let’s explore how various authors, in both genre and realistic fiction, have enhanced their work by emphasizing the characters’ larger surroundings.
We’ll examine setting in terms of survival stories, time period, different cultures, common tropes, and characterization. Like in The Fifth Season, many survival stories feature settings integral to the plot, with the natural environment serving as an antagonist.
In The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder, harsh blizzards in Dakota Territory cut off a town from food and supplies, and the characters must save their family from starvation. Writing survival stories like this can be exciting because epidemics and natural disasters immediately put the characters in danger.
The setting throws people out of their comfort zones and strips humanity down to its core qualities. This type of narrative conflict is often referred to as “Man vs. Nature,” but there’s always an undercurrent of “Man vs. Self” in this type of story, given that the characters must rely on their inner strength to survive.
For example, in Robinson Crusoe, the main character is a castaway who spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical desert island. During that time, he contemplates his relationship with God and creates his own miniature civilization.
His isolation on the island is what allows for this heightened level of introspection. In horror stories and mysteries that have a “survival” element, an isolated setting can also be a way to add tension.
Agatha Christie is fond of using isolated settings in her murder mystery novels, such as the house on an island in And Then There Were None and a train stuck in a snowdrift in Murder on the Orient Express.
The characters are trapped, and they know that the killer must be among them. If you want to increase the stakes of your narrative, think of how you might narrow down the location so that the characters are backed into a corner, with nowhere to run and nowhere nowhere to hide.
Conflict in post-apocalyptic fiction is also heavily dependent on setting, with the characters fighting for resources and shelter. This type of setting often poses questions about human nature: What morals would you sacrifice to survive?
How does society regain order after its destruction? These quandaries are what make survival stories worthwhile. Readers don’t just want to hear about the characters’ mundane efforts to obtain food and water; rather, it’s the frictions between PEOPLE that arise from these settings that are most interesting.
If you’re writing a survival tale, think about how your setting could amplify the protagonist’s inner turmoil and explore larger themes. Of course, setting entails not only place, but also time. The milieu, or social environment, of a story changes depending on the era you choose.
That might include differences in women’s rights, racial discrimination, or the role of religion. You could pick a specific historical event that shapes the story, as other authors have done—just look at the shelves abound with World War II novels.
It could even be a very specific, lesser-known incident in history. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez is set during the deadliest school disaster in American history, the explosion in New London, Texas in 1937 that claimed nearly three hundred lives.
The main characters are a young Mexican girl and an African-American boy. At its heart, this is a story about star-crossed lovers, one we’ve all heard before, but the setting adds layers of conflict—we have racial discrimination, religious hypocrisy, and an inevitable tragedy.
So what’s the appeal of writing a story set in the past? In the case of books like Out of Darkness, the historical background inevitably spells death for key characters, and that creates anticipation about who will live and who will die.
There’s also a powerful dramatic irony in historical fiction because the audience most likely knows how the story will end, but the characters don’t: war, a maritime disaster, a terrorist attack. You might even decide to imagine an alternate history, wherein the outcome of an important historical event has sent the world in a different direction.
These settings allow writers to explore some of the darkest moments in human history, to examine the past for hope and meaning that could enlighten the present.
You can also use time period to change the atmosphere. Rainbow Rowell’s 2013 Young Adult hit, Eleanor & Park, is set in 1980s Omaha, which changes the feel of the romance.
The main couple connects through comic books and mix tapes of music from that era, blending first love with the nostalgia of the 80s. If this story were set in modern-day suburbia, it would be hard to avoid the intrusion of social media and cellphones in their relationship.
In addition, since the author herself was born in 1973 and lives in Nebraska, it could be assumed that the book draws from her own life experiences, and this lends the story more authenticity.
Then we have stories set in the future, usually classified as sci-fi or speculative fiction. Dystopias usually involve an oppressive government and present warnings about what we should not allow our society to become.
Science fiction in general is often interested in exploring the consequences of new technology or different political structures. With futuristic settings, you can take “what if?” questions about modern life and put them in a new landscape.
What if society could predict its own downfall? What if the human race became infertile? If your plot feels too familiar, try choosing a distinctive historical or futuristic backdrop and see how the story changes as a result.
No matter the time period, culture also has a significant impact on the political and social climate of the story. For example, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini is set in Kabul and spans several decades, from the 1960s to the 2000s.
The female characters face arranged marriages to unloving husbands and the surrounding war brings violence at every turn. The conflict within the story is a direct result of the cultural setting.
Most authors set their stories within their own culture, using their personal experience to provide insider knowledge. The old adage “Write what you know” is absolutely true; it’s easier to write about places you’re familiar with.
Complete historical and cultural accuracy is incredibly difficult to achieve, and many books have received criticism for this reason. Even so, don’t let the limitations of your perspective discourage you from writing outside your experience.
Do your research, visit in person if you can, and talk to locals and experts. As author Aminatta Forna states, “Don’t write what you know, write what you want to understand.
I write from a place of deep curiosity about the world.”
The literal climate and geography of the setting shapes the culture as well—and those elements change the atmosphere of a story. Take The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, a biopunk sci-fi novel that won both a Nebula and a Hugo.
It’s written by an American-born author, but set in a futuristic version of Thailand. This setting generates a very different kind of atmosphere than if the story had been set in a future New York City or Moscow.
Book reviewer Thomas M. Wagner describes the atmosphere well:
Bacigalupi unfolds his story in late-22nd century Bangkok, a setting that allows him the right flavor of tropical exoticism to make the environment a metaphor for the human condition. It’s stifling, oppressive, way too hot, and everything feels like it’s either about to melt down or blow away.
Whether you’re portraying an existing culture or inventing a new one, you can consider how
the geography of the land impacts the details of everyday life. Science writer Carolyn Csanyi says, “Natural barriers such as mountain ranges, oceans and large deserts limit human travel and isolate populations, thus restricting cultural exchanges.”
So how do these barriers impact culture? For one, they can influence the level of linguistic diversity within an area, such as in the case of New Guinea, which features over eight hundred distinct languages.
Researchers have proposed that this wide variety of languages is a result of the island’s mountainous topography, making it difficult for interactions between groups, thus preventing the blending of local cultures.
In addition, geography can cause differences in religion. As a history professor on eNotes commented, “The Mesopotamian religion believed that its gods were much less kind than the Egyptian gods. Scholars believe that this was due to the fact that the rivers of Mesopotamia flooded in unpredictable ways while the Nile’s flood was rather consistent and predictable.”
When researching or building a culture, think of how the surrounding landscape relates to the religion, government, food, clothing, and industries the characters encounter. What other cultures are in close proximity, and how do they interact with one another?
Studying the fields of human geography and cultural anthropology can provide great insight into these questions. Say that you already have a time period and culture in mind, one that’s a common trope in a certain genre.
These settings are immediately familiar to the reader, making it easy to jump into the world: medieval fantasy, noir, steampunk, westerns. There’s less of a learning curve, and the audience has specific expectations in terms of tone and plot—a medieval fantasy novel will typically have sword and sorcery, dragons, and a prophecy.
