Research papers and articles
The project has been particularly successful in producing a number of refereed research publications. These are listed here.
 W. Emmerich: Distributed Component Technologies and their Software Engineering Implications. In Proc. of the 24th Int. Conference on Software Engineering, Orlando, Florida. pp. 537-546. ACM Press. 2002
 G. Piccinilli, W. Emmerich, C. Zirpins and K. Schuett: Web Services Interfaces for Inter-organizational Business Processes: An Infrastructure for Automated Reconciliation. In Proc. of the 6th IEEE Int. Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing, Lausanne, IEEE Computer Society Press. pp. 285-292. 2002
 W. Emmerich and N. Kaveh: Component Technologies: Java Beans, COM, CORBA, RMI, EJB and the CORBA Component Model. Proc. of the 24th Int. Conference on Software Engineering, Orlando, Florida. pp. 691-692. ACM Press. 2002
 N. Cook, S.K. Shrivastava and S.M. Wheater:Distributed Object Middleware to Support Dependable Information Sharing between Organisations. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2002), June 2002, Washington DC
 S.K. Shrivastava: Middleware for supporting inter-organisational interactions. In Proceedings of Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing (FuDiCo), Bertinoro, Italy, June 02
 E. Turrini and F. Panzieri: Using P2P Techniques for Content Distribution Internetworking: A Research Proposal. In proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Linköping, Sweden, 5-7 Sept. 2002
 G. Lodi: End-to-end QoS-aware Middleware Services. 7th Cabernet Radical Workshop, Bertinoro (FC), Italy, 13-16 Oct. 2002
 E. Turrini: A Platform for Request Routing in Content Distribution Internetworks. 7th Cabernet Radical Workshop, Bertinoro (FC), Italy, 13-16 Oct. 2002
 N. Mezzetti and F. Panzieri: The Data Grid: Security and Privacy Issues. In Proc. 4th European Dependable Computing Conference, Toulouse (F), 22-25 Oct. 2002
 A. Aldini, M. Bernardo, R. Gorrieri and M. Roccetti: QoS Evaluation of IP Telephony Services: A Specification Language Based Simulation Software Tool. Systems Analysis Modelling Simulation, Taylor and Francis Group Pub., accepted for publication, December 2002
 A. Di Ferdinando, P. McKee and A. Amoroso: A Policy Based Approach for Automated Topology Management of Peer To Peer Networks and a Prototype Implementation. In Proc. of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY2003), Lake Como, Italy, June 2003.
 G.N. Rodrigues, G. Roberts, W. Emmerich and J. Skene: Reliability Support for the Model Driven Architecture. In Proc of the ICSE Workshop on Software Architecture for Dependable Systems 2003 (RRES03: Reliability Support), ICSE 2003
D.D. Lamanna, J. Skene and W. Emmerich: SLAng: A Language for Service Level Agreements. In Proc. of the 9th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends in Distributed Computing Systems (LSE03: SLAng), 2003, (pages 100-106) IEEE Computer Society Press.
 D.D. Lamanna, J. Skene and W. Emmerich: SLAng: A Language for Defining Service Level Agreements. Accepted for Poster presentation, Middleware 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 N. Kaveh and W. Emmerich: Validating Distributed Object and Component Designs. In Formal Methods for Software Architecture, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2804, 2003, pages 63-91, Edited by M. Bernardo and P. Inverardi KE03: Validating)
 J. Skene and W. Emmerich: Model Driven Performance Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems. In Proc. of International Workshop on Test and Analysis of Component Based Systems, Warsaw, April 13th, 2003 in conjunction with European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) 2003. And in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, April 2003, vol. 82, number 6 (SE03: Performance)
 C. Molina-Jimenez, S.K. Shrivastava, E. Solaiman and J. Warne: Contract Representation for Run-time Monitoring and Enforcement. In Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC’03), Newport Beach, CA, June 2003, pp. 103-110
 A. Amoroso and F. Panzieri: A scalable architecture for responsive auction services over the Internet. TR UBLCS-2003-09, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bologna, June 2003
 E.Turrini: Dependability Issues in Content Distribution Internet-working. In Proc. of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Student Forum, June 2003
 G. Lodi and F. Panzieri: JBoss vs. JOnAS. TAPAS Project Internal Report, June 2003
 W. Beckmann and M. Koßmann: An Answer to the JBoss vs. JOnAS Comparison. Adesso AG, 30 June 2003
 J. Crowcroft, S. Hand, R. Mortier, T. Roscoe and A. Warfield: QoS`s Downfall: At the bottom, or not at all!. In Proc. of the ACM Workshop on Revisitng IP Quality of Service (RIPQoS), pp. 109-114, August 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany
 P. Gevros: Internet Service Differentiation using Transport Options: the case for policy-aware congestion control. In Proc. of the ACM Workshop on Revisitng IP Quality of Service (RIPQoS), pp. 151-157, August 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany
 P.D. Ezhilchelvan and S.K. Shrivastava: Systematic Development of a Family of Fair Exchange Protocols. Seventeenth Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, Estes Park, Colorado, August 2003
 S. Ferretti and M. Roccetti: On Designing an Event Delivery Service for Multiplayer Networked Games: An Approach based on Obsolescence. In Proc. 7th International Conference on Internet, Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2003), Honolulu, (HI), August 2003
 M. Roccetti and P. Salomoni: The Design and Performance of a Wireless Internet Application for Supporting Multimedia City Guides. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE 2003), Newark (NJ), August 2003
 N. Mezzetti: Towards a Model for Trust Relationships in Virtual Enterprises. In Proceedings of 14th Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'03) Workshop, 1 - 5 September 2003, Prague (Czech Republic)
 J. Skene, G. Piccinelli and M. Stearns: Modelling Electronic Service Systems Using UML. In Workshop on Service Based Software Engineering, FM2003-SBSE, Pisa, Italy, 2003, September, "Technische Universität München", pages15—30, url: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Skene/phd/sbse2.pdf (SPS03: Modelling)
 A.I. Kistijantoro, G. Morgan, S.K. Shrivastava and M.C. Little: Component Replication in Distributed Systems: a Case study using Enterprise Java Beans. In Proc. of the 22nd IEEE/IFIP Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS2003), Florence, October 2003, pp. 89-98, ISBN: 0-7695-1955-5
 J.Skene and W. Emmerich: A Model Driven Architecture Approach to Analysis of Non-Functional Properties of Software Architectures. In Proc. of the 18th IEEE Conference on Automated Software Engineering (SE03), October 2003, Montreal, Canada (pages 236-239), 2003. IEEE Computer Society Press
 E. Turrini: A Protocol for exchanging performance data in Content Distribution Internetworks. 8th CaberNet Radicals Workshop, Ajaccio, Corsica, 5 - 8 October 2003
 N. Cook, S.K. Shrivastava and S. Wheater: Middleware Support for Non-repudiable Transactional Information Sharing between Enterprises. In Proc. of the 4th IFIP International Conf. on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 03, November 2003, Paris
 E. Solaiman, C. Molina-Jimenez and S.K. Shrivastava: Model Checking Correctness Properties of Electronic Contracts. International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Trento, November, 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2910, Springer (2003).
 E. Turrini: An architecture for Content Delivery Networks federation. CaberNet Plenary Workshop, 5-7 November 2003, Porto Santo, Portugal
 E. Turrini: Analyzing web response time. CaberNet Plenary Workshop, 5-7 November 2003, Porto Santo, Portugal
 C. Molina-Jimenez, S.K. Shrivastava, E. Solaiman and J. Warne: Run-time Monitoring and Enforcement of Electronic Contracts. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), Elsevier, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004
 G. Denaro, A. Polini and W. Emmerich: Early Performance Testing of Distributed Software Applications. In Proc. of the 4th Int. Workshop on Software and Performance, San Francisco, January 2004 (ACM Press)
 E. Turrini and V. Ghini: A Protocol for exchanging performance data in Content Distribution Internetworks. In Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Networking (ICN'04), February 29 - March 4, 2004 – Creole Beach Hotel, Gosier, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean
 N. Cook, P. Robinson and S.K. Shrivastava: Component Middleware to Support Non-repudiable Service Interactions. In Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2004), Florence, June 2004, pp. 605-614.
 C. Molina-Jimenez, S.K. Shrivastava, J. Crowcroft and P. Gevros: On the Monitoring of Contractual Service Level Agreements. In Proc of the First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting (WEC), July 2004, San Diego
 J. Skene, D. Lamanna and W. Emmerich: Precise Service Level Agreements. In Proc. of the 26th Int. Conference on Software Engineering, Edinburgh, UK, Sept. 2004. ACM Press
 L. Capra. Engineering Human Trust in Mobile System Collaborations. In Proc. of the 12th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (SIGSOFT 2004/FSE-12). November 2004.
 L. Capra. Towards a Human Trust Model for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. In Proc. of 2nd UK-UbiNet Workshop. May 2004, London, United Kingdom.
 N. Mezzetti, Enabling Trust-Awareness in Naming Services. In Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 3184, pp. 20-29, 2004.
 N. Mezzetti: A Socially Inspired Reputation Model. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag GmbH, Volume 3093 / 2004: Public Key Infrastructure: First European PKI Workshop: Research and Applications, Samos Island, Greece, June 25-26, 2004, Editors: Sokratis K. Katsikas, Stefanos Gritzalis, Javier Lopez
 G. Lodi, F. Panzieri: QoS-aware Clustering of Application Servers. In Proc. 1st IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service in Application Servers (QoSAS 2004), in conjunction with 23rd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2004), Jurerê Beach Village, Santa Catarina Island, Brazil, 17 October 2004.
 Davide Rossi, Elisa Turrini: Testing J2EE clustering performance and what we found there. In Proc. 1st IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service in Application Servers (QoSAS 2004), in conjunction with 23rd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2004), Jurerê Beach Village, Santa Catarina Island, Brazil, 17 October 2004.
 Di Ferdinando A., Ezhilchelvan P.D., Mitrani I.: Design and Evaluation of a QoS-Adaptive System for Reliable Multicasting. In Proc. of the 23rd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS04), Florianópolis, Brazil, October 2004.
 G. Ferrari, S. Shrivastava, P. Ezhilchelvan: An Approach to Adaptive Performance Tuning of Application Servers. In Proc. 1st IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service in Application Servers QoSAS 2004), in conjunction with 23rd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2004),Santa Catarina Island, Brazil, 17 October 2004.
 D. Rossi, E. Turrini: Analyzing Performance Data Exchange in Content Delivery Networks. In Proc. International Conference on Networking (ICN '05), Reunion Island, April 17-21, 2005.
 N. Mezzetti: Design and Evaluation of a Trust-Aware Naming Service, To appear in Computer Systems Science and Engineering Journal, 2005.
 W. Emmerich, J. Skene: Engineering Runtime Requirements-Monitoring Systems using MDA Technologies, Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing (part of ETAPS in Edinburgh, April 2005), to be published in LNCS by Springer Verlag.
 C. Molina-Jimenez, J. Pruyne and A. van Moorsel: Software Architectures for Service Level Agreements and Contracts, To appear in "Architecting Dependable Systems III", to be published in the LNCS series by Springer in 2005, Editors: Rogerio de Lemos, Cristina Gacek and Sascha Romanovsky.
 EU-Forschungsprojekt fördert ASP-Markt (EU research project encourages ASP market)
 Industriemanagement (Industrial management), pp 77, GITO mbH Verlag,1/2003, Berlin, Germany
 Marktbelebung durch mehr Sicherheit und Qualität (Market upturn by more security and quality)
 Versicherungswirtschaft (Insurance economy) pp 67, Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft GmbH, 1/2003, Karlsruhe, Germany
 Die zweite ASP-Welle ist auf dem Weg (The second wave of ASP is on it’s way) Computerwoche, pp 34-35, IDG Business Verlag GmbH, 26/2003, München, Germany
 TAPAS macht Appetit auf ASP (TAPAS whets one’s appetite for ASP) eCommerce Magazin 06-07 /2003, IWT Magazin Verlags-GmbH, Vaterstetten, Germany.


