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Gracefully Global Group
Restaurant & Entertainment, Veteran-Owned Business LendingBy Miguel Garcia April 16, 2020
"Without that loan, I wouldn't have been able to reach nearly as many university student veterans centers,"
Kenny's Heart & Soul
In April 2014, Kenny Stuckey, an Army veteran, decided that he wanted to launch a food truck in order to be independent and to create something of his own.
Smokey Jake's BBQ
Restaurant & Entertainment, Veteran-Owned Business LendingBy Miguel Garcia May 2, 2019
"We serve high-quality, made-from-scratch smoked meats directly to customers. Our food truck has two commercial smokers that you would typically find in a restaurant. The smoking process takes fourteen hours and occurs overnight so that it is ready by the next morning."
Freedom Makers
Professional Services, Veteran-Owned Business LendingBy Miguel Garcia March 5, 2018
"My brother is in the Air Force, and my sister-in-law and I were having a familiar conversation about what she was going to do for work. I developed Freedom Makers to try and develop more opportunities within my community," explains Laura.
Degrees Plato
Restaurant & Entertainment, Veteran-Owned Business LendingBy Miguel Garcia November 20, 2017
"My brother is in the Air Force, and my sister-in-law and I were having a familiar conversation about what she was going to do for work. As a brat and in the military I have many friends who have faced the same challenge when their spouse is transferred, so I developed Freedom Makers to try and develop more opportunities within my community," explains Laura.
Water Saver Solutions
Professional Services, Veteran-Owned Business LendingBy Miguel Garcia September 18, 2017
Chuck was inspired to enter the healthcare industry after discovering the EPA labeled it the third-highest water-wasting industry. Although there are many barriers to entry in the healthcare field due to strict regulations, Chuck says, "I embraced the barriers."
The Philoglots
Education, Veteran-Owned Business LendingBy Miguel Garcia August 29, 2017
"My experience with Veteran Launch was awesome. I had nothing but help, support, and understanding for my business, and it was a smooth ride. I found Mr. Mike McGrane through the SBDC. He helped me start my business. I was impressed by the services," reflects Josee.
Tytanium Ideas
Design, Veteran-Owned Business LendingBy Miguel Garcia March 7, 2017
"The loan gave us the ability to launch this new service faster and with more peace of mind," says Tyler. "Working capital gave us more flexibility, so we could make the best long-term decisions for our business."
Millennium Family Entertainment Center
Professional Services, Veteran-Owned Business LendingBy Miguel Garcia February 28, 2017
"I've always wanted to be the one in charge, but I hadn't found the right type of job where I could do that." reflects Sara. She served in the Army Reserve, and her experience managing people in the military has helped her in running the business.
Acumen Building Enterprise
Misc, Veteran-Owned Business LendingBy Miguel Garcia September 7, 2016
Walter joined the Navy at 17 years old and served for seven years. He stays connected to his military roots, dedicating Acumen to employing veterans, people of color, and women.


How Important is a Wind Checker in the Elk Woods?
Elk caller and 9-time world champion Corey Jacobsen would rather leave his calls behind than his wind checker.
According to Jacobsen, "You can get close to elk without calls. You can get close to elk without being in great shape, but you can never get close to an elk if you don't have the wind in your favor." It's for this reason that the elk hunting expert carries and uses a wind checker constantly while making his final approach on a bugling bull.
Watch the video to learn more about how the wind affects your chances of success on an archery elk hunt and how you can use the wind to stack the odds in your favor.
As Corey mentioned, a number of factors dictate wind direction at any given moment. Thermals, landscape features, and weather systems can work with or against each other to create swirling winds. By carrying and using a wind checker you have up to date information on what the wind is doing at your fingertips.
Carry a wind checker, use it often, and utilize the information it provides and you'll be hauling out pack loads of meat and antlers this fall.


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This company located in Barcelona that designs, sells and distributes the best electric bycicles. Created in 2004 with a clear orientation to quality and service, they are benchmarks in the sector.
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What better way to learn languages than in the beautiful Cala del Moral-Malaga? This language school offers their customers intensive courses with native teachers. They also allow customers to stay at the school´s premises during the study period: a perfect Spanish experience!
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Do you like adventure and want to help other people to make experiences out of their comfort zone?> This is your chance! This company based in Madrid offers its clients from all over Europe its expertise in organising all kinds of activities to suit their needs. They have been operating in Spain since 2009 and are part of a large Internet business group. Their team of more than 40 people is committed to the client to help them realise the best experiences of their lives. Their professionals are taking, specialists in marketing, business and customer service, always ready to find the best activity for their thousands of customers. They operate in Spain, as well as in Italy and the UK, and although they mainly offer experiences related to adventure sports, on their website you will find experiences of all of all of the person. With them you learn in various departments from motivated professionals who love their work. They are looking for understanding and communicative students, who later want a job opportunity in the company.
Business development and customer service – motorbike company Spain
Barcelona(alrededores)Barcelona(alrededores)Spain08272February 2023 to August 2023 5 to 6 months MKGE1058-8897
Company ocated on the outskirts of Barcelona, near the city of Manresa. Their primary activity is managing motorbike reservations around Europe. They are constantly growing and they look for students passionate about motorbikes and eager to learn about the sector.
Traffic Manager junior (Italiano) Spain
BarcelonaBarcelonaSpain08007February 2023 to August 2023 5 to 6 months MKGE574-8928
We are pleased to continue working with this company because our candidates not only have internship and training opportunities there, but also a possibility of employment after the placement ends. Its main activity is e-mail marketing, dissemination of emails through different databases. They also offer services of advertising campaigns, SEO, and SEM to other companies. They are located in the heart of Barcelona.Â
Marketing Assistant, Management and Customer Care Spain
ValenciaValenciaSpain46006February 2023 to July 2023 4 to 5 months MKGE2432-8981
Do you want to be part of a company that encourages adventure, sport and a healthy lifestyle? Then this internship is for you! Located in the heart of the city of Valencia, they offer all kinds of adventure and sport activities within their facilities.
Commercial Management and Product Management in real estate Spain
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The company that offers this practice is a renowned real estate company based in the city of Barcelona and with offices in Madrid, with years of experience and an international team that provides services for the purchase and sale of houses and flats, as well as property administration and rental management services. This organisation has an internal structure where the administration, sales and marketing departments work together with clear objectives in mind. The real estate projects in which they are involved transcend borders, working with clients and buyers from all over Europe and the world. It should be noted that in addition to the business success, this organisation also has very positive experiences of having students on work experience in their offices, especially in the area of business development and sales. IMPORTANT: The first 6 months in the Commercial Department Learn commercial management techniques, negotiation, legal aspects of real estate marketing. Possibilities to open your own franchise of the company in 1-2 years.
