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Anticipating where technology will take us next is increasingly challenging. Yet, anticipate Augusta Julian must as she oversees an institution that trains the workforce for that evolving near-future job market.
Julian is president of Bluegrass Community and Technical College, and she talked with Tom Martin about the challenges and rewards of her work.
Tom Martin: How is technological advancement affecting education at your level?
Augusta Julian: It's impacting us dramatically. Just as in other industries, the industry of higher education is changing because of technology. Of course, the thing that a lot of people know about is the availability of online education. It's one of those things that we must embrace because our customer base is embracing it, particularly young people. But really students of all ages are very much online, they're savvy, they expect education to be delivered in the way and at the time that they want it. There are big consortia of educational institutions across the country who are now doing online education and they're providing it free. So what does that mean when the content that has typically been our product is now available not only online, on the internet, in Wikipedia and everywhere else, but also through these Harvards and Stanfords and UKs?
Martin: What's your assessment of online learning versus the classroom experience?
Julian: Well, I am old-school like many of us who have had the experience of onsite education. That's how I did it. That's how I thought it ought to be done for many years. But I am convinced that community can be created, content can be delivered in a way that is accessible and useful for students in online situations. And the younger students again are a bit more comfortable with it than some of us who are older but we all Google whatever we want to know so that process of going online to get information is more and more a part of our everyday experience. So good teachers can deliver and help and instruct. It can be done online and it can be done very well.
Martin: "Outcomes" is a buzzword among today's college admissions professionals, demonstrating a return on investing in a postsecondary education, which can be quite challenging for a lot of families. What are your thoughts about that kind of accountability in higher education?
Julian: The focus is more and more on outcomes. People want to know that their tax dollars or their tuition payments are worth something, that there is value to be gained for their student, or their child or themselves. We have to able to make the case that we provide value for the support that is provided no matter how it comes to us.
Martin: Does BCTC provide job placement services?
Julian: Yes. That's a very important part of our career and technical programs. We have a lot of connections to business through our advisory committees. About 89 to 95 percent of our students in current technical programs will work in Central Kentucky when they complete their program with us.
Martin: What are the hottest skill sets in demand today?
Julian: Computer skills are important but the other thing that we see consistently across industry sectors is what's called soft skills or workplace skills. These are things that every employer needs employees to have: dependability, communication skills, teamwork, supervision and employee relations. Not that technical skills aren't important, but to be a good employee they really have to have that other set of skills. We try to focus on both of those in our programs and to stay up-to-date with what employers are telling us is important.
Martin: You have found that some students do better with fewer choices and more directed curriculum. What's that all about?
Julian: There is some research that is coming out right now that suggests that we may be doing some segment of students a disservice when we continue to expand the options. There are good things about a lot of different opportunities, and a lot of different subjects, a lot of different courses. But some students need to be very focused with their education and particularly our students who might be older or come in with multiple barriers or maybe they don't have college educated people in their families to help them figure out what to do and what courses to take and what direction to go. So for them we need a comprehensive set of courses or particular specific subjects that have been defined as critical, have been developed into a curriculum and we need to help direct them more specifically. There is a group of students who need to get the instructions, get it done quickly, need to get out into the workforce, or have limited time because of families and other responsibilities, so it's an interesting kind of advising issue of how you deal with that.
Martin: The community college is more or less on the front line of the labor market, isn't it? And you have to be perhaps more sensitive and responsive to big changes that take place and sometimes on short notice. How do you handle that? How do you respond?
Julian: We involve career counselors, curriculum development specialists, workforce specialists. By putting together a team of people with various resources we can identify for a business that is changing its manufacturing procedures or adding a product that their employees need training for what is needed and what resources can we bring together. And we are partners with a lot of other agencies, and higher education institutions across Central Kentucky so we can bring other partners in if we can't provide that support. We can make referrals or add to the team in order to be able to respond.
Martin: In what ways have community college campus experiences changed?
Julian: Probably for community colleges it's more about flexible scheduling, using the technology to do things like hybrid courses or online courses. Hybrid is partly on campus and partly online. And at BCTC we've done a couple of things in that regard, pretty much all of our general education courses are hybrid. Something else that is happening is what's called flipped classroom where the actual content delivery is online and the onsite time is discussion. It's providing that rich context that can be had in face-to-face interaction. Those kinds of things are a reaction both to the technology available and to the facts of students' lives and expectations.


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PERTH AMBOY – After observing an alleged drug deal last week, Perth Amboy police arrested a 21-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman near the intersection of Washington and Division streets.
Joshua Ortiz-Arriaga was charged with possession of heroin, possession of heroin with the intent to distribute, distribution of heroin, distribution of heroin within 500 feet of Lucey Center Park, distribution of heroin within 1,000 feet of Ceres Elementary School and possession of narcotic paraphernalia. Shannon Masterson was charged with possession of heroin.
On Tuesday, June 26, members of Special Investigations Bureau and the Detective Bureau conducted surveillance Ortiz-Arriaga after receiving information that he was allegedly dealing heroin.
Detectives followed Ortiz-Arriaga to the area of Washington and Division streets, where they saw him meet Masterson, who was in a silver colored Dodge Neon. Police watched an exchange between the two suspects, then detectives moved in to recover three decks of heroin that were allegedly sold to Masterson by Ortiz-Arriaga, authorities said. Both individuals were then placed under arrest.
A search of Ortiz-Arriaga revealed an additional five decks of heroin on his person along with $149 in U.S. Currency, according to police. A consent search of Ortiz-Arriaga's apartment on the 400 block of State Street led to the recovery of an additional 30 decks of heroin and narcotic paraphernalia, authorities said.
Judge Maria Del Valle-Koch set Ortiz-Arriaga's bail at $50,000 with no 10 percent option and required a bail source hearing. The judge set Masterson's bail at $5,000 with no 10 percent option.
The total street value of the drugs recovered is approximately $400, according to police.
The charges against the defendants are merely accusations; they are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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Business Development Portal
The Native American Contractors Association (NACA), the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Black Chamber Inc. are partnering to launch NACA's Business Development Portal, a Web-based platform geared to searching, finding and winning new federal contracts for minority-owned businesses. The portal will offer growth opportunities, facilitate strategic alliances among Native-American, Hispanic-American and African-American businesses, and foster outreach within the small-business community. It will also provide training webinars. According to NACA, the primary goal of the new portal is "to provide strategic business services to minority-owned firms that result in the creation and retention of jobs for Americans through business growth. This is accomplished by increasing the domestic and global competitiveness of minority-owned firms in accessing contracts, capital and new markets."
Black Women's Gun Agenda
The Black Women's Agenda (BWA) Inc. added its support to the campaign for tougher gun control legislation with the launch of its "For the Love of Families" initiative on Feb. 14, Valentine's Day. In announcing the initiative, BWA cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics indicating that in 2010 guns took the lives of more than 31,000 Americans, the equivalent of more than three deaths an hour and 85 deaths a day. The organization backs a ban on the sale and production of assault weapons and gun magazines with more than 10 rounds, and supports President Obama's proposal calling for background checks designed to prevent criminals and people suffering from mental illness from purchasing guns. It urges its participating sororities, civic and faith-based groups to call or email the National Rifle Association to say there is still time to step up and play a constructive role in promoting gun safety, and to contact their elected officials to advocate for the passage of gun control legislation.
