Will interactive films find a viewer niche?
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch on Netflix has was released last December as a choose-your-own-adventure film. If you haven't read about or tried viewing the film, it's worth your time to consider the implications for future video content delivery and marketing. Bandersnatch is an interactive film. Viewers are periodically presented with options during the film to choose a path for the main character. The remote control for the TV is used to select between the two paths. So while each option is filmed, only one is shown. There is no prescribed ending for the story. In fact, there are numerous paths and multiple possible endings.
I remember reading interactive books during the early 80s. Though I can't recall the name of the books or the author, I distinctly remember choosing to have the main character in the book drink the sea water while stranded on a raft in a baking sun. The story ended on the next page as the character met his end with dehydration. I had to backup and choose again. I was devastated with the consequences of my choice!
I didn't really enjoy those books and only ended up reading two of them. Likewise, I found Bandersnatch more of an annoyance than something intriguing and engaging. Maybe it was the story. Maybe the characters. Whatever the reason, I didn't feel the urge to continue to play the film to explore different options. I made my choices and moved through the film until I hit an ending and was done.
Netflix, as with other media content providers, shows viewers suggested selections of film based on an algorithm using meta data of content watched in the past (comedy, science fiction, thriller, etc.). I'll admit, the Netflix algorithm is pretty good, as I usually don't have to scroll far before I see a title or subject that I want to know more about and may want to view. When I've seen my wife scrolling through her profile the suggested content is completely different based on her past viewing selections.
Which leads me to wonder what more about me is Netflix determining with an interactive film like Bandersnatch? They can learn if I'm more prone to take a risk versus taking the safe choice. They can learn if I'm prone to choosing a path that will promote violence instead of walking away. They can learn if I would choose the blue pill or the red pill…….The choices would become limitless. Netflix is probably mining all the data on choices to make additional and more educated guesses on personalized content. This could lead to a much deeper level of understanding of who I am, my likes, dislikes, and tendencies. How many marketing companies would pay for that data?
Sure, there is angle here that says find a niche film-type that will keep and potentially attract more customers to Netflix subscriptions. But this move really gets Netflix deeper in the heads of the viewer. Personalized content will become richer. It'll be like my cell phone listening to my conversation and then I see an ad for what I talked about when I open a browser!
Here's an idea for Netflix if they want to spring a joke and cause their viewers to panic. On April 1st, release an interactive film and make the screen of the viewer go haywire as if they have been infected with a virus (think phishing). It would be like revisiting the War of the Worlds broadcasts that created the illusion the earth was under attack by aliens. I can see viewers flooding social media and calling Netflix telling them they've been hacked!
I expect Netflix to try more interactive films in the future as they learn from each film and fine-tune output and logistics. With more universal stories and a broader audience, they'll see how easy it is for all us to willingly give over information about ourselves. Happy data mining to the marketers in the room.


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İstanbul Başakşehir – Konyaspor
İstanbul Başakşehir faces Konyaspor in the final match for the Turkish Cup. The game is going to be played at Yeni Eskişehir Stadyumu in the city of Eskisehir.
İstanbul Başakşehir enjoyed a really strong season in the Super Lig. They finished second in the league standings, just behind the champion Besiktas. Although they didn't succeed in winning the title, they are going to enjoy a qualification for the Champions League.
Konyaspor on the other hand finished 10th in the league, but now they will have the chance to win the Cup.
Both clubs have never won the Turkish Cup, so on Wednesday night they will have the chance to do it for a first time in their history.
In terms of current form, İstanbul Başakşehir are looking like the much more confident team. They won four of their last five matches in the Super Lig, losing points only during the draw against Trabzonspor.
As for Konyaspor, they have won only one of their last five matches – against Karabukspor. They lost three times in the last few weeks, which is not a sign of a good form at the moment.
These two teams met two times in the Super Lig this season. The first game between them ended with a 1-1 draw, but in March İstanbul Başakşehir won its visit to Konyaspor with 3-0.
There's no doubt that İstanbul Başakşehir are the huge favourite to win this game. They performed amazingly good in the Super Lig this season and also eliminated Fenerbahce from the Turkish Cup during the 1/2-finals. They have really experienced players like Alexandru Epureanu, Emre, Samuel Holmen and of course – Emmanuel Abebayor.
But this is a final, so nothing is certain. In a direct clash for a trophy everything could happen, so don't write off Konyaspor too easily.

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Jim Sommers serves as the senior vice president of content at the Independent Television Service, Inc. (ITVS). He oversees ITVS' Content Portfolio, maintaining a commitment to quality, diversity and innovation. In addition, he provides leadership and strategic direction to core service areas of the organisation: programming, production, communications, broadcast and distribution – aligning all aspects of ITVS' programmatic initiatives from funding through distribution and civic engagement.
Previously, Sommers spent two years as vice president of broadcast and communications and four years spearheading ITVS' national engagement program.


PAUL INCE is back with his Premier League predictions for this weekend's round of fixtures.
David Moyes' first game at this ground, off the back of a bad start, I think plenty of people will be expecting him to lose here. I actually reckon the opposite, I think now he'll have had more training sessions, understood the team a bit more, and on home ground, he will win this one.
Stoke really haven't looked up to much this season, whereas Crystal Palace have had some decent results against Chelsea, and the draws against West Ham and Everton. On home turf, against a side who are down on their luck, I'm backing Palace.
Oooft! I think this game could turn out to be one of the most decent to watch of the week. Watford are looking great this season, especially Richarlison, and they've proven time and time again that they've got goals in the tank. Newcastle looked to be making it tough against United last week at the start, and although they've had a couple of rough games recently this one could be one to watch.
I'll be in the studio for this one, so it better be a cracker. On a serious note, West Brom have just lost their manager and Spurs are one of the most exciting teams to watch in the league. I can't see this one going any other way.
Now, I know I say this a lot… But there WILL be goals in this one! They're both conceding goals for fun and have leaky defence issues. It's a tough one to call, but I reckon Bournemouth will just edge out Swansea and get the win.
Yes, Man United lost to Basel in the week. And, yes, there were times against Newcastle where they didn't look convincing. But as soon as Paul Pogba turned it on they came alive. They're going to get back to those crazy 4-0 results that we saw at the start of the season – and let's hope Zlatan Ibrahimovic can contribute to it.
Another team who had a bad result in the Champions League, Liverpool. This pick might shock a few people, but that famous Anfield atmosphere and crowd, paired with their unbelievable attacking players, could just be a bit too much for Chelsea. But you can almost guarantee they'll leak a goal in the process!
Two teams who are in trouble at the minute, and two teams who are struggling to find the net. I'll probably turn out to be way off the mark here, but I can see this game being a bit of a bore, so I'm going for a 1-1 draw.
There's no doubt that Burnley are playing well and are tough to beat at home, and they deserve respect for that, but I'm enjoying watching Arsenal at the minute. They're really going at teams, and Alexandre Lacazette is a classy player. Burnley won't make it easy for them, but they'll still win.
Ah, I hate when I have to answer these ones. I would love to stick up for Tom and say a Huddersfield win, but I just can't. Man City are in such fine form at the minute, and are tearing teams apart. I'm hoping the Terriers can get a goal to ease the pain, but even so, it'll be a big ask for any team to beat Pep's side.


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Greeson v. Byrd
Filed: November 17, 1981.
WAYNE GREESON
H. W. BYRD
Appeal by defendant from Harris, Judge. Judgment entered 10 December 1980 in District Court, Alamance County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 12 October 1981.
Arnold, Judge. Chief Judge Morris and Judge Becton concur.
We note at the outset that defendant's argument that the court erred in admitting evidence of plaintiff's willingness to secure substitute performance of the contract is well taken. A farm lease (sharecropping) agreement is personal in nature and thus non-assignable without the landlord's consent since the landlord's receipts under the contract are directly related to the lessee's skill and industry. See 49 Am. Jur. 2d, Landlord and Tenant, Sec. 400. However, for the reasons set forth below, we find it unnecessary to reach the question of whether this error was prejudicial.
The trial court's entry of judgment in accordance with the jury's finding that the defendant was obligated to the plaintiff to the extent of the market value of plaintiff's labor was error. It is true that a "cropper" who, through no fault of his own, surrenders the leasehold before harvesting the crop has been held to have an interest in the proceeds of the sale of the crop. Parker v. Brown, 136 N.C. 280, 48 S.E. 657 (1904). However, the case at bar is distinguishable on its facts from Parker in that no crop had been planted in which plaintiff could claim an interest at the time he surrendered the leasehold. Moreover, it was the crop to be cultivated and harvested by the plaintiff, not the plaintiff's labor, for which the defendant bargained. Thus, there could be no recovery for the value of partial performance of the contract since no part of the crop was produced.
The jury could have based its award only on a finding that defendant had been unjustly enriched, and that equity therefore justified imposition of a contract implied in law. On this theory, the plaintiff would be entitled to recover the value of his services (quantum meruit). However, one of the necessary elements for recovery on a contract implied in law is missing here -- there is no evidence in the record to indicate that any benefit inured to the defendant as a result of plaintiff's partial performance. Without enrichment, there can be no "unjust enrichment" and therefore no recovery on an implied contract. Dobbs, Remedies § 4.2 (1973).
Accordingly, defendant was entitled to a directed verdict.
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Why Hela Is So Pissed Off In Thor: Ragnarok
Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok is gearing up to change the Marvel Cinematic Universe in some substantial ways, and one of the most significant changes will come in the form of Cate Blanchett's Hela -- the first ever female big bad in a Marvel movie. That said, her gender is far from the only notable thing about this Goddess of Death, as it seems that her motives run deeper than some fans might have anticipated. CinemaBlend and other outlets spoke to Blanchett about Hela's motivations last year during a set visit, and she explained that her rage mainly stems from her imprisonment due to Asgard's fear of her. Blanchett said:
Well she's been banished for a very long time... under the Asgardian Stairs, for 5,000 years. You'd be a little bit cross. But I think it's very interesting to bring the concept of Death into a world that's ostensibly immortal. You know, you look at the Western world and in most cultures, Death has been banished from the world in which, you know, most Western people live. And as a result, I think it's made life rather screwed up.
So, based on what Cate Blanchett had to say about Hela's motivations, it doesn't necessarily sound like she's a traditional, mustache-twirling baddie. In Thor: Ragnarok, she's angry because the Asgardians feared her (because they didn't understand her), and banished her away "under the Asgardian Stairs." She has unresolved issues with Thor's people, and that adds a nice layer to the overall dynamic that extends beyond a mere desire to conquer.
The possibility of a far more personal grudge between Hela and the Asgardians also has us wondering about a fan theory that recently popped up online about Odin. Specifically, the theory suggests that the Allfather may die by Hela's hand, and an Infinity Stone in his possession may subsequently become her ultimate weapon. We don't know if this is true or not yet, but it adds a nice personal touch to the potential death that could give it even more emotional resonance -- if it happens.
Elsewhere during the conversation with Cate Blanchett, she specifically mentioned that Hela becomes more powerful based on the amount of destruction that she causes. Given the fact that it looks like Thor will have to face off with her at the very end of his journey through space, we can reasonably assume that he will need all of the help that he can get. At least we know he will have Hulk, Valkyrie, and (maybe?) Loki by his side in the battle. Revengers!
Check out a recent trailer for Thor: Ragnarok below to see even more of the chaos, destruction, and death that Hela's return will invoke.
Cate Blanchett will make her grand debut into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Hela when Thor: Ragnarok premieres in theaters later this year on November 3.
Law And Order: SVU Fans Cannot Get Over NBC Pulling Their Chain With A Potential Benson And Stabler Romance (Again)
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Multi-medium paints on an 18"x24" canvas. Metallic Caramel is the main color of Fairest Fawn... drippy and heavily textured. Flowers are crackled with thick paint. She is a precious treasure hidden in the tall, tall grass.