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This company specialising in premium pool equipment is looking for an intern in the field of digital marketing and communication to boost its development. The company is in full development and is beginning to expand nationally and internationally, offering services and equipment in the world of swimming pools. The quality of its equipment makes it a first class company both for its different services and for the professionalism of its staff. Based in Madrid, their offices are located 30 minutes by transport from the centre of Madrid. They have a vacancy for a web design and digital marketing assistant. This company is looking for a web design and digital marketing intern who is able to apply their knowledge and skills in this internship and is eager to learn. Through the various tasks on offer, this internship will be a great opportunity for the person who is lucky enough to do it.
Customer service B2B – B2C and content redwriting (Italian) Spain
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Marketing assistant in an international technology company Spain
ValenciaValenciaSpain46009February 2023 to August 2023 6 months MKGE2858-8311
This is a young marketing and design company, located in Valencia, Spains third biggest city right at the beach. The company is licenced in Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, Design, Journalism, Information Management as well as Computer Engineering.
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Based in the beautiful island of Mallorca this is a travel agency that specialises in Destination Management, specialising in the MICE sector, (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibitions) and VIP clients and Special Events.
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The real state specialized in touristic apartment rental has become a very important business sector in cities like Barcelona: A great environment for doing an internship and learn about commerce, customer services, and marketing. Â
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Franchises selling coffee capsules and infusions in full growth, offers an internship in Castelldefels in the area of Web marketing to assist its franchisees in their business development. Company that has settled in Spain and begins its national and international expansion, opening new stores to offer their products, offers an internship to carry out the maintenance and Web development and marketing of its franchisees. It proposes a period of 6 months with the possibility of subsequent incorporation into the company. Its offices are located in Castelldefels, 25 km from Barcelona, well connected by bus and train. Growing company, wants to train a person for a future incorporation in the company.
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HomeCHICAGOEntertainmentReview of Hell Followed With Her – The Hateful Eight Meets Night of The Living Dead
Review of Hell Followed With Her – The Hateful Eight Meets Night of The Living Dead
WildClaw Theatre has fun merging the Zombie and Western genres together in this world premier play
October 14, 2019 Noel Schecter Entertainment 0
Brittany Ellis, Nora King, Kim Boler, Sophia Rosado/Photo by Clark Bender of WildClaw Theatre
Some things just go together. Peanut butter and jelly? You betcha. Tom and Jerry? Of course. Cowboys and zombies? Hmmm…. well, why the hell not. If you agree with that sentiment then I have a play for you. "Hell Followed With Her" (written by Bill Daniel and directed by Josh Zagoren) makes its world premier debut at The Den Theatre. It has gore, violence, strong silent types that talk all the time, and pretty much everything else you would expect from a Western/Zombie hybrid play.
Brittany Ellis, Kim Boler/Photo by Clark Bender of WildClaw Theatre
"Hell Followed With Her" also has the wonderfully brooding Sophia Rosado who is capable of projecting both tremendous sadness with her guitar as well as crazy violence with her six piece. Mostly though she is content to hunt down and bring to justice the murderous bastard who killed her parents. As is possible in the Wild West, this thieving, murdering son-of-a-bitch (the very talented George Zerante) is himself a bounty hunter in search of a gun slinger by the name of Cole (Ardarius Blakely). Meanwhile there is a mysterious illness going around that seems to be passed on by human bite.
Kim Boler, Sophia Rosado/Photo by Clark Bender of WildClaw Theatre
While clearly influenced by such classics as "The Hateful Eight" and "Shaun of The Dead," I see a definite resemblance here to John Millington Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" which, while zombie-free, does involve cantankerous characters waiting out a storm in a western bar. OK, maybe that is a bit of a reach. But, as noted in the digital program, there are just not that many Western-Zombie plays out there. WildClaw Theatre therefore deserves credit for taking the road less traveled. And, for the most part, this choice pays off well as the production is a tense, suspenseful experience delightfully punctuated by sporadic gun fire. It is truly a good time. At the same time, however, the second act does drag a bit and I am not sure that this play will appeal to those not interested in off-beat Western and/or Zombie productions. Those though looking for a fix in between the next Quentin Tarantino flick and Walking Dead spin-off will not be disappointed.
Ardarius Blakley /Photo by Clark Bender of WildClaw Theatre
Bottom Line: Hell Followed With Her is Recommended and is playing at The Den Theatre (1331 North Milwaukee) now through November 9th. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased here.
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Texas's Sanctuary City Ban Has Trapped Immigrants in Terror
Published On: May 9, 2018Views: 590
Immigrants and many cops dislike the law, but there's nothing they can do.
Featured Photo by Drew Anthony Smith/Protesters in Austin during the Day Without Immigrants rally in February 2017.
Meredith Hoffman
May 7 2018, 10:47am
For months, Jordy Balderas had been waiting for his chance to sit down with his sheriff in Austin. The Mexican-American high school senior, whose closest relatives are undocumented, had heard County Sheriff Sally Hernandez vocally oppose Texas's anti-sanctuary bill, which forces local law enforcement to help the feds deport undocumented immigrants. Balderas wanted to urge Hernandez to resist the state's immigration crackdown and gin up grassroots opposition to the law.
"My question for her was, 'How do you think you can solve this problem and what can we do?'" Balderas told me. "I was expecting her to say, 'We need more activists to make this work." He hoped that Hernandez would also be moved by the fears of the immigrant community—Balderas had one undocumented family member who was too afraid to drive her chronically ill child to the doctor, and who would ask Balderas to check outside their house for police each morning. He told her that even he was scared of being stopped since he is Latino, even though he is a US citizen, and that if one of his relatives is deported, he likely won't afford to attend college, where he plans to study nursing this fall.
"I could see she really cares about the community," said Balderas, who met with Hernandez along with other members of Youth Rise Texas, an organization for young people impacted by deportation or incarceration. But the meeting forced Balderas to confront a harsh reality: There was nothing Sheriff Hernandez could do. Under Texas's SB 4, signed into law a year ago Monday, she must turn any detained immigrants into federal immigration authorities upon request, and she can't instruct her police officers to refrain from asking individuals' immigration status.
"I don't think she can change anything because of the law," said the teen, who recently returned to the US after spending most of his life in Mexico. "She made it sound like she wants to be there for us but she cannot do much… What else can we do?"
Many local police departments opposed the anti-sanctuary measure pushed by Republican legislators and Governor Greg Abbott because they predicted that the immigrant community would become too fearful to report crimes, but they have had no choice but to follow the letter of the law. Austin, the state capital and a liberal mecca that prides itself on welcoming immigrants, has been the city most clearly caught in the middle. Local officials and organizations are struggling to rebuild ties with the wary immigrant community, but the truth is they can't shield undocumented people from deportation.
"Even if we live in a community that's a welcoming community, the reality is we live in state that's hostile to immigrants," said Angela-Jo Touza-Medina, longtime chair of the Immigrant Services Network of Austin, a group of service providers serving the immigrant community.
Over the past several months, Austin immigrants, like those throughout the state, have taken measures measures to protect themselves from increased enforcement. Some have chosen to leave Texas for states with less harsh immigration laws, or are contemplating doing so. "Every day I do consultations, folks are wondering whether or not they should stay in Texas and they cite SB 4," Austin immigration attorney Faye Kolly told me. Others have avoided social services, law enforcement, public events, or driving their children to school, advocates said.