Noir novels often feature hard-boiled detectives and gruesome murders. However, these types of stock settings can also lead to clichés and bore readers with their lack of originality. For example, a medieval-esque fantasy setting is expected for fairytales like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood.
Many writers, though, have put a spin on these stories by dramatically changing the backdrop and time period, such as in Marissa Meyer’s YA sci-fi series The Lunar Chronicles, which are loosely based on a number of classic fairytales.
The first book, Cinder, is set in futuristic New Beijing, where the moon has been colonized and the story’s “Cinderella” is a cyborg mechanic. Meyer took a familiar story and put in a new time and place.
So, if you’re using a tried-and-true setting, think of how you can differentiate it from what’s expected and surprise the reader. Setting is often considered to be a character, metaphor, or symbol in its own right.
In an article from Writer’s Digest entitled “How To Make Your Setting a Character,” it is said, “In great fiction, the setting lives from the very first pages. Such places not only feel extremely real, they are dynamic. They change. They affect the characters in the story. They become metaphors, possibly even actors in the drama.”
This change might arrive in the form of seasons, the process of decay or renewal, or cultural shifts, like a small town becoming a point of national interest with the discovery of a local serial killer, or a new law legalizing something previously forbidden.
The characters’ perception of the setting could change over time, too. They might recognize the hidden beauty or hidden ugliness of a place they once called home. As the famous travel quote goes, “You can visit the same place over and over again and see it differently each time.”
In Willa Cather’s My Antonia, the Nebraskan prairie seems to become more and more precious to the book’s narrator over time. You can see his adulation from his first impression:
“There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. . .I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man’s jurisdiction.”
As Writer’s Digest states,
… it is the combination of setting details and the emotions
attached to them that, together, make a place a living thing. Setting comes alive partly in its details and partly in the way that the story’s characters experience it.
You can also use setting to metaphorically convey a character’s mindset. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman, winner of the National Book Award, is a great example of this. The book alternates between the real world and a fantasy one, wherein a pirate ship is headed for Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Mariana Trench.
The reader quickly understands that the fantasy world parallels the protagonist’s mental illness, and his own distortion of reality is depicted through this setting. Recognize how your characters’ outlook affects your descriptions and how that setting in turn impacts the characters’ worldview.
We are all byproducts of our environments. When choosing a setting for your story, keep three things in mind: atmosphere, conflict, and character. An abandoned mineshaft creates an atmosphere of mystery and suspense, and promises conflict related to getting lost or suffocating.
That mineshaft might exist in a small Pennsylvania town, where the main character is struggling to decide if he should drop out of school and resign himself to becoming a full-time coal miner, just like his father, a man he hates.
To add a historical background, maybe this story happened in 1962 in Centralia, Pennsylvania, right before an underground fire ruined the coal deposits the town relied on for its prosperity.
The fire forced residents to evacuate as their land was scorched and eaten by fuming sinkholes. As writer Eudora Welty once said, “Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else. . . .Fiction depends for its life on place.”
As a writing exercise, make a list of five specific genres. For realistic fiction that might include satire, family drama, or bildungsroman. A genre fiction list might feature epic fantasy, hard sci-fi, or paranormal romance.
Then, list five time periods (past, present, or future), followed by five big settings (such as countries, climates, or outer space), and then five small settings (like a library, hotel, or a cave behind a waterfall).
Choose one thing from each category and create a combination that interests you. You might end up with something like “Epic fantasy, 23rd century China, garden,” or “Horror, 19th century Ireland, chocolate shop.”
Then, write a fake book blurb—a one-paragraph summary of a story that conveys each of those elements. Think of the climate, technology, and social norms that would exist in this setting. The character names and plot should spring from the genre, time period, and culture you chose.
Play around, have fun, and see what surprises you can create. What’s the most interesting setting you’ve encountered in a story? I’d love to hear your fake book blurbs in the comments. Whatever you do, keep writing.


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Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son (1846–1848) attests to his career-long interest in chair-bound characters—characters who, because of illness, injury, or egotism, are confined or confine themselves to a “wheeled chair” (alternately referred to as the “Bath wheeled chair” or the “Bath chair”). In this particular novel, Dickens provides two examples of Victorian chair users: Paul Dombey, who, when ill, travels by wheeled chair so that he can sit by the sea with his sister; and Mrs. Skewton, an elderly lady who travels in a wheeled chair to perpetuate an illusion of wealth and social status. The former he renders sympathetic, while the latter he depicts as a figure of falseness—a heap of makeup and clothes that almost melts into the chair with which she joins her body.
This excerpt from Dombey and Son, in which Mrs. Skewton is first introduced to the reader, illustrates Dickens’s perhaps harsh treatment of Mrs. Skewton and invites readers to consider the reasoning behind certain prejudices against chair users. In his depiction of the relationship between Mrs. Skewton and her page, Withers, Dickens engages with past and contemporary criticism directed toward people who travel by chair. In the novel, Withers is reduced to a beast of burden, “butting at the carriage with his head” like an elephant (317). To further his point, Dickens later describes Withers as another animal: “toiling after the chair, uphill, like a slow battering-ram” (321). Dickens’s furious humor levels an attack on Mrs. Skewton for her treatment of Withers as though he were an animal, an object for her personal use.
To better understand Dickens’s portrayal of Mrs. Skewton, a brief history of the wheeled chair’s evolution from the sedan chair is necessary. First used in London by the Duke of Buckingham in the early seventeenth century, the sedan chair was less a “chair,” per se, and more of an enclosed box with glass doors and a detachable roof that was carried through the streets of London by two or more porters (alternately called “chairmen”), with “link-boys,” or torch bearers, employed to light the way for nighttime journeys. Patronized primarily by the wealthier classes of society, the sedan chair received much negative attention from the public, in part because the sedan chairs often collided with and injured pedestrians and in part because the public viewed the technology as demeaning to the chairmen. As evidenced by nineteenth-century periodicals, the negative discourse surrounding the sedan chair continued well past its era of usage. For instance, one anonymous writer for Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts suggests that seventeenth-century Londoners “grumbl[ed] indignantly at the pride of the man [the Duke] who employed his fellow-creatures to do the service of beasts of burden” (91–92). While the chairs were most often used by those for whom walking was a burden, their support by lower-class muscle caused the public to reject them wholesale as an unnecessary luxury.
In the nineteenth century, the sedan chair became increasingly obsolete as it was replaced by the wheeled chair, which was initially introduced in Bath, Leamington, and other seaside health spas as a means to transport the ill to the mineral water baths. Contrary to their wheel-less predecessors, which were owned or hired by the “able-bodied” and “disabled” alike, Bath chairs were used almost entirely by those who could not walk easily. The demographic of chair users shifted in another way: whereas the sedan chairs were primarily employed by elite society, wheeled chairs, because cheaper to hire, were more accessible to middle class patrons. Despite these changes, the wheeled chair still attracted hostilities, particularly owing to its effect on the chairmen, who often developed orthopedic impediments of their own while working. For example, in “The Bath-Chair Man’s Story,” Florence Marryat’s chairman-protagonist references his “old round back,” which results from his constant stooping (516). Prejudices against wheeled-chair users as lazy—choosing to ride rather than walk—and as demeaning and debilitating the lower-class chairmen continued to solidify during the nineteenth century.
