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hellooo. my name is emma, and the #1 thing that you need to know about me is that every time a retelling of alice in wonderland is published wherein alice fights the jabberwock, a portion of my precious soul shrivels up and dies.
but honestly for everything else.......just read my about page. why are we here
When it comes to school, I have precisely two modes. Either I am living my life as if I have never before attended school, as though for all intents and purposes I am the human equivalent of a tumbleweed, drifting through life with no burdens or responsibilities; or I am a sleepless zombie editing the same sentence of a paper that isn’t due for three days until the sun rises. There is absolutely no in between.
Since high school, I have dedicated all of my energy to making sure that I do not revert into Anthropomorphic Tumbleweed Mode, which means it’s been all school obsession all the time. In the hopes of preventing a mental breakdown or two, I’ve been trying to chill out a bit. Here are some of the ways to maintain that balance.
The best reading season is inarguably fall. Summer is sometimes nice for reading outside, except that actually it’s super hot and sweaty and buggy and awful. People glorify “beach reads,” but books get all sandy and suncreen-y and warped just from being near the ocean, I guess. (Insert Danny from The Mindy Project shouting “I fear the ocean out of respect” here.) Reading in the winter is terrible because it’s constantly freezing, and if you’re wrapped in a blanket, your hands are exposed in order to hold the book. Unless you’re in possession of a Snuggie™, months of suffering ensue. And spring is mostly just Winter: The Sequel.
But fall…fall is the best. It’s a mix of nice days—you can read outside and the trees are pretty!—and brisk days—you can read inside and be super comfy! Also, hot beverages make their triumphant return, and everyone knows that there is no better way to read than with a cup of coffee/tea/cocoa/cider.
Luckily, there are also a ton of books that fit perfectly with fall. Whether they take place during the season, are ideal to curl up with, or just feel cozy and atmospheric, some books just scream “autumn.” (And not just because they’re thrillers or horrors and therefore feel Halloween-y. That’s the coward’s way out of a fall recommendation list. No, we’re going genre by genre.)
I am a sucker for a must-read book list. A hundred-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime list? Sold. A ranking of thirty literary fiction books you just have to read before you turn thirty? You’ve got my attention. If someone just rattled off a bunch of those recently-published books that are actually just Wattpad fanfiction in a light disguise under the heading “You Have To Read These,” there’s a 75 percent chance I’d at least consider adding them to my to-read list.
That’s why the end of the year is the perfect storm for me. It’s when all of the nominees for the prestigious literary awards are announced, and each one of those lists is essentially a must-read list in and of itself. Even with the Nobel Prize for Literature not happening this year, it’s a lot to take in.
Simply put, I do not have the time to read dozens of heavy/intense/depressing/heavily stylized books right now. (Or ever.) So a brisk comb-through of the just-announced 2018 National Book Award Finalists is in order.
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
My tiny synopsis: This short story collection is an exploration of black masculinity, through nine different perspectives and moments.
My tiny synopsis: When his mother is sent to jail, Sequoyah, a Cherokee teenager, is placed in foster care. There, he meets and bonds with Rosemary, another Native American teenager with a turbulent past.
My tiny synopsis: A story in two perspectives: the first, Yale, a museum curator just beginning to find success in 1985 Chicago, when the AIDS epidemic begins to touch everyone he knows. The second, Fiona, a woman in contemporary Paris searching for her missing daughter when she is forced to reexamine her time in the middle of the epidemic in Chicago.
My tiny synopsis: When a woman’s best friend dies, she is unexpectedly saddled with caring for her Great Dane. The woman and the dog come to love each other SO MUCH.
Promising review excerpt: “This elegant novel explores both rich memories and day-to-day mundanity, reflecting the way that, especially in grief, the past is often more vibrant than the present.” (More on Publishers Weekly ->)
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway
My tiny synopsis: The title just about covers it: this is a nonfiction exploration of George Washington’s relationships with Native Americans. This book is 620 pages long and I’m assuming at least 20 of them are for that title alone. (Buh dum ch.)
Promising review excerpt: “George Washington’s life [is] a lens for uncovering forgotten history in this detailed account of interactions between Native and white Americans during the latter half of the 18th century.” (More on Publishers Weekly ->)
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
My tiny synopsis: This guy David Hosack was one of four guys who were at that Hamilton-Burr duel, so if you like Hamilton this will probably interest you. Hosack was an excellent doctor and botanist, apparently, and plants are cool.
Promising review excerpt: “History buffs and avid gardeners will find Hosack an appealing and intriguing figure who doubles as an exemplar of the qualities of a vibrant and expanding America.” (More on Publishers Weekly ->)
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
My tiny synopsis: This is a biography of Alain Locke, a mentor to figures like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston and the man who has been called the father of the Harlem Renaissance.
Promising review excerpt: “Stewart creates a poignant portrait of a formidable yet flawed genius who navigated the cultural boundaries and barriers of his time while nurturing an enduring African-American intellectual movement.” (More on Publishers Weekly ->)
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler
My tiny synopsis: This book details the quest of corporations to gain constitutional rights, and the ways that the rights of the corporation now largely equal the rights of the individual. I imagine it makes everyone who reads it screaming mad.
Promising review excerpt: “Winkler employs an evocative, fast-paced storytelling style, making for an entertaining and enlightening book that will likely complicate the views of partisans on both sides of the issue.” (More on Publishers Weekly ->)
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
My tiny synopsis: I specifically remember reading the synopsis of this book several months ago, saying “no, too sad,” and putting it down. Mason Buttle is an overweight boy with learning disabilities who is ruthlessly bullied, and who is being investigated in the murder of his best friend. Then apparently that wasn’t sad enough, because his other friend goes missing too. Even the synopsis overwhelms.
Promising review excerpt: “Poignant and suspenseful, Mason’s story crystallizes an adolescent boy’s joys and fears as he comes into his own.” (More on Publishers Weekly ->)
The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis
My tiny synopsis: Charlie’s dad, a sharecropper, dies, and a Very Bad Dude named Cap’n Buck comes to collect money Charlie doesn’t have. He agrees to track down some fugitives in order to forgive the debt – but discovers the fugitives are really runaway slaves.
Promising review excerpt: “Written in persuasive dialect and piloted by a hero who finds the courage to do what he knows is right, Curtis’s unsparing novel pulls no punches as it illuminates an ugly chapter of American history.” (More on Publishers Weekly ->)
Well, this was not helpful even a little bit. Note to self: Next time you want to avoid adding a bunch of books to your to-read list, at points in your life when you can afford neither the time or the money, don’t look into potentially award-winning books.
And for the love of all that is holy, don’t also read a bunch of glowing reviews of them.
All of these books look amazing and these are only three main categories. For more information on the short-list, including the nominees in the categories of Poetry and Translated Literature (a new addition this year), click here. Keep an eye out for the announcement of the winners November 14!
Ah, the city school. There are so many upsides to attending a college in the heart of downtown: the exciting nearby events; the discounted access to museums and fancy cultural stuff; the jaw-dropping number of CVS franchises in a one-block radius. (It is truly mystifying that so many identical retail pharmacies can exist in such close proximity to each other without any threat to business whatsoever.)
However, with all upsides come downsides. Such is the way of the universe. There are two exceptions to this rule: the film Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, which is perfect, and the food known as the buttered popcorn jelly bean, which is one hundred percent downside and so unabashedly evil it is concrete evidence of the existence of the devil.
Going to college in the city has a downside, and it is this: it is expensive to live in a city, so unless you live on campus, you might have to move to the outskirts. And moving to the outskirts means spending a lot of time on transit. Here are some of my hard-won strategies to surviving my time on the train.
I am terrible at making playlists. I have weird (or nonexistent) taste in music, so it’s useless to craft anything more specific than the seven-hour “songs I like” playlist that is practically the only thing in my Spotify. Also, it’s boring to me to sort songs, which is why my sole playlist still contains songs I liked in 2015. And why I spend more time skipping songs than listening to them. Luckily, there is no need for me to force myself to be better at the fine art of playlist-making, because movie soundtracks exist.
Movie soundtracks make for a better-curated, more aesthetic-y, overall more fulfilling and inventive music listening experience than any playlist you could make yourself. To prove this point, I have collected here some of my absolute favorite movie soundtracks. Click the album art for a link to the music!
Grocery shopping is one of the worst activities in the world, and I am incredibly bad at it. I always put it off until the last possible minute, until my food stores are down to four baby carrots and a handful of animal crackers. I always end up shopping when I’m hungry, which is a baseline no-no. And I always get unbelievably bored while I’m doing it, ending up tossing things in my basket to speed up the process until my receipt looks like someone set an eleven-year-old loose in the cookie aisle.
In my endeavors to make this errand more tolerable, I have come up with a rubric for grocery store perfection. Here are six grocery stores in the Boston area, judged for price, location, snack selection, and overall vibe – on a scale where one is bad and five is utopian.
My roommates and I are very different. We’re from different parts of the country; we have different majors; we’re different ages; we probably have different favorite colors and stuff. I’ll do a mini survey on that last one and get back to you.
The main things the three of us have in common are that we like movies, and we like each other. These may be so basic that they sound like what a sixth grader in beginner’s French would say in an oral exam: My name is Jacques. I like to watch movies and be with my friends. But still – they get the job done.
I am a comedy nerd. By “I am” I mean “I call myself,” because literally no one else has ever called me that in the history of time outside of my own internal monologue, but still.
Maybe my favorite way to get my laughs is by listening to comedy podcasts. However, absolutely every white man between the ages of 22 and 36 has a podcast, and also finds himself hilarious, so it can be hard to know where to start.
As someone who has listened to what seems like infinite self-indulgent LA-based improv comedians speaking into a microphone: I am here to save you from that fate.
Worse than the unsettling experience of receiving a friend request from you that you hadn’t sent was the fact that it wasn’t really surprising at all. Since, for the past week or two, I’d been occasionally contacted by a Goodreads account that was an exact copy of my own.
As someone who has discovered a love for rereading books I loved in childhood, I set a goal of rereading every Sarah Dessen book in 2018. As I finished another reread of the queen of middle school literature, I logged into Goodreads to update my review.
Before I did, I checked my notifications. And saw my own profile picture. My name, with the same lowercase E I use on my profiles.
“emma started following you.”
“emma commented on your review of The Moon and More.”
Over the past year, I’ve become extremely passionate about diversity in books. To the point that I did both a presentation and an essay on the topic last semester. Voluntarily. In the same timeframe. For two different classes. If that’s not passion, I don’t know what is.
Luckily, this long-term temper tantrum of mine lines up pretty well with a renaissance of diversity in young adult books. So if the Renaissance featured more teens taking down governments/discovering magic/having sassy banter-y conversations – and fewer really good paintings of fruit and Jesus and stuff.
I define diversity as representations of sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, cultures, genders, mental illnesses, disabilities, and body types that are marginalized or not typically represented in popular culture.
That being said, here are some of my favorite reads from this diversity quest!


