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Artist Liz Landgren in her home. Landgren said she gets inspiration for her paintings from her life and, at times, the city and people of Homewood.
Although Liz Landgren, a local acrylic painter and artist, recently has begun to paint some portraits, she still paints a ton of other scenes — for example, the Homewood High School Band attending the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Landgren, who has lived in Homewood with her family since just after she married in 1998, decided to paint a scene of the band, with her son playing drums in the New York parade, all from memory.
Even though it was at times a hard scene to paint and required a lot of detail, she said she had a blast creating it and eventually was able to sell the painting, plus prints and ornaments she made of the design, to pay for their family trip to New York to see her son perform.
"This is the thing I do where I don't feel like I fail very much, the successful thing. I feel like I'm good at it, and I could do it no matter what. I feel like even if I lost use of my hands, I feel like I'd find a way to do it anyways," Landgren said.
Some of the inspiration for her painting she gets from her life and even, at times, the city of Homewood.
Artist Liz Landgren works on a commissioned portrait inside her home studio. Landgren attributes her painting talent to a gift God has given her.
"I love strangers, and there's lots of strangers around here and businesses and storefronts. I love my friends, but I tend to just want to just go and eat somewhere and walk around and look at all kinds of people in Homewood, and that's a lot of fun. I really truly see variety in people, and it's great. I love new people," Landgren said.
Her favorite paintings, she said, are the ones where she's able to connect with people through her more meaningful pieces of art, which is where her work tends to turn these days. Landgren said she has drawn ever since she remembered, but in high school, she didn't recognize art as something with much value.
She chose to attend college at Ole Miss as an art major, where she got her first formal training in oil painting. Shortly after graduating, she got married and had children. Because she didn't want to paint with oils while pregnant, she stopped painting for a while.
But, she said, art didn't leave her life forever. Landgren remembers eventually getting out her acrylic paints—which to this day is still her main type of paint she uses—and doing a big painting of her family's dog. A woman fell in love with the painting and asked Landgren to paint her dog, as well.
That was the first of many paintings Landgren would do where she would get the opportunity to bring joy into someone's life.
She started to do pet portraits more often and got some press attention, eventually making enough money to stay home and paint instead of working a retail job. She started to shift her focus to painting angels and churches, which people loved, she said, in addition to nativity scenes.
She also makes handmade ornaments by repainting and collaging her other works, which she sells locally at art shows and Homewood stores.
Nowadays, Landgren said, she rarely gets commissioned for pet portraits.
"Then it just evolved into people, a lot of people. Mainly what I enjoy the most is connecting with whoever or whatever I'm painting. I'm doing a portrait right now of four kids, and I feel like I know them by the time I finished. I do pray for them while I'm painting," she said.
One of her most meaningful paintings over the years was for a young mother with cancer. One of the woman's friends contacted Landgren about doing something for her that would show love and support.
"She said, 'I like the way you paint and connect with the spiritual and the aspect of what God is doing,'" Landgren said.
Landgren suggested they cover the woman "with prayer" through a collage of favorite handwritten notes, poems and Bible verses, mailed to her by all her friends. Landgren got so many letters, she said, and when she finished the piece, she barely had words to describe how special it was to her.
Another painting dear to Landgren's heart, she said, was when she painted the victims from the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School as angels worshiping God. Through the painting, she was able to raise money and donate it.
"Sometimes I'm completely in awe with what I'm able to do," she said, adding she credits God for her art skills.
When she was commissioned by a research company to paint a mural in summer 2018 for a government agency partnership for the All of Us health initiative, she got to choose to paint a face that would represent the city. She called it "Addie Cecelia," inspired by the names of the four young girls who died in the church bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963.
The girl's face in Landgren's painting is pictured blowing a dandelion.
Half of the mural was her painting and half was covered in snapshots of the people that attended the event. After the day-long event, the mural was transported back to California to be placed with similar murals from cities all over the country.
Occasionally though, Landgren said, she wants to just "throw paints on canvas" and paint for fun like everyone else, though at this point, people expect her work to have some meaning behind it. In 2019, she hopes to continue painting people and faces. Some of her prints sell locally at the Homewood Pharmacy.
To see some of her work or buy pieces, go to instagram.com/lizlandgren_art.


