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Birds, a satellite dish, and Aamir Khan in Baazi
Baazi stars Aamir Khan as Inspector Amar Damjee, Mamta Kulkarni as journalist Sanjana Roy, Paresh Rawal as a CM Chaturvedi and others including Kulbushan Kharbanda, Asrani, and Raza Murad. Interestingly, this movie was written (and directed) by Ashutosh Gowariker. Yes, the brain behind the likes of Lagaan (2001) and Swades (2004). Baazi is probably his least well-known film (as a writer; as a director, the 1993 film Pehla Nasha did not do much at the box office), given that it did not do too well at all at the box office.
Anyway, on to the movie. The flick is, in a nutshell, about an inspector (Aamir Khan) who avenges his parents' deaths en route to busting a corrupt group of politicians and gangsters led by Paresh Rawal. Mamta Kulkarni plays Aamir Khan's love interest, and in fact aids him at times.
Baazi (literally translated as 'duel') belongs to Aamir Khan. From the very first scene aboard a bus, to the very last scene atop a building terrace (during the days satellite dishes started ruling the skylines all across South Asia), Aamir is in tremendous form. He is very comfortable with the action scenes (a tribute to his versatility).
A few scenes in particular that I recall as effective:
1. When Sanjana Roy visits Amar Damjee's residence for an interview, and is greeted by the housekeeper Asrani and his boss Amar. Asrani is instructed by his boss to role play Amar in the interview to Sanjana, which is very well executed and perhaps the funniest sequence in the film.
2. When Amar Damjee discovers that Commissioner Mazumder's daughter was murdered.
3. A scene outside a 'dhaaba' (an eating place along a roadway), where Amar and his fellow cops hope to capture smuggled goods. The second scene here (one following the initial identification of the location as a criminal group's stop) is particularly well shot. And yes, the dhaaba looks very real, complete with a gas station and the chaarpaayees. Think of the dhaaba as an old-fashioned service plaza (the kind you have alongside interstate expressways at every 30 miles or so, e.g. the Florida Turnpike)
4. When Inspector Damjee visits the gangsters' den, in disguise (and wearing a salwaar kameez and Sindhi cap!).
5. Amar's assuming the role of a woman in the song Dole Dole Dil Dole, and for a few minutes thereafter, to gain access to the bad guys.
The principal actors involved do very well. All in all, an engaging action flick with all the elements of a desh bhagt (patriotic) police inspector. We should have guessed a trend here, with Aamir Khan and Mr. Gowariker!
This film is well made, but some parts to it are needlessly dragged farther than they needed to be. Yet, I am going with three and a half stars for a very good film that only proves further Aamir Khan's acting prowess (not that we needed any more proof, but you get the point).
My rating: 3.5/5 (very good)
My soundtrack rating: 2/5 (average)
My classification: NC-17 (for violence and language)
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I finally saw Baazi yesterday and now understand you comment here about the satellite dish. I especialy liked Paresh Rawal in this film and enjoy him when he plays a villain vs. the more jolly parts. I remember in King Uncle not even knowing that it was Paresh until well into the film. Now I will think of him when I spy satellite dishes.
All the best,
- Sunday, June 08, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Great! Hope you liked the film. And that satellite dish was important, wasn't it?
Paresh Rawal is excellent, I agree. I do wish he would assume the role of a villain more often, although that might chip into his comedy, which I think is equally good.
- Sunday, June 08, 2008
- magicsteven said...
I believe Ashutosh Gowariker directed as well as wrote Baazi. But your writing suggests he only wrote it.
imdb.com also suggests he directed it.
- Monday, August 31, 2009
- theBollywoodFan said...
That is correct, MagicSteven, Ashutosh G. did indeed direct Baazi. I've added that bit in the post. Thanks for stopping by.
- Friday, September 04, 2009
- Yunus Perveez said...
was going through your old posts and I love this movie even for it's obvious nspirations.
I particularly liked the fight scene in Jail with Billa Jilani ( mukesh rishi who shall always be Billa in my mind)
I do feel Amir played the characters in Sarfarosh and Baazi quite similarly but then again if no one saw Baazi then no harm no foul.
and remember when mamta kulkarni was hot property :-)
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I've got a 1999 A6 which I bought in 2001 with 32K miles. I just passed the 118K mile mark. No major problems....love the car.
I've got a 1999 A6 which I bought in 2001 with 32K miles. I just passed the 118K mile mark. No major problems....love the car.
Good thinking. Buy a 7 year old car that is expensive to fix. GET YOURSelf somthing newer for the same amount of money without the fancy name. When your ready to buy a luxury car, you should buy one new or freshly off a lease. Because they are always brutal to fix. I had a freakin bull**** chip go in my old Benz C36 AMG and it cost me 1400. I didn't even know what the ****ing chip did?
The Pearl Jam Stickman Tattoo.
He started a thread declaring his intentions about getting it, received a bunch of heart-felt, thoughtful responses, AND, as usual, abandoned the thread and moved on to his next nebulous thought, giving no closure to the eejits that wasted their time trying to counsel him.
The kid is the A.D.D. poster child with a Jets jersey and mad cash.
I got my license about a month ago and since my parents are looking into getting new cars, I will be getting my dad's '01 bravada. I already drive it around everywhere. So if you really want that Audi I guess go ahead and get it, but I'm sure you could find MUCH better deals for MUCH better cars.
btw if anyone is looking for a nice used car I recommend...
I picked up a great car there this winter that my daughter will learn to drive on, she gets her permit next week , anyway it is a mint 330i with under 30k miles and was very reasonably priced.
Typical and Disturbing.
Oh, EY, the weight comment was good. That should draw him back in, he doesn't like that. SOmething about how on sTaden izland, it looks good.
First car was this(although mine had alot more bond-o, and was a different color-and brakes were shot)...69 Caprice with 290hp 350cubic inches..Plus, the size of the trunk could double as a camper. Great classic affordable american luxury. Lots of frame to protect you in an accident.
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Updated: According to Aldercritter Hess-Mahan in the comments, Beacon Street only reimbursed the city for installation and that the cost was covered by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. Makes the condition a little more palatable.
As attentive readers may recall, as part of the absolutely correct decision to grant B Street (then Pie) a parking waiver, the Land Use committee
extorted from negotiated with the owners a commitment to pay for installation of food-themed bike racks.
Here they are. Around the corner from the restaurant and in front of a bank.
Maybe it's wishful thinking. With the way things are going in Newton Centre, maybe the tide has turned and the bank will be replaced by a restaurant. Doubt it.
The likelier explanation is that there is no room in front of the restaurant. The sidewalk is too mean and narrow.
At a minimum, though, the B Street-supplied racks ought to have some permanent recognition that they were donated by bStreet.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
B Street B Racks
Updated: According to Aldercritter Hess-Mahan in the comments, Beacon Street only reimbursed the city for installation and that the cost was covered by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. Makes the condition a little more palatable.
Posted by Sean Roche at 8:47 AM
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- Ted said...
Oy! "Extorted"? Really? Please!
The special permit laws provide that when a special permit granting authority (SPGA) approves a special permit, it may impose conditions that are intended to mitigate the impact of the project. That is exactly what the Land Use Committee and the Board of Aldermen, as the SPGA, did in this instance. The BOA granted a special permit waiving the requirement that B Street provide additional parking in Newton Centre for its proposed expansion. As a condition, Land Use proposed, and B Street agreed to require bike racks that were intended to encourage people to ride their bicycles to Newton Centre instead of driving their cars, thereby reducing the demand for parking spaces.
As the Chairman of the Land Use Committee, I have worked tirelessly with the planning department and my colleagues trying to erase the antiquated and incorrect notion that every special permit requires a "public benefit," which has no basis in the law and bears the indicia of paying "tribute" rather than providing mitigation for the impact of special permit projects.
Please do not unfairly malign our efforts to improve the special permit process. I am also working on amending the parking regulations. But until they are changed, we must apply the law as it is written.
