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Between packing, moving and working on my university anime club's website and membership systems, I haven't had time to review the last two Tamako Market episodes Clara and I watched. I know, I'm as horrified as you are!
While we wait for me to have a sliver of spare time, have this super cute Megami image of the girls from the series instead. Arigato.


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Breaking the Poverty Trap
Why Poverty and Inequality are Human Rights Issues
Human Rights Watch has long documented how, when people live in poverty, their ability to exercise all their human rights erodes. Because of this, we have pushed governments to end abuses that contribute to poverty. We have recently decided to…
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What are your main concerns about the coronavirus moving through the MENA region? The first is countries in conflict, Yemen, Syria, and Libya, and the densely crowded Gaza Strip, under Israeli occupation. Another vulnerable population is…
Interview: Displaced and Destitute as Guinea Advances Dam Project with Help from China
How a Flawed Resettlement Process Is Robbing Thousands of Villagers of Their Livelihood
How has the construction of the dam affected people's livelihood so far? The vast majority of people who are being resettled are farmers whose families have exploited the land in the area for generations. Most are extremely…
More than Just China: COVID-19 May Ravage Asia
What are your main concerns about the coronavirus in Asia? Because testing is so poor in most of Asia, we have no visibility about how widespread infections are. Overcrowded cities where social distancing is challenging or impossible also…
Interview: Libya's Chaos Explained
Civilians Bear the Brunt of Renewed Fighting
Libya began descending into chaos after Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011. Could you summarize the complex situation in Libya today? The latest conflict started in April 2019, when an armed group in eastern Libya called…
Interview: Playing in Poisoned Dust
Being Outside is a Health Risk for Some of Zambia's Children
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Alec MacLeod
amacleod@ciis.edu 415-575-6287
School of Undergraduate Studies
MFA, Stanford University
BA, Hampshire College
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Alec MacLeod is a Professor in Undergraduate Studies. He received his undergraduate education at Hampshire College where he studied philosophy and fine arts. Alec also holds a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Stanford University (1983) and has studied information science at the University of California at Berkeley.
His primary areas of preparation are in the studio arts, art theory and information science. He is a practicing visual artist whose work is exhibited nationally. His interdisciplinary creative and scholarly inquires range from explorations of English language colloquialisms to the visual conventions of interfaces and white supremacy.
As an educator, Alec has used participatory collaborative methods of inquiry to explore the ways in which pedagogical approaches can assist learners in examining and changing their assumptions about race and ethnicity. He has trained as a multicultural trainer at Equity Institute and Visions, Inc. A member of a research collective, the European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness, he has participated in an inquiry into white identity and ways in which white people can become more aware of their identity and its implications. The group has presented its work at educational conferences and recently authored an article entitled "White on White: Communicating about Race and White Privilege with Critical Humility" in Understanding & Dismantling Privilege: the Journal of the White Privilege Conference.
Alec has over thirty years of experience as a facilitator of learning in higher education as a classroom teacher and as an administrator. He was a member of the design team for the undergraduate cohort based degree completion program and the inaugural director of that program. In addition to his interdisciplinary courses in the Undergraduate program, Alec teaches courses in visual thinking, creativity, and visual culture.
Alec MacLeod's CV.
Alec MacLeod has a long-standing interest in issues of communication about and across differences, especially racial differences. He has trained as a multicultural trainer and consultant at Equity Institute and Visions, Inc. A member of a research collective, the European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness (ECCW), he has participated in an inquiry into white identity and ways in which white people can become more aware of their identity and its implications.
The ECCW fosters research and learning to develop their understanding about what it means to be a member of the dominant group in society and to translate their growing understanding and expanded awareness into new behavior and action for social change. They have been meeting together since 1997 because they see learning about being white, and working to address racism in themselves, as an ongoing practice. The use of collective authorship under the name of the Collaborative reflects their understanding of the way in which knowledge is constructed. Members came together originally through their association with a cultural consciousness project at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Members are: Carole Barlas, Elizabeth Kasl, Alec MacLeod, Doug Paxton, Penny Rosenwasser, and Linda Sartor.
The group has presented its work at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, the conference of the National Women's Studies Association, the International Transformative Learning Conference, and annually at the White Privilege Conference. It has authored journal articles and book chapters most notably about its concept of critical humility, a strategy for communicating about race, racism, and privilege among white people.
European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness (2012). White on White: Communicating about Race and White Privilege with Critical Humility. Understanding & Dismantling Privilege: the Journal of the White Privilege Conference.
European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness (2010) White on white: Communicating about race with critical humility. In V. Sheared, S. Brookfield, S. Colin, J. Johnson-Bailey, & E. Peterson (Eds.). Handbook on Race: A dialogue between adult and higher education scholars. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness. (2009). Challenging Racism in Self and Others: Transformative Learning as a Living Practice. In J. Mezirow & E.W. Taylor (Eds.). Transformative Learning in Action. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness (2005). When first-person inquiry is not enough. Action Research 3, (3), pp. 245-261.
Barlas, C., Kasl, E., Kyle, R., MacLeod, A., Paxton, D., Rosenwasser, P. & Sartor, L. (2000). Cooperative inquiry as a strategy for facilitating perspective transformation. In C. Weissner, S. Meyer, & D. Fuller (Eds.) Challenges of practice: Transformative learning in action. 3rd International Transformative Learning Conference Proceedings. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, October 26-28, pp. 51-56.
Barlas, C., Kasl, E., Kyle, R., MacLeod, A., Paxton, D., Rosenwasser, P., & Sartor, L. (2000). Learning to unlearn White supremacist consciousness. In T. Sork, V. Lee-Chapman, & R. St. Clair (Eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Adult Education Research Conference. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 2-4, pp. 26-30.
Learn more about the Collaborative at www.eccw.org
The Dog Project: Beginning in 2001 Alec MacLeod has been investigating the ways in which dogs are referred to in US English, looking at metaphors, slang, and common idiom. The research is distilled into two products:
A website: The Canine in Conversation: Dogs in Metaphor and Idiom, Illustrated which is an ongoing part of the project.
An essay: Dog as Self and Other: Comparisons to Canines as a Practice of Dehumanization. Language and Ecology 3.1 (2009): 1-15.
The Orange Cone Project is a collaboration between the artists Alec MacLeod and Beijing Charlie, in which MacLeod -as critic Andrew White- critiques Beijing Charlie's large scale installation piece. The short video, "Chaos and Order in Johnson Vermont," satirizes contemporary art criticism.
Project Renga was Alec MacLeod's own undergraduate capstone project. In collaboration with others he created the evidence that the fictitious country of Renga does indeed exist.


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HomeNews2030 District partners with Duquesne
2030 District partners with Duquesne
January 28, 2015 The Duquesne Duke News Comments Off on 2030 District partners with Duquesne
Photo by Claire Murray | Photo Editor. In this archive photo, Des Places Hall towers above McCloskey Field on a summer day. The hall was constructed in 2012 with a commitment to sustainability.
By Max Blechman | The Duquesne Duke
The Green Building Alliance's Pittsburgh initiative, which seeks to reduce energy use, recently expanded to include the Bluff among its participating regions, but it is still unclear what steps Duquesne will take to reach the goals of the program.
Duquesne and UPMC Mercy both agreed to take part in the initiative, entitled the 2030 District. The 2030 District is a nationwide, privately owned program that seeks to partner with communities and property owners to provide plans to reduce energy use, water use and transportation emissions by at least 50 percent by the year 2030.
The 2030 District does not use binding mandates or requirements, but rather provides resources for its property owners. Participation level is left to the discretion of each participant, which means the plans the university will implement are still up in the air.
"The University has yet to decide if [participation will include] every building on our campus or a few buildings … but we are working with the 2030 staff," executive director of facilities management Rod Dobish said. "We're not there with exactly what our goals are because we're not at that point yet."
When the 2030 District first reached out to Duquesne to participate in the initiative when it first began in Pittsburgh, school officials were "cautious," according to Dobish. The University was hesitant to lose some of its autonomy to the organization, fearing that the mandates would be binding.
"To be quite honest, at the beginning the University had some reservations as to the goals of the organizations and its mandates," Dobish said. "It just seemed to us [at the time] that the goals were like mandates, not like targets."
When talks began anew between the district and the University in summer 2014, Duquesne officials found the initiatives were more of goals as opposed to binding action.
"They have matured with some of the goals that they have, and the University decided it was a good time to get involved," Dobish said. "They now have the right people involved … and we just thought it would be a good thing to join."
School officials say that joining the more than 60 partners that participate in the initiative is a good move for the school. The school has a much publicized Co-Generation plant, which provides most of the power for the school. Additionally, the recently built Power Center and Des Places are both LEED certified buildings and have been part of construction efforts by the school to decrease energy usage.
"These steps have been taken because it's the right thing to do for our campus and our community, and it sets an example for the next generation of leaders that we are educating," Duquesne spokeswoman Bridget Fare said.
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CFB's Week 2 sees fair share of controversies
September 14, 2017 The Duquesne Duke Sports Comments Off on CFB's Week 2 sees fair share of controversies
Drew White | Staff Writer College football fans have been treated to an incredible 2017-18 season thus far, complete with outstanding individual performances, enormous upsets and several marquee matchups between top-ranked teams. Labor Day weekend […]
Homecoming celebrations welcome students old and new
October 5, 2017 The Duquesne Duke Features Comments Off on Homecoming celebrations welcome students old and new
By Claudia Hardy | Staff Writer 10/05/17 Whether your "story has just begun" or your "story began here," many would agree that Duquesne has left a significant impact on our college experience. Thanks to Alumni […]
Nintendo bids farewell to Wii U game console
November 17, 2016 The Duquesne Duke Arts & Entertainment Comments Off on Nintendo bids farewell to Wii U game console
By Grant Stoner | Staff Writer Nintendo will be releasing their latest console, the Nintendo Switch, to the masses in March. Yet, as we say hello to new adventures on the Switch, we must bid […]


