A Journey from Health to Stroke Victim and Back
One morning, novelist Kurt R.A. Giambastiani discovers a “ghost” in his field of vision. Thus begins an unexpected, month-long journey through the halls of the medical establishment and the maze of the insurance industry, as he and his doctors try to uncover the cause of this “ghost.”
In this brief memoir, Giambastiani discusses with great humor and exceptional candor, his experience with doctors, nurses, insurance agents, family, and friends, as he works to nail down the source of his malady. Is it merely stress from overwork? Is it a genetic disorder?
Anyone who has suffered a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or a minor stroke will relate to Giambastiani’s experiences, and others will enjoy this funny and hopeful story.


Resilience among gay/bisexual young men in Western Kenya: psychosocial and sexual health outcomes.
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***Here is what The Father of Modern Networking Dr. Ivan Misner says about “I Hate Networking Events!”***
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We’ve all been there once before. We arrive to the event ready to make connections and find our next job or newest client, only to discover we have no plan with which to do this.
I Hate Networking Events! is a concise and humorous guide that will help you custom-design your own networking event plan so you are prepared for the next one.
David Wilson shares with his readers comical (but real) stories from his almost 20 years of experience networking to build sales pipelines and businesses. His goal is for the reader to laugh and learn, taking away action steps to apply immediately to get positive results.
Discover the Ultimate Results we all are actually seeking from our networking efforts. Learn the six areas of focus for each of us DURING the event. Find out how you can Raise the Flag AFTER the event.
If you’re ready to customize your plan and invest in yourself, this book if for you!


I thought that every home was the same. I had a rude awakening in my first year at university. For a "Teaching literature to children course" we spent a morning in a local primary school asking 9 year olds about their reading habits. We had to ask them questions such as......
Does someone read to you every day?
Do you own a book?
Do you go to the library?
Does your home have a daily newspaper/magazines?
Do other people in your family read?
Have you ever been given a book as a gift?
In my own home the answers to these questions were so obviously YES, that I was staggered as child after child replied NO to 2 or 3 or even all the questions.
As an aspiring teacher this confirmed for me, the importance of reading to my future students every day and having quiet time for them to read themselves. I realized that immersing them in the pleasure of the written word as much as possible was a lofty goal perhaps, but a priority.
As an 18 year old I realized how incredibly lucky I was, that a love of books had been instilled in me and that in my gilded world books, newsprint and literature were the norm.
As a parent I am passionate that my three boys enjoy reading for pleasure. As I tell them it is something you can do for your whole life, by yourself and for free with the library system!
So I am an avid reader and since we are back at the beach with a pile of books and kindle on my ipad I thought I would share some of my favorite reads with you. Some are old some are new, but the fact that they have stuck in my memory, unlike most things, sets them apart.
So in no particular order here they are:-
( You can read more about every book I recommend on the Amazon link on the right of this post.)
1. Year of Wonders By Geraldine Brooks
Don't let the fact that this is a book about the plague put you off. The year is 1666 in a small village in England. The plague has struck and the village magnanimously decides to shut its gates allowing noone in or out to keep the plague from spreading.The female protagonist is gutsy and dynamic in a world where women are maids and playthings. I read it 9 years ago and heard Geraldine Brooks speak about it at Barnes and Noble. It only made me love the book more.
2. My Year of Meat By Ruth L Ozeki
I read this in Hong Kong before coming to America. It is a story at one level about hormones in the American meat industry,but it is also about housewives in America showcasing, how to cook meat to the Japanese market so that they will buy more American beef. Politics, culture clash and early puberty collide in this expose of the meat industry. I loved it.
3.The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbera Kingsolver ( I know-I can't count)
I have a very soft spot for The Poisonwood Bible. I read it every night when I was feeding Jacob as a newborn 11 1/2 years ago. I actually was pleased when he woke so that I could carry on reading!
A bullying missionary, Nathan Price and his wife and four daughters head to the Congo to "save" their new flock.This epic story tells of how unprepared they are for living in a different culture. How they survive in the midst of political conflict, heat, changed diets and culture shock and how each three dimensional member of the family fares as they grow up and make their way in the world.
Animal,Vegetable, Miracle is Kingsolver's autobiographical tale of how she and her family choose to live self sufficiently on a farm only eating what they can grow or find locally. It is wonderful to read in contrast to the Price family's change of location in The Poisonwood Bible.
4. Expecting Adam By Martha Beck
This is an autobiography that me laugh and cry in the same paragraph. I love Martha Beck's writing and in another life I would like to come back with her gift.
She begins her story as a Harvard postdoctoral student when she finds out that the baby she is expecting has Downs syndrome. The academics around her expect that she will abort a Downs child who would get in the way of her research. But she is determined to keep him and this book tells the story of her pregnancy and the spiritual experiences she has during that time. If you choose only one book from this list choose this one.
5. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Twins abandoned at birth in a hospital where their British doctor father and Indian nun mother had worked, are adopted by remaining staff and grow up to become doctors themselves. Their relationships, passions and intelligence develop in different ways, but blood is thicker than water and the need to find out who they are is crucial. This is set against the backdrop of Ethiopia on the verge of revolution and spans continents and life times.This is a rich, engrossing, medically accurate book(the author is a doctor). Once you get into it, this book is gripping.
6.The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
This is a perfect beach read. Victoria Jones has spent her childhood in a harsh foster care system and at 18 is tossed out into the world to fend for herself. She has learned two things-to keep her emotional distance from others and the Victorian language of flowers which helps her secure a job in a florist and discover a gift for picking the right flowers for each person who comes to buy them. Even though prickly Victoria is emotionally damaged, the flowers help her thaw and through a tentative relationship, she confronts her painful past. I couldn't put it down.
7.The Devil in The White City by Erik Larson ( Jonny picked this!)
Set at the time of the World fair in 1893, this novel is a work of historical fiction, based on the true story of the architect of the world fair and a skillful serial killer who designed and built The World Fair Hotel to use to lure his victims to their deaths. This book is gripping because of its artful narration and factual basis.
8.The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
This book was intended for a young adult readership,but if it has passed you by then pick it up quickly for a remarkable read. The simplicity of it only heightens its power. It is the story of Liesel Meminger a foster child in Germany during WWII who, owning nothing, chooses of all things to steal books. With the help of her foster father,she learns to read, read to others in air raid shelters and the Jewish man hiding in their basement. It is narrated by death who comes over as a sympathetic presence who reluctantly takes the bodies he has to acquire. You will not be able to put this book down and it will stay with you long after you have read the final page.
9. Bel Canto, The Patron Saint of Liars and State Of Wonder by Ann Patchett (OK this is 3 books but I couldn't choose just one!)
I think you either love or hate Ann Patchett. I am a big fan. Each of these is very different and each is placed in an unusual setting.. The first is about a hostage taking in an embassy and the relationships that develop between captors and captives. The second is about a home for unwed expectant mothers to go to to have their babies in secret and the third focuses on a scientist who is sent into the jungle to look into the mysterious death of her colleague and the authenticity of the research that is supposedly taking place there.
10.The Invisible Bridge
This is an evocative saga that stretches from Hungary to Paris and back from 1939 to 1945 and follows the children of a Jewish family who set off with such high hopes and dreams -one to be an architect another a doctor but who's lives are interrupted by the onset of the second world war. It is a study of the Jews of Hungary not often a focus of Holocaust literature and the fallout they suffered indirectly from the rise of Nazi Germany.I particularly loved the descriptions of the Paris scenes-I wanted to rush to Paris and follow the protagonist's footsteps through the streets and be with him as he created his architectural designs in 3 D models,never mind swooning for him as an almost too perfect lover!
If you have a favorite book or a comment on one I have suggested -please share it in the comments section-we all need good recommendations.
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The Arthur P. Bedou Photographs Collection consists of photographs by the leading black photographer of New Orleans in the first half of the twentieth century, including the last pictures taken of Marcus Garvey in the U. S. and extensive documentation of Booker T. Washington's last speaking tours.
The Xavier University Library Collections Digitization Initiative focuses on building digital collections of enduring value drawn from materials in the Archives and Special Collections. Collections in process of digitization are chosen based on historical and cultural value, as well as conditional necessity.
Materials to be digitized receive conservation review prior to digitization. All manuscripts are stabilized for digitization, rehoused by Xavier University Archival Standards, and all items are ssured long-term preservation within Xavier University Archives and Special Collections.
Access and Location
Digital collections are available online through Xavier University Library Resource Center Digital Collections. Physical items are located in the Xavier Library Archives and Special Collections, Library Resource Center - Room 319
Using this Collection Guide:
Find the Box and/or Folder you wish to explore and click on the available link.
The Arthur P. Bedou Photographs Collections contains images taken by the leading black photographer of New Orleans in the first half of the twentieth century, including the last pictures taken of Marcus Garvey in the United States and extensive documentation of Booker T. Washington's last speaking tours.
You will find photographs of famous figureheads, such as Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, and William Howard Taft, as well as African American Republican Politician Walter L. Cohen, Bishop Isaiah B. Scott, and Emmett J. Scott, the highest ranking African American in President Woodrow Wilson's administration. This Collection provides an amazing visual history of the African American Photographer and is one of the most Historic Collections housed at Xavier University of Louisiana.
Please note that there are other Arthur P. Bedou Photographs located within the accompanying Xavier Photography Collections so make sure to explore our other holdings.
If you can help identify any of the unknown/unidentified images, please contact us at Archives@xula.edu.
Image Identifiers (ie. 001.01.A.1.001) are Organized by: Box, Series, Sub-Series, Folder, Item.
Click on any of the Folders below to see items in the Collection.
Total Discoverable Items on ContentDM = 151 Images
Total Scanned Pages = 151


