Originally posted on on November 5, 2014 at 11:50 PM
I’m currently reading the second volume of a biography Robert A. Heinlein in Dialogue with his Century by William Patterson.
It’s interesting how hard he had to fight to keep any semblance of works he originally conceived and most of his juvenile novels were evidently changed a good deal due to editorial intervention. Though always patriotic and essentially pro-military, Heinlein actually saw himself as a traditional liberal until the mid 1950s or so when he began to feel the U.S. government was drifting away from liberal values and going increasingly to the left and even enabling communism. At that point he resigned from the Democratic Party and voted for candidates whom he considered less odeous than others which is essentially what I do.
Also though he participated in some meetings and correspondence around the formation of the John Birch Society, he requested his name be struck from the membership roll quite early on because he considered the organization to be misguided and it’s leadership to be unacceptably controlling. One of many valuable takeaways for me from the book was the notion that traditional American Liberalism is really quite a bit different for what passes as liberalism today.
Most of us I think, believe more or less in womens’ rights, that people shouldn’t be enslaved, that there should be help for persons less fortunate and a lot of other essentially altruistic notionsbut there are so many radical agendas today masquerading as liberal that I’ve always been suspicious of the L-word.
Right now I’m to about 1959 in the biography and he’s written most of his juveniles by this time. One of his last, Have Space Suit Will Travel, was the first RAH book I ever red and in some ways, one of my favorites, mostly because of the discussion of space suit operation which I’ve used with other sources to design life support gear for my own stories and practical designs.


Parents know that reading is one of the most important things you can do with your child. And one of the great perks of owning an iPad or iPhone is that they can store many books, including books you can share with your child. There are also many apps that are interactive books for you or your child to read. One interactive book app – which is also a 3D pop-up book – is Cinderella 3D Pop-Up Fairy Tale.
Designed by Clue Pop for children ages 3-9, this app features the classical Cinderella story as written by Charles Perrault. You can select to read the book yourself or have it narrated to you. The narrated voice is a tiny bit computerized, but the kids might not mind. Along with the story, there are pages of pop-up scenes with “RPG – character role-playing game”. This breaks up the book for your little one, so they don’t get too bored just listening to the 38 pages of the story. Tasks for your child include things like: “help Cinderella mop the floor”, “help the fairy god mother find a pumpkin and mice”, and “try the glass slippers on the girl’s feet”. Most of them are simple touch and drag activities, which are easy for even the youngest reader. And they are a cute way to enhance the story. Older kids will enjoy reading the classic book along with the cute music.
Although the developers categorized the app for ages 3-9 and I am not too sure it will keep the attention of 9 year olds; maybe 7 or 8 year olds. My 6 year old did enjoy this app, especially the in-between activities. And kids of all ages will like that they can control the movement of the book – if they want to read the story only, they can skip the activities or vice versa. After Cinderella and the prince live “happily every after”, there are two more games to play. Your child can help Cinderella find things she needs for her wedding to the prince. And then use a wheel to match Cinderella’s head to her body, so she can be with her prince.
- A great way for your child to read the story of Cinderella.
- You can read the story to your child, or they can have it narrated using the app by themselves.
- The activities are fun for your kids and a nice enhancement to the book.
- The graphics are ok, nothing too impressive.
- The music is cute, but a little repetitious. But you can turn the music off if you wish.
- The narrated voice is a tiny bit robotic.
Download Cinderella at the iTunes App Store – be aware, there are seperate versions for the iPhone and iPad. Also check out the app’s preview video at You Tube and the developer’s Facebook page. And stay tuned for versions with Puss in Boots and Thumbelina.
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How the Short Story Lysandra’s Poem by Budge Wilson Signifies the Importance of Passion
Passion is important to show in any aspect of one’s life. The short story “Lysandra’s Poem” written by Budge Wilson signifies the importance of passion. One point in the story that clearly shows passion is when Elaine realizes that Lysandra has become famous even after all the times she has been put down including when her dad threw her poem box into the kitchen stove to be burnt. A second scene from the story that portrays passion is when Elaine is trying to talk to Lysandra and fix their friendship which was ruined over the winner of the poem contest. The last scene of the story when passion is evident is when Elaine finds out that Lysandra has become a famous poetic writer even after her dreams were crushed in middle school. Therefore, the main theme of this short story is that one should always strive for what they believe in because if they believe, they can succeed.
Firstly, passion is evident near the end of the story it is shown when Mr. Cochrane, Lysandra’s father, makes the ultimate decision, based on the winner of the poetry contest, to throw all of Lysandra’s poetry into the kitchen stove to be burnt. The scene took place like this, “That evening Mr. Cochrane took Lysandra’s shoe box and threw its contents into the kitchen stove.” (Wilson 130). This helps the reader understand how little support Lysandra had from her family and friends yet she still managed to come out on top as a famous poetry composer. Therefore, this shows that if one believes in themselves through all the setbacks that come their way, they can still succeed in anything.
Secondly, passion is portrayed when Elaine and Lysandra get into an argument over the contest in middle school. Elaine is trying her hardest to get Lysandra to forgive her because Elaine knows how much their friendship means to her. A quote from the book, “Lysandra’s Poem,” says, “’Lysandra,’ I pleaded, ‘It wasn’t my fault!’” (Wilson 130). She continued with, “’Lysandra. Please. Be nice again. I don’t want our friendship to be wrecked.’” (Wilson 131). This scene evidently shows how much Elaine needs Lysandra as a friend and how much Lysandra means to Elaine. All in all, this point proves that no matter what has happened one must believe to succeed.
Lastly, passion is shown when Elaine notices Lysandra’s poetry in famous magazines twenty years after the contest. At this point in the story, Elaine realizes how much desire and love Lysandra had for writing poetry. The book, “Lysandra’s Poem,” states, “By now I have read a lot of Lysandra’s poetry. It appears in academic journals and in the better popular magazines. She has published seven volumes and won two national awards.” (Wilson 133). This quote is showing how successful Lysandra has become over the years, which furthermore proves her passion and determination towards writing poetry. Therefore, this scene proves that one can succeed in anything, if they believe in themselves.
In conclusion, the subject of this story is about showing passion in many aspects of one’s life. The first scene that shows passion is when Elaine notices how little support Lysandra gets from her family but she still manages to come out as a famous poetic writer. Also, when Elaine is trying anything and everything to rebuild her friendship with Lysandra. Lastly, when Elaine realizes how far Lysandra has come in writing poetry over the past twenty years. Finally, with these three points, this means that the theme of the story is to always believe in one’s self and always strive to succeed.
Wilson, B. “Lysandra’s Poem.” Sightlines 10. Ed. Mary Crane. Toronto; Prentice Hall, 2000
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It is well-known that Nashville is a city of culture. The city hosts tons of cultural events to attend throughout the year. Check out the African Street Festival in September, the Nashville Cultural Festival in October, the NAIA Pow Wow in October, and the Nashville Greek Festival in September.
Nashville is also home to great cultural attractions. The Civil Rights Room in the Downtown Public Library, Fort Negley, the National Museum of African American Music, and some of the oldest, most historic churches in the nation are all great cultural spots to visit.


