|l.e.z. - the lesbian sorority |
by Annie the Slick
L.E.Z. - The Lesbian Sorority.
An adventure in lesbian high-fantasy - any resemblance to the real world is purely coincidental, and would be cool and by cool I mean totally sweet.
Chapter 1 : Rush Week
Starring the Freshmen: Josie, Nina, Kirsten
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It was the first day of rush, the whole house was gathered in the doorway to sing their welcome song to the gathered incoming freshmen. The freshmen had probably heard some stories whispered about Lambda Epsilon Zeta, stories about the type of girls in the house, of how there were some that were into girls. But the stories weren't the whole truth, far from it.
The sisterhood smiled as the 15 freshmen girls walked into the foyer, they were paired with one or two of the sisters to talk to. To talk about what they wanted out of the college experience, and what they wanted out of a sorority. For a select few they would be chosen to join the best sorority on campus: L.E.Z.
Terri poked Isabelle in the ribs as a petite brunette freshmen came through the door, they walked up and introduced themselves.
"Hi I'm Terri," she said, giving her blond hair a flip, "and this is Isabelle," Isabelle smiled.
"Hi I'm Josie," Josie looked at the two sorority sisters, they were opposites. Terri the stunning blond, almost 6 feet tall with a slim modelesque body and Isabelle with her strong Italian features, was no less pretty in her own dark way.
"Welcome to Lambda Epsilon Zeta. I'm sure you're gonna fit right in." Said Isabelle as she put her arm around the younger girl and led her into the living room. They talked for awhile, found out that Josie was a local girl. She really wanted to be a Gamma Phi, but had heard some interesting things about L.E.Z. and wanted to find out more about it.
"Well," began Terri, "if you want to find out more about us, we could give you a house tour."
"k," said Josie as she smiled.
Terri led Josie upstairs with Isabelle right behind. They showed the girl the library, one of the Senior's rooms and then the sleeping porch.
"All the freshmen girls sleep in the sleeping porch," Isabelle told her "They get closet space and a dresser in one of the upperclassmen's rooms, but their beds are here." Josie could see a room full of beds with four small windows higher up in the room, that shed little light. It was dim even now, in the middle of the day. "I think you'll find that most houses have a similar arrangement."
Terri then led them to the upstairs bathroom, it was quite large being the main bathroom in the whole house. There was a communal shower and five toilet stalls. Terri led the girl and Isabelle into the shower itself. There were eight shower heads and Josie could see several chairs as well.
"It gets kinda crowded in here every morning, but we don't mind, do we Izzy?" Josie caught the look that flashed between the two other girls. She wondered if the stories she had heard were true? "If you make it into the house you'll find out how fun it is to live here." Josie felt Isabelle right behind her almost touching her. Terri started walking towards her.
"We might be able to give you a little taste right now." Josie's heart started beating in her chest as she felt Isabelle's body press against her back, she looked into Terri's eyes as the girl came closer until she was inches away. She was startled and couldn't move, she looked down, embarrassed. Terri lifted the teenager’s chin and leaned in for a kiss, a soft peck to start. Josie's eyes opened wide as she was kissed by another girl for the very first time. Isabelle encircled the girl's tiny waist and nuzzled into the girls neck, kissing the skin beneath her ear gently. Josie put her hands up against the Terri's chest and tried to feebly push away, but it felt so good she stopped and moaned briefly as Terri's kiss grew in intensity.
Terri Wrapped her arms gently behind the girls head, and continued to kiss her. Isabelle began to pull the girls shirt out of her jeans. Josie reached down with her hands and tried to stop Isabelle from untucking her shirt, but she was already lost in Terri's kisses, and her arms seemed to find their own way around Terri, pulling her into an embrace. It wasn't like kissing a guy, Terri smelled great, her lips tasted wonderful, and the kisses were much softer. Josie moaned again as she felt Isabelle's hands begin to roam her tummy. They worked their way up the the teen's chest as Isabelle's tongue found Josie's ear.
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Down in the living room most of the visiting girls had left, nobody seemed to notice that Josie never made it back from her house tour. On the couch in the living room two sorority sisters, Monica and Stephanie, were still talking to Nina and across the room young Kirsten was still talking with Gretchen and Charli.
The sophomores, Monica and Stephanie, were sitting on either side of the young freshman Nina. Nina was a cute girl, her tits were still a bit small. She was talking about her high school and how cool it was to be a cheerleader and how she hoped she could make it on to the squad for the University.
"You know that most of the squad is made up from girls in our house." Said Monica softly, leaning in a little towards the girls ear.
Nina smiled a little uncomfortably as she felt the older girl’s breath on her neck.
Stephanie placed her hand gently on Nina's skirt clad leg, and leaned from the other side, "We could really help you get on the team, if you know what we mean."
Nina swallowed and looked across the room at the other three girls. Kirsten, the other rushee, was looking back at her. She had her mouth open and was was watching as Stephanie's hand slid under Nina's skirt, slowly sliding up the girl’s thigh. Kirsten couldn't believe what she was seeing, the two older girls were making a pass at the other freshman. She swallowed hard, but her eyes stayed glued to the three girls on the opposite couch.
"I really have to be going..." began Nina, her statement fading away as she closed her eyes. Monica had brought her hand up and gently took one of the girl’s pert breasts in her palm and began to slowly massage the soft mound through her blouse. Nina felt both pairs of lips kiss her neck. "I really...ohh." Stephanie's hand found the girl’s young quim, the fingers just tickling the skin through the girls white cotton panties. Nina didn't know what to think, her mind was focused on the ministrations on her body by the two sorority sisters.
Kirsten shifted in her seat, she was getting a bit aroused as she watched the two sorority sisters molest the freshmen girl across the room. She couldn't take her eyes off of the display as she saw one of the girls move her hand up the freshmen's skirt. She heard someone talking to her.
"Does that get you hot," It was Gretchen, the brunette junior sitting next to her. Kirsten couldn't answer, she was fixated on Nina getting felt up on the other couch, she didn't notice Charli's hand until it turned her cheek to face her. Charli planted a passionate kiss on the freshman before she could react. Gretchen slid off the couch and kneeled between the girl’s legs and gently spread them as Kirsten started to moan into Charli's mouth. Kirsten put her hand down and tried to keep the girls head away from her sex, but Charli grabbed them firmly as she brought the girl into a tight embrace.
Gretchen lifted Kirsten's cute pleated skirt, revealing her simple black panties. She reached under the girls tight ass and shifted Kirsten's butt forward. Kirsten moaned as she felt Gretchen's hand press against her young wet pussy.
Charli finally let her come up for air, leaning out of the passionate kiss. "Just enjoy it girl, we know you want it."
"No...I...please...ohhmphhhh." her protests were smothered by Charli's mouth as the older girl kissed her again.
On the other couch, Stephanie was between Nina's legs as well. She hooked her hands under Nina's panties and pulled them down to the girl's knees. Stephanie put her hands under Nina's legs and push them up and apart, the girls cute feet in their penny loafers and knee socks were splayed apart. Nina's pussy was now exposed for her to play with. Nina moaned deeply as Stephanie brought her experienced tongue in contact with her virgin pussy, and started licking.
Monica had Nina's shirt open and the girls bra pulled up off of her pert little tits. She had her mouth planted on the teens nipple, sucking on it and nibbling it. Nina started to moan, "Oh, Oh, oh ohh ooooh!". Monica left lipstick kisses all over the girl’s little tits.
Kirsten felt Gretchen's mouth on her panties kissing her quim through the black fabric. Gretchen hooked the leg of her panties and pulled them aside freeing the young coed's pussy for her waiting tongue and dived in as Kirsten moaned out loud and grabbed the back of Gretchen's head and pulled it tight against her sex.
"Ohh God!!" Screamed Kirsten and Nina simultaneously as they came. Screaming in unison to the sexual assault from the four sorority sisters.