Kierkegaard taught us that humor is no joke and Claus Damgaard’s “Kierkegaard Comedy Show” proves the master’s point. It is supremely entertaining and, at the same time, one of the most profound interpretations of Kierkegaard’s thought that I have ever encountered.
Professor Gordon Marino, St. Olaf College,
Director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library
KIERKEGAARD COMEDY SHOW
– a deadly serious comedy show.
Danish Kierkegaard-specialist Claus Damgaard gives a theatrical experience of how the ideas of Kierkegaard can be used today.
... in Damgaards relation to his “imaginary ex-wife”
... when meeting a “prinsesse” in a tango-hall
... in what Kierkegaard calls “the divine playfulness of the erotic”.
“With woman, fun came into the world” Kierkegaard said, and now Damgaard gives us his very own experience of what exactly is so extremely funny.
Both comedy, lecture and theatre in one.
Both for the learned Kierkegaard-scholar and the absolute beginner.
The show provides an entertaining, dramatic and sensory experience which is very effective in conveying how enriching - yet challenging - the ideas of Kierkegaard can be for an individual in today’s complex world. I found the performance to be enjoyable and provocative, and hope more people will have the opportunity to experience it. #
Professor M. Jamie Ferreira, University of Virginia,
Author of “Kierkegaard” (Blackwell Great Minds)
# about an earlier version of the show called “Every Space is a Dance Space”
Wits Theatre, Johannesburg 2013
Claus Damgaard stands out as an extraordinary Kierkegaard connoisseur in every sense. He managed both in Cape Town and Johannesburg to interpret the philosopher's words into a contemporary context and through his performance to illustrate how each of us - Europeans and South Africans alike - can make use of Kierkegaard in our modern everyday living. The show was very well received by both our collaborators and the audience.
Ambassador René Dinesen, The Danish embassy in Pretoria
For more than a decade Danish Damgaard has been experimenting on how to make the timeless ideas of Kierkegaard more vividly accessible for a present-day audience.
(Soren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript)
OTHER PRODUCTS BY CLAUS DAMGAARD:
IN MARTS 2014 THE WEB-CHANNEL KIERKEGAARD.TV WILL OPEN
See test-experiments on www.Kierkegaard.TV
Follow on facebook.com/Kierkegaard.TV
Carl Plougs Vej 6, hj. th.
DK-1913 Frederiksberg C
+45 3322 0432


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For Poor Man's Fight, I talked with a high school physics teacher (don't laugh, the dude's brilliant) to double-check myself on some of my zero-gravity stuff. I frequently went online to fact check things I remembered from my astronomy classes in college (well, really just "intro" and the accompanying lab). Very little drives me more nuts when it comes to sci-fi than the way Hollywood can't understand the difference between "interstellar" and "intergalactic;" these words actually mean something, dammit.
(I also crowd-sourced a few small details with friends via my personal Facebook page. The debate over whether a particular can of whup-ass should be opened with A) a knife to the face, B) a crowbar, C) a blowtorch or D) surprise strangulation turned out to be a great way to liven up a Thursday night.)
Ultimately, I wouldn't call my novel "hard" sci-fi. I tried hard to create a setting and rules that make sense, but it's not like I did a whole lot of math and I didn't plumb the depths of current theory about space travel and technology. I have a lot of admiration for authors who do that, but in the end I knew the focus of my story would be elsewhere.
There's one thing I really wanted to get right, though: space pirates.
I hold a bachelor's in history, and I'm a genuine nerd. I care about these things.
While I wanted to retain the freedom to innovate and adjust, I wanted my space pirates to work like real, historical pirates. I've always been fascinated by the subject. Since the first book I read about pirates as a kid in elementary school, I had known that Hollywood tended to get pirates all wrong. The "Pirates of the Caribbean," as it were (the archetype, not just that specific film series) did not fall under the iron-fisted leadership of a single uber-pirate. They ran as democracies, and by and large they hardly cared about what anyone's race was.
I figured in the wake of putting out my novel, I should plug my favorite book on the subject. Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty is a fascinating book about Henry Morgan and the pirates of Port Royal--which, incidentally, was pretty much the polar opposite of what Disney presents in its films. It's a history book, but it largely reads like a novel; there's not much in the way of dialogue, mind you, but Talty knows how to pace and knows how to keep his readers immersed. If you enjoyed the pirates of my novel, I highly recommend checking it out.
There were, of course, other works I looked at over the years regarding pirates, but nothing so much that I felt any need to cite it in my novel like an academic work. Still, I definitely wanted to give Talty a shout-out when my book was finished. Give it a look. You won't regret it.