Floral Letter Boho Baby Onesie® Bodysuit (or T-Shirt). - accessories not included.
Floral Monogram Style Letter Baby Girl Coming Home Onesie or T-Shirt. Adorable Boho Style Floral Letter (1st letter of your baby's name) is so adorable with black hand-drawn style letter and bohemian/hipster floral accents printed across the front. Perfect for bringing home baby or first outfit. This listing is for one adorable Letter style baby girl one piece crawler customized with your choice of letter. Great for the first photo with your new baby, newborn photo-shoot props. Perfect for your newest little fashionista. Also makes a great custom baby shower gift.
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Can I add/store metadata values to user and organization accounts?
There is often a need to have persistent data values stored against a user or organisation account.
For example, a user's payroll ID, phone number or other user-specific information that you want to have available in your Screen designs.
Similarly, if you are a vendor working across multiple company accounts, then you may wish access the same core value via a consistent key.
This enables you to record additional information against these entities, and then access this data in Forms and other areas of the system via our META() formula functions.
NOTE: These metadata values are also available on our Company and User APIs, so you can programatically get/set metadata values as desired.
If you are looking to share Screen designs across multiple client accounts, then Organisation metadata helps reduce editing of Screens once you have copied/installed those into the client account.
How can we change (or better still how can the client admin change) the destination email (connector) for these forms in bulk (not having to change the individual connector of each form or having to add a destination email field for the mobile user to fill in every time they submit a form)?
For example, lets say you have an email Form connector which needs to have a fixed To email address.
Using the steps below will allow you to simply update a single Organisation metadata value instead of changing every such connector on each client install.
In the Organisation Setup, add a metadata key and value such as "destemail" with value "myemail@example.com"
On your Form connectors, use the "To Form Field" option to ensure the email is sent to the address populated into your new Hidden field.
These simple steps are just one example of how you can leverage Organisation Metadata to share designs and save manual editing.
For this example, the result would be that whenever you install/copy common Forms into your client accounts, all you need to change is the value of the 'destemail' metadata on each client's Organisation Setup.


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Finding a large, versatile yet affordable Function Centre can be hard, yet Christchurch Park Accommodation & Function Centre offers modern facilities and is able to meet any needs required of groups from 2 to 250.
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Christchurch Park Motel is presented in a sunny accessible location, easily remembered by all the trees and lawn that surround the motel.


What is the meaning of the phrase "hold my own"?
WHen someone says that "I can hold my own" that basically means that they can do well in a tough situation – whatever that situation may be. Sometimes people use this phrase when they are trying to be humble – rather than brag about their skills, they just say "I can hold my own".


Emi Canvas Pant by Caron Callahan at Couverture & the Garbstore.
The Emi Canvas Pant by Caron Callahan are high waisted zip front trousers with long patch pockets and a buckle detail at the waist. Fitted through the waist and high hips, with an easy and relaxed fit through the bottom and legs, as well as a slightly dropped crotch.
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He Made a Difference
Written By: Paul Hudson
Managing Director, Hudson & Holland Advisors, LLC
AABLI Board Member and Faculty Member
On August 8th, I lost a confidant, friend and father, and the City of Los Angeles closed another chapter on its history of distinguished citizens. I have chosen to share my Dad's story, in the hope that his life and legacy will inspire readers to give back by helping those less fortunate realize equity and inclusion, and by extending a supportive hand to future generations so that they may realize their dreams.
Elbert Hudson, "Al" as he was commonly known, moved with his family to Los Angeles from Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1923 at the age of three. One of six children, he attended Los Angeles public schools before graduating from U.C.L.A.
During WWII, Al enlisted in the Army Air Corps. At the time, the American military was segregated, so he received flight training at Tuskegee Army Air Field on the campus of Tuskegee University. The air field was designated for the training of Black airmen. After flight training, Al served as a fighter pilot with the highly decorated all Black Red Tails Squadrons, and flew 23 bomber escort missions over Italy.
After returning from the war, he worked in the L.A. County Probation Department and attended Loyola Law School at night, eventually leaving the Probation Department to attend law school full time. He married Marilyn Williams, the daughter of famed architect Paul R. Williams, and embarked on a journey of public and professional service.
Here are some of the milestones along his life path.
Al opened his private law practice in 1953, and over the course of his legal career, he represented many individuals, businesses and organizations in the Black community. He also mentored several young Black attorneys who worked in his office and who went on to become judges. In his later years, Al provided pro bono legal services to seniors at the Estelle Van Meter Multipurpose Center in South L.A. He was inducted into the Langston Bar Association Hall of Fame and was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus by Loyola Law School.
In 1961, Al was appointed to the Los Angeles Police Commission. He was serving on the Commission during the Watts Rebellion in 1965 and played an important role in working with the Police Department to improve police-community relations. During his tenure on the Commission, Al became its first Black President. Former Police Chief Bernard Parks remembered Hudson as a trailblazer and role model.
Al's public service also included serving on the County Human Relations Commission and as President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the NAACP. He was a vocal advocate for the human and civil rights of all, and especially for equity and inclusion of Blacks and the Black community.
In 1972, Al was hired as the President and CEO of Broadway Federal Savings & Loan, a bank founded by his father in 1947. He inherited a bank in financial turmoil and proceeded to manage Broadway's turnaround and stabilize bank operations. Under the leadership of Al and his father, Broadway established itself as a bank of last resort for many first-time borrowers and people of color, and institutionalized Broadway's commitment to community reinvestment. They infused Broadway with their core values of equitable treatment, inclusive behavior and policies, love of community and the obligation to give back.
Throughout his career, Hudson made himself available to mentor and counsel young adults. Frederick Terrell, a mentee, remembers Hudson this way: "It is all too rare when we meet people in whom wisdom, humanity, generosity, courage and pride are so seamlessly interwoven and so effortlessly displayed."
Al was a modest man who rarely boasted about his accomplishments and who regularly shunned the spotlight. Few knew that he was a Tuskegee Airman or the first Black President of the Police Commission. He made listening a science and was often relied upon as a trusted confidant.
When asked what my father meant to me, I instinctively respond, "EVERYTHING," because he influenced so many of my life decisions. On a subconscious level, I have spent my whole life following in my family's larger than life footsteps. From becoming a lawyer, to being elected President of the L.A. NAACP, to public service as Chairman of the Community Redevelopment Agency, to my work as President & CEO of Broadway, to my disciplined exercise habits, I am following the example set by my father and his father before him.
One test of someone's legacy is whether people seek to replicate the person's values and life philosophies. Here's what I learned from my father.
Be modest. – It's not the recognition, it's the result.
Give back. – Of those to whom much is given, much is expected in return.
Pursue equity. – Everyone has value and deserves to be treated equally, with respect and dignity.
Remember your humanity. – No man is an island; it takes a village.
I wish you could have known him like I did.


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Mats Johan Sundin (Broma, Suécia, 13 de fevereiro de 1971) é um jogador Sueco de hóquei no gelo. Foi a primeira escolha do draft de 1989. Sundin jogou suas primeiras quatro temporadas na NHL no Quebec Nordiques. Ele foi negociado com o Toronto Maple Leafs em 1994, onde jogou a maior parte de sua carreira e por 11 temporadas como o capitão da equipe. Ao final da temporada 2007–08 da NHL, Sundin detinha o segundo lugar em tempo de carreira como capitão na NHL dentre os jogadores em atividade,  atrás somente de Joe Sakic do Colorado Avalanche, e o capitão europeu de equipe da NHL por mais tempo. Sundin jogou também pelo Vancouver Canucks na temporada 2008–09 antes de anunciar sua aposentadoria em 30 de Setembro de 2009.

