The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder is a western classic. Who can forget the tale of four brothers falsely accused of the murder of a popular sheriff, chained together while fighting off a vicious mob? What is not generally known is that this movie was loosely based on the story of a family that lived right here in Ridgway, where they were well-liked and served as lawmen for many years. This story reads like the work of Louis L’Amour, but this tale of courage and gunplay is all true. Their name wasn’t Elder though – it was Marlow.
Artifacts from the Marlow family are on display at the Ouray County Historical Museum in Ouray and Museum of the Mountain West in Montrose.
The full story of the lives of the Marlow brothers is complex and interesting.
In 1888, the Marlow family was living in Indian Territory – present day Oklahoma. There were five brothers: George, Charley, Alfred (Alf), Boone and Llewellyn (Epp) and their mother, Martha Jane Marlow. While George was visiting his friend “Doc” Shores, sheriff of Gunnison County in Colorado, the other brothers worked on nearby ranches. One day in September they were arrested by a Deputy U.S. Marshal named Ed Johnson on false charges of stealing horses in Trinidad, Colorado and taken to jail in Graham, Texas for trial. When George returned, he took his mother and his brother’s families to Texas to seek his brothers’ release.
When they arrived in Graham, George was also arrested. The brothers were eventually released on bail, and went to work on a nearby ranch as they waited for their trial. One day, the local sheriff who was friendly to the Marlows, and his deputy arrived at the Marlows' rented cabin with an arrest warrant for Boone, who had killed a cowboy in self-defense, several years previously in another part of Texas. The Deputy entered the Marlow home at dinnertime, drew his pistol and fired a shot at Boone while the rest of the family sat in disbelief. Boone ducked, grabbed his nearby Winchester and fired two shots at the Deputy. Both shots missed, but the second shot struck the sheriff, who had just walked into the line of fire from the outside.
Release: July 1, 1965
Duration: 122 mins
Director: Henry Hathaway
Producer: Hal B. Wallis, Paul Nathan
Written by: William H. Wright, Allan Weiss, Harry Essex
Based on: Story by Talbot Jennings
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While the rest of the family cared for the mortally wounded sheriff, Boone fled and Epp was sent to bring a doctor. Epp was arrested in town, and when the doctor arrived, the deputy and a posse arrested George, Charley and Alf as well, even though George and Alf were a couple of miles away at the time of the shooting.
Graham, Texas had a reputation for treating prisoners badly, with more than one recent lynching, so the brothers attempted to escape. When they were recaptured, they were chained together by their ankles, two by two, and returned to jail. The next night, a mob of about 40 people walked into the jail and tried to take the Marlow brothers out to be lynched. The brothers fought off the mob that night and the next day the Deputy Marshal was ordered to move them to Fort Worth, where authorities felt they would be safe and receive a fair trial.
That evening Deputy Johnson took his prisoners to a trio of wagons, which were manned by many members of the previous night’s mob. The Marlow brothers knew they would be attacked again. About a mile outside of Graham the wagons stopped and the mob attacked. The brothers jumped out of their wagon, grabbed weapons from their guards and fought back. The battle lasted almost a half hour, and when the mob finally fled the scene, several of the attackers lay dead, Alf and Epp Marlow had been killed, and George and Charley had both been seriously wounded. To make their escape, George and Charley had to cut the feet off their dead brothers to remove their leg irons.
They returned to the family cabin and held off a posse from Graham, declaring that they would freely surrender to the regional U.S. Marshal and no one else. The Marshal came the next day and took the wounded brothers to Fort Worth.
The members of the mob were arrested and charged with murder. George and Charley were tried and acquitted of both horse theft and the murder of the Graham sheriff. Once they were free, they headed to Southwestern Colorado in 1889, where George had made friends, and settled in Ridgway, first at a homestead cabin on Miller Mesa near Elk Meadows, then at a cabin near Orvis Hot Springs. They were quickly proved to be hard-working and popular citizens. When two Texas rangers came to town in 1890, with a warrant to take Charley back to Graham for another trial related to the killing of the Sheriff, a large crowd of Ridgway citizens surrounded the Rangers and told them that it would take 2,000 Rangers to arrest the Marlows. Unknown to the Ridgway folks, these were no ordinary Rangers – they were captain William MacDonald and Sergeant A.J. Brittam, the two top officers in West Texas. MacDonald became one of the four most famous Rangers in history, and the man who inspired the phrase “one riot, one Ranger”. The governors of Colorado and Texas became involved with the situation, and it was determined that because both Marlow brothers were witnesses in the federal trial of the mob members, the Rangers had no jurisdiction, and they returned home empty-handed.
In 1892, Ouray Judge William Rathmell ghostwrote a biography of the Marlow brothers that told the tale of their brave fight for life in Texas. Today, western historians prize copies of the original edition. George and Charley were highly respected, and both served as lawmen in Ouray County until the early days of the 20th Century, in the town of Ridgway, as Deputy Count Sheriffs and as Deputy U.S. Marshals. They served on the school board and George joined Ouray Elks Lodge 492. In 1905, they bought a ranch at Billy Creek near Colona, which remained in the family until it was included in the Billy Creek Special Wildlife Area, administered by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Martha Marlow is buried on the site, and a few structures still stand.
George and Charley both had large families, and there are many descendants in Western Colorado today. Both men lived well into their 80's and were remembered at their deaths as gentle, caring members of their community.
In the 1950s, a Hollywood screenwriter discovered a copy of Rathmell’s biography of the Marlow brothers in a used bookstore. He paid the descendants for the film rights to the story, and several years later it became the basis for The Sons of Katie Elder that starred John Wayne and Dean Martin as the equivalents of George and Charley.
From the late 1890s to early 1900s, George Marlow was a member of the Ouray Elks Lodge 492, which is still on Ouray's Main Street today.
Marlow Family Matriarch Martha Marlow is buried in Billy Creek Wildlife Area in Ouray County on the former site of the Marlow Ranch.
To the left, brothers George and Charles Marlow. Below, the Marlow Family. Bottom, Charles Marlow and wife.