Friday, November 18, 2011
As a child, I loved the Ramona books and loved the show on PBS. (After all I did name my daughter Beatrice. I told Cory its in honor of his grandmother but we all know its a shout out to Ramona's Aunt Beatrice and sister, Beezus. Beverly Cleary knew what was up, unlike today's authors.) I remember early Saturday mornings glued to our little TV (manual dial changer, bunny ears, and no remote! the horror!) Earlier this year my niece gave Beatrice all of her old books. You can imagine my joy when I spotted a couple of Ramona books in the pile. Last month Beatrice pulled this gem from the bottom of the box and we began our journey through Ramona Forever. I can't tell you how refreshing it is to read a book that isn't about princesses or pinkness. Ramona is one feisty little bitch.
When we started the book, I wondered if Beatrice was ready for it. She was so eager to dive in so I figured we'd give it a shot. If you come over, she'll brag to you "me and mama read chapter books!"
After every couple of pages, I'll ask her about the characters, the plot, what she think will happen next, etc. Some nights she recounts all of the details like Encyclopedia Brown (another childhood favorite- did you ever watch that film strip?) and other nights she can't piece together the story to save her life. It all depends on how tired she is and how distracted she is playing with my hair (we're in a hairdo phase.)
We are 3/4 through this book and last night we hit upon one of the major climaxes in the plot. (Spoiler alert!) Mrs. Quimby, who has been pregnant since Chapter 2 finally goes into labor. (We're going to find out if the baby is a boy or girl and what his/her name will be!) Beezus and Ramona wait by the phone to get the call from the hospital (they are left home while the parents go to the hospital.-- so 80's. Another reason this book is awesomely 80s is because rich Uncle Hobart has made his fortune working the oil rigs in Saudi Arabia.)
I'm going along, reading with enthusiasm and suspense when (my) Beatrice declares "Mama, I'm ready for bed. We can finish this tomorrow." She was so blase about the whole thing. I put the book down, rushed through the whole tuck in/hugs/kisses/water routine and came back to finish the book. Don't worry, I won't ruin it for you. But damn, that shit was a page-turner.


In a joint press conference Monday, three Lindsborg organizations announced the largest gift in each of their respective histories. In total, the Lindsborg community received more than $15 million from the David J. Nutt Trust. The McPherson County Community Foundation received over $7.4 million. Bethany College and the Lindsborg Community Hospital were gifted more than $3. 7 million each. Other beneficiaries of the trust are Trinity United Methodist Church, The Lindsborg Community Library and The McPherson Old Mill Museum and Bethany Home.
In the trust document, Mr. Nutt was specific in stating the reasons funds were gifted to each of the organizations. To the Lindsborg/ON Fund of the McPherson County Community Foundation a 50 percent endowment was given for the education, health, and quality of life in the Lindsborg Community. Bethany College received 25 percent of the trust to continue the college’s uplifting influence on the community and in gratitude for the kindness of two former Bethany college librarians, who were also Mr. Nutt’s neighbors, Vendla and Edla Wahlin. They provided Mr. Nutt’s first paid work experience by hiring him to do chores as a child, and they encouraged him to continue his education beyond high school. The Lindsborg Community Hospital received 25 percent in appreciation of the care Mr. Nutt’s parents received during their later years.
The other beneficiaries also received praise and cause for their gifts. Trinity United Methodist Church, in appreciation for the religious instruction Mr. Nutt enjoyed there as a child and the support of his family, received $100,000. The Lindsborg Community Library received $100,000 to celebrate the benefits a good library brings to the community. In the trust document, Mr. Nutt stated the information gleaned in community libraries was largely responsible for his investment successes. McPherson County Old Mill Museum also received $100,000 to aid in the preservation of McPherson County history.