Com exceção de sua primeira temporada, do período de lockout e de sua temporada com o Vancouver Canucks, Sundin marcou pelo menos 70 pontos todos os anos. Ele jogou pelo menos 70 jogos em cada temporada que disputou na sua carreira na NHL, e liderou os Leafs em pontos em todas as temporadas em que esteve no time, exceto na temporada 2002–03, quando Alexander Mogilny o derrotou por 7 pontos. Em 14 de outubro de 2006, Sundin foi o primeiro jogador sueco a registrar a marca de 500 gols. Ele ainda é o líder dos Leafs em total de gols (420) e pontos (984) durante a carreira na equipe e está empatado com Jaromir Jagr, Sergei Fedorov, e Patrik Elias no recorde de gols (15) na prorrogação marcados na temporada regular.

Internacionalmente, Sundin ganhou três medalhas de ouro com a seleção da Suécia no Campeonato Mundial e uma medalha de ouro nas Olimpíadas de Inverno de 2006 em Turin.

Carreira na NHL

Quebec Nordiques
Sundin foi escolhido pelo Quebec Nordiques com a primeira escolha geral do Draft da NHL de 1989, tornando-se o primeiro jogador europeu escolhido na primeira escolha do draft na história da NHL. Na época, Sundin jogava na Suécia, em um time da segunda divisão, Nacka HK, mas na próxima temporada já defendeu o Djurgårdens IF da primeira divisão sueca, a Elitserien, ajudando a equipe a conseguir o Le Mat Trophy como campeões da liga.

Sundin teve sua estréia na NHL com o time de Quebec durante a temporada 1990–91, terminando em segundo no time, em número de pontos da temporada, 59, atrás somente de Joe Sakic. Ele marcou o seu primeiro gol na NHL num jogo contra o Hartford Whalers, seu primeiro jogo na NHL, em 4 de outubro de 1990. Na segunda temporada na NHL, Sundin melhorou sua marca e terminou com 76 pontos, porém na temporada 1992–93 ele liderou os Nordiques com a maior pontuação de sua carreira, 114 pontos, firmando-se como um dos melhores jogadores jovens da NHL. Antes de ser negociado com o Toronto Maple Leafs, Sundin jogou apenas mais uma temporada com os Nordiques, marcando 85 pontos em 84 jogos.

Toronto Maple Leafs
Os Maple Leafs adquiriram Sundin numa troca em 28 de junho de 1994. Os Nordiques enviaram Sundin, Garth Butcher, Todd Warriner, e uma escolha de primeira rodada do draft de 1994, aos Leafs em troca por Wendel Clark, Sylvain Lefebvre, Landon Wilson, e uma escolha de primeira rodada no draft de 1994. Entretanto, como resultado do período de disputa salarial da NHL com a NHLPA (1994–95 lockout), a estréia de Sundin no Toronto foi atrasada e ele retornou à Suécia para jogar novamente pelo Djurgårdens IF. Quando a temporada da NHL foi retomada, Sundin imediatamente mostrou seu valor, liderando os Leafs, marcando um ponto por jogo e terminando a temporada com 47 pontos. Na sua terceira temporada com os Leafs, Sundin marcou 41 gols e 94 pontos, a segunda maior pontuação de sua carreira. Com a saída do capitão Doug Gilmour para o New Jersey Devils durante a temporada 1996–97, Sundin foi nomeado o sucessor de Gilmour, tornando-se o décimo sexto capitão dos Leafs e o primeiro capitão europeu da história da equipe.

Depois de uma campanha de 83 pontos na temporada 1998–99, Sundin liderou os Leafs aos playoffs em 1999 com o time na quarta colocação. Com um forte time montado, após as aquisições do atacante Steve Thomas e do goleiro Curtis Joseph na temporada anterior, os Leafs chegaram à final da Conferência Leste contra o sétimo colocado Buffalo Sabres, mas foram derrotados em apenas 5 jogos. Sundin novamente levou os Leafs à final da Conferência Leste em 2001–02, mas desta vez perderam para o Carolina Hurricanes em seis jogos. Sundin obteve a maior pontuação de sua carreira nos playoffs, com 16 pontos em 17 jogos.

Em 2002–03, depois de oito anos consecutivos como o artilheiro dos Leafs na temporada regular, Sundin foi sucedido por Alexander Mogilny, que ultrapassou os 72 pontos de Sundin, marcando 79. Na temporada seguinte Mogilny sofreu uma contusão séria nas costelas e devido a isso, teve que se ausentar por 12 semanas, permitindo a Mats Sundin voltar a ser o artilheiro dos Maple Leafs naquela temporada. Durante a campanha 2003–04, Sundin foi alvo de grande cobertura da mídia com um episódio onde ele arremessou o taco, em 8 de janeiro de 2004, num jogo contra o Nashville Predators. Após seu taco ter quebrado numa tentativa de chute ao gol, Sundin, desapontado, jogou os pedaços do taco para o lado, mas ao invés de baterem no vidro, os pedaços voaram por sobre o vidro, diretamente na torcida. Julgado pela liga, Sundin teve de cumprir um jogo de suspensão. Depois do jogo, como um pedido de desculpas, Sundin deu um taco novinho, autografado, ao torcedor que foi atingido pelo taco quebrado.

Como resultado da disputa salarial entre NHL e NHLPA (2004–05 NHL lockout), Sundin passou o restante da temporada sem jogar, optando por não jogar nem mesmo na Suécia, como muitos outros suecos haviam decidido. Quando os jogos retornaram, na temporada de 2005–06, Sundin foi atingido por um puck em seu rosto logo no primeiro jogo da temporada, contusão que quase o fez perder a visão de um olho, quebrando seu osso orbital. Ele retornou à ativa após um mês de recuperação e liderou a equipe marcando 78 pontos. Contudo, em 2006, os Leafs não tiveram o mesmo sucesso e não conseguiram se classificar aos playoffs pela primeira vez em sete temporadas.

Logo no início da temporada 2006–07, Sundin tornou-se o 35º jogador na história da NHL a marcar 500 gols, marca atingida em 14 de outubro de 2006, num hat trick (3 gols na mesma partida), contra Miikka Kiprusoff do Calgary Flames. Ele anotou o seu gol de número 500 no seu terceiro gol no jogo, marcado na prorrogação, derrotando os Flames por 5–4. Mais para frente na temporada, em 20 de março de 2007, Sundin atingiu a marca de 900 pontos como um Maple Leaf com duas assistências, numa vitória por 2–1 contra o New Jersey Devils.

Na temporada 2007–08, Sundin começou a se aproximar de vários recordes como jogador do Toronto Maple Leafs. No segundo jogo da temporada, em 4 de outubro de 2007, contra o Ottawa Senators, Sundin anotou o seu gol de número 389 pelos Leafs, empatando a marca de Darryl Sittler. No quinto jogo do Toronto na temporada, em 11 de outubro, contra o New York Islanders, Sundin marcou seu 917º ponto como um Maple Leaf, quebrando o recorde de Darryl Sittler, como líder da franquia em número de pontos. No mesmo jogo, ele também marcou seu 390º gol no terceiro período, assumindo sozinho o recorde de maior artilheiro da história dos Leafs. Ao final do jogo, ele foi eleito como a primeira, segunda e terceira estrela do jogo, uma forma de reconhecê-lo pelos seus recordes. Em 27 de Novembro, em um jogo contra o Montreal Canadiens, Sundin se tornou o primeiro jogador a anotar 400 gols com a camisa dos Leafs. Alguns dias depois, em 1º de dezembro, num jogo contra o Pittsburgh Penguins, ele quebrou o recorde de Babe Dye, que perdurava por 83 anos, quando estendeu sua série pontos em jogos em casa, pontuando em 15 jogos seguidos.

Com os Leafs novamente sem condições de se classificar para os playoffs ao final da temporada e com o contrato de Mats Sundin para expirar, Sundin foi o foco de inúmeros rumores de troca com a aproximação de 26 de fevereiro, último dia de trocas na temporada. A diretoria dos Maple Leafs solicitou que Mats Sundin aceitasse cancelar sua cláusula que não permitia a ele ser trocado com outros times, para que os Leafs coneguissem adquirir jovens talentos com potencial e/ou escolhas no draft, assegurando o futuro da equipe. Em 25 de fevereiro, Sundin declarou que não aceitava ser trocado, pois não se considerava um jogador de "aluguel"  e que se era para ele ganhar a Stanley Cup, ele queria ganhar após ter jogado uma temporada inteira na equipe. Ele permaneceu com o clube e, com 78 pontos, foi pela quarta vez consecutiva e, em 12 de 13 temporadas na equipe, o melhor atacante dos Maple Leafs.

