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One of the hottest singles of late 2013 is from a new face, but definitely not a newcomer.
Sevyn Streeter who is from Florida has a radio single that features Chris Brown.This very beautiful singer started singing in the church at the age of 7, from the church Streeter began to perform in talent shows where she quickly realize that she wanted to make music her career.
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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — I was on a cross-country train trip. I'd spent the morning exploring the city, so I took the afternoon to chill at the hostel and do laundry. The laundry room was off the hallway and behind a door, quiet and private. I didn't have many clothes left, so I stripped down to just my shorts and threw it all in. I was composing a magnetic poem on the metal door when this guy walked in. We exchanged hellos. He was short and stocky, late 30s, handsome and bearish.
I went to the common room to wait for the washer to finish and when I got back to the laundry room he was still there, only he'd stripped down to a pair of blue scrub pants. He had a beautiful, hairy chest, bald head, and goatee — imagine Michael Chiklis crossed with Jeremy Piven.
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Conversation flowed effortlessly and as we talked, he'd touch his body — running his hands across his chest and belly, quickly pinching his dick. The blue scrub pants had an open fly (tied together at the waist) from which the pouch of his white briefs peaked out. The pouch seemed to swell and recede, swell and recede as we talked. This kind of flirtation was new to me, but I attempted sending out my own signals — eyeing him shamelessly, casually feeling my own thin, smooth body.
When my clothes finished drying, I folded them slowly. Finally, I rolled up my last pair of socks. We were talking and he hooked his thumbs into the waistband of his scrubs and briefs, casually lowering them to show his thatch of dark pubes. He let them snap back up. I'd thrown a total boner, pressed horizontally against my pelvis under my camo shorts. I let it throb there for him to see.
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We got food at McDonald's. He was pushy toward the register person, making all these specifications, and I briefly wondered what I was getting myself into. Then we walked around town. We passed a man. The two of them made eye contact, and he got very quiet. 'He's carrying,' he said. I asked him how he knew. Had he seem that guy before? 'No, I can just tell,' he said.
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I started to get blue balls from all this talk. He took me to a place under a bridge where we could get it on, but there were cops around. I suggested the hostel bathrooms, which had locks.
I went in first and started the shower to drown out any sound. He showed up a couple minutes later with a straight porn magazine he'd bought earlier that day. As I paged through it, he got down on his knees and took out my hard cock. He sucked it like a Hoover — it was truly one of the best blowjobs I've ever had. I turned around and he buried his face into my ass. I was jacking off, and he had his tongue deep in my hole. I reached a peak before I could stop myself and started shooting cum. He turned me around quick so he could catch some in his mouth. I could tell he was bummed he hadn't gotten to eat it all. But I was still hard — it was a pre-orgasm.
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Born and educated in London, Harvey Crane was a fan of the theatre since the age of eighteen when he first appeared in Hamlet with the Richard Meadows White Company, this led to many roles on both the variety and legitimate stage.
Following the Second World War he resided in Devon and became a regular contributor for 'The Western Evening Herald' and 'The Stage'.
The HC collection, deposited with the South West Image Bank in 2007, contains many of his newspaper reviews, associated programmes and photographs pertaining to productions in Exeter, Torquay, Paignton, Plymouth and Cornwall.
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The collection contains many of Harvey Crane's newspaper reviews, associated programmes and photographs pertaining to productions in Exeter, Torquay, Paignton, Plymouth and Cornwall.
Content relates to productions featured at the Palace Theatre, Globe Theatre, Central Hall and Theatre Royal by notable local theatre companies including the Tamaritans, the Carmenians, Plymouth Amateur Dramatic Society, Plymstock Amateur Operatic Society, Plymouth Police Dramatic Society, Tavistock Amateur Operatic Society, Tecalemit Drama Group, the Presbyterian Players, Plymouth Shakspere Society, the Tavonians, and the Swarthmore Players amongst many others.
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I'm sat here on this lovely summer's day 3 years to the day that I had my first major operation. An operation that would lead to a further 4, and counting…
I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in September 2012. Big L was 1 and Little L was a sparkle in his father's eye. I'd suffered with what had been previously diagnosed as IBS since my teens and been backwards and forwards to the Dr's since. It turns out it was actually Crohn's. Crohn's and IBS have very similar symptoms and Crohn's is apparently hard to diagnose. It was found because I'd been ill with what I first thought was flu for over a week. I had had a fever and my mum insisted I go to the Dr. I had started getting pains in my stomach too and they quickly became crippling. The Dr thought it was appendicitis and sent me for blood tests. The results came back the following day and I was sent to A & E. Following a CT scan appendicitis was ruled out and I was told it was probably Crohn's by a junior doctor who came round in the middle of the night. I had no idea what it was and she said I should wait to speak to the consultant in the morning. I thought people with Crohn's were skinny (I was and am anything but skinny!). A consultant came round the following morning to confirm they thought it was Crohn's and that they would arrange an appointment for a colonoscopy.
Ahh! Colonoscopies! They really are a delight. I won't go into too much detail now but it involves drinking the most foul liquid known to man while it pours out of your backside so best done in the vicinity of your loo. The only upside is the pethidine you get as sedation while you lie on your side and a Dr guides a not insignificant sized camera up your bum. For your entertainment you can watch the camera's journey through your colon. The only thing missing from this cinematic experience is popcorn really.
Anyway, I digress, as usual. Biopsies confirmed Crohn's and the little journey around no man's land confirmed that the Crohn's had caused significant scarring to my terminal ileum making it too thin for food to pass through and it was that that was causing the pain.
I was put on the drug Pentasa but told that the scarring could not be reduced and my best bet would be an operation. A bowel resection to remove the damaged area. A major operation but it could be performed key hole and I should only be in hospital for a few days. Hmm.
The following August I had the operation. By now I was well under the thumb of Crohn's. I was exhausted and taking very regular trips to the loo. Poor Big L was not having the fun filled start to life that I had hoped for him and my mum was helping out with childcare frequently.