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Bonnie Brae Tavern owners receive non-historic status, making it easier to demolish
The 85-year-old restaurant has been in the same family for three generations
(Brian Brainerd, Denver Post file)
Inside the Bonnie Brae Tavern at 740 S. University Blvd.
By Josie Sexton | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. | UPDATED: May 6, 2019 at 3:16 p.m.
Bonnie Brae Tavern has been deemed non-historic by the city of Denver, a designation that will make the 85-year-old restaurant easier to demolish if its owners choose to do so over the next five years.
The status was granted last week, BusinessDen reported, after no applications for historic preservation were submitted by the community. Last month, the third-generation family owners of the tavern applied for non-historic status as they weighed their options to remodel, expand or sell their building.
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Co-owner Michael Dire told The Denver Post in April that he, his sister and their two cousins were "just trying to find out where we stood" when they applied for the designation. He said they had no immediate plans for the space and mentioned an 85th birthday party coming up in June at the restaurant.
Community members had until the end of April to appeal on the building's behalf for landmark designation. The Dire family has owned Bonnie Brae Tavern at 740 S. University Blvd. since 1934. Today, it stands as one of the oldest businesses in the area.
Calls to the Tavern's owners were not immediately returned on Monday.
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Josie is The Denver Post's food reporter, covering the restaurant, bar and beer beats, as well as any other news you could potentially eat or drink. Prior to joining the Post in 2019, she worked for Eater and The Coloradoan.

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Q: Python, split list of coordinates, based on x I have a list of coordinates, and I need to split them in half based on their x value. Something like this:
l = [(0, 0), (1, 0), (2, 0), (3, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), (2, 1), (3, 1)]
left = []
right = []
for i in l:
    if i[0] < 2:
        left.append(i)
    else:
        right.append(i)

print(left)
print(right)

output:
[(0, 0), (1, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1)]
[(2, 0), (3, 0), (2, 1), (3, 1)]

Is there a faster way to do this?

A: You do it in O(n). If you had the list sorted, you could do it in O(log(n)), by searching for the pivot element with binary search. Sorting it yourself beforehand just to use binary search would not pay off, because sorting is O(n*log(n))
On the other hand... does it really matter? If this is your bottleneck, then maybe reconsider whole algorithm or the data structure. For instance, if you have a complex problem where you need to operate on points in some area, you can consider using kd-trees

A: This is not faster(2n) but maybe more elegant, the best you can get is log n if the list is sorted by using binary search.
>>> l = [(0, 0), (1, 0), (2, 0), (3, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), (2, 1), (3, 1)]
>>> left = [ x for x in l if x[0] < 2]
>>> right = [ x for x in l if x[0] >= 2]

A: If you would prefer it to be a little more concise, pythonic and readable, without loosing the O(n) performance, this can can be one of the ways -
right = []
left = [coord for coord in l if (lambda t: True if t[0] < 2 else right.append(t) and False)(coord)]

Iterates over the list only once.
>>> l = [(0, 0), (1, 0), (2, 0), (3, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), (2, 1), (3, 1)]
>>> right = []
>>> left = [coord for coord in l if (lambda t: True if t[0] < 2 else right.append(t) and False)(coord)]
>>> print '\n'.join([str(left), str(right)])
[(0, 0), (1, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1)]
[(2, 0), (3, 0), (2, 1), (3, 1)]
>>>