The 2018 Autumn Discourse was delivered by the Hon. Sir Donnell Deeny at the Graduates Memorial Building, Trinity College Dublin on Friday 23 November.
The title of the Presidential Address was:
“The Trials of Arthur Donnelly: A Cause Célèbre of the 1870s”
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Deeny is a Privy Councillor, as well as the Pro Chancellor of Dublin University. His paper was followed by lively discussion. Members of the Society were then invited to a reception hosted by the Provost, marking thirty years since the foundation of the Society in 1988.
The 2018 Spring Discourse was delivered by Dr. Marion Röwekamp from the Freie Universität, Berlin. Marking 100 years since the right to vote was extended to women, Dr. Röwekamp’s lecture was entitled Women’s Suffrage in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Dr. Röwekamp’s publications include:
- Lawyers. Encyclopedia on life and work, ed. German Lawyers’ Association, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2005.
- The first German lawyers: A history of their professionalization and emancipation 1900-1945 (Series Legal History and Gender Studies), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2011.
- Marie Munk. Attorney at Law – Judge – Law Reformer (Series Jewish Miniatures), Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich,, 2014.
- A soldier’s home nurse on the eastern front. Correspondence from Annette Schücking with her family (1941-1943), ed. by Julia Paulus / Marion Röwekamp, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015.
- Sara Kimble / Marion Röwekamp (ed.), New Perspectives on European Women’s Legal History (Studies in Gender and History series), New York / London: Routledge, 2016.
The 2017 Annual General Meeting of the Irish Legal History Society was held on Friday 1st December 2017 at 5pm in the Old Bar Library, Royal Courts of Justice, Chichester Street, Belfast
The Winter Discourse was delivered by:
Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
PH.D, F.R.HIST.S., M.R.I.A., F.T.C.D., Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin:
Lords, the Law and Litigation in Early Modern Ireland
Professor Ohlmeyer is an expert on the New British and Atlantic Histories and has published extensively on early modern Irish and British history. She has recently completed Making Ireland English: the formation of an aristocracy in the seventeenth century for Yale University Press and volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Ireland is currently in the press. She is currently working on an edition of Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland/The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland (Dublin, 1719/20 and London, 1720 and 1721) and a study of ‘Colonial Ireland, Colonial India’. Professor Ohlmeyer is also an active proponent of ‘Digital Humanities’
Over the years Professor Ohlmeyer has attracted significant amounts of highly competitive funding for her own research projects and for her graduate students. She has considerable expertise in overseeing major editorial projects and helped to secure over €1M in funding from the IRCHSS, the AHRC (the UK funding council) and Trinity College for the digitization and online publication of the ‘1641 Depositions’. She is a founding member of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity’s humanities research institute and serves its Internal and External Advisory Boards and in a related initiative – ‘Creativity, the City and the University’ – which is linked to the Dublin Creative Alliance. She was closely involved in setting up the ‘Humanities Serving Irish Society’ consortium which under PRTLI 4 secured funding for the Digital Humanities Observatory. She is also the Principal Investigator for the Trinity College Dublin element of ‘Humanities Serving Irish Society’ which was awarded €10.78M as part of PRTLI 4.
- Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the seventeenth century, London and New Haven, Yale University Press, 2012, 1 – 680pp
- Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms: the Political Career of Randal MacDonnell First Marquis of Antrim (1609-83) (Cambridge University Press, 1993; paperback reprint in Four Courts Press’s ‘Classics in Irish History’ Series, Dublin, 2001), xxiii + 357 pages.
- The Irish Statute Staple Books, 1596-1687 (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1998), with Éamonn Ó Ciardha, xvii + 380 pages.
- The 1641 Depositions – The online version is now available. Between 2011 and 2015 the Irish Manuscripts Commission will publish the 1641 Depositions in 12 volumes. Aidan Clarke is the principal editor and I am one of the co-editors, along with Tom Bartlett, John Morrill and Micheál Ó Siochrú.
- British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland editor with Ciaran Brady (Cambridge University Press, 2004; paperback 2010), xx + 371 pages.
- Kingdom or Colony?: Political Thought in seventeenth-century Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2000; paper back 2010), xvii + 290 pages.
- The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1638-1660 (Oxford University Press, 1998; reprinted as part of the Oxford Illustrated History series, 2002), with John Kenyon, xl + 300 pages, 51 illustrations and 10 maps.
- Ireland from Independence to Occupation, 1641-1660 (Cambridge University Press, 1995; paperback, 2002), li + 309 pages.
- ‘Making Ireland English: the seventeenth-century Irish peerage’ in Brian MacCuarta (ed.), Reshaping Ireland 1590-1700: Colonization and its consequences: Essays presented to Nicholas Canny (Dublin, 2011).
- ‘Society: the changing role of print – Ireland (to 1660)’ in Joad Raymond (ed.), The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, volume I (Oxford, 2011).
- ‘The baronial context of the Civil War in Ireland’ in John Adamson (ed.), The Civil Wars (London, 2008), pp. 106-24.
- ‘Patronage and Restoration Politics: John Dryden and the House of Ormond’ (with Steven Zwicker) in Historical Journal (2006), pp. 677-706.
- ‘A Laboratory for Empire?: Early Modern Ireland and English Imperialism’ in Kevin Kenny (ed.), Ireland and the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 26-60.
- ‘Literature, Identity, and the New British Histories’ in David Barker and Willy Maley, eds., British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 245-55.
- ‘Seventeenth-century Ireland and the New British and Atlantic Histories’ in American Historical Review 104:2 (April, 1999), pp. 446-462
- ‘”Civilizinge of those rude partes”. The colonization of Ireland and Scotland, 1580s-1640s’ in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 1, ed. N. Canny (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), pp. 124-47.
- ‘The Wars of Religion, 1603-60’ in A Military History of Ireland, ed. Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 160-187.
- ‘The “Antrim Plot” of 1641 – a myth?’, The Historical Journal, 35 (1992), pp. 905-19.
Our 2017 Spring Discourse took place on Friday 17 February at 5.30, at Regent House, Trinity College Dublin. John F. Larkin, QC, Attorney General for Northern Ireland delivered an insightful address on: ‘The Irish Convention, 1917-18: Centenary Reflections’
About the Speaker
- John F Larkin QC was educated at St Mary’s Christian Brothers Grammar School and at Queen’s University Belfast.
- He was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in Michaelmas Term 1986 and later to the Bar of Ireland.
- Between 1989 and 1991 he was Reid Professor of Criminal Law in Trinity College Dublin.
- He took silk in Michaelmas term 2001. In the last ten years his practice has been mainly in Constitutional and Administrative Law and Human Rights.
Following the transfer of policing and criminal justice powers to Northern Ireland he was appointed Attorney General for Northern Ireland on 24 May 2010. He is the first person to hold the office separately since its functions were assumed by the Attorney General for England and Wales in 1972.
The Irish Legal History Society marked the 800th anniversary of the transmission of Magna Carta to Ireland with a two-day conference in Christ Church Cathedral in November 2016. The conference explored the legal-historical background to Magna Carta in Ireland, the reception of the charter into English law in Ireland, the political and polemical uses to which the charter was put, and its twentieth and twentieth-first century invocations as a living presence in contemporary Irish law. Professor Paul Brand (All Souls, Oxford) delivered a keynote address on the impact of Magna Carta on the development of English law in medieval Ireland.
Speakers included: Claire Breay, Sean Duffy, Ian Campbell, Coleman Dennehy, Sparky Booker, Colum Kenny, Adrian Empey, James Kelly, Patrick Geoghegan, John Larkin, Bláthna Ruane.
The conference was recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media, and is available here:
On 27 November outgoing President of the Society, Mr Robert Marshall, delivered his presidential discourse. His paper, entitled ‘Lisnafanna: A Townland in Turmoil on the Cavan Headford Estate 1870-1900’, was based on a close study of the Headford estate papers. The paper provided some fascinating insights into the existence and operation of subversive or subaltern law on a Cavan estate in the late nineteenth century. It looked specifically at the National League’s boycotting campaign and how this operated at a local and personal level. Interestingly, even on an estate where the Plan was in place, roughly two thirds of rent was still paid.
Mr Marshall went on to consider the legal procedures and processes which followed the fatal shooting of one of the boycotters. The coroner’s inquest saw the apportionment of some blame to the constabulary. Although a verdict of murder was returned by the coroner’s jury, the grand jury, by contrast, found ‘no true bill’, and the case did not proceed to trial.
All of this illustrates the role of the community in policing and sanctioning certain behaviours, and it the paper also explored the complex relationship between the ‘official’ law and the subaltern code.
A full text of the paper will be published in one of the Society’s upcoming collections of essays.
The Society was delighted to host Professor Ian MacBride from King’s College London for the 2015 Spring Discourse. Professor MacBride’s paper, ‘Why the history of the penal laws has still to be written’ was a thought-provoking analysis of the reasons surrounding the relative dearth of scholarship surrounding the penal laws. The discourse took place at the UCD Sutherland School of Law and was well-attended by members of the Society and others.
Professor Ian MacBride of King’s College London delivered the 2015 Spring Discourse at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, on 27 February.
His paper asked ‘Why the history of the penal laws has still to be written’.
Traditionally signed on the Treaty Stone at Limerick on 3rd October 1691, the treaty of Limerick provided: “The Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the second: and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such farther security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.” The breach of this Treaty institutionalised religious discrimination against Roman Catholics and Dissenters who would not conform to the uses of the established church
The 2014 Autumn Discourse was delivered by Dr Coleman Dennehy speaking to the topic “Appointments to the Irish bench in the early Restoration period”
concluding a conference on LAW AND REVOLUTION IN IRELAND: LAW & LAWYERS BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THE CROMWELLIAN INTERREGNUM (The flyer for the conference is available here. )
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The Four Courts at Christ Church (1608-1796)
The 2014 Spring Discourse took place at the Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Stranmillis Road, Belfast In a change to the Society’s usual format, this year we invited a number of excellent speakers to address the Society on a range of topics over two days:
- Professor Lord Bew (School of Politics, Queen’s Univeristy Belfast): ‘Parnell and the Law.’
- Sir Anthony Hart: ‘The Law in Action in Ulster, 1898.’
- Professor Peter Gray (School of History, QUB): ‘Making a Poor Law for Ireland’.
- Dr Thomas Mohr (UCD Sutherland School of Law): ‘The Oath and the Treaty.’
The flyer for the event is available here.


The "Decline" of U. There are still lots of uncertainties whether the U. The United States was the creator of the depression.
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At the same time, the population and the economy of the United States grew and changed dramatically. The population diversified as immigrants arrived from all countries of the world.
From its beginnings as a remote English colony, the United States has developed the largest economy in the world.
The efforts to deal with and resolve these struggles have shaped the United States of America into the 21st century. Native America in The lands and human societies that European explorers called a New World were in fact very old. Sea level dropped by hundreds of feet, creating a land bridge between Alaska and Siberia.
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All of them grew much of their food. Women farmed and gathered food in the woods.
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From the beginning, slaves were among the articles of trade. These earliest enslaved Africans were criminals, war captives, and people sold by their relatives to settle debts.
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The many forest of the Pacific Northwest provided lumber for building. The government want growth so they gave generous land grants and subsides.
Industrialization and Urbanization in the United States, – Summary and Keywords Between and , industrialization and urbanization expanded in the United States faster than ever before. Historical analysis of Economy in The s. The s through the lens of Economy.
Skip to navigation; Skip to content So, the s were a great time to be middle-class, too. the prosperity of the s wasn't universal. In , nearly half the nation's population still resided in rural areas, dependent upon agriculture for survival.
Causes varied, constituencies shifted, and the tangible effects of so much energy was difficult to measure, but the Progressive Era signaled a bursting of long-simmering tensions and introduced new patterns in the relationship between American society, American culture, and American politics.


