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FACING THE BULL:
“On the surface, Facing The Bull is Jon’s story of how he learned he had prostate cancer. evaluated his options, went through surgery, and recovered. But it is written and performed in such a way that the whole audience gets to grapple with immortality and death, and live to tell about it — all while laughing a great deal.” (Originally commissioned by Theater J and entitled The Prostate Dialogues.) For adults.
TALES OF A. LINCOLN: Stories by and about Abraham Lincoln as inspired by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Young Abe; Lincoln as President; Lincoln’s Death at Ford’s Theatre. Created for Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site in Washington, DC. For adults and young adults.
DIGGING INTO SHAKESPEARE: Stories funny, touching, & occasionally spicy, as Jon relates his early years in a household of Shakespeare lovers; his mostly disastrous appearances as an actor in a variety of Shakespeare’s plays; and his later introduction into the wiles of “Old Will” and the various off-beat characters he inspires. Supported by early music multi-instrumentalist Tina Chancey. Created for the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland. For adults.
FRANKENSTEIN / THE BEAUTY OF THE BEAST: Mary Shelley’s classic story, from The Creature’s point of view. Created for The Round House Theatre and for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Performed solo, or with musician Tina Chancey. For adults and for young adults.
YANCEY REGISTER’S TALKIN’ TALES, OR WHY THE SNAIL CROSSED THE ROAD AND OTHER ORAL DIVERSIONS: Traditional stories from the rural South, as told by a local raconteur and liar. Originally created for the Florida Studio Theatre. Can be performed with old time musician Tina Chancey. For adults and young adults.
SOME GOOD OLD TALES: Folk tales and traditional stories from many lands and cultures. For adults and young adults.
TALES FROM THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: An eclectic evening of stories selected from the longer tales listed on this page.
AN EVENING WITH JON SPELMAN: Some of Jon’s favorite pieces, chosen for special occasions, in partnership with the evening’s presenter.


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PIENZA, THE CITY OF UTOPIA
The Pienza project is closely related to the name of Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, son of the noble Sienese family, whom adverse political events obliged to stay in Corsignano.
It was 1405 when Enea saw the light there. The ancient village, recalled by Dante and Boccaccio, was to maintain its medieval appearance for only a few nore decades. After periods of study and journeys to Italian and foreign cities, the future Pope contracted the most famous thinkers of the time, becoming on of the major exponents of the philosophic doctrine and not only this.
A collaborator of Cardinal Capranica, secretary of the Antipope Felice V and father of two chiledren who subsequently died, Enea then took vows as a priest. It was 1445. Three years later he was to be elected to the papacy with the name of Pius II and with his native village in his heart. The day after his election, he decided to confer on Corsignano a high city office, designating it as the summer seat of the Papal court.
The assignment of this transformation, ransom for the past grandeur of the family and the materialisation of the dream of an ideal city, was entrusted to Rossellino, formerly master builder for the construction of the Duomo in Florence and a pupil of the humanist architect Leon Battista Alberti.
The dream became a reality in only five years, and the city of Pius, i.e. Pienza, was also equipped with twelve houses for the population, according to a concept that was completely revolutionary for the time.
As the fruit of the humanistic thought theorised by the Florentine neoplatonists, the city incarnated the ideal of Renaissance perfection, thanks to the harmony of space, light and volumes. It was a utopia that was only partially realised. However, due to the Pontiff's premature death.
The Pienza project is still the source of research and study.
The architect Jan Pieper recently revealed new relations and proportions between the buildings, succeeding in identifying also the individual function of a meridian performed by the Cathedral and the square.


He’s Not Your Daddy is rooted in the history of Canada during World War II. In 1939 Great Britain declared war on Germany. Within days the Commonwealth of Canada followed Great Britain into war.
This excerpt from Reader’s Digest – Canadians at War 1939-1945 © 1986 best describes the life of these everyday citizens during these years.
“During WWII in most of North America life did not change radically. There were shortages of food and necessities, and many men went to fight overseas but life still retained some normalcy. This was not the case in Halifax, Nova Scotia during 1939-1945. No other Canadian city was so profoundly affected by the war. In many ways Halifax was like a beleaguered and refugee crowded city in Europe. It was the headquarters and nerve center for Canadian naval operations in the Atlantic, a base for British and other Allied ships. It was the main funnel for war shipments over seas for Canada and the continent. It served as a coastal fortress, a naval training ground, a 3500 man base for air defense of the coast, and a repair shop for thousands of Allied ships.”
………. “The city of Halifax moved virtually the entire overseas army- survivors of torpedoed ships, British children being evacuated to Canadian homes, scientists on secret missions, German prisoners of war, refugees from German-occupied Europe, airman going over seas, airmen returning-on liners, freighters, tankers and tramps from “39 to “45.
The population grew from 70,000 to well over 100,000. Inundated with service men and women, as well as a support staff to provide the work force necessary to keep the war machine working around the clock, and families accompanying soldiers shipping out, or meeting those coming into port on leave, housing became very scarce and the price adjusted accordingly. Locals rented out rooms in their houses, hotels overflowed, barracks were bulging at the seams. Food was rationed and when a ship needed supplies before heading out to sea any and all available food was taken to provision the ships.”
……….”From the hotels like the Lord Nelson sitting beneath the Citadel, you could hear the convoys being attacked as they left the harbor, which was mined; they were torpedoed and hit with depth charges. You could feel the ground shake and the glass rattle as the ships left the mouth of the harbor. And because of the number of ships sheltered in the basin beyond the mouth of the harbor there was always the threat of an explosion.”
This is where my mother and my aunt spent the war years. My grandfather supervised the construction of the new air strip for training pilots across the harbor in Dartmouth, my uncle worked in the kitchens at the air strip when he finished high school. In the country, 100 miles away, my grandmother maintained the family home, took care of the older generation, raised her own food. She also often provided food for her family to take back to the city when they experienced severe food shortages.


The American bison, popularly nicknamed the buffalo, is a part of our national history, romance, lore, and legend. In their day bison roamed the plains by the millions. These large and impressive animals, the icons of the American West, were popular subjects of prints, stories, and melodrama. The exploits of Buffalo Bill in the Wild West captivated generations of the young and old alike in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Heavy hunting decimated their populations, though, and before long the American bison was nearly extinct. Today the bison is cherished, and government and other entities have set aside preserves for their use. The danger of extinction has passed. Buffalo Coins: America’s Favorite is the story, still continuing, of these wondrous animals.
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A poem is an arrangement of words containing meaning and musicality. Love has same divine power as poems have, both can take you to other world. The world of happiness where there is alacrity to explore the beauty of world and power of God. There are short poems, famous poems and love poems which overwhelm the heart with the feelings of love. Inspirational short love poems or be it friendship love poems all define love between two hearts and the impeccable care and feelings to cherish each other. Poems are always been considered as the best way of expressing the inner feelings of hearts to the other hearts. Famous poets like Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore has blessed the world with love poems to bestow their divine views on love and friendship.
Sweet friendship poems are about the sweet relation of friendship which combines two hearts as one. Sweet friendship poems have sweet little stories of true friendship in it which describes the strongest bonding between two human beings. Anyone can write sweet friendship poems who have experienced the love, acre, understanding, support and togetherness of real friendship. … Read more


Professor Jerry Blackstone and I collaborated for approximately a year to create a choral conductor’s instructional guide to working with ensembles of vary ability level. We are proud to present Did You Hear That? – The conductor’s role in creating artistic, efficient, and engaging rehearsals”.
This volume follows in a series of instructional videos we have worked on here at DSA for performers, teachers, and students to document ideas and concepts, preserve them, and make them available to the general public. It’s such a pleasure to work with artists like Jerry who have a vision, clear ideas, and we’re delighted to help them translate that vision into meaningful media. It is currently available on DVD through GIA Publications via the link above.


