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Has anyone noticed how much better TV has gotten over the past few years?
Okay, I'll admit it. I'm a TV hound. I love a good story, and have always been a huge fan of movies. When I'm not writing or reading, you can more often than not find me searching for a good movie to watch at the end of the day.But lately, more often than not, movies leave me unsatisfied and hungry for an actual plot (what a concept!). Maybe it's because most of them are written either by 25 year-old guys with very narrow perspectives on what makes an interesting story (gag), or by aging actors who think they know how to write better than actual screenwriters (spare me). Okay, on second thought, maybe they're right about that last part…all things considered.
Anyway, nowadays when I want a really good moving picture experience, I'll turn on the TV. All the great and innovative screenwriters now seem to be working for cable. Have you seen the excellent series on USA and FX, for example? Talk about upping the TV game. Feature films have nothing on these shows. My personal favorites are In Plain Sight, Burn Notice, Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, Damages, The Closer, Breaking Bad, Leverage. Did I mention Justified? Seriously. I could go on and on. And that's not even touching the incredible series on Showtime and HBO. They're in a class all by themselves.
As a writer, I am in hog heaven. At long last we are back to the groundbreaking story genius that used to be the norm in feature films, back in the days of Hitchcock, Goldman, Wilder, Ford, Capra, et al. Sometimes I sit in utter awe of the talent that is finally getting a chance to be seen. With 900 channels out there on cable, the opportunities for great and innovative writing have never been better—-despite the plethora of brainless reality shows with no writing at all that have taken over the big networks.
I keep wondering what could happen if all the amazingly talented women romance writers out there would start writing for TV . . . Can you imagine? Instead of having 25 year-old post-pubescent guys tell us what we should like and what we should be entertained by, women could have stories that actually speak to and are relevant to women. Wow! Kinda like . . . well, romance novels!
Sigh. A woman can fantasize, can't she?
My June Nikita Black release, a novella called "Binding Her Heart" in the WEDDING FAVORS anthology, is all about a dark, secret fantasy . . . with a little voodoo magic thrown in to really spice things up.
For Tessa Kittredge, being a bridesmaid at her good friend's New Orleans society wedding is the last thing she wants to do. Love? She long ago stopped believing in that myth. But a very special bachelorette party, a golden mask, and a carelessly tossed coin all bespell Tessa into fulfilling her deepest fantasies . . . with a dark and powerfully sensual stranger. Sultry days, sinful nights and a magic fountain. What more could a nice-turned-naughty bridesmaid wish for . . . ?
I hope you'll pick up a copy on June 1.
Meanwhile, what are your favorite TV shows?
Take care, and good reading!
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Congratulations on your June release!
I too enjoy The Closer, Breaking Bad and Burn Notice (which has my favorite B actor, Bruce Campbell). I didn't know what to expect with Breaking Bad and Bryan Cranston blows me away.
I loved Lost and thought it's finale was quite good.
Have you seen Justified? Smokin HOT!!!!
The entire cast is wonderful but Timothy Olyphant is something else!!! OMG.
my favourite TV show is NCIS… I love old movies. and any Star Trek.
I don't get HBO but I've sene the series TrueBlood on DVD and I love it! finally a quality show with bite.
God was having a great day when he created Timothy Olyphant, wasn't he? Loved, absolutely loved Deadwood, a true fan of Justified. Slim pickins on t.v. nowadays since I don't do 'reality' series or any of the talent shows. dancing, singing or otherwise. I like Navy NCIS, House, and Bones.