Here are some links to useful resources relating to Open Banking and the Consumer Data Right:
- The government’s Consumer Data Right Home page. This page is the official home for the CDR and contains plenty of useful material for consumers and providers that is worth exploring if you are new to Open Banking and the CDR
- The home of the Data Standards Body which sets the technical standards for the Consumer Data Right.
- The Data Standard Body has developed a simple CDR products comparator primarily to assist Data Holders test their Product Reference Data APIs. It provides a quick and easy way to explore the types of product reference data that Data Holders are publishing.
- For those interested in what’s happening in Europe, the UK Open Banking Implementation Entity site is worth a look.
I will add to this list as I find other interesting resources that may be of interest to the community.


What happens to us as we go through life depends largely on the lessons that we learn from those around us. The lessons learned in The Historian are peppered throughout the film, and most of them have little to do with book learning.
A review of Keanu Reeves 2014 film, John Wick, a first person shooter turned blockbuster film.
Is a man worth more than his words, a woman worth more than her pictures?
Words and Pictures is a romantic comedy with a bittersweet edge.
Godzilla became popular in the mid-fifties and sixties, when fear of the atom bomb and what it could do was high on the minds of the public.
Does the emperor have clothes? Not in this terrible film by Jonathan Glazer.
Muppets Most Wanted starts up exactly where the last one left off and in usual Muppet fashion, opens with a big, fun opening musical number about being a sequel which is guaranteed to have you laughing right from the start.
Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson team up to give us the back story on how Walt Disney finally managed to bring the story of Mary Poppins to millions of adoring fans in Saving Mr. Banks.
The true story of Captain Phillips and the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first U.S. cargo ship attacked by pirates in over 200 years.
The Academy Award contenders have started early with Forrest Whitaker’s performance in The Butler. Taking a unique view of the Civil Rights Movement through the lives of two men…
This docudrama of Steve Jobs life, paints an interesting picture of this well known visionary….


I Want to Read It, a hybrid between WLW (or WOW) and what's on my to-be-read pile. Well, instead of focusing just on books I would like to acquire, I will be using it to feature books that I just want to read. From the ones, I want to buy to the one's sitting on my TBR at home.
A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee, August 2, 2016. Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. Source: Want to Read.
Annabel Grey is primed for a proper life as a young lady in Victorian England. But when her mother suddenly disappears, she’s put in the care of two eccentric aunts who thrust her into a decidedly un-ladylike life, full of potions and flying broomsticks and wizards who eat nothing but crackers. Magic, indeed! Who ever heard of such a thing?
Before Annabel can assess the most ladylike way to respond to her current predicament, she is swept up in an urgent quest. Annabel is pitted against another young witch, Kitty, to rescue the sacred Moreover Wand from the dangerous underworld that exists beneath London. The two girls outsmart trolls, find passage through a wall of faerie bones, and narrowly escape a dragon, but it doesn’t take long for Annabel to see that the most dangerous part of her journey is her decision to trust this wild, magical girl.
While I have only read one of Karen Foxlee's books, Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, before, I did enjoy it immensley. So, yes, I am curious to see if A Most Magical Girl would be just as good (or even better). Even though the synopsis does not sound perfectly captivating, I am curious enough to give it a chance...as always, I hope a book will be better than my expectations!!
If you've read A Most Magical Girl, what did you think? Help a reader out!!


If you are taking Alexander Technique lessons, there are a great many very useful resources available to help you with the learning process. They have all been collected at Alexander Technique Self Study and a good first approach to this page would be to go through it fairly quickly and read, listen to, or watch anything that grabs your attention. Later, you might want to re-visit the page and investigate it more thoroughly.
Most of the materials on the page are free. There are a number of very useful books and videos listed on the page which you may want to purchase at some point.
If you are just starting with Alexander Technique lessons, I’ve Had my First Alexander Technique Lesson – What do I do Now? is a particularly useful article.
If you spend a lot of time sitting, this video contains some simple and practical advice of how to sit with ease.
Constructive rest is a powerful self-help process that comes out of the Alexander Technique. This page has a wealth of information about it.
When you have started doing the Alexander Technique constructive rest at home, you many find that some of the conversations at the Alexander Technique Podcast, Alexander Talk and AlexanderAudio.com make a nice accompaniment to that process. Or, if you download them onto your iPod, they can be conveniently listened to while commuting to and from work. (You can subscribe to the Podcast with iTunes using it’s RSS feed.)


About This File
At the moment Nimble Studio doesn't have a default asset type for Harmony.
This is a version of a harmony asset that will work on the platform.
- Download the zip file
- Unzip it
- Create a new Blank asset in your project
- Delete all the folders
- Drag the work folder from the unzipped harmony asset to the platform. This will upload the work folder and all it's contents.
To open Harmony, just click edit on the toon_scene.xstage file.
Note - there's also an included find and replace script available in the scripts folder. You can add this to your toolbar in the Node View which makes it easy to find and replace files!


Québec City is 400 years old. It boasts four centuries of history marked by encounters with the First Nations, battles between the French and English, terrible epidemics, and the acts of the men and women our streets are named after today; four centuries during which Québec has grown into the city we know and love, forging a character all its own built around a thriving culture, economic success, urban transformation, neighborhood life, and the French language.
Written by Michèle Jean.
Québec City’s 400th Anniversary
Québec City had a year to remember in 2008. This section looks back at the highlights of the city’s 400th anniversary celebrations.
Le 400e c'était... > (in French only)


Allows users to complete the definition and drawing of pneumatic circuits in a quick and easy way.
The main features of this software inclued:
- Complete and easy to navigate library of pneumatic symbols that can be easily added to the circuit and connected between them.
- Circuit testing and automatic creation of parts list.
- Export Capabilities to most common formats (DXF, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, WMF).
How to proceed
Extract downloaded file into a temporary folder of your choice and run setup.exe. You may delete the temporary folder once the installation has been completed.
– Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7
– Internet Explorer 7.01
“The answers to all the crazy Pneumatic and Fluid Power Questions”
Conversion charts and formulas, sizing and selection guides, crossover and part number configurations, cheat sheets and all thing pneumatic.


Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration
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Painless Docker – Unlock The Power Of Docker & Its Ecosystem
Painless Docker is a practical guide to master Docker and its ecosystem based on real world examples. It tends to be a complete and detailed guide to create, deploy, optimize, secure, trace, debug, log, orchestrate & monitor Docker and Docker clusters.
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If you are a beginner or have an intermediate level, and looking to learn how to use Docker in development and production environments and the DevOps pipeline between them in order to build a modern microservices applications (in public Clouds, Multi-Cloud and Cloud-Agnostic clusters).


Bible for Life is designed to help you get to the heart of the different Bible books by outlining the context in which they were written, their leading themes and the life applications we are called to follow.
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18th June 2018 There's nothing quite like the whole country uniting in excitement about their team in the World Cup Football. The feeling of sheer elation when (it seems that) the whole nation jumps out of their seats when the winning goal is scored. This excitement isn't joy, but it's pretty close to it. Joy is the delight of the Spirit and it's based on the Jesus' work for us which will never pass away. A strong theme of joy keeps surfacing throughout Philippians, so it's a great book to read in between the World Cup football games.


Wednesday, January 7, 2009
A Passage to Old Sorrows: Review of The Gate
An in-depth review of François Bizot's The Gate can be found here on www.mekong.net. Their extensive Cambodia recommended reading list can be found here.
Photographic images, travel information, books, art, news, ideas, opinions and observations about all manner of things big and small in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Asia, Sweden and the world observed from five feet off the ground.