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Fontanella is een gemeente in de Italiaanse provincie Bergamo (regio Lombardije) en telt 3773 inwoners (31-12-2004). De oppervlakte bedraagt 17,9 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 212 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Fontanella telt ongeveer 1391 huishoudens. Het aantal inwoners steeg in de periode 1991-2001 met 4,9% volgens cijfers uit de tienjaarlijkse volkstellingen van ISTAT.

Geografie
De gemeente ligt op ongeveer 105 m boven zeeniveau.

Fontanella grenst aan de volgende gemeenten: Antegnate, Barbata, Calcio, Casaletto di Sopra (CR), Pumenengo, Soncino (CR), Torre Pallavicina.

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CureVac granted patent for its manufacturing process to produce RNA
by Joseph Keenan |
Germany-based CureVac was granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its manufacturing process for producing RNA. (CureVac)
CureVac, a biopharmaceutical maker focused on mRNA-based drugs, was granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its manufacturing process for producing RNA.
The company said it is the first in its field to get a patent for the entire manufacturing process of in vitro transcribed RNA. The patent covers processes for the in vitro transcription of template DNA including proprietary quality control steps for producing purified RNA.
The company's technology works by delivering antigen-encoding mRNA molecules to the body to induce both cellular and humoral immune responses.
"Our highest priority has always been to create ultra-pure mRNA at the lowest cost of goods," Ingmar Hoerr, CureVac's co-founder and CEO, said in a statement. "Based on our extensive know-how and IP, we are currently building our industrial-scale production facility designed to produce up to 30 million doses of RNA-based therapeutics per year."
In February, CureVac received two new grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation had previously given the company a $52 million equity investment.
CureVac has been working on developing a seasonal flu vaccine using its technology. Dubbed CV7302, the flu shot is slated to enter human testing this year. The Gates grant, however, is focused on a universal flu vaccine.
The Germany-based company is also eying a potential $1.8 billion deal with Eli Lilly to develop five mRNA cancer vaccines, and it is collaborating with Boehringer Ingelheim in non-small cell lung cancer.
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Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square and towns across Egypt on Tuesday, in the biggest show of defiance towards President Hosni Mubarak since the revolt began.
In Cairo, the immense crowd hailed as a hero a charismatic cyberactivist and Google executive whose Facebook site helped kickstart the protests on January 25 and who was released after being detained and blindfolded for 12 days.
AFP journalists overlooking the square confirmed it was the biggest gathering yet in a movement which began last month. Witnesses in Egypt's second city Alexandria said a march there also attracted record numbers.
Many protesters carried the symbols of the Internet social networks Facebook and Twitter, which have become vital mobilising tools for the opposition, thanks to online campaigners like the Google executive, Wael Ghonim.
"I like to call it the Facebook Revolution, but after seeing the people right now, I would say this is the Egyptian people's revolution. It's amazing," Ghonim said, after he was mobbed by adoring supporters in the crowd.
"Egyptians deserve a better life. Today one of those dreams has actually come true, which is actually putting all of us together and as one hand believing in something," he said.
Ghonim has become a hero to many in the protest movement, having started one of its Facebook sites and having been seized by the regime on January 27.
"I'm not a hero, you are the heroes, you're the ones who stayed on this square," Ghonim told the crowd that surged around him, many weeping, clapping and shouting: "Long live Egypt, long live Egypt!"
Earlier, the regime had issued a decree forming a committee to oversee constitutional changes ahead of elections due later this year.
"The president welcomed the national consensus, confirming we are on the right path to getting out of the current crisis," said Vice President Omar Suleiman, whom many now see as the power behind the throne.
"A clear road map has been put in place with a set timetable to realise a peaceful and organised transfer of power," he promised in a televised address.
The vice president has begun meeting representatives of some opposition parties -- including the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, but not some of the street protest groups -- to draw up plans for a democratic transition.
Mubarak has vowed not to stand for reelection in September, but opposition groups say any vote to replace the 82-year-old strongman would not be fair under Egypt's current constitution.
While larger crowds gather daily to protest, several thousand occupy Tahrir Square day and night, sleeping under plastic sheets or army tanks.
"Patriotic songs about the country used to sound exaggerated, but we own the country now," said 34-year-old doctor Issam Shebana, who came back from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to staff a makeshift clinic in the square.
"Yesterday, one man in his 60s said: 'We were cowards. We kept quiet all these years, but you've done it.' It's inspiring. It's a rebirth," he said. "I never thought I'd sleep on asphalt with rain on my face and feel happy."
Massive crowds again defied a curfew -- the hours of which have been gradually shortened as life in Cairo returns to normal -- to remain in Tahrir after 8:00 pm (1800 GMT).
The mood was festive, with one young couple even getting married in the square. Abdullah al-Qadi, 31, waved an Egyptian flag to the beat of celebratory music as his smiling bride, 28-year-old Sonia al-Beali, looked on.
On Monday, Mubarak tried to appease the protesters, pledging to raise public sector wages by 15 percent and ordering a probe into deadly violence that has left at least 300 people dead in the course of 15 days of protests.
"They announced a pay increase. They are trying to fool us. This is a political bribe to silence people," snorted 36-year-old demonstrator Mohammed Nizar as he queued patiently to join the crowds in Tahrir.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said it was "critical" the Egyptian government fulfil its promises and move ahead with an orderly democratic transition after days of mass street protests.
Vice President Joe Biden telephoned his Egyptian counterpart and discussed a number of steps that Washington supports, including "broadening participation in the national dialogue to include a wide range of opposition members," the White House said.
Western capitals have generally stopped short of calling for Mubarak to go, urging instead cautious reforms, but French Defence Minister Alain Juppe said it was now time to "bet on the emergence of democratic forces".


