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TracyMac, 21:02 Aug 11, 2010
Regarding the whole frigging ludicrous false dichotomy between teh "socially liberal" geyz and wimminz vs teh WORKERZZZZZ, it's amazing how few of the morons who make these comparisons fail to realise that quite a frigging few working class workers also happen to be frigging gay or women themselves. And I can tell you that the queer working class people and women I know actually DO care very much about having fair living and working conditions.
(In fact, the only queer people I know who would actually want to become married-married are working class)
God, it pisses me off, that kind of wilful obliviousness. Not that I have fond memories of the union "brothers" of Trotter's ilk I encountered in the mid-80s, who spent lengthy meetings agitating about the fact that us females (and queers, not I told them at the time) had the audacity to want to contaminate their sacred chapels and workplaces. Wankers.
giovanni tiso, 21:11 Aug 11, 2010
But you don't want to scare nice middle-class white males into voting National, do you? You're hurting Danyl's cause by being so angry.
Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply
Islander, 21:18 Aug 11, 2010
Not to mention Trotter's case - hmmm, I wonder when he was last in the South? I know about his family links - but him?
Ross Mason, 21:19 Aug 11, 2010
Jeez Tom. Who pays this piper's son?
There was massive desire to punish Labour last election,
45% of voters gave the Nats their tick. A mandate? Hmm. What happens in this country is that it is not the true blues or firey reds who decide the election it is the swingers. About 12% max (2002) - but usually between 2% to 5% - of the total vote decide who the major party is.
HELLO!! We have MMP. I do think it is about time the Nats realised this and kept their toys in the cot. FFP is gone chappies and chappesses. I guess we will tinker with it (SVP?) but my prediction is it is well dead and buried. Learn to live within it.
S59? A basic human right for anyone. But absolutely, even more basic is the rights of the innocent. And there is none more innocent than our children. For a developed country it staggers me, the lack of parental care and attention we give. Full stop.
Now lets see...Social Engineering.....
8 hour day. Votes for Women. 5 day week. Arbitration. Social welfare. I'll willing give so that I can take it. State housing. Superannuation. Child care. Health Camps. Free Libraries. Free Education. I'll use and pay for it. Public Health care. Yep. Ditto. Free milk. Capital punishment abolished. Lets poke noses at the French at Mururoa and Nuclear free? F*^k yeah! Smoke free. Yup. I ABSOLUTELY enjoy going to a pub these days. Values Party. MMP. PAYE. Treaty of Waitangi Ammendment Act. 1981. Seat Belts. Speed Limits. Warrants of Fitness. Breath testing. Homosexual Law Reform. Happy and gay. Maori Language act. NZ Bill of Rights. Public Finance act. Freedom of Information Act. Finshery quotas. Matrimonial Property Act. GST. Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act. Metric System. Home insulation. Solar heating.
I'll stop there. A short list that to no ones surprise was NOT focused on any one political spectrum. But I HAVE to say that the VAST majority of the biggies were probably from the socialist leaners.
Sorry Tom. FAIL. We've always had it, we will always have it.
We ain't done too bad considering a shit load of other countries have followed us in an awful lot of these!!!
Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report Reply
Ross Mason - all really good points!
And just how many of them actually were initiated by right-wingers, again?
Logan O'Callahan, 21:27 Aug 11, 2010
It was an energy efficiency standard, something that's been done in a number of other countries, and something that some incandescent light bulbs meet! You can buy energy-efficient incandescent bulbs at the supermarket. I know, because I saw some last Sunday.
Yup. Developed in response to a new energy efficiency standard in California.
Pretty much the same with most appliances. They keep getting more efficient because of ever tougher standards in USA. Most consumers would keep buying outdated deep fill washers and crappy inefficient fridges if they cost $20 less up front. Forget that they cost $100 more per year to run.
Since Apr 2008 • 70 posts Report Reply
I forgot ACC. Jaw dropping to the rest of the world when it emerged.
Now the Nats???
CSA...Mazengarb Report (I forgot that too)...Abolished capital punishment. Ombudsman (forgot that one)..Metric system..Carless days and Nat Super...forgot again..OIA...Another one forgot..RMA finally but Palmer had a big hand in that one...fancy the Nats passing it though...any recent news about it??..Oh dear...Employment Contracts Act...They did send the Tui to Mururoa though...
ACC was probably begun under Nats.
But overall.. Not too many from the top list.
Sacha, 21:50 Aug 11, 2010
Most consumers would keep buying outdated deep fill washers and crappy inefficient fridges if they cost $20 less up front. Forget that they cost $100 more per year to run.
And why wouldn't you address that tendency up front if you were running a campaign? Marketing fail, even with all the resources of incumbent govt on their side.
The 'taxpayers subsidising wealthy polluters because we are bound by Kyoto and export customer expectations' factoid similarly escaped being pressed into service after the new govt made it clear they were intent on going easy on those poor suffering farmers and truckies.
Again, basic competence and coherence required. Who's delivering it?
I'm grateful you've done the research Ross Mason, because my gut instinct is that Nats do buggerall for the populous in general (us lowly people on less than $30,000 p.a. Who make up nearly 75% of ANZ inhabitants.)
Who, despite pressures not to, keep on trying to get better educated, create in all kinds of fields, and be supportive of our families & friends.
And will suceed.
So Rod Deane has been hired to decide which Defence Force assets to privatise.
[Bill] English indicates that this approach is now being percolated through other departments including Defence, where former State Services Commissioner Rod Deane is running through the work done by the "strategy boffins" to isolate which assets need to stay in Crown ownership.
Heard about that anywhere?
Berloody hell...
More like it - not silently tolerating lies.
Labour's finance spokesman, David Cunliffe, has been leading the attack over the wage gap.
He said today Mr English's claim that National inherited a bad economic situation ignored Labour's achievements, such as the world's lowest unemployment rate, the longest post-war economic expansion and halving gross government debt while pre-funding superannuation.
"Every time Bill English repeats his mantra it sounds thinner and more ridiculous," Mr Cunliffe said.
George Darroch, 23:15 Aug 11, 2010
Well, there is the energy star rating. The last Government initiated a plan to put fuel efficiency ratings on cars, but the Nats and ACT were furious about that. How dare they! Telling the customer upfront how much fuel and pollution it requires.
California's standards have pulled along the rest of the world. Manufacturers aren't going to make seperate products for California (1/5 US population), so they make them that good for the entire US. And since they make them that way for the US...