The Third Cycle of Life, or the Epoch of the Calm, is the third and final cycle of life in the grand scale of the Universe. Following the sterilisation of most life in the Universe, the destruction of star systems and the death of Imperius, life had to survive in artificially constructed arks and deep corners of the Universe until planets could become habitable again. Much of the focus in this cycle of life goes into New Eternos, now referred to as "Home" by its inhabitants. Most of the Centros system had been destroyed following the Third Cosmic Extinction, and all Magick Stones in existence were destroyed. All of the events on Home are now focused on living in a world without magic and extra-terrestrial beings. Very few life forms live on Home now, with the progeny of Second Cycle humanoids (living in the Dyson Spheres) inhabiting it, free from the bondage of feral beasts. This removed the need for monster hunting groups. Now, humans live off the land and live for the good of the community, in societies of peace, trying to make the best of the world they have been given.
Author notes: "I wanted to make the Third Cycle of Life a huge departure from the Second Cycle, where most of my effort and emotional input went in. It's like an epilogue to the entire Hellblade story arc, but it's big enough to be a story in of itself. With this, I wanted to recreate the feeling one gets when they've finished an epic story or film series, where the ending ends up being peaceful and totally different from the first 95% of the story. The ending of such a series, like Lord of the Rings, makes you feel happy because the problems are all finally resolved and you've been given closure, but it's incredibly sad because it means saying goodbye to the characters you've followed in their amazing journey, and how things are completely different now and will never be the same again. You've lived through their adversities with them, wanting them to make it until the end, but now that the end is here, you don't want it to be over. It's a bittersweet feeling that I feel with this story, and it makes me tear up knowing that something I've been thinking about for over a decade is finally coming to an end. I'd cite the ending of Lord of the Rings as a minor influence, but my bigger influences would probably be Lightning Returns: FFXIII, The H. G. Wells novel "The Time Machine", and the premise for Gears of War 4. Futuristic themes and post-apocalyptic themes are often explored in fiction, but the entire regeneration of society--where the next society is different to the last--following an apocalyptic event hasn't been explored nearly as much. It's something I find really appealing and interesting, and I really want to take on the gauntlet of writing a story within the setting myself.
It seems right for Hellblade's story to end here. I've been thinking about the end of Hellblade's journey for quite a while now because I'm growing up and I have more responsibilities, making it more difficult to set time aside for thinking up these scenarios. Plus, it became tough to know where to take it, and I didn't want it to "descend" into a Sci-Fi space-travelling series because that wasn't characteristic of the series at all, even though I love Sci-Fi and wanted it to make up a decent section of the series. I didn't want to create a separate Sci-Fi series because it would mean creating a whole new Universe and I didn't have time for that, so I found a way to incorporate it into the Eternos series. I wasn't sure how it would end and ideas were running thin, but I fell in love with the idea of creating a story arc with the premise of a de facto epilogue, due to the emotions it brings up. It genuinely gives rise to some pretty strong emotions. And I will create a new story for people to follow: granted, it won't be as long or detailed as the Second Cycle, but it will be something new and in my opinion, great, whilst keeping the old and familiar charm. It will connect the Second Cycle in some ways, but not too closely in such a way that it compromises its own identity. Hellblade, his friends and their adventures are finally over, and this paves the way for new characters and a new world. Much of what I write about will be entrenched in the world we live in, but it's more idealistic and utopian. Human society mostly socialist as this point, even if it can't be realistically and fully implemented in our world, but it's to reflect the change and resolve from the calamities of the last cycle of life. They'll also be some real world problems that we face, but it won't be completely devoid of fantasy nor sci-fi elements--I'll get to those later.
It's so sad because even I hold the old characters close to my heart. I think that's the point, though, because it makes this next story so much more hard-hitting and molds the previous adventures deep in your heart. You don't miss it until you're reminded it's truly gone. I really hope you enjoy the Third Cycle: it's going to be incredibly emotional. Hellblade is gone, but Eternos, ahem, Home, is far from over."


Welcome! If you arrived here from a link on a school web page, the box below will search all schools in the district. Click on the advanced search to change the search to only your school library holdings. The school list on the left will update you on any school's news.
As an integral part of the educational program of School District U-46, it is the mission of the library to provide the learning community with a broad range of print and electronic materials, build information literacy skills, support library and classroom curriculum, foster a love of reading, and to encourage life-long learning.
U-46 follows a comprehensive library and information literacy curriculum covering all grade levels.


I was going to save this one for later on in Lent, but I stumbled across a very interesting set of video interviews with Fr. Bonniwell, OP, so I’m giving Bl Margaret advanced posting!
This card was lifted from a tub of resources relating to the Bl Margaret of Castello Shrine at St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church. The “primary” shrine to Bl Margaret in the USA (or at least the Dominican Eastern Province) is now located in Columbus, OH at St. Patrick’s Church. However, St. Louis Bertrand was the first national shrine to her, having been erected in Louisville, KY April 1981 (so, go Louisville!).
Bl Margaret of Castello is the “patron of the unwanted” and is also one of the numerous “incorrupt” saints of the Catholic Church (a very interesting phenomenon, one which has a book dedicated to the topic by Joan Carroll Cruz). You can learn more about her life here, here, or through the book on her life written by Fr. William R. Bonniwell, OP (1886-1984). Bl Margaret’s feast day is April 13.
Which leads to my reason for posting! Fr. Bonniwell was interviewed in 1982 (two years before his death at age 98ish) by a friar of the Western Province. One of the many topics they covered (you can find them all at OPEast on Youtube) was his experience as a chaplain in the Great War. Fr. Bonniwell was ordained in 1914, and wrote the following books, Liturgical Spirit of Lent, History of the Dominican Liturgy, Interpreting Sunday Mass, What Think You of Christ?, and Martyrology of the Sacred Order of Preachers. Fr. Bonniwell, OP died on September 16, 1984.
Bl. Margaret of Castello, pray for us!


Our School History is an ongoing project of Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society (GWBHS) to document the history of area schools. Formerly known as Called by the Peal of the Bell, the project has required countless hours of work from a team of dedicated volunteers. Researchers have gathered information from the school district and from the GWBHS archive at Orchard Lake Museum. Volunteers also implemented a community outreach campaign to seek information from members of the community.
Reports about the histories of many of the schools are currently available below, and this information will be expanded as the project continues. In 2016, West Bloomfield School District (WBSD) schools will install informational panels at the school buildings detailing the individual histories of each school. GWBHS and WBSD celebrated this major milestone of Our School History with an unveiling of the panel designs in March 2016.
Historical Information Panels – West Bloomfield School District
School History Reports
West Bloomfield, the township of lakes and gentle hills, is one of transformation from wilderness beginnings and the domain of the Indian for some 12,000 years to agricultural prominence, to vacation dreams and summer resorts, to now established suburban living. The natural beauty and resources of its residents have played a key role in its growth.
Since its earliest settlement, these residents have been deeply committed to education as the key to passing on their heritage and preparing their children to shape the future of our township. Peal of The Bell chronicles the community’s history to carry that mission into the 21st Century.
This report includes a virtual exhibit of photos and documents of the history of the schools serving children living in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Like other more traditional museum exhibits it combines original artifacts and primary documents with text, captions, and analysis to help the reader understand the importance and significance of these items.
This presentation allows you to enlarge images for closer inspection or readability because we believe that a picture is worth a thousand words. You might want to focus on people’s faces to see if you recognize them or to examine their expression. Perhaps you want to study clothing styles, penmanship, or advertisements of the day. These images also help you to visualize the environment of the scene and place yourself within it. Many of the pictures in this exhibit are actual original documents and artifacts produced by the people who made the history of West Bloomfield Schools. Examining them will bring you one step closer to the events that shaped our current school system.
- POB01 History of the School System (PDF)
- POB02 Pine Lake Elementary School (PDF)
- POB03 Scotch Elementary School (PDF)
- POB04 Walnut Lake Elementary School (PDF)
- POB05 Green School (PDF)
- POB06 Early Years (PDF)
- POB07 Whitfield School (PDF)
- POB08 Keego Harbor School (PDF)
- POB09 DUR (PDF)
- POB10 Farming (PDF)


◊ Series: Sullivan’s Crossing, Book 2
◊ Hardcover: 336 pages
◊ Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary
◊ Publisher: MIRA (April 18, 2017)
◊ Language: English
◊ ISBN-10: 0778319911
◊ ISBN-13: 978-0778319917
The highly-anticipated sequel to #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr's What We Find transports readers back to Sullivan's Crossing. The rustic campground at the crossroads of the Colorado and Continental Divide trails welcomes everyone—whether you're looking for a relaxing weekend getaway or a whole new lease on life. It's a wonderful place where good people face their challenges with humor, strength and love.
For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet.
Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest her head. Cal and Maggie welcome her into their busy lives and she quickly finds herself bonding with Sully, the quirky campground owner who is the father figure she's always wanted. But when her past catches up with her, it's a special man and an adorable puppy who give her the strength to face the truth and fight for a brighter future. In Sullivan's Crossing Sierra learns to cherish the family you are given and the family you choose.
The concept of a second chance always draws me into a story and author Robyn Carr has a great way of doing that.
In this second installment in her Sullivan’s Crossing series, the author once again introduces characters that are realistic and likeable. She makes them seem like people you know down the street or wished lived down the street. They have traits, faults, and problems readers can relate to.
The small community setting is another drawing card that makes ANY DAY NOW a delightful read. Through vivid descriptions and rich details, readers are drawn into Sullivan Crossing as it comes to life on the page.
The interaction of the characters and the bonds of family and friends will stay with you long after you read the last line. A story of second chances that will make you believe.
Any Day Now by Robyn Carr, Sullivan’s Crossing (Book #2), MIRA, @2017, ISBN: 978-0778319917, Hardcover, 336 Pages
FTC Full Disclosure – A copy of this book was sent to me by the publisher. However, receiving the complimentary copy did not influence my review. The thoughts are completely my own and given honestly and freely.
Robyn Carr is an award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 novels, including the critically acclaimed Virgin River and Thunder Point series, as well as highly praised women’s fiction titles such as Four Friends, What We Find, and The Life She Wants.
Robyn has won a RITA Award from the Romance Writers of America, and in 2016 she was awarded RWA’s Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the genre. Her novels have been translated into 19 languages in 30 countries.
Originally from Minnesota, Robyn now resides in Henderson, Nevada, with her aviator husband; they have two grown children. When she isn’t writing, Robyn puts her energy into community service: she has mentored a seniors’ memoir-writing group, attends book club chats in and out of state whenever possible, and is working with her local library on the Carr Chat Series, a program centered on fundraising and visiting author events that bring writers, their books, and the community together.
Thanks for stopping by today during Robyn’s tour visit. Do you believe in second (or even third) chances?