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Outstanding faculty members win college awards
Paul Alongi, College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences
Seven faculty members received awards and several others were recognized for tenure, promotions and other achievements at a Sept. 7 gala at the Owen Pavilion just off Lake Hartwell.
The award winners were Kyle Brinkman, Ashley Childers, Brian Powell, Kevin Taaffe, Lawrence Fredendall, Joshua Summers and Delphine Dean.
Award winners posed for a photo with Anand Gramopadhye, dean of the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences. Those pictured are (from left): Brian Powell, Delphine Dean, Gramopadhye, Joshua Summers, Kevin Taaffe, and Ashley Childers. Not pictured are Kyle Brinkman and Lawrence Fredendall.
The awards ceremony is an annual event in the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences, honoring outstanding faculty members in six categories.
For the first time, the ceremony was moved from the end of the spring semester to the beginning of the fall semester so that faculty members receiving tenure and promotions could be recognized.
You can view photos from the event here.
You can also see tweets from the ceremony by going to the college's Twitter account, @ClemsonCECAS, or searching #TopFaculty2018.
Here's more on each award in the order in which it was presented:
Murray Stokely Award
2018 winner: Kyle Brinkman, associate professor of materials science and engineering
About the award: Given to a faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching engineering at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.
McQueen Quattlebaum Faculty Achievement Award
2018 winner: Brian Powell, the Fjeld Professor in Nuclear Environmental Engineering and Science
About the award: Recognizes faculty accomplishments in the preceding year and distinctions and awards over the past three years.
Byars Prize for Excellence in Teaching Engineering Fundamentals
2018 winner: Ashley Childers, a senior lecturer and course coordinator for General Engineering
About the award: Recognizes excellence in teaching engineering fundamentals.
Collaboration Award
2018 winners: Kevin Taaffe, Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Professor in Industrial Engineering; and Lawrence Fredendall, professor of management in the College of Business
About the award: Recognizes a team of two or more faculty who have demonstrated exemplary and synergistic collaboration in research and/or teaching which has made notable contributions to the college.
Mentoring Award
2018 winner: Joshua Summers, professor of mechanical engineering and graduate program coordinator
About the award: Honors a faculty member who goes above and beyond in enriching the faculty and student Clemson experience.
Esin Gulari Leadership and Service Award
2018 winner: Delphine Dean, the Gregg-Graniteville Associate Professor of Bioengineering
About the award: Recognizes college faculty who undertake leadership and service roles that require selfless commitment of time and effort.
Bioengineering, Environmental Engineering And Earth Sciences, Faculty, General Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science And Engineering
Top students lauded in awards ceremony
Eight faculty members honored in College of Engineering and Science
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T-Mobile gets busy this summer rolling out new 600MHz network
The Un-carrier has a busy, busy summer ahead of it.
Ara Wagoner
T-Mobile ran away with 45% of the 600MHz spectrum at the FCC's spectrum auction earlier this year, and the time has come to start using it. T-Mobile is going to use its newly acquired licenses for 600MHz to beef up its high-speed LTE network this summer.
The FCC finally sorted out the last of the paperwork with the magenta-colored carrier this week, and now T-Mobile has announced its plans to beef up its network during the summer with this new bandwidth. It's planning to develop the new spectrum and prep test sites this summer, with the hope of bringing that bandwidth to the average user later this year. Phones supporting 600MHz spectrum should also be available by that time.
The hope here is that with this low-band spectrum, which travels further and can penetrate thicker walls, T-Mobile can start really competing with AT&T and Verizon where it counts. Can it come back to school in the fall a whole new wireless network? Maybe, maybe not, but at least the work has started.
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What day is it? All my days this week have been filled with one thing after another. Busyness has come and it won't go away. Going...going...going. These are not really things we can bow out of or want to---flute lesson, piano lesson, shopping for the needy, meetings, and the dreaded doctor's appointments. So I'm starting to let go of some other things that really aren't essentials.
I've had a headache since yesterday...today it feels like a migraine-off and on. I'm just tired and pooped.
This scripture has been going through my mind today..."Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9 I have to admit I'm feeling kinda weary and worn down today.
I know I can't do everything on my own...it's only through His strength that I'm able to "not grow weary".


Ok, well, I wasn't planning on buying quite so much fabric at the end of the year, but for some reason the end-of-year sales offered up better options to me than any of the Black Friday or pre-Christmas sales did. Most of my family gave me "fabric money" as holiday gifts, and so I went a little crazy. I pretty much hit all of my favorite fabric and pattern sources, and made out like a bandit.
but I do find it quite striking.
I LOVE the section on blazers – loving the collar on the one on the right.
The one of the left is so classic, and the one on the right has interesting waist detail.
I am also loving this dress – a possibility for my sewing challenge bonus item party dress?
I am really liking this dress as well.
blue/black paisley poly charmeuse print (most likely for lining).
Joann's New Year's Sale sucked me in, as I needed to buy a second sewing gauge (for the new sewing space) and some wooly nylon thread. While there I also picked up some Red Tag fabric and (prepare for a shock) Bemberg rayon lining! I don't know when they started carrying it, or how long they will continue to carry it, but I am sure glad they have it! Regular price is $9.99/yard, but with the sale it was $5.99, and with a 50% off coupon it could be less in the future (on a non-sale day). Hoping this is a sign that Joann will start carrying some more higher-quality stuff, but I am not counting on it too much.
Metallic blend poly/cotton and Bemberg rayon!
Right now I am thinking of making a blazer type jacket with the fabric and using the underside (lighter, more shiny) as a contrast collar). I have a few patterns from the Patrones magazines in mind for this, though I probably won't get to it anytime soon.
This is a local-ish fabric store specializing in fabrics for dance, skating, and gymnastics costumes. Though they used to be at a different location with a larger selection, they still carry some great fabrics on occasion.
The email about the sale came while I was starting to think about my plans for the 2012 Sewing Challenge, so when I saw a sale on denim, I thought it would be a good time to get some. I also couldn't resist the sale on wool coatings, so I got a few of those as well. And, of course, I had to get a mystery box because they make life interesting.
Denim – for the jeans phase of my sewing challenge.
Magenta wool coating – it is fabulously smooth.
Mystery box fabric – I think the green and white in the front are silks.
More mystery fabric – some cotton floral fabric and assorted polyester things.
I think Fabric Mart might be my favorite online fabric source – they have such great quality at reasonable prices and I love that their stock is always changing. During the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales I wasn't too interested in anything they had, but they recently had a one day 30% off total purchase sale and I went absolutely hog wild. We are talking upwards of 50 yards here. Insane. But I got some really amazing stuff.
Silk! Back: dense, smooth blue-grey silk and tan silk shantung.
Front: pumpkin silk-acetate blend, and teal ombre silk chiffon.
My favorite! Teal/navy Marc Jacobs wool.
This will become a BWOF coat.
So yeah… that's, ummm, a lot of fabric. Like, a lot a lot. Like whoa I can't believe I ordered that much fabric. Like, I won't be needing fabric for a really long time amount of fabric. So at this point I am thinking I probably won't be buying much fabric (any fabric) unless it is required for structural support, lining, or interlining anytime soon. I don't know if I will say that I am officially on a stash diet, but I will say my fabric appetite is quite satiated at the moment. Ah, well. It is pretty and it does make me happy and inspired. On that note, time to get sewing!
That teal/navy wool has me practically drooling. I'm hanging out to see what you turn it into!
A little fabric gluttony every so often is good! And what a great haul you have!