Anyway. It seemed the operation went well. The surgeon was happy. He cluttered off to Florida on his holibobs the following day. Lucky bastard. I started to get a lot of pain. I was told it was normal. It got worse. Then the fevers started. Fevers that actually made my whole body convulsed. Just a reaction. Nothing to worry about. I was taken for a scan. Nope all ok. Blood tests. My inflammation markers were getting higher and higher. I hadn't seen Big L or my mum for a couple of days. I literally felt like death and didn't want them to see me like this. Vince came to visit and I just lay in bed willing my life away. I started throwing up green stuff like something out of the Exorcist. I covered a nurse who had basically accused me of making it all up, a little victory! Finally, 4 days after the original operation the Dr decided that I definitely had a leak. He tried putting a tube down my nose to draw out the green stuff but I kept gagging on it. He decided that I needed emergency surgery. Which was a tad inconvenient for the hospital staff as it was a Sunday afternoon and they had to be called in. I had visions of the surgical team downing their silver cutlery half way through their Sunday dinner. Poor gits.
I called Vince and my Mum to tell them I was having emergency surgery. That was a painful experience I can tell you. My mum broke down in tears. Then off I went to surgery.
I came to in a darkened room with lots of flashing lights and noise. I was in intensive care. It turns out I had got a leak, 2 litres of fluid was sloshing around. I had septicemia and was on the verge of multi organ failure. When I was fully conscious I discovered I had an ileostomy and mucous fistula. Kind of like colostomy bags. Shit! Literally! I also had a central line delivering all kinds of drugs. This was not supposed to happen. I was supposed to be home by now. I'd got a 2 year old to look after.
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There are some seriously bright and saturated colors in this month's inspiration artwork... I think it's fair to call it a color riot! While temperatures are starting to warm up, spring blooms are still a long way off in Minnesota so it's nice to see some color instead of the bare, grey landscape outside my window.
The art bead in my stash that yelled the loudest was a large lampwork focal from Outa Torch Glasswerks that I bought ages ago out at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. The swirling colors were pretty spot on for the artwork and I liked that the colors were almost smeared... which is how I feel about the painting too.
Having just come down off a tassel making binge (see my post HERE if you missed that), I decided that a chain tassel would work well for this design. To keep it colorful and vibrant like the artwork, I chose to make tiny bead dangles in a mix of gemstones to attach to the end of each piece of chain. I feel like the resulting effect is reminiscent of a peacock's tail.
For the rest of the necklace I made links with a variety of Czech glass beads in different colors and shapes. I picked colors to match the color palette of the painting and the colors in the focal bead. I think the end result is fun and colorful without being too crazy.
I'm still hoping to complete another necklace design for this month, but for now, I'll stop here. Vacation is calling me so I need to get some things done so I'll be ready to go!


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Blouse: Topshop // Velvet Flares: H&M
Welcome to my first outfit post guys, I would first like to apologise for the picture quality, my camera is out of action and there was nobody about to take photos on my phone so Macbook camera it was!
When I picked this blouse up from the 'last chance to buy' rack in Topshop, my immediate thought was 'this will either look really terrible or really amazing'.
Thankfully, the latter was correct and I fell in love with it instantly. I may have looked like I'm wearing a naff pair curtains but I looked like a fierce naff pair of curtains.
I usually wear it for work with my suede button up black A-line skirt from Nobody's Child but on this occasion, I teamed it with a pair of velvet flares from H&M.
I also love dressing down this lil number with mom jeans or black dungarees.
Any other garish blouse lovers out there?


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Operation Postmaster
|Operation Postmaster
|Part of SOE operations
|United Kingdom
Nazi Germany
|Commanders and leaders
|Major 'Gus' March-Phillipps
Captain Specht
Small Scale Raiding Force 11 men
Special Operations Executive 4 men
local volunteers 17 men
Duchessa d'Aosta ship's crew 46
Bibundi ship's crew unknown
Likomba ship's crew unknown
|Casualties and losses
|29 crew and one merchant ship with 2 boats captured
Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, during the Second World War. The mission was carried out by the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in January 1942. Their objective was to board the Italian and German ships in the harbour and sail them to Lagos. The SSRF under the command of Major Gus March-Phillipps left Britain in August 1941 and sailed the Brixham trawler, Maid Honor, to the Spanish colony.
The British authorities in the area refused to support the raid, which they considered a breach of Spanish neutrality. Permission for the operation to go ahead eventually came from the Foreign Office in London. On 14 January 1942, while the ships' officers were attending a party arranged by an SOE agent, the commandos entered the port aboard two tugs, overpowered the ships' crews and sailed off with the ships, including the Italian merchant vessel Duchessa d'Aosta. The raid boosted SOE's reputation at a critical time and demonstrated its ability to plan and conduct secret operations no matter the political consequences.[1]
In 1941 the British Admiralty started receiving reports that German submarines were using the rivers in Vichy French parts of Africa as a base for refuelling.[2] The unit selected to investigate the reports was the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) also known as No. 62 Commando.[3] The SSRF was formed in 1941, and consisted of a small group of 55 commando-trained personnel working with the Special Operations Executive (SOE).[3] While being under operational control of Combined Operations Headquarters, No. 62 Commando itself was under the command Major Gustavus Henry March-Phillipps,[4] usually called Gus March-Phillipps.