Author: Sarah Rees Brennan
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: September 11, 2012
Series: The Lynburn Legacy. book one
Source: Snatched this one right up from netgalley!
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About the Book: Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met . . . a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn’t suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.
But all that changes when the Lynburns return.
The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the-Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?
My Thoughts: This book makes me so happy. For real. I love everything about it. Even the layout and physical appearance totally appeal to me. I love that it's divided up in to parts I through VI. I love that it has chapter titles. Clearly the cover is gorgeous. Also, there are lovely embellishments throughout the book. And those are just the things I fell in love with before reading a word. Thankfully I found the characters and the story just as engaging and endearing.
As I've typed and re-typed this review I've discovered that I want to go in to all of the detail to tell you every little thing I love. It was getting ridiculously long. Instead I'm going to highlight some of my very favorite things:
* Unspoken starts with an article Kami is writing. I love that we're introduced to Kami as a journalist right away. It really gives the reader a feel for Kami's voice. And boy does Kami have voice. She is quirky and fun and just so very delightful. She is one of my favorite characters ever! Who doesn't love a girl sleuth?!?
* Speaking of quirky and delightful... pretty much all the dialogue rocks. I love the banter between the characters and the way they play of one another. It added so much to the story and the relationships between the characters. I basically read the whole book with a smirk on my face.
* But it wasn't a light-hearted comedy! Sorry-in-the-Vale is a small boring-ish town with big and dark secrets. Most are centered around the Lynburn's and their creepy gothic manor. I loved how the town and the manor played off one another and added so much mood to the story. They were as necessary to the plot as the characters.
* Pretty much every character was a win for me. I particularly loved that Kami and her best friend were very different but they supported one another. There wasn't any of that girls putting other girls down or false friendships. They boys were pretty rad too :) Ash, Jared, Rusty... take your pick!
Basically I could go on and on and on. Unspoken is one of the most original and witty stories I've read in a long time (if not ever!) It's basically all the things I love wrapped up in to one beautiful package. One of the best books I've read all year!
|Me with Sarah Rees Brennan|
|Sarah standing on a chair acting out a story. |
I imagine Kami gets a lot of who she is from Sarah!


Brian Turner has seen his poems published in poetry daily, the Atlantic Review and several other publications. From Fresno, California, his poems have also appeared in the voices in wartime anthology. Turner is an MFA graduate of the University of Oregon and a US army veteran.
“The poems on the pages of Here, Bullet, with their immediacy of impact, their universality of theme, their blend of cultural and historical insight, and their many tiered reverberations of the aftermath of gut wrenching violence, make for a powerful reading experience….The relationship Turner establishes with the reader is not dialogue but a tidal insistence on reflection, that if there is meaning in loss, there must be meaning in what precedes loss, in what is related to loss. There is no harm in such reflection, argues Here, Bullet, but, rather harm stems from the lack of it.” – The Franklin Journal
Brian Turner Interview with The Parlour Review
This interview took place at the House Hotel in Galway , April 2008. I had met Brian two weeks previously when he was reading at the Poetry Now festival in Dun Laoighaire. He returned to Galway as poet in residence for the Cuirt International Festival of Writing. In the course of this interview he speaks, among other things, about the duality of being a soldier and a poet and his experience of the Iraq war.
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There is one book that has been on my reading list for awhile and I finally picked it up this last week. My husband reads very regularly and read this one quite awhile ago. If you are a Christian and you live in America, you should read this book! It is titled, The Search For Christian America. I have read the first chapter and I already can’t believe how right on this book is regarding America’s Christian heritage. The authors of this book examine America’s “Christian heritage” and how it has affected Christianity in America and around the world. It is examines the historical roots of America and helps the reader to answer such questions as: How Christian is America’s Past? Was early America a distinct source of Christian values? What was the mix of Christian principles and baptized ideology in Puritan New England, the legacy of the Great Awakening, the American Revolution? How much Christian action is required to make a whole society Christian? Is the “Christian nation” concept harmful or helpful to effective Christian action in society? and the list goes on!
There are so many juicy quotes in just the first chapter that I was almost salivating as I read it, I could hardly wait to share it with you! So, if you want to read this with me, that would be great! Here’s one great quote that I appreciated. In this quote the author states that in examining America’s past one should not totally negate the influence of Christianity in our society.
“In making our case, we do not want to contend that Christian values have been absent from American history. On the contrary, we hope to show that there have been much commendable Christian belief, practice, and influence in the history of the United States and the colonies which formed the new country….We want to give due recognition to these positive Christian aspects of our history, for they have had a marked influence on the shape of modern American. There presence, we agree, justifies a picture of the United States as a singularly religious country.”
Another insightful quote deals with the idea that America is a special “chosen” nation by God.
“A third kind of question involves more theological considerations. Is it, after all, ever proper to speak of a Christian nation after the coming of Christ? From Scripture we know that Old Testament Israel enjoyed a special status as a nation under God. Modern evangelicals differ among themselves over whether the modern state of Israel remains special as a nation to God. But regardless of how a Christian feels about the modern Jewish nation, is it proper ever to look upon the American nation as the special agent of God in the world?”
Like I said, I’ve have only just started reading this book. So, I will do a full review of the book when I have finished. I strongly recommend reading this book if you want to be challenged in the idea that America is uniquely chosen by God and how that has molded our society and how that fits in with our extremely secular-humanistic society of today. My husband also wrote a post on his blog about this book. Enjoy! Thanks for reading!


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Lower Earley Library – Christmas Closure 2018
Lower Earley Library will be closed on Tuesday 25th December, Wednesday 26th December and Tuesday 1st January 2019.
The library will be closing at 1pm on Monday 24th December and at 4pm on Monday 31st December.
What’s on in Wokingham Libraries for Children
Storytime with the Christmas Fairy – Come and hear festive stories and meet the Christmas Fairy:
- Finchampstead Library Friday December 7th 11am to 11.30am
- Wokingham Library Tuesday December 11th 4pm to 4.30pm
- Woodley Library Saturday December 8th 11am to 11.30am
- Lower Earley Library Monday December 10th 11.15am to 11.45am
For children aged 8 and under, just drop in! With thanks to The Enchanted Players Theatre Company.
Wokingham Borough Libraries Christmas Events at Dinton Pastures
Christmas Rhymetime – Come and join Wokingham Borough Libraries for a special Festive themed rhymetime. Dress in your favourite Christmas jumper and sing along with festive tunes. Suitable for families with children aged 5 and under. £2 Charge per family – up to 2 adults and 2 children. Friday December 14th 11am to 11.45am
Snowy Tales – Come and hear some snow themed stories and songs, then create your own snowman mask to take home and a fun Christmas jumper activity. Suitable for 2 to 8 year olds, £2 Charge per child. Saturday December 15th 11am to 11.45am
Winter Mini Reading Challenge for Children
The Winter Mini Challenge encourages children to keep reading through the winter holidays by rewarding them for reading and reviewing three books. This year we are thrilled to partner with publisher Nosy Crow for an extra special challenge inspired by There’s A Yeti in the Playground!, the hilarious new book from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.
Taking part online – To take part in the Mini Challenge, children simply read three books of their choice, then rate and review them online at www.winterreadingchallenge.org.uk The Challenge starts on Saturday 1 December 2018 and finishes on Friday 11 January 2019, so there’s plenty of time to get involved! Books added to the website during this period will count towards unlocking the Mini Challenge rewards: a special certificate to print off and keep, and a Winter Challenge badge that will appear on the user’s website profile.
A selection of the events run by Wokingham are listed above, for more events visit: http://www.wokingham.gov.uk/libraries/whats-on-in-our-libraries/


