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Filming the City
By Amara Thornton, with Yasmeen El Khoudary on Gaza
Harding's films offer us a valuable glimpse into urban spaces in British Mandate Palestine and Transjordan. "Cityscapes" brings together Harding's footage of Amman, Jerash, Jerusalem and Gaza, documenting his encounters with each place in the early 1930s. The information below adds a further layer of detail, drawing on complementary material from the Harding and Horsfield archives at UCL Institute of Archaeology and my own photographs from a research trip to Jordan in 2008. In addition, I'm grateful to Yasmeen El Khoudary for contributing the section on Gaza in this post, and for providing details on the Gaza section in the film, and Felicity Cobbing for providing details on the Jerusalem sequence in the film.
In the Roman era, Amman was known as Philadelphia. Along with Jerash, it was part of a network of ten cities in the Levant - the "Decapolis". The remains of Roman Philadelphia are still visible today, even though Amman has expanded significantly since Harding filmed it. The Roman theatre is in downtown Amman, and above it in the area known as the Citadel lie remains of the Roman acropolis with the ruins of a Roman temple.
When Harding filmed in Amman, it had been the capital of Transjordan for about a decade. It had a population of over 20,000 by the mid 1930s. Across the street from the Roman theatre was Amman's Hotel Philadelphia, the only large hotel in the city for tourists. Nearby were the Government offices, among them the Transjordan Department of Antiquities. The residence of Emir Abdullah was also not far away.
Jerash was a village north of Amman incorporating the ruins of the Decapolis city of Gerasa. When Harding arrived on site with his camera, the Transjordan Department of Antiquities had an outpost there, in an old Ottoman-era house right in the middle of the site, just above and to the right of the Propylea of Artemis. At the time, George Horsfield lived in the house; he was Chief Curator/Inspector of the Transjordan Department of Antiquities, responsible for overseeing work carried out in Jerash. Harding himself subsequently lived in Antiquity House, as it was called – he took up Horsfield's post in 1936. After Harding's death in 1979, his ashes were interred in Jerash.
In filming Jerusalem, a city significant to millions across the world and a place of religious pilgrimage, Harding focuses on the southeastern part of the Old City, and one of the most well known buildings – the Dome of the Rock – and the other buildings on the Haram esh-Sharif/Temple Mount platform. Jerusalem was also significant for archaeologists as seat of the administrative framework for archaeology in Mandate Palestine. The Palestine Department of Antiquities and the Palestine Archaeological Museum (now Rockefeller Archaeological Museum) were both situated just outside the Old City walls near Herod's Gate in East Jerusalem.
Image of the Dome of the Rock from the Horsfield archive. Courtesy of the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
Harding and his colleagues in excavation often visited Gaza. If approaching Palestine from Egypt, a route taken by many tourists at the time, the railway began at Kantara East Station and stopped at Gaza en route to Jaffa and Tel-Aviv.
Two miles off Palestine's Mediterranean coast, Gaza has historically been one of the region's most important trade cities.
Taken in April 1932, these photographs from one of Harding's albums show Gaza city spread out before the camera. Courtesy of the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
The street shown in LH31 used to be known as "Share' al-Bahar," or the "Sea Road," until the name was changed formally to "Omar Al-Mokhtar street" in 1936 after a famous Libyan resistance leader. To the south is Al-Omari Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Gaza, built in the 13th century. The mosque has an interesting history; during the ancient Philistine era, the site was used for the pagan Marneion temple. This was destroyed by Empress Eudoxia in the 5th century and replaced by a church that bore her name. During the 7th century, the church was turned into a mosque, which was destroyed by the Crusaders in the 12th century and replaced by a cathedral. Finally, the Mamluks built the mosque shown in the film, which still stands today although it sustained heavy damages during the First World War.
The striking arch shown in the film lies to the south of the Mosque. It marks the entrance to Gaza's famous gold market, also known as Souk al-Qissariya, which was built by the Mamluks during the 15th century. The covered market used to occupy a much larger area, most of which was destroyed by the British Army during WWI. Harding's camera also offers a different perspective of Share' al-Bahar/Omar al-Mokhtar Street, looking east towards the city. This perspective shows the historic Khan al-Zeit (the Oil Quarter), which was recently replaced by a new high rise building.
Not far from the opposite end of Omar al-Mokhtar street lies one of the oldest pottery workshops in Gaza, Al-Fawakheer. Pottery and ceramics have been a staple of Gaza for thousands of years with local samples dating back to the Neolithic. During the Hellenistic era, the "Gaza Amphorae" became a renowned symbol of excellent olive oil, wine, or brie that was produced in the city and traded with cities around the Mediterranean coast.
El-Eini, R. 2008. Mandated Landscape: British Imperial Rule in Palestine 1929-1948. London: Routledge.
Feldman, I. 2008. Governing Gaza: Beaurocracy, Authority and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Horsfield, G. 1933. A Guide to Jerash - With plan. Government of Transjordan.
Kraeling, C. (Ed). 1938. Gerasa, city of the Decapolis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Luke, H. & Keith-Roach, E. 1930. Handbook to Palestine and Transjordan. London: Macmillan & Co.
Lumby, C. 1934. Traveller's Handbook to Palestine, Syria and Iraq. 6th edn. London: Simpkin Marshall, Ltd.
St. Laurent, B. with Taşkömür, H. 2013. The Imperial Museum of Antiquities in Jerusalem, 1890-1930: An Alternate Narrative. Jerusalem Quarterly 55: 6-45.
Thornton, A. 2009. George Horsfield, conservation and the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. Antiquity Project Gallery.
Thornton, A. 2014. The Nobody: Exploring Archaeological Identity with George Horsfield (1882-1956). Archaeology International.
Who was Lankester Harding?
By Amara Thornton
"Opening Chorus
If you see
Fun in archaeology
You must come and be
A member of our band
Maybe you're keen
To say you've seen
Sheykhs in their desert tents
If you draw and write
Like lunches light
Study all night – you'll do!"
It's not the best poem I've ever read, but despite its flaws this "Opening Chorus" evokes the life into which a 24-year old Gerald Lankester Harding entered when he left England in November 1926, bound for Palestine. It is one of a collection of verses found in Harding's archive; he probably penned it during his first excavation at Tell Jemmeh, an ancient site 18 miles from Gaza.
Gerald Lankester Harding in 1947. This photograph comes from his Transjordan identity card. Courtesy of M. C. A. MacDonald.
An image from one of Harding's photograph albums. The caption reads "Chinese Graves, Tientsin."
Harding was already a well-seasoned traveller by the time he went to Palestine; born in Tientsin (now Tianjin), China in 1901 as the Boxer Uprising was ending, he grew up in Singapore before settling in England with his family in 1913.
It was in London that, alongside his paid employment, Harding began studying Egyptology in Margaret Murray's evening classes at University College London (UCL). Through Murray, Harding met Flinders Petrie, Professor of Egyptology at UCL, who ran the British School of Archaeology in Egypt (BSAE) – a training scheme for prospective archaeologists.
Petrie had made his name excavating in Egypt, but for the 1926/1927 excavation season he and his wife Hilda were moving their entire operation to Palestine in search of more favourable conditions for excavators. The Petries continued to work in Palestine for the next decade.
Once on site at Tell Jemmeh Harding helped build the dig house, and when finished it accommodated all the British members of the dig team: the Petries and Harding, James Leslie Starkey and his wife Marjorie Rice, Commander and Mrs Risdon and Dr Parker. Petrie was looking for evidence of ancient Egyptian occupation in Palestine, and over the course of the season an acre of the site was cleared, and the remains of six towns were discovered. A large group of workers from different villages were employed to do the backbreaking labour of excavation with pickaxes. They were housed in a separate building, but Harding's diary from the site shows that he enjoyed meeting the workmen for fantasias - parties with music and dancing - and listening to their music, which he felt was "very romantic".
Detail from the first entry in Harding's diary from Tell Jemmeh during the 1926/1927 season.