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Are Progressive Critics of Common Core "Getting Played" By Enemies of Public Education?
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By Anthony Cody — January 07, 2014 4 min read
Today, Politico offers an analysis of conservative's organized opposition to the Common Core which points out that the end game for many of these Koch-funded groups is total annihilation of public education, through the expansion of vouchers for private and parochial schools, and home schooling. The response on the part of some has been to suggest that those of us on the progressive side who have also been critical of Common Core have "been played." That somehow we have lent credence to this conservative movement, and therefore we are being manipulated or used.
But blaming progressive critics of Common Core for the rise of this conservative movement turns reality on its head. The people who have let down our public schools are those who are willing to embrace standardization and high stakes tests as some sort of "progressive" guarantor of equity. We have been down this path with No Child Left Behind, which was sold to us by an alliance of liberal and neo-conservative politicians. We were told children in poverty would get more attention and resources once standardized tests "shed light" on just how far behind they were. We got teacher 'evaluation' schemes built around faulty VAM metrics, leading to mass demoralization and too-many losses of strong educators, simultaneous with a hypocritical push to replace seasoned teachers with Teach for America novices. The result? Intense pressure to raise test scores, narrowed curriculum, and school closings by the hundreds - all with the mantle of approval by our "liberal" leaders. Who really got played here?
Then Common Core came along in 2009. Everyone was weary of NCLB, and ready for change. But some of us could read the writing on the wall. The fancy words about critical thinking and "moving beyond the bubble tests" sounded nice, but a closer look revealed standards that were originally written with little to no participation by K12 teachers. The promises to get rid of bubble tests only meant that the tests would be taken on expensive computers. The promise to escape the narrowing of curriculum only meant we would be testing more often, in more subjects.
So many of us started raising concerns. The basic premise of Common Core was similar to NCLB - our schools are failing, and we must respond with "higher standards," and more difficult tests. But the indictment of public education has been wrong from the start, and we should not lend it credence by supporting phony solutions.
But those who objected were drowned out by the incentives provided by Race to the Top and a bottomless well of grant funding from the Gates Foundation, which purchased support from the PTA, professional organizations like ASCD, and even our unions.
In April, I wrote about the trap our leaders fall into when they embrace the Common Core with enthusiasm, and offer largely unqualified endorsements of its inherent goodness:
But there is a new reason to get up on our hind legs and fight the Common Core and it is very political. A number of conservatives are making this a major issue. While corporate Republicans like Jeb Bush remain thoroughly wedded to Common Core, the real energy of the party is elsewhere. The energy is with the more Libertarian types, like Rand Paul and Glenn Beck. They are likely to escalate their attacks on the Common Core, and they already hate unions. That makes it very easy for them to attack Common Core as a Big Government, Big Union plot to squash local control of schools and impose a monolithic curriculum on the populace. The Obama administration's education policies have been, by and large, a disaster. And Republicans are poised to rev up their attack machine on these grounds and teacher unions will be smeared right along with the administration so long as they are on board.
It is not progressive opponents of Common Core who have set our public schools and unions up for this. It is the corporate reformers, and those willing to promote their grandiose Common Core project.
There are some attempts under way to separate Common Core from high stakes tests, most notably in California, as described in today's letter from Bill Honig. This is the ONLY condition under which these standards ought to be even considered.
The California experiment is worth looking at, with some reservations. First of all, as Mercedes Schneider points out, in California, a number of the largest districts are already working on side deals with the Department of Education that may provide all the high stakes tests any reformer might want. Los Angeles Unified, the second largest district in the nation, has already pledged to spend a billion dollars on iPads to support Common Core-aligned Pearson curriculum and online tests. So while it could be significant if the state as a whole is able to resist some of the high stakes, the fight is far from over.
Progressives who have opposed the Common Core have done so for important, principled reasons. Those who stake the future of public education on embracing standardization and high stakes tests are in danger of giving up the heart of great education in exchange for a false promise of its mere survival.
I think there is a conservative calculation that is being made by some of our leaders. They may believe that in order for public education - and our unions -- to survive, we must convince the powerful elite running corporate reform and our government that the two are useful. The whole thrust of Common Core is to make students "career ready," and therefore of maximum utility to employers. The Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable are clearly the core constituency for this project.
But if we must trade away the heart and soul of our mission as educators, we have given gold for straw. And as I wrote last June, many of the conservative criticisms of Common Core are actually valid. The response to this cannot be "These people are horrible bogeymen who want to destroy our schools, and thus everything they say is wrong." The response should be to separate the good reasons to oppose Common Core from the bad, and develop our own clear vision of what public education ought to be all about.
That work can only be done when we have rejected high stakes testing. I believe it would be better done without the highly flawed Common Core. But we cannot defeat those who wish to destroy public education by defending the least defensible aspects of it.
What do you think? Are progressive critics of Common Core somehow "being played" by conservatives out to destroy public education?
Continue the dialogue with Anthony on Twitter.
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PROFILE: Lokey won't rest on his laurels as newswire pioneer
Lorry Lokey is widely credited for playing a key role in streamlining how media gets news. And as Andrew Gordon discovers, the 76-year-old founder of Business Wire remains as driven as ever.