Maid Honor, a 65 ton Brixham yacht trawler, left Poole harbour on 9 August 1941, bound for West Africa.[5] The five man crew were under the command of March-Phillipps.[6] The remainder of the SSRF under the command of Captain Geoffrey Appleyard had departed earlier aboard a troop transport ship. On 20 September 1941 after six weeks under sail Maid Honor arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone.[7] Freetown was the agreed rendezvous for both groups, Appleyard's party having arrived at the end of August.[7] After Maid Honor's arrival in Freetown the search for the German submarine bases started. Sailing into the many rivers and deltas in the area, they failed to locate any submarines or evidence of a submarine base.[6]
SOE maintained a presence in West Africa, where it could observe Vichy French, Spanish and Portuguese territories with the intention of identifying and hindering any activities that threatened Britain's colonial possessions.[8] While the commandos were searching for the German submarine bases SOE agents had become aware of three vessels in the port of Santa Isabel on the Spanish island of Fernando Po 30 kilometres (19 mi) off the coast of Africa near the borders of Nigeria and the Guinea.[6]
The three ships were the Italian 8,500 ton Merchant vessel Duchessa d'Aosta, the second a large German tug Likomba, the third a diesel-powered barge Bibundi. Duchessa d'Aosta had a working radio which was considered a threat, with the potential to provide details of Allied naval movements. Her declared cargo was 3 million pounds of wool, 316,610 pounds of hides and skins, 1.3 million pounds of tanning materials, 4,000,000 pounds of copra, 544,660 pounds of crude asbestos fibre and over 1.1 million ingots of electrolytic copper. The first page of the ship's cargo manifest, was not presented to the port authorities and the ship's Captain refused to provide them with any details, which led to speculation it was also carrying arms or ammunition.[9] In his visits to the island, SOE agent Leonard Guise kept the ships under observation, and in August 1941 submitted a plan to seize Likomba and disable Duchessa d'Aosta.[10] Approval for the military operation in a neutral port was given by the Admiralty on 20 November 1941.[11]
To transport the raiders to the island, two tugs, Vulcan and Nuneaton, were provided by the Governor of Nigeria, Sir Bernard Bourdillon.[12] The raiding force would consist of 32 men, four SOE agents, 11 commandos from the SSRF and 17 men recruited from the local population to crew the two tugs. The mission suffered a blow when the British General Officer Commanding (GOC) West Africa Command, General Sir George Giffard refused to support the mission and would not release the 17 men required, stating it would compromise some unnamed plans he had in mind and the act of piracy would have repercussions.[13] Responding to the concerns of the GOC West Africa, the Admiralty suspended the operation.[13] The Foreign Office was also not in favour of the operation, and neither was the British Embassy in Madrid, which was concerned about the possible reactions of the Spanish government.[7] The final go ahead, eventually supported by the Foreign Office, was not given until 6 January 1942, on the grounds that suspicion of British involvement in the raid was inevitable; what counted was the avoidance of any tangible proof.[7][13] As a safeguard the Admiralty also dispatched HMS Violet, a Flower class corvette, to intercept the vessels at sea, which would provide the cover story that they had been intercepted while trying to make their way home to Europe.[13]
SOE agent Richard Lippett had obtained employment with the shipping company John Holt & Co (Liverpool), which had business offices on the island. Having taken up the post he started to make preparations for the raid. He became aware that the crew of Duchessa d'Aosta were in the habit of accepting invitations to parties ashore and had held their own party aboard ship on 6 January 1942. Under the guise of a party-goer Lippett managed to gain information about the readiness of the ship for sea, crew numbers, and the watch arrangements.[14]
The raiders left Lagos in their two tugs on the morning of 11 January 1942, and while en route they practised lowering Folbots and boarding ships at sea under the command of Captain Graham Hayes. They approached Santa Isabel harbour and at 23:15 and 23:30 hours on 14 January 1942; both tugs were in position 180 metres (590 ft) outside of the harbour. Onshore, Lippett had arranged for the officers from Duchessa d'Aosta to be invited to a dinner party. Twelve Italian officers and two German officers from Likomba also attended.[15]
The boarding parties assembled on the decks of the two tugs as they entered the harbour. Vulcan, with March-Phillipps and his second in command Appleyard on board, headed for Duchessa d'Aosta. As they approached, a few men could be seen on the after deck of the merchant vessel, but they seemed to take no notice of the tug other than to shine a torch in its direction. At the same time, Folbots under the command of Hayes from Nuneaton, were being paddled towards Likomba and Burundi, which were moored together. Challenged by a watchman on Burundi, they persuaded him with their reply that it was the ship's captain coming back on board. The men from the canoes boarded Burundi and the two man crew on watch jumped overboard. After planting explosive charges on the anchor chain, the commandos guided Nuneaton alongside Likomba to take her and the Burundi in tow.[16]
As soon as they were ready, the charges were blown and Nuneaton started to tow Likomba out of the harbour. Aboard Duchessa d'Aosta, 11 men had managed to get aboard from Vulcan; while one group planted charges on the anchor chains, another searched below decks collecting prisoners. Blowing the anchor chains, Vulcan started to tow Duchessa d'Aosta out of the harbour. The explosions had alerted the population of the town, who started to gather on the pier, but no attempts were made to stop the ships from leaving.[17] Several anti-aircraft emplacements opened fire at imaginary targets, believing the explosions to have been caused by an aerial attack, but the six-inch guns protecting the harbour itself remained silent.[18] From entering the harbour to leaving with the ships under tow, the operation had taken 30 minutes, without any losses to the raiding party.[19]
Out at sea on 15 January 1942, March-Phillipps established a routine of watches and placed guards on the 29 prisoners they had taken. During the evening they started to have trouble with the tugs' engines and the tow ropes to the captured vessels. The next day Vulcan reached the location for the rendezvous and was "captured" at sea by HMS Violet.[20] Nuneaton, suffering from engine trouble, managed to contact the Nigerian collier Ilorin by semaphore, which in turn contacted Lagos, and a ship was dispatched to tow them into port.[21]
The Special Operations Executive had now demonstrated their ability to undertake operations, no matter the political consequences. Hugh Dalton, the government minister in charge of SOE, informed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the outcome of the raid. He also stated his belief that..."other neutral governments would be impressed that Britain would if needed disregard the legal formalities of war in their efforts to succeed."[22] The agent in charge of SOE Africa station submitted a report to the head of SOE Colin Gubbins reflecting on the success of Postmaster: "perhaps next time it will not be necessary for prolonged negotiations before undertaking a 30 minute operation."[19]
The Spanish government was furious about the raid, which was seen as a breach of the country's neutrality. The foreign minister Serrano Suner described the operation as an:
intolerable attack on our sovereignty, no Spaniard can fail to be roused by this act of piracy committed in defiance of every right and within water under our jurisdiction. Do not be surprised, if we return the answer which the case demands—that of arms.[23]
In Germany radio stations reported that a..."British destroyer had entered the harbour and dropped depth charges to blow up the anchor cables and the ship's crew were shot" and the 21 January 1942 edition of Völkischer Beobachter published an article with the headline "British Denials – Admiralty Lies on Act of Piracy".[24] British Naval Intelligence, under advice from Commander Ian Fleming, issued their own communique:
In view of the German allegations that Allied naval forces have executed a cutting-out operation against Axis ships in the Spanish port of Santa Isabel, Fernando Po, the British Admiralty considers it necessary to state that no British or Allied ship was in the vicinity...As a result... of the German Broadcast, the British Commander-in-Chief dispatched reconnaissance patrols to cover the area. A report has now been received that a large unidentified vessel has been sighted, and British naval vessels are proceeding to the spot to make investigations."[24]
The details of the raid were being kept secret even from the British Chiefs of Staff, who were only informed on 18 January 1942, that Duchessa d'Aosta had been intercepted 230 miles (370 km) offshore and was being taken to Lagos.[7]
On Fernando Po itself, Richard Lippett, who had remained on the island, was taken in for questioning by the Spanish authorities on 17 January 1942. He managed to persuade them he had had nothing to do with the departure of the ships, nor had he spent any money on the party for the ships' officers. He was released from custody on 27 January 1942, but was refused permission to leave the island. He finally left secretly by canoe, arriving in British territory on 1 March 1942.[25] In the aftermath of the operation, Maid Honor was left in Lagos and eventually sold to the Sierra Leone government as a converted trawler. Duchess d'Aosta was sailed to Greenock and then managed by Canadian Pacific as the Empire Yukon for the Ministry of War Transport.[26][27] Limkomba was managed by the Elder Dempster Lines, who renamed it Malakel in 1947 and then sold it to Liberia in 1948.[28]
After the raid March-Phillipps was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Hayes was awarded the Military Cross, and Appleyard a Bar to his Military Cross; Lippett and Guise were each appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire.[29] Another commando, and the only professional sailor on the raid, Private Anders Lassen, was the first man to board Duchessa d'Aosta. For conspicuous efficiency in getting the ship under way, Lassen was given a commission in the field,[10] and the immediate award of the Military Cross.[30]
March-Phillipps was killed during Operation Aquatint in September 1942.[31] On the same mission, Hayes evaded capture and crossed the Spanish border, only to be handed over to the Germans who kept him in solitary confinement for nine months before he was executed by firing squad on 13 July 1943.[32] Appleyard later joined the Special Air Service, and on the same day that Hayes was executed Appleyard was reported missing when his plane failed to return from a mission.[33] Lassen would also join the Special Air Service; he was awarded two bars to his MC and promoted to major before receiving a posthumous Victoria Cross in Italy in 1945.[34][35]
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- ↑ Binney, p.124
- 1 2 Chappell, p.48
- ↑ Foot, p.167
- ↑ Richards & Foot, p.92
- 1 2 3 Binney, p.125
- 1 2 3 4 5 Messenger, p.53
- ↑ "Series reference HS 3—Special Operations Executive: Africa and Middle East Group: Registered Files". The Catalogue. The National Archives. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
- ↑ Binney, pp.126–127
- 1 2 Richards & Foot, p.93
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- ↑ "Empire U, V W, Y, Z". World Ship Society. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
- ↑ "Elder Dempster Lines, ships of the line". Ships and Shipping. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 35645. p. 3293. 24 July 1942. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
- ↑ Thomas & McCouaig, p.14
- ↑ "CWGC headstone March-Phillipps". Commando Veterans Association. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37254. p. 4469. 4 September 1945. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37476. p. 1048. 19 February 1946. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
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- Binney, Marcus (2006). Secret War Heroes. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-82910-3.
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- Chappell, Mike (1996). Army Commandos 1940–1945. Elite Series # 64. London: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-579-9.
- Foot, Michael (2004). SOE in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-5528-7.
- Messenger, Charles (1985). The Commandos 1940–1946. London: William Kimber. ISBN 0-7183-0553-1.
- Richards, Brooks; Foot, M R D (2002). Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany: 1940–1944. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-5316-0.
- Thomas, Nigel; McCouaig, Simon (1991). Foreign Volunteers of the Allied Forces 1939–45. London: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-136-X.


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The U.S. Embassy staffer who wrote this recently declassified document in 1989 must have been pretty psyched. (Via Welch.) It's mainly an conversation -- overheard (recorded? unclear) by an embassy spouse -- between a bunch of old-timers standing around the center of Wenceslas Square on Nov. 21, 1989. They're talking about "kids these days." I'd copy and paste the whole thing, but it's a scanned typewritten memo. Excerpts:
One more thing. The exchange value of 500 crowns may have been $50 those days, but in terms of purchasing power, how many beers would that have bought?
"The don't know who Masaryk was."The ones overheard carping on the street were 40-80 years old. But the students who spent the night at the foot of St. Wenceslas were 15-20 years old. The "leaders" of the student protesters (quotes in the original) "looked like children," according to this document. These are the people who brought down the regime, and that's one thing the Czechs should never forget.
"That's right. Ask a high school sophomore who was the first president of the Republic, and they will tell you Gottwald."
"What if we strike and nothing happens?"
"We strike again. We keep on striking again and again."
"The people who locked up [good people in the 1950s] are the ones who have been leading the youth all these years. What do you expect? No wonder the young people don't know anything."
"But we are here," replied one young man.
A final note: On the metro this morning this embassy spouse's housekeeper saw a young student wearing one of our U.S.-Czechoslovak flag pins. Someone of the subway offered him 500 KCS for it (USD 50). The offer was refused. End note.
One more thing. The exchange value of 500 crowns may have been $50 those days, but in terms of purchasing power, how many beers would that have bought?


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- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Burning question: Can California prevent the next wildfire?
Glen Martin, California Magazine, Oct. 31, 2017
The incentive for city council members and county supervisors is to encourage development and expand tax bases, said UC ANR researcher and UC Berkeley professor Scott Stephens. As a result, homes are often built in wild land "interface" areas with extreme fire risk. "UC Cooperative maintains programs in every California county, so we already have a network of educators and communicators," Stephens said. "We could coordinate with state agencies and the governor to create and implement wildfire safety and response programs that could be very effective. And because the basic structure is already in place, it wouldn't be very expensive."
UC Merced County Extension programs boosted by local endowment
Todd Fitchette, Western Farm Press, Oct. 31, 2017
Several years ago, UCCE advisor David Doll came up with a plan to crowd source some funding to help the county Extension office pay for projects that otherwise fell to the wayside as slim sources of revenue found other priorities. "Over the years there has been a consistent erosion of base funding for our services, not only from UC, but from county and federal governments," Doll said. Through his contacts with almond growers in his county, Doll secured about $14,000 from less than 10 donors now part of an endowment which the Merced County Extension can budget annually in perpetuity.
Most USDA new farmer trainees still in the industry, survey finds
Tim Hearden, Capital Press, Oct. 31, 2017
More than half the participants in new farmer training projects the USDA has spent more than $150 million on since 2008 are still working in agriculture, a group's survey has found. The survey's findings should encourage the UC to seek more grant funding for similar projects elsewhere, said Jennifer Sowerwine, an extension specialist based at UC Berkeley who was on an advisory board for the USDA's evaluation. "As the metropolitan agriculture and food system specialist, I see several opportunities ... to expand (the UC's) offerings to support aspiring and beginning urban and peri-urban farmers," Sowerwine said.