Harding returned to Palestine for the 1927/1928 season which was spent at a site called Tell Fara (or 'Beth-Pelet'), southeast of Tell Jemmeh. Petrie stayed in Europe and Harding, the Risdons, the Starkeys and a new excavator, Olga Tufnell, were on site. The main focus of the work was on tombs in the first season; Petrie returned for the 1928/1929 season with Harding, the Starkeys, Olga Tufnell and another student, Oliver Myers, to concentrate on the cemetery, a ravine with tombs and a fort. Over a hundred workmen were employed, and a key find of a burnt ivory box was discovered. Connections were made between the site and the Hyksos kings of Egypt. In addition, conservationist and "Men of the Trees" founder Richard St Barbe Baker made a film of the excavations, to be called "Palestine's Lost Cities". The 1929/1930 season was also spent at Tell Fara, continuing the work in order to gain a full picture of the site's history of occupation.
Tell el-Ajjul was the next site to undergo excavation. A mere six miles south of Gaza, Petrie and his team, including Harding, the Starkeys and Olga Tufnell, set out to uncover the occupation history of the site. After two seasons Starkey, Harding and Tufnell left the Petries to begin their own excavations at Tell ed-Duweir, a site between Gaza and Jerusalem, with funding from industrialists Henry Wellcome (pharmaceuticals) and Charles Marston (Sunbeam bicycles). These excavations eventually resulted in the important discovery of the Lachish letters, pieces of pottery with ancient Hebrew script in ink identifying the site to be the location of the Biblical city of Lachish.
The Wellcome-Marston Archaeological Expedition to the Near East (the formal name of the Starkey-Harding-Tufnell excavations) remained at Duweir from 1932 to 1938. Harding left in 1936 to take up the post of Chief Curator of Antiquities in Transjordan, across the Dead Sea, but he remained actively engaged in the interpretation and publication of the Lachish letters in the years that followed. Eventually he became Director of the Transjordan Department of Antiquities, but it was as its Chief Curator that he embarked on one of the most publicised excavations of his career. In February 1949 he set out with a team of archaeologists to excavate a cave at Ain Feshkha east of the Dead Sea, an area then under Jordanian control, where two years previously Bedouin had discovered the earliest known Biblical texts handwritten on delicate leather: the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Harding and his team discovered more scroll fragments at Ain Feshkha, establishing the authenticity of the fragments discovered there. In the years that followed he and a team continued excavations in the area, centring their investigations in the nearby settlement site of Khirbet Qumran. Over the course of his archaeological career in Jordan Harding undertook excavation and survey work all over the country, including Jerash, where he was based in the early part of his career in Jordan (and later buried), as well as Petra. His extensive work in Jordan brought the country's antiquities and sites to a wider scholarly and general audience; through conducting numerous surveys he became a leading expert in Ancient North Arabian inscriptions. Harding died in England in 1979.
I have concentrated mainly here on Harding's early career in archaeology, as it is this period of his life that the footage we will be digitising through Filming Antiquity is most likely to cover. But it's important to emphasise that Harding's thirty years in Palestine and (Trans)Jordan (1926-1956) came at a pivotal period in the history of the region and the world – one that saw a world war, the gradual disintegration of Britain's imperial system, the creation of Israel, the evolution of Transjordan into the Kingdom of Jordan, and the establishment of a border between Israel and Jordan that continues to have ramifications on both countries today. His archive holds much more information about the context of his work and life in Palestine and (Trans)Jordan, so stay tuned!
References/Further Reading
BSAE [British School of Archaeology in Egypt]. 1927. Catalogue of Palestinian Antiquities from Gerar, 1927. London: BSAE.
Drower, M. 1985. Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
Harding, G. L. 1949. The Dead Sea Scrolls: excavations which establish the authenticity and pre-Christian date of the oldest Bible manuscripts. Illustrated London News Historical Archive [Online]. 19 October, p 493.
Harding, G. L. 1949. The Dead Sea Scrolls. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 81 (2): 112-114.
Macdonald, M. C. A. 1979. In Memoriam Gerald Lankester Harding. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 23: 198-200.
Sparks, R. PUBLICISING PETRIE: Financing Fieldwork in British Mandate Palestine (1926-1938). Present Pasts 5 (1): 2. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/pp.56.
Thornton, A. 2014. Margaret Murray's Meat Curry. Present Pasts 6 (1): 3 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/pp.59.
Torczyner, H., Harding, G. L., Lewis, A. and Starkey, J. L. 1938. Lachich I (Tell Ed Duweir). The Lachish Letters. London: Oxford University Press.
Tufnell, O. 1980. Obituary: Gerald Lankester Harding. Levant 12 (1): iii.
Archive Unbound
By Michael McCluskey
The Filming Antiquity project emerged from the archive of archaeologist Gerald Lankester Harding (1901-1979), Chief Curator/Director of Antiquities in Transjordan from 1936 to 1956. Among Harding's personal papers, photographs, diaries, and letters were over 30 films from the late 1920s and early 1930s. Some were labelled, suggesting the possible places and events they might reveal, from 'Ajjul', an archaeological site in what was then Mandate Palestine, to 'Ski Jumping'. Others had nothing else to identify their subject other than the evidence of a life spread out before us on a table in a library of a 12th Century house in the Cotswolds.
Documents in the Harding archive in situ. Photo: A. Thornton, 2014
The house is where the ideas for the project first came together—to seek through film a means of making sense of the varied materials that constitute this particular collection, of understanding the potential of the archive in both its physical and digital manifestations, of producing knowledge through our engagement with these items. Through the process of putting together our own archive of material evolving from the project, we hope to invite collaboration across disciplines and audiences both academic and general. The house itself might be seen as a metaphor for the foundations and additions of Filming Antiquity. Since it is where the project began, it is where this addition/edition of the archive begins.
The current owner of the house is Michael Macdonald, a Research Associate at the Khalili Research Centre, Oxford and Lankester Harding's executor. Michael not only offered us access to the collection but also information that could help put the items into context and make connections between them. The materials in the archive offer extensive information about excavations, the personal activities of those on the dig, and the relationships formed from these experiences.
The collection includes letters, Harding's day diaries, an unpublished typewritten biographical manuscript, and photos of Harding's childhood in China and Singapore as well as his work at Tell Jemmeh, Tell Fara, Tell el-Ajjul and Tell ed-Duweir (British Mandate Palestine) and Transjordan, and his co-workers and personal acquaintances. Alongside the papers and photographs were the films, housed in their Baby Pathé canisters, and with limited identifying material about their contents. Michael could not help with what might be captured in the moving images but the possibilities include excavation work, on-site activities or documentation of Harding's other interests, including perhaps his work with the Amman Dramatic Society.
A photograph album in the Harding archive. Photo: A. Thornton, 2014.
The Harding archive offers rich material for studies not only of archaeology and its history, but also social history, anthropology, cultural geography, and film history. With this in mind, Filming Antiquity was founded to invite collaboration with others interested in working across disciplinary boundaries and helping to further our understanding of what excavation sites and archaeological digs can tell us about cultural history, production, and consumption and the networks (social, professional, economic, media) that enabled these exchanges. The project uses the films produced at these sites as the launch pad for discussions. To start, we aim to digitize the films from the Harding archive to see what they contain and what others can tell us about the people, places, and processes put on screen.
Filming Antiquity is currently funded through University College London's Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP) Small Grants Award Scheme. A list of the UCL staff involved in Filming Antiquity and details of projected outputs are available here.
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George Hartpence - A Resume in Theater
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Booth and Orson's Shadow
Candida/The Constant Wife
Enchanted & Equivocation
J.B. Priestley Plays
Man for all Seasons
Uncle Vanya
Cleopatra Plays
Hamlet Trilogy
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SET DESIGNS at ActorsNET
George most frequently appears with the ActorsNet of Bucks County in Morrisville, PA.
He regularly designs sets for it's "postage stamp" size stage...
The stage is basically a 20 ft deep by 24 ft wide "black box" style stage with a 8ft x 8ft chunk carved out of the upstage right corner footprint to accommodate the building's boiler room.
Below you will see photos of the completed sets.
While there is a construction crew to do the carpentry work, George does a lot of the finish painting and has a large hand in choosing set pieces to decorate the finished product.
Below is a chronological listing of the shows Geo has designed:
(Set designs for the ActorsNET, unless otherwise noted.)
Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco - May 31 - June 16, 2019
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman - Nov 30 - Dec 13, 2018
The Taming of the Shrew by Wm Shakespeare - October 18 - 24, 2018 - for Newtown Arts Company
Romeo and Juliet by Wm Shakespeare - July 13 - 29, 2018
An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley - June 2 -14, 2017
The Explorer's Club by Nell Benjamin - April 28 - May 14, 2017
Twelfth Night by Wm Shakespeare - March 10-26, 2017
Betrayal by Harold Pinter - July 15-30, 2016 - for Langhorne Players
Barrymore by William Luce - February 24 - March 20, 2016
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw - October 23 - November 8, 2015
Equivocation by Bill Cain - October 31 thru November 16, 2014
Moon Over Buffalo by Ken Ludwig - May 30 -June 15, 2014
The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams - January 17 - February 2, 2014
The Merchant of Venice by Wm Shakespeare - May 31 - June 16, 2013
Enchanted April by Matthew Barber - April 19 - May 12, 2013
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt - October 25 to November 11, 2012
As You Like It by Wm Shakespeare - April 20 to May 13, 2012
Othello by Wm Shakespeare - June 10 - 26, 2011
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov - January 28 - February 13, 2011
Much Ado About Nothing by Wm Shakespeare - May 21 - June 6, 2010
The Play's The Thing by Ferenc Molnar (design concept only)
Booth by Austin Pendleton - May 29 - June 15, 2009
Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton - January 23 - February 8, 2009
Seascape by Edward Albee - December 5 - 21, 2008
You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw - September 26 - October 11, 2008
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand - April 4 - 20, 2008
Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman - November 16 - December 2, 2007
Damn Yankees by George Abbott (design concept only) - May 25 - June 10, 2007
Macbeth by Wm Shakespeare - April 27 - May 13, 2007
The Crucible by Arthur Miller - January 12 - 28, 2007
My Fair Lady by Lerner & Lowe & GB Shaw - March 30 - April 15, 2006
The Petrified Forest by Robert Sherwood - October 28 - November 13, 2005
1776 by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone - June 23 - July 2, 2005
The Tempest by Wm Shakespeare - April 1 -17, 2005
Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer - October 22 - November 7, 2004
Richard III by Wm Shakespeare - March 5 - 21, 2004
Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter - August 14 - 31, 2003
Antony and Cleopatra by Wm Shakespeare - April 25 - May 11, 2003
Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw - March 7 - 23, 2003
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman & Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco
The Lion in Winter @ ActorsNET
The Explorer's Club & An Inspector Calls
EQUIVOCATION by Bill Cain and MAJOR BARBARA by GB Shaw
EQUIVOCATION set
Moon Over Buffalo by Ken Ludwig
THE NIGHT of the IGUANA by Tennessee Williams
The MERCHANT of VENICE by Wm Shakespeare
ENCHANTED APRIL and A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Enchanted April by Matthew Barber - Act I - London
AS YOU LIKE IT and OTHELLO by Wm Shakespeare
As You Like It by Wm Shakespeare - The forest of Arden
UNCLE VANYA by Anton Chekhov
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE TEMPEST & RICHARD III
"Much Ado About Nothing" by Wm Shakespeare at the ActorsNET
ORSON'S SHADOW by Austin Pendleton & Edward Albee's SEASCAPE
YOU NEVER CAN TELL by G.B. Shaw and Anthony Shaffer's SLEUTH
"You Never Can Tell" by G.B. Shaw for the ActorsNET - dentist office
CYRANO de BERGERAC by Edmond Rostand
WATCH ON THE RHINE and THE PETRIFIED FOREST
"Watch on the Rhine" by Lillian Hellman
MACBETH by Wm Shakespeare and THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller
"MY FAIR LADY", "1776" & "KISS ME, KATE"
"My Fair Lady " - Henry Higgins' study
Shaw's CAESAR & CLEOPATRA & Shakespeare's ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
My first set design. Used for the ActorsNET productions of "Caesar and Cleopatra" and "Antony and Cleopatra". "Caesar and Cleopatra" images shown.
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Anybody hyped for the world cup this year ?
Who are you rooting for ? Who are your favorites ?
WHO ARE THE FAVORITES....USA DIDNT GET IN THIS YEAR, RIGHT?
Probably France, Germany or Brazil. Possibly Argentina if they can learn to play together. Belgium have a very strong squad too. The Americans struggled in qualifying and didn't make it.
For the first time in ages they didn't. It's a shame because their league is improving year in year out. But I'm afraid that this prevents young american players from developing because of the amount of foreign players joining the league.
I'd say the favorites are Germany, Brazil, Spain and somewhat France. Argentina has a very impressive attacking lineup. England is one of my personal favorites too, they've had an impressive campaign during the qualifiers.
Oh yer, forgot about Spain.
England actually won a penalty shoot out. Miracles do happen.


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Antony Lee is general counsel for The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), Singapore, and has held that appointment since February 2006. He also has a regional role as deputy general counsel, Asia Pacific, for HSBC.
Lee manages a department of 30 that is responsible for the management of legal matters for all HSBC entities in Singapore.
Before HSBC, Lee worked in various capacities in the banking sector and in private legal practice as a financial services and commercial lawyer.
He has been active in various professional and community bodies, including the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association, Banking and Finance Chapter.
Lee is also an accredited mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre and the Singapore International Mediation Centre. He has mediated a range of commercial and civil disputes.
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Singapore is one example of how the litigation landscape has changed dramatically in a few short years. HSBC Singapore's GC Antony Lee and Francis Goh, a partner at Harry Elias Partnership LLP, offer tips for in-house counsel in Singapore on the new realities of litigation. #ACCDocket #Litigation #inhousecounsel #generalcounsel #ACCSingapore


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2022 El Dorado County Poetry Out Loud
Kelsi Havercroft
Union Mine High School
Emily Lieber
Molly Grant
Charter University Prep
Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation competition for high school students. In El Dorado County, the competition is administered by Arts and Culture El Dorado in partnership with the California Arts Council. A vehicle for inspiration and instruction, Poetry Out Loud provides students with a variety of resources to help them memorize, interpret, and recite poetry, instilling in students not just an appreciation of poetry, but also a sense of accomplishment and confidence in their public speaking abilities.
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Poetry Out Loud has been virtual at every level of competition for the past two years. In El Dorado County, the competition has also been streamlined rather than beginning at the classroom level before advancing to the school level and eventually the county level, the competition now begins at the county level, providing every high school student in El Dorado County an opportunity to compete for cash prizes and a chance to represent our county at the statewide California Poetry Out Loud competition. The virtual format means that students submit pre-recorded recitations of their poems, a development that some students have found beneficial, as it allows them to submit the best version of their recitation.
The videos are judged by a panel of local poetry aficionados: Dennis Johnson, a long-time English teacher; Audrey Keebler, a perennial supporter of Poetry Out Loud and several quilt guilds, genealogical, and historical societies; Taylor Graham, a prolific poet and former Poet Laureate of El Dorado County; Tina Ferguson, the owner of Face in a Book bookstore; and Lara Gularte, the County's current Poet Laureate. The panel of judges considers multiple criteria as they evaluate the video submissions, from the accuracy of the recitation to the evidence of the student's understanding of the material.
Poetry Out Loud has a profound impact on the students who choose to participate. Beyond their exposure to a rich literary heritage, collected in the Poetry Out Loud anthology from which they select their poems, the students also get the opportunity to engage with poetry outside of the classroom, which situates the poems in a fresh, vibrant context. The act of recitation recasts poetry as an embodied art form rather than an abstract work of contemplation, igniting a lifelong passion for poetry in some students. As Lara Gularte says, "Poetry Out Loud encourages finding the voice of the poem, the meaning, sound, and the rhythm."
In the 2022 competition, Union Mine High School senior Kelsi Havercroft took first place and will represent El Dorado County at the statewide Poetry Out Loud competition. The runner-up was Emily Lieber, a senior at Oak Ridge High School. Coming in third was Molly Grant, a sophomore at Charter University Prep. Their powerful recitations were a testament to the immense talent, passion, and potential of El Dorado County's young poetry lovers.