Japan actually has a rolling efficiency standard, continually moving upwards. What was best practice 5 years ago is middle of the pack now.
I suspect the National Party also wanted to reward their friends. Stephen Joyce, after all, is Minister for the Road Transport Forum.
Joanna, 00:15 Aug 12, 2010
You voted National, we understand. It's tough. Did they cut your taxes? You poor dear. I really feel for you so bad.
Oh Gio, I have never wanted to tend to your 'special needs' more than when I just read that paragraph. (In case that sounds too sarcastic, that was a total platonic come-on).
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Typical Newmarket, thinking of their own, and not of the accessibility needs of others!
3. Ross Mason's awesome list:
You, sir, are awesome, and thank you for providing concrete quotable evidence to what I would have just otherwise summed up as a feeling - "Labour aren't as evil as National, full stop".
Craig Ranapia, 01:10 Aug 12, 2010
The Human Rights Amendment Bill, under the name of Associate Health Minister Katherine O'Regan -- but don't let me fuck with the narrative. But, hey, Islander, passing legislation where I can't lose my job, be evicted or denied services just because I'm gay was a National Government doing nothing for me.
OK, let's keep playing.
In 1974, Venn Young introduced the first serious attempt at homosexual law reform -- which was defeated by a majority of both parties.
Robert Muldoon was one of ten National MPs who crossed the floor in 1961 to vote in favour of abolishing the death penalty for murder, along with Ralph Hannan, Justice Minister in the second National Government).
I could keep on, but I need to get some sleep.
I would have just otherwise summed up as a feeling - "Labour aren't as evil as National, full stop".
Yeah, so much easier to feel than to think.
The Human Rights Amendment Bill, under the name of Associate Health Minister Katherine O'Regan -- but don't let me fuck with the narrative.
There are plenty of things the last National Government did that deserve plaudits, and I acknowledge them. The point, which I think you will probably agree with, is that one man's social engineering is another woman, child, homosexual, impaired person's basic human rights.
Keir Leslie, 03:02 Aug 12, 2010
I had wondered about that. But if Jim gets the mayoral chains and leaves parliament, does the JAPP disappear with him? And is he ok with gay people, or are they Evil, like drugs?
I think that Jim's staying in Parliament until the next election, no matter what. After that, I'm pretty sure the Progressive Party is going away. And, well, if Jim Anderton thinks gay people are Evil, somebody better let him know about Tony Milne.
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Danyl Mclauchlan, 07:36 Aug 12, 2010
one man's social engineering is another woman, child, homosexual, impaired person's basic human rights.
We're drifting away from reality here: policies that regulated lightbulbs and shower pressure were what upset voters and they weren't guaranteeing anyone's human rights.
A few pages back someone blamed Labour's inability to sell it's policies on 'the media'. I'm sympathetic to small parties like the Greens when they complain about misrepresentation in the media - but when you're in government you have more press secretaries than there are journalists in the press gallery. You have millions of taxpayer dollars to spend on public relations consultants. You have 'researchers' to write letters to the editor and call talk radio shows pretending to be members of the public. You have the PM who can go on any tv or radio show they want any time they want. If you can't communicate your own policies properly when in power it's your own damn fault.
Stephen Judd, 08:20 Aug 12, 2010
I'm not sure whether it was you, Danyl, who used the phrase "social engineering" in this thread first, but I don't think regulating lightbulbs and shower pressure count as social engineering.
I do think those two things were turned into potent symbols, woven into a narrative if you like, and Labour completely failed to put them (and the "hip hop tours" etc) into a bigger picture. I think that's what you're saying in your second para above, and if so, well cripes then the problem wasn't that Labour regulated lightbulbs and shower pressure, and the solution isn't that they should promise not to do it again. And it surely isn't to accept labels ("social engineering") created by their opponents and wear them with shame.
If you can't communicate your own policies properly when in power it's your own damn fault.
Indeed. I do it as much as any other party political beast, but on sober reflection back in 2002 it was hard to blame "the media" for National's historically low share of the popular vote. That was all down to a bad campaign, worse than incoherent policies voters obviously found as appealing as day-old fish, and the amusing but discouraging (to me) spectacle of loose cannons being fired into feet on an hourly basis. And, dare I say it, plenty of people who thought Bill English was a perfectly nice chap but if he couldn't get his own house in order, there was no way he could run a government.
Seriously, don't think you can blame the Press Gallery for that without Sarah Palin-ish levels of high functioning psychosis.
Martin Lindberg, 08:33 Aug 12, 2010
This I certainly agree with. Further, they don't seem to be able to communicate their policies now either.
ETA: @Craig, snap!
Stockholm • Since Jul 2009 • 802 posts Report Reply
Oh Gio, I have never wanted to tend to your 'special needs' more than when I just read that paragraph.
Okay, I'm going to find moderately hard to get rid of that mental picture as I spend the morning at a meeting on 'special needs'. Thanks a bunch!
I take it therefore that you voted National because of the pernicious, oppressive regulations on shower pressure and efficient lightbulbs enacted by Labour? If so, I'd like to put a moratorium on you complaining about anything or making fun of anybody for the next, let's say one hundred years.
Yeah. They listened to wierd bastard.
The light bulbs and the shower heads were easy targets to pick on. But in the context of improving your housing, the countries energy needs and your living bills, they were ideal candidates to include in housing regulations.
Golly, Lets think. Holding down the roof with Z nails? Wow. I wonder how many roofs that stopped disappearing in Wgtn winds. Adding a bit more bracing? So that your next house won't wobble to bits in the next earthquake. Double glazing. Sewage. Running potable water. Electrical regulations. Gib board / dry walls so that the fire won't take your house in 5 minutes.
Jeez. All wee things that add up to improved social conditions. Surely. ..Oh. and less DEAD people.
Thanks Craig. Three more. Keep searching....My point was that both sides social engineered. But....


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Cass Dykeman helping the vaccine effort
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Cass Dykeman, Counseling Professor at the College of Education, is getting out there to help the community.
He says: "I was a volunteer at the Covid Vaccine Clinic this morning at Reser Stadium. I thought it might be great to show CoEd personnel at work to aid the vaccination effort. A lot of my family is involved with health care and I wanted to do something too. So when the call went out for volunteers to help with the vaccine clinic this morning at Reser Stadium I signed up to ferry people that needed assistance getting from the parking lot to Gate C via one of OSU's golf carts since I am approved for driving with the motor pool. It was cold but it felt great to help out in any way I could. The clinic was extremely well run and I would encourage any of my CoEd colleagues to volunteer too!"
