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World of Little League to Participate in Blue Star Museums
World of Little League to Participate in Blue Star Museums
When it re-opens to the public on Saturday, June 15, 2013, World of Little League: Peter J. McGovern Museum and Official Store will join forces with 2,000 other museums across America as part of the Blue Star Museums program.
Blue Star Museums offer free admission to the nation's active duty military personnel including National Guard and Reserve and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day, Sept. 2, 2013. Some special or limited-time museum exhibits aren't included in the free admission program.
Although the Blue Star Museum Program began on Memorial Day, World of Little League, 525 Route 15 Highway, South Williamsport, will officially launch its program on Saturday, June 15, as part of the festivities surrounding the reopening of the museum, which has been closed since September 2012. There will be a brief ceremony at 9 a.m. on the Viewing Plaza, weather permitting. As part of the reopening event, special guests who donated or loaned artifacts for the new displays will share their Little League® experiences.
The museum will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily.
"World of Little League is pleased to be part of the Blue Star Program for the last four years," said Lance Van Auken, Vice President and Executive Director of the World of Little League: Peter J. McGovern Museum and Official Store. "Military families have played a role in the expansion of the Little League program since its early years. The program is a way to recognize the military men and women who have helped Little League and honor those who continue to support the United States of America."
"Blue Star Museums is collaboration between the arts and military communities," said Joan Shigekawa, National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman. "Our work with Blue Star Families and with more than 2,000 museums ensures that we can reach out to military families and thank them for their service and sacrifice."
"Blue Star Museums is something that service members and their families look forward to every year and we are thrilled with the continued growth of the program," said Kathy Roth-Douquet, Blue Star Families CEO. "Through this distinctive collaboration between Blue Star Families, the National Endowment for the Arts and more than 2,000 museums across the United States, service members and their families can connect with our national treasures with this unparalleled opportunity to visit some of the country's finest museums for free."
This year, at least 2,000 museums in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and American Samoa are taking part in the initiative, including more than 450 new museums this year. Museums are welcome to join Blue Star Museums throughout the summer. The complete list of participating museums is available at www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums.
The effort to recruit museums has involved partnerships with the American Alliance of Museums, the Association of Art Museum Directors, the Association of Children's Museums, the American Association of State and Local History and the Association of Science-Technology Centers. This year's Blue Star Museums represent not just fine arts museums, but also science museums, history museums, nature centers and 75 children's museums.
The program is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense and the museums. It provides families an opportunity to enjoy the nation's cultural heritage and learn more about their new communities after completing a military move.
The free admission program is available to any bearer of a Geneva Convention common access card, a DD Form 1173 ID card, or a DD Form 1173-1 ID card, which includes active duty U.S. military - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, as well as members of the National Guard and Reserve, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, NOAA Commissioned Corps - and up to five family members.
Blue Star Museums is the latest NEA program to bring quality arts programs to the military, veterans and their families. Other NEA programs for the military include the NEA/Walter Reed Healing Arts Partnership; Great American Voices Military Base Tour and Shakespeare in American Communities Military Base Tour.
More information about the World of Little League's programming is available by contacting Lance Van Auken, Vice President and Executive Director of the World of Little League: Peter J. McGovern Museum and Official Store, at (570) 326-3607.
For those who do not qualify for the Blue Star Museum program, admission to the museum is $5 for those 13 and older; $2 for children ages 5-13; and $3 for senior citizens (62 and over). Children age 4 and younger are admitted free of charge.

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Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Miss Wendy and Freddy de Ferret here!
You know it really feels like Spring has arrived. We have spotted Red Tailed Bumble Bees and even saw a Butterfly as well!
Not that it has excited the Ferrets, they still want tot get back home to a warm bed and a fresh bowl of Kibble!
|OK, that's a hole, now, can we go home?
|Poppy and Beu who have a thing about mud!
It was the same old thing, Poppy had to be dragged along the sea wall until we were out of sight!
|But I don't Wanna Go!
Freddy did his hole digging and even had a sniff around the sea weed.
He said that he could hear Holly and me woofing in the hole down the other end of the beach!
|Hey, I can hear woofing!
We stopped at the Bench on The Hill and Freddy climbed into the ferret bag while OTL was taking our pictures!
|Back in the Bag again!
I don't know how she does it!
|A Holly Smirk!
Freddy, being a curious ferret pointed his nose up and gave the TL a lick on his chin!
Mmmm! Says Freddy, they taste different!
|That's a new taste!
Now, hearing that Izzy and Hamish are heading this way sounds like fun! If we are lucky we can introduce them to some serious sniffs on the beach, providing the tide is out!
Wendy is off to the vet tomorrow and with a bit of luck she will get signed off and be allowed to go walkies with Freddy at lunchtime!
We are off to see what OTL has got for dinner, so we may get some extra nibbles tonight!
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William Tudor.
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Papers of the Cefn Croes Action Group (CCAG).
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Papurau'r gymdeithas, a nodiadau ac ymchwil yn ymwneud â ffynhonnau unigol, eu hanesion a'u cyflwr presennol, a'u llên.
Cymdeithas Ffynhonnau Cymru
Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection
Glass negatives, the majority of views in and around Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant during the first decade of the twentieth century. The original numbering system (1, 2, 2a, 3 etc.) has been retained with the prefix JPJ added. Many were used to produce ...
D C Harries Collection : Military Portraits
Over nine hundred portraits, mostly studio, predominantly of First World War era British Soldiers. Most are individual portraits, some are in small groups with family or friends, also large group photographs. Many depicting a Territorial Force su...
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Earthfall Dance Company Archives
Papers of and relating to Earthfall Dance Company, comprising material relating to individual stage productions; workshops and residencies; tours, festivals and events; awards; funding; annual reviews; correspondence; and miscellaneous material.
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Equilibre Horse Theatre Archives
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Equilibre Horse Theatre
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Ffilm Cymru
Papers created and compiled by Peter Reynolds in his work as a composer of musical works, a writer and critic, and his lecture notes. Musical compositions include full orchestral scores, parts works, arrangements, draft works and sketches. Researc...
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Hoddinott, Alun
Ashburnham Welsh Estates Records,
Deeds, rentals, estate receiver's accounts, surveys, valuations, correspondence, maps and plans of the Ashburnham estate in Breconshire, Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire, 1392-1968 (predominantly 1600-1925); sale catalogues and related pape...
Ashburnham family, Earls of Ashburnham
Deeds, 1243-1801 (mainly 1550-1700) relating to the Bachymbyd and Rug portions of the estate, but mainly the former, rentals, 1669-1933, maps, plans, surveys, etc., mainly 1750 onwards, and letters, 1545 onwards; ministers' accounts and recei...
Bagot family, Barons of Blithfield.
Mae'r casgliad yn cynnwys: gohebiaeth gyffredinol at Bobi Jones,1950-1997, nifer ohonynt oddi wrth bwysigion Cymru; gohebiaeth a phapurau, 1971-1979, yn ymwneud â gwaith golygu'r gyfres Storiâu Tramor; papurau amrywiol, 1951-[1990au], yn...
Jones, Bobi, 1929-2017
Papers of Bodfan, 1893-1935, comprising letters received by him, 1899-1935, mainly from friends discussing current literary trends and etymological and lexicographical matters; sermons, 1895-1901; miscellaneous poems, notes and printed matter, 190...
Anwyl, J. Bodfan (John Bodfan), 1875-1949
Bontdolgadfan (Williams family) Papers,
Papers of the Williams family of Bontdolgadfan, including deeds for property in Bontdolgadfan, 1731-1877 (these remain uncatalogued); Bontdolgadfan Calvinistic Methodist chapel baptism register, 1812-1864, records of Bontdolgadfan Welsh and Englis...