Lorry Lokey has no intention of dying, much less retiring. "It would be such a waste," says the nearly 76-year-old founder of Business Wire. "I'll be involved with this business until I can't do it anymore. If I had to play golf, I'd commit suicide." Forty one years after starting Business Wire, Lokey still insists on running the show, purely for the love of it. A reporter and writer by trade, Lokey admits that the day-to-day management of Business Wire isn't as exciting as chasing a breaking news story as a reporter. Lokey developed his knowledge of wire services as night wire editor for the United Press, now UPI, in his hometown of Portland, OR. But he also isn't about to dismiss the impact he's had on both the media and the PR industry. "The PR industry was very withdrawn when I started this business," says Lokey. "Typically they would give a copy of a press release to a third party, who would then get it to a recipient. But the media people were excited about what I was offering. They were able to get the news right up to the minute, instead of waiting hours or even a few days." And a look outside Lokey's office shows how far he has come. Sitting just outside the door is a dusty Dow Jones ticker, which at its best could spit out 35 words a minute. Now a network of satellites delivers the news hot of the press at a speed of more the 35,000 words a minute. "His contributions to the industry have been significant," says Joann Killeen, president and CEO of the PRSA. "He was a trendsetter way back when. He figured out very quickly a way to assist companies in distributing that information. It has changed the way we communicate. He has changed the multiple-day process to a matter of minutes He made everyone's life easier." For the first 24 years of Business Wire, Lokey was literally a one-man show, doing everything from operating the Teletype to writing checks. But as the PR industry has grown and technology has evolved, so has Business Wire. It now has access to more than 60 international and national news agencies, financial information providers, and web-based news services throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. "It certainly wasn't the pay," says Lokey of his decision to hang up his reporter's hat and start his own business. "It was the excitement of something new, of change." The business is still changing for Lokey. Business Wire finds itself neck-and-neck with PR Newswire, after getting "clobbered" by taking on too many dot-com clients that disappeared when the bottom dropped out. But Lokey freely admits he isn't in this for the money. "I don't give a damn about the money. I don't take any action based on how much profit it will make. I take an action based on what will make us better. And if you do that, then the money will be there. I run a tight ship, and I think because of that, I've never had to lay anyone off, and as far as I'm concerned, I never will." Lokey's impact on the industry goes beyond revolutionizing how it interacts with the media. He has served as past president of the Public Relations Roundtable of San Francisco, the San Francisco Publicity Club, and the San Francisco chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists. "He has forced the industry to become focused on business strategy," says Killeen. "We now look at it from a higher level. We need to think and act as CEOs, and look at how can we best serve our clients information needs. But Lokey isn't just a shrewd journalist and businessman. He is also a friend, "everyone's pal" says Killeen. He took time to sit down with people in the industry, and help them find work. He started a PR job newsletter called "Seekers and Sought," and did his best to make sure those who needed work found it. "He was the godfather of recruiting," says Killeen. "He always took time to meet with you. And that's what this business is all about - networking." The PR industry's reliance on wire services such as his isn't the only change Lokey has witnessed over his many years. "The kids [in PR] today are a hell of a lot smarter than we were years ago," says Lokey. "They are more business-like. They don't socialize as much as they did in the '40s, '50s, and '60s. They have better backgrounds, and are more educated." And that is part of what still drives Lokey, working with a sharper and smarter PR industry. Everyday presents a new challenge, he says, and he cherishes coming to work and discovering something new and interesting. "You hear people talk about the good ol' days, and that today is not like the good ol' days," says Lokey. "Well, the good ol' days are right now." ----------- Lorry Lokey 1946 Feature editor of Pacific Stars & Stripes, Tokyo, during World War II service 1949 Graduates from Stanford University with BA in journalism 1950-1952 Works as a reporter for the Longview Daily News (WA) 1952 Moves to San Francisco 1953-1955 Serves as PR representative for Shell Development 1955-1961 Works as western news bureau supervisor for General Electric 1961 Establishes Business Wire, still president and founder today
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Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Let's Murder Marsha"
The current show at Newport Playhouse is "Let's Murder Marsha" written in 1984 by Monk Ferris that seems to be a blend of stage thriller and comedy which spoofs the world of campy murder-mystery novels. The heroine of this story is Marsha Gilmore, a ditzy rich Manhattan-ite obsessed with "sleazy slasher novels." The tale she is currently reading is just that, a book appropriately titled "The Creeping Slasher". Marsha is forced to read the novels in secret because her successful Wall Street banker husband, Tobias does not approve of them. On the evening before Marsha's birthday, an attractive strawberry blonde female stranger named Persis Devore arrives at their artsy New York City apartment to conspire with Tobias on some secret plans. Portions of the plan are overheard by Marsha and the Gilmore's faithful maid, Bianca. Influenced by her novels Marsha deduces that her husband is ready to bump her off and spirit away with his mysterious female associate. Should she run, should she hide or should she perhaps seduce her neighbor into being her ally in order to beat her husband at his own game"? Will murder be done or has Marsha's imagination gotten away with itself? Throw in Marsha's mother, Bianca's policeman boyfriend and you have the ingredients for this comic spoof that will tickle your funny bone.
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One of the biggest scene stealers in this show is the sassy maid, Bianca played superbly by Jessica Grossman. She is a hoot as she swills down martinis, instructs her employers on what to do, delivers zingers and has a very funny kissing scene with her cop, boyfriend, Ben Quade who is well played by Fred Davison. He gets to wave his gun around at the others trying to solve the mystery. Fred also constructed the gorgeous New York apartment set. Jessica also has a hilarious spit take scene when she tastes one concoction that tastes badly. Marsha's mother is well played by Nancy Greene who returns to the playhouse, having last appeared here sixteen years ago. She does a dynamite job as Lynette who overhears a few conversations and adds to the merriment of the evening. The show is a silly, fun filled romp that will leave you chuckling all night long. Try not to reveal the ending to spoil the surprising twist of the show. So for a delicious all you can eat buffet before the show, a comic spoof and then an entertaining cabaret afterwards, be sure to see "Let's Murder Marsha" in Newport.