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Affiliation and Accreditation
Delphian School is a member of the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools, an Accredited Member of the Northwest Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS), The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS), the Western Boarding Schools Association (WBSA), and an accredited member school of the Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC). Delphi Schools, Inc. is licensed to use Applied Scholastics™ educational services.
Delphian School is an independent nonprofit organization and does not receive funds from government, religious or other groups. Funds for operations and capital improvements are raised through tuition, fees and charitable contributions.
Accrediting Agencies
NWAIS
The Northwest Association of Independent Schools is a voluntary membership organization that promotes high educational quality for its schools through the establishment and advancement of comprehensive accreditation standards.
It administers the accreditation process for independent elementary and secondary schools in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Through this accreditation process, the Association assists schools with the process of school improvement
The Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC), a division of AdvancED, is the largest community of education professionals in the world, accrediting 32,000 schools and school systems—employing more than four million educators and enrolling more than 20 million students—across the United States and 70 other nations.
WBSA
SBSA
Heron Books
Applied Scholastics International is a non-profit, public benefit organization formed in 1972 by educators from colleges, universities, and both public and private schools.
The mission of Applied Scholastics is to provide effective education services and materials that help people learn how to learn and thereby work effectively to achieve their goals and realize their full potential.
Delphian School is licensed to use Applied Scholastics™ educational services.
Applied Scholastics and the Applied Scholastics open book design are trademarks and service marks owned by Association for Better Living and Education International and are used with its permission.
The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) is the public voice for college-preparatory boarding schools and the central resource for boarding school education. TABS serves roughly 300 boarding schools across the United States, Canada, and abroad. Serving as a bridge between schools and students, TABS actively supports the needs of boarding schools themselves, and provides information and insight to families about the benefits of a boarding school environment.
The Western Boarding Schools Association is a consortium of forty of the strongest college preparatory schools in the Western U.S. and Canada.
The Small Boarding Schools Association was founded in 1987 by a group who felt that small boarding schools needed their own gathering to address those issues unique to their type of school.
While the membership in the organization has grown since its founding, its central purpose remains essentially unchanged. SBSA continues to exist today to provide those who work in and with small boarding schools of various types an opportunity to share and to learn from one another.
Delphi Schools, Inc. (DSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing education through effective primary, elementary and secondary schools. DSI licenses curriculum to schools in the Delphi Schools Network. Through Heron Books™, all the Delphi schools are furnished with a standardized curriculum and a comprehensive curriculum training program that ensures consistency and effectiveness within the network.
The Delphi Schools network includes five Delphi Academies across the country. The Delphian School is the founding school of the Delphi Schools network.
Heron Books™ is a research and development team that publishes cutting edge K-12 educational materials. Heron Books materials are for schools, preschools, homeschools, teachers, tutors, parents, children and teens. Training centers and businesses use Heron Books materials as well.
Through Heron Books, all the Delphi schools are furnished with a standardized curriculum and a comprehensive curriculum training program that ensures consistency and effectiveness within the network.
Delphian School Niche Rankings
Niche rankings are based on rigorous analysis of data and reviews. We were also ranked in the top 10 for 2018 Best Schools for STEM in Oregon, Most Diverse Private High Schools in Oregon and Best College Prep Private High Schools in Oregon based on SAT/ACT scores, 4-year matriculation rate, the quality of colleges that students consider, and student and parent ratings of college readiness. Read more about Delphian's Niche rankings.
Many questions about our program are answered elsewhere on our site—such as, What are forms? How independent is independent study? What are the age ranges of your Lower, Elementary, Middle and Upper Schools?
For those questions not answered elsewhere, you can hopefully find your answer below. If not, please contact our Admissions Office. We welcome your questions about our school and program.
What is an independent school?
What is the true cost of a Delphian education?
Can my family apply for a scholarship or financial aid?
Do young children board at your school?
Isn't boarding school mainly for children with behavioral or learning problems?
Does the Delphian School have any religious affiliation?
How are children of differing faiths supported?
Independent schools are private learning institutions with missions unique to each. In order to be considered 'independent,' such schools must be not-for-profit institutions governed by independent boards of trustees and funded through tuition, charitable contributions, and endowment income.
Independent schools uphold high standards of educational quality and are publicly accountable to parents, communities, and the agencies that accredit them. Delphian School is accredited by the Northwest Association of Independent Schools, www.nwais.org, through a rigorous self-study process comparing our mission and values against the NWAIS standards, which include cultivating excellence in school leadership and academic rigor, furthering diversity, equity and inclusion, encouraging free and open inquiry, and fostering collegial and collaborative relationships, among many others.
Delphian tuition covers the costs related to most student experiences, including field trips and experiential activities, practical projects, community service, and often travel to apprenticeships and internships.
For Middle and Upper School students there are additional materials fees, and for Upper School students there is the cost of a laptop and a technology fee. Please see the Tuition & Fees page for details.
Yes. Please visit our Affording a Delphian Education page for more information.
Delphian School accepts boarding students from the age of 10, but the majority of our boarders are of high school age, with a smaller percentage at the middle school level (around 20% between ages 12 and 13).
Our elementary and lower schools primarily service local families whose children attend our day (non-boarding) programs.
Because younger children need a greater level of care and attention than older students, all boarding students enrolling in the Elementary and Middle Schools are assigned personal teachers (PTs). The PT is a faculty or staff member who helps provide the extra care and attention needed by a child of this age group who is living away from home.
PTs assist the parents by overseeing the welfare of younger boarding children in a variety of ways, such as eating most meals with their students, visiting with them at bedtime and spending time together on weekends.
Read more about our Advisor Program.
While some boarding schools cater to children with specific needs, the majority of boarding schools have the general mission of offering excellent educations that by statistic far exceed other private day and public schools in a number of important areas.
Boarding School Facts
The Art and Science Group conducted a nationwide survey of over 2,700 high school students and adults regarding their experiences in high school and their lives since. The survey found that, compared to day students, boarding students:
Devote more time to homework and extracurricular activities: 17 hours/week, versus 9 hours (private day) and 8 hours (public).
90% of boarding students report having high quality teachers - versus 62% (private day) and 51% (public).
78% of boarding students said they were well prepared for college - versus 36% (private day) and 23% (public).
56% of boarding students go on to earn advanced degrees - versus 36% (private day) and 21% (public).
In fact, the survey found that 60% of students applied to boarding school primarily for the opportunity to get a better education.
The above survey also offered the following key findings:
Students at private boarding schools have a better experience in high school than do students of a similar profile in public and private day schools.
Students at private boarding schools are better prepared for and attend more prestigious colleges and universities than do students of a similar profile in public and private day schools.
The Association of Boarding Schools has done extensive research into the quality of boarding school education and its long term benefits to students. Visit TABS.org for more information or for additional statistics and survey findings.
Sending a child of any age away to school is an important decision for any family. To be accepted at Delphian, both the child and the parents must want to be here for the right reasons. We do not accept children who are being 'sent away' for various reasons, only those who want to tackle their own education head-on.
Our Admissions team spends many hours with each applying family to ensure Delphian is the right fit for both the needs of parents and the child. Please reach out to them for more information. They welcome your questions and calls.
Delphian School is a fully independent, non-religious, K-12 day and boarding school welcoming students of all faiths.
Delphian does not have any religious affiliation. The school pays no fees or tithes to any church and does not teach the doctrines of any one faith, although students will study a course entitled Understanding the Classical Religions in their senior year. This course covers the basic tenets of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism and includes reading from their respective religious texts.
Delphian School admits students from around the world and has hosted a student body representing as many as twenty different nations. As a result, there are children in attendance who are members of many faiths, including Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism and Scientology, and representative of different denominations and sects.
In coordination with each child's parents, Delphian School helps arrange transportation to local churches, synagogues or temples on days of worship as required by a student's individual religious practice.


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Rwenzururu Kingdom initiates campaign to plant one million trees.
ByKisitu Alfred
The Rwenzururu Kingdom has initiated a campaign to plant one million trees in one year. The campaign is aimed at solving the various climatic challenges in the Rwenzori region.
Announcing the campaign, Stanley Baluku, the secretary of the prime ministerial commission of the Rwenzururu Kingdom says the kingdom is conscious of the natural disasters that have rocked the area and believes the easier way to mitigate them is through conserving the environment.
The area has suffered extreme weather conditions ranging from drought, storm winds and floods. Kasese district suffered devastating floods in 2013, 2014 and 2015 that left properties worth billions of shillings destroyed. In July, Bundibugyo district was hit by devastating floods destroying the Bundibugyo-Lamia road which developed cracks.
Baluku says afforestation and re-afforestation have been proven to be an effective way of conserving the environment. According to Baluku, if every Rwenzururu Kingdom subject could plant just one tree, the one million tree-planting target would be met.
Most of the Rwenzururu kingdom loyalists are people who belong to the Bakonzo ethnicity. There are more than one million Bakonzo people living in Uganda. It is against this background that Baluku has directed each kingdom subject to plant at least one tree before this year comes to an end.
He adds the effects of global warming directly affect the kingdom not just because the subjects are affected but also because the kingdom has a sentimental attachment to snows that are only found on Mt Rwenzori. Rwenzururu is a lhukonzo word to mean snow.
The kingdom was named after snow because it seats at the snow-capped Mt Rwenzori (originally called Rwenzururu).
Kaabong goes to the polls to elect district Woman MP.
Former French president Jacques Chirac dead.
By Kisitu Alfred