Book No More Plastic in the Ocean!
Author: Lavinia Currier | Illustrator: Mollie Ginther | Hardcover
This beautifully illustrated book will get children thinking about the impact of plastic trash in the ocean.
He‘e, the octopus is sad—her beautiful Pacific Ocean is filling up with plastic trash. She asks her friend, the moon Mahina to do something. Mahina uses her magnetic moon magic to pull the trash up out of the ocean and drop it back on the city. Now the humans don’t like the plastic trash either— what will they do?
From the author:
There is a delicate balance to be struck when we present children with the 'problems of the world' in their picture books, to inform but not overwhelm or make children feel responsible or anxious. "No More Plastic in the Ocean" presents a serious problem, one that is evident to most children living on seashores all over the world, but here the answer is found in a child's appeal to the magic of the ocean animals and the watchful moon, who find a playful way to make humans change their rude behavior. Hawaiian terms for caring for the environment add to the hope that something can be done with a change of heart.


At the library, Arimura Satoru, a man who has a severe hand fetish, accidentally touches the hands of a fellow student in the craft department. They're his "ideal hands," so he takes it as destiny. Taking pictures, drawing, and sketching, he goes to visit Yuasa (his hands) everyday. Although he finds him annoying, Yuasa understands the pure feelings Arimura has towards his creations and allows him to draw. One day, Yuasa cuts his finger in front of Arimura. In the name of 'disinfection,' his finger gets relentlessly licked and he unintentionally gets excited. At the same time, he's disgusted that Arimura gets an erection from licking his fingers! Arimura, who only focuses his attacks on 'hands,' begins to grow interested in the actual owner of them. Yuasa, whose only had his hands focused on, starts to get irritated…This is a romance story of fetishes where their relationship may develop into love ★
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A Soldier’s Duty by Jean Johnson
Series: Theirs Not to Reason Why #1
Source: Personal (e-)shelf
Ia is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a soldier who will inspire generations for the next three hundred years-a soldier history will call Bloody Mary.
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As you’ve probably realized by now, I’ve been on a bit of a science fiction bender. Most of the stuff I’ve been reading has been sci fi romance but A Soldier’s Duty is straight-up science fiction. And while Jean Johnson is an experienced author, having written numerous paranormal romance novels, but I’ve never actually read any of her work so I went into it without any preconceptions.
Short version: Rawrsome!
Long version: There is so much to appreciate in A Soldier’s Duty. It’s straight-up science fiction and it was a lot of fun. I’ve been really into sci fi books lately, as you’ll see from the reviews that are in the pipeline, and I think A Soldier’s Duty is a large part of this.
The cover copy doesn’t really do the story justice. Jean Johnson has crafted a really complex story based on one idea: Ia is a precog who realizes that terrible things will happen if she doesn’t carefully pick her way through the time stream, with her goal of saving millions of lives. It’s a journey she begins as a teenager and we see her through only the first part of this epic story. A Soldier’s Duty takes us through Ia’s military training and her early career, in which she makes some great allies and faces terrible dangers. There are some amazing battles and interesting aliens but what I really liked about the story is Ia herself. Her personality and determination drive A Soldier’s Duty to its exciting conclusion and watching her forge herself into a warrior and a leader is really interesting. And it really is a matter of her working extremely hard to become what the universe needs her to be (even though the rest of the universe doesn’t know it).
That being said, there were some bits of the book that I found myself floundering in. This happened during Ia’s time in boot camp, when she was ingesting a lot of information about protocol and weaponry and the like. I think these rather dense passages are typical of science fiction, though, and it didn’t detract from my overall enjoyment of A Soldier’s Duty. I just found it to be a lot of information to digest but it’s not just an info dump — it’s there for a reason and it really helps build the setting.
I’d also like to comment on the fact that the worldbuilding in A Soldier’s Duty is impeccable. There are Heavyworlders and scary aliens and brilliantly described worlds. You can get a really nice feel for things if you visit Jean Johnson’s page on the series so I’ll urge you to check that out instead of using my own less eloquent words.
I’ve exhausted my book budget for this month but I’m hoping to pick up the next book in the series, An Officer’s Duty, just as soon as I can. If A Soldier’s Duty is anything to go by, I’m sure it’ll be a great ride!


How great would it be to learn from other people’s mistakes rather than having to make our own? In WTF Just Happened? Martin Goodyer presents a hilarious compilation of catastrophes to help readers do just this. Drawing on his experience as a psychologist and taking the perspective of a behavioural change coach, Martin offers insights into people’s often irrational behaviour and suggests ways to avoid such behaviour ourselves. Reading this book won’t stop bad things from happening – but it can prevent you from making it worse if they do. Hearing Martin talk about how to apply a different style of thinking to avoid WTF just happened moments has helped transform behaviours in organisations, and it can help transform yours too.
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She who walks on fire by Rania El Mugammar
She who walks on fire is a delicate exploration of the lived realities of five Sudanese womxn. Based on the womxn who have influenced and shaped the author’s sense of identity, she who walks on fire is an exploration of storytelling as documentation and resistance. She who walks on fire is both celebration and mourning. Punctuated by aghani al banat, girl’s songs, the story is heart wrenching at times, humorous at others, tied together by a the rhythmic remembering of Sudanese oral storytelling traditions.
Rania El Mugammar is a Sudanese Canadian Artist, Arts Educator, Equity and Anti-oppression Educator & Consultant , performer, speaker and published writer. Her work interrogates notions of home, belonging, womxnhood, blackness, migration/exile as they intersect with the identities and places she identities with. Rania is an advocate for womxn’s rights, racial justice/black liberation and youth. Social justice anchors Rania’s work as she is deeply committed to anti-oppressive practices and inclusion.
She is the current co-chair of the Outburst Advisory Committee at the Barbara Schlifer Clinic, former curator of d’bi young’s Watah School “Art(is)t Shaman” Series and a member of the Kandake Performance Collective. Rania is deeply passionate about gender/race justice and organizing locally and globally. She is the editor of SpeakSudan’s youth arts magazine and a contributor to a variety of blogs and publications.
Rania is deeply interested in navigating intersectional and at times contradictory identities that result from inhabiting racialized bodies on colonized lands. Her research interests include Islam and Blackness, Queer youth of color, positionality/intersectionality , accessibility in community organizing, displacement/flight and migration, art as decolonial practice and more. She is deeply interest in mentorship as a means to community growth and liberation.
Yield to Pedestrian by Sherry Hsu
Sherry is a young Asian Canadian woman who immigrated from Taiwan with her family when she was 11. She is not a FOB (Fresh off the boat), and prepare for hell if you call her a FOB. But she is not a CBC (Canadian born Chinese). So where does she fit it? Yield To Pedestrian tells a powerful story about this young woman’s exploration of her self-identity by examining how her ethnicity contributes to her identity. How much of her color, culture, location and gender define who she is. And her rage that shocked her, triggered by a Chinese FOB who failed to yield to her as she was crossing the street.
Sherry Hsu is an actress, writer, and emerging filmmaker. She recently worked with director Phillip Noyce on the TV show Warrior opposite Jason Scott Lee and Holt McCallany. She also starred as Michelle Trico in the TV series Nowhere to Hide. She studied commerce at University of Toronto before changing direction to acting, where she trained in several renowned classes in New York and Toronto. She is the founder of The Actor’s Rehearsal Room, which is a group where local actors get together to practice their craft regularly, and foster a supportive community through shared resources. Sherry speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese.
Letters to the Universe by Shaunga Tagore
Letters to the Universe is the story of Shaunga, and her alter ego Scorpio Rising’s journey of diving through portals and time warps as she learns about madness, magic, survival, healing, home, community, friendship, self-love and connection with the universe. Throughout her journey she meets spirit guides, ancestors, invisible friends who come to life and a community of superqueeros who ban together to bring forth the QTBIPOCalypse. The Letters to the Universe team is thrilled to present a 15 minute excerpt at rock.paper.sistahz 2016! A fuller version of the work will be presented during Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Pride Festival (June 2016).
Shaunga Tagore is a queer, genderqueer, Bengali woman of colour survivor. She is a multidisciplinary performance artist, writer, choreographer, arts educator and intuitive counsellor She incorporates art-forms including poetry and prose, dance, video, burlesque, music, theatre, astrology and tarot. She completed a book of poetry for her Master’s thesis at York University (2010) titled, The Erasable Woman, which she has also re-worked into a One Woman Show previously presented at Toronto Mayworks Festival (2015) and San Fransisco’s Queer Astrology Conference (2015).
Shaunga Tagore – Creator/Performer/Producer
Sedina Fiati – Producer
Dainty Smith – Stage Manager
Jelani Ade Lam – Director/Performer
James Kendall – Set Design and Production Manager
Afi Browne – Costume Design
Mariam Zaidi, Tricia Hagoriles, Akriti Jain – Videography
Anabel Khoo, Sze-Yang Ade Lam, Robin Akimbo, Shadrack Jackman
zahgidiwin|love by Frances Koncan
In the not-so-distant postcolonial future, a young Anishinaabe woman embarks upon a journey through time and space to rediscover the truth about love, living her best life, and growing up as fabulously as possible amidst the intergenerational trauma of cultural genocide. A decolonial comedy.
Frances Koncan is an Anishinaabe playwright and director from Couchiching First Nation. She studied at the University of Manitoba (BA Psychology) and the City University of New York Brooklyn College (MFA Playwriting). In 2015, she was a participant in the National Screen Institute’s New Voices Program, where she wrote and directed her first short film, Outdigenous, and the Banff Centre’s Indigenous Writing Program, where she began to write zahgidiwin|love. Previous credits include, as director: The New Beginning, Seminar (Apprentice, RMTC/Mirvish), Matt & Ben; as playwright and director: Flesh Coloured Crayons, After the Ball is Over, Lost Boy, How to Talk to Human Beings, Little Red; as playwright: Lingua Franca, The Dance-off of Conscious Uncoupling, Zelda with a Z, and #whitegirlproblems. She currently resides in Winnipeg with her puppy and BFF Tucker.
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Location: Wychwood Theatre