More info about the OSU TRACE program
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Diversity & Inclusion Forum
January 21, 2021 Diversity and Inclusion forum
The college held the first Diversity and Inclusion Forum in January as part of our commitment to the Call to Action statement : "Holding anti-oppressive conversations and training for faculty and staff that focus on specific identities (e.g. Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Trans, Disability, national origin, etc.)"
A short recap of some key takeaways from our first forum along with a few resources shared in the meeting:
How to apologize and focus on impact (instead of intent)
Considering a shift away from "calling people out" to "calling people in" (NYT Article below)
Importance of learning how to pronounce people's names (or trying to correctly pronounce people's names)
Common coping strategies used by students when responding to incidents related to race (resource from University of Illinois Racial Microaggressions Project)
What can we do as a college to encourage/enable our students to use empowering, constructive coping strategies? (connection to work done in our college committees)
Approaches to take with our colleagues and students when we find ourselves in these uncomfortable situations
Normalizing the behavior of asking others to hold us accountable/modeling the behavior of acknowledging our own mistakes in these situations in our roles as instructors and advisors
How to Apologize (video by YouTuber Chescaleigh)
Link: https://youtu.be/C8xJXKYL8pU
NYT Article: What if instead of calling people out, we called them in?
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/style/loretta-ross-smith-college-cancel-culture.html
Crowdsourced Pronunciation Dictionary:
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"My Name, My Identity" Campaign
Link: https://www.mynamemyidentity.org/
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Creating a Brave Space
In this blog post, Allison List writes about how her Brave Space idea came to life with the combined efforts of her Counseling program colleagues and professionals at other Oregon universities.
I sat to write this blog post on 1/6/21, the day our Capitol was attacked. There is so much irony in writing about the experience of our Brave Space initiative colliding on the day's events. As I began to construct my thoughts while also watching the day continue to unfold, I pivoted from this blog to writing statements to my students and colleagues communicating concern for yet another trauma resulting from white supremacy. I want to be clear, there is no getting around this term anymore and there is no getting around the argument that white supremacy is the underlying reason why I am writing this blog post in the first place. White supremacy is the exact reason why we strive to create safe and brave spaces for students to discuss their experiences away from groups at large. Sure, there is safety in smaller numbers and it is no doubt easier to be vulnerable in a smaller group, but the groups and structures in which our students find themselves in at large do not provide safety to discuss experiences that fall outside of what our society has deemed normative. What's important about the term "normative" is that it dangerously creates structures that build upon a narrative that racial injustices and inequalities are the status quo; where we accept such acts great and small as normal. Each new event of racialized crimes and actions that strive to keep the dominant narrative alive and well, while all unique, also play a repeated theme and reflect how we feel and have felt about race in America. In my opinon, it is crucial that we provide the space to discuss the differences in narratives, and the pain that is associated with the dismissal of experiences held by many of our students and collegues.
A little less than six months ago I joined a team of colleagues in a series of on-going meetings called, "Call to Action" within the College of Education that addressed the current state of racial affairs across the country. Throughout our meetings of discussing civil unrest and reckoning, a pandemic was swirling with no end in sight and wildfires were sweeping across California and Oregon. While I had carried my own burdens from COVID, I was still able to leave my home and not be ridiculed for being associated with the virus. Despite social distancing, I could feel safe in my own skin in my neighborhood and community because no matter where I go, I can move freely. My home was not under direct threats from wildfires. To my core, I could still feel a sense of safety amidst the various swirls of chaos, and to hold that level of privilege, as beneficial as it is, is just as equally undeserved. As I sat in my own reckoning with this particular experience, there was only one obvious answer in addressing my experience and the intense suffering of those around me: advocacy.
Later that day, a little idea sprouted about holding virtual safe spaces designed for students and faculty to process how they were experiencing the world and it was pitched to my department. We quickly went from a single person idea to a team of three. That team of three strengthened the original pitch and together formed a greater alliance that extended to our Counselor Educator colleagues beyond our Corvallis backyard and across the state of Oregon. Those efforts grew our team to nine, spanning across five organizations/institutions. Our team of nine held what we called, "Brave Spaces," which were online groups designed to support those who were suffering in our communities and foster a sense of connection. Across the last eight weeks of the fall term, 13 Brave Spaces were held for 17 graduate students in Oregon institutions, some of which attended multiple sessions. This effort was not about contracts and work loads. We gave our time because we believed in the cause and we wanted to support where we could.
While it is always nice to have data to help us understand the experience in a different way, this project was never about the numbers. This project was about humanity and connection. This project has allowed us to flex our positions of power and privilege to step up and do something.
In my experience across the past two decades in education, advocacy work has been lonely. I often feel like I was and often am swimming upstream alone. Colleagues that I thought were like minded and on board, quickly dwindled when the work got hard, controversial or it meant giving something up of their own. To see the efforts in which we came together as clinicians and counselor educators across the state will forever make me feel less lonely. Our team of nine, will forever have my utmost respect and admiration for giving when their tanks were no doubt empty or close to. Our team made a difference in a student's life when they reported feeling unsure whether they mattered or belonged. THAT moment of giving will be something that I will consider a success and a spark of inspiration on the days where I feel like we are going nowhere or can't influence any type of change. Our Brave Space team will be connected through this work as colleagues and allies. I would like to thank each and every one of them for the help and support to get this project up off the ground. I would like to especially thank Arien Muzacz and Kok-Mun Ng for their ideas, support and willingness to keep trudging on with full plates. Without the two of them, we wouldn't have been able to see the potential and lines of support that existed outside of our little backyard, and without all of you, none of this would have taken place. With that I say, we continue to push on and center our work on challenging the status quo and provide safety and connection in our community.
We would like to recognize the following people for their time, energy and contributions to the project:
Allison List, Oregon State University
Arien Muzacz, Oregon State University
Chung-Fan Ni, Western Oregon University
Kok-Mun Ng, Oregon State University
Jeff Christensen, Lewis & Clark College
Max Utterberg, Oregon State University
S. Anandavalli , Southern Oregon University
Sofia Jasani, Oregon Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development
Victor Chang, Southern Oregon University
As Dr. Ng often says, "Go in courage."