Halloween season approaching and many community are beginning to put on or release dates for their seasonal events for month of October.
We're keeping a list of community events throughout the season here.
With the COVID-19 pandemic still ongoing, it is recommended that you follow health guidelines when taking part in community events and make sure you're aware of any specific rules that they may require.
- Bettendorf City Hall Trick or Treat
- 9:30-11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 31 at Bettendorf City Hall.
- Open to costumed children up to 5 years old.
- Boo at the Zoo
- Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 30 and 31 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
- Bring your kids to the Niabi Zoo for some free treats
- Tickets are available here, or at the gate when you arrive
- Davenport Halloween parade
- Saturday, Oct. 30 at 6:30 p.m.
- Parade kicks off from 3rd Street and Pershing Avenue.
- East Moline Public Library's Haunted Library event
- The 1st floor of the library will be transformed into a spooky attraction not recommended for kids 10 and under from 7-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29-30.
- Children's activities will take place 2-4 p.m. Saturday, with a lights-on walkthrough at 3 p.m.
- Eats Before Treats
- Sunday, October 31 from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at New Life Fellowship in East Moline.
- A free drive-thru dinner service giving out sack dinners featuring hot dogs, chips, and drinks to families looking for food before they go out trick-or-treating.
- Muscatine Bewitching Bash at Soccer West
- Trunk or Treat from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 30
- Decorated vehicles will be lined up in the Soccer West lot on the west side of South Houser Street.
Parking available in the main lot of the Muscatine Soccer Complex.
- Rescued Just Treats Halloween Open House
- Saturday, October 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Rescued in Moline
- Open house includes a bake sale, kids' goodie bags, and free dog treats to take home
- Factory of Fear
- Open every Friday-Sunday from Sept. 24 through Oct. 31.
- 7 p.m. - midnight Fridays and Saturdays for $25.
- 7-10 p.m. Sundays for $22.
- Haunted Carter Farms
- Open 7-10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 30.
- Admission starts at $15, or $13 with the donation of two canned good items.
- Quad Cities Haunted Forest
- Open 7-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 8-30.
- Admission costs $20.
- Quick Shine Express' Wash of Terror
- 7:30-10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October as well as Halloween night at the Quick Shine Express Car Wash, 505 E. 53rd Street in Davenport.
- Price of admission is $25 per car, with $5 of the admission fee being donated to Friends to the Elderly.
- Shock House
- Open October 1-2, 8-9, 14-16, 21-23 and 28-30.
- 7-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays for $17, and 7-10 p.m. on select Thursdays for $15.
- A lights-on show for kids will be held 1-4 p.m. Oct. 30. Admission for the "little ghouls" event is one canned good per child, which will go to a local shelter. Costumes are encouraged!
- Skellington Manor - Theatre of the Macabre
- Every Friday-Sunday until Oct. 31.
- 7 p.m. - midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and 7-10 p.m. on Sundays.
- Admission begins at $20.
- Torment at Twelve Hundred
- Open every weekend in October; 7 p.m. - midnight on Fridays and Saturdays and 7-10 p.m. on Sundays.
Davenport Public Library Trunk Or Treat 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27 at the Fairmount Library. Local organizations, first responders and library partners will hand out candy. Mississippi Market - Annual Halloween Scavenger Hunt 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23. Admission is free. Two Rivers Church Trunk or Treat 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24 at Two Rivers Church, located at 1820 5th Avenue, Rock Island. Bettendorf's 2021 Halloween Parade 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28 in Bettendorf. The parade will begin at 23rd Street and Middle Road, then continue onto Spruce Hills Drive. Family Halloweekend at Girl Scouts' Camp Liberty Travel to Camp Liberty, located at 4415 295th St. in New Liberty, for a safe day of Halloween fun for the whole family 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23. Activities include a candy apple bar, archery, climbing wall, hayrack ride, zipline and food trucks. Register and buy tickets for the event here. Trunk-or-Treat event, Generations at Rock Island This trunk-or-treat event will be from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27 at Generations at Rock Island, 2545 24th St. Wear a costume and bring the kids. RSVP by Monday, Oct. 25 via email to firstname.lastname@example.org. Moline Park and Recreation's Spooktacular Trunk or Treat Sunday, Oct. 23 from 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. at Greenvalley Softball Comlpex - 5920 52nd Avenue. 20 different businesses offering treats for the kids Park in the front lot, walk through the facility into the back lot. Follow the signs. Social distancing and face coverings are strongly encouraged. Fright Night in the Park Thursday, October 28 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Schwiebert Riverfront Park in Rock Island A free kid-oriented Halloween event with trick-or-treating, costume contests, live music, dance performances, and free goodie bags for the first 500 kids.
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Due to that the book Turbines for Luftwaffe describes only a German way of an evolution of the first turbojet engines and jet planes, thus presently I publish the second publication with a title Turbines of British pilots. It is a detailed book about a beginning of the evolution british gas turbines and their carriers with an overlap into another world countries (France, USSR, Czechoslovakia).
It is again a quite extensive topic with a couple of foreign sources, with detailed description of an individual construction of engines and planes. There is a 610 pages (A4 page format) and 1367 pictures.
It is prototype of British jet seaplane Saunders–Roe SR.A/1 with two axial jet engines Metropolitan–Vickers F.2/4 Beryl (special picture by Z. Macháček on the cover of the book)
Text from the cover of the book
The origin and development of the first gas turbine motors in Great Britain during the 1930s and 1940s is a story of great ideas from outstanding designers and technicians there. The high level of the British aviation industry combined with a long technical tradition have been a good basis for the emergence of many different types of aircraft propulsion, built on the reactive or turboprop principle.
The creation of the first functional jet engine by Frank Whittle was preceded by many considerations and researches. It was probably one of the most fundamental discoveries in the history of aviation, a literally revolutionary invention. At the same time, it was necessary to apply an innovative approach to the design of high–speed propellerless–driven aircraft attacking the supersonic speed barrier. The designers had to deal with many completely new and complex problems, which resulted in excellent technical solutions.
The book entitled Turbines of British pilots presents the reader with an extensive explanation of the circumstances of the origin of the first British gas turbine engines, used elsewhere than in aviation. It brings many technical details about specific types of jet and turboprop propulsion, as well as a description of a large range of jets not only in the service of the Royal Air Force. The book also describes the circumstances of the race for the jet fighter with Nazi Germany, when the timely deployment of jet technology on both sides could significantly affect the end of II. world war.
This publication will allow the reader to get closer to the secrets of extremely interesting devices, such as aircraft turbine drives. So whoever wants to at least indirectly take a stand in the situation of the then aircraft designers and test pilots, does not have to do anything easier than open this book.
A section of a British Rolls–Royce Nene radial jet engine, which directly describes the construction and function of this well–known post–war engine
The left engine of the General Electric I–16 type in the nacelle of the first American serial–produced Bell P-59 Airacomet jet aircraft
Soviet post–war two–seat interceptor aircraft Su-15 with two unconventionally stored radial jet engines RD–45F (a copy of the British jet engine Rolls–Royce Nene)


Every person is a rightful heir to the Truth. But he who would inherit it must be spiritually prepared for it, and this spiritual preparation sometimes takes several lives of patient
and persistent effort. Therefore, one of the first requirements of the aspirant is that he should combine unfailing enthusiasm with unyielding patience.
Once an individual is determined to realize the Truth, he finds that his path is beset with many difficulties, and there are very few who persist with steady courage till the very end. It is easy to give up the effort when one is confronted with obstacles.
Discourses-7th. ed. P-.355-356


Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Sergio and Odair Assad, guitars | Clarice Assad, composer | Timothy Russell, conductor
Online and phone sales are now off. Tickets can only be purchased in person at the Southern Theatre Box Office starting at 5pm.
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Le Tombeau de Couperin
Joseph Maurice Ravel was born at Ciboure, Basses Pyrénées, France, on March 7, 1875, and died in Paris on December 28, 1937. He composed Le Tombeau de Couperin first as a suite in six movements for solo piano between 1914 and 1917. In 1919 he orchestrated four of these movements. The first performance of the orchestral suite took place in Paris on February 28, 1920, with Rhené-Baton conducting. The score calls for a modest orchestra of two flutes (second doubling piccolo), oboe, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, trumpet, harp, and strings. Duration is about 17 minutes.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, French poets frequently wrote short poems—or assembled collections of such poems—commemorating the death of a notable person. Such poems were called tombeaux (“tombstones”). Usually the deceased person to be so honored was of the high nobility, though occasionally the death of a great poet, like Ronsard, might generate an outpouring of literary tributes. During the seventeenth century the tombeau tradition was adopted by French composers, who wrote their works most frequently for solo lute or solo harpsichord, usually in the form of a slow, stately dance movement. A group of French composers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, concerned with recapturing some of the history of the French musical tradition, began reusing the neo classical dance forms in their compositions. Ravel was the first to reuse the term tombeau in his tribute to his great predecessor François Couperin (1668 1733), whose music shares with Ravel’s own a characteristic concern for grace, elegance, and decoration.
The original piano solo version of Le Tombeau de Couperin occupied Ravel some three years, on and off, during the devastating course of World War I, which was personally shattering to him. The piano work was a tombeau not only to the Baroque composer Couperin but also to deceased friends—each of the six movements was dedicated to a victim of the war. The piano version contained the following sections: Prélude, Fugue, Forlane, Rigaudon, Menuet, and Toccata. When Ravel decided to orchestrate the work in 1919, he omitted the Fugue and Toccata entirely and reversed the positions of the Menuet and Rigaudon.
The music of Ravel’s Tombeau is not really an evocation of Couperin’s own style—not even in a very extended way. Ravel simply hoped to pay tribute to the entire French musical tradition (then evidently under attack, culturally as well as militarily, from Germany). In its orchestral guise, the Prélude, with its running sixteenth note figurations, makes extended demands on the articulation and breath control of the woodwind players, especially the oboist. The Forlane is fetchingly graceful, delicate, and highly polished. (Oddly enough, given Ravel’s evident intention of commemorating French music, this forlane is an old dance from Italy, not France!) Ravel was especially fond of the Menuet, which was the last music to be seen on his music rack when he died in 1937. And the Rigaudon, with its brassy outbursts, brings the Tombeau to a cheerful and lively conclusion.
ALBUM DE RETRATOS
(Notes provided by the composer.)
ALBUM DE RETRATOS (Family Portraits) is based on my grandmother’s family photo album, as well as framed prints of family members, which hang throughout her house. The piece begins with a movement called “Faded Photos” and tells the journey of my great-grandfather, Jorge Assad, from his original country, Lebanon, to a small town in the state of São Paulo, called São João da Boa Vista. When he first arrived in the town, there was not much happening there. Although the town has grown exponentially by now, there is still a street named after him.
This movement is named for him simply because he was a man of few words. I do know enough to have been inspired to write music about him: he was physically strong and tough. Ironically, he disliked music altogether and did not allow my grandfather to pursue it. (My grandfather played the mandolin all the same, to such a degree that all of his offspring dedicated their lives to music.) I wouldn’t be here today writing this if it were not for him.
My great-grandfather never returned to Lebanon. He started his life anew. He said the reason he never went back was because the trip was so rough on him, that he would think twice about ever boarding a ship again. My musical composition begins with his arrival in Brazil. Allusions to ocean waves and foghorns are made, and then we’re introduced to the sounds of a type of music called “moda de viola,” which is associated with the region he would call home for the rest of his life. The entire movement focuses on the idea of big changes, the passage of time, the difficulty of adapting to a new culture. There is a bittersweet quality to it, but “Faded Photos” concludes with a happy ending, a sign of good things to come.
The second movement, “Courtship,” is inspired by a framed photograph of him with my great-grandmother, Francisca. It is a formal, black-and-white restored headshot that almost looks like a painting. I always wondered what these days of courtship were like. My grandmother Ica told me that meeting your husband-to-be was a very different story back then. There was almost no physical contact between the lovers and 'touching' was only accepted if a couple was dancing. The dance was, naturally, quite proper and ceremonious. This movement portrays the courtship between Jorge and Francisca, featuring Middle Eastern scales and a dance waltz in 4/4 time, which, to me, symbolizes the awkward formality that dating was like at that time.
“Picture Collage,” the third and final movement, is a juxtaposition of photos spanning three generations, told through the eyes and the memories of a child, i.e., myself. The collage features many motifs, collages, citations and fragments of compositions I heard as a youngster: memories of my grandfather strumming his mandolin relentlessly as he performed one of his favorite songs, a chorinho called “Enigmatica”; allusions to my first trip to France to be with my father, during a time when he was arranging Milhaud’s “Scaramouche,” coupled with a movement from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition called “Limoges.” There are also references to a Brazilian folk tune “Escravos de Jó,” which represents childhood games that I played by myself and also with my brother and cousins. The citation I hold most dearly to my heart is a song that my grandfather and grandmother used to sing together as a duet. What inspired me to write this work was the death of my grandfather. When he passed away in June of 2011, I was hit by an enormous sense of loss. For the weeks that followed, I carried with me several pictures of him. These photos had been taken at different times in our lives, and I could see clearly how much we had changed throughout the years; how time had done its insatiable job. Photos have a way of freezing thousands of memories and moments, which we recall in a split second from looking at a single print. But a picture is just a picture.
More important are the memories and the events that took place when a picture was taken. But what happens when too much time goes by and following generations can no longer remember or identify who the person in the photo is? I myself have looked at pictures of unrecognizable faces of people who were related to me, but because I don’t know much about them, their images and stories will eventually fade into oblivion. This thought, and the fact that this piece was written for two very special members of my family—my father and uncle Sérgio & Odair Assad—led me to the idea of preserving some of these memories in the form of music.
Although the memories I speak of might only make sense to me and to my family, I know that when translated into music, the meaning becomes something entirely different for someone who is purely listening to the music itself. Ultimately, no one even needs to know what inspired a musical composition to be created in order to feel something. And this is what is so wonderful and amazingly powerful about music: it can stand on its own and is able to convey many emotions, detached from everything else.
ALBUM DE RETRATOS was commissioned by ProMusica Chamber Orchestra with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The State Auto Group, and members of the ProMusica New Music Network. Clarice Assad’s appearance funded in part through New Music USA’s MetLife Creative Connections program.
| AARON COPLAND
Appalachian Spring, Ballet for Martha
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 14, 1900, and died on December 2, 1990. He composed Appalachian Spring in 1943 44 as a ballet score for Martha Graham. The work was commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation and was first performed in the Coolidge Festival at the Library of Congress on October 30, 1944. The score calls for an ensemble of thirteen instruments: flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano, four violins, two violas, two cellos, and double bass.
American composers’ urge to write in a nationalistic, “American” style ran deeply before Aaron Copland created one way of doing so in the 1920s. His desire to become recognizably “American” led at first to an encounter with jazz elements (though never with actual jazz composition) in the Organ Symphony, Music for the Theater, and the Piano Concerto. Though these works marked Copland as a man to watch and hinted at the course of things to come, they were regarded by many as “difficult” scores. And his style became still more complex at the beginning of the 1930s with the Symphonic Ode, the Short Symphony, and the granitic Piano Variations.
But the social changes of the 1930s brought a general interest among the artists and thinkers with whom Copland was friendly in attracting a wider audience than ever before, in addressing the common man and expressing his hopes, dreams, and desires through artistic means. Copland was one of a generation of composers who shared this desire; he accomplished the change of viewpoint with notable success, simplifying his style for greater accessibility, yet never ceasing to be utterly individual in sound or approach. The simplicity heightened certain elements that had not been apparent in his music earlier—most notably an extraordinary tenderness that never becomes sentimental. At the same time, Copland’s music retained its energy and verve and its sense of space and color in laying out orchestral lines; thus his music is instantly recognizable as proceeding from the same musical imagination, no matter what its style.
Copland had already written two popular ballets based on western themes—a striking achievement in imagination for a composer city born and city bred. Both Billy the Kid, composed for Eugene Loring, and Rodeo, composed for Agnes de Mille, had been notable successes, so it could have been no surprise when Martha Graham asked him to compose a ballet for her. Graham presented him with a scenario to which he invented his music, scoring it for thirteen instruments because that was all that could be accommodated in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, where the premiere was to take place.
Copland had no title in mind as he composed; Graham suggested Appalachian Spring, which was a phrase she had liked from a poem by Hart Crane. The scenario is a simple one, touching on primal issues of marriage and survival, on the eternal regeneration suggested by spring. It is set in the Pennsylvania hills early in the nineteenth century.