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Josie stumbled out of the bathroom between the two other girls, she was naked. They led the dazed freshman down the hallway and into Terri's room, Isabelle threw the girl’s clothes on the floor and then pushed the teen onto the bed. She spread Josie's legs and dove on her pussy licking and sucking it roughly. The girl gasped as she was taken.
Terri walked over to her dresser and opened the top drawer, reached in and pulled out a strap-on cock. She pulled her pants off and strapped the 8 inch cock on over her panties.
"Is she ready Izzy?"
"yeah." Mumbled Isabelle between licks.
Terri walked between Josie's legs as Isabelle moved out of the way. She placed the head of the cock against Josie's sopping pussy and sank in before the teen even knew what was happening. The little girl squealed as she was impaled on the other girls cock. Terri pulled back and sank in deeper. She sawed back and drove in to the freshmen rushee once more before hitting bottom.
"Oh God!!" Screamed Josie as she started to get fucked by Terri. She wrapped her legs around the other girls back and searched out Terri's lips with her own, hungrily kissing and sucking on the older girls tongue. Terri started a nice hard rhythm into the smaller girl. Pounding the girls tight hole, the leather harness slapping against Josie's pubic mound with each thrust.
Isabelle stood up and went to Terri's dresser and pulled out a second strap on. She turned and watched the teen getting fucked as she synched up the straps, with experienced hands she was quickly wearing a black 8 inch cock. She pulled out some lubricant from the same toy drawer and dribbled a stream of the liquid onto her fake cock.
"Roll her over Terri," she said. Terri lifted the girl in a hug, turned and sat on the bed, the cute freshmen girl now rode the junior's cock, she started to bounce on the older girls strap-on, threw her head back, "fuck, you feel so good inside me!"
Isabelle jacked her cock off a few times as she approached the unsuspecting freshman coed. The first indication the bouncing little brunette had of the second cock, was when she felt Isabelle behind her and the tip of her cock pressing against her sphincter. Isabelle timed it right so that Josie's own bouncing popped her black rubber cock head into the girls virgin anus. Josie had three inches of cock in her ass immediately.
"AAEEEEE!" The girl squealed as her nether hole was violated.
Josie was so aroused she kept bouncing, she quickly sank down on the dripping cock embedded in her asshole. She kept bouncing and soon was rising and falling the full length of both plastic shafts.
"Oh GOD!!!" She screamed as she took both girls cocks deep inside her.
She bounced faster, she could feel the two cocks rubbing through the walls of her pussy and anus. Josie started grunting with each down bounce.
"Ungh! Ungh! ungh! ungh! un!un!un!un!" Her eyes rolled back in her head as her orgasm exploded over her whole body, she screamed in ecstasy and passed out, collapsing on the other girl's big fake cocks.
Terri and Isabelle half rolled the girl onto the bed. Isabelle now lay behind the comatose girl spooning her, still keeping her strap-on embedded inside the rushee's anal passage. Terri was in front of the girl, she lifted the girl's limp leg over her hip and the two of them continued to gently double fuck the girl as she woke from her faint. Sawing into the smaller girl, relentlessly.
Josie came back to reality still filled in both holes. She felt Terri's lips on her own and the two of them started kissing as another orgasm built in the young coed. Gentler this time, as the two girls slowly thrust into her, Isabelle pulling back as Terri thrust in, a sensual, powerful rhythm. One cock in her young tight pussy and the other violating her no longer virgin asshole.
She moaned as the two girls continued to fuck her.
* * * * * * *
Down in the living room, the two freshmen had lost all their clothes as the four sorority sisters continued to explore their young tight bodies. Stephanie rolled back on her heels, pulling her head out from between Nina's bare thighs. She grabbed the girl’s hands and stood the unsteady teen up, and started kissing Her.
Gretchen stopped licking Kirsten's pussy and turned around to look at Stephanie, she smiled and pulled Kirsten to her feet as well. She started making out with the naked freshman, Kirsten was in such a sexual haze, she hungrily returned the kisses. Gretchen pulled her into the center of the room.
The four girls stood right next to each other as Stephanie kissed Nina and Gretchen kissed Kirsten. The two sorority sisters stood back to back and then in a smooth movement, stepped aside and let the two freshmen meet in the middle. Placing them together, moving them into an embrace. Nina and Kirsten clung to each other and continued their passionate mashing.
The four sisters went to one of the couches and sat down next to each other to enjoy the show. Nina began to kiss her way down the other teen’s body. She nuzzled Kirsten's pert breasts as she tenderly sucked on the other girls nipple, she trailed her tongue down the other girls tummy and licked her belly button.
Gretchen snaked her hand into Charli's pants and the two girls started masturbating each other as they watched the two naked coeds making love in the living room of the sorority house. Stephanie and Monica started to play with each other as well.
Quickly the two freshmen were in a 69 on the floor, their tongues licking the others pussy.
Just then Josie stumbled out from door for the stairs, Terri and Isabelle followed. She was disheveled and missing her underwear. The two older girls chuckled a bit and led the younger girl to the couch where they sat down to watch the show.
Kirsten and Nina continued licking, entwined in a 69 as the seven other girls watched and played with each other.
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The three Freshmen girls stood on the doorstep as the door closed behind them. Josie, Kirsten and Nina looked at each other sheepishly. They would never forget the day they were introduced to Lambda Epsilon Zeta Sorority.
They walked back to the dorms in silence, each girl with her own thoughts, each reminded of their experiences by the wind drying the juices on their bare pussies, none had made it out with their panties. Once back at the dorms, Nina looked at Kirsten and Josie and smiled, "you guys wanna come up and see my room?"
Josie nodded and Kirsten smiled back and said, "Sure."
Chapter 2: The new pledges arrive
They each get a big sister assigned to them. Sarah takes Tawnee to her room and initiates her into lesbian sex immediately. Carrie is Anne's big sister and shows her the whole house ending up in the sleeping porch where they discover Ashley kneeling on the floor with her head between her Gretchen's legs. They watch from behind the cracked door, Carrie starts feeling the girls ass and soon she has her hand up the girl’s shirt...
Starring almost everybody.
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"Welcome to Lambda Epsilon Zeta, girls. You are the lucky few to be admitted to the best Sorority on Campus." Gaylen, the president of the house, was addressing the pledge class on the first day of the quarter. "You will each be assigned a big sister in the house. She will be your guide in all the ins and outs of L.E.Z." This got a chuckle out of the collected sisterhood.
"Tawnee, your big sister is Sarah." Sarah clapped, the sisters were allowed to choose their little sisters, but sometimes there are too many upperclassmen wanting one particularly cute girl. Tawnee was a walking wet dream. Tawnee had dark red hair and a sweet southern accent, hailing from Georgia. Sarah just wanted to get the girl naked and between her legs.
Sarah had been hoping she would get to initiate the girl into the ways of L.E.Z. Sarah walked to the middle of the room to greet her new little sister and as Tawnee approached she wrapped her arms around the freshmen in a warm hug. And before the young coed could react, the brunette Junior planted a firm kiss right on the girl's lips.
Tawnee blushed but didn't try to pull away as the crowd of sorority sisters cheered their approval.
After they were done mashing and had left the center of the room Gaylen coninued, "Anne, your big sister is Carrie." Carrie smiled and walked over to the shy blond. Anne was unsure about her decision of joining L.E.Z. sorority, her first choice had been Pi Phi, but she hadn't made preference with them. L.E.Z. was one of her second choices.
Carrie and Anne hugged, but didn't kiss until the sisterhood chanted for them to do it.
"Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!"
Finally, hesitantly, they kissed each other with a brief peck. The gathered girls cheered.
"Brittney, your big sista'," Gaylen inflected her voice with a bit of soul, "is Krista." The beautiful black skinned Krista walked over to blond Brittney and the two girls hugged and kissed casually. The white skin of Brittney and the Krista's dark almost black skin was dramatic. They held hands as they walked to the side and stood watching the rest of the pairings.