Marin sudden oak death infections surge
Richard Halstead, Marin Independent Journal, Oct. 28, 2017
The sudden oak death infection rate in Marin has doubled to more than 21 percent since 2015, according to Matteo Garbelotto, UC Cooperative Extension specialist and director of the UC Berkeley Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory.
UC Davis is producing a more natural organic egg, but how does it taste?
Sally Schilling, Capital Public Radio, Oct. 27, 2017
UC Cooperative Extension poultry specialist Maurice Pitesky says the USDA may stop allowing the organic chicken egg producers to use a synthetic protein supplement, called methionine. His group of researchers is trying an alternative protein source: black soldier fly larvae. "This might be a way to move away from that synthetic methionine and try something that the chickens naturally have an inclination to eat," Pitesky said. He held a tasting event to determine if the larvae influence egg flavor.
Restoring California's ability to recharge groundwater a more cost-effective drought strategy
Judy Corbett, California Economic Summit, Oct. 26, 2017
Last year, UC ANR and the California Economic Summit brought together 25 innovative land use decision makers and 25 water experts to determine how they might better work together to implement groundwater recharge policies and projects. Their conclusion, land use and water supply entities should reach out to flood control agencies to jointly identify and preserve lands for the dual purpose of recharging groundwater recharge and providing flood protection.
We need novel ways to stave off wildfires
Francie Diep, City Lab, Oct. 26, 2017
Pacific Standard spoke with three California residents, all of whom have interesting, well-supported, yet often little-known ideas for wildfire prevention strategies. One of the interviewees was UCCE specialist Max Moritz. He said people need to start thinking of wildfires the way they do tornadoes and earthquakes: as inevitable natural disasters.
Non-GMO food labels are incredibly misleading—and could be harming you and the environment
Michael Tabb, Quartz Media, Oct. 26, 2017
One recent diet fad is to avoid genetically modified food. It's led to an sharp increase in non-GMO labels. According to Pam Ronald, UC Cooperative Extension specialist whose husband is an organic farmer, farms going non-GMO to meet consumer demand are causing major damage. "These non-GMO labels have proliferated, and they're really a problem," Ronald told Quartz. "Because there's no regulation, they can just spray anything they want. So what's happening is… they're going back to using [far] more toxic compounds. And I think that's really a disservice to the consumer to market it as somehow being more healthy—when of course, it's not, and it's also more harmful to the environment."
Milk, salads, kitty litter, condoms: 'Non-GMO labels sow confusion
Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 25, 2017
Clover Sonoma to jump into the trend of labeling products as free of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, which some consumers fear could cause health and environmental damage, despite firm rebuttals from the country's top scientific and medical organizations. "It's like unicorn-free milk," said Alison L. Van Eenennaam, UC Cooperative Extension genomics specialist. "There aren't any GMOs in milk anyway."
My beef with killing the meet industry
Matthew Hable, The Lumberjack (Humboldt State student newspaper), Oct. 24, 2017
Eliminating the meat industry would do more harm than good to our planet. "Agriculture cannot be sustainable without animal agriculture," said Frank Mitloehner, UC Cooperative Extension specialist. "That is something I'm sure of."
Don't get fooled by the calendar. October is deadly month for fires in California
Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee, Oct. 24, 2017
Although the risks from new fires have abated in Northern California in recent days, officials cautioned that the perils haven't been completely extinguished despite the light rains that swept through the area last week. "In two days, it'll be as dry as it was before the rains, roughly," said Bill Stewart, the co-director of UC Berkeley's Center for Fire Research and Outreach.
California needs to rethink urban fire risk after wine country tragedy
Max Moritz, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 24, 2017
The Northern California fires revealed that we have key gaps in our policy and planning related to assessing risk in fire-prone environments. An essential step is to shift our perspective from a focus on hazard to one that more comprehensively includes human vulnerabilities.
Trees and People: SOD Workshop
Bill Pramuk, Napa Valley Register, Oct. 23, 2017
The Sudden Oak Death blitz in Napa County delivered good news. The county had a very low infection rate. UCCE specialist Matteo Garbelotto will present the Blitz results and practical information at a free session Oct. 28 in Napa.
We're with you: Australian wine producers' message to California
Tyne Logan, ABC Australia, Oct. 23, 2017
Australia's two peak wine bodies have sent a letter offering support and condolences to the Californian wine industry following deadly wildfires. The wildfires have caused significant loss to those directly involved but the industry as a whole would not suffer big production losses, said Jim Lapsley, of the UC ANR Agricultural Issues Center. He said the biggest impact for the Californian wine industry would be on the high-value wine, for which the region is most renowned.
Sudden oak death moves into urban locales in East Bay and on Peninsula
Lisa Krieger, Mercury News, Oct. 22, 2017
A highly contagious disease that has already killed millions of rural California trees is spreading into urban areas in the East Bay and on the Peninsula, according to a major new University of California survey. Once-untouched areas must now "face disease impacts and management decisions," said UC Cooperative Extension specialist Matteo Garbelotto, who heads the Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory at UC Berkeley. While it does not mean that all oaks in those areas will die, it indicates that they are at elevated risk.
Experts call for changes in wake of deadly wildfires in Northern California
Cheri Carlson, Ventura County Star, Oct. 22, 2017
California is ahead of a lot of the country with respect to preparing to handle wildfire, said Max Moritz, a wildfire specialist with the University of California Cooperative Extension. "But we still have a lot to learn," he said. Do the building codes already in place work under such severe conditions, and how do you get people out in time? "That's what we're going to be asking ourselves as we pick up the pieces and look at what happened here," Moritz said.
Do you care if your fish dinner was raised humanely? Animal advocates say you should
Clare Leschin-Hoar, NPR The Salt, Oct. 20, 2017
Mercy for Animals is beginning to lay the groundwork for a campaign that will target the aquaculture industry and shine a light on the conditions in which finfish like salmon, tilapia, catfish, trout, pangasius and other species are raised. Thrying to shift the aquaculture industry won't be easy. The vast majority of the farmed fish Americans eat comes from countries like China, Indonesia, Canada, Norway, Chile and Ecuador. "Welfare rights are primarily a Western phenomenon," says UC Cooperative Extension specialist Fred Conte. "You go to Central America or China and you're not going to find welfare standards."
