text:
He still performs the original words.
When Arlo Guthrie was a boy, he sat in the backyard with the guitar he'd gotten for his fifth birthday and listened as his father taught him the end of "This Land Is Your Land" — the lyrics, cut in many renditions, that decry hunger and private property. Those verses didn't strike Arlo as much more political than the rest of the song, but he typically closes each performance with one of them.
He still sings for the dissenting and downtrodden, as his father did for so many years. In 2011, he joined Pete Seeger, his father's old comrade, to serenade Occupy protesters in New York. And he's used the railroad, the transport mythologized in "This Train Is Bound for Glory" and other songs, to spread his message. In 2005, he rode from Illinois to Louisiana to perform for Hurricane Katrina victims.
Guthrie has 65 years behind him now and a musical family of his own. His name graces more than two dozen albums, as well as the plaque memorializing the 1969 Woodstock festival, where he played. But on his current tour, which commemorates the 100th anniversary of his father's birth, he's quick to admit he's the kid.
"I have been Woody Guthrie's son for as long as I can remember — until recently, when I became Sarah Lee, Cathy or Annie Guthrie's dad or someone's grandfather," he said by email between stops on his "Here Comes the Kid" tour, which hits the Irvine Barclay Theatre this weekend.
On "Here Comes the Kid," which launched last summer, Guthrie is honoring Woody's legacy by performing in the folk singer's iconic style: just his voice, plus a guitar or piano, to carry the show. He slips in some of his own compositions, but mostly his music takes a backseat to one of the most influential songbooks of the last hundred years — which means patrons who come expecting "Alice's Restaurant" may not find it on the menu.
To borrow a phrase from his father, the tour has been hard traveling at times. Shortly after Guthrie began in Ireland in August, his wife of 43 years, Jackie, died of cancer; he canceled some dates and interrupted the solo tour for a brief Carnegie Hall engagement with his family and Seeger. Now, he's facing the crowds alone again.
Asked which numbers he might perform at upcoming shows, Guthrie declined the question: "While your readers can find the set lists somewhere on the Internet, I hope they won't look them up. I want my audience to come without knowing what it's going to be."
Courtesy of the Internet, here are a few he's played so far: "Pretty Boy Floyd," a ballad about a heroic outlaw; "1913 Massacre," about the slaying of striking miners and their children; "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)," which decries racist treatment of immigrants; and, of course, "This Land Is Your Land."
Are the songs heard often today? While Woody Guthrie ranks among the figures who defined American music over the last century, his voice seldom comes on the radio. But judging from the tributes in the last year, the elder Guthrie still resonates with many as an image of his country: Smithsonian Folkways put out a "Woody at 100" box set featuring a book and 57 tracks, while the Grammy Museum has co-sponsored tribute shows in the U.S. and abroad.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, who befriended Woody in the early 1950s and played at his last recording session, said while America may have changed in the last seven decades, the issues in the songs haven't.
"We still have a drought," Elliott said. "We don't have dust storms anymore, but we got hurricanes. We got tornadoes. We got people hungry, people out of work. That was the main feature of a lot of Woody's stories and songs, working people that were not getting a decent wage."
When Elliott met the Guthries, Arlo was 3 years old; before long, Woody began showing signs of Huntington's chorea, the hereditary disease that would take his life in 1967. In the years since, by his admittedly imperfect count, Elliott has joined Arlo onstage dozens of times. In the Kid, he sees a lot of the Father — the same off-the-wall humor, the gentle sarcasm, the love of telling a yarn.
Maybe the wanderlust, too. If Woody were alive to celebrate 100 years, would he strap on his guitar and hit the road?
"Yeah, I think so," Elliott said, a smile creeping into his voice. "If he was well enough to travel."
Twitter: @MichaelMillerHB
If You Go
What: "Arlo Guthrie: Here Comes the Kid"
Where: Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine
When: 8 p.m. Saturday; 4 p.m. Sunday
Cost: $34 to $46; $25 to $39 for patrons 30 and under
Information: (949) 854-4646 or https://www.thebarclay.org


text:
I first met George in 1949 when he drove by our house in his blue convertible and waved in my direction. I was sixteen years old at the time and had just moved to Bay Village, Ohio.
Over the next three and a half years George and I spent our summers together and corresponded when he was away at Williams College.
I saved the letters that he sent to me over sixty years ago so that I could reminisce from time to time.
Recently, I was asked to share my letters in a book that would describe George during his formative years. I was also asked to donate my letters to the Baseball Hall of Fame to be put on display.
Unfortunately, the NY Yankees insisted that my letters could not be used for the book or be placed in the Hall of Fame.
The Yankees felt that my letters would cause "Untold embarrassment and damages to the Steinbrenner family and the Steinbrenner's business interests." While I find that hard to believe, I respect their decision.
Richard Sandomir of The NY Times wrote an insightful article about the Yankee's response, you can read the full story here, Yankees Want Steinbrenner Letters Kept Private.
While much has been written about George in his later life as the owner of the New York Yankees, little has been told about his formative years. I would like to share with people a unique perspective of these wonderful times.
I hope that you enjoy my stories and stop back often.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The study of culture and human diversity is the central concern of anthropology. Anthropologists study the rituals, politics, economics, patterns of behavior, and worldviews of people across the globe and throughout human history. What distinguishes anthropology from other disciplines is that it examines humans in their total complexity. To engage in the study of anthropology is to look beyond one's own horizons and to learn about one's place in the scheme of things--through understanding others we better understand ourselves.
In keeping with the university's mission, anthropology encourages an appreciation for diversity, which is of paramount importance in any liberal arts setting. As the American Anthropological Association celebrates its 100th birthday in 2002, even in an era of global communication and the breaking down of national borders, conflict and strife brought on by cultural misunderstandings continue to disrupt world stability and capture the headlines. Anthropology builds intercultural knowledge that can lead to conflict resolution on an international scale.
A student might justifiably ask: "How useful is the study of anthropology for a future career?" Majoring in anthropology not only leads to academic careers in research and teaching, but to other satisfying job pursuits as well. Opportunities for anthropology graduates include careers in public health, medicine, advertising, marketing, cultural resource management, law, journalism, international diplomacy, and international development. Anthropology can give students a valuable edge in a highly competitive job market by encouraging the "holistic perspective," one of the hallmarks of anthropological thinking. To understand and appreciate the complex interrelationships of cultural forms and institutions as wholes serves the job applicant well in seeing how people in organizations and communities organize their social experience and give meaning to it. The National Association of Practicing Anthropologists states: "As the boundaries between and among cultures and societies becomes less clear, as technology allows greater interaction among people, and as our own culture becomes more complex, the skills that anthropologists have will be of critical value to industry, government, communities and organizations of various kinds."
Students in anthropology select occupations that are intensely interpersonal in nature. A major in anthropology includes courses that enhance one's "people" skills, observational skills, oral and written communication, inquisitiveness and intellectual breadth.


text:
Undergraduate Anthropology Program
Anthropology studies what it means to be human, and how humans make meaning. Anthropologists look at people from all angles: how they come to be, what they create, and how they give significance to their lives. Anthropology explores, and sometimes questions, the distinctions between nature and culture, the human and the animal, "them" and "us". At the center of the discipline are questions of physical evolution and adaptability, material evidence for past life ways, similarities and differences among past and present peoples, and the political and ethical dilemmas of studying cultures. Anthropology is a rich and integrative discipline that prepares students to live and work effectively in a diverse and increasingly interconnected world.
The Anthropology undergraduate program incorporates three subfields of Anthropology: Anthropological Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology and Physical Anthropology. Students take courses in all three subfields in order to develop a multifaceted perspective on being human. Link to our courses to learn about classes offered in the department, where you can analyze "Culture through Food," study "Forensic Anthropology" and ponder "Primate Behavior." Explore "The European Conquest of the Americas" while developing skills in "Zooarchaeology" and honing your abilities to understand the complexities of "Other Globalizations" and "Born Again Religion." Take "Exotic Tours" while demystifying stereotypes of the Middle East, China, Latin America and other peopled places. We also offer opportunities for Field Studies in all three subfields.
Because anthropology offers critical perspectives on the diversity of human experience - and how to think, write and talk about it - it is an excellent major for students considering careers that involve communication, writing, and critical analysis of information and high levels of cultural interaction. Anthropology graduates pursue careers in fields such as activism, advertising, city planning, community development, cultural resource management, education, environmental consulting, forensics, journalism, law, marketing, medicine, museums, politics, public health, social work, systems analysis and writing. Students interested in research and teaching in Anthropology usually go on to graduate school, as professional employment in the field normally demands an advanced degree.
UC Santa Cruz is internationally recognized for faculty leadership in undergraduate education, and a substantial proportion of Anthropology faculty have received awards for excellence in teaching. To learn more about professors in the department, please visit our faculty page.