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Funtington is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the B2146 Road 4.5 miles (7.2 km) west of Chichester. The parish also contains the villages of East and West Ashling, West Stoke and the Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve lies at its northern tip.  There is a farm produce shop and a pub at the centre of the village. Funtington Primary School is in the village of West Ashling.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north to Compton with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 2,671.

Religious sites
St. Mary's Anglican church, dating from the 12th Century, is the principal church in the parish of Funtington.

St. Andrew's church at West Stoke is of Saxon origin. The chapel of St. Mary's at Sennicotts lies about two miles (3 km) to the east, off the Chichester road.

The Old Congregational Chapel
The old Congregational Chapel, is a Grade II listed building, situated on the road between East Ashling and Funtington, opposite the turning to West Ashling. The foundation stone of the chapel was laid on Friday, 18 September 1863. Most of the building material used was various stones, recovered from the fallen tower, of Chichester Cathedral. The tower having fallen down during a storm in 1861. The Chapel closed, as place of worship, between 1934 and 1938. It became a scout headquarters for a while and then  a clock museum run by the Clock trust.

Landmarks
Kingley Vale lies on the border of the parish which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a national nature reserve. It is noted for its Yew woodlands. The site is also known for its archaeological interest including Bronze Age and Roman earthworks, cross dykes, a camp and a field system.

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford,  (1893–1971) lived at West Ashling and is buried in Funtington churchyard.

Pat Porteous  (1918-2000) who took part in the raid on Dieppe in August 1942 is buried in St Mary's churchyard.

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Villages in West Sussex

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Some basic examples of tools used by the new techno-faculty are Facebook and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). BYOD can cut down on students who are not paying attention in class, due to Facebook or other screen distractions, because it requires that they use their cell phones for academic purposes. Reinforcing some current and more basic practices for the technology-hesitant faculty member to get their feet wet allows them to address the needs of international students, before diving into more advanced technologies. Nearly all students can keep up with and prefer using technology, especially their own, to learn their coursework, communicate with faculty, and collaborate with fellow students.
Clark Atlanta University (CAU) is a single, comprehensive, urban, private, coeducational, United Methodist-affiliated Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the United States. The campus has 38 areas of study in four major schools, including arts and sciences, business, education, and social work. The university also has an award-winning Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development, and enjoys more than 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students of diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. CAU offers certificate, professional, and degree programs from BA/BS to EdD/PhD. The president of CAU, Ronald A. Johnson, became the fourth person to hold that position on July 1, 2015. CAU is one of five schools that compose the Atlanta University Center. The other four schools are Spelman College, Morehouse College, the Interdenominational Theological Center, and the Morehouse School of Medicine.
Dr. Gwendolyn Mitchell, who directs the Center for Faculty and Professional Development (CFPD), has generously provided her time and talents for the benefit of faculty interested in educational technology. Tailor-made teaching and learning technology workshops are available for faculty at various stages of development. Weeklong faculty training is offered in the summer, with shorter training offered throughout the year. As members of one of the Faculty Resource Network (FRN) participating institutions, faculty can write proposals to attend professional development seminars, symposia, conferences, and summer residencies, sponsored by New York University in the winter, summer, and fall. This researcher has benefitted from these opportunities for the past few years. This article is an extension of a poster session this researcher presented at the FRN Winter Symposium on November 17-18, 2017, at Dillard University, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
With over 1.48 billion monthly users, including many college students, Facebook is increasingly being used as an educational tool. A Facebook page can be created for a large enrollment course, and student engagement with, and attitudes about, the page can be assessed using both Facebook metrics and student surveys. Students enjoy the "likes," "clicks," and "shares," as well as viral spread of posts. The results in my own classes suggest that student-generated content for course-related Facebook pages increased engagement.
Gaming continues to be a widely discussed and practiced aspect of curricula across institutions of education all over the United States and the world. Educators have recognized the ways gaming has improved education by increasing student engagement, providing immediate and quality feedback, and helping students to better understand and process their course materials. Over the past ten years the development of technology has allowed for new modes of digital engagement and game play, but there are still a number of gaming applications that can be applied in the classroom through analog means.
Gameplay Interactive aims to provide the most engaging gaming experience by replicating the best of land-based casino experiences for all players. Its products can be fully integrated, enabling players to access online, mobile, and server-based gaming terminals. Gameplay Interactive has a full suite of games and nearly all of the products are multi-lingual.
What is clear is that college students today are more frequently using digital devices in their courses and bringing personal mobile devices to the classroom (Hashim, 2014). College instructors are reserving and bringing to class computer equipment such as laptops and tablets to enhance their teaching and support student learning. Less clear is the precise way that students are using these devices during class. Students may use digital devices either for academic purposes, such as research or collaboration, or, conversely, to "fight boredom, entertain themselves and stay connected to the outside world" (McCoy, 2013, p. 1).
At institutions across the country, the demand for online courses is increasing. Since virtual courses are here to stay, it is imperative that instructors learn how to best engage students and create effective online learning environments to improve academic performance. Research shows that students often feel isolated in online courses; therefore, it may be more important that online courses include ample student-to-student and student-to-instructor communication to counteract this problem. Additionally, research shows that through the use of meaningful communication-based assignments, students can be actively involved in an online course and build connections with peers and the instructor. Without multiple opportunities for teacher-to-student and peer-to-peer interaction, online courses can suffer from reduced student involvement.
Since many students have their own unique way of learning, technology and technology-based programs give a variety of students the resources and opportunities to excel in their classrooms. For example, when using an online program that often accompanies Pearson textbooks, students are able to study in many different modalities in order to gain clarity and ensure they fully understand the information. This program can provide students with visual aids in addition to text. It also provides practice problems that relate to each chapter. Along with these practice problems, there are written and video explanations for the problems that students may have found challenging. This program provides a good resource for students who need in-depth, verbal explanations. Students are able to read the textbook and get more in-depth video explanations, and further practice problems, until all the information is absorbed. Because many international students benefit from visual learning, the video explanations can be particularly helpful for them.
Another way some students may learn best is by creating mind maps that pertain to their course content. According to Tony Buzan (2012), who invented them, "A Mind Map is a powerful graphic technique that provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. It harnesses the full range of cortical skills – word, image, number, logic, rhythm, color and spatial awareness – in a single, uniquely powerful manner" (p. vi). Mind maps are known to be one of the most effective ways of learning. Some graduate educational classes engage with an app called XMind that allows students to study and research better by creating mind maps on the computer.
Another common application some college professors are utilizing in their classrooms is called Top Hat. This app is a "student engagement platform" for use inside the classroom and out. It allows professors to take roll by providing the instructor with a code that can be relayed to the students currently in the classroom. If the student is not in the classroom, they are not able to have the code and are not able to see the notes or materials for the lecture. Although this may seem like a disadvantage for the student, with special permission or a request from the professor, the student can have access to the code. This is great for on-the-go students. They are also able to access all notes and PowerPoint presentations right off their phones. Rhett McDaniel, an educational technologist for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, has found Top Hat to be effective in improving classroom engagement. In July 2017, the Center began offering Top Hat training for faculty, students, and staff across the campus.
In summary, research has shown that the classroom use of digital devices helps facilitate faculty-student interactions and in-class participation, which leads to enhanced engagement and active learning (Lam & Tong, 2012). Most traditional-aged college students spend many hours a day with technology. Rather than force students to put away their devices in class, many faculty design their courses to meet students where they are, by infusing their courses with technology. With the increasingly global and diverse student population, more faculty need to take full advantage of the technology training available to them. Not only will it benefit their students, but it will also benefit their professional practice.
Buzan, T. (2012). The power of spiritual intelligence: 10 ways to tap into your spiritual genius. New York: Harper Collins.
Dixon, M. (2010). Creating effective student engagement in online courses: What do students find engaging? Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 10(2), 1-13.
Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T., & Archer, W. (2000). Critical inquiry in a text -based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education. The Internet and Higher Education, 2(3), 1-19.
Hashim, K. F., Tan, F. B., & Rashid, A. (2015). Adult learners' intention to adopt mobile learning: A motivational perspective. British Journal of Educational Technology, 46, 381–390.
Lam, P. & Tong, A. (2012). Digital devices in classroom – Hesitations of teachers-to-be. Journal of e-Learning, 10(4), 387–395.
McCoy, B. (2016). Digital distractions in the classroom: Student classroom use of digital devices for non-class related purposes. Journal of Media Education, 7(1), 5-32.
Rogers, Y., Connelly, K., Hazlewood, W., & Tedesco, L. (2010). Enhancing learning: A study of how mobile devices can facilitate sensemaking. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 14(2), 111-124.