Williams family, of Bont Dolgadfan.
Brogyntyn Estate and Family Records
Records of the Brogyntyn estate, home of the Ormsby-Gore family, Barons Harlech, 1296-1951. They include estate papers and deeds, legal papers, financial papers, family papers and county administration papers of the Ormsby-Gore family, their ances...
Brogyntyn Estate (England and Wales)
Papers of Brythonydd and others, [early 18th century]-1952, comprising essays and notes on Teifiside history, 1902-1909; notes on sermons and lectures; diaries, 1906-1923; transcripts of various historical, literary and religious material includin...
Williams, D. Pryse (David Pryse), 1878-1952
Manuscripts and rare books relating mostly to the counties of Brecknockshire and Carmarthenshire, on subjects such as history, topography and especially genealogy, 1604-1859, including a transcript of the Golden Grove Book of pedigrees and other p...
Joseph, Joseph, 1825?-1890
Estate and family records, [c.1260]-1935, of the Loxdale family of Shrewsbury and Castle Hill, Cardiganshire, and of the Williams family of Pant y Seiri and Castle Hill, comprising deeds, valuations, surveys, correspondence, etc., mainly relating ...
Loxdale family, of Castle Hill


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text: Marcia Selsor 1,783 Report post Posted July 20, 2012 Sorry I didn't respond right away I have been throwing and trimming. What I hoped for in my 'irritant' post was a bit of self examination for us all. People are fragile more so than we can know; maybe not due only to our art but just in general, and for whatever reason. We never know which nerve we touch. For those who are beginning potters who want to start selling just like any other product if the public likes it they will buy it if not, well…, just don't become discouraged keep working, keep trying, keep practicing techniques. The work will become better. To IdahoPotter- as to competition, many potters feel that they are in competition maybe not you and not I but some do. And they respond from that feeling. I hope if they will critique please be aware of this emotion and force yourself to be objective. To Marcia, everybody likes a party with friends; any kind of party. I have to go clean up my trimmings now, goodnight everyone. I had a great experience at the pre-NCECA wood firing with a bunch of strangers. It was a cooperative event with shifts round the clock firing together. Team work. IT was a great experience. Marcia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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THE WOODLANDS - Easter Seals of Greater Houston and iFLY-The Woodlands came together to allow disabled children the chance to experience the anti-gravity freedom of flight for the first time ever.
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I would do this one without the cheese which would help the calorie and fat numbers. Continue reading
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Big Boned?
I was recently talking to a group of people, giving them my usual weight loss rants, when I was hit with a question I hear way too often. I was going through my usual discussion of the body mass index (If you don't know enough about the BMI, click here) when a well meaning but not well informed audience member asked the following question:
McCalorie Counting
A few months ago I was in The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Southern California on a vacation. Seeing as it was my vacation, I planned on splurging on one of those $5 frozen smoothie/coffee drinks that I do love so. As I was making my selection I noticed taht The Coffee Bean has an interesting feature on their ordering menu. They list the calorie counts of all of their products just to the left of the menu item. When I saw that big Mocha Ice Blended had 540 calories, I was filled with surprise and flooded with that guilty feeling I get at the ice cream shop. Continue reading
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To Being a CEP
Leads to performance awards and promotions
Increases marketability and career opportunities
Provides focus for professional development
Confirms and validates professional skills
Enhances networking opportunities
Conveys privileges such as CEP on letterhead
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Assures confidence in the professional's services addressing a broad array of environmental planning, analysis, education and documentation
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The CEP designation provides benefits for both individuals and employers. When you or your employee is certified and a member of the Academy, he/she will be able to tap into the experience and expertise of hundreds of environmental and natural resource professionals - geologists, engineers, cultural specialists, hazardous materials managers, ecosystem restorers, and others. In addition, there will be opportunities for professional growth and recognition, which ultimately benefit you and your company.
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How is the citizen or the employer able to establish the validity of this experience?
The CEP designation provides a nationally-recognized means of providing this verification and applies to individuals who are working in the environmental field in a wide range of disciplines. Furthermore, the CEP covers many job categories today that are not recognized by the traditional registrations.
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The IC3 issued the warning in a public blog post, confirming that it has seen the malware used to target a variety of organisations.
"The FBI is aware of a new type of malware known as Beta Bot. Cyber criminals use Beta Bot to target financial institutions, e-commerce sites, online payment platforms, and social networking sites to steal sensitive data such as login credentials and financial information. Beta Bot blocks computer users' access to security websites and disables antivirus programs, leaving computers vulnerable to compromise," read the warning.
The intelligence report added that the malware usually looks to trick users into downloading it by masquerading as a legitimate Microsoft Windows message, asking the user to allow the "Windows Command Processor" to modify the user's computer settings.
The FBI's IC3 said it has also seen incidents of the malware spreading via USB sticks and Skype, and that it can steal a variety of data from the infected machine. "If the user complies with the request, the hackers are able to exfiltrate data from the computer. Beta Bot is also spread via USB thumb drives or online via Skype, where it redirects the user to compromised websites," read the post.
On the upisde, the FBI security centre said there are steps victims of the Beta Bot malware can take. "Remediation strategies for Beta Bot infection include running a full system scan with up-to-date antivirus software on the infected computer," read the report.
"If Beta Bot blocks access to security sites, download the latest antivirus updates or a whole new antivirus program onto an uninfected computer, save it to a USB drive and load and run it on the infected computer. It is advisable to subsequently reformat the USB drive to remove any traces of the malware."
Since the IC3 report went live, many security firms have questioned whether the malware is new. Russian security firm Kaspersky reported that Beta Bot was actually discovered at the start of the year and is often thought of as a low-level threat, leaving it unclear why the agency is making such a fuss about it.
"While the FBI refers to Beta Bot as new, the malware surfaced at the beginning of the year as an HTTP bot and later expanded its capabilities that spring," said Kaspersky's blog post.
"Beta Bot was never thought to have been as sophisticated as Trojans designed specifically for bank fraud, so it's unclear if the FBI's warning coincides with a new rash of Beta Bot infections or a new set of technical capabilities for the malware."
Banking-focused malware is an ever-present problem facing the security industry, with criminals creating increasingly sophisticated attacks. Earlier this month Trend Micro researchers detected evolved versions of the notorious Citadel banking Trojan targeting Japanese computer users.


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Applications are opened for qualified candidates for admission into the Post Basic Intensive Care Nursing School, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Abuja for the 2019/2020 ACADEMIC SESSION.
For a candidate to be qualified for admission into Post Basic Intensive Care Nursing School, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Abuja, FCT, he/she must:
- Be a registered Nurse with current practicing license of Nursing &Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
- Possess 5 credits pass in the following O'Level subjects: English Language, Mathematics, Biology, Physics and Chemistry; in not more than two (2) sittings (WAEC & NECO are acceptable).
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Notice to change the constitution
At the MidFed 2017 AGM we intend to propose to change our constitution to reduce the number of council members formally required by the Federation.
The amendments proposed are to reduce the number of council members formally required in order for us to work more flexibly, but also in acknowledgement of the fact that museum professionals are increasingly struggling to take time out of their work for this kind of commitment.