“You can’t do a thing about the length of your life, but you can do something about the width and depth ”
-HENRY LOUISE MENCKEN-
About The Phoenix
On May 13, 1959, the Penguin Daily Bulletin announced that the student readers' group would publish a small collection of writings including essays, poetry and short stories. In an effort to connect the literary booklet with the school's recently adopted penguin mascot, one student jokingly remarked, "How do penguins recreate? They lay eggs!"
The first editors quickly organized the material, mimeographed the pages, and created the first Egg using something resembling cardboard for the cover. On June 1, 1959, the "limited edition" Egg - with a unique hand-drawn egg on each cover, and a price of only one dime- sold out in half an hour. The forerunner to the Phoenix was a success.
During subsequent years, graphic arts and printing students joined the literary editors and helped to produce fourteen more Egg magazines. In addition to the customary essays, short stories and poems, the editors added satire, literary criticism, plays and foreign language poems. A few selections written by celebrities and by Clark College instructors appeared in the publication. From time to time, the magazine contained illustrations and photography. Then, in utter contrast to the Egg's whimsical beginnings, the back cover of the 1974 edition alluded to internal controversy and financial difficulty, and 1974 saw the last Egg.
In 1981, Clark College students decided to resurrect the literary magazine, and in an attempt to connect the new publication with the original Egg, the editors chose the mythical phoenix as a representation of rebirth. The second magazine rose from the ashes of the first and became the Phoenix. Some early editions gave the phoenix myth partial focus. Others used the myth as a major theme with contests and fantastic illustrations spotlighting the mythical bird. Eventually, the practice of relating content to myth lost its enamor.
Subsequent issues of the Phoenix focused primarily on poetry and prose, while issues representing the visual arts moved in and out of favor. In 1990, the first music selection in the magazine's history was debuted. In addition to magazine content changes, the scope and layout improved steadily. 1990 also saw the expansion of the publications' schedule to include the entire academic year. This change gave students a predictable atmosphere in which to make suggestions, develop concepts, and achieve advancements. The 1991 Phoenix reflected the results: a polished appearance, professional layout and an intensified promotional campaign, both on and off campus. The most rewarding consequence, however, was an astounding achievement: the Phoenix received the 1992 Literary Magazine Competition Award for Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the Washington Community College Humanities Association. Since then, the Phoenix has received numerous awards and honors. The most current publications celebrate legends in the making; Clark College students who create quality literature, distinctive visual images and creative musical composition.
In 2008, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018 we received perhaps our highest honors by winning "Best Magazine" in the national American Scholastic Press Association's annual competition. We have also received awards from the Community College Humanities Association, winning 1st place in the Pacific-Western Division in its annual competition for literary magazines for the 2015 and 2016 Phoenix.
The 2016 Phoenix: Won the National Program Directors’ Prize for Design for undergraduate literary magazines by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). Each year, AWP honors two national undergraduate journals with a content and a design award, and past winners have included journals from Columbia University, The New School, Kansas City Art Institute, University of Washington, and other prestigious institutions. This is only the second time a community college journal has been awarded this prize since 2001.


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A novelette featuring two characters travelling across Scotland in search of the Misty Isles, gold, truth and maybe something more. One character is the guide, the other a half man who is not all he seems.
This is a dark and rather haunting story, illustrated in a stark and dramatic fashion. It’s a quick read that starts with the half man searching out Callum McInnes as a guide to to the Misty Isles. The Misty Isles are strange and mysterious, some say not always to be found in the same place! Upon this island sits a mountain on the side of which is the opening to a cave in which gold can be found. You might be forgiven for wondering why all the gold hasn’t long since been taken and the answer lies in the payment that must be paid for taking the gold. It’s a price that not everyone is prepared to pay.
I understand that this story was read aloud by Neil Gaiman to an audience at the Sydney Opera House, accompanied by the Four Play String Quartet. I can only imagine how spectacular that must have been. Gaiman is an amazing narrator and has the ability to hold an audience spellbound.
Now, obviously, I couldn’t drum up the same setting however I made the best of it, reading this by myself late of an evening with just a table lamp and my dog for company. I thought it had a certain ambience, a certain lonely spookiness if you will!
Anyway, I have no intention of giving away the plot of the story. This is a short read intended for one sitting. It is brutal in parts and is definitely not to be confused for a children’s story! Think more of the Sandman or Smoke and Mirrors and you’re a bit nearer the mark than Stardust and The Graveyard Book. It is a difficult book to review because it’s only short and yet manages to carry a fairly strong story that will make you think for quite a while after you’ve finished reading – in fact I admit I went back to the beginning and read certain chapters again. Even now I’m thinking about the ramifications of what actually took place. It certainly wasn’t what I expected and it’s not the sort of book that you can finish and use words such as ‘enjoy’. I think more that it’s a reading experience, with the magical words of Gaiman spinning a tale of folklore and superstition, family and revenge. I confess that I wasn’t entirely a fan of the artwork – but that’s just down to personal taste and whilst I might not love it I admit that strangely enough it does fit the story with it’s strong dark lines.
My thanks to the publisher and bookbridgr for a copy of this book for review. The above is my own opinion.
I’m gradually working my way through The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman and have just finished Vol 4, Season of Mists which is simply a brilliant collection of stories that really starts to bring together the previous stories into a really related theme.
We start off with a family meeting of The Endless called by Destiny. This meeting sets into motion events for the rest of the book. Morpheus is made to realise, finally (it’s only been 10,000 years after all) that he may have been a little hasty, maybe a tad harsh, banishing to hell his mortal lover after she refused to rule with him. Talk about your women scorned! Anyway, long story short he’s going to have to return to hell in order to perform this rescue and given that he’s on not too friendly terms with Himself (the fallen angel) since his last foray into hell to retrieve his helmet from one of hell’s minions, the welcome mat may not be out!
Of course Lucifer, in a total moment of genius, decides to rid Hell of all it’s inhabitants and pass the key to his domain to Morpheus! Didn’t see that one coming at all. Now, it turns out that the key to Hell is sought after by more than one ambassador. The Fey, Chaos and Order, Egyptian deities plus demons to name but a few and the whole lot being watched over by a couple of angels, it seems that other Gods are interested in the outcome. They’re going to try sweet talking, threats, bribery and corruption, anything to get their hands on that domain. It’s going to be interesting not to mention a very difficult decision to have to make. Let the banquet begin.
I thought this edition was excellent. The resolution of the problem concerning Morpheus and Nada, the outcome of who will rule Hell, the combination of myth, folklore, religion and other intriguing tidbits of history plus a darkly humorous side – particularly in this instalment the portrayal of the Devil and his world weariness!
I loved it! Plus the accompanying graphics are amazing.
If you’re a bit like me and are new to graphic novels – The Sandman series could be the one for you. I can really see why people would become so enamoured with it and I’m not yet half way through!
Just finished reading the Doll’s House by Gaiman which is Vol 2 and covers issues No.9-16. I thought this was brilliant. Dark, yes. Disturbing, in parts yes. Gripping, yes. The Sandman series is my first foray into graphic novels and I’m taking my time working through the series.
I thought this was a really good instalment. The first story is a tale of a young tribesman being taken through a rites of passage into adulthood. The elder tribesman relates to him a story of Nada, once queen of a mighty empire and much beloved who tragically falls in love with Morpheus. I enjoyed this story very much – if you want it’s a bit of a Romeo and Juliet. Nada and Morpheus cannot be together. Their love is doomed from the outset. She follows him into his world and he in turn becomes enamoured with her, the first mortal to have ever sought him out in this way. It really is rather tragic and a bit sad I thought – it showed a different side to Dream which is something that became a recurring theme through the other stories within the volume.
The rest of the stories relate how Morpheus is still putting back to rights his realm following his escape from captivity. A number of Morpheus’s creations have escaped and on top of that he’s discovered a vortex – which could potentially have a disastrous effect or completely destroy the realm. I loved the way that we look back at a character from a previous story whose granddaughter is having a major impact on the stories within this edition. Rose is the main focus. She’s been reunited with her grandmother and now searches for her younger brother. This search sees her become an inhabitant of a house with a number of odd characters, it takes us on a journey into a strange dreamscape created by a couple of Dream’s escapees and also sees us at a Con with a difference.
Of the escaped dream characters Corinthian is undoubtedly the creepiest and his story arc with the whole serial con (a convention for serial killers!) is amusing and twisted in equal measure.
What I really enjoy about these is the way that Gaiman takes something that we think we know about and incorporates it into his story in such a way as to make it something new. I loved that the Endless – are not Gods. Unlike Gods they can’t die – dream, death and in this edition desire (causing trouble for Morpheus) – there are of course another four (not sure of all of them – destiny, despair and delirium, not sure about the other one – maybe destruction?)
Ultimately this series shows us a different side to Dream, almost making him appear more vulnerable – for example the story about the man who can’t die. Does Morpheus really want friendship? I’ve actually already read Vol 3 Dream Country (review here) which was a series of stories unrelated to the thread of the first two (although not sure whether they will have any future bearing yet) so now really looking forward to Vol 4 to see how the story of Dream continues.
I’m submitting this as part of my Stainless Steel Droppings RIP event.
Neil Gaiman – what a legend! I already was prepared to adore him from afar loving virtually everything that he writes but following today he’s gone even further up the adoration ladder, in fact he’s beyond the ladder (there’s a book title in there somewhere!)
Anyway, this weekend has just become officially awesome. I went this afternoon to see a reading of Fortunately the Milk by Neil Gaiman, whilst I admit that this book is not aimed at me I was so looking forward to going and seeing Gaiman and he certainly doesn’t disappoint. I had no idea what to expect as I’ve never been to a reading before! But we were treated to a short introduction followed by a reading of the first two or three chapters of FtM, Q&A and then what turned into a mega book signing!
Basically he’s a great narrator. Plus he tells such wonderful little stories about where he came up with the inspiration for some of his stories together with answering questions with real warmth and feeling, relating previous experiences and basically simply charming the audience. On top of this he doesn’t rush through the signings – he makes everyone’s dedication personal and unique, takes time for photos and draws little characters galore! Okay, it was a long wait in queue but he was still there signing away when I left and chatting easily with people – like I said a hero!
So, I learned that:
- next year (don’t know the release date) there will be six more Sandman novels, one released every two months, prequels to the original Sandman and giving the story of Morpheus, before his capture – and why he was so easily caught (sorry, Gaiman gave a much more eloquent description of this than I just did!
- There are going to be a series of novels (I think 3?) in which we will again be able to read about the Marquis de Carabas – can’t wait for those – and more about London Below – particular mention to the Shepherds of Shepherds Bush was made
- I’m sorry but I’ve forgotten any other news because my brain went to mush.
- and, I didn’t ask any questions because I was just too nervous – I so wanted to ask about The Ocean at the End of the Lane but I just totally wimped out
A photo of my signed book and a question – would it be silly to sleep with this book underneath my pillow! (Probably more uncomfortable than silly)
The conclusion: Gaiman = gushing, fangirlyness. Plus he’s completely spoiled me now for any future book readings!
Just finished reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman which I loved, enough that it gave me goose pimples and tears in my eyes!
This is only a short story, like a snippet of memory from childhood when you think everything is possible and anything can pretty much be something else. The underneath of your kitchen table is a fort, the tree at the bottom of the garden is Nottingham Forest and the pond in the farmyard at the bottom of the lane is an ocean. What I loved about this story is it makes you think back. There’s always one perfect summer from your past, you can recall being on holiday, sitting on the beach eating sandwiches and sausage rolls, everything tasting a little as though it had been seasoned with sand grains, and you still believed in the impossible. You wanted to explore that rock pool and you believed the caves to your back might have ghosts, smugglers from the past or maybe something more sinister. This is what this story captures for me and perhaps that’s why I still love to read books like this because it keeps that small grain of something special alive inside. As you grow older you forget the stories you created and lived in, those weren’t fairies at the bottom of the garden and of course you can’t really do magic! Not to mention the world seemed so much bigger – when you revisit the places you used to live and play they’re not the same as you remember somehow. That field is just a field – it’s not the size of a continent any more. This story reawakens some of those memories – or at least it did for me.
The tale is told in a flashback. A man revisiting memories from his past. We jump back a number of years to a young boy who lives in one of those ramshackle houses that no longer seem to exist. Bits added on and no particular order. This young boy lives in a world of books and imagination, which makes him into something of an oddity and probably not the most popular boy at school – a fact that is revealed by the absence of attendees at his seventh birthday party. But he’s happy, he has his books and his kitten for company, until a lodger comes to stay and starts a string of events that turn things upside down for a while.
What I love about this book is that whilst it’s fairly short the author’s use of words bring the world to life for me. I can picture the house and the countryside, the farm and even the pond. Granted my imagination might convey something completely different from the next reader but I think that’s part of the magic of this story. It will be unique for each reader. I really enjoyed seeing the world through a 7 year old’s eyes. Gaiman has managed to reach back and give this a child’s perspective. When you read you can see the truth behind what is really taking place but only momentarily before the world shimmers and you’re back inside the fantasy again.
At times quite sinister, certainly the varmints turn into something very creepy not to mention Ursula Monkton – the nanny from hell! The whole scene where the young boy is unable to get beyond the confines of his home and garden, like he’s trapped – is it just that Ursula is a regular nanny, protecting him and keeping him from trouble or is she keeping him trapped and exactly how does she manage to be everywhere at once! She really has got eyes in the back of her head.
Evocative of lots of things all rolled into one and playing on superstition, folklore and myth the tale is beautifully told.
I’m not going to elaborate further. All I can say is that I loved this and hopefully that comes across here. And, I don’t think this is just some ‘Neil-Gaiman-can’t-do-anything-wrong-hero-worship’ type of review because frankly I don’t ‘love’ everything that he’s written. Personally though I enjoyed this as much as The Graveyard Book and Neverwhere and it will be one of those books that I will pick up again and again. I think that if you want a little flashback, to be taken back to an age when things held magic then you should give this a go. Who knows what will happen…


