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Published Work in the CASBS-Public Books Partnership
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CASBS and Mindset Scholars: Pushing the Frontiers of Mindset Science
"The Mindset Scholars Network is one of the core grantees of the Raikes Foundation. The scholarship it provides the field is an essential element in building more equitable learning environments for students who have been least well served by the system. We are grateful to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford for working with us to establish the Mindset Scholars Network."
Jeff Raikes
Co-founder, Raikes Foundation
Chair, Stanford University Board of Trustees
"It is for good reason that in 2016 and 2017 the Center was named a high-impact organization 'making a difference through thought leadership, collaboration, and research' in the area of social-emotional learning. CASBS has been instrumental in the development and elaboration of the Mindset Scholars Network and mindset science in general. It has done so by serving as the convergence point for catalyzing and helping institutionalize a more interdisciplinary, rigorous, and expansive approach to the mindset enterprise."
Margaret Levi
Sara Miller McCune Director
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University
Pioneered principally by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck and collaborating scholars, research on "mindsets" – the beliefs that shape how people interpret challenge and setbacks – gained influence over decades within the fields of social, developmental, and educational psychology. The field has provided insights in achievement contexts, particularly in education, on why some people are more likely than others to seek out challenges and excel in the face of difficulty.
Dweck's pathbreaking work established implicit theories of intelligence. When people hold "growth," as opposed to "fixed," mindsets, they believe that natural abilities and innate talents do not necessarily translate to predetermined success; rather, they are starting points for further development and learning through effort, help-seeking, and trying-out new strategies. A fixed mindset leads people to fear failure because they perceive it is an indictment of their basic abilities; in contrast, a growth mindset leads individuals to believe learning comes from struggling with new challenges, thus enabling improved performance over time.
Since Dweck's work on implicit theories of intelligence, psychologists have identified other mindsets that shape motivation and outcomes in achievement contexts, including beliefs about whether one belongs in a certain environment and whether one's work is relevant to one's life and tied to a larger purpose. Similar to implicit theories of intelligence, these mindsets shape people's interpretation of their experiences, and in turn, their responses.
Collectively, more than three decades of research have shown that these mindsets play an important role in multiple aspects of a person's life, operate on a continuum and, many studies show, can be shaped by specific interventions.
The mindset research program was built on a firm foundation, with a progression of small- and mid-scale intervention studies. But there remains ample opportunity and desire to replicate findings, collect more data and better understand them, refine theories, and design and implement better methods and interventions – both to enhance our cumulative knowledge as well as exert greater positive impact on real-world outcomes. Further elaboration of mindset research, however, requires that it seeks to exert impact on a progressively larger scale (samples and contexts) and become more interdisciplinary in scope to understand for whom, and under what conditions, mindset approaches are most effective.
Convergence at CASBS
In recent years, mindset science has proliferated at a number of universities, research institutes, and nonprofit organizations. But two significant strands of activity brought the advancement of mindset research to a pivotal juncture – at CASBS.
First, in 2011 several mindset-oriented faculty and graduate students at Stanford worked with Maya Shankar, an Oxford-educated cognitive scientist visiting Stanford as a post-doctoral fellow. Two years later, when she organized a White House meeting with a group that later became formalized as the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, Shankar asked her former Stanford colleagues – Dweck, Greg Walton, David Paunesku, and David Yeager – to prepare a white paper reviewing the field and putting forth an agenda for future scalable mindset interventions, practices, and assessments. The meeting and paper generated a lot of enthusiasm, including from the Raikes Foundation, which ultimately expressed support of a prospective grant aimed at launching a research network to advance the proposed agenda. By fall 2013 the Stanford group was writing a pilot grant proposal.
David Yeager, Mindset Scholars Network Co-chair
In parallel, Ellen Konar – a longtime Dweck associate, former Stanford research and teaching affiliate, and entrepreneurial advisor with an impressive track record of cultivating integrative behavioral science research – informally was consulting then-CASBS director Steven Kosslyn (and subsequently his successor as director, Iris Litt) on expanding the traditional CASBS model beyond its renowned single-year in-residence fellows program to include what Kosslyn conceived as "research impact networks."
In an opportunistic moment, the two strands intertwined. A core Stanford group of Dweck, Walton, and Yeager, in concert with other collaborators including University of Virginia's Chris Hulleman, linked with Konar. They enlisted her assistance in writing the pilot grant proposal, funded in early 2014, which helped pave the way for a full network grant and nationwide study that would operationalize key elements of the White House research agenda (the National Study of Learning Mindsets). In July 2013, Konar became the first executive director of what then was called the "Mindset Collaborative." She also formally was designated a CASBS visiting scholar during the 2013-14 academic year, and a consulting scholar in 2014-15, by which time Margaret Levi had become CASBS director. Levi enthusiastically advocated an expanded CASBS model and sought to propel it forward. Dweck, Walton, and another collaborator, University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth, were brought on as CASBS consulting scholars in 2014-15 as well.
"We started having meetings at CASBS while launching the pilot study [for the National Study of Learning Mindsets], even before we had a network grant," says Yeager. "We had meetings and workshops to plan the national study at CASBS. We had meetings at CASBS to plan what the network would be. It was a welcoming space that nurtured our initiative as it was budding."
The core planning team, increasingly led by Yeager along with Konar, affiliated with CASBS for about a year-and-a-half before a network formalized. During that time, The Raikes Foundation put them in touch with an independent consultant, Lisa Quay, who helped co-write the network grant proposal. The proposal secured $2 million in initial funding from Raikes for three years of support. This led, in spring 2015, to the official launch of the Mindset Scholars Network – housed at CASBS – and its cornerstone National Study of Learning Mindsets. Quay, succeeding Konar, became managing director of the Network and, later, executive director. The Network since has attracted support from other funders as well.
"So the Mindset Scholars Network comes from a public, high-energy, field-launching meeting that Maya [Shankar] brought us into at the White House, and where funders got on-board for the core empirical project that would become the National Study," says Yeager. "And Ellen Konar deserves all the credit for the CASBS connection."
The Network in Action
In terms of spearheading a conceptual direction and research agenda, Dweck herself was the inaugural chair of the emerging Network, about a year later succeeded by two co-chairs. David Yeager was one. Barbara Schneider, the John A. Hanna Chair and Distinguished Professor of sociology and education at Michigan State University, was an inspired choice as the other co-chair (also conferring research affiliate status at CASBS). A respected senior scholar in the sociology of education, Schneider was well-versed in the mindset literature, had run two research networks in the past, and brought geographic and disciplinary diversity to the budding enterprise. Previously she had invited Yeager to Michigan State to discuss his work (co-authored with Greg Walton) on "light touch" interventions that grabbed her attention. In fall 2014 the CASBS-based mindset contingent, with funding in the pipeline, invited Schneider to one of the National Study planning meetings. Soon thereafter she was asked to co-chair the network.
"I was really curious about and interested in the [National] Study as it was taking shape," says Schneider. "I came for that, then stayed on for the Network. I had experience with this sort of undertaking."
"And I could play in the sandbox without being too annoying," she modestly quips.
Having germinated in meetings and workshops at CASBS beginning in 2013, then formally launched in 2015, the Mindset Scholars Network now is comprised of 28 researchers representing 15 universities, all dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of the conditions for developing the mindsets essential for effective learning, and then using those findings to improve real-world outcomes. The Network articulates a new interdisciplinary research agenda grounded in the needs of practice, builds capacity for quality scholarship, and disseminates the latest scientific knowledge on mindsets through outreach to educators, policy makers, funders, journalists, and other key stakeholders.
Barbara Schneider, Mindset Scholars Network Co-chair
Upon formation, the Network involved a few key initiatives. Primary among them is the flagship National Study of Learning Mindsets – a double-blind, randomized experiment in a nationally representative sample of 83 high schools and more than 18,000 ninth-grade students. Its aim is to develop theory about the contexts in which interventions are most effective at increasing academic performance. The Network also provided seed support to launch a multi-site field trial of a belonging intervention for incoming college students developed by Greg Walton and colleagues, which since has evolved into a partner organization, the College Transition Collaborative.