You can see the new constitution here:
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text: HistoryMarkey's Rental & Staging began its operations in 1959 as a 16 mm film rental company established by Mrs. Martelle "Marty" Markey. Over the next twenty years, Markey's Rental & Staging's line of business evolved into an audiovisual rental company. Today, Markey's Rental & Staging is a comprehensive communication company for Event Rental and Staging, In-House Support Services for Convention Centers and Hotels, On-Site Corporate Services, Computer Rental, Duplication, Video Production and Basic Equipment Rental. As we look to the future, we will continue our role as industry leaders by providing cutting edge technology and innovative services in this ever-changing world of audiovisual communications. In 2009, Markey's Rental & Staging celebrated its 50th Anniversary. We are proud to be part of Indiana's growth over the years and we are excited about the future opportunities. On December 31, 2012, Markey's became an employee-owned company via an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), an exciting move for all employees and our customers alike. This ensures continuity of our services for many years to come. To read more about our ESOP, click here.


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OPIC celebrates 10th anniversary of Expanding Horizons workshop series in Houston on June 16
May 23, 2016
Expanding Horizons Workshop Attendees Will Learn How the U.S. Government Helps Small Businesses Expand in Emerging Markets Overseas
Houston, TX – The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. government's development finance institution, will host the 10th Anniversary of Expanding Horizons workshop in Houston, Texas, on Thursday, June 16 at the Royal Sonesta Houston.
Expanding Horizons is a unique opportunity to hear directly from U.S. Government officials about programs that support U.S. companies entering developing markets. Regional companies and entrepreneurs will learn about OPIC's finance and insurance products and how to take advantage of the resources OPIC offers to gain access to emerging markets overseas.
Participants will have the opportunity to arrange one-on-one meetings with OPIC and other government agencies. Joining OPIC will be officials from the Small Business Administration, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Since 2006, OPIC's Expanding Horizons workshops have educated more than 3,000 U.S. small businesses about opportunities in developing markets, presenting a full day's agenda offering tools to enable business growth.
Supporting organizations for the event include Houston District Export Council, Women's Business Enterprise Alliance, Houston Intercontinental Chamber of Commerce, Houston West Chamber of Commerce, and the U.S. Global Leadership Council.
Since 1971, OPIC has helped U.S. businesses of all sizes expand in emerging markets, and is open for business in more than 160 countries. OPIC has supported nearly $200 billion of investments and operates on a self-sustaining basis at no cost to American taxpayers. To date, OPIC has provided $7.9 billion in support to Texas businesses investing in emerging markets ranging from agriculture to energy to infrastructure.
Small and medium-sized businesses interested in expanding into developing markets are encouraged to attend, and can register at www.opicevents.com.
WHAT: OPIC Expanding Horizons Workshop
WHEN: Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 9:00 AM
WHERE: Royal Sonesta Houston
2222 West Loop South
Houston, TX 77027
OPIC is the U.S. Government's development finance institution. It mobilizes private capital to help address critical development challenges and in doing so, advances U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities. Because OPIC works with the U.S. private sector, it helps U.S. businesses gain footholds in emerging markets, catalyzing revenues, jobs and growth opportunities both at home and abroad. OPIC achieves its mission by providing investors with financing, political risk insurance, and support for private equity investment funds, when commercial funding cannot be obtained elsewhere. Established as an agency of the U.S. Government in 1971, OPIC operates on a self-sustaining basis at no net cost to American taxpayers.
All OPIC projects adhere to high environmental and social standards and respect human rights, including worker's rights. By mandating high standards, OPIC helps raise the industry and regional standards of the countries in which its projects operate. OPIC services are available for new and expanding business enterprises in more than 160 countries worldwide.


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CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) � A man and a woman in Claremont, N.H., are accused of sexually abusing two young children and making child pornography.
Kevin Blood and his wife, Ashley Blood, both 25, were arrested on Dec. 5.
Police said the alleged assaults took place at their apartment sometime in November.
The Eagle-Times reports (http://bit.ly/19ai9mD) the couple declined to have a probable cause hearing in their respective cases Monday. Their cases now go to the Sullivan County Superior Court in Newport for consideration by a grand jury for possible indictments.
The Bloods are charged aggravated felonious sexual assault and manufacturing images of child sexual abuse. Kevin Blood also is charged with falsifying evidence.
Information from: Eagle Times, http://www.eagletimes.com


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Teachers and National Ideologies
I have been collecting and reading various materials that could potentially reveal how people lived in rural villages between the 1910s and 1940s. Village teachers were particularly eager to write down their thoughts and experiences. Since most of them did not get enough pay to survive, being a teacher (especially in the late 1920s onwards) required a lot of commitment and self-sacrifice on their part. In their writings, good information is often covered by the thick coat of ideological arguments on nationalism, agrarianism (農本主義), which the Home Ministry encouraged to develop as a part of social moral suasion (社会教化), and/or respect for the military that became more and more ostensible during the 1930s. In fact, it is impossible for me to tell whether they truly embraced these ideologies, but their writings are passionate enough to appear that they meant it.
Now I face a difficult question of how to interpret these teachers. How would I depict them if I was making a movie? Were they ideological machines to create an ideal nation? Were they the first ones to be "brain-washed" before brain-washing other populations? As soon as I put the question this way, I am urged to say "no, things must have been more complex than that." No matter how blindly nationalistic they sounded, I also see that this was out of their struggle to find a way to give their students control over their own lives. In most of the cases, they found the methods that the central government advocated the most effective way. One youth school teacher in Oita Prefecture, for example, argued in 1939 that becoming a hardworking and advanced farmer was the only way to survive in the increasing susceptibility of agricultural business to external factors:
農業は外界の事情に支配されることが多い。経済界の動き、自然的事情特に天候の如何によっては半年の労苦を一朝にして水泡に帰せしめることが有り勝ちだ。今日の農業は安全確実な職業とは言えなくなった。…かかる時代においては篤農家、老農、精農の手合いが次第に輝きを増してくるように感じられる。世間が押し並べて風害虫害病害にしてやられる中に一人老農は以前と農作を謳うものだ。物価は下落し農村は不況の裏に沈淪し鋏状価格差の声頻々たる中に平然として余裕ある生活をなし禍を転じて福となす者は篤農の士である。86 (下郡平治『専任教員農村青年学校の経営』東京・第一出版協会 1939、86)
I came across his writing right after reading another book which introduces a teacher in the Meiji/Taisho period who was extremely dedicated to teaching the standard pronunciation of the Japanese language to children in Akita. The skill in the standardized Japanese, or the lack thereof, tremendously affected how young people experienced their national lives like the conscription and higher education, and still means a lot to the people from this region today. It is a typical and blatant nationalizing project from historians' point of view, yet he was also providing control over life to their students in an important way.
Going over these thoughts, I just realize how similar the problem of interpretations is between these teachers and intellectuals in the colonies. Just like in the cases of colonial intellectuals, however, I also wonder if it is irresponsible for me to leave them outside of my own judgment, pointing out that they were in difficult positions. This must be a 'being a historian 101′ question, but I still cannot find a comfortable solution to it.
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Although a bit removed from your project, I was reminded of it the other day when reading about the personal background of Ienaga Saburō, a figure who is of course quite famous for his ongoing series of lawsuits regarding history textbook contents filed against the Japanese government from the mid-60s up until the time of his death. I had forgotten that Ienaga had been a high school teacher during the war and that it was only after 1945 that he went on to become a university professor (somewhat like Amino Yoshihiko who, although from one generation later and thus someone whose career only started post-1945, likewise worked as a high school teacher for many years before moving on to a university post). Ienaga was not, it should be noted, a teacher in a rural village, but rather appears to have taught high school first in Niigata and then Tokyo. He was also probably quite unlike most rural teachers in terms of his educational background as a graduate from Tokyo Imperial University.
Still, in later years Ienaga credited his experiences as a high school teacher during the war as one of the reasons that he felt so strongly compelled to argue for textbook reforms in order to ensure that education would never revert back to the style seen in the years before and during World War Two. Again, with the benefit of hindsight, Ienaga has stated that he disagreed with what he forced to teach students at the time.
