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Just when we were about to book our tickets from Raleigh-Durham Airport (RDU) in North Carolina to Houston, Texas, our friend Matt Gould in Phoenix wrote, "Can you get here for a concert on the 4th?"
We cut short our stay in Durham and bypassed Houston for Phoenix. Besides concertising and giving private lessons, we packed those 3 nights and 2 days with reconnecting with musician friends we knew from outside the USA and acquainting with new musicians in Phoenix.
In 2003, we met guitarist Matt Gould and violinist Beth Schneider of Duo46 and guitarist Josh Rhoads in North Cyprus. In 2007, we met composer Tom Peterson at the Cortona Contemporary Music Festival Italy. In November 2010, they introduced us to guitarist Chuck Hulihan and flautist Theresa Hulihan of Duozona and the violinist Miray Rhoads of Duo Vibrato. It seemed that Phoenix was headquarters for some of the best musicians on the planet.
Every minute of those three nights and two days was charged with energy and inspiration. Our friends who arranged the 4 concerts and many private guitar lessons shuttled us around in cars and accommodated us in their homes. Their hospitality flowed with no end in sight.
We gave our first concert at Glendale Community College to a very enthusiastic audience comprising mostly of guitar students and outsiders. Besides signing our CDs for sale, we also signed the colourful red posters that Chuck had gotten printed.
The next morning we gave a concert and discussion at Paradise Valley Community College, quickly followed by a trip to Arizona State University where we gave a concert in the famous organ hall.
In the evening, we gave a short concert in a beautiful penthouse loft apartment in downtown Phoenix. It was an event organised by the Spirit of the Senses, an outfit or event series that's been around for nearly 3 decades, researching and organising events for its members. After the intermission, I moderated a discussion panel on house concerts. [Where are the photos of that beautiful apartment with the black baby grand piano?]
As it was our first trip to Arizona, we had hoped to visit the Grand Canyon. Instead, we left Saturday morning for Houston to play at a private concert.


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Past Exhibit Highlights
LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL: Arizona Unseen, Color Photographs 1978 - 1988
Oct. 24-Dec. 9, 2016
The exhibit featured 48 previously unseen color photographs from the Bernal Archive at the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography. Curated by Ann Simmons-Myers. The the portraits and interiors made during the 1970s and 1980s provided an intimate historic view of Arizona migrant farm workers, along with Tucson and Douglas barrio life. Louis Carlos Bernal was head of photography at Pima Community College for seventeen years until his career was tragically cut short in October of 1989 by a bicycle accident while on his way to teach at the West Campus. Bernal is internationally recognized as an important photographer who captured the essence of Mexican American life. The exhibit celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of Bernal's birth.
Above images (left-right):
untitled, Douglas, Arizona, 1979
untitled, El Mirage, Arizona, 1978
untitled, Douglas, Arizona, 1979
untitle, El Mirage, Arizona, 1978
Photographs from the Louis Carlos Bernal Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona ©Lisa Bernal Brethour and Katrina Bernal 2016
Bailey Doogan, Judith Stewart, Tiffiney Yazzie, Luis Caballero, Vincent Desiderio, Keith McElroy
Oct. 22-Dec. 7, 2012
The exhibition features the works of Bailey Doogan, Judith Stewart, Tiffiney Yazzie, Luis Caballero, Vincent Desiderio and Keith McElroy. In explaining his concept for this exhibition, Andres commented, "Because the human figure for both women and men have been over-objectified in the past, I wanted to achieve a fair view of the human figure as the subject of the art, not the object." Each of the six artists accomplishes this with very different approaches, interpretations and points of view.
Above images (top-bottom: Bailey Doogan, Self Exam in Nation (detail); Judith Stewart, Spiral (detail);Tiffiney Yazzie, Untitled III (detail); Luis Caballero, Untitled* (detail); Vincent Desiderio, Study for "A Pathetic Rumor of Freedom"* (detail); Keith McElroy, Untitled II (detail)
*Wilson P. Graham, artwork photography services
RETROSPECTIVE: George Welch
November 8, 2010 - January 28, 2011
The exhibition, a compilation of twenty pieces, highlights the development of Welch's work throughout his 40-year career as artist and full-time faculty of PCC's visual arts department. Over the years he has been deeply committed to the development of community arts as an artist and professor at Pima Community College. Welch feels "There is greatness in giving, teaching and learning. This is how nature works--the interactivity keeps the roots fertile." He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions and has been awarded the 2006 Pima Community College Board of Governor's Award, the 2005 Congressional Recognition Art Award and the 2005 Tucson Pima Arts Council Art Educator Award.
Above images:
FIRE, 9/11, 2001, oil and acrylic, 64" x 54"
MONDO, 1991, oil and acrylic, 96" x 60"
Joseph DiGiorgio: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection
January 19 - March 5, 2010
Tucson Visiting Artist Consortium lecture by Michael Walls, New York independent curator: February 3 at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall
The exhibition features oil paintings and pastels of renowned American landscape artist Joseph DiGiorgio (1931-2000) selected from the extensive collection of Dan Leach (Tucson art collector). DiGiorgio started painting in the early 1950s and was strongly influenced by the broad strokes and grand gestural marks of the abstract expressionists. The unspoiled American landscape became the principal source of both his inspiration and imagery. He noted, "I feel the American landscape is an endangered species. It is all that we have as Americans, and I like to record it in a lyrical way, perhaps in a romantic way." His work has been described as a celebration of light and color.
Above images:
THE SOUTHWEST SERIES #17-86, 1986, oil pastel on Arches paper, 28 1/4" x 41"
THE VIRGINIA SERIES #83-10, 1983, oil on canvas (two panels),72" x 96" overall – framed
Natural Selections: Jim Waid Paintings
October 27 - December 5, 2008
This is the first Tucson exhibition in ten years for Waid whose work is regularly exhibited in galleries nationwide. Peter Briggs, Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Art, Museum of Texas Tech University, has written the essay for this exhibition. Waid taught at Pima Community College from 1971 through 1980. The inspiration for his paintings first came after several trips to the desert with his class. He found himself transformed by the incredible range of forms; and the arroyos, hills and canyons around Tucson became a favorite subject for his large sensually colored paintings. In his artist statement Waid states, "Representing work from the last ten years, the nine paintings in this exhibit were selected to demonstrate the ongoing dialogue between the landscape, my sensibility, and the expressive possibilities of paint. The paintings are more or less abstracted; they are not illustrations, but rather enactments of the world around me. This compression of sensation leads to an acceleration of concentration, disarming the mind from its usual routine, allowing either a sharpening or opening. This gives the viewer a sense of entering the painting, not just looking at it."
Above images:
SUMMER TORCH, 2006 - acrylic on canvas, 60" x 40"
DAYBREAK, 2001 - acrylic on canvas, 84" x 132"


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Theatre time
Winter is always the time I want to see most plays, and to me this picture just couldn't be from any other time of year, despite the low backs of the dresses. Theatre is also definitely for seeing with friends and discussing at the interval, unlike other art forms.
I find the way these two women are shown intriguing too – there's no suggestion that they're pining for lost husbands in the trenches, or waiting to be viewed (unlike in Renoir's theatre paintings), or otherwise doing anything besides expecting a good time.
At the theatre, by Prudence Heward, 1928. Image and more discussion here.


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Session Number: 2000 Room: Salon E & F
Presenting: Sara Bufferd; Ahtoy WonPat-Borja; Jessica Levitt; Peter Jensen
All Authors for this paper: Sara Bufferd; Ahtoy WonPat-Borja; Jessica Levitt; Peter Jensen
Presentation Type: poster presentation
Synopsis: The current study uses a randomized control design to evaluate the benefits of using the DISC, an evidence-based, computerized psychiatric interview in 31 school-based health and mental health clinics in New York City. Findings reveal that structural differences between health and mental health clinics may affect the way the DISC enhances their services. In health clinics, the tool may increase self-referrals, intake assessments, and cases referred for psychiatric medication evaluations and individual therapy. Across clinics with the DISC, clinicians reported an increase in assessment visits with youth as well as the number of re-assessments. Further, the DISC was reported to be helpful because it facilitated clinical diagnosis and communication with youth. Therefore, the results have implications for improving assessment strategies used in these settings.
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Session Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Happy 5th of July! Time to talk time travel, and Terminator!
July 5, 2015 in Episodes
Hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend! Tonight Zodwriter, Jackal, and Johnny Alpha had a short panel but one which was spent talking about the Terminator franchise. Zodwriter has seen it in theaters, and liked it a lot.
We went over our usual Round Table news. This was a slow news week so bare with us. No top 10 list by us tonight but we did give out the weekends boxoffice results.