Vancouver Canucks
Sundin, após ter seu contrato encerrado com o Toronto Maple Leafs, tornou-se um agente livre em 1º de julho de 2008,  porém os Leafs concederam preferência ao Montreal Canadiens e New York Rangers para negociarem com Sundin antes desta data. No dia em que se tornou agente livre, Mike Gillis, o novo gerente geral do Vancouver Canucks ofereceu a Sundin um contrato lucrativo de 2 anos e $20 milhões que, se firmado, faria de Mats Sundin o mais bem pago jogador da NHL. Numa tentativa de atrair Sundin ao contrato com os Canucks, inúmeras empresas de Vancouver estenderam ofertas a Sundin, como um carro Volvo e móveis IKEA. Os Rangers, Canadiens e Leafs também ofereceram contratos, entretanto, Sundin preferiu aguardar o início da temporada, contemplando a possibilidade de se aposentar. Depois de anunciar que ele iria, de fato, retornar à NHL e assinar com uma equipe, ele reduziu as opções e considerou somente as propostas do New York Rangers e Vancouver Canucks. Em 18 de dezembro de 2008, os Canucks anunciaram que Sundin havia assinado com o clube para um contrato de um ano, por $8.6 milhões. Considerando o restante da temporada, já que Sundin somente assinou na metade de dezembro, Sundin receberia $5 milhões. Após uma redução de $1.4 milhões do contrato original proposto pelos Canucks anteriormente, Sundin considerou reduzir seu salário para permitir que os Canucks tivessem dinheiro em caixa para melhorar a equipe até o final da temporada 2008-2009.

Sundin fez sua estréia nos Canucks em 7 de janeiro de 2009, numa vitória por 4–2 sobre o Edmonton Oilers, e marcou seu primeiro gol com o clube dois jogos depois, em 10 de janeiro, num gol em vantagem numérica, numa derrota para o San Jose Sharks. Sundin retornou a Toronto em 21 de fevereiro de 2009, para jogar sua primeira partida contra o Toronto Maple Leafs. O retorno ao Air Canada Centre foi um momento muito especial e tornou-se emocional quando um vídeo de tributo ao líder da franquia dos Leafs foi transmitido durante uma interrupção no primeiro período da partida, seguido de aplausos em pé para Sundin. O jogo foi decidido nos pênaltis com Sundin marcando o gol da vitória sobre o seu antigo time resultando na vitória dos Canucks por 3–2. Tendo sido um jogador que marcava um ponto por jogo durante sua carreira, Sundin foi criticado pelo seu jogo apenas regular, marcando somente 28 pontos em 41 jogos enquanto jogando a maioria do tempo na segunda linha de ataque com Pavol Demitra e Ryan Kesler. Sundin voltou a anotar um ponto por jogo nos playoffs de 2009, quando os Canucks se classificaram para a pós-temporada como campeões da Divisão Noroeste. Ele ficou de fora dos últimos dois jogos da primeira rodada dos playoffs, onde os Canucks "atropelaram" os St. Louis Blues  em 4 jogos, com uma suspeita de lesão nas costelas depois de uma queda de mau jeito atrás do gol, no jogo 2, mas se recuperou a tempo da segunda rodada, contra o Chicago Blackhawks. Como os Canucks foram eliminados em 6 jogos, Sundin terminou os playoffs com 8 pontos em 8 jogos. Em 30 de setembro de 2009, Sundin anunciou sua aposentadoria em uma conferência de imprensa em Estocolmo, Suécia.

Carreira Internacional
Sundin representou a Seleção Sueca em várias competições internacionais, incluindo a Copa do Mundo de Hóquei e as Olimpíadas de Inverno, e manteve a posição de  capitão da seleção pela maior parte da última década. Sundin é reconhecido como um dos melhores jogadores do mundo nas competições internacionais, e tem em sua carreira uma impressionante lista de realizações como resultado de sua performance nas Olimpíadas de Inverno de 2002 e Copa do Mundo de 2004. Sundin ganhou três Campeonatos Mundiais da Federação Internacional de Hóquei no Gelo - IIHF com a Suécia em 1991, 1992 e 1998. Sundin finalmente alcançou a medalha de ouro olímpica com a Seleção Sueca em 2006 em Turin.

Depois de liderar a equipe à medalha de ouro em Turim, ele também se aposentou da seleção sueca de hóquei.

Vida pessoal
Toronto é o lar de uma cobertura intensa de hockey pela mídia, e como Sundin é uma pessoa reservada, ele foi sem dúvida alguma o atleta mais criticado na cidade. Ele sempre se esquivava de quaisquer tentativas de questionamentos sobre sua vida pessoal, e raramente fazia declarações negativas de seus companheiros de equipe em público. Em 2006, Sundin colocou sua casa de quatro quartos à venda pelo preço de $6.499 milhões, o que iniciou uma forte especulação da mídia sobre ele estar infeliz com os Leafs e que deveria estar objetivando se mudar e jogar em outro lugar. Contudo, Sundin e sua namorada de longa data, Tina Fagerström, tinham se separado e o presidente da Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, empresa proprietária da franquia Maple Leafs, Richard Peddie, simplesmente comentou que o mercado imobiliário estava em alta e que a casa de Mats Sundin era enorme para um rapaz solteiro. Sundin continuou jogando pelos Leafs na temporada seguinte da NHL. Em 30 de abril de 2008, Sundin recebia um reconhecimento de sua liderança no Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School em Guelph, Ontario, quando declarou que ele e sua atual namorada Josephine Johansson decidiram se casar. Os dois estavam namorando a 1 ano.

Em setembro de 2008, Sundin anunciou um contrato de patrocínio com o site PokerStars. Ele joga com o apelido de "MatsSundin" e doa todos os seus ganhos para instituições de caridade.

Em 29 de agosto de 2009, Mats casou-se com sua noiva Josephine Johansson. A lista de convidados excedeu 200 pessoas e incluiu diversos amigos das equipes de hockey por onde ele jogou.

Recordes

NHL

Empatado em maior número de gols na prorrogação durante a temporada regular (15, compartilhado com Jaromír Jágr, Sergei Fedorov e Patrik Elias)
Empatado em 20º em número de gols na carreira (564, compartilhado com Joe Nieuwendyk)
32º em total de assistências na carreira (785)
25º em total de pontos na carreira (1349)
Primeiro europeu a ser escolhido como primeira escolha no geral no Draft da NHL (1989 pelo Quebec Nordiques)
Europeu a atuar mais tempo como capitão de uma franquia da NHL na história da liga (10 temporadas)
Único jogador sueco a atingir a marca de 500 gols (564)
Maior número de pontos, gols e assistências durante a carreira, marcados por um jogador sueco
Empatado em gol mais rápido na prorrogação (6 segundos, compartilhado com Alexander Ovechkin, Simon Gagné e David Legwand)
Primeiro jogador sueco a alcançar os 1000 pontos
Junto com Marcel Dionne detém o recorde de marcar pelo menos 20 gols em cada uma de suas primeiras 16 temporadas
Maior número de partidas jogadas por um atacante europeu (1346)

Toronto Maple Leafs

Gols (420)
Assistências por um atacante (587)
Pontos (987)
Empatado em assistências em um mesmo período de jogo (3, Darcy Tucker e Matt Stajan)

Reconhecimentos e realizações

Campeão da TV-pucken como parte da seleção de Estocolmo em1986.
Campeão Sueco em 1990.
Primeiro europeu a ser escolhido como primeira escolha no geral no Draft da NHL (1989 pelo Quebec Nordiques)
Convocado para o time de estrelas da Liga de Elite Sueca (Elitserien World All-Star Team) em 1991, 1992, 1994 e 1998.
Ganhador do Viking Award em 1993, 1994, 1997, e 2002.
Nomeado para o time de estrelas do Campeonato Mundial de Hóquei (World Championships All-Star Team) em 1992 e 2003.
Melhor atacante da Campeonato Mundial de Hóquei em 1992.
Nomeado para o time de estrelas da Copa do Canadá (Canada Cup All-Star Team) em 1991.
Nomeado para o time de estrelas da Copa do Mundo de Hockey em 1996.
Jogou no time de estrelas da NHL (NHL All-Star Game) em 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 (lesionado) e 2004.
Nomeado para o segundo time de estrelas da NHL em 2002 e 2004.
Nomeado para o time de estrelas do Torneio Olímpico em 2002.
Capitão da seleção sueca de hockey no gelo nas Olimpíadas de 2006 quando a Suécia ganhou a medalha de ouro.
Alcançou a marca de 500 gols em 14 de outubro de 2006.
Alcançou 1.300 pontos em 5 de fevereiro de 2008.
Reconhecido com o "Mark Messier Leadership Award" em 2008.