In characterizing Withers alternately as a battering ram and as an elephant, then, Dickens underscores the class dynamics inherited by the wheeled chair from its seventeenth- and eighteenth-century precursor. Dickens alludes to such class tensions when he portrays Mrs. Skewton as “calling to the page with all the languid dignity with which she had called in days of yore to a coachman with a wig, cauliflower nosegay, and silk stockings” (320). Her use of the wheeled chair thus exposes her to the narrator’s and the reader’s critical gaze, especially because she travels in it not out of necessity, but rather as a display of the wealth and status that she, in actuality, lacks. As the narrator indicates, after becoming accustomed in her youth to travel by barouche, Mrs. Skewton “[maintains] the wheeled chair and the butting page: there being nothing whatever, except the attitude, to prevent her from walking” (319). Attending to the various elements that contributed to the assemblage of the Victorian wheeled chair—the page, the chair user, and the chair itself—Dickens highlights the objectification of an often forgotten participant, the chairman, thereby positioning prejudices against chair users as, at least partially, class-based. Mrs. Skewton’s pretense of need and her mistreatment of Withers contribute to her removal from readerly sympathy until she becomes terminally ill and truly dependent upon the aid and support of others.
 This preoccupation of Dickens’s was first noted by M. J. Lesser in “Dickens and the Chair-Bound.” See below for full reference.
 “Sedan-Chairs.” Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts 12.580 (9 February 1895): 91–93. British Periodicals. Web. 14 June 2013.
 Marryat, Florence. “The Bath-Chair Man’s Story.” Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers 22 (March 1868): 507–20. British Periodicals. Web. 13 June 2013.


The O’Sullivan’s of Munster
The O’Sullivan’s of Munster are descended from Olioll Olum, King of Munster, through his descendants the Eoganachts to Aodh Dubh were the first princes of Eoghanacht Mór, Cnoc Graffan, in the Barony of Middlethird and their lands included Clonmel, Cahir, Carrick-on-Suir, and Cashel.
O’Heerins verse recalls their former glory:
O’Sullivan who delights not in violence
Rules over the extensive Eoghanacht of Munster
About Knockgraffan he obtained his lands
After the victory of conflicts and battles.
The name of the O’Sullivans territory in Tipperary is still retained in the parish of Knockgraffan, where the O’Sullivans had their principle seat, and in which is an ancient mound or rath near the river Suir, which was a residence of the Kings of Munster. In 1193 the Normans forced the O’Sullivans of Knockgraffon to exchange their fertile lands in Tipperary for the mountains in Cork and Kerry. The Normans later built a castle on the symbolic rath of Knockgraffan depriving the O’Sullivans of their historic seat of power. The O’Sullivans driven out of their territories in Tipperary moved south and by conquest took possession of the greater part of the Baronies of Glanerought, all Dunkerron and a considerable portion of Iveragh in Kerry. From their first coming into Cork and Kerry the clan divided into two great branches – O’Sullivan Mór and O’Sullivan Beare. The O’Sullivan Beare took the lands south of the Kenmare River, which consisted of the Baronies of Beare, Bantry and Glanerought. The seat of the Chief of the O’Sullivan Beare branch was at Dunboy and he also held the Castles at Bantry and Carriganass. The territory of the O’Sullivan Mór was more extensive. It was bounded by the shore of Kenmare Bay from Caherdaniel to Kenmare in the east, in the north by a line drawn from Kenmare to Killorglin, in the west by the shoreline of Dingle Bay, in the south by the coastline from Derrynane Bay to Valentia Island. The principal castle of the Chief O’Sullivan Mór at Dunkerron was two miles west of Kenmare town. Dunloe Castle, six miles from Killarney, was also built by O’Sullivan Mór in the thirtieth century and was used to guard the only pass (Gap of Dunloe) which gave access from north Kerry to his country.
Having spent some time resting with O’Rourke he went to Ulster and accompanied Hugh O’Neill to London to ask pardon and restoration of his lands from James I. Like O’Neill, O’Sullivan was also refused a formal pardon and on returning to Ireland he made preparations to sail for Spain with his wife and family. He sailed for Spain in 1604 and was received with open arms by King Philip III of Spain, who made him a knight of St James and Count of Berehaven and gave him a monthly income. He lived for fourteen years in exile in Spain under the patronage of the King, until he was struck down by a servant’s knife in July 1618 in Madrid. His son Donal died fighting at the siege of Belgrade in the service of France. Donal’s brother Dermot, who had been on the march with him to Leitrim, also travelled to Spain with him. This Dermot O’Sullivan brought his wife, son Donald and his two daughters, Helen and Nora, to Spain with him, where he lived to the age of 100 years and is buried in the Franciscan Church in Corunna.
Philip O’Sullivan Beare commonly known as Don Philip, son of Dermot O’Sullivan Beare and nephew of Donal O’Sullivan Beare was born 1590 at his father’s castle in Dursey Island. He was sent to Spain 1602 as hostage to King Philip III in return for agreed aid to the O’Sullivans. Having received his education at Compostellan he joined the Spanish Navy and served his time aboard the Spanish ships of war. In 1619 he was aboard the squadron requested to escort the fleet carrying treasure to Cape St Vincent. His written accounts of their action against Barbery Pirates make interesting reading, and his literary talents were beginning to show. He soon devoted himself to writing and his important work Historia Catholicae IberniaeCompendum produced in Lisbon in 1621 is the story of the Elizabethan Wars written as he heard them from his uncles, his father and others of their time – details of Donal’s epic march, the battles, the hunger, and heroism is all there, it also contains details of the pilgrimage to St Patricks Purgatory, the English in Ireland from the Anglo Norman invasion to 1588, and a history of O’Neill and O’Donnell’s wars. Patricanna Deces and the Life of St Patrick and his numerous other books were all written in Latin. He remained, although exiled, deeply devoted to Ireland. The biggest cross he had to bear in exile was the death of his near relatives in a short space of time. His sister Helen was drowned while on a voyage home to Ireland, his brother Daniel was killed fighting the Turks and his parents died within a couple of years of each other. His death in 1660 was recorded by Father Peter Talbot, later Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, as follows:
'The Earl of Berehaven is dead and left only one daughter of twelve years to inherit his titles in Ireland and his goods, here which amount to 100,000 crowns.’
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Book: The Vintage Guide to Love and Romance
Author: Kirsty Greenwood
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Available: Thursday 9th April
Summary: Jessica Beam is a girl who knows how to party. Only lately she’s been forgetting to turn up for work on time. Or in clean clothes. Down on her luck, out of a job and homeless, Jess seeks the help of her long-lost grandmother. Things aren’t going well for Matilda Beam, either. Her 1950s Good Woman guide books are out of print and her mortgage repayments are staggering. When a lifeline from a London publisher arrives, the pair have an opportunity to secure the roof over their heads – by invigorating the Good Woman guides and transforming modern, rebellious Jess into a demure vintage lady.