"When SB 4 conversations came up we started hearing from clients pretty quickly across the board about their fearfulness to come in and engage in services," said Aja Gair, senior director of community advocacy for SAFE Austin, which supports domestic violence victims. Multiple undocumented domestic violence victims told SAFE staff they would not report abuse to law enforcement, Gair said. But now, that fear has become more generalized—not only due to SB 4, but also to the overall immigration climate.
SB 4 is being sued on multiple fronts, but judges ruled in March that it can take effect, meaning that Sherfiff Hernandez could face jail time and penalties of up to $25,000 for not complying.
"It was clear that Austin and Travis County were under attack," Texas State Representative Eddie Rodriguez, whose district includes Austin, said of the passage of SB 4, which was partly prompted last year by Sheriff Hernandez's decision to stop honoring ICE detainers for immigrants unless they were charged with serious crimes.
"We had a very progressive policy in Travis County and to the extent that we're legally able to we're trying to still do that," Rodriguez said.
Sheriff Hernandez clearly represents her county's progressive values—she campaigned on a pledge to stop handing detained immigrants to ICE, and she followed through, instituting the policy in early 2017. But she was effectively overruled by the state government and in September she reversed course when SB 4 went into effect, a move that immediately drew ire from immigrant advocates and distrust from the immigrant community.
"I recognize their pain, their fear, and that they're hurt—it's sad and I'm sad for them," Sheriff Hernandez told me. "It's frustrating and we've been trying to build a trusting relationship."
In an effort to "alleviate or fix the damage" SB 4 has done to police-immigrant relations, Hernandez has led a public awareness campaign to try putting the immigrant community at ease, which includes messages on Spanish-language news outlets, more frequent town hall meetings, and discussions with groups like Youth Rise Texas.
"These young people say, 'You don't understand the fear we face every day.' I do understand…I just can't change what SB 4 has caused," she said. She told me that at one public meeting this spring, "A woman stood up and spoke about how I made a promise to end immigration enforcement at the jail and how I didn't keep my promise, and I had the opportunity to walk over and tell her I did keep my promise, I did everything I could do."
"I have always followed the law and will continue to follow the law," she said.
Following the law means Travis County Sheriff's Office is handing dozens more immigrants to ICE each month for deportation proceedings. Many of those immigrants, Hernandez said, have been picked up for infractions as minor as disorderly conduct, public intoxication, or driving without a license (undocumented immigrants can't get licenses in Texas).
Hernandez did not have the exact numbers for how many ICE detainers were being honored each month, but data I obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request earlier this year showed In February 2017, the first month of Hernandez's sanctuary policy, 11 detainers were honored, all of them for cases where an immigrant had committed a serious crimes—a huge drop from when all detainers were honored and between 40 and 54 people were handed to ICE each month.
But today, immigrants passed over to ICE are even more likely to face deportation since the Trump administration is prioritizing all undocumented immigrants for removal, noted Austin immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.
"If anyone is getting booked they're going straight into the hands of ICE, and the big difference is everyone is an enforcement priority now," said Lincoln-Goldfinch. She told me she's had clients held by ICE recently who previously would have been immediately released, such as the mother of a young child and an individual booked on marijuana possession but never charged.
Governor Abbott maintains that sheriffs must honor all ICE detainers in order to ensure public safety in Texas communities. He said when he signed the bill last May that sanctuary jurisdictions like Travis County were "harboring people who have committed dangerous crimes." Attorney General Ken Paxton's director of communications, Marc Rylander, told me in an email that SB 4 was a "common-sense measure that ensures Texans cooperate with federal enforcement of immigration law."
"Federal, state and local law enforcement must cooperate to maintain our nation of laws and prevent dangerous criminals from being released into our communities," Rylander said, noting that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in March recognized that the bill was constitutional. "Local officials admitted at trial that it is their duty to educate locals on what the law requires," continued Rylander.
There has been no documented benefit to public safety in Texas as Governor Abbott pledged, but some police departments have taken note instead of a disturbing decrease in crime reporting by Latinos. Most notably, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo reported a 42.8 percent decrease in rape reporting by Latinos in the first three months of 2017, which he attributed to fears stirred by the law.
Austin police, local officials, and advocates emphasize that individuals will not be asked their legal status if they report a crime, and Hernandez said she knows of no cases in which an officer has even asked someone their status, even under SB 4—but that hasn't stopped fear from pervading the immigrant community.
Hernandez emphasized that police still have a "culture where we focus on safety over someone's status," which she said is the best way to protect the entire community.
"Oftentimes the people who are hurting the immigrant community could be hurting US citizens," she said. "When you have people who are not coming forward for help it should hurt everybody and it does hurt everybody."
Read original article here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne98yg/texass-sanctuary-city-ban-one-year-later-climate-of-fear
About the Author: Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch
I am the managing partner of Lincoln-Goldfinch Law. Upon graduating from the University of Texas for college and law school, I received an Equal Justice Works Fellowship in 2008, completed at American Gateways. My project served the detained families seeking asylum. After my fellowship, I entered private immigration practice. My firm offers family-based immigration, such as greencards and naturalization, deportation defense, and humanitarian cases such as asylum, U Visa, and VAWA. Everyone at Lincoln-Goldfinch Law is bilingual, has a connection to our cause, and has demonstrated a history of activism for immigrants. To us, our work is not just a job. After the pandemic we began offering bankruptcy services in addition to immigration I realized how much lack of information there is in financial literacy resources in Spanish.
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Contact a U.S. Immigration Attorney Today!
"This Lawfirm is great, very professional and helpful. I love that they are always in communication and always available for when you have questions . 100% recommended by me and my family. Thank you Lincoln-Goldfinch Law"


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Moët & Chandon Racquet Club will be the hottest and most luxurious place to enjoy the live tennis action (alongside the drink of Summer) at the highly anticipated 2019 ASB Classic. It is the sixth year that Moët & Chandon has been the official sponsor for the ASB Classic.
Channelling the glamour and sophistication found at the chicest clubs around the globe, Moët will create a poolside oasis with VIP poolside cabanas to lounge in. Alongside the ice-cold bubbly in the sun, celebrity chef Martin Bosley will have a divine menu to feast on.
Attendees will don their best all-white outfits and can order bottles of Moët & Chandon champagne direct to their cabana with a 'press for champagne' button. The sumptuous experience is one you won't want to miss out on.
Moët & Chandon advocates responsible drinking and suggests that drinkers enjoy Moët & Chandon in moderation and in line with recommended daily guidelines for alcohol consumption.
Tickets to the Moët Ice Tennis Lunch on Saturday, January 5th at 12pm – 2pm are $120 and are available via The ASB Classic website.