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Sun sun go away and come again another day! I hate to be picky, but what we really need here is some snow and a lot of it real quick! The snow was supposed to come in today, but it never appeared. The sun came out in the morning and basically hung out in the sky all day. Not that I hate the sun, I took advantage of the nice weather and cleaned all my windows both inside and outside so as to better enjoy the view. Then did a major house cleaning, dusting and vacuuming etc., Traditional end of the year activities.
Shinya, Yaguchi Kaoru and husband dropped by on their way back from Rusutsu. They told me it was hard and crusty out there. A lesson in carving as Shinya put it! Sharpen those edges and get ready to lay down some deep carves for the next few days until something happens up there in the sky and a bunch of flakes start falling on us. As for me I am going to be chilling at home watching some snowboard movies and working on the computer. I have started the editing process for Car Danchi 3 already so there is always something to do. Enjoy the last day of the year!
What kind of crap weather is this? Rain rain go away and come again some other day! Someday in spring or summer or fall, but not winter! Well the rumor about a big storm came true as it moved in over the island this morning. Things started off ok with some snow falling, then sadly it turned into rain all day long. I hear that Niseko was closed due to high winds and the same for Sapporo Kokusai. I am sure a lot of other resorts were closed as well. Just as good, who would want to be out there slopping around in the slush.
Unfortunately this is what has been happening the last few years here in Hokkaido. More and more warming trends throughout the winter. Seems like this only happened in November and early December before, but now we are getting rain in late December and into the new year. Hopefully the temperature will drop and stay low for the next few months. Keep those fingers crossed. In the meantime lets all listen more carefully to Al Gore. Lets keep our winters cold!
Went up to Kokusai International today to shoot with Freestyle Skiers Shimo, Yasu and Yuuta. Was a beautiful morning, great blue sky and low temperature. There had been a few cm of new snow at my house overnight so I knew it would be good at Kokusai. The courses are all groomed nicely and there was some light dry Hokkaido powder in the trees. Not super deep, but the blue sky and the nice views made up for it. I am enjoying shooting with skiers for a change of pace, it is fun to see how they look at the mountain differently. I feel like such a slow loser always having to strap in and taking so long. They are more patient than snowboarders though, in fact they actually wait for me. Some of the locals were complaining about the lack of fresh snowfall, but I am sure it is going to come with a bang in the new year.
Here is the view all the way to Shokanbetsu mountain across the Ishikari bay.
There is always powder, you just have to know where to find it!
What a great name for an event in Hokkaido! Premium Powder! I love it so much that it made me want to join the event. I went to The North Face store in Sapporo Factory the other day and saw this big poster for an upcoming event.
They are using my photo of Shimo as the image of the event. This photo was shot last season at Teine Highland resort while shooting with Miura Yuichiro. This is a tree stump or rock that is a local favorite jump spot. I love the view you get from this angle on a sunny day. Wish I had my flash set up with me that day, but I was packing light that day, so Shimo is a little dark in the image. If you are interested in joining the event, please contact the Sapporo Factory store staff. The number is on the flyer, click for a large version. Enjoy your Premium Powder in the new year!
at the Powder Company in Moiwa. We chatted for awhile about the scene in Niseko. They have made the store into a cool cafe with good coffee and nice lunch menu until 6:30pm each day.
If you go riding in Moiwa (which you should) then stop in after the morning session and have a meal. Real friendly staff there as well. They have a video monitor and they were also playing Car Danchi when I walked in. Nice to feel the love everywhere! I gave them a copy of UE_snowboarder to play this season. Then in walks Nobu from Loaf cafe in Kutchan.
Filmed all in 8mm film and three years in the making this is the new movie from Yone! Nice package design and from the little I saw it looks like a good Japanese freeride/mountain ride film. Lots of good vibes and good music soundtrack. Might not be easy to find this movie for sale as he does not use a major distributor, but you should be able to pick up a copy in Niseko, at Loaf Cafe I am sure. Then went to NAC for lunch.