I’m a big fan of Kirsty Greenwood and her website Novelicious, so when she revealed she had written a book I couldn’t wait to read it. I was not disappointed.
The Vintage Guide to Love and Romance is the ultimate chick lit book – there’s romance, humour, great characters and plot twists. I couldn’t put it down, and pretty much read it in one sitting!
The novel follows protagonist Jessica Beam, who is fabulous. She’s a bit of a liability but she has a good heart, she’s outspoken, she’s funny.. Jessica is also pretty inspirational, because she’s unapologetic about her life choices, it’s pretty refreshing for a protagonist not to be making excuses for their behaviour.
To be honest, there wasn’t one character in the story I didn’t like. Even the ‘baddie’ Summer is fabulous with her glamorous life and absolute disregard for anyone that she deems unhelpful to her career.
There’s also Jessica’s old-fashioned yet adorable Grandma, the slightly desperate but funny Peaches, and the very forgiving Jamie (you will know why that is my description of him when you read the book!). Then of course, there’s Leo, the dashing love interest, the ‘eternal bachelor’ who Jessica strives to win over.
This is a light-hearted book, but there are some deeper themes that I really admired Kirsty for touching upon, particularly Jessica’s struggle as she comes to terms with the loss of her mother.
All in all, this book was fabulous. A great read for a holiday or a lazy afternoon. Be warned though – it will make you want to hit the shops and deck yourself out in full vintage outfits.
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Here is the return to the final leg of the Rise of the Runelords adventure path. After a multi session hiatus with Jim deftly handling the DM responsibilities we return to the final two chapters in the story. The party lost a brother, had a coward in their midst and gained a new ally.
Jess - Wren (Human Female Rogue 13)
Bruce - Marcellus (Human Male Fighter 13)
Mike - Seoni (Human Female Cleric of Calistria 12/Wizard 1)
Brian - Zatara (Half-Elf Barbarian 13)
Jim - Talbot (Halfling Cavalier 13)
During the battle at Jorgenfist the party lost Aerodus while fighting the vile Mokmurian. Seoni tried to raise him back but Aerodus didn't return to his body. Marcellus was shocked to his core. Seoni also reverted the 'Flesh to Stone' cast on Nicholai. After his brush from death he remained quiet and distanced himself from the party.
After learning what they could from the old Thassilonian library in Jorgenfist they turned south and began heading back to Sandpoint. After a few days of travel they reached the small town of Ravenmoor and they decided to enjoy a bed rest from the road travel. The early the next morning Wren wakes up to find Nicholai gone and a note left in his place.
"Wren, after what happened at Jorgenfist, I've realized that my life is more important than dying for these people you associate with. It was fun."
Wren checked her belongings and realized she was also shorted $500 gold pieces as well. Wren goes and wakes Zatara, who then goes stalking outside towards the stable. Marcellus was already awake and doing his early morning exercises and spots Zatara storming into the stables searching for clues and asks what is happening. Zatara explains, Marcellus helps and they notice a relatively fresh horse trail heading to the north west towards the direction of Riddleport. All the while Seoni heard Wren crying and went to check on her....and it gave the Cleric of Calistria reason to plan retribution for breaking her friends heart.
They regrouped, collected their belongings and continued on to Sandpoint to lay Aerodus to rest. Another week on the road and Sandpoint came into view on a late summer evening. The guards at the northern gate, which was still in disrepair from the giant attack, called out to them and the town. The church bell started to ring and the townsfolk began to gather as the party entered the town with Seoni bringing Aerodus' wrapped body on a floating disk. People were silenced, Marcellus parents were grief stricken and over all this new excitement both the Mayor and Sheriff brought the rest up to speed on the happenings in the time since they left to the Storval Plateau.
The short of it was that an earthquake hit the town and opened a sinkhole in the town barracks where the jail cells were. The cells were empty at the time. However the townsfolk started hearing around the midnight hour an almost supernatural howling coming from the hole followed by what can only be described as tortured screaming. This has gone on nightly since the quake. The mayor ordered the sheriff to send down four of his men a few days back to investigate and they haven't been seen since and the noises keep persisting. The party, amidst a tragedy, agreed to investigate in the morning but will stay awake to hear what the townsfolk are afraid of that night.
All the while they were being observed off to the side by a halfing and his riding dog. After the general populace began to disperse he approached them and offered to assist. Being very wary of another new person offering to help, the skeptical adventurers began to question him and the halfling cavalier, Talbot, was more than happy to answer. He described his order, his patron deity and how he came to Sandpoint. Iomedae granted him a vision saying that the local 'Heroes of Sandpoint' are on a mission to save the area but the stakes are greater and they need more help. Talbot responded and headed out with his gear and riding dog Shadow. Seoni listened intently and recognized Iomedae's ways and agreed that he was sent here on holy orders even though he is not a priest. They apologized, brought Talbot up to speed at the Red Dragon Inn and discovered that the inn had a new owner, a varisian man named Vincenzo.
Vincenzo purchased the inn from the previous owner, Ameiko Kaijitsu, after she headed out with a few fresh faced newcomers in town, the inn's sous chef and a small caravan of interesting folk. The newcomers were in town to meet the 'Heroes of Sandpoint' that they heard about in Magnimar; star struck fans essentially. These folk then helped Ameiko deal with some goblins who gained access to fireworks and after a week or so of doing errands outside of town they all headed out one day heading north along the Lost Coast road. She sold the inn to Vincenzo for a gold piece saying she doesn't need it any more. The rest of the old staff stayed on and he's been glad to be able to settle down after years of wandering.
Later that night after hearing the unearthly howls the heroes returned to their respective homes to rest; Talbot stayed in the inn. Marcellus arrived home to come face to face with his parents and dealing with the loss of his younger brother. Mother was in the throws of grief and his father seemed disappointed beyond belief. He tried his best to explain why they are putting themselves in harms way but it fell on the deaf ears of parents who lost one of their children. He retired to his room to sleep with Seoni joining him.
The next day, early in the morning, they were to meet and descend into the sink hole, but Marcellus was greeted by his parents at breakfast. Mother clearly pushing to find out where he was going and Marcellus trying to lie without getting caught. His father knew better and his mother made him promise he would be back for lunch. As he was heading out, Marcellus noticed his father shaking his head and looking on in disbelief. Seoni tried to help by talking to Marcellus on the way to the meeting place but he was focused more on getting his frustrations out by hacking possible monsters into bits.
The heroes all met up around 9am at the barracks and they got to see Talbot and Shadow decked out in their full gear for the first time; they are geared for war in their armor. Marcellus recognized that Talbot wielded the same blade as he only a smaller version. Sheriff Hemlock led them back to the cells where the floor caved in and offered advice on how his missing deputies got down safely. They slowly lowered themselves down into the old ruins under the town they traversed through a year prior. Most passages were collapsed now but in the furthest corridor a previously collapsed passage was cleared out, purposefully, opening a stairwell deeper down into this old and forgotten temple to Lamashtu.
Next entry will deal with the trials and dangers of this newly opened area and how the Heroes of Sandpoint live up to their names after losses and betrayals within their ranks.