Perkembangan budidaya Bandeng (Pembenihan Bandeng) khususnya Bali utara yaitu di Desa Penyabangan, Kecamatan Gerokgak, Kabupaten Buleleng kini sudah berkembang pesat. bahkan hampir sudah tidak ada lagi lokasi untuk membangun atau mendirikan usaha tersebut. itu di karenakan sebagian besar masyarakat di Desa kami adalah pembudidaya Bandeng.
Pembenihan Bandeng di tempat Kami adalah Hatchery Sekala Rumah Tangga (HSRT) atau umum disebut Backyard. Dan pada waktu itu yg menjadi Perintis Pembudidaya Bandeng yg berlokasi di dekat tempat kami atau di Desa Penyabangan, ialah Bpk Akhmad Gufron Arif.
Pada Tahun 1994 adalah peletakan batu pertama pembangunan Hatchery atau Backyard tersebut, yg lokasinya bertempat di atas tanah milik Bpk Ketut Bakti di Banjar Dinas Penyabangan. Seiring berjalannya waktu, kemudian Backyard tersebut dinyatakan Berhasil sampai saat ini.
adalah sebagian besar sumber penghasilannya dari Hatchery Bandeng, baik langsung maupun secara tidak langsung.
Demikianlah isi artikel kami, semoga dapat membantu.
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CNN Producer BUSTED Admitting 'Trump Russia Story Is Mostly BS'
truthseeker | June 28, 2017
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CNN producer John Bonifield has been caught on hidden camera admitting the Trump-Russia collusion narrative is "mostly bullshit" but CNN continue to push the false narrative for "ratings".
The stunning footage, which has hammered the final nail into the coffin containing CNN's credibility, was released by James O'Keefe of Project Veritas.
O'Keefe teased the video release on Monday, saying "Independence Day is approaching, but this year the fireworks come early."
Describing CNN as "American Pravda", after the Russian propaganda outlet, O'Keefe said his goal is to expose the cable network as a propaganda network concerned with promoting an establishment agenda, rather than working to promote the truth.
Full Length Project Veritas Video Exposing CNN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdP8TiKY8dE
Project Veritas reporter: "So you believe the Russia thing is a little crazy, right?"
John Bonifield (CNN Producer): "Even if Russian was trying to swing an election, we try to swing their elections, our CIA is doing shit all the time, we're out there trying to manipulate governments. You win because you know the game, you play it right. She (Hillary) didn't play it right."
PV reporter: "Then why is CNN constantly like Russia this, Russia that?"
John Bonifield: "Because it's ratings. Our ratings are incredible right now."
Bonifield also admitted that the network CEO Jeff Zucker demanded that the so-called news channel get back to concocting "new" about Trump and Russia because it improves ratings. Laughing off the notion that the media has an ethical responsibility and said "it's a business" and "they gotta what they gotta do to make money".
Exposing the corruption and cynicism behind the "Russian collusion" narrative is key to destroying CNN's credibility once and for all. The network has mentioned Russia over 16,000 times since Trump's inauguration, leveling damaging and baseless claims at the president.
CNN producer John Bonifield's confession that this narrative is "mostly bullshit" and that they do not have any evidence to prove the conspiracy theory they have been pushing for almost six months, exposes the network as enemies of the people, waging a campaign to bring down a duly elected president.
Article Source: http://yournewswire.com/cnn-producer-trump-russia/
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UFC Fight Night Weigh-in Gallery
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NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Felipe Olivieri of Brazil weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Tony Martin weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Tony Martin and Felipe Olivieri of Brazil face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Levan Makashvili weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Damon Jackson weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Damon Jackson and Levan Makashvili face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Randy Brown of Jamaica weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Matt Dwyer weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Matt Dwyer and Randy Brown of Jamaica face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Masio Fullen of Mexico weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Alex Caceres weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Alex Caceres and Masio Fullen of Mexico weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Alexander Yakovlev of Russia weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: George Sullivan weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents George Sullivan and Alexander Yakovlev of Russia face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Wilson Reis of Brazil weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Dustin Ortiz weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Dustin Ortiz and Wilson Reis of Brazil face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Kevin Casey weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Rafael Natal of Brazil weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Rafael Natal of Brazil and Kevin Casey face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Diego Ferreira of Brazil weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Olivier Aubin-Mercier of Canada weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Olivier Aubin-Mercier of Canada and Diego Ferreira of Brazil face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Jake Ellenberger weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Tarec Saffiedine of Belgium weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Tarec Saffiedine of Belgium and Jake Ellenberger face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Bryan Barberena weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Sage Northcutt weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Sage Northcutt and Bryan Barberena face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Iuri Alcantara of Brazil weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Iuri Alcantara of Brazil and Jimmie Rivera face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Ben Rothwell weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Josh Barnett and Ben Rothwell face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Ryan Bader weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: Anthony Johnson weighs in during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 29: (L-R) Opponents Anthony Johnson and Ryan Bader face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at the Prudential Center on January 29, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)