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For about a year I have had terrible problems with short but very frequent network outages between Linux guests running in VirtualBox and the world at large at a customer site. At home it works, but there the connection is lost and then restored every few minutes. Very frustrating. Today I finally found a solution. It appears that it is a known bug that goes way back, see ticket 13839. Sure enough, changing the virtual network card to PCnet-PCI II solved the issue! No more outages.
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You have tried so many practices, techniques, and ways of surrendering. Yet it seems that only one remains. You are being asked to take on the most radical commitment that can be asked of a human being: to receive without condition whatever arises in your present experience in a wild environment of embodied kindness. No matter what thought, feeling, emotion, judgment, or conclusion appears, you will provide a sanctuary for it, a home for it within your heart, trusting in the primordial wisdom of your natural being to guide you home.
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Your somatic-emotional experience is a translucent wisdom-field of raging intelligence and the entire phenomenal world is working with you to reveal your true majesty, and to show you just how whole you already are. Trust in your direct experience for it is emerging out of the unseen world as an expression of pure love.
You need no longer seek some other state of consciousness, for that which is here now is outrageously consecrated with pure spirit. You are being asked to surrender the ancient path of abandoning yourself and to practice a wild intimacy with all things. Stay close, friends, for what is being revealed here is not what it seems.


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'Giant Sloth': Paul Giamatti lends voice to indie 'toon
I'm a longtime fan of Paul Hornschemeier, a cartoonist whose 2003 book, Mother, Come Home, remains one of my all-time favorite graphic novels (and made me shed fat tears).
Over the last decade, Hornschemeier's art and storytelling have really evolved, and his work has been seen everywhere from The Wall Street Journal to IFC's Comedy Bang! Bang!, for which he designed the cool opening credits.
Right now Paul is trying to raise money via Kickstarter for an animated short called Giant Sloth. The cast includes Paul Giamatti and Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon, and it sounds fantastic.
With just a couple days left in his Kickstarter campaign, I talked to Paul about the project:
Why did you decide to take the Kickstarter route with this film?
Hornschemeier: I've been pitching and developing shows for TV for the last several years, and I knew that Giant Sloth was too surreal and overall too introspective/cerebral for a network to say yes to. I think a lot of executives want to say yes to stranger projects like this, but they're controlled by what their marketing people can easily pitch in a sound bite. Kickstarter gives me a way to take this straight to the people who love smarter, weirder work. We cut out that mass-marketing middle man, so the work can stay true to itself.
How much of it has been completed? I know you've been recording the voices …
All the pre-production is done (character designs, storyboards, script). We're recording several of the vocal tracks and we're starting on the main animation. The moment we crossed the goal, I started things rolling on production. I was too excited about the film to wait. That was another reason to bring this to Kickstarter: I'm tired of having meetings about meetings about meetings. Let's make things!
Had you met Paul Giamatti before casting? Considering his history with/interest in comics, it seems he might've already been familiar with your work.
Paul Giamatti being in the film happened pretty organically: I've been working with Paul's production company (Touchy Feely Films) for about a year, developing both live-action and animated shows. Giant Sloth was just something I'd had on the back burner as a one-page treatment, but when I started working with Paul, it occurred to me that he was perfect to play the lead.
I fleshed out the full script, gave it to Paul, and, fortunately, he was really into it. The funny thing is, I think he hadn't seen my comics at all the first time we sat down to get lunch together, last summer. I think my agent had given Paul and his production partner some pilot scripts I'd written for shows I'd created and was shopping around. But rest assured, we talked about plenty of comics at that first lunch.
You've already met your $25,000 goal. What will you do with any money raised on top of that in the next couple days?
I'd love to get to our big stretch goal and make a second film. One of the ways I envisioned the original short is that it could potentially act as a pilot, and that we could keep expanding into more episodes/shorts. The great thing is that everybody in the cast and crew signed on to do more films/episodes of this world if we can get them funded.
Even if we don't reach that ultimate goal, along the way there are smaller animations that I'll be creating (fake TED talks about the museum, animated blooper reels), toys from the museum gift shop, e-books of "museum catalogs." I'm interested in expanding this whole world of Giant Sloth and the nonexistent museum it centers around. I love the idea of having these artifacts from a thing that's completely fictional.
The Kickstarter campaign for Giant Sloth ends June 27 at 10:04 p.m. ET.