"Josie, your big sister is Terri." Josie was shocked a bit, and her tummy did some flip flops. She was a little scared by Terri. A little excited as well. Terri smiled and walked over to Josie, took her hand and led her from the room immediately. The pledge followed along obediently. The other upperclassmen chuckled and made a couple of sexy comments about Terri and her new pet pledge.
"Kirsten," continued Gaylen after the chuckling had died down, "your big sister is Jill." Jill pushed her glasses up higher on her nose as she met the young blond girl. They hugged and kissed briefly to a scattering of applause.
"Kari, your big sister is Laurie." Laurie smiled she had thought the little asian girl Kari was cute from the moment she came into the house during rush. She towered over the little Asian girl. Kari had no breasts to speak of and stood barely five feet tall, she looked like a little girl. Laurie looked like a complete woman, she even dressed mature wearing a pair of nice slacks and a blouse, Kari only had on shorts a tank top and Keds, enhancing the young schoolgirl look she had.
Laurie embraced the younger girl and brought their lips together. She held the girl tight as they kissed for long seconds as the sisterhood cheered.
"Welcome Kari." said Laurie as she broke the passionate kiss.
"Whoa, get a room!" yelled Charli.
"Nina, your big sister is Gretchen." Gretchen and Nina looked like sisters. They could almost be twins, as luck would have it as they went to the center of the room to hug and kiss, the whole sisterhood noticed they were even dressed the same. Wearing a nice pink sweater, pleated navy skirts and tights with black shoes. They laughed as they both turned to face the audience. Then hugged and kissed briefly.
"Ashley, your big sister is Kris."
Kris was dressed in a tight fitting navy blue sweat suit, fitting her athletic form like a glove. She walked up and hugged Ashley in her cute dress, kissing her and then walking back to the side of the room together.
"Welcome to the new Lambda Epsilon Zeta pledge class." Said Gaylen as all the girls in the room cheered.
"Your big sisters will help you learn the ways of Lambda Ep Zee. Thanks everybody for coming, remember we have the exchange with Sigma Chi on Wednesday, I want everyone to attend."
The gathering broke up as the big sister/little sister pairs headed off together.
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Sarah - brunette junior
"And this is my room, Tawnee." The young freshman entered and looked around. It was smaller than she expected, with a single bed, desk and dresser. She turned as she heard the door close. Sarah walked over to her stereo and turned on some quiet music, then she went and sat on the bed.
"Come over here Tawnee, I want to talk to you about life here in the house." She said as she sat on her bed.
Tawnee walked over and sat down next to her big sister.
"Tawnee, Lambda Epsilon Zeta is a very special place. The sisterhood here is the closest of any in the greek system. We encourage closeness between sisters and especially between big sisters and their little sisters." She smiled and put a hand on the younger girls thigh.
"The bonds forged within these walls will last a lifetime. As your big sister it is my duty to introduce you to the ways of the house." She leaned in closer to the young coed. Tawnee swallowed nervously as Sarah's mouth moved in close to her ear.
"We try to learn as much about each other as possible, emotionally," she whispered, her hand on the freshman's thigh slowly began to slide up under the girls skirt.
"Mentally," Sarah mouth was bushing softly against Tawnee's ear now.
"And physically," her hand pressed against the girl’s cotton panties. Tawnee closed her eyes and sighed as the other girl kissed her ear and started to gently rub her pussy through her panties.
Sarah moved her mouth around to Tawnee's lips and kissed her again on the lips. Tawnee returned her kiss and spread her legs slightly to give the older girl easy access to her pussy. She quickly got wet under Sarah's expert fingers.
Sarah pushed the girl back on her bed and continued to play with her through her white cotton panties. Tawnee gasped as Sarah pulled the moist cloth of her panties aside and slipped a finger easily into her pussy and began a gentle rhythm into the girls quim.
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Laurie slowly opened the door to the sleeping porch and the two girls stopped in their tracks.
On the other side of the room they saw Ashley with her legs spread, naked from the waist down. Gretchen had her back to them as she had her tongue buried in her little sister’s pussy.
Laurie and Kari didn't say a word but just stood quietly and took in the show. They watched as Ashley moaned and brought her hand to her mouth to stifle her screams. She put a hand behind Gretchen's head and pulled the older girls face tight against her pussy. Kari started to breath heavy, she had never seen anything like this. She jumped as she felt Laurie's hand gently touch her butt through her shorts.
"Keep watching Kari." whispered Laurie into her ear as she bent down to the shorter girl. Kari watched, entranced at the two girls making love on the edge of the bed. Laurie started to slowly massage Kari's ass through her lightweight shorts. She moved more behind the other girl as they watched the two coed's make love in the dim light of the sleeping porch.
"Do you see the pleasure Gretchen is giving Ashley." Laurie whispered as she slowly snaked her hand inside the shorts of the smaller girl in front of her. She worked her right hand inside her panties and started to massage the smooth skin of Kari's ass. Kari stood still, in shock as she watched the lesbian lovemaking going on inside the room.
Laurie bent down and kissed the girl's neck as Kari moaned a cute little sound. The little freshman felt the older girls left hand make it's way up under her tank top. She moaned again and leaned back against the taller girl, letting her know she liked the advances Laurie was making on her tight little Asian body.
They watched as Ashley came in a shuddering climax. Laurie brought her right hand around the front of the girl and shoved it down inside the girls shorts.
"Spread your legs for me little one." she whispered to Kari as she nibbled on the coed's earlobe.
Kari spread them, giving the sophomore access to her peach fuzz covered quim. Laurie found the girls little clit and started to play with Kari as they watched Gretchen kiss her way up her little sister’s body and the two of them embrace.
Kari squealed as she was brought to an abrupt climax herself. The two girls on the bed looked up from their embrace and smiled at the smaller Kari being molested from behind by Laurie.
Laurie pulled her hand out of Kari's shorts and licked it dry.
"Come along Kari, there is much more to show you."
They closed the door as Gretchen and Ashley started to kiss passionately again.
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Terri closed the door to her room behind her and said, "Take your clothes off Josie, you won't need to wear them whenever you're in my room."
Josie stood still for a moment in the middle of Terri's room and then slowly took her clothes off. Her panties were the last to join the pile of clothes on the floor. She didn't know why she followed Terri's direction, it just felt right to do what the older girl asked.
"Come sit next to me on the bed."
Josie made her way over and sat down next to the senior girl.
Terri leaned over, pulled the naked teen roughly into an embrace and started to kiss the girl, holding her naked body against her own clothed one. Josie returned the kisses. They made out for a bit and then Terri pulled back and held the girl as she talked gently to her.
"Josie, I want us to have a special relationship. I will help you make your way through L.E.Z. and through the University, I want my little sister to succeed in all things. I just have some rules I want you to follow. Do you understand?"
"Yes Terri." said Josie, it just felt right to surrender herself to the stronger woman.
"First rule girl, you will address me as Miss Terri in public. In private it shall be Mistress. Is that clear?"
"Yes Mistress." Terri brought her hand down between the girls naked thighs and slid her middle finger into the slit of Josie's pussy. Josie gasped at the molestation.
"Good now, rule two you shall do what I tell you. Do you understand? Everything."
"Yeeessss Mistressssss." Josie spread her legs to allow easy access to her wet pussy. She felt so aroused by this, relinquishing her free will to Terri felt so right.
"I knew from the moment I saw you that you would be mine." Said Terri as she masturbated the girl's cunt. Rubbing her clit. "You will be my little pussy slave."
The freshman girl came on Terri's fingers. "Yess Mistress!"
"Now stand up girl and let me have a look at you."
Josie stood on unsteady legs. She felt a bit uncomfortable being naked in and on display for another girl like this, but she did what Terri asked her to.
"Turn around, girl, and show me your ass." Josie spun around and let Terri see her naked butt. Terri spanked it.