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Assignments for the first day of a course are posted by professors on this page on the link "First Day Assignments" http://www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/registration/Pages/Class-Schedules.aspx. Many of these readings are posted to a class's Canvas page.
If an assigned reading has been scanned by the Law Library, you can find it by searching the Law Library Catalog by Course or Professor. Learn how to locate Course Reserves here: http://libguides.law.umich.edu/examprep/reserves


published in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical
WHEN FIDDLER ON THE ROOF first opened on Broadway 50 years ago, the New York literati hated it. Novelist Philip Roth called it “shtetl kitsch,” writer Cynthia Ozick said it was an “emptied-out, prettified romantic vulgarization” of literary master Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish tales, and New York Times theater critic Walter Kerr deemed it as “a very-near-miss.” But eight years and more than 3,000 performances later, Fiddler became the longest-running show on Broadway. By the time Norman (“What would you think if I told you I was a goy?”) Jewison was casting his 1971 film version of the musical, Frank Sinatra campaigned to play the lead of Tevye, the milkman.
Imagining the possibilities of a bearded Ol’ Blue Eyes singing “If I Were a Rich Man” with “glued-on payes” is among the many pleasures in Barbara Isenberg’s Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical. It is impossible to read this affectionate chronicle of the making of the musical and film versions of Fiddler without summoning one’s own embarrassing recollections along the kvelling to farklempt continuum, where “Sunrise, Sunset,” arguably the world’s most sentimental song, takes center stage. Mine, culled from the annals of stage motherhood, occurred in a funky community center in Culver City where my then 12-year-old daughter starred as Golde in a kids’ production of the musical. Something about the shmatte on her head and her braces glistening in the floodlights reduced me to a blubbering mess: I don’t remember growing older, when did they? And she wasn’t even engaged yet.
Tradition! is an unapologetic valentine to the show, as its subtitle makes clear. But Isenberg, a former Los Angeles Times staff writer specializing in the arts, draws on three years of reporting plus earlier interviews with key players to offer a fresh look as to why Fiddler — ultimately a story about Eastern European Jews who must flee their homes — has maintained its universal appeal: every scene in it relates to the way culture is always in flux, to the way people simultaneously hold on to and let go of tradition in order to live in the world.
Isenberg includes both the macro and micro stories. Initially, investors, particularly Jewish investors, feared the show would be considered “too ethnic,” meaning “too Jewish.” Later, with Rosie O’Donnell starring in a Broadway revival, it wasn’t Jewish enough — “A Cozy Little McShtetl,” according to New York Times critic Ben Brantley. But that is part of Isenberg’s larger point in telling the tale: Fiddler’s longevity is as much a reflection of the acceptance of Jewish life in American culture in the past 50 years as it is a story about a father who must come to terms with losing his daughters as they claim their freedom from home.
And, Isenberg writes, at its core the show is about a world in turbulence:
Fiddler has become a sort of tabula rasa for terrorism, repression, and prejudice that seems eternally pertinent. Warning that “horrible things are happening all over the land” could apply to Nazi Germany, Vietnam, or Iraq as much as to pre-revolutionary Russia. So could Tevye’s rejoinder to hearing “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”: “And that way, the whole world will be blind and toothless.”
Isenberg dates the first meetings about the show to 1961, when lyricist Sheldon Harnick and collaborator Jerry Bock met with playwright Joseph Stein about how to adapt Sholem Aleichem’s stories as a musical. Stein wrote five drafts of the book, and the songwriters cranked out 50 tunes, of which one-third were actually used. Among the songs that were tossed out were two of Harnick’s favorites: “A Butcher’s Soul” and “Dear Sweet Sewing Machine.” By the time the perfectionist director and choreographer Jerome Robbins pared down the show even further, the reaction of out-of-town audiences helped to refine it more. As so often happens, two numbers that became hallmarks of the show were added out of town: “Do You Love Me?” Tevye’s plea to his difficult wife, Golde, emerged in Detroit; Robbins’s high-strutting Bottle Dance was finalized in Washington, DC.
The backstage backbiting between Zero Mostel, who had been blacklisted for not cooperating with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and director Robbins, who named names, is legendary. Mostel referred to Robbins as “Loose Lips” when the two had worked together two years earlier on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but they agreed to bury the hatchet when Mostel famously said, “we of the left do not blacklist.” For Fiddler, though, they barely tolerated each other, especially when Mostel made a point of vamping it up onstage and kibitzing with audience members in the front row.
For me, Tradition! is especially fun when Isenberg draws on interviews from lesser-known original cast members. Rosalind Harris, for example, was Bette Midler’s understudy in the role of Tzeitel, Tevye’s eldest daughter. When she heard about auditions for the movie, Harris tells Isenberg, Midler practically shooed her out the door: “Bette said, ‘Get your tush down there.’” Harris got the role. By the time filming began, Harris and the other actresses playing Tevye’s daughters had made a pact to stop shaving their armpits in solidarity with European women. But director Jewison saw them leaning back on a bed in one scene and yelled, “Stop! Cut! … Take them off the set! Shave their pits!”
How did Chagall’s famous painting of a rooftop fiddler inspire the show’s title? How did Jewison convince virtuoso Isaac Stern to play on the film’s soundtrack? Isenberg answers these questions with enormous care and deliberation. She is slightly less attentive to the question of what Fiddler’s legacy is in American musical theater, leaving former New York Times drama critic Frank Rich to fill in the blanks as he positions Fiddler within a sort of triad with West Side Story and Gypsy and suggests that these constitute “the serious stuff that was propelling the musical theater forward.”
Isenberg sounds the same note too many times, at least for this reader, when she quotes a theater producer from the Midwest saying, “If you are running a theater and you want to make money, Fiddler is a shoe-in: It’s a show people always want to see.” It’s a little like saying diamonds are pretty because they sparkle.
For fans of the show this is an especially rich reading year. Capitalizing on the show’s 50th anniversary, Picador rereleased in paperback last year’s Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof by Alisa Solomon. Where Isenberg never strays far from Broadway, Solomon’s is a more culturally complex look at the Fiddler phenomenon, starting with a rich introduction to Solomon Rabinovich, the writer from Kiev who took the name Sholem Aleichem as a political act (just as when Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali) and to advance the form of Yiddish literature. Solomon, whose language is of a more scholarly bent, also takes us to productions of the show in Poland, Israel, and a multiracial high school in Brooklyn, all as a way of demonstrating how Jewish cultural identity is felt and perceived around the world.
Isenberg, too, reminds us why audiences from Japan to Finland and 128 other countries continue to see the show, again and again. “I’ve played the show in San Francisco, Fort Worth, Atlanta and Toronto,” says actor Harvey Fierstein.
I’ve played it all over, and the reaction is the same. When I was on Broadway, I’d look out into the house, and there would be Hasidic Jews and nuns or maybe a high school cheerleading team in town for a competition, and they all sat with rapt attention watching it. They all got it. Fiddler goes directly to the heart. The show reaches you, no matter who you are or where you are in your life. It changes with you.
published in the Los Angeles Review of Books