One of my resolutions was to read 24 books in 2017. I reached the goal and look forward to aiming for it again in 2018. The list of what I read over the past year follows. It’s an assortment of American, French, English, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish and Spanish writers. Some are classics, some were recently published, and some I’ve read previously and wanted to revisit. I actually love to reread books, which is a good thing because we have an extensive collection and it helps save money.
1. Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad
2. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
3. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (reread)
4. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (reread)
5. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
6. 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
7. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
8. Submission by Francois Houellebecq
9. The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
10. Rabbit Run by John Updike (reread)
11. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (reread)
12. Remembrance of Things Past/also known as In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust – There are 7 volumes total, but I only read Swann’s Way and part of Within a Budding Grove (Madame Swann at Home). I’m still counting this as a book because it was over 650 pages.
13. A Sport and A Pastime by James Salter
14. Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
15. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (reread)
16. The Man of Feeling by Javier Marias
17. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
18. The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
19. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (reread)
20. The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series
21. St. Marks is Dead – The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street – by Ada Calhoun
22. The Ghost Writer by Phillip Roth (reread)
23. Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull (reread)
24. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
25. Harry Potter and The Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne
Things were less disciplined after I met the goal of 24 around November. I read some stories in both A Fistful of Fig Newtons by Jean Shepherd (repeat), and Collected Stories of Lydia Davis before ditching both for Harry Potter and The Cursed Child. I am such a big fan of the Harry Potter series and couldn’t believe I hadn’t read this yet.
Books are personal and it’s hard to recommend things to an anonymous internet audience. Every single book on the list was interesting to me and felt worthwhile. I could write a post about each but here are a few notes on the selection. I am pretty smitten with Zadie Smith and Phillip Roth, and am starting to feel that way about Javier Marias. Ernest Hemingway was probably an obnoxious friend/husband, but his writing is really All That. Lucia Berlin’s short stories are some of the best I’ve ever read. Houellebecq is controversial and provocative so that’s why I read his book. Barbara Pym appeals to my UK obsession – her book was like a bittersweet British comedy on PBS. Lagercrantz carries on the story of Lisbeth Salander well enough for me to continue reading the series. As a former literature student, I wanted to include books by writers I didn’t know well but are well-regarded, like Dag Solstad’s Shyness and Dignity, Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, and James Salter’s A Sport and A Pastime. Paul Auster’s skillful novel 4321 made me think I need to read more Paul Auster. I doubt I’ll revisit Proust, but glad I made the effort. I appreciate the merits of his phone-book sized work, but the slim Diving Bell and Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby is probably more meaningful to me. The book Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull is a favorite despite the tedious love story – the real power is found in sections when the narrator is an elderly man. Orwell’s description of working in Paris kitchens and living on a shoestring budget is travel writing at its best. And of course, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a cult favorite of many readers, dreamers, science fiction fans and travelers.
What were your favorite books of 2017? Do you love any of the authors I mentioned? Share a book recommendation with me!


Strickler wrote many wonderful vignettes about his parents,
and a few about himself growing up. These descriptions of my
grandparents and father revealed a good deal to me about why
I am who I am and where I get certain traits! One of the most
delightful days I ever spent was with my parents in their later
years, sitting in our yard on a sunny October day, reading aloud
these stories. Read a selection of David's writings and one
by his son, John Strickler, about our father.


Starbucks Coffee Replaced in Sunstream
Eco-friendly coffee is brought to library café
Published: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:09
Any person that gets a cup of coffee in the library this year will be sipping on coffee from a new, ecofriendly vendor.
This year Bronco Leaders For Environmental Justice Investigating Truth, also known as “BLEJIT,” succeeded in bringing in a direct trade vendor, The Community Agroecology Network, to Sunstream Café located in the library. Now, Starbucks coffee is no longer sold in the Sunstream Café.
The new coffee at Sunstream Café is sustainably grown. There are four farming communities in Mexico and Central America that the coffee comes from. The CAN links the farmers who grow the coffee to consumers.
The university as well as Bon Appétit contributed to making the transition. Bon Appétit planned the coffee tasting that took place in the library last year. The tasting was open to anyone passing through. At the end of the tasting, the results were clear — the coffee brought in by CAN was the top choice of students.
This new vendor introduces more variety to Santa Clara’s cafes so students have more freedom in chosing their beverage of choice.
Contact Mallory Miller at firstname.lastname@example.org or call (408) 554-4849..


In this section we share information about all things sustainability. Whether you're starting a garden or helping fight climate crisis, this section has something for you. One of the most popular sub-sections of Sustainable Living is our Seedling Catalog, an ever-growing catalog of native and non-native plants that can be grown in the region. Green Catalog contains authoritative details about growing time, care instructions, common plant diseases and more. In addition to the seedling catalog, you can also find useful resources on topics such as home gardening, waste reduction, and environmental stewardship.
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Christen’s First book in the Supranatural Life Series deals the with the universal truths involved in developing a Holy Spirit empowered life. Drawing from personal experience interwoven with Christen’s gift as a Bible teacher the Supranatural Life has been well recieved both by those starting out on the spiritual adventure of life through to experienced Church and ministry leaders.
“In The Supra-Natural Life, Christen brings a multi-faceted revelation concerning how to naturally live an unprecedented Christian life by the power of the Holy Spirit. This book is an invitation to the body of Christ to interactively fellowship with God and become a world changing, naturally-supernatural Christian. I have known Christen over twenty years and he lives what he shares in his book. I highly recommend this outstanding book.”
Ché Ahn, Senior Pastor, HROCK Church, Pasadena, CA
President, Harvest International Ministry International Chancellor, Wagner Leadership Institute
This wonderful book is the product of a life rich in testimony, wisdom, revelation and inheritance. It cannot fail to invite you to a greater awareness of living a life above the natural, doing so with excellent and intelligent insight! But I believe that it will do more than just inform or educate because the author has lived this journey. There is therefore an impartation to be given well beyond the mere reading of the book. I invite you to read it but as you do receive from it and the author the supra-natural anointing to live this life for yourself.
Paul Manwaring, Bethel Church, Redding CA Author of “What On earth Is Glory”
“Christen’s insights and understanding of the spiritual transformation and growth are profound. In this easy-to-read book Christen brings scripture alive to bring fresh revelation to live a ‘Supra-natural life’. Having experienced Christen’s unique teaching gift, it is great to see a book that can now reach a much wider audience.”
Stephen Klemich, Founder of Achievement Concepts and HeartStyles
Dr. Mara Klemich PhD, Psychologist and co-founder of HeartStyles
“Christen openly and humbly demonstrates that this is a journey wrought with challenges …But there is no greater adventure!”
Lynn Green, International Director, YWAM


About the UT Health Science Center Digital Archive
Evaluation & Selection
The Health Science Center Digital Archive presents a set of collections that are historically unique and significant. Selection of materials to include in the archive is based on a distinct set of criteria that supports the overall purpose of the Digital Archive.
The Health Science Center Digital Archive utilizes best practices in preservation, open standards in digitization, and metadata development. It extends formats throughout the life cycle of resources to allow for accessibility and discoverability to the greatest number of individuals.
Audience & Partners
The Health Science Center Digital Archive's primary goal is to provide digitized material to students, faculty, and staff of the UT Health Science Center. Additionally, the Health Science Center Digital Archive attempts, whenever possible, to provide open access to the community at large.
The Health Science Center Digital Archive librarians and staff will work with the educational community, historical organizations, and medical community and will also collaborate with local, state, and national digital consortia. The goal of these collaborations is to increase awareness and to seek partnerships to enhance the organization, resources, and effectiveness.
All collections are searchable using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and have been cataloged by a UTHSC medical cataloger.
This repository was made possible in part by a grant from the SBC Foundation in June, 2004.
For questions please contact the UTHSC Libraries at firstname.lastname@example.org or (210) 567-2450.