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Aside from the unavoidable and embarrassing connection to Cortez, Conquistadors, and the ruthless pillaging and plunder of indigenous peoples any title focused on the search for the fabled city of El Dorado will have, Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado has Spanish Armada-sized problems of its own. But, it also has it's own little niche, and it might be the right adventure game for a small demographic.
Here's the skinny on the plot (minus the pleasantries), which I'm guessing roughly follows that of the movie. The two Spanish protagonists, Tulio and Miguel, are small-time crooks/hoodrats living during the height of the Spanish empire. They're broke, and they're wanted by the law for petty crime, so they're mucking around town looking for cash. They do a little gambling on the side and win an old map from a hustler, which may or may not actually be the map to the fabled city of El Dorado ¿ the ancient city in South America made entirely of gold. They find out Cortez is heading that way with his jolly band of Conquistadors on a ship, so they smuggle themselves onto the ship and hope the map is genuine. Along the way, of course, they run into some adventure and just about get killed -- all in a cute, G-rated sort of way.
The graphics in The Road to El Dorado are usually pretty "blah." Other times, they are spectacular, especially in the cinematics that borrow from the Hollywood movie. I'm going to avoid using the word "mixed-bag," but the visuals are definitely nothing special. Tulio and Miguel are well animated and have funny and creative mannerisms, but they suffer from a highly malignant and aggressive case of the jaggies, plus there's no way to turn up the resolution, and the definition is pathetic. The rendered backgrounds are gorgeous, and in the case of the jungle levels, even breathtaking, but this isn't going above and beyond the requirements for an adventure game. Adventure gamers expect beautiful backgrounds, particularly when they've been spoiled lately by games like The Longest Journey. The adventure genre has never been known for bleeding edge graphics, opting usually for focus on depth of gameplay, so I suppose that can be forgiven.
What can't be forgiven is the voice acting -- it's mind crippling. The dialogue is the sort of stuff you turn up when your roommate is doing calculus homework. The voice acting is also a strong element to my argument that this game is actually intended for children or easily amused adults ¿- everything is spoken in the slow and patronizing tone usually saved for programs like Blue's Clues and Mr. Rogers. An improvement here would have gone miles in the quality of the game.
The gameplay is what you've come to expect from a 3D-style adventure. The control is all character-respective, and keyboard layout it easy to learn. The two characters, Tulio and Miguel, walk around the screen and interact with the items in the scene. When an item can be used/picked up/combined, it flashes when looked at by the characters. The Road to El Dorado isn't a point and click adventure, so the mouse isn't used in actual gameplay.
The heart of an adventure title always lies in its puzzles, and Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado has its fair share of mind bogglers. Unfortunately, it's also got an extra-large helping of mindless, idiotically simple puzzles. Worse, many of the puzzles in a particular area revolve around the same idea. For example, the Spain and Dock areas have no less than three puzzles requiring you to do the same thing: hide and walk around in a wooden barrel. In other instances, the puzzles can be ridiculously difficult. This difficulty is not attributed to their ingenuity or intelligence, but rather their acute lack of intuitiveness or sense. For example, I must have spent over an hour and a half trying to figure out a puzzle on the Spanish galleon that turned out to be bizarrely stupid ¿- and I can promise you that if I didn't have to complete the game for the review, that time would have been spent elsewhere. However, not all puzzles are bad, and the puzzles later on in the game have you running from Jaguars, avoiding bubbling lava, and skirting deadly traps. And hey, you get to crossdress and try to get pulled by the dock warden, which is cool in a scary kind of way.
Like in every one of these animated movies, they meet an animal sidekick ¿- Bibo the Armadillo. Joy! To set this title apart, designers made many of the puzzles two halved ¿- separating Tulio and Miguel and forcing the player to solve each character's puzzles. Interestingly, in some stages the player is allowed to switch freely between control of either Tulio or Miguel, giving cooperation between the two players. The length of the game is short, especially if you're a veteran gamer, but I can't imagine anyone playing through it in a single day ¿- they'd want to take a breather every 30 minutes.
The music itself is a lot like department store Muzak; after a while it just blurs into the background. Which is about all you can hope for with this game. There isn't a lot of variety in the music either ¿- it's mostly just one recycled, though quietly inspiring, synth loop. El Dorado is also a very silent game, with whole areas left with only ambient sounds (birds chirping, wooden planks groaning, etc.). As far as the ambient sounds go, they're decent, but no matter how good they are they can't add to the realism of a game based on an animated cartoon feature.
Aside from the rest, there's obviously no multiplayer, and the game is rock solid when it comes to stability. I didn't experience any technical problems at all. The system requirements are quite low-impact, and still offer passable visuals. Most players will prefer to use a gamepad if they have one. When using a gamepad, the control scheme is very similar to a LucasArts title like Grim Fandango.
I don't think I'm being charitable by saying that it might be enjoyable to the right audience. Unfortunately, or perhaps intentionally, people who are seriously into games are not that audience. So, if it's not for gamers, who is it for? Kids? Maybe. And I might recommend it to people new to the genre, or even PC games in general, but almost any other title shares the ease of use and adds a game that's actually fun to play (such as Monkey Island 4). It's an ideal game for kids because of the complete lack of questionable material, and its simplistic plotline and puzzles, but wouldn't they rather be playing something else? My guess is yes.
We have a saying in "the biz" that goes something like, "Games based on Hollywood licenses rarely turn out to be good, and adventure games based on Hollywood animated series licenses are even worse." Actually, we don't have a saying like that at all, but I guess we do now. And despite the overwhelming truth of that statement, El Dorado seems to just slightly defy it - all things considered. But it still isn't any fun, and it still has lame voice acting...and even though it's a brilliant product tie-in and marketing vehicle that will probably make more money for the publisher than two games that kick ass, it doesn't mean you have to buy into it. Try Monkey Island 4 instead.
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Today I'm participating in the Nissa book tour, organized by ATOMR Tours. I'm not the only one, so click here to see the full schedule. As part of the tour I've got to read Nissa by Bethany Lopez and review it. ATOMR Tours and Bethany Lopez are also giving away some very fun goodies in honor of its release!!! URL for the tour schedule:
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To complicate matters Nissa experiences all the signs that she's met the being fated for her. This impossibility distracts her from her purpose. After all, fairies and humans aren't meant for each other. How can her heart believe otherwise? Can Nissa successfully complete her first assignment as a Fairy Godmother? Will the fates allow Nissa and Levi to be together? And even if they do, will Levi believe Nissa once she reveals the truth?
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Review:This pretty much sums up the entire story. Nissa is only 155 pages long, so it's a very fast read. The story and the characters are all so sweet they nearly stick to your teeth. It is all pretty straight forward. No time for descriptions, there is a whole lot of dialogue and no major conflicts or high emotions.
"Short, sweet, and to the point."
Definitely Young Adult, because even though Nissa is 900 years old she's pretty much like every 18 year old maybe just a bit more mature. When she is send to do her first mission, helping a bullied girl, she would never have expected to meet her fated. There is only one problem, he's human and humans and fairies don't mix that well.
"You make me feel so many things, Nissa. I don't know what I'm going to do with you."Slowly she gets to know Levi better and well the guy is amazing and just so nice, for example he's studying Environmental Studies (out to save the planet and all that). The guy couldn't be more perfect for her. But when the end of her assignment draws nearer, Nissa will have to make a choice, will she go back to the forest and her family or will she stay with Levi?
Nissa is a very fun and quick read for in between books. It's not too heavy, not a lot of drama, even got a bit of a fairytale feeling about it. There isn't even like one evil character present, everyone is just so good and nice, a bit too much for me, but I just go with the flow!
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New Research: Deep-Sea Skate Eggs Found Near Hydrothermal Vents
In 2015, a team of scientists led by the Charles Darwin Research Station and the University of Rhode Island aboard E/V Nautilus made a surprising discovery while exploring the seafloor northwest of the Galapagos Islands. Groups of skate egg cases were observed near hydrothermal vents emitting volcanically-heated fluids!
Researchers believe the warmer water helps to incubate and speed development of the embryos--the first time this behavior has been observed in marine animals. The Bathyraja spinosissima, commonly known as Pacific white skate, is a relative of sharks and rays.