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WHY MENTORING MATTERS:
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Gloria Crisp's Award-Winning Research Helps Develop the Best in Others
By Gregg Kleiner
Gloria Crisp grew up in Houston, Texas, with parents who told their daughter in no uncertain terms that she would go to college. But it had to be a community college, she said, and Gloria had to get a scholarship to attend.
"So I did just that: I found a community college that gave me a scholarship – for dance, because I was a dancer," says Crisp. "I didn't even consider any other options, because I didn't have any mentors helping me."
Although her mother had never gone to college, she was her daughter's primary mentor as Crisp embarked on her higher-education journey. Crisp attended several different community colleges around Houston, selecting class times that fit her work schedule as she juggled multiple jobs to pay for college.
Crisp earned a bachelor's degree in business, assuming she would open a dance studio. Later, thinking maybe she wanted to be a school psychologist, she obtained a master's in psychology. Ultimately, Crisp completed a doctorate in educational leadership and has been a professor of education for 14 years, the last five at Oregon State University, where she is chair of the Adult and Higher Education programs.
It wasn't until Crisp was well into graduate school, however, that she became interested in learning about the value of mentors – people who could help illuminate the complex path through academia and career choices.
"Like most community college students and first-generation students, I really struggled to find my way, to find the resources and survive in the academy," she says.
This lack of mentorship is why Crisp's research has focused on the impact of mentorship on undergraduate student success.
She developed a mentor survey, the College Student Mentoring Scale, which is used at institutions worldwide to evaluate the effectiveness of mentoring programs. Her research shows that mentoring matters for student success, and students need more than just a single mentor.
Students need different kinds of support, including emotional and psychological support, Crisp says. For some faculty mentors, this might not be their strength, so it is critical that students have access to staff and peer mentors, as well.
Her research has also shown that mentorship needs change over time. What is critical as a freshman transitioning into college is different from what's needed as a senior prepares to transition out of college and into a career.
Crisp describes ideal mentoring as "fluid and complex" with multiple individuals at multiple points in time providing different types of support that add up to success.
"It's a mentoring network, really, that students need," she says. "It's messy and complicated, but that's why I like studying mentoring."
Crisp has published 40+ academic papers, a book about mentoring, and has a new book forthcoming this year. She was instrumental in Oregon State's Beaver Connect mentoring program winning the 2020 Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) Beacon Award for Excellence in Student Achievement and Success.
Crisp was recently honored with the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Award for Mentoring. "It's really an honor to receive that award, because it says you're contributing to the development of researchers and scholars in your field," she says. "And that's really my passion, what I deeply care about: developing the best in my colleagues and students."
Dr. Tenisha Tevis awarded Frances Dancy Hooks Award
Recently, Oregon State University held the 39th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration.
At this event, President Alexander announced the creation of the President's Commission on the Status of Black Faculty and Staff Affairs to be co-chaired by Terrance Harris, the director of the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, and our very own, Dr. Tenisha Tevis, an Assistant Professor in Adult and Higher Education at the College of Education.
Dr. Tevis is also the 2021 recipient of the Frances Dancy Hooks Award which recognizes Oregon State students, staff or faculty who exemplify Frances Dancy Hooks' work: building bridges across cultures, showing courage in promoting diversity, and proudly "Walking the Talk."
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Can middle schoolers learn computer science concepts using tabletop games?
Can middle schoolers learn computer science concepts using tabletop games? How about during a pandemic, when classroom interaction takes place remotely?
Oregon State University researchers are working closely with teachers to develop an innovative curriculum designed to broaden participation in computer science classes.
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BTR's Female Field Guide Launched An App and Here's How
Gyasmine George is the host of Female Field Guide, a women's cheat sheet to sports, entertainment and relationships, which airs on BlogTalkRadio Sunday nights at 8PM PST. She recently unveiled her very own Android app for her show that has helped to boost her listener base. We thought it would be interesting for Gyasmine to share her experiences on BTR and advice for hosts looking to create a listening app for their own shows. We are pleased to introduce you to Gyasmine George.
How long have you been on BTR?
October 30, 2010 was my very first broadcast. Since then I've had almost 4,000 listeners!
What's your angle at Female Field Guide?
Female Field Guide is unique because is it geared towards women who may be sports challenged and want to boost their sports IQ or women sports fans who desire to learn more. The show benefits single gals who may want to add to their stock of sports knowledge as they navigate through the dating scene, girlfriends or wives who desire a closer bond on with the men and sports fans in their lives, or the lady or man who has always wanted to learn more about sports, but just didn't know where or how to gain the information.
Who would be a dream guest on your show?
I would say Lisa Leslie and Billie Jean King and as for male athletes, Michael Jordan and LeBron James.
Tell us about your Android app. What does it do?
With my app, you can listen to my Blogtalkradio shows live or whenever you want. You can pause, rewind and play back the podcasts. You can watch my interviews via my video feeds and get the latest's news and updates via my Twitter and Facebook feeds. You can also interact with and share articles, videos, and podcasts via Twitter, Facebook or email all within the app.
Where did you get the idea for the app?
I interviewed Billy Carson, founder of SheCanPlay.org, a women's basketball website and message board, for a special Father's Day episode. In conversation with Mr. Carson, I found out he designed an Android and Iphone app for his daughter, April Carson, who is a highly ranked basketball player and gave it to her for her high school graduation.
Why did you decide to design one?
What I do with Female Field Guide is so unique, and since I am striving to blaze new trails, I thought why not an app?
How did you bring the app to life?
After my interview with Mr. Carson, I contacted him regarding advice about a Female Field Guide app and he replied "That's what we do!" In addition to SheCanPlay.org, Mr. Carson heads up ZenForce Media, a non-profit company dedicated to expanding businesses and individual's social media networking reach via apps. They were great and designed my app so quickly and efficiently!
Why do you think an app is a good idea for hosts?
I have spoken to so many of my friends and supporters and sometimes it's difficult for them to get to a computer to listen live or even to the archived episodes. BUT, everyone I know has a cell phone! Since my app dropped on Tuesday, July 12th, my listener numbers have doubled!
Do you have plans for bringing your app to other smart phones?
Oh absolutely! The iPhone app will be dropping in about a week and we are working on a Blackberry version as well.
Do you have any advice for hosts that want to make an app or learnings you can provide from your experience?