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Poetry in Voice 2023
Voices of Poetry is a major annual poetry competition in Canada. Of the 20,000 students across Canada who participated in the qualifying rounds, 24 made it to the semi-finals and 9 of them continue their journey to the Finals on April 20th in Calgary at the Central Library.
We are so proud of our 2 students Olivia and Philippe who will be representing LFT in the English and Bilingual categories. Thank you so much Leslie Bonniveau, Deborah Lambie and Fiona To for inspiring and preparing Olivia and Philippe and instilling in them the passion and confidence that makes their performances stand out in such an incredible way!
Watch the 2023 Finals live on the Voices of Poetry website and support our students on the LFT social networks.


Travelers by Helon Habila
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- Page: 288
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- ISBN: 9780393239591
- Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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A startlingly imaginative exploration of the African diaspora in Europe, by one of our most acclaimed international writers. Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as "a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision…a major talent" (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear or hope. A Nigerian graduate student who has made his home in America knows what it means to strike out for new shores. When his wife proposes that he accompany her to Berlin, where she has been awarded a prestigious arts fellowship, he has his reservations: “I knew every departure is a death, every return a rebirth. Most changes happen unplanned, and they always leave a scar.” In Berlin, Habila’s central character finds himself thrown into contact with a community of African immigrants and refugees whose lives previously seemed distant from his own, but to which he is increasingly drawn. The walls between his privileged, secure existence and the stories of these other Africans on the move soon crumble, and his sense of identity begins to dissolve as he finds that he can no longer separate himself from others’ horrors, or from Africa. A lean, expansive, heart-rending exploration of loss and of connection, Travelers inscribes unforgettable signposts—both unsettling and luminous—marking the universal journey in pursuit of love and home.
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In 2013-14 I’ve been an exchange student on the master level with Frode Haltli at the Norwegian Academy of Music of Oslo. I interviewed him on the theme “New Scandinavian music for accordion” and we spoke on several issues regarding the Scandinavian culture and identity.
The interview is divided in seven parts: 1) Introduction to the Scandinavian culture and society, 2) From the contemporary to the traditional music and back, 3) Ellegaard and Nordheim, accordion meets Norway, 4) A personal experience, New Scandinavian music for accordion, 5) Maja S.K. Ratkje – Gagaku Variations, Ich bin ein Japaner!, 6) Bent Sørensen – Looking on Darkness, researching a new sound, 7) Atli Ingólfsson – Radioflakes, new virtuosism
We went in details as playing techniques in pieces by Sørensen and Ingólfsson, but we also spoke about the Scandinavian identity and how this is reflected in music from Scandinavia. I hope that the interview can be a resource for musicians who are studying any of these works, and for those interested in learning more about Scandinavian music in general.
List of topics
Part I: Introduction to the Scandinavian culture and society
Part II: From the contemporary to the traditional music and back
Part III: Ellegaard and Nordheim, accordion meets Norway
Part IV: A personal experience, New Scandinavian music for accordion
Part V: Maja S. K. Ratkje – ‘Gagaku Variations’, Ich bin ein Japaner!
Part VI: Bent Sørensen – ‘Looking on Darkness’, researching a new sound
Part VII: Atli Ingolfsson – ‘Radioflakes’, new virtuosism


Dr. Vinay Lal, UCLA professor of history and Asian American Studies, takes a deep dive on the global impact of COVID-19 in his latest book, Fury of COVID-19. In this interview for the LA Social Science book series, he compares how different nation states have responded to COVID-19. He sheds light on the need for public health measures in the U.S. as well as international cooperation in order to curtail COVID. His book also addresses how social distancing complicates personal relationships. Lastly, Dr. Lal weighs in on how specifically the response in the United States has much to do with the administration’s position on climate change.
0:04 – Intro
1:07 – What is the main point of this book?
6:39 – How did the history of countries affect their response to the pandemic?
16:13 – How do comments like “China Virus” by the administration affect international cooperation?
To learn more, check out Professor Lal’s book, Fury of COVID-19.
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I kick-started my AI deep dive into the world of biblical genealogies, a sea of names, connections, and implied stories. As I navigated this intricate network, using OpenAI's embedding model (text-embedding-ada-002), I observed intriguing patterns in the AI responses and grappled with the mysterious algorithms behind them. This unexpected journey reminded me of the art of interpretation that biblical scholars partake in, a constant dance between the words on the page and the world they attempt to illuminate.
Deep Dives and Divine Dialogues
The world of biblical genealogies is an intricate web of connections. I asked our AI chat agent to identify important elements within this complex tapestry, and I noticed a recurring theme - the names Jesus, David, and Abraham. These characters seem to hold a prime position in the AI's responses, leading me to question how the model weights each element in its vector database.
Could the order of data uploaded be influencing the output? The AI's responses might be sequenced by the chronological order of the texts, with Jesus from Matthew (Latest), David from 1 and 2 Samuel (Middle), and Abraham (First). Or is the AI picking up on some inherent significance to these figures? After all, we've woven in GPT-3.5-Turbo's parameters and all of the secondary text around the Bible.
As I reflected on this, I formed a working theory around semantic and thematic relevance. Could the model be clustering together similar items by their meaning? If that were the case, the RLHF (Reinforced Learning and Human Feedback) that guides the AI would be organizing the info around central themes and their meanings.
This led me to a critical question, one that I believe needs to be asked before fine-tuning can begin: How does the AI weigh its responses? Knowing this could drastically impact our results.
The Research Workflow
I'm using a basic implementation of LangChain's Conversational Retrieval Chain. Essentially, it's taking the selected books of the bible and creating a vector database with Chroma.
When we ask a question, it searches Chroma for relevant information and retrieves the items related to our questions as context.
If you're interested, I wrote an article explaining my AI Research Workflow.
AI Conversational Retrieval
A workflow based on LangChain's conversational retrieval agents that I used in the AI bible research project to upload documents and ask them questions.November 15, 2023
Differences from ChatGPT
For reference, here is ChatGPT-3.5-Turbo's response without the verses on genealogies as context.
It's not bad as is, but if you notice, the response is more about the information instead of my question.
Ideally, I want the response to be more like a thematic narrative. A story based on our questions and the relevant parts of the Bible. Something that enhances our reading of the Bible, rather than information retrieval.
AI Perspectives and People of Faith
During my interaction with the AI chat agent, I noticed that changing the system prompt influenced the results in unexpected ways, presenting a challenge for introspection.
These observations led me to an intriguing thought experiment:
How would a person who is an expert in biblical genealogies leading a bible study respond if they were an AI chat agent?
And how would putting ourselves into the imaginary shoes of the persona we create, shape the responses of the chat agent that can't understand the human mind or soul?
Here's a collection of responses that I found interesting.
A Journey of Discovery
Embarking on this project has been both challenging and thrilling. As I weave through the world of biblical genealogies and AI's mysteries, I am learning, unlearning, and relearning.
I am filled with a sense of curiosity, fascination, and at times, slight apprehension about the complex relationship between theology and technology. But as I delve deeper, I realize that this intersection of AI and the Bible is a goldmine of discovery, full of exciting patterns and intriguing puzzles.