Raymond Williams and Keywords
Raymond Williams draws attention to the complexity of a keyword ('nature') during a conference.
By Stephen Heath
Raymond Williams was one of the most significant thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century, and a major figure in a socialist tradition that he continued, questioned, and renewed. His many books and articles transformed understanding of culture and society, and made a decisive contribution to the development of cultural studies in Britain, Europe, and the United States.
Born in the Welsh border country in 1921, Williams’ childhood was spent in a close-knit rural working-class community that provided him with the values and concerns that were to underlie his life’s work. After attending the local grammar school, he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he arrived in 1939 to study English. His studies were interrupted in 1941, however, when he was called up for military service. Williams served four years in an anti-tank regiment, taking part in the 1944 Normandy landings, then returned to Cambridge in 1945. He completed his degree and became a tutor in the Workers’ Educational Association, on the periphery of the British educational establishment.
Williams’ experience of the Workers’ Educational Association was crucial for his work: in the first instance, for the task he set himself of analysing the idea of culture as it had gained importance in a line of social critics from Coleridge through to F.R.Leavis, and in relation to the contemporary deployment of the term culture in arguments against democracy and socialism – arguments that were cast increasingly in terms of a conflict between the threatened necessary values of ‘minority culture’ and the threatening amorphous mediocrity of ‘mass civilisation’.
Williams’ analysis became the enormously influential book Culture and Society (1958). Work for that book also involved a series of studies of cultural production, with the aim of understanding the history of industrial capitalism in relation to the forms of communication that were an integral part of it: the press, advertising, education, the new media. The Long Revolution (1961) brought these studies together and marked Williams’ insistence on the importance of struggles for the public ownership and control of ‘communications’. The book also expressed Williams’ commitment to recognising cultural activity as a primary and productive activity within the whole social process, not to be seen simply as the reflection of economic and political determinations. Williams went on to explore these concerns further in books such as Communications (1962; revised edition 1976), Television: Technology and Cultural Form written during a period at Stanford (1974), and Towards 2000 (1983). The underlying theoretical framework for such works was set out in, for example, his critical revision of Marxist thinking about culture and society in Marxism and Literature (1977).
Raymond Williams returned to Cambridge in 1961, following appointment as a University Lecturer in English and as a Fellow of Jesus College. He published substantially on literature, always with an attention to literary works as social forms. Books included Modern Tragedy (1966), The English Novel: Dickens to Lawrence (1970), The Country and the City (1973), Problems in Materialism and Culture (1980), Writing in Society (1984) - these last two being collections of some of his most important essays. Drama and its social reality in different historical contexts had always been a central interest. Indeed, Williams’ first books were Drama from Ibsen to Eliot (1952; revised as Drama from Ibsen to Brecht, 1968); Drama in Performance (1954); and Preface to Film (with Michael Orrom, 1954). In 1974 he became Cambridge’s Judith E. Wilson Professor of Drama.
Raymond Williams wrote plays for BBC television, as well as six novels: from the autobiographical Border Country (1960) to the posthumously published, historical People of the Black Mountains (1989 & 1990). This final novel, rooted in the mountains on the Welsh borderland, tells stories of their people from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages in the form of flashbacks as a man in the present day searches for his grandfather who has not returned from a mountain walk. Politics and Letters (1979), a set of substantial interviews with New Left Review, stands as an excellent introduction to Williams’ life and work in all its complexity.
Keywords, published in 1976, stemmed from work done during the writing of Culture and Society some twenty years earlier. Looking at the idea of culture and its development had shown Williams that it was only by returning to modulations of the word through history that one could understand even the term itself. Realisation of the value of, and need for, such a historical semantics of culture and of other related words led Williams to prepare a number of entries for these words which were to have formed an appendix to Culture and Society. Owing to the publisher’s worries about length, however, the appendix was finally omitted. It was to this material, which Williams had been expanding and revising over the years, that Williams returned for Keywords.
The guiding principle in the composition of Keywords was to look at historical changes in the meaning of 109 key words, in order to bring out the significance of the facts of these changes. As Williams put it in the book’s Introduction:
This is not a neutral review of meanings. It is an exploration of the vocabulary of a crucial area of social and cultural discussion, which has been inherited within precise historical and social conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical – subject to change as well as to continuity.
The network of the particular, culturally important words shifts in time, and a revised edition of Keywords, containing entries for an additional twenty keywords, was published in 1983. It is that edition which is currently available.
Raymond Williams died in January 1988 at his home in Saffron Walden, near Cambridge.
Following Williams’ death in 1988, many of the author’s unpublished papers were collected as an archive now held, in two parts, in locations in Wales: some material in Aberystwyth, and other material in Swansea. Among other papers, the archive contains notes and some draft material directly related to Williams’ preparation of the published editions of Keywords and his plans for analysis of further words. This material is currently being studied by Stephen Heath. A summary of it, with extracts as available, will be posted here.
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot. London: Chatto & Windus, 1952.
Drama in Performance. London: Watts, 1954.
Preface to Film, with Michael Orram. London: Film Drama, 1954.
Culture and Society, 1780-1950. London and New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.
Border Country (novel). London: Chatto & Windus, 1960.
The Long Revolution. London and New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.
Communications. London: Penguin, 1962; 3rd edition, 1976.
Second Generation (novel). London: Chatto & Windus, 1964.
Modern Tragedy. London: Verso; Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1966.
May Day Manifesto 1968, editor. London: Harmondsworth Penguin, 1968.
Drama From Ibsen to Eliot. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968 (revised as Drama from Ibsen to Brecht, 1968)
The Pelican Book of English Prose: From 1780 to the Present Day, editor. London: Harmondsworth Penguin, 1970.
The English Novel from Dickson to Lawrence. London: Chatto & Windus, 1970.
Orwell. London: Fontana, 1971.
D. H. Lawrence on Education, editor, with Joy Williams. London: Harmondsworth Penguin, 1973.
The Country and the City. London: Chatto & Windus, 1973.
Television: Technology and Cultural Form. London: Fontana, 1974.
George Orwell: A Collection of Critical Essays, editor. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1974.
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. London: Fontana, 1975.
English Drama: Forms and Development: Essays in Honour of Muriel Clara Bradbrook, editor, with Marie Axton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Marxism and Literature. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
The Volunteers (novel). London: Eyre Methuen, 1978.
The Fight for Manod (novel). London: Chatto & Windus, 1979.
Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review. London and New York, 1979.
Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays. London and New York: Verso, 1980.
Contact: Human Communication and Its History, editor. London: Thames and Hudson, 1981.
Culture. London: Fontana, 1981.
The Sociology of Culture. New York: Schocken, 1982.
Cobbett. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Towards 2000. London: Chatto & Windus, 1983.
Writing in Society. London: Verso, 1984.
People of the Black Mountains. Part I (The Beginning: People of the Black Mountains), 1989 / Part II (The Eggs of the Eagle), 1990.
A Letter from the Country 1966
Public Inquiry 1967
The Country and the City 1979