First Place, Kelsi Havercroft, Union Mine High School
Second Place, Emily Lieber, Oak Ridge High School
Third Place, Molly Grant, Charter University Prep
Watch first place winner, Kelsi Havercroft, recite Famous by Naimi Shibab Nye
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Monday 7 March 2016 11:14am
Statement from University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne: Monday 7 March 2016
Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne
As a member of the University of Otago community, you will be aware that some of our students were injured during an impromptu Six60 concert in Castle St on Friday night. I am sure that many of you are concerned about how they are doing. At this stage, the University has contacted each of the students taken to hospital and has offered support, not only to them but also to their friends and flatmates. I was extremely impressed by the way our students provided support to emergency services on the night of the accident and how they continued to support each other over the weekend. Campus Watch and OUSA have also been remarkably helpful by visiting students and checking up on their welfare. I know that the student community has appreciated their support. Right now, our focus is very much on the wellbeing of our students.
We are asking students who need further support as a result of the incident to contact Student Health in the first instance, on 03 479 8212 or 0800 479 821.
Most importantly, our thoughts are with the seriously injured student in Christchurch and her family.
If staff receive any queries from the media about this incident, please forward these to Communications Adviser Jo Galer, Tel: 03 479 8263 or Mob: 021 279 8263; email joanne.galer@otago.ac.nz
Please continue to look out for each other.
Harlene Hayne
Earlier statements from University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne
Sunday 6 March 2016
The University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne welcomes the move by the Government to investigate the cause of a balcony collapse during an impromptu Six60 Concert in Castle St, Dunedin, on Friday night.
The event was held at a private student flat in North Dunedin.
"We are also seeking as much information as we can to learn more about what contributed to this unfortunate accident, which seriously injured two young people, including one of our University students. We therefore welcome the Government's announcement to look closely into the structural issues that occurred on the balcony that evening," she says.
Professor Hayne has again visited the Castle Street flat concerned at the weekend, spoken to a number of affected students, and offered her and the University's support wherever possible to those who were injured, including those with more minor injuries, and their families. The Chancellor of the University John Ward and Professor Hayne are keen to visit the two seriously injured individuals still in hospital as soon as practically possible.
"I am devastated, in particular that one of our students and her family are having to go through this. So we join with the Government in attempting to learn as much about what led to this as we possibly can," she says.
Saturday 5 March 2016
"Today our energy is focused on working with our affected students to offer and provide support to them and, when appropriate, their families.
One of the two young people seriously injured last night was a University student. My thoughts are with this young woman and her family at this difficult time.
I am particularly proud of the students who stepped up to assist the emergency services staff last night. This was a terrible incident, and their actions have been commended by staff attending the scene."
The University's Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne visited the scene of a balcony collapse in Castle St, Dunedin, tonight and she gives her full support to the affected students and their families. She is deeply concerned about the events of tonight, and will be seeking as much information as possible in coming days.
Students were visibly concerned for the welfare of their fellow students and many provided valuable assistance to the emergency responders.
"Our thoughts and deepest concerns are with the students, their families and friends at this time," she says.
This activity was not on University grounds. The first that University staff heard of this surprise concert was via social media and the University emphasises this was not an official event.
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Lyon Woodstock has been doing a fair few interviews in the build up to his fight on March 23rd. They've all been profoundly revealing and, such is the nature of the man, never the same answer uttered more than once.
"I've been waiting my whole life for that sort of a fight, if I don't have an opponent on my level then I can get – I'm not sure if the word is bored – but I certainly don't stay as focussed as I should. That Archie Sharp fight, then, was a great fight. Throughout the fight I was going through different thought processes, focussing on my main goal, but you kind of feed off the crowd and you're aware it's a good fight. The knowledge and lessons I learned from that fight, you can't put a price on it.
British champion Sam Bowen is a potential protagonist in the story of Lyon's life and both fighters have been vocal with regards their opinions of one another. Woodstock told me that it's a case of taking the title, not the name.
Aliterative Ls found themselves cropping up with frequency throughout our conversation with none more prolific than 'Leicester' or 'Legacy'. It was the city of Leeds, however, that got Lyon pondering the heights his career could reach. Having fought twice in the West Yorkshire city, against Craig Poxton and Edwin Tellez, it was the latter bout that captured the imagination of Woodstock.
Having advanced his record to 11-1 since turning professional in 2015 and headlining shows on BT Sport you'd be half-forgiven for thinking the former WBO European champion was living the highlife. The 25 year old told me that perception of glory, glitz and glamour was the one thing he wish he could change about the sport.
The final question I had for Lyon who, if I'm honest, I found to be refreshing in his approach to life and genuinely so much wiser than his years, was a big one. One he could not have prepared for – 'what type of pasta would you be?', he answered in his typically reflective, worldly, manner.
"I would be that twisty one (fusilli) but I'd be the tesco version of it. It's reliable, it's always there, every time you open the cupboard it is in the back and it does the job well. Listen if Jordan McCorry pulls out I would step in, no question needed, ever since the show got pushed back I have been preparing, mentally, for Sam Bowen.


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Spring has sprung and many people are completing the dreaded annual "Spring Cleaning" of their households. Over the years, we get accustomed to doing things the same way, holding onto numerous belongings that "someday" we will use again. In the meantime, our homes or offices are cluttered with "junk" that hinders forward thinking and exploration into new possibilities.
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I've been using org-mode for some time for basic task planning, and occasionally for tracking time, but it always seems to have that bit more to learn. One of the really cool features with org-mode is its table editor: it makes it absolutely trivial to create and manipulate ASCII tables in plain text files (see here for more).
Carsten Dominik's org-mode presentation at Google intrigued me with the possibility of using that table editor in non-org files, but I lacked the inclination to investigate further until I stumbled across this video showing the feature off by generating an HTML table from an org-mode table source.
If you're still interested, you should watch that now. I'll do my best to explain how it's done when you're finished.
Quite simply, orgtbl-mode is an Emacs minor mode that embeds into whichever major mode you happen to be working in. Within the context of an org-mode table within that document, org-mode table commands apply. Elsewhere in the document, your major mode (java-mode, cperl-mode, etc.) is in charge.
You specify where the org table is going to appear with a pair of markers.
The first character there ('#') should be whichever comment character makes sense for your major mode. So you'll use '//' for Java, C and C++, '%' for LaTeX, <!-- ... --> for HTML and XML, etc. The reason for this simple: you don't want these markers polluting the textual sources that you're composing in whichever major mode you're in.
Next, you'll define (somewhere in the document) a section for you to specify the org table. It helps here if your language has a block-comment structure (like the above HTML style comment, or /* ... */ for C, or the comment package for LaTeX).
(The reason I advise about block comments is that I was seeing problems generating the table unless #+ORGTBL: was a the beginning of the line).
The #+ORGTBL line includes the SEND command (the counterpart to the RECEIVE in the previous markup); the table name (to match up with the appropriate RECEIVE: there could be many); and the translation function that takes the org-mode table and produces the HTML, LaTeX, or whatever output.
@4$2 is the specifier for the cell where the total is to appear (row 4, column 2). Formulae are automatically updated as you move columns around, insert new ones, add new rows, etc., but when you're done editing, hit C-c C-c on the formula line to update the table values.
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When you want to change your HTML table, just change the org-mode table, update the formula with C-c C-c on the formula line, and then regenerate with the same keystrokes on the SEND line, and your HTML table will be refreshed with the new state.


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The Long and Short of It
On writing both novels and short stories, and learning the differences between them
Let's be real here. A short story is not the practice form that you need to master before you can go on and write novels.
Sure, there are novelists out there who also write short stories. And there are short story writers who also try their hands at novels. Just look at George Saunders. He's just published his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, and it went and won the Man Booker Prize. Bravo, George, bravo. (As a side note, it excites me that he's done this, because now maybe people who have discovered him through the prize will go and read his amazing short fiction.) There are plenty of great writers who write both, and there are plenty of writers who stick to the one form. But I can't think of a single one who cut their teeth on short stories, then worked up the courage to write a full-length novel and announced to themselves and the world "Okay, that's it-- I've hit the big time, now. I've written a novel. I don't need to work on short stories any more."
Firstly, anyone who does that, and whose name isn't JK Rowling would be a bit silly. There is no 'Big Time' in writing. The idea that our success is measured by the 'size' or the volume of sales we can achieve is a self-fulfilling prophecy for failure, because the publishing industry is one in which only a handful of authors ever make it 'big'. Most authors, particularly in Australia, don't make enough money from book sales to support themselves. If you want to know a bit more about how making money works as a writer, you can check out this excellent post by Annabel Smith about advances, the first part in a series about how authors make their money.