BOOK REVIEW by Dr. Shoeb Amin
Title: What’s so great about Christianity?
Author: Dinesh D’Souza
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
I just finished reading this book recently; it is one of those books I’ll have to read a second time. It is so full of important facts and novel perspectives on many of the issues about religious and atheistic beliefs, it is hard to digest and remember it all after one reading – at least it was for me.
A word about the author: Dinesh D’Souza is an Indian American, a Conservative who worked as a policy adviser for Ronald Reagan, and is affiliated with American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Hoover Institution and is considered a Christian apologist. Most of us have heard some unsavory things about him including a charge for illegal political contributions to which he pleaded guilty. But don’t let the above introduction turn you off of this book.
A word about the title: Even though it is about defending Christianity, you could use some of the same arguments the author makes in the book to defend any religion. So again don’t let the title turn you off. of the book.
I’ve read a couple of books that deal with the same issues; this was much easy to read, based more on logic and science and less on esoteric concepts and metaphysics . This is evident in chapters like “Christianity and Reason: The Theological Roots of Science; From Logos to Cosmos: Christianity and the Invention of Invention; Paley (referring to William Paley who propounded the “watchmaker” argument) Was Right: Evolution and the Argument from Design. In this last chapter he actually describes evolution as more correct than the biblical account; and there are many other examples where he favors the scientific explanation over religious dogma, which I found refreshing, coming from somebody with his credentials.
I’ll just let some of the reviews listed in the book do the talking. Michael Shermer, publisher of “Skeptic” magazine writes: “But he is a first-rate scholar whom I feel absolutely compelled to read….. and although non-Christians and non-theists may disagree with some of his arguments, we ignore him at our peril. D’Souza takes the debate to a new level. Read it”. Dallas Willard, author of “the Divine Conspiracy” writes: “Pastors, teachers, believers, and the sincerely perplexed will find this book indispensable”. I might add atheists to that list too.
My opinion: Read it!
( Shared by Nasik Elahi)
There is a lot of suffering in this house,” the Indian photographer Sohrab Hura writes in a note printed at the beginning of his photo journal “Life Is Elsewhere.” In 1999, when Hura was seventeen years old, his mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and in the following years the house they shared was overtaken by her illness. In the book, which Hura self-published last month, he describes her screaming obscenities, obsessively changing the locks on the door, beating him with a stick, and at times disbelieving that he was her son. “Our initial years were spent hiding from the world,” he writes. “Hers out of paranoia and mine out of embarrassment and anger towards who she had become.”
From the anguish of this situation, Hura—who last year became the second Indian photographer ever to become a nominee member of Magnum Photos—created a loving and assiduously candid photographic portrait of his mother. Produced between 2005 and 2011, his images show her isolated and claustrophobic existence: a nightgown she was wearing when forcibly hospitalized dangles alone in the frame; wrinkles ripple darkly across the sheets of an empty bed. But the house is also a space of tentative safety and tranquility. In a photo from 2008, Elsa, his mother’s dog and primary companion, stares at the camera from the halo of a cone collar; behind her, on the bed, Hura’s mother sleeps peacefully.
Worth reading book review by Jake Lamar.
Whatever Pakistan’s faults, the war on terror only further rent its fragile social fabric. In “Osama bin Laden’s Death,” Hamid writes: “Crowds are justifiably celebrating bin Laden’s death in downtown Manhattan, where a decade ago al-Qaeda terrorists infamously massacred nearly three thousand people. But since the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, terrorists have killed many times that number of people in Pakistan. Tens of thousands have died in terror and counterterror violence, slain by bombs, bullets, cannons, and drones. America’s 9/11 has given way to Pakistan’s 24/7/365.”
One could say, with no snark intended, that back in the year 2000, twenty-nine-year-old Mohsin Hamid was the ultimate bourgeois bohemian. He had just published a well-received first novel. He lived on lovely Cornelia Street, in a corner of the West Village once inhabited by artists and writers but, by the dawn of the twenty-first century, affordable mainly to investment bankers and management consultants. As it happened, this debut novelist was also a management consultant. And in a deal of sugar-shock sweetness, his employer, McKinsey & Company—famous for overworking its bright young climbers—allowed this graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law three months off per year to write fiction. This guy, as Frank Sinatra might have crooned, had the world on a string, the string around his finger.
But even back then, before the twin towers came tumbling down, Hamid felt the sting of Islamophobia in New York City. In “International Relations,” one of the many superb pieces in his first collection of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations, Hamid describes how he was made to squirm every time he went to the Italian consulate in Manhattan to receive official clearance to visit his then-girlfriend in her European homeland. Hamid’s passport “runs suspiciously backward, the right-hand cover its front, and above the curved swords of its Urdu lettering . . . reads, ‘Islamic Republic of Pakistan.’ Words to make a visa officer tremble.”
For Hamid, life in the Big Apple would turn sour fast. As he writes in another essay: “The 9/11 attacks placed great strain on the hyphen bridging that identity called Muslim-American. As a man not known for frequenting mosques, and not possessing a US passport, I should not have felt it. But I did, deeply. It seemed two halves of myself were suddenly at war.” He arranged to have McKinsey transfer him, indefinitely, to London. All was well there, at least for a while: “Like many Bush-era self-exiles from the United States, I found that London combined much of what first attracted me to New York with a freedom America seemed to have lost in the paranoid years after 9/11.” In London, Hamid met the love of his life: “She and I had been born on the same street in Lahore.” He quit McKinsey. He published his mesmerizing second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which became an internationally acclaimed best seller. Marching with a million other people in Hyde Park to protest the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hamid thought: “I am one of them. I am a Londoner.”
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Book Rec: Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
An Oprah Book Club recommendation, I listened to the audiobook of these short stories. Say You’re One of Them left me affected to put it mildly. It brought to life such tragedy and violence in various countries of Africa. After reading “We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with our Families” about the Rwandan genocide, I thought I understood the delicate balance of neighbor killing neighbor, but listening to Akpan’s story about the young children in struggling to comprehend unspeakable acts was gut wrenching. Listening to these stories helps speak life into the tragedies. The universal challenge faced in each story is how children in Africa struggle to stay alive. Each story in this collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances.
A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl relates her family's struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle's attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees - a microcosm of today's Africa - a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear a treacherous ride across Nigeria. Through the eyes of childhood friends the emotional toll of religious conflict in Ethiopia becomes viscerally clear.
Uwem Akpan's debut novel signals the arrival of a breathtakingly talented writer who gives a matter-of-fact reality to the most extreme circumstances in stories that are nothing short of transcendent. The audiobook has an interview with the author at the end.
Each of the stories is told through the eyes of a child. How does that change or impact your reaction?
In Ex-Mas Feast, Maisha (the 12-year) was a full-time prostitute. Do you think she had a choice in her actions? Is it possible to have complete freedom of will in such a situation?
While these short stories are fiction, they are based in reality. How has this novel changed how you think about these tragedies? How do the short stories compare to what you read in the media? Is your reaction different?
What are the universal obstacles these children face?