Rosa Parks Stamp
The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating the Best of America with several limited-edition stamps in 2013, including a Civil Rights Series that recognizes the courage of the late Rosa Parks, freedom embodied in the Emancipation Proclamation and equality marked by the March on Washington. On Feb. 4, what would have been Parks' 100th birthday, USPS unveiled a Forever stamp honoring the civil rights icon as part of the National Day of Courage ceremonies at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. The stamp was produced by art director Derry Noyes and stamp artist Thomas Blackshear II. Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man. Her arrest sparked a boycott of the Montgomery bus system that lasted longer than a year, and inspired others to similar acts to challenge racial segregation.
Diversity Bond
Toyota Financial Services launched its first Diversity & Inclusion Bond, developed in collaboration with Lebenthal Capital Markets and Citi. Toyota said the bond will become a component of its comprehensive funding program, and will allow the company to capture a more diverse investor base, increasing the depth and resiliency of its U.S. registered bond program. It said the new type of bond syndication also enables diversity firms to strengthen their relationships with clients, and gives their investors more access to TFS bonds and the opportunity to participate in higher-profile deals. Diverse and minority-owned firms, including Loop Capital Markets, Mischler Financial Group Inc., Samuel A. Ramirez & Co. Inc., and The Williams Capital Group L.P., assumed lead underwriting roles on the syndication. Law firms Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan L.L.P. and Davis Polk & Wardwell L.L.P. are acting as co-issuer's counsel, with O'Melveny & Myers L.L.P. acting as underwriters' counsel.
Diversity Recruitment
Professional Diversity Network (Prodivnet.com), an online professional networking marketplace that connects top companies with diverse candidates for employment, relaunched its suite of websites serving professional ethnic minorities, women, veterans, people with disabilities and the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender community to enable job seekers to use the company's job matching features on mobile devices. PDN also opened new offices in Chicago. Both moves are a response to the growing demand for workplace diversity. "More and more companies understand that a diverse workforce is essential in an increasingly diverse global economy and are striving to fill their diversity pipelines in order to compete in the marketplace," PDN CEO Jim Kirsh said. PDN maintains the following seven professional network websites: iHispano.com, serving Hispanic-American professionals; AMightyRiver.com, serving Black rofessionals; Military2Career.com, serving veterans; ProAble.net, serving people with disabilities; OutProNet.com, serving the LGBT community; AsianCareerNetwork.com, serving Asian-American professionals; and WomensCareerChannel.com, serving professional women.
Second N.Y.C. McKissack Office
McKissack & McKissack (Mckissack. com), the oldest minority-owned professional design and construction firm in the United States, opened an office in New York City's Harlem community, the company's second office in the city. The company said the new location solidifies its involvement and commitment to the Harlem community and furthers its ability to manage its Community Workforce Development Program. McKissack says that, like its location on Sixth Avenue, the Harlem office was designed with an innovative new design technique, EcoChi, which blends classical feng shui, Green and sustainable living and environmental psychology to revolutionize how people feel when they are indoors, including a living wall feature.


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Yes, dear friends, we're in a celebratory mood! Why? Take a look at this picture.
How many fingers is Sringeri Srinivas holding up? Does he have a problem counting? What is Sringeri Srinivas saying?
"What? Can't believe it! You're ten years old?" That's what he's saying!
Yes, yes, yes, we're ten years young. We've been so happily engaged in bringing out books for more and more children that we almost forgot that January 1, 2014 marked our 10th anniversary. We're delighted to be on this journey, and we are aware that there are many many kilometres to travel before our mission is accomplished. Children need to be reading, so that they may enter new worlds of opportunity and fair living. As we move ahead on the next decade, we take strength and inspiration from all of you, our supporters and well-wishers, to ensure that more children are reading, that there is more content to be read, in many more languages, and that all this is accessible for every child in the country.
My colleague Manisha Chaudhry felt so happy to be ten that she sent this off in ten seconds!
Where, how and When
Did we become Ten?
Seems like yesterday
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Organizing Digital Media Files
How to store digital media on a computer hard drive (internal or external) or other large capacity removable media
Introduction There are many ways to organize digital media files. I propose a standardized method to improve the ease of sharing public domain files. Classification Schemes Librarians, curators, doctors, reporters, biologists, engineers and many others are often faced with classifying and storing various forms of information and physical objects. Most disciplines have created their own […]
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60% Whole Wheat Bread Machine Recipe
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For the second year in a row, Inc. magazine named The Ramey Agency to its 36th annual Inc. 5000, a prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. CEO Chris Ray, called the achievement is a testament to the team's hard work, dedication and commitment. The Ramey Agency is a brand strategy and marketing communications company with 40 employees and ...Read More »
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C Spire drops New York ad firm, chooses Ramey Agency
A Mississippi telecommunications company went looking for a new advertising agency, and it didn't have to look far to find its firm. The Ramey Agency, a brand strategy and marketing communications firm headquartered in Jackson, has been tapped as the lead creative agency for Ridgeland-based C Spire, replacing Young & Rubicam New York. "We have long admired C Spire as ...Read More »
State ad agencies tackle changing marketplace with innovative strategies
Recently when Viking Range Corp. was bought by a much larger company, Middleby Corp., marketing campaigns that had been handled by the Ramey Agency were suspended. That type of merger of a Mississippi-based company with a larger company based in another state is a long-established trend that can lead to loss of work for advertising agencies based in Mississippi. Chris ...Read More »
Ray kept train on tracks
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case Jacobellis v. Ohio was opining on a pornography censorship case and famously wrote, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see ...Read More »
Experts: Don't avoid social media due to fear of negative comments
Companies that have not yet waded into the waters of social media often fear negative customer comments. But Jackson area advertising gurus agree that the biggest social media risk is not engaging and monitoring what customers are already saying about you. Beth Kander, who just transitioned from copy writer to social media director at Mad Genius creative agency last month, ...Read More »
Ole Miss rolls out new physical mascot
A children's hospital is probably as safe a place as any for the public debut of something as controversial as the Rebel Black Bear, Ole Miss' new on-field mascot. So that's exactly where Rebel showed up April 5 for his introduction. Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children in Jackson hosted the event, which was "great in every way," according to ...Read More »


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Talk to the health professionalIf the health professional does not allow you to accompany the individual during their consultation, request an opportunity to speak with them afterwards. Use this time to give them as much information as you have.
Ask about supportAsk for clear information on support options. If your loved one has suicidal thoughts, ask for information on managing the risk of suicide and for any supports available.
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The 10 Best Sandwiches in Movie History
Which 'wich can take down a witch?
A few weeks ago, filmmaker David Lowery started a discussion on Twitter about the greatest sandwiches in film history. Well, we love countdowns of cinema's greatest edits, shots, slow-motion sequences, and other filmic elements, so why not cinema's greatest sandwiches? We saw a need and we filled it. Enjoy.