While the Renaissance frescoes of Florence can be glorious, passionate, beautiful etc sometimes they can seem overwhelming, especially if you are traveling with kids, or even young adults. So one of my pleasures is finding the fun.
In the 14th century, before the best (now famous) artists were renowned and respected for their art, being an artist was a simply a job. Artists were tradesmen with a trade which was the ability to paint to a subject specified by the church and they painted what they knew. They painted people, castles, saints, devils and of course all the characters from the Bible stories, and frequently added in horses, cats, dogs and even the occasional pig. For me there is great pleasure in finding the footprints of the artists in the non-formal characters and seeing how they enjoyed the world through these creatures.
One fabulous example of this is the horses in the Spanish Chapel of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. It is a glorious, large, high ceilinged room originally designed as a chapter house for the monastery. Built in 1350 and painted in 1366-67 it depicts the Passion of Christ bearing the cross, the Crucifixion and the descent into Hell. Serious subject matter in front of the artists imagined Jerusalem (which looks like an Italian Medieval city) and yet... the humor is in the horses watching with knowing eyes and clearly talking about what they are seeing.
These horses have more expression than any of the humans depicted!
The magic of many 14th century frescoes is to find the humor and the humanity of the artists. In the main church there is a fresco of a farting dragon. Seriously. Rick Stevens points this out in his guide to Florence but until my daughter and I went to find it (when she had just about had enough of Florentine frescoes) it was as described. Too funny and I do wonder if the artist did it intentionally. Can't you just imagine him going home to his wife and saying "hey I pulled a fun one today, wonder if Father Peter will notice?"
And once you really start looking the humor is everywhere. Take these devils, also from the Spanish Chapel... a play on people the artist knew perhaps?


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2016 another record-setting class for Ohio State
University to award 11,235 degrees Sunday
Updated: 11:52 AM EDT May 8, 2016
Hundreds of Ohio State Buckeye fans braved the cold Tuesday to welcome home the national championship football team in Columbus.
Ohio State University is graduating its largest class on record.The university says it will award 11,235 degrees during spring commencement Sunday. The event is being held in Ohio Stadium at noon.It's the third time in four years such a record has been set. The 2016 class surpasses a record 11,040 graduates in 2015. That figure topped the previous record of 10,642 graduates set in 2012.The university attributes the record-sized classes to its efforts to attract top students and to work to retain them throughout their college careers. Ohio State has also added support for students as they select majors and class schedules.The school's commencement weekend also included the commissioning of 25 ROTC cadets.
COLUMBUS, Ohio —
Ohio State University is graduating its largest class on record.
The university says it will award 11,235 degrees during spring commencement Sunday. The event is being held in Ohio Stadium at noon.
It's the third time in four years such a record has been set. The 2016 class surpasses a record 11,040 graduates in 2015. That figure topped the previous record of 10,642 graduates set in 2012.
The university attributes the record-sized classes to its efforts to attract top students and to work to retain them throughout their college careers. Ohio State has also added support for students as they select majors and class schedules.
The school's commencement weekend also included the commissioning of 25 ROTC cadets.