Josie jumped and squealed.
"Come back here!" said Terri. Josie came back closer again.
"Just for that you get five spanks!"
"What?" Said Josie.
"Wanna make it ten? Pledge?"
"No please don't."
"Then don't flinch, and remember to call me by the correct name!"
"Yes...Mistress." Josie said quietly.
Terri slapped Josie's ass. Swack!
"Oowwweee." Said Josie.
"Quiet, or I WILL make it ten!"
Josie bit her lower lip as the second slap came down, SWACK!
"Now count them!" Swack!
"Threeeeow!" She almost squealed.
"Four!" She was able to hold her voice in check.
"Good now thank your Mistress for your punishment." Said Terri with a wicked smile.
"Thank you Mistress!"
Terri stood up and turned the naked girl in her arms and kissed her, "Good
girl," she said, "we have a long way to go, but it is a nice start."


If you’re looking for a way to process or manipulate pictures in your web project, it might be worth having a look at some of the libraries introduced in this blog post. Most of them provide basic operations like adjusting brightness and contrast, greyscale and inverting and image while others mainly focus on easy understandable code or extendability. The next sections will help you find out which tool fits your requirements.
You can find a code snippet for adjusting the brightness of an image in each section. This will give you an idea how the libraries can be used. The result for running the code looks like this:
Original image and output after increasing brightness (Source: flickr.com)
1. Caman JS
A well known and powerful library for image manipulation is Caman.js. It offers various built-in functions as well as the possibility to be extended. Also, the library is well documented and can be used both in NodeJS and in the browser.
The functions provided by CamanJS work with <canvas> elements, so before getting started, you can either create a Canvas element yourself or let CamanJS replace an image with a canvas of the same dimensions.
The basic functions cover color manipulations like setting contrast/brightness or modifying the RGB channels individually as well as the possibility to increase or decrease the noise applied to the image.
Advanced operations, for example working with layers, blending or cropping an image can be achieved by working with plugins.
For examples, a detailed documentation and downloading CamanJS, check out the official website.
Like the first two libraries, glfx.js is a powerful tool which provides a wide range of functions. Other than Filtrr2 and CamanJS, it works with WebGL. The cool thing about this is, that image processing operations are done using the graphic card and can therefore run in real-time. The main drawback is that it will only be supported in newer browsers.
In addition to basic adjustment functions and fun effects, glfx.js offers a list of blurring and wraping functions. These can be adjusted by different parameters to create unique results. Check out the project's website to see a demo and download the library.
As it says on the project’s website, grafi.js is a library that should encourage users to find out how image processing works. The source code can be found on github and contains a lot of comments that make it easy to understand what’s going on in each function. If you’re looking for a library that can be used for advanced image operations, grafi.js might not fit your needs, but it helps to understand how image manipulations are implemented and achieves satisfying results for basic operations.
Note that operations that involve changing the orientation or the size of the image are not provided by grafi.js.
Like CamanJS, Jimp can be used both in NodeJS and in the browser. It doesn’t use HTML elements (<img> or <canvas>), but reads in the image to process from a path or a url.
Jimp provides a a list of functions adjusting colours as well as some effects. It also offers some operations that you might miss in the other libraries, such as resizing, scaling and rotating an image. Pictures can also be cropped either manually or automatically. Used in Node, Jimp is a powerful tool that let's you execute chained operations on multiple files and store the modified images.
Filtrr2 is described to be an “easy to use out of the box” library which depends on jQuery. It uses <canvas> elements to process images. While some CamanJS operations are not covered by Filtrr2, it offers some additional functions like posterizing or blurring an image. All in all the provided functions and the usage are similar to CamanJS.
Even though Filtrr2 is a powerful library, the github repository hasn't been updated in a while. The project can be found here.
This library might come in handy if you’re familiar with the Processing programming language. Processing allows working with different media and can be used to create animations, data-visualisations and digital art, but also for image manipulation.
Processing.js lets you write Processing code and simply include it in your website by applying it to a canvas element.
Even though the library provides some useful functions such as scaling, rotating or blending images, solutions for basic operations like greyscaling or color adjustments have to be implemented by the user. On the plus side, it is highly adjustable and a nice way to get an understanding of image manipulation algorithms.
To get an overview of the functions provided by the libraries, have a look at the following table.
As you can see, CamanJS offers a wide variety of pixelwise modifications as well as operations that are useful for corrections in the image. Some operations like blurring and sharpening however are only supported by other libraries, so you'll have to choose depending on what exactly you want to do.
The only library in this list that supports rotating, flipping and autocropping is Jimp. If you only want to resize or crop an image, you can use both CamanJS or Jimp.
In case you are looking for more abstract oparations, glfx.js might be the library to choose as it comes with a list of fancy effects you can play around with, as you can see in the following chart.
Of course, the libraries introduced in this post are not the only ones worth having a look at and you might also be interested in checking out one of these:


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Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling“ is one of the most popular children’s tales of all time. The story of an unaccepted duckling who, due to his peculiar appearance, is avoided by his brothers, neighbours, the whole duck village and even his own mother, turns into a painful search for identity.
After leaving home, the duckling enters a world where he is laughed at by geese, attacked by hunters, dogs, a cat and a hen, and where he is almost adopted by farmers, until he comes upon some beautiful swans and is finally convinced that their bevy is where he belongs. Psychologists claim the obstacles faced by the Ugly Duckling on his way, serve to strengthen a child’s character and ease contact with the cruelties of the real world.
The young and successful Croatian playwright Ivor Matinić wrote a brand new text based on the Anderson story, staying true to the original, while bringing it closer to the contemporary viewer.
Robert Waltl is one the most awarded director of theatre pieces for the young audience, which he creates in Croatia, BiH, Belarus, Belgium, Montenegro and Slovenia. He is a particularly devoted interpreter of stories by Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, Svetlana Makarovič and Hans Christian Andersen. In the Puppet Theatre Mostar he has so far directed “The Puss in Jeans“ by Enes Kišević and “The Hedgehog’s House“ by Branko Ćopić. His pieces are distinguishable by music and dance dramaturgy, a dynamic rhythm and visual exuberance.
The wonderful songs for the performance are written by Olja Savičević Ivančević, and arranged by Nikša Mandalinić and Aleksandar Antić of the Split-based band TBF. The author of all the puppets and the stage set design is Robert Smolik from Prague. Starring in the role of the Ugly Duckling is the young Igor Vidačković, and alongside him an excellent team of actors and animators – Nedžad Maksumić, Diana Ondelj Maksumić, Sergio Radoš and Nermina Denjo.
The Andersen story of an ugly duckling, who was attacked by all – his brothers, geese, hunters, dogs and farmers – until they were left standing in awe, as he grew up to transform into a swan, has been reworked by the young writer Ivor Martinić into a contemporary text for the youngest audience. Directed by Robert Waltl, it becomes a dynamic performance of intense visual strength with a myriad of wonderful songs, and graced by excellent animation by experienced puppet masters from Mostar.
The performance was created as a co-production between Pozorište lutaka Mostar (Puppet Theatre Mostar) and the Mini teater Ljubljana, as part of the international European project Puppet Nomad Academy 3 which was co-financed by the European Commission, within the Culture programme (2007 – 2013).
Director: Robert Waltl
Director’s Assistant: Nedžad Maksumić
Text: Ivor Martinić (according to the fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen)
Song Lyrics: Olja Savi Čević, Ivan Čević
Puppets and Stage Set Design: Robert Smolik
Stage Technician: Kasim Prguda
Music: Nikša Mandalinić (TBF)
Sound and Lighting: Amer Ćatić
Stage Set Construction: Mirsad Bijedić
Igor Vidačković – Ugly Duckling
Diana Ondelj Maksumić – Mother Duck / Old Lady
Nermina Denjo – Chattering Duck / Duckling 1 / Hen
Nedžad Maksumić – Old Duck / Wild Gander 2 / Dog
Serđo Radoš – Duckling 2/ The Spanish Duck / Wild Gander 1 / Cat


She wonders in fact, whether she might actually be a Jew, because of her similarity to a gypsy. The association of death with freedom occurs again and again. Read aloud, the poem sounds like a chant, a ritual chant of exorcism and purification.