Secondly, I wonder what would make them think they have any control over it? As someone who writes both novels and short stories, in my experience the idea itself always suggests what form it would like to be written in. I'm not a spiritual person, so I am not talking about muses or divine intervention here. But some ideas are more powerful in longer pieces and some are more powerful in 3000 words or less. Some ideas, you actually have to sit down and try to write them before you realise that you've started in the wrong form.
Heck, maybe that idea you thought was going to be a novel was really an essay or a poem. But you don't know until you start to play, and see the possibilities.
I've heard it said by many writers that short stories can be harder to write than novels. I say it depends on the short story. When I write a short story, often it's about an idea that's been obsessing me, or it brings together a bunch of ideas that I've been ruminating on in the back of my mind for a long time. When I finally sit down at the keyboard, it all just comes out, and I write until I get to the end of the reserves of words that have built up. Because I've been doing it for a while, the stories that I write often come out at between 2000 and 3000 words now, but when I first started, sometimes it would take me a lot more words to get to the heart of what I was trying to say. That's where the revision comes in. What is definitely true about the short story form is that it takes a different skill set to writing a novel. You need to have a sense of economy in your word use. 3000 words is not a lot and some publications and competitions will actually give you less than that, so you cannot waste a single word. Whatever it is you're trying to say, try to say it in the most economical way, but also the most interesting way that you can. This applies to character development too. We don't need to know what happened to your narrator on a foggy night back in mid-July, unless what happened on that night led directly to their actions and reactions in the piece you are writing. But hey, it's good that you, the writer, know all of that backstory. It helps your character and their voice explode onto the page and start in media res.
Short stories, like novels, have beginnings, middles and ends, but not necessarily in that order. I once tried to write a short story completely backwards, scene by scene. I never finished that piece -- it was about a disgruntled former employee throwing a rock through the window of a small business-- but that wasn't because it wasn't a good idea. It was because I let the steam go out of my enthusiasm for the idea. Maybe I'll try the backwards trick again some time. I'm sure I wouldn't be the first person to.
The thing about the short story form is, I think, that once you discover you love it, it never lets you go. It always astounds me when people say they don't like short stories. 'Short stories' is not a genre in the same way 'romance' is-- it's a genre in the same way 'fiction' is. There are fantasy and science fiction short stories, realist short stories, Westerns, historical short stories, and there are even some kinds of short stories that meld non-fiction and memoir into the mix. For people who think they don't like the form, I think the issue is that they haven't liked what they've read so far. Like poetry, the short story can seem from the outside like an exclusive club. You must be this smart to read. And some of them really are in that hyper-literary vein-- there are certain writers who enjoy making the reading of their work an act of engagement. But there are other writers who just want to entertain. This is what I love most about short stories. There is something for everyone, and you can read an entire narrative in the time it takes to finish your lunch hour.
When I work on longer pieces, compared to when I work on short stories, I feel like I am using my brain differently. There is still an element of collecting ideas, bringing them together unconsciously until I am ready to write, but because the story arc must be a lot longer, I have to think more actively about the plot points I am going to use to get there. The internal logic of a longer form piece has to be thought about. The writer must keep track of multiple characters, multiple subplots, sometimes multiple timelines. It takes a lot longer to finish that first draft. For me, my first draft of a short story can take anywhere from an hour to a month. For a novel, we're looking more at a year, but that could be because as an unpublished writer, I've never had to deliver a novel on a deadline.
I don't plan my novels in the sense of plotting out every single scene, though I do have certain scenes I know I need to get to in order to tell the story that is begging to be told. I do always know my ending, roughly. But I never plan my short stories. The ending will announce itself to me. I will write a sentence, fully intending to write another one after it, but the sentence will say "Here I am. Stop now." This sense of performing a magic trick is another reason why I love short stories.
Any form you write in, if you practice it enough and with the right intentions, will teach you things about who you are as a writer, and each draft you do will make you a better writer. Writing short stories doesn't prepare you to publish your breakout novel, but what it will do is teach you to love the sound of language and to use it deliberately. To notice pertinent things. To create large than life characters. And-- as I am finding, as I return to short stories now that my novel rewrite is in the hands of beta readers-- it will help you feel the magic that makes you rush to the keyboard each day, to see what your brain has in store.
A reading list for those wishing to pick up a short story collection this week:
* The Weight of a Human Heart by Ryan O'Neill
* Feet to the Stars by Susan Midalia
* That Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
* The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
* Bird Country by Claire Aman
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Ideally, you should be lubricating your rollers, hinges, pulleys, springs, cables and bearings on your door every six months to extend the quality and longevity of its life. If you haven't done that in a while, grab some non-silicone based lubricant and get to wiping! A well-lubricated garage door is a moving garage door. While you're at it, do a quick eye test to see if your springs have worn out. If so, call us at Overhead Door Company of Edmonton right away and we'll do the honours of replacing it – garage door parts can be tricky (not to mention dangerous) to replace on your own.
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In the first part of a three part address the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG shared a number of anecdotes about his childhood and his exposure to the symbolism of The Crown during this period.
Mr. Kirby then recalled his recent visit to the palace, where it the comparison with a prison resonated in his mind.
"As I went in and the doors slowly opened and the cars moved through and the doors slowly closed and the guards were there and you were sought of ushered through, it really brought home to me that The Queen lives in a wonderful house and she has wonderful paintings, but it's a kind of prison – a prison of duty. And she has accepted that," he said.
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A friend of mine started a group on Facebook for her friends that wanted to participate in a 30-day ab challenge… apparently I'm a glutton for punishment because I said I wanted in.
Each day the number of sit-ups, crunches, leg rasies, and the length of the plank increases with a rest day on every fourth day.
I started the challenge on August 1 for the sake of simplicity, so I should be on Day 15 today, but I missed a couple days so I am actually on Day 14: 65 sit-ups, 85 crunches, 42 leg raises, and a 55 second plank.
I didn't do any before photos or anything and honestly I don't see much of a difference–but I do feel it! I'm still a bit sore after each day, but the sit-ups are a bit easier to get through each day, as are the other exercises.
After Day 1 (15 sit-ups, 5 crunches, 5 leg lifts, 10 second plank) I wasn't sure I'd be able to make it this far, yet here I am. Doing 65 sit-ups. Yeah, I spread them out over the day sometimes, but I'm still doing them. And I know that even though I can't imagine doing 125 sit-ups, 200 crunches, 65 leg lifts, and a 120 second (2 minutes!!) plank right now, I'll get there. I'll do it. It will be hard, but I'll do it.
For someone that doesn't exercise on a regular basis this little challenge has really encouraged me to start. Having a group of ladies that are doing the same challenge (even if we're not on the same day or maybe take an extra day to complete a set, etc) really helps, too. It's simple, no DVD or special equipment is needed, and doesn't take too long or too much mental power–I can even do it at work (and I have)!
I'm proud of myself for sticking to it this long, but the ultimate goal isn't just the full 30 days. It's continuing after that–and ideally with more exercise variety thrown in. Maybe even another challenge!
Have you done a 30-Day challenge before? How did you like it?
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Gordon Graham Prize for Naga Literature
Announcement	of	the	Short	List
The Committee of judges for the Gordon Graham Prize for Naga Literature is pleased to announce the books that have been short-listed for final judging as earlier announced on July 20, 2018. The Shortlisting was done by members of the Kohima Educational Trust/Kohima Educational Society (KET/KES), including two from the United Kingdom. The shortlist was released this afternoon at a simple ceremony by KES Chairman, Dr P. Ngully, in Kohima.
For this inaugural edition, no strict conditions were made and the Committee tried to be as accommodative as possible. The shortlisted books included six in the Non-Fiction category and two books in the Fiction category as per submissions received. Reluctantly, the Committee had to reject some books for reasons of propriety. And so, while six books had been selected in the Non-Fiction category, only two books were shortlisted in the Fiction category. Without any particular order of preference the shortlisted books are as follows:-
Category 1 Non Fiction
"A Rediscovery and Rebuilding of Naga Cultural Values" by Inato Yekheto Shikhu (An Analytical Approach with Special Reference to Maori as a colonised and Minority Group of People in New Zealand, Regency Publication, New Delhi, pp 255).
"A Naga Odyssey : Visier's Long Way Home" by Visier Meyasetsu Sanyü and Richard Broome, (A Memoir, published by Monash University, Melbourne, 2017, pp 317).
