Celebrating Stratford Chefs School Alumni, Recipes & Perth County Producers
“Farm to Table not only features recipes from some of the region’s most celebrated graduates of the Stratford Chefs School, but also includes fascinating interviews with these chefs conducted by CBC food columnist Andrew Coppolino, and striking imagery provided by photographer and SCS alumna Terry Manzo.”
—Eleanor Kane, Stratford Chefs School Co-founder
“This is a drop-dead gorgeous book whose recipes made me salivate and whose photos were stunning. I loved the stories behind the recipes and foods… ”
—Janet Cousineau, Librarian (Canada)
FARM TO TABLE
The Stratford Chefs School has trained accomplished chefs for decades, and the stories in this book speak to how the school has also shaped the culinary landscape in Perth County, Ontario. Farm to Table pairs Stratford Chefs School alumni chefs with one of their favourite food producers for a culinary adventure through Perth County.
Inside, you’ll find beloved recipes from head chefs at favourite Perth County restaurants, along with photos by renowned photographer Terry Manzo, and profiles written by CBC food columnist Andrew Coppolino. This compilation of recipes from some of the most celebrated local graduates of the Stratford Chefs School takes you inside the lessons they learned at the school, making this book a staple of every Canadian kitchen.
Written by CBC Columnist Andrew Coppolino.
How to Purchase
Farm to Table books can be purchased from the following locations:
SCS Administration Office @ 192 Ontario St., Stratford (Please see our Administration office hours)
SCS Kitchens @ 136 Ontario St., Stratford (during a dinner event or Open Kitchen class)
Bradshaws & Kitchen Detail @ 129 Ontario St., Stratford
revel | Independent coffee for a revolution @ 37 Market Pl., Stratford
The Butcher and Baker @ 26 Wellington St., Stratford
Online through amazon.ca
Books are $30 (including HST)


Farewell to Miss Bailey
By Ann Ferguson
Marian Bailey, 79, resident of Queensbury Road for the past fifty years, died at her home on January 22.
Born and raised in the mid-west, Miss Bailey came to Washington in the spring of 1942, only months after the United States entered World War II. The Pentagon was under construction and she was hired to train telephone operators for, as she described it, "the largest switchboard in the largest office building in the world." She eventually became chief operator over a staff of 300 operators.
The development of modern communications reduced the need for a staff of operators to put through calls personally. Many expected that Miss Bailey would retire, but that was a word she never allowed in her vocabulary. The Pentagon was the center of her life and her fellow employees were her family. Instead of retirement, she gave VIP tours of the building taking visitors around on her specially decorated golf cart. She proudly recounted the tours she gave to Vice President Chaney and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
A story that exemplifies the dedication Miss Bailey brought to her job was the year she walked across the 14th Street bridge in a blizzard to get to her post. On that occasion she stayed at her post for days until snow removal allowed other workers to report for duty--she was determined that calls to and from the Pentagon would get through in spite of paralyzing weather conditions.
An inveterate Dallas Cowboys fan, Miss Bailey attended the Superbowl a few years ago and she had many Cowboy caps and jackets in her collection.
In 1999, Miss Bailey offered the Veterans Monument Committee her support as they sought funding for construction of a permanent monument to veterans. She donated many items with the Pentagon logo and two personally autographed books by Colin Powell--all of which were used in a raffle the committee sponsored. On November 11, 2000, at the request of the committee, Miss Bailey was the keynote speaker at the Veteran's Day ceremony at the monument.
News coverage of her death referred to Marian Bailey as "Miss Pentagon" and the Pentagon's Departed "Angel." An outpouring of more than 150 persons were in attendance at her funeral services--many told stories of her special meaning to them. It would be fitting to add one more reference to a description of this proud woman--that she was a "Good Friend to Many."
Sympathy is extended to the family of Eugene Bromley, a long-time resident of 47th Avenue, who died in February.
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After an action packed first day in Rajkot, we started off our second day of the GSE program with visits to multiple projects completed by the Rotary Club of Rajkot Midtown and then spent the second half of the day with the Rotary Club of Rajkot.
The first stop of the day was the Rotary Dolls Museum. The concept was developed in 2001 when Rotarian Deepak Agrawal (current District 3060 Governor) reached out to Rotary Clubs around the world with a request for an ethnic doll reflecting some unique feature, culture or tradition of the place. The museum was constructed in 2004 and now houses over 1600 dolls from over 102 countries around the world. More details about this project can be found at http://www.rotary3060dolls.org/.
|Dolls donated by the Rotary Club of Accra-Achimota in Ghana|
|Dolls donated by various Rotary Clubs in the United States|
|Dolls donated by various Rotary Clubs of England|
|The GSE Team and members of the Rotary Club of Rajkot Midtown in front of the Rotary Dolls Museum|
Our second stop of the morning was the Rotary Midtown Senior Citizens Park. The park serves as a gathering spot for senior citizens in the area that want to avoid the hustle and bustle of city streets and enjoy a multitude of activities at any time of the day.
|Prakasam interviewing folks at the Rotary Midtown Senior Citizens Park|
|RC Midtown Club members Amit and Parag Mehta in front of the library|
|The library was in heavy use when we stopped by Sunday January 1st.|
|Ayo, browsing through some software related books.|
|Elliot, browsing through books in the library.|
|A couple members of the library using computers to browse content.|
After lunch at Thakkar Restaurant, we met up with members of the Rotary Club of Rajkot. We relaxed at the home of Club President Pramay Chattra before heading out to view a park project that is currently in the works. We ended the night by attending a dinner at the beautiful Krirasara Palace. ( http://www.khirasarapalace.in)
|Club President Pramay Chhatra showing Prakasam, Dana, and Jessica around the park project|
|The entrance to the Khirasara Palace|
|The GSE team along with RC Rajkot President Pramay Chhatra and Secretary Alkesh Gosalia before dinner at the Khirasara Palace|