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Upside Down - Carpenter, Edmund; Bahnson, Anne; Fienup-Riordan, Ann; Sutherland, Patricia; McGhee, Robert; Dneprovsky, Kirill; Bronshtein, Mikhail - Yale University Press
Jun 14, 2011
232 p., 10 1/4 x 9 1/2
132 color + 62 b/w illus.
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Edited by Edmund Carpenter; Contributions by Anne Bahnson, Mikhail Bronshtein and Kirill Dneprovsky, Edmund Carpenter, Ann Fienup-Riordan, Robert McGhee and Patricia Sutherland, and Lorraine Spiess
Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the Anthropology category
Based on groundbreaking new scholarship, Upside Down: Arctic Realities brings together ancient and modern works from the Arctic region, including major sites in Russia and Alaska. The featured pieces dramatically illustrate the continuing influence of centuries-old traditions in modern times and include both utilitarian and decorative items such as amulets, funerary offerings, and ceremonial masks from the Alaskan Yup'ik. Essays by leading scholars in the field explore such topics as the relationship between artist and material and between the aesthetics of native Arctic cultures and their environments.
Edmund Carpenter is a noted anthropologist and cinematographer. Anne Bahnson is currently Director of the Sisimiut Museum in Sisimiut, Greenland, and formerly Curator of the Ethnographic Collection at the National Museum of Denmark. Mikhail Bronshtein and Kirill Dneprovsky are curators at the State Museum for Oriental Art in Moscow. Ann Fienup-Riordan is a cultural anthropologist and independent scholar. Robert Mc Ghee is recently retired Curator of Western Arctic Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Patricia Sutherland is Curator of Eastern Arctic Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
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New York City’s famous subways are a symbol of human movement. They have been under nearly continuous construction and use for more than 111 years—146 if you count Alfred Ely Beach’s Pneumatic Transit line. The most recent station was just opened this September. The system is a massive, sprawling, complicated web of stations, tunnels, and byways under and on the New York City streets. And it is, according to many, one of the greatest single works of civic art in the country.
Mapping all of the artworks in the city’s subway should be the work of a small army. Instead, it is the decades-long project of a single man. Philip Ashforth Coppola has, since 1978, undertaken the grand task of chronicling and reviewing the entire art collection of the New York subway system. To date, he’s published six volumes of his work, titled “Silver Connections,” and he expects to finish the project in 2030. He’ll be 82 by then. A documentary about his project, “One Track Mind,” is available on Amazon.
Each volume of “Silver Connections” is a treasure bound in cardstock. They are hundreds of pages long, filled with his black-and-white line drawings of the small pieces of art that make each of the system’s 469 stations unique. His hand-written notes fill the margins, describing colors and wear, and the illustrations are broken up by pages of narrative history of the artwork, often drifting into anecdote or imagination.
Coming across his books in a bookstore is unlikely – his print runs are small and costly – but they can be acquired through New York Bound Books.
After nearly four decades on the project, he’s hard-pressed to say precisely what set him on this track, but he does recall a childhood interest in the subway art.
“Way down beneath the streets of Manhattan,” Coppola wrote the first volume of “Silver Connections,” “there is still an ancient crow-stepped Dutch house on Wall Street, and for that matter, the spire of St. John’s Chapel still needles the sky over Varick Street, sloops go a-sailing from the Battery like they did back around 1800, and an old foot bridge still crosses the Harlem River from Third Avenue, and locomotives sporting big black funnels pull in at Grand Central by the hour.”
History is written in the art on those tunnel tiles, equal in every way to the paintings on ancient cave walls. And Philip Coppola is an anthropologist of the new city.


Thursday, August 5, 2010
Handmade Marketplace - great reference book
I ordered this book a couple month ago on Amazon.com when I was just thinking about entering into the handmade biz. I highly recommend it for anyone just starting out or needing some new ideas on how to put yourself out there. It has great references that are very current. I am going to look over it again now that I have my shop set up and in a semi-promotion mode. There's another book that I reserved from the library and picking up later today, I will blog about it once I get a chance to look through it.


Maps and Plans
The Archives has a considerable number of maps of Victoria and environs dating from 1848 to the present.
Building plans and applications for plumbing connections for demolished buildings are also held by the Archives. These are useful tools for researching architects and homes. They also provide information on buildings and businesses that no longer exist.
Applications for plumbing connections show the owner at the time the building was plumbed, legal description and a drawing of the outline of the building with plumbing connections to the sewer. Building plans often show who the building was built for, date, architect, elevations and alterations.
Maps, building plans, and applications for plumbing connections are searchable via the Archives Online Search site. Use the links below for quick access.
Image at top: Detail of Pemberton's map of the City of Victoria, 1861 [CVA M08542, Map B0016]
Image at bottom: Detail of plan for proposed alterations of building at 734 Broughton Street, B.C. Funeral Company (Haywards Ltd.), 1930-1931 [CR-0144-2-0004, sheet 3]
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Wild Bull Curry definitely changed the face of wrestling. His wild antics added an edge and air of mischief that made fans either love him or hate him. Either way, you knew who the Bull was. He was dangerous, unpredictable, larger than life…
Flying Fred, the Bull’s son, wrote a book about him (The Walking Riot) and is currently working on writing his autobiography. What’s special about Flying Fred’s books is that they are full of wrestling history that you can’t get anywhere else, only insiders know about wrestling as a business, wrestling and the changes through time, etc.
Stay tuned to learn more about the new book and where you can buy it.
I was surprised to find out how many vintage videos YouTube has of the Bull. Enjoy! and By the way, I will be posting pictures of the recent book signing where Flying Fred introduced “The Walking Riot” book based on his father’s stories and career. Stay tuned…
Come show support for your favorite wrestlers!
Saturday May 16, 2015
Vendor Fair opens at 9 a.m.
308 North Cornie Avenue
Johnstown, NY 12095-1095
Wrestling fans, a book signing event is scheduled at a New England Wrestling Hall of Fame induction ceremony held at, New England Fan Fest, Convention Center, 12 Exchange St., Providence, RI. Starting at 9:00am – All Day Event…….June 27, 2015
About the Book…
The Walking Riot, a biography on Pro Wrestling Legend, Wild Bull Curry is on the market. This is a must read story. This book is a fact filled, in depth look at the God Father of Hard Core Wrestling.
Fifty years of the Bull’s wrestling career is well documented in a book written by his son, Flying Fred, (1972 Pro Wrestling Illustrated, most popular wrestler in the world). The Bull’s story was put together from scrap books collected by his wife, Anna, from the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Flying Fred said growing up in the wrestling business and also wrestling for many years helped him collect the additional information needed to complete this book. The five years it took to write “The Walking Riot”, was well worth it. The “Bull” would have it no other way.
Wild Bull Curry had a face that you would never forget. He played a villain in the wrestling world and he was a true protector as a police officer in the streets of Hartford, CT. Wild Bull Curry was fierce and strong.
His son Flying Fred Curry loves him very much and just published a book about the Bull called The Walking Riot. Their official website is up and running. This blog will keep wrestling fans and anyone following the Curry family posted with updates on upcoming events and never before seen or rare photos/wrestling programs and articles of Flying Fred and Wild Bull.
We will also be adding updates on Nick Curry who is following in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps and pursuing a wrestling career!


As a passionate bibliophile, it was immensely difficult compiling this list of my top 10 books. What I ended up with is not the most original catalogue of favorites, but hey, the majority of these novels are universally adored for a reason. I’ve decided to omit plays, volumes of poetry, series, and books of short stories from this list, as it would have been literally impossible to decide what to include in such a limited space if I’d been choosing from such a wide variety of literary works. I would have never been able to compare John Updike’s shorts against Tennessee Williams’ plays, or Allen Ginsberg’s poetry to Harry Potter without my brain hemorrhaging. So, for the sake of my mental wellbeing, I’ve decided to feature on this top 10 list, books which are either standalone novels or memoirs.
10. Paper Towns
Author: John Green
Published: 2009, Speak
Quote: “It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
Blurb: This book gets my number 10 spot for its smart, well-paced plot; clever, relatable, realistically flawed characters; quotable dialogue; and John Green’s incredible ability to articulate the visceral emotions encompassing young adulthood.
9. On the Road
Author: Jack Kerouac
Published: 1957, Viking Press
Pages: 320 (original published version)/ 416 (original scroll version)
Quote: “They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!'”
Blurb: Jack Kerouac’s largely autobiographical account of his time spent “on the road” during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s is quite literally the book that defined a generation. Kerouac explores the ideas of uniformity, belonging, and purpose in this vibrant and candid staple of the Beat Generation.
8. Franny and Zooey
Author: J.D. Salinger
Published: 1961, Little, Brown
Quote: “It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don’t know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.”
Blurb: Franny and Zooey originally appeared as two separate novellas published by J.D. Salinger in The New Yorker. The book is one of many stories Salinger tells about his fictional Glass family. Taking place over the course of two days in the Glass home in Manhattan while Franny is having a nervous breakdown, Salinger is able to create an honest and thought provoking narrative. The book’s themes focus heavily on spirituality, modernity, and self awareness. The titular characters are so realized, it feels as if you’ve grown up in the Glass family yourself.
Author: Ian McEwan
Published: 2001, Jonathan Cape
Quote: “It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
Blurb: This book broke my heart, and I still adore it. The novel, set in predominately in England during World War II, tells the story of Robbie Turner and Cecilia Tallis, whose lives, and everyone’s around them, are altered when Cecilia’s young sister, Briony, sees something happen between the two of them that she doesn’t fully understand. The book explores the consequences of small actions, lies, and secrecy, with larger themes of forgiveness, guilt, perseverance, and time.
6. The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published: 1925, Charles Scribner’s Sons
Quote: “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
Blurb: One of the most famous and acclaimed novels in American history, this book flawlessly captures the power of hope and the American dream, as well as the dangers of living in the past, and the dark pitfalls of excess and obsession.
5. The Bell Jar
Author: Sylvia Plath
Published: 1963, Heinemann
Quote: “I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people’s eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.”
Blurb: Sylvia Plath was first an foremost a poet. Her novel is infused with lush imagery and inspired metaphors full of depth and veracity. The novel follows Esther, a young college girl, as she deals with mental illness (namely depression) and coming to terms with her place in life and how this affects the quest to forge her own identity.
4. Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir
Author: Emma Forrest
Published: 2011, Other Press
Quote: “Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn’t, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.”
Blurb: Emma Forrest is an acclaimed young writer who created this memoir as a sort of thank you letter to her late psychiatrist, Dr. R, who passed away in the early 2000’s of cancer. Having not told any of his patients he was terminally ill, he continued seeing them up until the last week of his life. Emma Forrest’s memoir explores her relationship with his man who knew her more completely than anyone else, who she loved dearly, and who taught her more about herself than anyone else ever could. It wasn’t until he was gone that she realize the person she felt closest to, she’d known nothing about at all. Forrest’s memoir reexamines her life after the passing of the most important figure in it, as she learns how to help herself by dealing with her mental illnesses alone, all thanks to Dr. R.
3. A Clockwork Orange
Author: Anthony Burgess
Published: 1962, Heinemann (UK)
Quote: “The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”
Blurb: Anthony Burgess is a genius. He uses a young man, Alex DeLarge, his somehow protagonist AND antagonist, as the mode to explore the concept of good and evil, and what it means to be a moral human being. Besides the finesse with which this immense topic is dealt, the most impressive element of this book is the dialect in which it is written. Burgess, who in addition to being a novelist was also a linguist, used Slavic influences to create Nadsat, the register spoken by Alex and the other teenagers in this book.
2. Never Let Me Go
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Published: 2005, Faber and Faber
Quote: “What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.”
Blurb: This book was nearly first on my list, but alas my number one is unmovable. This book is a dystopian science fiction novel, but above all, it’s a love story. Not a love story between two people, but a love story between humanity. The main question the book presents is What does it mean to be human? This novel made me think and feel more than any book I’ve ever read. The story centers around Kathy H., a clone, whose purpose is to provide sick members of society with her vital organs before she turns 35, after which she will ‘complete’ (to put it harshly… die). The story is beautifully thought provoking, and though the genre is technically science fiction, it always feels surprisingly real. The themes explored in the book are decidedly existential ones, and even after you’ve finished reading it, it will never let you go.
1. The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J.D. Salinger
Published: 1951, Little, Brown and Company
Quote: “Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
Blurb: I’m not entirely sure how I could ever possibly articulate my immense love for this book. I think part of connecting with a book has to do with where you are in life when you discover it. I first read The Cather in the Rye when I was 16, the same age as the novel’s protaganist, Holden Caulfield. It was the first time I read a book and felt like it was speaking directly to me, and the first time I realized I wasn’t the only person to feel a certain way. The themes in this book include alienation, growing up, and “phoniness”. While this book wasn’t the one to make me ponder existentialism (Never Let Me Go) or decode a fictional language (A Clockwork Orange) it was the most powerful, as it reminded me that I am not alone, and as long as I read, I never will be.
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen


Birth Date: April 5, 1922 / Age: 95
Birth Place: McDade, Texas, USA
Also Credited as: Gail Storm
Biography: Josephine Owaissa Cottle (born April 5, 1922), better known as Gale Storm, is an American actress/singer. Born in Bloomington, Texas, her father, William Walter Cottle, passed away when she was 13 months old and her mother, Minnie Corina Cottle, struggled to raise five children alone. Minnie took in sewing, then opened a millinery shop in McDade, Texas, which failed, and then moved to Houston. Josephine learned to be an accomplished skater and dancer, and in Junior High and High School she performed in the drama club. When she was a 17-year-old senior in high school, two of her teachers urged her to enter the Gateway to Hollywood Contest held at the CBS Radio Studio in Hollywood, California where first prize was a one-year contract with a movie studio. She won and was given the name "Gale Storm," while her performing partner, Lee Bonnell from South Bend, Indiana (whom she later married) became Terry Belmont.
After winning, she went on to become an American icon of the 1950s, performing in more than thirty-five motion pictures and starring in two highly successful television shows.
From 1952 to 1955, My Little Margie, originally a summer replacement for I Love Lucy, ran for 126 episodes and was immediately followed by The Gale Storm Show (aka Oh! Susanna), that ran for 143 episodes between 1956 and 1960.
In Gallatin, Tennessee, a 10-year-old girl, Linda Wood, was watching Gale Storm on a Sunday night television comedy show hosted by Gordon MacRae in 1954, singing one of the popular songs of the day. Linda's father, hearing the singing, asked Linda who was singing and was told it was Gale Storm from My Little Margie. Linda's father was Randy Wood, president of Dot Records, and he liked the sound so well that he called to sign Gale Storm before the end of the television show. Her first record, "I Hear You Knockin' " (a cover version of a rhythm and blues hit by Smiley Lewis, in turn based on the old Buddy Bolden standard "The Bucket's Got A Hole In It") sold over a million copies. It was followed in 1957 by the haunting ballad of lost love, "Dark Moon" that went to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. In her career, Gale Storm had several top ten songs, headlined in Las Vegas, and appeared in numerous stage plays.
In 1981, she published her autobiography, I Ain't Down Yet, which described, among other things, her battle with alcoholism.
Gale Storm has three Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Radio, Music, and Television.


6 July 2009 – UNCITRAL Practice Guide on Cross-border Insolvency Cooperation
INSOL is pleased to inform you that on 1st July 2009, the UNCITRAL formally adopted the UNCITRAL Practice Guide on Cross-border Insolvency Co-operation. The Practice Guide contains detailed guidance to judges on court to court co-operation including the appointments of persons to act at the direction of the court; the communication of information between courts; the co-ordination of administration and supervision of the debtor’s assets and the approval of agreements (protocols) concerning the co-ordination of proceedings. The Guide also includes detailed consideration of the form, negotiation and contents of crossborder protocols.
For more details, please click here.


“Answers To Your Bible Questions” by Wesley Walker
This book is a wide-ranging exploration of various subjects of the Bible, designed to teach new information and understanding of God’s word to the beginning student of Christ who desires to become a child of God and also help the reader who is already walking with God how to maintain his relationship. Comprised of 30 lessons, each which leads logically to the next.
This book is also available in electronic format.
To order your copy email: firstname.lastname@example.org
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Phone: +1 (479) 452-8285


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By Emma L. Nelson author of Frederick Hill: The Life and Lessons of a Patriot for Children and Adults (Second Edition) from which this article was derived Copyright©2016 Emma L. Nelson1-16-16
The great men who created our Constitution were very worried about someone becoming president of the United States, in the future, who would potentially not be loyal to the country. It was John Jay, who later became the first Chief Justice of the United States, who convinced the Constitutional Convention to add the word “natural” to the words “born citizen” in the draft of the Constitution. Being a “natural born citizen” became one of the requirements for qualifying to be president when John Jay’s recommendation was approved unanimously in the Convention.
The word “natural” refers to the citizenship status of the parents by means of natural law. The word “natural” was added to the words “born citizen” to ensure that both parents of any future president would be citizens of our country at the time of the birth of the future president.
Some people say that the term “natural born citizen” was not defined in the Constitution, so its actual meaning is not known. The definition is very clear, however, to anyone who understands natural law, and it will always be clear, even in the future.
The delegates participating in the Constitutional Convention were very familiar with the concept of natural law from reading and discussing a book called The Law of Nations*, which was written in French by a Swiss legal scholar named Emmerich de Vattel. In that book, which was read in French and followed by the delegates, it was clearly stated that “natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.” In only that one circumstance would no positive law be required to determine the citizenship status of the individual. That person would naturally be a citizen of the country, and thus a “natural born citizen.”
John Jay and the other early leaders were worried about someone becoming president of our country, and commander of all of our military, who was born of parents who were not citizens of the United States. If that happened the future president would then have divided loyalties and could favor other interests rather than the interests of the citizens of the United States.
It would not be surprising if someday the people lose interest in following the Constitution strictly on this matter, but that would be dangerous.
If someone would become president who is not a “natural born citizen,” there could be a takeover of our government by an enemy of our country, and that could mean that freedom would disappear, and that our wonderful country would be “transformed” beyond recognition.
*Vattel, Emmerich de. Le droit des gens (The Law of Nations). Editor: Charles W. F. Dumas. Amsterdam: Chez E. van Harrevelt, 1775.


Man, environment and economy - Readings from "Walden. Life in the Woods" by H.D. Thoreau
Institutional Communication Service
11 January 2022
Sustainable development has become an indispensable perspective for every sector of society and must find times and ways so that this culture - political, social, economic, scientific, ethical - can become an opportunity for thought and education for all. In this framework, we propose a new series of videos centred on sustainability. The contributions have been recorded during the interdisciplinary conference "Man, environment and economy" promoted by L'ideatorio USI in collaboration with USI Institute of Economics of USI and with the support of AIL.
In this video, the actress Margherita Saltamacchia leads us through the pages of "Walden. Life in the Woods" by H.D. Thoreau. In his work, the author narrates his life in a hut, built mainly by himself, on the shores of Lake Walden. He writes about his search for an intimate relationship with nature, to find himself in a society that did not represent in his eyes the proper values to be pursued, but only mercantile profit.