Mac and Sally help pack USO care packages
This year is the 75th anniversary of the USO supporting America’s service members and their loved ones.
Mac Speaks at the Reagan Library
Mac delivers remarks at the Ronald Reagan Library during the Reagan Defense Forum.
2015 Honor Flight
Veterans from the Panhandle visit the Capitol
Lineworkers from Xcel Amarillo met with Mac to discuss important issues facing our nation.
Message from Mac about the 2017 NDAA
Thornberry files Amicus Brief in Red River lawsuit
Thornberry statement about ISIS attacks in Brussels
Today’s attacks in Brussels are yet another reminder of the evil that exists in this world and seeks to do us harm. The U.S. stands with Belgium...
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Encouraging and nurturing a love of reading with our children is by far the most precious and powerful way we can support their education both now and many years down the line. We are all lovers of books in our house and we could easily open up our own book shop or library. I am a firm believer that books should, without doubt, always be part of a present to children. Books should be seen as a treat. Christmas, birthdays and treats for good behaviour, sleeping in own bed all night etc, usually result in the purchase of a new book. With so many to choose from, we are always spoilt for choice.
To ensure that this love we have for books does not die out, I am always presenting books in a new way and hoping J and G will be excited by story time. With the introduction of Ted to our lives this week (see post here) and J’s desire to learn to read, Ted has been leaving little surprises, activities and gifts for J and G to enjoy. On J’s arrival back from nursery today, he was greeted with a Story Den. This consisted of a few upturned cushions on the sofa, a bed sheet draped over to make a roof and a cosy duvet to make it inviting. Inside, Ted waited. He had put a basket of stories for J and G to explore and a few of G’s texture books too. Inside he had included J’s wooden letter stand.
It was absolutely gorgeous to see them both exploring books together. Such an easy and simple thing to do but they loved it.
I am utterly and unashamedly proud of the fact that Baby G, at 11 months old, loves nothing more than sitting and flicking the pages of a book. She adores it and whenever grumpy (quite a bit at the moment) a book will momentarily get her out of it.
As I sat back and let J and G enjoy books in peace and private, I thought about the fact that their little minds were whizzing with all the lovely things these books have to offer. Is it wrong that for that instant, I would’ve given anything to read their thoughts? As well as sharing books aloud, it is also lovely to just let them do their own thing with a book. J often breaks into song when he is looking through a book and it is lovely to see and hear.
Another proud moment came when J used his wooden letter stand to go through the sounds he knows. He is now up to about 18 and he says them beautifully. It was super cute that he called ‘b, d, q and p’ all ‘p’ and said, ‘why are their so many ‘p’ sounds Mummy?’ It’s easy to see why he got confused and my guess is it will confuse him for a long while yet. Learning their sounds is SOOO tricky! Poor little angels.
After a while, I got into the den and we shared about five stories until the heat became unbearable and I felt I needed to come up for air!!! Haha! Not only are books an invaluable learning opportunity, but they also offer the chance to have cuddles, snuggles and uninterrupted time with your children. What more could we want out of life?
After sharing lots of stories, singing songs and having giggles, J sat back with ‘Wriggle and Roar’ and Ted and had a ‘chillax’ after a busy day!! Whatever the problem, children love a good den, so when it reaches grouchy hour, reach for the bed sheets and make up a den! I find it’s a winner every time.


By BSF Team in Activities | December 17, 2022
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Between Brussels and Beijing: The Transatlantic Response to the Chinese Presence in the Baltic Sea Region serves as a comprehensive analysis of China’s presence in the Baltic Sea littoral countries and subsequently related developments in the domains of education, finance and infrastructure.
Scholars Olevs Nikers and Otto Tabuns together with their Baltic Security Foundation team and other regional and international experts provide a set of in-depth national case studies. This publication is the result of the project “China and the Baltic: Mapping a Transatlantic Response to Chinese Inroads in the Nordic-Baltic Region” organized by the Baltic Security Foundation, The Jamestown Foundation and the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation. The participating experts and professionals from the Baltic Sea partnering countries identify and analyze the presence and impact of the People’s Republic of China on European security within the strategic Nordic-Baltic region and the implications of this growing regional Chinese presence on wider transatlantic relations. The geographic focus of this study includes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark (with particular attention given to Greenland).
Despite the numerous publications and events dealing with this subject, much critical thinking and painful discussion still lies ahead. This book aims to indicate the directions for further consideration and public conversations that will contribute to improved regional and transatlantic security. This publication is intended to aid in that endeavor and serve as a valuable resource for policymakers, professionals and scholars seeking to address the challenges facing the West in the Baltic Sea region.


Every student can learn but not in the same way. Class 8 is a stepping stone towards class 10 that decides the better future of a students’ career. Lakhmir Singh Solutions holds an important role as it is one of the reference books that help students to learn and understand things in a simple and lucid manner. The book is written in a simple language for the students to grasp the concepts without any difficulty. Lakhmir Singh Solutions for Class 8 science covers all 20 Chapters and the list is given below.
Lakhmir Singh Solutions for Class 8 Science
Each Chapter of Lakhmir Singh Solutions for Class 8 Science consist of different levels of questions so that students can test their learning extend by answering the questions
- Very short answer type questions
- Short answer type questions
- Long answer type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Higher-order thinking type questions
Chapter 1: Crop Production And Management
This chapter deals with the study of different practices of obtaining food for both plants and animals. Cereals like wheat, rice and pulses are called a crop. How they are produced, their types and agricultural practices followed by the farmers are also discussed in detail to know how food is produced on a large scale.
Chapter 2: Micro-Organisms: Friend And Foe
This chapter covers Micro-organisms and the uses of them to us in our daily lives. Micro-organisms are those which are too small to be seen without a microscope. Most of them are harmful and some of them are very useful too. The chapter discusses a various type of micro-organisms and their uses briefly.
Chapter 3: Synthetic Fibres And Plastics
The chapter explains briefly about the Synthetic fibres and their different types and also plastics.
Fibre is a thin thread-like strand from which cloth is made. They are of two types natural and synthetic fibre. Plastic is also made up of synthetic material. This chapter covers all the types of plastics and their properties which are used in our daily lives.
Chapter 4: Materials: Metals And Non-Metals
On the basis of properties, elements are classified into two categories they are Metals and Non-metals. The properties of non-metals are opposite to those of metals. This chapter deals with the characteristics, physical and chemical properties of both the metals and non-metals.
Chapter 5: Coal And Petroleum
This chapter describes briefly some exhaustible sources of energy like coal, petroleum and natural gas which are non-renewable. The natural fuels formed from the remains of living organisms buried under the earth long ago is called fossil fuels. The chapter covers the production of coal and petroleum and also their uses.
Chapter 6: Combustion And Flame
Combustion is a chemical process in which substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light.
This chapter explains the chemical process of combustion and the type of flames produced during this process.
Chapter 7: Conservation of Plants And Animals
All the animals and plants should be protected in the natural environment where they are found. This process of keeping them safe and protecting from damage is known as conservation. The living organisms are found on land, in the atmosphere as well as in water bodies also. This chapter deals with how to conserve the plants and animals and also discusses the biggest threat happening to the eco-system and how they are created and also the prevention of this problem.
Chapter 8: Cell Structure And Functions
There are a large variety of organisms present around us. Their body is made up of tiny units called cells. They are structural and functional units of life. In this chapter, it deals with the basic part of cells and the role of these parts for the functioning of cells.
Chapter 9: Reproduction In Animals
The production of new organisms from the existing organisms of the same species is known as Reproduction. This ensures the continuity of life on earth. This chapter describes the types of reproduction happening in a living organism.
Chapter 10: Reaching The Age Adolescence
There is a different stage of levels a human being goes through. Babies grow and become children. Children grow and become adolescents and finally to adults. This chapter describes the changes taking place in both the female and male body after they become capable of reproduction.
Chapter 11: Force And Pressure
Push or pull of an object is called Force. The pressure is produced when the force acts on an object. This chapter discusses the various types of forces and effects and also covers the pressure exerted by solids, liquids and gases including atmospheric pressure.
Chapter 12: Friction
The force which always opposes the motion of one object over another object in contact with it is called Friction. This chapter deals with the types of friction, causes and the factors affecting the friction.
Chapter 13: Sound
A sensation felt by ear in the form of energy is called Sound. Each sound is different and depends upon the object which produces it. The role of sound in our daily life is inevitable. This chapter explains how the sound is produced, the characteristics and types of sounds.
Chapter 14: Chemical Effects of Electric Current
The chapter deals with the chemical effects of electric current when it is passed through a liquid. No chemical changes take place when electricity passed through solid but it happens to liquid. The effects are explained with lots of examples in this chapter.
Chapter 15: Some Natural Phenomena
This chapter describes the two naturally occurring phenomena called Lightning and Earthquake which causes a lot of damage to human life and property. It also covers the various steps taken to minimise the destruction caused by lightning and earthquakes.
Chapter 16: Light
Light makes us things to be visible and it is a form of energy to see things around us. Mainly the chapter deals with the light and its characteristics. How the image is formed and also the construction of a human eye.
Chapter 17: Stars And The Solar System
This chapter deals with the various celestial objects that exist in our universe. Celestial objects are those which exist in the sky. Planets are the largest celestial object that revolves around the sun
Chapter 18: Pollution of Air And Water
The unwanted or harmful substance that contaminates the environment is called pollutants. These pollutants are responsible for the huge cause of pollution like water and air. The presence of a high concentration of pollutants causes damages to both living and non-living things. This chapter explains the pollutants in detail and how they are caused and how they can be controlled.
Importance of Lakhmir Singh Solutions
The better understanding of concepts in a simple language always ranks in the first position. Lakhmir Singh solution is one of the reference books that students can hold during their examinations for scoring higher marks. The specific manner of writing the concepts makes a student for understanding each topic and also helps for clearing doubts.