Noida: It was lucky day for the department of Acting at Asian Academy of Film And Television when students got an opportunity to interact with renowned film actress Priyanka Kothari at campus."Strong determination and focused requirements can get you to a place what you are dreaming for. Continuous efforts and PR exercise is the requirement of the trade," said Priyanka Kothari while answering the non-stop questions asked by the students."Every student must be ready for the interviews and auditions, which is the trend in the industry now. Aim big to be a big man. Your desires must be backed and supported by honest work to be a successful person," added Sandeep Marwah President Asian Academy of Film And Television.Priyanka Kothari started her carrier with Madhavan in a film Jay Jay and no looking back. More than 30 feature films in Hindi, Tamil, Telgu and Malayalam are to her credit. Some of the famous films were Sarkar, Bullet Rani, Bin Bulaye Barati, Agyaat, Aag, Darling, Darna Zaroori Hai, Killer, Shiva and many more.


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Travel: From fly fishing to falconry, adventure awaits at Broadmoor in Colorado Springs
Maria Sonnenberg
There is one tiny problem with visiting the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. You never want to leave.
Sure, come checkout time, your body will go through the motions, but your heart and mind will be clawing the wall to stay, like a cat that has realized a visit to the vet's is imminent.
Falling in love with the fabled western landmark requires only one visit to this setting of superlatives. Since 1960, the Broadmoor has received a five-star rating from Forbes. It has also earned AAA five-diamond rating for 45 years, making it America's longest continuously running resort to receive such accolades.
Many resorts boast a host of amenities, when all they are bragging about are nice spas, a couple of restaurants and pleasant golf course. The Broadmoor, on the other hand, walks the walk as a true destination, with everything from falconry and fly-fishing to a cog railway, seven waterfalls, a 270-seat theater and a racing museum.
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Eclectic Philadelphian Spencer Penrose — a man who would employ an elephant as a golf caddy and who stashed liquor by truckloads inside a mountain to tide him over the long, dreary days of Prohibition — built this ultimate retreat in part to rub snobby noses back East with the fact that the West could be both civilized and exciting. Penrose made oodles in gold mining, and he knew how to spend it in style and to share his wealth with the community.
Beyond animals and liquor, Penrose loved car racing. To raise awareness of the road to the top of Pike's Peak that he built, the enterprising entrepreneur created the Broadmoor Pike's Peak International Hill Climb when the road opened in 1916. It is the second oldest motor car race in the nation. The Penrose Heritage Museum within Broadmoor's expansive grounds showcases the race's history, as well as the plethora of autos and horse-drawn carriages Penrose owned.
Penrose was also instrumental in the building of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, an environmental treasure trove guests can visit via a Broadmoor shuttle.
Speaking of shuttles, there is no need to a car at the Broadmoor, for pristine shuttles appear whenever guests ask for one. If you do want a car to explore beyond the resort's far reaches, aren't you the lucky one, because more than 70 years ago, the Broadmoor forged a partnership with Cadillac, so resort packages include complimentary use of a vehicle from the Broadmoor's fleet of SUVs, crossovers and sedans.
Guests can also enjoy chauffeured transportation via Cadillac to and from Broadmoor Wilderness Experience properties that include Cloud Camp and the Ranch at Emerald Valley, open May through October.
The vast Broadmoor holdings include Cloud Camp and its top-of-the-world views. Nestled in a forested summit of Cheyenne Mountain 3,000 feet above the resort, Cloud Camp is an enclave Architectural Digest named among the Top 10 Clifftop Retreats Around the World. This is glamping at its best, with five-star meals, turn-down service and all-inclusive activities in a magical environment.
Encircled by more than 100,000 acres of the Pike National Forest, the Broadmoor's Ranch at Emerald Valley is also about luxe rustic charm. Secluded hot tubs, civilized cocktail hours, fishing at the Ranch's two ponds, horseback riding and mountain biking define the art of roughing it in style.
The Orvis-endorsed Fly Fishing Camp, 75 minutes from the Broadmoor offers some of the best fly fishing in Colorado. Even newbies quickly get the hang of the zen art of fly fishing before heading back to the lodge for cocktail hour and fine dining.
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Sonnenberg is a Melbourne-based lifestyles and travel writer.


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X (a non-governmental organization) and J. F.
BEFORE: CHAIRMAN: Mr. Andreas Mavrommatis (Cyprus)
VICE-CHAIRMEN: Mr. Nejib Bouziri (Tunisia), Mr. Bernhard Graefrath (German Democratic Republic), Mr. Julio Prado Vallejo (Ecuador)
RAPPORTEUR: Mr. Walter Tarnopolsky (Canada)
MEMBERS: Mr. Andres Aguilar (Venezuela), Mr. Mohammed Al Douri (Iraq), Mr. Nejib Bouziri (Tunisia), Mr. Joseph A.L.Cooray (Sri Lanka), Mr. Vojin Dimitrijevic (Yugoslavia), Mr. Felix Ermacora (Austria), Mr. Rojer Errera (France), Sir Vincent Evans (United Kingdom), Mr. Bernhard Graefrath (German Democratic Republic), Mr. Vladimir Hanga (Romania), Mr. Leonte Herdocia Ortega (Nicaragua), Mr. Andreas Mavrommatis (Cyprus), Mr. Anatoly Petrovich Movchan (Soviet Union), Mr. Birame Ndiaye (Senegal), Mr. Torkel Opsahl (Norvay), Mr. Julio Prado Vallejo (Ecuador), Mr. Walter Tarnopolsky (Canada), Mr. Christian Tomuschat (Federal Republic of Germany)
Mr. Walter Surma Tarnopolsky did not participate in the adoption of the views of the Committee under article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol in this matter.
PermaLink: http://www.worldcourts.com/hrc/eng/decisions/1983.07.25_X_v_Uruguay2.htm
Citation: X v. Uru., Comm. 137/1983, U.N. Doc. A/38/40, at 247 (HRC 1983)
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1. The author of the communication (initial letter dated 5 February 1983 and further submission dated 16 June 1983) is X (a non-governmental organization). It submits the communication on behalf of J. F., a Uruguayan national at present detained at Libertad prison in Uruguay. The organization states that the communication is submitted at the request of J. F.'s wife, 3. G. F., a Uruguayan national living at present in Sweden, and that this request has been made through close friends whose names it is unable to reveal. No written evidence with regard to the authority of the organization to act at the request of S. G. F. on behalf of J. F. has been provided. The author alleges that J. F. is a victim of a breach by Uruguay of articles 7, 9, 10, 14 and 15.
2. Before considering any claims contained in a communication, the Human Rights Committee shall, in accordance with rule 87 of its provisional rules of procedure, decide whether or not it is admissible under the Optional Protocol to the Covenant.
3. Articles I and 2 of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provide that individuals who themselves claim to be victims of violations of any of the rights set forth in the Covenant may submit communications to the Human Rights Committee. The Human Rights Committee has established through a number of decisions on admissibility that a communication submitted by a third party on behalf of an alleged victim can only be considered if the author justifies his authority to submit the communication. With regard to the present communication, the Committee cannot accept on the basis of the information before it that the author has the necessary authority to submit the communication on behalf of the alleged victim.