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Frozen Free Fall: 100 Million Downloads Celebration Mosaic
We're really excited to share our mosaic with you. It took over 1700 screenshots straight from the game in order to create this, and each one had to be perfectly selected and placed to blend in with each other. We think it's a great way to showcase both this Celebration and how far Frozen Free Fall has come, and we can't wait to celebrate the next 100 million!
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When the fledgling Bowman Gray School of Medicine and N.C. Baptist Hospital entered into a partnership in 1941, it created the foundation for the nationally renowned academic medical center that exists today.
Throughout the decades, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has set high standards in its clinical work, research, administration work and education. The timeline that follows highlights some of the key achievements through those years that have brought national, and even international, recognition.
Camilo Artom, MD, a scientist with an international reputation in lipid metabolism, bolsters the faculty at Bowman Gray. Click for more.
The Department of Clinics within Bowman Gray School of Medicine incorporates a professional practice plan – the first of its kind in the nation. The plan, known for years as Wake Forest University Physicians, today is recognized through the physician practices of Wake Forest Baptist Health.
Jesse H. Meredith, MD, performs the nation's first hand reimplantation when an inmate on a road crew is injured. Click for more.
William H. Boyce, MD, develops a technique that becomes standard procedure around the world for removing large stones. Click for more.
A team at N.C. Baptist Hospital led by William Boyce, MD, help develop the use of ultrasound for evaluation of the prostate. Click for more.
Bowman Gray School of Medicine establishes the nation's first toll-free hotline for information about epilepsy.
N.C. Baptist Hospital is the first in the nation to use transcranial Doppler ultrasound to measure atherosclerotic buildup on the walls of the carotid artery. Later, N.C. Baptist is the first to image arterial circulation in the brain to determine whether drugs and other treatments were stabilizing or reversing atherosclerosis.
Nine young people at a party in Conover wind up at N.C. Baptist Hospital after drinking liquid lye, and survive multiple surgeries on their stomachs and esophagi. Click for more.
Gary Poehling, MD, leads a conference at N.C. Baptist Hospital that helps define and teach orthopaedic physicians the new technique of wrist arthroscopy. Click for more.
The Medical Center is the first in the nation to use lithotripsy to break up common duct gallstones.
Louis Kucera, PhD, is among the first scientists in the world racing to find ways to treat AIDS, and in the process, forms one of the School of Medicine's first spinout companies. Click for more.
Neurologist J. Kiffin Penry, MD, helps N.C. Baptist Hospital become the first in the nation to implant a newly approved device under an epileptic's skin, using electrical impulses to control seizures. Click for more.
Two School of Medicine professors, Louis Argenta, MD, and Michael Morykwas, PhD, design a vacuum-assisted wound-closure device that has since been used on millions of patients around the world. Click for more.
Barry Freedman, MD, has spent his career fighting to prove his theory that genetic or inherited factors account for much of the racial difference in non-diabetic kidney disease. His theories have proven correct. Click for more.
The J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging and Rehabilitation becomes one of the first centers in the world to combine geriatric care, sub-acute care, rehabilitation, psychiatric care, comprehensive ambulatory geriatric assessment, geriatric primary care and research under one roof. Click for more.
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher W. Gregory Hundley, MD, leads colleagues in two "world-first" efforts with magnetic resonance imaging in less than a year. Click for more.
The Medical Center becomes the first in the nation to use newly FDA-approved GliaSite Radiation Therapy to treat brain cancer, in which cancerous tissue is targeted with a liquid source of radiation delivered through a balloon catheter. Click for more.
The Medical Center becomes the first in the world to demonstrate in a live Internet broadcast the implantation of a deep brain stimulator to treat the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease. This also was the first live Webcast of a surgical procedure of any kind in North Carolina. Click for more.
Led by renowned poet, author and civil rights activist Dr. Maya Angelou's desire to effect change in closing the health gap between minorities and the rest of the population, the School of Medicine creates the Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health. Click for more.
Anthony Atala, MD, joins the Medical Center to start the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, inaugurating an era of national and international breakthroughs in a field that holds the potential to develop replacement organs and tissues for virtually every part of the human body. Click for more.
The Medical Center is among a handful in the nation to participate in a study that disproves long-held beliefs about the potential benefits of hormone replacement therapy for post-menopausal women, with the key research focusing on the issue of cognitive function. Click for more.
Ophthalmologist Keith Walter, MD, shows that humidity in the treatment room can affect the outcome of LASIK surgery. His study becomes the national standard for adjusting indoor humidity in the treatment room prior to LASIK surgery. Click for more.
When energy drinks became common on college campuses in the mid-2000s, little was known about the effects of drinking them. The earliest research and warnings about the drinks came from a team of researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine led by Mary Claire O'Brien, MD. Click for more.
Allison Brashear, MD and chair of Neurology at the Medical Center, reports that a multicenter study shows repeated treatments of Botox significantly decreases spasticity, or muscle tightness, as well as pain frequency and average pain intensity in the upper limbs after a stroke. Click for more.
Brenner Children's Hospital starts Brenner FIT (Families in Training), one of the most comprehensive pediatric obesity programs in the nation. Its efforts, as well as related research, focus on helping families overcome obstacles to reducing obesity in children. Click for more.
A team of genomics researchers at the School of Medicine report that a simple blood test can help predict which men are likely to develop prostate cancer. Click for more.
Minimally invasive surgery is the key treatment today for urologic cancer, and Ashok Hemal, MD, director of the Medical Center's Robotic and Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery Program, completed groundbreaking research to compare the two modern techniques of laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Click for more.
Waldemar Debinski, MD, PhD, director of the Thomas K. Hearn Jr. Brain Tumor Research Center, announces a major research breakthrough showing how a specially designed protein can be made to target and destroy certain brain tumor cells. Click for more.
The School of Medicine is chosen as one of six leading research institutions across the United States to partner with Toyota's Collaborative Safety Research Center in the development, testing and implementation of automotive safety innovations. Click for more.
New animal research shows that the drugs used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder do not appear to have long-term effects on the brain, a team of Wake Forest Baptist researchers shows. Click for more.
With increasing fears of concussions in sports, the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (SBES) announces plans for a pioneering study–Kinematics of Impact Data Set (KIDS)–that will track the exposure of head impact on young football players. Click for more.
The Nurse Anesthesia program becomes the first in the United States and second in the world to be accredited by the International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists. Click for more.
Cheryl Bushnell, MD, director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, is author of a new scientific statement offering guidelines to help prevent stroke in women. Click for more.
A new study led by Carlos J. Rodriguez, MD, associate professor of public health sciences for Wake Forest Baptist, shows for the first time that reducing systolic blood pressure below 120 does not appear to provide additional benefit for patients, as long believed in the medical community. Click for more
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Notifications, as they currently exist, are just simple lines of text that play across the top of the status bar when they come in, and make a sound when the screen is off, with no visual notification at all, like on iOS. Pops is trying to do something quite different with the way notifications appear on Android, and taking visual notifications to a new level.
When a user's screen is off, a video with sound plays, and the notification text appears below the screen. The video is mainly just there to serve as an immediate visual cue that a certain type of notification has appeared. The notification text below the screen isn't just there for posterity, it can also serve as a quick reply box. For example, a Twitter reply that comes in can be replied to without ever unlocking the phone.