The bride to be and the young farmer husband enact the emotions, joyful and apprehensive, their new domestic partnership invites. An older neighbor suggests now and then the rocky confidence of experience. A revivalist and his followers remind the new householders of the strange and terrible aspects of human fate. At the end the couple is left quiet and strong in their new house.
Shortly after the premiere, Copland prepared a version for full orchestra that contains the substance of the ballet, omitting a few passages that Copland felt were of interest only when accompanying the danced story. For many years that was the only way one could hear the music of Appalachian Spring, except in the performances of the Graham company. But in the last decade or two, many performances have chosen to feature the original scoring for thirteen instruments, though still using the shortened form of the orchestral version. This evening’s performance will include the entire ballet score as Copland wrote it for Martha Graham. The score has no feeling of restraint from its necessary limitation to thirteen instruments. Even when writing for full orchestra, Copland had always tended to produce a lean sound, lithe and athletic; the use of the smaller ensemble simply highlights that tendency in his work.
All of Copland’s three major ballet scores make use of old folk melodies, but Appalachian Spring uses the least; the only tune to pre date the composition is the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts,” which serves as the basis of a series of variations near the end of the ballet. But the tune also plays a background role in unifying the entire score; from the introduction onward, we frequently hear a three note motive that is easily recognizable as the first five notes of “Simple Gifts” in outline form.
From this motive comes the entire triadic “sound” of the ballet. It employs a harmonic style often referred to “white note harmony” (so called because its elements can be found by playing on all the white notes of the piano keyboard); this diatonic sound, even when employed in chords dissonant by traditional harmonic standards, seems fresh and clean compared to the endless, sometimes overheated, chromaticism of late romantic music. When used here to evoke a new world—an open frontier being settled by hardy individuals—Copland makes it by turns strong, assertive, even acerbic, or delicate and tender. Through all its changing moods, Copland’s score calls up a sense of the optimism and courage, the vigor and energy, and the deep wellspring of faith and hope that we like to regard as characteristic of the American experience.
Ancient Airs and Dances #1
Ottorino Respighi was born in Bologna, Italy, on July 9, 1879, and died in Rome on April 18, 1936. He composed three sets of Ancient Airs and Dances—in 1917, 1923, and 1931, respectively. The first suite calls for two flutes, two oboes and English horn, two bassoons, two horns, trumpet, harp, harpsichord, and strings. Duration is about 16 minutes.
Respighi wrote music of extraordinary color and orchestral brilliance, partly, no doubt, a consequence of his having studied orchestration with Rimsky Korsakov during the years he served as principal violist in the orchestra of the St. Petersburg opera. He continued to perform even after returning to Italy and making composition his principal activity. Though his best known works are the three large suites celebrating various facets of life in his native Rome (The Fountains of Rome, The Pines of Rome, and Roman Festivals), Respighi also wrote eight operas. Moreover he was interested in early music, and this led to a number of “archaizing” works like the Piano Concerto in the mixolydian mode, and a Concerto gregoriano for violin. Some of his energetic attention to early Italian music was turned to the act of arranging older works in a more modern guise. The best known of these hybrids between musicology and composition are arrangements of Italian Renaissance and Baroque music under the titles Ancient Airs and Dances and The Birds, derived from compositions for lute and harpsichord, respectively.
They represented both a cheerful updating of the past and an assertion of nationalist pride, since each set drew upon the large body of Italian solo lute music published in the sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries.
The first movement of Suite 1, the courtly Balletto de “Il Conte Orlando,” is a dance piece published by Simone Molinaro in 1599; the “Count Orlando” referred to is probably the title character of Ariosto’s great epic Orlando furioso, which became a source of operas and other musical settings for more than a century.
The Gagliarda was a dance in a moderately quick triple meter; this one was composed by Vincenzo Galilei, an amateur lutenist and composer who was also the father of the great astronomer Galileo. For the movement’s gentler middle section, Respighi draws upon an anonymous Italiana.
The third movement is based on an anonymous Neapolitan Villanella, composed about 1600. The “villanelle” (“street song”) was a popular song form, often with a somewhat rough humor, more vigorous than the refined madrigal. The pizzicato strings suggest a lute that accompanies a longing serenade.
The final movement combines two different dances, both anonymous, from about 1600: a Passamezzo (literally, a “step and a half,” suggesting the rapid dance figure), interrupted by an energetic Mascherata, a type of villanella sung at a masked ball.
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Beyond the Music
by Shannon Brown
I thoroughly enjoyed Shannon Brown’s first novel, “Rock’n’Roll in Locker Seventeen,” and have been looking forward to her next book. “Beyond the Music” is a pre-quel to her first novel. Instead of taking up where “Rock'N’Roll in Locker Seventeen” leaves off, Ms. Brown goes back in time and tells the story of Ellen Daniels, the mother of her first book’s protagonist, Steven White. Of course, having read the first book, I knew what was going to happen. The fun of the book is how the story unfolds.
Ms. Brown has conveyed the torturous young woman’s angst of losing the first “love” that most young people go through as they mature. Ellen is frustrated that her family can’t afford to send her to college because of her father’s string of failed businesses. When her father moves the family to Canada., she misses her friends and the college life her high school friends are enjoying. Then enters a mysterious stranger, Jack White, with a secret past, and Ellen’s boring life is much improved.
After a visit to her old hometown and friends, Ellen realizes that working instead of going to college has given her perspective and maturity that her high school friends lack. She's ready for the next stage of her life.
For those of us who have read the first book in Ms. Brown's series, there are plenty of clue to make some guesses about Jack White's past. But for someone reading "Beyond the Music" first, they might not guess Jack White's secret. In either case, it's a good read.
I highly recommend this delightful, humorous, and fun romance with a sweet mystery thrown in for even more interest. I look forward to the third installment, “Facing the Music,” in this enjoyable series from Ms. Brown. This series is recommended for high school and young adult readers. There is some college age partying and drinking and the protagonist, Ellen Daniels is a high school graduate.
Information on author Shannon V. Brown is at: https://lockerseventeen.wordpress.com/
My December 2013, review of "Rock'N'Roll in Locker Seventeen" is on Amazon:
"Rock'N'Roll in Locker Seventeen," by Shannon V. Brown, is a great book for teenage boys and girls, their parents, and yes, their grandparents, too. Why? Because Ms. Brown's first book has cross-generational appeal. It harkens back to the days when rock and roll ruled - those golden days of yesteryear. It has humor and piques one's interest, plus it is replete with musical and musician references (which I loved and hope you will, too.) Siblings will enjoy the banter between Steven and his bright younger sister, Jeanne. Parents will commiserate with Steven's parents, Ellen and Jack White, having to raise two teenagers at the same time in a small Mid-Western town. While grandparents will rise above it all, but enjoy the journey back in time to a somewhat simpler period.
The story begins with seventeen year old Steven White obsessing about his rock and roll idol, Ricky Stevenson, who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago, but left a wonderful musical legacy. Yes, it is a mystery, even though the clues are laid out pretty clearly for us to figure out even before Steven does. We follow Steven through his rather ordinary mid-1990s life - at home, at school, hanging out with friends, shopping at the local Thrift Shop - where he buys vintage clothes to perfect his "Ricky" image, and working part-time at his Dad's temporary storage business. Steven longs for the rock star life of glitz and glamour and spends way too much time daydreaming about it.
Steven is a typical teen, alternately bored with his mundane life, and fascinated with the past - even learning to play the guitar like his missing "role model," rock legend, Ricky Stevenson. Ms. Brown's use of sarcasm, wit, and humor through Steven's comments and thought processes will have you chuckling, and happily turning pages to see what he'll come up with next. In addition to the mystery and rock and roll appreciation, there are plenty of lessons here for everyone to take away. And lots of daily machinations that teens are famous for: should I do this? What should I be when I grow up? Can I trust this friend/adult? What's right? What's wrong? Is the grass greener on the other side? What if??
In checking Ms. Brown's website, I was delighted to see that there is a Prequel and a Sequel to "Rock'N'Roll in Locker Seventeen" in the works, "Beyond the Music." It will be great fun to revisit Steven and his family - and journey once more into their past and forward into the next chapter. I can hardly wait to see if it will be another mystery or a slice of life in the teen world. I'm sure it will be enjoyable, humorous, and positive.
Note to parents: I found the book to be between categories: late middle-grade to early young adult (some teen drinking, unsupervised parties, some "truth withholding" and actual lying.) There no violence to speak of, drug use is referenced in the past, no sex scenes (some magazines referenced.) All in all, it is generally a good read for late middle grade students through high school.
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New Zealand children’s author Margaret Mahy, who wrote more than 120 books and earned acclaim at home and abroad, has died at the age of 76.
The Moon and Farmer McPhee, The Haunting, The Changeover, A Lion in the Meadow, The Seven Chinese Brothers and The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate…among her works …..she loved reading her stories to children and often dressed up in wonderful costumes…
She won the Carnegie Medal in 1982 and 1984, making her the first writer outside Britain to receive the award.
For her contributions to children’s literature she was made a member of the Order of New Zealand in 1993.
The Margaret Mahy Medal Award was established by the New Zealand Children’s Book Foundation in 1991 to provide recognition of excellence in children’s literature, publishing and literacy in New Zealand.
In March 2009, she was commemorated as one of the Twelve Local Heroes, and a bronze bust of her was unveiled outside the Christchurch Arts Centre.
In 2006, she became the 28th recipient of the so-called Nobel Prize for children’s literature, the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing
Margaret, who lived in Christchurch, was diagnosed with Cancer in April and in only a short time New Zealand lost a national treasure.
Aere ra – Rest in Peace x x x