"With both the National Study and the belonging trial, we finally can test under what conditions and in what types of schools does an improvement in mindsets translate into an improvement in achievement," says Yeager.
Addressing the scalability issue more broadly, Dweck wrote in early 2017 that the national study "is a prime example of a rigorous scientific process that tries to understand when to expect and when not to expect mindset intervention effects. We then will go on to study how one might foster these effects more widely."
Moving Mindset Forward at CASBS
"It was time to move beyond narrow disciplinary work," Yeager noted in 2016. "CASBS provided a home for us to plan and execute ambitious, field-transforming studies and convene leading scholars for crucial theoretical discussions."
As CASBS director Margaret Levi's opening quote asserts, the Center helped make the mindset research program more rigorous, interdisciplinary, and expansive. It did so in several key ways.
Mindset Fellows at CASBS
The Network, courtesy of Raikes funding, placed scholars at CASBS as fellows. The inaugural mindset fellows, during the 2014-15 academic year, were Yeager and social and educational psychologist Chris Hulleman, an early participant in network planning meetings. Mary Murphy, a Stanford PhD and social psychologist at Indiana University, was a mindset fellow at CASBS in 2015-16; and Barry Zuckerman, a pediatrician at the Boston University School of Medicine, was a mindset fellow at CASBS in 2016-17.
The four fellows, both through individual experience and involvement through the Network, have contributed in myriad ways to the vibrant intellectual life of CASBS. In turn, the Center has served as a hub of interaction that has allowed the mindset fellows to test ideas and bring new thinking and findings back to their home departments, schools, personal networks, and the Mindset Scholars Network. Some of the benefits have been immediate while others will manifest and reverberate over years.
Chris Hulleman's experience is pretty indicative. As a direct result of his CASBS year, he and his research team have been awarded five grants and contracts worth nearly $3 million. One is a $1.5m National Science Foundation grant for a learning mindset intervention in Florida. Not only did CASBS afford him time for writing the grant proposal; in addition, he incorporated lessons learned from implementation of the National Study of Learning Mindsets into this (and other) work. A second stems from a session Hulleman and other Network members attended at Stanford's design school with representatives from the U.S. Soccer Federation. As a result of that meeting, he later earned a five-year contract with the Federation to identify mindsets that are most predictive of player performance.
On top of that, Hulleman is lead author or co-author on eight peer-reviewed publications conceived, worked-on, or submitted during his CASBS year, with several more in the peer-review or writing pipeline as of summer 2017. He calls one publication on motivation, finalized at CASBS, "a huge win for our work within the Network because it shows that learning mindset interventions designed to change student perceptions can have effects on learning outcomes."
"CASBS changed the trajectory of my entire career," Hulleman says. "Being there presented me with so many opportunities. I owe a lot of where I am now to that experience."
Data Camp
The Center helped formalize the National Study of Learning Mindsets by hosting a week-long "mindset data camp" in 2015. It combined mindset scholars, guest scholars, post-docs, and graduates students, immersed in pilot data and facilitating advanced statistical work in a collaborative format. By all accounts, the camp helped develop a much stronger methodological design for the National Study.
"It was the first time we had done anything like this," says Hulleman, "but David [Yeager] and I thought it would be a great way to leverage social dynamics to kick-start the National Study."
"It was really good; it was great, in fact," says Barbara Schneider. "Without that data camp at CASBS, there's no way in the world the National Study would have been as rich. It helped put the Network's purpose in a larger framing. It facilitated interdisciplinary collaboration and analytic statistical training with the types of data the National Study was going to generate."
Mindset Data Camp participants in 2015. Fourth from left is Chris Hulleman; fifth from left is David Yeager; sixth from left is Barbara Schneider
In addition to methods, some Network scholars were introduced to the "design thinking process," both through the data camp and attending several design school workshops on the Stanford campus.
"That exposure derives purely from the one-of-a-kind opportunity of being at CASBS," says Hulleman. "Those activities helped shift, if not reformulate, the intervention design process to be more context-sensitive. They've helped shape my and others' study interventions ever since. This is a frontier that I really think is going to change how social psychologists do real-world research."
A design sensibility shifts (in this case, psychologists') thinking to how broader systems and processes are structured. This coincides with an expansion of mindset conceptualization as a function of not only personal beliefs in people's heads, but also situational forces as well as environmental cues and (for example, classroom or organizational) cultures, thereby influencing the way students and workers think, feel, interact, and behave.
From here, it's not difficult to see how mindset science can branch and manifest in other areas of life.
Concerns about environmental cues and organizational cultures fuel research placing mindset fellow Mary Murphy on the leading edge of the frontier Hulleman invoked and Dweck first pioneered. Much of this centers on the notion of belonging and applies to the missions of both the Network and the College Transition Collaborative. The work also directly engages literature on identity threat and "stereotype threat," a major line of research underlying mindset science, notably launched by Claude Steele during his CASBS fellowship in 1994-95.
Though to date most mindset experiments have been best suited for and scalable within the education domain, some of Murphy's work examines how fixed and growth organizational cultures shape workers' motivation, behavior, organizational trust, and commitment. At CASBS, she completed one phase of a study of more than 160 Silicon Valley startup founders and how their mindsets shape the norms, practices, and policies they put in place.
"We're going to follow these companies over time to see how founder mindsets influence fundraising, product creation, service, and other outcomes," says Murphy. "Now I'm working on creating a curriculum and interactive modules to teach these startup founders how to create growth mindset companies, and ultimately will implement and evaluate curriculum effects with several partners in the Bay Area."
"Mary represents a shift beyond initial ideas of large-scale interventions with students to creating growth mindset cultures and practices outside classrooms with workers and company executives – a tough proposition," says Yeager. "How do CEOs and managers institute a growth mindset climate for workers to inhabit? Mary's fellowship year was dedicated to this expansion, from interventions to [organizational] practices."
Yeager thinks business and health are "probably two big areas where there's a lot of potential growth." Murphy's work at CASBS represents the former. She, Dweck, and Yeager see promise for implementing mindset science in employee development and human capital programs. Microsoft already has instituted growth mindset as one of its core values, for example.
In terms of the latter, Yeager, Hulleman, and other Network psychologists are applying mindset ideas to many aspects of health, including stress and healthy eating among adolescents.
Pediatrician Barry Zuckerman, the 2016-17 CASBS mindset fellow, represents another frontier pushed at CASBS – the deployment of mindset insights by non-social scientists who care about the behavioral aspects of healthcare and medicine.
"The same dynamics work in medicine; mindset science is a good fit for the problems I'm facing every day as a physician," says Zuckerman.
During his CASBS year, Zuckerman and collaborators published pieces in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the malleability of the health mindsets of parents and children, as well as on instilling a growth mindset in patients about treatment efficacy. Research papers on the association of a growth mindset for children with diabetes and better health outcomes are in the publication pipeline. He's also exploring how low-income mothers' beliefs about intelligence impacts their children's brain development, as well as how low-income environments reinforce a fixed mindset that one cannot make a difference in the improvement of one's own health.
"What appeals to me is mindset science is relatively new to medicine, and we should start exploring it now," says Zuckerman. "It really is worth our intellectual investment because of the payoffs. The potential applications are enormous.
"My hope is that in five-to-ten years you'll see a movement in healthcare that harnesses research and understanding of growth mindsets that's similar to the movement that's been ongoing in education for some time."
Proven Concept, Untethered
Under the directorship of Margaret Levi, now in its fourth year, CASBS is fulfilling its ambition to serve as the convergence point for multi-year interdisciplinary, collaborative groups and networks focused on major, tractable social issues and challenges. The Mindset Scholars Network has been a big part of that success, providing a critical proof of concept.
The Mindset Scholar Network's executive director, Lisa Quay, underscores CASBS's role in propelling the Network forward.
"The Center's legacy as one of the premier homes for interdisciplinary scholarship was invaluable, especially in recruiting top-notch scholars to be a part of what was a brand new initiative with little precedent," she says. "It provided us a strong foundation from which to build our reputation and influence."
