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WRAP: Petra Kvitova has a great chance to win a second SW19 title after beating her friend and countrywoman Lucie Safarova in straight sets. The final scoreline doesn't tell the full story with Safarova making a real battle of the first having recovered from being broken in the opening game. Safarova, the 23rd seed, would always need to win the opening set to have a real chance against the sixth-seed, and despite saving one set point in the tie-break, couldn't stop Kvitova taking it on the second. There was only one winner from that moment on as Safarova clearly couldn't shake dropping her first set of the championships out of her system. An early break gave Kvitova a 2-0 lead in the second, and she never looked back as two breaks of serve was enough to book a spot in Saturday's final.
Safarova 6-7, 1-6 Kvitova*
Kvitova serving for a place in the finals, gets the first point on the board when Safarova hits tamely into the net. She just hasn't got over losing that first set. A wild forehand on the next from the 23rd seed edges Kvitova ever closer. An ace brings up three match points and she takes it on the first when Safarova manages to get a second service back but Kvitova steps into the return to dispatch an easy backhand into the empty deuce side. KVITOVA WINS SECOND SET TO WIN TWO SETS TO LOVE AND REACHES WIMBLEDON FINAL.
Safarova* 6-7, 1-5 Kvitova
Kvitova is hitting and making everything now with the pressure lifted. She gets up and under a forehand which lands flush on the baseline for 15-30 and then forces Safarova into an error after a baseline slug-fest. Two more break points are quickly brought up. The first is saved with a strong first serve down the T, but she can't save a second and the game looks up for Safarova now. KVITOVA BREAKS.
Safarova 6-7, 1-4 Kvitova*
The 2011 champion does her best to get her body out of way of a thunderbolt of a return but can't return the ball and Safarova is in at 15-30. Another shriek goes out as Kvitova smashes a winner to the deuce side, but crucially she can't keep a forehand in on the next as Safarova catches her out by hitting the ball early and this is a real chance for Safarova here at break point. A first serve is hit long but she goes for the body on the next and it pays off. Safarova isn't able to hit a sweet return like last time out as Kvitova edges to advantage and then game. She's two games from the final.
Safarova* 6-7, 1-3 Kvitova
Safarova restores normal service on her serve having been broken last time out, easing to 40-0 before allowing Kvitova back when she gets caught out by a dodgy bounce and hits long. An ace brings up game and she's on the board this set.
Safarova 6-7, 0-3 Kvitova*
It's one-way traffic now as Safarova is clearly letting that first set play on her mind. She gets her act together to send an aggressive second serve back down Kvitova's throat. Friends? Not today. The former champ leaps on a short return to hit her 20th winner of the afternoon, again to Safarova's forehand side which has been her favoured side today. Safarova strikes another sweet serve return to stay in touch at 30-all and then produces another stunning return at advantage to hang in the game. When Safarova can't contain the next first serve, Kvitova lets out a huge roar which probably woke up the odd spectator who might have been dozing in the sunshine on Centre and finally she cements the break.
Safarova* 6-7, 0-2 Kvitova
Kvitova has been given a lift by that opening set and two forehand winners which flash into the advantage side bring up two break points. Safarova, nervously can't get a first serve in but Kvitova can't make the most of a second serve, hitting wide and then some strong groundstrokes keep Kvitova at bay on the next. Kvitova forces her opponent into the net on the next for a third break point and this time she takes it as she steps into the court and from the T whips a forehand across court for an early break. KVITOVA BREAKS.
Safarova 6-7, 0-1 Kvitova*
That was the first set dropped by Safarova these championships and it will be interesting to see how she responds. Kvitova opens up strongly at the start of the second, taking it to 15.
Safarova 6-7 Kvitova (tie-break)
Strong serving gives Kvitova an early lead at 2-1 and crucially she takes a mini-break with a cracking return of serve forcing Safarova to hit into the base of the net. Kvitova takes a 4-2 lead into the changeover after a couple of first serves are too good for Safarova to deal with. But Safarova has the break back as she drills a booming backhand down the line and an outswinging ace brings her level for 4-4. She can't control a forehand while leaning back to hand the break back and with the service baton handed back to Kvitova. Safarova gets on the frontfoot and leaps on a looping return to swipe over a forehand at an acute angle for 5-5. But when Safarova hits a service return wide, Kvitova has a first set point. Safarova shapes to serve. She gets a good outswinging first serve in when Kvitova reaches but strikes out. Both players have a quick drink as they exchange ends at 6-6 but Kvitova is all over a second serve and brings up a second set point and with two serves in her armoury. She takes it when she retrieves a deep return and hits a forehand from behind the baseline which loops past Safarova. A cracking first set is edged by Kvitova, just. KVITOVA WINS TIE-BREAK TO WIN FIRST SET.
Safarova 6-6 Kvitova*
Kvitova is struggling on her forehand side, striking long on the opening point but having greater success on her backhand which she curls into the deuce side for 15-all. She steadies her nerves with some good serving taking her to game, but then she throws in a second double fault for good measure and allows Safarova to hang around in this game. Safarova goes for a big 'un on a second serve and we have a tie-break situation.
Safarova* 6-5 Kvitova
Safarova mixes it up at 30-15, alternating between working on Kvitova's forehand and backhand, she pulls the trigger on one backhand but slaps the net. She restores order on the next, moving in to a short return to strike a winner down the line for game point. A comfortable serve-volley brings up game No 6.
Safarova 5-5 Kvitova*
Kvitova opted for a change of trainers during the changeover, it seeems to help, an ace moving her to 30-15. Safarova struggles to contain two powerful first serves and we're edger closer to a first-set tie-break.
Safarova* 5-4 Kvitova
Kvitova was the overwhelming favourite heading into the contest, but it's the sixth seed who seems to be nervous out there. Safarova is keeping her returns deep and forcing Kvitova to make errors. Four straight points completes an easy hold and keeps the momentum with the 27 year-old.
Safarova 4-4 Kvitova*
It's all Safarova now, she's moving well around the court and taking her chances, a smashed return putting her nose in front this game. Kvitova keeps her focus and steadily edges to 40-15, her right thigh heavily strapped as it has been all these championships. A strike into the tramlines takes Kvitova to game.
Safarova* 4-3 Kvitova
Great play from Safarova on the opening point, showing good movement to edge to the net and hits a volley which drops dead to cut short the rally. A first double fault puts Kvitova on the board and the former champion slaps a return into the net post on the next to a few chuckles in the crowd. Safarova edges back in front for the match as she grunts as she charges down the baseline and swings and makes a cross-court forehand winner, shot of the match so far.
Safarova 3-3 Kvitova*
Safarova looks to have struck a cracking forehand service winner, but the ball is called out, it's only by millimetres but it takes Kvitova to game point and she takes it with an ace.
Safarova* 3-2 Kvitova
Safarova has settled well in her first grand slam semi-final but she gifts Kvitova a point for 15-30 when she charges down a poorly-executed drop shot only to slap a volley into the tape. She responds by moving side-to-side and hitting an early ball which zips off the turf and brings her level again. She brings up a third straight point for game when Kvitova strikes long and it's the first time this match she has got her nose in front.
Safarova 2-2 Kvitova*
This time it's Kvitova at the near side of the court who gets the rub of the green off the tape and instantly puts up her hand. That's 1-1 in the lucky tape-stakes, and she makes the most of the fortune moving to 30-15. Safarova gets her friend motoring at the back of the court and pulls level when Kvitova can't charge down a return to the corner. But she's in the groove on the next, striking a loaded forehand deep in the corner and lets out her first cry of delight. Safarova hangs in the game and has her first break point of the match when Kvitova makes an unforced error. And when the 23rd seed hits a stunning forehand deep to the baseline which catches Kvitova cold, the break is back. SAFAROVA BREAKS.
Safarova* 1-2 Kvitova
Another clip of the net comes to the aid of Safarova, she apologises to her buddy as she wins three straight points, the third by charging the net and hitting a backhand volley deep to the corner. Kvitova leaps on a second serve to strike a blistering forehand back across court. But it's a comfortable hold having been broken early on as Kvitova can't keep in the next first serve.
Safarova 0-2 Kvitova*
A double fault at the start of Kvitova's first service game but she sends a first ace of the match down to bring her opponent back to 30-all. She promptly follows it up with a second ace, and after being pulled back to deuce completes a shaky game when Safarova can't get her racket round a body serve.
Safarova* 0-1 Kvitova (*denotes server)
Safarova is held up by some muttering from the stands and the umpire has to intervene. It doesn't distract the 23rd seed as she takes the opening two points before both players are given a helping hand by the tape, but Kvitova dispatches a volleyed winner for her first point of the match. Safarova gets drawn into a rally and hits long and stares at a break point when Kvitova leaps on a short ball to drill a forehand cross-court winner. She whips a second into the same spot for an early break. KVITOVA BREAKS.