This handler generically creates a Cherwell object based on inputted JSON and returns an id of the new object after creation. Execution starts by retrieving an Access Token from Cherwell using the client id/secret and username/password info values. Once that is successfully retrieved, the Object Name is translated into a Business Object Id by using the /getbusinessobjectsummary endpoint. Next, a call to /getbusinessobjectemplate is made so the handler can exchange the Display Names (that are used in the inputted Object JSON string) for Field Ids for each of the fields that should be populated on create. Lastly, that translated JSON object is passed to /savebusinessobject to actually create the object in Cherwell. If the call is successful, the id of the newly created object will be returned by the handler.
Determine what to return if an error is encountered.
Readable name of the object to retrieve (ie. Incident).
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There’s so much that happens in our lifetime and as expected, sometimes we forget about the goodness and faithfulness of God. This 6 x 9, lined prayer journal serves not only as a reminder but also as a way of strengthening your faith when you face challenging times.
Prayer journals are excellent for recording any of the following:

Daily devotionals

Prayers

Gratitudes

Personal Thoughts

Life events that tested/reinforced your faith

And much more

You are free to write down anything that you feel brings you closer to God. We chose to make this an unguided journal so you have the freedom to create.
There are hundreds of options to choose from. Just copy and paste Dartan Creations Prayer Journal into the Amazon search bar to see all of the options.
bound: 110 pages
publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Jou edition (May 5, 2017)
isbn: 1546481117, 978-1546481119,
weight: 7.8 ounces (


5.83 x 8.27 inches
“Soup is Served!” the call goes, and the reader finds Miss Pumpernickel Bread naked with a ladle serving an entire town from her bathtub. The final portion, which has been absorbed by her body, she serves directly from her bladder into the bowl of a seven-year-old boy. Amidst a standing ovation, Kevin eats his soup, Miss Pumpernickel Bread dies and a legend begins. Kevin’s stomach becomes the site of a personal and social identity crisis that not only causes a lifetime of psychological indigestion but also captivates the media and bolsters the economy of newly named Souptown.
DAVID COLOSI launches his cartoonish literary satire at religion, the economy and the media like a Brothers Karamazov cocktail. In a blast of opposing ideologies where objective truth is replaced by fabricated confusion, the reader sits in the dust with only one faith restored: fiction is the only truth worth believing in. Though completed in 1997, Sarah FoldEconomy’s "greater purpose" to bring down the twin towers of Capitalism and Christianity, the political and ideological strategies of the GPPP, and the aggressive politicization of Miss Pumpernickel Bread’s body resonate with recent parallels. Reminiscent of novels by authors like Robert Coover, Italo Calvino and Ishmael Reed, the seriousness with which this novel takes its comic execution places it on the bookshelf somewhere between The Adventures of Pinocchio and Foucault's Pendulum; Alice in Wonderland and Infinite Jest; Tristram Shandy and House of Leaves; and The Confederacy of Dunces and The Song of Percival Peacock.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DAVID COLOSI was born in Fairport, New York, and has lived in Brooklyn since 1994. He is the author of two exhibition documents, Imaginary Numbers and Other Calculated Fictions (2011) and The Life and Thoughts of a Retired Apostrophe (2010); a theoretical work, Towards a Three-Dimensional Literature, Part 1, (2012); and his poems have been collected in Laughing Blood (2004) and anthologized in From Totems to Hip-Hop: a Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 (2003). Miss Pumpernickel Bread is his first novel. He received a BA from SUNY Plattsburgh (1989), an MFA from California Institute for the Arts (1991) and an MA from New York University (2006) in art and literary practice and theory. His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2009 he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for his artworks that unite literature and visual art. The Center for Three-Dimensional Literature (3dlit.org) archives his projects.
photo: Hidemi Takagi Bastien


Olive, Walter and Malcolm Glass
Olive’s Grave Site Roman Catholic Section 1 Row 1 Plot 18
Walter’s Grave Site Church of England Section 7 Row 1 Plot 21
Malcolm’s Grave Site Roman Catholic Section 1 Row 1 Plot 19
Olive Glass, Walter Glass and Malcolm Glass
Olive Glass, daughter of Walter Glass, died 11 December 1919, aged 7 years.
Walter Glass, Superintendent of Kariong Boys Home, died 8th December, 1922, aged 39 years.
This sad tale just makes you feel for the poor mother who over a few years lost her whole family one by one.
First little Olive, the Walter the father and finally followed by her only son Malcolm. Take note of the dates of the memorial notices 1922 and the day of death of Walter.
Unless otherwise stated all newspaper referrals are from the Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate (1906 – 1954)
18th December, 1919
It is with deep regret that we have to report the death of Olive Mary Glass, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Glass, of the Farm Home for Boys, Gosford, who died on Thursday last after a very short illness. The dear little child was deeply loved by all who knew her and the greatest sympathy is felt for her grief stricken parents. The funeral, which was largely attended, took place at the Point Clare Cemetery on Saturday, the coffin being carried from the hearse to the grave by six of her young playmates and school-fellows, viz., Molly Egan, Cedric Wood, Lucy Moase, Georgina Wood, Marion Gillies and Mary Jopson.
Many beautiful wreaths and flowers were sent by those who knew and loved little Olive.
The cortege was met at Point Clare road by many of her former school mates, who marched at the head of the procession.
9th December, 1920
GLASS. — In sad but loving memory of our darling little daughter and sister, Olive Mary, who died 11th December, 1919, aged 7 years and 1 month.
So sadly missed. We loved her in life, she is dear to us still, But in grief we must bow to God’s holy will.
Our sorrow is great our loss hard to bear, But Angel’s will tend to our darling with care.
— Inserted by her loving father, mother and brother, Malcolm.
7th December, 1922
GLASS. — In sacred and loving memory of our darling little daughter, Olive Mary, who passed away December 11th, 1919.
In life, dearly loved, In death a beautiful memory — but so sadly missed.
Inserted by her loving father and mother, and brother, Malcolm.
21st December, 1922
MRS. GLASS, of William Street, Gosford, wishes to express her sincere, heartfelt thanks for the many personal expressions, letters of sympathy, and floral tributes received in connection with her beloved husband’s (Mr. Walter Glass ‘s) death. Special thanks are due to all those kind, and loving friends for visits and sacrifices made to attend Mr Glass’s bedside throughout his long and painful illness, and to the Rector, Rev. Arthur Renwick. Also the devotion shown, sympathy and assistance extended to me by the late Mr. Glass’s Masonic Brethren of Woy Woy and Wyong Lodges, and to the Master and Brethren of his own Lodge —Lodge Rising Sun
9 December 1926
GLASS. — In sacred and loving memory of our dearly beloved husband, and Daddy, Walter Glass, who passed away 8th Dec., 1922; also, our dear little daughter and sister, Olive, who died 11th Dec., 1919.Their cheery ways and smiling faces, Are treasures to recall; And they both died beloved by all.
Inserted by their loved ones, Bessie and Malcolm Glass.
Then eight years later
21st February, 1934
DEATH OF GOSFORD BOY.
The sad death ‘occurred at his mother’s home at Stanmore on Wednesday last of Malcolm, only son of Mrs. ‘Elizabeth Glass, and the late Walter Glass, at the time an officer at the Gosford Training School, who died at Gosford several years ago. Misfortune seems to have dogged this family for years, the only daughter, Olive, passing away some time before her father. The news of last Wednesday ‘s sad happening has caused widespread regret among the residents of the Gosford District, where the family was held in the highest esteem. The interment took place in the Catholic portion of Point Clare cemetery on Thursday last when the remains were laid to rest alongside those of his little sister. The deepest sympathy of the people of Gosford is expressed for the bereaved mother.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charna Ainsworth is a Mississippi novelist and an award-winning poet. Ainsworth wrote her debut novel, The Letter, over a six week period. It is the first book in The Letter trilogy. It was followed by Mountain of God, a Christian Fiction novella. Unlikely Christian Poetry Collection is the first book of poetry published and it was followed by The Letter’s Shades of Persuasion, the second book in The Letter trilogy. True Tales of the Supernatural The Ouija Board is the first installment of a series based on true events. Remember Me Poetry Collection is an anthology of insightful and inspiring mainstream poetry. Me Too Their Time is Up is a collection of poetry, written over a two day period. It was inspired by the recent movement of women around the world to end sexual violence. When she isn’t writing, she’s reading, walking in nature or spending time with loved ones. Charna Ainsworth lives in South Mississippi, outside of a small southern town with her family.