She realizes what she has to do, but it requires a sort of hysteria. The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Her father, a German immigrant, was a professor of entomology at Boston College who maintained a special interest in the study of bees.
Plath explained the poem briefly in a BBC interview: She investigates far-fetched career and education possibilities and gives up. When she remembers Daddy, she thinks of him standing at the blackboard, with a cleft chin instead of a cleft foot.
She never changes her clothes. Her feelings for her loved and hated father, her suicide attempts, her anger at the world, and her existential loneliness are described in sharp detail.
The poem is spoken by a girl with an Electra complex. The poem is written in eight-line stanzas containing roughly four stresses per line and some rhyme, notably rhyme of the fifth and seventh line in each stanza. Still, it is a redemption for the watcher, who hopes to be relieved from boredom and despair by beauty.
The queen dies and is replaced by another queen, but the queenship is immortal, going through generation after generation.
It uses a sort of nursery rhyme, singsong way of speaking. Her first poems were carefully structured, delicately rhymed pieces, but she soon learned to do violence to form to produce tough, forceful poems that were spare and cutting. Perhaps more accurate in reflecting her state of mind is the ambivalence in an earlier stanza: On another level, her poems and stories, by showing the reactions of a raw-nerved, hyperaware individual to an indifferent, if not hostile, environment, provide a sensitive interpretation of universal vulnerabilities.
Poem The poet is graced not by the traditional figures of inspiration but by the bizarre, distorted visitors of a surrealist painters. I rolled onto my back again and made my voice casual.
What is this, this faceSo murderous in its strangle of branches. Her autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, shows the same confrontation between its hypersensitive woman persona, Esther Greenwood, and a hostile world.
Trying to write a novel about someone trying to write a novel, she creates one paragraph. Following her recovery, Plath returned to Smith and graduated summa cum laude in The last poems are dominated by images of wounds and mutilations, surgical operations, Holocaust victims, and illness.
The following entry presents criticism on Plath from to Following the dissolution of her marriage, Plath moved with her two children from the Devon countryside to a London flat, where the Irish poet William Butler Yeats had once resided, and wrote feverishly from the summer of until her death in February of the following year.
Most of her early poems are formal, meticulously crafted, and feature elaborate syntax and well-developed metaphors. The rebirth, or recovery, follows: The Bell Jar Type of work: Women English majors should learn shorthand.
She admits to wanting some kind of communication with the Other: The often-anthologized poem is not only a statement that the writer will commit suicide; it also contains subtle suggestions about the relationship between art and life and death.
She must go through a symbolic killing of the powerful ghost in order to be free. The Bell Jar is striking in its appeal. Occasionally they scream a furious triumph over the forces that oppress her. The end of the poem is a triumphant assertion of rejection and freedom: Unable to find and escape him simultaneously that way, she tried a kind of voodoo: And yet its ambivalence towards male figures does correspond to the time of its composition — she wrote it soon after learning that her husband Ted Hughes had left her for another woman.
To further emphasize her fear and distance, she describes him as the Luftwaffe, with a neat mustache and a bright blue Aryan eye. They always knew it was you. It is a Salingeresque tale of a young woman who does not accept things as they are and will not compromise.
Then, at the rim of vision, it gathered itself, and in one sweeping tide, rushed me to sleep. Free Essay: Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” Sylvia Plath is known as the poet of confession.
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Bill Haponski is recommeding the following book as good reading. The Advisor, by John Cook. This is the best-written, most insightful book of any type I have read on Vietnam. It describes the heroic actions of the most respected district chief in Vietnam, Major Nguyen Minh Chau, of Di An District, Bien Hoa Province and his district forces and team of advisors. It includes some actions involving 1/4 Cav troopers and other 1st Division soldiers from 1968 -1970, and provides insights to the day-in, day-out business of Vietnamization and pacification in Di An District. You will recognize some of the hamlets and villages described and maybe some of the actions. When I knew 1st Lieutenant Cook he was district intelligence advisor; later he was senior advisor. Colonel Cook's book is a must-read for any Vietnam veteran or serious student of the war. I haven't yet read his later book, Rescue Under Fire, The Story of Dust Off in Vietnam, but believe it will also be excellent. Both books are available from the publisher, Schiffer Books (Advisor -- $35, Rescue -- $24.95) at Schifferbk@aol.com, phone 610 593-1777.
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The upper second floor of the Vatican Secret Archives where the diplomatic correspondence of the Holy See, formed by the Archives of the Secretariat of State and various papal legations, is preserved in specially-built cabinets of the VII Century (Photo copied from The Vatican Secret Archives: The Past)
Today it is impossible to quantify the exact amount of letters, reports, documents, protocols, minutes, etc. in every stage of preparation, which are contained in the secret archives. What we do know is that since the papacy of Innocent III (1198), when the existence of the Vatican Secret Archives really began, it has accumulated documents of seven centuries. There is said to be 60,000 volumes, cassettes, and bundles. Within the cassettes are frequently many dozens of separate documents. In the bundles of Acts, from 100 to 200 letters with their enclosures are occasionally found; while the huge folio volumes of the registers of the fourteenth century contain as many as 2000 documents and more (The Vatican Palace, as a Scientific Institute).
Many of the documents contain important historical material not just about the Roman Catholic Church but also documenting the history of some nations. This makes the Vatican Secret Archives one of the most important centres of historical research in the world. For many years the Vatican Secret Archives were closed to the public. Today it is possible as a research scholar to access the documents of the secret archives, however there are strict rules governing the access of the material and not everyone can enter.
As this research project is about the history of the Vatican Secret Archives I am presenting my findings in a timeline format. The history of the Vatican Secret Archives begins as early as apostolic times…
TIMELINE – MAJOR EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE VATICAN SECRET ARCHIVES
Prior to XIII Century –
Archives were officially begun to be kept from IV Century when the Church of Rome was officially recognized. Only a few early church documents remain as up until XI century there were many losses due to the use of fragile papyrus and due to the many moves of the popes and upheavals in history. Nearly all of the archival materials were lost. One of the earliest documents to survive is the LIBER DIURNUS ROMANORUM PONTIFICUM . This is a set of three manuscripts which are thought to have been copied from VIII to IX Century. Some of the text in one of these manuscripts is thought to date back to the fifth century (Documents belonging to history).
Liber Diurnus codex (image copied from Documents belonging to history)
According to Sladen (1907), the Popes began the systematic storage of Archives from the time of Pope Damasus (366-384). Since then, the archives moved around following the various residences of the Popes. The archives were moved from the beginning of the VII Century to the Lateran Palace where it was considered more convenient as it was closer to where discussions were held. The Lateran Palace was the official residence of the Popes for more than one thousand years prior to the Papacy being moved to Avignon in 1309. Thus many private and important documents related to the Church were kept here. The original Lateran palace was subsequently destroyed by fire during the time the Popes were at Avignon.
1198 – The existence of the Vatican Archives really began under Pope Innocent III who began to preserve documents in a single Vatican Archive (History of the Vatican Secret Archive, Franklin Hotel, Rome).
1309 to 1378 – During this period, the Popes resided in Avignon. On return to Rome after this period, many of the papal documents were lost.
XV Century -
The most sensitive documents relating to the protection and rights of the Papacy and Roman Catholic Church were kept at Castel S. Angelo. This was made into an Archive by Sixtus IV (1471-1484) who founded the Vatican Library. At this time the Vatican Library contained a bibliotheca secreta (Secret Library) which was to become part of the Vatican Secret Archives (History of the Secret Archive, Franklin Hotel Rome). In 1798 the Archive of Castel S. Angelo was transferred to the Vatican Secret Archive where it is now “one of its most precious fonds”(The Archive of Castel S. Angelo, Vatican Secret Archives Website).