History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy


Island Time is a Kotlin Multiplatform library for working with dates and times. Heavily inspired by the java.time library, Island Time provides a powerful API that works across platforms while taking full advantage of the features offered by the Kotlin language.
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Friday Prayers Service: Lesson Themes
Purpose of Creation and the Sanctity of the Human Life.
Strategies to Increase and Maintain the Personal Level of Faith.
Benefits of Enjoining Good Deeds and Calling Out and Stopping Sinful Deeds.
One human race.
The Importance of Giving in Charity; Zakat: Alms-Giving
Jesus: a miracle, a man, and a prophet whom God/Allah will send back to earth to redeliver his message to mankind.
Economics, business, and financial dealings in Islam.
The family unit.
Rights and responsibilities and the husband and wife in family.
Rights and responsibilities and the children in a family.
Benefits and Virtues of Fasting.
Rights of the Orphans.
Seeking Knowledge, Learning and Teaching.
Building and Caring for Earth.
Time Perspectives in this Life and the Hereafter.
Prayers: what, why, when, where, and how.
The Six Qualities of the rightly-guided Companions of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be onto him.


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The Chelmsford Public Library needs your participation in a town-wide history project. In recent years, there has been growing concern that without proper preservation and documentation, much of the history of the Town of Chelmsford will be lost. We understand that there are several collections of historical documents and artifacts throughout Chelmsford, belonging to different town groups and organizations. The Chelmsford Public Library, with the assistance of Chelmsford Telemedia, would like to lead an on-going project that will identify these records and objects, and help to ensure that they live on for future generations.
The long-range goal of this project is a thorough documentation of historical town records, and improved public access to this information. We would also like to digitize as much of this information as possible, to make it easier and safer for students, researchers, the curious and the inquisitive to use these resources.
As the project progresses, updates and available information will be posted here. If you have questions about this project, or would like information on being a part of it, please contact Brian Herzog, Head of Reference, at email@example.com or 978-256-5521 x211.
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- http://www.massmemories.net - Your family's place in Massachusetts History
- http://www.ipswichmuseum.net - Ipswich (MA) Historical Society & Museums
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Toots, whose real name was Alice, was the oldest of five children.
Sometime in the 1920s, her parents split up. Her mother was too young to be a good mother and the children ended up living in a tent in the Catskill Mountains for a summer.
The locals noticed that the children were not doing well on their own and they were taken on by what passed for social services in the day.
Toots became one of about 200,000 children to take a ride on an orphan train, which was a program that transported orphaned and homeless children from cities on the east coast to foster homes around the country – but primarily in the Midwest.
Pippa White, of Lincoln, Nebraska, will bring the story of Toots to life tonight when she presents her one-woman show at the Norelius Community Library.
White will also tell the stories of seven other children who rode the orphan trains, which were in operation from 1854 and 1929.
White, who is originally from California, has a background in theatre.
She said she is more often called a storyteller today because of her solo shows, which cover a wide range of topics from history.
The orphan train was one of the first topics she came across after relocating to Nebraska.
“I wondered if there was any dramatic material about that orphan train, so I checked it out and I found out that there was,” she said.
The orphan trains were started by a man named Charles Loring Brace.
“He was one of the few social workers that felt something had to be done for homeless children,” she said. “New York and Boston had thousands of homeless children in the 1850s.”
Brace built an orphanage, but that only took care of a few hundred of the thousands on the streets.
“He got the idea to put them on trains and send them out to 47 of the 48 states, but mostly to the Midwest,” she said.
The intent was to find foster homes and new lives for the children in places where they would be needed.
“Some children got wonderful homes, some children got not so great homes and others got something in between,” White said.
“I tell the stories of why they had to ride the train, what their home life was like or their situation, the trip itself and what they got when they arrived.”
The story of the orphan trains is a big part of the history of the Midwest, she said.
Several orphans who ended up in Iowa are characters in the play.
“It’s a piece of forgotten history; something that people who live in our part of the world should know about,” she said.
White describes her performances as “theatrical storytelling.”
She inhabits the characters and also narrates the story.
White wrote the narration for “The Story of the Orphan Train,” but the words spoken by the characters come from the orphans themselves.
She based the characters’ lines on memoirs and newspaper articles.
All of the stories in the production are true, she said.
White got to know the real-life Toots very well as she researched the play.
“She and I really bonded,” she said.
Toots sent all her materials and pictures to White and even helped her find work in Oklahoma.
“I will save it for those who come to the performance to find out what kind of a home she got,” White said. “She was a wonderful individual.”
All the orphan train riders she met and read about were extraordinarily resourceful people who made something of themselves, she said.
They told her to keep their story alive.
“They said, ‘Let people know how it was for us. Please keep doing this,’” White said. “It’s been a wonderful experience.”
When she started researching the story of the orphan train in the 1990s, about 200 individuals who had ridden the trains were still alive.
White had personal contact with many of the orphans she chose to portray in her production.
Some were in their 70s then, but most were in their 80s and 90s - and time has taken its toll.
Toots and all the other characters in her play have passed away.
“There are not very many orphan train riders alive now – just a handful,” White said.
Her performance of The Story of the Orphan Train begins tonight at 6 p.m. at the Norelius Community Library.


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Franklin Ingraham (1858-1944) and Belle Captola Lee (1866-1920)
Another Generation in New York State
Franklin Ingraham was born 20 Mar 1858, most likely in Andover, Allegany County, New York. As a 6-year-old boy, in 1864, he was living with his mother in Greenwood, Steuben County, New York. The family was nearly destitute while his father, David A. Ingraham, was away fighting in the Civil War.
Franklin was usually called Frank and also nicknamed Hank. He was the third of ten children born to David Alman Ingraham and Harriet Lusty.
Frank can be found in the 1860 Census, just a baby of two years of age living with his parents, and in the 1880 Census, a bachelor living as a boarder with the Norton family in Canadice, Ontario, New York. He is also in the New York State Census for 1865. That Census reveals his parents -- David and Harriet -- as well as his siblings: Robert, 9; Mary 5; and Minnie, 0.
Marriage, Sons and a Daughter
Frank married Belle Captola Lee in 1885 in Andover, Allegany County, New York. Belle was born 27 April 1866 in Andover; she was nearly eight years younger than her husband. She was sometimes called Belle and sometimes called Captola. (For more about Belle's family, see The Lees).
Frank and Belle can be found in the 1900, 1910, and 1920 censues living in Andover with their children.
Allegany County was first formed in 1683, but it was divided up several times between 1760 and 1770. Andover — which lies on the eastern border of the county — was formed from the city of Independence in 1824. The land is hilly and was once covered with pine forests. Dykes Creek and Elm Creek flow through the county; the soil is best for grazing. Pine lumber was manufactured there for many years, but that is gone now; dairy farms are the main agricultural endeavour. 2
Frank and Belle Captola had three children:
Ending Life where It Began
It would appear that both Frank and Belle were born, lived, and died in Andover, New York. Belle died there after 1920, but the exact date of her death is, as yet, unknown.
Belle died 19 February 1920, but Frank lived on more than twenty years, passing away on 30 May 1944, when he was 86 years old. Both were buried in Andover, Allegany County, New York. However, Frank has not yet been found in the Census records beyond 1920.
This page written and researched by Susan Overturf Ingraham, wife of Robert Philip Ingraham, a descendant of Franklin Ingraham and Belle Captola Lee. This page last updated on April 25, 2019.