Analyzing video surveys and specimens collected using ROV Hercules, the researchers have just published their findings in Scientific Reports.
The team found over 100 palm-sized skate egg cases among volcanic lava beds, and were able to collect several with ROV Hercules' robotic arm. DNA analysis revealed the distinctive horned cases belonged to the skate species Bathyraja spinosissima, commonly known as the Pacific white skate.
Analyzing video surveys taken by ROVs Hercules and Argus, the research team also determined that most egg cases were placed closest to "black smoker" chimneys spewing superheated chemical fluids--one of the hottest types of seafloor vents. As one of the deepest living skate species, this species is rarely seen but has been documented from the Galapagos Islands to the Pacific Northwest.
Learn more about these eggs-cellent new findings from the research team led by Pelayo Salinas-de-León, Brennan Phillips, David Ebert, Mahmood Shivji, Florencia Cerutti-Pereyra, Cassandra Ruck, Charles R. Fisher and Leigh Marsh.
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Tiananmen 25: Background Reading
As we mark the 25th anniversary of the 1989 protest movement in China, and the subsequent military crackdown, CDT editors have put together a list of books to provide more in-depth context and analyses of the movement, the political decision to use force, and the long-term repercussions for Chinese society. This list is by no means comprehensive but provides many firsthand accounts from both protesters and members of the political elite, which together present a more complete picture of the events of the spring of 1989.
Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang (2009)
The Washington Post reviews this posthumously published memoir by then Party Secretary, who was expelled from the Party and put under house arrest during the protests, where he stayed until his death in 2005:
Now, in "Prisoner of the State," a book timed to appear precisely 20 years since his purge, Zhao speaks from beyond the grave. He flouts the unspoken rule against public blame of others of the group. He skewers Li Peng, Li Xiannian, Yao Yilin, Deng Liqun, Hu Qiaomu and Wang Zhen repeatedly and by name. He complains that the meeting at which martial law was decided was in violation of the Party Charter because he, the general secretary, should have chaired any such meeting but was not even notified of it.
The book is based on about 30 audiotapes he discreetly recorded at home during 1999 and 2000. Clips from the tapes are to be released simultaneously with the book, and a Chinese-language transcription is supposed to appear around the same time. The material is largely consistent with what is already known from the "The Tiananmen Papers," an unauthorized compilation of government documents published in 2001, and from "Captive Conversations," a Chinese-language record of conversations between Zhao and his friend Zong Fengming, published in 2007. But the up-close-and-personal tone of the present book stands out.
Read more about the book via CDT.
The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against Their Own People-In Their Own Words, by Zhang Liang, Andrew J. Nathan, Perry Link and Orville Schell (2001).
For the first time ever, reports and minutes have surfaced that provide a revealing and potentially explosive view of decision-making at the highest levels of the government and party in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The materials paint a vivid picture of the battles between hard-liners and reformers on how to handle the student protests that swept China in the spring of 1989. The protests were ultimately ended by force, including the bloody clearing of Beijing streets by troops using live ammunition. The tragic event was one of the most important in the history of communist China, and its consequences are still being felt.
Read Chapter One of the book via the New York Times.
Cries for Democracy: Writings and Speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement by Han Minzhu (1990).
From Princeton University Press:
"Han Minzhu" and her assistant editor, "Hua Sheng," both writing under pseudonyms to protect their identities, present a rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement–flyers, "big-character" posters, "small-character" posters, handbills, poems, articles from nonofficial newspapers and journals, government statements, and transcriptions of tapes. Linked by a commentary setting the documents in the context of the movement's history and of Chinese social and political life, these expressions–indeed, cries–of the participants in the passionate demonstrations in Beijing and other Chinese cities powerfully convey the atmosphere of this extraordinary protest. In the face of the ensuing campaign of intimidation and repression in China, this book enables Western readers to see through the eyes of Chinese students, intellectuals, workers, and other citizens the realities behind the reports and visual images that flooded the media during the spring of 1989.
Neither Gods Nor Emperors : Student and the Struggle for Democracy in China, by Craig Calhoun (1994)
From the book's description on Powells.com:
"We want neither gods nor emperors", went the words from the Chinese version of The Internationale. Students sang the old socialist song as they gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in the Spring of 1989. Craig Calhoun, a sociologist who witnessed the monumental event, offers a vivid, carefully crafted analysis of the student movement, its complex leadership, its eventual suppression, and its continuing legacy.
Black Hands of Beijing: Lives of Defiance in China's Democracy Movement, George Black and Robin Munro (1993)
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This is a largely descriptive account of the lives of three of the leaders of the Chinese democracy movement who were jailed for their participation in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The authors provide some limited new sources of understanding of the origins and course of the democracy movement and help to place it in a meaningful analytical context.
See also "Who Died in Beijing, and Why," by Robin Munro in The Nation (1990).
Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement, Timothy Brook (1992)
Eyewitness reports, hospital records and student documents buttress this authoritative study of the birth, development and sudden death of the 1989 Democracy movement in China. The book's centerpiece is a detailed reconstruction of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 3 and 4, 1989. Brook explains the catalytic effect of General Secretary Hu Yaobang's death, defines the rationale behind the student hunger strikes and the goverment's imposition of martial law, and describes the styrofoam statue of the Goddess of Democracy as a "brilliant gesture" on the students' part. Brook establishes that between two and three thousand citizzens of Beijing were slaughtered by the People's Army, which was acting on orders from the highest civilian authority (i.e., Deng Xiaoping), and that at one point China was on the brink of civil war as army units threatened to turn against one another. Brook has uncovered detailed material revealing how government propagandists attempted to whitewash the bloody events of Tiananmen Square even as the long process of arrests and repression began. Brook is associate professor of history at the University of Toronto.
Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China (Palgrave Studies in Oral History), by Rowena Xiaoqing He and Perry Link (2014)
From the book's description on Powells.com:
This moving oral history interweaves He's own experiences with the accounts of three student leaders exiled from China. Here, in their own words, they describe their childhoods during Mao's Cultural Revolution, their political activism, the bitter disappointments of 1989, and the profound contradictions and challenges they face as exiles. Variously labeled as heroes, victims, and traitors in the years after Tiananmen, these individuals tell difficult stories of thwarted ideals and disconnection that nonetheless embody the hope for a freer China and a more just world.
Read more about the book from CDT.
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, by Louisa Lim (2014)
From the book's description on Powells.com:
In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR's award-winning China correspondent Louisa Lim offers a new account of this seminal event, detailing the enormous impact the tragedy had on China and the reverberations that followed. Interweaving portraits of eight individuals whose lives have been shaped by the events of June 4–including a soldier who took part in the suppression, a diplomat at the scene, a student involved in the protest and a young student in China today–Lim provides a window into Tiananmen Sqaure unlike anything written before. Based in Beijing, Lim conducted hours of first-hand interviews and on-the-ground research into materials that have only recently come to light. With fluid prose and an eye for detail, she presentsTiananmen from the perspective of the survivors and student leaders; discusses the quarter-century campaign on the part of Chinese officials to control memory of the event; and considers the legacy of Tiananmen in China today.
Read more about the book via CDT.
Tiananmen and After, Foreign Affairs (2014):
Tiananmen and After spans the nearly twenty-five year period since the standoff between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), then led by Deng Xiaoping, and student protesters, which resulted in the death of hundreds of civilians. The nineteen articles range from real-time analysis of the events that fateful June, to recent assessments of the protests' long-term impact, to China's ascension as a geopolitical and economic superpower, to what the future holds. The collection includes the landmark "Tiananmen Papers," originally published in 2001 in Foreign Affairs, which exposed for the first time leaked CCP documents of the secret debate inside the party over whether to use violence against its own citizens.