While some services like Skype, SMS, and Google+ work out of the box for receiving notifications as long as they are already configured through their apps, Twitter, Gmail, and Facebook require separate logins through Pops for their notifications to work. Twitter notifications allow for replies to be sent directly from the video screen, but there's no character limit; going over causes the reply to not be sent by Twitter, though.
There are a variety of free pre-made videos for users to choose from, largely comprising short animated clips that play. Users can also use their own pictures and videos to make their own videos. While the app is currently free, it seems as if monetization opportunities abound: selling new videos, or even through sponsored ones. A user could find out that they've got a new text message through a video of Katniss from The Hunger Games shooting an arrow. It makes too much sense.
Pops is currently available from Google Play, and appears to be compatible only with phones, not tablets, as it is incompatible with the Motorola Xoom.


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Category Archives: Low budget green screen
CREATION by Sylvia Toy, Scene Three
CREATION is a mythology based on Mbombo, the creator god in the religion and mythology of the Kuba of Central Africa, who created the world by vomiting various parts of it. #experimentalfilm #sylviatoyindustries #sylviatoystlouis #actress #Chromakey #performanceart #sylviatoy
New page on this website: Mythologies
In PASSAGES, the heart of the conflict is the philosopher King of the Gods, Sum'o's, desire to experience giving birth like a human in his quest for transcendence.. His youngest sister, Sum'a the Enforcer hates humans because they have developed spoken language; one day during a confrontation, she accidentally kills a human. Sum'o's older sister, Sum'i the Arbiter, is interested only in maintaining balance through observance of the laws, traditions and principles handed down by their ancestors.
"Night" is the identity chosen by The First One, who comes into existence out of the void of light and immediately hates being alive. This video exploring her character and developing her subtext is my second experiment showing her struggle to escape existence into a black hole. CREATION is a mythology based on Mbombo, the creator god in the religion and mythology of the Kuba of Central Africa, who created the world by vomiting various parts of it. I am in the pre-production phase of CREATION, composing a live action storyboard through a process of creating and uploading pre-production worldbuilding, story and character development videos. CREATION is shot splitscreen and chromakeyed; and montaged with shots from the natural world. There is no dialogue (vocalization and singing are improvised) and the movie will be subtitled and or intertitled as necessary. The sound of the world of the story will be gathered as much as possible from the characters' movements and mixed with found sounds to enhance the ambience.
SEQUENCE 13 combines animation and live action an experimental, greenscreen art film inspired by the Central African creator god, Mbombo, who created the world by vomiting it. There is no dialogue. The soundtrack is original, minimalist music. The characters in SEQUENCE 13 are The Second One, a creator god who begins vomiting all the parts of the Universe, and one of his/her hatchlings. This is my first movie in which animation is a dominating component.
THE HARPY TRIBUNAL by Sylvia Toy, excerpt (rough) from Sylvia Toy on Vimeo.
A goddess disagrees with her sisters about The Humans and is put on trial for treason.
The Cape Experiments by Sylvia Toy are performance art events improvised by a large, greenscreenable cape, the environment, my husband, Michael Lewis, directing behind a handheld camera, and myself. These scenes were shot in Cold Creek, Nevada USA, which is located in the Toyabe National Forest near Mt. Charleston.
Updated page: Lucy, The First Human
LUCY, THE FIRST HUMAN by Sylvia Toy (remastered rough cut) from Sylvia Toy on Vimeo.
TITLE: Lucy, the First Human by Sylvia Toy (remastered in 2017)
SPECS: 23:44 minutes, 16:9, H.264, AAC, Color/Stereo, Silent/No captioning
COUNTRY: United States
On Tuesday November 24, 2015, the 51st anniversary of Donald Johanson's discovery of Australopithecus afarensis ("Lucy") at the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia, my 'Lucy, the First Human' trailers on YouTube got a total of five hours of airtime. That means my Lucy came up in searches and someone probably shared her. That is a real thrill.
LUCY, THE FIRST HUMAN is video art/microcinema crossing genre into nonlinear science fiction fantasy. The subject matter is paleoanthropological. The setting is a barren, shadowy, womb-like or cave-like environment. There is only one character in the movie. She is based on the hominid, Australopithecus afarensis.
This movie is composed of a series of improvisations of what the first human would do, think, feel, and how it would develop. The solitary female character is like an infant, mostly sleeping in the beginning. In her waking hours, her primary interest is herself until things begin to suddenly and surrealistically appear in her "cave." She gradually is drawn out of her self-absorption into the real world.
Updated page: VOICE, a performance art movie
SPECS: 02:40 hours (159+ minutes), 16:9, H.264, AAC, Color/Stereo, English subtitles/No captioning
COUNTRY: United States
VOICE, A PERFORMANCE ART WEB SERIES is a 159 minute movie about Psyche Smith, a bipolar woman whose psychoses begin traveling in outer space just as she enters therapy. VOICE was shot splitscreen/greenscreen with one actress playing all three characters.
The world of VOICE is composed of original montages incorporating NASA footage, anatomical diagrams of the Human nervous system and documentary-style outdoor footage.
While the psychoses, Echo & Lyssa, tour outer space dressed to the nines in beautiful clothing, often including hats, Psyche – when not wearing the uniform of the depressed, a bathrobe – begins to find her own heart and starts painting again.
Psyche's therapy sessions are portrayed through monologues given directly through "the Fourth Wall" to the camera.
VOICE is not an autobiographical downer confessional about bipolar disorder. VOICE is about the infinity of freedom and joy that one can achieve through self-discovery and following his/her bliss.
VOICE was an official selection of Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, 2017, and received an Honorable Mention from LA Underground Film Forum in 2016. Since 2015, VOICE festival cuttings have screened in venues and festivals around the world – London, Marrakech, Berlin, Barcelona, Milan – including VisualContainer TV, HearteartH Project, International Video Art Exchange Program, and CM Projects' Chemcraft Exhibit. Most recently (2017), VOICE FESTIVAL CUTTING 3 was selected by Underground FilmFest and Black Underground FilmFest, and given an Honorable Mention nod by Experimental Film Forum (Los Angeles).
I made this movie all by myself in my livingroom except for 2 follow shots by my husband. I created the montages. I created the sounds using my own voice and everyday sounds in my environment. There are 24 teasers in this Vimeo album:
"This is called Voice because she has a lot to say. And she makes you think." Pamela Pitt review.
A limited edition of professionally authored DVDs is available on Etsy and Saatchi Art. Prices on my art films are equivalent to moderate prices on artist's prints and or unique drawings and small paintings and sculpture.
Shortly after I made this #greenscreenart #video, I upgraded to #HighSierra, which is incompatible with my favorite editor, #FinalCutExpress4. I had to strip my OS, downgrade to #ElCapitan and reinstall Final Cut Express. I can't open any of the timelines I created prior to this "disaster". However, since this video has three layers of keyed clips (i.e., first I keyed out the green the figure is wearing, and in a new file, keyed out the red backdrop, etc.) I had begun creating #AppleProResHQ files to used as my #source on different layers of the #timeline. It is so interesting how habits you develop as part of your #process, no matter what your practice (art, writing, law, business) can sometimes save your ass.