13.08 Here we go then, Safarova serves first...
13.05 Kvitova has beaten Safarova in their last five encounters, but here's hoping for a repeat of the Eastbourne showdown which saw the 27 year-old run Kvitova close. Having lost the first set 6-1, Safarova recovered to take the second 7-5 and narrowly lost the third on a tie-break (4).
12.58 The players are both waiting in the hallway, waiting for the umpire or some Wimbledon official to emerge so they can make their way out on to Centre. They share a brief chat, they are friends after all, it all looks very polite but then Safarova turns her back on Kvitova. Finally they're able to pick up their bags and head into the sunshine, Kvitova following her countrywoman out to polite applause.
12.40 Stat Attack: 24 year-old Kvitova is the only player born in the 1990s to have won a major title in the men's and women's game, and is a big fan of the All England Club where she is 24-5 for her career, compared to 36-18 at the other slams. Safarova, until last week, had been 4-8 at Wimbledon.
Also, did you know, for the fourth year in a row, three women will divide the season's first three major titles, no matter who ends up lifting the trophy on Saturday.
So far in 2014, Li Na won the Australian Open, then lost in the first round at the French Open and the third round at the All England Club. Maria Sharapova won the French Open, but was beaten in the fourth round at the other two majors.
12.15 The dissection into Andy Murray's limp performance against Grigor Dimitrov continues today with conspiracy theories doing the rounds that all is not well in Camp Murray.
Courtside photographers heard Murray shout "Shut the f*** up!" and "Five minutes before the f****** match!" towards his team as the match slipped away from him.
Murray claimed in his BBC Sport blog that the run-up to the match ran as planned.
"There was nothing different in the build-up and no reason to expect that kind of performance.
"The timings changed a bit because we played the quarter-final pretty early compared with some of my other matches, but my routine was the same."
11.50 For Safarova today, having lost all five of her head-to-heads with her compatriot, it will depend on how well she copes with the big occasion. The 23rd seed has only ever twice been beyond the last 16 of a grand slam with her previous best before today reaching the quarter-finals of the Australian Open some seven years ago.
Here's her route to the semis:
1st round: beat Julia Goerges 7-6, 7-6
2nd round: beat Polona Hercog 7-6, 7-5
3rd round: Dominika Cibulkova (10th seed) 6-4, 6-2
4th round: Tereza Smitkova 6-0, 6-2
Quarter-finals: Ekaterina Makarova (22nd seed) 6-3, 6-1
11.35 Kvitova very nearly didn't reach the second week of Wimbledon as she was two points from being knocked out by five-time champion Venus Williams in the third round, before she eventually won 5-7, 7-6(2), 7-5 after two and a half hours of action.
Here's her story so far here:
1st round: beat Andrea Hlavachkova 6-3, 6-0,
2nd round: beat Mona Barthel 6-2, 6-0
3rd round: beat Venus Williams (30th seed) 5-7, 7-6, 7-5
4th round: beat Shuai Peng 6-3, 6-2
Quarter-finals: beat Barbora Zahlavova Stryvoca 6-1, 7-5
11.20 Morning all. It's the all-Czech battle of the lefties as 2011 champion Petra Kvitova takes on semi-finalist debutant Lucie Safarova for a place in Saturday's final.
Sixth-seed Kvitova, in fact, is the only former champion of any major left in the hat following the shock exits of Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Li Na and Victoria Azarenka, which could prove crucial at the business end of the third slam of the year.
We'll also be bringining you game-by-game coverage of the second semi-final, a mouth-watering match-up between this year's two in-form players Eugenie Bouchard and Simona Halep which follows the conclusion of this contest.
Kvitova and Safarova's advances to the semi-finals means there are two Czech women in the last four at a Grand Slam for the first time since Hana Mandlikova and Helena Sukova at the 1986 French Open.
The pair, both left-handers, are good friends, but having to put aside friendships while on court has become a familiar feeling for Kvitova at this year's tournament.
This will be her third meeting with a fellow Czech after her quarter-final victory over Barbora Zahlavova Strycova and a first-round win against Andrea Hlavackova.


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2016-2018 Cultivating New Voices cohort and their mentors
Blanca Caldas is an Assistant Professor in Second Language and Elementary Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction with emphasis on bilingual education and Mexican American studies at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Dr. Deborah Palmer. Dr. Caldas' dissertation "Performing the Advocate Bilingual Teacher: Drama-Based Interventions for Future Story-Making" focuses on how future bilingual teachers bridge their emergent knowledge of issues pertaining to bilingual education at a macro level (policy, history, approaches, programs, language ideologies) and their own beliefs as Mexican American/Latinx bilingual individuals through the reenactment of local counter-stories of seasoned bilingual teachers through Theater of the Oppressed. This study examines the complexity of these juxtaposing voices while adding another layer to this critical examination through performance as they rehearse their own stance as future professionals. She makes theoretical connections among Bakhtin's heteroglossia, Freire's conscientization, and Conquergood's dialogical performance in order to examine the processes of self-making of pre-service Bilingual teachers as advocates while using minoritized practices.
Mentor: Arnetha F. Ball is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University in the Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, and the Race, Inequality and Language Programs. She currently serves as Director of the Race, Inequality and Language Program and is Co-Director of Stanford's Center for Race, Ethnicity and Language, Past-Director of the Program in African and African American Studies, 2011-2012 President of the American Educational Research Association, and the past US Representative to the World Educational Research Association. Before entering the professorate, she taught in pre-school, elementary, and secondary classrooms for over 25 years and was the founder and Executive Director of "Children's Creative Workshop," an early education center that specialized in providing premiere educational experiences for students from diverse backgrounds. Her research is designed to advance sociocultural theory through studies that integrate sociolinguistic, discourse analytic and ethnographic approaches to investigate ways in which semiotic systems in general, and oral and written language in particular, serve as a means for mediating teaching and learning in culturally and linguistically diverse settings. Her interdisciplinary program of research is conducted in complex learning environments that are faced with the challenge of improving education for diverse populations in three intersecting contexts: U.S. schools where predominantly poor African American, Latino/a, and Pacific Islander students are underachieving; community-based organizations that provide alternative education opportunities for academic and/or economic success; and US and South African teacher education programs that prepare teachers to teach students in culturally and linguistically complex classrooms. Her most recent research investigates successful paradigms, principles and practices in preparing teachers for diversity across national boundaries in four countries that serve large numbers of historically marginalized students—the US, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Winner of the 2009 AERA Palmer O. Johnson Award and author/co-editor of six books and numerous articles, Ball is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and has served as an Academic Specialist for the United States Information Services Program in South Africa and Distinguished Visiting Scholar in New Zealand and Australia. Recipient of the 2015 St. Clair Drake Teaching Award, Dr. Ball served as a trustee of the Research Foundation of the National Council of Teachers of English, was the Inaugural Barbara A. Sizemore Distinguished Visiting Professor in Urban Education, and was the 2015 Co-convener for the World Educational Research Association's International Research Network on Overcoming Inequalities in Schools and Learning Communities: Innovative and Audacious Education for a New Century. Her recent work focuses on the development of blended online professional development that prepares teachers to work with diverse student populations and on the implementation of her Model of Generative Change (2009). She holds a B.A. and M.S. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Justin A. Coles graduated from Brown University where the majority of his studies focused on the intersection of politics and education for Black Americans. Promptly after graduation, Justin returned to his native city of Philadelphia where he taught middle school literature. While in Philadelphia, Justin also earned his M.S.Ed. from The University of Pennsylvania. Justin is currently a doctoral student at Michigan State University in the Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education department with a focus in Race, Culture, and Equity. Justin's research interests focus on the intersections of race, literacy, and violence. He is particularly interested in how educational institutions have long operated as sites of violence for Black youth and how their engagement with critical literacies can aide them in re-imagining and re-constructing schools as sites that reject such violence. While at MSU, Justin has had the opportunity to teach undergraduate students in courses covering a range of topics, including: Human Diversity, Power and Opportunity in Social Institutions and Issues of Diversity in Children's and Adolescent Literature.
Mentor: Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include racial literacy development, Black and Latino male students, Black girl literacies, Black female college reentry, and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy.
At Teachers College (TC), she is founder and faculty sponsor of the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series, where for eight years, national scholars, doctoral, pre-service and in-service Master's students, and young people in schools facilitate informal conversations around race and other issues of diversity in schools and society. Dr. Sealey-Ruiz is also a co-founder (with Laura Smith and Lalitha Vasudevan) of the Civic Participation Project at TC, a multi-disciplinary project that focuses on the well-being of youth involved in the foster care and the juvenile justice systems.