|Series:||1000 Gefahren #2|
The Adventures of You Series #1
Choose Your Own Adventure (1979-1998) #62
Which Way Books #6
|Translated Into:||Avventure nell'isola (Italian)|
L'illa de la canya de sucre (Catalan)
La isla de la caña de azúcar (Spanish)
Jezyerh 1000 hezar khetr [جزيره ١٠٠٠ هزار خطر] (Farsi)
|Author:||Edward Packard||Illustrators:||Barbara Carter (original)|
John Farman (British cover)
Ted Enik (revised edition)
|Release Dates:||1976 (original)|
March, 1978 (paperback)
1980 (German edition)
November, 1986 (revised edition)
1995 (German reissue)
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|0491024266 / 9780491024266 (British hardback)|
0553260405 / 9780553260403 (revised edition)
0671298844 / 9780671298845 (paperback)
0671473778 / 9780671473778 (Which Way edition)
3473386472 / 9783473386475 (German edition)
3473519480 / 9783473519484 (German edition)
3473521280 / 9783473521289 (German edition)
|Length:||119 pages (original), 118 pages (revised edition)|
|Number of Endings:||39|
|Summary:||Your ship is wrecked by a huge wave and you must find a way to survive on an isolated and dangerous island.|
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|This is historically a very important book, being one of the earliest gamebooks ever published. It was written in 1969 and first printed in 1976 by Vermont Crossroads Press as part of The Adventures of You Series. In 1978, it was reprinted as an Archway paperback, first under the Adventures of You banner and later without it as a stand-alone volume. In 1982, the cover was slightly changed, and the book became part of the Which Way series. In 1986, the book was revised and expanded and published as Choose Your Own Adventure #62. The revised edition of the book really does show that Edward Packard grew as an author between 1969 and 1986. Vague points have been ironed out, dangers to the protagonist have been made more immediate, and the characters are better defined thanks to a fair amount of dialogue. With or without improvements, this book wouldn't be particularly exceptional if it weren't among the first of its kind, but it's worth reading if only to see where it all started.|
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|This review is for the revised, 10-year, 1986 edition of the book.
This is a so-so book. The fact that it is the first CYOA book ever written makes this title highly desirable. For an extremely early title, the book is fairly decent; however, I believe that it is nowhere near as strong as Packard's later works. A few of the passages even reminded me of something R. A. Montgomery would write, something I do not find myself regularly thinking in terms of Packard's books. Many of the storylines end in similar fashion, with some endings even being almost identical. A number of the endings could have also been a little better--with more variety. With that being said, I believe that this book still stands the test of time, setting the platform for many of the great titles that would soon follow.
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|Historically I recognize the significance of Sugarcane Island, but as a gamebook it's never found a way to interest me. Being lost on a deserted island just isn't a setting that compels me.|
|Special Thanks:||Thanks to Alec Fleschner for the pictures of the original hardback edition of the book and to Ben Nelson for the British dustjacket scan.|
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Evolution of Sugarcane Island
This article compares the original and revised editions of Sugarcane Island.
Sugarcane Island Diagram
The numbers in this diagram do not correspond with the pages of the book; see The Evolution of Sugarcane Island for a key.
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A Book review by Kathy Hoyle
Frannie Langton is on trial at The Old Bailey and the crowds are baying for the blood of the ‘Mulatta Murdress’.
‘Any gaol-bird could tell you that for every crime there are two stories, and that an Old Bailey trial is the story of the crime, not the story of the prisoner.
That story is one only I can tell’
Frannie’s lawyer gives her a sheaf of paper, ink and pen, so that she may confess the terrible secrets she has kept so close, and somehow find a way to escape the noose.
This meticulously researched bawdy, brutal tale brings to life to Regency England, where reputation is far more important than truth and freedom is an impossible dream.
As a young girl Frannie Langton is given her massa’s name and brought into the big house in Paradise, Jamaica, but for what reason? Living in fear of her spiteful mistress Miss Bella and with no answers from Phibba the housekeeper, Frannie must learn to fend for herself under Massa Langton’s watchful eye. Soon Frannie learns just how terrible the mind of an inquisitive gentleman can be. When Langton forces her to perform his ‘negro’ experiments alongside him, Frannie is drawn into unspeakable acts, scarring her soul forever.
A fortuitous event follows. A fire wipes out Plantation and sees Langton flee, with the only chattel he has left… Frannie. Could this be the chance for freedom Frannie has hoped for? Langton has other ideas. Gifted to the prominent writer George Benham in return for the publishing of his scientific papers, Langton ensures that Frannie is simply passed from one wicked master’s hands to another.
The only light in Frannie’s life is her new mistress, the beautiful but delicate Madame Marguerite. As the love between maid and mistress grows, terrible secrets unfold. Both women are slaves to the master, each one suffocated with dreams of freedom… and then the unthinkable happens. A double murder in the Bentham household, and Frannie is the only suspect.
The confessions of Frannie Langton is a stunning debut from Sara Collins. The inherent racism of colonial England comes through loud and horrifically clear as we follow Frannie in her search for freedom and a love that crosses the boundaries of race, gender and class. Collins weaves gothic strands of tension throughout the story with a masterful edge, giving brilliant nods to, Rousseau, Voltaire, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Defoe’s Moll Flanders. In this anti-Austen novel, where marriage is a foul incarceration, Collins holds us in the palm of her hand as we wait with baited breath for Frannie’s final day of judgement. A page-turner from the get-go, this novel will leave you breathless.
Available now in all good bookstores.


This tutorial shows you how to get started using LocalSocial and walks you through the very initial elements you need to use in the LocalSocial Library on Android, and in the LocalSocial API. For obvious reasons, this is called the Simple Application, and the source code is available.
Documentation » Tutorials
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This source code shows you how to get started using LocalSocial and walks you through the very initial elements you need to use in the LocalSocial Library on Android, and in the LocalSocial API.
The first step involved in using LocalSocial is to configure the Client application to access the LocalSocial Service. The Client application must provide an instance of the com.localsocial.LocalSocial.AppConfiguration interface. The mandatory configuration parameters are:
- the Service Name, “Simple” in this case. This is your name for the service you are developing.
- the consumer secret, the OAuth consumer secret that was generated when you registered your application.
- the consumer key, the OAuth consumer key generated when you registered your application
Note: You must keep your consumer details secret.
LocalSocial provides an implementation of this interface called com.localsocial.config.SimpleAppConfiguration. Once created, this AppConfiguration object must be given to LocalSocial with to the LocalSocialFactory.setDefaultConfig.
For example , SimpleApp defines a method called bootstrap(). This method is called from the Android onCreate method. When bootstrap() completes then you can access the LocalSocial object instance. However, as we'll see in the next section, you may need to authorise your application before you can access LocalSocial Remote services.
Once you have bootstrapped LocalSocial in your client application, you can now load an existing OAuth Access token for your client or generate a new one. This access token is then used to access the LocalSocial service.
The steps involved in authorising the application are:
- Attempt to load an existing Access Token
- if this fails then
- Generate a new Request Token
- Authorise the Request Token. It's good practise at this point to display a message to the user asking them to click a button to authorise the token
- Exchange the authorised Request token for a new Access Token
- Store the Access Token in the LocalSocial configuration
Now that you have ensured that LocalSocial has a valid access token, you can access your tags and create or update tags. This is easily accessed through the com.localsocial.remote.TagRemote interface.
To dump out all the tags associated with current device and namespace:
Although the simple app doesn't show deleting a tag, this can be easily done with the following sample code:
Note: In general these operations should not be performed in the UI thread of your application as they can take some time to complete. For example, on android, you should use an AsyncTask to execute these operations. See any of the sample applications for an example of this approach