Olmsted 200 Celeration Events
The world premier of Highland Park Morning, composed by Charles Zettek for Olmsted 200 will be one of the pieces performed by Andrea McCrady on the Hopeman Carillon as part of the University of Rochester Carillon Summer Concert Series, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27.
Here is a link to that concert: https://events.rochester.edu/event/hopeman_carillon_summer_concert_series_andrea_mccrady?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=University+of+Rochester+Calendar
Hopeman Carillon Summer Concert Series: Andrea McCradyAttendees are welcome to bring folding chairs, blankets, snacks or picnics, and relax on the lawn of the Eastman Quadrangle to enjoy the carillon performance. The performers are available to greet the audience on the steps of Rush Rhees Library 15 minutes after the completion of the program. Parking Information Parking will be available starting at 4:00 at Library Lot. About the University of Rochester carillon For more information about the Hopeman Carillon, please visit sas.rochester.edu/mur/carillon/index.html, or our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HopemanCarillon For more information about carillons in general, feel free to visit the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America’s website gcna.org, or their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/thegcnaevents.rochester.edu
Aug 7 Concert in Highland Bowl of original music composed for O200 by The American Wild Ensemble
Aug 9 Presentation by Laurence Cotton on our Olmsted legacy at Rochester Museum and Science Center
Aug 12 Screening of “Designing America” in the Highland Bowl


It’s the Huntley Area Public Library’s Enjoy Huntley Day and we have an action-packed day of free family fun planned for you!
In addition to the events, the Kona Ice truck and Del Toro Street Tacos will be here from 4:30 to 7 p.m.*
We’ll have some chalk, bubbles, frisbees, large checkers, and other games on the lawn for all ages to enjoy.
Be sure to bring your Enjoy Huntley Passport to Fun to get stamped, or if its your first Enjoy Huntley event, pick one up for each family member at the library’s booth.
*Please note that while the event is free; food from the food trucks will be available for purchase at their respective prices.


Cupola's WordPlay Gallery
Word Puzzlers, Ponderers, Poetry,
Peculiar and Playful Prose
The following items are things that I have collected over
the years from friends, family, email and the Internet. I did not
write them, and have no desire to claim credit for them or for their
authors (unless I have indicated my own authorship in their
descriptions). I do take credit for the layout and design, but not
the content of these pieces. To the best of my knowledge, they are
in the public domain, but if someone knows otherwise, please email me and
I will remove them promptly from this site.
Puzzlers and Ponderers:
Word Puzzlers. Find the common English words or phrase that best describes these word pictographs. For example: d r a w could mean backward (ward spelled backwards), or sec ond could mean split second. Author unknown.
Points to Ponder. A humorous list of some of the world's imponderables. Author unknown.
More Points to Ponder. Another humorous list of some of the world's imponderables.
Timely Quotes. Some off base predictions of the future made by some of the movers and shakers of the day.
Charivarius's Chaos. An inspired and funny poem about the quirky English language, written by a Dutch man to help his students improve their English. Even native speakers will fumble reading this one out loud. This version came from a Dutch web site claiming to have rerun a 1945 newspaper article containing the poem.
The English Lesson. A poem similar, but shorter, than Charivarius's work, poking fun at English's peculiarities. Credited to Richard Krogh.
An Orthographic Lament. A classic poem on spelling by Charles Follen Adams. Short and funny.
Forgotten Rules of English. How 2 Rite Real Goodly - English humor. List of frequently violated rules of English. Each rule is itself an example of the broken rule.
Steve Fullenwider's Not So Correct Dictionary. Inspired, irreverent re-definitions of some everyday words and phrases. Currently maintained and updated with the original author's permission by yours truly.
Wife Speak to English Dictionary. Entertaining article about what your wife REALLY means.
The Bad Analogy Contest. An article from the Washington Post similar to the annual Bulwer-Lytton "It was a Dark and Stormy night" contest, put on by San Jose State University.
Funny Written Excuses. Notes from parents explaining their child's absence from school. Attributed to Sharon and Nick Ryan.
Poetry, mostly humorous:
The Politically Correct version of Little Red Riding Hood. The title says it all. Attributed to K. Hopkins.
Coat Hanger King. Silly poem by yours truly to celebrate Father's Day in 1997. Dad has always been pretty clever at pushing the limits of the common coat hanger, and this poem pokes a little fun at that talent.
Playful Prose and More:
The Five Toughest Questions that Women Ask - and Their Answers. Great article found on the web and attributed to the writers at Sassy Magazine.
The Annotated Thermometer. A colorful and humorous description of temperature and its effect on people, places, and things. Original author unknown. Several variations appear on the web, and it is clear that it has been embellished by many hands. The original had a strong bias for the cooler climes, topping out at 70º F. Cupola has added new material to provide some balance.
What if Microsoft Started Making Cars? An Internet classic, although probably not as widely distributed as some of the other Microsoft bashing jokes. Mostly the work of an unknown author, with some embellishment from Cupola.
Creative Answering Machine Messages. Need help coming up with a witty message? Try some of these. No known author.
Phone Won't Stop Ringing? Here's What You Do. Funny story about a woman who took matters in her own hands after receiving too many wrong numbers. It lives on offsite in this urban legend debunking at Snopes.
Boss Speak! Entertaining article explaining the difference between you and your boss. No known author.
Man Overboard! Dilbertesque joke about life in corporate America. No known author.
Oldest Profession. Joke about lawyers, architects, and computer scientists. No known author.
More! Other sites in the same vein that you might enjoy.
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I made a presentation about book design to the Federation of BC Writers on January 24 and everyone wanted a copy of my material. I give my presentations from an outline, so I couldn’t just photocopy it. But I did promise to post it here on my website.
In order to make it more manageable both for me to write and for you to absorb, I plan to put the information up in three different posts – Interiors – Ebook Formatting – Covers.
First, here is a list of the Design Features of a Book. It’s pretty comprehensive and you probably won’t use all the features. But if you are going to publish your own work, you should understand what goes into the interior of a book. I will explain some of the important features in my upcoming posts. My preferred style guide is The Chicago Manual of Style.
DESIGN FEATURES OF A BOOK
Half title page
Legal page (copyright notice, CIP, publisher’s address, etc)
Table of contents
List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgments (if not part of Preface)
Introduction (if not part of text)
List of abbreviations or chronology
Headings and sub-headings