text:
VERGENNES — Longtime state Rep. Greg Clark, R-Vergennes, died on Friday, Nov. 30, after being struck by a southbound vehicle while scraping ice off his windshield at the side of Route 7 on Woodman's Hill just south of Vergennes. He was 65.
Emergency responders were called to the scene at around 7:30 a.m. and immediately performed CPR on a critically injured Clark, who was taken to Porter Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
Editor's note: For full details on the accident and community reaction, see our update here.
VERGENNES — Rep. Greg Clark, 65, a long-time Republican legislator from Vergennes, was killed in a car crash this morning.
MIDDLEBURY — Downtown Middlebury possesses an abundance of downtown parking options, but locals, visitors and area workers continue to compete for "prime" spots in the Main Street area, resulting in low turnover of key spots near shops that a $5 parking fine and limited enforcement is not deterring.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Union Middle and High School officials will spend the next few weeks sharpening their pencils in an effort to reduce a draft UD-3 budget of about $16.7 million that would represent a 3.8 percent increase compared to this year's spending plan of roughly $16.1 million.
And any major cuts will likely come with some pain, administrators noted, as a vast majority of a proposed roughly $612,000 increase is associated with fixed costs.
VERGENNES — Vergennes aldermen at a Tuesday public information meeting at the city fire station released for the first time purchase price details of their proposed North Main Street site for a new police station, and they updated funding plans for what is estimated as a $1.75 million project.
They told a gathering of about two-dozen residents, plus Police Chief George Merkel and several members of his department, that the chosen parcel could cost up to $259,000.
The full text of this article is only available to online subscribers.
Are you an online subscriber? Click to login.
Click here to learn more about our subscription options.
If you have a print subscription, you can now add an online subscription at no additional charge! Just email us with your name and mailing address to set it up.
CORNWALL — While consumers throughout the country continue to recover from the frenzied shopping experiences that were Black Friday and Cyber Monday, leaders of the Cornwall Congregational Church are quietly organizing what could appropriately be called "Alternative Saturday," a Dec. 1 opportunity for people to purchase the gift of basic necessities for people struggling just to survive.
LINCOLN — A new company has sprung up in Lincoln this year that makes delicious bread.
Potato Hill Bakery, featuring homemade loaves by Lincoln native Johnny Johnson, has done well since its opening in July, distributing its products to the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op, Almost Home Market in Bristol, the Lincoln General Store and the Jerusalem Country Store.
MIDDLEBURY — Two nonprofit organizations are seeking to make $3 million in upgrades to a combined total of 22 affordable housing units on North Pleasant Street and John Graham Court in Middlebury, improvements that would include a central pellet boiler to substantially reduce energy costs at the site.
Subscribe to Online Edition
Online PDF Print Edition
Copyright 2011 Addison Independent | 58 Maple Street, Middlebury, Vt. 05753 | All Rights Reserved
Site Development by Surf New Media


text:
I'm at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's West Coast Retreat. The historian Ronald Radosh — one of my favorites — spoke on a great panel on the culture this afternoon along with Andrew Klavan and Ben Shapiro. After the panel, I caught up with Ron to ask him a few questions on matters of interest to me. I've been wrestling with the interaction between iMovie and YouTube to get the videos uploaded.
I asked Ron about his heroic struggle against Peter Kuznick's and Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States and Stone's related Showtime series. The book and series would more aptly have been titled Twice-Told Tales. In his brilliant Weekly Standard review of the book and series, Ron showed Kuznick and Stone to have derived their history from a 1952 book by a secret agent of the American Communist Party whose work was Communist propaganda. In his presentation this afternoon, Ron made the point that Stone and Kuznick have toured college campuses promoting the book, that the series will live on forever, and that justice must therefore be administered. Ron sets himself to the task in the video below. Since Ron first took up the case, the liberal historian Sean Wilentz has piled on in the New York Review of Books.
Unlike Kuznick and Stone, Ron is an outstanding historian and author. One of my favorite books is The Rosenberg File, by Ron and Joyce Milton, originally published in 1983. It resolves the case against the Rosenbergs in a manner that time has only further served to corroborate. In the second video I shot with him, Ron updates the Rosenberg story. I think I'm going to have to spring for the second edition of the book published in 1997 and linked above.


text:
Highest speed cameras
Our partner Cordin is the world leader in ultra high speed imaging technology. Depending on the camera system in use frame rates up to 200 000 000 frames per second are possible. Very short integration times and inter frame times are standard. Gated and intensified models are available. Among other modules Cordin offers ultra-high speed camera systems with up to 2000 x 2000 pixel at full frame rate in colour or black and white.
Streak camera systems for scientific applications are available and developed with modern technology.
Cordin rotating mirror framing cameras relay an image through a complex optical system centered around a rotating mirror, to multiple independent CCD camera modules.
They capture the highest quality, highest resolution images at the fastest speeds compared to any other technology available.
Cordin gated intensified cameras relay an image through beam splitters to micro-channel plate (MCP) intensifiers. These devices convert the incident photons of the image to an array of electrons, which are amplified and shuttered, and then directed to a phosphor. The resulting image is then captured on a CCD. The shuttering of the channels is done in a rapid sequence, capturing a series of images at very fast rates.
Cordin rotating mirror streak cameras relay a slit image through a rotating mirror to capture a continuous record of one line of image information. This produces the highest temporal and spatial resolution streak image possible.
Cordin image converter streak cameras relay a slit image to the photocathode of an image converter tube, where the incident photons are converted to electrons. This linear array of electrons is then electrostatically focused and swept across a phosphor screen at the back of the tube, capturing light transients faster than any other method.


text:
The privilege to have guests in a residence hall, room, or suite is based upon the precept of mutual respect and balance; one resident's right to have guests does not supersede another's right to reasonable privacy. In particular, it is expected that students who share a living unit will be courteous to one another, communicate, show willingness to make compromises, and act in good faith in the matter of guests. The presence of a guest in a residence hall, a room, or a suite must not compromise the personal or academic well-being of room/suitemates or other building residents.
Same Hall Student Guest: Guests who are New York University students and reside in the same residence hall as the person they are visiting may proceed directly to the room/suite of the resident host provided their visit to that rooms/suite is in accordance with the conditions set forth in this policy statement.
Other Hall Student Guest: Guests who are New York University students who reside in another University residence hall may be eligible to enter the residence hall of the person they are visiting by swiping/tapping in with their NYU ID card and proceeding directly to the room of that student provided their visit to that rooms/suite is in accordance with the conditions set forth in this policy statement.
Non-Hall Student Guest: Guests who are New York University students but who do not reside in a University residence hall (e.g. commuters) must present their University ID card in order to be signed in to a residence hall. The resident host must come to the lobby to sign-in their guest. At the end of a visit, the visitor may sign out themselves.
Non-NYU Guest: Guests who are not affiliated with New York University must present a valid acceptable form of photo ID in order to be signed in to a residence hall. Acceptable forms of photo ID are: a U.S. state-issued driver license, a U.S. State-issued non-driver identification, a student ID from a high school or another college or university, a passport, or another government ID; including foreign governments' IDs. If a foreign government's ID in another language is presented, a corresponding passport must be displayed for verification. Forms of identification that are not acceptable include: bank cards, telephone and credit cards. The photo ID will be held at the Public Safety Desk for the duration of the visit. (Students are expected to inform their guests in advanced that a valid photo ID will be required to enter the building.) The resident host must come to the lobby, sign-in their guest, and is urged to escort their guest at all times. Access to the hall or room/suite must be in accordance with the conditions set forth in this policy statement. At the end of a visit, that same host must accompany their guests to the lobby to sign them out in the guest register. Proof of identification will be returned at this time.
Guests Under the age of 12: Guests who are under the age of 12 may not be in a residence hall during "Late Hours" [i.e. between the hours of 11:00 pm and 9:00 am on weeknights (Sunday-Thursday) and 1:00 am to 9:00 am on weekends (Friday and Saturday)] and are subject to the same sign-in requirements as Non-NYU Guests.
Guest Passes: In order to make it easier for visitors to enter and leave the residence halls, especially during longer-term stays, resident hosts should obtain guest passes which are available from the hall's Resource Center. A guest pass combined with an appropriate form of ID allows a visitor to enter and exit the hall without being accompanied by their resident host. Guest Passes must be dropped off to the hall's Resource Center two business days in advance of anticipated use to allow for hall staff to process the request. The Resident Host must meet their guest in the lobby upon their initial arrival to the residence hall. Upon entering the building, guests with passes must present both the pass and appropriate ID, but need not sign-in or leave any identification with the building Public Safety Officer. No more than three guest passes will be issued at one time to a resident. A guest pass will be issued for no more than four (4) consecutive days. The issuance of Guest Passes may be suspended at certain times, such as final examination periods, winter break, spring break, or other periods as deemed necessary. Please check with your building's professional staff for specific details.
Regular Hours Guests:
Late Hours / Overnight Guests:
Policy Violations:
All guests in a University residence hall are expected to abide by all University and Office of Residential Life and Housing Services policies, procedures and regulations.
Room/Suitemate Interference:
There may be certain times of the year, such as semester breaks or exam periods, when these guest policies may be restricted or modified. Students will be notified in advance when any such changes occur. Any modifications or exceptions to these guest policies must be approved by the Residence Hall Director and/or the Office of Residential Life and Housing Services.