The Global Sikh Council (GSC) is concerned about the confusing reports emerging in the media regarding the transportation of 200 or so old birs of Guru Granth Sahib Ji from Pakistan to Delhi.
The transference of the Birs is part of a broader but much-neglected Panthic concern: the preservation of historical sites and the collection, treatment, preservation, digitization, and archival of Sikh texts and manuscripts. It requires a coherent and unified strategy, not a one-off project calculated to bring short-term political dividends.
The lack of a concerted effort has already witnessed the destruction of the Sikh Reference Library, historical monuments, and artifacts.
As a first step, the GSC recommends forming a team of experts for dating and verifying the manuscripts’ authenticity and recommendations for their handling. Until then, the GSC appeals to the Pakistan Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (PSGPC) to retain control of the documents.
The GSC is committed to preserving Sikh heritage by uniting the community.
Global Sikh Council
Response of SPGC to GSC


Using Communication : researching and summarising skills. Miss Graham’s Class : 6JM/ FG
10 January 2022 (by Class Teacher (teacher))
Term 2A Week 1: Using Communication: Miss Graham’s Class 6JM/ FG.
Year 6 in Miss Graham’s Class, 6 JM/ FG have been busy the first week back to Term 2A, researching and finding out about the author Michael Morpurgo of their new class Novel, Kensuke’s Kingdom. The pupils were very interested in listening to the author telling them about what inspired him to be an author. All pupils in class, summarised the main points about the author and these facts will be used in the next few weeks to create an ebook about this renowned author, Michael Morpurgo.
Thanks, Mrs Murphy.


The Sialkot Saga, by Ashwin Sanghi is a thriller based on lives of two characters called Arvind & Arbaaz. Arvind comes from a Marwari business family, and Arbaaz is someone who starts off as a goon; and the character evolves with every 100 pages in the book.
Arvind and Arbaaz begin as strangers, leading their lives in a mutually exclusive manner. The two characters are as different as chalk and cheese, but Ashwin manages to weave an intrinsic plot which culminates to Arvind and Arbaaz becoming each others arch nemesis.
The plot of the book on face value might seem like a mix of three books by Jeffrey Archer. In a way, The Sialkot Saga is a mix of Kane and Abel, Not a Penny More; Not a Penny Less and The Fourth Estate by Archer. But, it’s the hypnotic style of Sanghi’s narration that makes this book; and all of the past books written by him, an absolute delight to read.
Continue reading “#CogentBooks – The Sialkot Saga by Ashwin Sanghi”
As a reader, every once in a while, you come across a title and/ or an author that you haven’t ever heard of. That’s common. What makes this discovery even more fascinating is the fact that the book is rather popular and has been praised by some of the best celebrities and respected book lists in the world. This is exactly how I learned about Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan.
Even if you’re the most ferocious reader, I can assure you; even you can’t guess what will happen in the next page of this book. It’s a sheer journey of 470 pages full of plot twists and surprises.
On the face of it, Beauty is a Wound is a story of an half Dutch half Indonesian prostitute named Dewi Ayu; who hails from the town of Halimunda, but it’s a cobweb of a story; to say the least.
Continue reading “#CogentBooks – Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan”
Q1. What is Kindle? Why has it become so popular? In absolute simple words, Kindle is a device that allows the user to read books. It’s an e-book reader/ e-reader. The user can buy/ load books in electronic format to the device and read them. So instead of flipping pages, the user just taps on… Continue reading Amazon Kindle. All your questions answered
In the times where being an “Indian Author” is more of a risk than an advantage, very few authors have made their mark and found the right balance between writing really good content, creating a niche for themselves and not getting carried away with the new found success.
Ravi Subramnaian is one such author. One thing that I really like about Ravi’s work is his writing style. There’s always a certain pace to his story. Where some authors prefer to invest in chapters to consolidate the characters, the subplots, the twists; Ravi is unapologetically and unabashedly on target. His past books namely If God Was a Banker, I Bought the Monk’s Ferrari, Devil in Pinstripes, The Incredible Banker, The Bankster, Bankerupt and God is a Gamer still command a strong and a loyal reader base. Some other names that need a mention in this category are Devdutt Patnaik, Ashwin Sanghi, Amish and Anand Neelakantan, among others.
Continue reading “#CogentBooks – The Bestseller She Wrote by Ravi Subramanian”
Mahabharata; a tale that has been retold a several times, and shall be recreated by authors for time immemorial. There are so many characters, themes, philosophies, and stories that come together to create the mega-epic that is the Mahabharata. Quite recently, I read and wrote about The Ajaya Series written by Anand Neelakantan. That author… Continue reading #CogentBooks – The Thirteenth Day by Aditya Iyengar
While I was reading Roll of the Dice and Rise of Kali, I came across this book called Deja Karma by Vish Dhamija. Sadly, I’ve been away from the world of books in the last few months of my life; and hence I didn’t know about Bhendi Bazaar and Nothing Lasts Forever, two bestsellers written… Continue reading #CogentBooks – Deja Karma by Vish Dhamija
Rise of Kali is the second book in the two book set of Ajaya – Epic of the Kaurava Clan. I had expressed my thoughts on the first book, in my last post. This book begins from the most infamous, and the most poignant chapter of Mahabharata. The dice game in which Pandavas’ lose their… Continue reading #CogentBooks – Rise of Kali by Anand Neelakantan


The battery recycler Thompson’s Sanitary uses has new sorting requirements and is now charging a fee to recycle. Due to that change, the batteries are now included in the $10 recycling fee at the Newport Recycling Center (next to the TSS office) M-F 9:00-4:00pm.*
In collaboration with the City of Newport Library, you can drop off your batteries in the lobby of the Library free of charge, but please sort them in the appropriate buckets (alkaline and rechargeable).
*If you are a TSS curbside customer, you are entitled to three(3) free trips annually to the Recycling Center. Glass, Paint, and Electronics are still collected at no charge at the same location.


This book will encourage and equip you in seeking your heavenly Father to find the abundant life He is calling you into!
I just finished reading your book. Your spiritual gift must be encouragement because there was an authentic voice of encouragement that flowed from the pages.
My thought as I was finishing the book was that it is much more an encouragement to truly live than an encouragement to not die."
- Dr. Derek Brown, Ph.D., LPC
"This book gets real, and makes you think about God in a whole new way. I knew God was good, I just didn't know He was that good, or what all He could do. There is an authentic voice of inspiration
throughout the whole book.
If you know someone that is considering ending their life, give them this book and watch them change!"


Furnitecture is a book by Anna Yudina, Thames & Hudson, London, which includes our project Transformer apartment.
A compact sourcebook of ideas for innovative furnishing, interior environments and small-scale architectural interventions targeted at consumers and designers.
One of 20 Best Architecture and Design Books of 2015 according to AD. ‘Book of the Week’ – The Times
Also includes projects of architects and designers like Zaha Hadid, Konstantin Grcic and Nendo
Home - to live in a house of your own Image
"Home - to live in a house of your own Image" - unique book written by an architect Rachel Sela, which contains our projects.
The book summarizes more than 17 years of research, which helped to develope a method to diagnose the emotional needs of people, and how to translate these emotions to architecture space, light, color and material. It really deals with translating human inner structure into architectural form.