Obviously his experiences, recounted years later, are in no way generalizable to any larger group. Still, I was wondering if you had looked at Ienaga, and whether his particular history had crossed your mind when looking at these accounts of rural teachers?


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A Guide to the Joseph Tweedy Papers, 1876-1899, 1908
Biographical Note
Pioneer sheep rancher Joseph Tweedy (1849-1928) was born in New York City in 1849. Tweedy helped run the family business, the clothing manufacturing firm Schepflin, Baldwin, and Tweedy, until 1876 when he, Joel Barlow Reynolds, and Morgan and Lawrence Grinnell sailed from New York City to Galveston. They purchased several herds of sheep and settled near Fort Concho in what became Tom Green County in 1877, eventually turning the area into an international wool production center. Tweedy's ranch, The Knickerbocker Ranch on Dove Creek, eventually became the town of Knickerbocker. Tweedy founded the Wool Grower's Association at San Angelo in 1881 and became its first president. In 1885, Tweedy started the San Jose Irrigation Company, one of the earliest irrigation enterprises in Texas. Additionally, Tweedy served as Tom Green County commissioner, a bank director, and a civic leader in San Angelo, Texas.
Source: Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "Tweedy, Joseph," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/TT/ftw1.html (accessed August 3, 2010).
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence, a diary, and photographs comprise the Joseph Tweedy Papers, 1876-1899, 1908, and relate to the activities of Tweedy's Knickerbocker Ranch near San Angelo, Texas. The papers contain Tweedy's letters from 1876 to 1885, pertaining to his migration to Texas and his establishment of a West Texas sheep ranch. Additionally, the papers include letters from his partner, E. M. Grinnell, and letters from Joel Barlow Reynolds' son, Sam W. Reynolds. E. M. Grinnell's letters concern his involvement in Tweedy's sheep ranch. Sam W. Reynold's letters, written to his parents in 1908, pertain to his work on the ranch during that summer. The papers also contain a transcript of Joel Barlow Reynolds' diary, kept from 1876 to 1877, describing the boat voyage to Texas from New York and his first year raising sheep in Texas. The undated photographs depict Joseph Tweedy.
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Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Joseph Tweedy Papers, 1876-1899, 1908, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Chester V. Kielman, July 1964. Subsequent revisions were made by Walter H. Richter, September 1965 and July 1966.
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center's "History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light" project, 2009-2011.
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Dude said, I need to be nice if I want allies in the struggle?
I cant begin to go in on what is wrong with this.
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First, I'd like to thank Bill for inviting me to CoolWorks. I'm very excited to be among people who apparently share many of my own interests. I hope to apply for a season-long position in one of the National Parks for the 2008 year and hope that many of you "seasoned" people will share your ups and downs with me regarding your employment histories. I'm trying to research as much as I can, but you guys have been on the front-lines and can offer a plethura of info that one just can't find at BooksAMillion.
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An educational video about ladders and ladder safety. Includes review at the end.
British Columbia Institute of Technology
An educational video about ladders and ladder safety. Includes review at the end.
British Columbia Institute of Technology
A watershed enhancement project for community participation [title cont'd in note]
Illustrates the diverse ecology of the Burnaby lakes drainage systems. Features Deer Lake and Burnaby Lake. Shows students from BCIT Fish and Wildlife program involved in preserving this unique system in conjunction with the efforts of the City of Burnaby and those of the public at large. Part of BCIT's Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program's Burnaby Lakes Systems Project (in partnership with the City of Burnaby). Voice over slides/still photographs.
British Columbia Institute of Technology
BC Rivers' Day: A celebration of our waterways
Information about BC Rivers day as celebrated since 1981, about BC rivers in general, and how you can get involved in BC Rivers Day events. Touching on the importance of rivers to the ecology, recreational enjoyment as well as the significance of rivers to culture and history of this land. Written and produced by Dave Gummeson, Kelly Pearce, Sara Short and Michael Goodfellow. Note: VHS created from original slide/tape program - voice over still photographs. Fish, Wildlife, Recreation: student project.
Gummeson, Dave
Call centre 2000: opening and call centre technologies; T. Brauser and H. Malek/J. Hyslop
Opening remarks and agenda outline. Opening remarks from Tom Brauser. Presentation "Call Centre Technologies" by Hossein Malek and John Hyslop. Camera moves between powerpoint presentation and the presenters. Their presentation discusses call centre trends and call centre evolution.
BCIT. Audio Visual Services
Call centre 2000: customer access strategies; John Atkins, BC Tel
Introduction before the presentation: "Customer Access Strategies and its Organizational Impacts" presented by John Atkins from BC Tel Phone Power. Camera moves between powerpoint presentation and John Atkins speaking. Mr. Atkins talks about customer access strategy, changes in marketing, call centre issues and trends, organizational impacts, and new technologies.
BCIT. Audio Visual Services
Call centre 2000: partnership in business; Brian Gillespie/Don Calder
Introduction before the presentation: "Partnerships in Business" which is presented by Brian Gillespie, BCIT President and Don Calder, VP Network Operations, BC TEL. Camera moves between powerpoint presentation and the presenters. Mr. Gillespie talks about BCIT working with business and industry to improve business performance with a specific mention of specialized training centres: call centre, digital imaging, industrial control simulator, Venture program and Living Lab. Mr. Calder talks about the BCIT Call Centre-BCTEL partnership. After the presentation Jennifer Lee, Reservations Manager at Canadian Holidays, selects the winner of a draw for a trip to Las Vegas. Video ends with a small thank you presentation for Lynn Wagner for organizing the event.
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Call centre 2000: Teleworking and BCIT call centre; Ken Robertson/Gary Morrison
Brief introduction before the presentation: "Teleworking in the Virtual Call Centre" which is presented by Ken Robertson of KLR Consulting Inc. Camera moves between powerpoint presentation and Mr. Robertson as he gives the presentation. Video ends with a welcome to BCIT's new Call Centre of Excellence given by Gary Morrison. Morrison talks a little bit about the new building and future plans. Soft launch of industry partnership venture - called the Centre of Excellence (BCIT Downtown campus). Terry [?] is the MC of the event.
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Application of safety restraints
Shows nursing students how to perform correctly each of the following tasks: 1. tie knots for securing the ends of a restraint to a bed, chair, or wheelchair; 2. apply two types of jacket restraints for a patient in a bed, wheelchair, or ordinary chair; 3. apply a clove hitch restraint for wrist or ankle; 4. apply a wheelchair hip belt; and 5. restrain a patient's hands using a sheet, gown, or other bedding.
BCIT. Learning and Teaching Centre
The climbing skills of the ironworker
Illustrates base-climbing and web-climbing techniques to help ironworkers develop the confidence to work and move more easily around the job site.
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Marketing strategy; Starting a Business: IV: How will you penetrate your market?
Part of a telecourse series, this film covers the six major areas of a well developed market plan: the specific characteristics of the product or service, sales methods, promotion methods, pricing, distribution and the location of the venture. Randy Vandermark, Department Head, BCIT Marketing Management, introduces the film: How will you penetrate your market? Bob Grasely hosts the middle section which includes still cartoons which are used to review and tie the lesson together and interviews with business people talking about their real-life experiences including: Richard Maybee, R. C. Maybee Ltd., Judy Sarick, the Children's Bookstore, Matti Korhonen, Freelance Illustrator, Maryanne Heller, Vintage Furs Ltd., Kemeel Azan, Azan's Beauty World, . The video concludes with a panel discussion with Bruce Schmidt, Vice-President Marketing, Keg Restaurants Ltd. and Morie Shacker Marketing Management BCIT Faculty. This telecourse if made possible by: The British Columbia Ministries and Education and Small Business Development.