Jogadores de hóquei no gelo
Medalhistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno de 2006

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Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco Talks About Reading For Hollins And His Latest Book, "How to Love a Country"
Posted on Monday, April 5th, 2021 at 9:26 am.
Written by Jeff Hodges
It's not every day that a presidential inaugural poet gives a reading for Hollins University. In fact, it's a first. This Thursday, April 8, Cuban-American writer Richard Blanco, who read his poem "One Today" at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2012, will offer a virtual reading for the Hollins community that's open to the general public, becoming the first inaugural poet to do so in the university's history. It's a rare honor to be selected to read a poem at a presidential inauguration, even rarer than being president (45 individuals have served as U.S. President, but there have been just six inaugural poets, including literary titans such as Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's 1961 inauguration and Maya Angelou for Bill Clinton in 1993.) Blanco was the nation's first Latino and first openly gay inaugural poet, and he wrote about the experience and his life leading up to that moment in his 2013 memoir For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey. Blanco recently spoke about his latest collection How to Love a Country, writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and his new friendship with fellow inaugural poet Amanda Gorman.
Thank you so much for taking the time, Richard. Let's just start with the big game-changing moment: getting the call to read at then-President Obama's second inauguration. What was that like?
That was a pretty crazy, alarming, wonderful, all-of-the-above moment. But I guess the most striking thing was that my initial reaction was not of fear or apprehension but really more of immense gratitude, not just for the opportunity that it represented, but more so gratitude for my parents and grandparents and all the sacrifices they made coming to this country. So you realize that your story is not just your story but that it's a story that started being written a long time before. Gratitude for all of that was, in a way, a kind of closure as well as a new beginning. It closed one chapter of my life but opened up a whole new one.
It sounds like the inauguration was cathartic not just personally but artistically as well. Can you talk more about that?
Aesthetically and creatively, I'd never had to write a poem like that before. But I have to say, in an interesting and ironic way, I'd been writing it my entire life. In my very first graduate-level creative writing workshop, my first assignment was "write a poem about America." [Laughs] My mentor and I joke that Obama gave me the same assignment ten years ago. But to be honest, after four books of writing about being Cuban-American and gay and Latino, I felt I had kind of exhausted the material. I didn't know how to break out of the more purely autobiographical, and [the inauguration] was an invitation to do just that. I know what America means to me, but what does America mean to America? That was the question I had to ask. So the poem is a response to that and, in a way, it did open up a whole other approach to writing where the idea of the poetry of "We," not just the poetry of "I," became very important. And that's obviously reflected in How to Love a Country as well.
Can we expect to hear some poems from that latest book during your Hollins reading?
Yes, I'll read some poems from, How to Love a Country, [plus] some poems that lead up to that book as well. I usually like to tell somewhat of a narrative about my journey, both artistically and personally, and how that's reflected in the poems. So thinking about growing up as an immigrant gay kid, becoming an inaugural poet, and how that changed my perspective on things in my art, resulting in How to Love a Country, which are poems that are much more socio-political.
I love that collection so much. For these poems, did you find yourself struggling to love this country, or struggling to re-evaluate that love?
The question of what is America, what does it mean to be an American, has always been a part of my question. Being selected as presidential inaugural poet was obviously an amazing experience in that it opened my eyes to the idea that my narrative is part of America. Before then, I wasn't 100-percent convinced of that. [Laughs] But I also started seeing how many narratives weren't being included although they were part of this country's fabric, that so many people, like me, felt the same way. So I just started thinking about all the work we had to do still in this country. Our democracy is not a one-off—it's not a check-and-done—it's constant work and constant re-evaluation. So the inauguration was a pivotal moment, a positive moment, but it also sent me on a journey to keep investigating this idea of the American narrative.
And how has the COVID-19 pandemic affected that investigation? Has quarantine had a big impact on your writing process?
For the most part, no, in the sense that writers are used to working alone. But even I'm going a little stir crazy, and you know when the writers are going stir crazy that something is really bad. [laughs] But I really have a sense of empathy for people who have been working outside their house for years and years. I would say that this last year has instilled in me an appreciation for home and community like never before. There are so many things that we all take for granted, even the smallest things like going to your favorite neighborhood restaurant or just appreciating the people who allow us to have those experiences and understanding, much like the inaugural poem, that all of us matter. All our stories are really happening at once and they're all interconnected.
Speaking of that interconnection, we just had another inauguration in January and another presidential inaugural poet. What did you think of Amanda Gorman's poem, "The Hill We Climb"?
I know Amanda. She speaks Spanish, which is really wonderful; we text in Spanish so she can practice. As my partner Mark says, more people have been to the moon than have been presidential inaugural poets, so it's a very small club! [laughs]
But besides her poem and the strength of her poem, what she represents is so powerful. During these chaotic years, I've been concerned by what kind of story we're telling to our children, to our youth. So the choice of this 22-year-old writing dynamo as inaugural poet says a lot: says that you have power, you have agency, you have to participate in this democracy, it's your country as well. I think she has come at a moment when we need that the most, and I look forward to seeing how she can lead us, especially our youth, through what I think are still very tumultuous years ahead.
Jeff Dingler is a graduate assistant in Hollins' marketing and communications department. He is pursuing his M.F.A. in creative writing at the university.
Hollins Professor Jessie Van Eerden Celebrates Launch of Award-Winning Fourth Book, "Call It Horses"
Posted on Thursday, March 25th, 2021 at 8:30 am.
When it comes to writing, some projects are well worth the wait. Author and Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing Jessie van Eerden certainly understands that. Today, van Eerden celebrates with Malaprop's Bookstore/Café the e-launch of her fourth book, Call It Horses. Her third novel and the winner of the 2019 Dzanc Books Prize was eight years in the making.
"I didn't work on it eight years consistently," laughed van Eerden. "There were a lot of other things in that time, but this book took a lot of reimagining." Call It Horses revolves around three women—niece, aunt, and artist stowaway—and the 1990 road trip that this improbable trio embarks on from West Virginia to New Mexico. Spending a lot of time experimenting with the book's structure, van Eerden first tried out a narrative poetry sequence, then a more traditional first-person plot, before finally settling on the current epistolary form (i.e. told through letters).
"I think the joy of publishing a book is seeing something that you've labored over come to fruition," said van Eerden about the long process of writing Call It Horses. "To complete that circuit with readers, that circuit of something that's lived in your head for so long, it's pleasurable no matter what."
In the end, all that hard work paid off for van Eerden. In 2019, she was named the winner of the coveted Dzanc Books Prize for Call It Horses—the manuscript was selected from a pool of hundreds—a win that resulted in Dzanc Books publishing Call It Horses. Flash-forward a year and a half, and now van Eerden's looking at a spring and summer of events to promote her new novel. "It's exciting because it's a book that's very close to me," she said. "I'm always interested in letting my characters go out in the world and meet other people."
Indeed, the novel does hit close to home for van Eerden. Call It Horses starts in Caudell, West Virginia, a small rural town reminiscent of van Eerden's own upbringing in that same state. "It is interesting my relationship to place with respect to my fiction," she said. "I feel that there's the physical landscape of where I grew up, and also the spiritual landscape: of the community of people and the tiny church and the ways that people interacted and cared for each other." In Call It Horses, those two landscapes inform both van Eerden's fictional Appalachian world as well as the quasi-spiritual journal out West undertaken by the three central characters.
As for the future, van Eerden isn't taking a breather. She's already working on her fifth book, a return to nonfiction and essay portraiture, a form that won her the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for her 2017 portrait essay collection, The Long Weeping. "I'm planning on peering into some portraits of biblical women," she said. "[I'm] doing a lot of excavation of biblical myth alongside more memoiristic material of my own narrative life—looking into the philosophical realm of human responsibility and human freedom, and the relationship between those two poles of existence."
The launch of Call It Horses is at 6 p.m. today and will also feature acclaimed writer Siamak Vossoughi, winner of the 2014 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. To participate, please RSVP here.
Hollins Announces Six Winners of the 57th Annual Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest
Posted on Thursday, March 18th, 2021 at 1:02 pm.
Whoever said poetry doesn't pay must've never applied to a poetry competition. Case in point, Hollins University announced this week the first- and second-place winners to its 57th Annual Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest. The international competition for young women in high school recognized six talented writers, awarding the top prize to Samiksha Gaherwar of Lambert High School in Suwanee, Georgia, for her poem "slavish numerals."
"I'm deeply honored to receive this award and incredibly excited at the opportunity to attend the Hollinsummer creative writing program," said Gaherwar. "Thank you for [fostering] appreciation and love for poetry in my generation!"
In addition to free tuition and housing for the university's 2021 summer creative writing workshops, Gaherwar will also receive a $350 cash prize and publication in Cargoes, Hollins' student-run literary magazine, plus the option to receive a renewable scholarship of up to $5000 a year, should she choose to enroll at the university.
Hollins also recognized six second-place poems, each of which will be published in Cargoes. In a rare occurrence, two of those poems were submitted by the same student, Chaerim Kim-Worthington of North Hollywood, California, who received a separate "double-winner" prize of free tuition and housing for Hollinsummer. The other second-place winners will receive a $500 scholarship applicable toward those same summer programs.
"It was a very competitive contest this year," said Jessie van Eerden, associate professor of English and creative writing at Hollins and contest coordinator. The 57th edition received a total of 968 poems written by 607 contestants (each contestant could submit only two poems). The young writers hailed from across the United States, D.C., Puerto Rico, and 18 countries abroad, including some as far-flung as Taiwan, Germany, New Zealand, and Kazakhstan. "[Gaherwar] ended up sending me an email that was really over the moon," recalled van Eerden about the first-place winner's response. "She was just so humble, too, and that struck me, that she was kind of taken by surprise to have her work recognized."
Picking a winner for the contest during the pandemic was no easy task either. The first round of judging took place in person, and because of COVID restrictions, van Eerden and only around a dozen undergraduate and graduate students were responsible for winnowing those initial 968 poems down to a pool of just 21. The final round of judging took place via Zoom on February 24, involving more than 60 faculty and students in Hollins' English and Creative Writing Department.
"It's been lovely to support so many high school young women in the process," van Eerden said.
Here is the full list of winners:
Samiksha Gaherwar
Lambert High School
"slavish numerals"
Ashley Bao
Cab Calloway School of the Arts High School
"greenville, ms"
Chaerim Kim-Worthington
Harvard-Westlake School
"modern greek student falls in love with ancient greek student"
and "on wasps"
Sarah Mohammed
"Spit & a white man's bruised fist"
Gaia Rajan
Phillips Academy
"Killing It"
Olivia Yang
"Etymology of Loss"
London Calling: Through an Internship Abroad, a Senior "Storyteller" Furthers Her Growth as a Writer and Film Student
Posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2021 at 1:17 pm.
When a high school English teacher who also happens to be an alumna of a university nationally recognized for creative writing realizes that one of her students has a passion and talent for the craft, the mission she undertakes isn't surprising.
"She was always asking me, 'Have you checked out Hollins?'," Carly Lewis '21 recalled, laughing. "She got me the Hollins Creative Writing Scholarship as sort of a final 'Please look at Hollins' creative writing program, it's really good.'"
So, the native of Richmond, Virginia, did just that. "Since I liked going to an all-women's high school, attending a historically women's college sounded right up my alley. But I mostly wanted to come here because I found that the writing program was indeed very good. I'm a big storyteller, a storyteller in all regards, and I wanted to become a better writer and learn with other like-minded writers."
From the beginning, Lewis thrived. The first class she took "was with a phenomenal graduate assistant who tossed a lot of rules out of the window. In high school, I was already breaking the rules of writing a little bit. But then I got to Hollins and that graduate student told me, 'Just write what you want and do what you want. It'll all come together in the end and we'll help you.' Having that freedom right off the bat was such a gift. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of what I could write and how to hone my craft before I even knew what honing my craft meant."
Three members of Hollins' English and creative writing faculty subsequently had a profound impact on Lewis. Professor of English and Creative Writing T.J. Anderson III showed her she could blend music with writing and it could be "heartbreaking and lovely and moving," she said.
Lewis remembers feeling both excitement and trepidation when she enrolled in her first advanced creative writing workshop, which was taught by her advisor, Professor of English and Creative Writing Cathryn Hankla. "I was scared to read something from one of our random writing exercises during class because I thought it wasn't going to be good. She told me, 'No first draft is good. Just read it and you can fix it later. It's not meant to be good at first.' That's always stuck with me. Even if you think it's good, there's always work to do. She's always encouraged me to have confidence and trust in my writing."