Phil Young (1910)
It was a Sunday afternoon in 1930 and Phil Young, a dedicated amateur golfer who also just so happened to be the owner of a precision molded rubber company (Acushnet Process Company), was playing a match against his friend who was the head of the x-ray department at a local hospital. On the final shot of the final hole, Young lined up his putt, made a solid stroke at it, but as it neared the hole, it started to wobble and it didn’t go in. And as every golfer knows, it’s never the result of operator error. It’s always the equipment’s fault, right?... Right?
Well, in all seriousness, convinced that the ball itself was at fault, Young and his opponent went to the hospital, x-rayed the golf ball in question, and found that its core was, in fact, off-center.
With his discovery, Phil Young persuaded Fred Bommer, a fellow MIT graduate, rubber specialist and avid golfer, to head up the Acushnet Golf Division. They knew that by implementing a better manufacturing process he would be able to make the best golf ball in the world; one that would be uniform and consistent in quality, ball after ball — and that's exactly what they set out to do.
Acushnet Processing (1912)
It took Young and Bommer several painstaking years to perfect the first Titleist golf ball, but when it was ready in 1935, it could truthfully be introduced to club professionals and golfers as the best ball ever made. Applying a lesson well learned, Young implemented a process check that is still in practice today: every single Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf ball is x-rayed.
We had a conversation with Dick Young, the son of Acushnet Company founder, Phil Young. As Dick recalls for us, had it not been for his father’s frustrating run-in with an irregular golf ball, the story of the #1 ball in golf might never have been written. Listen to the full audio below:
Feel free to share your comments below and let us know if you have any questions about the story of Acushnet.
For more stories about the history and heritage of Titleist, check out the Titleist Story.


Welcome to our Usborne homeschool library!
There's one thing my husband and I consider invaluable for our kiddos, BOOKS! Before there was an "us", I was an Education Major and an After-School Teacher and that is when the collection began. Over the years, I acquired books from everywhere: Michael's, Books-a-Million, Dollar Tree, Wal-Mart and more. As there became a "we" and then we had kids, somewhere along the way I discovered Usborne Books & More and discovered what I had been missing!
As we begin this homeschooling journey with Nathan entering Pre-K, my addiction, I mean my love for expanding our library, has only grown. I am so excited to share our current library, Usborne Books & More, with you and your kiddos.
What is a "Unit builder"? These books would be a great addition to an Homeschooling Unit.
**Please note that these links go directly to my Personal Usborne Books & More website. I will receive a commission from your purchase, but it will not affect the cost of your purchase. Thank you for supporting The Doshers!**
We love getting Usborne for Christmas! Harper received this just a few days ago!
The Read with Usborne series has multiple purposes in my opinion.
...They are well written and easy to read. The illustrative clues will be fantastic when he begins to read on his own.
...Many of the titles in the Read with Usborne also have accompanying Accelerated Reader quizzes. These are perfect to help with AR points for public schooling and also a great addition for homeschoolers.
Quizzes can be found here > https://usborne.com/browse-books/reading-level-and-age/accelerated-reader/
...They are also the perfect length for a bed time story. Not too long. Not too short.
Nathan LOVES to recite the Gingerbread Mans running song. It is a bedtime favorite! This has also inspired me to learn how to make gingerbread!
Another bed time favorite!
This book is just plain cool!
We currently have this one on the shelf. Nathan is itching for spring so we can give it some lovin'.
Nathan received this as a Christmas gift just the other day!
We have a lamp to read by at night. The boys love to see the pages come to life as we hold the book up to the light!
Chapter books are a night time staple in our house. They allow the boys to be read to but without the stimulation of the pictures. We pull these out on nights when its been an over stimulating day and they just simply need to rest.
I have this put away for a snowy day come January!


Interactive 3D in Shiny (shinyRGL)
The rgl package has been used to produce rich, interactive 3D graphics within R using the OpenGL framework for some time. The rgl authors also added the ability to export to WebGL, allowing R authors to produce interactive 3D graphics that were accessible from within any modern web browser.
Reproducing R: Scripts, Documents, and Packages
I’m sharing the slides from the talk I’ll be giving at the Dallas R Users Group on creating R packages (and other techniques for reproducing R). I’ll introduce R scripts, reproducible R documents, and R packages. We’ll use the knitr, devtools, and roxygen2 packages in the examples.
Dallas R Users: Creating R Packages this Saturday, 6/29
I’ll be presenting at the Dallas R Users Group next Saturday at 10:00AM at the University of Dallas on how to reproduce your R code. We’ll review how to use R scripts, how to embed R code in reproducible documents, and then introduce how to create your own R packages based on your R code. At the end of the afternoon, you’ll be familiar with the entire process of creating an R package to be shared on a repository like CRAN or Bioconductor. No programming background is required – the entire process will be done within RStudio and the R code we’ll be using will be very basic.


The award winning feature-length documentary A Walk to Beautiful produced by Engel Entertainment, tells the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries and embark on a journey to reclaim their lost dignity. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, these women are left to spend the rest of their lives in loneliness and shame. They make the choice to take the long and arduous journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in search of a cure and a new life. (Read more...)
A Walk to Beautiful was shown on PBS Nova on May 13, 2008. (Read more...)
If you missed it then watch A Walk to Beautiful video online now!
or Buy the full length DVD of all 5 stories online
Read LA Times review of A Walk to Beautiful
Read the NY Times article "Alone and Ashamed" By Nicholas D. Kristof in May 16, 2003, that prompted Steve Engel of Engel Entertainment "to do something about this."
Read "They Think They’ve Been Cursed by God" By Nicholas D. Kristof in Feb 25, 2007.
Take this quiz of TwoWorlds to see how women in rich and poor countries face very different realities when it comes to childbearing and maternal health.
A Walk to Beautiful - Program Overview and Discussion Guide and Teacher's Guide (pdf)
Producer's Story |
Second Chances | Two Worlds
Preview | A Walk to Beautiful Production Notes | Movie Trailer
Further Resources: Program Background,Articles & Transcripts, Multimedia, Further Reading, Help & Support, and Links (Read more...)
A Walk to Beautiful Program Participants including the Karin, Founder of Grace Village, Sister Ruth Kennedy, Wubete and Yenenesh.
A strikingly beautiful, petite girl of 17, Wubete’s sorrows began during her motherless
childhood. Her father married her off at age 10, but stubborn and longing to go to
school, she ran back home. Her father beat her, but the cycle of running away from
forced marriages and enduring beatings continued until she got pregnant by her fourth
husband. She was 15 years old and too small to delivery a baby safely. Wubete’s
fistula is closed surgically but by her third visit to the Fistula Hospital, her injuries have
proven so severe, she still suffers from incontinence. She finds hope in a medical device that helps her lead a productive life.Today she is mother to four adopted children at Grace Village in northern Ethiopia.
Read update on Wubete's story(May 2008).
Latest about Wubete on May 2010.
Left motherless and given away to two husbands by the time she was 10, Yenenesh
became incontinent as a result of her first pregnancy at the age of 12. Moving to the
nearest town from her village with the hope of finding a cure for her condition, she
found work as a domestic aid for a family. The feisty quintessential teenager (she’s
about 17), she makes her hopeful journey to the hospital. When she finds out that she
does not have a fistula but leaks as a result of nerve damage, she becomes
inconsolable, thinking that a full treatment is elusive. Today, Yenenesh has joined her
friend Wubete up in Grace Village, in northern Ethiopia, to work as a “house mother”
for AIDS and war orphans.
Special Thanks to:
Engel Entertainment | PBS | Fistula Foundation


You may have caught the story in the Pilot about Tom Egan and me working together on several projects tied to kids and books. Tom is on the Library Foundation Board. In better times I believe the City would certainly consider helping to fund a new main library and much needed expansion and renovation of the two branch libraries. But in lean times, we need to come up with other revenue sources. And that's what Tom and I have been talking about for months.
Tom and I began meeting to figure out ways to raise the level of interest in our libraries and the need for a central library. We came up with the idea of putting a cart of library books on the City's mobile rec van that went out to different neighborhoods each week. Although it doesn't make sense to me, the city council axed the mobile rec van project so there went our idea!
We have been visiting after school programs-SOY, MIKA, THINK and Tewinkle School--to see how we can get more books into these programs to get kids interested in going to the library. Yesterday Tom, Bob Ooten and I met for a tour of the new Tustin Library--wow! Kind of like if Tustin can build a new library, then we can too! Here is the link: http://www.tustinca.org/Library/index.html
Bob is with the Friends of the Library located on the Mesa Verde site. He read the article about Tom and me and wanted to help too. Bob collects, sells and gives books away. The money from book sales goes to the Costa Mesa libraries.
The three of us had a great conversation afterwards at the coffee shop across the street. We kept looking at the Tustin Library and thinking--this couldn't be too hard!
I am looking forward to the Library Foundation Community Forum on May 15 at the Downtown Commuynity Center. Architectural students from OCC will present their visions for a new central state of the art library and will show their renderings. (Sponsors are The Lab, The Camp, Mesa Consolidated Water District, Newport-Mesa Daily Voice, Friends, Taco Mesa and OCC.)
Are you as passionate about reading, books and libraries as we are? I hope so! Why build a new central library and update and expand our branch libraries in this computer age? Well, you would have to see the people using the Tustin library on a Friday afternoon to become a believer too: teens (they have their own room plus a homework center for tutoring), little guys with their own computers and rows of computers for adults. Others had their own computers on WiFi. And there were a few reading books!
I believe working on this worthwhile project will unite our community. We need a common goal to improve our public libraries for all residents. Libraries bring people together. If ever there was a time we need to come together, it is now. If Tustin can do it--so can we!