As with most obituaries, most of a person’s life is left out for reasons of space and cost, and this is true with the Maynard’s Potts obituary. Here is an account of what could have been included if we lived in a perfect world.
He was part of what Tom Brokaw called the “greatest generation.” Brokaw said they survived the Depression; served the country during World War II; and become involved in their communities as volunteers, elected officials or church leaders.
Maynard did exactly that. During the Great Depression, years of hardship had taught him and the people on the reservation to depend on important survival skills, such as an ability to improvise. Not to be overlooked were a few welcome federal work programs that became the key to managing in a severe economic period of this country.
How did Maynard and the Potawatomi people weather these hard times? They only had to look to the no-so-distant past and remember the removal period still fresh in the minds of many elders by virtue of tribal stories preserved by the oral history tradition. The lessons of the past would help the Potawatomi overcome adversity. Inner strength and character would help the people on the reservation cope with the trauma of the times. Yes, adversity has a way of building character, but it also prepared men like Maynard and many others who would serve in the upcoming war. Surviving the Great Depression was just one chapter in his life and it did a fair job of preparing him for the next huge event in his life.
His ascent into World War II started when he left the United States from San Francisco January 23, 1943, aboard the troop transport Nordom. As they passed under the Golden Gate Bridge, a man in the back of the boat shouted, “Golden Gate, Golden Gate, be back in ‘48.” Of course, the war didn’t last that long, but it seemed like an eternity for these young men. The troop transport traveled one month and one day to get to the war zone in New Guinea, a tropical island in the Pacific north of Australia. The unit aboard the 532nd Amphibian was attached to the Ninth Division of the Australian Army which had just returned from two to three years of combat in Africa.
It was because of the bravery of the Australians on several occasions that Maynard was able to survive the war. They were ready to fight under any circumstances and showed no fear. In April 1943, the American unit went to Milne Bay, New Guinea. During the first two weeks of which they went through 118 bombings by the Japanese. The bombing started at six a.m. and ended 20 hours later at two a.m. Because of the lack of air support, many Americans died during those initial days.
While on this first “island hopping” boat ride, Maynard saw Japanese suicide planes take out three American ships one day and seven ships the next. Many Americans died there. It was hard to be at sea or on land because no place was safe. Throughout the war, Maynard was to see men wounded and killed, and he was to experience countless nerve- wracking bombings. But the hardest part was the fear and never knowing what would happen next.
His life after the war was far from easy. He struggled with the aftermath and as is the case with many combat veterans, their actions are never fully understood and for some people who could never fathom the scars of war, it is simply too easy to judge. Today it is called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but back then, veterans had to deal with it the best they could.
For Maynard Potts, there are more accomplishments in his life, although being a combat veteran would have defined his life by itself; there is more to his life than that. Again those accomplishments never make an obituary. Maynard and Coralene Keesis married October 2, 1942 and raised a large family in definite hard times. To cope with those hard times and the nightmares of war, one of the constants in both their lives was their absolute dedication to the Indian religion of the Potawatomi. She cooked at home and at the services themselves. As she once said, “being a member of the religion involves more than sitting there looking pretty,” and she was right. There is so much work to be done and it has to be shared by all to make any religion work.
For years, Maynard went over to the Drum Building and cleaned it up before the services or went out and cut wood. As a respected elder, he didn’t have to do that but he did. Both he and Coralene led a long life and will be remembered for their work to make the Potawatomi religious life better. Maynard had a gift and that was the ability to sing the songs of the religion; he worked tirelessly with younger members to learn the songs and help others learn the Potawatomi language. Maynard once said that when he survived the war, he was going to dedicate his life to his mother’s religion and he did.
Maynard made a point to attend every religious service he could on the reservation, rarely missing until he became sick in the winter of 2007-8. That is called dedication in any circle. He believed in the power of prayer and when he was close to leaving this life a couple of times during his hospital stay, his family held had a prayer service for him. He pulled through those two critical times. The power of prayer made it possible for him to stay with his family for a few more precious days.
He also had an extraordinary memory and told of events long ago and could remember so many Indian names. Many young people, and some not so young, would find their way to his door to seek out advice on religion, Indian names and maybe to hear the stories of old. Hopefully people will remember what he told them.
When he died in April of 2008, after surviving 92 winters, Maynard had one of the largest funerals ever on the Potawatomi reservation. The Drum Building was full with people paying their respects to a man who helped others aplenty in his life. During this service, many positive words were spoken about his life-long dedication to the religion and it was all true. During some funerals, it is rare for people to get up and talk to share their feelings, but not this time. This was an indicator of the influence Maynard Potts had on the people of the Potawatomi reservation. He deserved the positive service.
It wasn’t all serious though. Maynard was remembered for his baseball abilities, being a number one fan of the local fast-pitch teams, and to see his granddaughter Tara play basketball in high school and her first year in college. Because of inclement weather, he missed the biggest scoring game of her high school days, when she scored 35 points against Nemaha High School. Nonetheless, he enjoyed going to the rest of the games.
Maynard was the Number One fan of Kansas University Basketball. He stayed home and watched every one of those game on t.v. When they weren’t on, he watched baseball on ESPN. He often talked about the young Winnebago pitcher Joba Chamberlain of the Yankees and the Navajo infielder named Jacoby Ellsbury of the Boston Red Sox.
Maynard died a few days before KU beat Memphis 75-68 in the National Championship game. In fact, the wake occurred at the same time as the big game. The large crowd at the wake were huge KU fans too, but they went to the funeral instead of watching the game on t.v. This showed the deep respect Maynard had in this community. Of course, that didn’t prevent people from checking their cell phones for updates when they went outside. He would want it that way and everybody knew he was keeping up on that score too.
All in all, Maynard and Coraline left a legacy that their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren can be proud of and an example to follow. For the rest of the people on the reservation neither will be forgotten.