Yolanda is the recipient of the 2016 American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Mid-Career Award in Teacher and Teacher Education. She is the immediate-past secretary for AERA's Division K, and a 2012-2013 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Yolanda's work has appeared in several refereed journals including Adult Education Quarterly, English Education, Teachers College Record, Teaching English in a Two Year College (TETYC), The Journal of Negro Education, and Urban Education. She is co-editor (with Chance W. Lewis and Ivory A. Toldson) of the book Teacher Education and Black Communities: Implications for Access, Equity, and Achievement (IAP).
Yolanda and two of her former students appeared in Spike Lee's most recent documentary "2 Fists Up" which spotlights the Black Lives Matter movement and the Mizzou University student protests.
Marcus Croom is currently a doctoral candidate of Literacy, Language, and Culture at University of Illinois at Chicago. From the 1970s to the 1990s, he was nurtured in Goldsboro, North Carolina out of Black, working class, and Black Holiness Pentecostal Christian experiences. His research and writing was cultivated by undergraduate and graduate education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), a music education career in characteristically urban schools, and his work designing and leading a literacy intervention for 4th grade Black boys.
More recently, he employs vindicationist philosophy and microethnographic discourse analysis to investigate the significance of teachers' conceptualization(s) of race in literacy instruction with Black children. Within his broader interest in literacies and race, Croom's research will continue to document teachers' understandings of race and examine the influence these understandings may have on teacher efficacy, student identification, pedagogical reasoning, and teaching practices in literacy instruction.
Publications from Croom's scholarship include: "Reading 'The Crisis in Black Education' from a Post-White Orientation" published in the Black History Bulletin (in press) and a book review of Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education by Zeus Leonardo published in the Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research (in press).
Mentor: George Kamberelis is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He received a Ph.D. in Education and Psychology from the University of Michigan. Most of Professor Kamberelis' research and writing has focused on disciplinary literacies (especially genre teaching and learning), the nature and functions of classroom discourse, discourse and identity, and early writing development. He has also conducted research on new/media literacies, English language learning, and intercultural communication. Professor Kamberelis' research is resolutely interdisciplinary, integrating intellectual perspectives from anthropology, psychology, linguistics, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies. His work also embodies a deep commitment to theory (especially critical social theory). Professor Kamberelis' work has been published in various journals including Research in the Teaching of English, Reading Research Quarterly, Linguistics and Education, Journal of Literacy Research, Qualitative Inquiry, and Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Michael Domínguez is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies & Literacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Domínguez received his Ph.D. in Literacy, with a concentration in Ethnic Studies, from the University of Colorado at Boulder. While at CU, Dr. Domínguez served as co-founder and director for UMAS y MEXA de CU Boulder's Aquetza Program, which focused on supporting decolonial and expansive learning for Chican@ youth and pre-service teachers. Previously a middle school English teacher in North Las Vegas, NV, Dr. Domínguez' research interests focus on the schooling experiences and literacies of Latin@/Chican@ youth, liberatory teacher education, and the intersections of critical pedagogy, decolonial theory, and learning science. His current work employs social-design and ethnographic research methodologies to explore how critical literacy and ethnic studies content can support culturally sustaining literacy growth and socio-political development for Latin@ youth, their families, and their teachers in the rural southeast. He is also an experienced Teatro del Oprimido facilitator, committed to Teatro's ability to encourage activism, socio-emotional growth, and civic engagement in school and community settings.
Mentor: Susi Long is a Professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina. Her research and teaching focus on methodologies that challenge and replace unjust practices in early childhood literacy and teacher education. Written with teachers and university colleagues, her books include Many Pathways to Literacy, Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching, Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards, and Courageous Leadership in Early Childhood Education, and currently completing, "We've been doing it your way long enough": Choosing the Culturally Relevant Classroom. Among other NCTE roles, she is past Chair of the Research Foundation Trustees and the 2013 Early Childhood Assembly's Early Literacy Educator of the Year. Inspired by CNV, she co-founded the Assembly's Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching supporting teacher-teacher educator partners in generating anti-bias practices in early childhood.
Tracey Flores is a PhD candidate in English Education at Arizona State University (ASU). She is a former English Language Development (ELD) and Language Arts teacher who worked in elementary classrooms for eight years. As a teacher, she engaged with her students in after-school writing workshops where families came together to write, draw and share stories from their lived experiences. Through the sharing of stories, she learned of the struggles, dreams and knowledge shared between families. Informed by these experiences, her research focuses on the family literacy practices shared among adolescent Latina girls and their mothers' using family writing as a springboard for advocacy, empowerment, and transformation.
Mentor: María Fránquiz (Ph.D.) is Dean, College of Education, University of Utah. She taught at CU Boulder, UT-San Antonio and UT-Austin. In Austin she served as an Endowed Fellow and Assistant Dean of Faculty Development. She has 30-plus years as teacher, teacher-educator, and administrator. Honors include Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, NCTE CNV Director, NCTE Advancement of People of Color Award, AERA Scholars of Color Distinction Award, AERA Division G Mentor Award, and lifetime career award from the AERA Hispanic SIG. The many doctoral students she has mentored are teacher educators and professors in IHEs across the US. She is editor of the Bilingual Research Journal and co-authored two books, Inside the Latin@ Experience, A Latino Studies Reader and Scholars in the Field: The Challenges of Migrant Education. Her numerous publications are in The High School Journal, The Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Arts, Multiple Perspectives, English Leadership Quarterly among many others.
Brooke Harris Garad is a doctoral candidate in Global Education and Multicultural and Equity Studies in Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. Her dissertation research focuses on the stories, epistemologies, trans literacies, and transcultural teaching practices of immigrant educators at a community-based after-school youth program. Giving credit to black feminism and de-/post-colonial theory for both her research interests and worldview, Harris Garad also focuses on the following themes in her work: global and international education, issues of equity and diversity, teacher education, and African/African American studies. Harris Garad is also the recipient of a 2016-2017 Dissertation Research Fellowship from The Ohio State University's College of Education and Human Ecology.
Mentor: Lisa (Leigh) Patel is an interdisciplinary researcher, educator, and writer. Her work addresses how narratives facilitate societal structures. With a background in sociology, she researches and teaches about education as a site of social reproduction and as a potential site for transformation. Prior to working in the academy, Professor Patel was a journalist, a teacher, and a state-level policymaker.
Professor Patel, also published under Lisa Patel Stevens, is the author of Decolonizing Educational Research: From Ownership to Answerability (Routledge), Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education and the Politics of Inclusion (Teachers College Press), co-author of Critical Literacy: Context, Research, and Praxis in the K-12 Classroom (Sage) and co-editor of ReConstructing the Adolescent: Sign, Symbol and Body (Peter Lang Publishers). Her writing has also been featured in media outlets including Beacon Broadside, The Feminist Wire, Racialicious.com and HuffPost Live. She is a national board member of Education for Liberation, a long-standing organization dedicated to transformative education for marginalized populations.
Laura Gonzales is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she teaches technical communication and rhetoric and writing studies. Her work examines the intersections of multilingualism, translation, and technical communication in both academic and professional settings. Dr. Gonzales was recently awarded the 2016 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize for her forthcoming monograph, Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals Can Teach us about Digital Writing and Rhetoric. Her work has also appeared in Composition Forum, Technical Communication, and College Composition and Communication.
Mentor: Michelle Hall Kells is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of New Mexico where she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in 20th Century Civil Rights Rhetoric, Contemporary and Classical Rhetoric, Writing and Cultural Studies, and Discourse Studies. Kells has served as a NCTE CNV mentor since 2014. She has served as Special Assistant to the Dean of the College of Arts and Science 2012-2014 and Program Chair of the Writing Across Communities (WAC) initiative at UNM 2004-2014. Kells received the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Research Fellowship in 2008. Kells' research interests include civil rights rhetorics, sociolinguistics, and composition/literacy studies.
Kells is coeditor of Attending to the Margins: Writing, Researching, and Teaching on the Front Lines (Heinemann, 1999) and Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education (Heinemann, 2004). Her work is featured in the journals JAC, Written Communication, Journal of Reflections, Journal of Community Literacy, and Rhetoric & Public Affairs as well as a number of edited books including Cross-Language Relations in Composition, Dialects; Englishes, Creoles, and Education; Who Belongs in America? Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration. Kells is author of Hector P. Garcia: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006). Her current book project is Vicente Ximenes and LBJ's "Great Society": Twentieth-Century Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric (Southern Illinois University Press, 2017).
Mónica González is a Doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado-Boulder in Literacy Studies. Her work as an activist-scholar centralizes on collaborating with young people to challenge dominant notions of language, literacy, and knowledge production more broadly. Her dissertation research primarily focuses on Youth Participatory Action Research with immigrant youth living in a migrant housing community. While the research in collaboration with these young people focuses on issues facing the community and implications for social change, her analysis also seeks to recognize and understand the ways in which young people disrupt colonial narratives about themselves, their families, and community. Mónica's work is interdisciplinary and relies on critical frameworks to examine how literacy is situated at the intersections of race, class, gender, citizenship, and sexuality and how the voices of young people are central to reconstructing narratives and creating alternative literacies.