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Weekend Reading List
Weekend Reading List: Atwood, Buffy, Carrie, Disney
Hey kids, it's been a while! Lots to catch up on:
"No world for us: broken girls and embodied trauma in Porpentine's Psycho Nymph Exile." [Autostraddle]
In this film, Broadly's documentary series explores the witches of Romania.
In a similar vein: "the game developers who are also witches." [Kotaku]
Tibeb Girls is Ethiopia's answer to the Power Puff Girls. [Afropunk]
My friend Kai Cheng Thom wrote a beautiful, magic realist queer coming of age novel, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, and amid many, many glowing reviews, here's one from Autostraddle.
Today's tearjerker: A tribute to Carrie Fischer
"Stardew Valley gave me and my sister a chance to swoon over girls together for the first time in our gay lives." [Autostraddle]
Have you seen Get Out? Do that immediately:
B. Willis on Medium on how black women are the most overlooked characters in the film.
"What Becky gotta do to get murked: white womanhood in Jordan Peele's Get Out." [Very Smart Brothas]
Intelexual on the character of Rose and America's legacy of racist white women.
Buffy turned twenty! And everyone's singing the show's praises:
USAToday on the wonder the show provided fans.
Vulture on the show's ongoing legacy.
Vice on how Willow helped kids everywhere come out.
Hazlitt with a heartfelt roundtable discussion on the show's emotional resonance.
People have feelings about the new Beauty and the Beast remake:
"Why I want my son to know that boys can find beauty in a beast, too." [Washington Post]
Autostraddle charts Disney's journey from gay-coded villains, to the textual representation of LeFou.
But Buzzfeed thinks the film, and company, are receiving too much credit for such a small step forward.
And the new Handmaid's Tale show has just premiered! It's pretty amazing:
Anne Helen Petersen writes about the "radical feminist aesthetic" of the show. [Buzzfeed]
Autostraddle is thrilled with the adaptation's additional queerness. Their book club also takes a closer look at the source material.
"Margaret Atwood on what The Handmaid's Tale means in the age of Trump." [The New York Times]
The New Yorker on how, despite some disappointing cast comments, the show is very much a feminist work.
"I grew up in a fundamentalist cult—The Handmaid's Tale was my reality." [The Establishment]
ELLE on how the show, in Serena Joy, depicts a modern day anti-feminist by charting their rise from Phyllis Schlafly to Ivanka Trump.
Little White Lies sings the praises of the voice behind that idiosyncratic Twin Peaks ambiance: Julee Cruise.
"Twin Peaks was the most visually striking TV show ever made. And still is." [Slate]
"How to become a deadly misandrist fairy vampire." [Austostraddle]
Great British Bake Off alum Ruby Tandoh wrote about her new zine Do What You Want, which explores how queerness and mental health are represented in film. [Little White Lies]
"The casual racism in nerd/gaming communities needs to stop." [Afropunk]
Pop Culture Detective takes on the "born sexy yesterday" trope so often present in science fiction film.
Black Girl Nerds discusses the American Gods adaptation, depictions of lynching, and the realities of race in America.
Over on Youtube, Jill Bearup has a multi-part series on the history of fanfiction, from its earliest manifestations, to its rise in the Star Trek fandom, all the way to a discussion of the Mary Sue character type.
And lastly, Feminist Frequency's Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series has, sadly, come to an end. But the last film, a discussion of lady sidekicks, won't be the last we see of Anita Sarkeesian. The channel is still going strong with the FREQ Show: the first episode tackles Hollywood whitewashing.
Tagged Afropunk, American Gods, Anita Sarkeesian, Anne Helen Petersen, Autostraddle, B. Willis, Beauty and the Beast, Black Girl Nerds, Black Panther, Broadly, Buffering the Vampire Slayer, Buffy, Buzzfeed, Carrie Fisher, Disney, Do What You Want, Donald Trump, ELLE, Feminist Frequency, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, Get Out, Hazlitt, Intelexual, Jill Bearup, Julee Cruise, Kai Cheng Thom, Kotaku, Little White Lies, Margaret Atwood, Medium, New York Times, Pop Culture Detective, Porpentine, Psycho Nymph Exile, Ruby Tandoh, Slate, Star Wars, Stardew Valley, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Establishment, The Handmaid's Tale, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Tibeb Girls, Twin Peaks, USAToday, Very Smart Brothas, Vice, Vulture, Washington Post, Willow Rosenberg
Weekend Reading List: Poltergeists, Pokemon, Power
Hey there kids, let's start off with some good old Ghostbusters coverage:
The Mary Sue is here for all your recapping needs.
Author Jenny Trout thinks the rebooted movie is better than the original. Bold words, my friend.
Autostraddle gives us Holtzmann's ten gayest moments, and, in fact, posits that all the Ghostbusters are secretly gay.
The Steven Universe panel at SDCC sounds like it was so fun and charming, with creator Rebecca Sugar publicly coming out as a bisexual woman, and the cast leading a sing-a-long! [Autostraddle/LA Times]
The Mary Sue asks what it would take to decolonize space exploration in our science fiction.
"Why Elaine Fairchild [from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood] was my first feminist role model." [The Establishment]
Also from the Establishment, a piece on witches, women, and the narratives that give us power.
Thirty years after Alien first came out, Little White Lies takes a look at its enduring legacy.
BUST tackles the history of the portrayal of women in the original Star Trek, hoping that the new show will do a better job at representation than the current films.
Go read "your white cisgender boyfriend can't save you from the end of the world," a poem by Kai Cheng Thom (who, full disclosure, I know in real life). [Plenitude]
Also from people I know IRL, journalist/artist Hera Chan chats about intersectionality in Game of Thrones on CKUT 90.3 FM's Free City Radio.
The New York Times published a comic by Lynda Barry, in which Heidi (from Heidi) and Carrie (from Carrie) become friends.
Angry Asian Man is justifiably excited for the multiple men of colour populating Star Wars: Rogue One.
True to form, Jacobin explores the capitalist implications of Pokemon Go.
"Margaret Atwood on Donald Trump, witches, and flying cats." I'm currently reading her book about science fiction, In Other Worlds, so I can at least confirm that flying cats are a lifelong obsession, as well as the subject of her upcoming graphic novel. [Lithub]
Image: "Who you gonna call," Delaney Januzzi
Tagged Alien, Angry Asian Man, Autostraddle, BUST, Carrie, CKUT, Delaney Januzzi, Elaine Fairchild, Free City Radio, Game of Thrones, Ghostbusters, Heidi, Hera Chan, In Other Worlds, Jacobin, Jenny Trout, Kai Cheng Thom, LA Times, Lithub, Little White Lies, Lynda Barry, Margaret Atwood, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Plenitude, Pokémon Go, Rebecca Sugar, San Diego Comic Con, Star Trek, Star Wars: Rogue One, Steven Universe, the Establishment, The Mary Sue, The New York Times