British Columbia Institute of Technology
The need for planning; Starting a business
Part of a telecourse series, this film provides background to help the entrepreneur understand how a business plan is used to determine the viability of a proposition, to organize planning, and to obtain financing. Randy Vandermark, Department head, BCIT Marketing Management, introduces the film: Do you need a business plan? The middle section, Starting a Business: Do you need a business plan?, is hosted by Bob Grasley. Using still cartoons and interviews with business people the topic is explored. Interviewees include: Jeremy Brown, The Brownstone Press, Edward Starr, The Starr Group, Don Campbell, Vice-President Chateau-Gai Wines, Kishore Doshi, Video Captions, Deepak Sahasrabudhe, film sound studio, Michael Volker, Volker-Craig, and Derek Buntain, Private Risk Investor. Video concludes concludes with a panel discussion with Morie Shacker, Marketing Management BCIT Faculty and Brian Hann of The Royal Bank. This telecourse if made possible by: The British Columbia Ministries and Education and Small Business Development.
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Germ busters: A guide to good hygiene Chasseurs de microbes: Un guide de bonne hygiene
Demonstrates basic hygiene in food processing, specifically fish. Text in French and English. No intelligible dialogue. Video uses some slapstick comedy. Credits: director Ian Cameron, Dan played by Scott Malcolm, Joe played by Luk Lukaszek, camera Craig Lawrence, music Ray Cooper, animation Brad Neave, content experts Ralph Drew and Gary Todd, produced by Audiovisual Department BCIT.
Fisheries Council of British Columbia
Final check: The screening line
Describes the procedures for checking can integrity in commercial food processing. Host is Pam Howard-Jones. Credits: director and editor Ian Cameron; graphics Ken Gill; camera Don Chaput; content experts Ian Devlin, Steve Yip, and Ralph Drew; and special thanks to Ocean Fisheries Ltd., Fisheries and Ocean Canada, Canadian Fishing Co., Neptune Dynamics Ltd., Empire Stevedoring Co., and Save-on-Foods and Drugs. Produced by Audiovisual Department BCIT.
Fisheries Council of British Columbia
Dealing with crises; Starting a business
Part of a telecourse series, this video explores why businesses commonly fail so that the entrepreneur can develop strategies to avoid that end. Randy Vandermark, Department Head, BCIT Marketing Management, introduces the film: How can you survive business crises? Special guest is Veron Forester, partner in Canadian Tire Operations in the Vancouver area. Feature report: Starting a Business with Bob Grasley: How can you survive business crises? Features still drawings and step-by-step process with a voiceover and advice/information from business experts. These experts include: Bernard R. Wilson, Vice-President, Director, Price Waterhouse; Ron Besse, Gage Publishing; Dick Maybee; David Robbins; Russell Morley; and Jeremy Brown. Video concludes with a discussion between Vandermark and Forester. This telecourse if made possible by: The British Columbia Ministries and Education and Small Business Development.
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Four common hoists and their components
Identifies four types of hoists, or lifting devices, used in industry: the block and tackle, tirfor jack, chain fall and come along. Emphasizes the importance of safety precautions when using the hoists as well as how and when to use each. Includes review questions and answers at the end of the video. Special thanks to Instructor Ivan Holmes. Produced by Pacific Vocational Institute.
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Use a portable circular saw: Common core G3
Describes the measures needed and options for personal safety when using a portable circular saw. Demonstrates how to change a blade and describes the various types of blades available. Video produced by the Pacific Vocational Institute.
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Educational film that would be used in a class about basic scaffolding. The film covers the components or scaffolding and a demonstration on how to erect scaffolding.
BCIT. Audio Visual Services
BCIT presenta: Relaciones que funcionan
Promotional video about BCIT made for Spanish speaking international students. The film includes information about various programs, campus services, student life and living in Vancouver.
BCIT. Audio Visual Services
BCIT presents: Partnerships that work (Mandarin version)
Promotional video about BCIT made for Mandarin speaking international students. The film includes information about various programs, campus services, student life and living in Vancouver.
BCIT. Audio Visual Services
BCIT Aviation presents: Aviation Maintenance Technician Training
Promotional video about the Aviation Maintenance Technician Training course made for student recruitment. Includes information about the course curriculum, the training facilities, job opportunities and Sea Island Campus.
BCIT. Audio Visual Services
We keep them flying: Pacific Vocational Institute (PVI), Sea Island campus
Promotional video for Pacific Vocational Institute's (PVI) Sea Island campus. Voice speaking over video of still photographs of students engaged in learning, some video of students working on aircraft, short interviews with Jack Cook, Director, Aircraft and component maintenance CP Air, Ray Miles, Shop Supervisor, Air BC, and Doug Forest, PVI graduate, video contains some animation of logos and drawing of aircraft and the way photographs are displayed.
Pacific Vocational Institute
MARA - BCIT: John Watson / President : speech and contract signing
Event recording from the Gas Reticulation Training program agreement signing ceremony on July 3, 1991 in Malaysia. The recording includes part of John Watson's speech about the MARA-BCIT partnership and the signing of the partnership contract.
BCIT. International
Signing of agreement between the National Institute of Transport and BCIT with Dr. J.S. Minja and John Watson
Event recording from the signing of an agreement between the National Institute of Transport (in Tanzania) and BCIT with Dr. J.S. Minja and John Watson. The project was funded by Technology Training Associates Ltd. (TTA) and helped to provide technical assistance to the National Institute of Transport to improve its programs, upgrade management, and develop curriculum.
BCIT. Audio Visual Services
Pacific Marine Training Campus presents: Courses to a maritime future
Promotional video about the Pacific Marine Training Campus made for student recruitment. Highlights some programs (Navigation, Marine Engineering, Deck hand course, work experience program) and the training technologies available to students. Includes graduate and instructor interviews and clips of students working.
BCIT. Marine Campus
Promotional video about the School of Business made for student recruitment. The film provides a brief overview of business programs.
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Living with others
How best to get on with the other villagers?
Living with others is an opportunity to expand your horizons by getting to know people from different cities, countries and cultures.Everyone has quirks and habits, and no one is ever 100% right, but it's important to remember that any difficulties can all be resolved.
Keep it down
We have a noise policy to help keep everyone happy.
Please show some consideration by:
•Being mindful of how loud your conversations may be on the phone or on Skype – especially when calling abroad at 3.00am
•Planning any party you may have as a group – don't leave anyone out
•Getting to know your flatmates' timetables – it's a good idea for you to let each other know when you have exams or essay deadlines, so that you don't interrupt them too much
•Respecting each other's music tastes. If other people – even your flatmates – complain about your music, don't get too defensive – maybe the volume is a little too high.
•Warning your neighbours that things may get a bit noisy. Got to keep everyone sweet!
Cooking in communal kitchens
To keep the kitchen a happy place, here are a few culinary tips:
•Ask permission to use anything that belongs to your flatmates such as utensils or equipment
•Eat together now and then, even if you don't share the cooking
•Make sure everyone has room in the fridge
•Don't leave your dirty dishes lying around
•Don't let food rot away, keep an eye on what you've bought – give it to someone else if you're not going to use it
Keepings things clean
Keep your apartment clean and keep your flatmates happy – and remember that it will be regularly inspected.
Laundry facilities are available within the Village. There is a $3 fee to wash and dry.
Doing a regular wash makes life more pleasant for everyone, and is part of your responsibilities as a Village resident. Whether you club together to wash your whites or delicates is up to you, but spare a thought for others when drying clothes:
•Don't leave clothes lying around while trying to get them dry
•Use the tumble dryer in the launderette
•You can dry clothes in your room but only with the window open…you need the ventilation to remove the moisture! And never dry anything on the heater!