A new Library for Pleasant Hill
TuewdNEW RENDERINGS! Check out the slide show (above) for the latest renderings of our new library.
Oak Park Properties & the new library
The library is one component of a project proposed for 15 acres at the intersection of Oak Park Boulevard and Monticello Avenue, currently referred to as "Oak Park Properties". Oak Park Properties comprises two projects, a Civic Project and a Residential Project.
The Civic Project, at 1700 Oak Park Boulevard, includes construction of a new library building, a park with athletic fields, improvements to the Grayson Creek corridor, and significant improvements to Monticello Avenue and Oak Park Boulevard.
The Residential Project, at 1750 Oak Park Boulevard, includes demolition of the existing County-owned library building and vacant administrative offices, and construction of 34 single-family homes, 7 accessory dwelling units, and a new pocket park.
Construction on the new library building is expected to begin in 2020 with anticipated completion in late 2021.
February 2020 Updates
City issues Request for Prequalification of Building Contractors
The City is conducting outreach for prequalification of General Building Contractors for the new Library project at 1700 Oak Park Boulevard. All General Contractors bidding on the Library Project must be prequalified prior to submitting a bid for the Project. Prequalification packages are due by 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb 25. For more information, click here.
Final EIR ready for public review
The previously released Draft Environmental Impact Report and its appendices are linked on the Documents & Presentations page - click here.
In addition to the online copy, hard copies are available for review at Pleasant Hill City Hall (100 Gregory Lane), the Pleasant Hill Library (1750 Oak Park Boulevard), and the Contra Costa County Department of Conservation and Development (30 Muir Road, Martinez).
Upcoming meetings in February
The City Council will conduct a public hearing at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24 to consider recommendations from the Architectural Review and Planning Commissions on the Oak Park Properties Specific Plan.
Detailed information about the hearing, along with links to the proposed Final EIR and related documents, is posted on the City website. Agendas will be posted on the City website at least 72 hours in advance of the meeting.
Frequently Asked Questions (latest update: January 2020) Please note, the Frequently Asked Questions are updated as the project evolves.
For more information about the library project, email firstname.lastname@example.org or call (925) 671-5229.


Social Mobilization Beyond Ethnicity
Civic Activism and Grassroots Movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1st Edition
By Chiara Milan
200 pages | 2 B/W Illus.
Southeast European Studies Serie
[can be purchased here]
This book offers an in-depth investigation of the emergence and spread of social mobilizations that transcend ethnicity in societies violently divided along ethno-national lines. Using Bosnia Herzegovina as a case study, the book explores episodes of mobilization which have superseded ethno-nationalist cleavages.
Bosnia Herzegovina emerged from the 1992-95 war brutally impoverished and deeply ethnically divided, representing a critical and strategic case for the examination and understanding of the dynamics of mobilization in such divided societies. Despite difficult circumstances for civic-based collective action, social mobilizations in the country have grown in size, number and intensity in recent years. Marked by citizen demand for accountable governance, responsive urbanism, and access to basic human rights, these protests have been driven by economic, social and political problems which cut across religious and ethnic divides. Examining the variation in spatial and social scale of contention, the book investigates movements’ formation, their organisational structures and networking strategies and advances research on divided societies and social movements.
This volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of South-eastern Europe as well as those examining political dissent, social movements and mobilization in divided societies as well as practitioners in civil society, grassroots groups and political activists.


|The I Ching 易經, is also known as the Classic of Changes or Book of Changes in English, is an ancient divination text and the oldest of the Chinese classics. Possessing a history of more than two and a half millennia of commentary and interpretation.
The I Ching uses a type of divination called cleromancy, which produces apparently random numbers. Four numbers, 6 through 9, are turned into a hexagram. The interpretation of the readings found in the I Ching is a matter of centuries of debate, and many commentators have used it to provide guidance for moral decision making.
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Presentation: Woodland Wildflowers and Trees of Wyandotte County Lake Park • Wyandotte County
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2015 @ 1pm
Mr. & Mrs. F.L. Schlagle Library & Environmental Learning Center • 4501 West Drive • Kansas City, KS • Map
Join Elizabeth Petroske for a powerpoint presentation on wildflowers and trees of Wyandotte County Lake Park. This is a fantastic introduction to the diverse collection of wildflowers and trees found in Wyandotte County. Contact Elizabeth if you plan to attend as space is limited.
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LOS ANGELES, November 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Vision Films, Inc. (“Vision”) announces the VOD release of the documentary Ghosts and the afterlife from the filmmaker Steve Sayre on December 13, 2022. Ghosts and the afterlife was executive produced by Garrett Stewart Sayreedited by Kevin Albertand guided by Steve Sayre.
Ghosts and the afterlife is the definitive afterlife-themed documentary based on all currently available scientific and historical evidence and has taken 12 years of in-depth research and investigation. The feature-length film explores the paranormal and the afterlife’s relationship to science. Various religious and scientific perspectives are explored through interviews with some of the pre-eminent experts in their fields who claim that “death is not the end”.
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/6FKGbixG3CE
Ghosts and the afterlife is the first truly scientific study of spirits and the afterlife. The movie offers James van Praagh (Creator and Executive Producer of Ghost Whisperer), Dr. Vernon SylvestMD (pathologist), Dr. Kenneth Rose (Harvard Ph.D. in Philosophy and World Religions), Psychic Eddie Conner, Justin Terry and pastor F. Reed BrownDR Jeffrey RedigerMD (Harvard Professor and researcher on the phenomena of afterlife experiences and spiritual healing), Dr. Norm ShealyMD, Ph.D., Raymond A. Moody Jr. (Author of bestseller life after life)Captain Frederick “Skip” Atwater (the operations officer in charge of the top-secret military Star Gate program, which investigated consciousness beyond the physical mind) and many others.
The program is narrated in front of the camera by Kelsey Bohlen featuring special guest appearances by the late Emmy® winner jay thomas (Murphy Brown, Cheers, Mr. Hollands opus); this was Thomas’ last film project.
Lise RomanoffManaging Director/CEO of Vision Films, says: “This is a fascinating look at the consistently reported encounters people have had with near, after-death, and ghost encounters over time. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, you’ll find the research and first-hand stories that are undeniably fascinating.”
director Steve Sayrewho had two afterlife experiences after suffering serious injuries while serving in the military, says the following about the film’s findings: “Having twice experienced the afterlife myself and given the amount of scientific and experimental evidence gathered during 12 years since the film has been in production, there is no doubt that life after what we call death goes on.”
Winner Best Documentary 2022 – Tarzana International Film Festival
Ghosts and the afterlife will be available on all major streaming and cable platforms in the US and Canada on December 13, 2022. Visit ghostsandtheafterlife.com for more information.
About Vision Films
Vision Films is a leading independent distribution and VOD aggregator specializing in the licensing, marketing and distribution of over 800 feature films, documentaries and series from some of the world’s most prolific independent film producers. Led by Lise Romanoff, Managing Director/CEO Worldwide Distribution, Vision Films releases 2-4 films per month on theatrical, VOD, DVD and TV platforms. www.visionfilms.net
About Hollywood Pictures Studios
The executive producer of the project, Garret Sayreis a former top-secret intelligence officer in the United States Navy who completed 10 years of research into interdimensional communications and experiences of the afterlife to create this film.
The director of the film Steve Sayre, served in a top secret capacity for US Army Intelligence and US Air Force nuclear launch. His previous films include “Death Penalty”, “The Satan Killer” with Cindy Vogelgesang and Jacob Westbrookand “Lost at Sea” with Caroline Ambrose and Mark Cuban.
SOURCE Vision Films, Inc.