Good food as always. There were a bunch of white faces in there eating and drinking wine, ahh must be nice to be on holiday drinking wine in a foreign land!
My friend Yoshimura asked if he could sell some DVDs in the store.
If you have any travel needs in Niseko area or maybe need a prepaid telephone card or want to buy one of my DVDs drop in and check them out.
Then I hooked up with friend Ryan in the parking lot and he hooked me up with a copy of the new magazine Powder Life Niseko.
This is the first issue of a biweekly magazine all about Niseko. It is free so pick one up in Niseko. Ryan is on the cover of the first issue! Yeah cover boy! So all in all it was a good day in Niseko.
The vibe in the Hirafu area is crazy hype as always and the real season for tourists has not even started yet! Lets just say if it were a western movie then the cowboys have taken over the Indian village! The amount of construction that has been done in the last year alone is pretty amazing and more is coming. There is a Lawson open 24 hours a day now so the old Seicomart has lost the monopoly out there. Lots of new bars and restaurants to choose from. I hear there are a lot fewer places for Japanese people to stay cheaply though…. all the pension owners are selling out and in their place condos are being built and marketed to the foreign clients. Interesting situation out there. I also heard that a big storm is heading this way, said to arrive right at the end of the year. So that means Niseko should be the powder heaven it is known to be from the New Year! Enjoy!
Went downtown today for the Christmas shopping like the rest of the population in Hokkaido! A lot of people out and about, but the roads have no snow on them so the driving is easy! Anyway stopped by a shop I had been meaning to visit for some time.
Loved the shop. A great selection of clothing, snowboards, surf boards, outdoor gear and interesting items. They were actually playing my movie Car Danchi 2 on the screen when I walked in so it was a really nice welcome! Check out this crazy snow/surf board by Gentem stick that was on display. This is a one of a kind item, not for sale but worth going in for a look. They also sell the whole Gentem line up of snowboards. Best surf style snowboards made anywhere!
There is also a cafe inside the shop so make sure you stop in and have a coffee next time you are downtown Sapporo, tell them I sent you.
While I was at the shop I also picked up the DVD "Crystal Voyager" by George Greenough. A classic surf film that I had been wanting to get ahold of for awhile. Here is a little bit about the film taken from a good web site you can see here.
A surfing biography about legendary design innovator and photographer George Greenough, shot largely in California. Greenough's search for uncrowded waves drives his construction of a 37-foot ocean-going yacht that he claims is virtually unsinkable. With his surfing friends Richie West, a Californian, and Nat Young, Australia's world champion surfer, Greenough takes to the cold Californian water, searching for undiscovered waves. The last 23 minutes of the film contains his legendary short film Echoes, composed entirely of extraordinary slow-motion footage shot inside the curl of the waves, the camera in a waterproof housing strapped to his back, with music by Pink Floyd.
Here is the package artwork so you can find it in a store.
All in all it was a good day of discovery in Sapporo. Hope you are all enjoying the Christmas weekend! Pray for a gift of snow on Christmas Eve as we need some fresh powder!
Yesterday went out for a short photo shoot with local Freestyle skiers, Shimo, Yasu, Shouya, and Taisuke. We went to a local back country spot that is popular with film crews. Right away we saw a police car! They stopped and asked what we were doing, the cop seemed excited to be able to see some riding, but we were not ready yet. Then he told us there was another crew right around the corner. We went to investigate and found the Red Eye film crew! Yoshino, Fumio, Yuuta, and Takumi were all there! Small world out there in the back country. We ended up having a short sunset session and got in a couple of good shots. Here is Yasu with a cork 360.
The back country conditions are still not that great. The snow layer in the Sapporo area is still pretty thin. We need another really big storm or two and then the "sasa" grass that is everywhere here in Japan will finally be covered. Looking forward to a big New Year storm!