This semester, Lewis is taking her fourth and final advanced writing workshop, and her second with Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing Jessie van Eerden, who is "always cheering me on. She's a comforting good source of critique and support."
While Lewis came to Hollins to study creative writing, she also considered herself a visual person (one of her hobbies is photography) and enjoyed an interest in film. "I don't know why, but it wasn't something I'd entertained in studying until I had the opportunity to take an Introduction to Film class. I realized it's not unlike analyzing or critiquing a book. So I thought, 'A writer who can talk about movies, too. It's a good pairing,' and I ended up adding a film major."
Lewis said the film classes that she has particularly loved are the ones she's taken with Professor of English and Creative Writing R.H.W. Dillard. "He's a great film critic. I'm in my third of his Film as a Narrative Art classes. He does a great job of connecting the filmmakers to their work and getting to know them, their techniques, and the history of the time when the film was made that might have impacted it."
Another of Lewis' aspirations when she came to Hollins was international study. Trips to Italy and Spain during high school sparked her interest in spending a semester abroad, so during one of her visits to Hollins as a prospective student, she attended a meeting about the Hollins Abroad – London program.
"I was immediately hooked. Going to London became a big part of why I wanted to come here. You take classes, but the most important thing is that you actually get to immerse yourself in life in another country."
Lewis (left) at London's Weller Media Agency. "I loved my internship and being around a bunch of crazy creatives every day."
As Lewis prepared to travel to London to spend the 2019 fall term, she decided that completing an internship there would enrich her experience. Hollins' Office of International Programs works through CAPA to provide international internship opportunities for students based on their areas of interest, and Lewis was placed with Weller Media Agency (WMA), a global digital creative and marketing company specializing in promoting talent in the music and entertainment industries, especially up-and-coming artists.
"It was a dream come true, it was like they read my mind almost about what I wanted to do," Lewis said. "I've always been a big music person but I'd never done anything before in the music industry. I loved my internship and being around a bunch of crazy creatives all day, every day. They were just so nice and encouraging."
Lewis did everything from graphic design and social media content to writing for Spindle (a magazine affiliated with WMA), engaging in public relations activities, and assisting with film and photography production. "It was fun because everyone is working in the same room and all I had to do was walk from one table to the next to see if there was anything they needed. They were very gracious and excited to have me help out on a bunch of projects such as shooting music videos and meeting and interviewing talent. Interacting with the artists I listened to or wrote about was really cool."
"Going to London became a big part of why I wanted to come [to Hollins]. You get to immerse yourself in life in another country."
The Hollins senior believes her WMA internship has opened a door for her. "I never really entertained the thought of working in the music industry in terms of film and photography or even as a writer, but this showed me I could do it and how it could happen. And Weller was such a great place for networking."
The WMA experience mirrored what Lewis encountered throughout her semester in London. "The people are so kind and giving, and so imaginative," she said. One of her favorite parts of the city is Brick Lane, located in the East End. "There are loads of little thrift shops and it's really artistic. They do graffiti tours down there so there's always artists spray painting the walls with these giant murals. I really liked their music scene, too. I went to a lot of concerts there."
Lewis was captivated by Brick Lane on London's East End with its graffiti tours, thrift shops, and vibrant music scene.
Lewis praises the host family with whom she lived. "I loved them so much. My host mom was interested in what was doing, very supportive, and recommended what to see and where to eat. She made sure I knew how to get to those places, too, whether it was on the Tube or taking a bus. She was always looking out for me, and it was nice to have someone who was already living there be a guide. I can't recommend enough living with a host family."
A jaunt through Stratford-Upon-Avon in the county of Warwickshire, England.
Lewis' final semester is a busy one. She's wrapping up her third year as a CA (Community Assistant), a position that has offered her the chance to draw upon her experience as the oldest sister in her own family to mentor first-year students. "I get to watch them when they first come to college and see how they change. It's crazy how much they grow into themselves, even in the first semester. It's just great to be a part of that."
But perhaps the most ambitious project on Lewis' plate at the moment is her first novel, which she began a couple of years ago and draws upon her study abroad experience. "It's realistic fiction and it involves music, it's about a band, and it's set in London," she explained. "It's combining all of my favorite things and in the genre that I think is the most 'me.' It's very hard but it is fun." She noted that Hankla and van Eerden have both been very supportive, reading parts of the novel and offering suggestions as the work progresses.
Lewis at London's Hampstead Heath: "Eventually I think I will go back. I felt like I was leaving behind a home, and one day it will be time to go back home."
Following graduation this spring, Lewis hopes to secure a music editorial internship with NPR. She's also been in touch with Hollins alumnae in Richmond about possible opportunities within the area's robust film production industry. "I also want to look at music studios to intern or just come in and see what they are all about, partly because I'm interested in getting to know the music industry better, but also to gather research for my novel."
Even though her future plans are still coming together, Lewis has little doubt a particular city will figure prominently whatever she pursues. "After I returned here following my London experience, it seemed like I should be back there. Eventually I think I will go back, possibly for grad school in a couple of years. I felt like I was leaving behind a home,
and one day it will be time to go back home."
English and Creative Writing Professor's Artistic Journey Brings "Voices Into Dialogue"
Posted on Monday, February 8th, 2021 at 2:16 pm.
When Professor of English and Creative Writing T.J. Anderson III is asked how long he spent writing his newest book, he says he always answers, "It took me 62 years."
Of course, he's joking. But as Anderson further explains, a profound truth lies in that reply. "First, I had to acquire language. I next had to acquire an aural sensibility because music is very much a part of my aesthetic. Then of course, I had to read a lot of books and a lot of poetry to get to this point."
The latest literary stop on what Anderson describes as his life's "artistic journey, a journey that is rooted in African-American culture and American culture" is Devonte Travels the Sorry Route, a collection of poems published in 2019 by Omnidawn Publishing. The work is his fourth volume of poetry following Cairo Workbook (Willow Books, 2014), River to Cross (The Backwaters Press, 2009), and the chapbook At Last Round Up (lift books, 1996). He is also the author of Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2004) and the spoken word CD, Blood Octave (Flat Five Recordings, 2006).
"I think the work that I write is me, and it's also not me and it's community," Anderson said. "One of the things that I think is true, which is a way of thinking about the afterlife of slavery in regard to how we inhabit this historical time, is the sense of temporal engagement where the past, the present, and the future are not discreet and cut off from one another. Rather, we live in simultaneity of that entanglement. That's my challenge as a writer: How does one narrate that? How do I bring those voices into dialogue?"
When describing his aesthetic, Anderson cites two core components. He employs fragmentation and compares it to making "a quilt where I'm constantly gathering various kinds of materials, different kinds of fabrics, some silk, some rough cotton, and stitching these things together so that these fragments are in conversation. There's the use of space in my work, too, where there are things that can't be said or I haven't found the words for these things."
Devonte Travels the Sorry Route is presented in four parts, and Anderson has also developed a process for making those divisions that aligns with his perception of the poem as a musical score. "I'll print out all of my poems and go into a large room and lay every piece of paper on the floor. Then, I'll walk around and read them. I'll see what fits, what's developing in terms of a narrative and musicality. First and foremost, it's music. I'm orchestrating things in terms of how I hear them sounding and putting them into a particular order. They're kind of musical sections."
Anderson's inspiration to begin writing the poems that would ultimately become Devonte Travels the Sorry Route stemmed from seeing a painting by Irish-American artist Brian Counihan called "The Sorry Route." He was intrigued by the work's two dominant figures – one man in a tri-cornered hat and another who appeared to be in shackles – and the way the painting evoked colonialism.
"All of a sudden I started writing these poems that came to me that embodied this voice of a character who called himself 'Dickerson,'" Anderson recalled. "After I drafted a few of my Dickerson poems, I started sending them out to magazines and some were getting accepted, which was really pleasing. I began to see that somehow I was working on a series."
Anderson learned that Omnidawn, which specializes in innovative and experimental writing and is one of the author's favorite publishers, was sponsoring an Open Book Poetry Contest where anyone who has already published a book can submit an entry. He put the series of poems into a manuscript, changed the main character's name from "Dickerson" to "Devonte," and Devonte Travels the Sorry Route was created. To Anderson's surprise, the manuscript was named a contest finalist.
"The publisher called to congratulate me and as I talked to him I realized that I had only 20 poems of mid-size length in the series. Now, that will get you what is called a chapbook, usually a small printing of poems that runs about 40 to 50 pages and has just a limited dissemination. So, I really tried to expand it by writing more poems and opening up more space."
Why did Anderson change the name of his poems' key figure? "'Dickerson' has a kind of harshness to it, so one point I was going to call the character 'Dante' as an allusion to The Inferno, but I decided not to do that. I chose 'Devonte' because it alluded to 'Dante' but it also was a distinctly African-American name and certainly sounded more poetic than 'Dickerson.' At the same time, I realized there was a young man by that name who was a victim of police violence."
In the series, Anderson says his title character "traverses time. His sense of identity is constantly being cut by historical events, so much so that there becomes no discernable separation of past and present. I'm responding to the painting and shifts of identity within the African-American cultural and historical narrative. Devonte inhabits multiple dimensions, and in several poems, he encounters history on both a macro and micro level that doesn't solely apply to dates and images. How do we deal with the ghost of history? Devonte resists and straddles all those attempts of containment by society."
At its core, Devonte Travels the Sorry Route is the story of an artist for whom jazz is a profound force. "It is a spiritual connection that goes beyond consumptive entertainment and appreciation," Anderson explained. "The idea of music – tonal sounds, tonal vibrations – and what it does to the body, and how it can affect one's ability to be in multiple places at multiple times, that's of interest to me."
The book's second pivotal character, "more of an idea than an actual person," is "Isabella." "I see her as a representation of colonialism and its exploitation of the land that some people see as feminine. But Isabella is being used. She becomes a participant in White supremacist domination. It's a gendered idea that's problematic and I hope readers see that."
Still, Anderson is comfortable with readers approaching his work differently from his own interpretation of it and even missing the allusions he makes. He recalls his own study years ago of the influential American poet Charles Olson and his seminal work Maximus Poems, a long serial poem that encompasses more than one thousand pages. "I read that entire book, I also read the criticism, I also read the biographies on him, and I didn't understand everything. But later on, the more you allow things to ruminate and to simmer, I began to gain more of an understanding of his work. I think that's the way I've always approached literature and particularly difficult literature. I don't necessarily feel the need to 'get' something at first reading, that it's important to go back and sit with something, and maybe 20 years from now you might say, 'Oh, that's what that line meant. Okay, I get it now.' And that's fine. The process for me, the process of literature, is an organic process."
Watch Anderson's presentation, Devonte Travels the Sorry Route: The Making of a Manuscript, part of the Faculty Authors and Achievers series sponsored by the Wyndham Robertson Library.
Tinker Mountain Writers Workshop Hosts Winter Recharge Weekend, Jan. 29-31
Posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 at 11:15 am.
Offering both manuscript and "write now" workshops, the Tinker Mountain Writers Workshop (TMWW) at Hollins University is presenting its first-ever Winter Recharge Weekend, Jan. 29-31.
"This is an opportunity to recharge your creativity, reconnect with the Tinker Mountain community of writers, and reframe your work," said TMWW Director Fred Leebron.
Manuscript workshops, limited to eight participants, enable writers to get feedback on their work and learn what other writers are doing. Write now workshops, limited to ten participants, allow writers to immerse themselves in the craft of writing and generate new work without the pressure of preparing or reading manuscripts.
The Winter Recharge Weekend will be entirely virtual, kicking off with a social session on Friday evening, January 29. Workshops will be held on Saturday and Sunday, January 30 and 31, from 10 a.m. to noon and again from 2 to 4 p.m.
"The weekend is just the right amount of time to affirm your writing and reset for the balance of winter and spring," Leebron explained.
Workshops include:
"All Styles/All Forms Fiction Manuscript Workshop" with Leebron, an award-winning novelist and short story writer. He has founded and directed writing programs in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, and has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level for nearly 30 years. He also co-authored a textbook on fiction writing.
"The Middle Place Manuscript Workshop for Fiction Writers, Memoirists, and Essayists" with Barbara Jones, an executive editor at Henry Holt & Company, where she edits fiction, memoir, and an idiosyncratic short list of nonfiction. Her writings have been published in Salon, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
"Write Now Workshop: Poetry and Nonfiction" with poetry and nonfiction author James McKean, who has published two books of essays and three books of poems. A winner of the Iowa Poetry Award and the X.J. Kennedy poetry prize from Texas Review Press, McKean's work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, and the Southern Review.