Sylvia Toy St. Louis | List of Work (Exhibition List | Videography), January 2018
Year of creation: 2008
Psychotic Artifacts. Exhibited in The Revolution Will Be Televised, Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2008.
Year of creation: 2010
Depression As Geography. Exhibited in 'CologneOff VII, Marrakech and Turkestan, 2011.
Year of creation: 2011
Indigo Lady. Selected for L.A. Neo Noir Film Festival, Femmes Fatales Grand Jury Award, 2016.
Indigo Lady pre-production videos. Exhibited at Galerie Chartier, West Haven, CT, 2013; KAPAS Film Festival, Spain, 2012.
Runnn. Exhibited on Skye Arte TV, Italy, 2013-2014.
Traveling To. Exhibited in STREETVIDEO Art on the streets of Paris and at Larcade Gallery, Paris October 2012, March 2013.
TYFTB (thank you from the bottom), (remastered and re-released 2017). Pre-production video screened at Galerie Chartier, West Haven CT, 2013.
Year of creation: 2013
Lucy, the First Human (remastered and re-released in 2017). Featured in The Unstitute Projection Room, November – December 2017.
running out. Exhibited in Pineapple Underground Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2014.
VOICE Pre-production videos. 2013-2016. Exhibited in International Video Art Exchange Program, Marrakech (2016) and in the Chemcraft Exhibit, CM Projects, London (2015).
Year of creation: 2014
before chill. Selected for Creative Arts Film Festival and awarded Honorable Mention for Best Cinematography, Online festival, 2016.
Queen. Exhibited in "Clash," Siger Art Gallery, London, November 2017.
Year of creation: 2014
The Sound of Being. Toured internationally in Magmart F.I.V.E., 2014-2015. Exhibited in CCIFabrika "Now&After17," Moscow, RU, 2017.
Year of creation: 2015
The Blue Lady by Sylvia Toy. Exhibited in 1974-1978 UNL Alumni Exhibition, Eisentrager-Howard Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, 2016.
Passages, a Myth. Excerpt, PASSAGES, A MYTH | DISCOVERY OF THE PREGNANCY OF THE KING, exhibited in Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece, 2016 and at Visual Container, Milan, IT 2017.
KILLER JANE Pre-production videos. 2015-2017. Selected for L.A. Neo Noir Film Festival and awarded a Femmes Fatales Grand Jury Award, 2016.
Year of creation: 2016
THE HARPY by Sylvia Toy. Selected for Bucharest ShortCut CineFest, September, 2016.
VOICE, a performance art movie. Selected for Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, 2017. Awarded Honorable Mention laurels by Los Angeles Underground Film Forum, 2016. Awarded Honorable Mention laurels by Experimental Film Forum, 2017.
VOICE Festival Cutting 2. Exhibited at VisualContainer TV (2016 and 2017) and toured in HearteartH to Barcelona, Berlin, Milan (2016).
VOICE Festival Cutting 3. Exhibited in Underground FilmFest, Munich, Germany, July 2017. Exhibited in Black Underground Film Fest, Rancho Cucamonga, California, October 2017.
Year of creation: 2017
THE HARPY Tribunal. Exhibited on Art Web Gallery, La Spezia, IT, online June-July 2017.
KILLER JANE by Sylvia Toy. Exhibited at Klanghaus, Oakland CA, May 2017. Selected for Chicago Amarcord Arthouse Film Awards, November 2017.
AND SO I SAID. Exhibited in Burnt Experimental Video Art and Film Festival, Montreal, December 2017.


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Today Madix, Inc. announced a new product line, Maxi Grid. Maxi Grid is an economical and versatile shelving line that creates a unique in-store experience. This fixture concept offers numerous shelving accessories. All Maxi Grid parts and accessories are easy to install and reconfigure to effortlessly transform your store and make it unique to you. Maxi Grid allows retailers the flexibility to routinely change the shelving to fit merchandise and not waste valuable space. In fact, you can quickly remove the shelves and readjust them without removing adjacent shelves.
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October 2013, Vol. 240 No. 10
In The News
Meritage Scoops Up Thunder Creek Gas Services
Meritage Midstream Services II LLC has acquired 100% ownership of Thunder Creek Gas Services LLC from Devon Energy Corp. and PVR Partners LP.
Established in 1998, Thunder Creek owns and operates natural gas gathering, treating and processing assets in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, including more than 500 miles of high- and low-pressure gas gathering pipelines, three natural gas treating facilities, compression and gas processing facilities, and various NGL and condensate handling facilities.
"The Thunder Creek system is a great addition to the significant midstream footprint we are building in one of the country's most exciting emerging shale basins," said Meritage CEO Steve Huckaby.
Meritage is also developing the Black Thunder Terminal, a joint venture with Arch Coal. Located in Campbell County, WY at Arch Coal's Black Thunder mining complex, the terminal will provide storage, blending and rail loading services for crude oil and condensate produced in the basin. Meritage plans to expand the Thunder Creek gathering system to provide pipeline service to the terminal.


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Show Me the Money's Microdot reveals what it's like to be an independent rapper in Korea
Microdot, the talented Kiwi-Korean rapper who stole everyone's hearts in the last season of Show Me The Money, has been busy performing all over the world on his first international tour, but he took a break to visit the DramaFever office and tell us all about what it's like to grow up in the spotlight and then become an independent rapper on the Korean hip hop scene.
It was such a pleasure to meet Microdot, and we can't wait to see what he does next!
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Recall that the Loser Sisters were teenagers when their Mother passed away. We decided to tackle the first Thanksgiving dinner after she died. What were we thinking? The following are hard learned lessons from past Losersister Thanksgivings:
- BUY PRE-CUBED BREAD: Per tradition, we dried out a few loaves of bread and cubed it the night before. Easy, except the Loser Sister was home from college and spent the night out at a bar with her friends. Sharp knives and drinking don't mix. Spend a little more and spare your fingers.
- STAY SOBER: Cleaning out the turkey carcass is better left to those who are not hung-over.
- GET THE BIRD WITH THE POP-UP TIMER: This feature would have spared the Losersisters angst and embarrassment. We didn't know "which end was up" on the turkey. We roasted it upside down, with way too much butter. The meal was a greasy mess.
- KNOW YOUR GIBLETS: They may look gross, but giblets add flavor to the stuffing and gravy. This time it probably would not have made a difference since the drippings had the taste and viscosity of motor oil.
- TIMING IS EVERYTHING: The mashed potatoes were simultaneously watery and lumpy, and way too salty. It's important not to overcook or over salt the spuds.
- Fire Extinguisher: The kitchen was covered in a film of grease. It oozed from our pores and soiled our matching aprons and babushkas.
- A Tried and True Recipe: The one thing the Losersisters got right was the lime Jello-Mold, or "Slime." Always a crowd pleaser.
- Libations: Wine, and lots of it. Nothing cuts the grease and dulls the senses like some bread and carafes of vino. Your guests may think it's the worse Thanksgiving dinner ever, but will not remember it. They'll recite the Losersister mantra: "We will spill no wine before its time."
- LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Graciously accept a Thanksgiving invitation. Don't forget to bring the Slime.
Heed these Losersister tips for a bountiful Thanksgiving.
Good luck and Bon Appetite!


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Lotus Flower Elephants Ocean Blue and Sea Green (approx 18 hours)
See alternative version Lotus Flower Elephants of the Rainbow here
My latest work, a pencil drawings which I've painted digitally. I hope you like it! The lotus is highly symbolic of love and purity, I hope this will make a special card or print for engagements, your beloved, valentine's day, weddings, anniversaries, girlfriends and boyfriends, etc


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Monday, October 28, 2013
Designing a Character
Name and gender
Background - What are the characters' race, culture, and nationality? What are their religious or spiritual beliefs? What was their upbringing like? What was their economic status? What relatives were present - parents, siblings, others?
Personality - What are the characters' personality types? (There are several personality type scales and charts. I use the ones outlined in Florence Littauer's Personality Plus book - choleric, phlegmatic, sanguine, and melancholy.) What are the strengths and weaknesses? What are their interests and hobbies? What are the goals of each character? (That alone can set the storyline.)
Physical attributes - What is the basic body build of each character? Height, weight, eye color, hair color? What is each one's intelligence level?
Misc. - What are the characters' ages or birthdays? Who are their friends? Do they have a spouse, girl/boy friend, or children? What other details would help define the character?
Those basics can provide a solid foundation from which to build. Sometimes it takes a bit to coax the details from our minds - or our characters if we decide to interview them. But the results will be three-dimensional characters who are ready to go any direction you send them.
What other details are important to know about your characters?
I'm also posting at the Insecure Writers Support Group website on How to Present a Professional Appearance as a Self-Publisher.
50 comments:
- Laura Marcella said...
This is a terrific list! I always like to know what happened to my characters the day, week, month before the moment the story starts. It's details that probably won't make it into the story at all, but it helps define who the character is at the start and how she of he will evolve throughout the story.
Happy reading and writing! from Laura Marcella @ Wavy Lines
- October 28, 2013
- Bish Denham said...
If the main character is a child, what kind of school does he/she go to. Is he/she popular or not or somewhere in between. What kind of grades does he/she make? Does he/she like school or not.
- October 28, 2013
Excellent post, will look forward to the self publisher post as I am just starting my third book....with a different look.
- October 28, 2013
- Elizabeth Spann Craig/Riley Adams said...
Great list!
I like to know my characters' greatest fear and their top goal.
- October 28, 2013
- Karen Walker said...
The next step in my novel is working on character development so this is very helpful. Thanks, Diane.
- October 28, 2013
- Stephen Tremp said...
I sometimes make reference to parents and siblings and childhood family experienced. Good times. Bad times. These can help shape a character.
- October 28, 2013
- Natalie Aguirre said...
Great list. And I like what Bish added.
- October 28, 2013
- Denise Covey said...
This is nicely succinct L Diane. I agree, the more we flesh out our character before we start, even if we don't use half of it. the better our characterisation will be.I will be using this to get myself started for NaNo. Thanks!
- October 28, 2013
- L. Diane Wolfe said...
Laura, knowing those things really helps.
Bish, great suggestions!
Stephen, yes they can.
Denise, I'm glad it will help you.
- October 28, 2013
- Scribbles From Jenn said...
Thanks for this list. It's short, clear, and concise. I'm going to save it to use when I begin my next project.
- October 28, 2013
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
Great list! I like to know as much as possible about my characters before I start writing.
- October 28, 2013
- Carol Kilgore said...
I like to know what my character doesn't want to tell me ... her biggest secret she doesn't want anyone to know.
- October 28, 2013
- Chris Fries said...
I always lean towards character-driven stories, and want to know as much as possible about my characters from the get-go.
One exercise that I sometimes do when "stuck" is to take some of my plot and write a "journal" about it entirely from my character's perspective. It really helps to get inside their head. Or inside my head, where their head is... Or something like that.
Hmmm... Us writers can be a bit schizo, can't we?
- October 28, 2013
- Southpaw said...
I start with my premise and a idea of plot, then go to characters. I've developed my "character template" sheet. I'm still adding new things to it as they come up. I like to add special and hidden talents too.
- October 28, 2013
- cleemckenziebooks said...
I love "hearing" a distinctive way of speaking and finding out out what a character's greatest fears are.
- October 28, 2013
- Robin said...
Love this list. Good idea to apply it to the supporting characters and not just the main one. I thought about my main one as I read this list and knew the answers. Not so sure I could say that about some of the important supporting characters... which tells me I need to think about it some more!!!
- October 28, 2013
- Johanna Garth said...
I always try to picture my characters at a party. What kind of person would they be? In the corner, by the buffet, surrounded by friends?
- October 28, 2013
- Sarah Allen said...
Very good post. I feel like my main characters are often, in some sense, a warped extension of myself. As in, I take one aspect of myself that I morph into the character. I don't consciously do it that way, but when I'm done and look back, that's often the way it is. I think it's true that all of our characters are really only based on ourselves.
Sarah Allen
(From Sarah, with Joy)
- October 28, 2013
- Rachel Schieffelbein said...
Great post. :) I usually get my story idea first, but then I think about who would be in that story. You know? Knowing the characters always comes before the first words for me. :)
- October 28, 2013
- Susan Gourley/Kelley said...
I always make notes on what the character's problem is. Perhaps what their challenge is, their goal or whatever will drive them throughout the story.
- October 28, 2013
- L. Diane Wolfe said...
Carol, I bet you have to beat it out of her.
Chris, the journal idea is a good one.
Robin, it's easy to forget the secondary characters.
Johanna, that would be fun.
Sarah, there is a little bit of me in all ten of my main characters.
- October 28, 2013
- M Pax said...
I usually like to write little stories before the novel opens about my MCs. Even with that extra knowledge it can take me 1/2 a first draft before I truly get to know my MC. Series are easier that way, because I already know most of the characters.
- October 28, 2013
- J E Oneil said...
Nope, nothing to add. I think you pretty much covered everything there :)
- October 28, 2013
- Mel Chesley said...
My characters tend to have quirks. Either something they do over and over, or say. I try to come up with everything you've listed here, makes writing them that much easier. :D
- October 28, 2013
- shelly said...
How about what their hobbies are? Political views?
- October 28, 2013
- Lynda R Young said...
I'm building a few characters at the moment, so this list certainly helps!!
- October 29, 2013
- Rhonda Albom said...
My teen is doing NaNoWriMo and has been busy doing character development in preparation for days. I am sure this will help. Thanks.
- October 29, 2013
- Annalisa Crawford said...
I never know my characters in that much detail. Maybe I should... Maybe it shows in my work!! :-/
- October 29, 2013
- Jennifer Shirk said...
I like to find pictures of my characters now so I have a clear view. I know a good amount of traits and some come up as I'm writing.
- October 29, 2013
- Julie Luek said...
Great list I like the idea of fleshing out the characters, even the minor ones, as well as the setting. Seems like it would keep the writing more vivid.