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Go-Betweens Intermission
It's press release time, and the following three jpegs - click to enlarge - tell you all you need to know about the forthcoming double CD retrospective of Robert Forster and Grant McLennan's solo years, 1990-1997.
All, that is, apart from the tracklisting:
the best of the solo recordings 1990-1997
Falling Star
Baby Stones
I've Been Looking For Somebody
I'll Jump
Beyond Their Law
I Can Do
Cryin' Love
The River People
Frisco Depot
Danger In The Past
Falling Star (Original Version)
Grant McLennan
Haven't I Been A Fool
Black Mule
The Dark Side Of Town
Lighting Fires
Surround Me
No Peace In The Palace
I'll Call You Wild
Horsebreaker Star
In Your Bright Ray
Go-Betweens Say
For fans of The Go-Betweens – and why else would you be reading this? – this site has stacks of interviews with the band spanning the period 1982-97 (a rather arbitary period, I agree, but there's plenty of information and I for one am very glad it's been collected).
It's part of a larger site, which explores Australian punk and postpunk, as well as later, sadly unsung acts The Lighthouse Keepers and The Widdershins.
For those high-fliers among you – and believe me, I know this blog's demographic – with demanding city jobs and no 'me-time', I have selflessly pulled some highlights from the Go-Betweens interviews.
They used to say dumb things, you know, and also some very wise words:
"God, we're not a fashion band, just look at us!" exclaims Go-Betweens' bass player Grant McLennan pointing at himself, drummer Lindy Morrison and guitarist Robert Forster who's wearing a mohair-trimmed jumper while outside a scorching heat beats down from the mid autumn sun.
"I don't think they [The Smiths] ever made a whole good album, but they made their fans think they could never happen again…they are not any better than the Go-Betweens or Belle and Sebastian." (GM)
"We wanted to use Joe Boyd (Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, REM) for Before Hollywood in 1982 when we were on Rough Trade, but at that stage he wasn't making rock records. We wanted to work with John Cale for Spring Hill Fair but he was too expensive." (GM)
"I don't have any influences. I exist completely on my own. And it's ever-increasing. I think it's the same with Grant – we just exist: completely within our own genre. We're completely self perpetuating." (RF)
"As an album [Before Hollywood] that really got close to a definitive sound for a certain period. It's great because there's very few records that do that.
I'm not comparing the album, but Marquee Moon by Television does that; a statement of a band, of intent, an unmistakable mood. Like Highway 61, early Creedence records, The Doors' first album, Revolver. They're albums which come close to defining (something)." (GM)
Describe to me the typical Go-Betweens fan?
Lindy: "German, male, between 20 and 26, earnest."
Grant: "Female, heavily into Sylvia Plath, could have played hockey with the Australian Olympic squad but gave it up. And called Mirabelle."
John: "A young man who's just been jilted for the first time."
"I know that our dear friend Roddy Frame called his last LP Love, but I maintain that the Go-Betweens write about love better than anybody else in the world." (GM)
"The sun isn't a problem in Australia any more," adds Robert, enlivened, "because they've developed these creams ranging from one to 15. So with 15 it's virtually paint and if keeps out the sun. Now if someone like the Egyptians had had this cream, the pyramids might not have been built. Perhaps if they'd had this stuff they'd have looked like Swedish people!" (RF)
"It's the sort of thing where you trek up half of Tibet, searching for the man with all the answers. You sit down and ask him the meaning of life, and he says 'It doesn't matter how far you we come, you've always got further to go.' I would say, 'What the fuck are you talking about?' I'd probably slap him around a little bit, go to a nearby bar, have a drink." (RF)
"Looking back and seeing that none of it is charted, a lot of people would say that's unsuccessful. But 'Marquee Moon' sold nothing, and I know much I still enjoy listening to Television. It doesn't really matter. To me the things I like, and that a lot of my friends like, are the things that maybe have fallen under the floorboards a bit. Our music was never connected with any kind of movement. There's a guilelessness to our music which I'm happy with." (GM)
Grant:"We all love Wired for Sound by Cliff Richard. It's just such a happy song."
What's your favourite Robert Forster song?
"There are so many! I'll just say at the moment — 'Rock & Roll Friend'. But then I could go back to 'People Say', the second single, which is a fantastic piece of pop music, or 'Karen' — a great individual slice of liberation of R&B. Then I could go through every album...I enjoy all his songs." (GM)
What your favourite Grant McLennan song?
"I really like 'Love Goes On'. There's nine chords in a row, which he doesn't repeat. It's so him. A lot of his best songs are on '16 Lovers Lane'. And 'Cattle & Cane' is a really good song. It was like 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' or something — a quantum leap, a break-through song." (RF)
Dee Walker
Dee Walker, a 22-year-old building society employee from Kent, was chosen in 1984 to be the Dance Network's new signing. Label boss Paul Bultitude said: "We can call her Dee. The mod scene needs a Cilla or a Sandy."
Paul Bevoir was charged with writing her debut single, "a groovy dance song along the lines of The Locomotion." Jump Back is all of that and more – an infectious, foot-stomping shaker that stormed straight into the Ready Steady Go studios on a scooter. Released in the June of 84, its driving Motown beat, jubilant horn-driven riff and sun-soaked joie de vivre make Jump Back one of the perfect summer singles.
It didn't chart of course. People were too busy buying Frankie Goes To Hollywood records, the clowns. A mini-album, Dial L For Love, was released a year later, featuring three songs by Bevoir and three by Ed Ball. A couple more songs came out on the Hot Hits compilation (see post below) and that was it.
Dee got married in 1986, moved to Nottingham and lost touch with her music contacts in London. All nine songs – and a fine legacy it is, too – can be found on the Tangerine CD compilation, Jump Back, which you can still pick up if you look hard enough. I'm sure I had some promo photos of Dee, but I'm buggered if I can find them.
Candees
The Candees' story is shrouded in mystery; what we do know is that given Radio 1 playlisting and blanket Saturday morning TV coverage in 1985, The Candees would still be number one. As it is, they never even released their debut single.
The creative force of 80s ace face Paul Bevoir was behind them – he wrote their songs, and he may have even put them together. A man with an instinctive knack for a great pop tune and irresistible choruses, Bevoir made The Candees sound like The Monkees staffed by teenage girls. They really were that good.
They released two songs on the Hot Hits Volume 1 compilation on the Dance Network label in 1985, The Heart Parade and Little Miss Rainbow; the sleeve notes told us an album, The Candee Store, would be out in the new year.
Eleven years later that album, essentially a batch of demos recorded with EMI's money but never released or developed as EMI decided they didn't want to sign the band, came out on the Accident label as "Candyfloss". The guy who put it out still sells copies of the album regularly on his ebay site, where you can easily pick up a copy for under a tenner.
Comprising of nine Paul Bevoir originals and a cover of The Dodgers' powerpop nugget, Don't Let Me Be Wrong, Candyfloss is a true lost classic bursting with bubblegum love songs, wracked with melodrama, obsession and yearning, an overly romantic, obviously lovesick opus that cutely presses all the right buttons. Teenage dreams, so hard to beat, eh?
To the world at large, Candyfloss is probably most interesting because it features the young Michele Collins before she went on to television glory. Collins was, along with Bevoir, one of Mari Wilson's Wisations (she was Candide) but her musical career has never thrust her into the limelight.
Who can remember her theme tune to Sunburn, which scraped the top 40 in 1999? No one, surely, will be too familiar with her version of the Temptations' Get Ready, which stalled at – wait for it – number 258 (her mum, manager and a DJ at G-A-Y bought a copy).
By the way, don't be deceived by the young foxtresses on the cover of Candyfloss, as they're cute chicks from 60s magazines. The only Candees photos are black and white and on the Hot Hits sleeve. Which I've photographed so you can have a look at The Candees as they really were in 1985. If you can't make out the signatures (woo! this'll be my pension fund, this record) that's Collins second from right.
If anyone is desperate to hear the two songs on the Hot Hits album, I can post them at some point. In the meantime, go and listen to them on myspace and buy yourselves an album.
New weekly music magazine
A new weekly music magazine has hit the newsstands. Popworld Pulp, a spin-off of the long-running Channel 4 TV programme, launched today; it will be lucky to still be publishing at the end of the year.
Its weekly rivals, NME (73,008 sales per week) and Kerrang! (85,377 sales per week), have nothing to fear (apart from, in the former's case, its own plummeting sales figures). In the latest ABCs from February, Kerrang! showed a 12.1% increase, proving once again that it always enjoys a sales spike during periods when the style of rock music it covers – currently, emo; most recently before that, nu-metal – experiences commercial success.
NME is suffering for far more reasons than because it's lacking an indie figurehead like The Strokes or The White Stripes or Oasis. However, when rock fans want to read about rock, they turn to the specialists like Kerrang!, or Metal Hammer and Classic Rock, who both also recently experienced sales increases.
Popworld Pulp, despite its publishing claim that it's offering "a broad range of music genre including R&B, rock and pop", is aiming for the indie rock market. They believe they are "addressing a gap in the market as it is a younger audience than NME, but with a wider genre than rock magazine Kerrang!"
NME's editorial policy is to write for and sell to 15-year-olds in the provinces; Popworld Pulp's policy, they claim rather bizarrely, is to aim at 16-24 year-olds. The bigwigs involved in the launch of this magazine clearly haven't been following trends in music magazine publishing over the past decade.
Popworld Pulp is associated with a mainstream pop show that despite having a cult following among older viewers is predominantly the fare of a young teen and pre-teen audience. They will not get the 16-24 year-olds; nor will they get NME's 15-year-olds.
Popworld Pop will also not eat into the readerships of any of the rock magazines currently undergoing sales boosts. The reason rock magazines are doing well now is because they cater for a rock audience and a rock audience only. No rock fan will ever want to be associated with a kids' pop show or buy a magazine that offers "a broad range of music genre including R&B, rock and pop."
From an initial reading, Popworld Pulp is spiked heavily towards the indie/rock/guitar side of things. The writing reveals the plan is to target the very young – the cover story on the Klaxons tells us at one point that, "There's still enthusiasm, despite the general lack of glowsticks…It's nice to prove that it's possible to have excitement without them" (it is nice, isn't it?) – and features on Fall Out Boy and Kings of Leon confirm their music stance.
We've been here before, of course, with ill-thought out "indie" magazines. In 1995, at the height of Britpop, Emap, realising that there were some picturesque kids playing guitars who kept their teeth nice and clean, relaunched an ailing rock title, Raw, as a Britpop read. This son-of-Select died fairly quickly.
Popworld Pulp's plan to attract some of the 750,000 viewers of Popworld will only succeed on a very slight basis. Of the precious few of that number who are young enough not to already buy Kerrang! or NME, fewer still will be prepared to pay £1.50 a week for a magazine containing no insight, no depth and no attempt at anything other than lightweight entertainment journalism, and hardly anyone will be gullible enough to repeat the practice once they realize they can get much of the content from the internet.
The publisher, Brooklands, is a small outfit with a track record in producing spin-off magazines of Channel 4 programmes such as A Place In The Sun and Supernanny. It has no chance if it really thinks it's pitching itself against the UK's two dominant publishing houses, IPC (NME) and Emap (Kerrang!).
Sadly, there's no need to get excited about the arrival of a new weekly music magazine. Things could be different, of course. When Mike Soutar joined IPC as group editorial director after editing Smash Hits, FHM and Maxim (US), he commented to an acquaintance that Melody Maker's relaunch was a wasted opportunity. It should, he reckoned – and there is some wisdom in this – have been repositioned as the biggest fanzine in the country.
Writing about the small bands, the underground acts, the vibrant scene, filling a magazine with them, would have offered a startling – and inviting – counterpoint in 2000 to NME's increasingly commercial tone. It would, also, have enabled the weekly press to re-establish itself with authority as a respected voice of underground music before the internet's penetration became almost unassailable.
The successful launch in 2004 of two weekly men's magazines – let's face facts, most readers of the music press are male – showed that even with the internet's reach, it is possible to sell its main commodity (naked women) in a weekly print format. If that can be done, then another of the web's major commodities, music, can surely be formatted in a successful weekly magazine.
All music monthlies are suffering falling sales as its readership, once dependent on them for the free CDs that gave them a taste of new music without having to listen to the late-night radio of their youth, have learnt to navigate the web to find those new tasters for free. The prohibitive cover prices – artificially high due to "free" CDs, which are now worthless to many readers – is driving custom away.
Why, then, with the seemingly unstoppable launch of weekly magazines has neither of the two big publishing houses, IPC and Emap, reviewed its situation and changed tack from the tiresome overload of celebrity picture mags and launched a weekly music magazine?
There is a gap in the market here. Popworld Pulp certainly isn't filling that gap. It's far too flimsy, thin and inconsequential to come to anything other than a quick death. A weekly music magazine that runs on the pulse of the very excitement music itself provides, rather than adhering to the dry, rigid results of market research - now that would be a magazine worth reading.
Rose Melberg
Rose Melberg's fine Cast Away The Clouds album is being released on vinyl by WIAIWYA. Said label's proprietor, Mr John Jervis, has begged requested that in honour of this auspicious event I post Take Some Time, which I am happy to do so. The song's up for a week, because them's the rules.
John sent over the press release for inclusion, but seeing as it was a pdf and the only useable document I could transfer it to was word, all of the well-crafted formatting has been sacrificed.
I have appealed to John to help amend this mishap, but seeing as his flat is currently base camp to a good number of Butterflies of Love during their current tour, he probably has other things on his mind. Like getting incredibly drunk, learning the Code Of The Road (what goes on tour, stays on tour) and watching Cavegirl DVDs (we all have our pecadilloes; I changed the press release so that it reads "centres upon" rather than "centres around" because the latter error bugs the shit out of me. I'm a well-adjusted, all-round decent guy, though, I'd like you to know).
That press release, then:
cast away the clouds
limited vinyl edition includes the bonus track, "The Time Has Come" (cover of Anne Briggs)
"...simply enchanting... the ex-Softies singer has crafted an intimate and sweet record that tenderly plucks heartstrings and will leave you with a warmed, if somewhat melancholy, heart." -All-Music Guide
"...the female equivalent of Nick Drake." -New York Post
"April showers bring May flowers, but they're all weeds compared to the sonic fragrance of Miss Rose Melberg." -PitchforkMedia.com
Rose Melberg has always been a productive overachiever -giving us a seemingly endless avalanche of mellifluous albums to treasure -but the past 5 years have been uncharacteristically quiet. After moving to a small Canadian lakeside town, she started a family, developed into a mature singer/songwriter akin to Nick Drake, Tracey Thorn, Elliott Smith and Isobel Campbell / Belle & Sebastian, and created her solo masterpiece, "Cast Away the Clouds", the spellbinding continuation of an impressive career.
From the opening notes of "Take Some Time" the harmonies transport you to Rose's cottage, and the experience she has gained over the past few years is apparent in her confident delivery. "Irene" trots along with a waltzy piano set against her delicate voice. The lyrics have also evolved as she sings of a relationship ending in the winter in "Spin" remarking, "cooler days have put a chill into your heart". Rose channels Hazelwood/Sinatra on "Constant and True" and The Everly Brothers on the album closer, "Each New Day".
Straight out of a Sacramento high school, Rose Melberg entered the indiepop 7-inch scene in 1992 with her first of many successful bands, Tiger Trap. Crunchy guitars and punk attitudes couldn't hide Rose's velvet voice and painfully honest lyrics, and the all-girl foursome quickly became stars of a burgeoning indiepop/punk movement centered upon Olympia, WA and record labels like K and Kill Rock Stars. Too good to last, Tiger Trap split after their second US tour, leaving just one classic album and an EP on K Records. Wondrously prolific, Rose quickly teamed with uberfan Jen Sbragia to form the The Softies, possibly her best-known project. With just two guitars and two angelic voices, The Softies debuted with a 7" and mini-LP on the wonderful Slumberland Records, toured the US 5 times (once with Elliott Smith) and released 3 amazing albums and singles, also on K Records from 1994-2001. At the same time, Rose somehow managed to front Go Sailor who collected their sold-out and sought-after pop singles on Look Out Records in 1997, and had two songs featured in the campy film, "But I'm A Cheerleader". Never stopping, Rose also played drums on two albums with Gaze and recorded various duets and solo tracks while on tour. Those stray tracks were compiled on "Portola" released by Double Agent Records in 1998. All-Music Guide gave it 4 stars and declared "Even in light of the uniform brilliance of Rose Melberg's past work with Tiger Trap and The Softies, her solo debut is still revelatory --never before has her voice been so disarmingly honest and vulnerable... 'Portola' is a small miracle."
Having long since graduated from Indiepop University, Rose re-emerges mature and confident with the most deeply personal album of her career, "Cast Away the Clouds".
"There are echoes of Elliott Smith in the major-to-minor turns of the songs and the intimate mix, but without his self-loathing. While Ms. Melberg's songs are full of breakups and goodbyes, she is never bereft." -The New York Times
publicity contact:
Jacqui Aitken @ Boca PR
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www.doubleagentrecords.com/rose