My fellow hosts, the time is now! In the past, athletes, entertainers etc. were profiled in magazines, posters, trading cards, but today they are more often featured on blogs, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds. With technology such as Androids, iPhones and iPads making a big difference in everything from education to business, we can certainly expect to see more apps featuring players, entertainers and prominent figures in the future. Also, do your research! Send out emails, surveys and ask around to find out how your target audience wants to listen – whether if it's straight from BTR, on apps or social networking sites. And lastly, be along for the ride! This last year has been amazing and I am so grateful for Blogtalkradio. Internet radio is the future of radio! If you have any questions or advice, email me at gyasmine@femalefieldguide.com.
We'd like to thank Gyasmine for such a great interview. Please tune into Female Field Guide and visit her app here.
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Thomas Webb and Sons (f. 1837), Manufacturer
Woodall, George (English, 1850-1925), Engraver
England, Amblecote
Overall H: 31.2 cm, W: 23 cm
Gift of Juliette K. Rakow in memory of Leonard S. Rakow
Opaque white, transparent amethyst, lead glass; blown, overlaid, etched, cameo-carved. Flat, rectangular shape, cut to follow the outline of columns and an entablature frame; white overlaid on amethyst, cameo-carved to produce the figure of a standing woman, wearing diaphanous dress, one hand holding a veil, the other her skirt; standing an elaborate pavement, before a staircase descending to a lake; at the left, a tripod brazier on a pedestal decorated with two figures; a ship and buildings in the distance; framed by fluted Ionic columns with masks at the bases, an elaborate entablature above; inscribed "ANDROMACHE" at the bottom of the frame, and "Geo. Woodall" (incised script) on the pavement, at the bottom; reverse polished; printed circular collection label on the reverse, inscribed "COLLECTION OF DR. & MRS. LEONARD S. RAKOW / CG-14."
Rakow Estate, Juliette K. (Mrs. Leonard S.) (d. 1992), Source
Opaque white, amethyst
Blown, Overlaid, Etched, Cameo-carved
lead glass
COLLECTION OF DR. & MRS. LEONARD S. RAKOW / CG-14
Geo. Woodall
Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome
J. Paul Getty Museum 2007-10-18 through 2008-01-14
Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking
Cameo glass, one of the most costly and difficult decorating techniques since first century B.C., is documented and illustrated in this catalog. Included are examples from Rome, Islam, and China, as well as English 19th-century masterpieces by John Northwood and George Woodall among others. For the purposes of this catalog, the term "cameo glass" is used to refer to cased glass objects with two or more differently colored layers. The outer layer is usually an opaque or opalescent white, and the outer layer or layers have been carved in to leave the decoration standing in relief against a body of contrasting color. Shading is produced by thinning down the carved layer; highlights are created where the glass is left thickest. Both this catalog, and the exhibition for which it was created, documents the 2000-year cameo glass tradition.
Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome (2008-04) illustrated, p. ?;
Modern Glass Inspired By Ancient Rome (2008-02-22) illustrated, p. 1;
Ecouri ale Romei antice in sticlaria moderna (2008) illustrated, p. 89; BIB# AI97179
The Cameo Glass of Thomas and George Woodall (2000) illustrated, p. 90; BIB# 64626
English Cameo Glass, The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar (1999) p. 42; BIB# 60454
English Cameo Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1994) illustrated, pp. 51, 62, fig. 47; BIB# 35913
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1989 (1990) p. 5; BIB# AI96380
Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking (1982) illustrated, pp. 77, 115, #70; BIB# 30609


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B-Metro > Events > B-There! A Night Under The Big Top | Chicago | Vince Gill & Lyle Lovett
B-There! A Night Under The Big Top | Chicago | Vince Gill & Lyle Lovett
Dance the night away at Glenwood's party of the year!
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February 17 through February 23, 2016
This week, Vince Gill and Lyle Lovett stop by the Alabama Theatre as part of their Songs and Stories Tour, Alabama Shakespeare Festival brings a special performance to the Dorothy Jemison Day Theater, Glenwood hosts its biggest party of the year at The Club, and so much more! Looking forward to seeing you, Birmingham!
The historic Pizitz building downtown once housed an iconic Birmingham department store. Now, it's getting a new life that will bring exciting opportunities to our city. Check out what's ahead for this landmark.
Birmingham Home and Garden Show
The BJCC
Join thousands of homeowners at the BJCC for four days of shopping. Gain inspiration and meet with exhibitors and experts to discuss various projects, see exhibitions from local landscape and design firms, and much more!
All Aces for JA Casino Night
February 19, 7-11 p.m.
Good People Brewing Company
Junior Achievement of Alabama invites you to come as you to a fun casino night. Tickets, which include casino cash and beer, are available online or at the door the night of the event. Don't miss out on this fun evening and try your luck at the tables as Junior Achievement's Junior Board raises scholarship funds for students who hope to be future entrepreneurs.
Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto
February 19-20, 8 p.m.
"Majestic," "regal," and "heroic" have all been used to describe Beethoven's monumental final piano concerto. Brazilian pianist Arnaldo Cohen appears along with frequent ASO collaborator Michael Morgan on the podium.
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A Choreographer's Showcase
The Dance Foundation
Experience dance works created by up and coming choreographers from around the country. At the end of each show, audience members will be given the chance to nominate their favorite choreographer. The choreographer with the most votes will receive a contract with AROVA to set a new work for spring 2017.
Chicago is a musical tale of "murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery, and treachery–all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts." Paint the town red with merry murderesses Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly, their hotshot lawyer, Billy Flynn, and the iconic choreography of Bob Fosse.
February 19, 8 p.m.
Singer and songwriter Corey Smith is focused squarely on the future. As his new album title, While the Gettin' Is Good, suggests, he's ready to make a determined grab at country's brass ring.
Future Elevators Album Release Party
Communication Vessels
Celebrate the debut release of the self-titled album by local band Future Elevators. They will perform live along with Dead Balloons and Omari Jazz. Cantina on Wheels and Trim Tab Brewing will also be on site with food and brews. For more about Future Elevators, check them out in our Magic City Mix.
February 19, 7:30 p.m.
Dorothy Jemison Day Theater
Alabama Shakespeare Festival presents a special Birmingham performance. The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two pairs of identical twins who, after being separated in a shipwreck as babies, find themselves in a seaport town with a reputation for sorcery and magic.
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A Night Under the Big Top
This annual celebration presented by the Glenwood Autism and Behavioral Health Center's junior board supports programs and services for children with autism. Throughout the event, enjoy food & cocktails, live music, silent disco, casino games, a silent auction, and much more!