- October 29, 2013
- Rawknrobyn.blogspot.com said...
Good things to consider, Spunk. I never thought about characters' birthdays, for example. You can move in many directions with just one nuance of character. Thank you for the helpful perspective.
Be well.
- October 29, 2013
- LD Masterson said...
I try not to design my characters. I like to meet them somewhere and learn about them little by little. Of course, sometimes I'm in the middle of a story and learn something that changes what I've already written. Don't you hate it when that happens?
- October 29, 2013
- L. Diane Wolfe said...
Shelly, political views are good.
Jennifer, I've always used pictures, too.
LD, yes!
- October 29, 2013
- J Q Rose said...
I always know who my mc is before I start the story. I like the specific detail you listed in the post. It will help round out a character, but I would want to be flexible with the info if I need to in order to make a more interesting person for the reader. Really enjoying all the comments filled with tips and thoughts on writing. Thanks.
- October 29, 2013
- E.J. Wesley said...
I don't tend to use character outlines for my main character as they tend to come fully-formed in my head. But I do use them for secondary characters quite a lot. If they don't spend a lot of time on the page, it's easy for me to forget who and what they're all about. :)
- October 29, 2013
- klahanie said...
Hi Diane,
I also prefer to design a character first and then see what transpires from there.
I agree that attention to detail are basics that should be realised. Of course, one of my latest main characters in "Ann Tagonist."
My characters can display the other side of their personality that they only reveal within their own home and not the outside world.
Excellent info, Diane. Thank you.
- October 29, 2013
I need to know about their past, especially the part from before the start of the story.
- October 30, 2013
This is a great list. I have that Personality Plus book by Florence Littauer. I'll have to dig it out.
- October 30, 2013
- Karen Lange said...
Great stuff! As a reader and a writer, I have come to learn just how important all these elements are. Teaching a flash fiction class to teens as we speak, trying to get this across to them. :)
- October 30, 2013
- Gwen Gardner said...
I planned my main character with a profile, but she really evolved after I began the writing. She told me who she is.
- October 30, 2013
- Yvonne Osborne said...
I usually start with a scene, an action, an event and go from there, building the characters as I write. Physical attributes are, of course, important as is background and upbringing. How they got to where they are in life.
- October 30, 2013
- L. Diane Wolfe said...
JQ, you can always change it!
Susanne, it's a wonderful book! Excellent for dealing with people, too.
- October 30, 2013
- Ella said...
Hi L.Diane! This is great-I love all the details you shared~ Thank you so much!
- October 30, 2013
- Heather M. Gardner said...
Being an annoying pantster I don't normally write down all my characters attributes but I find it more helpful the older (and dumber) I get. :)
The character's job can also make a big impact on the character and the story.
Great post!
- October 31, 2013
- Michelle Wallace said...
This is a great list Diane! Really helpful. Thanks for sharing!
- October 31, 2013
- Arlee Bird said...
I've never done the interviews, but I make strong mental outlines of each character I write about so I get to know them very well.
A Faraway View
- October 31, 2013
- Sherry Ellis said...
These are good tips for helping to develop your characters!
- October 31, 2013
- Connie Arnold said...
This is a good and helpful post with great tips on building characters. Thanks, Diane!
- October 31, 2013
Great list Diane. I do also like to know the hobbies of my characters too, including what music they listen to, and books they like to read.
- November 01, 2013
- Hilary Melton-Butcher said...
Hi Dianne .. I certainly like to feel there's 'a whole' to the characters I'm reading about .. and can feel let down ..
Fascinating read and I'll be over to read your ISWG post .. cheers Hilary
- November 02, 2013


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Mandy Patinkin Does Not Think Ted Cruz's Princess Bride References Mean ... You Can Finish the Quote Yourselves
To quote The Princess Bride, "Liar, Liar, Liaaaaar!"
Mandy Patinkin would like Ted Cruz, who quotes The Princess Bride more often than an awkward middle-schooler trying to pick up girls at his first dance, to please cut it out. In an interview with the New York Times, the man behind Inigo Montoya said that he's tired of the presidential candidate and oversize-suit model misusing references to the classic film. "Since he quotes all the lines from The Princess Bride and certainly all of my character, Inigo Montoya's, lines, I would like to know why he doesn't quote my favorite line?" Patinkin said. That line? "I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life."
Cruz likes to pull out his stable of Princess Bride impressions to build arguments about everything from health care to the Iraq War (excepting the whole "never get involved in a land war in Asia" point) and, second to his deeply awkward attempt at Billy Crystal, Cruz's favorite impression is of Patinkin's character. His fans have even made a popular meme of Cruz's head superimposed on Montoya's body. Patinkin would like that to stop, too: "They Photoshopped his face right over my face!" Pantikin told the Times. "I said, 'How can I stop this?'' If only there were a way to stop people from using memes, Mandy. The world would be truly be a better place.


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To Dan and Kathy Russ ("Cancer and the Care of the Soul," Spring 2009)
Dan, this morning I took time to read the article you and Kathy wrote on the journey you have been on for the past two years. I so appreciated reading it. Last night I was with a woman who after 25 years has had a relapse of her cancer. This has been going on for four years. She is tired of all the treatments, etc., which I think you understand. I am going to take this article over to her today. It is good that you did not hide things from others. We all need this courage to be open and share with others so we can be the beneficiaries of what God has planned for us—in the provision of love and support from His family.
—Sandra Bowden, past president of CIVA (Christians in Visual Arts)
Many thanks to Mike Gorman (Letters, Spring 2009) for questioning Gordon's involvement in the ROTC program. The editor's note to Mike's letter stated that Gordon "has an obligation to prepare students for leadership in a wide range of vocations." This truism begs the question and is not in itself a sufficient justification for the College's support of ROTC. The note goes on to say that preparing military leaders "is not the same as supporting the military strategy of a given political administration." I find this line of reasoning naïve and evasive. It is more the case, I think, that such action implies support of the military strategy of all political administrations and that such support is a good thing.
I suspect Gordon's willingness to support ROTC is ideologically anchored in the traditional Reformed overemphasis of such texts as Romans 13:1–7; evangelical Christianity's adoption of a theology that emphasizes God's punishment of sin and our role as agents in that punishment; and the subconscious transfer of battle metaphors from the spiritual realm into the political (with an accompanying literalization of those metaphors).
Over the years I have read in STILLPOINT many mentions of military service by alumni. I don't recall reading news about alumni, faculty or students engaging in peace ministries or criticizing the military policies of our government. If there are such, I'd like to hear about them.
—Larry Ruark '58, active duty as U.S. naval officer 1958–1961, North Attleboro, Massachusetts
It was great to read about Richard and Carolyn Purchase '35PBI ("Alumni News," Spring 2009). They celebrated wonderful anniversaries last year, including Carolyn's 100th birthday, and are both still living at the Quarryville Presbyterian Home in Quarryville, Pennsylvania. They were seniors at PBI [Providence Barrington Institute] when I entered, and both of them were exceptional witnesses to me. Richard was a student pastor, and he took me with him to church on one of my first Sundays away from home. I do not know if others from the PBI classes of '35, '36 and '37 are still living. If they are, they will surely join me in giving thanks to God for the ministry of Dick and Carolyn.