By the way, I will look into having its contribution of the bike racks attributed to B Street. The owners only had to pay for the installation and shipping costs of these bike racks, the costs of which were reimbursed through a program under the auspices of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
Ald. Ted Hess-Mahan
Land Use Committee Chairman
Newton Board of Aldermen
- March 30, 2011 at 10:41:00 AM EST
- Adam said...
It's slightly off topic, but these racks are located on recently reclaimed pavement. It's a small but smart improvement by the city.
- March 30, 2011 at 11:46:00 AM EST
- Anonymous said...
Oh. I thought these were insouciant, frisky "public art." Glad to know they came with utilitarian and functional intentions. Warren
- April 1, 2011 at 11:16:00 AM EST
- Ely said...
I have personally and publicly apologized to Alderman Ted. Hess-Mahan for the use of the word extorted. My intent was simply to comment on the fact that the donation to the city was a requirement of the approval of the special permit. Unfortunately, Mr Hess-Mahan has chosen not to accept my apology. Mr Hess- Mahan was a strong supporter of our new concept and for that I am grateful to him. I believe that his efforts to mitigate the parking congestion in Newton Center are are sincere.
EK, B Sreet Restarant & Bar
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There is something intensely gratifying about growing food. It's not like other gardening. For me, it so much more satisfying. With the first frosts appearing, we are just coming to the end of a very late tomato season and the last harvest came in.
The patches were a little bare so t have been full of renewed energy and life. The vegetable gardens are looking good but smelling awful (thanks to composted moo poo and seaweed solution). We've been busy planting broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, garlic and a myriad of seeds including silverbeet, peas, beans, beetroot, parsnips and parsley.
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As an architectural work in the Romanesque style transitioning to late Gothic, it is one of the most characteristic monuments of Galicia's medieval art, influenced by Compostela's artistic expressions, specifically the style that Maestro Mateo developed in Santiago cathedral.
The Convent
It originated in the early 10th century (the year 936), on the property of a hermit called Egica, bought by the monastery's founders, Doña Tareixa Eiriz and Don Gonzalo Betote, the count and countess of Deza. It was in the year 939, after construction was completed, when the presbyter Félix was chosen as the community's first abbot, and the convent became well established thanks to the presence of the countess herself, her nephew St. Rosende and the bishop of Lugo, Don Ero, from then on coming under the royal protection of Ramiro I of Léon.
The Church
Built in the 12th century in the Romanesque style, it is considered one of the best and most avant-garde constructions of that time. It has a Latin cross ground plan and consists of four naves. The sanctuary lies on top of a crypt, the only one of its kind in the Iberia Peninsula's Romanesque style. Both elements, sanctuary and crypt, have an ambulatory and three radial apses. To a certain extent, it is reminiscent of Santiago cathedral as a small basilica, difficult to conceive in such an isolated setting. The main façade also stands out due to the theme of the elders of the Apocalypse, but with 23 sculptures, and the early use of ribbed vaults, an architectural solution that announced the Gothic style.
According to P. Yepes, at the beginning of the 18th century, in Carboeiro "People venerated a thorn from the Lord's crown that was in a piece of skilfully carved glass, made like the tip of a lance." This item was stolen in the mid-16th century.
In 1965, a film was made here entitled"Cotolay," the Compostela coalman who, at the beginning of the 12th century, helped St. Francis of Assisi to found in Santiago his first Galician convent. In 1973, it appeared in Valle Inclán's "Flor de Santidad," directed by Adolfo Marsillach. More recently, it was used as a recording studio for such interesting films as "La Ley de la Frontera" (1995) by Adolfo Aristarain, "Quart" (2006), based on Arturo Pérez Reverte's book "Piel del tambor," the TVG series "Reliquias" (2011) and Telecinco's "Piratas" (2011), and a film set for famous actors such as Sancho Gracia, Agustín González, Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Achero Mañas, Luis Tosar or even Charlton Heston, who was in the monastery in 1999 to film a miniseries about the Way of St. James.
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Combining the best elements of simulation and arcade-style play, Juiced features more than 50 licensed vehicles; realtime modding with hundreds of authentic aftermarket parts; realistic car physics and damage; and online head-to-head play, including for the first time ever, 'crew based' team racing". Juiced also enables players to choose between arcade settings as seen in titles such as Ridge Racer, or simulation ones as championed in Project Gotham Racing 2. Players can practice in Solo mode; they can express their own "style" of racing using donuts, boomerangs, etc. in Cruise mode, and they can race in Career mode, a calendar-based campaign mode.
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When I say I shall die, as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian, I must make my meaning clear. I wholly disbelieve in the present established religion; but I have a very firm religious faith of my own—a Creed of Kinship I call it—a belief that in years yet to come there will be a recognition of brotherhood between man and man, nation and nation, human and subhuman, which will transform a state of semi-savagery, as we have it, into one of civilisation, when there will be no such barbarity of warfare, or the robbery of the poor by the rich, or the ill-usage of the lower animals by mankind. — Henry S. Salt (1851-1939)


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We're now working on a UMA/GAN controller
We've pondered it a couple of times in the past whether we should implement an UMA/GAN controller (UNC/GANC). GAN (formerly called UMA) is a method by which you can tunnel GSM/3GPP Layer3 signalling (Mobility Management, SMS, Call Control) over an IP based bearer such as 802.11 (WiFi).
The idea was that mobile phones that support both a GSM/3G radio as well as WiFi could then simply use WiFi to connect to their mobile operator. This has been deployed around 2007/2008 by some operators such as T-Mobile USA as well as Orange UK. Today it seems that not many operators have caught up and UMA/GAN is mostly a legacy technology, last but not least due to very few phones actually implementing it.
Nonetheless, there are some markets and applications where UMA/GAN is useful. We (Dieter and I) now have managed to secure a contract for an Osmocom implementation based on OpenBSC (and libosmogsm, libosmo-sccp, ...). The beauty is that from L3 up, it is just regular GSM, no change needed at all. Only the transport layer is different: IPsec with TCP + GAN is the bearer, instead of LAPDm/RSL in classic GSM networks.
Another good part unrelated to UMA/GAN is: This will finally force us to clean up the separation between the MSC and BSC part in OsmoNITB (in order to replace the BSC part with the GANC).
Progress has been good so far, the SEGW (IPsec with EAP-SIM) has been configured, and a simplistic start of a GAN protocol implementation gets us through DISCOVERY, REGISTRATION and up to the point where the MS is sending the LOCATION UPDATE message. If you are curious how the protocol actually looks like, I've attached a sample pcap file to the WRTU54G-TM page in the OpenBSC wiki. The source code can be found in the laforge/ganc branch of openbsc.git.


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Betsy Donald
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Everyone eats food, some of us enjoy cooking, and careful consumers check food labels in the interests of healthier eating. But unless you're a professional chef, you probably don't spend as much time thinking about food, and probably not in the same way, as Dr. Betsy Donald.
For the last few years, Donald, a professor of geography and urban planning at Queen's, has been exploring the origins of North America's industrial food system. That system feeds millions of people – but it has also destroyed countless family farms, engendered the growth of thousands of fast-food restaurants and mass-marketed foods that, while inexpensive, have scant nutritional value and are partly responsible for an obesity epidemic in the United States and Canada. Too, in many cities the system has also created "food deserts" – typically lower-income sections of town whose residents have no convenient access to a grocery store.
How is it that, in two of the world's richest countries, so many people are fed so poorly? One reason, says Donald, has been corporate restructuring in the retail food sector, which has failed to produce the across-the-board consumer benefits that some economists say is the natural result of marketplace competition.
"The food system has become incredibly industrialized and margins are very slim," says Donald, who is spending a sabbatical year at the University of Cambridge to study the historic evolution of that system in the U.S. "Big retailers have had to build bigger and bigger stores, which has had an impact on small towns and poor communities because it's not as profitable for these large retailers to locate in poorer areas. It means people have to have access to cars."
The food desert phenomenon reflects both a food system and urban-sprawl city planning that is ultimately based on cheap oil, says Donald. Big-box food stores stock huge inventories, which are often trucked over long distances and are highly processed so they can be stored longer. Much of it is made using products derived from corn, which relies on government subsidies and oil-derived chemicals to grow on an industrial scale. As well, since big-box outlets tend to be located in suburban areas, shoppers must drive there. If the price of oil soars to unsustainable levels, which many economists predict is only a matter of time, the current food system could break down for food growers, distributors, retailers and consumers.
