William (Bill) McGowan is the author of three critically acclaimed and award-winning books of nonfiction: Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992; Picador 1993); Coloring The News: How Crusading For Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism (Encounter Books, 2002) and Gray Lady Down: What The Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means For America. (Encounter Books, 2011). He is also a contributor to Clash of Identities: Essays on Media, Manipulation and the Politics of the Self. (Prentice-Hall & Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1996).
The late Ryszard Kapuscinski called Only Man Is Vile "one of the best books ever written on nationalistic, racial and religious conflict;” The Times Book Review listed Only Man Is Vile as one of its “Notable Books of the Year.” The Village Voice’s Nat Hentoff wrote that Coloring The News should be “mandatory” reading, ranking it alongside the journalism of I.F. Stone, Jimmy Breslin and Murray Kempton. Publishers Weekly predicted that Gray Lady Down was “sure to incite readers no matter what their political philosophy.” NPR’s Juan Williams called it “a “thoughtful, vividly supported expose.”
McGowan has written for a wide variety of national and international publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, New Republic, Nation, Forbes, Columbia Journalism Review, Men’s Journal, Slate, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, National Review, the New York Observer and Vice. He has been an editor at the Washington Monthly and has reported for Newsweek International and for the BBC World Service. He won the National Press Club Award for media criticism in 2002 and was nominated for the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2012. Several of his literary and journalistic properties have been optioned for Hollywood development.
A regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal where he has published book reviews, media criticism, cultural commentary and editorial features for over 20 years, McGowan has appeared regularly on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC, C-Span, PBS and NPR, as well as other cable and broadcast networks. He has lectured widely on media-related topics at a variety of institutions and universities, including the National Press Club, The Freedom Forum’s Newseum, the Center for Communication, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Journalism, NYU and Yale University. A graduate of Middlebury College, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Media Fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University.
McGowan is at work on a memoir and on a fourth book of political nonfiction, about the US-Israel “Special Relationship.” He blogs about politics, media and international affairs at coloringthenews.blogspot.com.


“My wife Barbara and I share blood memory through generations of our people. The Creator gives me dreams. In one dream, the Creator showed me the woman I would share my life with and, seven years later, we met and married. We now have seven children and 14 grandchildren. Often in life, though, we lose our way. For more than a decade now, I have counseled men and women suffering the residual effects of the nation’s infamous Indian boarding school system. My father, Warren Frank Petoskey, was one of the children forced into those schools. So was my grandfather, Cornelius Joseph Petoskey. The Creator directed me to write this book out of love and honor for humanity, but especially for my Red Brothers and Sisters, and most especially for the generation that is coming. This coming generation whose members, I worry, feel no responsibility for the words of their great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers.
I have also written this book to validate our experience as Native Indigenous People. For too long, we have remained silent and have internalized our feelings. I welcome all people to come and share this journey with me. We all come from a spiritual origin and we are on our way to a spiritual destination. I am walking the Red Road. It is a good path to travel.” – Warren Petoskey
Review by Terry M. Wildman
“I first met Warren Petoskey a few years ago at an event in Indian River, Michigan. His contribution to the circle of Natives and Non-natives gathered there was a gift to all. He is a storyteller and poet, and carries a prophetic word for those who have ears to hear. Without bitterness but with a cutting edge clarity he tells the story of not only his family but of Native Americans across this continent as they struggle to come to grips with a forgotten past.
“Warren reminds us of things that should never be forgotten and offers a spiritual answer that can bring healing to the Native and understanding to the Non-native. Books like this are rare and priceless–don’t miss it!”
Terry M. Wildman
Author of Sign Language: A Look at the Historic and Prophetic Landscape of America
Review by Patricia Chargot
“IN MY 75 YEARS, I have read countless autobiographies and spiritual works. Warren Petoskey’s uplifting memoir ranks among the best. Dancing My Dream is written simply, flowingly and lovingly by a man of immense dignity and hard-won spirituality. It meshes the Native American with the Christian. It is for believers and nonbelievers, for those of any religion or none. It is a basic Book of Existence; reading it is like ingesting the food of life,” wrote Javan Kienzle, the talented spiritual biographer who wrote about the life of her Catholic-priest-turned-mystery-author husband in Judged by Love: A Biography of William X Kienzle.
Some readers have fallen in love with Warren’s poetry, including Morning Song of an Odawa and Peace Is, both of which are included in this autobiography. Others love his evocative description of the American Indian relationship to the landscape of the Great Lakes, where even the great rocks along the shore are recognized as loving grandparents.
Many readers have thanked Warren for his honesty about the long-running tragedy of Indian boarding schools. This is a story that is all too familiar to Indians across the United States and Canada. The story, however, is unfamiliar to white America. It is a story that needs to be told and Warren includes several chapters about how these policies scarred his own family. Through several generations of Indian families, U.S. policy forced young children to leave their families and live in boarding schools where they were punished until they gave up Indian ways.
From his lyric poetry that will awaken your connection to the natural world, to his authentic window into Indian culture—to the honesty of Warren’s account of overcoming historic trauma—this book will move you and transform your vision of what America means. In the end, you may find yourself purchasing several copies to read and discuss with friends.
“Warren’s inner peace is palpable and rubs off, like the Dalai Lama’s. He may not be as well known and doesn’t claim to be a shaman, but I personally have no doubt that he possesses the gift of healing. He struggled to heal his own spirit over many years, and is now able to help heal the spirits of others.”
Journalist and author of Balto: the Untold Story of Alaska’s Famous Iditarod Sled Dog


History of the Collection
In June 2002 the Isle of Wight Council, with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the National Art Collections Fund, purchased 112 watercolour sketches by Thomas Rowlandson, Samuel Howitt and others, of views made during tours to the Isle of Wight in the 1790s. This remarkable collection came from Longleat House in Wiltshire, seat of the Marquesses of Bath, where it was rediscovered in the library in 2 bound volumes during efforts to identify items to be sold to help maintain Longleat’s many treasures
The 112 watercolour sketches comprise some 53 by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), 22 by his brother-in-law Samuel Howitt (1756-1822), and 37 by other contemporary artists. Most are views of the Isle of Wight and Solent areas, but 21 also depict mainland locations visited en route to and from the Island. The Rowlandson and Howitt sketches appear to have come into the hands of Rowlandson’s friend, travelling companion and fellow artist, Henry Wigstead (1760-1800), probably because Wigstead is thought to have financed the tour made with these two artists in 1791. The sketches re-appear following the death of Wigstead’s brother in 1832, in a sale by Southgate, Son & Grimston in London held in May 1834. Lot 335 in this sale comprised ‘Wigstead’s (Henry) excursion to Southampton, Lymington, and the Isle of Wight, in the year 1791, with fifty-three highly finished Drawings.’ Although the manuscript is now lost, its citation provides strong evidence for the date of the tour represented by the main group of sketches. Within this collection of 112 sketches there are 51 larger sketches measuring about 9 x 13 inches all with hand sketched borders which are attributed to the 1791 tour (another two have been identified in a private collection); and the rest are smaller in size and belong to tours made in the later 1790’s. They too have hand sketched borders
The sketches were acquired shortly after the London sale by Beriah Botfield (1807-1863) of Norton Hall, Northamptonshire) and bound (before 1837) in two volumes with an accompanying manuscript text, describing the broad history of some of the principal places illustrated in the sketches. Beriah Botfield bequeathed his collections, via his widow, to the Marquess of Bath, and thus the Isle of Wight sketches came to Longleat, where they remained for about 140 years, until their sale in 2002. It is fair to say that their very existence was known only to a very few living scholars.
The Isle of Wight Council has commissioned Maritime Prints & Originals to reproduce the first 17 of these Rowlandsons and these are now available as limited edition prints. It is hoped that over the years the remainder of this wonderful collection of Rowlandsons and Howitts will be similarly published.