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ROCKLAND, MAINE—Who knew that fog could make you squint? I pull sunglasses from my duffel bag, only to see them cloud up faster than windows at the laundromat. I'm discovering the natural conundrums of coastal Maine aboard the schooner Victory Chimes.
One moment the mist is so thick I can't spot seagulls until they're nearly in my hair; the next, the air is so crystalline I swear I spy Ireland on the horizon. In one harbour, we're in a clutch of ships as thick as the Spanish Armada. Round the point, however, and the Victory Chimes seems the only set of sails in New England.
Zooming powerboats are certainly quicker and executive yachts more agile, but no one—absolutely no one—plying the coast of Maine is more regal than the three-masted dowager empress, Victory Chimes.
The largest passenger sailing vessel under the U.S. flag is tacking into the wind for her 113th season, a floating National Historic Landmark. I've chosen her because she's a magnificent anachronism from 1900, truly the last of her breed—the last Class A American-made tall ship still sailing.
This may be my ultimate leisure cruise; no rules, no schedule, no itinerary. If I need to know where the ship will anchor at 6.30 p.m. Thursday, I need to book another berth.
"We go with what Mother Nature sends us—I don't know where we're going till we get there," says Capt. Richard "Kip" Files, a vivacious skipper quick with a joke or a palm on the shoulder. As soon as I hear this, I take off my watch, wrap it in socks and stow it in my duffel. Clearly, I won't need it until I fly home.
Capt. Files' wind-borne laissez-faire approach may take the Victory Chimes northwest into the protected cove of Bucks Harbor, or due east to dainty Swans Island. The crew will be as surprised as I am.
Passengers with a sense of mission can plot their progress on the chart table by the mizzenmast; others remain contentedly clueless. Here are firs, there are gulls, this is the sea—what else is there to know?
I can't go wrong with such luxuriously pointless sailing, because this coastal stretch of the Pine Tree state doesn't harbour one ugly village or blighted port. In any direction it's misty, spruce-rimmed islands, winking lighthouses and triangles of sail.
As we set off, I collect my first lighthouse, the endearing little Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, white on one side, red on the other. I treasure my first lighthouse, like a charm on a bracelet, and can't wait to add more.
I quickly get my wish with the 1858 Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, clinging to its cliff in Acadia National Park, and the red-roofed Curtis Island Lighthouse off Camden.
Four buildings make up the Swans Island lighthouse, and we get to sit on the light keeper's porch. The keeper's 1872 house is restored to the 1930s, and I can almost hear the Chandler kids, all 11 of them, tearing through the little wooden home.
We come upon lighthouses, humpback whales, porpoises, osprey and bald eagles as we tack among 2,000 of Maine's islands. Within 50 kilometres of shore, we explore little fishing villages and uninhabited isles, all set in deep, cold water.
This is unhurried island-hopping—"we know the direction but not the destination," our captain says—so each night we drop anchor in a new harbour and watch the world drift by. Over lobster stew and ship-baked rolls, we relive the wonders of the day.
It seems that as soon as we slipped on our deck shoes, we also slipped into the ship's "anywhere the wind blows" attitude. From computer programmers to teachers to veterinarians, everyone is eager to help hoist the sails and coil the ropes. Then, to toast our nautical achievement, we're equally ready to hoist a longneck bottle of Sea Dog Windjammer ale as the sun rises over the yardarm.
Most of the guests are North American, but the Victory Chimes welcomes many passengers from Europe and other parts of the world. Ages range from 8 or 9 to passengers in their 80s.
Everyone has a mindset of adventure, eager to explore a coast that hasn't changed much in 165 years. We stay outside most of the day, and some of us even sleep on deck. Not that we don't love our little cabins, tidy with built-in bunks and toy sinks, but this water, this air and this sky, day-bright or night-starred, are all just too alluring.
The Victory Chimes, a spry 113 herself, may be the perfect match for such adventure. It takes little imagination to climb onto her bow, perch before the staysail, gaze out over the rigging and look back to generations of old mariners before me.
For this is a true sailing ship, three masts to the wind and not an engine in sight. As she has since she left a Delaware shipyard in 1900, the schooner relies on a yawl boat to propel her when the wind drops and to guide her into dock.
Christened Edwin & Maud for the original captain's children, the 170-foot schooner was built to work, carrying lumber and general cargo from the Carolinas or Baltimore to New York. She laboured into her mid-40s, then shifted from cargo to passengers for nine years in the Chesapeake Bay.
She came north as a passenger vessel in 1954, where Capt. Frederick Guild christened her Victory Chimes after a Canadian schooner, and sailed the coast of Maine for 30 years as the only three-masted schooner in the state's windjammer fleet.
After a brief stint in the Domino Pizza corporate fleet, the Victory Chimes was destined to end her days as a restaurant in Japan until Capt. Files, his partner Capt. Paul DeGaeta and their wives jumped in to buy her and keep her sailing free.
"Thank you for coming on board," Capt. Files tells us over a breakfast of Maine blueberry pancakes. "You are the reason she is still going, because if you don't want her, nobody does. Nobody else wants to take her on as a sailing vessel, and even the museums don't want her, because they fear she's too big. So you keep her going, and she appreciates it."
Victory Chimes is the last of the low, bargey "ram" ships built at the turn of the last century. At the start of each season, Capt. Files' young crew scrapes and paints and polishes for two full months to maintain her ageless grace.
At nightly moorings along the coast, she towers over all the modern vessels roaring by to admire her lines. By day, crews of other vintage schooners may tease her stately progress as they clip more quickly into the wind, but no one derides her regal standing.
Of course, a renovated cargo ship this old is not the Queen Mary 2. Cabins are tight, amenities are scarce, and the on-deck heads and showers are shared. Life onboard is thoroughly informal.
"This is more like camping than a luxury cruise," Capt. Files says.
Meals, too, are family-style free-for-alls, served in the low-ceilinged main saloon. In the tiny galley, Cook Pam Sheridan brings forth the bounty of Maine—the blueberry pancakes, lobsters and rhubarb pies that passengers can't wait to pack on as personal ballast. Just over our heads, the ship's massive pine beams, lacquered to a high gloss, gleam in the light from swaying brass lanterns.
Dessert is up on deck, cake or pie accompanied by the gentle rock of a schooner at anchor. Mother Nature serves the nightcap, an intoxicating sunset streaking opalescent peach and teal over the masts.
Victory Chimes, the largest passenger sailing vessel under the U.S flag, is 132 feet (40.2 meters) on deck and 170 feet (51.8 meters) from bow spit to spar length. She carries a maximum of 40 passengers in 22 cabins, plus nine crew and her captain.
The Maine windjamming life is casual and relatively unstructured, especially onboard the Victory Chimes, which sails at the pleasure of Mother Nature and her winds. She explores some of the 2,000 islands from Booth Bay Harbor to Bar Harbor, Maine, and as far as 30 miles off the coast. Guests are invited to take out the kayaks and rowboats, or even swim in the cold Maine waters.
GOING June has the longest days, July and August the warmest temperatures. September, which still has fairly warm water, often has the best winds.
WEARING Think camping for this trip: shorts and long trousers, rubber-soled shoes, windbreaker jackets, backpacks for shore excursions, all tucked inside soft-sided luggage. Binoculars and a sketchpad are helpful. All radios need headphones so guests can enjoy the quiet. The crew will provide mosquito repellent as needed.
DINING Everyone shares breakfast and dinner below deck in the main saloon; lunch is a fresh-air buffet on deck. Passengers are invited to bring their own beverages on board; there is no bar. Some guests bring along their instruments, too, for sing-alongs on deck. Capt. Files gives history talks about the coast as the Victory Chimes pulls into a particular harbour.
PAYING Voyages are either four days or five and one-half, from Sunday night to Saturday. Victory Chimes cruises start at $575 per person. Each season, the Victory Chimes runs special themed cruises: Storytelling/Humor with Gary Crocker, $800, July 14-18; Irish Music Cruise, $800, July 24-28; and Geology Cruise, $800, Aug.16-20.
The Victory Chimes offers several packages for lodging: Camden Inn and Cruise Package and Rockland Land and Sea Package. The Air and Sea Package assists with transportation to and from the dock in Rockland. www.victorychimes.com
MAINE WINDJAMMER ASSOCIATION Victory Chimes is a member of a 13-ship consortium, the Maine Windjammer Association of Blue Hill, Maine, which sails among the state's islands from late May to mid-October. The windjammer fleet sails from the ports of Rockland, Rockport and Camden, located in the mid-coast region of Maine, convenient to the Bangor and Portland Airports.
Victory Chimes is the largest windjammer in the fleet, with 40 guests; the Timberwind, the smallest with 20. Like the Victory Chimes, all the boats offer theme cruises, such as winetasting, knitting, lighthouses, seamanship and astronomy.
The Maine Windjammers are some of the last vestiges of the once-great American schooner fleet. Yankees invented the schooner in the 1700s, fast boats easily handled by a small crew. They transported granite, ice and other cargo along the Maine coast and around the world.
Supplanted by railroads, many of the schooners were left to rot on the shore. It was a tragedy to a Maine artist named Frank Swift, who bought a few hulks in the 1940s, cleaned out the cargo holds, hung a curtain down the middle—one side for women and one for men—and invited guests aboard. The windjamming business grew over the decades until the independent owner/operators formed the Maine Windjammer Association in 1977.
MORE INFORMATION Victory Chimes: www.victorychimes.com ; (800) 745-5651. The Maine Windjammer Association; www.sailmainecoast.com ; (800) 807-9463 . Rockland, Maine, bills itself as "The Windjammer Capital of the World"; www.therealmaine.com . Maine: www.visitmaine.com .