4. The Human Rights Committee therefore decides:
That the communication is inadmissible.


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Praising or Burying Tolkien
Posted on November 4, 2015 by Mike Glyer
Editor's Introduction: These thoughts, left this morning as a comment, struck me as so substantial they ought to be shared in a guest post as well. (The author chose the byline, I made up the title.) Author Reid would like to note: "I did not realize on first writing it that it was a reprint of an earlier Le Guin piece." Although Le Guin's essay appeared online November 2, it was originally given as a talk in 2000.
By Robin Anne Reid:
Le Guin: American critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury one of the great works of twentieth-century fiction, The Lord of the Rings. They ignore it, they condescend to it, they stand in large groups with their backs to it, because they're afraid of it. They're afraid of dragons. They know if they acknowledge Tolkien they'll have to admit that fantasy can be literature, and that therefore they'll have to redefine what literature is.
Do some "American critics and academics" try to bury Tolkien?
I'm defining "critics" as a huge group of writers who publish reviews and commentary in a range of periodicals from the New York Times Review of Science Fiction (ahem started by Gerald Jonas who strikes me as an American critics to the sff magazines to internet commentary at blogs (Natalie Luhrs being one of my FAVORITE bloggers).
Note that forty years ago, "critics" would have been a much smaller, much maler, much straighter, much whiter, much more "professional" (in the sense of gatekeeping) group that now.
That is, "critics" means everybody who publishes commentary on Tolkien and sff (I'm extending my points to sff because I think that it's all part of one major paradigm shift in U.S. culture and academia) who isn't an academic publishing in a peer-reviewed journal or through a university press. Thus, academics are a sub-set of "critics."
News flash: they failed.
Secondary news flash: critics and academics tried even harder in the United Kingdom to bury Tolkien but even there, they failed.
It didn't matter how AWFUL Edmund Wilson found Tolkien's Orcs.
They failed in every possible way.
Not only is Tolkien's popularity greater than ever (and we're talking a global popularity fueled by translations in numerous languages and by Peter Jackson's live-action film adaptation (no matter how horrendous some critics and academics find the films — and a lot of their language ironically mirrors the anti-Tolkien criticism of the 1950s in dismissing them as "boys' adventure/action stories"), the films have expanded Tolkien's readership, led directly to Tolkien's work being taught in more schools and universities, and to more scholarship being written on Tolkien by academics.
The numbers I'm going to give below are from the Modern Languages International Bibliography. The Modern Languages Association is the oldest and largest professional organization of literature and languages academics in the English-speaking world (I suspect world-wide, but I don't know for sure!).
It is certainly a good example, overall, to support LeGuin's claims about academic marginalizing of genre literature (science fiction, Tolkien, romance, westerns, mysteries, etc.). But the Bibliography is one of the most comprehensive of scholarship published in academic journals (and in recent years non-academic journals are included as well), so it's a good place to mine for data showing changes.
So. "Tolkien" subject search done November 4, 2015.
Results: 2,419 (meaning books, anthology chapters, articles, and dissertations).
The first three articles published in 1952 and 1953 talk about his work on Beowulf. Tolkien's essay "The Monsters and the Critics" was the foundation of entire literary sub-field of Beowulf studies, as opposed to it being solely a focus for philological scholarship on Anglo Saxon language issues. (And I would argue as well from a lot of years hanging out with medievalists, who were the majority of academics to write about Tolkien's novels, his arguments about the poem as a LITERARY work are also strongly connected to the foundation of Tolkien studies).
But of course that was before LotR was published. Douglas Anderson's The Annotated Hobbit covers a lot of the celebratory critical commentary and articles when the book was first published.
Arguably, TH was less controversial than LotR because it was presented as a "children's story" which fit the cultural stereotypes of the time, i.e. "fantasy" was OK for children, because children. Tolkien tackled those stereotypes in his essay "On Fairy Stories" which has been much studies and used by (wait for it) academics writing on Tolkien's work. The negative criticisms of LotR, exemplified by Wilson, seemed mostly incensed by the idea that actual adults, including people like C. S. Lewis and W. H. Auden were taking this "childish" story by this weird Oxford don *seriously* as adult literature. Le Guin isn't wrong that a lot of critics and academics want to dismiss Tolkien: what leaves me frustrated by her comments is that she completely glosses over and ignores the forty or more years during which *some* academics and critics have been resisting that tendency.
The first article published on Tolkien's work is not necessarily a positive one. thus it is part of the "let's bury him" strategy.
Although I will note that publishing essays on an author is not exactly the best way to "bury" his work not in academia which has a lot of people who read an essay they disagree with and voila WRITE an essay arguing with it!
The text below is copied from the MLA Bibliography and is in the format they give (true for all the entries taken from that source):
Ethical Pattern in The Lord of the Rings By: Spacks, Patricia Meyer; Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 1959; 3 (1): 30-42. (journal article)
The most recent publication indexed in the MLA Bibliography is: A Song for J. R. R. Tolkien Full Text Available By: Parman, Sue; Antioch Review, 2015 Winter; 73 (1): 34-44. (journal article) Subjects: letters; memoir
Let's do a quick chronological breakdown, speaking of "40 years" of ignoring Tolkien.
If I limit the search for publications on Tolkien's work to only those publications appearing during the years 1950-1975 (the final date being chosen because it was 40 years ago) on Tolkien, I get:
177 publications during those in 25 years
I've read quite a few of them, and there are some interesting patterns to discuss, including the fact that the earliest academic anthologies on Tolkien's work tended to try to "dismiss the fans," and explain how Tolkien's work was really GOOD despite its popularity, and to hope that the popularity diminished so "real" scholarship could be done.
So clearly those early academics' hopes that popularity would diminish have failed miserably!
A subject search on Tolkien criticism and scholarship from 1976-2015:
2,242 results (these include periodical articles, peer-reviewed articles, anthology chapters, books by single authors, and dissertations in the United States at least).
I'd say the last forty years shows a spirited attempt by scholars and critics in multiple disciplinary areas to *bring Tolkien into the canon of literary works.*
By canon, I mean those works that are discussed by academics and critics, in a variety of cultural spaces, including peer-reviewed journals, and those works that are taught in schools.
And my focus here excludes the immense amount of fan scholarship that exists on Tolkien, a fan scholarship that is still pretty much ignored by academic scholars.
However, since a number of the "second generation" of Tolkien scholars, including myself identify as fans, at least we're not all still routinely dissing fans. I say "second generation" because the "first generation" consists of those academics that created Tolkien Studies by publishing, teaching, and organizing sessions at conferences.
The biggest names of the first generation are: Jane Chance, Verlyn Flieger, and Tom Shippey, all academics. All still alive (though all recently retired). And the fact that two of the three biggest academic names in the field are women is fairly unique (outside fields such as feminist studies and women's literature!)
And collections of scholarship in honor of their work on Tolkien are published/being published.