Many years after I had entered the business world to become a bank officer, I served a number of churches as a supply and interim pastor. My last call was in 2001 to serve as senior pastor. Retirement came in 2006. My wife, Jo Anne, and I were able to serve these churches without compensation because our Heavenly Father had amply provided for us.
Dick and Carolyn have been at the top of my prayer list. How I wish I had been as faithful to God over the years as this dear couple.
—Donald MacDonald '37B, Louisville, Kentucky
As a Nova Scotian and a Gordon College grad, I was rather amused by Michael Monroe's comments in "Trips of a Lifetime" (Spring 2009). After visiting my province, he writes, "The people are French speaking. . . . Nova Scotia [N.S.] isn't known for its history."
Nova Scotia (New Scotland) is a peninsula on the eastern coast of Canada and is surrounded by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Fundy. It is awash in history and culture. The first French-speaking settlement in North America was at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, in 1603. We are proud of our Acadian roots; there are still pockets of Acadian communities in N.S., but these folk speak English as easily as the rest of us. Ours is an eclectic population made up of First Nations peoples along with those of Irish, Scottish, English, German, Dutch and African descent. We have a past as a seafaring people, and along with the fishery there is a long history in forestry, mining and farming that has involved exports to the New England States for the past 400 years.
The port cities of Halifax and Sydney; the coastal towns of Yarmouth, Shelburne and Lunenburg are unique and historic. The Highlands of Cape Breton are world-renowned. We have a proud history in education, religion, politics, music and sports.
Unilingual? Lack of a rich historic past?
Not MY Nova Scotia.
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Have you ever seen something quite as grossly nauseating as that?
However, it's the circumstances that are really remarkable. Here we have somebody who converted to Islam, half-sister to somebody for whom the description "has been" would be quite apropos, and all the world is as ecstatic as if the Pope had. And now we have to suffer the ubiquitous pictures of another sickeningly simpering blonde clad in a headrag. The phenomenon that lets women put on a self-congratulatory, smug smirk as soon as they are wearing such a piece of cloth, is something else!
I educated myself about her because I had never heard of her before. At home, she enjoys (You BET!) a modest notability as a TV personality, just exactly the vulgar, obnoxious lower class broad with a horrible accent one would expect, who makes the max out of her faint connection with the pre-previous PM.
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I read and loved these books when they came out and it really is high time to read them again. I remember not even noticing that Caudwell did not clue us in on Hilary's gender, and I believe I just assumed Hilary was a man.
Congratulations on the awards you swept up while in the U.S. by the way for The Golden Age of Murder, by the way. My friend Leslie Karst did email me to tell me that you had won the Agatha and that she had managed to meet you in the elevator. It is a very small world these days.
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- Clothes In Books said...
So glad she is not forgotten! I loved her books and it makes me sad that there will be no more. I can still remember the delight I felt on first reading Thus Was Adonis Murdered - still my favourite of hers.
- 6 May 2016 at 21:08
- Christine said...
I agree. I've read them all and enjoyed them. What a pity she didn't write more.
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- Helena said...
I was delighted to see that Sarah Caudwell and her books were discussed. I think her books are wonderful, and love re-reading them. Because I know the name "Hilary" as a female name I assumed at first that Hilary was a woman, but I did wonder after a while and especially once I remembered that the name was also used for men in the past. I find it impossible to tell, and I like the fact that it doesn't really matter!
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'Vampire' boy surfed occult websites
Vampire books and magazines were found in the bedroom of a teenager accused of murdering an elderly widow in north Wales and drinking her blood.
Mold Crown Court was also told that when the 17-year-old's computer was removed from his home in Anglesey, experts discovered he had been using the internet to visit vampire sites.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies murdering 90-year-old Mabel Leyshon in her home in Llanfairpwll, on Anglesey.
Police found that her heart had been removed, wrapped in newspaper and placed in a saucepan. There was also evidence that her blood had been drunk from it.
Prosecuting barrister Roger Thomas QC told the jury members that suspicions of the defendant's interest in vampires were confirmed when officers searched the boy's bedroom and found specialist magazines.
An examination of his computer revealed that internet sites, including the Vampire/Donor Alliance and The Vampire Rights Movement, had been accessed.
"Whether these are serious sites or were meant to be tongue-in-cheek, clearly the defendant had an interest in such matters and was seeking out information," Mr Thomas said.
Earlier in the trial, the court heard how Mrs Leyshon's heart had been removed, wrapped in newspaper and placed in a saucepan.
Her body of Mrs Leyshon was found on Sunday, 25 November last year at her semi-detached bungalow.
She had died from multiple stab wounds and her chest had been "ripped open".
Fire pokers were left at her feet in the shape of a cross, the jury heard.
Mr Thomas said DNA taken from blood found at the scene matched that of the defendant's.
And, he added, the chance of another person's DNA matching the sample was one in 73m.
The defendant - was arrested a month after a BBC Crimewatch UK reconstruction of her last known hours.
The first prosecution witness told the court the defendant had begged her to make him a vampire by biting him.
The girl - a student from Germany, who admitted having an interest in vampires - said she had to fight the boy off after refusing.
She said that she was just overwhelmed at the situation. "It was too much," she said.
"I was really afraid of him because of the look in his eyes. I was really scared."
"I felt responsible because I told him so many things about vampires before and he got it messed up in his head."
The boy was said to have told her the small village of Llanfairpwll was a "perfect place for vampires".
Earlier in the trial, the prosecution had alleged there was no question that the killer had been the teenager.
"The person who entered the house murdered Mrs Leyshon, removed her heart and drank her blood is this defendant," said Mr Thomas.
He added the murder had not been a sudden outburst of violence resulting in death - but a brutal and vicious murder that had been planned.
"By 24 November, 2001, the defendant had learned quite a lot about vampires, certainly enough to satisfy his two main questions - how do I become a vampire and how do I become immortal?"
"He had decided what he had to do - a sacrifice, the murder of another human being was necessary to achieve his ends.
"And with his parents away he committed what we submit to you was a planned, deliberate murder to satisfy his own grotesque and selfish ends."
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Mr Thomas said the defendant was not mentally unstable, but was responsible for his actions.
"These are not the views of a mentally unstable defendant - he is perfectly sane and there is no medical issue whatsoever for you to consider."
MrThomas said that the circumstances of the murder were particularly gruesome, and that he would try to ensure the amount of disturbing material placed before the jury would be limited.
The defendant was interviewed at length and denied any involvement in the murder.
He maintained he had spent Saturday night with a friend - but the friend said he had not seen him.
The defendant also said he had forgotten to turn up for work the same night.
Asked about vampires, he told police : "I don't know anything about the occult."
He admitted surfing the internet for information on vampires, but said he had done it "just to have a look."
He denied having any specialist knowledge abut vampires, claiming he had "just a small interest".
His interest, he said, was in immortality - being immortal for the rest of time - and he would not have minded being a vampire for that reason.
The case will continue on Wednesday.
The court heard that Mold Crown Court would be closed on Wednesday because of the public workers' strike, but the hearing would resume at Chester Crown Court.
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