"Forgiveness and Politics : A Critical Appraisal" by Kethoser Aniu Kevichüsa (Langham Monographs: Carlisle, 2017. Pages 300).
"Literary Cultures of India's Northeast: Naga Writings in English" by K B Veio Pou (Heritage Publishing House, Dimapur, 2015, pp 213).
"Nagaland and India : The Blood and the Tears" by Kaka D Iralu (A historical account of the seventy year Indo-Naga war and the story of those who were never allowed to tell it, Genuine Printing Press, Kohima, 2017, pp 423).
"Insider Perspectives : Critical Essays on Literature from Nagaland" by Vizovono Elizabeth and Sentinaro Tsuren (Bark Weaver publications, Norway, 2017, pp 210).
Category 2 Fiction
"When the River Sleeps" by Easterine Kire (Zubaan Publishers Pvt Ltd 2014, pp 245)
"The Starry Night" by Nzan Kikon (Penthrill Publication House, Kohima, 2018, pp 245)
The above shortlisted books will be read and judged by a team of three independent judges, having no connection with KET/KES, and their decisions will be final. The winners' names will be announced in the latter part of March 2019 and the prizes (one in each category) will be given at a grand function in Kohima during the first part of April, coinciding with the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Kohima.
The 2nd edition of the Gordon Graham Prize for Naga Literature will take place in December 2019 itself, during the Hornbill Festival. The announcement for entries will be made in April during the prize-giving function of this first edition. The terms and conditions may vary slightly from the first edition. All are, therefore, invited to be on the look-out and take part in the competition.
Meanwhile, good luck to each of the competitors for the 1st Gordon Graham Prize for Naga Literature.


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Posted on August 2, 2015 by rosinskynatalie
Last month in Montreal, I had the pleasure of dining with three talented illustrator/authors, all members of the SCWBI's (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators') Eastern Canada Chapter: Julie Prescesky, Julien Chung, and Emilie Pepin. Chatting with these super people, discussing their craft and book doings in bilingual Quebec, led me to think about Canada and superheroes. A visit a few days later to Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, the bookstore operated by the innovative, influential Canadian Drawn & Quarterly Press, also brought superheroes to mind. That is where I first paged through The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History (2015). Its compiler, Jon Morris, has created a wonderfully entertaining and informative book—springboarding in part from his longtime website. This volume is filled with wry, detailed comments and full-color, original illustrations of mainly U.S. superheroes who never achieved popularity or had limited, mostly-forgotten fame. Readers young and old will laugh out loud about the abilities and adventures of heroes such as Captain Tootsie, Kangaroo Man, Fat Man, and Thunderbunny. Yet not every "caped crusader" in this volume is just a figure of fun.
As Morris himself notes, some of these characters–such as Canada's heroine "Nelvana of the Northern Lights"—have great historic and cultural importance. Rooted loosely in Inuit legend and life, demi-goddess Nelvana appeared in print to fight World War II enemies even before the USA's battling "Wonder Woman" debuted. Nelvana also preceded Canada's other World War II super fighters, Sergeant Jack and Johnny Canuck. (Since then, of course, Canada's superhero ranks have swelled to include the 1980s and 1990s Alpha Flight roster and—most famously—the X-Men's Wolverine.)
Nelvana's black-and white adventures, which appeared monthly between 1941 and 1947, were recently compiled in one volume by editors Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey. Their comments in Nelvana of the Northern Lights (2014) spotlight how some of author/illustrator Adrian Dingle's stories and language unfortunately use stereotypes prevalent in the 1940s. The Inuit (called "Eskimos" by Dingle) are often depicted as childlike and susceptible to drink, while the Japanese (and even other non-combatant Asians) are labelled the "yellow peril" and sometimes drawn as caricatures. Still, readers warned about Dingle's cultural "tone-deafness" will be fascinated by his 1940s take on technological wonders and the visual sophistication of his illustrations. Varied perspectives and frequent frame-breaks uniting images occur often in his boldly-drawn pages. These techniques create narrative momentum and interest even as 21st century readers may smile at now-outdated scientific threats and rescues. Nelvana's superpowers of telepathy, invisibility, flying at light speed, and metal melting are used to overcome such dangerous weapons as . . . radio waves.
Jon Morris also notes that some "regrettable" superheroes failed just because they appeared at times and in venues where they could not find appreciative audiences. He counts the 1990s "Squirrel Girl"–she of the bushy tail, chipper disposition, and relative speedy strength of squirrels—among such misplaced characters, some now being rebooted for new readers. I shall return to 2015's "Squirrel Girl," now being written by a Canadian, at the end of this post. But first I want to highlight the more extensive superhero creations of award-winning Canadian author/illustrator Jeff Lemire. Tween and teen readers may already have seen some of them, and 2016 will be bringing more. (Older teens may also have read or want to read Lemire's separate, darker six volume series about mutants who are not superheroes, Sweet Tooth [2009 – 2013].)
In Justice League United, Volume 1: Justice League Canada (2015) (a compilation of Justice League United comics #0 – 5 [2014]), writer Lemire has collaborated with artist Mike McKone. They reboot popular superheroes from the DC universe and set their adventures in Ontario, Canada as well as outer space! Returning heroes include Green Arrow, the Martian Manhunter, Star Girl, Supergirl, and Animal Man. Even more interesting, Ontario-native Lemire has created a young, brand-new Canadian superhero to join this newly-reforming league. Sixteen year-old Miyahbin Marten is a Moose Cree, one of Canada's First Nation peoples. She lives in far northern Monsonee/Moose Factory, Ontario, and inherits her cyclical super powers from Earth and her tribal ancestors. Miyahbin, depicted interacting with her respected grandmother as well as friends, accesses her powers by proclaiming the Cree word her grandmother has taught her: "Keewahtin," which means "northern wind."
Lemire travelled to Monsonee over several months, working with young people there to get his depiction of contemporary Cree culture and lives "right." His afterward in Justice League United describes his experiences and includes drawings by the Cree youngsters who inspired him. This inspiration extended to artist McKone, who based the costume for "Equinox"—the superhero name Miyahbin assumes—on Cree ceremonial garb. In a Native Peoples magazine article, Moose Factory residents describe how exciting it is to see their community, including its youth center and abandoned missile base, depicted in a DC international publication. This specificity and cultural accuracy make Equinox a far cry and welcome antidote to the stereotypes that flaw Dingle's groundbreaking Nelvana. I look forward to future issues (and compilations) of Justice League United, where Lemire says an older Equinox will take on a leadership role.
Equinox is not the only reason, though, for this volume's success. Illustrator McKone's smartly-angled panels of different sizes, judiciously using tightly-focused close-ups for dramatic impact, impel each issue's excitingly rapid pace. Superimposed small panels sometimes spotlight individual characters in crisis. Occasional full-page, wordless or nearly wordless-pages further highlight moments of high conflict, inviting readers to feast our eyes. Working with a roster of skilled inkers and colorists, McKone also effectively varies the color and font of exclamations during the League's adventures, and also cues readers to changes in scene by consistently linking color palette to place. For instance, an evil alien scientist's lair is consistently colored a sickly green, while whites, blues, and cool greys feature in the Canadian near-arctic.
Along with creating believable dialogue for young Mihaybin, her grandmother, and the youthful Star Girl, Lemire adds interest to the League's adventures by creating an ongoing, half-joking rivalry between Green Arrow and Animal Man. Animal Man mocks the seemingly endless variety of arrows the archer carries, while Green Arrow veers between fake and possibly some real disdain for Animal Man's superpower—his ability to take on characteristics of nearby creatures. This involves a nice bit of self-mockery on Jeff Lemire's part, as before writing this volume, the prolific Lemire authored an acclaimed "reboot" of the 1980s superhero Animal Man. He collaborated with artists Travel Foreman and Dan Green on 29 comic book issues now collected in five Animal Man compilations (2012 – 2014).