Banned book week is celebrated every year, for 2017 it’s the week of Sept. 25th. Books get challenged all the time for various reasons, sexual content, language, age appropriateness, and sometimes it’s simply because people flat out disagree with the book.
So why celebrate it?
We celebrate Banned Book Week to draw attention to the harm that censorship can do. According to the American Library Association “Challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material … restricting the access of others. As such, they are a threat to freedom of speech and choice.”
The ALA continues to explain that we celebrate the fact that even though books are challenged, most of them stay available due to the efforts of teachers, librarians and others who stand up for the freedom to read.
Some of the most challenged books are:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884 Challenged for language and allegations that the book is “racially insensitive,” and “perpetuates racism.”
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951 Young Holden, Often banned for being “obscene,” “blasphemous,” “negative,” “filthy,” and “undermines morality.”
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953 Challenged for language and objection of religious beliefs.
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939 Challenged for language—especially goddamn—and sexual references. Turkish Booksellers were taken to court for “spreading propaganda” in 1973.
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Challenged at the Baptist College in South Carolina because of the book’s language and mere references to sex.
- Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling Reasons: anti-family, occult/Satanism, religious viewpoint, violence.
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck Reasons: offensive language, racism, unsuited to age group, and violence.
Looking at the banned or challenged books, you can see what society is struggling with. What some people can’t wrap their heads around and what others are fighting against. What does the top 10 list from 2016 say about us?
- This One Summer written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki. Reasons: challenged because it includes LGBT characters, drug use and profanity, and it was considered sexually explicit with mature themes
- Drama written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier Reasons: challenged because it includes LGBT characters, was deemed sexually explicit, and was considered to have an offensive political viewpoint
- George written by Alex Gino Reasons: challenged because it includes a transgender child, and the “sexuality was not appropriate at elementary levels”
- I Am Jazz written by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, and illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas Reasons: challenged because it portrays a transgender child and because of language, sex education, and offensive viewpoints
- Two Boys Kissing written by David Levithan Reasons: challenged because its cover has an image of two boys kissing, and it was considered to include sexually explicit LGBT content “condones public displays of affection”
- Looking for Alaska written by John Green Reasons: challenged for a sexually explicit scene that may lead a student to “sexual experimentation”
- Big Hard Sex Criminals written by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Chip Zdarsky Reason: challenged because it was considered sexually explicit
- Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread written by Chuck Palahniuk Reasons: challenged for profanity, sexual explicitness, and being “disgusting and all around offensive”
- Little Bill (series) written by Bill Cosby and illustrated by Varnette P. Honeywood Reason: challenged because of criminal sexual allegations against the author
- Eleanor & Park written by Rainbow Rowell Reason: challenged for offensive language
Feel free to share your thoughts on banned or challenged books; What do they say about us? Whats your favorite?
One thing has stayed pretty stable; As an author, having a book on the banned list is very good for your sales.


In my never ending quest to train myself mentally for the world of running just as much as physically, I have finished what I think is an amazing book. “My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon” by Bart Yasso.
I cannot say enough good things about this book. Most of the running books I have read to date are training related. Books to get me to my next race. However this is not that kind of book. It is not a training book dedicated to get you that next PR (although more on that later). Instead this is a book about the life journey of running icon Bart Yasso. Most runners know who Bart is as he is extremely active in the world of running. However this book takes it to the next level because Bart has literally run some of the most ridiculous, exciting and historic races in the world.
The biggest takeaway I had from this book was how relatable Bart was to the reader. I am not an elite athlete. I have made peace with the fact that I will most likely never BQ or even come close in my lifetime. And I am comfortable with that. So when I look into running books that is my number one concern. Will the author spend so much time talking about elite running (or even great running for that matter) that the material will be so foreign to me that it might as well be written in another language? Luckily that is not the case with this book.
What I loved so much about the book was that it was just about Barts life. It isn’t wrriten for just a select few. It is written for anyone who has put one foot in front of another for a run. No matter if that’s a 6 minute mile or a 13 minute mile. Sure Bart tells plenty of stories of his trips to Boston, or even the one time he won a marathon. But he also does an amazing job telling stories of runners with little to no experience. Like the Russian relay team he convinced to run for the first time just 3 days prior to race day. Or the relay team he convinced to train for a race who were from a half way house and never ran a day in their life before.
Bart tells stories of how he impacts others in the running community around him. But beyond just that he gets into stories of the ridiculousness of his running life along the way. Like the time he rode a bike across the country by himself or the nude run he ran once. It would be easy for Barts book to be for the upper echelon of runners. To take himself so seriously. Because he is a bad ass runner and has that kind of clout. However from what I can tell from reading this book that is not what motivates him. He seems to be fueled by helping others achieve their goals. Whether that is finishing their first 5K or going for a BQ.
Nothing exemplifies this attitude more than this paragraph of the book:
That is why I think this book can be so universally appreciated. Bart tells stories that motivate you to go out and achieve your own goals. You get finished a chapter and can’t help but think you can go out there and crush your goals. In fact I was reading one of his chapters one day and it just prompted me to get up and go workout. I wasn’t planning on it that day, and it wasn’t the workout to end all workouts. But I was in the gym on a day I didn’t plan on being there all because of his book.
Bart is a phenomenal story teller and it is easy to get lost in the pages of his book. This is very cliché, but I do not care because it is appropriate. His stories are captivating and keep you hooked on every page you turn.
The only disappointment I had was that I didn’t read this book sooner. Since I entered the world of running 2 years ago I am familiar with who Bart Yasso is (it is hard to not be). However it wasn’t until I read this book that I gained a full appreciation for his life and what it means to the running world. He has run some of the worlds greatest races and also races that only a handful of people dare to run. He is literally a living legend.
Why this disappoints me is because I live just a mere 30 minutes from the Runners World HQ. So as a result it is not uncommon for me to run a local race and see Bart there. In fact at a half marathon last year he and I started the race right next to one another. Again, at the time I clearly knew who he was and knew how big of a deal this was for me. However after reading this book I really hope I get another encounter like this. The opportunity to run right next to a racing legend with what I know now from this book would be a bucket list item for sure.
I can’t stress enough how every runner should give this book a read. Bart does a great job keeping the reader engaged in the content while also telling a great story about a life in running.
An added bonus of this book are the training plans at the end. Plenty of people have heard about Yasso 800’s. So it is clear Barts advice should be taken seriously when he discusses training for a race. The end of the book has multiple training plans dedicated to running a 5K, 10K Half and Full Marathons of all racing levels. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced runner there is a training plan in the book to get you to your goals.
Want to find out for yourself? Pick up a copy here.