Barbara Schneider agrees and elaborates.
"CASBS has been great for the Network," she says. "It has a reputation for convening interdisciplinary people and giving them the freedom to experiment and establish research programs together – programs from which other studies can sprout. It's a generative model – and this really is a Margaret Levi idea, by the way – that makes a kind of opportunity structure possible.
"In the case of the Mindset Scholars Network, the Center didn't just facilitate the development of concepts and collaborative relationships. It embraced the central tenets of mindset science, helped the Network fully and systematically form, then put the Network in a position to seed other research studies," says Schneider. This helped extend the Network outward in both its theoretical and applied work, and in a transformative way."
Indeed, from the beginning, David Yeager envisioned a network with national data that "presumably would spawn or spin-off a bunch of other studies and projects."
Now a thriving organization, the Network is positioned perfectly to untether, leverage the momentum generated in part at CASBS, and develop further still. This accords fully with Levi's vision of networks, projects, and working groups that mature and convert "opportunity structure" into ongoing, durable concerns after a three-to-five year CASBS affiliation.
"I'm just thrilled that CASBS was in a position to make even a small contribution to the Network's growing success and help nurture it for the next leg of its journey," says Levi. "It exemplifies exactly what we're trying to engineer and enable here: research with practical deliverables and impact."
"More broadly, we at CASBS are deeply committed to exploring the determinants of and correctives for social inequalities and inequities – including those involving achievement gaps – to improve human well-being," says Levi. "Mindset science provides one promising avenue for forging connections and developing innovative approaches with real-world application and outcomes. The Mindset Scholars Network and Raikes Foundation have been outstanding partners in nourishing the best and most exciting research about the future of learning and working."
So what might the future hold for the Mindset Scholars Network and CASBS?
"There's all kinds of innovation and insights in the National Study data sets, just waiting to be unpacked," says Yeager. "Another data retreat at the Center would be great."
In the bigger picture, Yeager has his sights on the wider science of behavior change, and on the National Study of Learning Mindsets data as an aggregate case study that can help inform behavioral policies.
"The Mindset Scholars Network increasingly should be a part of broader conversations around behavioral science and policy. CASBS, of course, already is a major player in that arena. So from that angle, I'd love for the two organizations to stay involved with each other over the long term."
CASBS thanks Lisa Quay for her insights and generous assistance.
View a video summary of the Mindset Scholars Network here.
View an overview of the Network's National Study of Learning Mindsets here.
View a video of Mary Murphy discussing mindsets in context here.
Watch David Yeager and Angela Duckworth present at a CASBS symposium on "The Psychology of Effort" here.
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House Calls, Handicraft, and the Human Community
Will Lyon
Wauwatosa, WI. It is a shame that, in medical training and the medical profession, house calls are so rare. They are still performed in some settings but usually only for our most disabled and homebound patients. For example, in a home hospice arrangement, nurses and other members of the healthcare team visit the patient's home routinely (but it is rare that a physician does so). I suppose there are some rural settings or some private pay arrangements in which doctors visit their patients' homes more regularly, but these are exceptional. The reason I lament the loss of home visits is because in the doctor's journey to see the patient as a person (which is essential to the therapeutic relationship) the home is a rich environmental shortcut to the core of the person. Specifically, for those most frail and most disabled patients who qualify for home visits, getting a glimpse at their physical surroundings, especially the things that they themselves have wrought, has the potential to reveal their human dignity in a new light.
As a doctor completing training in geriatric medicine, a small portion of my training involves home visits. This service is for patients that are determined by their previous doctor to be "homebound"—i.e. it is so burdensome for them to make it to appointments that instead the doctor should come to them. I had done several home visits in medical school, accompanying hospice nurses as they made their scheduled and urgent visits. But after that, during my three years of residency training in internal medicine, I had nearly forgotten that patients had homes.
Earlier this year, I was visiting the home of an elderly veteran who was disabled from a stroke and a multitude of medical comorbidities. We were seeing him because he had recently returned home from the hospital, where he had been admitted for a urinary tract infection. On a beautiful early fall morning, we entered his house. The lighting was surprisingly low for how sunny it was outside. Once my eyes adjusted, the first thing I noticed were the soldiers. In display cases throughout the living room (where his hospital bed was set up) were figurines of soldiers of all eras, regiments, and postures.
Even before I knew that the patient had painted them (and the detail of the painting was really the most impressive part), the figurines called to mind the tradition and dignity of being a soldier. They represented a community of honor to which this man belonged. If I had met him in the hospital or a clinic, I would have seen him in a bland room, and my main impression of him would be formed by the things that he can't do—stand, walk, cook his own food, dress himself. Seeing him surrounded by these tiny soldiers reminded me that he was formed by the virtues of obedience, discipline, and selflessness.
When the patient formally directed our attention to the soldiers (they had been distracting me for most of the time anyway), the patient's wife proudly proclaimed that her husband had painted them all. We learned that, although he physically can't do much else, he still does some figure painting. This window into his passions and skills shed a new light on the patient's humanity and dignity. Not only was he a member of the community of soldiers represented by the figures around him, but the intricate detail, historical accuracy, and lifelike features of their costumes were crafted by him. Patient, person, husband, father, soldier, artist. The richness of this information about his overlapping webs of community was almost overwhelming compared to the typical superficial social history—"where do you live? How much do you smoke?"—that is obtained in the hospital or clinic.
This is not to say that patients who do not practice a craft or make tangible things have less worth or less dignity. Even for patients we visit in home settings with no family around and in a place that is not theirs (for example, in an assisted living facility), seeing their home environment still provides a depth of information not available elsewhere, and one cannot help but see them in the context of the human community to which they belong. Nonetheless, handicraft and the objects created by a person who is now disabled and ill remind us of who they are in their multiplicity and complexity. They remind us that the person before us is not a shadow of who they used to be, but that same person at a new point in their journey with illness and suffering. And in the case of durable goods, these reminders will often outlast the lifetime of that person.
As Matthew Crawford observes in Shop Class as Soulcraft, "shared memories attach to the material souvenirs of our lives, and producing them is a kind of communion, with others and with the future." This communion with others that is facilitated by the work of our hands can be a durable reminder of human genius and craftmanship, even amidst the waves of disease and disability. If doctors found more ways to encounter patients in their physical and environmental milieu, we would grow in our ability to recognize our patients as members of our human communities.
Image Credit: Camille Pissarro, "Châtaigniers à Louveciennes" (1879).
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Christian December 27, 2022 At 12:30 pm
Great stuff. I have no background in medicine, but I have been intrigued by community health worker models of care used in various parts of the world for precisely the reason identified in this piece – that there is value in connecting with patients in their communities and homes (and also because community health worker models seem to place greater emphasis on prevention of illness rather than just treatment).
Look forward to more pieces from this author.
Ben December 27, 2022 At 11:55 pm
As a physician and an old man I too lament the loss of the house call. And so much else has changed as well in the art and science of medical practice. The notion that seeing the patient as a person is essential to the therapeutic relationship is, for the most part, passe in the urban setting. Maybe it's better from a relationship and humanistic standpoint to be a doctor and to be a patient in a rural situation. You'll have to travel to get your MRI but you'll have a physician that knows you.
Dixie December 30, 2022 At 7:41 am
When you're going through a health challenge, it helps so much to feel known by your physician. I know there are financial and paperwork and other major obstacles to house calls in many situations, but this article gets to the crux of the matter — humanizing those in need. I'm very glad to hear this perspective on how this applies in medicine.
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The post of National Poet of Wales () was established in May 2005 by Academi – the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Writers. The current holder of the position is Hanan Issa, who was appointed for a period of three years in July 2022.