text: Home › Category: Crypto › Bitcoin Formula Dragons Den? 0 Vote Up Vote Down CrypHappy Staff asked 12 months ago Can someone help me with this? ---- YouTube Video Question Tags: Coin, crypto, Ico, Token Your Answer 10 + 12 = Your Email Your Name Public Only Me & Admin


text:
Posted by Editor on 08/6/09
A number of readers pointed out that there was a mistake in the points awarded for the overall standings in the Fantasy Tour, with Lance Armstrong having been left out (along with the 23 points for finishing third overall). That has been corrected and, as speculated, has made no difference in the top three placings, since all had Armstrong. We apologize for the mistake, and the corrected standings have now been posted - see Daily News August 5/09 10:00 am - Final Standings for the 2009 Canadian Cyclist Fantasy Tour - Sponsored by Specialized.
We have also posted the winning teams for the top three players Here. It is interesting to note that all three had different teams, with the top two correctly choosing Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas).
|Return to Canadian Cyclist homepage | Back to Top


text:
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Beyond the Marquee: Toward a Common History
This article of mine was originally published in the February 2011 issue of Historical Novels Review.
Come and visit our panel "Are Marquee Names Really Necessary" with star authors Margaret George, C.W. Gortner, Susanne Dunlap, and Vanitha Sankaran at the 2011 Historical Novel Society North American Conference in San Diego, on Saturday, June 18.
Recorded history is wrong. It's wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.
These are the words of the late, great Mary Lee Settle, author of the classic Beulah Land Quintet, published in the 1950's when both academic history and most historical fiction were narrowly focused on the elite. So many people have been written out of history: not only the vast majority of women, but also people of the peasant and labouring classes, and most people of non-European ancestry. In Settle's day, a more inclusive history seemed a far off dream.
"There's a revolution going on out there!"
Sarah Dunant, acclaimed author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan, remembers this time. Speaking at the Bluecoat School in Liverpool in May 2010, Dunant described how she first fell in love with historical fiction when she was a twelve-year-old in postwar Britain, which she remembers as "a grey, colourless, bleak place" where nobody wanted to talk about the war. On the brink of adolescence, she found a wonderful escape in Jean Plaidy's novels of the crowned heads of Europe. These books not only opened up another world that was colourful and glamorous but they inspired Dunant's lifelong love affair with history. She went on to study history at Cambridge. "The history I learned," she recalls, "was the history of great battles, great empires, great men."
But what inspired Dunant to become a historical novelist were the sweeping developments in academic history that occurred after she left Cambridge in 1972. This new history embraced people who did not belong to the elite. She cites Joan Kelly-Gadol's 1977 essay, "Did Women Have a Renaissance?" as one of the turning points in the development of how we look at history.
Sarah Dunant is not only a champion of a more inclusive, non-elitist historical fiction—she also became an international bestseller by writing about people on the margins of history. Her most recent novel, Sacred Hearts, explores the secret world of Benedictine nuns in 1570 Ferrara, Italy—a cloistered "republic of women" where each choir sister had a voice and a vote in the daily chapter house meeting.
"Modern historians," Dunant explains, "know that there is a multiplicity of history—there is more than one history, one fact. The history I'm using has been hard won over the past twenty to thirty years." And this history allowed her to write novels about a past that simply wasn't regarded as history even thirty years ago. For Sacred Hearts, she has drawn on two generations of young historians who examined court records of nuns who got into trouble.
Similarly, I could not have written my most recent novel, Daughters of the Witching Hill, which is based on the true story of the Pendle Witches of 1612, without the drawing on groundbreaking social histories, such as Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic; landmark works on Reformation Studies, like Eamon Duffy's The Stripping of the Altars and Ronald Hutton's The Rise and Fall of Merry England; as well as recent studies on historical cunning folk.
Is the tide, then, changing? Will this new history open the door to a Renaissance in the historical novel? Will more and more authors draw on this wider window into ordinary people's lives instead of rehashing the same old tired tales of Tudor royalty? Dunant believes that historical novelists possess every potential to be on the cutting edge of bringing this new history in an accessible form to a modern audience. "Wake up, there's a revolution going on out there in historical fiction!" Dunant told Lucinda Byatt in their May 2010 Solander interview.
Marquee names only, please
Although the world of academic history has moved on light years since the 1950s, historical fiction often appears to be stuck in a rut. In these recessionary times, an increasingly conservative publishing market urges new and established authors alike to play it safe by writing about famous historical figures, such as Tudor royalty, instead of drawing on a social history of the less privileged.
Speaking at the 2007 Historical Novel Society Conference in Albany, New York, agent Irene Goodman stressed the importance of "marquee names" in finding an audience for one's historical fiction. In the May 2010 issue of Solander, Goodman cited author Leslie Carroll's leap from midlist obscurity to major success with the sale of her trilogy of novels about Marie Antoinette. Goodman is not alone in stressing the importance of marquee names.
"The trend simply cannot be denied," Bethany Latham, Managing Editor of Historical Novels Review, observes. "For better or worse, publishers seem to prefer marquee names right now. They're the path of least resistance—easier to market since, in the mind of many publishers, celebrity protagonist equals ready-made audience. There's even a tendency for successful authors who began differently to evolve into something that better fits the prevailing mold—witness Philippa Gregory, who started out with the Wideacre Trilogy but has ended up with the familiar big-name Tudors and Plantagenets, and will be sticking with them for the foreseeable future."
Popular fascination with historical It Girls like Anne Boleyn helped launch the incredible resurgence in historical fiction within the past decade, most notably through Gregory's blockbuster, The Other Boleyn Girl. Literary agent Marcy Posner, speaking at the 2010 Historical Novel Society Conference in Manchester, UK, pointed out how Gregory's glittering evocation of the Tudor Court inspired a large group of female readers to make the leap from historical romance to mainstream historicals. It seems only natural for agents and editors to look for work that contains the same kind of hook that proved so successful for Gregory.
"My experience was that when I sent some of my work to an agent," says Elizabeth Ashworth, author of The de Lacy Inheritance, "she thought it was an engaging story and she liked my style of writing but she didn't think she could sell my work to a publisher because it wasn't about a well known king or queen. When I mentioned that I was working on another novel set in the reign of Edward III, she replied that if I wrote about Edward and Piers Gaveston, she might be interested. But that story has been written many times before and it was another story I wanted to tell – one about Lady Mabel Bradshaw who lived at that time but is relatively unknown."
"The marquee name, especially female, has become almost a requirement in historical fiction," says C.W. Gortner, author of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici. "My novel, The Last Queen, languished unpublished for years, with several of my rejection letters pointing out that Juana [of Spain] was not a 'known personage'. I persisted and eventually found success, but how many other writers give up?"
The insistence on marquee names was why author Jeri Westerson says she switched to writing historical mysteries. "I preferred to write about the everyman in an historical setting, but year after year, I was told by editors that my medieval stories needed to be about royalty or other noble personages. The kind of historical I wanted to write translated much better to the mystery genre. So now I write medieval mysteries (after some eleven years of peddling historical manuscripts and not selling them)." Her fourth Crispin Guest Medieval Noir, Troubled Bones, will be released in Fall 2011. However, other historical mystery writers embrace the marquee name trend by choosing a well known figure such as Elizabeth I or Oscar Wilde as their sleuth.
Susanne Dunlap, author of Liszt's Kiss and The Musician's Daughter, adds that in Young Adult Fiction, the pressure is to write "something that fits into the high school curriculum," which may well involve including famous personalities.
The bias can sometimes be found among HNS members themselves. Historical Novels Review Book Review Editor Sarah Johnson has noticed that reviewers tend to clamour for books about big names while novels about less familiar characters and settings can be harder to place.
Not even the most elite literary circles are immune to this trend. Hilary Mantel's Booker Award winning masterpiece Wolf Hall is set in Henry VIII's court.
A lack of diversity in the genre?
So does this push to write about marquee names help or hinder historical fiction?
"This is the backwash of celebrity culture," Dunant states, "and our greed for sensation and scandal. People read about Anne Boleyn when they tire of reading about Paris Hilton. We've gone back to kings and queens, a celebrity history, because we've squeezed Paris Hilton dry."
Must we all write like latter day Jean Plaidys and Georgette Heyers in order to meet our publishers' sales expectations? Bethany Latham laments to think that in today's climate, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, the bestselling historical novel of all time, might not be published because Scarlet O'Hara is a nobody.
Alison Weir, speaking at the 2010 HNS Conference in Manchester, presents a different viewpoint, arguing that her novels on figures such as Elizabeth I and Eleanor of Aquitaine are a legitimate way of reclaiming women's history, even though they are focused on elite women. As Keynote Speaker at the conference, Weir explained how she pitched a nonfiction biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine some years ago only to be told that not enough material existed on her to make her a worthy subject.
"I think many readers gravitate toward the familiar," Sarah Johnson observes, "and historical fiction readers in particular often choose novels that help them gain insight into a real-life character's mindset or behavior. In that sense, I can see why marquee names are so popular, and why authors are being encouraged to choose them as subjects. It's an automatic 'hook.'"
Johnson added that the industry's insistence on marquee names has the unfortunate drawback of creating a "lack of diversity of the genre."
"The push for 'big names' is primarily about name recognition," state N. Gemini Sasson, author of The Crown in the Heather. "The casual historical fiction reader scanning the shelves at the local Target store is more likely to linger over a name she recognizes, pick up the book and buy it, than an unknown. I do wonder though when a saturation point for some of these historical persons will be reached and the scales tip the other way."
"If I see another book on the Tudors, I'll scream!"
Which begs the question: are historical fiction readers beginning to reach their saturation point with historical celebrities? Eager to ape Philippa Gregory's success, many authors have tried to follow her formula, with mixed results. How many more novels about Tudor royalty can the public bear?
"Frankly, if I see another book on the Tudors, I'll scream," HNS member Monica Spence admits.
"When I'm book-buying, the Not Anne Boleyn Again Syndrome periodically strikes," Bethany Latham confesses.
Anne Gilbert says that she tends to shy away from fictional biographies. "No matter how well-written they may be," says Gilbert, "they tend to concentrate on pretty much the same well-known historical people."
"There are only so many 'ultra famous' women we can write about, whom publishers find commercial enough," C.W. Gortner observes. "Take, for example, Eleanor of Aquitaine; as fascinating as she is, how much more can be said about her without it becoming repetitious or whimsical in novelized form?"
A 2009 market research poll conducted by blogger Julianne Douglas on Writing the Renaissance indicates that only 11% of the people she surveyed buy historical fiction based on the appeal of marquee names alone. Readers want so much more out of their fiction: fascinating characters and storylines, arresting and richly realised settings.
Finding an audience
Following the Publisher's Weekly listings of best-selling historical fiction on her blog, Reading the Past, Sarah Johnson mentions Edward Rutherfurd, Lisa See, and Sandra Dallas as just a few commercially successful authors who have bucked the big name trend. Their novels reached a wide audience because they have additional hooks that attract readers, Johnson points out, such as strong book club potential, and they also appeal to many readers outside the core historical fiction audience. Bethany Latham praises Maggie O'Farrell as a successful author with a fresh, original voice, who is utterly unaffected by the celebrity trend, not to mention Kenneth Follett, whose blockbuster Fall of Giants saga depicts ordinary people against extraordinary historical backdrops.
However, HNS member Matt Phillips, who is writing a novel based on his ancestors on the Pennsylvania frontier, still feels that not enough historical fiction based on the lives of "real people" is reaching the reading public. "There are so many stories that can shed light on how the 'average person' lived, or might have lived, while also entertaining the reader, engaging his or her imagination and emotions authentically with the thrills and fears and hopes and challenges of living in another time. Yet relatively few such stories find their way to the shelves of our bookstores because publishers continue to emphasize the marquee names."
What happens when new or midlist authors embrace the lives of people on the margins of history? Gabriella West's novel Time of Grace (Wolfhound Press, 2002) is a daring work—a woman-centered look at a very male period in history, Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising, and also a romance between two young women. "It was successfully published but I'm not sure it was published successfully," West says. "It never really found its audience."
Joyce Elson Moore's has had a happier experience with her new novel, The Tapestry Shop, based on the life of Adam de la Halle, an obscure 13th-century musician. "His secular plays and music are still being performed," Moore explains, "and he was one of the last and greatest of the trouveres (like troubadours in southern France). He penned the first version of the Robin Hood legend, and I felt like his story had to be told. The book is getting a lot of attention, and I think one reason is that it is different."
Elizabeth Ashworth reports good sales on her own first novel, The de Lacy Inheritance. "I was lucky that my publisher Myrmidon Books was willing to take my novel, although the main character is a leper. It's selling well and I think that proves the publishers wrong who maintain that readers only want to read about kings and queens."
"Just give us variety."
"To be honest, I'm not sure I'd be able to work with the constraints of a documented marquee name," says Vanitha Sankaran, whose debut novel Watermark explores the life of a woman papermaker in late medieval France. "As a writer, I like the freedom of being able to create my own characters and stories while staying accurate to the era. As a reader, however, I'm interested in reading about all different t ypes of people, from the poor man trying to feed his pregnant wife to the merchant seeing his profits swallowed up by war. I wish publishers would take more risks across the whole genre and not focus on any time, place, or biographical person, but just give us variety."
Sarah Johnson agrees that "those who stick narrowly to celebrity characters are missing out on some wonderful stories! In particular, the Editors' Choice selections in Historical Novels Review demonstrate that historical fiction readers' most highly recommended books don't follow trends or fit into neat categories."
N. Gemini Sasson sums it up beautifully: "There are less well known historical figures that have stories worth telling, every bit as compelling and dramatic as those whose stories have been told a hundred ways already. Sharing their lives would do nothing but enrich our view of the past."
Perhaps we are indeed ready for a revolution in historical fiction.
"Time to Change the Marquee" by Julianne Douglas
"Bestselling Historical Novels of 2009" by Sarah Johnson
Posted by Mary Sharratt at 03:57 No comments:
Labels: historical fiction, social history, women's history
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)