And the teaching issue (often ignored by many who aren't, well, teachers) is important as well. Tolkien's work was first taught in U. S. colleges as part of the changes during the 1970s (not because of a great sea-change in which everyone realized that omg it's LITERATURE, but because it attracted students into classes). The process of canonization includes teaching of the works, especialkly at the college and graduate level (and warning: the "canon" changes constantly).
[There was a huge drop-off of students majoring in humanities courses during the 1970s which has been debated for years. George Will and Harold Bloom and Allen Bloom and all their Puppy Ilk have attributed this drop-off to the fact that the hippies and marxists who failed during the 1960s to overthrow the white Amerikan Western Civilization took over the universities to indoctrinate the young by throwing out Shakespeare and teaching Alice Walker, aka THEORY and SJWs. In fact, recent intriguing research shows that one reason that the numbers changed was the impact of the feminist movement that opened up degrees in male-dominated programs to women in the United States: The changing majors of women. Certainly it's true that the progressive and activist movements had an impact on academia during the 1970s, with the growth of women's studies, Afro-American studies, multicultural and ethnic studies, etc., that continued to the present day. In any case, the first courses on Tolkien were taught during the 1970s, though some research I was doing in the Marquette Tolkien Archive indicates there were some earlier English faculty in the U.S. involved in a variety of Tolkien courses and publications that aren't always known about today.]
Tolkien still won't be found routinely in most "canonical" courses such as "British surveys" necessarily, or in "Modern British Literature" necessarily, and is still often taught under special topic rubrics (meaning not official courses), but even that is changing.
The Modern Languages Association itself has just published (about eight years in the making, sigh) a book on teaching Tolkien in its "Approaches to Teaching World Literature: edited by Leslie Donovan.
Leslie has also set up an online journal for teachers (at all grade levels and in all disciplines) to post about how they teach Tolkien.
Short message: there's a whole lot of people teaching Tolkien all over the U. S. educational system from grade school to graduate school. And the more we teach it, the more it will be taught. (I teach Tolkien under the special topics number in my department, though I can occasionally sneak his work in, or Pratchett's in a couple of memorable summer terms under a regular course titled "Major British Writers" that allows for a wide range of topics to be taught.)
And "Tolkien Studies" is growing as an academic sub-field: it's still challenged by many, still controversial, but it's growing.
I wish that Le Guin could acknowledge that because her points, while absolutely accurate when The Language of the Night was published in 1978, are part of the change I'm talking about here.
Doing subject searches on "Le Guin" in the MLA Bibliography shows 521 results (articles, peer-reviewed articles, books, anthologies, and dissertations).
The earliest one appeared in 1972:
'A Wizard of Earthsea' and the Charge of Escapism Detail Only Available By: Jago, Wendy; Children's Literature in Education: An International Quarterly, 1972 July; 3 (2): 21-29. (journal article) Subjects: children; naming; choice; morality
Yes, it was in the children's literature area (but let's think a moment about how people still dismiss "children's literature" — and nowadays "YA literature" as not real literature even though both these areas are ones that have been most welcoming to sff related works — probably because of their own marginal status — and it's not completely coincidental that these academic fields are dominated by women and have been since the start — since women (primarily white because of institutional racism in the U. S. academy) don't have any major cultural capital or status, what the hell, we can do all the weird stuff if we want), but it was there.
And the newest publications: the most recent three, all appearing in 2015, are dissertations. The fact that they're dissertations is a major thing: one usually publishes from one's dissertation in the first few years of academic employment, and if these topics are approved, it means that graduate academics are "approving" topics in the marginalized areas. Also note the topics related to the dissertations and the universities:
Spectacles of Faith: Technology, Religion, and Modern American Fictions Detail Only Available By: Hamner, Everett Lance; Dissertation Abstracts International, 2015 Nov; 76 (5). U of Iowa, 2008 (dissertation abstract) Subjects: Ellison, Ralph; Percy, Walker; Le Guin, Ursula K.; film; technology; religion
Let's Just Steal the Rockets: 1970s Feminist Science Fiction as Radical Rhetorical Revisioning Detail Only Available By: Belk, Patrick Nolan; Dissertation Abstracts International, 2015 Aug; 76 (2). U of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2014 (dissertation abstract) Subjects: 1970-1979; utopia; social justice; feminism
Balancing Flux and Stability: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed Detail Only Available By: Jones, Hillary A.; Dissertation Abstracts International, 2015 Feb; 75 (8). Pennsylvania State U, 2011 (dissertation abstract) Subjects: paradox; rhetoric; anarchism
Besides the work on Le Guin's fiction, there are 30 articles by Le Guin herself as a critic and author and editor!
Just as Tolkien wrote fiction AND criticism AND theory, so too does Le Guin.
That's why I say she's part of the solution to the problem she is writing about!
And as I noted above, I also strongly associated the status of Tolkien's work in criticism and the academy with "science fiction" (though arguably at the start, during the 1970s, there was a bit more credibility given to "hard" science fiction over fantasy — but of course the field of "science fiction," or "speculative fiction" as I prefer has changed as well!). Certainly when I was in fandom during the 1970s, we didn't distinguish that much between the genres.
(And when I was active in fandom, I was also an English major in a department where there was ONE "Science Fiction as Literature course," and then going on to my graduate work, and eventually getting my doctorate with a dissertation that incorporated feminist theory and Foucault and science fiction — I was an SF fan before I became an English major, and I got a Ph.D. so I could bring sf — by women! — into the academy. A lot of us did. THINGS CHANGED.)
"Science fiction" subject search in MLA: 11,673 hits
Lunar Characters in Science and Fiction By: Parsons, Coleman O.; Notes and Queries, 1933; 164: 346-348. (journal article)
Remembering and Restoring the Republic: Star Wars and Rome Full Text Available By: Charles, Michael B.; Classical World, 2015 Winter; 108 (2): 281-298. (journal article) Subjects: science fiction film; Star Wars film series; freedom; oppression; Roman Empire
What a lot of book fans/academics didn't predict was the growth of "science fiction" as a mainstream cultural product through films and games (and having hung out at the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts where some of the founders of science fiction literary studies do, I'm say to say a lot of them are grumpy about it and complain about young people these days not reading the classics….)
It's a bit harder to track "fantasy" scholarship because the term "fantasy" refers to a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with "genre fantasy" (darn psychology!). But a few searches of related terms:
Genre fantasy 605 Fantastic literature 261 Dystopias 1,016 Utopia 5,707
A lot of "fantasy" might get subsumed under "science fiction" tags in databases. There are entire academic journals dedicated entirely to science fiction and fantasy:
Journal of Science Fiction Studies (founded in 1973 one might note!)
Extrapolation
MythLore (Started as a FANZINE, so fan scholarship became peer-reviewed scholarship!)