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The National Poet of Wales acts as a cultural ambassador for the nation, creating works which promote the image of Wales; works are read at ceremonial and official occasions. The post alternates between poets who write in English, and poets who write mainly in Welsh, and is supported by the Arts Council of Wales' Lottery fund.

Iestyn Davies, Head of Communications at the Arts Council of Wales, said: "As a country renowned for its literary heritage it is fitting that Wales should have its own national poet, creating new works that celebrate our successes, comment on our failures and raise the profile of Wales through literature."

To date the role has been held by five writers. Initially the role was funded for a single-year tenure, with Gwyneth Lewis becoming the first National Poet in 2005. Gwyn Thomas would succeed Lewis in 2006, remaining as National Poet until 2008. Later the length of tenure expanded, with Gillian Clarke holding the role for 8 years between 2008 and 2016, and Ifor ap Glyn holding the role for 6 years between 2016 and 2022. The current holder is Hanan Issa, who was appointed for a period of three years in July 2022. In a change to the way the National Poet is appointed, the 2022 appointment process began with a public call for nominations before shortlisted poets were interviewed by a selection panel.

List of office holders

See also

Poet Laureate

References

External links
National Poet of Wales page on the Academi website
National Poet of Wales: Events 2008-09

Welsh literature
Welsh poetry
2005 establishments in Wales

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Lang Lang, one of the world's leading classical pianists, says that schools need to recognise the broader impact of music education In a large, white classroom in Harlem, New York, 30 10-year-olds sit in front of electric pianos playing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star together. They have thes elessonstwice each week, always using their own piano and always under the instruction of a dedicated piano teacher.
Those who work at the school will tell you that these sessions are changing the children. The catchment area is an area of deprivation where 75 per cent of students are eligible for free school meals and more than 50 per cent do not hit state test standards. Since introducing the piano curriculum, some students who did not come to school now attend every day; children have begun engaging with learning like they never had before; and there has been a transformation in the attitude, motivation and application that all students demonstrate in class. "It makes us feel much more proud of ourselves," explains fifth-grader Lindell Raison. "[The piano lessons] give us inspiration, hard work and dedication."


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Daseburg  ist ein Stadtteil von Warburg im Süden des Kreises Höxter in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Deutschland).

Geografie
Daseburg liegt im Südteil der Warburger Börde etwa 6 km ost-nordöstlich der Warburger Kernstadt am Nordostfuß des Desenbergs () auf rund  Höhe; auf dem Berg steht die Ruine der Burg Desenberg. Unweit östlich wird das Dorf von einem Abschnitt der in Nord-Süd-Richtung verlaufenden Eggel passiert, die ein nördlicher Diemel-Zufluss ist.

Geschichte
Daseburg, dessen Besiedlungsgeschichte rund 7000 Jahre zurückreicht, gehörte seit der Gründung zur weltlichen Herrschaft des deutschen  Bistums Paderborn, ursprünglich im Herzogtum Sachsen. Ab dem 14. Jahrhundert bildete sich das Territorium Fürstbistum Paderborn (Hochstift) im  Heiligen Römischen Reich, darin ab dem 16. Jahrhundert zum  niederrheinisch-westfälischen Reichskreis. 1802/03 wurde das Hochstift vom Königreich Preußen besetzt. In napoleonischer Zeit war der Ort Teil des  Königreiches Westphalen. Seit 1815 gehörte Daseburg endgültig zum Königreich Preußen, ab 1871 war es Teil des  Deutschen Reiches. Von 1945 bis 1949 war Daseburg ein Teil der  britischen Besatzungszone, ab 1946 staatlich regiert vom Land Nordrhein-Westfalen bzw. ab 1949 auch durch die Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Frühgeschichte und Mittelalter
Älteste Siedlungsspuren reichen bis etwa 4600 v. Chr. zurück. Neolithische Bauern errichteten um diese Zeit den Daseburger Kreisgraben.

Die urkundliche Ersterwähnung mit der Nennung des Ortsnamens fällt in das 9. Jahrhundert und findet sich in den Corveyer Traditionen.

Im Jahre 822 wurde das Kloster Corvey an die Weser verlegt. In den nächsten Jahren und Jahrzehnten wuchs das Vermögen des Klosters durch Schenkungen und durch Besitz, den begüterte Mönche bei ihrem Eintritt mitbrachten, schnell an.

Über das Grundvermögen Corveys wurden später Aufzeichnungen angelegt, die in knapper Form die Lage des Besitzes und oft auch den Namen des Stifters, die Zeugen der Übertragung und den Anlass der Schenkung nennen. Diese Aufzeichnungen werden heute als "Corveyer Traditionen" bezeichnet.

Die Ersterwähnung von Daseburg lautet nach Auflösung der Abkürzungen: "Tradidit Brunwardus pro filio suo mansum 1 cum familia in Desburg. Testes: Balding, Haoldus." Frei übersetzt: "Brunwardus schenkte um seines Sohnes willen eine Manse in Daseburg mit der Familie. Zeugen: Balding, Haoldus." Die "Manse" ist keine Flächenangabe im eigentlichen Sinne. Die Bezeichnung umschreibt eher die Größe einer Fläche, die für die Produktion der Ernährung einer durchschnittlichen Bauernfamilie notwendig war. Als Durchschnittsgröße können etwa 30 Morgen angenommen werden. Brunwardus "schenkte" dem Kloster nicht nur die landwirtschaftliche Fläche, sondern auch die Menschen, die diese Hofstelle bearbeiteten.

Die Schenkung erfolgte mit Sicherheit in der Zeit zwischen 826 und 876, da diese Notiz in der ältesten Reihe der "Corveyer Traditionen" steht. Das exakte Jahr lässt sich nicht bestimmen, weil zu den genannten Personen keine Lebensdaten überliefert sind und die Geschichte der Überlieferung der Corveyer Aufzeichnungen sehr kompliziert ist.

1070 wurde auf dem Desenberg eine Burg urkundlich erwähnt. 1231 wurde eine Kirche urkundlich erwähnt, Pfarrei und Kirche sind allerdings wesentlich älter. In der Mitte 13. Jh. wurde Lütkendaseburg urkundlich erwähnt, die kleine Siedlung fällt später wüst. Seit 1256 ist die Familie von Spiegel auf dem Desenberg nachweisbar.