The Story of
A Course in Miracles
The following is a quote from the book Gifts From A Course In Miracles by Frances Vaughn, Ph.D. I encourage you to take a look at this book if you are a beginner to the Course, as it is a much easier read than the original text.
"Although written in Christian Language and style, A Course in Miracles clearly embodies the perennial wisdom found at the core of the world's great religions. Because of this universal nature, it's significance and appeal transcend traditional boundaries and extends to all who seek answers to the deepest questions of human existence.
Some Buddhists feel that the Course echoes the words of the Buddha: yogis have remarked that it expresses the wisdom of the Vendanta; and psychologists have found it offers insights comparable to some of the best contemporary thinking about perception, belief and identity."
The Course was written through a process of inner dictation by a very reluctant academic psychologist, Helen Schucman. Born to a non-practicing Jewish family, she had an intense childhood yearning for religious understanding but had long ago despaired of finding it.
THE STORY OF A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Helen was assisted during the writing by her colleague William Thetford. Both successful professors of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York. Neither had any intention of writing anything religious. Indeed their lives and work were hardly models of spiritual well-being.
They were caught up in the harried and often vicious competition and infighting that can occur in prestigious academic centers. Their relationships were certainly in need of healing, and they lived with significant personal and interpersonal strife. Yet as the Course says, "Tolerance for pain may be high, but not without limit. Eventually, everyone realizes, however dimly that there must be a better way."
That realization came to Bill Thetford one day when he suddenly announced to Helen, "There must be a better way of living, and I am determined to find it."
A few weeks later, Helen started having a series of intense visual images. So vivid were these images that initially Helen feared she must be losing her sanity. However with Bill's encouragement, she allowed them to unfold, and they proved to be personally meaningful and helpful to others.
Finally, at the end of three months, Helen heard a voice saying, "This is a Course in Miracles. Please take notes." Terrified once again that she was losing her mind, Helen resisted at first, but Bill finally convinced her to take down shorthand the words she was hearing.
Thus began a six-year collaborative process of transcribing and typing Helen's dictation and A Course in Miracles was born. With its emphasis on healing, and particularly on healing relationships, the Course was clearly the guide to a better way of living that Helen and Bill had agreed to seek together. Since she felt she was the scribe, not the author of the material, Helen chose to remain anonymous. In her own words she said:
"Three startling months proceeded the actual writing...Although I had grown more accustomed to the unexpected by that time, I was still very surprised when I wrote, "This is A Course in Miracles...." That was my introduction to the Voice. It made no sound but it seemed to be giving me a kind of rapid, inner dictation. which I took down in a shorthand notebook.
The writing was never automatic. It could be interrupted at any time and later picked up again. It made me very uncomfortable but it never seriously occurred to me to stop. It seemed to be a special assignment I had somehow, somewhere agreed to complete. It represented a truly collaborative venture between my friend (William Thetford) and myself, and much of it's significance, I'm sure lies in that...The whole process took about six years."


Yeonmi Park is a human rights activist as well as a North Korean defector. She was raised in a family that was well educated and politically connected, but after her father involved himself in the black market, then all her misery started. After giving a speech in Dublin Ireland during One Young World summit of 2014, Park started rising to global prominence. Park continues to be very outspoken in refugee and human rights. Yeonmi Park has many times given the upsetting story about her escape from the dictatorial regime of North Korea as a child. However, she has never before opened up about the most intimate and overwhelming details about the repressive society that she grew up in and the hefty price that she had to pay in order to escape. In her upcoming book; In Order to Live, Park tells of how she grew up in a close-knit family that was full of love, but North Korea’s life was unbearable and practically medieval. Park would often go hungry for days and was instilled with the mentality that the country’s dictator, Kim Jong II was able to read her mind. Her father took the risk of trading in the black market in order to feed the family but he was unfortunately caught, imprisoned and tortured. Yeonmi and her mother were later smuggled into China. Yeonmi tells on Youtube of how she never dreamt of freedom as she escaped into China. All she knew was that in the case her family were left in North Korea, they would probably die of hunger, diseases and the inhuman conditions in prison labor camps. The journey to China was more than just for survival purpose, they were also in search of Yeonmi elder sister who had escaped earlier. In this book, In Order to Live, Park tells of her life’s darkest corners while living in North Korea and China. She boldly shares her life’s deepest sorrows of how she and her mother were deceived and sold as sex slaves while in China. They had to endure terrible physical and psychological hardship before they made it to Seoul, South Korea – where they earned their freedom.


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This paper aims to overcome the imitations of the existing indices in the evaluation of rock brittleness. Considering the importance of brittleness evaluation in rock engineering, this paper analyses the existing brittleness indices against brittleness features like strength, stress-strain curve, hardness, mineral composition, internal friction angle, elastic modulus, Poisson’s ratio, etc., revealing that each approach has its strengths and weaknesses. For instance, the index of rupture angle is too difficult to identify accurately, while the indices based on stress-strain curve are easy to obtain and quantify. On this basis, a new brittleness index (BL) was proposed based on the ratio of stress drop rate to strain drop rate (drop rate ratio0 and the peak strength. Then, the proposed index was validated through uniaxial and triaxial compression tests, and compared with B8, B11 and B12. It is concluded that the proposed index could accurately identify rock brittleness under different confining pressures, and outperform other indices in revealing the variation of rock brittleness; the index could also accurately reflect the brittle anomalies of the rock specimen at the confining pressure of 15MPa, making it a desirable tool to evaluate rock brittleness under uniaxial compression
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“The Original Sin of the Solar Empire: Uprising” is the latest series of “The Original Sin of the Solar Empire”, a space science fiction 4X strategy war chess game.
The era when the “merchant world” really thrived and prospered was in an era with trade interests and a relatively peaceful era. They had forgotten the wars of their ancestors in the past, and they hoped to prosper forever. The story of the ancestral war has long become the most secret archive preservation, and the methods and weapons to resist the war have been buried in the long river of history with the passage of time. As a result, cosmic trade has developed endlessly, and it seems that it will also develop endlessly.
When the trade rules were formed, explorers discovered that a huge desert planet was forgotten on the edge of the world. It has become the space for the ancestors of the Holy Prophet. They have developed civilizations, but some of their actions have committed “merchants”. The taboo of “the world” is full of illegal science and social concept deviations. The old taboo is no longer important to them. This makes business people feel that their own interests are terribly threatened. So they jointly voted to expel them, and the ancestors of the Holy Prophet were exiled to an uninhabited area. When people arrived there, they gradually discovered that the planet they lived on was actually a desert planet, and the poor resources made their lives difficult. So they agreed that they wanted to return to their homeland to realize their ideals, so they tried to fight back. They are all genetically modified people. They have a huge and advanced fleet and mysterious weapons. They occupy more and more territories in the universe. After preparing everything, they return. They call themselves: Holy Prosperity messenger. “Merchant World” finds itself in an emergency situation. It seems that there is no hope of winning the war. Will the fate of the universe be rewritten?
The ancient Vasari ruled their empire for countless springs and autumns. The powerful interstellar fleet and the vast territory of the star field seemed to indicate that the empire was unquestionably powerful, but an unknown threat stopped all this suddenly. They Suddenly facing the danger of being destroyed, the capital star area has been silent one after another, and the adjacent world has also fallen into dead silence. Fortunately, the survivors formed a migrating fleet to try to escape the danger and continue to write the glorious history of the empire. But the unknown threat is still pressing every step of the way. Every time they stay in a certain place for a short period of time, they will rush on the road. Time is life. After 10,000 years of migrating in the universe, they seem to have distanced themselves from the unknown enemy, but Vasari’s migrating fleet broke into the battlefield of merchants and Holy Prophet, eager to gather resources to continue their journey. After this chaotic battle, what changes will their appearance bring to both sides in the war?
When Vasari’s poor and powerful migrating fleet began to attack the “Merchant World”, the merchants paid a heavy price. While struggling to resist the invasion of the Holy Prophet, the unstoppable migrating fleet already occupied twelve colonies, and the war lasted for several years. They realized that in order to survive in war, they had to find a new way to reproduce the past. They put aside previous conflicts of interest, united all forces to form the “merchant emergency alliance”, and restarted the war machine of their ancestors. Under their hard work and confrontation, the migrating fleet stopped advancing, and the Holy Promenade also began to shrink the line of defense. But this is only temporary, and there are still many fleets wreaking havoc on unsuspecting areas, the three parties are in a stalemate, and the fate of the universe will eventually change.
In thirty years, the voice of seeking peace has been constant. However, the contradictions within the TEC have begun to emerge. More and more weapon merchants are demanding to expand the war to profit from it. They are crazily eager to destroy all invaders. They are the masters behind TR. The conservative traditional businessmen felt that only seeking peace can bring real benefits, and that war would only destroy the wealth and trade rules accumulated over the millennia. They are the main members of TL. The two sides finally got into trouble, and finally split. Since then, TR and TL have each become a camp.
The fierce attack on the merchants was blocked by strong defense lines and massive fleets, and long-term diplomatic actions began to become empty papers. The Holy Promenade also began to change within. Many sacred messengers were very surprised and angry at their leaders and businessmen in negotiations and diplomacy. These people began to doubt whether there was a corrupting force that had contaminated the “divine body”, leading to a deviation from the original purpose of the war-revenge. So they hope to purify the “divine body”, maintain the purity and unity of the “divine body”, and begin to resist the leaders’ orders. They are the main component of AR. Most of the Holy Promenades still faithfully fulfill their obligation of revenge. Diplomatic activities with various purposes are still continuing. They continue to attack TEC. It seems that they have never felt any objection to the unity of the “divine body”. Revenge is bound to succeed. This is the main force of AL.
The leader of Vasari’s migrating fleet, who was trapped in the endless war between the three tribes, felt deeply anxious. At this time, the unknown threat seemed to finally smell the prey and began to move towards this star area. Another interstellar journey must be carried out immediately. At this time, some Vasari people advocate uniting with merchants and holy messengers to fight this unknown threat in the final battle. They are tired of endless hasty travel, they Longing to inherit the glory of the Vasari Empire, hope to stop the pace of migration and rebuild the glory of the empire. This terrible idea makes the leader of the migrating fleet unacceptable-fighting an unknown threat, which may kill all the remaining Vasari. The two sides cannot compromise on this issue. In the end, most of the migrating fleet is ready to collect resources and continue to flee. They are the VL camp. And this small part of Vasari people who remain is the current VR camp. They may be the key to ending the war and saving the universe.