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When a meteor hits the moon and knocks it closer in orbit to the earth, nothing will ever be the same. Worldwide tidal waves. Earthquakes. And that's just the beginning. The weather finally broke... for good....
The book starts out with 16 year old Miranda Evans getting a phone call from her father, Hal, that his new wife, Lisa, is pregnant with her first child. Her Dad is overjoyed, and the two of them give Miranda the offer of being the godmother.


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Excerpt from The Apocrypha: Translated Out of the Greek and Latin Tongues, Being the Version Set Forth A. F. 1611, Compared With the Most Ancient Authorities and Revised A. D. 1894
The London Committee, to which the Revision of the Authorised Version of the Book of Ecclesiasticus was intrusted, commenced their labours on May 11, 1881, and completed their first revision of the Version on July 20, 1882, and their second and final revision on May 25, 1883. The breaking up Of the text of the Version into parallelisms was undertaken at a later period. Of the members of the Committee, two, the Bishops of Salisbury and St. Andrews, found themselves unable through age and distance from London to attend the meetings. The attendance of the remainder was such that there were rarely less than four present. Whenever the number fell below this, all debateable points were reserved for fuller meetings. Considerable attention was paid to the text; but the materials available for correcting it were but scanty. In regard to'the revision of the Version, especial care was taken to preserve the general tone of the Authorised Version, and to maintain the somewhat greater freedom of ren dering which characterizes the translation of the Apocrypha when compared with the translation of the Old or of the New Testament.
The Westminster Committee completed their first revision of the First Book of Maccabees on July 5, their second revision on November 3, 1881. Their first revision of the Books of Judith and Tobit was completed on July 6, their second revision on October 11, 1882. With regard to the Greek text they derived great assistance from Dr. Scrivener, but the number of places in which it was thought right to abandon readings that seemed to be represented in the Authorised Ver sion was not large. The English Version was found to require much care. In the First Book of Maccabees, for example, a well-known peculiarity of the writer had been obliterated by the repeated introduction, with or without the use of italics, of the words God and 'the Lord,' which never occur in the best Greek text. Archbishop Trench worked with the Committee until they were close to the end of the First Book of Maccabees. Dean Stanley also attended up to about the same time Principal Brown did not take any part in the work.
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Skrivekveld: what it is, and why everyone should attend it
Photo: Valeriia Melnik. On the picture: Samantha Nysted (on the left) and Elin Strand Larsen (on the right)
This Thursday, our library is arranging Skrivekveld — Academic Writing Night. There will be several lectures about academic writing. Most of it will be held in Norwegian, but the lecture “Solve the puzzle of academic writing” will be held in English. However, students probably wonder why they should spend their evening and come to the library to listen to some lectures. We tried to find reasons with our experts, Samantha Nysted and Elin Strand Larsen.
We talked with the librarian Samantha Nysted who provided us with more details about the event.
— Why did the library arrange this event?
The academic writing night is an event the library arranged several times before in the autumn and spring. This is the first time after the pandemic that we are arranging it and having it physically in the library. Students can come and listen to lectures about how to search literature, how to write academic papers, and how to avoid plagiarism and write references correctly. Those are very important skills that students need to master in order to write good academic papers and to avoid plagiarism. So that’s why we have an open event so every student can come and listen to these lectures.Samantha Nysted
— There will be only one lecture in English. But can international students come and talk with those who work in the library and who work in the student writing centre?
The library and student writing centre are ready to answer questions in English. People who work in the writing centre are regular students and they work on Mondays and Thursdays from 12 till 16. You don’t have to book an appointment, you can just stop by whenever the centre is open.Samantha Nysted
— Does the library still have “book a librarian” offer as it did last academic year?
Yes, we still have it! It is both physical and digital. When you book an appointment, you can decide if you want to come to the library or have it on Zoom.Samantha Nysted
The library offers not only this Academic Writing Evening but also a Student writing centre and an opportunity to book a librarian. If students have any questions about writing papers, they can always get help without any hesitation or fear.
We also talked with the lecturer Elin Strand Larsen who will present the only lecture in English.
— Why did you decide to take part in this event?
The library asked me to contribute. We have been doing it for many years now. The reason is that we see how fresh students who are starting up struggle with writing academically and doing references correctly. When I started studying, I also had so many problems getting good grades, and I couldn’t understand what I was doing wrong. And then, sometime in the second year, I suddenly realized that there were certain unwritten rules and written rules of how to write academically. Knowing these rules then helped me greatly, and I suddenly started getting better grades.Elin Strand Larsen
Also, the reason why I want to be a part of this is because I love the library here, and I love the people working at the library. It is just a great place to hang out and for example talk to people or relax by other means. You can bring your coffee, something to eat, and you can talk and discuss anything. Also, there is the student writing centre where you have students helping other students. I think it is also easier for students to go and talk to other students. When I tell my students that they can rent a librarian, many of them find it scary because they don’t know what questions to ask or where to start. But you can come and be completely clueless, and they will help you to start your work.Elin Strand Larsen
— Can you please tell more about your lectures?
It is the very same lecture, but the first one is in Norwegian, and the second one is in English. I have held these presentations for some years now. The reason why I do it in English as well is because I also want to have an offer for international students. I think it is also a challenge for them. Even though they are not first-year students, they are not used to the way of writing academically as we do in Norway. At the same time, it is a huge part of getting good grades. It is sort of the first thing that we look for. I usually start my presentation by saying: “Well, to write academically is almost like being able to solve Rubik’s cube”. So it is quite hard in the beginning. But once you learn it, it will become easier and easier every time you do it. And in the end, you are writing academically without even thinking about it. It is a sort of technique you need to learn.Elin Strand Larsen
— Why should exchange students come?
International students come here with different backgrounds and from different universities, and they all have different style and referencing techniques. In Norway, we have to use certain referencing styles, and it is really hard, or maybe even impossible to get anything higher than D without proper referencing. We’ve also got feedback from international students: “Why am I not getting good grades on the exam? I think I’ve written a great paper!” Most of the time, it has to do with references. It can be a great analysis, with a lot of interesting points and also maybe a good structure with introduction, analysis and conclusion. But when you see the lack of references or any references which are not written in the correct referencing style, it makes me really sad. It is sad to see that really good papers are not getting the degrees they deserve because of something that could be quite easily fixed, and this is why we want to help by arranging the Skrivekveld.Elin Strand Larsen
We hope that everyone will come as this is a great opportunity to learn quite important and useful information for free and be able to ask any questions that may occur. See you on Thursday in the library!
The full programme, time and other details can be found at this link above: https://www.hiof.no/bibliotek/english/about/events/2022/academic-writing-night.html