Neuzeit
1614 klagten zwei Daseburger Bauern und 1615 das ganze Dorf gegen die Herren von Spiegel wegen unzulässiger Dienstforderungen. 1673 wurde in den Aufzeichnungen des Pfarrers  eine Schule erwähnt. 1680 beschwerten sich alle Einwohner der Herrschaft Desenberg beim Fürstbischof wegen Erhöhung der Dienste und Abgaben durch derer von Spiegel. 1703 forderten die Herren von Spiegel die Wiedereinsetzung in den alten Stand bezüglich der Dienste und Abgaben aus "ihren" Dörfern.

Im Jahr 1729 vernichtete eine Feuersbrunst 88 von 123 Häusern. 1755 stiftete die Familie von Spiegel eine Schützenkette. 1760/61, im Siebenjährigen Krieg sterben 163 Kinder und Erwachsene an Mangelernährung und Hungertyphus. 1818 hatte das Dorf 115 bewohnbare Häuser. 1840 wurde der jüdische Friedhof angelegt, in Daseburg leben 36 Juden. 1841 zählte Daseburg 1075 Einwohner.

Die seit Jahren grassierende Kartoffelkrankheit und eine schlechte Getreideernte verursachte 1847 eine Hungersnot. 1854 wurde ein neues Schulhaus und 1905 die erste Wasserleitung gebaut. 1920 kam elektrisches Licht nach Daseburg. 1928 hatte das Dorf 1305 Einwohner.

Mit 59 landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben und den Gütern war Daseburg 1955 noch stark von der Landwirtschaft geprägt. Durch die kommunale Neuordnung wird am 1. Januar 1975 Daseburg ein Teil der Stadt Warburg.

Persönlichkeiten
 Viktor Meyer-Eckhardt (1889–1952), Schriftsteller, ging in Daseburg zur Schule
 Johannes Dierkes (1900–1970), Landrat (CDU), wurde in Daseburg geboren
 Hans-Joachim Schabedoth (1952–2020), Politikberater, Autor und Politiker
 Josef Sievers (1875–1964), Kommunalpolitiker und Landrat (Zentrum)

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Gorzel, Lorenz (1986): Daseburg. Daseburg und Desenberg im Wandel der Zeiten. In: Mürmann, Franz (Hrsg.): Die Stadt Warburg 1036–1986. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer Stadt. Band 2. Warburg: Hermes, S. 446–450. ISBN 3-922032-07-9.

Weblinks

 Internetseite von Daseburg

Ortsteil von Warburg
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Kreis Höxter)
Gemeindeauflösung 1975
Ersterwähnung im 9. Jahrhundert