Lou's Blog - Page 3 of 8 - by Louis Steigerwald, Ed. S.
Our nation was founded in order to be free of foreign intervention in the affairs of its people and its political processes. In the Revolutionary War, patriots valiantly fought and died for the right to hold democratically determined elections. Our men and women have laid down their lives in wars since in order to preserve and protect our nation and our right to elect the citizens who will lead us. Russia's intervention in our presidential election by hacking into private computers and then releasing stolen material to serve its own interests is at the very least criminal and quite possibly a new and wholly unacceptable act of modern war. President-elect Trump's lassies-faire attitude on this matter so far is troubling. As the soon to be leader of this nation and its people, Mr. Trump should be outraged if any foreign power intruded in any American election.
The President of the United States must be the foremost and frontline defender of our Constitutionally guaranteed elections. Whether a foreign power acted against his own, or any other political party in this nation, the President must not tolerate foreign intrusion into the most sacred of our American processes. Declaring that, "The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly is going on," and, "unless you catch 'hackers' in the act, it is very hard to determine who did the hacking," is not an acceptable position for our president—regardless of what party he is from.
The American people empower the President and the agencies of government specifically to know "exactly" what is going on and to determine who is responsible for any invasion into the elective process our forefathers and foremothers died to establish. Knowing and determining these "difficult" things is primary among the president's duties. Any president or president-elect who does not understand this as one of their primary and essential roles is simply not doing his or her job.
Mr. Trump's reluctance to accept the findings of career intelligence experts is deeply disturbing. If manipulation of our core democratic act of electing our nation's political leadership is not enough to engage the president's ire, what is? Will it be ok if other nations shut down our power grid? How about if they interfere with banks or with the communications systems of our military?
True patriots in Congress, of both parties, have begun to call for a bipartisan investigation into how Russia interfered with our fall election. This commission should spare no quarter in determining what happened and holding any and all parties responsible and answerable for their actions. Should it turn out that any American citizens were engaged in aiding Russia in their interference, they should be tried for treason. If the president will not, Congress must make it clear that cyber warfare is no less a threat to our nation's interests than more conventional war. Americans should expect both Congress and the President to do their sworn duties to protect our nation against hostile foreign countries.
If our soon to be president cannot put his personal, and puzzling, admiration for a leader, in Vladimir Putin, aside it will be difficult for Americans to have trust in his ability to put America and Americans first in his thoughts and actions.
Before leaving Lansing during the recent Lame Duck session of Michigan's congress, the Michigan House and Senate passed legislation permitting wolf hunting and sent the package to Gov. Snyder's office for his signature. The governor should not sign the bill.
Even though I did not agree with the outcome of the 2014 vote in which Michigan voters struck down wolf hunting in Michigan, I do not believe that legislators should then use their power to undermine a result that clearly showed the will of the electorate.
Democracy can only work and survive when democratic outcomes are honored. The people spoke and Michigan's legislators decided that the voice of the people needed to be overturned. Apparently poor, misguided voters need Lansing politicians to determine what they really mean and what is really good for them.
Democracy also means that the majority should rule and then the government should move on and respect the vote (don't get me started on the un-democratic Electoral College) of the people. Apparently our elected officials in Lansing do not agree with the basic tenets and underpinnings of democratic outcomes.
Again, I did not agree with the majority of voters on the issue of wolf hunting. This does not mean, however, that I suddenly believe that legally and democratically determined outcomes should be overturned by politicians who feel they know better than the voters who put politicians in office. Perhaps the next proposition on the ballot for voters should be a proposal for automatic removal from office for any politician who demonstrates that they believe the state and not the people should determine how government behaves.
Our tax dollars are increasingly paying for boutique classes attended in segregated settings for homeschooled families. Homeschool parents, who do not want their children to attend school with children in their communities, are being catered to by public school districts who are finding workarounds and loopholes in Michigan's school funding rules. The result of this is that funds are being drawn from the school aid fund to create these classes, which impacts what neighborhood public schools are able to offer.
Take a few minutes to browse what is being offered to homeschool families in Michigan districts like Gull Lake, Hamilton Public Schools, or Iron Mountain Schools. When a few schools receive money from the school aid fund they are drawing from the tax dollars designated to fund public K-12 education in Michigan. Remember, these are families that choose to remove their children from the public system. Their reasons for doing so vary widely and range from religious convictions to other personal reasons. (I wrote about how some parents have used lax oversight of homeschool families to avoid legal intervention due to truancy and worse).
Within a few minutes of cruising around the sites mentioned above, you will find that many of the courses are hobbies that you and I pay for with our children. The school aid fund is being drawn down so that homeschooled children can take tumbling, tae kwon do, guitar, horseback riding, and so on. It is surprising that folks who wish to avoid mingling their children with most other students believe that we should subsidize their children's field trips and pastimes. Perhaps the state should start a separately tax subsidized hobby fund for everyone who does not homeschool!
You might think that the state would seek to shut down such spending of tax dollars. You would be incorrect. In fact, the state is seeking to expand this sort of thing. The legislature ordered a study done to clarify the rules around these "classes." The group convened to do this is made up almost entirely of folks who would have an interest in seeing this expanded. Private school administrators, homeschool group representatives, and religious school leaders have been working in Lansing to change the language in how schools can receive payment for homeschooled kids.
Defenders will say that the beneficiaries are the public schools who partner in this mockery of meaningful schooling. It is true, the districts indicated above are padding their accounts by offering the classes you'll find in the links. However, it is also true that in doing so they are drawing down funds from the money designated for all public school children.
Parents who choose to remove their children from the public school system should not receive public school funds. The State of Michigan should not seek ways to divert funds away from public schools in order to bankroll the hobbies of self-segregated programs.