text:
Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers uprooted 200 olive trees in Qusra village near Nablus overnight Wednesday, a Palestinian Authority official said.
A number of settlers destroyed trees in the south of the village at midnight, days before the olive harvest is due to begin, the Fatah official monitoring settlement activity in the northern West Bank Ghassan Doughlas told Ma'an.
The trees belonged to Fateh Allah Mahmoud, Ghassan Hasan and other Qusra villagers, Doughlas said, calling on the international community to put more effort into halting attacks on Palestinians by Israelis living in illegal settlements in the West Bank.
The Nablus area has witnessed a surge in settler attacks over the last month, including village raids, attacks on property and the vandalism of two mosques.
On Sept. 5, settlers broke into al-Nurayn mosque in Qusra, smashing windows before setting fire to used tires inside the building and spray-painting anti-Arab slogans and the Star of David.
Settler-related incidents resulting in Palestinian injuries and damage to property are up more than 50 percent this year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which documents violence in the Palestinian territories.


text:
You are currently browsing the tag archive for the 'Annie Leonard' tag.
As you have probably heard, The Story of Electronics is out! Narrated by Annie Leonard, and made by the fine folks who brought us the incredibly popular Story of Stuff video, the sequel does a great job of highlighting the all too common life cycle of many of our electronics, like computers, cell phones, and televisions. Thankfully, The Story of Electronics also sheds light on many of the hidden consequences of our voracious electronics appetite: safety of workers, recyclers, and the environment.
The Story of Electronics shows that most of our electronics are "designed for the dump" rather than for a long life, reuse, and recycling. Annie encourages consumers to be aware of the dangers associated with their electronic purchases and demand extended producer responsibility from the high-tech companies and responsible producer takeback programs by our policy makers!
Here in Oregon, we already have a state producer takeback law, requiring all manufacturers, like Dell and HP, who want to sell to Oregon consumers, to take back consumer electronics when they reach the end of their life cycle. So far, 23 states have passed laws mandating some kind of e-waste recycling program, and seven more have introduced laws in 2010. However, recycling rates are still low – a fact that could be partly attributed to the disposable culture (i.e. "Design for the Dump" = selling lots of stuff) aggravated by the electronics industry's practices.
So check out the video and help change this destructive culture by sharing it with your friends and family on Facebook, via e-mail, and on your other social networking sites. Also, see The Story of Electronics and the Electronics Takeback Coalition for ways to do more.
Lauren Ice
ELAW Office Manager
Annie Leonard admits her online short-film sensation, The Story of Stuff, doesn't say it all. Luckily, she has written a book that tells us everything the original 20-minute video left out about the production, consumption, and disposal chain that we are used to in America. The Story of Stuff, the book goes into much more detail about the stages of the materials economy and provides examples from around the world.
This book also provides solutions and signs of hope. Annie writes:
I share stories of traveling in Bangladesh, South Africa, India and other countries, visiting the factories where our stuff is made and the dumps where it is dumped. I share stories of pollution as personal as my own toxic body levels to the site of the largest chemical industrial disaster ever –Bhopal, India. And I share why, in spite of all the dire environmental data emerging every day, I am full of hope that we can turn things around.
To promote the new book, Annie made a guest appearance on Comedy Central's, The Colbert Report (look for her around 16:00).
After joking that Americans are winning — we're beating the Europeans on how much we shop — Stephen Colbert encourages everyone to buy the book and don't throw it away. When you're done, you can donate it to your local library, share it with friends, or even compost it!
Annie just wants everyone to show more appreciation and reverence for our stuff – that includes where it comes from, where it will end up, and who it may affect along the way.
ELAW Partner Annie Leonard is at it again!
Her video "The Story of Stuff" is legendary for its simple explanation of why consumerism is killing the planet.
Now, she takes on "Cap and Trade" and explains, using simple graphics and easy to understand language, why cap and trade is bad policy.
Click and watch it — and send it to your friends!


text:
Emulating Our Elders
The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates is often quoted as having said: "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not …Read More
The Healing Word
The tongue is a restless evil, full of deadly poison (James 3:8). Remember the first time you heard yourself on a tape recorder? Most of us were inclined to say as we heard ourselves: "I don't sound like that …Read More
The Preacher's Character
The Apostle Paul demonstrated how we can love God and others in our speech. He used words that could sting and rebuke as well as heal and comfort. His ministry was one of words—speaking God's very own Word. His …Read More


text:
It's official: Chelsea Handler will leave her E! talk show in August.
The cable network confirmed Wednesday that the tart-tongued host will end her seven-year run on "Chelsea Lately" with a finale on Aug. 26.
E! will mark the occasion with a monthlong celebration of special episodes and surprise guests, the network said.
"I myself am more surprised than anyone that I was able to hold down a job for seven years, and it was a fantastic seven years," Handler said in a statement.
Handler's exit had been rumored for weeks, but Wednesday's announcement was the first official confirmation.
Handler's next move is unclear. The last year has seen an unprecedented shuffling of late-night hosts, with Jay Leno leaving "The Tonight Show," which was then taken over by Jimmy Fallon. David Letterman has also announced his retirement from CBS' "Late Show," where Stephen Colbert will sit in the host's chair next year. Craig Ferguson has said he is leaving CBS' "Late Late Show" at the end of this year.
Handler has been rumored to be in the running for that last job, and CBS chief Les Moonves has made it known he would like to give a woman the gig.
What do you think of Handler's show?