Vince Gill & Lyle Lovett
The Alabama Theatre
As part of the Songs and Stories Tour, Gill and Lovett will hit the stage together. Over the course of the evening, they'll each take multiple turns at the mic, playing some songs alone and others as a duo.
UAB ArtBlink Gala
February 20, 6
:30 p.m.
The Kirklin Clinic
Enjoy a cocktail dinner by IZ Catering, a silent auction, and live music by the Rock Candy Band. Proceeds fund daily research efforts and help facilitate the treatment discoveries at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Rebirth Brass Band
Saturn Birmingham
Whether seen on HBO's Treme or at their legendary Tuesday night gig at The Maple Leaf, Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band is a true New Orleans institution. Formed in 1983 by the Frazier brothers, the band has evolved from playing the streets of the French Quarter to playing festivals and stages all over the world.
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The UNCF Mayor's Masked Ball
This premier fundraising gala is a major social event for the Birmingham office, focusing on raising public awareness and support. Guests will enjoy a red-carpet affair featuring dining, entertainment, and a parade of masks. Birmingham Mayor William Bell will serve as host.
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South Walton, Florida
This 3-day, all-inclusive event allows guests to enjoy award-winning films and documentaries alongside tasty bites from renowned Southern chefs.
On Sunday, April 10 from 11 a.m.- 3 p.m., be sure to attend "An American Institution: Grits!" at Bud + Alley's Seaside.
Soak up the natural beauty of South Walton's shoreline while enjoying everyone's favorite Sunday tradition-brunch. It's Grits!, a film about one of the South's most beloved institutions, will be screened. All food and cocktails included with ticket.
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Texas parole board recommends 120-day reprieve in Rodney Reed execution
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended Friday that Gov. Greg Abbott grant a 120-day reprieve to Rodney Reed, an inmate set to be executed next week.
Reed was sentenced to death more than 20 years ago for the 1996 assault, rape and strangling of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. He's scheduled to be executed November 20.
But the inmate and attorneys with the Innocence Project say they have evidence that exonerates him and instead implicates Stites' fiancée at the time, Jimmy Fennell, who was a police officer.
The case has united lawmakers, religious leaders, celebrities such as Kim Kardashian West and Rihanna , and more than 2.9 million people who have signed a petition on freerodneyreed.com asking Abbott to halt the execution.
Reed submitted an application to board requesting the 120-day reprieve or a commutation of his sentence to a lesser penalty. The board chose to ask for a reprieve, according to a release from the board.
Bryce Benjet, Rodney Reed's Innocence Project attorney, expressed thanks to the board for their action.
"This time is critical to allow for proper consideration of the powerful new evidence of his innocence and possible DNA testing that could help prove who actually committed the crime," he said. "We hope that Governor Abbott will consider all of the facts in this case, and adopt the Board's recommendation as soon as possible."
Rep. Michael T. McCaul wrote Abbott and the board this week to ask for a delay of the execution. Texas executes the most death row inmates of the 50 US states.
McCaul is among a growing list of supporters across the country who say new evidence might prove Reed did not kill Stites in Bastrop, Texas.
New witness affidavits from neighbors, colleagues, and associates of Stites and Fennell paint their relationship as abusive and difficult. There is more testimony supporting the assertion that Stites was in an affair with Reed.
One witness said that at Stites' funeral, Fennell said something like, "You got what you deserved," while looking at her body.
The new testimony aims to refute the prosecution's portrayal of Fennell and Stites as a happy couple eagerly anticipating their upcoming wedding and further cast Fennell as a potential suspect in his fiancée's murder.
Fennell was never charged in her death. His attorney, Robert Phillips, said his client denies any involvement in Stites' death, and he said the stories were lacking in credibility.
"There's no evidence that's worthy of presenting even to a grand jury that Jimmy Fennell was somehow involved," Phillips said.
The lead prosecutor for Reed's case maintains he is guilty and has said that DNA evidence from Stites' body proves it.
But Reed's attorneys say his DNA was on Stites' body because they were in a consensual sexual relationship.
The Innocence Project noted that Reed, who is black, was convicted by an all-white jury.
The group says the murder weapon was never tested for DNA evidence and that forensic experts admitted to errors in their testimony, and that a former prison inmate claims the victim's fiancée confessed to the murder that sent Reed to prison.


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Mutual Fund Performance: Measurement and Evidence
Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 95-187, May 2010
See all articles by Keith Cuthbertson
Keith Cuthbertson
City University London - Sir John Cass Business School
Dirk Nitzsche
Niall O'Sullivan
The paper provides a critical review of empirical findings on the performance of mutual funds, mainly for the US and UK. Ex-post, there are around 0-5% of top performing UK and US equity mutual funds with truly positive-alpha performance (after fees) and around 20% of funds that have truly poor alpha performance, with about 75% of active funds which are effectively zero-alpha funds. Key drivers of relative performance are, load fees, expenses and turnover. There is little evidence of successful market timing. Evidence suggests past winner funds persist, when rebalancing is frequent (i.e., less than one year) and when using sophisticated sorting rules (e.g., Bayesian approaches) - but transactions costs (load and advisory fees) imply that economic gains to investors from winner funds may be marginal. The US evidence clearly supports the view that past loser funds remain losers. Broadly speaking results for bond mutual funds are similar to those for equity funds. Sensible advice for most investors would be to hold low cost index funds and avoid holding past 'active' loser funds. Only sophisticated investors should pursue an active ex-ante investment strategy of trying to pick winners - and then with much caution.
Cuthbertson, Keith and Nitzsche, Dirk and O'Sullivan, Niall, Mutual Fund Performance: Measurement and Evidence. Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 95-187, May 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1591205 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0416.2010.00156.x
Keith Cuthbertson (Contact Author)
City University London - Sir John Cass Business School ( email )
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How the underground eventually bubbles to the mainstream
An open discussion about art/music/fashion/ideas that start off underground and often avant garde and eventually become main stream.
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@sweatsonklank
So I started a new beam for this because it's such a huge topic how underground ideas, concepts, art forms, music fashion start off in small, tiny pockets of...
@elenistefanou
great question. Do you think that a lot of it comes down to people who belong in more than one community? More than one group kind of cross pollinators, if you...
Elaine, e I think you make a really good point and I think that is definitely one of the ways that things go from being underground or avant garde into the...
another way that this happens often is, um, and it's less fortunate is through, you know, culture vultures, basically people who work for brands or...
so that last beam cut off just as I was finishing my thought, but I think I got it. And so that's another way I believe that things, you know, bubble up from...