In 1911, just a few years prior to the outbreak of World War I, Edward Rubidge Crombie settled on Gilston Farm near Paris, Ontario. A former banker, Edward uprooted his young family and left the hustle and bustle of the city to seek a quieter and more satisfying life on the farm. Although he never regretted his decision, Edward struggled to balance his books and keep his family fed and occupied during the war years. To alleviate these stresses, he smoked “innumerable cigarettes” and wrote plays, poems and short stories. He read voraciously and meticulously recorded his life in a number of insightful diaries and newsletters. Through these documents Edward Crombie and his family come alive, affording readers a rare glimpse into life on the home front during the Great War.
In spite of the distance between Canada and Europe, the war had a significant impact on life at the Gilston Farm. In an impressive show of enthusiasm, thousands of young Canadians volunteered to fight overseas, resulting in a shortage of men in the home country. In 1916 Edward wrote: “it is extremely hard to get good help now-a-days with all the good men in khaki and the women and slackers earning easy money in the munitions factories.” Forced to do much of the heavy work himself, Edward appealed to his children by advertising in “The Daily Twitter” (+ p2), the family’s newsletter: “Wanted–Patriotic Kids to weed onions in a War Garden.” The war dragged on. Food shortages were common, and the Gilstonians felt it. The government instituted “wheatless” days, followed by “meatless” days, every Tuesday and Friday. In June 1918, Edward and his wife Hilda celebrated their twelfth wedding anniversary, prompting Edward to write about the fine roast Hilda had prepared, his “first taste of beef this year.” A newspaper clipping from the Toronto Daily Star, pasted into the family’s newsletter for 6 February 1918, is indicative of how deeply felt the shortages were: “In an effort to save fuel, the mills and factories throughout Ontario are to be closed from Friday morning until Tuesday next and all the stores, theatres etc. from Saturday to Tuesday.”
The war hit home in May 1915 when the Crombies received news that a German submarine had sunk the ocean liner Lusitania. His half-brother, Frederick Sydney Hammond, and Kathleen, Frederick’s wife, were aboard the ship. Frederick was sailing to England to seek an officer’s commission, as he explains in a letter (+ p2). Telegrams arriving at Gilston provide a slow and agonizing description of the unfolding events. Kathleen was pulled from the water, but Frederick perished. The news disturbed Edward enormously and in later years, he was saddened by the fact no one commemorated or even remembered the tragic sinking of the Lusitania.
In 1914 Edward had himself applied for a commission to fight, but being forty years old, he was passed over for younger men like Frederick and another half brother, Herbert Renwick Hammond. At the beginning of the war, Herbert (aka Chub) lived with his young family in Victoria. He enlisted with the 15th Battery Sixth Artillery Brigade and saw active service in Belgium and France. He was twice wounded, once dangerously, and was awarded the Military Cross. After Frederick’s death, the family understandably became nervous about any news related to the war. Chub survived the war only to drown while on vacation in 1930. Edward's college friend, R.D. Whigham did join up. He sent Edward a letter (+ p2, p3) on 13 October 1916, written from West Africa where he was then stationed after being in the landing at Gallipoli and also in Egypt.
Although the war was not fought on Canadian soil, many ordinary citizens suffered deeply through those arduous years. The Crombie family archives, a rare treasure trove of valuable social history, offer an intimate perspective on a pivotal period through the eyes of an eloquent Canadian farmer.


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Disassembly of obfuscated binary code
DescriptionThe disasm project investigates the use of binary analysis techniques to statically detect malicious behavior or vulnerable code in binary objects. The application of analysis techniques at the binary level— as opposed to the source code level—is motivated by a number of reasons. First, it is not always the case that the source code of an application is available. For example, most proprietary applications are distributed in binary form only. Second, even when the source code for compiled languages is available, transformations performed by compilers and optimizer tools may subtly alter the actual behavior of an application, and, consequently, invalidate the results of the analysis performed at the source code level. In the disasm project, we explored different uses of binary analysis. In particular, we used binary analysis:
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(originally written in 1998)
The children of Mildred Ives are writing with sadness to let you know of the death of Mother on June 12, 1998. She had managed to maintain her independent living style at Spring Valley Assisted Living Apartments until recently when she was hospitalized. This time she was not able to regain her strength. We were able to get her back to her apartment home where she spent her last days and passed away peacefully.
We are including in this letter a biographical outline of some of the highlights in her life, which Sally had prepared to introduce her to Spring Valley when she moved there three or four years ago. We thought you might enjoy reading it.
Mildred was born Mildred Taylor on May 18, 1910, in Idaho. She spent much of her youth in Iowa where she graduated as valedictorian of her senior class in Wall Lake. While in high school she helped out at her parentsí soda fountain and was a baby sitter for the Williams brothers, the youngest of whom was Andy Williams whom we all know for his music.
After high school she earned a teaching certificate and taught elementary school for several years in Rolfe, Iowa, where she met her future husband, Arlo Ives. They were married at her parentsí home in Portland, Oregon, in 1936. They returned to Rolfe where she spent most of her adult life as a farm wife, mother of three and homemaker. She was active in 4-H, Farm Bureau, the Presbyterian Womenís Organization and the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
Widowed in 1974, she lived several years in Lake Havasu City, Arizona and Lake San Marcos, California. During this stage of her life she traveled extensively, including trips to Europe, Russia, Africa, and the Orient, and enjoyed activities such as a ride on a hot air balloon to celebrate her 79th birthday.
She moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1993 to be closer to her daughter, Sally. Here she enjoyed visits from friends and relatives, and trips to the Oregon mountains and coast. Always an avid bridge player, she could still be enticed into a game, or found reading a good book, or knitting a baby sweater for the hospital auxiliary.
Survivors include her daughters, Carolyn Ives of Dallas, Texas and Sally Quigley of Eugene, Oregon; her son, Dallas Ives of Houston, Texas; three grandsons; and her sisters Bonnie Starbuck of Jacksonville, Florida and Zoe Mary Phillips of Mission Viejo, California.
A memorial service was held in Rolfe, Iowa on July 16, 1998 at the Shared Ministry in the Methodist Church building. In lieu of flowers, we ask that donations in her memory be made to: Pocahontas Hospice, 606 NW 7th, Pocahontas, IA 50574
Carolyn, Sally, Dallas


Beau Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw)
Maker of Monsters is a portrait of a Canadian art legend. He was an enigmatic carver from a small remote village on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia.
Beau Dick’s remarkable masks have been celebrated across the global art scene as vibrant expressions of West Coast Indigenous culture and a sophisticated crossover into the contemporary art world. Dick had an unprecedented ability to tap into the collective memory of his people and breathe new life into age-old traditions.
Maker of Monsters gives an intimate look into the life of one of Canada’s greatest artists. Beau Dick worked within an ancient tradition and rose to the ranks of international success within the white cube world of contemporary art while never forgetting his roots. This film strives to capture the essence of Beau Dick and his mysterious enigma as an artist who symbolized Canada’s history with the First Nations and the ethical dilemmas faced in reconciling with that colonialist history. Beau was able to use his celebrity to call attention to the injustices done to his people and the environment.