Copal. comes from a healer tree family called Bursera that is sacred to the Maya. This resin has been referred to as the “Mexican Frankincense”, and it is related to both Frankincense and Myrrh. Today, it is often used in Mexico and Central America in sweat lodges and Day of the Dead ceremonies, and burned year round in the churches of Mexico.
The history of Copal use dates back to the Mayan and Aztec civilization days. Copal was widely used in ritual offerings and ceremonies, and mass quantities of copal resin were burned atop Aztec and Mayan pyramids. The white smoke produced by burning copal resin was associated with helpful spirits and “White Gods”. It was believed that the white smoke assisted in contacting deities and helpful spirit allies. Copal resin is a powerful healer and purifier, with the power to transmute negative energy. Copal aids in physical, mental, and spiritual healing, and environmental clearing.
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Humans have been beguiled and fascinated by gemstones and crystals since prehistory, and made use of them for everything from currency and ceremonial decoration to tokens of love or power. But why have some been considered more significant than others – rare or otherwise?
Learn all about the key characteristics of precious and semi-precious stones, and discover the science behind some of their more unusual and mysterious properties, and the various ways in which they have taken on powerful symbolic meanings. How did the Vikings use iolite to help them steer their ships, for example? Why did the Ancient Greeks and Romans believe that sardonyx could protect them in battle?
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Achiote Seeds, Fall 2007
with poems by Truong Tran, Francisco X. Alarcón, Victoria-Lola M. Leon Guerrero, and Theresa Sotto
cover art by Carol Aust
from The Book of Lies
this is a chronicle written where english is broken sorted salvaged and
saved for consumption in time it will be adopted as a delicacy please
understand that the metaphor when used here is used out of necessity a
grain of rice before all else is really just that a grain of rice that this goes
against the nature of things striving for clarity looking for an audience
wanting to be heard
Truong Tran is the author of within the margin (Apogee Press, 2004), The Book of Perceptions (Kearny Street Workshop, 1999), placing the accents (Apogee Press, 1999), and dust and conscience, (Apogee Press, 2002), which won the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Prize. He also wrote a children's book, Going Home, Coming Home (Children's Book Press, 2003). The selection that appears in this issue is forthcoming in Truong's full-length book titled four letter words.
Francisco X. Alarcón is the author of ten volumes of poetry, including From the Other Side of Night/Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2002), Sonetos a la locura y otras penas/Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes (Creative Arts Book Company, 2001), Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (Chronicle Books, 1992), and De amor oscuro/Of Dark Love (Moving Parts Press, 1991 and 2001). Children's Book Press has published four of his books of bilingual poetry for children: Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems (1997), From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems (1998), Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems (1999), and Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems (2001). He currently teaches at the University of California, Davis.
Victoria-Lola M. Leon Guerrero (Familian Cha'ka) is very proud to be from the village of Toto and island of Guåhan (Guam). Fueled by love from her family and the stories that were passed on to her, Victoria is writing her first novel and pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Mills College in Oakland. She also works as a media coordinator at the California Reinvestment Coalition in San Francisco, teaches basic composition to a group of freshwomen at Mills, and is actively involved in Guåhan's decolonization movement.
Theresa Sotto lives and works in Santa Monica, CA. Her poems have been published in POOL, No Tell Motel, Spinning Jenny, Coconut, Shampoo, Typo, Word For/Word, ZYZZYVA, and others. A chapbook of her poems is forthcoming in the Coconut Chapbook Series. When not writing, she works as an art educator at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Carol Aust works in acrylic on canvas and wood panels from her studio in Oakland, California. Her figurative paintings are emotionally-charged narrative fragments infused with mysterious tension and secrecy. She often places her figures in precarious environments where anything could happen. Sometimes celebratory, sometimes lonely and disturbing, her paintings express a wide range of human desire and yearning. Aust's work consistently features strong and vibrant colors along with figures that are both engaging and vulnerable. Through her own private study she has been influenced by artists such as Emil Nolde, Marc Chagall, Kathe Kollwitz, and the German expressionists. Her work is represented in private collections throughout the United States. Visit her online at carolaust.com.


By Carla Newsome McManus
In her sophomore novel, The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner,
Andrea Smith, recipient of fellowships from the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center and The New York Council on the Arts, weaves a compelling and heartwarming Southern tale of sisterhood,
family and love. But, don’t let the sleepy town in South Carolina where the story takes place catch you off guard! This captivating story serves up a delicious side of downhome drama that will keep you turning the pages. So grab a refreshing glass of sweetened iced tea and enjoy The Sisterhood of Blackberry corner!
What was your inspiration for writing 'The Sisterhood of Blackberry
Andrea Smith: My inspiration was a conversation that I had with my grandmother
when I was about twelve.
I remember that an adopted girl had moved onto our block in Brooklyn.
I was so curious about adoption and
asked my grandmother all kinds of questions about adoption agencies
and foster kids, etc. My grandmother just waved her hand and said,
"in my day, if a child need a home, we just take 'em to the church
and the child would have a home."
I remember thinking, at twelve years old, that it couldn't be that easy.
But my grandmother insisted that in the south,
back in the day, that's the way things were done. I guess this always stayed with me.
Why did you decide to title the book 'The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner'?
Andrea Smith: I wanted to find a title that gave the feeling of something secretive and underground.
Carla McManus: Are there situations or characters in the book that represent your life experiences?
Andrea Smith: I think that all of the experiences represent my life experiences(or people that I know).
I write a lot about my grandparents, maternal and paternal. For instance, my first book, Friday Nights At Honeybee's...my paternal grandmother was Miss Honeybee.
Carla McManus: Did you interview any people to develop the book's characters?
Andrea Smith: I did have to speak with attorneys and social workers about the legal ramifications of Bonnie's actions.
Carla McManus: Which book did you most enjoy writing, The Sisterhood of Blackberry
Corner or Friday Night at Honeybee's?
Andrea Smith: They are both such different books that it's hard to say. Whatever I write, whether it's
a novel or a short story, I always start with a
certain type of music in my head. For 'Honeybee's" it was jazz. For
the "Sisterhood," it was blues and gospel. I love all these types of
music equally and mostly depends on my mood at the time.
Carla McManus: Is there a specific message or moral that you would like for readers of 'The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner' to learn?
Andrea Smith: My family is the most important thing in my life. And I guess, if there was a conscious message, it would be about tending to family and
community and what happens when a man or woman drops that ball, even for
Have you considered writing other genres of literature?
Andrea Smith: This question makes me laugh because, for a moment I wanted to jump onto the "street fiction" bandwagon.
Just for the money, mind you. So I tried to write this draft of a street fiction novel. What a disaster.
The lesson...write what you know. Also, write for love and not just for money. It usually doesn't work!
Carla McManus: Why did you decide to pursue a career in writing?
I can't see myself doing anything else. I can't even type very fast!!!
Carla McManus: Did you have any role models or mentors to help you along the way in your writing career.
Andrea Smith: Some years ago, I won a grant from the Frederick Douglass Center in New York (where I'm from). At that time
I was introduced to a very talented writer named Arthur Flowers. He has since been my mentor and
without his help I'm sure that I would not be published. He helped me with my first draft and also introduced me to my agent, who sold my book.
Carla McManus: Are you reading any books now?
Andrea Smith: Unfortunately I can't read and write at the same time. So, once or twice a year, I take a bit of time from writing and I read.
Carla McManus: Do you have any favorite authors?
Gloria Naylor is my all time favorite. I love her. Also, Isabelle
Allende, Amy Tam, of course Ms. Morrison and Chinua Achebe, just to name
About The Sisterhood of Blackberry
In a small black town in South Carolina in the 1950s, Bonnie Wilder is happily
married to Nazareth but longs for a child. When her husband and his fishing
buddies come upon a dead baby in a nearby river, shy Bonnie stands up at a
community meeting and speaks up for the possible anguish of the mother. Surely
there needed to be outlets for women who didn't want or couldn't raise their
children. Soon she becomes the recipient of abandoned babies left on her
doorstep. But Naz won't hear of raising another man's child, so Bonnie and a
few friends, most prominently her brash girlhood friend Thora, develop a secret
network to match abandoned babies with childless families. The women enjoy
their surreptitious and blessed work even as the sheriff issues warnings.
Thirty years later, an adopted woman--now married and pregnant with her first
child--wants to know about her mother, and Bonnie is forced to recall the
personal cost she paid for her mission. Smith's deftly drawn characters exude
the warmth and intimacy of a small town. Vanessa Bush
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Canaan Creek, South Carolina, in the 1950s is a tiny town where the close-knit
African-American community is united by long-term friendships and church ties.
Bonnie Wilder has lived here, on Blackberry Corner, all her life, and would be
content but for her deep desire to have a child. She and her husband Naz cannot
conceive, and he refuses to adopt. Even the support of her outrageous best
friend Thora–to whom Bonnie tells everything–can’t help fill the emptiness
Then Naz finds a blanketed infant on the banks of Canaan Creek, and suddenly
Bonnie’s life is transformed. She has found her calling. Together with Thora
and the rest of the hilarious, tough, and all-too-human women from her church
group, Bonnie creates an underground railroad for unwanted babies. But one of
these precious gifts will come back to haunt her: a deception begun in good
faith comes full circle, ultimately forcing Bonnie to find the courage to
confront a difficult truth at the center of her own life.
Filled with compassion, humor, and tenacity in the face of almost
insurmountable odds, here is a rich, inspiring tale of friendship and family,
sisterhood and mother love…and of finding grace where you least expect it.