- Nov 10, 2006
Voters in Jamestown Township, near Grand Rapids, rejected a renewal of an operations millage for the community’s public library Tuesday, leaving the library’s future in doubt. Those leading the effort said the library was indoctrinating children.
Voters in Jamestown Township, a politically conservative community in Ottawa County, rejected renewal Tuesday of a millage that would support the Patmos Library. That vote guts the library's operating budget in 2023 — 84 percent of the library's $245,000 budget comes from property taxes collected through a millage.
Without a millage, the library is likely to run out of money sometime late next year, said Larry Walton, library board president. "I wasn't expecting anything like this," Walton told Bridge Michigan Tuesday. "The library is the center of the community. For individuals to be short sighted to close that down over opposing LGBTQ is very disappointing."
Voters on Tuesday rejected the millage renewal by a 25-point margin — 62 percent to 37 percent — on the same day voters approved millages for road improvements and the fire department.
When the Patmos staff and elected board of directors declined to remove the books from the library's collection, some upset residents organized an effort to defeat the library's millage renewal.
The group, called Jamestown Conservatives, passed out flyers at the town's Memorial Day parade that referenced "Gender Queer: a Memoir," a Pride Month display at the library and a director who, in the group's words, "promoted the LGBTQ ideology."
"Pray that we can make changes and make the Patmos Library a safe and neutral place for our children," the flyer said.
But Walton didn't appear ready to compromise Tuesday. He said he didn't believe the library needed a wake-up call and shouldn't remove books.
"A wake-up call to what? To take LGBTQ books off the shelf and then they will give us money? What do you call that? Ransom?
"We stand behind the fact that our community is made up of a very diverse group of individuals, and we as a library cater to the diversity of our community," he said.