text:
For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #1
Exploring classical Balinese paintings and the cultural practices behind this astonishing tradition.
Today I am going to Bali to meet some of the artists I know through their paintings. It's exciting. I'll look in their studios, smell the paints and listen to their stories. My guru Siobhan Campbell is already there. Let's hope JetStar will bring me to Bali on time and we'll meet as expected. My ears, eyes and camera are ready. Fingers crossed.
The classical Balinese paintings are produced in the village of Kamasan, Klungkung, but I am heading for Ubud first. I will be staying at the Puri Saraswati Bungalows, named after the Goddess of Arts, Knowledge and Wisdom; can't have it better! This is in a town centre, a stone's throw from the Ubud Royal Palace and Puri Lukisan (Art) Museum; a short walk to the Sacred Monkey Forest and the Great Temple of Death.
Read about Siobhan http://australianmuseum.net.au/image/Siobhan-Campbell/
Look at Saraswati http://www.flickr.com/photos/stamar/5671544433/in/set-72157626612902934
Learn about the project http://australianmuseum.net.au/Balinese-Art


text:
A felony attempted armed robbery charge against a La Grange man could hinge on whether he�s competent to stand trial.
A felony attempted armed robbery charge against a La Grange man could hinge on whether he�s competent to stand trial.
Warren Stidham, 22, remains in the custody of authorities on a $52,000 bond after an alleged botched robbery of the little bank in La Grange Wednesday afternoon. A Lenoir County Sheriff�s Office release said Stidham acted like he had a gun, but it was determined later he only had a pencil.
According to the Lenoir County Clerk of Court, the trial date has been continued to Dec. 13, and Chris Rogerson has been appointed to Stidham�s defense.
The LCSO release said bank staff believed �the man may have been suffering from a drug impairment or had a mental disability.� Stidham lives at a group home one block away from the bank.
�Usually the courts are the ones who decide whether they are able to stand trial or not,� LCSO Chief Deputy Chris Hill said. �We usually just make the charge, and let the courts decide whether they stand trial. There will be an independent hearing, I guess, at some point, to determine whether he�s competent.�
According to state law, the issue of competency can be raised by the prosecutor, the defendant, the defense counsel or the court. Once the question has been raised, the defendant goes through a competency hearing before he can stand trial. In that hearing, the court may appoint one or more impartial medical experts to examine and render an opinion on the defendant�s mental health.
Should the judge find it necessary, felony defendants can be sent to a state mental health facility for observation � for no more than 60 days � without going before a competency hearing.
Vivian Sutton, vice president and city executive of the La Grange little bank, was unavailable for comment.
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at WolfeReports.


text:
At this moment, in a small-town cafe, VFW hall or church basement somewhere, someone is shaking his head and saying, "You know, it's really simple, if Congress would just …"
Maybe he and his friends are talking about the Iraq War or tax reform or farm subsidies: Whatever the topic, they pretty much agree that our representatives on Capitol Hill are needlessly muddying the waters.
At least, that's what I take from a recent poll of public attitudes toward Congress. In it, half the people surveyed said they thought Congress has difficulty arriving at decisions because its members just like to argue, not because they represent different points of view or the issues are intrinsically complicated.
So I thought it might be useful to look at an issue Congress is working on right now — the new farm bill — to see why it sometimes takes a while to sort things through on Capitol Hill. It's a perfect example of how, once different regional interests and lobbying groups come into play, matters quickly become very complex.
Farm bills have always been large, but they used to be pretty straightforward. Every few years, members of the agriculture committees would sit down with lobbyists representing corn, wheat, soybean, cotton, rice and dairy interests and deal out billions of dollars in subsidies.
This year, however, things are very different. In part, this is because the range of agricultural interests that want to have an impact on federal farm policy has grown. Farmers who raise vegetables, fruits, nuts or other specialty crops, for instance, want the federal government to spend more on research and marketing programs, and to buy more of their goods for use in school lunch programs.
This will certainly resonate in a country more attuned than ever to the benefits of healthy eating, but it may also run afoul of traditional commodity producers such as corn and soybean farmers, who worry that the more that is spent on fruits and vegetables, the less will be spent on them.
Meanwhile, other interests that you might not think of as "agricultural" also have joined the fray.
The American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association want the government more involved in improving school lunches and promoting healthy foods. The ethanol industry, of course, wants to keep the subsidies it was able to win in previous years; on the other hand, livestock producers and food processors believe that earlier federal programs promoting ethanol have caused corn prices to rise and they have announced they will fight them this year.
A range of groups interested in farmland conservation, from Ducks Unlimited to the Nature Conservancy, are banding together to have the Agriculture Department enroll more land in conservation programs. The Humane Society and other animal protection groups are lobbying for regulations to improve conditions for livestock.
Now, there's plenty to shake one's head about in this. The sheer amount of money spent lobbying on the farm bill is enormous. And it can get a little disheartening watching farmers, agricultural enterprises and others who extol free markets scrap for the biggest share possible of federal largesse.
Today, agriculture is one of the most subsidized industries in America. When so much money is at stake — more than $20 billion was spent on farm programs last year — you can see why so many different people might want to get involved.
And the truth is that all these different lobbying groups represent a pretty decent slice of America, from farmers in Iowa to ranchers in Montana to vegetable growers in New Jersey to hunters, environmentalists and animal-lovers all across the country. They inform members of Congress about what's important to them and, by extension, to the people — often ordinary Americans — who care about their issues.
The problem with lobbying is not the extent and variety of lobbyists, it's the willingness of members of Congress to let a few well-heeled interests amass more clout than everyone else, sometimes forgetting the interests of taxpayers and consumers.
Yet it's also inescapable that, when a lot of lobbyists and interest groups get involved in a piece of legislation, it will take time to sort it all out. This is not a bad thing in and of itself. It means that members of Congress are listening to the country at large and doing what politicians ought to do — seek common ground among competing interests and make hard decisions about how to share limited resources.
The problems come when Congress allows all these interests to tie it in knots that can't be undone.
So the next time you hear someone say that Congress could get more done if its members stopped listening to themselves talk so much, tell them it's not so simple. There are a lot of people who want to get in a word on Capitol Hill and more than a few dollars out of it.
As frustrating as it can be sometimes, that's a lot better than a system in which the only voices members of Congress hear are their own.
Lee Hamilton is director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years.
At this moment, in a small-town cafe, VFW hall or church basement somewhere, someone is shaking his head and saying, "You know, it's really simple, if Congress would just …"


text:
Medical - Service - Psychiatry / Psychology
There are no results matching ""
Premium listings
Autophix Om123 Multi Languages Obd2 Car Diagnostic Tools For Engine SystemAutomobile - Diagnostic Equipment - Autophix Tech Co.,Ltd - China - June 25, 2019 - 20.00 Dollar US$
With Good Performance: OBD2 Scanner, AUTOPHIX Auto Code Reader OM123 Universal OBDII Vehicle Check Engine Fault Code Reader CAN Diagnostic Scan Tool for Automobiles Error Codes Eraser - Orange Product Function: 1.Reads & clears trouble code: gene...
Thousend Ft Cat5e Plenum Utp Ethernet CableElectronics - Manufacturing - WESTCables - USA - November 27, 2018 - 79.99 Dollar US$
WESTCables provides high-quality Bulk Cat5e CMP 1000FT cable with enhancing price. Cat5e Plenum 100 MHz 24-AWG UTP Ethernet network cable has a special insulation that has the very low smoke. Plenum cable is mandated to be installed in any space (lar...


text:
Many larger OSS projects maintain IRC channels to discuss their usage or development. When I get stuck on using a project, having tried and failed to find information on the web, one of the ways I try to figure out what to do is to go into the IRC channel and ask.
But my questions are invariably completely ignored by the people in the channel. If there was silence when I entered, there will still be silence. If there is an ongoing conversation, it carries on unperturbed. I leave the channel open for a few hours, hoping that maybe someone will eventually engage me, but nothing happens.
So I worry that I'm being rude in some way I don't understand, or breaking some unspoken rule and being ignored for it. I try to make my questions polite, to the point, and grammatical, and try to indicate that I've tried the obvious solutions and why they didn't work. I understand that I'm obviously a complete stranger to the people on the channel, but I'm not sure how to fix this. Should I just lurk in the channel, saying nothing, for a week? That seems absurd too.
A typical message I send might be "Hello all - I've been trying to get Foo to work, but I keep on getting a BarException. I tried resetting the Quux, but this doesn't seem to do anything. Does anyone have a suggestion on what I could try?"


text:
Air force ROTC
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps
Detachment 750 at Saint Joseph's University, the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFROTC), is Philadelphia's AFROTC hub for 23 total universities in the Philadelphia area and South Jersey. Students in any academic field may participate in AFROTC, simultaneously earning an academic degree and qualifying for a commission as an Air Force officer upon graduation.
The program prepares young men and women to serve as military officers in the United States Air Force. Members range from scholarship awardees, to students planning an Air Force career, to students just wanting to learn a little about the Air Force without incurring any obligation. Active-duty Air Force officers provide education and instruction through a variety of activities and a multi-disciplinary curriculum designed to help students develop skills they will need as officers. For more information on AFROTC at Det 750, please visit
the official website.


text:
Staff writer
Aldina Franz and Shirley Kasper of Hillsboro are good friends. They see each other often at church and community functions. They also see each other at almost every blood drive that comes to town, and both were on hand Thursday to help the American Red Cross reach a goal of 50 donors at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church.
"I try to donate every 56 days, or whenever they come to Hillsboro," Franz said. "I feel like it's my opportunity to help someone."
Franz, who received a special pin Thursday for donating her 100th pint of blood, said she got started when she was about 20 years old.
"I worked at Tip Top Dairies as a payroll clerk," she said. "They used to come right there to the offices and I donated for the first time then."
Since then, Franz said she has been at every blood drive, about five times each year, giving her pint of blood if she qualifies.
"Sometimes my iron levels were too low and they wouldn't take it then," she said. "But that has only happened a couple of times."
Franz said she prepares for the blood drive day by drinking lots of water 12 to 24 hours before her appointment, and eating a good meal beforehand.
"It doesn't hurt much and I've never really felt bad, but it helps to be prepared so you recover quicker," she said. "Today it only took me 5 minutes and 26 seconds to donate my blood."
Franz said she enjoyed getting a card back from the American Red Cross telling her where her blood went.
"I've gotten cards the last two times I donated," she said. "The first one said my blood helped someone in El Dorado, the last time my blood was divided three ways and helped three different people in Wichita."
Kasper, a co-coordinator of the Hillsboro event, said she was motivated to donate because of a family member.
"My brother died of cancer at age 29," she said. "I donate my blood in memory of him. That motivates me."
Kasper also said she enjoyed finding out where her blood was used and, like Franz, got a card saying it helped three people last time.
"This is something easy I can do to help others," she said.
Kasper edged ahead of Franz in total pints donated, with 126.
"I'm sure we'll see each other here next time," she said. "It's not a contest; just something we feel is important to do."