I finished five books in December. I also got about a third of the way through Storm Country by Peter Davies, about tornado chasing in the Great Plains of America but, can’t really explain why, I didn't find his writing engaging so I’ve given it up for now.
The Words in my Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
Read for book group. This is the reimagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th century Amsterdam working for an English bookseller. One day a mysterious and reclusive lodger arrives - the Monsieur – who turns out to be the philosopher and scientist René Descartes. In a note at the end the author tells what are the known facts of Helena Jans’ life – for example she was literate at a time when most in her class were not and Descartes did acknowledge that he was the father of her child. Guinevere Glasfurd has filled in the gaps most satisfactorily, with a great sense of the time and place. If you liked Girl with a Pearl Earring you will like this.
Samosas and Ale by San Cassimally
A feast of short stories with an Indian flavour, although they are not all set in the subcontinent. All have the name of a dish in brackets after the title. My Grandson the Detective (Korma) is a clever crime story. Nasreen (Phaal), like several of the stories written convincingly from a female viewpoint, was the sad story of an ‘honour killing’. Kokilaksha (Methi Pak), also with a female narrator, has an irresistible opening: ‘Although I have been on the lookout for a suitable man to father my child, I did not specifically book my Amsterdam-Delhi flight with that purpose.’ (I googled ‘Methi Pak’ and see that it is a dish that has health benefits but to some palates tastes bitter.) A beguiling collection.
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
Bought in Christian Aid Book Sale and saved for pre-Christmas reading. Although not worth the wait … I loved the idea of people on an Amtrak train in the US going through blizzards to get home in time for Christmas – but Christmas (as opposed to winter) was barely mentioned until page 222 and there were too many virtually indistinguishable folk. There was a good twist at the end though and if I’d enjoyed the rest of the book more I’d have gone back and had a quick re-read in the light of that, but life’s too short.
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
Got on Christmas morning. Finished 27 December – there’s something about a diary as opposed to a chapter book; it’s almost impossible to stop reading. Shaun Bythell runs a second-hand bookshop (called The Bookshop) in the book town of Wigtown (in south-west Scotland – Scotland’s answer to Hay-on-Wye). He’s not Basil Fawlty but he doesn’t suffer fools gladly and plenty of them seem to frequent his shop, asking, for example ‘do you sell books?’ It’s not an easy way to make a living – in an area that is very summer-tourist dependent, and is also dependent on finding the gems among the dross in the books he’s offered and on the vagaries of selling online. A host of local characters get a look in, particularly his very eccentric Morrison-skip-diving assistant Nicky. I do hope there will be a further volume.
A Book of Book Lists complied by Alex Johnson
An irresistible, dippable-into Christmas present. I am in good company in keeping a note of books I’ve read – the book includes records kept by, among others, David Bowie and Art Garfunkel.
The other lists include:
The books on the International Space Station
Books left behind in hotels
Desert Island Discs: The books
A telephone box library
Scottish prisoners’ favourite books
Big Bang Theory: the art of the television bookshelf
Books that have never been written
Again I am in good company. I have a list of titles for about 50 books that I am unlikely ever to write – I may post them here sometime (or sell them to the highest bidder??). Samuel Taylor Coleridge apparently loved making lists of books/poems to write and then not doing so, while a list of proposed but never realised titles by Raymond Chandler include The Man with the Shredded Ear, Uncle Watson Wants to Think and The Diary of a Loud Check Suit.
Wishing you good reading – and writing – in 2018.


Steve Gray, author of My Absurd Religion, shares the powerful story of revival and how in 1996 it rocked both him and the small town of Smithton, Missouri. When The Kingdom Comes chronicles the mighty move of God known as the Smithton Outpouring, and explores the various facets of revival, answering questions such as: How do we invite revival? What does it look like when it comes?
What is the cost? What happens to us as individuals, churches, and the church? What stops revival? How can the church overcome her historic blocks to revival?