Even in his activism, Beau relied on his culture to inform him how to be political. He didn’t simply stage protests; he enacted ancient ceremonies, creating a public display infused with spirituality. He challenged the Canadian government, chief-to-chief, on his own terms and by using traditional Kwakwaka’wakw political protocol, with minor adjustments for the contemporary situation. He carried out the ceremonial act of breaking a Copper and shaming the Canadian government on two occasions. First, on the steps of the Parliament Building in Victoria, BC, and then one year later on the steps of Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The Copper Breaking Ceremony is a spiritual and political act that had not been performed in over 100 years.
In reaching into his past, the stories of the Kwakwaka’wakw nations are also brought to the forefront; their rich history, their dramatic mythology, and the deep scars left by colonialism. Weaving together the personal and cultural until both become inseparable, Meet Beau Dick presents an artist who succeeded in reconciling the two.
Maker of Monsters strives to unearth the factors that made Beau who he was – his deep connection to identity, family, and community, his struggle with addiction – and like a carver chipping away at a block of wood, his story brings truth and understanding out of the woodwork. Meet Beau Dick illuminates a man whose art and life continue to transcend expectations and boundaries.


The Scions of Damara
High Elf Cleric of Life (Helm)
The Kingdom Damara – 1489 DR
Silanna was born (1139 DR) into a Damara that was very different from what it is today (1489 DR). Born to a large clan of elves in the, now haunted and demon infested, Dunwood (formerly Rawlinswood Forest) of eastern Damara, Silanna was trained as a Sentinel, protectors of the clan. She spent most of her youth learning the ways of the forest and vigilance for her clan and their kingdom, Lo’eil Lelorian. During her second century of life the forest kingdom was besieged by tribes of orcs and bugbears lead by an ancient evil from the Citadel of Dun Tharos. Broken and scattered the remaining elves found themselves alone. Silanna found herself traveling with a merchant caravan north to Heliogabolus, the capitol of the human Kingdom of Damara.
In Heliogabolus she had fallen in with the local chapter of the church of Helm. Being trained as a Sentinel for her people, their ideals of watchfulness and protection resonated with her. In time she was inducted into the church as an acolyte to be trained as a “Watcher Over the Fallen”, the Helm sect of Battlefield clerics. She had watched the city grow over the course of months and years. With the city the Order of Helm also grew with in Heliogabolus. Rulers came and went and the Helmites watched never interfering in the goings on of the city, save for law enforcement or protection of the royal family whilst traveling. Until the summer of 1347 DR, the Witch King of Vassa invaded and conquered half of Damara in one season. King Viridin, retaliated in what resulted in a 10 year campaign driving the Witch King to a stalemate at the Ford of Goliad. It was during this conflict that Silanna participated as field medic and healer to the forces of Damara.
King Viridin was ultimately betrayed and the forces of Damara were crushed beneath the army of Zhengyi the Witch King. What remained of the Damaran armies retreated to Heliogabolus. Petty lords were placed into positions of power and the land was sliced into baronies to be ruled by barons, mostly of ill repute. The Kingdom began to wither and die as did the order of Helm.
In the fall of 1357 DR hope came to Damara in the form of a Paladin and his adventurous friends. Gareth Dragonsbane Paladin of Ilmater began to drive back Zhengyi and his forces in what would later be called the Bloodstone Wars. When the armies of Bloodstone finally liberated Heliogabolus the order of Helm immediately pledged their services to Gareth’s flag. Once again Silanna found herself in the thick of battle testing her skills and devotion, this time she was on the winning side. She rode into battle at every opportunity in an effort to drive the forces of the Witch King from Damara. Garth Dragonsbane and his band of heroes defeated Zhengyi in the North and crossed the planes of the Abyss to finally once and for all end the evil that had gripped Damara for so long.
Gareth Dragonsbane was crowned King of the Bloodstone Lands (all of Damara and Vassa) in 1359 DR. Following the coronation the King held several ceremonies to honor those who had battled so valiantly during the war. Silanna was awarded high honors by King Dragonsbane himself and given a Gleaming Suit of Celestial Platemail as reward. She had also pledged her ever watchful eye and vigilance to the Kingdom of Damara.
Silanna served the kingdom and the church for the next 25 years as advisor and captain of the watch in Heliogabolus, weathering the Time of Troubles and the scrutiny of her deity during the events of that time. In 1385 DR, Silanna had awoken one evening with a start and with overwhelming sadness she could not understand. Her god was gone. The touch of the divine that she was able to channel was no longer available for her to channel. All of Helms worship suffered the same. Weeks passed with no change and Arch-Bishop of Helm tasked her with a pilgrimage to the Noble Hand in Tsurlagol to ascertain the state of the faith in the most prominent of all of the churches of Helm.
She set off immediately heading south toward the nation of Impiltur. As she passed through the Merchant’s Run, the pass between the Earthspur Mountains and the Dunwood, she noticed sheets of blue flame scouring the land. Enormous curtains of blue fire burned the earth and stretched into the sky. Fleeing as fast as she could she could not escape and was overtaken by a curtain of blue fire and consumed.
She awoke some time later to find herself lying face down in the surf of some great body of water. As she lay in the sand and water with the waves crashing upon her a voice spoke to her:
“Stay watchful. Stay vigilant. As you live, I do not die.”
She traveled for the next ten day to finally reach a small village. The residents were human, smaller of stature than those of Damara. They had bronzed skin, and eyes more elliptical than the usual humans, but they were indeed humans. They looked at her with inquisitive gazes and some shied away in fear. She could not understand them and they could not understand her. After a time their “holy man” stepped forward and spoke words of power and she found that she could understand him. She was in a land known as Shou-Lung, very far from home.
Over the course of the next 100 years, Silanna crossed the width of the known and unknown world. Her pilgrimage was set upon her and she would not fail at it. She crossed Kara-Tur, the Endless Steppes, the Dragon Wall, through the Hordelands, and finally through the undead infested lands of Thay. She had crossed many lands, many people, and may creatures set to make a meal of her, but she never wavered in her vigilance. Passing through Thay to Aglorond she was able to charter a ship to Tsurlagol. The city was in ruins. Years of violence left the rubble everywhere. As she walked through the ruined city she felt compelled to follow a certain path. She crested the rise of the temple ruins once known as Noble Hand. As she passed through the rectory she felt something she had not in almost a century, divinity. Falling to her knees she rejoiced in the presence of deity. In her reverie the voice spoke to her once again.
“Return home. Rebuild our numbers. Hold to your Oath. Protect your nation. You are one of but a very few. Stay watchful. Stay vigilant. As you live, I do not die.”
Silence fell across the ruins of the building and it began to fall in upon itself.
Within a few short weeks Silanna returned to Damara and ascertained the greatest threat to the waning and crippled Kingdom. With the aid of a local ranger she was able to localize the general vicinity of one of the threats, Hill Giants in the west, more specifically, a stronghold of Hill Giants near Fort Thorn in the Bloodsworn Vale area.