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This Is What Happened to Randolph Scott
Bradford Hanson 2015-07-09
Bradford Hanson (Editor) · 9 July, 2015
WHATEVER HAPPENED to Randolph Scott? The Statler Brothers posed this question in their hit song by the same title. Unsurprisingly, America failed to take the question seriously. Fortunately for us, the question remains enshrined in the Statlers's music. (ILLUSTRATION: The Statler Brothers might not have been able to put it in words, but it's no secret who killed Randolph Scott.)
Randolph Scott was the epitome of masculinity and white male identity during his time. He acted or otherwise performed in nearly every genre of movie that was being produced at the time. More than anything else he is remembered as a western movie hero.
Randolph Scott was before my time, but whatever happened to him didn't happen to just the entertainment industry alone. That's where the Statlers missed a beat.
The Statlers released their hit song in 1973. This was right in the middle of a series of watershed moments for Liberalism and counter-culture movements. The music and movie industries would have been the first place that these changes would be seen, but the causes for the symptoms happened years earlier.
The gay liberation movement started picking up steam in the early 60s. This was characterized by a heretofore unseen and radical expression of homosexual identity that was previously taboo. Sodomy and homosexual relations were criminal offenses in 1963, but judging by recent Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriages you can see how seriously those laws were taken between then and now. The feminist movement seemed to be following the gay movement, and the two working in tandem were a severe challenge against then-normal conceptions of male identity. Second Wave Feminism broke in the early 60s and was one of the earliest instances of women demanding a more equal equality. This was the wave of feminism that culminated in Roe v. Wade by which the Supreme Court said that women were permitted to have abortions on demand.
The Greatest Generation lost control of media to the Baby Boomers, but this was only bound to happen. The Baby Boomers are, among other things, the first generation to have a better quality of life than their parents (and their own children). The Vietnam draft didn't start until the late 60s, so the Baby Boomer generation was, up to that point, raised during a time of peace. Neither did the Baby Boomers live during the Great Depression. This was an entire generation that turned decadent while lazing in the shade of their parents's security. It's no wonder that the Boomers were less conservative than their parents, they had no incentive, reason or justification for doing so.
The long-standing Movie Picture Production Code was also discontinued in 1968. The MPPC was informally known as the Hays Code after Will H. Hays who was president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America from 1922-45. The Hays Code was eventually put away with after an intervention by the Supreme Court. The Movie Production Association of America film rating system replaced the Hays Code, and this is where the G, PG, R and X ratings were introduced. The Statlers specifically mentioned this in their song, remarking that "you gotta take your analyst along to see if it's fit to see.."
The number two movie in 1968 was Barbarella. IMDB describes Barbarella as a story in which "a highly sexual woman is assigned with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way, she encounters various unusual people." The number three movie in 1968 was Planet of the Apes. IMDB describes its story as one in which "an astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved." The two major selling points of Barbarella and Planet of the Apes were licentious or suggestive nudity and white slavery, both of which were explicitly forbidden under the Hays Code. For all the movie buffs out there, 2001: A Space Odyssey was number one, but I dare say there was some serious artistic expression happening there. I don't believe that these problems could have been avoided had the Supreme Court affirmed the Hays Code, but that's an aside. The point is that a paradigm shift in Hollywood movie-making had occurred.
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 also fundamentally changed the stock from which new immigrants were accepted. Between 1921 and 1965 American immigration policy was designed to maintain ethnic identity. There were quotas for who could immigrate to America. The 1965 act started selecting immigrants based on skills and family relations. America is also one of the few countries that still permits chain migration for non-nuclear family members. You can see how this very quickly gets away from selecting immigrants of any national origin based on skills alone. What this did accomplish was a rapid and drastic drop in the number of white immigrants from Western European countries.
A stark and fundamental change in American identity and culture happened in less than 20 years, and the then-traditional understanding of what was masculine was dumped in favor of something more cosmopolitan and liberal. Conservative and traditional conceptions of masculinity and sexuality were not abandoned, they were burned to the ground. Not even the Duke was immune to this change. John Wayne's acting career was all but wrapped up and finished by the time that the Statlers released Randolph Scott. Wayne's 1956 The Searchers made it clear in no uncertain terms that the hyper-masculine male identity that men of all ages to that point had known was not welcome or accepted in Modern society.
Inside a period of 20 years the entire movie, entertainment and lifestyle industry became fundamentally hostile towards heterosexual white males. The US Supreme Court takes much blame for this, and their recent ruling on same-sex marriage only affirms that SCOTUS will always let down America when it really matters. However, the SCOTUS can't rule on a matter until it is brought to them. If there's anyone who we should be blaming, it's the organized and well-financed Jewish lobby. That's what happened to Randolph Scott. The Statlers didn't know what happened. America didn't know what happened. They all felt it and they all could see it happening, but none could put their finger on it. That sense of creeping calamity and betrayal somehow managed to work itself out through a remaining vestige conservative culture, but by the time it was too late.
Source: Praxis Mag
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The Big Short: Film and Book
Right and Wrong: "Diversity" Destroys Morality
America's "Planetary Renouncement of Our White Race"
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http://www.homohistory.com/2013/07/cary-grant-and-randolph-scott-hollywood.html
What really happened to Randolph Scott
The author said of Baby boomers:"This was an entire generation that turned decadent while lazing in the shade of their parents's security." I say hogwash. The Boomers fought a phony war in Vietnam forced on them by the so-called Greatest Generation. The body-bags were coming home 100 a week from Vietnam. During that time, White Boomers in the South were fighting a race war (civil rights) at their high schools and in the street. The boomers also had the courage to burn their draft cards in the street for all the world to see. Moreover, it was the longhairs who went to the funerals to bury their class-mates, friends, neighbors and kinfolks coming home from Vietnam. The war mongers didn't beat their chest at the graveyard, if they were even… Read more »
Prinz Edelhart
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While this may be true for some Boomers, by and large, that generation are the most spoiled, drug-ridden, exploitative and cucked in all of history. Perhaps even more cucked than muhGreatest, although that's a close race. They are also the first generation who grew up soaked in nothing but Jewish propaganda from birth, and were thus directed to try to completely annihilate everything that came before them – which they did admirably – and are still busy trying to rewrite history in order to create the impression that nothing that they don't like ever even existed in the first place. They did a bang-up job of destroying what their forebears built and are aggressively stealing from whatever kids and grandkids they bothered to have. Many of the Vietnam Boomers are… Read more »
Luther Williams
Wikipedia, who are pretty quick on average in accepting it whenever homosexuals claim some past figure as "one of their own," nevertheless shows there is a lot of doubt about the homosexuals' claims about Scott: This has led to unsubstantiated gossip that the two were a homosexual couple. Scott's adopted son, Christopher, challenged the rumors. Following Scott's death, Christopher wrote a book entitled, Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?, in which he rebuts rumors of his father's alleged homosexuality. The widely circulated photos of Grant and Scott were publicity stills. Both Scott and Grant were posed for the shots that were staged by an art director, to be used for an upcoming film, My Favorite Wife. The photos were stolen from the Scott family house during the last months of his… Read more »
Thomas Plaster
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27 September, 2017 1:32 pm
Luther: I wouldn't be surprised if the jews in control of Hollywood (haven't they always been) at that time made, under threat of contract, Grant and Scott pose for those photos, knowing the public would think "hmmm???? I wonder ….". Jews are always doing shifty/snide things like that and always trying to normalize sex perverts. I'd bet money that is what the jews were up to.
You could be right, but the seven marriages between them seems excessive even for the Hollywood elite. Scott's son would of course do everything possible to convince the public that his father was straight, but I think where there's smoke there's fire. I grew up watching many of both their films, I would like to think that they were straight, I didn't enjoy posting that url.
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Your right about the Jews. They have always been out the stay on top and run this country. 17 % of the Jews own everything in this country and its about the same in other parts of the world. But it is by promise of God , Abrahams seed shall be as the sand of the sea. And in Abraham shall all the world be blessed. So pray for the Jews to be saved is about all we can do.
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4 April, 2020 1:28 pm
Why? What difference would praying for them make?
And, that comes from someone who used to actually believe in that fable of theirs.
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13 July, 2021 3:41 pm
The terrible Boomers were the last White youth generation to stay White and have the courage of their conviction. And they unleashed a flood of White music hitherto unknown in all the pages of history. We didn't succumb to blood poisoning with the colored hordes–we didn't subscribe to their music. The diabolical Federals told us that the Russians were going to drop atomic bombs on our elementary schools. They were training us to be 14 amendment police state citizens–to march the lockstep. So we crawled under the desk. But there was a production mistake. We became of age and chose not to surrender to the criminal establishment. All the While, maintaining our Whiteness. Edelhart: Your scathing misrepresentations of Boomers is puerile and unbecoming. First. So far as Jews are concerned,… Read more »
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Earlier today, the U.S. government charged the Kellogg Company with multiple and serious violations of federal law stemming from its October 22, 2013 lockout of more than 220 workers at the company's Memphis cereal production facility.
In filing a Complaint against Kellogg based on charges filed by Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) Local 252G, the local representing the locked out members, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) – the official charged with prosecuting employers for violating the National Labor Relations Act – determined that the company's conduct in the supplemental contract negotiations in Memphis that led to the lockout was in clear violation of the federal law governing labor and management relations in the U.S.
Commenting on the NLRB ruling, BCTGM International Union President David B. Durkee stated, "The BCTGM commends the Board's General Counsel on its action. For more than five months, the locked out workers in Memphis have been victimized by a $14 billion multinational corporation so consumed by greed that it was willing to break U.S. law in order to get what it wanted from its workers.
"Today's action by the Board's General Counsel is the first step in validating all that the BCTGM and our locked out members have consistently said since the beginning of this tragic lock out – that the company violated the law by demanding to negotiate on subjects that are not legally proper for the Memphis negotiations.
"This decision also exposes the disingenuous and misleading public relations campaign Kellogg has been waging for the past five months in which it called on the Union to return to the bargaining table for negotiations. As today's Complaint alleges, Kellogg had broken the very law that governs the negotiations the company wanted the local union to resume.
"For more than 155 days and at a tremendous personal and financial cost, these courageous workers have remained steadfast in their belief in the rule of law. Today, the National Labor Relations Board's General Counsel struck the first loud blow for justice.
"All these workers have ever wanted, since the day they were locked out is to return to the jobs they have performed skillfully and with deep dedication for many, many years in order that they can provide for their families.
"The BCTGM urges the Kellogg Company to finally drop its disingenuous public relations campaign, accept its responsibility for breaking the law and end this tragic lockout and immediately return these hard-working men and women to their jobs so they can begin rebuilding their lives shattered by a once-honorable company that has lost its moral compass. This horrendous injustice has gone on far too long," concludes Durkee.
The BCTGM represents more than 4,000 Kellogg employees throughout North America. The BCTGM also represents thousands more workers in the cereal industry at such companies as General Mills, Quaker Oats, and Ralcorp.


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York University () ist eine kanadische Universität in Toronto. Von der Ausdehnung ist sie Kanadas größte Universität, von der Studentenzahl drittgrößte. York hat fast 50.000 Studenten und 7.000 Mitarbeiter, verteilt auf zwei Standorte. Der weitaus größere Standort ist der "Keele Campus", der im Nordwesten der Stadt im Stadtteil "North York" liegt. Der kleinere Campus heißt "Glendon Campus". An diesem Campus werden auch Kurse in französischer Sprache angeboten. Gegründet wurde die Universität 1959.

Es ist eine von drei Universitäten in Toronto. Die beiden anderen sind die University of Toronto und die Ryerson University.

Fakultäten
Die Universität besteht aus elf Fakultäten, deren Angebote sich teilweise überschneiden.

 Fakultät für Kunst
 Fakultät Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften
 "Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies"
 Fakultät für Pädagogik
 Fakultät für Umwelttechnik
 Fakultät für Kunstwissenschaft
 Glendon (zweiter Campus mit einer Reihe verschiedener Studiengänge)
 "Faculty of Graduate Studies" (Fakultät für alle Master-Studenten)
 Fakultät für Medizin
 "Osgoode Hall Law School" (Jura)
 "Schulich School of Business" (Wirtschaftswissenschaften)

Weitere Einrichtungen sind die neun Colleges, die Wohnraum für Studenten bieten. Alle Colleges befinden sich direkt auf dem Campus.