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The Voyageur's Highway: Minnesota's Border Lake Land - by Grace Lee Nute
Excellent early history of Minnesota's northland. From Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods, with a look at the way of life of voyageurs and fur traders.
Saving Quetico-Superior: A Land Set Apart - by R. Newell Searle
Covering the years from 1927 to 1964 in establishing a wilderness preservation idea and how it affected numerous people with the creation of the Boundary Waters. Read about what could have happened to our country's most popular wilderness area had the plan to dam up the Ontario/ Minnesotan border waters to produce electricity been carried out. Many Ely people had key influence or sacrifice in what is now known as the Boundary Waters.
The State of Fear - by Michael Critchton
A fascinating book that coincidently came out weeks before the tsunami hit Thailand in December 2004, is a great commentary on today's environmental movement. This nonfiction thriller is fast paced and will have you questioning just what is real and what is not in the environmental movement of climate change, and the role the media has in all this.
Lob Trees in the Wilderness - by Clifford and Isabel Ahlgren
The classic account of human impact on this vast wilderness area.
"A fine, perceptive exploration... The wilderness is the Boundary Canoe Area of northern Minnesota, and 'lob trees' are used as a poetic way to link the results of historical and ecological research in this setting. This is a well-illustrated book, built to be carried in hand or pack, as one travels through the lands under discussion." The Canadian Field-Naturalist
"There is no one more qualified than the Ahlgrens to describe the ways human beings have affected the forest of this area." Journal of Forest History
Clifford and Isabel Ahlgren have retired from forest ecology after working many years at the Wilderness Research Foundation on Basswood Lake near Ely, Minnesota.
Goodbye Green: How Extremists Stole the Environmental Movement from Moderate America and Killed It - by Glen A. Duncan
Duncan's work is important in two ways: first, in documenting the disintegration of grassroots interest and involvement in the environmental movement per se, and secondly, in providing another piece of evidence to evolving theories of collective action. Reminiscent of movement analyses of the 1960s and 70s, Duncan's work focuses on the fatal flaw of large scale movement-building: changes in the purpose and message that inspire grassroots involvement, and eventually, corruption and even abandonment of the "cause" in favor of a quest for resources and manpower simply to keep organizations alive. The inevitable theft of power from the ordinary citizen by competing environmental oligarchies signals a brief rise in momentum followed by the death of the grassroots movement.
Trouble Waters - by Kevin Proescholdt, Rip Rapson & Miron L. Heinselman
An in your face, arrogant account of how the Friends of the Boundary Waters managed to get the 1978 BWCA Wilderness Act passed. It started in 1975 with an idea to possibly rename the center section of the Boundary Waters as a National Recreation Area because it didn't fit the description of true wilderness. The area had been logged and had been populated with numerous resorts and cabins before the 1964 Wilderness Act that allowed the continued established uses of motorboats and snowmobiles, and the continuation of the three truck portages.
Green Spirit: Trees are the Answer - by Patrick Moore
Written by one of the original founders of Greenpeace, and now considered a pariah by his former colleagues for his rejection of unfounded environmental extremism. Green Spirit - Trees are the Answer, gives us new eyes with which to see the land, exploring the beauty, biodiversity and spirit of forests growing back after logging. Contact Moore at: email@example.com to order a copy.
Canoe Country: An embattled wilderness - by David Backes
Account of battles fought in creating the Boundary Waters with an acknowledgement that the wilderness label doesn't fit. To quote the author, "If wilderness is meant to help those who are searching for meaning, for spiritual truths, how can we justify condemning those who see differently? In doing so, we prove that we do not seek pure truth in wilderness, but only justification of our selfishness and prejudices. To paraphrase Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk best known for his book The Seven Storey Mountain, we promote an us vs. them attitude because if we can convince ourselves that they are wrong and we are right, then our lies and partial truths become whole truths, and our intolerance and greed become virtues."
Root Beer Lady - by Bob Cary
The story of the Boundary Waters 'first lady' - Dorothy Molter - and the last resident of the Boundary Waters. Living on the Isle of Pines on Knife Lake, Dorothy's door was always open to canoeists in the summer and the offer of cold, homemade root beer. In the winter, there was always a pot of steaming coffee brewing on the wood cook stove to warm cold snowmobilers.
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature - Edited by William Cronon
Nature or people? The aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution to our environmental problems, argues this book - a timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.
Undue Influence - by Ron Arnold
David Ridenour, National Center for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C. "Undue Influence" reveals the threat to industrial civilization posed by environmentalism. The amount of money being spent from such an unpublicized direction is cause for alarm by itself. What it's being used for -- dismantling roads, dams, logging, mining, ranching, farming, and fishing -- is truly frightening. This book should galvanize the public to action .
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World - by Bjorn Lomborg
The Skeptical Environmentalist is an interesting book that concludes that many environmental movement's "doom and gloom" predictions are misleading and exaggerated. Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organizations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence.
The Skeptical Environmentalist offers readers a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favored by campaign groups and the media. It is essential reading for anybody with a serious interest in current environmental debates.
Lomborg's book has not gone unnoticed by mainstream environmental groups. In January's Scientific American, an 11-page editorial attack was printed against The Skeptical Environmentalist. Scientific American threatened a lawsuit when Lomborg (www.lomborg.org) and the Greenspirit (www.greenspirit.com) websites printed the attack, along with Lomborg's response. Scientific American had offered a mere one-page response in a future publication.
Down from Basswood: Voice of the
Border Country - by Lynn Laitala
Down from Basswood is a compilation of stories of the Native Americans and Finnish immigrants of the northern region of Minnesota. It tells how lives were carved out of the rugged North Country, living off the land - fishing, hunting, trapping, ricing, and berry picking. Stories of how Native Americans were driven from their lands and forced to live on reservations after the government destroyed their villages on Basswood Lake.
Laitala mixes fact with fiction, weaving stories with insight, humor and a great understanding of the culture of these first tenants of Northern Minnesota. Included are a few stories about Sigurd Olson's first canoe trip and how he came to realize 'that there had to be a way to make money off this country.'
This is the history of the North Country. A history we shouldn't forget.
Words from Lynn Laitala
Since Sigurd Olson, wilderness propaganda has promoted the border lakes region as a land set apart, empty of human community, where tourists can experience solitude. The people it raised and nurtured remember those lakes and woods as home. It was home to many peoples, from many parts of the earth. The land and the water were their common source of sustenance. The communities they created were as beautiful as the lakes and forests, rich in diversity, founded on trust.
The propaganda of the campaign for wilderness legislation has denied the history and values of the inhabitants. Among ourselves we tell what it was like - sharing memories of the time when we could stash a boat, tow a canoe, leave our cabins open with matches and firewood for stranded travelers. A time when we greeted all we met in friendship.
I have tried to recreate a glimpse into that past through fiction. Down from Basswood follows the stories of three generations of families from 1900 to 1978. Each character tells their story. Together they sketch a history of the place.
Down from Basswood can be ordered for $17 ppd. From:
10549 Grange Rd NW
Bemidji, MN 56601
Mittens in the Boundary Waters - By Larry Ahlman
Set in the 1930s, Mittens in the Boundary Waters is a story about a big, hefty buffoon, Charles Perkins. Known as Mittens because of his penchant for wearing big gloves on his cold-sensitive hands, he was a fellow from St. Paul, MN in search of his dream like so many people, even today.
Whether fact or fiction, Mittens in the Boundary Waters is a good read about the tough times of living off the land and realizing that the solitude of the wilderness isn't always your friend.
Mittens in the Boundary Waters is available in bookstores or may be ordered by phone for $14.95 ppd. Call 800-552-6531.


Author Archives: limelightAugust 1, 2012
Why are some of us caring and some of us cruel, some generous and some greedy? Dr. Paul J. Zak has recently published the book, The Moral Molecule, with the basis of what he believes will become known as the … Continue reading
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Open Office Hours with the City Manager on Facebook Live
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An event every month that begins at 11:00pm on day First of the month, repeating indefinitely
One event on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 11:00pm
The First Wednesday event takes place on Facebook Live. Viewers will be able to type in questions that Mr. Lamar will read and answer. For information about Facebook Live go to https://live.fb.com/tips/.
The Third Wednesday event takes place at the Prescott Public Library.


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There is an old saying that, if you don’t want a co-defendant in the dock with you then commit the crime alone. I have been involved around the periphery of crime for most of my life. I have studied it, defended it and even been accused of it. There is nothing that attracts the public attention and interest better than a good old yarn about crime. In this book you will read some terrific stories that will intrigue and be of interest to the student, readers and those who simply love reading about crime.
I am not alone in the editing and recounting of these yarns. My co-conspirators in the dock with me are Caroline Bayford, the Editor of OPC Global, and Tiina Päivärinta, my very trusted aide, without the assistance and input of whom this book would not have been possible. To the charge of presenting an excellent book on crime, we all plead ‘guilty as charged’.


Today marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration as president of the United Sates. In honor of the occasion, the JFK library in Boston has made available, in digital format, many letters, writings and movies from its archives.
When Kennedy took office on January 20, 1961, the world was in the midst of the Cold War. Two superpowers—the United States and the Soviet Union–were dealing with each other based on what politicians deem “mutually assured destruction.” Fears of nuclear war were very real and dictated the course of foreign policy for both countries. Yet, in his inaugural address to the country, Kennedy talked about negotiation. This is what he said:
“So let us begin anew—remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms—and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.”
Kennedy summarized the win-win theory of negotiation masterfully. He advocated looking for common ground. He also thought that negotiations should be civil while still demanding assurances and proof from the other party.
On March 21, 1961, Kennedy wrote the following in a National Security Action Memorandum on the US-USSR Commercial Air Transportation Agreement:
“Prior to the initiation of the US-USSR negotiations on the draft agreement, I would like to have prepared for my approval a statement of objectives to be sought and the general principles to be followed in the negotiations. Such a statement would serve as a guide to the negotiators in responding to the Soviet counter proposals, as well as ensure that the negotiations are closely linked to our over-all relations with the USSR.”
Here Kennedy makes certain that negotiations have clear and stated objectives to serve a guide to the negotiators, and to make it easier to answer any counter moves.
You can access these and other documents at the John F. Kennedy library online: http://www.jfklibrary.org/