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Time keeps passing you by … the world seems to always be moving around you. This isn’t what you dreamt your life would be like. “Welcome to the Real World,” they tell you. And you surrender your dreams to a life that’s “real.”
You feel stuck, captured in a prison you’ve built for yourself. You force yourself to show up at a job you hate because you feel like you don’t have any other choice. You stay in your marriage even though you’re hopeless that the passion will ever return. “That’s normal,” they tell you. And so you stay a little longer.
If only you knew how to escape…
Hundred Goals – Inspiration to Live Your Dream is a collection of short essays that will teach you how to find your passion, take control of your life and find the motivation you need to begin living the life of your dreams. It’s the key that will unlock the door to this prison you call “life.”
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6 edition of Fluids and Electrolytes found in the catalog.
October 15, 2000
by Anadem Publishing
Written in English
|The Physical Object|
|Number of Pages||179|
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Wettons guide-book to Northampton and its Vicinity, with an historical and descriptive account of the town and neighbourhood.
Experiments in physics
House Bill no. 6767, general appropriations bill, January 1-December 31, 2010
Simulator evaluation of the effects of reduced spoiler and thrust authority on a decoupled longitudinal control system during landings in wind shear
The Fluids Book. During residency, Sarah Faubel, and I wrote this programmed text on process galvanized my interest in nephrology.
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The book itself is very helpful, especially if you have a difficult time getting the content on fluids and electrolytes. Even after the nursing program, I continue to review this book. Highly recommended.
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This handbook provides a quick review of fluids and electrolytes, focusing on the essential clinical facts that nurses need to interpret laboratory tests and implement swift, appropriate patient care. Information is presented in a quick-reference bulleted format, with numerous illustrations and flow charts.
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Completely portable, this pocket-sized collection of full-color, spiral-bound cards uses humor, cartoons, and mnemonics to help you understand and retain important information about fluids and electrolytes. This fun, colorful, and insightful approach makes these Brand: Elsevier Health Sciences. Chapters in this book cover "need-to-know" information about principles of fluids, electrolytes, and acid-base balance, including focused assessments and how they affect entire body systems.
Individual chapters focus on specific electrolytes (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, and phosphorus), acid base disturbances, and Price: $Fluids and Electrolytes Demystified, Second Edition is a detailed, easy-to-understand overview of the essential concepts involved in fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance and imbalance.
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“An urgent effort to make sense of the senseless, helping readers see the rationality behind the tepid liberal responses to the ideological maximalism of settler colonial racism and violence. Indispensable, timely, and much needed.”
—Greg Grandin, author of The End of the Myth and Empire’s Workshop
Strong Communities Make Policing Obsolete
A World Without Police persuasively argued and lyrically charged, offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with policing alternatives on a mass scale in Latin America, Maher details the institutions we can count on to deliver security without the disorganizing interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects, and well-resourced social services. It argues that abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon but an attainable reality. In communities around the world, we are beginning to glimpse a real, lasting justice in which we keep us safe.
“Geo Maher not only demonstrates definitively that police serve a wealthy white elite and don’t protect us, but also illuminates the path toward abolishing policing… A World Without Police offers inspiring assurance that we can achieve the vision embodied in its title.”
—Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds
We study revolutionary change not simply to understand it. We study revolution to make it.
With revolutionary change once again on the table, the time is ripe to sharpen the weapons of theory for the struggles looming on the horizon. It was in this moment that Geo Maher put forth a call to investigate what a revolution is and how to make it. In a growing online (as everything was those days) reading group people gathered together to take up that call and think through the past, the present, and help us imagine the future we want. It was these impassioned discussions that birthed Spirals of Revolt.
Geo Maher is an abolitionist educator, organizer, and writer based in Philadelphia. He has taught previously at the University of Pennsylvania, Vassar College, Drexel University, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas, and has held visiting positions at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Decolonizing Humanities Project at the College of William & Mary, NYU’s Hemispheric Institute, and the Institute of Social Research at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
He is the author of five books: We Created Chávez (2013); Building the Commune (2016); Decolonizing Dialectics (2017); A World Without Police (2021); and Anticolonial Eruptions (2022); and co-editor of the Duke University Press book series Radical Américas. Read Bio


You’ve probably heard of Día de los Muertos, commonly known as Day of the Dead, but what exactly is being celebrated? We would love to share some information on this two-day holiday.
WHAT IS DAY OF THE DEAD?
Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos) is a two day holiday that reunites the living and dead. Families create ofrendas (Offerings) to honor their departed family members that have passed. These altars are decorated with bright yellow marigold flowers, photos of the departed, and the favorite foods and drinks of the one being honored. The offerings are believed to encourage visits from the land of the dead as the departed souls hear their prayers, smell their foods and join in the celebrations!
Day of the Dead is a rare holiday for celebrating death and life. It is unlike any holiday where mourning is exchanged for celebration. source: dayofthedead.holiday
The Day of the Dead or Día de Muertos is an ever-evolving holiday that traces its earliest roots to the Aztec people in what is now central Mexico. The Aztecs used skulls to honor the dead a millennium before the Day of the Dead celebrations emerged. Skulls, like the ones once placed on Aztec temples, remain a key symbol in a tradition that has continued for more than six centuries in the annual celebration to honor and commune with those who have passed on. source: history.com
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4 DAY OF THE DEAD MOVIES YOU NEED TO SEE
Now, if staying in sounds like a plan – here is a list of 4 movies to watch from dayofthedead.holiday found below!
When young Miguel finds that he has had enough of his family’s longstanding ban on music, he ventures into the Land of the Dead with the hopes of finding a great-great-grandfather of his, who had left his family to follow his dream of being a legendary singer.
James Bond’s Spectre
When a cryptic message from the past begins to reveal the existence of a criminal international organization, James Bond embarks on a series of adventures to track down the boss at the top of the pyramid with the help of the daughter of a promising lead.
The Book of Life
The story revolves around a group of school detention students who are ushered into a fantastical world with the help of a tour guide who introduces them to the story of a Mexican town called San Angel, which is part of the Book of Life, a book that holds every story in the world. As it is the Day of the Dead, Xibalba, the ruler of the Land of the Forgotten, and La Muerte, the ruler of the Land of the Remembered, strike a wager after seeing two of the boys fighting over the affection of fellow student Maria Posada. If she wins, Xibalba will no longer interfere in mortal affairs but, if Xibalba wins, they must swap realms. Later, Xibalba decides to cheat by giving his backed candidate a very unfair advantage.
Its titular protagonist is a peasant who is obsessed with his own poverty and the idea of death. Because he feels fed up with his position in life, he decides that he won’t eat until he can feast on a whole turkey by his lonesome. His wife thusly steals one for him, and he goes off into the forest to dine. Once there, he refuses to share it with god or the devil but, then, agrees to when he meets death itself. Death, thankful, gives Macario a healing water that summons death to save whomever drinks it for the sake of saving them. Macario, consequently, becomes rich and famous, but gets accused of witchcraft. His only saving grace is being able to save the son of an important government official.
We hope that everyone celebrating has a wonderful Día de los Muertos spent honoring family.


My 2x Great Grandmother was Mary Ellen Price Wright. She lived her entire life in Kennett, Missouri born March 11, 1852 and dying December 21, 1904. Her parents were John Price and Sophia Medlock Price. Her obituary, printed in the Dunklin Democrat, has an interesting fact about Mary Ellen. Besides being survived by her husband and 5 children there is mentioned “a brother living in California that she has never seen”.
Who was this unseen brother? I was on the hunt.
The 1850 US Census of Dunklin County lists John Price, his first wife, Nancy Vancil Price and 2 doors down, (John) Marion Price, age 20 with his wife Julia. Of note: The Dunklin County Courthouse burned in 1872 with all records lost. Marion and Julia were likely married in Dunklin County but record of her maiden name is lost.
In History of Southeast Missouri by Robert Sidney Douglass (1912 ed.) the biographical sketch of J. L Wright (Mary Ellen’s husband) states that Marion left Missouri to seek his fortune in the goldfields of California. Family lore recalls that Marion and his father had a falling out and he left the county because of that. Whatever his reasons, Marion joined the thousands of people flocking to California.
So about 1851 Marion left Dunklin County for the West. It is uncertain which route he chose but, as he had proceeds from a land sale, it is likely he took a steamship to New Orleans and from there a ship to San Francisco rather than the more arduous overland trip.
The Gold Rush was on! The non-native population of California quickly swelled from 2000 to over 300,000 by 1853. I wasn’t able to locate Marion in the 1852 California State Census but there is record of his marriage to Mary Elizabeth Scott October 26, 1857 in Sonoma County, California. It is unknown what happened to his first wife, Julia. Perhaps she perished on the trip or never accompanied him at all. If she divorced Marion the records were lost in Dunklin County.
It is unclear whether Marion tried his hand at gold mining because he is listed in the 1860 US Census as a farmer. J(ohn) M(arion), age 29, M(ary) E(lizabeth), age 23 and son T(homas) S(cott), age 1 are living near Geyserville, raising horses, milk cows, and hogs. They had another son that died 1859. Mary sadly dies giving birth to their third child in 1862. Marion registers for the Civil War Draft in 1864 but is never called to serve. Marion marries for the third time to Lucy Scott, Mary’s sister, on September 3, 1865.
|1900 US Census
Fresno County, California
|Daily Californian, Fresno CA
March 14, 1907
Marion and Lucy have 5 children over the years, 3 of which lived to adulthood – John Vancil, Joe Dodd, and Maude Elizabeth. By 1871 the family has moved south to Sanger, California, near Fresno. Marion continues to farm until his death in 1905. Lucy lives to be 84, dying in 1930. They are buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Fresno, California. Of all the Price children, only Thomas married and had a family. John V. and Maude never married and died in Fresno. Joe was a deputy sheriff that died in the line of duty. His murderer was never apprehended.
Why did Marion never return to visit his family in Missouri? Perhaps because his father died in 1856 and he had little interest in a half-sister 20 years his junior. Perhaps there was bad blood and his vow to never return was upheld. Perhaps financially it was not possible to make a trip back east. Whatever the reason it seems a shame that Mary Ellen and Marion never met.