That's a dire scenario, but Donald is encouraged by grassroots food activism in recent years that has led a growing population of consumers to think – and care – about where their food comes from. By taking small steps to sidestep the industrial food system, she says, more people and communities are seeing how they can become physically and economically healthier.
Such steps include the establishment and promotion of traditional farmer's markets, local food co-ops and small-scale organic farms and community gardens. Too, regions such as Prince Edward County in eastern Ontario – which revived its declining rural economy by fostering the growth of wineries and restaurants serving food made from locally-grown ingredients – are showing that agriculture on a smaller scale can provide productive employment, healthy food and a sense of community identity and pride.
But Donald acknowledges that organic fruits and vegetables are too expensive for many people and that healthy, affordable food will only become a reality for everyone after major shifts in public attitudes and government policy. For instance, governments will have to re-think subsidies for industrial corn and beef farming that depletes soil and pollutes water, and support more sustainable growing methods. Food manufacturing and processing, which often takes place in massive factories whose output might be distributed to half a continent, will need to be done in more, and smaller, facilities to reduce the risk of widespread transmission of food-borne illnesses. Urban planners will need to promote human-scale development that makes it easier for people to walk or cycle to get food instead of drive.
Policy-makers are already considering moves in this direction, says Donald, because the costs of treating heart disease, obesity, diabetes and other medical conditions associated with poor nutrition and a sedentary lifestyle are making them an economic necessity.
While previous generations built the mainstream food system, Donald says it will be the coming generation's job to reform it.
"Younger students have really grabbed onto food as a way forward, a way to find solutions," she says. "I'm optimistic that it's the students who are going to change the system."
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Guess, rural Alaska can be an oxymoron, so let me add the qualifier, moving to 110 miles northwest of Bethel, Ak. No roads in, only boat and plane. I don't have enough blankets to take what is left at home, where husband is staying for the next two years.And he says i can't take the Poppy Quilt i bought in Texas or the Wedding Ring i bought here in Oregon. That means no quilts for me Guess i'll have to make some quickly. Oh, well, not a lot to do when it is still frozen and you don't own the outdoor play equipment, such as snow machine, snow shoes, skis etc. yet.
Which online stores have the best deals on batting sales and shipping charges? Also does anyone know how the wool battings do for hand quilting?
Some of what i need to go up in my household goods so if i have it already i don't have to pay shipping. Got enough fabric to make a couple of quilts but no batting.


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" My first published history book. It was extraordinary to use the material that I had researched for a novel and write it as a "straight" history. I also wrote the foreword to this collection of three historical essays about the women that have come to fascinate me: Jacquetta the Duchess of Bedford, Elizabeth Woodville, the Queen, and Margaret Beaufort, the King's Mother. "
When this book opens in 1416, with the birth of Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Henry V is on the throne and England is at war with France in a series of conflicts that would later become known as The Hundred Years' War. Henry VI takes the throne in 1422 and begins his long reign of England through some of its most turbulent times including Joan of Arc's mission and beginning of The Wars of the Roses - though at the time it was known as The Cousins' War as the feuding families of York and Lancaster fought for power and position.
" When I started research on Jacquetta Duchess of Bedford I found pretty much nothing. There was a chapter in a PhD thesis, and one essay. And yet this is the mother and grandmother of queens of England, and a major player at both royal courts of Lancaster and York. There was more magic in this story than any I have written since the more fictional novel The Wise Woman and this was because Jacquetta was descended from a family who claimed to have a water spirit in their family tree, and she was associated for all her life with the practise of witchcraft. I found her to be utterly fascinating, and I hope that historians go on to research her life in detail. "
Henry VI is a child king, only nine years old, crowned before his first birthday after the death of his father Henry V on campaign. England is in the midst of the Hundred Years' War in France, however life in England is peaceful for most. Sensing an opportunity to overthrow the weakened House of Lancaster, the House of York led by Richard Duke of York claim a stronger link to the throne. This rivalry brings about a series of devastating battles which would come to be known as The Wars of The Roses and would turn neighbour against neighbour, cousin against cousin.
" As soon as I had completed my research on The White Queen I realised that I wanted to write a companion novel about the other side, the Tudors and Margaret Beaufort the matriarch of their house. "
Now a grown man, Henry VI has maintained his hold on the English throne, despite decades of political and military challenges by the House of York. The Hundred Years' War comes to an end in France and England is defeated, losing all of her territory except for Calais. News of defeat drives King Henry into an unresponsive stupor. His wife, the despised Margaret of Anjou, cannot keep control and their great rival Richard Duke of York becomes Protector of the Realm. England is in limbo: a king crippled by insanity, a disliked and mistrusted queen, and two great families vying for control of the kingdom. Meanwhile a third potential line of succession is emerging from the agreed marriage of the newly ennobled Edmund Tudor Earl of Richmond to the child heiress Margaret Beaufort.
" My first three books in the Order of Darkness series which proved to be a really liberating experience. The series opens in 1460 and the circumstances of the novels are authentic history but the characters are completely invented and their adventures are imaginary. This gives me a chance to be more novelist than historian and I have loved this series and the way that the completely fictional characters are free to develop. "
In Italy, the renaissance is gaining momentum and Italians are becoming increasingly interested in learning and understanding classical thinking and philosophy. Despite this growing focus on intellectual curiosity, there remains a strong loyalty to the Catholic Church and belief in magic, mysticism and superstition is rife. In order to retain its control, the Church must identify which phenomena can be rationally explained and which may really be magic.
" I think this is my favourite volume of the Order of Darkness series so far. This series is set in the fifteenth century, during the rapid expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe. They brought with them the Arab learning in maths, science, medicine and astronomy. For the resident Christians, this was thought to signal the end of the world and the Pope named all non-Christians enemies of the true faith. In this time of great fear and superstition our fictional travellers have been recruited by the Order of Darkness, a Christian group tasked with investigating and reporting on the signs of the end of days. In Dark Tracks, the group have reached Austria, where they are confronted with the reality of medieval antisemitism. "
Unusual occurrences are happening in the village of Mauthausen, Austria. People have begun to dance, endlessly and without stopping. They are constantly joined by new dancers, like a plague spreading from one person to next. The villagers are terrified of becoming dancers themselves, believing they have been possessed by demons. This unexplainable phenomenon must be investigated and the truth discovered. Are these people truly possessed, or is there some kind of rational explanation to explain why people are literally dancing themselves to their deaths?
" This was my first step back in time from the Tudors. I had read that Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII had been Richard III's lover, and this was such an extraordinary claim that I started to read about her, and from her to her mother, the almost-unknown Elizabeth Woodville. When I started to look at her there was only one reliable biography, by historian David Baldwin, and it was on his biography and my own research that I based this first book in the series that has gone on to be a major BBC TV series. "
The country has been torn apart by the Wars of the Roses between the royal houses of York and Lancaster. The old king Henry VI and his wife Margaret of Anjou have escaped to Scotland and the Lancastrian armies have been decimated by the York forces at the Battle of Towton - the bloodiest ever fought on English soil. England has a new king on the throne: Edward IV of the House of York - young, handsome and daring.
" Nearly named the Kingmaker's Daughters, this is the story of Isabel and Anne Neville, daughters to the Earl of Warwick who fought for both York and Lancaster, but always for himself. Anne is married to Prince Edward and could easily have been a Lancastrian Queen of England but for the fortunes of war which meant that she married Richard III and became a York Queen of England. It's a story about ambition and the price that has to be paid. "
King Edward IV's secret marriage Elizabeth Woodville fractured his relationship with his cousin and supporter Richard Neville Earl of Warwick, who was known as 'The Kingmaker'. Warwick believed that he would be in a position to rule England through Edward; when he could not, he began to look elsewhere for power and used his daughters Isabel and Anne to create new alliances.