text:
For the Dynamo's newest, youngest player, just signing a professional contract at the age of 18 was not enough of a gift for his grandfather. No, Francisco Navas went one step further and put his grandfather's last name, Cobo, on the orange Dynamo jersey in honor of the man who shared his dream of soccer.
"My grandpa ... is the most important part of my heart," Navas Cobo said. "He's the best for me, and I want to give him happiness from now on and thank him for all his hard work all these years. For all the effort and all the things he has done for me and all the things he taught me, I decided to put Cobo, his last name, into my jersey to honor him."
Sinecio Cobo, who helped raise Francisco for so many years in Cali, Colombia, was on hand Tuesday to see his grandson, who only turned 18 in November, sign a professional contract and hold up a professional jersey for the first time.
The eldest Cobo was just part of the family contingent on hand for Francisco Navas Cobo's big day. In fact, his extended family - including aunts Debora Cobo and Claudia P. Cobo - has been there in Houston from the start. From tryouts for the Dynamo Academy to his first day training with the Dynamo first team to the preseason tournament in Orlando where he cemented his roster spot. It is just part of a significant support network as Navas makes the sizable transition to the professional level.
"These are the first steps on a long road, hopefully, for him," Dynamo Director of Youth Development James Clarkson said. "There are ups and downs, and it's going to be difficult, but with the support he has from his family, us in the Academy, and the Dynamo organization, he'll be able to deal with those setbacks - because there will be setbacks - and he's going to learn there's more to being a professional soccer player than just skill."
Navas Cobo has definitely begun to pick up on those differences, identified as a quick learner by head coach Dominic Kinnear.
"One thing we wanted to see was his ability to learn, which he did," Kinnear said, having earlier mentioned Navas Cobo's improvement in defensive work rate and positioning. "He figures out the game pretty well. It's a long way away before he's a regular in our team, but the decision for us to give him the chance - it was easy."
Easy for the Dynamo coaching staff, perhaps, but while Navas Cobo was warned that the hard work is still to come, Tuesday was a celebration of all the hard work that had come before. Sacrifices from his family, moves back and forth between Houston and Cali, long hours spent playing and practicing, beginning preseason with a broken arm. All this hard work allowed Navas Cobo to take that extra step and sign for the Dynamo first team, honoring his grandfather in the process.
"I want to thank my family, my aunt, my grandfather, and my mom, who's not here, but I know she's supporting me," Navas Cobo said. "I want to thank all the Houston Dynamo fans and all the people in here supporting me. It's a dream come true."
With this dream accomplished, Navas Cobo will now try to go one step further on the field, carrying his grandfather's name to glory.


text:
New York Times
Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
October 14, 2018
1. Fear: Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward
Base on hours of interviews with sources, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes debates and decision-making within the Trump White House.
2. In Pieces
Sally Field
A memoir by the two-time Academy Award and three-time Emmy Award winner.
3. The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Using combat and training experiences, former Navy SEALs explain some opposing forces in leading others.
4. Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin
The challenges that shaped the leadership abilities of four presidnets: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevielt and Lyndon B. Johnson.
5. These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
An investigation of truth in America traced through its intertwining histories of politics, law, technology and journalism.
6. Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
The daughter of survivalists leaves home for university.
7. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Technological, political and social issues in the modern era, and the choices individuals might consider in facing them.
8. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe.
9. How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
Sy Montgomery. Illustrated by Rebecca Green
The naturalist's memoir covering lessons of empathy, gratitude and loss she learned while studying 13 animals.
10. Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time
Ian O'Connor
A biography of the head coach of the New England Patriots who led the team to five Super Bowl championship victories.
11. The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda
Jason Chaffetz
The former Republican congressman alleges that parts of the federal bureaucracy try to undermine President Trump.
12. The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
Gregg Jarrett
The Fox News analyst makes his case against the F.B.I. investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
13. Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy
Jeanine Pirro
The legal analyst and Fox News host argues in favor of President Trump.
14. Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang
Observations of the two-way relationship between science and military power.
15. American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
America Ferrera with E. Cayce Dumont
Stories of citizens from different walks of life who have connections to more than one culture.
© 2018 All rights reserved by New York Times Syndication Sales Corp. This material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.
A version of this list appears in the October 14, 2018 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 29, 2018.
McArthur Library
270 Main Street
Biddeford ME 04005
207 284 4181


text:
Date(s) - 17/12/2018
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Quiet Lounge, inside the Kings Lounge at St. James (A building), main floor
The board of directors of any organization is its governing mind and is directly responsible for ensuring the organization is operated in accordance with the law. The board of directors has the ultimate jurisdiction over the affairs of the Student Association and its various components. It should be obvious for a student association to fulfill its mandate, its operating mind must be that of students.
This, in turn, is precisely why the Student Association has a board of directors whose membership is comprised of elected students. The board of directors is composed of five executives, four campus directors, seven educational centre representatives and five constituency representatives.
Don't be shy! A visit to a board meeting for the first time may seem intimidating. Just remember, board members are your fellow students. They are there to answer your questions and are accountable to you


text:
Madonna 'Girl Gone Wild' Video Restricted by YouTube
Madonna is no stranger to controversy or having her videos banned from airplay. Her smoking hot vid for 'Girl Gone Wild,' which dropped last week, has been restricted by YouTube, thanks to its sexified content, which includes some nudity and close ups of crotches.
The clip, which finds Madge cavorting with men dancing in high heels, can only be viewed by people age 18 and older, since the content is seen as inappropriate from some users. The powers-that-be at YouTube let the diva's handlers know that if they want the restriction lifted, an edited version be resubmitted, sans scenes of bare bottoms and both implied simulated masturbation. Those images must be left on the cutting room floor. Now where is the fun in that?
The New York Post reports that Madge's team has been working on a cleaner, more sanitized version, which is surprising since Madonna is the be all, end all queen of pop music and she takes no orders from anyone else about her vision or her art. However, a source said that she is willing to make a concession since she has employed an extensive digital marketing campaign and fans not being able to locate the video on the site, since it's been buried due to content, could hurt the promotion of 'MDNA.'
Madonna's longtime PR rep Liz Rosenberg commented, "Some things never change. This is a throwback to when MTV refused to show 'Justify My Love.'" 22 years later and the Material Girl is still causing a commotion and being all sorts of sexalicious. We hope we are as hot when we're her age.
YouTube reps were diplomatic in their comments, choosing their words carefully, as they avoided calling Madge out. The reps said, "While we don't comment on individual videos, we review all videos flagged by our users against our community guidelines. In some cases we age-restrict flagged material that, while not in violation of those guidelines, contains images that may be unsuitable for younger users."
Madonna is such a modern icon. She breaks the Internet. Or at least its rules!


text:
Home Bed Room What is a Platform Bed? Round Platform Bed High Frame Queen With Nightstands White Modern Low Profile
The second sort of help surface is made of a progression of wooden braces. A slatted stage bed permits these to be put close enough together (normally 2 to 3 inches separated) to give appropriate froth bedding assurance, yet additionally expanded wind current, and a touch of a flex and provide for the load you apply when you rest. This is frequently the more favored set-up, and all the more normally found.
Yet, you ought to likewise know that you CAN put box springs on a position of safety stage bed whether you have bedding that is of material that can be upheld by it. By doing as such you can raise the profile extensively.
low modern platform beds low platform bed with drawers low nightstand for platform bed low height platform bed low profile platform bed frame low platform bed with storage low platform bed with nightstands attached low platform bed frame with headboard platform bed low to ground low platform bed frame queen low platform bed designs low platform bed frame low platform bed way fair low platform bed base low platform wooden bed frame
The primary thing you ought to know about is that stage beds are typically much lower in the profile than conventional bed outlines. Commonly they stand under 12 creeps in tallness, with taller ones coming to up to 18 inches. This can be risky for individuals who battle to get into and up.
Practically no Clearance
Metal Surface
Slatted Surfaces
Since numerous beds are low profile, their plan frequently incorporates almost no leeway space under the bed. Truth be told, you may have none at all as it is well known to configuration encased casings, or edges that incorporate capacity drawers underneath the resting surface. Beds that do take into consideration space underneath the bedding regularly just have a couple of creeps of freedom, so make certain to check for your requirements previously buy.
Strong Surfaces
Bunkie sheets can be both of strong, or slatted, structure, and are produced using a wide range of materials. These are likewise useful for adequate stage surfaces on the off chance that you are hoping to help increment in general help or weight abilities.
These backings are vital, and stage beds that do exclude something like one them will be of lower quality and not keep going long by any stretch of the imagination. Notwithstanding, these backings additionally make under bed capacity increasingly troublesome. For instance, a full size trundle would not have the capacity to fit under the bed, however a twin may so make sure to take estimations on the off chance that you have these sorts of necessities.
In spite of the differences in style, stage configuration has a couple of characterizing qualities that make them what they are. What's more, you have to recognize what these are so as to ensure you have what you requirement for your sleeping pad decision.
Stage beds have one of two kinds of help surfaces. The first is a strong surface that typically incorporates gaps, or cuts, to give wind current. Strong surfaces every so often change the vibe of your sleeping pad to make it all the more firm, particularly on the off chance that you have a heavier body type.
Customary stage beds do exclude head or footboards, yet with new structures continually being presented, you can frequently discover numerous headboard increments to give more decisions to the purchaser. Once in a while you may likewise discover a stage bed that mirrors an increasingly conventional bed structure and incorporates both, however realize that these additionally will be of lower profile-so in the event that you plan on utilizing a boxspring you may conceal most of the head and footboard surface.
This is just compelling if the braces are close enough together, so if your sleeping pad requires a stage type surface, make sure to twofold check brace widths and dispersing or you may wind up at the nearby handyman shop to help compensate for the absence of help.
What is a Floating Platform Bed?
You may likewise find coasting stage bed structures that inside the bed support underneath the bed as opposed to at the edges or corners of the bed. This plan makes the bed look as though it is skimming regardless of having an extremely solid base. Anyway, there will be close to nothing, to no room accessible for capacity underneath.
When I wound up making this definite inquiry, I realized the time had come to locate a total answer on the opportunity I ended up spending great cash on the wrong things. At first I wound up asking what a position of safety stage, drifting a stage, or slatted stage was and for what reason were there such huge numbers of decisions. I immediately found it was all a lot more straightforward than I thought.
While looking into stage beds you are certain to go over the term: Bunkie board. A Bunkie board is a board you can buy to transform your current bed outline into a stage bed, or the help you can purchase if attempting to make your own.
Any beds bigger than a twin ought to have focus underpins that kept running down the center of the bed with something like one (if not three) full legs for included stage support. This might be a piece of the fundamental casing itself, or bolster the surface from underneath. You may likewise discover another help over the bed for extra weight dissemination.
You may likewise locate a woven metal help in specific models. This isn't constantly perfect as it might excessively put weight on particular sorts of froth after some time. It works well with a boxspring, or those sleeping pads that can acknowledge a more extensive assortment of help. You can likewise add a Bunkie board to these (clarified beneath).
So, a stage bed is a basic edge made of different materials that offers support for any type of sleeping cushion without the requirement for a crate spring. Stage beds used to just be a lower profiled, level, or slatted help surface that was anything but difficult to fit in most contemporary stylistic layouts. Yet, with the expansion in froth bedding materials, stage beds have developed from the genuinely straightforward, to a progressively varied style that is certain to fit into anybody's inside plan.
Cross-sectional Supports
Lower Profile
Head and Footboards
Recent Post
Most Popular
Tag Cloud
Static pages
Conditions of Use Privacy Notice Copyright Cookie policy 2019, commerceservertraining