Mentor: Korina Jocson (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Central to her work are arts-informed sociocultural approaches that examine youth literacies and issues of equity among historically marginalized youth. Recent studies have focused on the intersection of literary and media arts, information and communication technologies, and school-community connections across educational settings. She is the author of Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies in and Out of Schools (Peter Lang, 2008) and editor of Cultural Transformations: Youth and Pedagogies of Possibility (Harvard Education Press, 2013). Currently, Dr. Jocson is completing a book manuscript on youth media and education (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Other publications have appeared or will appear in scholarly journals such as International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Curriculum Inquiry, Teachers College Record, Daedalus, English Education, and Urban Education. Her work has also been included in a number of anthologies and edited books. She received her Ph.D. in Education in the area of language, literacy, and culture at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford University School of Education.
Fahima Ife is an Assistant Professor of English Education in the Department of English at Louisiana State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Languages, Literacies, and Cultures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She writes and teaches on issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Dr. Ife uses Black existentialism, Black feminism, Black radicalism, and Queer methods to examine the schooling experiences of Black girls (in K-12 contexts) and Black women (in higher education). Partially informed by her former role as a middle school English teacher and activist in Atlanta, GA, her research is primarily concerned with understanding how Black women and girls experience momentary joy and freedom in traumatizing eras and landscapes. To understand this phenomenon, Dr. Ife focuses on community-based creative space making, seeking out sites in which Black girls and women actively design their own performance, literary, media, self-care, and activist platforms. Her work illuminates the ongoing need for addressing issues of Black feminine erasure, equity, and trauma in teacher education, in addition to theorizing Black joy and sadness, magic and creativity in dehumanizing times. Dr. Ife is also a creative writer. In addition to her prior role as an English teacher and educator activist, her artistry guides her program of research. Her long-term scholarly goal involves co-creating a multimedia arts-based healing space celebrating and serving Queer youth of color, Black and Brown youth, and Queer-allied youth of color.
Mentor: Damián Baca is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Rhetoric, Composition, and Teaching of English graduate program at the University of Arizona. He is author of Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing (2008), a retelling of the story of writing as a technology that emerges not with alphabets in Western Europe, but in the Valley of México, long before the birth of Aristotle. He is also lead editor of Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114BCE to 2012CE (2010), an examination of discursive strategies that depart from Greco-Latin inventions. Baca is especially interested in writing with, against, and beyond inherited patterns of thought that flourished in Western Europe under capitalism. In place of merely challenging Eurocentrism from a so-called "alternative" cultural locus, he examines how and why the current study of language and literacy become acceptable alternatives to the immense global plurality that remain obscured.
Grace MyHyun Kim is a PhD candidate in the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Education. Her dissertation explores an online affinity space in which youth appropriated transnational media for their own learning purposes, as well as the complex identity politics they enacted within this connected learning. Her research and writing have appeared in journals including Reading Research Quarterly and International Multilingual Research Journal, and as a chapter in Learning to Teach for Social Justice. Inspired by her years as a California high school English teacher and informed by her ongoing work in curriculum design and teacher professional development for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education, her research and teaching interests include literacy, language, multicultural education, globalization, and Asian and Asian American Studies. She was a 2013 Summer Fellow of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a 2014 Michael B. Salwen Scholar of the Korean American Educational Research Association, a 2015-2016 HAAS Junior Fellow of the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for East Asian Studies, and she has been a recipient of the University of California, Berkeley's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. She holds a BA in Rhetoric and Art History from the University of California, Berkeley, and a MA in Education from Stanford University.
Mentor: Eva Lam is an associate professor of Learning Sciences and affiliated faculty in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She specializes in the area of language, literacy, and diversity in education. Her work has focused on literacy development in new media environments, particularly among adolescent immigrants and multilingual students, in both young people's everyday life and school and community-based settings. Her ethnographic work has explored the digital media practices of young people to understand these practices within larger contexts of transnational movements, social networks, and flows of media content and artifacts. With colleagues in education and journalism, she has studied multimedia storytelling and documentary making among high school students to understand how students move across diverse spaces (home, community, academic and civic spaces) and produce knowledge of these spaces in telling stories on migration. The broader goal of her research program is to contribute to societal education that mobilizes linguistic and cultural diversity as productive resources for promoting students' academic and social development in an increasingly intercultural world.
Jamila Lyiscott is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) of Teachers College, Columbia University. She also serves as an educator, community organizer, consultant and motivational speaker locally and internationally. Jamila's work focuses on contexts where the cultures, literacies, and literatures of young people of color are critically engaged and humanized for social change. Her scholarship is situated in Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, Literacy Studies, and Black Literature. Jamila is the founder and co-director of the Cyphers for Justice (CFJ) youth, research, and advocacy program, apprenticing inner-city youth as critical researchers through hip-hop, spoken word, and digital literacy. She was recently featured on Ted.com where her video was viewed over 3 million times. Along with several publications, she has lectured and directed educational justice projects widely. Through her community, scholastic, and artistic efforts, Jamila hopes to play a key role in forging better connections between the world of academia and communities of color outside.
Mentor: Carol D. Lee is the Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education in the School of Education and Social Policy and in African-American Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is a past president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), AERA's past representative to the World Educational Research Association, past vice-president of Division G (Social Contexts of Education) of the American Educational Research Association, past president of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, and past co-chair of the Research Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English. She is a member of the National Academy of Education in the United States, a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, a fellow of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, and a former fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the National Council of Teachers of English, Scholars of Color Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association, the Walder Award for Research Excellence at Northwestern University, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Illinois-Urbana, The President's Pacesetters Award from the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education and an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has led three international delegations in education on behalf of the People to People's Ambassador Program to South Africa and the People's Republic of China. She is the author or co-editor of three books, the most recent Culture, Literacy and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind, 4 monographs, and has published over 62 journal articles and book or handbook chapters in the field of education. Her research addresses cultural supports for learning that include a broad ecological focus, with attention to language and literacy and African-American youth. Her career spans a 50-year history, including work as an English Language Arts teacher at the high school and community college levels, a primary grade teacher, and a university professor. She is a founder of four African centered schools that span a 44-year history, including three charter schools under the umbrella of the Betty Shabazz International Charter Schools where she serves as chair of the Board of Directors. She is married to Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti, poet and publisher of Third World Press, and is the mother of three adult children and three grandchildren, and together they have six adult children and seven grandchildren.
Esther O. Ohito is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Mills College, where she teaches in the School of Education's Humanities Program, and a Doctoral Candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. She is a transdisciplinary Black feminist scholar concerned chiefly with race and gender issues that reside at the nexus of curriculum, pedagogy, embodiment and emotion. She is especially curious about how the intensities of corporeality and affect shape curricula and pedagogical practices that subsequently produce the (im)possibility of particular types of politics—and humans—in (and beyond) teaching and learning spaces. Her dissertation investigates antiracist pedagogy by placing teacher educators' theorizing of this phenomenon in conversation with their practice, and inquiring into the points of (dis)connection that percolate. Many of Esther's research wonderings are wedded to her personal and professional racialized and gendered memories of lived experience, including—and importantly—her remembered histories as a transnational/Black immigrant student, a middle school English Language Arts teacher in Chicago, and a teacher educator with affiliations and affinities in cities and sites across the United States and the African diaspora.
Mentor: Sonja Lanehart is Professor and Brackenridge Endowed Chair in Literature and the Humanities at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is author of Sista, Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy (2002) and Ebonics: What It Is and Is Not (expected 2017); editor of Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English (2001), African American Women's Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity (2009), and the Oxford Handbook of African American Language (2015); and former co-editor of Educational Researcher: Research News and Comment. She has organized and hosted several conferences on African American Language and African American Studies. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, African American Language, language and identity, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality in addition to the educational implications and applications of sociolinguistic research.
Grace Player is a doctoral candidate in the Reading/Writing/Literacy program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Her research strives to be relational, loving, and based in practice. Throughout her time at Penn GSE, she has worked with youth and families in a multicultural and multilingual community in South Philadelphia. Along side community members and her Penn GSE research team, she has co-investigated how youth and families use a richness of literacy and language practices to investigate their worlds, name their experiences, and advocate for their rights. Her dissertation work, which is situated within this community, inquires into the genius of girls of color. In an afterschool writing program for middle school girls of color, she and the girls use a complex web of literacies to better understand the issues the girls name as most important, to cultivate their understandings of these issues, and to advocate, in coalition and through difference, for justice. This work is celebratory at its core, and seeks to nurture a radical love aimed at creating a more utopic future.