Today’s media-saturated culture is so all-enveloping that it can be difficult to tease out what we know about a crime from what we have been told. Did that guy really kills his wife? What really happened to that young girl who was abducted?
Why cover such heinous crimes at all? Does doing so help to bring justice to the accused and to the victims and their families and friends and the community? Does reporting on crime help policymakers find ways to prevent such tragedies?
Speaking of Murder performs media autopsies on famous crime cases, in the hope that doing so helps us understand the impact that the media has on us, as well as whether contemporary crime coverage offer us more than sensationalism.
Volume One in this continuing series looks at three illuminating cases whose media coverage shapes what we see today. The first (The Fatty Arbuckle Case) looks at a murder that occurred among friends and acquaintances at a party. The second (The Kitty Genovese Case) involves an attack by a stranger on the street. And the third (the murder of the Clutter family recounted in Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”) occurred during a home invasion, the stuff of nightmares.
Silent star Fatty Arbuckle found himself facing the first glimmerings of a modern media machine. There was no 24-hour-a-day cable news coverage, but newspapers competed to outdo each other with stories of moral outrage about how films and film stars were ruining the culture. Unfortunately for Fatty, it is likely that he was innocent, as the three trials resulting finally in a “not guilty” verdict suggest.
The Kitty Genovese story goes beyond traditional crime coverage in raising a larger question about how people can stand by and ignore brutality unfolding before them. Abe Rosenthal of The New York Times wrote articles and a book about the 38 people who ignored Kitty’s pleas during the half-hour that Winston Moseley spent stabbing and sexually assaulting her as she tried to make her way to safety. Rosenthal’s reporting on the crime forced the country to peer into its collective soul to see whether “progress” came at the cost of community.
Truman Capote arguably turned journalism into art, but the toll that immersing himself in the tragedy and its aftermath took on him may have been a high price indeed. Capote is credited with inventing the non-fiction novel, as well as lifting the true-crime genre from its roots in lurid “detective” magazines. Though he was part of the tribe who invented the New Journalism, he does not appear as a character in his book, though his role in the execution of Perry Smith in particular raises ethical questions including whether so-called journalistic objectivity protects the subject or the reporter or both.


Cowley County, Kansas 4-H Shooting Sports Archives
Here you will find an archive of the stories and articles that have been published or posted online about the Cowley County, Kansas 4-H Shooting Sports program. Follow the links below to view stories and articles.
2012 Spring County Matches
2012 Fall Archery Turkey Tournament
2013 Spring State Match
2013 State WHEP
Radio Promotion for 2013 Cowley County Shooting Sports Fair Booth on 102.5 The River.
Cowley 4-H Shooting Sports goes National 10/17/2013
NWFT presents half a million in endowments to 25 school programs 10/17/2013
Cowley County Indoor Archery Challenge starts Friday, continues through weekend 1/16/2014
"2014 Cowley Team Attends State WHEP"
Cowley 4-H Shooting Sports Hosts Shooting Events
2015 Cowley National Article
2015 KS Hunters' Magazine
Reaching the next generation of Kansas Hunters
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On Christmas Eve in 1914 in the trenches on the Western Front of The Great War, German and Great Britain troops called an unofficial truce.
by Ann Marie Cusella
All is Calm can be seen at the MusicalFare Theatre in Amherst, NY
The Christmas Truce
On Christmas Eve in 1914 in the trenches on the Western Front of The Great War, German and Great Britain troops called an unofficial truce of their own. This unprecedented event, called the Christmas Truce, has been the subject of many books, movies and plays over the years.
For All Is Calm, Playwright Peter Rothstein decided to use the form of a radio play – music and text. Vocal Arrangements are by Erick Lichte & Timothy C. Takach.
The words spoken by the actors are all taken from letters, journals, poetry, war documents, inscriptions on graves, and an old radio drama. While fighting continued in other parts of the line, the Christmas Truce troops stopped fighting and started singing. Thousands came out of the trenches and shook hands, exchanged food, drink, and addresses, showed each other pictures from home, helped each other bury their dead, and some played a game of football (soccer) in No Man’s Land, the area between the trenches that was surrounded by barbed wire.
Some of the songs are what were called trench songs, which were often comical and bawdy. There are popular songs of the day, both sentimental and patriotic, and Christmas songs from different countries. The songs and text together form a coherent and absorbing history of those remarkable two days.
All is Calm features an amazing set design
A cast of ten men expertly portray various soldiers as they quote what each has written. They are at times, English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, French, Italian (the Pope has a few lines), and German. Their voices meld together in beautiful harmonies as they take the journey from civilian life to the war-torn trenches of the Western Front. What began as a lark for British men, who were sure the war would be over by Christmas, so one had to get into it as quickly as possible so as not to not miss any of the fun, turned into an endless nightmare as the men lived and died in the muck and mire of the vast line of trenches. Then came the quiet two days of silenced ordnance, and camaraderie and good cheer, only to become a memory as the men again took up arms against each other. All of that is portrayed in an 80-minute dive into the hearts and minds of ordinary soldiers.
The actors are Christopher Andreana, Kyle J. Baran, Christian Brandjes, Louis Colaiacovo, Chris Cummings, Bob Mazierski, Ricky Needham, Marc Sacco, Darryl Semira, and Dave Spychalski. They adeptly become different soldiers with different accents and in different moods. On the way out of the theater, I heard several people comment on the “beautiful harmonies” mentioned above. Their voices are truly a highlight of the play. Soft and sweet, inspiring, grief stricken and joyous, their voices add both delight and gravitas.
Veterans receive a discount for admission to All is Calm
A Different Kind of Christmas Play
Set Design is by Dyan Burlingame, who recently won the Artie award for The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid. The entire set is mud-colored, including the floor, with corrugated metal and wire shoring up the sides of the trenches, giving the effect of a wearisome and filthy environment mitigated by the deep blue night sky the men gaze upon as they stand with their rifles placed on the parapet.
The play is Staged & Directed by Susan Drozd, who adroitly uses the set and the actors to provide a taste of what it must have been like in the trenches of that “War to End All Wars” over a century ago. Explosions, etc., are by Chris Cavanagh, costumes by Kari Drozd, hair, wigs, and makeup by Susan Drozd, and properties by Kevin Fahey.
This is a different kind of Christmas play. It is an engrossing look into a slice of history that is both thought provoking and entertaining.
Added note: Tickets for Veterans and their families are discounted for this play at MusicalFare Theatre.
Dates, Tickets and More Information
All is Calm can be seen at the MusicalFare Theatre until December 12, 2021.