" Oh! I love this book so much. This is the story of Elizabeth of York who is forced to marry Henry VII as part of the peace settlement to bring about the end of the Cousins' War. To her horror she finds her throne is threatened by a young man who is claiming to be her brother Richard, missing from the Tower of London. Half of England sides with the young man against the usurping Tudor, what should Elizabeth do? I think this is probably one of the most complex historical novels I have ever written - the merging of the personal and the political is very intense, and the blending of the historical research and the imagined psychologies has been a great joy. "
Henry Tudor is king, snatching the crown from Richard III in a surprise victory at the Battle of Bosworth. Raised in exile in Brittany and having taken the throne with a French and Scottish force, Henry had neither the easy popularity nor the longstanding political allegiances of the House of York. As a result, he had to face repeated rebellions and threats to his throne. In an attempt to unify the warring Houses of Lancaster and York, Henry marries the York Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.
" The story of Katherine of Aragon who is very neglected by historians, but who was the longest-serving wife of Henry VIII, and who helped him to take the throne and learn the trade of kingship. I was fascinated by her background, I travelled to Granada to see for myself her childhood home, the beautiful Alhambra palace, and I became certain that the young woman that she became was far more interesting and active than the picture we have of her of the 'old woman' that would be replaced by the 'young mistress'. Deliberately I ended the novel at the moment of her greatest triumph when she was a successful queen militant as her mother Isabella of Spain had been. "
Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York's son Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales is betrothed to the Spanish Princess Katherine of Aragon. But Arthur's sudden death, followed by his mother's, leaves Henry Tudor with a difficult to decision, to marry his son's wife himself or to arrange her marriage to his younger son.
" This is a novel which changed its nature, content and significance from when I started research until publication. Right up until the last stage of copy editing I was revising and adding material and characters to this dark story. I started it, thinking that it would be a relatively simple telling of the tragic story of Margaret Pole – daughter of George Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville. George was the brother of Edward IV, probably drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine for treason against Edward and Queen Elizabeth. As the book progressed I discovered that Margaret was a central figure in the Tudor court, and probably actively involved in the endless conspiracies against Henry VIII and his advisors. This hidden rebellion reached its peak in the uprising of the North called the Pilgrimage of Grace. The pilgrims won their aims of defending the Roman Catholic traditions and the return of the traditional advisors, but Henry reneged on his promises and sent his troops for a terrible persecution to men who held a royal pardon. Margaret, and her entire family, came under suspicion too and this novel moved far from the template of a persecuted heroine and became the story of a merciless murder of a family. Margaret's betrayer, and her defenders all come under the gaze of a king who was increasingly frightened and, I believe delusional. It's been a chilling and powerful book to write and the image of Henry VIII, composer of 'Greensleeves' beloved of primary school history, will never be the same again for me. He was a serial killer and this book traces his steps towards psychosis. "
England is under a Tudor king. Henry VII has two sons with Elizabeth of York, which should have secured his line, yet his court is still filled with fear and suspicion. Plantagenet is a dangerous name to carry and the heiress Margaret Pole is swiftly married off to a staunch Tudor supporter, but her brother Edward's claim cannot be ignored. Henry executes him on Tower Hill, leaving Margaret to face a lifetime of uncertainty.
" 'Three Sisters, Three Queens': the title of my new book featuring Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII's older sister, only came to me when I realised that the book was not just about this extraordinary woman who married three times, twice against the wishes of her family for love, ruled Scotland and raised a king; but also about her equally formidable sister-in-law, Katherine of Aragon, and her sister Mary Tudor. It was extraordinary to see how the fortunes of one woman rose coincidentally with the failure of another, and how the issues of arranged marriage, widowhood, divorce and re-marriage dominated the lives of all three. I was also writing very much to the idea of sisterhood – the rivalry, love, pride and jealousy that sisters often bring to each other. I wanted this book to go to the very heart of being a sister, a queen, and sister to a great queen. "
Katherine of Aragon, Infanta of Spain, has arrived in England to marry Arthur Prince of Wales. King Henry VII's hugely expensive celebrations are attended by ambassadors negotiating his next diplomatic success – the marriage of Princess Margaret and James IV of Scotland. With her brother on the throne of England and herself on the throne of Scotland Margaret is to ensure a Perpetual Peace between the two endlessly warring countries – a strategy far more easily planned than enacted.
" This has to be one of my favourite books of all time for it is the one that made my name, was adapted by the BBC and Hollywood, and established the style that has come to be my 'signature' style: the first person view of history from a lesser known, or perhaps unknown, historical character. Mary Boleyn was a great find and this novel has given rise to three biographies about her, and established her as a historical character instead of being the sister that nobody knew about. "
King Henry VIII is married to his brother's widow, Katherine of Aragon, who has given him a daughter, Princess Mary. An attractive and charismatic king, Henry quickly created a grand and fashionable court, full of celebration and pleasure. When Katherine cannot give him the son that he needs and his lover's sister Anne Boleyn arrives at court, he decides to take action that will change England and its religion forever.
" A book in which I released some of my thoughts and fears about magic and superstition, this remains a powerful book for me. It was set in County Durham and Morach's cottage was my home for three years. I frightened myself in the writing of it so much that I could only write during daylight hours. But I think it is more than a scary book – I think it is also a consideration of how a woman is to be, and who should be her mentors. "
Henry VIII has reformed the Church of England, breaking away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Keen to reinforce his position as the new head of the Church and to take advantage of the wealth of the Catholic Church, Henry began the Dissolution – the raiding and wrecking of all of the Catholic convents and monasteries in England. In this time of religious tensions and instability, belief in witchcraft and the supernatural began to spread throughout the country, causing increasing concern. As a result, King Henry decides to introduce an Act of Parliament making witchcraft punishable by death – and making England a much more dangerous place for a young woman without wealth or family.
" I remember writing this novel very vividly for a bad fall from my horse had confined me to bed for six weeks in a lot of pain, and I dived into this novel so that I could take myself somewhere else. What a world I stepped into! My Anne of Cleves, unlike the cliche of the fat Flanders mare, is a pretty courageous energetic survivor, and my Katherine Howard is not a 'slut' (as a modern historian has called her) but a young girl foolish and vain as young girls sometimes are, but dangerously ill advised and married more or less against her best interests to the most dangerous man in England. I tackle the enigma of Jane Rochford in this novel too. Nobody knows for sure why she would be complicit in the execution of two queens of England - I suggest madness, but readers must make up their own minds. "
Just eleven days after King Henry VIII had his second wife Anne beheaded for treason, he married Jane Seymour who gave him a son, Prince Edward, but died soon after his birth. King Henry needed more sons to secure his line and safeguard the House of Tudor, he looked overseas for this next bride and picked Anne of Cleves but would soon be side-tracked by the young, vivacious Katherine Howard.
" All of my titles are a bit of a labour of love, because I see them as a sort of cryptic message to the reader which sometimes says what the book is simply about, and sometimes says what it means. The title for this book had to reflect my real admiration for the heroine, and also the challenge she faced – not just to survive, but also to retain her courage and her power and her vision. The heroine/narrator is Kateryn Parr, Henry VIII's last and little-known queen, a woman who came to her own individual understanding of her husband, an increasingly sick and tyrannical king, and the world that she lived in. She was a leader of reform and (to me the most important) the first woman to publish her own work in print under her own name in England in English. This is so extraordinary I don't know why we aren't all taught her in schools. But what to call her fictionalised biography? Of course, I knew that she had to silence her voice and keep her writing secret during the months that Henry suspected her, and so I wanted something that would acknowledge his power over her. This is not trivial or romantic – this is tyranny to a murderous degree. And I wanted something which put her in the bitter context of all the other women who are silenced. In this way, Kateryn speaks for all who have not been allowed an education, or to speak, or to write.Then I learned that Nicholas Udall, the playwright, had possibly premiered a play before her called 'Ralph Roister Doister' – a play about a household of women with a woman head and their spirited and violent defence against an aggressive bullying man. Borrowed by Shakespeare and skewed towards male power this became 'The Taming of the Shrew' – the story of a powerful furious woman who submits to an aggressive bullying man. I had my title: 'The Taming of the Queen' – a novel about a woman who is silenced by male power and terrorised by male threat, but who survives to write, to make her own life, and even to love. "
Only months after the king sentenced his fifth wife to death, he was looking for his sixth, and chose the recently-widowed, thirty-year-old Kateryn Parr, who was planning to marry the handsome bachelor Thomas Seymour. As soon as the king showed his interest in the beautiful widow she had to serve the interests of her family and agree to marry him, become Queen of England and stepmother to his children, and rule England in his absence. But the king, old, angry and in pain, was hard to please; and very soon Kateryn's outspoken support of the Reformation put her in grave danger from the courtiers, conspiring for power.