What's to blame for wine country fires? PG&E isn't the only suspect
Editorial Board, Sacramento Bee, Oct. 20, 2017
Max Moritz, a fire specialist at the University of California Cooperative Extension, compared the Tubbs Fire to the Santa Ana wind-driven wildfires that regularly rip down the canyons into Southern California suburbs, with the added twist of bigger, denser Northern California vegetation, dried like mega-kindling. Such fires have not been the norm in cooler, damper NorCal, but the occurrence of such a monster here this year "forces us to consider that this kind of fire could happen in lots of places," Moritz said.
Why were California's widlfires so deadly? The answer lies in the forest
Eric Holst, Environmental Defense Fund, Oct. 20, 2017
In a Q&A article with the Environmental Defense Fund, UCCE farm advisor emeritus Greg Giusti adi the driving force of the California widlfires was wind. Other factors responsible for the devastation include 100 years of fire suppression, early and mid-20th century logging converting old growth forests to more densely populated stands of trees, suburban and rural sprawl spreading out into wildlands, and programs and actions addressing fire prevention relying too heavily on fire suppression.
Rain brings relief for burned soil, but expert worried about runoff
Ashley Tressel, Ukiah Daily Journal, Oct. 20, 2017
UCCE Mendocino County advisor emeritus Greg Giusti believes recent rain was enough to get some seeds germinating, so Mendocino County might begin to see some green in the next couple of weeks, if the weather stays warm.
Sudden oak death likely exacerbated deadly Northern California wildfires
Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 20, 2017
A dramatic increase this year in the number of oaks, manzanita and native plants infected by sudden oak death likely helped spread the massive fires that raged through the North Bay, according to Matteo Garbelotto, UCCE forest pathology and mycology specialist. In a recently released study he reported that 37 percent of the trees sampled in fire-ravaged eastern Sonoma County — prior to the fires — were infected by sudden oak death.
Urban conflagration: Fire scientist on climate change and what makes California's wildfires different
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Oct. 20, 2017
"Lots of trends that we've seen over the last several decades in fire have been related back to climate change," said UCCE specialist Max Moritz. "There's pretty conclusive evidence for a link to climate change for many of the fires that we've seen in the last couple of decades. And the trends match up with what we expect from climate change and from our models."
Citrus crisis
Elizabeth Lorenz, Palo Alto Weekly, Oct. 19, 2017
Asian citrus psyllid has been found in eastern Santa Clara County as well as other Bay Area counties. It is considered established in Southern California. "So far, the term 'eradication' has only been used early on in the invasion and in agricultural production areas. Residential treatments are voluntary but highly recommended by the state at this time," said Andrew Sutherland, UC Cooperative Extension IPM advisor the San Francisco Bay Area.
Why California wildfires are infernos in October
Lesley McClurg, KQED Science, Oct. 19, 2017
It typically doesn't rain in California all summer. "By October California has dried out," said University of California, Berkeley fire expert William Stewart. "So every hillside is basically fuel waiting to burn."
"Like a blowtorch": Powerful winds fueled tornadoes of flame in Tubbs Fire
Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 18, 2017
The Tubbs Fire was driven by a steady 40 mph winds. "Just like water flows from higher to lower elevation, winds flow down a pressure gradient as they go from high pressure to low pressure," said Max Moritz, a wildfire specialist with the UC Cooperative Extension. "When they get concentrated, like through a mountain pass, they will speed up, like a river going through a narrow channel."
Northern California fire victims may want to rebuild. But can they find someone to do it?
Stuart Leavenworth and Anita Chabria, Sacramento Bee, Oct. 18, 2017
Families that lost their homes in the Northern California fires will be competing for contractors to rebuild. "It was hard to get workers before the fires, because the living costs in Sonoma and Napa are so much higher than elsewhere," said Philip Martin, a labor economist UC Davis. "Most people would say it is even going to get even harder to find workers after the fires."
How California's North Bay fires became the state's deadliest
Tara Lohan, NewsDeeply, Oct. 17, 2017
Nearly two weeks after more than a dozen devastating wildfires erupted across Northern California, experts are beginning to ponder what happened. "We don't know what triggered the ignition, but once a fire ignited the real story is that there was receptive vegetation everywhere that could carry that fire," said Yana Valachovic, forest advisor in Humboldt County. It was "extreme fire weather," said Yana Valachovic, forest advisor in Humboldt County. The driving force of the fire was wind that gusted up to 70 miles per hour and pushed embers a mile head of the fire, she said. "It's a lot like being in a horizontal hailstorm of coals."
Northern California is facing catastrophic wildfires more typically seen in the south. Experts aren't sure why
Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 16, 2017
"These kinds of fires and the losses are very uncharacteristic of that part of the world," UC Cooperative Extension specialist Max Moritz said of the firestorm that ignited in Northern California last week, killing dozens of people and torching thousands of homes. "It has all the signatures of a massive, Southern California Santa Ana wind event."
Devastated suburb was exempt from fire rules
Doug Smith and Nin Agrawal, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 15, 2017
California fire officials developed hazard maps in the 2000s that for the first time tied building codes to geographies based on risk. Max Moritz, UC Cooperative Extension fire scientist, said the maps were an important step forward in assessing fire danger. But the Coffey Park catastrophe has shown that the methodology, and the law underlying it, were too narrow. "With a lot of hazard mapping, once you get into a density of development, it's mapped urban and it's considered unburnable," Moritz said. "From its core, our whole approach to fire behavior modeling, we are not talking about burning in urbanized environments."
Firefighters begin to feel relief in Napa County wildfires
Maria Sestito, Napa Valley Register, Oct. 14, 2017
Firefighters from all over California, bordering states, Mexico, Canada and Australia have been pitching in to control the wildfires in Northern California. "They basically just keep putting more and more people on," said William Stewart, co-director of the UC Center for Fire Research and Outreach at UC Berkeley. "They're trying to figure out how to rotate people out as fast as they can." Stewart said the fires were the biggest and most complicated ever in Northern California. "I've never seen anything like this."