A fun romp of an episode from the pen of Gareth Roberts, the Doctor goes under cover at Coal Hill School and we meet one of Missy's lackys.
The Doctor's robbing a bank but never fear he's got a gang.....gotta love a gang, a great twisty turning tale this week from the pen of writer Stephen Thompson.
A creepy episode this week but Dr Who: Listen felt like a return to form and a story Peter Capaldi's 12th Doctor was right at home in.
A lighter episode this week from the pen of Mark Gatiss as the Doctor encounters Robin Hood, the Sheriff of Nottingham and robot knights. I forgot to mention in the review the brief cameo of Patrick Troughton via a photo of him playing Robin Hood himself.


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Most of What Follows is True
Places Imagined and Real
Michael Crummey
In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business. Most of What Follows Is T...
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Anarchists in the Academy
Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry
Dani Spinosa
Dani Spinosa takes up anarchism's power as a cultural and artistic ideology, rather than as a political philosophy, with a persistent emphasis on the common. She demonstrates how postanarchism offe...
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Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland—one of Canada's most beloved writers and one of Canada's most significant publishers—enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, reade...
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Writing the Body in Motion
A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre's potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, ...
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Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienne
This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It featu...
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Gambling on Authenticity
Gaming, the Noble Savage, and the Not-so-New Indian
In the decades since the passing of the Pamajewon ruling in Canada and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in the United States, gaming has come to play a crucial role in how Indigenous peoples are re...
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Writing Alberta
Building on a Literary Identity
Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, a...
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Beyond "Understanding Canada"
The dismantling of "Understanding Canada"—an international program eliminated by Canada's Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers...
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Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 year...
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The Burgess Shale
"The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It's always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective:...
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Ten Canadian Writers in Context
Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diver...
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"The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully." Where the Truth Lies collects forty years of essays and speeches that award-winning author Rudy Wie...
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The Home Place
Dennis Cooley
"He wants to sit and visit at the kitchen table, and he can hardly wait to get on the road again." —From Chapter 1 Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada's most important writers, was a fierce regionalist...
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Shaping a World Already Made
Landscape and Poetry of the Canadian Prairies
Carl J. Tracie
"Carl Tracie, geographer, has done what no other researcher of any ilk has even attempted. No one has ever written a book on Canadian prairie poetry, not until now that is. We have books on Canadia...
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Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013
Robert Thacker
In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching intro...
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The Cowboy Legend
The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was es...
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The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures
Mareike Neuhaus
In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading ...
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Memory Serves
Lee Maracle
Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and styl...
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Sharon Pollock
As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continu...
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Familiar and Foreign
The current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of Iran and Iranians in the West. Such ...
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From the Elephant's Back
"…the proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet." —Lawrence Durrell Best known...
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"My Own Portrait in Writing"
Patrick Grant
In Grant's earlier book, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh. A Critical Study (AU Press, 2014), he followed a practical-critical analysis of the letters that dealt with key patterns of metaphors and c...
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Textual Exposures
Dan Russek
Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations...
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Toward. Some. Air.
Toward. Some. Air. is a landmark collection of profiles of contemporary poets, statements, essays, and conversations about contemporary poetry and poetic practice, and a few exemplary poems selecte...
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Personal Modernisms
Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the "lost generation" of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He examines how the Personalism of anarcho-an...
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Regenerations / Régénérations
Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and present, with 11 essays in English an...
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters—more t...
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Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature
Joanna Page
With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new u...
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Greening the Maple
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understan...
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The Undiscovered Country
Ian Angus
In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity, power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadian philosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork...
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Centering Anishinaabeg Studies
Understanding the World Through Stories
For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijiganan, offerings of the possibilities ...
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Dramatic Licence
Louise Ladouceur
Translation is tricky business. The translator has to transform the foreign to the familiar while moving and pleasing his or her audience. Louise Ladouceur knows theatre from a multi-dimensional pe...
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Selves and Subjectivities
Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadian identity has come to be understood as fragmented, amorphous, and unstable, a multifaceted and contested space only tenuously linked t...
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Jane Austen & Company
Bruce Stovel
Here we come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her successors Waugh and Amis—comic novelists all. And ...
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Countering Displacements
The essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the worl...
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100 Years of Anne with an 'e'
"I cast 'moral' and 'Sunday School' ideals to the winds and made my 'Anne' a real human girl." - L. M. Montgomery In 2008, Anne fans everywhere celebrated the 100th birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomer...
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We'd like to congratulate our very own Caroline Williams for doing herself and The CrossFit Place proud this weekend at the Battle of the Beasts competition down in Colchester.
She performed brilliantly and even achieved an outstanding 13th place finish in WOD 3. We're all very proud of you Caz!
She was ably supported by an equally impressive entourage who took full advantage of the facilities of the Crowne Plaza, including the cocktail menu and in-house night club.