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UGED3206 Women’s Narratives and Hong Kong History
Lecture: Thursdays 02:30 p.m. – 04:15 p.m.
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Dr. SO Alison Yam Wah
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In 21st century post-colonial Hong Kong, the preservation of ‘collective memory’ of this fast-changing city has become an everyday discourse. From award-winning movies, heart-warming testimonies, tabloid stories to Facebook groups and social campaigns, we have been consuming, constructing, and circulating narratives of ‘the past’. This act of remembering and exploring ‘our history’ questions a mainstream Hong Kong story of success demonstrated by economic development and material wealth, and attempts to identify discontinuities, gaps and silenced voices in the dominating narrative. It has also prompted reflections on the relation between narrative and identity — personal, collective, and spatial — in historical inquiry, and in what ways the writing of history has been shaped by disparate ideals, values, web of relations and power.
This course will revisit Hong Kong’s history through the exploration of narratives documenting women, a group often made invisible in history writing, as social actors in the fabric of colonial Hong Kong. From elites’ households to textile factories, from rural villages, western-district brothels to mid-levels convents, schools and hospitals, women of different generations have worked as caregivers, breadwinners, pioneers, and educators while contesting the prescribed subordinate status as objects of exploitation in a patriarchal society. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including archival documents, published biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, family histories, school histories, and oral histories, this course will seek to introduce a multi-faceted history of colonial Hong Kong with women as the focus of inquiry. The discussion of women’s narratives will be situated in respective historical contexts linking the personal to social, political and economic changes in Hong Kong under colonial rule. It will also discuss the use of auto/biographies and oral histories as a methodology in historical research investigating the relations between memory, self and identity.
The course resonates with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 by directly engaging in critical reflections that help students work towards the SDGs 5 (Gender Equality), 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), 10 (Reduced Inequalities), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), and 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions).
It is anticipated that on completing the course, students will be able to:
- identify major areas and topics regarding the study of women’s lives and experiences in Hong Kong history
- analyse and discuss in what ways gender has been an organizing force in shaping families, professions, education, and social movements in Hong Kong history
- examine one’s self identity in complex historical and social contexts
- evaluate competing narratives of a ‘Hong Kong Story’ from a gender and historical perspective
- apply first-hand knowledge and skills in writing history relating the personal to the social, cultural, political and economic contexts
- recognize the interconnections between different sources of inequality and oppression
- critically engage with notions of social justice and social transformation


New Report: Navigating a Safe Return to Work
June 10, 2020
Navigating a Safe Return to Work: Best Practices for U.S. Office Building Owners and Tenants
The NAIOP Research Foundation has published a timely new research brief that is an overview of best practices for improving safety measures to protect against the coronavirus for building owners and employers. It is the first in a series of briefs the Foundation plans to publish in response to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on commercial real estate.
"Navigating a Safe Return to Work: Best Practices for U.S. Office Building Owners and Tenants" was written by Shawn Moura, Ph.D., NAIOP director of research.
The report contains insight on reopening buildings, adapting office building operations, phased work schedules and reconfiguring space.
Read the report


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High Praise for Antoni Ucerler, S.J.
Visiting associate professor Antoni Ucerler, S.J. has been featured in a glowing article on the Georgetown College web site. It notes his intensive course preparation for teaching East Asia: Texts & Contexts and his use of primary resources available through the Library of Congress for his History course, Maritime Empires: Early European Encounters. An excerpt:
Deemed a “walking encyclopedia” by students, Ucerler provided his classes a unique view of the East Asian history and culture. “It might sound cliché, but history does come alive if you know what you’re looking at, and are able to use your own two eyes and hands to touch history instead of looking at things on a computer screen,” Marsh said. “Professor Ucerler did us a great service this semester!”


Source: original brief by Manuel Schmalstieg, February 2013.
Participants design a specimen book of typefaces. They select a number of interesting typefaces, and create specimen pages. The pages are assembled into a book, which may be published using a print-on-demand service.
Typical steps during this brief:
- Define the scope of the book: What type of typefaces are to be chosen? How many pages will be produced by each participant? What will be the sample text?
- Create a specimen template that will be used by each participant. Each student should design a template, and during a critical session one of the template is chosen.
- Once the template is defined, the students can begin to create the specimens.
- In addition to the template-based specimens, each students should design a few pages of freeform, individual specimens where they can to break all rules and display the fonts in unexpected ways.
- To finish the book, some more things must be designed: cover page, backcover, introduction pages, index.
Bibliography: to give the students a frame of reference and inspiration, it’s a good idea to show them some specimen books. Maybe your school has some of them in the library. A few examples: specimen books by designers (Jean-Baptiste Levée, Radim Pesko), the iPad app of FontFont, the Free Font Index, books by Fred Smeijers…


Whenever I give a tour of the library to elementary students, we always end up having a discussion about what the difference is between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction, the kids tell me, isn’t real, it isn’t true. I know this is how their teachers have explained it to them and every time I bite my tongue and debate with myself whether today is the day to tear that fallacy down. Do I really want the frustration of trying to explain to 2nd graders, and more importantly their teachers, that fiction may not be real, but is almost always true?
Alice Hoffman was quoted recently as saying, “I always feel that fiction is the truth and nonfiction is the lie.”(Writer’s Digest, Oct. 2017) Today that distinction seems more imperative than ever. We assume the world around us is reality. This life is our non-fiction. Yet, current times, reality as we know it, is more filled with lies than fiction. Our whole world is inundated with falsehoods, wishful thinking, fake news. Whereas fiction… fiction always reveals the truth. Even if it involves sorcerers and aliens, fiction always tells us the raw truth of emotions, relationships, values, and life itself.
There was a time when all the knowledge that came to us come through stories. A bard sang of heroes and adventure, teaching her audience of history, whether real or not. A story teller gathered people around a fire and told stories of beginnings. In stories, we found our place in the world, discovered who we were. Now, we dismiss truth by saying ‘it’s only a story, it’s only fiction.’
Laura Penny writes in her essay on culture:
“Only a story. Only the things we tell to keep out the darkness. Only the myths and fables that save us from despair, to establish power and destroy it, to teach each other how to be good, to describe the limits of desire, to keep us breathing and fighting and yearning and striving when it’d be so much easier to give in. Only the constituent ingredients of every human society since the Stone Age.
Only a story. Only the most important thing in the whole world. (Bitch Doctrine, 2017, p. 98-99)”
In a world where truths are called lies and lies are called truths, only stories have the power to save us. Do we have the courage to tell them?