"Write Now Workshop for Fiction Writers" with Daniel Mueller, author of two collections of short fiction, a winner of the Sewanee Fiction Prize, and a faculty member at the University of New Mexico and in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte. He is currently working on a memoir.
Visit the TMWW Winter Recharge webpage for more information on the workshops and faculty
"Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir" by Natasha Trethewey M.A. '91 Shortlisted for Carnegie Medals for Excellence
Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 at 2:33 pm.
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced that Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey M.A. '91 is one of six finalists for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.
The awards recognize the previous year's best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the United States, and are intended to serve as a guide to help adults select quality reading material. The two medal winners will be recognized at the Reference and User Services Association's Book and Media Awards event, which will be held online on February 4, 2021. Winners will each receive $5,000. All finalists will be honored during a celebratory event in the summer of 2021 during the ALA Annual Conference.
The ALA calls Memorial Drive "a work of exquisitely distilled anguish and elegiac drama. Trethewey confronts the horror of her mother's murder through finely honed, evermore harrowing memories, dreams, visions, and musings. She writes, 'To survive trauma, one must be able to tell a story about it.' And tell her tragic story she does in this lyrical, courageous, and resounding remembrance."
Established in 2012, the Carnegie Medals for Excellence are the first single-book awards for adult books presented by the ALA and reflect the judgment and insight of library professionals and booksellers who work closely with adult readers. Made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Medals are co-sponsored by Booklist, the ALA's book review magazine.
New Memoir by Natasha Trethewey M.A. '91 Earns Praise and Inspires Dialogue
Posted on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020 at 4:10 pm.
"To survive trauma, one must be able to tell a story about it," writes Natasha Trethewey M.A. '91.
In her new book, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir, the Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time U.S. Poet Laureate courageously and compellingly faces, after more than three decades, the shooting death of her mother by her second husband and Trethewey's former stepfather. The murder followed years of domestic abuse.
"The reason that I am a writer is that tremendous loss from when I was 19," Trethewey relates in an interview with Esquire magazine. But, as her public profile grew during her terms as poet laureate, PBS NewsHour Chief Arts Correspondent Jeffrey Brown notes that the author "saw articles written about her make her mother's killing almost kind of a footnote."
Trethewey tells Brown, "And I thought, if that was going to continue to happen, that I needed to be the one to tell her story, so that she could be put in her proper context…."
Esquire calls this summer's publication of Memorial Drive "a second alignment of the stars" for Trethewey in that it "confronts the murder of her mother as well as our nation's fraught racial legacy."
"Not only is it that all of these [race-based topics] are coming to a head right now," she says, "but also, the pandemic has increased the number of cases of domestic violence. People are sheltering in place often with their abusers because they have no choice. So, to see these things intersecting in such a powerful and traumatic way is difficult, but it also suggests that maybe we'll be able to have a conversation and a reckoning with it that we haven't quite had before."
The memoir has resounded with journalists and critics at a number of major media outlets. Along with the profiles in Esquire (which has already named Memorial Drive one of its Best Books of 2020) and on PBS NewsHour, Trethewey has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, and The Atlantic, and heard on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. People magazine named Memorial Drive its Book of the Week (while also citing Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle M.A. '81 in the same issue as one of the week's Best New Books), while the New York Post included it among its Best Books of the Week for the first week of August.
Memorial Drive has also garnered enthusiastic acclaim, both nationally and internationally:
"Trethewey's masterpiece." – The New York Times
"Trethewey has delivered the kind of book that can only come from a writer at the height of her powers, a human at the height of her wisdom and pathos." – Chicago magazine
"An enduring work, beautiful and horrific." – The Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)
"Trethewey excavates her mother's life, transforming her from tragic victim to luminous human being. She is a living, breathing dynamo, coming of age in the Jim Crow South, breaking out of the restrictions imposed on her." – The Washington Post
"An exquisitely written, elegiac memoir. Memorial Drive is Trethewey's gorgeous exploration of all the wounds that never heal: her mother's, her own, and the wounds of slavery and racism on the soul of a troubled nation." – USA Today
"Stunning….As Trethewey revisits her past, she again turns on a light in the darkest of corners, piecing together the memories of her childhood and her mother's death as the hands of her stepfather. Her pain still feels primal, but the poet confronts shadows to reveal, as she writes, 'the story I tell myself to survive.'" – Garden & Gun
"Three decades ago that masterly American writer Tobias Wolff published This Boy's Life, his classic memoir of a troubled childhood and a bullying, unpredictably violent stepfather. It's no exaggeration to say that Natasha Trethewey's book belongs in the same exalted company." – The Times (London)
When asked during her Esquire interview what has to happen in publishing so that "stories that hit a variety of identities get to be told on an equally grand scale as those that come from white authors with white characters," Trethewey shares the story of a young, white college student from South Carolina who was initially dismissive when her professor assigned her class to read the author's first collection of poems, Domestic Work, which explores the working lives of African-Americans in the pre-civil rights era of the 20th century. But, Trethewey says, after reading the book, "She saw her own family in my family."
Trethewey concludes, "We need to understand that Black writers, or other writers of color, are telling stories that relate to all of us. They're not just stories that are only about that select group of people. Humanity is the thing that we all have in common."
Marilyn Chin Named Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence for 2021
Posted on Monday, July 13th, 2020 at 9:13 am.
An award-winning author whose books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally has been announced as Hollins University's Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence for 2021.
Marilyn Chin, whose most recent book is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems, will work with graduate and selected undergraduate students next spring.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon, Chin's other books of poetry include Hard Love Province, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, Dwarf Bamboo, and The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty. She has also written a book of wild girl fiction, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen. Her honors include the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the United States Artist Foundation Award, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts awards, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, five Pushcart Prizes, and others. In 2017, she was recognized by the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus and the California Assembly for her activism and excellence in education.
Chin is featured in a variety of literary anthologies and appeared in Bill Moyers' PBS series The Language of Life and in the 2020 series Poetry in America. She has read and taught workshops all over the world and has served as guest poet and lecturer at universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manchester, Sydney, Berlin, and elsewhere.
The poet Adrienne Rich said, "Marilyn Chin's poems excite and incite the imagination through their brilliant cultural interfacings, their theatre of anger, 'fierce and tender,' their compassion, and their high mockery of wit. Reading her, our sense of the possibilities of poetry is opened further, and we feel again what an active, powerful art it can be."
Chin is professor emerita at San Diego State University and is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
For the Stephensons, the Hollins Experience Is a Family Affair
Posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2020 at 9:14 am.
From his service as a U.S. Army officer and a career teaching high school English to embracing a stint as a stay-at-home father, Kelly Stephenson M.F.A. '20 had always cherished a desire to someday write a novel.
So, while his daughter Clare was preparing to graduate from high school, Kelly and his wife began seriously considering "the next phase of my life. We were talking about what's next, and she said, 'why don't you apply to grad schools and see where you get in?' Hollins University was at the top of my list because I knew it had a really strong writing program. I applied, I got accepted, and we decided that it must be fate."
Two years later, Kelly and his family are celebrating the completion of his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Hollins, which he hopes will be a springboard to becoming a published author. At the outset, however, Kelly admits he had mixed emotions.
"I was terrified," he recalls. "I was older and I hadn't been to school in 30 years except to earn my teaching license. It was nerve-wracking, too, because my family wouldn't join me here," but remain at their home in Princeton, New Jersey, until Clare finished high school. "I was going to be a geographical bachelor."
Nevertheless, Kelly came to Hollins motivated to finally begin writing that novel. "I decided at my first tutorial that I had a good idea and I was going to push forward with it. For the first half of my first year, I wrote fervently and completed seven chapters. In the second half, I started revising."
Kelly states that the amount of writing he completed in his first year at Hollins "was great. The instruction I got from my professors in terms of taking my writing to the next level was wonderful." And while he missed his family, "having my space to write was fantastic. It really did make a big difference with my writing and what I was able to accomplish."
One of the attributes of the creative writing program that Kelly praises is its emphasis on the rewriting process. "During my revisions, I was encouraged to deepen my characters' inner life, and I started assimilating that naturally into my writing. I also learned my strengths and my blind spots as a writer. I was definitely enriched by the instruction I received. I thought I would improve around the edges, but I got the opportunity to not only write a lot, but also to write better."
Kelly believes the M.F.A. in creative writing at Hollins offers a unique and beneficial approach in other ways. "They have a sense of what the student needs, and one of those things is the fire to write. If you're just getting slammed, it's discouraging. They want you to keep doing what you're doing well. The philosophy during rewrites is not that what you've done is a disaster, but how can you build upon what you've already done. I had some things worth polishing."
He adds that he was inspired to pursue writing in different genres. "I wanted to be a novelist, but I was encouraged to write poetry and creative nonfiction, and I have eight good short stories that I'm proud of. Some programs have a tendency to put you into a certain genre."
Kelly sees further upsides when comparing Hollins to other creative writing schools. "There's much more competition in those programs between the writers themselves and in getting attention from faculty. At Hollins, it's not like that. I was never made to think, 'Oh, I've got to write better than this person.'"
Kelly Stephenson M.F.A. '20 and his daughter Clare, Hollins' class of 2023: "Not everyone gets to see their son's or daughter's educational experience up close, and I think Clare made a great choice in Hollins."
The sense of destiny that Kelly and his wife feel led him to Hollins may have also played a role in determining Clare's college destination. "I had a class in high school that focused on helping you find what you want out of college and where the best fit might be," she explains. "I was very interested in single-sex colleges, and Hollins kept coming up for me."
At the same time he was on the Hollins campus with Clare for a visit, Kelly learned that he had been accepted into the M.F.A. program in creative writing. On top of that welcome news, Clare was forming a very good impression of the university. "I liked the feel of community during my tour. The vibe was very comforting to me. It felt good in terms of how women grow into the type of person I wanted to be. As a liberal arts school it really was set up to help me to explore what I really wanted to do in life."
Clare, who is also an aspiring author (she hopes to double major in creative writing and the performing arts), was accepted at Hollins during Kelly's first fall at Hollins. She became a residential first-year student during her dad's second year in the creative writing program, when he also taught an undergraduate class, Fundamentals of Writing Poetry and Fiction.
In order to give Clare space to grow and engage in her education on her own, Kelly says he purposefully kept their interaction on campus to a minimum. "We didn't see each other that much except on weekends, and that was more as a father and daughter rather than fellow students." There was the occasional overlap: Kelly shared a faculty office with Visiting Lecturer in English Sydney Tammarine, who taught Clare in a creative writing class ("I made it a point not to talk about Clare with Sydney at all."), and this spring, they actually shared the same instructor ("Clare had Karen Bender [Hollins' Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing] for a class and I had her for a tutorial."). Still, Kelly says Clare's first-year experience "was so great. She's really found a great group of friends who are very nurturing and helped her acclimate into a study routine."
Clare adds, "It helped that I was close enough to my parents' apartment in Roanoke where I could come over whenever I wanted."
When Hollins transitioned to remote instruction in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kelly and Clare found that their individual academic experiences became a bit more intertwined when they both had to complete their studies for the semester from that apartment.
"I think for Clare it was a weird experience sitting at a kitchen table and me coming in to get a snack," Kelly says. "Plus, my wife was working in the next room, so we had several people at any given time in the pockets of our apartment."
Moving forward, Kelly is seeking to finish his novel as well as a memoir about his time as a stay-at-home dad. "I'm taking another year to get a big chunk of writing done with a goal of getting publication. As one of the oldest graduates of the M.F.A. program, I realize I have a narrower window to see my dreams come true."
Clare is excited to return to campus this fall, and hopes to expand her Hollins experience beyond the classroom. "I'm looking into internship opportunities and considering study abroad."
"I'm so happy she is here in this kind of environment," Kelly says. "Not everyone gets to see their son's or daughter's educational experience up close, and I think Clare made a great choice in Hollins."