text:
Tuesday 22nd January 2013
|Text too small?
Equities in Europe advanced as Germany's central bank said the nation's economy is showing signs of recovery in the first quarter of the year.
"The largely stable labour market and a better outlook for output suggest that the economic weakness won't last all that long," according to the Bundesbank in its monthly report released today.
The bank forecasts the economy to grow 0.4 percent in 2013 year and 1.9 percent in 2014. Europe's largest economy contracted 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, data last week showed.
Meanwhile, euro zone finance ministers gathered for their first meeting of the year. At the top of their agenda is the financial situation in several peripheral economies including Spain. In addition, the ministers will be discussing how to provide financial help directly to the region's banks.
Europe's Stoxx 600 Index ended the day with a 0.3 percent increase from the previous close. Germany's DAX and France's CAC 40 both climbed 0.6 percent, while the UK's FTSE 100 rose 0.4 percent.
Transportation remains snarled in the UK and France as a winter storm buffets the area, renewing concerns about the economic outlook. In Germany, a weekend electoral loss for Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition could block efforts for her government to pass legislation.
US markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Jr holiday on Monday as President Barack Obama celebrated the official start of his second four-year term.
Republicans are gearing up for a Wednesday vote that is expected to provide temporary relief for the US Treasury's debt ceiling, expected to be reached as early as next month.
The yen rose against the greenback, climbing from the lowest level since June 2010, amid expectations the Bank of Japan will announce further monetary policy easing measures.
The central bank's two-day policy meeting is expected to result in a doubling of the inflation target and an expansion of its asset-purchase program. The BOJ will increase asset purchases this week, according to all 23 economists in a Bloomberg News survey, with the median estimate for a 10 trillion-yen increase.
"It's hard to see what the BOJ could say ... that would exceed market expectations," Daragh Maher, a currency strategist at HSBC Holdings in London, told Bloomberg News. "It's a natural positioning ahead of the Bank of Japan's meeting given the yen's decline."
No comments yet
Mild weather saps Vector's June-qtr volumes
NZ dollar gains as dovish Fed comments point to 50-bps US cut
19th July 2019 Morning Report
RBNZ says no change in approach on Resolution Life's AMP purchase
MARKET CLOSE: NZX50 hits record as yield stocks remain in vogue
NZ dollar mixed after strong Australian employment data
Energy efficiency key to lowering cost of renewables push - EECA
Paper recycling costs rising 35% as export markets collapse
First Union leading rivals for biggest average pay claims, says bargaining firm
Fonterra to go coal-free 11 years ahead of schedule


text:
- Home
- News
- Sports
- Opinion
- Obituaries
- Features
- Special Sections
- Classifieds
- Public Notices
My start in EMS began when I joined the Unity Volunteer Fire Department. My chief was Dennis Robinson. Dennis was so cool during the most devastating disasters. He never got excited. He was not only a fire chief, but a hazardous material specialist, rescue-certified in many fields and an EMT basic. When I completed my fire training, I wanted to be like Chief Robinson and learn everything I could about fire and EMS.
If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the The Lancaster News, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.
Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.
|ZIP Code:


text:
Caring Ministry Meeting
Second Monday of the month, 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Caring Ministry reaches out in love to offer support, caring, comfort, and fellowship to those experiencing loneliness, illness, loss, or other life changes.. This is our mission. Caring Ministry meets monthly at Friendship Celebration. The invitation is always open to any who would desire to be a part of the Caring Ministry team. Contact Donnette House (297-0775) or Patsy Kern (888-2979) if you are interested in join this awesome ministry.


text:
Every player that I talked to all week, even prior to the start of the championship, said the same thing to me, "The course looks perfect, I hope I make some putts."
The secret that so many good players know is that when scoring conditions are ideal, when the wind is calm, the conditions are soft and the greens are fast and smooth; you don't have to be the best ball striker, you don't have to be the most accurate off the tee or from the fairway, you're going to need to make putts.
This past week here at the 44th PGA Professional National Championship, we were fortunate to have great weather and conditions that we knew would reward great golf play with great scoring opportunities. And when you have this much golf talent in one event and conditions like we've had, you're going to see some outstanding scores.
And we did, with course records being set this week on both our East and West courses.
The three things I noticed among the players who had great success this week were:
1.) Get comfortable with the speed: When you know the putts are going to roll true, the biggest advantage is going to go with the player who is able to take aggressive but reasonable attempts at the hole. Avoiding three putts is still important, but feel like you have a chance to make every putt.
2.) Play a little more break: Spend time trying different putting lines on practice greens and get a sense of how much break you're going to have to play on each putt. The better players may take a number of putts at the same hole but trying a variety of routes to get there. And remember, it's not just making the putt, but making sure you don't leave yourself too tough a second putt if you don't make it.
3.) Finally, expect your opponent to make their share of putts. Good players tend to feed off other good play. People are going to make putts on great greens, use that as your inspiration to make your share. Too often, I see players get frustrated because their opponent nails a long one early in the round. All that means is, you can too!
It was a great week here at Hershey Country Club and the 44th PGA Professional National Championship. The PGA of America, the volunteers, the fans and the players were tremendous to be around, I hope they all come back. And I hope that you were able to watch and enjoy the stellar play - and hopefully, learn a little something that will help you in your game as well.


text:
Sheet music downloads have become the preferred method of acquiring classical music repertoire. Created by professional musicians, EveryNote.com presents classical sheet music download of over 20.000 popular and hard-to-find music scores over 1000 composers. A major Internet provider of classical sheet music files download online, EveryNote.com offers the largest and most complete digital sheet music download library on the Web in the world. Instantly download, view and print your favorite classical music score. Everynote.com currently offers thousands of classical music compositions for Piano, Violin, Cello, Flute, Clarinet, Classical Guitar, Voice, Chamber and Choral music.Many more instruments, composers, genres added every day! EveryNote.com has been featured in The New York Times, Globe and Mail, Musical America and many other publications.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
1887 - 1957
Heitor Villa-Lobos short biography
Heitor Villa-Lobos is recognized as a major musician and composer in Brazil, and possibly in the entire South America. One of Villa-Lobos's first great successes was in 1923 in Paris where he stayed for almost 4 years. Villa-Lobos came back to Brazil in 1930, and almost immediately won a public and official recognition that allowed him to create and develop professional music education in Brazil. Villa-Lobos wrote in virtually all music genres: stage-works, choral and instrumental compositions, chamber music, songs and piano music.
More Villa-Lobos sheet music download on EveryNote.com
Villa-Lobos Cello sheet music download on EveryNote.com
Villa-Lobos Classical Guitar sheet music download on EveryNote.com
Villa-Lobos Chamber sheet music download on EveryNote.com
Web design by Web design SEO & Hosting Company - iGenii inc