I have been seriously remiss in my intellectual (and wifely) support! I haven’t even urged you to buy, read, and comment on hubby’s book – The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI (Bradford Books, MIT Press)!
Preview The Allure of Machinic Life at Google Books.
I’m a little annoyed about the title, since I preferred “The Lure of Machinic Life” to “The Allure of Machinic Life.” However, the absolutely wonderful bit on me me me in the acknowledgments almost makes up for it. The book cover is extra-special, too, because it features a suggestive artwork by our friend Joseph Nechvatal.
The book is a philosophically-minded constructive analysis that answers Heidegger’s critique of technology in subtle and completely unexpected ways. It builds on the understandings of such thinkers as Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Baudrillard and Kittler, but it’s also a very original tour through areas of research that haven’t been connected or critiqued from this kind of perspective. It’s worth the read if only for the interpretive history of research on (and ideas about) artificial life.
I’m biased, but I’m also a pretty good critical reader – and this book is fantastic. I think it’s been mislabeled by the marketing people, so I’m afraid that it won’t be read – and that would really be a shame.
“John Johnston is to be applauded for his engaging and eminently readable assessment of the new, interdisciplinary sciences aimed at designing and building complex, life-like, intelligent machines. Cybernetics, information theory, chaos theory, artificial life, autopoiesis, connectionism, embodied autonomous agents—it’s all here!”
—Mark Bedau, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College, and Editor-in-Chief, Artificial Life
In The Allure of Machinic Life, John Johnston examines new forms of nascent life that emerge through technical interactions within human-constructed environments—”machinic life”—in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence. With the development of such research initiatives as the evolution of digital organisms, computer immune systems, artificial protocells, evolutionary robotics, and swarm systems, Johnston argues, machinic life has achieved a complexity and autonomy worthy of study in its own right.
Drawing on the publications of scientists as well as a range of work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory, but always with the primary focus on the “objects at hand”—the machines, programs, and processes that constitute machinic life—Johnston shows how they come about, how they operate, and how they are already changing. This understanding is a necessary first step, he further argues, that must precede speculation about the meaning and cultural implications of these new forms of life.
Developing the concept of the “computational assemblage” (a machine and its associated discourse) as a framework to identify both resemblances and differences in form and function, Johnston offers a conceptual history of each of the three sciences. He considers the new theory of machines proposed by cybernetics from several perspectives, including Lacanian psychoanalysis and “machinic philosophy.” He examines the history of the new science of artificial life and its relation to theories of evolution, emergence, and complex adaptive systems (as illustrated by a series of experiments carried out on various software platforms). He describes the history of artificial intelligence as a series of unfolding conceptual conflicts—decodings and recodings—leading to a “new AI” that is strongly influenced by artificial life. Finally, in examining the role played by neuroscience in several contemporary research initiatives, he shows how further success in the building of intelligent machines will most likely result from progress in our understanding of how the human brain actually works.
Language is not only a virus (grin) but also an essential bit of the block of the discourse network that co-evolves with technological change and human action to give rise to the computational assemblage; or, machinic life is always already within you (and without you) but here are some of the details.
Now – go forth and buy many copies, and tell all thine friends (and thine enemies as well) to read and discuss.
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An Ode to Santorini...
Updated: Mar 17, 2021
A different kind of story. A poetic journey. A story about a traveller seeking the magic of Santorini, as described in the poem of Odysseas Elytis, "Ode to Santorini".
Shot and edited by Socrates Rivers .
On behalf of WAYMORE Films.
Starring and B-Roll shooting by John Diamantopoulos.
Theme song "Sound of the Earth" by de Joie.
Intro Song "The Seed of Patience" by Kleopas Synastria Project.
Abstracts of the poem "Ode to Santorini" by Odysseas Elytis are recited by Mike Jfvo.
For those who want to travel to the breathtaking island of Santorini!


The Central Library of Semmelweis University, the College of the Directors of University Libraries in Hungary and the Hungarian Medical Library Association are pleased to invite you to the conference called
“INFORMATIO SCIENTIFICA – INFORMATIO MEDICATA 2011”.
The conference will be held for the 8th time between the 21st and 23rd of September, 2011.
Just as last year, the venue is the well-known Balassi Institute (H-1016 Budapest, Somlo út 51), where during the conference you may participate high-quality presentations so far as you are interested to service innovations of medical information.
The main themes of “Informatio Scientifica – Informatio Medicata 2011” are library consortia and the domestic and international aspects of them, and discussions of other important topics like library management and public health.
Professional lecturers are invited, not just from Hungary but also from abroad.
In addition to scientific lectures and workshops, visitors are very welcome to take a good look at professional exhibitions and join the social programs.
This event also supplies place and time for closing “TÁMOP 3.2.4-09/1/KMR-2010-0023 Semmelweis Tudáshálózat” (Semmelweis Knowledge-Networks) tender.
All visitors are welcome at the event!
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Poems for kids should be delightful and entertaining so that it helps in building confidence in young children to learn something new to read every day. Poetry for children captures the various emotions of childhood
Poems for kids should be delightful and entertaining so that it helps in building confidence in young children to learn something new to read every day. Poetry for children captures the various emotions of childhood such as fun, laughter, hope and helps them to explore the world through their inquisitive nature. The English Poems For Kids has a huge reservoir of beautiful poems, which greatly help in keeping young minds engaged and entertained in its rhythm.
When kids are exposed to poetry at an early age, they are likely to develop a love for poetry and enhance their reading and spoken English power. poems for kids help children to learn new words, practise reading words aloud and express the emotions conveyed through those words. Kids tend to like rhyming poems as it is easier for them to remember and retain the concepts in mind.
For instance, reading English poems for Class 1 tends to make the reading process an enjoyable experience for a first-grader and ignites his/her passion as he/she develops an understanding for the written or spoken word. Poems for kids are usually a great way for a poet to express his/her heartfelt thoughts and emotions creatively. There are various benefits to choosing the right poems for kids to read.
As a matter of fact, poems for kids are not just a medium to render information to young minds but also to make learning a delightful experience for them. Therefore, parents and teachers must encourage poetry recitation among kids so that they can learn new words in a fun way. They can try to introduce several categories of poems for kids to captivate their interests and help them cultivate admiration towards poetry.
While choosing English poems for Class 1, it is imperative for parents and teachers to analyse the mindset and likeness of children and incorporate the learning of poems. To begin with, funny poems are definitely a great way to introduce poetry to children. Kids always like to have fun. What best could be to teach some good words and build their vocabulary and reading skills by making them read amusing and funny poems?
Parents and teachers should keep in mind that the ultimate aim of teaching poetry to kids is to help him/her cherish and appreciate the beauty of words used in rhythm and develop their interest towards the language. Besides, they should note that English poems for kids should render a positive approach in the child and help him/her to understand the essence of reading it.
Poems for kids should be easy to retain, recollect and understand. Short poems are, therefore, the best alternatives for kids to learn and memorise. Due to this reason, English poems for Class 1 are written in simple words so that kids can relate to it and have an enjoyable time while reading or reciting it. BYJU’S provides the most intriguing and captivating learning experience to kids as we offer poems for kids of primary classes starting from Class 1, 2 and 3. So, what are you waiting for? Subscribe to BYJU’S today and observe the fun learning process that your child experiences as he/she soars academically.