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Bing Crosby Tends to Dr. Cook's Garden
Bing Crosby as Dr. Leonard Cook.
Leonard Cook is a kindly small-town physician who has delivered most of the residents of Greenfield. Approaching age 70, he still makes house calls, works long hours, and is always willing to help raise funds for the community. There's just one problem: Dr. Cook may be a murderer.
Made in 1971, Dr. Cook's Garden stars Bing Crosby in his final leading role. Sporting gray hair and a beard, Crosby delivers a nuanced performance that's different from anything else he's done.
Even though the film's premise is established in its opening scenes, the actor's sincerity keeps one guessing about whether Dr. Cook could be killing selected patients. His best scene has the good doctor offering plausible, though far-fetched, explanations about why he stores so much poison and places the letter "R" on certain patients' cards ("R means rest or repeat," he insists, when asks if it means "remove").
Frank Converse and Blythe Danner.
Frank Converse co-stars as Jim Tennyson, a young medical intern who returns to Greenfield after a five-year absence. Jim, who lost his parents as a boy, views Leonard Cook as a surrogate father. But the loving reunion starts to slowly sour when Jim notices all the "nice people seem to live to a ripe old age and the mean ones seem to die off." There almost seems to be a correlation with Dr. Cook's garden in which certain plants are removed to provide a healthier environment for the rest. Could that be what Leonard Cook is doing in Greenfield?
Burl Ives and Keir Dullea.
The teleplay for Dr. Cook's Garden was based on a Broadway play of the same title by Ira Levin. The stage version ran for just eight performances in 1967. It starred Burl Ives as Dr. Cook (I imagine he was excellent) and Keir Dullea as Jim. Ira Levin is probably best known for his novels Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives, with the latter's idyllic town somewhat reminiscent of Greenfield.
Dr. Cook's Garden appeared on ABC's Movie of the Week during what I consider to be the Golden Age of made-for-TV films. It's a clever, well-acted movie, but don't take my word for it. In Stephen King's Danse Macabre, his 1981 analysis of horror in literature, film, and television, the famed author wrote about Ira Levin's works: "Less known is a modest but chillingly effective made-for-TV movie called Dr. Cook's Garden, starring Bing Crosby in a wonderfully adroit performance."
Well said, Steve.
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Caftan Woman April 16, 2018 at 11:10 AM
I remember it well. Chilling and moving performance/movie. A Golden Age for the TV movie indeed.
Frank Converse: Coronet Blue!
Hal April 16, 2018 at 11:22 PM
This is a really good one, one of many from 1970-1972 that deserves a wider audience.
Rick29 April 22, 2018 at 10:29 AM
I keep hoping for a MOVIE OF THE WEEK boxed set, so I guess film rights will keep that from ever happening.
Booksteve April 20, 2018 at 5:26 PM
I've said for years it was Bing's best performance as an actor!
Steven, I couldn't agree more!
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East Stroudsburg University is holding an open forum this afternoon on its building plans for the next generation.
The master plan is designed to address ESU's projected campus building needs for 10 to 20 years into the future. Members of the community and the general public are encouraged to attend.
ESU completed implementing its most recent master plan, which was adopted in January 2000. ESU's Master Plan Coordinating Committee and consultants, H2L2 Architects and Planners, have been working on a new Campus Facilities Master Plan since last spring. They will make a 30-minute presentation, and maps and boards will be set up during the forum illustrating the draft master plan.