That highly-praised "reboot" series poses something of a problem for me as both reader and reviewer. I think Lemire does an incredible job depicting the family relationships of Buddy Baker (the stunt man who becomes Animal Man), including developing the characters of his 9 year old son and 5 year old daughter, yet some of the art work unfortunately (from my point of view) lives up to its back cover blurbs. Many pages are "horror-tinged" and "visually pushing the envelope at every turn." Rather than feasting my eyes on those pages, I tend to avert my eyes! So, I would caution even adult readers who might share my sensibilities about Animal Man's intermittent but frequent gruesome images. Would teens who enjoy horror movies—and are permitted to view movies rated "R" for violence—enjoy the Animal Man series? Probably. . . but I would not give it a blanket recommendation for all teens, even older ones. On the other hand, Lemire's Sweet Tooth series, while it depicts a bleak and violent dystopic future, does get my recommendation for older teens. Its six volumes, illustrated as well as written by Lemire, are visually as well as narratively compelling, making noteworthy use of wordless pages along with sparse, naturally-inflected dialogue. This series detailing the experiences of a human boy with antlers is a fine follow-up for readers of Lord of the Flies, as well as such post-apocalyptic works as Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Stephen King's The Stand, or David Brin's The Postman.
Sweet Tooth is outside any of the shared DC or other comic book universes—a creator-owned work by Jeff Lemire. He has written and illustrated other wholly original works, including a trilogy about small-town, hockey-obsessed life in Ontario, Essex County (2008 – 2011). Its first volume won a 2008 Alex award, given by the ALA (American Library Association) to works written for adults also holding great appeal for teens. Lemire's original, time-spanning, futuristic love story Trillium (compiled in one volume,2014) will also appeal to teens, some of whom may also enjoy the mysteries in the psychologically suspenseful, multilayered Underwater Welder (2012), even though that work about fathers and sons will resonate most, I think, with parents and parents-to-be. Next up, I am looking forward to the first compilation of Lemire's original series about a boy android, illustrated by Dustin Nguyen: Descender, Volume One: Tin Stars (2015), scheduled for publication next month. Collecting issues 1 – 5 of this Vertigo publication, Descender has already been optioned for future movie production!
September, 2015 will also see the first compilation of the rebooted superhero Squirrel Girl, written by award-winning Canadian Ryan North and illustrated by Erica Henderson. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Volume One: Squirrel Power (2015), with its just off-to-college heroine, is already popular and a source of some controversy, with many readers of its individual issues praising their self-reliant, upbeat heroine while others find her flat and unbelievable. I intend to discover my own truth there . . . and I would like to hear your reactions, too. Also on my current browsing list is a library copy of Drawn and Quarterly Press' brand-new, huge anniversary anthology: Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels (2015). It contains works by many significant contributors to literature gone graphic, including pieces by some Quebecois author/illustrators, translated from their original French, recommended last month by my Montreal colleagues at dinner. O Canada!
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Synthesis and Antimicrobial Activities of Some Novel Quinoxalinone Derivatives
Moisture Stable Ambient Temperature Ionic Liquids: Solvents for the New Millennium. 1. The Heck Reaction
10.3390/50600856
Siddiqui, S.
Hosmane, R. S.
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Molecules 2016, 5(6), 856; https://doi.org/10.3390/50600856
Synthetic Analogue of Stilbene Containing an Imidazole Nucleus
by Saika Siddiqui and Ramachandra S. Hosmane *
Laboratory for Drug Design and Synthesis, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA
Received: 24 May 2000 / Accepted: 13 June 2000 / Published: 18 June 2000
Synthesis of trans-1,2-bis(4-nitro-1-p-methoxybenzylimidazol-5-yl)ethene (1) as an imidazole analogue of stilbene has been reported. In order to confirm the trans geometry of the product using an UV spectral comparison, a mixture of both trans (1) and cis isomer (3) was also prepared. The synthesis involved one-step dimerization of the precursor, 4-nitro- 1-p-methoxybenzyl-5-methyl-1H-imidazole (2), using N-chlorosuccinimide catalyzed by po- tassium t-butoxide.
Dimerization; heterocycles; biaryls; imidazole; stilbene
Trans-stilbene is an important organic compound carrying a wide variety of useful applications in or- ganic synthesis [1]. These applications include, but are not limited to, asymmetric dihydroxylation [1a], photocyclization [1b], photoisomerization [1c], and synthesis of diphenyl acetylenes [1d], bromohydrins [1e], and benzils [1f]. Heterocyclic analogues of trans-stilbene are of interest not only for exploring these various applications but also for their inherent potential to serve as key precursors to the synthesis of a host of novel as well as known heterocycles. We present here the synthesis of trans-1,2-bis(4-nitro- 1-p-methoxybenzylimidazol-5-yl)ethene (1) as an analogue of trans-stilbene containing an imidazole ring. In order to confirm the trans geometry of 1 using ultraviolet spectroscopy, a mixture of both trans (1) and cis isomer (3) was also prepared. The comparison of the UV spectrum of 1 with that of the mixture corroborated the trans geometry of 1.
The required synthetic precursor, 4-nitro-1-p-methoxybenzyl-5-methyl-1H-imidazole (2), was pre- pared by alkylation of 5-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazole [2] with p-methoxybenzyl chloride in the presence of potassium carbonate in dimethylformamide (DMF) (Scheme 1). Compound 2 was obtained as a sin- gle regioisomer as determined from NMR data. The regioisomeric assignment of 2 was based upon (a) comparison of the benzyl absorptions of 2 in its 1H NMR spectrum with those of several other benzyl- substituted nitroimidazoles previously synthesized in this laboratory [3,4,5], and (b) the established fact that the alkylation of nitroimidazoles predominantly yield substitutions at the nitrogen atom farther away from the nitro group [6].
The target 1 was prepared by the slow addition of a solution of 2 and potassium t-butoxide in DMF to a solution of N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) [7] in DMF.
The energetically less-favored cis isomer (3), required for structural assignment by UV comparison, was prepared in low yield as a mixture of cis and trans isomers by reversal of the above addition proce- dure, consisting of a slow addition of a solution of NCS in DMF to a mixture of 2 and potassium t- butoxide in DMF (Scheme 2). The 1H NMR of the product mixture thus obtained exhibited two sets of peaks, while the product obtained by the first method showed only a single set of peaks.
The structural distinction between the two geometric isomers was achieved by comparing the UV absorbance data of the mixture 1 and 3 with that of 1 alone. The UV absorbance spectra of a mixture of 1 and 3, depicted in Figure 2, showed two peaks above 300 nm, one at 8max 310 nm and 370 nm.
The UV absorbance spectrum of 1 in Figure 3, on the other hand, showed only one peak at 8max 370 nm. The energetically less-favored cis isomer 3, with its two-charged nitro groups in close spatial proximity, is anticipated to absorb at a lower wave number (higher energy) than the trans isomer 1. Thus 3 and 1 were assigned the cis and trans configurations, respectively. The mass spectrometric and microanalytical data were consistent with the dimeric structures of 1 and 3.
A tentative reaction pathway for the formation of 1 and 3 from 2 is outlined in Scheme 3. It appears that the key intermediate is the monochloro dimer 8, which might be formed via a couple of different routes, including the nucleophilic displacement reaction of the carbanion 6 on the initially formed monochloro species 5 (Path A) or by the attack of carbanion 4 on the dichloro species 7 (Path B). The intermediate 8 undergoes further dehydrohalogenation in the presence of potassium t-butoxide to yield the observed cis and trans dimers 3 and 1, respectively.
1H NMR spectra were recorded on a General Electric QE-300 (300 MHz) or Varian (200 MHz) NMR instrument. The reported spectral data are in the following format: chemical shift (all relative to MeSi4 as an internal reference standard unless otherwise indicated), multiplicity (abbreviations: s = sin- glet, d = doublet, dd = doublet of doublets, t = triplet, q = quartet, m = multiplet, b = broad and app = apparent), integration, coupling constants, exchangeability after D2O addition, and assignment of reso- nance. 13C NMR spectra were recorded on a General Electric QE-300 (300 MHz) instrument, using DMSO-d6 as the reference standard. Atlantic Microlab, Inc., Norcross Georgia, performed elemental microanalyses. The mass spectra were recorded at the Mass Spectral Facility, Department of Biochem- istry, Michigan State University. Ultraviolet spectra were recorded on a Jasco V-570 UV/VIS/NIR spectrophotometer. Thin layer chromatography was performed on Merck Kieselgel 60 GF254 plates (0.2 mm thickness). Melting points were determined on a Thomas-Hoover capillary melting point apparatus and are uncorrected. Anhydrous THF was freshly distilled from sodium. Anhydrous solvents DMF, pyridine, and chloroform were purchased from Aldrich Chemical Co. and were used without further pu- rification.