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Langbourne's Evolution
By: Alan P Landau
Narrated by: Adrian Galley
Series: The Langbourne Series, Book 4
Categories: Fiction, Historical
The Langbourne Series
A new century, and a time of celebration, for family, marriages and children, and a necessity to expand the business. It is also a time for sadness, suffering and loss; Mother Africa does not change her rules for anyone. When all is against the Langbourne brothers, a higher loyalty must prevail.
Langbourne's Empire
By: Alan P. Landau
It is 1894 in the remote settlement of Bulawayo, in what later became Southern Rhodesia. Recent immigrants from Ireland, Morris and David Langbourne throw body and soul into rebuilding their previously devastated business. Between Morris' brilliant business acumen and David's almost limitless energy, their future looks very promising as they take massive financial and logistical risks and look forward to a booming business in the backwoods of beyond.
By: Mike Lunnon-Wood
Narrated by: John Telfer
Max Seager was the best there was. His skills sharpened in the midst of a brutal African civil war, he was at once a policeman, soldier and detective - a tracker of men. He thought he'd left that life behind him, but then he learns that his particular expertise is required again. Two teenage girls have been abducted and are being held to ransom, hidden deep within the Zimbabwean bush that was once his hunting ground. The mother of one of the girls begs him to help and, unable to walk away, Max returns to Africa with a handpicked team of former comrades-in-arms.
Langbourne's Rebellion
The remarkable story of the Langbourne brothers is picked up in 1893. Morris, just 17, makes the bold and risky decision to head north, deeper into Africa. Morris and his younger brother, David, thus embark on a new adventure - to set up business as traders. After walking through the African bush for three months with six wagons laden with goods and hardly a track to guide them, Morris and David stop in the settlement of KoBulawayo and build their first warehouse out of wooden poles and mud.
By Wynand Bosch on 10-05-19
Dark Rose
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
It started by stealth. At first, no one could see what was happening. By the time the alarm was raised it was too late. Ireland had been seized: a financial assault consolidated by a military one. But as the island is overrun, it's soon clear that the invaders did not anticipate the fierce resolve of of their Celtic opponents. Nor the determination of the country's powerful allies to throw out the occupiers....
British Military Quartet, Book 3
When Belize is invaded by a powerful neighbour, it's Britain that must spring to the defence of this old outpost of empire. But intervening in distant Central America will test the limits of the former colonial power. And in the end the outcome will turn on the skill, boldness and heart-bursting bravery of a handful of British forces already in country....
The Best book i have ever read.
By Kalle on 10-17-17
Let Not the Deep
A crippled cargo ship drifts helplessly in the face of an oncoming hurricane-force storm. On board, a passenger whose presence means the world is watching. Only the skill, determination and raw courage of a lifeboat crew and the British military forces despatched to save them offer any hope of survival. But set against the savagery of the Atlantic even that might not be enough....
What a good book
By Anonymous User on 08-31-17
King's Shilling
As a powerful insurgent army closes on Liberia's capital, London is forced to act, and HMS Beaufort is despatched to West Africa to pull British nationals from the teeth of encroaching danger. But when the volatile situation ashore unravels, the frigate's crew must draw deep on reserves of skill, ingenuity and sheer bloody mindedness to save it. And with time running out Beaufort's Captain makes the decision to take his ship up river....
Outstanding listen
By Timothy on 06-18-17
Congo Blue
When a group of missionaries get caught up in bloody African civil war, London is forced to act. For the men of 40 Commando, Royal Marines, it should be a quick in and out. A nice clean operation. But what awaits them will test them like never before. And, facing overwhelming odds, this time the skill and raw courage of these legendary fighting men may not be enough....
Where the Desert Meets the Sea
By: Werner Sonne, Steve Anderson - translator
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish woman who survived Dachau concentration camp, arrives in Palestine after a treacherous journey and seeks refuge with her only remaining relative, her uncle. When Judith learns her uncle has died, she tries to take her own life in despair. In Hadassah Hospital, Hana, an Arab nurse, saves Judith's life by donating her own blood. A fragile bond of friendship develops between the two women, but it will face a harsh test over time.
Just could not finish this book
By Michelle G on 09-20-19
The Woman in the Blue Cloak
Benny Griessel
By: Deon Meyer
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Benny Griessel is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. That means he needs to buy an engagement ring - and that means he needs a loan. So Benny has a lot on his mind when he is called to a top-priority murder case. A woman's body is discovered, naked and washed in bleach, draped on a wall beside a picturesque road above Cape Town. The identity of the victim is a mystery, as is the reason for her killing. Gradually, Benny and his colleague Vaughn Cupido begin to work out the roots of the 17th century.
By Norman Johnson on 07-03-19
The Stellenbosch Mafia
Inside the Billionaire's Club
By: Pieter du Toit
Narrated by: Dylan Oosthuizen
About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africa's wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans - and all stinking rich. Johann Rupert, Jannie Mouton, Markus Jooste and Christo Weise, to name a few. Julius Malema refers to them scathingly as 'The Stellenbosch Mafia', the very worst example of white monopoly capital. But who really are these mega-wealthy individuals, and what influence do they exert?
By Patrick S. on 08-16-19
It is 1898 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, and the Langbourne brothers' business is maturing, and so are the boys. Morris decides the time is right for them to expand the business into Europe, and he leaves his younger siblings to grow the African operation while he returns to his homeland in Ireland. But Africa works in her mysterious ways; good plans are always put to the test, and this is no exception for the Langbourne brothers.
©2018 Alan P Landau (P)2018 Alan P Landau
Langbourne
How to Make Your First Million