It's so interesting to hear you talk about this. I wonder if you follow account called Diet Prada on Instagram, It calls out big brands who copy smaller...
@mrkimsays
Hello Sweat song Clank and Lenny. This is a great uh thread and thank you for telling me about it. Eleni So um yeah, you know, uh I come across this theory...
@ItsJesseRogg
this is super interesting to me. I'm always interested um, and how sort of things happen on a macro level, how things kind of spread across sort of um, you...
Delaney, I really like the way you think, I do believe that technology plays a big role and how quickly things happen now. And Jesse was talking about this as...
this is sort of a more open ended comment on this, I guess. But I'm just thinking about this and it seems as though things stay on the underground because I...
I think Jesse's point about a co sign to something that's underground, helping it to become more mainstream is absolutely true. There's countless examples of...
does marketing play a role in turning something underground into something mainstream? I believe it does, and I'd love to open it up to other people jesse,...
and I just say this conversation is so fascinating. On the coastline front, I was watching a documentary about Joy Division on movie, and they showed how a BBC...
I'm interested to hear what Jesse has to say about marketing and every question to add to that which is something lose its edge. When the marketing execs get...
Hey, Elaine e I would say to your joy division story, you know, um, In the 2000s, those sort of gatekeepers were the blogs, the music sites, the fashion blogs,...


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Spring, and it's precisely thirteen years since the first issue of Slightly Foxed appeared. Then of course we had no idea of what SF would become – more of a friendly worldwide fellowship of readers than simply a magazine. Many of you have been with us from that first issue, and our subscription renewal rate is unusually and cheeringly high. As we frequently tell you, it's your loyalty and enthusiasm that keep us going, and this year we've decided to express our appreciation to you in a more concrete way.
The Abyss Beyond the Orchard
Alexandra Harris on William Cowper, The Centenary Letters
For about a hundred and thirty years after his death in 1800, William Cowper was one of those figures about whom every keen reader had something to say. He was up there with Milton and Johnson, though people felt more intimately connected with Cowper than they were ever likely to feel with Milton. His long poem The Task (1785) seemed to articulate all the longed-for goodness of familiar, homely things; it was a tribute to 'Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss of paradise that has survived the fall!' Yet here, and in hundreds of the letters that began to be published from 1804 onwards, things of joy were surrounded by gulfs of loss and desolation.
A Flickering on the Staircase
Maggie Fergusson on Hilary Mantel, Giving up the Ghost
In 1994, Hilary Mantel joined the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, where I was working as Secretary. She was in her mid-forties, and her sinister and hilarious fourth novel, Fludd, had been a big hit with our President,…
Reading Maps
Robin Blake on maps in books
Last year the Bodleian Library paid £55,000 for a fold-out map torn from a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring and scribbled over by J. R. R. Tolkien. Maps, said one of the Bodleian curators, were central to Tolkien's storytelling and he had annotated this one to guide the illustrator Pauline Baynes, who was making a poster map of Middle Earth (see SF no. 41). I was delighted that it had landed safely in a public collection. In my opinion a good map always enhances a good book, especially when the author and a skilled illustrator have worked on it together.
The Book Cure
Ken Haigh on rediscovering the love of reading
I wanted to call this 'How Children's Literature Saved My Life', but the simple truth is that my life was never in any real danger. My imaginative life, however, was in grave peril. It hovered on the brink. This is the story of how it was resuscitated in the simplest of ways – by reading children's books.
Along the Old Ways
Ursula Buchan on W. H. Hudson, A Shepherd's Life
I spend a couple of weeks each year walking on the Lake District fells, so it is inevitable that I should have fallen upon James Rebanks's remarkable The Shepherd's Life (2015). I loved it, and I learned much more about upland sheep farming than I could possibly have divined from hours of watching Herdwicks on the fell. Reading The Shepherd's Life inevitably set me thinking about another book I read long ago and which, tellingly, turned the young Rebanks into a reader.
A Lesson in Living
Alison Light on John McGahern, The Barracks
Was any novelist – or journalist come to that – writing about breast cancer in the early 1960s? Did anyone – apart from the medical profession and a few bold souls – even talk about it? When I was growing up, the word 'breast' was usually only encountered in literature or hymns and was likely to summon a snigger; women and girls had 'chests'. A mastectomy was considered almost a matter of shame. Astonishing, then, that John McGahern's first novel, The Barracks, published in 1963, has Elizabeth Reegan's breast cancer at its centre.
Bloody Conquest
Charles Elliott on Noël Mostert, Frontiers
There is a temptation to approach Noël Mostert's Frontiers (1993) circumspectly, as you would the Grand Canyon or the Great Pyramid of Giza. It's monumental – 1,292 pages, not counting index and notes ‒ and frankly imposing, a doorstopper to stop the largest door. The story it tells is of vast proportions too. Do not, however, be unnerved. This is a book which for originality, historical depth and sheer narrative richness has been compared to Gibbon ‒ and it deserves the comparison. It also deserves a great many readers.
Taking the Poet at His Word
Jim McCue on editing The Poems of T. S. Eliot
When T. S. Eliot summed up his life's work in 1963, two years before he died, it was in a Collected Poems of fewer than 250 pages. But when Christopher Ricks and I published The Poems of T. S. Eliot in 2015, the two volumes ran to some two thousand. Where did the other 1,750 pages come from? What is this new edition, and what does it mean to 'edit' poetry anyway?
Time Out of War
Jeremy Lewis on Robert Kee, A Crowd Is Not Company
Every now and then a book is so badly published that it never quite recovers, however eloquent its admirers. Robert Kee's account of the three years he spent in a German prisoner-of-war camp is one of the great books of the Second World War; it is also sadly neglected, thanks to the part played in its publication by the novelist Graham Greene.
A Song of the Islands
Pamela Beasant on George Mackay Brown, An Orkney Tapestry
An Orkney Tapestry sits quietly at the heart of George Mackay Brown's prolific output as a writer of poetry, stories, novels and plays, created over a life that was longer and richer than he or anyone else expected. (Following a diagnosis of TB as a young man, before the introduction of penicillin, he must have felt he was living on borrowed time for almost all his adult life.) For those who have never read him, this small book about his native Orkney serves as a wonderful introduction. For those who have already fallen under his spell, it is something they return to and quote from, and love like an old friend.