Thursday, October 7, 2010
Well, GUESS WHAT.
This is one.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I have like, NO TIME to do this. School started up so homework is a witch, then I have cheerleading every day and games on weekends and dance on Wednesdays and my social life, and yea. Even when I do have time, I'm tired as HECK.
I'm reading a ton. I have a full on list of books I need to review for you guys. But like I said, I have noooooooooo time.
So yea. Hope you forgive me. ._.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Four sisters, four birthdays, and four unforgettable years.
Rose dreams of becoming a singer, but when her obligations as the oldest sister start to hold her back, she faces an impossible decision.
Sick of being the "good" sister, Daisy is drawn to a boy with a more dangerous edge and pulls away from the people who care about her most.
Laurel must deal with the loss of someone close, but a new love in the wake of tragedy might be just what she needs.
With her sisters all figuring out their futures, Lily feels lost, and for the first time she must figure out who she is all on her own.
With more than cupcakes and candles on their minds, each of the Walker sisters is in for a sweet sixteen that will change everything.
I actually just finished this book today but since I have a smidgen of time, I can review it. And since it's seperated into 4 different books, I'll review each one:
Rose: Rose was probably my second favorite sister. Right before she turns sixteen, her dad dies and she has to be the strong older sister and help out her mom. At first, and sometimes throughout her story, I got REALLY annoyed with her. There were situations where she totally acted out of line, but she got back on my good side in the end.
Daisy: Daisy is my third favorite sister, most likely because I couldn't really relate to her. Daisy is all into sports(which I'm not) and seems to be "perfect" and because everyone thinks she's "perfect", she starts to act out and date this "bad boy" named Peter. It mentions that his nickname is Paco, but they only call him it like, twice.
Laurel: I'm sorry, but Laurel is my least favorite sister. She's one of those nature, animal lover people. Plus, she's always scared she'll mess up when she tries something, which annoys me to DEATH. I hate when people do that! She starts dating her best friend, but then there's an issue in that too. He is WAY too clingy.
Lily: MY FAVORITE. I can relate to her the mostest, because she's the baby (like me), she's a writer (like me), and she still hasn't figured out WHO Lily Walker is (kinda like me). Trying to fit into the "Cool Crowd" is her big issue, which is something I can relate to. Honestly, I wish I was Lily Walker.
All together, this book was okay. The first three sisters, in their own books seemed annoying and bleh, but in another's books, I actually liked them. (Ex: Daisy kind of annoyed me in her book, but in Rose and Laurel's I loved her.) Another thing that bothered me is that ALL FOUR OF THEM GOT GUYS. Not every girl falls in love at sixteen, just so you know.
But honestly, it was a really good book. I picked it up because soon I'll be turning sixteen. :] There were a lot of nice details and tt was a nice read, even though long.I felt like the reader could relate to at least one of them (like me with Lily). I almost shed tears in each of the books. Overall, I really liked the book and it gets 4 Rainbows.
Monday, September 6, 2010
The Ashbury-Brookfield pen pal program is designed to bring together the two rival schools in a spirit of harmony and "the Joy of the Envelope." But when Cassie, Lydia, and Emily send their first letters to Matthew, Charlie, and Sebastian, things don't go quite as planned. What starts out as a simple letter exchange soon leads to secret missions, false alarms, lock picking, mistaken identities, and an all-out war between the schools--not to mention some really excellent kissing.
First of all, let me come out and say this. I LOVED this book. There was so much mystery and aww-ness going on here. And a bunch of "whaaaaaaaaaat?"s. It was that good.
It's written through the letters, Cassie's journal, and Lydia's "writing journal". And after reading this, I really want to convert back to writing letters to people. There's something about it that makes it feel cool. Before technology and all that.
The situation is sooo funny until it gets mean. I'm not gonna tell you who is mean, but poor Cassie :[ I <3'd style="font-style: italic;">I think I should ask my English teacher if we can do this. (I doubt we can.) I give this book 5 out of 5 smilies! (That's really good.)
Saturday, September 4, 2010
An infant left in the trash to die. A teenage mother who never knew she was pregnant . . .
Before That Morning, these were the words most often used to describe straight-A student and star soccer player Devon Davenport: responsible, hardworking, mature. But all that changes when the police find Devon home sick from school as they investigate the case of an abandoned baby. Soon the connection is made—Devon has just given birth; the baby in the trash is hers. After That Morning, there's only one way to define Devon: attempted murderer. And yet gifted author Amy Efaw does the impossible— she turns Devon into an empathetic character, a girl who was in such deep denial that she refused to believe she was pregnant. Through airtight writing and fast-paced, gripping storytelling, Ms. Efaw takes the reader on Devon's unforgettable journey toward clarity, acceptance, and redemption.
My goodness. This book is so harsh and emotional and gripping and just..my goodness. I don't really know how to describe what I felt after reading this book. I did cry though. But I cry at everything sad so that doesn't really help. All I know is that Devon...I feel bad for Devon. But I also hate her with a passion. The situation was just heart-breaking, and makes you think "Why would anyone do that?" But in Devon's case, you understand her situation, but still. The characters were amazingly alive, the setting was viewable, and the plot is original, since this is the first book that I've ever read that's like this. The cover is just fits the whole story too.
I could barely put it down and I totally recommend this book, but only those that can handle extreme/depressing situations (ex: rape/abuse). It was soooo good. I give it 5 out of 5 rainbows.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
For as long as she can remember, Clare and her family have had a dream: Someday Clare will be a dancer in City Ballet Company. For ten long years Clare has been taking ballet lessons, watching what she eats, giving up friends and a social life, and practicing until her feet bleed -- all for the sake of that dream. And now, with the audition for City Ballet Company right around the corner, the dream feels so close.
But what if the dream doesn't come true? The competition for the sixteen spots in the company is fierce, and many won't make it. Talent, dedication, body shape, size -- everything will influence the outcome. Clare's grandfather says she is already a great dancer, but does she really have what it takes to make it into the company? And if not, then what?
Told through passionate and affecting poems in Clare's own voice, On Pointe soars with emotion as it explores what it means to reach for a dream -- and the way that dreams can change as quickly and suddenly as do our lives.
Since I am a dancer, I saw what this book was about and I was like "Hmmm...this sounds really good." So I grabbed and here I am, reviewing it. Clare is very, very serious about dancing, unlike me. I just take it for fun and so I can see my friends that don't go to my school. Half the time, I don't even want to go. But I applaud Clare.
There were many things I liked about this book. 1) It's about dancing. and B) It's about the dark side of dancing. And 4) I like the style of writing. It was written in verse, and it's hard to write in that kind. There's only a few that I know out there that write in verse (Sonya Sones, Lisa Schroider, Ellen Hopkins). But back to the book. The setting was good, but I couldn't really picture the town and I guess that's not really important. Characters, good. All of them were easily picturable and very realistic. I liked the dude that's her friend, but I forget his name.
Now, onto the negative side.
See, the blurb makes you think the whole thing is about her trying to reach her dream. Too bad only half of the book is about it. Halfway through the book, there's the auditions. A little too fast paced I felt.
The only other bad thing I have to say is that I don't like the cover. :)
I give this book 3 Rainbows.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
But anyways. I've been thinking. How would you guys like a rating system on here? I was looking at the other book review blogs I follow, and they have ones too. So, should I get one?
Also, what about those picture things that are like, "Currently Reading" and they have the cover of the book I'm reading? I feel bad that I'm just like BAHH A BOOK.
I haven't been able to read over the past couple of days. I've been so busyyyy. But luckily, I got a ton of cash from babysitting the past two weeks so I might buy some booooooks. *Yaaaaaay*
Yea. I'm off to my family reunion and to meet people I've never met and people I saw when I was three. Yeaaaa...sorry, don't remember you. They all live up in Canada anyways.
Peace out, cub scout.


The Amazon bestselling poetry book, Lavender is a Boring Color, by actor Kevin Courtney Black, became the #1 New Release on Amazon within its first 24 hours.
— Natalie Rotman, Journalist
LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, December 13, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — New Poetry Book by author newcomer and actor Kevin Courtney Black offers insight on self-love and redefines what care means to the individual.
The Amazon Bestseller, Lavender is a Boring Color by Kevin Courtney Black, became the #1 New Release on Amazon within 24 hours of its release and peaked at #3 on the bestsellers’ list for Black & African American Poetry. The book follows a collection of poetry woven together through the vivid experiences of the author, as he depicts his early adulthood struggles with debilitating depression, anxiety, heartbreak, self-doubt, and his journey of self-love.
The author wrote this book “longing for better days when life felt blissful and fragrant as if it were lavishly engulfed by the fiery sweet nectar of lavender”. Divided into three sections, Lavender Is A Boring Color takes the reader through the turbulence of life-questioning thoughts and reflective healing.
Words from the people:
“Kevin is a remarkable talent whose poetic art is layered with reflection and depth.” – Natalie Rotman, Journalist.
“The flow of poems from start to finished were perfectly placed, your words depicted so many emotions, I felt your words, and emotions throughout the entire book. The visuals were so simple yet so detail oriented. This was written with so much passion.” – Amazon Review
“Strong, personal, powerful. Straight from the heart and hits the feelings.” – Squid Reviews
The 224-page turner, Lavender is a Boring Color, is available as a paperback on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Walmart.com with the ebook exclusively through Amazon Kindle.
Preview Lavender is a Boring Color by Kevin Courtney Black for free below:


Born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, AL, Rosa Parks was raised by her mother and grandparents in Pine Level, Alabama. Her grandfather supported the Garvey movement and, when Klan violence escalated after World War I, would sit out on the porch with his shotgun to protect the family home. A 6-year-old Rosa would sometimes sit vigil with him. Rosa McCauley was a shy young woman but she had a feisty side, picking up a brick when a white bully threatened her and her brother and pushing back when a white boy pushed her. Her grandmother worried about her granddaughter’s determined spirit and her ways of “talking biggety to white folks”. An older Rosa Parks recounted how her grandmother grew very angry when a young Rosa told her about the brick incident and worried for her safety. Rosa told her grandmother: “I would rather be lynched than live to be mistreated than not be allowed to say ‘I don’t like it.’”
Rosa Parks framed the power of speaking back as fundamental. Full personhood required the option “to say ‘I don’t like it,’” and key to the functioning of white supremacy was shutting down the right and space to assert this. Nonetheless, Parks’ “determination never to accept it, even if it must be endured” led her to “search for a way of working for freedom and first class citizenship.”
Related primary source: Early childhood incidents and experiences and family, Rosa Parks’ recollections. Library of Congress, courtesy of Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development.