Get rid of the rubbish
Clearing up the contents of a split, over-full bin bag is a job no one wants, so set up a roster for taking out the rubbish and make life easy for everyone.
Recycling: easier than you think
Set up a system, agree a roster for emptying the recycling and stick to it.
Keep on top of your bathroom
Your sink, shower and toiler all need regular cleaning – and not forgetting your shower curtain. Yet again, sharing the cleaning duties will make a happy home for all flatmates.
Flat and bedroom inspections
Firstly, please don't worry – these inspections are carried out each term you live with us to make sure there are no fire or health and safety risks, and that you're living in a clean and acceptable living environment. We respect this is your home now and the inspections are generally a very simple, quick process and we try not to inconvenience anyone. You do not have to be present during the inspection, but if you wish to be there, please communicate that with us in advance.
To help you prepare for these inspections, have a quick read of the information below.
As a general rule we conduct no more than 4 inspections per year. Don't worry, we will be letting each apartmetn know via email the specific date for their apartment's inspection.
We do not expect to find perfection and we also understand that you wish to make your flat as homely as possible, but there are certain things that we would expect to find:
•Bedroom and communal areas are free from obstructions
•Door closers are working correctly
•Windows open and close securely
•Electrical wires/equipment are deemed safe
•No candles, door wedges, etc.
During the inspection we will also check the cleanliness of the communal areas and your bedroom and we will focus on the following:
Guidelines for Communal Areas
•Stovetops, oven and microwave (they shouldn't have any build-up of grease, burnt food, etc.)
•Floors (they aren't meant to be black)
•Pile up of dirty dishes
•Rubbish – level should be below top of bin and surrounding areas clean
•General hygiene and condition of apartment (for example: no marks on walls, damaged/missing furniture, etc.)
•Village rules: no prohibited items such as candles, fairy lights, animals/pets or evidence of smoking within the building; tampering with Fire Fighting Equipment or removal of window restrictors
•Bathrooms – floors, showers/curtains, sinks, toilets, mirrors
Guidelines for Bedrooms
•Floors should be vacuumed
•Furniture should be clean
•Rubbish bin at acceptable level
•General cleanliness
•En-suite bathroom – floors, showers/curtains, sinks, toilets, mirrors
•Village rules – as above
The Result
When we have inspected your flat or bedroom, we will email you so you are aware of our visit and our assessment of the area. Your safety and hygiene are important to us.
If it is deemed that your bedroom or communal areas require further cleaning, we will reinspect. If upon the reinspection those areas already mentioned (or any others) are not cleaned to a satisfactory standard they will be cleaned at a cost to the residents of that apartment or bedroom. Something we all don't want.
If your room is clean, we appreciate your efforts and will simply continue on.
We are here to help
If you as an apartment/group would like assistance in setting up cleaning/bin rosters or cleaning advice, we are here to help.
Please contact your Village Team and we'll arrange for a member of staff to come in and help. We always prefer a group of peers to work through issues first.
Going green and being sustainable
We care about the important things in life and want to maximise your student experience while minimising our impact on the environment and the local community.
Look out for events we run to drive awareness of environmental and social issues and show you how to make a difference.
If you're interested in our sustainable efforts and corporate commitments, then we welcome your support and ideas to shape our next steps. If you want to know more what we are doing, the impact we are having and how to get in touch, please visit mystudentvillage.com/clv-cares.
Waste and recycling
•You can recycle paper, plastic, glass, food and many other materials. Ask our staff about the guidelines for your building
•Don't waste food! Every year 7 million tonnes of food and drink get thrown away.
•Why not donate? Ask at the Reception where the Salvation Army collection point is and start making a difference in someone else's life!
Heating and energy
•Unplug appliances when you're not using them
•Switch off the lights and your laptop
•Wash clothes in cold water (30°C) whenever possible, as more than 85% of the energy used by the washing machine serves to heat the water
•Use a lid on your pan when you're cooking
•Put on an extra layer instead of turning the heating up
•Whenever possible, lower the temperature of your heater
•Reuse your bottles
•Shower quick!
•Turn off the taps properly: a dripping tap wastes 20,000 litres of water per year!
•If you wash your dishes by hand, fill the sink and wash them in it instead of keeping the tap constantly running
•Use public transport rather than your car. It's good for the environment and can be cheaper and faster
•Why not to try car sharing? You can reduce your carbon emissions and make new friends! Try BlaBlaCar or liftshare
•Walk and bike whenever possible. It will keep you healthy and will reduce your impact on the planet


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St. Edward King and Martyr
(originally St. John)
The little church is somewhat overshadowed by the presence of the truly magnificent Athelhampton House on the other side of the main road.
It is a purely Victorian structure of 1861-2 and erected as a means of moving the parish church away from the main house. The design was by John Hicks of Dorchester who was responsible for more churches in the county than any other architect working in the Victorian era. Thomas Hardy, who was later to achieve world wide acclaim as a novelist, was his architectural pupil and would certainly have worked on this project as a 21 year old.
After the building became redundant it was acquired by Sir Robert Cooke in 1984 and is now used as a church by the Greek Orthodox community. Their first English church was established in Soho in 1677 and there are presently 111 Greek Orthodox churches in Britain with around 350,000 members.
The Trust gratefully acknowledges images and text by Robin Adeney ©


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A Look Back: Fixing Our Streets fixes SW Main Street, a gateway to downtown Portland
Transforming a street for the 21st CenturyRead More…
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Do Portlanders bike more than any other big city dwellers? Does the number of cyclists continue to increase? Are more people wearing bike helmets than ever? Are more women riding?
Yes, yes, yes and yes.
The Portland Office of Transportation recently published its annual bicycle counts report. These are conducted each year. In 2008, the entire city witnessed a staggering 28% increase in bike trips.
|Bicycle trips across the Hawthrone, Steel, Broadway, and Burnside Bridges from 1991 - 2008.
The bike counts are conducted by automated "hose counts" on the four bike-friendly bridges (Hawthorne, Burnside, Steel and Broadway) and by staff and volunteers at over 65 intersections throughout Portland.
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02 Dec Beyond Facebook: How to Market to a New Generation
Beyond Facebook: Marketing to the new generation
Here's a sobering thought: in the next few years, Generation Z – those born around the year 2000 – will be hitting their upper teens, entering their 20s and then embarking upon their careers. The challenge for businesses is finding a way to market to this new generation – a generation who interact with society very differently to their predecessors.
To give that some context, 81% of Generation Z use some kind of social media and have been broadly dubbed 'Screenagers' because they have grown up with the internet a constant presence in their lives. But the obvious routes may not necessarily be the most effective: 25% left Facebook in 2014; clearly, informed and lateral thinking is needed.
So, how can businesses reach out to individuals with an attention span of just eight seconds? The infographic below is packed with useful advice and tips…


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Thank you to the poet Caitlin Doyle for tagging me for "The Next Big Thing" interview series! You can read her self-interview here: http://caitlindoylepoetry.com/?page_id=302.
For "The Next Big Thing," each participating poet or fiction writer engages the same set of questions pertaining to a recently published book, a soon-to-be-published book, or a book-in-progress. Here are my responses regarding the development of my debut poetry collection.
1. What is the working title of your book?
Pink Houses.