Castel Sant'Angelo (Image from Planetware)
XVII Century –
1610 – The current Vatican Secret Archives was established by Paul V Borghese. It was under his orders that the three halls next to the Secret Library were earmarked for development into a new archive, into which he transferred the registers of the papal bulls from Innocent III onwards, the books of the Camera and collections of the documents up to the papacy of Pius V (The Vatican Secret Archives: The Past). Between 1611 and 1613, Paul V had the cardinal librarian Bartolomeo Cesi oversee the construction of the new Vatican Secret Archives. These three halls known as the Paoline rooms were renovated and decorated with frescoes of scenes depicting gestures of donations to the Holy See by various European Sovereigns. Paul V invested large sums of money to perfecting and repairing of the materials (New Advent. The Vatican Palace as a Scientific Institute). The first inventory of the Archive was made in 1615 (History of the Secret Archive, Franklin Hotel Rome).
Paul V (1605-1621). Founder of Modern Archives. This picture is located in the rooms of the 'piano nobile' of the Archives. (Image from Vatican Secret Archives, The Title).
XVIII Century –
In the first half of this century the Archival documents were put in order for the first time.
1751 -1772. Cardinal Guiseppe Garampi, who was appointed Prefect of the Archives at the time, was the instigator of the proposal to put the Archives into a semblance of order. Garampi is credited with creating the famous Card index. This was to help with his project of documenting the history of all the episcopates and churches of the world (The Schedario Garampi, Vatican Secret Archives website). Garampi was a committed bibliophile who carried out many repairs and urged many acquisitions, deposits and transfers of archival material. During this period the archives grew considerably. Garampi also was responsible for bringing together all separate Archives and uniting them under the one roof within the Vatican Palace.
1783 – The papal archives that remained at Avignon were taken to the Vatican and transferred to the Secret Archives.
1798 – The Archives of Castel S. Angelo were transferred for safety reasons to the Vatican Secret Archives.
XIX Century –
During this century the Archives suffered several upheavals at the hands of Napoleon and later, the creation of the Italian State, both events leading to the seizure of the Archives from the Papal supremacy.
1810. In February 1810, Napoleon ordered that all the Archives of the Holy See were to be transported to Paris. His wish was to create a great central archive in Reims but this was later changed to Paris. Over the course of the next few years a total of 3,239 chests of Archival material were transported by wagon to Paris where they ended up being stored in the Archives Nationales at the Palaise Soubise. After the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, the archives were ordered back to the Vatican. The Vatican could not afford the high costs involved to transport the goods, so many documents considered to be of lesser value were left behind or destroyed. Between 1815-1817 only 2,200 chests of material were returned (Bentley historical library, University of Michigan website). During the time the documents were in Paris, the imperial archivists divided the vast amount of material into 16 alphabetical classes and labelled the boxes, volumes and envelopes with their corresponding letters. Today evidence of this alphabetical labelling is still apparent. Upon return the documents had been put in disarray and to this day not all the items returned from Paris are in the right order. (Vatican Archives Website, The transfer of the Vatican Secret Archives to Paris and their return back to the Holy See).
A volume with its respective assignation letter (the letter Q), introduced by Archivists of the Napolean empire (image from Vatican Archives Website, The transfer of the Vatican Secret Archives to Paris and their return back to the Holy See)
By 1881, the Secret Archives had grown to occupy the three rooms of the ‘piano nobile’ next to the Vatican Library and another six rooms on the second floor.
On January 1st 1881, Pope Leo XIII allowed scholars free access to the Vatican Secret Archives. This was seen as a way to answer critics of the Church by opening the Archives for the world to see. This allowed the Vatican Secret Archives to become one of the most important historical research centres in the world.
In 1892 a large part of Datoria Apostolica Archives were transferred from the Lateran Palace to the Vatican Secret Archives along with Bull registers of the Chancery since 1389 and the registers of the petitions since 1417.
XX Century –
During the twentieth century, the Archives saw more important arrivals. These included the modern part of the archives of the Secretariat of State, archives of the Briefs Secretariat, of the Roman Rota, of various Congregations (Consistorial, of Bishops and Regulars, of Sacraments, of Rites, of the Council, etc.), of the Apostolic Palace, of the Vatican Council I, of various Nunciatures (especially starting from 1971) and of some Roman noble families linked to the history of the Holy See (Borghese, Boncompagni, Rospigliosi, Ruspoli, Marescotti, Montoro, etc.). Previously many private Papal documents were left to the families of the Popes after their deaths. Many of these documents have since been donated to the Vatican Secret Archives.
XXI Century -
The twenty first century as seen the addition of further archives to the Secret Archives, such as the addition of the entire archives of the Vatican Council in 2000.
On 16th February 2003, Pope John Paul II granted access to scholars to documents kept in the archives of the Section for State Relations, of the Secretariat of State (formerly the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs) and in the archives of the Apostolic Nunciature in Munich and Berlin, regarding the relations between the Holy See and Germany in the period between 1922 and 1939.
The facilities in the Vatican Secret Archives continues to grow. Today there are 'two reading rooms, admitting about 1500 scholars from over 60 Countries every year, an index room, an internal library, a laboratory for preservation, restoration and bookbinding, a laboratory for the restoration and the study of seals, a laboratory for photography and digital reproduction, a data processing centre and a computer laboratory, and an administration service' (The Vatican Secret Archives Today, Vatican Secret Archives website).
Image (left) : A view of the first room of the Piano Nobile
Image (right) : The Leo XIII Hall
All images copied from Vatican Secret Archives website)


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In 2012 the IOTC has published the Colouring Book "Colours for Peace, A fun way to learn about Olympic Truce", targeted at children of primary school age. Though images and sketches, children are introduced to the values of the Olympism, various aspects of Truce in everyday life, and ancient Greek mythology.
In order to complement the Book, a Teacher's Guide has been created by the British Council in Athens. In this way teachers are aided to better enhance the teaching experience.Children are encouraged to participate in fun activities, interactive games and creative works.
You can download the book for free at the following languages:
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Photographer. His 1990s images relating to Australian ocean pools include:
- Wylies Baths, Coogee, NSW (People at shower, Wylies Baths, Coogee; People on deck of Wylies Baths)
- Giles Baths, Coogee, NSW (People at rock pool, Giles Baths, Coogee; Couple on platform at Giles Baths, Coogee)
The State Library of New South Wales holds a collection of his 1990s photographs.
His images of Wylies Baths are discussed in Eileen Slarke’s 2001 book, A Century of Wylie’s Baths, Coogee: a Cultural History.


The Hunger Games
A few months ago my friends and sister were all reading this book called The Hunger Games. I had heard of the book and based on reviews it was supposed to be very interesting and compelling. At the time I was pretty busy, but I knew that at some point I wanted to read it.
The other day I was reorganizing some stuff in my room and came across the book. I was about to leave my house and go to the T, so I decided to bring it with me. As I turned to the first page I was excited to start reading and knew that this would make the twenty minute T ride a little more interesting. After reading the first ten pages I was immediately hooked, and knew I would be able to relate to the main character Katniss.
For those of you who don’t know, The Hunger Games is the first book in a three part series by Suzanne Collins. The book takes place in the country of Panem, which is where North America used to be. It’s set in the future and is a remarkable story about the ability to survive. North America has been divided into twelve districts, and each is ruled over by an oppressive government which is located at the Capitol.
The Hunger Games pit children from ages 12 to 18 against each other in a fight to the death in a giant, treacherous arena. Everything is televised and highly publicized all over the country. Whoever is picked must survive the games and is honored by their district for the victory. Will Katniss be picked to compete in the Hunger Games? You’ll have to read to find out.