" Whenever people tell me their favourite of all my books, this is the one that is most often mentioned. I think people love the character of Hannah, who is invented but inspired by the existence of a real female 'Fool' who served Mary I. If you have a hardback edition you can see the royal picture which is thought to show her in a doorway in the endpapers. It is one of my favourite books and led on to The Virgin's Lover. "
Henry VIII is dead, succeeded by his only legitimate son, nine year old Edward VI. Too young to rule, the realm is governed by a Regency Council, led by his uncle, Edward Seymour. Edward has continued his father's reformation of the church and Protestantism is becoming established, however England is still unsettled with rioting and rebellions common. Edward was close to and well loved by both of his half-sisters: the Catholic Princess Mary, daughter of Katherine of Aragon and the Protestant Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the executed Anne Boleyn. However, he and his advisors were concerned that should he die without issue, his sister Princess Mary would return the country to Catholicism.
" This has been a journey of discovery for me into the lives and characters of the Grey girls. I knew of Jane before I started research but I knew next to nothing about her sisters and it was a lucky guess that there was more behind the sentimental portrait of Jane that took me to the stories of the three of them. I struggled for a title until I had finished the book and then I chose this ambiguous one. Mary is the last Tudor of the Brandon branch – a fascinating and unknown character to end such a famous line – but Elizabeth is the last ruling Tudor, the throne inherited by a Stuart. She could have named Katherine as an heir and put a Tudor/Seymour boy on the throne of England and broken the jinx on Tudor male heirs. But her rivalry and paranoia was too much for her. The stories of the Grey girls show the enterprise and courage of young Elizabethan women who defied two queens, to make their own lives. Jane chose death rather than deny her faith, and her sisters conspired against the throne, pursuing their own loves and ambitions and risking their sister's fate: execution for treason. This is the darkest portrait I have ever seen of Elizabeth – I have responded only to the facts of her treatment of her cousins, who as kinswomen and heirs should have been under her protection but found themselves at the centre of her fears. "
England's king, Edward VI, the Protestant son of Jane Seymour and Henry VIII, is not yet 18 years old. The country is ruled by a council of men who jostled for control of the young king. Edward has no male heir, and does not favour his two half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. When Edward's health starts to deteriorate the race is on to secure an heir and the council looks to Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Mary Tudor Queen of France.
" This is an interesting book for me since the logic of the narrative and the characters involved in the story made me look at the real life evidence for the accidental death of Amy Dudley. When I was writing the novel it was widely accepted that she had broken her neck as a result of a fall. It seemed to me that murder was a far more likely cause, and you can read the novel to see who I suspect. It was very exciting when, long after publication, the original documents of her inquest were found showing that she died from blows to the head made by a weapon. Amy Dudley was indeed murdered, but we still don't know who was the murderer. "
Upon his unexpected early death in 1553, King Edward VI nominated his cousin, a committed Protestant, Lady Jane Grey as his successor. Just nine days after she was crowned, Edward's sister Princess Mary had raised supporters and persuaded the Privy Council to switch their allegiance - declaring her the rightful queen and imprisoning Jane. Queen Mary began to reverse the Protestant reformation of her father, restoring Roman Catholic bishops and persecuting Protestants. Despite several reported pregnancies, Mary's marriage to Philip of Spain produced no children. So on her death, her sister the Protestant Princess Elizabeth succeeded her to the throne.
" It is a challenge to write a novel about Mary Queen of Scots – so much has been written about her already – a play and an opera as well as dozens of histories. In this novel I looked at her long years of imprisonment and the extraordinary triangle that developed between her, her gaoler the Earl of Shrewsbury and his wonderful wife Bess of Hardwick. The dynamic between these three makes this novel not just a historical novel about the times but a psychological study of three people trapped together. "
Elizabeth I has been Queen of England for ten years. She is still unmarried, despite considering several suitors and having conducted a love affair with the married Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester – whose wife had then died under suspicious circumstances. With no heir, Elizabeth refused to name a successor – leading to the dissolution of parliament and putting England in a potentially dangerous position. One possible successor to Elizabeth was her first cousin once removed – the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots, whom many English Catholics believed to be the true English heir to the throne. However Mary is under imprisonment in Loch Leven Castle after marrying her third husband James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell – the man widely believed to have earlier murdered Mary's second husband Lord Darnley – and she appeals to her cousin Elizabeth for support.
" My editor had suggested that I write a biography – they were hugely fashionable in this year – and I wanted to write about someone who worked with his hands. While I was puzzling about who would be the subject of a fictional biography I was given a book on plant collectors and gardeners and read of John Tradescant. It happened that I visited a garden centre, and tripped and literally fell into a tray of Tradescantia. It was enough of a hint! I started research on John Tradescant and found enough material for two books, and developed an entirely new style of writing: the fictionalised biography. "
In 1603, at the age of 69, Queen Elizabeth died and was succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland – finally uniting the crowns of Scotland and England and beginning the Stuart reign of England.
" This was one of my favourite books to write, I researched it on a visit to Jamestown and went on to a reservation for the Pamunky (Powhatan) people. I was honoured with an invitation into a private home and had a long talk about the history of the people. This book is divided between the two terrible conflicts: colonists against indigenous peoples in America, and royalists against roundheads in England. I met the great historian of the period Christopher Hill and asked him did he think it possible that a man like John Tradescant might leave England to escape the conflict and he laughed and said that any sensible man would leave England in the middle of a civil war - so I felt very justified in my development of John's character and the two locations of this novel of a man divided between two loves. "
Charles I is on the throne. He has dissolved parliament for the third time and resolved to rule alone. In order to manage the debts generated during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I and fund his overseas wars with Spain and France, Charles repeatedly invented new and re-established obsolete forms of taxation. This during a time when harvests were failing caused widespread poverty and social unrest. Charles had become increasingly unpopular with the English people – his friendship with the assassinated George Villiers Duke of Buckingham had alienated the noble families whilst his failure to successfully support Protestant forces during the Thirty Years' War and marriage to a Roman Catholic French Princess caused suspicion and mistrust amongst his people. As the country descended into civil war, many chose to emigrate to the recently settled American colonies in search of freedom – despite Charles's attempts to stem the flow.
" This book returns me to historical fiction based in a real period and place but with imaginary people. It was very liberating to get away from the royal family and royal palaces and into daily life of aspiring people, hoping to rise from poverty into the New England of political freedoms and opportunities. "
Tidelands is set in the English Civil War and includes one of the many failed attempts to rescue Charles I before his trial. This was the first time when the people of England united to control the power of the English king and is a turning point for the men, and especially the women of England. If the king – the father of the nation – could be challenged, then daughters and wives could speak for themselves.
" This is my first novel, which I wrote as I completed my PhD in 18th century history and literature, when – without planning to do so – I served an apprenticeship in the 18th century novels which were being invented at that time. The oppression of women, the rebellion of the poor all came from the history of the time, the love of landscape from my own childhood and the fevered sexuality all my own imagination. I wrote Wideacre in an old ruled notebook by hand, and put on the front, 'Philippa Gregory – Best Selling Novel'. Unbelievably it was. It sold world-wide in a bidding war and I decided to become a writer. "
The novel is set in the second part of the eighteenth century, during the time of the enclosure acts, a series of UK Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country. The 'Tragedy of the Commons' removed previously existing rights of local people to carry out activities. Private ownership of land is a modern idea, and was outside the comprehension of most people. The king, or the Lord of the Manor, usually owned an estate, but the people enjoyed all sorts of rights which enabled him, or her, to graze stock, cut wood or peat, draw water or grow crops, on various plots of land at specified times of year.