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Glitter Pie Art Studio: Art Box in a Box
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With Glitter Pie, everything is packaged in a cute container inspired by a pie box. Inside you'll find scissors, sequins, modge podge, patterned paper, yarn, lace and more. Glitter Pie was created by art educator Tiffany Pratt, who has inspired students from age 2-102 with her curriculum emphasizing process over product. The range of textures and colors will appeal to the youngest child and the potential for creativity exploration will keep older children engaged.
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These stainless steel whiskey cubes bring new meaning to the work chill. This sleek version of ice puts the chill in your drink without the melted water. Simply freeze and drop them into your favorite whiskey, wine, or cocktail. These sophisticated cocktail cubes chill your drink without diluting the taste.


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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - When Amy Finley moved to France to fulfill a long-held dream of traveling through the nation's venerable culinary regions in pursuit of vanishing traditional cuisine, she expected to learn only about food.
But she also gained valuable lessons about life that helped her recommit to a shaky marriage.
"I had very strong feelings about how can people be like this, how can they be passive about letting something as beautiful as this incredible food culture crumble," Finley, who chronicled her adventures in "How to Eat a Small Country," said in a telephone interview from her home in California.
"I realized that was because it was so wrapped up in my own feelings about my marriage, and ways that we had and hadn't protected it over time, and how we wanted to make it stronger."
A long-term cook who went to culinary school in France and married a Frenchman, with whom she had two children, Finley sent an audition tape to Food Network's "The Next Food Network Star" on a whim and ended up hosting a show called "The Gourmet Next Door," hoping to bring families closer through food.
Ironically, her burgeoning television career put strains on her own marriage, taking Finley and her husband to the brink of divorce. Eventually, in desperation, they moved to France to try to work things out.
Once there, they travelled the country, sampling fragrant bouillabaisse in Marseilles, hearty cassoulet in Carcassone, and exotic dishes such as "tripoux" — sheep's feet braised and shredded, mixed with ham, and tied into the sheep's stomach to be slowly braised again, then sliced and fried.
The journey led to a surprising discovery: as more people opt for convenience, French home cooking may be under threat.
"Whether you're in France or you're here, life is pretty similar. We've got families, we've got jobs, hobbies, friends, other things we'd like to invest our time in," she said.
"It seems like not a big deal to take that little shortcut and it's not necessarily a big deal until you've got some significant proportion of the population doing that, and you realize, within one generation we've forgotten how to cook."
Finley thought it would be especially unfortunate for France, the home of haute cuisine, to lose this.
In particular, she admired techniques used through centuries for making do with whatever was on hand, coming up with meals out of bits and pieces, or slow-cooking tough meat until tender.
"You might approach everything with the attitude that everything is disposable, I only want the best, the nicest cut. But I think that life demands that we have that ability to be flexible and a little more humble," she said.
"Those are the ideas that kept reinforcing themselves for me — that the skills I needed to be a better partner inside my marriage were a lot of the same skills I got out of cooking. There's a lot of marriage that requires making do."
No matter where you are, Finley came to believe, preparing a meal each night whether you want to or not also teaches valuable things about problem-solving — especially true if people don't cook that often.
"To have to do that over and over again, (is) practicing that even though it's hard, you can't just sit and stare at the monolith, you have to take it one piece at a time and just work your way over it," she said.
"It's exactly the same way we approach lots of other problems in our lives. It's never easy to figure out where to start but at least starting gets you closer to the change that you think you would like."
Reporting by Elaine Lies, editing by Paul Casciato


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Energy has been identified by the United Nations Statistics Division as a priority area for implementation of the SEEA. SEEA-Energy, a SEEA 'sub-system', is under development to provide compilers and analysts with agreed concepts, definitions, classifications, tables, and accounts for energy and energy-related air emission accounts.
SEEA-Energy expands and elaborates on guidance on accounting included in the International Recommendations for Energy Statistics (IRES). IRES, developed by UNSD in cooperation with the Oslo Group on Energy Statistics and the Intersecretariat Working Group on Energy Statistics, provides a set of international recommendations for the collection, compilation and dissemination of energy statistics. IRES was adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission at its 42nd session in 2011.
For energy indicators and statistics visit the Industrial and Energy Statistics Section of UNSD.


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This course teaches students how to analyse logs effectively using tools already available to you. The students will be taught how to analyse logs using Python, Powershell and Bash. Using real world examples, you will see how suspicious activity can be inferred from the logs by looking at various parameters.
Students will be introduced to analysis of Apache, Cisco, IIS and Windows event logs.
A non exhaustive list of topics covered:
- Analysing Cisco and Apache logs using Linux Commands
- Using cat and grep to get important information
- How to use awk to analyse logs
- Using sed, sort and uniq to extract important metrics
- Using Python for Log Analysis
- Basics of Python
- Reading logs using Python
- Parsing read logs.
- Utilising Powershell for Windows Log Analysis
- Basics of Powershell
- Dumping Event Logs with Powershell
- Log Analysis with Powershell
- Intrusion Analysis using Powershell
- Looking for suspicious data in logs
- Searching for important keywords in event logs
Log File Analysis Course Videos
Joe McCray
Joe McCray, the CEO of Strategic Security is an Air Force Veteran and has been involved with cybersecurity for over 10 years. Joe has been involved in over 150 very high level pentesting assessments and utilizes his "real world hacking accomplishments" to ensure his clients and students obtain effective knowledge transfer.
His extensive experience and deep knowledge, mixed with his comedic style has lead Joe to be one of the most highly sought after speaking experts in the industry. Joe often makes speaking appearances and gives seminars at major events in the security community such as Black Hat, DEFCON, BruCon, Hacker Halted, Hacktivity and more.
Strategic Security, Inc. an IT Security consulting firm that provides in-depth technical security assessments of your network, web application, and regulatory compliance gap analysis.


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APM specialises in professional cleaning services for residential, commercial, and industrial properties in the Melbourne metropolitan areas. We provide a high standard of service when it comes to all facets of the Carpet, Tile & Grout/Hard Floor, and Upholstery industry.
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APM is a specialized, full-service Cleaning Services Melbourne company that takes over projects of all scales, including residential, commercial, and industrial properties in the Melbourne region. We provide a high-quality service via a team of well-qualified and experienced staff, and our full-service covers tiles/grout, carpets, facets, hard floors, and much more. Our Office Cleaning Services Melbourne will keep your office space SPOTLESS, giving a positive first impression to the entire world. Every service is clearly explained to you individually in below sections!
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1/3 cup sliced almonds
1 pound Carrot sliced
1 (12-ounce) bag broccoli florets (about 6 cups)
1 tablespoon butter
1/4 cup finely chopped shallots
1/2 cup Chicken broth fat free, sodium free
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Preheat oven to 350°. Spread almonds in a single layer in a shallow pan. Bake at 350° for 7 minutes or until lightly browned and fragrant, stirring occasionally. Cool completely, and set aside. Place carrots in a large saucepan of boiling water; cook 3 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon. Plunge into ice water, and drain. Place broccoli in boiling water; cook 2 minutes. Drain and plunge into ice water; drain. Melt the butter in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the shallots; sauté 2 minutes or until tender. Reduce heat to medium. Add carrots, broccoli, Homemade Turkey Stock, salt, and pepper; cover and cook 6 minutes or until carrots and broccoli are crisp-tender. Sprinkle with almonds. Serve immediately.
Nutritional Information
- Calories: 54 (43% from fat)
- Fat: 2.6g (sat 0.7g,mono 1.1g,poly 0.4g)
- Protein: 2.5g
- Carbohydrate: 6.3g
- Fiber: 2.3g
- Cholesterol: 5mg
- Iron: 0.6mg
- Sodium: 130mg
- Calcium: 36mg


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Marr: 120 players invited to NHL Scouting Combineby Mike G. Morreale
Once NHL Central Scouting finalizes the rankings for the top 2014 NHL Draft-eligible North American prospects, the scouting staff will begin making preparations for the NHL Scouting Combine, which will be held May 25-31 in Toronto.
NHL Director of Central Scouting Dan Marr confirmed for NHL.com that 120 players, including North American and international skaters and goalies, have been invited to the Combine this year. The 2013 Combine had the top 101 players from North America and Europe.
All NHL teams will have the opportunity for 1-on-1 interviews with the invited prospects between May 26 and May 30. The medical examinations of each player will take place May 30 and fitness testing will be May 31.
Central Scouting's final meeting to nail down the final rankings of the top North American prospects continues Thursday through Tuesday in Toronto. It's a slow and arduous process, but that's done purposely so that no one is missed and players are ranked in their proper slots.