2. Where did the idea come from for the book?
Sometime three years ago the local news hummed from the television, and I chased around my keys and wallet while my mother sat on the couch commenting after and about each reel. Like many other times, the newscaster reported from her old neighborhood, the Louis. H. Pink Housing Project, in the East New York area of Brooklyn: another shooting, another youth found dead. The neighborhood is notorious for its brutality, but my memory associates the complex with green lawns and pastel colored Cadillacs, my father's blue bellbottoms and my mother's long hair. My mother's best friends, the people I call aunt and uncle, my godparents, and brother's godparents, and sister's godparents, grew up together, some on different floors, some right across the hall from one another, in that project. They refer to each other, the group of them, as the Pinks. As I walked out of the door, my mother juxtaposed her past to the present life of the current tenants: "when we lived there we were poor, well, we were not poor because we didn't know we were poor, but we were poor…" she said.
It was in that moment Pink Houses was born.
3. What genre does your book fall under?
4. Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
Much of Pink Houses surrounds the bereft, so I only hope the voices of the souls of those who I listened to and tried to pay homage to have been accurately, articulately and successfully reproduced on the page.
The characters who appear in Pink Houses also range from members of my family, strangers I've encountered on the street, victims from stories I've heard on the news, and most noticeably, powerful mythic women: mothers, daughters, and lovers. If there is one thing Pink Houses throbs with, it is passion.
Sometimes it takes a week to get a Persephone, Eurydice, or Apollo poem out. First there is an emotion, an unwavering connection to a sentiment, and then I listen for days until I hear something I can translate through line. These poems are cathartic, ecstatic experiences in which tone is crucial, and choosing an actor seems an impossibly difficult decision.
That being said…
The "protagonists" of sorts, the driving forces and organizing factors of the collection, to me, are Persephone, Hades, and Demeter. Johnny Depp, in all of his long-haired calm glory, would have to play Hades, the comical, understanding lover who doesn't take that world above too seriously. I think Julianne Moore would make a fabulous Demeter with her straight hair the color of the setting sun, and those tight lips asserting she will take no nonsense. If I can't play the role of Persephone (oh, to be Johnny Depp's tortured lover…), I'd give the privilege to Natalie Portman.
5. What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
What a difficult question — to summarize my own work in one sentence! This will most likely do the collection no justice but I will try:
Pink Houses yearns to preserve the various dimensions of contemporary consciousness through moments of chaotic displacement, relying particularly on the vernacular to reveal the importance of tradition, character, and the power of art.
6. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
Ideally, I strive to find a press confident in the strength of my first manuscript, a publisher who shares similar beliefs in my work and for the craft of poetry, with whom I can develop and sustain a steady relationship.
Perhaps the most spectacular moment of creating a manuscript is the feeling of being finished. I finally acknowledged I had done all I could with the voices and places and twists in Pink Houses just a few months ago and have been in the steady process of writing query letters, entering first book contests, and sending individual pieces out for consideration ever since.
7. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
The first draft of Pink Houses must have begun while I wrote my thesis at Hofstra University, though the poems I was writing then focused more intensely on the self than the mythic alternatives I have since chosen to love. A handful of those poems still appear in the collection –poems I revisited two years later while writing my thesis at Boston University to recreate, and, in a way, resurrect.
During April of 2012, along with two friends and fellow poets, I wrote a poem a day (and sometimes more!) in honor of Poetry Month. The experience was both exhilarating and exhausting and helped me discover more intuitively what I seek to discover in writing. During that month, I felt as if I were a faucet that would not stop running; the poems poured out.
Three years is the short of it. It has taken me three years to write the first draft of Pink Houses, though it feels the voices have been inside me my whole life.
8. Who or what inspired you to write this book?
For me, this question may as well be "who or what inspires you to write poetry", so my answer will reflect such sentiments:
As a young girl I wrote poetry as an outlet to express my emotions nonverbally. Poetry seemed to me the perfect venue to remain silent, to not cause a stir or worry, and yet control, manipulate, and raise my voice. I relied heavily on end-rhyme and the "I".
When I began seriously studying the craft of writing, poetry transformed from a personal, private art into a complex, antiquated, intimate, and somehow mythic experience, one which held with it the power to multiply the virility of written word. Ambitiously, I wanted to twist syntax like Gerard Manley Hopkins, complicate lines like e. e. cummings; I wanted to elicit fear, wonder, and pity and somehow arouse the lyric. I wanted the power of the poet, and the only way I knew how to go about this was by mimicking those I read. By attempting to write like them, I began to live, in a way, like them, listening, for instance, to what I believed Seamus Heaney might hear in the middle of a crowded department store. I began to find ordinary happenstances wonderful sources of inspiration; I sought to expose the extraordinary appeal of the regular as Eugenio Montale illuminated the brilliance of a drying leaf. In another sense, with another part of my brain, I became determined to see the writing of a poem the way Joan Didion or Phillip Lopate saw the composition of a personal essay. It was in the company of these voices that I was able to find my own.
The workshops I've been lucky enough to be a part of inspire me to write poetry, the students I teach, the essays I read, conversations I overhear on the bus back and forth from work, the notes I scribbled during lectures with fascinating professors and reread, the scent of sunday sauce from the staircase, my conscience, my dreams, the slice of onion under the stove I cannot reach, the weather, the moon, everything in my sight inspires me to write poetry.
9. What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?
I fancy my poem "If You See Something, Say Something" to be an anthem for New York City, and believe it should be on rotation on the Coney Island Q through the Arts for Transit program. (Shameless plug?)
For more on how poetry has shaped my life see: http://www.womenwritersoftheworld.com/?page_id=20
My poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in: Empirical Magazine, Perceptions Literary Magazine, and Every Day Poets.
I am also working on a collection of personal essays, tentatively titled "Lucky". Essays from the collection can be found at: The Boiler Journal, dirtCakes, and Elsewhere.
Thank you so much for reading! For next week I've tagged Mimi Lipson.


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Mia grew up and still lives in Manhattan in a loft with mother and stepfather. Mia spent her whole life in Manhattan until she found out that her father is a prince and she is a princess. The city represents Mia's normal life as a teenager because she gets to be herself, attend school, go out with her friends and live more of a normal life when she is in Manhattan.
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The last few reviews we've done have been remixes or edits of immensely popular songs. This is no exception. Chicago's own, The Hood Internet, do an inspired mash-up here of Drake's smash hit, "Hotline Bling" and Giraffage & Slow Magic's jam, "So Cute." To be completely honest, I don't love mashups because I think they're kind of gimmicky, but this is a rare exception. The Hood Internet manage to stay in check (the most difficult thing for mashup artists to do) by not overdoing the mashup and staying honest to both original tracks. Nothing is more frustrating than a mashup that sounds like two tracks just mashed together, it has to be more intricate than that.
Giraffage & Slow Magic's "So Cute" is a Wave Racer-esque romp into glossy and high-arching chords with powerful yet minimal percussion. One of the things I love so much about Giraffage is his ability to make something out of nothing, particularly by using pauses masterfully and making the most out of off rhythm beats.
We all know Drake's "Hotline Bling." I love it. You should too. Not worth talking about here because of its popularity. So let's dive into The Hood Internet's mashup. What makes this mashup so successful is that "So Cute," which dominates the instrumental aspect of this track, is dropped down a few BPMs and even though it's a powerful electro track, it doesn't overpower Drake's vocal. The best moment of the track comes at the 2:15 mark, up to that point there's a driving percussion with on-beat bass hits, that lead up to a half-rhythm highly produced synth line accompanied by 16-note cymbal hits. These monstrous chords coupled with Drake's smooth rap just elevates this mashup to a new level. Enjoy every track below and let us know what you think!


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Out With "The Old?"