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est un album live de Rage Against the Machine. Ce live a été enregistré les 12 et  lors des deux derniers concerts avant la séparation du groupe (qui s'est d'ailleurs reformé en 2007). Il est sorti fin 2003 en CD et en DVD, trois ans après la séparation du groupe.

L'album

L'album est sorti le . Certains titres sont tirés du concert du 12, d'autres du concert du 13.

Titres

 Bulls On Parade
 Bullet in the Head
 Born Of a Broken Man
 Killing in the Name
 Calm Like a Bomb
 Testify
 Bombtrack
 War Within a Breath
 I'm Housin
 Sleep Now in the Fire
 People of the Sun
 Guerrilla Radio
 Kick Out The Jams
 Know Your Enemy
 No Shelter
 Freedom

Le DVD

Le DVD est sorti le , 2 semaines après la sortie de l'album. Contrairement au CD, les titres du DVD sont uniquement ceux du concert du 13, c'est donc la vidéo du dernier concert de Rage Against The Machine (à la date de sortie du DVD, avant la reformation du groupe qui fit le plus grand bonheur de leurs nombreux fans).

Titres

 Bulls on Parade
 Bombtrack
 Calm Like a Bomb
 Bullet in the Head
 Sleep Now in the Fire
 War Within a Breath
 I'm Housin'
 Killing in the Name
 Born of a Broken Man
 No Shelter
 Guerrilla Radio
 How I Could Just Kill a Man
 Kick Out the Jams
 Testify
 Freedom

Bonus

Vidéos live bonus

 People of the Sun
 Know Your Enemy

Concert de protestation à la convention nationale démocrate de 2000

 Bulls on Parade
 Testify
 Guerrilla Radio
 Sleep Now in the Fire
 Freedom
 Killing in the Name

Clips

 How I Could Just Kill a Man
 Bombtrack

Liens externes

Album de Rage Against the Machine
Album live sorti en 2003
Album publié par Epic Records
Album produit par Rick Rubin

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What are Molluscs?
Molluscs form the largest marine phylum with an estimated 85,000 living species. They are invertebrates and have colonised a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. In addition to occupying equable habitats in temperate zones and the tropics, there are mollusc species living in hostile and extreme environments: in deserts, at the Poles and in the hot waters at hydrothermal vents on mid-ocean ridges.
As a phylum they are morphologically diverse: gastropod species are most numerous, followed by bivalves, cephalopods, chitons, scaphopods, pteropods, aplacophorans. Although molluscs feature some unique anatomical features, no one feature is common to all Classes of mollusc.
The following list of categories provides further information on UK molluscs:
Encyclopedia - The Encyclopedia is an emerging on-line reference source for the species of mollusc found within Britain and Ireland which includes illustrations, descriptions, and distribution maps. It is under development but already contains over 250 accounts and 1500 images of species.
Identification guides - The Society is actively developing a range of identification guides catering for a range of skill levels.
Glossary - There are a variety of terms describing aspects of molluscs used to describe the appearance and parts of molluscs. A reasonably comprehensive list is included in the glossary.
Conservation - Molluscan conservation is an important part of the Society's activities, and the Society works closely with a wide range of other governmental and non-governmental organisations in order to include molluscs in programmes maintaining Britain's species and habitat diversity.


The following officers were elected at the December meeting to serve for 2011.
During the evening of Monday, December 27th, 2010, crews were alerted to a single vehicle accident with wires down on Liberty Way, between Taylor Drive and Virginia Drive. Crews found a truck on top of the guardrail that had taken out a utility pole that had guide lines attached to it. Duquesne Light responded to the scene and removed electrical hazards.
Engine 184 handled the scene, while Ambulance 610 blocked Liberty Way at Bellbridge Road. The roadway was also closed at Washington Blvd & Liberty Way by member's personal vehicles.
A friend of the driver brought a backhoe to help remove the truck off the guardrail. Mendlowitz Trucking was also on scene assisting with towing duties.
No injuries occurred. Also on scene were Lincoln police, Liberty police, Glassport Police, and Elizabeth Twp EMS.
Reminder our December monthly meeting has been moved a week later to Wednesday December 15th.