Age of Innocence
Anthony Gardner on Godfrey Smith, The Business of Loving
Although the core of the story is set during the Second World War, the conflict barely registers beside what is, to the young hero, his raison d'être: the pursuit of an idealized lover. I must have been 16 when I first read it, and nothing I had come across described more perfectly my own state of mind. It clutched at my heart; returning to it in middle age, I found certain phrases and sentences echoing across the years with haunting vividness, like a bell tolling from a submerged city.
Circus Tricks
Adam Sisman on John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
I first read John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy soon after it was published in 1974, and have reread it several times since. It is one of those books that never fails to give me pleasure, even now I know it so well. There is so much about it to admire and enjoy: the precision of the dialogue, the deftly drawn characters, the accuracy of the settings, the steadily rising tension – above all, the sheer quality of the writing. Here is a writer in complete command of his subject: able to do whatever he wants, confident it will succeed.
Stage Lightning
Isabel Lloyd on Brian Bates, The Way of the Actor
I can't remember which teacher told us to read his new book, ,The Way of the Actor (1986). But I can remember the sense of relief when I realized that, despite the icky subtitle – A New Path to Personal Knowledge and Power – it was written by a professor of psychology and had footnotes; this I understood. Bates's ideas were intriguing. Using his own interviews with four leading actors – Charlton Heston, Glenda Jackson, Anthony Sher and Liv Ullmann – and excerpts from hundreds of other performers' interviews and memoirs, he laid out a theory that actors were shamans for the modern world.
Angling for a Bit of Peace
David Beanland on Arthur Ransome, Rod & Line
Arthur Ransome was a great admirer of Hazlitt and hankered after producing a series of essays himself. He would probably have considered that his journalism got in the way of that ambition, but in Rod & Line he realized it. The book comprises fifty essays distilled from articles he wrote for the Manchester Guardian after having complained to the editor that the newspaper 'was not doing what it might for fishermen'. That might put off those readers who are not among the four million anglers in Britain. It shouldn't. Ransome was not a narrow-minded devotee of fly, float and lure but a man of wide interests and experience.
Sarah Lawson on Albert Payson Terhune Lad: A Dog
If the subjects of our early reading determine what we become, I should long since have turned into a collie. As a child in the 1950s I read one book after another by Albert Payson Terhune about the pure-bred sable collies (the Lassie type) he kept on his New Jersey estate, Sunnybank. The books were published in the 1920s but even now most of them are still in print.
Trouble in Ruritania
Katie Grant on Violet Needham, The Black Riders
The first in Violet Needham's Ruritanian, or Stormy Petrel, sequence, The Black Riders is set in a fictional Central European empire. Though I'd never been to Austria, I imagined it to be similar; friendlier and tidier than my bleak familiar Lancashire moors. Where we had dishevelled farmyards, derelict gates and rusting baths as water troughs, in 'the Empire' farms were cosy, gates swung briskly and baths were found indoors.
Christopher Rush on Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
In a celebrated passage in Tolstoy's War and Peace, a girl is dancing – a young girl not yet out of her teens. She is an aristocrat, a countess from St Petersburg, and she is visiting the village home of a distant relative whom she calls her uncle. He is a jovial character who lives with a serf woman, Anisya, who has prepared a rustic banquet for the hunting party. The girl is Natasha, the heroine of Tolstoy's novel.


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CodeUp Lancaster
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 19:00 at 75 Church Street (pub), Lancaster LA1 1ET
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The Adult College, Lancaster
White Cross Education Centre, Quarry Road, Lancaster LA1 3SE. General Enquiries: Tel.: 0300 123 6711. We offer a broad range of courses catering for a diverse range of needs and interests across the region from Wyre, Preston and Fylde to Lancaster and Morecambe.
Lancaster and Morecambe Fairtrade District
Global Link DEC, YMCA, New Road, Lancaster, LANCS, LA1 1EZ. Tel. (typetalk): +44 (0)1524 36201. Lancaster, Morecambe and the surrounding areas are officially recognised by the Fairtrade Foundation as a Fairtrade District.
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Lancaster Boys & Girls Club
Dallas Rd, Lancaster, LA1 1TP. Tel.: 01524 32020. Lancaster Boys and Girls Club is a charitable organisation that aims to cater for young people, between the ages of 8 to 18 years, to provide a positive safe environment for their development and learning.
Wildlife Trust sets out Urban Planning Guidelines for sustainable development
19/2/18:
Is short-sighted urban planning driving us to extinction? As the government makes plans for the building of 300,000 new homes a year in the UK — with 12,000 new homes planned for the Lancaster area — the Wildlife Trust has published new guidelines for urban development that we ignore at our peril.


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Water worries arise
A lack of water into the Inland Empire could dampen future land developments and job growth, industry experts said Thursday at an annual water conference.
"Without an adequate water supply, we will struggle with bringing in new jobs, development, construction and investments into the community," Otto Kroutil, Ontario Development Agency director, at the San Bernardino County Water Conference.
Although the city has an adequate supply of water, the tides may turn with another population boom, Kroutil said.
"All this has to do with the ability to grow," he said.
Kroutil and other agency and business representatives sat on a panel on the water challenges the Inland Empire faces in future land development.
San Bernardino County supervisors Gary Ovitt and Josie Gonzales hosted the event at the Ontario Convention Center, along with the Baldy View Chapter of the Building Industry Association and the Mojave Water Agency.
Developers worry cities will stop issuing will-serve letters, or statements required from a water agency that enough water is available to support a new construction project, said Jonathan Weldy, president of Meridian Land Development Co., based in Apple Valley.
He said there are developers of lots in Lancaster that have had trouble gaining approval from cities to build due to concerns about the area's water supply.
With the economic downturn, new developments are few and water is not an issue. But once construction returns to pre-recession levels, the water supply could hinder gaining approval for new projects in the Inland Empire, Weldy said.
Permits for new housing units in San Bernardino County climbed drastically in number from about 6,700 units to 18,500 units between 2000 and 2004, according to data from the Building Industry Association.
"If we get this kind of growth, we've got a problem," Weldy said.
Last year, the county saw about 2,500 permits issued.
An inadequate water supply has become a threat for Southern California in recent years after three consecutive years of drought coupled with a court-ordered reduction in water imported from the Sacramento delta in order to protect a fish species.
Southern California is expected to gain 2.6 million new residents in the next 15 years, comparable to the population of Kansas, according to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The growth could lead to an increase in water demand that the supply cannot meet.
rebecca.cho@inlandnewspapers.com