Mentor: Valerie Kinloch is Professor of Literacy Studies and Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University. Her research examines youth literacy engagements inside and outside schools. One of her books, Harlem On Our Minds: Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth, received the 2011 Exemplary Research Award from Division K, the 2011 Honorary Mention for Outstanding Contribution to Research from Division B, and the 2012 Outstanding Book of the Year Award from the American Educational Research Association. Her book, Crossing Boundaries: Teaching and Learning with Urban Youth, was a staff pick for professional development books by the Teaching Tolerance Education Magazine. She is recipient of the 2010 AERA Scholars of Color Early Career Award, the 2015 OSU Distinguished Diversity Award, and the 2015 Rewey Belle Inglis Award for Outstanding Women in English Education from NCTE. Currently, she is working on literacy, justice, and community engaged projects.
Dywanna E. Smith is a PhD candidate in the language and literacy program at the University of South Carolina. Her dissertation interprets how eighth grade African-American girls perceive obesity in their daily lives and determines what happens when opportunities are given to create counter-narratives about race, gender and size. Informed by Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Theory, the study centers the body as a textual artifact, broadens notions of what counts as text which can be critically read, and provides models for nurturing adolescents in tackling school and community issues. Findings invite consideration on the importance of providing a safe space for African American female adolescents to confess past trauma and narrate new understandings. The knowledge from this study illustrates how a dialogic classroom can allow students to write and speak their truths and offers strategies for changing schools as reproducers of societal inequities to places of inquiry where students can critique and challenge dominant narratives. As a scholar-educator, Dywanna's research focuses on two related interests: 1) examining the intersections of race, literacies, and education and 2) equipping teachers with equity pedagogies to successfully teach linguistically and culturally diverse students. She has presented nationally and internationally on these subjects. Currently, Dywanna works as a middle level English/language arts specialist and coach in Columbia, S.C.
Mentor: Keffrelyn D. Brown (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the Elizabeth Glenadine Gibb Teaching Fellow in Education and has appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies and the Center for Women and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on the sociocultural knowledge of race, teaching and curriculum, critical multicultural teacher education and the education of Black people in the U.S. Keffrelyn has over 40 scholarly publications. Her recent book, published in 2016 by Teachers College Press is After the "At-Risk Label": Reorienting Educational Policy and Practice. She has received the AERA Division K Early Career Research Award and the Regent's Outstanding Teaching Award, the highest honor given for excellent undergraduate teaching across the University of Texas system.

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Microsoft's next-generation Kinect device may be accurate enough to read your lips. It has also been stated that future Xbox consoles will ship with Kinect 2 built in.
Sources speaking to Eurogamer have claimed that the unannounced Kinect 2 will be able to read facial expressions and detect a variety of emotions through the user's tone. Improved motion-sensing and voice-recognition technology are expected to be installed.
The depth sensor in the current Kinect device was set to 30 frames per second upon the November 2010 launch, offering a 320×240 resolution limit. The universal serial bus (USB) controller interface has the potential to run at 35 megabytes per second, but only utilizes around 15 to 16 megabytes per second. The limitation comes as multiple USB devices can be simultaneously used on an Xbox 360 console.
Kinect 2 will be able to send more information, providing a higher-resolution charge-coupled device. Sources say, "It can be cabled straight through on any number of technologies that just take phenomenally high res data straight to the main processor and straight to the main random access memory (RAM) and ask, what do you want to do with it?"
Although these reports are unconfirmed, Kinect 2's potential is obvious. It would be interesting to see games such as L.A Noire expanded on by reading the player's emotion and tone, as the technology may be able to detect truth from certain body language and facial gestures. If the rumors are true, this is exactly the kind of advancement to expect.


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ECOFest 2012
Written By: kdmarshall|
June 1, 2012|
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ECOFest is a free environmental event to educate and motivate our communities to reduce their impact on the environment. This year's theme is to "emPOWER yourself at home, work and play." Children and families will learn about a variety of new environmentally friendly ways to live their lives, including powering their homes, travel options, and other ways to empower their mind and body!
Other event highlights will include:
Market Place of Ideas
Birds of prey
Chief Top Leaf (story teller)
Water games
Wagon rides
Musical entertainment (for the kids)
FREE Shuttle from Fairview Park Mall to Waterloo Region Museum departs every 15 minutes from 9:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Juno nominated Fat Flea, playing in Jubilee Park at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
Smudge Fundeas, playing in the theatre at 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Door prizes
Visit the Greentec-Think Recycle exhibit to recycle SMALL unwanted electronics in support of Grand River Conservation Foundation! Acceptable products include: cell phones, laptops, digital cameras, ipods/mp3 players and ink/toner cartridges.
This is the 5th annual ECOFest held at the Waterloo Region Museum, Gateway to Doon Heritage Village.
Ecofest is a FREE event is geared towards families and children.
Where: Waterloo Region Museum and Doon Heritage Village, 10 Huron Rd
When: June 2, 2012
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm
For more information please visit website.
365 things to do in Kitchener Waterloo is brought to you by Keith Marshall and the Agents of Change


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The Healthy Wealth You | Women's Health HERstory
Dr. T and her BFFs (Beautiful Fit, Free and Fierce Friends) of the health and scientific community collaborates and presents a teleforum and/or webinar that fosters awareness, educates, provide tools and inspires women to take control of their mental, physical and emotional health. A 30 minute discussion and Q&A is centered-around topics such as fitness, nutrition, chronic diseases and prevention, infectious diseases, reproductive health, dental hygiene, healthy relationships, stress management, preventive screening measures, depression, alternative medicine, healthcare access, health advocacy and public policy. These teleforums are held bi-monthly and serve not only as a platform to empower the participants but to give rise to the next generation of health and scientific leaders.
Ask how you can bring a Women's Health HERstory BFF and expert to your next health fair, expo, retreat or online seminar.
Receive a complimentary 15-25 minute strategy consultation.
Replay of October 1, 2015, 9:00PM EST
Fall Fitness Month ed.: Gym vs. HER Hair: We Do Care
- Dr. Isfahan Chambers-Harris – Biomedical Scientist & Creator of All Natural Hair Care Line, Alodia
- Deborah Huddleston – Master Stylist & Owner, Salon 920
- Keba Richardson – Hair Stylist, Nutrition Coach & Personal Trainer, Opulent LifeSyle Network
- Janelle Watkins – Hair Enthusiast & Creator of Honestly Chic
Dial: (712) 775-7029 Meeting ID: 749-693-051 or click here WHH Fall Fitness
Past Women's Health HERstory Teleforums
October 2013 (Pilot)
Fibroid Free Living and Wellness (click here for resources)
- Labertha Taylor- Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, N-Covenant, Inc.
October 29, 2014 (Official Launch)
The Personal and Professional Truth and Impact Breast Cancer (click here for resources) Replay: WHH Breast Cancer
- Dr. Luisel Ricks Santi- Cancer Geneticist and Director, Hampton Cancer Research Center
- Dr. Brandi Knight- Assistant Professor Dept. of Medical Education; Director of Student Support at the Morehouse School of Medicine
- Dr. Jacquline Yancy – Biologist, Scientific Medical Advice Reviewer, FDA/HHS
- Dr. Yara Robertson – Breast Surgical Oncologist with Metro Surgical Associates, Board Member for Sisters by Choice
February 25, 2015
Finding the Pieces, Achieving Mental Peace (click here for resources) Replay: WHH Mental Health
- Chelsie Dunn- PhD Student in the Clinical Psychology Program, Alliant International University in Los Angeles, CA
- Dr. Sidney Hankerson- Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Dr. Donna Gardner – Licensed Psychologist, GET AHEAD Psych, LLC
- Nancia Leath – Licensed Professional Mental Health Therapist, Inward Core Healthcare Services
- Kizmat Tention – Life Coach, Kizmat Coaching and Consulting, LLC
May 27, 2015
Women's Health Month ed.: What's your Health HERstory?: 365 Days of Wellness (resources coming soon) Replay: WHH Women's Health Month
- Tamara A. Grant – Licensed Esthetician , Beauty and Skin Health
- Dr. Benita Stephens – Ob/GYN & Owner, Ciao Bella Medical Center and Spa
- Alyssa Dragutsky – Registered and Licensed Dietitian, CDC WorkLife Wellness Office
- Alethia Tukes– Fitness Instructor & Lifestyle Advisor, Metro Atlanta YMCA


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I like to make soup a couple of times in the week for lunch and to add to dinner. Today I was working on tortilla soup but was distracted by chasing a pooping Pit Bull puppy: she ate an entire tube of raw chorizo that my (adult) son left sitting on the couch and it caused a regrettable mess. Phew. The puppy is feeling better now that she has it all out of her system but it took a long time to clean up. In that time my soup runneth over. It does not help that 1. the pot was too small; 2. the heat was on too high, and 3. it was left unattended.
The mess was even larger than what shows in the pic. It also ran down onto the floor in a giant puddle. Sigh. I was able to salvage the soup after I cleaned up the mess. Hurray!