California blazes are part of a larger and hotter picture, fire researchers say
Geoff Brumfiel, Valley Public Radio, Oct. 13, 2017
In Northern California,a wet spring caused the hills to grow thick with grasses and shrubs. That foliage then died and dried out over the hottest summer in California history. The winds caused small fires to grow extremely quickly. "Everybody from firefighters down to homeowners has commented on just how incredibly fast the fires were moving," says Max Moritz, UC Cooperative Extension specialist. "That's really a wind-related phenomenon."
Cannabis farmers get no help from UC farm advisors
Hanford Sentinel, Oct. 12, 2017
UC Cooperative Extension is a source of information on a wide variety of agricultural crops, but not cannabis. "We are prohibited by law from making any comments on marijuana," says Tulare/Kings farm advisor Kevin Day. Humboldt County farm advisor Yana Valachovic said UC gets federal funding and the word has come down some time ago "not to get involved." However, UCCE specialist Van Butsic says "we can track what goes in the fields and in greenhouses but not in those big warehouses" in the future. As for acreage, he expects most marijuana farms will be an acre or less and the statewide total may come to 50,000 to 100,000 acres.
Spending more on fire suppression won't reduce losses
Scott Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 12, 2017
Australia, in contrast to California, has developed a more effective "Prepare, stay and defend, or leave early" policy. With this approach, trained residents decide whether they will stay and actively defend their well-prepared property or leave early before a fire threatens them. By examining the Australian model, we might approach a more sustainable coexistence with fire. However, some California communities are so vulnerable that a "Prepare and leave early" strategy might be the only option.
How this week's wildfire outbreak became one of the deadliest in California's history
J.J. Gallagher, ABC News, Oct. 12, 2017
The Tubbs blaze may be one of the deadliest wildfires in California history. "When a fire moves that quickly, there really is no evacuation notification system that can keep up," said Scott Stephens, a UC ANR fire science researcher at the University of California Berkeley. "We're talking about just minutes."
California wildfires: Why have they been so destructive?
Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, Oct. 11, 2017
Parched landscapes can increase fire size and duration, said Scott L. Stephens, a UC ANR researcher of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley. But it is important to note, he added, that climate change is not necessarily causing specific fires to occur. Wildfires are a natural part of a forest's life cycle and have been part of the state's history since long before anyone called it California.
Wildfires destroy at least 6 Northern California wineries
Eric Chaney, The Weather Channel, Oct. 11, 2017
Any of this year's harvest still in the fields is threatened not only by flames, but also by smoke, which can ruin grapes that have not yet been picked. Still, most of this year's crop was already picked and next year's fruit won't likely be affected, UCCE specialist Anita Oberholster told the AP. "Even if wines now were heavily affected by smoke, it doesn't carry over to the next season, only in the fruit itself," she said.
What needs to be done to stop wildfire in drought-killed forests
Matt Weiser, Water Deeply, Oct. 11, 2017
UCCE specialist Van Butsic, who recently published a study that proposes a new way to manage forests, is featured in a Q&A format. Bustic discusses how California forests are impacted by the drought, how much prescribed fire is needed to bring forests back to a healthy state, and laws and procedures followed by state and federal agencies on fire suppression.
How the deadly Tubbs Fire blitzed Santa Rosa, overwhelming residents and firefighters
Jill Tucker, Lizzie Johnson, Joaquin Pamomino and Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 11, 2017
The narrow path of destruction westward from the Napa Valley to Calistoga was "a classic example of wind-driven fire," said Scott Stephens, a UC ANR researchers and fire science professor at UC Berkeley. He said a canyon that slopes downhill on the outskirts of Santa Rosa allowed the blaze to churn into something much bigger right before it collided with homes and businesses. "The winds were just ferocious, and by chance, and very sad chance, they happened to vector the fire right toward the city of Santa Rosa," Stephens said. "It doesn't surprise me that the eastern areas were hit on the urban-wildland interface, but the fire penetrated the city by three-fourths of a mile or more."
Here's why October is California's most dangerous month for wildfires
Jennifer Calfas, Time Magazine, Oct. 10, 2017
With a combination of dry fuel and fast winds this late in the season, "there's a very big chance you're going to get big, terrible fires," said UCCE specialist Max Moritz. "All you need is ignition and you have the perfect storm, really."
Tracking the damage of a disaster-in-progress
H. Claire Brown and Joe Fassler, New Food Economy, Oct. 10, 2017
Smoke taint in wine grapes is a condition that makes them unpalatable and not viable for sale. "The fruit gets tainted with various phenolic compounds and creosotes [that] give these smoke flavors that aren't pleasant," says Glenn McGourty, a Mendocino-based farm advisor for the University of California Extension. "If they tasted like bacon, it would be great, but they don't taste like bacon. They taste like ash trays."
UC, nonprofit receive $500,000 grant to start entrepreneurs' network
Tim Hearden, Capital Press, Oct. 4, 2017
The University of California's Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and AgStart will use the money to cultivate the Verde Innovation Network for Entrepreneurship, which will provide assistance for businesses. "We want to make sure every Californian has the support system to take a novel idea and commercialize a new product or start a new business," Glenda Humiston, the UC's vice president for ag and natural resources, said in a statement. "They don't have to be a university inventor. They could be a farmer or a young person."
UC Riverside to take avocado breeding program global
David Downey, The Riverside Press-Enterprise, Oct. 2, 2017
The avocado industry is confined to cool coastal counties. If a variety could grow on a wide scale in the San Joaquin Valley, it would be a game changer. "That's one of my dreams


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Gamma Racing Days: Race two of the Dutch Supercar Challenge
TrackandTuner.com visited the Gamma racing days, a great day for the entire racing family offering such a great program for race enthusiasts.
We have already made some great reports so check them out below:
Part one: Stichting Groot Hart providing charity rides
Part two: Race one of the Dutch Supercar Challenge
Part three: Meeting your hero's, up close with Dani Pedrosa and Mika Hakkinen
In this final part we take a look at race two of the Dutch Supercar Challange. We love the immense variety of gorgeous cars in this championship. Cars like the MartinoRossoRacing Ferrari 458 GT2, a Mercedes SLS GT3 a 700HP Puma, a Volvo V8 and even some Le Mans GT3 cars from JUMBO driven by Jan Lammers.
Race two with the Le Mans JUMBO car on pole leaving for in a drizzly situation. MartinoRosso ready to race in their Ferrari 458 GT2 aiming for the podium. With a better start and setting for the car he was driving at fith position holding on to the main leaders. However a major crash happened at the main straight leading to a very long safety car situation. MartinoRosso used this moment to pit and get back behind the Safety with just four slower participants in front. He made his move when the safety car went in and he passed all the slower cars on the main straight giving him some room compared to his competitors.