Chart used with permission of Laura Silva Quesada, daughter of Jose Silva (founder of the Silva Method, in the 60s).
I owned and practiced using the Silva Mind Control records, in the 70s. Yes, real 78, LP (long playing), records. Within the last year I purchased the Silva Life System and have found it beneficial in enhancing my ability to access Alpha and Theta states. The CDs guide you through meditations and exercises to enhance learning skills, pain and stress management, sleep quality and more. The Silva Centering Exercise is generously offered for free. It is one of the best tracks I have ever experienced, never failing to induce a deep state of relaxation, even at times when the rapid brain wave cycling of the Beta state seems to have taken me over. I move from entrenched to entranced.
While all four of the above states coexist simultaneously, one state is usually dominant. For me, and I hope for you too, awareness and knowledge of these four brain states increases my motivation to practice meditation, visualization and self-hypnosis consistently.
My Mindfulness/Vipassana teacher, Shinzen Young, used to tell us that meditation is like practicing driving in the parking lot before going out on the freeway. In my therapy practice I use hypnosis as well as mindfulness meditation. Practice results in expanded consciousness so that you can feel the affects of slower brain waves, recreate the feelings with ease, and gain mastery of your conscious and subconscious thoughts and feelings.
The skills you acquire will enhance your relationships to yourself, your loved ones, your work and the world. You will stress less, gain clarity in the decision making process and make better choices. You will learn faster and be a better observer of your own and other people's behavior. You will increase feelings of happiness in all areas of your life.


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With such well defined motor characteristics, I would just buy an off-the-shelf inverter.
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Questa pagina raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti l'Unione Sportiva Ravenna nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 2000-2001.

Stagione
La stagione 2000-2001 per il Ravenna è amarissima, sul campo con 25 punti si piazza in diciannovesima posizione nel campionato di Serie B ed è retrocessa in Serie C1 con Treviso Monza e Pescara. Si sono alternati quattro allenatori sulla panchina giallorossa, ma ai problemi tecnici si sono sommati quelli economici, così dopo l'amara  retrocessione la società ravennate non ha potuto iscriversi entro il 30 giugno 2001, nemmeno al campionato di Serie C1, per cui fallisce lUnione Sportiva Ravenna. Dal culmine negativo è però nato il Ravenna Calcio che inizierà la sua avventura dal girone B del campionato di Eccellenza Emilia Romagna per la stagione 2001-2002.

Rosa

Risultati

Campionato

Girone di andata

Girone di ritorno

Coppa Italia

Note

Bibliografia

2000-2001