YEARS AS FIRST LADY
Ulysses S. Grant - 17th President
Julia Dent on January 26, 1826 in St. Louis, Missouri
Ellen Bray Wrenshall Dent
Ulysses S. Grant on August 22, 1848 in St. Louis, Missouri
Ulysses Simpson Jr.
December 14, 1902 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 76
Biography of Julia Grant


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CONTACT: Kathleen White – (410) 767-3049
Annapolis, MD, January 14, 2014 --- The Commission on the Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution held its inaugural meeting on Thursday, January 9, 2014. During the first meeting, the goals of the Commission were discussed including: developing a plan for commemorating the events that occurred in Maryland connected to women's suffrage and the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; assembling an inventory of sites in Maryland that are significant to the suffrage movement; developing a strategy to encourage tourism related to the commemoration; and fostering collaboration between federal, state, county and municipal organizations with regard to commemorative programming.
As a result of the meeting, the Commission seeks research and volunteer assistance related to all aspects of its mission. Any organization or individual wishing to contribute to the commemoration of the passage of the 19th Amendment in Maryland, please contact your local Commissioner to volunteer information or assistance.
Ratified by two-thirds of the states by August 1920, the 19th Amendment to the United State Constitution gave women the right to vote in the United States. This Executive Commission is authorized by Chapter 603, Acts of 2013 (Code State Government Article, sec. 9-300) and chaired by the Honorable Gloria Lawlah. Authorization for the Task Force extends through October 31, 2020.
For further information, contact Delegate Ariana Kelly at (301) 858-3642, firstname.lastname@example.org or Emily Oland Squires, Maryland State Archives, 350 Rowe Boulevard, Annapolis, MD 21401, (410) 260-6443, email@example.com.