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Since we are migrating our website to a new platform, we will no longer be updating this earlier version our site. Please visit our Archon database for online guide descriptions. In early 2018, look for our new site, currently under construction, linked in the BGC Archives section on the Library and Archives page. (12/11/2017)
Collection 487
[April 25, 2007]
Feldi, Kathryn Marie Hess; 1922-2015
Interview; 1993
Restrictions: None
Full name: Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi
Birth date: February 27, 1922
Death date: February 14, 2015
Parents: Charles Edward and Laura Anna Danzizen (sp?) Hess, missionaries to Tanganyika (now Tanzania)
Siblings: One sister, Anna M. Hess (Mrs. Gene C. Lander)
Marital Status: 1957 married Santo J. Feldi
Children: Two daughters
Denomination: Reformed Church of America
Rift Valley Academy - High School
1939-1943 BA, 1943, Wheaton College
1943-1947 MD, 1947, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Other significant information: A significant event in her life was hearing an address by Mrs.
J.W. Guilding, a survivor of the sinking of the Zamzam, an Egyptian cargo ship transporting
missionaries across the Atlantic to Africa, when it was attacked by the German naval vessel Atlantis during
World War II.
Scope and Content
Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 7, 1993, at the Billy Graham Center Archives. The events described in the interview cover the time period 1922-1963.
T1 ( 65 minutes). Parents (mother's conversion at Billy Sunday meeting, father's conversion, Bible and missionary training, pastorate), recollections of Wheaton College as a child, father's starting a church in Rhode Island, departure for Africa, impressions of Wheaton, faculty (Paul Wright), impact of Dr. Edman's chapel messages: "It's always too soon to quit" and on angels, ability to recall students' names, impact of Evan Welsh, living with the Mortimer Lane family, the Lane's contribution to the Brethren Assembly (became Bethany Chapel), Billy Graham preaching at the United Gospel Tabernacle, Alexander Grigolia teaching anthropology, more on Graham, Foreign Missions Fellowship, FMF speakers (T.J. Bach, Mrs. J.W. Guilding who was survivor of the Zamzam sinking), Zamzam incident (Barnett loss of medical equipment), the 1943 revival (classmates who became missionaries), spiritual life at Wheaton and perceived changes/constants, academic life and professors Roger Voskuyl (taught non-secret information learned during Manhattan Project research) and Dr. Taylor, Physics Society, transition to Wheaton helped by Rift Valley Academy environment, literary societies, membership in the Aeolian Literary Society, impact of Pearl Harbor attack on the College, strengths and growth of Wheaton College, family legacy of Wheaton's impact and service to the Lord
The materials in this collection were given to the Archives of the Billy Graham Center by Kathryn Feldi in May 1993.
Accession: 93-61
July 24, 2000
Janyce H. Nasgowitz
T1 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, 65 minutes, one side only. Interview of Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi by
Robert Shuster on May 7, 1993, at the Billy Graham Center Archives.


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T.H. Watkins' book On the Shore of the Sundown Sea, published by the Sierra Club, tells of the T.H.'s experience camping with his big family at Salt Creek, exploring the southern Orange County coastline during the post WWII years to the passage of Proposition 20 in 1972.
I was introduced to T.H. Watkins' book by reading writing excerpts in Orange County. A Literary Field Guide. This compendium of poems and samples, published by Heyday Books, was compiled by Lisa Alvarez and Andrew Tonkovich and a complete review is available at The Daily Pilot.
Writings are organized by Orange County regions: Anaheim, Irvine, Santa Ana and Orange, Santa Ana Mountains and Canyons, and the Flatlands, and the Coast and Beach Towns. T.H. Watkins' prologue is one of about twenty chapters and verse in Orange County each describing sandy beaches, surfing, and driving the Coast Highway.
In a 1939 eight-passenger Buick, named the Yacht, the Watkins family loaded up "six kids, two parents, one dog, camping gear, clothing, and a three-week supply of food and drove the seventy miles between the little town of Colton and the coast." The drive on the two-lane highway was a southern California "not yet coalesced like some particularly virulent biological culture, and its air was not fouled by what Wallace Stegner called the "taint of technology". The family passed through orange groves, dairy pastures, vineyards, and alfalfa fields. "Two miles dead west of the village of San Juan Capistrano, we would come to the Coast Highway and a decision: should we drive five miles to the south for San Clemente State Park, simply cross the highway for Doheny Beach State Park, or turn north for Salt Creek Beach? The last lacked amenities, but the campsites were on the beach, and anyone could choose their camp spot as there were no assigned sites.
From these camp trips a connection to California's coast drew T.H. to every cove and stretch of the coast road. He supported Proposition 20 and considered its commission, the create of the Coastal Commission, to be a "profound shift … from mindless worship of the growth ethic" to an ecological movement. In T.H's time he saw planners and developers "had put wealthy tacky-tacky on the bluffs of Salt Creek Beach, and laid a parking lot for boats in the cove below Dana Point, and the citizens of Big Sur forced Caltrans "from jamming a multilane freeway through the ancient mountains that meet the sea." He mentions San Mateo county coast residents fight against Caltrans and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers "decided that the area could support a population in excess of one hundred thousand people" … and laid plans to build a dam on Pescadero Creek with an expanded highway system to accommodate "these nonexistent thousands of people."
On the Shore of the Sundown Sea ends with T.H. musing about freedom and illusion. "Landwreckers" have been held back, but for how long is the question?
Earl Thollander, the artist who provided us the Back Roads books, drew the pictures for On the Shore of the Sundown Sea.
How to buy:
Orange County. A Literary Field Guide site. or at Heyday. or Amazon.
If you see this guy cycling the coast, be nice. This is Marcus, 24 years old, a fellow Scorpio from Switzerland. Marcus has rode that bike from Switzerland, through Africa, Argentina, and most recently from Las Vegas to San Diego and up the coast to where we found him yesterday. That's a Swiss flag flying at the tail of his bike.
Caltrans workers informed Marcus that he could not travel north on Highway 1 all the way through Big Sur, this conversation was at Mud Creek Slide. We came through just after this discussion and our buddy David, who drives a truck for Winsor told us, "Someone needs to explain to that guy!" So we stopped at our turn home and Marcus stopped too as he saw us and he asked, "Why can't I travel on this road?"
We explained about Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge.
Marcus explained that he and his bike forded rivers in Africa, climbed mountains in Argentina, and again he asked, "So why can't I get around this bridge?"
And we explained that the bridge is guarded by CHP. Maybe he could do a 1 a.m. attempt to cross, maybe he could take an old dirt road down into the State Park and wade through mud and creek, but even there the Park Rangers will cite him if they see him.
We asked if he wanted a beer, he declined.
In the end, we told him to do what he wants, it's his adventure, but we also described Nacimiento Ferguson Road, that it too is Closed, but perhaps he could use it as an outlet over to 101 then River Road to return to the coast. Being a mom, I also told him that it will be very cold tonight and that he should ensure that he camps somewhere warm. He assured me that he's prepared.
So be nice to Marcus if you see him. He's courageous and has the enthusiasm of youth!
You're saturated with online political posts, memes, and tweets. Or you're stuck inside because of rain and no swell. Or both. Now's a good time to read a book. Jeff McElroy's short stories, Californios and Californios 2 will occupy your mind, immersing you in waves of sketchy situations and native splendor.
I've wanted to review this two-volume collection, Californios published in 2012 and Californios 2 in 2015, except I've been stymied by the author's copyright instructions: "All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever including Internet usage, without written permission of the author." No part. Whatsoever. Including Internet.
As you've read in previous book reviews here on The Coast Road, I enjoy sharing passages from the books to get you fired up to buy and enjoy the read. I could write Jeff and ask permission for a few outtakes, but it's not that important for this little blog. Out of respect for his copyright, I'll not share Jeff's writing, which I assure you, his writing is wonderful.
I'll tell you that his stories will remove you from this overcharged political world and fill your head with words such as Rincon, goofyfoot, right-handers, Sandspit, Humqaq, and you will share beers at Lee's parking lot campfire out at Emma Wood, and, in another story, you will listen to Chumash history at Shimilaqsh. You'll be so absorbed reading Californios, your mind will refresh and you'll reconnect with your stoke.
You must take my word for it, both Californios and Californios 2 are worth your purchase and reading time.
Buy direct from Pierpont Press. Only $17.00 each.
If you don't want to mail check or cash, buy via Amazon: Californios and Californios 2.
Almost four years ago I enthusiastically reviewed Elizabeth C. Ward's Coast Highway 1 as "a fairly essential Coast Road Read," and now Ms. Ward returns with another must-read for California coast enthusiasts or for anyone who enjoys a good mystery: Death in a California Landscape.
Set in Laguna Beach, Ms. Ward gracefully depicts the type of people who characterize Laguna: "Everyone who'd lived in town more than a dozen years knew Millicent. They called to offer help or stammer out their grief. They all expressed shock and disbelief. The Laguna family, that great, motley collection of eccentrics and artistic sensibilities, beach lovers, wildlife activists, gay, straight, old, young, every political philosophy on the map, con artist, best selling novelists in view houses, unsold poets living out their Waldens in the canyon, physicist and feng shui counselor shacked up together, the larger than life egos; this whole sprawling, prickery, generous, opinionated, cantankerous Laguna family was coming together to stand by one of their own."
The callers phoned Jake Martin, the same Jake Martin from Ms. Ward's Coast Highway 1, returning as our noir narrator and unintentional private eye. Jake's dear friend Millicent is found shot to death. Detective Swann suspects foul play, maybe even suspects Jake. Jake knows that Millicent, albeit in her eighties was full of life and not planning to die. Jake senses murder, but why and by who?
Millicent was the last living member of the original California plein air artists who painted the landscape that is now covered with cities sprawling across the hills and along the coast. Could the killer be one of those who make their fortunes off subdivisions and model home communities? The art museum curator informs Jake, "Developers are the largest collectors. They seem to feel that it is their responsibility to preserve the vision of the land as it was before they sliced it up and built malls and housing tracts on top of it. One would think they'd want to get rid of the evidence of what it was before they ruined it."
To solve the mystery in Death in a California Landscape we travel with Jake Martin up and down the California coast from Laguna Canyon to Crystal Cove, with a few trips up to Newport Beach, a side trip to Ensenada, and then north to Big Sur. Death in a California Landscape delivers on its title by including the scenery in the text. Jake Martin puts us in the passenger seat as he drives up the coast, "I drove PCH through the coast cities to the traffic circle in Long Beach, north on the 405, then west to Santa Monica and Coast Highway 1. The morning fog burned off just past Oxnard where the road widened and 101 came in from the valley. From there on the sea was blue, the kelp beds rising and falling in the swells until the road curved inland and the sea was lost behind it. I turned onto the narrower and less traveled Coast Highway 1 towards Morro Bay and the Big Sur. I made San Simeon by eleven. Hearst Castle shimmered in the distance, sun turreted and dream veiled, a mirage that had floated out of the Arabian Nights, taken a wrong turn somewhere and come to rest on the far crest of the California foothills. From there on the road began to climb along the edge of the Santa Lucia range. The Big Sur is not for the faint of heart. Cliffs drop a thousand feet straight down into the Pacific Ocean on one side. Mountains rise steeply on the other. The road unwinds between the two."
Elizabeth C. Ward's Coast Road Mystery, Death in a California Landscape, serves as a retreat from the holiday frenzy this December. Download to your Kindle or pick-up the book. Death in a California Landscape also makes for a fine gift. Happy Holidays!
Click for Ms. Ward's website.
Doc Mishler last rode the coast road fifteen years ago with the two horses pictured on the right: Chief Free Spirit and Keep The Faith. At that time, Doc trotted from Montana to Washington D.C., by way of California, after surviving a cancer diagnosis and its treatment and reading the book, How Then Shall We Live, a text that weighs the question, "How shall I live, knowing I will die?"
What was then a personal journey to celebrate life after beating a terminal diagnosis is now a ride to raise our awareness of hunger, in particular regard to starving children. Doc says, "There are children in the world who are so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of food."
This ride is Doc's mission. For more information about his church community, please stop him on his way south along Highway 1.
Doc can use a place to board his horses each night, so stop to offer your place when you see him. Today he'll depart Pescadero to travel to Santa Cruz, then on to Monterey, and then El Sur Grande, a day's ride southbound until San Diego, where he will then head east-northeast to D.C.
This post written by Anneliese Agren