The first to respond to this endeavour was that great heart Yvette Guilbert. Guilbert had not forgotten Jane for they had figured together in the same programme scores of times, in the Moulin Rouge, the Chat Noir, the Divan Japonais and other places.
Yvette was a connoisseur in poverty and distress, for her own struggles had been long and laborious, and since at that time leisure and affection and comfort was hers her heart could not resist the call of a companion in distress. Yvette Guilbert promised to introduce the programme with a speech about the days when she and Jane were young together, and sing some of the songs or recite some of the verses that had made her famous then.
Yvette Guilbert was to lead the programme and retire immediately afterwards, for she was fatigued after an extensive series of programmes in London, and was under Doctor's orders to retire to bed early. Her devoted husband sat behind the stage in the dressing-room waiting for her, as he always sat during her public appearances.
Yvette was superb, as she sat leaning forward as if the audience was with her around the fireside, talking of the sparkling days when she and Jane and the world was young.
"Jane Avril," she said, "was famous for the very special eloquence of her ankle, for her pointed and witty toes that crept from the foam of lacy skirts. There was no vulgarity in her. You felt that she abandoned herself to the dance with rhythmic joy, and Zidler loved her for the very "correct" quality of her rule in the Quadrille."
After the event and with enough money raised to solve Jane's immediate problems which set her once again on the way to health and happiness. Ever-kindly Yvette Guilbert congratulated the organisers with a note which read:
"Bravo! It is a great joy to hear you have made money to help Jane Avril!"
Yvette also sent a signed text of her speech to Jane as a gift.
The flowers and the rose can be seen in the above photos taken earlier this month.
Yvette Guilbert died 3rd February 1944.


The Leonardo da Vinci High School in Louvain-La-Neuve trains future teachers. Conscious of the need to adapt to new, collaborative learning methods, it appealed to our team for the design of a creative lab, a space totally dedicated to students and teamwork.
During meetings with the students and the teaching staff at the school, we found out that the students are in the habit of taking over free areas of the corridors to improvise working sessions on their common projects. So then, rather than limiting the lab to an enclosed area at the establishment, we came to the conclusion that we should upgrade these areas, by developing the lab into a sort of cobweb, which radiates that concept throughout the entire school.
Upgrading the passage areas.
The concept consists therefore of a multitude of hubs spread out over the school’s 4 floors. This partitioning takes its inspiration from a gradual evolution of involvement in work, illustrated by functionalities, which become more and more comprehensive, as one approaches the centrepiece on the 4th floor.
Thus, the ground floor introduces the concept with an informal meeting place for spontaneous, day-to-day exchanges. The 1st and 2nd floor have the same function, to which co-creation has been added, by using the dedicated working media. The ideation area, isolated and quiet on the top floor, offers the most comprehensive functionalities, its small, well-lit and cosy amphitheatre making it the idea spot for brainstorming sessions or pitches. Meetings there last longer and concentration is much improved. It is topped off, finally, by the mezzanine, which overlooks the library and offers comfort and serenity to students to rest or read amid the calm.
Being able to study in comfort and serenity.
The materials, both functional and decorative, are repeated over different levels to create a global unity. Perforated panels allow the hanging of slates for brainstorming, but can be turned the other way to encourage creativity among the students. The white lacobel allows the jotting down of notes with a marker.
One part of the team allowed us to identify the requirements.


Why does this real estate investing book get overlooked?
Why doesn’t this book appear on more sites? Are these sites giving their honest opinion? Most people have heard of Rich Dad, Poor Dad or other popular real estate investing books but few have heard of Real Estate Finance and Investments by William Brueggeman.
This book has so much useful knowledge about real estate all in one book. There is information on residential real estate investing as well as commercial real estate investing. This book is a great reference book as well! It has very complex formulas and equations that you will be able to reference at will. This is by far the most comprehensive real estate investing book on the market today.
So why haven’t I heard of this book? Maybe it’s because the book is formatted more like a text book (it is a text book) then other books. Maybe it’s because the book is expensive relative to other books. If you buy this one book it will be better than going out and buying several other books. I don’t know why this book isn’t more popular then it is but just because its not popular doesn’t mean it is not the best. Real Estate Finance and Investments by William Brueggeman is easily the best real estate investing book on the market.
Check out Real Estate Finance and Investments by William Brueggeman for yourself. You will not be disappointed as the book is a great tool to help further your career as a real estate investor. It will also be a great book to reference.


|About the Book|
Out of the annals of the author’s own family history comes this story of the strange death of a popular circuit judge in a mysterieous shooting that remained unsolved for many years. Who shot the Judge? remained an unsettled question, despite all efforts to find the answer. This is the account of a hunting accident in the north woods of Michigan and the effects of such unsolved mystery on members of the family and others. The story concludes with a surprise ending and alludes to the question of the degree to which such unhealed grief might affect even succeeding generations.The prompting to write the story was born for the author in an experience of personal healing in a prayer group, from which the author emerged with a compelling sense that this story had to be written. He could never seem to let it go.The judge was the author’s own grandfather, whom he, of course, never knew.


My students & I are working on the "Find the Spell Book in the Library" task on Island 3, and are not able to find the spell book. We use the whistle to call the agent over to the front of the bookshelf and have typed the code as it is in the solution key, but after searching the shelves in the spell book, magical book, and comic book sections, have not been able to find & mark it.
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About the book:
THE FIRST SNOW WILL COME.
A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother’s favourite scarf – wrapped around the neck of a snowman.
AND THEN HE WILL APPEAR AGAIN.
As Harry Hole and his team begin their investigation they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years.
AND WHEN THE SNOW IS GONE…
When a second woman disappears it seems that Harry’s worst suspicions are confirmed: for the first time in his career Harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his home turf.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jo Nesbo is a musician, songwriter, and economist, as well as a writer. His Harry Hole novels include The Redeemer, The Snowman, The Leopard and Phantom, and he is also the author of several stand-alone novels and the Doctor Proctor series of children’s books. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel.
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Released on February 15, 2017.
This is the story of something old that exists in a new world.
A story about adapting traditions and recognizing their use before they are forgotten. But this is not a story about living in the past.
Keepers of the Trail is a documentary film by David Hartman that follows a group of nine winter travellers as they walk north between Canada’s two great rail lines. The group travels by traditional methods handed down by those who used this land to survive. These methods have been developed and fine-tuned for centuries and they simply work better than anything else in this landscape. Garrett Conover is an underground legend among those who still travel the boreal forest in this manner. Keepers of the trail silently witnesses him passing on the torch to the next generation as the group navigates a harsh and beautiful winter environment.
Lure of the North


#1:. Wangari Maathai
As you enjoy jogging around Karura forest it is hard to imagine it without trees. Maathai together with other conservationists fought against land grabbers to save Karura forest. Maathai was the first woman in East Africa to earn a PhD, a doctorate in Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Nairobi. This earned her various positions including Senior lecturer in anatomy (1975) Chair of department in Veterinary Anatomy (1976), and Associate professor (1977).
While in these positions, Maathai negotiated for better terms of employment for women. Maathai also served as an elected Member of Parliament and Assistant minister for Environment and natural resources in the year 2003and 2005 respectively. The highlight of her life was when she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her contribution to the environment, development, democracy and peace. She also won other awards including the Right Livelihood Award (1984) and the Goldman Environment Prize (1991).
To date the Greenbelt Movement that she also formed in 1977 under the auspices of National Women Council of Kenya (NCWK) continues to carry the spirit of environment conservancy in honour of Wangari Maathai and what she stood for.
#2:. Grace Ogot
Grace Ogot was mourned by many who knew of her literary works as an author of many anthologized short stories. Ogot was the country’s first women MPs (Gem constituency) and the first woman to have a fiction novel published by the East African publishing house. Some of her work includes Land without Thunder (1968), The Island of tears (1980), The Other Woman (1976) and The Promised Land (1966). Ogot was a trained nurse who served as an assistant minister of culture and social services. She also worked as a scriptwriter and announcer for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) wrote for a column the viewpoint in the East African Standard.
#3:. Asenath Bole Odaga
Bole is known as the first woman to set up a publishing house, Lake Publishers in Kisumu, during a time when every writer ran to other established publishers. She also served as a lecturer in the 1960s at the University of Nairobi – Institute of African Studies. Bole was also involved in providing reading materials in schools through her work like Oral Literature for Schools and Yesterday’s Today: The Study of Oral Literature (1984). Bole was also keen on women rights and successfully ran an NGO that provided financial literacy and skills that allowed for women to carry out small-scale business.
#4:. Micere Githae Mugo
Micere is one woman who is passionate about her country despite being exiled to Zimbabwe and later the US to escape the then regime. The playwright, author, poet and activist was among the first black women to get admission to a segregated high school, Alliance Girls High School. Together with Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, they put together a play, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi that drew a lot of attention even from the government. Micere has been listed as one of 100 most influential people in Kenya by the East African Standard. Micere also served as a Dean Faculty at UoN becoming the first female to serve in that position in Kenya.