text:
Get a free audiobook
Will in the World
Publisher's Summary
It is impossible to have any understanding of literature and not be familiar with William Shakepeare. He has influenced Western culture more than any other author. But how were Shakespeare's remarkable accomplishments even possible? How could a man without wealth, connections, or a university education move to London and quickly become the greatest playwright of all time? In this emerging narrative, Elizabethan England is reawakened, and we at last understand how Shakespeare became a legendary figure.
What the critics say
"This wonderful study, built on a lifetime's scholarship and a profound ability to perceive the life within the texts, creates as vivid and full portrait of Shakespeare as we are likely ever to have." (Publishers Weekly)
More from the same
What members say
Average Customer Ratings
5 Stars1
4 Stars0
3 Stars0
2 Stars0
1 Stars0
5 Stars0
4 Stars0
3 Stars1
2 Stars0
1 Stars0
5 Stars0
4 Stars0
3 Stars0
2 Stars0
1 Stars0
- Timothy, Toronto, ON.
- 2007-04-06
For Fans of History and Language
I took a chance on this book because, in spite of studying three or four of his plays in high school, I knew almost nothing about Shakespeare or his world. The author's depiction of the social, political and cultural landscape of Elizabethan England may be highly speculative as other reviewers have noted, but I found it interesting and credible. The notion that 15th century political elites were paranoid about the entertaiment industry shows that some things never change. It's easy to picture Shakespeare walking the fine line between political correctness and wicked satire.
The book is beautifully written and read. It's a little deep in places but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful
- D. Littman
- 2004-11-12
Outstanding book-on-tape
This book is outstanding from all key perspectives: it is well-narrated, it is well-written & organized, & it is a compelling piece of historical writing. I am confused by an earlier reviewer's idea that this is a degraded "politically correct" piece of work. I don't see that anywhere in the work. Clearly the author has sought to reconstruct Shakespeare's life & thought through the plays themselves & through historical works about the times in which he lived (historical works where he does not appear), & that is necessary since the track he left to us, 100s of years later, is 99.9% from his plays. But any reader of current literary biography knows that most of what appears in a great writer's work is semi-autobiographical, so there is no crime in speculating from the work-to-the-life. The author makes frequent use of caveats, so there is no attempt to pull the wool over our eyes. And their use enriches the work, it does not detract from it. One of the best books I've gotten from Audible.
22 of 24 people found this review helpful
- Oswald
- Newark, N/A, Germany
- 2004-10-24
One of the very best audiobooks I know. Very informative and well performed. You need, however, a real interest in Shakespeare's plays.
Vanceltic's review is nonsense. I don't like PC professors either. There is nothing of that in this book, however. Just well informed and well written background information.
31 of 35 people found this review helpful
- Stephen
- Calistoga, CA, USA
- 2005-01-09
Will in the World
Although this is a "high dive" in that the paucity of information makes speculation inevitable, Greenblatt does an excellent job in bringing together what is known about Shakespeare and Elizabethan society to deepen our understanding of the political, religious, social and economic factors that must have influenced him. While "must have" and "might" reoccur often, on the whole the interpretion is sensible and practical. The PC charge is off the wall. This fellow must have been reading another book.
18 of 20 people found this review helpful
- Carter Merkle
- Norman, OK United States
- 2004-10-21
Good background information
You have to like reading about the historical environment surrounding creative works to enjoy this book. If you've ever wondered about Wm Shakespeare as a person you will like the detailed information in this book about his family, education and personal life. I don't understand how anyone could complain that this book is warped by political correctness. It simply pursues theories and possibilities about the poet and author. Of course some judgment was applied. The author admits frequently that the record is incomplete. It is well worth the read if you enjoy history.
32 of 37 people found this review helpful
- Tad Davis
- 2010-05-26
Flawed biography
Greenblatt is one of the prime movers behind the Norton Shakespeare, my favorite edition of the plays, and I really wanted to like this book. As a discussion of Shakespeare in general, it's well-written, imaginative, and insightful. (It's also very well narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez.) But as a biography, it's deeply flawed.
Greenblatt gives gobs of space to poorly-documented and (sometimes totally) speculative aspects of Shakespeare's life. For example, many pages are given over to an imaginary late-night "bull session" between the young Shakespeare and a Catholic priest in Lancashire. The speculation is entertaining, but it's based on little more than a similarity in names: there was a William Shakeshaft in Lancashire at the time. Could Shakeshaft have been the young Shakespeare? Maybe, but he's more likely to be a relative of one of the many Shakeshafts who were also living in Lancashire.
Similarly, we're treated to many pages describing Shakespeare's supposedly awful marriage (pure speculation) and his close personal (and possibly sexual) relationship with the Earl of Southampton (even more speculative, this time without even a second-best bed as justification).
The problem is that these fantasias come at the expense of some aspects of Shakespeare's life for which there is substantially more documentation. As the most glaring example, consider Shakespeare's involvement with the Mountjoy family in the early 1600s: there are pages and pages of depositions, one of them from Shakespeare himself, others from people quoting Shakespeare's conversation. Charles Nicholl wrote a whole book on the subject ("The Lodger," available elsewhere on Audible). Greenblatt never even mentions it.
There's a lack of balance here. You want to speculate? Fine. But don't do it at the expense of well-grounded, contextualized, basic facts about your subject's daily life.
24 of 28 people found this review helpful
- Larry Miller
- 2004-11-19
Good reading and good Shakespeare insights
Even though I found some of the author's reasoning a push, and, although some of his conclusions smack of wishful thinking (we would all like the world's greatest author to be the world's greatest dad), the information was useful and well presented. The book never lapses into acedemic rhetoric. Greenblatt doesn't hit you over the head with his vocabulary or assume that you are a scholar before you read this book. If you are interested in Shakespeare, you will be interested in this story. If the hero hadn't written Hamlet, no one would care if his wife was illiterate.
11 of 13 people found this review helpful
- Terry
- 2004-12-29
One of the Best Biographies of the Bard
As a conectural biography this is really pretty good. The author summarizes what is known about Shakespeare and then uses lines from the plays to speculate about what he may have been like socially, religously and politcally. The author also gives a detailed snapshot of the Elizabethian era. This book makes me want to explore Elizabethian and Jacobean drama and biography in more depth.
12 of 15 people found this review helpful
- 2011-12-08
I loved this book! I wish it were twice as long. Though I know some of Shakespeare's work very well, through repeated reading, viewing and an excellent college class, I knew very little about the world in which he lived. To be honest, the movie "Shakespeare in Love" was my primary source of information, and I realize it might not be up to the strictest academic standards. Greenblatt's book was fascinating, comprehensive and just a delight. The book has been criticized for being speculative. Unfortunately, the amount that is known for sure about Shakespere's life is limited, and at this late date we are not likely to uncover more. Should we just stop there and say, that's it, too bad? Researchers in many fields-- paleontology, archaeology, astronomy, etc.-- put together clues and try to develop theories. In some cases they can hope for new evidence to confirm or disprove. In others we have to be satisfied with a degree of uncertainty. I think what Greenblatt presents regarding events and conditions in Shakespeare's day is interesting in itself and readers can decide for themselves how much to believe about the possible effects on his life and work. This book was really enhanced in the audio edition because the narrator acted all the quotations from the plays and other documents with his voice.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- Richard Daniel
- Fort Worth, TX USA
- 2012-05-06
Just as good the third time
I've heard this three time now. The last time was after Anonymous came out because I couldn't see how anyone could think that Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare. I still can't.
This may be may favorite book on Shakespeare. This book covers how young Shakespeare became the Barb. The detail is amazing and the narration is outstanding.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful


text: I create to feel alive. I create because I feel alive.I am a music and visual artist from Shreveport, Louisiana."Be still, and listen to the universe, for it has stories to tell and songs to sing. Sing out, and make noise, for the universe is listening and you have a story to tell and a song to sing." RybirdBe the music. Be the art.


text:
Opportunity For Fans To Get Early Look At 2012 Squad
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale men's soccer team will get an opportunity to test itself against some international competition on Sunday. The Bulldogs will play a friendly against England's Oxford University at 1 p.m. at Reese Stadium. Admission is free.
Oxford is currently on a tour of the United States and will also play Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, the New York Athletic Club and Rutgers. Yale, meanwhile, is just beginning spring practice so the game will give head coach Brian Tompkins a good gauge of where his team stands.
"It is always a fun experience for our players to meet and compete against players from other countries, and we are delighted to have the chance to play Oxford University," Tompkins said. "The game will give us the opportunity to get our first look at the players that will form the nucleus of next fall's team against strong opposition. While U.S. colleges are in their off-season period, the colleges in the UK are in mid-season so we expect a challenging and competitive game against a well-prepared team. While the competition is important, the opportunities for camaraderie and cultural exchange are equally significant, and we look forward to having the chance to meet and get to know students and staff from a school with a similar world-wide reputation for academic excellence."
Yale is coming off a successful 2011 season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8-7-2 overall record and a 4-3 Ivy mark. Yale is tentatively scheduled to open the 2012 season on Aug. 31 at Central Connecticut.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


text:
After a long procedure of pre-order and order, my new Furla baby - Candy Rockstar has finally arrived. I´ve become a big Furla Candy Bags fan, have already the amazing black studded one and wear it all the time. When this limited edition was released, I just couldn´t resist. Although I love almost all the pieces in the limited edition (especially the Candy Aerospace), the Rockstar was a clear choice. You are going to see many outfits with this bag! :-)
25 Apr 2012
24 Apr 2012
It seems like the main topic of my blog is weather and not fashion... Once you live in Belgium (or U.K., the Netherlands or something of this kind), weather becomes the main issue as it is permanently dreadful.
So, I can´t take any outdoor pictures because of rainy weather. To be fair, also because I have a lot of work these days.
Therefore I´ve decided to post a couple of quite old photos where I wear the same coat and shoes that I´m actually wearing today. I´m particularly in love with the trench-coat. I have it quite a long time, since spring 2007 I guess. It´s quite Burberry-like, actually I think I like this pattern even more than the Burberry one. What do you think? :-)
22 Apr 2012
Many Points
My favourite dotted dress matching with the blog background...
As an ultimate cats lover I have to call your attention to the photographer´s kitten on the third picture! :-)
Sun! Finally!
16 Apr 2012
First Point
Hi, here I am with my first blog. It´s going to be about my passion for fashion.
Hope you will enjoy! :-)
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)