" A profoundly important book for me to write, this book tells the story of the English slave trade, the import of black people as slaves into England, an almost totally forgotten history when I started research. The great source book for me was Peter Fryer's Staying Power, in which he writes of the presence of black people in Britain from the Roman Empire onwards. It was a moment of great gladness when he wrote a generous review praising the novel. I travelled to the Gambia to research the African part of the story and while I was there met the schoolmaster who founded, with me, our charity, Gardens for the Gambia. The novel scandalised my home town of Bristol which has tried to forget the terrible legacy of slavery, and inspired many black readers to study the history of 18th century slavery in England. I wrote the screenplay for the BBC TV drama based on the book and was proud to win the Committee for Racial Equality award for best TV drama, and be runner up for a BAFTA. "
As the 18th century draws to a close, Great Britain has become a major international power through victory over France in the Americas and the colonisation of large parts of India. In England, the Industrial Revolution is taking hold and radically changing both the environment and society. Alongside the spread of the Empire across the globe, the transatlantic trade in slaves also increased dramatically, becoming a very lucrative business for ports such as Bristol and Liverpool. The majority of the enslaved people, stolen from Africa by the British, were sold to the plantations of the European colonies, however, a number were also brought back to Britain to be kept or sold as domestic slaves. By the 1770s, some Christians were beginning to question the morality of the trade. However, the slavers would prove unwilling to give up such a profitable business without a fight.
" This is that difficult beast: the second novel. I rewrote it through more drafts than anything since. I poured into it my thoughts about the gentrification of women, and their use as symbols of status. I still think of it as a novel which has more complexity than one might expect. I loved the heroine and especially the sequences in Bath. I went to stay in Bath to research the history of the town and uncovered a darker side to the spa which I think serves the story well, as it is so much about the shadows of regency England. "
England is in the grip of the Industrial Revolution. The impact of the Enclosures Act and rapid growth of industry led to an increasing movement of people away from living and working in the countryside and into towns and cities. The earlier influence and status of the rich landowners was under threat from the intellectuals of the enlightenment and as a result, the rigid social hierarchies were beginning to change. Despite such changes however, women were still no closer to gaining access to legal rights or equal academic or professional opportunities. Property and money were held only by men and women were generally under the control of a man – her father and then subsequently her husband. Most women - especially those from wealthy families had few rights and fewer life choices.
" This was the book that I was longing to write from the moment that I finished Wideacre as it was the conclusion of the story and the happy ending. I had a wonderful summer of research when I stayed with a circus for the summer season and travelled with them and worked as a circus hand so that I could understand the life. The Wiltshire sequences are set in a well-loved house near Warminster where I used to stay as a child, and the return to Wideacre took me back to my beloved Sussex. The London sequences I traced out walking around London with a valuable 18th century map as my A to Z, seeing where Meridon might live and how she would ride in the park. It was a hugely joyful book to write and I foresaw in it a happy time for myself, and the horse that I bought after writing about Meridon's beloved grey horse: my own grey horse, Comet. "
As the nineteenth century opens, the Industrial Revolution is gaining momentum and driving significant economic and social change throughout Great Britain. This combined with the ongoing expansion of the British Empire has led to the United Kingdom becoming the richest and most powerful country in the world. As a result, it is facing threats from its old enemies - Napoleon's France and Spain. Within England, the Industrial Revolution is transforming the economy and leading to a widening gap between the rich and poor. Social dissatisfaction and unrest is increasing.
" One of the books where the fiction foretells the fact. I wrote this novel while I was trying for my second baby and in the novel the heroine gives birth to a blond 7lb boy - so did I. "
Great Britain is recovering from World War I and the lifting of restrictions created new sorts of night-life in London. Clubs, restaurants and dance halls catered for the new craze of jazz dancing. Wireless radio was to be the technological marvel of the decade. But is was also a period of depression, unemployment was high and mass production techniques started to replace traditional industry.
" This was the first comical book that I ever tried to write and it came at a moment when I was feeling relaxed and joyful and ready to laugh at the New Age beliefs, many of which I sincerely embraced. It's a kind of laughing tribute. "
" This is a novel about feminism, about sisterhood, and about the risibly difficult path that all women have to tread carefully trying to be correct and trying to be perfect. "
" Still not yet completely committed to nothing but history I wrote The Little House at high speed and with a sense of the intense drama of the subject: the way that women can be rivals to the death over a man or even a child. Interestingly, I never felt that I took sides in this novel of conflict about a mother-in-law and her son's wife, but almost every reader thinks that I am on the side that she favours. Almost every reader favours the woman who is in her own position! It's a very revealing book to read and discuss. I have heard from very anxious mothers-in-law, and very angry daughters. "
" My first, and to date my only, book of collected short stories where I worked on the idea of describing as little as possible, so the short story is filled with emotion but very little action. The story of the title Bread and Chocolate was inspired by a baking Jesuit. (yes, really). "
" This is an odd novel of mine. It's partly a satire on the business of publishing which I was starting to understand by this time in my career, partly an ironic commentary on the mistakes a woman makes when she takes responsibility for everything, but it is mostly a wry musing on the nature of being a woman – whether in our world femininity is so constructed that a man could do it as well as a woman, and perhaps – more optimistically – that a real woman will find love if she dares. It was a novel which I wrote with great imaginative leaps and little planning – I remember my own shock when the shoes were stolen! It was not a scene I had planned at all, I didn't understand it then, I don't understand it now, but it has tremendous resonance for me – and of course, it gave me the last bizarre line. "
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Three guesses where I am. Wifi willing, I'll see you on Friday for our field trip! (And don't forget to bring sunscreen.)
My countdown to my debut novel's release and a chronicle of my attempt to not go stir crazy while waiting. (I post here on Mondays and Fridays. See you then!)
I know, I know! :-) Have a safe and happy trip.
Have fun!
Jealous! Although I have about three more days before i'm sunning with a kangaroo too. :D Can't wait.
P.S. yup got your email. I emailed you back did you get it?
Stay cool! Have a great trip! MMF
Have a wonderful time!
he he what an adorable kangaroo! :)
Sun & beaches! I'm so jealous. Enjoy your trip!
Enjoy everything about it
Have fun! I am very jealous.
Hope you have a great time! So jealous I am in desperate need of a vacation!
Sam ~
I haven't been out "kangaroo-hopping" much these past couple of weeks...busy with the daily A to Z Challenge and...(sigh) taxes. Guess you could say I had "gone fishing...sort of" from my normal scheme of things. Sooo...just saying "hi" and letting you know I've caught up on things here at The Slight Detour, since your April 4th post :~)
Have a great time! I am topping up my tan too...
Looking good, Sam! Isn't it nice to relax and let your fur grow out? ;D I hope you're having a fantastic time!
I'm counting down the days till I get to go on vacation!! I hope you thoroughly enjoy yours! :)
I gave you an award over on my blog. Come stop by to claim it. http://www.kellyhashway.com/apps/blog/show/6777883-the-versatile-blogger-award
Australia? Happy travels.
wherever it is, stay safe while enjoying to the max! :-D
Not me, I'm still ensconced by wind and rain and cold. And my drive home from the coast last weekend took us over two mountain passes and through not only a snowstorm but a skyful of fog fallen to earth. Sam, do you need a nanny?
Have fun!!!
Stacey - Thanks! It's been a lot of fun so far!
Kate - Thanks, my dear!
Equanimity - Thank you!
Christina - Got it. Thanks! Enjoy your vacay too!
Meagan - Thanks! We couldn't ask for better weather.
Kathy - Thanks! Gold Coast was a lot of fun. We're in Brisbane now.
Dezmond - They're even more adorable in person! :)
Kara - Thanks! Will share some beach pics in the next post.
Miss Agie - Thanks for the award! :)
Whispering Writer - Thanks!! :D
Jennifer - Thank you! Hope you get a chance to go on vacay soon. :)
Kathy - Thanks for stopping by! Taxes - UGH. I feel your pain...