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Elizabeth Gontijo was born in 1942, in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her debut book, De Cor, was launched in 1991. In the following year, she received the BDMG Cultural Literature Prize for her second book, De Amoras e Outras, in the modality poetry. Afterwards there was also De um Segredo, published in 1999, and Setembros (2004), that got the Brazil/Hispanic America International Literature Prize, by the Academia Feminina Mineira de Letras, in 2007. On the same year, she published her fifth book, A Palma e o Verso, award winner of the Cecília Meireles (Poetry) Prize in 2008.
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I was elated to be starting my Ph.D. and felt ready to give all of myself into research. In parallel to doing research, I thought to get advice from people that have already walked the Ph.D. path. The quest to find advice led me to two directions. The first direction was to the library, I searched for famous physicist’s autobiographies/biographies – famous enough to have last the eroding passage of time. The second direction was to interact with alive people. I found a space to converse about the Ph.D. journey with Prof. de Leon. She told me that to learn how to do the research, I had to learn from somebody who knows how to do research. I nodded in agreement, but I did not understand what she meant. Now I will tell you my interpretation.


Have you heard of the wonders of thermofax printing but are unsure where to begin? Do you know about thermofax but are not quite sure how to design your own? This 20 page packed booklet is for you.
Going through all the basics of what a thermofax screen is, how to print with it and care for it, it also explains what images would work well and how to design your own. In addition, the booklet covers lots of different media which you can use with a thermofax, opening up endless possibilities for their use.
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It’s one of the most popular and beloved songs in the English language. Transcending race, creed, geography, generation, and social station, “Amazing Grace” has been recorded more times than any other hymn and is widely credited with transforming lives. Written by John Newton, an English clergyman and former slave-ship captain, the poem was published in 1779 and took on its familiar tune during the Second Great Awakening in the United States. In this inspiring program, Bill Moyers explores the song’s origins and enduring power.
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We’ve put together a new sutra book that is optimally laid out for virtual use. This is a PDF where all of the chants are full page at a readable size. This is designed for either reading on screen or for printing out. It also contains all the sutras that we will do during Choka on a virtual sesshin as well as additional sutras that may be used in other events. I encourage everyone who will attend any of upcoming virtual sesshins or practices days to download a copy of this sutra book.
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From Street Fighting to Self Defense System
When Moshe was 14 years old he chose to journey to (what would become) Israel. He joined the Baranovich group and began the construction of Tel-Aviv. During this time, Moshe was given many opportunities for hand combat. The Baranovich group was part of the Hagana (the Jewish defense organization) and was taught Ju-jutsu as a form of self-defense. In interviews, Moshe tells us that their knowledge was not efficient in real combat situation. They were attacked with sharp knives and many where injured, even killed. Moshe said that those who had not learned Ju-jutsu were better off because they were more likely to run away and be alive for another day. Watching the failure of one system, allowed Moshe to question and begin developing his own system. From experience Moshe knew that if a person had to think too much about the movement, they were dead before they would be able to move. Therefore he was looking for movements that people would do without thinking. He also began to realize that there are certain movements that we do, “in spite of our conscious will.”
So Moshe based his system on the first natural response.
The book – Jiu-Jitsu and Self Defense
Moshe published in 1931 his ideas and self defense techniques in a book written in Hebrew and titled “Jiu-Jitsu and self defense”.
I’ll start with emphasizing the fact that this book was written in a developing community (much different environment than today’s world of information and technology), by a considerably young man, with curiosity and fighting spirit, with a goal to contribute to his society, and with sparkles of genius qualities.
This book contains a full self defense method. Moshe demonstrates wide range of techniques and explains concepts of self defense, through describing dangerous situations.
Moshe’s concerned about the Mental State of Mind in violence situation, and about learning principles. He covers self defense against grappling, chocks, dagger and guns attacks, and explains falling and boxing.
I believe that this book and his content would not be available unless the reality Moshe lived in and his practical fighting experience. Here I would say that Moshe was physically strong man and determined fighter, but for the ordinary person, he should pay attention to the learning advises and the theoretical issues that explained in this book, thus will gain the ability for effective performance of the techniques. Moshe also emphasize it by updated titles for the book: “The Defense of the weak against the aggressor”, “Science versus Brute Force” or “Ju-Jutsu for Intellectuals”
Here I will write shortly about the basic concept of the book and about the boxing chapter. Also it is important to relate to the outcomes of this book in the developing process of Moshe as Martial Artists.
The Basic Concept and Quick Learning Process
Moshe explains in the Jujutsu book, in the chapter he titled “elementary principles”, his concept of “first natural response”. It had two folds:
A. First is the fact that “The first movement of each counter is the most natural movement dictated by the instinct of conservation or self-defense. It will always be the movement which is called forth in spite of oneself, almost as a reflex. And one has only to learn how to finish the counter, the choice having been already made by nature itself.
B. Second is the quick learningprocess: Moshe wrote in the Jujutsu book “Practice shows that a comparatively short period of training is amply sufficient to learn how to continue the counter which was already begun, and how to carry it out effectively.
The contact between the part of the body which produces the first instinctive movement and the limb of the aggressor or his weapon calls forth the impulsion that urges you to continue. And one succeeds in carrying out the necessary counter in practice as well as in the training hall, if not better, owing to the greater zeal one puts into real defense”.
Blows (punches) and their Defense
I think that in this short chapter Moshe succeeded to brilliantly present the essence of boxing.
The quotes show Moshe’s knowledge in boxing – Moshe explains in his special way the organization of the body for an effective punch:
A straight left punch ought to be given so that all the joints interposed between the knuckles of the left fist and the right toe form no angle, so far as possible, the connecting bones being the straight coextension of one another.
Once more, in this chapter, we meet Moshe’s practical attitude. Moshe thanked at the beginning of this book to Amiel (Emil) Avineri. Emil was then the regional boxing champion, and was Moshe’s training partner and appears in many photos of this book. One of the famous fights was when Emil won the fight against Muhamad Nagib, the Egyptian army Champion, that later became to be the president of the Egypt.
The Jiu-Jitsu book and meeting Pro. Jigoro Kano
In September 1933 Moshe met Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo.
Here is a quote from Jigoro’s diary – “At that time a Jewish scholar named Feldenkrais happened to be in the audience. His remarks to me after the lecture were very enlightening. He asked if we could get together to talk further. We agreed on a date to meet at my hotel. He had a remarkable background: a Russian-born Jew with Palestinian citizenship who had studied in France. He could speak many languages, including English, German, Russian, and Hebrew; and he spoke French like a native. He brought a book he had written about judo with him and asked me to take a look at it”.
Jigoro looked at the book and later wrote introduction to the French version – “Though this book is not entirely conformable to my own conception of the true Jiudo, it is none the less the best work published on the subject in any other language but Japanese”.