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Notenedition
KOMPONISTEN A-Z ->
Harald Muenz
Andreas Herkenrath
Martin Wistinghausen
Klarenz Barlow
Bujor Hoinic (RO/TR) – Frühlingsideen
Bujor Hoinic über sein piano piece "Frühlingsideen":
""Frühlingsideen" for piano, is a little piece inspired by the "Spring Sonata" for violin and piano by L. v. Beethoven. The first 4 bars of this variations is the main theme (in F Dur) followed by 5 variations. The first variation Andante contains counterpoint style and new armonisation to the theme. The second variation Lento in d moll, the theme comes in a more romantic style but the third variation Allegro agitato contrasts the previous music. L'istesso tempo has a march character. Finally the last variation, Presto, uses the theme in a rude and extreme quick tempo untill last 8 bars in which it returns to the pastoral and calm athmosphere of the Spring Sonata."
Piano piece "Frühlingsideen" – Aufführungen:
21. April 2018 – Uraufführung – Klavierhaus Klavins, Bonn – Susanne Kessel, Klavier
22. April 2018 – Gasthaus "Im Stiefel", Bonn – Susanne Kessel, Klavier
2. Juni 2018 – Marktplatz Bonn / "Countdown Beethoven 18" – Susanne Kessel, Klavier
14. Dezember 2018 – Klavierhaus Klavins – Susanne Kessel, Klavier
Bujor Hoinic (*1950)
was born in Timisoara, Romania, to a family of musicians. He recieved his first music lessons from his father, Mircea Hoinic who was a conductor and a composer. Later he studied at the School of Music in Timisoara, and graduated i n1969 with a degree in piano. He continued his education at the Bucharest National Conservatory and received his graduate degrees in conducting and composition. These degrees he achieved summa cum laude among all students of music in Romania thus winning the National Prize.
Bujor Hoinic started his professional career right after his graduation, in 1973 when he was appointed as the music director and chief conductor to Timisoara's State Opera where he worked until 1984. He also guest conducted symphonic concerts and operas in Romania, Yugoslavia, Russia and Turkey. Since 1976, he is a member of the Romanian Composers Union.
As a conductor, he has numerous recordings and videos at Romanian Radio and Turkish Radio and TV. His latest important production is the CD recording of "Carmina Burana" by C. Orff (oct.2000) with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra and the Ankara Polyphonic Choir. Bujor Hoinic has been working at the Ankara State Opera and Ballet as General Music Director and permanent conductor since 1984. He is also the GMD of the Başkent Chamber Orchestra.
He has conducted the "George Enescu" Philharmonic Orchestra, Romanian National Opera (Bucharest), Iası Philharmonic Orchestra, Bursa Symphony Orchestra, Izmir Symphony Orchestra etc. He is also permanent guest conductor of the Bilkent Symphonic Orchestra, Antalya State Opera, Istanbul State Opera, Eskişehir Symphony Orchestra (Turkey), Cheboksary State Opera (Russia), Timisoara Philharmonic (Romania) and Portugal Symphonic Orchestra – Lisbon.
As a composer, "Dacia-Felix", "Count Dracula" (ballets), "Shahmeran" opera, Requiem for Timişoara 1989, Piano Concerto, Oboe Concerto, Suite concertante for 3 guitars, "Horoscope" – concerto for 2 guitars, Concerto for violoncello and string orchestra, Concerto for 2 bassoons, "Gordion"- Cantata, Symphonie, are most important compositions.
Since 1992 Bujor Hoinic is a guest professor at the Bilkent University, Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, he instructs in composition, counterpoint and fugue.
Hoinic is married to Ayse Hoinic (soprano) and they have a son, Artun, who is conductor at Samsun State Opera & Ballet.


PJ Harvey was selected as one of the holiday guest editors for the BBC Radio 4 program "Today" and just worked on a 3-hour-long segment that featured Julian Assange, Ralph Fiennes, journalist John Pilger, former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams and Shaker Aamer, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee.
"I saw it as an opportunity to do try to do something unusual with the format and the content of the program," Harvey said early in the broadcast. She added that she agreed to curate the broadcast under the condition that the BBC would not edit any of her contributors without their consent. "I've come to realize that a great deal of its content is about censorship in one way or another," Harvey said. "I wanted to let them be heard in a manner of their choosing."
"As ideas for titles and topics to be discussed took shape, many poems and songs came into my mind. For me, music and poetry can be as persuasive and as powerful as a fine speaker and a fine speech. You will hear songs and poems supporting and highlighting the content of this programme."
It appears that the experience she had working on the show was a meaningful one for Harvey, and her specific background played a roll in how she approached it.
"As an artist, I try to make sense of the world through my work. I just try to get something down - look at it up close, from different angles. These people, these voices, help me make sense of it all."
Listen to the entire 180-minute program here.


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A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories is a 1973 book of short stories written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. The twenty-four (24) stories in this collection were translated from Yiddish (Singer's language of choice for writing) by Singer, Laurie Colwin, and others.

Contents
The stories appear in the following sequence:
"A Crown of Feathers"
"A Day in Coney Island"
"The Captive"
"The Blizzard"
"Property"
"The Lantuch"
"The Son from America"
"The Briefcase"
"The Cabalist of East Broadway"
"The Bishop's Robe"
"A Quotation from Klopstock"
"The Magazine"
"Lost"
"The Prodigy"
"The Third One"
"The Recluse"
"A Dance and a Hop"
"Her Son"
"The Egotist"
"The Beard"
"The Dance"
"On a Wagon"
"Neighbors"
"Grandfather and Grandson"

Reception
Alfred Kazin noted in his 1974 review of the book in The New York Times that: "Isaac Bashevis Singer is an extraordinary writer. And this new collection of stories, like so much that he writes, represents the most delicate imaginative splendor, wit, mischief and, not least, the now unbelievable life that Jews once lived in Poland."

See also

References

External links
A Crown of Feathers, by Isaac Bashevis Singer; A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas, edited by Ruth R. Wisse a review by Johanna Kaplan, published on February 2, 1974, in Commentary Magazine

National Book Award for Fiction winning works
1973 short story collections
Works by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Books by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux books
Jewish American short story collections


You see this boy? He's my world.
He and everything about him means everything to me. If he's under the weather I'm there for him, if he's up in the night I'm (almost) always there for him, if he wants a cuddle I give him one. I'm a mum now and I have responsibilities. Those responsibilities don't ever stop. Those responsibilities are there even when I'm not with Dexter. My brain will never switch off from being Dexter's mum.
You might want me to go out on a Friday night, chances are I'm knackered and Saturday would be better. I look forward to getting dressed up and seeing my friends. I plan and prep well in advance so nothing goes wrong. But something does go wrong, my baby boy won't go to sleep. I'm his mum and its my responsibility to put him safely to bed. As my friend you should understand this.
We manage a night out. We're enjoying a few drinks and there's talk of shots, I decline. I'm having fun and feeling tipsy. You call me boring and say I've changed. Of course I've changed. My Sunday mornings used to be spent in bed until 11am, now I get woken up at 7am by a small boy. Babies don't understand hangovers.
You might want me to go out for dinner. It's a week night and I've missed you and want to catch up but have no money. I'm earning less money as only working part time and every spare penny is spent on Dexter. I suggest a catch up at my house. This falls on deaf ears. If a catch up is that overdue does the location matter?
My friends, if I'm not around for you as much as I used to be it doesn't mean I've stopped caring. I've got a big heart and there is plenty of room for everyone in it.
I've changed. My life has changed. If you don't understand maybe it's time to change friends.