There is no doubting that in our lives, time passes, things change, people come and go from our lives. On my computer, my screensaver is a constantly changing round of all of the photos stored on my computer. I have never gone in and purged photos from the years past, so, undoubtedly, photos from past relationships show up, my children's past relationships, sometimes family or friends who are no longer with us, or aren't any longer a part of my life. My daughter has expressed shock that a picture of an old boyfriend of hers will pop up on my screen. "Mom, why do you still have THAT on your computer?" I'm sure there has been the occasional time my man has walked past my computer to see a picture pop up of me with one of my ex's.
You may wonder why I don't "purge" those photos from my computer. Time. Or lack of it may be one reason. However, even if I had the time to go through dozens of files of photos to take out those from past relationships, I probably wouldn't do it.
Memories of Days Gone By
Each and every one of those photos are a part of me. Although a breakup happened, those photos typically represent a small snapshot of time, a time that I was enjoying the day, the person, the event. To purge those photos would be purging a happy memory. While a relationship, in "the whole" might not have worked, the day at the beach was a good one. The family trip may have been a special one. The wedding we attended was a beautiful day for the couple involved, even if that couple's relationship- or mine- may not still be intact.
Seeing those pictures from years past often give me a brief spark of memory of what redeeming quality I did see in that person at the time, and make the "mistake" of the relationship a little less piercing.
And if you know me, you know I'm a bit vain, so seeing myself as I looked a few years back is a fun kick in the pants too! "Damn, I looked pretty darned good at that family party, I must say!" "What was I thinking wearing that Christmas sweater?" "Look how young the kids were there!" "That was such a fun vacation! I remember that we did (this or that) on that trip!"
Traces of Love… And Friends No Longer With Us
If you are old enough, you may remember the song, "Traces of Love", which had the lines, "faded photographs, covered now with lines and creases, tickets torn in half, memories in bits and pieces…traces of love, long ago, that didn't work out right….. traces of love with me, tonight." Our digital photos no longer fade and crease, but our memories often do. The constant replaying of those photos helps me to remember those days, those moments and those memories.
I love the feeling of looking at my computer, and chuckling over a particularly silly time, or feeling that little "tug" on my heartstrings when a photo of a friend who is no longer with us pops up.
Life's "Before" and "Afters"
I have photos of the first home I purchased as a single woman, about 5 years ago. At the time, I had recently come out of a marriage to a financially reckless man who left my finances devastated, my credit score well below 500, and no credit cards to my name. The ability to purchase this home was totally unexpected- kind of kismet, you might say. So, as I remodeled this home, doing vast amounts of the work with my own two (manicured) hands, not only did I build myself a new "home"- I was in the process of building a new life. Reinventing myself, and reinventing this dated mobile home into something I was proud of. I can remember the nights I worked at that house until 2 or 3 am getting it ready to move into. I loved that home, I shared it with numerous friends, having many events there. The sweat equity I built into that home became a springboard to purchase my second home as a single woman, the home I currently live in.
Looking at those photos when they randomly pop up- whether it is one of the "before" photos of a dated, worn out kitchen, or the unpainted 1970's dingy, dark paneling, or the "after" pictures of the fabulous 1940's style black, white and crystal bathroom I created, I feel a great sense of accomplishment for having made my way through what could have been a dark time.
There is no rhyme or reason to the order my photos from my past show up. Some pictures will have rotated 20 times through my screen, when others don't seem to appear for months, but whatever is on my screen, there is ALWAYS a memory sparked. Often a smile. Sometimes a shake of the head and an eye roll, along with "What the hell was I thinking." But no matter what the reaction, I know that what I am seeing is a snapshot of my past. And every one of them add up to having made me the woman I am today. The unique me that I am. Every one of them is a treasure to me, and to my ever fading memories of my past. Will I clear out those photos of my ex, my daughter's ex, even the "friend" who might have turned out NOT to be such a great friend? Probably not. Because every one of the memories that pop up before my eyes are there for a reason.


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Welcome to The Daily Nest's Christmas 2014 home tour!
I'm so happy you're here!
Come on in and let's start the tour!
When you first step into my home this is what you'll see first. This is an Ethan Allen Bombay chest that I've had for years now. A magnolia garland surrounds my new Egan mirror from Pottery Barn and gives off the best reflection!
The red tartan runner is actually well, not a runner. It's a throw that I bought from a store here in Tampa. So I thought why not just fold it in thirds and make it a runner! A little lantern filled with a topiary and flickering candles and of course a little boxwood wreath complete the entry table.
This is the living room. It's a very cozy and warm room. Perfect for snuggling up and watching T.V.
I placed tiny boxwood wreaths on both sides of the board and batten with a neutral chevron ribbon. Simple.
The sofa table is decorated with a big basket of wood, tree clippings and lights. Along with some oversized shiny ornaments.
I moved my leather ottoman out and moved this white ottoman in from the office to "lighten" up the room. I placed the ikea fur rug on top with a mirrored tray with some fresh tree clippings and lantern.
Red berries in a birch cylinder look festive on the T.V. console.
Of course there's my main man! My deer from Decor Steals watches over the room. But not in a creepy way! He's dressed for the occasion with some jingle bells and a boxwood wreath.
And here she is in all her glory! As I said before, "It's a beaut Clark, a real beaut!" Come on you know that movie! (Christmas Vacation!)
The Dining room is set for Christmas guests. With silver chargers, sparkly gold ornaments and my paperwhites in the DIY brass bowls that I made. You can see the full tutorial here.
The backdrop to the dining table are these champagne glitter trees from Pottery Barn. It's like dining in an enchanted forest!
I placed boxwood wreaths on each side of the french doors to give the room some symmetry. These are beautiful and very lifelike from Save-On-Crafts.
Now we're in the heart of the home. The kitchen. Let me just say, I. Love. My. Kitchen! It got a complete over haul this year and you can see the whole transformation with this space here.
It's a very happy kitchen! Merry and Bright as I like to say. With splashes of red and white! The large window over looks the pool. And I have lots of counter space.
A milk and cookies/Hot chocolate station is ready for Christmas guests!
If you're new to my blog this is Buttercup! I love her!
The magnolia wreath is from Williams-Sonoma and the wire trellis is from a store here in Tampa, RareHues.
Now we've entered the master bedroom. I kept the mantel neutral so it has a relaxing element to it.
The fireplace gives it that warm Christmasy feeling all by itself.
There is nothing better than snuggling up in this bed in front of a roaring fire!
We painted the fireplace white and I love it! It really gives the room a clean, fresh, updated look. You can see how it looked before here.
The master bathroom's decor for Christmas was kept simple. Because I don't like a lot of clutter in the bathroom.
I found this white deer head at Homegoods. I just framed him with an empty frame added some bells and a boxwood wreath and I think he looks fantastic!
The bamboo ladder also got a wreath and deer hand towels.
Sydney, Mike and I wish you a Very Merry Christmas and the happiest of Holidays!!
Thanks for visiting my home tour!
Please come again!


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Leadership that can support us with the small wins.
A newcomer mother from Haiti, with a young child is working casually and would like to increase her shifts at work but she cannot receive childcare space and subsidies, so therefore she also cannot get more work hours. A young man from Italy wants to go to school, but has two aging parents and works around the clock to care for both of them. He is unable to receive any information from his councillor on city services that could support his parents. A mother of three from Somalia has been fighting for months to get her door fixed by the TCHC and worries about the safety of her kids because the door jams and is hard to open. These are the stories I've heard this month as I connect with neighbours.
The lack of representation and the inability to find supports is frustrating. We can deal with many more issues if we have a fighter at city hall who will work tirelessly on our behalf. More than ever, we need leadership that can support us with the small wins, so we can move up to the larger things. Our community needs an advocate, some one that is engaged and aware of our needs. I look forward to having a community discussion about the leadership we need at city hall and how to go about getting that.
My Best,
Lekan Olawoye