InterValue Project Weekly: 20200615-20200628
Part 1. Development Progress of InterValue.
1. INVE Mainnet: Tested and repaired the problems of the mainnet Dpos function module; Fixed the problem of slow loading of the mainnet algorithm packaging library; Adjusted the interface module of the application dll packaging library and application interaction; Wrote the file monitor of the application task engine to solve the problem of package conflicts; Performed data backup of the mainnet node server; Performed the mainnet node server deployment and configuration; Performed mainnet node server migration; Optimized the mainnet network operating environment; Maintained the stability of the mainnet.
2. inWallet: Performed stability maintenance and fixed tester feedback issues.
3. Others: Official website maintenance and updates.
Part 2. The Historical Process of InterValue.
(1) In August 2017, InterValue team envisioned the positioning, vision, and functionality of InterValue.
(2) From September to October 2017, InterValue created a team and refined the functions.
(3) In November 2017, InterValue created the R&D team and began to write a white paper and a development plan.
(4) In January 2018, InterValue completed the first draft of the Chinese and English white papers.
(5) From February to March in 2018, InterValue completed Chinese and English white papers from InterValue 1.0 to 4.0.
(6) In April 2018, the InterValue v1.0 testnet was completed and put into practice.
(7) In May 2018, the development of the InterValue v2.0 testnet was launched.
(8) In June 2018, the InterValue v1.0 testnet wallet Demo was launched.
(9) In June 2018, the InterValue v2.0 HashNet consensus mechanism was verified.
(10) In June 2018, the InterValue v2.0 exceeded a million TPS.
(11) In June 2018, the InterValue 2.0 testnet launched the world’s first local full-node, light-node alpha test.
(12) In July 2018, InterValue launched its first bounty program.
(13) In August 2018, the InterValue 2.0 testnet was awarded the TPS performance testing report and testing certificate issued by China Telecommunication Technology Labs.
(14) In August 2018, InterValue’s Chinese and English white papers are updated from 4.0 to 4.5.
(15) In August 2018, InterValue officially released the INVE ERC20 Token.
(16) In August 2018, InterValue team officially established the Xiangjiang Blockchain Research Institute.
(17) In August 2018, InterValue officially established the Blockchain Security Division.
(18) In September 2018, InterValue officially got its INVE token listed on FCoin.
(19) In September 2018, InterValue opens the bounty conversion.
(20) In November 2018, InterValue officially got listed on the Hotbit.
(21) In November 2018, InterValue officially got listed on the Bitget.
(22) In November 2018, InterValue implemented the Turing Complete Smart Contract on the DAG.
(23) In December 2018, the core members of the InterValue's technology partner were selected into the CCF TCBC.
(24) In December 2018, completion of InterValue's cross-chain, supporting transfer and exchange of INVE, BTC, ETH.
(25) In January 2019, InterValue officially launched the eco-construction excitation policy.
(26) In January 2019, InterValue official website upgrade.
(27) In February 2019, InterValue mainnet officially launched.
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Gladys Mitchell's wonderful stories continue to be reprinted, giving new readers and mystery fans opportunities to discover more of her often hard-to-find tales and texts. In March 2016 The Poisoned Pen Press will release in print and eBook editions Serpents in Eden, a great collection of Golden Age short stories centered around the theme of countryside crime. The tales -- including works from G.K. Chesterton, E.C. Bentley, Margery Allingham, and many more -- are expertly chosen by writer and scholar Martin Edwards. See the New Books section for more information, and visit my personal website for a detailed review of this anthology.
A couple of announcements in the New Books section for some great Golden Age Mystery titles that, like Gladys Mitchell's work for many years, were very difficult to find until now. Dean Street Press is providing eBook and print editions of rare mysteries by E.R. Punshon and Harriet Rutland. I'm very excited that electronic publishing and specialty presses are making some long out-of-print titles available for a new generation of readers! Check them out if you are looking for new authors to collect.
Has it been a year since I have updated this site? Since I have completed pages for synopses and reviews of all Gladys Mitchell's Mrs. Bradley and Timothy Herring mysteries, there isn't much left to provide. A review of the Stephen Hockaby title Grand Master (1939) will be posted soon. I read it for the first time this month. My time has been taken up with teaching, writing, and adding to my professional website, at www.jasonhalf.com . Why the name change? As my writing continues to gain recognition, I don't want to be confused with the other Jason Halls who are selling screenplays and stage plays and acting in television. The name "Jason Half" will be easier to brand as my own. In that regard, I've also updated my About Me page. You can read my scripts and learn more about me by following the link to www.jasonhalf.com .
A new synopsis and review have been added to the Bibliography list: information about the great but rare Stephen Hockaby title Seven Stars and Orion (1934) can be found on the site. And I'm pleased to repeat that Amazon.com now has 65 Gladys Mitchell mysteries available to U.S. readers as e-book editions for the Kindle device. That means that nearly all of this great author's books are available once again and ready for a new generation of readers to discover!
Hello, Gladys Mitchell readers! The months go by, teaching and writing and life happens, and less and less time seems to be found for pleasure reading. When that happens, I am planning to revisit the superb Stephen Hockaby novel Seven Stars and Orion (1934) and finally compose a synopsis and review for the site. In the meantime, US and UK mystery fans can celebrate with the great bounty of reprinted Mrs. Bradley titles, available in eBook and printed formats, from Amazon.com and Vintage UK. Please check out my New Books page for more information.
How does time move so fast? While 2013 allowed for little time to revisit my favorite author -- rereadings of Tom Brown's Body and The Saltmarsh Murders were about it -- I was thrilled to see a renewed interest in the Mrs. Bradley series by several fans who contacted me through this site. There are now more titles available for listening from Isis Audiobooks and Audible.com, and 2014 will see more than a dozen elusive Gladys Mitchell titles reprinted (and in e-book form!) by Vintage UK. (The lovely people at Vintage had asked me for suggestions about the best titles to bring back, and I am excited that many of my choices, including Groaning Spinney, The Echoing Strangers, and Nest of Vipers, are returning to print.) All best wishes to fans of GM and Golden Age Detective mysteries!
Trying to fill gaps in your collection of Gladys Mitchell titles but having difficulties because some are only available in expensive first editions? Good news! Vintage UK has recently licensed the reprint rights for 20 more Mrs. Bradley mysteries; many of them are hard to find. I will happily update this site as release dates become available. Also, a kindly soul on the Internet has allowed me to display a scan of the extremely rare dustjacket for the Stephen Hockaby title Gabriel's Hold. You can see it by clicking the link or visiting the Bibliography page.
Happy Holidays, everyone! One more book review added before the new year: you can access the synopsis and review for the Stephen Hockaby novel Shallow Brown by following the link. All of the other Gladys Mitchell reviews can be found on the Bibliography page. Please check it out!
I've added a new page. Entitled "Mrs. Bradley's Audio Adventures," this is an overview of the Gladys Mitchell titles available as recorded readings by the great company Isis Audiobooks. You'll also find a brief review of my recent listen of When Last I Died on CD, as well as a link (through Audible.com) for US fans to purchase and download three of the titles.
News for collectors! Some original manuscripts and correspondence from Gladys Mitchell are planned to be auctioned later this month. These items will be part of a larger lot featuring work and letters from many celebrated mystery authors including Henry Cecil, Ian Rankin, P.D. James, Michael Gilbert, Dick Francis, Ruth Rendell, Reginald Hill and many others. If further information is posted about this auction, you will find it here. Many thanks to Ralph Spurrier at Post Mortem Books for this information; the items on auction are correspondence and contributions related to his store and the long-running Catalogue of Crime annuals.
I'm pleased to announce a fine contribution to the site: fan and poet Edwin Stockdale has submitted an ode to Gladys Mitchell with his poem "Death and the Maiden." You can enjoy this tribute by clicking the highlighted title or by visiting the site's Essays and Documents page, which collects writing from many other fans as well as from the author herself.
A busy summer has postponed my reading until the fall, but I should have a few more reviews posted by year's end! In the meantime, check out the new Gladys Mitchell titles offered by Rue Morgue Press in the US and Vintage UK on the New Books page.
Completing graduate school will occupy nearly all my
time this spring, but I wanted to post the long overdue
synopsis and review of The
Croaking Raven (1966). With this posting, I
now have all 66 of Gladys Mitchell's titles represented
in the Mrs. Bradley/Dame Beatrice series! Please follow
the link or use the Bibliography
to see all the other listings.
Happy Holidays to all the fans of Gladys Mitchell!
2010 has been another generous year, and I am heartened
to see reprinted editions of more titles becoming available--some
for the first time. Most recently, Rue
Morgue Press has offered up Dead
Men's Morris (1936) and Merlin's
Furlong (1953). Please visit the New
Books page for a listing of the current reprints.
Another review from the Mrs. Bradley series is posted:
I read 1983's The Greenstone
Griffins for the first time this summer. Only
one more title left to read (The Croaking Raven
from 1966) and I'll have all of the Mrs. Bradley/Dame
Beatrice novels represented on this website! That was
my intention when I started this author tribute site
nine years ago: information about Gladys Mitchell's
books and plots, all in one place. Thanks very much
for visiting; I hope you find the information helpful.
As usual, the combination of graduate school, teaching,
and creative writing has conspired to keep me from updating
this site as often as I would like. I'm hoping to add
another book review or two before the year's end, however;
I only have two more titles to read before all 66 Mrs.
Bradley titles are represented! You can find the list
by looking through the Bibliography
page. Author Emma Donoghue has just released an excellent
study of lesbian representation in English fiction called
Desire Between Women in Literature. In the
book's chapter called "Detection," she looks
at characters from some great mystery contributors,
including Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, P.D. James,
Ruth Rendell, Josephine Tey, and Gladys Mitchell--with
an analysis of GM's Speedy
Death. Check out Inseparable
by Emma Donoghue; available through Random House and
Some new additions to be found in the New
Books section. Andrew Osmond at Minnow Press has
delivered the last of Gladys Mitchell's most elusive
titles from the late '30s/early '40s with a reprinting
of 1941's Hangman's Curfew.
And another UK publisher, Greyladies Books, offers up
their first Dame Beatrice book, a reprint of 1975's
Convent on Styx.
Mitchell reader Ryan Olsen has sent me an updated list
of his most- and least-favorite titles, and that information
can be seen on the Best and
Some interesting news to convey: In April 2010 Isis
Soundings plans to release The
Saltmarsh Murders as an audiobook recording,
with Tom Brown's Body
scheduled for the latter half of the year. Although
there's currently not a listing of the titles on Isis'
website, I will post a note when they become available.
Many thanks to Gladys Mitchell fan Carl W. for sending
me this information and confirming with Isis. And Rue
Morgue Press in the US has just released their newest
addition to their Mrs. Bradley series. The cover scan
of Death and the Maiden
can be viewed in New Books.
Vintage UK has confirmed that three classic Gladys
Mitchell titles will be reprinted and released in May
of 2010. Covers and site links can be found at the New
Books page. It's great to see Mrs. Bradley's cases
returning to print!
An entire summer spent teaching, writing, and reading,
but only now am I able to post something new to the
site! A synopsis and review of 1944's My
Father Sleeps has been added, and I only have
two more Mrs. Bradley titles left before all 66 books
are represented. Also, I'm checking on rumors that additional
Gladys Mitchell titles could be reprinted soon. I'll
deliver the details when I hear them.
School has claimed most of my time as usual, but I
have a few Stephen Hockaby updates for the site. Check
out the very rare dust jacket for Marsh
Hay. I'm currently enjoying a read of Shallow
Brown and will have a synopsis and review posted
within the next week. And I've added the cover for Rue
Morgue Press's edition of The
Longer Bodies, a great early Mrs. Bradley mystery.
You can see the new cover by visiting the New
A review of the adventure story for girls Pam
at Storne Castle is posted. And remember to
check out the New Books
page for the list of Gladys Mitchell titles due out
Two new and exciting Gladys Mitchell reprints on the
horizon: Rue Morgue Press uncovers The
Longer Bodies and Minnow Press unfurls The
Worsted Viper. Both titles arrive in early
2009; check out the New Books
page for details.
A new arrivals update: Vintage Press UK will publish
three Mrs. Bradley tales in April 2009. Get a sneak
peek by visiting the New
Books page. I also hope to add one more book review
before the year's end....
Another summer spent teaching, another summer away
from this site... but I have returned, and I've brought
a review of 1965's Pageant
of Murder with me. Click on the link in the
bibliography page for synopses
and reviews of Gladys Mitchell's works.
A new review has been posted, this one for the adventure
story for girls On Your Marks.
I've also corrected the typeface on a number of essays,
which gave me great pleasure to reread as I worked on
Morgue Press continues its great GM reprint series
by bringing forth Tom Brown's
Body. More information is available on the
New Books page.
A brief GM reading break kept me from posting a new
review until now: the Say
It with Flowers page has just been added, and
I should be making another addition or two to the site
Great news for Gladys Mitchell completists: the very
enjoyable Printer's Error
is reprinted for the first time since its initial 1939
publication. Many thanks to Minnow Press for this achievement.
You can find information on the New
Books page. I've also added a review of the late
tale The Whispering Knights.
A review of Death of a Burrowing
Mole has been added. More short story reviews
will be coming soon, and the Best
to Worst section received a brief update as well.
After a summer spent teaching and working, I'm finally
able to devote some time to website updates. This month
should see a few promising additions. I'll be adding
more short story synopses and
reviews soon ("Rushy Glen" and "Juniper
Gammon" are new), and notes on the first Stephen
Hockaby title, Marsh Hay,
are posted. Also, get a sneak peek in the New
Books section of Rue Morgue Press's latest Gladys
Mitchell reprint, the excellent Come
Away, Death. More to come!
A review of another of Gladys Mitchell's "adventure
stories for girls" is posted: check out The
Malory Secret here or through the bibliography
The classic Mrs. Bradley mystery Death
at the Opera has received a long-overdue review.
I've also updated some publishing history on certain
titles, while Nicholas Fuller has ranked his final two
Mrs. Bradley titles on the Best
and Worst list.
A new review posted in the Bibliography section for
Noonday and Night,
a mystery involving missing tour bus drivers. I've also
updated the Best and Worst
page, with a new list for myself and an intriguing,
informally annotated best-to-worst list from GM scholar
1964's Death of a Delft Blue
(alternate title: Death in Amsterdam) is reviewed, and
another classic Mitchell title gets reprinted very soon,
courtesy of Rue Morgue Press. Check the New
Books page for details.
A new review of the Malcolm Torrie title Bismarck
Herrings and a change to the e-mail contact
address are the most recent site additions. Also, I'm
looking for information about the plot of the Gladys
Mitchell children's book THE SEVEN STONES MYSTERY. If
you have any information or can help me locate a copy,
please e-mail me. It's greatly appreciated!
Posted the review of Gladys Mitchell's children's adventure
and Mediterranean travelogue The
Light-Blue Hills. I also updated my About
Me page, but not substantially.
I've returned from teaching, and am adding an in-depth
synopsis and review of Brazen
Tongue, an exciting wartime mystery. Check
out the the formidable cover scan supplied by Facsimile
A review of the final Dame Beatrice mystery is posted.
The Crozier Pharoahs
proved a solid, if not extraordinary, note upon which
to end this great series.
Getting around to my New Year's promise of regular
site updates a bit late, but they arrive nonetheless!
Reviews of Gory Dew
and the children's adventure The
Three Fingerprints are posted. And many thanks
to Mark Terry of Facsimile
Dust Jackets for graciously providing us with some
striking first edition images. The covers for Brazen
Curfew, and Printer's
Error are particularly impressive. Thanks,
12/14/05 -- HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
A couple simple December updates: new reviews posted
for St. Peter's Finger and
for the Malcolm Torrie title Shades
of Darkness. Wishing everyone a promising 2006!
11/11/05 -- HERE TO STAY
Though this site has been unavailable in times past,
I'm happy to report that we should be up and running
for good as of today. New web hosting = No problems.
Before the end of this year I'll be cleaning up the
site a little, adding a few reviews (St. Peter's
Finger will be next; I'm rereading it now), and
getting it ready for 2006. Thanks for visiting, and
very happy to hear from Mitchell fans via e-mail!
10/15/05 -- CRIMESQUAD SPOTLIGHTS MITCHELL
A very busy month for me, as I have uprooted from Maine
to Pennsylvania. But a productive one for Gladys Mitchell,
Morgue Press has reprinted the classic When
Last I Died this month; follow the publisher's
link for ordering info. And Chris Simmons, creator of
the great contemporary crime fiction site Crimesquad.com
is showcasing Gladys Mitchell in the Classic Crime section
this month. Check out Chris's informative site.
Thanks to an informative visitor, I've updated the
page for Mark Terry of Facsimile
Dust Jackets, who offers a number of Gladys Mitchell
jacket covers for sale. There's also an update on the
page that details various readers' choices of Best
to Worst Mrs. Bradley tales.
8/14/05 -- NEW BOOKS SECTION
Hello all -- I've added a New
Books section to celebrate reprinted GM titles as
of late; there's also information on any rumored upcoming
releases. I'm finishing up a reading of the delightful
but frenetic Brazen Tongue,
and will post a synopsis and review shortly.
7/11/05 -- BRAZEN TONGUE SCHEDULED FOR FALL '05 PRINTING!
I am pleased to announce that Gladys Mitchell's ultra-rare
1940 mystery Brazen Tongue will get its first
reprinting later this year. The UK house
Minnow Press, with the help of Mitchell fan and
novelist Andrew Osmond, will bring this text to a new
generation with a limited run scheduled for October
2005. You can get details by checking out the link above
or visiting Amazon.co.uk. Less newsworthy, but still
of interest: there's a new review posted for 1962's
My Bones Will Keep.
3/21/05 -- GM SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY AVAILABLE!
Another belated update, but an update nonetheless....
The biggest news is the arrival of the Gladys Mitchell
short story collection Sleuth's Alchemy, which
gathers several previously out-of-print stories written
for the London Evening Standard. It is cause
for celebration, and you can obtain a copy through Crippen
& Landru publishers, whose contact info is also
on this site's Links page. I've also added a review
of Dead Men's Morris,
found in the Bibliography section.
Practically one year later, and I'm just beginning
to revisit this site. (A business purchase has kept
me busy--too busy--for the 2004 year.) My Mitchell reading,
and pleasure reading in general, had been put on hold
for quite a while, and I'm finally starting to enjoy
Golden Age mystery stories again. In September I read
Cold, Lone and Still
and The Worsted Viper,
with reviews posted. October brought visits to Lovers,
Make Moan and the children's book Holiday
River. But I'm most proud of the site's newest
addition, an essay wherein I try to explain just what
makes Gladys great. You can read Artistic
Difference here. New e-mail address too (this one
New reviews for a pair of lighthouse-themed stories:
Skeleton Island and the very rare Stephen
Hockaby novel Gabriel's Hold.
Plus, there's Mingled with Venom
to boot and an essay written by Gladys Mitchell in 1981
about her days in The Detection Club--see The
Golden Age in the essay section. Many thanks
this month to Mr. Laurence Worms of Ash
Reviews posted for Watson's
Choice and The Saltmarsh
Murders. I've been busy working on another writing
project, but still find time to indulge in some Mitchell
mysteries on occasion. That said, my take on Skeleton
Island will be forthcoming... Stay tuned.
New reviews of the entertaining books Merlin's
Furlong and Dance to
Your Daddy posted, as well as a couple scans
of Miss Mitchell's book inscriptions, courtesy of Christie
collector Bevis Benneworth. (Look up The
Twenty-Third Man and Spotted
Hemlock for these additions.) As American viewers
may know, PBS has just finished running the four Mrs.
Bradley/Diana Rigg episodes stateside; for author Andrew
Osmond's take on these programs, I direct you to his
article, Mrs. Bradley on
I'm pleased to announce some new, first-edition cover
scans from bookseller Laurence Worms over at Ash Rare
Books: check out the pages for Come
Away, Death, The Twenty-Third
Man, Caravan Creek,
and Adders on the Heath.
Plus, news from Crippen & Landru publishing tells
us to look for the Gladys Mitchell short story collection
Sleuth's Alchemy, edited by Nicholas Fuller,
either late 2003 or early 2004. This collection should
contain EVERY Mitchell story first published in the
Evening Standard, many of them never before reprinted,
and is therefore an exciting prospect for fans!
Busy life and little reading as of late, though I'm
hoping to read more Mitchell as the summer moves on.
In the meantime, reviews of Uncoffin'd
Clay and the elusive Hangman's
Curfew will have to tide you over.
More reviews from April, and a bit of variety at that:
I take a look at the Malcolm Torrie title Churchyard
Salad, try out the children's book Caravan
Creek, and revisit the solid Mrs. Bradley mystery
Laurels Are Poison.
Two reviews posted last month; check them out if you
haven't yet done so. The Nodding
Canaries and The Longer
Bodies were both up for scrutiny, and worth
a read (or re-read).
Happy New Year! New book reviews: Gladys Mitchell's
first, Speedy Death,
and a Scotland-set later entry, Winking
at the Brim. The best-to-worst
title ranking is also updated, and 2003 should bring
many more additions to the site. Stay tuned.
Reviews posted for a pair of mysteries with literary
leanings: Printer's Error
and The Mudflats of the Dead.
I updated a first edition photo of Wraiths
and Changelings courtesy of Andrew Osmond, replacing
an ugly red-and-black Magna Print scan. And I've heard
rumblings in the Crippen
& Landru pipeline that those great publishers are
moving forward with a collection of Gladys Mitchell's
Evening Standard short stories. I'll post more information
as soon as it becomes available...
Review of The Man Who Grew
Tomatoes fresh, ripe, and ready for picking
(or picking on). A UK friend has donated a color scan
of the original Devil
at Saxon Wall dustjacket, so that's also
available. Check out the bibliography for all your literary
Busy, busy summer...but productive! (But not really
for this website...) Anyway, recent reviews include
Convent on Styx,
and When Last I Died.
TV Land has already pulled "Mary Hartman, Mary
Hartman" from its schedule, not even giving the
quirky show a chance to find a new audience. And the
title rankings in the "best to worst" lists
are being subtly, almost imperceptibly changed. See
if you can spot the difference...
I've addered reviews of Adders
on the Heath and the Malcolm Torrie title
Your Secret Friend.
And on another obsession (see my "About Me"
page), the 1976 TV series "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"
is finally being brought back to U.S. television via
the TVLand channel. As Mary whispers at the end of episode
3 (I already said it was an obsession), "Thank
you, God, for small....favors."
Something old, something new... Fresh reviews of The
Rising of the Moon and The
Murder of Busy Lizzie are available from
the Bibliography page. Plus, Rushton and Mark of Black
& White Books have provided this site with some
vintage cover art! Check out the gorgeous dustjackets
for these titles: Sunset
over Soho, The
Dancing Druids, The
Devil's Elbow, The
Rising of the Moon, and Twelve
Horses and the Hangman's Noose. You can
also own reproductions of these covers by clicking here.
And if that's not enough, I've updated the "best
& worst" lists found on the Essays page.
Newest reviews cover the titles Tom
Brown's Body (1949) and Here
Lies Gloria Mundy (1982); check them out
from the Bibliography page... I've also posted three
different "best to worst"
lists from some of us Gladys Mitchell readers who
have opinions on such matters. If you have read beaucoup
de Bradley and would like to send in a list of your
own recommendations, drop me an e-mail.
I've added four articles to the essays
page from Gladys Mitchell enthusiast and author Andrew
Osmond, including his study of Mrs. Bradley's recent
representation on the telly and a personal best and
worst list. Also, I've added a detailed synopsis and
review of Sunset Over Soho,
a tough little nut of a book that has Mitchell fans
everywhere singing its praises or cursing its name...
Plus, I (very minorly) updated my "About Me"
page to add some info and make it more web browser friendly!
Enjoy, won't you? And we're now part of a mystery authors
web ring, so you can believe that world domination is
imminent here at the Gladys Mitchell Tribute site....