Tortilla soup in three ways: I can make this will all fresh ingredients, or all canned prep ingredients, or a mixture.
4 cups chicken stock (or two aseptic packs, or three cans)
1-2 cups diced cooked chicken (or a couple of cans of chicken, or scraps from cooking stock, your pref)
1 chopped onion
a clove or two of garlic
1 tbs chili powder
1 tbs paprika (I love paprika, go by what you like)
1/2- 1 tps cumin (to taste: this stuff can overpower a dish)
1/4 cup of grits, polenta or cornmeal
1-2 cups cooked beans (leftovers or canned, however much you like)
1 can of tomatoes with chilis (can be without chilis but I like 'em)
optional: 1/2 cup of uncooked or cooked rice
a mix of whatever you like out of the following:
canned corn, green beans, canned carrots, fresh carrots, celery, bell peppers (i never use bells for this) hot peppers, chili peppers; just use what your family likes
Cook until everything is soft (esp if you use uncooked rice)
Serve topped with shredded cheese, crumbled bits of tortilla chips, sour cream, green onions, olives: again whatever your pref.


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By Sandy Zimmerman
(Sandy Zimmerman shot these photos during the live show.)
The Cabaret Jazz Club, at the Smith Center, has rekindled the concept of the old- time supper clubs with an elegant night club setting which is perfect for watching great talent.
Some people call Andrea Marcovicci the "female Sinatra"; she does have a way with casting a spell over her audience. Andrea's vocals are as delightful as her comments and stories. Andrea created a nostalgic atmosphere by personalizing each of her songs to make them come alive. Some of Andrea's stories were as exciting as her singing.
Andrea remarked, "Tonight is all about music, movies and memories. Let's celebrate their themes and the effect of movies on our lives. The melodies from these movies are the conduit to our memories. That's the ride you are on, let's jump on board!"
These were the songs in the famous classic films, the ones we remember throughout the years.
One touching scene was Andrea's tribute to Fred Astaire. She held his picture lovingly while singing "Dance with Me" from Irving Berlin's movie "Top Hat" (1935). Andrea explained, "First I'll be Ginger Rogers than I'll be Fred Astaire."
Another musical selection was 'Long ago and far away" from the film "Cover Girl' (1944), starring Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth.
One of Andrea's earliest childhood memories were in the 1950's when her father, a busy doctor, took her to see an afternoon movie. Since this was the only time it stood out in Andrea's mind. She added, "The prices were .50 cents for adults and .25 cents for children."
Andrea's choice of the up-beat happy song "Good Morning' from "Singing in the Rain" was a perfect change from the love songs (1952).
She sang "Good Morning" from "Singing in the Rain", a movie about the silent film era changing to the beginning of talkies, with Debbie Reynolds and Gene Kelly and Donald O'Conner".
Andrea sang the touching Academy Award winning song "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" from the film "Lily" (1953), with Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer, nominated for five Academy Awards. It was the story of a little girl who ran away to a circus. Andrea commented, "For all my life the circus was out there waiting for me".
Andrea was a fan of classic films, "I love the old, old movies not only because of the singing and dancing, it was the dialogue. I won't say I was immune to the charms of Marlin Brandon. I love Freddy (Fred Astaire) along with Cary Grant and Jimmy Steward."
There are many reasons for Andrea's success as the "The Queen of Cabaret", her golden tones, charm and ability to know how to choose just the right songs for her show.
The next Cabaret Jazz performer is Mary Wilson of the Supremes, starring in "The Lady and Her Music", STORMY WEATHER: The Lena Horne Project, May 11, at 7 & 9:30 pm. For information, call 749-2000. Dinner, bites and drink service are available. www.thesmithcenter.com www.andreamarcovicci.com
Sandy Zimmerman is a syndicated Show and Dining Reviewer, travel journalist, photographer, and talk show host of the Las Vegas Today Show and Discover the Ultimate Vacation travel specials.


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William Cummens of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Tall case clock.
This mahogany case example is very nicely proportioned and has a long history of ownership in the Roxbury Area.
This is a fine mahogany case example that exhibits very good proportions. The layout of this case does not include richly grained mahogany veneers of brass stop fluted quarter columns. It is solidly constructed and illustrates through it's proportions, that a Roxbury case can stand on proportions alone. We have owned a fair number of these cases with other Roxbury Makers signed on the dial. Benjamin, Simon, Ephraim and Aaron Willard examples are know to us. This case form must have been ordered by a true Yankee.
The mahogany wood retains an older shellac finish that has mellowed over time. Many scholars would consider this an original finish. The base stands four applied ogee bracket feet. They are well formed and are applied to a double step molding. The base panel features a mahogany panel that exhibits a long sweeping grain pattern that is positioned horizontally. The waist is long and narrow. It is fitted with a large tombstone shaped waist door. This door is trimmed a simple molded edge. The bonnet features a traditional pierced and open fretwork design and is surmounted with three brass ball and spiked finials. The bonnet door is arched and fitted with glass. The two smoothly turned bonnet columns flank the bonnet door. They are free standing and mounted into brass capitals. They provide the illusion of supporting the upper bonnet molding.
The iron dial is nicely paint decorated. The four spandrel areas feature large lacy gilt gesso designs. The gesso is raised on the dial. A colorful pastoral scene is depicted in the arch. A well dressed couple have found themselves together under a large tree. This tree is on the bank of a slow moving river just outside of town. The woman is seated. She appears to be handing the gentleman shepherd his herding staff. This dial displays hours, minutes, seconds and calendar day in a traditional format. This dial is signed by the Maker, "W. Cummens " in fancy lettering.
This fine movement is constructed in brass and is good quality. Four turned pillars support the two brass plates. Hardened steel shafts support the polished steel pinions and brass gearing. The winding drums are grooved. The escapement is designed as a recoil format. The movement is weight driven and designed to run eight days on a full wind. It is a two train or a time and strike design having a rack and snail striking system. As a result, it will strike each hour on the hour. This is done on a cast iron bell which is mounted above the movement. The History of ownership in the local area is determined by the repair notations found scratched into the front plate. Elnathan Taber serviced this clock multiple times. Two dates he recorded are in February of 1839 and May of 1859.
This beautiful clock was made circa 1795. It stand approximately 7 feet 10.5 inches tall to the top of the center finial.
About William Cummens of Roxbury, Massachusetts.
William Cummens was born 1768 and died on April 20, 1834 at the age of 66. He worked in Roxbury as a clockmaker as early as 1789 through 1834. He was trained by Simon Willard and along with Elnathan Taber, Cummens stayed in Roxbury and made many clocks for his own clients while maintaining a close working relationship with the Willard family. In this Roxbury location, Cummens had direct access to the same suppliers, such case makers and dial painters that the Willards used. As a result, his clocks are very similar in form. He was one of the first persons authorized by Simon Willard to manufacture the new patent timepiece. Over the past 45 plus years in business, we have owned and sold many tall case clocks, Massachusetts shelf clocks and wall timepieces signed by this important clockmaker. Very few tall case examples are found with his original set up label.
For more information about this clock click here .


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JANE: Founder of AHA Books Publishing
Company, 1987. Publisher of Mirrors - International Haiku
Forum, a magazine distributed worldwide 1988-1995. Editor
of Geppo, the periodical for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
of United States and Canada, 1991-1994. Co-editor of LYNX,
a journal of renga and tanka since 1992. Editor of "Poet Tree"
of the COAST, Gualala, CA. Author of 20 poetry collections
and co-author of 3 others. Twice winner of the Museum
of Haiku Literature Award (Tokyo). Three-time winner
of an HSA Merit Book Award: Tigers In A Teacup, Silence,
and A Dictionary of Haiku. Winner of numerous haiku
awards, including second place in the 1987 JAL contest
and the Itoen Tea Company Award, Japan. Jane Reichhold
Website: AHA! POETRY
DRAGAN J.: born in 1948 in Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia,
Dragan is a teacher of German language and a literature translator
(many books, the most important being "Anthology of the shortest
German stories," Belgrade 1993.) Writes short stories and haiku.
Books: "From the Diary of an Haijin", Prosveta,Nis, 1995;
"Having an Obsession," senryu, Punta, Nis 2000. Since 1996 he
is Editor in chief of haiku magazine "Haiku novine." His haiku, senryu,
haibun, and renga have appeared in Yugoslav haiku magazines and
collections in Japan, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Poland,
Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Greece, Slovenia, Holland,
Czechy, Norway and France. Presented in: "Haiku World" edited by
W.J.Higginson, USA 1997; "Rabengekraechze" Ingo Cesaro,
Germany 1998; German DHG Anthology "Haiku 1998: "Knots"
Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry, edited by D.