With Bob Herber in his Mercedes SLS GT3 gaining it was tight and exciting who would take the podium. Because at the front the Le Mans cars and the 700HP+ Puma where way in front. However Martino hold of the Mercedes and took another podium, great job.
With Mika Hakkinen giving the throphy to the winners this was the end of a great weekend full of great cars and entertainment.
We recorded a new Samsung 360 video onboard the Ferrari 458GT2 with MartinoRosso. We are however not really happy with the quality yet. Because of our rendering issues the quality is not as we have recorded and we know we can improve quality on the next video's so stay tuned on www.youtube.com/Tomedelic1 for more 360 video.
Give it a shot and move your mouse 360 degrees to see a great overview of the race.


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Because this week's books are traditional fairy tales, you are likely to find various versions of them. I have included images of the versions with which I am most familiar, however, I encourage you to seek out other versions and read them to your class/children. They may take delight in comparing the various stories! Please respond below if you have other tales or activities that will go with any of the featured books for this week. Please add your own books and/or activities in the comment section!
Here are some activities that will go with all of the books on this week's list:
- Mark on a map or globe the areas where these stories originated.
- Make passports for the children and let them stamp them every time you read a book from a different country.
- Connect with a different classroom (pen pals, e-pals, or another classroom in the school) and compare/contrast different versions of the stories.
- Even young Preschool and kindergarten students can begin to learn the difference between real and pretend. Talk about what "fairy tales" and "folk tales" are and look for ways to tell if a story is real or pretend (ex: talking animals, magic, etc)
- Make flags of the corresponding countries. Learn a little about what the colors and symbols represent.
- Use the Internet to go on a "photographic" tour of the countries featured in these books.
- Several of the books on this list are Caldecott Winners (Lon Po Po, Anansi the Spider, Strega Nona). Learn about the Caldecott honor and bring children's attention to the illustrations in these award winning stories!
- Practice saying the main character's name: Tiki tiki tembo-no sa rembo chari bari ruchi pip peri pembo! The children will have fun just trying to learn the name.
- Allow the children to clap out and count syllables in the name. Then count the syllables in their own names and classmates' names.
- Research the meanings of each child's name. Older students can also research the meanings of their parents' names.
- Tie this story into a theme on opposites. One brother had a long name and one brother had a short name. Make a list of other opposites with the children!
- Note: Make sure that children know that this is a "pretend" story since most people of Chinese decent do not really give their children long names like Tikki Tikki Tembo...
- Visit the author's website.
- Use this story as an opportunity to talk about patience; the main character in the story wants things "now." Have children discuss and/or illustrate times when they have to be patient (waiting for their turn on a bike, going to the store with mom, etc).
- Learn about Matryoshka dolls or Russian Nesting Dolls. The Russian Legacy Website has a lot of good background information for adults. Some websites have the dolls for sale between $30 and $40.
- Have the students rewrite and illustrate the story.
The Mitten by Jan Brett
- Make a mitten match activity: the teacher should cut mittens from tag board and decorate each pair various patterns and colors. Laminate the mittens and store them in a container of your choice. Encourage students to find matching pairs. Note: the mitten patterns can be used for all sorts of activities: matching upper/lower case letters, matching opposites, pairing pictures w/beginning letter sounds, addition activities, etc. Here is an example of mitten match game using colors.
- Use Jan Brett's site which has mitten and animal patterns to make a flannel board or file folder version of the story.
- Use the animal patterns from Jan Brett's site (see link above) to make an Beginning Sounds Game: have children match the animals with their beginning sounds. This game can be done on a magnetic board, flannel board, or made into a file folder game.
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola *This story may not be a traditional "folktale" since it is an original story. But it has a lot of the elements of a traditional tale!
- Make a chart of the various Italian words used in the book (Grazia: Thank you
Per Favore: Please, etc).
- If you (or a parent) has a pasta maker, make pasta from scratch!
- Have a gelati tasting or make cannolis.
- Compare/sort different types of pasta (elbow, bow tie, spaghetti, etc). Make a pasta collage.
- At the easel, encourage children to paint their own pictures of their Magic Pot. Antony's pot had pasta but encourage students to come up with their own ideas of what they would want in their pots.
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema
- Young children will love to say this big word "onomatopoeia" which is really a fancy word for words that imitate sounds. Have the class make a list and write it on chart paper. Examples: buzz, wham, woof, moo, bang, choo-choo, etc...
- Make sequencing cards and have students put the major story events in order.
- Do "nighttime" drawings using colored chalk and black construction paper.
- Learn about a few of the animals in the story (iguana, python, rabbit, crow, monkey, owl, lion, and of course, mosquito). Sites such as National Geographic for Kids often have video, pictures, and facts that are appropriate for young children.
Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott
- Use a child-friendly computer program like KidPix to have children create their own spiders.
- Visit the PBS Kids' Africa site.
- Learn about spiders and other arachnids
- Make a spider - search the web for "spider crafts" and you will find dozens of options!
- Make a spider snack: body = large marshmallow, legs = stick pretzels, eyes = mini chocolate chips (attach w/ a dot of peanut butter if there are no allergies)
- Make a Venn Diagram and compare a "real" spider with Anansi
Lon Po Po by Ed Young*Thanks to peekabooplay (on Twitter) for reminding me to add this one!
- Read this version and a more familiar version of Little Red Riding Hood and help the students compare/contrast the stories.
- Make a graph of what version the class likes the most. When making graphs with young children it is most important to be very visual.
- Do a "Fact" vs "Fiction" activity about wolves.
- Learn to write some letters or count to 10 in Chinese.
Other Favorite Folktales from Twitter:
Katjewave said, "The Bossy Gallito is a Cuban folktale retold by Lucia Gonzalez."
peekabooplay loves Brett's version of Goldilocks.
Katjewave likes Just a Minute! by Yuyi Morales. It's a counting book in a tale about how Abuela tricks Sr. Calavera.
meristemstudio said, "Some of my favorite multicultural fairy tales are retold by Gerald McDermott..."
Katjewave is a huge 'Cinderella' fan, and since she's EVERYWHERE in the world, suggests Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by Steptoe.