In 1920 keki’s family came to Chalisgaon (a small village of Jalgaon district in Maharashtra state) and started a soda bottle factory & wine shop.
Little Keki didn’t like Chalisgaon so his father sent him back to Mumbai.
The Handsome, Curly-haired, an extremely quiet & peaceful Keki after his primary education, he has done his graduation in the 1stclass from Wilson collage, Mumbai.
Keki wasn’t at all interested in his uncle’s construction business. He wantedto become an artist. But his father called him back to Chalisgaon once again. As he had a property & liquor shop at Chalisgaon & there was no one to look after it. His father expired in between 1934-35, his mama (mother) had appoint a man to look after the shop and granted a permission to Keki to do his further education.
Maharashtra state board for literature & culture, Mumbai published (1983) a book on Keki & his photography ‘KEKI MOOS – LIFE AND STILL LIFE’.
India’s well known personalities like – Late. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (Primeminister of India), Baba Amte(social worker & follower of Vinoba Bhave, Late.Jaiprakesh Narayan, Shankar Rao Dev. Late. Sane Guruji (Pandurang Sadashiv Sane). Pt. Mahadev shastri Joshi. Maharshi Anna Saheb Karve, Narayan Hari Aapte (writter) Prof. N. S. Phadke, shri M. Mate, Acharya Atre, Vasant Shantaram Desai etc. visited Keki’s museum.
Keki was too much influenced by Rembradt V. He translated his story of life & art in Marathi & Gujarati. He changed the name of his Bungalow as ‘Rembradt Retreat’ in place of ‘Ashirwad’.
He was interested in music. He had collected many types of cassettes & gramophone records.
He was an excellent sitar player. He had his teaching from Ustad Din Mohommed Khan, Pandit Feroz, Farronji, prof. Nasir Khan, Shri Haribhau Varangaonkar.
He was also fond of collecting books & made library of own. He had collected near about 4000 books. He had a good collection of books of poems of various poets. Keki loved poetry. He was a fan of Urdu poem. He had written ‘when I shed my tears’, which was unpublished autobiography.
He had collected art pieces of other artists, woodcarvings, statues & antiques, bone china utensils, rare old crockery, toys, old furniture, coins.
This sun of art & photography had set on 31stDec. 1989 at near about 11.00 am in his house.


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Lizzy Rogers is a recent graduate of Dartmouth College with a degree in Film and Media Studies and a minor in Digital Arts. Focused on handmade animation, she has a particular passion for analog technologies including 16mm film. She has had films in the Indie Grits Film Festival as well as the White River Indie Festival. She currently works at the Jones Media Memorial Fellow in the Dartmouth College Library.
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Sauver et Valoriser les Manuscrits, un devoir
The Association specialized in manuscripts preservation and valorization for the defense of Islamic culture (SAVAMA-DCI) was created on November 27, 1996. This initiative was motivated by a distress call putting an accent on the way manuscripts are held in families and the absence of specialized and organizational structures to support these family libraries.
This fact has motivated the owners of manuscripts to work together in order to establish an association to carry their voices everywhere and to serve as a support element in the socio-economic and cultural development through the sector of manuscripts.
The SAVAMA-DCI became an NGO by signing an Agreement on June 10, 2005 with the Government of the Republic of Mali. This agreement has been renewed in December 2007 under the number 083/02133 but the NGO pursues the same goals: preserving and enhancing old manuscripts for the defense of the Islamic culture.
Geographic areas of the SAVAMA-DCI activities:
The NGO acts at the national level and its activities are enlarged to the whole country but its office is in Timbuktu.
All the fields dealing with the preservation and enhancement of the written heritage and culture: conservation, cataloging, research, education and training...
To contribute to the protection, preservation and valorization of old manuscripts and cultural as integral part of the socio economic development of Mali.
Approaches and policy:
The policy of the SAVAMA-DCI is based on interventions at the level of libraries. This ensures a greater impact on:
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Genre is not a medical term – although it has a lot in common with scientific classification. I recently became intrigued with the whole subject of literary genres, partly because I was doing a course on The Art of Reading, and partly because an online book discussion group I moderate got into quite a controversial spat about genre. (Read more about Genre or Pigeonhole here.)
So what is the big deal about genre?
Why do kids need to know anything about it (besides finding a book in a store that just might be categorized and shelved by type instead of author)?
For me, genre is the perfect vehicle for a vast study of literature. Just as soon as kids hit that magic age where they are reading more complicated stories – 3rd to 5th grade, or age 8 to 12 – that’s the time I like to hit them with the big ideas in writing. What kind of story is this? Do you like stories with fantastic creatures, or tales of survival? Why? Why not? What elements make a story really exciting to you? Can true stories be told in a fictional way? The list goes on and on…
Enter my “Let’s Talk Lit” program. I just put this together for the coming school year with my own children. They are both ready for deeper discussions and longer reading times with great books, and I want to expose them to as many different types of genre as possible so they can both fine-tune their reading preferences and expand their tastes.
In “Let’s Talk Lit”, the focus is on defining the featured genre, brainstorming for stories (include movie titles!) that fit within the definition, read a book that fits well within the category, and respond to the reading. Along the way, literary terms are discussed, author devices are analyzed, and the student becomes the writer as they journal and review their way to greater understanding.
We kick off the year with a total Genre Overview, using these flowcharts I created (thanks, Gliffy.com!) to help kids see the relationship between Fiction, Nonfiction, and all the sub-genres therein.
Literature Genres & Subgenres Chart
Genre Identification Chart
Each section begins with a Genre Preview that students complete to generate their ideas and prior knowledge about the type of writing they will now study:
Then students choose a book that fits within the genre, using the Genre Response Sheet to record their reactions and thoughts about the book. (This is one I made for Graphic Novels, but you could revise it to reflect the characteristics of any genre.)
A bookmark system helps keep everything organized as they work through the year, they can refer to the bookmarks as they write about their experience in their journals. (They also get to “rate” the book, write reviews, and do other activities that put them in the driver’s seat.) Print them out on cardstock, and don’t forget page 2 for the back side.
Of course, all of these genres have their own cover sheets and specific activities to reinforce language arts skills. You can easily put your own version of my book together using printouts from the internet or resource books you already own, and making simple decorative pages on colored paper for the “chapters” on each genre. Don’t forget to include plenty of writing activities, perhaps keeping a journal for writing prompts (we’re doing an UnJournal).
You can find some of these pages in the Topics & Free Printables section. Enjoy!


The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz’s debut collection, Here in the Night, are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced. With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, Here in the Night investigates the joys and constraints of womanhood, of queerness, and of intimacy. Preoccupied with all manner of hauntings, these stories traverse a boarding school in the Vermont woods, the jagged coast of Maine, an attic in suburban Massachusetts, an elevator stuck between floors, and the side of an unlit highway in rural South Carolina.
At the center of almost every story is the landscape of night, with all its tantalizing and terrifying potential. After dark, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, boundaries loosen, expectations fall away, and even the greatest skeptics believe—at least fleetingly—that anything could happen.
These stories will stay with you.
Reviews and Media
- Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
- Excerpt in Electric Literature
- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s 40 New Summer Books to Make Vacations More Fun
Turkewitz’s nimble prose switches on a dime between soft and sharp, poignant and brutal, alien and achingly familiar. At the heart of each story, however, lies tenderness, magnified and made more precious by the dangers that surround it. This is a triumph.
-Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
“On the simplest level, the collection reads as a stunning mix of creepy tales; on a deeper level, its hauntings double as metaphors for the dangers that girls, women, and those viewed as outsiders navigate on a regular basis. In subtle but striking prose, Here in the Night captures the psychological terrors laced throughout people’s everyday lives.”