LONDON, UK: The Association for Online Publishing (AOP) has unveiled its comprehensive Ad Blocking Guide, sponsored by Vibrant Media, following a year of consultation with members, trade bodies, and key industry players.
During 2017, the AOP has hosted a number of ad blocking workshops, forums, and steering groups to discuss, debate, and agree ways forward. The 24-page report summarises key learnings to date, addressing the potential financial impact of ad block usage and sharing examples of initiatives that have demonstrated success.
The guide includes an audit among AOP members to determine revenues lost to ad blocking, approaches from leading publishers Gruner + Jahr and Dennis Publishing, as well as tech vendor perspectives from Instart Logic, Jamatto, PageFair, Uponit, Sourcepoint, and Oriel. The report also features an ad block consumer study by Vibrant Media, looking at the reasons why consumers block ads.
The Ad Blocking Guide is available for AOP members to download here.
Tech Talk Thursday! Latest News from the World of Tech.
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Derek R. Peterson
Professor of History & African Studies, University of Michigan
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival
The Politics of Heritage
Abolitionism and Imperialism
The Life of Charles Muhoro Kareri
Recasting the Past
The Invention of Religion
Writing for Kenya
African Print Cultures
Idi Amin exhibit
'Vernacular'. In G. Desai, and A. Masquelier (eds.), Critical Terms for the Study of Africa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 331-345.
'The East African Revival'. In William Sachs (ed.), The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Vol. V: Global Anglicanism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 211-231.
'Vernacular Language and Political Imagination'. In Ericka Albaugh and Kate de Luna (eds.), Tracing Language Movement in Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 165-186.
'Print Cultures in Colonial Africa'. In Peterson, Hunter and Newell (eds.), African Print Cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), 1-48.
'Introduction: Heritage Management in Colonial and Contemporary Africa'. In Peterson, Gavua & Rassool (eds.), The Politics of Heritage in Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 1-36.
'Ethnography and Cultural Innovation in Mau Mau Detention Camps: Gakaara wa Wanjau's Mĩhĩrĩga ya Agĩkũyũ (The Clans of the Gikuyu)'. In I. Hofmeyr and A. Burton (eds.), Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), 216-237.
'Religion'. In P. Levine and J. Marriott (eds.), Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012), 489-510.
'Revivalism and Dissent in Colonial East Africa'. In K. Ward and E. Wild-Wood, eds. The East African Revival: History and Legacies (Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2010), 162-182.
'Introduction: Abolitionism and Political Thought in Britain and Africa'. In Peterson (ed.), Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa and the Atlantic (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010), 1-37.
'States of Mind: Political Vision in the Rwenzururu Kingdom, Western Uganda'. In Peterson and Macola (eds.), Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009), 171-190.
'Introduction: Homespun Historiography and the Academic Profession'. In Peterson and Macola (eds.), Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009), 1-28. With G. Macola.
'Language Work and Colonial Politics in Eastern Africa: The Making of Standard Swahili and "School Kikuyu"'. In D. Hoyt and K. Oslund (eds.), The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in a Global Context (Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), 181-210.
'Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa, 1750-1900'. In P. Morgan (ed.), Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 95-119. With A. Isaacman.
'The Rhetoric of the Word: Bible Translation and Ethnic Debate in Colonial Central Kenya'. In B. Stanley (ed.), Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire (Grand Rapids: Eerdmanns, 2004), 165-179.
'Writing in Revolution: Independent Schooling and Mau Mau in Central Kenya'. In Atieno Odhiambo and J. Lonsdale (eds.), Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority, and Narration (London and Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003), 76-96.
'Autobiography as History and Literature'. In C. Muhoro, The Life of Charles Muhoro Kareri (Madison: University of Wisconsin African Studies Center, 2003), iv-xix.
'Gambling with God: Rethinking Religion in Central Kenya'. In Peterson and Walhof (eds.), The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002), 37-58.
'Rethinking Religion'. In Peterson and Walhof (eds.), The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002), 1-16. With D. Walhof.
'The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation'. 18 May to 30 November 2019 at the Uganda Museum, Kitante Hill, Kiira Road, Kampala.
Isabel Hofmeyr and Derek R. Peterson, 'The Politics of the Page: Cutting and Pasting in South African and African-American Newspapers', Social Dynamics 45 (1) (2019), 1-25.


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