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The Most Decisive, Significant and Bloodiest Days of
This unique collection is an insightful multimedia analysis of five decisive battles that will go down in history as the most massive, decisive and bloodiest days of war. Listen to audio commentary as you view hundreds of archival photographs and historical paintings by the greatest war artists of the period.
You will explore the strategic battlefield plans, understand the circumstances leading up to war, meet the larger than life personalities of key generals and experience the enormity of the sacrifice of the fallen.
Read through the articles linearly or bookmark your progress to come back to it later, or skip directly to sections you want to read. This comprehensive collection accurately depicts all aspects of war, the men who fought them, the aftermath, and the lessons learned for future generations. Through striking visuals and compelling audio, you will experience the tragic setbacks, the hard-won victories, the moments of glory and the real cost of these monumental clashes which forever changed history.
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War, with more than 51,000 casualties, resulting in a hallmark victory for the Union Army.
The largest military force ever amassed for invasion turned the tide of World War II. As that pivotal day ended with 20,000 casualties and so much at stake, it earned the nickname of "The Longest Day".
The lengthiest battle in world history, situated on a tiny piece of land resulting in 700,000 casualties, fought only for national prestige during World War I.
Napolean's French troops trick the Russian and Austrian emperors' forces and claim their greatest victory.
The infamous "Well of the Dead" marks the spot where the fighting was most fierce in this final battle for monarchy control of mainland Britain in 1746.
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This book is a representation of my work as a large format analogue photographer over the past two years. Within this period, I made a great number of portraits of girls at peculiar locations. The girls are still kids, automatically generating expectations of a joyful and playful subject, at least for a little while still. However, in my pictures, they are both motion- and emotionless. Although often well-dressed in elegant and particularly colorful outfits, they show an apathy and disconnect from their environment. They just don’t fit in, seemingly indifferent to time and space.
To capture the girls in this specific way, I used a large format analogue camera. It forced me to slow down and take time. Take time to not only create the image but also develop it myself afterwards. To slow down the girl in front of my camera and inspire her to pose as passive and static as possible. Using a large format camera also made me more attuned to the scenery of each shoot. It allowed me to focus on particular elements in the background and fully integrate the environment/locations within the imagery.
The result is this collection of portraits of wonderful girls. Try to step into their world and remember the time you were just a kid. Happy or not.
This book is a compilation of around 70 portraits. Each book is numbered and signed by me and it is a limited to 150 books.


An update from the Editor-in-Chief introducing a new feature, Release Notes, which will be used to chronicle updates to our site, features we have added, and all the great work done by those in the Computational Law community.
Our prevailing legal paradigm for digital interactions stems from an overly simplistic and antiquated view of the digital universe without considering the impact of an increasingly complex digital realm. This piece explores how we might more equitably rebuild these relationships.
As machines are increasingly used to replicate and supplement human decision-making, it is imperative to understand the consequences. This paper develops an analytical framework that seeks to understand the relationships between intentions and outcomes in human and machines.
In recent years, machine readability has become a popular topic in law and technology circles. This piece walks through the creation of X2RL and explores the possibilities that emanate from drafting rules as code in semantic languages, as opposed to syntactic languages.
The Linguistic Etch a Sketch is a recurring column from Megan Ma that focuses on the translations between law expressed through written prose and law expressed through code, examining what is gained and what is lost in each.


In this short-story collection inspired by fans’ questions, you will meet Andi’s father, join Andi and her scrappy friend Jenny Grant in Washington Territory, and discover the story behind the Fourth of July race. Why and when is Andi allowed to wear overalls? And does she succeed in finally ridding her sister Melinda of that scoundrel of a beau, Jeffrey Sullivan? Saddle up and find out!
Ten-year-old Andi has never seen snow, so when her brothers invite her to accompany them into the high Sierras to help pick out the Carter Christmas tree, she eagerly accepts. But the trek turns into an adventure Andi was not expecting.
Enjoy a look at five sample illustrations and five story summaries.
"Britches Are Not for Little Girls"
Five-year-old Andi has discovered a pair of overalls in her new friend Riley's orange crate. "I'm a cowboy now," Riley tells her, "so you can have my old overalls." Will Father and Mother let Andi shed her frocks and pinafores and don a pair of boy's britches?
"Hurrah for the Fourth of July!"
Twelve-year-old Andi has worked hard to prepare her brother Mitch's horse, Chase, to look like a champion for the annual Fourth of July race. But what if Chase can't run? Should Andi ride Taffy and carry the Carter name to victory? If she does, what will Mother say?
"Virginia's Riding Lesson"
A promise is a promise, but Andi has second thoughts about teaching her former-enemy-now-turned-friend, Virginia Foster, how to ride . . . especially when the prissy girl shows up decked from head to toe in a fancy riding habit and impatient to learn everything at once.
"Aunt Rebecca & the Hat"
Eight-year-old Andi and her big sister Melinda wait with dread for "proper" Aunt Rebecca's latest visit. She always brings out-dated, old-fashioned clothes, which she insists are the height of fashion. Can Andi rid herself of this newest horrible hat forever?
Tie history and literature to the Tales book this colorful, educational lapbook. Includes everything students need to create a lapbook: study guides, full-color pictures for the mini-booklets, colorful file folders, and instructions on how to put it all together. Go here to see the topics covered.
Purchase the lapbook separately (or with a book for extra savings). You may also purchase the Ebook ($7.00) and print the lapbooks yourself.
Tales from the Circle C Ranch is a perfect companion book and great transition between Andi’s adventures in the Circle C Beginnings and Adventures series to an older Andi in the Circle C Milestones. Includes fun illustrations from the Circle C Beginnings and Goldtown illustrators! $7.99 (+ $2.50 s/h U.S. addresses) 160 pp
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If you’ve installed OS X lion and install mysql from the oracle .pkg, you’ll find that you get an error when you try and use python’s MySQL package.
TESTBOX:~ admin$ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug 23 2012, 15:13:32) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 ((tags/Apple/clang-421.0.60))] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import MySQLdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in import _mysql ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/_mysql.so, 2): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib Referenced from: /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/_mysql.so Reason: image not found >>> exit()
This error is a a result of the MySQLdb module looking for one of MySQLs library in the wrong place. The .pkg installer from Oracle appears not to install links to some of the libraries correctly. Luckily the fix is easy.
sudo install_name_tool -change libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/_mysql.so
In short, this makes this particular library available when the _mysql.so file calls it. If the error from python (above) says that it was “Referenced from:” a different file, use that filename as the last parameter in the above command. For instance:
sudo install_name_tool -change libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /Directories/To/File/filereferencedinpython
Now normally you’d use something like:
to achieve the same thing, however I can’t seem to get my .bash_profile to work on this machine!