|G. I. Joe | Comics|
In exchange for money, power and the chance to hurt people the man recruits skilled manpower in his group and also dubs himself as Cobra Commander to rule his league with an iron hand. Aside from his regular force of Cobra Vipers and Cobra Troopers, they enlist many top assassins of the world to their cause such as the ruthless assassin Baroness and ninja operative Storm Shadow, henchman Destro, explosives expert Firefly and master of disguise Zartan.
When the Cobra decides to finally come out of their hiding after years of preparation against the system, they kidnapped the renowned nuclear physicist Dr. Adele Burkhart and at that moment, the U. S. government assigned a special group under General Flagg’s command who are trained to response at the threat at hand known only as the G. I. Joe to rescue her.
Along with many other potential Joes, Duke, Scarlett, Snake-Eyes, Hawk, Stalker, Roadblock, Flint and Lady Jaye regularly engages with Cobra and other everyday terrorist threats worldwide to neutralize it before it can hurt people and keep the others safe. But as the forces of good prepares themselves to battle against the vile Cobra, the evil also makes his sinister plan to wipe out the existing peace from the planet.
For more information on G. I. Joe comics series, you can check out these links below.
G. I. Joe (Comics) Wikipedia
G. I. Joe IDW (Comics) Wikipedia
|The Elite Military Force|
Here is your links to buy "G.I. Joe – Origins" comics from IDW Comics on Amazon.
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G.I. Joe – Cobra Vol 01
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G.I. Joe – Hearts and Minds (Softcover)
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Infestation Vol 01
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G.I. Joe Vol 01 – Homefront
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G.I. Joe – Special Missions Vol 01
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G.I. Joe Vol 02 – Threat Matrix
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|Real American Heroes|
Writer Larry Hama (Generation X, Weapon X) along with artist Herb Trimpe (Defenders, G.I. Joe – Special Missions), Ron Wagner, Rod Whigham and Marshall Rogers has worked on the series from its very beginning and continued for long. The series also had a few notable crossover with Danger Girl, Street Fighter and Transformers, also published from IDW. Like many other successful comic book series, the franchise was adapted to two live-action films; G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013).
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Most of us have at least heard of Eat, Pray, Love, the interesting chronicle about the post-divorce adventure of Elizabeth Gilbert. With fascinating characters, transcending experiences, and incredible scenes, the iconic travel memoir spans India, Bali, and Italy. It starts from a place of deep crisis and goes through a journey of exploration and self-discovery. Let’s learn more about this excellent work and its author.
The Impact of the Novel
Eat, Pray, Love is the account of Elizabeth Gilbert making peace with her past and discovering her authentic self. The memoir, being an exceptional example of a woman’s journey, has inspired countless women around the world. It kickstarted many people’s quest for self-discovery and embracing the results. Countless fans have written to, or told Gilbert, that her novel has inspired them to do things of their own will- to begin or end a romance, to change their address or job, or belief, to embrace motherhood or avoid it, and many more. These radical shifts are profoundly transformative in life.
The Author’s View
Elizabeth Gilbert possesses a painting of Emily Dickinson, who wrote some of the most monumental poetries of all time, despite being cooped up in her bedroom for much of her life. As per Gilbert, the painting always reminded her to look inwards. As she explained, all the answers in our life are not supposed to be out there. It’s no doubt that the world is an enchanting place, but we too hold wonderful worlds inside of us, waiting to be unlocked and explored. But despite her characteristic lightness and trademark magical realism, equanimity doesn’t come easily to Elizabeth Gilbert. The author herself confessed that she needs a daily dose of courage to overcome the fear that she developed in life. She admits that there will be a nervous little person always hidden inside her, but she won’t stop fighting and searching for happy alternatives.


The two main sections of warholstars.org are: 1) The Andy Warhol Chronology focusing on the exploits of Andy Warhol's superstars and 2) a chronological history of the art movement prior to Pop - The AbEx Chronology.
A condensed version of Warhol's filmmaking career is the basis of the "condensed" section. A short history of Andy Warhol's pre-Pop career can be found at: http://www.warholstars.org/warhol1/1andywarhol.html.
Warholstars.org is a private on-going research project by Gary Comenas and is not affiliated with any other person or institution. Citations should read Gary Comenas, name of article or section, year of publication if indicated, URL address of page, accessed date. If the article is by a different author, it should give the author's name, the article name and date (if known) and then 'reprinted in Gary Comenas, Warholstars.org' and the URL of the article, with the date accessed.
Key articles on Andy Warhol (and the Pop movement in general) appear in the articles section. If you are looking for specific information, type your inquiry into the search box at the top of the page and click "Search Warholstars."
Below is a partial list of publications that have acknowledged Warholstars and/or cited it or its author as a source:
Catherine Johnson, Thank You Andy Warhol (NY: Glitterati Inc., 2012)
J.J. Murphy, The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012)
Amy Taubin, "Semiotics of the Kitchen," ArtForum, 1 February 2012 (http://www.artforum.com/film/id=30180)
Thomas Kiedrowski, Andy Warhol's New York City: Four Walks, Uptown to Downtown (NY: The Little Bookroom, 2011)
Screen Tests essay used as info sheet at Artist Rooms exhibition at the John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, 27 March - 26 June 2011
John Waters, Role Models (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)
John Wilcock, Christopher Trela (ed.), Harry Shrunk (photographer), Gretchen Berg (photographer), The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol (NY: Trela Media, 2010)
Paul Maréchal, Andy Warhol: The Record Covers 1949-1987 Catalogue Raisonné (NY: Prestel, 2008)
Ed Hamilton, Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with Artists and Outlaws in New York's Rebel Mecca (NY: Nation Books, 2007)
Eva Meyer-Hermann (ed.), Andy Warhol: Other Voices Other Rooms - A Guide to 706 Items in 2 Hours 56 Minutes (exh. cat.) (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2007)
Michael Bracewell, Re-make/Re-model: Art, Pop, Fashion and the Making of Roxy Music, 1953 - 1972 (London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 2007)
Program notes for Andy Warhol's Sunset, Museum of the Moving Image, New York 2007
Tot Taylor, Turk's Rondo ("Gavin Turk: Me as Him" exh. cat.), Riflemaker Gallery, London 2007
Nick Redfern, Celebrity Secrets: Official Government Files on the Rich and Famous (Paraview Pocket Books 2007)
Murray Pomerance, City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination (Rutgers, 2007)
Museum of the Moving Image, The Real Edie Sedgwick (NY:MOMI, 2007)
Callie Angell, Andy Warhol Screen Tests, The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné (Volume 1) (NY: Abrams in assn. with Whitney Museum of American Art, 2006)
Jeremy Hunt, "This is Tomorrow 1956–2006: Just what is it that makes today’s artists so rich, so successful?" State of the Art magazine, September - October 2006, issue 7
Kira Coplin, "Golden Girl," Zinc magazine, September 2006
Matt Wrbican, "'...trapped like a rat in Rome' - The Che Guevara Episode" (Andy Warhol Museum Archives Center exhibition number 24, December 18, 2005 - August 6, 2006)
Craig Highberger, Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis (book and film) (Book published by Penguin, 2005/Film distributed by Abramorama
Lisa Rhodes, Electric Ladyland: Women And Rock Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco (Henry Holt and Co., 2005)
Georg Frei, Neil Printz, Warhol: Paintings and Sculpture 1964-1969, Vol. 2: The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné (NY: Phaidon Press, 2004)
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, "Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop (NY: Laurel-Leaf, 2004)
Kenneth Goldsmith, I'll Be Your Mirror, The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews 1962 - 1987 (NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004), p. 401
Phil Johnson "All Fur Coat and No Nickers," The Independendent on Sunday newspaper (UK), December 12, 2004
Craig Detweiler, Barry Taylor, A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture by (Baker Academic, 2003)
Leanne Gilbertson, "Andy Warhol's Beauty #2: demystifying and reabstracting the feminine mystique, obliquely," Art Journal, Spring, 2003
"Warhol on the Web," The Guardian (UK), January 31, 2002
"Life of Warhol," The Guardian (UK), January 23, 2002
The Warholstars Chronology was displayed at the "Wall to Wall Warhol" exhibition (June 23 - August 27, 2006) at the Oakville Galleries, Ontario Canada
The Warholstars Screen Tests article was reprinted in Dia's Andy (Dia Art Foundation, NY, 2005) a publication that accompanied the exhibition, "Dia's Andy: Through the Lens of Patronage" at the Dia: Beacon Riggio Galleries (May 15, 2005 - April 10, 2006)
The Warholstars article on Harlot was reproduced by the L.A. Film Forum for their 30th anniversary Warhol series in October 2006.


Book arts are a wonderful way to bring out the storyteller in all of us. I believe that everyone, given the chance, loves to tell stories!
My years of experience as both a book artist and book arts teacher have given me great insight into the most effective ways to teach book arts to children. Since 1997, in museums, libraries, and public, private and parochial schools, I've enthusiastically taught children how to make their own books, and led bookmaking skills workshops for teachers.
Book arts workshops can be arranged at your site for teachers, or students in grades K-12. I also offer "book-making parties" for a unique party experience!
For more specific information on my book arts/ other classes (I teach all kinds of art - not just bookmaking!), please click on one of the links at left.