Bekannte Dozenten
 Irving Abella, Geschichte
 Louise Arbour, Jurisprudenz
 Frank Davey, Englische Literatur
 Andrea Davis, Humanities, Latin American Caribbean Studies, History, English
 Alice Jill Edwards, internationales Recht
 Stephen Gill, Politikwissenschaft
 John Greyson, Dramaturgie
 Roger Keil, Stadtforscher
 Robert Kozinets, Ökonomie
 Irving Layton, Literatur
 Jack Layton, Politikwissenschaft
 David F. Noble, Historian of Technology
 Michael Ondaatje, Englische Literatur
 Paul Roazen, Social and Political Science

Bekannte Absolventen

 Thea Gill (* 1970), kanadische Schauspielerin
 Mark Irwin (* 1950), kanadischer Regisseur
 Mark Jones, Sportmoderator
 William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950), ehemaliger Premierminister Kanadas
 Bruce LaBruce (* 1964), kanadischer Filmemacher
 Ringo Lam (1955–2018), chinesischer Regisseur
 Jack Layton (1950–2011), Vorsitzender der New Democratic Party
 Rachel McAdams (* 1978), kanadische Schauspielerin
 Sergio Marchionne (1952–2018), Präsident und CEO von Fiat
 Arthur Meighen (1874–1960), ehemaliger Premierminister Kanadas
 George Murray (* 1971), kanadischer Dichter
 Kardinal Offishall (* 1976), kanadischer Musiker
 Victoria Pratt (* 1970), kanadische Schauspielerin, Model und Autorin
 Spencer Rice (* 1963), kanadischer Schauspieler und Regisseur
 Don Ross (* 1960), kanadischer Musiker
 Jacqueline Samuda, Schauspielerin und Autorin
 Alexander Shnaider (* 1969), Chairman der Royal Laser Corp., Mitbegründer der Midland Group und Kanadas jüngster Milliardär
 Trish Stratus (* 1975), ehemalige Wrestlerin
 Raymond Thompson (* 1961), neuseeländischer Autor
 Scott Thompson (* 1959), kanadischer Komiker und Schauspieler
 Laura Vandervoort (* 1984), kanadische Schauspielerin
 Alan Young (1919–2016),  Rechtsanwalt und Bürgerrechtler

Weblinks

 York University

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York U
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Wikipedia:Artikel mit Video
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Gartocharn (;  ) is a village in West Dunbartonshire in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is the only village in the parish of Kilmaronock (not to be confused with the town of Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire).  The parish has a population of c. 680.

It lies on the A811, the main road from Balloch to Stirling.  It is close to the shore of Loch Lomond, and to Ross Priory. It is dominated by a nearby hill, Duncryne, also known as the Kilmaronock Dumpling.

The village has two churches, a primary school, convenience shop and garage. There is a weekly fruit and vegetable market held at France Farm. The former Gartocharn Hotel is now closed  The local bi-monthly magazine is known as the 'Gartorag'.

Historically, the village's economy was based on agriculture, being surrounded by many large farms and estates. In recent years, this has dwindled, however, there is still a large haulage firm, Coopers, and the Lochs and Glens holiday company based in the village.

Sir Walter Scott is reputed to have written Lady of the Lake whilst staying at Ross Priory and Gartochraggan, on the waters edge, north of the village.

In the 1870s and 1880s, the village had a football side, Kilmaronock Thistle F.C., which played in the Scottish Cup.

Notable residents
It was the home of Tom Weir MBE and his wife Rona, who for many years was the primary school headteacher.

Actor David McCallum briefly lived in the village with his mother as a child during World War Two.

The film producer and director brothers Andrew Macdonald and Kevin Macdonald grew up in the vicinity.

Prominent Glasgow financier and environmentalist Sir Raymond Johnstone lived at the Wards Estate.

Alastair Pearson farmed on the edge of the village.

Each year, the village is the home of a Convention of the Two by Twos.

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Raymond Roussel (Parijs, 20 januari 1877 - Palermo, 14 juli 1933) was een Frans schrijver. Hij wordt vooral gezien als een van de voorlopers van het surrealisme.

Leven en werk
Roussel was van rijke, burgerlijke komaf. Hij werd aanvankelijk opgeleid tot pianist, ging naar het conservatorium, maar voelde zich al snel geroepen tot de literatuur. Reeds op zijn zeventiende schreef hij een lang poëem, La Doublure, maar succes bleef uit. Hij geraakte vervolgens in een ernstige depressie, waarvoor hij onder andere in behandeling kwam bij de bekende psychiater Pierre Janet.

Roussel schreef zijn belangrijkste werk tussen 1900 en 1914. In 1910 verscheen Impressions d'Afrique, over een reeks onmogelijke daden tegen de achtergrond van een Afrikaanse stad: een scherpschutter scheidt met een kogel de eierdooier van het eiwit, een ekster beweegt een standbeeld heen en weer, schipbreukelingen moeten een Afrikaanse koning vermaken, enzovoort.

Een andere belangrijke roman van Roussel is Locus Solus, uit 1914, die eigenlijk bestaat uit een opeenvolgende reeks fantastische scènes. Hoofdpersoon is de briljante wetenschapper en uitvinder Martial Canterel, die een stel collega's meeneemt op een reis door zijn verlaten landgoed Locus Solus. De centrale plek van het landgoed is een reusachtige glazen kooi waarin acht ingewikkelde 'tableaux vivants' worden vertoond. Acteurs die spelen dat ze dood zijn blijken ook daadwerkelijk dood te zijn. Canterel heeft lijken veranderd in automaten door ze in te spuiten met een vloeistof. Hij kan ze weer tot leven wekken om de belangrijkste momenten uit hun leven nog eens op te voeren, momenten, zo blijkt, die slechts betekenisvol werden omdat ze uniek en niet herhaalbaar waren.

Het werk van Roussel wordt beschouwd als proto-surrealistisch. Linguïstiek is erg belangrijk voor hem: woorden hebben vaak meerdere betekenissen. Hij wordt beschouwd als een groot woordkunstenaar die voortdurend de extreme expressiemogelijkheden van de taal zocht. Daarbij was hij soms redelijk nihilistisch. "Romans ontstaan in de donkere ruimte tussen een woord en zijn herhaling", zoals hij het zelf stelde: "Fictie is niets anders dan het nabootsen van een zinloze show".

Roussels fortuin maakte het hem mogelijk zijn hele leven aan de literatuur te wijden. Hij financierde al zijn werken zelf en leidde een mondain bestaan. Hij was bevriend met Marcel Proust. Van 1920 tot 1921 maakte hij een soort wereldreis in een speciaal voor hem geconstrueerde woonwagen.

Roussel overleed in 1933, op 56-jarige leeftijd, op een hotelkamer in Palermo, aan een overdosis barbituraten. Hij ligt begraven op Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in een eigen familiegraf, waar hij alleen ligt ofschoon er plaats is voor 32 personen. Erfgenaam Michel Ney verklaarde later dat Roussel geruïneerd gestorven was en niets had na te laten.