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
And, finally, TWO journals dedicated to Tolkien's work alone:
And online, open-access, Journal of Tolkien Research
And, finally, one of the reasons that Le Guin's ongoing dismissal of "academics and critics" bugs me the most is because it wipes out all the work done by women sff fans, critics, and academics (of which she is one! And she knows about WisCon, and Broad Universe, and The Tiptree Award, who are all full of critics and academics working to build awareness of sff.
Laura Quilter has been doing amazing work on the internet for years, and there are so many others, writing criticism in many different internet publications and spaces.
There's even an Encyclopedia of Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy!
And let's not forget three major intellectual/cultural histories on women and sff that I have to recommend All. The. Time.
Justine Larbalestier's The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
Helen Merrick's The Secret Feminist Cabal
Lisa Yaszek's Galactic Suburbs
It's good to keep calling out the sad dinosaurs that are resisting the changes of the past fifty plus years, but it would be nice if Le Guin, with the size of her audience, spent a little time focusing on all the critics and academics, especially the women, who are creating the changes she is calling for.
Her ongoing unawareness of the critical and academic efforts (if she has spent time writing about these efforts, I apologize for not having seen it and would love the links doing) is getting increasingly frustrating.
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12 thoughts on "Praising or Burying Tolkien"
Joseph T Major on November 4, 2015 at 10:56 pm said:
But he is buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1456
Hal Winslow's Old Buddy on November 5, 2015 at 12:32 am said:
Indeed a perplexing question, since Le Guin has appeared regularly at academic conferences, workshops on university campuses, and interacted or collaborated with established literary academics. I have seen her speak and had the chance to chat at several academic conferences in Portland, and she SEEMED perfectly aware that many scholars write about and teach not only Tolkien but her work and do so with great love.
Believe it or not, while I had always heard that the lit world looked down on SFF and have over the years seen atrocities perpetrated on behalf of that viewpoint (see NYT reviews of Game of Thrones), I have never experienced it directly. My experience with academia and SFF goes back to my undergrad days at the University of Nebraska, and it suggests that from the 1970's onward, SF had at least a place at the academic table. Our SFF circle included Christopher Stasheff (then a Ph.D. student in Theater), Locus nominee Cynthia Bunn (Morgan), and L. David Allen, whose Cliff's Note SF textbook (1972) was republished as an actual scholarly book in 1973 and was followed by a number of other academic publications. He taught an undergrad SF class that many of us took. Professors in my other department (philosophy) also accepted SF at least as a way to put UG students in seats, as they offered Philosophy of Star Trek, Philosophy of Tolkien, and (the one I actually took), Philosophy of Anarchism where our textbook was The Dispossessed, a text I still use in my own Philosophy and Culture course.
When I went off to grad school at Purdue to pursue Ph.D.s in English and Philosophy later that decade, I found that SF was just as accepted there. My own dissertation included a chapter on Tolkien (expanding on a paper I wrote for Poe magus G. R. Thompson's seminar on The Double in Romantic Fiction), and I then team-taught UG courses in Tolkien and Science Fiction as well as using Delany's Babel-17 in my honors seminar focusing on language theory. The only question ever raised about SF as lit was by my colleague in the Science Fiction course who really did NOT want to use a novel that would stoop to the pun "The fit hit the Shan" (Zelazny's Lord of Light).
Later, at the University of Maryland, I got to teach not only Modern SF but also Modern Fantasy, Arthurian Literature, Utopian Literature, and (with a physicist friend) Science Fact and Science Fiction.
When I moved to my current post as chair at a small private university with a non-traditional student body in the 90s, I stopped teaching SF (except for Le Guin) for a decade, thinking that our students would be more interested in other literatures and genres. However, when we opened our grad program a dozen years back and I started using SFF examples from my own critical work on Tolkien, Le Guin, etc. in classes like Lit Theory, the students started asking for classes in the lit I talked about. So I brought back my Tolkien class and am slowly adding more. Over the last decade, my students have written four Tolkien M.A. theses, three on YA dystopias, two on post-apocalyptic fiction, and one each on zombies and vampires. Two others wrote SF works themselves. And they have had papers on these topics accepted at conferences and by journals and actually gotten and kept jobs themselves. The latest–a paper by one of my students on the role of clothing in Station Eleven ("Dressing for the Apocalypse") for the upcoming PCA meetings in New Mexico. Go figure.
tl;dr. Shorter Old Buddy: Heck, even in the good ol' days, there were some professors and some universities and some professional meetings that liked Tolkien and Le Guin, but they probably became easier sells after PJ's LOTR movie. And some of the rejection may be in our own heads.
P.S. Somebody on the last scroll indicated that U Oregon is in Portland. Nope, Eugene, which is quite a ways south, past Salem ("O melaS" in the rear view mirror).
Cat on November 5, 2015 at 4:52 am said:
Yes, I noticed that geographic detail also. There is a University of Portland, (and Reed College on the other side of the river) but it's quite a bit smaller, and isn't associated with the U of O, or at least wasn't when I attended the U of O.
David Bratman on November 5, 2015 at 8:09 am said:
Everything that Robin says is true, but it just means the charge wasn't correctly phrased. There's always been Tolkien scholarship, and very good scholarship, but its absence from the leading academies, especially in the US, has been striking for such an important author. Few of the leading Tolkien scholars have been from major institutions, up until very recently. Flieger, Shippey, and Chance are just about the only exceptions, and the first two, at least (I haven't talked with Chance about this) had a struggle getting him accepted as a course subject.
Most of the Tolkien scholarship has been going on in smaller colleges, like Robin Reid herself (Texas A&M-Commerce), and as Michael Drout (himself at Wheaton College, Massachusetts, a very small school) has pointed out, much of the best work in Tolkien has been done by people who aren't "accredited" scholars in the traditional sense at all, often independent scholars.
The authors whose purely scholarly books on Tolkien are essential to any researcher's shelf include ones by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (academic librarians, without PhDs), Douglas A. Anderson (bookstore manager and freelance editor, also without a PhD), and John D. Rateliff (who has a PhD in English, but has never held an academic post, spending most of his career working for TSR). John's is an interesting story: he got his PhD at Marquette, where Tolkien's papers are held, but the English Department wouldn't let him write a dissertation on Tolkien [despite the many that appear every year from other colleges], so he wrote on Dunsany instead. That was apparently OK. That was a while ago now, and maybe it's no longer so bad, but the denigration of Tolkien was real and long-lasting.
Hal Winslow's Old Buddy on November 5, 2015 at 9:54 am said:
Cat: Also Portland State, where Team Le Guin taught and Old Buddy's eldest studied Computer Science and was "forced" to take a course on Science and Science Fiction as a "mandatory UL elective" (nice oxymoron, CS Dept.!)
Almost totally unrelated: Using A Clockwork Orange in the Maryland "Science Fact and Science Fiction" course taught Young Buddy about the need for something we didn't have a name for thirty years ago and Assorted Young Canines like to make fun of–trigger warnings. One of our students had a strong reaction to the book/movie rape scenes. The AYC of course would scoff at this as "PC," "weak," or "soft," but the student in question was a tough-on-the-surface active-duty marine who had in fact been violently raped. Young Buddy learned a lesson but wishes it hadn't been at the cost of harming a student.
robinreid on November 5, 2015 at 11:19 am said:
David: Yes, the big name universities disdain Tolkien, but is that any reason to ignore the work being done by scholars at smaller schools or the independent scholars? Presumably only for the big name academics who ignore/disdain independent scholars in the same way.