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Lee took efforts at Appomattox to endure that he was not surrendering merely the forces under his command but signing an overall armistice. He made particular efforts to stop groups of Confederates who wished to wage a guerrilla campaign after the stacking of arms. The entire process was conducted with such dignity and honor that Union General Chamberlain ordered his soldiers to salute their defeated foe--- a salute which was returned by the Confederates in the first step of becoming a single nation again. Rarely in history does any civil war end in that kind of mutual respect.
After the surrender, Lincoln, Lee, Longstreet, and Sherman, along with Grant and Breckenridge (the last Confederate Secretary of War), worked to get people to come together to build a new peace without endless reprisals. They managed to hold the fragile peace together through and after Lincoln's assassination. Lee himself died five years after the surrender. Longstreet and Sherman--- perhaps one of history's unlikeliest combinations--- became good friends, working to keep Lee and Lincoln's vision of a new nation going through the upheavals of reconstruction and economic collapse. Longstreet and Sherman, with Lee's support, lead efforts to get land, education, and economic self-sufficiency to freedmen (much of which was later undone by others).
This is all, of course, a simplification, just one piece of a very complex period, of complex people, but the point is, there is more to war than who won and who gets blamed in the victor's history books. Victory is imposed on the battlefield, but establishing lasting peace takes something more. By attacking the memory of people like Lee, Longstreet, etc., we are attacking the precarious peace that they gave us. The "we won, now shut up and go away" attitude is exactly what people--- better people than us, apparently--- fought to prevent. We were shown the right way to end a war: all we have to do is keep walking in that direction.
There are many books and many primary sources on the fighting of the Civil War. Finding good accounts on the establishment of peace afterwards is surprisingly hard and woven into many other sources. As Union General J. L. Chamberlain noted, once the fighting ended, so did the official record of the Civil War. Here are a few sources which may be a good start:
- William C. Davis, "An Honorable Defeat: the Last Days of the Confederate Government" Harcourt. New York. 1946
- Joshua L. Chamberlain, "The Passing of the Armies; An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps" J.P. Putnam and Sons. New York. 1915. (Chamberlain was responsible for organizing the surrender ceremony and receiving the stacking of arms on behalf of the V Corps, U.S. Volunteers. He also notes his fears for the loss of the peace after Lincoln's assassination. A more compact record of just the surrender is here: https://www.civilwar.org/learn/primary-sources/last-salute-army-northern-virginia
- Eric Foyner, "A Brief History of Reconstruction" Harper and Row. New York. 1990 (Woven in and out of this larger work are accounts of people who tried to keep Reconstruction on track and meet their obligations to former slaves, including, at various points, Lee, Longstreet, and Sherman. If you have not read about the tortured history of Reconstruction and its dramatic failures, this is not a bad place to start.
- The personal memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, now in the public domain, also contain personal recollections bearing on these issues, including his fears of a collapse of the peace--- or of large-scale retribution against the South--- after Lincoln's assassination.
- Information on the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church monument to Stonewall Jackson commissioned by Rev L. L. Downing, the son of a slave Jackson taught to read. The stained-glass window behind the pulpit is beautiful, and worth seeing. If you do not understand the inscription, they are the last words Thomas J. Jackson spoke in the presence of his wife and surgeon on his death bed after the Battle of 2nd Chancellorsville.
- Condoleezza Rice on Removing Civil War Monuments: 'Sanitizing History to Make You Feel Better Is a Bad Thing'
- Bethlehem, PA NAACP President: "You can't eliminate what history is."
- A counterpoint: Lee's great-great grandson fine with moving monuments. (This is Robert Edward Lee V. As an aside, I once met R. E. Lee IV through a friend and former housemate of mine who was a raving socialist--- at least at the time, I have not seen him in many years--- but a good man. R. E. Lee the IV was (then) scruffy, wore his jeans around his knees and greeted us with "'Sup?". Given that we were all three somewhat young and unformed at the time, I don't know that I made any better impression, but the experience did rattle my preconceptions of what Lee's descendant would be like.)