Happy Tuesday and Happy National Tell a Fairytale Day!! That’s right, February 26 is all about celebrating fairytales. Naturally Kym and Kris have chosen to take what’s lovely and beautiful and seemingly happy-ever-after and turn it on it’s morbid little head. Because if you really believe all those Disney happy endings, honey sit down, because the truth is downright scary. AND mugly.
First of all, the fairytales we all know and love have been around for centuries (the oldest known tale called “The Smith and The Devil” is believed to be 7,000 years old!). Among the most well known set of stories published in the early 19th century were by librarian brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as a way to prevent the stories of their Germanic heritage being lost forever. Prior to that, most tales were passed down in oral tradition as moral teachings and guidance. Apparently, telling children not to wander into the forest for fear of being baked by a witch was a great way to keep them playing in the front yard.
But beyond just moralizing opportunities, the tales were a snapshot of the social norms of the day. The value (or lack thereof, let’s face it) of women and children, the struggles of day to day existence, famine, disease…many of the stories we fawn over today as lovely and feel-good really were quite gruesome. So much so that over time some storylines actually became omitted. (Do you know what the ugly step sisters actually did to get that damned slipper to fit?? DO YOU??) We’ll warn you now…many include the deaths of women and children and there seemed to be just a smidge of cannibalism going on. Remember, famine.
Interesting side-note: according to this article History of Fairytales, by Susie McGee, the oral origins of the stories made famous by male authors like the Grimms, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault, “[go] back much further than the 17th century, and many of these stories are actually just retellings of age-old tales, many created by women and retold throughout history” and “women typically created fairy tales with a distinct purpose in mind-to protest the societal constraints that were placed upon them and to emphasis their own rights as women in a man’s world.”
Mostly the takeaway is we’re REALLY glad we’re 21st century women and that our kids have no idea how great their lives are.
Speaking of grim, those brothers are the ones mainly responsible for the rest of the world learning about Little Snow White, The Golden Goose, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Brave Little Tailor, The Pied Piper, and Rumplestiltskin.
But they’re not the only ones who you know about even if you don’t know you know them. Mm-hmm.
In France, Charles Perrault created the classic Tales of Mother Goose including a version of Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, as well as Puss In Boots, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, and Bluebeard. In Denmark Hans Christian Andersen gained fame with The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Snow Queen, and many others.
Clearly, ticking off popular Disney movie title after movie title after movie title, one doesn’t have to look very far in today’s entertainment industry to understand how far-reaching the legacies of these stories have been.
Don’t even get us started on how all the happy-ending purty la la renditions have caused a whole generation of people to expect unrealistic life arcs. Which makes them easily offended. Which makes life annoying a lot of times. There’s no scientific data to back that statement, we just feel VURRRY strongly that that is accurate. Just an observation.
We ARE glad certain huge movie makers are creating better female characters who are heroic, brave, and can save their own hide and a couple other people’s as well. And they don’t necessarily have to marry anyone in the end either. You go Elsa and Anna!
Anyway. Hey. Look. Looklookie here. Listen. Don’t mind us. Have we mentioned we’re getting older and hormonal? OF COURSE we’re going to find the bitching in the pudding (by the way, the story behind Jack Horner is kind of cool)…but don’t let us ruin a perfectly amazing opportunity to crack open your favorite Beauty and the Beast illustrated book and read it to a loved one (including yourself) if you’re so inclined. Because truth…mugly truth that is…be told, we’re suckers for happily ever after, so bring on the sanitized versions dear friends. Let’s all d’awwww together.
For more information on the articles cited in this episode and blog post please visit the following:
How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale by Jack Zipes
History of Fairy Tales by Susie McGee
The True Stories Behind Classic Fairy Tales by Valerie Ogden
And, if you’re motivated, unlike Kris, to write your very own fairytale, feel free to check this article out: Exploring genre | How to write a fairy tale
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Mathew Moss came to Texas from Tennessee when he was quite young. He enlisted in Sherman's Regiment during the Texas Revolution and served in the defeat of Santa Anna at San Jacinto in 1836. For these services, he received from the Republic of Texas a land grant located in Llano County. In 1838, he married Mary Ann Boyce, daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth Boyce of Missouri. Mathew and Mary Ann Moss lived in Fayette County before settling on her sub-division of her father's head-right in Travis County. They lived there until 1857 when they sold her land. As part of the sale they took in trade over 100 head of cattle branded for her. They moved their family and the cattle from Travis County to land in Llano County where Mathew believed there was a rich silver mine near Bullhead Mountain. It was never found. They had nine children. They were Julia, James, Charles, Stephen, William, Mathew, John, Elizabeth and Aaron. Charles and Aaron became the founders of the Heritage ranch being honored. Aaron Furman Moss & Etta Passmore Moss with their children: Luke, Mark, & Myrtle Aaron F. Moss was born in 1864 on his father's land grant in Llano County. His mother died when he was two and his father died in 1875. They were buried in the Moss Cemetery at the old homestead. He was reared by his oldest sister, Julia (Slator), and his older brother, Charles, who was his legal guardian. In 1882 when Aaron was 18 years old, he joined his brother in purchasing from Mary Maverick 30,000 acres which they added to their cattle ranching operation. Originally they had Longhorns, then crossed them with Durhams and later phased those out with Polled Herefords. They continued adding land that ran into the thousands of acres. Later, some of that land was sold in order to make long-range improvements on the original land.
The brothers were plagued by Indian raids. The climax of their troubles with Indians came at the Packsaddle Indian Fight in which Aaron and Charles fended off the attackers at home and protected the stock while three of their brothers fought at Packsaddle Mountain. The Mosses built their first fences of rail or rock, which eventually proved too expensive. As soon as barbed wire was invented, they built the first fences made with wire in Llano County. Fence cutters, however, continually cut the wire fences. The Mosses also built earthen ponds by using teams and scrapers, and dug wells by hand for stock water.
In November of 1897, the Moss Brothers effected a partition of their undivided one-half interest in approximately 30,000 acres, except for 1,200 acres occupied by the Enchanted Rock, which they held in common. Aaron Moss bought 25,000 more acres in Kinney County, and that land is the present site of Alamo Village. He later traded that land to his brother-in-law, Damon Slator, and always maintained that he "got the best of the deal" for his 5,000 acres northwest of Llano. Aaron Moss was married to Etta (Passmore), with whom he had three children, Mark, Luke and Myrtle (Inks). In 1946, Luke Moss received title to 1,226 of his father's land and later added 1,161 more acres on which he raised Polled Herefords. While he was still a boy, Luke Moss was given by his father the major responsibility of moving more than 100 horses by horse-herding to the Kinney County ranch. The round trip was made twice a year and took many weeks to complete.
Luke Moss took an active part in civic and community projects. He was an organizer and served as president of the Hill Country Livestock Raisers Association. He served on the Board of the Central Texas Electric Cooperative and was chairman of the Board of the First Christian Church. He also worked on the Texas Christian University Development Board. Moss was also active in the Llano County Soil and Water Conservation District and actively pursued brush control and water development practices. He also was a contributor to the Screw-worm Eradication Program. In addition to the land he acquired and bought for his ranch, Luke Moss received by partition 4,790 and bought 1,173 acres of other land that is not part of Dutch Mountain Ranch. He owned a total of 8,350 acres. He was married to Maud (Kendrick) and they had two daughters. They were Ann Etta (Hall) and Louise (Etheredge). Because he was a well-known and highly-respected rancher, the House of Representatives of the 59th Legislature set aside a page in the Journal to pay tribute to Luke Moss and adjourned that day in his memory.


Tom Raw - The Griffin (1828): A burlesque poem in twelve cantos, illustrated by twenty-five engravings, descriptive of the adventures of a cadet in the East India Company's service by Civilion Officer
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Tom Raw – The Griffin (1828), is burlesque in twelve cantos, originally published with twenty-five engravings. It subject was the life of East India Company cadet, from his recruitment in Britain, to his settling in India. The work offers a glimpse into Anglo-Indian social life, manners, and self-perceptions. Based on Charles D’Oyly’s personal observations from his varied and rich experiences mostly in Bengal. A “griffin” according to Hobson-Jobson refers to “One newly arrived in India, and unaccustomed to Indian ways and peculiarities. The misfortunes and adventures of a company neophyte continue to be fresh and amusing even centuries after their first publication.
Charles D'Oyly (1781–1845)
Son of Sir John Hadley D’Oyly, a high-ranking company official in Murshidabad, Charles was educated in England and came back to India in 1797. His professional career included postings as Collector of Dacca, Opium Agent in Bihar, and Senior Member of the Board of Customs, Salt, and Opium. He received knighthood after his retirement in 1838. The greater part of his last years was spent in Italy where he died in September 1845.
Charles D’Oyly was praised as front-ranking “gentleman artist,” becoming an important figure in the amateur artist scene in India. He left behind an extensive oeuvre including legendary works such as the Views of Calcutta and its Environs (published posthumously in 1848). His contribution to dissemination of lithograph technology in India is also noteworthy.
Studio Orientalia’s edition of Tom Raw is based on a copy of the first edition of 1828 printed by J. Moyes, with colored aquatints and lithographs from the workshop of Rudolf Ackermann, London.
Scanned with latest rare book scanner technology in Berlin and color corrected and printed in New Delhi, this reproduction is a quality product.