Re: Marquette. Yes, a great deal has changed there. For one thing, Amy Amendt-Raduegue did her dissertation on Tolkien (and has a job).
There are new people in the English department and the archives; Gerry Canavan is a new faculty member (he's published on environmental issues in science fiction), and he's teaching his first Tolkien course there. I know he and Bill Fliss (now the Tolkien specialist at the archives) are working together.
So, my point continues to be, things are changing, and people who don't know the changes who are still thinking that things are the same as twenty, thirty, and forty years ago are mistaken.
With an increasing number of graduate students taking Tolkien (in all countries–I was recently on a dissertation committee for a student getting his doctorate from a South African university and writing on Tolkien) and writing an increasing number of dissertations in the U.S. and elsewhere, things are likely to continue to change as well. To keep restating the problem as if nothing has changed seems a poor strategy to me.
Hal: I noted the University of Oregon's (flagship) friendliness toward SF: I didn't mean to imply it was in Portland, just that I presume people living in Portland know their state's flagship university!
Hal Winslow's Old Buddy on November 5, 2015 at 2:06 pm said:
Thanks for the clarification, Robin. UO is indeed SF-friendly (better be given the papers they're archiving now!), which you rightly note is the more important point. Portland on the other hand has a strong writing community–and Powell's!
Gary Farber on November 7, 2015 at 6:30 pm said:
I am sad to find no mention whatsoever in this history of publications such as the Hugo Award winning (and thrice nominated) NIEKAS, nor of THE TOLKIEN JOURNAL, nor MYTHLORE, nor MYTHPRINT, nor any of the dozens of fanzines devoted to Tolkien in the Sixties, nor of any of the writings in general fanzines about Tolkien from 1954 onwards.
http://fancyclopedia.wikidot.com/tolkien-fanzines/p/1
Mike Glyer on November 7, 2015 at 6:53 pm said:
Gary Farber: Mythlore is mentioned.
And Mythprint was/is mainly Mythopoeic Society news and book reviews, not a a scholarly journal.
I'm all in favor of praising Niekas and The Tolkien Journal, however.
robinreid on November 7, 2015 at 7:40 pm said:
@Gary: I know _Mythlore_ best in its current incarnation as an academic journal (and as the source of some of the best early scholarship on Tolkien). I'm afraid I don't know the others, but then my active fandom 'zine days were in the late 70s/early 80s, and I don't current study fanzines. I did some preliminary research at the Marquette Archive on some of the 60s Tolkien fanzines for a grant I was doing (unsuccessful since the NEH is one of the bastions of anti-Tolkien feeling!), and I have one friend, Cait Coker, who does a good deal of work on fanzines of earlier decades which is fascinating stuff.
But since the topic was how academics and critics (as opposed to fan scholars) treat Tolkien, I'm not quite sure how the extensive fan commentary on Tolkien really applies. I do some work on fan studies, but on contemporary internet fan productions (primarily slash fiction, and some more recent stuff on Racefail since there's been very little work on race in fan studies).


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Nick Smith: Kiwi music helps hook US clients
20 Oct, 2011 04:30 PM 4 minutes to read
Music videos helped Resn get noticed, says the company's Rik Campbell. Photo / Supplied
Digital production company tackles overseas markets
There is no doubting the excellence of New Zealand popular music. Artists from The Clean to pop hope The Naked and Famous have exported their wares to acclaim.
But even the most ardent fans acknowledge that the industry has failed to make much impact on that vital corporate measure: the bottom line. Music has lagged behind other creative endeavours, such as the film industry, in generating enough export earnings to justify further investment.
How pleasing, then, to report that the music industry can take a small but important credit for the success of a Wellington-based, award-winning international company called Resn.
The digital production company provides services - creative "concepting", designing and building visuals, audio, animation and large-scale interactive projects - to international advertising agencies.
Only seven years old, it has already conquered America - 80 per cent of its earnings are generated there - and revenue grew 75 per cent last financial year.
Next year, Resn managing director Rik Campbell says the company will invade Europe, setting up an office in a yet-to-be-announced location.
Campbell credits the company's success in cracking the US market, which it entered in October 2009, to its collaboration with Kiwi artists such as Fat Freddy's Drop, Shapeshifter, Minuit, Black Seeds and Luke Buda.
On that first trip to the US, Campbell snared Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles (and its lucrative account for the Toyota-Nascar promotion), work for global shoe company Puma and a job promoting Intel's services in India.
"Since moving into the US, we've seen a 280 per cent increase in revenue [from October 2009 to September 2011]."
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What got Campbell's foot through the door was Resn's innovative animation for Kiwi music, especially Shapeshifter and Fat Freddy's Drop, which won international digital agency awards in 2009.
Campbell hesitates when asked if the music videos were a labour of love; Resn needed international awards success if it was to realise its global ambitions, and New Zealand music was the ideal vehicle.
Some of the work was loss-making, but the bands gave the company free creative rein, allowing Resn to use its artistic success for commercial gain.
Campbell is one of this country's more recognisable company executives, courtesy of losing an eye in a "sword-fighting" incident some years ago, but is reluctant to furnish more details.
He does say, however, that the eye-patch is a commercial advantage when breaking into new markets. When you're one of 1000 small outfits clamouring for attention at a San Francisco conference, "everyone notices the guy with the eye-patch".
What caught the Herald's eye was Resn's "Purple Pin" at this month's Best Design Awards, organised by the Designers Institute, for its work on the Toyota-Nascar website, Sponsafier. When the Herald enquired about the interactive design winner, it was, predictably, told to ask for the guy with the eye-patch.
Nascar racing is a big deal in the US, where 25 million people watch Chevrolets, Dodges and Toyotas duke it out on the track. Resn's creative conceit was to involve those fans in designing their own vehicle, which they could race online against other followers.
"It's a full 3-D car with Photoshop functionality, there's audio and animation, it's almost game-like; in the middle between websites and games," says Campbell.
The fans loved it, particularly the winner, who got to drive in a real car, kitted out as his online creation, as the pace vehicle in the Daytona 500. When the fans are on board, so is the client: Resn is now handling its fourth year of the Sponsafier website and the concept has taken on a life of its own, with a string of TV commercials devised to drive traffic to the website.
In the words of institute judge Che Tamahori: "This is military-grade marketing that delivers a compelling and engaging experience that is absolutely on-brand - in a strong category, it was the clear winner."
The success of Sponsafier provided Resn with the springboard into the US, a territory it is continuing to develop. The international time difference means the market can be served from here, but Campbell says Europe is more difficult, which is why he wants to open an office there.
"Our work has swung towards international work and we're pushing into Europe at the moment," he says.