Werken (selectie)
1897 Mon âme, gedicht
1897 La Doublure, roman in verzen
1900 La Seine, a novel in verse
1900 Chiquenaude, roman
1904 La vue, Le concert en La source, gedichten
1910 Impressions d'Afrique, roman. Nederlandse vertaling: Indrukken van Afrika (1996)
1914 Locus Solus, roman. Nederlandse vertaling door Marij Elias: 1993
1925 L'étoile au front, toneelstuk
1926 La Poussière de soleil, toneelstuk
1932 Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique, vier contos, met illustraties. Nederlandse vertaling: Nieuwe indrukken van Afrika (1996)
1935 Comment j'ai écrit certains de mes livres
1935 Parmi les noirs, novelle

Literatuur
 A. Bachrach e.a.: Encyclopedie van de wereldliteratuur. Bussum, 1980-1984.
 François Caradec, Raymond Roussel. Fayard, 1997.
 Ford, Mark: Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams. London: Faber, 2000. .
 L. Sciascia: De dood van Raymond Roussel, Amsterdam, 2007,
 Peter Boxall: 1001 boeken die je gelezen moet hebben. Librero, Amsterdam, 2009.
 Michel Foucault: Raymond Roussel. Parijs, Gallimard, 1963 e.v.
 Raymond Roussel, in: Bizarre, 34-35, Numéro spécial, 1964

Externe links
 Website over Roussel

Noot

Frans schrijver
Surrealisme


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Posted on September 14, 2018 September 14, 2018 by B Lostinacoulee
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles
Brenda's review
Lindsay and I read The Air You Breathe with four of our Traveling Sisters and we all really loved this glorious, rich and soulful story of friendship.
We all loved the vivid and colorful feel we got for the setting and lively time. Frances de Pontes Peebles takes us through an intense and emotional, journey of a complex bond between friends and their love and ambition for Samba music. We follow them through their path to fame. We are taken to boozy Brazilian bars to the glamour of Hollywood.
Frances de Pontes Peebles does a great job here creating well developed unlikely and different characters with Dores and Graca. The rich characters climbed into our hearts and we could feel their ambition, treachery, loss, excitement and could the price they paid for their ambition and fame.
We highly recommended this story to lovers of Historical fiction that enjoy a strong bond between friends and their passion for their love of music.
Lindsay's review
This book will have you humming to the beat of samba music!
This is the story of Graca and Dores – two girls from two different parts of society. They have an intense friendship filled with fierce love and ruthless rivalry. They need and depend on each other in different ways, both feeling incomplete without the other.
The story begins on a sugar plantation in Brazil that Graca's family owns. I really enjoyed the atmosphere of this part of the story. Dores is an orphan who has been 'adopted' by the head of the kitchen help. Outspoken, outgoing, spoiled Graca develops an immediate connection and bond with Dores and the two girls forge an unlikely friendship.
The girls' journey takes them through their artistic careers and dreams of becoming samba stars – Graca the singer and Dores the songwriter. Many characters are introduced along the way, all the while, the samba music a sort of character in itself.
While I enjoyed this novel, I did find the story to be somewhat drawn out and riddled with too much detail. There were parts I found dragged and felt somewhat repetitive. However, I did enjoy learning about this time in history and felt the samba music was such a great background theme.
From Christina's review
Peebles wove two incredibly complex and layered characters. Their relationship is full of juxtapositions – pain and heartbreak, beauty and rebirth.
While the story is told solely from Dores' point of view, Peebles did an excellent job of highlighting the multi-dimensional character that is Graca/ Sofia Salvador. At times she seems vain, vapid and one note, at others she seems to have a depth unreachable by Dores, a pain only a true artist can understand and a soul that truly needs to be loved.
There is a heavy focus on music in general – most notably the Samba and it's evident not only in the words written but in the way they were written as well. To me, the sign of an excellently written character-driven novel is that you notice that characters come in every form. Peebles created secondary characters out of music, out of the Samba, the setting, the time period and it's impossible not to get swept up in it.
From Diane's review
The music, incredible lyrics, the descriptions, the emotions, want and need almost viscerally felt by this reader. The descriptions of the places, their costumes, a book where I felt as if I was part of their journey, rather than just witnessing their struggles and successes. The melancholy tone, felt throughout, the way the story is told by a now elderly Dores, recounting past days, the secrets exposed, the things that were done on the way to Gracas stardom, all drew in this reader. Beautifully told, beautifully written. An absolutely amazing book.
Dores is based on the singer/songwriter Chevela Vargas and Graca is a made up character loosely modeled on Carmen Miranda, and her path to fame. To these people music was everything, song lyrics are parsed throughout the novel, and music would be what is left.
From Angela's review
I felt as if this story was like a samba as it too was characterized by dips and upward springs in the lives of two complex characters as they stepped through their lives, their journey from a sugar cane plantation in Brazil to the streets and clubs of Rio, to Hollywood. It's so well written, we are taken there to these places where a complicated friendship grows and flourishes as these two women step together at times and away at others. Dores, an orphan with no real identity other than as a kitchen girl becomes the unlikely friend of Graca, born to a family of means who now own the sugar plantation. As young girls, they discover music when Graca's mother takes them to a concert. This is the beginning for them, leading them to their destinies as artists, each in their own right – Graca, the singer and Dores, the songwriter. For me, one of the most poignant moments of the book was this discovery. As the narrator of this story, Dores tell us : " How miraculous than to hear something and know, without any doubt, that it is beautiful…..How incredible than that, despite the precariousness of my existence, despite the coarseness and violence that always threatened to suffocate me, there was this beauty, this grace, that had found me through music and that no one could take from me. This was the gift that music gave to Graca and me that night, and every night afterward: we had something of our own to truly love, and we had each other to share it with."
From Marialyce's review
Meet Dores, a poor young child, an orphan living on a sugar plantation forced to be the one who cares for herself, with some help from an old cook. Meet Graca, the daughter of the plantation owner. Together these two form a most unlikely friendship, a friendship that will carry them through a lifetime of sorrow, joy, and a wish for things that oftentimes are not to be. These girls are polar opposites and yet they find meaning within their lives, that meaning coming to them through the gift that music often brings. The girls grow, they run away to Rio de Janeiro, where they struggle and yet the music is that ultimate bond which joins them together. It is the way they survive, the way their future seems to move, the way they will share the joys and the many sorrows that life will force onto their paths. Their journey leads them eventually to Hollywood, the world of movies, of the samba, of the success of Graca who sings and dances her way through movie after movie, while Dores the composer of the songs, remains in the background, longing for recognition. Their lives seem to be what they desired, being recognized, being shown that their music their songs are heard and seen and yet it is not ultimately what they thought it would be. Their home, their country beckons, calls to them, and soon they realize that perhaps they can never go home again, never find that recognition they always sought, never to have a place to call their own.
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Reviewerlady says:
Fabulous varied reviews .. I think I may like this one! xX
Thanks Grace! It was an enjoyable change of pace book! Hope you love it if you try it out. 🙂
Great reviews sisters!! This was a unique read that I loved reading with you!
Loved reading this one with y'all! Such a lovely book!!
Loved reading it with you too Christina! 🙂
bibliobeth says:
Beautiful review ladies! I'm a big fan of historical fiction and think I would definitely enjoy this! 😍
Thanks so much! Hope you get a chance to read it! 😊
Michelle Marx says:
I really wanted to love The Air You Breathe, but didn't. It starts in Brazil in the 1930's when both Dores and Graca were children. "Dor" is the orphan servant to Graca, who is the plantation owners daughter. Graca is spoiled, mischievous and will do anything to be a star. They escape the planation to live a musician's life in Rio de Janeiro. They have a complicated unhealthy friendship, more of a frenemy type of a relationship. The book is told in present time and refers back to the past. Their is a heavy focus on Samba music and my favorite parts of the books is when Dor adds her lyrics of the songs into the story telling of the book.
Im not sure I could fall in love with this book, but it does sound nice.
B Lostinacoulee says:
It was a good one but maybe not the right one for you!
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The final of the Women's High Jump event at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenborg, Sweden was held on August 11, 2006. Belgium's Tia Hellebaut won the competition setting a new championship and a national record (2.03 metres). By winning Hellebaut gave Belgium its second gold medal at these championships after Kim Gevaert had already won the women's 100 metres event. Ten minutes after the high jump competition ended, Gevaert ran the final of the women's 200 metres and won a third gold medal for Belgium.

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