March 2, 2017 by wendy
Super Scratch Programming Adventure! as the title implies combines programming with adventure. It not only teaches the reader how to program in Scratch, but also engages the reader with an action-packed storyline.
Scratch is a graphical programming language that is designed for young people and other beginning programmers. Using Scratch, you can design and create interactive animations, stories, games, art, and music by simply dragging and dropping coloured blocks. You can even upload your projects to the Internet to share with friends, family, and people from all over the world.
A solar storm unleashes the Dark Wizard from the digital world. He and his Dark Minions attempt to take over the real world, but Scratchy, Mitch, and the Cosmic Defenders are determined to protect the universe from the Dark Wizard’s plans.
The story progresses through a series of stages, where each stage presents a challenge from the Dark Wizard. Scratchy, Mitch, and the Cosmic Defenders must solve each challenge using directions from a secret manual. The reader must follow the directions to help complete the programming missions, and protect the balance of the universe.
What I love most about this book is that it combines literacy with computing. I used this book with a class of 10 students between ages 8 and 10, and they were all captivated by the story. Because the story gave the programming projects purpose, my students were motivated to complete each mission, and they were excited to find out what would happen next.
The story also blends learning from other subject areas. In one stage, the Dark Wizard takes control of the Louvre museum and all of its art in Paris. To complete the programming challenge, my students created a quiz with questions about the Louvre and the Mona Lisa.
Each programming mission demonstrates a different type of Scratch project and comes with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions. In this way, the projects cover a wide range of concepts. They also introduce a variety of features and tricks in Scratch.
What I personally enjoyed when working through the programming projects with my students was the movie references. There are references to Indiana Jones, The Matrix, and Harry Potter. Although the book is designed for young learners and beginning programmers, I think everyone, from young to old, from beginner to expert, would have fun with this book.
My only concern is that there is a big leap in terms of length from the first project to the second. The first project can be completed in one sitting. My students between the ages of 8 and 10 completed the project in under an hour. All of the following projects, however, are longer, and may require two or more sittings.
There are two editions of the book. One is blue and covers Scratch 1.4, which is the older downloadable version of Scratch. The other is green and covers Scratch 2.0, which includes both the online and newer downloadable versions of Scratch. Even though the second edition is more up to date, I was able to use the first edition with my students, who completed the projects using Scratch 2.0 online.
You can download the projects for this book from No Starch Press, which includes complete working projects, blank projects, custom sprites, and a brief Getting Started with Scratch guide written by the Scratch team.
The reason why they provide both complete working projects and blank projects is to support different learning styles. The complete working projects allow young learners to explore and build on the projects while the blank projects allow students to add their own programming by following the instructions in the book. In both cases, students have the opportunity to improve the scripts, and customize and extend the projects.
The website also links to additional resources for educators:
Super Scratch Programming Adventure! is written by the Learning through Engineering, Art, and Design (LEAD) Project, which was founded in 2005 by the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups in partnership with the creators of Scratch at the MIT Media Lab and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.


Stop the Dyslexia Summer Slide!
It’s a fact that, whatever your child’s reading level, there’s a chance their reading will regress over the summer holidays. Known as the “Summer Slide”, your child is likely to return to school in September with a lower reading age than he has now. This is particularly true of the child with dyslexia, who is likely to be a reluctant reader anyway.
How can a book possibly compete with films, You Tube or their PlayStation, right? But it’s important for the dyslexic child to keep reading over the holidays and beat that “Summer Slide”.
What is the Summer Reading Challenge?
The UK’s biggest reading event is taking place in your local library. It’s aimed at children aged 4 to 11 – and it’s free!
Get down to your local library – staff and young volunteers are waiting to sign your child up and even give them some free fun stuff to get them started on the Challenge. Every year there’s a different theme; this year it’s Animal Agents, with artwork by Tony Ross (illustrator of the Little Princess. Horrid Henry and lots more)! And if you tell the library staff your child has dyslexia, they’re going to super helpful!
Your child reads six books over the summer – and collects rewards along the way! There’s a fun Summer Reading Challenge website where your child can log the books they have read, play games and enter competitions.
5 tips to help your dyslexic child enjoy the Summer Reading Challenge
I know what you’re thinking; my child is dyslexic – she or he hates reading! Well, here are 5 tips to encourage your child to take part in the Summer Reading Challenge:
Let your child choose what she wants to read. She can choose from joke books, non-fiction or spot-the-difference books. Remember all reading is good reading!
Choose from audio books, graphic novels, e-books or a book from the dyslexia-friendly publisher, Barrington Stoke. They all count!
Revisit an all-time favourite. So what if she’s read the Wildwitch books a thousand times – who will know?
Take time to chat with your child about the books they have read – and encourage them to chat with the staff and young volunteers in the library too.
Finally, make reading time fun (and quick!) – tell your child a quick 10 minutes is all she has to read. That way she might come back for more tomorrow!
So make this the summer your dyslexic child gets into reading!
Head down to your local library now. You never know, this could be the summer your child switches off the Playstation and picks up a book!


The Youthful Adventures of Damon Dukirk is an eight part, poetic-comic monologue written by Kieran Carroll and performed by Brooklyn based actor, Zach Wegner.
The opening parts of the work were performed in New York festivals in 2016 and 2017. The complete eight part work is currently being redrafted for an upcoming American season in 2020.
The Youthful Adventures of Damon Dukirk is an episodic monologue about the peripatetic and hedonistic life of a poet who moves from great triumphs to dismal failures. It is both comedy and tragedy. Utilizing a combination of ornate and prosaic language, Damon Dukirk speaks of the successes, the poor decisions, the romantic dreams and great hopes he has for his literary life.
Beginning in the unnamed province of his birth, Damon Dukirk takes an idiosyncratic path through central Germany, Iceland, Portugal, Sydney and into the Pacific Ocean. Dukirk moves blindly and quickly from an anachronism, to a cult figure, to the great dreamer of world poetry. Along the way, other characters help and infuriate: Frankie from Frankfurt, his financial benefactor, Cavendish Moulash, a gothic singer-songwriter who is popular in Portugal, a girlfriend who is now a major literary success and a sadistic arts bureaucrat determined to make him suffer for his art.
It’s a work about idealism and a lack of practicality, of hedonism and romanticism, of long nights out and the joy and creating new writing. It relishes language and anecdote. The writing attempts both a spirited high energy and a self-absorbed, comic melancholy. The play is also a rites of passage story, but with Dukirk growing up much later than many others!


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Ella Enchanted is a wonderful modern fantasy story about a young girl who has been cursed since birth.Ella is an outspoken, strong-willed girl who unfortunately is given the gift of obedience by the fairy Lucinda. This spells change for the life of Ella as she is obligated to obey anything that she is told to do, even to the point of endangering her own life. When Ella is fifteen years old her mother dies, but before she die she tells Ella she can not tell anyone about the spell for fear that they may use it against her. she loses her mom at a young age and is left by her father at the mercy of her evil stepmother and stepsisters. She decides that she must try to find Lucinda and beg her to break the spell.Ella had a prince whom she loves and shares everything with. Prince has been proposed to her to become his queen. She married the prince and they live happily ever after.