Anakiev and J.Kacian 1999; "A Piece of the Sky: Haiku from an
air-raid shelter, Edited by Dimitar Anakiev, Prague 1999;
"Groschenge fallen" Ingo Cesaro, Germany 2000; "An Exchange
of Gifts," New Zealand Poetry Society annual anthology 2001. Most
important haiku awards: First Prize on AZAMI's Spring Haiku Contest
(Japan 1997), Highly Commended, James Hackett Award (England
1997), Award of Special Recognition, Haiku Headlines (USA 1997),
First Prize on ITALIAN Spring Contest 1999, Honourable Mentions,
HIA Haiku Contest (Japan 1999), The Inspirational Award, ASHIA
Haiku Festa (Japan1999), First Prize on The 34th A-Bomb Day
Memorial Haiku Meeting (Japan 2000), Certificate for Merit, Japan
Society on Water Environment (Japan 2001), Honourable Mentions,
Kaji Aso Contest (USA 2001) Dragan J. Ristic
CAROLYNE: lives in Northern California with
her husband, two teenagers, a beagle, and a mustached
parakeet. She is a freelance newspaper writer when she
is not walking the hound, but her greatest love is haiku.
She discovered the pleasures of haiku in 1997 while surfing
the net and she's never turned back. Carolyne's work has
been published in *frogpond*, Black Bough, Geppo, and
Poetalk. Pending publications are Canadian Writer's Journal,
Modern Haiku, Tundra, and Piedmont Literary Review.
Carolyne Rohrig
A philosophy major graduate, University of
Chicago. Before retirement, she taught English, psychology
and algebra in high schools and colleges. When enjoying
the outdoors or listening to music, she finds the impetus
to try to mold feelings/ideas/observations into words that
sometimes become a haiku or tanka. She says, "They are,
for me, the result of enjoying moments of deep focus on
'divine details.' " Since 1980, her haiku/senryu and
tanka have appeared in numerous publications, including
Modern Haiku, Lynx and American Tanka. Ronan


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You'll notice that there aren't that many shops at Aberdeen Airport currently, but thankfully, as part of the £20million terminal expansion, the airport will see a few additions to its rather small list in the next 3 years! That being said, we're sure you can keep yourself amused in the small selection of shops on offer, all of which are located after security.
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Stars of the Tracks by Ian Harrison is a survey of the UK rail history from its early days, through two world wars, grouping, nationalisation, and privatisation with copious illustrations of locomotives through almost 200 years of railways. An interesting read for rail history enthusiasts.
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Every person wants to make their love life beautiful and cause of which they want to make feel special their partner cause of them. Are you also the one who wants to do that then you can use Muslim ways to help your partner fell loved. Muslim astrology is one the richest kind of astrology which has all varieties of service which is really too much powered enough to solve any kind of issues no matter whether your problem is harder or easier. By the help of Muslim astrological remedies will remove all your problems easily when you use Muslim mantra for love life problems than it really make you surprise by its result. Not only that much even when you use this for making feel your loved one more in you then it will give a you amazing result that your lover will feel more love in with you and cause of which they will never ever think to leave you and love you unconditionally.
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- 1/4 pound (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 cup bleached all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 5 large eggs
- 1 pint Fresh Coconut Ice Cream, softened [2]
- Chocolate Sauce [3]
- Confectioners' sugar
- Preheat the oven to 400?F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Combine the butter, milk, and granulated sugar in a large nonreactive saucepan over medium heat and cook until the butter melts completely.
- Combine the flour, baking flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium-size mixing bowl, then add it to the milk mixture. Cook, stirring with a wooden spoon, until it forms a ball and pulls away from the sides of the pan. Remove from the heat and turn into a mixing bowl. With an electric mixer set on medium speed, beat the dough, adding the eggs one at a time until well blended. Continue beating until the dough is shiny and soft enough to fall from the spoon. Cool slightly, then put the dough in a pastry bag fitted with a plain tube, and pipe about 2 dozen golf-ball-size rounds onto a baking sheet, 2 inches apart. (Or use a large spoon and spoon them onto the baking sheet.) Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 350?F, and continue to bake until firm and golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer the profiteroles to a wire rack to cool completely. With a serrated knife, cut the profiteroles in half lengthwise.
- To serve, fill each half with a spoonful of the coconut ice cream, then drizzle with the chocolate sauce, and sprinkle with the confectionersí sugar.
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- Source: Emeril's TV Dinners [6]
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Ria Pell, in her trademark dungarees and flat cap, and sporting a broad, disarming smile, the soft-spoken Pell sat down with Atlanta Eats.
Ria Pell's Chopped Viewing Partyby Duncan Connor
I arrived at Ria Pell's Chopped viewing party at Sauced an hour late. I saw Fox Bros. BBQ, one of the restaurants catering Ria's shindig, tweeted out a picture of their pork belly buns. That's when I decided to drink up and head on over.


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Plenary Address: Wednesday, July 12 – 8:30pm*
Garfinkel, Sacks and Formal Structures: Collaborative Origins, Divergences and the Vexed Unity of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
This talk focuses on the collaboration between Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks on their paper "On Formal Structures of Practical Actions." Their collaboration had lasting importance for both ethnomethodology and CA, by subordinating the privileges of academic analysis to the production of "members' methods of sociological inquiry."
*Keynote address occurs at the Conference Banquet (beginning at 7:00pm). Pre-paid banquet ticket is required to attend.
About Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch is a Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He studies discourse, visual representation, and practical action in research laboratories, clinical settings, and legal tribunals. He received the 1995 Robert K. Merton Professional award from the Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association for his book Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action. His most recent book, Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting (with Simon Cole, Ruth McNally & Kathleen Jordan) examines the interplay between law and science in criminal cases involving DNA evidence. The book received the 2011 Distinguished Publication Award from the Ethnomethodology/ Conversation Analysis section of the American Sociological Association. He received the 2016 John Desmond Bernal Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science for distinguished contributions to the field.


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Friday, November 5, 2010
A Pink Botanical Saturday
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Your Bentley and my Rosie sure have hard lives, don't they?!? Tee HeeReplyDelete
Love your pretties today. I'm always a sucker for the pretty floral plates, too!
Happy Pink Saturday!
Big TX Hugs,
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Awww, poor Bentley. So glad he has Daddy to snooze with :) Your dainty dishes are lovely!ReplyDelete
Poor sweet Bentley, I know just how he feels...:)ReplyDelete
I love botanicals also Susan, I have 2 framed in pink actually that I found at a garage sale a couple of years ago and they hang proudly in my bedroom.
Have a wonderful weekend and a big hug to precious Bentley!
Tina xo
It's very pretty - I'm the same way. I can't pass up anything with flowers.ReplyDelete
Okay, I left one message and it got gobbled up by Blogger. I love your botanical!ReplyDelete
Love your photos --ReplyDelete
Isn't it heavenly bliss though when everyone is home, safe and warm . There is nothing like having a warm dog beside you :-)
I don't blame you for not passing us such pretty items that someone else has no use for. They look wonderfulReplyDelete
I have to admit, what a picture your beloved and Bentley would make have a little nap together. Would put a smile on your face for sure.
Happy Pink Saturday, Char
Arf to Bentley
Love, love, love the botanical print. They are very expensive normally...I was going to buy some for my family room. Wow!! Very pretty and so are the floral plates!ReplyDelete
I can see why Bentley is tired. Looking goegeous is tough work!!
Happy Pink Saturday! Just love your botanical print! I can't pass up those type of things either!ReplyDelete
Very nice grouping, love it all!ReplyDelete
I'm with you they always go home with me too. MimiReplyDelete
I want to pass on the word that you should remove Anne Marie With a Dash from your site, as someone you follow or on your blog list. Your site is blocked by google chrome browers. I fixed mine by removing her from my lists. I got your name from Happier Than a Pig in Mud.ReplyDelete
Poor Anne Marie, I feel so bad for her. She has a problem with a calendar widget on her site that has a virus.
I have explained this a bit more on my site.
The botanical prints are great-timeless!ReplyDelete
I hope you had a wonderful Pink Saturday!ReplyDelete
So pretty! I love your botanical prints..they are so charming. I adore the plate too..ReplyDelete
Have a sweet day and hugs, Elizabeth
Lovely Pink Saturday photo's. Have a great day.ReplyDelete
I love pink botanicals too. I can't blame you for not passing them up!!ReplyDelete
YEP, I have the same weakness for floral prints, patterns, and...anything floral actually.ReplyDelete
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I would like to introduce one of our new teachers, Miss Brandy Burnett. She is from Louisville, MS. She is not married, has no children and is 32 years old. She got her Bachelors and Masters Degree at Mississippi State University. The reason she became a teacher is the great teachers she had in high school. She has always wanted to be a Biology Teacher.
Our newest teacher is Mrs. Jamie Allison Walters.She's married to Chris Walters. She's the age of thirty. She's from Atchison, Kansas. She attended college at Northeast Missouri State University. There she played golf and basketball. She had to take Old English, British Literature, and American Renaissance Literature. She teaches Accelerated English I and English II. She was inspired to become a teacher because of doing a mentor reading program at college with high school students. She's a wonderful and intelligent English teacher, and she loves what she's teaching.