A year ago I got a book in Hebrew called “The point of no return” as a gift and read through it very quickly. I found it to be informative and captivating. The book revealed many previously unknown details about the espionage battle between Israel and Iran.
The book covers through first person accounts historical events, including assassinations of terror leaders, the Iranian Islamic revolution and the rescue operation of the Iranian Jews. The book covers Israel’s arms trade with Iran and it reveals that later these arms are used against Israel in the battle field of Lebanon. The author collected unique and exclusive details about the inner works of Israeli intelligence and its battle with Iran from the late 70-s to the very recent 2006 Lebanon war.
Read YnetNews.com interview with the author, Ronen Bergman:"The point of no return".
The book narrates Iranian ambitions and activities leading from the revolution up-to its current state of nearly acquiring nuclear weapons capability, the point of no-return.
While browsing through Amazon, I found an upcoming release of a new book by the same author, this time in English. I’m thrilled that this book or a variation of it is finally coming out in English. I intend on reading it and I highly recommend it as a resource for an in depth research of the Iranian threat. I hope this book will allow curious minds to further their understanding.
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The Secret War with Iran
The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power


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The Mystic Best Manan
A story told by Danilo Marić, inspired by the legend that has been alive and well for ages in Prebolovci. which speaks about two towns near Prebilovci and about a couple in love, first published at our website, has been included in the collection of short stories by this author published in English (Catawba, Charlotte, USA). The short story Stojo i Stoja is the only one of the many works through which Prebilovci has entered the world of literature. Prebilovci is mentioned in the prologue to the Molitva by Vuk Drašković as well as in several other poems. Some of those works have been published at our website under the heading Prebilovci in poetry. We have chosen to present a poem by Stevan Raičković Umesto kamena za spomen-crkvu u Prebilovcima, which we have taken over from Suvišna pesma (Srpska književna zadruga, 1991), and a poem by the Serbian leading poet Djordje Sladoje, Javić, taken over from a book of poetry, Čuvarkuća (Oktoih Podgorica, KZ V. Mijušković- Nilkšić, Libertas, Bijelo Polje, 1999). The book by Danilo Marić, The Mystic Best Man, includes 32 stories. The translator of Marić’s short stories has suggested the author to change the names of Stoja and Stojo to Dobro and Angelina in their English edition. The author has accepted this suggestion. The English edition of Marić’s latest book is beautifully illustrated by Minja Bojanić.
Published at www.prebilovci.net in February 2008


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Gotham on the Brink
Herr Professor Doktor Heinrich Wittelsbach von Düsseldorf
A German Occultist seeking information on the world's most powerful Sorcerer ... BATMAN
Unusual Background (Family interest in the Occult)
Bad Sight – Farsighted (Monocle and Glasses Mitigation)
Curious (12 or less)
Major Delusion (Batman is a powerful Sorcerer, and I must uncover his secrets)
Obsessive (Uncover the Mysteries of the Arcane) (Long Term Goal)
Post Combat Shakes (12 or less)
Odious Personal Habit (Always corrects people)
Heinrich was born into a wealthy aristocratic family from western Germany, and grew up in a life of privilege. From an early age, he proved both extremely intelligent and utterly incapable of focusing on one field of study. He attended University in Berlin for many years, constantly switching his Major, before graduating on the eve of the First World War with a degree in Mathematics. He began the war as a clerk in a Division’s logistics department, quickly demonstrated his capability, and eventually moved into Cryptography, where he served out the rest of the war.
When his father died in the war, leading troops on the Western Front, Heinrich was left the head of his family. Returning home after the peace was signed, Heinrich learned of his family’s long and varied history with the Occult while reviewing his father’s papers. Initially amused, he followed the directions for some basic rituals out of pure curiosity, and surprisingly enough was able to pick up and move a small object across the room with nothing but the force of his will. At this point, Heinrich’s life changed forever.
Despite his eccentricities, Heinrich approached the occult with the same rationality and focus with which he approaches math. Heinrich believes everything in the world, from human behavior and financial markets to spellcasting and the summoning of demons can be predicted, modeled, and replicated with the proper methods. His initial explorations into the occult communities in Weimar era Germany found little support for this view, with most “practitioners” showing few results and insufficient scientific rigor for Heinrich’s tastes. As such, he sought to continue his studies independently.
He returned to academia with the help of some colleges from the cryptography service, and continued his studies of both mathematics and the occult. His plan was to earn a Doktorate, secure a tenured teaching position, and continue his studies into magic from within the hallowed halls of academia. He completed his degree in 1926 and, much to his surprise, was offered a position at Gotham University, a school to which he didn’t even remember submitting an application. Eager to flee the chaos and disunity of Weimar Republic Germany, he accepted, and began teaching there the same year.
Since moving to Gotham, Heinrich has earned a tenured position at GU, largely due to his willingness to teach the entry level mathematics classes most professors consider beneath them. His colleagues suspect this is due to his lack of ambition, but in reality he want’s to spend as much time as possible on his true passions. His spell casting talents have grown substantially, and he has become convinced that Gotham’s own Caped Crusader must be a fellow rational practitioner. He is convinced Batman faked his demise, and is determined to meet him, learn his secrets, and develop and even deeper understanding of the workings of magic. His general lack of tact and social skills means he tells this to just about everyone he meets, along with his entire life story, which may prove disadvantageous were he to move beyond the walls of GU into the darker and seedier parts of Gotham. However, he does not care. He feels the weight that disbelievers put on his magic, and is convinced that they must be shown the error of their ways. With Batman’s help, Heinrich will PROVE that the petty, mundane world most people think they live in is an illusion, and usher in a new era of light and rational inquiry into the true nature of reality.
He died doing what he loved – fleeing from an officer of the law


When journalist, author and translator Pavithra Srinivasan was as young as 12, she was acquainted with author Kalki and took no time to fall head-over-heels in love with his works. Since then, she has not only gone on to read almost all of the celebrated author’s works, but also embarked on a field trip across the State, visiting all the places that have been mentioned in his book.
With such adoration for an author, it came as no surprise when Pavithra released her translated English version of Kalki’s 1944 historical novel Sivakamiyin Sabadham – 1: Paranjyothi’s Journey, on Sunday, which marked the author’s birth anniversary. “Many people have told me that they’ve heard so much about the books and characters, but are not able to read it because they don’t know Tamil. Since I’m lucky enough to know both Tamil and English, I thought they might as well relish a classic,” said Pavithra at a function that was held at the C P Art Centre. “I think I had to do it because Kalki is one of those people who everyone has heard of, but not many are acquainted with all of his works,” she added.
Then went on to say that apart from the author’s Ponniyin Selvan which she is currently in the process of translating, she also plans to translate the other three parts of the Sivakamiyin Sabadham series soon.
Speaking about her choice of book out of Kalki’s many other novels, Pavithra admitted that Sivakamiyin Sabadham is one of those books that are popular, but yet understated. “The book is more about the characterisation and ends on a not-very-happy note. But there’s a lot of beauty in it, even in the way the heroine is described – she is a very complex character,” the author said.


Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. One of my goals earlier in the year was to double the amount of books I read per year. Which adds up to around 26(?). I’m hopelessly behind. Here are my current notes on my reading process.
- Read multiple books at once. In general, we tend to get bored with studying one subject, so for me, it helps to read multiple books at once so I can hop on over to another book. Books also have difficulty levels. Some books, like an algorithms book or a signals and system book take a long time to grasp. You may go at 5 pages per hour if the material is super-abstract, or things just keep breaking your model of the world and you can’t stop thinking about it. Adjust accordingly depending on time of day, and freshness of your brain.
- I tend to have the attitude of extracting key points and information from a given book that is most relevant to me. I tend to write notes, or highlight important bits(if it’s my book -.-). The objective is to make whatever you’re reading yours. Countless studies have shown that recalling helps you remember better. Rephrasing things in your own words and summarizing is one form of recall.
- Everything is connected. If you’re reading a math book, you may find things that are relevant in an area that is completely irrelevant. It’s a ton of fun to try to connect it to other topics!
- Don’t focus too much on the page count, or the speed(which may be contradictory to the earlier statement of book count).The mathematician Heisuke Hironaka says that a book is a triggering device to make you think. It may be good to focus on the process. When I was teenager, there was this huge bragging contest about how fast people can read books. It’s stupid. Sure, you can speed-read, but you sacrifice depth and time to ponder on ideas, contemplate their pros and cons, or even form your own counter-arguments.
- Sign and date on the back of your book after you’re done. My dad does this, and it’s amazing. I try to take it one step further and put one sentence on how I felt about it. I wish we had a culture of doing this in our libraries! Wouldn’t it be awesome to find out who read the exact same book, and track em down, and talk to them via email? Hopefully they’re not dead though.


Design Principles Documentation Project
The Design Principles Documentation (DPD) project captured the design principles for using digital badges that emerged across twenty-nine projects funded to develop badges in the 2012 Digital Media and Learning competition funded by the MacArthur and Gates Foundations. This project uncovered the principles for using badges to recognize learning, assess learning, motivate learning, and study learning.
The project found that only eleven projects created their proposed ecosystem, eleven projects created badges but not the ecosystem, and seven projects were unable to create their badge system. Additionally, the DPD project has uncovered that badges work better when the content and technology already exist and in environments with less formal recognition and assessment, when they offer unique claims and evidence, and where the learning is social and distributed.
Comprehensive findings for the various design principles, detailed appendices for each of the 29 projects, and case studies examining specific aspects of subsets of project are available at the DPD project website at http://dpdproject.info/. A comprehensive report in the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning report series will be available in late spring 2015.
Daniel T. Hickey
James E. Willis, III


EARTH SEEN FROM THE STUDIO
Postcard to the future cinema, freely based on the artist’s palette
EXPANDED ANIMATION WOR(L)DS: GLOBE PLAYHOUSE SPACELAB
A spherical book in progress, planned 96 + x Texts, VIII sequences
Inspired by Sergej Eisenstein’s fragments on the “spherical book“, which is one of the most important experimental examples of the 20th century’s hypertextual worlds of thinking, ordering, and writing, and by the composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s concept of the “spherical form of time“, the aim is to make “curated“ knowledge accessible online, using the current polymedial possibilities.
In the spirit of the “green way“, Open Access is accompanied by traditional print publication, combining the classic book with the advantages of free online publication. Open Science stands for unrestricted Internet access to artistic research and scientific information, to make it possible to enrich and expand texts with diverse media such as images, animation, film, video, sound, and music.
KUGELGESTALT DER ZEIT
As early as the mid-1980s, Friedrich Kittler used the term “record system“ to describe “the network of techniques and institutions […] that allow a given culture to address, store and process relevant data.“ The storage of writing, images, and sound, possible for the first time, ushers in the end of the Gutenberg galaxy. The successor stage is the “total media network on a digital basis“, and the computer becomes the all-integrating leading medium. All media of the modern era implode in the computer. Universal media convergence occurs. But film history continues not only on the Internet, as Alexander Kluge writes in “Geschichten vom Kino“: “I think cinema is immortal and older than film art. It is based on the fact that we communicate something that moves us inwardly to each other in public. In that way, film and music are relatives. Both do not go under. Even if the cinema projectors stop rattling, there will still be something that works like cinema.“
WAS IST DADA ETC
In the “spherical book in progress“, hybrid space fruitfully coexists and is comparable to an experimental textbook. As an expanded “cosmic“ network project, data is published both digitally and analogously in a multidimensional way as artistic-research knowledge transfer. In the 14th Transdisciplinary Colloquium of the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Peter Weibel characterizes this as “A noetic turn: from a language-based to a tool-based culture.“
EINE NOETISCHE WENDE
Based on the symposium of the artistic-research masterclass GLOBE PLAYHOUSE SPACELAB, the English-language desktop publishing project will be developed as a spherical interdisciplinary “net within a net“, with linked scientific and artistic-text-based contributions by international authors.
MASTERCLASS ARTISTIC RESEARCH
The spherical publication EXPANDED ANIMATION WOR(L)DS sees itself as a “kickoff“ for the interdisciplinary creative, artistic, and scientific actors network TESTELAB & GUESTS.
TESTELAB & GUESTS: EXPANDED ANIMATION WORLDS
Spherical conception, content editing, dramaturgy, curated, and produced by Frank Geßner
EXPANDED ANIMATION WOR(L)DS: A SPHERICAL BOOK IN PROGRESS


Sunmaker #1 is 22 pages of full-color sequentials and 6 pages of extras printed by a high-quality offset printer.
Sunmaker #2 is 22 pages of full-color sequentials and 10 pages of extras printed by a high-quality offset printer.
An entire civilization's worth of knowledge and culture -- the very essence of a people -- stored as energy... Tibhan definitely has a hell of a task ahead of him if he's going to keep the ancestor fire aflame. But with the wintry waste outside the vault ever-encroaching, and the flame's fuel ever-dwindling, something's got to give.
All things return to the cold, as they say, but Tibhan's not about to let his people fade without a fight.


Things I Like About San Francisco #1
Still, we own a house here, my kids are in school here, we're not going anywhere soon. So, in the interest of accentuating the positive, I'm going to try to keep a list of things I like about living here, and see if I can come up with one a day until I reach 100.
Today's Thing? When you're driving through the streets you'll see signs pointing to the nearest Public Library. As a fan of public libraries and as a writer, I'm very much in favor of letting everyone know where to find them.