4-Nitro-1-p-methoxybenzyl-5-methylimidazole (2)
To 1.00 g of 5-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazole [2] (7.86 mmol) in a 100 mL three-neck round bottom flask equipped with a thermometer, N2 inlet, and a magnetic stirring bar, was added potassium carbon- ate (0.868 gm, 6.29 mmol), DMF (10.0 mL) and p-methoxybenzyl chloride (1.17 mL, 8.65 mmol) in one portion. The mixture was heated at 130°C overnight. The mixture was then cooled to room tem- perature and then further cooled in an ice bath. The resulting salts were collected under vacuum and washed with chloroform. The chloroform was then evaporated to yield a dark slurry (as a last step in evaporation process, toluene was added and the mixture evaporated again to get all the DMF out). The dark mixture was then triturated with cold ether to yield brown crystals. The crystals collected had m.p. 98-106°C, and were recrystallized in toluene to yield a light brown solid, m.p. 103-106°C, 42% yield. 1H NMR. (DMSO-d6) δ 7.91(s, 1H, 2-H imidazole), 7.21 (d, J=8.7Hz, 2H, m-Ph), 6.94 (d, J=8.4Hz, 2H, o-Ph), 5.24 (s, 2H, CH2Ar), 3.74 (s, 3H, OCH3); MS (FAB) m/z 248 (MH+).
Anal. Calcd. for C12H13N3O3 : C, 58.29; H, 5.29; N, 16.99. Found C, 58.43; H, 5.40; N, 15.91.
Mixture of cis-1,2-bis(3-nitro-1-p-methoxybenzylimidazol-2-yl)ethene (3) and trans-1,2-bis(3-nitro- 1- p-methoxybenzyl imidazol-2-yl)ethene (1)
Compound 2 (0.200 g, 0.81 mmol) in (10.0 mL) DMF was added dropwise over 30 minutes to a stirred solution of potassium-tert butoxide (0.363 g, 3.24 mmol) in a three-neck round bottom flask, under nitrogen at 0°C. The reaction mixture was allowed to stand another 30 minutes at 0°C and then N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) (0.216 g, 1.618 mmol) in dry THF (10.0 mL) was added to the flask. The reaction temperature was brought to room temperature, followed by refluxing for 5 hours. TLC (100:1 CHCl3 / MeOH) showed no starting material. The mixture was then rotary evaporated and neutralized to pH 7 with dil. HCl. The mixture was extracted with chloroform (3 x 50 mL). The organic layers were combined and dried over anhydrous MgSO4. The chloroform extract was mixed with silica gel and the mixture was evaporated to dryness. The residue was suspended in a minimum amount of chloroform and the resulting slurry was loaded onto a silica gel column and the column was eluted with a mixture of 100:1 (CHCl3 / MeOH). Pooling and evaporation of the appropriate eluent fractions under reduced pressure afforded an oil, which was triturated with cold ethanol to give a mixture of dimers 1 and 3, m.p. 205-210°C. 1H NMR (300 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ 8.05 & 7.87(s, 2x1, 1H, 2-H imidazole), 7.41 (s, 1H, C=C), 7.17 (d, J=8.7Hz, 2H, m-Ph), 7.04 (d, J=8.4Hz, 2H, m-Ph) 6.91 (d, J=8.7Hz, 2H, o-Ph). 6.88 (s, 1H, C=C), 6.86 (d, J=8.7Hz, 2H, o-Ph), 5.26 & 5.18 (s, 2x1, 2H, CH2Ar), 3.70 & 3.67 (s, 2x1, 3H, OCH3); MS (FAB) m/z 491 (MH+). Anal. Calcd. for C24H22N6O6·¼ H2O: C, 58.24; H, 4.58; N, 16.98. Found C, 58.22; H, 4.70; N, 16.72.
Trans-1,2-bis(3-nitro-1-p-methoxybenzylimidazol-2-yl)ethene (1)
To a vigorously stirred mixture of N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) (0.216 g, 1.618 mmol) in DMF at room temperature was added dropwise a well-stirred (see below) mixture of potassium tert-butoxide (0.272 g, 2.427 mmol) and 2 (0.20 g, 0.809 mmol) in DMF via syringe. Before the addition, the mixture of potassium tert-butoxide and 2 was stirred for 2.0 hrs at room temperature under nitrogen. After the addition, the reaction mixture was refluxed overnight. The TLC (100:1 CHCl3 / MeOH) showed one UV-absorbing, yellow spot. The reaction mixture was evaporated and neutralized to pH 7 with 0.5 N HCl and water. The mixture was extracted with chloroform (4 x 50 mL). The organic layers were com- bined and dried over anhydrous MgSO4. The chloroform extract was mixed with silica gel and the mix- ture was evaporated to dryness. The residue was suspended in a minimum amount of chloroform and the resulting slurry was loaded onto a silica gel column and the column was eluted with a mixture of 100:1 (CHCl3 / MeOH). Pooling and evaporation of the appropriate eluent fractions under reduced pressure afforded an oil which was triturated with cold ethanol to give the dimer 1 (0.100 g, 39%), m.p. 220-223°C 1H NMR (DMSO-d6) δ 8.06 (s, 1H, 2-H imidazole), 7.41 (s, 1H, C=C), 7.04 (d, J=8.7Hz, 2H, m-Ph), 6.86 (d, J=8.7Hz, 2H, o-Ph), 5.26 (s, 2H, CH2Ar), 3.67 (s, 3H, OCH3); MS (FAB) m/z 491 (MH+). Anal. Calcd. for C24H22N6O6·1½H2O: C, 55.70; H, 4.83; N, 16.24. Found C, 55.77; H, 4.75; N, 15.44.
Acknowledgement:
This work was supported by a grant (# RO1 CA71079) from the National Institutes of Health.
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Figure 2. The UV absorbance spectrum of the mixture of 1 and 3 in chloroform: 8max: 1: 370; 2: 310; 3: 242; 4: 210 nm.
Figure 3. UV absorbance spectrum of 1 in chloroform. 8max: 1: 370; 2: 242 nm.
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Channel Surfing – March 16, 2010
Posted March 16th, 2010 by Kim
All the tube news that's fit to surf …
– The best new TV drama since Sons of Anarchy premieres tonight: Justified, starring Deadwood's Timothy Olyphant as a Kentucky marshal. Check out my mini-review here, or better yet. just check out the show (10PM ET, FX).
– Mac and Sweet Dee are having a baby! Actually, it's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia stars – and real-life marrieds – Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson, who are expecting their first child in August.
– What will the American Idol contestants sing for tonight's Rolling Stones-themed performances? Here are my suggestions.
– Most TV types have been assuming that ex-American Idol judge Paula Abdul will reunite with Simon Cowell at the judge's table of his upcoming U.S. version of The X Factor, but rumors leaked earlier this week that she was being wooed by ABC to host yet another revamp of Star Search. Now, The Daily Beast reports that loopy Paula actually passed on gobs of cash from ABC and may be holding out to work with Simon again after all.
– Seems like every day brings a new Betty White story, and there's nothing wrong with that! Today, we learn that the Golden Girls alum will not only star in the pilot episode of TV Land's summer sitcom Hot in Cleveland, but that she's now been made a regular cast member.
– Happy Victor Garber Day! Why? Why not?
– Chuck fans, you might want to prepare for more trips to Subway: Monday night's episode was the show's lowest-rated. Ever. Sigh.
– It's looking good for an eighth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, says Larry David.
– Check out a first look at Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian in HBO's "Dr. Death" movie You Don't Know Jack. The made-for-TV flick, directed by Barry Levinson, premieres on HBO in April.
– I know lots of TV fans hate the big-screen makeovers of boob tube classics, but the premiere of the upcoming MacGruber movie was met with a very positive response from fans at the SXSW festival.
– 24 moving from Fox to NBC? Eh, I guess there have been worse ideas. I guess.
– This is certainly a contender for the weirdest show ever: Mike Tyson – yes, that Mike Tyson – is going to star in an Animal Planet reality series called Taking on Tyson, which will find the former boxing champ raising and racing pigeons. Wow.
– And wanna co-star with As the World Turns diva Eileen Fulton before the soap sadly bites the dust next fall? Here's your chance.
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