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The Three Chickens from Karmia
A story for children
I painted this book when I was in my early twenties, when I lived in Karmia from 1950 to 1952. We were a group of young women and men who had come to Israel from many different countries with the will of building a Kibbutz in a deserted corner of Israel, to cultivate the area and to farm the land.
For many years the paintings slumbered among my books. Now, 45 years later have written up a text for my grandchildren, with the addition of some new paintings.
This simple story told by a young kibbutznik was intended to teach our children about their environment in the desert and the sea. May other children enjoy too!


This little scrap of paper with info written by my Aunt Dorothy Ann Miller Oropeza is the brief beginning of our family research.
It starts with James Miller born in South Carolina in 1824.
Here’s a transcript.
Great Great- Grandpa (these indicate the relationship to my dad and his sister)
James Miller, born April 27 1824 in So. Carolina
Married March 20, 185? To Honoria Q (Quary) Mills
Born Feb. 8, 1830 in So. Carolina
James Whyte Miller
Born Feb. 19, 1858 in So. Carolina
James Whyte Miller Jr.,
Born June 30, 1895
Died Oct. 8, 1935
Kathryn Elizabeth McKay on June 29, 1927
Don’t know anything about the first James Miller – where born etc.
Honoria Q Mills; grandfather was Rev. Dr, Thomas Mills
Born in England, an Episcopal Minister
This is the earliest picture I have of these ancestors, Honoria Q. Mills Miller. Based on the style of clothes, I think this was about 1860.
And here is my dad’s grandpa. He was one of the first sheriffs of Osceola County, Florida.
On the white horse is my grandpa, my dad’s dad who died in 1936. The girl holding the puppy is Aunt Corrie. The woman inside the fence is Effie Bass Miller, my great grandmother, and the man on the black horse is Sheriff James W. Miller, my great grandpa. There was another daughter in the family, Honora Jane, born in 1897, she died in 1899 at the age of two.
The house was in Kissimmee, Florida. This picture would have been taken about 1900 or shortly afterwards. My grandpa was born in 1895, and his mother Effie died in 1904.
Effie Bass was born in Florida in 1867. Her family migrated from Georgia about 1849. The Bases were previously from North Carolina, and Effie’s great grandfather was born in 1766. He was too young to fight in the Revolutionary War, but evidently he and some of his cousins and brothers were Loyalists and were arrested multiple times for raising a ruckus and causing havoc around the countryside in an effort to aid the British war effort.
In history I learned those loyal to the crown after the war went to Canada or back to England. Evidently there were many who stayed in place and created problems during and shortly after the war. I don’t know when the Basses moved from North Carolina to Georgia, but maybe it was an attempt to avoid the law.
Going back further, I think these Basses were at Jamestown shortly after the settlement was established. That is a story for another day.


Pre-primary books and models
A pre-primary series of books and models, perfect for the minds and hands of very young dinosaur fans.
The books are in a larger format, with images and text tailored for young minds. The model is created from 12 pre-cut shapes which are easy to press out from sheets at the back of the book. These models are also 100% recyclable and are easy to assemble, just follow the clear photographic instructions.
To be launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2019, available to buy in early 2020.
Two new dinosaur books
The next two dinosaurs to star in their own books are Velociraptor, a turkey-sized, feathered pack-hunter and Spinosaurus, the largest meat-eating dinosaur found to date. To be launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2019, available to buy in early 2020.
The Club activities have been so popular that we have put them together in two books, one filled with the quizzes, brain teasers, word searches, dot-to-dots and guess who puzzles and the other an A3 floor book filled with dinosaur colouring in sheets.
To be launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2019, available to buy summer 2020.


Dancing to the Rhythm of Life
What is the secret to living a good life?
“. . . before you can dance to the rhythm of life, you have to be aware that there is a rhythm. You have to know when you have bumped into the fence on the left or the fence on the right. And you have to know when you have broken right through the fence and gone completely off the path.”
—Harold Klemp, The Secret of Love, Mahanta Transcripts, Book 14, p. 191
Join us for an ECK Soul Adventure Spiritual Discussion
based on Video Excerpts from a talk by Sri Harold Klemp.
Free books and materials to visitors.
August 12, Saturday
11:00 a.m. – noon
Donald W. Reynolds Library
Knox Community Room A
300 Library Hill Lane
Mountain Home, AR 72653
For more information, email SoundFTM@gmail.com or call Eckankar-Arkansas (877) 401-0016, leave a message, and we will return your call.


Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation—showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined.
Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do business with us. In this way, much of what we do can be defined as being “motivators.” From the boardroom to the living room, our role as motivators is complex, and the more we try to motivate partners and children, friends and coworkers, the clearer it becomes that the story of motivation is far more intricate and fascinating than we’ve assumed.
Payoff investigates the true nature of motivation, our partial blindness to the way it works, and how we can bridge this gap. With studies that range from Intel to a kindergarten classroom, Ariely digs deep to find the root of motivation—how it works and how we can use this knowledge to approach important choices in our own lives.
Along the way, he explores intriguing questions such as: Can giving employees bonuses harm productivity? Why is trust so crucial for successful motivation? What are our misconceptions about how to value our work? How does your sense of your mortality impact your motivation?
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英语读后感：安妮日记 Anne’s diary
Not long ago, I just read the diary of Anne frank in English. In fact, this isn’t the first time I’ve read this book. When I first read it in primary school, I read the Chinese version. It was too young to understand what that meant. Now it seems to have deep feelings.
Anne frank was a jewish girl. She can live a happy life as an ordinary girl, but she hides in the attic of different parents. Anne spent her days hiding in a dark attic from the nazis. She can’t get close to nature and play with friends as she used to. In the shadow of death, Anne kept a diary every day to tide her over. For her, the diary is like her friend, her only friend who can rely on and talk to. She wrote a lot in the diary, there are silent complaints about racial discrimination, more is to the outside world, the natural yearning for life thinking.
From her diary, I can imagine how helpless and afraid she was, but a more calm and calm. This is a great girl.
After reading the diary of Anne frank, my heart was heavy. Nazi racism, mutilation and murder of innocent people and Anne’s children. War is always dirty, it makes mankind experience a market disaster.
Thank you for the diary of Anne frank, which let people see the ugliness of war, let people think and comfort the unfortunate people.
Don’t like history repeating, pray for world peace forever.


International and regional context
The multi-ethnic - wealth of Bashkortostan
A special place in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bashkortostan is a national policy, international and interregional cooperation.
Inter-ethnic accord, the traditions of good neighborliness - the subject of special concern by the leadership of Bashkortostan. The priorities of the state national policy in Bashkortostan - the free development of all peoples, the preservation of the native language, distinctive national culture, which provides a balance in international relations and an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect.
The development of cultural identity of peoples living in the country, contributes to a range of public programs: "The peoples of Bashkortostan" in 2003 - 2012 years, "Revival and Development of the Bashkir people," "preservation, study and development of the languages of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 2006-2010" "Bashkirs Russian Federation" for 2008 - 2017 years.
Under the program carries out activities designed to preserve native languages and cultures of peoples living in Bashkortostan.