Visited the University of Michigan over the weekend as my daughter received her Master’s degree in Archives and Records Management from the School of Information. The weather threatened some which was okay by me as it brought out the tulip’s colors which were everywhere on campus and all over Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Burton Memorial Tower (pictured above) is a 212 foot (65 meter) high structure housing a 43-ton, 55-bell Baird Carillon.
PS. If anyone knows of a digital archivist position open in a corporation, library, museum, government agency, etc. Drop me a comment and I’ll pass it on to my daughter. Thanks!


Historically, representations of disability in books have not always been positive. With many books often featuring harmful stereotypes. And in children’s books, such representations were often not on the page at all. But these six children’s books are just a few of the increasing number of books that contain positive representations of people with disabilities. Read on to learn more.
Max the Champion
Max loves sport. He dreams of competing in world class sporting events and on the pages of this delightful picture book that’s exactly what happens. Max’s morning cereal is reimagined as a diving competition. Similarly, a school football match becomes the World Cup and handwriting practice is javelin practice. The diversity of sports Max imagines is matched by the diversity of people that fill the pages of this book. For instance, there are guide dog users and wheelchair users and children with Down Syndrome. And we soon learn Max himself wears a hearing aid. Written by Sean Stockdale and Alexandra Strick and illustrated by Ros Asquith, Max the Champion is an inclusive picture book that shows children with disabilities enjoying a range of sports alongside characters of differing cultures and ages.
Published by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd in 2014, you can find copies of Max the Champion here.
The winner of the 2013 Speech Pathology Australia’s Best Book for Language and Literacy, Two Mates is a beautifully illustrated picture book. Two Mates tells the true story of the special friendship shared by Jack, who is Indigenous, and Raf, who is non-Indigenous. The pair go on adventures together in the coastal town of Broome, searching for hermit crabs and fishing for salmon. They explore the local markets and ride motorbikes dressed as superheroes. It is only towards the end of the book that we learn Raf has Spina bifida and uses a wheelchair. Author Melanie Prewett is Jack’s mother and illustrator Maggie Prewett is Jack’s grandmother.
Published by Australia’s leading Indigenous publisher, Magabala Books in 2012, find Two Mates here.
Freddie and the Fairy
When Freddie finds a fairy tangled up in a tree, he’s delighted. And after he rescues Bessie-Belle, she promises to grant his wishes. And Freddie knows just what to ask for: a pet. Only Bessie-Belle can’t hear very well. And Freddie mumbles. So the request for a pet is misinterpreted as one for a net. Luckily for Freddie and Bessie-Belle, the Fairy Queen is on hand to help. From the pen of the award-wining children’s author, Julia Donaldson, Freddie and the Fairy features not only Donaldson’s trademark wit but also a positive message about hearing impairments.
Keep Your Ear On the Ball
Written by Genevieve Petrillo and illustrated by Lea Lyon, Keep Your Ear On The Ball is a story about navigating the space between wanting to be independent and accepting help. Davey is blind. He is also fiercely independent. So his classmates soon learn to stop asking him if he wants help. But Davey’s independence is tested when he tries to play kickball. After a few missed kicks, no one wants Davey on their team. But his classmates soon work out a way to help Davey that respects his desire to be independent while helping him play.
Published by Tilbury House in 2009, find Keep Your Ear On the Ball here.
Isaac and his amazing Asperger superpowers!
Isaac and his amazing Asperger superpowers! is written by Melanie Walsh. The book explains Asperger’s Syndrome to a young audience in a simple and positive way.
Published by Walker Books in 2016, find copies of Isaac and his amazing Asperger superpowers! here.
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Being summer, albeit near-Indian summer this time, I’ve made a practice of pulling out a major volume to read within the afternoon’s refrigerated inside air. This year I’m digging into a new edition of Leo Tolstoy’s second major work, Anna Karenina, by my fave translators, Volokhonsky and Pevear.
The book was serialized over some three years in Russian publications during the 1870s, and it caused as much of a stir as some of Dickens’ serialized work. Had Tolstoy written it within today’s genres and with today’s sensibilities, it would be publicized as a daring Russian literary novel of history, family, and personal failure – something similar to Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. Not surprisingly, it was considered a grandiose romance work by wags of Tolstoy’s time. (Remember, writers, once you have a bit of success, someone will come along to throw rocks at you – often in the form of some demeaning categorization or other.)
But where Madame Bovary (publ. 1856) focused almost exclusively on that woman's assets and emotional nature, Anna Karenina (publ. 1877) is much more.
Since it’ll take a while to read Anna Karenina, I plan to blog on it, much as it probably appeared in the Russian publications of that day. That means: there are eight sections to the novel, and I’ll report back on the story, my general impressions of Tolstoy and his work here some eight times.
So stretch out, kick back and enjoy it with me.


Available on Amazon.
Momentous Living is a contemplative memoir that suggests a better world begins with a better self. This mindset acknowledges the hardness in overcoming hard stuff, but believes there’s much to learn along the way. Momentous Living explores words that are not so black and white, words like divorce and dignity; religion, respect, and peace; community and communication; believing, breathing, and dreaming. Through 12 contemplations, black-and-white photography, and engaging graphic design, Momentous Living re-shapes difficult matters into fresh narratives that transcend narrow interpretations of how life “should” be. A resource for anyone who supports self-advocacy for the betterment of all.
Contemplation #1: Meditation, remembering to breathe.
Contemplation #2: Lost, navigating winding paths.
Contemplation #3: Dignity, the center of self.
Contemplation #4: Religion, examining taboo topics.
Contemplation #5: Life, one step at a time.
Contemplation #6: Vulnerability, naked and unashamed.
Contemplation #7: Believing, the sacredness of self-care.
Contemplation #8: Community, doing life with others.
Contemplation #9: Voice, the courage to converse.
Contemplation #10: Shifting, peace in the middle seat.
Contemplation #11: Vision, pursuing our dreams.
Contemplation #12: Expansion, exploring, learning, growing.


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Unexpectedly, overwhelming wave of the internet took away from us the experience of the smell and crispy pages of the book. Yes, we can still go to the libraries or find some bookstore in a 20 mile radius, but nothing seems the same. What’s left is the sense of nostalgia.
We changed the way we read, research and write since the internet became so prevalent. Hours spent in the local libraries almost magically have been substituted with the click of the search button.
Cyberspace allows us to browse through the books that are not in print anymore. It would be difficult to track down some titles, but thanks to the internet our research appetites can be easily fulfilled.
Now we should be able to say internet saves us a lot of time. Although, the statement seems to holds some contradictory message. When we are physically holding a book, we are focused; when we research online, we usually have multiple windows open.
All I’m saying here is that multitasking is not for everyone. Some can greatly benefit from the accessibility of the books online, some would need different approach in research.
The skeptic in me believes that the less books we have on our bookshelves, the less of the true researchers we are. Some processes are irreversible. One day we might miss that bookstore and library atmosphere.