Laugh and Learn had a sporadic, 5-issue run between Cheeky Weekly's 07 October 1978 and 09 December 1978 comics. Each episode was set in Cheeky's classroom, where Teacher would focus on a particular area of general knowledge. As Cheeky's tubby tutor attempted to impart salient facts relating to the topic in question, our toothy pal would counter each point with a wily witticism. Only in the 04 November 1978 comic did Cheeky emerge from the lesson punishment-free; in all the other episodes Teacher gave him lines or, on one occasion, an essay to complete.
|In the first strip Barrie kids us that Bubblegum Boy|
has been aloft since the Cretaceous period,
67 to 65.5 million years ago.
We know he actually emerged in the Krazy era (1976-1978).
Teacher's lectures commenced with the lesson on prehistoric creatures shown above, and subsequent episodes covered the following topics;
- Chivalry and Knighthood (this was the only single-page Laugh & Learn, all the others being 2 pages)
- The Seven Wonders of The World
- The History of Transport
- British Wildlife
|Cheeky avoids a punishment|
Despite the caption in the final panel of the fifth Laugh and Learn, dated 09 December 1978, reading 'There'll be another feast of fun and facts soon pals!', it was the last episode to appear - see below. Maybe reader feedback indicated that kids found the educational element of the feature uncomfortably similar to actual lessons.
Laugh and Learn in the Cheeky Weekly Index
|Feature||First Appearance||Final Appearance||Total Issues||Total Issues Missed In Run||Page History|
|Laugh and Learn||07-Oct-78||09-Dec-78||5||5||6,7,8,9,22,23|
|Issues Missed In Run|
|Feature||Artist||Number of Issues||First Appearance||Final Appearance|
|Laugh and Learn||Barrie Appleby||5||07-Oct-1978||09-Dec-1978|
|Laugh and Learn||Brian Walker||5||07-Oct-1978||09-Dec-1978|


Twinkle Khanna, Amitav Ghosh, Amish Tripathi, win big at the 14th Raymond Crossword Book Award
A battle of epic proportions has been underway, over the last month, as authors found themselves part of an electoral process, to win the coveted trophy of the Raymond Crossword Book Award, India’s oldest and most prestigious award.
Over the years, the Award has been equated to the Pulitzer and Booker and is a definitive,veritable platform for Indian Authors. The Raymond Crossword Book Award not only recognizes and rewards Indian literary talent but actively promotes the same to a wider audience.
The awardees have always had, or risen to stature in the world of literature. And it was a star-studded shortlist this year.
Kinjal Shah, CEO Crossword Bookstores says, “It’s that time of the year when the whole publishing industry in India comes forward as one family to recognize its own stars. It’s exciting that the voting numbers have been heartwarming this year.”
A bevy of glittering stars were present at the Award, including Shekhar Gupta, Mynoo Maryel, Anupama Chopra , Twinkle Khanna, Piyush Pandey, Roopa Pai, Amish Tripathi, Ashwin Sanghi, Durjoy Dutta, Radhakrishnan Pillai, Hrishi. K, Subashree Krishnaswamy, Annie Zaidi, Mohd. Asaduddin, Naresh Fernandes, Kalpana Sharma, Harsh Sethi, Ira Pande, Prof M S Sriram, Prof Sukanta Chaudhuri, Aravinda Anantharaman, Sujata Noronha, Siddhartha Sarma, B S Nagesh and many more authors and guests.
Social media maven Miss Malini was the host of the evening. Major publishers present at the Award included Penguin Random House India, Harper Collins India, Hachette India, Scholastic India, Niyogi Books, and Westland Books.
This year, the Award has gone through a makeover, with ten categories and a lifetime achievement award. A total of 11 awards were given away, in the following three categories.
WINNERS: POPULAR AWARD
Fiction- Scion of Ikshvaku by Amish
Non-fiction- Mrs. Funnybones by Twinkle Khanna
Biography- Playing It My Way by Sachin Tendulkar (co-author Boria Majumdar)
Business and management- Chanakya in You by Radhakrishnan Pillai
Health and fitness- Body Goddess by Payal Gidwani
Children- Gita: For Children by Roopa Pai
Fiction- Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
Non-fiction- Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India by Akshaya Mukul
Translation- The Sun That Rose From the Earth by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Children- Our Nana was a Nutcase by Ranjit Lal
WINNER: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
India’s finest lyricist and poet, Gulzar Sahab bestowed the Lifetime achievement award to beloved author Ruskin Bond. Speaking on the occasion, Gulzar Sahab said, ” Bond sir and I share a deep friendship that goes a long way back. I would like to say, “Cheers” to Bond sir, for winning this award.”
About Crossword Bookstores.
With the tagline ‘educate, entertain, enlighten’, Crossword Bookstores is India’s largest retailer of books that endeavors to spread knowledge & inculcate the habit of reading.
Crossword Bookstores stands by the objective to promote ‘Reading and Writing’ through 95 stores across 33 cities in India. The Book Award is a mega event, organized every year, to award Indian Authors to promote readership and recognize the best of literature.
Crossword Bookstores also launched a short film, “A Book Never Runs Out of Battery” to mark the 14th anniversary of the award.
The event was attended by over 100 authors, prestigious guests and customers, all at the Tata Theatre – NCPA.
For me, the event was amazing. Hearing the jury about the rigorous selection process, the citations about the authors and a sizzling performance by inDiva. It felt like I was floating in a book ocean. It felt that good and I am happy seeing Indian authors getting promoted on such a platform. It will definitely encourage them. I leave you with the pictures.
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Throughout the post, “we” refers to GiveWell and Good Ventures, who work as partners on the Open Philanthropy Project.
Benjamin Soskis, who has been working for us on our history of philanthropy project, has completed a case study (.docx) of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Pew Memorial Trust Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) program. We have found this case study very interesting and believe it to be a helpful addition to the literature on the history of philanthropy and its impacts. Dr. Soskis had previously compiled a literature review for this program (.docx).
In brief, the HCH program consisted of the following:
“In December 1983, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), in partnership with Pew Memorial Trusts, spurred by a recognition of how little was being done to address the health care needs of the homeless, issued a call for proposals to … develop means of incorporating the homeless into local outpatient health care systems…. Ultimately, the foundations funded 19 coalitions over the course of four years, spending a total of $25 million…. In June 1987, Congress passed the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, the first major piece of federal legislation to address homelessness in more than half a century…. That the RWJF-Pew program should be granted a significant degree of causal impact in the incorporation of the program into the McKinney Act is undeniable.” (Case Study, Pg 1)
The full case study is available here (.docx).
The full list of sources is available here (.docx).
Dr. Soskis’s case study provides an example of how philanthropy can influence policy change. He writes:
“Incorporation of the HCH program within the McKinney Act was the result of a convergence of a well-designed demonstration project with a policy window opened by a campaign by homeless advocates begun earlier in the decade. The advocates pushed for the federal government to address the mounting crisis of homelessness and when that campaign came to fruition, the HCH program was available as a policy model. The RWJF-Pew HCH program, therefore, does not merely represent a model of a successful demonstration project, but of a particularly powerful convergence between philanthropic initiative and broader political currents.” (Case Study, Pg 3)
The picture that emerges from the case study seems importantly different from the picture we got from a shorter piece in a list of 100 philanthropic success stories. The shorter case made the project’s impact seem relatively more significant, and our interest in this case was partly due to the fact that we’ve been pointed to it repeatedly as one of philanthropy’s most clear-cut success stories. Dr. Soskis’s study does attribute significant impact to philanthropy, but also paints a more complex picture.
This is the first case study Dr. Soskis has completed. He is currently working on a similar study focused on the role played by philanthropy on the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act. We hope to share that (and other case studies) in the future.


The Voice of Camels
Published: Nov 16, 2020
It began innocently, organically. The plan to demonstrate for camels because he had decided to care for a number of them. They grew to become part of his family over time. As he took the time to learn about them and the treatment they received, the way they were bought and sold, often secretly, around the world, he began to think they needed a voice. Why should he not be that voice?
They were used as a food source: their meat treated like beef in his own country. They were used to carry goods like horses. Their cousins with the single hump were growing in staggering numbers in some parts of the world. His head became sluggish as he tried to think of it all. He had been part of the problem and now he could do differently.