The Salt God’s Daughter, Ilie Ruby’s latest novel, is set in the 1970s in Long Beach, California, on the frigid, mysterious and unassuming Pacific Ocean. With remarkable diction and cadence, Ruby has skilfully sculpted an epic tale about the lives of three generations of women and written it with such eloquence, the pages often sang to me, leaving me salt-drenched, feeling protected by fuchsia bougainvilleas, and in a state of breathlessness. From the first sentence, this book careens the reader through a whirling, magical voyage into the color and richness of Scottish myth and Jewish mysticism. Suddenly, we find ourselves considering anew the shifting moons, eclipses of the sun, changing tides, cloud formations, selkies, “groatie buckies,” barnacles and a plethora of other animal and plant life in and around the water.
The story begins with Diane, a young single mother to two daughters, Ruthie and Dolly, who struggles with drinking and depression. They live in a station wagon, are often hungry, miss school, and endure the disconnectedness of that reality. With life like this, Ruthie and Dolly are often at the mercy of their mother’s moods and health, and learn early to tend to and comfort her. They begin their rite of passage early in life. “Dolly and I had time on our hands to fantasize and create, to conjure and compose, to experiment and dramatize, to create a world wholly experienced in the imagination. We’d frequent the pier, our bare feet slapping the wood slats as we played chasing games ….”
Years pass and daughters become mothers. Mothers become grandmothers. The sisters change individually, but stay solid in the tight bonds between them. Like everyone, however, they are destined to seek out a lover and a partner, like their great grandparents, Ruth and Daniel, found in each other for seventy years–as was the story Diane told the girls while she leaned on the car, smoking, and made them all feel hopeful. Achieving this goal meant accepting and loving themselves fully, before loving another. This is not easy. Both women must come to terms with their own mistakes, and the toll taken by errors or atrocities that were never theirs to bear. Loving themselves through those difficulties takes strength–especially after being traumatized, labeled ‘other,’ unworthy, or immoral by misguided, cruel peers and adults. Both find solace in the home, performing valuable work as caregivers to some of the women who nurtured them and doing everything possible to keep the family and its stories safe and intact.
While enchanting in its musicality and vivid imagery, this book is also gritty, evocative, and relevant to the cultural and socio-political climate in the United States and world today, especially in the area of sexual politics, predominantly rape and abortion. Reading and reviewing The Salt God’s Daughter has had a huge impact on my own life. Through Ruby’s voice, I rediscovered my own unheard and silenced cry in the dark from decades ago. It felt freeing to know that the loss of young girls’ lives to suicide–from bullying, another crime committed against them, landing on the wrong side of current sexual mores, or other oppressive rules and laws–has stimulated healing. In fact, I believe this work has released a groundswell of women’s energy and emboldened words, which resound right now like an echo in a canyon. I hope we will all find the courage to heed Sister Mary’s words: “Speak, Ruthie. As often and as loudly as you can. Keep speaking it,” she said. Therein lies the secret of The Salt God’s Daughter.
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This book outlines the work of Peter Bergson aka Hillel Kook who was one of the few in America who tried to save his brethren. He was the person who was responsible for getting Raoul Wallenberg the resources that ended up saving a 100,000 Jews in Hungary during World War 2. Bergson also succeeded in getting President Roosevelt to save 200,000 more in providing sanctuary for Jewish refugees from Europe with the establishment of the War Refugee Board. Bergson work has never been highly acclaimed but his dogged determination and willingness to challenge the establishment. Bergson is the inspiration why we set up Rescue Christians. The same challenges he faced we face too in order to save our Christian brethren from being murdered in what we believe to be a Holocaust that will dwarf all Holocausts in history combined.
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Rochester College concert band performs
-- Rochester College's Music Department will present a concert featuring the Rochester College Concert Band on Tuesday, April 17.
The 70-member Rochester College Concert Band includes RC undergraduates and faculty, students from other area colleges, advanced high school musicians and adult community members.
The concert will be presented in conjunction with a traveling exhibit in the Rochester College Library titled "A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910 - 1965." The exhibit is on display through April 20. The band's program will feature music by George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Irving Berlin, as well as the First Suite of Alfred Reed (born Al Friedman).
The April 17 performance takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the Rochester College Theatre at 800 W. Avon Road in Rochester Hills. Admission is free, though small donations are accepted. For tickets or more information, call (248) 218-2149 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org.


Question: What was the attitude of the Roman's towards women and children? Use a primary source.
The attitude of the Roman's towards women and children was unfair and sometimes cruel. According to the fourth book of the Twelve Tables, "a dreadfully deformed child shall be killed." If a father surrender his son for sale three times, the son shall be free. (IV 2. The Twelve Tables) Roman laws, regarding legal guardianship and inheritance, say that "females, by reason of levity of disposition, shall remain in guardianship, even when they have attained their majority." Marriage by usage says, if a man and woman live together continuously for a year, they are considered to be married; the woman legally is treated as the man's daughter. (VI 2. The Twelve Tables) Roman Scared law says that "women must not tear cheeks or hold chorus of `Alas!' on account of a funeral."
Citation: "The Twelve Tables" 2009. Internet Ancient History Sourcebook. 5 March 2010. http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/12tables.html


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Exciting news! George Gershwin's, "Rhapsody in Blue," entered the public domain in the U.S. on January 1, 2020, along with a majority of other materials first published in 1924. Once in the ‘public domain’, with certain exceptions, creative works previously protected by copyright law can be used without permission and at no cost.
My strongest memories of this iconic composition are from the epic scene in The Great Gatsby when Jay is first introduced. And quite the opposite of that scene I’m always reminded of flying. United Airlines re-mastered the track a couple years ago after over 40 years of use in commercials, in-flight safety videos, and even in their terminal at O’Hare in my hometown of Chicago. I wonder if knowing it would become public domain in 2020, had anything to do with their decision to use it in the first place? Though, since they are a global company, its new PD status doesn’t necessarily mean that they will be able to use it without paying any publishing fees.
Here are few important caveats to consider when using public domain works in advertising:
Sound Recordings - Sound recordings follow different, slightly more complex rules than those for the composition, even if they were recorded in the U.S. in 1924. For example, while the composition itself is now PD, a sound recording of “Rhapsody in Blue” from 1924 wouldn’t enter the public domain until January 1, 2025.
Derivative Works - It’s extremely important to use the original work, as published. Derivative works (i.e. adaptations, arrangement, etc, created later by others) may still have content that is protected by copyright law.
International Copyright Law - Please note that use of works in the public domain is granted by U.S. Copyright law for use in the U.S. only. A composition that is PD in the U.S., might not be cleared for use globally.
Here is a fun list of all the works that have entered the public domain from 1924 (and prior), but remember, it’s important that you use the original composition from the year of publication to ensure that the work is in fact public domain. When in doubt, speak to your lawyer or BA expert! #hailstormio #modernBA


To follow are seven things to know about the book Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Comprehension, Critique, and Response. Once point for all seven chapters. There are many great points throughout this book but these are some of the biggest points that I got out from each chapter.
- When getting ready for any conversation it is important to listen. Listening helps to prepare yourself for the conversation.
- Start out by doubting and believing an issue and then move on to making a stance on the issue. From starting out this way students can come up with defensible assertions for students writing.
- Kairos is about the immediate social space and situation in which arguments must be made, including what’s expected in terms of propriety or fitness for the occasion. This chapter there is a lot talking about how to understand it, introduce it to high schoolers, and how to get students to use it.
- Newspapers are the best start to get students to learn about audience. They can compare and contrast different newspapers to learn how to figure out audience through the writing.
- Students need to learn that text can have a primary, secondary, or even a tertiary purpose. There is a difference between school writing and real-world writing. In real-world writing writers can start out talking about one thing and by the end be talking about something different.
- It is important to teach students to figure out the answers to their questions. For example, if a student asks if they have to use sources or they can use I a teacher showed their students recent scholarly articles and books from English students and challenged them to find their answer from looking at those. This will help the students in the long run.
- The last chapter dears to speak about a topic that would not be in most books. They discuss strategies for teachers to promote students’ academic identities and habit and as they call it “Aristotle’s guide to becoming a good student.