Yes, disembodied voices howl. Floors creak. Hearts pound. But the real terror of Rebecca Turkewitz’s unforgettable stories only begins with the eerie manifestations. Here in the Night explores the terror of human relationships, of regret and betrayal, the incalculable risk of love. Filled with piercing wisdom and the ache of understanding, these stories explore the undead dreams that trail all of us, and illuminate the debts that bind us, like ghostly chains, to one another.
-Erin McGraw, author of The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard and Joy
What mystifies and delights me most about Here in the Night is that a story collection chock-full of hauntings and the haunted, ghost stories both (apparently) real and (probably) imagined, and harrowing deaths by drowning and other violences, should be so tender and generous and flat-out lovely a read. It’s a gorgeous book–wise and charming and moving and fun.
-Michelle Herman, author of Close-up and Dog
Rebecca Turkewitz’s Here in the Night is a treasure chest of psychological terror, and—as with the tales of Shirley Jackson, or Kelly Link, or Carmen Maria Machado—the terror is submerged, in the periphery of a character’s eyesight, lingering just off the page. Turkewitz is a master storyteller, and her debut collection is a triumph.
—Nick White, author of How to Survive a Summer and Sweet and Low
In Rebecca Turkewitz’s collection of short stories, even the most ordinary moments are suffused with magic and ghosts. Yet her characters feel as real as anyone you might meet, rendered with deep empathy and complexity. Here in the Night is a rich, vibrant and enthralling book.
—Dan Chaon, author of Stay Awake and Ill Will


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|Welcome to the Official Book Site for Wood- The History of the Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company, Once the Largest Millwork Company in the World, Authored by Carole Loetscher
he Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company is the heart of the epic story told in Wood. The company employed hundreds of people dujring its ninety-year history, people who proudly created and produced quality products that were marketed nationwide. After prospering throughout early growth, the Great Depression and two World Wars, the company eventually succumbed to market forces which were ultimately beyond its control. Today, many people have no idea what went on in the Dubuque Millwork District a century ago or how it impacted the community, culture, and, for that matter, the nation. The massive red brick buildings in the District are surviving reminders of what was once a teaming manufacturing complex. Fortunately, through the vision of city leaders and astute developers, these buildings are being brought back to life. Repurposing them into coffee shops, micro-breweries, restaurants, office space, art galleries, boutiques and loft condos is transforming the District into a growing, vital 21st Century "urban chic" community.
About the Author
arole Loetscher is the author of WOOD. She began this project in 2013 and spent four years on her journey. Carole had an abiding love for local history and the family she became a part of when she married Richard "Dick" Loetscher, a grandson of the founder, Christian Loetscher. Dick passed away in 2012. His education was engineering and design. Through the years working at "The Mill," he amassed a large collection of Farley & Loetscher and lumber industry memorabilia. In 2013, Carole began sorting through boxes of Dick's collection. There were a few pages of a manuscript that Dick had started, and soon she had compiled a large stack of three-ring binders bursting with materials.
By 2016, she began collaborating with Dave Palmer and Gary Olsen, experienced in writing, editing and book design. They edited her manuscript, curated her collection of memorabilia and photographs, a process that took a good part of a year, and created additional original content. Olsen and Palmer then artistically crafted WOOD into a beautifully illustrated written history.
“The book’s topic was exciting,” explained Dave. “I like history and learned fascinating details about the company. The buildings are still very prominent today, yet most people don’t know the story behind them. I enjoyed helping develop the story and it was a privilege to contribute toward preserving the company’s history."
Gary Olsen describes himself as a “visual communicator.” He explains his approach to the book’s design: “I wanted every turn of the page to be a surprise. This is a compelling story of pioneering spirit and an important chapter of the Industrial Revolution. Thanks to the Loetscher family, we had a treasure trove of photos, artifacts and actual buildings to illustrate this story."
This website is designed to connect with people who may have had family members who worked for or did business with Farley & Loetscher. Also there are old house enthusiasts, those involved in historic home restoration, antique collectors who may come across some architectural treasurers, memorabilia about the company, correspondence and what have you. We are very interested in any information about F&L you may have. Visit our Corrrespondence Page. There's an email link you can use to communicate with the author and publishers.
Christian Loetscher and wife Mary with children in their Cadillac touring car photographed in front of their home on Lincoln Avenue. There were dozens of vintage photographs that were curated and catalogued in the making of WOOD - The History of Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company, Once the Largest Millwork Company in the World.
|Copyright 2018, Carole Loetscher.


Today, in the 1962 Dominican Rite Calendar, we celebrate the feast of Blessed Henry Suso, confessor of the Order of Preachers. The feast is III Class and the ordinary office is prayed according to the rubrics. What is proper to the feast is given in the Proper of the Saints.
At Ulm, in Germany, Blessed Henry Suso of Swabia, confessor, of our Order. He was celebrated for observance of the rules of religious life, for the holiness of his fife, and the reputation for miracles. He died January 25, but his feast is observed today.From “Short Lives of the Dominican Saints” (London, Kegan Paul, Trench, and Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1901):
Henry Suso was a German by birth, and at the age of thirteen took the habit in the Dominican Convent at Constance. He showed but little fervor during his novitiate and lived in negligence and dissipation till he had completed his eighteenth year. But the Divine Wisdom, whose devoted disciple he was destined to become, was pleased to touch his heart. One day, as he sat at table in the refectory, he heard read aloud some passages from the Book of Wisdom, which produced a powerful effect on his soul. He began to undertake a thorough change of life, but was beset by March 2 grievous temptations, all of which he generously and perseveringly overcame. For two-and-twenty years he practiced the most terrific austerities. During eight years he wore on his shoulders a cross studded with sharp nails; twice every day he disciplined himself to blood; day and night he wore a hair shirt armed with one hundred and fifty sharp iron points; and in addition to these mortifications he observed extraordinary abstinence, enduring in particular the utmost extremity of thirst.
Nevertheless, when he had come to his fortieth year, it was revealed to him, that, after all these sufferings, he had only reached the first degree of true mortification, and that, if he would attain the perfect love of God, he must consent to pass through far more searching trials. He had to endure the most cruel calumnies, frightful interior desolation, the loss of friends and of reputation, and a thousand other crosses ; yet in the midst of all these afflictions, which were exquisitely painful to his sensitive heart, he never lost confidence or courage.
Blessed Henry Suso bore a tender devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus. He engraved it with a sharp penknife over his heart, and found in that adorable Name a buckler of defense against all the assaults of his enemies. This devotion to the Holy Name was widely diffused amongst his spiritual children, many of whom used to wear a small scapular, on which were embroidered the letters I.H.S.
His love for our Blessed Lady was of the tenderest and most childlike description. During the Christmas season he always deprived himself of a portion of the fruit served at table, offering it in spirit to her and praying her to give it to her Divine Child, for whose sake he went without it. As soon as the first flowers appeared in spring, he hastened to weave a garland which he placed on the head of Mary's statue in the Lady Chapel, in the hope that, as she was the fairest of all flowers and the bliss of summer to his heart, she would not disdain to accept these first flowers from her servant. He had many devotional practices in honor of his Heavenly Mother and she sometimes deigned to show herself to him in vision.
Full of zeal for the salvation of souls, Blessed Henry labored constantly in the ministry of the Word, and was one of the most renowned preachers and spiritual directors of his day. He was endowed with a sublime gift of prayer and the numerous spiritual works which he composed won for him in his own time the title of the Ecstatic Doctor. The best known of his writings is his "Little Book of Eternal Wisdom," which treats chiefly of the Passion of Our Lord.
Blessed Henry passed to a better life in the Convent of Ulm in Germany, on the 25th January, A.D. 1365. From the time of his death he was beatified by the voice of the people, and Pope Gregory XVI approved of the veneration which had been paid to him from time immemorial and gave permission for his Office to be celebrated throughout the Dominican Order.
O God, you made the blessed Henry, your confessor, wonderful both in mortification of body and in charity; grant that we may show forth Christ crucified in our deeds, and live him in our hearts. Through the same…