Mrs. Muscolino likes teaching at LHS. She comes from Neshoba Central High School. She attended college at Mississippi State University. She teaches Geometry on the Long Humanities hall (9th grade hall). She came to LHS to teach because she says it is close to home, and the staff and students are wonderful. She wanted to teach Geometry because it combines the best of Algebra with possibilities for cool projects. She teaches to about 110 students in all her classes. Geometry is her favorite subject, but she also enjoys reading.
Mrs. Adrienne Smitherman is new to Louisville High School but not to Louisville Municipal District. She used to teach for Eiland Middle School. She teaches Geometry and Algebra 2. Mrs. Smitherman is married to Will Smitherman. She currently has no children at this time. She chooses to teach math because her favorite subject in school was math. She likes teaching because she likes changing a student's life in a positive way.
One of the newest teachers is Mrs. Rena Adriel Perry Hickman. She's married to Mr. Andre Hickman, and she has three children whose names are Adrian, Ariana, and Rehyana. She is thirty-three, born and raised here in Louisville, MS. Her freshman year, she attended Parkland College in Champaign, IL. Afterwards, she came back and attended East Central Community College; there she received her A.S. Degree in Sports Medicine. She continued her education at the University of Southern Miss, where she received her B.S. Degree in athletic training. Her inspiration in becoming a teacher is her love for the youth. She enjoys being around children, and instilling positive values within them. Besides, they keep her young. Her inspiration for special education is her youngest daughter. She has Down syndrome and watching her grow and learn over the years has really pushed her to see those other think can't learn, persevere. She teaches 11th grade inclusion where her focus is social studies. She's the cheer sponsor. The position was a surprise to her; she has a great group of girls whom she has really grown to love and truly keeps her on her toes. She said, "With any new position, there are many challenges and obstacles to face, especially coming into an environment where you'll face so many different personalities." She also said, "I'm looking forward to adjusting and making new friends, new memories and knowing all the kids."


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A Gentle Man
When I first came to the United States, I lived with some friends in the Great Lakes area. We don't have any family here and I needed somewhere to stay while I interviewed for residency. I was relatively new to the country, didn't have much money and had no idea what interviewing would be like. I just knew that I wanted to be a pediatrician and that I needed a residency. It was October and the trees were were still dressed in amber. I had never before been in that part of the country and was instantly enamored of all the beauty that I saw.
Baji's family and ours have known each other for a few generations. They moved to the same city after Partition and have stayed within a few minutes of each other for the past sixty years. When I was looking for a place to stay, Baji immediately offered to have me stay with her. I knew her only briefly, as a shadow figure from my childhood. She was much older than the rest of us children and usually kept to herself. She had an enviable stack of Archie comics that we were always trying to break into but, short of petty thievery, our interactions had been limited. Prior to coming over, I had asked her sister what she was like now, as a grown-up.
"She's the same" Sana said. "Make sure you make your bed every morning. Baji's obsessive about keeping the house clean."
It was a beautiful house. Set in its small plot of land with a rolling lawn and deer in the distance, it felt idyllic to be there. Baji and her husband, Kashif bhai, were friendly and caring and in all the time I spent there, and in spite of my curmudgeonly ways, they went out of their way to make me feel at home. The first night I was there, I got up at four in the morning. New to jetlag and curious to explore their massive fridge, I put on some socks and went to get something to eat. The kitchen lights were on. I thought it must be Baji getting a late night snack. I walked in and found an old man, sitting at the kitchen table, eating cereal and almonds. Sana had told me Kashif bhai's father lived with them for part of the year but I hadn't expected to find him so suddenly, at four in the morning! I introduced myself and asked him how he was.
"What did you say your name was?" he asked me.
I told him again.
"And who are you?"
I explained how Baji's family and mine had known each other for so long.
"Oh," he said, smiling. "You're Khursheed's grandson?"
"Yes," I replied, grateful for the recognition.
"Of course I know you," he said warmly. "Your grandfather is one of my friends. Here, sit down, have some almonds." He took some in his fist and passed them to me.
"How is your grandfather?" he asked.
I explained that he was fine, just getting older. His Alzheimer's was getting worse and he would have trouble remembering who we were.
"It happens to everyone, son," Uncle said. "We all pass through the same stages. Would you like some fruit? The apples are very good."
"No, thank you. I think I'll just get some water and try and go back to sleep."
"It's going to be Fajr in a little while," he said. "Pray and then go to sleep."
He was my grandfather's friend.
Yesterday, as I was browsing through Facebook, I found out that Uncle had passed away on Thursday. He had been diagnosed with colon cancer and it was terminal. He spent his last few months at home, with his son and daughter-in-law. I didn't know him very well but the news upset me. In all the time I spent in his home, he was very kind to me. Always infallibly courteous, he shared his experiences and gave me advice about life. I was too preoccupied at the time to try and remember it but now I wish I had written some of it down. People come and go but it's the kindnesses that remain. A gentle old man and a young fool, sharing almonds in the middle of the night. I don't think I want to forget that.


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Free Book Blast, Sacramento Dirtier by Author Susan Ward
Sacramento Dirtier
Book 1 Dirty Series
By Author Susan Ward
Genre: Gay Fiction
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BLURBWhen Hollywood leading man Colin Rand runs for governor hoping the publicity will revive his dwindling career, he surprises the world—and most of all himself—by winning. Why he's surprised is anyone's guess, though, since things work differently in the golden state and if an actor can make it to the top in politics anywhere, California is the place. Now this pretty boy from the Southland is landlocked in the capital, trapped between warring political factions and a press watching his every move, just waiting for him to fail. Worse, he has to keep his democratic sexual predilections under wraps if he hopes to run the state instead of having the press run him. He is an expert at keeping his private affairs private from his adoring movie fans What he doesn't expect is for Sacramento to be even more of a hotbed of lust, lies, jealousy, and revenge than the film industry. And he certainly doesn't expect to catch the eye of Miles James. His political enemy. His toughest fight in bed. Sacramento Dirtier is a humorous, flirty novel about one man's quest to change the direction of his career, and a series of unexpected turns that change the direction of his life.


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16th Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair
The sixteenth Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair will take place in Zagreb from April 17th to April 19th, 2020. The bookfair will take place in AKC Medika, Pierottijeva 11 (MAP).
Anarchist Bookfair in Zagreb (ASK - Anarhisticki sajam knjiga) is annual anarchist event and first fifteen bookfairs went well, and we hope to bring in more and more people every year as participants, publishers, groups, projects - whoever is interested in what the bookfair has to offer.
For discussion part everything is open, as every year, so all suggestions, ideas, etc are welcome, as well as texts that you find interesting for further debate.
ASK takes place in Zagreb every spring, as a local resource for anarchist and libertarian books and other publications. We also aim to open discussion on subjects that are important for the anarchist movement, or for our local community.
The idea for such a bookfair is not new, but is based on the positive experience of other Anarchist Bookfairs. In many different situations, these bookfairs have proven to be important events and meeting places on both local and international levels.
If you can't come to our bookfair, you can consider sending some free publications, posters and other material. Also, you can consider sending books and other publications for sale, we will organise stall for all of you that can't come, but would like to present your work at the bookfair. Contact us at email@example.com about details, address to send stuff to, etc.
To help us organize the Bookfair and finish the program on time, we need you to confirm your participation soon as possible. Our e-mail address is:
Get in touch and let us know in which way you would like to participate. Here are a few questions, and we welcome any additional information.
Also, let us know if you need accommodation. There are a few alternatives, but we need all the details soon as possible.
Some of the details that we need from you:
1. Questions for all guests coming from outside Zagreb:
- how you want to participate?
2. If you would like a stall:
- how big of a stall do you need?
You can download bookfair poster from our web page. To download it click here.
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I/P Engine, Inc. v. AOL, Inc. et al
Filing 745
JURY TRIAL (DAY #8) held on 10/25/2012 before District Judge Raymond A. Jackson. Out of the presence of the jury, objections heard and rulings made on the record about certain exhibits and testimony. Petit jurors (9) appeared pursuant to adjournment last evening 10/24/12. Court ORDERED courtroom sealed for proprietary testimony. Defendants continued presentation of evidence. Defendants exhibits introduced and admitted into evidence. Objections heard and rulings made on the record. Jurors excused and Court adjourned until Friday, 10/26/12 at 10:00 a.m. Jury Trial continued to 10/26/2012 at 10:00 AM in Norfolk Courtroom 4 before District Judge Raymond A. Jackson. [Court Reporter Sharon Borden, OCR (a.m.) and Jody Stewart, OCR (p.m.)](ptom) (Main Document 745 replaced on 10/26/2012) (ptom, ).
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