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Saturday, April 5, 2008
New FaeFever Excerpt!
Okay, here is the latest teaser from Karen Marie Moning in her upcoming September 30th release Faefever, the third book in her Fever series. I cannot wait for this book!!! I will have to start a countdown. September 30th cannot come soon enough.
V'lane's knuckles grazed the base of my skull where Barrons had branded me, his eyes narrowed, and he inhaled sharply. "You think to allow his mark upon your body but refuse mine?" he hissed. He closed his mouth over mine.
The great, leathery winged, demonic Unseelie Hunters are especially terrifying to sidhe-seers because they know where we live inside our heads. They instinctively know exactly where to find the small, frightened child in us all and exploit it.
The Seelie princes know where we live, too, but it's the grown woman they're after. They hunt us in our own bodies, tracking us without mercy into the darkest corners of our libido. They seduce the Madonna; they celebrate the whore. They serve our sexual needs tirelessly, gorging on our passion, amplifying it, and slamming it back at us a thousand-fold. They are masters of all our desires. They know the limits of our fantasies, take us to the edge and leave us there, hanging by shredded fingernails, above a bottomless gorge, begging for more.
V'lane's tongue touched mine. Something hot and electric jolted through my mouth. It swelled inside me, filling me. I choked on it, and orgasmed instantly, as hot and electrifying as whatever he'd just done to my tongue. Pleasure ripped through me with such exquisite precision that my bones steamed and turned to water. I would have collapsed, but he took my weight, and I was in a dreamy, surreal place for a few moments, where his laughter was black velvet and his need was as vast as the night, then I was clear and me again.
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3 comments:
- Katie(babs) said...
So, I take it this book will be more romance, unlike the other one? Great excerpt. I am such a sucker for sex excerpts or kissing. LOL
- April 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- Shannon said...
I'm not sure why, but I have been avoiding this author. I think I may need to reevaulate that.
- April 6, 2008 at 1:42 PM
- Jill D. said...
Katie, As I understand it, this series is five books with the last book book concluding the story. Faefever is the third so I hope (really hope) that there will be more romance in it. Although, no promises.
Shannon, I will tell you Moning is a guilty pleasure author, sort of like Linda Howard. She just writes really yummy heroes and she has just the right amount of sarcasm and witty banter to keep me coming back time and again. I think her Fever series is her best work. I think you either love her or hate her. It might have to do with her written "voice".
- April 6, 2008 at 8:53 PM


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The limelight is set to shine on Youlgrave once again as villagers prepare for their 53rd annual pantomime.
As one of the most loved panto's in Derbyshire, this year's offering of Mother Goose promises to draw crowds from across the county and beyond.
There will be a total of 10 performances – starting next week – and packed crowds are predicted, based on previous years.
Jan Wilson, who has written and produced the panto for 35 years, said: "While the story of Mother Goose is well known, as usual the story will have an unexpected twist which should be a real surprise for people."
She added: "All proceeds raised get put back into the village hall too, to make this event, and others possible each year."
Jan said the 18-strong cast is a "true celebration of community spirit", including local actors from all age groups – the youngest being eight and the oldest being 82-years-old.
"But it's not just the cast that make this possible year after year," said Jan. "There are almost 70 people who help with making the stage, designing the costumes, promoting the event and so on."
New chairman Mike Baitup was welcomed into the fold ahead of this year's performance.
Jan said: "Mike has been a real dynamic force. He's had some fantastic new ideas and has even got businesses to sponsor the event, which has really helped us to prepare something special."
The pantomime is running from January 28-31 and February 4-7 at Youlgrave Village Hall. There will be matinées before each Saturday performance. Tickets cost £6.25 for adults and £3.25 for children. To book, call 01629 828215 or visit yvh.org.uk.


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using this as a third trial for the blog of Annie's Aunties
AKA...KayKay's Marestare...
Originally Posted by Quiltforme
once you have cut all 4 sides 1 1/4" this is where the dp4 comes in. On the first row take the middle block you have created and turn it 180 degrees. On the second row take the first block and the 3rd block turn 180 degrees. Do the same on the 34d row. You will not touch the corner pieces. Then start on the first row and see next photo
yeah it worked!!! Ok this is what you end up with after cutting all around now turn all you have to do is turn the pieces and sew together!
Originally Posted by KyKaren1949
I love her Cobbled Court series. The main character starts out by separating from her husband, taking off driving and coming to a town with a Cobbled lane that she follows. In the center of the lane is Cobbled Court and an empty building that would be perfect for a quilt shop. The series are all based on different customers and/or employees of the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop. I love Marie's character development. She does a great job!
Originally Posted by Valerie Scherr
New novel out by Marie Bostwick ...just ordered mine from amazon its the continueing series of her quilting stories
Excellent reading and books are an excellent price.
Originally Posted by grann of 6
Thanks, Deecee, that one looks good. I do mine a little differently, but the end result is the same.
trial in progress
should let Debbie find this.
today is Thursday.