Public outreach and education for general and specific audiences is an important part of the business model of Leeward Solutions, LLC.
"Phenology: Everyone Does It. Now You've Got a Word for It." Daylily Society of Central Iowa, Fisher Community Center, Marshalltown, Feb. 10, 2018.
"Scott County Roadside Vegetation Survey: An Overview." Public meeting, Eldridge Public Library, Nov. 2017; Board of Supervisors, Davenport, Oct. 2017.
"Native Plants in Your Gardens and Yard: Advantages, Ideas, and Planning." Beaverdale Books, Des Moines, Mar. 2017.
"The Roadside Vegetation Survey: Guiding County Programs and Seeing the Bigger Ecological Picture." Winter meeting, Assoc. for Integrated Roadside Management, Ames, Mar. 2017.
"Controlled Burning for Woodland Management." First Unitarian Church, Des Moines, Autumn 2016.
Leeward Solutions is available for free public presentations on general topics, as part of the company's contribution to its community and world. Please note that public presentations are not the same as consultations and client presentations, which usually entail an honorarium or consulting fee.
Leeward's owner, Leland Searles, is an experienced public presenter. Past topics have included:
- plants, plant studies, & inventory methods:most plants are easily observable, and they exist in such diversity that learning them can be daunting. The best ways are to accompany an expert, become familiar with a field guide in a field setting, and continually add to your knowledge. The link here opens a presentation to the Association for Iowa Roadside Managers (AFIRM) on Roadside Vegetation Surveys in Marion and Scott Counties, Iowa, just one example of plant inventory methods:
The Roadside Vegetation Survey: Guiding County Programs (PDF file, downloadable; requires Adobe Reader)
- the anthropology of the environment: human-ecosystem interactions, cultural notions of the role of environment in society, and "environmentalisms" or systems of belief and power concerning human responsibilities for and to the nonhuman world.
- Iowa and Midwestern phenology: the dynamics of seasonal energy flow, species' life cycles, ecological interactions among species, and physical cycles that affect living beings. The blue link opens a March 2017 presentation to the OWLS Program of Polk County Conservation:
Phenology: The Rhythms of Life (PDF file, downloadable; requires Adobe Reader or similar software)
- birds and birding: species, good birding locations, equipment, and techniques for successful birding. One important skill is to develop auditory awareness and recognition of birds' vocalizations. Experienced birds engage in "bird-hearing" about as often as they practice "bird-watching."
Birds, Ecosystems, and Ecological Change (PDF file, downloadable; requires Adobe Reader or similar)
- gardening and landscaping with native plants.
Native Plant Gardening (PDF file, downloadable; requires Adobe Reader or similar software)
- pollinating insects and their niches in ecosystems.
Possible topics could include:
- concerns about water quality in Upper Midwestern aquifers, groundwater, lakes, and streams.
- the mounting evidence for dramatic climatic changes, from shifts in the population densities of winter birds and the success of invasive plants, to the appearance of live earthworms in early and mid-winter and increasingly unstable weather patterns.
- non-European-American societies' understandings of the natural world and humans' places among other living things.
Please use the Contact Leeward page to ask about
these and other topics, and to make arrangements for a presentation, panel discussion, or other event.


HandelsberichtFried R. Jobst
From Observations to Simulations leads us on a journey through the methods used for the scientific analysis of complex systems such as the atmosphere and the Earth system: from meteorology and climatology, as observational sciences, to the development of models and the use of computers as virtual laboratories. In plain, accessible language, avoiding technicalities, but highlighting the conceptually meaningful aspects, the book describes this "Copernican revolution" in meteorology and climatology, a change in methodological paradigm that rigorously tests the definition of some classical concepts, such as "causality" and "prediction. This is the first book that guides the general public (and sets the specialists thinking) through research on complex systems which is contributing to a change in our outlook on nature.
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Black Against Empire: A Review
Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr., the authors of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, have a very ambitious goal: to tell a better history of the Black Panther Party than anyone else. Their method is stated up-front. They want to trace the history of the Black Panther Party through its stated politics. This history takes us from the meeting of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to the expansion of the party to over forty cities around the country all the way to the death of Fred Hampton and the final dissolution of the Panthers. Through it all, the authors have a deep respect for the Panthers as true revolutionaries and warn those who came after the party that they’ll never be able to achieve what the Panthers did without understanding the people like they did.
This was actually my first time reading a book about the history of the Black Panther Party. All of my previous information about the party came from the Internet, movies and some YouTube videos. As a history of the Panthers, this was a great one. Bloom and Martin take you from the very beginning to the very end and do a great job at explaining what they believe made the Panthers into a popular and well-run organization. They note that while the Panthers were a product of their times, they organized effectively to meet the needs and concerns of the people. They fought against the draft and police brutality while at the same time creating community programs such as free breakfasts for kids and clothing drives for the neighborhoods they worked in. These positions gained them support from both poor blacks and white allies.
Bloom and Martin also stress the importance of Third World Liberation to the Panther project. The Panthers understood black people in the United States to constitute a sort of colony within the United States itself. With this idea, they pushed for solidarity with other Third World Liberation movements such as the North Vietnamese and Chinese communists. They also understood themselves and the black poor to be at war with the United States and pushed for a revolution at home. In their first few years, they aggressively pushed insurrection and revolution through fighting police brutality and state repression.
Bloom and Martin argue wonderfully for their understanding that the Black Panthers understood the milieu they found themselves in a created a working, replicable politic for pushing against the status quo. They track the downfall of the Panthers as the state dialed down the draft and moved more blacks into the middle class through jobs programs and affirmative action. This made the popular base of white liberals and moderate blacks evaporate and left the tension in the party exposed. With the leaders of the Panthers wanting to focus on survival tactics to wait until the moment was ripe for revolution, some local groups wanted to push for revolution right away, believing that it would draw the masses into action. These tensions were the end of the party.
While the book is great, it could definitely be better. There are a number of issues hampering this history and had Bloom and Martin spent more time on it, this could have been THE book on the Panthers.
One of the issues is that the narrative is garbled. The book seems to move more or less chronologically, but certain sections will jump from 1970 back to 1968 or 1969. Eldridge Cleaver goes into exile in Cuba in one section and but is speaking in the United States in another, and returns to the public sphere in yet another. Bobby Seale is arrested and jailed, speaking in Connecticut, in jail, held in contempt and being prosecuted in Connecticut. All of these happen without adequate explanation of how Seale got out of jail each time. One of the biggest issues of the book is Seale’s prosecution for murder in Connecticut but we’re never even told how the trial actually unfolded. Angela Davis joins a knock-off Panthers Party in Los Angeles and disappears until she’s at a rally for the real Panther Party then we’re told she’s a love of George Jackson. The manhunt for her is never even mentioned. Stokely Carmichael is an important figure in the beginning of the book, disappears in the middle and is inexplicably called a ‘bootlicker’ in the end. Many of the threads of the narrative are tangled or hidden.
Another problem with the book is that it never really goes into the Black Panther Party’s actual politics. We’re told they believe in Third World Liberation and that they struggle against Police Brutality, but those are the most we get. Intercommunalism (Huey Newton’s idea) and the idea of the lumpenproletariat being the revolutionary class (Eldridge Cleaver’s idea) are brought up only in passing. Indeed, only two pages of this book are spent looking at the Marxist-influence of the party’s ideas. We don’t know how Che, Mao, Marx and Fanon really influenced them; we’re just told that Party members were required to read them and that some leaders were well-versed in their works. For a book purporting to analyze the politics of the organization, it was very lax on that analysis.
Lastly, one of the things Bloom and Martin found important was the alliances the Panthers forged with Third World Liberation movements and white allies. We are treated to some information on how the Young Lords, The Red Guard and the Young Patriots were all influenced by the Panthers and how the Panthers mobilized white allies to support, demonstrate and raise money for Bobby Seale’s murder trial, but we’re left wondering what other projects the Panthers collaborated on with these groups. We’re told that after the United Against Fascism conference, they created National Committees Against Fascism around the country that allowed whites to join, but they are never mentioned again. What were their daily activities? How did they organize? What were the tensions in the groups, if any?
While there are criticisms to be made about this book, I still very much enjoyed it. As my first Panther book, I learned a great deal of information I had not known before. I learned that David Hilliard rather than Newton spearheaded the community service programs. I also learned about numerous other Panthers who often are not talked about: Ericka and John Huggins, Bunchy Carter and Doug Miranda. If you don’t know much about the Panthers and want to learn more, this is a great introduction.


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