In 2008, with the participation of administrations of municipal districts and urban districts of the republic, national associations and national historical and cultural centers in a number of major republican national holidays and festivals with the participation of Russian regions.
Conducted all-Russian inter-regional and republican festivals Bashkir, Russian, Tatar, Mari, Chuvash, Mordvin, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Latvian, Belarusian, Polish culture, celebrations peoples of the Caucasus and Asia.
During the summer, opened summer ethno-cultural, linguistic and language camps for conservation of folklore and traditions of the Bashkir, Russian, Tatar, Mari, Ukrainian, Udmurt, Chuvash, the Latvian people.
Work on building a knowledge base about the peoples of Bashkortostan:
- Collection of materials on the inventory of the peoples of Bashkortostan;
- The newsletter of Bashkortostan - House of Friendship.
In order of acquisition of basic library services for ethnic groups of the republic and the replenishment of the public libraries of the Republic of nonfiction in the national languages and the languages of the Republic of Bashkortostan is working on the acquisition of literature. Textbooks for the music and art schools in Bashkortostan.
State agency House of Peoples' Friendship of Belarus jointly with the republican national-cultural centers, festivals held in the native languages of national databases of historical and cultural centers in the municipalities Mishkinskoye, Tatyshlinsky, Blagovarsky, Karmaskalinsky, Baimaksky, Krasnokamsk, Belebeevsky, Sterlitimaksky, Gafuriysky, Ufa, Buzdyaksky, Iglinsky and Arkhangelsk regions.
Joint work with academic institutions of the republic, studies, scientific and practical conferences, round table discussions.
In 2008, three national meetings of the round tables on the development of native languages, conducted scientific monitoring of interethnic relations in the republic.
In recent years, significantly intensified its efforts with the Bashkir population living outside the Republic of Bashkortostan. Providing technical assistance to public organizations Bashkortostan region of Russia on the organization of master classes, providing libraries with literature in the Bashkir language.
In accordance with the Implementation Plan of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the methodical, organizational and financial support of the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan delegation of Belarus took part in 16 Sabantui in Russia's regions and CIS countries (Saratov, Samara and Chelyabinsk regions, Krasnodar, Perm edge, in years. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, the Republic of Uzbekistan, in Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, in the Kyrgyz Republic and others).
Significant events in the international and interregional level in the field of international relations have become: Sabantuy in Istanbul of Turkey, the Days of Moscow in the Republic of Bashkortostan, the third meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Istanbul, the visit of the delegation of Bashkortostan in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Republic to participate in events held in the framework of meetings of the Permanent Council of Ministers of Culture of the International Organization TURKSOI XXV convocation.
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Death hangs heavily over Magnhild Opdøl’s work. Her exquisitely detailed pencil studies of animal decay are immersed in the classical traditions of Dürer and Claesz but are equally acquainted with the psychology of her native Norway and the darker heart of her adopted Ireland. Both countries have struggled with rural depopulation, a phenomenon that has returned the countryside to a state of nature. Farmhouses are left abandoned as a rising tide of vegetation sweeps aside traces of human habitation. A disturbing, feral energy has reclaimed the landscapes that Dürer sought to idealise in his pastoral studies. Opdøl’s work presents the encounter with nature in such settings as one of the central experiences of urban man in post-industrial societies.
Significantly, Opdøl cites the influence of Swedish crime-writers Roslund & Hellström on her sober approach to art-making. Like Opdøl, Roslund & Hellström are attracted to seldom celebrated aspects of the human psyche, depicting uncomfortable subject matter with a frank and, at times, pitiless honesty. The Beast, their debut novel, follows the story of a vicious manhunt as a father seeks revenge for the murder of his daughter. The book, like the best crime-fiction, explores the animalistic, yet forbidden concept of bloodlust, and provides us with plenty of the blood and guts descriptions that make for compelling reading. Opdøl recognises the universality of this blood fascination. She couples drawings with the slogan ‘whenever of however it is found, the appeal of a little fawn like this is irresistible’. When I encounter Opdøl’s installations, I gravitate towards the forensic detail of each object and drawing, overwhelmed by a recognition of the time required to produce each study. The image-world she inhabits is meticulously reconstructed with formidable precision, as if it were a crime scene and she, the detective.
The full essay will be published in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition" if you go down to the woods".


Treadstone 71 Analysis of the Study: Information Operations in the Russia-Ukraine War
Treadstone 71 recently reviewed the paper "Information Operations in the Russia-Ukraine War – 24 January 2023" by
Dr. Ahmed Daifullah Algarni, Vice President of the International Institute for Iranian Studies (Rasanah)
The title assumes a neutral position to the war when the war was clearly a Russian invasion of a sovereign nation. The title sets the stage for the rest of the paper.
The text attempts to create a comprehensive overview of information warfare tactics and objectives, mainly focused on Russia's actions in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war. The paper touches on various components of information warfare, including psychological operations, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns.
- Russian Involvement in Information Warfare: The text's claim that Russia has been deeply involved in information warfare for decades, returning to the Soviet era, is accurate. Russian tactics often include "reflexive control," aimed at influencing adversaries' decision-making processes.
- Operation Infektion: The mention of Operation "Secondary Infektion" and the disinformation campaign during the Cold War surrounding HIV/AIDS being a bioweapon is historically verified and well-documented.
- Ongoing Info-War Campaigns: The text claims that between 2014 and 2018, Russia ran disinformation operations targeting Western countries, particularly Ukraine. The listing is consistent with reports from various intelligence agencies and cybersecurity firms.
- Objectives of Russian Information Warfare: The objectives listed, such as dampening Ukrainian morale and sowing discord among Western allies, are consistent with assessments from international analysts.


Trying to figure out placenames is the bane of every genealogist / family history researcher.
Irish placenames are local in every sense of the word. Some names are based on the topography of the area – hills, rivers, lakes, rises / hollows.
Town & village placenames may have connections to the activities carried on in the area – most towns have a ‘Mill Street’, ‘West Street’, ‘Irishtown’ etc. ‘Bleach Road’ is a common placename in many places – all these names are self explanatory.
Even the fields on a traditional Irish farm had names – some were named after the older, now forgotten families who lived there, others were name after their usage / purpose, such as the ‘Cow Stand’, the ‘Garden’, the ‘Ardmór’
Many names evolved at a time when Irish was the spoken language of the people – these were ‘translated’ by the occupying British ruling classes for mapping / documentation purposes.
In anglicising Irish names, the leading general rule is, that the present forms are derived from the ancient Irish, as they were spoken not as they were written.
Those who first committed them to writing, aimed at preserving the original pronunciation, by representing it as nearly as they were able in English letters.
Generally speaking, this principle explains the alterations that were made in the spelling of names, in the process of reducing them from ancient to modern forms; and allowing for the difficulty of representing Irish words by English letters, it will be found that, on the whole, the ancient pronunciation is fairly preserved
~ Irish Local Names Explained – P. W. Joyce, LL.D. M.R.I.A
Irish Local Names Explained is available on Internet Archive. Joyce does an admirable job of explaining how places with Irish names were phonetically renamed in English in the first few pages, the remainder of the book is a very long list of placenames and their original meanings