World War 3 in Bible Prophecy
|“And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.” (Zechariah 14:12)|
In the days of Noah, God poured out His judgment on an unbelieving world in a great flood (Gen. 6:17). The Bible makes it clear that God is going to judge the world again in the end times; only this time the world will be judged by fire, not by water (2 Peter 3:3-7). The final judgments of God are represented in the book of Revelation by the seven seals (Rev. 6:1-17; 8:1-5), seven trumpets (8:6-9:21; 11:15-19), and seven bowls/vials (16:1-21). These judgments, which are spread out over a seven-year period of time known as the “Tribulation”, are all connected to one another and get increasingly worse and more devastating as the end times progress.
Until the nuclear age, the predominant view was that God, Himself, will bring about these judgments supernaturally. However, many Bible prophecy experts are beginning to think that John’s visions of the trumpet and bowl judgments may in fact be describing, in perfect chronological order, precisely what is understood to occur during and after a large-scale nuclear war. In his book “There’s A New World Coming” (1973), Hal Lindsey writes:
“Although it is possible for God to supernaturally pull off every miracle in the Book of Revelation and use totally unheard of means to do it, I personally believe that all the enormous ecological catastrophes described in this chapter (Revelation 8) are the direct result of nuclear weapons. In actuality, man inflicts these judgments on himself. God simply steps back and removes His restraining influence from man, allowing him to do what comes naturally out of his sinful nature. In fact, if the Book of Revelation had never been written, we might well predict these very catastrophes within fifty years or less!”
The sixth and seventh seals take place during the “Great Tribulation” (the last half of the Tribulation), which is pictorially described in Revelation chapters 8, 9 and 16 as a series of trumpet and bowl judgments, and appear to announce World War 3’s escalation from a conventional war into a nuclear holocaust...
5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
The “voices” signify the resulting confusion, commotions, distresses, and miseries among the earth’s inhabitants, as people from every segment of society “hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains” (Rev. 6:15). Perhaps the population of Earth entering underground bomb and fallout shelters. Interestingly, in verse 1 John says...
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.According to experts, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) take about 30 minutes to reach their target, no matter where they are launched from. That’s also the same amount of time it takes for nuclear fallout (radioactive dust and ash) to fall from the sky after a nuclear blast, in a phenomenon known as “Black Rain.”
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth... 8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea... 10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters...
John’s description of “hail and fire mingled with blood” (v. 7) is especially interesting. In a nuclear explosion, humidity in the air is instantly compressed into water and driven straight up into the freezing temperatures of the upper stratosphere—along with the blood of millions of people, who have been vaporized by the heat. It is then instantly frozen and falls back to Earth as giant chunks of ice mingled with blood! Revelation 16:21 tells us there’ll be gigantic hailstones weighing up to 100 pounds (or 45.35 kilograms). Did you know that hailstones weighing fifty kilograms were found during the nuclear tests in the 1950s?
The effects of these three trumpets...
7 ...and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.Nuclear driven firestorms could easily burn one third of the trees and all the grass on planet Earth. In describing the consequences of a nuclear war, secular author Jonathan Schell predicts “… a significant decrease in photosynthesis in plants around the world; the scalding and killing of many crops…” in his book “The Fate of the Earth.”
8 ...and the third part of the sea became blood; 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.The blood John describes may not be blood at all, but rather black rain. This could easily wipe out one third of all sea life. Schell also predicts, “… the extinction of many ocean species, among them some at the base of the food chain…” At the same time, a third of the world’s warships may be destroyed, which is exactly what happened in World War 2!
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
|“Star of Wormwood” memorial in Chernobyl|
12 ...and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.During a nuclear blast the wind is rapidly pushed out [displaced] for several miles, creating a vacuum at the center of the blast site. Suddenly, this wind, like a giant tidal wave, rushes violently back into the vacuum. The atmosphere literally rolls back on itself like a scroll!
At the same time, the explosions of these weapons can shake, displace and disrupt the earth’s surface for miles away, triggering earthquakes and moving mountains and islands.
The first four trumpets are blown in sequence about the same time, and the remaining three trumpets occur sometime later, at various times during the Great Tribulation (Rev. 8:13). They introduce the locust swarm (Rev. 9:1-12), 200-million-man army (Rev. 9:13-21), and declaration of the Kingdom of God (Rev. 11:15-19).
The seven bowl or vial judgments, which are the final judgments of the Tribulation period, appear to parallel the above but show an intensifying of the judgments—likely the lingering effects of nuclear war. So incredibly dangerous is the potential of radioactive fallout that in fact the long-term cumulative effects of lethal radiation would far exceed the immediate blast effects of the exploding bombs. In Revelation chapter 16, we read:
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast...
In fact, the RFID chip (which may be involved with the Mark of the Beast) is powered by a tiny lithium battery; and if this was to leak inside the body due to atomic radiation, a sore would form at the implantation site. Interestingly, everyone who receives the Mark of the Beast will have this sore (v. 2).
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. 4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores,
Is it merely coincidence that John described the effects of nuclear warfare in sequence?
- Sky rolls apart like a scroll (mushroom cloud) - Rev. 6:14
- Earth trembles and shakes, moving mountains and islands (nuclear shock waves) - Rev. 6:14
- Men hide in caves and rocks of the mountains (nuclear bunkers) - Rev. 6:15
- Stars fall to the earth (ICBMs landing) - Rev. 8:10
- One third of the earth is burned (nuclear firestorms) - Rev. 8:7
- One third of the oceans become like blood (black rain) - Rev. 8:8
- One third of the earth’s drinking water is contaminated (radiation poisoning) - Rev. 8:11
- Sun is darkened and moon becomes like blood (nuclear winter) - Rev. 8:12
- Horrible sores break out on Antichrist’s followers (petechiae sores/melanomas) - Rev. 16:2,11
- Men are scorched by the sun (ozone depletion) - Rev. 16:8-9
- Antichrist’s followers are blinded (photophthalmia) - Rev. 16:10
If you haven’t already repented of your sins and put your faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, now is the time to do so—so that you can escape all these things which are about to come to pass (Luke 21:36).
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” (2 Peter 3:10)


An August Requiem - Saumya Chaki
It was a hot summer day in June of 1984, perspiring from a hectic game of soccer I trudged into my school library a skinny sixth grader. The break time gong had sounded, much like a death knell for an exciting soccer game. Though I was not complaining as I loved visiting the school library as reading was a passion that matched my excitement for the game of soccer. Wiping off sweat from my neck and arms, I quietly settled into a vacant chair at the left corner of the reading room. As I sat down my eyes caught a book title through the glass cupboard door. I looked more closely and walked up to open the glass cupboard and picked up a book titled ‘Man-Eaters and Jungle Killers’ by Kenneth Anderson. By the time I had read the preface I was hooked to it and rapidly headed to the librarian to issue the book in haste before it fell into a classmate’s hand. That evening I did not go out to play which was an unimaginable thing as we never missed a chance to play even during the monsoons in Calcutta.
By dinner I had finished the first two stories ‘The Marauder of Kempekarai’ and ‘Alam Bux and the Big Black Bear’. In my eleven-year existence I had not read anything remotely as exciting as these jungle tales set in a world I had not seen. The stories were set in the 1930’s and 40’s when wildlife was a lot more prolific in the Indian jungles. What stood out to me were the vivid descriptions that made the jungle tracks that Anderson walked on appear as images in technicolour in front of my eyes. My hair would stand at the description of how the famed Dorai would track down the man-eater in a game of hide and seek. Anderson’s ability to make an arm chair adventurer like me feel the heat of the situation was simply amazing. I had nightmares of man-eaters stalking me in our garden, me sitting on a machan waiting for the tiger to return to its meal. To a young boy who had grown up on Famous Five, Hardy Boys and the Commando series of comics this was a new ‘Baptism’ for me to jungle tales. It changed my reading and my interests forever.
I had completed the book in the next two days, staying up well past my bedtime much to my sister’s amusement. Those days we were not blessed with the internet but reading the introductory pages led me know of the other titles by Anderson. I was soon back to the school library searching for other Anderson books in the catalogue and much to my excitement I found two more ‘Black Panther of Sivanipalli’ and ‘Nine Man-eaters and One Rogue’. In the next two weeks I had finished both these stories with the same passion and excitement. While Anderson’s stories were mainly about his hunting exploits what really stood out, was his evident love and passion for the jungle, its inhabitants both human and animal. He had a keen understanding of animal behavior which was illustrated in his writing. He was truly a raconteur who was skillful in his art. Anderson never gloated about his successes and one could always sense a tinge of sadness when he had to shoot man-eaters who had been driven to the habit by largely man made situations like a bullet wound that never healed or accidents that left the tiger incapable of hunting its natural prey. Anderson always expressed regret for his hunting days of his youth and how much he felt happier just spending time in the jungle, taking long walks with just a camera in hand.
The transformation of Anderson from hunter to conservator happened well before the onset of Project Tiger in 1972. He was deeply concerned by the socio-economic changes in the Indian sub-continent and the constant felling of trees and encroachment on forest land. He almost seemed an amused bystander who was deeply saddened by what was happening around him. Anderson would have been heart-broken if he had lived to see the India of today where tigers and leopards are increasingly coming into conflict with human habitats. What makes Anderson writing unique is unlike other hunters he saw the decline of wild life as a serious imbalance in the food chain and natural ecosystem. While Anderson was a good 30 years younger than Jim Corbett, we find lesser concern in Corbett’s writing about the rampant loss of wild life in India during the British Raj. The other striking difference is Anderson stayed back in his beloved India not only because he loved the Indian jungle, but he was also a lot more integrated into Indian society having learnt Tamil and Kannada and had friends and acquaintances all over South India. Anderson’s books are rich source of how the flora and fauna was in the South India jungles about 70 years back and must be read by the youth of today as it would strike the need for ecological management and wildlife conservation in their impressionable minds. Anderson left us for his heavenly abode in August 1974, his thoughts and writings stay with us eternally burning like the eyes of the Royal Bengal Tiger.


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