MuMuGB - Happy tanning!
Kenya - LOL! Yup, nothing like it indeed! :D
Donea - Having a blast so far. Thanks!
Kelly - Yay! Thanks for the award!
Florida Girl - Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! :D Yup, I'm here until mid this week.
Malen - Thank you!
Cathy - Sending warm thoughts your way!
Stephanie - Thanks!!!
Haha I was just about to say Australia and then it was confirmed!!! How exciting! I hope pictures will follow!
Jen - Your wish is my command... :D
Boracay! Or is that my wishful thinking?! :) haha. Happy Easter -- enjoy the sun!
Mymommylogy - It's a little more "down under" than Boracay ;-)


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Save That Book? Save the Marginalia!
To the Editor:
In his interesting piece on library preservation ("Save That Book!" Perspectives, November 2004), Jonathan Spence remarks that Yale's reformatting and media preservation center prepares books for preservation by, among other things, erasing "marginal graffiti and underlinings." Marginalia, although representing vandalism for some scholars, are a historical source for others. Heather Jackson (Marginalia, Yale Univ. Press, 2002) shows what can be done with marginalia written by important people. My own more modest researches have uncovered responses to a popular book by anonymous 19th-century undergraduates at St. Andrew's, Edinburgh, the Oxford Union, and Princeton. Sometimes one can identify specific readers from the evidence of gift inscriptions, signatures, and marginalia in books that have ended up in academic libraries (including Yale's).
This letter, then, is my plea to preservation librarians to remember that today's defacement is tomorrow's window into the minds of past, dead readers. Save Those Marginalia!
— Denis Paz
University of North Texas
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Is there some way I can use custom icons for symlinked folders on my desktop? When I try to change the icon, I can't see any way of pointing at a different folder. Even if I just knew the folder it points at by default, I could paste my custom icons in there, but I can't seem to figure that out, either.
This feature should be available in the upcoming 4.12 release of Xfdesktop.
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I don't think you can create custom icons for symlinks. Especially if you want more than one custom icon.
As an alternative, you could:
- copy the /usr/share/applications/Thunar.desktop file to your desktop and open the file for editing using a text editor (like mousepad) and:
- edit the "Name=" line to change the label of the icon.
- replace "Exec=Thunar %f" with "Exec=Thunar /path/to/directory"
- Change the "Icon=" line to point to your custom icon file
- Save the file.
You'll also want to right-click the Thunar.desktop file, select Properties and on the "Permissions" tab, check the "Allow this file to run as a program" so that you are not prompted everytime you run it.
This will open Thunar to the directory you specified on the "Exec=" line.
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That worked beautifully, ToZ! And once I had one such launcher, it was quite simple to duplicate it and edit the dupe to create additional launchers. Thank you!
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Gina A. Persichini
As Chapter Council for Idaho, Gina is a member of the Executive Board of the Idaho Library Association. Gina is in the midst of her first term as Idaho's Chapter Councilor and looks forward to representing the successes and the challenges faced by rural libraries.
Gina communicates with the members she represents in a variety of ways, including blogs, e-mail, and face-to-face communication.
Gina has been a member of ALA since 1994 when she was a student at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida. Over the years, she has participated in ALA through a number of committees, Divisions, and/or Round Table activities. Currently, Gina is an active member of the following ALA sub-organizations:
Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA)
- Interlibrary Cooperation and Networking Section (ICAN)
- State Library Agencies Section (SLAS)
Continue Library Education and Networking Exchange (CLENE) Round Table Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
- Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS)
Gina's days are spent as the Networking Consultant for the Idaho Commission for Libraries. As Networking Consultant, Gina works with libraries on statewide projects involving resource sharing, technology, and collaborative efforts of all kinds.
Committed to having a life outside of work, Gina spends time golfing, biking, hiking, and learning to golf.


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23s-33s: Chocolate night for grownups
Meeting new people is a challenge for 20-somethings in Charlottesville. Bars are usually too loud, too smoky, too scene-y. The transition from young adult to real adult can be awkward. You're looking for something new and different to do (something you might remember the next day).
Well, the Crozet Library is here to help.
All libraries have special events and programs for kids. The Crozet Library folks, in a stoke of genius, created an event just for people 23-33. Chocolate was the theme.
The night began with 30-second introductions. In a nod to the speed-dating routine, people wrote down their hobbies and interests, and then read them to somebody with a name tag. After a few minutes' chat, they moved on to somebody else. In about 20 minutes, everyone had met everyone.
Next came a word game. Librarians Wendy Saz and Margaret Haupt split the crowd into fours with the challenge to make as many words as possible from the word "chocolates."
Tim Gearhart, of Gearhart's Chocolates, sponsored the event and was on hand with samples and a discussion of the chocolate biz– as well as gift certificate door prizes.
The library plans more events to get people circulating. Check out The Hook's culture calendar for the next one!
Tim Gearhart reveals the secret of chocolate but forbids anyone to repeat it.
Anna Tubbs, Heather Hightower, and Catherine Greiner get their name tags on.
Librarians Margaret Haupt and Wendy Saz plan the next game.
Lindt Chocolate Shop coworkers Matt Ashburn and Elizabeth Masters cleverly disguise their spy mission with light conversation.
A word from chocolates.... hmmm.... cats!


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Collecting in the Blue Mountains
Live Exhibit staff ventured along the high ridges of the Blue Mountains National Park in order to collect some interesting live specimens for visitors to have the chance to photograph in My Photo Studio, part of the next Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.
Early in the planning stage, it was decided that the live displays in My Photo Studio should be different to those displayed in 2009. One species that the Live Exhibits team had had in mind to display from the beginning, was a diurnal (active by day) species of native cockroach known as Polyzosteria limbata, known commonly as the Botany Bay Cockroach, which got its name from the location were the first specimen was collected.
Polyzosteria limbata was chosen, because the species is active, rarely hides (important for someone trying to photograph it), has striped pattern and because the species challenges our perceptions of cockroaches as dirty, disease carrying, scavengers that hide in dark places. Unlike the introduced species that most Sydney residents are accustomed to, most native cockroaches actually like to bask in the sunlight and in captivity will sit for hours under a spotlight.
Although they make good display animals, they live under two years and captive populations do not always successfully breed so there were no excess captive animals available from other Zoos, Wildlife Parks and Museums. It was therefore decided that we would conduct a field trip into the wild to collect founding stock for a captive breeding population.
The first thing we had to decide was where we could go and with reasonable certainty find them. This is different to other collecting trips conducted by Museum scientist, we rarely go into the field with target species in mind, usually scientist go to a particular location to sample the variety of a particular group e.g. Molluscs, Insects or Spiders so whatever is collected is the forms the sample of a particular sites biodiversity. Therefore there is a high risk associated with having a particular species in mind, for example; what if we searched some perfect bush land were our species should be? We could waste a whole day looking.
The Blue Mountains variety of Polyzosteria limbata differ slightly from the same animals found on the coast (which includes the type specimen) by having slightly broader stripes along the edges of the body. We were able to find a site within Blue Mountains National Park using information from the Museum's entomology collection as well as from Andrew Titmuss, a teacher from Richmond College of TAFE, who has collected the species from a site in the Blue Mountains. Permits and final approval were sought from the National Parks Office before undertaking the fieldwork.
The collecting trip itself went well with good weather conditions and 13 kilometers of track were searched. Unfortunately however, only a single pair of cockroaches was collected. Other wildlife highlights included over 20 sightings of Mountain Dragon, Tympanocryptis diemensis, (including a few females gravid with eggs), Jacky Dragon, Amphibolurus muricatus, White's Skink, Egernia whitii, Red-crowned Toadlet, Pseudophryne australis, numerous flying insects and wildflowers.
The animals are now adjusting to their exhibit in the Museum and are being feed on a diet of Orthopteran mix, fruit and leaf litter. The Cockroaches live displays can be seen in My Photo Studio - part of the 2010 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition. which opens on the 4th of December.