The emergence of open access has changed the scholarly publishing landscape, making research more broadly accessible to academic and non-academic audiences alike. As open access continues to evolve, researchers are now presented with new decision criteria for selecting a journal for research dissemination. This guide serves as an introduction to open access for researchers and also highlights the options researchers now have if they wish to make their work open access.
Open access is the practice of providing free and unrestricted online access to the products of research (www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/policies-politiques/OpenAccessFAQ-LibreAccesFAQ_eng.asp).
Generally, open access advocates for unrestricted online access to published, peer-reviewed research. Research that is made open access is made available for free in perpetuity and includes guidelines and/or licenses that communicate how readers can share and re-use the content. There are two main types of open access, often termed green and gold.
Open access is important to researchers for a variety of reasons, including:
|GREEN: Researchers deposit (self-archive) their peer-reviewed journal article in a central or institutional open access repository.
||GOLD: Researchers submit their manuscript to a journal that offers free access to articles on its website
- The repository allows for free public access to the accepted author manuscript or version of record.
- No fee is paid.
- An embargo period may apply.
- Authors retain rights to certain uses of their articles.
- Authors pay an article processing fee to make the final published version free to read on the publisher’s website.
- Free public access to the final peer reviewed published article.
- Access is immediate and permanent. (In some cases, journal publishers may delay open access for a defined period of time. Delayed Access (DA) is often considered a delay of more than six months. DA may be applied to both gold and green open access.)
- Fee is paid by the author, or by their institution or funding body.
- Reuse is determined by a user license – in most cases CC BY.
- An openly accessible article can be widely read and shared so that more people can benefit from scholarship. This allows for the potential of academic research to have a greater impact on the world.
- Communication of the results of research is an essential component of the research process; research can only advance by sharing the results, and the value of an investment in research is only maximized through wide use of its results.
- If your funding body or institution has a policy on public access to research and reuse, you must both understand and comply with that policy. In some cases it may affect how your research is evaluated or your ability to attract research funding in the future.
Most major funding agencies' open access requirements are as follows:
- Researchers submit their manuscript to a journal that offers open access to articles on its website, either immediately or within 12 months; and (or)
- Researchers deposit their peer-reviewed journal article in a central or institutional repository, where it will be made freely available within 12 months of publication.
Canadian funding agencies (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC), have recently adopted a new policy
that “requires federally funded peer-reviewed journal publications to be made freely available within 12 months of publication...”
This requirement (like that of most funders around the world) can be met by doing one of the following:
- Grant recipients archive the final peer-reviewed full-text manuscript in an online repository where it will be freely accessible within 12 months (e.g., an institutional repository or a discipline-based repository). It is the responsibility of the grant recipient to determine which publishers allow authors to retain copyright and/or allow authors to archive journal publications in accordance with funding agency policies.
- Grant recipients can publish in a journal that offers immediate open access or that offers open access on its website within 12 months.
NOTE: The two options above are not mutually exclusive. Researchers are strongly encouraged by the Tri-Agency funders to deposit a copy of the final, peer-reviewed manuscript into an accessible online repository immediately upon publication, even if the article is freely available through the journal’s website.
FAQs regarding the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy
Open Access Toolbox from Science.gc.ca
Links to major funding agency policies around the world
- Deposit your peer reviewed manuscript in a trusted open access repository.
- Publish your work in a subscription journal that offers open access to authors who wish to pay a fee for that option.
- Select a reputable open access journal for publication of your research.
NOTE: Peer review is an essential component of open access publishing. When selecting an open access journal make sure that the journal also employs rigorous peer review of research articles.
Many funders require that open access works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This license is also most commonly used by publishers that offer open access publishing options. Under the CC BY license, authors retain copyright for their article, and authors give license for users to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy articles, as long as the original author is credited and the source is cited. No permission is required from the author or the publisher. Creative Commons has several licensing options that include further restrictions beyond CC BY. CC BY is considered the most liberal, affording the widest possible distribution of an author’s work.
Academic open access repositories are digital collections of the research outputs either within a university or research institute or within a field of study.
When selecting an open access journal, inquire about author rights and user licenses. Open access advocates for authors maintaining ownership of their work and liberal re-use rights for users.
The user license of an article determines how readers can share and use your article without the need to request permission. Before publishing open access, we recommend that authors:
Depositing your accepted manuscript in an openly accessible digital repository is a widely accepted best practice. Before selecting a journal publisher, review their open access policy to determine if they allow self-archiving of accepted manuscript. To deposit your manuscript in a repository:
To comply with open access policies, it is important that you are aware of the open access options provided by your chosen journal. Before selecting an open access journal, we suggest that you:
- Contact your librarian for instructions on how to deposit in your institutional repository or visit the Canadian Association of Research Libraries for a list of Institutional Repositories in Canada.
- If appropriate, deposit your work in a subject-based open access repository such as PubMed Central (see Instructions on how to deposit your work in PubMed Central) or find a subject-based open access repository that is suitable for your work. The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) lists more than 250 subject-based open access repositories and more than 2,300 institutional open access repositories.
- Read the journals’ Instructions to Authors and look for both gold and green open access options.
- Check for any funding body or institutional agreements with your publisher of choice, which will make compliance easier.
- Ask an academic librarian to verify the reputation of the publisher and for open access information and links.
- Check the journal's peer review policy to ensure that rigorous peer review is standard for all research articles.
Predatory publishers exploit the open access publishing model for their own profit. In some cases, predatory journals offer little or no peer review.
Always check if your chosen journal is reputable:
- Look through the editorial board for established and known editors.
- View recent publications in the journal.
- Check for societies affiliated with the journal.
Learn more about this issue:
An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors in order to publish an article in an academic journal. It is common in open access journals. Some subscription journals charge publication fees and others will offer an option to pay a fee to make your article open access.
Your funding body or institution may have funds available for open access publishing costs. Some funding bodies may require that researchers use their grant funds to cover any open access APCs.
Check with your librarian to find out if your institution has agreements in place or funds to cover open access publication (commonly known as an Author Fund).
In some cases, APCs may be waived. Check the journal website for information about this.
At CSP we’re openly engaged in the dialogue with our editors, authors, readers and customers. We are working diligently to explore open access publishing options with two new open access journals, FACETS and Arctic Science, and a collection of solutions for authors who wish to publish their research in our subscription journals and still meet their funder’s open access requirements.
At CSP, our goal is to respond, swiftly and systematically, to the needs of our authors and researchers. We believe that open access is about choice. With this in mind, we’ve launched a hub called CSP Open to highlight our open access products and services. Each of our products is designed to directly correspond to the three main options you have, as a researcher, for making your publication open access.
For more information on open access at CSP, please visit CSPOpen.com and sign up for CSP’s open access newsletter.
- Publishing your research as open access in one of our fully open access journals, Arctic Science or FACETS (an APC is applied).
- Publish in the journal of your choice by using CSP’s OpenArticle service to purchase open access in any of CSP’s NRC Research Press subscription-based journals (an APC is applied).
- Publish in the journal of your choice and deposit your accepted manuscript in an open access repository (no fees or APC applied). For your convenience CSP has developed a partnership with TSpace, the University of Toronto Libraries’ open access repository. Interested authors can now, free of charge, have CSP automatically deposit their accepted manuscript in TSpace.