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A business is giving a big gift to people who lost their homes after Hurricane Katrina. The company is called VSP, and will give hurricane victims $15 million worth of free eye care services.
Roger Valine is the man who runs VSP. He thought many people who lived where the hurricane hit had lost their glasses in the rush to leave their flooded homes. "It made me think, what can we do?" said Valine.
Roger Valine quickly came up with a plan. The company has already given out 23,000 certificates for free eye exams and glasses. That is about half of what VSP plans to give.
VSP is the largest eye care company in the country. The people who work there are not surprised that VSP wants to help these victims. They say it is a nice place to work.
The victims who are being helped by VSP are very grateful. One school nurse says that with VSP's help, two children have gotten glasses that they need. Many people are being helped by this company.
(This was adapted from an original story provided by News10 KXTV Sacramento.)


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text: URMC / Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Since its inception in 1968, the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the University of Rochester Medical Center has grown into a dynamic group of more than 20 faculty members devoted to patient care, education and research. We are a referral base for patients with complex lung diseases and critical illnesses from upstate New York and surrounding regions, and were recently recognized as one of the Top Programs in Respiratory Diseases in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. The Division is based at Strong Memorial Hospital, a 739-bed tertiary care center in Rochester, New York. The clinical activities of the Division encompass busy inpatient and outpatient services at both Strong Memorial and Highland Hospitals, the Mary Parkes Asthma Center, and the Strong Sleep Center. Divisional faculty are also actively involved in the Monroe County Tuberculosis Control Clinic, and the Sleep Center at F. F. Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua. Services provided at both Strong Memorial Hospital and Highland Hospital include pulmonary consultation, active medical intensive care units, respiratory step-down units, fully equipped pulmonary function laboratories, and video-equipped bronchoscopy suites. Many of these programs have been recognized for their service excellence from local and national agencies (patient care information). The Division has an active fellowship training program with a long-standing commitment to teaching and mentorship. Our fellowship training grant has been continuously supported by the National Institutes of Health for more than thirty years, and graduates of our program have gone on to clinical and leadership positions throughout the country. First year fellows undergo intensive clinical training in all aspects of Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine, with formal didactic grounding in pathophysiology. During the second and third years, all fellows undertake a research project with a chosen mentor, and actively participate in local and national conferences (education information). The Division houses a highly collaborative group of investigators engaged in clinical and basic research. Areas of interest include the health effects of air pollution, asthma, lung immunology, nitric oxide metabolism, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, respiratory viral infections and sepsis (research information). Spotlight This Year's Fundraising Golf Tournament Raises over $200K for Pulmonary Treatment and Research The 21st annual Rochester Junior Builder's Exchange Golf Tournament exceeded the success of last year's tournament by raising $205,400 to benefit the Mary Parkes Center for Asthma Allergy and Pulmonary Care.


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Northern US: Cold Waves and Canadian Storms
State College, Pa. — 18 January 2013 — AccuWeather reports the weather pattern over the next couple of weeks will favor waves of cold air and Canadian storms, known as Alberta Clippers, from the northern Plains to the Northeast.
Each blast of cold air will vary in magnitude, duration and coverage area.
Between the waves of cold air, the storms will ride from the Canada province of Alberta or thereabouts and race southeastward across the Great Lakes then either off the coast of Atlantic Canada or the Northeastern states.
These generally modest, fast-moving storms are often lacking in moisture due to their distance from the Gulf of Mexico. The bulk of them generally bring only light to moderate snowfall along and north of the storm center track.
However, occasionally these storms can be more robust and attempt to strengthen upon nearing the Atlantic Ocean. In this case, they can produce heavy snow at the last minute along the coast before heading out to sea.
One such clipper may grab some moisture at the last minute during Tuesday (Jan. 22), perhaps impacting Cape Cod and other areas.
As the Alberta Clipper storms approach and pass to the north of a location, temperatures can rebound for a day or more, prior to another push of arctic air. This is likely to occur this Saturday (Jan. 18) and again later next week (Jan. 24-26).
Even so, several days in a row with temperatures consistently below freezing are possible along the I-95 corridor from Philadelphia through Boston during the first part of next week, with additional episodes of the same possible later in the month.
Chicago is likely to have several days in a row with highs in the teens.
Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland are likely to have most days remaining below freezing into the first week or two of February.
During the arctic outbreak coming late this weekend into early next week, Minneapolis is likely to have its first day in five years in which the temperature remains below zero the entire day.
Colder air will be moving into Foxboro, Mass., for the NFL AFC Conference Championship Game Sunday evening on gusty winds after a mild start to the day. The NFC Conference Championship will be determined indoors in Atlanta, Ga., Sunday afternoon.
Washington, D.C., will be brisk and cold on Inauguration Day.
The core of the cold air will pass north of the southern Plains and the Deep South. However, it is possible on one or more occasions that temperature dip to frosty or near-freezing levels during the next several weeks in some of the active agricultural areas in the region given the right conditions at night: dry air, a clear sky and light wind.
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My ancestor Malinda Holt was enslaved by Giles Holt of Hardin County, Tennessee. Giles enslaved her along with one other woman, named Judy (sometimes written Julia) Holt. Both woman had multiple children of around the same ages. Although I will probably never know whether or not Malinda and Judy were actually sisters, I have decided to track Judy's children as my relatives because it is obvious that their children had close kinship ties and considered each other family. I did a post sometime ago about Judy's son James and his amazing life story. This rough chart shows each woman and their children:
One (of the many) wretched things about slavery is that often we trace back to that elusive female, listed as head of household in 1870 and we find no hint of a man. Our climb through the tree stops—there is no other branch to trace. Particularly if the children have light complexions, we wonder whether our ancestor was one of the millions who conceived children by white men in the community. We all know that slaves formed families with enslaved neighbors, but this relationship can be difficult to uncover if they are not found living together in 1870.
As I tracked Judy Holt's children, a delightful surprise emerged. Judy's son Henry Holt died during the Civil War, while he was a member of the 55th US Colored regiment. His mother Judy's subsequent application for a pension in 1887 provided me with details of her children's names and (approximate) birthdates. One of the depositions, from fellow soldier Richard Kendall, also included this little gem:
Richard "was well-acquainted with Henry Holt and knew his family. I do not know whether his father is dead or alive. His name [was] Sam Dixon."
At last I found evidence of Judy's relationship with a (presumably) black man. But where was he? For years I couldn't find him because of my utter inability to be very creative with name spelling variations. But looking through Hardin County probate records recently led me to the will of one Elizabeth Dickson (note the spelling). That rang a bell in my mind, and sure enough, among the legacies she left to her daughter Jane was this:
"and she is to have my black man Samuel while…she lives single"
Racing back to Ancestry, there he is: Samuel Dickson in 1870, in the town of Savannah, right where he should be, and the right age, although he appears to be married to Lucinda now. Or perhaps Lucinda is a daughter.
I got even luckier (I think its all luck at this point) when Judy also included in her pension file the fact that her daughters Sarah and Frances were both now surnamed "Davy". Using that surname, I found, Judy's daughter Frances' (nicknamed Fannie) death certificate in 1917. Guess who was listed as her father? Sam Dickson.
While there is no way to know exactly how many of Judy's children were fathered by Sam, the fact that I was able to uncover evidence for two of her children is pretty amazing. This is also a good example of using the technique of cluster research, to expand your vision and research the group of people surrounding your direct ancestors. The hunt for elusive enslaved fathers continues.


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Today i was part of a concert celebrating the genius of Mozart. Our local Orchestra did a tremendous job and the Cappella Singers (Which I am a member off) also did a fine job. I have included 3 short videos of the concert.
When not engrossed reading a good book on my kindle, watching science fiction, singing with the Cappella Singers or looking for new apps for my Iphone or Ipad l also trawl through the Internet and post useful articles on my Blog. I welcome your thoughtful contributions or questions. I mainly hangout on Google+ where I find a nice level of engagement and plenty of interesting posts. I also use Twitter and Facebook. For video conversations I use Skype but am actively looking for an alternative. I am still amazed at what you can do on the Internet and where it's possible I enjoy being an early adopter.
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